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The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
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While Microsoft Edge might be a little lacking in features, compared to more established browsers like Chrome and Firefox, one area where it is better than its rivals is security. That's according to NSS Labs which today announced the results of its latest Web Browser Security comparative test. The test pitted Chrome, Firefox and -- for the first time -- Edge against each other to see how effective the browsers are at protecting against threats. The test measured how well the browsers did when protecting against social engineered malware (SEM) (one of the most common security threats facing users) and phishing attacks. The browser versions tested were: Google Chrome: Version 53.0.2785 Mozilla Firefox: Version 48.0.2 Microsoft Edge 38.14393.0.0 Testing was conducted during the months of September and October 2016, with 220,918 socially engineered malware results and 78,921 phishing results recorded. Of the three browsers tested, Edge had the highest catch for phishing URLs with 91.4 percent success rate, and the highest block rate for SEM samples with 99.0 percent. Chrome came second with 82.4 percent average block rate for phishing, and 85.8 percent block rate for SEM samples. Bringing up the rear, Firefox caught 81.4 phishing URLs, and 78.3 percent SEM samples. If you wish to find out more about the tests you can download the Phishing Protection and Socially Engineered Malware Protection reports from NSS Labs here.
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The browser wars enter a new era with a whimper COMPUTING in the 1990s was dominated by a fight between Netscape and Microsoft over who would control people's online experience via the web browser on their computers. Yet the battle that got Microsoft into so much antitrust trouble didn't end but faded away: its browser market share has plummeted, first because of competition from Mozilla Firefox, and over the past five years from Google Chrome. The dramatic change is apparent when mapped over time with the most popular browser by country, presented in the interactive infographic above. Chrome has even pulled away users from Firefox, as the chart below shows. Yet like all empires in technology, Google's too shall pass. (See article.)
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"Artemis isn't an official Star Trek game, but it is the Star Trek game you've always dreamed of." PC Gamer "Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator is ridiculously good fun." Wired "It's aim is to better simulate a Star Trek type bridge environment by allowing up to six players to network six separate computers together, although the game does support an online network." Giant Bomb Informace o hře Artemis is designed for anyone who watched Star Trek and dreamed of what it would be like to sit on the bridge of a star ship. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. You cannot play Artemis single-player! One computer runs the simulation and the "main screen", while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room ("bridge") , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle, doesn't have a workstation, and tells everyone what to do.
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Remember the last time ransomware exploded into life out of Ukraine? It started with a hack of a little-known software company called MeDoc, whose tools were tainted with the NotPetya strain of ransomware that eventually spread across the globe to hit major companies like Maersk and FedEx. Now hackers have borrowed code from the Petya ransomware again and are hitting global organizations with it. But this time they've compromised a handful of Russian news media outlets and other websites to spread what appears to be new ransomware, dubbed Bad Rabbit after the dark web-based site where the crooks are demanding payment to unlock victim PCs. Early victims include the Kiev Metro service, as reported by local media, as well as Russian media organizations Interfax, which tweeted Tuesday it was to publish via Facebook whilst its site was down, and Fontanka.ru, as reported to Forbes by Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team said Odessa Airport was also hit, as the former warned of "a possible start of a new wave of cyberattacks to Ukraine's information resources," while Ukraine's finance and infrastructure departments were targeted. Victims are being redirected to a website on the Tor network, named Bad Rabbit. They're being asked to cough up 0.05 Bitcoin (worth around $286.20 at the time of publication) in order to unlock their files. According to Kaspersky Lab and Group-IB, the infections were caused by users visiting certain Russian media websites, from which a fake Adobe Flash Player installer was disseminated. The user had to click on a malicious link to become infected. Kaspersky said it had spied almost 200 individual targets, though didn't offer more information on them. Costin Raiu, head of the Russian company's research team, said the attackers had been breaking into various European websites since July, while Group-IB noted the hacked websites were last tinkered with on October 19. It appears the attackers behind #Badrabbit have been busy setting up their infection network on hacked sites since at least July 2017. pic.twitter.com/fV5U1FeVtR — Costin Raiu (@craiu) October 24, 2017 Researcher Lukas Stefanko, from Czech firm ESET, initially tweeted that the malware, once on a computer, used the EternalBlue exploit in the leaked Shadow Brokers files (believed to have been written by the NSA for attacks on Microsoft Windows PCs). Forbes has since confirmed that was not the case. The hackers did use Windows SMB feature as EternalBlue did, but in a different, malicious manner. They also used exploits of WebDAV, the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allow for collaborative editing between users across a network. And in a blog ESET reported that the Mimikatz tool was being used to pilfer passwords from the affected systems so the attackers could travel around machines on victim networks. All of these techniques together helped the malware self-propagate. When EternalBlue was put to use by the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware, it helped the malware spread quickly across networks. That EternalBlue program, was leaked by a shady hacker crew called the Shadow Brokers earlier this year and was believed to have been developed by the NSA. Intriguing links Right now, the attack isn't going global as fast as NotPetya and WannaCry outbreaks did. Countries where infected PCs were found included Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland and South Korea. "According to our data, most of the victims targeted by these attacks are located in Russia," said Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky, head of the anti-malware research team at Kaspersky Lab, which also claimed to have seen targets in Germany. "Based on our investigation, this has been a targeted attack against corporate networks, using methods similar to those used during the [NotPetya] attack. However, we cannot confirm it is related to [NotPetya]." But, subsequently, Kaspersky's Raiu told Forbes there was a connection. Earlier this year Kaspersky found a news website in Ukraine distributing NotPetya (bahmut.com.ua), he explained. "We followed the path and found a network of other hacked sites that worked in the same way, except they weren't distributing anything back in July. Some time ago the injected scripts in all these sites changed to a new IP and earlier today they started distributing the Bad Rabbit ransomware." Group-IB also claimed a slice of the Bad Rabbit code - a basic process algorithm - was almost exactly the same as NotPetya. "The difference is only in the initial vector and used compiler," said spokesperson Evgeny Gukov. Given links were previously found between the NotPetya and the hackers who took
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There are only a few dedicated artisanal globemakers left in the world—and there's good reason for that. To be an artisanal globemaker, you've got to be patient and stubborn. Ask Peter Bellerby, one of the few people left who still makes globes by hand. Nowadays, globes are mostly made by machines, and Bellerby says he knows why. "It's horrendously difficult. You have to retrain your body to work in a much slower and guarded way," he says. "They've got to want to do it and not be beaten by the process." It took him more than a year to learn the art. Bellerby, 50, founded Bellerby & Co. Globemakers—one of the world's only handcrafted globe making studios—in London in 2008 when he couldn't find a quality globe for his father's 80th birthday. They were either too cheaply made or too expensive and fragile. So he decided to make one himself. How hard could it be? Bellerby gave himself three months and a few thousand pounds to get the job done. "It very quickly got out of control," he says. The meridian alone, the metal band that encircles the globe, cost more than 15,000 pounds (or $23,000) to perfect. "I realized that if I was going to continue, I had to at least have a stab at making a business out of it because the cost was not justifiable for anyone's birthday present." "Essentially in the 20 th century, people forgot how to make globes accurate." When asked if he had initially worried about a lack of demand for globes, particularly with the widespread adoption of GPS and digital maps, Bellerby simply says that he "put it out of my mind." Fast forward seven years, and Bellerby and his staff produce 200 globes a year in his studio in Stoke Newington, London. Their clients range from students to businessmen to filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, who commissioned four globes for his 2011 movie Hugo.
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Jan 23rd Johann Georg Paschen's Rapier Lessons: Developing a curriculum for teaching period rapier fencing Introduction This paper will present an analysis of Johann Georg Paschen's (1628-1678) Kurtze iedoch Deutliche Beschreibung handlend von Fechten auff den Stosz und Hieb (Short though clear description treating of fencing on the thrust and cut) published in 1661 in Sachsen. Paschen was a prolific author: in addition to treatises on fencing, he also published books on wrestling, spears, flags, gymnastics, military fortifications, and cooking (Conan 1). Despite his wide-ranging interests, his fencing text gives little direct information about him and his pedagogical background. In what follows, I will explore how Paschen converges with and diverges with the Italian rapier tradition and how he can provide crucial perspective on period fencing. I will then analyze four of Paschen's lessons and provide commentary to help fencers recreate the lessons as drills. The text begins with a short introduction and is followed by eight lessons on fencing with the thrust and eight lessons on fencing with cuts. Each lesson consists of a series of individual techniques loosely tied around a unifying theme. Each lesson builds on the previous one and progresses from beginning to advanced techniques. The format of this text makes it important to anyone interested in studying rapier, regardless of whether their focus is on earlier or later texts. The majority of fencing texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth century tend to focus on the underlying principles of fencing, and the examples of technique they include are chosen to illustrate those concepts. While they give us a wealth of information about fencing during the time period, they are much more sparse when it comes to describing how the material should be transmitted to a student.[1] This gap is evident in many modern reconstructions of Italian rapier, which while in agreement on nearly all of the core principles, employ varying methodologies of teaching and produce very different styles of fencing. While Paschen's text does not have anything explicit to say about how a lesson should be taught, it gives us a curriculum with sixteen lessons that are suitable for training a brand new student all of the way up to an advanced lesson. Paschen uses a consistent notation to present each technique, and, because he does not spend much time explaining the execution or tactics involved, is able to cover a lot of ground. There are 143 individual techniques presented in the lessons on fencing with the thrust and 175 in the lessons on fencing with cuts. With his compact notations, Paschen is able to describe the many possible permutations of techniques that are typically left as an exercise for a reader to extrapolate in earlier texts.[2] The terse nature of the lessons would make it very difficult for a modern practitioner to learn to fence solely by reading this book – instead, this is useful supplementary material to someone who is already familiar with other rapier texts such as Capoferro, Fabris or Giganti.[3] This paper's focus will be on the first four lessons on fencing with the thrust. Other lessons will be left for exploration in a future paper. Paschen's first lesson covers some introductory material and then introduces the straight thrust and each of the different lines that it can be made in. The second lesson introduces binds, disengagements and counterdisengagement. Lesson three introduces circular movements and focuses primarily on the parry. Lesson four introduces the feint and some of its many iterations. In addition to looking at the actions describes in these lessons, this paper will include pedagogical observations about how these lessons can work as a template for a modern lesson and some of the ways that a teacher might build on these lessons to demonstrate concepts to a student. The paper will break each lesson into segments and provide the translated text followed by analysis. Lesson One When you want to fence with someone on the fencing floor, then, while you have the fencing sword in your right hand, make a Reverence with the sword and your right foot, which is named a Salute in fencing, as No. 1[4] shows, and do not place yourself in your guard immediately, so that the adversary does not see right away what kind of guard you have, but go at him with several steps, until you are almost upon him, and then you can set yourself in a guard, which pleases you. The guards are many, either high, low, on the knees or otherwise. While they can be made as you wish, they must however be in the Quarte, Tertie, Secunde, or Prime. The guard in the 4th is when the palm of your hand and your fingers are above, as No. 2 shows. The guard in the Tertie when your fingers are on the side, and indeed towards your left hand, as No. 3 demonstrates. The guard in
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Lyoto Machida has officially won six bonuses during his 17-fight UFC career, but an unofficial extra cash was handled personally by UFC president Dana White in 2008. Dana White said in an interview to Los Angeles radio personality Big Boy that he "actually wrote (Machida) a personal check" for his unanimous decision win Tito Ortiz at UFC 84 in Las Vegas, Nevada. "He really did that," Machida told MMAFighting.com. "I felt like a hitman getting money from the boss, but it was cool." According to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Machida made $100,000 for his win that night, but the Brazilian declined to reveal what number White wrote in that check. "I won't tell you how much he paid me," he said with a laugh, "but it was good money." Machida controlled the whole fight against Ortiz, but almost tapped to a tight triangle from the former champion in the last minute. "(White) said I was dominating the fight and out of a sudden (Ortiz) got me on that triangle," Machida said. "He said 's--t, I can't believe it.' He went crazy, but then I got out of it. So I guess he gave me a bonus because he was scared of that triangle (laughs)." Ortiz left the UFC after losing to Machida in 2008, but returned to the promotion a year later. He went 1-5 under the UFC banner before announcing his retirement and being inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Steve Bedigian lives in a hole in the ground. His only protection from the elements nearly 9,000 feet above sea level comes from a tent structure he built himself. He lives in the dirt and he does it dirt cheap—and he does so with a smile on his face. This is Steve's American dream, and he knows it's nothing like yours. Steve also knows it's a dream he might soon lose because the county government (and many of his neighbors) aren't willing to tolerate the eyesore and potential environmental risks that come with the way he lives. A 'ROBINSON CRUSOE LIFE' "I live an idyllic life up here. Not in the eyes of most," Bedigian said. "I am more free than anyone I personally know." Steve rejects society's view of a normal "productive" life as little more than an endless quest to obtain more material possessions that ultimately won't lead to happiness. "I live a Robinson Crusoe life up here," Bedigian said. "Except I have the advantage over Robinson Crusoe. He didn't know how privileged he was to be alone on that island." Bedigian doesn't live on an island, but on six-acre parcel with no tree cover, visible for miles from nearly any vantage point in the giant high-altitude valley near the unincorporated town of Hartsel. He's owned this scrap of land for four decades, but only moved in a year and a half ago. MEMORIAL OR TRASH HEAP? Ask any local about the "flag man" and they know you're talking about Steve. His parcel sits right along Highway 24 and it's covered in American flags. The way he flies the flags hasn't earned Bedigian many friends around here. He leaves them up in the punishing high-altitude wind, allowing them to become tattered and torn. Some lay on the ground or over structures. Folks at the local burger joint in Hartsel didn't want to be interviewed, but one of the first things on their minds was what they saw as "mistreatment" of the flag. Bedigian calls his land "Sgt. Mike's sculpture garden," in honor of his late father who fought in Korea as a Marine and earned a Purple Heart. "It started out because my dad was a real flag lover," Bedigian said. The disrepair of the flags has a symbolic meaning to Steve—representing the scars a person like his father earns through life. This has driven complaints to the county, which is less concerned with treatment of the nation's flag than it is with the fact that Bedigian has also covered his parcel with various wooden sculptures, furniture, and scrap pieces of building material. In the county's eyes, Steve's memorial is a six-acre trash heap—which runs afoul of zoning regulations. The county served Bedigian with a civil lawsuit for violating the ban on collecting rubbish on residential parcels. Steve says he's not going to clean it up because if he does, the county will just come after him for violating the camping ban. That's true, according to county development director Sheila Cross. "Zoning exists for a reason. It's to ensure compatibility," Cross said. A BIGGER ISSUE Cross says this is a bigger problem than one man's off-grid lifestyle. Park County has seen an influx of people start camping on cheap plots that are supposed to be for people building single family homes. "I would say it's one of the toughest issues that we've dealt with," Cross said. "There's so much controversy. And the county wanted to do the right thing for everybody. But it's sometimes impossible to do that." After a long debate, the county passed tougher regulations this year against camping on residential land to protect people building homes that are up to code. The county also says campers don't have proper sewage or septic systems, which poses a potential threat to water supplies in the area. A soil scientist tells 9NEWS it's unlikely, but possible, for water contamination to occur from one man's waste—depending on soil conditions. Bedigian doubts he's doing much harm, citing the countless cow pies on ranches in the same valley he lives in. In any event, the county sent 160 letters to campers warning them they need to comply with the zoning rules or risk being forced off their land. Some are cooperating, and Cross says the county has worked out agreements to improve conditions on parcels owned by people who are cooperative. "YOU CAN TAKE MY CORPSE" Bedigian is not cooperating. He plans to fight the county's actions. "You
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Linux Driver experience ! Below is a post on my journey and detective work on building a working device driver Prelude I bought a 802.11ac Wifi dongle for use on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux x64 workstation. It is a Cisco Linksys AE6000 / AC580 model. It was a upgrade to my old wireless N wifi adaptor USB N10 from ASUS. The AC compatible wifi dongles can easily work with 300 mbps internet or even higher home wifi networking. Reality When plugged in to my desktop usb port, it didnt work. I searched for Linux drivers for the device on internet. I came across the following page It let me know chipset used inside of the wifi dongle, it turns out to be Mediatek mt7610u Initial investigation The Mediatek website lists the drivers for Linux at Downloaded the driver and compiled, it gave compilation errors ! wow production quality code Detective work (1) I searched further on internet, there are many fustrated people trying various workarounds, sharing their knowledge. It helped me as well. I squarely blame Linksys for not providing a working Linux driver, it is hardly a 1 months work for a experienced engineer to take the readily available chipset driver and tweak to the Linksys specifications. They have resources and knowledge to test it properly. Any ways I just could not return my wifi dongle and had to make it work on my linux. So, I geared up with little knowledge I have on linux USB drivers. The links below helped me a lot I did all the modifications suggested in the links above still it didn't work. Not even a single blip of light from the dongle 🙁 Well I had to to a lot of detective work .. I was able to identify the VENDOR ID and PRODUCT ID was not setup in the driver. I could figure out where to replace that $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 007: ID 13b1:003e Linksys here VENDOR_ID is 0x13B1 PRODUCT_ID is 0x003E common/rtusb_dev_id.c USB_DEVICE_ID rtusb_dev_id[] = { #ifdef MT76x0 {USB_DEVICE(0x148F,0x7610)}, /* MT7610U */ {USB_DEVICE(0x13B1,0x003E)}, /* MT7610U Cisco Linksys AE6000 AC580 */ {USB_DEVICE_AND_INTERFACE_INFO(0x0E8D, 0x7630, 0xff, 0x2, 0xff)}, /* MT7630U */ {USB_DEVICE_AND_INTERFACE_INFO(0x0E8D, 0x7650, 0xff, 0x2, 0xff)}, /* MT7650U */ #endif After replacement and installation of driver, it seemed to work, Ubuntu identified and asked for Wifi networks to connect, asked about wifi password, it accepted and connected Voila !! No not so soon, it is Linux and dealing with rouge drivers ! when opened a browser the screen froze, it is a kernel panic. A segmentation fault in the driver .. ah!! Detective work (2) After a lot of pondering, I figured out that in os/linux/rt_linux.c there are some packet copying, duplication c language code. It is casting pointers to UINT32, also pathetic it is using macros here and there. Searched on internet for 64bit Mediatek drivers for Wifi adaptor, luckily I came across a very good similar effort for another mediatek chipset rt3573sta. From the project above I could find out how they have fixed the code for include/os/rt_linux.h os/linux/rt_linux.c Finally Success! After a lot of failures and crashes, I could fix most of the issues.. below link is my fixes checked in to a public project on BitBucket Patched driver source code, Build & Install Your own driver!! List of changes: https://bitbucket.org/sanrath/mediatek_mt7610u_sta_driver_linux-64bit/commits/a989fcd6e073205690434e99ac1dc2b0f837350b All the fixed code at one place (below) please download the code below (download link on the link below on left menu, the last item ) https://bitbucket.org/sanr
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General managers and franchises have to take risks all the time in the NBA. Drafting a player in the lottery, trading for a veteran player, or even signing a player off of waivers. They are all calculated gambles that teams have to take in order to be able to better their team throughout the years. Some bets on players pay off, but more times than not, they don't. What happens when those gambles don't work? What does it do to the team when they are stuck paying a player that just isn't very good or doesn't adapt very well to life in the NBA? It can set a franchise back a number of years if they draft the wrong player or take a number one overall pick that doesn't work out. The Marc Gasol that we see today could very well never shown up. The former Defensive Player of the Year, the three-time All-Star, could have ended up just like most other second round picks, a journeyman in the NBA. When the Grizzlies traded Pau Gasol, what they thought they were getting was cap space and getting rid of a player that didn't want to be here. Team executives from other teams and coaches around the league thought it was a bad trade for the Grizzlies. What the Grizzlies got instead was a franchise player that forever changed this team. What IF everyone was right about the trade, that it was bad for the Grizzlies and they didn't get anything in return for a star player? Marc Gasol has the most win shares in franchise history for the Grizzlies. A win share is a player statistic which attempts to divvy up credit for team success to each individual on the team. Marc Gasol's impact can easily be seen by removing his win shares from each year and the result's speak for themselves. The Grizzlies make the playoffs just once, and never even win 50 games. Marc's impact goes far beyond just his win shares- this doesn't even take into account the winning culture that he has helped to cultivate in this city since he has been here. It doesn't count the times that he has motivated other players, been a coach to young guys teaching them the right way to play basketball, or what he has given back to this city. The Grizzlies got lucky that a second rounder actually turned into a good basketball player, and even luckier that Marc turned into a franchise cornerstone. Without Marc Gasol, this team is not even close to it's current status as a perennial playoff team. There are no game winners against the Clippers, no triple overtime game against the Spurs because of a Gasol one footed three, no game winner against the Thunder because of a Gasol tip in, and definitely no upset of the Spurs in the first round of the 2011 playoffs. When it comes time for the Grizzlies to put a statue of a player or retire a players number, Marc Gasol should be first one. The Marc Who Never Was A Memphis Grizzlies world without Marc Gasol? I'll pass Posted by Grizzly Bear Blues on Monday, March 27, 2017 Follow @sbngrizzlies
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see FAQ for explanations on advanced reports Technologies > Site Elements > HTTP/2 Usage of HTTP/2 for websites This report shows the usage statistics of HTTP/2 on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily. HTTP/2 is used by 30.2% of all the websites. Historical trend This diagram shows the historical trend in the percentage of websites using HTTP/2. Our dedicated trend survey shows more site elements usage and market share trends. Market position This diagram shows the market position of HTTP/2 in terms of popularity and traffic compared to the most popular site elements. Our dedicated market survey shows more site elements market data. Popular sites using HTTP/2 Random selection of sites using HTTP/2 Sites using HTTP/2 only recently Free technology usage monitoring service Get a notification when a top site starts using HTTP/2. Share this page
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Recent research by Yahoo's mobile analytics company Flurry suggests that while the average amount of time Americans spend using mobile devices every day continues to increase, average time spent playing mobile games in the U.S. has dropped significantly in the past year. That's roughly a 36 percent drop from the same period last year, when Flurry pegged the average time at 52 minutes per day. In a blog post published this week on the Flurry Tumblr, Yahoo exec Simon Khalaf claims that (based on data gathered from Flurry's analytics platform and third-party sources like comScore) the average person in the U.S. now spends 33 minutes per day playing mobile games. "The completely unexpected result of our analysis this year is the dramatic decline in time spent for mobile gaming," wrote Khalaf. He goes on to posit three primary reasons for the shift: not enough exciting new mobile games, a growing preponderance of games with in-app purchases players can make to avoid spending time grinding in-game, and a broader trend of people moving away from playing games in favor of watching other people play games. "Millennials are shifting from playing games to watching others play games, creating a new category of entertainment called eSports," added Khalaf. The same report claims that the average amount of time Americans spend watching entertainment on their mobile devices (including YouTube and thus, presumably, those eSports-watching millennials) has increased 240 percent in the last year, from 13 to 44 minutes per day. Overall time spent on mobile devices in the U.S. has increased as well, up 35 percent year-over-year to an average of 3 hours and 40 minutes per day.
