Question: Respond in 141 words. What is the latest news about United Autosports?

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United Autosports, as trailed on DSC two weeks ago here have confirmed their intention to enter the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class, thus taking up the automatic invitation awarded for their Championship win in the LMP3 clash of the 2016 European Le Mans Series. The team are also currently evaluating a full season programme in the 2017 European Le Mans Series with their newly acquired Ligier JS P217.
United have purchased a Ligier JS P217 from Onroak Automotive and will also continue with their LMP3 programme in 2017 and have announced their first driver line up of John Falb, Enzo Potolicchio and Sean Rayhall.
The team, who are also UK agents for Onroak Automotive LMP3 and CN cars, have decided to commit to buying an LMP2 car in order to fully prepare for the 24-hour race.


Question: Can you tell me about Tippethill House Hospital? Respond in 18 words.

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Tippethill House Hospital is a community hospital in Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland. It is operated by NHS Lothian.


Question: Describe the construction status of Areva's Olkiluoto 3 EPR plant. Respond in 10 sentences.

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The reactor vessel head has been installed at Olkiluoto 3 marking the completion of the installation of heavy equipment in the first-of-a-kind EPR plant.
The vessel head, weighing some 170 tonnes, was put in place at Olkiluoto 3 using the unit's polar crane, Areva announced. The company said the move was a milestone as the unit is now "the first EPR with a fully equipped reactor vessel, which is ready to accommodate a core of fuel assemblies."
Areva's Olkiluoto 3 project director Jean-Pierre Mouroux said that the installation of the vessel head "is a symbolic step in the history of the EPR reactor, and I would like to congratulate the teams who succeeded in carrying it out with perfection."
Olkiluoto 3 is being constructed for Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) by an Areva-Siemens consortium under a fixed-price turnkey contract. When construction began in 2005 a startup in 2009 was envisaged; however, the project has been beset by a mix of delays which have seen the startup date pushed back. TVO says it is "prepared for the possibility" that the plant may not now start regular electricity production until 2016.
EPRs are also under construction at Flamanville in France and Taishan 1 and 2 in China. Flamanville 3 has been under construction since 2007 and is expected to start up in 2016. Taishan 1, which has been under construction since 2009, is expected to start up in 2014, while Taishan 2 is scheduled to begin operating a year later.


Question: Provide a brief biography of Elma Steck Weiss. Respond in 45 words.

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Elma Steck Weiss (May 3, 1923 – July 22, 2014) was a fourth outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 120 lb., Elma batted left-handed and threw right-handed. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and was nicknamed "El".


Question: Describe Naomi Oreskes

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is professor of modern British history at Stanford University in California. Her latest book is Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (forthcoming, 2018). Her academic and popular writing has appeared in American Historical Review, Technology & Culture, Financial Times, Slate and The Nation, among others.


Question: Tell me a story about Doc Hammer.

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 Tell me a story about Doc Hammer.

Doc Hammer was born in 1626 in Hamar, Norway, under the name Erik VonHamer. Being the son of a humble cobbler, not much was expected of the young man. But Doc was destined for greater things.
At 17, with nothing more than well made shoes and a dream, he made his way to Antwerp to study oil painting under the great Peter Paul Rubens. Within a year, the two were at odds. Rubens spoke—infrequently—of Doc as "that creepy, skinny kid," and Doc spoke of Rubens's work as "kinda unattractive if you really look at it."
By 1648, Doc had relocated to Leiden, where he found his true master in Rembrandt. It was there, in his 23rd year, that Doc met "She Who Was To Deliver The Kiss Of Eternal Youth." After a spicy courtship, "She Who Was To Deliver The Kiss Of Eternal Youth" and Doc were married. By 1650 Doc had grown weary of immortality and committed an unsuccessful suicide by burying his never-corpse in the basement of a Dutch cottage.
In 1870, Doc resurfaced again. Using the name Vilhelm Hammershoi, Doc resumed his painting career with mild success. After thanking his bride for "the immortality thing" and nicely reminding her that he had "heard every one of her stories, like a billion times," "She Who Was To Deliver The Kiss Of Eternal Youth" and Doc split up in 1916. Again, Doc literally went underground until—now using the name Armond Hammer—he resurfaced and made a whole mess of money selling overpriced meds to the Russians.
Sick of all the baking soda jokes, Doc faked his death. Biding his time till the MC Hammer thing had blown over, Doc again resurfaced as "Doc Hammer." Today, Doc still paints in oils and writes, voices, and does other crap for The Venture Bros (a show you can watch on cable TV).


Question: What is the name of your game?

