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The Austrian branch of T-Mobile is refusing to block access to The Pirate Bay and several other popular torrent sites. T-Mobile was asked to do so by a local music rights group, who want the ISP to voluntarily follow a court order that was issued against rival Internet provider A1.
As the poster-child of online piracy, The Pirate Bay has become one of the most censored websites on the Internet in recent years.
Most recently the Austrian Internet provider A1 was ordered by the Commercial Court of Vienna to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.
In addition to various domain names of the notorious torrent site, the court order also requires the Internet provider to block three other "structurally infringing" sites; Isohunt.to, 1337x.to and h33t.to.
Taking advantage of this momentum, local music rights group LSG sent its lawyers after several other large ISPs urging them to follow suit, or else.
A letter with a 'demand' to block The Pirate Bay and others was sent T-Mobile and Drei, among others. However, without a court order directed at them the providers are not all eager to comply.
Helmut Spudich, spokesman for T-Mobile, says that his company has no plans to implement new blocking measures. "We will not to comply with this request and access to The Pirate Bay will not be blocked," Spudich told Futurezone.
The decision of the Commercial Court of Vienna only applies to A1, so T-Mobile sees no legal obligation to comply with the request.
Instead, T-Mobile notes that the authorities "should implement clear legal regulations with regard to Internet blocking in Austria."
"We don't want to block our customers to be blocked inadvertently and would like a clarification on the correct procedure," Spudich adds.
Several other Austrian Internet providers have received the same letter but thus far none have publicly stated that they are prepared to voluntarily block The Pirate Bay on their network.
The Pirate Bay is not the first site to be targeted in Austria. Earlier this year the Supreme Court ordered several leading Austrian ISPs to block the major streaming sites Movie4K.to and Kinox.to.
This order also clarified that the Internet providers will have to pay the costs for future blockades, which may make ISPs more hesitant to comply without protest.
Whether copyright holders will indeed take T-Mobile and other ISPs to court to broaden the existing blockade has yet to be seen.
Update August 28: According to Futurezone none of the large ISPs have started to voluntarily block the Pirate Bay before the ultimatum they were given.
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Is the PHI on all your mobile devices encrypted? If not, here's another two million reasons to make encryption your top priority. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services announced on April 22, 2014 that they had imposed nearly $2 million in penalties on two entities as a result of the theft of unencrypted laptops.
As previously noted in this blog, theft or loss of laptops or other portable electronic devices remains a predominant factor in HIPAA breaches, constituting 57.5% of the approximately 400 List Breaches that involved reported theft or loss as of August 2013.
In the first incident, Concentra Health Services was fined $1,725,220 and agreed to adopt a corrective action plan after an OCR investigation following a report of the theft of an unencrypted laptop from a physical therapy clinic. According to the press release,
"OCR's investigation revealed Concentra had previously recognized in multiple risk analyses that a lack of encryption on its laptops, desktop computers, medical equipment, tablets and other devices containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) was a critical risk. While steps were taken to begin encryption, Concentra's efforts were incomplete and inconsistent over time leaving patient PHI vulnerable throughout the organization. OCR's investigation further found Concentra had insufficient security management processes in place to safeguard patient information."
This isn't Concentra's first experience with laptop theft. The OCR list of Breaches Affecting 500 or More Individuals (also known as the "Wall of Shame") includes two prior similar incidents, one in 2009 and another in 2011. (It is unclear whether this theft was related to the 2011 incident). Modern Healthcare reports that Concentra reported 16 additional breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals' records. So, although 434 out of 597 laptops had been encrypted according to HealthITSecurity.com, a batting average of .726 wasn't good enough given their status as repeat offenders. Concentra's resolution agreement, including the Corrective Action Plan, is available here and is worth reading. Among other conditions, OCR requires that the company provide an update regarding its encryption status, including the percentage of all Concentra devices and equipment (laptops, desktops, medical equipment, tablets, and other storage devices) that are encrypted and an explanation for the percentage of devices and equipment that are not encrypted.
The company's incomplete and inadequate implementation of compliance steps after known vulnerabilities had been identified may also have contributed to the severity of the penalty. One of the worst things a covered entity or business associate can do is to engage in a half-hearted compliance effort that documents knowledge of uncorrected problems.
In the second case, Arkansas-based QCA Health Plan reported the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing records of 148 individuals. OCR noted that its investigation revealed that QCA failed to comply with multiple requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, beginning from the compliance date of the Security Rule in April 2005 and ending in June 2012. QCA agreed to pay $250,000 and implement upgraded security procedures and employee training. QCA's Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan is here. This case marks only the second time OCR has fined an entity for a breach involving less than 500 individuals' PHI, following the Hospice of North Idaho settlement.
One lesson is clear from both incidents: if these laptops had been encrypted in accordance with NIST standards, neither entity would have been subjected to fines and additional government oversight. As enforcement continues to ramp up and target both Covered Entities and Business Associates, and as the use of mobile devices continues to increase, there is no excuse to delay full implementation of encryption. Encryption isn't a panacea, but it's as close as you can get in the HIPAA compliance world.
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Arctic light paints granite slabs with light
In this photo and the one to the right you can get a good sense of the quality of midday light in the Arctic, I can't put my finger on it quite yet but it makes it much easier to find beautiful images at several different times of day. I think part of it is the quality of atmosphere, its often thickened slightly with clouds that have been frozen mid-puff and are in the process of filtering out and blowing through vast empty space.
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Source files ( source )
Because of this package's design, modules can directly replace source statements in code; in most cases,
source( ' relative/path/file.r ' )
can be replaced by
import( ' relative/path/file ' , attach = TRUE )
– albeit with marked improvements:
Module content is loaded into its own private environment, akin to setting the local=TRUE option. It thus avoids polluting the global environment.
Since modules are environments, a module's content can be listed easily via ls(modulename) , and R shells provide auto-completion when writing modulename$ and pressing Tab repeatedly.
Modules can be executed directly (via Rscript module.r or similar) or import ed. Unlike via source , a module knows when it's being import ed, which allows code to be executed conditionally only when it is executed directly: if (is.null(module_name())) { … } This is of course similar to Python's if __name__ == '__main__': … mechanism. module_name returns a module's name. Module source files which are being executed directly don't act as modules and hence have no name ( module_name() is NULL ).
Modules can import other modules relative to their own path, without having to chdir to the module's path (similar to the source option chdir=TRUE , but preserving getwd() ).
import uses a standardised, customisable search path to locate modules, making it easy to reuse source files across projects without having to copy them around.
Repeatedly import ing, even in different modules, loads the module only once. This makes it particularly well-suited for structuring projects into small, decomposable units. This project was mainly borne out of the frustration that is repeatedly source ing the same file, or alternatively having one "master header" file which includes all other source files.
Doc comments inside a module source file are parsed during import , and interactive help on module contents is subsequently available via the usual mechanisms (e.g. ?mod$fun ).
All module source files are assumed to be encoded as UTF-8, which is nowadays the only sane default.
Packages ( library )
Modules are conceived as a lightweight alternative to packages (see rationale). As such, modules are generally intended to be more lightweight than packages.
Most importantly, modules often consist of single source code files.
Modules do not need a DESCRIPTION file or similar.
Modules offer more stringent protection against name clashes. While attaching to the R search() path is supported, it's not the default, and (like in Python), it's generally discouraged in favour of explicitly qualifying accesses to the module with the module name (or an alias).
Changing a module does not necessitate a module reinstall, the changes are available directly to clients (and even to running sessions, via reload ).
Modules can be local to a project. This allows structuring projects internally, something that packages only allow at coarse level. In particular, modules can be nested as in Python to create hierarchies, and this is in fact encouraged.
As of now, there is no support for non-R code or dynamic libraries (but one may of course use facilities such as dyn.load and Rcpp to include compiled code).
Control over exported and imported symbols is less fine-grained than for packages with namespace for now. This is intentional, since modules handle namespaces (via environments) more stringently than packages by default. However, this might still change in the future to allow more control.
Python's import mechanism
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Recently, Google delivered on a big promise made at its 2016 I/O developer conference, releasing a version of Android Auto that would run directly on a phone, removing the need for a new car or costly aftermarket head unit to access the service. Later this week, at CES in Last Vegas, the company will demonstrate another aspect of its automotive aspirations announced at I/O: Android running right in the car.
Google and FCA have partnered to create a concept Chrysler 300 that runs Android 7.0, a.k.a. Nougat. The open-source OS will be powering a version of FCA's 8.4-inch Uconnect system, sitting behind the scenes and still offering the "unique and intuitive" interface that allows Chrysler to differentiate its infotainment offerings.
The rising popularity of systems like Android Auto and has threatened auto manufacturers' control of the dashboards of their own cars.
This is an important detail. The rising popularity of systems like Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, which look the same regardless of where they run, has threatened auto manufacturers' control of the dashboards of their own cars. The ability to customize the interface of an in-dash version of Android could provide the apps and connectivity that owners want while maintaining the distinct look that manufacturers feel they need.
There are plenty of cars running some flavor Android already, but that's typically buried behind the scenes. With this implementation, full-on Android apps will be available from within the dash, including Google offerings like Assistant and Maps, along with popular third-party selections like Spotify and the ubiquitous Pandora.
This is only a concept and only on display at CES over the coming week, so don't head to your local Chrysler dealership asking for Nougat just yet. However, it is a good sign pointing toward more flavorful infotainment systems to come.
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If you want to analyse anything over time, there is likely no more important table to create for any Power BI model that a great date table.
I rarely, if ever, run any time analysis over date tables in fact tables. I always create a date table and then build a relationship over to the fact table (like a sales data table).
Why should you do this? Well, there are a few reasons, which I go into in this video.
The key, though, is learning how to create a really good date table, fast. You want to make sure that you have all the right code in place to do this over and over again.
A date table can be created in a few ways. In this example I use the 'M' code within the query editor. I personally think this is a really efficient way to do it, because you can make other small changes to the table within the query editor at the same time.
This video shows you how you can do just that, and how you can do it really quickly in all your models.
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"Did you know you can actually negotiate and get a better deal at the doctor's office if you offer to pay up front?" co-founder and CEO of Collective Health Ali Diab asks.
He'd broken his foot and had to go to the doctor for an MRI that would have cost him $3,700, with a $1,500 deductible. Instead it cost just $600 in cash that day. He says that's because he paid for it without going through his insurance provider. This is part of what gave him the idea for Collective Health, a new Founders Fund-backed employer health program launching today. It promises to take the paperwork and runaround out of health insurance.
Diab and co-cofounder Dr. Rajaie Batniji, a physician and political economist at Stanford University, paint Collective Health as a way to cut out the middleman (health insurance) and instead offer employers a less expensive, cloud-based, a la cart version of health care coverage for their workers. Employers can pick and choose which things they want covered for their employees. "We're not building another health app or gadget. We're building a complete solution to replace your employer provided health insurance," says Diab.
Founders Fund led an undisclosed Series A to back the idea. Formation 8, the Social+Capital Partnership, and prominent angel investors including Scott Banister, Max Levchin, Jeremy Stoppelman and Amr Awadallah also added money in support.
The other part for the idea for Collective Health was first planted when Diab's intestine suddenly twisted up on itself, cutting off the blood supply to about 10 feet of his intestine. "Nothing could have prevented or predicted this. It was just bad luck," says Diab.
To have that happen is a scary and life threatening experience. And then, just as he was struggling to regain his strength, his health insurer didn't want to pay his fees. Diab says he'd been paying for premium coverage for years in the event of something like this happening. Instead of the help he needed, he was left with papers up to his gut in legalese and medical insurance loop-de-loops he didn't understand. It was either pay up or face legal action, ruined credit and further unnecessary hardship.
Diab's story is not unique. Dr. Batniji has seen it over and over again while working in the medical field. "Patients are often left to advocate for themselves and trying to get a clear answer from your health insurance company about what's driving costs is impossible," says Dr. Batniji. According to NerdWallet, one in every 5 American adults are struggling to pay their medical bills, and three in five bankruptcies will be due to medical bills. And to add more insult to any possible injuries, over the last 10 years, the average premium for family coverage has increased 80 percent, according to ACA International. It was a 90 percent increase from 2008 to 2009, according to data provided from Wellpoint, Cigna and United Health (see chart below).
The problem, according to Diab and Dr. Batniji, is that even with Obamacare or employee sponsored health insurance, annual premiums are increasing. They say the costs are growing at an unsustainable rate for most small and midsize companies to handle. This, according to Diab, makes it hard to offer a good plan for employees. "While insurance is supposed to be a risk-sharing business, health insurance has increasingly become a middleman business devised to generate profit for the health insurers above all else. As a result, there is a fundamental disconnect between the incentives of traditional health insurance companies and people's and organizations' health insurance needs," says Diab.
Diab and Dr. Batniji started asking questions like "Why have insurance premiums and deductibles risen so much faster than underlying health care costs over the past twenty years?" and "Why do we receive something in the mail after seeing the doctor that looks like a bill, but says 'THIS IS NOT A BILL' at the top?" "It's like entering a time warp back to 1980," Diab says. Several long bike rides and early morning coffees later, Dr. Batniji and Diab decided it was up to them to figure out a better way to fixing how Americans pay for health care.
The startup now employs 25 people in a San Mateo office and Collective Health is currently "renting" insurance services off of a certain network that it is not at liberty to name at this time. Payments processing is also in the works and Diab says it will eventually be like a square or pay pall software. Collective Health also adds in cost comparisons and which doctors are in your network. It also includes a data visualization element not currently offered by any health insurance provider. The data shows you how much you can expect to pay, above your premium. This, says Diab, better prepares someone for what it should cost than just mailing something
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Whoring is like military service…okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down. – Robert A. Heinlein
Many Americans like to pretend that all prostitutes are streetwalkers. I say "pretend" because, though I am sure there are some ill-informed folks out there who simply don't know any better, I am equally sure the vast majority of people in this country know of the existence of call girls, escorts, massage parlor girls, brothel girls, lawyers and other types of prostitutes. Yet, even so, say "prostitute" to the average American and the picture that will pop into his (or her) mind is the stereotypical underdressed, overly made up streetwalker leaning against a lamp post and smoking a cigarette. Ignore for a minute that this stereotype isn't even true of many streetwalkers; the real question is, why? How is it that the word "prostitute", broad and clinical as it is, has come to mean for most Americans only those women at the very bottom of our profession? I can't be sure of all the reasons, but I have some educated guesses I would like to share with you.
First and foremost, of course, is that streetwalkers are ubiquitous. To my knowledge no one has ever done a world census of whores, but The National Task Force on Prostitution estimates that, of the entire female prostitute community in America, only five to twenty percent are street walkers (that's an average estimate of 12.5%, so let's be generous and say 15%). And unlike the brothel girls and massage girls (who are only encountered in their own places of business) or call girls and escorts (who are difficult to tell apart from other women), streetwalkers stand out; they're hard to miss when they're present. Since they have no advertising and/or place of business, how else could they attract clientele? They have to be visible, and they have to advertise their profession so as not to be overlooked. Hence, the flashy and/or revealing clothes favored by many (though by no means all) of them. On top of that, they are more thinly spread; I daresay there are a few streetwalkers in many towns too small for a massage parlor or escort service. All the streetwalker needs to set up shop is a pair of shoes.
It's quite likely that just about everyone reading this has seen a few streetwalkers in his life (probably more than just a few), and since they do stand out they make a strong impression. It is the nature of the human mind to stereotype, which is of course how prejudices are formed. It is unfortunately not much of a leap for a person to go from "I saw some prostitutes who looked like sleazy drug addicts" to "all prostitutes are sleazy drug addicts." Or to go from "I read in the paper that many crimes are committed by black men" to "all black men are criminals." And so on. Even if the rational mind knows that not ALL members of a group are like its lowest elements, the temptation to classify any given member of that group as the lowest common denominator is very strong indeed. And when the people who are doing the stereotyping are in positions of authority, abominations like racial profiling are the inevitable result.
Another source of the stereotype is movies and television shows. The Hollywood prostitute is a curious creature; she looks like a call girl but dresses and acts like a streetwalker (except for her heart of gold). This applies only to main characters, of course; seedy-looking streetwalkers may be added to a street scene to give it a more run-down, low-class, skid row sort of atmosphere. Once in a great while there will be a high-class call girl (or a courtesan if the show is set far enough in the past), but this is a very rare exception. In the universe of movies and television, streetwalkers outnumber the rest of us by many hundreds to one. And considering how tenacious visual images can be, this false picture is permanently imbedded in the minds of many people.
Finally, there's the vulgar appeal of the streetwalker. Many people are fascinated by vulgarity; our youth idolizes entertainers who adopt the personas of "gangstas", thugs, "pimps", skinheads and other lowlifes. The tabloids dwell on the lowest, sleaziest activities of celebrities, especially those celebrities who are merely famous specimens of what I grew up calling "white trash." Television shows such as Jerry Springer, Cops and the numerous courtroom and "reality" shows present the worst, lowest, nastiest, sickest, most tawdry examples of human behavior as "entertainment". Vulgarity sells. And considering that, is it any surprise that most Americans would rather think about streetwalkers than call girls?
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By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer
Australia's ruling party will once again attempt to resolve their bitter internal differences over the debate of same-sex marriage at a special meeting which was held Monday.
The ruling party is desperate to find a policy agreement on same-sex marriage as it is being considered a test of prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's agenda. Making matters worse is the fact that the ruling party has trailed the center-left opposition Labor Party over the past several months in opinion polls.
The conservative Liberal Party-led coalition narrowly was re-elected at elections last July with a promise to let voters decide whether Australia should recognize same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
Liberal Senator. Dean Smith, a gay man who opposed legalizing same-sex marriage when he was appointed to the Senate in 2012, has drafted a bill to allow gay marriage now and wants his fellow Liberal lawmakers to be allowed to vote on it according to their consciences rather than to according to party policy.
"It's time for the party to put the matter to rest once and for all," Smith told reporters on Monday.
Gay marriage opponents, including former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who initiated the plebiscite policy two year ago, argue that the government must stick to its election promise that marriage law would not be changed without a national vote.
"The last thing Australia needs is government by opinion poll," Abbott wrote in The Australian newspaper. "But neither do we need political parties that believe one thing one minute and the opposite the next," said Abbott.
Turnbull continues to support gay marriage and initially opposed the plebiscite concept. However Turnbull did agree to maintain the government's plebiscite policy in a deal with the most conservative lawmakers in his party when he replaced Abbott as prime minister in September 2015.
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We're fighting for policy changes that will make it possible for us to have better choices: utilities that offer us renewable options, electric trains that make short-haul flights obsolete, public transit. Exxon and its ilk have been fighting for decades to keep these choices out of our reach, and then claim that we are voting with our dollars every time we sit in traffic or heat our homes with fossil fuels supplied by a utility that has a monopoly. They can play gotcha as much as they want, but all it proves is how badly we need better options. And we are still going to fight like heck to make sure options are available to everyone.
And yet, for all that logic, I still find myself on edge. To be watched so much is a kind of never-ending nightmare. And sometimes it's just infuriating. I skipped the funeral this summer of Patrick Sorrento, an important mentor to me at my college newspaper, because I didn't want my minder to follow me and cause a distracting spectacle. When my daughter reports someone taking pictures of her at the airport, it drives me nuts. I have no idea if it's actually this outfit; common decency would suggest otherwise, but that seems an increasingly rare commodity.
There's plenty else that scares me this summer, of course: Every month we're breaking temperature records, and Donald J. Trump has introduced a new snarl to our public life. Against these fears, the best one can hope for is a kind of resiliency. For a planet in desperate trouble, it's good news that the price of a solar panel has plummeted. For our nation, there's the hope that the social fabric — the Little Leagues and Methodist churches and Black Lives Matter assemblies and League of Women Voters and library guilds and N.A.A.C.P. chapters — remain just strong enough that we'll escape the narcissistic nihilism of Mr. Trump.
As for me, there's comfort in the knowledge that the climate movement doesn't depend on me. For years now, I've been stepping back, mostly because I think the kind of movement we need is one that has thousands of leaders in thousands of places, connected like the solar panels on the roofs of an entire planet.
It's stronger that way, because different voices bring different arguments to the fore. But another good reason for that distributed model, one that I've thought of often this summer, is that even a successful attack on one person does little damage to the whole movement, in the same way that you can smash the solar panels on my roof and not black out the Eastern Seaboard.
When that doesn't cheer me up sufficiently, I fall back on my colleagues all over the world. A good thing about movements is that you really do have brothers and sisters, and they do have your back. The fossil-fuel industry may threaten us as a planet, as a nation, and as individuals, but when we rise up together we've got a fighting chance against the powers that be.
And perhaps that realization is just a little bit scary for them.
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Dan Talks About Joss Whedon. And Talks. And Talks.
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"What we're offering you is a clean slate."
"Have you ever actually tried to clean a slate? You can always see what was on it."
It's slavery
Being a Doll sounds great
If they'd had it in my day, I'd have had Betty Grable every night
[incoherent girlish giggling]
"I think it could be maybe beautiful"
It's human trafficking, end of story
If this technology exists then: "it'll be used. It'll be abused. It'll be global. And we will be over. As a species. We will cease to matter. I don't know, maybe we should"
"But if you put her under some fat old Emir, that's different, because she'll think she loves him for all of a day? We're in the business of using people!"
So I finally got around to watching Dollhouse. I'm writing this article as I go, episode by episode, so you can expect it to get a bit incoherent and a bit rambling.Obviously I went into the show with a fair few preconceptions about what it was going to be like, and it would be remiss of me not to admit that this coloured my experience of it.I should also say that I am in no way disputing the fact that Joss Whedon makes excellent TV. The problem is that he makes excellent TV which sometimes whacks you in the face with a gigantic disembodied penis with the words "look how serious and morally complex I am" tattooed on the side.Got that image firm in your minds? Good.Also. Spoilers.The first episode opens with a fragment of Echo's induction into the Dollhouse. Something bad has happened, and the Dollhouse is willing to make it all go away if she'll sign up for a five year mission to explore strange new … umm … to work for them for five years.There's a bit of classic Whedonesque dialogue in this scene which set my teeth on edge. It goes something like this:Two things. No. Three things:First. Stepfrom the Themehammer. Okay, we get it, they're going to erase her personality but because of her Awesome Girlpower they won't succeed. Fabulous. You don't need to drive it into my head like a railroad spike.Second. Okay, Joss, we know you like playing with language, we know you like deconstructing metaphors (he's like Pratchett in this regard) but really "have you ever tried to clean a slate" what theThird. Who the fucktried to clean a slate? Was Echo some kind of slate-studies graduate? Was she majoring in sedimentary rock formations? About the only people I can think of who would work with slate regularly are art students, and in that case you'd think they'd view a "clean slate" as something like a "clean piece of paper" – something completely new rather than something that has had the old stuff scrubbed off of it. In fact, surely that's why one needs a "clean slate" – because one's old slate is dirty from all the stuff that's been on it.Sorry, that was a massive digression.So we go on from Echo being spunkily inducted into the Dollhouse to Echo riding around spunkily on a motorbike, where she flirts spunkily with this rich dude who she appears to have been having an awesome weekend of hot bondagey sex with. Then he goes to get a drink, and she goes spunkily outside and gets into a spunky black van, where she is taken back to the Dollhouse for her "treatment".As she goes, the hot billionaire likens her to Cinderella at the ball, getting back into her coach before it turns into a pumpkin.Back at the Dollhouse, she talks animatedly about how happy she is, and how glad she is that she's finally found the right guy. Then they wipe her brain. Then there is aof exposition.I'm not going to go too far into the "is it rape or isn't it" question right now – I'm sure there'll be time to cover that later. What I am going to mention is the way that this is presented.Echo's "Engagement" (as the Dollhouse insists on calling it) with Rich Dude is presented in an unremittingly positive light. She's happy, he's happy, it's just All Over Too Soon and she has to go back to the Magic Kingdom to be put into her Enchanted Sleep. The only flaw presented in the scenario is the fact that it is not "real". The fact that Echo spent three days having sex with this guy because she had been compelled to do so by high-tech mind control is not addressed – not merely addressed ambiguously
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Seoul Extends Transit Service Hours Over Chuseok Holiday
In celebration of the Chuseok holiday, Seoul will be implementing a special transport policy measure during Chuseok to promote the safety and comfort of residents across the city. Subways and buses will operate later than usual for those returning to Seoul during the late hours of the night. The urban expressway traffic forecast service will... Read more
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Background
Substantial concerns have been raised about the neuropsychiatric safety of the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion. Their efficacy relative to nicotine patch largely relies on indirect comparisons, and there is limited information on safety and efficacy in smokers with psychiatric disorders. We compared the relative neuropsychiatric safety risk and efficacy of varenicline and bupropion with nicotine patch and placebo in smokers with and without psychiatric disorders.