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Robert J. Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, has his own version that he argues explains inflation levels throughout recent decades. But it is hardly simple. Its prediction for inflation relies not just on joblessness but also on measures of productivity growth, shifts in food and energy prices and overall inflation over the six preceding years. In other words, just knowing the unemployment rate may tell you very little about what inflation will be. But if you add a few more variables, you can do a better job at predictions. "If you do it right, the Phillips curve relationship has been very stable over the last 40 years," Mr. Gordon said. "It's the old ocean liner analogy — it takes a long time to turn an ocean liner, and it takes a long time for the inflation rate to respond to high unemployment or low unemployment." An important implication of Mr. Gordon's model is that much of the inflation rate in 2016 or even 2020 is decided by economic shifts that have already happened (recent productivity levels, for example) or by factors that policy makers have little control over (like what happens to oil prices). His model predicts that if unemployment levels keep falling the way they have recently, inflation won't reach the Fed's 2 percent target until 2020. Mr. Gordon doubts that whether the central bank raises interest rates this week or in December or six months from now will make much difference to that outcome. In a way, the debate over how much faith the Fed puts in the Phillips curve shows the broader dilemma of economic policy. For all the researchers over the decades and centuries who have tried to understand how the economy really works and to predict its course with precision, our ability to know where the economy is heading next year is no better than the ability of weather forecasters to predict whether it will rain three weeks from today. The United States economy is, after all, determined largely by the endlessly complicated interactions of 320 million people producing $17 trillion worth of stuff, which even relatively complex models can't keep up with. There's a difference, though, between economic forecasting and weather forecasting. People don't have any short-term influence over the weather, but central banks and other economic policy makers do have influence over the short-term course of the economy. So for all its faults, the Phillips curve — particularly its more sophisticated varieties — may be the best tool that Janet Yellen and company have to work with.
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Michael Clune's Gamelife is an excellent new memoir about computer games. We could tell you all about it, but there are better means of description: as Clune writes, "computer games taught me how to imagine something so it lasts, so it feels real." With that in mind, we've gotten together with Farrar, Straus and Giroux to present Gamelife, the world's first computer game about a memoir about computer games. No floppy disk required—simply click below to begin. If you'd rather hear more about the book the old-fashioned way, I'll be talking to Clune tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 13, at McNally Jackson. The event begins at 7:30 p.m.
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Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language: Why don't you sit right back? And I, I may tell you a tale A tale of three little pigs And a Big, Bad Wolf Well, the first little piggy, well, he was kinda hick He spent most of his days just a dreamin' of the city And then one day, he bought a guitar He moved to Hollywood to become a star But living on the farm, he knew nothing of the city Built his house out of straw, what a pity And then one day, jammin' on some chords Along came the wolf, knocking on his door Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Well, I'm huffin', I'm puffin', I'll blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin' and a puffin' and I'll blow your house in Well, the second little piggy, well, he was kinda stoked He spent most of his day just in ganja smokin' Huffin' and a puffin' down on Venice Beach Getting paid money for religious speech He built his shelter from what he garbage picked Mostly made up of old cans and sticks Then one day he was cranking out Bob Marley And along came the wolf on his big, bad Harley Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Photos Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Well, I'm huffin', I'm puffin', I'll blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin' and a puffin' and I'll blow your house in Well, the third little piggy, the grade A student His daddy was a rock star named Pig Nugent Earned his Masters Degree from Harvard College Built his house from his architect knowledge A tri-level mansion, Hollywood Hills Daddy's rock stardom, paid for the bills And then one day came the old house smasher The big, bad wolf, the little piggy slasher Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Well, I'm huffin', I'm puffin', I'll blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin' and a puffin' and I'll blow your house in Well, the big bad wolf Well, he huffed and he puffed, all that he could And low and behold the little piggy's house stood "It's made out of concrete", the little piggy shouted The wolf just frowned, as he pouted So, they called nine-eleven, like any piggy would They sent out Rambo just as fast as they could Yo, wolf-face, I'm your worst nightmare Your ass is mine Well, the wolf fell dead as you can plainly see So, that's to end the story for you and me If you still give a listen, you just may Hear a big wolf or little piggy say Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Little pig, little pig, let me in Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin Well, I'm huffin', I'm puffin', I'll blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin', puffin', blow your house in Huffin' and a puffin' and I'll blow your house in And the moral of the story is A band with no talent can easily amuse Idiots with a stupid, puppet show
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It began with a challenge from the game's greatest players. A mission to solicit speed from every detail of the driver, embarked on by a collection of uniquely-gifted R&D minds. The TS Project is a peerless pursuit of speed where every micron and milligram matter. Two letters that mark the way to the future of Titleist Speed.
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OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan) comes with new graphics drivers (kexts) for Skylake based hardware, and AppleIntelSKLGraphicsFramebuffer.kext includes the following hardware device-ids for supported Intel® processors. Have a look at the output of my yet to be released script – still a work in process – that most of you will know as AppleIntelFramebufferAzul.sh AppleIntelGraphicsFramebuffer.sh v3.2 Copyright (c) 2012-2016 by Pike R. Alpha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The supported platformIDs are: [ 1] 0x191e0000 - Intel® HD Graphics 515..........(ULX GT2) [ 2] 0x19160000 - Intel® HD Graphics 520..........(ULT GT2) [ 3] 0x19260000 - Intel® Iris™ Graphics 550.......(ULT GT3) [ 4] 0x191b0000 - Intel® HD Graphics 530..........(Halo GT2) [ 5] 0x193b0000 - Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 580...(Halo GT4) [ 6] 0x19120000 - Intel® HD Graphics 530..........(Desktop GT2) [ 7] 0x19020001 - Intel® HD Graphics 510..........(Desktop GT1) [ 8] 0x19170001 - Skylake Desktop.................(GT1.5) [ 9] 0x1912000 1 - Intel® HD Graphics 530..........(Desktop GT2) [10] 0x19320001 - Skylake Desktop.................(GT4) [11] 0x19160002 - Intel® HD Graphics 520..........(ULT GT2) [12] 0x19260002 - Intel® Iris™ Graphics 540.......(ULT GT3) [13] 0x191e0003 - Intel® HD Graphics 515..........(ULX GT2) [14] 0x19260004 - Intel® Iris™ Graphics 540.......(ULT GT3) [15] 0x193b0005 - Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 580...(Halo GT4) [16] 0x193b0006 - Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 580...(Halo GT4) Note that the device-ids with a strikethrough are still inactive and thus cannot be used without first modifying them. Now let's look at the data: 0x191e0000) FACTORY_PLATFORM_INFO="0: 0000 1e19 0000 0000 6649 0500 0000 0000 0103 0303 0000 0004 0000 2002 0000 5001 0000 0060 6c05 0000 6c05 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 0200 0000 9800 0000 0105 0900 0004 0000 8701 0000 0204 0a00 0004 0000 8701 0000 ff00 0000 0100 0000 2000 0000 0f05 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c800 0000 f0f8 0500 0000 0000 50f9 0500 0000 0000 a0f9 0500 0000 0000 0100 0000 0800 0000 ;; 0x19160000) FACTORY_PLATFORM_INFO="0: 0000 1619 0000 0000 6649 0500 0000 0000 0103 0303 0000 0004 0000 2002 0000 5001 0000 0060 6c05 0000 6c05 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 0200 0000 9800 0000 0105 0900 0004 0000 8701 0000 0204 0a00 0004 0000 8701 0000 ff00 0000 0100 0000 2000 0000 0f09 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c800 0000 f0f9 0500 0000 0000 50fa 0500 0000 0000 a0fa 0500 0000 0000 0100 0000 0800 0000 ;; 0x19260000) FACTORY_PLATFORM_INFO="0: 0000 2619 0000 0000 6649 0500 0000 0000 0103 0303 0000 0004 0000 2002 0000 5001 0000 0060 6c05 0000 6c05 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 0200 0000 9800 0000 0105 0900 0004 0000 8701 0000 0204 0a00 0004 0000 8701 0000 ff00 0000 0100 0000 2000 0000 0f09 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c800 0000 f0f9 0500 0000 0000 50fa 0500 0000 0000 a0fa 0500 0000 0000 0200 0000 0800 0000 ;; 0x191b0000) FACTORY_PLATFORM_INFO="0: 0000 1b19 0000 0000 6649 0500 0000 0000 0103 0303 0000 0004
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QRL Technical: Weeks 36–37 Crypto TL;DR: The crypto module is now in C/C++. Architecture is being reworked. Performance is significantly higher (verification is more than 500 times faster). Lots of improvements in the pipeline. Crypto Module XMSS represents one of the most critical aspects of QRL. There is a well known saying in cryptography: "Do not roll your own crypto". While it is possible to argue for different software implementations, using home-grown cryptographic algorithms is risky. Particularly, when they have not been reviewed by the community. XMSS not only has been published as a IETF working document ( IETF draft version 10 ) but also the authors of the original paper have released a C reference implementation into the public domain. As we move from prototype to production (mainnet), it is important that we review and measure architectural aspects such as performance, maintainability, security, etc. In the last few weeks, @leongb and I have been working hard on improving the performance and maintainability of the crypto module. This effort required decoupling crypto related code while at the same time working on performance aspects. The plan was to initially incorporate and adjust the public domain reference implementation and to provide a clean API to all our QRL components. In a second stage, improvements to facilitate maintenance in the future. After a lot of hard work, we are happy to announce that an early release is available and we are already testing the new QRL node in a private testnet (more about this later). There are still a few challenges before going stable. Moving to C/C++ involves building, supporting and deploying binaries to different platforms. We are currently working on providing wide support to the most important ones. In addition, some aspects such as seed sizes, signature format, etc. have changed so we are planning the corresponding hard-fork after some additional testing. Not only that.… The refactoring/improvement effort comes with some freebies. Python 3 comes "for free"! The node and qrllib are now using v3.5! Bye bye, 2.7! The library was designed with portability and wide-support in mind. By using SWIG, not only a Python module will be available but also wrappers for Golang, Java, etc will be available soon. In addition, we are looking at WebAssembly to provide Javascript support. The outlook is that a highly performing codebase will be shared by most of QRL applications regardless of the programming language or platform. Imagine running a node in your web browser! soon..? who knows? The code quality/coverage effort is on-going and we see the metrics going up every day. We are looking forward to the day we reach 95%. Performance Improvements Now, what does this all mean? The performance improvement is certainly big! There might be other bottlenecks that may temporarily dampen the overall effect but we will be working on those too in the next weeks! From the three main operations (createkeys/sign/verify), verification has the most influence in the throughput. A huge number of transactions per second has to be verified. And the good news is that the improvement is massive! Each XMSS address provides a limited amount of signatures. To achieve a high number of signatures, the XMSS tree must grow and operation times depend on the size of the tree. Tree size can be defined by the height of the tree. For a height h, the tree will allow for 2^h signatures. For instance, h=12 results in 4096 signatures per address. There are ways to extend this and we are working on that, but it is out of the scope of this article. As the tree height increases, the python implementation gets slower. Creating a new wallet was time consuming and high verification times mean that the scalability of the network was at risk. This is not the case anymore with qrllib. The following figures show a comparison between the previous code (python) and the new qrllib. In particular, it is interesting to notice (Figure 1) how signing and verification times are almost independent from the tree height. Height can certainly increase without impact on performance!
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Boss Soul weapons are weapons which can be crafted from the souls that are dropped by some bosses throughout the game. There are multiple weapons which can be constructed from the souls (usually two). You can also consume the Boss Souls if you wish, but they are best reserved for the construction of these unique weapons - especially if you are going for the associated achievement/trophy. The Process To construct a Boss Soul Weapon you must do the following: Start with the base weapon type that's specified below and then upgrade it to +5 with Titanite Shards Blacksmith Andre in the Undead Parish. Upgrade the weapon further to +10 using Large Titanite Shards. To do this you must first give the Large Ember (found in The Depths) to Andre. Ascend the weapon by using the Giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo, 5,000 souls and the boss soul to then create the Boss Soul Weapon. You can then upgrade this weapon further by using Demon Titanite to a total of +5. List of Boss Soul Weapons The following is a list of Boss Souls Weapons. Click on the specific weapon to get a list of compatible base weapons:
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Still loading... A B C D E F G H J K L M N 1 Spreadsheet provided by the awesome tameh Win Loss Link to my Twitter 2 54 30 3 Starting Total $100,00 ICB $1,27 Win Total Loss Total Link to my Steamgroup 4 Profit $26,63 Low 5% $6,33 $156,75 -$130,12 5 Total $126,63 Medium 10% $12,66 Biggest Win Biggest Loss Donate some Sanddunes if you want to support me :D 6 ROI 5,17% High 20% $25,33 $9,40 -$12,50 7 8 Date Game Odds Bet On Amount % of Inv Win / Loss Running Total Note 9 07/03/2016 Team YP vs Team Empire 1.59 Team Empire $2,60 2,60% $1,53 $101,53 Analyzed on Reddit 10 07/03/2016 Tempest vs BD 1.89 Tempest $4,20 4,14% $3,74 $105,27 Analyzed on Reddit 11 07/03/2016 Orgless vs FSid3 1.49 Orgless $7,18 6,82% $3,52 $108,79 Analyzed on Reddit 12 07/03/2016 Hellraisers vs Team Empire 4.86 Team Empire $1,00 0,92% -$1,00 $107,79 Was so close :/ 13 07/03/2016 k1ck.pt vs nerdRage 1.71 k1ck.pt $3,79 3,52% $2,69 $110,48 Analyzed on Reddit 14 07/03/2016 DenDD vs Publiclir 1.45 DenDD $5,86 5,30% $2,64 $113,12 Quickthought, can be seen on Twitter ;) 15 07/03/2016 Team Empire vs Tempest 1.35 Team Empire $8,91 7,88% $3,12 $116,24 Analyzed on Reddit 16 07/03/2016 Day Recap 7 6 $33,54 28,85% $16,24 $116,24 What a day to start with! Let's go! 17 08/03/2016 LoL Combo 1.80 LoL Combo $3,88 3,34% -$3,88 $112,36 On Twitter 18 08/03/2016 Astralis vs Mouzsports 1.31 Astralis $6,28 5,59% $1,95 $114,31 Analyzed on Reddit 19 08/03/2016 Mouzsports vs Astralis 1.32 Astralis $12,25 10,72% $3,92 $118,23 Analyzed on Reddit 20 08/03/2016 NiP vs FaZe 1.65 NiP $6,25 5,29% $4,06 $122,29 Analyzed on Reddit 21 08/03/2016 FaZe vs NiP 2.27 NiP $8,41 6,88% $3,45 $125,74 PICK CHANGED 22 08/03/2016 Ence vs PENTA 2.53 PENTA $6,25 4,97% -$6,25 $119,49 Analyzed on Reddit 23 08/03/2016 Epsilon vs SpaceSoldiers 1.67 Epsilon $6,28 5,26% -$6,28 $113,21 Quickthoughts ;) 24 08/03/2016 Torpedo vs Epsilon 1.59 Torpedo $12,50 11,04% -$12,50 $100,71 Quickthoughts ;) 25 08/03/2016 Day Recap 8 4 $62,10 61,66% -$15,53 $100,71 Day Recap 26 09/03/2016 Renegades vs Winterfox 1.28 Renegades $5,00 4,96% $1,40 $102,11 Quickthoughts :) 27 09/03/2016 Winterfox vs Renegades 1.26 Renegades $5,00 4,90% $1,30 $103,41 Quickthoughts :) 28 09/03/2016 Optic vs Selfless 77-23 Optic $11,00 10,64% $3,12 $106,53 Quickthoughts :) 29 09/03/2016 CSGO Combo 2.18 CSGO Combo $3,03 2,84% $2,18 $108,71 On Twitter ;) 30 09/03/2016 E-Frag vs Reason 1.27 E-Frag $5,00 4,60% CANCELLED $108,71 Quickthoughts ;) 31 09/03/2016 Gambit vs FM 1.29 Gambit $5,00 4,60% $1,45 $110,16 Quickthoughts ;) 32 09/03/2016 AlienTech vs Nordics 1.13 AlienTech $10,00 9,08% $
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This is a lot of snow, even for Western New York. (@BuffaloBills) Parts of the Buffalo area are under six feet of snow and more is expected in the days leading up to Sunday's Jets-Bills get-together. As it stands, the game is still a go but in order to make that happen, the Bills need your help. Specifically: Can you shovel snow? Do you like football? How about money? Then you might want to dial this number: Want to help clear the Ralph? We're looking for snow shovelers. Pay is $10/hour + game tickets. Call 716-636-4840 for details. — Buffalo Bills (@buffalobills) November 19, 2014 There's more: Everyone's eligible. #Bills VP of Operations Andy Major: "We can't have too many people helping. We won't be turning anyone away" — Buffalo Bills (@buffalobills) November 19, 2014 The hope is to get 500 shovelers. Major said the plan is to shovel around the clock, which makes sense when you realize just how much snow needs to be removed.
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The city is paying $490,000 to the family of a man murdered by a rogue Philadelphia police officer who opened fire after his girlfriend's cellphone got wet during a neighborhood squirt gun fight, officials announced Wednesday. Mark McDonald, a spokesman for Mayor Nutter, said the city also is paying $85,000 to a woman who was wounded when former Officer Rudolph Valentino Gary Jr. - who is serving a 25- to 60-year prison sentence for third-degree murder and aggravated assault - started shooting. The attack happened May 2, 2010, after Gary and his girlfriend went to the 1800 block of Hoffman Street, in the Girard Park section of South Philadelphia, to pick up his son from his ex-wife's house. When Gary and his girlfriend arrived in his Ford Expedition, adults and children on the block were squirting each other with Super Soakers. Some water was sprayed through the window of the SUV and splashed his girlfriend's cellphone, and she jumped out and began fighting with a neighborhood woman. Gary, now 31, stepped out of the Ford, pointed his police-issued 9mm Glock at the neighbors, and then fired a shot into the air. A witness testified that Howard Williams, 21, tried to calm the dispute, but Gary immediately shot him in the chest. The off-duty officer then stood over Williams and shot him two more times, hitting him in the neck and chest. Gary, who had been on the force 11 months, was charged with first-degree murder shortly afterward. In 2012, he pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and aggravated assault. The $490,000 settlement will go to Williams' mother, Diane, McDonald said. The $85,000 is for Indria Johnson, a neighbor who was wounded in a leg by one of Gary's bullets, McDonald said. Before the killing, Gary had been in a series of disputes with his ex-wife and Williams. On at least one occasion before the shooting, Williams had complained to the Police Department that Gary had pulled a gun on him. But the department took no action against Gary, court records show. The city agreed in March to pay Johnson and Williams' mother, but the money was not released immediately because of the size of the payments. [email protected] 215-854-5831 Inquirer staff writer Dylan Purcell contributed to this article.
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida -- The 2-year-old boy who witnesses said was pulled by an alligator into a lagoon near a Walt Disney World hotel has been found dead by the Orange County dive team, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told reporters at a Wednesday news conference in Orlando. The body of the boy, Lane Graves, was found intact at about 12:45 p.m. CDT, not far from where the boy was grabbed Tuesday night, Demings said. He likely drowned, Demings said. "Of course, the autopsy has to confirm that, but there is likely no question in my mind that the child was drowned by the alligator," Demings said. Demings said the body was located not far from where the boy was grabbed Tuesday night. The sheriff also said the Graves family had a message for everyone -- that they appreciate all the prayers being sent their way. The child was on the edge of the lagoon when the alligator dragged him into the water, according to the boy's family, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Executive Director Nick Wiley. He cautioned that the investigation is still in an early stage and officials need to interview at least two other families who may have witnessed the attack. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said the child was "wading ... along the lake's edge at the time that the alligator attacked." Williamson said the boy was in less than a foot of water. Parents rush into water to save son The family of four -- the boy, his parents and his 4-year-old sister -- was on vacation from Nebraska, Demings said. They arrived Sunday. The parents watched as the alligator attacked the toddler at the Seven Seas Lagoon. The lagoon is connected to a series of canals that feed into large bodies of water. "The father actually went into the water to wrestle his son from the grips of the alligator," he said. The father suffered minor scratches on his hand but was unsuccessful in getting his son back. The mother also went into the water, trying to find her child, he said. "The sad reality of it is it's been several hours, and we're not likely going to recover a live body," Demings said. He said there is no record of similar incidents in this particular area. A handful of people witnessed the attack and supplied police with information. Witnesses said the family was on the beach, and the boy's sister was in a playpen about 20 to 30 yards from the water, according to Demings. The toddler was nearby, wading in the water. There are "No Swimming" signs at the lagoon, and no one else was in the water at the time of the attack besides the child, Demings said. Declan Salcido, who's on vacation with relatives from San Jose, California, said the "No Swimming" signs are visible "from any vantage point." The lagoon is not for recreational swimming. "This is Florida, and it's not uncommon for alligators to be in bodies of water," Demings said. Many on social media lambasted the child's parents, while others urged compassion. Some people said a "No swimming" sign is hardly sufficient if alligators could be lurking.
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This Burger King dressing up as a McDonald's ghost is a a level of pettiness once unheard of pic.twitter.com/fldCfZ0gWD — Eric Fawcett (@Efawcett7) October 25, 2016 Once again, @BurgerKing brilliantly trolls @McDonalds for #halloween Yet, it's always risky to take it at competitors.Don't try this at home pic.twitter.com/kHkR3Y6mr4 — The Growth Concierge (@GrowthConcierge) October 26, 2016 Now that's the competitive Halloween spirit I like to see @BurgerKing!! 😂https://t.co/nkRnVBfIXk — John Legere (@JohnLegere) October 27, 2016 Leave it to a Burger King in Queens, NY to display the best Halloween costume a fast-food chain has ever worn. pic.twitter.com/Ib8sWknSZ1 — Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) October 27, 2016 A Burger King in Queens pulled a bit of a prank last Sundayby disguising itself as a McDonald's for a few hours. While the Rego Park location stayed in its ghost of McDonald'scostume, the sign in front of the eatery read: "Boooooo. Just kidding, we still flame grill our burgers. Happy Halloween." Some reports suggested a commercial in the making, but when Metro contacted Burger King's main office, we were given the photos (above) and the video (below), but a spokewoman told us "this is all the information we can provide."Mysterious! The internet was torn on whether this was a mean trick or a flame-broiledtreat.
