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Big isn't always better when it comes to the size of male genitals.
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have been looking at the breeding habits of fish, to test the theory that bigger genitals make males more attractive or successful in fathering offspring.
They found when it comes to fish, females don't find males with big genitals any more attractive than those with normal or smaller genitals.
"Our findings show the size of male genitals has no effect on their attractiveness, success in reproduction, or their ability to swim and move around in the water," said researcher Professor Michael Jennions, from the ANU Research School of Biology.
The findings contradict two previous ANU studies, which found that larger penis size had a positive relationship with fish paternity success, and human research which found women rate men with a larger penis as more attractive.
Professor Jennions said the latest study, published in Nature Communications, would lead to a greater understanding of the evolution of genitals. Male genital size varies hugely among species.
The research involved studying male genital size of mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, which has a penis-like structure known as a gonopodium. The normal male gonopodium is equal to about 30 per cent of the mosquitofish body length.
However, the team selectively bred male mosquitofish for eight generations to create some fish with larger gonopodia, and some with smaller gonopodia.
The males with different size genitals were then allowed to freely compete to mate with females. The researchers then used DNA paternity testing to see which males were more successful at fathering offspring.
"To our surprise, we found the size of the gonopodia made no difference to which fish successfully became fathers," said Dr Megan Head also from the ANU Research School of Biology.
The research used a sample size of 173 males and 165 females and paternity tested over 2,250 offspring.
Mosquitofish have live offspring rather than lay eggs. They are considered a feral pest in Australia after they were introduced in the 1920s in a failed attempt to control mosquito populations.
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A contract binding Fernando Alonso to McLaren-Renault for 2018 is being drafted.
That is the news from team boss Eric Boullier, tying in with the Spanish driver's comments in Sepang that an announcement could be made before the US grand prix next month.
It is believed Alonso's huge retainer has been agreed, but that the remaining sticking points are about marketing and other details of the deal.
For instance, 36-year-old Alonso is believed to want an exit clause, in the event that McLaren-Renault does not perform next year or if a more competitive team wants to sign him.
Boullier said: "Until agreements are signed, anything can happen. Wait for the official statements."
The Frenchman confirmed that McLaren has a 'plan B' in the event that the Alonso talks cannot be finalised.
"Yes -- in the sense that there are several drivers who would like to drive for McLaren," said Boullier.
"But at the moment we are focused on agreeing with Fernando. However, we do not comment further on this topic as the process of drafting the contract is underway."
It is believed another contract sticking point is that Alonso would like to contest next year's Le Mans with Toyota, with McLaren executive Zak Brown saying recently he is open to that.
But Boullier said: "I would prefer to see Fernando achieve success with McLaren."
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Leave voters are slightly more likely to be having doubts than Remainers
Despite the best efforts of campaigners on either side, the furious national debate around Brexit only seems to have made most voters more sure of the way they cast their ballot in 2016.
New YouGov research finds that 64% of Remain voters and 57% of Leave voters say that they are “more sure than I was that I voted the right way”. A further 22% and 25% respectively say that they are about as sure as they were that they voted the right way.
Only a small proportion have had their confidence shaken over the last few years, and not all of these are so sure that they would change their minds as a result. Among Remain voters, 2% say they are less sure about the way they voted, but not enough to change it, while 4% say they are less sure to the extent they would now change their votes.
Among Leave voters these figures are slightly higher – 5% are less sure than they were but would stay the course, but another 7% say they would change their vote is called upon for another visit to the ballot box.
The results generally correspond with wider polling which has shown a small swing to Remain since the referendum.
Digging slightly further into the figures reveals that Labour Leave voters and Conservative Remain voters are noticeably more likely to be having second thoughts than those who voted more in line with the party orthodoxy. One in eight Conservative Remain voters (12%) now say they would change their vote, compared to 4% of Conservative Leave voters. Likewise, 13% of Labour Leave voters are less sure about their 2016 stance to the extent that they would change their vote now, compared to just 1% of Labour Remainers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Waymo will launch a ride-hailing service with no human behind the steering wheel and has been testing the fully self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona, Chief Executive John Krafcik said on Tuesday.
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The test without a human in the driver’s seat is a first in the United States as large tech companies, big automakers and well-funded startups race to develop fully autonomous cars.
While self-driving car companies test their vehicles in public, they routinely have a human in the driver’s seat ready to take over if the technology fails.
Waymo said members of the public will begin riding in its fleet of Fiat Chrysler Pacifica minivans without human drivers in a test run of the service in the next few months in certain areas of Phoenix, Arizona, which has dry, predictable weather. Developers are still grappling with vehicle performance in snow or heavy rain.
Members of the public taking part in the company’s trial in Phoenix will be its first customers, using a ride-hailing app.
At first, those passengers will be accompanied in the back seat by a Waymo employee, but eventually they will travel alone, although they will be able to hit a button to stop the car.
It will roll out the service to the wider public at a later date, although it did not say when.
The service will be free at first, but Waymo expects at some point to start charging for rides, a potential way to earn revenue to help offset the steep costs involved in developing the technology.
The state of Arizona has no restrictions on self-driving cars, unlike California and some other states.
“Because we see so much potential in shared mobility, the first way people will get to experience Waymo’s fully self-driving technology will be as a driverless service,” Krafcik said in prepared remarks after announcing the launch in Lisbon.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not immediately comment on Tuesday but said in September last year that conventionally designed vehicles that can be operated autonomously faced no specific federal legal barrier.
With over eight years of testing under its belt, Waymo is a pioneer of self-driving technology and has tested its system in six states, the latest being Michigan.
Last week, U.S. auto retailer AutoNation Inc announced a multiyear partnership for vehicle maintenance and repairs for Waymo’s self-driving car operations.
General Motors Co, which acquired autonomous driving start-up Cruise Automation for a reported $1 billion last year, has signaled its intent to test a robotaxi service in the near future.
GM Chief Executive Mary Barra said in October the company aims to take the driver out of its self-driving vehicles “in quarters, not years.” The carmaker’s goal for its Cruise self-driving car unit is to “safely develop and deploy self-driving cars at scale” in dense, urban environments, not suburbs. | {
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Neymar si spiega in un momento, dopo il gol del tre a zero del Barcellona sul Bayern nella semifinale d’andata della Champions League. Il suo gol. Ha segnato facendo un tunnel a Neuer. Gol facile, hanno detto tutti, perché Messi prima ha fatto quell’altro, quello con la finta che fa rotolare per terra Boateng. Però a memoria, nessuno ha fatto un tunnel a Neuer da quando Neuer è Neuer. Facile, quindi, è un giudizio superficiale.
Comunque il momento è quello successivo: l’esultanza. Quando il resto della squadra lo raggiunge e lo abbraccia. Neymar è al centro di un gruppo, fisicamente e metaforicamente. È il talento integrato in un sistema. È forte e la forza gliela riconoscono i compagni. Perché quell’immagine ne ricorda un’altra, di un anno fa e mezzo fa, al Mondiale. Opposta e però uguale. Neymar è fermo, al centro del campo, il Brasile sta giocando male contro il Cile. Alza la testa, si muove, s’avvicina a un gruppo di compagni, li guarda, dice qualcosa a ciascuno di loro. Più piccolo, più magro, più esile. Più forte, però. Leader è una parola brutta, ma che spiega bene. Neymar parla. Con i piedi, con la voce, con il look. L’ordine è invertito rispetto a quello che abitualmente si vede e si sente su di lui. Ecco, se smonti la struttura che i media e probabilmente anche lui stesso gli hanno creato addosso, trovi un calciatore.
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Barcellona-Bayern: il gol di Neymar.
Gioca, Neymar. A Barcellona ha cambiato posizione e modo di stare in campo. S’è allargato, lì a sinistra, perché convivere con Messi significa soprattutto fargli spazio. Lo dice quando glielo chiedi. «Non importa quanto tu sia bravo, quando giochi in una squadra così, devi lavorare per migliorare». Migliorare significa 52 gol in 90 partite nel Barcellona. Significa che nell'ultima stagione, prima della finale di Champions League, ne aveva fatti 37 in 48 partite, una media che non vale neanche la pena riportare perché è enorme. Calibri tutto: il fatto che giochi in una tra le squadre più forti della storia, che in campionato ci siano pochi rivali, che accanto ha Messi e Suárez. Però, posto che tutto ciò vale per moltissimi altri giocatori di quest’era come di tutte, c’è un dato che vale più di ogni altro: in Champions, l'anno scorso ha segnato 9 gol in 11 partite e 5 di questi li ha fatti tra i quarti di finale contro il Paris Saint-Germain e la semifinale contro il Bayern Monaco.
I numeri aiutano. I numeri spiegano. I numeri raccontano. Perché Neymar è una star, ma non è solo una star. Chi l’ha ritratto finora come una figurina perde di vista il campo. L’essere contemporaneo è esattamente questo: far convivere l’apparato che genera il personaggio, che lo fa muovere come un divo, che l’ha trasformato in un brand pazzesco con il giocatore. In Neymar, come accadeva con Beckham, non c’è contraddizione, anzi. C’è contiguità, c’è complementarietà. George Quraishi, condirettore di Howler, ha scritto: «È davvero difficile valutare chi sia oggi il più famoso su scala globale tra i giocatori famosi. Cristiano Ronaldo? Messi? Neymar? Non puoi dirlo. Ma il brasiliano è quello che vive più immerso in quest’epoca».
Neymar, in questa stagione, ha segnato 13 gol in 14 partite
Neymar fa aspettare. Andrew Anthony ha raccontato sul Sunday Times l’attesa per incontrarlo, ha descritto quei momenti come un fastidioso rito figlio del divismo, salvo cambiare completamente idea al momento del suo arrivo: «Molti sportivi sembrano avere un’aura impalpabile, qualcosa che li porta inevitabilmente a sentirsi superiori rispetto agli altri, ai mortali. Ma Neymar non è così. È timido, si autoracconta come un tipo semplice e lo è, un ragazzo di 23 anni che riesce a vivere questa dimensione e quella dello sportivo che per due anni è stato indicato da SportsPro come il più attraente per il mercato pubblicitario».
Il tempo è poco, sempre. Le regole rigide. Hai uno spazio stretto, lo sai. Poche domande, devi gestirle bene, meglio che puoi. Allora sì, quel gol. Neuer, le sue gambe, la palla che passa attraverso. I giornali spagnoli hanno descritto il tunnel come una giocata tipica di Neymar: «Di sicuro è una tecnica che uso. L’ho sempre usata. Farlo o meno penso che dipenda in gran parte dalla situazione che si crea in quel preciso momento nella partita. Ti ritrovi di fronte al portiere e devi scegliere l’opzione migliore. Può essere sotto, di lato, sopra. Dipende dallo scenario». Non c’è un perché, c’è un calcolo delle probabilità che si relaziona all’istinto. Non c’entra con il luogo. Gli chiedi che cosa significa giocare nel Barcellona: «Con la storia che ha il club, con i giocatori che sono stati qui in passato e con quelli che ci sono oggi, sai che la nostra responsabilità è vincere. In questi due anni ho imparato molto, soprattutto nel primo. C’è qualcosa. È l’atmosfera. L’atmosfera all’interno del club e della squadra è fantastica. Giochiamo molto bene: c’è il talento, c’è esperienza. Sono tutti giocatori di successo, ma sono tutti umili. Questo spirito è un grande vantaggio. E in campo si vede. Siamo uniti, felici e concentrati. Sappiamo quello che vogliamo ottenere: vincere più titoli possibile. E ci stiamo preparando perché questo possa accadere».
Gli avevano detto di non andare, a Barcellona. C’era Messi, che quando s’era trovato di fronte a Neymar al Mondiale per club del 2011 l’aveva umiliato. C’era il Real Madrid che offriva di più, pare. Era logico: non metti in una squadra come il Barça uno che al Santos veniva descritto come il ragazzino capriccioso, viziato, che aveva fatto licenziare l’allenatore che l’aveva escluso per motivi disciplinari. Il punto è questo: chi è Neymar. Perché Barcellona sta dicendo che evidentemente la descrizione era o sbagliata o incompleta. Visto oggi, Neymar non avrebbe potuto scegliere posto e club migliore per sé. E non è soltanto per l’ovvia considerazione che si tratta di una squadra fortissima. Il suo modo di giocare cambiato in funzione di quella squadra l’ha migliorato. E la leggenda che ruota attorno al Barça s’incastra con la vendibilità di Neymar. Funziona lui, funziona il club, funziona l’insieme.
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Il Golazo contro il Villarreal.
Perché è un giocatore perfettamente calato nella sua era, nella nostra era. La sua consapevolezza di ciò che è, calcisticamente e commercialmente, è unica. Simbolo di una modernità nel modo di giocare e nel modo di essere prodotto. In lui convivono come in nessuno. A 23 anni è stato il proprietario di casa del Mondiale più incredibile di sempre: il Brasile era il suo giardino. Più di quanto sia stato nella storia quello di altri. La comunicazione, la Tv, i social sono il mezzo, non il fine: a casa Neymar sono entrati duecentotre milioni di brasiliani e un miliardo e mezzo di stranieri. Prego. Sorrideva, salutava, giocava. «Non dobbiamo avere paura di essere felici», è l’ultima cosa che ha detto a O Globo prima di Brasile-Colombia, ovvero prima della partita della sua minitragedia personale diventata una minitragedia collettiva. Lui che tranquillizza il mondo è stata controintuizione. Perché il pregiudizio globale su di lui imponeva di dover pensare il contrario. Pensavamo tutti fosse il contrario. Lui da proteggere, da preservare, da accudire, perché lì la pressione era inquantificabile. Non era mai capitato a nessun brasiliano di essere il leader della Nazionale che giocava in casa il Mondiale. Né a Carlos Alberto, né a Pelé, né a Zico, né a Romario, né a Ronaldo. È successo a lui, a 23 anni. A quello che il pianeta ha dipinto proprio come una figurina, come un videogame, come una costruzione mediatico-pubblicitaria.
È un eroe, per il Brasile. È un pezzo di soft power brasiliano nel mondo: è finito sulla copertina di Time, prima di lui era accaduto solo a sei presidenti e un diplomatico brasiliano. Nel suo giardino, un anno e mezzo fa ci entravi per forza, appena messo piede in Brasile. Immaginate una scena. Questa. Parcheggi l’auto di fronte allo store Nike di rua Visconde do Pirajá, a Ipanema: Neymar ti fa un occhiolino dalla vetrina. Centocinquanta metri più in là ti guarda da un’edicola: è un totem ad altezza naturale, ha in mano l’album Panini del Mondiale e t’invita a entrare e comprarlo. Altri duecento passi, ti guarda dalla vetrina di un ottico, dove lui e i suoi occhiali abbracciano l’ingresso; tre passi ancora, lo trovi in mutande in un negozio di abbigliamento intimo; dall’altra parte della strada parla al telefonino sulle vetrine dello store Vivo. La ginocchiata del colombiano Zúñiga che l’ha messo fuori dal Mondiale è stata per paradosso la conferma che tutto ruotasse attorno a lui. Non soltanto nella pubblicità, ma anche in campo. Perché Neymar è un capopopolo, uno sul quale scaricare una responsabilità mastodontica.È il ritratto controdeduttivo di se stesso: un ragazzino gracile, sottile, leggero, in grado di caricarsi ogni peso addosso. Non scappa, non è mai scappato. Con l’orgoglio della leggerezza: qual è il problema dei suoi capelli? Non piacciono a Pelé? Prima O’Rey aveva detto: «Può diventare più forte di me». Poi ha cambiato idea: «Non diventerà mai come me». Neymar ha pagato la ricchezza e la fama globale, come una colpa da espiare a ogni partita. Lo scrittore Alex Bellos ha raccontato che mai prima d’ora nella storia del Brasile c’era stata una Nazionale dipendente da un solo giocatore. Ora sì. È costretto a essere straordinario.
È un eroe, per il Brasile. Un capopopolo, uno su cui scaricare una responsabilità mastodontica
Barcellona l’ha normalizzato ed esaltato al tempo stesso. Semplice: un tocco, a volte due. Segna con una facilità che è determinata anche dall’aver sfrondato il suo stile di gioco da molti accessori. Il dribbling è funzionale. Nell'ultima stagione ha segnato 12 gol toccando il pallone una sola volta negli ultimi venti metri di campo. Non serve più fare il gol che l’ha reso definitivamente famoso: Santos-Flamengo del 2011 con lui che parte dalla linea laterale sinistra, salta due avversari, tocca in profondità per un compagno, scatta, se la fa ridare inseguito da uno di quei due che non lo molla, ne salta un altro entrando in area, tenendo sempre dietro il primo e d’esterno destro aggira il portiere. Le finte e i dribbling che si vedono in quest’azione non hanno un nome codificato. Sono 11 secondi di meraviglia, che una descrizione non riuscirà mai a raccontare per la loro bellezza calcistica ed estetica. Non si cancellano, ma non ci sono più.
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Il gol di Neymar in Santos-Flamengo
Il che è la dimostrazione ulteriore che Neymar prodotto e Neymar calciatore non esistono. Il tweet con cui annunciò la firma con il Barcellona è stato per molto tempo tra i 5 più retwittati di sempre. Ney è uno, con una faccia, una voce, un’idea. È una sintesi. È un calciatore ed essendo un calciatore ha capito che cambiare modo di giocare serve a continuare a essere un campione. Il tempo, lo spazio, l’opportunità, il futuro: «Sono contento del mio stato di forma, del mio livello di gioco. È stata una grande stagione, per me, per la squadra. Detto questo, io sono un giocatore sempre, sempre al lavoro per migliorare se stesso». La sovrastruttura fa parte del pacchetto. Gli sponsor, le pubblicità, i milioni, il ragazzino più pagato di sempre in Brasile, la vicenda del suo ingaggio, del fisco che ha indagato, del Barcellona che s’è difeso. Entra tutto nella storia di Neymar naturalmente, ma non è questa la sua storia. Il calcio è molto altro, anche il suo, forse soprattutto il suo.
.@Njr92, welcome to FC Barcelona! — FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) 26 Maggio 2013
Neymar ha 23 anni, è padrone del Paese più importante del pallone, è una delle star della squadra più globale e forse più forte del mondo. Oggi. La contemporaneità è un valore assoluto: è come stare nel futuro rimanendo sempre nel presente. Roger Bennett di Espn l’ha definito «il calciatore simbolo dell’era YouTube». È perfetto. È il contrario di un’offesa. | {
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The FBI has arrested the leader and two other members of a California neo-Nazi gang known for carrying out brutal physical assaults on their political enemies.
Rise Above Movement (RAM) founder Robert Rundo was tracked to Central America by U.S. authorities and brought back to the U.S. Sunday, where he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, FBI spokeswoman Katherine Gulotti confirmed to TPM.
Fellow RAM members Robert Boman and Tyler Laube were both arrested Wednesday morning in southern California, Gulotti said. A fourth man, Aaron Eason, was also named in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles, but he has yet to be apprehended by law enforcement.
All four were charged with rioting and conspiracy.
“Every American has a right to peacefully organize, march and protest in support of their beliefs – but no one has the right to violently assault their political opponents,” said Nick Hanna, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
RAM members gained national recognition for engaging in acts of violence at political events throughout 2017, in California and at the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally. Though the group claims to promote “’clean living,’ physical fitness and mixed martial arts,” it is quite open on social media about its participation in these street brawls and about its white supremacist beliefs.
Four other RAM members—Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis, Thomas Gillen and Cole White—were indicted earlier this month on conspiracy to riot charges for beating counter-protesters in Charlottesville.
Texts, Twitter direct messages, photos and videos reviewed by FBI special agent Scott Bierwirth and detailed in an affidavit included in the criminal complaint provides new insight into how the group allegedly operated.
(FBI affidavit: photos posted to the RAM Twitter account)
RAM members “acted in concert to commit acts of violence, and planned such acts in advance using the Internet,” according to Bierwirth. They also allegedly enlisted some members to serve as photographers, documenting their street fights so that they could “celebrate their acts of violence in order to recruit members for future events.”
Their first major public appearance was a March 25, 2017 rally in Huntington Beach, California, where they allegedly peeled off from a “Make America Great Again” rally to target a group of counter-protesters. Videos reviewed by the FBI show Laube grabbing a journalist and punching him in the face three times, as well as Rundo punching a protester in the back of the head.
(FBI affidavit: Rundo assaulting a counter-protester as other RAM members look on)
After the rally, RAM members triumphantly shared an article on white supremacist site The Daily Stormer headlined “Trumpenkriegers Physically Remove Antifa Homos In Huntington Beach,” according to the affidavit. Bierwirth writes that “Trumpenkreigers” is a term used to mean “Fighters for Trump,” while “physical removal” is a reference to the white supremacist goal of forcibly excommunicating political foes.
RAM members allegedly used the photos and coverage of the Huntington event to drum up excitement for a rally the following month in Berkeley, California. They exchanged texts coordinating a “hand-to-hand and formation fighting” session, where members would receive “shield and stick training,” per the affidavit.
At the Berkeley rally, RAM members taped their hands like mixed martial arts fighters and wore skeleton masks. They carried signs reading “Defend America” and “da goyim know”—a phrase, Bierwirth writes, that white supremacists use “to refer to their supposed knowledge of a Jewish conspiracy to control world affairs.” (Signs pictured at top).
Soon after the event started, they allegedly jumped an orange police barrier to pummel counter-protesters, according to the affidavit. Rundo was arrested after assaulting a protester who was lying “defenseless” on the ground, and subsequently punching the police officer who tried to intervene.
In August 2017, several members of the gang, including Rundo and Miselis, traveled to Charlottesville, where they committed unprovoked assaults on several counter-protesters, according to the FBI.
RAM members’ commitment to extremist political movements even allegedly took them abroad.
In the spring of 2018, Miselis, Rundo and Daley allegedly traveled to Germany, Italy and Ukraine to “celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday and meet with members of European white supremacy extremist groups,” according to the Bierwirth affidavit. Bierwirth cites Customs and Border Patrol interviews and social media posts as evidence for the trip, where the trio met with the head of Azov Battalion, “a paramilitary unit of the Ukrainian National Guard which is known for its association with neo-Nazi ideology.”
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Photographing Mushrooms Growing on Public Buses is Apparently a Thing in Hungary
Hey, picking mushrooms is a hobby for me, but I didn’t know you can do it on public buses too. Well, you can. Especially in Hungary. This young Pleurotus ostreatus was captured on a coach to Seregélyes, Hungary.
Unique? No, because then here’s another instance of Pleurotus ostreatus growing on a bus, again from Hungary, from Bus No. 27 in Budapest.
The older Ikarus buses seem to have this species (and some others too) by default. Never look under your seat. Never.
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: GHQ and the German Army, 1916–1918 Jim Beach Cambridge University Press , Oct 24, 2013 - History - 416 pages 1 Review Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals how the British perceived the German army through a study of the development of the British intelligence system, its personnel and the ways in which intelligence was gathered. He also examines how intelligence shaped strategy and operations by exploring the influence of intelligence in creating perceptions of the enemy. He shows for the first time exactly what the British knew about their opponent, when and how and, in so doing, sheds significant new light on continuing controversies about the British army's conduct of operations in France and Belgium and the relationship between Haig and his chief intelligence officer, John Charteris. Preview this book » | {
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005 Mike Drop – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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006 Amitacek – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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007 MK X – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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008 Tasadi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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009 Mark Eteson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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010 Mike Beaumont – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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011 D-Mark – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 18-12-2011.mp3
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012 Frosty – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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013 Katadunkass – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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014 Tigran Oganezov – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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015 Eddie Bitar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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016 Manuel Rocca – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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017 David Deere – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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018 Jonathan Allyn – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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019 Thomas Coastline – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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020 Alex van ReeVe – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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022 Martin Maures – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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023 Emdee – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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024 DreamensioN – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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025 Thruggar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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026 Tiddey – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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027 Marc Simz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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028 RAM – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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029 Lazarus – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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030 Ronny K. – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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031 Stoneface & Terminal – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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032 Kyau & Albert – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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033 Ronski Speed – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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034 Blank & Jones – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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035 Bjorn Akesson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 19-12-2011.mp3
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036 Far Exit – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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037 Vicky Wood – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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038 Juliet Star – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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039 Dave Nadz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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040 Malek & Jeremy Sky – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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041 Paul Marko – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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042 Sergey Shabanov – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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043 Peter Muff – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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044 Moorea Blur – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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045 Mike Solar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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046 Jordan Waeles – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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047 Marc Marberg – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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048 Paul Webster – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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049 Smart Apes – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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050 Poshout – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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051 Paul Gibson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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052 Stonevalley – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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053 Protoculture – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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054 Corderoy – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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055 Max Graham – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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056 Andy Moor – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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057 Arty – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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058 The Thrillseekers – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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059 Jaytech – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 20-12-2011.mp3
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060 Matthew Pear – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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061 Kowy – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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062 Dave Cold – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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063 Ted Rivera – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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064 Shadow – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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065 Deepress & TyPhone – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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066 Diego C – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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067 Young Free – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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068 The Flyers – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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069 Above the Clouds – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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070 Davey Asprey – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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071 Simon Bostock – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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072 Aurosonic – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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073 Cesar Lugo – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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074 DJ Ange – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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075 Ferry Tayle – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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076 Manuel Le Saux – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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077 Giuseppe Ottaviani – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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078 Talla 2XLC – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 21-12-2011.mp3
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079 Gnapek – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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080 DJ SlanG – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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081 DJ Cid K – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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082 Le Grand Renard – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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083 DeepImpact – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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084 Jer – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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085 Sequentia – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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086 Jock Bega EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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087 Probity – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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088 Mianviru – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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089 Arisa Audio – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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090 OzzyXPM – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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091 John Dopping – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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092 Phil Metcalfe – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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093 Mike Nichol – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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094 Shogun – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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095 Solarstone – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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096 Mike Shiver – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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097 Mike Koglin – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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098 Alex M.O.R.P.H. – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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099 Super8 & Tab – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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100 Ashley Wallbridge – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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101 Norin & Rad – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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102 Susana – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 22-12-2011.mp3
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103 Metrostatic – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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104 Lucas Bielecki – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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105 Matt Bukovski – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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106 Sacha – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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107 Gari – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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108 Rob Dyer – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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109 Abuzz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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110 Ahmed Romel – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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111 DJ Sergi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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112 JP Bates – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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113 James Minas – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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114 Joe Benger – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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115 Luke Terry – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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116 Cliffy Burrows – EOYC Set on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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117 Artento Divini – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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118 Craig London – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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119 Mark Norman – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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120 Sneijder – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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121 Cliff Coenraad – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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122 Sied van Riel – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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123 Leon Bolier – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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124 Rank 1 – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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125 W & W – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 23-12-2011.mp3
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127 Kiddy – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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128 trancefan0883 – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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129 DJ Donatas – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534466/8cc48d9/129_DJ_ Donatas_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
130 Wizz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534487/f5b40d0/130_Wizz_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_24-12-2011. mp3.zip.html
131 XGenic – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534540/134114c/131_XGenic_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_24-12- 2011.mp3.zip.html
132 mZoleee – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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133 Mike Danis – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534610/88f672d/133_Mike_ Danis_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_24- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
134 Rav Takhar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534625/8c05c61/134_Rav_ Takhar_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
135 Twinwaves – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534655/5fef3bf/135_ Twinwaves_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
136 Raul Hoffren – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534701/fa66076/136_Raul_ Hoffren_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
137 Karybde & Scylla – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534728/b44de35/137_Karybde_ _Scylla_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
138 Paul Pearson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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139 Paul Trainer – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534806/1782250/139_Paul_ Trainer_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
140 Danny Powers – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138534856/04d24e8/140_Danny_ Powers_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
141 Trancefix X-Mas – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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142 Chris Cortez – EOYC 2011 with jingle on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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143 Adam Nickey – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138535023/2e66a5b/143_Adam_ Nickey_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
144 Abstract Vision & Elite Electronic – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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145 Activa – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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146 Signum – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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147 Thomas Colontonio – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138535188/ab8ac49/147_Thomas_ Colontonio_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
148 Tempo Giusto – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138535226/dfcaa7b/148_Tempo_ Giusto_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 24-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
149 Temple One – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 24-12-2011.mp3
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150 Boutch – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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151 RE FreSh – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629476/dab2746/151_RE_ FreSh_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
152 Majai – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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153 YOJI – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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154 Bushi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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155 Altuna – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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156 North State – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
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157 Mr Carefull – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629628/5958db2/157_Mr_ Carefull_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
158 Jorge Nava – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629656/cebcb7e/158_Jorge_ Nava_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
159 Lynum – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629665/05c0c3d/159_Lynum_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25-12-2011. mp3.zip.html
160 DJ Anna Lee – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629673/34fdc5d/160_DJ_Anna_ Lee_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
161 Ben Nicky – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629700/370119e/161_Ben_ Nicky_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
162 Andy Ace – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629713/04f4b14/162_Andy_ Ace_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
163 Synthika – EOYC on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629718/b7b857b/163_ Synthika_-_EOYC_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
164 IRA – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629730/f478997/164_IRA_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_25-12-2011. mp3.zip.html
165 Magdelayna – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629743/7e7636a/165_ Magdelayna_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
166 Dan – EOYC 2011 Backup on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629787/7b84c3d/166_Dan_-_ EOYC_2011_Backup_on_AH.FM_25- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
167 Binary Finary – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629856/d773fc7/167_Binary_ Finary_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
168 Menno de Jong – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629900/5c3fe29/168_Menno_ de_Jong_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
169 Ruben de Ronde – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629963/d8abc97/169_Ruben_ de_Ronde_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
170 Armin van Buuren – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138629989/7017570/170_Armin_ van_Buuren_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
171 Bryan Kearney – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 25-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138630007/1d20a1b/171_Bryan_ Kearney_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 25-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
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172 EDU NRG – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
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173 Heatbeat – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727113/bf21075/173_ Heatbeat_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
174 D@NEE – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727138/1e31587/174_DNEE_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26-12-2011. mp3.zip.html
175 Phil Taylor – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727202/d9d3f03/175_Phil_ Taylor_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
176 Luv Velo – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727211/66e5946/176_Luv_ Velo_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
177 Roby K & Flashtech EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727255/2163d35/177_Roby_K__ Flashtech_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
178 Neoquinx – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727287/58822da/178_ Neoquinx_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
179 Emotional Horizons – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727310/3737c80/179_ Emotional_Horizons_-_EOYC_ 2011_on_AH.FM_26-12-2011.mp3. zip.html
180 Sunnteck – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727325/0000db1/180_ Sunnteck_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
181 Dimension – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
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182 Walsh & McAuley – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727413/0725574/182_Walsh__ McAuley_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
183 Faruk Sabanci – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727422/bf6262d/183_Faruk_ Sabanci_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
184 Duderstadt – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727433/1c77d59/184_ Duderstadt_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
185 David Stolk – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727459/93c826c/185_David_ Stolk_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
186 Pobsky & Paul Atkinson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727501/52d7f8f/186_Pobsky__ Paul_Atkinson_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
187 Sunny Lax – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727524/4e86105/187_Sunny_ Lax_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
188 Dennis Sheperd – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727553/ca9fa47/188_Dennis_ Sheperd_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
189 7 Skies – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
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190 Daniel Kandi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727590/e136ea4/190_Daniel_ Kandi_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
191 Myon and Shane 54 – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727635/a52950f/191_Myon_ and_Shane_54_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
192 Nitrous Oxide – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727662/7b0f45e/192_Nitrous_ Oxide_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_26- 12-2011.mp3.zip.html
193 Johan Gielen – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727676/b35e6d2/193_Johan_ Gielen_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
194 Cor Fijneman – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 26-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138727708/b13c857/194_Cor_ Fijneman_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 26-12-2011.mp3.zip.html
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195 Tero A – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
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196 Angel Ace – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
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197 Chenkio – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
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198 Suzy Solar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816400/a813607/198_Suzy_ Solar_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27- 12-2011.mp3.html
199 Andski – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
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200 Odonbat – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816580/b1242b6/200_Odonbat_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27-12- 2011.mp3.html
201 Solis & Sean Truby – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816688/8536055/201_Solis__ Sean_Truby_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
202 Andrew Parsons – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816745/93b8cf1/202_Andrew_ Parsons_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
203 Dazzle – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
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204 Chris Darked – EOYC 2011 Backup on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816843/bbcb7fa/204_Chris_ Darked_-_EOYC_2011_Backup_on_ AH.FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
205 Joni Ljungqvist – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138816928/87fa988/205_Joni_ Ljungqvist_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
206 Jordan Suckley – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817026/c1dcffb/206_Jordan_ Suckley_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
207 Bryan Summerville – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817098/2c926d3/207_Bryan_ Summerville_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
208 Darius Romanowski – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817118/14bf10c/208_Darius_ Romanowski_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
209 Blighty – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817227/bf1c7bd/209_Blighty_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27-12- 2011.mp3.html
210 Joe Shadows – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817285/db85049/210_Joe_ Shadows_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
211 Mohamed Ragab – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817428/3618680/211_Mohamed_ Ragab_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27- 12-2011.mp3.html
212 Philippe El Sisi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817490/2d1e140/212_ Philippe_El_Sisi_-_EOYC_2011_ on_AH.FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
213 Tritonal – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817540/38838cf/213_ Tritonal_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
214 Gabriel & Dresden – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817595/84b20c5/214_Gabriel_ _Dresden_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
215 Aly & Fila – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817625/3091c68/215_Aly__ Fila_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27- 12-2011.mp3.html
216 tyDi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817707/22dcdfc/216_tyDi_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_27-12-2011. mp3.html
217 Jorn van Deynhoven – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817753/10c00e7/217_Jorn_ van_Deynhoven_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_27-12-2011.mp3.html
218 Scot Project – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 27-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138817764/fb11897/218_Scot_ Project_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 27-12-2011.mp3.html
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219 Impulsive – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
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220 Oscar Guez – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967178/3814ebd/220_Oscar_ Guez_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
221 Phil Parry – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967221/8a5cb6f/221_Phil_ Parry_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
222 Angus Gibbins – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967248/c8b6331/222_Angus_ Gibbins_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
223 Aris Grammenos – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967291/05def93/223_Aris_ Grammenos_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_28-12-2011.mp3.html
224 Andy Tau – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967377/09c00eb/224_Andy_ Tau_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
225 Jo Micali – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967413/5a0af35/225_Jo_ Micali_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
226 Radion6 – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967505/0497642/226_Radion6_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28-12- 2011.mp3.html
227 Sunn Jellie – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967590/8791626/227_Sunn_ Jellie_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
228 Aku & Ghazaly – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967685/925f363/228_Aku__ Ghazaly_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
229 Stan Wise – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967796/c5c1eef/229_Stan_ Wise_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
230 Grube & Hovsepian – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138967863/b449661/230_Grube__ Hovsepian_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_28-12-2011.mp3.html
231 Aaron Camz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
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232 Nifra – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968002/53da4e9/232_Nifra_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28-12-2011. mp3.html
233 KhoMha – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968029/ceadc14/233_KhoMha_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28-12- 2011.mp3.html
234 Kiholm – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968116/95e6b40/234_Kiholm_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28-12- 2011.mp3.html
235 Basil OGlue – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968140/1822edc/235_Basil_ OGlue_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
236 Mike Foyle – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968188/00fa0ee/236_Mike_ Foyle_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28- 12-2011.mp3.html
237 Darren McNally – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968294/de637e9/237_Darren_ McNally_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
238 Jochen Miller – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968360/e93c34d/238_Jochen_ Miller_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
239 Markus Schulz – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968412/f56b90a/239_Markus_ Schulz_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
240 Mr. Pit – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968464/9177320/240_Mr._Pit_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_28-12- 2011.mp3.html
241 Tucandeo – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968524/3a7c8f5/241_ Tucandeo_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
242 Lisa Lashes – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 28-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 138968567/106bbe9/242_Lisa_ Lashes_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 28-12-2011.mp3.html
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243 DJ K4N – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144474/20bc944/243_DJ_K4N_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29-12- 2011.mp3.html
244 Raneem – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144527/78474cf/244_Raneem_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29-12- 2011.mp3.html
245 Eric Allen – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144582/45e70ab/245_Eric_ Allen_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
246 Liam Wilson – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144640/d212e7e/246_Liam_ Wilson_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
247 andY – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144694/aba0d3a/247_andY_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29-12-2011. mp3.html
248 Config – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144733/a6764a6/248_Config_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29-12- 2011.mp3.html
249 Ronald de Foe – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144754/1c91cc0/249_Ronald_ de_Foe_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
250 Sunivah – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144812/437adc8/250_Sunivah_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29-12- 2011.mp3.html
251 Eunostos – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144855/19d096d/251_ Eunostos_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
252 J.T. Parker – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144914/c36ae7f/252_J.T._ Parker_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
253 Gary Maguire – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144941/339f4e9/253_Gary_ Maguire_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
254 Lee Osbourne – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139144970/b3f3219/254_Lee_ Osbourne_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
255 Veselin Tasev – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145008/96966c9/255_Veselin_ Tasev_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
256 Ex-Driver – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145031/4814451/256_Ex- Driver_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
257 Chris Turner – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145066/edc12e3/257_Chris_ Turner_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
258 Matt Davey – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145100/888c0fd/258_Matt_ Davey_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
259 DJ Luismi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145126/4cb7da2/259_DJ_ Luismi_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
260 Maria Mashkova – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145184/b2939b6/260_Maria_ Mashkova_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
261 Lemon & Einar K – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145201/6e06b30/261_Lemon__ Einar_K_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
262 Ryan Tyas – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145237/e80e160/262_Ryan_ Tyas_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
263 Sean Tyas – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145261/87bffc3/263_Sean_ Tyas_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
264 Akira Kayosa – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145278/ee62087/264_Akira_ Kayosa_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 29-12-2011.mp3.html
265 Indecent Noise – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145313/008bb4d/265_ Indecent_Noise_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_29-12-2011.mp3.html
266 Virtual Vault – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 29-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139145337/1cd6af1/266_Virtual_ Vault_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_29- 12-2011.mp3.html
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267 DoubleV – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308563/0b6e503/267_DoubleV_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12- 2011.mp3.html
268 Laan – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308627/861edbd/268_Laan_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12-2011. mp3.html
269 Jeffrey Source – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308675/dfca792/269_Jeffrey_ Source_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
271 DJ Salman – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308712/28837b3/271_DJ_ Salman_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
272 Dakova Dae – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308765/c956cfb/272_Dakova_ Dae_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30- 12-2011.mp3.html
273 Dan Reitar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308809/fa2ed4c/273_Dan_ Reitar_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
274 Dan Ascherl – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308858/8a20a7e/274_Dan_ Ascherl_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
275 Misja – Helsloot EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308947/086c840/275_Misja_-_ Helsloot_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
276 Mike Saint-Jules – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139308996/717c8ab/276_Mike_ Saint-Jules_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_30-12-2011.mp3.html
277 Matt Bowdidge – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309050/e6da18e/277_Matt_ Bowdidge_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
278 Keith Bowden – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309103/9c08e74/278_Keith_ Bowden_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
279 DJ San – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309155/47e59d8/279_DJ_San_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12- 2011.mp3.html
280 Estiva – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309204/16291be/280_Estiva_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12- 2011.mp3.html
281 Garry Heaney – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309235/e36a943/281_Garry_ Heaney_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
282 Pedro del Mar – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309296/1696ff3/282_Pedro_ del_Mar_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
283 Eco – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309405/edefbd6/283_Eco_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12-2011. mp3.html
284 Ben Gold – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309460/eb15fa3/284_Ben_ Gold_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30- 12-2011.mp3.html
285 Orkidea – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309485/d37a0c5/285_Orkidea_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12- 2011.mp3.html
287 Daniel Wanrooy – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309507/71a1073/287_Daniel_ Wanrooy_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
288 Arnej – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309536/b0dc2e9/288_Arnej_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12-2011. mp3.html
289 FABIO XB – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309567/1e960e5/289_FABIO_ XB_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_30-12- 2011.mp3.html
290 Orjan Nilsen – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 30-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139309611/c132e73/290_Orjan_ Nilsen_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 30-12-2011.mp3.html
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291 Sensetive5 – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472483/7546db7/291_ Sensetive5_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
292 DJ Revel – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472509/ed893ed/292_DJ_ Revel_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
293 DJ Revox – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472532/fcf443e/293_DJ_ Revox_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
294 Seven Ways – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472580/7eeaed3/294_Seven_ Ways_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
295 Laceen – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472613/14d5521/295_Laceen_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12- 2011.mp3.html
296 Sean J Morris – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472634/95a4e5a/296_Sean_J_ Morris_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 31-12-2011.mp3.html
297 UzeYroS – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472659/2c765e1/297_UzeYroS_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12- 2011.mp3.html
298 Volt – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472687/802d953/298_Volt_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12-2011. mp3.html
299 Haig & Raffi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472710/ef2eff0/299_Haig__ Raffi_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
300 Hiddenagenda – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472789/f16ae4e/300_ Hiddenagenda_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
301 Ian Buff – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139472913/632b866/301_Ian_ Buff_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
302 Alex ORion – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473010/1118288/302_Alex_ ORion_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
303 Imagin – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473035/c506281/303_Imagin_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12- 2011.mp3.html
304 Masoud – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473056/bfd2d92/304_Masoud_- _EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12- 2011.mp3.html
305 Marcel Kenenberg – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473083/0cc3ac7/305_Marcel_ Kenenberg_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
306 MaRLo – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473140/173fc8b/306_MaRLo_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12-2011. mp3.html
307 Sebastian Brandt – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473218/a32a0b5/307_ Sebastian_Brandt_-_EOYC_2011_ on_AH.FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
308 Rick Valentine – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473258/325b767/308_Rick_ Valentine_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
309 Kris ONeil – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473364/6cce887/309_Kris_ ONeil_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
310 Jon OBir – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473406/17d1907/310_Jon_ OBir_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31- 12-2011.mp3.html
311 Lange – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473439/041f226/311_Lange_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12-2011. mp3.html
312 Marcus Schossow – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473499/fed7a89/312_Marcus_ Schossow_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 31-12-2011.mp3.html
313 Ernesto vs Bastian – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473539/6e01aff/313_Ernesto_ vs_Bastian_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_31-12-2011.mp3.html
314 Estigma – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 31-12-2011.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139473597/95099e2/314_Estigma_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_31-12- 2011.mp3.html
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315 Jerom – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658318/1efe792/315_Jerom_-_ EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_01-01-2012. mp3.html
316 Karanda – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658390/0c2f0e2/316_Karanda_ -_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_01-01- 2012.mp3.html
317 Kenji Sekiguchi – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658428/9d0d399/317_Kenji_ Sekiguchi_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH. FM_01-01-2012.mp3.html
318 Rob Evans – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658480/973db92/318_Rob_ Evans_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_01- 01-2012.mp3.html
319 Mark Sixma – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658493/d52f428/319_Mark_ Sixma_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_01- 01-2012.mp3.html
320 Niklas Harding – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658565/030c1a3/320_Niklas_ Harding_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 01-01-2012.mp3.html
321 Jonas Hornblad – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658591/5c7b9e2/321_Jonas_ Hornblad_-_EOYC_2011_on_AH.FM_ 01-01-2012.mp3.html
322 Colonial One – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
http://hotfile.com/dl/ 139658611/a5d0120/322_ Colonial_One_-_EOYC_2011_on_ AH.FM_01-01-2012.mp3.html
323 Coll & Tolland – EOYC 2011 on AH.FM 01-01-2012.mp3
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Image copyright IRSP media Belfast Image caption The video was reportedly filmed at the funeral of Barry McMullan on Monday
Police have launched an investigation after video emerged of shots apparently being fired at a republican funeral in west Belfast.
