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EXCERPT: Terminally-ill Dewayne Johnson watched as his attorney accused Monsanto of putting profit over people's health by fighting research signaling Roundup's potential cancer risks and failing to issue warnings.
The lawyer for a California groundskeeper dying of cancer urged jurors Tuesday to make Monsanto pay hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to warn about the health risks of weed killer Roundup.
"Today is their day of reckoning," attorney Brent Wisner told jurors as he urged them to impose a penalty of more than $400 million on Monsanto for hiding the cancer-causing potential of Roundup and commercial strength version Ranger Pro.
"Every single cancer risk found had this moment, where the science finally caught up, where they couldn't bury it anymore."
Terminally-ill Dewayne Johnson watched as his attorney accused Monsanto of putting profit over people's health by fighting research signaling Roundup's potential cancer risks and failing to issue warnings.
Johnson, 46, testified that he would "never" have used Roundup or Ranger Pro had he known it could lead to his illness.
The monthlong trial pits Johnson against the agrochemical colossus recently acquired by Germany-based Bayer in a deal valued at about $62 billion.
Diagnosed in 2014 with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that affects white blood cells, Johnson used Ranger Pro repeatedly in his job at a school in Benicia, California, after being promoted to groundskeeper in 2012.
Wisner said Monsanto opted against warning consumers of the risks and that instead "they have fought science" by playing down the suspected link between the chemical herbicide and cancer.
The case is the first to reach trial alleging a cancer link from Roundup, one of the world's most widely used herbicides.
The legal clash involves dueling studies, along with allegations Monsanto thwarted potentially damning research.
"There was a lot of high rhetoric here about just how terrible things are at Monsanto," defense attorney George Lombardi said during closing arguments.
"Unless (Wisner) can tie it to Mr Johnson's cancer, none of this means anything."
Wisner accused Monsanto of attacking research using the same tactics previously employed by other businesses to conceal proof of the health hazards of tobacco, benzene and asbestos.
"They are using the same playbook," Wisner told AFP outside the courtroom.
"We know how the tobacco story ends and we know how the Monsanto story will end at some point in my lifetime."
Johnson was drenched with the weed-killer twice when spraying gear malfunctioned, according to testimony at trial.
Instead, Monsanto started plotting defenses for Roundup, ghost-writing research and citing it, according to Wisner.
Wisner contended that the active ingredient glyphosate, combined with other chemicals in the weed killer, resulted in a cancer-causing "synergy."
A key to Johnson's case will be whether jurors are convinced that Monsanto's pesticide caused or exacerbated his illness.
"We all know cancer is a complicated disease," Wisner said while stressing that the bar for proving cases in civil suits is lower than that in criminal cases.
"We don't have to show Roundup was the sole cause; we only have to show it is a contributor."
Glyphosate's cancer links have been the source of long debate among government regulators, health experts and lawyers.
"Your verdict will be heard around the world," Wisner told jurors.
"Monsanto will have to finally do something -- conduct those studies they never conducted and warn those people they never warned."
Jurors return to the San Francisco courtroom early Wednesday for instructions from the judge before commencing deliberations.
"The message from the evidence is clear, and that is this cancer was not caused by Ranger Pro," Lombardi argued.
"The facts are what should lead you in this case."
Lombardi questioned the timing of Johnson's diagnosis, saying it came so soon after using the weed killer that it was more likely his cancer had already taken hold.
"The story just doesn't make sense," Lombardi told jurors.
Launched in 1976, Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup has been approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency for decades.
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer -- a World Health Organization body -- classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic," and as a result, California listed it as carcinogenic.


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Hulu now has over 20 million U.S. subscribers – that’s up from the 17 million-plus it claimed in January. The news of its subscriber growth is being delivered alongside a series of pitches to advertisers at the company’s Upfronts presentation in New York this morning, where it’s also touting its upcoming original series and detailing its new ad products. One of those will be of particular interest to Hulu’s users, too – the company will at last allow subscribers to download shows to watch offline.
This is a feature both Amazon and Netflix already support, the former as of fall 2015 and the latter since late 2016.
However, the way Hulu is going about offline content is a bit different.
Subscribers on both the ad-supported and no commercials plan will have the ability to download content for offline viewing – something people like to do when preparing for air travel or for daily commutes on public transportation where it’s difficult to get a signal, for example.
However, ad-supported plan subscribers will download commercials along with their shows.
This makes Hulu the first company in the industry to support downloads with advertising, it says. This also means customers won’t have the ability to fast-forward through these offline commercials – the advertisers truly have a captive audience for their content.
It’s worth pointing out that when this feature launched on Netflix and Amazon, the focus was on offering downloadable original content. With the option to advertise against the content, though, there may be less resistance to the idea of offering an offline version.
“We will not only be live and on demand, but also untethered and on-the-go anytime, anywhere. No Wi-Fi needed,” said Hulu CEO Randy Freer, announcing the feature.
Ad-supported downloadable content is only one of Hulu’s pitches to advertisers. Notably, the company will also begin offering dynamically inserted ads in the Hulu with With Live TV experience sometime later this quarter. This lets brands reach Hulu subscribers watching live sports, news and entertainment programming, and will initially launch across some cable networks on the platform.
The company is telling advertisers it will use Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) for OTT to measure, guarantee and report campaign audience delivery across all desktop, mobile and connected devices. But the bigger message is that Hulu is more like traditional TV – 78 percent of Hulu’s viewing takes place in the living room on connected TVs, it says. And across platforms, engagement is up by over 60 percent, and viewers streamed 6 billion hours in 2017.
Alongside the ad product news, Hulu is introducing a number of new series, including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Ramy, which join upcoming Hulu Originals Castle Rock, Hulu’s second project from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King set to premiere on July 25; Catch-22, from George Clooney and starring Kyle Chandler; The First, from Beau Willimon and starring Sean Penn; and Little Fires Everywhere, from Reese Witherspoon and Kerri Washington, based on the novel of the same name.
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale will return for a third season, and Hulu will be the exclusive SVOD home for ABC’s well-received The Good Doctor.
The company also struck its biggest kids and family deal to date with its first-ever multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation. The deal will see Hulu becoming the exclusive streaming home to future DreamWorks Animation feature films including How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Boss Baby 2 and Trolls 2, starting in 2019; as well as DreamWorks library films like Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shark Tale; plus other exclusive original series that will kick off in 2020.


