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Welcome to my web site. My Dogs NSW Membership number is 2000648390 Australian Champion Daesdaemar Dream Girl (Hayley) winning Best Of Breed Sydney Royal 2014 Cheree Tester with Mannerking Midnight Memories winning Best Of Breed at Sydney Royal 2015. Hayley competing with the other Daesdaemar Dogs for the Best Breeders Team at Sydney Royal 2014 Hayley, Hollie and Emily at Sydney Royal 2014. The sign at Mannerking HQ Many Thanks to Perry Adams And Angus Webster for making it. Aust Champion Mannerking Read All About It (Jake) Winning Best Of Breed At Canberra Royal 2015 Hayley (Australian Champion Daesdaemar Dream Girl) winning Best Junior In Group Canberra Royal 2012 Mannerking Breaking Dawn (Bella) at Sydney Royal 2012 Bella on the move at Sydney Royal 2012 Mannerking New York (Emily) At Spring Fair 2013 On the following pages you will find details of my Japanese Spitz. Feel free to have a look around and contact me if you would like to know more! Mannerking Angelo wins the Dogs NSW Puppy Competition for June 2011 with this picture entered by his owner Lauren Mills. Congratulations Lauren and Angelo. I hope you enjoy your visit. also...this recently commissioned Limited Edition Japanese Spitz print is now available...please see www.pencilspixelsandpaint.com "EVIE" By Bevan "MEIKA" By Bevan Mannerking - Home of happy and healthy Japanese Spitz. We can also give "doggie holidays" to our home bred Spitz when their owners are away. Have a look at Poppy enjoying her stay !! Watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfM518LUXS0 Goulburn, NSW, Australia. 237376 Visitors

Parrot Parrot is a service that backs up files from a monitored file/directory. ####description Parrot runs as a systemd user service and also as a dbus service. Parrot's dbus service capabilities offer signals and methods that allow you to remotely set up watches to back up files and/or signal on events. Parrot is a systemd user service, being so means that the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS will not be set to the correct bus address (since none of the environment variables are set in a systemd user instance). To circumvent this, Parrot runs an instance of dbus as a systemd service. There are several files under the systemd directory to set this up. The .socket unit activates the systemd socket for the dbus bus address. The matching .service unit executes the dbus session, while the .conf drop in sets the environment variable bus address name. The screenshot above shows an instance of Parrot on d-feet (a dbus utility program). Once a Parrot watch is set on a directory, anytime a file in that directory is opened Parrot will make a backup of that file before any changes occur. That way if any mistakes are written to that file and saved, there will be a backup of the file before those changes took place. In addition to backing up files, Parrot functions in helping log when those changes/accesses in the Parrot'd directory occur. By subscribing to Parrot's accessed signal, Parrot will broadcast a signal in the form of seconds since the epoch whenever a file in the watch directory is accessed. This signal can easily be logged in whatever form needed or some other form of action can be take place such as callbacks to extend any additional functionality that might be called for. ####install GCC is required to compile, to install run in the base directory: [user@user ~]$ make [user@user ~]$ sudo make install [user@user ~]$ make install-service [user@user ~]$ make clean and to uninstall:

By Scott Buttram TRUSSVILLE –Brittaney Owens, 25, of Trussville, and Troy Green, 29, of Birmingham, are both dead this morning following an overnight murder-suicide. Trussville police responded to a call on North Lake Drive just past Camp Coleman Road at approximately 2:15 a.m. and found the two victims, both shot, in separate vehicles. Captain Jeff Bridges said Green, an estranged boyfriend of Owens, had blocked the road with his vehicle and waited for her to return to the North Lake Drive home she shared with her parents. When Owens pulled up in her vehicle, Green shot her twice in the chest before returning to his vehicle and turning the gun on himself. Green was found on the ground beside his vehicle. Both victims were transported to area hospitals where they were later pronounced dead. Bridges said there was a history of problems with the couple, who had a 3-year-old child together, stating that Green had been charged with domestic violence against Owens in 2014. Green had also threatened Owens several times in the past.

Peter Galbert uses a curved card scraper as a shaping tool to fair curves and dial in complex shapes on chair seats The rabbet joint is a useful joint to know. Here, hand-tool expert Vic Tesolin shows three ways to cut one by hand—with a rabbet plane, with a shoulder plane, and with a chisel and router plane.

E. Lee doubled down the lf line (0-0). L. Bonfield walked (3-0). G. Koch tripled to center field, 2 RBI (0-0); L. Bonfield scored; E. Lee scored. D. Fletcher hit by pitch (2-2). C. Shaddy singled to left field, RBI (0-0); D. Fletcher advanced to second; G. Koch scored. C Spanberger hit by pitch (0-0); C. Shaddy advanced to second; D. Fletcher advanced to third. J. Biggers walked, RBI (3-1); C Spanberger advanced to second; C. Shaddy advanced to third; D. Fletcher scored. H. Wilson walked, RBI (3-1); J. Biggers advanced to second; C Spanberger advanced to third; C. Shaddy scored. E. Cole singled to shortstop, RBI (1-2); H. Wilson advanced to second; J. Biggers advanced to third; C Spanberger scored. E. Lee hit by pitch, RBI (0-1); E. Cole advanced to second; H. Wilson advanced to third; J. Biggers scored. L. Bonfield struck out looking (1-2). G. Koch reached on a throwing error by ss, RBI (3-2); E. Lee advanced to third; E. Cole scored; H. Wilson scored. D. Fletcher flied out to cf, SF, RBI (0-1); E. Lee scored, unearned. C. Shaddy walked (3-2); G. Koch advanced to second.

A smart TV will have different apps available depending on what market it is sold in. TVS sold outside North America are often unable to switch region to the USA. Some apps are locked down to serial numbers of the TV model and as this limitation is based on hardware it can't be unlocked. That said - changing the region to one of the following should provide access to the most popular apps on most TVS: USA, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, UK, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

The centre bounce has been scrapped from the TAC Cup THE CENTRE bounce has been removed from the TAC Cup this year, raising doubts about the ability of future umpires to execute the skill. The decision to remove the bounce from Victoria's elite pathway league means developing umpires will no longer be practicing the skill in match settings. While the AFL said the decision would have no impact on the League's 34 listed umpires, it acknowledged it could affect future whistleblowers that make it to the top level. AFL Victoria head of umpiring Cameron Nash said the TAC Cup was officiated by field umpires from development squads and many were recruited each year from leagues that do not bounce. "To expect the umpires to learn, practice and improve their bouncing in an elite competition is unreasonable, and we do not want to be in a position to not select talented young umpires for our program purely because they cannot bounce," Nash said. "We want to encourage more young umpires from traditional and diverse backgrounds to pursue their umpiring and progress to higher levels without their ability to adequately bounce being a contributing factor." Adelaide coach Don Pyke, who personally likes the bounce, on Thursday raised the idea of using professional centre bouncers in the AFL. "Our game is unique in that it's probably the only game in the world whereby the umpires need a technical competence – whether it's a boundary throw-in or a bounce – to be able to officiate," Pyke said. "I wonder whether we just get guys who actually do the bounce and the rest of them do the umpiring, and we end up with professional bouncers. "Maybe that has got some interest for someone who can just come in and bounce the ball." Removing the bounce from the AFL would be a Commission decision after the issue has been debated through the Laws of the Game Committee. The AFL's new football operations manager Simon Lethlean said the bounce had been raised by umpires as an issue for developing whistleblowers. He acknowledged the decision to remove the bounce from the TAC Cup would have future implications on AFL umpires if the bounce remained at the top level. TAC Cup umpires will continue to practice the bounce at training, but will miss out on testing the skill under match-day pressure. "It takes training to do it, so yeah, that's a fair point," Lethlean told News Corp. "One of the issues umpires have raised in junior and community football ... bouncing is not a skill necessarily being practised and taught."

Join the fun at the 15th annual Burlingame Pet Parade on Saturday, September 29. The family-friendly parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Broadway in Burlingame. Nearly 3,000 people attended last year's parade, including more than 1,000 pet owners and their pets, many dressed in wild and crazy costumes. Pet owners who wish to march with their pets must report by 9:30 a.m. to the parking lot near Broadway and Chula Vista Avenue. There is no charge to participate. th grade will be eligible to complete in the "Best School Float" competition. The winning school will receive a check for $500 and the second-place winner will receive $250 from the Broadway Merchants Association. School groups must register in advance by contacting Ayn Gilmore at AVR Realty in Burlingame at All public and private schools in San Mateo County that serve students from kindergarten through 12grade will be eligible to complete in thecompetition. The winning school will receive a check for $500 and the second-place winner will receive $250 from the Broadway Merchants Association.by contacting Ayn Gilmore at AVR Realty in Burlingame at [email protected] or calling or (650) 342-2073. Read More….

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, For the first time in decades, it feels like morning in America again. I was quite young when Ronald Reagan was president, and I only have vague memories from those days. But I do remember the extraordinary optimism that his leadership inspired, and my hope is that Donald Trump's leadership will be just as inspirational. For such a very long time, it has seemed as though a giant dark cloud has been hanging over America, but now a new day is starting. If Donald Trump can be president of the United States, it seems like just about anything can be possible. And even though our nation is facing incredibly serious challenges, could it be possible that we can find a way to turn things around if we all work together? Seeing Trump on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday was a very special moment. Like Lincoln, Trump represents a once in a generation hope for real change… Kicking off three days of carefully orchestrated inaugural proceedings infused with pomp and guided by precision and protocol, the president-elect reveled in the moment and delivered a tribute to the populist movement that propelled him into office. "We all got tired of seeing what was happening and we wanted change, but we wanted real change," Trump said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "It's a movement like we've never seen anywhere in the world, they say." Inaugurations are a time for hope, and tens of millions of us are hoping that the election of Trump will mean a better future for all of us. But of course so many among the elite hate him with a passion, and there are many in both parties that will be fighting him every step of the way. Can Trump really be successful in such an environment? We shall see, but what seems clear is that he doesn't plan to change who he is now that he will be residing in the White House, and this is clearly rankling a lot of people… Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course. In the 10 weeks since his surprise election as the nation's 45th president, Trump has violated decades of established diplomatic protocol, sent shockwaves through business boardrooms, tested long-standing ethics rules and continued his combative style of replying to any slight with a personal attack — on Twitter and in person. In his inaugural address, Trump will plead for national unity, and that is a good thing because our nation is deeply divided right now. As a new Rasmussen survey has discovered, most of the country has a very strong opinion about him either one way or the other… The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters share a favorable opinion of Trump, with 30% who have a Very Favorable one. The president-elect is viewed unfavorably by 48%, including 37% with a Very Unfavorable view. But the good news is that Americans are feeling quite good about life overall these days. In fact, an astounding 80 percent of all Americans are content with "the overall quality of life" that they are enjoying at the moment… Americans are feeling far more upbeat this January than they were a year ago, especially about the economy, according to Gallup's annual "Mood of the Nation" poll, which is conducted each January. The most recent poll, conducted Jan. 4-8, finds a whopping 80 percent of Americans are satisfied with "the overall quality of life," up four points from a year ago. If Donald Trump can bring the nation together, perhaps the next four (or eight) years can be a time of renewal for America. An immense amount of damage was done during the Obama years, and Trump has a massive amount of work ahead of him. But he seems to have a boundless amount of energy, and he is accustomed to only sleeping a handful of hours a night. Let us pray that Trump and his team will make good decisions and will set this nation on the right course, because we are in desperate need of a turnaround. Earlier today, I came across a piece from an anonymous source that is entitled "Twas The Night Before Inauguration". The anonymous source indicated that it was okay to share this with others, and so I thought that I would share it with all of you… Twas the night before Inauguration, and up in the tower, The Donald reflected on his newfound power. The conservative masses had come out in force, And delivered a victory that would chart a new course. The snowflakes were shell-shocked with tears in their eyes, The media lied to them . . . What a surprise. They had been promised a Hillary win, But the criminal Clinton took one

It's good but... Apple designed a great connection. But what ever company made this failed to design the product to work with my phone case. It's like they designed it as soon as the lightning charger came out and just stuck the two together without considering what might happen if the end consumer just happens to have ANY phone case on it at all. Must remove case to use. Otherwise works well. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New

EPA administrator Gina McCarthy testifies before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power on Capitol Hill in September 2013. The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. The much-anticipated announcement brings the agency one step closer to fulfilling a key pillar of President Obama's sweeping climate plan — cutting carbon pollution from both new and existing power plants. Speaking before reporters at the National Press Club, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy touted the agency's plan as "one of the most significant actions we can take" to protect public health and the environment from the dangers of climate change. "By taking commonsense action to limit carbon pollution from new power plants we can slow the effects of climate change and fulfill our obligation to ensure a safe and healthy environment for our children," McCarthy said. Noting the "really long lifetimes" of power plants, McCarthy explained that "people are making decisions about these plants today, and that is why we need to act today." The standards, the administrator added, would "ensure a clear path forward for a full energy mix." Under the proposal, the EPA would require one standard for large natural gas plants, allowing an emissions rate of 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour of power generated. Another, slightly less restrictive standard would apply to coal-fired facilities, allowing a carbon dioxide emissions rate of 1,100 lbs. per megawatt hour. EPA air officials say a modern gas plant could meet the standard but not its coal counterpart. Under the plan, the agency would require future coal plants to install equipment for capturing and storing carbon pollution on a partial scale, which officials call "a simpler, less costly way to reduce carbon emissions." Agency officials present their proposal as "both flexible and achievable." They point to the construction of four coal plants that will feature carbon capture and storage technology as proof that this equipment is available and ready for use. As with most technologies, they say, the cost will likely become more affordable over time. The proposed rule essentially mirrors emissions standards that the EPA put forth in March 2012, setting off a fierce lobbying frenzy among coal companies and coal-burning utilities opposed to what they consider to be an effective ban on coal plants. Opponents say this latest proposal would have pretty much the same effect. "We don't believe there will be any new coal plants because of this rule," Paul Bailey, of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the coal industry's most public voice, said Friday. "We think this rule is really bad for coal plants and it's really bad for carbon capture and storage, too." ------------------------- Don't miss a single Center for Public Integrity investigation on the environment. Sign up now to receive special newsletters relevant to your interest. ------------------------- Such technology, coal advocates say, has yet to be commercially proven. They note that none of the four coal plants EPA officials cite are operating — two are under construction and two are under development. For the most part, they argue, these are government-funded demonstration projects whose conditions cannot be replicated at coal plants across the country. "Until a few months ago, no one would have believed that the EPA would have claimed that carbon capture was demonstrated technology," said Jeffrey Holmstead, who represents coal and utility companies at the D.C. lobbying firm Bracewell & Guiliani. Calling the new EPA plan "surprisingly aggressive," he noted that the agency's 2012 proposal declined to make such a claim. He predicted the coal and utility industries will fight the agency's reliance on nascent technology as a basis for an emissions standard. "There will certainly be a big debate over this," added Holmstead, who headed the EPA's air office under President George W. Bush. "If EPA says, 'This is the standard,' there will be litigation." In a statement, Trip Van Noppen, president of the environmental law firm Earthjustice, called the EPA proposal "welcome news. Tackling carbon pollution from power plants is critical to addressing the climate crisis that we now face." The EPA proposal must go through a 60-day public comment period, and the agency plans to hold a public hearing.

Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges. It prohibits a conviction when the defendant can show that he had no original intent to commit a crime, and did so only because law enforcement agents persuaded or coerced him. Law enforcement can provide opportunities for suspected criminals to commit crimes (through undercover operations or stings, for example) and then charge the offender, but police cannot "manufacture crime." Affirmative Defense Entrapment is an affirmative defense, which means the defendant has the burden of proving that entrapment occurred. The defendant must prove that: law enforcement agents approached the defendant and/or introduced the idea of committing a crime the defendant was not "ready and willing" to commit the crime, and law enforcement agents did more than just provide an opportunity to the defendant -- they actually persuaded or coerced the defendant to commit the crime, possibly by improper conduct. For more information about affirmative defenses, see Affirmative Defenses in Criminal Cases. Objective v. Subjective Standard In order to prove an entrapment defense, the defendant must provide evidence that satisfies either an objective or a subjective standard, depending on the law in the state where the defendant is charged. Objective standard Under an objective standard, the defendant must prove that the actions of law enforcement would have induced any law-abiding citizen to commit a crime. The focus under this standard is more on the actions of law enforcement and less on the defendant's predisposition to commit crime. Subjective standard Under a subjective standard, the defendant must prove that he did not have a pre-disposition to commit the crime, regardless of the actions of the police. Even if a police officer's actions were extreme and inappropriate, the jury or judge deciding an entrapment case under this standard must consider whether the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime and whether that motivated the defendant more than police actions. Burden of proof Under the objective standard, if the defendant can prove entrapment by a preponderance of the evidence (this is a less strict requirement than reasonable doubt), the judge or jury must find him not guilty. Under the subjective standard, the defendant is not entitled to a not guilty verdict. Instead, the judge or jury must also consider whether the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime because of his criminal predisposition and not because of police actions (even if the actions were overly persuasive). What Is and Is Not Entrapment Whether the actions of the police qualify as entrapment will depend heavily on the facts of any given situation, as well as the standard (objective or subjective) that is used in the case. Here are some scenarios that suggest a finding of entrapment--or not. Entrapment Suppose the police threaten to gravely injure an average, law-abiding citizen unless he delivers a package of drugs to another person, collects payment, and brings the money back to the police. The police have entrapped the person because he had no predisposition or intent to engage in criminal activity and did so only under duress. This is a very simple example of entrapment, which also satisfies either the objective or the subjective standard because: objective standard: the police conduct (threatening physical harm) was so extreme, or subjective standard: the defendant had no interest in or intent to commit any crime. For another example of entrapment, under either an objective or subjective standard, imagine a homeless man who is a petty criminal and drug addict with prior convictions for possession of small amounts of drugs and minor theft. The police suspect that he sometimes sells drugs for a local drug king pin but it is only a hunch. An undercover officer contacts the man on the street and offers him money to pick up and deliver a shipment of drugs (a pound of meth) coming into town on an Amtrak train. (The shipment is not real. It has been created by police.) The man tells the undercover officer that he only uses and does not get involved in drug trafficking. The undercover officer approaches the man every other day for over a week, buys him meals, and tries to talk him into the deal. The man refuses again and again but is finally worn down with offers of the money plus an ounce of the drug and a hotel room for a week -- all of this on a day when he is out of drugs and desperate to get high. This scenario would constitute entrapment because: objective standard: the police provided everything for the criminal process and preyed on the man's vulnerabilities to persuade him to commit the crime instead of accepting the answer, "No," or subjective standard: the man was not interested in being involved in drug trafficking (the police could not prove that he had a predisposition to commit the crime of drug trafficking). Not entrapment Here is an example

John Watson Book Reviews (103) John Watson Book Review #103 - Challenging Conventional Wisdom IM John Watson - Monday 28th January 2013 Move First Think Later. | http://www.theweekinchess.com John Watson reviews and discusses one of the most controversial and provocative instructional books in many years "Move First, Think Later" by Willy Hendriks. I (Mark Crowther) think the book is wonderful and have learned a lot from it. I'm not sure I agree it is for players of all strengths, I think a certain amount of ability is needed to get something out of it. As someone who has struggled with quite a lot of instructional literature over the years this book is a great tonic. I've found strong practical puzzle books as the only thing I've truly got on with. This book has given me many ideas on what to try next. I was pleased to read in the book there is a nice idea on how to use the TWIC games section by choosing random games and positions to produce an almost unlimited amount of exercise material. See John Watson's detailed review below. John Watson Book Review #103 - Challenging Conventional Wisdom Move First, Think Later; Willy Hendriks; 256 pages; New in Chess 2012 Introduction I've been asked about Willy Hendriks' Move First, Think Later enough times (by people who loved or disliked it) that I thought I'd contribute my own two cents worth. This review turned into something frighteningly long, but that's in large part due to the fact that I have reproduced Hendriks' examples and prose at considerable length to give you a direct taste of the material. First, let me attempt a general description of the book, which, incidentally, won the English Chess Federation's 2012 Book of the Year award. In Move First, Think Later (subtitled ' Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess'), Hendriks tries to demolish a number of myths (in his view) about how to improve one's chess, as well as to investigate how the mind of a chessplayer works and what insights can be derived therefrom. In doing so, he refers to the cognitive sciences ("cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, neurology, neurobiology, philosophy and others"), which he says have made "considerable progress." To quote from the Introduction: "From general concepts and theories we are moving towards knowledge on a more empirical and microscopic level, to summarise it briefly and (too) simply. Some of the old questions and new insights of the cognitive sciences form the source of inspiration for this book. Are they of any use for the player trying to improve his chess? Do they shed new light on our different training methods? Or even suggest new and different forms of training?" But what most people will remember from this book, and will likely be either amused or alarmed by, is Hendriks' acidic criticism of famous chess authors and of conventional chess wisdom. Much more on that below. The book consists of 27 chapters, most of which are essentially essays covering a wide array of subjects. It has quite a few exercises, presented at the beginning of each chapter and then discussed within the chapter, which I think is an attractive and useful method of getting your points across. Hendriks' says, with his usual sense of humour: "If you do the exercises, you will learn the most from this book. Some may say: 'You will learn at least something.' " The range of topics is impressive - Hendriks likes to jump here and there, touching upon subjects or random thoughts which are only tangentially related to chess. That's fine, even stimulating, and particularly good for browsing. In part, this flitting about may be due to the fact that some of the chapters were originally articles written for a chess column. Nevertheless, a good portion of the book's contents are related to a major unifying idea. That is expressed in various ways in various chapters, but to a large extent comes down to the idea that moves themselves are more important than verbal concepts in chess, and that methods for improvement that go from the general to the particular are flawed. He has several ways of saying this, e.g., "You learn to play good chess by taking in good chess. There is no way to outsmart a diligent student with some clever way of thinking. There is no short-cut route to the best move by some revolutionary way of looking at the position. The strongest players are not following secret protocols." Hendriks Video Lecture from London Classic Another version of this can be seen in a lecture by Hendriks at the London Chess Classic, which you can see on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7CWvB5pz79k). Improve without using language? In it he says "In my book I have the suggestion that maybe it's possible to improve your chess

Disney-owned Maker Studios dropped Swedish YouTube star Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie from its roster Monday after he published videos with anti-semitic jokes. The separation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal Monday evening, and has since been confirmed by Maker, with a spokesperson sending Variety the following statement: "Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate. Maker Studios has made the decision to end our affiliation with him going forward." Kjellberg is the most popular creator on YouTube, and has amassed close to 14.7 billion video views on his main channel alone. The Journal reported Monday that he had uploaded multiple videos with antisemitic jokes and remarks last month. In one of those videos, Kjellberg had paid two people in India through a crowd-sourcing platform for holding up a sign that read "death to all Jews." Google responded by removing advertising from the video in question, but Kjellberg defended it as a joke in another video uploaded a week later. Related Comcast Faces More Battles After Winning the Fight for Sky Ben Sherwood to Leave Disney After 21st Century Fox Deal Is Complete (EXCLUSIVE) Both videos, as well as a subsequent video with controversial remarks, have since been removed from his channel. Kjellberg has been no stranger to controversy, frequently mixing crude language with video game humor an commentary. One of his latest stunts included threatening to delete his YouTube channel as soon as it reached 50 million subscribers — something he later called a joke. Kjellberg responded to the controversy around his recent videos Sunday with a post on Tumblr, saying that his videos should be understood as entertainment, and not political commentary. With regards to the aforementioned video featuring two men holding up a "death to all Jews" sign, he wrote: "I was trying to show how crazy the modern world is, specifically some of the services available online. I picked something that seemed absurd to me — that people on (crowd-sourcing platform) Fiverr would say anything for 5 dollars." He added: "Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive."

Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York holds an annual "Visitor's Day" for families and area residents. William Higinbotham, looking for a way to entertain visitors, conceived of a simple electronic game that could be played using the lab's Donner Model 30 analog computer connected to an oscilloscope display. Working with David Potter, Higinbotham's creation allowed two players to play a game of 'tennis' on the oscilloscope screen, with simple physics for the ball, and even a sound whenever the ball was contacted. Tennis-for-Two was only used for two years before being salvaged for parts. It only became widely known following Higinbotham's testimony in a trial over the video game Pong.

In the course of re-booting Audible Hype, I've been asking everyone I know what they want to read about. It's been an encouraging experiment: finally, nobody wants to know "How to Get Signed." The most common question, by far, went a little something like "How can I make money playing shows?" Well, there's a lot of strategic and business details involved there, but let's address the most important part first: you need to play really, really good shows. Rather than waste your time with my idiot advice, I've enlisted assistance from three seasoned professionals: Blueprint, Curly Castro and PremRock. This is science, dig it. Read More →

I recently had the pleasure of reading Alexander Germain's article on League of Legends, about the insights the competitive game gave him on human behaviour. Now I don't play LOL but I used to devote a fair whack of time to Dota2 an extremely similar game (I think the correct term is MOBA but I am getting on in my lingo these days) and promised Alexander to share my thoughts on why these games show so much toxicity especially between team-mates. Now for any newbies out there it may be useful to explain some parts of the game to put some context to my theories The first point of Dota is that you are placed in a team of 5 heroes placed against another 5 in the opposing team. In order to win, by destroying the enemy's ancient, you typically have to not only perform well on your own but also co-operate well with the other 4 comrades on your side. I will drip feed game basics as I go hopefully in a way that makes sense without just turning this post into a lengthy description of game mechanics. Something that seems to set MOBA's apart from other online games is the level of toxicity, bad-mouthing and general ill feeling between players. While I'm not saying they are definitively the worst (because that is a rather huge statement to make regarding online gaming) but in mine and many other's experience the shade can get pretty dark, and what I want to talk about is the odd fact that much of the abuse seems to happen between team member. I say this is odd because social psychology would usually predict animosity between groups put into competition with each other, especially when in a co-operative situation with direct communication between team members, and less between teams. Don't get me wrong there is plenty of trash talk between teams – also its worth noting that hating is not 100% common, but certainly frequent enough to ruin a good evening. So why is there hate between squaddies? (and what relevance does it have to anyone who doesn't play?) Well to address the latter I believe that the game does actually provide some tips to providing insight into people's real behaviour, especially in say politics, workplaces and even families. Now to the former Key Point: there is actually more competition between your own team than the enemy This is where I need to explain some more game mechanics. There are a range of heroes to choose from, and only one of each hero can be in the game each time. Now this might seem a petty reason to hate, but one of the first conflicts is choosing a hero. Now obviously an opposing team member might choose a hero you want, but your own team-mates choice effects you more directly. To add another point each hero has a particular role, I don't want to bore with too much detail, but as a general rule people are attracted to 'Carrys' which are characters which become very strong later in the game (and are thus very satisfying to play) and tend to avoid playing 'Support' which are characters which are good for supporting other teammates and helping said carry's git gud. Its this role choice which probably causes more conflict than any specific hero (although that does happen) the core problem is, people have their own personal playing needs, i.e., to get super powerful and look like a bad-ass in game and don't prioritize building a balanced team over their individual wants. I say this is relevant to real life because this kind of prioritizing can be seen all the time: spouses want to win arguments more than maintain relationships, workers want to be seen positively as an individual more than meet the companies goals, politicians fight for power rather than to run their countries. The other interesting thing about competition is that the game actually puts your team in a position where you are competing more against each other for limited resources, than the enemy. It's a weird system to explain but the basic principle is that for every enemy you kill the loot and bonus' is divided between nearby allies, hence solo kills = all the more resources, and sharing means less. What's interesting about this again is that while technically you are 5 teammates being thrown against an enemy, your real focus is getting more gold and experience and the main people holding you back are your own team. So to summarize that point – people in competition with each other are more likely to dehumanize and demonize each other. Even if there is some overarching goal, people respond to immediate pressures. A second point is something psychologists like to call the fundamental attribution error, which in a nutshell means that you attribute other's mistakes to their loser personality, and your own to the unfair circumstances around you. So when Dota players see their team mate get trounced or make a bad play they assume the worst, when they themselves slip up, 'IMBA, WTF potato team?, I'm tilting today' Finally I suspect there is an intolerance against lack of control in a

PSA: The following features spoilers for Life is Strange and Season One of Telltale's The Walking Dead. DONTNOD entertainment announced today that they've been working on a sequel to Life is Strange, in a YouTube video rich with beautiful French accents and unspoken sexual tension. No other details have been confirmed, so only a giant, entitled manchild who overthinks every little thing about Life is Strange could possibly have any demands to make at this stage. So. Leave Max and Chloe behind, you beautiful French bastards. The strengths of the original season of Life is Strange centre around the relationship between Max and Chloe. Whilst ostensibly a sci-fi mystery, the game's highest points came from the quieter moments between the two. It was feeling of spending time with Max and Chloe that kept fans coming back for each episode, far more than the underlying mystery of Rachel Amber. Given the sometimes unsettling fondness fans have for "Pricefield", leaving this chemistry behind may seem like a gamble – But it's essential for a second season to succeed on its own merits. #1 – The Multiple Endings. Continuing Max and Chloe's story has some logistical concerns. Of the two endings available in the first season's final episode, Chloe is either dead, or Max and Chloe are murderous, bloodthirsty psychopaths. The choice to spare Chloe by sacrificing Arcadia Bay (and everyone in it) was baffling at the time – As players watched the two romantically drive past the rotting corpses of their friends and family, presumably to have crazy hotel sex in the next town. Now, with the prospect of a sequel, DONTNOD have written themselves into a corner here. Do they choose a "canon" ending, and let the other fall into non-canonical oblivion? There's certainly a story to be told with Max learning to come to terms with the death of Chloe, perhaps time travelling to visit her in the past as she struggles to let go – but what of the animals who chose to murder her parents? DONTNOD wrote an ending chosen entirely by amoral psychopaths, and now risk angering the horde by taking away the deaths of their victims. Look at that video. Look at those beautiful boys. Can you bear to put them in such danger? #2 – Repeating the mistakes of the past. Life is Strange could encounter the same problems Telltale's The Walking Dead did in its second and third seasons. Due to its choice-based, episodic format, Life is Strange attracted immediate comparisons to Telltale's work – and it risks making the same mistakes. Telltale's first season the The Walking Dead was hugely popular for the same reason Life is Strange proved successful: The relationship between its two leads, Lee and Clementine. The final episode's emotional farewell proved to be the perfect finale – Much to the detriment of the following seasons. The death of the player-insert character Lee, leaving Clementine alone in an uncertain world perfectly fit thematically with the game at large. For five episodes, the player has been teaching Clementine the tools she needs to survive in the world, post-zombie apocalypse. At its finale, the player leaves Clementine just as Lee does: Hoping it was enough. Until season two, when we see that she's totally fine, anyway. Despite being a solid experience with a great new cast, the game's second season never proved as popular as the original, and the third season has attracted even less attention. For many players, saying goodbye to Clementine the first time was enough. Life is Strange fans may feel the same. One way or another, we've said goodbye to Max and Chloe. Either we've seen Chloe accept her death, or we've imagined the pair making love over the corpses of their loved ones. Either way, revisiting them is going to feel awkward. #3 – An opportunity to get me to shut the fuck up. This is DONTNOD's opportunity to prove that season one wasn't lightning in a bottle. Life is Strange is by far their most successful title, after their previous game Remember Me released to mixed reviews. Upcoming title Vampyr seems promising, though a return to a combat-centred game is something of a step away from the peaceful life of Arcadia Bay. Despite this, I've explained before that I feel that perhaps many of the first season's successes were a happy accident. In introducing a new cast, DONTNOD have the opportunity to prove they have the narrative chops to compete with Telltale – with the added bonus of making me look like a tool. Which I've been told is very satisfying. With a second season DONTNOD could become the American Horror Story of video games. By keeping an alternative, young adult aesthetic mixed with sci-fi themes – but recycling the cast each time*, Life is Strange could become a series that outlives the duo who

Image copyright NTSB Image caption The flight landed about six miles prematurely Federal investigators are blaming pilot error for causing a Delta Air Lines flight carrying 129 people to land at the wrong airport in South Dakota. The flight from Minneapolis landed at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, about six miles (10km) from Rapid City. The US National Transportation Safety Board blamed Delta's two pilots for not using all the instruments at their disposal to determine their location. The plane was held for more than two hours before it could take off again. The incident happened last July but the NTSB report into it was released on Tuesday. According to officials, the two airports have runways that face the same direction - from northwest to southeast - which likely contributed to the error. The two Delta pilots had been suspended pending the inquiry. Delta "offered a gesture of apology for the inconvenience" to the passengers involved. A similar incident occurred in 2004 when another passenger plane landed at Ellsworth Air Force Base. More wrong airport mix-ups

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Share. Is Tatum your new Ragin' Cajun? Is Tatum your new Ragin' Cajun? X-Men: Days of Future Past is still four months away from release, but with X-Men: Apocalypse set for 2016 and X-Force in development, producers are - understandably - looking toward the future of the franchise. Empire sat down with franchise producer Lauren Schuler Donner as a part of their Days of Future Past exclusive this week. During the course of their interview, Donner expressed a desire to produce a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum in the lead. Fandago reports that the Donner indicated that she sees this as a smaller scale film and that she'd already spoken with the actor about the project. Exit Theatre Mode "I'm dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum," Donner told Empire. "That doesn't have to be a great big movie. It's a thief in New Orleans, it's a whole different story. He's on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He's such a sweetheart." According to Fandango, the actor expressed an affection for the character while doing press for White House Down. "I would like to play Gambit," Tatum told reporters. "Gambit's my favorite. I'm from New Orleans, around that area. My dad's from New Orleans, and I like to do a Cajun accent. I could do it for real." Tatum was looked at to play Gambit in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, but the character was ultimately cut from the script. Taylor Kitch played the role in Gavin Hood's critically panned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. What do you think? Would you like to see a Gambit movie? If so, is Channing Tatum the man for the job?

Virgin Media launches Vivid, a new standard of ultrafast broadband and new 200Mbps speed Virgin Media customers can choose to upgrade to speeds of 70Mb, Vivid 150Mb & Vivid 200Mbps We're delighted to announce today a new standard in ultrafast connectivity with the launch of Vivid 200Mbps broadband speed. Vivid will be used to brand all ultrafast broadband speeds and services of 100Mbps and above from Virgin Media. This week, we will start contacting our broadband customers to explain how you can opt-in to an upgrade from 1st October 2015. You don't need to take any further action right now. This is the third time we've boosted broadband speeds in five years, quadrupling the fastest speeds available from 50Mbps in 2010 to Vivid 200Mbps in 2015. With Vivid 200Mbps you can download an entire two hour HD movie in three minutes two seconds - and a music album in just three seconds. Upgrading the nation to next generation of connectivity We're rewarding our existing broadband customers by offering you the chance to upgrade from existing speeds of (up to) 50Mbps, 100Mbps and 152Mbps to more powerful speeds of 70Mbps, Vivid 150Mbps and Vivid 200Mbps. By choosing to upgrade, even on our the lowest available package you'll will receive broadband speeds at the top end of the range available from providers operating on the BT network. Thanks to our DOCSIS 3 technology, we will make available and deploy the superior speeds in record time, with 90% of customers being able to upgrade by the end of 2015. We're investing heavily in our ultrafast network to meet consumer demand. We have also embarked on a programme to connect four million more homes and businesses to ultrafast broadband speeds More information - and how to upgrade will be available here from October 1st.

Now that the world's most successful crowdfunding ever has completely fallen apart, the question becomes how viable DAO structures can be. Even though The DAO has failed miserably, the concept is still very much alive. Lessons have been learned, albeit they were rather expensive ones for some people. The DAO Is Done For But The Concept Is Not It has become apparent The DAO – which is the world's largest crowdfunding campaign to date – is pretty much done for. Not only did assailants manage to abuse the code several times, but there is also a negative aftermath to deal with. Coinmarketcap has removed DAO tokens from their listings, and Poloniex advises users to exchange DAO for Ethereum. There are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned from this US$150m screw-up, though. First of all, the crowdfunding campaign was a big success, but the creators also allowed investors to pull their funds back out if they had second thoughts. Some of them did, whereas others kept the faith in the concept. Now that users can exchange their DAO tokens for Ethereum once again, most people will have lost little to no funds. It is sad to see this big future for cryptocurrency projects fail in the end, but the DAO concept is still very much alive today. Hopefully, we will not see another mega project such as The DAO V2 run by the same Slock.it team, though. Granted, the failed project puts a spin on how useful a decentralized autonomous organization can be. Many people seem to forget this innovative technology is way ahead of its time, and there will be many kinks that need to be worked out along the way. That doesn't mean the entire concept is dead in the water all of a sudden, though, as a decentralized autonomous organization is still a viable future. The biggest gripe people have right now is the Slock.it team themselves. Not only did they raise US$150m for a project they knew as flawed from day one, they are also tightly related to the Robin Hood Group. These self-professed white-hat hackers have been involved in retrieving Ethereum funds stolen from the DAO, as well as the ETC funds obtained in the process. However, they tried to dump the Ethereum Classic coins a few days ago, and were caught red-handed. These people have very little to no honest intentions, that much is certain. Image credit 1 If you liked this article follow us on Twitter @themerklenews and make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest bitcoin and altcoin price analysis and the latest cryptocurrency news.

Get daily updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A stalker broke into a teenage girl's bedroom and hid under her bed all night after sending a text message saying 'I'm watching you', a court heard. Kyle Ravenscroft sent frightening text messages to his victim saying he was "in the grounds" of her Chester house and was "watching her". The 18-year-old, from Richmond Court, Ellesmere Port, even threatened to hang himself outside her bedroom window so she would wake up and find him dangling there. His teenage victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, found Ravenscroft the next morning, after getting the feeling she was being watched and checking her room - he was hiding under her bed. Ravenscroft, who has no previous convictions, was spared jail today (Tuesday) by Chester magistrates who described the incident as "frightening" and "psychologically harming". He was sentenced to 12 weeks behind bars, suspended for two years, a supervision order and ordered to pay £100 compensation to his victim after pleading guilty to stalking at Chester Magistrates Court. He was also ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work and made subject to a restraining order - forbidding him from contacting or going near her. His 16-year-old victim was at home with her mother when she was sent a series of "frightening" text messages from Ravenscroft, on July 3 this year. He said he had walked from Ellesmere Port to her Chester house , was "standing in the grounds watching her" and he "hoped she would wake up and find him hanging outside", the court heard. She was so frightened by the messages she decided to sleep in her mum's room, as her bedroom was on the ground floor. Just before she fell asleep, at just after midnight, he sent her a terrifying text reading "I'm in your house". She didn't believe him but thought he was nearby, said Rob Youd prosecuting. But the next morning she returned to her room and was sat on her bed on the phone to a friend when she sensed someone was watching her. "She had the feeling she was being watched and listened to, she checked everything. She checked her wardrobe, behind doors," he said. "She then noticed that all her shoe boxes, normally neatly lined-up, under her bed had been moved. She crouched down and saw him hiding under it. "She said "what are you doing under my bed" and he said he had been asleep." A moment later her mum came into the room and spotted him, she yelled at him to leave but before he did he stole the teenage girl's phone, which police say he used to 'discover personal details about her life'. Later when her mum checked the room she noticed the handle and lock to her daughter's bedroom window had been completely snapped-off. Ravenscroft jumped out of a first floor window when police arrived at his Ellesmere Port house, which he shares with his mum, on July 23. He went into custody after speaking to police on the phone. When interviewed Ravenscroft, who knew his victim, said he felt like the whole thing was "steep". Ravenscroft, who has no previous dealings with the police, was released on bail but was rearrested after attending the victim's workplace to hand her a letter. The court heard how Ravenscroft had been wound up after seeing the victim speaking to another man on Snapchat. "This has been a massive wake up call for Mr Ravenscroft," said Taryn Craddock. "He is a bright young man capable of change." Ordering Ravenscroft to pay court costs of £85, a victim surcharge of £80 and to partake in a 'building better relationships' course, presiding magistrate Moria Chapman said: "This is a serious offence, it is really frightening for someone to go into their room and find someone under their bed."

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Image copyright AP Image caption Trump had just married Melania when the recording was made in 2005 A couple of weeks ago, after the row over Trump "fat-shaming" Alicia Machado, I suggested the Republican candidate lay off our weight. Warning: This article contains some graphic language Now, and I can hardly believe I'm having to write this, I suggest he lay off our vaginas. The day after a video tape emerged in which he suggested he could have any woman he wants because he's a star and so could just "grab them by the pussy", Mr Trump is in a whole ocean of hot political water. Enough, quite possibly, to sink any chance he had of winning the White House. Why this tape - and not the myriad other controversies that have dogged him in recent weeks? First, analyse what he actually says. There is something particularly sexist, I'd say abusive, about this recording. Read this excerpt: "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." "Whatever you want," the interviewer says. "Grab 'em by the pussy, you can do anything," Trump replies." It's the way Mr Trump reveals that he sees women as a piece of sexual meat, something he wants, grabs, discards that is so damning. Surveys (US government and UN) suggest one in five American women are the victim of rape or attempted rape and a staggering 83% of girls suffer sexual harassment at school. Mr Trump is not guilty of either of those but his language is exactly the kind of language that encourages men and boys to feel it's okay to abuse women. There is a violence in the phrases "grab 'em by the pussy" and "you can do anything" that any victim of abuse would recognise and that most women would find sickening. To dismiss the tape as mere "locker room banter" and imply that the people who are offended are making an unnecessary fuss, or to say, as he did in his bizarre overnight apology tape, that this is just a distraction, compounds his problem. Image copyright European photopress agency Image caption Trump has offended many groups of people before But this tape doesn't just offend women, judging from the reaction in the Republican party - it has offended a lot of men too. Whether those men will now withdraw their endorsements of him is yet to be seen. Mr Trump has denigrated people before. His comments about Muslims and Mexicans have arguably been equally grotesque and many, including some Republicans, have suggested they disqualified him for the presidency too. Not everyone in America, however, knows a Muslim or a Mexican. Most people, and most voters, do have wives, mothers, sisters or daughters and that's why this tape touches a nerve, with both sexes, in a way his previous remarks haven't. Powerful men using their position to get sex is nothing new, even in the White House. JFK and Bill Clinton paved that path. Today some of Trump's supporters are making the case that anyone who voted for Bill Clinton has no right to be offended by Donald Trump. Image copyright AP Image caption Will the subject of Bill Clinton's infidelities now come up at Sunday's debate? I've been critical of Mr Clinton's treatment of women, and of Mrs Clinton's role in shielding him, but those supporters are missing the point. In 2016, don't we all want more from our leaders than another man who feels getting sex from whoever they want, whenever they want is simply one of the perks of power? For my two daughters, I know I do. How Mr Trump manages the fallout from this isn't clear. He doesn't like apologising. Indeed, he has bragged about never doing so. Yet overnight he did release a video statement in which he said: "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise." In the tape he then goes on to attack both Clintons' records. So on Sunday night, when he debates with Hillary Clinton for the second time, will he raise the issue of Bill Clinton's affairs and Hillary's role in discrediting the women involved, or will he keep quiet about sex altogether? In the past Mr Trump has not been able to resist lashing out when he's under attack. So, whatever his advisers may caution, I suspect we will see more of that in St Louis on Sunday night.

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Motorsport Network's global expansion has continued with the acquisition of Germany's biggest motorsport digital media company – sport media group GmbH, publisher of Germany's leading websites and apps, Formel1.de and Motorsport-Total.com. Motorsport Network made the acquisition by purchasing the company from its current shareholders including German publicly-traded technology and media company, SPORTTOTAL AG (ISIN: DE000A1EMG56). SPORTTOTAL AG CEO, Peter Lauterbach said the group will continue to work closely with Motorsport Network. "SPORTTOTAL AG and Motorsport Network have worked closely on a number of projects in recent times and we'll continue to do so in the future," Lauterbach said. "We have a number of exciting opportunities ahead, not just in online properties but working with Motorsport Network to expand the footprint of Motorsport TV throughout Germany." The new expansion provides key benefits to the group and to the extensive German motorsport fan-base – Motorsport Network expanding its reach in this highly influential market and the German fans gaining access to the group's massive pool of international content. Motorsport.com and its parent company, Motorsport Network, have experienced rapid growth in the past two years to become the world's largest independent automotive and motorsport-related digital platform connecting hundreds of millions of people that love motorsport and cars. Germany is the home of some of the world's leading automotive manufacturers including the VW Group (VW, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda, Ducati), BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Opel. It has three drivers represented in the Formula 1 World Championship this year – including 2017 championship contender and four-time championship winner Sebastian Vettel. German brands dominated last year's three major international championships with Mercedes-Benz taking the F1 crown, Porsche winning the FIA World Endurance Championship and Volkswagen successful in the FIA World Rally Championship. "Germany is a global automotive market leader with a massive passion for motorsport," said Colin Smith, CEO, Motorsport Network. "Our existing German edition of Motorsport.com will benefit greatly with the acquisition by adding some of best German talent in the sport to our team. "In April of this year, Motorsport Network acquired Auto News Medien GmbH with its range of publishing interests including the leading German automotive website, Auto-News.de. "We are set to launch a German edition of our automotive site Motor1.com next month and will be expanding Motorsport.tv into the region." The automotive industry in Germany is one of the largest employers in the world's fourth largest economy and is its largest industrial sector, with a turnover of EUR 404 billion in 2015. "After two successful decades in the German-speaking market I am very excited about joining forces with Motorsport Network together with my great team," said Fabian Hust, founder of Motorsport-Total.com. "We'll now be able to provide more news from around the globe, showcase highly rated content such as Giorgio Piola's F1 technical analysis and enhance our video offering through expanding Motorsport.tv into Germany which will be a huge win for our readers. "I am amazed about Motorsport Network's family of experts and its growth in the last two years. I am looking forward to be part of it and to bring forward Motorsport Network's portfolio of businesses in Germany." In total, Motorsport Network offers 28 global editions of websites – also including automotive site, Motor1.com – social media channels and magazines edited by local experts. The network has more than 172 million monthly page views across 81 countries in 17 different languages.

