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Finding Peoples' Names in Files - Python 471,305 Members | 1,296 Online Sign in Join Post + Home Posts Topics Members FAQ home > topics > python > questions > finding peoples' names in files Join Bytes to post your question to a community of 471,305 software developers and data experts. Finding Peoples' Names in Files brad Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. Oct 11 '07 #1 Follow Post Reply 11 1318 cokofreedom On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. Can't you just use the string function .findall() ? Oct 11 '07 #2 Tim Williams On 11/10/2007, brad <by*******@gmail.comwrote: Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Text = open(fname).read() def a_function(): for Name in ['Guido', Robert',Susan']: if Name in Text: return 1 if a_function(): print "A name was found" :) Oct 11 '07 #3 brad co*********@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: >Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. Can't you just use the string function .findall() ? I mean *any* possible person's name... I don't *know* the names beforehand :) Oct 11 '07 #4 Francesco Guerrieri On 10/11/07, brad <by*******@gmail.comwrote: co*********@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. Can't you just use the string function .findall() ? I mean *any* possible person's name... I don't *know* the names beforehand :) "I cannot combine some characters dhcmrlchtdj which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god." Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel Oct 11 '07 #5 brad co*********@gmail.com wrote: However...how can you know it is a name... OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% answerable question, but I would guess that it is an 80% answerable question... I just don't know how... yet :) Besides admitting that it's a crazy question, I should stop and explain how it would be useful to me at least. Is a credit card number itself valuable? I would think not. One can easily re and luhn check for credit card numbers located in files with a great degree of accuracy, but a number without a name is not very useful to me. So, if one could associate names to luhn checked numbers automatically, then one would be onto something. Or at least say, "hey, this file has luhn validated CCs *AND* it seems to have people's names in it as well." Now then, I'd have less to review or perhaps as much as I have now, but I could push the files with numbers and names to the top of the list so that they would be reviewed first. Brad Oct 11 '07 #6 Matimus On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: cokofree...@gmail.com wrote: However...how can you know it is a name... OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% answerable question, but I would guess that it is an 80% answerable question... I just don't know how... yet :) Besides admitting that it's a crazy question, I should stop and explain how it would be useful to me at least. Is a credit card number itself valuable? I would think not. One can easily re and luhn check for credit card numbers located in files with a great degree of accuracy, but a number without a name is not very useful to me. So, if one could associate names to luhn checked numbers automatically, then one would be onto something. Or at least say, "hey, this file has luhn validated CCs *AND* it seems to have people's names in it as well." Now then, I'd have less to review or perhaps as much as I have now, but I could push the files with numbers and names to the top of the list so that they would be reviewed first. Brad What the hell are you doing? Your post sounds to me like you have a huge amount of stolen, or at the very least misapprehended, data. Now you want to search it for credit card numbers and names so that you can use them. I am not cool with this! This is a public forum about a programming language. What makes you think that anybody in this forum will be cool with that. Perhaps you aren't doing anything illegal, but it sure is coming off that way. If you are doing something illegal I hope you get caught. At the very least, you might want to clarify why you are looking for such capability so that you don't get effectively black-listed (well, by me at least). Matt Oct 11 '07 #7 Dan Stromberg On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:22:50 -0400, brad wrote: Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. It'll be hard to handle the Dweezil's and Moon Unit's of the world (I believe these are Frank Zappa's kids?), but you could compile a list of reasonably common names by gaining access to a usenet news spool, and pulling the names from the headers. But then this is starting to sound dangerously like a spam campaign - in which case, "Please don't!". Oct 11 '07 #8 byte8bits On Oct 11, 12:49 pm, Matimus <mccre...@gmail.comwrote: On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: cokofree...@gmail.com wrote: However...how can you know it is a name... OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% answerable question, but I would guess that it is an 80% answerable question... I just don't know how... yet :) Besides admitting that it's a crazy question, I should stop and explain how it would be useful to me at least. Is a credit card number itself valuable? I would think not. One can easily re and luhn check for credit card numbers located in files with a great degree of accuracy, but a number without a name is not very useful to me. So, if one could associate names to luhn checked numbers automatically, then one would be onto something. Or at least say, "hey, this file has luhn validated CCs *AND* it seems to have people's names in it as well." Now then, I'd have less to review or perhaps as much as I have now, but I could push the files with numbers and names to the top of the list so that they would be reviewed first. Brad What the hell are you doing? Your post sounds to me like you have a huge amount of stolen, or at the very least misapprehended, data. Now you want to search it for credit card numbers and names so that you can use them. I am not cool with this! This is a public forum about a programming language. What makes you think that anybody in this forum will be cool with that. Perhaps you aren't doing anything illegal, but it sure is coming off that way. If you are doing something illegal I hope you get caught. At the very least, you might want to clarify why you are looking for such capability so that you don't get effectively black-listed (well, by me at least). Matt Go have a beer and calm down a bit :) It's a legitimate purpose, although it could (and probably is being used by bad guys right now). My intent, as you can see from the links below, is to catch it before the bad guys do. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/find_ccns/ http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/find_ssns/ Brad Oct 11 '07 #9 John J. Lee brad <by*******@gmail.comwrites: Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. A few ideas: 1. If you don't have a list of names, find a list of words that doesn't contain proper nouns (there are a few word lists out there, not sure if any exclude people's names, though). Look for short runs of two or three "words" (punctuation-separated tokens) in the email that aren't in the dictionary. Some of them will be people's names. 2. Send the text through Google translate and look for runs of words that are unchanged. Some of them will be people's names. 3. Search the literature and look for fancy algorithms. Here are some papers (the last mentions some commercial software to do this): http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bikel99algorithm.html http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/618945.html http://arxiv.org/html/cmp-lg/9706017 John Oct 11 '07 #10 Chris Mellon On 10/11/07, by*******@gmail.com <by*******@gmail.comwrote: On Oct 11, 12:49 pm, Matimus <mccre...@gmail.comwrote: On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <byte8b...@gmail.comwrote: cokofree...@gmail.com wrote: However...how can you know it is a name... OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% answerable question, but I would guess that it is an 80% answerable question... I just don't know how... yet :) Besides admitting that it's a crazy question, I should stop and explain how it would be useful to me at least. Is a credit card number itself valuable? I would think not. One can easily re and luhn check for credit card numbers located in files with a great degree of accuracy, but a number without a name is not very useful to me. So, if one could associate names to luhn checked numbers automatically, then one would be onto something. Or at least say, "hey, this file has luhn validated CCs *AND* it seems to have people's names in it as well." Now then, I'd have less to review or perhaps as much as I have now, but I could push the files with numbers and names to the top of the list so that they would be reviewed first. Brad What the hell are you doing? Your post sounds to me like you have a huge amount of stolen, or at the very least misapprehended, data. Now you want to search it for credit card numbers and names so that you can use them. I am not cool with this! This is a public forum about a programming language. What makes you think that anybody in this forum will be cool with that. Perhaps you aren't doing anything illegal, but it sure is coming off that way. If you are doing something illegal I hope you get caught. At the very least, you might want to clarify why you are looking for such capability so that you don't get effectively black-listed (well, by me at least). Matt Go have a beer and calm down a bit :) It's a legitimate purpose, although it could (and probably is being used by bad guys right now). My intent, as you can see from the links below, is to catch it before the bad guys do. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/find_ccns/ http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/find_ssns/ Brad In case you're doing this for PCI validation, be aware that just the CC number is considered sensitive and you'd get some false negatives if you filter on anything except that. Random strings that match CC checksums are really quite rare and false positives from that alone are unlikely to be a problem. Unless I deployed this and there was a significant false positive rate I wouldn't risk the false negatives, personally. Oct 11 '07 #11 brad Chris Mellon wrote: In case you're doing this for PCI validation, be aware that just the CC number is considered sensitive and you'd get some false negatives if you filter on anything except that. Random strings that match CC checksums are really quite rare and false positives from that alone are unlikely to be a problem. Unless I deployed this and there was a significant false positive rate I wouldn't risk the false negatives, personally. Yes, it is for PCI. Our rate of false positives is low, very low. I wasn't aware that a number alone was a PCI violation. Thank you! On another note, we're a university (Virginia Tech) and we're subject to FERPA, HIPPA, GLBA, etc... in addition to PCI. So we do these checks for U.S. Social Security Numbers too in an effort to prevent or lessen the chance of ID theft. Unfortunately, there is no luhn check for SSNs. We follow the Social Security Administration verification guideline religiously... here's an web front-end to my logic: http://black.cirt.vt.edu/public/valid_ssn/index.html but still have many false positives on SSNs, so being able to id *names and numbers* in files would still be a be benefit to us. Brad Oct 11 '07 #12 This discussion thread is closed Start new discussion Replies have been disabled for this discussion. 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Donald Trump has surged far ahead of his Republican rivals in Florida and leads a hypothetical matchup with Democrat Hillary Clinton in the biggest swing state, according to a Florida Atlantic University poll released Wednesday.
The reality TV star and real estate mogul, a part-time resident of Palm Beach, leads the Republican presidential field in Florida with 36 percent, the poll found. His closest rival, Sen. Marco Rubio of West Miami, trails with 18 percent, followed by Ben Carson, of West Palm Beach, with 15 percent.
"Despite conjecture that Donald Trump has plateaued, his support in Florida remains very strong and could be growing," said Kevin Wagner, associate professor of political science at FAU.
He noted that the presidential candidates have spent little time in Florida while focusing on the early primary states. "For Florida, the most visible candidate continues to be Donald Trump because of his dominance of the news media," Wagner said.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Coral Gables was fifth in the poll with just 8.9 percent, down more than two percentage points from a prior poll in September. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Cuban-American from Texas, got 10 percent in the Florida preference poll.
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Among Democrats, Clinton, the party's front runner nationwide, holds a 43-point lead in Florida over her closest rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 65.5 percent to 22.4 percent.
But while leading the Democratic field, she continues to trail the GOP front runners in a hypothetical matchup in the general election. Carson leads Clinton by 9.7 points — 50.2 percent to 40.5 percent. Trump leads Clinton by 8.7 points in Florida, 49.2 percent to 40.5 percent.
"While Clinton is losing in all the trial heats, she is winning among females," said Monica Escaleras, director of FAU's Business and Economics Polling Initiative, which conducted the poll. "Thus, it appears that her strategy of targeting women is working."
The survey was conducted in Florida Nov. 15-16, immediately after the Nov. 14 Democratic debate and in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris. The poll did not include questions about national security or terrorism. Wagner said the 2016 elections most likely will be decided on economic and other domestic issues.
The GOP primary contest — marked by raucous debates and occasional nasty exchanges — has not helped many of the candidates in the minds of Florida voters. Trump had a favorable rating of just 41 percent in the latest poll, while 51 percent had an unfavorable impression of him.
His numbers were more positive among likely Republican voters, with 63 percent viewing him as favorable and 32 percent unfavorable.
Clinton appears to suffer from similar negative ratings. Only 41 of those polled gave her a favorable rating, while 54 percent had an unfavorable impression. Among independent voters, Clinton's numbers dropped to 35 percent favorable and 56 percent unfavorable.
In the Florida race to replace Rubio in the U.S. Senate, Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, of Jupiter, held a nine-point lead in a potential matchup with Republican Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, 39 percent to 30 percent.
The poll found that Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, of Orlando, another Senate candidate, trails Lopez-Cantera by 38 percent to 34 percent, a statistical tie since it's within the margin or error.
And in another hypothetical matchup, Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, of Ponte Vedra Beach, trailed Murphy 38 percent to 36 percent, a statistical tie since it's within the margin of error. DeSantis led Grayson 37 percent to 33 percent.
The poll surveyed 829 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent. It included 297 Democratic and 355 Republican likely voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 and 5.2 percentage points respectively.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush, saying he was unaware of predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline in the coming months, told reporters Thursday that the best way to help Americans fend off high prices is for Congress to make his first-term tax cuts permanent.
"If you're out there wondering... what your life is going to be like, and you're looking at $4 a gallon, that's uncertain," Bush responded to a question posed at a White House news conference. "And when you couple that with the idea that... taxes may be going up in a couple years, that's double uncertainty."
Analysts have said that gasoline could reach $4 a gallon by this spring, due to strong demand and a change in formulation, among other reasons.
When taking the question about the $4 milestone, Bush told the reporter, "That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."
In other areas of energy policy, the president repeated his support for both renewable sources and conservation.
Bush also criticized Congress, which is considering an $18 billion tax increase for large oil companies.
"All that's going to do is make the price even higher," he said. "We ought to be encouraging investment in oil and gas close to home if we're trying to mitigate the problems we face."
The House of Representatives passed the oil tax bill Wednesday, and Senate Democrats said they would try to push the bill through quickly to avoid a Republican filibuster. If the bill passes, the White House has threatened to veto.
Bush told reporters that in order for the use of renewable sources of energy - such as corn- and switchgrass-based ethanol - to become widespread, the country needs to increase domestic oil production and build new refineries. | positive |
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NEW DELHI: Inching closer to making the International North South Transportation Corridor INSTC ) a reality — connecting India with Russia and Europe via Iran — a dry run of container movement via the green corridor (smooth customs facilitation) will be conducted during the next fortnight, marking the 70th anniversary of Indo-Russian diplomatic ties.INSTC will substantially reduce time taken and cost for transport of goods between India and Eurasia once fully functional and increase economic activities between India and resource-rich Russia as well as markets of Europe.The INSTC has moved closer to implementation after India decided to join international customs convention TIR following cabinet approval. The modalities of making INSTC functional was a discussed at a multi-stakeholder meeting on Monday, people familiar with the developments told ET.INSTC is one of corridors that Delhi is working on as part of connectivity initiatives parallel to China 's One Belt One Road strategy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi might visit Astrakhan entry point of INSTC in Russia during his June trip to St Petersburg for International Economic Forum. India and Russia celebrates 70 years of diplomatic ties on April 13 and a series of events and visits are planned through the year.INSTC is a land-and sea-based 7,200-km long network comprising rail, road and water routes that are aimed at reducing costs and travel time for freight transport in a bid to boost trade between Russia, Iran, Central Asia, India and Europe. The network is expected to provide faster and more efficient trade connectivity between Europe and Southeast Asia. | positive |
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[Federal Register: August 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 157)] [Notices] [Page 41482] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr17au09-131] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 6730] In the Matter of the Designation of Revolutionary Struggle aka Epanastatikos Aghonas as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Pursuant to Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as Amended Acting under the authority of and in accordance with section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, as amended by Executive Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, Executive Order 13284 of January 23, 2003, and Executive Order 13372 of February 16, 2005, I hereby determine that the organization known as Revolutionary Struggle (aka Epanastatikos Aghonas) has committed, or poses a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. Consistent with the determination in section 10 of Executive Order 13224 that ``for those persons * * * determined to be subject to the order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States * * * prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual,'' I determine that no prior notice needs to be provided to any person subject to this determination who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, because to do so would render ineffectual the measures authorized in the Order. This notice shall be published in the Federal Register. Dated: July 31, 2009. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Department of State. [FR Doc. E9-19723 Filed 8-14-09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-10-P | positive |
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In 1989 the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled: "The General Assembly of the Commonwealth has failed to establish an efficient system of common schools throughout the Commonwealth." (Photo: stacey_newman, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
With unanimous support Friday, the Kentucky Senate sent its No. 1 priority — a major education measure that would overhaul the Common Core academic standards — to the House of Representatives.
Senate Bill 1 didn't make it to the governor's desk last year, but its fate looks brighter this time around. Republicans now control the House, and the legislation received bipartisan support from state senators on Friday.
The bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Mike Wilson of Bowling Green, emphasized the amount of cooperation that went into shaping this legislation. School board representatives, state officials and teachers all helped improve this proposal, he said.
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For example, a controversial provision letting high schoolers take foreign language classes or courses in fields like computer technology to fulfill their arts requirement for graduation was jettisoned from the final version of Senate Bill 1.
Wilson acknowledged his role in facilitating the development of this legislation. "But it has fingerprints from everyone that are stakeholders in our education system," he told his fellow senators Friday morning.
If it becomes law this year, Senate Bill 1 will institute significant education reforms in Kentucky. It calls for advisory panels and committees to review the state's standards for the basic things students are expected to know at different grade levels. They would review the standards for science, math, social studies, and language arts and writing using a staggered process.
Wilson has said this effectively would "repeal" the Common Core standards for English language arts and math that the state adopted several years ago. Gov. Matt Bevin has repeatedly said he wants to repeal Common Core, which a number of other states have adopted.
The bill also would give local school districts more control over intervening in low-performing schools and allow them to create their own teacher evaluation systems. Those evaluations wouldn't have to be reported to the state government, either.
"It's not perfect," Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville, said Friday of Senate Bill 1. But he praised the way Wilson welcomed public input on the proposed reforms and actually listened to the suggestions people provided.
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Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, also commended Wilson's "collaborative, contemplative, bipartisan and thoughtful approach."
Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, noted the significance of Senate Bill 1 after it was approved Friday morning.
"There may not be any more major piece of policy that you could adopt when it affects the education system, which is about 55 percent of our budget," Stivers said. "When you have a piece of policy like that — that had Democrat and Republican support that was unanimous — that says a lot about the bill and what Sen. Wilson has done."
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An in-depth analysis of Agatha Christie's novels has suggested that the much-loved author of more than 80 mysteries was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Academics at the University of Toronto studied a selection of Christie's novels written between the ages of 28 and 82, counting the numbers of different words, indefinite nouns and phrases used in each.
They found that the vocabulary size of the creator of Poirot and Miss Marple decreased sharply as she neared the end of her life, by 15 to 30%, while repetition of phrases and indefinite word usage (something, thing, anything) in her novels increased significantly.
"We found statistically significant drops in vocabulary, and increases in repeated phrases and indefinite nouns in 15 detective novels from The Mysterious Affair at Styles to Postern of Fate," said the academics, Dr Ian Lancashire from the English department and computer scientist Dr Graeme Hirst. "These language effects are recognised as symptoms of memory difficulties associated with Alzheimer's disease."
The most abrupt decline was seen in a novel Christie wrote aged 81, Elephants Can Remember. The book showed, they said, 30% fewer word types than Destination Unknown, which she wrote aged 63, 18% more repeated phrases, and almost three times as many indefinite words.
Lancashire told Canadian current affairs magazine Macleans that the title of the novel, a tweaking of the proverb "elephants never forget", also gives a clue that Christie was defensive about her declining mental powers, while the protagonist is unable to solve the mystery herself, and is forced to call on the aid of Hercule Poirot.
"It reveals an author responding to something she feels is happening but cannot do anything about," he said. "It's almost as if the crime is not the double-murder-suicide, the crime is dementia."
Although Christie, whose books have sold over two billion copies worldwide, was never diagnosed with dementia, the authors of the study conclude that the changes in her writing are consistent not with normal ageing, but with Alzheimer's disease. "These signs, especially indefinite word usage, are present in her writing from her early 70s," they said.
The Canadian study supports a 2004 comparison of two early works by Iris Murdoch with her last novel, Jackson's Dilemma, which concluded that textual analysis could be used to detect the onset of dementia before anyone [has] the remotest suspicion of any untoward intellectual decline".
Jackson's Dilemma was published in 1995 to a poor critical reception, and Murdoch was found to have Alzheimer's the following year. Scientists from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London compared it to earlier works Under the Net and The Sea, The Sea, and found that her vocabulary had worsened in the final work, which contained fewer words and clauses per sentence on average.
Lancashire and Hirst are now continuing and extending their study, looking into changes in Christie's use of passive verbs and the decline in her syntactic complexity. They also want to compare her writing with the work of a contemporary for whom dementia is not suspected. HG Wells, who wrote prolifically with no signs of mental degeneration up until his death, was one suggestion. | positive |
Giant Pyramid of Captured German Helmets from WWI
Grand Central Terminal, New York, 1918
Pyramid of German helmets near Grand Central Terminal: black-and-white photoprint, ca. 1918: View of the employees of the New York Central Railroad, assembled in Victory Way, showing the pyramid of captured German helmets, with Grand Central Terminal in the background. Two cannons are shown at the left and right. [Source]
Any history buffs know what figure lies at the top of the pyramid? Some commenters have speculated that it may be Nike the Goddess of Victory.
Beyond a well-framed shot, I find this photograph interesting for the symbolism, sociological impact and historical significance. Many people may find the sight of so many ‘enemy’ helmets too macabre with each helmet representing a dead or captured soldier. And how does such a public display affect the psyche of citizens? To be located near Grand Central Terminal means it would have been seen by a lot of people.
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Have a piercing down there? The U.K. government might label you the victim of a crime.
Daily Mail reports that the National Health Service, the government-run health care service in the U.K., is classifying genital piercings as a form of female genital mutilation. They're taking a closer look at piercings that are "within an abusive context," even if the woman has consented to the piercing.
The rule applies to any woman who has her labia or clitoris pierced, no matter the reason. The person who did the piercing could even be accused of a crime, no matter if the woman was the one who wanted the piercing in the first place. The World Health Organization agrees with the ruling, saying piercing falls under the category.
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"While there are challenges in this area and adult women may have genital piercings, in some communities girls are forced to have them," a health department spokesman said in a statement . "The World Health Organization has quite rightly defined this as a form of FGM."
And female genital mutilation is a serious problem, not just in the U.K. but around the world. The World Health Organization estimates that between 100 and 140 million women and girls are victims around the world. Female genital mutilation could include removing or repositioning the clitoris or labia, but also includes any other harmful procedures for non-medical purposes. Piercing falls under that category, though the context can sometimes be far different; female genital mutilation is typically performed on minors, who by default cannot consent.
But the ruling applies to both women and girls, and even women who consent. "We cannot tell communities in Sierra Leone and Somalia to stop a practice which is freely permitted on Harley Street," British lawmakers said in a report
And this is just the beginning; according to the Telegraph , lawmakers also want to outlaw labiaplasty, a purely cosmetic procedure in which the labia are trimmed, and label it a "criminal offense."
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As this topic-a-day countdown so tantalized Broncos Country by the handfuls, I can guess what the folks were not thinking.
They were not wondering: What is the No. 1 thing to look for during Broncos training camp?
For the Great Quarterback Competition has been the primary topic of conversation since head coach Vance Joseph declared it so during his introductory press conference on Jan. 12.
Trevor or Paxton? Paxton or Trevor?
“It’s going to be an open competition,’’ Joseph said then, and not for the last time.
Broncos veterans report for physicals, conditioning tests and a full-team meeting today (Wednesday). The rookies will be there to join them at UCHealth Training Center. The full team minus the four players on injury lists (Shaq Barrett, Kyle Peko, Chad Kelly, Jake Butt) will hold their first training camp practice Thursday.
Here are the top 9 things Broncos fans should look for during camp, starting with Trevor Siemian vs. Paxton Lynch battle at No. 1:
No. 1: The Great Competition
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A case can be made the quarterback competition is unnecessary.
It’s not so much who is better as that Siemian and Lynch are so different.
Siemian has the slow heartbeat, poise, experience and throwing accuracy. Scouts would say he has limited athleticism, arm strength and size as NFL quarterbacks go. Fans might say he could use a little more derring-do.
Lynch has terrific size at 6-foot-7, 245 pounds, a strong arm and mobility. His impressive talent, however, is negated by his inconsistent accuracy and NFL inexperience.
These strengths and weaknesses aren’t likely to change during two weeks of camp and two preseason games.
Perhaps, Joseph and general manager John Elway are calling it a competition knowing Siemian is the guy but at the same time pushing along Lynch, a first-round draft pick last year.