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Our original game, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler, is currently available. For more information, click here.
We've got a big update on Deadrock Divide! Have some fun and get right in on the space blastin’ – Deadrock Demo! And don’t forget to let us know what you think!
Bootsnake Games is proud to bring you a demo with WAAAAAAY less stuff in it than our last version. We did it! It took months of work, but we finally released less content. Yay! Our latest demo has one map. It’s tiny. You’ll get bored and probably give it poor Metacritic reviews for only having one map and a handful of enemies.
It is PAX time again in Seattle!
We do not have a booth of any kind this year which feels weird after 5 straight PAX showings in Seattle and Boston. However, PAX is still being kind to us. We are thrilled to announce Containment is in a Humble Flash Bundle this weekend full of PAX 10 games!
This is a crazy awesome bundle full of previous and current PAX 10 selections. Head over and grab our game with other greats: Jamestown, Badland, Solar 2, Fez, Life goes on, and THREE games from the year Containment was in the PAX 10.
The 2012 PAX 10 is represented by Containment, The Swapper, and Cannon Brawl. All of the games in the bundle are great as are the developers. They are certainly some of our favorite people so go get this bundle!!
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Since we haven’t had to plan a booth and do all that this year, we have been plugging away on Deadrock Divide. I want to keep this blog about Containment so I’ll just direct you to this forum post if you want to read more about Deadrock. Click HERE!
Have a great PAX if you are going. If you see us walking around, stop and say ‘Hi’. If you are not in Seattle this weekend, have a great one wherever you are.
Today is a very exciting day in the history of Bootsnake Games, Deadrock Divide, and all of mankind! The Kickstarter campaign for Deadrock Divide is a go.
Head over and back our latest creation. Deadrock Divide is a great game and you can help us make it better. Check out the page, enjoy some coffee, and when you are done, head over to our new forums and discuss the Kickstarter or whatever else you want to talk about.
With your support, we can make this awesome game.
Mat and the rest of the Bootsnake Games team.
There's been some talk about Deadrock in the press lately after our showing in PAX 2014. I thought we'd put them all in one place for you all to find them!
If I have missed any, please let me know in the comments.
Containment is in this week's indie gala bundle.
Head over to the website here and get our first game along with a bunch of other great indie games.
In Deadrock Divide, there are corporations, factions, and small timers all trying to make money by mining asteroids.
Asteroids are full of resources like ores and crystals. These are vital for space stations to continue making products as well as for exporting out of the Divide. There is a lot of money in the asteroids for all parties.
We want you to get some of that money. There are a number of ways to get money from the floating rocks in the region. Piracy is always an option. It has a lot of risks from taking money from the wrong people and getting bounties. Trade is a good safer option. Though you are paying for other people's hard work in mining.
There are a few ways to mine yourself and skip paying for someone else's work.
Deadrock Divide is heading to Boston!
We are excited to announce that Bootsnake Games will be returning to Boston to exhibit at PAX East. We are doing it in style, as well, as we are in the Indie MEGABOOTH again!
This will be our third PAX East and after the last two, we can't wait to go. The east coast PAX is always so much fun for us. It's fun to exhibit to a whole new crowd, it's fun to see our friends we don't see often, and it's fun just to be in Boston. We look forward to seeing you all again! You may not know this but last year's PAX East was the first time we showed Deadrock Divide to anyone outside of this office. It didn't even have a name a year ago. We just called it Bootsnake Tactics! Things have changed a lot since then with the game and now is your chance to see it all first hand. Come by our booth 683 and play the game, talk to us, and enjoy the show.
For funzies, here is a screenshot from last year and a screenshot from the current game.
We are pleased to announce that we will be in the Indie MEGABOOTH at PAX Prime 13 in just a couple weeks! This will be our second time at PAX Prime as well as a second time in the MEGABOOTH. We couldn't be more excited. We had a chance to show off Deadrock to the fans in Boston and now we get to bring the game to all of you in Seattle. This show is going to be the best one yet.
But we are from Seattle so we are a little biased.
We have named our game. The name is "Deadrock Divide."
We love it. You know you love it. You're all like, "Bam! Best name for this game ever!"


Question: Respond in 31 words. Describe Dimitrios Paraskevas.

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Dimitrios Paraskevas is a Greek-American basketball player from the United States born in New Jersey on . He is a Point Guard currently in the EOK Greek League. (ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑ ΚΑΛΑΘΟΣΦΑΙΡΙΣΗΣ)


Question: Tell me about "Dr. Adder". Respond briefly.

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Dr. Adder is a dark science fiction novel by American writer K. W. Jeter, set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly counter-cultural figure in a future Los Angeles which anticipates the cyberpunk idea of the Sprawl.


Question: Hey, have you heard anything about the new Superman figure? Respond in 5 sentences.

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Justice League was released in last fall and went on to break numerous box-office records around the world! As a direct continuation to the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Son of Krypton, Superman returned from dead and battled against the formidable super villain intruder Steppenwolf and his hordes of Parademons to prevent an invasion of the Earth.
Given the immense popularity of the character, Hot Toys is delighted to officially present the new 1/6th scale Superman Collectible Figure from the latest DC Extended Cinematic Universe blockbuster!
Expertly crafted based on Henry Cavill’s appearance in the movie with astonishing likeness, the Superman collectible figure features a newly developed LED light-up head sculpt that accentuates Superman’s unique heat vision ability coming from the eyes as well as a interchangeable newly painted head sculpt, a newly developed muscular body, a finely detailed and meticulously tailored costume with metallic superman icon on chest, and a specially designed Justice League themed figure stand.
Don’t pass up on the opportunity to add the legendary Superman collectible figure to your Justice League collection!


Question: What has Kathleen Wynne said about electricity prices in Ontario? Respond in detail.

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 What has Kathleen Wynne said about electricity prices in Ontario? Respond in detail.

Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne is photographed at the Globe and Mail offices during an interview.
In her five years as Ontario’s Premier, the one thing Kathleen Wynne truly regrets is her government’s handling of electricity prices.
The Liberal Leader, whose election campaign over the past week has turned to a strategy of “sorry, not sorry” – that is, she’s genuinely sorry people don’t like her but not sorry about her accomplishments – admitted to failings on the file during a meeting with The Globe and Mail’s editorial board on Tuesday.
“I probably reacted later than I should have, I probably should have acted more quickly, but we were looking for ways to reduce prices that were responsible. It took some time, it meant that people were pretty angry, and rightly so, about how quickly their electricity prices had gone up,” Ms. Wynne said.
Acknowledging the Liberals’ third place in the polls, Ms. Wynne said she will have time after the provincial election on June 7 to reflect on what she could have done differently since she took over the Premier’s office in 2013.
“I’ll have lots of time to ask those questions of myself once we get through the election. I’m very focused on taking our plan to the people of the province, 20/20 hindsight is wonderful and there will be lots of people who will be analyzing what did or didn’t happen,” she said.
Ms. Wynne is deeply unpopular and facing a difficult re-election bid. Her party has been in power for 15 years, the first two-thirds of that time under Dalton McGuinty. The Liberal Leader dismissed the widely argued view that she is struggling in a campaign where most voters have said they want change, under either Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford or New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath. While her two rivals have been jockeying for the lead in most polls, Ms. Wynne was realistic about her chances but said she still maintains hope that she can win.
“It’s tempting to say change for the sake of change is necessary, but I really do think we have to carefully think about change to what? I do think that going into this election there was a sense that ‘It’ll be okay, whatever the change is.’ But I don’t believe people feel that any more,” she said.
According to Ms. Wynne, the election now has a “volatile dynamic” as voters have second thoughts about Mr. Ford and reflect on the more intense scrutiny surrounding Ms. Horwath and her party’s candidates.
One of the leading sources of discontent among Ontario voters has been a rapid rise in the province’s hydro prices.
Off-peak electricity rates rose by 149 per cent between 2006 and 2017, driven by a surge of investment in new generating capacity and transmission lines. The hikes coincided with the closure of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants and Ms. Wynne’s controversial decision to privatize transmission utility Hydro One. Facing daily anger over hydro bills, the Liberals announced in March, 2017, that they would cut rates by 25 per cent.
The government borrowed billions of dollars to lower bills through the end of the decade. Hydro rates will then rise over the next two or three decades to pay for the borrowing.
Mr. Ford and Ms. Horwath have both sought to capitalize on the public’s anger with hydro bills during the past three weeks of campaigning. The Tory Leader has promised to fire Hydro One’s chief executive and reduce bills by 12 per cent, largely by shifting costs to taxpayers. Ms. Horwath has said she would cut hydro bills by 30 per cent and buy back Hydro One’s shares to make the utility a government-owned entity again.