The video shows two masked men firing a volley of shots into the air as two children stand nearby.
It was posted on a YouTube channel called IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party) Media Belfast.
The channel indicates that the video was filmed at the funeral of Barry McMullan on Monday.
The published description of the video reads: "Irish Republican Socialist Movement lay Comrade Barry McMullan to rest with full honors (sic). Belfast, June 26th 2017."
Det Ch Insp Gary Reid said: "Police are aware of the footage showing shots apparently being fired by masked men in west Belfast in recent days.
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Well-wishers greeted people returning home with a warm welcome at Dublin airport.
It is thought that thousands travelled back to Ireland to vote in Friday’s referendum on abortion. | {
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Grudges are exhausting. The worst type of grudge is one that lasts for years -- where you stay mad at someone for so long, it almost becomes a contest to see who will the first to break the silence. My family could start a master's program on longstanding silence. My grandfather didn't talk to my father for 7 years because of something he "heard" my dad said at a reunion. My mom hasn't talked to her mother in almost a decade. And now, as a parent, I am trying not to repeat history.
Don't take it personally.
Author don Miguel Ruiz speaks of not taking it personally in his book of Toltec wisdom called "The Four Agreements." I interviewed him when the book went into paperback. He first gained popularity after Ellen DeGeneres spoke about it on Oprah's show. Now, "The Four Agreements" has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years.
"Someone else's actions have nothing to do with you," Ruiz explains. "We have no idea what someone is going through. They may be suffering a loss, or getting a divorce. If we think that someone's silence or rage is about us, then we are being run by our ego and not our spirit."
Born into a Mexican family of traditional healers, Ruiz originally abandoned his family's Toltec beliefs to become a surgeon. "I would treat patients, and they kept coming back with the same illnesses," Ruiz says. Then a near-death experience forever changed his perspective. "I saw that this is all a dream. Our realities are based on our beliefs. I knew I couldn't go back to the old way of thinking and being."
While his "don't take it personally" approach may sound simple, it can be hard to stick to in today's modern world.
"Other people's opinions of us only have merit if we believe them," he says. "If you spread love and happiness, there is no reason for someone to be hateful or angry with you," he says."If they choose to be negative, it is their choice. It is not because you are doing anything wrong."
Therefore, we should not take it personally.
"What others say is a projection of their reality, not yours," he says.
Other agreements to live by, per Ruiz;
Be impeccable with your word. This means speaking with integrity at all times. No lies. No gossip. In fact, Ruiz feels gossip can spread like a cancer. "Any untruth that is spoken can do harm," he says. "The energy behind gossip is purely negative. It is like poison."
Never assume. "Communicate with others before you let your mind race with thoughts that are assumptions. This one agreement can transform your life," he says.
Always do your best. Whether you are helping your child with your homework or speaking at a conference, Ruiz feels you should give every task your full attention. This means NO multitasking. "Sometimes you might be sick, or exhausted, so your 'best' will change from moment to moment," he says. "Don't judge yourself during these times. Judgment and regret prevent you from doing your best."
These days, Ruiz is co-writing with his son don Jose Ruiz. Their joint effort, "The Fifth Agreement," was released last December.
"We can break away from the misery in our minds by changing our thoughts," says Ruiz. He calls those who take on these agreements "Spiritual Warriors", because it is a war within our minds to turn off our inner judge and release the fear and assumptions that consume our everyday lives. "Many days, this will not be easy. Just remember that inner peace and happiness is waiting for you."
WANT TO KNOW MORE? Come to wgntv.com/liveblog Tuesday at 8 a.m. and livechat with Jen Weigel! She'll be talking about grudges.
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The Sabres hired Pat LaFontaine as their President of Hockey Operations today and I'm oddly pleased. Sure, LaFontaine was an Islanders great and I'm vaguely an Islanders fan, but LaFontaine played his last game in Uniondale a month before I was born. From a purely sports-related perspective there's no real reason I should have the regard for him that I do.
By the same token, there's no real reason the above, seemingly mundane clip of Pat LaFontaine at the doctor should have over 580,000 views on YouTube, which is 520,000 more views than any video of him playing hockey. Yet, these two seemingly inexplicable developments are related (brace yourself, this explanation gets weird).
The video is a trigger for a very specific physical reaction that certain people feel, usually called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. It's a neologism for a sensation no one can really explain. And as someone who experiences ASMR, let me tell you: Pat LaFontaine's cranial nerve exam is our crystal blue meth -- a pure and perfect high.
The vibrant ASMR Reddit community describes the feeling as "a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs." They make the important distinction that there's nothing sexual about the feeling -- it's more like suddenly feeling awash in a wave of comfort. There's a hypnotic, defocusing quality, too. No pill can put me to sleep faster than watching a grainy recording of a hockey legend getting his reflexes tested.
"Pat LaFontaine Cranial Nerve test" hits all the buttons: It features a soft-spoken doctor and patient, a methodical examination, and lots of peripheral noise being picked up by the camera. Gentle instruction and soft noises are common triggers, which explains why ASMR folks treat Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting as a holy text. In fact, there's a whole cottage industry on YouTube -- no doubt launched in large part by the LaFontaine video -- of people (mostly young women) roleplaying cranial nerve exams like some kind of neuroporn. But for me, and many others, only the real thing draws a reaction.
For the longest time -- and I know this due to the embarrassing number of times I've watched it -- the LaFontaine video had disabled comments, in keeping with the policies of braline.org, the medical resource site that uploaded it. Recently, though, that policy changed. The video already has 185 comments, such as, "BEST ASMR VIDEO EEVER" from DJCoffeeBeatz or "I find that the videos made specifically for ASMR aren't very good. Like, a genuine examination like this is totally different from some chick or dude whispering in their room with the lights out" from JerrizleMcYo.
Some commenters highlight their favorite parts (personally, I like the sensation test on LaFontaine's palms). Other comments, presumably from Islanders or Sabres fans looking for highlight packages, are simply confused by the video's popularity. One respondent in particular provides a succinct oral history of the legendary trigger video:
I've been watching this clip for months. Always knocks me out. They disabled comments for ages, cos it was getting tons of hits from the ASMR community. Think it freaked 'em out a bit. I mean, it IS pretty weird.
I share in the realization of this weirdness, but it's especially weird for me, a hockey fan, as Pat LaFontaine has become one of my all-time favorite athletes for reasons I couldn't possibly explain over a call to my local sports talk show. It's at the point where looking at Pat LaFontaine's hockey card has the same calming effect most people get from images of bubbling streams or tropical beaches. | {
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Mateen was an unsuccessful blogger that had some success online promoting products and services as an affiliate. He would make commission for any sales and leads he would generate for the products and services he… | {
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For instructions on installing the Dart or Flutter extensions, go here.
v2.15.0 2018-06-29
Test Runner
A new test runner has been added that will render test results in a tree in the Test Side Bar.
Currently there is no detection of tests so they will only appear once you start running them which can be done with F5 / launch.json , using the Start Debugging / Start Without Debugging options on explorer context menus or using the new Run All Tests command (noted below) to run all test files.
Clicking on a test will open the Output pane if there is any output from the test and also navigate you to the test in the source (note: navigating to the source required a change in Flutter which is currently only available on the master channel).
Note: By default this is only enabled for Flutter projects. You can opt-in for Dart projects by setting the dart.previewTestRunnerForDart setting to true though there may be some edge cases where this currently does not work correctly.
Run All Tests
A new command has been added to quickly run all tests in your project (the equivalent of flutter test or pub run test ). This command will spawn a concurrent debug session for each workspace folder that contains tests.
Go To Implementation
Go To Implementation has been implemented to allow you to quickly jump to implementations from abstract members/interfaces.
Quickly Open in Android Studio or Xcode
New context menu entries have been added to ios and android folders to allow you to quickly open them in Xcode or Android Studio.
Filtered Extension Logging
The Capture Logs command has been extended to allow selection of which log categories to include when troubleshooting or reporting issues in the extension.
Other Changes | {
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By Thandeka Moyo
Bulawayo – Two female police officers allegedly inserted bananas into the private parts of a 17-year-old suspect who was in their custody, a court heard.
Faith Sibanda, mother to a one-year-old child together with her accomplice Marshal Nkomo, allegedly stole pots, baby clothes and household gadgets from a house in Bulawayo’s Highmount suburb.
While appearing before Bulawayo magistrate Sibongile Msipa, Sibanda complained that police officers had inserted bananas into her private parts and assaulted her as they carried out investigations.
“Your Worship some female police officers inserted bananas into my ……. while I was in detention. I am in pain and I can barely walk. I was also assaulted by officers from the Criminal Investigation Department. I do not know the names of the officers but I did go through a rough time in their custody,” she said.
Her alleged accomplice Nkomo also told Msipa that he was beaten with a whip while in detention.
Msipa remanded the duo out of custody to May 7 and ordered the State to look into the alleged abuse by the police.
“The State should investigate the alleged assault and accused number one, Sibanda, should be examined by a medical doctor to ascertain if she was abused. This matter will be back in court on May 7,” said Msipa.
Allegations are that on April 7 around 11AM, the accused persons while in the company of one Jefta who is still at large, forced open a locked door with an unknown object to gain entry into a cottage in Highmount.
The cottage belongs to Believe Madongorere who is the complainant in the matter.
They allegedly stole two blankets, one baby blanket, one Wiztech decoder, one Philips DVD, one black pot, two bed spreads, two pillows and one blue bag containing children’s clothes and a washing dish.
The complainant’s wife discovered that her property had been stolen and notified her husband. A report was made to police. Sibanda was arrested at her residence in Kensington and implicated Nkomo.
The property stolen was worth $222 and only goods worth $7 were recovered. The Chronicle | {
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A woman divorced her husband and started dating the DJ at her wedding.
Megan Willis, 26, met Mark Stone, 49, at a bar in Maryland and eventually hired the man to DJ her July 2016 wedding ceremony.
But once the marriage went sour, Willis began confiding in the DJ.
“My marriage ended because I was not fully happy and not getting what I needed out of it,” she told the Daily Mirror.
“My ex was addicted to a video game that basically became his life and I was basically non-existent.”
Willis told the site she realized her marriage wasn’t working while living with her husband in Saratoga Springs, NY, as a newlywed.
A year later, she was back home in Maryland and saw Stone again at a bar, where she shared her relationship woes with him.
“Talking with Mark really led me to the realization that I shouldn’t have to beg my husband for attention,” Willis said.
“Mark was just a friend, yet every day he took time to check in on me. We both really enjoyed our chats no matter how silly or serious they were.”
She moved to North Carolina when her divorce was finalized in 2018 and Stone followed suit.
“At first I had the ‘Oh God, are you falling for him?’ thought, and after that it was, ‘Can this even work?’ and then, ‘Will people think I’m some gold digger?’” Willis said.
“Being together, all negative thoughts went away. I’m an older soul and he’s a young soul, so it’s almost like we meet in the middle and it’s perfect.”
The couple said they plan to have kids, which will require Stone to reverse his vasectomy.
They said they’ve overheard people whispering about their relationship, but that it doesn’t faze them.
“We really don’t care what other people think. We’re happy and our relationship works and that’s all that matters to us,” Willis said. | {
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CHICAGO -- A plan to curb the number of beds available to emergency-room patients at one of the nation's most prestigious hospitals has spurred a divisive internal debate that is being closely watched by hospital physicians across the country.
At issue at the University of Chicago Medical Center, located in the South Side's Hyde Park neighborhood, is a proposal that could limit the number of beds available to emergency-room patients. In February, two high-ranking doctors quit their administrative posts to protest the plan,... | {
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O empresário Giorgio Alan Bortolin dos Santos, p reso após ser flagrado por uma câmera de segurança agredindo a própria mulher , foi solto pela Justiça menos de 24 horas após a prisão. O juiz responsável abriu mão da fiança e permitiu que o suspeito responda ao crime em liberdade.
A agressão foi registrada na noite de sexta-feira (17) em Araguaína, norte do Tocantins. O G1 ainda tenta contato com os advogados do suspeito.
Segundo a Polícia Civil, o casal é dono de um restaurante que funciona no hotel onde o espancamento ocorreu. No vídeo, é possível ver que a mulher foi atacada com socos, derrubada e chutada por Bortolin e ainda puxada pelo cabelo.
Após a prisão, segundo a polícia o homem confessou as agressões. O delegado estabeleceu uma fiança de R$ 50 mil, mas o valor foi desconsiderado pela Justiça. (Veja vídeo)
A liberdade de Bortolin teve parecer favorável do Ministério Público e segundo o juiz plantonista Fabiano Ribeiro, o suspeito não representa risco para o cumprimento da lei.
"Ao meu sentir, no presente momento, não encontro elementos para conversão da prisão em flagrante em preventiva. É de se ver que as medidas cautelares diversas da prisão atualmente são suficientes a garantir a aplicação da lei penal, da instrução criminal e a garantia da ordem pública e econômica", diz em trecho da decisão.
O juiz estabeleceu algumas medidas restritivas para o marido: comparecer aos atos processuais, não mudar de endereço ou sair da comarca por mais de cinco dias sem autorização da justiça, assim como manter distância mínima de 200 metros da mulher.
Também não poderá fazer contato com parentes da mulher ou frequentar os mesmos locais que a vítima, entre outras proibições.
1 de 1 Mulher foi agredida com socos, chutes e puxões de cabelo — Foto: Reprodução Mulher foi agredida com socos, chutes e puxões de cabelo — Foto: Reprodução
Entenda
Durante depoimento, a vítima disse que não era a primeira agressão que sofria. O marido não tinha passagens pela polícia até o boletim de ocorrência do caso ser registrado. Ele é natural de Santa Catarina e alegou que a discussão foi motivada por ciúmes da esposa.
O vídeo mostra que após as agressões a vítima ainda foi puxada pelos cabelos até uma área escura, onde não é possível ver o que acontece.
O homem foi preso em flagrante e prestou depoimento. O delegado de plantão, Alexander Costa, estabeleceu fiança de R$ 50 mil para que ele respondesse em liberdade, mas valor não foi pago.
Bortolin foi levado para a Casa de Prisão Provisória de Araguaína. Porém, ganhou liberdade após decisão da Justiça.
A mulher foi atendida em um pronto socorro e depois liberada. | {
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Donald Trump Jr. had numerous questionable contacts with Russian individuals during the course of the 2016 campaign, for most of which he has still not yet provided a reasonable explanation. Trump Jr.’s ties to Russia predate his father’s presidential campaign; he visited Moscow in 2006 with his sister and Felix Sater, where they connected with potential future business partners at a time when Trump had repeatedly expressed interest in developing in Russia. In 2008, he stated that “the Trump Organization wants to build luxury housing and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi,” and he visited Moscow six times in 18 months in search of new deals (although none panned out.) Despite the Trump Organization’s inability to develop properties in Russia, Trump Jr. told reporters at a real estate conference that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets […] we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
These early Russian ties may have made Trump Jr. more amenable to meeting Russian government-linked officials while his father was running for office. In May 2016, he dined at the same National Rifle Association event as Aleksander Torshin, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia. Although it is unclear if the two talked during this dinner, the NRA convention was the focus of another attempt to connect the Trump campaign with Russian officials: conservative operative Paul Erickson had suggested that the convention could serve as a point of “first contact” between Trump and Russia and that “Putin [was] deadly serious about building a good relationship with Mr. Trump.” After the convention, Torshin emailed the Trump campaign with a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite,” although this second dinner never took place.
Trump Jr. also played an integral role in the notorious June 9, 2016 meeting. Rob Goldstone initially made contact with Trump Jr. about setting up the meeting; when offered incriminating evidence about Hillary Clinton, Trump Jr. famously replied “if it’s what you say I love it.” He attended the meeting in Trump Tower, along with Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, Rod Goldstone, Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and Georgian real estate and finance executive Irakly Kaveladze. When The New York Times initially reported on the June 9, 2016 meeting, Donald Trump reportedly dictated his son’s misleading initial response to the revelations. The meeting provoked questions about the extent of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian actors. In Michael Wolff’s new book detailing an inside look at the Trump White House, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon is quoted as saying that the actions of the three senior campaign officials who took part in the June 9, 2016 meeting, including Trump Jr., were “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” Bannon has since denied that these comments were in reference to Trump Jr.
During the final months of the campaign, Trump Jr. received messages from WikiLeaks asking for his help; this contact, which was revealed in November 2017, show Wikileaks “actively soliciting Trump Jr.’s cooperation.” Trump Jr. received messages beginning in September 2016 and continuing until at least July 2017. The messages showed WikiLeaks requesting that Trump Jr. release his father’s tax returns and requesting that Julian Assange be named as the Australian ambassador to the U.S., although it appears Trump Jr. ignored these requests.
Less than one month before the election, Donald Trump Jr. was paid more than $50,000 to speak at a private dinner in Paris hosted by the Center of Political and Foreign Affairs, a pro-Kremlin think tank that nominated Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Center of Political and Foreign Affairs was founded by Randa Kassis and Fabien Baussart. French media indicates that Baussart has ties to Russian oligarchs. Kassis is a Syrian-born activist who has a history of high-profile meetings with Kremlin-linked individuals, including Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov. Kassis publicly supports Russia’s position in Syria, and reportedly has close ties with Sergey Lavrov. She is the leader of a Syrian political party called the Movement for Pluralistic Society. Kassis allegedly spoke with Trump Jr. about the need for U.S.-Russia cooperation in Syria, and subsequently relayed news of this meeting to Russian diplomats in Moscow.
These contacts with Russian and Russian-linked actors have not gone unnoticed, and Trump Jr. has been called to testify before multiple congressional committees. During his September 2017 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Panel, he denied allegations of collusion during the 2016 election cycle. He testified before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees behind closed doors in December 2017, where he was reportedly questioned about his numerous Russian contacts, including the June 9, 2016 meeting and his communications with WikiLeaks. Trump Jr. has criticized the Russia investigations, defending his father and saying that the investigations represent a “rigged system.” | {
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In Bayern wird der Wechsel von Seehofer zu Söder eindeutig begrüßt. Auf die Frage: „Begrüßen Sie diesen Wechsel im Amt des Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten oder begrüßen Sie diesen Wechsel nicht?“ sagten 63%, dass sie den Wechsel begrüßen, nur 31% nicht. Begrüßt wird der Wechsel von Wählern aller Lager (CSU: 67%, SPD 55%, AfD 62%).
Markus Söder hat in den letzten Wochen klar Boden gutgemacht. Eine wachsende Mehrheit der Bayern erwartet jetzt, dass er ein guter Ministerpräsident wird.
Auf die Frage: „Wird Markus Söder ein guter Ministerpräsident werden oder wird er das nicht?“ antworteten 55%, er werde ein guter Ministerpräsident, 38% erwarten das nicht. Im Januar stand es erst 51:42.
Die Mehrheit traut Ministerpräsident Söder zu, Bayerns Spitzenposition zu erhalten. Auf die Frage: „Wird Markus Söder in der Lage sein, die bisherige Spitzenposition unter den deutschen Bundesländern zu erhalten oder wird er das nicht?“ trauten es ihm 68% zu und 28% nicht.
Die Aussichten für die CSU haben sich nach Ansicht der Bayern klar verbessert. Auf die Frage: „Ist die CSU nach Beilegung des Führungsstreits und dem Zustandekommen einer erneuten Großen Koalition für die kommenden Landtagswahlen alles in allem gut aufgestellt oder ist sie das nicht?“ sehen 61% die CSU gut aufgestellt, 34% nicht.
Diese Einschätzung wird auch durch das Ergebnis der Sonntagsfrage gestützt. Wäre am nächsten Sonntag Landtagswahl, würden sich die Bayern wie folgt entscheiden: 43% CSU, 15% SPD, 12% AfD, 11% Grüne, 6% Freie Wähler, 6% FDP, 3% Linke und 4% Sonstige.
Die Bayern erwarten allerdings, dass Seehofer die Arbeit von Söder erschweren könnte. Auf die Frage: „Horst Seehofer hat angekündigt, sich als Parteivorsitzender und Bundesinnenminister nicht nur um die Bundespolitik zu kümmern sondern auch in der Landespolitik mitreden zu wollen. Wird das aus Ihrer Sicht die Arbeit des neuen Ministerpräsidenten Markus Söder erschweren oder wird es Söders Arbeit als Ministerpräsident nicht erschweren?“ sehen 67% Söders Arbeit erschwert, 29% nicht.
Andererseits punktet Horst Seehofer mit seinen Äußerungen zum Islam beim Bürger. Auf die Frage: „Stimmen Sie Seehofer zu, dass der Islam nicht zu Deutschland gehört oder stimmen Sie seiner Ansicht nicht zu?“ stimmten 77% zu und 19% nicht. Auch hier geht die Zustimmung durch die Lager (CSU- Wähler 85%, SPD 62%, AfD 93%).
Von der GroKo erwarten die Bayern kaum neuen Schwung. Auf die Frage: „Wird das gerade nominierte Bundeskabinett mit teils neuen Ministern neuen Schwung und neue Ideen in die Politik bringen oder wird es in der Politik eher so weitergehen wie bei der früheren Großen Koalition?“ erwarteten nur 38% neuen Schwung, 55% nicht.
Die Umfrage wurde vom Hamburger Umfrage-Institut GMS im Auftrag von „17:30 SAT.1 BAYERN“ durchgeführt. Es handelt sich um eine repräsentative Telefonbefragung mit 1004 Befragten im Befragungszeitraum 16. bis 21. März 2018. | {
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Most nations—and nations to be—have a history of people asking critical questions about schooling and about the politics of knowledge in which it participates. Is it simply reproducing the ideological goals and cultural forms and content of dominant groups? Could schooling be used to raise serious issues about existing societies? Could it go even further and be reorganized so that it actively participated in the reconstruction of those societies? Some of the most powerful traditions of asking and answering these questions—and of acting on them—can be found within oppressed communities themselves. Within these communities, among the most articulate and powerful traditions are those that evolved within African American collective efforts to create an education that responded to the short and long‐term needs of black people. These traditions expressly aimed at changing the social realities that created these needs in the first place. I discuss two of the most insightful and committed scholar/activists of these movements: W. E. B. Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson. In the process, however, I also extend my discussion beyond these two figures to also highlight the contributions of women and men practitioners and activists in grounding these critical traditions in the logics and activities of daily life in educational institutions. | {
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Luego de la serie de cortes de agua que han afectado a los usuarios tanto de la Región Metropolitana como regiones, la Superintendencia de Servicios Sanitarios (SISS) anunció que prepara un nuevo escenario para los principales actores de la industria.
Así lo adelantó el superintendente Ronaldo Bruna en entrevista con Diario Financiero, que confirmó que el gobierno activará una nueva fijación tarifaría el próximo año.
El nuevo cálculo, a diferencia de los 6 realizados anteriormente, incluiría nuevos tópicos como la inversión para responder al cambio climático y un mejor servicio a los clientes.
Cabe destacar que Aguas Andinas y Esval son los principales actores de la industria sanitaria en el país, y han estado en el ojo del huracán luego de los problemas este año por cortes de agua.
El superintendente apunta a que este nuevo proceso tendrá el foco en una profunda revisión del modelo sancionatorio y los criterios que se utilizan a la hora de fiscalizar y multar a las empresas, poniendo como ejemplo que hoy la empresa que tiene 4 cortes recibe las mismas multas que la que tiene 60.
"La mirada ciudadana y del cambio climático se reflejarán en la próxima fijación de tarifas. Puede haber una base nueva para este cálculo y criterios distintos que generen innovaciones, por ejemplo, en los procesos de sanción y de toda la lógica de la revisión administrativa. Ahí es donde quiero poner el acento, para dar a los agentes económicos una señal clara de certeza jurídica por un lado y de incorporación de incentivos por el otro", señala Bruna al matutino.
Junto con una renovación de la primera línea de la superintendencia (fiscalización, fiscalía y concesiones), Bruna apunta además a la mirada a largo plazo debido al cambio climático que afecta a nuestro país.
En ese sentido, se creó el área de Estudios e Información, donde Bruna destaca que se construirá una mirada de largo plazo de la institución, mirando hacia el 2030.
"El gran problema que se vislumbra es la escasez. En Chile está lloviendo dos tercios de lo que llovía hace veinte años y más concentrado y líquido. No hay nieve, que es nuestro embalse en la cordillera. Queremos ordenar esa mirada para que la SISS, como organismo técnico al margen de los tiempos políticos, pueda formar esa mirada en la que entran conceptos de sustentabilidad, de reutilización y reciclaje de las aguas ya tratadas", explica el superintendente. | {
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Ubisoft found itself in hot water overnight after sending a promotional email for The Division 2 declaring, in the subject line, "Come see what a real government shutdown looks like in the private beta."
The shutdown has been at the forefront of American politics since December. It's the longest in US history - and it's an incredibly sensitive topic. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees went without paychecks over Christmas because President Trump could not agree with Congress a bill to fund his ridiculous border wall.
The shutdown brought services such as the Coast Guard, TSA, prisons, FBI and many more to their knees. It has temporarily ended now, but the issue is still far from resolved.
'The Division 2 is not trying to make a political statement' - 2018
2019 be like: pic.twitter.com/4xKoRRfryw — Skill Up (@SkillUpYT) February 1, 2019
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Less than an hour after The Division 2 email was sent, an apology landed.
"A marketing email promoting Tom Clancy's The Division 2 was sent in error today," it read. "This was a grave breakdown in process and we apologise for this error and the offensive subject line of the email. We recognise the very real impact of the United States government shutdown on thousands of people and did not intend to make light of the situation."
It's a particularly grievous error for a company at pains to stay out of discussions about politics in its games, despite some of their politically volatile and modern settings - Far Cry 5 in particular. Apparently, being political is "bad for business", a Ubisoft executive said.
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Ubisoft's is an increasingly problematic stance given the inherent political nature of Tom Clancy's work - the brand The Division 2 is a part of. "At least he embraced the role of the fiction-maker as an interpreter of the times," wrote Edwin in a piece looking at Tom Clancy's body of work, "as political weathervane rather than pure fantasist."
The Division 2 arrives 15th March on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The beta will run 7th Feb to 11th Feb in the UK, and you can either sign-up on The Division 2 website for a chance at joining in, or pre-order the game, which I never think is a particularly good idea. Anything else you want to know about The Division 2 beta should be covered by a handy page of ours. | {
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AKRON, Ohio - More than 100,000 spectators are expected in Akron this weekend to cheer on participants in the final three events of the 16th Akron Marathon.
Sponsored over the next three years by FirstEnergy, the Akron Marathon, Half Marathon & Team Relay will be held Saturday along the blue lines painted throughout the city's roadways. The races kick off at 7 a.m. Saturday on High Street in downtown Akron, and end at Canal Park Stadium, 300 South. Main St. downtown. A Finisher Festival will be held at Canal Park from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
About 10,000 people ages 11 to 91 are expected to participate, with runners hailing from 44 states and six countries, the marathon reports.
"Akronites and city visitors alike see the blue line weave throughout the city all year long, a reminder of one of the preeminent events that showcase our city, both to the running community and also the world," said FirstEnergy President & CEP Charles Jones in a news release. "Our employees have been volunteering and running in this race for years. It's an event that has truly galvanized our company and our community."
Each year, Summa Health and SummaCare hosts the Akron Marathon Health and Fitness Expo at the John S. Knight Center, 77 East Mill St. in downtown Akron.
The expo, which runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, is free and open to the public. It features exhibitors offering health and fitness information and products.