Or, perhaps, this is a competition because Joseph and Elway badly want Lynch to be the guy but want the Memphis product to sell his teammates by earning it.
Or, perhaps this a competition because fair is fair. Siemian exceeded expectations but the Broncos failed to make the playoffs. Open the competition. And Siemian may have won the starting job last year but that was while operating the Gary Kubiak-coached West Coast offense.
Perhaps, the new Mike McCoy-coordinated offense – which is remarkably like the Mike McCoy-coordinated offense from 2009-12 – will help Lynch. And maybe it will allow more intermediate-range passes for Siemian.
“The thing I appreciate in this offense so far is all the completions you find,’’ Siemian said Tuesday at a Boys & Girls Club function. “There’s always answers all over the place. Whether that’s going over the top or staying underneath there are answers everywhere so that’s the thing that’s exciting for me.’’
Joseph and Elway are expected to come up with the starter no later than Aug. 11, which is the day after preseason game 2 at San Francisco. This would give the No. 1 quarterback the full week to prepare with the No. 1 offense in the regular-season dress rehearsal that is preseason game 3.
Perhaps, camp and the preseason will make the answer obvious. Or perhaps, the Broncos’ decision makers already have a good idea who their quarterback will be but they want to see what Lynch will do about it.
No. 2: Jamaal Charles’ return to form.
Think of all the great NFL running backs. Jim Brown. Walter Payton. Terrell Davis. Barry Sanders. Adrian Peterson.
The career 5.45 yards per carry by Charles through his first nine NFL seasons in Kansas City beats all of them.
“When I left Kansas City, I was still at the top,’’ Charlies said on June 5. “It’s just the injuries. As long as I can control injuries—you really can’t control it. The best thing is just wishing for luck.”
When Charles is at his best, he is great. He had back-to-back seasons of 1,120 and 1,467 rushing yards in 2009-10, then tore his left ACL in the opener of 2011.
He came back to rush for 1,509, 1,287 and 1,033 yards in his next three seasons of 2012-14, then tore his right ACL in game 5 of 2015.
He did not bounce back in 2016, as in three games he had just 40 yards on 12 carries – a 3.3 clip that marked the first time he did not average at least 5.0 yards per carry in a season. He also had another knee surgery to repair a damaged meniscus.
After the season, the Chiefs released him. Two knee surgeries in two seasons and his 30th birthday last Dec. 27 ended Charles’ tenure in Kansas City.
“I was fired,’’ Charles has said more than once.
On May 2, the Broncos signed him on a one-year, nothing-to-lose, everything-to-gain contract. They kept Charles out of the team’s entire offseason program so training camp will be the first time anyone lays eyes on his comeback attempt.
If the team determines Jamaal isn’t Charles again, it can cut him and pay him nothing more than a $100,000 workout bonus he has already earned.
If Jamaal is close to being Charles again and dresses for the Broncos’ season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers, he will make at least $1.328 million. If he plays in 16 games and does nothing spectacular, he will make $2.5 million.
If he plays in 16 games, accumulates 1,400 yards rushing and receiving combined, and the Broncos reach the playoffs, he will earn $3.75 million.
It’s the kind of contract where Charles first has to make the team. But if he does, he may well jump ahead, or alongside, C.J. Anderson as the Broncos’ top running back.
The Broncos’ new offensive scheme has Charles betting on the latter.
“I’m happy to be a part of that, to put me in space, to put me in at wide receiver, to catch the ball out of the backfield and even run the ball between the tackles,’’ Charles said.
Luck, Jamaal.
No. 3: Stay healthy
We could have easily rated this No. 1 in the 9News countdown to Broncos’ training camp.
Late in training camp last year, the Broncos lost their starting left defensive end Vance Walker to a season-ending ACL tear in his right knee.
The Broncos slipped from No. 3 in run defense in 2015 to No. 28 in 2016. Walker wasn’t the only reason the Broncos tumbled from stout against the run to anemic. But he was a bigger factor than given credit for.
Other factors were the loss of the player Walker was supposed to replace, Malik Jackson, to free agency; a Super Bowl hangover; and injuries that caused the absence, or effectiveness, of inside linebacker Brandon Marshall, outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware and defensive end Derek Wolfe.
During the recent offseason, three key defensive reserves suffered significant injuries: Outside linebacker Shaq Barrett (hip), defensive tackle Kyle Peko (foot) and defensive end Adam Gotsis (knee).
Although those players are expected to return some time during training camp, it may be a few weeks into the regular season before they can contribute.
The Broncos can’t afford any more hits to their defensive depth. And an injury setback to any starting player would be difficult for a team projected to finish third in the four-team AFC West to overcome.
No. 4: New coach in charge
After paying his dues through 17 years as a coaching assistant at the college and NFL levels, Joseph is on a sudden ascent of authority. He was a first-time defensive coordinator for Adam Gase’s Miami Dolphins last year. He is a first-time head coach for John Elway’s Broncos this year.
Bronco players so far have been extremely complimentary of Joseph’s leadership style. He seems to have a nice feel for when to let things go, and when to firm up the message. When to keep it loose, and when to get serious.
Primarily, he takes a business-like approach.
There is still much left for Joseph to show, however. Beginning with how he uses training camp and the preseason to get the Broncos’ prepared for their opener against the Los Angeles Chargers, and the 16-game regular season.
Training camp is the only time all year Broncos fans sitting on the grassy berm can hear the coaching. Is Joseph a quiet sort during practice, or a yeller? Is he a hands-on coach like Gary Kubiak, or observe and delegate like John Fox?
There will be trouble throughout the season, both in the locker room and on game day. Is he a cautious-type from the sideline or will he be aggressive?
During camp, the players will come out with energy but the key is to keep them motivated when practices become drudgery during those hot summer mornings.
No. 5: Garett Bolles and the offensive line
The Broncos used their No. 20 overall draft pick on left tackle Garett Bolles from Utah. It does not appear the team will wait long to break him in.
Bolles began his offseason work lining up with the second-team offense as first, Donald Stephenson, and then, Ty Sambrailo played left tackle with the first team.
By the final minicamp in mid-June, Sambrailo and Bolles were rotating at left tackle with the first-team offense.
The expectation is Bolles will be the starting left tackle by the time the Broncos play their regular-season opener Sept. 11 against the Los Angeles Chargers. But Sambrailo will have a chance to alter those plans.
The offensive line was considered the Broncos’ biggest weakness last year as it ranked 24th in the league with 40 sacks allowed, and it’s running game averaged just 3.6 yards per carry to rank 28th.
The selection of Bolles was one upgrade, even if he may need at least half a season before he shows why he was a first-round draft pick. Broncos general manager John Elway also signed free agent guard Ron Leary from Dallas and right tackle Menelik Watson from Oakland to a combined $16.94 million in 2017 cash alone.
Returning two-year starting center Matt Paradis has been cleared for camp after missing the entire offseason to recover from surgeries on each hip. Max Garcia returns at left guard.
Sambrailo (if Bolles becomes the starting left tackle), Stephenson, Michael Schofield, Connor McGovern, Billy Turner, Dillon Day and Justin Murray will compete for the three or four reserve offensive line spots.
No. 6: Fight! Fight!
It will be a couple days before Broncos coaches can put their players in pads so there may not be a skirmish in the first practice or two.
But there is almost certain to be an intramural dust-up or four before the Broncos play their first preseason game in Chicago on Aug. 10 – which, by the way, is less than three weeks away.
And chances are, Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe will be directly involved as tempers flare. There aren’t any more two-a-days in training camp, as the afternoon session is restricted to a walkthrough. Still, put 90 guys together in the same locker room or practice field all day, every day and it’s natural for grown men to get sick of each other.
The Broncos are especially scrappy on defense, where Wolfe, Aqib Talib, Chris Harris Jr. and T.J. Ward have all been known to mix it up.
And that’s just the starting players. An added battle element to camp is all those no-hoper reserves who will scratch, claw, bite and kick – anything it takes to draw the coaches’ attention.
Team general manager John Elway tried to bring some edge to his offense this offseason by signing guard Ron Leary and right tackle Menelik Watson and drafting former bad boy left tackle Garett Bolles in the first round.
In fact, the early odds have Bolles and Wolfe going at each other at least once before the players get a second day off on Aug. 6.
No. 7: No. 3 receiver competition
Not since Wes Welker’s final healthy season of 2013 have the Broncos had a legitimate No. 3 receiver threat.
Welker had 73 catches and 10 touchdowns that season. His production fell to 49 catches and two touchdowns in 2014.
Jordan Norwood was the Broncos’ No. 3 receiver the past two seasons. He had just 22 catches and zero touchdowns in 2015; 21 receptions and one touchdown in 2016.
The Broncos must get more production from their receivers behind their Pro Bowl tandem of Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders this season.
And they will, if only because new offensive coordinator Mike McCoy figures to employ more three-receiver sets than Gary Kubiak and Rick Dennison did in 2015-16, when there were often two tight ends and a fullback.
So who will be the No. 3 receiver in 2017? The Broncos drafted Carlos Henderson in the third round this year to eventually fill that role.
“At this level, everybody can run and jump,’’ Henderson said two months ago. “It’s the small things that you do that separates yourself from the rest of the greats. Once I continue to work on the small things and critique the errors and mistakes that I make, the rest will take care of itself.”
Rookie receivers, though, often take a while to emerge. Thomas had just 22 catches as a rookie. Former Broncos’ standout No. 2 receiver Eric Decker had six catches as a rookie, then 85 by his third season of 2012. Sanders had 28 catches for Pittsburgh in his first season of 2010. It wasn’t until his fourth season in Pittsburgh and fifth season overall, first with the Broncos, that Sanders broke out.
Cody Latimer was the Broncos’ second-round draft pick in 2014. He has just 16 receptions total in three seasons.
Latimer is a contender for the No. 3 position this year, as is Bennie Fowler III, Jordan Taylor and rookies Isaiah McKenzie and Henderson.
Among the returning receivers, Fowler is the most accomplished. He had 16 catches in his first season in 2015, but he slipped to 11 last season as he struggled to overcome two separate injuries.
McKenzie was primarily drafted as a returner, but he also had 44 catches with seven touchdowns as a junior last season for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Broncos head coach Vance Joseph has seen enough of the 5-foot-8, 173-pound McKenzie to vow to use him as an offensive multi-threat weapon who could line up in the slot and the backfield.
The Broncos’ preferred blueprint, though, would have Henderson come on at some point this season. As a Louisiana Tech junior last year, Henderson had 82 catches for 1,535 yards – an impressive 18.7-yard average – plus another 133 yards rushing on 9.5 yards per carry.
He had 23 touchdowns total last season – 19 receiving, two rushing and two off kick returns.
At 5-foot-11, 199 pounds, Henderson is strong after the catch, and smells the goal line.
Perhaps, Henderson can become the next Eddie Royal, who set a franchise rookie record with 91 receptions in 2008 – 40 more than the next-best rookie receiver Vance Johnson in 1985.
No. 8: (Scratch the) Barbecue Fireworks
This had been about John Elway not having a contract extension and the possible media barbecue tension between the general manager and team president Joe Ellis.
Never mind. Elway and Ellis reached agreement on a five-year contract extension Monday. The barbecue will now include a healthy serving of Kumbaya.
Ellis had been trying to sign Elway to a new deal since shortly after the Super Bowl. Initially, both parties talked confidently about a deal getting done.
A little more than five months later, training camp was upon the Broncos and there was no deal. But as it turned out, all Elway needed to do was get to his office.
He took some time off as everyone associated with the NFL did the past five weeks.
Elway returned to his office Monday. Voila! An agreement on a new deal was reached.
It was not a surprise. Elway was not about to become a distraction to his team’s preparations for their regular-season opener Sept. 11 against the Los Angeles Chargers.
No. 9: Isaiah and the returners
The first time Isaiah McKenzie ever returned a football for keeps was his freshman year at American Heritage High School in Plantation, Florida.
It was the season opener against Clewiston High School. McKenzie had played football from sunup to sundown with about 100 kids on the street outside his apartment in a poor, crowded section of Miami. But this would be his first big moment on a football field. He was raw, an oh so small – he was listed at 167 pounds by his senior year, but he appeared even scrawnier as a freshman -- so his coaches didn’t let him play receiver or running back much at first. But he made the varsity team as a returner.
“It was the very first kickoff return,’’ he said. “And I took it to the house.’’
You can look it up, as we did. He went 78 yards for a score in a 26-21 win on Sept. 3, 2010.
Seven years later, McKenzie is a fifth-round rookie out of Georgia, listed at 5-foot-8, 173 pounds, and the favorite to handle the Broncos’ return duties this season.
McKenzie is especially stellar as a punt returner. He had five touchdowns off punt returns at Georgia, one off a kickoff.
“I would say kickoff return you have to have a scheme, you have to have a setup, you have to have people in place to get the right timing to hit a hole,’’ McKenzie said. “Punt return, anything can happen. It might be a right return that turns into a left return. They’re very different, but they’re both good. I like them.’’
Carlos Henderson, the Broncos’ third-round rookie receiver from Louisiana Tech, will also get a chance to handle the kickoff role, as will returning receivers Kalif Raymond and Cody Latimer.
Henderson returned two kickoffs for touchdowns as a redshirt junior last year.
The Broncos desperately need some juice in their return game. One reason is because they haven’t had excitement in their return game since Trindon Holliday in 2012. Another is the Broncos’ offense struggled to score, averaging just 20.8 points per game to rank 22nd in the league.
The offense could use either the occasional score from special teams, or the chance to start a couple drives a game past their 30.
There are plans to use McKenzie as an offensive weapon, both as a slot receiver and running back, much as Kansas City used fifth-round rookie Tyreek Hill last season. This is a copycat league. But for starters, McKenzie must concentrate on making his mark as a returner.
“Yes. And I try to show them every day I can be a receiver as well,’’ McKenzie said in a sit-down interview with 9News during the Broncos’ final offseason week of minicamp. “But I love punt return and I love special teams all together. And then saying I can be the No. 1 punt returner coming in, I take heed to that and do the job the best way I can.’’
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Like ravenous beasts of prey attacking a weakened antelope, the forces of subsidized capital and their mercenaries sunk their fangs into the United Auto Workers (UAW) and its organizing drive at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The UAW narrowly lost – 712 to 626 – and the baying pack of plutocrats exalted, as if they had just saved western civilization in the anti-union, lower-wage South.
The days preceding the vote were a corporatist frenzy with corporatist predators bellowing ‘the sky is falling.’ VW, which sensibly stayed neutral, but privately supported the UAW’s efforts and its collateral “works councils” (an arrangement that had stabilized and made their unionized, higher-paid workers in Germany more productive), must have wondered on what planet they had landed.
First out of the growling caves were the supine politicians, who always offer those proposing a factory big taxpayer subsidized bucks to bring crony capitalism to their region. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) who, without citing his source, warned “I’ve had conversations today and based on those am assured that, should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga.” VW immediately denied that cause and effect claim.
No matter, Senator Corker then assailed the UAW and its negotiated wages and work rules for bringing down Detroit, along with the Big Three Auto Companies – GM, Ford and Chrysler. That’s strange because for decades the UAW lifted up industrial labor while the auto companies made record profits. Apart from the mistake the UAW made years ago when they sided with the auto bosses in lobbying in Congress against fuel efficiency standards, which would have made domestically produced vehicles more competitive with foreign imports, the responsibility for the auto industry’s collapse lies with management. It was all about “product, product, product,” as the auto writers say, and Detroit’s products fell behind the Japanese and German vehicles. The J.D. Power ratings, year after year, had U.S. cars bringing up the rear. The foreign car companies rated higher on fit and finish, other quality controls and fuel efficiency, while, as one former Chrysler executive told me about his industry, “We were producing junk.”
Add these losses of sales to the speculative binge of the auto companies’ finance subsidiaries, like Ally Financial Inc., previously known as General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which got itself caught in the huge Wall Street downdraft in 2008-2009. The result was that the auto giants rushed to demand a huge taxpayer bailout from Washington, which they were given.
Business associations warned of a UAW invasion of other southern states if the union organized the VW plant.
Nevertheless, the big lie the corporatists tell is that it was all the UAW’s fault for getting decent wages for its workers, who face more than a few occupational hazards.
Then something strange happened. In jumped anti-tax leader, Grover Norquist, with a new group, having the Orwellian name of Center for Worker Freedom (CWF), to put up 13 billboards in Chattanooga accusing the UAW of supporting Obama and “liberal politicians.” Perhaps Mr. Norquist thought this would influence a majority of the factory’s workers who are Republicans.
The CWF’s website also put up ludicrous postings such as “UAW wants your guns.” Was all this anti-unionist Grover Norquist’s bizarre way of promoting the idea of cutting tax revenues by keeping wages down?
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It gets stranger. Powerful Republican state legislators joined with the local State Senator Bo Watson who said that if workers vote to join the UAW, “I believe any additional incentives from the citizens of the state of Tennessee for expansion or otherwise will have a very tough time passing the Tennessee Senate.” He was referring to a continuation of the $577 million already granted (in state and local subsidies) to the existing VW plant to locate there, with an additional bonanza of 700 million more taxpayer dollars should VW open up a new line of SUVs.
This is big time corporate welfare which Grover Norquist repeatedly has said he is adamantly against. How to reconcile? Who knows? He dominates Congressional Republicans with his no-tax pledge, but Grover Norquist may be spreading himself too thin when he takes on the livelihoods of American industrial and commercial workers.
There is another anomaly operating here. As Jay Bookman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution politics writer observes, these legislators and Governor Bill Haslam “are clearly threatening to use tax subsidies to punish VW for what it believes to be a good business decision.”
What were the factors among the 89% of the workers who voted in the union election?
The no voters felt that VW was paying them wages and benefits equivalent to what workers get at other UAW or organized factories, following the union’s major concessions in recent years. So why should they pay monthly union dues? They also took in the warnings of the politicians that a possible extension of the plant may not be given “tax incentives.”
The “yes” voters, on the other hand, wanted a collective voice through the “works councils,” which, under U.S. law, require a union. Such a combination has worked in all other European VW plants. Plant worker Chris Brown said it helps efficiency. He explained that “on the assembly line, the process changes each year because [of] new models. A voice in the company would help smooth the process from year to year.”
The non-union foreign transplants, as they are called, have to date opposed the UAW’s unionizing efforts, including Nissan, Toyota and Honda. But the UAW will keep trying.
It’s not the end of the world for the union that Walter and Victor Reuther built, which in the nineteen thirties lifted up exploited, voiceless auto workers to a decent living standard with benefits, at the same time of the auto industry’s enormous expansion.
As the two-tier auto industry wage system moves more workers to the lower tier, the appeal of a unified labor voice will become clearer. | positive |
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Dear Representative Akin:
If I had your home address, I would mail you this thank you note. I’m not sending it to your St. Louis senatorial campaign because I don’t consider this letter a political act, but an expression of personal gratitude.
Frankly, I’m relieved that you’ve revealed what you truly believe about how women’s bodies perform when they are being sexually violated. Thank you for admitting that you–a member of the House Science and Technology committee, an outspoken critic of Obamacare and a radical anti-choice lawmaker who has co-sponsored legislation that would redefine rape–have been relying on misogynist junk science. It’s good to know that you, a former board member of Missouri Right to Life and an elected official who speaks on the intricacies of conception, have been operating under the illusion that only “legitimate” rape leads to pregnancy.*
In case you don’t know by heart what you said on Sunday about outlawing abortion by any means necessary, let me remind you:
“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, [rape resulting in pregnancy is] really rare,” Akin said in an interview with KTVI-TV. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”
You’ve since apologized for “misspeaking,” invoking your two daughters as evidence that you didn’t mean to call the 36,000 rape victims who become pregnant each year liars. But, like a jumbo flying roach running in circles after a blast of Raid, your belief in the preeminence of “forcible” rape just won’t go away. Not since Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, has a self-described conservative really connected the dots between ignorance of women’s reproductive health and the fetal rights movement. So thanks for that.
Now, part of my job is to explain how race matters in a situation like this one. I’m going to start by sharing what Charon Asetoyer, director of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center told me about you:
Talk about re-victimizing the victim! Rep. Todd Akin wrote the book. Somehow in his little conservative mind he must think that some rapes are ‘legitimate’ and some are not legitimate. I’ve got news for him: Rape is rape. It is people like him that think of reasons to justify rape, of reasons why they do not have to be held accountable for their actions–like on [some] Indian reservations, where non-Indians cannot be held accountable for rape by the tribal court systems.
To Bianca Campbell, a SPARK Reproductive Justice organizer who has campaigned against shackling women prisoners during delivery, racism further complicates your concept of “legitimate rape.”
Women of color are criminalized at a higher rate. So it’s likely that a woman of color will have a harder time proving to the cops that she’s actually been raped.
Speaking of criminalization, I’d like to add that 50 percent of women in U.S. prisons say they were sexually abused before their incarceration. So, Rep. Akin, as you rethink your stance on what kinds of rape are ‘legitimate,’ toss out any ‘innocent victim’ mythology you may be harboring as well.
You’ll certainly need to do that as you absorb the story of Aishah Shahidah Simmons, a rape survivor who created NO! The Rape Documentary:
In 1989, during my sophomore year in college, I was raped one night by an acquaintance. In my quest to reclaim my body [after] being sexually violated, I had consensual sex the following night with another man. All of this resulted in my becoming pregnant and completely unsure when conception happened. Was it the night of my rape or the night when I had consensual sex? I was very fortunate to have a safe and legal abortion without having to endure a mandatory fetal ultrasound like those now required in several states. … Terms like “legitimate” rape and “forcible” rape are very dangerous for all survivors of rape. It reinforces this paradigm that they are “real” rape survivors, which are usually those who are raped by complete strangers, and “fake” rape survivors, which are usually those who are raped by acquaintances, friends, lovers or spouses.
Because Simmons is generous, she also offered a brief history lesson. I’ll just throw that into this letter so you have what you need in one place:
Beginning with J. Marion Sims, M.D. the “father” of modern-day gynecology who in the 19th century, conducted unspeakable surgical experimentation without anethesia on the bodies of countless enslaved Black women for the benefit of science, to Rosie Jimenez who became the first woman to die of an illegal abortion because she could not afford a legal one after the 1977 passage of the Hyde Amendment, [history] shows that it is the most marginalized women who will continue to be severely impacted by these inhumane, virulent [attacks] on women’s reproductive freedom and justice made by predominantly wealthy White men.
Rep. Akin, I know that your concern about rape is limited to how things work out for the fetus. But I also need to point out the fact that men–yes men like you–can also be raped. Although they can’t become pregnant, and misogyny often keeps them silent, they are also legitimate victims. Even the FBI has revised its definition of forcible rape to include them!
This letter in no way covers all of the race or gender dimensions; that’s a book. But I do hope that it helps you broaden your understanding of rape, and inspires you to do some research outside of your anti-choice bubble. No one enjoys the prospect of abortion. It’s not a trivial matter. Rape isn’t trivial, either. It’s not a mere complication or obstacle to outlawing abortion. All of its victims are legitimate. What isn’t legitimate is your concern for anything but the meeting of sperm and eggs.
Sincerely,
Akiba Solomon
*Post has been updated since publication. | positive |
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Brazil is in the midst of political unrest, and some suggest the days of the current government could be numbered. So could the days of the Amazon.
It’s the so-called ‘lungs of the world,’ as the rainforest produces 20-percent of earth’s oxygen. But, Brazil’s Congress is debating removing forest protections on nearly 600-thousand hectares. This as deforestation has jumped 30-percent in a year.
CGTN’s Lucrecia Franco reports.