Methods
We did a randomised, double-blind, triple-dummy, placebo-controlled and active-controlled (nicotine patch; 21 mg per day with taper) trial of varenicline (1 mg twice a day) and bupropion (150 mg twice a day) for 12 weeks with 12-week non-treatment follow-up done at 140 centres (clinical trial centres, academic centres, and outpatient clinics) in 16 countries between Nov 30, 2011, and Jan 13, 2015. Participants were motivated-to-quit smokers with and without psychiatric disorders who received brief cessation counselling at each visit. Randomisation was computer generated (1:1:1:1 ratio). Participants, investigators, and research personnel were masked to treatment assignments. The primary endpoint was the incidence of a composite measure of moderate and severe neuropsychiatric adverse events. The main efficacy endpoint was biochemically confirmed continuous abstinence for weeks 9–12. All participants randomly assigned were included in the efficacy analysis and those who received treatment were included in the safety analysis. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (number NCT01456936 ) and is now closed.
Findings
8144 participants were randomly assigned, 4116 to the psychiatric cohort (4074 included in the safety analysis) and 4028 to the non-psychiatric cohort (3984 included in the safety analysis). In the non-psychiatric cohort, 13 (1·3%) of 990 participants reported moderate and severe neuropsychiatric adverse events in the varenicline group, 22 (2·2%) of 989 in the bupropion group, 25 (2·5%) of 1006 in the nicotine patch group, and 24 (2·4%) of 999 in the placebo group. The varenicline–placebo and bupropion–placebo risk differences (RDs) for moderate and severe neuropsychiatric adverse events were −1·28 (95% CI −2·40 to −0·15) and −0·08 (−1·37 to 1·21), respectively; the RDs for comparisons with nicotine patch were −1·07 (−2·21 to 0·08) and 0·13 (−1·19 to 1·45), respectively. In the psychiatric cohort, moderate and severe neuropsychiatric adverse events were reported in 67 (6·5%) of 1026 participants in the varenicline group, 68 (6·7%) of 1017 in the bupropion group, 53 (5·2%) of 1016 in the nicotine patch group, and 50 (4·9%) of 1015 in the placebo group. The varenicline–placebo and bupropion–placebo RDs were 1·59 (95% CI −0·42 to 3·59) and 1·78 (−0·24 to 3·81), respectively; the RDs versus nicotine patch were 1·22 (−0·81 to 3·25) and 1·42 (−0·63 to 3·46), respectively. Varenicline-treated participants achieved higher abstinence rates than those on placebo (odds ratio [OR] 3·61, 95% CI 3·07 to 4·24), nicotine patch (1·68, 1·46 to 1·93), and bupropion (1·75, 1·52 to 2·01). Those on bupropion and nicotine patch achieved higher abstinence rates than those on placebo (OR 2·07 [1·75 to 2·45] and 2·15 [1·82 to 2·54], respectively). Across cohorts, the most frequent adverse events by treatment group were nausea (varenicline, 25% [511 of 2016 participants]), insomnia (bupropion, 12% [245 of 2006 participants]), abnormal dreams (nicotine patch, 12% [251 of 2022 participants]), and headache (placebo, 10% [199 of 2014 participants]). Efficacy treatment comparison did not differ by cohort.
Interpretation
The study did not show a significant increase in neuropsychiatric adverse events attributable to varenicline or bupropion relative to nicotine patch or placebo. Varenicline was more effective than placebo, nicotine patch, and bupropion in helping smokers achieve abstinence, whereas bupropion and nicotine patch were more effective than placebo.
Funding
Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline.
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1 QP Podcast #240: Federal government remains coy over cost, timeline of Trans Mountain delay Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc; Former Quebec premier Jean Charest and former U.S. ambassador to Canada James Blanchard; Former George W. Bush speech writer David Frum and New York Times correspondent Jonathan Martin; Former foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon, The Toronto Star's Tonda MacCharles, CTV News' Joyce Napier, The Globe and Mail's Laura Stone and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. Free View in iTunes
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Why do Santa's reindeer fly? The role of ancient mushroom-using shamans
by Mark Adams
These red and white mushrooms, Amanita muscaria, were found in an alpine forest around Creede, Colorado. A. muscaria was the "sacred mushroom" used by the ancient tribal peoples of pre-Christian northern Europe. Its bright coloring suggests the colors of Santa's garments and of holiday lights.
Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian northern Europe.
The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white Amanita muscaria, also known as "fly agaric." This mushroom commonly is seen in books of fairy tales and usually is associated with magic and fairies. It contains potent hallucinogenic compounds once used by ancient peoples for insight and transcendental experiences. Most of the major elements of the modern Christmas celebration, such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, magical reindeer and the giving of gifts, are originally based upon the traditions surrounding the harvest and consumption of this most sacred mushroom.
The World Tree
Ancient peoples, including the Lapps of modern-day Finland, and the Koyak tribes of the central Russian steppes, believed in the idea of a World Tree. The World Tree was seen as a kind of cosmic axis onto which the planes of the universe are fixed. The roots of the World Tree stretch down into the underworld, its trunk is the "middle earth" of everyday existence, and its branches reach upwards into the heavenly realm.
Amanita muscaria grows only under certain types of trees, mostly firs and evergreens. The cap of the mushroom is the fruit of the larger mycelium beneath the soil which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the roots of the tree. To ancient people, this mushroom was literally "the fruit of the tree."
The North Star was also considered sacred, since all other stars in the sky revolved around its fixed point. They associated this "Pole Star" with the World Tree and the central axis of the universe. The top of the World Tree touched the North Star, and the spirit of the shaman would climb the metaphorical tree, thereby passing into the realm of the gods. This is the true meaning of the star on top of the modern Christmas tree, and also the reason that the super-shaman Santa makes his home at the North Pole.
Ancient peoples were amazed at how this magical mushroom sprang from the earth without any visible seed. They considered this "virgin birth" to have been the result of the morning dew, which was seen as the "semen of the deity." The silver tinsel we drape onto our modern Christmas tree represents this divine fluid.
Origin of phrase, "to get pissed"
The active ingredients of A. muscaria are not metabolized by the body, and so they remain active in the urine. In fact, it is safer to drink the urine of one who has consumed the mushroom than to eat the mushroom directly, as many of the toxic compounds are processed and eliminated on the first pass through the body.
It was common practice among ancient people to recycle the potent effects of the mushroom by drinking each other's urine. The mushroom's ingredients can remain potent even after six passes through the human body. Some scholars argue that this is the origin of the phrase "to get pissed," as this urine-drinking activity preceded alcohol by thousands of years.
Reindeer were the sacred animals of these semi-nomadic people, as the reindeer provided food, shelter, clothing and other necessities. Reindeer are also fond of eating the mushroom; they will seek it out, then prance about while under its influence. Often the urine of tripped-out reindeer would be consumed for its psychedelic effects.
This effect goes the other way too, as reindeer also enjoy the urine of a human, especially one who has consumed the mushroom. In fact, reindeer will seek out human urine to drink, and some tribesmen carry sealskin containers of their own collected piss, which they use to attract stray reindeer back into the herd.
Legend of the flying reindeer and modern image of Santa
The effects of the A. muscaria usually include sensations of size distortion and flying. The feeling of flying could account for the legends of flying reindeer and legends of shamanic journeys included stories of winged reindeer, transporting their riders up to the highest branches of the World Tree.
Although the modern image of Santa Claus was created at least in part by the advertising department of Coca-Cola, in truth his appearance, clothing, mannerisms and companions all mark him as the reincarnation of these ancient mushroom-gathering shamans.
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The footage of the USS Enterprise-D approaching Starbase 133 is a re-use of footage of the ship approaching Starbase 74, shot for "11001001". The starbase and planet footage was originally created for "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", however.
"Star Trek III"
"11001001" HD The same basic footage was recomposed for TNG-R. The color of the planet was switched to green to mark a difference.
The USS Enterprise-D enters the interior of Starbase 133 through large hangar doors. This footage also appeared in "11001001". Like in that episode, the footage of the ship is flipped, as evidenced by the registry on the ventral side of the saucer section. Unsurprisingly, the footage in HD is the same as in TNG-R: "11001001", including the flipped registry.
The transporter platform was modified between this episode and "Family" (filmed after "Remember Me", even though it was aired earlier in the season). The platforms are separated by much wider black strips now.
"Family" No changes
It seems Dr. Dalen Quaice's science division uniform was made from a different fabric than Dr. Crusher's uniform as the fabric has a different shade of blue. We can see a slight difference between the color-corrected shirts in TNG-R as well.
Similar cases as the one Dr. Quaice is carrying here have appeared in earlier episodes.
"The Bonding"
"Ménage à Troi" An HD close-up of the case.
This matte painting of the USS Enterprise-D inside a starbase, including the small spacedock craft, also appeared in "11001001".
"11001001" HD The matte painting too is the same as in TNG-R: "11001001".
The black PADD on the "pool table" is of the same design as several other first season PADDs. In the SD version of the episode, the colors of the PADD seem very washed out. In HD, the true colors of the PADD can be seen.
Only one small change made to the engineering set between seasons can be made out in this screenshot: One additional stripe of gray tape was added to the side of the small console in front of the plexiglass window.
"The High
Ground" This section of engineering as it appears in TNG-R.
A first look at Wesley's warp bubble experiment. This is one of the earliest cases in which the unit for subspace distortion, the Cochrane, can be seen on screen. The display in HD.
This shot of the USS Enterprise-D flying away from the starbase also appeared at the end of "11001001". The footage of the spacedock was originally created for "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock".
"Star Trek III"
"11001001" HD Another look at the spacedock and the green planet in HD.
The couch in Dalen Quaice's guest quarters consists of segments of the large couch in Counselor Troi's office.
"The Loss" No changes
The side and top view of the USS Enterprise-D displayed on the bridge must have been changed between seasons. It appears much less pale and more yellow now.
"Tin Man" No changes
A close-up of the warp bubble graphic seen in this episode. The comparison screenshot from "Where No One Has Gone before" shows what the graphic of a warp bubble looked like in the first season episode.
"Where No One
Has Gone Before" Another look at the display in HD.
A good look at sickbay as it looks in the fourth season. No changes
The medical cases on the left are stacked. When Beverly returns to sickbay a few minutes later, we can see they are arranged side by side. It seems that Wesley's static warp bubble doesn't only affect epople but also inanimate things.
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The waiting area in front of Doctor Crusher's office can be nicely seen in this screenshot. The painting, featuring various organs and starships named Enterprise, can be seen on the right, the sickbay replicator, added to the set for "Evolution", can be seen on the right. The bottom LCARS display of the replicator no longer features LCARS buttons, like it did in later seasons 3 episodes, but features a lighting stripe instead.
"Sarek" The waiting area as it looks in TNG-R.
Somehow, the upper lighting stripe of the replicator, which was turned off a few seconds earlier, is turned on now. No changes
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ABSTRACT
Background: Biochemical and behavioral evidence has suggested that the ratio of n-6 (omega-6) to n-3 (omega-3) could be an important predictor of executive function abilities in children. Objective: We determined the relation between the ratio of n-6 to n-3 and cognitive function in children. We hypothesized that children with lower ratios of n-6 to n-3 fatty acids would perform better on tests of planning and working memory. Design: Seventy 7- to 9-y-old children completed three 24-h diet recalls and a subset of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Assessment Battery. Parents provided information on their demographics and children's diet histories. Results: Mean n-3 and mean n-6 intakes were related to the mean time spent on each action taken in the planning problem. The ratio of n-6 to n-3 significantly predicted performance on the working memory and planning problems. There was a significant interaction between the ratio and fatty acid intake; when children had high ratios, a higher intake of n-3 fatty acids predicted a better performance on the planning task than when children had lower n-3 intakes. When children had low ratios, a lower intake of n-3 and lower intake of n-6 predicted better performance than when intakes were higher. Conclusions: The relation between cognitive abilities and the ratio of n-6 to n-3 may be mediated by an enzymatic affinity for n-3 fatty acids. The ratio of n-6 to n-3 should be considered an important factor in the study of fatty acids and cognitive development. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01823419.
INTRODUCTION
High omega-6 (n-6) to omega-3 (n-3) fatty acid ratios may be a preventable cause of cognitive and behavioral difficulties in children (1, 2). Fatty acids comprise all neuronal phospholipid membranes (3). Arachidonic acid (AA)4 (20:4n-6) and DHA (22:6n-3) make up 23% of the total lipids in the adult human cortex (4) where they play prominent roles in neurotransmitter metabolism (5, 6), synaptic growth (7), and neuronal communication (7, 8). In animals, AA and DHA are synthesized from their precursors linoleic acid (18:2n-6) and α-linolenic acid (18:3n-3), respectively (9–12). In humans, α-linolenic acid has been shown to convert to EPA, docosapentaenoic acid, and, although still debated, DHA in plasma (13–16; see reference 17 for a counterargument). The rate of conversion is not known in humans but may be quite low in part because of an imbalanced consumption of n-6 and n-3.
The ratio of n-6 to n-3 fatty acids is important because the pathways share enzymes such that the ratio of fatty acids consumed may dictate the availability of desaturase and elongase further down the metabolic pathways (seeFigure 1 for an illustration of shared resources). This effect may be detrimental to cognition because the n-3 most prevalent in the brain (ie, DHA) is one of the final steps in the n-3 pathway. Δ-6 Desaturase, which is thought to be the rate-limiting enzyme in this pathway, is required twice in the metabolism of DHA (Figure 1) but could be depleted in the first desaturase step. Thus, endogenous DHA is likely low in individuals who eat high amounts of n-6 and low amounts of n-3 (ie, the typical American diet) (18).
FIGURE 1. View largeDownload slide n-6 and n-3 fatty acid metabolic pathways. FADS1, fatty acid desaturase 1; FADS2, fatty acid desaturase 2.
FIGURE 1. View largeDownload slide n-6 and n-3 fatty acid metabolic pathways. FADS1, fatty acid desaturase 1; FADS2, fatty acid desaturase 2.
Biochemical (19–21) and behavioral (1, 2, 22, 23) evidence has indicated that the balance of n-6 and n-3 may be important for cognition (24). Cognitive abilities known as executive functions develop when children are 3–10 y old (25–27) and are subserved by the temporal and frontal lobes (28–30). During this period of development, cortical gray matter increases rapidly in the frontal areas (31–33). The hippocampus (in the temporal lobes) and prefrontal cortex continue to develop beyond the first 2 y of life (31, 34–36) and have particularly high concentrations of AA and DHA (37, 38). AA (20) and DHA (39, 40) play important roles
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Arizona Senator Jeff Flake said on Sunday that Republicans who do not call out President Donald Trump for incivility are complicit. "There are times when you have to stand up and say, 'I'm sorry, this is wrong,'" Flake said on CBS' Face the Nation. "There are truths that are self-evident. And you've got to call—whether it's the White House or other elected officials—to task when they're not doing when they should." Flake, a Republican, has been critical of the president, but commended him for the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and his efforts to reform regulations and the tax code.
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Coastal Carolina won the College World Series in dramatic fashion. The Marlins traded for Fernando Rodney. The Dodgers acquired Bud Norris as Clayton Kershaw went on the DL. The Giants let MadBum hit for himself in an American League park (and he doubled). Our top five:
1. Danny Salazar could start the All-Star Game and he may not be the best starter on the Indians. Here's what Carlos Carrasco did against the Blue Jays as the Indians won their 13th game in a row: 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 14 SO. He missed time with a hamstring injury, so he has made just 10 starts this season, but Carrasco is 4-2 with a 2.56 ERA while holding batters to a .225 average. If we go back to July 11 -- yes, cherry-picking that date -- here are the lowest ERAs among AL starters:
Danny Salazar: 2.65
Carlos Carrasco: 2.78
Marco Estrada: 2.79
Carrasco, however, has the highest strikeout rate at 29.1 percent, bettered by only five National League pitchers (Jose Fernandez, Stephen Strasburg, Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard). Carrasco has allowed a .271 woBA compared to Salazar's .274 (Estrada is at .261). It's close, but you can make an argument that Carrasco is better than Salazar, or at least at the same level. The one knock against him so far is he has allowed 10 home runs in 63⅓ innings, kind of making him the Scherzer of the AL. Anyway, the major point here: Carrasco is good. Salazar is good. Corey Kluber is good. The Indians are good.
Carlos Carrasco with a 14 K game. The #Indians starters are pitching like Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia and Early Wynn. Google it, kids — Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) July 1, 2016
14 Ks, because @Cookie_Carrasco has to stay one step ahead of the streak: https://t.co/IKstfaTnT4https://t.co/3zZBhRWTUl — MLB (@MLB) July 1, 2016
2. Give the Nationals credit. In the early season, everyone wanted the Nationals to call up shortstop prospect Trea Turner. Because we love shiny new things! Turner is obviously a legit prospect and he was (and is) hitting well in Triple-A. When Espinosa hit .185 in April and then .208 in May, leaving Turner down looked like a mistake. Maybe the Nationals were just saving on service time, or maybe they were worried Turner was averaging a strikeout a game. Or maybe Dusty Baker just likes veterans. Whatever the reason, they stuck with Espinosa, and he produced a monster June, including homers from both sides of the plate Thursday as part of a seven-RBI night as the Nats crushed the Reds. Espinosa hit .309/.418/.704 in June with nine home runs and 21 RBIs, making him a player of the month candidate. Meanwhile, Turner has played a couple games in center field down at Syracuse ... you know, just in case they want to call him up.
Gio on Danny Espinosa: "In Danny we trust. He looks like a stone cold killer up there." — Dan Kolko (@masnKolko) July 1, 2016
3. The most exciting save of the year. Fun game between the Cubs and Mets. The Mets scored three runs in the seventh to take a 4-3 lead -- no idea why the Cubs thought signing Joel Peralta was a good idea -- but Jeurys Familia's streak of 42 consecutive regular-season saves was in jeopardy in the ninth inning after Miguel Montero walked and Ben Zobrist doubled pinch-runner Travis Wood to third base. Familia then struck out Kris Bryant and Willson Contreras (around an intentional walk to Anthony Rizzo) with a bunch of darting, diving, 97-mph sinkers that were moving down and in. Unhittable pitches, although some columnist out there will probably suggest that Bryant is overrated and can't hit good pitching. Anyway, Javier Baez then popped out to first base and the Mets won a big one.
Also, Yoenis Cespedes did this, becoming the first player to reach the third deck at Citi Field:
Yoenis Céspedes CRUSHED this HR 466 feet, tied for longest HR in Citi Field history. (via @MLB)https://t.co/QbBybKOn0S — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 1
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Reuters/Charles Platiau Senior lobbyists and politicians from Paris, France believe that 10,000 jobs in the financial sector could migrate to the city from London as a result of Brexit, with as many as 30,000 moving if jobs indirectly related to financial services are included in any count.
At a press conference in London on Monday, a panel of delegates from Paris — including the City's vice-mayor Jean-Louis Missika, the president of the Paris region, Valerie Pecresse, and Gerard Mestrallet, the chairman of the lobbyist Paris Europlace — addressed the future of the City of London and the movement of jobs to continental Europe after Brexit.
"Brexit is a long term process, so the moves will come slowly," Pecresse told reporters.
"Tens of thousands I would say," she added, saying that this number related to jobs directly in the financial services sector.
Pecresse's thoughts were further clarified by Paris Europlace CEO Arnaud de Bresson, who said: "The number of 10,000 is a good number," citing a survey undertaken by the lobby group.
"When we add the number of people who could be concerned in a different industry, then that gives something between 20,000 and 30,000 people, if we add indirect employees," de Bresson continued.
Both speakers were keen to add that these numbers are currently just estimates, with Pecresse saying: "It depends on the strategy of the firms and it will depend on how hard Brexit is."
Monday's conference was part of a concerted effort by Paris to position itself as the premier EU destination for banks looking to move staff out of Britain after Brexit.
Soon after Theresa May delivered a speech signalling that Britain will leave the Single Market, HSBC, JPMorgan, and UBS all warned about job relocations, and there are reports that Goldman Sachs is planning as much behind closed doors. Business Insider's Ben Moshinsky summed up the likely moves in January. They can be seen below:
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Ten Steps to a Successful Garden
Vegetables from the home garden are fresher, may have better nutrient values, and are often less costly than those sold in stores. In addition to providing wholesome, low-cost food, vegetable gardening is an interesting hobby, one in which the whole family can take part. Other advantages of gardening are that it provides healthful outdoor exercise, offers productive activity for retired, handicapped, or disabled persons, and is an excellent teaching tool for children.
To get the most out of your garden you should make plans early in the year and follow proper steps during the gardening season. The purpose of this guide is to help you plan and maintain a garden under Illinois growing conditions so that you will have an abundant supply of high-quality vegetables at harvest and (if you freeze, can, or store your vegetables) throughout the year.
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WARSAW—Like many of his fellow Polish pro-government lawmakers, Dominik Tarczynski is sending a busload of constituents to Warsaw on Thursday to cheer for President Donald Trump. The buses are being provided by a foundation close to the governing party.
"It's going to be huge—absolutely huge," Mr. Tarczynski said of the coming welcome for Mr. Trump. "They just love him, the people in Poland—they just really love him."
Poland was working to put on a hero's welcome for Mr. Trump, who arrived late Wednesday for a brief visit that includes a speech Thursday in a Warsaw square.
President Barack Obamaformed a close bond with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and backed her liberal worldview, her acceptance of immigrants, and her support for a deeply integrated European Union. Now it is nationalist governments such as Poland's that hope Mr. Trump will see them as ideological kindred spirits and back their push to loosen the European Union and rebalance it away from Berlin.
"There's this new success—Trump's visit," Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, said at a party congress over the weekend. Tweaking European officials who are nervous that Mr. Trump's visit could deepen the divide on the continent, Mr. Kaczynski went on: "They're envious of it!"
Poland, where the conservative Law and Justice government took over in 2015, is locked in an escalating feud with the EU's executive body in Brussels and with Western European capitals. The European Commission has said the government's changes to the Polish judicial system, including appointing its own judges to the Constitutional Court, undermine the rule of law.
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French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Poland was rejecting European democratic principles and treating the bloc like "a supermarket," implying it is taking advantage of the EU without following all of its norms.
German politicians often slam Poland for failing to take in refugees and for reducing press freedoms.
In Mr. Trump, some Polish politicians and commentators see a leader who has campaigned against accepting refugees and criticized the EU and Germany's influence in the bloc.
"Regarding refugees, the Polish government has the same position as Americans—we want strict restrictions on refugees," said Krzysztof Mróz, a Law and Justice lawmaker who plans to dispatch two buses full of Trump fans—98 people—from his district at 2 a.m. on Thursday morning for the 300-mile drive to Warsaw.
A protest camp set up outside Poland's Supreme Court in Warsaw displayed posters about President Trump's imminent visit. Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press
In lobbying for Mr. Trump's visit in recent months, Polish officials made a promise of a positive reception for the president part of their pitch. Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said in an interview Wednesday with The Wall Street Journal that he told Mr. Trump, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels in May: "Please visit us, your soldiers are already here, you can follow, and you can visit a country which is friendly."
