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Catholic News Service | Kurt Jensen | October 6, 2017	| 0 Comments
Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star in a scene from the movie Blade Runner 2049. The Catholic News Service classification is L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. CNS/Warner Bros.
Misogyny hangs over "Blade Runner 2049" (Warner Bros.) as blithely as the thick yellow fog of the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it portrays.
While that's hardly unusual for science-fiction epics with a substantially male core audience, director Denis Villeneuve, working from a script by Hampton Fancer and Michael Green, has made a two-and-a-half-hour film that, in its solemn eagerness to have the audience relish every special effect and linger over every underlined point about artificial life developing authentic human emotions, feels more like four hours.
There's also an abundance of female nudity and a complicated sexual encounter that may have you thinking about the risk of electrocution.
This is not a remake of Ridley Scott's 1982 epic, based on a Philip K. Dick novel, about synthetic humans called replicants interacting with, and often threatening, human civilization. It's the second chapter, set a few decades hence, after an entire breed of replicants revolted in the manner of a slave rebellion.
K (Ryan Gosling), a world-weary police officer, has the job, in his flying car, of locating scattered rebellious androids, putting them out of commission, and retrieving their eyeballs, on which are engraved serial numbers. He's bossed around by his grumpy chief, Lt. Joshi (Robin Wright).
The core plot is a film noir-type murder mystery. Someone killed and buried a female replicant, and when her "bones" are examined, it turns out she had given birth. If these artificial life forms can procreate on their own, they also can control their destinies.
The question of who in the film is a replicant and who is not makes up the rest of the plot. It's not a question that's answered, since the intention is to build a sci-fi franchise, and that's not really the point of the goings-on, anyway.
Along the way, Villeneuve explores the question of whether his holographic pal, Joi (Ana de Armas), whom K purchased as one does a computer app, is just a collection of artificial intelligence or a amorous gal capable of falling in love with a real live boy — in this case, K.
There's also an evil tech visionary, Niander (Jared Leto), with an equally malevolent aide, Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) who manufactures the supposedly more compliant replicants and controls them with lethal force.
K eventually connects with Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), the hero of the first film, who has surrounded himself with performing holograms of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and is handy with his fists.
There's a bit of a message here about mankind's relationship to technology, what we expect out of it, and our ability to truly connect spiritually as humans.
But this existential argument doesn't go very far, and in lieu of philosophy, some of the building-size street advertisements turn out to be seductive 3-D nude ladies. In this future, women exist pretty much only to be evil cardboard cutouts or just to be sexualized.
The film contains female nudity, a discreet sexual encounter involving a holograph melding with a human prostitute, frequent rough language and some profanities. The Catholic News Service classification is L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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GRANDAD: WE HAVE NO BAD FEELINGS TOWARDS DRIVER WHO KNOCKED DOWN JOSHUA
24 Dec by admin
The grandfather of toddler Joshua Coyle says he holds nothing against the man who killed his grandson.Tragic Joshua Coyle who was killed on Friday.Heartbroken Alan Coyle told Donegal Daily his family understand the pain the man is going through and want him to come to little Joshua's funeral.The 22 months old toddler died after he was struck by a van at his home at Crieve Glebe, Letterkenny at 6.45pm on Friday evening. Alan, 60, revealed the driver is a friend of the family and that Joshua and his brothers were excited by his arrival."They would have been excited as he often brought them sweets. He's a close friend of the family for as long as I can remember."It was a complete accident and we hold no ill will against this man. He is suffering his own pain too."He is part of the grieving process and we hope very much that he will attend little Joshua's funeral," said Alan. He also revealed that the dead boy's older brother Alexander, 4, was only feet from the van when it struck Joshua."He saw it all and we are trying to help him now. I don't want to think about what could have happened if he was any closer," he added.Alan described Joshua as a beautiful child who was beginning to leave his baby years behind him."He was starting to become a little boy and he was starting to leave his baby years behind him. He was full of life and was beginning to play with his older brother Alexander's toys including his little battery car."It's just so sad. The whole family is just devastated but we are a very close family. Joshua's mum and dad Suzanna and Alex are his three brothers Alexander, Rohan and Sean are trying their best to cope. "But we're here for them and they know they are not alone," he added.Alan paid tribute to the Gardai and to the staff of Letterkenny General Hospital where little Joshua passed away on Friday evening."I can't say enough good things about these people. The Gardai were as professional as anybody could ask for."And the staff in the hospital from the porters, to the nurses to the doctors tried to make us feel as comfortable as we could in the circumstances. We just want to thank them all," he said. A full investigation has been carried out into Joshua's death by a team of Garda Forensics experts.A post mortem was also carried out on Joshua at Letterkenny General Hospital on Saturday afternoon and his remains were then taken to the family home to be waked.Large number of mourners have already been attending the home which is located in a quiet country area on the outskirts of Letterkenny.Joshua will be buried at Conwal Graveyard in Letterkenny after midday funeral mass at St. Eunan's Cathedral on Tuesday.GRANDAD: WE HAVE NO BAD FEELINGS TOWARDS DRIVER WHO KNOCKED DOWN JOSHUA was last modified: September 29th, 2014 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:Alan CoyledonegaldriverJoshua Coyleknocked downletterkennyvan read more
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Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android
The Rise and Rise of Mobile Payment Technology Role of Mobile App Analytics In-App Engagement selena larson What it Takes to Build a Highly Secure FinTech … Why IoT Apps are Eating Device Interfaces When my best friend upgraded from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy S4, I texted her hello. Unfortunately, she didn't get that text, nor any of the five I sent in the following three days. My iPhone didn't realize she was now an Android user and sent all my texts via iMessage. It wasn't until she called me about going to brunch that I realized she wasn't getting my text messages.See also: Apple iOS 8 Preview—Everything We're ExpectingWhat I thought was just a minor bug is actually a much larger problem. One that, apparently, Apple has no idea how to fix.According to former Lifehacker editor-in-chief Adam Pash, when he complained about the phantom iMessage issue, Apple said that while the company is aware of the situation, it's not sure how to solve it. An Apple support person told Pash: Related Posts Tags:#Adam Pash#Android#Apple#bug#iMessage#now#texting#texts This is a problem a lot of people are facing.The engineering team is working on it but is apparently clueless as to how to fix it.There are no reliable solutions right now — for some people the standard fixes work immediately; many others are in my boat.Both Apple and Android users have suffered this glitch. While some miraculously figure out how to fix it—I was able to text my friend properly after a couple of days and turning iMessage on and off a few times—others, like Pash, are still stuck. (So, presumably, are at least some of my friend's other iPhone-using contacts, at least unless they were all lucky enough to fix iMessage the same way I did.)A lengthy thread about the issue on Apple's support forum has attracted more than 400 replies since it began last June. The "standard fix" Apple suggests—that is, turning off iMessage on all your Apple devices and disassociating your phone number from your Apple ID—doesn't always work.It rankles users that Apple knows what is going on but has yet come up with a solution. The company has already identified and patched a slew of bugs since the release of iOS7, including major security vulnerabilities, but has yet to fix this iMessage flaw. There isn't anything users can do right now besides expect an error when you or a friend switches from an iDevice to Android. We're all stuck in the same mobile vortex, where iMessages go to die.I've asked Apple for comment, and will update if and when they get back to me.Image by Kārlis Dambrāns on Flickr read more
