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__label__wiki	0.648111	0.648111	The Board of Appeals hears requests for variances from the zoning code. It meets every Tuesday in Room 801 at Boston City Hall. Their website is here. Upcoming hearings: Tuesday, February 28 at 9:30 AM 11 South Crescent Cir, Brighton David Carlson wants to reate off-street parking for three vehicles. 279 No. Harvard St, Allston Barbara Melanson is asking for permission to put up a sign for a church. 103 North Beacon St, Brighton Martin & Erica Siegel of Marty’s Big Guy’s would like to change the uses of the building to allow an electrical warehouse and a liquor store. 154-162A Brighton Ave, Allston The owner of the building wants the Brighton Music Hall’s capacity upped from 340 to 476 people. Tuesday, February 14 at 10:30 AM 45 Selkirk Road, Brighton George Haroutunian is seeking a variance to relocate the building on the lot and and change the legal occupancy from a single-family to a four-family, add a rear addition and renovate. The proposed building exceeds the height limit of 35 feet, and would not have enough open space in the rear yard. 20 Saunders Street, Allston James Clark is requesting to change the legal occupancy from a single to two-family dwelling. 20 Penniman Road, Allston Rugg Road Realty Trust is asking for permission to build a five story, 36 units building with parking below. The proposal requires variances due to the height, the overall size of the building compared to the lot, that a residential use in not allowed in that area, and the lack of adequate parking, The Licensing Board for the city of Boston decides who gets to sell what kind of alcohol where and when. Restaurants, clubs and package stores are all under its authority. They also issue licenses to serve food and get a say in what kind of entertainment can be provided. They meet three times a week. Tuesday is when they deal with alleged violations, Wednesday is when they consider requests from current or potential licensees, and Thursday is when they vote on these matters. Generally they meet at 10 AM in Room 809 at Boston City Hall The schedule is here.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line2
__label__cc	0.661449	0.338551	Securing America's Future Energy Support Safe Oil & Geopolitics Energy & the Economy Innovations in Transportation SAFE CEO Applauds Lifting Outdated Crude Oil Export Ban Through Spending Bill, Calls on Congress to Formulate Comprehensive Energy Security Strategy Contact: Ellen Carey Number: 202-461-2382 Email: ecarey@secureenergy.org oil tanker at refinery Washington, D.C. – In response to the successful passage of the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that includes a provision to lift the ban on U.S. crude exports, SAFE President and CEO Robbie Diamond issued the following statement: “I am pleased to see Congress acting to remove this outdated policy that is no longer relevant in today’s global oil market. America was built on the concepts of economic competitiveness and free trade, and it is important that our policies reflect those values on the international stage. Lifting the ban is likely to give a boost to domestic oil production, while meaningfully impacting U.S. job creation and strengthening our overall economy. Furthermore, analysis by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that lifting the ban will not negatively affect the price American consumers and businesses pay at the pump, as gasoline prices more closely follow the global Brent crude benchmark.” “At its core, the debate over crude exports was more a battle over who takes home the money from OPEC oil rents—producers or refiners—than a fight for true energy security. A relic of the 1970s has now been corrected, which is a net positive, but just as those policies of 40 years ago are outdated, so are a host of other challenges to our energy security that have not kept up with the pace of innovation. At the end of the day, the United States still relies on oil—bought and sold on an unfree, cartel-controlled market—to power 92 percent of its transportation sector.” “Developing our resources here at home is a critical component of the energy security equation. However, we must also reduce our dependence on oil in transportation, taking advantage of quantum leaps in advanced fuel and self-driving vehicle technology, to better protect our country from the volatility inherent to the global oil market. This volatility poses a threat to our economy and limits our foreign policy options, and we must ensure that a comprehensive, long-term energy policy is part of the discussion in Congress, one that leverages domestic oil production and innovations in alternative fuel technologies to give consumers more choice while bolstering our national security.” About Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) is a nonpartisan organization that aims to reduce America’s dependence on oil and improve U.S. energy security to bolster national security and strengthen the economy. SAFE advocates for expanded domestic production of U.S. oil and gas resources, continued improvements in fuel efficiency, and in the long-term, breaking oil’s stranglehold on the transportation sector through alternatives like natural gas for heavy-duty trucks and plug-in electric vehicles. In 2006, SAFE joined with General P.X. Kelley (Ret.), 28th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO of FedEx Corporation, to form the Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC), a group of business and former military leaders committed to reducing U.S. oil dependence. Tagged To: Congress \| Energy Security \| Legislation \| Market Manipulation \| Oil \| OPEC \| United States Issue Brief: To Save Lives and Challenge China’s 5G Ambitions, the FCC Must Get More Broadband Spectrum in the Hands of Mobile Carriers Innovations in Transportation Electrification Coalition Calls For Expansion of Policies to Boost EV Adoption SAFE Urges Against Prorating In Letter To Texas Railroad Commission SAFE Applauds Auto Industry Commitment to Deploy Connected Vehicles to Retain Spectrum Apr. 23, 2020 Read More SAFE Urges Against Prorating In Letter To Texas Railroad Commission Apr. 13, 2020 Read More Blair: Reducing Fuel Use by Trucks to Improve Energy Security Read More Trump Wants to Sell Half the U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve For More Cash Read More The Fuse SAFE Energy Security Prize Energy Secure Cities Coalition Electrification Coalition Oil Security Index Electrification Roadmap Oil Security 2025: U.S. National Security Policy in an Era of Domestic Oil Abundance National Strategy for Energy Security: The Innovation Revolution 1111 19th Street, NW #406, Washington, DC 20036	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line3
__label__cc	0.703133	0.296867	THIS IS THE ARCHIVE VERSION OF THIS SITE Asian & Pacific Cultural Studies Network Medicine, Biology & Environment Physical & Mathematical Sciences Search APCSN Search query Search APCSN The need for an APCSN National and International Initiatives ANU Colleges ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Welcome to APCSN The ANU Asian and Pacific Cultural Studies Network has emerged from conversations amongst scholars in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific and aims to provide a campus-wide forum for the significant body of research and teaching at the ANU that crosses the frontiers of the region's nation states and draws on critical theoretical methods that traverse the boundaries of established disciplines. The network is a work-in-progress. If you would like to add information about your research interests or teaching in Asian and Pacific Cultural Studies, or if you have suggestions for additional links, please do contact the network convenors. See Contact Us Updated: 21 September 2016/Responsible Officer: Dean, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific /Page Contact: web.cap@anu.edu.au	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.512084	0.512084	THE STRUGGLE AT CHAMPION'S HILL A Terrible Day Which Cost the Confederacy Vicksburg By P. MITCHELL, Corporal 16th Ohio Battery, New Carlisle, Ohio The National Tribune, Washington DC Editor's note: Corporal Mitchell has mistakenly identified the guns captured on the crest of Champion Hill as the 6th Mississippi Battery -- no such battery was deployed in the Vicksburg Campaign. The guns captured by the 11th Indiana and 29th Wisconsin were 2 guns of Waddell's Alabama Battery and 2 guns of Botetourt Virginia Artillery. I will return to the morning and the place where ready and waiting we saw Logan's gallant men hurry past file to the right and take position in the valley beyond. In the meantime the infantry of my own division having pushed forward in battle line to the immediate front had crossed the fields and commenced skirmishing with the enemy at the edge of the woods beyond. But before this we of the artillery tilting on our horses or standing at rest heard the commencement of the battle far to the left in the front of Smith's and Carr's Divisions. OVER CAUTIOUS McCLERNAND That these divisions with Osterhaus and Blair although on good roads and in easy distance, skirmished the day away and failed to advance until near night is a matter of history. Gen. McClernand who commanded them was evidently overcautious and for this reason failed to push them forward as they should have been pushed. This failure of his to advance promptly as ordered and attack vigorously allowed the enemy in his front to mass toward their left. If I refer only briefly again or not at all to the left wing of our army it will be because as a truth it had little part in the terrific contest that fell with such fury on the right. The men on the left were just as brave and gallant as those on the right, but on that day, hours, golden hours, hours big with the fate of our division, the whole army, and the Nation, glided by; and yet, singly, alone and almost unaided the right wing fought that battle to a finish. From our position in the glade we could soon note the result of the inertness on the left for gradually the battle sounds came drifting way. The roll of musketry increased in and this mingling with the deep toned roar of the guns on the hill gave us due notice that the enemy was in full force and ready for battle. Then came the order to our Captain to hurry two guns of our battery to the front and into position in the immediate rear of the infantry line of our brigade. Ours was the First Brigade of the Twelfth Division of the Thirteenth Corps and was commanded by Gen. Geo. F. McGinnis. This brigade consisting of five regiments was formed from right to left in the following order 24th and 34th Ind., 20th Wis. and the 43rd and 11th Ind., with guns close to the left of the line. The Second Brigade commanded by Col. Slack consisting of four regiments was on our left but I am unable to tell in what order they were deployed. When we unlimbered our guns and went into position we occupied a little knoll to the left of the road and close at the edge of the timber. At that time, the desire being to delay the battle until more troops were in position, the men of our regiments were lying down seeking protection as much as possible from the enemy's fire. We of the artillery having been ordered not to fire, but wait events, lounged uneasily about our guns. The rebel sharpshooters securely hidden among the brush and gullies, made things exceedingly interesting to all of us. The battery on the hill roaring out its deep voiced epithets sent round after round of shrapnel and canister crashing tearing and ripping through the trees and brush about us. No other situation in battle is so trying to the soldier as to be compelled to receive the enemy's fire and not be allowed to return it. It is then that he is compelled to call to the defense of his manhood all the staying qualities of his nature. Not only were we then subjected to this trying ordeal but also forced to be helpless spectators to that harrowing panorama that always drifts from the front to the rear of every battlefield wounded torn and bleeding singly and in squads home walking some borne on stretchers some bravely defiant, halting; others unnerved with pain hastening flight some with faces flushed; others in which was fast gathering the ashen hue of death -- all passed in quick and startling review before us. But as if to give relief there suddenly burst on our vision the grandest and most exciting battle scene that was ever given me to witness. A FIERCE CONFLICT From our position on the knoll we had a clear and unobstructed view of the valley running down toward Bakers Creek in which deployed Logan's Division. The regiments of this division, with skirmishers well to the front, were then either standing at rest or slowly advancing into line. The scene was one of imposing grandeur as the sun flashed along the bright lines of steel and the soft morning air strung out in lazy motion the starry banners overhead. While watching and admiring this magnificent war pageant suddenly there dashed out from the woods in their front a full brigade of rebels. These wildly yelling with battle-flags furling and unfurling bore down with desperate reckless fury on our lines in the valley. But the rebel officer who conceived or attempted to put into execution that charge certainly had never read the sign, "Beware of the buzz saw," for if he had, I feel confident he would never have charged Logan's Division with one brigade. Though this charge was made with superb gallantry and surprising quickness it was received and with a resistance that was simply appalling. For a few moments after leaving their cover, the rebels advanced against the withering fire of Logan's grand battalions, and then their stricken lines, breaking up into a disorganized mass, sought safety in confused and disastrous flight. I doubt if during the whole war any brigade, on either side, ever met with a more sudden, terrific and crushing defeat than did this one. But we were now suddenly changed from intensely interested spectators of this thrilling scene on the right to active participants in the conflict at our immediate front. Our brigade having been ordered to advance, we limbered up our guns and followed rapidly up the road. This road after running some distance west, turned to the southwest, and running this course for perhaps a half mile, finally ran up through and over the ridge of the hill by way of a rather deep cut. Indeed the road having been worn and washed by use, rains, and time were sunken below the surrounding level nearly the entire distance. To this fact alone we of the artillery owed our entire escape from wounds and death until after our arrival at the top. The infantry, more exposed, suffered terribly from the shot and shell and canister that swept through their devoted ranks as they pushed up and across the rugged ridges. Indeed, from every gully and ravine and from under the shadows of all the great trees there flamed out and upon them a murderous fire; but, bravely facing it all, they pressed right on and on until, finally, with banners flying and bayonets fixed, they plunged into the smoke of the guns at the crown of the hill. Now, ever since that battle, even on and up to the present time, although nearly 40 years have passed, comrade after comrade has related, and still relates, how his regiment captured that battery, the famous 6th Miss [Waddel's Alabama Battery and Botetourt Virginia Artillery]. There was Capt. Gray, of Co. B, 10th Mo. and Comrade Frasher, of Co. D, 17th Iowa, who long ago told more or less minutely and elaborately how their regiments captured it. Then Comrade Condon, Co. A, 20th Ohio, told how, lying with his company immediately to the left of the 32d Ohio, he saw this regiment charge and capture it. And there have been others and still others making the same claim. THE CAPTURE OF THE 6TH MISSISSIPPI BATTERY [SIC] BY THE 11TH INDIANA AND 29TH WISCONSIN THAT MISSISSIPPI BATTERY Editor's note: Corporal Mitchell has mistakenly identified the guns captured on the crest of Champion Hill as the 6th Mississippi Battery -- no such battery was deployed in the war. The guns captured by the 11th Indiana and 29th Wisconsin were: 2 guns of Waddell's Alabama Battery and 2 guns of Botetourt Virginia Artillery. Comrades, for every soldier of the three divisions on the right that day there was enough of desperate fighting for all, and for all enough of glory gained to render it needless to either reflect on the valor or honor of any. Then when I say that the 10th Mo. and 17th Iowa were not on the field of battle when that battery was captured, I simply state a truth; and when I say the 20th and 3d Ohio were not within a mile of it, I only state another fact; and when I assert emphatically it was captured by the men of the 11th Ind. and 20th Wis., I only desire that the honor, so valiantly and gloriously won, be given to those to whom it belongs. Comrades, read the official reports of the battle and you will find I am right. In this grand charge of Hovey's Division, three full rebel batteries were captured. As I have stated the 6th Miss [sic] battery of four guns occupying the crest of the hill was captured by the 11th Ind. and 29th Wis. The 46th Ind. rushing farther west to and beyond a cabin that I will speak of by and by, captured two guns; while the 24th Iowa, of the Second Brigade, charged and captured a battery of five guns occupying a position to the left of the road. But all this was accomplished only after the most desperate resistance of the enemy. At the crown of the hill, along the ridge and beyond, our gallant men, rushed through the smoke of the flaming guns shot, and bayoneted the gunners, crushed and overpowered the rebel supports and hurled the fragments of fleeing regiments down to and beyond the forks of the Raymond and Jackson roads. A glance at a map of this battlefield will show that the possession of the forks of these roads was of vital importance to the Confederates. It was in truth the very key to their line of battle. Its possession by us threatened the utter destruction of their army. Knowing this the enemy hurried forward overwhelming forces. and hurled them with desperate fury on our two exhausted and unsupported brigades. It is estimated that at this time our division, already depleted by hundreds of dead and wounded was outnumbered more than four to one. As it was, there then commenced one of the most terrific contests of the war, a contest that left hundreds more of our brave boys dead or wounded on this bloody field. By sheer force of weight and numbers the rebel masses, overlapping to right and left our little brigades, slowly pushed back our stubborn regiments. The men in gray facing in full ranks the storm of shot and shell and canister that greeted them, bought back all the ground they gained at a cost simply appalling. At this time the two guns of my battery having advanced gradually were at the right and left of the cabin to which I have already alluded My own gun was immediately to the right of this cabin which had the usual smoke-house so common in that country still a little to the right. A POINT OF VANTAGE We were splendidly situated for effective work, being on a little knoll, with a few acres of cleared land in our front, this land sloping down into a little valley, beyond which was a heavy growth of timber. When I say that our guns were back a little from the brow of the hill every old artilleryman will at once recognize this advantage of our position. Close to the right of the muzzle of my gun was a well over whose mouth hung a long sweep and attached to this by a rope was -- "A moss covered bucket An iron bound bucket" -- or some other kind of an old bucket. But be it what kind or style matters little, only I know that, in the lull of the battle, it was used quite frequently by our soldiers, who, dashing from the front quenched their thirst there, and then, taking position in and about the cabins, awaited the advance of the enemy. Whether the people of that place were at home that day or not I am unable to say; but if they were I am quite sure their cellar accommodations were at a premium. Right here, in the tumult of battle, occurred one of those little things that remind us that it is indeed "only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous." For an hour without water, we had been loading and firing our gun rapidly, and as a consequence it had become so hot and foul as to be in a dangerous condition. Seeing this, I ordered one of the cannoneers to take the sponge bucket, fill it with water, and sponge out the gun Seizing the bucket which was swinging in place under the gun axle, he made a dash for the well, opening the bucket as he ran, when, as the lid of the same swung aside, up popped a fat yellow hen. To undertake to explain how that hen got in that bucket would be somewhat embarrassing, to the writer and for this reason, preferring to consider it only in the light of an incident, I will pass by that part of the story. But to say the least the situation was now both trying and perilous. Rations and yellow hens were scarce, but just then water was a positive necessity. Yet to secure the latter simply meant the loss of the former. The gnawing at the stomach of every boy in the squad was an appeal to save the hen. but the extreme peril menacing us demanded quick action. and the distressing sacrifice of the poultry was made. Poor, foolish thing, when tossed to the ground, instead of seeking safety back among our caissons, she ran fluttering and cackling over into the lines of a regiment of Hoosiers lying in a ravine a little to our right. Well, it is not hard to imagine the fate that awaited her there. With a sigh even now for her want of appreciation and judgment, and without any malice or the intent to demand pay for my property, I do wish some member of that regiment would give me its number; and, perhaps, it might ease his own conscience, even at this late day, to have him also frankly acknowledge his own individual responsibility in the matter of her capture. However, the loss of the hen, though a real calamity to the writer and gun squad, solved the water problem, and not a moment too soon. <<< PART 1 PART 3 >>> Contributed by Sue B. Moore, Researcher, Longview Texas. \| Home \| Grant's March \| Pemberton's March \| Battle of Champion Hill \| Order of Battle \| Diaries & Accounts \| Official Records \| \| History \| Re-enactments \| Book Store \| Battlefield Tour \| Visitors \| Copyright (c) James and Rebecca Drake, 1998 - 2015. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line10
__label__cc	0.508211	0.491789	Cannabis Health Cannabis Crafts Cannabis Investing US House of Representatives May Vote on Cannabis Legalization This Week by Caitlin Donohue \| Nov 19, 2019 \| Cannabis News This week, the United States House of Representatives could be voting on the federal legalization of cannabis. Representative Jerry Nadler announced on Monday that the house judiciary committee had posted a markup for HR 3884 a.k.a. the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act — which means a vote could go down as early as Wednesday. “I look forward to moving this legislation out of the House Judiciary Committee, making it one step closer to becoming law,” said Nadler in a press release. From the get-go, the MORE Act looked like it had a better-than-average chance at making it through the legislative gauntlet than its many predecessors. The bill was created and introduced by Nadler of New York, who is the judiciary committee chair. Pressure has increased on Congress to pass federal legalization ever since it approved the SAFE Act. That bill guaranteed banking protections for cannabis companies and financial institutions, raising many questions about why similar relief has not been given to cannabis users and the United States’ sizable population of individuals incarcerated on drug-related charges. Primary on the MORE Act’s priorities is the re-classification of marijuana to remove it from the Controlled Substances Act and Schedule I category that defines it as a material with no medicinal value. It would empower states to craft their own regulations when it comes to cannabis. New Law Would Also Tackle Dire Social Justice Issues The MORE Act would encourage states to provide expungement for some past cannabis-related criminal offenses, and provide protection for marijuana users living in federally subsidized housing. It would remove restrictions currently on the Small Business Administration that block it from assisting cannabis entrepreneurs. The MORE Act also looks to help vets. Currently, doctors with the VA are not allowed to speak with patients about medicinal cannabis usage, and residents in federally-assisted nursing facilities are not allowed to consume marijuana at their place of residence. The proposed legislation would lift those restrictions in states that choose to regulate cannabis. The legislation is sponsored in the Senate as SB 2227 by 2020 Democratic presidential nomination candidate Kamala Harris, who has reversed her previous position on cannabis legalization to become one of the cause’s champions on the campaign trail. All the Democratic White House front-runners have endorsed federal cannabis legalization except for former vice president Joe Biden, who supports marijuana decriminalization. On Tuesday, Nadler was joined by Representatives Barbara Lee, Earl Blumenauer, Nydia Velázquez, Steve Cohen, and Pramila Jayapal at a press conference to discuss the bill’s upcoming chance at a floor vote. Key to the changing chances of marijuana legalization have been the issue’s increasingly bi-partisan support. Recent poll numbers tell us that 55 percent of Republican voters support legalizing recreational marijuana. Only 12 percent of Republican voters said that cannabis should not be legal for either recreational or medicinal use. The party has already taken note in some surprising parts of the country — Texas Republicans recently voted to add marijuana decriminalization to their state-wide platform. The post US House of Representatives May Vote on Cannabis Legalization This Week appeared first on High Times. The Ultimate Guide to Baking With Cannabis + How to Make Cannabutter Alaska Plans for 11 April 2020 As Date For Onsite Consumption ‘Incredibly Low’: Only 118 Pardons Granted for Pot Possession in First 4 Months Michigan celebrates first legal cannabis purchases Cannabis Consumers Are More Politically Active Than Abstainers Cannabis DIY Cannabis Education Cannabis Industry Cannabis Travel Advertise on Cannabis Repository	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line11
__label__cc	0.711041	0.288959	Lands Beyond Kos (Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting) From Skirmisher Publishing For Your Old School Sword And Sorcery Campaigns Lands Beyond Kos is the newest entry for the Swords of Kos Fantasy imprint from Skirmisher Publishing and for a fan of sword and sorcery role playing the timing couldn't be better. This is closer look at the big bright world beyond the Kos setting books, a sort of 'Ancient World' of mythology seen through a D&D style lens with over arching spins of adventure, fortune, and glory woven together with sword and sandal. Here adventure is always at the ready and your PC's are expected to be thrown into the deep end of legend and mythology itself. These are the lands of Hercules and the heroes of old, erm not quite. See your PC's are the heroes and this book is a setting book of lands,details, all the little bits and pieces your DM is going to need to deal with what's over the horizon of the seas of the world of Kos. Grab It Right This book details the lands and high areas of adventure in Kos. The book does it out in grand style and very easy to read bits and pieces with scattered adventure hooks provided through out but its a book with plenty of room for customization on the DM's part. The nice thing is the lack of system which means a DM can hang this world book right into the backdrop of their own campaign world and favorite system. So what's in it? Well according to the description from Drivethrurpg: As their adventures take them away from the shores of Kos, characters may increasingly visit other countries throughout the Mediterranean and the lands of Europe, Asia, Africa, and beyond — and, the further afield they go, the more unfamiliar the customs and people of these places will be- come. This chapter contains detailed descriptions of 16 nations that characters from Kos might visit in the course of their adventures, or which themselves might be the homelands of some characters. Most of these lands in this extended adventuring area are located in the region of the eastern Mediterranean but a few lie further to the west and three lie somewhat outside the region altogether, along the shores of the Black Sea, in Mesopotamia, and in the European Alps, respectively. Most are at least as much under the control of Humans as of demihumans like Dwarves or humanoids like Hobgoblins. Make no mistake, this isn't our world but an alternative world of fantasy, with lots of details and back drop for the Kos DM. But this book has a ton to offer a DM who wants to add this world to their sword and sorcery game. With a bit of work this world can easily become another piece of mythological or planar setting material just waiting for your D&D characters to explore. There is place after place just waiting for adventurers to put into port and go adventuring on the deep and dangerous twisting locations of Lands Beyond Kos. This is a setting with a twist, this world came about by the events of 'The Great Cataclysm' which sparked off the populations of fantasy races in Kos and makes a good back drop to add into a weird fantasy world backdrop. There's plenty of monsters and mayhem just waiting for a party, there are enough details here to get a DM headed straight into the world and connect it straight into an existing world or transport their adventurers into Kos's setting. Look the pdf is a good value at only 3.99 for the amount of detail and work that your going to take a away from the setting. This setting is sword, sorcery, and mayhem with a flare for old school adventuring and there's lots to be had. One last thing Lands Beyond Kos comes with a well done, and highly detailed map of the locals and locations spoken about within the product. For a pdf this is a really nice add on and one that I'm planning on having done out in heavy parchment style paper at a local printer to keep track of an upcoming campaign using this material. Using The Lands Beyond Kos For Your Old School Sword and Sorcery Campaign There are several ways to use this setting book, and for me they involve taking the backbone of the book in nations, details, and entries of the campaign setting and adding it to my favorite retroclone say Labyrinth Lord or some retroclone system. This is a readily available system free plug and play world and its a post apocalyptic fantasy world at that. The proto mythological world of Kos and its Grecian roots the meat of the product can be plugged into a wide variety of fantasy setting variations from the larger then life legends of the 'Great Heroes', to battling the monsters and titans of sword and sorcery, to dealing with the everyday problems of living against the backdrop of this world. Kos has one other element to it, a very dark and seething underbelly of mythology and legend. There are reasons for this darkness and Kos has it in spades relating back to the 'Great Cataclysm' and the origins of its fantastic elements. There is a ton to work with here and at its price there is more then enough nations,powers, NPC personas, and more that enough to keep a DM and his players busy for years to come. My recommendation is to grab Lands Beyond Kos and get to designing your own adventures within this expansive setting. There is also a ton of setting material support available for Kos. I highly recommend this book and to get in on the action. Labels: Adventure Locations, Campaign Settings, Kos, Lands Beyond Kos, Retro clones, Skirmisher Publishing, Sword and Sorcery Random Tavern Generator For Your Old School Campaigns Free OSR Resource From Dragon's Foot - Footprints ... Free OSR Resource - DC1 Tales From the Laughing D... 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__label__cc	0.686271	0.313729	Duck Programming Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 14, 2012 - 10:33am http://unspace.ca/blog/duck-programming/ Duck programming is manageable. It starts with recognizing that while it may be designed to be carried out by people who are not professional coders, it is still programming, and must be managed with the same processes you use to manage code: Design Patterns of Drupal \| Drupal Watchdog Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 23, 2011 - 12:41pm Larry Garfield Link Title and URL: If you're looking at Drupal 7's new database layer for the first time it may seem like a convoluted mess of objects passing around to each other needlessly. Why so complicated? If, however, you understand the concept of command objects, factories, and dependency injection, and are able to recognize their telltale signs then everything comes into focus. The code itself is just as complex, but because it's a common and often-used type of complexity it is easier to understand. Why Women Programmers Aren't a Fad Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 8, 2010 - 1:31pm open source free software programs to try to increase women's participation in computer programming In 2008, girls made up just 17% of Advanced Placement test takers in computer science (the lowest percentage of any subject) and held less than 20% of CS degrees. To combat these numbers, organizations have sprouted to improve and expand programming education for women. These include community workshops and regional networking groups aimed at school-age girls and working women. The iPad, the AmigaOne X1000 and the future of freedom \| drupal4hu Karoly Negyesi (chx) Computers as running only closed applications controlled by operating system vendors– Are we going to be the ruling elite who controls the world? Do not be so naive. We will be hated by the powers that be because we still have that spark and because they rely on us to program the masses. The unwashed masses are going to look at us with suspicion because we think so differently. Hated by everyone, weeping for the lost freedom, that's our future. If not resisted, probably. Open source free software! Programming from the Ground Up Book - Summary [Savannah] Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 19, 2010 - 8:47am introductory book to programming and computer science using assembly language Top Drupal Hooks and Functions \| Jacob Redding Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 2, 2009 - 10:07am Jacob Redding What do I need to know? Todd Ross Nienkerk Submitted by Kathleen Murtagh on June 14, 2009 - 9:31pm Drupal.org Redesign Four Kitchens Design 4 Drupal 2009 todd@fourkitchens.com Tibet Sprague Submitted by Kathleen Murtagh on June 7, 2009 - 9:10pm Bill O'Farrell Matthew Hatoun FuseCal SmartRide Dispatch SmartRide Tracker East Transit PDOnline Research Drupalcon DC 2009 stefan@agaric.com	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line24
__label__wiki	0.602322	0.602322	INVESTEC ASIA FOCUS FUND Pacific Ex-Japan fund has risks and rewards, too Pacific ex-Japan funds had a whopper of a fourth quarter in 2001 ---they soared ahead over 28 percent. Add that performance to what went on all year and it meant that the average fund in that category closed last year down an average of minus 1.8 percent. This year, that fourth-quarter winning streak has still been going on. And, through the end of February, the average fund in the Pacific ex-Japan group was up 5.5 percent, according to Lipper. While these regional equity funds always have added risks and volatility, a small dose of them in your portfolio is sometimes appropriate. Here's one that's beating the average. The Investec Asia Focus fund, (IASMX), is the new name for a combo of funds--Investec's Asia Small Cap fund and their Asian New Economy Fund. After the funds' merger earlier this year, the Investec Asia Focus fund, (it's symbol the same as the old Asia Small Cap fund's was), is showing that change can be a good thing. "That merger offers us complete flexibility in picking stocks," says Agnes Chow, one of the fund's two portfolio managers. "The New Economy concept limited us to having exposure in just New Economy stocks and the Asia Small Cap fund in companies with a market cap no greater than $1 billion (U.S dollars). This one has no limitations in terms of market capitalization and we can basically buy stocks that we think have earnings growth potential and good valuations anywhere in the Asia ex-Japan region." Keeping between 40 and 45 companies in its portfolio, as of March 6, the fund was up 12.3 percent, well ahead of its group's average. Here's more about the Investec Asia Focus fund, ( 1-800-915-6565): Q: Where is the fund investing most of its assets now? Chow: In Hong Kong, about 20 percent; in Korea we have about 43 percent exposure; 25 percent in Taiwan; around four percent in Singapore; five percent in Malaysia; and around three percent in Thailand. Q: Why so much exposure in Korea? Chow: Because there has been lots of good progress in financial restructuring there and we've seen improvement in capital deployment for a lot of companies. Also, people also aren't saving as much and are beginning to spend more. In the past, people did not have credit cards and right now credit cards are getting more and more popular in Korea. That's a big change. Q: Could you name a couple of the companies that you like in Korea? Chow: We have exposure in Shinsegai Department stores and Hyundai Department stores. So the concept is basically more shopping from the local people. We've seen sales in both companies pick up very strongly since last year with over 100 percent growth in terms of earnings last year. This year, we expect another 30-40 percent in earnings growth for both companies. Q: Let's talk about risk and investing in this fund. Morningstar's report says it's " too dangerous" for most investors because it only buys the region's small caps. Chow: We have had quite a bit of exposure to the small company sector, that is true. I would say 50/50---50 small cap and the other 50 medium and large companies. But we've seen a bull market in the small- to mid-cap sector in Asia and I think that the bull market is likely to continue. Actually, the Asia Small Cap fund was up 20 percent last year. Q: Maybe their comment had to do with volatility and the fund's past performance---up 20 percent in 2001, down 45 percent in 1999. Chow: That's probably due to the nature of not just Asian smaller companies, but Asia as a whole. It has been volatile but the volatility has come down quite a bit because we've come out from a financial crisis and corporate Asia, in general, had done quite a bit of restructuring. Q: Tell me about how you select stocks for the fund. Chow: The fund's focus is still on the technology and consumer sectors, those kinds of companies make up about 60 percent of the fund. And, on companies that are industry leaders. Right now the portfolio's aggregate P/E is around 15 times. We've never been interested in investing in start-up companies. It's not been our style. And we do not go into names that just have a concept. We go for companies with earnings growth, high return on equity and a company's record is very important for us. It's the major criteria we use in picking stocks. Again, world regional funds have additional investment risks. Just as their rewards may be sweet, their performance ride is often a rugged one. As a result, they are not suited for every investor.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line27
__label__wiki	0.598316	0.598316	Overcoming Disruption in a Family Run Business August 26, 2018 DMAgazine Business Owners Running a family business has it’s unique challenges. I sat down with Sarah Binder Mehta, President of PianoPiano, a third-generation piano sales/rental company. Sarah and I talked about growing a multi-generational business, overcoming industry disruption, and dealing with family dynamics. Sarah’s grandfather started the business in the 1930’s as a department store called Binder’s State Street. Sarah’s father worked in the store, managing the furniture department where pianos where being sold. Grandfather wanted to retire and closed Binder’s, leaving piano manufacturers with no presence in the south Jersey region. Sara and her Dad After being approached by a piano manufacturer, Sarah’s dad opened a Hammond piano store in 1959. By 1960 that store was the #1 Hammond distributor in the US. It wasn’t long before the Binders’ chain of piano stores became the #1 US distributor for almost all the major piano brand. The 1990’s brought disruption and corrections to the piano industry, forcing the Binder patriarch to close most of his 27 stores. A shift to rentals, instead of sales, has kept the company relevant and profitable. Sarah had this to say about the pressures of running a family business and honoring the legacy of her grandfather and father: “You hear all the stories about how second-generation businesses are more likely to fail. Of course that is a concern, but it’s also super rewarding. My dad has four daughters and I always say that this business is his fifth child. It’s rewarding that he trusts me to steward that.” While working with family can create freedoms not aways found in a traditional work setting, Sarah reminded me that, “When you are in a family business, you bring your family dynamics to work, every day.” While working with family has it’s unique set of challenges, a multi-generational business can benefit from the fresh and new outlook brought by younger members of the team. When Sarah introduced e-commerce her parents “they didn’t believe anyone would rent a piano online, but people do it, every day.” Since then, Sarah has digitized their records and introduced a robust CRM, allowing Piano Piano to work more efficiently, effectively, and with more insight in to their customers’ needs and sales trends. Growing a family business and managing a multi-generational team can be challenging. The one thing Sarah has learned running Piano Piano! is that to be successful you must learn to work through obstacles. “In some ways nothing is ever easy. Every new thing I’ve tried to implement, there’s always been unforeseen bumps. Being able to take those in stride and not drive yourself crazy about it” Listen to the full interview below. SmallBizTechnology.com Editorial team. Striving to publish news, insights, and interviews focused on technology and more for growing businesses! See our sister site Smart Hustle Magazine Previous Post:Whiteboard Animation Videos. Help Your Business Create Its Brand Image Next Post:Small-town Ingenuity Is Making Gigabit Broadband a Reality	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line29
__label__cc	0.611646	0.388354	BNB BTC Binance Coin Bitcoin Binance - Investing.com Bridging the Bitcoin Gap: Why the American Crypto ... Bitcoin's (BTC) Chances of Hitting $20k by End of 2020 ... Binance: Bitcoin: Millionen-Hack überschattet Rallye - 08 ... End of day summary - 03/07 The Dow fell 200.23, or 0.78%, to 25,473.23 , the Nasdaq lost 84.46, or 1.13%, to 7,421.46 , and the S&P 500 declined 22.52, or 0.81%, to 2,748.93. The S&P 500 lost 0.8% on Thursday, as a negative economic outlook from the European Central Bank (ECB) helped fuel growth concerns and profit-taking interest. Thursday's risk-off mindset was made apparent by the underperformance of cyclical sectors and the flight-to-safety trade in the U.S. Treasury market where the 10-yr yield dropped six basis points to 2.64%. There was little in the way of a catalyst, so stocks continued to endure their worst weekly performance of the year. The Dow and S&P finished lower for the seventh time in the past eight days. Investors may have been looking forward to tomorrow’s monthly jobs data, but they are also growing weary waiting for news on the trade talks with China despite the next scheduled meeting not occurring until the end of the month. A technical violation of the S&P 500's and Nasdaq Composite's 200-day moving averages also contributed to some selling interest; both closed below that key technical level. 