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Mr. Trump responded, according to Mr. Waszczykowski, that "Polish Americans helped him win" the presidential election.
"I said, 'Well, we can help you once again... if you visit us and cooperate with us,'" Mr. Waszczykowski recalled.
But some critics of Poland's government are wary of Mr. Trump's trip. Bartosz Wieliński, foreign editor of the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, said the government appeared to be turning Mr. Trump's speech into a "partisan spectacle" and that his public reception would amount to a "Potemkin village."
"This visit, I think, is a kind of opportunity for the ruling government party to show that Poland is not completely isolated internationally," said Rafal Pankowski, a Warsaw political scientist.
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In Western Europe, some officials worry that Mr. Trump will fan the flames of anti-immigrant, anti-European Union sentiment just like he endorsed Brexit ahead of the British referendum on leaving the EU last summer.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, says, 'There's this new success—Trump's visit.' Photo: kacper pempel/Reuters
"It's clear that what the Poles want is to turn their back on France and Germany," a senior EU official said. "Trump is surely not helping."
Polish officials say Mr. Trump's visit isn't about deepening the east-west gulf in the EU, but about backing up Poland on issues including countering Russia and on energy security.
"I don't think there is a justification to connect the visit of President Trump in Poland to the concept of dividing Europe," Mr. Was
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Marvel has unveiled a dozen of the licensees for next year's "Captain America: Civil War" in the wake of Marvel-Disney's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" grossing $1.35 billion at the worldwide box office.
Marvel gave retailers a first look Wednesday at Licensing Expo 2015 in Las Vegas, with categories including apparel, accessories, footwear, core toys, sporting goods, consumer electronics, seasonal, costumes, party goods, stationery, food, home furnishings and collectibles.
Hasbro, Lego, Funko, Hot Wheels, Rubies, Mad Engine, C-Life, Jay Franco, Global Brand Group, Kellogg's, Hallmark and American Greetings have signed on. The show will exhibit finished art and initial renditions of products, which will began landing on store shelves about eight weeks prior to the May 6 opening.
Paul Gitter, senior VP of licensing for Marvel at Disney Consumer Products, told Variety that the overall campaign will build on the success of licensed products for "Age of Ultron."
"We'll see an extension mixing in new characters with new skills," he added. "There will also be a big focus on adult female apparel."
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"Captain America: Civil War" opens May 6 with Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America along with Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Emily Vancamp, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Frank Grillo, William Hurt and Daniel Bruhl.
The campaign will feature a celebration of Captain America's 75th anniversary that will be limited to higher-end retailers. There will also be focus on newer characters War Machine, Falcon, Vision, Black Widow and Black Panther; and an expansion into healthy living and travel.
"The Avengers team is both aspirational and hugely merchandisable, made up of multiple, unique heroes coming together with amazing skills, cool vehicles and a high tech headquarters," Gitter said. "'Captain America: Civil War' not only gives us new storytelling for our favorite superheroes, but also introduces new ones allowing us to expand product lines for kids and fans."
The storyline in "Captain America: Civil War" picks up where "Avengers: Age of Ultron" left off as Steve Rogers leads the new team of Avengers. The film is directed by the brother team of Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
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The 28-year-old former operator of a French-based torrent site has been ordered to serve a year in jail and pay a five million euro fine. A moderator received a four-month suspended sentence. Somewhat unusually, four regular users of the site were tracked down by their IP addresses. They too received custodial sentences.
Whenever anti-piracy groups decide to take action against large file-sharing platforms, they do so on the basis of achieving crushing punishments for their operators. Only severe punishments can stop hardcore pirates, they argue.
In France, a similar situation has been playing out. Back in June 2015 following a four-month investigation, people connected to the public torrent site OMGTorrent were arrested and taken into custody. Early claims suggested the site had offered for download more than 10,000 pirated movies.
Founded in 2008, the site had built up a solid userbase of around 3.5 million visitors per month. Police insisted it was a for-profit project.
"The people behind this platform do not do it for fun, through the platform they earn a lot of money," a police spokesperson said at the time. "Even if they offer movies without requesting compensation, they earn money with various advertisements that appear alongside."
Searches of two suspects' homes yielded several computers plus more than 3.5 terabytes of the latest movies. A separate server found overseas contained several thousand more.
Police warned that the site's operators could face 10 years in jail plus millions in damages, but they weren't going to stop there. Their investigations had led them to four of the site's top downloaders who they intended to prosecute for receiving stolen goods.
After more than a year, six people connected with the site have now been sentenced and it's harsh punishments all round.
Following a hearing in March, yesterday the Criminal Court of Chalons-en-Champagne (Marne, France) sentenced the founder of OMGTorrent to one year in prison. The 28-year-old was also ordered to pay a fine of around five million euros for the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works.
Also sentenced was a 38-year-old woman who had worked as a moderator on the site. She was given a four-month suspended sentence and told to pay damages to the plaintiffs in the case.
In an unusual turn of events, prosecutors also tracked down four of the site's most heavy downloaders. They too were given prison sentences of one month each and are required to settle with rightsholders.
Based on an investigation carried out by ALPA (Association Against Audiovisual Piracy), the prosecution estimated that damages exceed 20 million euros.
Following the decision, the site's founder posted an update to the Wareziens forum.
"I've been fined a total of 5,000,000 euros for financial damage, 12 months imprisonment and 4 more [months] from a former sentence. My mod has to pay approximately 1,000,000 euros for financial damage," he wrote.
"Others, those who have downloaded, I don't know the amount for them, but it far exceeds 500,000 euros. Note: They seized the servers and used them to get the IP addresses of the big downloaders of content."
Lashing out at those who hounded him, the admin said the judgment had really hurt. He said he understands why he needed to be punished but for those lower down the chain, the sentences were "beyond comprehension."
"To all the [anti-piracy groups and authorities]: You are a lot of vile shit, destroying lives of people who are already struggling to pay their rent, their food, their bills," he said.
"Why all this? Because they wanted to watch and because they didn't necessarily have the capabilities to buy a DVD / BluRay or go to the theaters."
Listing the country's most popular torrent indexes, trackers and DDL sites, the admin declared that they would never fall.
"Warez is a hydra, you cut off one head, 10 will grow back. You'll never kill this beautiful community. It's like drug dealers, it will never stop," he said.
Following the raid on OMGTorrent, an unknown third-party managed to secure the domain. The site is now working, as it did before, as a public torrent index.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Footage appeared of fierce fighting as Ukrainian forces brought Mariupol "under control" - David Stern reports
Government troops in eastern Ukraine have won back the port city of Mariupol from pro-Russian separatist rebels after heavy fighting.
Five pro-Russian rebels were reported killed and four government soldiers injured in the city in Donetsk region.
Elsewhere, Ukraine's gas dispute with Russia showed no sign of resolution days before a Russian payment deadline.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave orders to prepare for supplies being cut off from Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said he had no information about whether negotiations with Kiev could be restarted.
Russia has been charging Ukraine $485.50 (£289; 359 euros) per 1,000 cubic metres, the highest tariff in Europe, since relations soured after the downfall of Ukraine's elected pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February.
Previously, Ukraine paid a discounted rate of $268 per 1,000 cubic metres.
Hundreds of combatants and civilians have been killed since pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and neighbouring Luhansk regions declared independence after holding referendums last month, which were deemed illegal by the government in Kiev.
The rebellion began after February's ousting of the elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, whose last-minute decision not to sign a landmark treaty with the EU in November sparked mass protests in Kiev.
In other developments
Russia is to protest officially after a Ukrainian armoured troop carrier allegedly crossed on to its territory on Thursday night, near the town of Millerovo in the Rostov region. The soldiers withdrew but the vehicle was seized by Russian border guards, the Kremlin said
Ukraine protested after a Russian helicopter allegedly entered its airspace
A bomb destroyed a minibus in the city of Donetsk on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring two. The vehicle belonged to Denis Pushilin, head of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, who was not using it at the time
A lorry-mounted multiple rocket launcher was found partially destroyed after an attack in the Dobropillia area of Donetsk, in which a civilian was reportedly killed
Dnipropetrovsk region governor Ihor Kolomoyskyy proposed building a security wall along the border with Russia
'Flag raised'
Interior Minister Arseny Avakov said government forces had raised the national flag over Mariupol's council building.
President Petro Poroshenko marked the occasion by giving orders for the port city, which lies on the Sea of Azov in the south of Donetsk region, to be made the temporary capital of the region, replacing Donetsk city where rebels are largely in control.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Ukrainian troops passed through Mariupol in trucks
Image copyright AFP Image caption A deadly bomb attack in Donetsk is thought to have been directed at the separatists' leader, Denis Pushilin
Image copyright Reuters Image caption People are seen fleeing the Sloviansk area - scene of some of the fiercest combat - on Thursday
Confirming four soldiers had been injured, Ukraine's National Guard said its recently formed Dnepr and Azov "volunteer" units had been used in the operation.
About 100 soldiers could be seen emerging triumphantly from previously rebel-occupied buildings, shouting the name Azov and singing the Ukrainian national anthem, an Associated Press correspondent reports from the city.
A rebel source told Russia's Interfax news agency five fighters had been killed.
Friday's operation seems to have been a success after many setbacks for the Ukrainian forces, the BBC's David Stern reports from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
However, Mariupol has been fought over intensively before and it cannot be ruled out that the insurgents may return to try to take it back again, our correspondent adds.
Tank dispute
Rebels elsewhere in eastern Ukraine have confirmed they now have three tanks.
The appearance of the tanks, filmed in various towns in the Donetsk region, sparked a row between Kiev and Moscow. with Russia denying Ukrainian allegations that the tanks had entered Ukraine from its territory.
Image copyright AP Image caption Inside Sloviansk, rebels detained suspected looters on Thursday.
Image copyright AP Image caption Separatists in Kostyantynovka have put up posters likening the insurrection to the Spartan movie 300
A paramilitary in the rebel-held town of Snizhne, where the tanks were first sighted, told Reuters news agency: "We got them from a military warehouse."
Contrary to initial reports that the tanks are Russian-made T-72s, one of the most commonly used models in late Soviet times, rebels and bloggers have identified them as T-64s, an older model manufactured in Ukraine.
One amateur video shows the tanks passing through the town of Tore
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A man once hailed as "one of the most respected Islamic scholars in the country" was sentenced to death today in an Egyptian court after being found guilty on charges of inciting murder.
Dr. Salah Soltan, a senior member of the international Muslim Brotherhood, lived and worked in the U.S. for more than a decade.
He is still listed as a member of the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) on their organizational brochure.
Al-Ahram reports:
A Cairo criminal court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, and 13 other leading members of the group to death on Monday for inciting murder in the now infamous case known in the media as "Rabaa control room." The 14 convicted include Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Mahmoud Ghozlan, former Kafr El-Sheikh governor Saad El-Hossainy and preacher Salah Sultan. The court has also set the date of 11 April to announce its verdict concerning other defendants in the case. The court has referred the death sentences to Egypt's Grand Mufti for revision. The referral of the sentences to the Mufti is the first step in the legal process required to enact a death sentence. The Mufti's decision is not binding. However, following his decision the court will issue a final verdict. Once a final verdict is issued, defendants can appeal. Badie and another 13 Brotherhood figures are convicted of setting up an operation after the violent dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya protest camp in mid-August in 2013 to direct the movements of Brotherhood supporters across the country as part of plans to defy the state and spread chaos, as well as plot attacks on police stations, private property and churches.
Soltan was arrested in September 2013 as he tried to flee to Sudan, and was charged with incitement to kill and attempted murder.
His son Mohamed, who has become a cause celebre for the American media and U.S. Islamic organizations, was also convicted in the current case and will be sentenced on April 11:
Mohamed's father, Salah Soltan, has been sentenced to death.. Mohamed sentence will be on April 11#FreeSoltan #SaveSoltan — #FreeSoltan (@Free_Soltan) March 16, 2015
The story of Salah and Mohamed Soltan will not be unfamiliar to regular PJ Media readers.
Just last week, Mohamed Soltan was trying to paint himself in court as an innocent spectator swept up in the aftermath of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's overthrow. I noted here that multiple Western media reports at the time identified Mohamed as one of the top leaders organizing the violent Muslim Brotherhood protests in Cairo following Morsi's removal from office.
Salah Soltan has also been the subject of several of my reports here at PJ Media going back to January 2009 when he appeared on Al-Nas TV threatening America with death and destruction for its support of Israel.
At the same time the elder Soltan was threatening America on Middle East TV, his son Mohamed was seen leading anti-Jewish genocidal chants in front of the Ohio Statehouse (as I reported here last week):
Salah Soltan was also a leading figure at the Muslim Brotherhood protests dispersed by Egyptian authorities in August 2013, even appearing on stage at the protest standing beside an al-Qaeda flag:
Our late PJ Media colleague Barry Rubin noted here in August 2011 that Soltan had issued a fatwa in Egypt authorizing any Muslim to kill any Israeli that could be found in the country. He also took note of the media backlash I had received for reporting on Soltan's extremist activities and open support for Islamic terrorism.
I followed up Barry's report with my own observing everything I had written about Salah Soltan going back to my first report in April 2006. Despite all the attempts by the establishment media to paint him as an interfaith moderate, I chronicled a lengthy list of his activities:
A year later, Salah Soltan was a senior member of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt. As I reported here in August 2012, Soltan could be seen in his new role visiting with a number of U.S.-designated terrorists and Islamic extremists across the Middle East.
Those who have followed my reporting here and elsewhere on Salah and Mohamed Soltan know that my continued interest in their activities was not merely academic, as the pair were my former neighbors in my hometown of Hillard, Ohio.
The elder Soltan even served as religious director of our local mosque, the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.
That story was covered in the 2-part documentary by The Blaze titled The Project. My PJ Media colleague Andrew McCarthy and I were interviewed:
When Mohamed Soltan burned down their family home in Hilliard as part of a staged "Islamophobic" hate crime in January 2012, Soltan repeatedly cited in sworn testimony that my writings
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Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have made clear that friendship has its limits and theirs is likely to be tested to the full this year as they fight for the Formula One title.
The two have been friends and rivals since their early teens, racing go-karts together and following each other through the junior series with both winning the GP2 titles in successive years for the same ART team.
Germany's Rosberg made his F1 debut in 2006, Hamilton followed in 2007 and last year they again became team mates when the Briton moved from McLaren, the team with which he won the 2008 championship.
Rosberg won this year's season-opener in Australia and leads the championship after two races, 18 points clear of second-placed Hamilton who triumphed last weekend in Malaysia.
"At the moment it hasn't changed at all," the son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg said at the Bahrain Grand Prix when asked about the dynamics of their relationship at Mercedes.
"Maybe because we are not thinking about the championship yet, just race by race really just making the most of what we have, winning races. So early days, maybe," he told reporters.
Rosberg recognised that could change as the season progresses, but was not concerned.
"We've been in this situation before. In go-karts we were fighting for the championship there, it's exactly the same," he said. "A little bit more people around, more media and spectators but exactly the same in the end.
"We managed to get through there with respect and I'm confident we are going to manage again in any circumstance. There will be tough times, inevitably, but I'm confident we can work through it and we will."
Very few drivers have real friends on the starting grid, with team mates the ones they want to beat more than anyone since they have the same equipment and provide the clearest yardstick to performance.
Some teams have clear hierarchies, such as Ferrari in the Michael Schumacher era or Red Bull where Sebastian Vettel has been champion for the past four years, and any 'team orders' in favour of one driver can trigger resentment and controversy.
Mercedes, whose car is clearly a step ahead of the rest at present, are being closely watched for signs of fallout between drivers whose relationship has been hitherto harmonious.
Hamilton indicated nobody should be under any illusions about the reality.
"It's very simple," he told reporters. "People are constantly talking about us being friends and all that stuff.
"Nico and I, as with anyone, can count our friends on one hand. Nico does not come into those five friends I have, and I don't come in the five friends he has.
"We're colleagues who have known each other for a long time, longer than any of the other drivers, and we have a great amount of respect for one another. We work in the same team and we have a great working relationship.
"We've raced since we were kids, we've been team-mates, been at the front of the championship in the past several times in karting and different championships, and it is no different then as it is now."
While both might be steeling themselves for the future, they were also revelling in the transformation of their team from runners-up to front-runners and being a part of that success.
"It's great. I've never had that before in F1 and to come to the track where I know I've got the best car and can win the race is a great feeling," said Rosberg.
"To be a part of the whole momentum that we have as a team. It's a special moment."
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Version 0.21: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
Magic points or Mana points (usually abbreviated to MP) is the amount of magical energy which a given character has. It is used for spellcasting, for invoking divine powers (with the exception of Trog) and for evoking abilities granted by worn items, mutations, and intrinsic abilities.
Having your MP fall to zero is not directly lethal, but can be very hazardous for a spellcaster. MP will regenerate up to your maximum with time, and it is often recommended that spellcasters should rest up to full MP after every fight.
Some items like rings of magical power or staves of power can increase a given character's reserves of magical power.
Your maximum MP without benefit of items is a function of your experience level, your race, and whichever of your Spellcasting, Evocations, and Invocations skill is higher. Training Spellcasting provides twice as much MP as Invocations or Evocations. Depending on your character, though, this may not be a concern.
A typical character starts with 0-7 MP (e.g. 0 for a Minotaur Fighter, 6 for Deep Elf Conjurer, 7 for Deep Elf Wizard) and eventually grows to many times that (30-40 for a level 20 Mummy Necromancer, or 50-60 when using extra items).
Strategy
MP is a very important stat for spellcasters. Early or mid game rings of magical power are extremely useful, since MP costs are low and your base mana pool is small. However, as your MP hits around the 40+ mark, the efficiency of this stat gets drastically lower. Perhaps the only source of MP that you should use at this point is a staff of magical power, but even that could be replaced by an enhancer staff if you find one appropriate for you.
Methods of MP restoration:
Formula
MP modifiers
From Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in-game documentation:
Ba Ce DD DE Dg Ds Dr Fe Fo Gr Gh Gn Ha HO Hu Ko Mf Mi Mu Na Op Og Sp Te Tr Vp VS 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 1 1 -1 0 1
Demigods additionally start with the High MP mutation.
History
0.17 simplified MP calculations. The base formula was:
XL + Permanent MP + (XL*Species modifier + 1)/3 + (XL*Species modifier + 1)/3 + max(Spellcasting*XL*3/14 + Spellcasting, Invocations*XL/6.5 + Invocations/3, Evocations*XL/6)
Then a stepdown function was applied and MP was capped at 50. Species aptitudes used to be multiplicative, but are now additive.
Before 0.14, the formula was:
Unscaled MP = XL + Permanent MP + (XL*Species modifier + 1)/3 + max(Spellcasting*XL/4, Invocations*XL/6, Evocations*XL/6)
where Permanent MP was a constant determined by the player's background and species.
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It's wrapped in brown packing paper which I prefer to be honest. I'm not an Earth angel, but I still don't like to use plastic if there is an alternative and this definitely goes with the theme of Eco-friendly. Plus, I have enough bubble wrap from other packages to last a lifetime. Literally. The half-life of plastic is over 2,000 years!
Inside are my goodies. The pink box is my Green Tea Seed Serum, the cute little brown package is my lovely freebee.
I haven't seen the other box as this is my first time buying this, but I WOULD LITERALLY BUY THIS AGAIN JUST TO HAVE THE BOX. So cu-yoot!
Bottle photos with manufacturing date. SO fresh.
Now, time for the main event! LOOK AT HER! Ain't she a beaut'?!
For getting a single item, the whole unboxing experience was very pleasurable. The box was professionally packed which definitely makes me want to reorder from them soon. I'm definitely going to reorder before the promotion is over with. A new color perhaps? I immediately took a shower and tried this stuff. Okay, maybe not immediately. I watched a new episode of Orange Is The New Black. But right after that, I totally took a shower and tried this on. This serum was something my skin needed but I wasn't sure of. Ever since I started using actives, my skin has been a little drier feeling than normal. Not complaining. I have oily skin. But my skin wasn't as soft and supple. Not dewy like it used to be. When I put this on, it felt really great. It absorbed into my skin well and left me feeling like I had finally found that missing piece of the puzzle. The smell was also a plus. It was slightly floral but not strong at all. I hope this doesn't break me out so I can make this a holy grail product. Did we just find our first HG product?! If anyone else has used it, let me know what your experience was like. I'm curious to see what some people's results were like and any reviews on other products in the line. Product junkie OUT!
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The sun-powered Solar Impulse plane is gradually working up to a trip around the globe, with the most recent benchmark being its first international flight in 2011. Now Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg are taking the jumbo jet-size plane on its first transcontinental journey. The Solar Impulse set off for Morocco today, and its pilots will stop in Madrid along the way. The goal is to complete the 1,554-mile trip by next week, and the big challenge will be crossing cloudy regions like the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain. In a 2010 test flight, the Impulse's 12,000 solar cells soaked up enough rays to keep the plane going through the night, but in case something goes wrong this time, the pilots are prepared with parachutes. If all goes well on this trial run, Piccard and Borschberg will be just one step away from their goal of circumnavigating the world in 2014.
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A generation of middle aged men whose working lives have been book ended by recession are now almost two and half times as likely to commit suicide as the rest of the population, official figures suggest.
While the number of people taking their own lives in the UK has fallen significantly in recent years across other age groups, it has surged among men in their 40s and 50s.
The same generation – born between the early 1950s and early 1970s – were at the centre of concern about high suicide rates among young men 20 years ago.
Experts said that the decline of heavy industry in the 1980s and early 1990s, and major social changes affecting the workplace and family, appeared to have combined to put the generation at particular risk.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the total number of men aged between 45 and 59 taking their own lives was almost 40 per cent higher in 2012 than it was less than a decade earlier.
Meanwhile the suicide rate among men in that age group is up by more than a quarter over the same period.
The age group is now a major focus of effort for charities such as the Samaritans as well as attention by experts attempting to explain the phenomenon.
One of Britain's leading authorities on suicide, Prof Rory O'Connor, a Glasgow University psychologist, said there seems to be a clear "generational effect" explaining the previous spike in suicides among young men and now those in middle age.
According to the ONS, a total of 5,981 people in the UK took their own lives in 2012, 64 fewer than the previous year.
The overall suicide rate has also edged lower to 11.6 per 100,000 people.
Three quarters of those who took their own lives in 2012 were men, in keeping with a long-established pattern.
Although the figures fluctuate from year to year, there has been a general downward trend in suicide rates since the mid 1990s across generations from teenagers to the elderly, except middle aged men.
The rate among men among men in their early 40s currently stands at 25.9 per 100,000 people, almost two and a half times the national level.
A quarter of all suicides in Britain involved men aged between 44 and 59, among whom the rate now stands at 23 per 100,000 – 26 per cent higher than it was nine years earlier.
The trend is most marked in areas formerly dominated by heavy industry with suicide rates in the North West and North East of England which have the highest levels around 40 per cent higher than in London.
Prof O'Connor, who leads the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory at Glasgow University, said there had been a "step change" in suicide patterns in recent years with men in the "prime of life" now the biggest area of concern.
"That is a stark change from 20 years ago where the biggest risk were young men," he said.
"We think there is a generational effect going on.
He said the loss of traditional roles of male breadwinners, particularly in communities once dependent on male dominated industries, appeared to be part of the explanation.
But he added that changing habits, including a greater openness among women and younger men to talking about problems and seeking help, had passed many middle aged men by.
"Middle aged men are caught between two generations – when you look at their own models, their fathers, it was about not talking about their emotions," he said.
"But when you look at their sons, they are much more at ease with talking about their emotions and seeking help.
"Society has moved on but middle aged men are not as equipped as they should be with dealing with changes in their role in society."
"It is a good thing of course that there is more equality now but arguably in this age group men are not equipped to deal with the change in their social roles."
Clare Wyllie, Head of Policy and Research at Samaritans added: "There have been a number of significant changes in society over the last 50 years, including gender roles, families and patterns of social relationships and the decline of traditionally male industries.