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Best Answer: The $ is a designator of a quantity, similar to plus and minus. However, when speaking of cents, one says 5 cents or 10 cents or 25 cents and if you use the symbol which designates 'cents' it also follows the quantity: 37 ¢ (not ¢ 35) Probably the dollar sign is not allowed to cross the decimal point, and that must be a customary practice by accountants. Since cents are to the right of the decimal, it probably seemed natural to put the ¢ symbol on the right too. So I think it has something to do with the way an Accountant's brain works. The French would be the exception that proves the rule -- they do things differently no matter what the profession. Therefore it is an arbitrary choice which has become customary. The Brits set the precedent by putting the £ symbol on the left. Where do the Japanese place the ¥ ? Before or after? When they read the quantity and its designator, is it the same, i.e. a reversal? More extensive work needs to be done. The French are also more liberal than the Brits, who still have a Queen. They take some pride in being différent, you see? Lots of different nationalities are using the Euro! Are their styles consistent? Some languages read from right to left. Is their math reversed too? I think this is a big project and you must gather many answers and analyze them. Source(s): Ursus Particularies · 8 years ago
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Still loading... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AA AB 1 Notice: Select Players from Each team have been sent friend request by organizer (kennethSalt) 2 3 Join This Discord https://discord.gg/KWX9JXt 4 5 6 Team 0 Name: CaliOrBust SR High SR Current Roles Mains (in Order of skill) uW Student? Looking for group. SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? 7 Feridun123#1899 3200 3000 Tank Reinhardt, RoadHog yes Bronze_loner 1200 1100 DPS Reaper yes 8 PaninoGoose#1000 2500 2400 Support Lucio, Ana yes 9 Kill_puppies#1788 3000 2900 OffTankl Zarya, Dva, Mei yes 10 surprisin_amount_of_Damage#5876 2432 2200 Support Mercy yes 11 i_need_healing_<3_seagull#9000 2500 2500 dps genji no 12 Likes_to_throw 1337 1000 instalock hanzo, widow, junkrat, torb(attack only) no 13 SIGNUP 14 Team 1 Name: Fucking Trash SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Contacted Looking for group. SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? 15 Laggy#1889 1000 1500 Feed None Yes 16 Miku#1609 2000 2500 Silver None No 17 CptShrimps#1333 4000 4000 Big carry None No 18 Howdoyoudo#11897 3000 3500 Big carry #2 None Yes 19 MrGnomeragn#1378 2900 3000 Shine bright None Yes 20 RunEMC#1327 3100 3500 Big Carry #3 None Yes 21 Team 2 Name: pyrexshorts and the boys SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Contacted 22 pyrexshorts#1413 3201 3150 Flex Tracer, S76, Zarya, Dva, Ana Yes 23 adrock2 adamater#1560 3300 3100 dps/tank roadhog,dva ~ soldier,tracer,pharah yes 24 Retort#11700 3500 3100 support/tank ana lucio zen rein yes 25 GunsFlare 3700 3700 dps dps no 26 Trechus#11731 3059 3000 Flex Mccree, Genji, S76, Rein, Lucio, Hog Yes 27 Exia#12129 4150 4050 Flex Lucio, D.VA, Soldier no 28 Team 3 Name: Team Trebuchet SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Contacted 29 Shanghaij13#1198 2533 2533 Support/Fill Mercy, Dva Yes 30 Bowman#1534 3363 3363 Tank Zarya, Genji Yes 31 James#18372 3008 2985 Fill Ana, Zarya, Lucio No 32 Rat#11246 2176 3070 Support/DPS Ana, Mei, Pharah, Hanzo No 33 BeckrWreckr#11114 2043 2024 DPS/Tank Pharah, Reinhardt No 34 SDIR#1977 Unranked Unranked Rookie Lucio Yes 35 Team 4 Name: mkv west SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Team Incomplete 36 Threshold 55 (season 1) N/A support, dps ana, zenyatta, soldier yes 37 Black#11981 2800 2400 dps, tank mcree, roadhog yes 38 dill#1233 2958 2900 DPS, heal pharah, ana yes 39 we will join u m8's 40 41 42 Team 5 Name: STACKED TEAM SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Contacted 43 Kapoww#1366 4176 3990 dps, everything everything yes 44 Silokkes#1682 4100 4100 tank, offtank, support everything yes 45 NEROMAN#1287 4055 4046 pharah pharah yes 46 Danhockey94#1203 2200 2200 support Lucio yes 47 ultimawep#1983 4300 4300 Support rein no 48 Boink#1915 4445 4445 dps, everything dva, zarya, hog, pharah no 49 Team 6 Name: Overbotched SR High SR Current Roles Mains uW Student? Contacted 50 EMacs#1622 3048 2831 broad shoulders banana, D.va, meiB, soldier ye 51 KingOfFomori#1453 2758 2627 Support Lucio, Zenyatta yes 52 TheColonel#11981 2593 2500 small feet I hear he plays a pretty good Reaper Ya 53 AlyStormborn#1929 2044 2023 fallen angel lord have mercy yes 54 TacSho
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Smart meters – maybe not so smart You may already have read about 'smart metering technology' being installed in all homes across the UK from 2014 onwards, with every home expected to have smart metering installed by 2019. This might slip if funding is not readily available, but that seems to be the current timescale. Smart metering allows two-way information exchange between energy users and suppliers, providing real-time (almost) information about supply and demand at the individual user level, allowing the level of that supply and demand to be accurately determined on a moment-to-moment basis. According to the Government, smart metering will slash unnecessary energy use, reduce emissions, and cut consumers' energy bills. But, it seems there's a problem, and nobody's telling us about it. Researchers have found that the meters can monitor users' consumption at intervals of only 2 seconds, which is far too frequent for their intended purpose. Worse, this rapid high-resolution sampling makes it possible to analyse the consumption and identify what equipment is being used in the users' home – and this can lead to an invasion of privacy as it reveals people's habits, preferences, and even whether or not the home is occupied. I found the explanation of this (and the weakness which was used to exploit it) particularly interesting, since a similar discussion I took part in about five years ago concluded that this could not be done. However, technology and analytical techniques have moved on, and I have to say I am impressed with what can be done now, and the level of detail that a 'simple' consumption monitoring exercise can provide. It has to be said that a simple change to the metering could also defeat quite a lot of this – if the manufacturers were to incorporate such a thing, which would degrade the operation of the device (without affecting its claimed purpose), so I doubt they will. They also found they could send false detail to the supplier – in other words, users could falsify their consumption. Particularly worrying was their finding that all security techniques which were supposed to be in place were not, or could be easily circumvented – and the data being sent to and from the smart meter was not encrypted, so anyone with reasonable skills could intercept it. We currently lack any robust privacy and data requirements in the UK for this technology. Professor in security engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (Ross Anderson) has said that the Government's smart meter plans are "set to become another public sector IT disaster". Technically, it does not take the greatest leap in imagination to see how such insecure devices could become a disaster if hackers were able to break into a 'head-end' hub where smart metering data may be collated, and from where they could cut the supply of energy across millions of households. Deploying these meter across the World – once developed, the same technology is mass-produced, and standardised – would see hundreds of millions of the devices installed in Europe (and North America apparently) with each having a remotely controlled 'Off switch', remote software updating, each becomes a rather alarming point of vulnerability in every home. Anderson and Fuloria's paper on the vulnerabilities of smart meter technology (6-page / 119KB PDF) There is also a video presentation (but it's hard going, as the guys are not used to speaking in public, but the slides speak for them): Advertisements
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What do you do when you need to run a command on a remote computer? Using the free PDQ Inventory you can run commands on remote computers all you want. If you've ever used the awesome PSTools then you'll know how important it is to run a good Windows remote command on your networked computers. Before we begin, it's important to understand what is happening when we use the Remote Command feature in PDQ Inventory. When you initiate a Remote Command against a target computer you are actually running that command "locally" on the actual target. The "remote" part comes from the fact that you are defining the command from your PDQ Inventory console. When you actually submit the Remote Command a Windows Service is created on the target computer and that service passes the command you defined to the local CMD.exe process. This means that any command you supply has to exist (or is accessible) on the target system. Let's get started. To kill a Freecell game on a remote computer you could type: taskkill /f /im freecell.exe Plus, with Remote Command in PDQ Inventory you don't have to limit yourself to running a command on just one computer. If you really want to piss off the freecell players at your company you can select multiple computers or even a PDQ Inventory Collection as your target. The screenshot below shows me killing freecell.exe on all the computers in the "Accounting computers" collection. The 11 computers in the Collection called "Accounting computers" would then be targets for the Remote Command. How about wanting to quickly stop and start a service. You can "restart" a service by running two commands on the same command line. In the example below we will stop and start the DNS Client service. This can be handy when a target computer needs its DNS cache updated. In the command above I simply passed to "net.exe" commands. One to stop the DNS Client service (the service name is dnscache) and one to start it. (Windows doesn't have a native CLI, outside of PowerShell, to "restart" a service). This is a great example, however, of running two commands in sequence. We separate the different commands with a single Ampersand '&'. BTW, you can use two Ampersands '&&' and that will run the next command only if the preceding command finished successfully. Let's get a little trickier. Since the awesome suite of tools ( I mentioned them earlier) known as PsTools are freely available I highly recommend that you download and use them in your everyday Sys Admin tasks. In this case, let's use the command 'PsService' to actually RESTART a service. This way we wouldn't have to use the two separate net.exe commands (shown above) to stop and then start a service. In this example I have the PsTools suite available on a file server known as Scranton (for you The Office fans out there…you'll get the reference). The Share name on Scranton is called "Deploy". I just need to type in the full UNC to the PsService.exe command to run it. \\Scranton\Deploy\Microsoft\PsTools\PsService.exe restart dnscache -accepteula The arguments that I pass PsService.exe are 1) the service instruction (restart) and 2) the name of the service (dnscache). I also pass the -accepteula argument to prevent the End User License Agreement (EULA) window from hanging the entire process. Note the Credentials field. The user account I am using is Quintana running in the Deadwood domain. In this case, Quintana MUST have the appropriate permissions to access and execute the PsService.exe utility on the remote server (Scranton). Quintana also must (obviously) have Administrator rights on the target computers. One more note: Any command that you execute from Remote Command cannot have any prompts or windows that must be answered to execute correctly. An example is this: Let's say you want to copy an updated file called CompanyRules.avi from a network share to the target computer. You intend to use the native 'copy' command in Windows. If the target computer already has an older copy of CompanyRules.avi you will get a prompt asking if you want to overwrite the existing file. This prompt will cause the Remote Command to hang indefinitely since this prompt cannot be answered remotely. To get around this you would need to use the /Y argument. In the example below you will see that I locally ran two copy commands. The first without the /Y argument. Since CompanyRules.avi already existed I was prompted to confirm that I wanted to proceed. Since I was running this locally I was able to answer 'Y' and proceed. This would
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A father of six children and his two youngest kids were killed by an illegal alien in a head on collision last year. But after a Texas court only gave the man who committed the crime a two year jail sentence, his wife is now speaking out. Courtney Hacking sat down with Fox & Friends on Saturday to speak about her ordeal. Hacking's deceased husband was a legal immigrant from England himself, but argues that illegal immigrants receive unjust sentencing for crimes they commit under current U.S. law. in 2016, illegal alien Margarito Quintero fell asleep at the wheel of his vehicle and swerved into the next lane, hitting Peter Hacking and his four year old daughter Ellie and his 22 month old son Grayson. The three subsequently died. Peter Hacking was a volunteer firefighter, a friend to many, and a hero to more, said Hacking. The widow continued, saying she finds her strength in her children and in the memory of her husband. She said her other four children remind her daily she needs to be strong and that she need to make a difference for them. As for current law, Hacking now wants change in the judicial process for illegal aliens. "People think his crime and his punishment seem to fit because he was an illegal immigrant. But to me being illegal in the country was a crime on its own so I don't understand how he did get only two years," she added, "To me I take it offensively. I take it personally. She continued, "I want our laws enforced. The message needs to be put across to them that when you come to this country you need to do it legally because when they come here all they're getting is…they're committing crimes, they're getting a slap on the wrist and they're going back to Mexico or they're going back to whatever country they came from." Hacking is now left to raise her remaining four sons with out her husband and her two youngest children. Watch the segment below.
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Share Today it's known for its high-end luxury sports cars, but by 2020 (or "maybe 2019"), Maserati hopes to offer its wealthy consumers something that not only costs a lot of green, but is green itself — an electric vehicle. Sure, by the time its version rolls around, electric cars may not be nearly as buzzworthy as they are today. After all, the Italian carmaker is already a bit late to the game in announcing its own EV plans. But as the company's engineering lead Roberto Fedeli told Car and Driver, Maserati isn't worried about doing things first, but more about doing them better than anyone else. "We will be last (with a production EV), and we have to arrive to the market with something different," Fedeli said. "Very different." As such, Maserati has no interest in taking cues from other makers, and certainly won't be making a Telsa copycat. "A Tesla fighter probably [is] not a good idea," he mused, and then added, "I don't think that Tesla is the best product in the market but they are doing 50,000 cars a year. The execution and quality of the products of Tesla are the same as a German OEM in the 1970s. Their solutions are not the best." Those are some fighting words if we ever heard any. So how will Maserati engineer a best-in-class solution? Part of it, Fedeli said, will be to make it feel like a Maserati. "Acceleration for three seconds, maximum, and that's all the emotion that is found. After that there is nothing," he lamented, commenting on the weight of most EVs today. "The EV is something different and we have to [give] the car [Maserati character]." Ultimately, Fedeli hopes to create a car that is not only green and efficient, but also on-brand with the signature Maserati sports car feel. Consistency, Fedeli said, is absolutely key, and "needs to be solved" come 2020.
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UBC announces measures to address campus chants, sexual violence UBC announced measures to address a chant endorsing rape and sexual violence during C.U.S. FROSH events. Photo: Russ Heinl The University of British Columbia announced today comprehensive measures to address a chant endorsing rape and sexual violence during Commerce Undergraduate Society FROSH events for first-year students of the Sauder School of Business, held the week of September 3rd 2013. The University's decision is based on the report of its fact-finding panel, indicating there is no evidence C.U.S. leaders planned and directed others to use the rape chant. However, the report concluded that this and other offensive chants were a C.U.S. oral tradition, no C.U.S. leader intervened to stop anyone from using offensive chants, and the vast majority of first-year students attending the C.U.S. FROSH events would have been exposed to the rape chant. The report also concludes that some C.U.S. FROSH activities were inappropriately sexualized. "After serious consideration, we believe it is essential that the C.U.S. and all FROSH leaders make tangible amends," said UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope. "At the same time, the whole UBC community needs to embark upon deeper, transformative and lasting change that would make such chants entirely and obviously unacceptable in our community." Measures announced by Prof. Toope, Vice President, Students Louise Cowin and Sauder School of Business Dean Robert Helsley address three broad areas: holding accountable the student leaders who were involved in this year's C.U.S. FROSH events, supporting robust education and change efforts at the Sauder School of Business and across the entire University, and restoring the community's trust. Specifically, a voluntary contribution of $250,000 over three years from the C.U.S. with additional resources from the University will fund a professional position to provide student counseling and education on sexual abuse and violence. The president has also appointed Cowin to lead a task force to design broader measures to address deeper systemic and organizational issues. "We all need to be involved – those who made serious mistakes and misjudgments, and those who didn't," said Prof. Toope. "UBC is seizing this moment to strike at the violence, sexualization and discrimination that still lurks below the surface in pockets of our society." BACKGROUND Additional quotes: Louise Cowin, Vice President Students "UBC is committed to addressing these issues head on. While we deeply regret this happened, I embrace the opportunity this provides to work with faculty experts and community groups to bring about long-term change." Robert Helsley, Dean, Sauder School of Business "I am deeply concerned by the events of the past weeks. The reported events are completely inconsistent with the values of the Sauder School of Business and UBC. I am committed to taking steps to ensure this will not happen again and that all students will feel safe and welcome when they begin their studies." Detailed UBC measures supporting three goals: Enhancing responsibility and accountability All 81 C.U.S. FROSH leaders, as well as the FROSH Executive Committee , C.U.S. Board of Directors and Executive Council members will participate in community service The Sauder School of Business and the C.U.S. will implement structural changes to ensure student well-being and inclusivity are part of future C.U.S. events In addition, four C.U.S. leaders have already resigned Restoring community trust The C.U.S. will issue a public apology and indicate steps they are taking to create a positive, inclusive environment at UBC C.U.S. pledges to make a voluntary contribution of $250,000 to fund professional counselling support services and education C.U.S. leaders are participating in training around sexual violence Education and culture change Sauder School of Business faculty are developing curricular changes, engaging students to provide leadership in promoting safe, inclusive and respectful environments Sauder will introduce new broad-based student leadership training Sauder will no longer support C.U.S. FROSH UBC will establish a task force to integrate faculty expertise and community resources to address broader cultural issues related to violence and sexualization. UBC's Statement on Respectful Environment for Students, Faculty and Staff UBC's non-academic misconduct process and policy
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US and Ukraine could pursue joint producton of weapons on Ukrainian territory Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:32:00 PM Ukraine should initiate discussions with the US with regard to the joint production of weapons and ammunition in Ukraine, as this will be beneficial to both countries. This was said by the Ukrainian Ambassador to the US, Valeriy Chaly. "I think we should not only discuss the supply of weapons, but we should also seriously discuss the joint production of weapons and ammunition. Over the last two years, Ukraine has not only rebuilt the army virtually from scratch, but also returned workers back to the plants which will, with the assistance of funding, restore the military-industrial potential of the country. This is why we need the weapons to be produced on the territory of Ukraine. This is also a good option for the US as there is a possibility to access other markets," Chaly said this during an interview with the 5 Kanal Ukrainian TV channel on Monday. When asked to specify what would be produced, Chaly mentioned the fact that after the occupation of eastern Ukraine, occupiers dismantled and removed the industrial facilities that produced ammunition. "Therefore, we need to produce ammunition somewhere and this issue will need to be solved somehow," Chaly added. He also stressed that this type of production can also be profitable for the US. He added that the production of armaments in Ukraine would make it possible to deliver it to other countries. "The production of lethal weapons in Ukraine is a strategy. If the partners are committed, they will be seen as key countries in the region," Chaly said. He did however mention that this possible joint production does not cancel the delivery of non-lethal weapons to Ukraine. "Today, we have a good situation, and an understanding, with the US with regard to the security and defense sector. Defense equipment will be arriving, I cannot say when, but it will be coming in the next few days. This equipment will save the lives of our soldiers on the front lines," Chaly said. He reiterated the fact that the US has allocated $650 million in support of Ukraine this year. A total of $335 million was allocated for defense and security. Chaly is hoping for more active cooperation with US partners in the future. Share Comments Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year. It's been a while since I've last posted a chapter. Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm back. I'll try to translate quicker for the next week or two to catch up for the sponsored chapters as well as the regular chapters each week. With this said, I have added 4 extra sponsored chapters to the queue to make up for the time that I was gone during my study period. I'm sure everybody has been waiting for the new chapter, so without further ado, here's Chapter 142. Chapter 142 Translator: jn Proofreaders: TheOneLonely, Lebin, Malcience
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For those of you who train Mixed Martial Arts, I am sure you have seen the rise of what many people refer to as "training masks." These masks resembles a gas mask and restrict breathing for whomever wears it. The assumption is that this mask is making their cardiovascular workout more difficult, therefore building endurance more effectively than training without the mask. Are they correct? No, they are not! The masks, for the uninformed, are supposed to simulate a condition known as "hypoxia" which literally translates to "low oxygen." This is achieved in situations of training at altitude which has proven aerobic endurance benefits. However, these masks do NOT simulate hypoxia, they create hypercapnia. Hypercapnia is when there is too much carbon dioxide in the blood. If you were wondering if hypercapnia is bad for you, lets take a look at some of the adverse affects of hypercapnia: Reduced neural activity, Increased cardiac output (your heart beats much faster), Elevated blood pressure, Possible loss of consciousness, Disorientation, Possible convulsions, In severe cases, death. The mask creates a facilitated "hypoventilation" which means it restricts your breathing in general. By trapping a portion of the air you exhale as well as restricting the flow of new air, you slowly become more and more hypercapnic as you inhale your carbon dioxide. There is a misconception that it creates hypoxia, because the wearer isn't breathing the same amount of oxygen. However, it's not just oxygen, they are getting dangerous levels of carbon dioxide.. This causes a lot of strain on your lungs and heart. Among other things, wearing this mask also drastically decreases your training intensity. It is equivalent to strapping duct tape over your mouth and going for a run. Sure, you feel super hardcore, but you're super hardcore moving at about 25% of the speed you could be. Poor performance in training means poor performance under the lights. You can't afford to train at less than half speed for the sake of looking like you're using a new "cutting edge" training method. A general red flag is that these masks generally run for less than $100. Similar machines which actually do create hypoxia (such as the ones sold by the company Hypoxico) are used by professional athletes and Olympians and run a price tag of several thousand dollars. If I were trying to sell you a motorcycle for $100, wouldn't you assume something was wrong with it before you bought it? In closing, I may sound irritated by this new line of product, because I am and I'm not afraid to voice my opinion. I pride myself in training youth who aspire to become involved in combat sports, and I do not want dangerous products like these making their way into their hands. If you currently train with a mask or you know guys at your gym who train with them, I urge you to do some research on the topic before ever strapping that mask back on your face. In the mean time... Train hard, train smart, and train safe!
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Canada's top financial regulator wants to update the rules that govern how much capital lenders must hold to offset the risk that the residential mortgages on their books go bad. In a release Friday, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions said it is going to consult with players in the industry on new rules that could be in place by 2017 governing the capital requirements put upon Canadian financial institutions when they loan money to consumers for mortgage and home-equity lines of credit. "Risks in the Canadian mortgage market continue to evolve," deputy superintendent Mark Zelmer said. Essentially, the regulator is saying they're going to force banks to have more money set aside in case the mortgage loans on their books go bad. Having to keep more money in reserve could reduce their appetite to loan out more money to would-be borrowers, which could work to cool the housing market. "The purpose of OSFI's regulatory capital framework is to ensure, as much as possible, that federally regulated financial institutions can absorb severe but plausible losses," Zelmer said. Among the proposals on the table is to implement a "risk-sensitive floor" to the financial models that banks internally use to assess how much they are able to loan out to any given borrower looking to buy property. Changing those models would potentially cause banks to reassess the risks, which would change how much money they're willing to loan and who may be eligible to borrow. "It will require more capital when house prices are high relative to borrower incomes," Zelmer said. New down payment rules, too The move came on the same day that Ottawa announced it was hiking the down payment requirement for federally-insured mortgages to 10 per cent for the portion of a purchase price of any home that's over $500,000. Both moves are aimed squarely at achieving the same goal: making sure Canada's housing market isn't overinflated, and adjusting the risk to more reasonable levels without setting off a panic. Economists on Bay Street said the down payment rules are unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the market, but may achieve their aim of ratcheting down risk on the margins. "While it sounds dramatic, our analysis suggests that the overall impact will be felt only at the margin given the relatively small segment of the market that will be impacted," CIBC's Benjamin Tal said of the new down payment rules. "Today's moves will represent another step in protecting home buyers from taking on too much mortgage debt relative to the value of their home in a low interest rate environment," TD Bank added.
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video MUSKEGON, Mich. -- FOX 17 is learning more about an alleged drunk driving incident involving an off-duty Ottawa County deputy. A source close to the investigation said Dennis Robert Smith had a blood alcohol content of .22. That's nearly three times the legal limit and fits Michigan's new "super drunk" criteria, which can carry harsher penalties. Smith, 42, lives in Muskegon, according to court records. He's an Ottawa County deputy who works in the jail there. Muskegon County Prosecutor DJ Hilson said Smith was driving near 9th and Muskegon Street on Friday. Police saw how he was driving and pulled him over. Court records show Smith faces one count of "operating with blood alcohol content of .17 or more." If found guilty, he could get up to 6 months in jail along with a $700 fine and many other penalties. In a statement, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department said they've begun an internal review. Court documents show that Smith bonded out of jail. His arraignment is scheduled for May 13.