© unknown The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with an increasing number of volatile confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans.Developers of the pilot program, to be launched at 15 U.S. sites this year, said"We just can't use the blazing-guns approach anymore when dealing with disturbed individuals who are highly trained in all kinds of tactical operations, including guerrilla warfare," said Dennis Cusick, executive director of the Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute. "That goes beyond the experience of SWAT teams."Cusick, who is developing the program along with institute training director William Micklus, said local authorities have a better chance of defusing violent confrontations by immediately engaging suspects in discussions about their military experience -- not with force.The aim, Micklus said, is to try to reconnect them with "a sense of integrity" lost in the fog of emotional distress."You can't win by trying to out-combat them,'' Cusick said. "You emphasize what it means to be a Marine, a soldier to people who now feel out of control."There is no data that specifically tracks police confrontations with suspects currently or formerly associated with the military. But an Army report issued this year found that violent felonies in the service were up 1% while non-violent felonies increased 11% between 2010 and 2011.During that time, however, crime in much of the nation declined."What we're seeing is that the volume (of violent incidents involving military personnel off base) has ratcheted up to a level we have never seen before," Cusick said.Much of the anecdotal evidence reads like the report of the Jan. 13 standoff between Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Eisenhauer, 30, a veteran of multiple combat tours, and Fayetteville, N.C., police and firefighters.A 911 call from an apartment complex manager revealed that Eisenhauer was allegedly barricaded inside one of the apartments exchanging gunfire with police.Although the suspect was not specifically identified as a soldier, the apartment manager told a police dispatcher that the suspect was "under psychiatric care," according to the 911 call.According to Fort Bragg records, Eisenhauer had been assigned to the post's Warrior Transition Battalion, a unit for soldiers who have been wounded or suffered other illnesses as a result of their deployment, Womack Army Medical Center spokeswoman Shannon Lynch said.Eisenhauer, who was wounded in the standoff along with two police officers, is charged with 30 criminal counts, including 15 counts of attempted murder.Darrel Stephens, executive director of the Major Cities (Police) Chiefs Association, said the type of training proposed by the Justice Department represents "one piece of the challenge'' in dealing with an increasing number of mentally ill suspects."This has been a challenge for a number of years in our communities," Stephens said.Source: USA Today

When approaching a band's debut album, one should of course bear in mind the sage advice of George Michael and Listen Without Prejudice. Nevertheless the very facts of the making of Atoms for Peace's Amok seem designed to send a certain kind of music fan screaming from the room without hearing a note. It is, by any definition, the work of a supergroup: as well as Thom Yorke and long-term producer Nigel Godrich, it features Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, "guest percussionist" Mauro Refosco and REM's Joey Waronker. Amok resulted from their gathering together to indulge in "freeform" sessions in Los Angeles, having apparently bonded over a shared love of "getting wasted … and listening to Fela Kuti". Rich and famous musicians jamming in LA after getting high and kicking back with some funky ethnic sounds: it's hard to get away from the feeling that this is just the kind of thing that once provoked people to form the Cockney Rejects in protest. It is, to borrow a phrase sighingly deployed in Smash Hits with some regularity, like punk never 'appened. Anyone who understandably finds their inner Stinky Turner rising up in indignation at all this is not much likely to be mollified by Godrich's comparison of Atoms for Peace's working techniques to fusion-era Miles Davis, rock stars equating themselves with jazz greats coming just beneath rock stars equating themselves with classical composers in the list of stuff that made a generation less tolerant than our own break out the safety pins and gobbing. In fairness, the method to which Godrich is referring genuinely isn't far removed from that used by Davis and producer Teo Macero from In a Silent Way onwards: he and Yorke filleted sections of the band's lengthy jams, edited them together, then weaved the results into electronic arrangements. You can hear this at its most straightforward on opener Before Your Very Eyes. It starts out sounding just as you'd expect an afrobeat-influenced track by Thom Yorke featuring Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to sound: pattering drums, scratchy guitar, bassline that is, to all intents and purposes, jumping around with its top off, and Chuckles himself keening away about nameless dread. But each instrument is gradually replaced by an electronic counterpart, until, by the song's end, only Yorke's voice remains untouched: the scenery around it has completely changed. Elsewhere, the interlacing of instruments and electronics is so fluid it's hard to work out where the band ends and the computer begins. The traditional supergroup works on the principle that great music is born out of each member's inflated sense of their own importance chafing against everyone else's– as a 1974 feature in Time magazine put it, they are "fuelled by dueling egos" and "musical infighting builds up the excitement" – but the music here appears to flip that logic on its head: no member is as important as a laptop. You listen to something like Reverse Running, on which a rhythm track bearing the audible influence of 2-step garage is so intricately entwined with Waronker and Refoscos' percussion that it sounds as if it's been put together using a pair of tweezers, wondering at precisely how Atoms for Peace – formed, lest we forget, for the specific purpose of playing Yorke's solo material live – are going to play it live. As a technical exercise, Amok is hugely impressive: in contrast to Yorke's undercooked solo album, The Eraser, its sound is rich and deep, full of intriguing shifts and contrasts. But there are times when it feels the painstaking process used to create it may have assumed a greater importance than the business of actually writing songs. Default has a great central motif, but the song it's attached to drifts by without leaving much impression. Something similar happens on Stuck Together Pieces. You could happily listen to its gorgeous descending bassline all day, which is perhaps just as well, given that what's going on over the top of it feels pretty slender and sketchy. In a recent interview, Godrich made a passing remark about Yorke really wanting to make a straightforward dance record but feeling that, "I have to sing on it or no one's going to fucking care". It was meant as a joke, but occasionally during Amok you wonder not only if there's a grain of truth in it, but whether Yorke might not have been better off acting on the impulse. Still, when Amok works, the results are spectacular. Ingenue's warping, off-key analogue synth and dripping-water sound effects would make a great dance track in their own right, but the vocal melody they're matched to is as sublime as anything Yorke's ever come up with. The closing title track is simultaneously writhingly funky and strangely haunting:

State labor law exempts federal, state or municipal employees from minimum wage requirements, but Mr. Cuomo's office said he would act on his own through his Division of Budget, directing the initial wage increases taking effect at the end of year. He would also seek to change the labor law in the coming legislative session, which begins in January, to prevent future governors from using executive powers to roll back the wages. Mr. Cuomo will be up for re-election in 2018, at the end of which the $15 rate will be put into effect in New York City. The job categories affected by the plan include lifeguards, office assistants and custodial staff, some of which are seasonal. Wages in New York City would be raised first, administration officials said, because of its higher cost of living. The notion of a statewide $15 minimum wage for all employees, public and private, has faced resistance from Republicans in Albany, and some conservative fiscal groups, who warn it would be disastrous for the state's economy and job growth. On Tuesday, Senator John J. Flanagan of Long Island, the Republican leader in the State Senate, had no comment on the governor's decision. Mr. Cuomo's announcement was met with an enthusiastic response from labor leaders like George Gresham, the president of 1199 S.E.I.U., the nation's largest health care workers union, who applauded the governor's action. Mr. Gresham said it could potentially set a $15-an-hour standard of pay for tens of thousands of the union's home-care workers, "who do this important work, but who are not necessarily state employees." The announcement prompted the city's public advocate, Letitia A. James, to call for a $15 minimum wage for city employees. A spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat and frequent sparring partner of Mr. Cuomo's, noted that the city had already promised its lowest paid workers more than $12 an hour in 2016, while the governor's plan would accelerate past that level only at the end of 2017.

A new app is sparking a hot debate across campus colleges. Sasie is a sexual consent app which requires potential partners to read a contract, take a photo and sign before engaging in any intimate activity.Creators say it creates a legal, binding document of consent and intent. It was put together specifically for college campuses to combat what they say is the problem of sexual assault on campus.However, there are many issues with apps such as Sasie.One concern is if someone changes their mind after signing the contract. Some say it could essentially give potential rapist evidence they need to later exonerate themselves.Also, some are questioning if the couple would even stop to read the contract.Creators say it is legally binding but there is no test case yet. Once uploaded, the information goes to a server that only police, a disciplinary board or a subpoena can access.

Multisubunit RNA polymerases IV and V (Pol IV and Pol V) evolved as specialized forms of Pol II that mediate RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) and transcriptional silencing of transposons, viruses, and endogenous repeats in plants. Among the subunits common to Arabidopsis thaliana Pols II, IV, and V are 93% identical alternative ninth subunits, NRP(B/D/E)9a and NRP(B/D/E)9b. The 9a and 9b subunit variants are incompletely redundant with respect to Pol II; whereas double mutants are embryo lethal, single mutants are viable, yet phenotypically distinct. Likewise, 9a or 9b can associate with Pols IV or V but RNA-directed DNA methylation is impaired only in 9b mutants. Based on genetic and molecular tests, we attribute the defect in RdDM to impaired Pol V function. Collectively, our results reveal a role for the ninth subunit in RNA silencing and demonstrate that subunit diversity generates functionally distinct subtypes of RNA polymerases II and V. Unlike yeast and metazoans, Arabidopsis thaliana and Populus trichocarpa (poplar) each have two genes orthologous to RBP9, and maize and rice have three ( Figure 1 and Figure S1 ). Orthologs of yeast Rpa12 and Rpc11, the Rpb9-like subunits of Pols I and III, respectively, form separate clades ( Figure 1 ). Both Arabidopsis Rpb9 orthologs copurify with affinity-purified RNA polymerases II, IV, or V (), such that their comprehensive names are NRP(B/D/E)9a and NRP(B/D/E)9b. Despite the fact that the two proteins differ at only 8 of their 114 amino acids, we show here that these ninth subunit variants are incompletely redundant for Pol II and nonredundant for Pol V functions. Human, Drosophila, zebrafish, Chlamydomonas, Arabidopsis, poplar, maize, or rice proteins homologous to yeast (S. cerevisiae) Rpb9 (Pol II), or its Pol I or Pol III paralogs, were identified by searching the NCBI Reference Sequence (RefSeq) or maizeGBD (in the case of Zea mays GRMZM2G009673) databases using BLASTp. Multiple alignment of the sequences was conducted using MUSCLE (see Figure S1 ) in order to generate the phylogenetic tree. Bootstrap values are indicated for each branchpoint. In yeast, the 12 Pol II subunits are each encoded by unique genes, ten of which are essential. One of the nonessential genes encodes the ninth-largest subunit, Rpb9. rpb9 deletion strains are viable, but temperature-sensitive (). Rpb9 is implicated in multiple aspects of polymerase II function, including initiation (), processivity (), transcriptional fidelity, proofreading (), and transcription-coupled DNA repair (). Arabidopsis thaliana Pols II, IV, and V each have 12 core subunits (). Pol II, IV, and V largest subunits are encoded by unique genes: NRPB1, NRPD1, and NRPE1, respectively ("NRP" denotes "Nuclear RNA Polymerase"; "B, D, and E," as the second, fourth, and fifth letters of the alphabet, denote Pols II, IV, or V; the numeral 1 indicates the largest subunit). Pol IV and V second-largest subunits are encoded by the same gene, NRP(D/E)2, which is distinct from the corresponding Pol II subunit gene, NRPB2 (). The two largest subunits interact to form the catalytic center for RNA synthesis, with noncatalytic subunits playing structural and regulatory roles for initiation, elongation, termination, or RNA processing (). Most of the noncatalytic subunits of Pols II, IV, and V are encoded by the same genes (). Pol IV and Pol V functions are best understood with respect to RNA-directed DNA methylation (), a process in which 24 nt short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) direct the cytosine methylation, and silencing, of complementary DNA sequences. Pol IV acts early in the pathway, working in partnership with RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 2 to produce double-stranded RNAs that are diced into siRNAs and loaded (primarily) into ARGONAUTE 4 (AGO4) (). Independent of siRNA biogenesis, Pol V generates RNA transcripts at loci that undergo RdDM () and AGO4 binds these Pol V transcripts () as well as Pol V itself (). Chromatin modifying activities are subsequently

Stutsman County Sheriff Sgt. Jason Falk said Stutsman County Communications dispatched a sheriff's deputy to the 4400 block of N.D. Highway 30 around 3 a.m. Tuesday after receiving calls of a man running naked on the state highway. Falk said the man, who is 39 or 40 years old, had allegedly been driving a Chevrolet pickup truck reported stolen out of Leola, S.D. Falk said after the deputy found the man, he was transported to Jamestown Regional Medical Center and later taken to the North Dakota State Hospital for observation. Falk said the man is being investigated for possession of stolen property and no formal charges were filed against him as of Wednesday afternoon.

Rush released its self-titled debut 40 years ago this March, but the band's kicking off the anniversary celebration early with R40, a live DVD box set covering performances from every one of its four decades. As such, CBC Music has compiled what we think are the prog-rock trio's 10 greatest songs. To add to that, we also sat down with drummer/lyricist Neil Peart and asked him to provide some context for the songs we picked, including one that is still challenging for him to play today. 10: "Xanadu" Album: A Farewell to Kings (1977) Peart: "Let's call that our experimental phase. After 2112, we were guitar, bass and drums and ambitious, so we thought maybe we should add another musician. But then it was, no, let's expand our own arsenal, so the guys started getting into acoustic guitar, bass pedals were just coming out, and I started expanding my drums, which would give us a great orchestration ability. Those subsequent albums are us learning to use all that, having fun, experimenting, as genuine as can be. When I look back on that it's an indulgent smile. We would later do better but there was nothing wrong with it. I described it once as young, foolish and brave." 9: "Time Stands Still" Album: Hold Your Fire (1987) Peart: "A song I still really like. Autobiographical in a sense. The whole thing of wanting to slow things down and absorb the moment. Feel this moment a little bit stronger, since we can't adjust the time to have more. I get frustrated when people say where did the time go. You just weren't paying attention. A day is a day, a month is a month, a year is a year. For me, it started in 1986, I remember sitting down and writing why 1986 was the greatest year ever. So if I was able to think that way in '86, now I know even better to value the passing of time and the richness of experience." 8: "YYZ" Album: Moving Pictures (1981) Peart: "We were flying into Toronto on a private plane and heard the morse code beep, and that became the founding rhythm of the song. It was a soundtrack about airports, the bustling part, the very emotional part of it, you know, re-greeting each other, and all the laments. That was a conscious thing, to try to weave in some of the moods of airports into the song 'YYZ.'" 7: "Red Barchetta" Album: Moving Pictures (1981) Peart: "My friend [Richard Foster] had published this story in Road and Track magazine, and it was set in a dystopian future where certain cars are outlawed. He used an MGB in the story, but I used my dream car, this red Ferrari…. It was so cinematic for us, and we were learning to be concise, but also making soundtracks. It's probably one of our best in that sense being a short movie, and every section is a cinematic accompaniment to the lyrics. It's still one I really like and it's great to play live." 6: "Limelight" Album: Moving Pictures (1981) Peart: "An attempt to clarify for myself and hopefully others a thing that I learned: never complain, never explain. I try not to complain, but I can't help but to explain. That was an attempt on my part to explain myself as an introvert, feeling totally alienated by the 'guilded cage' of it all, and it's been remarkable over time how many young musicians have come up to me and told me what that song means to them when they faced the same transition in their life. It's supply and demand: as a young musician, you're all about supply and there is no demand, and then as soon as you get a little popularity there is demand, but the supply is the same, there is still just you, and it's a very difficult transition to weather…. You can't complain, but other musicians will say to me, that song 'Limelight,' I get it.'" 5: "Subdivisions" Album: Signals (1982) Peart: "Hugely autobiographical of course. It was an important step for us, the first song written that was keyboard-based. The upside of that: people don't realize is that it made Alex [Lifeson] and I the rhythm section. So the first time he and I tuned in to each other's parts was when Geddy [Lee] was playing keyboards. It was a great new way for us to relate. It's also a good example of us learning to go into time signature changes more fluid

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Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39% Update Nov. 9, 2015: please note that publisher profits is not my research area. I am not an economist or financial analyst. Reed Elsevier and other publicly traded corporations are required to publish their financial results. If you are looking for an appropriate citation for Elsevier profits, please read and cite the Elsevier annual report. If you are directed here by a citation incorrectly identifying me as an expert in this area, please let the citing source know that they are in error. If you are interested in my actual research area, please see my current research blog sustainingknowledgecommons.org The Reed Elsevier annual report was published in March. One highlight of interest in the area of scholarly publishing is the revenue and adjusted operating profit for the Scientific, Technical & Medical portion of the business. STM 2013 revenue: £2,126 million STM 2013 adjusted operating profit: £826 million That's a profit margin of 39%! Revenue is up 1% from 2012, while profit is up 6% from 2012 (Reed Elsevier 2014, p. 12). Elsevier's profit increased from £780 million in 2012 to £826 million in 2013. That's an increase in profit alone of £46 million, or $76 million in U.S. dollars. As I've explained elsewhere (Morrison, 2013), the vast majority of revenue for scholarly journals comes from academic library budgets. Surely universities have better things to do with this kind of money than further increasing the profits of already highly profitable publishers? For example: $76 million dollars in extra profits to Elsevier could fund 760 academic positions at a rate of $100,000 per year - and this wouldn't even touch Elsevier's previously high profit rate! $76 million dollars in extra profits to Elsevier could fund over 12,000 student research assistantships at a rate of $6,000 each. References Morrison, H. (2014). Economics of scholarly communication in transition. First Monday, [S.l.], may. 2013. ISSN 13960466. Available at: . Date accessed: 18 Mar. 2014. doi:10.5210/fm.v18i6.4370.  Reed Elsevier (2014). 2013 Annual Report. Retrieved March 18, 2014 from http://www.reedelsevier.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2013/reed_elsevier_ar_2013.pdf   Currency conversion Converting to U.S. dollars, that's revenue of $3.5 billion and profit of $1.3 billion, based on the Bank of Canada's daily currency conversion service, summary: On 18 March 2014, 826.00 U.K. pound sterling(s) = 1,368.94 U.S. dollar(s), at an exchange rate of 1.6573 (using nominal rate). From: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/daily-converter/ Update January 12, 2015: for my current research on the economic transition to open access, please see my research blog, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons.

READ ARTICLES BASED ON THE BOOK The New York Times, "My Mother Speaks Through Me" The Washington Post, "Women Friends Like to Handle Conflicts by talking them out. But does it work?" Time.com, "Why Friends Ghost on Even Their Closest Pals" New York Magazine, "A Linguist Breaks Down What We Really Mean When We Call Our Friends 'Close'" The Atlantic, "The (Sometimes Unintentional) Subtext of Digital Conversations" The New York Times, "Women's Friendships, in Sickness and in Health" other books by Deborah Tannen

My bowels, my bowels! (19)--As with Jeremiah 4:13 , the words may be Jeremiah's own cry of anguish, or that of the despairing people with whom he identifies himself. The latter gives more dramatic vividness, as we thus have the utterances of three of the great actors in the tragedy: here of the people, in Jeremiah 4:22 of Jehovah, in Jeremiah 4:23 of the prophet. The "bowels" were with the Hebrews thought of as the seat of all the strongest emotions, whether of sorrow, fear, or sympathy ( Job 30:27 Isaiah 16:11 ). At my very heart.--Literally (reproducing the physical fact of palpitation), I writhe in pain; the walls of my heart! my heart moans for me. The verb for "I am pained" is often used for the "travail" or agony of childbirth (Isaiah 23:4; Isaiah 26:18). Thou hast heard, O my soul . . .--Silence at such a time was impossible. The prophet, as in the language of strong emotion, addresses his own soul, his very self (Comp. Psalm 16:2; Psalm 42:5; Psalm 42:11). Verse 19. My bowels "My bowels! my bowels! I must writhe in pain! The walls of my heart! My heart moaneth unto me! I cannot hold my peace! For thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war!" The walls of my heart Jump to Previous Jump to Next Links . It is doubted whether the speaker in vers. 19-21 is the prophet or the whole nation. Ver. 19 reminds us of Isaiah 15:5 Isaiah 16:11 and Isaiah 21:3, 4, and would be quite in harmony with the elegiac tone of our prophet elsewhere; the Targum too already regards the passage as an exclamation of the prophet. On the other hand, the phrase "my tents" (ver. 20) certainly implies that the people, or the pious section of the people, is the speaker. Both views may perhaps be united. The prophet may be the speaker in ver. 19, but simply (as is the case with so many of the psalmists) as the representative of his fellow-believers, whom in ver. 20 he brings on the stage more directly. Ver. 19 is best rendered as a series of exclamations -Observe, the "soul" hears; the "heart" is pained. So generally the one is more active, the other more passive. The Hebrew margin gives, for "I must writhe," "I must wait" (comp. Micah 7:7 ); but this rendering does not suit the context.. A poetical way of saying, "My heart beats."My bowels, my bowels,.... These are either the words of the people, unto whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse; or rather of the prophet, who either, from a sympathizing heart, expresses himself in this manner; or puts on an appearance of mourning and distress, in order to awaken his people to a sense of their condition. The repetition of the word is after the manner of persons in pain and uneasiness, as, "my head, my head", 2 Kings 4:19 I am pained at my very heart; as a woman in labour. In the Hebrew text it is, "as the walls of my heart" (e); meaning either his bowels, as before; or the "praecordia", the parts about the heart, which are as walls unto it; his grief had reached these walls, and was penetrating through them to his heart, and there was danger of breaking that:my heart makes a noise in me; palpitates, beats and throbs, being filled with fears and dread, with sorrow and concern, at what was coming on; it represents an aching heart, all in disorder and confusion:I cannot hold my peace; or be silent; must speak, and vent grief:because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war; Kimchi observes, he does not say "my ears", but "my soul"; for as yet he had not heard with his ears the sound of the trumpet; for the enemy was not yet come, but his soul heard by prophecy: here is a Keri and a Cetib, a reading and a writing; it is written "I have heard"; it is read "thou hast heard", which is followed by the Targum: the sense is the same, it is the hearing of the soul. The prophet, by these expressions, represents the destruction as very near, very

"I think the only major financial institution that Glass-Steagall would have a major effect on is probably Citi, which still has some of the supermarket elements," Bernanke added. Bernanke: I'm 'puzzled' by the focus on Glass-Steagall Ben Bernanke is "a little puzzled" by the focus of some Democratic presidential candidates on reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act as a means of regulating or breaking up financial institutions, the former Federal Reserve chairman said Wednesday. Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley have pledged to reinstate the Depression-era act that created a separation between commercial and investment banking, and was repealed in the 1990s when Bill Clinton was president. Hillary Clinton's proposal for Wall Street reform does not include an explicit call for the break-up of so-called "too big to fail" financial institutions. Story Continued Below "I'm actually a little puzzled by the focus on that particular provision," Bernanke said during a discussion with POLITICO's Ben White at an America's Fiscal Future event in Manhattan. "I think that if you look at the actual, what happened a few years ago in the crisis, that Glass-Steagall was pretty irrelevant to it because you had banks like Wachovia or [Washington Mutual] that went bad because they made bad loans, and you had investment banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman that went bad because of their investment banking activities." Even if Glass-Steagall were still in place at the time of the financial crisis, "it would have had no effect on most of these firms," he said, including AIG, which required massive and repeated bailouts. "I think the only major financial institution that Glass-Steagall would have a major effect on is probably Citi, which still has some of the supermarket elements," Bernanke added. For the most part, though, he remarked, "it would just be an example of breaking up firms for the purpose of breaking them up without a clear rationale for doing that. I think there are other ways to simplify banks that would be more effective." Part of that, Bernanke said, is simplifying banks to make them smaller and more efficient. "We are moving towards a situation where banks are now evaluating their own size and complexity in light of the fact that on the one hand, there are economic benefits to size, but on the other hand, it's becoming much tougher to be a big bank," he said, referencing the fact that larger banks "are trying to shrink" because they do not want to hold as much capital as is required of the largest institutions. "You put the incentives in the right place and force banks to think about whether their size and complexity is justified in an economic sense, or whether it basically could be dispensed with and you could get simpler banks. I think over time, the pressure will be on banks to simplify," he added, touting the example of the liquidation authority under the Dodd-Frank Act that gives regulators the ability to more cleanly unwind a bank on the brink of collapse. "Just breaking them into tiny little pieces, you're going to lose a lot of value if you do that, without thinking about what the economics is," he added.