"Our research shows that disadvantaged men in midlife have seen their jobs, relationships and identity, radically altered.
"There is a large gap between the reality of life and the masculine ideal, for this group of men.
"They are likely to experience multiple risk factors for suicide which taken together can have devastating consequences."
: The Samaritans can be contacted around the clock on 08457 90 90 90.
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The CZ 97 B is the big-bore brother to the CZ 75 B, the first CZ pistol produced in .45 ACP. It is operationally identical to the 75 B (SA/DA, firing pin block safety and magazine brake). Features include a screw-in barrel bushing, loaded chamber indicator and a double-stack magazine holding 10 rounds.
Thin aluminum scales slim the grip down to make it comfortable for even those with smaller hands, and the fiber optic front sight and two-dot rear make it great at the range.
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This tweet from the RIAA's Senior Vice President of Communications is just about the most asinine thing we've read all day. Way to totally trivialize an issue that millions of people care passionately about. Updated below
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We understand that SOPA blackout day is probably a bummer if you're the mouthpiece for the RIAA, but here's a tip from your friends in that terrifying blogosphere: If you want to convince the public (you know, those people you like to sue) that you aren't a bunch of assholes, maybe try a different tack. Or, if you're going to be a dick, maybe be a dick who can spell?
Or maybe try a new slogan? The RIAA: Good at Lobbying, Bad at People. [Twitter]
Update: 11:20 AM
Lamy has deleted the offending tweet. Thank goodness for screengrabs!
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I loved historical fiction when I was younger. I've always read a lot, and I've always read a lot of different books. There are a couple of genres that I've never really been a fan of, but I've always been a non-discriminating reader. However. Historical fiction has always been an absolute favorite of mine. 9 times out of 10 as a kid, my nose was found in an American Girl book or a Dear America book. I hungrily read anything that could transport me to a time and place and situation other than my
I loved historical fiction when I was younger. I've always read a lot, and I've always read a lot of different books. There are a couple of genres that I've never really been a fan of, but I've always been a non-discriminating reader. However. Historical fiction has always been an absolute favorite of mine. 9 times out of 10 as a kid, my nose was found in an American Girl book or a Dear America book. I hungrily read anything that could transport me to a time and place and situation other than my own.
Boston Jane was a solid historical fiction read. It was well-done, and obviously well-researched, which is something that is always appreciated, of course. I was transported to early 19th century America as I was reading. Jane is a wonderful character, and a truly enjoyable narrator. She is spunky, spirited, and full of determination, whether it's determination to become a lady, or determination to make the best of her circumstances. She was frustratingly true to her time--from referring to the Indians that she meets as "savages" (at first) to adamantly sticking to Miss Hepplewhite's "rules of being a lady" even when it didn't make sense to act as a lady anymore. She is not a flawless character, but I always like that. I don't always want to read about someone who I like from the get-go. Sometimes, I like to watch a character come into their own as I read, and Jane really does that in this book.
Jennifer L. Holm also wrote a good cast of supporting characters that I know I will look back and fondly remember (even the not-so-nice ones), including Papa, Sally Biddle, Jehu, Mr. Swan, Mr. Russell, Suis, and Handsome Jim. They were all pretty well fleshed out, and even those who didn't necessarily show character development were characters whom I felt like I knew.
Above all, though, this is an adventure story. Jane's adventure story. She sailed to the opposite coast of the United States to start a new life, but even besides that, there was always something going on. I think this is part of what made it such a solid historical fiction read. With every new happening, the reader gets another glimpse of what life would have entailed in the pioneer west of that time.
This was not the best book I've ever read, by any means, but it was a solid good read that kept me up late reading on a couple of occasions. The only thing I am unsure of is how to classify this story. If I had to take a stab, I'd say this is an older MG/younger YA read. There is a 16-year-old narrator and some events that might be considered a bit mature for some audiences, but the writing itself felt like it was geared towards younger readers. I'd recommend this one to maybe older junior high readers looking for a good historical fiction adventure.
On a side note, I did just find out that there are sequels to this. I'm not sure if I will continue with the series, though. I liked Boston Jane so much, so I'm not sure I want to mar my feelings toward it. In other words, I think this installment can definitely stand on its own. I am curious though...
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As if the X factor wasn't already a stale microwave-meal of a television programme, with its touting of the vulnerable and exposing the worst in the television-watching public, it's managed to spawn an even worse sub-breed of gross.
It seems like Danish X factor judge Thomas Blachman decided there was just too much clothing and not enough objectification in television right now, and thus birthed possibly the most laughably shit and devastatingly backward television show imaginable.
Here's the format:
Blachman and a lucky guest host (not always as contrastive in amount of head-hair as in screenshot) take a seat in their bachelor-boy leather sofa, situated in an ominous warehouse. Woman enters. Woman removes polyester-silk 'robe'.
Hairy and hairless warm up with a quick game of "who can occupy the greatest surface area of man-sofa?" When comfortable, they spout their reactions to the target's body in however way they see fit. Be it commendation, jeering or disgust, it's all okay in the bachelor-pad because, in the words of the creator himself: "The female body thirsts for the words of a man".
Even more ludicrous than the fact it's ACTUALLY allowed to air, is learning that Blachman seems to feels he's doing us a favour. He's having a hard time understanding why we are all being so damn ungrateful for his creation, complaining that such thanklessness is the one thing that stifles this type of televisual ingenuity. And the cherry on this bakewell tart of delusion goes something like this:
'Remember, I am giving you something that you have never seen before. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'
Sorry Tommy, but when you're force-feeding me juvenile sexism and the most unapologetic type of objectification possible, I'm not going to be in the mood to swallow.
Bite me, Blachman.
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Category: Daily
Fatwa#: 19580
Asked Country: India
Answered Date: Nov 12,2011
Title: Will I be a musafir by travelling to Dehli from Kashmir for less than 15 days? Especially when I have a house and business in Dehli also?
Question
I belong to a business family in Kashmir. We have our own houses and business in Kashmir as well as dehli. If I am travelling from Kashmir to Dehli for less than 15 days and stay at my place in Dehli, will I be in safar or not? Will I have to perform the sunnah or just fardh?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu 'alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
When a person leaves his hometown intending to travel for 48 miles/77 Kilometres then the rules of a musāfir (traveller) will apply. As soon as he exits his city, he will have concession to perform qasr (shortened prayers). If he intends to stay at his destination for less than 15 days, he will continue to shorten his prayers. If he intends to stay for 15 days or more, he will have to perform the normal complete prayer at the destination.[i]
If your wife and family live in Kashmir, then Kashmir is your al-watan al-aslī (primary residence). Al-watan al-asli is the hometown where one can never be a musāfir unless he migrates from there with all his belongings and family. Whenever a person enters al-watan al-aslī, he will no longer be deemed a musāfir (traveller).
Dehli is regarded as your al-watan al-iqāmah (temporary residence). According to a number of scholars, if a person has a home and belongings at one place which he visits regularly and has stayed there once for at least for 15 days, then this abode will be regarded as al-watan al-iqāmah. If the person travels away from this location, this city will still remain his al-watan al-iqāmah. This means that whenever he visits this place, even if he is there less than 15 days, he will not be a musāfir whilst he is there.[ii]
Since you will not be a musāfir in Dehli, you will complete your fardh and sunnah prayers as normal.[iii]
And Allah Ta'āla Knows Best
Mawlana Faraz Ibn Adam,
Student Darul Iftaa
UK
Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Husain Kadodia.
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San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor discussed systemic poverty at a forum April 3. (NOWCastSA)
A few weeks ago, the World Bank updated its analysis of Global Extreme Poverty, dozens of chapters dedicated to exploring, in minute detail, the many complex and intersecting reasons as to why people are poor.
About the same time, San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor was asked a similar question about the root causes of poverty in her city. She offered a simple rationale:
Broken people.
Particularly broken people who don't have a strong relationship with God.
The statement has incensed newly minted critics of Taylor days before the city's mayoral election. They claim it was an insensitive one-two punch of blaming poverty on the poor and asserting that nonreligious people are at the root of society's ills.
On April 3, Taylor (D) and fellow candidate, San Antonio councilman Ron Nirenberg, were at a mayoral forum and took a question from the director of San Antonio's Christian Resource Center, according to the San Antonio Current: "What do you see as the deepest, systemic causes of generational poverty in San Antonio?"
In the video, Taylor makes a joke about the hefty nature of the question, asks the questioner to repeat it, then says, "I'll go ahead and put it out there":
To me, it's broken people. People not being in relationships with their creator and therefore not being in good relationship with their families and their communities and not being productive members of society. So I mean, I think that's the ultimate answer.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, one of the co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said her organization was prompted to send a letter to Taylor defending people who are not religious.
"As mayor, you represent a diverse population that consists of not only Christians, but also atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus," the letter said. " … Nationally, about 35 percent of millennials are nonreligious. Imagine for a moment a mayoral candidate making such undeserved and broad accusations against Jews or Muslims instead of nonbelievers. The outcry would properly be swift and severe. It should be no different for nonbelievers."
Mayor Ivy Taylor (Photo courtesy of Ivy Taylor)
Gaylor told The Washington Post she feared the mayor's words would send a message to other political leaders that it's okay for religiosity to guide politics.
"As mayor, she has a bully pulpit, but it shouldn't be an actual pulpit," Gaylor said. "It implies the root of all bad things is Godlessness. … San Antonio is not a congregation. She's not a pastor. She's a mayor. We do hope that she'll realize not just what's offensive about it, but that it is so wrong."
Taylor posted a lengthy statement on her Facebook page, claiming the video clip that surfaced had been selectively edited to misrepresent her views. In particular, she said she doesn't believe that just poor people are "broken."
[This mayor won't stop posting racist Obama memes. He won't resign, either.]
"I also believe in Original Sin, and that was the context for my comment in the YouTube video clip. We're all 'broken,' from the richest among us to the poorest, until we forge a relationship with our Maker. I could have expressed myself more clearly in explaining my belief at the forum."
In an interview, Taylor told The Post she believes society would be better if people had a stronger relationship with God. But she said she has tried to stress to voters that San Antonio is not a theocracy, and she doesn't believe leaders should govern from the Bible.
"I don't know if anyone took the time to really understand what I was trying to convey. And if I wasn't effective in communicating that, then I certainly wish I could have been clearer," she said.
"The history of our urban areas is that a lot of the policies that have been developed on the federal and local levels have led to the creation of islands of poverty," she said. "I've spent my career on efforts trying to level the playing field."
But as the mayor has tried to explain her thinking, Gaylor said her group felt that she was just affirming the statement about religion and government that they had the biggest problem with.
"There had been a Facebook statement, and it's kind of a non-apology apology," Gaylor said. "This just isn't good enough."
"It's a stereotype that she's perpetuating," Gaylor continued. "We're not criticizing her record combating poverty … we're blaming her for blaming nontheism or non-Godliness for poverty."
On the phone with Trey Ware of KTSA 550am. A post shared by Ivy Taylor (@mayor.ivytaylor) on Feb 17, 2016 at 6:
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The proposed Europa Clipper mission would go into orbit around Jupiter, instead of Europa itself, making several dozen close flybys of the icy moon. At an estimated cost of $2.1 billion, it is less than half the cost of previous Europa orbiter concepts, but NASA is looking for ways to further reduce costs. (credit: NASA/JPL) Europa on the cheap
For decades, scientists have dreamed of sending a mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's four large Galilean moons. The fleeting flybys of the moon by Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1979, and the more frequent flybys by Galileo in the 1990s, revealed a world with a icy crust, crisscrossed by fractures and other complex features. Those and other observations led scientists to conclude that Europa has, below that icy crust, a subterranean ocean of liquid water that, combined with the energy from tidal heating that keeps that ocean liquid and organic compounds, provide the basic requirements for life. Instead of going into orbit around Europa, the Europa Clipper spacecraft would instead go into orbit around Jupiter and make repeated close flybys of the moon. As compelling as the scientific case is for Europa, NASA has yet to send a dedicated mission there. Part of that is due to the technical challenges involved in launching a spacecraft to Jupiter and operating in the high radiation environment created by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. Those technical obstacles drive up the costs of those proposed missions, and reduce the chances they can be funded. NASA has studied Europa orbiter mission proposals since the late 1990s, but those efforts typically foundered on costs and shifting priorities. In 2011, the latest planetary science decadal survey—the once-per-decade report outlining priorities for planetary science missions based on science and other factors—identified a Europa orbiter as the second-highest priority large, or "flagship" mission, behind a rover to collects samples on Mars for later return to Earth. That ranking, though, came with a caveat: an independent study of the mission concluded it would cost $4.7 billion, too high a price tag. For a Europa mission to remain highly ranked, NASA needed to bring down the cost significantly. (See "Tough decisions ahead for planetary exploration", The Space Review, April 4, 2011). NASA has been working on reducing a cost of a Europa orbiter mission, in large part by no longer making it an orbiter. The concept now favored within the space agency is something called "Europa Clipper." Instead of going into orbit around Europa, the spacecraft would instead go into orbit around Jupiter and make repeated close flybys of the moon. The most recent mission designs involve 45 flybys of Europa over three and a half years, with the vast majority of them coming within 100 kilometers of the moon's surface. That approach minimizes the spacecraft's exposure to radiation as well as propellant needed for entering orbit around Europa. Europa Clipper is still in its earliest phases, with a mission concept review planned for September. A notional design for the mission, presented at a meeting of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) in January, showed a spacecraft equipped with nine instruments, including cameras, spectrometers, and an ice-penetrating radar, whose booms extended from either side of the spacecraft's bus like parts of an old-fashioned television antenna. Launched on an Atlas V 551 in November 2021, the spacecraft would arrive at Jupiter in April 2028 after gravity assist flybys of Venus and the Earth. That design has a cost estimate of about $2.1 billion, less than half the independent cost estimate for the earlier Europa orbiter mission in the decadal survey report. That work on Europa Clipper has largely been done at the insistence of Congress, rather than by NASA's own initiative. In the final fiscal year 2013 budget, Congress set aside $75 million of NASA's planetary sciences budget specifically for Europa mission studies, and followed that up with $80 million in the fiscal year 2014 budget, even though NASA requested no money in either year's budget request for Europa. The text of the final 2014 appropriations bill noted that the $80 million "shall be for pre-formulation and/or formulation activities for a mission that meets the science goals outlined for the Jupiter Europa mission in the most recent planetary science decadal survey." When NASA released its fiscal year 2015 budget proposal last month, it contained, for the first time, a line item for Europa mission studies. NASA requested $15 million for fiscal year 2015, but was short on details in the document on how the money would be used. "Following the analysis of options for a lower-cost Europa mission conducted in FY 2014, NASA will continue developing the architecture for a potential Europa mission," the budget justification document stated. "My desire, to be quite honest, would be to target a Europa mission that we could fly for a billion dollars or less," Bolden said. At the formal rollout of the budget March 4, NASA administrator Charles Bolden and chief financial officer Beth Robinson were
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by Mary Mann
"In the seventies men didn't want women in the dojo," Denise Williams told me. "Susan, my teacher, she was thrown out because she wanted to do knuckle pushups. They said, "You'll get calluses on your knuckles and nobody will want to marry you.'"
She paused, then added: "People really did talk like that back then."
Denise is a small woman in her sixties. She wears big glasses and smiles a lot and practices massage therapy. She's also a karate black belt, and has been head sensei of the Women's Center Karate Club since the eighties, but no more: this fall, shortly after the death of its founder Susan Ribner — who also helped found the National Women's Martial Arts Federation — Denise closed New York City's last women-only karate school.
Women-only karate classes seem, in retrospect, like the perfect apotheosis of 1970s New York. It was one of the city's most violent eras, with approximately 2,000 murders and 5,000 reported rapes per year, not to mention an average of 250 subway felonies each week — the 4 train was known as the Mugger's Express. It was also the heyday of second-wave feminism: Gloria Steinem founded Ms. Magazine, the Black Women's Manifesto was published, the ERA went to Congress and Take Back the Night events began. Feminists everywhere wanted change, and while sometimes the issues one group represented clashed with those of another, one thing women seemed to agree on was the nobody felt all that safe.
From this fertile ground three women-only karate schools sprang up, simultaneously and independently, within a couple miles of each other. Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts held classes in apartments and at street fairs. The Karate School for Women had a storefront in the West Village. The Women's Center Karate Club operated from the locker-lined bunkroom of a decommissioned firehouse in the West 20s, which they eventually lost due to rising rents — for most of its existence the club operated out of rooms rented by the hour.
Though this was the era of consciousness-raising — women gathering to share stories for solidarity — karate was separate from that. Instead they learned chops and kicks and blocks and a confident way of being in the world, best summarized to me by Denise's description of kiai: staring stare someone down while shouting. "I used to be so shy," she says. "But now, if I look you in the eyes I can just about cut you."
Class material was the same as in male-dominated karate dojos — the difference wasn't the what but the how. In your typical karate class you begin by tearing the ego down, but in women-only classes you build the ego up — not in a "you look great" or "reach for the stars" kind of way, but something more like "yes, your instincts are absolutely right, that guy is bad news." Many of the women, Denise suggested, had been through some sort of trauma, and women's karate was about trusting your gut and taking action, a pretty novel lesson in an era when marital rape was legal and women were subject to their husbands' whims via "head and master" laws. From subway platforms to family rooms, trusting your gut is good advice that's hard to take when you've been raised with June Cleaver as ideal woman.
Though they'd all bloomed so suddenly together, the city's women-only karate schools faded away slowly and separately. The Karate School for Women was the first to go: owner Roberta Schine, among whose students was Weather Underground leader Kathy Boudin, closed up shop in 1995 to become a yoga teacher. Also in the nineties, Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts morphed into something else entirely: The Center for Anti-violence Education. Almost twenty years later, in October 2014, the Women's Center Karate Club finally closed its doors.
Why did women-only karate fade away?
Maybe women just felt safer, and certainly they had less time, as they were increasingly able to land a variety of jobs but still shouldered most of the household chores. I suspect the waning popularity of karate itself also has had something to do with it. American karate peaked in the eighties, but the glory days of Miyagi coaching Daniel-san in Karate Kid are long over, and strip mall karate now seems shabby next to newer imports: krav maga, muay thai and Brazilian juijitsu, plus the flashy, fast-paced combo of them all — mixed martial arts.
Women still practice karate, and they're allowed in dojos now, but most dojos remain 90% male. This sounds intimidating to me, but for a lot of women it isn't a problem: 31-year-
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We're now a few weeks removed from Mariano Rivera's final game at Yankee Stadium, which means most sports fans who watched it have had enough time to stop crying while awkwardly insisting that they're not crying.
As a hockey fan, I watched Rivera's exit while thinking How can I take that wonderful baseball moment and translate it into a hockey post? And that's how I came up with the idea of listing 10 legendary NHL players who, like Rivera, played their entire career with one team.
And then I thought How can I take this idea for a feel-good walk through the pages of hockey history and turn it into an excuse for people to yell at each other? And that's when I decided that instead of just listing 10 guys, I'd also rank them.
So here we go: the 10 best players in NHL history, in order, among those who spent their entire career with one franchise.
10. Denis Potvin, New York Islanders (1973-1988)
Potvin won three Norris Trophies and four Stanley Cups during a 15-year career in which he established himself as one of the most respected
Hold on, I need to pause for a minute while all the Ranger fans chant "Potvin Sucks" for a while.
Still waiting.
Still waiting
OK, you know what, there are only so many hours in the day so let's just agree that Potvin was one of the most-respected players in the league as long as you weren't in Madison Square Garden. He captained the Islanders' early '80s dynasty that captured four straight championships and won 19 consecutive postseason series, a record that likely stands as completely unbreakable in the salary-cap era. He averaged just less than a point per game over his career, and retired as the league's all-time leading scorer among defensemen.
As for you still-chanting Rangers fans, here's a fun fact: Potvin claimed that Mike Keenan asked him to make a comeback and join the 1993-94 Rangers team that eventually won the Stanley Cup. Potvin, who by then was 41 years old and had been out of hockey for six years, considered the offer but eventually declined.
9. Stan Mikita, Chicago Blackhawks (1958-1980)
Mikita was a gifted scorer who combined with Bobby Hull to give the Blackhawks the most feared offensive duo of the 1960s. He led the league in points four times in a five-year stretch, won two MVPs, and helped the Blackhawks win a Stanley Cup in 1961 that would be the franchise's last for 49 years.
But beyond the stats, Mikita had a fascinating career. He was one of the first European-born players to star in the NHL. He was among the first of what we now consider the prototypical two-way center, dominating at both ends of the ice and becoming an excellent faceoff man. He and Hull helped pioneered the use of curved blades. Over the years he transformed from one of the league's most penalized players to an eventual Lady Byng winner. And he even designed and marketed his own style of helmet. A horrible, ugly helmet.
8. Mike Bossy, New York Islanders (1977-1987)
Quick: Who's the NHL's all-time leader in goals per game? OK, it's obviously Mike Bossy since the question is appearing in his section. But if it weren't for that giveaway, wouldn't you have guessed someone like Mario Lemieux or Pavel Bure or Brett Hull first? It shouldn't be possible to own the record for most consecutive 50-goal seasons and still be criminally underrated, but Bossy comes close to pulling it off.
This is because of injury problems that cut his career short. Bossy had only turned 30 during the 1986-87 season, but his back was already a mess. He took the next season off in hopes of mounting a comeback, but it wasn't to be, and he retired after playing just 10 seasons.
Even by the insane standards of the 1980s, Bossy's numbers were eye-popping. Nine consecutive 50-goal seasons. Five 60-goal years. A 50-in-50 season in 1981. A career shooting percentage of 21.2 percent.
In what's becoming a bit of a running theme among players on this list, Bossy almost didn't qualify. While pondering a comeback, he was rumored to be offered to his hometown Canadiens (who had famously passed on him in the 1977 draft, taking Mark Napier instead). But the deal never happened, and Bossy officially retired in the summer of 1988.
7. Joe Sakic, Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche (1988-2009)
Sakic counts, right? We said we were ranking guys who played for one franchise, so we can't use the fact that the Nordiques became the Avalanche against him. He
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The Polish central bank has announced that it is to introduce a 500 zloty bank note.
The note according to the central bank, will be introduced within the next two years.
The bank's head, Marek Belka, has said that the face of the 500 zloty bill will be King Jan III Sobieksi, one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He died in 1696.
Presently, the largest note in circulation in Poland is the 200 zloty note, which is the equivalent of €48. The euro equivalent of the 500 zloty note will be 120.
The reason presented for the new larger denomination according to the central bank, revolved around the need to lower the cost of maintaining bank reserves.
200 Alterations
Belka also unveiled a new 200 zloty note to be introduced in February of next year.
The alterations on the 200 zloty banknote will be only minor, such as changing the shade among other touch ups.
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Scurvy
Scurvy (severe vitamin C deficiency) is rare as most people get enough vitamin C in their diet. It's usually easy to treat.
Causes of scurvy Scurvy is caused by not having enough vitamin C in your diet for at least 3 months. Vitamin C is mainly found in fruit and vegetables. Even people who don't eat very healthily all the time aren't usually considered at risk of scurvy.
Things that increase your risk of scurvy Although scurvy is rare, you may be more at risk if you: are on an unusual or restrictive "fad" diet – with very few or no sources of vitamin C
– with very few or no sources of vitamin C eat very little food at all – possible reasons include treatments that make you feel very sick all the time (such as chemotherapy) or an eating disorder such as anorexia
– possible reasons include treatments that make you feel very sick all the time (such as chemotherapy) or an eating disorder such as anorexia have a poor diet and smoke – smoking reduces how much vitamin C your body absorbs from food
– smoking reduces how much vitamin C your body absorbs from food have a poor diet and are pregnant or breastfeeding – your body needs more vitamin C at these times Important Speak to your GP or midwife before taking any supplements or making changes to your diet during pregnancy. Other groups who may be more at risk of scurvy include: people with a severe digestive condition, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
babies and young children who aren't getting the recommended amount of vitamins – read about vitamins for children
very elderly people, who may find it harder to cook or maintain a healthy diet
people addicted to drugs or alcohol
See a GP if you're at risk of scurvy and you: feel very tired and weak all the time
feel irritable and sad all the time
have severe joint or leg pain
have swollen, bleeding gums – sometimes teeth can fall out
develop red or blue spots on the skin, usually on your shins
have skin that bruises easily These might be symptoms of scurvy.
