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By the summer of 2015, things were going well for Vonny Del Fresco. His singles were drawing more ears than ever, he was attracting strong press from both inside and outside of the city and he’d just released one of the strongest Milwaukee rap albums of that year, Memoirs, a sophisticated, modernist update of the classic slice-of-life rap albums of the ’90s. He had name recognition. And then he did something that many managers might have advised against: He changed that name.
He now performs under the moniker Von Alexander—a rechristening that goes deeper than just branding: It’s symbolic of his new approach, he says. “It’s all evolving, you know, the music, the sound, just how I’m viewing things. I just wanted to shake things up and go by something that was a little more personal,” he says. Hence the stage name that’s closer to his birth name: His first name is LaVaughn and his middle name is Alexander.
For all the praise that Memoirs garnered, there was one criticism that stuck with him. “Somebody pointed out to me that they didn’t know who I was from listening to my music,” he recalls. “So that’s what I wanted to tackle with my newest project and with the name change. I wanted to just open the door a little more and make a connection between me and the listener. I decided to sit back and reflect—to put some perspective on where I am, what I want to be and what I’m surrounded by. I let all those things become an inspiration.”
And sure enough, he took his time working on his follow-up album, MAYHEM1993 . It’s not a concept album, he stresses—each song is its own self-contained statement—but it frequently touches on his experiences in Milwaukee, growing up on the cutthroat North Side and then trying to carve out a place for himself in the city’s similarly cutthroat rap scene. His recent move to the East Side has only given him more perspective on all that, he says.
Interestingly, Von Alexander is part of a generation of Milwaukee rappers—very possibly the first generation—who play on both the North and East Sides. Fifteen years ago, an invisible wall separated each neighborhood’s rap scenes. North Side rappers never played the East Side; East Side rappers never played the North Side, and the two scenes barely even knew of, let alone acknowledged, the other’s existence.
Like a lot of his peers, though, Alexander swims so fluidly between both scenes that he can’t even picture a time when that would have been unheard of. “I’ve heard people mention that there’s more of a connection between the two sides of town now, but I hadn’t realized it wasn’t always this way,” he says. “I’m 23, so I mean, I came up watching Klassik and everyone before me and didn’t even notice any separation. I just noticed the music.”
Alexander is unique from most Milwaukee rappers in that he’s not trying to stand out—at least not for anything other than his talent or the strength of his songs. His flow is precise but unflashy. He’s mostly disinterested in modern production trends. He leans toward beats that sound great and flatter him but don’t make strong sonic statements. He’s not trying to call attention to himself; he’s just trying to be . And, as on Memoirs , that almost Zen-like presence makes MAYHEM1993 go down easy. It’s an all-purpose rap record—as suited for lazy nights at home as it is for car rides and barbecues—the kind of record that would have sounded as good in 2012 as it does in 2017 and will probably sound just as good in 2020.
“It’s like some artists, they feel like they have to try a little too hard to do things, to make people enjoy what they’re putting out and creating,” Alexander says. “For me, what’s most important is just doing what you want to do. So for this project, I wanted to be able to share my story without changing people’s moods too much. The songs might talk about certain feelings and experiences, but the vibe of the songs might have a whole different feel. I’ve got that song, ‘Hard to Tell,’ for instance, where I’m expounding on my story, but the beat doesn’t tell you that. It doesn’t tell you how to feel. It just creates a vibe you can enjoy.”
Von Alexander’s MAYHEM1993 is streaming at soundcloud.com/whatsupvxn.

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Rochester wins opener, number 200 in franchise history
Jamieson nets 200th goal of career, Vinc passes Watson for 2nd in all-time saves
The Rochester Knighthawks (1-0) opened up their 2017-18 campaign with a very decisive 17-6 thrashing of the Calgary Roughnecks (0-1) in front of 4,596 at Connors & Ferris Field at The Blue Cross Arena on Saturday night. The victory was also the 200th in the franchises’ history.
Dan MacRae got the scoring going early at 1:08 to give Calgary their only lead of the game. Kyle Jackson (2G/1A) would score twice, his second off a beautiful give-and-go with rookie Eric Fannell (3A) as Jackson dove across and put the ball past Scigliano, and Rochester had a lead they would not relinquish.
The turnaround point of the game came early. At 9:02 Cory Vitarelli was called for holding, but to the fans it resembled a linebacker sacking the quarterback. Rochester would spend the next 5:03 span shorthanded with two more penalties. During that time, the Rochester defense held Calgary scoreless and netted a shorthanded goal by Luke Magnan to end the first quarter with a 3-1 lead.
Rochester would then go on a scoring tear by tallying eight times in the second quarter with two separate four goal runs. The Knighthawks kept Calgary scoreless for the next 22:13 as they built a 7-1 lead, and at the half the Knighthawks had a commanding 11-3 lead.
Cody Jamieson, who returned to action after having season-ending knee surgery early last season, recorded his 200th career goal at 11:01 of the second quarter.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” Jamieson said. “I heard the guys yelling, ‘get the ball!’” Jamieson went on to say that “it’s a testament to the guys I have played with to score this many so far in my career.”
Both teams played a fast-paced third quarter. Despite a lot of rushes and chances by both teams, only one goal was scored when Scott Campbell beat Christian Del Bianco at the 11:37 mark. Rochester scored four more in the fourth for a 16-3 lead. Calgary broke another scoreless run, this time of 23:42, when Greg Harnett popped the ball past Vinc. Calgary would score twice more, and Rochester’s Dylan Evans would net one to make the final 17-6.
Tempers did come to a boil as Rochester’s Paul Dawson and Calgary’s Chad Cummings squared off with Dawson getting a slight victory.
Goaltending woes continue for Calgary. Frankie Scigliano got the start and was pulled briefly at 5:42 of the second quarter for Del Bianco. Before the night was over their lines would almost be similar. Scigliano stopped 19 of 29 shots in 25:34, and Del Bianco stopped 15 of 22 shots in 34:26.
The other problem in this game for Calgary was Curtis Dickson’s two shots and Dane Dobbie’s 13 shots combined for a total of one assist only. Rochester’s defense was all over them, not allowing them to get into the lanes or extend their arms. If they did, the defense made sure Matt Vinc would see the shot clearly.
Jake Withers, Rochester’s first round pick and number two pick overall in this years draft played fantastically. Withers was 18 for 22 on the face-offs and picked up 10 loose balls in his debut.
Dan Dawson, who had three goals and three assists said after the game that the Knighthawks “want teams to know if [they’re] coming into this barn, [they’re] going to be in for a battle.”
Dawson was one of 11 different players that scored for Rochester. Joe Resetarits, Cory Vitarelli, Josh Currier and Kyle Jackson all had two goals. Resetarits needs only one more goal for 100 in his young career.
Winning goaltender and star of the game Matt Vinc stopped 40 of 46 shots faced and also picked up a modest three assists.
“I was really seeing the ball well tonight,” said Vinc. “The guys made sure the lanes were cleared and we limited their second chance opportunities. When you do that it makes the game easier.”
Rochester outshot Calgary 51-46, 76-69 on loose balls and held Calgary 0-4 on the power play, while also getting a shorthanded goal. Rochester was one for two on the power-play.
Calgary (0-1) will open their home schedule on Friday, December 15th as they will host Vancouver (0-1).
Rochester (1-0) will have the week off and prepare for the Buffalo Bandits (1-0) to come into town on December 23rd.