Synopsis A library for running tasks(jobs) on schedules. It supports: Strongly typed jobs with strongly typed parameters Asynchronous execution Running a single job on multiple schedules Running Multiple jobs on a single schedule Cron schedules Run once and expiring schedules Custom schedules Limiting the number of threads on which work is done Managing behaviors of jobs which run beyond their next scheduled time Dependency Injection initialization Full mocking for unit tests .NET Core See Wiki and Tutorial for more info. Official site here. Code Example var singularity = Singularity . Instance ; var job = new SimpleParameterizedJob < string >(( parameter , scheduledTime ) => Console . WriteLine ( $" { parameter } \t scheduled: { scheduledTime . ToString ( " o " )} " )); var schedule = new EveryXTimeSchedule ( TimeSpan . FromSeconds ( 1 )); var scheduledJob = singularity . ScheduleParameterizedJob ( schedule , job , " Hello World " , true ); // starts immediately var startTime = DateTime . UtcNow . Add ( TimeSpan . FromSeconds ( 5 )); var scheduledJob2 = singularity . ScheduleParameterizedJob ( schedule , job , " Hello World 2 " , startTime ); singularity . Start (); Thread . Sleep ( 10 * 1000 ); singularity . StopScheduledJob ( scheduledJob ); Thread . Sleep ( 5 * 1000 ); singularity . Stop (); In the above example, here's what happens: The first job starts immediately and print's "Hello World" once every second. Five seconds later the second job starts and prints "Hello World2" every second. Five seconds later the first job stops and only the second job is running. Five seconds later, Stop() is called and the second job also stops. Notice the same job is used with multiple schedules with different parameters. Coming Soon !!! The above code works with the currently released version. A new version with serialization features is on the way and has been started. There will be some breaking changes. If you'd like to see some of the changes coming, check out the Serialization branch. The core logic for how jobs run will not change, but how jobs get added has. I'm personally very excited to be bringing these changes as it opens up a world of possibilites for the project. Motivation This project was inspired for the need to have a strongly typed .NET solution for running tasks on schedules. Installation in your nuget package manager: Install-Package Chroniton for .NET Core use: Install-Package Chroniton.NetCore Contributors Created by : Leonard Sperry [email protected] License Licensed under the MIT License Changes V 1.0.3 Cron string support XUnit Simplified constructors for SimpleJob and SimpleParameterizedJob V 1.0.2 Support for run once and expiring jobs V 1.0.1 Simplified Singularity by removing one of the main loops. Added .NET Core support Future Features Serialization Distributed execution Notes Unfortunately, .NET Core projects do not yet support referencing Shared Code projects. Therefore, the .NET Core projects in this solution reference all the files in the shared projects directly.

It's always struck me as peculiar that Wisconsin—such a wholesome potpourri of Holsteins, Scandinavians and snowflakes—somehow managed to produce not one but two of our nation's grisliest serial killers: Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and Ghoul of Plainfield Ed Gein. The deeper I delved into the criminal history of America's Dairyland, however, the clearer it became: there are no coincidences. The evildoers of Wisconsin are a twisted breed; scrape away the Midwestern courtesy and melted cheese and behold hearts and minds grotesque as Green Bay Packers' merchandise and frozen as the tundra of Lambeau Field. "I think he's got a good heart and a (expletive)-up head." ———–Daniel Acker grooming victim as quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel It's a scenario that's played out in the media countless times: beloved school employee is unmasked as a lifelong sexual predator, and no one saw it coming despite decades of behavior that raised more red flags than a University of Madison homecoming parade. On March 23rd, 2009, sixty-one year old Milwaukee-area swim coach Daniel Acker was arrested for criminal sexual contact with a child. Nicknamed Mr. Dan by his students, Acker had worked for the West Allis Recreation Department since 1971; adored by pupils and parents alike, the Waukesha resident had used his position of authority to identify, groom, and ultimately molest vulnerable teenage boys for nearly forty years. Acker's official victim tally would eventually reach twenty-eight, although authorities suspect the true number is much higher. Acker's underage escapades were curtailed entirely by chance;in March of 2009 a forty-seven year old Greenfield man was motoring past Frank Lloyd Wright Middle Schoolwhen he espied a familiar face in the doorway: Mr. Dan,the swim coach who had assaulted him "hundreds" of times in the 1970s between the ages of eleven and fifteen.Aghast to learn his childhood boogeyman was still working with minorsthe man conveyed the details of his abuse to the recreation department, who then notified authorities.After Acker's arrest the Greenfield Police Department set up a special tip line for the coach's victims;as Detective Chuck Fletcher told radio station WTMJ, "[t]he phone was ringing every few minutes." Acker's rationalizations and the community response to his arrest are classic; if we were to create a sexual predator bingo card all spaces would be covered: • The community professed shock at Acker's arrest even though his grooming machinations—gifts, trips, and boundless attention lavished solely on pubescent boys—were so blatant Joe Paterno would've looked askance at his behavior. • According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "[Acker] stated he would never hurt a child." • When confronted with his crimes, Acker claimed the behavior was consensual—he was "pleasing and pleasuring [his victims] sexually in gratitude for their friendship." Because if there's one thing a ten-year old boy deserves in exchange for his friendship it's sodomy. • "I am not a predator," Acker told a reporter from Greenfield Now, as if nearly a half century of pederasty could be wiped away with mental gymnastics and a firm denial. Although Acker's misdeeds seemed to follow a well-worn path a search of his Waukesha condominium pivoted the Greenfield Police Department's investigation from workaday to outré.Obsessively neat, the residence was well stocked with all the stereotypical pedophile lures,toys, games, and boy-centric fripperies abounding.Tucked away in the basement,an elaborate model city caught an investigator's eye—it was when the detective unhinged the roof of the tiny town's police station that the inquiry into Acker's crimes left the banality of evil in the dust.Inside, bedecking the walls like a miniature scorecard were a dozen photos of missing and murdered children.Further investigation revealed vintage car models inscribed with victims' names,the year of the vehicle's manufacture corresponding with the year of the child's abduction."It's bizarre," Greenfield Deputy Inspector Bradley Wentlandt told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."No agency has seen anything like it before." Acker's little cop shop of horrors wasn't the only surprise lurking in his oppressively tidy abode; detectives unearthed a handwritten journal, hundreds of pages long, which allegedly chronicled the confirmed bachelor's abiding obsession with missing and murdered children. Although authorities have never released Acker's

Side effects of combined oral contraceptives are the most common reason why women discontinue them. Over the past half century, an elaborate mythology about these ill effects has evolved, fueled by rumor, gossip and poor-quality research. In contrast, placebo-controlled randomized trials document that nonspecific side effects are not significantly more common with combined oral contraceptives than with inert pills. These reported nonspecific side effects may reflect the nocebo phenomenon (the inverse of a placebo): if women are told to expect noxious side effects, these complaints occur because of the power of suggestion. Alternatively, nonspecific complaints may simply reflect their background prevalence in the population. Because Level I evidence documents no important increase in nonspecific side effects with oral contraceptives, counseling about these side effects or including them in package labeling is unwarranted and probably unethical. When in doubt, clinicians should err on the side of optimism.

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NEW YORK — Museums, the Empire State Building, Broadway theaters and many stores reopened today to the relief of tourists who'd been stuck in hotel rooms since the weekend due to Superstorm Sandy. But parks, the 9/11 Memorial, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and many other top attractions remained shuttered, some indefinitely as damage assessment continued. "We tried to go to Central Park but it was closed," said Angela Walsh, here from Lincoln, England, with her husband and two kids, as they took pictures at Rockefeller Center this morning, where the rink was opening for skating. She said they'd spent much of the last two days in their hotel room. "Thank God for Facebook," she added. "That kept them entertained." All city parks and the High Line are closed indefinitely. In Central Park at least 250 mature trees were felled by the storm, with benches and playgrounds damaged as well. "It's all about keeping the public safe," said Doug Blonsky, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy. Most Broadway matinee and evening performances were expected to play as scheduled today. Cancellations included "Evita," ''The Lion King," ''Mary Poppins" and "Scandalous." Thomas Karlegott waited with his wife and another couple from Angelholm, Sweden, all on their first visit to New York, for the opening of the TKTS booth in Times Square today. He said they'd be happy with tickets to any show at all after wandering around a largely shuttered Manhattan for the last few days without doing much. "We ate good food," he added with a smile, but admitted that they'd missed shopping and going to museums. Subways remained closed, making it difficult to get around. The Staten Island Ferry, a humble commuter boat that's popular with tourists because it offers a free, beautiful view of New York Harbor, was shut due to flooding in the ferry terminal. Yellow cabs were on the streets but hard to come by. Local buses were running, but double-decker tour buses — normally a ubiquitous sight around the city — remained out of service today, though City Sights, Gray Line and other bus companies announced on their websites that they hoped to resume operations Thursday. Circle Line boat tours said via Twitter that they also hoped to resume Thursday. The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were expected to remain closed at least until Saturday, according to their websites. Tourism is the city's fifth largest industry, with an annual economic impact worth $52 billion, including $34.5 billion in direct spending. Nearly 51 million people visited New York City in 2011. The city's official tourism agency, NYC & Co., referred a request for comment to the mayor's office, which did not immediately respond. Among those lining up at the Museum of Modern Art were Sophie Manisse and her two daughters from Lyon, France. "We wanted to see the Halloween parade," she said, referring to the annual Greenwich Village event, which was canceled. Instead, they headed into MOMA, where Edvard Munch's "The Scream" went on display a week ago and seemed to symbolize the state of mind of many visitors. "We're really upset," said Debbie Clinton, visiting the city from Liverpool, England, as they walked into the Empire State Building, one of the first of the city's major attractions to reopen Wednesday morning. "We bought passes for all these attractions and we haven't used them." They were heading home Thursday. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also opened today, and the Guggenheim opened for one exhibition, "Picasso Black and White." Crowds of would-be shoppers gathered outside Macy's and other stores today in anticipation of the doors opening. "It's filled with tourists!" reported Macy's spokeswoman Elina Kazan a few minutes after the store opened. She said they had limited staffing but saluted the workers who made it to 34th Street from the city's far-flung neighborhoods "by any means possible. They walked, carpooled, bused or cabbed from the boroughs. Many waited for hours but made it in." Some visitors had a philosophical attitude. Martine Juillard of Paris, waiting with her two teenage daughters for an Abercrombie & Fitch store to open on Fifth Avenue Wednesday, said there had been some frightening moments during the worst of the storm. "We are pleased because we are alive," she said with a bold smile. "For the shops and the museums, we'll come back another time." — The Associated Press

Renderings of the renovations expected to be approved by UC. Provided/University of Cincinnati (Photo: Provided/University of Cincinnati) (Updated 1:17 p.m.) The University of Cincinnati is close to approving a plan that will renovate the Bearcats' Fifth Third Arena on campus at an estimated $70 million to $85 million, The Enquirer has learned. The 26-year-old building is the main home for UC men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball and has a seating capacity of 13,176. The Enquirer has obtained renderings that show various renovations to the building including the rearranging of some seating, but the exact new capacity is not known. The Enquirer has previously reported that capacity could be reduced to 10,000, but that information has not been released. The project will not be an expansion but rather a renovation. Renderings of the renovations expected to be approved by UC. (Photo: Provided/University of Cincinnati) The UC Board of Trustees is expected to approve the project soon, possibly at its next meeting in August. The project will be paid for with private funds and some fundraising already is in progress, sources told The Enquirer. Work is expected to begin immediately after the Bearcats complete the 2015-16 basketball season, meaning possibly sometime around April 2016. UC would have to leave Fifth Third Arena for the 2016-17 season, with US Bank Arena and Cincinnati Gardens among several possibilities considered as a temporary home. It is expected that UC basketball will return to its campus arena for the 2017-18 season. The plan would include a 360-degree seating bowl, and would replace the current rollaway bleachers with permanent seats. A new roof is planned along with upgrades to concessions, lighting and the heating and cooling systems. Retail kiosks for fans will be located in the upper bowl. Many upper level bench seats will be replaced with chairback seating. UC athletic director Mike Bohn could not immediately be reached for comment. Bohn and some UC staffers visited the Gardens on a fact-finding tour last month. UC also is in the midst of an $86 million renovation and expansion of its Nippert Stadium football facility, which is expected to reopen for the 2015 Bearcats football season on Sept. 5 against Alabama A&M.

The failure to accept responsibility is a growing problem in society and pushed in particular by progressives. One effect of this is that too many entitled whippersnappers have bloated self-esteem coupled with excessive sensitivities and — no matter their performance — have always gotten a trophy. Young adults who we used to expect to act like adults can now put off financial independence by staying on their parents' health care plans until they are 26. But it is not just younger Americans who seem untethered to the realities of life and market indicators. ADVERTISEMENT Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonSenate panel subpoenas Roger Stone associate for Russia probe Webb: The new mob: Anti-American Dems Clinton to hold fundraiser for Menendez in NJ next month MORE is one of the oldest candidates to ever run for president, and this week she gave those Americans resisting the mantle of adulthood a new motto: We would be winners if it hadn't been for … Jim Comey or the Russians. There is a sturdy American tradition that those who lose presidential elections concede election night, meet with their competitor and for the most part try to be classy and self-effacing. The wounds inflicted by a nationwide loss never fully heal, but most presidential also-rans maintain their dignity and avoid any appearance of being sore losers. Voters become irritated when losing candidates fail to comprehend a harsh and plain verdict. A candidate can never fully appreciate all the ways voters demurred from him or her, but the rejection cannot be denied. Clinton: I was on track to win before Comey and WikiLeaks https://t.co/gfDsY35Ax2 pic.twitter.com/gvg8ppsCYk — The Hill (@thehill) May 3, 2017 In her attempt to shatter the glass ceiling, Secretary Clinton instead shattered the American tradition of being a good sport, of accepting one's failure with grace, and of teaching citizens that sometimes in losing we find an even deeper purpose. For almost 30 years the Clintons have attempted to convince Americans that they are victims: of "bimbos," of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," of the White House staff, of the Department of Justice, of the Special Counsel. And now the HRC claim is that she was "…on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and the Russian WikiLeaks." Lying is quite an art form and one well practiced in politics. It is easy to lie in small ways to make things seem better, a practice that is often called "spin." Deft spinners find the words to confuse observers as to the actual sober reality of political decisions, especially ones that have developed an odor. But the real dark talent is to convince unsuspecting voters that what they think is true is actually the opposite. The election results of 2016 were not a fluke. The American people were not confused and voters have the Clintons figured out. They know the Clintons have dragged the country through the back alley of 1960s excess. The Clintons are far too willing to put the country through the trauma and turbulence that results from their desire to grow their bank accounts in tandem with their political power. Conway rips Clinton for blaming loss on outside forces: You 'lost to a better candidate' https://t.co/eVuCpCLy9a pic.twitter.com/W7FW6h7oJ3 — The Hill (@thehill) May 3, 2017 Did Comey deny Hillary Clinton the White House? No. In fact, Clinton broke the law and mishandled classified information, a fact she continually swerves around. Her top advisor, Huma Abedin, was married to an alleged child predator but she thought it acceptable to inappropriately send State Department information to her husband's laptop which he used for his leering sessions. Comey had already permanently damaged his reputation by publicly flogging Secretary Clinton for her abuse of sensitive information and for her failure to give consistently honest answers to the FBI, without recommending corresponding legal punishments. If anything, Director Comey aided and abetted the Clinton campaign and only went public with his actions when pushed by Congress or in response to the sleaziness of Weinergate. To be even clearer, there would not have been any FBI investigation if Hillary Clinton had simply followed the law on the custody of her government emails and sensitive government information. What doomed her candidacy was a maniacal desire for personal secrecy and her belief that adherence to government standards were akin to Leona Helmsley's view of paying taxes, they are for "the little people." Did WikiLeaks cost her the election? Once again the answer is no. The release of private emails is abhorrent and WikiLeaks has many victims, but Hillary Clinton is not among them. The leaked emails showed the American voter what they already knew. The DNC under Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was engaged in an effort to deny Sen. Bernie Sanders a fair shake at the Democratic nomination, scamming the American people, particularly Democratic voters, and compromising the

Computer Learns To Play Go At Superhuman Levels 'Without Human Knowledge' Enlarge this image toggle caption DeepMind DeepMind A year after a computer beat a human world champion in the ancient strategy game of Go, researchers say they have constructed an even stronger version of the program — one that can teach itself without the benefit of human knowledge. The program, known as AlphaGo Zero, became a Go master in just three days by playing 4.9 million games against itself in quick succession. "In a short space of time, AlphaGo Zero has understood all of the Go knowledge that has been accumulated by humans over thousands of years of playing," lead researcher David Silver of Google's DeepMind lab said in remarks on YouTube. "Sometimes it's actually chosen to go beyond that and discovered something that the humans hadn't even discovered in this time period." The work, published this week in the journal Nature, could provide a foundation for machines teaching themselves to solve other complex problems in ways that could be applied to health, for example, or the environment. But some researchers question whether the program actually has such broad applications. Go is a complex ancient East Asian strategy game, played on a 19-by-19 grid. The open-ended game has more possible configurations than there are known atoms in the universe, according to the DeepMind researchers. The open-ended nature of the game has made Go a "grand challenge for artificial intelligence," the researchers say. It's far more complicated than chess. A computer beat out world chess champion Garry Kasparov two decades ago. DeepMind has trained previous versions of the program by giving it a database full of thousands of human-played games of Go. It was one of those versions that went on to beat top player Lee Sedol last year, grabbing international headlines. AlphaGo Zero takes a different approach. Instead of learning from human-played games, Silver says it was given the simple rules for Go and asked to play itself. AlphaGo Zero "figures out only for itself, only from self-play, and without any human knowledge, without any human data, without any human examples or features or intervention from humans. It discovers how to play the game of Go completely from first principles." In their study, the researchers describe the program using a term that is well-known to students of philosophy: Tabula rasa, which is Latin for "blank slate." They argue that starting with a blank slate is optimal because human data sets can be "expensive, unreliable or simply unavailable." Data sets of human knowledge could also potentially "impose a ceiling on the performance of systems trained in this manner." As it trained, "what we started to see was that AlphaGo Zero not only started to rediscover the common patterns and openings that humans tend to play," Silver said, "it also learned them, discovered them, and ultimately discarded them in preference for its own variants that humans don't even know about or play at the moment." When matched with the version that defeated the world champion, AlphaGo Zero beat it 100 games to 0. The researchers say that the benefit of tabula rasa learning is simple: It means that a program can "learn for itself what knowledge is." This means it could be applied to other fields, they say, such as protein folding or reducing energy consumption. But other researchers such as Gary Marcus, an entrepreneur and psychology professor at New York University who specializes in artificial intelligence, think that the paper overstates its findings. The program hasn't mastered Go without human knowledge, he says, because "actually prior knowledge has gone into the construction of the algorithm itself." He adds: "They're not putting explicit declarative knowledge of things other than the rules of Go in there, but there's a lot of implicit knowledge that the programmers have about how to construct machines to play problems like Go." Showing that the algorithm can build knowledge from scratch on other kinds of problems would be needed to prove the claim, he says — or else all they've proven is that it's an algorithm that is really good at Go. In a written statement, DeepMind said that "nothing in the AlphaGo Zero algorithm is specific to the game of Go" and added that the team is "currently applying the same algorithm to other sequential problems and are confident that this approach is generalisable to a large number of domains." They provided no information about how the algorithm has fared in solving other problems. Marcus is generally critical of what he sees as a general bias in the AI field toward tabula rasa programming. He argues that "in biology, actual human brains are not tabula rasa ... I don't see the principal theoretical reason why you should do that, why you should abandon lots of knowledge that we have about the world."

President-elect Donald Trump will name an ultra-conservative surgeon, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The choice, which Trump's transition team announced on Tuesday morning, would appear to signal Trump's determination to proceed with a major overhaul of federal health care programs ― including not just Obamacare, which Republicans have sworn to repeal, but also Medicare and Medicaid. Price, 62, practiced as an orthopedist for about two decades before winning election to the House of Representatives in 2005. Once in Congress, Price gained notoriety for his right-wing views ― first as chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative lawmakers, and then as a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus. A constant in his career has been a hostility to government interference with the practice of medicine. That may help explain why Price has emerged one of Washington's most vocal and persistent critics of the Affordable Care Act. That law, which President Barack Obama signed in 2010, has helped more than 20 million people to get health insurance and made coverage available even to people with pre-existing medical conditions. It has also increased the underlying cost of insurance and raised taxes on the very wealthy. In a prepared statement, Trump hailed Price as "a renowned physician" and "go-to expert on healthcare policy. ... He is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare and bring affordable and accessible healthcare to every American." Democrats reacted to the news harshly, noting Price's history of criticizing major federal health programs ― as well as his strong opposition to abortion rights. "Congressman Price has proven to be far out of the mainstream of what Americans want when it comes to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and Planned Parenthood," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the incoming minority leader. "Nominating Congressman Price to be the HHS secretary is akin to asking the fox to guard the hen house." Republicans have long promised that they would replace Obamacare, rather than simply repeal it. By tapping Price, Trump is enlisting one of the few Republican lawmakers who have actually taken that vow seriously ― to the point of writing a detailed piece of legislation. The "Empowering Patients First Act," as it is known, would gut Obamacare's regulation of insurance plans, reduce the total financial assistance going to people buying private coverage and rescind entirely the law's expansion of Medicaid for the poorest Americans. Insurers could resume some of the practices that Obamacare now prohibits ― like selling bare-bones plans and, in some cases, denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Price's proposal would offer people tax credits, but there'd be no guarantee the credits could actually pay for comprehensive coverage. The result, according to one analysis, would be less government spending and regulation ― as well as lower taxes on the rich. Many younger and healthier people would get access to cheaper insurance, particularly if they were comfortable with plans that had minimal coverage or gaps in benefits. But a scheme like Price's would also mean fewer people covered and, almost certainly, less financial protection for people with the worst medical conditions. "It would likely leave many of the 20 million people losing coverage they now receive under the Affordable Care Act without health insurance and going without needed care," Edwin Park, vice president for health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told The Huffington Post. In 2015, Price was a chief architect of legislation to repeal Obamacare using the budget reconciliation process ― a special legislative procedure, reserved for certain fiscal matters, that is not subject to filibusters in the Senate. Both the House and Senate passed a version of that bill earlier this year. And while Obama vetoed it, many Republicans are already pushing to use reconciliation as a way to get Obamacare repeal through Congress again in 2017 ― after which Trump, as president, would presumably sign it. And Price has said he wouldn't stop with Obamacare. In mid-November, not long after the presidential election, Price said that Republicans could also use reconciliation to change Medicare, as well. House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have long called for converting Medicare into some kind of voucher scheme, in which seniors would get a fixed sum of money with which to choose a health plan. Price has also endorsed transforming Medicaid into a "block grant" ― in other words, giving states a fixed sum of money with which to run the program and then reducing the federal government's spending on it. During the presidential campaign, Trump indicated he would not cut either Medicare or Medicaid. But language on his new transition website says that he will "modernize" Medicare and give states more "flexibility" over Medicaid. In Washington, those terms are typically euphemisms for privatizing Medicare and transforming Medicaid into a block grant.

