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Tahini Archives - Honeyed Sundays Menu Blog About Contact Recipes Honeyed Sundays Honeyed Sundays Honeyed Sundays Blog About Contact Recipes Browsing Tag Tahini Appetizers / Beets / Hummus / Vegan Roasted Beet & Garlic Hummus April 30, 2021 Written by Leona G. 0 Hummus is just one of those foods that is great for anytime of day. Always satisfies that craving. and really eats like a meal! Especially with a side of veggies & pita bread. It’s delicious on just about anything. I love… Continue Reading Chocolate / Cookies / Tahini Tahini & Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies January 13, 2021 Written by Leona G. 2 Citrus season is here! From lemons to limes to oranges, theres so many things to love about citrus and so many delicious ways to incorporate them into your meals. And even in your cookies! Tahini & Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies… Continue Reading Appetizers / Fall / Salad / Vegan / Wild Rice Wild Rice Fall Harvest Salad With Maple Tahini September 24, 2020 Written by Leona G. 3 It’s officially fall! Everybody grab your pumpkins! I thought I would start off with something healthy, bright and delicious. In all honestly, I’ve been using pumpkin spice and pumpkin puree in my recipes for over a month now. shhh! I… Continue Reading Appetizers / Zucchini Tahini Zucchini Fritters August 10, 2020 Written by Leona G. 0 I’ve grown pretty fond of zucchini over the years. Growing up, I never really cared for it. Now, I happen to love it! And it’s very easy to find. It’s peak season for zucchini, and they’re everywhere! This recipe is… Continue Reading Archives Archives Select Month September 2022 August 2022 June 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 Subscribe to Blog via Email Email Address Subscribe Find me on Instagram! Honeyed Sundays (C) 2019 - Solo Pine. All Rights Reserved. × Loading Comments... Write a Comment... Email (Required) Name (Required) Website | negative |
Fine Gael has rowed back on its plan to abolish Universal Social Charge (USC).
Fine Gael has rowed back on its plan to abolish Universal Social Charge (USC).
While the party says it still intends to see the end of the hated tax, it has told Independents it will "seek Oireachtas support to continue to phase out the USC as part of a wider medium-term income tax reform plan".
The statement. Contained in documents circulated during today’s government formation talks, is a significant departure from its previous stance.
The pledge to abolish USC by 2021 was a key component of the Fine Gael election platform.
Other parties such as Fianna Fail have said they will keep the tax in place on salaries over €80,000.
Sinn Féin, meanwhile, has no plans to abolish the tax, introduced by Fianna Fáil as an emergency measure during the recession.
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New Releases 04/09/2020 - Music - Drowned in Sound | Community Drowned in Sound | Community New Releases 04/09/2020 Music rich-t 4 September 2020 04:54 #1 Anything on the radar today? Album wise, just Hannah by Lomelda for me. Warm, fuzzy indie pop Secret Meeting – 3 Sep 20 Album: Lomelda - Hannah Sun review - Secret Meeting by Jowan Mead Following a series of intimate, melodic folk records, and recent experimentations with electronic and ambient music via an exclusive Bandcamp release, Hannah, the latest LP from Texas native, Hannah Read aka Lomelda, is a powerful... Also, it’s Bandcamp day today, so if you’re buying something, support the artists 1 Like dresi 4 September 2020 05:31 #2 Bill Callahan for me. I ignored almost all the singles. Also Sun June released a new single. New album coming out early next year. Scagden 4 September 2020 05:41 #3 New throwing muses! (American indie rock band fronted by Kristen Hersh (used to have Tanya Donelly too but not sure she’s back for this one)) 4 Likes mouth_breather 4 September 2020 05:42 #4 Throwing Muses will be worth checking out. Nowt else for me so far 1 Like rich-t 4 September 2020 05:42 #5 dresi: Sun June released a new single This is lovely, as you’d expect. roastthemonaspit 4 September 2020 05:54 #6 Not mentioned yet: Naked Roomate Yelle Tricky Sophie Hunger Diplo 1 Like Shoebox1976uk 4 September 2020 06:01 #7 Bill Callahan and Throwing Muses are the big ones for me. But I’ll also check out the Grant Lee Phillips and Thor & Friends albums. Not sure if I’m still fussed about Dirty Projectors. Maybe. Oh and there’s a new one from Stryper anon73286315 4 September 2020 06:03 #8 New Yelle? awesome 2 Likes mclassh 4 September 2020 06:16 #9 There’s a new collaborative EP from Japanese Breakfast/Crying under the name Bumper Spotify pop songs 2020 pop songs 2020, an album by BUMPER on Spotify 3 Likes mclassh 4 September 2020 06:21 #10 And a new album/EP from LNZNDRF (brothers from the National and one of the guys from Beirut). Spotify To A Lake To A Lake, an album by LNZNDRF on Spotify Unacceptable 4 September 2020 06:32 #11 If you like Quicksand Watertank Spotify Silent Running Silent Running, an album by Watertank on Spotify If you like 90s post hardcore/slowcore Sprain Spotify As Lost Through Collision As Lost Through Collision, an album by Sprain on Spotify 2 Likes Choccy1983 4 September 2020 06:43 #12 The Scottish answer to the gaslight anthem that we have all been waiting for Spotify Paradise Paradise, an album by Cold Years on Spotify paulo13 4 September 2020 06:53 #13 Already mentioned: I’ll be checking out Lomelda, Bill Callahan, Sophie Hunger. Also: Hannah Georgas slow indie pop. Worth a listen if you’ll be checking out Lomelda also maybe. Spotify All That Emotion All That Emotion, an album by Hannah Georgas on Spotify Declan McKenna sort of reminds me of a young Bright Eyes/Oberst, full of passionate catchy energy. Spotify Zeros Zeros, an album by Declan McKenna on Spotify Soundwalk Collective I’ve listened to some precious songs and liked. Has Patti Smith playing on it also I think. Spotify Peradam Peradam, an album by Soundwalk Collective, Patti Smith on Spotify 1 Like anon3515918 4 September 2020 07:00 #14 Hello! My band has a new single out today! It’s really good imo Spotify If You Had A Sister... If You Had A Sister..., an album by Fightmilk on Spotify 10 Likes Twinkletoes 4 September 2020 07:00 #15 New one on Disintegration State from Adventsong. Spotify Before The Storm Before The Storm, an album by Adventsong on Spotify 3 tracks of ambience which somehow manage to feel spacious yet claustrophobic. 4 Likes Cameron78 4 September 2020 07:10 #16 yes its amazing and yes it nyp… 3 Likes TVDenimChap 4 September 2020 07:15 #17 Like @Twinkletoes said my new EP’s out today! It’s for charity and all money is going to Marie Curie. Plus it’s Bandcamp Friday, so as good a day as any to pick it up! Wrote a bit more about it here Disintegration State - new Jacob Nico! JAG over - a mate of mine is also putting out his first album today, after a couple of great EPs. Very good atmospheric post/prog rock, been looking forward to it for a while! 3 Likes AQOS 4 September 2020 07:24 #18 Tricky Yelle New singles from Hot Chip (off their upcoming Late Night Tales… Yes please!) and iamamiwhoami. riverwise 4 September 2020 07:33 #19 Corey Flood album is out today, melodic but fuzzy guitar heavy indie rock, sounds a bit SY in places, a bit Krautrocky in others. 9 songs, 20 minutes, can’t argue with that. 1 Like Clang 4 September 2020 07:38 #20 New King Midas Sound EP on Bandcamp 2 Likes next page → Home Categories FAQ/Guidelines Terms of Service Privacy Policy Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled | negative |
Whilst the UK has held an official referendum and given people in Scotland the chance to vote for independence, the people of Catalunya have been given no such freedom by the Spanish state. The EU seems to be on the side of Spain, reluctant to see a rupture in one of the larger member states. This approach has helped fuel Catalan nationalism.
The forthcoming elections will allow the people of Catalunya the opportunity to make their views known again. The four main parties in favour of independence have come together as Catalyuna Si. If they can stay together with a common platform for the election, polls suggest they can do very well. The Spanish state will have to face the fact that a large and rich region within Spain is serious about leaving and being independent.
In the past there have been unofficial referendums pointing to strong support for independence, and election results that have boosted the independence cause. None of this has mattered, with the Spanish state using legal Union means to thwart the popular will. The impact of the Euro and EU economic policy on Spain’s economy is clearly not helping those who want to keep Spain together, as it has depressed overall Spanish employment and income levels and left many in enterprising Calalunya thinking they would be better off outside the Spanish kingdom.
Why is the EU so hostile to democracy? Why can’t the Catalans have a referendum like Scotland? What will the EU and the Spanish government do if the Catalan parties win most of the seats and a majority of the vote in Catalonia? | positive |
RICHMOND —The vice chairman of a panel exploring Medicaid reform and expansion in Virginia told fellow House Republicans this week that the program is unlikely to be broadened anytime soon.
It could take months, if not years, to determine if the federal-state health-care program has been sufficiently reformed to merit expansion, Del. Steve Landes (R-Augusta) said in a confidential memo to his caucus. A copy of the memo was obtained by The Washington Post.
“I believe an important part of that [reform] process is evaluating the impact of those reforms in the months and years ahead,” Landes wrote in a letter dated Monday. “With the timeline for reform implementation already extended well into 2014, it is very unlikely we will be in a position to move forward with Medicaid expansion in the near future.”
Potential expansion of the program for the poor and elderly has become a central issue in the governor’s race, with Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II opposed and Democrat Terry McAuliffe in favor.
Under the federal Affordable Care Act, states can open their Medicaid programs to people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about $32,000 for a family of four. The federal government will pick up the full cost for the first three years, with that share gradually declining to 90 percent.
McAuliffe contends that the law would be a boon to Virginia, providing insurance to 400,000 citizens, creating thousands of jobs and pumping $2 billion a year into the state. He has premised much of his broader agenda, including increased education spending, on the financial windfall that he says expansion would represent. He has said several times on the campaign trail that he would not sign a budget that did not include Medicaid expansion, but softened his rhetoric after Republicans said that amounted to a threat to shut down state government.
Cuccinelli says that the federal government is too financially strapped to make good on its funding promise, likely leaving Virginia on the hook for the cost of new Medicaid enrollees.
Bitterly split over the issue this year, the General Assembly struck a compromise, creating a panel empowered to expand Medicaid, but only if Washington agreed to let Virginia reform the way the program operates in Virginia.
Landes, an opponent of expansion, serves as vice chairman of that panel, the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission. In his memo to House Republicans, he said that expanding the program could eventually cost the state more than $1 billion a year if the federal government only reimbursed the state for 50 percent of the cost, as opposed to the promised 90 percent.
“The national debt is nearly $17 trillion,” Landes wrote. “Eventually, the federal government is going to have to address its spending problems. When it does, Virginia taxpayers will almost certainly get stuck with the bill for Medicaid expansion.”
But Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Fairfax), who also serves on the panel, said in an interview that she is optimistic that Medicaid can be expanded in the budget that begins in July. She said Bill Hazel, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Resources, has been working with the federal government to win approval for the reforms that the General Assembly required as a condition for expansion.
“Secretary Hazel has been working diligently to have us ready to accept Medicaid expansion next year,” Howell said. “He’s on track and doing exactly what he was requested to do in the state budget. So I am optimistic that we will be ready to go.” | positive |
The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space – this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a state of free fall, counteracting the Earth’s gravity and providing an ideal platform for science in space.
Science aboard the ISS is decidedly cross-disciplinary, including fields as diverse as microbiology, space science, fundamental physics, human biology, astronomy, meteorology and Earth observation to name a few. But let’s take a look at some of the biggest findings.
1. The fragility of the human body
The effects of the space environment on the human body during long duration spaceflight are of significant interest if we want to one day venture far beyond the Earth. A crewed journey to Mars, for example, may take a year, and the same time again for the return leg.
Microgravity research on the ISS has demonstrated that the human body would lose considerable bone and muscle mass on such a mission. Mitigation technology, involving the use of resistive exercise devices, has shown that it is possible to substantially alleviate bone and muscle loss. Coupled with other studies into appropriate nutrition and drug use, these investigations may lead to improvements in the treatment of osteoporosis, a condition affecting millions of people across the globe.
2. Interplanetary contamination
A long-term goal of many space agencies is to fly humans to Mars. The red planet is of particular interest because it is one of the most accessible locations in which past or present extraterrestrial life may exist. It is imperative, therefore, that we do not inadvertently contaminate Mars with terrestrial organisms. Likewise, we must be careful not to back-contaminate Earth with any possible Martian life forms during a sample return mission.
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Certain hardy bacterial spores, such as the Bacillus subtilis in the picture were exposed to space aboard the ISS, but shielded from solar UV-radiation, and demonstrated a high survival rate. The space vacuum and temperature extremes alone were not enough to kill them off. These remarkable bugs could be capable of surviving an interplanetary space flight to Mars and live there, under a thin layer of soil, were they to be accidentally deposited by a spacecraft.
This finding has huge implications; if microorganisms, or their DNA, can survive interplanetary spaceflight, albeit by natural means, it leaves open the possibility that life on Earth may originally have arrived from Mars, or elsewhere .
3. Growing crystals for medicine
A key challenge in developing effective medicines is understanding the shape of protein molecules in the human body. Proteins are responsible for a huge range of biological functions, including DNA replication and digestion – and protein crystallography is an essential tool for understanding protein structure. Crystal growth within a fluid on Earth is somewhat inhibited by gravity-driven convection and the settling out of denser particles at the bottom of the fluid vessel.
Crystals in a microgravity environment may be grown to much larger sizes than on Earth, enabling easier analysis of their micro-structure. Protein crystals grown on the ISS are being used in the development of new drugs for diseases such as muscular dystrophy and cancer.
4. Cosmic rays and dark matter
Space is permeated by a constant flux of energetic charged particles called cosmic rays. When cosmic rays encounter the Earth’s atmosphere they disintegrate, producing a shower of secondary particles which can be detected at ground level. Some cosmic rays may emanate from explosive events such as supernovae or, closer to home, flares on our own sun. But in many cases their source is unknown.
In order to better understand these enigmatic particles, we need to catch them before they reach the atmosphere. Mounted on the ISS is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), the most sensitive particle detector ever launched into space. This device collects cosmic rays and measures both their energy and incoming direction.
In 2013, early results showed that cosmic ray electrons and their anti-matter counterparts, positrons, emanated from all directions in space, rather than from specific locations.
Approximately one quarter of the mass-energy of the universe is believed to be comprised of dark matter, a substance of unknown composition, which may be a source of cosmic rays. The theorised presence of dark matter envisages a halo of the material surrounding the Milky Way (and other galaxies), and is thus supported by the isotropic nature of the cosmic ray electrons and positrons detected by AMS, essentially coming at us from all directions in space.
It has never been detected directly and it’s true nature is one of the greatest unanswered questions in modern astrophysics.
5. Efficient combustion
Deliberately starting a fire on an orbital space station does not sound, initially, like a good idea. It turns out, however, that the physics of flames in microgravity is quite interesting. The flame extinguishment study is an understandably carefully designed facility whereby tiny droplets of fuel, which form into spheres under microgravity, are ignited.
Flames on Earth assume their familiar shape because gravity-driven convection results in an updraught of air, drawing the burning mixture of fuel and gas upwards. In microgravity there is no updraught and so a flame assumes a diffuse spherical shape around the combustion source. Further, the yellow colour of a flame is produced by the incandescence of tiny soot particles. Soot forms from incomplete burning of the fuel and is a pollutant.
In microgravity, the combustion of a fuel is more complete and hence more efficient. A candle flame that would appear yellow on Earth, actually burns with a blue colour in microgravity and produces much less smoke. This kind of research enables the study of soot formation processes which has negative impacts on the environment and human health, and how droplets of fuel in a combustion engine transition from a liquid to a gas as they burn. This may one day lead to more efficient designs for combustion engines on Earth. | positive |
Before we properly examine a Guardian article (The two-state solution in the Middle East: Everything you need to know, Dec. 28th) by the paper’s former Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood, let’s first provide a short textual analysis:
In an article putatively providing readers with ‘everything you need to know about the two state solution but were afraid to ask’, here’s a count of the number of times the following words were used in the text, headline and strap line:
Settlements (4); Hamas (1); Terrorism (0); Rockets (0); Incitement (0); Extremism (0); Antisemitism (0)
As you’ll see, the appearance or absence of these words are crucial to understanding how Harriet Sherwood misleads readers over the failure of the two parties to achieve an agreement.
After an introductory paragraph explaining the basic idea of a two-state solution, Sherwood devotes several paragraphs to the obstacles. Here’s the first one:
Past negotiations have failed to make progress and there are currently no fresh talks in prospect. The main barriers are borders, Jerusalem, refugees, Israel’s insistence on being recognised as a “Jewish state” and the Palestinians’ political and geographical split between the West Bank and Gaza.
First, Sherwood fails to mention that the Palestinians rejected at least three recent serious Israeli peace offers, which included a contiguous Palestinian state, since 2000.
As far as the main barriers, she correctly notes some of the serious issues, but omits others – such as continued Palestinian terror, incitement and extremism, and the fact that part of the territory in question – Gaza – is ruled by a terror group which rejects the continued existence of a Jewish state within any borders.
Note also how Sherwood frames the issue of recognizing Israel as a “Jewish state” as a problem only insofar as Israel “insists” upon it, rather than the Palestinian rejection of such recognition.
Sherwood’s section on obstacles to peace continues:
The Palestinians demand that the border of their new state should follow the green line, giving them 22% of their historic land. But Israel, which has built hundreds of settlements on the Palestinian side of the green line over the past 50 years, insists that most of these should become part of Israel – requiring a new border which would mean, according to critics, the annexation of big chunks of the West Bank. Land swaps could go some way to compensate but negotiations have stalled on this fundamental issue.
First, the word “border” is not accurate when referring to the 1949 armistice lines. They are boundaries which are to replaced in the future by a negotiated, internationally recognized permanent border.
More importantly, the claim that Palestinians are (magnanimously) only asking for “22%” of their “historic land” is erroneous. First, what “historic” Palestinian land is she referring to? There has never been, at any point in history, a sovereign Palestinian state, and a unique Palestinian-Arab national identity – distinct from Arab and tribal identities – itself is a recent development, going back no further than the 1920s.
Of course, prior to Israeli control of Gaza (until 2005), the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the territory was controlled by Jordan, the British and the Ottomans (and, in the case of Gaza between 1949-67, Egypt).
Further, the 22% figure (which presumably represents the land they’re demanding now in relation to the total land mass of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza) implies, as Shani Mor argued at The Tower, that Palestinians have conceded 77 percent of their historic claims, “implicitly saying that all of Israel proper somehow belongs to them.” Plus, if you want to argue from a territorial maximalist position, Israel (even in its current form) has conceded most of their land as promised to them under the 1922 Mandate for Palestine – arguably the earliest modern legal codification of an area known as “Palestine”.
Sherwood’s list of obstacles continues:
Jerusalem is another obstacle. Israel has said it cannot agree any deal which sees the city shared or divided between the two sides. The Palestinians say they will not cede their claim and access to their holy sites, all of which are located in East Jerusalem, on the Palestinian side of the green line.
First, irrespective of what the current Israeli negotiating position is today, previous Israeli offers of statehood did include Israeli withdrawal from Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and would have placed the Old City, including the Temple Mount, under international control.
Moreover, Sherwood’s assertion that “Palestinians say they will not cede their claim and access to their holy sites” is a non-sequitur, as, even under current Israeli control of the Old City, Palestinians have access to their holy sites. Nobody on the Israeli side is even suggesting that a two-state agreement would demand that the Palestinians cede access to their holy sites. The question narrowly pertains to who would ultimately have security and administrative control of the contested area, not to access.
Sherwood lists another obstacle to two states:
The Palestinians have long insisted that refugees from the 1948 war and their descendants should have the right to return to their former homes, although many diplomats believe they would settle for a symbolic “right of return”. Israel rejects any movement on this issue.
First, Palestinian demands that millions of Palestinians who have never been refugees should have the “right” to “return” to places in Israel they never once lived are absurd. It’s also simply not true that “Israel rejects any movement on this issue”.
As the Palestine Papers revealed, Ehud Olmert agreed, during 2008 talks, to take in 1,000 Palestinian “refugees” per year for five years, and agreed to monetary compensation to “refugees” as well. Further, in the most recent round of negotiations between Netanyahu and Abbas, Netanyahu (according to a detailed analysis of the talks published in July, 2014 by Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon in The New Republic ) agreed to “monetary compensation to Palestinians displaced in Israel’s War of Independence” and the “return” of an unspecified number of Palestinian “refugees”.
Sherwood continues:
Israel insists that the Palestinians must recognise Israel as a “Jewish state”. The Palestinians say this would deny the existence of the one in five Israeli citizens who are Palestinian.
Though it’s unclear what “denying the existence” of Arab citizens of Israel even means, if the concern is over the civil and legal rights of Arab Israelis, it’s difficult to understand how the mere acknowledgment by Palestinian leaders of Israel as a Jewish state would in any way impact their status of full citizens with equal rights under the law.
Sherwood continues:
Any potential deal is complicated by the political breach between Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian factions, and the geographical split between the West Bank and Gaza.
As we noted above, any deal isn’t merely complicated by the “political” and geographical “breach” between Fatah and Hamas. It’s “complicated” by an unbridgeable ideological division. Whilst the PA at least officially accepts the two-state solution, Hamas is an Islamist extremist movement which rejects the continued existence of Israel, and whose leaders have openly called for genocide against Jews.
Indeed, Sherwood’s specific failure to focus on Hamas in her “briefing” on obstacles to two states is indicative of a broader omission of extremely important context. Though most Israelis still favor two states in principle, you can not seriously discuss plans to restart negotiations for a final agreement without addressing Hamas’s role in the disastrous results of the last attempt to trade ‘land for peace’.
The question for most Israelis who are serious about peace but wary of Palestinian intentions is not necessarily the particulars of the final agreement, but the question of what will happen in the days, weeks, months and years after such a deal is implemented.
Will Palestinians use their new freedom to become responsible political actors, adopt democratic institutions, nurture a culture of peace and take serious steps to fight terror, incitement and extremism with the same fervor as they fought the occupation?
Or, will Israel face another Gaza?
Will painful territorial concessions not only fail to end the conflict, but in fact give rise to an extremist group on another border, rendering nearly the entire country within range of rocket fire?
Will Israelis have to watch as another generation of their children are caught within the insidious cacophony of sirens, screams and shrapnel – the unforgiving reality of endless war and trauma brought upon by the chimera of an “inevitable” peace?
Beyond the bias within this specific Guardian analysis, the truth is that UK media coverage of negotiations similarly suffers from the failure to take Israeli concerns seriously – rational fears born of the failure of past territorial withdrawals to bring peace, and a refusal to ignore the reactionary Palestinian political culture which – most Israeli believe – lays at the root of the conflict.
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Photo shows 10-year-old surfing over great white shark
Updated
A series of photographs show a 10-year-old in a close call with a great white shark north of Newcastle, with the boy unknowingly surfing over the top of it.
It happened as Eden Hasson was surfing off Samurai Beach at Port Stephens late on Tuesday.
His dad Chris Hasson captured the shark, also known as a white pointer, on camera with its mouth open, swimming under his son.
Beachgoers stunned by photographs
Mr Hasson said he was gobsmacked by what he saw.
"It was just one of those one-in-a-million shots," he said.
"There were a couple of guys out, including Eden, and I was on the rocks."
Mr Hasson said he started taking photographs after taking a dip himself.
"I had been swimming in and out with flippers with my five-year-old and 12-year-old daughters and decided I had enough of that," he said.
"My daughter came in 10 minutes earlier and that probably proves why women live longer than men.
"I saw something just before that and I was about to call him in but he took off on a wave and just click, click, click, click, click.
"Then I just had a gut feeling and so I zoomed in and went wow.
"I quickly called everyone in and obviously the rest is history."
Southern Cross University marine biology associate professor Danny Bucher said it appeared to be a white pointer, trying to roll away from the surfboard.
"Well, it certainly does look like a great white," Dr Bucher said.
"From the look of it, it looks like it's started to roll on its back as it has gone through the wave.
"That would probably indicate that it's trying to actually swim away from the approaching board."
Ten-year-old undeterred by close shave
"Everyone was pretty amazed on the beach," Mr Hasson said.
"Eden said 'Lucky I didn't fall off, Dad'."
"You know Eden has gone for a surf today already, so we are not too worried about it — you just have to be aware.
"You put your seatbelt on in the car and you don't worry about a car accident; you just have to be aware."
Mr Hasson said there had been a rotting whale carcass nearby for about six months, which may have attracted the shark to the area.
He said he also noticed a school of mullet swim by just before he took the photos.
Topics: surfing, shark, community-and-society, swimming, anna-bay-2316, newcastle-2300
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WooCommerce Extension Archives - CoCart Skip to content CoCart Menu Features Extensions News Developers Developer Resources Developer Blog Community Roadmap Help Translate CoCart Support My Account Getting Started Contact FAQ Go Pro 0 items Mix and Match Products Supported Posted on Published 20th July 2021 27th July 2020 by Sébastien Another great WooCommerce extension now supports CoCart. It’s called Mix and Match Products and it’s also developed by Kathy Darling. I was happy to help with it’s development and guide Kathy adding support for the REST API. If your selling cases of wine, dozen donuts, fruit baskets or even a six-pack of T-shirts. Mix and Match is ideal for offering similar products in bulk containers. Perfect for encouraging customers to buy in bulk without forcing them to buy items that don’t interest them. Now you can support these bulk product types in your headless store. View the CoCart documentation to see how you can add a Mix and Match Product to the cart from your customers selection. I’ve developed a WooCommerce extension That’s great. Always looking to support more WooCommerce extensions. If your extension provides a new product type or extends with new product features that requires support in CoCart, I look forward to helping you out. A boilerplate is available to give you a head start. « CoCart v2.2.0 is now available! WordPress 5.5 REST API Changes » Name Your Price Supported Posted on Published 20th July 2021 10th June 2020 by Sébastien With the improved support for handling products in CoCart, it is easier for developers to add support in their WooCommerce extensions that provide extra product data or options for customers. With that I am happy to announce that a popular WooCommerce extension called Name Your Price developed by Kathy Darling has become the first official extension to integrate support for CoCart within their plugin as of v3.1.0 This is a great first step in providing CoCart developers the same frontend options via the REST API and it works as advertised. All that was required was some tweaking to the method used for handling error responses and validating the customers requested price. I won’t say it was an easy process but one I was able to help develop with the plugin creator. Documentation provides details on how to accept customers requested price. I have created a page that lists supported WooCommerce extensions. More extensions are being evaluated and are in development to add support. They will either be in future updates of CoCart Pro or provided within the extensions themselves. If you have a WooCommerce extension that provides new product features that requires support in CoCart, I look forward to helping you out. A boilerplate is available to give you a head start. I look forward to sharing more extensions supporting CoCart in the future. « CoCart v2.1.2 Release Candidate 5 CoCart v2.2.0 is now available! » © 2022 CoCart Powered by CoBlocks | negative |
Pierre Boulez, the French composer and conductor who helped blaze a radical new path for classical music in the 20th century, becoming one of its dominant figures in the decades after World War II, died on Tuesday at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. He was 90.
His family confirmed his death in a statement to the Philharmonie de Paris. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, also in a statement, said, “Audacity, innovation, creativity — that is what Pierre Boulez was for French music, which he helped shine everywhere in the world.”
Mr. Boulez belonged to an extraordinary generation of European composers who emerged in the postwar years while still in their 20s. They started a revolution in music, and Mr. Boulez was in the front ranks.