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Neymar won the Samba Gold Trophy for the third time.
2018 begins in style for Neymar. The Paris Saint-Germain striker won the Samba Gold Trophy for the best Brazilian player in Europe, for the third time in four years (27.7% of the votes).
He finished ahead of his Seleção teammate and winner of the 2016 prize, Philippe Coutinho, who totalled 16.64% of the vote. In third position, Real Madrid Marcelo's left-back is also on the podium with 14.43% of the vote. For its tenth year of existence, the Samba Gold has once again roused the enthusiasm of fans of Brazilian football.


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Can You Pick Up Sticks? Can You Help A Frogger Out?
You challenge your friend to a friendly game: You will each take turns taking matchsticks from the arrangement shown below.2 You alternate taking sticks, and the person who picks up the last stick loses. On your turn, you can pick up as many sticks from any single row as you want, but you must pick up at least one stick. You go first.
A frog needs to jump across 20 lily pads. He starts on the shore (Number 0) and ends precisely on the last lily pad (Number 20). He can jump one or two lily pads at a time. How many different ways can he reach his destination?
What if he can jump one, two or three at a time? Or four? Five? Six? Etc.
Congratulations to 👏 Valerie Kim 👏 of Toronto, winner of last week’s Express puzzle!
Last week you, a very wealthy aristocrat, owned 25 horses. You were bored one day (you’re bored every day) and decided to amuse yourself by identifying the three fastest horses in your stable. However, your personal racetrack was severely lacking in capacity, and you could only race five horses at a time. What is the minimum number of races you needed to organize to identify your three fastest horses?
You needed to organize seven races.
Here’s how to organize them. First, run five full races so that each horse races once. Keep the top three from each race in contention and eliminate the bottom two. (You can’t be the third-fastest overall if you finish in fourth or fifth.) That leaves 15 horses after five races.
Second, race the five winners from the first step. The winner of this race is sure to be your fastest horse, so you can cement one of your top three and send that fastest horse back to the stable. The second- and third-place horses from this race are still in contention. You can eliminate the bottom two. That leaves 12 horses vying for two spots.
But some of these 12 don’t even need to race again. You can eliminate all the horses that finished behind the second heat’s bottom three the first time around, since they can’t be one of the three fastest horses. That’s a total of six horses you hadn’t already eliminated. And there’s one more horse to rule out: the one that raced with the second heat’s second-place finisher, but finished in third in that first heat. That’s because there are at least three horses we know for sure are faster than that horse. That leaves you with five horses vying for two spots after six races.
Finally, race those five remaining horses. The top two are your second- and third-fastest horses. And you’re done! You can now relax and sip champagne and eat caviar on the deck of your yacht, dreaming of all the very-fast galloping you have ahead of you.
Congratulations to 👏 Roberts Veics 👏 of Riga, Latvia, winner of last week’s Classic puzzle!
On the game show “The Price Is Right,” there is a segment called the Showcase Showdown. Three players step up, one at a time, to spin an enormous wheel. The wheel has 20 segments at which it can stop, labeled from 5¢ up to $1, in increments of 5¢. Each player can spin the wheel either one or two times. The goal is for the sum of a player’s spins to get closer to $1 than the other players’ sums, without going over. (Any sum over $1 loses. Ties are broken by a single spin of the wheel, where the highest number triumphs.) For what amounts should the first spinner stop after just one spin, assuming the other two players will play optimally?
The first player should stop with 70¢ or higher. She should spin again with 65¢ or lower.
Player 3 spins the wheel and it lands on \(A_3\). If \(A_3>X_3\), he will stop, since he’s secured victory. If \(A_3<X_3\), he will spin again. If \(A_3=X_3\), his decision depends on the number of players he’s tied with. If he’s tied with one player, he’ll spin again if \(A_3 \leq 50\) — that’ll give him a better than 50-50 shot of breaking the tie without going over a dollar. Similarly, if he’s tied with two players, he’d have a ⅓ chance of winning the tiebreaker, so he’ll spin again if \(A_3 \leq 65\). That’s the threshold because if he spins at 65 or below, more than ⅓ of the wheel would yield a victory, so it’s worth taking the gamble.
Moving backward one last time: Player 1 spins the wheel and it lands on \(A_1\). She has no idea what the number to beat will be, but she does know she has Players 2 and 3 to worry about. In this case, \(X_1=0\), so it’s always the case that \(A_1>X_1\). Given the strategies outlined above, computationally we find that Player 1 does best to spin again if and only if \(A_1<70\). Solver Hector Pefo walked through these calculations in detail and shared some more Python code.
The diagram shows four rows of matchsticks. Row 1 has one matchstick, Row 2 has three, Row 3 has five, and Row 4 has seven.