LANGLEY, B.C. – Jordan Durston of Wallaceburg had one goal and three assists for the Vancouver Stealth in a 15-11 win over the Calgary Roughnecks on Saturday in the National Lacrosse League.
Stealth goalie Tye Belanger of Wallaceburg made 39 saves.
The Stealth (7-9) are in third place in the West Division with two games left. They'll clinch a playoff spot with a win this Saturday against the Colorado Mammoth or Saturday, April 29, at the New England Black Wolves.
Belanger has a 5-7 record. He ranks second in the NLL in save percentage (.787) and fourth in goals-against average (11.34).
Durston has scored in seven consecutive games. He has 22 goals and 16 assists in 16 games overall.


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DELTA has destroyed about 1500 illegal refineries with swamp buggy in the Delta creeks in the last two months.
The Commander of the ship, Commodore Ibrahim Dewu, disclosed this to newsmen in Warri on Wednesday.
Swamp buggy is an amphibious vehicle used to traverse a swampy terrain.
Dewu said the destruction exercise was carried out in the creeks of Otumara, Ogbegugu, Okpuku in the Warri creeks.
He added that personnel of the command were currently on the Bennett Island in Warri South Local Government Area of the state in continuation of the exercise.
He said that the perpetrators had devised means of preventing the soldiers and the swamp buggy from gaining access to the sites by blocking the entrances with logs or setting fire around the sites.
The commander, however, said their antics would not deter the soldiers from carrying out their statutory obligation of completely eradicating illegalities in the maritime domain.
“It takes us time to remove the logs for our men and the swamp buggy to have access but we are determined,” he said.
He said the criminals’ activities were also contributing to the degradation of the ecosystem.
“The antics of the criminal elements will not deter us from eradicating the illegality with the aide of swamp buggy which I believe will bring a lasting solution to economic sabotage.
” We decided to apply swamp buggy because it is more environment friendly and difficult for the perpetrators to resuscitate the illicit business since their facilities are also crushed completely in the process.
“Apart from that, we also do post-monitoring of the various sites we have destroyed to ensure that the criminals do not return to reactivate them.
” So far, the exercise has been successful and we will not rest on our oars until the illegalities are completely eradicated in our maritime domain,” he said.
In one of the operations on Bennett Island on June 12, the perpetrators set fire around the vicinity of the illegal refinery to prevent the soldiers from entering.
The navy personnel then created alternative means for themselves, journalists and the swamp buggy to gain access and therefore, crushed the criminals’ equipment amid thick smoke and rain.

The Nigerian Army has recovered the uniforms of Mohammed Alkali, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Mobile Police Unit 48 and his orderly, Sgt. Urukwu Nwachukwu in Rivers state.
General Officer Commanding (GOC) the newly-created 6 Division in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, Maj.-Gen. Kasimu Abdulkarim, who displayed the uniforms, alongside an AK-47 rifle on Sunday, said they recovered the items at Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA.
It will be recalled that Alkali was beheaded with his orderly by political thugs during the Rivers rerun election.
Abdulkarim said, “Four of the suspected criminals’ camps located across the river in Ujju Town near Omoku (the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA) were raided on December 31, 2016. In the raid operations, 6 Division troops, in conjunction with Operation Delta Safe Special Boat Service and air component, engaged the suspected criminals in severe exchange of fire, in which they were dislodged. This led to the arrest of suspects.
“Ammunition, uniforms and weapons were recovered. The late DSP Mohammed Alkali with his orderly, Sgt. Urukwu Nwachukwu’s AK-47 rifle and uniforms, as evidenced in the name tags, were also recovered.
“The large cache of ammunition and weapons recovered in the operation also include one AK-47 rifle, two G3 rifles, five double-barrelled guns, two pistols, 31 empty AK-47 magazines, 242 rounds of 7.62 mm NATO and 322 rounds of other ammunition calibre.
“Other recovered items include 31 handsets, bullet-proof jackets, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards, first aid box and seven police uniforms.
“In the last one month, 15 people were horrifically murdered with many others kidnapped in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA of Rivers State. Those killed include a soldier, four officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), two policemen and eight civilians. The gunmen also took away ammunition, vehicles and weapons.
“This trend of violence cannot be left unchecked. The 6 Division will sustain operation clean-up of the area (Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA), for oil companies and the people to go about their businesses in a peaceful environment.
“It is envisaged that sustaining the operation will end the senseless killing of innocent citizens, including security personnel. This will further frustrate illegal arms and ammunition acquisition, which will usher secure environment for economic prospects.
“The clean-up operation is in continuation of efforts by the division to recover and mop up illegally-acquired weapons from cultists and criminals, who do not mean well for our dear nation and refuse to embrace the Rivers State amnesty programme.”
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Question: 10 years of hope and hard lessons on the Facebook Platform