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors finished lower with consumer discretionary (-1.4%), financials (-1.1%), and information technology (-0.9%) leading the retreat. Conversely, the utilities sector (+0.3%) was the lone group to finish higher. In the U.S., initial jobless claims fell 3,000 to 223,000 in the week ended March 2. Q4 productivity grew at a 1.9% pace, which was a little firmer than expected. In Trump news, CNBC reported that Michael Cohen, former lawyer and fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization, alleging his former company has filed to pay "fees and costs" owed to him. TSLA was in focus following two separate reports, including one from CNBC saying that securities lawyers are claiming that CEO Elon Musk could face large fines and potential suspension as CEO for recent activity on Twitter that federal authorities said violated his September 29 agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, Bloomberg reported that the Pentagon is reviewing Musk's federal security clearance after he smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan's podcast in September. TSLA shares gained AH after a new filing showed a loan worth around $500M for use in China. AGN said a new experimental treatment for major depression failed in three late-stage studies, and the drugmaker added that it was "deeply disappointed" in the results. David Tepper's Appaloosa hedge fund, which has been pressuring the board of Allergan for changes, said "this latest fiasco" should "make apparent to all that the company's 'Open Science' business model is broken." Shares of Allergan closed 4% higher. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that the SEC is investigating whether the multi-tiered pricing system used by stock exchanges, including Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Nasdaq (NDAQ), favors big brokers at the expense of smaller ones. In Europe, the ECB held its key interest rates unchanged and said it now expects the key rates to remain at their present levels at least through the end of 2019, which is later than its prior guidance for no change until at least this summer. The ECB also said a new series of quarterly targeted longer-term refinancing operations, or "TLTRO-III," will be launched, starting in September 2019 and ending in March 2021, that "will help to preserve favorable bank lending conditions and the smooth transmission of monetary policy." The timing served as a reinforcement of the concern that the global economy is weakening and that the U.S. market has gotten ahead of itself pricing in a more upbeat growth outlook that isn't being corroborated with falling earnings estimates. Among the noteworthy gainers was YEXT, which rose 10% after it reported quarterly results and said it plans to hire over 200 employees in Germany over the next five years. Also higher after reporting quarterly results was GWRE, which gained 4%. Among the notable losers was WBA which fell 2.1% on concerns over potential increased regulatory pressures after the Food and Drug Administration called the company the top violator among pharmacies illegally selling tobacco products to minors. Among the notable losers after reporting quarterly results were TWI and BURL, which fell 22% and 12%, respectively. Also lower was KR, which fell 10% after the grocery store operator reported worse than expected sales and profits for the fourth quarter and gave lower than expected fiscal year guidance. Shares in Asia were mixed on Thursday following a third consecutive day of losses on Wall Street as investors sought developments on the state of U.S.-China trade negotiations. Meanwhile, U.S. tensions with China reached new heights as Chinese tech giant Huawei filed a lawsuit against the U.S. on Thursday. European stocks retreated, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%. The euro fell sharply against the dollar Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled a series of market-friendly policies amid a slew of rising risks. EUUSD: -1.1% to 1.1184 GBP/USD: -0.7% to 1.3074 USD/CNH: +0.3% to 6.7340 USD/JPY: -0.2% to 111.57 U.S. Treasuries saw a continuation of their recent strength on Thursday, registering solid gains across the curve. Treasuries started the cash session on a modestly higher note and accelerated their advance after the European Central Bank released a dovish statement, which served as an acknowledgement of slowing growth in the eurozone. It was not a surprise that the ECB made no changes to its interest rate corridor, but the central bank also said that it intends to keep rates at their current levels throughout 2019, which is about three months longer than what was stated in its previous guidance. 2-yr: -5 bps to 2.46% 10-yr: -6 bps to 2.64% Oil prices rose in choppy trade on Thursday, as the market continues to draw support from ongoing OPEC-led supply cuts and U.S. sanctions against exporters Venezuela and Iran. Metals Settlement Prices: Apr gold settled today's session $1.20 lower (-0.1%) at $1286.35/oz Mar silver settled today's session $0.05 lower at $15.04/oz Mar copper settled $0.01 lower (-0.3%) at $2.91/lb Agriculture Settlement Prices: May corn settled $0.07 lower (-1.9%) at $3.65/bushel May wheat settled $0.12 lower (-2.7%) at $4.38/bushel May soybeans settled $0.12 lower (-1.3%) at $9.02/bushel Energy Settlement Prices: Apr crude oil futures rose $0.36 (+0.6%) to $56.61/barrel Apr natural gas settled $0.03 higher (+1.1%) at $2.87/MMBtu Mar RBOB gasoline settled $0.01 higher (+0.6%) at $1.80/gallon Mar heating oil futures settled $0.01 lower (-0.5%) at $2.01/gallon Cryptocurrency markets have recorded moderate gains and losses on the day, with Binance Coin (BNB) being the major gainer on the day. The leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) started the day around $3,901, subsequently reaching its intraday high of $3,938. Bitcoin: $3,928.99 (24hr: +0.68%) Ethereum: $138.84 (24hr: +0.38%) Ripple: $0.31 (24hr: -0.54%) Russell +13.0% YTD Nasdaq +11.9% YTD Spoos +9.7% YTD Dow +9.2% YTD AH news COST Q2 Rev $35.40Bln Est 35.68Bln, Q2 EPS $2.01 vs $1.69 exp. Up 4% EB Q4 EPS $(0.17) Misses $(0.13) Estimate. Down 20% What's tomorrow? investors will receive the Employment Situation Report for February and the Housing Starts and Building Permits Report for January on Friday. Summary scraped from the interweb. Took 0.18 seconds. submitted by hibernating_brain to thewallstreet [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/eyv7td4sp5m31.png?width=486&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6c661701f4153576bf02987a3bebca67ef027ec BTC’s block rate keeps high, and the volume of mainstream exchanges continues to shrink. According to TokenGazer data analysis, as of 17:00 on September 12, BTC price is $10,149.17, market value is $179,338.55M; mainstream exchange 24H BTC transaction volume is about $557.89M, which continues to shrink; BTC active address number, chain transaction volume There is a certain decline, the market value has a certain rebound, currently about 69.98%; BTC release time is about 8.2min, maintaining a higher rate of block; BTC 30-day ROI continues to decline; futures, the bitcoin contract position of the fire coin The amount fluctuated slightly, basically the same as yesterday. OKEx’s long and short positions decreased, but historically it was still at a high level. As the bitcoin price fell, the spread between the bitcoin quarter contract and the spot fell from more than 100 US dollars to 80. US dollar; on the exchange side, the intraday BTC/USD Coinbase is in a premium state for BTC/USD Bitfinex. In the evening, there will be an interest rate decision by the European Central Bank and a speech by President Draghi. If the easing measures exceed expectations, it will help the rise of safe-haven assets. French Finance Minister Lemaire: has discussed with the ECB President the possibility of studying public digital currency French Finance Minister Lemaire: Already discussed with European Central Bank President Draghi and Lagarde the possibility of studying public digital currencies. The Venezuelan Bank has supported users to open virtual currency wallets and now only supports petroleum coins. The opening of the virtual currency wallet interface has appeared on the customer account interface of the Venezuelan bank, the largest bank in Venezuela. The bank’s customers will be able to trade “Petro” on the authorized trading platforms Amberies, Bancar, Criptolag through a virtual currency account, and the price of 1 Petro is about $60. Although only Petro is currently supported, there is a drop-down menu for selecting “virtual currency”, so it is not excluded that it will support other currencies in the future. BTC briefly fell below the $10,000 mark yesterday to date, then rebounded quickly and is now back near $10,200. In the past 24 hours, the net outflow of BTC funds is close to $450 million, and the outflow of funds has decreased compared with the previous cycle. The BTC continued to withdraw at night yesterday and was quickly pulled up after breaking the $10,000 barrier. The air force remained weak, with strong overall support underneath. Yesterday, the day line closed a long shadow line, the day is expected to oscillate upward, the medium-term trend continues to lean towards bulls, but BC has not given a clear direction, the trading needs to pay attention to risk. In terms of operation, the spot can be held continuously, the strategy of replenishing warehouse at a low level should be maintained, and the risk should be avoided. Daily analysis of cryptocurrencies 20190907(Market index 39— Fear state) https://preview.redd.it/yr3chomyvrl31.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a497f3b28de510f0bc25dc6529b10fa45092268 Telegram has released TON blockchain code Telegram’s blockchain project TON has entered the final preparation phase before the launch, and the code to run the TON blockchain node was released on the test web portal later Friday. Developers and community members interested in TON can already start using full nodes, validator nodes, and blockchain resource managers. According to sources familiar with the progress of the project, the release was originally scheduled for September 1, but was delayed for several days due to unknown reasons. Developer: Implementing EIP-1884 is a deliberate “breaking” of smart contracts but will be fixed in hard forks Wei Tang, a Rust developer at Parity Tech, said that after DAO and EIP-999, the Istanbul upgrade will be the third decisive moment for Ethereum. A change in the Istanbul upgrade — EIP-1884 will be a backwards incompatible change, we deliberately break the normal (non-attack) smart contract and promise to use the future hard fork to fix them, this is for the Ethereum network Said to be the first time. Tang then added in response to questions from users, but this is not the first time we have introduced changes that are backwards incompatible. There should already be dozens of them. The first one might be the EIP-150, when we added some gas costs to fix the cyber attack. Tepleton Announces Strategic Investment in Creation Capital, Node Capital, and Consensus Quantitative Funds According to Tepleton’s official news, Tepleton recently obtained strategic investment from three high-quality investors: Zixin Capital, Node Capital, and Consensus Quantitative Fund. Tepleton is a new financial solution for blockchain based on grassroots cross-chain technology. It preferentially serves the blockchain value network of the financial industry and will entrust the frontier financial fields such as trust, banking, insurance, securities and leasing. The representatives of the three employers said that after many in-depth communication with the Tepleton project core team, the future is long-term optimistic about Tepleton’s development in the blockchain finance field, and deepen the hatching blockchain technology under the linkage and synergy effect of all levels of capital markets. The value of growth at each stage. After obtaining the investment, the Tepleton Fund will work together with the employer to promote the construction of the new financial era of the blockchain and create an open, credible, efficient and decentralized new financial era based on the underlying technology of the blockchain. At the same time, Tepleton officially stated that for the early and better development of the Tepleton project, at the beginning of the project, only the institutional investment selected in the white paper for the early investment whitelist was accepted. OKB/OKB: OKB (OKB) “2019 OKEx Talks” will be held in Nigeria and Tbilisi on September 7th. NPXS/Pundi X: Pundi X (NPXS) Binance DEX’s latest NPXS competition will end on September 8th, when participants will receive a total of 50 million NPXS awards. KCS/Kucoin exchange: The Ecocuum launched by Kucoin Shares (KCS)’s latest KuCoinPlay trading contest will end on September 8th, when 50K ENQ will be presented to 800 participants. MTL/Metal: Metal (MTL)’s latest fee structure will be implemented from September 9th. The fee reduction is at least 50 MTLs. The account transaction with 10,000 MTL or above is zero, but only for Metal Pay. ETP/Metaverse ETP: Metaverse (ETP) ETP holders can get 10 million DNA airdrops on the RightBTC exchange, and the event will end on September 9. BTC/Bitcoin: The DeFi Summit (London) will be held at Imperial College London from September 10th to 11th. TNS/Transcodium: Transcodium (TNS) WirePurse will be available on September 10th for AT tokens and will air-drop $3,000 worth of AT tokens to all WirePurse users. KICK/KickCoin: KickCoin (KICK) The KICK team extended the SWAP bonus event deadline to September 10 and added additional bonuses to encourage trading. BTC/Bitcoin: Invest: Asia 2019 Summit will be held in Singapore from September 11th to 12th. CLOAK/CloakCoin: CloakCoin (CLOAK) CloakCoin ENIGMA trading competition will end on September 11th, the second round will continue, with a prize of US$10,000 for CLOAK. PHPhore: The Phore (PHR) community needs to vote for the September core development budget proposal for Phore and the Marketplace and Synapse proposals by September 11. BNB/Binance Coin: Coin Security will stop providing services to US users on Binance.com on September 12th BCN/Bytecoin: Bytecoin (BCN) will release Copper v3.6.0 on September 12t HBT/Hubii Network: Hubii Network (HBT) hubii’s “Blockchain in Practice” campaign with Microsoft will be held on September 12th at the Microsoft office in Oslo. ETC/Ethereum Classic: ETC or will perform Atlantis hard fork on September 13th BTC/Bitcoin: The European Union will launch its name, Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), which will take effect on September 14. The new law includes banks implementing “strong customer certification”. In addition, according to previous news, PSD2 can obtain some of the functions of the banking industry, providing new payment solutions for encryption products. TRX/TRON: Wave field TRON launches side chain plan Sun Network network three-phase release WAN/Wanchain: Wanchain (WAN) will hold a 3Q community conference call in mid-September LINK/ChainLink: Chainlink (LINK) Oracle will host the Oracle Code One conference from September 16th to September 19th, at which it will announce the launch of 50 startups with Chainlink. MANA/Decentraland: The Decentraland (MANA) community will host the SDK hackathon on September 16. https://preview.redd.it/tqjw8ns2wrl31.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=4437413b6fcc74eae439142a26f6b917fa98fc62 Yesterday, there were further upsides in BTC above the $10,750 resistance area against the US Dollar. The price even broke the $10,800 level and settled above the 100 hourly simple moving average. A new monthly high was formed near $10,893 before the price started a downside correction. There was a break below the $10,750 and $10,600 levels. Moreover, the price spiked below $10,350, but downsides were contained. A swing low was formed near $10,463 and the price started a fresh increase. It broke the $10,600 resistance to move back into a positive zone. Additionally, there was a break above the 50% Fib retracement level of the last slide from the $10,893 high to $10,463 low. The bulls even pushed the price above a connecting bearish trend line with resistance at $10,560 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. https://preview.redd.it/hv845oh4wrl31.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a544ec4990f9f8c3c2be769cc3e47568e628bb2 https://preview.redd.it/b3fynnsawrl31.png?width=450&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e138f62c093eee2799420d5a563d7b6d190aa9c Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Wei: China and Kazakhstan have broad prospects for cooperation in technical fields such as blockchain According to Chinanews.com news on September 8th, Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Wei said in the joint interview with more than ten media outlets such as Habar TV in the Sudan on the eve of Kazakh President Tokayev’s visit to Tokaye. President Hu’s visit to China is of great significance to promoting cooperation between the two countries. Zhang Wei revealed that not long ago, President Tokayev expressed his willingness to increase cooperation in communications, big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain in the two countries. China has obvious advantages in these industries, and the prospects for high-tech cooperation between the two countries are broad. Bitcoin has not confirmed the number of transactions reached 4,427 According to BTC.com data, the current BTC network computing power is 82.43EH/s, the whole network difficulty is 10.77T, the per-T revenue is 0.00002334 BTC/T/day, and the next difficulty is predicted (+6.84%) 11.51 T, distance adjustment With 5 days and 15 hours left, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the whole network reached 4,427. The 24-hour transaction rate was 2.80 transactions/second. The current best handling fee is 0.00062 BTC/kVB (virtual). Positive encryption regulations can reinvigorate the Indian economy and create billions of dollars in additional revenue for the country The analysis article pointed out that the encryption ban that the Bank of India took effect in the first quarter of 2018 caused the country’s encryption industry to be paralyzed. Positive encryption regulations can revive the troubled Indian economy. If Indian encryption is legalized, according to a rough estimate of the direct revenue generated by the country’s encryption companies, exchanges and individuals, encryption technology can bring in billions of dollars worth of extra income. Nischal Shetty, CEO of WazirX, one of the only cryptographic exchanges still in operation, recently cited the benefits of implementing aggressive cryptographic measures from an economic perspective, in addition to providing new venture capital investments to Indian start-ups, encryption technology. Development can also promote employment and provide banking services to India’s 300 million people without bank accounts. ICO can become a new global financing mechanism for Indian start-ups. He said, “We are a technology-centric country. Technology brings a lot of foreign exchange and is one of the largest employment creators in India. Encryption technology is the next technology frontier. If India bans the circulation of encrypted assets, India will not be able to Produce any relevant talents, not only will the employment opportunities be reduced, but also the investment of foreign capital will be lost.” BTC is currently reporting $10,386, an increase of 0.11% during the day. In view of the current trend, as in the previous several times, BTC broke through the final pressure of the K-line of 10,500 days. When there was no pressure to rise, there was no support at the time of the decline. Next, it is recommended to maintain a bullish pre-judgment in the mid-rail of the Bollinger Band of $10,150. Need to pay attention to the rest of the mainstream currency, has begun to fall less and more, and gradually rise. Explain that the main force has begun to withdraw from the remaining mainstream currencies of BTC funds. From this point of view, the spring of the altcoin is not far away, and there is a possibility that the funds will be pulled up. Therefore, the recommended altcoin currency also needs to hold the currency to rise! https://preview.redd.it/j24gnbogwrl31.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcd7e7c0636da68460951e019f173879a2843dc2 https://preview.redd.it/rfuiv7ykwrl31.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a7cf19d565a228e1839f53c03d9f5a5b56e98b3 [Ethereum to activate testnet of Istanbul hard fork on October] The testnet activation of ethereum’s Istanbul upgrade may happen around October 2nd, Ethereum Foundation community manager Hudson Jameson said on an ethereum core developer call on Sept. 6. He also noted that there might be one or two days behind or forward from that date based on how fast blocks are produced in this period. [Binance.US to launch in the coming weeks] Binance.US, top cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s U.S. branch, will launch in the coming weeks, according to a Medium post published by Binance on Sept. 7. The announcement also states that KYC onboarding will start a few days earlier and the aim is to ensure that users will have time to verify their accounts and deposit their funds ahead of time. [World’s ‘first’ blockchain-enabled smartphone to be available in Bangladesh] Finney, the world’s purportedly first blockchain-enabled smartphone, will be open to purchase in Bangladesh, according to a report by Cointelegraph on Sept. 9. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission approved of the import of the phone in August and it will be available on Bangladeshi market in October. Yesterday to date, the BTC has been shaking slightly and is still hovering around $10,310. In the past 24 hours, the net outflow of BTC funds exceeded $300 million, and the short-term outflow increased rapidly. As mentioned earlier, BTC knows that the short-term market probability is mainly shocks. Yesterday, it rebounded after stepping back to verify the support around $10,200. Overall, the market is relatively stable, short power is weak, the target position above is still near $11,200, and the support position below is concerned about the $10,000–10,200 area. The medium-term trend is still bullish, waiting patiently for direction signals. Operational aspects, spot can continue to hold, volatile market, short-term space below is not large. https://preview.redd.it/yeybzp4uwrl31.