Treating scurvy Scurvy is easily treated by adding some vitamin C to your diet, such as fresh fruit and vegetables. Your GP may also recommend taking vitamin C supplements until you feel better. They might arrange a blood test to confirm you have scurvy if they're not sure. Most people treated for scurvy feel better within 48 hours and make a full recovery within 2 weeks. Your GP may refer you to a specialist for treatment, support or advice. This depends on what's causing your scurvy.
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ONE difficulty of reporting on spy outfits like America's National Security Agency is the veil of secrecy they operate behind. This makes it hard to know exactly what they are and aren't capable of. It is also one reason why Edward Snowden's revelations have been so fascinating. They offer a glimpse—limited and incomplete, to be sure—behind the curtain, and help to constrain the bounds of just what such agencies can do.
Take a recent post on Wired's security blog. It discusses the latest Snowden leak, which details the size of America's secret-intelligence budget. In particular, Wired picks up on James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, talking about investing in "groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic". And it links to another post in which James Bamford, a veteran chronicler of the NSA, describes the agency as having made "an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users". That sounds a lot like saying that the the spooks have managed to break at least some of the cryptographic codes that protect everything from secure e-mail to e-commerce.
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If true, it would be a very big story indeed. Such codes are ubiquitous because they are widely thought to be secure. If such a breakthrough has indeed happened (and Mr Snowden, for one, has said that it hasn't) what would it look like? Not being privy to the NSA's deepest secrets, Babbage has no idea. But he can speculate.
The most likely (and least interesting) answer is that the NSA has found a bug in the way that specific programs implement cryptographic protocols. Such flaws are fairly common, and can usually be fixed simply by patching the software. (Though that relies on people finding the flaws and then sharing that information widely, which NSA would be unlikely to do.) However, Mr Clapper's and Mr Bamford's use of "groundbreaking" and "breakthrough" to describe the NSA's advances could be read as suggesting that something more fundamental could be at hand—perhaps even a flaw in the mathematics that underpin cryptography.
Electronic cryptography relies on the curious fact that some mathematical operations are easy to do in one direction but virtually impossible to perform in reverse. For example, multiplying two enormous prime numbers together to get a third colossal number is easy. But, analysing a colossal number produced in this way and trying to determine its prime factors is colossally difficult. So difficult, in fact, that it stumps even the world's snappiest supercomputers. This bit of mathematics—integer factorisation in the argot—forms the foundation of most of the internet's cryptographic systems (codes based on other kinds of mathematical operation exist, but they aren't as commonly used).
Researchers already know that it is possible, in theory, to break such encryption by building a quantum computer, an unusual machine that relies on various kinds of quantum weirdness to perform its calculations. A mathematician called Peter Shor proved in 1993 that such a computer could be used to speed up integer factorisation drastically, to the point where much of the internet's existing security infrastructure would be useless.
Does the NSA have a quantum computer in the basement of its headquarters in Maryland (pictured above)? It is theoretically possible, but pretty unlikely. For building a working quantum computer is itself terribly tricky. University laboratories have been trying for years, but the technology is finicky and progress has been slow. The record for prime factorisation using Shor's algorithm currently stands at the number "21", which was split into its prime factors (7 and 3) in 2012. A Canadian firm called D-Wave is presently selling a specialised kind of quantum computer—Lockheed Martin, an American defence giant, and Google have each bought one—but it is not suitable for this kind of work. And contrary to spy thrillers and conspiracy theories, it is far from obvious that a government agency could be so much more advanced than the academic cutting-edge, especially in a hardware and technology-heavy field like quantum computing.
There is another option, though. Mathematicians are much easier to get hold of than quantum computers, and do not require any fancy technology to work (a computer, a stack of paper and a bin will suffice). Signals-intelligence agencies employ them by the hundreds. And although it is difficult at present to find the prime factors of big numbers, no one has actually formally proved that it has to be so. In other words, no one knows whether the present state of the art is the fastest way to do things. Quicker ways may well exist.
Indeed, earlier in the year, there was some excitement in cryptographic circles when a pair of new papers reported the first significant progress in years in something called the "discrete log
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Alright Personal answer as many do not seem to know too much about Syria, myself included, this may be a bit long
For reference in this answer: The current Syrian Constitution
To start we need some history
Syria was under French mandate from 1922-1944 effectively giving them control over Syria. After the French had withdrawn, Syria has been in a constant state of civil war with one coup after another with factions constantly fighting, some even sponsored by the US. The regimes went through many different periods of dictatorship and democracy's constantly being replaced.
It was not until 1963 when The Arab Socialist Resurrection (Baath) Party (hereafter, Baath Party), with a secular, socialist, Arab nationalist orientation, took decisive control in a March 1963 coup. The Baath Party was active in throughout the middle East since the 1940's.
In 1970 a revolt occurred after many military failures a bloodless coup occurred and Hafez al-Assad, former Defense Lieutenant General, won the popular referendum and became president for the next 30 years.
In 1973 a constitution was established defining the roles of parliament, the president and vice president, the cabinet of ministers, and the people. It began by declaring Syria under a single party system that party being the Baath party, Islamic Jurisprudence was also established based on Shia law, the president is also required to be a follower of Islam. However, it also allowed for freedom of religion so long as public order is not threatened, this would later be used primarily on Sunni Arabs and Jews in Syria. There was a large focus on education and jobs as a right of the people for the government to uphold.
During the next 30 years Hafez's regime would be labeled authoritarian as a State of Emergency was declared allowing for suppression of citizens. Notably the Muslim Brotherhood who rose up declaring the regime too secular, I honestly didn't think I'd be typing that. Many reports of people disappearing or being assassinated. The economy also did poorly during much of this time according to the source in the header.
In 2000 Hafez died. Parliament amended the constitution lowering the age for the presidency from 40 to 34 allowing Bashar Assad, Hafezs son, to run. Parliament did not elect any opposition to run against Assad.
Assad was met with pushback. A few years later Assad began reforming by enforcing/enacting mandatory retirement and replacing certain high-level administrators with appointments from outside the Baath Party. This effectively kicked many of the old out of the government who opposed his rule.
In 2011 many rebellion groups began to pop up and a few years later a civil war broke out.
In 2012 the Syrian Constitution was amended again transforming Syria into a multi-party democracy like much of the West.
Is Syria a Dictatorship - Section based off of The current Syrian Constitution
It can be for 3 months. Syria follows a parliamentary system. In this system The Citizens of Syria elect members of parliament who then proceed to nominate one or more candidates for the presidency. The president then appoints a cabinet who have to be confirmed by parliament, the same way in the US.
The president more or less has power over most things aside from the law, which he is tasked to enforce. When parliament is out of session the president gains power over the law, however when parliament is back in session their first order of business is to scrutinize any laws made with the ability to throw them out in their entirety.
The president can also abolish parliament for up to 3 months, however a reason is needed and parliament can never be abolished twice for the same reason.
The president also has veto power, when parliament passes a bill the president can veto it, in which case it goes back to parliament where if it passes again with a super majority it will become law.
So in short, kind of. The president can gain absolute power at times and the system is flimsy without much oversight that I could find of the president itself. I'll put it this way if the US is a Demo-Republic then Syria is an Oligarch-Democracy.
Also worth noting in the 2012 referendum the presidency was limited to two 7 year terms. Meaning that if they wish to prove any semblance of non-dictatorial rule that this should legally be Assads last term ending in 2021. One more thing, a state of emergency had been in place for over 30 years allowing governments to seize those that speak out openly against the government. Assad lifted this state of emergency in hopes of avoiding a civil war.
Personal Thoughts
The Syrian regime, under the founding Baath party, seemed to show a great deal of French influence with their political breakdown/separation of power, religious liberty, and the government giving to the people. These were not commonly found during that period with many still being under Shariah or totalitarian regimes.
Not to say this is not a totalitarian regime. Syria had been in a State of Emergency for over 30 years now
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The issue of weather modification - or 'environmental modification' (ENMOD) - has been coming back to my attention recently. In the past I have discussed the usually theories around HAARP etc, and even touched on chemtrails, yet with so much talk on global climate change and carbon emissions, with little or no mention of geo-engineering of climate, I again wonder... In the intervening years I have taken a consideration that the sun - our Solar Ra - has much to do with earth changes in our solar vicinity as well as on Earth, and have been looking into solar flares. No doubt more on this later. First, just a teaser - I came across this intriguing reference to the St. Louis Arch, a 636 ft. monument on the west bank of the Mississippi River, which has stood for nearly forty years. This short article titled ' Can We Control the Weather? ' says that
It is a shining monument built to convey St. Louis's role as the Gateway to the West. Only now has the reason for its construction as well as its true purpose been revealed. It seems that some of the same scientists responsible for the doomsday weapon research in the deserts of the Southwest U.S. during the forties, were also interested in controlling the weather. They hoped to use weather control as a means to aid in troop movement and logistics for the Allies, as well as use it as a tactical weapon against the enemy. This, they hoped, would bring about a quick end to the war in Europe.
Thus, the design for the arch was conceived. The stainless steel structure, while able to produce an ionic pulse, is impervious to any lingering affects. Each leg of the arch is able to push positive and negative ions into the air so as to create a positive or negatively charged field that can 'push' storms out of the way. During the day this national monument stands as the gateway to the west, but after hours this man-made marvel turns into one of the most powerful weather controlling devices ever conceived.
It makes us wonder about some of the other modern architectural feats being erected around the world... -
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The Devil's Evolution Catalog Chapter 45: The Arrogance of a Demon Child
As the two spiked maces hurtled towards him, he jumped backwards, perfectly dodging them. With a quick kick of his two feet, he sprinted towards No.3 and Big 4.
Before the pair could even recover from their missed swings, Chipped Horn was already within striking distance of No.3. With a forceful clench of his fist, the incandescent flames wrapped around his fists once more.
*Bam*
Before No.3 could even react, the flaming fist slammed into his chest and sent his entire body careening through the air.
Next to him, Big 4 was able to recover his stance with the time bought by No.3. As No.3 was sent flying, he counter attacked with his spiked mace.
However, this attack was immediately stopped by the steel-like palms of the Demon Child, who with a clench of his fist, immediately took control of the incoming mace. With a violent tug, the mace left the hands of Big 4 and was immediately tossed away by Chipped Horn. With a fiery punch to his body, Big 4 was sent flying as well, his injuries just as severe as No.3. The pair would probably be unable to get up for a while.
In the short span of time it took for him to defeat No.3 and Big 4, I wasn't idling about either. As the familiar flames extended from my hands, I prepared my sneak attack.
Flame Whip!
The snake-like whip coiled around the left leg of Chipped Horn without much trouble. As the flames crackled, my heart fell. His leg was unharmed.
"It's useless. Flames cannot harm me." With a light kick of his foot, the flames binding it dispersed harmlessly into the air.
I was aware of his flame resistance, but this was the only option I had.
The darkness arrows were simply too weak. It was still effective against large imps, but against head imps, its effects were significantly weaker. The enemy in front was even stronger than a head imp, so casting them was merely a waste of mana.
My nether flames were still sealed up, so I couldn't use them. As for the bone wall...he was already able to break through them when he was a head imp. That means only my flame whip had any chance of working. No matter how slim those chances were, I still wanted to take the gamble.
Unfortunately, that gamble failed miserably. As expected, he was immune to my flames.
"Err...let's sit down and talk, there's no need for all this violence."
"I want you!"
Chipped Horn wasn't in the mood to waste anymore time. He glared at me for a moment before instantly pouncing towards me.
Damn it, don't just jump straight into action after saying so!
Bone Wall!
In this crucial moment, I ended up relying on my bone wall after all. Even though I knew it was useless, I still struggled.
The creamy white wall immediately rose up from the ground, blocking the path between me and Chipped Horn. He wasn't able to react to the sudden obstacle in front of him and rammed headlong into it.
*crash*
The tank-like demon child rammed right through the bones as if they were merely paper. With that, the bone wall crumbled into a pile of broken shards. This was soon followed by the sound of a second bone wall being destroyed, and then a third...However, at this moment my eyes flickered to his feet, and a bone wall instantly rose at the point where his foot was about to land.
My plan was to trip him with my bone wall as he landed. The unexpected landfall would cause him to lose his balance and fall. Unfortunately for me, having evolved into a demon child, Chipped Horn seemed to have gained inhuman reflexes as well.
The moment he noticed the bone wall, he shifted his weight towards the front, regaining his balance. With a light kick of his feet, he made a tiny leap off the rising wall, as if it were stepping stone.
While he wasted time on this tiny wall, I prepared a 4th bone wall in his path. If everything went according to plan, he wouldn't be able to change his course midair and would crash right into that wall.
However, tactics were meaningless in front of such immense strength. Even with my mana strengthening this wall, the outcome was still as bleak as the other three.
While he wasn't able to change course as expected, he instead clasped his hands together and raised them up high. His muscles bulged as he brought them down onto the wall
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Source: mydaily, translated by @Spica_Tweets
I'm so mad that she had to wake up to this bullshit.. and wtf is B2M thinking? they need to protect their artists more and sue that news outlet for using her photo and damaging her rep like this. (will update with B2M's statement when they post it sometime in this millennium.) We have confirmed with Yang Jiwon and the other members. It is definitely not any one of them. People may misidentify the female as Jiwon when watching the video, but it is definitely not her. We were also left feeling speechless when the news was reported with Yang Jiwon's blurred photo. It's a horrifying world recently; people fail to distinguish right from wrong. However, we still have no specific plans of taking any legal action.
Jiwon's tweet: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1slb3rf Yesterday I was riding my bike and was eating something, then I got a call from the company. There was a 5-car pileup accident and it seemed like the passenger was me so they were going to release an article saying it's me. I was taken aback by the fact that they were going to release an article based on a video that could not confirm I was the passenger. Because it's not good news, fans would worry ㅜㅜBecause it wasn't confirmed that I was the passenger, my name would not go out in articles and the conversation finished there. I watched a friend's performance, went out to eat and went home.But early in the morning I got texts from people and when I confirmed with articles, my picture was used with a mosaic in an article about a drunk driver's passenger.. A fuzzy picture saying 'girl group member with initial J'..ㅜㅜ The company said they'll take action if an exact name is mentioned directly but fans keep worrying and they're probably frustrated so I'm writing a post before that happens!To the people involved in the accident, I hope your injuries aren't too severe.. It's early in the morning, everyone have a nice Sunday.. ^^
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Four people were shot early Thursday in a home invasion in DeKalb County, police said.
The shooting happened about 2 a.m. at a townhouse at the Terraces on Terrace Trail, which is off Snapfinger Woods Drive.
"Five armed gunmen entered the location brandishing firearms, " DeKalb police Lt. Rod Bryant said.
Two of them were shot. Two people who live at the townhome were wounded during the shooting, too. Another resident was injured after jumping through a window. All were taken to a local hospital. Of the four people shot, one was in serious condition, Bryant said.
A 13-year-old child inside the home at the time of the shooting was not injured, Channel 2 Action News reported. The whereabouts of the others who allegedly forced their way inside the townhome were unknown.
"The investigation is ongoing and this appears to be drug-related," DeKalb police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell said.
— Please return to AJC.com for updates.
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This is the monthly Economic Report for June 2016.
Please click the graphs to enlarge them as needed.
The raw data and graphs that make up this report can be found here.
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1,750 females were murdered by males in the United States in 1999
The homicide rate among females murdered by males in the United States was 1.35 per 100,000 in 1999
Age
There were 152 female homicide victims (9 percent) who were less than 18 years old, and 163 victims (10 percent) who were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 37 years old.
Race
Out of 1,741 female murder victims, 16 were American Indian, 45 were Asian, 582 were black, and 1,098 were white.
Most Common Weapons
For homicides in which the weapon used could be identified, 53 percent of female homicide victims (865 out of 1,647) were shot and killed with guns. Of these, 76 percent (656 victims) were killed with handguns. There were 318 females killed with a knife or other cutting instrument, 108 females killed by a blunt object, and 244 females killed by bodily force.
Victim/Offender Relationship
For homicides in which the victim to offender relationship could be identified, 92 percent of female victims (1,521 out of 1,654) were murdered by someone they knew. There were 133 female victims killed by strangers. Of the victims who knew their offenders, 60 percent (917 victims) were wives, common-law wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends of the offenders. Among the 917 female intimates murdered, 60 percent (546 victims) were killed with guns; 74 percent of these (403 victims) were shot and killed with handguns.
Circumstance
For homicides in which the circumstance could be identified, 87 percent (1,270 out of 1,464) were not related to the commission of any other felony. Of these, 62 percent (789 homicides) involved arguments between the victim and offender.
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"Next I wyll speak on those Devyls most pryzed and sought by Kyngs, Rulers, and those Fools who clasp for earthly Power. The Crymson Devyl, or War Devyl, is massyve of Form and Syze and myddlyng of Wyts. Hys Flesh is ebon or royal, he is well Furred, hys Mask sanguine, his Blood ebon. He hath powerful Fangs, Horns, or other natural Weaponry for whych to dysmember his Enemeys, for the war devyl is extremely fond of Vyolence. He is greatly pryzed in thys Matter, synce for the pay of a few bottles of Lyquor or feeble Trynkets he wyll dysmember well-trained Soldiers from Dusk until Dawn for he does not partake in Sleep. A sum'ner may consyder hym a dull Creature until they fynd he has exployted some Loophole in theyr Contract and feasts upon their Entrayls."
-Thulsa Drulle's Daemonica Maleficum'
(AUTHOR NOTE: Next update will be Saturday the 20th, since the Patreon hit its funding goals, and then Tuesday/Friday from thereon)
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The proposed new Steemit/Youtube site will be found here eventually: www.bittube.io Mobile money use has surged in India- one can hope that a few of those people will transition to Bitcoin. BTC has been surging. Are you pumped? Do you want to visit Malta for a BitcoinMeister event? What is going on with Altcoins? The Bitcoin price I use can be found at: https://gemini.com/
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BTC Poll- https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/858380351118430210
India mobile money- https://mishtalk.com/2017/04/30/an-end-to-credit-and-debit-cards-starting-in-india/
ICO's- https://twitter.com/NTmoney/status/857979503154413569
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The sign. (Via @ryanjkelly)
On one of the tensest nights in recent D.C. sports history, Washington fans took out their angst, energy, frustration, loathing, worry and agitation on the juiciest target of all: Metro.
After weeks of concerns about the Nationals potentially playing a thrilling home playoff game with massive stakes while the mass-transit system shuttered early, the day finally arrived Thursday. Well, the night. Or Friday's early morning.
Fans react to Metro's decision not to stay open late even though the Nationals-Dodgers Game 5 playoff matchup is likely to end after closing time. (TWP)
Despite a busy day of last-minute pleas from local officials, WMATA stuck to its no-exceptions-for-late-hours SafeTrack promise, and the system closed at its regular time, with the announcement coming during that disastrous (for Washington) seventh inning.
The response to that standard announcement? Boos. Chants. Boos and chants. Washingtonians united, as they are so rarely in these troubled times, coming together to support — or oppose, anyhow — one common cause.
[Best and worst from Nationals' NLDS Game 5]
This is our city simultaneously at its worst and its finest. Drink it all in.
Boos and chants of "metro sucks!" when the @Nationals announce the last @wmata train pic.twitter.com/gKNR1p51sC — Madeline Marshall (@Maddie_Marshall) October 14, 2016
The traditional postseason cheer of "Metro Sucks" rings through Nats Park. — Barry Svrluga (@barrysvrluga) October 14, 2016
Biggest boo of the game when the sign pops up telling fans when the last train to Greenbelt comes. "Metro sucks. Metro sucks. Metro sucks." — Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) October 14, 2016
If there's one chant that Nats, Dodgers, Capitals, Rangers, Penguins and whoever's fans can agree with, it's "Metro Sucks." — Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) October 14, 2016
As for those concerns that people would flee, well, they seem to have been unfounded. Good job, everyone!
[No Metro for NLDS Game 5? Nationals fans get creative, buddy up for ride-sharing.]
Very few people were awaiting the trains leaving in each direction here at Navy Yard at 11:40ish. Seems like most people staying. #wmata pic.twitter.com/sNIZcf2j5K — Martin Di Caro (@MartinDiCaro) October 14, 2016
Centerfield plaza has been EMPTY for the past 10 min. NO ONE is leaving this game. #OnePursuit #IBackTheNats #NatsRide @dcsportsbog — Kyra Schuster (@KyraSchu) October 14, 2016
Let the record show that it is 11:34 pm and Nats Park is still packed #WeDontNeedNoStinkingMetro pic.twitter.com/HnmNQ5m0Cg — susan vavrick (@edit_susan) October 14, 2016
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by Paul Kay and Luisa Maffi cite
1. The World Color Survey
The following four maps (132A, 133A, 134A, 135A) show the distribution of colour terms in some of the world's languages, based on the World Color Survey. This project, a collaboration of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), collected colour-naming data from 110 languages being studied by SIL linguist-translators in the late 1970s. For further details on methods and results of the World Color Survey see Kay et al. (1991), Kay and Berlin (1997), Kay et al. (1997), Hardin and Maffi (1997), Kay and Maffi (1999).
2. Basic colour term concepts
In recent models of the universals and evolution theory of basic colour terms, stemming originally from Berlin and Kay (1969), three kinds of universal colour categories are recognized (Kay and McDaniel 1978, Kay et al. 1991, Kay et al. 1997, Kay and Maffi 1999): primary colour categories, composite (disjunctive) colour categories, and derived (intersective) colour categories.
First, there are the six primary colours recognized in the widely accepted theory of colour opponency (Hering 1964 [1920], Jameson and Hurvich 1968; Hurvich 1982):
Black
White
Red
Yellow
Green
Blue
These are the two pairs of fundamental opponent chromatic colours <Red, Green> and <Yellow, Blue> and the single pair of fundamental achromatic colours <Black, White>. Black and white are not opposed in the same sense as the chromatic pairs. For example, we can see a combination of black and white (gray) but there is no sensation consisting of the combination of red and green or of blue and yellow. (That blue and yellow pigments can be mixed to produce a green pigment is not relevant; there are no bluish yellow or yellowish blue sensations.)
We will refer to the six colours black, white, red, yellow, green and blue as primaries.
Secondly, there are composite categories consisting of fuzzy unions of the primaries. (Colour categories are modeled as fuzzy sets, that is, sets whose membership is a matter of more or less. For non-technical discussion of fuzzy sets, fuzzy intersection, fuzzy union, and related concepts in relation to colour categories, see Kay and McDaniel (1978); for technical discussion of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, see Zadeh (1996).)
By far the most widespread composite in the ethnographic present is green-or-blue or "grue" (see Map 134A). Over half the languages in the World Color Survey contain a grue term. Other major composite terms documented in the World Color Survey are, using "/" for fuzzy union, Black/Green/Blue, White/Red/Yellow, Black/Blue, Red/Yellow, Yellow/Green/Blue, and Yellow/Green. (There is one, somewhat unclear, instance of a probable White/Yellow term in Waorani, an isolate of Ecuador.)
There are also what we might call minor composites. For example, in systems that lack terms for purple and brown, these colours are often included in the black term. Similarly, in systems restricted to the primaries, non-primary shades such as brown, purple, pink, orange and gray are characteristically either split between two adjacent primaries or covered by a single adjacent primary.
The third type of widespread colour category are the derived (intersective) categories, which are experienced as mixtures of the primaries. These are based formally on fuzzy intersections of primaries. Gray is experienced as a mixture of Black and White, pink of White and Red, orange of Yellow and Red, purple of Blue and Red, and brown (arguably) of Yellow and Black.