The Akron Marathon Race Series promotes health and fitness while benefiting local charities, including Akron Children's Hospital.
A Kids Run for kids 12 and under also takes place on Friday, at 6:30 p.m., starting and finishing at 200 South Main St.
During the expo, three-time Olympic marathon runner and race ambassador Kastor Deena will meet runners, and sign autographs and copies of her new book "Let your Mind Run."
This weekend's events are a culmination of a race series that included the National Interstate 8k & 1-Mile in June and the Goodyear Half Marathon & 10k in August.
The Akron Marathon Race Series is organized by the Akron Marathon Charitable Corp. The series is designed to promote health and fitness and stimulate the local economy while benefiting charities.
For a detailed schedule of the weekend's events visit the Akron Marathon website.
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KeSPA has spoken about the organization being expelled from the Integrated Korean Olympic Committee.
On Oct 11th, a news piece broke out in the eSports industry, stating that Korea eSports Association (KeSPA) had been expelled from the Integrated Korean Olympic Committee. The eSports community is in a turmoil after hearing the news that KeSPA, which has been trying to make eSports like traditional sports, had been expelled from the Committee and it will be impossible for KeSPA to enter the Committee again.
However, according to the source KeSPA provided to Inven, KeSPA’s situation was different from the story that spread. First, KeSPA had admitted that their organization has been relegated from “official member” to “reserved member”. When the Korean Olympic Committee and Korea Council of Sport for All consolidated to the Integrated Korean Olympic Committee, the standards to maintain membership had become more complicated. KeSPA explained that “the conditions to maintain membership in the Committee became much more strict; an organization must have 6 branches within a year and must have an office in each branch.”
Regarding the rumor that says “KeSPA did not recruit any City/Province Sport Associations to establish an official branch in because KeSPA did not have any future plans in 2015”, KeSPA explained that they were not able to prepare to establish a branch because such a rule did not exist at that time. The rule was created when the Korean Olympic Committee and the Korea Council of Sport for All consolidated to the Integrated Korean Olympic Committee.
KeSPA also added that KeSPA is not the only group affected by the new rule. Among the 24 reserved members that were selected in 2016, 22 groups have been expelled from the Committee. “Not only KeSPA, but also many other sports associations did not meet the new conditions,” KeSPA said. KeSPA also explained that this issue was determined by the Committee a year ago and they have made an official announcement regarding the issue.
KeSPA had been relegated to reserved member a year ago, and the reserved period will be over soon. Regarding the future plans for the organization, KeSPA mentioned registering eSports as an official event in the Olympics or the Asian Games. “If eSports can become an official event in the Olympics/Asian Games, the condition to enter the Integrated Korean Olympic Committee will be mitigated. We are doing our best to meet the Committee’s new rules,” KeSPA said. KeSPA also added that they are trying to establish branches by making prominent eSports PC Clubs their branches.
KeSPA said that the organization has been trying to resolve the issue since the issue broke out a year ago. They also added that they are planning to have an official statement regarding the issue in the near future. | {
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The Spanish Jewish community is threatening legal action for a Nazi-style cartoon published by a Barcelona- based satirical magazine portraying hook-nosed Israeli soldiers urinating on Palestinians and physically abusing Jesus.In the most recent issue of the popular left-wing El Jueves, a publication similar in many respects to the irreverent French weekly Charlie Hebdo, illustrator Julio Serrano harshly criticizes the Jewish state, including allegations that Jerusalem’s Israel Museum keeps a Torah scroll wrapped in “the skin of my holy testicles,” and that any Jew who marries an Arab is stripped of his citizenship and expelled.“This is absolutely outrageous and obviously we are going to be seeking legal remedies,” David Hatchwell, the head of the Jewish community of Madrid, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.While magazines lambasting religion and politics in an irreverent style are fine, he said, it is “absolutely unacceptable” to engage in “anti-Semitic attack and slanders against the Jewish people.“This [cartoon] could be taken from the Nazis’ Der Stürmer and nobody would notice the difference,” he said, referring to El Jueves’s portrayal of Jews as having long hooked noses and seeking to dominate their gentile neighbors.In one panel an Israeli soldier, wearing what appears to be a German style helmet, can be seen holding his genitals in his hands as he urinates on a cowering Arab and cries out, “You don’t understand, Palestinian, my grandparents were in a concentration camp.”Serrano wrote in the magazine, “Okay, the Holocaust was horrible and resulted in the creation of the State of Israel so that the Jews could live in peace, but that doesn’t give you the right to hassle the non-Jewish people who live there.Israel is like the child who watched in horror as his father beat his mother and now, as an adult, he beats his wife. Under Israeli law, Jews have preferential treatment as regards education, health, homes and work, and if you are not Jewish in the State of Israel, you are f***ed,” he said.Regarding politics in Israel, Serrano wrote that “the Jews have it all tied up,” and non-Zionist parties are banned, “so let’s forget about the cannabis party.”Another illustration showed an IDF soldier kicking an Arab woman and a hassidic man.Explaining that Israel constitutes “Apartheid 2.0,” the illustrator averred that “no Israeli can marry a Palestinian, [and that if] such a union take place, the Israeli loses his citizenship and is obliged to emigrate.“The Palestinians are forced to use secondary roads, which are studded with checkpoints at which Israeli soldiers exercise an iron control over the movements of those who are not Jews,” he added, using a picture of a long-nosed Jew pushing a beaten Jesus next to a checkpoint.“There is no real protocol of behavior and the soldiers do whatever they want with the Palestinians, they can forbid them from passing [the checkpoints], detain them, take their things away and worse. It has been calculated that every Palestinian spends some four hours a day stopped at these controls.”Hatchwell responded: “These are lies, totally non-factual, and it’s done in a sophisticated enough way that people who know nothing about the conflict will think that Israelis are Nazilike oppressors, and it affirms every myth [that has been held] in Europe [about Jews] for thousands of years.”The community plans to turn to the courts with a complaint of hate speech against this “pure anti-Semitism” that is “anathema to the values of modern Spain,” Hatchwell said.The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement to the Post calling the cartoons “classic anti-Semitism camouflaged as ostensibly legitimate criticism of Israeli policies.”Marion Fischel contributed to this report. | {
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As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this era, free education has never been so accessible. The Web gives lifelong learners the tools to become autodidacts, eschewing exorbitant tuition and joining the ranks of other self-taught great thinkers in history such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen and Ernest Hemingway.
“Learning is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -Albert Einstein
10 years ago in April 2001, Charles M. Vest, the MIT President at the time, announced that the university would make its materials for all its courses freely available on the Internet. This initiative, found at OpenCourseWare, has enabled other teachers and lifelong learners around the world to listen and read what is being taught at MIT. 5 years later, in April 2006, UC Berkeley announced its plan to put complete academic courses on Apple’s iTunes U, beginning what is now one of the biggest collections of recorded classroom lectures in the world. One year later, in October 2007, the school launched UC Berkeley on YouTube. According to Benjamin Hubbard the Manager of Webcast at UC Berkeley, the school has had well over 120 million downloads since first sharing videos online, which they began doing in 2001.
He says, “I think there’s a wide array of reasons why faculty should be engaged in recording and publishing lectures online. The first is wanting students to have access to materials. The second is for cultivating a really great affinity for a public university that’s providing research and community service. The third is closely aligned with this opportunity to provide educational resources all over the world to those from all walks of life, despite what disadvantages they have faced. It’s so important that we recognize as a public institution that this is something people value greatly and has great value for us too.”
Both Yale and Stanford have followed suit, and even Harvard has jumped on board in the last two years. Open Yale features free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars, supported by funding from the William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation. Outside of the U.S., some of the most selective universities in India have created a vast body of online content in order to reach more of the country’s exploding student population. At Stanford, you can freely “attend” The Stanford Mini Med School featuring 3 year long series of courses by more than thirty distinguished faculty, scientists and physicians.
The world’s encyclopedia is as weightless, free and instantly accessible as Wikipedia, which is quickly gaining legitimacy in the education sphere. Using the Internet, you can learn a new language or delve into the depths of metaphysics with just a click of a mouse. The Web has unlocked the keys to a worldwide virtual school, potentially leveling the playing field for students around the world.
Open Culture
Should knowledge should be open to all to both use and contribute to? Yes, and it’s this intuitive philosophy that forms the base of The Open Education Movement, which has been gaining momentum since 2006, the same year Dr. Dan Colman, launched Open Culture, the greatest free cultural and educational media website I’ve ever come across. Almost 5 years old, Open Culture is the largest database of free cultural and educational media in existence. Open Culture is edited by Colman who received his PhD from Stanford in 1997. After graduating from Stanford he worked at About.com in the early days, then later worked for the Stanford, Oxford, Yale Consortium. He now runs Stanford’s continuing education program and works on Open Culture in his spare time.
“I’m trying to bring the best good ideas to the rest of the world. There currently exists too much of a gap between the university world and the general public.” -Dr. Dan Colman
The site has two dimensions: First, it acts as a portal, collecting external links so users are able to access materials directly from the distributor, whether the media be on a site, YouTube or iTunes. Second, it includes blog-style content with 2-3 posts a day of handpicked media bites like “The Existential Star Wars: Sartre Meets Darth Vader.” Open Culture features over 350 courses in its collection: links to epic TED Talks, over 380 high quality streams of classic movies and tens of thousands of hours of audio book material. In fact, 50% of Open Culture’s collection is audio content.
In the future, Colman would like to implement a social feature so that users can rate certain classes and share those ratings. Most importantly, he wants to add what he calls “the critical element” to Open Culture and the Open Education Movement. How can users get feedback as if they were in a classroom? How can they receive due credit? And perhaps, how can we measure learning in this new way?
Khan Academy
With just a computer and a pen-tablet-mouse, one can educate the world! Even better, the content never goes old. My (or your) great-great-great grandchildren could learn from the very same videos! -Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an online collection featuring over 2,100 educational videos ranging in intensity from 1+1=2 to college level calculus and physics. Khan Academy includes an important recording feature; every time you work on a problem or watch a video, the site remembers what you’ve learned and where you’re spending your time. It keeps all of this data private but exposes powerful statistics to each user. Coaches or tutors can also log into Khan Academy through Google or Facebook and track their students progress. Khan Academy’s knowledge map shows all of its exercise concepts.
Watch more about The Khan Academy here.
Academic Earth
Academic Earth is working its way up to being the Hulu of academic videos and courses. However, they don’t cover audio, which is a shame because a lot of courses are only taped and released in audio since it’s easier on the budget. Academic Earth features the videos on their site, as opposed to pushing you directly to iTunes if it’s available. How about watching an entire semester’s worth of lectures on Science, Magic and Religion from an esteemed UCLA professor? Check it out here.
P2PU
John Britton, now a developer evangelist at Twilio, spent his first year at RPI studying nuclear engineering, then switched to computer science. He quickly realized he didn’t like school, but not wanting to drop out, he had to game the system. He spent the next year in Spain learning the local language and customs. Upon returning, he set up an internship for himself at a company he launched, “faking the school out” as he says. Finally, when beckoned back to the books, he spent another year abroad in China; 3 months in Beijing and 9 months in Hong Kong. At the end of it all, with one semester left, he dropped out. He now has $60,000 in loans.
“I don’t like school. It’s why I’m working on starting my own.”
-John Britton, Entrepreneur and Unicycler
Britton now works with the founders of P2PU, “a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements.” P2PU’s Founders include Philipp Schmidt, Delia Browne, Stian Haklev, Neeru Paharia and Joel Thierstein.
“It’s kind of like couchsurfing but for learning,” says Britton. P2PU started in 2008 and launched its first 6 peer-based, free courses on 09/09/09. The courses had 15-20 people enrolled for 6 weeks. Each subsequent cycle, the number of courses nearly doubled. The most recent, 4th cycle had 60 courses with 20 people in each course. P2PU had to turn down nearly 17,000 additional people who applied.
Learn more about P2Pu here:
In the past year, they teamed up with Mozilla to create the P2PU School of Webcraft, a new way to teach and learn web developer skills. Classes are globally accessible, 100% free, and powered by learners, mentors and contributors. Their goal is to provide a free pathway to skills and certification to help people build careers on open web technology.
Skillshare
We were the first to write about Skillshare when the NYC startup launched in early April 2011. Simply put, Skillshare is a community marketplace that enables users to learn anything from anyone. Teachers can host classes anywhere, literally; classes are happening everywhere from NYC to Boston to San Francisco right now.
At the end of Sir Ken Robinson’s “Bring on the Learning Revolution” TED Talk, he encouraged everyone in the room “who represent extraordinary resources in business, in multimedia, and the Internet to combine technology with the extraordinary talent of teachers to revolutionize education. Not for ourselves but for the future of our kids.” I mean… who doesn’t want to make the world better for the kids? After watching this TED Talk it planted the seed and inspiration to really revolutionize education. Last year, I played in the 2010 World Series of Poker (yes, completely random) for charity. I donated 100% of my poker winnings and got coached by some of the top professional poker players in the world. When I got back to NYC, my friends asked me to teach a class on what I learned, which is when everything clicked. And thus, Skillshare was born.
-Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Skillshare
So how does Mike K envision the future of education? He says, “Technology has the opportunity to completely disrupt education by democratizing learning. There’s something fundamentally wrong when a college degree can cost upwards of $100,000 when all of the information can be learned for free on Khan Academy. We need to go back to the true goal of education: learning new skills.” So what are you waiting for? Learn the basics of Ruby on Rails for $50 from the Chief Product Officer of DesignerPages.com or how to make chocolate for $40 from a holistic health and nutrition coach.
“Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability.” -Sir Ken Robinson in his 2010 TED Talk
Scitable
Want to learn about genetics? Cell biology? Ecology? Scitable is a free science social network with a peer-reviewed on library built on top of it. The network, which launched in 2009, is a product of the Nature Publishing Group, one of the largest, most prestigious science publishers in the world. It’s dedicated to encouraging students to take part in science education and science in general, which is a huge problem today. In fact, science high school education has a depressing 40% attrition rate in undergraduate science students. The site, which has just over 1 million users, recently launched The Green Science and Science In Africa sections, as well as a mobile site.
Skype’s Role
As our Midwest Editor Alex Wilhem wrote earlier this year, without a doubt, technology has changed education in the classroom. And Skype’s global platform and massive user adoption makes it one of the most influential technologies in changing the reach of education.
Ever heard of “The Granny Cloud“? A professor of education technology at UK’s Newcastle University named Sugata Mitra, whose work inspired the film “Slumdog Millionaire,” decided he could use Skype to improve literacy and education around the globe by getting 200 story telling Grannies to read to children in India over Skype.
Jacqueline Botterill leads Skype’s CSR (corporate/social responsibility) initiatives for Skype in Europe. Skype in the Classroom, which launched March 30th, 2010, is one of the company’s first forays into the education sphere. “We created Skype in the Classroom to help like-minded teachers collaborate on projects and share resources. Skype can connect children globally for shared learning experiences and is low-cost and simple to use,” she says. Since it’s launch over 12,000 teachers have signed up for Skype in the Classroom.
Betsey Sawyer, a middle school teacher in rural Groton, Massachusetts integrated Skype into her classroom to regularly connect students with an Afghan youth peace volunteer group. As part of her “Bookmakers and Dreamers club,” students ask questions about Afghanistan to their virtual pen pals, while sharing their own experiences in return. Already, the program of 10-17 year-olds has grown to 125 members.
Teach the World Online is using Skype to give young students in Haiti and Cambodia access to English teachers. The News Literacy Program is also using Skype so journalists can give guest lectures to students all over the world on how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age. At the moment, Skype is speaking with a number of different organizations that are trying to level the playing field of access to education.
Hungry for more? One of our favorite fellow tech reporters, Audrey Watters put together a list of 10 more open educational resources and OCW resources that you should know about including Smarthistory, a free and open multimedia website and OpenStudy, a social learning network.
But can the Internet really replace higher education?
As a journalist, I essentially creates my own courses and earn a living asking smart people provocative questions all day long. At this time, I’ve never been happier or more satisfied that I didn’t pay $150,000 to go to graduate school. However, I would hope that my gynecologist or dentist didn’t feel the same way.
There’s a lot of debate right now about whether or not paying for a degree is worth it, a particular problem facing entrepreneurs. TNW’s U.S. editor Brad McCarty recently wrote a piece titled, “Stay in or drop out? The entrepreneur’s education fiasco.” [Read it here.]
Entrepreneur Peter Thiel has recently sparked a big debate lately focused on: you don’t need to go to college, smart people should go out in the world and do.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it. Housing was a classic bubble, as were tech stocks in the ’90s, because they were both very overvalued, but there was an incredibly widespread belief that almost could not be questioned — you had to own a house in 2005, and you had to be in an equity-market index fund in 1999. Probably the only candidate left for a bubble — at least in the developed world (maybe emerging markets are a bubble) — is education.
It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people taking on these enormous debts when they go to college simply because that’s what everybody’s doing. It is, to my mind, in some ways worse than the housing bubble.
There are a few things that make it worse. One is that when people make a mistake in taking on an education loan, they’re legally much more difficult to get out of than housing loans. With housing, typically they’re non-recourse — you can just walk out of the house. With education, they’re recourse, and they typically survive bankruptcy. If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn’t create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
-Peter Thiel
Likewise, innovators such as John Britton, Sir Ken Robinson and Mike K of Skillshare, see the future of education as something of a necessary revolution, thriving on the powers of the Internet.
Education is going to move away from antiquated accreditation systems and towards a focus on real-world skills. Our vision is to unlock this knowledge and allow people to share their skills with those who want to learn them. Let’s be honest – by the time a college has a class on how to build an iPhone app or use social media to market your business, it’ll be completely outdated because the world is moving so fast.
-Mike K, Founder of Skillshare
But what do the academics have to say about this?
“I think courses on the Internet are a great way to continue learning and to acquire new information and new knowledge, but they only partially address furthering education. An education is more than just passively listening to lectures.”
-Dr. Dan Colman, Editor of Open Culture
Replace? Oh no. The Internet is an amazing tool. But it’s also a tool that’s built on the capabilities of the people who are using it. The Internet alone won’t be able to replace higher education. I’m looking to enhance the experience of the user whether they are sitting in their dorm room or half way around the world…I wouldn’t say hitting play and pause for an hour can replace the experience of being in the classroom and interacting with a faculty member but perhaps for a larger class size that’s less true…
We need a better integration between the videos we’re capturing in the classroom and the experience learners have when interacting in a social context. Online, you don’t get that same sort of feedback. What are the ways we can take the data about these videos and analyze that and understand if students are having trouble understanding something?
-Benjamin Hubbard, ETS, Manager of Webcast at UC Berkeley
So where does that leave us? To pay or not to pay for a quality education? Much of it depends on the job you want, but then again it always has. If you want to be a fireman, you don’t need to go to graduate school. But if you want to be an orthodontist, please don’t just watch YouTubes and practice pulling out cavities on your dog.
It’s clear that the world is moving faster than it ever has before. As we learn more about ourselves and more about the world around us through massive amounts of data collection and data transfer at ever increasing speeds, surely the foundations of learning must change too.
After all, it’s clear our current education system is broken, from the bottom up. If we’re going to continue to evolve as a species and as a culture, we’re long overdue for an education revolution.
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion.
-Abraham Lincoln, December 1, 1862
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Screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) took to Twitter to give his thoughts on Paul Feig‘s new Ghostbusters reboot and to tell the story of how he once pitched a Ghostbusters movie to Sony. Hit the jump to read the story and find out how you can see the pitch for yourself.
It all started yesterday when Landis posted a few thoughts on his Twitter account about Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters film, which he called “pretty whatever.”
3rd act gets really horribly dumb. Racist stereotype character is as advertised. Very funny parts. 5/10 The only really horribly cringey stuff in Ghostbusters has to do with there being like zero internal consistency with how the ghosts works. That and the stereotype of a “BIG SASSY YELLING BLACK WOMAN” which is like…Literally as advertised, the whole character. Really weird.They say they have to catch the ghosts. Then they kill the ghosts with energy bullets and by stabbing them with knives. Not kidding. Kate McKinnon is awesome. So yeah. They made a new Ghostbusters and it is pretty bland and kind of funny and parts of it don’t make sense and some of it’s racist. Part of me wanted it to be bad because reboot/gimmick/shallow, part of me wanted it to be great to piss off misogynists, I got neither. I’ve talked to people who HATED Ghostbusters 2016 and people who loved it. After seeing it, I’m amazed they had any kind of strong response.
It’s hard to argue with a lot of what Landis is saying. Many of the problems he had with the film have been echoed in a lot of the reviews, even from the reviewers who seemed to enjoy the film much more than he did. My review which, will be posted tomorrow, touches on some of the same issues.
Today Landis followed up the review with the story of how he once pitched a Ghostbusters sequel to Sony and was even set to meet with producer Ivan Reitman. Of course, Paul Feig came into the picture with a completely new vision for the movie. Say what you will about Landis’ sometimes-abrasive personality, but there is a reason why he gets hired on so many screenwriting projects — the guy is a talented storyteller. Here is the story as posted by Max Landis on Twitter, but compiled together so it’s easier to read:
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So about 2 years ago in a general at Sony I mentioned that I had wished I could work on the new Ghostbusters, but knew they had a script. I was surprised at the positive reaction to my idea during the meeting, and was asked to come back in with a fuller version of my pitch. As I understand it, they actually had 2 scripts, by 2 different teams, that had been through multiple drafts, and were now in competition. I didn’t really understand how that worked, but there was apparently enough contention about the two scripts that both were being thrown out.
I was very fired up; I would be pitching to one of my favorite execs, and got more and more confident in my idea as I fleshed it out. I wanted to create a Ghostbusters someone like Brad Bird could direct; a big, funny, exciting summer action movie that could make you cry. I went in VERY excited, pitched my heart out. After the meeting, we got the call. They loved it. All I had to do was meet with Reitman.
I couldn’t fucking believe it. I was writing the next Ghostbusters.
Because I’m a doofus, I began doing what I always do when I’m writing a big property; I dropped hints on twitter, pictures… GHOSTBUSTERS. I was writing FUCKING GHOSTBUSTERS. I couldn’t believe it. I knew it would be hard; assignments always are, but still- WOW.
But then the meeting with Reitman kept getting postponed. I was confused. One week. Two. Three. My agents told me not to panic.
I got a nice, sort of sad email from the exec I’d pitched to: Not this time.
What happened?, I asked.
Paul Feig.
Paul had swooped in very passionately with a long letter about what he wanted to do with the property, and my version was summarily out. This happens all the time in the industry; I don’t feel mad at Paul in any way shape or form, but man, what a fucking bummer to lose it. I slummed around for a week just bummed out of my mind; I couldn’t believe how close I had felt to such a huge property. It felt like Power Rangers all over again; I get a dream job, write my heart out, am summarily replaced for reasons not having to do with me. Which is a huge part of the arbitrary nature of the business; I’m not whining, and it won’t change, but it kind of sucks every time.
Then again, I reasoned, I was lucky to be in the position at all. But my experience with Power Rangers, Frankenstein, Chronicle 2 and then Ghostbusters had changed my outlook. I wanted out. In a lot of ways, Ghostbusters was kind of the final straw that led to Deeper and Bright. I didn’t want to feel that way again.
My Ghostbusters was not a sequel to Ghostbusters 2, but more as a sequel to the property itself; think ALIENS to ALIEN, T2 to Terminator. A sequel to the movie in all of our heads; “GHOSTBUSTERS!” A big fun character comedy with great action, crazy ghosts and a big heart.
Funnily enough, it also featured a handsome man possessed by a ghost, and was lead by a dorky female Ghostbuster. I posted this a while ago, but I’m very proud of it; it’s an artifact from my career that I think is worth sharing again. At the time, I wrote “I never pitched this.” That wasn’t true. I didn’t want to imply I was fucked (I wasn’t) or that I was bitter (I’m not). The new “Ghostbusters” will stand or fall on its own merits.
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You can read the almost 5,000 world Max Landis Ghostbusters 3 pitch on Landis’ official website. Here is the opening:
We start in the 1920s, where we witness cult leader Ivo Shandor proclaim the prophecy of the two comings of Gozer, one a failure, and the second thirty years later, to destroy the world. One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer. Slam to 2016. Ghostbusters was a national franchise, privately owned and government subsidized. But the lack of extradimensional invaders meant that there was ultimately a very limited amount of ghosts to bust, and the very optimistic national expansion slowly depleted the Buster’s funds (“Did the Atlanta chapter really need a helicopter?”). The Ghostbusters remain iconic, but despite the merchandise, cartoon show, etc, the company itself is bankrupt, on the verge of collapse. Only two houses remain open; there hasn’t been a legitimate call in more than ten years. The original Busters are for the most part long gone; Venkman took the money and disappeared into seclusion, Winston Zeddemore quit the busters in 1991 and has since become a Richard Branson style billionaire, and Egon Spengler accidentally ascended to a higher plane of existence, leaving only the increasingly delusional Ray Stantz, who has run the company into the ground. The New York Team is now comprised of Ted Becker, an earnest sweetheart living a dream born as he watched the Busters defeat Gozer as a little boy in 1985, Veronica Spengler, Egon’s Very Egon-Like daughter who feels in turns respectful and resentful of the hole left in her world, Brian Quaid, a fast talking breezily confident self-proclaimed psychic with a chip on his shoulder, and Irwin Oberstein, a gearhead MIT kick-out metalhead who sees the Ghostbusters as the ultimate way to explore his punk rock ideas about quantum physics.
Landis has said the idea follows “my own beliefs about trilogies. It is a completion of the cycle and themes started in the first film, updated for modern film standards. As such, it features a heightening of the first film’s threat, as well as multiple action sequences, and deeper emotional through-lines for the characters.” You can follow Max Landis (if you dare) on Twitter @Uptomyknees. | {
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A Canadian soldier has become the first female infantry officer to command troops guarding the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
God save the Queen – or at least the pomp | Katharine Whitehorn Read more
Capt Megan Couto led about 40 Canadian soldiers through the changing of the guard ceremony at the palace on Monday morning, watched by the usual throng of tourists who saw history being made.
Before the ceremony, Couto said: “I’m just focusing on doing my job as best I can and staying humble. Any of my peers would be absolutely delighted to be captain of the Queen’s Guard and I’m equally honoured.”
As captain of the guard, she took up a position at nearby St James’s Palace after the ceremony.
Couto’s Canadian unit, the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (2PPCLI) – known as the Patricia’s – has been invited to the UK to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary this year.
Charlotte Banks (@CharlotteBFBS) Canadian Army Officer makes history as first female to command the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace pic.twitter.com/l06WLMViPM
They are serving as the Queen’s Guard on select dates until 3 July, keeping watch as sentries at Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace, the Tower of London and Windsor Castle. During the changing of the guard ceremony, they have been accompanied by the 35-piece Royal Canadian Artillery Band.
The role of mounting the Queen’s Guard usually falls to the British army’s household division, which is largely made up of male troops.
Women in the British army have served on frontline duties in a variety of roles but until July last year they were banned from close-combat ground roles, so no female officer has previously served as captain of the Queen’s Guard. By contrast, Canada’s military has allowed women to serve in nearly all roles since 1989.
Couto is second in command in the Patricia’s to Maj Jay Hudson but, having commanded the guard last week, he has stepped aside to allow her the chance to lead in the ceremonial role.
She told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation she did not know until recently that Canadian soldiers could guard the Queen: “It is a big deal because of the tradition and the importance of the ceremony.”
The UK government is opening up combat roles to women over a phased three-year term. Since November last year, some units of the Royal Armoured Corps have been open to women. The Queen’s foot guards will be open to women by the end of next year.
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba, was named after Princess Patricia of Connaught, daughter of the then governor general of Canada. Princess Patricia had special links with Buckingham Palace, the place of her birth on 17 March 1886. Her father was Prince Arthur, the third son of Queen Victoria. | {
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HELLO BISEXUALS AND FRIENDS. Have you been keeping up with assertions about us on the internet? Well, luckily we have. First of all, you may have already come across the news that Vivien Leigh, actress who played Scarlett O’Hara in the classic Gone With The Wind, was apparently bisexual. Oh wait, did I say bisexual? Because obvs what I meant was “a hot mess off-screen — a slutty bisexual who battled mental illness for most of her adult life,” and “didn’t give a damn who she slept with.” Sorry, I get those confused all the time. According to a new biography, when Leigh wasn’t lounging around in velvet gowns with tiny waists, she was having sex with both men and women, including actress Isabel Jeans and “at least two” other women who remain nameless. Presumably the biography expands on the mental illness element, but the article doesn’t, leaving us to wonder whether bisexuality itself is supposed to be the “illness” in question. Also, it would appear that Leigh’s husband’s former wife was a lesbian, which is weird and I don’t even really know how to fit that in. In conclusion, we get that it’s been a slow news week – we’ve been hurting too on that front – but I would argue that titling this article “Vivien ‘Lay,’ Scarlet Woman” was kind of unnecessary.
This internet development was merely annoying until we also stumbled across NYMag’s most recent Sex Diary – this one titled “The Bisexual Production Assistant Sleeping With Everyone Except Her Boyfriend, Who’s A Virgin.” The Sex Diaries chronicle a week in the life of an anonymous New Yorker, and as we’ve mentioned before, they’re usually better than most mainstream media outlets at reflecting the fact that gay/lesbian/queer/trans people also have sex sometimes. At least usually they are?
The thing is that while the anonymous production assistant is definitely bisexual, she doesn’t actually have sex in the entire week she records, not even according to our wide-ranging and generous lesbian definition of what might be considered sex. And, oh, right, she doesn’t have a boyfriend. She makes this point very clearly when she refers to the man she’s been seeing as “Non-Boyfriend” throughout the entire piece.
For SEO and layout purposes, it’s best to keep article titles short, like under 12 words, and so it’s entirely possible that that’s the only thing fueling NYMag’s slight misrepresentations here.After reading about Vivien “Bisexual Slutface McGee” Leigh, however, I was maybe a little sensitive on this issue, and couldn’t help but wonder: was this editing for brevity, or was this about the stereotype of the bisexual as the girl who always does “sleep with everyone,” or as the girl who’s always dating a man and thus calls the authenticity of her queerness into question?
The most hardcore parts of Bisexual Production Assistant’s week are “one instance of phone sex” and another of “heavy petting,” and many commenters on the piece are full of righteous indignation about the lack of follow-through within the article. In fact, most of them are pretty dismissive of BPA’s sex life in general; to me, though, for someone who says she’s not in a sexual relationship, “five acts of masturbation, one act of phone sex, one act of heavy petting, one make-out-and-leave with ex-girlfriend, multiple instances of office flirtation” really doesn’t sound so bad. Do we have higher expectations for bisexuals’ sex life because we expect them to be sex-starved maniacs? Or do I just not get laid that often and I’m way off? I guess that’s up for you to decide judgmentally in the comments.
And while most commenters were more into putting down Jersey than putting down bisexuality (I guess there’s a reason it’s not NJMag) there were still several who thought the insight that “she decided she was “bisexual” at Mt. Holyoke, and “she’ll be straight again in six months” was both original and funny. To which I can only answer – really? In this article she mentions two male sex/romantic partners, one past sexual relationship with a woman, and one partner of indeterminate gender. Also, she’s 23, which makes it likely she’s been out of school for at least two years. Commenters on New York Magazine articles: what does it take, beyond HAVING SEX WITH BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, for you to buy this person’s bisexuality? Starring in a major motion picture in the 1940s and then engaging in a string of hush-hush affairs with other international starlets? Because trust me, I’m sure a lot of us would like that too, but sometimes being an underpaid production assistant who has to get up at 5:30 am to commute into the city is the best we can do. For that we apologize.
It’s possible that we’re reading too much into this; the art of taking offense needlessly on the internet is not hard to master, and these are arguably not the most objective or representative samplings of public opinion on bisexuality. Maybe we’re a little softhearted towards Vivien Leigh because she’s pretty and Bisexual Production Assistant because she kind of reminds us of someone we possibly hooked up with a few times. But also, man, you guys! What is your deal! What did we ever do to you? | {
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Our publisher Seth is at the Tesla Gigafactory today for a media-only tour of the plant and a presentation/Q&A with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CTO JB Straubel. I will relay live updates from him with pictures and videos when possible.
The schedule of the event:
12:00-12:30 PM (3:00-3:30 PM ET): Arrival at the Gigafactory and intro
12:30-2:30 PM (3:30-5:30 PM ET): Exterior and Interior tours
3:00-4:00 PM (6:00-7:00 PM ET): Remarks and Q&A with Elon Musk and JB Straubel
We will try to get a livestream going when it’s possible. It will be embedded here and hosted on our Youtube channel . We tried and failed.
Updates and pictures from the event will be posted here with the most recent on top. Simply refresh to get the latest:
5:15 PM Reno – 8:15 PM ET: The talk is over. We will try to get a video online asap.
4:45 PM Reno – 7:45 PM ET: Elon reiterated that the pencil down for Model 3 design was two weeks ago as reported.
4:26 PM Reno – 7:26 PM ET: Elon commented on financing going forward. Vehicles will contribute to capital needed for expanding the factory, sounds like a capital raise is also in play.
4:07 PM Reno – 7:07 PM ET: Elon sees cost of batteries falling below $100 kWh by 2020.
4:05 PM Reno – 7:05 PM ET: They are now on stage answering. We will try to bring you updates, but if not, a video will be posted shortly after.
3:40 PM Reno – 6:40 PM ET: they are running on Elon Time – so it’s a little late. But it should start soon.
3:19 PM Reno – 6:19 PM ET: Elon and JB are expected to join any minute now:
2:36 PM Reno – 5:36 PM ET: We will take a short break and come back in a few minutes for the press conference with Elon and JB. In the meantime, here are more pictures of the red Tesla Model 3 prototype in front of the factory.
2:27 PM Reno – 5:27 PM ET: The structure for the 5th section of the plant is already going up. Earlier this week, we reported on early construction work on several new sections of the factory.
2:22 PM Reno – 5:22 PM ET: The plant is full of these robots:
2:10 PM Reno – 5:10 PM ET: Here’s a quick picture dump from Seth:
1:55 PM Reno – 4:55 PM ET: The first battery module assembly line is ready. The robots, like the ones in the model (video below), are taking battery cells and placing them autonomously in modules for battery packs.
1:50 PM Reno – 4:50 PM ET: There are parts of the factory with a third story. The first battery cell assembly line is currently up there, but it is still not in operation. Tesla is still saying “later this year”.
1:35 PM Reno – 4:35 PM ET: We are not allowed to take pictures everywhere. We will sort through it and release more. Hopefully before Elon’s press conference.
12:54 PM Reno – 3:54 PM ET: This is a model of what is already going on at the Gigafactory:
12:54 PM Reno – 3:42 PM ET: Tour is starting. Here’s the Model 3 in front of the factory:
12:15 PM Reno – 3:15 PM ET: Entering the parking lot:
12:07 PM Reno – 3:07 PM ET: Seth arrived at the Gigafactory site.
11:40 AM Reno – 2:40 PM ET: Tesla asked us not to livestream the event, but we will still bring you live updates and videos will appear here fairly quickly.
11:25 AM Reno – 2:25 PM ET: Seth is leaving for the Gigafactory. The updates should start coming in within the hour.