Question: What is Belle de Brillet?

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Belle de Brillet is a pear liqueur produced by Maison J. R. Brillet, France. It is made by infusing Brillet cognac with the essence of Williams pears. Roughly 20 pounds of pears are needed to produce each 750mL bottle.


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The Soyuz-MS-10 spacecraft was meant to deliver Roscosmos’ Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, members of Expedition 57/58, to the International Space Station (ISS). But 119 seconds after take-off from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle experienced a malfunction and crew rescue protocols were engaged.
The emergency landing used a more demanding than usual ballistic descent, but the capsule brought Ovchinin and Hague back alive.


Question: Respond in 808 words. What are some features of the new 3PAR OS 3.3.1?

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3PAR writes to SSD’s in 16K pages, with compression of course you end up with odd sized pages. These sub 16K sized pages are not optimal for writing to SSD and would incur a post process garbage collection to neaten things up and optimise their layout. To eliminate this need for the additional garbage collection over head the odd sized pages are stitched together, just like your Nan makes a jumper, to form neat 16K pages. This process of taking odd sized compressed pages and packing them together is shown below.
Dedupe gets a code update in 3PAR OS 3.3.1. This new update changes the way dedupe operates writing to a private area first, as opposed to a shared area previously. This change in operation aims to make the process more efficient, reducing garbage collection and ultimately making the system more scalable. TDVV (Thin Deduplicated Virtual Volumes) are depreciated, now you just create a standard volume and just change the attribute for the volume to turn on dedupe. Setting the dedupe attribute can be done from the CLI or SSMC. Dedupe and compression can be combined together and HPE are expecting a median 4:1 data reduction, when the technologies are combined. The good news is that dedupe is again licence free and can be applied to all the GEN4 (7000 + 10,000) and GEN5 (8000 + 20,000) systems.
I really like the idea of VVOLs and have covered them in depth previously. Their take up has been a little slower than I would have expected and one of the main reasons I have seen cited was the lack of replication support. vSphere 6.5 introduced VVOL replication and 3PAR now supports this functionality once upgraded to 3PAR OS 3.3.1. Don’t forget given the granular nature of VVOLs this will mean that replication can be controlled at a per VM level.
Peer Persistence has to be one of my favourite 3PAR features, this enables the creation of a metro cluster or stretched cluster if you like across data centres. This high availability setup allows storage to be switched between data centres, online with no disruption to hosts. Peer Persistence 3DC allows a 3rd leg to be added to the replication topology. This 3rd location does not become part of the metro cluster but allows a 3rd copy of the data to be replicated asynchronously for data availability.
3PAR must have more native software allowing data services than any other SAN now. Deciding which ones you wanted and then having to pay for them was painful. Well now all licences within a single system are free! If you have more than one system and are using features that allow the systems to talk to each other e.g. Remote Copy, Peer Persistence, Peer Motion you will need to upgrade to the multi-site licence. Again once you have the site licence this enables all multi system functionality.
I have been wondering for a while if and when they were going to enable replication between the StoreVirtual and 3PAR, well it is now possible with the use of RMC in a feature called Peer Copy. RMC is now included in the free licence bundle and in this circumstance acts as the data mover, replicating crash consistent snapshots between a 3PAR and Store Virtual. Other RMC enhancements include replication to Azure, deployment in Hyper-V and SAP HANA support.
File persona gets a bunch of feature additions including doubling scalability, file locks for governance, cross protocol file sharing and a file system checker.
The existing warranty on 3PAR SSD’s is 5 years, now this has been extended to 7 years. This covers media wear out and electronics. The offer is open to all SSD’s in 8000 and 20,000 systems bought after June 2015.
There are even more enhancements than this but I don’t want this blog turning into a hardback edition so I will bring more news in the coming days on other enhancements and deep dives on what has been discussed today. To make sure that you don’t miss any updates, you can get e-mail updates, or follow via Face Book, LinkedIN and Twitter.
This is a mind blowing amount of information and if your head is spinning check out these nice videos in which Calvin Zito summarises these announcements in two videos Video 1, Video 2.
Today was just the announcement of the new release, the GA date is not today.
Thanks for reading and the kind comments!
You said “The existing warranty on 3PAR SSD’s is 5 years”.
I think it depends on model of SSD.
Valuable information and well explained. Thanks for that.
Is replication support available ( other than VSA) for any other 3 party solution? e.g. also file based to a SMB volume / Windows file share.
is the dedupe feature applicable only to SSDs or also do FC disks?


Question: For your New Year reflection, can you provide examples of the ten projects you are most proud of in the past year and explain why they were meaningful to you?

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Another year is done, so time to look back on what I managed to get done at the painting table.
I think this year represents some improvement in my skills (in particular with the smaller scale Infinity models), so these are the ten projects I'm most proud of this year!
Sometimes you have to go back to move forward, and I definitely struggled with motivation when first tackling the smaller 28mm scale Infinity miniatures. You need to change how you work a little, and they require some different techniques, even a different approach. I tackled that by trying to paint a lot of them over the course of the year!
In all I painted up over fifty Infinity miniatures across both my Yu Jing and Haqqislam armies. Not sure I feel as comfortable with them yet as I do with the larger scale models, but I do feel the improvement happening, and am getting more comfortable tackling them.
This one marked the first time I started to feel more comfortable with that smaller scale. I still find them harder than the heroic scale of Warmahordes or Warhammer, but I'm making progress!
I couldn't go a year and not do some Tau models. I had a lot of fun crafting the removable display base for this one.
One of the highlights of the new Deathwatch miniatures for me!
Representing my old Cygnar Army I finally got around to painting up the good captain as MKIII came onto the scene.
Grouping these forces as a whole as I find it hard to pick out one. I love how these guys turned out! I think the color scheme and techniques worked well for the theme I set myself.
Memories of painting the original came flooding back when painting this wonderful new sculpt of the Eldar leader.
This sculpt was an awesome tribute to the original marines, and was a lot of fun to paint!
This was simply a miniature that I wanted to paint. It was a fantastic project and I enjoyed putting together a suitable display base for him.
Easily my favorite project this year. Everything came together so well for this one. The base, the color scheme, even the timing was perfect, as I managed to pick one up before this model was officially retired by Games Workshop.
Looking forward to new projects, and buffing the skills some more in 2017!