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d98d8b07b728a5a2f1c4f8c0daad946b1f204ce [Digital currency mining pool ViaBTC online cloud mining contract] According to the official website news, ViaBTC launched a cloud mining contract, its cloud mining section was officially launched on August 30, 2019. The first phase of the online product is a 360-day BTC cloud mining spot contract. At the same time, ViaBTC launched a new user to send computing activities, and opened a one-month 10% off the first activity. [Thai Bond Market Association issues its own cryptocurrency] On September 10th, the Thai Bond Market Association (TBMA) announced that it will issue its own cryptocurrency to increase the efficiency of the Thai bond market. [Economist Preston Pysh: Bitcoin is the legal debt solution] Economist Preston Pysh said that inflation is a phenomenon of money supply, not a collapse of demand. He cited Venezuela as an example and asserted that citizens of the country did not suddenly reduce their demand for their own currency, further emphasizing that supply is the root cause. He believes that Bitcoin is a “technical solution to the political disaster of statutory debt.” He said that the value or demand of the dollar will not collapse soon because people still have to pay taxes and bills. However, he believes that once people start holding bitcoin and use it as a value store, they don’t have to rely on debt to live because they will no longer be without money. BTC shocks to build momentum, the follow-up may rise above 14,000 US dollars： At present, the BTC’s high probability is in the stage of absorbing the expected increase before the halving. Compared with the previous two halving trends, it can be seen that after each round of bear market hits the Botto, the BTC opens the next stage of the big bull market. And has been rising to the last round of the bull market, Fibonacci, 0.618 points and then fall back. The main support at the lower weekly level is near the 0.382 point in Fibonacci. It can be seen that the first two rounds of BTC are in Fibonacci Then, the two points are in a shocking trend, and after a halving, the BTC washing action is completed and the upper edge of the interval is broken upwards. The rapid increase of the big bull market is expected. It is expected that the BTC will continue for a while. In the large range of $9,500 to $13,500, the current structure is likely to be a relay stage for a large triangle. After the chip is fully replaced, the BTC will have a strong chance to break through the box, which may be directly Attacked $20,000. https://preview.redd.it/pnvbbdzyxyk31.jpg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=885431a626fcf2763a8e048211f8fd9c43c17952 [Samsung to release crypto-friendly edition of smartphone] Samsung Electronics will release another edition of Galaxy Note 10 smartphone with a pre-installed cryptocurrency wallet, according to a report by Coindesk on September 5. The new product is marketed as a “KlaytnPhone” and named after a blockchain network developed by Kakao. [Burundi Central Bank to take strong measures against crypto traders] The Republic of Burundi, a landlocked African nation, banned all cryptocurrency activities in the country, according to a report by Coindesk on September 4. The government wrote in a statement:”These virtual currencies are traded on unregulated online platforms around the world, and their values are highly volatile, resulting in speculative transactions that expose the users of these currencies to potential losses without no possibility of legal recourse in the event of a collapse of their value or in case of closure of these cryptocurrency exchange platform”. [NSA is working on quantum-resistant cryptocurrency] The United States’ National Security Agency(NSA) is working on developing quantum-resistant cryptocurrency, according to a report by Cointelegraph on September 5. Bloomberg Technology reporter William Turton made the claim in a tweet on September 4. He wrote:”Anne Neuberger, Director of NSA’s new Cybersecurity Directorate says that the agency will propose hardware and software standards again. Also notes agency is working to build quantum resistant crypto.” BTC/Bitcoin: Bakkt official Twitter said that Bakkt Warehouse will begin to provide Bitcoin secure storage services to customers on September 6. VEX/Vexanium: The Vexanium (VEX) DApps competition will end on September 6th with a total of 1.1 million VEX awards, the first of which will receive 350,000 VEX. ZCL/ZClassic: ZClassic (ZCL) Menetnet main network will be officially released on September 6, the test network has ended at the end of August. QKC/QuarkChain: QuarkChain (QKC) Shanghai Blockchain Technology Innovation Summit will be held on September 6th, and the CEO and CBO of the QuarkChain project will attend the conference. https://preview.redd.it/qai6wi66yyk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e49b8614961bd66a4b3f9e13e281c1c0b35d218 BTC currently offers $10,705, an increase of 1.52% in the day. In view of the current trend, the current BTC is still operating in the large falling triangle range of the first peak of 14,000 USD, and after the third downward touch of the triangle at the end of August, it has been in a continuous rebound trend for several days. It has also risen from the low of $9,400 to the current level of $10,700. The upper key resistance zone is between $10,800 and $11,000. It is also the main daily resistance trend line. If it can make a strong breakthrough, then from the end of June to the end of June. The callback trend during the beginning of the month may be reversed, and the BTC will likely be in the early stage of the bullish trend. In terms of technical graphics, BTC’s current triangle convergence trend is similar to the BTC’s bear market bottoming trend from December to early 1918. Both trends are in the upper and lower range of the triangle, and when the last time they touched the lower triangle line, The market sentiment has similarities: BTC continues to fall below $3,500, and most investors in the market feel that BTC is still not in the end, there is still room for decline, the market is generally bearish to around $2,000, and the panic greed index is below 20 Then, the BTC’s large Yangyang line increased in volume, and after a small correction, it came to a big Yangxian line, directly breaking through the triangular upper rail suppression, and then opened the slow-moving market with the bottom stepping up. At present, BTC hit the triangle lower rail last time. The market also generally believes that BTC may puncture the support line and then fall back below $9000. The panic greed index is also below 20, reflecting the panic of most investors at that time. The trend is always the opposite of most investors. BTC has once again started to rebound and has been rising to the current level of 10,700 US dollars. If the direct strength of the triangle is stabilized, it will be possible to directly open the upswing in the late period of slowing up. https://preview.redd.it/5qtxpjsikrk31.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=690ba8128dfe74101d3842d086fe0c188b38b44d https://preview.redd.it/aeuobobkkrk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d6bf1f6471d3b001ccd79c5c912d51d047075fd [EU Competition Commissioner: EU regulators are reviewing Libra to determine if it will hurt competition] According to Reuters, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said on Wednesday that EU regulators are reviewing Libra’s cryptocurrency, Libra, to determine if it will harm. competition. Prior to this, many regulators have expressed concern about Facebook’s move into the financial services sector. Vistag Said that although Facebook has not yet introduced such a cryptocurrency, there are still reasons to review it. Libra will be supported by four official currencies and will be available to billions of Facebook users worldwide. According to an EU document, Vestag sent a questionnaire to 28 members of the Libra Association last month asking about the conditions for membership. The document also mentions how products and services supported by Libra will be integrated into Facebook’s WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and Calibra platforms, how consumer data will be used, and who will Own the data. [President of Coincheck: Last year’s hacking incident caused the Japanese authorities to adopt stricter encryption and regulation measures, and the exchange compliance cost increased accordingly] According to Longhash, Toshihiko Katsuya, president of Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, said in an interview recently: “In January last year, Coincheck lost about 58 billion yen (about 3.7 billion yuan) of cryptocurrency due to hacking, which is from Mt. The biggest hacking incident since the Gox incident, we still do not know the true identity of the hacker. The incident triggered the Japanese authorities to adopt more stringent regulatory measures in the field of encryption, and the encrypted exchange needs to ensure that its activities comply with the Japan Virtual Money Exchange Association ( JVCEA) determines the industry self-regulation rules. This makes the cost of compliance with operating encrypted exchanges in Japan rise, and the progress of the financial technology industry may also lag behind, but I think we can’t do anything about it.” [Japanese Finance Agency Chief: It is planned to hold a forum next year to discuss the financial system theme conference based on blockchain technology] On September 5, the head of the Japanese Finance Agency, Junichi Endo, told the FINSUM conference jointly hosted by the Nikkei News and the Japan Financial Services Agency that it plans to hold a management forum next spring to discuss the financial system issues based on blockchain technology and the future. Application possibilities. Endo said it has seen the issue of payment speed in the public chain, new technology trends to address scalability issues, and the latest trends in improving the security of crypto asset transactions. The Financial Services Department will also focus on the innovation dynamics of new use cases in the blockchain. https://preview.redd.it/2xcbx5rmkrk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4a865b83419e170a6801e88388617f74ecbe4ad https://preview.redd.it/901m98spkrk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=85fef2be405ee56fdb6fe65ad74b521b7a85eff6 Yesterday, BTC has gone up and down, reaching a maximum of nearly $10,850, and is now slightly back around $10,600. In the past 24 hours, the net inflow of BTC funds has exceeded US$100 million, which is less than the previous cycle. Yesterday, BC’s close to $1040, Bochen broke through $10,800 at one time today, but the above obstacles did not continue to accelerate, the market gradually turned to shocks. Inter-plot shocks may temporarily dominate the day, and the medium-term trend is beginning to be bullish. Triangular shocks at the weekly level have gradually come to an end, and there is likely to be a new market in the future. The upper resistance level continues to focus on $11,200 and the lower support level on the vicinity of $10,400. In terms of operation, the warehouse can be built step by step if you step back close to the support position in a day. https://preview.redd.it/jio95bftkrk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=8aabe4c790b47b804e0d9e1c790130cbc2ea141d https://preview.redd.it/p0xah7daf6k31.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b03f9baaa572026afde7db4556fa3b5fd2a3c288 https://preview.redd.it/84b8kqsbf6k31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bd1d8fab3928762f624a6df24a7824a6704205c Craig Wright asked the lawsuit to be postponed for 14 days and questioned the judge’s decision to hand over nearly 500,000 bitcoins According to the court documents filed on August 30, Craig Wright initiated a motion to extend the ongoing lawsuit for 14 days and challenged the presiding judge Bruce Reinhart’s previous ruling. The document also shows that Wright’s team needs more time and staff to prepare, as Hurricane Dorian is expected to land in Florida in the coming weeks. A recent document claimed that Wright “does not recognize” that magistrate Reinhart has the right to issue an order determined in the ruling, and his legal counsel needs sufficient time to challenge him. According to previous news, in the court documents released on August 27, District Judge Bruce Reinhart confirmed that Craig Wright had to give Kleiman 50% of the 1.1 million bitcoins he claimed to be jointly mined with Kleiman between 2009 and 2011, while Craig Wright is required to compensate Kleiman for intellectual property fees associated with Bitcoin software. In addition, Craig Wright was asked to pay the attorney’s fees and the costs associated with the bill. Also The court also found that Craig Wright had dishonestly debated, perjury and acknowledged false evidence during the motion. Argentine central bank restricts buying dollars, or stimulates local bitcoin demand According to a report by Bloomberg on September 1, the Central Bank of Argentina imposed restrictions on the purchase of the US dollar to reinvigorate its falling French currency, the Argentine peso. According to a statement issued by the central bank on Sunday, the monthly purchase of dollars by Argentine individuals will be limited to less than $10,000, and any amount exceeding the limit will require special permission. In addition, exporters must settle their foreign exchange earnings in the local market within 5 days. No company is allowed to accumulate dollars. The central bank said that these measures are aimed at “maintaining exchange rate stability and protecting depositors.” In recent years, Argentina has shown a strong interest in Bitcoin, and as the uncertainty surrounding economic growth intensifies, Bitcoin trading volume has accelerated. Last month, the country’s cryptocurrency exchanges showed a premium. Some speculate that the demand for bitcoin, an uncontrollable cross-border asset, should increase further. A large amount of data shows that the amount of Argentine pesos that Argentines traded on the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency platform increased last week, and this trend is likely to continue if the situation in the country is similar to Venezuela. The blockchain project received funding from the Scottish government to monitor gluten-free oats using blockchain technology The Scottish government-backed Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) project allocated £94,66 to a blockchain project to support the development of a digital ledger system to monitor gluten-free oatmeal. Through this network, manufacturers can provide traceability and source, and fundamentally improve the supply chain. BNB/Binance Coin: Coin Security will stop providing services to US users on Binance.com on September 12th BCN/Bytecoin: Bytecoin (BCN) will release Copper v3.6.0 on September 12th https://preview.redd.it/prkapkeif6k31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc5182cd890194432eeb64f71085ceb3eb1c8916 BTC continued to go up from yesterday to today, reaching a maximum of nearly $9,900. In the past 24 hours, the net inflow of BTC funds was close to $650 million, which was significantly increased compared with the previous cycle. Recently, BTC continued to rebound slightly, the daily line to see the details touched the yellow line triangle area on the lower track, the overall volume can continue to shrink, bull strength is not strong. The day is concerned about whether BTC can continue to move up and break through the resistance area of $9800–10000. Breakthrough failures are likely to be retreated again, with support below focusing on the vicinity of $9,500. In terms of operation, close to $9,850 above can be considered for moderate position reduction. If no position temporarily then there is no need to act rashly. https://preview.redd.it/egi41amkf6k31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=785ec145e7326a6bea7b46b7e5877aa457a4f3be https://preview.redd.it/uz3uhsb2mdk31.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=511eb3ed69d70f97fc724df8b066121a9e0b522a https://preview.redd.it/33et5yk3mdk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2d2146cab610c096ceccab8bad929ff787d1b10 Amazon is Libra’s biggest potential competitor According to the financial analysis company Cindicator survey, Libra’s biggest threat may be a company that has not yet entered the cryptocurrency field. Analysts believe that Facebook should be most worried about online retail giant Amazon, because nearly one-fifth of the investigative team members believe that the Seattle-based giant may launch a competing cryptocurrency in the near future. . Other findings included in the Cindicator report also indicate that the social media giant needs to regain its reputation in order to make Libra widely accepted. Of the interviewed analysts who said they would not use Libra, 29.31% said it was because they lost trust in Facebook. Another 11.38% said their anti-Libra stance was based on general privacy concerns. PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg announces acceptance of bitcoin payments from October 1 PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg (PwC Luxembourg) announced that it will accept customer bitcoin payments on October 1st to further enter the blockchain and crypto assets. The move is designed to recognize the needs of customers and is in line with the company’s willingness to support the growing encryption ecosystem. Note: PwC Luxembourg is a member of PwC International Limited (PwC IL). (PwC Luxembourg official website) Wall Street Journal: VanEck, SolidX will sell bitcoin ETFs to institutional investors on Thursday Investment management companies VanEck Securities Corp. and SolidX management plan to sell bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to institutional investors on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the “unusual” arrangement is in line with Section 144A of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which allows the sale of private equity securities to “qualified institutional buyers.” According to previous reports, the SEC has repeatedly postponed the decision on the VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF. Regulators have not yet approved Bitcoin etf listing in the US According to the report, the VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF will be issued under the 144A rules and will only be open to hedge funds, brokers and banks, and not open to retail investors or individual investors. President of the Swiss National Bank: There is no clear opinion on Libra due to lack of detail Swiss National Bank Governor Thomas Jordan said the central bank has no clear view of Facebook’s Libra due to lack of detail. Basically, regulators want to get more information about the project before making any decisions about the feasibility of Libra. https://preview.redd.it/dw7qn046mdk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2a54005f272ee96812db7b7986a4fc961835706 https://preview.redd.it/mtjooklcmdk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a58b928d1d158a5f44e05c91eef86f9600f1a34 Yesterday, we discussed a few important hurdles for BTC near the $9,900 and $10,000 levels against the US Dollar. It seems like the bulls enjoyed a strong rally since the price surged above the $10,000 resistance level. Moreover, there was a close above the $10,200 resistance and the 100 hourly simple moving average. It helped many altcoins in staging a recovery, including Ethereum, binance coin, ripple and BCH. During the rise, this week’s followed key bearish trend line was breached with resistance near $9,880 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. Moreover, the pair climbed above the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $10,295 high to $9,316 low. Finally, the pair broke the last swing high at $10,295 and traded above the $10,400 resistance area. Bitcoin tested the next major resistance near the $10,500 level. Moreover, the 1.236 Fib extension level of the downward move from the $10,295 high to $9,316 low is near the $10,525 level. Therefore, a clear break above the $10,500 and $10,525 levels could push the price towards the $11,000 barrier in the near term. At the moment, the price is consolidating in a contracting triangle above $10,300 on the same chart. https://preview.redd.it/gkhiyq9emdk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d13878b4accc24424737ebad72f0db0ef23b9a7 https://preview.redd.it/oi986s9y6kk31.jpg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c845b41bd8cf229ea291b54a0bcc198721681efa https://preview.redd.it/xnthg4mz6kk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=1cc99c7f83f49734266ff62c79fb7e49966a7c8c [Whale Alert cooperates with BitcoinAbuse to fight crypto crime] Whale Alert, a service focusing on tracking large cryptocurrency transactions, announced on September 4 that it has teamed up with BitcoinAbuse to fight crypto crime. According to the tweet posted by Whale Alert, they will report transactions made to scammers and keep track of their assets. [Longhash: American traders lead on bitcoin rally] Longhash, a data platform, revealed in a report on August 29 that this year’s bull market of bitcoin is indicated by a distinct geographical split and American traders are much more bullish than Asian traders. According to the report, the pricing mechanism of bitcoin is far more segmented by geography even though it is a global asset. [Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Encourage enterprises, research institutions and other entities to actively participate in key technology research and test verification such as blockchain] The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the “Guiding Opinions on Industrial Big Data Development (Draft for Comment)”, proposing to promote the application of 5G, NB-IoT and other technologies in industrial scenarios, promoting the deployment of IPv6 scale, and upgrading and upgrading the internal and external networks of industrial enterprises. Support enterprises to build industrial big data integration platform and big data center. Guide the construction of the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center, and encourage enterprises, research institutions and other entities to actively participate in the key technology research and verification of data circulation such as blockchain and secure multi-party computing, and reduce the risk of industrial big data circulation. https://preview.redd.it/k3oxntg17kk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=db932b6d119c8368dfe05491731ed82394523e24 https://preview.redd.it/ud26g8g37kk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=65b468e1846d4cdec3b702964970ce4ad4948ca6 BTC is currently reporting $10,604, a drop of 0.79% during the day. For the current trend. The BTC’s previous start of $7,500 started to rise to a high of $14,000 and then fell back to the triangle’s lower rail. Yesterday, it broke through the secondary downtrend line, and the daily line closed a big Yangxian line. The price rebounded to $10,800 and then fell back to the present. Near the 10,500 US