As a young composer — and throughout his life as an insistently private man — he matched restless intelligence with great force of mind: He knew what had to be done, by his reading of history, and he did it, in defiance of all the norms of French musical culture at the time. His “Marteau Sans Maître” (“Hammer Without a Master”) was one of this pioneering group’s first major achievements, and it remains a landmark of modern music. | positive |
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these walls do talk: laundry room remodel | the suite life the suite life make every day suite Menu Skip to content gifting gift design process gifting portfolio blog apartments vacancies request an appointment amenities suite talk: tenant testimonials about press contact request an appointment these walls do talk: laundry room remodel 5 Comments March 7, 2017 The Suite Life Laundry. It’s loads of fun, right? Maybe not, but I definitely think that hitting the spin cycle in a pretty space makes it a little easier to get through. Apartment laundry rooms are notorious for being dark, drab and boring and since we’re all about “elevating apartment life”, we set out to remodel the last of the two laundry rooms at the building we manage in West Hollywood. We got the other laundry room up and running after 20 years of downtime a few summers back, but this one was still looking all sorts of sad and in dire need of its own so fresh and so clean. Now we’re not one to air our dirty laundry, but we wanted to tell you about how we made over this space. the before The first thing we always like to do when tackling a project is to really take a look at the space and identify what the problems are (if any) and think of ways we can improve on them. The first issue in this room (other than it was just sad and ugly) was that it had an awkward layout with the dryers so far away from the wall that the previous manager had to run the exhaust pipes pretty much across the length of the room. Not pretty or practical. Then we had the unsightly water heater in the corner and an old table to set your laundry basket on that was found on the curb (thumbs up for recycling). The plastic sink wasn’t flush with the sloped floor and was made level by screwing it to a piece of wood that had paint peeling off of it (nice work, MacGyver). The original 1950’s back splash, while I love vintage charm, was way too big for that small sink and just looked odd because of it. We know from when we remodeled the other laundry room that both rooms were originally set up to have two cast iron sinks, but we’re not quite sure where they went or why they were removed from this one. Overall, the layout left us with a tight space with not much room to maneuver and a square room screaming for some perky paint and a new personality. the design process Part of the fun of a project like this is getting to design it – it’s a great creative outlet for me. I knew immediately that I wanted to incorporate a nod to the building’s 1950’s heritage and add in a bit of drama with dark walls. My color inspiration came from blowout salon, Drybar, since I love their color combination of gray and white with touches of yellow. I also knew that I wanted to add some cabinets with cubbies inside for the tenants to be able to store their laundry supplies like we did in the other laundry room. That way they don’t have to carry them back and forth every time they want to throw a load of laundry in. In the other laundry room that we remodeled, we purchased cabinets from Home Depot and then put in dividers to make individual cubbies and added colorful storage baskets for each of the tenants on that side of the building. But this time I wanted to do something a little bit different, so I thought we’d change it up and do a Shaker-style door instead. I know, we got super crazy! Off to Home Depot we went to pick up the cabinets. When shopping for accessories for this remodel, Target was one of our first stops. Now if you’re like me, then you already know that feeling of unadulterated pure joy that can only be felt when going up and down every aisle at Target for no reason at all. Oh those stylish Nate Berkus desk accessories; those colorful Oh Joy! and Design Love Fest end caps filled with fun little goodies that you just HAVE to have to complete your soul. Since I was designing this laundry room at the tail end of fall, it was right around the time that “Back to School” accessories went on sale. Naturally, I needed to browse through these as I dreamt about our future children and their cute little backpacks filled to the brim with brand new folders and pencils (all color coordinated, of course). I pushed my cart further down the aisle and became legitimately mesmerized at all the colorful locker accessories. Umm, where were these when I was an awkward teenager navigating the treacherous waters that are middle school? My locker could’ve used some of this “cool” factor back in the 90’s to go along with my C+C Music Factory and En Vogue tapes, for sure. Back at the job site later, I reminisced about those super rad locker magnets and mini chandeliers that I saw at Target to my project manager (and boyfriend), Brian. I think I might’ve even said, “I wish I could go back to school just to decorate my locker!” Well, then smarty pants Brian looked at me and said, “Why don’t we do lockers for the cubbies in the laundry room instead?” DING! That’s it! That’s a brilliant idea that I didn’t come up with on my own (err…). But I gotta give design credit where it’s due and Brian definitely earned this one. Back to Home Depot we went to return the Shaker-style cabinets. We hunted high and low for lockers that were big enough to fit a standard size laundry soap jug and thought that square “box” style lockers were just the ticket. Only we weren’t able to find them anywhere where they were also counter height. They were either too tall or too short. Having to abandon my dream of eight individual box lockers stacked two high and four wide, we ended up going to a locker salvage yard and purchasing used double-tier vintage lockers instead. Oh, the memories they evoked from my Thunderbird days. The good news was that they were within budget. The bad news was that they were old, beat up, and blue. Brian got to work on power washing them and then hammering out some dents in addition to cutting them in half, painting, and securing them together. pulling it all together Now that we had our lockers and a solid vision, we got to work on pulling the whole design together. We started by relocating the ugly water heater out of the room and to the other side of the wall where there is an adjacent storage closet. This freed up a ton of space and let us lay out the room in a more functional way. We chose white wainscoting for the lower half of the walls to break up the space and give it some fun texture. Behr “Ultra Pure White” is always our go-to white and it really helped to brighten up the small space. To give the room some drama, we tested a few samples for the top part of the walls and finally landed on “Legendary Gray”, also by Behr. We chose a standard Home Depot bathroom cabinet to house the sink and to covertly hide a few cleaning supplies underneath too. I’m happy to say that when we remodeled the other laundry room, it had those two original cast iron sinks I mentioned earlier. We saved one for this remodel and after storing it for a few years, we were able to put in back into action. Welcome back, old buddy! We gave it a good scrub and anchored it to the wall and cabinet. To give the space a little glam, we tiled the sink surround with marble tile. The hexagon shape was another nod to the 1950’s while the material was just the perfect touch to elevate the space a bit. I think it’s so fun to use fancy finishes in unexpected places like a boring, old laundry room. And because the amount of tile we needed was so small, we could afford to splurge a little bit here. the after They always say “the devil’s in the details” and I definitely think it’s the accessories job to help make the whole design come together in a cohesive way. For the counter top, we opted for butcher block to warm up the space since Carrera marble felt too cold and like a little bit too much. Each locker got a butcher block shelf added to it to create a place for two tenants to store their laundry supplies. Then we labeled the inside of each locker door with yellow numbers that correspond to the tenant’s apartment number. I still get a nostalgic kick out of that sound of metal hitting metal when opening up the lockers now. On top of the counter top, we found the cutest vintage washing machine container from Cost Plus. We used our Cricut to label this as the “lost & found” for stray socks. When a solemate goes missing and is placed inside, it looks like the little washing machine has a full load of laundry in it. So cute! On the wall above the lockers, we added a few Ikea “Ribba” frames and used our Cricut again to design and cut out our own “artwork”. We used large clothespins for one frame and classic laundering symbols for the other to help illustrate tenant “laundriquette” when using the communal space. There’s nothing worse than when doing laundry, a neighbor cuts in front of you or (gasp) moves your laundry from the washer to the dryer so that they can use it. As Stephanie Tanner would say, “How rude!” To avoid these types of scenarios, we designed a way for the tenants to communicate who was doing laundry and who was next in line. Each tenant now has their own name tag hung on a bubble-filled drawer pull anchored to the wall. When doing laundry, they can move their name tag to the clip that says “washing” or “drying” to let neighbors know who is doing laundry and who is next in line. That way, if a load is accidentally left in the dryer and forgotten about, we know whose door to knock on. Or a tenant can claim their place in line by putting their name in the “waiting” clip. Our tenants are very courteous and will knock on each other’s doors to let them know that they’re finished and that the washer is now available. And for some fun, we added some magnetic poetry to play with while they wait for the machines to stop spinning. To light the room, we went with an affordable Ikea “Vitemolla” fixture that brought in some texture and then angled each of the lights to spotlight certain parts of the room. We chose a 50’s inspired trash can from The Container Store and to create an immediate focal point, we added a decal from Etsy that helped to bring in some of that vintage feel as well as break up the gray wall. On the wall above the sink, we added a wire organizer from Cost Plus that was painted white and inside we added a few small accessories like a plant, vintage-looking hand soap, and a mason jar filled with clothes pins. Above the self, we hung a metal “laundry” sign, also from Cost Plus, that we repainted yellow. And since we always like to “surprise and delight” wherever we can, we also added a mason jar filled with Lemonhead candies for our tenants to enjoy while doing laundry. We think the space turned out pretty sweet (even without the candies). Let us know your favorite part of the remodel in the comments below. If you liked this, share it. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit LinkedIn Email Print Like this: Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in decorate, these walls do talk and tagged before & after, laundry, laundry room, remodel. Bookmark the permalink. Post navigation Previous post Next post 5 thoughts on “these walls do talk: laundry room remodel” Christina Grey Would you be willing to send me the design you used for your wall saying about the laundry room ?!? I love it! As well as the entire design of this laundry room future goals! March 30, 2017 at 11:33 am Reply The Suite Life Hi Christina! Thanks so much for the suite words. The wall decal is from “CircleWallArt” that we purchased through Etsy. Here is the direct link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/101543727/laundry-room-vinyl-wall-decal-sticker?ref=shop_home_active_1. March 30, 2017 at 11:40 am Reply Pingback: Before & After: You'll Want to Send This Laundry Room Makeover to Your Landlord Immediately – Pioneers Discovers Lisa ❤️❤️❤️❤️Great job Cat. This is so cute! March 7, 2017 at 8:17 pm Reply Carl Kester Great post, Cat! -Carl, Basix March 7, 2017 at 5:30 pm Reply have something suite to say? Cancel reply Enter your comment here... 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The Oz (no link) is touting a campaign by Andrew Forrest to introduce an Australian version of the US “food stamps” system, replacing cash payments with a card that can only be used to buy an approved list of items. This is yet another step in the abandonment of economic rationalism by the political right. I’d be surprised if Forrest could get the support of any economist for this (though the recent performances of the IPA crew give me some pause). Free market advocates, following Milton Friedman, have long sought the replacement of in-kind benefits with cash. To those on the left, even where enthusiasm for markets is more qualified, the conclusion is reinforced by the obvious class warfare involved here. At best, someone like Forrest can be seen as a paternalist, hoping to protect the poor from themselves. But it’s obvious that the Murdoch press, and its target audience, want to punish the poor, not protect them.
As it happens, my slowly-progressing book has a section on just this issue, presenting the standard arguments of Friedman and others as part of the case for why markets work so well (when they do)
To help poor people, give them money
The problem of poverty is huge, in rich and poor countries alike. Around the world, nearly a billion people live in extreme poverty, living on less than $US1.50 a day. Even in the US, on most measures the wealthiest country in the world, the Dept of Agriculture estimates that 14.5 per cent of the population experience food insecurity, defined as being ‘uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.’
Faced with images of the hunger and suffering caused by famines and extreme poverty, a natural and intuitive reaction is to send food. This reaction is often politically appealing in countries that happen to have large stockpiles of food, either because of unforeseen declines in market demand, or because of government policies such as price supports for farmers.
On the other hand, many advocates of development aid dismiss food aid as a short-term ‘band-aid’, and argue that the aim of aid should be to provide the ‘right’ kind of assistance, as measured by subsequent economic growth. Advocates of aid initially focused on economic infrastructure and industrial development, and have more recently turned their attention to health and education.
Which of these approaches is right? Much of the time, neither. While support for health and education has a better track record than food aid, there is a growing body of evidence to say that, in both poor countries and rich ones, the best way to help people is to give them money.
To see why this should be so, ask: What would a desperately poor family do with some extra money? They might use to stave off immediate disaster, buying urgently needed food or medical attention for sick children.
On they other hand, they could put the towards school fees for the children, or save up a piece of capital like a sewing machine or mobile phone that would increase the family’s earning power.
So, the poor family is faced with the reality of opportunity cost. Improved living standards in the future come at the cost of present suffering, perhaps even starvation and death. Whether or not their judgements are the same as we would make, they are surely in the best possible position to make them.
Experimental evidence supports this conclusion
Exactly the same points apply in rich countries. Giving poor people assistance in kind, such as food stamps and subsidised housing, has a lot of political appeal. Not only does it meet an apparent need, but it appears to reduce the chance that the recipients will waste their extra income on luxuries, or on alcohol and tobacco. In addition, as in the case of the US food stamps program, it may also be possible to form a political coalition with producer interests, in this case the farm lobby.
Thinking in terms of opportunity cost, however, we can see that aid in kind almost inevitably results in waste. The opportunity cost of subsidised housing is the low rent paid for the house, while the opportunity cost of moving usually includes going to the back of the line. So having secured subsidised housing, people will stay there even if the house no longer suits their needs, because it is too big, too small, or far away from a new job.
The same kinds of problems come up with food stamps. Families poor enough to get food stamps face all kinds of problems. They might, for example, be faced with eviction if they don’t make a rent payment, or with a need for urgent medical or dental care.
Most of the time food stamps cover only part of a family’s food budget, so they are really just like cash. Families can meet some of their food bills with stamps, then use the money they save to meet other needs. The opportunity cost of spending more on food is the alternative that can’t be afforded.
But it’s precisely when people need money most, to the point where they are prepared to live on a restricted diet, that the limits of food stamps start to bite. If poor families were given money, they could choose to pay the rent bill even if it meant living on rice and beans. That’s a hard choice, but it might be the best one available.
Unsurprisingly, then, poor people often try to change some of their food stamps for money. This is denounced as ‘fraud’ and used as a reason for cutting food stamps even further.
It is market prices that determine the opportunity costs of goods and services for individuals and families. So, when people choose how to spend additional money, the opportunity cost of one choice is the alternative that could be bought for the same amount.
The idea that poor people don’t understand this is patronising and wrong. The tighter are the constraints on your budget, the more important it is to pay attention to them. Poor people often have less access to markets of all kinds, including supermarkets basic financial markets such as bank accounts and face complex and variable prices as a result. Nevertheless, many of them manage to find highly creative ways of stretching a limited budget to meet their needs. Additional constraints, in the form of payments that can only be spent in particular places and on particular goods, are the last thing they need. | positive |
For the Swans have appointed Mark Davies as their first Global Head of Partnerships in a bid to maximise the club’s commercial reach at home and abroad.
The 35-year-old, who holds Masters Degrees in both International Sports Law and Sports Management, has over ten years’ experience in management positions at a variety of football clubs operating at the highest level from the EFL to Premier League and UEFA Champions League.
Specialising in commercial development and sponsorship, Mark has key and unique experience in producing and implementing global club strategies, and has an impressive client list covering most major brands active within sport sponsorship in today’s marketplace.
“The Swansea story is unique,’’ explained Mark. “It is potentially the most successful supporter-owned club ever created, certainly since the Premier League’s formation.
“Now enjoying an exciting new chapter, that story is enhanced by the fact the Swans is the only Premier League team in Wales. When you combine that with the fantastic new facilities available for both the players and potential sponsors, I can’t wait to see how we grow our global appeal, while staying true to the club’s community principles.
“Within the sporting field, every club needs to know its identity and Swansea’s was evident as soon as I walked in - a club and city built on hard work and beliefs, but with an attractive style and ultimate outcome.
“These pure values create a fantastic narrative for brands to identify with and I’m confident they’ll also want to be part of what we are trying to build here.”
Mark’s appointment both delighted and excited Swansea City’s chief operating officer, Chris Pearlman.
“As we look to partner with more brands interested in being part of the unique Swansea City story and leveraging the international exposure our club receives every week, we want make sure we have the internal infrastructure to make that happen,’’ he said.
“Bringing Mark on board is an important step in that direction and I am thrilled he has agreed to join us to spearhead our partnership sales efforts.
“He brings a wealth of experience to the club and a strong track record that has been built though developing relationships with decision makers at global brands.”
Swansea City’s presence in the Premier League gives the club a huge global presence with matches shown across 212 territories and into 650 million homes, creating an estimated audience of nearly three billion people around the world. | positive |
Washington (CNN) The fate of Donald Trump's presidency may hinge on what he does next.
His failure to convert the core campaign promise of repealing and replacing Obamacare -- even with a GOP monopoly on power in Washington -- has left the White House reeling.
Trump and his advisers must now regroup and try to figure out how to avoid another legislative debacle on their next big issue, tax reform. They will do so knowing that a second failure could throttle his presidency.
Once, Trump's aides viewed health care reform, presumably an easy early win, as a way to deliver momentum to his presidency and to build toward more sweeping change picked from his ambitious agenda.
But the effort's ignominious defeat Friday has severely weakened the President, electrified Democrats and left Trump's declarations that he is the ultimate dealmaker who can change Washington looking increasingly hollow.
Trump surprised some of those close to him with his reaction to Friday's health care collapse. He did not vent or rage. Instead in the Oval Office afterward Trump was "sullen and quiet" as he contemplated his first blow, dealt by the Washington swamp he had vowed to drain, one insider source said.
The President was well aware he failed to deliver on an issue that stirs the passions of his political base. He was also mindful that the health care disaster would make his quest to tackle a behemoth tax package that much more difficult, the source said.
Indeed, the early failure means that hundreds of billions of dollars in federal savings that the White House had earmarked to bankroll a tax code overhaul are nowhere to be seen.
"It makes everything harder moving forward," one Trump adviser said.
Another senior administration official told CNN's Gloria Borger that tax reform could now have to be a "smaller version," than originally planned and the problem would be explaining to the public that because the repeal of Obamacare didn't happen, there's "a trillion dollars less to deal with."
Already casting an eye toward the midterm elections, which typically hurt the President's own party, some of Trump's advisers fear Obamacare's underdog survival will provide a rallying point for their political foes.
"Democrats will feel emboldened and their base will feel emboldened," a senior administration official said.
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Washington wins
As the White House grasps for a bounce back strategy, his team must take another look at one of the most important questions that Trump faced when he took power, one lent more urgency by his humiliation over health care.
They must consider whether his brand as an outsider -- with broad strokes politics that exacerbates grievances, has little time for dissenters and is anchored around his imposing, unpredictable personality -- can actually prosper in Washington.
Ironically, it was the same forces of inertia and division in the capital that soured Trump's voters on the political establishment and helped elevate him to power that combined to defeat him in his first legislative venture.
"I think what happened is that Washington won," said Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney, in a frank moment Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I think the one thing we learned this week is that Washington was a lot more broken than President Trump thought that it was," said Mulvaney, adding "the status quo wins and, unfortunately, the folks back home lost."
Mulvaney's comments marked a stunning admission, given that he works for a President who brashly predicted he knew politics better than the politicians and would soon bring the city to heel with his negotiating flair and mastery of sealing a deal.
Instead, two-thirds of the way through his crucial First 100 days, Trump is nowhere near any significant legislative victory. And health care reform's failure is not his only problem. His travel ban on citizens on a list of predominantly Muslim nations has twice been turned back by the courts. His budget, which features steep cuts in diplomacy spending to finance an increase for the military, is facing stiff resistance in Congress. A building intrigue over his campaign's ties to Russia is clouding the White House's mood.
It now appears that the most tangible success of Trump's first months in office will be the expected confirmation of his Supreme Court pick, Judge Neil Gorsuch -- though even that will further polarize Washington. Republicans are vowing to invoke the "nuclear option" by changing Senate rules so that Gorsuch can be confirmed with 51 votes, along party lines, rather than with the super-majority traditionally required for nominees to the nation's top bench.
In one sense, it should not be surprising that Trump is struggling. He is the most inexperienced new president in history, and lacks the political networks and insider contacts that most commanders-in-chief take for granted when they take office.
Capitol Hill sources report that the President appeared unfamiliar with the in-depth details of the health care bill, as he tried to move votes in meetings with holdout Republican lawmakers.
And while his predecessor, Barack Obama, spent months marshaling Obamacare through Congress, Trump tried to ram through the repeal bill in a matter of weeks.
That was part of a White House strategy to get a fast start in the First 100 Days to create a shock-and-awe sense of momentum. But the tactic appears to have backfired -- especially in the case of Obamacare and the travel ban where too little time was spent assessing the political and legal complexities and framing a coherent strategy.
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Political capital spent?
And some polls showing Trump's approval rating dipping below 40% have undercut the leverage of a new presidency, making it tougher still to drive ambitious bills into law.
There are still plenty of whispers about the fractious nature of the West Wing itself. Stories of rivalry and infighting have been proliferating since the start of the election -- apparently owing to Trump's habit of setting up rival centers of influence in his own operation to create chaos in which he believes he can thrive.
If the President "wanted to end the infighting, he could end it," a senior administration official told CNN's Borger. And amid rumors that Chief of Staff Reince Priebus could pay the price for health care reform's failure with his job, the source said that if the Wisconsin Republican is in trouble "it's because of reasons other than health care. Things are not run very smoothly."
But there's plenty of blame to go around.
Once again, the fractious Republican coalition seems unsuited for government, as House Speaker Paul Ryan remarked himself on Friday.
And while some on Trump's team may look to blame the intransigent Freedom Caucus or Ryan's insistence in pushing a brand of conservative reform that seems an odd fit for Trump's ideological coalition, the President's team knows it must up its game and embrace a more inclusive, strategic approach in his next legislative fight.
Two senior administration officials acknowledged to CNN that the White House should have made earlier appeals to outside conservative groups and taken a bigger role in driving the strategy to sell the health care bill -- rather than play a supporting role to House GOP leaders -- from the outset.
"Going forward you're going to see the White House play a more active role on the front end in terms of language and strategy out of the gate," one of the officials said.
Priebus meanwhile went out of his way on Sunday to smooth over any suggestion that Trump and Ryan were at odds, after rumblings to that effect from administration officials and Capitol Hill Republicans in anonymous accounts on Friday.
"He talked to Paul Ryan yesterday for about an hour. He believes what he said in the Oval Office on Friday. He doesn't blame Paul Ryan," Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."
Incredibly, after Trump spent months demonizing Washington and playing up its dysfunctional nature, and chief strategist Steve Bannon's spent extensive time spent fueling GOP infighting as head of Breitbart News, Trump's team still seems to have underestimated the treacherous political forces that simmer below its surface.
A second senior administration official conceded that the White House underestimated "how deep the animosity is in the Republican conference," believing that the pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare would outweigh the fine points that stirred factional rivalries.
"It's more poisonous than at any point," the official said, adding that Republicans' ability to mend fences internally may define whether the White House is successful in its subsequent attempts at major legislation like tax reform and an infrastructure bill.
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Democrats rising
Democrats, some of whom Trump will need to pass a tax overhaul, are already feeling emboldened by Republicans' failure to work in lockstep to repeal President Barack Obama's proudest achievement. It may be that the drama of the last few days has given the party the sense of purpose that has been lacking as shell-shocked Democrats try to move past Hillary Clinton's defeat in November.
"Today is a great day for our country, it's a victory -- what happened on the floor is a victory for the American people, for our seniors, for people with disabilities, for our children, for our veterans," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. "Quite frankly, I thought they might have accomplished something in the first couple of months."
Trump blamed Democrats Friday for his failure to pass the health care bill -- an odd tactic since Republicans dominate Congress. But he also signaled he was willing to work with them on subsequent legislation -- including a potential attempt to save Obamacare, which the President insists is "imploding."
But it seems just as likely that if his presidency continues to struggle, Democrats will see little political imperative to help out a Republican president who has maligned Obama and made little attempt to enroll them in the first health care reform effort.
Of course, 66 days is too soon to judge a four-year presidential term, but it's clear that Trump cannot afford a repeat of the disastrous Obamacare drama as he moves to his next big legislative battles.
Whether Trump is prepared to soberly analyze what went wrong, and hold himself as accountable as those around him in his White House and Capitol Hill will go a long way to deciding whether his reeling presidency can make a comeback.
So far, his CEO brand of leadership appears to be less effective in the political arena than it had been in the boardroom.
But it's not too late.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-New York, said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday: "I think that he's going to learn an awful lot from this experience." | positive |
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that BJP succeeded in winning Lok Sabha polls by playing the communal card and even public failed to comprehend the fact.
"BJP had succeeded in winning Lok Sabha elections based on communalism and even public failed to recognise the fact," Rahul told an election rally here. He accused BJP of "cheating" people of the nation by showing sweet dreams and "misguiding" them on communal lines. Gandhi was addressing public rally at Bani, organised in support of Congress candidate Rajneesh Sharma Miyan.
He was accompanied by Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni, JK state chief Saifuddin Soz on his campaigning for the party candidate. Castigating BJP, Rahul said that Modi-led government is pursuing the same policies and programmes that of Congress, whether it is MNREGA, Food Security Bill or introduction of Insurance Bill and many others.
He added that as far as price hike of day-to-day commodities concerns, within a period of two-months, the people had come to know, which government was better. "Congress had recently won seats in three regions which proves that the public had recognised the actual face of BJP," he said. "Congress had a strong base and no doubt in future it will emerge to new heights," he said. | positive |
Samuel Bunyan, now 21, sexually assaulted a fellow undergraduate as she slept, after her birthday party
A Durham University student sexually assaulted a fellow undergraduate as she slept, after spending the night drinking with her at her birthday party.
Samuel Bunyan, now 21, originally from Diseworth, in Derbyshire, has been jailed for more than two and a half years after admitting two counts of sexual assault.
The court heard that his victim said she was 'seven out of ten' drunk when she went to bed, following the birthday celebrations in June last year.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, awoke with pain in her groin area and found that her jumper had been pulled up and her bra undone.
She found Bunyan, who was 20 at the time, was in the bed with her and burst into tears, Durham Crown Court heard.
The physics student walked the woman home from a pub and claims he was invited into her bedroom to watch videos.
Prosecutor Paul Cleasby, said she was shocked to realise someone was next to her in bed but, still suffering the effects of alcohol, cried herself back to sleep.
When she woke, she messaged Bunyan on Facebook. He initially denied anything happened, but later admitted he remembered sleeping in her bed.
Mr Cleasby said when she pressed him further, he said he had 'briefly' sexually touched her, and was 'sorry'.
The court heard that his victim said she was 'seven out of ten' drunk when she went to bed, following the birthday celebrations in Durham in June last year (file photo)
Bunyan was arrested and admitted the offences to police, saying that he was 'eight out of ten' drunk.
Katharine Goddard, mitigating, said he was very remorseful and said the offence was a single blemish committed against a background of depression.
But Judge Christopher Prince said despite many glowing character testimonials, he had to impose an immediate sentence as Bunyan, 'specifically targeted a vulnerable victim', due to her drunkenness.
The judge also imposed a restraining order, forbidding any contact with the victim, and made him subject to notification as a sex offender 'indefinitely'. | positive |
You can’t spell Twitter without an “i”—or tweet, it seems, without a me, my or mine.
Everyone already knows that social media is a great place for narcissists. The news: our mobile phones might be enabling our egos. A new study just published in the Journal of Communication finds that tweets sent from smartphones are 25% more negative than tweets sent from computers. “Have they had a bad sandwich? Have they been stuck in bad traffic? They want to talk about it,” says study author Dhiraj Murthy, who has been studying Twitter since the social network’s start. And we do talk about it, ad nauseam.
Tweets from phones were also more egotistical. “That was a very surprising finding,” says Murthy. “That speaks volumes to me.”
To come to these conclusions, Murthy, at Goldsmiths, University of London, and his colleagues collected 235 million tweets sent from North America over six weeks in 2013. They then borrowed a tactic from social psychology to look at certain word associations in the messages by using the Implicit Association Test, a kind of personality test based on word analysis.
Some words, including my, me, mine and self, have been associated with egocentricity, while others, like pain, grief and agony, have been linked, no surprise, to negativity. The researchers also looked at the times of day people tweeted and whether they were sending messages from a mobile phone or computer.
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Our tweets are most negative and egocentric during certain days of the week and certain times of the day.
Tweets are the most negative in the early morning and the late evening. And while our ego chills out a bit during the workday, it rises right after, our tweets reveal. “We leave work, we leave school and we start becoming more egocentric,” Murthy says. Happily, though, we seem to give our narcissism the weekends off. Sunday morning, the ego’s holy day of rest, is the time we tweet our least egocentric thoughts.
Twitter provides a documented stream of consciousness of our thoughts, and our phones don’t even require us to wait until we get back to our computer to let the world (and the world’s Twitter researchers) know exactly what we’re thinking. “Because everything has become more mobile, it’s reflecting more of what we’re doing in the moment,” Murthy says. “Some of the thoughts we had before that we weren’t communicating are now coming through our mobile devices, and there’s a certain egocentric bias emerging from it.”
Write to Mandy Oaklander at mandy.oaklander@time.com. | positive |
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So we’re getting close to launching Digg’s Next Big Thing Or Two — a series of products and features we hope you’ll find to be smart and interesting takes on Internet conversation, oriented around the stories and videos that make it onto Digg. (ICYMI, Justin Van Slembrouck, Digg’s Design Director, recently previewed what’s coming next.)