Fires burning in the Amazon rainforest are back. Deforestation for cattle grazing and agriculture could reverse all the progress Brazil made in cutting carbon emissions in the last decade.
Data published in the U.S. scientific journal, “Science,” showed that Brazil slashed the amount of deforestation by 72 percent between 2004 and 2016; reducing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
However, the latest report from the Brazilian Agency that monitors deforestation was gloomy. Between July 2015 and August 2016 loggers cleared over 7,900 square kilometers of Brazilian rain forest, an area nearly the size of Puerto Rico.
Some critics argue that Brazil needs to urgently halt deforestation to help the planet. “At least half of Brazil’s carbon emissions come from deforestation. So if we stop deforestation here in Brazil that would be a major contribution to reduce carbon emissions-not only in the country but also in the planet,” said Fabio Rubio Scarano, Executive Director at the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development.
The Amazon rainforest has been called the “Lungs of the World,” producing a fifth of the world’s oxygen, but it continues to shrink. Non-profit groups warn that rainforests could completely vanish in 100 years if current deforestation rates continue.
“The issue is that there is a number of scientific evidence and models that indicate that if the Amazonia deforestation goes beyond 20% to 30% of the total area, this might drive the Amazonia to a tipping point that would be a point of change were the whole biosphere could perhaps turn into savanna, becoming drier, and if that happens this is going to have a major effect on global climate,” said Scarano.
Brazil had promised to reduce carbon emissions up to 43 percent by 2030, but instead it grew 3.5% in 2015 according to the Climate Observatory, a group of Brazil’s top environmental NGO’s.
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I admit it — I have been quite bullish about the subway lately in light of the three new 2nd avenue Subway stations that opened January 1, 2017, and the new Hudson Yards western terminus of the #7 train that opened in September 2015. Let me clarify by saying I’m bullish about subway station design. The service? As the late WABC radio host Bob Grant used to say, and current host Curtis Sliwa says, “oo-fah.” I was working on the east side in early 2017 and the 7 and E trains each had their problems. NYC was the first, and is still one of the few, subways in the world to offer express service, and when the express works, it’s the 8th Wonder. When there are mechanical problems, “sick passengers” and broken elevators, the system shows all of its 113 years as of 2017. Decisions on the part of management are also problematic. What Rhodes scholar at Court Square prefers to keep the escalators turned off in one of the steeper transfers in the whole subway?
In my wanderings around town, I have gotten into the habit of snapping the subway station where I get off to begin, and the station where I begin my journey home when I’m finished. Thus, there are a number of subway photos I’m not doing anything with, and thus, I decided to use them for “grab bag” pages in which I give my impressions of the design and hopefully, provide some information about the station that you didn’t know.
Grand Street (IND)
Grand Street, a station located at Grand and Chrystie Streets in Chinatown, is state of the art subway construction and decor — for 1967, the year it opened. 1967 was a pivotal year for New York City subways, as the 6th Avenue IND was connected to the Manhattan Bridge at last, at the cost of ending Manhattan Bridge service on the Nassau Street line (J train). The Chrystie Street Connection, built in 1967 and 1968, allows 6th Avenue Line trains (B, D) to run on the north side of the Manhattan Bridge, Broadway Line trains (N, Q) to run on the south side of the Manhattan Bridge, and J and M trains to run on the Williamsburg Bridge. For about 20 years, no ‘revenue’ service was run through the connection, but a reroute of the M train up 6th Avenue in 2010 restored it. (Back in the 1980s, I was taking a D train from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and the Manhattan Bridge was closed. To get to 6th Avenue, the D went through the Montague Street tunnel connection to the Nassau Street tracks and proceeded partway onto the Williamsburg Bridge, where it made a reverse move and took the Chrystie connection onto 6th Avenue.)
One of two Grand Street stations in the NYC subway (the other one is on the L line), this is the only new station opened on the Chrystie Street connection; another new station on 6th Avenue, the former northern terminal of the B, F, Q and KK trains at various times, was opened at 6th Avenue and 57th street next year. Today the F continues past it en route to Lex/63rd, Roosevelt Island, 21st/Queensbridge and the Queens Boulevard IND.
The Grand Street station is very plain, typical of 1960s decor sensibilities, with plain beige wall tiles and a blue color band with the station name. Concurrently, several IRT stations were having their platforms extended, and this same wall tile design was used for those extensions.
Grand Street does have a bit of subway art to break up its monotony, relief subway car friezes mounted on wood by artists Andrea Gardner and Sally Heller called “Trains of Thought.” The cars are stylized and a little hard to make out, and originally I thought there was a Chinese theme (there is in the BMT Canal Street station).
Canal Street (Lex IRT)
The Lexington Avenue Line Canal Street station is one of the IRT’s Original 28 stations opened in October 1904 running uptown from the now-closed City Hall station to 145th Street.
Canal Street is named for a 19th-century canal created to drain Collect Pond, which was in the present Foley Square area. The originally freshwater pond was used by early colonists as a refuse and offal dump, and by the early 1800s it had become a stinking miasma. Eventually the canal had served its purpose and Canal Street was built on its old route. It has become a main truck route and a mecca for discount stores.
There are no less than six NYC Canal Street subway stations: IRT 7th Avenue (#1) at Varick, IND 8th Avenue (A, C, E) at 6th Avenue, BMT Broadway express and local (J, M, Z), BMT Nassau Street line at Centre Street, and the very first, built here in 1904 at Canal and Centre Streets, served by the #6.
Though Canal Street has a couple of layers of renovations from various decades, a few original elements remain. The station sports a green scheme overall. As this picture shows, the original subway was built just below the street, allowing sun to pour in from skylights that were part of the station design. They were blocked up long ago, though at certain stations the sun streams in from breaks in the sidewalk.
The Canal Street station cartouche (right) like others in neighboring stations, was originally fired by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Staten Island (in fact, a small stop on the Staten Island Railway is named Atlantic, since the factory was nearby). After 100 years the finish on these cartouches still shines. The “C” on the cartouche is accompanied by two poppy flowers.
The 1904 stations were quite short. At the beginning, trainsets were only a couple of cars long, so at present, original station artwork takes up only a small area in the modern-day station. Later subway architects who took up the mantle from original subway architects Heins and LaFarge such as Squire Vickers applied an Arts and Crafts sensibility, with mosaic plaques depicting area histories, to subway stations he designed. The extension at Canal Street, though, finds him exploring a more streamlined side that he would fully employ in the IND, built in the Machine Age, ushered in by the 1925 Paris Exposition.
Vernon-Jackson Avenue
The IRT Flushing Line is the Interborough Rapid Transit’s only Queens foray. Though the line opened in 1917 it was planned three decades before as a railroad tunnel connecting the Long Island Rail Road and New York Central (and thus it was the first East Side access line, which is currently being constructed at last and is expected to open in the mid-2020s). That plan failed and piano scion William Steinway got involved in the 1890s, planning to run electrified rack in an East River tunnel to extend his NY & Queens streetcar system into Manhattan. That plan, as well, ran into technical problems and lawsuits.
Finally, August Belmont, one of the founders of the IRT, built the tunnels between 1907 and 1909, with the excavated earth becoming Belmont Island, later U Thant Island in the East River. Once completed, the tunnels were promptly close as Belmont did not have a franchise for a new subway project. The city purchased the tunnels from him and developed them for subway use in the 1910s as part of the Dual Contracts project that opened several BMT and IRT lines in four boroughs.
The line was built east from Grand Central, the easternmost stop in Manhattan, starting in 1915 and by 1917 stations out to Corona Plaza (103rd Street) were complete. 111th, Willets Point, and Main Street Flushing (now the busiest “outer borough” station in the system) were completed between 1925 and 1928. The line also expanded west: 5th Avenue and Times Square, the western terminal for nearly 9 decades, appeared in 1926 and 1927. One more western addition was made in 2015 (see below).
The Flushing Line, much of which celebrates its centennial in 2017, has some odd quirks. It connects with no other IRT line but it does have a BMT connection, at Queensboro Plaza, where a spur from the old 2nd Avenue El also terminated. Though the Flushing was an IRT line, BMT elevated cars used it for several decades. In 1949, the BMT took over the Astoria Line while the IRT kept the Flushing. It’s also the only elevated with platforms long enough to take 11-car trainsets, and it was the last line to regularly use R-33 and R-36 “redbird” cars, until 2003.
The underground stations of the Flushing Line were built at the peak of the Arts and Crafts-style mosaic design period; they were created by chief subway architect and designer Squire Vickers. The style used multicolored mosaic tiles banded at tops of walls and in station ID plaques. Some of the stations created during this time were subdued, with earth tones and dark blues, but here, Vickers “let himself go” and used much of the spectrum with blues, golds, greens and brick reds. Station names were white against a field of blue mosaic tiles with multicolored borders.
Vickers (1872-1947) was handsome and mustachioed when he first began to work in the NYC subways at age 34 in 1906; he would remain in NYC employ as designer and architect until 1942. He was a Cornell University graduate and studied in their school of architecture, and was an accomplished painter and poet living in a cottage in Grand View-on-Hudson in Rockland County.
Vickers, quoted in Subway Style (NY Transit Museum 2004): “it is not enough that our stations should be sanitary, commodious and convenient — they must at the same time present a cheerful and attractive appearance to the public.”
The station name also preserves a former street name: until about 1920, Vernon Boulevard, which parallels the East River, was called “Vernon Avenue.” The origin of the name is unclear, though it may honor Mount Vernon, President George Washington’s mansion in Virginia.
South Ferry
The temporarily reopened South Ferry station was perhaps the apotheosis of the Heins & LaFarge design esthetic. Sounds pretentious, I know. From my recent subway story in SpliceToday:
The architects of subway stations that opened between 1904 and 1908, including the flagship City Hall station that is closed to the public except for sanctioned tours, were George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge, who also designed the massive Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Harlem and the original Astor Court buildings of the Central Park Zoo. Heins and LaFarge incorporated several design items they used at the Bronx Zoo into the City Hall station. These included such techniques as arches, vaulted ceilings, and polychrome tile. In several stations, ceramic tiles and plaques were specially designed to be appropriate to the station name. For example, the Astor Place station incorporates beavers on the plaques, and namesake John Jacob Astor made his millions in the beaver pelt trade. Columbus Circle incorporates sailing ships in the station motif.
So too at South Ferry, where the plaque depicts not a ferry but a graceful sloop in what could be Upper New York Bay, with billowing clouds and a seagull for company. They’re also among the largest plaques created by H&L in their stations, at a good 14 x 23″, not a Fibonacci ratio but close.
There is also an inner track and platform at South Ferry built in 1918 no longer used for passenger service except on special occasions. It connects to the Bowling Green station serving the #4-5 trains and is used when construction or restoration precludes the use of trackage.
Like the now-closed H&L City Hall station, South Ferry is a semicircular station. To mitigate the large gap between car and platform and ensure passenger safety, mechanical gap fillers were installed several decades ago. These signs alert motormen on how to proceed when entering. The station was never extended, unlike many other IRT stations, and thus only the first five cars make the platform.
This station was actually replaced by a new one (with a somewhat boring all-white esthetic, somewhat relieved by mezzanine artwork) in 2009; however, it was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. The MTA prefers to retire the H&L South Ferry station because it desires a modern station where all cars platform, among other elements, and thus has been rebuilding the new South Ferry station, which is expected to reopen in 2017. Perhaps this classic can be reimagined as a Transit Museum outpost.
Another somewhat lesser-known relic is preserved at South Ferry. For a time in the 1980s, the MTA was using Helvetica Bold Condensed on some station signage, especially on supporting columns. It has since replaced most of those Condensed signs, but South Ferry still has several.
Morgan Avenue
I’m going to hold back showing all my photos on Morgan Avenue because I have in mind a lengthier post for the station and its environs in East Williamsburg, which are fascinating to me. The Canarsie BMT was built in stages between 8th Avenue and East New York in 1924 as far as Montrose Avenue and then from Morgan Avenue to East New York in 1928. The Canarsie also runs on an elevated trestle between East New York and Rockaway Parkway built in 1906 that replaced an at-grade steam railway. Traces of the steam railway existed until 1973 when its last grade crossing at East 105th Street was removed. Finally, the BMT built a western extension to 8th Avenue for a transfer with the IND 8th Avenue Line in 1931.
These 1924-1928 Canarsie subway stations represent Squire Vickers’ mosaic tile work at its most assured, with bold colors and station ID tiles. Morgan Avenue features primarily browns and golds, though different colors appear at other stations.
9th Avenue
I have chronicled the 9th Avenue BMT station at 9th and New Utrecht Avenues in Borough Park, which opened in 1915, more than once (extensively on FNY’s first New Utrecht Avenue page) — it’s one of my favorites by Squire Vickers and the BMT design crew. Subway Style again: “The horizontal composition, casement windows, brick and terra-cotta work, and hipped roof of this control house has something of the flavor of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School.” High praise!
In fact the BMT designed over a dozen new station houses for open-cut lines like the West End Line (D train) is here, Brighton (Prospect Park and Parkside Avenue; Q) and on the Sea Brach (N train). For decades they languished; the 9th Avenue buildings front entrance was boarded up for years. Now they’re being refurbished and will soon take their place among Squire Vickers’ other great subway works.
A look from the south end of the Manhattan-bound platform toward the station house. As part of station renovations from 2012-2015, new lamp stanchions were added that came close in appearance to the originals, and new station ID signs that resemble fat versions of the lamp stanchions were installed as well. The center express track is unused at present.
There is an unused lower level, complete with mosaic tiled and enamel signs, that connected to the Culver El that when originally built, diverged from the 5th Avenue El , ran in a right-of-way along 37th Street and then down Gravesend (later McDonald Ave.) to Coney Island. When the 5th Avenue El was razed in 1940, the line became a shuttle originating here; it continued until 1975, with the unused structure remaining in place for the next 10 years.
Atlantic Avenue (IRT)
Returning here to a classic Heins & LaFarge frieze at the Atlantic Avenue IRT station, the original terminal of IRT’s first foray into Brooklyn in 1908. As with H&L’s Manhattan stations, terra cotta station initials were used along with tiled mosaic station plaques. Tulips, a symbol of NYC’s original Dutch heritage, flank the A and swastikas and rosettes are featured in the terra cotta frame. Swastikas were a universal symbol of good fortune before the symbol was co-oped by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. There are also mosaic versions of the “A” that were installed on platform extensions beginning in 1910.
A contrast in station signage as a 1908 colorful mosaic plaque in maroon, blue and pink abuts a more prosaic black and white Unimark-style MTA sign.
96 Street (IND)
Before Vickers’ retirement in 1942, he at least helped develop the Independent Subways’ distinctive station identification. It’s up for debate about how much Vickers was involved with IND design because this streamlined Moderne style was a far cry from the mosaic tiles used for Dual Contract IRT and BMT stations from 1910 through 1928. The IND broke ground in 1925 and its last station, 179th Street in Jamaica Estates, opened in 1950.
All local stations received brightly colored color mosaic “plaques,” most of which were bordered by a different color, and station names in black or white. At first it seems that the colors were arbitrarily selected. However, all the local stations between two express stations received the same color; a different color is used in subsequent local stations.
When the Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line, then the GG, now the G, was built beginning in 1933, no expresses were built except at Nostrand (where a shelved connection to a “second system” IND network of stations was supposed to have a transfer. Thus, all Crosstown Line stations are light green in color.
A few stations on the 8th avenue Line (A, C, E) have gotten new versions of the IND-style plaques as part of renovations. They come close, but can’t replicate that original IND font, which I’ve never seen anywhere else.
72nd Street (BMT)
I had to include one of the new Second Avenue Line stations (actually the SAS is currently a northern extension of the Broadway BMT; I call it the 2nd Avenue BMT). I featured these stations, and 2nd Avenue, extensively on this FNY page.
Though I’m not crazy about the white-on-white design esthetics espoused by the MTA for its most recent stations I applaud the consistency of design of these stations: each has a separate set of art created by one singular artist, curtains on the railings that use the traincar colored ID bullet as a theme, even if these have been deemphasized on the cars over the past decade; and the reinvention of the sidewalk entrance kiosk.
34th-Hudson Yards
The opening of three 2nd Avenue BMT stations immediately thrust the 34th Street-Hudson Yards station opened september 13, 2015 into second place as far as newest subway stations are concerned. It, too, has a pair of new entrance kiosks designed by Toshiko Mori at 34th and 35th Streets with a glassy roof. I took this photo in September 2015, and already, the sky in back of the kiosk has been blocked by a new tower in the Hudson Yards project, a huge residential/commercial project being constructed on decking above the vast Long Island Rail Road trainyards to the west of Penn Station. According to the project’s website,
Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the largest development in New York City since Rockefeller Center. When completed in 2025, 125,000 people a day will work in, visit, or call Hudson Yards their home. The site will include more than 18 million square feet of commercial and residential space, state-of-the-art office towers, more than 100 shops including New York’s first Neiman Marcus, and a collection of restaurants curated by Chef Thomas Keller. The urban development will include approximately 4,000 residences, The Shed, a new center for artistic invention, 14 acres of public open space, a 750-seat public school and an Equinox® branded luxury hotel with more than 200 rooms—all offering unparalleled amenities for residents, employees and guests.
The new 34th Street/Hudson Yards station has been planned since 2005 and took seven years to complete (given the additional tunneling, electric work, etc). By contrast, the Original 28 stations on the IRT took four years to build (1900-1904). A test run with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city and transit officials took place in 2013, but it took two more years to complete the station. It’s the first new trackage built to IRT specifications since the #3 train was extended to Lenox Terminal at 148th Street in 1968. No stations were built between Times Square and Hudson Yards; transit advocates had pushed for a station at 10th Avenue and 41st Street, but the MTA demurred, citing budgetary restrictions. Nevertheless, allowances were made in the tunnel that added room for a station, if money is found in future years to place a station there.
As far as design goes the station is very much of the moment as far as 2015 subway design is concerned with plenty of chrome and white. There are some elements that set it apart from other subway stations, though.
Like the new 2nd Avenue stations, Hudson Yards station is built deep underground, with a large mezzanine area above the platforms. Station signage refers to the new Hudson Boulevard, Manhattan’s newest north-south avenue constructed between 34th and 36th Streets and divided into East and West sections, along with a new Hudson Park. Hudson Boulevard West forms the west side of the park between West 35th and 36th. Hudson Boulevard may extend south when the yards are decked over as part of the overall Yards project.
This is also the first reference to High Line Park on MTA signage; the linear park opened in stages between 2009 and 2012 along the structure of the former West Side Freight Elevated line that was opened to railroad traffic between 1934 and 1980. FNY has covered it extensively.
The mezzanine is on the blasé side, with none of the commissioned artwork that appears on the SAS.
However, there’s a futuristic arch that leads to the escalator and elevator banks.
The escalator is among the system’s longest and deepest.
Hudson Yards is unique among subway stations in that it is the only station that boasts inclined elevators.
An incline elevator, also known as an incline platform lift or hillside tram, is an elevator that runs in a direction diagonal to the ground. Unlike a standard elevator, incline elevators can go up tilted grades, and can be used for both residential and commercial purposes. They are sometimes colloquially referred to as, or confused with, funiculars. The purpose of incline elevators is to provide accessibility to steep hillsides and inclines at minimal effort to the user. wikipedia
The same principle is used in those small home elevators you see in commercials that are attached to staircase bannisters. When I visited Pittsburgh a few years ago, I rode the funicular railways (the Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines) that climb the city’s steep cliffs. Those are pulled by cables and run on different principles than inclined elevators.
Hudson Yards only has one major artwork of note, but it’s a doozy, as Xenobia Bailey’s “Funktional Vibrations” appears in a large “oculus” above the entrance turnstiles, as well as part of the entrance kiosks.
For the mezzanine of the new station, artist Xenobia Bailey was commissioned to create three mosaic designs, one being a 2,788 square-foot mosaic mural called Funktional Vibrations—one of the largest mosaic works in the subway system, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Bailey is known for her elaborate crocheted designs evoking African and Native American patterns. The fiber artist says her signature aesthetic is “the aesthetic of funk,” in a video for Etsy. [Artnet]
Hudson Boulevard East in front of the 34th Street entrance.
New-style subway entrance indicator globe stanchion at the new corner of West 34th and Hudson Boulevard East.
After some more of the new park and Hudson Yards are completed I’ll find a Forgotten NY angle. I’ll never actually get into one of the towers!
Will also have some more posts on subway styles soon, as well.
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Is The Beast’s System Rising?
One of the most powerful and manipulative groups in the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is predicted by Dr. Steve Sjuggerud on October 20th of this year, to announce a new world reserve currency alternative to the U.S. dollar.
According to Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, a currency expert who was featured on CNBC, and Bloomberg,
“I’ve been active in the markets for over two decades now… but I’ve never seen anything that could move so much money, so quickly. Hundreds of billions of dollars could change hands in a single day after this announcement is made.” “The announcement will start a domino effect, that will basically determine who in America gets rich in the years to come… and who struggles.”
The IMF is a globalist organization and known for monitoring the financial health of more than 185 countries, establishing global money laws, and providing “bail-out’s” to nations. They have a lot of power behind them and are capable of accomplishing the task if it so plays out…
Here is the breaking report…
The announcement may or may not come in October, however I do believe the announcement will eventually arrive. Many believe it could be the Chinese Yuan that takes the place as the New World Reserve Currency, however, only time will tell…
For More Information See:
http://thecrux.com/dyncontent/dollar-substitute-coming/?cid=MKT035907&eid=MKT076392
http://skywatchtv.com/2015/07/07/will-it-crush-american-supremacy-and-give-rise-to-antichrists-system-international-monetary-fund-to-replace-us-dollar-with-new-reserve-currency-within-next-three-months/
http://www.dailywealth.com/3003/first-time-in-33-years-a-new-world-reserve-currency-is-coming
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Much like the ocean, the atmosphere is teeming with what seem to be millions of forms of microscopic life. These airborne microbes, collectively referred to as "aeroplankton," can transmit diseases and directly influence the weather and climate by seeding the formation of clouds. And much like plankton in the ocean can be carried long distances by waves and currents, aeroplankton can be transported up to thousands of kilometers by seasonal winds, storms, and even clouds of smog.
Given the versatility of their travel arrangements, the recent discovery of microfossils in eruption deposits from Yellowstone and Mount Tarawera in New Zealand prompted some researchers to wonder whether it was possible for microbes to hitch a ride on volcanic eruptions. The surprising answer, the findings from a new Geology study show, is yes.
To tackle this intriguing question, the researchers examined the fossil record of diatoms contained within rocks erupted by the Taupo volcano in New Zealand 25.4 thousand years ago. What set this eruption apart from others in the area is that it happened under a lake (Lake Huka) and therefore involved the large-scale mixing of magma and water replete with phytoplankton. The resulting deposits—complex mixtures of volcanic ash, pumice, and rock fragments—were carried up to hundreds of kilometers away by moisture-rich atmospheric plumes.
In total, the authors analyzed 22 deposit samples from 11 sites, some of them up to 850 km away from the volcano. They identified at least 300 whole and partial diatom valves in each sample to establish the composition of the individual diatom populations. To determine whether these samples matched the ones originally found in Lake Huka, the researchers also examined sediment samples collected from the lake floor. Finally, in order to rule out the possible influence of additional microfossil inputs from the surrounding environment, they analyzed the microfossil record of sediment layers deposited immediately before and after the eruption.