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In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. On Christmas day of 1996, Laura Jane Grace picked up an acoustic guitar and recorded some songs in her mother's house in Florida. It was an inauspicious beginning to a band called Against Me!, one that would go on to release seven full-length albums, tour arenas opening for Green Day and the Foo Fighters, and rile up the punk community every step of the way. This month, after finishing a nearly two-month long tour, Against Me! will return to its onetime home of Gainesville, Florida, to play The Fest. And though the band and The Fest have a long history together, this time Against Me! will be playing their first album, 2002's Against Me! is Reinventing Axl Rose, in sequence for the first time ever. With this full-album performance happening, it seemed like a good time to have Grace sit down and rank her band's albums. Days before embarking on the band's headlining run in support of 2016's Shape Shift with Me, Grace and I sat in a park and discussed the band's catalog. She came prepared, with her handwritten list in a notebook for reference. And even though she made some last-minute tweaks to it, she turned in her definitive rankings, telling stories—and doling out criticisms—with the unabashed honesty she's known for. 7. Searching for a Former Clarity (2005) Noisey: What about this record don't you like? Laura Jane Grace: The songs. [Laughs] Okay, fair. I feel like Searching for a Former Clarity is really full of good intentions. Where we were as a band right then, we were all very present, all very committed, all trying to do it, but very unrealistic in the amount of time we gave ourselves to do it. We'd done two full-length records and just started touring, touring, touring. This was the first time in the band's career where we were like, "We're taking a break from the road. We're gonna hunker down and write a record—craft the great masterpiece record." We had those lofty ambitions, but we only really gave ourselves three months to do that. And it ended up being the longest record the band ever made. There's a lot of fat on it. There's a lot of stuff that could have been cut that would have made a more concise record. A lot of the songs just weren't fully realized visions. So, for one, it's because it was a longer record, and the amount of songs we still play off it to this day is significantly less than other records. What songs would you cut? I would cut "Even at Our Worst We're Still Better Than Most (The Roller)," I'd cut that song from the record. You don't need it. But off that record, we still play "Miami." I will begrudgingly play "Don't Lose Touch" every once and awhile. What do you have against that one? Oh, we played that song to death. We played that song fucking every show for probably ten years. I was just at the point where I was like, "I'm done! I'm done singing that song." The record, too, in my opinion, suffers from a little too much self-awareness. I've always believed in writing what you know, and our experience at the time was going through the stupid, major label bidding war stuff. And I was really influenced by Cursive's The Ugly Organ and the idea of criticizing the art world. So that was really where my head was at. I was consumed with it just because those were the circumstances. I had a hard time seeing beyond that, subject matter-wise, because all I had going on was my band. A lot of bands make that kind of record, but this one I think gives a lot of insight into the minutia of being in a band. Like "Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners," where you're listing off the percentages that go to agents and managers. Which are accurate percentages! But I think that's what makes it interesting. Though, reading your book, it sounds like Fat Wreck Chords wasn't behind it from the start. Which was crushing. There was no confidence in it either. It was like, "Our label hates the record. Our fans fucking hate us. We're trying to be something but we don't even know what we are really." I'm happy that I don't dislike the record or feel bad about it because we were just wasted and we weren't really trying. We were legitimately trying, and we put a lot into it. We built out the basement of the house
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Enter your email and submit:You will be notified when someone replies to this thread [VIEWED 39489 TIMES] SAVE! for ease of future access. LOG IN TO ACCESS THIS FEATURE. Or you can enter your email here to get the link emailed to you Login in to Rate this Post: 0 ? Login in to Rate this Post: 0 ? LITERARY ORGANIZATION PROFILE 1. Chwasapasa 2. Nepal Bhasa Parishad 3. Asa Saphu Kuthi 4. Nepal Bhasa Academy 5. Sahitya Guthi 6.Nepal Bhasa Misa Khala (Nepal Bhasa Women's Organization) 7.Artha Prakashan (P) Ltd, Publishers of Sandhya Times daily 8. Apsara Prakashan (P) Ltd, Publishers of Newa Post daily, Apsara weekly, Yajju monthly 9.Newa Network (P) Ltd, Publishers of Ilohan (Children's monthly magazine) 10.Balkoseli Prakashan, Publishers of Macha Kyaba (Children's Garden) monthly and Children's Books Maitri Fm 99.4, a program 'Nhuja:' has been started which also teaches Nepal Bhasa. It comes every sunday at 20:00 just after a News in Nepal Basha. Last edited: 24-Jun-09 10:46 AM View/Share this post only Login in to Rate this Post: 0 ? Login in to Rate this Post: 0 ? Very good website and pages on learning nepal bhasa..Although very basic..it provides easy way to understanding it..Highly recommended..for beginners. http://www.college-junction.com/Learn-Newari.php Learn Newa Bhasa (Language) CHAPTER 1(Greetings) Jo-ja-la-paa = It means - Hello! Greetings! Good day! Good evening Bhin-tu-naa = Best wishes Su-bhaay = Thank you La-sa-ku-sa = Welcome Khah. = Yes. Ma-khu. = No. CHAPTER 2 (What) New words: chhu = what thwa = this wa = that khah = is (used when making a statement) ma-khu = is not (opposite of khah) 1. Thwa chhu khah? What is this? 2. Thwa computer khah. This is a computer. 3. Wa chhu khah? What is that? 4. Wa modem khah. That is a modem. CHAPTER 3 (Who) New words: su = who ji = I chhi = you way-kah = he/she khah = am/is ma-khu = am not/is not 1. Ji Bill khah. I am Bill. 2. Way-kah John khah. He is John. 3. Way-kah Robert ma-khu. He is not Robert. CHAPTER 4 (Whose) New words: ji-mi = my (when referring to persons) ji-gu = my (when referring to things) chhi-ka-pi-ni = your (when referring to persons) chhi-gu = your (when referring to things) way-kah-yaa = his/her (when referring to persons) way-kah-yaa-gu = his/her (when referring to things) John-yaa = John's (when referring to persons, like in John's friend) John-yaa-gu = John's (when referring to things, like in John's car) paa-saa = friend 1. John ji-mi paa-saa khah. John is my friend. 2. Thwa ji-gu computer khah. This is my computer. 3. Thwa ji-gu khah. This is mine. 4. Mary John-yaa paa-saa khah. Mary is John's friend. 5. Thwa John-yaa-gu modem khah. This is John's modem CHAPTER 5 (Where) New words: ga-na = where tha-na = here a-na =
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Elrond is a minifigure from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit theme. He was first released in 2012 with the pre-order edition of LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game. He also appeared in 79006 The Council of Elrond with a new Third Age variation and the 79015 Witch-king Battle set in the Armour variant. Contents show] Description Second Age The Second Age Elrond has Elvish long, brown hair. He has a warm-gold torso, gold arms, and flesh-coloured hands. His torso is printed to have the appearance of elvish armour. His legs are sand green and are printed with the continuation of the armour, He has a flesh-coloured face that is exclusive to him. One side is printed with an angry expression, and the other side with a calm expression. Both faces have black eyes with white centers, and brown eyelashes, as well as lines depicting cheek bones, a chin, and sagging lower eyelids. He wields an elvish spear and has a short dark blue cape and is exclusive to 5000202 Elrond, which one would receive when pre-ordering LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game. Third Age Elrond will come in 79006 The Council of Elrond in a new Third Age form. He has a long dark-brown hairpiece with two braids in the front and a silver decoration. He has a red torso, red arms, flesh-coloured hands, and reddish-brown legs. His torso and legs are printed to depict a red robe that he wears. He has a flesh-coloured head that is printed with a stern expression. He has black eyes with white centers, and brown eyelashes, as well as lines depicting cheek bones, a chin, sagging lower eyelids, and wrinkles on his forehead. His cape is double-sided; one side is red and the other side is light-brown. All of his pieces will be exclusive. In LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game Elrond appears in LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game in both his Second Age and Third Age variants. His Second Age variant is similar to the one that appears in 5000202 Elrond, except the lines on his face depicting his cheekbones are fainter, the lines depicting his sagging eyelids and chin are non-existent, and his torso and arms are cream instead of gold. He wields Hadhafang, can swing on poles and jump from tightropes, and has an elven jump. His Third Age variation is nearly identical in appearance to the one in 79006 The Council of Elrond, and has all the same abilities. Background Elrond Half-elven, the son of the Man Eärendil and the Elf Elwing, was one of the mighty rulers of old that still remained in Middle-earth during the Third Age. He founded the refuge of Rivendell in the Valley of Imladris. He was the father of Arwen, Elladan, and Elrohir. In the Second Age, he fought in the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, as the herald of king Gil-galad. After the One Ring was cut off of Sauron's finger, Elrond told Isildur to destroy the Ring. Not heeding Elrond's advice, Isildur took the Ring and left. When Isildur was killed, the shards of Narsil, the broken sword of Elendil, were brought to Rivendell to be kept until reforged again. When Bilbo Baggins, along with Thorin and company, came to Rivendell, Elrond let them stay. Elrond cared for Aragorn, descendant of Isildur, like a son until he was grown to become King of Gondor. During this period he reluctantly watched Aragorn and Arwen fall in love. During the events of the Third Age, Elrond housed the 'Council of Elrond' in Rivendell, formed the Fellowship of the Ring, gave helping guidance and council to the Fellowship, and brought Andúril to Aragorn. Elrond departed Middle-earth alongside Galadriel, Celeborn, Círdan the Shipwright, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and Frodo Baggins for the Undying Lands at the very end of the Third Age. Descriptions from LEGO.com The Lord of the Rings Description This is a description taken from LEGO.com. Do not modify it. ( ) Lord Elrond Lord Elrond is one of the oldest and wisest of Elves in Middle-earth. He fought side by side with men on the slopes of Mount Doom when the Dark
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A new study shows that dogs and cats have a better chance at a long, healthy life in some states than in others. How does your state rank? Julius Caesar is an 18-year-old Yorkshire Terrier from Rapid City, S.D. South Dakota was ranked among the top states for pet longevity. (Photo: Johnny Sundby, InVision for Banfield Pet Hospital) Story Highlights Louisiana and Mississippi have the shortest lifespan for dogs and cats Pets in Colorado and Montana live the longest Neutered male dogs live 18% longer than unneutered male dogs Some dogs sleep outside and guard the house. Others have wardrobes and spend their day in a purse. It's not clear which lifestyle is pet-preferred, but a new study shows that dogs and cats have a better chance at a long, healthy life in some states than in others. Louisiana and Mississippi have the shortest lifespan for dogs and cats, while pets in Colorado and Montana live longer, according to the 2013 State of Pet Health Report released by Banfield Pet Hospital, the world's largest veterinary practice. Why the difference? Experts say states with the healthiest and longest living pets also have the highest neutering and spaying rates, more pets living inside and fewer regional infectious diseases. "It's all about lifestyle, what your pet means to you and how you take care of them," says veterinarian and epidemiologist Dr. Sandi Lefebvre. "There are different attitudes, different levels of education and they tend to cluster in certain areas of the country." Cats live the longest in Montana, Colorado, Rhode Island, Illinois and Nebraska and they have the shortest lifespan in Delaware, Ohio, Louisiana, Kentucky and Mississippi. States with the longest lifespan for dogs are South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico and Colorado. As for the shortest: Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana Delaware and Massachusetts. Southern states have high rates of heartworm because of heat and mosquitoes. Northeastern states are most likely to have Lyme disease because of the ticks that carry the disease. State-by-state lifespans for dogs from the Banfield Pet Hospital State of Pet Health report., (Photo: Banfield Pet Hospital) In warmer states more pets live outdoors where they are more susceptible to these diseases. If they haven't been neutered or spayed they will have more aggressive behaviors, says Lefebvre. "They are out roaming, fighting, looking for partners." Because of the roaming, unneutered dogs are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car or bitten by another animal. Unneutered cats are four times more likely to be hit by a car and three times more likely to be brought to the veterinarian for treatment of an animal bite compared to a neutered cat, the study shows. For homes in the north, pets are more likely to be indoors because of the weather. "You do not want a sexually intact cat in your home," Lefebvre says. "It howls, pees all over the place so spaying and neutering is obviously important." Adonica Jones-Parks, 45, Cincinnati, Ohio says she learned the hard way, "When I had my first cat I did not have him neutered and he was spraying everywhere – which really makes your house stink – and then he ran off for a few days. Now I know it calms them down and it's the responsible thing to do." Nearly 20% of the cats in Louisiana and Mississippi aren't spayed or neutered but in Montana and Colorado, the states with the longest lifespan, that number is closer to 8%. Neutered male dogs live 18% longer than un-neutered male dogs and spayed female dogs live 23% longer than unspayed female dogs, according to the report. "But even if a pet is spayed or neutered it still needs shots, training, nutrition, dental care and parasite control to live a long, healthy life," Lefebvre says. Julius Caeser, an 18-year-old Yorkshire Terrier lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. The average Yorkshire Terrier lives to about 11.3. Mike Deal, 55, Julius Caesar's owner, says Rapid City has been an exceptional place to have a dog. "Having a hard winter kills the ticks and sand fleas and the summer doesn't get too hot," Deal says. "I have never seen such a pet friendly area." And Julius Caeser certainly lives like a king. "He has an actual seat at the table," Deal says. "He's never really been treated like a dog. He has always been part of our family." In Mississippi, the state ranking lowest for pet longevity, 44% of the dogs are not neutered or spayed, says
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Activist group leaves politically charged effigies in Richmond's Bryan Park Copyright by WRIC - All rights reserved Image courtesy of Indecline [ + - ] Video RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Richmond Police temporarily closed Joseph Bryan Park Thursday morning after an anonymous group calling itself Indecline hung eight figures dressed as clowns in Ku Klux Klan robes by the neck from a tree there. The group appears to have hung the figures overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. As of 10:40 a.m., the park had been reopened. Around the neck of one of the figures is a placard which reads "If attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler" -- Indecline." Activist group leaves politically charged street art in Richmond's Bryan Park Image courtesy of Indecline This is the same group who during the 2016 Presidential election created naked statues of Donald Trump which showed up in cities throughout the country. The group said in a press release that they have been planning the act, which police are considering a crime scene, since Spring of 2016. The location of the act was selected, according to the press release, because of Richmond's history of having been the capital of the Confederate States of America, and Bryan Park having been the location of Gabriel Prosser's slave rebellion in 1800. *THE FOLLOWING VIDEO WAS PRODUCED AND RELEASED BY THE GROUP INDECLINE This is a developing story. Stay with 8News online and on air for the latest updates. Never miss another Facebook post from 8News Find 8News on Twitter Facebook , and Instagram ; send your news tips to [email protected]
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To stay on the container in a firm and reliable manner To allow for the beverage to pass through the lid (in most cases) To protect the cup user from accidental spillage To allow for ease of drinkability. There are five basic methods and design concepts for lid designs Fully Closed - With this lid the plastic is closed entirely with only a center or side vapor escape hole. To use this lid system the entire lid must be removed. The Pinch - With this lid the plastic is scored and to use the section is removed from the edge of the lid to allow beverage be sipped. This is done by applied squeezing pressure to a gripping surface with a thumb and forefinger pinch. The Sweetheart corporation uses this system. The Puncture - With this lid there is a raised element on the lid allowing a puncture to so that the beverage can be sipped. Also known as the Push and Drink lid. The Peel - With this lid there is a removable wedge in the lid that runs to the edge of the cup fastening system. Radial score lines are used to define a central tear tab with predictable tears leaving the remainder of the lid on the container. The peel-and-lock lid is a vacation on this concept whereby the wedge can be folded back and locked on to the lid with a pressure clamp. The Pucker - With this lid there is a raised area that can be access for sipping directly. The drinker places their mouth on the protruded polystyrene. The pucker lid requires the user to drink through the lid and not from the cup like the peel lids. The Solo Traveler is the primary example. The Solo Traveler lid was designed so perfectly, only slight variations to this outstanding design can be found. This design takes in to account human anatomy, ergonomics and functionality in a simple and elegant way. It is very hard to improve upon this form follows function design. It broadcasts, by its very design, how to use the product, many other lid systems do not. The iconic design has been featured in a number of Modern Art exhibits and has won a number of notable design awards.There have been at least 40 different, individually-patented drink-through plastic cup lids created since 1934. The styrene plastic hot beverage lid for Styrofoam and cardboard containers have been around since the early 1970s. Prior to this invention, a cardboard cup lid was the only option. The cardboard cup with the cardboard cup lid became an icon in New York and presented two distinct trendsand related, the classic Anthora cup and its historyThere are 3 basic lid systems: fully closed, directly drinkable and indirectly drinkable using a straw. We will focus on the directly drinkable version.The challenge of any directly drinkable lid system is to meet the primary goals:The secondary goals are:. It is easy for most to visually identify the lid systems that seem to work the best.There are variations to these designs, however there are not too many other options. Many of these design concepts are confusing and perhaps frustrating to use. Some designs are so poor that even in optimal cases the usability is suspect. Just about everyone has experienced this while trying to negotiate the hot beverage. In many cases spillage and perhaps burns are a result of these poor designs.In most of these lid designs the user's anatomy, the tip of the nose and the protrusion of the upper lip are not fully addressed. When drinking from a cup the tips of our noses will come so close as to typically enter the cup if there is no lid. Thus with any lid system it is important to address the tip of the nose and the top lip. The Solo Traveler has addressed these issues most directly. And is one of the reasons for the stellar success of the product. The Sweetheart Company has a competing product, the Sweetheart Gourmet lid, however it does not address the anatomy issues directly. On just the ergonomic account alone the Solo Traveler is far more a superior design. This is accomplished by raising the lid surface about 1/2 inch above the edge of the cup. Most completing lid systems sit at or slightly below the edge of the cup and limit how these systems can solve typical lid usability issues.All disposable lid systems are not fully able to deal with heat transference and steam dispersion very well. The issue is really one of balancing the needs for this class of product. Other than being burned by a beverage that is too hot to drink, the largest complaint seems to be the pooling of steam that can be as hot as 120 F. Almost all lid systems have a small hole to aid in the venting of steam but they are less then ideal as they must also be small enough to not allow too much beverage to escape. There is also the issue of cooling too rapidly to be balanced. In the case of the Solo Traveler there is actually a "Chimney effect" because of the upward angle on the drinking side of the
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The dust has barely started to settle on the 2012 college football season, but Bovada has already released odds on who will win the 2013 BCS Championship. The Alabama Crimson Tide come in at 5/1 to win their third straight national championship, followed by the Oregon Ducks at 8/1. Here is the full list, courtesy of Bovada. Alabama 5/1 Oregon 8/1 Ohio State 17/2 LSU 12/1 Texas A&M 12/1 Florida 14/1 Florida State 14/1 Clemson 22/1 Louisville 22/1 Notre Dame 22/1 Miami 25/1 Oklahoma 25/1 South Carolina 25/1 Georgia 28/1 Nebraska 28/1 Stanford 30/1 Texas 30/1 Michigan 33/1 USC 33/1 Oklahoma State 40/1 UCLA 40/1 Mississippi State 50/1 Wisconsin 50/1 TCU 66/1 Virginia Tech 66/1 Boise State 75/1 Michigan State 75/1 North Carolina 75/1 Oregon State 75/1 Arkansas 100/1 Arizona 100/1 Kansas State 100/1 Rutgers 100/1 Tennessee 100/1 Washington 100/1 Cincinnati 125/1 BYU 150/1 Pittsburgh 150/1 West Virginia 150/1 Auburn 200/1 Georgia Tech 200/1 Iowa 200/1 Missouri 250/1 Boston College 300/1 California 300/1 South Florida 300/1
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Pressure is mounting on crisis-hit Venezuela's government ahead of a crucial bondholder meeting as the EU prepares to impose an arms embargo and holds out the possibility of tougher sanctions to come. European foreign ministers are expected to launch the countermeasures when they meet in Brussels next week — although they will pull back from targeting the oil industry or individuals linked to President Nicolás Maduro's autocratic administration. The EU's move comes as Venezuelan government officials are due to meet investors in Caracas on Monday to begin discussions over the potential restructuring of the country's $65bn of bonds. Mr Maduro has responded to growing economic troubles by tightening his grip on the Opec country. The EU sanctions set for approval at a meeting in Brussels on Monday would outlaw the export to Venezuela of arms and other equipment that could be used for internal repression, such as water cannons. The ministers are expected to open the possibility of future counter-measures against individuals should they judge the situation in Venezuela to have deteriorated further. Opposition within the 28-member union to sanctions against Caracas has ebbed as Mr Maduro's political crackdown has deepened. Venezuela also faces growing pressure from the US, Canada and Latin America's biggest economies to restore the country's constitutional order. Venezuela is gripped by hyperinflation, severe shortages of basic goods and a recession that has shrunk the economy by a third in five years. Mr Maduro has continued to consolidate his domestic political hold — most dramatically in August when he inaugurated an all-powerful Constituent Assembly stacked with supporters. The growing international political pressure on the Maduro administration comes as Caracas also faces a financial crunch. The bondholder meeting on Monday coincides with the final possible date for Venezuela to make overdue payments on four bonds, as the grace periods on two sovereign issues and two by state-oil company PDVSA expire by Monday. Analysts have speculated that Caracas may default on the sovereign bonds, but keep up payments on the PDVSA issues in an attempt to stop creditors from seizing Venezuelan oil exports in lieu of payment. "There have been no signals whatsoever of any plan . . . with an improvisational approach that leaves everyone guessing," Siobhan Morden, head of Latin American debt strategy at Nomura, wrote in a note to clients. "We do not have high expectations for this meeting either in high attendance or in content." Caracas has appointed vice-president Tarek el-Aisimi, who has been sanctioned by the US for alleged drug trafficking, to lead the Venezuelan delegation at the bondholders' gathering. But to assuage investor concern that meeting with him would mean breaking the US rulings, Caracas has said no sanctioned individuals will physically attend. Caracas has also held debt restructuring talks with key allies, Russia and China, which is owed more than $15bn by Venezuela. Russia on Friday said it had reached a restructuring deal over a $3bn bilateral loan. Twitter: @mikepeeljourno
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What a brilliant idea by Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz: a curious mash-up of an elephant and an octopus as a street mural, with its trunk as one of the octopus arms. Diaz apparently took an entire week at Hanbury Street off Brick Lane, London, to complete the work with tiny little brushstrokes. Sure beats going to the zoo and imagining hybrids animals that don't exist.
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"I wouldn't change anything," Uncharted 4 creative director Neil Druckmann said during a panel today at the PlayStation Experience event in San Francisco, when asked about having a white actress play a black character in the upcoming PS4 game. The casting had drawn some controversy in the last two days, since the character's debut, but Druckmann said he saw the casting as a sign of gaming's distinct strengths. "That, to me, is what's so awesome about our medium," he continued, describing the ability to have actors play characters that don't look like them. "Your awkward appearance doesn't matter at all. If it did, Troy [Baker] couldn't play Joel in The Last of Us. Ashley Johnson couldn't play Ellie. In a movie version they couldn't play those roles, but they played them to perfection." The character in question is Nadine Ross. She kicked Nathan Drake's ass in a recent trailer. She's played by a white voice actress, Laura Bailey. This sparked controversy on sites like NeoGAF, which Druckmann cited today. Some felt that this exacerbated a problem of under-representation in both the gaming industry and acting. Others said that Naughty Dog had a right to their own vision, and if they feel like Bailey is the right person for the job, more power to them. During a PSX panel today, Uncharted 4 creative director Neil Druckmann explained the decisions that brought the game to this point and noted that Uncharted 4 also has a black actor playing a white character. His lengthy response is below. Notably, he also said that Uncharted 4 will have a white character who is voiced by a black actor: Druckmann said that Nadine's look had not been finalized while his team was looking for voice actors. "We just had kind of who she is, the army she runs, and that she's from South Africa." So Naughty Dog sent out casting calls to a bunch of different people from all over the place—some American, some South African, and so on. According to Druckmann, though, Bailey "just killed it." So she was the obvious pick at that point. Advertisement Then they went back and really honed in on the character's design, and they found one they really liked—more or less the one seen in the recent trailer. "I was like, 'This is awesome,'" said Druckmann. "'How often do you see a character of color like this that's ripped? This also is Nadine.'" At that point, Druckmann said, someone else on the team pointed out that they had a black character with a white voice actress. "You're inviting controversy," they said. Druckmann acknowledged that they might be right, but he decided to hold off on major changes until they were able to put everything together—see Nadine as voiced by Bailey in action. When Druckmann saw the combination, he said it just felt right. He added that he stands by his decision. "I'm so proud of Laura's performance, and I hope none of this takes away from what she was able to accomplish." Advertisement Druckmann's explanation was met largely with applause from the PlayStation fans in attendance. We'll have more on Uncharted 4 soon. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @vahn16.