As Digg gets ready to welcome our users’ thoughts and observations and arguments and points and queries and comments and corrections and provocations and so forth, we need policies that strike the right balance between free self-expression and basic civility. Lots of companies have tread this ground before, so what follows shouldn’t seem new or revolutionary. Rather, Digg’s Community Guidelines are intended to embody a fundamentally moderate approach: to encourage very open debates, very free discussions, and very searching dialogue, while setting some straightforward limits that establish Digg as a place that values civility and mutual respect. Our aim here is to adopt a handful of clear rules that we will enforce in a predictable and reliable way. These guidelines will undoubtedly change as Digg’s conversational products expand, grow and evolve, and we’ll want, and humbly request, your advice and counsel along the way.
Without further ado, here’s version 1.0 of Digg’s Community Guidelines.
– Andrew, Digg CEO
Digg Community Guidelines
Digg is a place for lively conversation, discussion, inquiry, and debate. On Digg, you can – and we hope you will – offer an opinion, express a point of view, challenge a claim, ask a tough question, and provoke a response. We’re building features like Digg Dialog so that you can, for example, ask an investigative journalist to explain the deep background behind her reporting, debate the conclusions she’s drawn, and share your own knowledge about the subject.
Broadly, we believe in self-expression and the free and open exchange of opinions, thoughts, and ideas. We also believe in civility; a rudimentary level of respect is essential to sustain dialogue over time. To that end, Digg enforces a set of community guidelines.
Our aim is to have a small set of clear rules that we consistently and impartially enforce. We’d love your feedback and advice on how to write and implement them better.
What’s Not Allowed On Digg
Here are the categories of stuff we don’t allow users to post on Digg – in whatever form, whether words, images, avatars, or links to webpages that contain it:
Hateful abuse: Slurs, epithets, and hateful speech that denigrates people based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, gender expression, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
OK: “I respectfully disagree!”
Not OK: “I respectfully disagree, you dirty *#$%!”
Threats and calls to violence: Threats and encouragement to commit acts of violence against others.
OK: “This article on puppy abuse makes me want to throttle someone.”
Not OK: “This article on puppy abuse makes me want to kill someone, so let’s all d0xx, stalk, and assassinate the author.”
Abusive names: Usernames, screen names, bios, or avatars that are abusive, fraudulent, racist, demeaning, hateful, needlessly inflammatory, overtly sexual, or impersonating in a way that’s not obviously a parody. Basically, Digg’s username space should be rated G or PG.
OK: fakeDonaldTrump
Not OK: realDonaldTrump (unless you really are The Donald himself)
OK: AndrewMcLaughlin
Not OK: AndrewMcLaughlinSuxDonkeyButt (even if you believe in good faith that he does)
Gratuitous sexual explicitness: Words or images that are sexually explicit in a way that’s off-topic or out-of-context.
OK: [In a discussion on sex education] “It’s time we started teaching teens about blowjobs.”
Not OK: [In a discussion on North Korea] “It’s time we started teaching teens about blowjobs.”
Trademark and copyright infringement: Speech or links that infringe someone else’s legally protected trademark or copyright, recognizing that fair use is a fundamental element of free speech.
OK: Quoting a few sentences from an article to critique it.
Not OK: Copying and pasting 100% of someone else’s piece of writing without permission.
Spam: Off-topic, fraudulent, or deceptive commercial pitches.
Harassment: Repeatedly attacking, bullying, or trolling someone in a targeted, ad hominem, or otherwise over-the-top way.
OK: “You are mistaken.”
Not OK: Following someone around and attacking his/her every comment, or attacking him/her every time s/he makes a comment. “You are an idiotic and worthless waste of biological mass.” “You are an idiotic and worthless waste of biological mass.” “You are an idiotic and worthless waste of biological mass.” “You are an idiotic and worthless waste of biological mass.” Etc.
Privacy violations: The posting of someone’s personal or private information.
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Illegal speech: Illegal content of whatever sort, like fraud or phishing.
False flagging: The abusive mis-flagging of comments or users by falsely claiming violations of these guidelines.
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We will take down any comments or posts, and disable any usernames or screen names, that violate these guidelines. When we take action like that, we will attempt to notify the person who posted it, via email or our web interface, to give her/him a chance to fix the issue or to argue back in case we’re getting it wrong. Where someone repeatedly violates the guidelines, we may restrict, suspend, or terminate the account.
We will do our best to be abundantly clear and consistent in enforcing these rules, to be open and honest about it, and to honor the guidelines in their implementation. Of course, as our lawyerly besties have advised us to state explicitly, we reserve the right to enforce, or not enforce, our community guidelines in our sole discretion. These rules create no duty or contractual obligation for us to take any particular action.
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SAM Burgess has given a proposed New York rugby league club a huge leg-up admitting he could be lured to the Big Apple to finish his career.
Ambitious plans for a second American-based team to follow the Toronto Wolfpack were launched this week, with the New York City franchise hoping to enter the division below the Super League for the 2019 season.
Already Jarryd Hayne has been confirmed as the club’s number one target but a big-name forward is also on the radar and, speaking to Fairfax Media, Burgess admitted an offer would be tempting.
“New York, I’m sure there’ll be plenty of players putting their hands up to go play over there. It would be a great place to live, to play the game, to travel,” Burgess said, from England’s World Cup base in Perth.
“It’s pretty exciting. Toronto is a reality, they’ve attracted some big talent. Dave Taylor’s going there next year, big Coaltrain.
“When you’re getting to the back end of your career … it’s an opportunity … I’ll see how my body’s holding up.”
Now 28, Burgess is contracted to the Rabbitohs for next season and has discussed a one-year extension with the club he spearheaded to a drought-breaking premiership in 2014.
However, until he puts pen to paper there remains a chance that he will be a free agent leading into New York’s first year in the English competition, should the club’s bid for entry succeed.
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Sterlo rubbishes Cronk move
Noise is growing louder around Cooper Cronk’s possible move to Bondi, but a league legend is worried the potential move could ruin the career of another star.
Peter Sterling says the signing of Cronk could ruin the NRL career of Mitchell Pearce, and fears it would have ramifications for teammates Luke Keary and even Jake Friend.
Cronk is yet to announce what he will do for a job in 2018, but has been heavily linked to the Chooks in the past week.
It leaves the future of halfback Pearce in doubt, who would likely be the unlucky man to make way for the champion No.7.
But if Pearce was to shift position, it would be five-eighth Keary or hooker and captain Friend who could be shuffled out.
Sterling also questioned how the Roosters would have room in their salary cap to sign Cronk.
“I don’t know how they’re going to fit everybody in, and if Cooper Cronk comes I can’t see how they would be showing Mitchell Pearce the door,” Sterling told Triple M’s Dead Set Legends.
Peter Sterling with NSW's Mitchell Pearce during Origin. Source: News Corp Australia
“I don’t see how they could be changing positions for him. I don’t know what they’d be thinking of doing in terms of shuffling the chairs.
“I’ve still got (Jake Friend) second behind Cameron Smith when it comes to Origin representation. I’m surprised he’s not in the World Cup squad.
“I think Luke Keary has transcended (being a bench player) now. What we saw this year, he’s a regular starting first grade player.
“I think it would be very harsh for Luke Keary. If I was put into that position and I was Luke, after the kind of season I’ve had, to actually be pushed back to a number 14-17, I wouldn’t cop it particularly well.”
The other club Cronk has been linked to is South Sydney.
Sterling is equally concerned a move to Redfern would ruin the career of Adam Reynolds at the Rabbitohs.
“Adam Reynolds played Origin a couple of years ago. He’s a class No. 7,” Sterling said.
“I don’t see him playing alongside Cooper Cronk. I don’t think that they complement each other. I don’t see how Cooper fits into either camp.
“I’m going to say that I don’t think that we’ll see Cooper Cronk playing at either of those two clubs next year. I still don’t think we’ll see Cooper play.”
TITANS BACK TO THREE CONTENDERS
Gold Coast looks to be back up to three contenders on their coaching shortlist.
Last week it was reported the job was down to either Michael Maguire or Jason Demetriou, but now it’s being reported Garth Brennan is right back in the race.
Media outlets have reported Brennan flew to the sunshine strip to meet with Titans officials on Monday.
Club CEO Graham Annesley was unable to be contacted by foxsports.com.au for comment.
It’s believed the club wants to lock down a coach by the end of October.
Gold Coast CEO Graham Annesley. Source: News Corp Australia
BLUES CLOSE IN ON LOZ REPLACEMENT
NSW Rugby League will meet on Tuesday to discuss the applications for Blues coach.
The NSWRL is yet to replace Laurie Daley in the role, but have reportedly narrowed the shortlist down to four men.
NRL 360 says the four contenders are Brad Fittler, David Furner, John Cartwright, and Michael Maguire.
“Maguire and Fittler are the two standouts ... when I say standouts, I mean they are the two in front,” NRL 360 co-host Paul Kent said.
“Long odds for Cartwright and Furner ... I think Fittler will get the job.”
‘TAUMALOLO SHOULD GET A SECOND CHANCE’
New Zealand forward Elijah Taylor believes Jason Taumalolo should not be shunned by the country in future international selections.
Taumalolo created uproar when he snubbed the Kiwis to join Tonga for the World Cup.
But Taylor is a little more empathetic than some.
“What happens in the future, that’s up to the people at the top,” Taylor told the New Zealand Herald.
“That’s not my decision, that’s for the New Zealand Rugby League to sort out.
“But if he is eligible to play for the Kiwis again, he should get that opportunity to play.”
WARRIORS SALE EDGES CLOSER
Reports suggest Auckland Rugby League is edging closer to buying the Warriors.
Among a handful of potential buyers, ARL is about to start due diligence on the club, according to the New Zealand Herald.
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Annual Applied Complexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium: The Emerging Frontiers of Invention Agenda - Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki Navigation Main Page Help Sandbox Recent changes Random page SFI Home Page Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information Create account Log in Navigation Main Page Help Sandbox Recent changes Random page SFI Home Page Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information Actions Page Discussion View source History Annual Applied Complexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium: The Emerging Frontiers of Invention Agenda From Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki Home Agenda Speakers Registration Travel Information Symposium November 9 - 10, 2018 Please check back often for updates... Friday, November 9 Santa Fe Institute, Noyce Conference Room ACtioN Member Special Programming 9:00 a.m. SFI Applied Tutorials: Blockchain and Token Design Master Class Presenters: Daniel Moroz (Harvard University) and Georgios Piliouras (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Session Leader: Andrea Jones-Rooy (Santa Fe Institute) General Session Inn at Loretto, Zuni Ballroom 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Tesuque Room) and Registration 1:00 p.m. Introduction to Invention and Innovation David Krakauer (Santa Fe Institute) 1:30 p.m. Designers of Reality Panel Discussion Alan Gershenfeld (E-Line Media), Seamus Blackley (Pacific Light & Hologram), Constance Steinkuehler (University of California - Irvine) 2:30 p.m. Break 3:00 p.m. Investing in Inventors Panel Discussion Bill Gurley (Benchmark & SFI), D.A. Wallach (Inevitable Ventures), and Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital & SFI) 4:00 p.m. SFI Inventive Minds -- Postdoc flashtalks Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Jacopo Grilli, Albert Kao, Michael Price, Hajime Shimao, and Tamara van der Does 5:00 p.m. Dinner Reception at The Inn at Loretto 7:00 p.m. Inventing Parallel Realities Keynote Talk (Zuni Ballroom) Caity Kennedy (Meow Wolf) and Matt King (Meow Wolf) 8:00 p.m. Adjourn Saturday, November 10 Inn at Loretto, Zuni Ballroom 8:00 a.m. Breakfast (Tesuque Room) and Registration 9:00 a.m. Edison vs. Tesla Edison and Tesla Tracy 9:15 a.m. Mavericks of Invention Aaron Horowitz (Sproutel), Ben Lux (ACTEGA North America Technologies), and Star Simpson (Corvidair) 10:15 a.m. The Dark Side of Innovation Jacob Silverman (Journalist and Author) 11:00 a.m. Break 11:30 a.m. The Future of Computation Dave Ackley (UNM), Rolando Somma (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute) 12:30 p.m. Lunch (Tesuque Room) 1:30 p.m. The Late Invention of Holography, Tristan Duke (Infinity Light Science) 2:15 p.m. New Maps for Innovation Territories, Juan Mateos-Garcia (Nesta) 3:00 p.m. Break 3:30 p.m. Masters of Invention Panel Discussion Brian Arthur (PARC & SFI), John Seely Brown (Deloitte Center for the Edge & USC), Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute & UCLA), and Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute) 5:00 p.m. Adjourn 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception at Santa Fe Institute's Miller Campus Sunday, November 11 - Board of Trustees Only Santa Fe Institute Board of Trustees Meeting, Santa Fe Institute 7:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Meeting 12:00 p.m. Adjourn Retrieved from "https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Annual_Applied_Complexity_Network_and_Board_of_Trustees_Symposium:_The_Emerging_Frontiers_of_Invention_Agenda&oldid=74697" This page was last edited on 8 November 2018, at 22:55. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy About Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki Disclaimers Powered by MediaWiki | negative |
The Studio Challenges: Wednesday Extra - I Love Mini Album Pages Home The Design Team Sponsorship Wednesday, 9 February 2011 Wednesday Extra - I Love Mini Album With Valentine's Day approaching, I wanted to create something that celebrated my love for my boys (including my hubby). I don't often give mini albums a go because I can't always set aside enough time to complete the project, and I worry it will remain unfinished. However, I decided to streamline my process and I thought I'd share my "quick mini album tips" with you today. Tip #1: Choose an easy size to work with. My album is essentially 6" x 6", so trimming down papers was simple and fast. I love the look of albums with different size and shape pages, but those fabulous minis will take some extra time. Tip #2: Make a kit for yourself to work with. I chose the Enchanted line by Dear Lizzy from American Crafts as my base, then added boyish touches with the Hambly bicycle paper and the Teresa Colins star transparency. Having coordinated materials at my finger tips made assembling easy. Tip #3: Create one page design, then repeat that design with variations for the rest of the pages. My basic design was a 3.5" x 6" piece of patterned paper and a 2.5" x 6" piece of patterned paper with paper tape and ribbon across the seam. I varied the design by making it vertical, changing out which pattern went where, and using different colors of tape and ribbon. I kept my photo placement basically the same, as well as the placement of my embellishments. Tip #4: Keep the journaling short and sweet. I used my title, I Love You Boys, as my prompt. Each sentence refers to a specific photo and completes the thought: "I love you boys... because I do." All in all, a mini album is a scrapbooking effort that does take more time than a layout or card, but it doesn't have to be an impossible task to complete. Simplify your process, create with love, and the result will be something meaningful that you treasure for years to come. Be sure to visit The Studio forum and gallery, where I will be posting more photos of my mini album and answering any questions you may have. Have a wonderful day, and Happy Valentine's Day! Tessa Posted by Tessa Buys at 17:26 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 11 comments: LucianaW 9 February 2011 at 18:50 So sweet...I love mini too. Congrats! Kisses from Brazil! ReplyDelete Replies Reply Jimjams 9 February 2011 at 18:59 That's one gorgeous mini-book and I love your tips: they're sensible and will seriously streamline production - I too hate half-finished projects. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Cassie 9 February 2011 at 19:02 This is absolutely gorgeous!!! I love the colors! So pretty! =) ReplyDelete Replies Reply patti west 9 February 2011 at 19:59 What an adorable mini!! Great tips too! :) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Valerie 9 February 2011 at 21:45 What a gorgeous project Tessa. I love how you mixed the girly papers with the Hambly bicycles. It's the perfect balance of materials. Your boys will cherish this :) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Amanda Jones 9 February 2011 at 22:34 This is fabulous, Tessa! I too love how you've combined boy with some girlie bits and pieces :) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Julie Tucker-Wolek 10 February 2011 at 02:34 WOW WOW WOW!! Tessa! This is AMAZING!!! Loveeeeeeeeeee your flowers! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Nadia Cannizzo 10 February 2011 at 11:54 WOW! This is just stunning. I love it. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Gayle Price 10 February 2011 at 21:43 Your mini-book is beautiful, so clean and fresh with just the right amount of 'cuteness'. Your detailed tips are so well written and so helpful as well. I have just joined, love your site and am looking forward to joining in the challenges. 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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Donald John TrumpHouse committee believes it has evidence Trump requested putting ally in charge of Cohen probe: report Vietnamese airline takes steps to open flights to US on sidelines of Trump-Kim summit Manafort's attorneys say he should get less than 10 years in prison MORE underscored his hard stance on illegal immigration during a rally Thursday night by bringing several people on stage whose family members had been killed by illegal immigrants.
"They're unbelievable. They've suffered," Trump said during a California rally before bringing them up on the stage. "These are great people."
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Trump gave the mic to Jamiel Shaw, whose son was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant in 2008. Shaw has previously appeared in a campaign ad for Trump.
Shaw said he found out the man who shot his son was an "illegal alien on his third gun charge."
Shaw said Trump's stance on illegal immigration — centered on mass deportations and building a wall along the Mexican border — gave him hope.
"We demand Americans first," Shaw said. "We don't care about illegal aliens."
Trump called Shaw "a great guy" as he took back the podium after several minutes.
"They all have a very similar story to tell, people that shouldn't have been here, people that should have never been allowed to come over the border, and they come here like it's nothing, they walk through it like it's nothing," he said as the crowd chanted "build a wall."
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Random Thoughts: DAY 354 COUNTDOWN TO EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY skip to main | skip to sidebar Random Thoughts Alan Edelstein made Aliyah in 2011 and lives in Jerusalem. He was the founding partner of a well-respected California government affairs firm and was involved in California government and politics as a lobbyist and consultant for 30 years. He blogs at www.edelsteinrandomthoughts.com. He can be reached at ae@edelsteinstrategies.com Wednesday, February 23, 2011 DAY 354 COUNTDOWN TO EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY The Sacramento Jewish Community, my home community, has been confronted with several real challenges lately. Firstly, the Leonard Friedman Bar Association, named for one of the most well-respected judges and pro-Israel advocates that I have ever known, invited Judge Goldstone, author of the discredited, incredibly anti-Israel biased Goldstone Report, to be the speaker at its annual dinner. This has prompted a storm of controversy in the local community of Jewish lawyers. I have been a strong critic of this invitation and a vociferous advocate of its rescission. If this were not enough, a local mosque, headed by an Iman with whom members of the Jewish community have worked on interfaith issues, agreed to host a traveling presentation entitled "Never Again for Anyone." This presentation is a terrible affront to Jews on many levels. It accuses Israel of crimes such as the Nazis committed. It equates treatment of the Palestinians with treatment of the Jews by the Nazis. It appropriates language of the Holocaust for blatantly anti-Israel purposes. It is an insult to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Finally, a newly formed student group at UC Davis, just 20 minutes west of Sacramento, sponsored a campus speech by an Iman from the Oakland area who is a known, vocal Jew hater. Many suspect that local Muslim Student Association members, noting the adverse consequences that resulted to the UC Irvine MSA when its members disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, cleverly created a new organization to bring in this local hate-mongerer. It is disheartening to see such hurtful, hateful events as the one featuring the anti-Semitic Iman and the Never Again presentation take place in the Sacramento/Davis area, an area that takes pride in its tolerance and its efforts at postive intergroup relations. Equally disheartening to me is to see a Jewish group invite and lend credence to an author who, either intentionally or in reckless disregard for the truth, has done untold unfair damage to the only Jewish majority country in the world, Israel. I have been encouraged, however, by how quickly Sacramento's Rabbinic Council came together to protest and condemn the presentation of Never Again at the local mosque. I am also encouraged by the strong voices of many Jewish lawyers, a good number of them very respected, veteran Sacramento attorneys, who have petitioned the Board of the Leonard Friedman Bar Association to rescind the invitation to Judge Goldstone. They have not been timid or shy, and several have been very eloquent. As is usual with these kinds of siuations in the Jewish community, a debate has arisen regarding whether and how to respond to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activities, and particularly in regard to the appropriate response when Jews in the community disagree with the activities of other Jews in the community, an occurrence that, unfortunately, is frequent and frequently distracts from the real work at hand. I recently had an exchange with a Sacramento-area rabbi that touches on some of the challenges and issues in regard to this debate on the best way to respond. First are some thoughts by Rabbi Alan Greenbaum of Grass Valley, CA: I would like to weigh in on a couple of issues/observations. I am heartened at how passionately the leaders of the Sacramento Jewish community have come to the defense of Israel in the face of a program which was filled with outright lies as well as dark innuendoes which could only lead the un-educated or partially-educated audience members to a place of disdain of Israel. We should never be silent in the face of such efforts and, indeed, we were not silent! At the same time I am concerned at the attempts to derail such programs before they occur - whether the "Never Again" presentation or the upcoming speech of Judge Goldstone. Just as we embrace Israel for being both Jewish and a democracy, we have to guide our own efforts with both Jewish and democratic values - free speech being among those values. Another way of understanding my concern is that we are letting those who oppose Israel set the agenda. As long as we do that; as long as we permit that dynamic, we will always be plotting and scheming of ways to get back at "them" or to silence "them" or to label "them." This strategy comes out of a place of weakness and will never win the day, or even improve the day. It is always better to come from a place of strength. In this case, the strength would come from us setting the agenda - not in a reactive manner, but in a pro-active manner. It is better for us to launch a series of community programs which discuss Israel's strengths and weaknesses so that we choose the speakers who would speak both honestly and fairly in their analyses. It also shows the world that we are not blind loyalists of Israeli policy, but rather that we are thoughtful and aware supporters of Israel. Wishing everybody a lovely Tuesday, Rabbi Alan Greenbaum Grass Valley And here is my response: Dear Rabbi Greenbaum: As one who has lived in the Sacramento Jewish community for over 50 years, let me assure you that the community has undertaken many activities over the years designed to be proactive and to set the agenda. Through the JCRC, the Jewish Federation, AIPAC, Hillel, StandWithUs, Northern Californians in Support of Israel, several synagogues, Hadassah, and several other organizations, the community has sponsored positive events designed to shape perceptions of Israel and the Jewish people's aspirations to have a home of its own. I have initiated, participated in, and financially supported more of these activities than I can count. However, when hate in the form of explicitly anti-Jewish speech or hate expressed in attempts to delegitimize and dehumanize the Jewish National Liberation Movement, i.e. Zionism, we must respond forcefully and explicitly and stop it from occurring in our community. You may characterize that as being "reactive." I characterize it as being responsible and proud. You may say it indicates "weakness." In contrast, I consider it to show strength and confidence and resoluteness. This is not a matter of free speech. People who espouse hate in our country have every right to espouse it. However, people who oppose hate have every right and, I believe, a responsibility, to try to stop it from taking place in their community. By that I do not mean they should throw rocks or physically prevent people from assembling. But we should certainly say that we do not want it in our community and try to convince people not to sponsor or host it. These people have a right to decide that our arguments are persuasive and that they do not want anything to do with the hate. We would join with other community groups in saying "Not in our community" if David Duke was invited to town to espouse his horrible theories of white supremacy. We would speak up against the idea of a group giving a forum to Glenn Beck so that he could espouse his misguided, hateful attitudes. Why is it when it comes to hate against Jews and delegitimizing of the Jewish people's country, many persons feel the need to provide a forum and to allow "free speech." Why are Jews first in line to say no to hate when it is directed against others, and much more concerned with airing all sides and not appearing to stifle speech when it comes to Jews? It is true that in Israel, a democracy with a vital free press and open discussion, all of these issues are debated. Of course, there are the obvious distinctions: Israelis send their children as soldiers into areas to protect "settlements," or they send their children into areas that have been evacuated to prevent rocket attacks, and Israelis in many parts of the country live in terror when rockets come reining down. But there is also another point: yes, we have the same rights as Israelis to debate these issues. However, we can also be informed and wise and thoughtful enough to understand that when we have these arguments, Israel's enemies can take things out of context and use them to do severe damage to Israel. Now that can happen when Israelis debate these issues. But that is a negative that must be accepted because Israelis must debate these issues. They have to decide on policies that impact their survival. We can recognize that when we discuss these issues, the negatives occur, but what are the positives? Are we making decisions that effect our lives? Are we making decisions that our children will have to implement as soldiers? There seems to be no shortage of people critical of Israel. Can we really add something new? I would suggest that we might show our strength and our thoughtfulness by not indulging every right we have to debate every issue despite the damage that can result to Israel. If one is not comfortable with a particular Israeli policy, one can decide to just be quiet. One can say one personally disagrees with the policy but explain why others in Israel feel that they must support the policy. One can be responsible and intelligent about their discussion and understand the potential consequences of engaging in "free speech." One can decide that because Jews living in Israel live with the consequences, that one should just be supportive when one can be and not join the piling on against Israel. At a minimum, when hate against Jews and deligitimizing of the Jewish nation tries to come to our community, we can all stand strong and say "Not in our city; not on our watch." B'shalom. Alan Edelstein ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in why I feel Judge Goldstone should be treated as a pariah by mainstream Jewish organizations, and why the Leonard Friedman Bar Association's invitation should be rescinded, read my letter below to the Association. Since I wrote that, about 25 Jewish lawyers have signed onto a joint letter and, as mentioned above, several have written their own very persuasive letters. To the Board of the Leonard M. Friedman Bar Association: It pained me deeply to see that the Association was giving Justice Goldstone a platform and the honor of speaking at an event named after the late Justice Leonard Friedman. Much of Justice Goldstone's career and actions are antithetical to the ideals and actions of Justice Friedman. Justice Friedman loved Israel and the Jewish people, abhorred injustice and discrimination, held himself and others to the highest ethical standards, and respected and demanded the best in research, writing, and scholarship. Justice Goldstone's career has violated all of these characteristics with very damaging consequences. To be specific: 1. Justice Goldstone was a South African judge during the apartheid period. Far from protesting apartheid and working against it, he was an active cog in this despicable wheel. He imposed death sentences on more than a dozen black South Africans. It was only when he saw the tide turning that he moved toward the post-apartheid camp, giving rise to his well-known report. Consistent with his opportunistic, which-way-is-the wind blowing habits, his report focused only on the violence of the pro-apartheid camp, ignoring the violence of the African National Council's supporters. When later queried about his role in the apartheid South African judiciary system, he responded with an answer that can be summarized as "I was just going along with the system." Justice Friedman never just went along if he believed something was wrong. 2. Justice Goldstone accepted a mandate from the United Nations that he knew was biased against Israel from the beginning and had in its origins the conclusion that Israel was guilty. The fact that Justice Goldstone unsuccessfully tried to have the mandate changed, along with the fact that it was issued by a body that is well-known to be incredibly biased against Israel, demonstrates that he knew that it was one-sided and designed to condemn Israel. The fact that he accepted the assignment despite his failure to have the mandate changed is evidence that fairness and truth were not his primary motivations in accepting the assignment. 3. Justice Goldstone relied on unsubstantiated accounts of alleged Israeli actions from sources that were obviously unreliable and motivated by hate and a desire to see Israel convicted in the world of public opinion. He relied on witnesses that were obviously motivated to lie and who were subject to coercion from Hamas. After the lies about the Jenin "massacres' and other well-known examples of Palestinian partisans inventing facts, he surely knew not to accept these statements as fact. Yet he did. He accepted without question Palestinian numbers on the civilian versus terrorist fatalities, and he published these numbers as if they were fact. Now that a Hamas leader has contradicted these numbers and stated that the numbers presented by Israel were the accurate ones, Justice Goldstone has not amended his report or, to my knowledge, even acknowledged his mistake. 4. Justice Goldstone deliberately ignored in his report the context of Israel's actions in Gaza. He gave scant attention to the years of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, rockets that were targeted at and terrorized civilians. Moreover, he gave little attention to Hamas' deliberate strategy of positioning itself amongst civilians and Israel's many efforts to avoid civilian casualties. Justice Goldstone's actions as a judge under South Africa's apartheid regime resulted in the execution of black South Africans pursuant to a fundamentally unjust legal system. His acceptance of a mandate designed to convict Israel and his publication of falsehoods that he must have known were unreliable have done Israel irreparable harm. His work has led Israel to be accused of war crimes and its leaders to be subjected to lawfare in many countries. He has contributed greatly to the attempts to delegitimize the only Jewish-majority nation on earth and to turn Jews into pariahs in much of the world. For this man to be given the honor of speaking at an event hosted by an organization named after Leonard Friedman is an affront to all that Justice Friedman stood for. But one might argue that Justice Friedman also stood for free speech, the free exchange of ideas, debate and discussion. He did. He believed in those great ideals. But, while he was idealistic, he was also a practical, pragmatic man who cared deeply about Israel and would countenance no one who unfairly and injudiciously did it great harm, as did Justice Goldstone. I believe Justice Friedman would have said that Justice Goldstone has every right to speak, but that a Jewish bar association should not give him the honor, the forum, and the credibility. Justice Friedman believed in the right of association. However, that did not stop him from calling me when I was a college student, telling me that if I recruited the young people he would have the signs made, and joining me and other college students in a protest outside of a restaurant objecting to the presence of anti-Israel politicians of a foreign country. Justice Friedman believed in the free exchange of ideas, but that did not stop him from making headlines in the local papers by very publicly resigning from the United Nations Association in protest of the United Nations' anti-Israel actions. Giving Justice Goldstone a platform at a Jewish bar association gives honor and credibility to a man who does not deserve it and who has done a great injustice and irreparable damage to Israel. Associating him with the memory of Leonard Friedman is an insult to Justice Friedman's memory. I respectfully urge you to reconsider your invitation to Justice Goldstone. 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Watch: A SpaceX cargo ship was grappled at the International Space Station early Monday morning.