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The Peter Carey Rubicon was just a beautiful custom folder….made by Spyderco. I’m not a big custom knife expert, but this knife had me do a double take to make sure this wasn’t the original custom knife, being used as a concept model. The Rubicon pictured here was a production sample.
I remember it being a solid feeling folder, without it being too heavy. The lines of this flipper design were very striking, with an orange G-10 accent around the pivot and an orange G-10 spacer. The handle was made of full carbon fiber scales that were rounded for a more 3D ergonomic grip.
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Santa Maria dei Monti (also known as Madonna dei Monti or Santa Maria ai Monti) is a cardinalatial titular church, located at 41 Via della Madonna dei Monti, at the intersection with Via dei Serpenti, in the rione Monti of Rome, Italy. The church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.


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China’s economy expanded 1.1% in the first quarter of 2016 from the fourth quarter of last year, National Bureau of Statistics data showed, missing analysts forecasts.
The slower-than-expected quarterly growth rate comes amid other signs the Chinese economy is stabilizing in the first quarter, including positive surprises from trade, inflation, output and credit.
Analysts had expected quarterly growth of 1.5% for the first quarter, but the statistics bureau did not release quarterly figures when it issued annual figures on Friday.
“The 1.1% growth rate clearly illustrates that China’s economy still faces downward pressures,” Zhou Hao, senior economist at Commerzbank, wrote in a research note on Monday.
“If we calculate the seasonally adjusted GDP growth based on the qoq numbers, we find that there is a big gap (0.4 percent point) between headline GDP growth (non-seasonally adjusted) and the seasonally adjusted GDP growth. As economists, we always prefer the seasonally adjusted qoq numbers, which better tell the underlying growth momentum,” he added.
China’s economy grew 6.7% year-on-year in the first quarter in 2016, and 6.9% for the whole of 2015. That is the slowest rate since 2009, but the pace applies to a much larger economy—around $10 trillion in 2015.
Over the weekend, the statistics bureau also revised 2015 quarterly growth figures for three quarters.
In the first quarter of 2015, quarterly growth was revised upwards to 1.4% from 1.3%. In the second quarter, it was revised downwards to 1.8% from 1.9%, while in the fourth quarter, quarterly growth was revised downwards to 1.5% from 1.6%.
The 2015 third quarter quarterly economic growth figure remained unchanged.
The statistics bureau also revised quarterly growth figures for 2014 in two quarters. For the first quarter, the quarterly figure was revised upwards to 1.7% from 1.6%, and in the third quarter, the figure was revised upwards to 1.9% from 1.8%.
The 2014 quarterly economic data for the second and fourth quarters remained unchanged.
Some China watchers, nevertheless, suspect that real growth levels could be much lower than what the official data suggest.


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FoCo Roller Derby, formerly FoCo Girls Gone Derby, is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Founded in 2006, the league currently consists of two teams, and two mixed teams which compete against teams from other leagues. FoCo is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).


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Leroy Sane's impressive displays in October have earned him the EA SPORTS Player of the Month award.
The German winger scored and assisted in each of his side's three wins in October as Manchester City made their best start to a Premier League campaign, racking up 28 points from 10 matches.
No player matched the 21-year-old's goal contribution of last month.
He received the most combined votes from a panel of experts, Premier League captains and fans to claim the prize ahead of five other nominees.
Man City's Kevin De Bruyne, Brighton & Hove Albion's Glenn Murray, Arsenal defender Nacho Monreal, Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope and Wilfried Zaha, the Crystal Palace winger, completed the shortlist.


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Anna Angelina Komnene Doukaina (, ) was a daughter of Theodore Doukas Komnenos Angelos and Queen-consort of Serbia (1228–1234) as wife of King Stefan Radoslav Nemanjić.


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Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the “national security” monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits. On the eve of the invasion, he and 45 other senior officers of the CIA and other intelligence agencies wrote to President George W. Bush that the “drumbeat for war” was based not on intelligence, but lies.
“It was 95 per cent charade,” McGovern told me.
On 16 February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University in which she condemned governments that arrested protestors and crushed free expression. She lauded the liberating power of the internet while failing to mention that her government was planning to close down those parts of the internet that encouraged dissent and truth-telling. It was a speech of spectacular hypocrisy, and Ray McGovern was in the audience. Outraged, he rose from his chair and silently turned his back on Clinton. He was immediately seized by police and a security goon and beaten to the floor, dragged out and thrown into jail, bleeding. He has sent me photographs of his injuries. He is 71. During the assault, which was clearly visible to Clinton, she did not pause in her remarks.
Fascism is a difficult word, because it comes with an iconography that touches the Nazi nerve and is abused as propaganda against America’s official enemies and to promote the West’s foreign adventures with a moral vocabulary written in the struggle against Hitler. And yet fascism and imperialism are twins. In the aftermath of world war two, those in the imperial states who had made respectable the racial and cultural superiority of “western civilisation”, found that Hitler and fascism had claimed the same, employing strikingly similar methods. Thereafter, the very notion of American imperialism was swept from the textbooks and popular culture of an imperial nation forged on the genocidal conquest of its native people. And a war on social justice and democracy became “US foreign policy”.
As the Washington historian William Blum has documented, since 1945, the US has destroyed or subverted more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and used mass murderers like Suharto, Mobutu and Pinochet to dominate by proxy. In the Middle East, every dictatorship and pseudo-monarchy has been sustained by America. In “Operation Cyclone”, the CIA and MI6 secretly fostered and bank-rolled Islamic extremism. The object was to smash or deter nationalism and democracy. The victims of this western state terrorism have been mostly Muslims. The courageous people gunned down last week in Bahrain and Libya, the latter a “priority UK market”, according to Britain’s official arms “procurers”, join those children blown to bits in Gaza by the latest American F-16 aircraft.
Like the European revolutions of 1848 and the uprising against Stalinism in 1989, the Arab revolt has rejected fear. An insurrection of suppressed ideas, hope and solidarity has begun. In the United States, where 45 per cent of young African-Americans have no jobs and the top hedge fund managers are paid, on average, a billion dollars a year, mass protests against cuts in services and jobs have spread to heartland states like Wisconsin. In Britain, the fastest-growing modern protest movement, UK Uncut, is about to take direct action against tax avoiders and rapacious banks. Something has changed that cannot be unchanged. The enemy has a name now.
Denying the Israeli past Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs.
The danse macabre of US-style democracy John Pilger looks back on the US presidential campaigns he has reported and draws parallels with the current 'ritual danse macabre' that covers for democracy and the veiled propaganda that accompanies it.