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One of the biggest tech concepts we take for granted today was essentially unheard of before Facebook launched its Platform ten years ago. While there were “social networks”, the rest of the web didn’t care much about who you were or who you were friends with.
This is before we “logged in with Facebook” not just on it. Before sites were peppered with sharing buttons. Before every app wanted you to invite your contacts.
“The core thesis in 2007 was that if you looked at pre-2007 social networks, there were ‘social networks’ that were social, and basically everything else was not social” Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells me. “The theory was almost everything should have social components. I think that’s been born-out over the last decade.”
Yet opening its audience to outside developers came with a steep learning curve. Social apps must be accompanied by social norms about respecting people’s time and attention. Facebook is still getting the hang of that.
On its 10th anniversary, a series of interviews with Mark Zuckerberg and other team members reveal how the Facebook Platform shook out and shook everything up.
Social By Design
In 2007, Facebook was experiencing unprecedented viral growth thanks in part to its freshly-launched News Feed. Given the right skeleton, it discovered people would flesh out a social network with not only their content, but their identities. The blue beast was alive. The scrappy young company could hardly keep up.
Yet the team had a hazy, crazy idea that belayed its humble dorm room beginnings. Facebook didn’t know what people wanted it to build, so what if it let anyone build apps on top?
A year later with the launch of the Facebook Connect part of the platform, it posed another peculiar question: If we let people log in elsewhere with their Facebook account and bring along their interests and social graphs, could any website become “social”?
The answers would surprise Facebook’s executives, spawn a legion of new businesses, entrechng the company while changing the Internet from a solo experience to a group one. Those same answers would also force Facebook to adapt to unforeseen trends, retreat from unsustainably spammy features, and crater some of the new business built on the fledgling Platform. ‘
Word of mouth is a top driver of popularity for any product. Facebook’s “social by design” philosophy sought to give each app its own voice users could speak through to rally their friends to enhance their collective experience.
Suddenly, Facebook’s exclusive relationship with its users became a tumultuous, bizarre love triangle between itself, the public, and its developers. One where the users were put first, even if it meant sacrificing immediate monetization of its site and the existence of some app makers.
“Crazy Time”
“There was no playbook for what we were doing. No one had built this sort of platform before.” says Ami Vora, a Facebook Product Director who was part of the initial team of five core engineers working on the launch for the first F8 conference. “We didn’t exactly know what would happen next to the developer community. We were really just trying to learn what we were doing as we were doing it.”
Vora had been working at Microsoft, a more conservative tech titan. What we think of as the “closed private beta” stage of modern platforms before they launch and open up was how many platforms ran permanently. Current Platform team member and Facebook VP of partnerships Ime Archibong tells me he came from IBM, which was “known for building proprietary stacks up and down themselves.”
The promise of pioneering a new way to work with developers lured fresh talent to Facebook. And the geyser of user growth it had tapped into attracted developers thirsty for attention.
Vora describes the “sleepless excitement” of this hockey stick-growth moment at Facebook. “One of our catch phrases was “‘crazy time?'” Employees felt the immense gravity of this phase of Facebook’s ascent. “You’d just nod to the person you were passing [in the office] and say ‘crazy time?'”
In fact, employees spent the days running up to F8 frantically updating Facebook’s marketing materials. Everything said 19 million users, but Facebook hit 20 million in the days before the event. The company scheduled a “20 million users party” for a few weeks later, “but by then we had 25 million users” Vora laughs.
After running the conference all day where Facebook announced the Platform, the core team retreated to a nearby hotel’s conference room it had established as its “war room”. There, on a spotty Wifi connection and patchwork of mobile hotspots, Facebook’s Platform launched.
With V1, Facebook lets developers create “canvas applications” within its desktop site. These experiences could be personalized with a user’s identity, and connect people to friends who were also using the app. Developers could build games and social utilities, or offer a “Profile Box” app that let you spruce up your personal presence on Facebook.
Facebook had dismantled two of the biggest barriers to people trying new web services. Users didn’t have to set up a separate username and password for each service, and they didn’t have to build a unique social graph there. Meanwhile, the lucrative viral channels helped developers rapidly build their audience as people invited their friends.
Within a few months, 7,000 apps had been built on the Facebook Platform. That number would grow to 33,000 in a year. In five years there were over 9 million apps and sites integrated with Facebook. And now after a decade Facebook has paid out almost $10 billion to its app developers.
“I remember talking to entrepreneurs in the weeks after F8 who were spending half of their day every day driving around trying to get whatever servers they could because they were experiencing so much growth” Vora says. Stanford University even created a Computer Science class where students had to build Facebook applications.
In 2008, Facebook opened the second wing of its Platform, “Facebook Connect”, which let third-party website from news publishers to utilities offer Facebook login, personalization, and instant sharing to the News Feed. Facebook effectively colonized the web, giving its citizens easy access abroad while funneling content back to the motherland. The Like button soon became Facebook’s calling card.
But while developers on Facebook’s platform would blossom into giant businesses like Zynga, others would end up as collateral damage as Facebook wrestled to control what it created.
Open To Surprises
The overarching strategy for Facebook’s Platform was that “it should be open. Anyone should be able to build on the platform” says Archibong. “Given that we aren’t going to be able to prioritize all this stuff, we don’t have enough engineers to build all the stuff we want to build, and arguably, we won’t know what the world and what people ultimately want, if we extend our Platform to developers, they’ll be able to build for these communities.”
That openness also forced Facebook to go where the platform pulled it. Sometimes that meant scrambling to support and survive unexpected success, as with gaming.
“I thought it was really fun. We all just threw sheep at each other” — Ami Vora, Facebook Product Director
Facebook didn’t quite predict how well its desktop canvas Platform would work for spreading simple social games. Eager for distraction and with dense social graphs on the network, the college-centered Facebook demographic frittered away immense amounts of time and money on games like Zynga Poker and FarmVille. Facebook would have to build an entire international payments infrastructure around the burgeoning games industry.
But games also threatened to kill Facebook. What some considered playful socializing others found deeply annoying. Developers seized on the viral invite and request channels Facebook offered, designing their games to heavily reward users who sucked in their frends. You either spent hours and hours watering your make-believe FarmVille crops, paid real money to keep them alive, or begged your friends to sign up and help you.
“I thought it was really fun” Vora says wistfully, showing the strength of Facebook’s cult Kool-Aid. “Remember with ‘SuperPoke’ we all just threw sheep at each other!?! Who knew that would bring so much joy. [It was] an interesting way to express your friendship with someone and bring just a little touch of lightness to your day.” 60 million people ended up hooked on FarmVille, deriving some kind of value from the game.