TORONTO – Six astronauts received a delivery Monday morning after SpaceX’s Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station.
Dragon was berthed with the station at 8:54 a.m. ET. The hatch is expected to be open Tuesday, though NASA said it could occur earlier.
READ MORE: SpaceX unveils spacecraft designed to fly astronauts to space station
Expedition 42 Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore of NASA captured the capsule with the help of Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti at 5:54 a.m., earlier than expected.
This is the fifth crew resupply mission by SpaceX. Along with food and supplies, there are several scientific experiments.
The Dragon capsule will remain at the station for four weeks while the astronauts pack it for its return trip home.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Saturday morning at 4:47 a.m. ET. Though the launch was successful, the attempt to safely land the first stage of the rocket didn’t go as well: it landed hard and was damaged.
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said that the rocket ran out of hydraulic fuel just before touchdown which prompted the hard landing. The next attempt will have 50 per cent more hydraulic fuel, something that Musk feels will hopefully rectify the issue.
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Judy’s been having some distressing dreams about Nick. Mayor Lionheart is back in power. There’s something a little off about his newly hired assistant mayor. Oh, and a controversial tool of Zootopia’s past is back in commission, and predators are less than thrilled. Thus far, the author has crafted an easily digestible, enticing tale of adventure, mystery and – naturally – a little romance, too. A solid read for anyone looking for a story blending some of the film’s early concepts and its eventual storyline in a post-movie setting. – YFWE
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Real life is messy. We all have limitations. We all make mistakes. Judy and Nick are two of Zootopia’s best police officers. They’ve been through a lot together. But nothing can prepare them for this. A new threat in Zootopia forces them to choose between standing up for their beliefs, or doing their jobs… all while figuring out how their relationship will proceed going forward.
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Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) have been organising together for two years on housing, benefits and other issues we face relating to poverty. Over time we have explored ways to make our organising more accessible and better addressed to our diverse needs. There are people in our group for whom English is not their first language, some are the sole carers for their children, some have mental or physical disabilities, or struggle with various other difficulties that living in poverty can entail.
HASL is part of the London Coalition Against Poverty. When starting up we found their booklet ‘Building Mutual Support and Organising in our Communities’ to be a vital guide. We recommend that others read this and hope that some of our insights from our early years are also helpful. London Coalition Against Poverty was formed in 2007 in response to the mass mobilisations around the G8. The idea was to set out a way to do politics that is relevant to our daily lived experiences and allows us to take control over our lives.
We’re certainly not the only ones engaging in mutual support and collective action to meet our basic needs. The last two years of the Coalition Government saw several new groups form who shared a community organising approach. These groups include London Campaign Against Police and State Violence, Anti-Raids Network, United Voices of the World, as well as growing numbers of localised housing action groups, including Focus E15 mums and Sweets Way Resists. Links are being built between our groups and we are inspired by the work they’re doing.
Recently, there’s been a renewed focus on ways people can provide practical support, action and solidarity for survival. We hope some of the experiences we share here can contribute to this.
Direct action
Like many of the other successful housing campaigns and action groups that have emerged – Focus E15 mums, Our West Hendon, Guinness Trust Tenants – we know collective direct action is often the only way to get the housing and benefits that we need and deserve. LCAP too, when it started out in 2007 in Hackney, described their approach of direct action casework: ‘acting together, disruptively if necessary, is the only effective way to win improvements’. Hearing tales in south London of Hackney housing office pulling down the shutters when they saw Hackney Housing Group (made up mostly of women of colour) descending upon them yet again was one of the inspirations for setting up HASL.
When approaching the housing office, council, landlords, or any other institution with our reasonable demands doesn’t work, we discuss a variety of direct action tactics that we can use to put pressure on them to get our basic needs met. Our direct action tactics have included buddying at the housing office, town hall occupations, eviction resistances, and communications blockades.
We make sure that our actions are as accessible as possible to our members’ different needs. Our actions are usually local (so not involving travel costs or tiring long distances), finish before school ends or are in half term holidays to include children, and child-friendly with activities for children and people sharing childcare. They don’t require any specific skill, simply being there as part of the group is enough to make a difference.
And they get results! From occupying the town hall to demand someone is housed that day, to stopping an eviction, we can see the direct impact of our collective action.
One of our members described our group to her sister: “I call the group the danbang group – in my language, Hindi street language, that means ‘solid’, you are ‘the solid group’. It also means a daring person, who can do everything. If they are evicting people, they resist it, they make a group and stand outside and talk to them (the bailiffs and council) so they are not evicted onto the streets.”
Another member describes the direct action we took together: “The group saved my family from another embarrassment of eviction from the bed and breakfast provided by social services. They stood by us, very early in the morning they were in the hotel, pressing all buttons they know that will be useful. Even to the extent of escalating it to Southwark town hall to see the big boss.”
Collective support and organising
We meet twice a month to provide support, information, advice and to plan actions. In these meetings we also organise how the group is run, any campaigns we’re working on locally, and our participation in London or national events and actions. As well as attempting to solve (or at least deal with) our problems together, we know that wider change is needed to achieve justice. Otherwise we will continue to face these problems again and again. Organising our mutual support and action together is absolutely key to how we work. The importance of this has been affirmed by our experiences over the last two years when we have sometimes drifted away from this collective approach. This leads to problems like, for example, one member becoming like a caseworker which can put huge stress and pressure on that individual which will result in inferior advice compared to the far more effective and powerful collective support provided through our meetings.
How does it work? Someone will come to a meeting with a problem and together we will work out some possible options for actions we could take, explain the processes of these, refer to previous similar cases and how these went, and share our anger, frustration, outrage, and empathy with the person in question. Doing this as a group allows us to check the courses of action we’ve discussed. We can draw from and build the collective knowledge and experience of the group and the problem itself becomes one that we can deal with as a group, rather than unsustainable, stressful, and alienating one-to-one (unpaid) casework. As well as taking collective ownership of our issues, discussing them in the group allows people to see directly that they are not alone, that others are going through similar problems and that the issue is systemic.
Socials
We wanted to set out time we could spend together where, unlike in our meetings, housing didn’t have to be the main topic of conversation. We have celebrated HASL’s birthdays, Christmas, and in the last couple of months we’ve managed to organise (almost) monthly community meals or supper/lunch clubs. Through collecting donations from local businesses, we have cooked up large meals to eat together. We want to make and eat delicious, nutritious food together. As well as struggling for good housing, we know that low incomes mean that we can struggle to afford and find time to make good quality food. We want to politicise and challenge (food) poverty, but we also just want to hang out together. We also want to create a welcoming space for people interested in the group to meet us.
Training sessions
We have regular training sessions so that we can learn and develop as a group. As well as empowering ourselves through learning housing law, we also conduct skill-sharing on things like how to be a buddy at the housing office. The more that people learn, the more the group’s capacity grows as more of us can volunteer for particular tasks. Our recent ‘how to be a buddy’ skill-share was organised to encourage more people to feel confident enough to volunteer for this vital role (having a buddy with you at the housing office can be the difference between being turned away with nowhere to go that evening and getting access to the housing you need). LCAP has supportive lawyers who have run training sessions on housing law, and LCAP members ourselves have designed and run training sessions looking at homelessness law and role-playing how to get what we need at housing offices. These workshops have been vital for people to learn the few rights that we do have, to better understand our personal situations and to build confidence. Our recent eviction process legal workshop was a great example of radical education. With many people currently going through this process, getting an understanding of the legal aspects of it becomes even more important. The complexities of housing law need to be de-mystified.
Going out and talking with people
Whilst we’re not as organised as Focus E15 and Sweets Way Resists who have regular stalls every Saturday afternoon to talk with people about housing and share information about their campaigns, we do hold information stalls regularly (though without a set day or time) outside housing offices and job centres. This way we can talk to people about their situations, hand out ‘know your rights’ leaflets and invite them to come to a meeting.
We’ve also organised workshops to talk about HASL, what we do, and basic housing rights with local community groups including the wonderful Skills Network and English for Action. These workshops help to strengthen our links and gets us talking about how we can support each other.
Don’t give up!
At the very beginning and even later on, you might have a meeting with yourself and two other people who wanted to set up the group. Or maybe you haven’t had a concrete win in a while. It can still be demoralising at times and we can still take it too personally when we’re ignored when handing out leaflets. It’s dispiriting for sure, but if you keep on leafleting and speaking with people about their housing issues, leaving posters and leaflets about, people will come along to meetings and want to be involved. There is a huge housing crisis, things are getting worse. Doing what you’re doing makes sense, even if it’s tiny, you’re still building important knowledge and infrastructure for when more people get involved.
Other problems
Setting out some of the lessons we’ve learnt probably makes it all look and sound easier than it is. Of course, all these lessons and suggestions have been learnt after failures, frustrations, and difficulties which still continue. Organising a local group, even with a decent amount of people involved, still leads to common problems including high stress when urgent situations arise, feeling personal responsibility for people’s situations and the urge to try and solve it, people using the group as a service and not returning to the group once their situation is resolved, and our group being socially cleansed (whilst we have helped secure housing for people, sometimes this has been far away from the group, meaning it is difficult for people, already with very little time and other pressures, to continue to be involved). Sometimes there isn’t an immediate answer or concrete action that we can take to deal with our situation (homelessness law means that councils only have a duty to provide temporary accommodation for people who meet a narrow set of criteria). And sometimes our direct action does not get the results we wanted, sometimes our occupations are ignored.
Discussing what to do as a group about these issues can help resolve them or lessen their impact. LCAP groups from across London meet every three months or so to share our experiences between us, and often hearing how other groups have dealt with similar issues is helpful and comforting.
Housing action groups are being set up and growing across London and beyond, linked together through the Radical Housing Network and the London Coalition Against Poverty. Other grassroots groups are providing mutual support and fighting against the vicious and serious attacks we face. We’re starting to build tighter links between our groups – with our issues overlapping and interweaving as many members of HASL have experienced and as the recent Reclaim Brixton day and targets (town hall, Foxtons, Job Centre, Barnardo’s – for their links in child detention – and the police station) show. Join your local group!
by HASL – Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth | @HousingActionSL
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Pair fined for tearing legs off crabs, throwing bodies back into ocean in White Rock, B.C.
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Hsin Chan and Li Chun fined for fishing without licence, harvesting undersized crab
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Two people have been fined after pulling the claws off crabs and throwing their legless bodies back into the ocean in White Rock, B.C., last week.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says Hsin Chan and Chun Li were charged and ticketed under the federal Fisheries Act for fishing without a licence and harvesting undersized Dungeness crab on Sept. 7.
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RCMP said Li is from White Rock and Chan is a friend of hers, visiting from Belgium.
Andrew Newman, who owns a local whale watching company, called police and took video of their response. Newman posted the footage to social media which, at one point, shows the officer taking legs out of a woman's pocket, as they stand at the end of the dock.
Officials say crabs are likely to bleed to death if an appendage is torn off, because they don't have blood vessels the way mammals do.
RCMP confirmed to CBC that Li is the woman in the video.
In B.C., it's illegal to keep any part of a crab without its body because that's the part officials need to measure to ensure fishermen are following size regulations.
Those rules are in place because crabs without claws are less likely to survive, often bleeding to death.
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Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections, which have typically appeared in the pages of Baseball Think Factory, are being released at FanGraphs this year. Below are the projections for the Cleveland Indians. Szymborski can be found on Twitter at @DSzymborski.
Other 2013 Projections: Angels / Astros / Athletics / Blue Jays / Braves / Brewers / Cardinals / Cubs / Diamondbacks / Dodgers / Giants / Mariners / Marlins / Mets / Nationals / Orioles / Padres / Phillies / Pirates / Rangers / Rays / Reds / Red Sox / Rockies / Royals / Tigers / Twins / White Sox / Yankees.
Batters
If you’re like the author, you’re hirsute in a way that make pets and small children demonstrably uncomfortable. You’re also a bit surprised by the competence of the Indians offense entering 2013. No Cleveland field player posted better than a 3.4 WAR in 2012; in fact, there are three players here — Carlos Santana (4.4), Michael Bourn (4.0), and Asdrubal Cabrera (3.7) — projected to surpass last year’s team-high mark. Six other players are forecast to post something between a 2.0 and 3.0 WAR.
A thing to note: both Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs are projected as center fielders, where each spent the majority of 2012 defensively. Moving to the corners won’t affect their individual WAR projections, likely, but does mean that what they lose in runs to positional adjustment, they’re likely to regain in terms of runs saved afield. If we say that Brantley and Stubbs are roughly average center fielders, then it’s also fair to say they’re likely to save something like +10 runs defensively in either left or right field.
Pitchers
With regard to the Cleveland rotation, the author defers to SB Nation’s Grant Brisbee, who offered the following Precision Analysis shortly after inspecting the depth chart included further down in this post.
@cistulli @dszymborskiSay, that’s pretty good, and OH GOD NO NO NO THE ROTATION NO NO NO — Grant Brisbee (@mccoveychron) February 14, 2013
So far as the bullpen is concerned, Cleveland has a few reliable high-leverage arms in Chris Perez, Vinnie Pestano, and Joe Smith. After that triumvirate, however, the options are unclear. Left-hander Rich Hill, whom the club signed last week, has managed only 31.2 major-league innings since 2010, but has been quite good during them, striking out 36 batters. No other pitcher besides the four just mentioned receives a park-adjusted ERA or FIP projection better than league average.
Bench/Prospects
Outfielder Ezequiel Carrera enters his age-26 season — and, while his offensive ceiling is probably limited, ZiPS suggests that he defends and runs well enough to produce something not unlike an average major-league season. Twice ranked (in 2008 and -09) among the game’s top-30 prospects by Baseball America, a now 28-year-old Matt LaPorta enters the season with a career line of .238/.301/.393 (.276 BABIP) in 1068 major-league plate appearances. Nor does ZiPS forecast any sort of great departure from that level in 2013.
Depth Chart
Here’s a rough depth chart for the Indians, with rounded projected WAR totals for each player (click to embiggen):
Ballpark graphic courtesy Eephus League. Credit to MLB Depth Charts for roster information.
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Disclaimer: ZiPS projections are computer-based projections of performance. Performances have not been allocated to predicted playing time in the majors — many of the players listed above are unlikely to play in the majors at all in 2012. ZiPS is projecting equivalent production — a .240 ZiPS projection may end up being .280 in AAA or .300 in AA, for example. Whether or not a player will play is one of many non-statistical factors one has to take into account when predicting the future.
Players are listed with their most recent teams unless Dan has made a mistake. This is very possible as a lot of minor-league signings are generally unreported in the offseason.
ZiPS is projecting based on the AL having a 4.09 ERA and the NL having a 3.92 ERA.
Players that are expected to be out due to injury are still projected. More information is always better than less information and a computer isn’t what should be projecting the injury status of, for example, a pitcher with Tommy John surgery.
Regarding ERA+ vs. ERA- (and FIP+ vs. FIP-) and the differences therein: as Patriot notes here, they are not simply mirror images of each other. Writes Patriot: “ERA+ does not tell you that a pitcher’s ERA was X% less or more than the league’s ERA. It tells you that the league’s ERA was X% less or more than the pitcher’s ERA.”
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The product tanker Maritime Jingan spilled benzene at Houston Channel during cargo handling operations. More than 1.5 tons of benzene spilled on the cargo deck of the tanker after damage of the cargo hose. The crew and terminal operators immediately stopped cargo transfer, but some quantity leaked overboard and spilled into the water. The oil spot extended between the Lynchburg Ferry Crossing and Carpenters Bayou, which were closed during the collection and cleansing operations. However, part from the benzene plated down the stream and reached the shore. Most of the spilled benzene remained on the cargo deck and was collected through mobile pumps to the slop tanks of the vessel.
The product tanker Maritime Jingan was detained during investigation for the root cause of the spill. The ship will be inspected and surveyed if following all the safety and environmental procedures for cargo handling operations of hazardous products. Probably the ship operator will be fined for the caused environmental spill and in case of deficiencies the vessel might be banned from operations in US waters.
The product tanker Maritime Jingan (IMO: 9251523) has overall length of 180.00 m, moulded beam of 32.00 m and maximum draft of 8.50 m. The deadweight of the ship is 44,411 DWT and the gross tonnage is 29,211 GRT. The vessel is owned and managed by MSI Shipmanagment.
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The Houston Ship Channel between the Lynchburg Ferry Crossing and Carpenters Bayou was closed for water cleaning operations, but unknown part from the benzene wend down the stream.
About 1.5 tons of benzene were released on the cargo deck of the tanker MARITIME JINGAN, moored at a terminal in Houston Channel, at midday July 14, reported USCG. Small part of it leaked overboard, Houston Ship Channel between the Lynchburg Ferry Crossing and Carpenters Bayou was closed from 1223 to 1440 LT | positive |
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity and diabetes might not be the double whammy you’d expect, according to a fresh look at older studies.
An overweight woman sits on a chair in Times Square in New York, May 8, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Surprisingly, researchers found that overweight and obese people who get diagnosed with the blood sugar disorder tend to live longer than their leaner peers.
This so-called “obesity paradox” has been observed before in chronic diseases like heart and kidney failure, said Mercedes R. Carnethon of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
But that doesn’t mean you should start downing ice cream and other high-calorie foods if you just found out you have diabetes, Carnethon told Reuters Health. Nor does it mean that padding your waist is a good way to improve your prognosis before you get the disease.
In fact, it’s probably not that excessive pounds are protective, said Carnethon, but rather that lean people who get diabetes are somehow predisposed to worse health.
“Perhaps those individuals are somehow genetically loaded to develop diabetes and have higher mortality,” she said. “A normal-weight person who has diabetes has an extremely high mortality rate.”
The new findings are based on data from five earlier studies that tracked people over time to identify risk factors for heart disease. More than 2,600 participants developed type 2 diabetes during the studies, and 12 percent of them had a normal weight when they got the diagnosis.
The death rate was 1.5 percent per year among overweight and obese people, compared to 2.8 percent per year among their trimmer peers.
After accounting for several risk factors for heart disease - including age, blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking - lean people were more than twice as likely to die at any given point as heavier people. The same held true for deaths caused by heart disease, which is linked to obesity.
“It was a little bit unexpected to see that,” said Carnethon.
One potential limitation of the study is that the researchers couldn’t always account for how much people smoked, which might explain part of the results.
It’s also possible that a few people might have been diagnosed with diabetes outside of the studies and been told to slim down by their own doctor before they were seen by the study researchers. That could also have contributed to the findings, although Carnethon said the effect would be small.
She added that it’s not clear how to best treat normal-weight people with type 2 diabetes, although weight training seems preferable over cardio exercise.
Older people and people of Asian descent are more likely to be normal-weight when diagnosed with diabetes, and Carnethon stressed that doctors need to take the disorder extra seriously when it’s not accompanied by obesity.
“These findings do apply to a growing segment of the population,” she said.
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A young man on the roof of his home surveyed the neighborhood of Lavale de Bourdon in the commune of Petion Ville in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
It didn’t take long for Haitians to find out how President Trump really feels about them. While campaigning last fall in Miami’s Little Haiti, he said: “The Haitian-American community adds so much to our country: dedication to family, perseverance, entrepreneurship.”
Now they, too, have fallen victim to his administration’s relentless efforts to criminalize immigrants and refugees left and right.
About 58,000 Haitian beneficiaries of an emergency immigration program will see their status expire in July unless the administration approves an extension. As the Homeland Security secretary John Kelly weighs his decision, internal communications reported by the Associated Press last week reveal a malicious and unprecedented effort by the federal government that seems designed to find disingenuous reasons to cancel the program. Top immigration officials have put out requests for derogatory information about those Haitians, including how many have been convicted of “crimes of any kind,” and how many have been taking advantage of public benefits (which they are not even eligible to receive in the first place). The administration appears to hope it can find a few horror stories to justify disrupting the lives of thousands.
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The requests came from Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, chief of policy at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, to her staff. When agency officials responded that they couldn’t collect data on criminality, she said: “I know some of it is not captured, but we’ll have to figure out a way to squeeze more data out of our systems. . . . Please dig for any stories (successful or otherwise) that would show how things are in Haiti. . . . We should also find any reports of criminal activity by any individual with TPS [Temporary Protected Status]. Even though it’s only a snapshot and not representative of the entire situation, we need more than ‘Haiti is really poor’ stories.”
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Apparently the new administration believes that Haiti’s misery is just a matter of media narrative. The AP report follows the recommendation of USCIS’s acting director, James McCament, to terminate Haitians’ protected status as of January.
That would be reckless and ill-advised. The temporary protected designation is a federal relief program granted to certain countries with deteriorating conditions caused by armed conflicts, natural disasters, or health epidemics. Only eligible immigrants can apply, and a criminal record or background is disqualifying.
Trump officials are ignoring the more than sufficient evidence demonstrating that Haiti is still vulnerable. Seven years after a devastating earthquake killed more than a quarter of a million Haitians and displaced more than 1 million people, the country struggles to recover. “Many of the conditions prompting the original January 2010 TPS designation persist, including a housing shortage, a cholera epidemic and limited access to medical care, damage to the economy,” read, in part, a memo from Citizenship and Immigration Services prepared in December. Hurricane Matthew not only complicated any recovery efforts and progress, but also left nearly 900,000 Haitians suffering from severe food insecurity.
Even more troubling, there is concern among immigration advocates that the Trump administration might be setting a precedent to use the same rationale to cancel the protected status of Salvadorans and Hondurans next year. That would leave some 350,000 Central Americans vulnerable to being sent back to extremely unsafe countries.
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The Haiti decision, due May 23, will not only be a critical litmus test for the temporary protected status program, but also a telling statement about American values.
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Researchers have created an artificial 3D brain made up of neural tissue, and over its six-month lifespan it will do, well, very brain-ish things:
Scientists coaxed neurons to grow around stiff, porous matrices made of silk proteins immersed in collagen gel … By tweaking the size and orientation of matrix pores, researchers attempted to emulate variations of cellular structure and function in a real cortex. Unlike flat neuron cultures grown in petri dishes, the structure provides cells with something to cling to as they branch out and make connections, forming complex, 3D networks that more closely mimic real neural circuits, the authors say.
The spongy artificial mini-brain will stay alive for at least six months as neurologists study how it grows, learns, and heals from injury. The idea of a test tube brain isn’t an entirely new one; several years ago, a scientist successfully persuaded a artificial 2D brain made out of rat neurons to play a flight simulator.
What makes the new kind of brain stand out is its six-layer 3D structure, which approximates the layout—though not the complexity—of the mammalian neocortex. If past experiments are any indication, these neurons are thinking about something; we don’t know what, or how well, but the very fact that we’re talking about creating a new brain by persuading neurons to interact with each other in a spongy collagen goo suggests that we just might be on the verge of growing something amazing. | positive |
The recent mass shooting at a Colorado movie theatre has raised questions about access to firearms and renewed calls for stronger gun control laws in the United States.
Talk radio, newspaper editorials and articles, and current affairs television programs in the last week have all had people on both sides of the gun control debate weigh in on whether stricter laws could have prevented the shooting spree in the city of Aurora. Some politicians have called for a review of firearms laws while others have said that if more Americans were allowed to carry guns more easily, maybe one of them could have shot back at the suspect in the movie theatre and prevented injuries and deaths.
Three guns were reported to have been used by the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring almost 60 others at a screening of The Dark Knight last Friday: a Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge Remington 870 shotgun and a .40-calibre Glock handgun. Police say the suspect, James Holmes, bought the firearms legally in the last six months. He also bought thousands of rounds of ammunition.
All of those guns are available for purchase in Canada — for those who have the appropriate licences and permits.
"None of those firearms are particularly unique or special," said Tony Bernardo, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
To get one of them in Canada, however, there are more laws to follow and requirements to meet than in the United States, he said.
"For all kinds of firearms, it's more tightly controlled in Canada," said Bernardo.
To buy and possess a gun in Canada, a licence has to be acquired no matter what kind of gun it is. But the type of firearm will dictate the type of licence, and other restrictions such as transportation and storage rules.
For all licences, the Canadian Firearms Safety Course has to be taken, a test passed and a police background check completed. There are some exceptions for the course requirement. Alternative certification, for example, can be granted at the discretion of chief firearms officers.
The Remington shotgun, as long as it wasn't modified, would be classified as a non-restricted firearm under Canadian law, requiring a non-restricted possession and acquisition licence (PAL).
Bernardo said the Remington is one of the most commonly produced hunting shotguns in the world.
"There are millions of them in Canada," he said.
Until recently, gun owners also had to register their shotguns and rifles, also known as long guns. The controversial long-gun registry was abolished in April when Parliament passed Bill C-19. Restricted and prohibited firearms still must be registered in the RCMP-managed database.
Guns can't be concealed in Canada
When it comes to the Smith & Wesson rifle and the handgun, the rules are tighter than for the long guns because they are classified as restricted firearms in Canada.
To possess a restricted firearm, you must have a PAL plus take an extra training course and pass its exam.
Police checks are done at the local, provincial, and federal levels, according to Bernardo, and CSIS and Interpol databases are also consulted. The person's spouse, neighbours and employer may also be consulted by police before a licence application is approved.
That's not the case for someone trying to buy a handgun in most U.S. states. The FBI runs a background check but generally, no licence is required to possess it, or to carry it concealed. Various permits, however, may be required for carrying concealed weapons, depending on the state.
Gun laws aren't all federal in the U.S.; different rules can apply in different states. Colorado is a "shall issue" state that gives concealed weapons permits to anyone who meets the requirements. Other states are "may issue" states that can deny the permit even if someone has met the requirements. Illinois does not allow anyone to carry a concealed gun.
With some exceptions for police officers and some others, Canadians generally are not allowed to carry any gun concealed. A special permit must be obtained to transport a restricted firearm anywhere, even if it's from someone's house to the shooting range.
"It is definitely a bit of a process," Jason Swanson, director at Executive Firearms Training in Richmond, B.C., said of acquiring a restricted firearm in Canada.
Restrictions on magazine size
There are also limits on the number of rounds that restricted firearms can have, and they differ from the United States. Handguns in Canada, except for the ones used by police, are limited to a 10-round magazine whereas in the U.S. they can have 15 rounds.
The magazine size for semi-automatic long guns is also restricted in Canada, generally to five cartridges.
"The magazines for the Canadian market are different than the rest of the world per se," said Tony DiSalvatore, owner of Canadian Firearms Academy in Surrey, B.C.
"All the magazines look pretty much identical but they're pinned or altered so that they can only handle the specific requirements," he said.
The Colorado shooting suspect reportedly had a 100-round magazine for his rifle, a size that firearms experts have said is unusual for that firearm.
The Glock handgun allegedly used by Holmes is one of the most common handguns, according to Bernardo. "For a hobbyist that's using it for target shooting, it's a reasonable choice," he said, adding it is reliable and reasonably priced.