Question: Describe Rhea Jo Perlman's career. Respond in 2 sentences.

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Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress and author, best known for her role as head-waitress Carla Tortelli on the sitcom "Cheers" from 1982 to 1993. Over the course of 11 seasons, she was nominated for ten Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress – winning four times – and was nominated for a record seven Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.


Question: Have you ever felt like you were stuck in a time warp? Respond in 4 sentences.

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SANTA MONICA, CA—Alarmed by the red vinyl seats, chrome accents, and no-frills dining options that suggested he’d been hurled backwards in time, Johnny Rockets customer Jason Levick was reportedly terrified Wednesday after evidently falling through a wormhole into the 1950s. “I just opened the door to a restaurant in the modern day, but I must have activated some sort of tesseract that transported me to this diner from 60 years in the past,” said a visibly shaken Levick, marveling at the servers wearing paper hats, tins signs advertising ice-cold Coca Cola, and a jukebox playing Chuck Berry music as he swiftly pocketed his iPhone to avoid having to answer questions about the futuristic technology. “I’ve got to tread lightly, because my smallest action could have consequences in my own timeline that I can’t foresee. Okay, I’m not going to panic, I’m just going to sit here and order a malt from one of these soda jerks while I figure out what to do next.” At press time, Levick had bolted out of his booth and headed towards the door after realizing he still had time to prevent John F. Kennedy from being assassinated.


Question: What can you tell me about Martina McBride's album "Martina"? Respond in 6 sentences.

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Martina is American country music artist Martina McBride's seventh album, released in 2003 by RCA Records. It was a number one on the country album charts, and number seven on the US album charts. In the U.S. the album was certified Gold on 11/7/2003,Platinum on 1/12/2004 and 2xPlatinum on 4/20/2006 by the R.I.A.A. It produced four singles on the country charts: "This One's for the Girls" at #3, "In My Daughter's Eyes" at #4, "How Far" at #12 and "God's Will" at #16. "This One's for the Girls", which featured backing vocals from Faith Hill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and McBride's two daughters, was also McBride's first and only Number One hit on the Adult Contemporary charts. Pop girl group Girl Authority covered "This One's for the Girls" for their second album "Road Trip".


Question: Respond in 497 words. Describe your experience transitioning from basic home network setup to a more advanced server-based setup.

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I’ve had it in mind to start learning linux for a while, and now I’ve found the perfect project to help me do just that: building my own NAS.
Until November I was perfectly happy with my business grade Draytek router. I bought it about 6 years ago, particularly because it could host its own VPN, instead of just passing through to a Windows PC. It has served me well. I was also reasonably satisfied with my Western Digital EX4 NAS unit in most respects. Then Gigabit FTTH was installed in my area, and I got a free trial – all hell broke loose (very much in a Fist World Problems sense).
The first thing which became apparent is that my ‘nice’ router was outdated. Its best WAN to LAN topped out at 93Mb, while its LAN to WAN maxed at 73Mb (incidentally this also means that I already wasnt getting the benefit of my old 250Mb connection). My new connection is a Gigabit, symmetric line which realistically gives me up to about 700Mb in either direction. Not wanting to go back to relying on the equipment provided by ISPs, I went out (well, I went online) and found myself something which can cope with over 900Mb in either direction (Netgear Nighthawk R7000 if youre interested). ‘”Excellent”, I thought, “now I’m all set”… but no. The knock on effect of getting such fast internet soon became apparent in my NAS. After adding just a few torrents to Transmission, the speed steadily rose until it was approaching 10MB/s, at which point all interfaces to the device practically stopped responding. I surmised that the cause was likely the limited 512M of RAM inside the poor thing, and so went in search of a replacement.
As I looked around, it quickly became clear that most of the available devices on the market were out of my price bracket. While I would have liked to get myself something like a Synology, it just wasn’t going to happen. A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of an HP Gen 8 Proliant Microserver (http://compadvance.co.uk/en/item/323618/HP-Proliant-MicroServer-Gen8-G1610T-4GB) which he has, and after some extra checking around, I decided it looked good. I also decided to up the 4GB of RAM to 16GB, and add an SSD for the OS in the ODD bay.
Now the fun really started. Naturally I didn’t want to put Windows on this thing (although this is what my friend has done), I obviously wanted to run linux. And as its intended to sit quietly, (apparently) minding its own business for the most part, I wanted to keep as much RAM as possible free by not running a GUI. Ubuntu Server seemed like the perfect choice; except I have practically no experience setting up servers, working in command line (Basic ls, cp and rm don’t really count), or using Ubuntu or linux for anything at all (I’ve tinkered, but thats about it).
Well, no time like the present to learn.


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CNN panelist Julia Ioffe said Monday President Donald Trump has radicalized more people than the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS.
Tapper refused to challenge the claim, saying Urban simply disagreed. Ioffe stuck by it.
"I think the president has far more supporters who espouse an equally hateful ideology," Ioffe said.
Former campaign aide for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) Symone Sanders sided with Ioffe, saying Trump associates himself with white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
After publication of this story, Tapper noted that "the Republican National Committee is jumping on your comments," to which Ioffe responded that "this has been a very emotional and personally painful time for me. I think I exaggerated and I apologize for that."
Ioffe tweeted in the wake of the massacre on Saturday that Trump "makes this possible" and hoped that American Jews who supported him moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was worth it.
UPDATE 5:19 p.m.: This article was updated with Ioffe's apology.
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Question: List five ICOs you think are worth researching. Explain why each one is worth researching.