Ride to gigafactory….isn't this pic.twitter.com/nJ2HsvccLZ — Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) July 26, 2016
11:10 AM Reno – 2:10 PM ET: Seth has his setup ready to try to bring you the event live as much as possible:
Rig for streaming 3.5 hours today at gigafactory. Backup power 20Ah. Backup mifi Verizon. Fingers crossed pic.twitter.com/mkUtWklk7U — Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) July 26, 2016
10:15 AM Reno – 1:15 PM ET: While you wait, you can check out some of Tesla’s progress on the plant with this time lapse from July 2014 to March 2016:
9:30 AM Reno – 12:30 PM ET: The post is live, but live updates are likely to start closer to the arrival at the Gigafactory in just over 2 hours.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a five-year extension of a children’s health insurance program that provides coverage to 219,000 children in Ohio, but the bill is headed toward a direct collision with a bipartisan version in the Senate.
Although the measure cleared the House by a vote of 242 to 174 Friday, all but three House Democrats opposed the measure because they argued the GOP was using children’s health to chip away at the 2010 health-care law known as Obamacare.
It now heads to the Senate where lawmakers are working on an entirely different approach to re-authorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, often called CHIP.
The House bill would pay for extending CHIP by cutting $10.5 billion from a program created by Obamacare that helps finance improvements in the public health system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now receives a large chunk of money from that program.
In addition, the bill increases Medicare premiums for the wealthiest seniors.
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Niles, who voted against the bill, assailed the proposal, charging that Republicans “recklessly let funding” for children’s health expire at the end of September “for no other reason than their own dysfunction.”
"The Republicans own this disaster, and I’m disheartened that they see the need to make children suffer in order to bail themselves out of it,” Ryan said.
Republicans Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township, Jim Jordan of Urbana, Bill Johnson of Marietta, Steve Stivers of Upper Arlington, Mike Turner of Dayton and Bob Gibbs of Lakeville supported it, while Ryan and Democrats Joyce Beatty of Jefferson Township, Marcia Fudge of Cleveland and Marcy Kaptur of Toledo opposed the measure.
Beatty complained the children's health program "has fallen prey to partisan politics, and many children and families will suffer as a result. Instead of forcing draconian cuts on community health programs that help at-risk Americans and countless working families in exchange for CHIP funding, Congress needs to focus on providing all Americans access to affordable, high-quality health care.”
With the backing of Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican Sen. Rob Portman, the Senate Finance Committee last month approved its $9 billion version that would guarantee children in Ohio keep their coverage through 2019. But the Senate bill does not cut other programs to pay for their version.
Brown said, “We shouldn’t be pitting Ohio seniors against Ohio kids. That’s why Senator Portman and I, and our colleagues on the finance committee, voted for a bipartisan bill that takes care of children and their families without hurting seniors.”
Portman last month called CHIP “vital” for Ohio, adding that the state’s Medicaid director warned that Ohio was “going to deplete our CHIP funding by the end of this calendar year” without additional money.
CHIP was created by Republicans and Democrats and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 as a way to reduce the number of low-income children without health insurance.
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GOP Rep. Jim Banks On James Comey: 'Numerous Missteps' Led To Firing
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Rep. Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, about President Trump's decision to terminate FBI Director James Comey. Banks says the president owes the American people further explanation of his decision to fire, but says he also sees good reason to replace Comey.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
For more reaction, we're joined now by Indiana Republican Congressman Jim Banks who's in Columbia City, Ind. Welcome to the program, Congressman.
JIM BANKS: It's great to be with you.
SIEGEL: You've said that you supported President Trump's decision to fire James Comey, but you said the president must explain the rationale behind this decision. Do you think he did that adequately in the letters that were released yesterday or no?
BANKS: No, not yet. But I do believe the president has a tremendous opportunity to explain his decision to the American people. In fact, I think he needs to do that very much so here in the near future. The timing of the firing is suspicious to say the least. So the president has a window of time to rise to the moment as a leader and explain his decision. I hope very much that he will do that.
SIEGEL: The timing would be less suspicious if he had said, I'm doing this because of what James Comey is doing right now with the Russia investigation or what he did last week - what he said about Huma Abedin's emails. Instead, the documentation yesterday was all about how he treated Hillary Clinton's emails in July and October. Do you accept that as the real rationale for this decision?
BANKS: What I do accept is that James Comey and how he handled the proceedings during the election last year were inadequate to fit the level of integrity and judgment that we would expect from the director of the FBI as a Republican. Even myself, I was - I cringed at the numerous missteps by the FBI director last year during the election. And since then, more reasons have piled up from inaccurate testimony before the Congress in recent days to other missteps along the way.
I believe the president has a lot - he has a lot of good reason to replace the FBI director, but the timing is suspicious with the subpoenas that were just issued. A number of questions - the American people deserve for their president to come forward and further explain the timing of this decision. It would be the right thing to do for the president.
SIEGEL: I think the subpoenas you're referring to - there are reports of subpoenas to the grand jury that spring from the FBI's investigation into Russian activities in the election campaign. Should that investigation continue? Is it important for the American people to know that whatever the FBI has done so far about what Russia was doing in 2016, it'll continue to do?
BANKS: Well, the investigation should continue, and it will continue from everything that I understand. And the FBI will continue to investigate the serious questions and allegations that were raised over the past several months about the activities that happened during the election. I have no doubt that the FBI will thoroughly investigate, as well as the Congress itself, which has that authority to do so.
A new FBI director, though, can restore the trust among the American people to the important role of the FBI and make that report - that investigation that much more significant and meaningful when it is completed. So the president has an opportunity at this time to make a good decision about who will lead the FBI forward and restore the trust in the FBI as an institution and at the same time, strengthen whatever the result might come from that investigation. It must move forward.
SIEGEL: And I'm just curious. If the president is to step forward in your view - if he ought to really be explaining his decision and the timing of this decision, what's an appropriate forum for him to do that in?
BANKS: There are many appropriate forums, whether it's a press conference at the White House. This president has yet, I believe, to address the American people in a more formal setting. He could do that in many different ways. I hope that he will rise to the moment. I'll defer to him and his circle of influence around him on the best way to do that.
But what I do hope - that he will rise to the moment and provide the American people a more thorough explanation of the timing. I think it would be the appropriate thing for him to do.
SIEGEL: Congressman Jim Banks, a Republican of Indiana, thanks so much for talking with us.
BANKS: Thank you.
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Pakistan’s floods, partition and imperialist oppression
30 August 2010
Over the past month more than a fifth of Pakistan’s territory and close to a quarter of its cropland have been engulfed in floods, creating a humanitarian crisis which UN officials describe as the greatest in that organization’s 65-year history.
Twenty million people are now said to have been affected, whether by the inundation of their homes and workplaces or the destruction of their crops and livestock. Eight million Pakistanis require emergency relief, including many of the more than one million people who have been displaced in southern Sind just in the past few days.
The official death toll is currently above 1,600, but it is universally conceded that it will rise much higher once the flood waters recede and the full extent of the destruction is revealed.
The UN and international aid agencies warn that literally millions are at risk of death from acute cholera, other water-borne diseases, and hunger, since the government-led relief effort has failed to provide clean water, food and shelter to more than a tiny fraction of those affected.
This is a calamity of monumental dimensions. Yet for the rival national bourgeoisies of Pakistan and India, who have been locked in a reactionary military and geo-political rivalry since their states’ birth as a result of the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent, it has been business as usual.
Only after the floods had been ravaging Pakistan for more than two weeks did India’s government offer Islamabad a paltry $5 million in aid as a “gesture of solidarity with the people of Pakistan.”
Pakistan then took a week to weigh the offer, citing the “sensitivities involved.” It took a telephone call from the Indian prime minister to his Pakistani counterpart and public prodding from Washington to get Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to announce that his government would accept New Delhi’s aid offer.
The diplomatic to-do over providing a spoonful of aid to Pakistan’s flooded toilers elicited little comment from the press in either India or Pakistan. The countries’ respective media have a long history of echoing and amplifying the politicians’ nationalist and communally-charged claims, blaming all manner of social and political problems on the archrival’s “hidden hand.”
The India-Pakistan rivalry and Partition are, however, very much at the root of the current tragedy.
Defying socio-economic, historical, and cultural logic, the subcontinent was divided in 1947 by India’s departing British colonial overlords and the bourgeois politicians of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League into a Muslim Pakistan and a predominantly Hindu India.
The artificial borders imposed though Partition have made it impossible to rationally manage South Asia’s internal waterways so as to provide irrigation, electrification and flood-protection for all. Indeed, water is one of the principal issues in dispute between New Delhi and Islamabad, notwithstanding the World Bank-sponsored 1960 Indus Water Treaty.
In India as in Pakistan, the ruling elite has failed to develop basic public infrastructure, preferring to squander vital resources on war and armaments, including nuclear weapons. India and Pakistan have fought three declared wars and less than a decade ago came to the brink of a fourth.
Partition is treated by the ruling elites of India and Pakistan as a “birth-pang” in the emergence of “democratic India” and a “national homeland for South Asia’s Muslims.” This only underscores their callous indifference to the masses of South Asia, whatever their ethnicity, religion, or caste.
The immediate outcome of Partition was massive communal bloodletting that resulted in the death of up to two million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims and the forced relocation of 14 million people—the largest mass migration in human history.
Partition defined and defines the “freedom” and “independence” incarnated in bourgeois India and Pakistan. Far from being an aberration, it was only the most bloody and immediately apparent consequence of the political suppression of the mass anti-imperialist movement that convulsed South Asia in the first half of the 20th century.
The Indian National Congress led by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru presented themselves as the innocent victims of a Partition purportedly orchestrated by the British and the Muslim League. But if the bourgeois leaders of the Congress betrayed their own ideal of a democratic secular India uniting all the peoples of the subcontinent, it was because they were hostile to and organically incapable of mounting a struggle to unify South Asia from below through an appeal to the common class interests of the workers and peasants of the subcontinent.
To the contrary, the growing wave of working class and peasant struggles in post-World War II India and the evident dissension within the ranks of the British Indian Army convinced the Congress leaders that they needed to get control of the colonial state forthwith to thwart social revolution.
Post-independence, the rival regimes consolidated the rule of the bourgeoisie at the expense of the masses, preventing an agrarian revolution, protecting the wealth of the princes, and suppressing worker unrest.
Six decades on, the rival bourgeoisies of India and Pakistan have proven their utter incapacity to resolve any of the burning democratic and social issues that confront the toilers of South Asia. Half of the world’s poor live in the subcontinent. In no region of the world is a greater proportion of the population malnourished. Neither the Indian or Pakistani state spends more than 5 percent of gross domestic product on education and health care.
And in keeping with the reactionary logic of Partition and the Indo-Pakistani rivalry, no region of the world is less economically integrated.
Unable to provide any progressive solution to the crisis of capitalist rule in South Asia, the Indian and Pakistani bourgeoisies have increasingly resorted to communalism, ethnic-nationalism, casteism, and religious fundamentalism to divide the masses.
Partition was and remains a mechanism for imperialist domination of the region. The Pakistani bourgeoisie quickly accepted Washington’s offer to serve as a “frontline state” in the US’s cold war confrontation with the Soviet Union. Time and again, the US has propped up military dictatorships in Pakistan, most recently that of General Pervez Musharraf. With devastating consequences for the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US partnered with Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul Haq in the 1980s to organize and arm the Islamic fundamentalist opposition to the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan.
Today, in defiance of the sentiments of its own people, the Pakistani government is playing a pivotal role in supporting the US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan.
The Indian bourgeoisie made a show of “independence” from Washington during much of the cold war. But this conflict was about nothing more than gaining greater maneuvering room and the terms of its subordinate relationship with world imperialism. Over the past decade, while the US has waged wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Indian bourgeoisie has forged a “global strategic” partnership with Washington.
During the cold war, the US helped perpetuate and manipulate the Indo-Pakistani conflict in pursuit of its own predatory interests. Recently it has sought to lessen tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. Hence its pressure on Islamabad to accept the pittance in flood relief money offered by New Delhi.
But such actions are motivated solely by the US’s current strategic calculations. It needs Pakistan’s support in Afghanistan and wants Islamabad to use troops deployed on its eastern border with India to intensify the counter-insurgency war against anti-occupation forces inside Pakistan.
Washington has spared no effort to scuttle the plans for a “peace pipeline” that would carry natural gas from Iran to Pakistan and then India, because it would undermine its campaign to economically isolate Iran. Similarly, the US ignored Pakistani warnings that the Indo-US civilian nuclear accord could trigger a nuclear arms race in South Asia, because Washington is eager to woo India as a strategic partner and counterweight to China.
Six decades of independence have demonstrated the incapacity of the Indian and Pakistani bourgeoisie to achieve the fundamental tasks of the democratic revolution—the liquidation of landlordism, the abolition of caste oppression, the separation of church and state, national unification and independence. These burning tasks will be achieved only on the basis of the perspective of Permanent Revolution, i.e., as part of an anti-capitalist struggle led by the working class and embracing all the toilers and oppressed.
In South Asia a key element in the perspective of Permanent Revolution is the fight to liquidate the 1947 Partition from below, through the establishment of the Socialist United States of South Asia.
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With the additions of Thomas Rawls and Isaiah Crowell to a position group already featuring Bilal Powell and Elijah McGuire, the Jets have put together a versatile running back room with an interesting amount of potential. Let’s dive into some of their career numbers.
(Numbers are since 2014; Isaiah Crowell’s first season and including the entire careers of Rawls and McGuire.)
Boom/Bust: Boom plays
How often do you create the big play? Let’s call a big run a 20+ yard attempt. Here is how the Jets’ group fares.
3 of the 4 check in significantly above average. The lone exception is McGuire, with only one 20+ yard run on his 88 rookie year attempts. Powell’s rate is the highest among players with at least the same amount of carries since 2014. Rawls has only 2 big runs over the last two seasons, a ghastly 1.2% rate. His big rookie year of 2015 is where the chunk runs came. He had 7 big runs that year, converting to a robust 4.7% rate that helped him lead the league in yards per carry at 5.6.
Boom/Bust: Bust plays
Let’s look at the bust rate of the Jets running backs. I’m defining that as a run for 2 yards or less that does not result in a first down.
All of the Jets backs struggle to avoid stuffs. McGuire had a particularly very rough time avoiding stuffs in his rookie year. Rawls was even worse in 2017 at 56.9%. Crowell owns the highest stuff rate among the top 25 backs in carries since 2014.
Ball Security
Let’s look at overall ball security, including touches in the passing game. We’re going to look at all fumbles, not only the ones that are lost.
The ball security numbers are very promising. Rawls only has two career fumbles with no more than one in any given season. Crowell only has 3 fumbles since 2015; his 0.44% rate in that time is the lowest among backs with at least 500 touches. McGuire is the exception, as his 2 fumbles in limited playing time gives him an inflated rate. Hopefully for him, that is just an example of small sample size inflation and not a representation of his true fumble tendency. If upheld, that is not an acceptable rate.
Power Conversion
Is the player converting in power situations? Let’s look and 3rd and 4th down conversions with 2 yards or fewer to go.
All four backs check in below average in converting the defined situation. McGuire only got 3 of those attempts in all of 2017. Bilal Powell only converted 4 of 8. In addition, Matt Forte went 0 for 1 - is lack of success in this category on the O-Line more so than the backs? It’s possible.
Receiving Yards Per Target
Elijah McGuire showed a lot of promise as a receiver out of the backfield in his limited opportunities as a rookie. McGuire leads the crew with a 6.8 yards per target rate, which ranked 18th among the 66 RBs with at least 25 targets in 2017. McGuire’s 38.4% target/first down ratio placed him 3rd among that same group in 2017.
Powell has been wildly inconsistent with his year-to-year receiving production. In both 2015 and 2016, he compiled 388 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns, before plummeting to 170 yards and no touchdowns in 2017 as his target total was cut in half from 74 to 33. His yards per target has never been extraordinary, ranging from 6.16 in 2015 to 5.15 in 2017. This is largely due to a very low career yards per reception rate of 7.5, which might be the fault of usage rather than player effectiveness.
Crowell only has one career receiving touchdown and a career average of only 2.0 targets per game. That average has risen to 3.0 over the past two seasons, but in 2017 his 4.33 yards per target was fifth worst among RBs with 25+ targets. Rawls has very little career receiving work, with only 31 career catches on 41 targets for 266 yards and one touchdown. | {
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbitzen Ruchama Shain A”H, she was 98-years-old.
Rebbitzen Shain was the author of a world famous book “All For The Boss”, among other books that she authored as well. She was the daughter of Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman ZATZAL, a Torah pioneer in America.
As a daughter of Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman – known as “All for the Boss” for the book written about him – Rebbetzin Shain, from a young age, was imbued with strong hashkafos and chashivus for Torah and lomdei Torah. She grew up in a home that was literally open to all Yidden who needed a warm meal, a comfortable bed, or a listening ear. These ideals stayed with her for her entire life, as she continued the legacy of her unforgettable father by continuing in his path of Torah and gemillus chassodim.
Rebbitzen Shain was living with her son, the Rosh Yeshiva in Adelphia for the past 12 years, and for the past year in an assisted living center in Lakewood. prior to that she lived two floors below her brother-in-law, Hagon HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg ZATZAL, in Mattersdorf, Jerusalem. (Her sister was Rebbetzin Basha (Bessie) Scheinberg A”H).
The Levaya will be held on Sunday in Lakewood at Tiferes Bais Taakov, 613 Oak Street, at 11:00 am. The Kevura will be in Eretz Yisroel.
Boruch Dayan Emmes… | {
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Talking about arrest of journalists in Uttar Pradesh, Asaduddin Owaisi said it was misuse of power.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party should answer why its ministers in the previous Jammu and Kashmir government attended a rally in support of the accused in the Kathua case.
"BJP needs to answer as to why their ministers came out in support of those accused," he told reporters in Hyderabad. He claimed ministers belonging to the BJP (in the erstwhile BJP-Peoples Democratic Party coalition) attended a rally in support of the accused.
Replying to queries on the verdict in the case, he said "justice should be done whichever religion the accused belongs to".
He cited incidents of offences against girls and women at Madhya Pradesh's Indore, Bihar's Gaya and Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur and said justice should be done.
According to him, his party had condemned such incidents whichever religion the accused belonged to.
Six of the seven accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua were convicted by a court at Pathankot on Monday.
Talking about arrest of journalists in Uttar Pradesh, he said it was misuse of power.
"Why do you arrest a journalist? What for? He is doing his job. Just because, Yogi Adityanath (Chief Minister) does not like it, then he uses his police force. He is facing a hate case against him. This clearly shows that the UP government, BJP does not believe in independent journalism. It is attack on journalism," he said.
Asked if Muslims "saved" Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, he said the fact is that Mr Gandhi lost in Amethi and won in the Kerala constituency.
It is also true that nearly 45 per cent of the electorate in Wayanad are Muslims, he said.
Asked what he meant by the comments, Mr Owaisi said data of a survey on Lok Sabha elections show that Congress and secular parties got the highest votes from Muslim minorities in the name of secularism.
According to the data, the alliance in Uttar Pradesh secured 73 per cent of Muslim vote, he said, apparently referring to the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party tie-up.
"I am not getting Muslim vote. You are getting Muslim vote. I am only being seen for namesake.... We are saying that it is high time for Muslim community to think where their vote is going. Had regional parties not been there in India, especially in the south, BJP would have swept entire India," he said.
According to him, the data shows that Hindu vote to BJP grew from 37 per cent in 2014 to 44 per cent this time, while Muslim vote is the same.
Mr Owaisi wished that violence ends in West Bengal and peace prevails in the state and elsewhere. | {
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Everyman, an independent network of boutique cinemas has opened its latest five-screen venue in Mermaid Quay in the heart of Cardiff Bay.
The new venue features a bar and lounge space and five screens featuring Everyman’s signature comfy sofa seating and a menu featuring Spielburgers, hand rolled pizzas, sundaes and cocktails – all of which can be delivered to your seats before the film starts.
There is something for everyone at Everyman, with a delicious food and drink offering.
They will be showing a varied selection of mainstream, independent and classic films, special events, launches and a diverse calendar of live satellite broadcasts.
Matt Spence, Venue Manager at Everyman Cardiff said: “I am so thrilled to finally be welcoming the people of Cardiff to Everyman. Our team can’t wait to show you all our unique brand of venue and experience.”
Crispin Lilly, CEO of Everyman Cinemas said: “We’re so proud to finally open our first Welsh venue in the heart of Cardiff Bay.
“I know the team are all set to welcome customers over Christmas with the massive line up of films and entertainment coming up.
“But our focus is on every other detail around the films too, from fabulous customer service to our sofa seating and great food and drink menu, Everyman Cardiff will be a discerning social space for people to indulge in a night out at the cinema.
“We’re looking forward to entertaining everyone, from the community in and around Mermaid Quay to the rest of the city.” | {
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In the last year, more than $100 million in cash shoved into suitcases has been transported from St. Paul International Airport to the Middle East and beyond in what many believe to be the worst welfare scam in Minnesota history.
Investigators believe Minnesota taxpayer money is being funneled to terrorists through this elaborate welfare scam.
Fox 9 even has video footage of kickbacks being given to middlemen in envelopes.
Fox 9 TV uncovered this scam and started tracking the mysterious new trend–carry-on luggage shoved with cash leaving St. Paul International Airport headed to the Middle East.
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In one such incident, a man shoved $1 million cash into one suitcase; Fox 9 tracked over $100 million in one year with the same travel pattern.
Even worse, this money is coming from welfare fraud from the Somali community in Minnesota and the scam is known to authorities.
One investigator says the money is ending up in the hands of al-Shabaab terrorists in the Hawala region of Somalia.
Fox 9 reported:
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on. On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms. Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage. The national, go-to expert on what is behind these mysterious money transfers is Glen Kerns. “What we were interested in is where it was going,” Kerns said. He is a former Seattle police detective who spent 15 years on the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, until his retirement. “It’s an outright crime, it’s unbelievable,” he said. Kerns tracked millions of dollars in cash that was leaving on flights from Seattle. It was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system. Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds to help impoverished relatives back home. Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
It’s all about welfare fraud through a daycare scam, says the investigator.
Ten daycares are under active investigation at this time and according to public records, most are owned by Somali immigrants.
One Somali immigrant plead guilty to welfare fraud after being sworn in as a member of the city of Hopkins Park Board, Fox reported.
“I will support the constitution of the United States,” Fozia Ali said. As she was taking her oath of office, she was also under investigation for wire fraud and theft of public money. “So help me God,” she said during the ceremony.
A little background on the welfare fraud:
The state would pay a daycare’s bill and within hours of the money showing up in the business’s bank account, funds were being wired to the United Arab Emirates. Those wire transfers stopped after a few centers were busted. Which brings us back to those mysterious suitcases at Minneapolis-St. Paul International. In 2015, investigators documented $14 million in carry on cash. By 2016, it had mushroomed to $84 million. Then last year, $100 million. A trend all too familiar to former terrorism investigator Glen Kerns. Fox 9 asked him how likely it is that some of the money is going towards terrorism? “I say absolutely, our sources tell us that. Good sources, from the community leaders,” he said. “My personal opinion is we need a nationwide task force to clamp down on this type of fraud.”
More on this multi-million dollar welfare scam from Fox 9:
Fox News’ Shannon Bream also reported on this welfare scam: | {
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Several former Nebraska football players say that a now-convicted financial advisor and stockbroker gave them illegal benefits while they were in school and then later stole money from them.
Several former Nebraska football players say that a now-convicted financial advisor and stockbroker gave them illegal benefits while they were in school and then later stole money from them, reports Julie Steinberg of TheWall Street Journal.
Steve Octavien, who played for the Huskers from 2005 to 2007, says that Mary Wong, who resided in Omaha, paid his rent, cellphone bills, car insurance and other expenses while he was in school.
The NCAA defines extra benefits as “any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution’s athletic interests (including fans) to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete’s relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by the NCAA legislation.”
A Nebraska spokeswoman says the school will take action if warranted if they find that any current or former student-athlete broke NCAA rules.
Octavien, who played for the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys, says he handed over his $80,000 signing bonus in 2008 when he entered the NFL. He says he met Wong three years earlier and was in financial need because his scholarship didn’t cover all of his living expenses.
Wong also advised other NFL players such as Michael Vick. She pleaded guilty in 2010 to securities fraud, was sentenced to a 63-month in prison and ordered pay more than $3 million in restitution.
Daniel Bullocks, who played for Nebraska from 2001 to 2005, says financial advisers offered him gifts and cash payments of $5,000 while he was in school, often showing up out of the blue. He says he never took anything from anyone while enrolled in school.
“They would just know where the guys hang out,” Bullocks said.
After Bullocks left school, he, his twin brother and another Nebraska player Demorrio Williams formed a limited-liability investment company, Williams & Bullocks LLC, with Wong and gave her power of attorney. The FBI later told Bullocks that Wong used the power of attorney to transfer to her account instead of investing it in real estate.
Another Nebraska player Marlon Lucky, who played running back at the school from 2005 to 2009, says he and Wong flew to Atlanta on a private jet for spring break, bought him a suit during the trip and gave him $800, money he spent on Christmas presents for relatives.
"It was obvious she wanted to take me on as a client." Lucky said. “I figured [she] was kind of grooming me.”
Octavien, who is now married with a newborn daughter, says he doesn’t trust anyone with his money and will read the fine print on a contract several times.
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Fox News Host Geraldo Rivera tore into fellow Fox News personality Eric Bolling Monday over Bolling’s recent “slanderous” comments about whether the post-Benghazi investigations would be different if first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama had been killed in the attack.
Bolling’s original comment came Friday, when he asked on his Fox show if “If it was Malia or Sasha or if it was Chelsea Clinton in Benghazi pinned down with mortars coming in, and there’s a five hour difference between when they first learned—when the email came out that said Benghazi under fire—or four hour difference between when Obama met with Panetta and Biden—between then and the time that one of those precious children were injured or killed, don’t you think we’d be asking different questions right now?”
Rivera lashed out at Bolling over the comments Monday, which he called “outrageous, slanderous.”
RIVERA: I think it is unbelievable that you went that far. BOLLING: Why? RIVERA: Because to bring a man’s daughters in—it just continues a slanderous angle that helps nobody. I got tears in my eyes because I love you.
Bolling’s remarks are the latest in a series of attacks from right-wing media personalities in recent months. Earlier this month, Fox’s Andrea Tantaros wondered whether Obama’s elder daughter, Malia, had plans to go on birth control on her radio show. After insisting she doesn’t talk about the first daughters, Tantaros said, “I’m just wondering, at 15-years-old, is the Obama daughter, Malia, going to go on birth control? Are they gonna put her on birth control? Because he’s very concerned with the contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the mouths of everybody else’s 15-year-old daughter.”
In March, Iowa Congressman Steve King joined the right-wing chorus of complaints over Sasha and Malia’s spring break trip, saying their visit to an “expensive” destination was the wrong image to be coming out of the White House.
The NRA kicked off 2013 with an ad that referenced the Obama daughters, attempting to peg the president not wanting armed guards in every school in the country despite his daughters enjoying secret service protection.
As far back as 2010, right-wing pundits including Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh mocked then 11-year-old Malia Obama for asking the president about the Gulf oil spill. Beck eventually apologized. Limbaugh didn’t. | {
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On n’a jamais su très bien qui avait assuré en premier que « les promesses de campagne n’engagent que ceux qui les croient ». En revanche, on saura désormais que l’expression s’applique au macronisme autant qu’à l’ancien monde. Ce vendredi 2 mars, la ministre du Travail Muriel Pénicaud enterre dans Le Parisien les promesses de campagne d’Emmanuel Macron sur le droit au « chômage pour tous », qu’il concerne les indépendants ou les démissionnaires. Et ce, en se donnant l'air de les mettre en œuvre.
Jadis, c’est-à-dire pas plus tard qu'en janvier 2017, pendant la campagne présidentielle, le futur vainqueur promettait pourtant que, lui président, l’assurance chômage universelle couvrirait « tous les actifs ». En ces temps lointains, Emmanuel Macron expliquait – nouveau monde oblige – que « la protection ne peut plus dépendre du statut comme dans le monde d’hier ». Cette proposition avait nourri le portrait d’un homme politique moderne, déterminé à adapter les règles du jeu aux mutations de la société.
Voici ce qu’il déclarait alors, comme le reproduit encore aujourd'hui le site d'En Marche : « Nous mettrons en place une assurance-chômage pour tous, parce que dans un monde qui se transforme, le chômage ne peut plus être un risque contre lequel certains se couvrent à titre individuel, et d’autres par des garanties collectives (…) L’assurance-chômage universelle couvrira tous les actifs – salariés, artisans, commerçants indépendants, entrepreneurs, professions libérales, agriculteurs – et facilitera les transitions d’un statut à un autre ».
L’assurance-chômage universelle couvrira tous les actifs – salariés, artisans, commerçants indépendants, entrepreneurs, professions libérales, agriculteurs. Emmanuel Macron promesse de campagne
Pour rappel, l’assurance chômage actuelle des salariés prévoit une indemnisation des demandeurs d’emploi pendant deux ans, d'un montant calculé en fonction de leurs derniers revenus. Dans la bouche de Muriel Pénicaud, ces droits deviennent, pour les futurs nouveaux bénéficiaires… une indemnité forfaitaire de 800 euros par mois durant six mois : « En cas d’échec ou d’accident de parcours, l’entrepreneur doit avoir un filet de sécurité, le temps de se retourner. Nous allons mettre en place un droit de 800 € par mois pendant six mois. Il sera destiné aux indépendants qui sont en liquidation judiciaire et qui avaient un bénéfice annuel autour de 10.000 € ». Pas vraiment la même limonade…
Les travailleurs indépendants limités à une alloc forfaitaire durant 6 mois
Une réforme d'autant moins révolutionnaire que les indépendants, commerçants, artisans et agriculteurs peuvent aujourd'hui déjà toucher le RSA quand ils se retrouvent sur la paille. Une allocation de 545 euros pour une personne seule leur est attribuée, qui se monte à 818 euros pour un couple ou une personne seule avec un enfant, et 981 euros pour une personne avec deux enfants. Précision notable : le RSA, contrairement à la future « indemnité Pénicaud », n’est pas soumis à une limitation de durée mais seulement à un plafond de ressource de 1,04 Smic par foyer. Sur ce dernier point, Muriel Pénicaud ne s'est pas montré très claire quant à un éventuel plafond donné à son alloc : que se passera-t-il pour un agriculteur dont le bénéfice annuel dépassait les 10.000 euros ?
"Tous les cinq ans, chacun y aura droit", vraiment ?
Concernant les démissionnaires, Emmanuel Macron avait fait la promesse fracassante qu’ils pourraient désormais toucher le chômage. C’était à Paris, lors de son meeting de la Porte de Versailles, le 10 décembre 2016 : « Nous ouvrirons les droits à l'assurance-chômage aux salariés qui démissionnent. Tous les cinq ans, chacun y aura droit, s’il choisit de démissionner pour changer d’activité ou développer son propre projet professionnel ». Encore une fois, cette proposition décoiffante avait permis au futur Président de la République de se poser en homme bien de son temps, conscient des mutations du monde du travail et en responsable politique progressiste, soucieux d’accorder des droits nouveaux aux salariés.
Sauf que les choses ne seront pas aussi simples. Si le gouvernement promet que la durée d’activité de cinq ans sera bien conservée comme seuil (alors que les partenaires sociaux se sont accordé sur sept ans), « l’existence d’un projet professionnel sera une condition vérifiée au préalable », explique Muriel Pénicaud. Qu’on ne puisse démissionner pour partir à la pêche, cela s’entend. Le sérieux du projet professionnel sera donc passé au crible d’une commission. Mais c’est là que ce ça se corse… Selon Le Monde, cette instance accordera d’abord le chômage pour six mois puis, s’il est jugé que les efforts déployés pour le projet du demandeur sont suffisants, pour dix-huit mois supplémentaires. Sur quelles bases ? Dans leur accord trouvé le 22 février dernier, les partenaires sociaux ont souhaité que cette reconversion réponde « aux besoins du marché du travail », rapporte Le Canard enchaîné. De quoi mettre de côté un certain nombre de projets.
Une chose paraît entendue, c’est que la commission de contrôle serrera la vis. Selon la ministre, les filtres aboutiront en effet à ce qu’« entre 20.000 et 30.000 personnes » bénéficient du dispositif tous les ans. Soit à peine 3% des démissionnaires…
La promesse de durcir les contrôles, elle, sera bien tenue
Dans le même temps, Muriel Pénicaud annonce le report à 2019 de la troisième promesse d'Emmanuel Macron dans le domaine : un « bonus-malus » pour pénaliser les contrats précaires. « Nous créerons un bonus-malus sur l'assurance-chômage. Les employeurs qui entretiennent la précarité en recourant exagérément aux contrats courts paieront plus de charges, ceux qui créent des emplois stables en paieront moins », expliquait le candidat le 2 mars 2017. Aujourd'hui, le gouvernement souhaite que les branches professionnelles prévoient elles-mêmes les règles. La loi n’interviendra qu’en dernier recours, dans un an.
Si les nouveaux droits accordés aux travailleurs ont été rabotés par rapport aux promesses de campagne, leur corollaire, à savoir le durcissement des contrôles à Pôle Emploi, est toujours bel et bien prévu. « Nous allons donc tripler les équipes de contrôle de Pôle emploi : elles vont passer de 200 à 600 agents d’ici à la fin de l’année », annonce Muriel Pénicaud au Parisien. Le principe de la réduction des allocations chômage en cas de refus de refus de deux « offres raisonnables d’emploi » est lui aussi a priori maintenu. La ministre veut simplement, au préalable, « définir plus précisément ce qu’est une offre raisonnable d’emploi ». Décidément, le mantra macroniste « on fait ce qu’on a dit » s'applique plus dans un sens que dans l'autre… | {
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Ever since people got all freaked out about cutting up babies' penises back in the '70s, the rate of male circumcision in America has steadily declined—dropping from 79% a few decades ago to our current 55%. And according to a new health study from Johns Hopkins University, all those intact ding-dongs flopping around our nation might constitute a significant drain on the health care system, costing at least $2 billion over the past 20 years.
Which makes sense—because you know what money is made out of, right? Yes. Foreskins.
Wait. No.
It's because, say the pro-circumcision folks, the folds and crevices of the uncircumcised penis are like a warm, moist Habitrail for pesky bacteria and viruses, putting men (and their partners) at greater risk of sexually transmitted infections. But is decreasing one's risk of disease (not a guarantee, just a risk, BTW) really worth traumatizing baby boys and stigmatizing uncircumcised men? But is circumcision even traumatic at all? Has anyone asked a baby? This is the eternal circumcision debate.
Personally, I don't give a care what kind of a penis any grown man currently has, because I am not in the business of telling people what to do with their genitals, or judging whether anyone's genitals are "right" or "wrong." That said, if I had a boy-baby, I think I would probably circumcise him (not, like, with my bare hands, but you know), because I can't imagine one unremembered trauma could be more painful than a lifetime of a nasty, unfair, pervasive stigma. But that's just me.
And here's where the Johns Hopkins researchers came down:
Research has found that circumcision reduces the number of infant urinary tract infections. Men who are uncircumcised are more at-risk for cancer-causing HPV, HIV, herpes, bacterial vaginitis and other sexually transmitted diseases, studies have found. The Hopkins researchers, who published their results online in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, say the cost to treat these long-term health problems is putting extra financial strain on the medical system. The majority of the costs are in the treatment of HIV, the study found. ...The researchers said that if male circumcision rates dropped to those in Europe, where 10 percent of male babies get the procedure, there would be a 12 percent increase in men infected with HIV and 29 percent in those who contract HPV. A European rate of circumcision in the United States could add $4.4 billion in avoidable medical costs in the next decade, the Hopkins study found.