The semi-automatic Smith & Wesson rifle allegedly used by Holmes is also a popular model. "It's as common as dirt," he said. Bernardo said that while Canada has it on its restricted list, the rest of the world views it as a standard sporting rifle.
He's not surprised that the Colorado shooting incident has stirred up debate in the U.S. about gun laws, just as the recent shootings in Toronto have put the spotlight on gun violence. Law-abiding gun owners often take the blame for gun violence, even though they have nothing to do with it, said Bernardo.
"We're so clean, we squeak," he said.
His organization advocated for the elimination of the requirement to register long guns, but groups such as the Coalition for Gun Control argued to maintain it. The gun control group said registration rules helped police trace guns used in crimes and that they helped promote accountability among gun owners. | positive |
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Atique Virani.
If you haven’t yet, go read Spencer Redmond’s piece breaking down Bismack Biyombo’s positive impact on the Raptors this season, and floating the idea of starting Biyombo over Jonas Valanciunas in the stretch run. It’s an idea that’s found some traction in forums and comment sections across Raptorland, and it’s not hard to see why. Biyombo is an excellent defender, obviously better at that end of the floor than Valanciunas, and in the playoffs, games slow down and become grind-it-out affairs. Doesn’t it make sense to play someone capable of lifting the team’s defense up almost single-handedly?
The problem with that idea is that it largely ignores Biyombo’s deficiencies, which are perhaps even more glaring than those of Valanciunas. As much improvement as he’s made this season, Biyombo is still a woefully limited offensive player. He can’t consistently hit anything outside of dunking range, and his ability to catch the ball on the move is, on his best days, average. There’s a reason so many of the dunks Biyombo has made this season come when defenses leave him completely alone. Biyombo doesn’t scare anyone on the offensive end, and the attention that he doesn’t draw is refocused into the driving lanes of the perimeter players on the court with him.
This criticism of Biyombo may seem harsh, but it’s not intended to be. Big Biz is one of the best backup centers in the NBA, and an incredible value. If possible, signing him past this summer would be a huge accomplishment. The point here is simply to note that for all his flaws (and they do exist), Valanciunas is both the better player overall, and the better starting option for the Raptors.
A lot has been made this season of the idea that in the new era of the NBA, with just about every team playing a mobile big and bombing threes, big men like Valanciunas are remnants from a bygone era of plodding post play. I’ve never thought much of this idea, largely because I’ve always been enamored with Valanciunas’ ability to impact a game offensively. Few big men are as dangerous on the pick and roll as Valanciunas, and fewer still have the hands and soft touch to finish at the rim like he does. Toronto’s guards don’t pass to the roll man often in the pick and roll, and one of the reasons for that is the driving lanes that open up when defenders are forced to devote part of their energy towards denying Valanciunas the ball near the rim. This gravity is also evident in the three pointers that are opened up by JV’s rim runs, which give shooters like Terrence Ross the space necessary to let fly.
The biggest question with Valanciunas, however, has always been his defense. As fans, we’ve accepted that he will never make an All-Defense team, and may not ever be good. Instead, we’ve toned back our requests, and asked that he merely be passable, enough that he doesn’t actively hurt the team. And guess what? When he hasn’t been saddled with Luis Scola as a frontcourt mate, he’s been average, maybe even above average on defense.
In the 353 minutes Jonas has played with Patrick Patterson, who’s unexpectedly become an excellent defender for the Raptors this season, Toronto has a net rating of +19.8 points per 100 possessions (PPC), with a defensive rating of 103.9, which would be good for 15th in the league. That’s the best net rating for any two-man combination on the team that’s played over 100 minutes together. Compare that to the monstrosity of the Luis Scola-Jonas Valanciunas combination, which has played 794 minutes and put up a net rating of -5.1 PPC, with a defensive rating of 108.0, only slightly better than the league worst defensive rating of the Lakers this season. It’s fair to wonder whether the fact that Valanciunas has played twice as many minutes with Scola as he has with Patterson is to blame for his poor on/off numbers (and it’s worth noting that Scola’s play has improved alongside Biyombo, too).
All of that said, the idea of playing Jonas against second units is an intriguing one. Cory Joseph could use the driving lanes Valanciunas provides, and getting more touches could be beneficial for Valanciunas’ development. That’s why I’m a fan of Blake Murphy’s idea, of benching Valanciunas earlier in the first and third quarters, only to bring him out again with Joseph against bench lineups. It would be a good compromise, a way to let Valanciunas beast against worse defenders, while also not putting too much undue stress on Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan to carry the offense with Biyombo on the court. And as he’s done all season, head coach Dwane Casey would have the option to close with either Biyombo or Valanciunas, as the situation dictates.
That’s the beauty of having to centers with such diametrically opposite play styles and strengths. | positive |
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Minneapolis Teachers Union Contract Calls for Layoffs of White Teachers First - American Faith Politics Faith Health Education Opinion Business Podcast About Subscribe Search SUPPORT AMERICAN FAITHDONATE NOW Politics Faith Health Education Opinion Business Podcast About Subscribe Search Breaking Minneapolis Teachers Union Contract Calls for Layoffs of White Teachers First By American Faith August 15, 2022 Facebook Twitter Email Print Telegram A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff. After the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS struck a deal on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike, the two sides drew up and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement complete with various proposals. One of the proposals dealt with “educators of color protections.” The agreement states that if a non-white teacher is subject to excess, MPS must excess a white teacher with the “next least” seniority. “Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the agreement reads. According to the United Federation of Teachers, “excessing” means “reducing staff in a particular school when there is a reduction in the number of available positions in a title or license area in that school.” The agreement adds that non-white teachers, as well as those working in various programs, “may be exempted from district-wide layoff[s] outside seniority order.” The agreement also prioritizes the reinstatement of teachers from “underrepresented populations” over white teachers. The stated justification for these measures is “to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination by the District.” “Past discrimination by the District disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the District, as compared to the relevant labor market and the community, and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers,” the agreement adds. The Star Tribune reports that the “seniority-disrupting language” of the agreement is one of the first of its kind in the entire United States. Teachers are normally laid off or excessed based on seniority alone, but the new agreement adds a racial component as well. James Dickey, senior trial counsel at the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), says the racial component violates both the Minnesota and United States constitutions. “The [collective bargaining agreement] … openly discriminates against white teachers based only on the color of their skin, and not their seniority or merit,” Dickey told Alpha News. “Minneapolis teachers and taxpayers who oppose government-sponsored racism like this should stand up against it.” Dickey also urged “any Minneapolis taxpayer or teacher who opposes this racial preference system” to send the UMLC an email. According to the Star Tribune, roughly 16% of MPS teachers with tenure and 27% of its probationary teachers are non-white, while more than 60% of students are non-white. Reporting from Alpha News. Previous articleIllinois Hospital Agrees to Pay $10.3M in COVID Vaccine Mandate Settlement Next articleMcEnany: Climate Change Is Now to Blame for Everything Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. × Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller is a theologian, cultural thought leader, and biblical prophecy expert. In America’s War Room he unpacks today’s hot topics and their spiritual implications. He is the Founder and President of American Faith and the Senior Pastor of Influence Church. He comes from a military family reaching back to the Revolutionary War. His father, Lieutenant Colonel Harry A. Hotsenpiller, was a highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with Full Military Honors. Phil earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Divinity, and conducted postgraduate studies at Oxford University. He has published ten books, including the highly acclaimed “One Nation without Law.” × Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. × {{{ data.beforeFields }}} <# /* * Render our error section if we have an error. */ #> <# /* * Render any custom HTML after our field. */ #> {{{ data.afterField }}} <# /* * Render our Description Text. */ #> {{{ data.renderDescText() }}} {{{ data.renderElement() }}} | negative |
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Over the last several months, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have repeatedly exhorted the People's Liberation Army to "be ready to win a war." Xi has repeatedly called for greater military modernization, increased training, and enhanced overall readiness of the Chinese army, navy, and air force.
These repeated calls have alarmed China's neighbors from New Delhi to Washington. The question on everyone's mind: what is all this preparation for?
Is the Chinese leadership preparing for something? Are they gearing up for a military operation, or merely the option to carry one out? Or is there a more innocent explanation for all of this?
One credible explanation is that the Chinese leadership is pushing military readiness as part of the ongoing, national anti-corruption drive. Military anti-corruption efforts have been highlighted by the arrest and imminent court martial of Xu Caihou, a former high level military officer. Xu faces charges of embezzlement, bribery, misuse of state funds, and abuse of power, and is thought to have made at least $5.9 million by selling officer promotions.
Corruption in the Chinese military is thought to be widespread. Although the true effects are not known, it has resulted in ineligible officers being promoted, diversion of state funds, and sweetheart deals between military contractors and officials. Perhaps most importantly, time spent by corrupt officials making money is time not spent training the troops for conflict.
Although the Communist Party's message to "prepare to win a war" may seem bellicose, the government may simply be telling the military to stop making money on the side and just do their jobs.
Another possibility is that Xi and the Party are pushing for the Chinese military to adopt readiness levels on par with the Pentagon. The U.S. military, which is frequently deployed around the world, often on short notice, trains to a relatively high standard. Much of a typical deployment, such as operating planes from an aircraft carrier flight deck, is dangerous work that can only be safely accomplished by training to high level of proficiency.
It's quite possible that China wants the military to achieve this skill level too, for no other reason than to have it. This on the face of it does not imply aggressive intent, only a desire for a prepared military.
Of course, it's possible that the Chinese government has something more sinister in mind.
The Party may desire the ability to conduct military action overseas as a diversion from domestic issues. In recent years, China has used territorial claims in the East and South China Seas and the Taiwan issue to divert public attention from problems at home, even going so far as to organize protests. Political grievances, environmental pollution, food scandals, government land grabs, lack of affordable healthcare, and, most importantly, government corruption are all issues that have sparked civil unrest.
As the Chinese economy slows down, the Communist Party may be worried that decreased economic activity could lead to more domestic unhappiness. A military expedition that united the country behind the government could be an option they'd consider.
In 1982, the generals that ruled Argentina invaded the nearby Falkland Islands, a United Kingdom territory, in a bid to co-opt anti-government dissent. The junta ruling the country believed that invading the Falklands, regarded by Argentines across the political spectrum as belonging to their country, would rally the country around the government.
Unfortunately for the generals, military adventurism is a two-edged sword. The U.K. sent a naval task force to retake the Falklands and Argentina's ensuing defeat proved the downfall of the regime.
Thanks to its recent territorial spats, China has a wealth of option for adventurism, such as sending naval vessels to the Diaoyu Islands (known as Senkaku Islands to Japan) in the East China Sea, making a demonstration of force near Taiwan, or even picking a fight with smaller countries such as the Philippines. Well-trained armed forces are necessary even in operations short of war; a show of force can quickly become a demonstration of incompetence.
We don't really know what is pushing Xi and company's seemingly bellicose exhortations. Much of the decision-making taking place in the Chinese military is a black box opaque to the outside world. Maybe China is preparing for something. Maybe it isn't. Maybe they're preparing for something and even they don't know what it is.
Or maybe they're just telling their people to do their jobs. | positive |
A Minneapolis man was charged Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court with four counts of falsely reporting police misconduct in St. Paul.
Franchize Baby McWright, 27, accused a St. Paul police officer of pulling a gun on him, stealing his phone and illegally searching his phone and car during an April traffic stop, according to the criminal complaint.
But the stop — which was prompted by a large crack in McWright’s windshield — didn’t go that way, according to video from the squad car, charges said.
The police used McWright’s phone, which he handed to one of the officers, to confirm his insurance information because he didn’t have a paper copy of his insurance card, only a picture in his phone, the complaint said.
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Highland Park Middle School online threat began with argument at school, police say McWright demanded to see the officers’ supervisor and medics, because “he was having a panic attack and experiencing PTSD from the traffic stop.” He was evaluated by medics at the scene and filed complaints with Sgt. Stephen Lentsch and Cmdr. Steve Frazer, charges said.
Frazer later determined there was no merit to McWright’s claims after an investigation of the allegations and a review of the squad video, according to the complaint.
Falsely reporting police misconduct is a gross misdemeanor; the maximum sentence is up to 1 year in jail and up to a $3,000 fine. | positive |
Knowing just how high a river is flooding during severe storms or how empty it gets during a drought is absolutely essential for emergency managers to make informed decisions, but to get that data someone had to brave the rivers.
It doesn’t even matter if a river is flooding its banks or so dry that it’s more of a river-that-was, either way U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists are going to be scrambling around measuring how much water (or lack thereof) is flowing how fast.
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Gage heights on the Fort Pearce river. Image credit: USGS
This month, hydrologist Brad Slaugh, headed to southwest Utah to collect streamflow measurements during a deadly flash flood . This real-time data was fed to emergency managers and the National Weather Service flood forecasters to better understand the impact of the storm.
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Hydrologist collecting streamflow measurements in September 2015. Image credit: USGS
But it’s not all sogginess this winter. Not too far away in Idaho, another USGS hydrologist had a far easier time measuring streamflow in a dry river bed. The drought has hit Lightning Creek Hard, leaving dry rocks and a flow between nill and nothing. This is just one of hundreds of sites throughout the western United States being monitored to analyze the current drought and better predict future droughts.
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You can read the USGS handbook on streamflow measurement techniques here.
Top image: USGS hydrologist Brad Slaugh taking real-time streamflow measurements in October 2015. Credit: Jake Benson/USGS
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A second officer shot in Kissimmee, Fla. by a former US Marine has died, officials said Saturday.
Sgt. Sam Howard, a 10-year veteran of the Kissimmee police, succumbed to his injuries after 45-year-old Everett Miller began blasting away, police said.
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Officer Matthew Baxter, 27, was on patrol in a drug ridden neighborhood Friday night when he confronted Miller and a few other men. Baxter and Miller scuffled, and the cop called for backup. Howard responded.
Miller allegedly gunned down the cops, killed Baxter, before fleeing. The police officers were unable to return fire.
City officials in Kissimmee have set up a donation fund to support the families of Baxter, a father of four, and Howard, a father of one, and will start accepting donations Monday, they said.
We will mourn over the next few days….we will get through this and we love them for what they do,” said Chief Jeff O’Dell.
tion. Shortly after the exchange, a 9-1-1 call was received stating two officers were down. Matthew Baxter succumbed to his injuries shortly after.
The City of Kissimmee has set up a bank account through SunTrust for those who would like to donate to the fallen officers’ families. The account will be titled City of Kissimmee – Officer Matthew Baxter and Sergeant Sam Howard. Donations can be made at any SunTrust Bank beginning Monday, August 21, 2017.
“I am so proud of the sworn and civilian members of our Department by acting quickly to identify the suspect and bring him to justice. | positive |
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ECU kickstarts the season with three consecutive home games, hosting Mercer (Nov.8), Presbyterian (Nov. 12) and Hampton (Nov. 16), before heading to Estero, Fla., for the Gulf Coast Showcase – an eight-team event featuring the Pirates, Drexel, FGCU, Indiana State, Kansas City, Northern Kentucky, Toledo and UT Arlington. ECU opens tournament play Monday, Nov. 21, against Indiana State. Following its excursion to the Sunshine State, East Carolina travels up to the Tidewater area Nov. 26 for a showdown with Old Dominion before returning to Minges Coliseum for a pair of bouts with South Carolina State (Nov. 29) and Campbell (Dec. 2). After a one-year hiatus, ECU resumes its regional rivalry with UNCW as the Pirates and Seahawks are slated to clash Dec. 6 at Trask Coliseum. East Carolina is scheduled to take on UNCW at home in 2023-24 and 2024-25. 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Sandara Park talked about the recent rumors about dating G-Dragon.
On the episode of “Talk Busking” that will broadcast on 25th, Sandara Park, Seo JangHoon, and writer Lim KyungSun will make their appearance.
MC HaHa said to Sandara Park, “There were rumors about you dating GD recently. Congratulations.” and congratulated her out of nowhere. Sandara Park, replying to this, said “I went to the after party of BIGBANG’s concert, and because many fans gathered, we went out that way as a “concept”. We didn’t think there would be an article on it.” And continued “In the company, people laughed and said GD was headlock-ing me.” and explained the situation behind the rumors.
Sandara Park continued, “I don’t date with someone in the same company.”, stating her position again regarding the rumor. MC Yoo HeeYeol said “I’ve been to scenes like that (where lots of fans are gathered), and it really is chaotic.”
“Talk Busking” with Sandara Park and her honest talk will broadcast on 25th 9:30 PM KST on JTBC.
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Fantasy sports have become a lucrative business. It all started back in the fifties when an Oakland businessman by the name of Wilfred “Bill” Winkenbach started a game of fantasy golf where each playing member would select a group of professional golfers to their team and the person with the lowest stroke score at the end of a tournament, wins. That simple idea took another few years before Bill applied it to football in 1962.
The league was called the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League, or GOPPPL. But because there was no internet, no emails, and no social media, the invention of fantasy football took many years to grow in popularity. Unlike today, things prior to the internet took several years to grow into national phenomenons.
After many years of tweaks and changes to the rules, fantasy football was born and by 1997, CBS became the first company to launch a publicly available free fantasy football league that became an instant success and caught on to hundreds of other sites.
Today, nearly 75 million people play fantasy football around the world making it the most popular fantasy sport of all time. It has become so popular that even professional athletes play it. There are even television shows, podcasts, books, and websites that give expert opinions, detailed breakdowns of each week, and all kinds of information to help you win at fantasy football.
Since most websites don’t keep track of fantasy data beyond a few years, we decided to go back and track NFL players performances before the days of fantasy football to see which players had the best single fantasy football seasons since the 1967 season and the first ever Super Bowl.
*NOTE : We used ESPN’s Standard PPR League Scoring.
50. Calvin Johnson, WR, DET – 358.1 pts
Year: 2011
Receptions: 96
Receiving Yards: 1,681
Receiving TDs: 16
49. Tom Brady, QB, NE – 358.2 pts
Year: 2011
Passing Yards: 5,235
Passing TDs: 39
Interceptions: 12
Rushing Yards: 109
Rushing TDs: 3
48. Larry Johnson, RB, KC – 358.3 pts
Year: 2005
Rushing Yards: 1,750
Rushing TDs: 20
Receptions: 33
Receiving Yards: 343
Receiving TDs: 1
47. Jerry Rice, WR, SF – 359.2 pts
Year: 1994
Receptions: 112
Receiving Yards: 1,499
Receiving TDs: 13
Rushing Yards: 93
Rushing TDs: 2
46. Cam Newton, QB, CAR – 360.34 pts
Year: 2011
Passing Yards: 4,051
Passing TDs: 21
Interceptions: 17
Rushing Yards: 706
Rushing TDs: 14
45. Edgerrin James, RB, IND – 361.9 pts
Year: 1999
Rushing Yards: 1,553
Rushing TDs: 13
Receptions: 62
Receiving Yards: 586
Receiving TDs: 4
44. Emmitt Smith, RB, DAL – 362.5 pts
Year: 1994
Rushing Yards: 1,484
Rushing TDs: 21
Receptions: 50
Receiving Yards: 341
Receiving TDs: 1
43. Marshall Faulk, RB, IND – 368.7 pts
Year: 1998
Rushing Yards: 1,319
Rushing TDs: 6
Receptions: 86
Receiving Yards: 908
Receiving TDs: 4
42. LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, SD –
Year: 2007
Rushing Yards: 1,474
Rushing TDs: 15
Receptions: 60
Receiving Yards: 475
Receiving TDs: 3
41. James Wilder, RB, TB – 365.9 pts
Year: 1984
Rushing Yards: 1,544
Rushing TDs: 13
Receptions: 85
Receiving Yards: 685
Receiving TDs: 0
40. Eric Dickerson, RB, LA – 366.2 pts
Year: 1983
Rushing Yards: 1,808
Rushing TDs: 18
Receptions: 51
Receiving Yards: 404
Receiving TDs: 2
39. Brian Westbrook, RB, PHI – 368.4 pts
Year: 2007
Rushing Yards: 1,333
Rushing TDs: 7
Receptions: 90
Receiving Yards: 771
Receiving TDs: 5
38. Shaun Alexander, RB, SEA – 368.8 pts
Year: 2005
Rushing Yards: 1,880
Rushing TDs: 27
Receptions: 15
Receiving Yards: 78
Receiving TDs: 1
37. Ray Rice, RB, BAL – 368.8 pts
Year: 2011
Rushing Yards: 1,364
Rushing TDs: 12
Receptions: 76
Receiving Yards: 704
Receiving TDs: 3
36. Daunte Culpepper, QB, MIN – 369.28 pts
Year: 2004
Passing Yards: 4,717
Passing TDs: 39
Interceptions: 11
Rushing Yards: 406
Rushing TDs: 2
35. Emmitt Smith, RB, DAL – 369.80 pts
Year: 1992
Rushing Yards: 1,713
Rushing TDs: 18
Receptions: 59
Receiving Yards: 335
Receiving TDs: 1
34. Le’Veon Bell, RB, PIT – 370.50 pts
Year: 2014
Rushing Yards: 1,361
Rushing TDs: 8
Receptions: 83
Receiving Yards: 854
Receiving TDs: 3
33. Larry Johnson, RB, KC – 370.90 pts
Year: 2006
Rushing Yards: 1,789
Rushing TDs: 17
Receptions: 41
Receiving Yards: 410
Receiving TDs: 2
32. Isaac Bruce, WR, STL – 371.10 pts
Year: 1995
Receptions: 119
Receiving Yards: 1,781
Receiving TDs: 13
31. Herman Moore, WR, DET – 371.60 pts
Year: 1995
Receptions: 123
Receiving Yards: 1,686
Receiving TDs: 14
30. Jamaal Charles, RB, KC – 374 pts
Year: 2013
Rushing Yards: 1,287
Rushing TDs: 12
Receptions: 70
Receiving Yards: 693
Receiving TDs: 7
29. Randy Moss, WR, MIN – 376 pts
Year: 2003
Receptions: 111
Receiving Yards: 1,632
Receiving TDs: 17
28. O.J. Simpson, RB, BUF – 376.30 pts
Year: 1975
Rushing Yards: 1,817
Rushing TDs: 16
Receptions: 28
Receiving Yards: 426
Receiving TDs: 7
27. Marcus Allen, RB, OAK – 376.40 pts
Year: 1985
Rushing Yards: 1,759
Rushing TDs: 11
Receptions: 67
Receiving Yards: 555
Receiving TDs: 3
26. Roger Craig, RB, SF – 378.60 pts
Year: 1985
Rushing Yards: 1,050
Rushing TDs: 9
Receptions: 92
Receiving Yards: 1,016
Receiving TDs: 6
25. Ahman Green, RB, GB – 381 pts
Year: 2003
Rushing Yards: 1,883
Rushing TDs: 15
Receptions: 50
Receiving Yards: 367
Receiving TDs: 5
24. Terrell Davis, RB, DEN – 381.50 pts
Year: 1998
Rushing Yards: 2,008
Rushing TDs: 21
Receptions: 25
Receiving Yards: 217
Receiving TDs: 2
23. Marvin Harrison, WR, IND – 381.50 pts
Year: 2002
Receptions: 143
Receiving Yards: 1,722
Receiving TDs: 11
22. Antonio Brown, WR, PIT – 382.1 pts
Year: 2014
Receptions: 129
Receiving Yards: 1,698
Receiving TDs: 13
21. LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, SD – 382.2 pts
Year: 2002
Rushing Yards: 1,683
Rushing TDs: 14
Receptions: 79
Receiving Yards: 489
Receiving TDs: 1
20. Randy Moss, WR, NE – 2007
Year: 2007
Receptions: 98
Receiving Yards: 1,493
Receiving TDs: 23
19. Tom Brady, QB, NE – 386.04 pts
Year: 2007
Passing Yards: 4,806
Passing TDs: 50
Interceptions: 8
Rushing Yards: 98
Rushing TDs: 2
18. Antonio Brown, WR, PIT – 386.20 pts
Year: 2015
Receptions: 136
Receiving Yards: 1,834
Receiving TDs: 10
17. Cam Newton, QB, CAR
Year: 2015
Passing Yards: 3,837
Passing TDs: 35
Interceptions: 10
Rushing Yards: 636
Rushing TDs: 10
16. Drew Brees, QB, NO
Year: 2011
Passing Yards: 5,476
Passing TDs: 46
Interceptions: 14
Rushing Yards: 86
Rushing TDs: 1
15. Arian Foster, RB, HOU – 390 pts
Year: 2010
Rushing Yards: 1,616
Rushing TDs: 16
Receptions: 66
Receiving Yards: 604
Receiving TDs: 2
14. Chris Johnson, RB, TEN – 392.90 pts
Year: 2009
Rushing Yards: 2,006
Rushing TDs: 14
Receptions: 50
Receiving Yards: 503
Receiving TDs: 2
13. Edgerrin James, RB, IND – 393.30 pts
Year: 2000
Rushing Yards: 1,709
Rushing TDs: 13
Receptions: 63
Receiving Yards: 594
Receiving TDs: 5
12. Aaron Rodgers, QB, GB – 395.42 pts
Year: 2011
Passing Yards: 4,643
Passing TDs: 45
Interceptions: 6
Rushing Yards: 257
Rushing TDs: 3
11. Marshall Faulk, RB, STL – 399.90 pts
Year: 1999
Rushing Yards: 1,381
Rushing TDs: 7
Receptions: 87
Receiving Yards: 1,048
Receiving TDs: 5
10. Jerry Rice, WR, SF – 400.4 pts
Year: 1995
Receptions: 122
Receiving Yards: 1,848
Receiving TDs: 15
9. Steven Jackson, RB, STL – 411.4 pts
Year: 2006
Rushing Yards: 1,528
Rushing TDs: 13
Receptions: 90
Receiving Yards: 806
Receiving TDs: 3
8. Emmitt Smith, RB, DAL – 412.8 pts
Year: 1995
Rushing Yards: 1,773
Rushing TDs: 25
Receptions: 62
Receiving Yards: 375
Receiving TDs: 0
7. Marshall Faulk, RB, STL – 419.7 pts
Year: 2001
Rushing Yards: 1,382
Rushing TDs: 12
Receptions: 83
Receiving Yards: 765
Receiving TDs: 9
6. Peyton Manning, QB, DEN – 421.98 pts
Year: 2013
Passing Yards: 5,477
Passing TDs: 55
Interceptions: 10
Rushing Yards: (-31)
Rushing TDs: 1
5. LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, SD – 439.8 pts
Year: 2003
Passing Yards: 21
Passing TDs: 1
Rushing Yards: 1,645
Rushing TDs: 13
Receptions: 100
Receiving Yards: 725
Receiving TDs: 4
4. Priest Holmes, RB, KC – 440.7 pts
Year: 2002
Rushing Yards: 1,615
Rushing TDs: 21
Receptions: 70
Receiving Yards: 672
Receiving TDs: 3
3. Priest Holmes, RB, KC – 445 pts
Year: 2003
Rushing Yards: 1,420
Rushing TDs: 27
Receptions: 74
Receiving Yards: 690
Receiving TDs: 0
2. Marshall Faulk, RB, STL – 459.9 pts
Year: 2000
Rushing Yards: 1,359
Rushing TDs: 18
Receptions: 81
Receiving Yards: 830
Receiving TDs: 8
1. LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, SD – 479.1 pts | positive |
As North Korea advances its nuclear ambitions with yet another test of a long-range missile system, the once unthinkable has started to go mainstream in Japan: a discussion of the idea that Japan needs to have a nuclear deterrent of its own to survive in an increasingly unstable region.
Japan's "nuclear allergy" stems from its unique, tragic history with nuclear weapons. It is the only country in the world to suffer their impact, when the United States leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to end World War II.
Since then, there have been brief public discussions of gaining nuclear weapons to stave off threats, such as in the '50s at the height of the Cold War, but such discussions were almost always relegated to extremists who longed for a return to Japan's imperial military heyday.
Today, experts tell Fox News the idea that Japan can and should possess nuclear weapons on its own soil, whether they are domestically developed or provided by the U.S., is no longer the exclusive realm of Japanese extremists.