Developing Whiplash
Others did not think it was really fun. I did not think it was really fun. Facebook had been a way to connect online about your real life, not play pretend in a frivolous virtual universe. Sure, some might find companionship in cooperating around games. But the News Feed of updates about friends’ vacations and new jobs was overrun with viral game spam.
Zuckerberg eventually admitted half of Facebook might not want to see this content, severely curtailed its prominence in the feed, and thereby dashed the growth dreams of some developers. Meanwhile Facebook removed the entire Profile Box part of the Platform after profile customization ran amok and put the site in danger of becoming another slow-loading, buggy mess like Myspace.
Had these parts of the platform remained unchecked, they might have poisoned the populace before other developers could try their hand with chatbots and camera effects a decade later. Still, some devs felt like Facebook had pulled the rug out from under them. Startups had raised money and hired employees, betting on Facebook’s Platform to distribute their products. It was the developers who got the short end as Facebook tried to balance their needs with its own and those of the users.
This is a theme that’s played out over and over in the 10 years since.
The struggle to find this balance might stem from Facebook’s seemingly naive perspective that its partners prioritize the long-term satisfaction of the social network’s users, and Facebook by proxy, as Facebook does itself.
“Everyone knew we were building an ecosystem, and no one would be successful unless we were doing the right thing for people” Vora insists. “Even the hard conversations were grounded in this knowledge.”
“The ability to take such a long-term view on things I think allows you to have open, candid conversations about what the future looks like with partners” says Archibong. “That may mean . . . things that were arguably not as good anymore for the partner or the developer but that we collectively knew were good for people over the long-run.”
But this framework falsely delineates between the needs of users and Facebook. If developer spam drowned out the social content people came to Facebook for, the users would have a bad experience…but that would quickly lead to them leaving the social network, depriving it of fulfilling its mission and filling its bank accounts.
This prioritization has kept users happy, Facebook earnings billions of dollars in profit per quarter, and its Platform open to new waves of developers. But it’s also left a trail of dead apps and battered businesses.
Zynga struggled as a public company after Facebook deleted viral channels that helped it get huge in the early days of the Platform. BandPage, makers of landing tab app for musicians’ Facebook Pages, was once the second-most popular developer behind Zynga and had just raised a $16 million Series B. But when Facebook decided these landing tabs made the user experience ‘inconsistent’ and suddenly shut them down, BandPage lost 90% of its traffic. It dropped from 35 million active users to 3 million in a few months, and after several failed pivots was sold to YouTube in a firesale for a fraction of the cash it had raised.
Yet Vora and Archibong repeatedly defended the limitations and changes to Facebook’s Platform as consensual. “I think most of those folks also understood, and were excited about the power they had gotten from the Facebook Platform. iLike woke up the next morning with 50k users, which was something they never expected” Vora recalls. She doesn’t mention that iLike withered after the Profile Box was shut down.
Archibong defends the tumultous point of Facebook’s history, saying “You actually find that conversations that from the outside looking in may look really difficult and probably seem really tough because they have both business impact for Facebook or the developer are actually okay because it’s not a transactional relationship.”
Maybe not for Facebook. With enough traction and network effect, it could outlive its Platform pivots. Still, for some developers, diverting their roadmap in search of Facebook-fueled growth was a transaction where the Platform’s exchange rate suddenly spiked.
Facebook would spend the next few years trumpeting its “Operation Developer Love”, where it tried to give app makers more warning about big changes on the roadmap and work with them more closely to ensure they were earning enough to validate the engineering time they poured into the Platform.
Balancing The Bizarre Love Triangle
The cycle of “too much virality -> too much spam -> dial back virality -> pivot the platform” has played out nearly a half dozen times since.
In 2011 Facebook launched the Open Graph platform to let apps like Spotify or Wall Street Journal’s Facebook News Reader automatically publish users’ listening or reading activity to the News Feed.
Facebook ended up reducing the number of music stories in the main News Feed and removing the side “Ticker” that embarassed people by sharing their guilt pleasure rock-outs with everyone they know. When Facebook decided stories about users opening click bait articles in Open Graph News Readers weren’t valuable enough, it downranked the apps, traffic dried up, and publishers abandoned that part of the platform.
On the other side of the spectrum, that same year Facebook tried to launch its own HTML5 mobile web app platform. It had been shut out of charging the same 30% tax on game payments it did on desktop computers when users shifted iOS and Android devices. But this time Facebook gave developers too few growth option, and weary from its past waffling, they never adopted Facebook’s “Project Spartan” and that Platform dried up.
Most recently, Facebook’s Instant Articles promised a publishing platform that would drive more traffic for news outlets that host their content inside Facebook’s app so it loads faster. But Facebook’s iron grip on how publishers could show ads, email newsletter widgets, subscription sign-ups, and their own design identity made the format a bad deal.
Instant Articles essentially turned publishers into ghost writers, creating dumb content for Facebook’s smart pipes rather than deepening their relationships with readers directly. Facebook tried to loosen up, but now major oulets like The New York Times, Vice News, and the Los Angeles Times have abandoned Instant Articles.
Playing The Long-Game
Clearly Facebook is still grappling with how to give developers enough support that they join its Platforms but not so much that they disrupt the network’s equilibrium. Where it’s succeeded is internalizing one thing it got wrong 10 years ago: as long as you don’t drive the users away, you always get another chance.
News articles were kept from overshadowing personal updates, and now publishers still see a massive chunk of referral traffic from the News Feed. Facebook dumped HTML5, but now is spinning up new games Platforms within Messenger and a new Steam-like desktop app. Open Graph auto-sharing fizzled, but Facebook’s Account Kit has flourished by allowing any app to use phone numbers and SMS for sign-up.
Whether Facebook is getting better at managing developer expectations or it just holds enough power to offset some missteps, it’s managed to keep its Platform well-populated. And now Facebook is expanding the definition of “developer” to include brands, small businesses, and more.
Zuckerberg tells me a high percentage of top-grossing mobile apps offer Facebook login or other Platform features. “I think that’s pretty widespread, but then even the ones who aren’t using our tools I think have generally adopted this apporach of every app, whether it’s an enterprise app or whatever it is, I think should have some kind of social sharing. I think that that idea, that’s been pretty cool to see.”
Now Facebook is prepping a “Camera Effects Platform” to let developers help you augment your photos and videos. Snapchat also wants to give you a breadth of creative tools to enhance your social media sharing, but has never cultivated a developer ecosystem before.
With so many mistakes to make and fragile balances to maintain, a decade of wisdom could give Facebook a leg up over younger competitors. Though it doesn’t have a perfect track record as a Platform, at least Facebook does have a track record. Being older than some of its own users might not be cool, but it has its advantages.