The results of their analyses clearly showed that the deposit-hosted diatoms were remarkably similar to those found in the Lake Huka sediment samples, pointing to a common origin. The deposit-hosted organisms were also highly consistent between samples—even those collected from sites hundreds of kilometers apart—and were distinct from those at the site where the debris landed. Moreover, of the three most abundant species discovered within both sample types, two are commonly found in lake waters globally, but one is only found in the deep waters of lakes in the volcanic region of New Zealand's North Island.
Based on their findings, the authors posit that the interaction between magma and Lake Huka water during the eruption entrained significant quantities of freshwater microbes from both the water column and a roughly 300 meter-thick layer of lake-floor sediments. They estimate that the eruption deposits contain almost 0.6 cubic kilometers of diatom remains.
While the authors can't confidently say whether the diatoms would survive their explosive voyage, they point to evidence that some species have been shown to successfully endure periods of prolonged dessication and temperature extremes—the very same conditions that these deposit-hosted diatoms would likely have been exposed to. They also hypothesize that the processes of condensation, freezing and particle aggregation that occur in moisture-rich volcanic plumes could encase the diatoms (or hardier microbes like thermophilic bacteria) in protective coatings made of fine ash, water, or ice.
Any microbes that survive the trip could go on to seed new populations in previously inaccessible locations. Over time, these migrations could help reshape environments and even lead to the evolution of new species. This study suggests the possibility that these "wet" eruptions may have enabled the large-scale dispersal of an enormous variety of microorganisms through geological space and time.
From a (somewhat) more practical standpoint, this study also demonstrates the utility of microbes as biological markers of volcanic eruptions. The analysis of the microfossil records contained within deposits could yield valuable insights into the location, timing, and dynamics of individual eruptions—much in the same way that recent studies of aeroplankton are allowing scientists to track the source region and age of air masses.
Geology, 2013. DOI: 10.1130/G34829.1.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2013. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03029-12. (About DOIs) | positive |
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For all of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s jeremiads against big government and evil regulations, his state won a few admirers during the housing bubble for its surprisingly tough lending laws. Not that Perry didn’t try to lure subprime lenders to Texas, plying them with tens of millions in taxpayer cash just as they ramped up their risky home lending.
In the mid-2000s, the Associated Press reports, Perry enticed then-booming lending giants Countrywide Financial and Washington Mutual with $35 million in state tax grants to grow their operations in Texas and create 11,000 new jobs. At the same time, those lenders were diving headlong into more risky lending, while the Perry administration dismissed the risks of subprime mortgages as blown out of proportion. The source of Perry’s hand-outs to Countrywide and Washington Mutual was the Texas Enterprise Fund, a multi-billion-dollar economic development honeypot that critics have blasted as a slush fund used to funnel money to political allies and donors.
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It was recently revealed that HBO/Sky and director Paolo Sorrentino will be offering up a follow-up to “The Young Pope” called “The New Pope,” which will move on from Jude Law’s character of Lenny Belardo, a conservative American pontiff. But the actor’s charismatic turn still puts him in the mix for possible Emmy recognition in the limited series category this year. Law recently spoke to Variety about building his character, luxuriating in Pope-wear and how the current political climate could fuel a second season.
The performance is so detailed I’ve been wondering if you modeled it on anyone in particular. Someone you might know or maybe someone you just observed.
The interesting thing about Lenny was he was a construct that came very much after I already had the job. I was just really excited at the prospect of working with Paolo. He pitched this rough idea and I was sort of in already. And then the scripts started to come through. So it wasn’t like he was there on the page and I had agreed to play this part. And obviously it wasn’t for a good month afterwards when I finally had all 10 hours in front of me that I realized what a character this was. It was one of those times where so much detail came from what other people said about him in the piece. It was just putting together a web, a network, that led him right back to his childhood for me, to kind of construct and understand who exactly he was. All those little nuances really came from that detail that was in the script writing. If I’m honest, now that I’m discussing it in hindsight, I think there are elements of him that were Paolo himself. He also just seemed to sort of alchemically appear out of conversations that Paolo and I had, and little studies that I did.
What can you tell me about how all those behavioral elements that started stacking up spoke to who the character is?
I had played a couple of kings both on stage and in film and was obsessed by this idea of power almost reducing people’s movements and mannerisms to the minimal. Because with great power, you don’t need to emphasize. You don’t need to raise your voice. The power is there. You’re not hysterical — then you’re anything but powerful. So there was always this idea of reducing physical movement and containment. And it was clear also from the page that he was a very contained, internal, combustive kind of inhuman anyway. And then the detail of the smoking was, again, in the script, and Paolo’s a great smoker himself. If you look at his work, a lot of his characters smoke. Observing passionate smokers in Italy is easy. You just have a coffee. Everyone smokes! So little details like that naturally came together, and I don’t say that like it was easy, because you’re right. I’ve often played parts and thought of friends or family immediately, or other people I’ve observed. You hook on to little details. But with Lenny, he just seemed to come off the page so quickly. A lot of our work was in really making sure we both agreed and knew about his childhood and who he was and why he was the way he was. And how he’d gotten so far so quickly. So I think a lot of that just poured into it.
What about the costume? When you donned the Pope-wear, was it just another costume or did you feel any kind of unique electricity?
I certainly did, and I’m not particularly religious. I have a great curious fascination with faith in my life but, you know, I had great respect for it but I wasn’t going to goof around. Do you know what I mean? Doing silly selfies. I felt like there was a certain reverence one has to give to it when you wore it. And also Paolo was really adamant that it should be pristine and so I had to be really careful where I sat and what I was eating and all of that stuff. Every single day it became a bit of a bore, actually. But equally, all that is contrary to the part. I always felt like I was playing a man playing a character. I was playing Lenny playing the Pope. It’s no chance in the first episode you see him naked in front of the white outfit. It’s like he takes his skin off and steps into the role of Pope Pius. And it has a great effect, you know, when you walk around in those outfits. On yourself and the way you carry yourself and also the way people treat you, especially in a very Catholic country like Italy. And then when you wear the big medieval ritualistic robes, I mean, they are extraordinary pieces. Each piece has to go on in a certain order and each piece is put on in a certain way representing something and a lot of those are very, very heavy and very uncomfortable. But they really add to a performance.
How did Paolo Sorrentino’s overall approach differ from every other experience you’ve had with a director?
Huge amounts of the work was already in the writing. His writing is very particular, very precise — the references of music, the references of mood. So you arrive with no rehearsal, but with a very clear sense of what he wants. He answers every question and any doubt, and we had long conversations by email prior to the filming. Then once we got there it was interesting to see how he, almost in an improvisational way, constructed these phenomenal shots. There was no storyboard or anything. He’d look at the scene. He’d let us act it out. He’d have ideas. We were both new to this medium and having so much time to tell a story that we recognized quite early on we were both hardwired to telling it over two hours or 90 minutes. And with this, even though we shot it like a movie, out of order, we were aware that we had a 10-hour period. So he was always very clear reining me back and saying, “Not yet. Not yet. Don’t show this. Don’t show that. Keep your guard.” And that was another layer to Lenny that became clear from the beginning, keeping the guard up and not letting people in until we really knew we’d earned it.
Did you wrap up the season assuming that you were done with this character?
It wasn’t that I wrapped it up assuming that I was done with it but I went in, we went in, to make a 10-hour film, and we did that. To say that there wasn’t room for more, I’d have been foolhardy. But it was clear from the get-go that we thought this is a great character and it’s a great world that he’s created here. But yeah, I didn’t go in thinking I’ll be doing this for the next 10 years.
Inevitably, parallels were drawn between this conservative character and a sort of backlash to liberalism around the world, and not least of all Donald Trump. What of the modern political climate could you see fueling a second season?
We were fortunate in that the election in America and the political climate internationally seemed to suddenly demonstrate what Paolo had speculated on through the drama. And you could argue it played to our favor. But I think clever writing and good writers have a finger on the pulse, or have their antennae to the world’s peculiar sort of pendulum swings in social movements anyway. I think it would be foolish and irresponsible not to push that a little further in the current climate. It was a “what if” and suddenly it became an, “Oh, this is it.”
You’re also in “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” Perhaps I should have expected this but it was interesting to see Guy Ritchie turn that property into something like a bloke mobster film.
Only Guy, right? Only Guy. I find him a fascinating guy because he takes these — for want of a better word or description — tentpole, period movies, and really does have his own signature and style. And in places it works brilliantly. I also like the fact that it’s still got this sort of fairy tale quality. Rather than trying to root it solely in real English history heritage or British heritage, he’s really embraced the fairy tale quality.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t ask you about the sequel to “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” You’re going to be playing Albus Dumbledore. Did you have any trepidation in taking on a role in a property that massive?
I think I’d be foolish not to say it was a little daunting. Daunting only because, you know, he’s a beloved character and we’ve all sort of fallen for him in his old, old age. So to go back and give that due diligence and service is a responsibility to millions of fans, of whom I am one. I’m terribly excited. I really liked “Fantastic Beasts.” I’m very excited to step into that world. There’s loads there to mine and investigate as a character. So from just simply an acting point of view, I’m really excited. I just have to blot out the millions of expectations.
With something like that, would you go back and look at Michael Gambon and observe some of his nuances in the performance from the “Harry Potter” films?
I think it’s a great excuse! Yes, I will certainly, but it’s also just a great excuse to spend a weekend sitting on the sofa watching all those movies. | positive |
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Aniplex of America announced at its Otakon Las Vegas panel on Friday that Cartoon Network's sister network Adult Swim will run the Kill la Kill anime in its Toonami block. The English dub of studio Trigger's anime will begin running on Toonami on February 7 at 11:30 p.m. EST/PST.
Aniplex began releasing the anime with the dub on Blu-ray Disc and DVD last year. The dub cast includes:
Erica Mendez as Ryuuko Matoi
Carrie Keranen as Satsuki Kiryuuin
Christine Marie Cabanos as Mako Mankanshoku
David Vincent as Senketsu
Matthew Mercer as Aikurō Mikisugi
Sarah Williams as Nonon Jakuzure
Patrick Seitz as Ira Gamagōri
Grant George as Uzu Sanageyama
Steve Cannon as Hōka Inumuta
Lindsey Eaton as Mataro Mankanshoku
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The two nominees also gave more than $64,000 to other candidates.
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A banker and a lawyer nominated by Republican Gov. Scott Walker to serve seven-year terms on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents have contributed more than $64,000 to mostly GOP legislative and statewide candidates. Their contributions, between January 2010 and December 2016, include a total of $22,550 to Walker’s campaign.
Walker’s nominees are Mike Jones, of Milwaukee, an attorney with Michael Best & Friedrich and former MillerCoors brewing executive; and Bob Atwell, of De Pere, chairman of Nicolet Bankshares and a former Associated Bank and First Wisconsin (now U.S. Bank) executive.
Their nominations to the Board of Regents, which sets policy and spending for the UW System, must be approved by a majority of the 33-member state Senate. Nine state senators, including eight Republicans and one Democrat, received a total of $6,450 from Atwell and Jones between January 2010 and December 2016. Republicans hold a 20-13 majority in the Senate.
Atwell, and his wife, Sally , contributed $38,750 to legislative and statewide candidates – all but $200 of it to Republicans – between January 2010 and December 2016. The top recipients of their contributions were Walker, who received $10,750, followed by former GOP gubernatorial candidate, $3,500, and GOP Rep., of De Pere, $2,800.
The Atwells also contributed $3,550 to four state senators who will consider his nomination to the board, including $1,500 to Roger Roth, of Appleton, $1,000 to Rob Cowles, of Green Bay, $950 to Frank Lasee, of De Pere, and $100 to Tom Tiffany, of Hazelhurst.
Jones contributed $25,400 to legislative and statewide candidates – all but $1,100 of it to Republicans – between January 2010 and December 2016. The top recipients of his contributions were Walker, who received $11,800, followed by former GOP Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, $4,100, and current Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel, $1,500.
Jones contributed $2,900 to six state senators who will consider his nomination to the board, including $1,000 each to Republicans Chris Kapenga, of Delafield, and Roth, $500 to Alberta Darling, of River Hills, $200 to Leah Vukmir, of Brookfield, and $100 each to Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, of Juneau, and Democrat Kathleen Vinehout, of Alma. | positive |
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A cellphone photo of Moussa Konaté, a security guard at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, who was killed by extremists after he helped guests escape an attack on Nov. 20, 2015. (Jane Hahn/For The Washington Post)
Two years after French troops drove jihadist forces from northern Mali, a deadly attack on a luxury hotel has raised concerns that Islamist extremists are gaining ground again in this volatile country, despite a new peace accord among domestic rebel groups.
While Malian and U.N. officials point to the peace agreement as a potential milestone in pacifying the lawless, Arab-dominated north, they also worry that violence could surge again. The weak central government is struggling with a host of challenges: entrenched poverty, drug smuggling, and a mix of growing competition and collaboration among Islamist factions in the West African region.
“Mali today is as fragile as it was before the coup in 2012,” said Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, referring to the military power grab that occurred as a rebellion in the north gained strength. France intervened the following year, after Islamist fighters seized control of a large chunk of territory.
“The French may have prevented an Islamist takeover, but you can’t rebuild a hollowed-out state in two years,” Pham said. “The borders are fictional, and there is a fluid and permeable dynamic among jihadist, rebel and criminal groups in the region. We are still playing Whac-A-Mole.”
[Mali’s president declares state of emergency after hotel attack]
Few people predict that this nation of 17 million people will become an Islamist beachhead again. But both Malian and foreign observers worry that extremist groups based in surrounding countries could still create turmoil, by capitalizing on domestic discontent here and on the momentum from recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere.
Two jihadist groups have asserted responsibility for last week’s attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel, which left at least 20 people dead in the bustling capital, hundreds of miles from the vast desert region where Islamist militias normally operate. Experts differ on the possible motive, with U.N. officials insisting the attack was an effort to derail the peace talks and others suggesting it was part of a new muscle-flexing rivalry between pro-al-Qaeda and pro-Islamic-State groups in the region.
There also are conflicting opinions about the best way to contain the possible comeback of Islamist extremism after two years of rule by the government of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, which is widely described as democratic but sluggish and corrupt.
Some look to the 8,000-member Malian army to enforce security, although it is thinly spread and in dire need of reform and training as well as equipment and funding, analysts say. Others say the key lies in quickly bringing development, services and jobs to the long-abandoned north, calling this the only way to prevent large numbers of unemployed young Muslim men — as well as older ex-rebels from various tribal separatist groups — from being recruited by well-financed jihadist groups.
“It is a great achievement that the combatant groups have been brought together and speak with one voice, but we need to bring peace dividends — water, electricity, roads, schools — so the population sees peace making a difference in their lives,” Mongi Hamdi, the U.N. special representative for Mali, said in an interview. “That is the glue that will keep people attached to peace.”
Mali is heavily dependent on the international community for security and economic survival. A U.N. peacekeeping force with more than 10,000 troops is stationed here, and a smaller French counterterrorism force has been based here since 2013. Large amounts of development aid have come from the United States, France and other countries. Some critics say the funding has been partly wasted through corruption, but Hamdi and others argue that even more is needed to reinforce the writ of the state in conflict areas.
Until now, Mali has been viewed largely as suffering from the predations of extremist groups spawned in neighboring countries. Libyan militants thronged into northern Mali after dictator Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011, and a notorious Algerian jihadist leader named Mokhtar Belmokhtar formed the group al-Mourabitoun that most experts believe planned the Nov. 20 hotel attack.
The Washington Post’s Kevin Sieff talks about the extremist threat in West Africa and why the U.N. peace keeping mission there is now the agency’s most dangerous. (Kevin Sieff and Jason Aldag/The Washington Post)
In recent months, experts said, the regional jihadist constellation has changed. At least one new group in Mali, the Massina Liberation Front, has emerged with possible outside help; it was one of the groups that claimed to have carried out the hotel attack. As the Islamic State has begun to eclipse al-Qaeda in its global reach, smaller jihadist groups in the area have reportedly shifted or cemented alliances with one side or the other.
Several international officials and experts said that what happens in Mali in the coming months could reinforce either modernizing or more extreme trends in the region.
“Mali is at center stage now. It is a huge country that borders seven others, and it can influence all of them,” Hamdi said. “The international community needs to take the situation more seriously. If Mali is lost, it will change the mind-set of the region. Then the bloodthirsty barbarians will start attacking everywhere.”
A former French colony whose population is 95 percent Muslim, Mali has a tradition of moderate Islamic values mixed with Christian influence. But government corruption and neglect have soured many Malians on secular politics, several experts said.
“We have a secular state and constitution, but people resent bad governance and corruption,” said Adam Thiam, a columnist for Le Républicain newspaper here. “Why do we have jihad? Because we are trying to build a modern state without the consent of the people. If there is not more international vigilance over the corrupt state system, we are going to see more human bombs.”
A separate problem that also has become intertwined with violence and religious extremism in Mali is a thriving drug trade. Each month, millions of dollars in cocaine, hashish and other drugs arrive in Mali from global producers in places such as Colombia and Southeast Asia, and are smuggled north into Algeria and beyond. The trade involves armed rebel groups as well as jihadist militias, which use the profits to pay fighters and buy weapons.
[Anita Datar is the only known American killed in Mali. She was there to help.]
“Drugs are at the heart of instability in the north. The smugglers don’t want peace because it interrupts their business, and if we don’t stop that business, stability will never last,” said an international official here who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the news media.
Taken together, this array of problems — new rivalries and alignments emboldening jihadist attackers, popular disillusionment with the government, lack of resources to shore up the promises of peace in the north, entrenched criminal networks and signs of spreading ultraconservative Islamist influence — threaten to undermine the hopeful moment created by the peace accords signed in June.
“There is still a positive peace dynamic, but the state is weak and corrupt, and we have only had a democratic government for two years,” said Mahamadou Camara, a magazine editor and former press official in the Keïta administration. “The greatest risk we face today is that the positive momentum will reverse into a new spiral of violence.”
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Senate Republicans recently blocked cybersecurity legislation, but the issue might not be dead after all.
The White House hasn't ruled out issuing an executive order to strengthen the nation's defenses against cyberattacks if Congress refuses to act.
“In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed," White House press secretary Jay Carney told The Hill when asked about the possibility of an executive order.
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"Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyber threats and we will do that," Carney said.
The White House has emphasized that better protecting vital computer systems is a top priority.
The administration proposed its own legislative package in 2011, sent officials to testify at 17 congressional hearings and presented more than 100 briefings on the issue. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, President Obama warned that a successful cyberattack on a bank, water system, electrical grid or hospital could have devastating consequences.
The president urged Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Act, which was offered by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins Susan Margaret CollinsHouse to push back at Trump on border Hillicon Valley: Senators urge Trump to bar Huawei products from electric grid | Ex-security officials condemn Trump emergency declaration | New malicious cyber tool found | Facebook faces questions on treatment of moderators GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration MORE (R-Maine). The bill would have encouraged private companies and the government to share information about cyber threats and would have required critical infrastructure operators to meet minimum cybersecurity standards.
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The bill's sponsors watered down the regulatory provisions, replacing the security mandates with voluntary incentives, but that wasn't enough to win over Republicans. The bill mustered 52 votes in the Senate, well short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
If Obama issues an order on cybersecurity, it wouldn't be the first time that his administration has resorted to executive action to bypass Congress.
Obama uses the slogan "we can't wait" to argue that some issues are too important to be allowed to stall in Congress.
When lawmakers refused to pass the DREAM Act to give legal status to students brought to the country illegally, the administration announced that it would stop deporting young immigrants who would have been eligible to stay under the bill.
Jim Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explained that Obama could enact many of the core provisions of the Cybersecurity Act through executive order.
Many companies managing vital computer systems are already heavily regulated. Lewis said the president could order agencies to require the industries they regulate to meet cybersecurity standards.
"You don't need new legislative authority to do that," Lewis said.
He noted that some regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, are independent and not bound to follow executive orders. But Lewis predicted that even the independent agencies would likely enforce an executive order on cybersecurity.
Lewis said the Office of Management and Budget is already working on security standards for federal computer systems and said those guidelines could form the basis of standards for the private sector.
Lewis acknowledged any provisions that would tear down legal barriers to information-sharing would have to be enacted by Congress. Although those provisions in the Cybersecurity Act were the ones most strongly supported by the business community, Lewis expressed skepticism that they would do much to improve cybersecurity anyway.
"You can have them or don't have them. Who cares?" he said.
But Lewis said that an executive order could even partially address information-sharing. The FCC, for example, has set up a voluntary system for companies to share information about cyber threats with each other, he said.
An executive order may accomplish many of the goals of the Cybersecurity Act, but it could also further raise the ire of Republicans and the business groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who lobbied against the legislation.
Republicans have already accused Obama of making illegal power grabs with his previous executive actions, and a cybersecurity order would likely elicit similar howls of disapproval.
Although Sen. Collins was frustrated by the defeat of her bill, she reacted coolly to the idea of the president bypassing Congress.
"I'm not for doing by executive order what should be done by legislation," she said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dianne Emiel FeinsteinHillicon Valley: Senators urge Trump to bar Huawei products from electric grid | Ex-security officials condemn Trump emergency declaration | New malicious cyber tool found | Facebook faces questions on treatment of moderators Ocasio-Cortez adviser says Sunrise confrontation with 'old-timer' Feinstein 'sad' Key senators say administration should ban Huawei tech in US electric grid MORE (D-Calif.), one of the co-sponsors of the Cybersecurity Act, said she prefers that Congress address the problem, but she is open to presidential action if Congress fails.
"I suppose if we can't, the answer would be yes," she said when asked whether she would support an executive order. | positive |
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The northeastern state of Mizoram has, for long, been a breeding ground for football players. The state came into the spotlight after the state team clinched the national championship in 2014. Now, 15-year-old Lalchungnunga, a football player from the state, has been chosen to train at Germany’s prestigious football league, Bundesliga, for six years.
One of eight siblings born to a daily wage labourer, Lalchungnunga overcame poverty and lack of resources to continue his game. His natural flair for the game has earned him the nickname Mizo Messi (the young footballer is a big fan of the Argentinian star) among friends and locals.
Football is one of the state’s most popular sports and the state even hosts its own Mizoram Premier League.
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Lalchungnunga is one of the state’s many budding footballers whose talent has received a boost from the Tata Trust’s football academies in the region. The footballer was scouted to train with the Bundesliga from one of these institutes, set up as part of a special MoU between Tata Trust and the Mizoram government to enhance local sports talents.
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Lalchungnunga’s family is overjoyed at the news, especially his father Chhangte Laldinmawia. Limited by his meagre earnings Chhangte had assumed that encouraging his son’s talent would be difficult, but he is now overjoyed at his son’s achievements.
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In the world of self-driving cars and autonomous vehicle technology, Google gets most of the attention, but it’s far from being the only player in the field. Earlier this month, Mobileye, the Israeli and Dutch maker of advanced driver assistance technologies, claimed that self-driving cars “could be on the road by 2016.” Rather than Google cars’ array of radar, cameras, sensors and laser-based range finders, Mobileye wants to offer autonomous driving capability at a more affordable price point by using mainstream cameras that cost only a few hundred dollars.
While cars using Mobileye’s systems, like the Audi A7, aren’t quite as “autonomous” as Google vehicles, they could help advanced driver assistance technology make it onto the road long before 2025 — the date industry experts expect driverless cars to go mainstream. With its intelligent, camera-based “traffic assist” technology expected to begin arriving this summer thanks to partnerships with five major automakers, the automotive A.I. company is looking to take advantage while its stock is still high, so to speak.
Mobileye announced today that it is selling $400 million in equity to “five unaffiliated” financial investors, which include “some of the largest U.S.-based global institutional asset managers and a leading Chinese government-affiliated financial investor,” according to a statement released this morning. The transaction, which values the company at $1.5 billion (pre-money) and was overseen by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, is expected to close in August.