"There are some Japanese security analysts who are starting to think about stationing nuclear weapons in Japan and they are mainstream. That is new in Japan," said Mark Fitzpatrick, Washington Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the book “Asia's Latent Nuclear Powers.”
"The taboo about talking about nuclear weapons in Japan has been broken," said Fitzpatrick.
"Although anti-nuclear weapons sentiment is extremely strong in Japan, now people are more freely discussing the idea of a nuclear-armed Japan," said Masako Toki of the Center for Non-proliferation Studies, "Before now, even slightly saying such an idea forced politicians to resign. Now that seems no longer the case. The taboo on discussing de-nuclearization has been weakened."
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Anders Corr, who runs a political risk consultancy called Corr Analytics, said he has also "seen an increased number of military analysts supporting a nuclear armed Japan over the past few months."
A combination of factors appears to be driving the new, albeit reluctant, discussion. They are: China's regional ambitions as a nuclear power, North Korea's testing where some missiles actually land in Japanese territorial waters, and a U.S. president who is seen as willing to test traditional alliances with a focus on domestic priorities.
As a non-proliferation advocate and analyst, Fitzpatrick does not support Japan gaining the bomb, but he is worried about what could happen as the region continues to destabilize, U.S. policy continues to evolve, and the idea that Japan must have nuclear weapons to protect itself gains ground.
"I think it's very dangerous talk because if it were to happen, it would exacerbate the regional arms race and enable the possibility of nuclear exchange, either intentional or accidental," Fitzpatrick told Fox News.
Public opinion polls still show large majorities against Japan nuclearizing and the barriers to the bomb are still very high, but "as China's aggression increases, political opinion in Japan will increasingly support going nuclear," Corr told Fox News.
Corr believes nuclear weapons would actually stabilize the region. Such weapons, Corr said, would have a deterrent effect on China, for example, from taking territory in and around the Senkaku Islands.
Japanese nuclear weapons also would deter Russia, which has taken "increasingly aggressive actions in Japan's airspace in recent years," not to mention North Korea, he said.
And they could neutralize the North Korean menace.
"It would restore some balance in East Asian Security. It would be a form of retaliation that does not escalate, but actually de-escalates tensions in East Asia," Corr added.
Non-proliferation experts disagree, and argue that a nuclear-armed Japan would create immense diplomatic problems for the United States as it continues to try to prevent proliferation by adversaries and allies alike.
Plus, Japan is already defended by nuclear weapons. "They're just not Japanese nuclear weapons. They're American nuclear weapons," said James Acton, Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "This is crucial to the argument against Japan going nuclear."
Japan's government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe surprised observers last year when it seemed to lean toward interpreting the country's pacifist Constitution, as permitting some kinds of nuclear weapons. However, it has made seemingly contradictory statements on the matter.
Yusuke Yokobatake, the Director-General of the Japanese Cabinet Legislation Bureau, said in March 2016, "We don't think that the use of all kinds of nuclear weapons is prohibited under the Constitution . . . [but] the use of weapons, not just nuclear arms, is restricted under domestic and international laws."
Abe's political party also has stated that North Korea's political threats have "entered a new stage." Without referencing nuclear weapons, Japan's prime minister said earlier this year that the country needs to explore "what kind of deterrents can be possible under the exclusively defensive policy."
Thanks to its reliance on nuclear power, Japan has a large stockpile of plutonium that has long worried anti-proliferation advocates.
As of the end of 2016, Japan had 9.8 metric tons of plutonium stockpiled around the country and another 37.1 metric tons stored in Britain and France. That's enough to create around 5,000 nuclear bombs. Some of the weapons-grade material was transferred to the US in March under an anti-proliferation agreement signed during the Obama Administration.
After North Korea successfully tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead over the weekend, President Trump reassured Abe that the U.S. remains committed to using the "full range" of its capabilities in defending Japan.
But Acton said that allies like Japan and South Korea are nevertheless worried about the Trump administration's dedication to so-called extended deterrence, or the protective shield of the American nuclear umbrella over allies, not just the U.S. homeland.
"One gets into a problem where allies no longer trust that guarantee," Acton told Fox News.
While the Trump Administration has not given any indication that Japan or South Korea should get nuclear weapons, Acton said they do have lingering concerns given the president's statements on issues like paying for protection, such as Trump's call on South Korea to pay more for the THAAD missile defense system.
"That kind of event gives allies concerns about whether the U.S. is actually committed to their security," Acton said.
During the presidential campaign, Trump was criticized for apparently leaning toward a nuclear-armed Japan when he said at a town hall, "you have so many countries now that have them already - China, Pakistan, Russia. Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?"
Trump later distanced himself from the prospect of supporting a nuclear-armed Japan.
But Corr, who believes Japan would be wise to nuclearize, points out that Trump is on to something when it comes to adversaries gaining the bomb, and allies leaning heavily on America for protection.
"The democracies and U.S.-aligned countries are playing by the rules," he said, "it would be unwise to let all the autocracies and China-aligned countries obtain nuclear weapons, and deny that deterrent to our democratic allies."
He argues that time has come in East Asia.
"Not only Japan, but South Korea and Taiwan should obtain independent deterrent nuclear forces," said Corr. "This would right the current security imbalance in East Asia and decrease incentives for Chinese and North Korean territorial aggression."
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BAGHDAD — Shiite Turkmen who fled Islamic State (IS) beheadings in northwestern cities have traveled several hundred kilometers to places of pilgrimage and camps in southern and central Iraq.
Sunni Arabs relatively close to the capital are instead being refused entry to Baghdad and go north, conditions allowing, though many are subsequently barred from the larger cities in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
In the Laylan camp for internally displaced persons (IDP), just southeast of Kirkuk in one of Iraq’s disputed territories, one Sunni family from Muqdadiyah recounts being shelled by government forces and having relatives "disappeared" by Shiite militias. Four of the children were killed by Iraqi government airstrikes in the fall of 2014, their father told Al-Monitor, and shrapnel is still embedded in his remaining three sons’ bodies. They have not been able to get past checkpoints to reach health care facilities in Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk, despite referrals from other facilities.
Al-Monitor was shown pictures of the family’s mutilated flatbed truck, hit while several children were in the vehicle. The family was forced to wait for six hours along the road by continued bombing, and several of the injured died during that time.
One of the girls in the tent with them, a 7-year-old relative named Nour, does not have ID papers. "Her father had them with him when he stayed behind to bury the bodies" of the relatives who had died of wounds from the airstrikes, said one man. "He was later taken by the Shiite militias along the road," he explained, rattling off the names of various groups within the Popular Mobilization Units active in the area.
Along the road between Kalar and Jalawla, still an uninhabited militarized zone months after being retaken from IS, Al-Monitor spoke to other internally displaced Iraqis.
The inhabitants said that they had initially been staying inside a school in Kulajo after being displaced by the fighting, but had later been transferred to this informal tented encampment.
They said that the area — still muddy on Al-Monitor’s visit in late March — had been recently flooded by rain, and that it would likely be filled with scorpions and snakes in the summer months. Schools are too far away for the children to attend. The residents live in limbo, receiving aid at irregular intervals from tribal leaders and some nongovernmental organizations, a resident who identified himself as the "camp manager" told Al-Monitor.
The man, a former shop owner from Muqdadiyah who asked not to be named, said, "If we go back, the arrests will start" by the Shiite militias, implying that such arrests would be indiscriminate and sectarian-based.
Southeast of the capital, the Nabi Younes camp in Nahrawan is much better equipped. Rows of container housing with electricity, running water and television are raised off the ground, asphalt roads running between them. The camp, carefully guarded by Iraqi troops, includes a soccer field and elementary school. House numbers are scrawled in black on the otherwise monotonous white buildings and a dusty Iraqi flag flies near a protective fence around the camp.
Images of the historical Muslim figure Hussein, revered by the Shiite sect and typically depicted as a light-skinned man with auburn flowing locks, and various Shiite slogans such as "Ya Zahra" in reference to the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter are ubiquitous. Similar images dot the sides of the road on the way from Baghdad, with one on a government checkpoint as well.
A young boy is seen in the predominantly Shiite camp Nabi Younes in Nahrawan, southeast of Baghdad, April 11, 2015. (Photo by Shelly Kittleson)
One of the inhabitants, a black-chadored Shiite woman in her 20s with five children from the Mosul area in northwestern Iraq, told Al-Monitor that her husband and his four brothers had been killed and then beheaded in front of her by IS members.
Some of the fighters, she said, let her and the other women and children go on the condition that they not tell anyone, as their superiors in the Sunni jihadist organization "would kill them otherwise" for letting them go. She said they were taken near a peshmerga checkpoint and released, and later traveled another few hundred kilometers to be closer to other Shiites.
Deputy camp director Mustafa Hussein told Al-Monitor that he had received several reports from camp residents that KRG peshmerga had confiscated the IDs of the displaced at checkpoints on their way to the camp, and that some had been beaten. He said that half of the housing was still empty but would be filled soon.
Further south, in Karbala, Al-Monitor visited an informal camp housing hundreds in accommodation normally used for pilgrims to the city holy to Shiites.
Most of the approximately 2.7 million Iraqis internally displaced since January 2014 are not living in formal camps. According to IOM data released last month, an overwhelming "96% of the total displaced population are living in private accommodation, including rentals, hotels and with host families. Another 3% are in critical shelter arrangements, mainly public and unfinished buildings, and 1% are in camps."
The most immediate concern is for the displaced from the western Iraqi province of Anbar — still mostly under the control of IS and where Iraqi government troops and allied Shiite militias are concentrating their operations — and its regional capital Ramadi. The UNHCR reports that over 100,000 people have been displaced from the area in recent weeks.
In an e-mail exchange with UNHCR Public Information Officer Bathoul Ahmed, Al-Monitor was told, "Many Ramadi IDPs have faced serious difficulty in reaching places of safety. Procedures for admission to different governorates have often changed on a daily basis, and at key checkpoints the authorities have introduced enhanced security screening practices, including the requirement for a sponsor in order to cross."
At an April 30 press conference in Baghdad, European Union humanitarian aid department chief Jean-Louis de Brouwer reportedly warned that not allowing the displaced from Sunni areas into Baghdad or the Kurdish region without sponsorship would ultimately "end up with the kind of ethnic division that will not be good for the country."
Much local support for IS is seen as stemming from discriminatory practices by the Shiite-led government toward Sunnis in the years since the 2003 invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The current displacement trends and restrictions on IDP movement seem likely to further aggravate the already high levels of distrust between the two communities. | positive |
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Thousands of people have been taking part in protests in Australia over a plan to kill large sharks.
The Western Australia government is set to install baited hooks off Perth's popular beaches in response to seven fatal shark attacks in three years.
But protesters say a cull is not the answer, and will only damage the sea's delicate ecosystem.
More than 4,000 people gathered for a demonstration at Perth's Cottesloe beach alone.
"Without the sharks there will be no future for humanity because they balance out the ecosystem and every living creature in the sea is really important," one protester said.
At a demonstration in Melbourne, one protester said: "We're better than killing wildlife in vengeance. We need to use the science that's there, to work with the science that's there, to learn to live with these creatures instead of culling them."
Sabotage fears
The WA government is planning to install some 72 baited hooks on drum lines one kilometre (mile) off the beaches by 10 January.
A contract to maintain and patrol the lines will be awarded to commercial fishermen in the coming days.
Any shark more than three metres long - which could include Great White, Tiger and Bull sharks - will be shot and disposed of.
The policy was settled upon following the death of a surfer and father-of-two in November.
Acting Premier Kim Hames insisted it would go ahead despite the protests, but took issue with it being called a cull.
"If it were a cull we would be out catching sharks the length and breadth of the state," he said. "We are concentrating on the areas where the public are frequent users."
And he warned of the bigger outcry if any protester tried to sabotage the drum lines, once operational. "What... if someone gets taken on the Rottnest Island swim for example, or a child at Scarborough Beach? Where will their protest be then?" he said.
But the protesters have vowed not to let up in their opposition to the plans. Further demonstrations are planned, and the Green Party says it is consulting its lawyers over the legality of the move. | positive |
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
CALGARY -- A woman who treated her seven-year-old boy with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection says every day is a painful reminder that an error in judgment led to her son's death.
Tamara Lovett, 48, was found guilty in January of criminal negligence causing death by a judge who said Lovett "gambled away" the life of her son Ryan by treating him without seeking medical help in 2013.
"Every day I punish myself. I think about Ryan and I blame myself for not knowing better and for holding limiting beliefs that ultimately led to the death of my child," Lovett told her sentencing hearing Thursday as she wiped tears. "At the time, I thought I was doing the best for my child.
"I hope others learn from my ignorance, because these beliefs are no longer entrenched in my psyche and this has been a painful lesson."
Lovett gave her son dandelion tea and oil of oregano when he developed the infection that kept him bedridden in their Calgary home for 10 days in March 2013.
She testified at her trial that she thought Ryan had a cold or the flu, and she didn't think his swollen lymph nodes, an oozing ear infection and jaundiced eyes weren't anything she couldn't handle.
Alberta's chief medical examiner testified that the boy's body was full of group A streptococcus bacteria, which caused most of his major organs to fail.
"I now know better. Forgive me for my ignorance. It has cost me a loving son and there is a pain which will last forever," Lovett said Thursday.
"How do I get over losing my child because of an error in my judgment? Every moment of every day is a reminder of what I've lost."
Prosecutor Jonathan Hak asked Justice Kristine Eidsvik to impose a sentence of four to five years.
"The defendant ignored obvious warning signs. In doing so, her son suffered unnecessarily," Hak said.
He noted that Lovett ignored a friend's advice to seek help for Ryan hours before his death and that she isn't likely to change her mind about holistic medicine.
Defence lawyer Alain Hepner, who is calling for a sentence of one year plus probation, said his client has already suffered "pain and torment" for causing Ryan's death.
He told court Lovett was not a mean or abusive mother, but someone who made a mistake.
"Tamara Lovett has suffered the ultimate penalty for her actions --the death of her son," Hepner said. "She realizes her belief system caused the death of her son."
Hepner has filed an application on behalf of his client arguing the guilty verdict should be overturned because the case was not dealt with in a reasonable time. Those arguments are scheduled for Oct. 24. | positive |
HOLA! Big week, isn’t it?
Don’t fret. I am not going to reveal who you are. I may or may not know who you are, but I do definitely know you’re in big trouble if you get found out. Like how your promotion has already warned you that you will not be booked for the rest of the year if they so much as spot you in the crowd at a WWE show. I don’t want to happen, I (probably) like watching you have lucha libre matches and I want nothing but success for you, that’s why I’m trying to help. You signing with WWE might cause grave damage to the promotion you leave behind, but I’ve read the newsletters and it seems we’re all hopelessly doomed as it is. Might as well get out while the money’s still good.
(I do wonder how they’re going to spot you as a fan at the show. I bet they spent some good money on tickets for the show. It’s nice to see someone in Mexico doing that. Wish they could get people to do that for their own companies, so this tryout wouldn’t be happening.)
Anyway, I’m going to keep this short, because you’ve surely got a lot to remember about and now’s not the time to forget to bring the generic gear. Let me give you three important points.
1) Speak English! If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably doing okay with this. If you’re acting like myself, and using Google Translate far too often, you’re in a world of trouble and you need a plan quick.
Yes, I know Sin Cara doesn’t speak English, and he would probably be doing fine if he wasn’t such a head case (and I know you’re thrilled about him being exposed as one.) You don’t get the same pass; they already have one guy who doesn’t do promos, they will not need another. You’ve got to give WWE something they don’t already have in Mistico if you want be working with him.
If you’ve been secretly hiding away your English proficiency all along to keep your spot, now’s the time to break it out. If the only English you’ve learned is from your favorite rap albums, go buy an “Ingles sin Barreras” set and make sure people see that you’re taking the initiative to learn.
2) Ask for advice. WWE likes to employ people who know what they’re doing. WWE loves to employ people who know what they’re doing but will be sure to ask them if what they’re doing is what they want to be done. I know that sentence makes it feel like you’ve failed to read English, but it’s real and accurate.
WWE will tell you how great you are at everything before you sign with them. They will start telling you everything you do is wrong once the ink dries. They will keep telling you that until you start doing things exactly how they want to be done. Once you finally feel you have a grasp on the ‘right way of doing things’, they will resume telling you how wrong you are. This is something you must learn to handle.
There is a time where they actually want you to push back. That is absolutely not the tryout. After you’re out of the ring, the most benefit you can do for your chances is to ask everyone what you’ve done wrong, and what you can do to improve. Start with anyone standing outside the ring who looks over 30 and doesn’t look like they’re going in the ring. Make sure they believe you’re taking their advice to heart, and honestly appreciate what they have to say. Even if it’s bad advice. ESPECIALLY if it’s bad advice.
3) Shake everyone’s hands. I know this is not idea people are as eager to do in Mexico after the pig flu, but I’m fairly certain this is the most important point on this list.
I can’t repeat this enough. Shake everyone’s hands. Shake hands from the moment you step in the building to the moment you slip out a side exit to avoid being seen by fans. Shake the important people’s hands. Shake the people’s hands who may not seem important, because some of those people are actually super important. Shake the unimportant people’s hands just to be safe. Shake each other’s hand if you’re trying out. Shake your own hand. And, for god’s sake, if you see a five time world champion, shake his hand. If I spend the next week decoding angry tweets about luchadors who failed to shake hands, I’m going to shake my fist at the lot of you.
This is where it might be helpful to work on the buddy system, so you can compare lists and make sure you got the same people. It’s bizarre, but if you don’t shake their hands, the WWE people feel like you’re slapping them in the face with that hands. If you want to work in their company, you have to obey their bizarre rules.
That’s it! Demonstrate the ability to speak English, use that English to ask to ask for advice, and shake the advice givers (and everyone else’s!) hands. Those are really the important things. Wrestling is largely unimportant, because you do lucha libre and they’ll want to break you of that anyway, and you know well enough to look good without failing their drug tests; I can tell you’ve been preparing for that.
Good luck! I look forward to buying your mask at 5 times it costs in Mexico.
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Each Iranian celebrating Nowruz in Armenia spends approximately $ 800 within 5 days
The rental fees for apartments, especially those available for daily rental, have doubled ahead of Nowruz holiday, which the Iranians come to celebrate in Armenia [Persian New Year begins on March 21].
Nowruz begins on the 4th week of March and lasts for 13 days. Armenia will host about 20,000-25,000 Iranians in those 2 weeks.
Tert.am studied the apartment rental ads available on List.am website and published some of them:
Certain Maria was renting our a 1-bedroom apartment in Yerevan center for AMD10,000 (approximately US$20) per day. However, from March 20, the rental fee for the same apartment has increased to AMD24,000 (US$49). Mari, a broker agency employee, was renting out a 1-bedroom apartment in Abovyan street [one of Yerevan’s central streets] for AMD 15,000 [approximately $ 31) per day before March 19, whereas from March 20 the rental fee increased to AMD 31,000 [$ 64].
The number of Iranian tourists visiting Armenia has considerably increased over the recent years. According to the experts, they stay in Armenia for about 4-5 days and each time spend up to $ 800.
Over 160,000 Iranian tourists visited Armenia in January-September 2016.
At the same time, due to the sanctions, Iranians still can’t book rooms in Armenian hotels online, using Visa and Mastercard credit cards.
The Iranians, who preferred to be anonymous, told JAMnews that Armenian banks refused to open accounts to the Iranian nationals in fear of facing problems. Mellat Bank CJSC, which is operating based on Iranian assets, is so far the only bank in Armenia that provides services to the Iranian nationals. | positive |
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James Webb Space Telescope receives last mirror segments
In this photo, NASA engineers and technicians inspect one of the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments which had been delivered prior to the final shipment of segments which arrived last week. Photo Credit: Chris Gunn / NASA GSFC
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The last of the key components of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has arrived at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The final three of eighteen hexagonal mirrors, shipped across eight states from Boulder, Colorado, to Greenbelt, Maryland, will be integrated into the structure that will hold together the primary mirror. Put together, these mirrors will form the largest space telescope ever built. Once assembled, the beryllium mirrors will be adjusted by computer-controlled actuators to correct any errors.
The shipping of the individual mirrors began in September 2012. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits at a mere three hundred fifty-four miles altitude, the James Webb telescope will orbit at a staggering one million miles from Earth. The JWST will operate primarily in the infrared rather than in visible light. The mirrors were constructed by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado, a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman. The gold-coated mirrors were shipped in hermetically sealed containers designed to withstand the temperature and pressure changes that come with a trip from the high altitude of Boulder to the near sea level of Greenbelt, where they will be cryogenically tested and integrated into what acting telescope director Eric Smith calls “the structure that will hold them incredibly stable.”
Ball designed not only the primary mirror but also the tertiary mirror and the fine-steering mirror. At over twenty-one feet in diameter, the primary mirror will not only be the largest mirror ever flown in space but also the first to deploy in space. The telescope will be launched by an Ariane rocket in October of 2018. The telescope will be folded within the rocket, much as the Apollo lunar roving vehicle was stowed within the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) of the lunar module, and will unfold after deployment.
Robert Strain, President of Ball Aerospace, said, “Ball’s sophisticated mirror architecture will provide James Webb with the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory ever launched by NASA. A huge amount of teamwork was needed to meet the exacting requirements for the telescope’s optical design and we’re eager to see the results.”
NASA will be hosting a social media event on January 22 in celebration of the arrival of all of the key components of the JWST at Goddard. Forty participants will have the opportunity to observe the cleanroom where the hardware is being stored, get a behind-the-scenes tour of the integration facilities as well as the test facilities that ensure that the telescope can endure the rigors of launch, interact with engineers and scientists who developed the JWST, including Nobel Laureate John Mather, and hear lectures from NASA scientists and engineers about Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission and the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite.
The James Webb telescope will be able to look through interstellar dust clouds in order to find stars forming new solar systems, provide imaging of extrasolar planets, provide scientists with a look at the first light in the universe after the Big Bang. | positive |
The nearly two dozen people who were forced out of their homes in Chinatown overnight after a building under renovation partially collapsed have since been allowed to return home.
Emergency crews were called to 365-367 Spadina Ave. near Cecil Street just before 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The building is owned by the Yonge Street Mission.
The building – which has apartments on the two upper floors and commercial properties on the ground floor – was deemed unsafe by an engineer after the incident. Toronto police said the roof partially collapsed.
On Tuesday, police said the two buildings next door were not safe for residents to occupy. Around 20 people from those adjacent buildings were forced out of their homes, but were giving the all-clear to return on Wednesday morning.
Iris Ibarra, a spokesperson with the Yonge Street Mission, told 680 NEWS the plan is have to combine 365-367 Spadina into one building and move their youth drop-in centre on Yonge Street into the new building.
Police said the renovation was being done without a permit, but Ibarra said all the proper paperwork was in place for the project.
“In terms of having all of our boxes checked, we were approved to do all of this. We have all of the right permits in place from the City of Toronto in order to start this project,” Ibarra said.
She said the plan involves demolishing everything except the foundation and building a new youth drop-in centre on top of that foundation.
“We are working to build it all up again. We are all planning on having it built brand new, which is why we are demolishing it. We do want to make sure we have a state-of-the-art building when we are ready to open to the street youth,” Ibarra said.
She said the project developers are working with the Ministry of Labour to determine the integrity of the structure.
Ibarra said the demolition started at the beginning of the year and that the new building is expected to be ready near the end of the year. However, it is not clear how the setback will affect the move-in date.
With files from Charlene Close | positive |
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Take command of the Allied forces and protect your homeland and the whole of Europe from totalitarian madness. Form armies. Win battles. Change history. All Reviews: Very Positive (69) - 89% of the 69 user reviews for this game are positive. Release Date: May 21, 2021 Developer: Starni Games Publisher: Starni Games Tags Popular user-defined tags for this product: Turn-Based Tactics Wargame Military Tanks War World War II Strategy RPG Turn-Based Strategy Strategy Board Game 3D Alternate History Historical Story Rich Turn-Based Combat Simulation Realistic Tactical Hex Grid Singleplayer + Reviews All Reviews: Very Positive (89% of 69) All Time Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored Curator Review Recommended By Older Gamer May 26, 2021 “"Lead the Army to the victory of the greatest History" - OG Members Review by xzero” Read the full review Discuss this review Links & info Is this game relevant to you? Sign in to see reasons why you may or may not like this based on your games, friends, and curators you follow. Sign In or Open in Steam Download Demo Features Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Steam Leaderboards Languages: English and 7 more Interface Full Audio Subtitles English ✔ ✔ ✔ Russian ✔ ✔ French ✔ ✔ German ✔ ✔ Simplified Chinese ✔ ✔ Korean ✔ ✔ Polish ✔ ✔ Ukrainian ✔ ✔ See all 8 supported languages View Steam Achievements (40) Includes 40 Steam Achievements View all 40 Title: Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom Genre: Simulation, Strategy Developer: Starni Games Publisher: Starni Games Franchise: Strategic Mind Release Date: May 21, 2021 Visit the website Starni Games on Twitter StarniGames on YouTube View update history Read related news View discussions Find Community Groups Share Embed Awards Awards Check out the entire Strategic Mind Franchise on Steam Buy Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom $29.99 Add to Cart Buy Strategic Mind Complete Collection BUNDLE (?) Includes 5 items: Strategic Mind: The Pacific, Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg, Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism, Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom, Strategic Mind Franchise Soundtrack Bundle info -20% $108.75 Add to Cart Add to Account Buy Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom + Soundtrack Includes 2 items: Strategic Mind Franchise Soundtrack, Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom Bundle info -5% $34.18 Add to Cart Add to Account View Community Hub Reviews “While a game like Shadow Empire is all about the big picture and planning years of infrastructure and military buildup, Strategic Mind's unit and equipment system gives it an air of flexibility that feels particularly suitable for these big invasion and evacuation campaigns where tactical mobility is king.” Rock Paper Shotgun “Fight for Freedom has surprisingly deep tactical gameplay. The variety of units allows for compelling strategic outmanoeuvring of the enemy and holding key strategic locations is the key to victory.” New Game Network “Dense, granular gameplay.” Turn Based Lovers UKRAINE WAR STORIES | PLAY FREE DEMO https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985510/Ukraine_War_Stories/ More Games From Strategic Mind Series https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200330/Strategic_Mind_Blitzkrieg/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/ Add to Wishlist Upcoming Game From Strategic Mind Series https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/ About This Game Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom is a history-driven turn-based strategy set in WW2. You will fight across Europe, Africa, and Burma. Will you spend the time on proper reconnaissance before the attack, or rely on aggressive tactics? Will you use night time or rain to your advantage, sneaking up on enemy positions, or just complain that the weather was unfavorable? Will you help the locals or leave them to their fate? It is up to you to save the stronghold of Democracy and Freedom in Europe from the totalitarian oppression of the Axis powers. WITNESS WW2 FROM TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES The game has 2 campaigns: the British one features fully historical battles, while the US one has historical operations up to the defeat of Germany and also features a number of alternate history battles against the USSR afterward. It is created with great care and attention to historical detail by a team that is passionate about WW2 history. Lead the British Army as Sir Harold Alexander Go all the way from Norway landings to the liberation of northern Italy. Command your troops in bitter defeats and in the moments of triumph. Take charge of the Dunkirk evacuation. Fight the Japanese in Burma, and Italians in Africa. Turn the tide of war against Germany at El Alamein. Finish the war in North Africa and lead the victorious landing in Italy in 1943. Lead the US Army as General Dwight Eisenhower Go all the way from D-Day landings to the fall of Berlin. Ensure the success of Operation Market Garden, repel the last German offensive at the Ardennes, and strike the killing blow into the heart of the Reich. Then move into the alternate history of 1946 and face your strongest adversary yet - the Red Army. Command US and Allied forces and minimize your losses. Employ the units of all Allied and liberated countries to achieve maximum synergy. Exploit all available means to bring Freedom and Democracy to Eastern Europe. HISTORICAL OPERATIONS AND “WHAT IF” SCENARIOS Take part in historic events Make sure all of your troops manage to escape the Dunkirk trap. Show the Italian troops they should choose their allies more carefully by conducting operation Compass flawlessly. Change the course of the entire war in Africa by defeating Rommel in the Second Battle of El-Alamein. Go back to Europe by landing in Italy. Commence the D-Day landing and fight your way to Berlin to put an end to the Nazi regime and its crimes. Sate your curiosity of alternate history flow What would have happened if the Allies had to go to war against USSR in 1946, following the ideas of Operation Unthinkable? Now you can take the lead and explore such possibilities. Free the Eastern European countries from Communist rule! MEET THE TOP BRASS The gameplay is plot-driven and features many historical personalities such as Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harold Alexander, Bernard Law Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and others. GAMEPLAY FEATURES Immerse yourself in history Enjoy the narrative-driven gameplay with lots of dialogues between the historical characters throughout each operation. The dialogues are affected by your actions. Dive deeper into the events of 1939-1946 by watching plot-driven cinematics before and after every operation. Manage your Army Choose the composition of your forces. Acquire new units, upgrade or dismiss the outdated ones. There are 10 unit classes available in the game, with lots of models in each. Upgrade your units to newer models Get new unit models as soon as they become available. As the campaign progresses you gain access to more advanced units at historically accurate periods. Choose the best equipment for each operation Make sure that your forces have all the necessary tools for the upcoming battle. All units can employ various equipment and transport. Train your troops and choose new abilities for them Oversee your forces getting combat experience and choose news skills for them that best suit your strategy and tactics. Assign heroes Assign heroes to the units of your choosing and get access to special skills. All heroes are real historical personalities. Develop your headquarters’ skills and employ advanced combat tactics Learn new HQ skills before every operation and use your newly-acquired knowledge to make a difference on the battlefield. Use the enemy`s most advanced units against him Capture the best enemy units and add them to your forces. Then crash the enemy using his own strength. Enjoy realistic 3D graphics Study the battle map and take advantage of 3D graphics, featuring volumetric terrain and physically-simulated movement of units. All units are very detailed representations of real models. WELCOME THE SUCCESSOR Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom is the fourth installment in the Strategic Mind line of games, featuring both the United Kingdom and the United States in WW2. Previous titles in the series: Strategic Mind: The Pacific - the first game, featuring both the United States and the Empire of Japan waging war in the Pacific. Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg - the second game, featuring Germany in WW2. Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism - the third game, featuring the USSR in WW2. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1381850/Strategic_Mind_Fight_for_Freedom/ System Requirements Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD, 2.0 GHz or faster Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or better or AMD HD 7870 or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space Sound Card: Onboard Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD RX 470 or Nvidia GTX 1050 or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space Sound Card: Onboard See all More from Strategic Mind Franchise See all More like this View all What Curators Say 67 Curators have reviewed this product. Click here to see them. 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We will start close to the famous ski town of Mora in central Sweden, where there is a little place with a rather eye-catching name.