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Question: BRIEF-Osisko intersects 936 g/t AU over 2.5 metres at windfall

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UPDATE 1-Synthetic crude rises on extended Syncrude oil sands cuts
CALGARY, Alberta, June 14 The price of oil sands synthetic crude strengthened on Wednesday after the majority owner in the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta said maintenance on the facility had been extended.

VANCOUVER, B.C., Dec. 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Panoro Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:PML) (Lima:PML) (Frankfurt:PZM) (“Panoro”, the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update of its exploration drill program at its 100% owned Cotabambas Cu/Au/Ag Project in Peru. Highlights are as follows:
Petra Target: Drillhole CB-172 intersected from 0 to 78.8m oxide copper mineralization in a quartz monzonite porphyry intruding diorite and averaging 0.32% Cu, 0.08 g/t Au, 2.2 g/t Ag, including two intervals of 20.4m grading 0.48% Cu, 0.12 g/t Au, 2.6 g/t Ag, and 10.0m averaging 0.57% Cu, 0.14 g/t Au, 2.2 g/t Ag.
Maria Jose 1 Target: Drillhole CB-180 intersected from 2.2m to 115.0m oxide copper mineralization at the contact between andesite volcanics and quartz monzonite porphyry and averaging 0.23% Cu, 0.02 g/t Au and 1.1 g/t Ag, including two intervals of 9.0m grading 0.43% Cu, 0.03 g/t Au, 1.1 g/t Ag and 34.9m averaging 0.30% Cu, 0.02 g/t Au, 1.3 g/t Ag.
David Target: Drillhole CB-175 intersected from 54.8m to 142.4m oxide copper mineralization in a quartz monzonite porphyry intruding andesite volcanics and averaging 0.20% Cu, 0.07 g/t Au, 1.8 g/t Ag, including two blankets of 7.6m grading 0.39% Cu, 0.13 g/t Au, 2.4 g/t Ag, and 8.6m averaging 0.29% Cu, 0.08 g/t Au, 2.3 g/t Ag.
Luquman Shaheen, President & CEO of Panoro, states, “The drilling program continues to intersect oxide mineralization in the satellite targets of Cluster 1 of the Cotabambas Project. The oxide mineralization intersected at or near surface is demonstrating the potential to include a heap leach and SX/EW component to the current project plan outlined in the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). Panoro is waiting for additional drill assay results from drill holes targeting the sulphide mineralization intersected in previously announced drill results from the Maria Jose Target. We look forward to continuing the exploration program in 2018 to continue expanding the mineralized zones intersected in Cluster 1, around the current resource, where the 2017 drill results will guide targetting of higher grade near surface mineralization. In 2018 Panoro’s exploration work will also step out into Cluster 2 where skarn and porphyry-style copper mineralization has been identified by rock chip sampling, mapping and geophysics.”
Petra Target
The target is located 500m to the West-Northwest of the PEA pit at an elevation 250m lower than the pit limit. Approximately 95% of the area is covered by soils and colluvial deposits.
Drillhole CB-172 is located 30m to the west of the previously published drillhole CB-171 but oriented in the opposite direction. Drillhole CB-174 is located 90m to the west and oriented to the south where the quartzmonzonite was intersected without significant values.
In summary, four holes, CB-171, CB-172, CB-173 and CB-174, were drilled along a SE-NW line across the Petra Target. The results for CB171 and CB173 were published on October 11th. An oxide blanket with significant copper grades was intersected by holes CB-171, CB-172, and CB-173 along a N-S structural control leaving mineralization open toward the David target located 500m to the north.
A location plan can be found at the Company’s website, https://www.panoro.com/site/assets/files/3954/press_release_december_map_modif.jpg
Drillhole From
(m) To
(m) Intersection
(m) Cu
% Au
g/t Ag
g/t Mo
% Zone CB-172 0.0 78.8 78.8 0.32 0.08 2.2 0.0022 Oxide Including 9.5 29.9 20.4 0.48 0.12 2.6 0.0025 Oxide Including 51.0 61.0 10.0 0.57 0.14 2.2 0.0010 Oxide CB-174 No significant intersections
David Target
The David target is located 500m to the north of the Petra target and 800m to the Northwest of the PEA pit, at an elevation 260m lower than the pit limit. Four holes, CB-175, CB-176, CB-177 and CB-178, were drilled along a line across the same N-S structural control seen at the Petra target.
A location plan can be found at the company’s website, https://www.panoro.com/site/assets/files/3954/press_release_december_map_modif.jpg
Drillhole From
(m) To
(m) Intersection
(m) Cu
% Au
g/t Ag
g/t Mo
% Zone CB-175 54.8 142.4 87.7 0.20 0.07 1.8 0.0027 Oxides Including 73.3 93.3 20.1 0.29 0.14 2.5 0.0023 Oxides Including 73.3 80.8 7.6 0.39 0.13 2.4 0.0035 Oxides Including 119.7 128.3 8.6 0.29 0.08 2.3 0.0014 Oxides CB-176 20.7 25.8 5.1 0.09 0.26 3.4 0.0028 Hypogene CB-177 0.0 21.0 21.0 0.17 0.04 1.6 0.0010 Oxides CB-178 0.0 19.9 19.9 0.10 0.02 1.0 0.0008 Oxides
Maria Jose 1 Target
The Maria Jose 1 target is located 1.5 km to the Northeast of the PEA pit and 600m to the Southwest of Maria Jose 2 target. At this target, four holes, CB-179, CB-180, CB-181 and CB-182, were drilled over an area of approximately 400m by 500m.
Drillhole CB-181 is located 130m to the southeast of drillhole CB-180 and intersected quartz monzonite porphyry intruding andesite volcanics, including two blankets of oxide copper mineralization underlain by primary copper sulphides. See results in the table below.
Drillhole CB-182 is located 210m to the southwest of drillhole CB-180 and also intersected quartz monzonite porphyry intruding andesite volcanics. The oxide copper mineralization is hosted in both lithologies and is still open at depth.
In summary, drillholes CB-180 and CB-181 intersected near surface oxide copper mineralization, and drillhole CB-182 intersected similar mineralization starting from 48.7m below the surface. As with the oxide blankets intersected at other targets, there may be structural controls on the distribution of higher copper grades that could be targeted with additional drilling.
The following table details the more significant intersections. A location plan can be found at the Company’s website, https://www.panoro.com/site/assets/files/3954/press_release_december_map_modif.jpg