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WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall shares new stories with never-before-seen footage surrounding The Monday Night War on WWE Photo Shoot: Courtesy of the award-winning WWE Network. Keep up with the latest WWE Network content updates and new features right here on WWE.com. Bookmark this page, and check back for future updates. With more than 10,000 hours of video on demand, WWE Network is available in over 180 countries and is the only place to watch all WWE pay-per-view events streaming live at no additional cost. WWE Super Show-Down is FREE for new subscribers. Start your one-month free trial at WWENetwork.com. Monday, Sept. 24 WWE Photo Shoot! Scott Hall – Streaming immediately following Monday Night Raw Wednesday, Sept. 26 Monday Night Raw (Episode #1318) – 10 a.m. ET on demand 205 Live – 7 p.m. ET NXT – 8 p.m. ET 2018 Mae Young Classic – 9 p.m. ET Thursday, Sept. 27 The Undertaker vs. Triple H collection – 10 a.m. ET on demand WWE Hidden Gems – 10 a.m. ET on demand SmackDown LIVE (Episode #993) – 10 a.m. ET on demand WWE Mixed Match Challenge – 9:50 p.m. ET Friday, Sept. 28 This Week in WWE – 8 p.m. ET Saturday, Sept. 29 WWE Main Event (#311) – 9 a.m. ET on demand HELPFUL LINKS Watch pay-per-views live in your preferred language Tune in live and listen to commentary in one of eight languages on most devices. Available languages include English, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. All languages will still be available on-demand after the event, but why wait if you don't need to? Visit our FAQ to learn more. Update the WWE App Update the WWE App on the App Store for iOS devices, or Google Play for Android devices. How to Watch Click here for watching in three easy steps. Click here for all the compatible devices you can watch on. Click here for how to watch in your country. FAQ & Customer Service Click here for more help on watching WWE Network. Prepaid Cards Click here to purchase. (no credit card required)
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This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. All CMMG firearms are designed to function with a wide variety of factory loaded ammunition and undergo rigorous testing prior to release to ensure reliability and durability. Because CMMG relies on factory ammunition for testing, we cannot guarantee reliable function with handloads or reloads. Warranty claims due to handloads or reloads will be subject to review. Our basic rifle, the Mk4LE is available in 5.56x45mm, 300 AAC BLK, 9mm Luger and 22LR. They all feature a nitrided 16.1″ 4140 CrMo steel barrel in a M4 profile except the 300 BLK as it features a M300 multi-role barrel profile. The standard configuration includes a "F" marked front sight base and a MBUS rear sight. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. This product can expose you to chemicals including Cadmium, Lead, Cyanide Salts and Nickel which are known to California consumers to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. Attention! Firearms may only be shipped to a licensed dealer (FFL Holder). Actual buyer must pick up from FFL dealer who will conduct the background check. Some listed items may not be legal in every state. We will not sell firearms to residents of CA or NY. Buyer assumes responsibility of knowing purchase laws in their state. You must be at least 18 years of age to purchase a rifle, and 21 years of age to purchase a handgun or receiver. A CMMG Representative will contact you after your order has been placed to facilitate the transfer. I agree... By clicking the acceptance box below, you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions listed above. I am of legal age to purchase this firearm and agree to the conditions listed above. The box above must be checked in order to agree.
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Changes to the threshold at which the source of donations is disclosed mean millions of dollars in funding have not been attributed to a donor The source of millions of dollars in political party funding has been obscured since the Queensland government made changes to the donations threshold last year. In May 2014, the Newman government scrapped limits on political donations and election spending, and lifted the threshold at which donations have to be reported. Queensland election: Campbell Newman calls hung parliament 'recipe for chaos' – live Read more Previously, the source of any amount of money over $1,000 received by a political party had to be disclosed. This threshold was then changed to be in line with the federal disclosure limit, which was $12,400 for the 2013-14 financial year. This includes both donations and other funds, such as financial transactions like investments, subscriptions to forums, or membership fees. This resulted in the LNP only having to declare the origin of just 40% of its funding for the 2013-14 financial year. The Queensland Labor party declared only 62% of its funds in detail, despite voluntarily keeping to the old threshold of $1,000. I've analysed donations for the 2012-13 financial year to see how the change in threshold affected the amount of money that needs to be attributed. I compared funds declared by the LNP and ALP in 2012-13 under the old threshold with funds declared in 2013-14 under the new threshold. Where it was available, I've used the parties' own subtotals for detailed declarations and compared this with the total amount of money received. Where it wasn't available, I calculated the total myself (see below for an important caveat about this process). This analysis shows that the change in threshold has vastly reduced the amount of funding the LNP has to provide details for. In 2012-13, they declared the source for 87% of total funds. In 2013-14, this dropped to 40%: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Queensland political funding disclosures graph. Illustration: Nick Evershed/Guardian Australia For the ALP, the proportion has remained relatively similar as they've kept the same threshold – they declared the origin of 56% of funds in 2012-13, and 62% in 2013-14. The Queensland premier, Campbell Newman, originally said it was necessary to raise the disclosure limit because advice from the crown solicitor said it was vulnerable to a high court challenge. However, other states and territories continue to have a disclosure limit lower than the federal one. When asked if the change in laws had reduced transparency in political funding, the Queensland attorney general replied with the following statement: "Our laws are consistent with the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the legislation includes an automatic adjustment if the Commonwealth reduces the disclosure threshold. "We made a commitment to Queenslanders that we would restore accountability in government and we've done that in several ways, including being the only state in Australia to release ministerial diaries, our open data initiative and taking Right to Information application decisions out of the hands of ministerial staff." Evan Moorhead, the secretary of the Queensland ALP, said in a statement that the ALP had committed to reintroducing the $1,000 threshold and disclosed the source of "around 80% of donations". In this case, he is referring only to transactions classified as donations in the financial disclosures, which is why his figure is different to the figure of 62% above, which counts all transactions. "The LNP has lifted the threshold for declaring donations to $12,400, meaning 96% of donations are not disclosed," Moorhead said. "The LNP also hide donations in their reporting, describing events as business transactions rather than fundraisers." • A note on calculating donation totals: unfortunately, the only source for these donations are PDFs lodged with the Queensland electoral commission, which have been scanned – making the text no longer readable by a computer. To get around this, I ran the PDFs through OCR software, and then extracted the figures. I double-checked the figures as well as I could, but there may be some errors introduced during the OCR process. My final spreadsheet is here – please get in touch if you spot any errors.
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BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Sunday seemed to make a u-turn from his diatribes against his party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Central government, saying he was "misread." He also said the main-stream media, which he referred to as "MSM", had "got it wrong" when it "expected me to attack Namo [sic]" after an interview Modi gave to a news channel. "MSM has misread me. They had expected me to attack Namo after the Times Now interview. Got it wrong. Then they twisted my twts. Wrong again! [sic]" Swamy wrote on Twitter, following the weeks of jibes he had taken at not only Cabinet ministers but also top bureaucrats. Swamy had initially said Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was "not fully Indian," after the central bank chief refused to change key banking rates to reflect popular opinion or for populism, and industry expectations. After Rajan recently announced he would not be seeking to serve a second term in the RBI governor's office, Swamy trained his guns on Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, seeking his resignation, and then Finance Secretary Shaktikanta Das, accusing him of corrupt practices. Swamy also reportedly spoke against Jaitley, but without explicitly naming him. This led to Modi rebuking him in a TV interview, saying: "Whether it is in my party or not, still I think such things are inappropriate. This fondness for publicity is never going to do any good to the nation. People should conduct themselves with utmost responsibility. If anybody considers himself above the system, it is wrong." Swamy, meanwhile, is one of the people whose name is being considered for a portfolio in the rumoured upcoming Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre.
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I'm in the road back from vacation, and I've got a few Rares and Mythics to talk about in today's article! In the interest of not getting car sick while typing, I'm going to cut straight to the chase and get to the reviews! How I Review: Starting Price : The first price we assign to this card as a preorder. Current Price : The current price of the card by the time this article goes live. Future Price - Short Term : The price I believe this card will be at before Magic Online redemptions go live for Magic Origins. Future Price - Medium Term : The price I believe this card will be at by the time the next set (Battle for Zendikar) comes out. Future Price - Long Term : The price I believe this card will be at a year from now when the first set of the second block of next year is released! (The one that is the block AFTER Battle for Zendikar block). Jace, Vryn's Prodigy | Jace, Telepath Unbound Rarity: Mythic Starting Price: $20 Current Price: $20 Future Price (Short Term): $30 Future Price (Medium Term): $20 Future Price (Long Term): $20 has been an extremely playable Standard card every time it sees print, whether it be actual , Looter il-Kor, or . Jace is a better version of these cards (two toughness actually matters!) that can flip and become . Traditionally the two-mana looter has been a common, so it's really odd pricing it out at Mythic rarity – but both sides of this card are very good, the flip trigger is easy to hit, and so we have a winning Mythic pseudo-planeswalker! Jace's Sanctum Rarity: Rare Starting Price: $2 Current Price: $2 Future Price (Short Term): $3 Future Price (Medium Term): $3 Future Price (Long Term): $3 Reducing Instants and Sorceries is a big effect for Commander play. For combo decks in Standard (or maybe event Modern), making all of your combo pieces one mana cheaper while allowing you to dig one card deeper every time you cast a combo piece is huge. I think that Jace's Sanctum has what it takes to be part of a winning spell-based combo deck, and have priced it accordingly. Kytheon's Irregulars Rarity: Rare Starting Price: $3 Current Price: $3 Future Price (Short Term): $6 Future Price (Medium Term): $5 Future Price (Long Term): $5 Hey look, it's Cepahlid Retainer! was just short of being playable back in Standard, but not by much. Every measurable aspect of Kytheon's Irregulars are an improvement over : A) Starts with +2 power. B) Gets +1/+1 if it connects in combat. C) Can tap any creature, not just non-flying creatures. I think that Kytheon's Irregulars are an extremely powerful four-drop for Standard, but it will compete with a lot of other powerful four-drops in Standard. In the end, Kytheon's Irregulars can play both offense or defense with the tap ability, making it a fantastic card for both the top end of an aggro deck, or as a stall tactic in a midrange/control deck. I'm definitely a fan of creatures that are large enough to kill an opponent quickly that can also control the entire board of the game without any other cards needed. Rarity: Rare Starting Price: $2 Current Price: $2 Future Price (Short Term): $3 Future Price (Medium Term): $2 Future Price (Long Term): $2 A one-shot that has a surprise factor that does not. I don't think there are many Modern decks that would want to run over , but there are plenty of Standard decks that would love this effect – especially since has that magical four toughness. Current eBay finishing prices are $10-$15 for a playset, but I'm guessing it'll settle in the $8-$10 range until set release, at which point the price will spike by $1 each due to play. Rarity: Rare Starting Price: $5 Current Price: $5 Future Price (Short Term): $6 Future Price (Medium Term): $4 Future Price (Long Term): $4 The spiritual successor to . It's pretty inferior compared to Stoneforge (you don't automatically get the equipment, you can't cheat the equipment into play), but is still a strong tutor. If you use a spell to force the issue (creature pump/removal) to make sure hits, you're still coming out even when you grab the equipment you want from your deck. In addition, you also end up with a 3/3 creature for two mana,
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SEOUL, South Korea — The uncle of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, met on Friday in Beijing with President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China, indicating his growing influence as a crucial adviser to the young Mr. Kim. China's official media said the trip could be a prelude to Mr. Kim's first visit, but the official focus was economic development. The meetings between Mr. Kim's uncle, Jang Song-thaek, and the top Chinese leaders came toward the end of his six-day trip to China, during which the government in Beijing promised to help North Korea develop two special trade zones near the Chinese border. Such zones, if successful, would provide the North Korean government with badly needed money as it tries to revive its staggering economy. Mr. Jang, 66, widely seen as Mr. Kim's point man in overseeing the development of the zones, is the most powerful North Korean official to visit China since Mr. Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, went there in August 2011. South Korean analysts consider Mr. Jang to be a significant influence in Kim Jong-un's recent efforts to tame his military and carry out his economic revitalization program, which, according to South Korean news media, includes allowing farmers to own part of their annual yield as an incentive. Such a plan, if put into effect, would be one of the most drastic reforms in North Korea, which officially sticks to "socialist economic principles." Mr. Jang is the brother-in-law of Mr. Kim's father, who died in December. When Kim Jong-il was alive, Mr. Jang often preferred to stand in the background while party secretaries and military leaders stood closer to the elder Mr. Kim during official functions. Mr. Kim once banished Mr. Jang from Pyongyang, the capital. Advertisement Continue reading the main story But his prominence has risen with the ascension of Kim Jong-un. Mr. Jang and his wife have climbed the party hierarchy as they worked to ensure a smooth transition of power in the Kim dynasty. Photo North Korea's state-run news media have provided daily updates on Mr. Jang's trip, coverage that is highly unusual for anyone except for the top leader. Bolstering that prominence was China's willingness to grant Mr. Jang meetings with its top leaders — a treatment that South Korean news media called "a level befitting a head of state." Mr. Jang was visiting China as the chief of the central administrative department of the Workers' Party of Korea.
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Type or write your letter neatly by hand. Write an effective complaint letter by getting to the point early, controlling your emotions and providing all necessary information for the reader. You might want to first contact the company by telephone or email, or speak in person with a representative. If you have not received a response, or if the response is unsatisfactory, it's time to write the official complaint letter. As you choose your words, remember your goal. An effective complaint letter gets full consideration by someone with the authority to resolve the situation. Documentation and History Collect documentation of the transaction, the problem and attempts at resolution. Gather receipts and other proofs of purchase and payment. Include work proposals, estimates and records of communication prior to and after accepting the service or product. For example, create screen shots of emails between you and the customer service department. Add relevant warranties and maintenance plans and prepare a timeline that includes important dates, such as dates of contact between you and the company. Contact Name and Mailing Address Contact the company to ask for the name, title and address of the person to whom the complaint letter should be sent. Often, companies don't provide a person's name and will ask customers to mail complaint letters to the main office or to the attention of a department, such as customer service. If you are still unsure how to address your letter, send it to the owner of a small company or a vice president of a larger company. Look for mailing addresses on the company's website, or call the company for information. Letter Format Use standard letter formatting for your complaint letter: date, company contact and address, salutation and the body of the letter. Add an "in reference to" line between the company address and the salutation that provides an invoice number, customer name or other information that identifies the transaction. Close the letter professionally with "Thank you," or "Sincerely," followed by your signature and your name and contact information, such as address, telephone numbers and email address. Add, beneath your address block, the word "Enclosures" to alert the reader that you have enclosed documents. Draft and Review Write a draft of the complaint letter, organized into short paragraphs. In paragraph one state the problem and your desired resolution. For example, explain that you received poor customer service during a hotel stay, indicating that you expect a refund. In paragraph two, give a detailed explanation of the problem, providing dates, names, locations and descriptions, such as how an appliance malfunctioned. In paragraph three, describe any efforts you made to resolve the problem before sending the complaint letter. In the final paragraph, establish a reasonable length of time you are willing to wait for the company to contact you and resolve the problem. Tips and Suggestions Generate good will by including comments about your past relationship with the company, such as how long you have been a satisfied customer or that you chose the company because of its good reputation. Keep the letter to one page, if possible, avoiding anger, accusations and profanity. Proofread for spelling, grammar and tone, or ask someone to read the letter and give feedback. Send copies of your documentation with the letter; originals are for your files. Use a mail service that requires a signature when delivered and provides you with a delivery receipt.
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Ashley Argoon, Mark Buttler Herald Sun A MAN used fuel to set himself alight in horrific scenes at a suburban Melbourne bank, injuring 27 people. Police said the man walked into the bank in Springvale at 11.30am, just before the lunchtime rush, with a flammable accelerant and torched it about 11.30am. CCTV footage from nearby businesses show a man walking with a plastic container in the minutes before the fireball erupted inside the bank. Six people — two men in their 20s, a man in his 60s, a man in his 70s, a woman in her 20s and another man — were taken to the Alfred suffering serious burns. A 21-year-old Springvale man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition and remains under police guard. Acting Inspector Jackie Poida said it was "too early to tell" what the man's motive was. "He had with him some sort of accelerant, he walked in to the bank and he lit that accelerant which caused some sort of fire within the bank," she said. "He set himself alight with that fire and there was a number of other people in the bank at that time that received some injuries as well." "He left the bank, police attended shortly after and assisted him." The man was discovered by police at the back of the bank. One patient remains in hospital in a 'critical' condition, one is in a 'critical but stable' condition, one sustained moderate burns and is in a 'serious but stable' condition, and three patients are listed as 'stable'. Ambulance Victoria said 21 other people — including a toddler and a person in their 80s — were treated for breathing problems and taken to hospital. CCTV of a man seen walking near the Springvale bank fire Police did not know much about the offender. "We haven't had a chance to speak with him, he is injured and he is being attended to at hospital," Acting Insp Poida said. Asked whether the attack was terror related, Acting Insp Poida said it was "too early to tell". Despite reports from witnesses of a possible bomb, CFA operations officer Paul Carrigg confirmed a "flammable liquid" had caused the blaze. "A flammable liquid could have caused an explosion," he said. Firefighters had not found a petrol canister but Mr Carrigg said they "haven't gone looking". He didn't offer any information as to how the liquid was transported but did say given the severity of the fire it was fortunate no one had died. "It's very amazing, very lucky no one lost their lives." Caltex Australia spokesman Sam Collyer said the petrol station had been closed since this morning's explosion at the bank. The Herald Sun understands the man bought the petrol at the Springvale Caltex before taking it down the road and igniting himself on fire. "The site is currently closed but the we are assisting police with their inquiries, and will continue to do so wherever needed," Mr Collyer said. The arson squad is leading the investigation. Witness Malen Vanh was in the Springvale Centre two doors up when an elderly woman ran in yelling. "She ran out of the bank and said a man has burned themselves in the bank," he said. Paramedics treated 27 victims with a "mixture of burns and respiratory issues". Ambulance Victoria health commander Andy Roughton could not confirm whether any of the critically injured were children. Asked whether any of those critically injured could die from their injuries he said there was "a chance". "Six of them are very critical and I hope that's not the case but there is a chance," he said. Mr Carrigg said it was believed the fire started not far from the inside of the front entrance. The bank sustained "significant damage". Detectives were seen removing CCTV footage from the bank about 4pm. Two of those taken to the Monash were children. For those needing help, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. Police are urging witnesses who left to scene to call Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000. A QUICK thinking tradie has been labelled a hero after he ran into an exploded bank and put out the flames. Ash Atkin-Fone was laying pipes in an alleyway opposite the Springvale Rd when he heard a "big blast" and seconds later heard a child's screams from the Commonwealth Bank. "This kid comes running out, all burnt, screaming his head off, skin coming off, blood everywhere," he said. Immediately, he sprinted across the road to the neighbouring Optus store. He grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran into the "pitch black" bank, dousing the flames and putting out the blaze before firefighters even arrived. "There was four people getting blasted (with glass) along the street," Mr Atkin-Fone said. Asked why he put himself in danger and ran into a burning building he simply said "I had to". "
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Real Madrid Interview in 'El País' Real Madrid's Welsh flyer, Gareth Bale, has revealed how he played through the pain barrier for much of last season. The winger had to take painkillers on a regular basis to ensure that he could turn out for Los Blancos. He admits that in hindsight, he could've taken more time to recover but wanted to be out on the pitch with his teammates. "On the one hand, it's easy to say that I should have rested more, but when you've been injured for three months and you see your teammates playing, you really want to get back out there and that's what I did," he said to El Pais. " I had to take a lot of painkillers to play and yes, now I think I should have taken more time to recover so I could have played much better and be able to do all those things that I was unable to because of the ankle pain."
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In his The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904), Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) had discussed several alleged supernormal occurrences and expressed a profound skepticism about prophetic dreams and telepathic phenomena. However, in 1922, he published his article "Dreams and Telepathy" and publicly proclaimed that he admitted the possibility of telepathic phenomena. He had written a much less cautious full-length essay, "Psycho-analysis and Telepathy," which he would have read to the International Psychoanalytic Congress of 1922 if Ernest Jones, founder of the British Psychoanalytical Society, had not persuaded him to consider the damaging repercussions his outspoken attitude might have on the whole fledgling psychoanalytic movement. Consequently, the article did not see print until 1941, after Freud's death. In 1924 Freud wrote a letter to Jones in which he remarked how strongly he had been impressed with a report on telepathic experiments that Gilbert Murray had prepared for the Society for Psychical Research. Freud confessed that he was ready to give up his opposition to the existence of thought-transference and said that he would even be prepared to lend the support of psychoanalysis to the matter of telepathy. Once again, the skeptic Jones, fearful of the damage that such a public declaration might deliver to psychoanalysis, convinced Freud not to publish any such offer of support to parapsychological research. Today psychiatrists and psychoanalysts vary greatly in their attitudes toward psi research. Those who profess nothing but an adamant skepticism say that the illustrations of ESP brought forward by their colleagues express nothing but the analyst's own desire to believe in their validity. Those who consider psi research to be a serious and valuable contribution to human understanding insist that paranormal activities, particularly those of telepathy and clairvoyance, are too numerous to be dismissed by an arched eyebrow and a cursory examination. Many psychiatrists have developed a respect for psi research when, during the course of analysis, a close relationship that can only be described as psychic, has developed between a doctor and his or her patient. Some doctors have reported patients who have related dreams that have dramatized actual incidents that the analysts themselves have experienced that day or even the week before. In several cases, the key to a patient's mental disturbance has been located in a dream experience of the analyst. Reports have even been made of several patients of the same analyst sharing dreams or reenacting group or individual experiences, as if some strange circle of telepathic dreams had been established. Parapsychologists have long contended that telepathy (and ESP in general) functions best between individuals who have a strong emotional link. This particular level of the human mind seems to operate best spontaneously, especially when a crisis situation makes it necessary to communicate through other than the standard sensory channels. For quite some time, psi researchers have been aware that twins show unusually high telepathic rapport. A series of tests conducted by psychologists at the University of Alberta, Canada, confirmed this theory by establishing statistical evidence that identical twins, and to a lesser extent, fraternal twins, have remarkable ability to communicate with one another through ESP. At the behest of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University, Olivia Rivers, a psychologist at Mississippi State University, conducted tests with identical twins, Terry and Sherry Young. The Jackson, Mississippi, twins were able to pass entire sentences to each other via telepathy. The girls seemed to be in constant rapport; and even when separated, each knew if the other had turned an ankle, gotten a toothache, or developed a cold. Sherry was better as the receiver; Terry as the sender. Their schoolteachers despaired of ever receiving an accurate test from either girl. Even when placed in separate classrooms the girls still used similar phrases and got similar marks. They made no secret of the fact that they helped one another in their school work, but insisted that it was by telepathy alone. It was not cheating to them, nor could anyone consider it as being unfair or dishonest of the girls. It was not their fault if their minds functioned as one. Remarkable experiments have been conducted with nontechnological traditional peoples to test the hypothesis that telepathy is an archaic means of communication, which, although remaining as a vestigial function of the mind, was once the sole method for conveying ideas. It has been observed that the bushmen in Australia can accurately transmit thoughts, feelings, and ideas to friends and relatives several miles away. They also use psi abilities to locate missing objects, straying cattle, and thieving enemies. In many cases, even today some bushmen live a virtual Stone Age existence. Their normal sensory abilities have been heightened by their struggle for survival. Their eyes can identify objects at great distances without the aid of field glasses. Their powers of smell are incredible. Their ESP talents are even more remarkable. Dr. A. P. Elkin, an anthropologist from Sydney University, was forced to rearrange
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EXAMPLES ON SOVIET ACHITECTURE. TALLINN Residential building of the Stalinist period. The corner of Tartu maantee and Liivalaia. Supermarket for the Communist nomenclature and foreigners. Tartu manntee 17. A former club for Soviet Naval Officers, today a hotel. The corner of Vana-Posti and Suur-Karja. The Soprus cinema, the former "Friendship Cinema". The corner of Vana-Posti and Müürivahe. The suburb of Lasnamäe. Built in the 1980s for 100,000 people resettled from other parts of the Soviet Union, mainly Russia. Tallinn Technological College. The corner of Suur- Ameerika and Pärnu manatee. Club for Soviet Naval Officers. Mere puistee 5. The Olympic building complex, Linnahall, Mere puistee 20. Building for the Union of Artists. Valli Street, Old Town.
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¿"They've been in our lives and we've been in their lives in a very intimate way for the past six years, and that's not something for us that ends," she said. "We did what we could do to bring this chapter to a close in the best way we could."