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Like many South Africans, and possibly the world, I have followed with deep interest the Constitutional Review Committee’s public hearings on land expropriation without compensation and the proposed amendment of section 25 of the constitution.
Though the platform has been great for giving people an opportunity to express their hopes, fears and concerns about the emotional issue of land, I remain convinced that this alone will not leave us any wiser on how to proceed.
It seems to me the problem lies partly in the framing of the question. People are simply answering the question as to whether they support expropriation without compensation and the amendment of section 25 to allow it. There are no nuanced questions.
Responses are also racially split: the majority of black people say yes and white people say no. Supporters argue that the current process of restitution and redistribution has been slow and that land was stolen, so it must be handed back to its rightful owners without compensation. Key imperatives, apparently, are speed, cost and justice. Those who own land argue that expropriating without compensation would be unjust and would undermine social cohesion.
Missing, or muted, is the fact that the current constitutional provisions have never been fully implemented. Specifically, section 25(8) of the constitution permits expropriation with and without compensation — yet it has never been tried. Equally, nothing has stopped government from enacting legislation that regulates expropriation for restorative and redistributive purposes. And the new Land Expropriation Act, which replaced the anachronistic 1975 act to regulate expropriation, is currently "being consulted on" after President Jacob Zuma referred it back to the National Council of Provinces for further consultation. So, 24 years into democracy, the furthest that bill has gone is to simply reach the president.
The predominant narrative, also missing in this debate, is the truth that not all land was stolen. Some land was sold by traditional leaders before 1913 and some was given as a gift to settlers. Other complicating factors, which haven’t been ventilated, include the fact that some of the land is no longer with the original people it was given to after 1913, or even before.
Arguments by the EFF and ANC at the June 16 Thuma Foundation Democracy Dialogue on Land Rights & the Constitution muddy the issue further. I understood them as arguing that the rights of third parties who have bought land legally, even after democracy, will be ignored and expropriation without compensation pursued if the land was originally stolen. But I’m certain this does not reflect the ANC’s view, expressed by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
During our recent panel discussion at Stellenbosch University, the ANC’s head of economic policy, Enoch Godongwana, said the land likely to be targeted would be abandoned and unused land. The process would also be guided by the limitations imposed in December’s ANC elective conference, which includes ensuring that neither food security, the economy nor investment are disrupted.
I made a submission on land to parliament on May 31, in which I said that even unused land is not the low-hanging fruit some think it is. After all, that land is still subject to the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one’s property. So while it would be easier to satisfy the section 36 constitutional limitations and expropriate land, to do so without paying compensation might be a bridge too far.
Even if land is not used, it may still be someone’s legal asset. And it may be the subject of a bank loan. There’s also the matter of compliance with global legal requirements, such as the African Charter on Human & People’s Rights, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the UN Convention on Civil & Political Rights.
It would also be naive not to expect long court battles. No-one is likely to allow their land to be expropriated in this way without a fight. So the low-hanging fruit may end up being a mirage. Unused and abandoned land will also not be enough to satisfy the hunger for land, and to redress the racial and gender structural inequality of land distribution.
So where does this leave us? One thing for sure is that to anchor democracy through peace and stability, social justice is a must. So the speed of restitution must be accelerated exponentially. People are tired of waiting. Nor is the delay good for those who own or wish to buy land, as the uncertainty poses a risk.
Recently, I engaged farmers in Upington, and it was clear many had adopted a wait-and-see attitude before they recapitalise their farms — this is a real threat to food security.
What then are our options? In my parliamentary submission, I suggest we try negotiation and mediation. This country’s new deal, which has put us on a pedestal of hope, was built on negotiation. Why don’t we try that?


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Presidential elections were held in Armenia on 16 March 1998, with a second round on 30 March. The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who won 58.9% of the vote in the second round. Turnout was 63.5% in the first round and 68.1% in the second.