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And the counterpoint:
"People forget it is a child's penis you are operating on."
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You don't have to memorize anything "Write word for word the Constitution"
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Alpha Omega is going to release the Emilia ( エミリア ) non-scale PVC figure from the light novel/manga/anime “Re:Zero” ( Re：ゼロから始める異世界生活, Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu). Will be released in late September 2019. Around 260mm tall, 15,660 yen (taxed in). MegaTrea Shop, Premium Bandai, and Amiami exclusive.
For those of you who want to get this Emilia figure, you can pre-order it in the following stores before late February 2019 with your proxy service. | {
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As Bloodborne and The Order Approach, GameStop Offers $125 to Buy a PS4 for Your Old PS3 or Xbox 360
As Bloodborne and The Order Approach, GameStop Offers $125 to Buy a PS4 for Your Old PS3 or Xbox 360
Giuseppe Nelva February 10, 2015 2:51 PM EST
The PS4 is soon going to receive a couple of massively anticipated exclusives: The Order: 1886 and Bloodborne, in a rather powerful one-two, and GameStop is jumping on the bandwagon with a new offer, promising $125 trade-in value for old PS3 or an Xbox 360 consoles, to be granted to anyone who wants to buy a PS4, as announced in a press release.
The Sony PlayStation 4 has been available for just over a year, and gamers everywhere have fallen in love with its wide range of games, spectacular visuals, and social features. The console continues to evolve and the future is looking bright as major releases such as The Order 1886 and Bloodborne are crossing over the horizon for release. Now is the time to jump on board the PS4, not just for the upcoming games, but also because GameStop is offering a great deal. Customers that trade in a PS3(120GB or greater) or an Xbox 360(250GB or greater) toward the purchase of a new PS4 will receive $125 in credit toward their purchase. But hurry, this offer ends on March 1!
While I’m philosophically against trading in my older consoles (I love to keep them nice and shiny, what can I say. I just changed the thermal paste on the chips of my old and fat day one PS3), it’s doubtless that the offer is definitely interesting for those looking into making the jump to the new generation.
Will The Order: 1886 and Bloodborne push Sony’s console to even greater success? We’ll have to wait and see, but they most probably won’t hurt. | {
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Accessories
Sometimes using just your smartphone won’t take you where you want to be creatively. You might want to have a little extra fun with lenses or tripods.
Lenses
I started off with lenses. I mainly wanted to try out macro photography and see what I could do with a wide angle.
Adapting a lens to a smartphone is very easy. Manufacturers brought plenty of solutions to the market: special cases, clip-on lenses, etc. I prefer clip-on lenses, as they tend to be easier to switch around and will adapt to any phone.
The very first pack of lenses I got were the Mpow one. This kit contains a Macro lens, a Fisheye lens and a Wide Angle lens, all packed in a little pouch. They adapt very well on my smartphone even with a case on. I can have them in my handbag and pop them out whenever I need.
Later this year, I also got another pack of lens with more options. At first I was really searching for a CPL filter and a ND filter for smartphone, and since this other pack had many options for cheap, I got it.
ND filters and CPL are very useful for long exposure photography and for dealing with reflective surfaces. They really helped me up my game and get those gorgeous sea shots!
Tripods
If you want to try out long exposure photography with your smartphone, or simply filming a recipe in the making, you will need a tripod.
The first tripod I got was a classic one, that could be used both for smartphones or DSLR. I wanted a tripod I could take around with me, especially in a small cabin luggage. So i had to be light, reliable and 50 cm long once folded. And it had to be a small investment because I had no idea what to do with it yet!
So the first one I got was an Amazon Basics one. An ultralight 127 cm tripod, pretty cheap, that I could take around with me.
I tried out filming and photography from high up, but the feet of the tripod were always getting in the field. So I found a… selfie stick! One I could adapt on the tripod, and thus film from high up with my smartphone.
It’s not the most efficient way of doing, nor the most reliable, but it works out for what I need to do.
I soon found this tripod was a too big to be carried around for me. I could take it on vacation, but it was still too big to be left in my handbag. So I tried another out, the Manfrotto pocket tripod. This one is so small it fits in every handbag I own.
This very small tripod is very useful on plane surfaces. I use it when I use a table or the floor as a support. Unfortunately, it is not very steady on other surfaces, and the angle setting is a bit light for me.
The last one I acquired is the one I use the most today, as it is small enough to fit in my handbag, small,light, and with flexible feet. That way, I can make it hold op to anything and use it as a support for my smartphone.
Battery
Taking lots of pictures requires battery and, let’s face it, our smartphones are not always good at that. I have one external battery I always take with me. It’s an Aukey 20 000 mAh Battery with Quick Charge. It has never let me down and charges my phone in no time!
Apps & Softwares
I’m a bit of a beginner when it comes to editing. But I’m getting better at it and learning new techniques each day. On my smartphone, I use:
Google Photos for storage and synchronization
for storage and synchronization Lightromm CC for quick editing
for quick editing Snapseed for editing too
for editing too Golden Hour , that send me a notification before golden hour where I am each day
, that send me a notification before golden hour where I am each day Instagram , of course
, of course Boomerang and Layout from Instagram when I want to have some fun
and from Instagram when I want to have some fun Plann to organize my Instagram feed (more on that in another article)
to organize my Instagram feed (more on that in another article) Focalmark to find the right hashtags to use on Instagram
to find the right hashtags to use on Instagram Followers Assistant to follow my followers count
As for softwares, I use:
Photoshop to correct photos and do montages
to correct photos and do montages Lightroom to edit my photos
Tutorials
When you start getting into mobile photography, you sometimes need inspiration or help with learning new filming, photo or editing techniques. My go to place for that is YouTube.
Peter McKinnon is great at teaching photography skills and has tons of videos for both mobile photography and editing.
This channel if more about shooting better and travelling. Great tutorials here too.
Basically, each time I need help with something, I go to YouTube. Someone there has probably done a tutorial on what you are struggling with. ;) | {
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Not five minutes into the TV series Game of Thrones, we were treated to the charming image of an adorable, cherub-faced young girl with big blue eyes…impaled to a tree…who turned out to be a zombie. Since then, we’ve witnessed a number of truly shocking scenes on HBO’s ultraviolent show. Talisa Stark, eight months pregnant, being knifed in the belly during the Red Wedding; Khal Drogo ripping the tongue out of Mago’s head; Joffrey forcing his betrothed, Sansa, to gaze at the decapitated head of her father, Ned Stark, mounted on a spike; the castration of Theon Greyjoy; and even the death of a newborn baby—in a whorehouse.
But, as far as sheer quantity of taboo-breaking goes, Sunday night’s episode may have boasted the most disturbing sequence in Game of Thrones history. In fact, when you put it in context, it may be the most screwed up sex scene ever broadcast on television.
On the third episode of Season 4, “Breaker of Chains,” Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) rapes his sister, Cersei (Lena Headey), over the altar of their dead son, Joffrey Baratheon.
“It is fucked up,” Coster-Waldau tells The Daily Beast. “It doesn’t get any darker than that, does it?”
The tension had been building between the two incestuous lovers for quite some time. Jaime “Kingslayer” Lannister had, after a long incarceration, returned to King’s Landing with one hand. He’s no longer the rakish, swashbuckling stud of yore, and his sister-lover, Cersei, is far from impressed by the new Jaime. “You took too long,” she says, rebuffing him. Then came the mysterious poisoning death of their secret son, Joffrey, which forces the two parents together once more, albeit while grieving.
So they find themselves situated in the Great Sept of King’s Landing, gazing upon the “Mother’s Altar” of Joffrey. They listen to their shrewd father, Tywin Lannister, smear their dead son in front of his corpse.
“Your brother was not a wise king…Your brother was not a good king,” Tywin tells young Tommen Baratheon, the next in line to the throne. “If he had been, perhaps he’d still be alive.”The two walk off, and Jaime asks for a moment alone in the place of worship with Cersei, as they stare in disbelief at the body of their dead son.
“Avenge him… avenge our son,” shrieks Cersei. “Kill Tyrion.”
“Tyrion’s my brother…our brother,” Jaime replies. “There will be a trial to get to the truth of what happened.”
“Please, Jaime, you have to…he’s our son…our baby boy.”
Jaime embraces Cersei and the two begin to kiss. Then, Cersei catches sight of his golden hand, and recoils.
“There’s a moment in the scene where the hand comes up and she has this face of disgust, and Jaime says, Why have the Gods made me love a hateful woman?” says Coster-Waldau. “He wants her, and wants everything to go back to the way it was. But there’s no way back.”
And then Jaime attacks Cersei, ripping her dress. She yells, “Jaime, not here…please…stop it!” Her objections fall on deaf ears, and he throws her first against the altar of their dead son, and then to the ground beside it.
“To understand the psychology behind it, and why he goes as far as he does, was really difficult,” says Coster-Waldau. “To me it became, When does physical desire take over? It’s one of those things where he’s been holding it back for so long, and then out of anger he grabs her, and instinct takes over, and he lets loose. He says, I don’t care. He wants to not care. He has to connect to her, and he knows this is the most fucked up way for it to happen, but in that moment, he knows it’s all he can do. It’s an act of powerlessness.”
Indeed, after Cersei yells, “Stop…it’s not right!” Jaime mutters back, “I don’t care,” as he thrusts away at his sister next to the body of their dead son. The last image we see is her hand grabbing Joffrey’s altar sash, as she yells, “Stop!”“It was tough to shoot, as well,” says Coster-Waldau. “There is significance in that scene, and it comes straight from the books—it’s George R.R. Martin’s mind at play. It took me awhile to wrap my head around it, because I think that, for some people, it’s just going to look like rape. The intention is that it’s not just that; it’s about two people who’ve had this connection for so many years, and much of it is physical, and much of it has had to be kept secret, and this is almost the last thing left now. It’s him trying to force her back and make him whole again because of his stupid hand.”
The scene plays out differently than the source material, A Storm of Swords—author George R.R. Martin’s third novel in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, upon which Game of Thrones is based. In the novel, the sex scene between Jaime and Cersei is more consensual. But here, it seems anything but.So is it rape?“Yes, and no,” says Coster-Waldau. “There are moments where she gives in, and moments where she pushes him away. But it’s not pretty.”
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The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has rejected the development of a coalmine near Mudgee because of significant concerns about environmental impacts, including on climate change, and the costs to future generations.
On Wednesday the commission said it had refused development approval for Kepco’s proposal for an open-cut and underground coalmine in the Bylong valley that would extract up to 120m tonnes of coal over 25 years for export.
In a statement of reasons that referred to February’s historic ruling on the Rocky Hill coalmine, the commission said the developer had not done enough to minimise greenhouse gas emissions associated with the project.
It said the long-term environmental effects on groundwater, agriculture and heritage were also unacceptable.
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In a step welcomed by environment groups, the commission said the distribution of costs and benefits of the mine was “temporally inequitable” because younger generations would carry the environmental, agricultural and heritage costs while the economic benefits would flow to current generations.
For this reason, the commission said the mine was “not in the public interest”.
“Kepco is disappointed in the decision and we are reviewing the statement of reasons for the decision,” a spokesperson said.
George Woods, from the Lock the Gate Alliance, said: “In a week when school children are preparing to strike from school for their future, we warmly welcome the Independent Planning Commission’s recognition that this coalmine would be contrary to the principle of intergenerational equity.
“It was the wrong place for a coalmine, and this is the wrong time for New South Wales to be opening up new areas for coal exploitation as the world shifts away from coal in a bid to halt global warming.”
The Bylong Valley becomes the second case where greenhouse gas emissions have been cited as a factor in the rejection of a proposal for a fossil fuel project.
In February the land and environment court in NSW ruled that the Rocky Hill coalmine near Gloucester should not go ahead in part because of the impact it would have on global climate change.
David Morris is the chief executive of the Environmental Defenders Office of NSW, which represented Groundswell Gloucester in that case.
It also represented the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance in public hearings of the Independent Planning Commission last year and made subsequent representations to the commission after the Rocky Hill ruling.
Morris said the commission’s decision to reject the Bylong Valley mine was “enormous”.
“It looks like they endorse the approach taken by chief justice Preston in Rocky Hill,” he said.
“They agree with Preston that the local contribution of projects in NSW have an impact on global climate change.”
He said the commission also appeared to have rejected the argument made by coal proponents that if a project did not go ahead it would just be replaced by a dirtier project elsewhere.
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In a statement, the commission said while its assessment found the mine’s predicted air quality, biodiversity, noise, subsidence and visual impacts were acceptable or could be mitigated, “it raised significant concern about other longer-lasting environmental impacts”.
“The commission acknowledged the anticipated economic and social benefits to NSW during the life of the mine – including the creation of hundreds of jobs and the payment of royalties totalling up to $290m,” it said.
“However, it found the environmental impacts, particularly on groundwater and productive agricultural land, would last long after the mine is decommissioned.
“The project is not in the public interest because it is contrary to the principles of [ecologically sustainable development] – namely intergenerational equity – because the predicted economic benefits would accrue to the present generation but the long-term environmental, heritage and agricultural costs will be borne by the future generations.” | {
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The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document’s hidden meaning.
Named after Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who procured the manuscript in 1912, the document is written in an unknown script that encodes an unknown language—a double-whammy of unknowns that has, until this point, been impossible to interpret. The Voynich manuscript contains hundreds of fragile pages, some missing, with hand-written text going from left to right. Most pages are adorned with illustrations of diagrams, including plants, nude figures, and astronomical symbols. But as for the meaning of the text—nothing. No clue.
But not for want of trying. The manuscript is considered the world’s most important cipher, one scrutinized by cryptographers, both professional and amateurs, for decades. It was even analyzed by codebreakers during the Second World War, but even they had no luck. Various theories about the code have been tossed around over the years, including that it was created using semi-random encryption schemes; anagrams; or writing systems in which vowels have been removed. Some have even suggested the document is an elaborate hoax.
The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
For Greg Kondrak, an expert in natural language processing at the University of Alberta, this seemed a perfect task for artificial intelligence. With the help of his grad student Bradley Hauer, the computer scientists have taken a big step in cracking the code, discovering that the text is written in what appears to be the Hebrew language, and with letters arranged in a fixed pattern. To be fair, the researchers still don’t know the meaning of the Voynich manuscript, but the stage is now set for other experts to join the investigation.
The first step was to figure out the language of the ciphered text. To that end, an AI studied the text of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” as it was written in 380 different languages, looking for patterns. Following this training, the AI analyzed the Voynich gibberish, concluding with a high rate of certainty that the text was written in encoded Hebrew. Kondrak and Hauer were taken aback, as they went into the project thinking it was formed from Arabic.
“That was surprising,” said Kondrak in a statement. “And just saying ‘this is Hebrew’ is the first step. The next step is how do we decipher it.”
A clip of the manuscript. (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
For the second step, the researchers entertained a hypothesis proposed by previous researchers—that the script was created with alphagrams, that is, words in which text has been replaced by an alphabetically ordered anagram (For example, an alphagram of GIZMODO would read DGIMOOZ). Armed with the knowledge that text was originally coded from Hebrew, the researchers devised an algorithm that could take these anagrams and create real Hebrew words.
“It turned out that over 80 percent of the words were in a Hebrew dictionary, but we didn’t know if they made sense together,” said Kondrak.
For the final step, the researchers deciperhered the opening phrase of the manuscript, and presented it to colleague Moshe Koppel, a computer scientist and native Hebrew speaker. Koppel said it didn’t form a coherent sentence in Hebrew.
“She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.”
“However, after making a couple of spelling corrections, Google Translate [was] able to convert it into passable English: ‘She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people,’” wrote the researchers in the study, which now appears in Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics.
It’s a really weird way to open up a 240-page manuscript, but the phrase actually makes some sense. Importantly, the researchers aren’t saying they’ve deciphered the entire Voynich manuscript. Rather, they’ve identified the language of origin (Hebrew), and a coding scheme in which letters have been arranged in a particular order (alphagram). Kondrak says the full meaning of the text won’t be known until historians of ancient Hebrew have a chance to study the deciphered text.
Excitingly, the team is planning to apply the new algorithm to other ancient scripts, highlighting the potential for AI to solve problems that have vexed humans for centuries.
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A path-breaking technique that will potentially help reverse drug resistance as well as enable existing antibiotics to act effectively has been developed by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Bacteria that become resistant to drugs use efflux pumps, which act as tiny motors to flush out the antibiotic from the cells. As a result, the drugs are unable to reach their targets, which helps the bacteria survive even in the presence of antibiotics.
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In the study, published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, the researchers reported the discovery of a molecule — named IITR08027 — which disrupts the proton gradient that is responsible for energising the efflux pumps and thus slows down the outflow of antibiotics. Further, IITR08027, when used in combination with fluoroquinolones — antibiotics like ciprofloxacin commonly used to treat respiratory and urinary tract infections — allows the drugs to kill the bacterial cells, thereby effectively tackling the antibiotic resistance problem.
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Ranjana Pathania, Associate Professor at IIT Roorkee, said,
Antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens has been one of the major issues that plagues the healthcare sector today. According to an estimate, about 1,900 people die every day due to antibiotic resistant infections, which amounts to about 70,000 deaths per year. Since this molecule rejuvenates the activity of fluoroquinolones against resistant bacterial pathogens, its clinical use could be a medically as well as an economically beneficial move.
The study found that the IITR08027 molecule is also effective against multi-drug-resistant clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii. Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most prevalent pathogens, which has developed strategies to counter existing antibiotics, especially fluoroquinolones.
With inputs from IANS.
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UPDATED, 3:35 PM: IATSE said today that safety trainers at the Contract Services Administration Trust Fund have returned to their jobs after a three-day walkout, and classes are resuming. “Thank you to everyone who supported these workers in their fight against employer retaliation for organizing,” the union said in a statement to members. “The parties have already scheduled dates to resume discussions for a first contract covering the instructors. If you are scheduled to attend classes, be sure to let your trainer know that we support their effort.”
PREVIOUSLY, June 16: IATSE members will picket the Contract Services Administration Trust Fund’s Safety Pass training program tomorrow in Burbank. The strike, union officials say, was triggered by today’s firing of the leader of an IATSE effort to organize the nonprofit organization’s safety trainers.
“For months now, the company has stalled and delayed efforts by Grips Local 80 for a first contract covering the safety trainers,” the Art Directors Guild said in an email to their members. “Today, the employer fired the leader of the union organizing effort. The IATSE will be taking to the streets tomorrow in an unfair labor practice strike to fight back.”
Picket lines, the union said, will go up starting at 6:30 AM tomorrow and stay up “until the company stops this retaliation.”
Besides safety training, the CSATF administers the experience rosters of the IATSE locals in Hollywood, and provides training services for many of the various crafts.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report. | {
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Staff at Asian Americans Advancing Justice march outside the Wilshire Boulevard headquarters to protest layoffs. (Josie Huang/KPCC)
Major layoffs at L.A.'s top Asian American civil rights organization will affect thousands who use the non-profit for everything from voting assistance to immigration services.
That's according to staffers at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles who said 18 union members were laid off Monday — about a fifth of the staff — in response to a reported $2 million budget shortfall.
"The organization purporting to be the leader and services for that community is no longer the leader," said Alison Vu, who spoke on behalf of those laid-off, herself among them. She learned Monday she had lost her job as spokeswoman for AAAJ-LA.
Also pink-slipped were a lawyer who specializes in labor rights, two employees who provide immigration assistance, and four outreach staff who go into schools in the San Gabriel Valley to work with immigrant youth.
The board of directors for the non-profit declined to give interviews Monday but in a statement said:
The decisions announced today were made after extensive input and analysis with staff and leadership of Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Los Angeles in order to position our organization to be stronger and more financially sustainable in the future. While difficult, actions taken were critical to allow us to continue the important work of advancing justice in AANHPI comunities, all communities of color, immigrants and other marginalized groups moving forward.
The layoffs coincide with labor negotiations between management and staff, who unionized more than a year ago. The board asserted in its statement that the job cuts have nothing to do with labor talks.
Alison Vu was laid off as AAAJ-LA's spokeswoman. (Josie Huang/KPCC)
No explanation was given by the board for the non-profit's financial woes.
Vu said that in meetings, management have admitted they failed to pay attention to the finances of the organizations for the last 10 or 15 years and had not understood the full cost of running programs.
Staff tried to help, Vu said, by offering to take unpaid days off from work and wage cuts or to contribute more to health insurance costs but none of those ideas went anywhere.
AAAJ-LA was founded 35 years ago by civil rights lawyer Stewart Kwoh. This year, Kwoh stepped down as executive director and Sylia Obagi took over on interim basis in May. (Full disclosure: Kwoh is an honorary life trustee for Southern California Public Radio, which operates LAist.)
The non-profit is not only known for providing community services, but also for speaking out for the Asian American community on policy issues such as affirmative action and immigrant rights.
The organization has advocated for people who could be affected by President Trump's pending "public charge" rule that would disqualify immigrants from green cards if they use certain publicly-funded services.
AAAJ-LA has also advocated on behalf of young unauthorized immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which the administration has sought to end.
Employees of AAAJ-LA gather inside the non-profit's offices with union members from AFSCME District Council 36. (Josie Huang/KPCC)
Staffers say the job losses will hit non-English speaking clients particularly hard.
AAAJ-LA has worked to serve a diaspora with a vast array of languages by providing a multilingual intake hotline. But as part of the layoffs, management has let go of three hotline workers who answered the phones in Khmer, Tagalog and Vietnamese, Vu said.
"That means is if you call in Vietnamese, there's no one to answer the phone anymore to refer you to services, to direct you to a lawyer," Vu said.
A Hindi speaker who worked the phones left several weeks ago and has not been replaced, Vu said.
The remaining phone operators, she said, can speak Thai, Tagalog, Chinese and Korean.
Two citizenship teacher positions have also been cut.
Bilingual civics instructor Billy Yates holds classes for about 100 Mandarin speakers in Chinatown, Rosemead and Temple City.
"It's traumatic for my students because they no longer know where to go," Yates said. "The way we're turning our back on the community is unconscionable."
Billy Yates teaches civic courses to Mandarin speakers in Chinatown, Temple City and Rosemead. (Josie Huang/LAist)
Vu said a nineteenth staffer would have been laid off, but one individual voluntarily resigned to save a co-worker's job.
The layoffs come more than a year after employees decided to unionize and join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 36. AFSCME leaders marched in solidarity with AAAJ staff in and out of the non-profit's headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard during lunch.
The bargaining unit, to members' frustration, is still without a contract.
"To me, it's really hypocritical that an organization that employs labor rights lawyers would go on to say that no you can't advocate for your rights," Vu said.
Vu said some of those who led the unionizing effort have since left the organization, either of their own accord or because the environment had turned "hostile" toward them.
In the board's statement, it said that leaders "fully support the right of staff to organize and will continue to work in good faith with the collective bargaining unit as we have from the beginning. Any characterizations of our intentions otherwise are not true."
Vu said that staff wanted to unionize due to poor working conditions.
For example, she said, staff worked for days at a time without air conditioning in the summer of 2017 due to an aging HVAC system in the organization's Wilshire office. Vu said repairs have since been made but the HVAC system continues to be spotty.
She said that staff were also concerned that no evacuation plan had been in place when a fire broke out in a satellite office in Rosemead in 2016, and workers there endured smoke inhalation.
That office was closed this summer as part of budget cuts, Vu said.
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Oct. 9, 5 p.m.: This article was updated to clarify that Stewart Kwoh is an honorary life trustee and not a voting member of the board of trustees for Southern California Public Radio.
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Two transparency gadflies are suing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. four federal intelligence agencies to disclose all evidence related to alleged interference by the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election.
Separately, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a separate FOIA request on the same topic.
Invoking the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Vice investigative journalist Jason Leopold and Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic Ryan Shapiro in their lawsuit are seeking judicial relief to force the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to release publicly all records that informed the highest levels of the U.S. government that there had been tampering with the electoral process. The defendants include the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice.
“The American public absolutely deserves to know what role Russian interference played in President-elect Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, and how U.S. intelligence agencies responded to any such Russian interference,” Shapiro said in a statement. “To date, the U.S. government has officially disclosed little concrete information regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” he added.
Separately, SC Media has learned EPIC filed on Dec. 22 its own FOIA request to the FBI, seeking records pertaining to the agency’s investigation of Russian interference in the election.
The new suit, filed by Washington, D.C. lawyer Jeffrey Light, comes on the heels of Leopold and Shapiro suing two weeks ago the FBI over allegedly ignoring a FOIA request for records on the presidential election, and another lawsuit regarding records on investigations that involve Trump.
When asked by SC the chances of the suit being decided quickly, given the inauguration looming in a few weeks, Shapiro acknowledged in an email that,
“FOIA cases are rarely resolved quickly. While we would, of course, love an expeditious resolution. We do not expect this case to be an exception.”
In the latest court papers, the plaintiffs stated that on Dec. 14 and 15, they submitted separate FOIA requests to the FBI, CIA, ODNI, and DHS I&A
(Intelligence & Analysis) via fax for several categories of records, but they were not answered.
The lawsuit cites reported players investigating the cyberattacks (e.g., the cybersecurity firms Crowdstrike; FireEye) and suspected hackers (e.g., Fancy Bear, also known as Sofacy or APT 28; Cozy Bear, also known as CozyDuke or APT 29; and Guccifer 2.0), as well as specific IP addresses.
The plaintiffs are seeking records about FBI director James Comey’s communications with President Obama over whether the Obama Administration should publicly accuse Russia of hacking U.S. political organizations. In addition, Leopold and Shapiro want to know what information members of the Electoral College received regarding ongoing investigations into ties between Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election.
The suit also seeks full disclosure of the briefings given to President Obama regarding attempted or actual breaches of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, including any email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta; the Democratic National Committee (DNC); the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and the Republican National Committee (RNC); and various congressional committees.
Although disenchanted with the Obama administration’s obstruction in complying with FOIA requests, Shapiro dreads what’s in store with the new presidency, based on “Trump’s overt contempt for the Constitution and a free press.” Subsequently, American civil liberties and privacy now face a profoundly clear and present danger, Shapiro said.
“Trump must not be allowed to conduct his presidency from the shadows, and he must not be allowed to cripple the Freedom of Information Act. The need is urgent for aggressive work to keep President Trump and his administration transparent and accountable,” he added. | {
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Microsoft will end its collaboration with TOM in China, but the company won’t take full ownership of the Skype service, Redmond recently said in a statement.
A recent announcement posted online by TOM revealed that Microsoft would take over Skype in China, while also adding that the VoIP platform passed the 100 million users threshold in the country.
Redmond, on the other hand, said in a statement for The Register that Skype would continue to be offered to Chinese users via a joint venture in order to comply with local legislation.
“Skype is committed to providing users with the best experience possible and confirm that the cooperation with TOM Online will end. We would like to thank them for their partnership and support over the years,” Microsoft explained.
At the same time, Microsoft also denied TOM’s statement that it has 100 million users in China, explaining that the company doesn’t disclose country-specific figures.
“TOM erroneously overstated the number of connected users we have in China. We have more than 300 million connected users around the world and do not disclose country-specific figures. In China, Skype software is made available through a joint venture to comply with established procedures to meet obligations under local laws. We look forward to sharing news of the new joint venture soon,” it said.
Microsoft hasn’t provided any details on the company it would join forces with to continue offering Skype in China, but it’s pretty clear that Redmond would still have to deal with accusations regarding censorship and wiretapping.
TOM-Skype has often been criticized for the lack of transparency, with many users blasting Microsoft for taking part in a nationwide campaign used to track conversations, store data on their local servers and share them with the local government whenever they are asked to. | {
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Liverpool start what Jurgen Klopp, their manager, believes is a “crazy” week of games with a minor defensive crisis ahead of Saturday’s lunchtime trip to Bournemouth.
Victory would take Klopp’s side to the top of the Premier League, for a few hours at least, but they will have to do it with just two recognised centre-backs available – Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip.
Joe Gomez will miss around six weeks after suffering a break in his lower left leg in the victory at Burnley in midweek. Klopp revealed that his natural replacement, Dejan Lovren, was unavailable due to concussion.
Klopp is hoping the Croatian will be able to return for the decisive Champions League group game against Napoli at Anfield on Tuesday but he will not be able to call on Nathaniel Clyne for defensive cover from his squad as he, too, is on the recovery trail.
“He’s not available. It is too complicated to explain what he’s done but it’s nothing ruptured and nothing broken,” Klopp said of Clyne, who has made just one appearance this season.
Nathaniel Clyne is not available to step in to the team due to his own recovery process credit: Getty Images
Klopp absolved Burnley’s Ben Mee of any malice over the tackle which left Gomez injured but he remains adamant that some of the slide-tackling at Turf Moor was dangerous, a claim which Burnley manager Sean Dyche had suggested was trying to “reinvent the rules”.
“Sliding tackles are all different,” said Klopp. “It’s one thing to block the ball, you clear the ball without, like bowling, and you take the player. It’s possible you can slide in, take the ball and everything is fine.
“Being aggressive for me, my understanding, is the readiness to hurt yourself and not the other player. I understand 100 per cent that Mee did not want to injure Joe. Maybe that was the cleanest tackle of all.”
Like Manchester City, Klopp’s side remain unbeaten after 15 Premier League games but he is not even thinking about the possibility of matching Arsenal’s "Invincibles" of 2003-04.
“I don’t know. Wasn’t it Arsenal who last did it? It’s very exceptional. Obviously it’s very difficult. Without luck, no chance. With a lot of luck, probably you have a chance. But we don’t think about that.
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“You would then think about games in January and February and we have enough to do now.”
Liverpool have managed to stay in proximity to City while others have dropped away, but Klopp insists his team are concentrating only on themselves.
“We expect them [City] to win all the time apart from the games against us. We have only to try to play the best season we can play, whatever that means,” he said.
“You cannot play against two teams – the one on the other side of the pitch and the one in your mind. That doesn’t work. Whatever they get at the end of the season, they probably deserve. It will be the same for us.
“The good thing with this number of games in a short period is we have a lot of opportunities to win. We will try that. The week coming up now is crazy – Bournemouth, Napoli and Man United. That’s a massive week again and we have already had a few. That is our life and we love it.”
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Letters from BBC Television Licensing From the beginning of 2006, I decided not to renew my television licence. I found that my television viewing consisted almost entirely of tapes of old programmes purchased off Ebay, and that my watching of broadcast television was less than an hour a week. I therefore decided to stop watching broadcast television, and I now spend the £157.50 saved from the TV licence fee on video tapes and DVDs. It is a good decision; I now pay for what I watch, and not for what I don't watch. The only fly in the ointment has been aggressive letters from TV Licensing (TVL), which collects the licence fee on behalf of the BBC. TVL/BBC sends millions of letters every year to people who do not watch broadcast television, demanding payment. For many people, these letters can be very frightening. But the letters are a bluff; they are computer-generated. TVL/BBC have none of the powers their letters imply and, with a little knowledge, people can stand up to the bullies. The purpose of this website is to share my TVL/BBC letters as I receive them, and to provide useful information for people who have no time for the BBC. Click to view letters from 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 . Stay on this page for letters in 2020.
January 2020
This is my fifteenth year as someone who does not pay the BBC. I have saved £2,141.50 and, assuming 50p a letter, cost the BBC a further £75 in postage.
White 9 by 6 envelope, with window.
January 2020 - second version
Brown 9 by 6 envelope, with window.
February 2020
This item came as a sealed leaflet, and was fiddly to prise open. It looks like it has been written on before being slipped through the letter box, as though BBC/TVL were visiting in person. It's quite sophisticated; the ticks are slightly different, suggesting authenticity. In fact, a quick search of the internet found identical items - it was printed and posted, like a regular letter.
April 2020
Brown 9" by 6" envelope with window.
May 2020
White 9" by 6" envelope, with window.
June 2020
White 9" by 6" envelope, with window.
July 2020
Brown 9" by 4" envelope.
August 2020
9" by 6" white envelope.
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"It kind of blew their minds," said John Turturro.
In the Coen Brothers’ beloved 1998 comedy “The Big Lebowski,” The Dude, Walter and Donny face off against colorful pederast bowler Jesus Quintana, played by John Turturro. Since the film’s release, Jesus has grown in the imagination of the fanbase as well as Turturro himself. Now, Turturro’s latest directorial effort “Going Places,” based on Bertrand Biler’s novel and 1974 erotic comedy film by the same name, resurrects the Jesus character in a spinoff of “Lebowski.” In a new interview with Screen Daily, Turturro says that the Coens support his new film.
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“It kind of blew their minds,” says Turturro. “They thought it was a great idea and told me, ‘We’ve taken a character inspired from a stage play and now you want to put him in a movie which is a French movie, which was inspired by American road movies.'”
Turturro had been wrestling with the adapted screenplay for a while but struggled particularly with updating the main character Jean-Claude, originally played by Gérard Depardieu. “I was calling him JC, and it reminded me of this character I’d done in a play many, many years ago…that had inspired Joel and Ethan to write the character of Jesus Quintana,” he says. “So I thought, ‘Wow! We’ve talked about doing something with Jesus Quintana but it was always silly.’ I started playing around with it and I thought we could be on to something with his irony and the irreverence of the character.”
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Lakers coach Luke Walton told reporters that LeBron James returned to full contact practice Saturday, and to no one's surprise "he's still really good at basketball." (0:48)
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- LeBron James made incremental progress Saturday, participating in contact drills for the first time since suffering a groin strain more than a month ago, but he has been ruled out of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.
"He was a full participant in that, so it was good to see," Lakers coach Luke Walton said of James' involvement in full-contact defensive drills. "He looked good. He's still really good at basketball, in case you guys were wondering."
James' skills have only become more pronounced since he got hurt on Christmas Day, as the Lakers have gone 5-10 in his absence and have fallen to the No. 9 spot in the Western Conference.
James' initial timeline for recovery was three to six weeks, according to his agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports. While Paul has said James could play right now if it was the playoffs, he explained to ESPN that playing and dominating are two different standards.
While the Lakers look ahead to possibly missing James for another two weeks, the rest of their roster continues to struggle in part because of other injuries.
Point guard Lonzo Ball has missed the past two games after suffering a Grade 3 ankle sprain and is expected to be sidelined the next three to five weeks. Kyle Kuzma is 0-for-9 from 3-point range in his past two games after tweaking a hip against the Houston Rockets last weekend. And Josh Hart sat out of practice Saturday because of a knee, although Walton said Hart would play against the Suns.
He wouldn't necessarily say the same for Kuzma, however.
"I told him if he's moving like he was last game, I don't want him playing [Sunday]," Walton said of Kuzma, who also sat out Saturday. "So we'll see how he looks."
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It should help L.A. that the Suns are 11-40 and riding a seven-game losing streak; however, the Lakers already have lost to the 9-41 Cleveland Cavaliers and the 10-37 New York Knicks on their home floor since James went out.
Ball, speaking to reporters for the first time since injuring his ankle a week ago, tried to find some positivity.
"It's been a tough year as far as injuries go, but we should be at full strength, hopefully, after All-Star [Weekend]," Ball said.
The Lakers have eight more games before the All-Star break, and six of them are on the road -- although one is a "road" game against the LA Clippers. Mixed in that stretch are tough opponents like Philadelphia (twice), Golden State and Boston.
The way Ball sees it, things could be worse. Just take a look at what happened when he went down in a heap after colliding with the Rockets' James Ennis III.
"I thought it was broke, so as soon as they told me it wasn't, that was a positive for me," Ball said of his left ankle. "So I'm trying to get back as soon as possible."