The Melbourne areas with the most number of unoccupied properties have been revealed, as the Andrews government sets to reap in tens of millions of dollars from its new vacant property tax. The new tax is expected to bite hardest in the Melbourne City Council area, where more than 2500 properties - namely high-rise apartments - are vacant. In the Moonee Valley council area, which includes Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale, Avondale Heights and parts of Flemington, there are at least 1700 empty properties. This compares to more than 1000 vacant properties in the inner-northern Yarra City Council area, which takes in Fitzroy, North Carlton, Collingwood and Richmond.

The starting grid for race two of each World Superbike weekend will no longer be based on the Superpole qualifying session. Instead, it will be decided by the results of race one. Superpole will still influence the grid positions for riders who finish 10th or lower in the first race. But this does not mean that the tenth place rider in Superpole will start tenth in race two, only that the highest placed Superpole rider outside the top nine will start in tenth. For example, the rider who qualified on pole in race one might fail to finish and therefore start tenth in race two. Likewise, riders who qualified tenth or lower in Superpole could finish inside the top nine in race one. The complexity continues with the following system then being used to allocate the top nine grid places for race two: * The top three riders in race one will move back to row three, and see 1st and 3rd reverse their positions. So the 1st place rider will start from 9th, 2nd place from 8th and 3rd from 7th. * Riders who finished in 4th, 5th and 6th will be promoted to the front row. So 4th will start from pole, 5th from 2nd and 6th from 3rd. * Riders who finished in 7th, 8th and 9th will start from the second row. So 7th will start from 4th, 8th from 5th and 9th from 6th. All clear?! The move is aimed at increasing excitement and unpredictability in race two, with the fastest riders now set to regularly start from row three, but lowers the significance of Superpole and risks being labelled as too artificial by fans. However the concept of shaking up the race two grid is not unique, with the MCE British Superbike Championship using fastest race one laps to decide the starting order for race two. In other news, World Supersport will adopt flag-to-flag racing in 2017, meaning races will no longer be stopped due to weather changes and riders will instead - as in WorldSBK and MotoGP - be able to change tyres.

more-in Mincing no words, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that as long as he was in power he would not allow any division of Maharashtra. Though he did not mention Vidarbha, does the PM's declaration also put paid to the talk of the decades-old demand for carving out a separate state Vidarbha from Maharashtra? It has been the BJP's stand to favour smaller States even though in this campaign Vidarbha has remained a non-issue for all parties. Those in favour of a separate Vidarbha had received a shot in the arm recently with the BJP splitting with Sena. Campaigning for the State assembly election, Mr. Modi asserted that the 'land of Shivaji' would not be broken by any one. Mr. Modi's comments come in the heat of the state elections campaigning with the other four major parties in the poll fray--the Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena and MNS-targeting him for allegedly plotting to dilute Mumbai's commercial status or separating it from Maharashtra. Dismissing as "lies," the Congress' charges that the BJP would divide Maharashtra, Mr. Modi at an election rally in Dhule, said:"I assure you no force can divide Maharashtra, till I'm in (power) in Delhi. Without Mumbai, Maharashtra is incomplete," Mr. Modi said. If any state has the capability of driving the country's growth, it is Maharashtra, he said. Stepping up the offensive against Mr. Modi, MNS chief Raj Thackeray had accused him of cultivating a "hidden agenda" of splitting Maharashtra. Senior NCP leader and former PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal had also commented that Mr. Modi was turning out to be the "PM of Gujarat" and would soon convert Mumbai into Ahmedabad. In its mouthpiece, the Saamna, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday had attacked the BJP for failing to raise issues close to the Marathi heart. "Why don't they talk of Marathi asmita or a unified Maharashtra? the Sena asked. While the two Senas have been opposed to any split of Maharashtra, in context of a separate Vidarbha, at the height of the debate on creation of the state of Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh, the then union minister and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had said his party had no objection to Vidarbha.

British comedian Ricky Gervais is using social media to highlight his favourite parts of Toronto for millions of fans around the world. Gervais is in Toronto to film a movie called "Special Correspondents." He posted on Facebook that filming starts in mid-May, calling it his "most ambitious project yet." Throughout the project, Gervais has been posting pictures and comments about his favourite parts of Toronto to his nearly 8 million followers on Twitter and his 3 million 'friends' on Facebook. Here are four things he loves about the city: Nature On Saturday, Gervais posted three photos of himself and his partner, writer Jane Fallon, in a treed part of one of the Toronto Islands. Jane having a picnic with all her friends. pic.twitter.com/ZxsZ4MTuhk — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 9, 2015 "Wow. The Toronto Islands are stunningly beautiful and peaceful," he wrote. Wow. The Toronto Islands are stunningly beautiful & peaceful. pic.twitter.com/DUHdn6Keyv — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 9, 2015 Last week, Gervais posted a photo of Leuty Lifeguard Station in the Beaches area to his Twitter and Facebook pages with the caption: "Exploring the beaches of Lake Ontario. What a beautiful place to live." Exploring the beaches of Lake Ontario. What a beautiful place to live. #Toronto pic.twitter.com/r46DEHoqVI — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 2, 2015 Architecture On Wednesday, Gervais posted a photo of a fiery orange and red Toronto sunset. He's posted several other photos of the city's skyline during his visit. On Friday, he posted a photo of himself in front of a mansion, saying, "Netflix have rented a little place for me to stay for the film shoot. Netflix have rented a little place for me to stay for the film shoot. #SpecialCorrespondents pic.twitter.com/8XFaBOyDBn — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 8, 2015 Weather Before Gervais' most recent visit, he was in Toronto in March scouting locations for the film. In March, he posted a photo of a cat lying on a dog's head, with the caption: "Loving chilly Toronto but I could really do with this hat." Loving chilly Toronto but I could really do with this hat. pic.twitter.com/hhh6yVOPRu — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) March 22, 2015 Last week, he posted a photo of himself on the beach in a red t-shirt, saying later in the day he was the same colour thanks to a sunburn. "Ouch." This photo was taken this morning. I am now the same colour as my T Shirt. Ouch. #Toronto pic.twitter.com/cxJilY8aOJ — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 2, 2015 Hospitality Following his trip to the beach, Gervais thanked Toronto resident Kara Stahl for offering him a lift when the couple couldn't find a cab. "Canadian hospitality at its best," he wrote.

This is the heart-stopping moment a vehicle rear-ends a truck carrying a nuclear weapon. A video apparently showing a missile being transported in a convoy while helicopters fly overhead has been posted online. The person who filmed the scene wrote: 'The crazy thing is that the Fed pulled over and was yelling and waving his hands that I can't record this video. And then a truck rear-ended the nuke.' Heart-stopping: This is the moment the truck, which is apparently carrying a nuclear weapon, is rear-ended Filmed: The video apparently shows a missile being transported in a convoy while helicopters fly overhead As a vehicle pulls up with its sirens blaring on a US highway, the cameraman - referring to himself filming the convoy - can be heard saying: 'Are you f****** kidding, I can't do this? I can do it.' A bang can then be heard as a truck drives into the back of the truck - which the onlooker claims contains a nuclear missile. He wrote: 'Have you ever seen a nuclear missile being transported in a convoy? Several helicopters in the air and federal marshals leading the way.' No damage appears to have been done to the truck believed to be carrying the weapon. The video clip has been watched hundreds of thousands of times online. The onlooker- referring to himself filming the convoy - can be heard saying: 'Are you f****** kidding, I can't do this?'

Rep. Gallego: This is a new time in politics where people are "blatantly lying" and producing policies that will "kill people" pic.twitter.com/94j5PpO8x1 — The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) May 5, 2017 PHOENIX — As House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke on the House floor regarding the GOP health care bill, Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Democrat, yelled "where's the score." Rep. Ruben Gallego yelled "where's the score" during Ryan's pre vote speech — Alex Gangitano (@AlexGangitano) May 4, 2017 Gallego confirmed the reported outburst on CNN. His complaint was for the lack of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score on the American Health Care Act, the GOP's attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare. The CBO "provides the Congress with several hundred formal cost estimates that analyze the likely effects of proposed legislation on the federal budget," per the office's website. Gallego didn't seem to regret raising his grievance so boisterously. "This is a new time in politics where people are just blatantly lying and, essentially, producing policies that are going to kill people," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar. "So, I think the old time of civility needs to go until we actually go back to the rules. But right now we're about to kick off 24 million people off of health insurance. "Somebody yelling for accountability and asking for CBO is not the thing we should really be worried about." He also took to Twitter to jab at Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, both Republicans. .@JeffFlake @SenFlakeStaff Do you support #AHCA? Health insurance for 24 million Americans is riding on your vote. — Ruben Gallego (@RepRubenGallego) May 4, 2017 .@SenJohnMcCain Do you support #AHCA? Health insurance for 24 million Americans is riding on your vote. — Ruben Gallego (@RepRubenGallego) May 4, 2017 Follow @KTAR923

So you think you're a badass, crowing about Michael Flynn's resignation and making fun of Trump? You think you're a rebel, spelling his name tRump like a naughty eight year old kid from the forties? It's because "rump" means "butt", right? Is that the gag? Be careful you don't cut yourself on all that edge there, Lenny Bruce. I don't expect this article to share particularly well. Progressives are still too intimidated by their liberal friends and acquaintances to openly defy the infamous echo chamber on the social media outlets I get most of my exposure on, but this is getting intensely stupid and somebody needs to say something. The way people are championing a cause that's also being championed by every multimillionaire on every channel on every show on every television as though they're being in some way rebellious and counter-cultural is beyond my understanding. The resignation of a National Security Advisor (a registered Democrat, by the way) who was working against the oligarchic push toward a military confrontation with a nuclear superpower, who was one of the few people telling the truth about America's arming of terrorists in Syria, and Democrats are singing and dancing like a bunch of Ewoks watching an exploding imperial death star. Let me remind you gangstas that a 2014 Princeton University study showed clearly that the United States of America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Here's a five-minute video breaking down what that means and how it works in clear and simple terms. Basically, in the current system, your wishes have essentially no impact on your country's legislation and policy unless you are very rich; your vote and the votes of the rest of the 99 percent change functionally nothing about the way your nation moves and behaves. So the fact that this guy was democratically elected to be the leader of the nation doesn't mean that he's actually in charge; ultimately, the real source of power is the large network of oligarchs and unelected manipulators collectively known as the Deep State. That is what Bernie Sanders kept talking about when he spoke of America becoming an oligarchy, and that is where the real rebellion is. It is also the source of all of the current administration's internal struggles right now. And this does indeed seem to be the major source of confusion and/or manipulation on America's political left. Clintonian liberals were having a hard time being branded as proponents of the political establishment; they were the squares, the obedient, color-inside-the-lines brown nosers of the rich and powerful. Remember those 'Bernie vs. Hillary' memes? That. But then when Trump won, they took this as a sign that they get to be the cool kids now, because "Look! Now he's in charge! That makes him the establishment, right?" Wrong. The Deep State goes very deep, and the power structures entrenched therein are very old. The POTUS faces a long, hard, uphill slugfest of a battle in his attempts to restructure America's power systems, and the majority in both parties openly or secretly hate him and his stated agendas. It's still far too early to tell if Trump's new power dynamics will be more beneficial for America than the old ones, but he is clearly in conflict with the neoliberal power structures that have been choking America to death for generations. It's not a coincidence that it was the Washington Post who originally broke the story of Flynn's phone call to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in one of its notorious reports from "anonymous sources" in the intelligence community, for example. WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who as the fifth-wealthiest person on the planet makes Donald Trump look like a high school janitor, and who has personally received hundreds of millions of dollars directly from the CIA. WaPo has consistently been a devout mouthpiece for the political establishment, running sixteen smear pieces in sixteen hours against Bernie Sanders at the most heated and contentious period in the Democratic primaries, and running fake story after fake story fanning the flames of public hostility toward Russia. This is the Deep State at work, my liberal brothers and sisters, and it's working against Trump, not your buddies in the Democratic party. This is not a defense of Trump; I see Trump as largely irrelevant and very low on the list of priorities America's political left should be focusing on. This is simply a reminder to liberal Americans that you cannot attack Trump without propping up the Democratic establishment, and you cannot prop up the Democratic establishment without supporting the oligarchs who own it. When you celebrate the Deep State's counteroffensives against the Trump administration, you are not cool, you are not anti-establishment, and you are not a rebel. You are a tool. Happy Valentine's Day. --- Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this, please consider sharing it around, liking me on Facebook, following me on Twitter, or even tossing me some money on Patreon so I can keep this

After starting the past two games for the New England Patriots, backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has been creating a lot of headlines for himself around the league. Within the two games that he has played, rumors have been tossed around that the team should trade Garoppolo when Tom Brady comes back, due to his high trade value and his performance. The question on a lot of people's mind is whether the team should trade or keep Garoppolo. In two games this season, Garoppolo has thrown for 498 yards, 4 touchdowns and 1 interception, with a passer rating of 117.2. The reason for Garoppolo starting the first two games is due to Brady being suspended for the first four games of the season for what is known as "deflategate". In his first start of the season vs the Arizona Cardinals, he looked great with his throws, driving the team down the field, helping them win 23-21. He threw for 264 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions, with a passer rating of 73.0. He did showcase some flaws as well, but that is expected for your first start. In his second start of the season vs the Miami Dolphins, Garoppolo looked phenomenal. He was making great passes down the field, looked poised in the pocket, and showcased his arm strength. Before getting injured near the end of the first half, he threw for 234 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, with a passer rating of 98.9. Even though we only saw a sample size of Garoppolo in only two starts in the league, he looked pretty good in those two starts. He still needs to work on some stuff, but at the end of the day, Garoppolo has a bright future as a starting quarterback. He is a duel threat, and if he can not find a receiver open, he can run with the ball for a good chunk of yards. Despite the amazing numbers that Brady produces season after season, he does not have a lot of years left in the league, with him being 39-years old. The team has to think of a backup plan for the future, and that is where Garoppolo comes in, as he showcased his potential in his first two starts in the league. Teams like the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, and the San Fransisco 49ers will be interested in Garoppolo, due to the fact that these teams will be looking for a young quarterback that can lead the franchise and be the face of it. Out of all of these teams, the most interested team will most likely be Cleveland or Chicago, if they can get rid of Jay Cutler's contract somehow in the future. The value will him for be draft picks, most likely first and second round picks. For a team like New England that has a quarterback that is in his prime and a quarterback that has a bright future as a starter, getting a high 1st round pick for the prospect would be fair value. Garoppolo would be a great choice to replace Brady when he hangs up his cleats, as he is still young (24) that he has a great career ahead of him. Out of himself and Jacoby Brissett, Garoppolo is the better quarterback, considering he can throw the ball more accurately, is better in the pocket, and he has a better arm as well. Both quarterbacks have good upside, but Garoppolo's upside is much better than Brissett. At the end of the day, the team should listen to offers for him, but the team should not trade him, since he has got so much potential and can be a great quarterback to lead the team after Brady retires. Photo Credit Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Share this: Twitter Facebook Google

"Just because the Philippines or Vietnam are not as large as China doesn't mean that they can just be elbowed aside," said the US president. China's response? In effect, "yes we can". And that has become clear in the last few days. Aerial photography shows that China is using land reclamation to expand two islands in the Paracel Islands chain and to build or expand seven others in the Spratly group. Both island groups are in the South China Sea where China has drawn a so-called "nine dash line" that lolls like a great tongue dipping down and across the sea. Beijing's claims clash with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. "The bottom line", says Alan Dupont, a professor of international security at NSW University, "is that China is terraforming its way to control of the South China Sea by creating artificial islands and then militarising them." Dupont says "it's pretty clear-cut" that Beijing is seeking to "control the South China Sea and the eastern approaches to the Malacca Straits, which is the key choke point for global shipping given that 50 per cent of global trade goes through there." This is terribly awkward for governments around the world. Few will defend China's relentless expansionism, yet no one is prepared to stand in its way. Beijing's behaviour is in breach of an agreement it signed in 2002 with the ten-nation ASEAN group, the Association of South East Asian Nations. Under the pact, all governments forswore any destabilising action such as building new structures on the disputed islands. But the deal was non-binding. China has waged a years-long go-slow on negotiating a binding code of conduct for the region. Last week the Philippines asked its fellow ASEAN members to say something about it. China was "poised to consolidate de facto control of the South China Sea," the country's Foreign Affairs Secretary, Albert Del Rosario, told his counterparts. "ASEAN should assert its leadership, centrality and solidarity," he said. "ASEAN must show the world that it has the resolve to act in the common interest." Instead ASEAN showed that it was weak, divided, and unwilling to confront China. It issued a communique expressing concern that land reclamation "may undermine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea" yet it failed to name China as the culprit. So ASEAN won't even talk about the problem openly, much less act. Three of the ASEAN countries were reportedly keen to take a tougher line with China – the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia – but were overruled by the majority. The Foreign Affairs Minister of the host country for the meeting, Malaysia's Anifah Aman said: "ASEAN's stand is that we want to engage with China." He added, "In short, we are not confrontational." That suits Beijing just fine. A few days later, a top Chinese military commander sought to reassure the US about its reef expansions. In a video hookup, China's chief of navy, Admiral Wu Shengli, told his US counterpart, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, that China's reclamation would not affect freedom of navigation or overflight. According to China's Defence Ministry, Admiral Wu told the American: "We welcome international organisations, the US and relevant countries to use these facilities, when conditions are ripe, to conduct co-operation on humanitarian rescue and disaster relief." So China is now setting the terms of access to territories which are not, under international law, even Chinese. In sum, it seems China has gotten away with it. As Alan Dupont says, this is "part of China's strategy for becoming the pre-eminent nation in Asia, and perhaps eventually the pre-eminent nation in the world. This creates a very difficult problem for the Australian government to deal with." So far Australia has dealt with it the same way almost all countries have – by pretending that it's not really happening. The benefits of trade and investment with China are lucrative. Governments do not want to put trade relations at risk by confronting Beijing over its bad behaviour in taking territory from weaker states. In the US there is a growing realisation that American forbearance is failing. "Washington needs a new grand strategy toward China that centres on balancing the rise of Chinese power rather than continuing to assist its ascendancy," writes a distinguished American strategist, Bob Blackwill, in a new report for the establishment Council on Foreign Relations.

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A young girl carries a placard with a name of a missing girl as family and friends mark 500 days since the abductions of Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants (AFP Photo/-) Abuja (AFP) - Mounting attacks by Nigeria's ferocious Boko Haram Islamists have sent more than 2.1 million people fleeing their homes in northeast Nigeria, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. Revising sharply upwards its previous estimate of 1.5 million, the Geneva-based IOM agency attributed the increase to a very recent spike in Boko Haram's six-year insurgency. But the state-run National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said other factors were at play, such as unrelenting communal strife and the return of Nigerians who had previously fled the country. Newly-elected President Muhammadu Buhari, who completes his first 100 days in office this weekend, has promised to do far better than the previous administration in wiping out the feared Islamist insurgents. But more than 1,000 people have died in Boko Haram attacks since May 29 when Buhari came to power. "The recent spike in attacks by insurgents triggered the increase," the IOM said, referring to the stepped up attacks. But the hike was also due "to improved access to previously inaccessible areas of Borno state, where the IDP population is now well over 1.6 million." The IOM said the new figure covered internally displaced people (IDPs) in the northeastern states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe as well as the central state of Nassarawa and Abuja. It urged the government as well as the international community to step in quickly as many were in dire need of food and shelter. "Many IDPs, especially in host communities, have yet to receive basic items including food and shelter," said Enira Krdzalic, IOM Nigeria Chief of Mission. - Suicide bombers - "It is very important for the authorities and for humanitarian partners to speed up the delivery of adequate assistance to these people," she added. Attacks by Boko Haram, seeking to impose a strict Islamic system in northern Nigeria, have killed at least 15,000 people since 2009, with the group's campaign also waged across Nigeria's borders. In recent weeks suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. The IOM said the majority of those displaced (92%) now live in host communities while the remainder live in camps or camp-like sites. But Manzo Ezekiel, spokesman for the state-run NEMA, said the agency was already aware of the increase in IDPs and denied this was solely due to the upsurge in Boko Haram attacks. "We are aware of the new figure of 2.1 million displaced people but it should be noted that there were other factors that brought about the increase apart from the Boko conflict," he said. "We have people displaced by communal violence in states like Nassarawa and Taraba included in the figure," he said. Ezekiel said there were also thousands of Nigerians who fled the country but were just returning home. "For example, some 9,000 Nigerians recently came back from Cameroon and were received and camped by NEMA in Adamawa state," he said. He said the agency has been meeting the needs of the displaced people. "NEMA is on ground providing them with food, shelter and drugs," he said. "Our appeal is for those affected to come to the camps so that we can attend to them. We cannot go to people's homes to give relief to them. They have to come to the camps and the collection centres to receive support," he said. Ezekiel said only eight percent are in the camps while the majority are staying with their host communities. "For them to be reached, they have to register with NEMA so that we will know exactly those we have to take care of," he added. To fight Boko Haram an 8,700-strong Multi-National Joint Task Force, drawing in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, is expected to deploy soon.