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We’ve covered several aspects of CBD here on CBDmyth. Among the things left to discuss are CBD dosage. How much CBD is too much? How much is safe to consume? In this article, we’ll answer these questions.
CBD dosage and the solution type are interdependent. For consumer convenience, CBD is available in several forms. One solution type is different from another. CBD tincture and edible oil are completely different. If you are taking tincture, a little dosage is enough. It’s the reason consumers use dropper for tincture.
CBD edible oil comes with physician recommended dosage. We’ll discuss that in a moment. First, let us understand how CBD topicals and salves work. The context of dosage is irrelevant when you are using these as topical ointments are typically rubbed over the skin. Even if use extra amount, there won’t be any harm.
CBD concentration varies depending on the solution type. Every CBD solution comes with a specific amount of concentration. There are concentrations that have below 10 MG CBD in them. Alongside these solutions, exist other solutions containing over 100 MG CBD.
You might feel tempted to know how the dosage is decided. It’s decided on the basis of what kind of illness the CBD drug is supposed to treat.
As we’ve discussed in the articles that we posted earlier on this site, CBD treats a rainbow collection of illnesses. From epilepsy to cancer, from chronic pain to digestive problems, from fibromyalgia to memory-loss, CBD treats almost all diseases.
Cancer: The claim that CBD can beat cancer got validation after Tommy Chong recovered from it. An average person needs 60ml of daily dosage for 3 months. That said, the dosage depends on factors like age, stage of cancer and the consumer’s immune system.
Chronic pain: Most people who consume CBD do that to alleviate pain. The recommended dosage is 5 ml to 25 ml a day for a little more than 3 weeks. The dosage may vary depending on the severity of the pain.
Nerve problems: Dosage depends on specific problems, not on broad-range problems. Severe form of schizophrenia requires 50-1200 mg CBD everyday. MS patients, on the other hand, requires a mix of THC and CBD for 15 long weeks, up to 120 mg a day.
Sleep problems: People suffering from insomnia are recommended to take 50-150 mg of CBD by mouth.
It’s always wise to consult an expert than to decide how much you’ll take all by yourself.
Now let’s come to the core issue. What is the global CBD serving standard? Or does any such standard exist in the first place?
Currently, there’s no such standard as pharma companies haven’t fully embraced CBD. However, there’s a strong need of a uniform standard?
Because CBD brands often confuse people by suggesting different dosage for the same illness. If there’s an internationally approved standard, consumers won’t be confused. CBDoilReviw.org recommends a dosage of 25 mg a day for a month or until the symptoms are relieved. However, this recommendation is unanimously endorsed.
Things may not always go as they are planned. CBD consumption is safe. However, the possibility of side-effects cannot be completely ruled out, more so because we don’t fully know how CBD works. Common side-effects of CBD include drowsiness, lightheadedness, etc. Fortunately, these side-effects are easy to deal with.
Does the method of consumption make any difference in how much CBD would be needed? Yes, it does. We’ve discussed the most popular consumption techniques earlier. When you are smoking or vaping, you are puffing in a lot of smoke and hold it down there. That means, a decent amount of CBD entering into your body. However, if you use a mouth spray or use a dropper and hold CBD under your tongue, the dosage amount wouldn’t be high.
When CBD is used in the form of tincture, the dosage required is so low that it is called micro dosage. When someone uses a vape pen to consume CBD, the consumption limit normally doesn’t cross 40 mg.
What’s interesting to note here is FDA doesn’t even consider CBD as a legit drug, but as a food supplement. That’s kind of odd considering the medical community appreciating CBD. FDA doesn’t recommend any dosage. They instruct consumers to check the serving on the product’s label.
Customers should follow a safe dosage, which is 5-30 mg a day and see whether their problem persists. If it does, consult with experts.
It’s old news that CBD cures diseases. Even the most difficult to treat to health conditions can be treated by CBD. All that patients need to do is find the right dosage, based on their health, severity of the disease and the method of consumption.


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Five members of the Grade 1 City of Whitehorse Pipe Band of Melbourne, Australia, have received suspensions from 12 to 24 months by Pipe Bands Australia following an investigation into social media posts that reportedly took aim at prominent Australian adjudicator Nat Russell.
Following the suspensions, City of Whitehorse announced that it has “rescinded” its membership with the Australian and Victorian pipe band associations, and will not compete at upcoming competitions, including the bi-annual Australian Championships in October.
Allegedly among the suspended are Pipe-Major George Shepherd (24 months) and Leading-Drummer Olav Goud (12 months).
Pipe Bands Australia, which is the umbrella group that oversees the various pipe band associations from across the country, launched an investigation into a post on the band’s private Facebook page that included an altered image of Russell, which, according to the band, showed Russell posing with a band he judges wearing the band’s gear, followed by disparaging comments.
A parody of the familiar Adolf Hitler-themed movie, Downfall, was also allegedly made, taunting the Grade 2 Hawthorn City Pipe Band, also of Melbourne.
Rather than file an appeal, City of Whitehorse decided to leave . . .


Question: What do the latest news developments mean for Trump's chances of obstruction of justice? Respond in 23 sentences.

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This post has been updated with Monday's news, which only added to Trump's problems.
President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey on May 9. And then he basically spent the next two days doing whatever he could to make it look like he had just committed obstruction of justice.
First came that infamous NBC News interview on May 11. After two days of the White House claiming the Justice Department had initiated Comey's firing and that it was because of the Hillary Clinton investigation, Trump said to hell with it; he blurted out that he was determined to fire Comey all along and that the Russia investigation was on his mind when he decided to do it.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that, in a meeting with top Russian officials on the day in-between — you know, the same meeting in which he gave highly classified information to those same Russians — Trump expressed relief at having taken Comey off his tail.
Trump was apparently never on the same page — at all.
If we're parsing Trump's statements carefully, he still hasn't technically said something akin to ‘I fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.’ He's said just about everything but that, mind you, but he hasn't quite said that.
A top intelligence official tells The Post that Trump's goal in asking his top two intelligence chiefs to publicly say there is no evidence of collusion was to "muddy the waters" about the scope of the FBI probe, a probe that has now reached all the way up to a senior official in the White House.
There's no firm line from A to B in there. A well-paid lawyer would argue that Trump was saying in the NBC interview that he was thinking about Russia, but that it wasn't necessarily the reason he acted. And maybe Trump did enjoy having Comey off the case, but perhaps that was merely a helpful byproduct of a more legitimate reason to fire him.
Still, some are arguing that the new statement amounts to obstruction of justice, including George W. Bush's ethics counsel, Richard Painter -- a frequent critic of Trump's ethics.
And Trump's own statements aren't the only news to raise questions about a possible obstruction of justice; he's also pushed that cause forward by firing Comey in the first place. The firing has led to leaks indicating Trump asked Comey for a loyalty pledge and also that he requested that Comey drop the investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The White House has denied these stories. But if they're true, Trump fired Comey knowing that those conversations existed and that Comey may have documentation of them. That may one day look like a very bad call.
All of these point in the same direction: to Trump first trying to influence Comey's investigations and then to getting Comey off his back by firing him. And all of these revelations flow from the same fateful decision to fire Comey in the first place. We may not have known about any of them if not for that.
It's not completely clear that a president could be charged with obstruction of justice, but as our own Matt Zapotosky has reported, some legal analysts are starting to point in that direction.
And Trump is practically giving them a road map.