Drillhole From
(m) To
(m) Intersection
(m) Cu
% Au
g/t Ag
g/t Mo
% Zone CB-179 No significant intersections CB-180 2.2 115.0 112.9 0.23 0.02 1.1 0.0010 Oxides Including 15.3 24.3 9.0 0.43 0.03 1.1 0.0014 Oxides Including 53.7 88.6 34.9 0.30 0.02 1.3 0.0010 Oxides ” “ 137.4 188.7 51.3 0.24 0.01 0.9 0.0015 Hypogene CB-181 4.8 66.7 61.9 0.21 0.02 0.8 0.0005 Oxides Including 20.0 62.7 42.7 0.23 0.02 0.9 0.0006 Oxides ” “ 92.4 177.0 84.6 0.25 0.03 1.7 0.0009 Oxides Including 107.6 126.8 19.2 0.30 0.03 1.3 0.0010 Oxides ” “ 204.4 216.8 12.5 0.22 0.02 0.5 0.0017 Hypogene CB-182 48.7 105.4 56.7 0.20 0.01 1.5 0.0020 Oxides
About Panoro
Panoro Minerals is a uniquely positioned, Peru-focused copper exploration and development company. The Company is advancing its flagship project, the Cotabambas Copper-Gold-Silver Project and its Antilla Copper-Molybdenum Project located in the strategically important area of southern Peru. The Company is well financed to expand, enhance and advance its projects in the region where infrastructure such as railway, roads, ports, water supply, power generation and transmission are readily available and expanding quickly. The region boasts the recent investment of over $US 15 billion into the construction or expansion of four large open pit copper mines.
Since 2007, the Company has completed over 70,000m of exploration drilling at these two key projects leading to substantial increases in the mineral resource base for each, as summarized in the table below.
Summary of Cotabambas and Antilla Project Resources
Project Resource
Classification Million
Tonnes Cu (%) Au (g/t) Ag (g/t) Mo (%) Cotabambas Cu/Au/Ag Indicated 117.1 0.42 0.23 2.74 0.001 Inferred 605.3 0.31 0.17 2.33 0.002 @ 0.20% CuEq cutoff, effective October 2013, Tetratech Antilla Cu/Mo Indicated 291.8 0.34 – – 0.01 Inferred 90.5 0.26 – – 0.007 @ 0.175% CuEq cutoff, effective May 2016, Tetratech
Preliminary Economic Assessments (PEA) have been completed for both the Cotabambas and Antilla Projects, the key results are summarized below.
Summary of Cotabambas and Antilla Project PEA Results
Key Project Parameters Cotabambas Cu/Au/Ag Project Antilla Cu/Mo Project Mill Feed, life of mine million tonnes 483.1 350.4 Mill Feed, daily tonnes 80,000 40,000 Strip Ratio, life of mine 1.25 : 1 0.85 : 1 Before
Tax1 NPV 7.5% million USD 1,053 491 IRR % 20.4 22.2 Payback years 3.2 3.3 After
Tax1 NPV 7.5% million USD 684 225 IRR % 16.7 15.1 Payback years 3.6 4.1 Annual Average Payable
Metals Cu thousand tonnes 70.5 36.8 Au thousand ounces 95.1 – Ag thousand ounces 1,018.4 – Mo thousand tonnes – 0.9 Initial Capital Cost million USD 1,530 603 Project economics estimated at commodity prices of; Cu = US$3.00/lb, Au = US$1,250/oz, Ag = US$18.50/oz, Mo = US$12/lb
The PEAs are considered preliminary in nature and include Inferred Mineral Resources that are considered too speculative to have the economic considerations applied that would enable classification as Mineral Reserves. There is no certainty that the conclusions within the updated PEA will be realized. Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
Luis Vela, a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information in this press release.
On behalf of the Board of Panoro Minerals Ltd.
Luquman Shaheen. PEng, PE, MBA
President & CEO
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Panoro Minerals Ltd.
Luquman Shaheen, President & CEO
Phone: 604.684.4246 Fax: 604.684.4200
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.panoro.com Renmark Financial Communications Inc.
Laura Welsh
Tel.: (416) 644-2020 or (416) 939-3989
[email protected]
www.renmarkfinancial.com
CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: Information and statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and involve risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation:
risks relating to metal price fluctuations;
risks relating to estimates of mineral resources, production, capital and operating costs, decommissioning or reclamation expenses, proving to be inaccurate;
the inherent operational risks associated with mining and mineral exploration, development, mine construction and operating activities, many of which are beyond Panoro’s control;
risks relating to Panoro’s ability to enforce Panoro’s legal rights under permits or licenses or risk that Panoro’s will become subject to litigation or arbitration that has an adverse outcome;
risks relating to Panoro’s projects being in Peru, including political, economic and regulatory instability;
risks relating to the uncertainty of applications to obtain, extend or renew licenses and permits;
risks relating to potential challenges to Panoro’s right to explore and/or develop its projects;
risks relating to mineral resource estimates being based on interpretations and assumptions which may result in less mineral production under actual circumstances;
risks relating to Panoro’s operations being subject to environmental and remediation requirements, which may increase the cost of doing business and restrict Panoro’s operations;
risks relating to being adversely affected by environmental, safety and regulatory risks, including increased regulatory burdens or delays and changes of law;
risks relating to inadequate insurance or inability to obtain insurance;
risks relating to the fact that Panoro’s properties are not yet in commercial production;
risks relating to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and tax rates; and
risks relating to Panoro’s ability to raise funding to continue its exploration, development and mining activities.
This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect the forward-looking information and statements contained in this news release. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward‑looking information. The forward‑looking information contained in this news release is based on beliefs, expectations and opinions as of the date of this news release. For the reasons set forth above, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Panoro does not undertake to update any forward-looking information and statements included herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