Perhaps it's a description (let's hope not), or maybe it was just named when the word had a completely different meaning, but for whatever reason, someone, at some point in time, found it appropriate to name this place Rövhålet, which literally translates to The Butthole.
When one starts to dig deeper, it turns out out Swedes have named plenty of places after that particular body part.
People outside Uppsala, for example, can take a stroll in the terrain of Djupröven (Deep Arse), and outside Gothenburg one can enjoy a swim in any of the Yellow, Small or Big Arse lakes (Gula Röven, Lilla Röven, Stora Röven).
A somewhat cuter name but still perhaps not the first pick to put on your resumé, is Kattsjärten in Värmland. The Local's translation for this (hopefully) unusual name is Cat's Bottom.
With this we're leaving the behinds behind.
This may sound like something you would see in a tabloid headline after a Saturday night in the Big Brother house, but Sexträsk (Sex Swamp) is a place in northern Sweden, about 150 kilometers inland from Skellefteå.
And although Sweden is about as unprejudiced as countries come, many a driver in Sollentuna just north of Stockholm, have had to double take for decades as they pass a place called Bögs Gård (Gay's Farm).
Sweden is also known for having many fresh water lakes, soothing bathers during hot summer days.
Although none of us here at The Local have ever been to these particular lakes we found we agreed that the names Köttsjön (Meat Lake) and Rumpsjön (Bottom Lake) didn't create very inviting images.
Neither, in fact, did Pissholmen (Piss Islet).
Between Uppsala and Gävle in central Sweden, outside the town of Horsskog (which is one step away from claiming first place on this list for reasons we abstain from revealing) is an area that might be just a little stickier, a little nastier and a little smellier than other places. It is called Snormossen (Snot Bog).
Although, it has a contender in Varberg (Puss Mountain) in Halland County.
The following three aren't actually that bad, read in Swedish. But English-speakers with some knowledge of Swedish pronunciation, or vice versa, can probably see what's funny about Äs, Middelfart and Horred.
And perhaps it isn't so surprising if people living in or near Fnaskberget (Trollop's Mound) fail to write that as their permanent address on their resumé.
However, despite residents in some places every now and again revolt against names that they feel are less than fortunate, it would seem that most people are happy to live where they live, regardless of name. | positive |
Update (June 20, 2016): Mr_Ghostface_Lives has suddenly backtracked from his assertions and deleted his posts. See the latest news here.
A couple of days ago, Star Wars fans were on fire after the return of an IMDB user called “Mr_Ghostface_Lives”, who was an influential poster in the run up to The Force Awakens.
In a June 8 post entitled “Two Facts in Episode VIII“, Mr_Ghostface_Lives claims that:
Luke is not Rey’s father
Leia gets written out early on, and only survives after using the Force.
Today June 10, Mr_Ghostface_Lives gave a further update:
(In response to a comment on Leia’s Force use) Yes I agree, TFA implies that she never looked into the Force at all, which I found disappointing and very unlikely from a story point of view. Given that she and Luke, to the best of our knowledge, were the last Force users at the end of Jedi, how likely is it that she’d never explore it with Luke?
So yes, she uses the Force in Episode VIII, which I think is a phenomenally good move. It’s just too bad that they’re minimising her part again. She’s absent for most of the movie after the opening sequence.
With regard to whether Leia will survive, he replied:
Yes, as far as I know she is in Episode IX. She doesn’t die in the script for Episode VIII as it stands. But it’s still disappointing that they’re minimising her screen time. Despite her personal problems, Carrie Fisher is still a very good actress.
And as for the Rey Skywalker issue:
Well, I don’t know whose child she really is, just that she isn’t Luke’s daughter and it certainly wasn’t Luke or Leia who abandoned her on Jakku.
Update (June 11 1 pm EST):
Question:
1. You know who actually left her on Jakku? Some other reason that excludes the possibility of Luke or Leia being the ones who left her?
2. Also, does what you’re seeing line up with the MSW leaks? Have you got any sense of where the big scene of Kylo and the Knights of Ren arriving on Ahch-To takes place (i.e. first/second/third act)? Don’t worry if you can’t answer, but I thought I’d try my luck.
I don’t actually know who left her because I haven’t read anything that reveals it, but I have read enough to know who it isn’t, if that makes sense. And it’s neither Luke nor Leia.
Regarding all the leaks, there was a great deal revealed there, and some of it I can neither confirm nor deny, but yes, there is certainly truth to some of it.
Let’s analyze:
Leia is absent after the opening sequence
The last we saw of General Leia Organa in TFA, she was in the Resistance Base on D’Qar.
If Mr_Ghostface_Lives is a credible source, then there will probably be some sort of reprisal attack on D’Qar. This isn’t a stretch, given that the First Order now knows the location of the Resistance base, and they’ll be hungry for blood after the destruction of Starkiller Base.
We might even see a modern adaptation of the Hoth battle, where the First Order arrives just as the Resistance is packing up and preparing to switch bases.
Remember, a few months ago there was a rumor that Laura Dern’s character would replace Leia as leader of the Resistance after being severely injured. The scene supposedly occurs “just after an evacuation”, implying a battle with the First Order that the Resistance will lose.
Leia’s grave situation might also serve as segue to the galaxy’s political situation. Episode VIII director Rian Johnson helped shape the TFA prequel novel Star Wars: Bloodline, including the state of the new Republic and the two ideological factions vying for control. With Leia out of the way, the audience will see the effects of her absence, as well as the tiny cracks in the Republic’s facade.
In fact, as early as now Disney is already prepping us for the larger view of the galaxy outside of the Resistance:
Whereas Episode 7 was a clear conflict between good and evil, Episode 8 could delve into the gray area, and how the good guys aren’t as united as they seem to be.
Incidentally supporting Mr_Ghostface_Lives assertion is the fact that Carrie Fisher seems to have a lot of downtime. While Mark Hamill has been putting in 6 am call times at Pinewood Studios, Carrie found the time to launch a new advice column on The Guardian yesterday. Her column is appropriately called Advice from the Dark Side.
Rey isn’t a Skywalker
Disney producer Kathleen Kennedy already stated the new trilogy will be about the Skywalkers. So if Rey isn’t part of the family, there’s still Ben (though redemption seems far-fetched at this point).
If Rey isn’t a Skywalker, where did she come from? Because of her incredible Force potential, fans are theorizing she came from an equally powerful lineage.
Another theory is that she is a “child of the Force”, like Anakin.
Then again, she could just be a random scavenger who was somehow on the same planet as the Millennium Falcon, Lor San Tekka, and the map to Luke Skywalker. If so, then the Force really works in mysterious ways.
Stormtrooper Larry has his own theory, but we’re too lazy to get up from the couch and share it just yet. All we can say is we agree that Rey is probably NOT a Skywalker.
As for the credibility of Mr_Ghostface_Lives, it’s up for debate. Some credit him to be a reliable source on TFA, while others scoff at him for his off-mark assertions like Finn being Lando’s son.
Who knows, he might be the real thing, and his missed predictions might be from an early script. After all, Making Star Wars claimed that TFA’s opening scene would be Luke’s hand floating in space. Half a year later, they were vindicated after Mark Hamill confirmed that an early version of the script did open with his severed hand.
Either way, you can judge for yourself by reading Mr_Ghostface_Lives’ leak history.
While this will stoke debate among the Reywalkers and the Rey-nots, we can all agree on one thing: with Episode VIII more than a year away, half the fun is in speculating!
UPDATE (June 16):
Mr_Ghostface_Lives seems to have backtracked on Rey’s parentage. See the latest post here.
UPDATE (June 2o):
He now claims all the information he posted is false. | positive |
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California has never been as alienated from political power as it is now, in the first year of the Trump era. The largest state in the country, and the one that has long represented the future in the rest of the country’s imagination, California is also home to 2.3 million undocumented immigrants and more than a quarter of the beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the federal program that gives immigrants who were brought to the United States as children the ability to remain in the country. Trump has promised to kick the first group out of the country, and has put the status of the second group in jeopardy. Those Californians whom he has not targeted, he has ignored. The recent fires in the northern part of the state have now killed more than forty people, caused three billion dollars in damage, and destroyed five thousand seven hundred structures, many of them homes. It took Trump almost a week to address the crisis at all.
This is a disorienting situation, and state officials have been developing a new political language to describe and react to it. “California is—and must always be—a refuge,” a statement written by the state’s top legislative leaders, and released the day after Trump’s election victory, said. “California will defend its people and our progress. We are not going to allow one election to reverse generations of progress at the height of our historic diversity, scientific advancement, economic output, and sense of global responsibility.” One of the statement’s co-authors was Kevin de León, the president of the State Senate, who represents eastern Los Angeles. De León is fifty years old, the son of an immigrant single mother from Guatemala who worked cleaning houses. He first came to prominence in 1994, when, as a community organizer, he helped to lead what was then the largest demonstration in state history, held against an anti-immigrant ballot measure known as Proposition 187. De León has spent this year talking about California’s vulnerability and exceptionalism as components of the same idea. “The largest state in the union and the strongest driver of our nation’s economy has shown it has the surest conscience,” de León said in a TV ad this spring for the Democrats in the State Senate, his accent pure Angeleno, with a slow tempo and ever so slightly slurred.
Not all Democratic politicians, even in the Trump era, even in California, talk like this. This August, Dianne Feinstein, the state’s senior U.S. senator, sat on stage at the Herbst Theatre, in San Francisco, for a friendly conversation with the former congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. The topic of Trump’s possible impeachment came up. “Look, this man is going to be President most likely for the rest of this term,” Feinstein said. She was wearing a purple suit and pearls. “The question is whether he can learn and change. If so, I believe he can be a good President.” It was a plea for her party to appreciate that the present, undesirable situation–Trump in the Oval Office–wasn’t likely to simply evaporate. But the sentiment did not go over well with many in her party. The next day, in Sacramento, de León issued a statement that suggested, referring to the President, that Feinstein might be “complicit in his reckless behavior.” It seemed increasingly likely that he might challenge Feinstein—who is up for reëlection—in the Democratic primaries next year. This week, de León formally announced his candidacy.
Feinstein’s comments might have been forgiven if progressives considered her to be an ally—Bernie Sanders has also resisted endorsing impeachment. But Feinstein, who is eighty-four, comes from an old strain of Democratic politics—so old that she moved neither with nor against the social changes of the late nineteen-sixties, when she was already a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but instead tried to manage them. In California, she had been a champion of public-safety and law-enforcement agencies (“She carried a fire-department turnout coat in the trunk of her car so if there was a fire she heard about on her scanner she could get out and take a look,” a colleague of hers told Connie Bruck, who wrote about Feinstein for The New Yorker, in 2015). And after she was elected to the Senate, in 1992, she focussed much of her time on the oversight of the expanding national-security apparatus, which she generally defended, though she also labored for years to produce a comprehensive report documenting C.IA. torture, a project that she called the most important of her career. In the meantime, she entered her ninth decade, an age that, for a politician, tends to immediately signal either obsolescence or integrity. Now, in the Trump era, she is teetering on the line that separates the two. She generally votes with Democrats, but, to many liberals, having a senior senator from California who only generally votes with Democrats has not been enough. “Her policies are completely out of touch with California Democrats,” the spokesman for a Sanders-linked group called Justice Democrats insisted. There are twelve Democratic Senators running for reëlection in 2018, and Feinstein is, at this point, the only one being seriously challenged from the left.
In some ways, this is surprising. After the 2016 campaign, a number of skirmishes broke out between the Sanders and Clinton wings of the Party, most notably the drawn-out, nasty contest for the chair of the Democratic National Committee. Smaller contests—the Democratic primary for the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, for instance, and the primary for the eleventh district in the New York State Assembly—were scanned for national meaning, too, and taken as tests of the strength of the Sanders coalition. This cleavage, seemingly deep, was the thing that everyone talked about when they talked about the Democrats.
That sense of discord has faded. Moderate Democrats, perhaps sensing a change in the political winds, have been receptive to progressive turns on policy, including Sanders’s single-payer health-care plan. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration’s targeting of and unfriendliness toward minority communities has unified moderates and progressives. The line between these factions has become harder to trace, and politicians harder to situate along it. In August, Feinstein visited an Oakland oncology nurse who was being deported, with her husband, to Mexico. The nurse, Maria Mendoza-Sanchez, had decided to break up her family: she and her husband took their twelve-year-old son with them, and left their three older children, who are American citizens, behind in California to continue their lives as they were. The decision to deport them, Feinstein said, was “cruel and arbitrary.” She obtained a one-day reprieve for the couple. After that expired, and they returned to Mexico, Feinstein introduced a bill specifically to grant them citizenship. In photos taken in August, when the family was still in the country, Feinstein can be seen placing both of her hands on the nurse’s cheeks.
This week, de León has begun to sketch his contest with Feinstein as he sees it. But he has kept the image vague. “This is no time for complacency,” he told a public-radio reporter. “The President has California in his crosshairs.” It isn’t obvious what qualities a senator in Washington needs to better position his or her state in opposition to this Administration. De León’s forthright and energetic partisanship might help, but so might Feinstein’s influence and power. The Clinton wing and the Sanders wing—for a moment those categories seemed fixed. Now, already, they have blurred. | positive |
Racism problems persist in troubled police force – Neil Wilby Media Skip to content Neil Wilby Media Campaigning journalism Menu + × expanded collapsed Home Contact Privacy policy Home Contact Privacy policy Racism problems persist in troubled police force Posted byNeil Wilby February 16, 2022 February 16, 2022 Posted inIOPC, IPCC, West Yorks PoliceTags:Anthony Ramsden, National Black Police Association, Neil Wilby, Neil Wilby Journalist, Neil Wilby Media, Police Federation, Tola Munro, Umer Saeed, West Yorkshire Police Muslim Association It is just over three years since I attended what was listed as the first day of an Employment Tribunal (ET) hearing in Leeds, writes Neil Wilby. In the event, it was a wasted journey as, contrary to the information provided from the tribunal office, it was set aside as a ‘reading day’ for the Panel (read more here). Separately, a reliable policing source had told me that intense discussions were ongoing to settle the claim between the two parties, Umer Saeed, at that time an acting sergeant in West Yorkshire Police and his own chief constable. Those negotiations, between counsel representing the two parties at that time, were to break down in the most dramatic way imaginable (read more here). Sgt Saeed also held staff association roles with the Police Federation, the National Black Police Association and the West Yorkshire Muslim Police Association. The case was of particular interest to me as this officer had featured centrally, albeit not adversely, in a long-running and deeply troubling case in which I acted as police complaints advocate for a Wakefield businessman, Anthony Ramsden. It was to end in the High Court, after having four successive sub-optimal WYP investigations overturned, each one worse than its predecessor, with a remarkable judicial review reversal that became a well-use legal authority in matters pertaining to police misconduct and appeals to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (read more here). Over the past twelve years, I have also been involved with, and assisted, a number of black, minority ethnic officers with their grievances against the force and remain in contact with a number of them to this day. The ET allegations brought by Umer Saeed concerned racial and religious discrimination. Race is, of course, defined by the claimant’s national origin, having been born in Pakistan, and colour. In respect of the protected characteristic of religion, he is of Muslim faith. The complaints spanned a period of two years from 2018 to 2019 and concern the time when he was seeking promotion to the rank of sergeant and then, subsequently, whilst he was serving in that capacity pending confirmation. Three years later, he has qualified as an inspector and is awaiting a suitable posting. Two further heads of claim were later added: victimisation and disability discrimination. Sgt Saeed has a condition of partial sight loss in the left eye which is episodic and, although the causes are not fully known, it is a condition which is exacerbated by stress. In addition he has suffered anxiety and depression. These are disabilities. The Tribunal said that the instigation of formal attendance performance procedures by his line manager, and the subsequent imposition of a written improvement notice, can be unfavourable treatment because of something arising in consequence of those disabilities or a breach of the duty to make adjustments. Of the four main strands of the ET claim, only the latter – disability discrimination – succeeded. There will be a remedy hearing in May, 2022 to decide what reparation the chief constable must make to Sgt Saeed, provided that there is no appeal lodged by either party and they are unable to reach a compromise agreement, in the meantime. The period allowed for appeal is 42 days, and the judgment is dated 19th January, 2022, so that would appear to give each side until very early March to take such a step. Although the racial discrimination claim failed the Employment Tribunal Judge, D N Jones, and the two lay Panel members, Mr D Crowe and Mr K Lannaman, made some troubling observations on an issue that has dogged WYP for years: “The claimant [Umer Saeed] was not singled out and criticised for his work with the [staff] associations because of his race or religion. He was spoken to [by his line managers] because he alone had taken on more activities than any [other] new sergeant. He had taken on too much. The failure of the claimant to recognise this, but rather to consider this was personal to him, set him on a combative path with his supervisors which ultimately led to his ill health. “None of that is to detract from the vital work the NBPA, the WYMPA and the Federation contribute to the development of a quality and functioning Force in a pluralistic society; a service which needs to reflect and understand the diverse community for whom it works. This is a point which was well made by the claimant and Sergeant Tola Munro in their evidence. West Yorkshire has not recruited or retained the same proportion of officers from an ethnic minority as in the county, being about 5.6% rather than 18%. In his role as President of the NBPA, Sergeant Munro had learned of a number of officers from an ethnic minority who had left the West Yorkshire force to serve in neighbouring forces or to take up other careers. They had informed him this was because of attitudes about race within the ranks and at supervisory levels. This is doubtless a matter which requires careful and serious consideration in an ongoing dialogue between the NBPA, West Yorkshire Police and the Home Office. “In addition we have had regard to the report of Sir William McPherson and his comments and conclusions about institutional racism in police forces in the UK and more contemporary reports, including criminal prosecutions and convictions against serving police officers whose behaviour reflect attitudes to race which are offensive and reprehensible. We have not lost sight of this wider context in our evaluation of what happened [to Sgt Saeed] and the reasons for why it happened”. A separate article, to be published later this week, will cover in more detail the remainder of the Panel’s findings. The West Yorkshire Police press office and the West Yorkshire Police Federation have both been approached for comment on this section of the judgment. Page last updated at 1425hrs on Thursday 16th February, 2022 Thank you for reading and a polite request: If you wish to make a contribution to the running costs of this website it would be very much appreciated. Donations can made securely, via PayPal at this link. Corrections: Please let me know if there is a mistake in this article. I will endeavour to correct it as soon as possible. Right of reply: If you are mentioned in this article and disagree with it, please let me have your comments. Provided your response is not defamatory it will be added to the article. Photo credit: The Guardian © Neil Wilby 2015-2022. Unauthorised use, or reproduction, of the material contained in this article, without permission from the author, is strictly prohibited. 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Yieldly’s ambitious 2022 roadmap poised to transform DeFi and GameFi on Algorand | by Yieldly | Medium Get unlimited access Open in app Home Notifications Lists Stories Write Yieldly Follow May 11 · 6 min read Yieldly’s ambitious 2022 roadmap poised to transform DeFi and GameFi on Algorand Refreshed roadmap includes AMM acquisition with plans to launch yAMM, yNFT marketplace launch as well as numerous launchpad offerings as the team gears up to be the DeFi and GameFi hub on Algorand In January 2021, we boldly claimed to become the PancakeSwap of Algorand when we launched Yieldly to the world in our Demo Day pitch for the Longhash Algorand Accelerator program. Our latest roadmap puts us squarely back on centrestage to deliver exactly this. The combination of two new products reiterates Yieldly as the focal point for the Algorand community. In addition we are committed to becoming the GameFi hub for Algorand with the forthcoming launch of yNFT. We are bringing one of the largest LATAMs esports teams to Yieldly to build NFTs, metaverse opportunities, as well as play-to-earn (P2E) games on Algorand with us. As mentioned in our previous founder’s note, we are stoked to be presenting the refreshed Yieldly roadmap for 2022, fresh off our first anniversary on 4th May as a company. Some of the items in the roadmap have already been announced and will be coming to life in the coming weeks — so do keep a lookout for those. Let’s dive right in! Yieldly’s 2022 Roadmap Roadmap Deep Dive Q2 (Recap) AMM Acquisition Our goal of being the PancakeSwap on Algorand takes a huge step forward with this recent development. We have signed a deal to acquire WAGMIswap.io, including their AMM, wallet and other tech, subject to a due diligence process. Incorporating AMM functionalities on our dApp is something we have been actively pursuing since launching in May last year. 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THE Father, the Son & the Holy Roast.
The Vicar of Chipley.
Or chip butty?
If you had to pun on the unfortunate fate of a 50-something clergyman who "fell on a potato" while hanging curtains in the nude, what would your take be?
The unfortunate tear-inducing incident was reported in UK daily Metro yesterday.
"He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in he kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato," Sheffield Northern General Hospital nurse told Metro.
The story is short and to the point - what else is there to say?
But in the interest of preserving the man's dignity, his name has been redacted.
Instead, Twitterers have taken to rofling over root vegetable-related puns such as "Midnight mash", on perhaps the most appropriately named "hashtag" ever seen - #vicarwithapotatouphisbum.
Check it out and give it your best shot in the comments section below.
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North and South : Playing John Thornton (1) John Thornton was Richard Armitage's biggest role to date, and it was to have a significant effect on his career.
Casting
"I just couldn't get this part out of my head and I kept reading the book. I tortured myself with thinking I hadn't got the part.” [7] Given the power and conviction with which he played the role, it seems, in hindsight, as if Richard Armitage was the obvious choice to play John Thornton. But in fact, the casting process for Thornton was a long one. Richard Armitage was one of the first people who was seen for the role.
“I read the book before I went in to be cast. I got through it as quickly as I could. I felt that I owed it to the role to know as much about it before I attempted to try and convince someone to cast me as Thornton.” [1]
“Within the first pages, I thought, ‘I’m right for this person and for this role’. My roots are in that part of the country and that kind of industry. My grandmother was a weaver. Others were coal miners. I know the landscape. And I knew the John Thornton type.” [14]
But it was six weeks before he was called back to read for the part again. By this time, Daniela Denby-Ashe had been cast as Margaret Hale, and he was asked to read with her. "Something great happened when I read with Daniela. Something clicked.” [5]
The producer, Kate Bartlett, said, “We did read with a lot of actors and put a lot of combinations of Margarets and Thorntons together until finally we came up with the mix of Richard and Daniela, which I think was perfect.” [2]
Daniela Denby-Ashe said, "As soon as I saw Richard, I knew he was Thornton. Just in the way he holds himself, he has a real presence." [5]
“When I was cast in the role of Thornton my initial reaction was shock. It had been a long casting process and I realised it was the role of a lifetime. But then, of course, I was incredibly honoured to have been asked to play it - I’d fallen in love with the novel. And then other emotions kick in, like fear. It was a huge mountain to climb and there’s a lot of expectation for that role as well; it’s a big favourite of many people.” [1]
Research
As usual, Richard Armitage’s research for the role was meticulous.
“Obviously I started with the novel and the novel was around all the time and there’s a great deal of rich, historical information in the novel. But I felt it was important to understand the industry that Thornton is in, so I researched the cotton industry and I went to the various places in England where there are working museums, one of which turned out to be one of the locations, which was brilliant.
"I also read. I think Engels has written a book which was based around the working classes in the 1850s which is incredibly detailed about the poverty – so I looked at that for a start. And then I read around the etiquette of the 1850s as well. Although the Thorntons don’t necessarily abide by those rules, I felt it was important to know as much about the period as possible.” [1]
Given that the novel deals with the beginnings of unionisation, he also researched the history of the early socialists. “I studied the union movement. It was very important. What we take for granted now was just being born then.” [7]
But above all, there was Gaskell’s novel. “Primarily it’s the novel that is the point of reference.” [1]
The character of John Thornton
“[Elizabeth Gaskell], for me, is probably the most exciting of the Victorian novelists. Unlike others, she manages to get inside the male mind. The male is usually only a fantasy figure. The idea that this male mind was written by a female writer was brilliant." [13]
“He is courageous. He has suffered great tragedy in his life and kept his family together. He has this reputation that precedes him, based on his ruthlessness with his workers, and I think that's quite an exciting dynamic to start with.
"But during the course of the story his layers get peeled back and he reveals somebody else inside who is actually quite sensitive and lonely. He needs a lot and he finds it through Margaret.
"That dichotomy between the powerful, almost monstrous, entrepreneur and this kind of vulnerable boy is really exciting to look at." [12]
"During the course of the story, he is faced with exactly the same prospect [as his father] — of losing everything again. But it's a catharsis for him. He realizes the only thing that matters is his family, his relationship with his mother and his love for Margaret, which he believes will never happen.
"He goes from being a somewhat tyrannical entrepreneur who is money-grubbing to someone who is prepared to shed all of that for love. It's an amazing scene for a man of that time. It's not about Victorian manners. It's very now." [13]
The character of Thornton has been compared with that of Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy. Richard Armitage saw some similarities, but also differences. “With Thornton, he's fighting for survival. He's clinging onto his empire, so there's a bit more desperation. There is a real survival instinct with his aggression.” [4]
Thornton’s relationship with Margaret is at the heart of the novel and the drama.
"[Margaret’s] breeding and her mental attitude are at odds with her actual financial means, while John doesn't have the intellectual means but has the financial means. Each has something the other wants.
"I also think part of the attraction has to do with the antagonism of their relationship. She challenges him. No one has ever done that to him apart from his mother, and he and his mother have a strong working relationship.
"Most of the women presented to him are silent and very conformist, but Margaret is different. There's a very fine element of his mother he sees in her. It's not necessarily an attraction but something he thrives on." [13]
But writer Sandy Welch saw a problem with the way their relationship was written in the novel. She said, “The only problem dramatically is that all the prejudice comes from Margaret's side. Mr. Thornton likes her almost from the start. One of the only liberties I've taken is to even that up a bit. When she first sees Mr. Thornton, it will be inside his cotton mill, where he appears in quite a brutal and dangerous light.” [5]
She was referring to the scene in which Thornton is seen beating and kicking a worker he has caught smoking in his mill. This scene was not in the novel, and its inclusion in the adaptation was controversial.