The company attributes the timing, in part, to the current regulatory support and progression of global safety standards, which have helped encourage automakers to accelerate integration of intelligent driver assistance technologies.
Mobileye has been around since the 1990s, and like Google, is more interested in being an artificial intelligence company and, specifically, improving the intelligence of cameras to assist with autonomous driving, than being an automaker itself. The company’s technology has been tested in a number of capacities, but mostly it’s focused on helping drivers avoid collisions.
According to The New York Times, in the past, its tech has been used by companies like Volvo to detect pedestrians or vehicles up ahead or crossing in your blind-spots, alerting drivers when they get too close to those objects, for example.
The newer version of Mobileye’s system that arrives this summer aims to help steer the car in stop-start situations, though drivers are still required to keep their hands on the wheel. Coming up next, and expected to be street-ready by 2013, is a more advanced system that will allow for hands-free driving.
The company plans to begin experimenting with and adding to the number of onboard cameras in vehicles to improve the efficacy of its technology in autonomous driving cases and presumably push it closer to the kind of hands-free, full autonomy promised by Sergey Brin and Google in the years to come. | positive |
Despite the recent thawing of ties between Israel and Turkey, Istanbul is set to play host this weekend to a well-attended conference whose speakers and organizers are either affiliated with Hamas or once held senior posts in the Palestinian terror group.
The Conference for Palestinians Abroad is named for the group organizing the event. It has faced vociferous criticism from the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization, who accuse the organizers of undermining the PLO’s position as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
Hamas’s military wing is one of the bodies publicizing the event, slated for Saturday and Sunday, which is also hosting among its speakers members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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One of the leaders of the organizing group is Issam Moustafa Youssef, who the US Treasury Department has said was the head of Hamas’s political bureau at least until mid-2008.
Yousef, originally from Nablus in the northern West Bank, is currently a leader in the Interpal group, named a terror group by the US in 2003.
The event’s website presents a map of Israel with arrows pointing at the country and the caption “Our national plan — the path of our return.”
Other speakers include Majed a-Zir, who has been described in Egyptian media as “the regional director of Hamas in Europe.” He is officially a member of the “Palestinian Return Centre” in London, which Israel, at least, considers an illegal group.
Also on the list of speakers are media personalities such as Qatar-based Al-Jazeera anchor Jamal Rayyan and columnist Bashir Nafi, as well as Zaher Birawi, Rowan a-Damen, Ziad Aloul and others.
Hamas has held similar events not just in Turkey, but throughout Africa and Latin America. It uses the Muslim Brotherhood organizational infrastructures in those countries to organize the events, connect to activists, raise funds and engage in public relations worldwide. | positive |
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- A few early thoughts on the Buffalo Bills' comeback 34-31 victory against the New England Patriots:
What it means: The Bills confirmed they are legitimate contenders in the AFC East. They beat a New England team many feel is a Super Bowl favorite -- and did it in dramatic fashion. The Bills (3-0) overcame a 21-0 deficit against New England. This week was a huge test for the Bills and they passed. Buffalo will at least share first place in the AFC East after three games. For New England (2-1), the loss means the Patriots have to regroup defensively and figure out how to fix all the problems on that side of the ball. If not, New England will have trouble winning games when quarterback Tom Brady makes mistakes.
Turning point: This game was full of ups and downs for both teams. Bills running back Fred Jackson's 38-yard reception with 1:43 left set up Buffalo's game-winning, 28-yard field goal by Rian Lindell. The Bills were wise to run the clock and take the field goal at the end. Buffalo kept the ball out of Brady's hands.
Lots of picks: As expected, both quarterbacks threw for a ton of yards. But six combined interceptions were unexpected. Brady (387 yards) had his shakiest outing of the season. He threw four interceptions after a fast start. Buffalo's defense displayed good hands and took advantage of the opportunities. Fitzpatrick (369 yards) also threw two early interceptions in the first half as Buffalo fell behind.
Record-setting day for Welker: Patriots receiver Wes Welker had a career day. He had 16 receptions for 217 yards and two touchdowns. The receptions set a new team record for New England. Welker had a lot of success underneath against the zone and was too quick for Buffalo defenders against man-to-man coverage.
What's next: The Patriots travel to Oakland. The undefeated Bills play at Cincinnati. | positive |
The Opposite end of traditional “street harassment”: the girl who never get’s cat called
In feminist spaces I see a lot of feminists complain about being street harassed. I read about it and I totally sympathize with their experiences, even though I have never experienced them myself. I am a female myself but am not conventionally attractive. I am not hideous but more or less a plain jane. On top of that I have ALWAYS valued comfort over style, so dressing feminine isn’t something I do on a regular basis. I wear a lot of loose jeans and T-shirts. But yeah, anyway, know that I am not trying to play “who has it harder” or anything but rather I am making this to share my experiences of getting the opposite end of the shit-covered stick that is street harassment that I don’t see being mentioned. I call it street dismissal.
When I say street dismissal I am talking about men who feel the need to subtly announce that unattractive women are not worthy of respect or acknowledgement because they are not a conventionally attractive female or their fellow man.
Some examples I’ve personally experienced include:
Many guys at parties will arrive or leave, give all the men handshakes, give the attractive women hugs, but won’t even make eye contact with me. I am not a guy or a hot girl so I don’t exist.
I’ve been bumped into in public without an apology by men. I am not an attractive girl or your fellow man, so it makes sense for you to not even notice I am there.
One time I was walking behind a group of attractive women. A guy spotted us. Opened the door for the three women and shut the door in my face. I am not worthy of his time because I am not attractive.
I once was charged a cover on ladies night because I went out to the bar in my work uniform. (red shirt khaki pants)
Another time at a bar, I saw an open space to order a drink. The guy sitting next to me saw me, raised his eyebrows and turned the other way to make sure I don’t DARE try to talk to him. (Because I totally went there to hit on him and NOT get a drink right?)
I once went with my gay male friend to a straight guys house he knew. The first thing out of the straight guy’s mouth was “I was totally excited when you had a chick with you. Nevermind!" the whole night he offered my friend drinks and didn’t offer me a thing and seemed frustrated when I asked where the bathroom was. The only other thing he said that night was "do you have any hot single friends that would come over here?”
Another time I went with a female friend of mine to get drinks. We met up with her guy friend. He ordered a round of beers for everyone except me. His excuse was “he didn’t know she was going to bring someone along and he is low on money” that was until his guy friend from high school showed up unexpectedly and he quickly bought him a drink.
These are just examples that have happened to me. So my question is are there any other “unattractive” girls out there that experience things similar to this?
I just wanted to speak from the other perspective. We always hear the horror stories of sexism from the perspective of the women who are objectified by men in the sense of “oo I want that.” and not too many in the sense of “oo, ew DO NOT WANT"
This may seem like a big long rant that looks like "WAH PRETTY GIRLS GET THINGS AND I DON’T OH MY LIFE SUCKS” but I don’t mean to come off that way. Because I feel the need to mention that guys don’t do this just to get laid. This is where it’s important to bring up the fact that we are treated with less respect than other men. Men aren’t decent people to other men because they want to fuck them. They are decent to them because they see them as equals that deserve basic respect and acknowledgement. But we are women and to these men either you try to fuck them because they are hot or want them to go away. An unattractive woman has no purpose to him.
Misogyny affects all women negatively. | positive |
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The deputy watched as the driver of a silver pickup with one operating headlight swerved all over the road Saturday night before nearly plowing head-on into a stopped vehicle.
The deputy watched as the driver of a silver pickup with one operating headlight swerved all over the road Saturday night before nearly plowing head-on into a stopped vehicle.
The truck lurched away and the deputy pulled over the man, suspecting that his reckless driving was because he was drunk.
That much was apparently true, as Warren Thomas Michael III of Fleming Island, near Jacksonville, later registered a .156 blood-alcohol level, nearly twice the legal limit in Florida.
But Michael told the Clay County deputy something else was wrong: Inside his shirt, a small squirrel was “eating” him.
The deputy looked and sure enough, the 23-year-old had a small squirrel peeking out from his clothing.
As Michael spoke, the deputy smelled alcohol on his breath. Other signs of intoxication were evident as well. Michael's eyes were bloodshot and glassy. His face was flushed and he continuously mumbled to the deputy, slurring his words.
The deputy asked the man for his license and registration. Michael fumbled searching for them, dropping the items he was holding as he looked. He couldn't seem to find either.
At this point, the deputy asked Michael to “secure the squirrel” and exit the vehicle.
He watched Michael sway behind the truck, trying to maintain his balance without holding onto anything.
The deputy asked if he would be willing to participate in sobriety tests and Michael agreed, but his performance was less than stellar.
Michael swayed while he walked, having to grab the side of the truck to keep from falling over. He raised his arms to try to maintain balance, then steadied himself. He placed his foot down twice while trying to stand on one leg. He forgot the directions, neglecting to count out loud while he performed each exercise.
The deputy then arrested Michael for DUI and took him to the county jail.
Michael's girlfriend, Mary Rock, was at the scene watching.
Rock explained to Michael that he was drunk and should not have been driving. Having dated Michael for over a year, she told the deputy that she knew when he was drunk and would often try to tell him. But she said he refuses to listen to her and “does what he wants anyway.”
The squirrel was released to Rock without charges. | positive |
The series also featured games played on three consecutive days, in two different cities with no travel day in between, because baseball prematurely declared Game 2 in Washington a rainout last Saturday even though it was the middle of the afternoon and, it turned out, it didn't rain the rest of the night. There has been speculation that because the Cubs were playing that night, baseball didn't want a delayed Dodgers-Nationals game cutting into the huge prime-time viewership. Not only were both teams inconvenienced by having to play Sunday in Washington and Monday and Tuesday in Los Angeles, but the Saturday rainout hurt the Dodgers competitively, pushing Rich Hill's Game 2 start back a day, which meant his start in Thursday's Game 5 was on three days' rest instead of the usual four. He lasted only 2 2/3 innings. | positive |
Recently we took a close look at the main operating systems and frameworks for various appliances of the Internet of Things. In the second part of the article, let’s check out tools for machine-to-machine communication and middleware to use with your IoT system.
M2M Communication
The rapid increase in numbers of smart things, from fridges to cars and from humidity sensors to door locks, has inevitably led to significant fragmentation in terms of the ways, in which devices talk to each other and/or to a central hub.
Machine-to-machine communication solutions are in most cases created to solve this problem and make interaction between all kinds of hardware as smooth and seamless as possible.
Aimed at the host of smart home devices released to date, OpenHAB is a “vendor-neutral and hardware/protocol-agnostic” platform that can work on any device capable of running a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). That means it’s good to go on any computer running Windows, OS X or Linux, including most micro-devices like Raspberry Pi.
The open-source solution comes with a set of web-based UIs, as well as native apps for Android and iOS. OpenHAB claims to be able to integrate virtually any smart home systems, but also can be integrated into another system through an API.
OpenHAB supports more than a hundred technologies, services and protocols, including Zwave, Withings, Nest, Dropbox, Twitter, and so on. The system also has an integrated rule engine, in which rules are written in a Java-like language and can be triggered by all kinds of events. Parts of rules can be reused as scripts.
Another open source solution in the pack, the Thing System promises users to make them finally able to take control of their things. The range of things to take control of is quite long, too, from Nest and Apple TV to Samsung’s smart air conditioners and Cube Sensors.
The heart of the solution is called a steward system. Written in Node.js, it’s lightweight and flexible, and can run on pretty much any computer, no matter how resource-restricted it is.
The creators of the Thing System encourage third-party developers to build their own clients using the steward and contribute to its code base.
Named after a variant of a Sardinian word that can be translated as “mediator,” Paraimpu positions itself as a social tool that allows users to connect, manage and mash up their smart devices and online services.
The service emphasizes its social aspect, which means that users are encouraged to share their connected things and produced data with friends, as well as play with the others’ shared stuff.
As opposed to the first two M2M communication tools of this overview, Paraimpu is a fully functional cloud-based platform that employs the freemium model. The free tier lets you create, edit, run and share up to four things with one communication between any thing and Paraimpu per minute. The premium version, pricing of which isn’t disclosed on the website, allows 14 things and three communications per minute.
Middleware
Another crucial element in building Internet of Things appliances, middleware can be described as an abstraction level necessary to connect different devices that also provides API for communications on the physical level. The definition of middleware in the domain of the Internet of Things can seem vague and change depending on who’s talking. If you want to familiarize yourself with its different aspects, we’d recommend reading this detailed post.
Meanwhile, here’s a list of a few middleware offerings from different providers worth attention.
This enterprise-level middleware platform can be used in a wide range of environments, from public cloud to on-premise deployment to other options like hybrid or EDGE. The main idea here is that the platform can be seen as a large collection of services with RESTful APIs, which developers can use as building blocks for their products.
This middleware is compliant with everything an enterprise solution should be compliant with, including Cisco IoT Blueprint for Edge Computing and Industrial Internet Consortium open interoperability standards. In addition to that, it promises to be able to connect to all the major public cloud providers.
ProSyst is another large-scale middleware provider focused on connection and managing IoT devices in the cloud. The range of usage of the solution is quite wide, from eHealth and connected cars and to smart homes and industrial appliances.
The middleware also allows to conduct remote diagnostics and servicing of the connected devices, as well as implement complex use cases for context-aware IoT systems like multifunctional house monitoring solutions.
An open source solution created with EU funding, IoTSys doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore but could serve a good basis for a home-grown middleware product.
The middleware works as a gateway for sensor and actuator systems. The project’s stack includes standards (and proposed standards) such as IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN), OASIS Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), and Efficient XML Interchange.
Like IoTSys, OpenIoT is a EU-funded project, which means it can be used as a building block for any other solution thanks to its open nature.
The middleware is created for sensor networks and promises to “support flexible configuration and deployment of algorithms for collection, and filtering information streams stemming from the internet-connected objects, while at the same time generating and processing important business/applications events.”
The Internet of Things appliances are complex systems with multiple hardware and software layers, and building them won’t become any easier in the future, as new concepts and use cases appear on a daily basis. It is, however, a highly exciting world of ever-changing technology paradigms and solutions.
Feel free to share which communication systems, middleware, and platforms you use for your own development – let’s discuss! | positive |
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All fish that are caught for eating must be handled carefully to reduce stress and humanely killed as soon as possible after capture. Humane killing requires that the fish is stunned (rendered instantaneously insensible) before being bled out.
Fish should remain in water until immediately prior to stunning. There are two methods that can be used to stun fish caught by hand: percussive stunning and spiking (also known as pithing or iki-jime).
Percussive stunning involves a forceful and accurate blow to the head with a blunt instrument. The force required will depend on the size of the fish. The blow should be aimed just above the eyes to impact on the brain. The effectiveness of the stun should be checked and another blow applied if the fish is not unconscious.
Spiking involves driving a sharp spike (such as an ice pick or a sharpened screwdriver) into the brain of the fish. The spike should be placed in a position to penetrate the brain of the fish and then pushed quickly and firmly into the skull. The impact of the spike should produce immediate unconsciousness. The spike should then be moved from side to side to destroy the brain. Visit www.ikijime.com for a detailed description of this process.
After stunning or spiking, the fish should be bled out by cutting the gill rakers or, with larger fish, a main artery.
The following methods are not suitable for killing fish as they do not result in a rapid or humane death: chilling with ice in holding water, carbon dioxide in holding water; chilling with ice and carbon dioxide in holding water; salt or ammonia baths; asphyxiation by removal from water; bleeding out without stunning. | positive |
Espen Sommer Eide Espen Sommer Eide – Selected Works Biography & Contact Espen Sommer Eide is a composer and artist based in Bergen, Norway. His artistic practice involves time-based media with a special focus on music and sound. This is further characterized by an experimental approach to instruments, archives, places and languages. In addition to installation and performances, he is a representative of experimental electronic music from Norway, growing out of the techno scene of Tromsø in the 90s, with main projects Alog and Phonophani, and a string of releases on the labels Rune Grammofon, Hubro, Sofa and others. His works have been exhibited and performed at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Assembly, Manifesta, Marres, Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Stedelijk Museum, De Halle Haarlem, Dark Ecology, Sonic Acts, Mutek festival, GRM/Presences Électronique, Performa Festival, Museo Reina Sofia and more. Sommer Eide is also a member of the theatre/art collective Verdensteatret, with extensive international touring and exhibitions. Contact on: sommer at alog punkt net Back Log In | negative |
China’s Heavy Equipment Rental Market Thrive from Construction Boom | Strongbox Skip to content Home About Us Our Services Boom Lift Equipment Carry Deck Crane Equipment Compaction Equipment Earth Moving Equipment Forklift Equipment Grader Equipment Light Tower Equipment Scissor Lift Equipment Research Become A Partner Contact Us Search Research China’s Heavy Equipment Rental Market Thrive from Construction Boom Extended crane lifts at rest. Source: Shutterstock China’s Investing Figure 1: China Remains Leader in Infrastructure Spending Source: The Economist Construction machinery leasing companies around the world are enjoying a comeback thanks to a boom in infrastructure projects in China. China’s infrastructure investment growth could accelerate to 7.5 % on the year in 2019[1] (refer Figure 1 above). Beijing announced yesterday a 1.35 trillion Yuan (US $199.54 billion) special bond issuance for provincial governments’ infrastructure projects in 2018, disbursal for which is scheduled to be completed by September 2019[2]. Analyst estimates this year’s special bonds issuance could be around 2.2 trillion Yuan[3]. Premier Li Keqiang delivered the report at the annual session of the National People’s Congress that China will expand effective investment and accelerate the implementation of a number of key project. The Premier said 800 billion yuan (US $119 billion) will be invested in railway construction, 1.8 trillion yuan in road construction and waterway projects[4]. One notable infrastructure development project that China plans to construct the ambitious 6,800km worth of new railway lines to be completed in 2019, a 40 % jump from the length of tracks laid last year amid a wider push to boost infrastructure spending[5]. At least 3,200km of this target will be high-speed rail[6]. China had already invested in 4,683km worth of new rail lines last year, of which 4,100km were for high-speed rail[7]. Furthermore, construction work has already started on a number of major water conservancy projects and the planning and construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be sped up[8]. Figure 2: Investment is China’s Growth Engine Source: Bloomberg Investment’s contribution to the growth of China’s gross domestic product will rise by 0.5 % to 2.6 %. In other words, about 40 % of the year’s China’s economic growth will be generated by a new economic driver-investment[9] Investment plays a more significant role compared to consumption and net exports (refer Figure 2 above) Hence, infrastructure facilities will continue to take a large portion of China’s GDP but the difference this time is that emphasis will be put into improving transportation infrastructure in less-developed areas across China, primarily its western region. Thus, after a rough ride over the past couple of years, heavy machinery rental firms across the world are enjoying a comeback thanks to a rush of infrastructure projects in China. Overview of China’s Equipment Rental Market Since 2016, a series of favourable policies have prompted China’s industrial equipment rental industry is forecasted to develop rapidly. As of June 2017, there had been 8,218 rental and leasing enterprises in China, which conducted the transactions worth 5.6 trillion Yuan at the end of 2018[10]. Figure 3: Industry Equipment Rental Business to Grow In accordance with regulatory authorities, rental and leasing companies in China can be divided into rental companies, domestic-funded leasing companies and foreign-funded leasing companies; wherein, the foreign-funded rental companies accounted for as high as 96.5% of the total at the end of June 2017[11] (refer Figure 3). Figure 4: China Construction Equipment (2014-2019) Source: Bloomberg With the number of nearly 8,000; but, equipment rental companies contributed 37.8% to the business volume at the end of June 2017 thanks to strong financial strength, outperforming the other two types of companies[12]. As for the region, China’s rental services are mainly available in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangdong which is the result of the rental advantages and policies[13] (refer Figure 4)As of the end of 2018, the combined number of financial rental companies in the four places had exceeded 80% of the country’s total[14]. In China, the funds of rental companies chiefly source from capital, bank loans, interbank borrowing (lending) and shareholders’ deposits, among which shareholders’ capital and bank loans play the leading role, reflecting relatively simple financing channels. Figure 5: Volume of Business of Various Leasing Companies in China Source: Bloomberg China’s industrial equipment rental industry is still growing robustly (refer Figure 5). Although the sector is at its infancy, facing problems such as imperfect laws and regulations, incomplete tax policy, regional development imbalance, and monotonous financing channel, but with broad development prospects. In 2019, China’s equipment rental market is forecasted to grow. Footnotes [1] Morgan Stanley, 2019 Review [2] The Guardian [3] The Guardian [4] Bloomberg [5] PwC, Global Construction Report, 2018 [6]China Railway Corp, Financial Review 2018 [7] Economic Department, Bank of China [8] PwC, Global Construction Report, 2018 [9] China Infrastructure for the 21st Century, National Academy Press, 2018. 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The federal government should start enforcing immigration laws–or write new ones, he said. He criticized President Obama’s new deportation policies, which say most immigrants who have not committed serious crimes and have fewer than three minor crimes on their records should not be priorities for removal.
“You’re in this country illegally and we’re going to give you three bites of the apple? That’s three victims!” Youngblood said. “If you commit crimes, you oughta go.”
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Youngblood’s defiant views have made him a rare voice of dissent in what has become the nation’s most welcoming state for people in the country illegally.
At a time when the Democrat-controlled Legislature has moved to allow such immigrants to drive, practice law and pay in-state college tuition–passing 26 immigrant-friendly laws last year alone, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures–Youngblood is an outlier.
He has largely refused to sign paperwork that immigrant crime victims need to apply for U visas, which allow some victims to stay in the country lawfully. As president of the Major County Sheriffs’ Assn., a national advocacy group, he has asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to share data with police so patrol officers can determine whether the person they stop may be in the country illegally.
Youngblood said his department began following the Trust Act last year on the advice of county attorneys. But he said he reserves the right to violate it.
“If ICE calls me and says, ‘You have someone there who has committed this heinous crime, and we really need you to hold them,’ I’m probably going to hold them,” he said.
Youngblood’s approach has been celebrated by those who believe, as he does, that Obama has been too lax on immigration enforcement.
And it has made him the target of activists who accuse him of setting his own immigration policy and of sowing fear among the estimated 66,000 immigrants in this rural county illegally.
“People are scared,” said Lorena Lara, an immigrant who was brought to the country illegally by her farmworker father and who now works for a community organizing group called Faith in Action Kern County. “They’re afraid to call the police because they think they might be deported.”
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The majority of Kern County residents are Latino, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that a Latino was elected to the Bakersfield City Council or the Kern County Board of Supervisors. (Political scientists point out that Latinos make up only about a third of registered voters and tend to turn out for elections at much lower rates than their white counterparts.)
Youngblood says his views are in line with the conservative voters who have put him in office three times since 2006. Their ideas about immigration and government couldn’t be more different than the electorate in Los Angeles, he added, even though Kern borders Los Angeles County.
“We are right-of-the-center on things,” he said. “I always say Kern is a county that ought to be in Arizona.”
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Tensions between law enforcement and immigrant laborers in this community go back decades, said Gonzalo Santos, a sociologist at Cal State Bakersfield. In the 1930s, sheriff’s officials deputized farm owners so they could use their badges to shut down labor protests, Santos said. Some farmworkers were killed.
Now the department is intervening in immigration matters, said Santos, who called Youngblood “a rogue sheriff.”
Youngblood argues that Brown and the Legislature were interfering when they passed the Trust Act. Conflicting state and federal mandates put sheriffs like him “in the crosshairs,” he said.