Ball said he "ditched" his crutches Friday and is now wearing a walking boot. Otherwise, his approach to his ankle injury consists of "just rehabbing as much as I can. Icing all the time, elevating all the time."
Ball also was asked if his recovery schedule is aligned with James' and answered with something that many Lakers fans are thinking.
"I'm not sure," he said. "Hopefully we get him back faster than me." | {
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Thursday, March 26, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Fox News‘ Brit Hume has posted a clip of Dr. Fauci speaking to News Max reporter Greg Kelly on January 21. Kelly addresses Fauci, “Bottom line. We don’t have to worry about this one, right?”
Fauci replies, “Well, obviously you need to take it seriously. And do the kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security are doing, but this is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”
That’s what Trump was hearing from Dr. Fauci, an expert, a man who has served as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984.
I yield to no one in admiration of Dr. Fauci. But this comment from January 21 should be kept in mind by those accusing anyone in the U.S. of failing to act in time against Covid 19. Watch it all the way through: pic.twitter.com/wCBHT1wfdr — Brit Hume (@brithume) April 3, 2020
Consider the following timeline of China’s actions in January. (Data from a recent post by my colleague, Streiff, which can be viewed here.)
Dec. 31: Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus’ spread.
China tells the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness. Jan. 1: Wuhan Public Security Bureau brings in for questioning eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat. An official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission orders labs, which had already determined that the novel virus was similar to SARS, to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples. Jan. 2: Chinese researchers map the new coronavirus’ complete genetic information. This information is not made public until Jan. 9. Jan. 7: Xi Jinping becomes involved in the response. Jan. 9: China announces it has mapped the coronavirus genome. Jan. 11–17: Important prescheduled CCP meeting held in Wuhan. During that time, the Wuhan Health Commission insists there are no new cases. Jan. 13: First coronavirus case reported in Thailand, the first known case outside China. Jan. 14: WHO announces Chinese authorities have seen “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.” Jan. 15: The patient who becomes the first confirmed U.S. case leaves Wuhan and arrives in the U.S., carrying the coronavirus. Jan. 18: The Wuhan Health Commission announces four new cases.
Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a potluck. Jan. 19: Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan. Jan. 20: The first case announced in South Korea.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese doctor who is helping to coordinate the coronavirus response, announces the virus can be passed between people.
So, Dr. Fauci, the man who has led the NIAID for 36 years says the coronavirus does not pose a threat to the people of the U.S. on January 21.
One week earlier, on January 14, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a second “expert” announced that Chinese authorities had seen “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.”
Prior to January 21, there was very little information coming out of China or The Who. China insisted there were no new cases. On January 21, we began to hear about their lockdowns. Additionally, the first person in the U.S. tested positive for the virus.
Jan. 21: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the first coronavirus case in the United States.
CCP flagship newspaper People’s Daily mentions the coronavirus epidemic and Xi’s actions to fight it for the first time.
China’s top political commission in charge of law and order warns that “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of [virus] cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity.” Jan. 23: Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness. Jan. 24–30: China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Jan. 24: China extends the lockdown to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country for the rest of the epidemic.
Trump officials had taken action prior to January 21, but began focusing intensely on combatting the virus once the new information was known. Here is a timeline of actions taken early on by the Trump Administration.
• Jan. 7: The CDC established a Wuhan virus incident management system . • Jan. 17: The CDC began implementing public health entry screening at the three U.S. airports that received the most travelers from Wuhan. • Jan. 20: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced efforts to develop a vaccine. • Jan. 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide support to the coronavirus response. • Jan. 31: President Trump declared a public health emergency, announced Chinese travel restrictions, and suspended entry into the U.S. for foreign nationals at risk of transmitting the virus.
What were the Democrats doing? Nancy Pelosi was debating over whether or not to send the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate. She was trying to negotiate with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the terms of the Senate trial. Once she realized she had no leverage, she submitted the Articles and focused her undivided attention on impeaching this “lawless, dangerous President.”
Enough said.
H/T: Twitchy
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来てくださった方、本当にありがとうございました。ロリガツアーズ旅の思い出page05は一応ラストという事だったんですが、ライヴイベントもありますし、ロリガはまだまだ終らない！ってことでいつも通りの雰囲気で楽しく終わりましたね！皆さんにながーい「えーー」って掛け声やってもらえて本当に嬉しかったです。楽しかったのですが………今日でロリガツアーズが終わりなんだ、ロリガも最終話を放送するんだっ…て思ったら私はすごく寂しくなってしまって、実はイベント中もしゅん…ってなっていたんです ( ´︵` )そのせいでトークもすっごく緊張してました。これじゃいかんー！って思って、次の旅の寄り道でちゃんと皆さんに気持ちを伝えるぞって思い、上映前のスタンプ会の時は一人一人大切にご挨拶させていただきました。P'sライヴで知っていただいたのもあって、今回はチケットが完売していてゆみりちゃんと２人ですっっごく喜びました。ロリガをもっと知りたいって思ってくださる方がたくさん増えて本当に嬉しかったです。素敵なお話がたくさんあって色々な人達を描いたローリング☆ガールズという作品が私は大好きです。望未のような一生懸命頑張る女の子を演じることができて本当に幸せでした。監督さん、むとうさん、関わってくださって素敵な作品を作ってくださった沢山のスタッフの皆さん、そして望未達の旅を最後まで見守ってくださった皆さん、本当にありがとうございました。おまけ!!!でもしょぼんってしててあんまり写真撮れなかったです(/_;)髪の毛くるくる巻いてもらいましたー！晴れてるのに傘を持ってくるゆみりちゃん…傘の出番はありませんでした。たこやきのフリーズドライをプレゼントしていただいたので、ゆみりちゃんとマネージャーさんと一緒に食べました！たこやきの味がする、固い何かだった…。たこがちゃんと入ってました(笑)ごちそう様でした(*^^*)旅の寄り道でスタッフさんがたこやきを差し入れてくれましたー！とろとろでグラタンみたいでした！(ゆみりちゃんは帰宅した後でした)*ari* | {
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I am not going to make this long. I will just say that Al has not felt good for a few days. In his words, he says he fills funky. He has not eaten well for a few days. Today at his Day Program he blacked out and fell forward.
The Hospice Nurse just left our house. I want to take her simple and polite words and dissect them to death but I have to remain sane. I knew something wasn’t right when she made me leave Al’s room to talk to me.
I can still hear her words exact. ” Has he been talking about dead people? Has he mentioned anything about not being here long or taking a trip? I couldn’t find a pulse but did find a weak one in his feet. He may sleep a lot now. If he doesn’t want to eat or take his medications just give him the pain ones for his labored breathing. He is declining.”
Dearest friends, please pray for me. For at this moment, this very second I just want to throw up.I am not sure if I can do the waiting game, the over-checking on him, the stress and worry, watching his breathing things. I need help. | {
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In a New York Times interview, Alton Brown talked about how “the ‘pornification’ of food takes away the importance of sharing it with one another and instead focuses only on the food.” When asked if the food media (i.e. the Food Network) bears some responsibility for that, he responds: “When you take a subject that becomes a massively popular phenomenon, like food, it’s mirroring other things in society as much as it’s driving things in society.”
I wonder if this age of instant exposure has done the same to graphic design. The effect that education and “inspiration” have had upon the design world is a two-edged sword. Designers have become more informed about what the rest of the community is doing, but less aware of why they are doing it. We are quick to form opinions that match the herd's, and do little to impact the zeitgeist by straying too far into the Land of Vanilla for fear of the herd’s criticisms or neglect. This is not healthy for design or designers.
Design is critical thinking made tangible in order to meet a predetermined goal.
If you truly believe that, then ask yourself what the purpose behind the endless sea of logos, icons, and layouts created on –let’s take Dribble– truly is? If your answer is “just inspiration” then you have answered correctly. There is no client. There is no goal other than displaying production skills and pandering to the rest of the community for affirmation. It is a vacuum. But design does not exist in a vacuum. There is always a goal that transcends the visual layer you judge at first glance. (Paul Adams wrote on this subject of “Dribblisation” better than I ever could. Do read.)
Inspiration does not equal education. And by that I do not mean formal education, but educated decision making. Being able to identify the real-world challenges of your client and all the accompanying factors is the first step in a successful –not a pretty– design execution. This vision should be the primary focus of a designer, because it is very much a part of the design process, especially with branding projects.
To create a singular graphic that meets the criteria of all communication mediums, the technical considerations of current assets while planning for future assets, and striking an emotional chord in human beings for the purpose of spurring them to action, is the glorious pinnacle of graphic design.
In an unaired interview, Steve Jobs talked about Paul Rand, whom all designers worship, and summed up (perhaps ineloquently) what I think should be a designer’s mission statement, regardless of what they are working on or who they are doing it for. Paraphrased:
Paul is a very interesting intertwining of a pure artist and somebody who is very astute at solving business problems. If you scratch the surface on any of his work you find out the depth of the intellectual problem solving that has taken place. And yet when you first see it, it’s wonderfully emotional.
I wonder how the design community of Twitter and the blogosphere would react if the Apple logo was revealed for the first time today? It is silly to think of such things, however, for hindsight will always be 20/20. We’ll probably be campaigning for a petition to get Apple to bring back the rainbow-striped version any day now. | {
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Event Organizer Refuses to Testify Before House Panel, Saying State Can’t Regulate Privately Funded Conference
An Iowa Republican lawmaker is threatening to subpoena a gay-rights activist who’s refusing to testify before a House panel that’s investigating a safe schools conference for LGBTQ youth.Â
Anti-gay state Rep. Greg Heartsill (photo), who oversees the panel, sent a letter Thursday to the attorney who represents Iowa Safe Schools Executive Director Nate Monson. Iowa Safe Schools puts on the annual Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ Youth, which drew more than 1,000 students, parents and teachers last year and is said to be the largest event of its kind in the nation. Despite its name, the conference is not funded by the governor’s office nor by state tax dollars.
Monson is refusing to testify before the panel, which is looking into allegations from Bob Vander Plaats‘ anti-gay Family Leader group that the 11th annual conference in 2015 included sexually explicit content.Â
“I would entreat Mr. Monson one more time to reconsider the bi-partisan Panel’s invitation to hear testimony from him regarding the April 3, 2015 Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ Youth,” Heartsill wrote in his letter to Monson’s attorney, Nate Boulton, which was obtained by The New Civil Rights Movement. “I would like to draw your attention to Iowa Code sections 2.15 (1) (b) Powers and duties of standing committees and 2.23 Witness- attendance compulsory as you make your recommendation to Mr. Monson. I believe the best outcome for all involved is for Mr. Monson to fulfill his original agreement to meet voluntarily with the appropriate legislators to provide a response to the January 27 report.”Â
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Monson, who’s compared lawmakers’ investigation to a “witch hunt,” told NCRM he doesn’t believe Heartsill, who heads up the panel, has the authority to subpoena him given that the conference is a private event and doesn’t receive state funding.Â
Heartsill, who’s led a hateful two-year campaign against the conference, has said that because taxpayer dollars are used for transportation, there is a public interest in the event.Â
“The issue is huge public policy,” Monson told NCRM. “If a school bus transported kids to a play — do legislators have authority over that play?”Â
Boulton wrote to Heartsill recently that Monson’s testimony would “unnecessarily blur the bright line” between the private conference and the state’s regulatory authority.Â
“That is simply a step too far,” Boulton wrote, adding that Monson’s testimony would “appear to acquiesce to state regulation and oversight of the content of this private organization’s programming.â€
GOP Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, who initiated the investigation as chair of the House Committee on Government Oversight, called Monson’s refusal to testify “poor form and an escalation,” adding that it “kind of shows guilt.”Â
Monson responded that the investigation is being fueled by lawmakers who are “obsessed” with LGBTQ issues, according to The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.Â
Heartsill is scheduled to report on the investigation to the full House Oversight committee this week, but Monson said Iowa Safe Schools has no plans to heed any recommendations.Â
This year’s conference is set for April 29 in Des Moines. To support the conference, which is funded entirely by donations, go here.  To register for this year’s event, go here.Â
Read Heartsill’s full letter below.
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There’s nothing wrong with absorbing information quickly and in bits and pieces. We’ve always skimmed newspapers more than we’ve read them, and we routinely run our eyes over books and magazines to get the gist of a piece of writing and decide whether it warrants more thorough reading. The ability to scan and browse is as important as the ability to read deeply and think attentively. What’s disturbing is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for further study, it’s becoming an end in itself — our preferred method of both learning and analysis. Dazzled by the net’s treasures, we have been blind to the damage we may be doing to our intellectual lives and even our culture. | {
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Thrillseekers sliding down a concrete spillway at a northern New South Wales dam are risking their lives in front of audiences of millions.
Videos of young people on the giant "illegal waterslide" at the Tweed's Clarrie Hall Dam have been viewed up to seven million times.
One video shared this week has attracted more than three million views and includes subtitles that insinuate the people featured have been given permission to slide.
However, the Tweed Shire Council's manager of water, Anthony Burnham, said the council would never give permission because of the serious risks involved with a flip-bucket at the bottom of the chute.
"It's got a large flip bucket at the end which is an energy dissipating device and with any significant flow you can be held underwater in that flip bucket and drowned, obviously on the way down you can be rendered unconscious and drown," Mr Burnham said.
Surfing down the spillway at Clarrie Hill Dam has gained notoriety online. ( YouTube )
Mr Burnham said the council was considering its options to stop the practice, which has been exacerbated by social media.
"We've tried to have these things removed from social media channels with limited success, things like CCTV monitoring and the like have also been vandalised so it's been very hard for us to try and keep people away," he said.
Mr Burnham said an extreme measure could be closing the Clarrie Hall Dam to the public.
"Council might have to consider it as an option to close the dam to the public altogether," Mr Burnham said.
Clarrie Hall Dam, in northern NSW, could soon be closed to the public. ( YouTube: )
Daredevils turn to YouTube
Managing director of Safe on Social Media Kirra Pendergast said the appeal of risk-taking behaviour for adolescents was often increased by the potential audiences reached through platforms like YouTube.
"There is a massive upsurge in it, every second child in every primary school I speak in wants to start their own YouTube channel and the more dramatic the content the more views they're going to get," she said.
"It gives them their instant fame hit, the riskier the behaviour the more fame they get, it's like a drug."
She said the monetisation of social media content was also attractive to young people.
"There's a massive financial incentive because once you hit 10,000 views on YouTube they start to place ads around your videos so it can be quite a good earner," she said.
"If a video had roughly 3.5 million views a year, they would make roughly between $8,000 and $10,000." | {
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Hurricane Harvey plodded toward a wet exit Friday, leaving more misery in its wake with intense rain and flooding predicted far north as Kentucky.
Poised to take Harvey's place, Hurricane Irma spun up from a tropical storm to a "dangerous" Category 3 hurricane as it traveled across the Atlantic Ocean. Irma could reach Category 4 with sustained winds above 130 mph as it edges toward the Lesser Anteilles, north of South America, early next week.
"If Irma builds to a Category 4, and then hits the U.S. mainland, it will be the first time in more than 100 years the U.S. has been hit by two Category 4 hurricanes in the same year," said Evan Myers, senior Accuweather meteorologist.
At 11 a.m. Friday, Irma had sustained winds of 110 mph with stronger gusts, according to the National Weather Service. The storm was moving west-northwest at 13 mph, but a turn to the west-southwest was expected on Saturday, the service said.
"Fluctuations in strength, up or down, are possible during the next few days, but Irma is expected to remain a powerful hurricane through the weekend," the service said.
Irma's career path isn't set yet, potentially heading either north or south of Puerto Rico. There is no projected landfall yet.
"There is the potential for Irma to ramp up to an even more powerful hurricane in the coming days," according to Dan Kottlowski, an AccuWeather hurricane expert.
Accuweather urged officials in the eastern Caribbean to monitor "this evolving and dangerous hurricane.
In the meantime, Harvey's unrelenting rain still commands the spotlight even as it dissipates into a tropical depression.
Flooding is expected to continue in Texas for days, and in spots up the lower Mississippi River valley to the Ohio River valley as the storm crawls north and east.
Four to 8 inches of rain, with a serious threat of flash flooding, are projected across the Tennessee Valley and West Virginia, as water rushes from higher elevations to low-lying areas.
"As the rains move into the northeast, residents of these areas should remain extremely vigilant," Myers said.
The Nashville area, which got up to 10 inches of rain in the past day, closed schools Friday. The river levels do not come close to the historic 2010 flood, which caused over $2 billion in property damage and claimed the lives of 11 people in Davidson County.
Richard Williams woke up to find water already knee deep in the Chestnut Flats Apartments, when a neighbor pounded on his door at 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
All 13 residents of the complex were evacuated to a Red Cross shelter. About 50 people evacuated from flooding across the city.
The National Weather Service in Louisville issued a flash-flood warning for that area Friday until noon.
After dumping a record nearly 52 inches of rain on Houston, Harvey has already killed at least 39 people. Search and rescue efforts continue block by block in Houston.
Building temporary housing and repairing damaged structures is a process that officials warn will prove frustrating.
More than 325,000 people had applied for federal disaster assistance because of Harvey by Thursday morning, with $57 million paid out by that point. More than 37,000 people were in emergency shelters, after 8,000 families had moved to 9,000 hotel rooms.
"This is an unprecedented event," said Alex Amparo, assistant administrator for recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Joel Myers, AccuWeather's founder and chairman, called Harvey "the worst natural disaster in American history."
FEMA Administrator Brock Long, had a crisp answer Thursday for his prediction for Harvey for the next few days, as he worked on the aftermath in Houston.
"For Harvey to exit the nation, hopefully," Long said.
Contributing: The Tennessean. | {
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I just read about an indie games bundle where one of the main ‘selling points’ of the bundles was that you can get six games for just $5.
That sucks.
The implication is that the games are worth a dollar each (or less!). I get the idea that people try and make an offer that you’d be mad to turn down, and for a limited time, as a one-off way to grab some press that you can’t get any other way, maybe there is some merit to that, but increasingly it seems to be the case that people think that charging more than $5 for a game is ‘cheeky’ and that indie games should be $0-$5, and of course half of it goes to charity, but even if we get $0.01, we really thank you for your payment etc etc…
Lets just get this out in the open right now:
Indie means ‘independent’. It means you dont’ work for a publisher that controls your output. It means self-funded, with total control. It does NOT mean *cheap* or *low budget* or *desperate* or *hobbyist*. Granted, there are a lot of hobbyist indie devs, but that doesn’t mean some indies don’t employ a bunch of people, have nice offices, spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on development, produce high quality content, and you know what…. I think it’s perfectly reasonable for a lot of those indie games to sell big numbers, and *shock horror* for the developers to make some decent money without being made to feel like they are worse than osama bin laden.
A lot of indies give me a funny look because I have an advertising budget, as though indies are not allowed to advertise, because we have to do ‘guerrilla marketing’ or beg for coverage on hobbyist-blogs rather than run our business like anyone else. Some gamers flat out refuse to buy GSB because it’s more than $10, despite paying £34.99 for ‘non-indie’ games.
I know quite a few indies that make very good money. Better than anyone I know with a mainstream games industry job. I know a lot of them who run their businesses extremely seriously. They shouldn’t be ashamed of having a successful business or feel ‘too corporate’ because they have a marketing budget and use a PR firm. I can just see the howls of hatred and cries of ‘sell out’ the minute minecraft pays for some adverts somewhere, or refers to notch as CEO.
Most indies make no money. We get that. Lets not try to force all of them to stay tiny and huddled around a begging bowl though. There is nothing wrong with success, even in indie gaming :D | {
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A group of young Māori are heading to Silicon Valley in San Francisco this weekend.
Photo: 123RF
The 26 Māori students will visit Google and Stanford University in a bid to show them what careers are possible in the future.
They'll get the opportunity to meet some of the world's best innovators of the digital world.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, chief executive of Ngāti Ruanui iwi Taranaki ki te Tonga, is taking 19 students from her rohe who have been part of a coding, technology and design programme for the last year.
"They've learnt a lot about design thinking and where it originated from but they are really looking forward to understanding the culture of Silicon Valley and how you can have a start-up business in a garage and explode and expand and become one of the most successful businesses internationally."
The students from Taranaki had an emotional church service with their kaumatua and Ms Ngarewa-Packer said the trip was hugely significant for their entire iwi.
"Our kaumatua expressed their excitement that iwi is putting rangatahi first and these rangatahi are going out to see sites that they want them to bring home and share with their whānau, hapū, iwi and their kura. This is quite radical thinking for the iwi, but from the kaumatua perspective it's natural," said Ms Ngarewa-Packer.
The Āmua Ao programme is a partnership with Callaghan Innovation, NZQA and iwi and it was seen as a way to get Māori students excited about science, technology, engineering and maths.
NZQA deputy chief executive Māori Daryn Bean said the programme aimed to inspire rangatahi about the exciting career possibilities available to them in our global, digital and connected world.
"The programme will be evaluated and the students' progress tracked so that we can see how these experiences are reflected in their NCEA STEM subjects and subsequent STEM careers," said Mr Bean.
Student Tamaari Kupe-King said the digital classes had opened up a new world to him and he was expecting the same on the trip.
"I was introduced to the coding class by Aunty Debbie and we've been doing workshops and learning about design thinking, making prototypes and using 3D software. It interests me because of the relevance for us in this day and age.
General Manager of the Maori Economy at Callaghan Innovation Hemi Rolleston said programme aimed to inspire and show rangatahi global and digital career possibilities.
"We really had this motivation to try something with our rangatahi to get them more exposed to more creative coding, innovative technology and in this fast changing world of technology it's the future," said Mr Rolleston.
Ms Ngarewa-Packer said the students were embarking on a journey into the unknown just like their ancestors did centuries ago.
"They know that what they are about to experience is going to explode their mind and they're really excited but you can tell there is that maturity, that they know that they are the start of the unleashing of some creative solutions."
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Kwon Alexander made a miraculous comeback from a torn pectoral muscle to play in the playoffs and Super Bowl LIV.
The 49ers linebacker clearly wasn't 100 percent, and it wasn't just due to the pectoral injury he sustained on Oct. 31. Alexander also was playing a biceps injury, something he is having surgically repaired Friday, NFL Media's Ian Rapoport reported Friday.
#49ers LB Kwon Alexander wasn’t just playing in the Super Bowl with a surgically repaired pec. Sources say he was also dealing with a biceps injury that is being surgically repaired today. He’ll have a full recovery for 2020, but amazing to think what he played through this year. — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 14, 2020
As Rapoport noted, this injury means Alexander's contract now is fully guaranteed for 2020, although there was little doubt he would be back.
Note on Kwon Alexander, whose 2020 salary goes from injury guaranteed to fully guaranteed on April 1. Because of this injury that he’s having repaired today, this confirms he’ll be back on the team in 2020 (if there was any doubt). https://t.co/RF2aJHEKIP — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 14, 2020
Alexander tore his pectoral muscle against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 9, but somehow rehabbed enough after undergoing surgery to suit up for the 49ers' run to the Super Bowl where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs,
[RELATED: Could Ha Ha Clinton-Dix be option for 49ers if Ward leaves?]
The good news is that Alexander is expected to be 100 percent by the time the 49ers open the 2020 season. | {
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WipEout may not make a comeback following Sony Studio Liverpool’s unexpected closure last year. That’s the prediction of ex-WipEout developer Nick Burcombe, whose new studio Playrise releases it’s first game on iOS Table Top Racing later this month. The developer has given VG247 insight into his time with the WipEout franchise and his new game in a new interview.
As part of our interview – which you can read in full later this week – I asked Burcombe for some insight into Sony Studio Liverpool’s closure. Although he was made redundant in a wave of 2010 staff cuts, rather than the 2012 closure – you can check out my studio obituary here – he shed some light on how he felt at the time.
“I was one of the many casualties of the 2010 Studio Liverpool cull,” Burcombe recalled, “which was indeed a blow for all of us involved as I’m sure many people who work in our industry can relate to these days. This was actually the first time I’d been made redundant so it was a new experience for me. In many ways though, I was glad that the studio had survived and that the Wipeout franchise would carry on after its incredible 18 years.”
Reacting to the closure of the studio, Burcombe stated, “For many years I’ve been used to working in large teams of 20-50 people – I think Formula 1 Championship Edition was the largest team I’d ever worked on – and although large teams can bring their own difficulties, the people at Liverpool Studio were absolutely fantastic at what they do and I think after looking back on F1, which was there at launch of PS3, and then seeing what they have achieved with Wipeout 2048 is testament to their dedication.
“The loss of that studio is a huge blow for the development community”, he added, “but hopefully they can all go on to produce the games they love with the same eye on detail and craftsmanship they always did.”
Burcombe’s new studio is gearing up to launch Table Top Racing on iOS later this month, and it’s a 60FPS combat racer with weapons, showing that some of the WipEout magic has lived on through Playrise. I ask Burcombe if his decision to debut Playrise with a racing title runs in the blood, given his long career involved with the genre.
“I’m a huge fan of combat racers. Always have been – probably right back to the 1983 classic arcade game Spy Hunter. It’s cars and guns – what more do you want? Seriously though, when we built WipEout, I wasn’t really happy with many of the design decisions nor with some of the implementation – the brutal collisions, the over-narrowing of track sections etc, but of course at the second bite of the cherry – Wipeout 2097 and XL – we fixed a lot of things, learnt from our mistakes and it was just amazing to work on and to see the reaction after launch.
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“The speed and excitement that runs through that franchise”, he recalled, “right up to 2048, means it has never lost its focus and has always been improved.”
I then asked Burcombe for his thoughts on whether or not we’d see WipEout return following Studio Liverpool’s closure – they were rumoured to be making a PS4 WipEout title at the time of closure – to which he replied, “Who knows? Sony keep things pretty tight regarding plans, but my honest answer is probably not, even though I’d hope so. I’d love to see Sony experiment with some of its IP across other platforms – maybe that’s the ‘Psygnosis’ in me. If I had the chance – I’d love to bring something like Wipeout to iOS.
“I’d want to go freemium to reach as wide an audience as possible, and then hit them with something utterly spectacular,” he mused. “There’s so many ways to monetise a game like Wipeout I think it could be a great success – the trick is to keep the costs under control if you know you’re going to have more of a hardcore following. I think the fans of the franchise deserve another chance to put themselves into that Zen-like state and be at one with it.”
Stay tuned for our full interview with Burcombe later this week.
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Mohamed Salah is set to complete a loan move to Inter in the coming days. The 22-year old winger has been limited to the Capital One Cup appearances for Chelsea.
Salah has struggled to break into Jose Mourinho’s first-team plans on a consistent basis at Stamford Bridge and according to the La Gazzetta dello Sport, he has agreed terms to leave the Blues for the rest of the season.
The Egyptian international joined Chelsea as a result of Kevin De Bruyne leaving Chelsea in search of regular first-team football. He came at £11m from FC Basle last January. Will the cycle repeat again? Mourinho can look for a replacement in the market or choose to recall a player like Piazon, Moses or Atsu from loan. A player from academy can also get promoted to the first team as both Ramires and Remy can fill in on the wings in case of an emergency.
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Former Senate president Edgardo J. Angara had called it an “executive preview” while the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) had termed it “a soft-opening,” but there was no doubt the whole affair sought to relive the romance of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade that historians now admit pioneered global inter-ocean trade as we know it now.
Held on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Aug. 8 in Manila, the event gathered visiting Asean ministers and dialogue partners to The Galeon, the museum being constructed at the SM Mall of Asia on Manila Bay in Pasay City. Hosting the affair were DFA and Angara, who chairs the Museo del Galeon Foundation.
The museum is being built on 5,000 square meters of land donated by the SM Group. When it is finished, it will have three stories and 8,000 sq m of exhibition space. There will be five permanent galleries and a temporary exhibition space. The centerpiece will be a full-scale replica of a galleon.
Forerunner
Angara, in his welcome remarks, said the galleon trade that ran for 250 years from 1565 up to the early 19th century, connected four continents and stimulated trade between more than 40 countries. Traded were the silver of the Americas for the silk, spices and plants, textiles and garments from Asia. Angara said the trade was “the forerunner of the global trade.”
“And so,” the former senator continued, “it’s quite appropriate that we are introducing this galleon museum, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Asean.”
Angara explained that of the 10 Asean countries, “eight of them were shippers on the galleons; and of the seven dialogue partners, five of them were big, big shippers, including China, Japan, US and India.”
He added that if the Asean’s slogan was “partnership for change,” then the galleon trade was “a game-changer in the world because, even now, we’re harking back to another Silk Road, to another trans-Pacific path.”
While the trip from Manila to Acapulco took six months, and before that, it had taken Marco Polo three years to reach China from Europe, 21st century global trade is set to be vastly hastened by China’s planned Belt and Road project, Angara said. This would bring Asian goods to Frankfurt and Berlin, “maybe even Norway,” in 21 days, Angara said.
“So, that’s how the world is getting connected and rapidly,” he pointed out. “That’s how communication has quickly transformed our world, and we must hope that the transformation is for the better.”
World Heritage inscription
Angara has long worked to bring to international attention the global historic importance of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade that took place right at the start of Spanish colonization, 1565, and lasted up to 1815.
As a result of his campaign, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has declared Oct. 8 every year as “Dia del Galeon.” Mexico and the Philippines with backing from Spain have also nominated the galleon trade for inscription in the Unesco World Heritage List.
Silver path
Just recently, Penguin Books has published as part of its Penguin Specials series “The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815.” Written by Peter Gordon and Juan Jose Morales, the book makes comparisons between the Silk Trade and “la ruta de la plata” (the silver way) of the galleon trade, which brought the finest goods of Asia to the Americas via the galleons, returned to Asia with the silver of the New World. Although the book obviously plays the China card and growing Chinese economic ascendancy in order to appeal to Westerners, not mentioning the Philippines or Mexico in the title, it gives credit to Philippine manpower and materials in the building of the galleons, which were the biggest and sturdiest ships of their times.
Gordon and Morales call the galleons built by Filipinos and from local materials “a precursor of today’s world-leading Asian shipyards.” The galleons were locally designed and made from locally supplied materials, constructed by local labor augmented by Chinese hands. “The galleons’ reputation for durability and sturdiness was built upon the local hardwoods: the ships were relatively impervious to both cannonfire and shiprot.”
In his remarks, Angara said that of the 400 galleons that traversed the Pacifc during the 250 years of trade, “only four of them were built in Acapulco.” “The rest,” he pointed out, “were built in Manila, using local hardwood and local workmen. And the galleon was a joint effort between the artisans from China and the workmen from Cavite, Mindoro, Pangasinan and Bicol.”
“Silver Way” also gives credit to the Augustinian friar-missionary Fr. Andres de Urdaneta for having discovered the “tornaviaje,” the return route from the Philippines to Mexico and Spain in what would be the second circumnavigation of the globe. Coming from British publishers, “Silver Way” is a belated correction of Anglo-American historical black propaganda against the Spanish colonial record—what has come to be known as “la leyenda negra.”
‘Longest shipping line’
Philippine nationalist historians have so imbibed “the black legend” that they have dismissed or even totally ignored the Manila-Acapulco Trade, if only to insist on their distorted thesis that Spanish colonization brought the Philippines nothing but superstition, obscurantism, and backwardness.
But the Spanish record is incontestable and consistent.
An American historian, Shirley Fish, in her “The Manila-Acapulco Galleons: The Treasure Ships of the Pacific” (Authorhouse, 2011), called the huge ships “transpacifc treasure galleons” that carried back to Manila as much as 2.5 million silver pesos and “a yearly silver subsidy of 250,000 reales for the maintenance of the colonial government in the Philippines.” The money went to the development of Philippine agriculture and economy.
Historian Benito Legarda called the galleon trade “the longest shipping line in history.” “In the context of late-16th-century East Asian commerce, the Philippines-Mexico Trade was the one completely new and important creation, stimulating a greatly increased traffic between China and the Philippines even while the rest of the traditional framework of Asian Trade remained largely the same.”
Moreover, according to Legarda, the trade made Manila “the first primate city in Southeast Asia ahead of regional centers, which attained the status only in the nineteenth century.”
Although physically separated from the Asian mainland and thus the last to receive major cultural influences from there, the Philippine islands were enabled by the Manila-Acapulco intercontinental exchange to receive “trade flows from all directions.”
Legarda, in his book, “After the Galleons” (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999), puts it colorfully: “A capsule summary of the galleon trade is that it attracted silks from the north, spices from the north, and cottons and ivory from the west, exchanging them for silver and friars from the New World.”
Royal Company
Aside from the galleon, Spain, through the royal cedula of March 10, 1785, established the Royal Company of the Philippines, whose aim was to engage in the spice trade and, while vested with monopoly of Philippine trade, allowed ships from different Asian countries to dock in Manila to deliver the spices.
The company was a boost not only to world trade but also to Philippine agriculture and commerce since it provided credit and financing on easy terms. Auxiliary branches of the company were established in Ilocos, Bataan, Cavite and Camarines, improving agriculture and industry there: It bought lands for cultivation and distributed farm implements to farmers, established textile factories, and gave out awards for outstanding economic achievers.
Because of the outstanding economic achievements of the Royal Company in the Philippines, Spain was ahead of most colonizing countries in opening the Philippines to free commerce.
“While Holland did not allow any foreign boat to engage in the Batavia-Amsterdam Trade and England reserved the opium monopoly in China to her India Company,” wrote the late historian and Philippine consul to Madrid Antonio M. Molina: “a Royal Cedula of the King of Spain in 1785 opened the port of Manila to ships of all nations.”
Nick Joaquin’s ‘village’
With poetic conceit but with an all-encompassing worldview, Nick Joaquin called the Manila Galleon “the first medium to reduce the world to a village.”
If only to raise international historical awareness about the galleon trade, the museum will serve as a “research and cultural center on maritime trade,” Angara said. “The Galeon Museum will exhibit valuable artifacts, relics and documents depicting the 250 years of the galleon voyages, the precursor of the present day global trade.
“And for us, in the Philippines, this galleon is a teaching museum,” Angara added. “We want to teach our children that our forebears, our ancestors, did something worthwhile, not simply for themselves, but for the material and cultural enrichment of the planet.” | {
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Today has been a day that tech will remember mostly for the products that Apple announced, but as is often the case, a major rival in the mobile market has sought to sneak into the blogosphere headlines. Google has just begun rolling Android Lollipop 5.1 out to compatible devices, apart from Android One smartphones, which includes improved support for phones with multiple SIMs, as well as Device Protection and HD voice on supported handsets. More details below.
It’s not as if a fairly rudimentary software update was ever going to upstage Apple Watch or the new MacBook, but nevertheless, Android users do have quite a bit to look forward to with Android 5.1 Lollipop. Just when it will be available for all devices has not been explicitly stated by Google, with Android VP Dave Burke keeping things rather vague in his blog post on the matter, but at the time of writing, the update is available for Nexus 5, 7 and 10 users.
Although dual and multi-SIM devices are somewhat rare in North America and much of Europe, there are parts of the world where such handsets thrive, and Android 5.1 Lollipop does its part by offering full support. Ideal for business users traveling internationally, multi-SIM devices continue to grow in popularity, and as such, it’s good to see Google finally on board.
Device Protection focuses on the security of lost gadgets, something that Google, Apple and Microsoft have collectively focused on over the past few years. Essentially, the feature will keep your missing device locked until you sign in with your Google account – even if it’s potentially stolen and somebody resets it to factory.
HD voice calling will facilitate crisper conversation between compatible handsets, while Quick Settings adds a couple of quirks in letting you join Wi-Fi networks and manage paired Bluetooth devices with consummate ease.