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While the general conversation around ICOs in 2018 is about the rising number of calls for regulations against, the number of companies raising funds is at an all-time high. Just a few days back, TechCrunch reported that messaging platform Telegram raised an 850 million dollar pre-ICO. Clearly, the ICO hype train isn’t showing any signs of slowing down and finding a good one will get tougher.
To save you the trouble, we have done some preliminary research and shortlisted 5 really good ICOs. We do not work with these ICOs in promoting them and have tried to be as unbiased as possible in our evaluation of them. DO NOT TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. Treat this article as pointers to projects which are worth researching before making an investment decision.
TE-FOOD is creating an inexpensive, scalable solution for transparent tracking, securing, and ensuring the quality of food being transported globally. With their platform, they aim to combat food-borne illness, fraud, theft, and corruption.
The TE-Food team has senior members, all of whom have had relevant experiences in supply chain and logistics. CEO Trung Dao has been a serial entrepreneur and has also president of the High Tech Association HCMC, in Vietnam. While they have a balanced team of over 20 members of business and technology, they don’t seem to have an advisory board.
Viewly aims to be the world’s first decentralized video platform. They aim to achieve this by building a peer to peer hosting network and smart contract based transactions on the blockchain. The viewly platform aims to provide users with the ability to enjoy ad-free video content, with a token-based monetization method for content creators. They don’t seem to have a live product, but their website suggests strong partnerships with content creators.
Viewly has a lean team across business and tech. The lack of a known blockchain developer is a little worrying, but their advisory board is strong. It includes the likes of Charlie Shrem and experienced professionals from the media space. CEO Stefan Furlan is a nice blend of academics in data and analytics and entrepreneurial experience.
Solve.Care aims to be a global blockchain solution for coordination, administration, and payments of healthcare. They plan to utilize the blockchain technology to reduce the enormous global clinical and IT system costs associated with our current healthcare system. By replacing duplicative systems and automating complex processes, Solve.Care believes that they can reduce billions of dollars in annual infrastructure costs for healthcare companies. As of now, there isn’t any evidence of a working product from the information available on their channels.
Solve.Care team consists of 50+ professionals including business analysts, Blockchain developers, project managers, healthcare domain experts, crypto consultants and administrative staff. In early 2017, Solve.Care acquired Ukrsoft based in Kiev Ukraine, who possibly take care of the technology aspect. CEO Pradeep Goel is a healthcare veteran, who has spent over 26 years in the industry, having worked in corporates and startups alike. Advisors include even more healthcare veterans and technology experts.
Endor claims to be creating “Google for predictive analytics”, by providing automated accurate predictions, fast, with no data science expertise required. Powered by MIT’s novel Social Physics technology, and massive compute power, Endor enables business users to ask predictive questions in plain language, and get automated accurate predictions. No data science expertise required. Currently, Endor has created a product for automated AI predictions for companies. Their predictions platform will be launched this quarter.
The team is the biggest USP of this project. The co-founders are experienced academicians with over 3 decades of experience in the world’s greatest technology school, MIT. Prof. Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, has taught at MIT’s media lab for the last 36 years and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Yaniv Altshuler is a researcher at MIT who held senior positions at IBM Research. This stellar team is also complemented by an equally accomplished advisory board.
Adhive.tv aims to be the first AI-controlled influencer marketing platform. Their platform aims to automate ad placement with influencers. It saves time in the setup process as the AI recognizes when the influencer has performed the advertiser’s task, then commands the smart contract to execute the payment. With this, they believe that a new standard for native advertising will be created, which would transform the business model of an influencer marketing platform, and thereby enable fast scalability across different markets. There is an alpha of the product that you can sign up for, but we couldn’t find many details on traction so far.
Co-founder Dmitry Malyanov has been in business and ad-tech for 13 years, leads the business aspects at Adhive.tv, which seems to be his brainchild. The rest of the team seems to be between tech and business and a lack of a strong blockchain developer is glaring. The advisory team is relevant and experienced.


Question: What has been happening in Sheridan, Oregon lately?

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by Ericka Cruz Guevarra Follow OPB June 21, 2018 midnight | Updated: June 21, 2018 9:39 a.m.
Mike Murray, Katie Ryan, Preston Hill, Jack Stevens and Michael Ryan at the Bridge Street Coffee House in Sheridan, Ore.
Amber Deibel and Frank Sheridan are regulars at the Bridge Street Coffee House in Sheridan.
, access to the detainees at the Sheridan prison has been extremely difficult.
Amber Deibel, who’s lived in Sheridan for 30 years, said most of the protestors drawing attention to Sheridan are from out of town. She said she doesn’t like the criticism she hears directed toward the people who work at the correctional facility – people like her son.


Question: Respond in 44 sentences. Explain the changes between Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 2 and Alpha 1.