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Talking to Military Kids About Money
The Personal Finance concentration group of the Military Families Learning Network will present a web conference for personal financial management professionals, as well as other professionals, working with military families on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 2:30 p.m. AFC and CHC-credentialed financial professionals are eligible to receive 1.5 AFCPE CEUs from this 90-minute presentation.Anita McKinney and Dr. Kate Fogarty will present this session on teaching children financial skills.McKinney is a faculty member with the University of Florida IFAS. She teaches basic financial literacy topics for clients of social service agencies, conducts worksite educational programs, trains social service employees to work with clients on money issues and organizes mentors and volunteers for a Master Money Mentors program.Dr. Kate Fogarty works with Florida Extension / 4-H and has a teaching appointment at the University of Florida's Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences. Her experience includes program implementation and evaluation of youth leadership and character education programs.This presentation will help PFMs working with military parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles understand developmentally appropriate ways to create daily conversations about money with their child by:• Modeling good financial habits and attitudes.• Providing opportunities to help children practice financial skills.Selected research articles and online resources have been identified to enhance this web conference for participants. These readings can be found here.Instructions on how to get the credits will be given at the end of the web presentation.Please join the session by clicking here a few minutes before 2:30 p.m. on the 23rd.Author: Molly C. Herndon (+Molly Herndon) read more
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Wimbledon 2011: Painful exit for Sania in first round
28 Nov by admin
Sania Mirza's form kept changing just like the London weather, sunny to start with and gloomy towards the end as the tired Indian diva lost 6-7, 6-2, 3-6 to Virginie Razzano in the ladies singles first round on Tuesday.As one who has been playing virtually non-stop tennis in the last one year, Sania stepped on Court No. 9 in a spotless white skirt and tee. She looked in great touch to start with, reeling off three games in a row before something wrong happened."I cannot figure out if something happened with my left hamstring or knee at that stage. After that, I could only serve and return," said Sania, who played her hearts out before losing.Razzano is the typical battle-hardened pro. Playing for the ninth time at Wimbledon, she was a picture of confidence, though for a short spell in the second set, she was flummoxed by the Indian's aggression.The Frenchwoman does not have a great serve and she relies more on her height (5 feet and 9 inches) to get a sharp trajectory when she fires the ball. If you look it from a technical point of view, there is no racquet head acceleration. Yet, she is consistent, which helped her in the third set against Sania.For her part, Sania could have served better. However, considering the pain barrier she did well to stand on court and win the second set at a fast clip. The third set, too, was full of ups and downs and the big moment came in the seventh game after Sania was broken after five deuces.advertisement"To be honest, even if I had pulled this win, I would possibly not have been ready for (Caroline) Wozniacki," said Sania.Sania goes for an ultrasound and MRI scan to check where the problem is. "I have been playing in pain since the French Open. It was 21 days of non- stop tennis from Paris to Birmingham. Such kind of abuse was going to hurt," Sania told Mail Today.Reflecting on her comeback in tennis after marrying Shoaib Malik last year, Sania said being on the court without a break was taxing. "I played the Commonwealth Games, the Asian Games, WTA Tour events and also the Fed Cup. Add to it singles, doubles and qualifying, it has been a hard grind," said Sania.However, the Indian superstar is not sure about the immediate future. "If you ask me now how it feels now, it is bad. I haven't decided on the women's doubles and mixed doubles," added Sania.Talking about her opponent, Sania said: "Razzano is a tough player. You cannot go by her ranking now, she has been at the Wimbledon fourth round and she fought well today. She is a very strong player."Asked to comment on the emotional comeback by Serena Williams, Sania said she could understand how the American felt."Tennis takes a lot out of you. It's great to see Serena back as she loves tennis. When you are forced to do something you love doing, it's painful. So I can understand the emotions Serena felt in her comeback," added Sania.For more news on India, click here.For more news on Business, click here.For more news on Movies, click here.For more news on Sports, click here. read more
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The Highest Paid MBA Starting Salaries in London
28 Jul by admin
regions: London Last Updated Sep 21, 2017 by Alanna ShafferFacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The draws of London may be too numerous to list: from a booming global economy to robust historic and cultural attractions, the city has a little something for everyone.It's likely no surprise that the city would take the sixth spot in The Atlantic's list of the "World's Best Cities for Business, Life and Innovation." While a number of factors were taken into consideration for creating the list, London's ranking was likely boosted by its top spot in financial/business employment, and its 2nd overall spot in attracting job-creating foreign investment.Such attributes make London an ideal spot for those pursuing or graduating with MBA degrees. As a center for global business, the opportunities for someone with the skills of an MBA are seemingly endless. However, the same vibrancy that attracts visitors across the world to London can make it an incredibly expensive city to live in from day-to-day, and those considering a move will need to consider both the cost of the city as well as earning potential. Thankfully, London is home to some of the top MBA programs in the world, boosting the hireability and earning potential of graduates.The Highest Paid London MBA SalariesSaïd Business School – University of OxfordStudents at the Saïd Business School at the world-renowned University of Oxford take their education to countries around the world and into a wide variety of industries. Even considering the uncertainty brought to businesses in UK with the 'Brexit' referendum, the salaries of Oxford MBA graduates continue to rise from from the previous class to 2016 graduates. The average class salary for recent MBA grads at Saïd was £69,132, or $93,404 US—an increase of almost $13,000 from the previous year. These salaries varied slightly with industry, with salary averages for fields like finance and consulting reaching $96,273 and $98,458, respectively.London Business SchoolWith a staggering 96 percent of MBA graduates from London Business School accepting an offer within just three months of graduation, LBS graduates don't need to wait long to start their dream job, with hopefully a salary to match. For MBA graduates of LBS, the average salary could range between £32,000 and £151,000, with the mean coming at an impressive £77,600. Salaries varied slightly between industries and also by region, with LBS graduates staying in the UK making slightly less than those venturing to North America.READ MORE: "London Business School Launches More Flexible MBA"Judge Business School—University of CambridgeGraduates from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School will quickly realize the benefits of having such a well-regarded degree: about 92 percent of students from the graduating class received job offers within three months of earning their degree. The Cambridge MBA data also reveals the degree's success in aiding those as they transition to a new career—98 percent of the 2015 graduating class switched either country, function, or industry sector just two years after graduating. The typical salary of Judge graduates increased greatly for the MBA class of 2015—likely a result of fluctuations in the pound after the Brexit decision—at a current average of £99,000, or, $133,792 USD.Cass Business School—City University LondonThe Cass Business School at the City University London ranks among the top three schools for career development in the UK, a ranking reflected in the data of MBA graduates from the University. About 87 percent of MBA graduates reported a 53 percent increase in their salary. The average salary for MBA graduates at Cass is $99,000, with an even greater increase for those with an Executive MBA degree, at $130,000. About the AuthorAlanna ShafferStaff Writer, covering MetroMBA's news beat for Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas.View more posts by Alanna Shaffer The Highest Paid MBA Starting Salaries in London RelatedU.S. Tops Highest MBA Salary RankingsReturn on investment post-MBA is one of the main considerations for candidates. After all, who would want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on an education without a solid salary afterward? That's why it's so important to look at how the best MBA programs can affect a graduate's salary.…December 17, 2018In "Career"The Five Biggest Texas Internship Destinations for MBAsWhether an internship is optional or required for your MBA program, interning at top companies in your metro can not only offer hands-on work experience, but the chance to develop professional relationships that can shape the rest of your career. Major Texas metros like Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area…August 8, 2018In "Accenture"What Are The Highest Paid MBA Salaries in San Diego?If you're looking to take in the California sun but avoid the fast-paced and high-priced centers of Silicon Valley or Los Angeles, heading southward to San Diego may be the perfect place for an up-and-coming business professional. 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Who Needs God, Part 3 - "The Bible Told Me So"