3. An evolutionary sequence of basic colour systems
Figure 1 presents both a typology and an evolutionary sequence of basic colour systems covering 101 of the 110 World Color Survey languages. (The colour lexicons of the remaining nine languages are composed mostly of terms denoting categories appearing in Figure 1. Limits of space preclude further discussion here; see Kay and Maffi 1999.)
Basic colour lexicon types are shown in square brackets and evolutionary stages are represented by columns, labeled with Roman numerals. For example, stage I contains a single type, consisting of two terms, one a composite of White, Red and Yellow and the other a composite of Black, Green, and Blue. (There are no stage I languages in the World Color Survey sample. Stage I is shown here for theoretical completeness.)
Arrows indicate observed evolutionary transitions between types. Arabic numerals within brackets indicate the number of World Color Survey languages conforming to the corresponding colour lexicon type. Arabic numerals placed between basic colour lex
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I like the concept and the stage sizes. Objectives aren't easy to find on the map. No gps type system. No control over the camera angle or zoom. Screen spins with every little twich of your thumb. Just try to kill an enemy with out going in a hundred circles, I dare you. Takes forever to find and complete objectives so you wont believe that there is more than one stage. Enemies become more spaced apart as you kill them off. No cheat codes (games this long need cheat codes). Don't believe me? Just look it up on YouTube.
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Seven Myths About the Iraq War: How BBC Newsnight failed journalism on the 10 year anniversary of the invasion
by Nafeez Ahmed
As a participant in BBC Newsnight special, "Iraq – 10 Years On", I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues.
On the one hand, Newsnight presented a number of narratives of the war and its aftermath as 'fact', which are deeply questionable. On the other, there were no serious, factually-grounded criticisms of the war, despite a diverse panel which included people who did not support it.
As author of a major book on the war and its historical context, Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq, as well as co-author of a new report, Executive Decisions: How British Intelligence was Hijacked for the Iraq War, I consider myself to be reasonably informed. Yet BBC Newsnight failed almost entirely to bring any of these issues to light.
What follows is my Newsnight-inspired Iraq War Myth-Busting exercise, based on what was, and wasn't, discussed on the show.
MYTH 1. Sectarian violence has increased in postwar Iraq because sectarianism has always existed in Iraq, and the removal of Saddam allowed it to erupt
One of the first Newsnight bloopers started with a short introductory clip from John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs Editor. Amongst other things, Simpson talked about the rise of sectarian Sunni-Shi'a violence in postwar Iraq, and argued that while Saddam's regime had clamped down on sectarian divisions, regime change effectively unleashed those previously suppressed divisions and allowed them to worsen.
This was the first of many oversimplifications about the escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq. The reality, as pointed out on the show by my colleague in the audience, anthropologist Professor Nadje al-Ali, is that prior to the war, generic sectarian antagonism was unheard of in Iraqi society. Although Saddam's regime was unequivocally sectarian in its own violence against Shi'as and Kurds, as a mechanism of shoring up the Ba'athist regime, Iraqis did not largely identify in sectarian terms. As one Iraqi blogger living in Baghdad noted:
"I always hear the Iraqi pro-war crowd interviewed on television from foreign capitals (they can only appear on television from the safety of foreign capitals because I defy anyone to be publicly pro-war in Iraq)… They go on and on about Iraq's history and how Sunnis and Shia were always in conflict and I hate that. I hate that a handful of expats who haven't been to the country in decades pretend to know more about it than people actually living there. I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn't know what our neighbors were- we didn't care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni or Shia? You only asked something like that if you were uncouth and backward. Our lives revolve around it now. Our existence depends on hiding it or highlighting it- depending on the group of masked men who stop you or raid your home in the middle of the night."
Missing from the BBC Newsnight discussion was the fact that the Bush administration planned from the outset to dominate Iraq by pursuing the de facto ethnic partition of the country into three autonomous cantons. The private US intelligence firm, Stratfor, reported that the US was "working on a plan to merge Iraq and Jordan into a unitary kingdom to be ruled by the Hashemite dynasty headed by King Abdullah of Jordan." The plan was "authored by US Vice President Dick Cheney" as well as "Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz", and was first discussed at "an unusual meeting between Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and pro-US Iraqi Sunni opposition members in London in July" 2002.
Under this plan, the central and largest part of Iraq populated largely by Sunnis would be joined with Jordan, and would include Baghdad, which would no longer be the capital. The Kurdish region of northern and northwestern Iraq, including Mosul and the vast Kirkuk oilfields, would become its own autonomous state. The Shi'a region in southwestern Iraq, including Basra, would make up the third canton, or more likely it would be joined with Kuwait.
Ultimately, of course, the specific detail of this plan did not come to fruition – but the 'divide-and-rule' imperial thinking behind the plan was implemented. As one US Joint Special Operations University report documented, "US elite forces in Iraq turned to fostering infighting among their Iraqi adversaries on the tactical and operational level." This included disseminating and propagating al-Qaeda jihadi activities by "US psychological warfare (PSYOP) specialists" to fuel "factional fighting" and "to set insurgents battling insurgents."
Pakistani defence sources thus reported in early 2005 that the Pentagon
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The new app, which can be downloaded from APKMirror (click here) but doesn't seem to be live in the Play Store just yet, includes all the goodness Android users have come to expect from Material apps – a FAB (floating action button), flat UI colors (i.e. no gradients), a slide out hamburger-style menu with authentic motion, it's all there.
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University Team Helps Real Benefits of Virtual Reality Come to Life
Faculty, Students Work with Dallas-based Startup MyndVR to Create Content Aimed at Senior Citizens
More than 250 senior living community residents in four states — Kansas, Florida, California and Texas — have participated in trials of the MyndVR virtual reality system, with encouraging results.
For residents of senior living communities, a glance at the world beyond their walls can make a world of difference.
A University of Texas at Dallas professor is working on technology that breaks down those walls, and a diverse team of UT Dallas faculty members and students is chipping in.
Dr. Ryan McMahan of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science has teamed with the innovators at Dallas-based startup MyndVR to provide virtual reality (VR) content aimed at senior citizens — a largely neglected audience within the primarily youth-targeted medium.
"There are three ideas behind what these VR experiences allow these users," McMahan said. "Either they'll see something they've experienced before, which could bring about memories; experience a place they've never seen before, which engages the brain; or experience something that's completely impossible — the unique domain of virtual reality."
McMahan first partnered with MyndVR in 2016, and recently joined its advisory board. Students in his graduate virtual reality course — from both the Jonsson School and the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication — created three distinct virtual environment prototypes for MyndVR's target audience. They include a nightclub complete with a live singer, an immersive sudoku game set above a koi pond, and a set of serene day and night environments ranging from mountains, lakes and beaches to the Taj Mahal.
Three Tiers of Content
Chris Brickler, co-founder and CEO of MyndVR, said his company's initial intention was to focus on a broad-spectrum, quality-of-life approach across a network of more than 50 long-term care and retirement facilities.
"Our product road map envisions three tiers of content," Brickler said. "The first layer is recreational content — going to the Great Wall, swimming with dolphins and the like. Next would be therapeutic content — music, nature and brain exercises.
"The top level, the uncharted water, is prescriptive digital therapy. MyndVR's goal is to provide virtual reality content customized to a user's diagnosis. That's why we're so excited about working with UTD on not only the development of the VR, but also the cognitive implications."
For many students in McMahan's VR class, the MyndVR project was their first experience with an external stakeholder.
UT Dallas graduate student Ariel Comstock and assistant professor Dr. Ryan McMahan (right) are playing key roles in the work of MyndVR co-founder and CEO Chris Brickler (left). Comstock coordinated four MyndVR trials at facilities around the country, and students in McMahan's VR class created content for the company's target audience.
"Our partnership with MyndVR gave my students experience with a real company and real objectives," he said. "That collaboration was successful enough that MyndVR recruited one of those students as their first employee. She coordinated four MyndVR trials at facilities around the country."
That employee — Ariel Comstock, a master's of fine arts student in ATEC — emphasized the role the VR experience can play in empowering MyndVR's audience.
"MyndVR transports a viewer mentally away for the duration of the experience, and they finish feeling like they went somewhere," Comstock said. "For people who are not as agile as they once were, it can give them a sense of confidence, of agency — they choose where they want to go, and then go there."
In conducting MyndVR's trials in Kansas, Florida, California and Texas — working with more than 250 seniors from ages 70 to 100 — Comstock has seen the extreme emotions that these programs can evoke.
"I see wonder, awe and elation, but sometimes tears and sadness too," Comstock said. "I've also seen immersion to the extent that a senior who was experiencing 'MyMusic' — the 1950s nightclub — threw up her hands and sang along with 'New York, New York,' waving her arms as if she were performing herself."
Brian Barnes, CFO/COO of The Legacy Senior Communities, observed similar effects during the trial at Willow Bend, a continuing care retirement community in Plano.
"The MyndVR trial demonstrated a variety of benefits," Barnes said. "In one case, a resident living with Alzheimer's exhibited personality traits she had prior to the diagnosis, including dancing, smiling and singing. Another resident felt relief from symptoms of Parkinson's. The overall response has impressed everyone involved."
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Blaine McFadden and his allies have brought magic back under mortal command and begun to restore order to the beleaguered kingdom of Donderath. Now, new perils and old enemies gather for a final reckoning. Foreign invaders, a legendary dark mage and vengeful immortals fight Blaine's battered forces for control of the continent, and Blaine's weary army is the only thing standing between a kingdom struggling to rise from the ashes and a descent into fury and darkness.
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A bill to create an athletic commission in South Dakota is going nowhere fast, largely thanks to the ignorance of Gov. Dennis Daugaard and state house Rep. Steve Hickey.
Their primary objective is to ban sanctioned mixed martial arts in the state. In a blog post, Hickey writes that, "MMA Cage Fighting is the child porn of sports."
The lack of knowledge and the lack of research both Daugaard and Hickey showed about MMA has to be frightening for persons who live in South Dakota. If they can't be bothered to do the minimal research required to learn that MMA is far safer than other "mainstream" sports, including football, it's scary to think about the laws they'll pass in the state regarding education, health care and budgets.
The UFC is the largest MMA promoter in the world. No fighter has ever suffered traumatic brain injury, let alone died, in the UFC's 20-year history. A 2006 study done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and which appeared in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine found MMA has far less traumatic brain injury than other sports.
Mixed Martial Arts competitions have changed dramatically since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in 1993. The overall injury rate in MMA competitions is now similar to other combat sports, including boxing. Knockout rates are lower in MMA competitions than in boxing. This suggests a reduced risk of TBI [traumatic brain injury] in MMA competitions when compared to other events involving striking. MMA events must continue to be properly supervised by trained referees and ringside physicians, and the rules implemented by state sanctioning—including weight classes, limited rounds per match, proper safety gear, and banning of the most devastating attacks– must be strictly enforced. Further research is necessary to continue to improve safety in this developing new sport.
A 2008 study released by the British Journal of Sports Medicine reached the same conclusions. After a five-year study, its authors wrote:
Injury rates in regulated professional MMA competition are similar to other combat sports; the overall risk of critical sports-related injury appears low. Additional study is warranted to achieve a better understanding of injury trends and ways to further lower injury risk in MMA.
The simple fact is that a random NFL player is at far greater risk of a serious brain injury than is a random MMA fighter. Sadly, neither Gov. Daugaard nor Rep. Hickey bothered to do much investigation or educate themselves before speaking out.
South Dakota state house Rep. Mark Johnston introduced a bill to create an athletic commission in the state for the express purpose of making the sport safer. According to the Argus Leader, Johnston said his goal is to prevent unregulated events where tragedies could possibly occur.
A state athletic commission's job is, at the core, to protect the fighters. It makes sure the proposed matches are fair and that promoters have doctors and an ambulance at all events. The commissions also require qualified referees, who stop fights when one fighter is in danger. It also requires fighters to undergo extensive medical examinations before fighting to make certain they are fit to compete. States such as Nevada, California and New York, with strong commissions, have discovered injuries fighters didn't know they had and prevented them from competing. That wouldn't be the case in South Dakota, with no commission to require those tests.
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In August, drone manufacturer DJI announced the Phantom 3 Standard , an entry-level camera-toting quadcopter with autonomous flight modes that were oddly not available for its pricier linemates, the Advanced and Professional . That all changes on September 7 when a firmware update will add five of DJI's Intelligent Flight Modes to those models.
These modes include waypoint navigation, point of interest (POI) flight planning and a Follow Me function. Waypoint navigation lets you set up a multipoint path for the drone to follow while you control the camera angle, and paths can be saved so you can recreate the flight again and again.
POI flight planning allows you to set up an autonomous orbit around a subject at an altitude, distance and speed you select. The Phantom 3 will fly the path keeping the camera centered on your subject at all times.
Follow Me uses the drone's transmitter and your phone or tablet to track your movements. This lets you use a Phantom 3 as a personal camera operator as it follows you at a fixed altitude and distance while you do whatever. Keep in mind, though, it won't avoid obstacles, so riding a bike trail through the woods probably won't end well.
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Also available are Course and Home Lock modes. The former makes all flight controls relative to your current position. That means moving the controller's stick left, right, forward or back will always move the Phantom 3 in those directions, regardless of where the camera is pointing.
Similarly, enabling the Home Lock mode will make the orientation relative to yourself as the home point. This is helpful if you've flown beyond line of sight and want to return home but can't determine the orientation.
Phantom 3 Advanced owners get a bonus, too: The firmware upgrade will add 2.7K (2,704x1,520-pixel) resolution movie capture at 30 frames per second.
Lastly, a firmware update will also be available for the professional-level Inspire 1 that will add all of these Intelligent Flight Modes except for Follow Me.
Catch all the electronics news from this week's show in Berlin.
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It was a smashing weekend in Atlantic City, New Jersey for Royal Flush 2017, one of the premier tournaments and showcases for top Super Smash Bros. play. The tournament offered some of the best players in both Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Smash 4) and Super Smash Bros. Melee (Melee).
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In Smash 4, it was the continuation of the ZeRo dynasty as Team SoloMid's Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios took down another major tournament. The king of Smash 4, with the coaching assist of Immortals' Jason "ANTi" Bates, walked out of Atlantic City as the victor of both the singles and doubles (with NRG eSports' Nairoby "Nairo" Quezada) tournaments.
Although ZeRo took down the singles title, the journey was not easy or dominant. The competition, and some newer names, continued to creep up to contend with great finishes from Phoenix1's Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey, James "VoiD" Makekau-Tyson and Ramin "Mr.R" Delshad. Mr.R was the standout competitor from the field. The Sheik main used Cloud in the grand finals against ZeRo and was one scramble decision away from taking down the entire tournament. ZeRo needed a clutch ledge fight and multiple comeback decisions to overcome the relentless reads and pressure from Mr.R. It will be up to Mr.R to overcome the ZeRo hump (the pair played most recently at CEO Dreamland, another close affair) and take over the iron throne.
The main event was Super Smash Bros. Melee and the top eight featured four of the best players in the world: Alliance's Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Team Liquid's Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma, Cloud9's Joseph "Mango" Marquez and Team SoloMid's William "Leffen" Hjelte. Three of those listed were Evolution Fighting Game Championship winners and the other, Leffen, was routinely billed as the next legend in the game. Unfortunately for Leffen, his tournament was cut short by Hungrybox in a nail-biter set and a 3-0 drubbing by Sami "DruggedFox" Muhanna. In addition to eliminating Leffen, DruggedFox ran through Splyce's Michael "Nintendude" Brancato en route to a respectable fourth place finish.
The storyline of the main event was once again centered around three of the game's most legendary competitors; Armada, Hungrybox, and Mango renewed their rivalries and took up the top three spots in the tournament. Hungrybox started in the winners bracket, but fell to rival Armada and Mango in winners finals and losers finals respectively. Mango, in signature fashion, fought through the losers bracket to enter the grand finals against Armada.
In the grand finals, Armada shut down Mango's unorthodox offensive approaches. His defensive neutral air attacks, floats and ledge guards were so stout that Mango opted to use Marth on Final Destination for one game (he lost). It took unrelenting and fearless progression, but Mango created enough scramble situations to reset the bracket. In the final set, both players played to a fifth game stalemate. There, on Fountain of Dreams, Mango took his only decisive game. With the crowd behind him, and Armada seemingly out of steam, Mango lost only two stocks to finish the comeback victory.
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Who are the Inuits?
Who are the Inuits ?
The Inuit are the aboriginal inhabitants of the North American Arctic, from Bering Strait to East Greenland, a distance of over 6000 kilometres. As well as Arctic Canada, Inuit also live in northern Alaska and Greenland, and have close relatives in Russia. They are united by a common cultural heritage and a common language. Until recently, outsiders called the Inuit "Eskimo." Now they prefer their own term, "Inuit," meaning simply "people." There are about 40,000 Inuit in Canada.
Inuit Origins
According to archaeological research, the origins of the Inuit lie in north-western Alaska. These first Alaskan Inuit lived on the seacoast and tundra, where they hunted seals, walrus, whales, and caribou. They lived in houses made of driftwood and sod, and almost certainly spoke an early version of the Inuit language, Inuktitut. They and their ancestors were the first Arctic people to become expert at hunting the larger sea mammals, such as the bowhead whale. The large volume of food that resulted from a successful hunt—even a small whale could weigh seven tonnes-meant that their way of life was richer and more secure than that of many other hunting people.
The Inuit Move East
Beginning about a thousand years ago, these early Inuit began to spread east into Arctic Canada. Within a few hundred years, they had replaced the earlier inhabitants of the region, a now-extinct people known to the Inuit as Tunit. This Inuit migration was not a single mass event, but probably involved dozens of small parties of perhaps 20 or 30 people moving east in search of a better life.
A particular goal seems to have been the rich whaling grounds around Baffin and Somerset islands. Here they quickly replicated the large whaling villages and prosperous way of life they had left behind in Alaska. Other groups settled in coastal areas without rich whale resources, where they lived in smaller villages and depended primarily upon seals, caribou and fish. Everywhere they went, Inuit pioneers brought with them the heavy sod winter houses and elaborate hunting technology of their Alaskan ancestors.
The Inuit and the Vikings
By about AD1250, the first Inuit had entered Greenland through the Smith Sound area in the far northwest of the island. Here, possibly on the Canadian side, they first encountered medieval Norse ("Viking") hunters coming from the Norse colonies in southwest Greenland founded by Eric the Red. Eventually these Norse colonies disappeared, probably in the mid 1400s. There are different theories about their disappearance, but a deteriorating climate was one reason. Competition with the Inuit, who were far better adapted to Arctic life than the Norse, might also have been a factor. By the time of later European exploration in the 16th century, the Inuit were in sole possession of the entire North American Arctic.
A Colder Climate
The same worsening climate that spelled the end of the Norse colonies in Greenland also put severe strains on the Inuit economy. After about 1300, temperatures became progressively colder culminating in a so-called Little Ice Age around 1500. Rich and important whaling areas in the High Arctic were abandoned and people shifted southward.
Bowhead whaling as the focus of Inuit life disappeared from most of Canada and Greenland (although not Alaska). Life generally became harder and more hand-to-mouth. People moved their camps and villages more frequently, and, in many areas, the old sod and whalebone winter house was abandoned in favour of houses made of blocks of snow. They were easier to build as they could be put up anywhere, even on the sea ice, and required only an hour or two to construct.
Contact with Explorers
Contact with European explorers also brought changes. Between the voyages of Martin Frobisher in the 1570s and the search for the missing Franklin expedition in the 1850s, dozens of expeditions to the Arctic set sail, usually from England. Most of them were in search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
At first, Europeans did not see the Arctic as a place of value in itself, but as an obstacle blocking their way to the fortunes beyond. During their journeys through the North, European explorers often met Inuit. Few Europeans were unprejudiced enough to think they had anything to learn from the Inuit, but they did trade and exchange gifts. The Inuit began to learn about the outside world and to appreciate what it had to offer. The Europeans brought them iron, which they valued for making tools such as harpoon points and knife blades.
The Whalers
In the 1850s, Europeans and Americans began to appreciate the commercial value of the Arctic's animal resources. The North Atlantic commercial whaling industry, operating out of Britain and New England, began large-scale operations in what are
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Why should a union representing workers who are not employees of McDonald's be empowered to squeeze concessions out of McDonald's? Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?
In a party-line decision, the Democrat-dominated National Labor Relations Board has decided that employees of contractors can be treated as employees of other companies when . . . well, when it is convenient for Democratic constituencies that they be so treated. The underlying case involved an operator of recycling centers, Browning-Ferris Industries of California, which uses subcontractors to staff some of its facilities. Firms have many reasons for using subcontracted labor, one of which is avoiding entanglement with the NLRB. Tut-tut, say the feds.
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But in the more relevant cases, contracting is built into the business model, as it is with franchise restaurants and similar businesses, which are what this case really is about. Most people who work for McDonald's do not actually work for McDonald's Corporation, which operates only a small number of the burger joints bearing its name. The overwhelming majority of McDonald's restaurants are franchises, independent businesses ranging from one-shop outfits to very large operations, the owners of which pay a fee to McDonald's for the use of its name, business model, and supply chain. Your local fry-guy was not hired by McDonald's, cannot be fired by McDonald's, is not paid by McDonald's, and is not supervised by McDonald's. His terms of employment are not set by McDonald's but by his employer, the franchise operator. He is not an employee of McDonald's in any meaningful sense, but the Democrats on the NLRB are not interested in sense — they are interested in power.
Union membership, particularly in the private sector, has been declining for decades. There are fewer than 8 million private-sector workers in unions, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By way of comparison, there already are more than 2 million American workers employed in the so-called gig economy, working mainly as private contractors and individual entrepreneurs through firms such as Uber and AirBnB. It is very likely that within a few years there will be more Lyft drivers than Teamsters.
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The political fallout of declining union membership presents a mortal threat to the Left's operating coalition. It's not just because of the money-laundering that converts union dues into Democratic campaign contributions, though that's not nothing; rather, it is that if fewer firms and economic sectors are under political discipline, then the value of being the party of government declines. When fewer firms are covered by, say, NLRB rules, then the political premium attached to being the rule-maker is diminished. Thus, the Left is scrambling to keep unionized firms under the federal thumb — consider the NLRB's improper attack on Boeing — while laboring to open up new avenues of union membership. Illinois insisted that privately employed home-health-care workers were "public employees" required to pay dues to the SEIU simply because their clients were Medicare recipients, a risible claim rightly thrown out by the Supreme Court (5–4, of course; liberal jurists are liberals first, jurists second if at all).
The NLRB's ruling empowers the federal government to designate companies as "joint employers" on the flimsiest of grounds. For example, a corporation that requires all its franchisee owners to use the same scheduling software could be considered a joint employer for that reason alone.
This is about enabling labor activists to exercise power over large businesses that are, for the moment, largely beyond their grasp.
The NLRB and labor activists say that this ruling is necessary because in recent decades practices such as subcontracting and franchising have allowed many businesses to insulate themselves from direct NLRB oversight. This is true, and in many cases the avoidance of federal micromanagement almost certainly was an animating force. If the NLRB expects that businesses will sit still after this ruling, it is engaged in self-delusion: One of the few reliable effects of centralized regulation is that businesses will invest, and sometimes invest heavily, in regulation avoidance.
There is probably no set of sustainable economic arrangements that will allow a single-parent fast-food employee to raise two children in the same comfort and security that might be provided by, say, a couple of married professionals. But the employees are incidental: This is about enabling labor activists to exercise power over large businesses that are, for the moment, largely beyond their grasp. Congress, happily, has the power to set aside this implausible overreach, which is exactly what it should do.
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Inside the Paris apartment untouched for 70 years: Treasure trove finally revealed after owner locked up and fled at outbreak of WWII
Caked in dust and full of turn-of-the century treasures, this Paris apartment is like going back in time.