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Question: Foreigners among 18 dead in terror attack in Turkey

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(OUAGADOUGOU) — Suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso late Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second such attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the last two years.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the violence, which continued into the early hours Monday. Gunfire could be heard almost seven hours after the attack began.

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PARIS (AP) -- French police said an 8-year-old girl was killed and at least five people were injured when a driver slammed his car into the sidewalk cafe of a pizza restaurant in a small town east of Paris.
An official with the national gendarme service said the driver was arrested soon after the incident Monday night in the town of Sept-Sorts.
The official said it is unclear whether the act was deliberate. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy.
An Algerian man drove his car into a group of French soldiers last week, and a truck attack in the French city of Nice left 86 people dead a little more than a year ago. Several other countries have seen cars used as weapons in recent years.
France (AP) - JUST IN: One girl is dead and at least five people are injured after a driver rammed into patrons at a pizza restaurant, located east of Paris.
This is a developing story. Stay with News 18 on-air and online for the latest updates.


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Question: Hong Kong developers finalists in battle for US$2.1 billion site in Shanghai shopping heartland

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He thanked the French leader for his “steadfast partnership” during the recent missile strike in response to the chemical attack in Syria.\nAn Inside look as President Trump hosts the Administration’s first State Visit: https://t.co/tySBiHUV2V pic.twitter.com/YGo1bzMD7Z — The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 23, 2018 Mr Macron told Mr Trump that together the US and France would defeat terrorism, curtail weapons of mass destruction in North Korea and Iran and act together on behalf of the planet, a reference to Mr Macron’s work to revive a US role in the Paris climate accord. “History is calling us. It is urging our people to find the fortitude that has guided us in the most difficult of times,” Mr Macron said. “France and with it, Europe, and the United States have an appointment with history.”\nThe pageantry of Mr Macron’s official state visit, the first of the Trump presidency, comes Tuesday night with a lavish state dinner at the White House. 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Hong Kong developers Shui On Land and Hongkong Land are vying for a prime plot of land in central Shanghai, a move that underscores the rising appeal of China’s top cities among overseas companies.
Two companies have entered the final stage of bidding for the land, according to a statement posted on the official Shanghai Land Market website on Monday. The statement did not disclose the competing companies’ names and said the final results would be released 10 working days later.
Huaihai Road is the face of Shanghai, so the government wouldn’t allow low profile companies … to engage
Lu Wenxi, senior analyst, Centaline Shanghai
Shui On, however, confirmed to the South China Morning Post it was in the running and “hopes it can secure the plot”.
Hongkong Land said “it does not comment on market rumours about projects” when approached by the Post, but a source in the commercial property sector confirmed it was the other bidder for the plot.
The 78,256 square metre site is located near the landmark Xintiandi shopping complex, a rarity considering few such plots have gone on sale in Shanghai in recent years. Its starting bidding price is 13.58 billion yuan (US$2.11 billion), or 44,800 yuan per square metre if the total floor space is 302,700 square metre, the maximum space allowed.
“In tier 1 cities, where prime land is rare, investment logic is vastly different from that in other cities. Consideration is put in a 10-year, 20-year time frame, instead of two to three years,” said Zhu Jing, a property analyst with Orient Securities.
Shui On, the developer behind the classic redevelopment of Xintiandi in the early 2000s, has been trying to expand its land bank in China, particularly in Shanghai, for a long time as it tries to shake off years of single-digit revenue growth. Its property sales in 2017 rose by 38 per cent to 30.3 billion yuan, but that was mainly through the sales of equity interests in Shanghai, Chongqing and Dalian projects to mainland Chinese developers, instead of property to retail buyers. Its contracted sales fell by 7 per cent last year.
But the bulk sales helped to cut its net gearing ratio from 68 to 51 per cent between 2016 and 2017, according to its result. By the end of last year, it held 16.7 billion yuan in cash and bank savings, which it is eager to invest.
Hongkong Land, the largest commercial landlord in Hong Kong’s Central district, has also been ramping up its investment in China. In January, the developer won a site in downtown Nanjing for 47.7 billion yuan. On Wednesday it formally opened its US$1.2 billion shopping centre, WF Central, in Beijing, seven months after a soft opening. The developer is also working on a commercial project in Shanghai’s Qiantan area.
Thanks to the Shanghai government’s rigorous vetting process, a move designed to control land prices, only the two Hong Kong developers made it to the final list, which will ensure a low premium over the starting bidding price, analysts said.
“Huaihai Road is the face of Shanghai, so the government wouldn’t allow low profile companies with less commercial property development experience to engage,” said Lu Wenxi, a senior analyst at Centaline Shanghai, adding that the government specified in its tender invitation that only the world’s largest 500 companies with commercial properties as their main revenue sources were welcome.
This fended off competition from Chinese developers, as they mostly rely on residential property, from the start.
This is in stark contrast with just two days ago, when it took Hang Lung Properties 10.7 billion yuan, or a 118.5 per cent premium, to win a site in Hangzhou, south of Shanghai. It took Hang Lung more than seven hours to outbid mainland and Hong Kong developers, including Wharf, CR Land, Sun Hung Kai Properties and New World Development, to secure the priciest plot in the city’s history.
“This intense competition is due to the government’s less stringent vetting before auction, and bidders have to compete on a price basis,” said Centaline Shanghai’s Lu.

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HSBC Malaysia to invest $250 mln to build HQ in TRX financial district
KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 HSBC's Malaysian subsidiary said it would invest $250 million to acquire land and build its headquarters at the Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) financial district.


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April 6 Empire Resorts Inc:
* Montreign Operating Company - has entered into a license agreement to rebrand Montreign Resort Casino a resorts world property
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Question: Former B.C. education minister considers Langley mayoral run

Promises decision about running for Langley City mayor by early August
After serving one term as a Liberal MLA, former Langley City mayor Peter Fassbender is considering a return to municipal politics.
“I’ve had lots of people approach me,” Fassbender told Black Press.
“I haven’t made a final decision. If I run, it will be for mayor.”
Fassbender said he would decide soon, likely by the end of this month or early next month.
“I would only do it if I believe I had something to contribute to the community (and) I would have to feel it’s the best for me and my wife.”
Great Volunteer gathering at the Campaign Office!!! pic.twitter.com/5rXkuahX2J — Peter Fassbender (@Fassbender_BC) April 8, 2017
Fassbender was serving as mayor of Langley City when he was elected MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood in the 2013 provincial election.
He was appointed Minister of Education during a bitter labour dispute with the B.C. Teachers Federation that ended with a settlement after five days of round-the-clock talks.
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He then served minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development and minister responsible for TransLink.
Fassbender stepped down from the mayor’s job after winning his MLA seat in Surrey-Fleetwood.
So far, two incumbent Langley City councillors have declared for the mayoralty.
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Fassbender was on the Langley School Board from 1975 to 1979.
He was first elected to Langley City as a councillor in 2002, and then as mayor in the 2005, 2008 and 2011 elections.
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VANCOUVER – A sometimes bruising leadership campaign ends today in Vancouver for British Columbia’s Liberals as they elect a new leader who will be tasked with returning the party to power after a 16-year term in office that ended last summer.
An estimated 60,000 party members were eligible to vote online and by phone to replace Christy Clark, who resigned after the New Democrats formed a minority government with the support of the Green party following a non-confidence vote that brought down the Liberals.
READ MORE: In the BC Liberal leadership race, every member’s vote counts
The field of six candidates includes three veterans with deep cabinet experience, two former big city mayors and a first-time member of the legislature from Metro Vancouver.
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Mike de Jong, Andrew Wilkinson and Todd Stone were longtime members of Clark’s cabinet.
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Sam Sullivan, a former Vancouver mayor, was appointed to cabinet in the dying days of Clark’s government last summer.
The field also includes Michael Lee, a Vancouver lawyer who was elected to the legislature last spring, and Dianne Watts, a former Conservative MP and one-time mayor of Surrey.