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A simple unit system for Rust. It allows you to write numeric code that is not only type safe but also "unit safe". It works on stable Rust, but unfortunately that means it doesn't scale. All units (and combination of them) must be written by hand. Macros help (and maybe some more macro magic can help more) but it is still a lot of work. For me it already payed off: I found a small bug in an old Fortran program we are using ;-) So if your favorite unit is missing just let me know. There already is a better unit system for Rust: Dimensioned, needs at least Rust 1.15. And another one here: runits, here: units and here: uom There is also a crate to help you convert between units: rink-rs Notes There are some blog posts / notes about unit systems in Rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/37qut9/typesafe_userdefined_units_of_measure_for_rust/ https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/06/23/static-checking-of-units-in-servo/ https://github.com/jaheba/stuff/blob/master/communicating_intent.md https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5uacxs/types_units_and_quantities/ extern crate simple_units; use simple_units :: si_units :: * ; fn main () { let length = Meter ( 20.72 ); let time = Second ( 12.39 ); // Resulting type: MeterPerSecond let velocity = length / time; // This will not compile: // let error = length + time; // Multiply by Second gives you Meter: let duration = Second ( 35.0 ); let distance: Meter = velocity * duration; // Type (= unit) not needed, will be inferred: let distance2 = velocity * duration; } Conversion is also supported: extern crate simple_units; use simple_units :: si_units :: * ; use simple_units :: conversion :: * ; fn main () { let length_in_m = Meter ( 20.72 ); // Explicit conversion, unit implements ``from`` let length_in_foot = Foot :: from (length_in_m); // Compile error: // let length_sum = length_in_m + length_in_foot; // But this works: let length_sum = length_in_m + length_in_foot. into (); let temperature_in_degc = DegC ( 20.7 ); // You must provide the type (= unit) here let temperature_in_k: Kelvin = temperature_in_degc. into (); } It would be nice if Rust would allow to implement the as operator. Then you could write s.th. like this: extern crate simple_units; use simple_units :: si_units :: * ; use simple_units :: conversion :: * ; fn main () { let length_in_m = Meter ( 20.72 ); let length_in_foot = Foot ( 12.56 ); // Does not work (yet ?) // let length_sum = length_in_m + (length_in_foot as Meter); } I have plans for a better unit system, based on build.rs and comments: Basically that means to scan all *.rs Rust source files and evaluate the expressions that have a special comment: fn main () { let length = 20.72 ; // #[m] let time = 12.39 ; // #[s] // Resulting type: #[m / s] // No need to specify, will be inferred let velocity = length / time; // build.rs will give an error: // let error = length + time; // Multiply by #[s] gives you #[m]: let duration = 35.0 ; // #[s] let distance = velocity * duration; // This would be #[m], but could be omitted } Note the special #[] notation to describe units. Between the comment begin token and the unit description only space and tabs will be allowed. After that you can place any comments. Otherwise the unit description will be ignored as in the example above. This will work on stable Rust.
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In the final stretch of Tuesday's special election for an Alabama Senate seat, Ted Crockett, a surrogate for GOP candidate Roy Moore appeared on The Lead with Jake Tapper to make a late push for the accused child molester, inept horse rider, and former judge. There are a lot of uncomfortable moments in this exchange between Tapper and Crockett, but the highlight is the moment where the CNN host stuns Crockett into silence by notifying him that elected officials aren't required to get sworn in on a Christian Bible when they take office. This minor fact obliterated an argument put forth by Moore that Muslims, like Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, are not eligible to serve as lawmakers. "You don't actually have to swear on a Christian Bible, you can swear on anything, really," Tapper told a stunned Crockett. "I don't know if you knew that. You can swear on a Jewish Bible." While Crockett sits with his mouth agape and absorbs this, Tapper continued. "The law is not that you have to swear on a Christian Bible," Tapper said. "That is not the law. Did you know that?" Roy Moore campaign spokesman responds with silence when asked if he knew people can be sworn in with a text other than the Christian bible pic.twitter.com/B65qIKBjlI — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) December 12, 2017 He clearly didn't. Alas, polls between the Republican candidate and Democrat opponent Doug Jones remain close on election night.
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Blog: GameWorks & Gouki.com Present the Mortal Kombat X #FMIWT Launch Night Posted by: goukijones Mar 23, 2015 | 0 comments Tagged: blog for-me-it-was-tuesdays gameworks las-vegas tournament View all stories by goukijones Tuesday 14 April 2015. GameWorks Las Vegas in Town Square & Gouki.com will be hosting an evening with FATALITIES! Mortal Kombat X Launch Night! Come join for Mortal Kombat X on the day of release. From 6-11PM we will be featuring Mortal Kombat during Gouki.com's weekly FGC meetup at GameWorks, For Me It Was Tuesdays. #FMIWT Mortal Kombat X will be available on PS4 & XBOX ONE. A Mortal Kombat X main event will be featured on stream & on Gouki.com. Starts @10PM. Brought to you by: 5DLV.com On April 28, 2015 GameWorks & Gouki.com will be hosting their first Mortal Kombat X tournament. We have a $150 pot bonus from BackItHere.com. (BiH is a great place to backup your important computer files & documents.) $10 Entry. $10 Buy-in when you register online. $25 at the door. Online registration ends April 27, 2015. 9:00PM PDT. This event will be capped at 32 players. You can register now on http://tournaments.gouki.com/ Rules & system TBD. *We'll have more info after the release of the game. Thanks for playing! We'll see you on TUESDAY!
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., speaks next to a display of assault weapons during a news conference Jan. 24. (Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images) Story Highlights Proposal will still get a vote as an amendment Ban was never considered likely to pass Gun votes could begin in the Senate next month Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he hopes to have a bill to address gun violence on the Senate floor soon after the Easter break, but confirmed that measure will not include the assault weapons ban. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday she is disappointed that her assault weapons ban will not be part of a larger bill, but acknowledged it will likely make it easier to pass gun-related legislation through the Senate. Feinstein said Reid told her Monday afternoon that the ban on certain types of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would not be part of package of bills that would make up the Senate legislation. Reid, D-Nev., said Feinstein's measure simply did not have the support necessary to clear the floor and could not pass the 60-vote threshold needed in order to be considered by the full Senate. "Right now, her amendment, using the most optimistic numbers, has less than 40 votes. That's not 60," he told reporters. "I have to get something on the floor so we can have votes on that issue and the other issues." The Senate Judiciary Committee passed three other measures, in addition to the assault weapons ban, over the past two weeks that are expected to be considered in some form on the Senate floor. These measures include bills to strengthen federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchases, improve school safety and require background checks for nearly every firearm purchase. Feinstein's ban will be voted on as an amendment to the larger package. "Obviously, I'm disappointed, because if was in the package, it would take 60 votes to get it out. You know, the enemies on this are very powerful. I've known that all my life," she said. As an amendment, it will require a majority of Senators to vote to add it to the bill. Feinstein reintroduced the ban in January as a response to the mass shooting of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn. While acknowledging her own bill would face an uphill climb as an amendment, she held out hope that a proposal by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., to ban high-capacity magazines could be voted on as a separate amendment to the bill. Even if the full Senate legislation does get through, Feinstein said, the fight is far from over. "Then we face the wonderful House of Representatives," she said in a sarcastic reference to the Republican-controlled chamber. It was unclear when the full package of bills will be released, but they are expected to be voted on as early as April. The path in the House remains even murkier. Asked Tuesday about the progress on the gun issue in the House, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said, "There's nothing new on that front right now." "We are hard at work looking at enforcement of current gun-control laws, but we are really focused on immigration right now," he said. Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/15YwbSC
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News Border patrol don't like bitcoin. In fact they dislike anything they don't understand or have been programmed to distrust. Encryption, cryptocurrency, graphics cards, all of the tech we take for granted is anathema to suspicious customs agents. Whether you're traveling into the U.S. or any other surveillance state, here's what you should do to avoid raising red flags. See also: Stay Safe By Keeping Your 'Bitcoin Business' to Yourself Red Flags and Black Marks With lengthy layovers, endless queues, and heightened security, traveling abroad is stressful at the best of times. When you're carrying cryptocurrency, however, passing through borders isn't just stressful – it's also dangerous. Moving from country to country with a little bitcoin – or even a lot of bitcoin – stored on a hardware wallet, laptop, or cell phone should be a lot safer than carrying a corresponding amount of cash. Crypto is much easier to conceal. But it is the very concealment of cryptocurrency – or even the possibility of such concealment – that compels nosey TSA agents to order travelers to unlock their phones, decrypt their laptops, and bare their digital life for inspection. Regardless of whether customs have the right to intimately scrutinize passengers in such a manner, the reality is that such practices are rampant, primarily at U.S. airports. To enter the land of the free, first you must surrender your freedoms. Welcome to Bitcoin Club The first rule of Bitcoin Club is that when passing through customs – that's right – you don't talk about Bitcoin Club. The risks that international travelers arriving in the U.S. face was highlighted this week in a lengthy and understandably emotional tweetstorm by Amal El-Mohtar. The writer, who is no stranger to "enhanced" security checks at airports, largely on account of her name it appears, was subjected to a particularly grueling ordeal. She explained: "Last time… no one took my phone, everyone was embarrassed while they asked horribly violating questions about my parents & background…This time was different". The Canadian citizen continues: While anyone can have a bad experience at customs and then vent on social media, such experiences are not isolated. Having a suspicious surname seems grounds alone for enduring extensive interrogation. By the time her journal had been pored over along with her cell, which she'd been forced to unlock, Amal El-Mohtar had missed her flight and had to return to the check-in desk to rebook and repeat the process all over again. Hide Yo Bitcoin, Hide Yo Encryption Cases such as this emphasize the need to keep your digital identity locked down when passing through hostile customs. Simply encrypting your hard drive may not be enough, as the very act of doing so can raise further suspicion. If you are going to encrypt sensitive data, consider partitioning your hard drive and concealing the encrypted sector, making it invisible to cursory searches. Hide cryptocurrency apps on your cell phone – yes, banish your Blockfolio. Better still, take a clean laptop and a burner phone and leave the real ones at home. Admittedly, this isn't always practical, and the TSA – or whatever border agency happens to be frisking you – is unlikely to detain you for having a thumb drive containing $100 of shitcoins. Nevertheless, given the ease which which an individual's identity can be laid bare once their laptop or smartphone is unlocked, the simplest solution is to travel clean and with complete peace of mind. Either hide it well or don't take it with you. For so long as such innocuous markers as a person's birth name or interest in bitcoin can be used to profile them under the all-encompassing umbrella of "muh terrorism", it's best to play it safe. You can't easily change your name, but you can certainly conceal your affinity for the world's favorite digital currency. Have you ever experienced problems when traveling into the U.S? Let us know in the comments section below. Images courtesy of Shutterstock. Need to calculate your bitcoin holdings? Check our tools section.
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BOSTON – From the St. James Avenue side of Copley Square on Thursday afternoon, passers-by could be forgiven for wondering what the group of 300 people in red T-shirts opposite them was cheering about. If they were told that they were seeing the front lines of a desperate battle for the future of the American working class, they wouldn't believe it. But the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members and their families did not turn out for a nice day in the sun. They were there to fight. The general public may be aware that 39,000 unionized Verizon workers (out of a total of 178,000) have been out on strike for a few days—including many here in Boston. But the vast majority of onlookers don't understand the stakes. Verizon (officially Verizon Communications, Inc.) is no ordinary company. Rather it's a vast telecommunications conglomerate that has benefited hugely from government tax breaks, subsidies, and a favorable regulatory climate since it was created in 2000 out of the merger of Bell Atlantic (which had only recently merged with fellow "Baby Bell" NYNEX) and GTE. It has two major businesses: its traditional wireline service, based on the old copper wire phone system and the newer fiber optic FiOS service (weirdly coming soon to Boston six years after Verizon said it would stopping building it out in any new cities). That's where virtually all of the company's 39,000 unionized workers are employed. Then it has Verizon Wireless—which was originally a joint venture of Bell Atlantic and the British telecom Vodafone, bought outright by Verizon in 2014. Only a handful of its wireless employees are currently unionized. Basically, Verizon leadership wants to focus on its extremely profitable wireless division and cut back its wireline service. The numbers show why. According to Fortune magazine, "Wireless now brings in the vast majority of the company's sales and profits. Last year, for example, the wireless unit brought in revenue of $91.7 billion, up 5% from a year earlier, and an operating profit of nearly $30 billion. The older wireline unit, which also includes wired video and Internet service, brought in revenue of only $37.7 billion, a 2% decline from the year before, and an operating profit of just $2.2 billion." Unfortunately, Verizon—like so many companies these days (our "new Boston neighbors" at General Electric spring to mind)—is a world class tax dodger and loves soaking the government for free handouts. According to the nonprofit Citizens for Tax Justice, between 2008 and 2013, the corporation made over $42 billion in profits, received a $732 million tax break (an effective federal tax rate of -2 percent), and paid almost $1.3 billion in state taxes (an effective state tax rate of 3 percent). In the same period, it made almost $4 billion in foreign profits and paid $274 million in taxes (an effective foreign tax rate of 7 percent). And this year? In the first quarter of 2016, Verizon has made $4.31 billion in profits. According to the nonprofit Good Jobs First, Verizon has also received about $149 million in state and federal subsidies. Free money. And about $1.5 billion in federal loans, loan guarantees, and bailout assistance. Almost free money. The nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness adds: "Verizon also reported $1.9 billion in accumulated offshore profits in 2012, on which it paid no U.S. income taxes … Verizon raked in $956 million in federal contracts in 2011, according to the federal government. It also recently landed a new nine-year government-wide contract worth up to $5 billion to provide communications services and equipment to federal agencies." So Verizon is filthy rich with help from its friends in the government. Just like its predecessor, AT&T, in the days of "natural monopoly" before its 1984 breakup into regional Baby Bells. Unlike the old AT&T, though, Verizon is not interested in putting up with a unionized workforce in exchange for what are approaching monopoly profits in markets it and the handful of other remaining telecoms dominate. It has eliminated thousands of unionized jobs since 2000. How many? There were 85,000 unionized Verizon workers on strike in that year. There are 39,000 now. Do the math. This brings us to the central issue of the strike. Verizon wants to convert lots of decent jobs—unionized and ununionized—to contract jobs. Many of them abroad. Union leaders recently told CNN Money: "Verizon has outsourced 5,000 jobs to workers in Mexico, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic." The company is also "hiring more low-wage, non-union contractors." Increasing wages, minimizing out-of-pocket health costs, preserving job security, keeping traditional pensions, and stopping forced out-of-state work transfers are all
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St. Louis Cardinals Wallpapers and Lockscreens It's September and this team is more fun than ever, I've moved back to St. Louis (heyyooo!), joined Joe Sports Fan (cool shits gonna go down), and I'm about to ramp up doing portrait sessions (interested?). Crazy fun times, guys. Nevertheless, this month's lockscreens and wallpapers are here! You can get lockscreens and wallpapers for your iPhone X (and similar sized phones) or your iPhone 8/+ (and, again, phones of similar sizes). For September, here's what ya got: Bader, DeJong, Carpenter + Weaver, Ozuna, two of Wong, O'Neil and a team celebration. If you want to make your own lockscreen, give it a try by downloading the schedule here! As always, lemme know what you think. Tweet me. Love the feedback! Even the smallest Venmos mean a lot →
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The Blogless publishing system is for web writers. Just publish, share your texts with friends and don't think about the rest. A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what's needed for the reading experience — Leo Babauta How is it different? Blogless is some kind of anti-blog. No subscribers, no community stress, no excuses for not having written the follow-up article in your vacation time, just articles. You even can switch off the RSS feed, the sitemap or the pingback functionality, if you like. Blogless sets the focus back from the needs and mechanisms of a blog to the pure content of your articles. Blogless generates static HTML pages and lets you manage them from a simple to handle online interface. New articles can be written and changed online, then shared with your friends or customers via Facebook, Google+, Twitter, WhatsApp, .... Or just use the optional commenting with Disqus. All the pretty SEO stuff, like descriptions, the now useless keywords, author name and profile, Open Graph and Twitter meta infos and all that is included without beeing in the way — automagically. If you have a Question, just have a look in the FAQ or read more, if you are curious. Status Actually Blogless is in beta stage - what you can read here is it's result. It works pretty well and I did use it for many production websites like this one, but still many things could be made more perfect. Facebook Support and Announcement Group If you like you can ask questions and receive announcements about new versions of Blogless on Facebook. Download from GitHub Now get it from GitHub, the Download ZIP link on the right sidebar and then install.
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Recently while setting up a new install of Linux and making my partitions I was wondering why I needed a separate boot partition for every Linux install on my system. I also didn't want to have to use a specific boot loader to achieve this. I know it's possible with rEFInd and GRUB, but they are over complicated for what I need, for this reason I decided to stick with the nice and simple bootloader systemd-boot, previously referred to as gummiboot. The system I figured out works quite nicely, and lets me achieve all of this. Booting I'm currently quad-booting an install of Archlinux as my main setup, a secondary install of Archlinux in case I need to do some recovery, a FreeBSD install, and an old Windows install. I want to be able to boot every system on my computer from systemd-boot to avoid having to go into the UEFI menu to change boot settings. The one partition I knew I wont be able to get rid of is FreeBSD's boot partition. I need to be using FreeBSD's actual bootloader because I am running root on ZFS and want support for boot environments. Since I wanted to be able to continue using systemd-boot, and have all my entries there when I boot my computer, the last option I had was to chain load FreeBSD's bootloader. This involves adding FreeBSD as an entry to systemd-boot, and upon choosing this option systemd-boot would load FreeBSD's bootloader, which would then boot FreeBSD. systemd-boot esp is used to denote the mountpoint in this article The bootloader systemd-boot is made up of a series of configuration files and can be easily understood, it sets up two directories inside the EFI System Partition (ESP), esp/EFI and esp/loader . esp/loader contains all the configuration files necessary to set up the bootloader, and esp/EFI contains the EFI stubs that are run upon boot. esp/loader/entries contains a configuration file for each different operating system, and a loader.conf configuration file for setting the default boot and other general settings. "Regular" systemd-boot Structure /boot └── loader ├── entries │ ├── entry_1.conf │ ├── entry_2.conf │ ├── entry_3.conf │ └── entry_4.conf └── loader.conf | ├── initramfs-linux-fallback.img ├── initramfs-linux.img ├── intel-ucode.img └── vmlinuz-linux | └── EFI ├── Boot │ └── BOOTX64.EFI └── systemd └── systemd-bootx64.efi The issue with this directory structure for multi booting with my setup is if you try to use systemd boot with more than one Linux install there's nowhere to put the initramfs and Linux kernel vmlinuz-linux aswell as any other files the system wants in its boot directory. Initially I tried making a directory, say boot/installs/${system-name} for each operating system, and when the kernel gets rebuilt during an update, replace the old kernel image. I added a preset file in the directory /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset which says to copy the kernel after building to a certain directory. The problem with this is it expects images to already exist in the boot directory. I kept getting errors that the specified kernel image didn't exist. sudo mkinitcpio -p linux ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/installs/Butters/initramfs-linux.img ==> ERROR: specified kernel image does not exist: ` /boot/vmlinuz-linux ' ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: ' fallback ' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/installs/Butters/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect ==> ERROR: specified kernel image does not exist: `/boot/vmlinuz-linux' New Directory Structure The next thing I tried was instead of trying to tell the system to move the files after updating the kernel, I made a new directory /mnt/efi , mounted my boot partition there, and told systemd-boot to install there. bootctl --path = /mnt/efi install Inside /mnt/efi I made a directory boot/installs/${system-name
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3.7.5 Pixelmator 3.7.5 improves compatibility with future versions of macOS and includes several additional bug fixes. • Added a number of fixes to improve compatibility with future versions of macOS. • If the only remaining layer in an image is an empty group, it will no longer be possible to ungroup it and end up with a completely empty document. • Fixed an issue with merging clipping masks — merging only clipping masks would create an empty layer. Now, any merged clipping masks will keep their content and remain attached to the layer they're clipping. • Fixed an issue with restoring clipping masks after undoing a merge action. • It was not possible to cut and paste shapes. Fixed. • Fixed an issue with the Quick Selection Tool that would cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. • Fixed an issue with the Gradient Tool that would cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. • Fixed an issue with selecting color stops in the Gradients palette that would cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. • Fixed a number of different memory issues that would occasionally cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. • Entering an empty Scale value in the Print dialog would occasionally cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. Fixed. Think you've found a bug? Let us know at [email protected] and we'll fix it ASAP! 3.7.4 Pixelmator 3.7.4 brings a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. • Fixed several different memory leak issues. • Improved the stability of Pixelmator when its internal preference files are manually removed. • On rare occasions, Pixelmator would quit unexpectedly when loading the Fonts window. Fixed. • On some Mac computers, it was not possible to edit text layers. Fixed. • A range of stability improvements to the Quick Selection, Color Selection, Paint Bucket, Magic Eraser, and painting tools, as well as the Pixelmator undo system. 3.7.3 This update brings a few small improvements and bug fixes. • It was not possible to use the Copy Layer Style and Paste Layer Style commands. Fixed. • When printing, smaller images will no longer use the Scale to Fit Option by default. • The last used Print dialog settings will now be remembered for individual documents. • File > Page Setup has been unified with File > Print. • While transforming layers, parts of the transformed layer would be temporarily left behind after resetting the changes. Fixed. • Fixed an issue with the Soften and Sharpen tools in the Pixelmator Retouch extension for the Photos app. • Think you've found a bug? Let us know at [email protected] and we'll fix it! Here's what we added in Pixelmator 3.7.1: • Export images in the modern High Efficiency Image File format to reduce their file sizes without losing visible quality. • Use the Vignette effect to artistically fade the edges of an image. • Fixed various issues with Pixelmator Retouch and Distort extensions for the Photos app. • When using the Pixelmator Retouch extension, you can now adjust brush softness using the Shift-Square bracket keyboard shortcut. • Pixelmator would sometimes quit unexpectedly when zooming or opening images. Fixed. • Importing brushes, gradients, or layer styles would sometimes cause Pixelmator to quit unexpectedly. Fixed. • When scaling selections, the Constrain Proportions checkbox will now be unselected by default. • Fixed an issue with the layout of options in the Save dialog. • In macOS 10.13, the Web Colors tab has disappeared from the Colors window due to sandboxing issues. There's a way to get it back — visit the following Pixelmator Community thread for more details: http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15799 3.7.2 This update brings a few small improvements and bug fixes. • It was not possible to use the Copy Layer Style and Paste Layer Style commands. Fixed. • When printing, smaller images will no longer use the Scale to Fit Option by default. • The last used Print dialog settings will now be remembered for individual documents. • File > Page Setup has been unified with File > Print. • While transforming layers, parts of the transformed layer would be temporarily left behind after resetting the changes. Fixed. • Think you've found a bug? Let us know at [email protected] and we'll fix it! Here's what we added in Pixelmator 3.7.1: • Export images in
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From RationalWiki Archives for this talk page: Archive list It has been 37 days since the last squabble. The chicken coop is for the avoidance, containment and resolution of cases of Headless Chicken Mode (HCM). Despite the name, this tends to be serious business. This page can be used for reporting cases of administrative abuse (abuse of sysop or moderator abilities such as blocking, page deletion, or user rights management), general abuse (such as trolling, wandalism, and personal attacks), and conflicts which cannot be solved through normal talk page discussion (such as long-standing edit wars or article content disputes). Please be specific and include links to any relevant discussions, page edits or logs. All editors are welcome to comment on the cases raised here, and to try to reach a consensus on any action to be taken. If no consensus can be reached, and the HCM seems to be escalating, moderators are expected to take some action. However, any serious or permanent solution, such as removal of rights or lengthy ban, requires a community vote here according to the guidelines laid out in our Community Standards. Please try to resolve conflicts directly through discussion on other editor's talk pages before reporting them. It's better to just talk to someone rather than try to drag their name through the mud. If the issue is not conflict resolution, but concerns RationalWiki policies, suggested changes to how things work around here, or similar matters of principle, please post on the Community Standards talk page instead. When presenting a case here, be sure to include whom you are accusing, what exactly you are accusing them of, some hard evidence, and a brief explanation. Since the sole purpose of the Coop is to resolve these disputes, don't post unrelated or more generalized complaints here — if you do, your posts will be moved off the page. Any vote started within 48 hours of filing will be deleted and you will be blocked. Use {{CoopNotice}} to inform the user in question, so that they have a chance to discuss their actions here. As a final note, if you think this page is a good tactic to apply in gaming the mob into doing your bidding, you may be shocked to see your post archived quite swiftly.