Follow the Treee: noun; event during the Fall semester of 2008 in which, during a power outage, some students holding a tree branch inspired a march through campus and Main Street. The students were disbanded by police, but small remnants coalesced again, sans branch. "My friends and I followed the treee all the way to Main Street!" 85% of people surveyed knew this phrase. (Klein, E-H, 2008)

247Sports Over the last decade, we've seen a surge of freshmen running backs making a major impact in the world of college football. From former South Carolina star Marcus Lattimore and former Auburn BCS National Championship Game offensive MVP Michael Dyer to last year's stud crop that consisted of Leonard Fournette (LSU), Nick Chubb (Georgia), Dalvin Cook (Florida State), Samaje Perine (Oklahoma) and Royce Freeman (Oregon), teams are more dependent on youngsters than ever before. Florida freshman Jordan Scarlett isn't in that company yet, but he's one step closer. Part of the reason is the transfer of the rising sophomore running back and Birmingham Bowl MVP Adam Lane. Florida announced the transfer of the Winter Haven, Florida, native on Sunday. Lane rushed for 181 yards and a touchdown a year ago, including 109 in the bowl win over East Carolina. Now Scarlett has ascended to the consensus No. 2 spot on the running back depth chart behind established starter Kelvin Taylor. In just a few short practices, Scarlett—a 5'11", 210-pounder from Fort Lauderdale, Florida—has been wildly impressive, according to Nick de la Torre of GatorCountry.com: That's huge, because he has all of the skills to be a superstar once he gets his chance to shine. The former Florida Atlantic and Miami 4-star commit was one of the prize signings of first-year head coach Jim McElwain's first recruiting class in Gainesville, and McElwain's ability to use multiple running backs throughout the year should help Scarlett earn significant snaps this fall. "You're going to need three guys at least to go through the year with," McElwain said, according to quotes released by Florida. "So what you hope to do is to find that guy that has the hot hand in the fourth quarter, okay. He's still fresh based on what you've done, and now let that guy kind of finish the game. That's kind of how we like to do it. Obviously, that has a lot to do with the development of those young guys." Make no mistake, the pressure is on Scarlett to be a key contributor from the moment toe meets leather in the season opener versus New Mexico State. Regardless of what you hear about the progress of the quarterback battle between redshirt freshman Will Grier and true sophomore Treon Harris, the Gators will be a run-first, power team. They're going to establish the run and then work off play action. With quarterback and offensive line questions, it's tough to simply rely on the passing game undergoing an immediate turnaround, which means depth and creativity from McElwain and offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier out of the running back position is paramount to the success of the 2015 Gators. Scarlett was going to be a big part of that equation regardless of Lane's status, but now his development needs to be accelerated a bit in a transition year for the Gator program. He has the talent, but now he has to grow up and learn the system in a hurry. Quotes were obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted. Recruiting information courtesy of 247Sports. Statistics courtesy of cfbstats.com. Barrett Sallee is the lead SEC college football writer and national college football video analyst for Bleacher Report as well as a host on Bleacher Report Radio on Sirius 93 XM 208. Follow Barrett on Twitter @BarrettSallee.

Trivia Six episodes are announced in the film with title frames: Episode 0, "The Blinkers" (00:07-01:56); Episode 1, "The Wishing Rock" (30:33-41:22); Episode 2, "Alien8ed" (08:57-30:29); Episode 3, "The Miscommunicators!" (54:31-69:36); Episode 4, "Big Bad Booger" (41:37-54:27 but which is announced at 43:37 when Stacey exits the decontaminator); and Episode 5, "The End" (69:50-83:03). See more

Hollywood beauty Naomi Watts credits movie Mulholland Drive with saving her life–because she regularly contemplated suicide until she got her big break in the film. The 36-year-old beauty considered ending her own life while driving through Los Angeles' real Mulholland Drive, because her dreams of a movie career had been shattered, she was suffering extreme poverty and was about to be evicted from her apartment. But when director David Lynch offered her the lead part in the thriller, she accepted the role and vowed to leave her depression behind her. She says, "I still have a hard time believing that it's all come together for me. I remember spending a lot of time in my car weeping. "I actually remember driving along Mulholland Drive thinking, 'I'll just take a right turn here. Maybe I'll just go over the cliff, because I can't take it any more.' "But I never had the guts to actually quit. My friend Nicole (Kidman) would tell me, 'All it takes is one film.' And that film turned out to be Mulholland Drive It was a life saver because I was about to be evicted from my L.A. apartment." Article Copyright World Entertainment News Network All Rights Reserved.

After a harrowing ordeal, the abducted men were returned to their homes on Saturday afternoon. The bodyguards were bruised and in tears as they were helped from vehicles, but they were alive, and the potential political crisis the episode could have set off seemed to have been averted for the moment. To celebrate their return, a sheep was slaughtered, women threw candies in the air and men fired long bursts of celebratory gunfire across the roofs of the densely packed Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya. "We are living in a jungle," Mr. Adhadh said in an interview at his home shortly after his release. A portion of Iraq — Mosul in the north and much of Anbar Province in the west — is under control of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. There are contested areas to the north and east of the capital, near Tikrit and Samarra and in Diyala Province, where fighting rages and where a brutal sectarian war seems to be unfolding. On Saturday, all five members of a Shiite family, including children, were found beheaded in the town of Taji. On Sunday, Shiite militiamen hung the bodies of at least six Sunni militants from streetlights and a bridge in Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province. In Baghdad, though, where political leaders are struggling to keep the country together, a different picture has emerged. The wholesale sectarian slaughter that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007 has not yet returned, but militias, loyal to a sect or sometimes to just a man, are back. And the mass arrests of Sunni men, at the heart of grievances that allowed the insurgency to gain support within the Sunni community, have continued. It is a gangland culture deeply intertwined with the culture of Iraqi politics. The effort to win Mr. Adhadh's release involved the new speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, as well as pressure on Iraqi leaders from Western diplomats who feared that the episode would further destabilize the political situation and heighten sectarian tensions. But it was the direct intervention of a powerful militia leader that ultimately secured Mr. Adhadh's freedom: Qais al-Khazali, the leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a Shiite militant and political group with close ties to Iran. The group once fought the Americans, and more recently has fought in Syria's civil war on the side of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Hi, fellow baseball nerds! I have seen a lot of franchise recaps posted on this subreddit and so I thought I would try my hand at one. I am going to do an Atlanta Braves franchise month-by-month, but I'll try my best not to flood the posts. If I find myself going quicker than I plan to, I will go year-by-year. Anyway, some initial thoughts and remarks on the franchise: • I am playing in Challenge Mode, so some settings are locked. • I will be using MLB only, no international leagues. • Simming every game, no matter what, even playoffs. • GM only, so won't be messing w/lineups day-to-day. • Settings are default unless noted below. • Aging speed for pitchers and hitters taken from 1.000 to .750 — on the recommendation of some here. • Challenge Mode sets trade difficulty at hard and preference at neutral. • Changed postseason roster eligibility to 40-man to reflect MLB rules. • Changed influence of popularity on All-Star voting to none. • Turned automatic evolution on, so it may get a bit nutty. • Team control settings are as follows: I will control active roster moves, major league transactions, trades, drafting, international FA, team personnel. AI will control lineups, pitching staff, budgets, all minor league transactions/staffs. OK, the boring stuff is out of the way, so let's talk about the Braves. At first glance, a few things jump out to me. One, they have the best farm system in baseball. Two, they have one of the worst contracts in baseball in LF Matt Kemp (3 years, $54M still owed). Team needs are: Frontline SP, long-term 3B, closer, long-term C. April 2017 OK, let's get started! To start each season in this series, I will list a few key pieces of information. Owner goals: Stay close to .500 and reach the playoffs in the next 5 years. Sounds reasonable. Payroll: $120M, 17th in MLB. Top 100 prospects: SS Dansby Swanson (5), RF Ronald Acuna (15), SP Ian Anderson (21), SP Sean Newcomb (24), SS Ozzie Albies (40), SP Bryse Wilson (46), SP Kolby Allard (72). Rotation: Julio Teheran, Jaime Garcia, Mike Foltynewicz, R.A. Dickey, Josh Collmenter. Lineup: RF Acuna, CF Ender Inciarte, LF Kemp, 1B Freddie Freeman, C Tyler Flowers, SS Swanson, 3B Rio Ruiz, 2B Brandon Phillips. $$ for FA: NONE $$ for extensions: $5.8M The month and season got off to a pretty good start, with Atlanta winning five of the first seven games. Unfortunately, we would go just 7-10 the rest of the way, finishing the month at 12-12 (.500). That puts us third in the NL East, 7 1/2 games back, and 3 games back in the wildcard race. No major transactions in the first month of the season, just trying to get a feel for the team, really. At the deadline I will probably look to move some of the pricey veterans — Kemp, RF Nick Markakis, RP Bartolo Colon, Garcia, etc. — just to give us some wiggle room financially next offseason. But, we will have to see where we are at that time. RP Arodys Vizcaino went on the 10-day DL with a strained ab, but that was the only notable injury this month. The team struggled from the plate, as we are 13th in the NL in runs scored after April. Luckily, the staff picked up some of the slack — we're 4th in runs allowed. A big part of the offensive struggles were due to a rough debut from Acuna. He hit just .156/.204/.278 in 98 plate appearances in his first month in the majors. On the other hand, his backup, RF Nick Markakis, hit .364/.462/.636 in just 26 plate appearances. Manager Brian Snitker may want to make a lineup change there if things don't sort themselves out, but I appreciate his patience with the young stud. On the mound, No. 1 starter Teheran went 3-1 with a 1.72 ERA in the first month, leading the staff as an ace should. There will eventually be some debate about whether we should trade Teheran, but his contract is so team-friendly I would lean toward keeping him during our contention window. In other MLB news (thanks to u/

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Microsoft's Arcadia project that would allow streaming of games and apps to Windows devices is still in the works, and a post on the Microsoft Careers page is living proof. Redmond is now looking for software engineers who would help continue development of what Microsoft calls a "product that was never done before" and which would allow the company to continue its transition to a mobile-first, cloud-first world. News on Arcadia first emerged in December last year, when sources from within the company revealed a project that was supposed to help stream games and apps from Xbox or PCs using cloud power to a number of other devices, including phones. Redmond demonstrated the technology during its Windows 10 event on January 21 in Redmond, but no release details were provided at that moment. Now Microsoft is looking for software engineers who would help continue work on Arcadia on Windows Phone, but just like before, the amount of information is very limited. "New technology to understand consumer and product health" In the job ad posted on Microsoft Careers (via @h0x0d), the company says that the new employees would have to use "new data technologies to understand consumers and product health" and would contribute to developing technologies that "will delight our end users on Windows Mobile." "We use the best data tools available from both the Open Source community and Microsoft, on which we have built a highly elastic, near real time Arcadia data platform. We are implementing software health and consumer satisfaction models based on this data, to test in production and stabilize our deliverables incrementally," the software giant says. The next OS version for Microsoft's smartphones, called Windows 10 for phones, will arrive later this year, and it's believe that such technologies would be part of this release. Right now, it's too early to discuss about this implementation, but there's no doubt that the Arcadia project lives on at Microsoft, so expect more info to surface soon.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Aaron Hollowell just wanted to kiss and make-up. His then-girlfriend had other ideas. Police say she bit part of his tongue off during a Nov. 15 fight at their Northwest Grand Rapids apartment. Now, the 29-year-old woman is charged with the 10-year felony of "mayhem." Desirae Mckie Glatfelter is free on a $5,000 bond. Hollowell testified about the bloody injury during a court hearing Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Grand Rapids District Court. Judge Jennifer Faber ruled there was enough evidence for the charge despite Hollowell's testimony that he didn't think she planned to bite him. He acknowledged he wasn't keen on testifying against her. It's not clear how much of Hollowell's tongue was bitten off in the 10:30 p.m. fight in the 700 block of Fremont Avenue NW. During the hearing, however, a Kent County assistant prosecutor showed him a photo, apparently taken by police investigating the incident. In it, Hollowell is holding a piece of tongue in his hand. The piece could not be reattached, according to testimony Tuesday. He was able to speak well enough at the court hearing, but said the long-term impact on his speech isn't yet known. The fight erupted, Hollowell testified, over accusations of him cheating on her. It turned physical in the kitchen. Hollowell testified he wanted to make up with the intention of conveying "Look, I love you" when he put his hands around her waist and forcefully kissed her. "Did she kiss you back?" defense attorney Judith Baxter asked. "No, she bit my tongue off," he said. "I kissed her to try to calm things down. I guess it was the wrong thing because this happened," he said. Hollowell testified the wound is still healing and he's generally confined to eating soft foods for now. He still has stitches in his mouth and has been to the emergency room three times since the injury for pain and an infection. The judge ordered a no-contact order between Hollowell and Glatfelter. The two have a 3-year-old child together and have been a couple for about four years, according to testimony. They will be allowed to work out a custody exchange, the judge ruled.

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Please enable Javascript to watch this video MADISON (WITI) -- It has been one year since Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana, and this year, half of the states will consider similar legislation. A Democratic Wisconsin representative has introduced a bill into the state Assembly to legalize marijuana. The bill has attracted six Democratic co-sponsors. LRB 3671 would legalize marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes in Wisconsin. Rep. Melissa Sargent says the bill is a good start to bringing a policy we've seen implemented in Colorado and Washington State to Wisconsin. "After researching this issue extensively, I believe that this bill will benefit Wisconsin and its citizens in many ways, including: addressing racial disparities in arrests, providing medical benefits, time and cost savings to law enforcement, and additional revenue for the state," Rep. Sargent stated in a press release posted on her website. "It just makes sense," Gary Storck told FOX6 News. Storck is one of Wisconsin's leading advocates for decriminalizing marijuana. As a glaucoma patient, he learned in the 1970s that smoking cannabis reduced his inter-ocular eye pressure and helped to save his vision. "It has helped me. I've been using cannabis every day since then, that I've been able to access it," Storck said. Storck founded the group "Is My Medicine Legal Yet?" or IMMLY. Medical marijuana is already legal in 20 states, and 14 others are considering medical marijuana laws this year. As for Wisconsin... "I don't think you're going to see anything serious anytime soon here, but if other states did, maybe in the next Legislative session there'd be more talk about it," Gov. Walker said. Gov. Walker spoke with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper at last week's National Governor's Assocation meeting, where Hickenlooper said his state would see $134 million in sales tax revenue for the year -- much higher than expected. "He talked about the upsides of the revenue. He also talked about how they weren't rushing to spend that on other things because, he said, it's early and they're still concerned about the side effects," Gov. Walker said. Despite the fact that Rep. Sargent has introduced LRB 3671, the consensus among state law enforcement officials seems to be that marijuana is a "gateway drug," and should remain illegal. Gov. Walker agrees, but says he isn't completely shutting the door on this issue. "It may be something that resonates in the future, but I just don't see any movement for it right now," Gov. Walker said. That means for now, folks like Gary Storck must weigh criminal penalties against crippling pain. "I have to buy it on the black market, like so many patients, and it's really sad because people want this medicine, they want legal access, but because our lawmakers haven't yet caught up with public opinion, they still have to break the law," Storck said. What do you think? Is Wisconsin ready for the legalization of marijuana?

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Subjects Forty-six healthy adults (right-handed, 23 male, age range 21–50 years, 18–30 BMI) were recruited in response to study advertisements. They reported habitual nightly sleep durations between 6.5 h–8.5 h, habitual bedtimes between 2200h–0000h, and habitual awakenings between 0600h–0900h; these reports were confirmed objectively using actigraphy. They had no evidence of habitual napping, no sleep disturbances and an absence of extreme morningness or extreme eveningness, assessed by questionnaire61. Subjects were free of acute or chronic medical and psychological conditions, as established by interviews, clinical history, questionnaires, physical examinations and blood (including a fasting blood glucose test) and urine tests. They were nonsmokers and did not participate in shift work, transmeridian travel, or irregular sleep-wake routines in the 60 days prior to the study. Enrolled subjects were monitored at home with actigraphy, sleep-wake diaries, and time-stamped call-ins to assess bedtime and waketime during the week before and after the in-laboratory phase. They were not permitted to use caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and medications (except oral contraceptives) in the week before the laboratory study, as verified by urine screenings. Sleep disorders were excluded by a night of laboratory polysomnography and oximetry measurements. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Pennsylvania. All subjects provided written informed consent before enrollment, which was in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Subjects were compensated for participating in the study. Experimental Design Subjects were screened twice prior to participating in the study; training in a mock MRI scanner occurred during the second screening session. During the study, subjects remained in the laboratory at the Clinical Translational Research Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for 5 consecutive days (4 consecutive nights). Subjects arrived at the laboratory in the afternoon and were provided 9 h time-in-bed (TIB) for their baseline sleep night (Figure 6). The first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan session took place the next morning (Baseline [BL] day) from 0700h–1000h. Subjects were then randomized to either a total sleep deprivation (TSD) or control condition. During the second night of the study, sleep-deprived subjects were kept awake and control subjects were allowed 8 h TIB to sleep (Figure 6). The second fMRI scan session took place the next morning (total sleep deprivation [TSD] day or control day 1 [CD1]). Sleep-deprived subjects were then allowed 12 TIB for recovery sleep and control subjects were allowed 8 h TIB to sleep (Figure 6). Each subject was scanned at the same time for each scan to avoid potential time-of-day differences between scans. Figure 6: Protocol summary. Subjects arrived at the laboratory in the afternoon and were provided 9h time-in-bed (TIB) for their baseline sleep night. The first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan session took place the next morning (Baseline [BL] day) from 0700h-1000h. Subjects were then randomized to either a total sleep deprivation (TSD) or control condition. During the second night of the study, sleep-deprived subjects were kept awake and control subjects were allowed 8 h TIB to sleep. The second fMRI scan session took place the next morning from 0700h-1000h (total sleep deprivation [TSD] day or control day 1 [CD1]). Sleep-deprived subjects were then allowed 12 TIB for recovery sleep and control subjects were allowed 8 h TIB to sleep. Each subject was scanned at the same time for each scan to avoid potential time-of-day differences between scans. Subjects had ad libitum to food/drink during the study. Subjects remained in the laboratory for the duration of the study and were monitored by trained staff at all times to ensure adherence to the protocol. Full size image Subjects were behaviorally monitored by trained staff continuously to ensure adherence and were not permitted to leave the laboratory during the study. Subjects were ambulatory and were allowed to watch television, read, play video or board games, and perform other sedentary activities between test bouts (which were completed while sitting at the computer) but they were not allowed to exercise. Subjects wore a wrist actigraph throughout the study and wore ambulatory electroencephalography and electrocardiography recording equipment for 24-h intervals. The light levels were held constant at <50 lux during scheduled wakefulness and <1 lux during scheduled sleep periods. Ambient temperature was maintained between 22°–24°C. Food/drink was ad libitum throughout the protocol (caffeine was prohibited). Measures Subjects selected their meals/snacks by choosing from various menu options, and by making requests to

antisjwyellowfang: Just your daily reminders: Racists are a problem are a problem White people are not are not Homophobes are a problem are a problem Straight people are not are not Transphobes are a problem are a problem Cis people are not are not Sexists are a problem are a problem Men are not And most importantly, Hating an innocent person solely because of their race, sexuality, or gender makes you a fucking asshole Just some actual daily reminders: All white people do racist things without being aware they are All straight people do homophobic things without being aware that they are. All Cis people do transphobic things without being aware that they are. All men do sexist things without being aware that they are. Saying things like 'some men', 'some cis people' absolves the blame of individuals and only seeks to comfort those with privilege and power. When a post says 'some X', the X will always assume that they are not because THEY ARE NOT AWARE. And most importantly, It's called metonymy, when anyone who is oppressed makes an exasperated statement like 'i hate straight people', they are substituting straight people for the concept of a system and a culture that teaches, incentives, and legitimizes homophobic acts and normalizes homophobic acts so that straight people constantly do honophobic things without realizing it and that's really fucking annoying. And just as important, The concept of sjws dehumanizes marginalized people and categorizes them as an 'angry and emotional' stereotype and only adds to the oppression of marginalized people under the guise of being 'fair', while the only thing you are doing is cushioning privileged people from their own ignorance and privilege. WELL, aren't you just a ball of sunshine and daisies. Let's pick apart this nonsense shall we. Just some actual daily reminders: All white people do racist things without being aware they are By this logic, EVERYONE does racist things without being aware All straight people do homophobic things without being aware that they are. That's quite a generalization. gonna back that claim up or are you going to contiinue to throw it out there. Because eh, I have a lot of LGBTA friends and they have never told me I have done anything homophobic All Cis people do transphobic things without being aware that they are. hestiaisbestia All men do sexist things without being aware that they are. Again, a generalization with no basis in fact. termanal-velocity satans-meme and egalitariantallstar if I am transphobic. I am fairly certain the answer will be no Again with your logic all women do sexist things without realizing they are. Saying things like 'some men', 'some cis people' absolves the blame of individuals and only seeks to comfort those with privilege and power. When a post says 'some X', the X will always assume that they are not because THEY ARE NOT AWARE. What kind of fucked up logic is this. Saying only some do it is so that you don;t fucking lump innocent people in with shit they didn't do. By your fucked up logic I can call all black people thugs. I can call all women psychotic fucking murderers. I can call all Christians homophobic. This is bullshit and toxic logic and leads to shit you won;t ever be able to turn back from. you are literally saying it is better to blame everyone of a certain group than to point at the individual ones that do it and say "stop doing that" By your logic we should start killing all whites just in case they may be part of the KKK. All men just in case they may be entitled fuck wits that kill nine people because they didn't get pussy. All Cis just in case they killed three transgenders out of fucking spite You are a fucking bigot with harmful views on this and it needs to change before someone gets hurt. And most importantly, It's called metonymy, when anyone who is oppressed makes an exasperated statement like 'i hate straight people', they are substituting straight people for the concept of a system and a culture that teaches, incentives, and legitimizes homophobic acts and normalizes homophobic acts so that straight people constantly do honophobic things without realizing it and that's really fucking annoying. I think you need to reevaluate what this word means. Because you obviously don't know what it means very well. You are basically justifying being a bigot. Again with your Toxic ass logic I can claim that "I hate black people" because there happen to be black people who are murderers. it doesn't fucking work that way. And just as important, The concept of sj

America's biggest tech companies have united to criticize new digital surveillance laws proposed in the UK. In evidence submitted to the committee assessing the legislation, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter warned that the UK government's actions could have "far reaching implications." The companies anticipate that "other countries will emulate" the proposed Investigatory Powers Bill, which includes controversial measures such as forcing ISPs to keep a record of every citizen's internet activity for the past year. The Bill was introduced by the UK's home secretary Theresa May last year, who says it will help fight organized crime, terrorism, and cyberbullying. However, the Bill has been roundly criticized by industry experts for its potential overreach and vague language. The bill could force tech companies to weaken their encryption In the US tech firms' evidence, they note that the Bill could potentially force companies to introduce backdoors in their encryption. Although May has stated that the UK government does not wish to weaken encryption, the Bill itself includes "obligations relating to the removal of electronic protection applied by a relevant operator to any communication or data." Facebook, Google, Microsoft, et al note that they have "concerns" about this wording, and would rather the Bill state explicitly that no company will be required "to weaken or defeat its security measures." Apple has also criticized the legislation Similar worries have been expressed by Apple, which submitted its own evidence on the Investigatory Powers Bill last month. Apple CEO Tim Cook said in November that the proposed legislation could have "dire consequences" if introduced. "If you halt or weaken encryption, the people that you hurt are not the folks that want to do bad things. It's the good people," said Cook. "The other people know where to go." The reaction of US tech firms to the legislation echoes corporate outcry following the Snowden revelations. Companies then made it clear that they do not want to lose users' trust, and cannot be seen to be complicit with government surveillance. (Although past evidence suggests companies were happy to help spy agencies in the past as long as nobody knew about it.) "The ultimate test we apply to each of the authorities in this Bill is whether they will promote and maintain the trust users place in our technology," write the tech giants in the evidence published on Thursday, adding that the current provisions are "a step in the wrong direction." However, the terrorist attacks of 2015 — including those in Paris in November — have hardened the debate around surveillance and encryption, and the most recent signs suggest the UK government is still determined to push forward with the Bill. Discussion will continue, with the legislation scheduled to be voted on later this year.