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For many leaders, the problem isn't a lack of time. The problem is a lack of focus. In this episode of the Craig Groeschel Podcast, we're going to talk about how to identify goals, destroy distractions, and make 2021 your most focused year yet. Watch video and download the leader guide: https://www.life.church/leadershippodcast/your-most-focused-year-ever/
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Help! I'm Out of Control - Greater Reward Part 1
Society often tells us that if we want something, we should be able to have it RIGHT NOW. But that's not the way life usually works. Often, when we want something, we have to create and maintain the discipline to reach our goals. In week one of _Greater Reward_, we'll learn how to build self-discipline to choose what we want most instead of what we want now. ABOUT GREATER REWARD Now more than ever, we need a fresh start. You could do what you've always done. Choose what you want now over what you want most. But there's a _Greater Reward_ waiting for you. Discover how to let go of the status quo and stay focused on who God says you are and what He wants for your life. Learn more about Greater Reward_:_ https://www.life.church/greaterreward Start the _Greater Reward _Bible Plan: www.go2.lc/reward WE'RE OPEN To ensure safety at all of our Life.Church locations, our weekend services have been redesigned to create a sanitary, touchless environment that allows for physical distancing. Learn more about everything we're doing to keep you safe and how you can help by using hand sanitizer, washing your hands often, and more: https://www.life.church/updates Find a time and attend a service with us: http://www.life.church/locations NEXT STEPS Have you made a decision to follow Jesus? You may be wondering what's next on your journey. We want to help! Let us guide you to your next steps in your walk with Christ: https://www.life.church/next ABOUT LIFE.CHURCH Wherever you are in life, you have a purpose. Life.Church wants to help you find your next step. Our hope is that your journey will include joining us at a Life.Church location throughout the United States or globally online at https://www.live.life.church. Find locations, videos, and more info about us at https://www.life.church or download the Life.Church app at https://www.life.church/app. FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/life.church Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/life.church Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lifechurch CONNECT WITH PASTOR CRAIG YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIIdiIO-Y20hRW9niR0CA8A Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/craiggroeschel Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/craiggroeschel Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craiggroeschel
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To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1085/29 Raising children and managing money is challenging in the best of times. But those challenges may seem like insurmountable obstacles if you suddenly find yourself a single parent.It's an unfortunate condition that plagues the United States far more than most other countries, single parent households. Today, financial planner and teacher Rob West has financial advice for parents who are on their own. Then it's your calls at 800-525-7000. A good place to start would be with organization. If you suddenly find yourself taking on the role of a single parent maybe you weren't the one doing the bills and handling finances. Get a folder or binder to start gathering your financial documents. You can expand that to a more extensive filing system as you go. Then, gather up all of your paid bills and keep them in one place. Then, make up a chart, or calendar, for all of your bills and the days of the month when they're due. Now, draw up a spending plan. To develop your spending plan get the new MoneyWise app. It's free and has a simple-to-use budgeting feature based on the tried and true envelope system.You'll input your total monthly income and then you'll load money into the various envelopes or categories. Besides your recurring bills, those would include your giving, groceries, debt and other expenses. If your budget reveals that you don't have enough to cover expenses, you have two options to trim expenses or find ways to bring in more income. Start with cutting your expenses. Go over each category in your budget, one at a time, and think of ways you can cut spending. The grocery budget is often a place where you can trim without sacrificing nutrition. Avoid processed packaged foods and prepare your own meals.If you can't cut your cable entirely, can you go to a more basic package? The same with your phone. Can you get by with a less expensive plan? Then you'll have to look at the income side of the equation. You'll either need to pick up more hours on your job, or look for a second one. If you feel you deserve a raise but you were putting off asking your boss, now might be the time to do it. if you suddenly become a single parent, don't go it alone. Find a friend, maybe someone at church, that you can share your struggles with. They may be able to give you good advice. Consider getting a financial adviser who can go over many of the things we've talked about in more detail. Here are a couple of questions we answered from our callers on today's program: I leased a car 3 years ago. Is it wise to just buy this car? I am 86 years old. I learned a few years ago about the borrower being slave to the lender. I cut up my credit cards and have not used credit since. My wife and I inherited a home. I like being a landlord, but my wife wants to sell. Advice? My husband and I are both retired and have 300K in a 401K and in an annuity. We don't need this money. We have one daughter in her 30s. She has a lot of student loan debt. A friend gave us advice to set up a trust for her. Is this wise? Ask your questions at (800) 525-7000 or email them toQuestions@MoneyWise.org. Visit our website atMoneyWise.orgwhere you can connect with a MoneyWise Coach, purchase books, and even download free, helpful resources like the MoneyWise app. Like and Follow us on Facebook at MoneyWise Media for videos and the very latest discussion!Remember that it's your prayerful and financial support that keeps MoneyWise on the air. Help us continue this outreach by clicking the Donate tab at the top of the page.
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Seeing God as Our Father
Seeing God correctly is essential to centering your life around him and his presence. Many of us have a tainted view of earthly fathers, but today God wants to renew your view of him as your perfect heavenly Father. As we grow in understanding of God's perfect love and relation to us, may centering your life around his presence come naturally. Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 8:6, and today's worship is Your Love Is Strong by Jon Foreman. ________ Last year felt like a wilderness and a desert in many ways. Yet in the midst of the fear, unrest, and anxiety, God moved. In fact, during 2020, over half a million men and women joined the First15 community! With all this growth, we need financial help to propel forward the mission to guide believers all around the world to experience God the first 15 minutes of their day. We've set a goal of seeing 221 new monthly donors come on board this first month of 2021. And we want to invite you to give your first gift as a First15 monthly partner today. Become A Monthly Partner! _____ First15 is a daily devotional written and recorded by Craig Denison. If you would like to learn more about the First15 app, books, blogs, videos and our other resources, please visit first15.org. You can always reach out to us on our contact page on the website.