Question: Explain the US sanctions imposd on China for buying military equipment from Russia.

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Beijing warns of consequences if Washington does not cancel sanctions on Chinese military for purchase from Russia.
China has urged the United States to withdraw punitive sanctions imposed on the Chinese military over its purchase of fighter jets and missiles from Russia or "bear the consequences".
On Thursday, the US State Department said Chinese purchases of SU-35 aircraft and S-400 surface-to-air missiles breached a US sanctions law targeting Russia over its alleged meddling in the 2016 US election and actions in Ukraine.
But Beijing, on Friday, warned of consequences for Washington if it does not cancel those sanctions.
"The Chinese side expresses strong indignation over the above-mentioned unreasonable practices of the US side," foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told journalists.
Moscow also warned that Washington was "playing with fire" and accused the US of trying to squeeze Russia out of the global arms market.
"This is unfair competition, dishonest competition, an attempt to use non-market methods that that run counter to norms and principles of international trade to squeeze the main competitor of US makers out of the markets," said President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
The sanctions target China's Equipment Development Department (EDD) and its director, Li Shangfu, and have increased tensions between Washington and Beijing amid an escalating trade dispute.
The expansion of the Russian blacklist, which now has 72 names, includes 28 people and entities indicted by the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
While being added to the blacklist does not trigger sanctions, anyone doing business with a blacklisted person or entity could face penalties like those imposed on China.
US officials said the imposition of penalties on China was the first time that a third-party country was punished under CAATSA and suggested the White House could use the law in the future against countries purchasing equipment from Russia.
"The ultimate target of these sanctions is Russia," a senior US administration official told journalists, insisting on anonymity. "CAATSA sanctions in this context are not intended to undermine the defence capabilities of any particular country. They are aimed at imposing costs on Russia in response to its malign activities."
Turkey is in talks regarding the purchase of S-400 missiles from Russia and India has also expressed interest in purchasing S-400s, moves which the US opposes.
"You can be confident that we have spent an enormous amount of time talking about prospective purchases of things such as S-400s and Sukhois with people all around the world who may have been interested in such things and some who may still be," the US official added.
"We have made it very clear to them that these - that systems like the S-400 are a system of key concern with potential CAATSA implications."


Question: What happened to Roger Freeman?

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Roger Freeman, a Democratic state representative from Federal Way, appeared headed for victory Tuesday despite dying six days ago.
Tuesday’s ballot results put Freeman, a first-term incumbent for the 30th legislative district that spans parts of King and Pierce Counties, ahead by six percentage points over his Republican challenger, Jack Dovey.
Freeman’s apparent victory leaves a decision for filling the vacant House seat to the King and Pierce County Councils, which must jointly appoint a Democrat to replace Freeman for one year. Freeman’s replacement will be chosen from three nominees put forward by Democratic Party officials in the 30th District. A special election would be set next year for voters to decide on a candidate to fill out the final year of the two-year House term.
Freeman, 48, a public defender and former Federal Way City Council member, died Wednesday morning after a long battle with colon cancer. He is survived by a wife and two children.


Question: Have you ever heard of the world's oldest mask?

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The world’s oldest known mask eerily resembles our modern and ubiquitous “smiley face” — though this elder manages to strike a bit more pensive and thoughtful a pose. Pretty good for being nine thousand years old.
All date to the same era, verified with microarchaeology techniques that included testing surface sediment and examining their crystalline structure and mineralogical composition under the microscope.
What makes these masks, and not simply portraits? Small circular holes, neatly carved along the edge of many of these masks, seem handy for insertion of cordage to secure onto the head. And, scans and 3D models revealed that they would have been comfortable worn as masks. They are proportional to and follow the contours of the human face, with large eye holes affording a wide angle view. The scans also revealed that some masks look to be fashioned after the skulls of individuals. And weighing in at 2.2 to 4.4 pounds, these masks of chalk and limestone are actually much lighter than many of the masks worn ceremonially by indigenous cultures today, notes Debby Hershman, curator of Jerusalem’s Israel Museum’s Prehistoric Cultures Department. She has spent the last decade studying these masks, part of the only fifteen known from the Neolithic era.
To what purpose were these many masks, so carefully fashioned? The prevailing theory is that they were used in part to lay claim to land rights. The advent of agriculture allowed migratory tribes to settle down and establish a permanent presence, and identify with one place. In the days before writing, invoking one’s genealogical lineage was one of the few ways to justify and convey rights of ownership. In ritual, one can animate the masks of the deceased and momentarily bring them to life to speak on one’s behalf.
But it wasn’t all just business. One of the caves where masks were found, known as Nahal Hemar, looks like a storage unit for ritual gear. Among the thousands of objects found were embroidered textiles that might have been ritual wear, rope baskets, wooden beads, shells, flint tools, bone figurines, and human skulls decorated with a kind of molded asphalt. Fragments of stone masks had clumps of hair still attached, as beards and mustaches, which led to the conjecture that some of holes along the masks’ edge might have given them flowing hair.
While these are the oldest known masks, we know the first making of masks reaches much further back in time. We see masks depicted on painted cave walls of twenty and thirsty thousand years ago. Long before the invention of ceramics, masks of animal skins and bone, plant fiber, cord, wood, and feathers, materials that end themselves more readily to the task, are long gone. We can imagine the long legacy of masks lost to time, which must reach even further back to include the Neanderthals. For here is a 35,000 year-old flintstone artifact found at Roche-Cotard in France, a Neanderthal site. Note the perfect and intentional positioning of the bone splinter — pushed in forcibly — that creates the eyes. The tip of the nose was shortened by removal of a flake, perhaps the cheekbones as well. That this face looks like a cross between a feline and human adds to its mystery. All this elevates it into one of the earliest portraits, all the more exceptional in that it’s maker was a member of a culture not previously known to produce art. Art lies deep within the entire human family. It just seems to be in our bones.