Claim: George Washington said that Jews were a dangerous scourge who should be "hunted down as pests." FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, December 2002] They work more effectively against us than the enermy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America — The Jews. They work more effectively against us than the enermy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness ofJews. Origins: Anti-Semitic screeds are nothing new; neither, unfortunately, is the practice of attempting to legitimize them by attributing them to the pens and tongues of respected figures. After all, if as esteemed a person as George Washington — the Father of Our Country, the first President of the United States of America, the man who "could not tell a lie" — said that Jews were a dangerous scourge who should be hunted down as pests, there must be something to it. At the very least, the apocryphal attribution lends an unwarranted credibility to those who would repeat it for their own racist purposes. This quote is a recasting of something Washington did say, providing just enough of an aura of authenticity to sound believable. What Washington actually wrote referenced currency speculators who sought to profit by taking advantage of soldiers and others during the Revolutionary War: This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. Washington's private life and writings reveal no evidence of anti-Semitism, and his public attitude towards religious tolerance was well expressed on a 1790 goodwill visit he paid to Newport, Rhode Island, during his first term as President. When a goodwill address was presented to him by the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Washington responded by penning "the first presidential declaration of the free and equal status of Jewish-American citizens": The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. Last updated: 19 March 2011 Sources:

Tory MPs have compared the panic over fuel supplies to the 1980s miners' strike and urged party members to "humiliate" the unions by stockpiling petrol, it has been reported. In a private message from MPs to constituency associations, seen by the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore, members were told: "This is our Thatcher moment." The message reportedly continues: "In order to defeat the coming miners' strike, [Thatcher] stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers' strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled. Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed." Labour immediately demanded an apology from the government. Maria Eagle, the shadow transport secretary, said: "These allegations are outrageous. It is unacceptable that the Tory-led government have attempted to play politics with fuel supplies. "People will be angry that David Cameron has inconvenienced millions in an attempt to create his own 'Thatcher moment'. The prime minister should apologise to the country for the chaos his government have created this week." Number 10 described the claim as a matter for the Conservative party. A Conservative party spokesman did not deny the existence of the memo and added: "The government has always been clear this is about doing everything possible to protect the country from a potentially crippling strike, and not about playing politics. "We urge Unite to negotiate with the employers, and to make clear there will be no strike." In his blog, Moore comments: "There is a key difference which ministers have not spotted. When Mrs Thatcher piled up the coal at power stations until the strike began in 1984, she was not inconveniencing the public. "In 2012, the coalition is trying to press-gang the public, without saying so, into its political battles. All those people queuing on the forecourts were pawns in a government-organised blame-game." He added: "No doubt many people reading this column are happy that Ed Miliband's and Ed Balls's dependence on a large trade union should be exposed, but very few, I suspect, appreciate being made into mugs. (And the political effect, of course, is the opposite of that intended: Unite now looks virtuous, and is much better placed to win its demands.)" Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, said the government's "posturing" was scuppering chances for an end to the tanker drivers' dispute, which has caused motorists to queues at petrol pumps across the UK and stockpile fuel in order to pre-empt any strike that could lead to a fuel shortage. "We call on the government to come clean on its whole approach to this dispute," said McCluskey. "Is it acting as an honest broker, or is it spoiling for a fight in order to get itself out of the political hole its class-focused economic mismanagement has put it in? "Over the last few days its every move has been designed to whip up unnecessary tension at the expense of the public. Ministers knew all along that a strike could not possibly be less than seven days away even were it to be called – that is the law. Yet they panicked the nation all the way to the petrol pumps because they imagined it would boost them in the polls. "The British people know that this posturing and positioning is poisoning the prospects for an early resolution to the dispute." The government stands accused of mishandling the crisis by Labour MPs, who called for the resignation of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, who has faced a barrage of criticism from fire experts ever since advising motorists earlier this week to store jerry cans of fuel in their garages. Calls for his resignation came after a woman suffered serious burns while transferring petrol into a jerry can in her kitchen. The government has since changed its advice to motorists after Unite, the union representing 2,000 fuel tanker drivers, ruled out the threat of strikes over Easter. After days of urging motorists to fill up if their tanks dropped below two-thirds full, the Department for Energy and Climate Change said there was no need to queue on petrol forecourts. "There is no urgency to top up your tank, a strike will not happen over Easter," it said. But with Unite stressing it retained the right to call industrial action if talks, expected to start next week, break down, No 10 stressed the threat was not yet over. "It remains vital we take the necessary steps to keep the country safe in case there is a strike," a spokesman said. The move followed more panic-buying at garages across the country on Friday, with petrol sales rising by almost 172% on Thursday and diesel sales up by

A Very Special Episode A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club's survey of TV at its most distinctive. In 1987, when the NFL players went on strike, Dan Clark briefly became a Los Angeles Ram, following through on a football dream that had carried him through college ball and the European pro leagues. The job didn't last, but roughly a year later Clark was back on a football field, as a featured extra on the HBO series 1st & Ten. Not long after that, he got an agent, Joe Kolkowitz, who specialized in finding bit parts for jocks and hunks. After a few months of making pennies as background beefcake on various TV shows, Clark was about to quit when he answered a casting-call ad in Backstage West, looking for athletes to take part in a new game show shooting at Universal Studios in Hollywood. That's how Dan Clark became "Nitro"—one of the first American Gladiators. The concept behind American Gladiators was simple: Take the big bodies, colorful characters, and hard hits of professional wrestling, but put them into an actual competition. The contestants—also pre-selected for their physical fitness—competed in a series of challenges against the show's cast of flashily attired, bulked-up Gladiators, hoping to score more points than opponents playing the same games against the same crew. Contestants and gladiators squared off in an oversized, futuristic arena, where they tried to knock each other down in elaborate obstacle courses. On TV this played a lot like the ABC's 1970s "junk sports" series Superstars, crossed with Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Clark and the other Gladiators shot 13 first-season episodes in 1989, before anyone on the production team really knew whether this concept would work on TV. According to Clark's memoir Gladiator: A True Story Of 'Roids, Rage, And Redemption—and in the commentary track by Clark, Raye "Zap" Hollitt, and Jim "Laser" Starr on Shout! Factory's American Gladiators: The Battle Begins DVD set—at first they didn't play whole matches straight through. Instead, they taped all the footage they needed from each event, sometimes spending hours doing them over and over while waiting out the technical snafus common to a fledgling television production. Advertisement Beyond the physical exhaustion of the Gladiators—who had to endure a procession of fresh contestants—the main problem with this setup was that the studio audience was drawn from tourists who'd paid good money to come to Universal Studios and then found themselves stuck at a taping of a show they didn't know, watching a game that didn't make any sense. (At a certain point, the staff stopped trying to fill all the seats and started painting faces on plywood to fool the camera.) In the conception stage, American Gladiators was much more fantastical, with the Gladiators themselves drawn as full-on, cartoony "characters," and the arena presented as some kind of extra-dimensional realm, complete with an ominous hooded referee. The live audience found it all confusing. But as the producers started shaping the footage, they discovered that the tournament itself was exciting, even without all the extra trappings. Beginning with the second half of season one—which featured an entirely new set of contestants—American Gladiators started playing up the sports angle and focusing less on the sword-and-sorcery. By the time the show was ready to start shooting the second half of its first season, a lot of the kinks had been ironed out and the weaker elements eliminated. All of which means that the mid-season "recap" show—a sort of greatest hits from the first tournament—stands now as a document of American Gladiators in its nascent form, before anyone involved knew that they were making one of the biggest syndicated TV hits of the 1990s. Advertisement One indicator that this recap's a relic is the presence of Joe Theismann, who was the play-by-play man and announcer for the first half of the season, before his color commentator Mike Adamle took over. In the DVD commentary, the Gladiators don't have much to say about Theismann—it's a pointed "no comment" all around—but they love Adamle, whom Nitro calls not just the voice but "the conscience" of the show. That dynamic is evident even here in Theismann's final American Gladiators appearance, where he talks about personalities and body-slams while Adamle evaluates the contestants' technique and guts. Hailing the tournament's first champions, Adamle describes them as being Walter Mitty-like: just everyday weekend warriors, treating a made-up TV competition as though it were the Super Bowl. This retrospective proceeds

within the Game in the Game on the Website (e.g. live chat, instant message services and the like), even "privately" to another person, you do so with the understanding that those communications go through our servers, can be monitored by us. Accordingly, you have no expectation of privacy in any of those communications and, accordingly, you expressly consent to monitoring of communications that you send and receive. When Im playing , it appears that Discord is attached to the client, am I wrong? If it is, I see this as going back to the servers and according the the EULA they have a right to monitor it. How would interpret the following statement?Your IP address (the Internet protocol address from which you access any of the above) may be stored in our records. When the Game, or any element or module thereof, is updated or "patched," our patch routine may check your computer to see that you have the most recent version of game-specific files; when you communicateor any communication featureor

Editor's note: Rob Brooks is Professor of Evolution and Director of the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He studies the evolution of sexual behavior in humans and other animals. His first book, Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World recently won the Queensland Literary Award for Science Writing. Sydney (CNN) -- In the mid-19th Century, two devastating floods of the Yellow River, and the famine that followed, ravaged northeastern China. Outlaw bands, known as nien, attracted young men in unprecedented numbers, aggregating into militias that wrought chaos on the troops and infrastructure of the ruling Qing. Although this Nien Rebellion and the larger Taiping rebellion in the South were eventually crushed, they devastated the Chinese economy and contributed to the ending of the Qing dynasty. According to political scientists Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer, widespread female infanticide during the famine meant that as many as one quarter of young men in the region were "bare branches" -- as the Chinese expression goes -- unlikely ever to bear fruit. The Nien rebellion, they argued, was propelled by these surplus young men who had so few other prospects. This story of the Nien Rebellion foreshadows one of the biggest issues that China will face in coming decades: the dramatic excess of young men. Read: Could China's one-child policy change? A long history of son preference, particularly among the Han majority, has led to female infanticide and the neglect of daughters in some parts of China. But in recent decades, the spread of cheap ultrasound (enabling sex-determination in early-mid pregnancy) and easy access to abortion courtesy of the government's one-child policy, has led to the widespread abortion of female fetuses. As a result, approximately 30 million more men than women will reach adulthood and enter China's mating market by 2020. The scale of this current sex-ratio bias dwarves that in the Nien rebellion, and the consequences could turn out to be more catastrophic. Young men with poor prospects of ever starting a family spell danger to themselves and to their societies. Over millions of years of evolution, large numbers of women and even larger numbers of men left no offspring at all. Yet everyone alive today descends from ancestors who managed to avoid that fate. Our male ancestors were the ones who strove most frantically for status and the respect of their peers, and who won the chance to mate. As a result, young men are hair-trigger sensitive to their circumstances, and when the number of men who will never find a mate rises, so does the intensity of the striving. Young men discount their futures and take ridiculous risks in order to improve their prospects. They also become more violent, rising more readily to perceived slights and insults, and starting more fights -- often over trivial issues. These are the triggers for most man-on-man assaults and homicides. Many factors contribute to the number of men who will never find a mate. Economic inequality, for one, leaves a great many poor young men unable to attract a wife. When a society allows powerful men to take several wives, too few women remain for many poor men to take even a single wife. But most dramatically of all, male-biased sex ratios consign the excess men to never having a family of their own. Under each of these scenarios, large numbers of young men competing for dominance elevate local rates of violence, homicide and lawlessness. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson's studies show that local income inequality can explain variation in homicide rates on a number of scales: from Chicago neighborhoods to American States and Canadian provinces. Throughout history, a surplus of young men often heralded violence. The American frontier earned its "Wild West" reputation for lawlessness because its towns overflowed with men, yet marriageable women were vanishingly rare. In The Chivalrous Society, historian Georges Duby argued that European expansionism, from the Crusades to colonialism, was fueled by a surplus of ambitious and aggressive young men with otherwise poor reproductive prospects. China is already feeling the effects of so many bare branches. The economist Lena Edlund estimates that every one percent increase in the sex ratio results in a six percent increase in the rates of violent and property crime. In addition, the parts of China with the most male-biased sex ratios are experiencing a variety of other maladies, all tied to the presence of too many young men. Gambling, alcohol and drug abuse, kidnapping and trafficking of women are rising steeply in China. The bare branch problem will be compounded as income inequality rises. China's Gini coefficient of income inequality has risen from less than 0.3, 25 years ago, to almost 0.5 today. On the Gini scale, 0 represents perfect equality while a score of 1 represents complete inequality. It would be difficult to over

Let me just start by saying that this beautiful braid is a product of a sweet friend I've made through blogging. Over the past many months, I've become friends with Eliane (and yes that's spelled correctly!) from Peppinas Hair on Facebook. She too, has little girls and loves trying out different hairstyles and sharing them on her Facebook page. A while back she sent me some pictures of a fun new fishbone braid she'd come up with and wanted me to make a video of it. I've got to admit it took me a while to get it to look like I wanted it to – despite her detailed instructions! It's not really hard, but for whatever reason it didn't turn out quite like hers. I've come to the decision it's because of the amount of hair I was working with on Bee's ponytail vs. using a smaller amount of hair. That being said, this video is to just show you the technique. You can do this anywhere on the head – not just a ponytail, and you can use any amount of hair to do it. I think if you work with less hair, you get an even cooler look. Once you've watched the video and you try this, play around with it a bit to see what works best for you. Plait 4, 6 or even 8 sections and then twist it to see how it looks. Depending on the amount of hair you are working with will also change the look of the twist. The next 3 pictures are courtesy of Eliane of Peppinas Hair showing a couple different styles she made using this fun new fishbone braid. If you use smaller amounts of hair like she does below, it gives it a whole different look. Step 1 – Make a ponytail Step 2 – Divide hair into 2 sections Step 3 – Start plaiting a regular fishbone braid You can do 4-8 plaits at this point. Play around with this and do what you think looks best with the amount of hair you're working with. Step 4 – Turn the entire braid 180 degrees to the right Step 5 – Plait an inverse fishbone braid If you don't know how to do that, you'll just be taking hair and passing it under the braid instead of over. Do another 4-8 plaits inverted. Step 6 – Turn or rotate the braid 180 degrees to the right again Step 7 – Repeat Steps 3-6 until you reach the end of the ponytail Step 8 – Secure the end with an elastic Let us know what you think. This is definitely one we will be incorporating into some fun new styles in the future. And a huge thank you to Eliane for sharing her technique with us so we could share it with you. Be sure to share this pretty style and use those little social media buttons below!

U Turn maxiewawa May 17th, 2017 186 Never 186Never Not a member of Pastebin yet? Sign Up , it unlocks many cool features! rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 0.69 KB void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly int RightsensorValue = analogRead(A0); int LeftsensorValue = analogRead(A1); turnright(); //vehicle makes a right turn of approx 90 degrees delay(1000); stop(); delay(500); //commenting out this turn, then running the program with the robot resting on a black line does not trigger the while loop while(LeftsensorValue >900){ //while left sensor is white, turn right. If it's black, stop rotation. turnright(); delay(500); stop(); delay(500); int LeftsensorValue = analogRead(A1); Serial.print(LeftsensorValue);//even when Leftsensorvalue is less than 900 the while loop is going off. Serial.println(); } } RAW Paste Data void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly int RightsensorValue = analogRead(A0); int LeftsensorValue = analogRead(A1); turnright(); //vehicle makes a right turn of approx 90 degrees delay(1000); stop(); delay(500); //commenting out this turn, then running the program with the robot resting on a black line does not trigger the while loop while(LeftsensorValue >900){ //while left sensor is white, turn right. If it's black, stop rotation. turnright(); delay(500); stop(); delay(500); int LeftsensorValue = analogRead(A1); Serial.print(LeftsensorValue);//even when Leftsensorvalue is less than 900 the while loop is going off. Serial.println(); } }

EnderSword Profile Joined September 2010 Canada 659 Posts #4 On February 25 2013 14:58 geokilla wrote: Is there a limit to the people that can attend? I don't see a max occupancy. Hello, the place has a 220 person capacity, we got maybe 90ish people last time and pretty much everyone had a place to sit I think. I don't anticipate being too full or anything, there we plenty of room with our turnout for IPL 5. It's a nice nightclub, actual plush chair seating and couches and stuff, and It is all ages, despite being a bar and stuff, there's no age restrictions or anything, so all are welcome. I find a lot of younger fans think a BarCraft is not accessible to them, but it's legal to come in and stuff, you just can't drink alcohol, which is no problem. Hello, the place has a 220 person capacity, we got maybe 90ish people last time and pretty much everyone had a place to sit I think. I don't anticipate being too full or anything, there we plenty of room with our turnout for IPL 5.It's a nice nightclub, actual plush chair seating and couches and stuff, and It is all ages, despite being a bar and stuff, there's no age restrictions or anything, so all are welcome.I find a lot of younger fans think a BarCraft is not accessible to them, but it's legal to come in and stuff, you just can't drink alcohol, which is no problem. Bronze/Silver/Gold level Guides - www.youtube.com/user/EnderSword

There are people who willing choose to listen to Sublime. Think about that. Continue Reading Below Advertisement So what can you do? Haha, wouldn't it be amazing if I actually had a one-sentence cure for the plague of the industrialized world? The closest I could offer would be "Have you tried just not giving a shit?" but that won't do. You have to give a certain number of shits just to stay alive. For every truly carefree person I know, there's a nervous friend or family member who has to keep a "bail out my carefree friend" fund on hand for the next time that free spirit gets an eviction notice. No, my plan is slightly more detailed, in that it has two parts instead of just the one: 1. Recognize that your attention is a limited resource which must be spent carefully ... and that pushing yourself too hard can put you in the fucking ground. 2. Realize that a lot of the things clamoring for your attention are the equivalent of inbox spam. That is, it's junk mail sent by other people to trick you into feeling anxious in a way that will indirectly benefit them. The key is learning to filter it. So if anxiety is intended to be a motivator for positive action, then you must only spend it on things that you can actually affect with action. Otherwise, it's spam. Examples: Continue Reading Below Advertisement -- You are made to feel ashamed about a personal attribute you have no control over (height, facial features, penis girth, race, gender, sexuality). -- You are upset because a person you are very nice to doesn't enjoy your company (you have no power over others' response to you). -- You feel a jolt of anger in your gut every time a religious/political/cultural group you find repulsive shows up in your news feed, upsetting you with their mere existence. Now, if the thing you are having anxiety about is something you can affect with action but is someone else's agenda, it's also spam. Examples: -- Someone is trying to shame you over your job/partner/body, even though you yourself are happy with them. -- Someone is trying to shame you for the harmless hobbies you enjoy. -- Someone is trying to shame you because your life doesn't look exactly like theirs. You must learn to use the same technique taught in rehab and anger management classes: You have to stop, step outside of the emotion, and say, "I am feeling anxiety about this. Should I?" Continue Reading Below Advertisement If the answer is no, you can now deploy that psychological trump card known as Not Giving A Shit. It's not easy. It's a skill you'll have to practice for the rest of your life. Still, recognizing the need to do it is a massive step, since most of us accept anxiety as the background noise of everyday life (to the point where we actually get confused when it's not there, the way city folk get freaked out by natural silence when they try to go camping). This technique requires you to regard your own peace of mind as a precious resource that is under continuous assault, and to reflexively defend it. A sort of martial art of the mind which involves strategically deploying or withholding your shit-giving as needed. I call it Noshitsu. But be warned: Your enemies have been honing their techniques for a very long time. Still, with vigilance and repetition, I know for a fact that you, too, can become a Noshitsu master. Then, hopefully, you can come back and teach me. David Wong is executive editor of Cracked and a New York Times bestselling author. His award-winning novel Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits is available right here. Zoroastrianism used to be one of the biggest religions in the world, but their idea of heaven had a slight twist on it: to get there you'd have to cross a bridge. Sometimes rickety, sometimes wide and sturdy, if you fell off you'd go to the House of Lies for eternity. Fun! Not terrifying at all! This month, Jack, Dan, and Michael along with comedians Casey Jane Ellison and Ramin Nazer as they discuss their favorite afterlife scenarios from movies, sci-fi and lesser-known religions. Get your tickets here and we'll see you on the other side of the bridge! More Blogs

This article originally appeared on Bikeradar. Related Articles Pro bike: Jens Voigt's Trek Madone 7-Series H1 Q&A: Jens Voigt on his career, a final season, anti-doping and the 98 Tour samples Trek Factory Racing remains a "band of brothers," says Voigt Pro bike: Roman Kreuziger's Specialized Tarmac SL4 Pro bike: Caleb Ewan's Scott Foil Voigt plans to animate Tour of California Jens Voigt, the eternal crowd favourite has once again returned to Australia for the 2014 Tour Down Under, in support of Fränk Schleck on his return to racing. Not much has changed since we last looked at his bike, but with a new team name – Trek Factory Racing – comes some minor tweaks. Voigt is the oldest rider in the peloton, and so it's only right that he receives a fitting race number – 42, his exact age. That said, he's obviously still in form and his aggressive position hasn't changed much at all. Voigt rides a standard Trek Madone7 series frame with a H1 headtube, offering a lower position compared to Trek's regular H2 geometry. Standing slim and tall at 1.89m (6ft 2in), Voigt has a few component choices that help with a precise fit, and his choice of 177.5mm cranks isn't often seen. Trek's reverse seatpost topper means Voigt uses a longer seatpost head with minimal setback, all in an effort to get further over the pedals. The move from Speedplay to Shimano pedals signals a minor change. Voigt prefers a wider stance and so the choice of Shimano's Dura-ace pedals with wider axles adds a further 8mm to his Q-factor. Like the rest of the team (except Fabian Cancellara), Voigt uses the new 11-speed Dura-ace 9070 Di2 groupset with internal battery. Unseen in 2013, a Climber shifter has been added for extended efforts without moving from the top of the bar. Even though Bontrager offer a range of carbon handlebars, Voigt sticks with an aluminium model due to post-crash dependability. Complete bike specifications • Frame: Trek Madone 7 Series, 60cm H1 Team Issue • Fork: Trek Madone KVF full carbon • Headset: Internal 1 1/8in to 1 1/2in tapered • Stem: Bontrager Race XXX Lite, 120mm x -7 degrees • Handlebar: Bontrager Race Lite Anatomic, 44cm (c-c) • Tape: Bontrager cork • Front brake: Shimano Dura-Ace direct mount BR-9010 • Rear brake: Shimano Dura-Ace direct mount • Brake levers: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 STI Dual Control ST-9070 • Front derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 FD-9070 • Rear derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 RD-9070 • Shift levers: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 STI Dual Control ST-9070 + Climber shifter • Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace CS-9000, 11-25T • Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace CN-9000 • Crankset: SRM Wireless PowerMeterDuraAce 9000, 177.5mm, 53/39T • Bottom bracket: BB90 stainless steel cartridge bearing • Pedals: Shimano 9000 Dura-ace Wide spindle • Wheelset: Bontrager Aeolus 5 tubular • Front tire: Schwalbe One 24mm • Rear tire: Schwalbe One 24mm • Saddle: Bontrager Team Issue - Soft • Seatpost: Madone Long 5mm setback • Bottle cages: Bontrager RXL bottle cage (2) • Computer: SRM PowerControl 7 Critical measurements • Rider's height: 1.89m (6ft 2in) • Rider's weight: 76kg (167.2lb) • Saddle height from BB, c-t: 842mm • Saddle setback: 94 • Seat tube length (c-t): 573mm • Seat tube length (c-c): 510mm • Tip of saddle to center of bar: 610mm • Saddle