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We are preparing Ubuntu MATE Xenial Xerus (16.04) for distribution on April 21st, 2016 With this Alpha 2 pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version.
I’d like to extend my thanks to Luke Horwell for all his hard work in the Alpha 2 release. Thank you Luke!
Here what changed in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 2 since Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 1.
New Ambience theme for the navigation bar.
Added detection of graphics card (including VirtualBox) including one-click enablement of the graphics-drivers PPA.
Added Firmware and Codecs one-click installers to Getting Started.
Added new page for live sessions and guest sessions and hides privileged features when launched in guest sessions.
Added category labels to the Software section.
Improved presentation to Introduction and Features.
Improve page transitions and added expandable/collapsible sub-sections.
Hints appear after opening utilities.
Updated Firefox, LibreOffice and Control Centre icons.
Removed links on software icons. Users were getting confused why this opened a web page.
Added miscellaneous tasks to update cache, fix an incomplete install and fix broken dependencies.
Added 0 A.D, Ambient Noise, Aptik, Audio Recorder, Bazaar Explorer, BtSync, Boot Repair, Caja Share, Chromium BSU, Dia, DVD Styler, EasyTAG, Emby, Enpass, Evolution, Extreme Tux Racer, FlightGear, FocusWriter, Frozen Bubble, GCompris, Git-Cola, Glade, Gobby, GParted, Hedgewars, HPLIP-GUI, KDE Connect Indicator, LibreOffice Base, LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Math, LibreOffice (fresh), Liferea, Minecraft Server, MySQL Workbench, My Paint, Neverball, Neverputt, Nexuiz, Opera, OpenSSH, Owncloud Client, Parcellite, PlayOnLinux, Poedit, Recent Notifications, RedNoteBook, ReText, Stellarium, Teeworlds, Tor Browser, Virt Manager, WarZone 2100, Wesnoth.
Updated Dropbox, VeraCrypt and X2Go.
Installing Adobe Flash now uses flashplugin-installer.
Added support for Compton hardware compositing for Marco and Metacity.
Update window manager replacement to correctly migrate xcursor settings.
Updated process killing to be less invasive and a pure Python implementation.
Removed Muffin support. It is not compatible with MATE.
Updated custom menu entries to reduce clutter.
Updated gsettings override to improve default behaviour.
Corrected LibreOffice default icons to use Human.
Added MATE colourised icons for categories, devices and places.
Update MATE Menu to 5.6.7.
Fixed 64-bit pointers for the C-Python interface. Thanks to György Balló from Arch Linux.
Fixed several calls to Gdk.Color(). Thanks to XRevan86 from OpenSUSE.
Updated Ubuntu MATE so DVD and BluRay libraries are pre-installed. This doesn’t mean DVD and BluRay will play out-of-the-box! But DVD playback can be fully enabled via Ubuntu MATE Welcome..
Updated the languages shipped on the DVD image. The full rationale on how we choose the languages and what we install is at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278.
Updated Shotwell to include online account plugins.
Improved support for braille displays.
Removed LibreOffice Math and LibreOffice Draw, they can now be added via Ubuntu MATE Welcome.
Shutdown/Restart of the live session does not work in Virtualbox and VMWave guests.
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Question: Have you heard about the Nethercutt Museum and Collection?

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The Nethercutt Museum and Collection in Los Angeles is an amazing collection of classic cars, a train, self-playing, mechanical musical instruments, and more. Here's a full tour.
It'd be easy to miss the Nethercutt Museum and Collection. It's housed in two fairly non-descript buildings a few blocks from "the 5" in Los Angeles, surrounded by industrial zoning and beaten down on by the hot, angry Southern California sun.
Inside, however, is a stunning collection of more than 250 classic cars dating back to the earliest days of automotive greatness. And a steam locomotive, along with a restored 1912 Pullman private train car. Right next to one of the world's largest collections of Orchestrions: automatic-playing mechanical musical instruments, and even entire orchestras, typically more than a century old.
And the amazing part: from the cars to the instruments, they all work.
Started in the 50's by the owners of Merle Norman Cosmetics, the Collection began with one car, restored by J.B. Nethercutt himself. The 1930 DuPont Model G won the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which isn't a bad way to start.
The Nethercutt consists of two parts. The more obvious half, the Museum, features mostly cars from the '30s and before. Row upon row of beautifully restored cars, most of which have names forgotten in the modern era. A few -- Fords, Dodge Brothers, Cadillacs, and Rolls -- speak familiar names.
Out back, a steam locomotive and single train car sit partially covered by an awning. They look like they match, even though the engine is several decades younger. The Pullman railcar was custom-built for the daughter of Lucky Baldwin. It shows the elegance and extravagance of 100 years ago, much as custom BBJs do today.
Across the street, however, is the even more impressive Collection. An oddly-shaped industrial-looking building with no windows, it belies the splendor within. Stepping through a lavish entryway, a dozen or so immaculate classic cars sit on polished marble floors, under three-story high ceilings and brilliant chandeliers. The interior is so incongruous to the building and location that your jaw can't help but drop.
The rest of this building, however, is home to a far more eclectic assortment of mechanical oddities: Orchestrions. I had never heard of these before, and they weren't popular in the States. Essentially, they're like a player piano, except inside are multiple instruments, including violins, accordions, drums, and more. Most are big, cabinet-sized beasts, and some are even more massive.
Like everything in the Nethercutt, they all work. Seeing these 100-plus-year-old wooden behemoths fill a room with music was an unexpected delight.
At the end of the tour, the crown jewel of the Collection is given a dramatic reveal.
The organ console in the center of the room rises on a pedestal, and starts playing on its own. Curtains part, revealing the 5,000 pipes of one of the largest Wurlitzer theatre organs in the world.
The Nethercutt is a fantastic way to spend an afternoon for any fan of classic cars, or any of the oddball other devices found in the Collection (many more than I have space to cover). It's in Sylmar, which is still LA, but just barely.
Best of all, everything is free. For the Collection, though, you'll have to book a tour ahead of time.
In the meantime, checkout the gallery above for a sample of what they have.


Question: Describe an image from Mike Kelley's "Airportraits" series. Respond in 346 words.