“That was an addition to the book as we needed an instant impact. When you understand why he's done it, you're torn between hating him and wanting them [Thornton and Margaret] to get together,” said Richard Armitage. [4]
One of the adjectives often used about his portrayal of Thornton is ‘smouldering’. He joked about this when asked what the secret of a good smoulder was. “A pint of petrol and a match. Seriously, you look at the person, think of them in the most desirable way you can and then suppress the desire to do anything about it. There are many ways to smoulder. You can smoulder with your back.” [6] Continued on page 2 >> Back to top | positive |
UCLA transplant researchers have developed a novel method to more accurately calculate the risk of disease recurring in people with liver cancer who have undergone a liver transplant. The approach gives physicians a new tool to help make treatment and surveillance decisions.
The study, led by Dr. Ronald Busuttil, the William P. Longmire, Jr. Chair in Surgery and director of the Pfleger Liver Institute and Dumont–UCLA Transplant and Liver Cancer Centers, was published by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
The research team developed a predictive calculator called a nomogram after analyzing 30 years’ worth of data from liver transplants for people with liver cancer. The study drew from records of 865 patients at UCLA between 1984 and 2013, said Dr. Vatche Agopian, an assistant professor of surgery in UCLA’s division of liver transplantation and the study’s first author.
Prior to 1996, there were no criteria to guide which liver cancer patients might be good candidates for transplants. Patients with tumors of all sizes and numbers underwent transplants, and many of them suffered early recurrence of the disease. In 1996, guidelines known as the “Milan criteria” were introduced, recommending that transplants be limited to patients who had a single tumor measuring 5 centimeters or less and those who had up to three tumors, as long as no single tumor was larger than 3 centimeters.
Agopian said one shortcoming of the Milan criteria was that they didn’t take into account the aggressiveness of the tumor or other blood biomarkers that can help predict recurrence. UCLA’s nomogram uses three groups of factors to predict recurrence more accurately than the Milan criteria and the existing American Joint Committee on Cancer pathologic TNM staging system, giving transplant physicians and oncologists more information to help decide how often to monitor patients for recurrence and whether or not adjuvant treatment is necessary.
“This novel nomogram includes three important groups of information that proved to be very accurate in predicting recurrence in liver cancer patients — better than any other system out there,” Agopian said. “Physicians can use our nomogram and have a meaningful discussion with transplant recipients regarding their post-transplant risk of cancer recurrence. It can help them decide how closely to follow their patient — a patient with a low risk of recurrence may not need screening as often — or whether a patient with a high risk of recurrence might need treatment following the transplant.”
The three groups of factors that comprise the UCLA nomogram are:
Pre-transplant radiologic information, or the number and size of tumors on MRI and CT scans
Three pre-transplant blood biomarkers thought to be predictive for cancer recurrence
Pathological characteristics of the explanted liver. (The diseased liver is studied to determine the aggressiveness of the tumor and whether the cancer has invaded the liver’s blood vessels, factors that can’t be determined before transplant.)
Under the Milan criteria, for example, a patient with a 5 centimeter tumor might have qualified for a liver transplant, but the UCLA-developed criteria might discover that the tumor was very aggressive and likely to recur after transplant. The nomogram also might find that a patient with a larger tumor might have a very low grade cancer and have a lower risk for recurrence. Using specific details about each patient provides an individualized profile of predicted risks for cancer recurrence, Agopian said.
“The Milan criteria presented a major step in improving the outcomes of liver cancer patients undergoing transplant,” Agopian said. “However, there is now a growing consensus and body of evidence that these criteria are too conservative, and that incorporation of other factors may improve the ability to select for patients with favorable tumor biology, regardless of size, who stand to benefit from liver transplantation.”
About 32,000 Americans will be diagnosed with liver cancer this year. Of those, 23,000 will die of their disease. Liver cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer worldwide, and the third most common cause of cancer-related death. In the U.S., the incidence of liver cancer has nearly doubled over the past two decades. For most patients who are diagnosed with liver cancer, the disease generally is too advanced to treat with surgery. For patients with underlying liver dysfunction who are unable to undergo surgery to remove the tumor, a liver transplant is the best way to treat the patient.
“In the largest single-institution experience with liver transplant for liver cancer, excellent long-term survival was achieved,” the study reports. “Incorporation of routine pre-transplant biomarkers to existing radiographic size criteria significantly improves the ability to predict post-transplant recurrence, and should be considered in recipient selection. A novel clinicopathologic prognostic nomogram accurately predicts liver cancer recurrence after liver transplant and may guide frequency of post-transplant surveillance and adjuvant therapy.” | positive |
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Disconnected Youth (5-year estimate) for Buckingham County, VA (B14005DCYACS051029) | FRED | St. Louis Fed Skip to main content Economic Research Resources Explore resources provided by the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis research.stlouisfed.org Research News Economists Publications Working Papers Information Services Switch Products FRED AL FRED FRASER ECON LOWDOWN Release Calendar FRED Tools FRED Blog FRED News About FRED My Account Switch Products Economic Research Resources Explore resources provided by the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. About FRED What is FRED Tutorials Data Literacy Contact Us FRED Tools FRED Add-in for Excel FRED API FRED Mobile Apps Economic Research Resources Research News Economists Publications Working Papers Information Services Switch Products FRED AL FRED FRASER ECON LOWDOWN Your trusted data source since 1991. Release Calendar FRED Tools FRED Add-in for Excel FRED API FRED Mobile Apps FRED News FRED Blog About FRED What is FRED Tutorials Data Literacy Contact Us Categories > U.S. Regional Data > States > Virginia > Counties > Buckingham County, VA Disconnected Youth (5-year estimate) for Buckingham County, VA (B14005DCYACS051029) 2020: 21.41780 | Percent | Annual | Updated: Mar 17, 2022 Observation: 2020: 21.41780 (+ more) Updated: Mar 17, 2022 2020: 21.41780 2019: 17.14719 2018: 13.47518 2017: 10.76159 2016: 9.95106 View All Units: Percent, Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual 1Y | 5Y | 10Y | Max From to Date: Data in this graph are copyrighted. Please review the copyright information in the series notes before sharing. 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Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf The data is determined from the following calculation: (B14005_010E + B14005_011E + B14005_014E + B14005_015E + B14005_024E + B14005_025E + B14005_028E + B14005_029E) / B14005_001E Suggested Citation: U.S. Census Bureau, Disconnected Youth (5-year estimate) for Buckingham County, VA [B14005DCYACS051029], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B14005DCYACS051029, September 24, 2022. 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Earlier this weekend I picked up a Roomba , as my old vacuum cleaner bit the dust(ha!) after an altercation with a shoelace. Like any good geek, I immediately went online to see what kind of modifications I could make to this little beast. What I ended up finding out was that iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba, actually promotes and encourages hacking the devices, even offering the tools to do so. This made me wonder about the business sense behind it, and, in my eyes, it’s quite good. This is all I’ve been able to think of so far, please add if you think of anything else.
Pros:
-Consumers end up designing functional modifications, which can be used in later versions of the device
-Hacking voids your warranty, thereby reducing warranty claims
-Revenue from sales of hacking tools/interfaces
-Active community promotes the product
Cons:
-Brand diluted by other items under Roomba name
-Brand may get an image of being complicated
I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones here, please comment. Now here’s something interesting:
Now here’s something interesting, I set up a photo camera in my room, turned out all the lights and took a long-exposure shot of my roomba doing it’s thing for about 30 minutes. The result is a picture that shows the path of the roomba through it’s cleaning cycle, it looks like a flight map or something. It really hits every spot! | positive |
LINCOLN (CBS13) – Thousands of dollars in cash was left in a casino restroom and turned into a jackpot for one janitor.
However, the Thunder Valley Casino employee didn’t hold onto the cash, but returned the money instead.
It adds up to $10,000, which May Saelee found and gave away.
“This is crazy,” she said of the situation.
Saelee has worked as a cleaning lady at Thunder Valley Casino for 10 years and knows every corner.
“I can see everything,” she said of the casino, knowing where all the secret spots are.
Around 2:30 a.m. Friday, she could have quietly cleaned up with a small fortune.
“That seat cover, no trash. Turn around, and ‘oh, money there.’ I said, ‘I don’t think that’s real money,’ ” Saelee said.
Someone left $10,000 in the high stakes ladies room; but instead of holding on to it, she called her boss and returned it all.
She did the right thing; although, her two sons are questioning her judgment.
“They said ‘Mom, can you keep the money?’ I said, ‘oh no,'” Saelee said.
The casino used surveillance cameras to track down the rightful owner. She gave May a $500 reward, but didn’t want to speak to CBS13 on camera.
It’s probably because she’s been on CBS13 before. It wasn’t for leaving behind cash, but for leaving behind her kids.
Last February, 46-year-old Linh Hoang was arrested for leaving her 2-year-old and 3-year-old sons home alone while she went gambling. It was a neighbor who found her children in the street; but this time, it was Saelee who gave her missing $10,000 in cash back.
“She said ‘thank you,’ that’s all. Then, I walked back,” said Saelee.
Of her $500 reward, Saelee gave her supervisor $50.
This isn’t the first time she has found a large amount of cash; last time, she found and returned $15,000. | positive |
Barack Obama turned 52 yesterday, and while I’m not usually the sort of person who keeps track of that sort of thing, I couldn’t miss it. That’s because Organizing for Action really wanted to make sure I didn’t forget that the president’s big day was coming up.
Over the last four days, Obama’s former campaign organization sent me seven separate emails reminding me about President Obama’s birthday—and including little notes saying that, oh yeah, it would be nice if I kicked in some money too.
“Everyone likes getting birthday cards – and this one is for the President,” explained the first birthday email, which showed up at 2:14 p.m. last Thursday. It urged me to sign an online card for President Obama before it was sent along. And at the very bottom, just below the signature line, it also urged me to donate. “The other side will spend millions to maintain the status quo. We're fighting for change – chip in $5 or more to support OFA today.” By 6:15 p.m. last night, I’d received six more emails from OFA about the president’s birthday, most asking me to sign the card, all asking me to chip in now.
One of the emails didn’t mention the birthday card. Instead, it invited me to a celebration to honor the president’s birthday and one of his “signature accomplishments”—the 2010 health care legislation. The email said that people would be gathering together on Sunday to “celebrate the good things that are happening under Obamacare.” Come show your support: “Opponents are spending millions of dollars trying to convince Americans that Obamacare isn't working,” the email said. “Obamacare's opponents might have plenty of money -- but we have the facts on our side.” Not mentioned? That the law also has a hefty taxpayer-funded advertising account: According to an Associated Press tally based on federal and state sources, the total amount to be spent on advertising, publicity and marketing for Obamacare will be at least $684 million. Happy (belated) birthday, Mr. President! | positive |
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DeCODE scientists have established a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of children and grandchildren they have. The study, which analyzes more than 200 years of deCODE's comprehensive define genealogical data on the population of Iceland, shows that couples related at the level of third cousins have the greatest number of offspring.
For example, for women born between 1800 and 1824, those with a mate related at the level of a third cousin had an average of 4.04 children and 9.17 grandchildren, while those related to their mates as eighth cousins or more distantly had 3.34 children and 7.31 grandchildren. For women born in the period 1925-1949 with mates related at the degree of third cousins, the average number of children and grandchildren were 3.27 and 6.64, compared to 2.45 and 4.86 for those with mates who were eighth cousins or more distantly related.
The findings hold for every 25-year interval studied, beginning with those born in the year 1800 up to the present day. Because of the strength and consistency of the association, even between couples with very subtle differences in kinship, the authors conclude that the effect very likely has a biological basis, one which has yet to be elucidated.
This study provides the most comprehensive answer yet to the longstanding question of how kinship affects fertility in humans. Previous studies in other parts of the world have suggested that the two phenomena are positively correlated, though confounding variables, such as the impact of socioeconomic status on the size of families or age at marriage, have made the results difficult to interpret.
The analysis of such a long-term series of data from Iceland effectively eliminates these variables by encompassing an entire population which has historically been highly homogeneous both culturally and economically. Moreover, the results are strikingly consistent from eras in which Iceland was a predominantly poor and rural country, to the present-day era of a highly urbanized society with one of the highest standards of living in the world.
The authors note that the findings are somewhat counterintuitive from an evolutionary perspective because closely-related parents have a higher probability of having offspring homozygous for deleterious recessive mutations, although closer parental kinship can also decrease the likelihood of immunological incompatibility between mother and offspring, for example in rhesus factor blood type.
Perhaps most importantly, these new findings also suggest that the recent and dramatic demographic shift experienced in Iceland -- from a rural society to a highly urbanized one -- may serve to slow population growth, as individuals are exposed to a much broader range of distantly related potential mates. If so, this could be of relevance to slowing population growth in the many other -- and much more populous - societies around the world undergoing transition from closely-knit rural societies to more urbanized ones. Indeed, the UN estimates that in the 2007-2008 period the majority of the world's population will, for the first time in human history, live in town and cities.
The paper, 'An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples,' was published in the journal Science February 8, 2008. | positive |
Recent research has suggested that marijuana use is associated with volumetric and shape differences in subcortical structures, including the nucleus accumbens and amygdala, in a dose-dependent fashion. Replication of such results in well controlled studies is essential to clarify the effects of marijuana. To that end, this retrospective study examined brain morphology in a sample of adult daily marijuana users (n = 29) versus nonusers (n = 29) and a sample of adolescent daily users (n = 50) versus nonusers (n = 50). Groups were matched on a critical confounding variable, alcohol use, to a far greater degree than in previously published studies. We acquired high-resolution MRI scans, and investigated group differences in gray matter using voxel-based morphometry, surface-based morphometry, and shape analysis in structures suggested to be associated with marijuana use, as follows: the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, hippocampus, and cerebellum. No statistically significant differences were found between daily users and nonusers on volume or shape in the regions of interest. Effect sizes suggest that the failure to find differences was not due to a lack of statistical power, but rather was due to the lack of even a modest effect. In sum, the results indicate that, when carefully controlling for alcohol use, gender, age, and other variables, there is no association between marijuana use and standard volumetric or shape measurements of subcortical structures.
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(CNN) President Donald Trump urged Alabama voters to "get out and vote for Roy Moore" in Tuesday's Senate special election.
"Do it. Do it," he said Friday night at a campaign-style rally in Pensacola, Florida -- 25 miles from the Alabama state line.
"We cannot afford -- this country, the future of this country -- cannot afford to lose a seat in the very, very close United States Senate. We can't afford it, folks. We can't," Trump said. "We can't afford to have a liberal Democrat who is completely controlled by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We can't do it."
He also mocked one of the women who has accused Moore of pursuing a sexual relationship with her when she was a teenager and he was in his 30s.
The woman, Beverly Young Nelson, said Friday she'd added "notes" under Moore's note and signature in her high school yearbook, which she'd previously offered as evidence of their relationship. Moore's campaign has alleged that the entire entry was a forgery. Trump chided the woman's lawyer, Gloria Allred.
"So did you see what happened today, you know, the yearbook? Did you see that?" Trump said. "There was a little mistake made, she started writing things in the yearbook. Ah, what are we gonna do -- Gloria Allred, anytime you see her, you know something's going wrong."
Trump didn't bring up Moore until late in his speech. And the first time he made reference to the Republican Senate hopeful, it was in response to an audience member.
"This guy's screaming, we want Roy Moore. He's right," Trump said.
Pensacola is a Florida panhandle city in the Mobile, Alabama, media market and an easy drive for voters in a crucial portion of the state.
The rally comes after Trump spent part of the week touting Moore on Twitter, despite the accusations that the 70-year-old, twice-ousted former state Supreme Court chief justice had pursued sexual relationships with teenage girls while in his 30s.
The President has cast Democratic candidate Doug Jones as too liberal for Alabama, and warned that Republicans can't afford to lose a vote in the Senate, where they hold a 52-48 majority.
"LAST thing the Make America Great Again Agenda needs is a Liberal Democrat in Senate where we have so little margin for victory already. The Pelosi/Schumer Puppet Jones would vote against us 100% of the time. He's bad on Crime, Life, Border, Vets, Guns & Military. VOTE ROY MOORE!" Trump tweeted Friday.
Mocking the 'resistance'
Trump bragged about his 2016 election victory, mocking Hillary Clinton for failing to pay enough attention to the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, crucial parts of Trump's victory.
"I'm guessing the Russians advised her not to go," he said.
Of Washington, he said, "They will lie and leak and smear, because they don't want to accept the results of an election where we won by a landslide."
He called himself the leader of "proud deplorables," a reference to how Clinton described half of Trump's supporters during a private fundraiser last year.
"Your voice will never, ever be ignored again," he said.
He also mocked the Democratic "resistance" to his presidency Friday night, chiding Clinton as the crowd chanted "Lock her up!"
"They're resisting the will of the American people -- that's what they're resisting," Trump said.
Clinton resisted, he said, and "she lost the election in a landslide."
Trump also derided a "rigged system" at the rally, even though he won the 2016 presidential election.
"This is a rigged system. This is a sick system from the inside. And, you know, there's no country like our country, but we have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions, and we're working very hard. We've got a lot of them straightened out, but we do have -- we really do -- a rigged system in this country, and we have to change it. Terrible. Terrible," Trump said.
Touting his agenda
During his speech, Trump bragged about economic gains during his tenure and said he'd rolled back more government regulations than Abraham Lincoln -- who, he said, had also repealed regulations.
"Honest Abe Lincoln, he was a regulation guy," Trump said. "Can you believe it? He was a regulation guy."
He also bragged about his administration's efforts against ISIS and his travel restrictions.
Trump said the United States has "thousands of people right now under surveillance," without offering more details.
"Surveillance? That sounds familiar," Trump said. "Turns out I was right about that one, wasn't I?"
Trump also reiterated his promise to build a US-Mexico border wall.
"Any Hispanics here, any Hispanics?" Trump said near the beginning of his speech. "Remember they weren't going to vote for me, because I'm going to build the wall? But they want the wall, too, because they want security."
He also pointed out supporters with "blacks for Trump" signs.
"Look at these guys, blacks for Trump," he said. "I love you. I love you. I love you. By the way, now that you bring it up, black home ownership just hit the highest level it's ever been in the history of our country. Congratulations."
Trump touted his record and promised to soon deliver tax cuts and a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate to buy health insurance.
He also touted the nation's economic performance since he took office.
"It's all psychological to a large extent, and that's what creates greatness," Trump said of the economy, saying that "consumer confidence is at a 17-year high" and "economic growth last quarter surged to 3.3%."
'Who knows' about North Korea
On North Korea, Trump said he doesn't know if sanctions are going to work with Kim Jong Un, but "we gotta give it a shot. You know, we'll see. Who knows?"
"I'll just tell you folks, you are in good hands. That's all I can say," he said.
He has a history of raucous, news-making Friday night rallies. This summer in Arizona, he tore into both of the state's senators, Republicans Jeff Flake and John McCain. Trump even huddled with key allies during the trip to try to recruit a primary challenger for Flake, who ultimately decided to retire rather than face daunting re-election prospects.
The President also touted his own accomplishments at the rally. | positive |
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How did you get the access to Phoenix mission control?
The principal investigator of Phoenix is this guy Peter Smith. He has this instincthe knew the space story was awesome and could appeal to a lot of people. One of his first big missions was Pathfinder, and he came up with this idea that if you built the camera and made the images look like normal photos [and] mounted the camera at normal human height, people would react to them. Then he made this crazy deal to make sure the images were sent from Mars directly to the Internet. He basically created the first-ever viral marketing campaign: In 1997 he sends 100 million hits to NASA's website and almost crashes the entire Internetnot just NASA's site, but the entire Internet.
He knows that if you do it right, it works. So he was looking for people that worked in media or helped with creative ideas for companies to help him. I kind of had a science background, I had a little journalism background and I also made quirky kinds of campaign things in my advertising life. Once I met Peter and got to go to a training mission, I was hooked.
What's crazy is NASA's gulf between what you see when you're watching a talking-heads documentary on the Discovery Channel and what's actually happeningthe debate that goes on, the personalities. I thought, wow, this is really the hook.
What was mission control like?
Mission control is the least exciting workspace ever. It looks like the rec room at your local religious facilitylike a church basement. But then the most exciting things ever happen there. Several times a day you're downloading images directly from Mars, or making some discovery and people are freaking out. There's this insane duality between mundane and sublime.
There are a few interesting spaces in mission control, and one is the testbed where they have a copy of the lander, which simulates all the code they're going to run on Mars to make sure they don't hurt the lander. That's this big open warehouse; it's this crazy cinematic space, and you feel like you're on Mars a little bit.
We know now, nearly three years later, that Phoenix was a huge success. But what was the mood in the room then?
First, there was crazy excitement and adrenaline-fueled everything. But then, people start getting tired and cranky because you're living on Mars time. Your body can't adjust to this ever-changing schedule. Your schedule shifts by about 40 minutes every day, so you keep getting worse and worse jet lag.
But also, in our mission, there was a problem: a short with the main instrument they hoped would get this headline-grabbing "water on Mars" headline. And then all of a sudden NASA freaks out and says, "You can't do anything until you get water." They basically... imposed their will on the mission. That makes people really mad.
How did that happen? How did the NASA directive change the mission?
[The Phoenix team members] had their whole idea of how they were going to attack the understanding of the soil. They went there to understand the history of water on Mars. That involves looking at the different layers of soil, and so they dug down to this ice-soil boundary, which is where all the good science happens.
Going to Marsthis is only our sixth trip, and it's the first time we've done this kind of digging. You think, oh, digging up dirt and putting it in a little paileven a two-year-old could do that. But actually executing it is really hard. So the plan for the mission was to really understand these instruments and how they'd operate on Mars, because they knew it was going to be hard to get ice. Then NASA steps in, [and] they're basically like, "Get the ice!" There's this amazing story arc of NASA stepping in to make sure they get the headline they need so that people will care about the mission.
Were you surprised by how difficult it was to command a rover on Mars?
Just communicating with the lander is a crazy task. Every day, the lander wakes up and it has a list of instructions. And it's supposed to do those instructions. But you don't know if it actually does them until [the results] come back to you. And then you have one night to understand what happened and recode the lander for the next day.
But then you have these limited opportunities in which to execute these [commands]; the communication has to be scheduled in advance, because you're relying on an orbiter to pass over the lander, and the lander has to be turned on and ready to communicate with the orbiter. To get hundreds of scientists to work on their individual experiments and be ready for that moment requires amazing organization.
Were there other memorable characters among the supporting cast?
There was an amazing cast of characters. Nilton Renno is this Brazilian scientist from the University of Michigan who ends up discovering those droplets on the lander legs, and he sparks this big controversy over whether they've discovered water on Mars. He was like the mission gadflypeople either love him or hate him.
There another man on the mission, the chief engineerDara Sabahi. You have this feeling of serenity when you talk to him. You know when lots of really smart people are saying "This is the smartest guy we know" that there's probably some truth in that.
What was it like being with the mission on the really big days, like when water ice was confirmed?
The big daysit's like winning a sporting event. You're cheering for your team, and then they win, and you feel great. You care about these people because you spend so much time with them, and you want great things to happen. For the ice in particular: There were just so many tries when they couldn't get enough ice init kept sublimating away. They try it again and again, and finally it works. It's this amazing feeling of relief. Not only did they do something cool, but they just did it on Mars.
Was it clear in the lab how big it was becoming in the outside world?
No. You're sort of insulated, so you can watch stories spread on the Internet, and that's kind of fun. You watch the numbers go up on news aggregators, like when a story gets to be number one on Reddit, you feel like, we've done something cool.
But the converse is true as well. There was this conspiracy that started to unfold when [there was this story in] Aviation Week about the President being briefed on the possibility of life, or something like that. That was crazy, because from the inside of mission control it was no big deal. But then you could really see it becoming a big deal on the Internet. That kind of blew my mind, like, wow, these people are going to be so disappointed when they find out what this real story is.
It sounds a lot like the arsenic bacteria story from last year.
Both of those storiesthere's nothing all that nutty about them. They speak to the potential for life. We wouldn't be going [to Mars] if we didn't think there was potential for life.
You've now done the book on Phoenix, and you're tracking the future Mars missions. What are you excited about?
One, it'll be fascinating to see when they look for organics on MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) with all this new knowledge of perchlorate. That was such a big moment of the mission, but kind of a heartbreaking onefinding this perchlorate changes how we really understand Mars and what was happening on all those experiments on Viking.
Now we're going to go back with that knowledge, and it opens up all this possibility. We've unlocked one little [door] to the next room. Now I think we'll see there is organic material there, and then next it'll be some little guys who live there, and hopefully that will get people excited about space and science. | positive |
Kerstin Sopke, The Associated Press
ODENSE, Denmark -- Some children held their noses and grimaced in disgust. Others got curious and came up close to watch Danish zoo officials carve up a lion carcass and display its blood-red organs in a public dissection Thursday that stirred outrage outside Denmark but little within.
Officials at Odense Zoo in central Denmark said the gory performance was educational, teaching children about the anatomy of a lion. Wearing headsets, they butchered the carcass of the year-old feline with blood-soaked gloves, slicing off its head and pulling out the intestines, heart and liver.
Adult spectators brought scarfs to their noses to ward off the pungent smell. Curious children watched in awe, some pinching their noses. The event was deliberately scheduled to take place during the annual fall school holidays.
"For all the kids living in towns, it's wonderful for them to see and it's only natural," said Gitte Johanson, 28, a visitor who grew up on a farm.
Some animal rights activists sharply criticized Odense Zoo, 170 kilometres (105 miles) west of Copenhagen, for killing the lion along with two siblings in February to avoid inbreeding as is custom among many zoos in Europe.
Joanna Swabe, head of the Brussels-based Humane Society International/Europe, said in a statement that "zoos routinely over-breed and kill lions and thousands of other animals deemed surplus to requirements."
She said zoos have "an ethical responsibility" and can use contraceptive options "to manage reproduction, prevent inbreeding (and) maintain genetically healthy populations."
U.S. zoos try to avoid killing animals by using contraceptives to make sure they don't have more offspring than they can house. That method has also been criticized by some for disrupting animals' natural behaviour.
In February 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo faced international protests after a giraffe was killed, dissected and fed to lions in front of children.
The zoo in Odense has done public dissections for 20 years. On Thursday, scores of children stood around a table where the zoo had displayed a stuffed lion cub next to the lion being dissected.
Odense Zoo employee Lotte Tranberg said the male lion and its siblings were killed because they were getting sexually mature and could have started mating with each other and the zoo wanted to avoid inbreeding. They also could have killed each other because they would have been kept in the same enclosure, she said.
Tranberg talked about the lives of big cats before cutting up the stiff carcass of the lion, which had white tuffs of fur on its legs and stomach. She also held up the lion's blood-red organs to show the crowd. Children raised their hands to ask questions during the operation, which she answered.
Ole Hanson, a 54-year-old military officer, carried his 5-year-old grandson Frej on his shoulders so he could watch the dissection as it started.
"But he wanted to get down and have a closer look. So he ended up front, right before the lion," Hanson said.
The zoo said it decided to dissect a male lion this time because it was bigger than its female sibling.
Zoo officials say the lions were killed after they had failed to find new homes for the animals despite numerous attempts. The remains of the two siblings -- another male and a female -- are still in a zoo freezer, and officials have not decided what to do with them, said Jens Odgaard Olsson, manager of the zoo.
On Facebook, a few dozen people on Thursday accused the zoo and Denmark of having a lack of compassion. But on the zoo's Facebook page, ordinary Danes defended the dissection, asking English-speaking commentators whether they ever had been to a slaughterhouse.
"Life isn't the Disney Channel. Get over it ..." Mikael Soenderskov, one of the Danes defending the dissection, wrote.
Public dissections are common in Denmark. The Funen Village, an open-air museum in Odense, slaughtered and dissected a pig Wednesday before children while explaining which parts of the animal are eaten.
Odense Zoo itself was elected "Best in Europe" in the category of zoos with up to 500,000 visitors per year in 2013 and 2015.
Associated Press writers Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report. | positive |
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