How Becoming a Working Girl Improved My Body Image Posted by Amber Adams on August 25, 2017 72 SHARES Share Tweet I consider myself a person of high self esteem with a very positive body image. I love my curvaceous figure and my soft, supple skin. I am an athletic, healthy, and shapely young woman with a great attitude, a lust for life, and an eagerness to explore what the future has to offer. Also, I'm sexy as hell and I know how to work my voluptuous body to amply and utterly please my numerous lovers. However, I didn't always feel this way about myself and my body. As an average, middle class girl growing up in the Western United States, I was subjected to the usual trials and tribulations of an American teenager. Being a little on the curvy side, I quickly noticed that I looked very different from the vast majority of girls portrayed on television, online, and in fashion magazines. I remember being in my early teens and picking up an issue of Teen Vogue with a picture of Emma Watson on the cover and a headline that said something like "Tips on what to wear if you're curvy, short, thin, etc." I remember paging through the magazine and getting very depressed because I realized that I wanted to be the lithe, slender Emma Watson type that's pretty enough for the cover of the magazine and not the full-figured model in the middle of the book showing off the merits of fit and flare dresses. Like many young women, I became obsessed with my appearance and I spent more time than I should've looking at myself in front of a mirror and obsessing over every bulge and valley of my body — to the point where my "flaws" became exaggerated in my mind, and began to affect the way I perceived myself. When you're young and susceptible to the pressures of society, a negative body image can make you feel as if you're less than worthy of certain things because you can't see yourself in empowering roles that are almost always portrayed in the media by women that don't look like you. I began to have thoughts like, "Well, I should settle for this unfulfilling relationship or this crappy part-time job — after all, what more should a girl like me expect out of life." I could never be "the star," because women that look like me are the supporting characters. Of course, you would never know that I had these hangups if you met me in high school. I had a bubbly personality, I received decent grades, I had healthy friendships, I dated, and I had the usual amount of moderately enjoyable sex. But there was always a barrier, an invisible and imaginary limitation that I put on myself no matter what I did in life. Like too many teenaged women on the cusp of adulthood, these negative thoughts about my body eventually got situated into my subconscious and became a part of me that was always present but barely perceptible, limiting my potential in every aspect of my life. After high school I moved to the Pacific Northwest and I had my first taste of independence, which meant that I was dead broke and had to find a job to pay the bills ASAP. Although being a barista in several of the the seemingly unlimited coffee shops Seattle has to offer was a lot of fun and a great way to make new friends, it wasn't long before I realized that I needed to get a higher paying job if I wanted to stay on my feet and save some money. Several of the women I met at the coffee shop were sex workers of one sort or another, and they suggested I get involved in adult entertainment. At first I thought that this was something I could never do. I mean, I could never be a sex symbol. That role was for the girls who were on the magazine's cover, not the fit and flare dress girls. Fortunately, the need for cash superseded my personal hangups and I got involved with exotic dancing and adult videos. As I experimented more and delved deeper into the world of adult entertainment, something began to happen. People began to treat me like I was something extraordinary. I began to make more and more money and I received sexual offers from men and women alike. I was desired — someone to be exalted and revered. Someone that people would pay to experience an evening with. People wanted me — wanted my body. Slowly but steadily, the barriers that were preventing me from seeing myself as a beautiful, amazing, and absolutely worthy person were beginning to crumble. By the time I decided to become a legal working girl at Dennis Hof's Sagebrush Ranch in Nevada, so that I could offer intimacy and sensuality to my newfound suitors, the wall impeding me from loving myself was all but shattered. Through my work as a licensed courtesan, I learned that people lust after and crave a variety of body types — and I learned that what people see in magazines and

Victoria Tiffani You're going to feel perverted in the best way possible when you check out honey-blonde darling Victoria Tiffani. Her slim teenage look is positively sinful, but rest assured, she's all woman. She didn't even start into porn until age 20. Victoria's tight 96-pound body is accentuated by tiny bee-sting tits, long legs, and a nice round ass. Her angelic sweetness makes it even hotter when she gets a creampie from a group of men teaching her how to worship cock and please a crowd of horny studs. Victoria's got a passion for pleasuring people with her sexy tongue, and she considers herself an expert at eating pussy and sucking dick. When not learning how to suck dick while working two other dicks with her hands, or stretching out her asshole to take two cocks at once, Victoria is passionate about music, dancing, and her pet cats. She's Russian and was born in Moscow in 1990. She primarily shoots in Europe, but you don't have to go to a number of obscure Euro porn sites and distributors to view her in action. Thanks to the miracle of globalization, Victoria's worked for all your top porn producers, and we've got a number of her best scenes here on Pornhub. Born: 1990-04-05 Career: 2010 to Present (Started around 8 years ago)

About the Show The magic-kyun school life begins! A world where art becomes magic. In this world, people who can inspire passion with their Magic Arts are called The magic-kyun school life begins! A world where art becomes magic. In this world, people who can inspire passion with their Magic Arts are called Artistas, and are employed in show business. In Hoshinomori Private Magical Arts High School, where Artistas are taught, a strange new student named Ohana Aigasaki transfers into the school. Ohana is placed on the planning committee for the school's yearly Hoshinomori Summer Festa cultural festival. She spends her romantic school life with six other boys who aim to become entertainers in the future. ... more

From K J M Varma Beijing, May 21 (PTI) Substituting censorship, China is "flooding" social media with over 488 million comments a year by paid supporters to sway public opinion in governments favour, according to a research report. The research by Harvard academicsdraws on leaked documents to paint a picture of the way China polices social media. The government and its army of helpers write 488 million fake posts a year, the BBC quoted the report as saying. The profusion of comments on social media sits alongside other efforts, to find and delete content deemed too sensitive for Chinese citizens. The vast majority of the comments and posts made on social media are crafted to look like they come from ordinary people, the authors of the paper, who were led by Gary King from Harvards department of government said. Many of the posts do not attempt to rebut or argue with critical commenters, they said. "They do not step up to defend the government, its leaders, and their policies from criticism, no matter how vitriolic; indeed, they seem to avoid controversial issues entirely," the research paper said. "Letting an argument die, or changing the subject, usually works much better than picking an argument and getting someones back up," it said. More often Communist Party workers or ordinary citizens employed to post on behalf of the government engage in "cheerleading" about the states achievements or its history. With worlds largest 667 millioninternetconnections, most of them connected to microblog social media like Weibo,China controls the web content with huge firewalls blocking content critical of the government, leaders and the ruling Communist Party of China. Despite the most advanced online infrastructure, Chinese internet is regarded one of the slowest in the world due to firewall monitoring. The 488 million posts per year are made more effective by making sure they are added during the busiest times on social media or when a controversial issue is being widely debated. The study used documents and spreadsheets leaked in 2014 that found the names and online pseudonyms of people employed by the Chinese authorities to post on the states behalf, the research paper said. The academics extrapolated from this sample in an attempt to estimate the true scale of official activity on social media sites. There were good psychological reasons for using distraction rather than censorship or counter-arguments, the paper said. "Since censorship alone seems to anger people, the 50c astroturfing program (entailing creation of fake grassroots content) has the additional advantage of enabling the government to actively control opinion without having to censor as much as they might otherwise," the authors of the report said. PTI KJV AJR

One of Obamacare's biggest selling points for women is the guarantee of no-cost birth control, a new benefit that includes all forms of contraception from the pill to tubal ligation. But two years after the rules eliminating copayments for contraceptives took effect, some women are still forking over cash to the pharmacist when they pick up their pills or at the doctor's office when they obtain other forms of birth control. Just last week, CVS announced it would send rebates to 11,000 women who were erroneously charged for their birth control pills at the company's stores because of a computer error. The snafu came to light when an aide to Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) had to pay $20 for birth control at a Washington CVS, which prompted an inquiry by the lawmaker. So did President Barack Obama break a promise? Are health insurance companies and drugstores picking women's pockets? The good news is that neither of those things is true, and eventually almost all women with health coverage won't have to pay a dime when they obtain contraceptives. The bad news is that it's a little complicated. Because of course it is. This is the American health care system, after all. "American women don't really know what all the rules are," said Judy Waxman, vice president for health and reproductive rights at the National Women's Law Center. "All this is relatively new, and it's working fairly well. It just needs to be cleaned up and work better." Some health insurance plans aren't yet required to comply with this part of Obamacare. Others never will have to cover birth control, such as those plans provided to employees of religious organizations. And as the CVS example illustrates, sometimes insurers and pharmacists just get it wrong, and women have to jump through hoops to set it straight. "We do hear from women all over the country with what I will call glitches," Waxman said. "Not everybody understands what they're supposed to be doing." First, the basics: The Affordable Care Act does require health insurance companies to cover all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives -- including the pill, IUDs, the ring and the patch -- without any form of cost-sharing like copayments or deductibles. This requirement comes from the same part of the law that mandates no charges for preventive medicine, such as immunizations and cholesterol tests. If you receive your health benefits from an employer and you're not sure whether you have to pay out-of-pocket to get contraception, you should ask a manager, the human resources office or the insurance company. If you buy health insurance on your own, check with the plan to find out what your contraceptive coverage is. All health insurance sold on the Obamacare exchanges includes no-cost birth control. If your insurance company still insists you owe copayments, you might have to file an appeal, Waxman said. If you don't get straight answers from your employer or insurance provider, or if you feel like you're being ripped off, organizations such as the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the National Women's Law Center can help, as can state insurance commissioners and the U.S. Department of Labor, Waxman said. Despite its shortcomings and the confusion around how it's supposed to work, the Obamacare birth control mandate has had a huge impact: Many, many more women have access to no-cost contraception than before the law took effect, as this chart from the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization, shows. Source: The Guttmacher Institute The share of women who obtained oral contraceptives without copayments rose from 15 percent in 2012 to 67 percent this year, according to a survey by the Guttmacher Institute. Women who used an injectable contraceptive or the ring saw a similarly major improvement in their benefits, and those using IUDs saw a somewhat smaller increase. The effect on women's pocketbooks is striking: Women using contraceptives saved $483 million in copayments last year, according to IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a branch of IMS Health that tracks pharmaceutical sales. (Obamacare didn't exactly make contraceptives "free," of course, because their cost now just gets included in the overall insurance cost.) The number of prescriptions filled for the pill also increased by 4.6 percent from the year before, IMS reported in April. Top bar in millions of prescriptions. Bottom bar in millions of dollars. Source: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics That's probably a big reason why this part of Obamacare is so popular. In a survey conducted this July, 60 percent of people said they supported mandated no-cost birth control, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found. Still, one-third of Americans didn't know about the no-cost birth control benefit as recently as March, and only one-fifth said they'd heard a lot about it

A new week has begun in the Nexus, which means it's time for a new Weekly Sale! Check out the items we've placed on sale this week, and then head to the Heroes in-game Shop to pick up anything that catches your eye: Weekly Sale: Apr 4 - 11, 2017 Item Sale Price Muradin $3.24 USD Magni Muradin Skin $4.99 USD Star Princess Li-Ming Skin $4.99 USD What is a Weekly Sale? Each Weekly Sale features discounted real-money prices for several individual items over a seven-day period, typically beginning and ending on Tuesdays. When a new Weekly Sale begins, the items from our previous sale will return to their normal prices, and new items will be discounted. Be sure to head to the official Heroes of the Storm website every Tuesday, or keep an eye on your Battle.net Application's Heroes tab, to catch our latest Weekly Sale announcements.

Photo Cairo SOMEDAY I'd love to create a journalism course based on covering the uprising in Egypt , now approaching its first anniversary. Lesson No. 1 would be the following: Whenever you see elephants flying, shut up and take notes. The Egyptian uprising is the equivalent of elephants flying. No one predicted it, and no one had seen this before. If you didn't see it coming, what makes you think you know where it's going? That's why the smartest thing now is to just shut up and take notes. If you do, the first thing you'll write is that the Islamist parties — the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Al Nour Party — just crushed the secular liberals, who actually sparked the rebellion here, in the free Egyptian parliamentary elections, winning some 65 percent of the seats. To not be worried about the theocratic, antipluralistic, anti-women's-rights, xenophobic strands in these Islamist parties is to be recklessly naïve. But to assume that the Islamists will not be impacted, or moderated, by the responsibilities of power, by the contending new power centers here and by the priority of the public for jobs and clean government is to miss the dynamism of Egyptian politics today. Come with me to Cairo's dirt-poor Shubra el-Khema neighborhood and the dilapidated Omar Abdel Aziz School, where I watched the last round of voting on Wednesday at a women-only voting center. We were guided by Amr Hassan, a 22-year-old commerce student from the 'hood — a secular youth, who fought to topple the Hosni Mubarak regime in Tahrir Square last year. Here is what was so striking: virtually all the women we interviewed after the voting — all of whom were veiled, some with only slits for their eyes — said that they had voted for either the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists. But almost none said they had voted that way for religious reasons. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Many said they voted for Islamists because they were neighbors, people they knew, while secular liberal candidates had never once visited. Some illiterate elderly women confided that they could not read the ballot and just voted where their kids told them to. But practically all of them said they had voted for the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist candidates because they expected them to deliver better, more honest government — not more mosques or liquor bans. Photo Here are some quotes from Egyptian women on why they voted Islamist: "I love the Muslim Brotherhood; they are the only honest ones. ... I want good education and clean air to breathe. ... We need proper medical care. ... I want my kids to be properly educated. They can't find any jobs. ... The Muslim Brotherhood is not just an Islamist party. It is going to help solve all the problems of the country. ... We have to get the youth working and to raise salaries. Education here is only getting worse. ... My biggest fear is lack of security. We sit in our homes — afraid. You are afraid your son won't be able to go back and forth to school without being kidnapped."

The everyday chemicals that humans ingest to relieve pain, fight depression and diabetes, or treat infection are winding up in the tissue of fish in Washington's Puget Sound. A study in the journal Environmental Pollution detected unusually high levels of drugs like Advil, Benadryl, Prozac, and even birth control pills, in the tissue of salmon. The culprit, according to the study, is human waste. "About 45 of the 150 chemicals we examined were found in the fish," said James Meador, the lead author of the study and an aquatic toxicologist working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Some of them were at high concentrations. That's the kind of information that raises eyebrows." Over 4,000 pharmaceuticals are currently in use or in development in the United States. Many of them are finding their way into rivers, streams, and lakes, raising concerns about how exposure could impact wildlife, or even humans who consume fish. Related: The Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Could Outweigh Fish by 2050 Meador's team focused on compounds that Americans pick up at their local pharmacy, or is frequently proscribed by doctors. Water samples from the sound, wastewater, and fish tissue were analyzed for the presence of 150 different types of chemicals. One hundred and six wastewater treatment plants, discharging as much as 97,000 pounds of chemicals each year, are located around Puget Sound. Meador's team examined only two of them, but found ingredients from 81 drugs and personal-care products, at some of the highest concentrations in the country. Hundreds of chemicals can be found in the waters of Puget Sound, but only a handful are regularly monitored by wastewater facilities, which require permits from Washington's Department of Ecology to operate. Chemical levels from pesticides, for example, must remain below a certain threshold before the water can be dumped into the sound. But pharmaceuticals, now ubiquitous in society, aren't monitored. "There's a lot of chemicals that we already know cause problems for the salmon," said Amelia Apfel, who works with Puget Soundkeeper. "It's concerning to learn that they are more things in the water that we don't even know about." While the presence of toxins sounds alarm bells for advocates like Apfel, more research is needed to understand the impact of chemicals on aquatic life, said Meador. For example, metformin, a common diabetes medication, could hinder metabolic function, impacting a fish's growth. High exposure to antibiotics could result in antibiotic resistant bacteria, which could potentially lead to dangerous pathogens that could be passed along to people. Prozac or Zoloft, which might free a person from the grip of chronic depression, could very well negatively impact the behavior of fish. "If that happens, the fish is toast." said Meador. "It doesn't last long. Predators hunt fish that stray from normal behavior." Related: Your Birth Control Pills and Hamburgers Might Be Making These Fish Intersex Chinook salmon migrate from the ocean to river headwaters in order to spawn. Meador and his team studied the fish because they spend several weeks each year swimming in areas of high chemical concentration. In previous studies, Meador found that the salmon that migrate through chemical-laden wastewater die at nearly twice the rate of fish in cleaner waters. Staghorn sculpin, which are abundant in Puget Sound, were also tested. The researchers found that salmon had higher rates of toxicity than sculpin, which was surprising because sculpin are bottom-feeding fish that spend more time in the region. "But young salmon eat a lot," said Meador. "They pass a lot of water over their gills, which allows the chemicals to be taken up into the gut of the fish." It remains a challenge to figure out how to remove chemicals from waterways because the regulatory agencies aren't obligated to treat them like other pollutants. Meador hopes that by studying the impacts that everyday, household pharmaceuticals have on aquatic life, scientists will be better able to define a threshold for allowable levels of chemicals in the water. "Several species of salmon are endangered," said Meador. "In the past we've looked at PCP and DDT. Pharmaceuticals are the next frontier." Follow Elaisha Stokes on Twitter: @ElaishaStokes

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. The son of former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly a subject of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Four government officials told NBC News that the investigation is looking into Michael Flynn Jr.'s work for his father's lobbying firm, the Flynn Intel Group, which has been under scrutiny for its ties to Russia and Turkey. Flynn Jr. was fired from Trump's transition team in December after the president reportedly became irritated by Flynn's persistent promotion of a false conspiracy theory alleging Hillary Clinton was behind a child sex-trafficking ring. The news of Flynn Jr.'s inclusion in the Russia probe comes one day after House Democrats sent a letter to Mueller raising concern about the former national security adviser's failure to disclose a 2015 trip to the Middle East, where Flynn senior may have lobbied on behalf of a foreign government to strike a deal to build a nuclear reactors program. "The American people deserve to know whether General Flynn was secretly promoting the private interests of these businesses while he was a campaign adviser, a transition official, or President Trump's National Security Adviser," said the letter, signed by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY.). In February, Flynn was fired as national security adviser after reports surfaced that he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had had with the Russian ambassador, making him vulnerable to possible Russian blackmail. Flynn Jr. remains active in attacking Clinton on social media. In recent days, he has retweeted several criticisms of Clinton and her new memoir, What Happened. He has yet to make a comment on being a subject of Mueller's federal inquiry.

Moving a big software project to a new compiler can be a lot of work, and few projects are bigger than Chromium. In addition to the main Chromium repository, which includes all of Blink, there are over a hundred other open-source projects which Chromium incorporates by reference, totaling more than 48,000 C/C++ files and 40,000 header files. Porting Chromium on Windows to VC++ 2015 requires getting all of these projects to build and run. As of March 11th 2016 Chromium for Windows has switched from VC++ 2013 to VC++ 2015, and it doesn't look like it's switching back. This will give us more C++ 11 features, new security options, much faster LTCG/PGO builds, and other advantages. The tracking bug for this project currently has over 330 comments on it, with contributions from dozens of developers. Writing about all of those changes would require an entire book. So I'm going to focus on my favorite part of this project – compiler bugs. In particular, bugs where the compiler silently generates incorrect code. Update: another code-gen bug in VS 2015 was found on March 31st, and worked around about two weeks later. A VC++ bug was filed. And another silent-bad-code-gen bug was found in September 2016, and worked around a few days later. If you throw a diverse enough set of code at a compiler, build it in lots of different ways, run lots of tests, and ship the code to customers, you're going to find some bugs. Because Chromium is open source I will include links to Chromium bugs and fixes where possible, in addition to links to the VC++ bug reports. I didn't find all of these bugs, but it was my job to investigate them, come up with a minimal repro, and report them to Microsoft. And I have to say that the Microsoft team was amazing. They were very supportive, and helpful, and it was clear that they really wanted VC++ 2015 to be as good as possible, and that includes building Chromium. We had an excellent symbiotic relationship: I fed them high quality bug reports, and they fixed them incredibly quickly. Anyone can file VC++ bugs at the connect website. Getting your bugs noticed is easier if you work for Google, but anyone who files quality bugs can get help. The VC++ MVP program lets ordinary developers who participate in the VC++ community get privileged access to the VC++ team. Recommended – I enjoyed being a VC++ MVP before joining Google. Chromium is open source so Microsoft can theoretically reproduce any of these bugs if I just tell them what source file to compile and where to look. But that can be a slow process. If the repro steps for your bug includes "Download 90,000 source files and our custom build system and compile for hours" then you can't expect priority service. This is especially true because most reports of bugs in compilers are erroneous – most 'compiler bugs' are actually bugs in the code being compiled, such as invoking undefined behavior. So, I always had to prove to myself that these were compiler bugs before reporting them, which usually meant simplifying the repro case to make it trivially obvious that the compiler was at fault. I've discussed techniques for doing this before. Failed Chromium After getting all of Chromium building the next step was to start running Chromium. It would run fine once, but on subsequent runs I'd hit an assert. I suspected a code-gen bug but it was not the case. The problem ultimately turned out to be this code: HandleWrapper h(CreateMutex(…)); if (h.HandleIsInvalid() && GetLastError() == SOME_ERROR_CODE) … It turns out that the HandleWrapper class allocates memory, and the debug version of the VC++ 2015 CRT allocations functions call the FlsGetValue function, and FlsGetValue calls SetLastError(0) because it is so incredibly proud that it succeeded. SetLastError(0) destroys the error code from CreateMutex, and madness ensues. I filed a bug and tweeted about this and it turned into a fun little twitter discussion with opinions about evenly split between "if memory allocation affects LastError then Armageddon is imminent" and "if you assume memory allocation won't affect LastError then you are Satan". This way of using HandleWrapper is very convenient and is pervasive in Chromium so fixing all of the uses seemed impractical so instead the HandleWrapper constructor now preserves and then restores LastError. Some other misuses of GetLastError were also fixed. This was not a compiler code-gen bug, but I wanted to include it because the twitter storm was wonderful. Microsoft decided to fix the bug which I assumes means that they are choosing Satan over Armageddon. Failed test