“It’s unfair, because the law is so unclear,” Youngblood said. “Really what we’re looking for is clear law, clear direction.” | positive |
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Cameron’s pledge to his Jewish friends: “An enemy of Israel is an enemy of mine. A threat to Israel is a threat to us all”
By Stuart Littlewood
Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist state the Jewish Chronicle (JC) can be relied on to make the most of it. This week it reports on UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s Chanucah/Hanukkah reception in Downing Street when he lit a menorah (that elegant nine-branch candlestick) with the chief rabbi.
According to the JC, Cameron took the opportunity to say he didn’t have much faith in the interim nuclear agreement struck with Iran. He told assembled Jewish leaders: “I know there will be great scepticism, I know there will be great worry. I share that scepticism, I share that worry. I don’t have any starry-eyed view of what this Iranian regime offers.”
He went on to announce: “I am with you and with the Israeli people, genuinely. As far as I’m concerned, an enemy of Israel is an enemy of mine. A threat to Israel is a threat to us all.
Cameron is a self-declared Zionist and, from his various remarks, thinks nothing of putting Israel’s interests, no matter how unlawful and menacing, ahead of the UK’s…
“I can promise you this: Britain will stand with Israel, Britain will support Israel, Britain will keep the pressure up on Iran. We do not want you to have a nuclear-armed near-neighbour, a nuclear threat facing your country… We share that feeling and show you our solidarity.”
Who on earth is he speaking for? Has he consulted the British people on this pledge of servitude to the criminal Zionist project? Was it in his election manifesto? This isn’t the first time Cameron has ‘mis-spoken’. He does it regularly.
And why has he got it in for Iran, which has no nuclear weapons and is no threat to us? Shouldn’t he instead be saying to Iran: “We share your anxiety about having a nuclear armed neighbour like Israel, with its 400 warheads, menacing your country. You have our solidarity.”
Cameron is a self-declared Zionist and, from his various remarks, thinks nothing of putting Israel’s interests, no matter how unlawful and menacing, ahead of the UK’s and allowing us to be drawn into conflict with Israel’s enemies such as Iran and Syria.
No respectable nation can operate a foreign policy on such a twisted basis. How many more of our young men have to shed blood, limbs and life to serve the foolish ambitions, ill-advised friendships and private commitments of our politicians?
Hysterical Iran-bashing
The ludicrous idea that Iran is the enemy was spouted several years ago by Liam Fox while shadow secretary of state for defence: “We must remember that in the battle for the values that we stand for – for democracy against theocracy, for democratic liberal values against repression – Israel’s enemies are our enemies and this is a battle in which we all stand together or we will all fall divided.” After Cameron appointed him defence secretary, Fox came to grief over the scandal of his close relationship with Adam Werritty, his so-called adviser. It was revealed that Werrity, among other misdeeds, had been involved in secret meetings with Mossad agents for the purpose of enlisting British support for an Israeli attack on Iran.
By no stretch of the imagination is Iran an enemy of the British people, but could soon be if Cameron and his foreign secretary, William Hague, persist with economic sanctions that needlessly hurt the Iranian people and inflict the kind of suffering heaped upon Iraq’s women and children for 12 years before we bombed them to hell and back. Is that what they are trying to engineer?
Israel, as people are beginning to realize, has a vast nuclear arsenal, won’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (but Iran has done so) and won’t submit to UN inspection and safeguards. Moreover Cameron is comfortable about rewarding Israel for its crimes against humanity. He even provides a safe haven for its criminals, contrary to the UK’s solemn obligation under the Geneva Conventions.
Israel flag waving
Pro-Israel politicians here still repeat the big lie that Iran threatened to wipe Israel off the map. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually said, rather poetically, that the regime in Jerusalem (i.e. the Zionist regime) must vanish from the page of time. As Western powers regularly use regime change as an excuse to make wa, either directly or by proxy, against any country they don’t like… why is Ahmadinejad’s remark so objectionable?
Cameron’s senior partner in the UK government’s hysterical Iran-bashing campaign, William Hague, has been an avid admirer of Israel since his schooldays. In 2011, in a keynote address on the theme “Sixty Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations”, Hague said the UK’s relationship with Israel went far beyond the realm of diplomatic relations. “It is based on bonds between families and communities as well as shared values and common interests… This government is firmly opposed to those who seek to deligitimize Israel, and… we are firmly opposed to boycotts…“
Is aiding and defending a belligerent foreign power, land thief and serial abuser of human rights a listed policy in the Conservative Party manifesto?
His speech included the usual attempt to demonize Iran. “Iran’s treatment of its own people, as well as its attitude to Israel and posturing in the region show that it would be a disaster to let Iran acquire nuclear weapons.” He omitted to mention the hundreds of nuclear warheads at the fingertips of Israel’s delinquent leaders. “Iran should therefore not doubt the resolve of the international community to address the concerns about its nuclear programme…
“I never forget,” said Hague, “that Israel is a country that has been repeatedly attacked through its brief history, that has been at war with all its neighbours for some of its history and with some of its neighbours for all of its history.”
And whose fault is that?
Is aiding and defending a belligerent foreign power, land thief and serial abuser of human rights a listed policy in the Conservative Party manifesto? No. It is a private agenda for which Hague and Cameron have no popular mandate. And is terrorizing Iranian civilians with economic ruination, just for the hell of it (or because Israel wants it), Conservative policy? Well, I suppose it must be, otherwise Hague and Cameron would have been slapped down.
A friend dubbed the pair “Agent” Cameron and “Agent” Hague and the names have stuck. We can see why. | positive |
SCOPe 2.04: Domain d4m2la3: 4m2l A:321-415 Toggle navigation Browse Stats & History Downloads ASTRAL Sequences & Subsets Parseable Files & Software Help Online Documentation References Related Resources Searching About Lineage for d4m2la3 (4m2l A:321-415) Root: SCOPe 2.04 Class b: All beta proteins [48724] (176 folds) Fold b.44: Elongation factor/aminomethyltransferase common domain [50464] (2 superfamilies) barrel, closed; n=6, S=10; greek-key Superfamily b.44.1: EF-Tu/eEF-1alpha/eIF2-gamma C-terminal domain [50465] (2 families) probably related to the second domain and its superfamiy by a circular permutation Family b.44.1.1: EF-Tu/eEF-1alpha/eIF2-gamma C-terminal domain [50466] (6 proteins) Protein Initiation factor eIF2 gamma subunit [74964] (3 species) Species Sulfolobus solfataricus [TaxId:2287] [141344] (10 PDB entries) Uniprot Q980A5 321-415 Domain d4m2la3: 4m2l A:321-415 [253737] Other proteins in same PDB: d4m2la1, d4m2la2 automated match to d2qn6a2 complexed with edo, po4, so4 Details for d4m2la3 PDB Entry: 4m2l (more details), 2.15 Å PDB Description: gamma subunit of the translation initiation factor 2 from sulfolobus solfataricus in nucleotide-free form PDB Compounds: (A:) Translation initiation factor 2 subunit gamma SCOPe Domain Sequences for d4m2la3: Sequence; same for both SEQRES and ATOM records: (download) | negative |
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Obsidius and Cybella glimpse into a moment in the Investigation’s recent history, perhaps revealing something that took place in hidden corners around the world following the Aegis Nova Anomaly in Tokyo. The purpose of their strange journey seems to be coming into focus for me.
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“What does it mean? Why these places? Why us?”
“Do not assume that those shown these things are those who are intended to understand them.”
“Then who is to understand it?”
“I am to interpret. You are to remember. Others are to understand.”
I did not have time to ponder Cybella’s cryptic wisdom, for in another fleeting moment, we stood in a dark space surrounded by a multitude of people dressed in garbs of green and blue.
The raven haired woman we had seen at the palace stood before the crowd and spoke. I did not understand her, and though she seemed angry, many cheered her words. Some did not. A group of men and women in blue began to quietly move away from the celebrating mass of people. “We are to follow them,” Cybella said.
They moved with purpose and determination, leading us through streets filled with light and color. Across time and space I had not yet seen such an amazing sight. Then, they descended beneath the street.
I saw now that these people had strange jewelry of intricate green, amber and black stone and fine silver upon their skin, on their arms, their torsos, their necks, their legs. The jewelry seemed to be woven into their very skin. For a moment, it seemed that this jewelry began to glow, then we were thrown into space and time once more. In the blur of images that passed, I thought I saw many other similar spaces. The men and women in blue. Their faces grim. Their jewelry aglow. | positive |
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Annatto – A Colourful Story – My Slice of Mexico My Slice of Mexico Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada Menu Home Cooking Recipes My Fusion Recipes Breakfast and Brunch Staples and Miscellaneous sauces and condiments Appetizers and Snacks Soups Salads and Sides Main Courses Desserts and Sweets Beverages Bread Irene’s Lab Gardening Backyard Stories (2021 – ) Backyard Stories (2018-2020) From Seed to Table Findings History Tidbits (March 2018-February 2022) History Tidbits (March 2022 – ) En Español (and more) English/Spanish Topics En Español (Febrero 2018-Diciembre 2020) EN ESPAÑOL (ENERO -DICIEMBRE 2021) EN ESPAÑOL (ENERO 2022 – ) About Contact Ingredients, Regional Cuisine Annatto – A Colourful Story December 2, 2018 December 2, 2018 by Irene Annatto is a natural colorant and seasoning extracted from the dried seeds of an evergreen shrub, believed to have originated in the Brazilian Amazon, and then spread and developed as a crop up North, all the way to Southern Mexico (including Tabasco.) The Maya called it Kiwi’ but the Spaniards named it achiote, from the Nahuatl word axiotl. Annatto is the most common name around the world, adopted from a Carib language, while the plant’s scientific name, Bixa orellana comes from the word bija, or biché, another name given by Carib indigenous people, and after Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer of the Amazon river. In pre-Hispanic times, annatto was mostly used as a dye for food, skin, fabrics and, along with cochineal, it was also used for manuscript painting, at least up to the sixteenth century. It is also documented that the Maya added annatto to their kakaw (cacao) drinks, practice that was followed by the Aztecs in their chocolatl, or cacahuatl (cacao water), and also by the Spaniards, who brought it to Europe, and continued to sing the praises and consume their annatto-tinted chocolate way into the 17th century (Red Velvet hot chocolate, anyone?) Spanish merchants introduced annatto to the Philippines (envelope of annatto powder from the Philippines, photo right), and from there, it quickly spread to Europe and the rest of Asia. For example, annatto has been a traditional colorant for Gloucester cheese since the 16th century; it was first added during the cold season, to simulate the natural carotene content in milk from the pasture eaten by the cows during the summer months. The trick later spread as a year-round practice, and also to other cheeses, such as Cheddar made in Scotland, and American cheese slices. Nowadays, annatto is still used as a dye in many cosmetics, but especially as a natural food colorant. In addition to cheese, as seen on the photo at the top of the post, annatto may be found in baked goods, such as Gold Fish™ (AKA “fishy crackers”), and in Yucatan’s famous “recado rojo”, a red condiment prepared with annatto (achiote), herbs and spices, which is diluted in sour orange juice to use as a meat rub. The bright, almost radioactive, colour of annatto makes it more popular as a colorant, relative to its uses as a seasoning; however, when combined with other spices and herbs, annatto’s notes of nutmeg and pepper can become an exhilarating experience for the taste buds. The tabasqueña (from Tabasco) cuisine applies the use of annatto/achiote as a distinct condiment in many dishes, while providing an attractive orangey tint; one colourful example is the dough and filling of one of the many traditional tamales tabasqueños, called Chanchamitos: The recipe is not complicated, but requires several steps, so I will talk about the process, step by step, in my next post. Share this: Twitter Facebook Pinterest Like this: Like Loading... Related Achiote Annatto “Ragtag Daily Prompt” FOWC with Fandango Scotts Daily Prompt Tabasco Word of the day challenge Your Daily Word Prompt Post navigation Tabasco – Cultural and Culinary Cradle Chanchamitos – Tamales from Tabasco 19 thoughts on “Annatto – A Colourful Story” sgeoil says: December 2, 2018 at 9:55 am Interesting, I just learned something new. Thanks! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Irene says: December 2, 2018 at 1:46 pm Thanks for your kind comment! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply sgeoil says: December 2, 2018 at 2:56 pm You are welcome! LikeLiked by 1 person Anna of Stuffedveggies says: December 2, 2018 at 10:18 am Fascinating! Thanks for a cool post. It’s good to learn a little something : ) LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Irene says: December 2, 2018 at 1:47 pm I am glad you liked it, Anna! LikeLike Reply chef mimi says: December 3, 2018 at 10:02 am Great post! I have used annato a lot in cooking, and sometimes I just crush it and add it to oil. It creates such a beautiful color! LikeLike Reply Irene says: December 3, 2018 at 2:51 pm I bet it does! I have never seen the seeds, just the powder and the prepared “recado rojo” paste. I am posting the recipe for the tamales soon; they sure are beautifully coloured, too! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply StefanGourmet says: December 4, 2018 at 2:57 am Your posts are all so interesting! The only information we get here about Mexico is about drug kartels and Trump’s wall. I love Mexican food but my husband refuses to go on vacation there, and Mexican restaurants are not very authentic. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Irene says: December 4, 2018 at 10:11 am I get very concerned about the situation in Mexico, too; that was one of the reasons to start my blog, to turn some attention to Mexico’s culture and some good news (like the trade deal and new president). I think it is ok to travel to Mexico, as long as you do your research of the places you would like to visit; I understand your husband’s apprehension, maybe you could get him to read my blog ;). It means a lot to me to learn that my posts are of interest; thank you so much for your kind comment, Stefan! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Sheryl says: December 4, 2018 at 7:02 am Neat, I learned something new, thanks for sharing. LikeLike Reply Irene says: December 4, 2018 at 10:12 am I am glad you liked it Sheryl! 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The government said late Friday that Mr. Guzmán had been planning a movie about his life and that his people had been in contact with actors and producers, which had allowed the authorities to track him down. It said that the authorities had been watching a home in Los Mochis for more than a month when law enforcement officers finally saw movement on Thursday. Officials said that during the ensuing raid, Mr. Guzmán managed to slip away through the sewers, and then he surfaced, stole a car and was apprehended. The authorities took him to a hotel to wait for backup.
The capture of the drug lord concludes a deeply embarrassing chapter for the government of Mr. Peña Nieto, which has been waylaid by a series of security and corruption scandals that reached their low point with Mr. Guzmán’s daring escape.
Now, a looming question is whether the Mexican authorities will try to hold Mr. Guzmán for a third time — he has already escaped from prison twice — or whether they will hand him over to the Americans.
Mexican officials are busily debating the issue. Some are arguing for a “fast-track” extradition that could put him in the United States quickly, while others want to continue a previous process that could take months, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. Mr. Guzmán, the head of Mexico’s most powerful cartel, is facing indictments in at least seven American federal courts on charges that include narcotics trafficking and murder.
With operations that span much of Mexico, his organization has specialized in smuggling tons of drugs into the United States through vast networks of tunnels deep beneath the border. His success has made him among the richest drug dealers in history: Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at close to $1 billion. | positive |
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After Sunday’s season finale against the Cowboys finished up, head coach Doug Pederson revealed a little bit of news.
He’ll be calling the offensive plays again in 2017.
“I will, yes,” he said. “I will for sure.”
This past season was the first for Pederson as a full-time play-caller. He was given some play-calling responsibility in Kansas City in 2015 with Andy Reid, but wasn’t the only guy. In his first year as head coach, it was pretty much all on him, although he made sure to point out on Sunday that he had plenty of help.
And before the season started, Pederson changed his first convoluted system for getting the play calls into Wentz, which would have gone from him to offensive coordinator Frank Reich and then to Wentz. Pederson was confused by the number of channels he would be allowed on his headset.
Once he was set straight, Pederson streamlined the process and called the plays directly into Wentz himself, which seemed to work. That’s the way the Eagles plan on doing things going forward.
Wentz thought Pederson’s play-calling and his approach to play-calling was similar all year. But that wasn’t what he really liked about Pederson’s play-calling.
“One thing I always appreciated with Coach Pederson was he valued my input, even as a rookie,” Wentz said. “He valued my opinion on things. I thought that was awesome, I thought that was awesome for me. And I thought he did a good job.”
While Wentz thought Pederson did a good job calling the plays during the 2016 season, fans weren’t so forgiving. At times, Pederson’s calls were brought into question.
But he was pretty consistent throughout the year, remaining very aggressive.
“Again, as I mentioned during the week, I'll evaluate my play-calling,” Pederson said Sunday. “I've got to balance between managing the game offense, defense, special teams to actually calling the offense. I get a lot of help. It's not like I'm doing this by myself. Frank has done a great job with me. He's constantly in my ear. He's constantly throwing ideas.
“(Offensive line coach) Jeff Stoutland is constantly throwing the run game at me, so it's not like I'm doing this by myself. I've got a great staff on offense, and we're constantly dialoguing. Even though I'm the one calling the actual play, there's a lot of dialogue on the sideline as to what we need to be calling.” | positive |
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The Republican Loser Mentality
RUSH: We start with the phones now in Detroit. This is Timothy. I’m glad you called, sir. You’re up first. Welcome.
CALLER: Mega dittos from the highest auto insurance state in the country.
RUSH: What a thing to be known for.
CALLER: I know. So the Democrats are much better losers than we are, and they’re much better winners. We seem to take this moral high ground like Dana Perino, George W. Bush. Why is that, Rush? Why can’t we —
RUSH: What do you mean, we take the moral high ground when we win like Dana Perino or George W. Bush? What do you mean?
CALLER: Well, let’s fund Planned Parenthood. Let’s not get money for concrete to build the wall.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: Let’s give in. I love that Senator Kennedy yesterday. I want more of him. I want to go after the jugular. I want to take these people down. Rush, your last segment —
RUSH: Let me tell you about Senator Kennedy. Senator Kennedy is from Louisiana. His name is John Neely. (laughing) Look at everybody on the other side of the glass. “Senator Kennedy? John Kennedy? No, no, no. What are we talking about?” It’s Senator John Neely Kennedy, from Louisiana, and he just nailed Yates. “Who appointed you to Supreme Court?” he said, after she offered her interpretation as an acting attorney general to Trump’s executive order. “Who made you a Supreme Court justice?” He was fearless on that. Your question basically is why do we not act like we win after we win, right?
CALLER: Yes. One last thing if I may, Rush.
RUSH: Of course, you may.
CALLER: You have always taught us, the liberals project onto us what they are.
RUSH: Right. That’s true.
CALLER: And what they’re doing is they’re projecting on the Russians what they’re doing. They’re trying to blackmail Trump. They’re trying to compromise,. But they’re blaming the Russians. Just to get money. It’s all about donations.
RUSH: What do you mean they’re trying to blackmail Trump?
CALLER: Well, with all the unmasking, who knows what they know, Rush!
RUSH: You mean they’re threatening Trump?
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: Right. Look, let’s go back to your first question. This is a question that everybody has asked me over the years. I have a bunch of different answers. Take your pick. I don’t think there’s one catch-all answer to explain this. It is a phenomenon. The Republicans win and they almost sometimes act ashamed of it or guilty of it. Here’s one explanation, and I think it’s got some validity to it. It doesn’t explain it all, and it’s an analogy. The Republicans… Let’s look at the House of Representatives.
For 40 years prior to 1994… So you’d have to go back to 1954. From 1954 to 1994, the Democrat Party controlled the House of Representatives. The Republicans won with Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America in the ’94 campaign. One of my theories is that after 40 years of losing — and, believe me, they weren’t just defeated. In some cases, the Republicans barely were able to scratch 130 members together out of 435 in the House. They were mincemeat.
The Democrats, in many sessions of Congress, didn’t even let them into meetings. The Democrats said, “Look, why are you even showing up? You can’t stop us. We don’t care what you have to think. Go play golf.” The leader of the Republicans for many of these years, not all, was a guy named Bob Michel. He was the ranking Republican in the House. He was from Illinois, Peoria. He, after a while, seemed to be satisfied with being the ranking Republican. He was the leader of the losers.
It had its power base. It had its prestige. He was the leader. You could not say that they were the minority because of him, because he was from Peoria. He never ran nationally. So the Republicans began to accept that they were losers. They began to accept that. Forty years of it, for crying out loud — and then one day, they won. I know this is going back to nineties. It’s one of my answers to your question. I think it’s — psychologically — a challenge.
After 40 years of being not just a loser, but an invisible, made fun of, not even taken serious loser, and the next day you’re the winner? Psychologically, how do you make that transition? How do you go from being irrelevant, laughed at, and mocked to overnight becoming the center of power. When you have no experience with it; you never expected that it would happen. And, like, I spoke to the freshman class in 1994. I was made an honorary member of that class, and they had their orientation at Camden Yards.
I went and spoke to ’em, and I said, “Here’s what you people have got to remember.” Remember, now, this was the freshman orientation. It was not the whole House. It was just the freshman class. It was like 56 of ’em, I think. It was a huge number of ’em. I said, “You’ve got to remember, the media is not going to start treating you as winners. They’re not gonna start treating you as the people running the show.
“They’re going to be angry at you that you had the audacity to win, and they’re always gonna be going to Democrats for reaction to what you’re doing. You’re not gonna get a fair shake. They don’t like you. They resent you winning. They’re not gonna treat you as winners. Do not fall for any of these female reporters batting their eyes, wanting to do profiles. All they want to do is get the Democrats back in power.”
There was a press contingent, and a couple of female reporters — one from the Washington Post and one from the New York Times — came up to me after my speech, “Do you really mean all that BS you just said?” “Hell, yes, I meant it!” I’d already taken my seat back at the table. “Do you really mean that?” “Hell, yes, I mean it! I just hope they heard it! ‘Cause it was damn well true.” And they were never treated by winners. That’s part of the answer out there, Timothy, and even today they’re not treated like winners.