dollars, test the 60-day moving average and the 30-day moving average support, the daily MACD underwater gold fork situation, the recent BTC has been more than the upper test triangle upper boundary pressure, the overall future is still at the end of the big triangle converging shock Mainly, waiting for the final change of choice. The important favorable expectation in September is that Bakkt will provide BTC hosting services on the 6th, and BTC contracts will be officially launched on September 23, which will attract more traditional investment institutions and bring a large amount of external incremental funds. Driven by the expectation of halving production next year, BTC is expected to usher in the weekly peak of the weekly level, which will easily break the previous high of $14,000, and the price is almost as high as $20,000. According to the technical chart, the daily RSI indicator breaks through the downward trend line, and the BTC price can subsequently show a wave of trend rebound, indicating that the weak trend has been reversed. After the sharp correction of the previous currency price, there is a strong Rebound demand, but before actually breaking through the big triangle trend line, it can only be operated by rebound. There is still room for short-term rebound, with resistance of 11,000 US dollars. https://preview.redd.it/v847ptv57kk31.png?width=630&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0b6f8a96d9790a2ea7e126d517c712d97faca0b The Dow fell 724.42, or 2.94%, to 23,957.89, the Nasdaq lost 178.61, or 2.43%, to 7,166.68, and the S&P 500 declined 68.24, or 2.52%, to 2,643.69. Stocks tumbled on Thursday as a slew of leery headlines left buyers on the sidelines. The S&P 500 lost 2.5%, dropping into negative territory for the year (-1.1%) and extending its week-to-date decline to 3.9%, while the Nasdaq and the Dow tumbled 2.4% and 2.9%, respectively. There was little doubt as to where the market was headed at Thursday's opening bell, as equity futures were down big in overnight trading. There wasn't a particular catalyst for the negative disposition, but disappointing PMI readings in the eurozone and Japan, an unsatisfying apology from FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach, and Wednesday's rate hike from the Fed didn't exactly bode well for investor sentiment. The biggest headline catalyst, however, was President Trump's decision to impose tariffs of up to $60 billion on Chinese imports; Mr. Trump officially signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday afternoon. However, the decision wasn't a surprise -- Reuters first reported the president's desire to punish China for intellectual property theft via tariffs last week -- and actually had a silver lining considering the tariffs will only be implemented after a consultation period. Still, the duties do give new energy to the trade war debate. Selling picked up notably in the final hour of the session, with the S&P 500 nearly doubling its earlier loss. The financial sector led the retreat, dropping 3.7%, as Treasury yields tumbled across the curve; the benchmark 10-yr yield declined eight basis points to 2.83%, while the 2-yr yield slid three basis points to 2.28%. The industrial sector (-3.3%) also showed notable weakness, while most of the remaining groups finished with losses of more than 2.0%. The most influential sector, information technology, declined 2.7% -- a discouraging sign for investors who have looked to the sector for leadership; the tech group led last year's rally and is still the top-performing sector of 2018 despite Thursday's slide, up 4.3% year to date. Among the noteworthy gainers was P, which rose 7.8% after Raymond James analyst upgraded the stock two notches to Strong Buy from Market Perform, saying he is positive on Pandora's acquisition of AdsWizz. Among the notable losers was ACN, tumbling 7.3%, despite beating earnings and revenue estimates for its fiscal second quarter and raising its guidance for the fiscal year. Elsewhere, the major stock indices in Europe ended on a lower note, closing at their worst marks of the day; Germany's DAX dropeed 1.790 while UK's FTSE dropped 1.23%. European financials had a woeful showing today, but most notably, DB —the owner of the world's largest derivatives book—slumped to its lowest level since late 2016. In the Asia-Pacific region, equity indices had a mixed outing with Japan's Nikkei (+0.99%) showing relative strength. The U.S. Dollar Index is up 0.1% at 89.87, clawing back above its 50-day moving average (89.86), which has been an area of congestion over the past few weeks. The yen rose on Thursday, reaching a three-week peak against the dollar, as traders piled into the Japanese currency in a safe-haven move spurred by global trade tension and losses in stocks. EUUSD: -0.28% to 1.2304 GBP/USD: -0.21% to 1.4108 USD/CAD: -0.03% to 1.2899 U.S. Treasuries ended Thursday on a higher note with 10s showing relative strength while 2s underperformed. Recall that Treasuries climbed into yesterday's close while 2-yr and 5-yr note futures continued rising after the cash session ended. The 10-year Treasury yield fell more than 8 basis points to 2.82 percent, its biggest one-day decline since September of last year. It dropped as low as 2.79 percent at one point. Oil prices fell on Thursday as investors booked profits after this week's rally, but losses were limited by the continuing efforts of OPEC and its allies to curb supplies. On Energy: Mar WTI crude oil futures settled -$0.86 at $64.30/barrel on the day In other energy, Mar natural gas settled -$0.02 at $2.62/MMBtu On Metals: Apr gold settled +$6.00 at $1327.60/oz, while Mar silver settled -$0.02 to $16.40/oz Mar copper settled -$0.04 at $3.02/lb On Commodities Hogs: -2.27% to 75.475s Beans: unchanged to 1029-6s Bitcoin sank 4.4 percent to $8,506 on Thursday after Japan’s Financial Services Agency was said to be planning to tell Binance, the trading venue founded by Zhao Changpeng, to stop operating in the country without a license. Bitcoin: $8,633.44 (24hr: -3.50%) Ethereum: $530.24 (24hr: -5.94%) Nasdaq +3.8% YTD Dow -3.1% YTD S&P 500 -1.1% YTD Russell +0.6% YTD MU shares slip after reporting earnings. Q2 EPS: 2.82 vs 2.74, Q2 Revenue: 7.35B vs 7.28B Q3 guidance EPS 2.83, consensus 2.63 NK shares up following earnings report. Q3 EPS: 68c vs 53c Q3 Revenue: 9B vs 8.85B Bitcoin Or Binance Coin: a Comparison of Bitcoin (BTC) and Binance Coin (BNB). Which one is a better investment? - 1 day Comprehensive information about the BNB BTC (Binance Coin vs. Bitcoin Binance). You will find more information by going to one of the sections on this page such as historical data, charts ... 1 Binance Coin is 0.002083 Bitcoin. So, you've converted 1 Binance Coin to 0.002083 Bitcoin . We used 479.984218 International Currency Exchange Rate. David Gray/Reuters. Binance Coin, or BNB, is the only major cryptocurrency outperforming bitcoin this year, but its namesake exchange is facing new concerns around increased competition, police ... Today, exchanges like Binance.US are more sophisticated and focused on the audiences that will use them. 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__label__wiki	0.551509	0.551509	6 Arrested at Drone Protest Beale AFB Published February 21, 2015 \| By editor Clergy, Veterans Among Six Arrested Ash Wednesday as Ashes Spread Memorializing Children Killed by Drones. MARYSVILLE/BEALE AFB (4:59 p.m.) – Six people – including several clergy members and military veterans – were arrested during an Ash Wednesday service that began about 3 p.m. today at the gate of Beale Air Force Base during a n act of “repentance” for the innocent people, including children, killed by the U.S. government’s fleet of killer drones. Participants, who were charged with trespassing onto federal land and taken into custody by military police as they spread ashes memorializing those of children killed by U.S. drones overseas. They were released with citations later Wednesday evening. Beale is the home of the Global Hawk “accomplice” drone, a surveillance drone that helps find targets for the armed Predator and Reaper killer drones. Beale AFB has been the site of numerous protests opposing killer drones, with dozens of people arrested – included five last Ash Wednesday. The five arrested included: Rev. Sharon Delgado, Nevada City, CA; Barry Binks, Sacramento, CA; Shirley Osgood, Grass Valley, CA; Pamela Osgood, Grass Valley, CA; Marcus Page, Sheep Ranch, CA and Lorraine Reich, Nevada City, CA. The service was led by United Methodist, United Church of Christ, and Lutheran clergy and a member of Catholic Worker. The service involved songs, prayers, scripture, Holy Communion (open to all), a call to action, and the use of ashes to symbolize repentance and to acknowledge human mortality. “In addition to focusing on repentance for the harm caused to drone victims, the service will call for repentance for: the harm done to the Indigenous people who used to live where Beale is now, the harm being done to Mother Earth by our building and deploying high-tech weapons and weapons of mass destruction, the harm done to families and communities who suffer cutbacks in public services while billions are spent for the military, the overall harm caused by the global reach of US military power,” said Ms Delgado, one of the clergy participants arrested Wednesday. Here is a video from last year’s events: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php? Mar. 4-6: Mass Mobilization to Stop Drone Wars! http://shutdowncreech.blogspot.com Possibly 200-300 activists from 16+ states will converge at Creech AFB in early march, to unite against this horrendous and unconscionable practice: Executing people remotely from the desert of Nevada, without providing any evidence of guilt. This has got to stop! Won’t you join us to SHUT DOWN CREECH? (Caravan leaving Bay Area Feb. 28	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line34
__label__wiki	0.5802	0.5802	Getting a Rails app to run on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Wednesday, 31 May 2017 13:01:07 CDT David-Braverman Work (0) (This is a cross-post with my employer's blog.) I'm the newest team member at DevMynd, and so far, the only one with a Windows PC. Since we do most of our work in Ruby on Rails, and since everyone else has Macs, this presents a challenge. If I wanted to do this the easy way, I'd simply run Rails on Windows natively. But I decided instead to do it the hard way and use Linux and BASH. First, I had a couple of free days to get up to speed last week giving me some time to experiment. Second, I figured that running on a completely different platform might introduce hard-to-diagnose bugs. (Both Linux and MacOS are nix operating systems while Windows is not). I hope that what follows will make this a considerably less-hard way for everyone else. This is how I got everything working on a Windows 10 Creator Edition (build 10.0.15603) box using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows also known as Bash/WSL. WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is a beta feature of Windows 10 so some of what follows may be different on other versions of Windows. Also, this post assumes that you are coming into the Linux world for the very first time, and your mind is a deep, pure, clear lake of Windows expertise completely unencumbered by any knowledge of Linux whatsoever. If you already know Linux, a lot of this might be redundant. Don’t change Linux files using Windows apps and tools. You will hose your Linux environment. That said, since your Bash/WSL environment can read the Windows file system, you can just point to it from within BASH to run your Rails project. Read the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows FAQ. 1. Turn on Developer Mode In Developer Features, turn on "Developer mode". You will need to reboot after this step. 2. Turn on WSL In Windows Features, turn on "Windows Subsystem for Linux (beta)". You will need to reboot after this step. 3. Run BASH as administrator. (Window key, "Bash", right click, "run as administrator.") 4. Install Ubuntu (Ubuntu is the only nix image available for WSL at the moment, following a partnership between Microsoft and Canonical.) When BASH starts, it will prompt you to install Ubuntu on Windows. Hit "y" to do so. 5. Install Ruby prerequisites sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev 6. Install rbenv rbenv will let you use different versions of both Ruby and Rails as needed: git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc exec $SHELL git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc 7. Install Ruby Install the version or versions of Ruby you'll need to use. For example, to install v2.4.0: rbenv install 2.4.0 (Optional) Set a global, default version of Ruby. For example, to make v.2.4.0 the default on your system: rbenv global 2.4.0 (Optional) Check what version of Ruby you're using as a default: ruby -v rbenv -versions 8. Install Bundler: Then Rehash rbenv: rbenv rehash 9. Install Rails 5.0.1 shown; you can install multiple versions curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x \| sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs gem install rails -v 5.0.1 10. (Optional) Install MySQL sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev Test your installation Now you're ready to create a sample application and see if it works. 1. Create an empty Rails application with a database. a. SQLite Create an empty application using the Rails default SQLite database: rails new deleteme b. MySQL Create an empty application using MySQL and then start the MySQL server: rails new deleteme -d mysql sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start 2. Initialize your application. This is the happy path: cd deleteme rake db:create rails server 3. View your application Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000. You should now be looking at a Ruby on Rails welcome screen. Happy BASHing. In a subsequent post, I'll look at installing Postgres on Bash/WSL, and all the things I had to fix while doing it. A year of Google Maps Wednesday, 31 May 2017 10:03:03 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography, Work (0) Via my company's Slack #general channel, San Francisco cartographer Justin O'Beirne has analyzed the changes Google has made to its Maps feature over the past year, while Apple Maps has stagnated: So it seems that Apple is updating its map more frequently than Google. But when we look closer, this doesn’t seem to be what’s happening. For instance, near the park’s southeast corner, there’s a group of three auto service-related businesses: Domport Auto Body Service, Fell Street Auto Service, and California Detailing... Google has distinct locations for each. But Apple plots them at the same location... ...and as the months pass by, Apple cycles through all three – padding our addition/removal counts... A number of the additions and removals we counted earlier on Apple are similar – the map is cycling though businesses plotted at the same location. This all seems to suggest that Google’s location data is more precise than Apple’s. (Or that Apple’s geocoder is buggy.) And perhaps here we’re seeing the fruits of Google’s decade-long Street View project... It's a long essay with tons of examples and animations. Total Daily Parker bait. Speaking of my company, I'll have a post up on the company's blog shortly which I'll cross-post here. Keep your eyes peeled. This IS the golden age of air travel Tuesday, 30 May 2017 09:55:28 CDT David-Braverman General (0) Pilot and author Patrick Smith points out that air travel is so much better than it was even 20 years ago, it's hard to see how far we've come: People often talk about a proverbial “golden age” of air travel, and if only we could return to it. That’s an easy sentiment to sympathize with. I’m old enough to recall when people actually looked forward to flying. I remember a trip to Florida in 1979, and my father putting on a coat and tie for the occasion. I remember cheesecake desserts on a 60-minute flight in economy. Yes, things were once a little more comfortable, a little more special. One of the reasons that flying has become such a melee is because so many people now have the means to partake in it. It wasn’t always this way. Adjusted for inflation, the average cost of a ticket has declined about 50 percent over the past 35 years. This isn’t true in every market, but on the whole fares are far cheaper than they were 30 years ago. (And yes, this is after factoring in all of those add-on “unbundling” fees that airlines love and passengers so despise.) I could mention, too, that the airplanes of decades past were louder — few things were more deafening than a 707 at takeoff thrust — and more gas-guzzling and polluting. And if, in 2017, you’re put off by a lack of legroom or having to pay for a sandwich, how would you feel about sitting for eight hours in a cabin filled with tobacco smoke? As recently as the 1990s, smoking was still permitted on airplanes. As for legroom, there’s that conventional wisdom again, contending that airlines are forever cramming more rows into their aircraft. Except it’s not necessarily true. The spacing between rows, called “pitch” in the business, is, on average, less than it was 20 or 30 years ago — and yes, passengers themselves have become larger on average — but only slightly. Remember Laker Airways, whose “Skytrain” service ran between the United States and London in the 1970s and early ’80s? Sir Freddie Laker, the airline’s flamboyant founder, configured his DC-10s with a bone-crunching 345 seats — about a hundred more than the typical DC-10 at the time. Sure, air travel is a pain in the ass. But it's safer, cheaper, more accessible, more convenient, quieter, and faster than it's ever been. Europe's worst case scenario Monday, 29 May 2017 13:10:35 CDT David-Braverman Politics (0) We have a child in the White House. And European leaders are saying they can no longer rely on the United States: Trump’s speech alone is likely a sufficient explanation. But I suspect there’s an additional element. Most of the major European and NATO leaders had already met Trump in Washington – Merkel, May, Gentiloni, Trudeau and others. But I suspect in meeting as a group, over a more extended period and in a context specifically focused on Europe and NATO there was a further realization that what they are watching from across the Atlantic is no act. Indeed, Trump appears more impulsive and erratic in person than on TV. Rather than growing into the job he’s growing into the role of aggressor. Another, perhaps more critical realization, is suggested in this Twitter thread by Max Fisher of the Times: That is, it’s not just that Trump is greedy or impulsive or unreliable, indifferent to the North Atlantic alliance but that he is positively against it. He and Vladimir Putin are in a de facto alliance against ‘Europe’ or to put it less geographically, the liberal internationalist state system which has rested on and built out from the United States and Western Europe. I've imagined the damage that Trump can do to the world, and I am seeing how what I've imagined is coming to pass. I hope Europe is stronger than they have seemed so far. The Pope and the pagan Sunday, 28 May 2017 15:02:56 CDT David-Braverman General, Politics (0) Andrew Sullivan's note Friday analyzes the President's trip to the Vatican from a distinctly conservative and Catholic perspective: Trump is not an atheist, confident yet humble in the search for a God-free morality. He is not an agnostic, genuinely doubtful as to the meaning of existence but always open to revelation should it arrive. He is not even a wayward Christian, as he sometimes claims to be, beset by doubt and failing to live up to ideals he nonetheless holds. The ideals he holds are, in fact, the antithesis of Christianity — and his life proves it. He is neither religious nor irreligious. He is pre-religious. He is a pagan. He makes much more sense as a character in Game of Thrones, a medieval world bereft of the legacy of Jesus of Nazareth, than as a president of a modern, Western country. Every pillar of Trump’s essential character is a cardinal sin for Christians: lust, gluttony, greed, envy, anger, and pride. We are all guilty of these, of course, but there is in Trump a centrality to them, a shame-free celebration of them, that is close to unique in the history of the American presidency. I will never understand how more than half of white Catholics could vote for such a man, or how the leadership of the church could be so terribly silent when such a monster stalks the earth. He also fumes about Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, a country we trade with but shouldn't exactly want to emulate. Still stepping Sunday, 28 May 2017 11:35:29 CDT David-Braverman General, Personal (0) Yesterday's step count did, in fact, reach top-5 numbers: 2016 Jun 16 40,748 2016 Oct 23 36,105 2017 May 27 33,241 2016 Sep 25 32,354 2016 Jun 8 32,315 Today's will not, if only because it looks like rain. Walking through the neighborhoods Saturday, 27 May 2017 18:15:59 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography, Personal, Weather (0) I took a short walk today, from Central Street in Evanston to my house. Totals: 16.37 km, 2:25:29, 8'53" per km, 18,357 steps. It's not as far as my epic 28 km walk last June, but I'll probably do another walk that distance sometime later this year. I mean, why not a 32 km walk? Right. Because my feet hurt. So far today I'm just shy of 30,000 steps. So I'm not quite in the top 5—but I will be if I walk another thousand steps, which seems pretty likely: 2015 Apr 26 30,496 2016 Mar 8 29,775 So far today 29,445 And here's the meandering route I took: Don't push that button! Saturday, 27 May 2017 13:40:02 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography, Travel (0) British Airways cancelled all of its flights out of its two biggest hubs in London today because of a power-supply failure: The airline hoped to be able to operate some long haul inbound flights on Saturday, landing in London on Sunday, Mr Cruz added. The GMB union has suggested the failure could have been avoided, had the airline not outsourced its IT work. BA refuted the claim, saying: "We would never compromise the integrity and security of our IT systems". All passengers affected by the failure - which coincides with the first weekend of the half-term holiday for many in the UK - will be offered the option of rescheduling or a refund. The airline, which had previously said flights would be cancelled until 18:00 BST, has now cancelled all flights for Saturday and asked passengers not to come to Gatwick or Heathrow airports. Some things never change. Windows moves to Git Friday, 26 May 2017 14:12:32 CDT David-Braverman Work (0) The Microsoft Windows operating system has millions of lines of code maintained by thousands of developers. And in the past three months, Microsoft has moved 90% of its code to the open-source Git version control system: The switch to Git has been driven by a couple of things. In 2013, the company embarked on its OneCore project, unifying its different strands of Windows development and making the operating system a more cleanly modularized, layered platform. At the time, Microsoft was using SourceDepot, a customized version of the commercial Perforce version control system, for all its major projects. SourceDepot couldn't handle a project the size of Windows, so rather than having the whole operating system in a single repository, the Windows code was actually divided among 65 different repositories, with a kind of virtualization layer on top to produce a unified view of all the code. Some of these 65 repos contained nicely isolated, standalone components; others took vertical or horizontal slices through the operating system; others were just grab bags of different code. As such, the repo structure didn't correspond with OneCore's module boundaries. Due to widespread developer familiarity and strong support for creating lots of branches with low overhead, the decision was made to use Git as the new system. But Git isn't designed to handle 300GB repositories made up of 3.5 million files. Microsoft had to embark on a project to customize Git to enable it to handle the company's scale. You read that right: Windows contains 3.5 million individual code files, and there are so many changes to them (8,500 per day on average), they had to create their own super-charged version of Git. Programming nerds will want to read the whole article. Non-nerds can scroll down for political stuff. Latter days of the Republic Friday, 26 May 2017 11:44:45 CDT David-Braverman Entertainment, General, Politics (0) "A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot." —Robert Heinlein, Friday Montana's at-large congressional district will stay Republican after millionaire Greg Gianforte won yesterday's special election by 6 points. This is despite him assaulting a reporter Wednesday afternoon and being charged with the crime: The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he is alleged to have slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting: “Get the hell out of here.” Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire endorsed by Donald Trump, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly “body-slammed” the reporter. “He took me to the ground,” Jacobs said by phone from the back of an ambulance. “I think he whaled on me once or twice … He got on me and I think he hit me … This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me in reporting on politics.” A Fox News TV team corroborated Jacobs' report. Reactions immediately split along Republican/everyone else lines: The Montana donnybrook quickly became a Rorschach Test that highlighted the divide within the conservative media between the serious and unserious outlets. It also showcased how many prominent figures on the right reflexively rally behind Republican politicians, whether the president or a House candidate, even when they are very clearly in the wrong. This is part of a growing tribalism that contributes to the polarization of our political system. Laura Ingraham aggressively questioned the Fox reporter on her radio show: “You can’t body-slam someone by holding both hands on the neck. That’s impossible…Didn’t he grab him near the neck and throw him down? Just asking.” Acuna held firm: “I saw both his hands go up not around his neck in a strangling type of way, but more just on each side of his neck, just grabbed him. I guess it could have been on his clothes, I don’t know. I can’t say that for sure. But he grabbed him and slammed him down. … He had one hand on each side of his neck.” And while the news division at Fox covered the story seriously and showed integrity, at least one commentator said on the air that the reporter had it coming. And then there was this gem, demonstrating what happens when a media outlet becomes a monopoly in a market: The Montana NBC Affiliate reportedly refused to cover the Gianforte story at all on Wednesday night, a shocking blackout. Irate sources inside 30 Rock appear to have called up New York Magazine’s Yashar Ali to complain: “KECI news director Julie Weindel was called by NBC News to see if KECI would cover the story or had any footage of the Gianforte incident that NBC News and its affiliates could use. … She was unyielding in her refusal to share any footage she may have had access to, or run a report on the story. … Weindel said that they weren’t covering the story, though it was running in outlets across the country at the time, explaining, ‘The person that tweeted [Jacobs] and was allegedly body slammed is a reporter for a politically biased publication.’ Weindel then added, ‘You are on your own for this.’ … The station was acquired, last month, by the conservative media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcasting.” Here’s why that’s a big deal: Sinclair Broadcasting just struck a deal with Tribune Media to buy dozens of local TV stations. “Already, Sinclair is the largest owner of local TV stations in the nation. If the $3.9 billion deal gets regulatory approval, Sinclair would have 7 of every 10 Americans in its potential audience,” Margaret Sullivan explained in a column last weekend. “Sinclair would have 215 stations, including ones in big markets such as Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago, instead of the 173 it has now. There’s no reason to think that the FCC’s new chairman, Ajit Pai, will stand in the way. Already, his commission has reinstated a regulatory loophole — closed under his predecessor, Tom Wheeler — that allows a single corporation to own more stations than the current 39 percent nationwide cap…" Meanwhile, the president appeared to shove the prime minister of Montenegro out of the way at a photo-op yesterday. Who said Donald Trump would spread poison to everything he touched? Oh right. Everyone paying attention.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line36
__label__cc	0.630079	0.369921	Rumer Willis’ Badgley Mischka Ads Revealed Photo courtesy of Badgley Mischka Rumer Willis in the Spring 2011 Badgley Mischka campaign. Badgley Mischka has scored a little Hollywood royalty for its latest campaign. The design duo has tapped Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, for its Spring 2011 ads, and the results are pure glam. The 22-year-old actress wows in a beaded cocktail dress, ethereal pink strapless number, and ruffled one-shoulder gown—accessorized with Badgley Mischka shoes, jewelry, and bags, of course—for the elegant shoot, photographed by lensman Tony Duran on a Malibu beach. “It was so amazing to play on the beach in beautiful and timeless gowns, I felt like a princess,” Willis says in a release. “Partnering with Mark and James has been such a wonderful experience and I am honored to appear in the new campaign.” She'll also make appearances to help promote the campaign, which will debut in March issues of select fashion magazines. “Rumer is a great muse for the season,” Mark Badgley and James Mischka say. “She has a vivacious spirit to her; she is young and modern, which is representative of our spring collection.” Mom, Dad and Ashton should be proud. Get the BM Rumer Willis - Sizzle widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.902689	0.902689	Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg delicious reddit MySpace StumbleUpon LinkedIn Viadeo Police arrest sixth member of family accused of child sex abuse From left: David Mohler, Jared Mohler, Burrell Mohler Sr., Burrell Mohler Jr. and Roland Mohler face charges. NEW: Darrel Mohler, another relative, charged with two counts of rape Friday Five relatives were arrested Tuesday after six people accused them of abuse More alleged victims have come forward since initial arrests, police say Allegations date from the mid-1980s through at least the mid-'90s, the sheriff said Lexington, Missouri (CNN) -- Police arrested a sixth member of a Missouri family under investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse, police said. Darrel Mohler has been charged with two counts of rape, Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said at a news conference. Missouri police did not have Mohler in custody earlier. On the request of Missouri officials, Marion County authorities went to Mohler's home in Silver Springs, Florida, and caught him just before he pulled into the driveway, according to a news release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office. He was subsequently arrested. Mohler told police he "was aware of what was going on in Missouri," and that he had not been there since the 1980s, according to the sheriff's office. Five members of the Mohler family of Lafayette County, Missouri, were arrested earlier this week after six alleged victims, who are relatives of the five suspects, made accusations of sexual abuse. A sixth person, described as an "associate" of the family, was arrested Thursday but released Friday, police said. The six alleged victims -- all now adults -- came to law enforcement authorities with stories of sexual performances, mock weddings, rape with various objects and a forced abortion during their childhoods, according to court documents obtained by CNN affiliate KSHB in Kansas City. CNN does not identify alleged sexual assault victims. Video: Forced beastiality allegations Video: Sixth arrest made Police did not have enough to charge Darrel Mohler earlier, but after examining the victims' statements, obtained enough information to charge him, Alumbaugh said. He added that he does not think Darrel is on the run. Darrel Mohler, 72, is the younger brother of Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., 77, according to KSHB. On Tuesday, authorities arrested Mohler Sr. and his sons Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53; David A. Mohler, 52; Jared Leroy Mohler, 48; and Roland Neil Mohler, 47. More charges against the family members are expected next week, the sheriff said. Current charges for some of the arrested include rape, deviate sexual assault and use [of] child in sexual performance, according to Missouri State Courts online case management system. Alumbaugh said that Larry Kidd, 55, of Kansas City, Missouri -- an "associate" of the Mohler family -- was picked up by police following a tip, cooperated with police and has been released. The alleged abuse took place from the mid-1980s until 1995 and possibly beyond, the sheriff said earlier. The documents provide graphic details of the alleged abuse provided by one of the alleged victims. All of the charges stem from those documents, Alumbaugh said. Mohler Sr., David Mohler and Jared Mohler are all lay ministers in the Community of Christ, the Independence, Missouri-based organization said in a statement. Lay ministers are volunteers who do not receive compensation, said the organization, and none of the three served in leadership roles or worked with children. Mohler Sr. went through the group's registered youth worker program, but "his youth worker registration has been terminated and we understand he had no contact with children or youth in church programs," the statement said. Some lay ministers might help take care of the church, while others might speak at services, said the organization's spokeswoman, Linda Booth. The Community of Christ is an offshoot of the modern-day Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It split off from the Mormon church in the 1800s, and in 2000 changed its name to Community of Christ from the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Investigators earlier this week searched several properties for evidence, but there were no plans to continue the searches, Alumbaugh said Friday. He declined to comment on any evidence found. CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report. Missouri police hunt for clues in child-abuse case Alleged child trafficking ring smashed in China Sex-tourism operation nets three, feds say New York nanny pleads not guilty in children's deaths 2nd suit claims Elmo puppeteer had sexual contact with minor BP blocked from new government contracts over Gulf spill Today's five most popular stories Fine art from an iPhone? The best Instagram photos from 2014 After IVF shock, mom gives birth to two sets of identical twins Inside North Korea: Water park, sacred birth site and some minders 10 top destinations to visit in 2015 What really scares terrorists	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line49
__label__cc	0.512539	0.487461	Social Aspects of New Media Home-photo Can we be friends with a chatbot? With the arrival of (online) social media many of our offline friendships shifted to online platforms. Many people even have online friends whom they’ve never met… On January 28, 2019 • By emmelync Instagram Influencers: What’s the Appeal? If you’re on Instagram, you cannot escape social media influencers; young women or men who have gathered large numbers of followers and share photos and/or videos… My PhD defense: Photo Diary On March 1st, 2013, I started working as a PhD candidate at Tilburg University. A little over five years later, on March 28th of this year,… On May 21, 2018 • By emmelync Coming soon: My PhD defense OK guys… this is really happening. In less than four weeks I will be standing on a podium, in front of five professors and all my… On March 5, 2018 • By emmelync Recipe: Raw cauliflower couscous I’ll never give up on eating carbs, but I do like replacement ideas, especially in the form of vegetables. A while ago I had a delicious… On September 6, 2017 • By emmelync Why do people gossip? It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog. Work has been really busy these past couple of months, but hopefully I’ll get back to… On August 28, 2017 • By emmelync The other day I was sitting on a train next to a family with two children, a boy and a girl. The girl was about eight… On June 5, 2017 • By emmelync Two ingredients to figure it all out One of the biggest struggles of young people around me these days is figuring out what they want to do with their lives. Of course, this… On April 19, 2017 • By emmelync The stranger on the train phenomenon Why is it, that sometimes it’s easier to tell a stranger something intimate or personal? Why are there so many people seeking the anonymity of the… On April 3, 2017 • By emmelync What about offline life? The more time we spend online, the less time we spend with our friends and family offline. That’s just a fact. The more time I look… On March 31, 2017 • By emmelync @emmelyncroes Conferences are hard work... especially sober 😎 Throwback to when we had a tan #summer #throwback New blogpost: can we be friends with a chatbot? Ho Why do we worship social media influencers? And wh Last night I gave a short talk about authenticity Memories of a wonderful summer ❤ @lotjebotje #su Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Youtube Linkedin Copyright 2016 - Emmelyn Croes. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.56681	0.43319	Modern Residences 3D Floor Plan Submitted By: Sanju Thomas on April 21, 2015 Contemporary Home Design Visualization Vijay Mallya- Kingfisher Towers Submitted By: Smriti Shah on April 14, 2015 It has always been good times for Vijay Mallya even if Kingfisher airlines is no more! The Kingfisher towers-in the UB city, on the Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalore is the new abode of Vijay Mallya. Amitabh Bachchan- Prateeksha, Jalsa Jalsa, where the Bachchan family presently resides encompasses a living space of 10,125 sq. feet. Each Sunday folks from all walks of life sit up for the hotshot to return out and greet the throbbing crowds of fans and well wishers outside the celebrity’s hom Mukesh Ambani- Antilla The home of India’s wealthiest man called ‘Antilia’, in reference of a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean. The building was designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins + Will. The 400,000-square foot building has 27 stories, but since some ceilings are double-height, it’s closer to the size of a 40-storey building. The home also been designed to survive an 8-Richter scale earthquake. Sachin Tendulkar- 19 A- Perry Cross Road World famous cricket Sachin Tendulkar lives in a property that was once a pre-independence Parsi villa, which was bought at a cost of Rs 39 crores in 2007. The old colonial structure was replaced with the remarkable and fascinating interiors that is spread over close to 9,000 ft. Shahrukh Khan- Mannat Shahrukh Khan a.k.a King Khan bought a heritage bungalow overlooking the Arabian Sea from Bai Khorshed Bhanu Sanjana Trust, which he revamped into a majestic, neoclassical columned bungalow and called it “Mannat” meaning “ a Vow to the Gods”. A six storey building has been built behind his bungalow. single wardrobes design Modern Villa Designs Bangalore Submitted By: Sneha Suresh on April 10, 2015 Amazing Architecture-Taipei Museum of Art Fantastic design Black & White Residence Submitted By: Sneha Suresh on April 8, 2015 Submitted By: Sanju Thomas on April 6, 2015 Building Front Design India Design A House	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line55
__label__cc	0.720682	0.279318	Unified National Testing (UNT) is one of the forms of the final students’ assessment in secondary schools, combined with the entrance exams. UNT is conducted for: – graduates who wish in the current academic year to go to the universities of Kazakhstan; – applicants for the General Certificate of Secondary Education “Altyn Belgi” General Certificate of Secondary Education with honors; – Winners of republican scientific competitions and olimpiads in general subjects of current year. Applications submission for participation in the UNT from March 10 to April 25. The completion of application forms is done by the graduates in those schools in which they study. NTC develops technologies, instructions and software for UNT. A state Commission are appointed aimed at organizing and conducting the UNT at each testing point. The control over compliance with the technology of the UNT is performed by the representatives of the Ministry. UNT is held in 5 subjects including compulsory: Kazakh or Russian languages (language of instruction), mathematics, history of Kazakhstan, Kazakh language for Russian schools (Russian for Kazakh schools), and optional subject. UNT durationis 3,5 hours (210 minutes). Retesting is not allowed. Testing is conducted on the tests developed by National Testing Center based on general education programs, their content cannot go beyond these programs. Information disclosing the content of the tests and the codes of correct answers are of state secrets. The number of tests in each subject is 25. The correct answer to each test item is evaluated as one grade. Normative references: Rules of conducting common national testing; Instructions for the organization and conduct unified national testing.	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line59
__label__cc	0.717465	0.282535	lp_eu:Enlarged Europe and its neighbours2,2 "it"^^xsd:language2,2 lp:Pasqualina Napoletano2,2 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 "Madam President, allow me also to pay my regards and express my thanks to the Irish Presidency. The new Europe of 25 has an important future ahead of it: dealing with what is happening around it. The scenario is very demanding: in fact, the outer borders will adjoin highly problematic countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus, the latter controlled by a government so authoritarian that it warranted the suspension of all official relations with it; and then there is Russia, a major military power which is having trouble adopting a more democratic institutional shape and above all pacifying Chechnya, agreeing without delay to work on the peace plan proposed by Mr Maskhadov, to which Parliament gave its full backing; and then in the south we have Turkey, now on the eve of negotiations which could see it accede; and there is the Middle East, the Gulf and Maghreb and Mashreq countries. In order to address this aspect, Europe must assume credible political characteristics and a coherent strategy: at institutional level, only the Constitution can guarantee progress in this direction; at political level, in the report on the future of enlarged Europe adopted last November, Parliament stressed the need for political dialogue with all its neighbours, warning us against fragmentary, economic actions based exclusively on liberalising markets. Political dialogue, establishing common rules, sharing the same values and rights, vision and respect for the point of view of other countries when tackling complex issues, such as immigration: this is the right way forward to avoid the risk of a rift between the Union and its neighbours. We must prevent the walls which we have demolished within the Union now being constructed at our new borders."