The only question now, as is often the case, is when all major devices will be in receipt of this update. It’s a tedious, never-ending wild goose chase in many respects, particularly given that many are still waiting for the original Lollipop 5.0, but as soon as we hear more, we’ll have it covered here at!
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This piece is intended as part of a series of ongoing and interlocking conversations on NFP, sexuality, and Humanae Vitae, that have been hosted here, as well as by Sick Pilgrim, and on Melinda Selmys’s column.
Responses to these conversations have been diverse. Many people have said “thank you for addressing this” and proceeded to share their own stories. Others, however, seem to regard our truth-telling about our experiences as some kind of attack – whether on the church, or on the NFP market (because, yes, the market is involved. The market is always involved). Still others see our stories as the whinging of the discontented who lack the moral fortitude to do right.
I’ve touched already on the psychological and theological misconceptions inherent in these responses. What I wish to address here is a spiritual misconception the roots of which lie far deeper, and which is seen not only in the negative responses to our stories, but in a larger misapprehension about good and evil themselves.
The problem is that people think that suffering is in some way a good, or capable of being a good.
This is false. Suffering is always by its nature evil, a privation of a due good. The experience of suffering is the experience of encounter with evil. This is why in our traditional mythological depictions of heaven and hell, hell is always depicted as a “place” of terrible torture. This is why it is always morally wrong to inflict suffering on another, unless the principle of double effect is sufficiently at work – in the case, for instance, of a doctor administering painful chemo drugs to a cancer patient. The suffering is not the intended outcome. Healing is. Similarly, in working out, there may be periods of pain or discomfort, but pain and discomfort are not the intended end – and, often, too much pain or discomfort is indicative that something is being done, objectively, incorrectly. “Embrace the pain” is not a great way to pursue fitness, physically or spiritually.
One reason we latch onto spiritual masochism is that there’s a certain fear of pleasure built into the western tradition of philosophical thought. And while one is right to avoid the error of positing physical pleasure as an ultimate good, the reaction to this which views physical pleasure as dangerous is problematic.
But another reason we have latched on to this spiritual masochism may be to a misunderstanding of the centrality of the cross in the Christian life. The cross is a sign of ultimate love not because suffering itself is intrinsic to love, or a good in itself, or even necessary. The cross is what happens when perfect love comes into the world, and is rejected. It is a reminder that grace triumphs over suffering, and that the divine, rather than turning away from the flesh-and-bone pain of humanity, entered into it, and bore it with us.
Suffering is evil. It is a condition of the fall. In heaven there will be perfect love with no suffering, because suffering has no place in perfection. Yes, grace means that good can come out of suffering, but that is part of the divinely comedic narrative of salvation, and does not mean that suffering somehow becomes good, or a good, per se.
The failure to understand the nature of suffering means that one fails in spiritual discernment when looking at painful situations. A good spiritual director should be able to parse out whether the suffering experienced by a person or persons is such that yields genuine good – as in, the chemo drugs – or whether it is purely evil – as in, cancer itself.
When a condition in a marriage is bringing about suffering, it is possible that this suffering can lead to good, but it is also possible that this suffering is an indication that something is objectively amiss. Telling people simply to embrace their sufferings, without making this distinction, can lead to severe spiritual abuse.
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Seattle Police released two photos from a security camera that they say show a man “believed to have deliberately set” the two fires in Fremont early on Christmas Eve. These images are much clearer than the blurry video shared by several Fremont businesses on Facebook yesterday.
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That’s a question I’m often asked, mainly because of my interest in the Men in Black mystery. Although there is no doubt in my mind that the vast majority of all MIB encounters are of a paranormal nature, at least a small number are connected to government agencies. Indeed, there is hard evidence showing that UFO-themed researchers and groups have been watched – and at times watched closely. For example, the FBI has released its files on many of the Contactees of the 1950s, such as George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, George Van Tassel, and Frank Stranges. It’s important to note, though, that the UFO aspects of the investigations were secondary; sometimes, even further down the line than that. Issues relative to politics and communism were far more pressing, from the FBI’s perspective. In the U.K., in the late 1950s, the Aetherius Society was secretly watched by the British Police Force’s Special Branch. Not for their beliefs in aliens or UFOs, though, but because of their stance on atomic weapons.
With that all said, it’s time now to take a look at one of the earliest UFO research groups that was watched by the CIA: the Civilian Saucer Investigation (although in some of the CIA’s papers on the CSI, it’s incorrectly referred to as the California Committee for Saucer Investigation). A CIA document of February 9, 1953 begins as follows (you can find the document at this CIA link):
“1. Recently a member of the Los Angeles Office had occasion to hear Dr. Walter Riedel tell something of the activities of the California Committee for Saucer Investigations (CSI). His comments, as follows, may be of interest: 2. Dr. Riedel indicated he was formerly Chief Designer at the German Experimental Rocket Center at Peenemunde. He has been in the US as a ‘paperclip’ scientist for some years. He is now a Project engineer in the Aerophysics Department (Guided Missiles) of the North American Aviation Corp. He gave every impression of being a competent scientist, especially knowledgeable on rocket matters. He seemed a balanced person, not given to fixations.”
The CIA continued: “3. CSI has been in operation some years, composed of private individuals intrigued and scientifically interested in finding an explanation for ‘saucer’ phenomena. To date, they have received some 1570 letters relating to reported sightings. Of this number, they have been able to immediately or quickly eliminate 75% as not worth follow-up. The great proportion of this 25% have been discarded upon further investigation. What was somewhat surprising to the writer was the exhaustiveness with which these investigations are being made. Not only are very careful calculations made, if the data exists, to check the possibility of the report being physically possible (e.g., in terms of lines of sight), but the individual reporting the sighting is investigated privately at his place of residence to establish a general background of reliability and credibility. Of the 25% investigated, perhaps 25 or so sightings have been established as ‘reliable’ in the sense that no known existing explanation exists for them. Apparently, most of these have been forwarded to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, although there appears to be a time lag of some duration while CSI is making its own check and calculations. Dr. Riedel’s description of one reported sighting by a TWA pilot and crew, and the follow-up with respect to it, was impressive to the writer in the thought applied, the pains taken, and the very careful application of scientific method.”
The CIA took a particular interest in a plan the CSI had to create a hoaxed UFO event, for an interesting reason: “4. So serious is CSI with respect to its investigations that Dr. Riedel indicated that they are going to execute a planned ‘hoax’ over the Los Angeles area, in order to test the reaction and reliability of the public in general to unusual aerial phenomena. (The sightings reported over Malibu in its Los Angeles papers of 30 Jan 53 could possibly be this hoax.) From this experiment, they hope to ascertain how many people report an aerial visual phenomenon which had been conducted so as to be clearly visible to a large number of people in the area. They will also, of course, be able to test the variation of report details, etc. This experiment is designed to give a better background against which future sightings can be evaluated.”
And, finally, we have this from the CIA: “5. Apparently, an eye and interest are also directed toward the USSR for reactions to sightings as reported in the PRAVDA are observed. This interest is also evident in the paper entitled ‘Rockets Behind the Iron Curtain,’ presented before the annual convention of the American Rocket Society in New York City on 4 December 1952, by George P. Sutton, also of Aerophysics Department (North American Aviation, Inc.) and associated with CSI. 6. Of incidental interest may be the fact that NAA (National Aeronautical Association) suggested politely and perhaps indirectly to Dr. Riedel that he disassociate himself from official membership on CSI.”
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A wise man once remarked that AT&T Stadium had a retractable roof so God can watch His team play on Sundays. The Almighty’s faithful reveled in a 2-0 record with wins against the Giants and the Eagles to start the season. However, in a rapid fall from grace, your starting QB goes down to injury…twice.
Since Tony Romo’s participation in more x-rays than game winning drives, the Cowboys have gone through two quarterbacks, Brandon Weeden and Matt Cassel, leading to a 2-9 season.
— Report: Dez Bryant, others calling for Moore —
While the Cowboys have failed to win, at least they have also ignored the all-time record holder for wins by a starting quarterback in NCAA Division I Football history (50-3)…Kellen Moore.
What is a fan of Kellen Moore or America’s Team to do? What mountain can they climb to get their voice heard?
Many times fans will do anything to get their voice to be heard. In this case, it was not a sports radio call, a social media rant or disturbing chest paint art at the game. Todays sports superhero, artfully fighting perceived injustice, takes to posting a petition on the White House’s website.
Donavan Albert of Rockville, Maryland, as well as a Boise State grad created the petition to start the movement.
Excerpt from WhiteHouse.gov:
“On behalf of this great country, we (armchair QBs all) with great deference (for now) call on you, Mr President, to contact Jerry Jones and request Kellen Moore be named starting QB. Needless to say, the image of America’s Team struggling like a pathetic pimpled faced Pop Warner kids team is not lost on our enemies both foreign (who think soccer is football) and domestic (like Packer fans). So, Mr President, let’s show our nation and the world that the Cowboys are still Our team. Kellen for QB!”
Is it possible that while our Executive Branch cannot free citizens from increased national debt, they can provide freedom for one NFL franchise? Only the voters know…
To view the petition, click here.
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I am a strong advocate for holding liberals to the same rules they hold everyone else to. Far too often we see conservatives hammered for something they did or said, even if it’s taken out of context, and hounded from the public stage because an angry liberal mob was pointed in their direction for no other reason than the left’s desire for a scalp. While it is satisfying to claim one of theirs after they claim, or try to claim, one of ours, it’s a sad game that ends with everyone losing.
This game is nothing new, but it has gotten significantly worse in recent years, especially after the election of Donald Trump. Before the election liberals hated non-liberals (independents are not immune either, anyone deemed not sufficiently liberal is fair game), but after November 8th, 2016, particularly around 9:00 pm when it became clear that Hillary was not going to win in a walk, their blood began to boil and scalps became the order the day.
This week saw the left eat one of their own, as was bound to happen – Frankenstein’s monster always returns to destroy the castle eventually.
An actor named Mark Duplass (don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of him, most people haven’t) tweeted something fairly innocuous. “Fellow liberals,” he wrote, “If you are interested at all in ‘crossing the aisle’ you should consider following @BenShapiro. I don’t agree with him on much but he’s a genuine person who once helped me for no other reason than to be nice. He doesn’t bend the truth. His intentions are good.”
Like I said, a harmless tweet expressing a sentiment from an earlier time, a simpler time. But that time is dead. The aisle is a chasm, and progressives have built a wall around their side, a la Berlin 1961, to keep people in. Suggesting it be breached is heresy.
Duplass quickly came under fire from people in his own trench; from inside the wall. A day later he issued a retraction.
Why issue a retraction (an apology) for simply telling liberals they might want to sample the air outside their bubble every once in a while? Because that’s not allowed. A hive mind is not built to accept or even handle dissent.
I feel sorry for Duplass, all he tried to do was to be human. He tried to expand other people’s minds, or at least their understanding of what they view as their enemy. That is not allowed.
Time will tell if his career is impacted by this, but it’s a sad commentary on where we are as a society that that’s even a possibility, and likely probable. Such is the state of Hollywood, and the state of the left.
Fueled, in part, by the outrage of the left, some on the right decided to go scalp-hunting and landed a much bigger fish – the director of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies, James Gunn.
Ten-year-old tweets from Gunn were very politically incorrect at the time and are considered a hate-crime by today’s standards. Gunn was quickly fired by Disney from writing and directing the next installment of the billion-dollar franchise.
Quickly, the very mob that had run Duplass into his panic room to tweet an apology was angry over Gunn’s dismissal. Liberal “journalists” and activists (like there’s a difference) who’d just called for the firing of Scarlett Johansson a week ago for the crime of being a woman who was going to play a transsexual and championed every boycott call of Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh over harmless comments, condemned the firing of a director who made rape and pedophile jokes. The hypocrisy is obvious.
Both sides had a “victory” of sorts – one got an apology that served as a warning shot to anyone else in their tribe who might consider not hating conservatives, and conservatives claimed a famous scalp by applying the very rules we’ve been bludgeoned with by liberals for years.
This tit-for-tat is something I’ve subscribed to for years – liberals should be held to the same rules they impose on others. Liberals should be forced to take their own medicine, it’s not our fault that it sometimes turns out to be a suppository. But these ridiculous events exposed just how insane the whole exercise has become. Lives were damaged, maybe even careers ruined, over a tweet suggesting we might be able to tolerate each other, at least in 240 character increments on social media.
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Arizona Republican resigns over Tea Party threats
By Patrick Martin
14 January 2011
A local Republican Party official in Arizona resigned his position this week after the attempted assassination of Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, citing the threat of violence from Tea Party members in his area.
Anthony Miller, who was hailed as a rising star in state Republican circles as one of the party’s few black leaders, was reelected last month to a second term as chairman of the Arizona Legislative District 20 of the Republican Party. District 20 is a heavily Republican area in the southwest suburbs of Phoenix, including Ahwatukee Foothills and parts of Chandler and Tempe.
In an e-mail to the state Republican Party chairman, Randy Pullen, sent shortly after the shooting of Giffords, Miller wrote that his wife had asked him “do I think that my PCs [precinct committee members] will shoot at our home? So with this being said I am stepping down.”
Miller told the Arizona Republic newspaper that local Tea Party members had made verbal and online attacks on him since he first was elected to the local party leadership.
“I wasn’t going to resign but decided to quit after what happened Saturday,” Miller told the Republic. “I love the Republican Party but I don’t want to take a bullet for anyone.”
Three other members of the local Republican committee, including the secretary, the vice chairman and the former district spokesman, also resigned in sympathy with Miller. The former spokesman, Jeff Kolb, told the newspaper, “The singular focus on ‘getting’ Anthony” was the reason.
State Senator John McComish, the Republican incumbent in the 20th District, said he had backed Miller’s reelection. “It’s too bad,” he said. “He didn’t deserve to be hounded out of office.”
Last month’s district election was hotly contested, with a Tea Party slate winning three of the seven leadership positions. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has become nationally notorious for his racist attacks on immigrant workers, backed the Tea Party slate and made a personal appeal on behalf of the candidate who unsuccessfully challenged Miller, Thomas Morrisey.
The Arizona Republican Party was split sharply during last year’s primary election, with incumbent US Senator John McCain challenged by former congressman and radio talkshow host J. D. Hayworth, who had the backing of the Tea Party and the ultra-right anti-immigrant groups.
Much of the vilification of Miller was due to his ties to McCain. He was a full-time campaign worker for McCain throughout 2010. Miller told the Republic he had been called “McCain’s boy”—a slur with clear racial overtones—and saw hand gestures threatening gunshots against him in the course of the campaign.
Miller expanded on his reasons for resignation in subsequent press interviews, declaring, “I’m not going to get shot or my family shot for what is a volunteer position.” He added, “There’s a racial component to it. There’s a lot of ugliness.”
He described his political opponents as a “radical” Tea Party faction that ran as the “New Vision” slate, which he called “the Sarah Palin type of Republicans.”
Meanwhile, a California man was arrested Wednesday for leaving telephone messages threatening liberal Democratic congressman Jim McDermott of Seattle, Washington.
Charles Turner Habermann, 32, of Palm Springs, made two phone calls to McDermott’s office denouncing him for opposing tax cuts for the rich. “He’s a piece of human filth. He’s a liar, he’s a communist,” Habermann said in the first call, last month, continuing with a string of obscenities. He then said he would “blow his brains out” if they ever met. This threat was repeated more explicitly in a second phone call.
After being interviewed by FBI agents, Habermann said he had been drinking and was angry because he regarded the congressman’s position on taxes as a threat to his $3 million trust fund. He now faces up to ten years in prison. | {
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President Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE is fundraising off his national prime-time address Tuesday focused on the border amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.
Trump in an email Tuesday afternoon asked supporters to donate to his "Official Secure the Border Fund" through the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.
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"We need to raise $500,000 in ONE DAY. I want to know who stood with me when it mattered most so I’ve asked my team to send me a list of EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT who donates to the Official Secure the Border Fund," read the email written in Trump's name.
"Please make a special contribution of $5 by 9 PM EST to our Official Secure the Border Fund to have your name sent to me after my speech," it added.
During his prime-time address on Tuesday night, Trump will make his case for a wall to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border, which he claims is necessary to prevent crime.
Most of the major television networks have said they will carry the address, followed by a joint response from Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPowell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerDemocrats scramble on COVID-19 relief amid division, Trump surprise Pelosi, Schumer 'encouraged' by Trump call for bigger coronavirus relief package Schumer, Sanders call for Senate panel to address election security MORE (D-N.Y.).
Trump's demand for the wall has been a sticking point in negotiations to reopen large swaths of the federal government, which have been shut down since Dec. 22. Democrats have vowed not to approve any funding for a wall, while Trump has said he won't sign a bill that doesn't include money for the wall. | {
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Arsene Wenger believes Nicklas Bendtner can be an "unstoppable striker", providing he shows the right attitude.
The Danish striker made his last Arsenal appearance against Liverpool in August 2011 but is in line to return to the team for the Capital One Cup tie at West Bromwich Albion on Wednesday evening.
Bendtner was an unused substitute in the win against Stoke City at the weekend and Wenger says the striker now has a chance to prove his quality.
Play video Watch Arsenal video online 13:20 Wenger's pre-match interview
"He had nearly gone somewhere else [in August] and in the end he stayed because it didn't work out and we needed him here," the boss told Arsenal Player.
"Now he can convince everybody. We are open-minded, we believe in his qualities. I personally believe in his qualities. It's just down to attitude and fighting [spirit]. When he has that, Nicklas can be an unstoppable striker. He gets his chance. Our job is about that. Take your chance.
"Fans forgive you everything as long as you produce the performances on the football pitch. That's what people want. I think our fans have a positive attitude towards Bendtner and they will be behind him. Only you can create that with your performances."
Wenger has fielded Bendtner on the right of Arsenal's front three in the past - when Robin van Persie played centrally. But he thinks the Dane is at his best through the middle.
"I see him as a centre forward," said Wenger. "He can use his body [with his] back to goal. He's an intelligent player, he can play intelligent passes and protect. He's a similar type size-wise to Olivier Giroud. The central role is perfect for him."
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A couple who sold all of their possessions so they could sail around the world have been left with nothing after their boat sank just two days into their journey.
Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh began their adventure on a 28-foot sailboat last week, setting off from the marina in Tarpon Springs.
Two days later, the emergency services were called to reports of a capsized boat in the Gulf of Mexico near Madeira Beach – about 25 miles down the coast.
While sailing through the popular tourist site, the bottom of their boat struck an unseen object underwater and quickly started to take on water, forcing them to evacuate. They were left with just their two-year-old dog Remy, their social security cards, a mobile phone and some dog food and clothes.
Speaking after the incident, the couple said they had planned to escape modern life on the sailboat after leaving Breckenridge, Colorado, last year.
“I sold everything I had to do this,” Mr Broadwell told the Tampa Bay Times. “I lost everything in a matter of 20 minutes.”
Mr Broadwell, 26, is originally from Florida and worked in marketing for timeshares. He met Ms Walsh, 24, in Philadelphia while there for work, but told the newspaper they both got “tired” of the sales lifestyle, “of doing things to make people do the things they don’t want to do”.
That’s when they hatched the plan to give it all up and sail round the world. For two years they planned and saved, with Mr Broadwell driving for Uber to make extra money. In April 2017 they sold everything they had, including his SUV, and bought the 1969 boat they named ‘Lagniappe’ (which is Creole for ‘bonus’) for $5,000 (£3,600), spending the same again to restore it.
Up until that point, the couple had no sailing experience, so they spent the next few months learning from Mr Broadwell’s father. It was only this month that they decided they were ready, and were given a grand send-off by friends in Tarpon Springs.
Two days later, the Lagniappe had sunk. The boat remains in the water, and the coast guard has told the couple it could cost up to $10,000 to remove and store it. They only have $90.
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They may now move in with Mr Broadwell’s mother and look for work. But they still want to keep their dream alive.
“I’m not going to give up now,” Mr Broadwell said. “I’m going to get another boat down the road.”
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Toronto ranks number 2 in the world as a city of opportunity, according to a new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Trumped by New York City, Toronto stood out among the world's "metro powerhouses" in the areas of finance, tourism, livability and innovation - and was the only Canadian city to make the cut.
The city ranked #1 in terms of quality of living, clean air, sports and leisure, as well as skyscraper construction - if you count that as a positive.
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Where did T.O. fail? The cost of public transportation - three bucks a ride thanks partly to the strongly unionized TTC.
Still, the city beat out 24 other juggernauts, including London, Berlin, Chicago and Hong Kong.
In an interview with The Atlantic, the report's chief architect Merrill Pond said Toronto was benefiting from Canada's immigration policies:
"A great city is all about growing, retaining and attracting talent."
Would you take any of the other 25 contenders over Hogtown?
Editor's Note: The TTC is expensive for a variety of reasons, including a lack of government funds and unionization of its employees. This text has been revised.
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The ICO market has tanked but that doesn’t mean blockchain gaming projects can’t raise significant investment.
And that’s what LA-based startup Mythical Games has done, closing a $16 million Series A round from a mixture of crypto-focused funds and traditional VCs.
We believe these new economics will come to dominate gaming. John Linden CEO, Mythical Games
Headed by veterans from Activision Blizzard and Yahoo, the lead investor was Galaxy Digital through its EOS VC fund.
Mythical Games’ technology will initially deploy using the EOS blockchain, although it expects to be blockchain agnostic in the longer term.
Other investors included Javelin Venture Partners, DDC, Fenbushi Capital, Noris and OkCoin.
Item-first approach
In terms of what Mythical Games plans to do, it’s developing a platform that will enable game developer to create and deploy game items which are secured on the blockchain, allowing them to be customized and traded by players.
Some of the funding will also be invested in a slate of games to test and demonstrate how these new item-led game economies will operate.
“We believe these new economics will come to dominate gaming, resulting in an even bigger addressable market for the industry,” commented John Linden, Mythical Games’ CEO and previously CEO of Marvel: Strike Force developer Seismic Games, and a studio head at Activision.
Other co-founders include Jamie Jackson, who was an Activision studio head working on Guitar Hero, Blizzard senior producer Rudy Koch, and ex-Yahoo director Stephan Cunningham.
“We believe that gaming – and specifically players’ interaction with in-game economies and virtual goods – will play a key role in how the masses first discover the true potential of the blockchain,” said Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz.
You can find out more about Mythical Games via its website.
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A day earlier, Mr. Rooney became the first House Republican to indicate that he was willing to consider supporting articles of impeachment over the president’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, but he said on Saturday that his decision to retire was unrelated. (He emphasized to reporters that the allegations did not rise to the level of the Watergate scandal.)
“I’m going to do at all stages what I think is right to do,” Mr. Rooney told reporters on Friday when asked if he was more outspoken because he was considering retirement. “You’ve got to do the right thing at every stage. Whether I run again is a totally different can of worms, that has to do with family things, business, wanting to do some different things.”
“This is kind of a frustrating job for me,” he added. “I come from a world of actions, decisions, putting your money down and seeing what happens. This is a world of talk.”
As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Rooney has had access to the closed-door interviews conducted during the open impeachment inquiry, which has brought a parade of career diplomats and senior officials to the Capitol to give hourslong testimony. A former ambassador to the Holy See, he defended the career diplomats who have testified, telling reporters on Friday that “it’s painful to me to see this kind of amateur diplomacy, riding roughshod over our State Department apparatus.”
He also offered some of the bluntest criticism of a top White House official’s efforts to walk back earlier statements saying that Mr. Trump had sought a quid pro quo in withholding American aid from Ukraine. | {
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Oct. 19, 2011 -- A 19-year-old girl who has been missing for 10 years has been found with open wounds, burn marks, scars, and broken bones by police investigating the allegedbasement dungeon and kidnapping ring in Philadelphia.
Beatrice Weston, who was taken at the age of 8 by accused dungeon ring-leader Linda Weston, is now in a Philadelphia hospital recovering from the ongoing cruelty and torture by her captors, according to Philadelphia police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers. Linda Weston is the girl's aunt, and police said she took her niece after a family feud with her sister, Vicki Weston.
The girl was found two days after police uncovered a basement dungeon in which four mentally handicapped adults were held against their will. Police have arrested and charged Linda Weston, 51, her daughter Jean McIntosh, 32, Weston's boyfriend Thomas Gregory, 47, and Eddie Wright, 49, with kidnapping, false imprisonment, and other related charges.
Police pleaded with media to let the girl heal in privacy at the hospital.
"This girl was beaten, tortured, absolutely the worst thing you can see one person do to another," said Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.
Evers said Wednesday after finding the girl that he would be happy to see the four prosecuted wherever the punishments would be the harshest.
"We're going to prepare to prosecute this here or, without hyperbole, wherever the prisons are going to be the worst. Federal prisons might be too nice," he said. "I've never seen anything like this before on a living person, that kind of cruelty over and over again. No penalty is too harsh to the people that did this, absolutely no penalty," Evers said.
The lieutenant said the girl's torture in the "house of horrors" included signs of a spoon being heated and then burned into her skin. She had fractured bones that healed over incorrectly, and bones in her ankles showed the effects of being shot repeatedly with something like a pellet gun, he said. There are open wounds on her head, which she had covered with a hood when police found her. She had scars over her face, arms, and legs, he said.
Police found Beatrice Weston among a group of 10 children and teens who were located Tuesday after Florida police tipped off Philadelphia cops that there may be more victims and that Weston had been living with at least seven children in her last home in West Palm Beach, Fla..
One of the individuals found was Weston, and another was McIntosh, whom police arrested. Two other adult males were initially taken into custody and then released.
Police also took six children into protective custody, two of whom were the children of a mentally handicapped couple who were held captive by Weston for years, police said. The children, ages 2 and 5, were severely malnourished. Evers noted that the 2-year-old girl looked like a 6-month-old baby when she was found.
Police are trying to identify the rest of the group, including three other young adults and four other children. Weston and Gregory's son, Thomas Gregory, Jr., was not among those taken into custody and has not been arrested in connection with the crimes.
Benita Rodriguez, a 15-year-old girl from Florida who traveled to Philadelphia to be with Thomas Gregory, Jr., was also found by police on Monday. The girl told her mother during a phone call that once she arrived in Philadelphia, Weston would not let her contact anyone back home, according to ABC News affiliate WPBF.
"Once (the victims) were out there in Philadelphia, she was not allowed to be outside," Rodriguez's mother, Juana Rodriguez, told WPBF.
Dungeon Case Finds Two Girls Who Have Been Missing
A task force is working around the clock to try and locate as many as 50 possible victims of the alleged fraud and kidnapping ring that is said to have spanned a number of states including Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and now Pennsylvania.
Police identified the four Philadelphia victims as Derwin McLemire, 41, of North Carolina; Herbert Knowles, 40 of Virginia; and Tamara Breeden, 29, and Edwin Sanabria, 31, both of Philadelphia.
Detectives also found dozens of identification cards, power-of-attorney forms and other documents. Philadelphia police formed a task force to investigate the case as authorities try to find as many as 50 more possible fraud victims, Officer Jillian Russell said.
The four defendants are believed to have moved from Texas to Florida to Philadelphia with the kidnapped individuals, fleeing each place when authorities began to close in on them, according to Florida authorities.
A spokesman for West Palm Beach said that the city had shut off the water supply to the group's home multiple times, but Weston or other individuals in the home had stolen water meters and illegally turned their water back on. The group was eventually evicted from their home in West Palm Beach, Fla.., according to WPBF.
Gregory Thomas was also arrested twice while living in West Palm Beach, once for burglary and once for grand larceny. He was convicted only of the burglary. | {
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From Issue Seven of Gear Patrol Magazine.
When I was a boy, I learned from my late uncle — the owner of a string of high-performance and very desirable cars — a trick for falling asleep. Think of something abstract, he told me, a manufactured, waking dream. You’ll quickly drift to dreamland. If you think of something real, like your next day’s schedule or a dinner party conversation earlier that evening, your mind can’t release into slumber. His method works well, as I’ve discovered through half a lifetime or more of restless and anxious attempts at sleep. But I recently ruined my go-to abstract dream-lullaby in the parking lot of a Northern Michigan Applebee’s.
It was after midnight. I was buzzed on Bell’s beer and waxing philosophical about the same cars I’d been pre-sleep dreaming about for decades — because I’d just driven them all 1,000 miles through my home state. “Eatin’ good in the neighborhood” hadn’t been my Last-Supper plan to commemorate circumnavigating most of Michigan. If our crew had wrapped the day earlier, perhaps we’d have found a venue more appropriate for the vehicles we’d just piloted and photographed for the previous four days. A venue where three magnificent, top-end, top-dollar, archetypal “baller” cars might not have been so out of place. Indeed, even if I had a dollar for every boneless buffalo wing I’d inhaled in my life, I couldn’t come close to a down payment on these cars. But price alone isn’t enough for a motor vehicle to achieve waking-dream status, anyway; no, these particular cars are a higher breed. They belong to the grand tourer genus, a nearly intangible echelon of vehicle that, especially in the age of the quickly evolving automobile, demands examination.
Grand tourers (in which one goes “grand touring”; also called “GTs”) are, in the automotive world, the epitome of style and design — the ultimate form of rolling luxury. To me, a car-geek kid turned car-geek thirty-something, that belief has always been canon. Ultra-luxury chauffeur-driven sedans and $1.5 million hypercars are, indeed, over-the-top indulgences, the most hyperbolic of automobiles. But a grand tourer is more than a machine with massive performance cred and a price to match. It’s more than a bejeweled luxo-barge. It’s more than a daily drivable golf-bag caddy, more than a technological powerhouse, more than a stunning work of design.
DW Burnett
A grand tourer is, by necessity, all of those things in one. A grand tourer must have a larger-than-necessary high-performance engine and be comfortable enough for long-distance trips; it must have only two doors, with rear seats optional; it must maintain perfect proportions, with graceful lines and wide hips and a powerful stance. And let me be perfectly clear: grand tourers aren’t sports cars. They’re sporting cars.
Because it checks all these boxes, a grand tourer is partially a compromise by a thousand cuts. Throw all those extreme qualities into the same car then dial them up all the way, and you’ve got the beautiful antithesis of practicality. All grand tourers share specific characteristics, yet fall along a wide spectrum, ranging from very luxurious and complex on one end to simple and lithe on the other. To tell this story, we brought along three models — the Lexus LC 500, Aston Martin DB11 V12 and Mercedes-AMG S65 Coupe — that represent waypoints along that spectrum.
I enlisted some of the best minds in the biz to help me test these cars and pontificate on the spectrum itself: crack auto journalists Eric Adams and Alex Kalogianni and the ferociously talented automotive photographer Dave “DW” Burnett. Eric and I have worked together for years now; his automotive, aerospace and tech reporting appears all over the Gear Patrol universe and beyond. Alex and I met recently on a similarly epic road trip through Europe; he is a formidable automotive expert, having edited, written and opined on video about the industry for years. Dave’s work graces the pages of such publications as Road & Track, Vanity Fair and many others. And, I discovered, they’re all hyperactive opinion factories.
So then how do each of these cars of ours avoid being, as Dave put it, “a finely tuned experience for people who maybe understand what going fast is like,” and instead allow a driver’s skill and enthusiast spirit to shine? We would exercise a combined 1,692 horsepower and around $600,000 worth of GT machinery over four days and 1,000 miles to find out. Not to choose a winner, but to understand the essence of the contemporary grand tourer.
More immediately, though, why put the Grand Tour Philosophy to the test in Michigan? Why drive three cars that have nothing to do with the state’s — let alone the country’s — deeply historic auto industry through the Motor City and beyond? Several reasons, mostly selfish: I’m proudly from Michigan (you could say I’m #PureMichigan, in fact); Michigan is unbelievably gorgeous on every level; Detroit was a great meeting point for us all; and… I kind of wanted to park an Aston Martin in my parents’ garage for a night. After all, I’d drifted to sleep on that notion for decades, and now I had a chance to make my hazy fantasy an acute fever dream.
Day 1 — Detroit to Muskegon, 200 miles
After pre-dawn alarms, taxis, a TSA drug dog incident, a few flights out of the greater New York area and a Detroit airport shuttle, we convened at an off-site parking lot where our touring trio awaited. Cold and still, the cars waited patiently but expectantly, like medieval war steeds just before a long campaign; we approached like sweaty and already travel-weary knights of the Grand Touring Table.
I’d promised Dave plenty of room for photo gear in the Mercedes — after all, as a sedan-made-coupe, I thought it would have a cavernous S-Class-sized trunk. So imagine our surprise when we found a sizeable back seat-accessible refrigerator taking up valuable storage real estate (“the most disappointing part of the trip for me,” Dave would claim later as we debriefed). We hadn’t started a single engine, and already the Benz was vying for the designation of most opulent, perhaps to a fault. The Aston, at 10 cubic feet, and the Lexus, at only five, have just enough trunk space between them for a moderate golf bag and a few duffels. But, coupled with the Mercedes’s adult-sized back seat — in contrast to the less-than-reasonable back seat space in the Lexus and the Aston’s complete lack of a rear seat — all the excess legroom gave us plenty of room to pack Dave’s gear and set off for the heart of the city.
After a quick briefing, we saddled up and took off immediately for Belle Isle, a 1,000-acre island park situated right between Michigan and Canada in the middle of the Detroit River. It was high noon and sticky-hot in the vast, still park where, among its meandering roads, we found an inactive marble fountain for our glamor-shot debut.
Alex, a Mustang owner, was immediately at home in the Lexus. “My short one-sentence review of the LC 500 is that it’s the most expensive Mustang I’ve ever driven,” he told the group.
Dave echoed his high praise: “The LC punches above its weight. We can take it on a trip like this with cars more than double its cost and it’s hanging.”
Indeed, in that way, Lexus has made the entry-level car of the GT pantheon, if you can consider $100,000 “entry level.” Were I personally unable to swing an Aston Martin, I’d pick up an LC 500 and feel fine about my purchase — at least partially because, at full tilt, its big V8 sounds like an insane gasoline-gulping banshee.
But if I could drop a quarter-million dollars on a DB11 V12, nothing on earth would stop me. Every time I drive one, it feels menacingly familiar, maybe like Bruce Wayne feels when he slips into the bat cowl. It’s an objectively spectacular feat of automobile design, engineering and manufacturing. Eric described it as the “skittish thoroughbred” of the group; “You feel like you have to perform for it,” he said. True, the DB11 is always “on,” and when driving one, so must you be, too. I find that sensation intoxicating and seductive, but it’s not for everyone.
Initial thoughts on the S65 were myriad, but all seemed to cement it early on as occupying the far, opulent and majestic end of the spectrum. “It’s like the minivan of the trip,” said Dave, as an honest compliment — relatively, there is so much room and such a vast array of conveniences that it was the long-haul choice straight away. Initially, I found it overwhelmingly confusing to operate, for the most part; but that impression faded even in the short time I spent with the car. It is, plainly put, a pleasure to cruise in.
After wrapping our first shoot, opinions developing with rapidity and stomachs alive with audible growls, our $600,000 caravan wound its way through the Motor City in search of food. We found it at Mudgie’s Deli in Corktown, where, over spicy noodle salad and huge sandwiches, conversation flowed as we planned our next move.
Detroit is quickly overcoming its fraught history. After a decades-long downturn, ignited in part by the automotive industry moving its manufacturing beyond the city and out of the U.S. entirely, entrepreneurs and the younger generation have found new roots, creating housing opportunities, jobs and commerce among the relics and ruins of the old city. There is, as you might imagine, much to photograph there, though we were going straight for the belle of the ball. Michigan Central Station, an abandoned, looming train hub that stands like a time machine in the middle of an evolving metropolis, was recently purchased by the Ford Motor Company for revitalization and preservation. The building is epic to behold and rife with photogenic vantage points, and as we flagrantly staged photos and blocked streets for prime angles, we drew plenty of attention, including that of a cop.