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RUSH: It was true in 1995 is true today: Republicans win the White House, the House and the Senate, and the media’s treating it as illegitimate, as a fraud, as the result of cheating and collusion with the Russians and illegitimate. Nothing changes. | positive |
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The place was called La Bonne Vie, and it couldn’t have been more aptly named. It was a red-tile-topped Spanish Revival building, washed a pale conch-shell pink, set amid leggy palms and glossy hibiscus bushes. I can still smell its hallways: a leisurely cocktail of sunshine, salt air, chlorine and Hawaiian Tropic. My grandmother was not what anyone could have called tender-hearted. She was quick with back-handed compliments and rigid in her political views and in her hairstyle, which she routinely disciplined into a silver crown. If trade winds could tousle the Atlantic Ocean, they failed to move my grandmother’s hair. She was, however, moved to laughter by The Golden Girls. After an early-bird dinner, usually booked so early that calling it “dinner” flirted with farce, we’d head back to her condo to catch an episode of the GGs. In my all-time favourite episode, Rose and Dorothy compose a jingle about Miami: “Miami, Miami, you’ve got style. Blue sky, sunshine, white sand by the mile. When you live in this town, each day is sublime. The coldest of winters are warm and divine.” Nothing felt as doubly escapist and enjoyable as hearing Bea Arthur hurling insults in her brassy contralto to the soundtrack of a crashing Atlantic. It occurred to me then, as it still does now, that watching The Golden Girls in Florida was deep pleasure; nothing felt as doubly escapist and enjoyable as hearing Bea Arthur hurling insults in her brassy contralto to the soundtrack of a crashing Atlantic. For decades, I tied up Miami with The Golden Girls, a place conjuring friendships, and lanais and wicker, and cheesecake-fuelled wit. But then, sometime in the aughts, the city traded its early-bird dinners and Dorothy Zbornak-style blazers for Lucite stilettos and tequila poppers, as Miami’s South Beach started pulsing with louche nightclubs and seaminess. In 2010, MTV’s reality show Jersey Shore moved to SoBe, helping to gel the city’s reputation as a capital for the tawny and tawdry. If the city has alternately been known as a party capital, “God’s waiting room,” and a place for “newlyweds and nearly deads,” it has, in the past 20 years, rebranded itself as a design capital, a food capital and an art capital (thanks to Art Basel Miami Beach’s inception in 2002). It is, as it were, forever re-writing its own jingle. One thing Miami has never really pulled off, however, is a reputation as a family-travel capital. I decided to challenge this notion this spring. After two and a half years of COVID, Florida was the first place I travelled to with my husband and my 7-year-old son, Leo. Homes in Coral Gables have the lived-in, loved-in look of relics from the past. Photo: Getty Images We checked into the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, where a silvery, sun-polished sea spread out like a shimmering serving platter. The hotel was packed with families dressed in Lilly Pulitzer dresses and Vilebrequin swimwear, talking about lacrosse schedules over quesadillas. Conversation at our table turned to a different subject. “Why are there so many…people here?” Leo asked, pausing searchingly before saying people as if the word itself was foreign. With at least a third of his life shaped by COVID, crowds had become as exotic to him—and frankly, to us—as palm trees. We decided to take a mini vacation from our vacation to explore Coral Gables, a city just south of Miami, founded by visionary developer George Merrick during the 1920s Florida land boom. Merrick had inherited citrus groves from his father, a New England minister turned Florida guava grower, and resolved to turn the land into his dream Spanish Mediterranean town. We drove through Coral Way, the city’s most fantastical thoroughfare, where witchy hundred-year-old oak trees line the sidewalks, their moss-bearded, tentacle-like branches forming an emerald canopy. Peacocks roamed freely about front lawns, like house pets in front of extravagantly unkempt, Mediterranean Revival–style pastel-stucco manses, all woozy heat, decadence and decay. Even the lifeguards looked like extras from a 1940s Judy Garland movie, like they might leave their tower at any moment to break into song and a foxtrot. Merrick, also a poet, once wrote of his fantasy city, as if summoning his Floridian Kubla Khan: “I dream of the home of Fairies and Fays / On the isles of the calm southern sky / Of the fanciful turrets and towers ablaze / In the flood of the rays from on high…” One still gets the impression here of having time-travelled into someone else’s opium dream. We stopped at the Gables’ Venetian Pool to cool off. This gigantic freshwater lagoon was built in 1924 from a four-acre coral-rock quarry, and is mapped with a faux-Italian castle, vine-covered loggias, diving cliffs, waterfalls, grottos and striped lampposts. Even the lifeguards looked like extras from a 1940s Judy Garland movie, like they might leave their tower at any moment to break into song and a foxtrot. The allusion to Hollywood musicals isn’t totally far-fetched: Judy Garland and Ginger Rogers often visited the Gables, and were habitués of the city’s Biltmore Hotel, built in 1926 by the same design team behind New York’s Grand Central Station. For us, the Venetian, to our despair, also involved reality: We were denied entry as we (apparently) needed advance tickets (which we didn’t have). We stared through the wrought-iron gates at the happy swimmers with longing. The Venetian pool, circa 1960. Photo: Getty Images It occurred to me that here, longing is not only the mood, but also the point and the allure. The vibe is more Sofia Coppola than, say, Sophia Petrillo. And as it happens, longing, along with nostalgia and melancholy, has never been more of the moment. If travel is about longing, in its escapism and dream fulfillment, there are also those places, like Coral Gables—broken-down relics of a more fanciful past—that exude longing itself. “This is the best neighbourhood in all of Florida,” our exceedingly charming waiter, Ariel Flores, tells us at Mamey Miami, chef Niven Patel’s exceptional, two-year-old Caribbean-influenced restaurant in Coral Gables. “This neighbourhood is luxurious but totally unpretentious. And the way the trees line the streets and meet in the middle to embrace—that is magic.” The residential area’s lushness and sense of community is what incited chef Patel to open Mamey (named after a Latin American fruit) here. The restaurant is a valentine to the flavours brought to Miami by its Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. In a salad starring Hawaiian heart of palm, the marquee ingredient is (amazingly) overnighted here twice weekly from the island. And the Florida Keys wahoo ceviche, dressed with house-made coconut leche de tigre and cachucha peppers, is a dish I may well be thinking about—longing for—for years. If Patel’s creations are as lush and bright and richly perfumed as the island nations that inspired them, they are also, it occurs to me, as imaginative, personal and poetic as Merrick’s long-ago dream for Coral Gables. Much of the restaurant’s produce hails from Patel’s nearby farm, Rancho Patel, where he grows exotica—makrut lime, jackfruit, mamey, cucamelons, seedless white Thai guava—that thrives in Florida’s heat. Though you don’t need to visit Rancho Patel to pick produce. “You can go to a local park, pick chanterelle mushrooms and incorporate them into a meal,” says Patel. “In Coral Gables, we are swimming in mangoes during the summer,” he adds. “Everyone has a tree and is giving mangos to friends and family, trading different varieties.” I now also long to come back in the pulpy heat of a Miami summer. 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Robert Downey Jr has confirmed that Sherlock Holmes 3 is in development.
During a question and answer session on Reddit, the actor revealed that the third instalment in Guy Richie's series is now in the works, following the 2011 release of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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North Korea held a memorial service on Saturday on the fifth anniversary of the death of its second leader, Kim Jong Il, with a senior official calling for the same type of allegiance to the current regime under his son.
Leader Kim Jong Un and numerous senior officials attended the service outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, where the embalmed bodies of the state’s two previous leaders — his grandfather and father — lie in state.
Choe Ryong Hae, a vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party, delivered an address in which he praised Kim Jong Il’s contributions to the country and urged that all continue to be loyal to the third leader.
Kim Jong Un, whose father died of a heart attack on Dec. 17, 2011, at age 69, made no remarks during the service.
Sirens sounded across the North Korean capital at noon, and citizens observed three minutes of silence. | positive |
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Obsidian's much anticipated Fallout spin-off, Fallout: New Vegas, is only a handful of months away from its general release now - after all, it is June already... oh my, where does time go!? With the title already confirmed to be playable for show attendees later on this month at the industry's most lavish trade show, E3, we caught up with Project Director, Josh Sawyer, to talk about all things New Vegas where we left no stone unturned. Yes, no stone. Having seen the title in France at Bethesda's Gamers' Day recently, we had many burning questions. Yes, many.
It seems that Obsidian have a knack for taking on sequels from other developers and putting their own spin on them, resulting in some great experiences. Why do you think that works?
Many Obsidian developers have been creating RPGs for over a decade, going all the way back to Black Isle. We're used to using other developers' technology to create RPGs, so it's easy for us to adapt to another company's content development pipeline. We generally try to focus on incrementally improving the game play and providing Obsidian-style content.
Is it something that you think should happen more often in the industry? Obviously, you guys have proved it’s possible to make successful games out of it.
If you have access to solid technology and a good working relationship with the tech's developer, go for it. Working on an established tech platform saves a lot of time.
So we have a new setting, new story, new everything in Fallout: New Vegas. Can you tell us a bit more why you chose “New Vegas” and how the wastelands in your title will differ to Fallout 3’s?
In many ways, Las Vegas is the opposite of Washington D.C. When many people think of Washington D.C., they think of traditional American virtues and the history of our young country. It's full of the enduring monuments of our nation. In contrast, Las Vegas is a city that appeals to contemporary American vices. It continually re-invents itself, destroying landmarks and creating new ones every few years.
The Mojave Wasteland itself is also quite different from the Capital Wasteland. The Mojave Wasteland in the game did not suffer as badly as the Capital Wasteland when the bombs were dropped. It has bright blue skies, sprawling warm deserts, Joshua trees, tumbleweeds. All the good stuff.
In many ways, Las Vegas is the opposite of Washington D.C. When many people think of Washington D.C., they think of traditional American virtues and the history of our young country. It's full of the enduring monuments of our nation. In contrast, Las Vegas is a city that appeals to contemporary American vices. It continually re-invents itself, destroying landmarks and creating new ones every few years.The Mojave Wasteland itself is also quite different from the Capital Wasteland. The Mojave Wasteland in the game did not suffer as badly as the Capital Wasteland when the bombs were dropped. It has bright blue skies, sprawling warm deserts, Joshua trees, tumbleweeds. All the good stuff.
The wastelands in Fallout 3 were a pain to travel sometimes, especially when you were travelling to a new place for the first time, can we expect anything to help us get there quicker? A penny farthing... or a skateboard for example? Maybe a jet-pack.. okay, no... but something else?
Nope. We believe that the initial journey is part of the fun of the game. If you could skip that, it would detract from exploration tremendously.
Are there any nods to Fallout 3 in New Vegas, crossovers maybe where fans will go “holy crap, I remember that from Fallout 3!?”
There are a few small references here and there, but New Vegas is its own story.
From what we’ve seen so far, the engine looks untouched from a visual standpoint. Is there anything you’re trying to do to make New Vegas a better visual package from Fallout 3 or is it more of the “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it” mantra? I see we have blue skies now!
We did not want to delve too deeply into the rendering technology because of the relatively short development cycle. One element that we have changed is how the level of detail system works for distant objects. Specifically, they can now support material shaders, including emissives. We also implemented an "imposter" system that allows us to more convincingly represent distant buildings and effects. This was important for us because light pollution from casinos is such an important element of seeing Vegas from the desert.
There are a few small references here and there, but New Vegas is its own story.We did not want to delve too deeply into the rendering technology because of the relatively short development cycle. One element that we have changed is how the level of detail system works for distant objects. Specifically, they can now support material shaders, including emissives. We also implemented an "imposter" system that allows us to more convincingly represent distant buildings and effects. This was important for us because light pollution from casinos is such an important element of seeing Vegas from the desert.
Is there anything you’ve taken out the engine for the simple reason it didn’t work? Or is it Fallout 3’s engine in its entirety and then some?
There are some behind-the-scenes formulae used for weapon condition that we changed to help normalize the progression of weapons, but for the most part we've just tried to build on the engine.
Obviously one of the biggest game changers in New Vegas is the new reputation system. Can you tell us a little bit how it will work and what it will bring to the experience?
Each community and organization in Fallout: New Vegas has its own reputation tracker for the player. As people in the community or organization take note of good or bad things the player does, the player gains positive or negative reputation. Based on that reputation, people in the community will treat you differently.
In some cases, you may receive some benefits or suffer some penalties for the reputation you build with a group. It's also possible to have a mixed reputation, which has its own consequences. Certain characters, especially misfits in a group, tend to treat the player better if he or she has built up a mixed reputation.
Each community and organization in Fallout: New Vegas has its own reputation tracker for the player. As people in the community or organization take note of good or bad things the player does, the player gains positive or negative reputation. Based on that reputation, people in the community will treat you differently.In some cases, you may receive some benefits or suffer some penalties for the reputation you build with a group. It's also possible to have a mixed reputation, which has its own consequences. Certain characters, especially misfits in a group, tend to treat the player better if he or she has built up a mixed reputation.
The weapon customisation system is new as well we assume, can you tell us a little about that and what sort of advantages players will be able to take from this? Can we expect to be making a number of wacky contraptions?
We've tried to avoid wacky contraptions for the most part. In the Fallout universe, the western portion of the United States is a lot more industrialized and generally "with it" than the east. As a result, most of the mods are of the traditional variety.
We have a large number of traditional firearms in the game and there are a lot of mods for those weapons: extended magazines for pistols, larger ammunition drums for submachine guns, custom high-speed actions for lever action rifles, silencers, suppressors, and so on. We also have mods for energy weapons and explosives, like focus optics for the laser rifle (increases damage), and the "Little Boy" kit for the Fat Man, which drastically reduces its weight.
You’ve also spiced up the melee system with the alternate attacks, an example of which is the “Fore!” move for the golf club. Can we expect to see some artistic license taken with these? If you had to pick one, what would be your favourite?
The special melee attacks are all meant to be a bit exaggerated and fantastic in nature to set them apart from the standard moves. My favorite move is probably Mauler, used by sledges and super sledges. It's a really tremendous swing and does a lot of damage.
There seems to be any number of new partner characters this time around. Have you placed added emphasis on this aspect? Ultimately, do you think that maybe co-op in a game like Fallout could work in the future? It seems like with these partnerships, that co-op is the next evolution. If so, do you think co-op in an RPG could work? Or is it all about the single player experience?
Co-op certainly can work in RPGs, but I think one of the main staples of the Fallout experience is that it is primarily driven by the player's character. While companions have also always been part of the experience, their presence is purely optional. It's only in the spin-off games (Brotherhood of Steel, Tactics) that multiplayer has been a focus.
What else have you added to New Vegas gameplay wise that will add to the experience, other than the reputation system and the weapon customisation?
A ton of stuff, honestly. We've changed the SPECIAL system so the ability scores have more impact on your character. As an example, weapons now have Strength requirements. If you don't meet the weapon's requirements, your aim will suffer (for firearms) or it will attack more slowly (if a melee or unarmed weapon). Strength also affects how far you can throw weapons like grenades. On the more "cerebral" side of things, Charisma affects a statistic called Nerve that is applied to companions as a combat bonus.
We created a new crafting interface for the game that is quite extensive. Initially it was only going to apply to the Survival skill, but we expanded it to use a variety of skills at different locations. Crafting ranges from cooking raw meat into steak at a campfire to hand loading custom ammunition from spent shell casings at a reloading bench. I think people will really enjoy it.
Can you tell us a bit about hardcore mode and how insane it’s going to be... Is it really that hardcore?
I don't think it's really about being insanely difficult as much as it is about adding some more tactical and strategic elements to the core gameplay. Healing over time makes a significant difference in how combat feels, since a last-second stimpak probably isn't going to save you if you get in over your head. The other changes, namely weighted ammunition and the new survival elements such as dehydration, require the player to manage their inventory more carefully.
If you thought Fallout 3 was difficult, you will probably find Hardcore Mode to be appropriately-named. For me, Hardcore Mode is just the way I play the game. I'm sure that PC modders will very quickly add even more levels of challenge on top of Hardcore Mode as well.
We understand that a few of the guys at the studio also worked on Van Buren – the could have been Fallout 3 game – what came of that in the end? Have you taken anything across from that development in to this one?
Like most cancelled projects, the assets and documents went on a drive somewhere and collected dust in the "could have been" vault. We have carried some of the ideas from Van Buren into New Vegas. Primarily, the use of Caesar's Legion as a looming threat in the region, though it is much more present in New Vegas than it was in Van Buren. Most of the other similarities lie in bringing back regional power players from previous games: the New California Republic, Gun Runners, Crimson Caravan, Followers of the Apocalypse, and so on.
Fallout 3 was a very well supported game post-release, some say the best supported console video game quite possibly ever (I say that by the way), are there any plans in place for the same to happen with New Vegas? The engine has proved it’s robust enough to do that.
We know that Fallout 3's DLC packages were very popular, but it's too early to talk about that for Fallout: New Vegas.
And Fallout: New Vegas is penned for a fall release. Are you on schedule to hit that? Have you pinpointed a month yet?
We are still on track for fall of 2010. | positive |
The Colony takes place on a very... very messed up Earth. We humans have a lot to learn when it comes to taking care of our planet. What's scary about this book is this could all actually happen in the future.
Ben, aka Bumble, has the personality of many typical teenagers, except he isn't a teenager. In fact, none of the teens are. Complicated, but its explained in the beginning. Being stuck where they are, makes you wish you could save all of them. These teens are meant to be tough. Ben just happens to be, umm... at the bottom of the list. Well, in this kind of environment, they should be. He has his brains, but his body is lacking in strength. Throw a rock at this guy and he will most likely break. His close friend Frank on the other hand might as well be called The Hulk. He's the type of guy you want on your team.
If you are a fan of Divergent, The Hunger Games, or The Maze Runner, you will most likely like this novella. I enjoyed the read. Though, at the same time I also questioned what audience this series is trying to appeal to. Obviously the Sci-fi and Fantasy types. I'm assuming its also a YA. Other than a few swear words here and there, the story will need to involve breeding. The first book included no such scenes, but rather hinted at it. Makes me question what book two will involve. How much breeding will there be?! Maybe none. Ben being Ben... I may have nothing to worry about, LOL.
The Colony will surprise you with how harsh Earth can be in their world. There were many times where I thought things would be fine and dandy. Not sure why I expected this. Only to be hit with a 'NOPE THERE WILL BE NO PEACE!' The book has its dark moments, that's for sure. Nothing too extreme though. But poor Ben. He's the type of guy who should be inside playing his videogames.
The author had stated that the story had originally planned on being only 2000-3000 words long. Instead he made the goal of 30,000. Quite impressive, and shows he really enjoyed writing it. I'm hoping there will be a book two, since it opens up for lots of opportunities, and hopefully we will learn what happens to our walking toothpick called Ben. | positive |
When Rebecca Alexander was in college, she was told that she would be completely blind and deaf by the time she turned 30 – and her world went black.
One winter morning in 1999, the then 19-year-old University of Michigan student, who was majoring in American Culture, woke up to ringing in her ears that sounded like she had just left a rock concert.
After two weeks and no improvement, she knew something was seriously wrong and decided it was time to go to the doctor.
“I went to the doctor at school and was told I had Usher syndrome,” Alexander, now a psychotherapist in New York City, tells PEOPLE. “I was going blind and deaf.”
Although shocked and devastated to learn she had a condition that affects both hearing and vision, this wasn’t the first time Alexander had received a heartbreaking diagnosis.
When Alexander was 12, she had trouble seeing words on her classroom’s blackboard, and after numerous eye tests, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that leads to blindness.
“But here I was in college, finding out that I also was going deaf,” she says. “It was pretty startling. If I had known then how hard it would be now, I would have rather wanted to die.”
Rebecca Alexander at 16 years old with her twin brother, Andrew Rebecca Alexander
After reeling with her prognosis, she says she developed an eating disorder. “I was being told about these two things that were totally out of my control, so I tried to find something I could control,” she says.
Finding the Light
Throughout her 20s, Alexander thought she only had a few years left to see and hear the world, but now, at 36 years old, she isn’t living in the dark.
But her condition has left her with serious side effects. While most people can see 180 degrees when they look ahead, she can see a mere 10.
“People say, “Oh my God, you can only see 10 degrees,” and I say, “Oh my God, I can’t believe I still have 10 degrees of vision. I am very happy.”
Still, she hasn’t let her medical condition keep her from attacking life head on.
“In our 20s, we are just trying to figure ourselves out. We are figuring out life, we are dating, trying to be active and really just trying to understand who we are and where our lives are going,” she says. “I didn’t really have the mindfulness with my body at that time.”
Alexander moved to New York, got two masters degrees from Columbia University and started competing in extreme athletic races.
She even drove herself to her first mobility training session on how to use a cane. After the lesson, she threw it in her junk drawer. But then one night, five years ago, she walked straight into a steel door on her way home from work.
“It was very scary,” she says. “I walked right into it as if nothing was in front of me.”
The cane then came out the drawer.
“The first six, seven, eight, nine times that I used it, I would cross the street crying,” says Alexander. “But the only way that I could really accept or come to terms with it was by actually going through the experience of loss and feeling exposed and so vulnerable.”
Looking Forward
Alexander wants people to know that this is what disability can look like.
She’s noticed people staring at her as she walks with a cane. And she proudly exposes her cochlear implant in her right ear, which has improved her hearing from 26 percent to around 94 percent.
“It can be a little surreal, but I want to be out there,” says Alexander, who also wrote a memoir about her journey titled, Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found, which is being released in paperback on Sept. 15.
Alexander wakes up early every morning, takes her miniature goldendoodle to Central Park, works out and sees her patients from around noon to 9:30 p.m.
“It’s a long day,” she says, laughing. “And then I do it all over again.”
The Hike of Her Life
Now that Alexander had overcome such amazing odds, she was ready for her next big challenge.
“I always wanted to do a big hike, and my stepmom and I have been talking about doing this hike for a long time until we finally decided it’s now or never,” she says about her decision to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Alexander grew up near Yosemite and hiking was a big part of her life as a kid.
So on July 11, Alexander, along with her stepmom and sister, left for their epic trip that she calls “the hardest thing I have ever done.”
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Rebecca Alexander and her family climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Rebecca Alexander
Even though she couldn’t see her feet in front of her, Alexander trekked for eight long days. And she had the full experience – no bathing, sleeping in a tent in five-degree weather and even having her implant run out of batteries almost every hour.
“It was challenging, but it made me that much more eager to do it,” she says. “I didn t want to feel like this was the only reason I wouldn t be able to climb it.”
After climbing Africa’s highest peak, Alexander came back down with so much pride.
Rebecca Alexander climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Rebecca Alexander
“You feel really miserable throughout a lot of the hike,” she says. “There is no way to prepare for it. That made me realize that we live with so much discomfort in our lives, and for some reason, when we feel uncomfortable, we feel like we are not going to get through it, and we can’t see what the other side will look like.
“The most memorable things I have done are not the things I loved – they have really been the things I have struggled through.”
Rebecca Alexander and her older brother, journalist Peter Alexander, at a charity event for Starkley So the World May Hear Foundation Rebecca Alexander
“Life is very much about struggling and being challenged and not necessarily being certain of how you’re going to get to where it is that you want to go,” she adds. “It’s about having to trust that you can get there as long as you can take it step by step.
“We have a tendency to really live in the black and white, good or bad, right or wrong – and life isn’t like that. Life is very gray. Life is very uncertain. My life is certainly uncertain. It’s amazing what we think we are not capable of doing.” | positive |
"VR Superstar, that is what you are / Comin from afar, reachin' for the stars" -Mya, VR Superstar
During an event at the West Hollywood House of Blues last night, Starbreeze Studios unveiled StarVR, their new virtual reality headset, alongside a new Walking Dead game being developed by Overkill (developers of the Payday series.) StarVR joins an ever growing catalog of virtual reality devices.So how does Starbreeze hope to differentiate the device from Oculus Rift, Morpheus, and its other competitors?
Well, first, StarVR is angling to be a "high end" VR solution. And there's no debating the thing's power. StarVR's website is filled with comparison to "other" VR devices, and I'd be lying if I said that the headset's specs weren't impressive: 210 Vertical FOV, 130 Horizontal FOV, dual 5.5 inch LCD panels, 360 degree headtracking, and a massive 5120x1440 resolution. Now, I'm not sure that I'm in the right income bracket to be able to afford a computer that can actually run VR games at that resolution, but I know that there is a large demographic of PC users that pride themselves on having the most powerful hardware available, so I'm sure the StarVR is looking really attractive to them.
The second way that Starbreeze seeks to separate StarVR from its competitors is in terms of software:
Through the acquisition, Starbreeze becomes one of the first technology companies to publish and develop both the software and hardware components of VR, allowing for a holistic approach covering all the dimensions involved.
This isn't a bad point at all. It has been a common refrain that for VR to really catch on it's going to need games that convince consumers to drop money on expensive hardware. And, I admit, a VR sequel to Starbreeze's Syndicate could be incredible.
But Starbreeze turned to Payday developer Overkill to show off the capabilities of the new headset, demonstrating a new first person Walking Dead game. The game is an on-rail shooter (think House of the Dead), and yes, believe it or not, it does include a light gun. Over on Polygon, Phil Kollar shares his hands on impressions:
About halfway through the demo, I was handed a shotgun. Both in the game and in real life. In a moment that reminded me of the weird dual realities I was currently existing in, a Starbreeze rep places a plastic toy shotgun into my hands, just as a character handed me a virtual shotgun in the game. The "real" fake shotgun had special sensors attached to it so that the game could track it. As I aimed in the real world, I aimed in the game.