@en1	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line61
__label__wiki	0.74503	0.74503	‘Money Heist’ Season 5 Part 2 Review: Fitting Finale To The Professor’s Grandest Robbery Outlook rating One of Netflix’s most loved shows ‘Money Heist’, starring Álvaro Morte, finally comes to an end. Here’s the review of the final season’s last part. Money Heist Review \| instagram.com/alvaromorte 2021-12-07T00:58:06+05:30 ‘Money Heist’ Season 5 Part 2 Review: Fitting Finale To The Professor’s Grandest Robbery Prateek Sur More stories from Prateek Sur Lockdown Woes: Actors, Directors, Junior Artistes Talk About Financial Troubles Amidst Pandemic Published: 07 Dec 2021, Updated: 07 Dec 2021 8:55 am Álex Pina Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso, Paco Tous, Alba Flores, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente, Esther Acebo, Enrique Arce, María Pedraza, Darko PeriÄ, Kiti Mánver, Hovik Keuchkerian, Luka Peroš, Belén Cuesta, Fernando Cayo, Rodrigo de la Serna, Najwa Nimri What’s It About: Set in Madrid, a mysterious man known as the Professor recruits a group of people, who choose city names as their aliases, to carry out an ambitious plan that involves entering the Royal Mint of Spain, and then the Bank Of Spain and escaping with money and gold respectively. They are dealing with hostages, the police, the armed forces, and whatnot along the way. Will they be able to come out of the Bank Of Spain finally? Will they get killed in the pursuit? Will the authorities finally catch them? Or will they end up coming out dead in body bags? Well, you’ll have to watch the show for that. Watch Trailer: There is no point in talking about the acting potential in each member of the band of thieves led by the Professor played by Álvaro Morte. His performance is top-notch in this finale, and so is that of every member of the cast. We’ve seen that happening in the past four and a half-season, and that hasn’t changed a bit even in the final part of the fifth season. While fans were slightly let down in the first part of the fifth season as there was lots of planning and talking going on, but nothing was shown as a final culmination. However, all that pent up emotions that were built so high in the first part of the fifth season finally gets a befitting end. There are dollops of high-end action, nail-biting twists, heartfelt tears, and joyous laughs strewn all over the five episodes. The writing has been the masterpiece of the show in the past seasons, and it is proved correct once again. The background music by Manel Santisteban is haunting as usual. The part where the entire group sits together and sings ‘Bella Ciao’ without any worry of the world was simply a masterstroke. In the English dub, adding the Coldplay song ‘Fix You’ was purely heavenly. It, sort of, encompassed all the feelings and emotions that each and every character was feeling, that too without saying a single word. Pure genius! What’s Not: There is hardly a wrong straw in the entire 5 episodes of this part. The only thing that you would feel bad about, is that it ends! If I still have to point out something, it would be that I was expecting to see more of Alba Flores aka Nairobi, Roberto García Ruiz as Oslo and Paco Tous as Moscow in the flashback sequences. While Úrsula Corberó as Tokyo and Pedro Alonso as Berlin have been given ample screen space in the flashback sequences, I wish the makers would have shown some more flashbacks of the others who had passed away, considering this was the final season. It wouldn’t have had been bad to give them all a final goodbye with a scene remembering them individually. Also, it would have been great to know what led to Diana Gómez as Tatiana, Berlin’s wife, falling in love with Patrick Criado as Rafael, Berlin’s son. Had their story been explored a bit more, that would have given the context to the audience about how Rafael was actually a good guy, who believed and loved his family and didn’t abjectly hate his father. The final climax does show Rafael turning good, but I would’ve loved to see a bit more of his planning of the robbery with Tatiana, with bits of their love story also shown alongside. How often do you find yourself rooting for the bad guys to come out victorious at the end, while all the while cursing the good guys – the police and armed forces? ‘Money Heist’ in its 5 seasons has managed to do that, which deserves a standing ovation. ‘Money Heist’ Season 5 Part 2 won’t let you look away from your screens just like the previous seasons. It has some of the best edge-of-the-seat action sequences, some heart-warming scenes, some memories, some tears, lots of feel-good factors at the end. The writing is simple yet very effective. The makers and writers didn’t have to do anything out of the blue, and they just gave a proper closure to all the loose ends that the story had right from the very first season, and spread that across with some of the most unexpected twists. What more do you need? It’s definitely a MUST WATCH. I am going with four and a half stars. ‘Bella Ciao’ to Professor Álvaro Morte, his band of thieves, and the undying spirit of the resistance. 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__label__cc	0.739803	0.260197	female Tag 11 Apr Learn More About Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’s Maeve Press (Exclusive!) FROM WWW.JUSTJAREDJR.COM Maeve Press is coming back to our screens for more laughs in season two of Everything’s Gonna Be Okay! The 17-year-old actress plays Genevieve on the Freeform comedy, which follows Nicholas and his two half-sisters left to cope after their father’s untimely death, with not only a... 07 Aug Maeve Stars in new Freeform Pilot Maeve stars in the new Freeform pilot, "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" by Josh Thomas. Maeve just wrapped shooting the hour long pilot in LA and is thrilled to be a part of such talented creators, actors and crew. Here's the press release below: FREEFORM BEGINS PRODUCTION ON JOSH... 13 May Kids Rock for Kids 2018 Posted at 01:40h in Comedy, News This year's Kids Rock for Kids event in Brooklyn was fantastic. Maeve was part of a lineup that helped raise awareness and funds for www.chipsonline.org a community center and soup kitchen, and www.afceco.org, Afghan Child and Education Care Organization. Maeve and the rest... 28 Apr Women in Comedy Festival 2018 Maeve did three shows at the 2018 Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. Packed in audiences saw her at the Rockwell in Somerville, ImprovBOSTON, and 730 Tavern. Read about some of Maeve's experience at this year's festival here The Interrobang. From The Interrobang: "one of... 09 Oct Gold Comedy Q&A with Maeve GOLD Comedy is an organization based in NY that gives girls and women the tools to find their funny and the places to share it with the world. They amplifying girls’ and women’s voices. Literally, with a mic! And MORE. Here's a Q&A Maeve did...	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.807418	0.807418	Posted on 31st March 2014 31st March 2014 by Jasmine Dotiwala JASMINE’S JUICE- NOEL CLARKE GOES FROM MOVIE STABLES TO MUSIC LABELS! JAMIE JOSEPH PERFORMED AT WEST LONDON PUB, THE ELGIN- HE IS NOEL CLARKES MUSIC ACT. Noel Clarke knows talent when he sees’s it. He’s singlehandedly spawned a whole generation of new acting talent via his debut movies Kidulthood (2006) and Adulthood (2008). Keen not to be stereotyped as the urban movies man, he always keeps his personal portfolio diverse with his roles in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Doctor Who, Star Trek and more. After setting up a genre of movie that has many pretenders to the throne and launched acting careers for numerous young urban talent, he proved he is much more than an urban film innovator by continuing to make movies that are diverse covering a multitude of subjects. From storage units in Storage 24, young Olympian athletes in Fast Girls, a heist movie with 4,3,2,1 and more, he’s also acted on the stage, won the Laurence Olivier Award for “Most Promising Newcomer” in 2003 for his performance in the play Where Do We Live at the Royal Court Theatre, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003 and was awarded a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2009. For all this accolade he remains a humble figure, who is loud and boisterous in groups of friends, but consciously stays away from the surface glamour and glitz of London’s celebrity parties and red carpets. This week in an uber trendy west London pub, Clarke – actor, screenwriter, director, and hero to thousands of young film makers- also added Record Label Head to his resume. Always keeping things close to his west London roots, Noel threw a showcase at Ladbroke Grove’s infamous Elgin pub for his latest signing Jamie Joseph. Always ahead of the trend curve and known for it, meant that a lot of notable UK music industry key influencers and power players turned out to hear what Jamie could bring. Noel has been quietly opening minds and launching new faces into the UK entertainment industry for a while, and now his music label Unstoppable has launched with two new acts. Jamie Joseph and a south London rap act TZY. JASMINE WITH NOEL CLARKE’S MUSIC ACT TZY. Noel told me why he decided to branch out into music and how the opportunity came about. ‘’Music is something I’ve always been into. When I used to watch American films like Deep Cover, and Boyz in the Hood back in the day, you would always get your film and a great soundtrack. When Huds (director Menhaj Huda) and I did Kidulthood we wanted to make sure we copied that format. Moving on to Adulthood, we had Tinchy and Chipmunk on the soundtrack. We had Plan B on both the Kidulthood and Adulthood soundtrack, long before people realised he was as great as I knew he was. Eliza Doolittle is in the Adulthood soundtrack, years before she, really popped, although her and her manger act like I’m shit on their shoe now. Anyone who knows, knows I was backing that talent from way back, All this culminated in my thinking I should have a label, and here we are’’. Highlighting again and again that social media is changing the world and the way business is done, Jamie clarified how he got in touch with Noel. ‘’It all came through twitter .I was told by a friend, that there was a post they came across involving a company looking for artists material to use in different areas of entertainment. After I posted my bits (film and music consultant and A&R) Martyn Berg instantly replied and asked if I was being managed and we discussed details. From that, we’re here! Mad!!’’ Jamie doesn’t underestimate how important Noels co-signing is to any new up and coming talent ‘’Obviously what Noel has achieved already in his career is a testament to his strong personality. We’ve had passing talks of ventures and avenues I might be able to be involved in but I am concentrating on my music, as it is my main goal in life’’. INDUSTRY GROUP ATTENDING THE ELGIN TO SEE NOEL CLARKE’S MUSIC SIGNEE JAMIE JOSEPH. Jamies single ‘’But You’’ has been causing a buzz on the streets, at nightclubs and pirate radio stations. Produced by Baby J – (producer to old skool hip hop acts like Skinnyman)- it’s a catchy feel good soulful song that sticks in the brain like the best hum-along melodies. Baby J explained what was it about Jamie that struck him as different. ‘’ I had got to the stage where I had lost faith in the UK black music scene a little, around the time the whole ‘urban pop’ thing happened and had pretty much stopped producing, a year or so later I decided I wanted to make a soul album that sounded like the soul tracks we’d sample for hip hop and started to look nationally for a singer. After being in talks with a couple of singers from Birmingham and London a friend directed me to Jamie who was right on my doorstep but strangely I had never heard of. As soon as I heard him I knew he had something special, he was a perfect singer in his delivery, there where bits that where out of key and strained, but there was just something special about his tone that made him sound unique, his melodies and vocal ideas were original and really good too. I meet dozens of singers every month, many of whom are much better singers than Jamie from a technical point of view, but Jamie has a real character and honesty to his voice, imperfections and all, and that is what all those old soul records were about, honest performances’’. Jamie Joseph (Born March 5th, 1990, Normanton, Derby) is a real music act in the way Ed Sheeran is. He’s a singer that knows music and isn’t cut from boy band styled and groomed to within an inch of his life by a glam squad. He comes from a very multicultural, rough area and acknowledges this is an advantage. ‘’My mum worked 2 jobs because my Dad lost his leg before I was born. But he did all the picking us up, dropping us off, school runs, cooking and cleaning and that. He is the main source for my vast musical palette. I grew up around a lot of different cultures and I think it’s the main reason why I’m so adaptable. I have many different friends of many different cultures and I think it shows in my band too’’. Like many young music fans Jamie cites acts like Michael Jackson and other Motown artists like, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson as inspirations but adds ‘’but I am very eclectic. I listen to all genres. So Meat Loaf, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Queen, Nas, Biggie, The Carpenters… I could go on….’’ One observation most in the UK music industry would agree on is that ‘its tough to make it in music in the UK unless you’re from London. The out of towners like Craig David and Oasis from Southampton and Manchester have to fight to be spotted early in their careers, and are very few and far between in the British charts. Jamie hails from Derby up north but thinks not being a Londoner is ‘’No pressure at all. I feel that because I’m from a small city outside of the capital I’ve been able to home in on my talents and keep a humble warm feeling in my personality and my music. I’m confident and believe in myself completely but when people complement me, that’s when you see me blush’’. There are no official album release dates for Jamie yet but knowing Noel he wont be doing anything that sticks to the old tried and tested music industry status quo. Asked about a potential album title Jamie laughs ‘”Hit the ground Running” seems fitting!’’ After a red hot set of tracks which saw Jamie show off not just his vocal gymnastics but his clearly dynamic, punchy attitude, Noel had the final word ‘’You never know who’s going to make it in any career, there are many many many factors, but I have belief in these two, I believe in their talent and as long as the bosses want them we’ll work on making them the best artists we can so their careers can flourish, We have plans and hopefully with Jamie Joseph and TZY we can make that happen’’. In a world where successful people try their hand at complimentary industries this isn’t an unusual move. After all, rap stars and music acts set up clothing brands and restaurants regularly. Actors like David Hassellhoff and Kylie once tried singing. Richard Branson can juggle music, fitness and travel brands. Noel Clarke was once annoyed that young black talent couldn’t get access to the big screen so he made it happen himself and now is silently making moves that are setting up a new working blueprint in the music and movie industry. His hustle is to be watched and admired. To stay connected to Noel Clarkes two music signees check out @jamiejoseph and @tzyworld. Previous PostPrevious JASMINE’S JUICE- The truth about Britain’s feral youth- V INSPIRED AWARDS! Next PostNext JASMINE’S JUICE featuring ASIAN AWARDS 2014- THE ASIAN TAKEOVER!	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line71
__label__cc	0.706751	0.293249	SHIFT2RAIL LINKS In2Rail video now available! The In2Rail video is available on this link: https://vimeo.com/263178323/f4f826a0ba In2Rail Final Conference - 19 April 2018, Vienna - Register! On behalf of the In2RailShift2Rail Lighthouse Project coordinator Network Rail, we would like tocordially invite you to attend the In2Rail final event to be held on 19 April2018 at the Waggon- 31 venue in Vienna (Austria). The registration is free of charge and is available on this LINK Launchedin May 2015, In2Rail sets the foundations for a resilient, consistent,cost-efficient, high capacity European network by exploring innovativetechnologies that will result in concepts embedded in a systems framework whereinfrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, andengineering are integrated, optimised, shared and exploited.(www.in2rail.eu) The In2Rail event will start at 08:00 (AM) and finish at 15:00.This will be followed from 15:00 to 16:30 by a high-level session on theclosure of the four Shift2Rail Lighthouse Projects (Roll2Rail, In2Rail, IT2Railand Smart Rail) at the same venue. The high-level session will provide you withan overview from the European Commission, Shift2Rail and the sector on the resultsand impacts of the Shift2Rail lighthouse projects: • IT2Rail (coordinated by UNIFE): The project aims at providing a new seamlesstravel experience, giving access to a complete multimodal travel offer whichconnects the first and last mile to long distance journeys. (www.it2rail.eu) • Roll2Rail (coordinated by UNIFE): The project aims to develop keytechnologies and to remove already identified blocking points for radicalinnovation in the field of railway vehicles, as part of a longer term strategyto revolutionise the rolling stock for the future. (www.roll2rail.eu) • SMART-RAIL (coordinated by TNO): The project focuses on innovative solutionsand their implementation in the rail freight sector. The project aims toimprove the five main aspects: reliability, visibility, flexibility, costs andlead time. (www.smartrail-project.eu) In2Rail final event venue: Waggon-31 - Riesenradplatz 2, 1020, Wien, Austria Paper ‘’Hybrid model for prediction of impact noise generated at railway crossings’’ presented during the 12th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN12) A hybrid model for the prediction of impact noise at railway crossings is presented. The hybrid model combines the simulation of vertical wheel?rail contact force in the time domain and the prediction of sound pressure level using a linear frequency-domain model. The time-domain model uses moving Green’s functions for the vehicle and track models (accounting for wheel flexibility and a discretely supported rail with space-variant beam properties) and a non-Hertzian wheel?rail contact model. The time-domain and frequency-domain models are coupled based on the concept of an equivalent roughness spectrum. The model is demonstrated by investigating the influence of axle load, vehicle speed and wheel profile on generated impact noise levels. A negligible influence on impact noise is observed for axle loads in the interval 15 – 25 tonnes. On the other hand, increasing vehicle speed from 80 km/h to 150 km/h, or comparing a nominal S1002 wheel profile with a severely hollow worn profile, result in substantially higher levels of impact noise; for the given wheel and track conditions the differences are in the order of 10 dB(A). For further information, please contact g.squicciarini@soton.ac.uk and peter.torstensson@chalmers.se Paper ‘’An investigation of the influence of wheel/rail contact conditions on curve squeal’’ presented at INTER-NOISE 2016 In this paper the influence of wheel/rail contact conditions on the possible occurrence of curve squeal is investigated. A reference case is presented, together with the available experimental data, and the results of numerical simulations are illustrated. The analyses reported in the paper are based on two calculation steps. First 3D multibody simulation of a rail vehicle running in curve is carried out. Then squeal simulation is performed, which is based on linear wheel and rail dynamic models, coupled through a nonlinear contact model. Stability analysis of the open loop transfer function of the overall system yields the possible unstable frequencies. You can download the full paper by clicking HERE In2Rail presented at Smart Mobility World Congress 2015 Mr. Manuel Alfageme Alonso (COMSA) participated in the BCN Rail Conference 2015 with a presentation on Key on-going railways energy efficiency innovations, linked to In2Rail project. You are able to download the presentation by clicking HERE Chalmers participated in the 9th Nordic Seminar on Railway Technology with a presentation on ‘’Kinematic Principles in Switches & Crossings’’ Luleå University of Technology and Luleå Railway Research Center (JVTC) hosted the 19th Nordic Seminar on Railway Technology 2016. The purpose of the seminar was to gather participants from the Nordic countries being active in the railway field, for instance from universities, institutes, authorities, manufacturers, operators, maintenance companies, and consultancies. You can download the In2Rail presentation by clicking HERE Paper ‘’Innovative Intelligent Management of Railway Bridges - A European Horizon 2020 Project’’ presented at IABSE Congress Stockholm 2016 Innovative Intelligent Railways, In2Rail, is a European Horizon 2020 Project with the objective to enhance capacity, increase reliability and reduce Life Cycle Costs of European Railways. Bridges and Tunnels is the main focus in Work Package 4. The aim is to study, benchmark and further develop new Inspection Technologies in order to create more proactive maintenance procedures. In this paper some preliminary results are presented. For further information, please contact anders.carolin@trafikverket.se In2Rail paper on ‘’Advanced Analytics for Train Delay Prediction Systems by Including Exogenous Weather Data’’ presented at IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2016 State-of-the-art train delay prediction systems neither exploit historical data about train movements, nor exogenous data about phenomena that can affect railway operations. They rely, instead, on static rules built by experts of the railway infrastructure based on classical univariate statistics. The purpose of this paper is to build a data-driven train delay prediction system that exploits the most recent analytics tools. The train delay prediction problem has been mapped into a multivariate regression problem and the performance of kernel methods, ensemble methods and feed-forward neural networks have been compared. Firstly, it is shown that it is possible to build a reliable and robust data-driven model based only on the historical data about the train movements. Additionally, the model can be further improved by including data coming from exogenous sources, in particular the weather information provided by national weather services. Results on real world data coming from the Italian railway network show that the proposal of this paper is able to remarkably improve the current state-of-the-art train delay prediction systems. Moreover, the performed simulations show that the inclusion of weather data into the model has a significant positive impact on its performance. Siemens and DB will present a paper on WP10 the main results at the ACRPS Conference (9-10 March 2017, Leipzig): Architectures for control and protection in digital traction substations The article discusses research results from the European project In2Rail and gives an application-oriented example of digitalization in the railway infrastructure. Today´s protection and control architectures are compared with the new possibilities opened by components supporting IEC 61850 process bus. Besides the architectural comparison, the pros and cons of classic as well as digital architectures are presented. The outcomes are transferred in the architecture for an upcoming