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How you do ANYTHING is how you'll do EVERYTHING. The good news? If you do little things like they're big things, God will do big things like they're little things. The key is kaizen—an uncompromising commitment to continual improvement. It starts with a growth mindset, and there is no finish line. You keep setting stretch goals until the day you die!
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The 'How High' Sequel Is Finally Coming
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It's all the rage to revive cult classics at the moment, so it makes sense that MTV and Universal 1440 Entertainment would want to revisit the 2001 stoner comedy How High. Deadline reports that the two companies have teamed up for a non-theatrical sequel to the 2001 Universal film, which starred Method Man and Redman of the Wu-Tang Clan.
As Deadline revealed, the sequel will be written by Family Guy writers Artie Johann and Shawn Ries. The film is set to follow "two young but business-savvy stoners" as they "embark on a pot-filled odyssey through Atlanta to find their missing weed, only to uncover a vast government conspiracy." How High 2 is slated to start shooting in Atlanta later this summer, although Method Man and Redman's involvement is unclear at this stage.
Redman has been talking about following up How High for years now, explaining in 2014 that while he doesn't own the rights to the film or the characters, he has been sketching out ideas for the sequel for years. "I wrote that shit on 2/9/14, the story board, plot summary, I can't even show y'all that right now," he explained to MTV News."The How High 2, hopefully we could do that under Universal, if not, we gonna do our own movie under our own shit and it will be heavily marijuana related."
Method Man and Redman might not be reuniting for How High 2, but they are supposedly working on a sequel to their 2009 collaborative album, Blackout! 2. In 2015, Red told XXL that he was working on the album with Method Man, hoping to release Blackout! 3 as the soundtrack to a potential How High 2.
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We are a group of dedicated birth professionals formed Bay Area Birth Information with the vision of creating a stronger community of support and education for birthing families in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a network of providers in the Silicon Valley and Peninsula — reaching from Morgan Hill to Burlingame — BABI provides a centralized resource, making it easy for Bay Area parents to learn how to have a healthy and positive birth experience. BABI is the only non-profit, non-affiliated pregnancy and parenting resource of its kind in the South Bay and Peninsula.
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Bay Area Birth Information (BABI) promotes awareness of informed choice and evidence-based care in order to reduce unnecessary birth interventions, improve breastfeeding success rates, and preserve healthy mother/baby/family attachments.
BABI's mission is based on the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), a nationwide effort to promote healthy, natural childbirth.
BABI is a labor of love. Each member of our team, from the Board of Directors to the webmaster, volunteers their time and our supporting membership includes parents, providers, and concerned community members.
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Kimberly Kamine,
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Kimberly is a registered nurse, doula, and birth photographer. She's loved babies for as long as she can remember! Her goal is that every mother has a positive birth experience. Kimberly became a nurse in 2002. She is an active member in the birth community and joined BABI in 2012.
Yen Tran
Yen is a Naturopathic Doctor with a focus in pediatrics and women's health. She is dedicated to helping families transform health simply and naturally. She has a special focus in children and adults with developmental/Autism/ADD, Allergies, Hormones, and Nutrition. She has been a member of BABI since 2009 and has been on the board since 2013. Currently, she is the communication committee chair and BABI Vice President.
Nicole Reginelli
Secretary & Peninsula Chapter Director
Nicole is a Birth and Postpartum Doula and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. After moving to the Bay Area, she spent eight years working for a large woman-owned design firm in Mountain View. In 2010 her first son was born and her world changed forever. A deep passion for supporting mothers through pregnancy and birth took root! In 2015, after five years of being part of the birth community in the South Bay, her family moved to South San Francisco. She is excited to help expand BABI's influence and build a stronger network among birth workers on the Peninsula -- to better support each other and the families they serve!
Anjali Agrawal
Anjali is a Chiropractor and Functional Medicine practitioner, specializing in Pregnancy & Pediatrics. She has had a lifelong passion for working with and being around children. Her hope to help families make more informed decisions about their health is what led Anjali to become involved with BABI. She has been a BABI member since 2007, and has served in various roles on BABI's Board of Directors since 2008. Anjali is looking forward to helping build a stronger presence for BABI in the community and to see the BABI Resource Guides in the hands of every new and expectant family!
Carrey Ward
General Board Member
Carrey is a Birth Doula and Certified Childbirth Educator. She found her passion for birth work in 2013 after the birth of her first daughter and decided to leave the corporate world and become a doula. She believes that every birthing person should be treated with love and respect and have the information to make the decisions that are right for their family. She enjoys playing with her two daughters, sewing, and all things Disney.
Stephanie Freeman
Stephanie began her career in the birth world by becoming a LLL Leader when her daughters were babies. Realizing that the most rebellious thing is to empower people through education, she went full on rogue and became a Certified Childbirth Educator as well as a Doula. Now she rounds out her support to families by also encapsulating placentas. Making sure that families understand and have awareness around their choices in the world is a subject that she passionate about!
Maria T. Greulich
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Maria Greulich, RN, CNM started her career in 1980 as an OB/GYN nurse practitioner and became a practicing midwife in 1987 in the Los Gatos community. Since 1997, she has partnered with OB/Gyn physicians in her own practice. Maria has previously taught in both the nurse practitioners and midwifery programs at San Jose State.
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Blackrock Expert Services Group is headquartered in London, UK. The company was incorporated in 2009. We have over 160 employees working across four offices globally. Blackrock Expert Services Group is a specialist firm of construction, technology, accounting and financial services professionals providing a range of expert witness, dispute resolution, advisory, investigative and electronic disclosure services globally.
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IEC 60335-2-24:2020 CMV contains both the official standard and its commented version. The commented version provides you with a quick and easy way to compare all the changes between IEC 60335-2-24:2020 edition 8.0 and the previous edition IEC 60335-2-24:2010+AMD1:2012+AMD2:2017 CSV edition 7.2. Futhermore, comments from IEC TC 61 experts are provided to explain the reasons of the most relevant changes.
IEC 60335-2-24:2020 deals with the safety of the following appliances, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances, 480 V for other appliances and 24 V DC for appliances when battery operated:
– refrigerating appliances for household and similar use;
– ice-makers incorporating a motor-compressor and ice-makers intended to be incorporated in frozen food storage compartments;
– refrigerating appliances and ice-makers for use in camping, touring caravans and boats for leisure purposes.
These appliances may be operated from the mains, from a separate battery or operated either from the mains or from a separate battery.
This standard also deals with the safety of ice-cream appliances intended for household use, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances and 480 V for other appliances.