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After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more gun control to help prevent mass shootings and the routine violence ravaging U.S. neighborhoods. But besides a rare consensus on restricting the availability of so-called bump stocks, which Paddock used to enable his dozen semi-automatic rifles to fire like machine guns, it's unclear if anything meaningful will come of it. If advocates for reform despair after such a tragedy, I can understand. The politics seem intractable right now. It's easy to feel powerless. But what I've learned from a decade of studying the history of the arms trade has convinced me that the American public has more power over the gun business than most people realize. Washington's patronage The U.S. arms industry's close alliance with the government is as old as the country itself, beginning with the American Revolution. Forced to rely on foreign weapons during the war, President George Washington wanted to ensure that the new republic had its own arms industry. Inspired by European practice, he and his successors built public arsenals for the production of firearms in Springfield and Harper's Ferry. They also began doling out lucrative arms contracts to private manufacturers such as Simeon North, the first official U.S. pistol maker, and Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. The government provided crucial startup funds, steady contracts, tariffs against foreign manufactures, robust patent laws, and patterns, tools and know-how from federal arsenals. The War of 1812, perpetual conflicts with Native Americans and the U.S.-Mexican War all fed the industry's growth. By the early 1850s, the United States was emerging as a world-class arms producer. Now-iconic American companies like those started by Eliphalet Remington and Samuel Colt began to acquire international reputations. Even the mighty gun-making center of Great Britain started emulating the American system of interchangeable parts and mechanized production. Profit in war and peace The Civil War supercharged America's burgeoning gun industry. The Union poured huge sums of money into arms procurement, which manufacturers then invested in new capacity and infrastructure. By 1865, for example, Remington had made nearly US$3 million producing firearms for the Union. The Confederacy, with its weak industrial base, had to import the vast majority of its weapons. The war's end meant a collapse in demand and bankruptcy for several gun makers. Those that prospered afterward, such as Colt, Remington and Winchester, did so by securing contracts from foreign governments and hitching their domestic marketing to the brutal romance of the American West. While peace deprived gun makers of government money for a time, it delivered a windfall to well capitalized dealers. That's because within five years of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the War Department had decommissioned most of its guns and auctioned off some 1,340,000 to private arms dealers, such as Schuyler, Hartley and Graham. The Western Hemisphere's largest private arms dealer at the time, the company scooped up warehouses full of cut-rate army muskets and rifles and made fortunes reselling them at home and abroad. More wars, more guns By the late 19th century, America's increasingly aggressive role in the world insured steady business for the country's gun makers. The Spanish American War brought a new wave of contracts, as did both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and the dozens of smaller conflicts that the U.S. waged around the globe in the 20th and early 21st century. As the U.S. built up the world's most powerful military and established bases across the globe, the size of the contracts soared. Consider Sig Sauer, the New Hampshire arms producer that made the MCX rifle used in the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre. In addition to arming nearly a third of the country's law enforcement, it recently won the coveted contract for the Army's new standard pistol, ultimately worth $350 million to $580 million. Colt might best illustrate the importance of public money for prominent civilian arms manufacturers. Maker of scores of iconic guns for the civilian market, including the AR-15 carbine used in the 1996 massacre that prompted Australia to enact its famously sweeping gun restrictions, Colt has also relied heavily on government contracts since the 19th century. The Vietnam War initiated a long era of making M16s for the military, and the company continued to land contracts as American war-making shifted from southeast Asia to the Middle East. But Colt's reliance on government was so great that it filed for bankruptcy in 2015, in part because it had lost the military contract for the M4 rifle two years earlier. Overall, gun makers relied on government contracts for about 40 percent of their revenues in 2012. Competition for contracts spurred manufacturers to make lethal
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70 min | Horror 2.9 Rate this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2.9 / 10 X Buitrago, Soria in 1976. Jorge arrives in search of his sister, Miranda, and the people of the area warn him about the evil nature of the place. In the same place, in 1310, the templars are... See full summary » Director: Vick Campbell | Stars: Thais Buforn, Anarka de Ossorio, Albert Gammond, Rick Gomans Votes: 38
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Description This course is comprised of highly valuable material that pertains to winning jobs on the public Upwork job boards and attracting select private job invites from quality clients. It provides you with a proven step by step formula to make real money on Upwork. This course is for you whether you're already on Upwork and frustrated with it OR if you are just starting out and wanting to figure out how to really make serious revenue on the platform. Although this course is focussed on Upwork - many of the strategies in this course work for all of the other online freelancing platforms out there. If you're a copywriter, web-developer, graphic designer, etc. – the tactics we've laid out apply to you. We have 3 main goals for this course: To teach you how to find high-paying jobs on Upwork. To teach you how to actually win high-paying/ quality jobs on Upwork. To teach you how to make consistent monthly revenue on Upwork. We start out by teaching you some of the foundational work you're going to need to do in order to set yourself up for continued success on Upwork. We talk about why it's important to niche down a little bit before you get started and why positioning yourself as a premium contractor from day one is something that's going to help you win jobs right away and help you to get quality job invites from awesome clients throughout your career. Then we move into some of the specific tactical information that you're going to need to know to win jobs on the public job Upwork job boards. We teach you the exact process that we use to land high dollar deals on Upwork on a consistent basis. We close the course by teaching you how to get consistent business, easy wins, how to maintain the premium rates you've established for yourself (or charge even more), and how to handle negotiation like a champion. Over 90 minutes of focussed (zero fluff) material derived from our personal experience to help you achieve success on Upwork!
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1. I arrived in Stockholm's gorgeous, chambered Central train Station in the early morning. For weeks, Swedish papers had been running increasingly shrill articles claiming that gangs of North African migrant teenagers had "taken over" the station, and were stealing, drinking, and groping with impunity. One Stockholm cop told the Daily Mail they were "on their knees." I expected a scene from the movie Over the Edge, but the station was quiet and peaceful as usual, with just the familiar handful of friendly, shambling Roma panhandlers working in front of the T-Bana gates. As I started to text Swedish friends about their country's panicky reaction to the influx of refugees, their messages started popping up: "Watch out for the Nazis, they've been beating up people with brown eyes and brown hair!" The night before, sixty to one hundred black-masked thugs had rampaged through the Central Station and nearby Sergels Square, threatening and beating up migrant teenagers, Roma, and eventually just people who didn't "look" Swedish, until they were subdued by the police. The previous afternoon, a group of nationalists had stood at the entrance to the station distributing an anonymously authored leaflet titled Enough is Enough!, which fulminated against the refusal of the police to deal with unaccompanied refugee teenagers. "We refuse to accept the repeated attacks and harassment of Swedish women. We refuse to accept the destruction of our once safe society… 200 Swedish men have gathered today in order to stand up against the North African 'street children' who rage around our capital's central station…the legal system has given them a walk over and the social contract is broken." It ended on a fraternal note: "We are not politicians, journalists, or cops. We are your father, your brother, your husband, your colleague, your friend, and your neighbors." Initially, the attack was suspected to have been organized by the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR), a marginal but highly visible neo-Nazi organization, who have a base of support in the skiing area of Darlanda, and are led by a skinhead ex-con named Klas Lund who was convicted in the 1986 stomping death of a young anti-racist organizer. But it soon emerged that the attack at the train station was likely (no one claimed responsibility) orchestrated by a rare alliance between members of two of Stockholm's most prominent football hooligan firms, The Fine Boys of Djurgården (DFG) and the Firman Boys (AIK). Usually the two firms are mortal enemies, only meeting for massive nighttime street brawls — which are quickly uploaded to YouTube — but many members have longstanding links to Sweden's far-right, criminal gangs, and Hells Angels, and have periodically dabbled in this kind of anti-immigrant vigilantism. In 2005, the firms officially expelled their neo-Nazi members and established a consensus of "no politics on the terraces," but in 2013, some members formed "citizens guards" during the 2013 Husby riots that shook the Stockholm suburbs — these patrols were quickly appropriated and publicized by neo-Nazi organizations. After leaks from anti-fascist sources in the football scene began to point the finger at these firms, Firman Boys posted a brief and cryptic transmission on their website: "Firman Boys don't do politics, end of message." One leading member of the neo-fascist group Nordic Youth told me the attack on Central Station was mostly the work of the firms, "but there might have been some others." Mats Jonsson, the head of security for Stockholm's Djurgården club (which is completely unaffiliated with the hooligan firm, the Fine Boys of Djurgården), told me: "We don't know who the firm members are because there are no memberships. That's why it's tough to say how big they are… Usually, they do not have a political agenda — it's simply about violence and territory and standing up for each other … [but] I think we have to have things under strict observation in the coming months, to see what direction it's going to take. It would be a big issue if they had a political agenda." The thwarted pogrom is only the most recent escalation in an increasingly malignant atmosphere of anti-migrant xenophobia in Sweden. The thwarted pogrom is only the most recent escalation in an increasingly malignant atmosphere of anti-migrant xenophobia in Sweden. Last year, the country accepted nearly 160,000 asylum-seekers — proportionally more than any other Western country, and a startling figure even for the world's humanitarian power. This has met with an intense mobilization from the far right. Last August, the Sweden Democrats (SD) — an extremely popular, young, button-down "immigration-critical" party who emerged from the bog of the far-right and skinhead scene in the 80s and 90s around Bevara Sverige Sven
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Quote from: BunnyLake on Sat, 13 June 2015, 19:26:56 Quote from: Air tree on Sat, 13 June 2015, 18:34:38 Crossing my fingers for bright pink. the term i used when selecting the colour was neon so im hoping it will be bright, i also used the term baby blue for the blue ones Pink is pink. It's all good what ever shade they are. Just hoping that I can get some. (As it seems there is a limited number of each colour?) limited only in the sense that we will make an equal number of eachwe wont do anything nasty like artificially make one colour rare or anything, so if 200 sets were ordered, we would get 50 of each of the 4 coloursit would have been nice to do a colour selector etc at time of order, but if we didnt have the colours locked in at the time, and it can make pricing difficult if one colour does great and one colour gets hardly any making it too cost restrictive to produce etcso ive tried to pick 4 colours that will hopefully give everyone something they will be happy with, without copying colours that are already out there on topre boards (purple black etc)as mentioned above, closer to the time of shipping, ill make some kind of google doc, where people could list a prefered colour, or perhaps list the colours in order of preference, and where possible we will of course spend the extra time to get as many people the one they want
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2016 will not only see a reboot of the Master of Orion video game, but an all-new MoO board game as well. Wargaming.net is investing heavily into its recently-acquired Master of Orion franchise - first we'll be getting a full reboot of the original PC game, complete with an epic voice cast, and then we'll be seeing the first Master of Orion board game. It's a natural leap for the franchise: 4X games tend to translate well to cardboard. Little is known at the moment. The publisher, Hobby World, says the game will involve managing resources, constructing buildings, hiring advisors and attacking opponents. So, yeah, basically Master of Orion. Time will tell whether the board game successfully adapts MoO, but I have high hopes. Hobby World is responsible for one of last year's funniest games, Spyfall (not to mention this year's Spyfall 2), and I've been eager to see what they do next. This begs the question: what classic video games are waiting for a translation to tabletop? My money is on Impossible Creatures, but I want to hear what the Escapists think. Source: Hobby World
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IN MANY countries it would have caused a major stir, but Government sources yesterday played down an incident in which a schoolboy with a screwdriver ran and bear-hugged Prime Minister John Howard. The teenager was among a group of students from Carey Grammar working on boats at the Yarra sheds as Mr Howard passed by on his morning walk. He stopped to chat, and as they milled around a boy ran around the group and gave Mr Howard a bear hug, still clutching the screwdriver he had been using on a boat.
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Asylum-seekers Detained in Israel's Desert from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. Israel's Parliament has passed a new law aimed at keeping African immigrants behind bars — and a controversial jail to house them open — beyond a deadline set by the country's highest court. The Knesset by a 43-20 vote approved an initial legislative step for a new law that mandates three months in prison for African asylum-seekers who enter Israel without documentation and a year and eight months more in the spartan Holot detention center, which Israel euphemistically refers to as an "open facility." If it passes two more hurdles, the new law will permit Israel to keep more than 2,000 African detainees imprisoned in Holot — and likely to jail many more. It is the third time lawmakers have sought to amend to the nation's so-called anti-infiltration law. Earlier amendments were twice struck down by Israel's High Court of Justice on the grounds they were unconstitutional. Advocates say Israel should offer a haven to the refugees, most of whom are fleeing authoritarian regimes in the Sudan (many hail from the genocide-ravaged Darfur province) and Eritrea, considered one of the world's most repressive regimes. In its latest decision on September 22, Israel's High Court gave the state 90 days to come up with a solution. Otherwise, it ordered the expensive Holot facility in the Negev desert shut down. To make this happen before the December 22 deadline, the internal affairs committee of the Knesset scheduled ahead six different discussions on the bill in the upcoming two weeks so it can prepare it as soon as possible for second and third readings in hopes of passing the law on time. It remains to be seen if opponents, which include leftist parties and human rights proponents, can derail the plan to fasttrack the bill. Proponents of the new law say it significantly eases the burden on immigrants in response to the high court decision. It limits the period that the state can detain migrants in Holot to one year and eight months, compared to the old law, which allowed indefinite detention. It also decreases the number of times Holot detainees need to check in there from three times a day to just once. It also reduces the amount of jail time immigrants could face upon apprehension from one year to three months, before they would be sent to Holot. Advocates for the immigrants and human rights groups scoffed at the changes as tweaks to an unjust and failed policy. A coalition of human rights organizations including Amnesty International slammed the new law as a violation of international law, which requires Israel to impartially evaluate the immigrants' claims to asylum. It also pointed out that the law does nothing to solve the longterm social problems faced by immigrants and the Israeli communities in which they live. "The new bill not only ignores the High Court ruling, it will also make the situation worse in south Tel Aviv," the group said in a statement. "What will happen two years from now when thousands of asylum seekers will be released from Holot? Where will the government send them this time around?"
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MAHLE Jet Ignition (MJI) uses a pre-chamber in conjunction with a spark plug and secondary fuel injector. The chemical, thermal and kinetic energy from the combustion of this small fuel-air mixture is transferred via nozzles to the main combustion chamber where it ignites the main fuel-air mixture. MAHLE Powertrain has been developing Jet Ignition—a high-energy distributed ignition technology that enables homogeneous ultra-lean (λ > ∼1.6) combustion, with its attendant benefits of reduced fuel consumption and emissions—for a number of years. (E.g., Earlier post , ( Earlier post .) Left. Rendering of the pre-chamber assembly. Right. Rendering of the pre-chamber assembly in cylinder head. Source: Bunce and Blaxill (2016). Click to enlarge. As part of a long-term technical partnership with Scuderia Ferrari, MAHLE is providing Ferrari's Formula 1 division with Jet Ignition and the lean burn combustion process. MAHLE Powertrain, in cooperation with the US Department of Energy, has demonstrated that MAHLE Jet Ignition can deliver impressive results in passenger car applications. The technology has demonstrated sub-200 g/kW-hr brake specific fuel consumption, peak brake thermal efficiency above 41.5%, and 95+ % reductions in engine-out NO x levels with a multi-cylinder engine, all while reducing knock and maintaining acceptable levels of combustion stability. A 10-20% increase in fuel economy (mpg) is expected when compared to current production gasoline engines. In a paper presented at the 2016 SAE World Congress, Mahle engineers detailed the experimental results from single-cylinder and multi-cylinder engines incorporating the jet igniter in support of the above figures. The results presented are achieved with the MJI combustion concept and as such are applicable to jet ignition concepts generally. A fully optimized jet ignition engine must incorporate multiple criteria including desired peak power, boost strategy, and geometric compression ratio. Cost-benefit analyses will be performed for multiple MJI engine operation scenarios. Further MJI development activities include cold start development, boost system selection, and aftertreatment specification. —Bunce and Blaxhill (2016) MAHLE Jet Ignition also can increase fuel efficiency for natural gas and LPG powerplants. In cooperation with ARPA-E, the advanced research projects agency on energy of the US Dept. of Energy, MAHLE Powertrain is developing Jet Ignition for a natural-gas-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) unit. The goal is to produce a micro-CHP unit that meets both electrical and heating needs for a residential site that not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions but also is competitive with traditional electrical grid power pricing. Combining the high fuel efficiency of MAHLE Jet Ignition with MAHLE friction reduction technologies and systems expertise, an ultra-high efficiency, long life, low life-cycle cost micro-CHP unit is conceivable and is a key to opening this emerging market in the US, MAHLE said. MAHLE continues to develop the technology for high specific power, high efficiency, low emissions, and off-road applications as well. MAHLE's design distributes the high-energy jets deep into the main combustion chamber, which significantly reduces knock, useful for motorsport applications, and also enables ignition of very lean mixtures for high fuel economy applications. —Hugh Blaxill, general manager, MAHLE Powertrain LLC Resources
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9-1-1 Use and Abuse When to use 911 versus 7-digit telephone lines Call 911 when there is a life or death emergency that requires the immediate response of emergency service such as police, fire or paramedic. Always call 911 when there is a medical problem or something that requires the Los Angeles Fire Department to respond, because they do not have non-emergency lines. When there is a situation that requires police response but is not an emergency, use a non-emergency 7-digit telephone number. How to call 911 All 911 calls are received by Police Service Representatives (PSRs) who are trained to screen calls quickly and efficiently. Dial 1-877-ASK-LAPD (1-877-275-5273) for non-emergency police service. 1. Dial 911 (on a pay phone it is not necessary to deposit money). 2. Tell the 911 operator what you need; ambulance, fire truck, or the police. 3. Be calm. When a caller is upset, it is hard to understand what he or she is saying or to get vital information quickly. 4. Stay on the phone. Do not hang up! 5. Give your name and address. If your address is different from the location of the crime, be sure to let the operator know. 6. If possible, give the operator suspect description, weapons, if any, and vehicle description and license. Emergency operators will verify your address and telephone to ensure that the telephone company address that is sent with the call is current and accurate. People living in mobile home parks, condominiums or on private roads often have addresses that differ from the telephone company street address. If you fall in one of these categories, contact the City Engineering Department to find out what your legal street address is. It is a misdemeanor under California Penal Code Section 148.3 for any person to willfully use the 911 system for any purpose other than reporting an emergency. It is a felony if someone is injured or dies as a result of emergency service response to a false call. RELATED LINKS RELATED DOCUMENTS
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A group of Israeli rabbis has created an independent Jewish conversion court, defying the country's Orthodox establishment's monopoly on religious affairs. While the conversions will not be officially recognized, the move signals growing impatience in some sectors with the Orthodox rabbinate's tight grip on aspects of daily life and a political leadership that has not liberalized access to conversion and other religious services. The court, established by a dozen liberal rabbis, began offering conversions on Monday, with six children starting the process. Itim, an Israeli group that assists people dealing with the rabbinate, said it helped establish the court after efforts to address the issue through dialogue failed. Spokeswoman Einat Levin said the rabbis hope that if large numbers of people go through with the conversions the state will have no choice but to recognize them. "We had patience but it ran out,'' said Levin. "People want to be Jewish. The only thing that is preventing them is the state of Israel,'' she said. The Orthodox establishment controls many aspects of life in Israel, including conversions, marriage and burials. The new conversion courts are meant to ease the path to conversion for tens of thousands of people, mainly immigrants from the former Soviet Union who have Jewish ancestry but face difficulty marrying in Israel or receiving Jewish burials. Soviet Jews have been granted Israeli citizenship because of their ancestry, but many are not considered Jewish under Jewish law and cannot marry in Israel. Many are resistant to Orthodox conversion because the process is lengthy and requires the adoption of a strict Orthodox lifestyle. A law passed last year by the previous government would have addressed the issue. But the current government, propped up by two ultra-Orthodox parties, scrapped the legislation earlier this year. The Reform and Conservative Judaism movements, which are more liberal streams of Judaism, have also expressed impatience with what they see as a lack of Jewish religious pluralism in Israel.
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Life with Ease® started in 1999 hoping to help you live life to the max in spite of your daily problems. Help yourself by knowing your health problems and learn how to overcome it. By eating healthy food, you can control your weight and start gaining your health balance again and enjoy your life. Also, we do our best to provide the best advice for managing your home by giving the best possible evergreen solutions. Also, we offer tips for helping parents with their children's to make their life easier.
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TIMERGARA: A Pak Army soldier embraced martyrdom when an improvised explosive device went off at a border post in Bin Shahi area here on Tuesday. Sources said the soldier was on his way to fetch water when the IED went off, killing him on the spot, at the Bezo Manzai checkpost in the jurisdiction of Samar Bagh police station. The soldier was identified as sepoy Mohammad Waseem, a resident of Karak district. The security forces started a search operation in the area after the incident. Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2017
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In the early morning hours of May 26, a young man from Afghanistan pushed a 20-year old university student from Arta off an eight meter precipice after grabbing her bag. On May 27 the perpetrator was to be led to the prosecutor of Corfu. The incident happened shortly after 3.30 in the morning when the 20-year-old Ionian University student was in the region Mouragia in the town of Corfu. The young Afghan, who claimed that he is 17 years old and has applied for political asylum, spotted the unfortunate girl and tried to grab her bag. When she resisted and began calling for help, the young man pushed the girl off the cliff and fled to an unknown direction. The 20-year-old is being hospitalized with severe physical injuries and abrasions, but luckily her life is not in danger. Despite her serious injuries,she managed to describe the perpetrator to the police officers who visited her, and a few hours later the man was arrested.
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If the question is "How do I do X programming technique (that happens to make my code faster)", then StackOverflow is the right place. If it is a more generic "How do I make this better/faster", then CodeReview is the right place (subject to their terms). Stack Overflow is the place for specific questions about programming. If it is specific - as in, about a particular function, language element, algorithm, etc., and by that I don't mean "about your specific program" but about a specific element in your program that is 'specific' in the context of programming, not in the context of a program - then it's fine. If it's "help me do X to my program", then it's probably off topic here, and may or may not be on topic at Code Review. The fact that you're asking about optimization (or that you're asking about a functioning, production piece of software) isn't relevant directly to the topicality of your question. Your question should be topical in and of itself, just like homework questions are fine if they're topical ignoring the homework aspect, or regex questions are fine if they're otherwise good questions (really, there is such a thing as a topical regex question!). However, optimization questions tend to not be good questions, because they tend to be too broad - if the question is "Is there a faster way..." then it's very likely too broad or off topic. If the question doesn't have a single, concise answer, it's probably too broad or off topic. But if you ask "I'm implementing a bubble sort for my vectors, and would like to use a more efficient routine", you might be able to make that on topic and not too broad.