Question: Hey, have you heard the new Golden Python track?

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Montreal’s Golden Python are making a bold return with the premiere of their new song ‘Meggy’. Featuring members of Bisbâyé, First Fragment, and the much-venerated Gulfer, Golden Python’s trademark brand of grungy math-rock shines out in the video, and gives a taste of what to expect in their upcoming album Biker Boys.
Golden Python’s new album Bikers Boys will be out on April 20th via Skeletal Lightning, Stack Your Roster, and Friend of Mine Records.


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Estoloides paralboscutellaris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1971. It is known from Mexico.


Question: Explain the current issues with the US federal gun background check system.

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The federal gun background check system is suffering from a critical staffing shortage, increasing the risk that people prohibited from buying weapons will slip through the cracks at gun stores.
Right now, sparse staffing at the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, means that employees can collectively work as much as 2,000 hours of overtime a week, and are often unable to take time off, according to the Department of Justice’s 2018 budget request.
To address the manpower shortage, the Department of Justice is asking Congress for 85 new investigators — a roughly 14 percent staffing increase — at a cost of $8.9 million. The request is part of the $1.3 trillion budget that Congress must pass this week or risk a government shutdown.
The strain is affecting the quality of investigators’ work. About twice as many background checks land in the NICS “delay” queue as they did a decade ago, according to federal data. Hundreds of thousands of background checks extend beyond the three-day window investigators have to complete them. After three business days, a dealer is allowed to sell a gun even if a background check has not cleared the buyer.
Two months ago, a Department of Justice evaluation of NICS found that it “continues to miss performance targets” for how quickly and accurately it completes background checks.
Compounding the problem, experienced background checkers are quitting the overburdened unit. Those who stay are risking their health, the budget request and experts said.
“You can’t appreciate the stress and the strain until there’s a problem, and by then it’s too late,” said Stephen Morris, who was in charge of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which includes NICS, from 2014 to 2017.
Shortcomings in the federal gun background check system became a source of public concern late last year, when the Air Force admitted that it had failed to enter a domestic violence record into the database that would have prevented the former airman Devin Kelley from buying the weapon he used to murder 26 parishioners at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in November. Since then, lawmakers have focused on the need for federal agencies and states to get complete records into the NICS system, so investigators checking to see whether a person attempting to buy a gun should be prohibited would have all the information they need to make an accurate finding.
The Fix NICS Act, currently pending in Congress, would require federal agencies and encourage states to provide more complete information to the NICS background check databases. Reports circulated on Capitol Hill this week that the bill could be included in the 2018 spending plan that Congress must approve by Friday.
Experts say that making more records available to NICS is essential if checks are to be completed accurately and on time. But they also say that sufficient NICS staffing is a necessity for the federal gun background check system to function as intended, and prevent dangerous people from slipping through the cracks and obtaining lethal weapons.
Gun background checks rose significantly during the Obama administration, from 6.8 million checks completed by NICS in 2011, to almost 9.4 million in 2016 — an increase of about 32 percent. NICS staffing has not kept pace. Since 2011, the number of examiners it employs has increased roughly 22 percent, to a current level of about 610.
The shortage of background check examiners means that NICS has been forced to redeploy workers from other sections to help carry the workload. According to the 2018 budget request, employees normally tasked with handling appeals submitted by people who felt their background check had been wrongly denied have been asked to pinch hit. Shifting analysts from the NICS appeals section left a backlog of 8,119 appeals cases as of December 31, 2016, according to an advisory board report.
Staffers from FBI divisions that conduct explosives and nuclear regulatory checks were also dispatched to the gun background check team.
Morris said he asked for money for additional staff every year he ran the division, but never got as much as he needed.
“In my tenure I don’t ever recall being at a place where we felt like we were adequately staffed,” he said.
Under federal law, anyone who attempts to purchase a gun from a federally licensed firearms dealer must undergo a background check. In 38 states, the FBI is either wholly or partially responsible for performing those screenings. While the majority of checks are finished in minutes, sometimes investigators are required to call call local police departments or court clerks to get the details they need to accurately assess a prospective gun buyer’s records.
NICS background check examiners have three business days to make a determination on a buyer’s fitness to own a firearm, or the dealer is legally permitted to release the gun in what is called a “default proceed” sale.
Data that the FBI shared with the progressive news website ThinkProgress showed that there were more than 300,000 default proceeds in 2016. That figure is up from 270,000 in 2015.
According to Morris, NICS checkers are often so overloaded that they don’t even have time to start a check until they are nearing the end of the 72-hour window.
“There are thousands of them examiners can’t even pull up and look at until the third business day,” he said.
In 2015, Dylann Roof, the gunman who used a Glock pistol to kill nine people at a prayer service in Charleston, South Carolina, was able to buy the weapon because the NICS investigator who did his background check couldn’t uncover the details of a local drug charge in time. As the investigator tried in vain to track down the right local court files, the background check extended past the three-day threshold, and the store legally sold Roof the gun.
“This is not the ideal way to run a background check system,” said Frank Campbell, who managed NICS from its launch until he left the government in 2008. Campbell is now a security consultant in private practice.


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Dodsworth is a three-act play by Sidney Howard based on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between American and European intellect, manners, and morals.
Middle-aged Samuel Dodsworth is the head of Revelation Motor Company, an automobile manufacturing firm. His wife Fran, a shallow and vain woman obsessed with the notion of growing old, convinces her spouse Sam to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Before long, Fran begins to view herself as a sophisticated world traveler and Sam as boring and unimaginative. Searching for excitement in her life, she begins spending time with other men and eventually informs Sam that she's leaving him for a member of royalty. While in Italy, Sam reunites with Edith Cortright, a widow he first met while en route to Europe via ship, and the two fall in love. Without warning, he breaks off their relationship, then realizes just how much he cares for her.