It also deals with compression-type appliances for household and similar use, which use flammable refrigerants.
This standard does not cover features of the construction and operation of those refrigerating appliances which are dealt with in other IEC standards.
Refrigerating appliances not intended for normal household use but which nevertheless may be a source of danger to the public, such as
– refrigerating appliances used in staff kitchen areas in shops, offices and other working environments,
– refrigerating appliances used in farm houses and by clients in hotels, motels and other residential type environments,
– refrigerating appliances used in bed and breakfast type environments, and
– refrigerating appliances used in catering and similar non-retail applications
are within the scope of this standard.
As far as is practicable, this standard deals with the common hazards presented by appliances that are encountered by all persons in and around the home. However, in general, it does not take into account
– persons (including children) whose physical, sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge prevents them from using the appliance safely without supervision or instruction;
– children playing with the appliance.
Attention is drawn to the fact that
– for appliances intended to be used in vehicles or on board ships or aircraft, additional requirements can be necessary;
– in many countries, additional requirements are specified by national health authorities, the national authorities responsible for the protection of labour, the national water supply authorities and similar authorities.
This standard does not apply to
– appliances intended to be used in the open air;
– appliances designed exclusively for industrial purposes;
– appliances intended to be used in locations where special conditions prevail, such as the presence of a corrosive or explosive atmosphere (dust, vapour or gas);
– appliances incorporating a battery intended as a power supply for the refrigerating function;
– appliances assembled on site by the installer;
– appliances with remote motor-compressors;
– motor-compressors (IEC 60335-2-34);
– commercial dispensing appliances and vending appliances (IEC 60335-2-75);
– commercial refrigerating appliances and ice-makers with an incorporated or remote refrigerant unit or motor-compressor (IEC 60335-2-89);
– professional ice-cream makers (IEC 60335-2-118).
This eighth edition cancels and replaces the seventh edition published in 2010, Amendment 1:2012 and Amendment 2:2017. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
– aligns the text with IEC 60335-1, Ed 5.2;
– some notes have been converted to normative text or deleted (4, 5.2, 5.7, 7.1, 7.6, 7.10, 7.12, 19.1, 19.101, 19.102, 20.101, 20.102, 20.103, 20.104, 21, 22.7, 22.33, 22.101, 22.102, 22.103, 22.107, 22.108, 22.109, 30.1);
– normative references and associated text have been updated (2, 22.108, 22.109, Table 102, Annex CC);
– definition of free space has been clarified (3.6.104);
– measurement of the input current of refrigerating appliances using inverter driven motor-compressors is included (10.2);
– compatibility tests for winding insulation of motor-compressors used with different types of refrigerants and oils have been introduced (22.9);
– requirements for inadvertent contact points between uncoated aluminium pipes and copper pipes have been updated (22.111);
– testing of accessible glass panels has been clarified (22.116);
– in refrigerating appliances, requirements for material encasing and in contact with thermal insulation have been introduced and consequential text has been deleted (22.117, 30.2, 30.2.101, Annex EE);
– requirements for motor running capacitors have been updated (24.5, 24.8);
– the locked rotor test for fan motors has been clarified (Annex AA).
This part 2 is to be used in conjunction with the latest edition of IEC 60335-1 and its amendments. It was established on the basis of the fifth edition (2010) of that standard.
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Glacier the whale: Skeleton composting and 3D modeling
Dr. Gordon Price
Associate professor at Dalhousie University
Following the death of a North Atlantic right whale (NARW) named Glacier , a Canadian research team embarked on a project to create a 3D model of his skeleton and to compost the remains.
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As a child, Jill Heinerth dreamed of being an astronaut. As a Canadian girl growing up in the twentieth century, this option didn't seem accessible to her. Instead of a career that blasted her far above the Earth's surface, she forged her own path deep within the Earth. She discovered a place where she could still explore hidden worlds, floating weightlessly. Although water is the lifeblood of our planet, we somehow know more about the cosmos than we do about our Earth's own underwater caves
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A Peerless Pairing at Smithtown's H2O
By Betsy Davidson| July 22, 2013
This article appears in Summer 2013 of Edible Long Island.
H2O's executive chef, Michael Meehan, and beverage director, Paulo Villela, go together like peas and carrots, err…Shinnecock wild striped bass and Sherwood House merlot.
Culinary worlds collided when the Bohlsen Restaurant Group brought these two accomplished heavy hitters together at their Smithtown location of H2O: Seafood Grill in 2009. Hailing from vastly different backgrounds, the two have made a name for themselves in the art of pairing locally caught seafood with locally produced wines.
Chef Michael Meehan, born to a military family in Texas and raised here on Long Island, is known as a "Master of Seafood," amongst his peers. Like many of us, his childhood "if it's Friday night then it's fish for dinner" dinners consisted of Mrs. Paul's fish sticks. Fortunately for Long Island, Meehan headed west and experienced firsthand the New American food revolution of farm- and wine-inspired cuisine that was happening in California in the 1980s. After a few summers spent on a salmon-processing ship in Alaska's Bering Strait, feeding a crew of 30 "anything but salmon," says Meehan, "I learned to get creative with the bycatch." He was hooked by the notion of serving fresh, seasonal local bounty. "If it was locally grown or fished, it should be on the menu," states the affable and down-to-earth Meehan. Returning to his Long Island home, Meehan has earned well-deserved accolades for his New American cooking style at Mill River Inn (Oyster Bay), Tupelo Honey (Sea Cliff) and Clearwater (Massapequa), Seafood Barge (Southold), 75 Main Street (Southampton), Michael's at Maidstone Beach (East Hampton) and Michael's at the Boardwalk (Riverhead). At H2O, his relationships with local farmers, fishermen and baymen come to life in the fresh, honest, wine-friendly menu.
Bohlsen Restaurant Group's beverage director, Paulo Villela grew up on a small farm in southeastern Brazil. Villela credits his love of wine, however, to his Italian immigrant neighbors. Apparently, the young Villela could enjoy their homemade wine as long as he provided the empty bottle. With a degree in agricultural engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a hankering to learn more about food and wine, Villela moved to New York and broke into the restaurant business. Starting out as a busboy, he worked his way up various restaurant ladders, eventually taking a position at Windows on the World. In short order he became the wine captain and sommelier, inspired by wine gurus Kevin Zraly and Andrea Immer Robinson. A graduate of the Sommelier Society of America, where he still occasionally teaches in his spare time, Villela was the valedictorian of his 1998 graduating class. Villela joined BRG in 2008. "His love and appreciation for wine has fueled a culture at the Bohlsen Restaurant Group where wine knowledge is cool," says BRG co-owner, Michael Bohlsen. All staff partake in weekly mini wine clinics, which "translates to a more well-rounded, seamless dining experience for our guests at the bar and in the dining room."