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Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library The cells responsible for cancer's spread — and for most deaths from cancer — may have a fatal weakness according to studies in mice: a reliance on certain fats to fuel their invasion. It is a difficult and hazardous undertaking for a cancer cell to uproot itself, travel through the bloodstream and take hold in an entirely different part of the body. (Non-cancerous cells are often programmed to self-destruct if they leave the tissue they live in.) Researchers have long struggled to understand which cancer cells can manage the feat, and how they do so. But a study published on 7 December in Nature1 has identified a population of oral tumour cells that are able to make the journey in mice, and has found that such cells may feast on fats to fuel the trip. Determining how certain cancer cells spread throughout the body — a process called metastasis — is a big step forward, says Xiang Zhang, a cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study. "Now people have a suspect they can follow." To find that suspect, Salvador Aznar Benitah of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine at the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology in Spain and his colleagues looked among oral-cancer cells for those that could seed tumours. Within that population of cells, the team found some that expressed high levels of a molecule called CD36, which helps cells to take up lipids from their environment. Such lipids could serve as an energy source for wandering tumour cells, they reasoned. "Metastasis takes a lot of energy," says Ernst Lengyel, a gynaecological oncologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, who was not involved in the project. "As a cell you must be able to adapt to changing environments, reprogram protein expression, establish a beachhead and start proliferating as soon as possible." Stopping the spread Benitah and his team found that high CD36 expression was required for metastasis in mice. Antibodies that blocked CD36 — and eliminated its interaction with fatty acids — completely inhibited metastasis, although they did not affect the development of primary tumours. The researchers also mined public databases and found that high expression of CD36 correlated with poor medical outcomes in bladder, lung, breast and other cancers in people. Benitah's team is now working to develop antibodies against CD36 that could be used in clinical trials, although he estimates it would take at least another four years to reach that milestone. Benitah notes that such a therapy may be effective even after cancer has started to spread: in mice, experimental antibodies eradicated metastatic tumours 15% of the time. The remaining metastatic tumours shrunk by at least 80%. The team is also looking at the implications of another finding: feeding the mice a high-fat diet led to more and larger tumours in the lymph nodes and lungs — a sign of metastasis — compared with mice on normal diets. Benitah's team is now carrying out a study that aims to enrol 1,000 people with cancer, profiling lipids in their blood to look for any links to the spread of cancer cells. But at this stage, it is too early to tell people to avoid fatty foods, cautions Lengyel — especially people with cancer who may need a high-energy diet. "That's a very dangerous message," he says.
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It's common for pundits to recite ass-covering phrases like "it all comes down to turnout" or "anything could happen" on the eve of a big election. If you've been following FiveThirtyEight over the years, you know it's not our style to do that. Instead, we issue probabilistic forecasts, which can sometimes seem quite confident: We had Barack Obama as a 90.9 percent favorite to beat Mitt Romney on the eve of the 2012 general election, for example. So let's get a couple of things straight before the results start trickling in from Iowa tonight: It all comes down to turnout. Anything could happen. All right, not absolutely anything could happen. Martin O'Malley is not going to win the Democratic caucuses. Donald Trump will probably not finish behind Carly Fiorina. But could Marco Rubio win the Iowa caucuses despite not having led a single poll there? Sure. Rick Santorum did that exact thing four years ago. Could Trump slip all the way to third place? Entirely plausible. But he could also get upwards of 40 percent of the vote and double his nearest rival's total. Ben Carson in second place? Rand Paul in third? The odds are against it — but equally strange things have happened in Iowa before. We say this for the same reason we can sometimes issue highly confident forecasts just before a general election: It's what the data tells us. That data tells us that polling in general elections is pretty accurate, at least in the final few weeks before the election. The data also tells us that polling in primaries and caucuses is not very accurate. Historically, the average error of late polls in presidential general elections is about 3.5 percentage points. By contrast, the average polling error associated with presidential primaries is more like 8 percentage points, more than twice as high. So imagine that we have a forecast showing Trump 4 percentage points ahead of Ted Cruz in some state. If Trump wins by 12 points instead, or Cruz wins by 4, the pollsters would be pilloried, and we'd come in for our share of flak too. But that's what an 8-point error looks like, and 8-point errors happen fairly often in primaries and caucuses. What makes polling these elections so difficult? There are a few major factors: Turnout is much lower in primaries and caucuses, and much harder to predict. There are often multiple candidates running. Such races increase polling error because of the potential for tactical voting. There are far more swing voters because most voters like several of their party's candidates. In the recent Des Moines Register Iowa poll, for example, the average Republican respondent had a favorable impression of four of the Republican candidates. By contrast, only a small fraction of general election voters like both the Democratic and Republican candidates. A substantial number of voters wait until the last few days of the campaign to make up their minds in primaries and caucuses; by contrast, the vast majority of general election voters have their minds made up well ahead of Election Day. But if primaries and caucuses are always tough for pollsters, some are even harder than others. This is something we've studied extensively too. Historically, the polling error has been higher when: A state holds a caucus instead of a primary. It's early in the nomination calendar rather than later. (Perhaps because pollsters haven't yet had a chance to learn from their mistakes.) There are more candidates running. (See above for why this matters.) You'll note that the first two circumstances apply in the Democratic caucuses tonight, and all three do for Republicans. Iowa is a caucus state, and it's the first state to vote. And there are still a huge number of candidates on the GOP side. In our polling average, candidates other than Trump, Cruz and Rubio have a collective 28 percent of the vote, while another 3 percent or 4 percent of voters still say they're undecided. That's almost a third of the vote that could easily enough recirculate to one of the front-runners. Put another way, the uncertainty associated with forecasting tonight's Iowa Republican caucus is about as high as it gets in a major American election. Even Ann Selzer, the best pollster in the country, could have a rough night. That doesn't mean we're completely in the dark. Our forecast models are designed to account for this uncertainty. Hillary Clinton, for example, leads Bernie Sanders by 4.5 percentage points in our Iowa polling average. In a general election, that would make her a rather heavy favorite, probably upwards of 90 percent. But in the Iowa caucuses, it's not that much of an edge. Thus, our polls-only forecast still gives Sanders a 28 percent chance of winning, and our polls-plus forecast, which likes Sanders because his Iowa numbers exceed his standing in national polls, puts his chances slightly higher, at 33 percent. There
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Radeons get ready for the workloads of the future 2016 will be remembered for a lot of things. For graphics cards, last year marked the long-awaited transition to next-generation process technologies. It was also the year that the graphics card arguably came into its own as a distinct platform for compute applications. Not an Nvidia presentation went by last year wherein Jen-Hsun Huang didn't tout the power of the graphics processor for self-driving cars, image recognition, machine translation, and more. The company's various Pascal GPUs set new bars for gaming performance, too, but it's clear that gaming is just one job that future graphics cards will do. AMD is, of course, just as aware of the potential of the graphics chip for high-performance computing. Even before ATI's merger with AMD and the debut of graphics cards with unified stream processor architectures, the company explored ways to tap the potential of its hardware to perform more general computing tasks. In the more than ten years since, graphics chips have been pressed into compute duty more and more. AMD's next-generation graphics architecture, Vega, is built for fluency with all the new tasks that graphics cards are being asked to do these days. We already got a taste of Vega's versatility with the Radeon Instinct MI25 compute accelerator, and we can now explain some of the changes in Vega that make it a better all-around player for graphics and compute work alike. Memory, memory everywhere In his presentation at the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma last month, Radeon Technologies Group chief Raja Koduri lamented the fact that data sets for pro graphics applications are growing to petabytes in size, and high-performance computing data sets to exabytes of information. Despite those increases, graphics memory pools are still limited to just dozens of gigabytes of RAM. To help crunch these increasingly enormous data sets, Vega's memory controller—now called the High Bandwidth Cache Controller—is designed to help the GPU access data sets outside of the traditional pool of RAM that resides on the graphics card. The "high-bandwidth cache" is what AMD will soon be calling the pool of memory that we would have called RAM or VRAM on older graphics cards, and on at least some Vega GPUs, the HBC will consist of a chunk of HBM2 memory. HBM2 has twice the bandwidth per stack (256 GB/s) that HBM1 does, and the capacity per stack of HBM2 is up to eight times greater than HBM1. AMD says HBM stacks will continue to get bigger, offer higher performance, and scale in a power-efficient fashion, too, so it'll remain an appealing memory technology for future products. HBM2 is only one potential step in a hierarchy of new caches where data to feed a Vega GPU could reside, however. The high-bandwidth cache controller has the ability to address a pool of memory up to 512TB in size, and that pool could potentially encompass other memory locations like NAND flash (as seen on the Radeon Pro SSG), system memory, and even network-attached storage. To demonstrate the HBCC in action, AMD demonstrated a Vega GPU displaying a photorealistic representation of a luxurious bedroom produced from hundreds of gigabytes of data using its ProRender backend.
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Q: What Does "Aragorn" Mean? ANSWER: For many years readers of The Lord of the Rings puzzled over the meaning of Aragorn's name. A popular suggestion was "royal tree", perhaps because that was the definition Robert Foster proposed in his Complete Guide to Middle-earth. An earlier suggestion was "tree king", as put forth by Richard Jeffery in the preamble to Letter No. 347. Jeffery had written to J.R.R. Tolkien in 1972 asking several questions, the last of which was summarized in the preamble as: "Could Aragorn mean 'treeking' (with lenition of *gorn to orn in Celeborn, etc.), and Arathorn possibly 'Two-trees-king', with reference to the Two Trees?" To this question Tolkien responded: 5. Aragorn etc. This cannot contain a 'tree' word (see note).† 'Tree-King' would have no special fitness for him, and it was already used by an ancestor. The names in the line of Arthedain are peculiar in several ways; and several, though S. in form, are not readily interpretable. But it would need more historical records and linguistic records of S. than exist (sc. than I have found time or need to invent!) to explain them. The system by which all the names from Malvegil onwards are trisyllabic, and have only one 'significant' element‡ (ara being used where the final element was of one syllable; but ar in other cases) is peculiar to this line of names. The ara is prob. derived from cases where aran 'king' lost its n phonetically (as Arathorn), ara– then being used in other cases. As an aside: Lenition, for those of us who are not sure, refers to the process by which the speakers of a language gradually drop or soften a consonantal sound in the pronunciation of words. So Tolkien said that the Ara- in Aragorn might be related to aran ("royal"). In fact, in the foreword to The Peoples of Middle-earth Christopher Tolkien published a remarkable revelation concerning the name Aragorn, thus demystifying the thing after many years. He wrote: Lastly, after the proofs of this book had been revised I received a letter from Mr Christopher Gilson in which he referred to a brief but remarkable text associated with Appendix A that he had seen at Marquette. This was a curious chance, for he had no knowledge of the book beyond the fact that it contained some account of the Appendices; while although I had received a copy of the text from Marquette I had passed it over without observing its significance. Preserved with other difficult and disjointed notes, it is very roughly written on a slip of paper torn from a rejected manuscript. That manuscript can be identified as the close predecessor of the Appendix A text concerning the choice of the Half-elven which I have given on pp. 256-7. The writing on the verso reads: and his father gave him the name Aragorn, a name used in the House of the Chieftains. But Ivorwen at his naming stood by, and said 'Kingly Valour' (for so that name is interpreted): 'that he shall have, but I see on his breast a green stone, and from that his true name shall come and his chief renown: for he shall be a healer and a renewer.' Above this is written: 'and they did not know what she meant, for there was no green stone to be seen by other eyes' (followed by illegible words); and beneath it: 'for the green Elfstone was given to him by Galadriel'. A large X is also written, but it is not clear whether this relates to the whole page or only to a part of it. Mr Gilson observes that this text, clearly to be associated with work on the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen (see p. 263), seems to be the only place where the name Aragorn is translated; and he mentions my father's letter of 17 December 1972 to Mr Richard Jeffery (Letters no. 347), who had asked whether Aragorn could mean 'tree-king'…. So now we believe we know that Aragorn means "kingly valor" (or "kingly valour" in the British spelling). The revelation sheds light on some other names, such as Aradan, the Elvish name given to Malach son of Marach, who spent 14 years in Hithlum. Robert Foster translates this name as "King's Man" but perhaps in light of the above we could argue that it might mean "Kingly Man", such that Malach was being singled out for special significance as the future leader of the House of Marach (the Third House of
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Get Liverpool FC updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Well, it was a bit of a disappointing week wasn't it? After all the excitement around Mohamed Salah last week, there were high hopes that Liverpool might swiftly follow up by landing another of their key targets for the summer. It hasn't happened yet although it the transfer window doesn't officially open until Saturday. This week's panel of James Pearce, Andy Kelly and Paul Gorst discuss the latest on the pursuit of Jurgen Klopp's key targets and the difficulties of getting them to Anfield. Can Leipzig be persuaded to part with Naby Keita while James gives his assessment of what is needed for the Reds to revive any interest in Virgil van Dijk ? And if both prove simply impossible to secure where and who do Liverpool look to then? There's discussion on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as well as a look at the latest on possible loan moves for Joe Gomez and Sheyi Ojo. It's Friday night and you should be heading out but if you're not, why not enjoy lots of talk about all things Red? Enjoy! How to subscribe absolutely free to the Blood Red podcast On iTunes 1) Search for Blood Red and find the Liverpool Echo podcast or go straight to https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/blood-red/id1109064476 2) Click subscribe under the Blood Red podcast logo On Audioboom 1) Search for Blood Red Liverpool Echo or go to https://audioboom.com/channel/blood-red 2) Click the follow button Using the RSS feed If you want to add Blood Red to another podcast player, go to the Add RSS Feed area and then paste: https://audioboom.com/channels/4865538.rss And remember, we are now on Spotify too, just search 'Blood Red Liverpool FC' on the app.
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Mississippi is just the kind of place one might expect to find a backlash against the "organic agenda." Apparently spurred on by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's (newly tossed out) pet ban on big sodas, Mississippi is currently on the verge of passing a bill that would bar every local government in the state from requiring that restaurants post calorie counts or cap portion sizes. A far-reaching, big-government bill to counter other far-reaching, big-government bills? Uh, sure, Mississippi. NPR has the full scary deets: "The Anti-Bloomberg Bill" garnered wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature in a state where one in three adults is obese, the highest rate in the nation. The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican. It was the subject of intense lobbying by groups including the restaurant association, the small business and beverage group, and the chicken farmers' lobby. "The chicken farmers' lobby" could be a caption for an unfunny New Yorker cartoon, but in Mississippi it's also apparently a powerful business group — though hardly the only one with skin in this game. Mike Cashion, executive director the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association, says the bill is a direct reaction to Bloomberg-style government intervention in public health. "If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options," Cashion says. "Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace." Cashion is on a real free-market trip! But free markets and consumer demands always seem to go hand in hand with business profits, and Cashion's loyalties are with the restaurants, not with the people who eat at them. The Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association's website proclaims that the "industry is represented by a team of government affairs experts that is dedicated to protecting you from harmful legislation while promoting legislation that will benefit the industry. We estimate that our Government Affairs victories have saved the average restaurant over $10,000 over the past 4 years." This isn't a story about how Mississippians don't want to know what they're eating. It's yet another example of business buying government — the food business has proven to be pretty good at that over the years. And in that way, it's hardly news at all.
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Life Ring HP +7% Initial Burial Gift. It can also be bought from the Firelink Shrine Handmaid for 1500 souls. Life Ring +1 HP +8% Undead Settlement. Behind Siegward of Catarine while he waits to fight the fire demon (NG+) Life Ring +2 HP +9% Lothric Castle. On a corpse you find by dropping off a ledge next to a dark room. (NG+) Life Ring +3 HP +10% Untended Graves. Behind Holy King Lothric's throne. (NG++) Sun Princess Ring Restores 2 HP per second In Gwynevere's chamber, after fighting Aldrich. Estus Ring Increases HP healed with Estus Flask by 20% At the bottom of the tower on the left of the Firelink Shrine. Tower Key required (bought from the Handmaid for 20,000 souls) Ashen Estus Ring Increases FP restored with Ashen Estus Flask Untended Graves. To the left of the first bonfire, guarded by several enemies. Chloranthy Ring +7 Stamina recovered per second Undead Settlement. After defeating the fire demon with Siegward, explore the area. You will find the ring by dropping from the roof of a house into a tower. Descend it and you'll find the ring behind some crates. Chloranthy Ring +1 +8 Stamina recovered per second Below the pedestal with the Ring of the Sun's First Born, in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. (NG+) Chloranthy Ring +2 +9 Stamina recovered per second Road of Sacrifices. Past the first bonfire and the wagon you see on the ground, drop to a ledge to find the ring. (NG++) Havel's Ring Maximum Equip Load +15% Crafted from the Soul of a Stray Demon (dropped by the Stray Demon above the Old Wolf of Farron bonfire). Carry the soul to Ludleth of Courland, who is sitting on a throne in the Firelink Shrine, and he will exchange souls for items after you hand to him the Transposition Kiln, a reward from killing the Curse-Rooted Greatwood. Havel's Ring +1 Maximum Equip Load +17% Archdragon Peak. From where you get the Twinkling Dragon Torso Stone, head downstairs and look to the right of the doorway. (NG+) Havel's Ring +2 Maximum Equip Load +18% By the Darkmoon Covenant, you can drop down some planks to get it. For info on how to find this place, check Covenant: Blade of the Darkmoon (NG++) Ring of Favor HP +3% Stamina +10% Equip Load + 5% Defeat the guard dogs close to Archdeacon McDonnell in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, past the Pontiff Sulyvahn bonfire. Ring of Favor +1 HP +4% Stamina +11% Equip Load +6% In the second floor of the room where you face Pontiff Sulyvahn in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. (NG+) Ring of Favor +2 HP +5% Stamina +12% Equip Load +7% Cathedral of the Deep. From the Cleansing Chapel bonfire, make your way to the top of the cathedral by taking the left shortcut, getting on the elevator and heading up the stairs and rooftops. To the left of your entrance to said rooftops you will see an enemy with an axe. Behind him you'll see a dead end with the ring on it. (NG++) Prisoner's Chain Vigor +5 Endurance +5 Vitality +5 Damage taken +10% Obtain it from Ludeth by trading it with the Soul of Champion Gundyr Ring of Steel Protection Damage taken -10% In the area where you fight the Ancient Wyvern boss, in Archdragon Peak. It is past a bunch of items. Ring of Steel Protection +1 Damage taken -13% Untended Graves. Look behind the locked tower in which you need the Tower Key (NG+) Ring of Steel Protection +2 Damage Taken -15% Catacombs of Carthus. Drop from the bridge at the beginning to find the ring on a pillar. (NG++) Magic Stoneplate Ring Magic Absorption +13% Dropped by one of the guardians of Oceros, the Consumed King, in the Consumed King's Garden. Magic Stoneplate Ring +1 Magic Absorption +17% Farron Keep. From the first bonfire, head to the right and you'll spot the ring in an area with basilisks. (NG+) Magic Stoneplate Ring +2 Magic Absorption +20%
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Published: 1 month ago "The thing about saying something is happening is that change comes to everyone in its own time. And so to say that something is happening is to forget the millions that it is yet to happen to. It is to forget those who will …
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Asked by local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, press officer Sirpa Franzén said that the information had been sourced from, among others, relatives of the dead, social media and foreign security agencies. "But we can never receive officially confirmed information from a conflict zone such as this. It is near impossible right now and it is possible that it will never be fully confirmed," she told Swedish news agency TT. The comments come a week after The Local reported a Swedish man from the town of Örebro was said to be among the dead. In total around 130 Swedes have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Isis since summer 2012, but it has been reported the number could be as high as 300. All dead are men. A Swedish-Norwegian islamist convert appeared in an online video last week calling on other Scandinavians to travel to Syria to join the terror group. Wearing desert camouflage and clutching an assault rifle, Michael Nikolai Skråmo, who also calls himself Abo Ibrahim Al Swedi, says in the video: "Do you not wish in in your heart to fight and show God what you have to offer him? The door to jihad is standing there waiting for you. It's the fastest way to Jannah [Paradise]." DEBATE: "Syria is the biggest threat to Sweden since the Second World War" Swedish domestic affairs minister Angers Ygeman said he hoped to present a new national strategy on terrorism by summer. "This is a relatively new phenomenon, and one that is developing. We need to take a closer look at the tool box that the police and security police use to keep track of who leaves the country and those who survive and return home," he told TT. Franzén said Säpo welcomed all initiatives to stop the problem. "Although we would rather deal with the radicalization to stop it from arising at all," she said. Mona Sahlin, national coordinator against violent extremism and former leader of the Swedish centre-left Social Democrat party, is to be given increased resources and an expanded mandate to look at preventative strategies, TT reported on Wednesday. The Swedish government is currently drafting a bill to criminalize Swedes who participate in training with or fight for groups classified as terror organizations by the UN and is set to present the result in June. The EU coordinator for anti-terrorism, Gilles de Kerchove, estimated at the end of last year that 3,000 Europeans have joined the ultra-hardline Isis group, which has caused global revulsion with its regular videotaped beheadings of hostages.
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There is worthwhile, cinematic television happening on the margins of True Detective – stunning aerial shots of tangled Los Angeles freeways, a California Split-esque low-stakes poker room, musical homages to Twin Peaks. But the closer you get to the show's center, where a cohesive narrative should be decipherable, you're drowning in a murky puddle of obtuse yet self-important storytelling. True Detective is coy in all the wrong places. "I just don't know how to be out in the world, man," says a man in episode four who's made it crystal clear since his first on-screen appearance that he doesn't know how to be out in the world, man. Yet, we still don't know what's behind the repeated, ominous references to Paul Woodrugh's involvement in something called "Black Mountain," or why he is so tortured by his sexuality. Presumably, one or both has to do with the time he spent serving overseas (Afghanistan? Iraq? Unclear!) We know far less about the myriad characters tied up in show's oblique central plot points: A murder mystery, corruption, drug trafficking, gambling – Nic Pizzolatto is hitting all the crime procedural tropes, but halfway through the season, he hasn't created enough meaningful connections between them all. Beyond the four main characters – Ray, Frank, Ani and Paul – it's still not clear who we are supposed to care about or even pay attention to (maybe the mayor of Vinci, who we were needlessly reminded in episode 4 is a "bad guy.") I can't remember the last time I had to pause and rewind so frequently just to make basic sense of a scene or identify the function of a character. (That said, I really want to know more about Frank's wife Jordan, who often seems like she's from another world, or at least a different show.) True Detective episode four, "Down Will Come," while a slight improvement on the season's preceding episodes, was another installment of season two in which basic coherence fell victim to bravado and possible red herrings, in the service of... what exactly? Those of us who were let down by True Detective's season one finale have cause to be skeptical that season two will lead us to much more than a dead end. Even episode four's spectacular shootout finale fell flat, because there wasn't nearly enough genuine tension leading up to it. We only learned of the raid's target, Ledo Armarilla, earlier in the same episode, and the victims of the showy violence were primarily nameless, faceless characters (except for the cop with the "barroom sunburn," RIP). Pizzolatto's stingy rationing of the story made it feel like it all happened too fast. The freeze-frame at the end of the episode felt like a metaphor for his icing out of the viewers who allow the show to exist. Pizzolatto is certainly not the first showrunner to insist on staying several steps ahead of his audience. Matthew Weiner, David Chase , David Benioff – to name a few – have all delighted in pulling the wool over their viewers' eyes before snatching the rug out from underneath them. But the difference between those writers and Pizzolatto is a crucial one of engagement: A show doesn't have to follow through on all of its foreboding cues, but at a certain point it has to allow its audience to make sense of some of them. It's impossible to be surprised/shocked/delighted by what's going to happen next if you don't really get what's going on now. For me, it's not just that I can barely follow what's happening in True Detective this season; I barely care. For all its "memorable action sequence" posturing, the deadly shootout hardly feels like a devastating tragedy, because the stakes still felt too low, too obscured. That's a big problem. Not all mass killing scenes can be 'Red Wedding,' but they should elicit some kind of emotional response from an audience. At the very least, we should have some sense of how the presumably senseless massacre will impact the investigation or the overall story. But at the moment, the warehouse raid, like so much of True Detective season two, feels like it was little more than a wrong turn. Maybe episode five will reveal more for us to sink our teeth into. But as Jordan asked Frank in "Down Will Come," is this worth sticking out?
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A path traversal vulnerability was found in the WifiHs20UtilityService. This service is running on a Samsung S6 Edge device, and may be present on other Samsung device models. WifiHs20UtilityService reads any files placed in /sdcard/Download/cred.zip, and unzips this file into /data/bundle. Directory traversal in the path of the zipped contents allows an attacker to write a controlled file to an arbitrary path as the system user. We have triggered this issue via automatic downloads in Chrome, i.e. the file write vulnerability can be triggered by browsing to a website without any user interaction (a drive by attack model). This issue was tested on a SM-G925V device running build number LRX22G.G925VVRU1AOE2. This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically become visible to the public.
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