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Aircraft take flight from Zurich Airport, Switzerland, in one of Mike Kelley's "Airportraits" images.
A couple years back, a composite image showing seven hours of takeoffs at LAX airport went viral. The man behind that image, Mike Kelley, has spent the time since working on expanding his initial idea.
The result is Airportraits, a photo series that repeats the trick . From Tokyo's Haneda to London's Heathrow, Kelley sat, stood and occasionally danced while shooting hundreds and thousands of photos of aircraft taking off. He then stitched the images together to create a composite image (a single image comprised of elements from multiple photos) that represents his time at each location.
Kelley leaned on his experience as an architectural photographer to build the images. He often uses light painting, blending natural and artificial light to create composite images that cast buildings and interiors in an almost magical light.
Where the Airportraits differ from the original viral image is in composition. While the LAX image was impressive, there was no sense of place; it could've been any airport, anywhere. For the new series, Kelley shot from a range of vantage points -- a Sydney shot from a beach, Tokyo from a boat out on the bay, Amsterdam over a meandering river and so on. There are also people, animals, cars and other elements that sell each image as a scene, or a story, more than before.
Perhaps my favorite from the series is the image atop this article, taken near Zurich, Switzerland. It depicts eight hours of takeoffs from a pair of runways. Speaking to Resource Magazine, Kelley explained what makes this image so special: "Due to a complicated noise abatement scheme, Zurich Airport actually uses runways oriented in different directions depending on how light or heavy the winds are. This made for a very interesting photo when combined with the idyllic Swiss countryside that surrounds the airport," he said.
You can view more of the series on Kelley's site, read more about individual images at Resource Magazine or buy prints in various sizes from his store.


Question: Have you heard about the possible impact of Hurricane Irma on President Trump’s properties?

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Ire and fury are expected to rain down on several properties owned by President Donald Trump that lie in the projected path of Hurricane Irma.
Three of the 12 Trump-named U.S. golf courses are in south Florida and due for impact, as well as Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, dubbed his "Winter White House." The private club and resort with an estimated value of $175 million lies in the mandatory evacuation zone announced for Palm Beach County last night.
“Our teams at our four properties in Florida are taking all of the proper precautions and are following local and Florida State Advisories very closely to help ensure that everyone is kept safe and secure," a Trump Organization spokesperson said in an emailed statement to NBC News.
The three privately owned properties in Florida have been closed. Guests at Trump's National Doral Hotel have been encouraged to find somewhere else to stay, the spokesperson said, and no new reservations are being accepted. The hotel is not currently in a mandatory evacuation zone and all cancellation penalties and change fees have been waived.
"We continue to send our thoughts and prayers to victims of Hurricane Harvey and are praying for those that are in the path of Hurricane Irma,” the Trump Organization spokesperson said.
On Wednesday morning Hurricane Irma slammed through the Caribbean island of St. Martin, where Trump owns a waterfront estate. The damage to the property that was on the market at a reduced rate of $16.9 million is unknown, but initial reports indicate the tropical playground for the globally rich and famous suffered widespread devastation.
"It’s an enormous catastrophe. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed," Daniel Gibbs, president of St. Martin, said in a radio interview.
Several other Trump Organization properties could also be tested by a diminished Irma if it turns north once it reaches Florida, as several computer models predict. Then it might lash the Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina; and the 1,300 acre Trump Winery in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia.


Question: What is the controversy around Antoni Porowski's support of Dr. Wahls' theories?

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Is Antoni promoting pseudoscience or the next big breakthrough?
Antoni Porowski is best known for “cooking” up minimalistic meals, such as grapefruit and avocado salad, for makeover recipients on Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye. But now, a series of social posts by the star indicates that he may be trying to break into a much more controversial space.
In an Instagram Story over the weekend, Porowski waded into the murky world of alternative treatment options for the neurodegenerative disease Multiple Sclerosis, which can lead to difficulties moving, tremors, fatigue, and pain.
Dr. Wahls tells Inverse that Porowski was introduced to the Wahls protocol through his sister, who has MS, and that she has “implemented the concept and found it to be quite helpful.” Porowski didn’t respond to requests for comment from Inverse.
According to Wahls, Porowski will attend the conference and a fundraiser for her research. “My impression is that he’s really coming to learn more deeply about what we are doing,” Wahls says.
Antoni promoting the Wahls Protocol.
Porowski‘s participation has angered some online, who have accused him of using his platform of 1.9 million Instagram followers to push pseudoscience, but has validated others, who claim to have had positive experiences with the diet.
Despite Porowski‘s outspoken support, Wahls’ theories have little basis in peer-reviewed clinical research and have been spread mostly through alternative medicine blogs, and a TEDx talk given by Dr. Wahls, who is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Iowa.
In her talk, Wahls tells her own story of battling degenerative MS. As she slowly declined, being reduced to a reclining wheelchair, she says she developed a specific diet similar to the Paleo diet to match the needs of her cells. “Using the internet, I was able to develop a food plan specifically for my brain and for my mitochondria,” says Wahls. She goes on to describe a miraculous recovery, saying “I became a modern-day hunter-gatherer,” claiming to have gone from almost complete immobility to riding horses and biking over 10 miles in under a year.
Dr. Wahls viral Tedx talk.
The video, which now has over 3 million views on YouTube, comes with a disclaimer, saying that it “falls outside TEDx’s curatorial guidelines,” despite the fact that TEDx is still hosting the video. It illustrates the controversy that has accompanied Wahls’ claims.
Wahls’ advocacy is primarily disputed because there is little peer-reviewed, scientific evidence to support her theory outside of a small clinical trial conducted by her own team, and stories like her own.
Dr. Kathryn Fitzgerald, a research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute tells Inverse that more study is needed.
“I think much of the evidence evaluating these diets is from anecdotal evidence, and well-designed studies are really needed to evaluate whether they impact the MS course,” she says.
Virtually the only scientific evidence supporting Wahls’ claims is her own clinical trial, which she conducted after her seemingly miraculous experience. The study found that trial participants, all living with MS, who adopted a Paleo diet experienced less self-reported fatigue, and performed better in certain measurements of mobility than control subjects. The only problem is, the study only tracked 17 individuals — certainly not enough people to establish scientific fact.
The randomized study was built upon a body of nutrition research that with a few logical leaps could suggest Paleo would be an optimal diet for MS patients. Gluten sensitivity has been observed at higher rates in MS patients, and low-carb diets have been shown to reduce inflammation (which damages nerves in those with MS) in type-2 diabetes patients. Some fruits and vegetables have also been shown to reduce inflammation generally, but results have been mixed.
While these findings informed Wahls’ experimentation, which supposedly contributed to her personal results with the diet, the evidence is a far cry from scientific proof that a Paleo diet has the power to reverse MS symptoms as Wahls’ purports.
The problem is, much of her public-facing materials don’t come off so nuanced.
“DO YOU SUFFER FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, AUTOIMMUINE DISORDERS, NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, OR OTHER CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS? DO YOU HAVE CHRONIC PAIN, FATIGUE, OR BRAIN FOG?” the Wahls’ seminar page asks. “Break through the barriers that are limiting the quality of life you desire!” it continues.
The claims, like Wahls’ TEDx video, don’t leave much wiggle room for interpretation or acknowledge that maybe this program won’t work for everyone.
Others say that Wahls’ misdeeds go beyond overpromising unproven outcomes — suggesting that her work outside of traditional medicine is a simple cash grab. A pass to all three days of Wahls’ workshop will set participants back $1,897. If you want a “Wahls Health Professional Certification,” you can pay an extra $697.
The Pricing of the Wahls Seminar.
“I am certainly not knocking a pharmacological approach, but instead promoting better eating habits as a supplement,” he clarified.
For Queer Eye’s cooking and health expert, the response was very on brand, promoting the benefits of nutrition for everyone.
It’s seems seems doubtful Dr. Wahls will listen.