H2O in Smithtown hosts weekly Wednesday Night Wine Dinners. Throughout the month of July, and into early August, these dinners take on a particularly delicious local theme. For $40 ($30 without wine), hungry Long Islanders can feast on a three-course meal, pairing the best local fin and shellfish with the best local wines. When asked which part of the menu is planned first, the food or the wine, Meehan says, "generally the menu is built around the wine." Villela basically states the opposite. Both laugh, an obvious indication of their comfortable working relationship. "We've been around for awhile. We kick ideas back and forth," says Meehan. Villela counters with, "what a pleasure it is to work with such a talented chef who is also so wine sensitive." Their ease with one another is palpable, just like peas and carrots.
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The Way To Tell If A Cheater Has Changed
The Phrase 'Once A Cheater, Always A Cheater' Isn't Always True, But Serial Cheaters Do Exist Here Is Why They Do It.
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Ever since President Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment trial over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton has obtained equal counts praise and criticism for standing by her husband. The couple remains married, but Clinton's private life nonetheless typically overshadows her political career. These notable couples didn't let infidelity break them up. Whether the cheaters in query reformed, nonetheless, is anybody's guess.
Is Cheating good in exams?
The benefits of cheating are obvious – improved grades in an environment where failure is not an opportunity for learning, but rather a badge of shame. When students do poorly on a test, there is no reason for students to review their responses because they will likely never be tested on the same thing ever again.
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But there are methods to take care of those feelings with out ending up in another person's mattress. That's why listening to specialists talk about tips on how to "affair-proof" your relationship seems foolish, and perhaps even creates a false sense of security. But what occurs when a partner will not come clear?
The Phrase 'Once A Cheater, At All Times A Cheater' Isn't At All Times True, However Serial Cheaters Do Exist Here Is Why They Do It.
You could also be throughout the clear simply because he's over his dishonest strategies and doesn't see the aim in exploring that life as soon as extra. This may appear to be wishful considering, however it's totally potential. As conventional, Dax coaxed some honesty out of his customer.
Do Cheaters Actually Change?
What's cheating mean?
1a : to practice fraud or trickery denied the accusation that he cheated. b : to violate rules dishonestly cheat at cards cheating on a test. 2 : to be sexually unfaithful —usually used with onwas cheating on his wife.
John says he often used the tactic of not totally defining his relationships so it wouldn't technically be dishonest. "It was really dishonest," he admitted, however. "You attempt to get off on technicalities," he laughed. Dax mentioned that when listening to John's album, he acknowledged that some of the lyrics were referencing cheater. "There's all these great cheating songs on your album that I was like 'I see one other fisherman at sea,'" Dax joked. That was when John chimed in about his personal expertise with being a cheater.
He's cold and hot So, abruptly, he's appearing like the greatest boyfriend in the world, showering you with presents. Or possibly he's dishonest on you with somebody and this is the manifestation of his guilt. (Either method, maintain the presents.) And if he's performing like a jerk, perhaps he is doing it on objective, to make you dump him.
Lists about unsavory characters who cheated on their companions and other affairs that will leave a foul style of somebody else in your mouth. To be honest, I suppose our culture's insistence that dishonest is always some sort death-penalty offense is ridiculous. If you might be married to someone for 30, 40 or 50 years and also you only cheat on them on a couple of events in all that time, you might be GOOD at monogamy, not unhealthy at it. The relationship was doomed when she cheated. I do not even know why he keep along with her, and worse, marry her.
Subsequent Time He'll Stay In His Lane
Instead of setting him free to seek out someone else, I held on to him so I could feel secure.
Also, I didn't know what I needed on the time.
Settling made me really feel bitter, like it was by some means his fault that I didn't have the balls to be on my own.
I may never really give myself to someone that was keen to come back second to another man, or willing to interfere with a relationship, whether or not it was proclaimed to be unhappy or not.
About It's Dishonest
For most of their marriage, Ed Hooke hid his affairs from his spouse Marie. But now, Ed insists he is told her the every thing. He even took a brand new kind of lie detector test to show he is not dishonest. Could a variation in a gene clarify why some males are cheaters while others stay true? It's additionally attainable that a better understanding of how these genes work can lead us to a brave new world of matrimony, the place science weeds out the potential cheaters.
She is aware of she's not appearing sane, but she wants to commerce in her steady man. He treats her right and understands her, however she wants to roll round with a bad boy who has a hot body—someone who at times fights with her and mistreats her. The relationship is doomed earlier https://married.dating/victoriamilan-review/ than it starts, but this loopy lady thinks she's in love. In Donnell Jones's 1999 song, he calls home to say that he is leaving. He says he wants time to discover who he's with out her—that is, with this new girl in his life. This 2002 hit by Justin Timberlake is reportedly about his damaged relationship with Britney Spears.
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Maybe he might be 'reformed' and never cheat again. All the identical, this may encourage different would-be cheaters to try their luck because the punishments aren't extreme. Sypher makes one other good level about the truth that XXiF might attempt to cheat again. If you might be the type of individual that thinks it's OK to cheat as soon as, you won't hesitate to cheat once more. While the results might harsher subsequent time round, Epic has proven their hand in a big method. The question implies that on-line schooling lacks the standard and integrity of face-to-face instruction — that it is just more cheatable. This was posted YEARS ago by a cheater who received banned multiple instances and each time EA buyer rep removed the ban.
Its been like this for a long time to be honest, I would love to see bans added to third celebration anti cheat sites remodeled into a world ban by evenbalance. I do not know why you took this creep back so many occasions within the first place. TV Shows are full of those conditions showcasing methods utilized by cheaters. He has a documented historical past and "convictions" for cheating within the game. Any decide calls involving Alex cheating ought to be investigated extra closely than that of your common participant because he has established a sample of doing so despite any punishment he has received.
Then there are research that suggest — not prove, suggest — that if someone has cheated prior to now, they're more likely to cheat once more in the future. Now to make sure, correlation isn't causation, however people will take studies like this as iron-clad affirmation regardless of what the data truly says. I would by no means declare that it was a great thing or that it was justified, and if I might return in time and change things, I definitely would. So I'm not asking you or your readers to say that cheating is A-OK and I didn't do something mistaken, as a result of it's not and I did. It's simply type of discouraging to think that I'm always going to be seen as untrustworthy and unforgivable for something that occurred one time a decade in the past that I realize was a mistake.
It tells the story of a person who strikes on after his girlfriend betrayed him by cheating with another man. A "back door man" is a man who has an intimate relationship with another man's spouse while the husband is away at work. As the husband returns from work through the entrance door of the house, the cheating associate leaves the house by way of the again door, therefore "back door man." The Doors launched this track in 1967. Destiny's Child is thought for this 2000 Grammy-Award winning hit, which tells of a younger lady who calls her lover on the telephone. Her girl's intuition kicks in and he or she suspects him of cheating.
"I may not agree with the life-kind, nevertheless that has nothing to do with the civil rights of that part of our constituency," Falwell talked about. So, school college students who really really feel linked, supported and impressed are much much less prone to cheat. When the article was printed, my good good good friend was praised for the mentioned article, and saying that I felt a pang of anger within me can be an understatement.