Having lain untouched for seven decades the abandoned home was discovered three years ago after its owner died aged 91.
The woman who owned the flat, a Mrs De Florian , had fled for the south of France before the outbreak of the Second World War.
She never returned and in the 70 years since, it looks like no-one had set foot inside.
Back in time: The flat near the Trinité church in Paris between the Pigalle red light district and Opera The property was found near a church in the French capital's 9th arrondissement, between Pigalle red light district and Opera. E xperts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions which included a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. One expert said it was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900. 'There was a smell of old dust,' said Olivier Choppin-Janvry, who made the discovery.
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Next Northern Ireland gaol where Republican inmates staged a... 'Ich bin ein Berliner': Fifty years after President... Share this article Share But he said his heart missed a beat when he caught sight of a stunning tableau of a woman in a pink muslin evening dress. The painting was by Boldini and the subject a beautiful Frenchwoman who turned out to be the artist's former muse and Mrs de Florian's grandmother, Marthe de Florian, a beautiful French actress and socialite of the Belle Époque.
Under a thick layer of dusk lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects including a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini
Untouched: The cobweb-filled flat was discovered in the 9th arrondissement of Paris Treasure trove: Behind the door, under a thick layer of dusk lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects, including the Boldini painting that sold for £1.78million
When the owner died died aged 91, experts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions Mrs de Florian fled Paris before the outbreak of war in 1939, which saw the Nazis invade France and reach Paris on June 14. Pictured here, German officers and Parisians mingle near a sidewalk cafe on the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day in 1940
Marthe de Florian was an actress with a long list of ardent admirers whose fervent love letters she kept wrapped neatly in ribbon and were still on the premises.
Among the admirers was the 72nd prime minister of France, George Clemenceau, but also Boldini.
The expert had a hunch the painting was by Boldini, but could find no record of the painting.
'No reference book dedicated to Boldini mentioned the tableau, which was never exhibited,' said Marc Ottavi, the art specialist he consulted about the work.
When Mr Choppin-Janvry found a visiting card with a scribbled love note from Boldini, he knew he had struck gold. 'We had the link and I was sure at that moment that it was indeed a very fine Boldini'.
He finally found a reference to the work in a book by the artist's widow, which said it was painted in 1898 when Miss de Florian was 24.
The starting price for the painting was £253,000 but it rocketed as ten bidders vyed for the historic work. Finally it went under the hammer for £1.78million, a world record for the artist.
'It was a magic moment. One could see that the buyer loved the painting; he paid the price of passion,' said Mr Ottavi.
BLITZKREIG: HOW FRANCE CRUMBLED IN THE FACE OF HITLER'S NAZI ONSLAUGHT IN 1940 British prisoners of war captured at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940 walk dejectedly up a hill near a German fortification In 1939, the Germans devised a plan to inflict a major defeat on the French Army in northern France. The Manstein Plan, as it became known, included a attack through southern Belgium that avoided the Maginot Line. The ultimate objective was to reach the Channel coast and to force the French government to surrender.
Adolf Hitler gave his approval to the Manstein Plan on February 17, 1940, but it was not activated until the May 10. The 9th Panzer Division, using its Blitzkreig strategy, advanced quickly into the Netherlands. Belgium was also invaded and the French 7th Army moved forward to help support
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Season three of Orphan Black is about to debut. The highly acclaimed BBC America TV show has been licensed this year by AMC, making it more widely available. Still, the two channels may not be in everyone's menu. For you, Amazon has a solution, though you may need a bit of caffeine to capitalize on this one.
While seasons one and two have been available for some time to Prime subscribers, those who don't pay Amazon $99 per year can now catch up on season one -- providing you do so this Friday.
"Orphan Black has been extremely popular with Prime members since the series became available exclusively in Prime Instant Video -- that's why we're excited to make season one available to all customers for free, for a day," says Michael Paull, Vice President of Digital Video at Amazon. "We saw an incredible response when we made our Golden Globe-winning original series Transparent available to everyone, so we're giving customers an opportunity to try out another great series that Prime members already love".
We won't give too much away, it's something you have to watch for yourself and season one is the place to start if you don't want to be completely lost.
Amazon claims that this approach helped propel its original series Transparent to a Golden Globe award by allowing more people to view the show.
Tatiana Maslany gives an epic performance in the role (roles), so take this Friday off from work (you owe it to yourself, right?) and spend some time as a couch potato. You can grab the show here.
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During a sophomore season that saw Tyler Seguin come up a goal shy of 30 and three points shy of 70, he finally turned 20. He had become a Stanley Cup champion the year before, in 2011, and seemed on the verge of making the leap from good to great.
When that didn't happen the following season - he put up 32 points in 48 games, followed by an uninspiring eight points in 22 playoff games - the Bruins sent him packing to Dallas. This is what's known in hockey circles as an "organizational oopsie."
Fast forward a year, and I feel comfortable floating out a few questions: could Tyler Seguin lead the NHL in scoring one season? If so, how soon? Could it be this season?
You likely noticed that the young center had a nice year with Dallas, but "nice year" doesn't really do it justice. He finished alone in fourth in the NHL with 84 points, and helped make up one of the most dynamic duos in hockey alongside Jamie Benn. He took 294 shots (fourth-most in the league), leading to 37 goals on a wholly sustainable 12.6% shooting percentage (sustainable for an elite shooter like Seguin, that is). He got a step faster and noticeably stronger; it wasn't luck.
His possession stats were also shiny, for those so inclined. He saw a 52.3% share of the shot attempts while he was on the ice, and pushed that to 61.8% in playoffs - a time when he undeniably would have been the focal point of the opposition. Pushing through and improving on his already great regular season performance implies he's a player with the drive the Bruins implied he wasn't.
Seguin is going to have even more help this season. Occupying the spot largely filled by Rich Peverley and then-rookie Valeri Nichushkin last season will likely be Ales Hemsky, a skilled disher whose likely to maximize the output of two pure shooters.
Benn himself will be 25 and fully into his scoring prime while coming off a season that saw him represent Team Canada and set career highs in [fill in a category of your choice]. That won't hurt much, nor will Dallas having some young D-men that look poised to take a step in the right direction.
Statistics show that elite scorers peak earlier than most fans think, but that tends to mean somewhere around 24-25, not 27-28.
At 22, Seguin is just on the verge of sliding into his prime - a crazy concept for a guy who just finished with more points than names like Alex Ovechkin, Corey Perry and Jonathan Toews.
Clearing the obvious hurdle
Oh, right. Reigning "World's Best Hockey Human" Sidney Crosby still exists. That's a bit more than a speed bump.
I'm not naive enough to believe that Seguin is going to suddenly make up the 20 points Crosby beat him by this past season, but there are some reasons to believe he could substantially close that gap, and hope for a little luck.
For starters, Crosby's linemates are only getting older, which means they ain't getting better - and might be getting worse.
Chris Kunitz will be 35 this year, which is well into the years of statistical decline for scorers. Kunitz was above a point per game in the lockout shortened year, and he was 10 points under it last season; his fall-off might be underway as we speak. Pascal Dupuis is 35 with a huge career games played total as a guy who's only topped 50 points once.
Unless Sid is tied to Evgeni Malkin he won't have a ton of help, and if the Pens hope to present themselves as a team with real depth, they're probably best keeping their two elite centers separated.
The other factor here, is that Crosby's had some well publicized injury trouble in his career. You hope it never befalls Sid again, but Seguin has only missed 11 career games over four NHL seasons. If the Pens captain runs into any more trouble, the league leaders list will be there for the taking - and ol' Ty-Ty has proven pretty durable.
Obviously Seguin wouldn't be alone in the chase for the Art Ross. Taylor Hall is at an almost identical place in his career, though playing on a worse team probably makes topping the league scorers list harder (as does his more reckless style, in terms of games played). Malkin and Patrick Kane both missed substantial playing time last year, with the former being a legit threat for the league's top spot when healthy. If Claude Giroux gets off to anything other than an atrocious start like last year, he showed he can be better than a point-per-game guy.
But there's little doubt that Seguin now warrants mention with the guys listed
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EUGENE, OR—Arriving back at work after a two-week winter vacation, local marketing assistant Matthew Bueso told reporters Monday he was happy to return to the office with a fresh and rejuvenated loathing for his job. "It's always nice to get away for a few weeks, clear my head, and come back invigorated with a newfound disgust for my place of employment and the various responsibilities of my thoroughly depressing job," said Bueso, 38, noting that his time away had inspired him to complete mind-numbing administrative tasks, engage in idle discussions with his aggravating coworkers, and listen to bullshit inspirational speeches from his boss with a rekindled sense of anger and despair. "I'm rested, my batteries are recharged, and I'm ready to despise my entire professional life more intensely than ever before!" At press time, a revitalized Bueso was furiously balling his fists at the sound of a nearby coworker's loud typing.
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The narrow Kerch Strait, which ranges from 4.5 to 15 kilometres wide and connects the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, is known as a convenient place for offshore ship-to-ship transshipment. Every year more than 15 million tons of cargo – predominantly oil, grains and fertilisers – are processed through the anchorage areas in the strait. More than 95% of this volume comprises Russian-origin commodities shipped from ports on the Volga and Don Rivers and the Caspian Basin by coaster ships, which is then transshipped onto large ocean-going vessels.
Transshipment in the Kerch Strait has faced a number of natural, political and legal issues over the years. The relatively shallow waters of the strait do not allow for safe passage of Panamax and Capesize vessels when fully laden. Moreover, a tangle of legal conflicts and loopholes has turned the strait into a 'grey zone', with the biggest problem being the strait's lack of clear legal status.
In accordance with Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, where the coasts of two states are opposite or adjacent to one another, neither state is entitled (failing agreement between them to the contrary) to extend its territorial sea beyond the median line, every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which the breadth of both states' territorial seas are measured. This provision does not apply where it is necessary, by reason of historic title or other special circumstances, to delimit the territorial seas of the two states in a way that is at odds with the convention.
The Kerch Strait is a special case, as it is impossible to delimit the territorial waters at the median line. Therefore, the status of the strait has been determined by special agreements between Ukraine and Russia. The Treaty between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Use of the Azov Sea and Kerch Strait stipulates that the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait have historically been the internal waters of both Ukraine and Russia, and that the settlement of all issues related to the Kerch Strait is to be carried out by agreement between the two countries. The border between Ukraine and Russia has not yet been officially demarcated.
In practice, this means that neither Ukraine nor Russia has full jurisdiction and control over the strait. This lacuna has led to the development of ship-to-ship transshipment and bunkering on anchorage places in the strait. Some of these anchorage areas are located within the Ukrainian zone of responsibility, while others are in zones controlled by Russia.
Although Ukrainian authorities have control over anchorages in respect of vessel traffic and navigational safety, they do not have territorial jurisdiction over the areas defined as 'transit anchorage places'. Anchorage areas are not included in the water areas of Ukrainian ports, so no state control procedures govern them. These anchorage areas are not a part of Ukrainian customs or state territory. Thus, technically all operations are arranged outside Ukrainian borders.
The obvious advantage for shipowners and cargo shippers is that transshipment and bunkering operations are undertaken under a 'transit' regime, thus avoiding customs clearance, border control and other types of government surveillance. This also allows for bunkering and transshipment without formally calling the vessels at port – therefore avoiding both payment of port charges and the need to obtain free practice for vessels.
However, the Ukrainian authorities have recently attempted to take control over transshipment on transit anchorages. In June 2013 the Cabinet of Ministers passed a decree that the anchorage areas within the Ukrainian zone of responsibility be included in the official water area of the port of Kerch. In view of international law and the bilateral treaties between Ukraine and Russia, the validity of this decree may be dubious.
Following the decree, the State Customs Service required that thorough customs control be exerted over all transshipment operations undertaken by vessels in anchorage areas. The customs authorities insist that the anchorage areas in the Kerch Strait fall within Ukrainian customs territory. However, considering the legal status of the strait as the 'internal waters of Ukraine and Russia', and in the absence of demarcated borders in the strait, this requirement is questionable in terms of territorial jurisdiction. Despite the fact that there are neither legal grounds nor effective fulfilment mechanisms for this requirement, the authorities are likely to continue attempts to expand their jurisdiction over the anchorages. In practice, this implies the abolition of the existing transit regime and the loss of all incentives for ship-to-ship transshipment in Ukrainian anchorage areas.
The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority recently initiated a series of lawsuits against shipping agents in an attempt to recover unpaid port charges for the vessels which operated in anchorage transshipment zones after the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers came into force. The reasoning given was that all anchorages fall within the remit of port waters, and are thus subject to port charges.
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# This function simplifies the definition of Haskell projects that
# have multiple packages. It provides shells for incrementally working
# on all your packages at once using `cabal.project` files, using any
# version of GHC provided by `reflex-platform`, including GHCJS. It
# also produces individual derivations for each package, which can
# ease devops or integration with other Nix setups.
#
# Example:
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# > default.nix
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# (import ./reflex-platform {}).project ({ pkgs, ... }: {
# packages = {
# common = ./common;
# backend = ./backend;
# frontend = ./frontend;
# };
#
# shells = {
# ghc = ["common" "backend" "frontend"];
# ghcjs = ["common" "frontend"];
# };
#
# android.frontend = {
# executableName = "frontend";
# applicationId = "org.example.frontend";
# displayName = "Example App";
# };
# })
#
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# $ nix-build
# $ nix-build -A all
# $ nix-build -A ghc.backend
# $ nix-build -A ghcjs.frontend
# $ nix-build -A android.frontend
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{ name ? " reflex-project "
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, packages
# :: { <package name> :: Path }
#
# An attribute set of local packages being developed. Keys are the
# cabal package name and values are the path to the source
# directory.
, shells ? {}
# :: { <platform name> :: [PackageName] }
#
# The `shells` field defines which platforms we'd like to develop
# for, and which packages' dependencies we want available in the
# development sandbox for that platform. Note in the example above
# that specifying `common` is important; otherwise it will be
# treated as a dependency that needs to be built by Nix for the
# sandbox. You can use these shells with `cabal.project` files to
# build all three packages in a shared incremental environment, for
# both GHC and GHCJS.
, overrides ? _ : _ : {}
# :: PackageSet -> PackageSet -> { <package name> :: Derivation }
#
# A function for overriding Haskell packages. You can use
# `callHackage` and `callCabal2nix` to bump package versions or
# build them from GitHub. e.g.
#
# overrides = self: super: {
# lens = self.callHackage "lens" "4.15.4" {};
# free = self.callCabal2nix "free" (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
# owner = "ekmett";
# repo = "free";
# rev = "a0c5bef18b9609377f20ac6a153a20b7b94578c9";
# sha256 = "0vh3hj5rj98d448l647jc6b6q1km4nd4k01s9rajgkc2igigfp6s";
# }) {};
# };
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# A function returning a record of tools to provide in the
# nix-shells.
#
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# inherit (ghc) hpack;
# inherit (pkgs) chromium;
# ghc-mod = null;
# cabal-install = ghc.callHackage "cabal-install
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Add to Playlist Create New Playlist {{collection.name}} {{(collection.tracks).length}} songs New Playlist New Save songs from 97-9 ESPN - Hartford to your playlist Instantly replay songs from the radio
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Leadercast was built on a belief that the world needs better leaders– Leaders Worth Following. We believe that leadership is not reserved for those people with a "C" in their title. We need better... Read More
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The Demands Edit
Demand One You gals want a ladies' night? Try having it in the kitchen, cooking for a man. Demand Two Don't put on a dress and ask us if it makes you look fat. It's not the dress that makes you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat. Demand Three Don't ask us to talk or cuddle after sex. Or before sex, or during sex. You're lucky we take our pants off. Demand Four Don't ask us to say "I love you" over the phone. It's hard enough to say to someone we're paying a dollar a minute to talk to. Demand Five Stop talking about Fabio.
Trivia Edit
The(originally ten demands, but they were ruined when someone used the list as a tissue) were a series of demands that NO MA'AM issued after they captured Jerry Springer and took control of. The demands were directed at women in general, in response to the loss of Thursday night bowling to women atand the Nudie Bar being turned into a coffee house. ( MWC : " NO MA'AM ")
In another wrestling reference, Jefferson indicates Demand Four with the hand sign of the NWA/WCW clique The Four Horsemen.
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welcome to the
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ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
The Arts & Entertainment District is an emerging, urban residential neighborhood connecting The Wynwood Arts District and Design District to Downtown Miami. Because of the recent explosive growth in these bordering districts, The Arts and Entertainment District has seen a renaissance in its residential, culinary, entertainment and nightlife offerings. Curious where the hip set of Miami ends up on a Saturday night? They'll be just down the street, enjoying the best of Miami's nightlife. There is no time like now to make your mark on Miami's next great district.
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Psychiatric service dogs are allowed in most public places, while emotional support animals are not.
Service dogs play an essential role in the lives of many individuals with disabilities. Federal law grants certain rights and protections to people with disabilities who use guide dogs or service dogs.
Access to Public Places and the ADA
Different laws govern the use of service animals in different contexts. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) governs the use of service dogs in public places.
The ADA guarantees people with disabilities who use service dogs equal access to public places such as restaurants, hospitals, hotels, theaters, shops, and government buildings. This means that these places must allow service dogs, and the ADA requires them to modify their practices to accommodate the dogs, if necessary.
However, these protections only apply to dogs that satisfy the ADA's definition of "service animal." The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that is "individually trained" to "perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability." The tasks a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person's disability.
A "helper monkey" or a cat cannot be considered a service animal under the ADA; the ADA limits the definition of service animals to dogs. In some limited circumstances, the ADA provides that public places should also accomodate persons with disabilities who use miniature horses to perform tasks.
The best-known example of service dogs are guide dogs that help blind people navigate safely around obstacles. Service dogs can also be trained to assist deaf individuals, wheelchair-users and other people with mobility impairments, as well as people who have psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disabilities.
Psychiatric Service Dogs
"Psychiatric service dogs" are service dogs that provide assistance to people with psychiatric disabilities, such as severe depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Examples of work or tasks that psychiatric service dogs perform include:
providing safety checks or room searches for individuals with PTSD
blocking persons in dissociative episodes from wandering into danger (for example, traffic), and
preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors, such as self-mutilation.
Emotional Support Animals
Many individuals—both with and without disabilities—derive emotional support and comfort from dogs and other animals that are not specially trained to perform specific tasks directly related to a psychiatric disability.
The ADA considers such "emotional support animals" to be distinct from psychiatric service dogs, and treats them differently. The ADA does not grant emotional support dog owners the same right of access to public places that it gives to individuals who use psychiatric service dogs. That means that under the ADA, a movie theater, for example, must allow psychiatric service dogs to accompany their owners into the movie auditorium but can refuse to admit individuals with emotional support dogs.
The Difference Between a Psychiatric Service Dog and an Emotional Support Dog
It is not always clear—to staff at public places, and even to some people with disabilities—whether an animal accompanying an individual with a psychiatric disability or impairment is performing a psychiatric service or "merely" providing emotional support. Confusion may result in unlawful and discriminatory treatment of people with disabilities.
The key distinction to remember is that a psychiatric service animal is actually trained to perform certain tasks that are directly related to an individual's psychiatric disability. The dog's primary role is not to provide emotional support. It is to assist the owner with the accomplishment of vital tasks they otherwise would not be able to perform independently. In addition, a psychiatric service dog must not only respond to an owner's need for help, the dog must also be trained to recognize the need for help in the first place. A dog must be able to respond and recognize to be a service dog.
By contrast, an emotional support dog is a pet that is not trained to perform specific acts directly related to an individual's psychiatric disability. Instead, the pet's owner simply derives a sense of well-being, safety, or calm from the dog's companionship and physical presence.
The animal companionship of an emotional support dog can have genuine therapeutic benefits for individuals with psychiatric disabilities and less severe mental impairments. But unless the dog is also trained to work—to independently recognize and respond to its owner's psychiatric disability—the dog does not qualify as a psychiatric service dog and does not receive the protections of the ADA.
For example, people with social phobia might only feel safe enough to leave their home for food or medication if their dog accompanies them. Such a dog would be considered an emotional support animal.
If, however, the same person is prone to dissociative episodes when they leave home, and their dog is trained to recognize and respond to the onset of such an episode by nudging, barking, or removing the individual to a safe location, then the dog would be considered a psychiatric service dog.
Different State Laws
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Team,
Over the past few weeks, I've shared with you our mission, strategy, structure and culture. Today, I want to discuss our plans to focus our talent and investments in areas where we have differentiation and potential for growth, as well as how we'll partner to drive better scale and results. In all we do, we will take a long-term view and build deep technical capability that allows us to innovate in the future.
With that context, I want to update you on decisions impacting our phone business and share more on last week's mapping and display advertising announcements.
We anticipate that these changes, in addition to other headcount alignment changes, will result in the reduction of up to 7,800 positions globally, primarily in our phone business. We expect that the reductions will take place over the next several months.
I don't take changes in plans like these lightly, given that they affect the lives of people who have made an impact at Microsoft. We are deeply committed to helping our team members through these transitions.
Phones. Today, we announced a fundamental restructuring of our phone business. As a result, the company will take an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million.
I am committed to our first-party devices including phones. However, we need to focus our phone efforts in the near term while driving reinvention. We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem that includes our first-party device family.
In the near term, we will run a more effective phone portfolio, with better products and speed to market given the recently formed Windows and Devices Group. We plan to narrow our focus to three customer segments where we can make unique contributions and where we can differentiate through the combination of our hardware and software. We'll bring business customers the best management, security and productivity experiences they need; value phone buyers the communications services they want; and Windows fans the flagship devices they'll love.
In the longer term, Microsoft devices will spark innovation, create new categories and generate opportunity for the Windows ecosystem more broadly. Our reinvention will be centered on creating mobility of experiences across the entire device family including phones.
Mapping. Last week, we announced changes to our mapping business and transferred some of our imagery acquisition operations to Uber. We will continue to source base mapping data and imagery from partners. This allows us to focus our efforts on delivering great map products such as Bing Maps, Maps app for Windows and our Bing Maps for Enterprise APIs.
Advertising. We also announced our decision to sharpen our focus in advertising platform technology and concentrate on search, while we partner with AOL and AppNexus for display. Bing will now power search and search advertising across the AOL portfolio of sites, in addition to the partnerships we already have with Yahoo!, Amazon and Apple. Concentrating on search will help us further accelerate the progress we've been making over the past six years. Last year Bing grew to 20 percent query share in the U.S. while growing our search advertising revenue 28 percent over the past 12 months. We view search technology as core to our efforts spanning Bing.com, Cortana, Office 365, Windows 10 and Azure services.
I deeply appreciate all of the ideas and hard work of everyone involved in these businesses, and I want to reiterate my commitment to helping each individual impacted.
I know many of you have questions about these changes. I will host an employee Q&A tomorrow to share more, and I hope you can join me.
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When lasers cut something, they're only cutting in the sense that they're making atoms be not as attracted as they once were to each other. When you get down to the nitty-gritty details, it is not really the same as mechanical cutting.
Remember that lasers shoot photons, and when photons hit atoms, they excite electrons. If you excite these electrons enough, they'll have enough energy to disassociate from the atoms they formerly "belonged" to. This makes individual atoms disassociate with whatever other atoms they were once bonded to, and in the mad scramble to go to a lower energy state, they very likely do not go into the same configuration they were before. Some atoms, like the ones directly hit by the laser beam, go to a vapor and float away. Others "choose" one side of the material to go to. Any bonds the material had with itself is then dissolved, so it is effectively cut.
This is different than, say, taking shears or scissors to the material. The methods of those things cutting are purely mechanical, and you don't have to worry about vapors as much as when cutting with a laser. (You also don't have to worry about reflections from materials, either!)
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"IS" is and interactive experience where you should answer questions having only three answers. This was a study of GameMaker:Studio text manipulation made on 15 hours and part of making a game a week.