demonstrator of a digital substation. In2Rail held the Mid-term Conference on 17 November in Brussels In2Rail Mid-term Conference took place on 17 November at the Sheraton Hotel in Brussels and was attended by more than 70 participants coming from all across Europe. Jointly organized by UNIFE and Network Rail and moderated by Ms. Mona Sihota (Network Rail), it was the occasion for the partners to present the first project’s achievements results and discuss with external participants about the next steps. The conference was opened by Network Rail with a welcome speech made by Prof. Andy Doherty who welcomed all the participants and stressed the importance of In2Rail as it sets the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in Shift2Rail (S2R). The innovative technologies addressed by In2Rail will be explored and resulting concepts will be embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineering are integrated, optimised, shared and exploited. First achievements include the state of the art across various European partners, the development of a common approach to innovation value analysis (for both In2Rail & Shift2Rail), building upon European project outputs at Technology Readiness Level 3 (TRL3) moving on the work in S2R to TRL 6. Moreover, first promising results are beginning to be seen from radical new concepts across the project e.g. radical switch design in Work-Package 2 (WP 2), potential 3D printing of track components and improvement of maintenance activities. The Conference continued with presentations and discussions on the main achievements in the three Sub-projects, focused on Smart Infrastructure, Intelligent Mobility Management and Rail Power Supply/Energy Management. Mr. Henk Samson (Strukton Rail), Dr. Ian Coleman and Mr. Ian Dean (Network Rail), Mr. Anders Carolin (Trafikverket) and Mr. Federico Papa (AnsaldoSTS) opened the technical session by presenting the main achievements so far in the Sub-project on Smart Maintenance by addressing a number of working areas including Switches and Crossings, Track, Bridges/Tunnels, Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Monitoring and Maintenance Strategies. The conference continued with a second set of presentations focused on the Sub-project on Intelligent Mobility Management (I2M). Mr. Carlo Dambra (AnsaldoSTS), Stefan Wegele (Siemens) and Roland Kuhn (Bombardier Transportation) reported on the main outcomes in the areas of System Engineering, Integration Layer and Nowcasting/Forecasting. Finally, Sub-project on Rail Power Supply and Energy Management was presented by Mr. Olivier Langlois (Alstom) and Tomas Greif, who presented the work done on Intelligent AC Power Supply System and Smart Metering for a Railway Distributed Energy Resource Management System (RDERMS). The presentations were followed by a fruitful discussion with the participants, who showed great interest in the work carried out in the first half of the project. Andy Doherty concluded the event, with thanks to UNIFE for the organisation of the mid term event venue, and thanks to Network Rail for the coordination of the In2Rail project. The full presentation of the event is available HERE In2Rail successfully presented at Innotrans In2Rail was presented during Innotrans from the UNIFE stand on 21st September 2016. In2Rail was presented along with the two other Shift2Rail Lighthouse projects. Shift2Rail Executive Director Mr. Borghini and UNIFE Director-General Mr. Philippe Citroën introduced the session with a general presentation on the importance of the three Lighthouse projects (In2Rail, Roll2Rail and IT2Rail) as preliminary input to Shift2Rail work. After that, the three projects were presented, focusing on the main achievements of the projects after 18 months of activities. Mr. Ian Dean of Network Rail (WP3 Leader) illustrated the main objectives and first results of In2Rail. Mr. Dean highlighted the contributions of In2Rail towards the overall Shift2Rail objectives of increased capacity, reliability and LCC. The outputs of In2Rail will have an impact especially on the activities in IP2 and IP3 of Shift2Rail. He then addressed the future activities in the three sub-projects focused on Smart Infrastructure, Intelligent Mobility Management and Rail Power Supply/Energy Management. At the end of his presentation, Mr. Dean informed the participants that the Mid-term conference of In2Rail will take place on the 17th of November in Brussels. The event will be jointly organized together with Roll2Rail, IT2Rail and SmartRail. We welcome you to register for the Mid-term conference via our website. During Innotrans the In2Rail brochure and the newly released Newsletter was distributed at UNIFE stand. The In2Rail presentation at Innotrans can be downloaded HERE. Project kick-off See the link The In2Rail project kick-off was successfully held in Brussels on 7 May 2015. The event was organised in two parts: a common session with the other lighthouse projects started under the Horizon 2020 first call and specific sessions for each individual project. Link to UNIFE newsletter Link to Railway Gazette article Link to European Railway Review article Link to Think-railways article Link to International Railway Journal article This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No: 635900 IN2RAIL Privacy Policy Total Budget: €18 million (EU funded) Project Start Date: 01 May 2015 Project End Date: 30 April 2018 Partners: 54 RELATED WEBPAGES Shift2Rail Capacity4Rail Research, Development & Technology The Quadrant, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, MK9 1EN Copyright © 2015 In2Rail Consortium Designed by CNC - Bologna -Italy	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line82
__label__cc	0.687643	0.312357	Priscilla: Frivolous and Energetic On Her USA Single Debut! Published on December 31, 2013 in Releases by staff Brazilian singer-songwriter Priscilla will make her US debut in 2014. The video for the first single “See U on the Dance Floor,” choreographed by acclaimed dancers Dionne “Loca De Jamaica” Renée (Shakira, Usher, Chris Brown, Sean Paul) and Lorenzo “Zagga Zo” Hanna (Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, MGK), could make the perfect platform to showcase the latin beauty’s dance skills and was recently showcased on Extra Tv plus across our very own music network. Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Priscilla first discovered her passion for performance at the early age of 6. Later on, she began performing regularly at the famous Brazilian theatre, Teatro Marília, and ultimately appeared on a number of Brazilian television shows. Priscilla’s single-parent upbringing was not an easy one. So at age 17, she left her home country of Brazil and relocated to Portugal where she attended college and acquired a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. But Portugal never felt right for the budding young starlet – she always knew there was only one place in the world where she could fully realize her dreams. So shortly after graduating, at age 22, she decided to move to Los Angeles in order to pursue her passion for music. Priscilla, who currently resides in Los Angeles with her two dogs, Billy and Suzy, immediately caught the attention of a producer which resulted in her recording an EP of her own songs. Listening to the new Priscilla single is a fun, sexy, tongue in cheek experience – but despite the obvious hooks, the sing-along choruses, and the perfectly timed beats, there also lies a certain depth and soul in the lady’s artistic repertoire. The techno-europop-esque “See U on the Dance Floor”, doesn’t try to be an avant-garde, snooty, stuck up, pseudo-intelligent single, like some of the other dance-music Divas are currently promoting. It just stays slick, solid, edgy…and yes, very danceable! In a nutshell, Priscilla just gets the job done with her natural charm and without pretentiousness. Fortunately, being Brazilian, gives her an unfair advantage – she has those sensuous Latin rhythms running through her bones since birth. So it’s no surprise that her style is red-hot and smoking right out of the box. The beat, mix, and vocals come together excellently on this debut single written and performed by Priscilla, giving us a small taste of her potential. She also supports the song with a frivolous and energetic video directed and produced by Moses Israel, to completely convince us to see her on the dance floor. Priscilla is on an exciting debut with her infectious, carefree dance song, produced by Boy Reckless and only time will tell how bright her star will be allowed to shine in the musical galaxy. In the meantime you can be sure that she’ll “See U on the Dance Floor”! Tags: Boy RecklessBrazilDionne RenéeFeaturedHeadlinesLoca De JamaicaLorenzo HannaMoses IsraelNewsPriscillaReleasesSee U on the Dance FloorsliderspotlightVideosZagga Zo Singer-songwriter Priscilla, Makes US Debut with ‘See U on the Dance Floor’! Brazilian-born Latin beauty and singer-songwriter Priscilla, is revealing the video of her debut single “See U Teen POP STAR JEREMY FERNANDEZ Will Release His Third SINGLE, “DON’T LET GO” New York, NY – After years as a young, accomplished actor, 15 year old Jeremy Fernandez Country Music Star, Scott Carter, Releases Revamped Re-issues of All His Major Albums Scott Carter, an internationally recognized solo country artist, has been performing for over two decades. Scott Awesome !!!! Previous Story Previous post: Singer-songwriter Priscilla, Makes US Debut with ‘See U on the Dance Floor’! Next Story Next post: Klassik: “YRP – Young Rising Phenoms” The Attitude Is Creative And Innovative!	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.529595	0.529595	fbi sexual assault statistics 2019 In vain I sought relief from my favourite books; those memorials of past nobleness and greatness from which I had always hitherto drawn strength and animation. I read them now without feeling, or with the accustomed feeling minus all its charm; and I became persuaded, that my love of mankind, and of excellence for its own sake, had worn itself out. I sought no comfort by speaking to others of what I felt. If I had loved any one sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition I was. I felt, too, that mine was not an interesting, or in any way respectable distress. There was nothing in it to attract sympathy. Advice, if I had known where to seek it, would have been most precious. The words of Macbeth to the physician often occurred to my thoughts. But there was no one on whom I could build the faintest hope of such assistance. My father, to whom it would have been natural to me to have recourse in any practical difficulties, was the last person to whom, in such a case as this, I looked for help. Everything convinced me that he had no knowledge of any such mental state as I was suffering from, and that even if he could be made to understand it, he was not the physician who could heal it. My education, which was wholly his work, had been conducted without any regard to the possibility of its ending in this result; and I saw no use in giving him the pain of thinking that his plans had failed, when the failure was probably irremediable, and, at all events, beyond the power of his remedies. Of other friends, I had at that time none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible. It was however abundantly intelligible to myself; and the more I dwelt upon it, the more hopeless it appeared. Among these, by far the principal was the incomparable friend of whom I have already spoken. At this period she lived mostly with one young daughter, in a quiet part of the country, and only occasionally in town, with her first husband, Mr Taylor. I visited her equally in both places; and was greatly indebted to the strength of character which enabled her to disregard the false interpretations liable to be put on the frequency of my visits to her while living generally apart from Mr Taylor, and on our occasionally travelling together, though in all other respects our conduct during those years gave not the slightest ground for any other supposition than the true one, that our relation to each other at that time was one of strong affection and confidential intimacy only. For though we did not consider the ordinances of society binding on a subject so entirely personal, we did feel bound that our conduct should be such as in no degree to bring discredit on her husband, nor therefore on herself. This first introduction to the highest order of mountain scenery made the deepest impression on me, and gave a colour to my tastes through life. In October we proceeded by the beautiful mountain route of Castres and St. Pons, from Toulouse to Montpellier, in which last neighbourhood Sir Samuel had just bought the estate of Restincli猫re, near the foot of the singular mountain of St. Loup. During this residence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French literature; I took lessons in various bodily exercises, in none of which however I made any proficiency; and at Montpellier I attended the excellent winter courses of lectures at the Facult茅 des Sciences, those of M. Anglada on chemistry, of M. Proven?al on zoology, and of a very accomplished representative of the eighteenth century metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sciences. I also went through a course of the higher mathematics under the private tuition of M. Lenth茅ric, a professor at the Lyc茅e of Montpellier. But the greatest, perhaps, of the many advantages which I owed to this episode in my education, was that of having breathed for a whole year, the free and genial atmosphere of Continental life. This advantage was not the less real though I could not then estimate, nor even consciously feel it. Having so little experience of English life, and the few people I knew being mostly such as had public objects, of a large and personally disinterested kind, at heart, I was ignorant of the low moral tone of what, in England, is called society'. the habit of, not indeed professing, but taking for granted in every mode of implication, that conduct is of course always directed towards low and petty objects; the absence of high feelings which manifests itself by sneering depreciation of all demonstrations of them, and by general abstinence (except among a few of the stricter religionists) from professing any high principles of action at all, except in those preordained cases in which such profession is put on as part of the costume and formalities of the occasion. I could not then know or estimate the difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events different; among whom sentiments, which by comparison at least may be called elevated, are the current coin of human intercourse, both in books and in private life; and though often evaporating in profession, are yet kept alive in the nation at large by constant exercise, and stimulated by sympathy, so as to form a living and active part of the existence of great numbers of persons, and to be recognized and understood by all. Neither could I then appreciate the general culture of the understanding, which results from the habitual exercise of the feelings, and is thus carried down into the most uneducated classes of several countries on the Continent, in a degree not equalled in England among the so-called educated, except where an unusual tenderness of conscience leads to a habitual exercise of the intellect on questions of right and wrong. I did not know the way in which, among the ordinary English, the absence of interest in things of an unselfish kind, except occasionally in a special thing here and there, and the habit of not speaking to others, nor much even to themselves, about the things in which they do feel interest, causes both their feelings and their intellectual faculties to remain undeveloped, or to develope themselves only in some single and very limited direction; reducing them, considered as spiritual beings, to a kind of negative existence. All these things I did not perceive till long afterwards; but I even then felt, though without stating it clearly to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and amiability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else (with few, or no exceptions) was either an enemy or a bore. In France, it is true, the bad as well as the good points, both of individual and of national character, come more to the surface, and break out more fearlessly in ordinary intercourse, than in England: but the general habit of the people is to show, as well as to expect, friendly feeling in every one towards every other, wherever there is not some positive cause for the opposite. In England it is only of the best bred people, in the upper or upper middle ranks, that anything like this can be said. It seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch, some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to the public as a narrative, or as being connected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education, and its improvement, are the subject of more, if not of profounder study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught, and well taught, in those early years which, in the common modes of what is called instruction, are little better than wasted. It has also seemed to me that in an age of transition in opinions, there may be somewhat both of interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others. But a motive which weighs more with me than either of these, is a desire to make acknowledgment of the debts which my intellectual and moral development owes to other persons; some of them of recognized eminence, others less known than they deserve to be, and the one to whom most of all is due, one whom the world had no opportunity of knowing. The reader whom these things do not interest, has only himself to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind, that for him these pages were not written. The first of my books in which her share was conspicuous was the "Principles of Political Economy." The "System of Logic" owed little to her except in the minuter matters of composition, in which respect my writings, both great and small, have largely benefited by her accurate and clear-sighted criticism.6 The chapter of the Political Economy which has had a greater influence on opinion than all the rest, that on "the Probable Future of the Labouring Classes," is entirely due to her. In the first draft of the book, that chapter did not exist. She pointed out the need of such a chapter, and the extreme imperfection of the book without it: she was the cause of my writing it; and the more general part of the chapter, the statement and discussion of the two opposite theories respecting the proper condition of the labouring classes, was wholly an exposition of her thoughts, often in words taken from her own lips. The purely scientific part of the Political Economy I did not learn from her; but it was chiefly her influence that gave to the book that general tone by which it is distinguished from all previous expositions of Political Economy that had any pretension to being scientific, and which has made it so useful in conciliating minds which those previous expositions had repelled. This tone consisted chiefly in making the proper distinction between the laws of the Production of Wealth, which are real laws of nature, dependent on the properties of objects, and the modes of its Distribution, which, subject to certain conditions, depend on human will. The common run of political economists confuse these together, under the designation of economic laws, which they deem incapable of being defeated or modified by human effort; ascribing the same necessity to things dependent on the unchangeable conditions of our earthly existence, and to those which, being but the necessary consequences of particular social arrangements, are merely co-extensive with these: given certain institutions and customs, wages, profits, and rent will be determined by certain causes ; but this class of political economists drop the indispensable presupposition, and argue that these causes must, by an inherent necessity, against which no human means can avail, determine the shares which fall, in the division of the produce, to labourers, capitalists, and landlords. The "Principles of Political Economy" yielded to none of its predecessors in aiming at the scientific appreciation of the action of these causes, under the conditions which they presuppose; but it set the example of not treating those conditions as final. The economic generalizations which depend, not on necessities of nature but on those combined with the existing arrangements of society, it deals with only as provisional, and as liable to be much altered by the progress of social improvement. I had indeed partially learnt this view of things from the thoughts awakened in me by the speculations of the St. Simonians; but it was made a living principle pervading and animating the book by my wife's promptings. This example illustrates well the general character of what she contributed to my writings. What was abstract and purely scientific was generally mine; the properly human element came from her: in all that concerned the application of philosophy to the exigencies of human society and progress, I was her pupil, alike in boldness of speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment. For, on the one hand, she was much more courageous and far-sighted than without her I should have been, in anticipations of an order of things to come, in which many of the limited generalizations now so often confounded with universal principles will cease to be applicable. Those parts of my writings, and especially of the Political Economy, which contemplate possibilities in the future such as, when affirmed by Socialists, have in general been fiercely denied by political economists, would, but for her, either have been absent, or the suggestions would have been made much more timidly and in a more qualified form. But while she thus rendered me bolder in speculation on human affairs, her practical turn of mind, and her almost unerring estimate of practical obstacles, repressed in me all tendencies that were really visionary. Her mind invested all ideas in a concrete shape, and formed to itself a conception of how they would actually work: and her knowledge of the existing feelings and conduct of mankind was so seldom at fault, that the weak point in any unworkable suggestion seldom escaped her. Czech Rep	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line87

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