Should a cheater confess?
"If a person is confronted by their mate regarding cheating, they should confess rather than lie about it or attempt make him or her feel as though they're being insecure or paranoid," says Darné. "Being asked point blank and lying to their face makes it nearly impossible for them to ever trust you again."
Falwell added that "function modeling the homosexual life-kind is damaging to the moral lives of youngsters". Falwell suggested MSNBC's Tucker Carlson that if he had been a lawyer, he too would argue for civil rights for LGBT folks. The finish outcomes of dishonest are normally violent.
And if he is hiding you, he may be hiding one thing else. Or he may be pretending to be single, as a result of does not take your relationship significantly. Warning bells ought to go off if he by no means posts any photos of you collectively on Facebook. You can't control another person's actions, only your personal, and even if you are the Mother of All Bitches, you're not "making" your partner have an affair. You may, nonetheless, be making him extraordinarily unhappy, angry, damage, resentful and a lot of different crappy emotions that make him susceptible to at least one.
The guy did not cheat later because he was serving to his wife turn out to be a greater person, he cheated because he wished to. Mr. Paterson said he and his spouse had gone into counseling, another stalwart of America's adultery culture. We might not strictly maintain ourselves to this script, but we count on our politicians to comply with it. That's why folks doubted that Bill and Hillary Clinton could have a "actual" marriage if she stayed with him after the Lewinsky affair.
Issues I Learned From Relationship A Cheater
So it could not serve you to easily write off all cheaters as creatures of habit. But those circumstances aren't constants and could be modified, so the idea that any person who has cheated will certainly accomplish that once more in the future does not essentially maintain true.
While his ex may have launched out the cheater in him , you possibly can encourage him to ONLY be a better man . Cheating isn't probably the greatest answer on account of it largely happens should you're at your lowest and feeling unloved. If you aren't pleased, merely stroll away and avoid the drama that's so time consuming. Damage that will build and assemble like an bottomless pit of hollowness rising inside of me.
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By Austin Krajcic Features November 10, 2016
Faculty in the Halls supports residents
Faculty in the Halls at the Inner Harbor. (Photo from stevenson.edu)
Stevenson University offers programs and clubs for students to get involved to make their stay more welcoming and enjoyable, but Faculty in the Halls asks faculty members to help welcome residents.
Faculty in the Halls was started in 2013 by Jeff Kelly, associate vice president and dean of students at Stevenson University when he convinced six faculty members, Leeanne Bell McManus, associate professor of business communication; Art Fifer, assistant professor of information systems; Glenn Johnston, chair of the department of public history; Romas Laskauskas, assistant professor of business; Christine Noya, assistant professor of business communication; and Chip Rouse, associate professor of business communication, to help begin a program that would combine academics with residence life.
After the first year of the program, Johnston was replaced by Laurel Moody, assistant professor of nursing. Since then, three other faculty members have joined the group: Joe Matanoski, associate professor of biology; Kim Tucker, director of Center for Environmental Stewardship and assistant professor of biology; and Christine Moran, dean of student success.
The initial group of professors worked in the first-year residence halls to offer their knowledge, relying on their communication skills to help new residents feel comfortable in their new home. Most of the programs offered by the faculty in Western Run, Susquehanna and Patapsco residence halls were social or cultural and offered on a regular basis, including tailgates before football games, walking tours of Baltimore, trivia nights, ice cream socials, CPR certification and a variety of monthly activities. In addition, most of the faculty members hold weekly office hours in the lobby of each residence hall, available for a variety of student needs.
Last year, when three more faculty members were added to the program, they were assigned to the sophomore residence halls. The offerings in these spaces were mostly based around educational programs that helped the more seasoned students ask questions about their environment, career and goals.
Noya explained that the program helps the students as "it allows them to feel welcomed; or if they feel they are in sticky situation, they have a resource to go confide in and receive advice to help get out of it." She added that the program "helps the parents know that their child is not alone; and they know the faculty members more than as just professors within the school."
Faculty in the Halls has based its foundation on the premise that "if students have faculty members to talk to about their classes and majors, about their goals and anxieties, they might be more inclined to stay at Stevenson," said Rouse. This program is considered a success not just for the students in the residence halls, but also for the faculty members who are helping the students become acclimated to campus.
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In first, U.S. judge throws out cell phone 'stingray' evidence
By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.
U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan on Tuesday ruled that defendant Raymond Lambis' rights were violated when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration used such a device without a warrant to find his Washington Heights apartment.
The DEA had used a stingray to identify Lambis' apartment as the most likely location of a cell phone identified during a drug-trafficking probe. Pauley said doing so constituted an unreasonable search.
"Absent a search warrant, the government may not turn a citizen's cell phone into a tracking device," Pauley wrote.
The ruling marked the first time a federal judge had suppressed evidence obtained using a stingray, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which like other privacy advocacy groups has criticized law enforcement's use of such devices.
"This opinion strongly reinforces the strength of our constitutional privacy rights in the digital age," ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler said in a statement.
It was unclear whether prosecutors would seek to appeal. A spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office was prosecuting the case, declined to comment.
Stingrays, also known as "cell site simulators," mimic cell phone towers in order to force cell phones in the area to transmit "pings" back to the devices, enabling law enforcement to track a suspect's phone and pinpoint its location.
Critics of the technology call it invasive and say it has been regularly used in secret to catch suspect in violation of their rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The ACLU has counted 66 agencies in 24 states and the District of Columbia that own stingrays but said that figure underrepresents the actual number of devices in use given what it called secrecy surrounding their purchases.
A Maryland appeals court in March became what the ACLU said was the first state appellate court to order evidence obtained using a stingray suppressed. Pauley's decision was the first at the federal level.
The U.S. Justice Department in September changed its internal policies and required government agents to obtain a warrant before using a cell site simulator.
Bernard Seidler, Lambis' lawyer, noted that occurred a week after his client was charged. He said it was unclear if the drug case against Lambis would now be dismissed.
(This version of the story corrects location of apartment in second paragraph to Washington Heights from the Bronx, rephrases paragraph 10 to make clear ACLU said its figure underrepresents number of devices)
Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Cynthia Osterman


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Hookworms – 'Pearl Mystic': Round 56 – Rob's choice
That psychedelia, as a tag for music, has stuck around for so very long without ever becoming a cheap signifier for something old-hat, hackneyed, done, is perhaps largely due to the differing definitions it has worn down the years. For some it's flower-brained Californian hippy-pop, for others it's fractured, demented New York hip-hop. For some it's desert-fried, mono-chord guitar chugathons, for others it's endlessly-fired circuits of twisting electronics.