I've made "IS" to talk to people, as a theme served on a plate, as a topic to say "hello! I think this and that", so if you look at it, and then play it, leave something, i want to argue, i love to argue with someone.
You will only need the Z X C keys to play it, i really recommend using headphones.
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Music: Endless Ocean by Crystal Boys.
Thanks for playing!
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"I do not believe that there is any credible scenario in which Japanese government debt can be repaid in the normal sense of the word repay," said Adair Turner, chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a former head of Britain's financial regulator. "It would therefore be useful to make clear to the Japanese people that the public debt does not all have to be repaid, since some of it can be permanently monetized by the Bank of Japan."
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MSPaint is actually a very powerful image editor. Here's all the things about MSPaint you probably didn't know.
Chapter 1 - Brush Scaling
This is pretty much the most basic thing here. You may think that the standard brush sizes in MSPaint only come in the three sizes, right? Wrong.
Open up a new document in paint, select the paintbrush tool, hold Ctrl and press the + button on the numpad. The brush size will grow as big as you need! Amazing, huh?
This technique also works with the line tool, the spraypaint tool, and the eraser tool.
Chapter 2 - Custom Brushes
This is the one that NOBODY knows - You can make your own custom brushes in paint! Select the pencil tool and draw yourself a small textured brush in X color.
Here's what I did:
Now, select that little image, turn transparency on, hold shift, and drag it around!
Cool, huh? You can draw ANYTHING and do this. Here's another one I did.
Chapter 2 1/2 - The 'Stamp' Tool
This is something I improvised. It's the 'Stamp' tool. I didn't put it in its own chapter because technically it's part of chapter 2, but moreso different.
So, I have this image of an old lady:
And I want to put these leaves in her hair.
Now, I could copy and paste all day, but there is an easy way around this.
Select the leaf, turn transparency on, and drag the leaf to wherever you want it.
Whenever it's there, while it's still selected, hold shift, click once, release shift, and drag the image away.
:O! It stamped! Repeat as necessary ( I rotated too. )
Chapter 3 - Image Scaling
So say you scanned something and the image is WAY too big and you want it smaller. How do you go about that?
Well, open up paint and paste your image in. I didn't have anything massive to scan so I used this picture of a Dr Pepper.
Now, say you want it smaller. You probably try to highlight it and scale it, right? It ends up looking compressed and improportioned.
Well, there's an easier way. All it takes is a single keystroke!
Ctrl+Plus(Numpad) to make it larger or Ctrl+Minus(Numpad) to make it smaller.
This is especially useful for scaling sprites, as it keeps their pixels proportional.
Chapter 4 - Color Replacement
Say you have drawn something with an absolutely crazy pixel border, and all of a sudden you don't like the border color.
Like this box I drew.
Now, I want to re-color the border yellow but I have absolutely 0 time and 0 energy. What do I do?
I use the COLOR REPLACEMENT FUNCTION!
Select the eraser tool.
In the primary color box, select the color that you don't like that you want to erase. In the secondary color box, select the color you want to replace said exiled color with.
Then hold right click and sweep with the eraser tool over the ugly color.
If your drawing is large, scale the eraser brush as needed.
Ta-da!
Chapter 5 - The Grid
Say that you're trying to edit a piece of pixel art that you drew, and, even though you're zoomed in all the way, you're having trouble fine tuning - you're having trouble positioning the crusor where you want.
This is where the grid comes in.
MSPaint comes with a built-in grid feature, accessable by hotkeys.
To view the grid, simply zoom in to either 6x or 8x, and hit Ctrl+G.
Chapter 6 - Other Things
Another feature of paint that is more commonly known about is the 'quick undo' feature.
It doesn't really have that much use, and, more often than not, is accidentally toggled by the user. This ends up in frustration.
So let's say that you're drawing a smiley face, and you get the eyes down good.
So then you move onto the mouth, you start drawing, and it's going good.
But just then, suddenly, you launch into an epileptic seizure.
Your body flails around wildly, and, unfortunately, your hand is not an exception to the flailing.
That seizure just done gone and [messed] up your artwork!
But, for whatever reason, your finger is still pressed down on the mouse.
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The minimization procedures… have been so frequently and systemically violated that it can fairly be said that this critical element of the overall BR regime has never functioned effectively.
...the government acknowledges that NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously during the more than [redacted] years of acquisition under these orders.
There may well be explanations for each of the compliance incidents documented in the Walton and Bates opinions; that's not the point. Instead, the larger message that comes through these newly disclosed opinions is the pervasiveness of compliance incidents, and the extent to which careful supervision by the FISA Court, while apparently able to produce some accountability in response to such incidents (as in the opinions released yesterday), simply does not seem to have mooted these concerns. That is to say, with every new FISA Court opinion responding to new compliance incidents, it becomes that much harder to trust that compliance concerns are ancient history.
Throughout this process of discussing the NSA's surveillance efforts, thanks to Ed Snowden and his whistleblowing, defenders have continued to insist (1) that the NSA isn't abusing its powers and (2) that there's tremendous oversight of the NSA's activities, mainly by FISC. Yet, with this week's declassification of a second FISC ruling in which a judge detailedby the NSA, with no consequences, does anyone actually believe the NSA has stopped abusing its powers to violate everyone's privacy?As a reminder, back in September it was revealed that FISC judge Reggie Walton was pretty angry about abuses by the NSA:Then there was Judge John Bates' ruling just revealed this week:These are different violations. And, yet, in both cases, they seemed to indicate rather systematic abuses by the NSA, and very little concern on the part of the NSA to get it right. After all, these problems appeared to go on for years, and were either unreported or not clearly reported to the FISC, which could do little about it.And that raises a key question, pointed out by Steve Vladeck -- Given these two relatively recent rulings, detailing systematic, widespread and long-term abuses by the NSA in violation of the law, how can any NSA defender claim with a straight face that the NSA is now in compliance Of course, when there's no real "cost" for being non-compliant, why would the NSA care that much about being compliant?
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MIAMI — On January 31, 2013 American Airlines launched their first Boeing 777-300ER into service with attention that rivaled any airline's launch of a new type in recent memory. On the face of it, even though American became the first operator of the 777-300 in America, this event would almost seem overkill if for that reason alone. After all, American began 777-200 flights back in 1999 and On January 31, 2013 American Airlines launched their first Boeing 777-300ER into service with attention that rivaled any airline's launch of a new type in recent memory. On the face of it, even though American became the first operator of the 777-300 in America, this event would almost seem overkill if for that reason alone. After all, American began 777-200 flights back in 1999 and the first 777-300 was first delivered to an airline, Cathay Pacific back in May, 1998 . The first 777-300ER entered service nearly 10 years ago with Air France. Boeing's two stretch variants of their venerable cash cow, the 777, easily have become the type's most popular versions with over 680 orders and deliveries between them out of the entire 777 program's 1,380 orders and deliveries. (as of December, 2012). In an era of smaller airliners, American inaugurated the 777-300, the largest new airliner by a U.S. carrier since the last Boeing 747-400s entered service with U.S. airliners in the late 1990s.
This inaugural, flight 963, from Dallas/Ft. Worth to São Paulo, Brazil in the author's view is one of the most significant in the airline industry in years because it is about something much bigger than just the launch of a new airliner, it's about the re-birth of a proud American institution that happens to bear the name of our country – American Airlines.
American Airlines problems are well known. After becoming the world's largest airline with its 2000 acquisition of TWA, the 2000s were not kind at all to the Silver Bird. TWA and American merged during an economic downturn and by most accounts, the merger was anything but an unqualified success. American shed most of TWA's assets, routes, staff, and many of its aircraft. On September 11th, 2 of American's airliners, their crew, and passengers were forever lost in the atrocities of this horrible day. As if things couldn't get any worse, the world's airline industry hemorrhaged with the U.S. legacy carriers losing more money during this time then they had profited in their entire history. All of them declared Chapter 11, with the exception of American. Under the category of "no good deed goes unpunished", this decision would come back to haunt American for years. The competitors were able to re-organize, upgrade service, rebrand their images, get their costs under control, renew their fleets, expand their route structure, and finally in the case of Continental/United and Delta/Northwest consolidate into mega-carriers that dwarfed American. American was left with a barrage of serious problems: a revolving door in the executive ranks, fractious management and labor relations, dwindling market share, increasingly massive financial losses as their competitors recorded profits, devastating operational problems of which many were self-inflicted, an aging fleet, outdated and stripped down in-flight passenger service, soaring operating expenses, declining bookings, and a very unsympathetic press that at times almost seemed on a witch hunt. Like Pan Am and other failed airlines there were a few bright spots: the extremely profitable Latin American hub, the North Atlantic / London Heathrow joint-venture with British Airways, the strong and dominant hubs particularly at DFW and Miami, strength on the highly profitable trans-continental services particular JFK-LAX, and many proud employees across all positions who still believed their company could once again live up to American's 1980s advertising claim that they were "Something Special in the Air".
But the headwinds seemed to far outweigh the tailwinds and finally on November 29, 2011 American filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy becoming the last U.S. legacy carrier to do so. On top of that, US Airways began aggressively pursuing a merger, securing an agreement with the pilots unions. Then came the 2012 "Summer of Discontent" with flight cancellations and operations disruptions that sent customers into the arms of their competitors and who can forget the seats onboard a few 757s becoming unbolted during flights. It would have been understandable for the once proud Eagle to fold its wings. If the one unthinkable collapses of majors like Pan Am and Eastern occurred, could American meet the same fate?
It may be hard to remember, but since the beginning of commercial aviation: American was an innovating pace setter in the industry, and generally a profitable one at that. In many ways, American virtually wrote the history of the airline industry: American introduced the airliner that changed aviation, the Douglas DC-3. The first
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The Role of Belgian Colonization
After WWI, the Treaty of Versailles was signed and it affected Germany in many ways. One way was the colony of Rwanda-Urundi was taken away from Germany and made a League of Nations protectorate that was put under Belgian rule. The Belgians reinforced the class system that the Germans had imposed, further separating the Tutsies and the Hutus. The Belgians favored the Tutsies (even though they only made up 14% of Rwanda, whereas the Hutus made up 85% of the country. The Tutsies were given many privileges that the Hutu were not fortunate enough to receive, including western-style education and political power. The Belgians used the Tutsi to rule the country, having these people enforce what the Belgians believed and what the Belgians wanted done. Therefore the Tutsies were essentially puppets and the Belgians were the puppet masters. The Belgians insisted that Rwanda start to grow coffee, the corvee was introduced (this is form of labor in which each worker is whipped eight times before work each morning). The onerous corvee was not popular and many people fled to Uganda. I would have left Rwanda if I was a slave because being beaten before I started my day would make me not want to work and it would enrage me everyday. The Belgians began to focus more and more on race and they did studies that proved, in there eyes, that the Tutsies were superior. Scientists were brought into the country to measure skulls sizes (to see which group of people had a bigger skull and therefore a bigger brain-now we know that brain size is irrelevant to intelligence). Tutsies were also taller and lighter skinned so the Belgians believed they were of Caucasian decent, therefore making them "better" than the Hutus. Racial identification cards were also distributed which identified if the citizens of Rwanda were Hutu or Tutsi. As time went on, the idea that the Tutsies were superior to the Hutu became so ingrained in the minds of the Tutsies that they started to believe this idea and exploited their power over the Hutu. Resentment, anger, and confusion flooded the hearts and minds of the Hutu. These emotions started to build up over time and as the people entered the 1990's, these emotions were about to explode. (Picture: The country of Belgium is highlighted but you can also see Germany, the former colonial power in Rwanda, to the right). Sources: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/etc /cron.html http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rwanda http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/europe/belgium.jpg
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This Low-Carb Homemade Nutella Fudge is the perfect guilt-free and decadent treat for the holidays. This dessert is suitable to those following a low carb, LCHF, Atkins, sugar-free, ketogenic, Banting, and diabetic diets.
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The Marine Corps has suddenly dropped criminal charges against an officer in the infamous Taliban urination video case, heading off what promised to be an embarrassing pretrial hearing for the Corps' commandant Wednesday.
Defense attorneys for Capt. James V. Clement had won a judge's order, over objections from Marine prosecutors, for two staff attorneys to testify in open court about how senior commanders interfered in the case to get a guilty verdict.
The attorneys also were seeking to question Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant, and wanted access to his private emails.
But the criminal case ended Friday when Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, who heads Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., and was overseeing the prosecution, filed a brief court paper withdrawing the charges.
John Dowd, Capt. Clement's principal defense counsel, accused the commandant of engineering the largest case of unlawful command influence in the Corps' history.
"The withdrawal of the charges was another act of cowardice by the commandant, his counsel and the Judge Advocate Division of [Marine Corps headquarters] to cover up the worst case of unlawful command influence in the history of the Marine Corps, which was beginning next Wednesday to be uncovered in a hearing before the chief judge … on several motions to compel discovery," Mr. Dowd said Saturday.
The defense attorney said he wanted to see email traffic among the commandant, his counsel and his legal division.
"That email traffic would have revealed that [the commandant] and his lawyers had engaged in a secret, corrupt effort to rig and control the investigations and dispositions of the so-called desecration cases until Capt. Clement refused to submit to a corrupt process [of being] charged with crimes he did not commit," Mr. Dowd said.
Capt. Clement's defense counsel obtained a sworn statement from Lt. Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser who, as convening authority, was overseeing all cases in the urination incident. The general told of a one-on-one meeting in 2012 with Gen. Amos in which the commandant said he wanted Marine defendants "crushed" via courts-martial.
Gen. Waldhauser went on to become Defense Secretary's Chuck Hagel's senior military adviser.
Citing that conversation, Capt. Clement's attorneys accused the commandant of blatant unlawful command influence that denied their client a fair court-martial.
They filed a motion to dismiss the charges, thus setting up a series of public pretrial hearings on Gen. Amos' conduct scheduled to begin Wednesday.
Capt. Clement was charged with dereliction of duty for not properly supervising Marines who urinated on Taliban corpses.
A video of the act went viral on YouTube last year, drawing harsh criticism from the White House. The captain denies any misconduct.
Maj. James Weirick, a staff attorney at Quantico who was to testify Wednesday, filed a complaint with the Pentagon inspector general over Gen. Amos' actions. An investigation is underway.
Gen. Amos, through an aide, later told Gen. Waldhauser that he regretted his orders and decided to replace him.
"The commandant immediately realized that he had compromised the situation and took immediate action to ensure that the investigation and cases were given to an appropriate new convening authority who could exercise independent and unfettered discretion to take action in those cases," a Marine spokesman said this summer.
The Washington Times was not able to get a comment from the Corps.
Gen. Glueck's order did not explain why he was dropping the charges.
He ordered that Capt. Clement undergo an administrative board of inquiry, which will determine whether he committed misconduct.
The board can decide whether he should be retained or separated under less-than-honorable conditions.
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KITIGAN ZIBI ANISHINABEG FIRST NATION, Quebec — Jay Odjick's affinity for comics started early. He bought his first Spider-Man comic book for 20 cents at the age of four. And it wasn't long before he felt the pull to write stories of his own. "My mother says I started writing my own comic stories when I was around five," Odjick said. "But the caveat I always add is that my mother doesn't say I started writing good stories." Odjick has steadily improved his skills over the years. Now 39, he's the creator of "Kagagi," a graphic novel that's professionally published and distributed across North America. Like many graphic novels, "Kagagi" includes evil villains and superhuman powers. But what makes this comic book unique is that the characters and the storyline are deeply rooted in Algonquin culture. Odjick, who is from the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg Algonquin First Nation in Quebec, is one of a growing number of indigenous writers and artists who are jumping into the billion-dollar comics industry. Many bring their own life experiences and cultural traditions to their stories. And critics say their work is starting to reshape the way indigenous people are portrayed in this popular medium.
I thought it was really important that I create heroes that young Natives could relate to. Jon Proudstar, comic book artist
In "Kagagi," Odjick's culture plays a central role from the very beginning, as the storyline springboards off of the Algonquin legend of Windigo, the story of an evil creature with the power to possess humans and turn them into cannibals. The victims become "kind of like zombies," Odjick said. And the only person who can stop the Windigo? A 16-year old Anishnabe boy with superhuman strength and the ability to fly. An animated version of "Kagagi" currently airs on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, a cable channel whose programming reaches about 10 million households throughout Canada. Each episode is broadcast in both English and Algonquin. In a world where many indigenous tribes struggle to maintain their language, Odjick says he is excited about the opportunity to help preserve part of his culture "I'm not an educator," he says, "but we can present language in a way that's entertaining to [kids]."
Finding new heroes
According to Michael Sheyahshe, author of "Native Americans In Comic Books," Odjick's celebration of Native culture is a long way from how Native Americans were portrayed in comics when the medium first rose to popularity. Sheyahshe, who is a member of the Caddo Nation in Oklahoma, says when comic books first began seeing major commercial success in the 1940s, Native Americans were only written as diminutive one-dimensional characters and often portrayed as a threat to white protagonists. By the 1960s and 1970s, though, Native characters began to play a more centralized role in storylines as various civil rights movements took hold throughout the United States. Sheyahshe cites Marvel's Red Wolf, a nine-issue series that featured the publishing house's first Native American superhero, as an example.
Cover of Jon Proudstar's "Tribal Force" Jon Proudstar Still, Sheyahshe says that in that time period, almost none of the Native characters were the main heroes. "They're the helpers. They did what they were supposed to," he said. "[The heroes] couldn't have gotten the job done without them, but [Native characters] didn't have series of their own." Sheyahshe says it has only been in recent years that he's begun to notice Native artists producing comic books starring Native characters. One of the first on the scene was Jon Proudstar's 1996 series "Tribal Force," a story about five young people granted supernatural powers in order to protect their land from being destroyed by the government. Proudstar said he also takes great pride in his attention to detail. He didn't just stick with characters from his own community near Tucson, Arizona. Each of his characters comes from a different tribe, and he spent a lot of time making sure their cultures were accurately and respectfully depicted. "I knew very little about the Hunkpapa Sioux," he says, "So I went to a couple of people who are Hunkpapa and asked them about their communities, what's important to them." His White Calf Buffalo Woman is one result of this research. After Proudstar learned that depictions of the White Calf Buffalo Woman are among the culture's most sacred images, he adapted her character to appear in the book as only a silhouette. Proudstar said seeing Native American stereotypes and inaccuracies continue to show up in comic books was a big motivation for his work. But Proudstar also wanted to create a universe in which heroes face the same challenges that many Native kids face today, like living with the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome and child molestation,
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Neill Blomkamp is embarking on an experimental filmmaking venture that he's calling Oats Studios. The District 9 and Elysium director released a trailer for some of the studio's upcoming projects, which will be released to Steam in the next couple of months.
The trailer opens with a shot of an overgrown Eiffel Tower, as a voiceover explains that aliens have come to exterminate humanity. The trailer then shows off quite a bit more: a woman shooting an alien in a red-lit corridor, American soldiers flying over Vietnam, trucks flying Texas flags driving through the desert, a whole bunch of cool-looking aliens and quite a bit more. The trailer explains that what's coming soon is a series of short, experimental films called Oats: Volume 1.
Blomkamp has been teasing hints about Oats Studios for the last year, asking if fans would be interested in buying films off of Steam, and posted some intriguing images to Twitter, showing off one of the aliens seen in the trailer, as well as a Vietnam-era soldier. Earlier this month, he showed off a 15 second teaser showing off a soldier shooting down... something.
If I sold experimental short films on @steam_games as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them? — NΞill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp) April 9, 2017
While Blomkamp earned considerable acclaim for his debut feature District 9, he got his start with short films, such as Alive in Joburg (which became District 9), Landfall, a short Halo film (his debut film was originally supposed to be an adaptation of the Bungie franchise), and more recently, an entry in BMW's The Hire series, featuring Clive Owen. From the looks of it, these upcoming short films will be a set of really exciting science fiction films.
The trailer simply says that Oats: Volume 1 will be streaming soon. Whenever it hits, Oats Studios has our attention, and we already can't wait to see what Blomkamp has up his sleeve.
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As of December 19 Brampton-bound travellers will have to pay careful attention to what platforms at Union Station they need to board.
For Brampton commuters who are used to arriving and departing from platform 7, 8, 9, and/or 10, your new platform is now 11 and 12. The change will affect departures on December 19, starting with the 3:35 p.m. westbound trip. The change will be permanent until further notice.
GO Transit is encouraging people to leave extra time to learn the new platforms, and to avoid crowding situations.
In readying for the next phase of rebuilding the Union Station train roof, four platforms will be closed and three will be re-opened. This process is expected to repeat until the entire train shed is restored in two years.
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Amy Schumer uses her upcoming Netflix premiere The Leather Special to mock "gun nuts" for opposing her gun control efforts.
Schumer began to speak publicly for gun control after John Russell Houser allegedly shot and killed two persons during an airing of Schumer's Trainwreck in a gun-free theater in Lafayette, Louisiana.
According to The Daily Beast, Schumer talks about gun control in her new special, then hedges her statements by saying "What I learned was, no matter what you say, as soon as you say the word 'gun,' what gun nuts hear is, 'She wants to take all our guns!'"
What Schumer misses is that she has worked with her cousin Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to push expanded background checks because of the shooting, although the shooter passed a background check to get his gun. "Gun nuts" fail to see the sense in pushing to expand what already failed.
But Schumer tries to explain her calls for more background checks by pointing to the mental condition of the Lafayette shooter. She suggests that "even someone who is mentally ill and has been convicted of domestic violence can still obtain a firearm due to various background-check loopholes." To be fair, this is not true. Individuals who are involuntarily committed for mental illness treatment are barred from buying guns–involuntarily commitment is a threshold that must be crossed. But the judge who handled John Russell Houser's mental oversight– Carroll County Probate Judge Betty Cason–said she never ordered him involuntarily committed.
So, there already is a mechanism for keeping the mentally ill from obtaining guns, but they have to meet a certain threshold before being barred from gun purchases.
Instead of admitting this, Schumer just mocks the system. She points to blind people and people on the terror watch list buying guns, then says, ""I'm all about equal rights for the disabled, but if Stevie Wonder calls me and he's like, 'Do you want to go shooting today?' I'm going to be like, 'Hard pass!'" Schumer does not mention the fact that neither the terror attack in San Bernadino (December 2, 2015) nor Orlando (June 12, 2o16) would have been stopped by adding the terror watch list to background checks because none of the attackers in either case were on the list.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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If the final specifications differ from the draft specifications, it may affect the ability of the notebook to communicate with other 802.11ac WLAN devices. 9 Bluetooth® is a trademark owned by its proprietor and used by Hewlett-Packard Company under license. 10 High-definition (HD) content is required to view high definition images. 11 For storage drives, GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual formatted capacity is less. Up to 5.1 GB of disk is reserved for system recovery software. 12 25GB of free online storage for six months from date of registration. For complete details and terms of use, including cancellation policies, visit the website at www.dropbox.com. Internet service required and not included. 13 The OneDrive cloud storage offer is available only with the included Office 365 Personal subscription for a limited time. Check the activation card inside the package for details. For more information, go to http://onedrive.com/windowsoffer. 14 Multi-core is designed to improve performance of certain software products. Not all customers or software applications will necessarily benefit from use of this technology. Performance and clock frequency will vary depending on application workload and your hardware and software configurations. Intel's numbering is not a measurement of higher performance. Intel, Pentium, Intel Core, Celeron, Intel logo and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. 15 Burst frequency performance varies depending on hardware, software and overall system configuration. 16 Internet access required and not included. Subscription required after 30 days trial period. McAfee, LiveSafe and the McAfee logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 17 Sixty minutes of Skype per month is included with subscription to Office 365. See Microsoft for details. Actual application must be downloaded from skype.com. See Microsoft for details. 18 Requires an Internet connection, not included, to an HP web-enabled printer and HP ePrint account registration. For complete details, see www.hp.com/go/mobileprinting 19 For more information visit hp.com/go/hpsupportassistant [Link will vary outside of the U.S.] HP Support Assistant is available for Android and
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