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// Called three times synchronously. `list` contains one item.
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resolution <number> The sampling rate in milliseconds. Must be greater than zero. Default: 10.
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Souls of We (also known as George Lynch's Souls of We) is an American hard rock supergroup from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2007. The lineup consists of London LeGrand (vocals), George Lynch (guitar) and Johny Chow (bass). Since 2009, Jordan Mancino has been the band's drummer, replacing Yael.


Question: Describe the Fairlee Town Hall.

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Question: What is Wachenroth?

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Question: Hey, I heard Luke Hess & Brian Kage are performing at Movement this year. What can we expect from their performance?

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1. Have you two (Luke Hess & Brian Kage) been to the festival before, as performers or just as listeners? If so, what are your most distinct memories from the experience?
As Reference we played the Beatport Stage in 2008 (DJ) and the Main stage in 2011 (LIVE). These were both very memorable performances.
This year Reference will close out the Made in Detroit Stage on Monday night with a combination LIVE / DJ / Hybrid Set. It should be bananas.
Carl Craig, Dan Bell, Nina Kraviz, Ryan Elliot, Steffi, Francois K, Richie Hawtin, Moodymann, Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann, Ben Sims, Steve Rachmad, Sinistarr, Mr. Joshuua, DVS1, etc. etc. etc. … it’s an amazing line up this year.
Technics Turntables, Vinyl Records, Traktor, Traktor Control Vinyl, Machine, X1 Controller, F1 Controller, TR-909, & Eventide Space… but the most important element to our set is exceptional & soulful music.
We explore different performance options often and ways to enhance our sets, but we always have a few key elements.
We have a specific Detroit style & sound in mind as Reference, however, we enjoy both festivals and club shows and we usually tailor our performances based on the vibe and energy of the crowd.
We’re focusing all of our energy and time into the Movement festival performance to make it unique & special for Movement Festival goes. Check out www.reference-detroit.com to find out what we’re up to next.
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Question: Respond in 1 sentences. What is Nixon's sign?

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In medical diagnosis Nixon's sign is an alternative to Castell's sign, useful in identifying splenomegaly.


Question: What is the voter registration deadline in my state?

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Connecticut Oct. 30 Or in-person on Election Day Yes, Click Here Postmarked or submitted 7 days before the election online, mail or in person. On Election Day at designated locations in each city or town.
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North Dakota does not have voter registration.
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Question: Respond in 2 sentences. Who was Sakari Pinomäki?

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Question: Describe the recent allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the response of the White House and Senate Judiciary Committee.

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 Describe the recent allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the response of the White House and Senate Judiciary Committee.

The White House and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) are continuing to give their full backing to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following an accusation of sexual assault against him. It stems from an alleged incident 35 years ago when Kavanaugh was likely a junior in high school, though his accuser said she could not be sure of the precise year or location of the alleged attack.
California professor Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post Kavanaugh attacked her when they were at a party in Maryland in the early 1980s, alleging he forced her into bed, groped her, and tried to remove her clothes while he was heavily intoxicated, all while his friend watched. She said she managed to escape after the friend, Mark Judge, jumped on them, sending them tumbling and giving her an opportunity to get out of the room.
Kavanaugh said he "categorically" denied the accusation, and Judge said the story is "absolutely nuts." The two were classmates at prestigious Georgetown Preparatory School.
Grassley ripped ranking committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) for sitting on the story—she was first made aware of the charge in a letter from Ford in July—and said if Democrats took it seriously, it should have been brought to his attention "much earlier." Feinstein first sent a cryptic statement about the accusation last week before the New Yorker reported Friday on the lurid details of the charge. Ford then emerged to tell the Washington Post she was the accuser, saying she was afraid her story would get twisted by others.
It was "disturbing," Grassley said, that such accusations would come forward before the scheduled committee vote on Kavanaugh Sept. 20.
"Instead, they said nothing during two joint phone calls with the nominee in August, four days of lengthy public hearings, a closed session for all committee members with the nominee where sensitive topics can be discussed and in more than 1,300 written questions," Grassley said. "Sixty-five senators met individually with Judge Kavanaugh during a nearly two-month period before the hearing began, yet Feinstein didn't share this with her colleagues ahead of many of those discussions."
Grassley went on to say it raised a lot of questions about the "Democrats' tactics and motives" and encouraged Feinstein to release the letter she got in July from Ford. He also linked to testimonials about Kavanaugh's "impeccable character" and respect for women.
While Senate Democrats are again calling on Kavanaugh's vote to be delayed, the White House is also standing behind Kavanaugh, whom President Donald Trump tapped in July to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The 11th-hour charge rocked the confirmation process for Kavanaugh, who had appeared headed for a successful vote for weeks. Progressives have mounted a furious bid ever since his nomination in July to derail him, but thus far, no Senate Republicans have indicated they will vote against his confirmation. Democrats need to flip at least two Republicans to block Kavanaugh.
Ford said she told no one about the alleged attack until 2012, when she was in couples counseling with her husband. The therapist's notes, which were reviewed by the Washington Post, didn't mention Kavanaugh's name but did say she was attacked by students "from an elitist boys’ school" who went on to become "highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington."
Her husband, Russell Ford, said she spoke of being trapped in a room with two drunken boys. He also said she mentioned Kavanaugh's name and voiced concern he might one day ascend to the Supreme Court—he was a D.C. Circuit Court judge at the time. Ford also said the attack caused her lasting psychological trauma.
Ford is a registered Democrat with a record of contributing to Democratic politicians. She tapped progressive Washington attorney Debra Katz, known for her work with #MeToo accusers, to represent her following her decision to go public.
Katz attacked Paula Jones repeatedly in 1998 when she claimed Bill Clinton had sexually harassed her when he was the governor of Arkansas. Katz said Jones' lawsuit would have been dismissed if Clinton weren't the President of the United States, and she also said Jones' claims were "very, very weak" and had a "complete lack of proof." Clinton eventually settled the lawsuit with Jones for $850,000.
Katz is also a committed "Resistance" member opposed to the Trump administration, she told the University of Wisconsin alumni magazine, and she has donated more than $26,000 to Democratic politicians and liberal groups.
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Question: Explain the details of the indictment against former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert.