For me psychedelia has always been either music made in the throws of an altered state, or music made in an attempt to recreate, or indeed induce, an altered state. From 'Hey Mr. Tamourine Man' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows' through Roky Erickson to My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, the Flaming Lips and Sleep, psychedelia is music which aims at transportation, not documentation.
Hookworms, a 5-piece band from Leeds, may or may not consider the noise they make to be psychedelia. They may or may not be irritated by the shorthand others employ in grasping for the tag when trying to describe the heady rush of their exploratory guitar music. So be it. I use the term happily to describe them because their songs seem so clearly to be setting their sights on both outer and inner space and then firing massive fucking rockets in their attempts to get there.
'Pearl Mystic', their debut album, came out earlier this year. It sounds like the work of a band who have been furiously figuring this stuff out for a decade. Corrosive riff-driven fugue states follow exquisite meditations which ratchet up into yet more intense, acidic exercise. Above, below and around all this is MJ's vocal sound, fractured and bubbling through frazzled guitar amps, a device apparently designed to mask his embarrassment at taking singing duties and one which ends up turning him into an electrifying, gabbling surge of liquid sound.
It's quite something. Potent and wild yet delivered with incredible control and assurance. Hookworms remind me of no-one so much as Loop and Spacemen 3, which is high praise. At a time when we're expected to get behind the idea of Jake Bugg and warbling old David Bowie as the best that Britain has to offer, I say we need a Hookworms infestation and we need it now.
Tom Listened: Back at the bum end of the 80s, Spacemen 3 were my band. I went through a brief but intense period of infatuation that lasted about a year and stemmed from the release of Playing With Fire and then strengthened when I subsequently acquired The Perfect Prescription. Strangely, given my dislike of the whole drug taking culture that was prevalent whilst I was at university, I found a real connection with the psychedelic nature of the music and the quasi-religious content of the lyrics. It was as if the connection to drugs through the music was enough for me (and far safer as far I was concerned)…to paraphrase a Spacemen 3 album title, 'Not Taking Drugs to Listen to Music to Take Drugs to Because Someone Else Has Taken The Drugs For Me'.
But going back to the records 25 years on is a strange and somehow hollow experience. In my mid 40s I no longer need to feel connected to some sort of counter culture that existed in the ever more distant past and, in isolation, I'm not sure the music Spacemen 3 produced is as ground breaking or interesting as I once thought. Playing With Fire still has its moments, sure, but much of it just seems cliched and adolescent now. Perfect Prescription seems even more tame, many songs just bimbling along carried by an acoustic guitar riff with some dreamy sound effects and wispy vocals laid over the top. It's not bad per se, just not as relevant to me anymore.
Which gets me, in a round about way, to Hookworms. I enjoyed Pearl Mystic in much the same way as I have recently enjoyed Spacemen 3. Pretty undemanding, very accessible but ultimately it didn't really speak to me in the way my favourite records do, I didn't feel a connection to it. That said, the songs were generally lengthy and quite complex in structure – they may well take a bit of uncovering, but on an initial listen I'd file this next to my Spaceman 3 and Loop albums as a record that the 20 year old me would have thought was amazing.
Nick listened: Tried Spacemen 3 when I was at university but didn't get along with them, even though I already knew and loved Spiritualized. Never knowingly listened to Loop. But that's by the by; I've actually been talking to MJ from Hookworms on Twitter for ages, and didn't really know he was in a band for several months – he was just a nice guy whose path I crossed and we got talking about music. So I'd been wanting to hear Hookworms for a while, but hadn't seen a physical copy in Exeter, and didn't want to try too hard in case I didn't like it. Which meant I was delighted when Rob pulled it out and stuck it on the turntable, and even more delighted when I enjoyed it. I was in Bristol at the weekend, so I bought myself a copy, and have listened to it a couple of times since. Thinking back to what Rob said under the Darkside post, I find it amusing that he's so enamoured of this but so so-so about the Darkside, because for me they both have a similar purpose, they both feel psychedelic, where psychedelic is about creating or exploring altered states. I guess they just go about it in different ways.
Author monstersharkPosted on October 30, 2013 November 4, 2013 Categories Pop musicTags fucking guitar blast off, hookworms, loop, psychedelia, space rock, spacemen 31 Comment on Hookworms – 'Pearl Mystic': Round 56 – Rob's choice


UNIVERSAL U.K.: SELINA WEBB
EVP, Universal Music, U.K.
Selina Webb was elevated into David Joseph's senior leadership team in early 2016 after nearly 20 years at Universal Music. That started in the late '90s, when, after editing British trade mag Music Week, Webb was hired by Lucian Grainge as Director of Press for Polydor Records. After assembling an award-winning media team at Polydor, she become Senior Director of Communications for UMUK in 2010. In her EVP role, Webb is actively involved in all strategic issues at the company, and she has an expanded brief to lead wider industry relations. We talked to her about Universal's impressive new King's Cross offices, and a few big-picture issues.
What does the move to King's Cross say about the future of UMUK? Does this mark a new era?
It feels that way. It's the people, not the building, who make the culture of a company, but there's a genuine excitement about being in such a vibrant and creative part of town. Walking out the door here, we've got the world-leading art school Central Saint Martins one way, with Google the other, in an area which is different from our last in pretty much every way. As much as we loved our hardware-store neighbours at the back end of Kensington, King's Cross feels like it's in the middle of the action—being here is already bringing new opportunities. We're soon going to have pretty much all our U.K. labels as well as Universal Music Publishing under one roof for the first time. So, yes, it is a new era and a huge testament to our teams that the transition has been such a smooth one so far.
From where you sit, what are the biggest challenges in today's music business?
Cutting through all the noise with a new artist is daunting, the biggest challenge for sure, but I'm feeling a lot more optimistic that greatness can and will find its way through—you just have to keep the faith and all the plates spinning longer. Easy when you say it [laughs]. It's a positive that we're no longer dependent on a yes or no from a such narrow group of media gatekeepers, but there are no shortcuts in today's business. More than ever, we're nowhere without truly brilliant artists and songs. Alongside the expertise, ideas and inventiveness, our marketing and creative teams need to tell our artists' stories, not just at home but globally. The spotlight is firmly back on A&R and genuine artist development.
What is key to the continued success of the British music industry in today's global and streaming-led world?
In a word? Britishness. We are a melting pot of culture and creativity, and the best of our innovative, eccentric, genre-pushing and above all cool artists have always reflected that. Musical homogeneity has been tending to rule in streaming, but I'd like to think that won't continue as subscriber bases continue to broaden and diversify. In the meantime, our incredible artists are out there finding and inspiring new audiences across the world.
What is the most exciting thing about British music right now?
The fact our new artists are finding global audiences from day one. Just one example, but seeing a U.K. hip-hop artist, Ramz, with a track about a London tube station stream globally and go to #1 in Germany showed what the possibilities are. We have some brilliant artists coming through who are already tapping into the global Universal Music network, making connections, telling our artists' stories and growing their audiences not just in the traditional key markets but truly around the world.
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