As his patrol car approached, we disbanded; he pulled up next to the Aston, glared, and I steeled myself for the worst. I rolled down my window, and without breaking the scowl on his face, he boomed, “Which one’s the fastest?” Then flashed a massive smile and offered to help us however possible, going so far to say he’d alert the precinct that we weren’t causing trouble and thanked us for choosing his city to feature in our story. Detroit gets a bad rap for its history; not only is its future bright, its present is, too.
Our day only half over, we bid adieu to the state’s re-budding metropolis and shot westward toward my hometown, Muskegon, on the Lake Michigan shore. The familiar three-hour drive gave me time to reacquaint myself with the sublime DB11, a car that’s at once taut and sinewy to its core, but also supple and plush.
I entered this GT showdown with the working theory that the Aston is the quintessential example of this kind of car. Not all my companions were totally sold.
“My problem is the usability of the car compared to the other ones,” Eric said. “There’s no real cupholder. No convenient place to put my phone. You don’t feel like you’re really inside something special. I don’t mean it has to be eye candy everywhere, but it just has to have a little energy to it, and I don’t get that on the inside.”
That’s by design, Dave countered. “You’re having the experience that Aston wants you to have, and I kind of get that. If you put other stuff on a car like that it’s like putting a fanny pack on a tuxedo.”
Trying to keep my bias in check, I showed off Muskegon’s sights: a World War II submarine; the lighthouse-studded, sandy lakeshore (where a boy walked by and asked if any of our cars had “doors that go up”); a classic West Michigan sunset. Afterward, I checked the guys into the Shoreline Inn, which overlooks downtown and the inland Muskegon Lake, and headed home with my Aston.
Decades ago, I would fall asleep in this very house with visions of supercars dancing in my head, fantasizing about the day I would park something exotic in the driveway. After I burbled into the garage with the DB11, and my dad emerged from the house already snapping photos, it hit me. Starting tonight, I’d have to start dreaming of something different.
Day 2 — Muskegon to Glen Arbor, 148 miles
During a leisurely morning with my parents (plus a curious neighbor who popped in to offer us “twenty grand” to take the Lexus off our hands), we discussed and debated the state of the grand tourers.
First, the Mercedes-Benz, with its 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12. Twelve-cylinders are signature elements of the classic GT car, Dave pointed out. “It’s not a sports car engine. It’s an oil tanker. That’s why it’s in the G65 [SUV] and that car. It just torques the earth around.” My feelings exactly: with 621 horsepower and a truly mental 738 lb-ft of torque, the earth moves for Mercedes. But do wealthy bankers actually need to be carving corners, or do they just want to go fast sometimes? “The guys who buy these probably get as much sportiness as they’re looking for,” my dad noted. “They’re not taking it on a gymkhana.”
After a long goodbye, we shoved off for a quick drive north to Stony Lake. My brother and his family were spending a few days at our lake house before the school year began, and, aside from wanting to get in a couple hours of quality time, I needed to recruit a camera car (my sister-in-law’s Explorer), a copilot (my 11-year-old nephew) and a driver, my brother Matt. His skills honed by years behind the wheel of an ambulance, my brother was more than up to the task of bombing down the oncoming lane so Dave could perform insane acrobatics to procure photos. It helped, of course, that as a teenager Matt would drive in the empty opposite lane screaming “we’re in England!” to scare me senseless — a skill allegedly passed down to him from our oldest brother, Chris.
The roads around Shelby, Michigan, are mostly arrow-straight paths through acres of farmland where grassy asparagus and rough cherry trees grow in massive patches across the entire landscape. You can see for miles down those roads, and the colors of the hay and trees and sky beat like America’s heartland — it’s a magnificent place. And good exercise for big engines to reach passing speed around tractors and slower, loping locals.
My nephew, who has soaked up a love for fast mechanical things, was wide-eyed at the sight of our high-dollar, high-performance herd. He first rode with me in the LC 500, which he claimed was his favorite; after a fast run in the DB11, he naturally changed his mind. Then he rode with Alex in the S65 and didn’t look back. Won over by the endless gadgets and gizmos, like the glass roof and the refrigerator and the night vision and the colored LED lighting system, he’d found the modern preteen automotive dream: a playground of tech on four wheels. As I understand it, he went on to lecture about the merits of Mercedes-Benz for days afterward.
My whole family was taken by it, actually. Dad was amazed by the Mercedes’s dimmable electrochromic glass roof, which changes from a light to dark blue shade should you wish to shun the sun; Mom and I closely inspected the car’s scent diffuser together. The S65 is an astonishing car, magnificently plush and so laden with technology that it would be at home in a sci-fi blockbuster.
Truth be told, it’s probably the most complicated car I’ve ever driven, and getting behind the wheel was a mini dream come true. The V12-powered Mercedes-Benz coupe was the first “fuck you” car I ever knew existed. As a budding auto enthusiast about my nephew’s age, I first figured out the excess — the non-necessity — of the early ’90s CL 600 and understood that other cars were made in its image.
But the S65 stirred contention among our ranks. “With the LC, you get a sense that there’s real deep-tissue design going on there in the architecture,” Eric said. “It’s the only one [of our three] that wasn’t a clean sheet design for the intent of a coupe. I have great respect for this car, but it does not feel like a $239,000 car. I’m sure it is, but if they were to set out with that budget and these performance parameters and design a coupe, would it be this car?”
“No. It would be something else,” Alex said.
Or, as Dave put it: “By cutting doors off, It’s like they sort of targeted a demographic… like the millionaire on Bumble or something.”
With sparse cell reception, no one was using Bumble out here in the country anyway. And, with their duties done, we parted ways with my family and recharged at the Brown Bear, the bar and restaurant with the best burgers in the state.
After a time-consuming morning, the rest of the day would be occupied by a winding drive along the West Michigan coastline and a search for stunning views and photo opps among the dunes and cliffs of scenic route M-22. Our destination for the night was Glen Arbor, a tiny town on the Leelanau Peninsula, adjacent to the utterly magnificent Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Under cover of night, we arrived at our stopover: the Homestead Resort, where a four-person lakefront condo awaited us. Though it’s a full-service resort with restaurants and spa, our time was limited; we had an entire state to cover. After scaring up some grub at Art’s Tavern — a college pennant-covered, Michigan beer-saturated restaurant popular with locals and vacationers alike — we hit the hay.
Day 3 — Glen Arbor to Sault Ste. Marie, 259 miles
After breakfast and a quick car wash to brighten our chariots (“No towels? Oh shucks, we’ll have to air dry…“), we headed straight to Traverse City, one of the better-known spots along the northern tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula. It’s a summer vacation destination with sweeping views of Grand Traverse Bay, which feeds off of Lake Michigan and points straight north toward the Upper Peninsula (pro tip: locals call it the “U.P.”). It’s a quick stop, inundated by curious onlookers held rapt by our unfamiliar machines. As I drove through a parking lot, a man walked right up to the Lexus and began screaming with his arms outstretched, apparently concerned neither with his safety nor the fact that he looked deranged. I rolled down the window and he exclaimed again, as his wife shrunk away, “What IS this? It’s BEAUTIFUL!” Small crowds gathered around the Aston Martin, too, and the Mercedes drew some beguiled glances.
Rabid fans aside, we had miles to go before we rested, and heavy rain clouds quickly approached from the west. We were chasing sunlight and dry roads. Our destination, the far edge of the Upper Peninsula, was hours away.
The Mackinac Bridge is a nearly five-mile stretch of proud, tall civil engineering conjoining the two very disparate parts of Michigan. Whereas the Lower Peninsula is full of metropolitan cities and seaside resort towns, the U.P. is largely a quiet place set upon by extreme winter weather and full of vast swaths of forest. Scattered throughout are smaller towns and some cities, like Marquette, Escanaba and our home for the night, Sault (pronounced “soo”) Ste. Marie.
Massive bolts of lightning began striking the bridge when we were only a few minutes away. White cracks of light split swirling, midnight blue skies as larger and larger raindrops activated our automatic windshield wipers. Were the rain to start in earnest and keep up, our plans for bridge photography would be ruined. And so, as we rolled onto the south side of the span, the merciless sky burst open and dumped an entire Great Lake’s worth of rain.
And then, as we crossed through the toll booth, a meteorological miracle: the rain stopped completely.
Navigating into Bridgeview Park to the northwest of the Mackinac, we watched as skies brightened, yellowed and cleared. We were alone in the park, with nothing but a majestic suspension bridge backdrop, a world of photographic possibility and enough humidity to require SCUBA training. Elated and emboldened by our luck, we followed Dave’s hunch and went exploring in the U.P.
There’s a small town named (very appropriately) De Tour Village tucked in the far southeastern corner of the U.P. We found our way to a sparsely occupied point overlooking St. Mary’s River, which serves in part to connect Lakes Huron and Superior in the space between Michigan and Canada. I have no scientific basis for this claim, but I am certain in my heart that never before has there been, and never again will there be, a grouping of these three vehicles on that point. I can, however, definitively state that the Aston Martin DB11 can handle light off-roading.
Our photo cup overflowing, we doubled back and headed north to Sault Ste. Marie just as the sun was beginning to glow a gorgeous amber over the farmland horizon, providing us, almost too perfectly, with a final photoshoot for the trip.
After checking in to the the Plaza Motor Motel, a throwback motor lodge so far north that Yelp suggested Canadian restaurants while we were there, we explained our cars to curious motel neighbors and set out for the open-late godsend that is Applebee’s, where all but one of us guzzled Michigan beer as the whole crew discussed our grand tourers until well after closing time.
Day 4 — Sault Ste. Marie to Detroit, 353 miles
We didn’t have much time the next day and, frankly, we didn’t need it. Photos complete, and our destination checklist totally crossed off, we only needed to head back to Detroit and fly away.
The previous night, as we stood in the Applebee’s parking lot, volleying opinions and arguments, several definitive conclusions emerged. When I asked the guys to pick their favorite among the three, we unanimously voted for the Aston. “But,” Dave said, “it’s not a fair fight.”
Yeah, it’s rigged. The Aston is, as Eric later put it, a “rare bird.” It’s exotic in a way the others aren’t — it’s handbuilt, it’s 007’s choice, it’s among the most beautiful cars on the road. “If it’s my own money… I’d probably go for the Mercedes,” Eric said. “I’m a closet bling hound. It’s got those wheels, it’s got that chrome trim. I dig the LED color-changing thing inside. It’s got shiny things inside and out, and I like that. If I wanted a car I could go out in on the weekends and do the occasional trip with my wife, then yeah, the Aston.”
“[The S65] is the only car of all three that can do the pure-luxury thing,” Dave said. “The Lexus could be a daily driver, but it’s not gonna be. You can’t throw something in the back seat. That’s why I’m riding in the Mercedes all day: my gear. But German engineers are gonna win every time. They’re going to turn everything up to eleven. I need a car that kinda sucks sometimes so I can love the parts that are great.”
Personally, I’m still torn. The DB11 V12 is a monumental car that means a great deal to me. I would love to own one. Then again, I can’t conceive of having a quarter-million dollars, let alone paying that much for… anything. But the Lexus is just such a gem. It’s light and lithe and comfortably simple, yet it delivers all the kinds of tech conveniences and modern enjoyment one might want. We all agreed that it’s the satisfying, perfect culmination of Lexus’s sometimes quizzical design exercises over the past five to ten years; all the brand’s visual cues work incredibly well here. Plus, it’s got reliable Toyota DNA and a relatable, sonorous V8 engine. In Detroit, a guy in an old Suburban stopped traffic to pull next to me and say, “I’ve been doing exhaust work for thirty-five, forty years, and you sound pretty good, brother.” It’s superb, and I’d be tempted if it were at all possible.
Alex wasn’t backing down. “The DB11 suits me. It needles you a little bit. It’s a super tight, super rigid experience. It’s not as nice ride-wise as the Mercedes or the LC. And even some of the conveniences aren’t as good. When I got bored, I turned on Sport mode. In the other cars, when I got bored, I was looking for another radio station.”
“You were driving,” Dave replied.
There it is. Driving. Grand tourers aren’t made for drag strips or gymkhanas. They’re not made for cruising Rodeo Drive or parking at your lake house. They’re made to extract the very best out of the driving experience. People notice these cars, partially because they look athletic and aggressive (as Dave pointed out, there’s chain mail on the front of the S65), and because they look opulent. But they make people happy because they look like emotion; they look like what it is to love the art and act of driving.
“All three absolutely satisfy the nebulous qualities of a GT, but at different ends of the spectrum,” Alex said. The relatively simple, light and beautiful Lexus balances out the heavy, plush, computerized Mercedes-Benz. The aggressive, sultry Aston Martin is in the middle somewhere. And so, the unsatisfying but entirely philosophical conclusion is that there isn’t a definitive choice here — not that we set out to find the “best” among these three anyhow.
The best grand tourer is what speaks loudest and most directly to the driver’s enthusiasm for driving. Do you require German opulence and locomotive torque? English aesthetics and brutish muscle? Japanese serenity and fine design? It really all comes down to whatever helps you sleep at night.
Editor’s Note: minor adjustments have been made to this story in order to accommodate online publishing.
Special thanks to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
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As May -- and by extension Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- is winding to a close today, writer Joshua Luna (one half of the Luna Brothers, who have published work like Girls, Ultra, and The Sword) expressed regret at not being able to announce a new project this month, claiming that publisher Image Comics refused to consider a memoir-comic dealing with the Filipino experience in America. The writer made the announcement via a lengthy Twitter thread in which he explained his position, told fans what he had apparently been told by Image, and solicited patrons for his Patreon to help him get the book made. He drew unfavorable comparisons between how the publisher has handled his project and how it dealt with the recent controversy over Howard Chaykin's Divided States of Hysteria.
Luna believes that Image never wanted to publish the book and looked for several excuses to get out of the deal, some of which he characterizes as culturally tone-deaf. Here's what he had to say about the project, with some minor edits made for clarity and formatting (as well as one tweet embedded so you can see its images): "For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I'd hoped to announce the release date of Americanizasian, a book collecting my online comic strips about Filipino American & Asian American identity and experiences, but since my publisher Image Comics doesn't seem comfortable publishing it, I need your help.
"When I pitched Americanizasian, a Partner compared it to a female cartoonist's collection of political cartoons—many of which are anti-Trump — and described both of our books as "angry" and with "no story for people to relate to," implying her book was a mistake and mine would be too. The Partner—a white man—said my work should be "more positive" and implied that my Asian-American experience would be more relatable if it was like PEN15, a show that reminds his half-Japanese wife of her childhood (the protagonist is half-white, half-Japanese — I'm neither, I'm Filipino). He showed my strips to Asian-Americans he knew, including one on his staff, to co-sign his belief that my book wouldn’t sell. He used their opinions to justify ignoring my online following and every fan who's explicitly told me they want to buy this book (most are Asian/POC and educators).
"He begrudgingly greenlit the book — even though it was clear he didn't want to — and I submitted my cover a month later. I was immediately told it could not be used due to legal concerns over its parodying of trademarked characters. No suggestions were offered to make it usable. I asked for more details, as my strips also parody/criticize trademarked characters. Image insisted the interiors were fine because — unlike a cover — they're not used to promote the book. I offered to modify the cover (the version you see here) but they ignored me and got a lawyer. They then said the interiors were a problem because my criticism of Marvel's anti-Asian narratives was 'so negative' within the book's overall context. Our exchange got heated, as I said I felt they wanted to reject the book all along and were using a legal angle to justify it.
"Two days later, I was informed that my bestselling comic previously published through Image would be removed from Comixology, and any remaining copies burned. Burning books to reduce inventory costs is normal, but I've never been told it would put an end to digital sales. Concerned they were going to erase all my books, I tried again to work with them. I gave them a detailed list of all of my strips with potential legal risks and offered to modify them based on their recommendations, but they haven't been forthcoming with answers or guidance. One cover change the Partner did suggest, though, was to exclude "other characters and focus on you." As a light-skinned Fil-Am, it's important to me to uplift dark-skinned Filipinos, yet he was implying I should erase two characters that are my own IP — that’s not a legal issue.
It's hard not to believe Image's behavior is discriminatory, esp. when there's a double standard. When Howard Chaykin's comic was criticized for being harmful towards trans women & Pakistani men, Image defended & celebrated him for making people "angry" & "uncomfortable." 11/ pic.twitter.com/dfLbLvM8Xt — Joshua Luna (@Joshua_Luna) May 31, 2019
"Yet when a marginalized person speaks truth to power, speaks about the harm of anti-Asian narratives, it's condemned as unpublishable for being 'angry' and 'negative?' Suddenly Image's credo of publishing comics 'no other publisher would dare take a risk on' no longer applies? I was inspired to join Image years ago because two of its co-founders, Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio, are Asian. I wanted to pay that forward and use Americanizasian to invite other creators of color to tell their story, but how can I invite anyone when my own story isn't wanted? I still intend to publish Americanizasian, but I need a publisher who is POC-friendly and supports the book's message and tone. In the meantime, I need your support. I’ve been putting out these strips for free for 3 years, and was counting on book sales as a source of income. Speaking out about this is risky and terrifying, but silence would only add to the pain this has caused. So if you've enjoyed my comics, please pledge to my Patreon and/or donate via PayPal so that I can continue making them."
Image Comics had no comment on the subject of Americanizasian when we reached out to them earlier today.
This is not the first time in recent memory that content concerns have scuttled an existing publishing deal. Earlier this year, DC Comics cancelled the planned Vertigo series Second Coming after it gained attention in the conservative media and was being protested by Christian groups. The title later found a home at Ahoy Comics. | {
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Report Copyright Violation Tarmac Meeting: Why not just call Lynch on the Phone Why did Bill Clinton meet with AG Lynch on a jetliner on the tarmac rather than just pick up the phone and call her? Certainly, this would not have been discovered by the press then.
I believe the answer is they both know that the NSA records every electronic message that takes place on the planet. They knew if they spoke over the phone that the NSA would have a record of it.
Thus they know there are White hats on the inside that are working to expose their crimes and corruption.
Not the Russians.
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Report Copyright Violation Re: Tarmac Meeting: Why not just call Lynch on the Phone Why did Bill Clinton meet with AG Lynch on a jetliner on the tarmac rather than just pick up the phone and call her? Certainly, this would not have been discovered by the press then.
I believe the answer is they both know that the NSA records every electronic message that takes place on the planet. They knew if they spoke over the phone that the NSA would have a record of it.
Thus they know there are White hats on the inside that are working to expose their crimes and corruption.
Not the Russians.
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we can tell by reading ALL these Podesta emails that certain things are left for private meetings.
trying to figure out if the COO is key position for their secret agenda... replicated out in each group; like a principal stake holder that keeps the onion router of decision making behind a wall of protection!
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Cum dignitatis infixae omnibus humanae familiae partibus et eorum jurum aequalium , quae abalienari non possunt , agnitio constituat et in orbe terrarum libertatis et justitiae et pacis fundamentum we can tell by reading ALL these Podesta emails that certain things are left for private meetings.trying to figure out if the COO is key position for their secret agenda... replicated out in each group; like a principal stake holder that keeps the onion router of decision making behind a wall of protection!
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Whatever was actually said on the Tarmac was obviously done so in order to protect both Bill and Lynch.
No text, no calls, no email, hell No written letters either - it can and would be tracked back and used against them.
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“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” ~ George Orwell Everything that transpires through an electronic device can be recorded.Whatever was actually said on the Tarmac was obviously done so in order to protect both Bill and Lynch.No text, no calls, no email, hell No written letters either - it can and would be tracked back and used against them. | {
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World Cup 2026: MetLife Stadium, New Jersey could host World Cup Final
It's official! The FIFA World Cup 2026 is coming to the United States, Canada and Mexico and the final match is expected to be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.
As part of the "United" bid, 60 games will be played in the United States, including every game from the quarterfinals through the World Cup Final, for which the bidders have proposed MetLife Stadium as the location. During the group stage, 20 games will be played in Canada and Mexico.
The World Cup announcement came Wednesday morning, one day before the start of World Cup 2018. Leaders from 134 countries' soccer associations voted for the United bid. The only other competitor, Morocco, finished with 65 votes.
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"Thank you for entrusting us with the privilege of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026," U.S. Soccer Federation President Carlos Cordeiro said from the stage in Moscow. "At the end of the day, we are all united in football. That's the spirit of the World Cup. The beautiful game transcends orders and cultures. Football today is the only victor."
The United bid proposed 23 potential host stadiums and cities, 17 of which are in the United States and five — MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Gillette Stadium in Massacusetts, M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore and FedEx Field in Washington, D.C. — are within a few hours' drive for New Jerseyans.
The complete list of potential World Cup 2026 cities and stadiums is:
Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium)
Baltimore (M&T Bank Stadium)
Cincinnati (Paul Brown Stadium)
Foxborough, Mass. (Gillette Stadium)
Dallas (AT&T Stadium)
Denver (Mile High Stadium)
Edmonton (Commonwealth Stadium)
Guadalajara (Estadio Akron)
Houston (NRG Stadium)
Kansas City (Arrowhead Stadium)
Los Angeles (Rose Bowl)
Mexico City (Azteca Stadium)
Miami (Hard Rock Stadium)
Monterrey (BBVA Bancomer Stadium)
Montreal (Olympic Stadium)
Nashville (Nissan Stadium)
New Jersey (MetLife Stadium)
Orlando (Camping World Stadium)
Philadelphia (Lincoln Financial Field)
San Francisco (Levi's Stadium)
Seattle (CenturyLink Field)
Toronto (BMO Field)
Washington, D.C. (FedEx Field)
Only 16 cities will be selected to host World Cup 2026 games. FIFA has strict seating capacity requirements, requiring all locations to have seats for at least 40,000 spectators in the group stage or knockout round, 60,000 seats for the semi-finals and 80,000 seats for the World Cup Final.
The decision about the winning cities and the games they'll host won't come until 2020 or 2021, MetLife Stadium President and CEO Ron VanDeVeen said in a statement.
"MetLife Stadium was included in the bid book as a recommended site for the Final and we look forward to working with FIFA to finalize plans in the coming years," he said.
FIFA's summary of the United bid offers some insight into the plans:
The final would be located at either MetLife Stadium, AT&T Stadium in Dallas or the Rose Bowl, though the United bid prefers MetLife Stadium.
Three matches could occur on the first day of the World Cup, featuring the three host nations playing in their own countries. Potential locations include MetLife Stadium, AT&T Stadium, the Rose Bowl and Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
The bidders have proposed the semifinals to be played in Dallas and Atlanta, though Boston and Washington are also possibilities.
Quarter-final matches or the third-place game could be held in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Francisco or Seattle.
The games in Canada and Mexico will end in the round of 16, with games potentially in Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
In a statement, Gov. Phil Murphy said he was looking forward to the next step of the process, in which specific stadiums will be chosen.
“MetLife Stadium and the Meadowlands region are an ideal site for the World Cup. New Jersey has hosted World Cup matches before and we are more than ready to do so again," said Murphy, who became a noted soccer fan during his time as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. "MetLife Stadium is an internationally-renowned facility with first-class amenities. The Meadowlands region includes hundreds of hotels to house fans from all over the world and first-rate entertainment, shopping and dining, all just across the river from New York City."
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In the 1994 World Cup, the former Giants Stadium was home to group stage and knockout round matches featuring Italy, Ireland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Mexico and Germany. Its most prominent game was a semi-final match-up of Bulgaria versus Italy, which won 2 to 1 before eventually losing on penalty kicks to Brazil in the World Cup Final.
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The U.S. Men's National team lost to Brazil in the group stage and played its games at the Rose Bowl, Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan and Stanford Stadium.
In addition to the 1994 World Cup, the United States played host to the Women's World Cup in 1999 (which was won by the United States) and 2003. In 1999, Giants Stadium held group stage matches featuring the United States, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Russia, China and Australia.
The United States previously lost its bid to host the 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar.
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Representatives from U.S. Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association and the Mexican Football Federation argued that their bid wouldn't require the construction of new stadiums, as the relatively massive American football stadiums are large enough to handle the large crowds.
A number of nations were vocal in their opposition to the United bid, including criticism of President Donald Trump, who has called for travel bans on countries with a majority Muslim population, many of whom are World Cup regulars. But according to the New York Times, Trump earlier this year wrote three letters to FIFA that indicated any U.S. policies on travel into the country won't affect the 2026 World Cup.
The 2026 World Cup is the first year in which FIFA will expand the competition from 32 teams to 48 teams. Per FIFA rules, host nations automatically qualify for the group stage, which is a needed perk for the United States: The U.S. Men's National Team didn't even qualify for the World Cup this year.
The U.S. Women's National team has won the Women's World Cup a record three times.
This is a breaking news story. Check back with APP.com or refresh this page for future updates.
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Agustín de Iturbide
Primeros años e ingreso a la vida militar durante la lucha de la Independencia Mexicana
se negó a cooperar en el levantamiento independentista de Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Agustín de Iturbide: un hábil militar
Revolución Liberal en España y planes para la Independencia mexicana
El triunfo de la revolución liberal de Rafael de Riego en España en el año 1820 desencadeno en México varios temores
Plan de Iguala: consenso entre los liberales y conservadores
ultimo combate entre las fuerzas independistas y los realistas
se proclama el Plan de Iguala o de las Tres Garantías
declaraba la independencia de México, y el establecimiento de una monarquía constitucional
Tratado de Córdoba y proclamación de la Independencia de México
Nacimiento del Primer Imperio Mexicano con Agustín I
l Congreso proclamó emperador de México a Agustín de Iturbide
Levantamiento del General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna e inicio del colapso del Imperio de Agustín de Iturbide
el general Antonio López de Santa Anna
se levanto en armas contra el emperador y exigió el establecimiento de una república
Exilio y últimos años de su vida
El 13 de febrero 1824 Iturbide envió una carta al Congreso mexicano, anunciando su intención de regresar al país, pero este, temeroso del movimiento a favor del imperio, lo declaró traidor
Descendencia del Emperador de Mexico, Agustín I
Bibliografia
Mexican Empire of Iturbide, Timothy E. Anna; Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1990.
Iturbide of Mexico, William Spence Robertson, New York, Greenwood, 1968.
(Nació en Morelia, Michoacán, 27 de Setiembre de 1783 - murió en Padilla, Tamaulipas, 19 de Julio del año 1824): fue un político y militar mexicano cuyas campañas fueron decisivas para la independencia de México y de América Central. Llevo a ser Emperador de México con el nombre de Agustin I.Biografia de Agustin Iturbide: Nacido en Valladolid (hoy Morelia), actual estado de Michoacán. Provenía de una familia acomodada, llego a ser seminarista, pero pronto cambió su vocación religiosa por la carrera militar. En el año 1797 al servicio del regimiento de su ciudad. Cuando ya ostentaba el cargo de oficial en el ejército español,, quien le había sugerido unirse a la causa de la independencia con el rango de teniente coronel. Agustín de Iturbide participaría en la detención de revolucionarios en la ciudad de Valladolid, pero cuando las tropas de Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla tomaron la ciudad en octubre del año 1810, huyó a la ciudad de México y luego participó en la Batalla del Monte de las Cruces con el grado de capitán. En 1811 fue destacado para el sur de México, donde combatió a los revolucionarios separatistas de Albino García (a quien capturaría en 1812) y de Ramón López Rayón, derrotándolo en el Puente de Salvatierra en 1813. Ese mismo año fue ascendido a coronel, y continuó la lucha contra los independentistas como comandante general de la provincia de Guanajuato.En 1813 y 1814 fue acusado por otros altos oficiales del ejército español, de mantener la lucha para generarse beneficios económicos para sí mismo, a través de sus operaciones comerciales. Al año siguiente, 1815, derrotó a José María Morelos , pero fue derrotado en Cóporo por Ignacio López Rayón. Las denuncias acumuladas en su contra, junto con nuevas protestas de los comerciantes de Guanajuato, llevaron a su destitución por el Virrey Félix María Calleja del Rey en el año 1816 por cargos de malversación de fondos y abuso de autoridad. Aunque fue absuelto, con la intervención del real auditor de guerra, se retiró a sus propiedades de Michoacán, pero al año siguiente se establecería en la ciudad de México.: por un lado, los sectores conservadores deseaban evitar la aplicación de medidas radicales impulsados por los diputados en la corte de Madrid, por otro lado, los liberales quisieron aprovechar el restablecimiento de la Constitución de 1812, para obtener la autonomía del virreinato. Los primeros, se reunían en el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri en la iglesia de la Profesa (llamada por los historiadores como la conspiración de la Profesa"), fueron liderados por Matías Monteagudo y convencieron al Virrey Juan Ruiz de Apodaca para que designe a Agustin de Iturbide comandante general del Sur. Sin embargo, los liberales estaban planeando que el compadre de Iturbide, Juan Gómez de Navarrete, recién electo diputado en las Cortes, promoviera un plan de Independencia en Madrid, que consistía en llamar a un miembro de la familia real a México para que los gobernara. Mientras esto ocurría, Agustín de Iturbide marchaba hacia el sur con sus tropas, supuestamente para combatir al general Vicente Guerrero, uno de los pocos revolucionarios independentistas que continuaba la lucha, pero más que nada Agustín de Iturbide buscaba convencerlo de unirse a un nuevo plan que conciliase tanto a los intereses y posiciones de los liberales como de los conservadores. Durante esta campaña acontecieron los últimos combates entre realistas e insurgentes en México: Pedro Ascencio, lugar teniente de Vicente Guerrero, destruyo la retaguardia de Iturbide cerca de Tlatlaya el 28 de diciembre de 1820, cinco días más tarde, el propio Guerrero vence a una columna subalterno al mando de Carlos Moya, cerca de Chilpancingo. El 21 de enero de 1821 ocurre una nueva escaramuza en un lugar llamado Espinazo del Diablo. Este último enfrentamiento, con poca importancia militar, tiene importancia histórica porque fue elPor último, Agustín de Iturbide consigue convencer a Vicente Guerrero y los dos llegan a un acuerdo el 13 de febrero de 1821 en la ciudad de Iguala. Como consecuencia de este acuerdo,, un programa político que agradaba tanto a los tradicionalistas católicos como a los liberales, que(cuyo trono sería ofrecido a Fernando VII de España o a uno de sus hermanos), y la exclusividad de la religión católica en el territorio mexicano sin tolerancia de cualquier otra. Para sustentar al plan, se formo el llamado Ejército Trigarante que reunía a las tropas de Agustín Iturbide y la de los insurgentes al cual irían juntandose poco a poco la mayoría de las guarniciones realistas del país.El 24 de agosto 1821, Agustín de Iturbide firmo los Tratados de Córdoba (donde se proclamaba el fin de la lucha por la independencia de Mexico) con Juan O'Donojú, Teniente General de los Ejércitos de España, quien ocupaba la máxima autoridad española en México después de la salida del virrey Apodaca. El 27 de septiembre, el Ejército Trigarante entró en la ciudad de México. Al día siguiente, una junta de 38 miembros, presidido por el propio Agustín Iturbide, proclama el Acta de Independencia del Imperio Mexicano y constituye una Regencia de cinco miembros, también presidida por Iturbide y de la que fue parte O'Donojú. La Junta Provisional Gubernativa nombra a Iturbide Generalísimo con un sueldo de 120.000 pesos al año, y le otorga el trato Alteza Serenísima. El 25 de febrero de 1822 se inicia la actividades del Congreso Constituyente, que pronto entraría en conflicto con la Regencia: el Congreso se proclama único representante de la soberanía de la nación, prohibe los gastos no autorizados por él, y eliminar los préstamos forzosos . Pero el 18 de mayo, ocurre un motín en el regimiento de Celaya exigiendo que Agustín de Iturbide sea elegido emperador; otras unidades de la guarnición de la capital se unirían a la sublevación. Bajo esta presión militar, a la mañana siguiente e, siendo coronado con el nombre de Agustín I.Algunos pocos, republicanos continuaron con su oposición, y algunas guarniciones españolas se resistieron a esta proclamación. Una conspiración contra el gobierno fue descubierta en agosto de 1822 y el 26 de ese mes Agustín de Iturbide ordeno el arresto de varios diputados implicados. La oposición del Congreso y su incapacidad para constituir una nación proporcionaron a Iturbide los argumentos para su disolución el 31 de octubre. En su lugar, y con el apoyo de algunos diputados, como Lorenzo de Zavala se crea una Junta Instituyente encargada de redactar una constitución.En diciembre,(quien, además de ambiciosa, estaba asociado con los republicanos). El 6 de diciembre, Santa Anna y Guadalupe Victoria proclamaron el Plan de Veracruz, exigiendo la reinstalación del Congreso. El 24 de enero de 1823, Vicente Guerrero y Nicolás Bravo se pronunciaron a favor del Plan de Veracruz. Agustín de Iturbide envió, entonces, al general Echavarri para luchar contra Santa Anna. Echavarri no logro controlar a los republicanos y, antes de ser destituido por el emperador, proclamó el Plan de Casa Mata el 1 de febrero, con el cual pretendia mantener al emperador en el trono y convocar a un nuevo congreso. Sin embargo, las presiones sobre Iturbide por parte de sus opositores políticos en la Ciudad de México lo obligaban a reunir al mismo Congreso que había disuelto y abdicar ante este, el 19 de marzo de 1823.El 22 de marzo Iturbide abandonó la capital, y se embarco el 11 de mayo con destino a Europa. Pasó un tiempo en Livorno, Italia, se mudó a Londres poco después. Desde su exilio, mantuvo contacto con algunos de sus partidarios en México, especialmente con algunos políticos de Guadalajara y con militares de Chalco, los cuales conspiraban para derrocar el gobierno republicano de la ciudad de México que conspiraron para derrocar al gobierno republicano de la ciudad de México y traer de vuelta al país al emperador depuesto., así como a aquellos que protegieran su regreso a la República . Sin embargo, el 04 de mayo Iturbide embarco en Londres para el 14 de julio, al pequeño puerto de Soto la Marina (Tamaulipas). Allí desembarco al día siguiente y fue hecho prisionero y conducido a la localidad de Padilla, donde fue fusilado el 19 de julio.Sus restos mortales fueron enterrados en Padilla, hasta que en el año 1838, bajo la presidencia de Anastasio Bustamante, el Congreso ordenó su traslado a la ciudad de México y su inhumación con todos los honores en la Capilla de San Felipe en la catedral.Su viuda, la emperatriz María Anna (llamada en soltería Ana María Huarte y Muñiz) falleció en los Estados Unidos, donde varios de sus hijos se casaron. El hijo mayor, el Príncipe Imperial Agustín Jerónimo, murió soltero en 1866. Su hermano, el Príncipe Ángel de Iturbide, quien se casó con la estadounidense Alicia Green, murió en la Ciudad de México el 18 de julio de 1872, el unico hijo del matimonio, el príncipe Agustín de Iturbide y Green nació en Washington en 1863 y fue adoptado por Maximiliano de Habsburgo como heredero al trono, y ya como un adulto, comenzó a ganar popularidad, y sería expulsado de México bajo el gobierno de Porfirio Díaz. Murió en los Estados Unidos en 1925, sin descendencia de su matrimonio con Luisa Kearney. Otro nieto, Salvador de Iturbide y Marzano, también recibió el título de Príncipe durante el reinado de Maximiliano I, contrajo matrimonio con una aristócrata austro-húngara y sus descendientes viven en Australia y Europa. | {
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