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 Explain the details of the indictment against former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert.

Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 through 2007, was indicted today on charges of structuring bank withdrawals to avoid mandatory bank reporting and lying about the purpose of the withdrawals to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hastert is alleged to have made the cash withdrawals to "compensate for and conceal" some past transgression against an unnamed individual which ended with Hastert and the other party reaching a privately negotiated settlement. Prior to his career in politics Hastert was a teacher at Yorkville High School in Illinois where he additionally coached wrestling and football.
The indictment spends a lot of language concerned about some sort of "misconduct" which they insinuate may have been criminal, and yet the only actual criminal charges in the indictment are for trying to evade financial surveillance and not telling the FBI what he was actually doing with the cash. Yet for as much as they insinuate about the seriousness of the misconduct former speaker Hastert was still able to reach a private settlement of some form with the alleged victim of the misconduct. In the indictment prosecutors allege the settlement was for three and a half million dollars which Hastert would pay in instalments.
Since leaving the House of Representatives Hastert had been working as a lobbyist in Washington, DC. The indictment mentions Hastert having used Old Second Bank, People’s State Bank, Castle Bank and Chase Bank for his cash withdrawals.
a. From approximately 1965 to 1981, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT was a high school teacher and coach in Yorkville, Illinois. From approximately 1981 to 2007, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT was an elected public official, including eight years as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. From approximately 2008 to the present, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT has worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
b. Individual A has been a resident of Yorkville, Illinois and has known defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT most of Individual A’s life.
c. In or about 2010, Individual A met with defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT multiple times. During at least one of the meetings, Individual A and defendant discussed past misconduct by defendant against Individual A that had occurred years earlier.
d. During the 2010 meetings and subsequent discussions, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT agreed to provide Individual A $3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against Individual A.
e. Shortly thereafter, defendant began providing Individual A cash payments.
f. From approximately 2010 to 2014, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT withdrew a total of approximately $1.7 million in cash from various bank accounts he controlled and provided it to Individual A.
g. From approximately June 2010 through April 2012, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT made fifteen $50,000 withdrawals of cash from bank accounts he controlled at Old Second Bank, People’s State Bank and Castle Bank and provided that cash to Individual A approximately every six weeks.
h. Title 31, United States Code, Section 5313(a) and Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1010.310-313 required domestic financial institutions to prepare and file with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network a Currency Transaction Report (Form 104) for any transaction or series of transactions involving currency of more than $10,000.
i. Old Second Bank, People’s State Bank, Castle Bank and Chase Bank were domestic financial institutions subject to the Currency Transaction Reporting requirements described in the preceding paragraph.
j. In approximately April 2012, pursuant to bank policy and federal regulations, bank representatives questioned defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT about the $50,000 cash withdrawals that he had made.
k. In July 2012, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT began withdrawing cash in increments of less than $10,000. Defendant provided that cash to Individual A in an increment of $50,000 at pre-arranged meeting places and times.
l. In approximately 2014, defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT and Individual A changed the timing and amounts of the payments so that defendant provided Individual A $100,000 every three months. Defendant continued to withdraw cash in increments of less than $10,000. Defendant provided that cash in an increment of $100,000 at prearranged meeting places and times.
m. In approximately 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service, agencies within the executive branch of the Government of the United States, began investigating defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT’s cash withdrawals as possible structuring of currency transactions to evade the reporting requirements described above.
v. Whether defendant JOHN DENNIS HASTERT was using the cash for some other purpose, not related to a crime or past misconduct.
1. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1(a)-1(l) of Count One of this Indictment are realleged and incorporated herein.
In violation of Title 31, United States Code, Section 5324(a)(3).
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The indictment oddly mentions the fact that Hastert was a high school wrestling coach. It also mentions that the person being paid has known Hastert since that person was a child.
It's starting to look like Hastert was being extorted.
Given how powerful the guy is, he may actually have asked for this indictment as a way to get him out of the extortion situation. Gives him plausible deniability and a quasi-credible story about how the feds found out about the extortion.
The indictment spends a lot of language concerned about some sort of "misconduct" which they insinuate may have been criminal, and yet the only actual criminal charges in the indictment are for trying to evade financial surveillance and not telling the FBI what he was actually doing with the cash.