"It's time for me to do some eWork," said CyberBoss, ready to face the NeruoZombie horde. "Now hand me my DataShotgun."
Which... Huh. The image of someone wearing a VR headset and holding a plastic shotgun sounds like something ripped out of a bad X-Files episode, but hey, maybe that works in our weird, dystopic present. It also makes a strange pairing with the high-power rhetoric of the rest of StarVR's announcement. I understand it: Making a good demo is hard enough, and making a VR demo must be even harder. But there feels like there's a disconnect here. All the power in the world, but I can't leave the rails.
Starbreeze's entry into the VR race was a bit of a surprise, but now that I've given it some thought, I suspect we'll see headsets from a lot of different companies in the coming years. If I'm being pessimistic, then it's easy to imagine VR as the new MMO or new motion controls: A pipe dream that floods the market with tons of mediocre products. But it is possible that the introduction of VR will be more like the debut of dedicated 3D graphics cards in the 90s: A real shift in the way people make and play games. | positive |
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Jackie Stevens, a Political Theory Professor at Northwestern University, has seen first-hand how detention centers and immigration courts violate every assumption we have about how a fair justice system is supposed to work. Contrary to many people's assumptions, immigration courts are part of the executive branch, instead of the judicial branch like our other courts. That means they're not subject to the same due process, like having a jury and requiring public defenders. On the podcast Jackie describes how the system can even fail U.S. citizens; she tells the long and winding case of U.S. citizen Mark Lyttle who got trapped in the system and was erroneously deported to Mexico. Whatever your political stance may be, it's pretty clear this system fails not only the most vulnerable living in our country but even our very own citizens.
Adam is on Twitter @AdamConover and you can find past episodes and bonus content from the TruTV show at AdamRuinsEverything.com.
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A robot met its end near Coors Field on Wednesday night when the Denver Police Department Bomb Squad detonated the “suspicious object,” bringing to an end the hours-long standoff between police and the approximately 8-inch-tall figurine.
Denver police spokesman Matt Murray said a citizen called police at 3:27 p.m. to report the presence of the plastic, white, toy robot, cemented to the base of a pillar supporting a footbridge near 20th and Wazee streets. Police closed 20th Street between Blake Street and Chestnut Place but did let a few people past the police tape to retrieve cars parked in nearby lots.
Nobody was allowed within about 100 yards of the robot.
“Are you serious?” asked Denver resident Justin Kent, 26, when police stopped him from proceeding down 20th Street. Kent said he lived just past the closed area but was told he would have to go around via Park Avenue.
“I can’t believe it. This is ridiculous,” Kent said.
Traffic piled up at adjacent intersections as rush-hour commuters were forced to detour around the closure.
Some pedestrians, unable to reach their vehicles at a lot adjacent to the robot, decided to wait it out at a bar on 20th Street, asking uniformed officers to let them know when the road reopened.
A bomb-squad robot was sent to examine the troublesome robot. Then a bomb- squad officer, dressed in heavy protective gear, took a turn.
Murray said the bomb squad couldn’t be sure whether the robot was safe, so the squad remotely detonated it about 5:30 p.m. to “render it safe.” The robot exploded into several chunks.
“It was cemented in. That’s odd,” Murray said.
Murray said suspicious objects do not automatically warrant a call to the bomb squad if patrol officers are able to determine there is no threat. He said the robot was strange enough to warrant precautionary measures. In the end, it proved harmless.
“A whole lot of nothing,” Murray said.
Police reopened 20th Street after they finished cleaning up the remains of the robot.
Murray said police have no leads on who put the robot there or why they did it.
Kyle Glazier: 303-954-1638 or kglazier@denverpost.com | positive |
Temperley Ready to Wear - Fall 2009 - 2010 ~ I want - I got Skip to content I want - I got Computer nerd with a fashionable twist Menu Close Home About Privacy Policy Temperley Ready to Wear – Fall 2009 – 2010 Temperley Fall 2009 – 2010 collection is another label redeeming New York for me. I’m glad there are a few gems throughout the metallic mess. The jackets are really great in this collection. I saw Temperley Spring 2008 when I was in New York. I remember her afterparty was pretty kickass. Memories of fashion week. images: Temperley London F/W 09.10 New York – the Fashion Spot. Published February 19, 2009 Categorized as Designers, Fashion Tagged Fall 2009, New York, Ready to Wear, Temperley By Anita Clarke Anita Clarke is an Engineering Storyteller and the founder of the fashion blog “I want – I got.” She was one of the first and most prominent online fashion writers in Toronto and Canada. View all of Anita Clarke's posts. 1 comment Image Consultant says: February 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM The drama is outstanding…i want the featured white gown! Comments are closed. Post navigation Previous post This is insanity – Ohne Titel Fall 2009 Shoe Next post PHI Ready to Wear – Fall 2009 – 2010 Twitter My Tweets Search… Home About Privacy Policy I want – I got Proudly powered by WordPress. | negative |
Prospects are like the stock market. One day something looks great, but a day later, that can all change. While there aren't day-to-day fluctuations that might make your outlook on a prospect change so heavily, there are always guys whose stock rises and falls considerably year-to-year and month-to-month.
Today I'm here to take a look at some 2017 MLB prospect risers and fallers as we head into the fantasy baseball draft season. Let's get to it.
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Three Up - Rising Prospects
Cody Bellinger, 1B, Los Angeles Dodgers
Adrian Gonzalez has put together a terrific career, but he’ll be 35 years old in May, and the Dodgers are going to have to find a replacement. Luckily, they probably have that guy already. Cody Bellinger was drafted out of high school in the fourth round of the 2013 Draft. He didn’t show much power in his first couple of years in the minors, but his power profile has really come to fruition the last couple of years.
In 2013, Bellinger hit just .210 with one home run in 162 Rookie-ball at-bats. In 2014, Bellinger did hit .312/.352/.474 in 215 Rookie-ball at-bats, but he hit just three home runs. In his first year in Single-A in 2015, Bellinger really put himself on the map. The lefty hit .264/.336/.538 with an impressive 30 HR, 103 RBI and 10 SB to boot. Bellinger did much of the same last season, hitting .263/.359/.484 with 23 HR in 399 at-bats in Double-A. He also had a cup of coffee in Triple-A, blasting three homers in 11 at-bats.
The first baseman fits the profile of the prototypical first baseman. He hits for power and plays some of the best defense at the position in the minor leagues. Bellinger has continued to become a better hitter as he’s gotten older, and as he’s progressed through the minors. He continues to trend in the right direction, and the 22-year-old will likely get a taste of big league pitching this season. Bellinger has also played in the outfield, and he likely will come up in left field or right field initially. Gonzalez still has two years left on his expensive deal, and he will likely remain a Dodger through the 2018 season at least. Regardless of where Bellinger plays, his bat will produce.
Gleyber Torres, SS, New York Yankees
Gleyber Torres has been skyrocketing up all prospect lists over the last couple of years, and rightfully so. The 20-year-old signed with the Chicago Cubs as an international free agent in 2013, and the hype started almost immediately.
Torres made his debut in 2014 and hit .297/.386/.440 with two home runs in 50 games at the Rookie/Single-A levels as a 17-year-old. 2015 saw Torres hit .287/.346/.376 with three homers in 126 games in Single-A. He hadn’t shown the power that scouts expected him to develop, but that changed in 2016. That year, Torres hit .270/.354/.421 with 11 HR and 21 SB in 125 games in Single-A.
Torres is yet to play a game above Single-A, but the tools and talent are real. The Yankees acquired him from the Cubs last season in the Aroldis Chapman trade, and he is the prized possession of the Yankees’ rebuild. Torres was the Cubs’ 23rd-ranked prospect by Baseball America after the 2013 season, and he has steadily climbed to the point he’s at today. The shortstop is ranked third on the MLB Pipeline list of baseball’s top 100 prospects, and he ranks fifth on the same list for Baseball America.
Torres is probably still a year away from the majors, but when he gets there, you can bet he’ll be playing shortstop everyday for the Bronx Bombers. Torres rates as a plus-defender with a plus-arm, and above average hit tools. The Yankees believe they have their heir apparent to Derek Jeter (sorry, Didi Gregorius), and he’s done nothing to indicate that they aren’t right in that summation.
Kyle Tucker, OF, Houston Astros
Kyle Tucker is still just scratching the proverbial surface. The 20-year-old product of the legendary Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, was selected with the fifth pick in the 2015 Draft. He got his feet wet in Rookie-ball that year, but he hit just .246/.294/.353 with three homers and 18 SB. Last season, Tucker displayed some of the plus-tools he was believed to have when he was drafted by the Houston Astros. In 2016, Tucker hit .285/.360/.438 with nine home runs, 69 RBI and 32 SB in Single-A. Tucker has shown terrific plate discipline, and the power/speed combination that he showed last year is expected to aid the beginning of Tucker’s ascension through the minor leagues.
Tucker will likely make what is believed to be the biggest jump in the minors this year, which is from Single-A to Double-A. Regardless of how he performs there, he will likely spend much of the year at that level honing his skills. Tucker is on track to possibly make his big league debut in 2018, and the Astros are confident they have yet another budding, young star in the outfielder. He has the potential to be a top-of-the order hitter with 20/20 potential with some good on base capability.
Three Down - Falling Prospects
Carson Fulmer, RHP, Chicago White Sox
Carson Fulmer’s rise through the minor leagues was akin to that smart kid in your class who skipped a grade. The comparisons between Fulmer and that baby genius end there. That child probably went on to dominate the fifth grade, but Fulmer didn’t enjoy that same success in the big leagues.
Fulmer was selected eighth overall in the 2015 Draft, and it was expected that the White Sox were going to move him up through their system quickly; that they did. Palmer dominated Rookie-ball and Single-A in 2015, with a 1.96 ERA and 1.13 WHIP in 23 innings. He also had a 26/9 K/BB ratio. Despite the dominance, the walks were a bit of a concern. Fulmer pitched in Double-A and Triple-A in 2016, but he also got the call to the show just a year after being drafted. Fulmer struggled at all three levels he pitched in last season. In the minors, all 21 of his appearances were starts, and he was 6-10 with a 4.63 ERA and 1.48 WHIP. He had a 104/56 K/BB ratio in 103 innings. In the major leagues, all eight of Fulmer’s games were out of the ‘pen. In 11 2/3 innings, the righty allowed 11 runs and had a 10/7 K/BB ratio.
Fulmer doesn’t throw hard enough to get by with such alarming BB-rates. He has a 4.64 BB/9 IP in 126 career minor league innings, and that total was 5.40 BB/9 IP in his brief taste of big league action last year. Fulmer stands “just” 6-feet tall, and that has had some scouts concerned about the downward trajectory he’d be able to get on his pitches. With his struggles in 2016, those concerns seem very real now. Fulmer will likely end up in a relief role in the big leagues, hurting his fantasy stock immensely. With the trades the White Sox made this offseason- acquiring the likes of Michael Kopech, Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez and even Dane Dunning- Fulmer’s stock in the White Sox’ farm system is starting to plummet quickly.
Robert Stephenson, RHP, Cincinnati Reds
Robert Stephenson was drafted in the first round way back in 2011. He turns 24 years old in the next couple of days, and the Reds are hoping that he’s able to contribute this season. Stephenson was progressing nicely through the lower levels of the minors, but his development has hit a snag in the higher levels.
In Rookie-ball and in Single-A in 2012, Stephenson had a 72/23 K/BB ratio in 65 innings, with a 3.18 ERA and 1.18 WHIP. In 2013, Stephenson was very impressive in Single-A, with a 2.67 ERA in 97 2/3 innings at that level. That year, he got a taste of Double-A ball, and started to show his first signs of trouble. In four starts there, he had a 4.86 ERA and 13 BB in 16 2/3 innings. 2014 was Stephenson’s first full year at the Double-A level, and he struggled once again. He had a 4.76 ERA and a 4.87 BB/9 IP in 136 2/3 innings. Despite the struggles, he saw time in both Double-A and Triple-A in 2015. His walk rate was once again an alarming 4.70 BB/9 IP, which led to a 3.83 ERA and 1.30 WHIP. Last season was another one to forget for Robert Stephenson. He bounced back and forth between Triple-A and the big leagues, and he had a 4.41 ERA and 1.36 WHIP in 136 2/3 innings. That came with a 4.68 BB/9 IP and his K-rate dropped to a career-low 7.90 K/9 IP. In his eight big league starts in 2016, Stephenson had a 31/19 K/BB ratio in 37 inning, and had a 6.08 ERA.
Stephenson is expected to be a part of the Reds’ rotation this season, but if his control issues and struggles in the higher levels of the minors and in the major leagues are any indication, he likely won’t provide much value. His stock is on the way down, and at this rate, his only future (if any) in the big leagues, appears to be as a relief pitcher.
Forrest Wall, 2B, Colorado Rockies
Forrest Wall was on almost every top-100 prospect list just a year ago, but his stock has experienced a big drop. The second baseman spent all of 2016 in High-A, and he disappointed with a .264/.329/.355 slash-line, with just six homers (26 extra-base hits) and 22 SB. That came after he hit .286/.366/.439 in Single-A in 2015. Wall has seen his BB-rate fall every season, and has had a corresponding increase in K-rate every season as well. He hasn’t played a day above Single-A yet and the struggles have already started. The 21-year-old is still young enough to put everything together and realize his true potential. A big plus for Wall is that his left-handed bat has shown a fair bit of competence against left-handed pitchers, and his defense appears to be good enough to play at the highest level. The minor leagues are not littered with stud second base prospects, so the Rockies could be patient enough with Wall to give him a couple of years to develop. That said, his value as it stands today is considerably lower than what it was just a year ago. | positive |
White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon was reportedly proud of President Trump's performance Tuesday regarding the violent clashes this past weekend in Charlottesville, Va.
A source close to Bannon told Bloomberg News the chief strategist was proud of Trump on Tuesday.
Trump on Tuesday held a defiant news conference in which he said there is "blame on both sides" for the deadly violence over the weekend in Charlottesville.
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His remarks sparked controversy and spurred backlash from both Democrats and Republicans.
“What about the alt-left that came charging at the — as you say, the alt-right?” Trump asked during the news conference.
“Do they have any semblance of guilt? What about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I am concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.”
Recent reports have said Bannon's role in the White House is in limbo. A New York Times report said the president's advisers and confidants are urging Trump to fire the chief strategist.
Bannon has also become a target of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights activists in recent days.
Trump cast uncertainty on Bannon's future during his press conference Tuesday.
"I like Mr. Bannon; he's a friend of mine. But Mr. Bannon came on very late, you know that," Trump said in a news conference in New York City.
"I like him. He's a good man. He's not a racist, I can tell you that. He's a good person. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard.
"But we'll see what happens with Mr. Bannon," Trump added. "But he's a good person, and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly." | positive |
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I tried contacting Twitch numerous times in many different ways for one full year, and never heard a response from them. Because traditional forms of communication were not working, I concluded that the only way I’d ever get a response from Twitch would be if I drew a large amount of attention to the problem.
However, over the past seven days, I’ve been worrying that my previous video may have gotten me even further from getting Yandere Simulator back onto Twitch. The problem is that the hostile nature of my video severely limits Twitch’s ability to respond to me. After realizing this, I decided to create a second video that is much less harsh and critical towards Twitch. This is my attempt to “extend an olive branch” to Twitch, and let them know that my goal is to achieve a positive resolution, not to cause a media storm.
You might not care about the Twitch situation in the slightest. You might be disappointed that I spent time making another video about the subject, rather than working on the game. I apologize if this is the case. Please keep this in mind: it only took me one night to make this video. If it helps, tell yourself “It’s the weekend, so YandereDev only worked part-time today, but he’ll be back to working on it full-time starting tomorrow”.
If I ever make another video about Twitch, it will be my final video about the subject. I’ll either be saying, “The game is unbanned! Yay!” or I’ll be saying, “The game is banned and it’s staying banned. Here’s why.” | positive |
Blizzard Entertainment will re-release the original StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War as a high-definition remake called StarCraft: Remastered, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced during the company’s I <3 StarCraft event in Seoul, Korea today.
StarCraft: Remastered will offer the classic real-time strategy game’s campaign and multiplayer mode updated for “4K UHD” resolution. The remaster will also include StarCraft’s “original soundtrack and dialogue, re-recorded and rejuvenated,” as well as revamped briefings between missions.
As for the game’s remastered visuals, Blizzard says players will be able to “zoom out for a Battlecruiser’s view of the battlefield, or zoom in to see the veins on a Mutalisk’s wings.”
“StarCraft is a pure distillation of Blizzard’s DNA—its story, its balance, and all the little details reflect our long-running commitment to epic entertainment, and it’s been a staple in competitive gaming and esports for almost 20 years,” Morhaime said in a press release. “With StarCraft: Remastered, we’re modernizing the original game’s visuals, audio, and online support to ensure that players can enjoy StarCraft for another 20 years and beyond.”
Other enhancements coming in StarCraft: Remastered include “advanced matchmaking; full connectivity to Blizzard’s gaming network for social features and updates; cloud saving for campaign progress, custom maps, replays, and keybinds” and support for 13 languages.
StarCraft: Remastered is coming to Mac and Windows PC this summer. Check out some screenshots of the original game and their remastered counterparts in the gallery below.
The original StarCraft was released for Windows PC in 1998 and followed by an expansion, Brood War, later that year. Blizzard released a sequel, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, in 2010. | positive |
Although the Bible can be inspiring and informative, there are some unusual verses that can be sexually explicit and, sometimes, even contradict the Ten Commandments. After discovering a few myself, I researched more into the matter and discovered some truly bizarre quotes from various passages. I ranked them based on what I thought were the most unusual. Enjoy! [NOTE: Quotes below may differ from those of other editions of the Bible – specifically the Douay-Rheims which is the Bible commonly used for quotations on Listverse.]
1 Quotes 15 – 11
15. Numbers 31:32
These were the spoils which remained of the plunder taken by the fighting men: 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and as for persons, 32,000 young women who had had no intercourse with a man.
14. Genesis 16:8
And he said “Hagar, Sarai’s slave girl, where have you come from and where are you going?” She answered, “I’m running away from Sarai, my mistress.” The angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to ill treatment at her hands.” [Pictured above]
13. Genesis 15:9
The Lord answered, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat, three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon.”
12. Deut. 25:11
When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.
11. Genesis 19:8
“Look, I have two daughters, virgins both of them. Let me bring them out to you and you could do what you like with them. But do nothing to these men because they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
2 Quotes 10 – 6
10. Deut. 28:53
Then because of the dire straits to which you will be reduced when your enemy besieges you, you will eat your own children, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord has given you.
9. Judges 3:21
And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out. [Pictured above]
8. Mark 14:51
A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.
7. Genesis 38:9
Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also.
6. Ezekiel 16:17
You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.
3 Quotes 5 – 1
5. Kings 2:23
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you bald head! Go up, you bald head!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. [Pictured above]
4. Deut. 23:1
No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose organ has been cut off may become a member of the Assembly of God.
3. Leviticus 24:16
Whoever utters the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must stone him, whether alien or native. If he utters the name, he must be put to death.
2. Exodus 4:24
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, “Surely a bloody husband art thou to me”.
1. Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions. | positive |
I LOVE TEIGNMOUTH! | Lynne McVernon Lynne McVernon Making it all up… Skip to content Home About Lynne McVernon New novel JIGSAW ISLAND Novel TERRIBLE WITH RAISINS Non literary imagery… This and that Writer Guests Andy Charman Claire Baldry Elizabeth Ducie Fiona Morgan Gilli Allan James Collins Jane Risdon John Manuel Kathryn Gauci Loreley Amiti Madalyn Morgan Margaret Barnes Mark Arnold Michael Tyne Sophie Parkes Paperback & eBook links ← Hooray! Finally a THREE star Amazon review for TWR. TEIGNMOUTH SINGS! → I LOVE TEIGNMOUTH! Posted on November 24, 2014 by Lynne Last week, browsing in W H Smith, I heard someone singing – not humming – singing Diamonds Are Forever. Not the usual W H Smith experience. Paying for my newspaper, I asked the lady manager if she was the singer. She was. Told her she’d got Shirley Bassey worried. She laughed and said her granddaughter thought she was singing Dinosaurs Forever. Then she invited me to join her singing group, meets at Teignmouth United Reform Church Monday nights. Might just do that… Share this: Facebook Twitter Like this: Like Loading... Related About Lynne Writer View all posts by Lynne → This entry was posted in Devon, Humour, Personal and tagged Devon. Bookmark the permalink. ← Hooray! Finally a THREE star Amazon review for TWR. TEIGNMOUTH SINGS! → Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Follow Blog via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Follow Join 126 other followers November 2014 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 « Jul Mar » Categories Categories Select Category Art Audio biography birthday Britain in EU Britain under Lockdown catasrophe Contemporary Women’s Fiction Cornwall Crowdfunding Design Desperation Devon Dorset Drama Ecuador & Galapagos Education European Union Fantasy Fiction Gay interest Greek Islands Healing Environment Health Care Humour Leros Lesbian interest Life on the edge Music new writing NHS non-fiction Parent Personal Poetry Refugees Religion Remain in EU Review reviewers Single mother Single mothers Social Care Teaching Theatre Unbound publishing Writers Writing Young Adult Archives March 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 April 2020 November 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 September 2018 June 2018 October 2017 February 2017 January 2017 September 2016 August 2016 May 2016 April 2016 January 2016 November 2015 October 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 April 2015 March 2015 November 2014 July 2014 June 2014 March 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 November 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2011 February 2011 January 2011 Lynne McVernon Blog at WordPress.com. Follow Following Lynne McVernon Join 126 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Lynne McVernon Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this: | negative |
Elvis Antonio Artola, 30, has been arrested by police after being accused of shooting at cows with an AR-15 on Florida's Turnpike. Click through the slideshow to see mugshots of a Florida man who has been arrested 34 times. less Elvis Antonio Artola, 30, has been arrested by police after being accused of shooting at cows with an AR-15 on Florida's Turnpike. Click through the slideshow to see mugshots of a Florida man who has been ... more Photo: Orange County Jail Photo: Orange County Jail Image 1 of / 32 Caption Close Florida man accused of shooting cows with AR-15 from moving car 1 / 32 Back to Gallery
A Florida man is behind bars after troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol said he shot at cows while inside of a car.
According to news station WFTV, Elvis Antonio Artola, 33, is accused of shooting at cows with an AR-15 on the Florida Turnpike.
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Trooper Konner Achors was on patrol Sunday when he received a call that someone in a blue Hyundai Sonata was shooting at cows in Kissimmee, the news station reports. Achors said Artola was in the passenger seat and denied firing off a rifle.
Artola told the trooper that he did have a weapon in the vehicle. When Achors asked Artola to put his hands behind his back, WFTV reports he refused to. Achors had to call for back up to get Artola to put his hands behind his back.
According to the news station, the driver told troopers he stopped along the side of the Turnpike so Artola could use the restroom. He said Artola stepped out the vehicle and fired into the woods with the AR-15.
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The driver said Artola fired shots from the car window as they drove away. WFTV reports the driver wasn't sure if Artola was attempting to hit the cows.
Troopers said a fully-loaded Bushmaster rifle was in the trunk of the car. Artola is being held in the Orange County Jail. | positive |
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