Question: Aspen, Colorado swaps 4 July fireworks for drone light show

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The US town of Aspen is swapping its annual Fourth of July fireworks display for a drone show - because of a wildfire risk in the drought-hit area.
Officials say 50 drones will light up the night sky in patriotic colours to mark Independence Day.
The 15-minute show will start at 21:15 local time (03:15 GMT Thursday).
This comes after Colorado's fire authorities introduced strict fire restrictions across huge swathes of the western state.
The Drone Light Show is being organised in the town's Wagner Park by the Aspen Chamber Resort Association (Acra).
It has invited the public to "watch the drones light up the sky choreographed to patriotic music".
"We had to come up with a highlight for our celebrations so we're doing a drone show. It should be fun, a bit new age," Acra's spokeswoman Melissa Wisenbaker was quoted as saying.
"If we are having these increased fire dangers and risks every year, then we would like to have alternatives so people can end the night on a good note," she added.
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Acra may have been influenced by a spectacular drone show during the Winter Olympics 2018 ceremony in Pyeongchang.
A swarm of unmanned aerial machines then formed the five Olympic rings in mid-air.
However, the organisers later said the spectacular sight of 1,218 drones in the sky was pre-recorded because of "possible freezing weather and strong winds".

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Oh, say can you see…amazing pyrotechnics from the comfort of your living room. July 4th, Macy’s lights up the sky over New York City’s East River for another spectacular fireworks display to celebrate the nation’s 242nd birthday.
Kelly Clarkson performs and American Ninja Warrior cohosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila are on deck to emcee the event. To mark the occasion, we broke down some facts about the big show. No earplugs necessary here!
100
The minimum number of crew members needed to run the live two-hour telecast.
25
How many different colors are used in the fireworks. It’s more than just red, white and blue exploding in the air!
1,000
The height, in feet, that the screaming sparklers reach above the spectators’ heads.
75,000
The total number of fireworks that whiz heavenward during the show, more than at any other event in the nation. Every single roman candle or chrysanthemum or peony that bursts in the sky is launched by a computer that controls the display. After two decades of hand-lit fireworks, organizers went digital in the 1990s.
365
The number of days it takes to plan the event. Between wrangling talent to perform and host, securing the fireworks and working out logistics, organizers toil all year to make sure the night goes off without a hitch.
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How many full test-runs of the show are performed before Independence Day. However, the crew will bring a few new shells out to the Mojave Desert four to five times per year to make sure they go boom and not bust.
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Question: NFL Draft 2018: Will the Browns take Baker Mayfield at No. 1?

Could Baker Mayfield be the first quarterback to go in this year's NFL Draft?
According to sources with ESPN.com, the Browns, who have the first and fourth overall picks, are heavily weighing drafting Mayfield first.
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Apparently the Browns already know who they are drafting first. And Mayfield was discussed as a serious consideration before that decision was made, so there is a chance the former Oklahoma QB could be the 2018 overall top pick.
The Browns' quarterback woes have been heavily documented, and the team became the second franchise in the modern era to go 0-16 last season. Mayfield, who won the Heisman Trophy this past season, would be the Browns' 29th starting quarterback since 1999 if he posts up in Cleveland.
Other quarterbacks that could be drafted in the first round or by the Browns include Josh Allen and Sam Darnold.

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In today's [BN] Blitz Daily Drive Podcast, Paul Peck and Kevin Sylvester of Buffalo Sports Page discuss the Jets trade for the No. 3 pick in the draft, and how that impacts the Bills' plans to select a top quarterback.
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2:30 Why would the Jets make this move?
4:30 Bills reaction to this trade
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., are appealing for witnesses to an assault to come forward after video of the incident was shared on social media.
Investigators say the cellphone video shows a male striking a female, but the time and date of the incident are not known.
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Question: Relationship has few benefits

Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I have been on/off for the last five years.
During the time we were apart, he had another girlfriend. I didn’t know about her. He and I maintained a “friends with benefits” relationship during our breaks.
After I became pregnant with his child, I found out that they were very serious. I learned that she was pregnant, too. Our sons were born nine days apart.
They are no longer together, and he and I are trying to work things out, but I can’t seem to let their relationship go.
I know that Facebook isn’t “life,” but it bothers me that their entire relationship was broadcast on FB, but he won’t even acknowledge us as being in a relationship.
He has never posted a picture of us or of our son.
He says he’s ashamed of himself (not of me), but I can’t help but feel like he’s not being truthful. I think he’s ashamed of me.
He tells me all the time: “You’re not her,” which makes me feel like he wishes he wasn’t with me. He says I’m being insecure, and that he’s never going to care about Facebook.
I just don’t get why he could care about his Facebook status when he was with her, but not with me?
Am I being stupid?
— Worried
Dear Worried: When you ask me if you’re being “stupid,” you run the risk of supplying me with a descriptor I’d rather not apply to a woman with a young child. However, this whole situation is unfortunate — because Rome is burning and you’re worried about your Facebook status.
I do agree that this status is a sign of where your guy’s priorities are, and while I’m not inclined to side with him, I do appreciate his embarrassment over fathering two babies (days apart) with two different women. Yes, he should feel embarrassed. He deceived both women (I imagine), and now his ability to be a good parent to both of his sons is compromised because one baby’s mother is insecure and threatened by the other. This impedes his ability to be present in his sons’ lives.
Your guy is not in charge of Facebook. You should post whatever photos you want the world to see. When people start to realize that your partner has two sons the same age with different women, he (and you) will face some questions.
Please understand that parenthood will not magically change your guy’s character. You should get all of your legal, custodial and financial ducks in a row regarding the child, encourage this man to be a good father to both of his children, but understand that he may not intend to lead a monogamous life.
Dear Amy: My “adult” 23-year-old son is home for the holidays.
He leads a more liberal lifestyle than my husband and me, and suffice it to say not only do our politics not match up, but neither do our hygiene practices.
To be blunt, his BO is killing us! I didn’t raise him this way and I absolutely can’t stand it.
I just can’t embrace not showering daily and not using a daily dose of antiperspirant.
How do you address an awkward and difficult topic with a person who is also awkward and difficult?
— Mother of the Smelly Kid
Dear Mother: I assume you have heard the term “adulting.” This is a recently minted verb to describe the process that people in their 20s are now undertaking to finally exit their lengthy childhoods. Adulting refers to assuming some life skills, such as doing dishes, paying bills, and — yes, cleaning oneself.
I’m assuming that you did teach your son these skills, but your fear of mentioning this now indicates that you are actually afraid to relate to him both as a parent and as a fellow adult.
(This doesn’t have anything to do with your politics — or his — by the way.)
Tell your son, “We love having you home. But you’ve got to wash yourself — and your clothes — while you’re here. Let me show you how to use the washer, and let’s put in a load.”
Dear Readers: My own life is probably a lot like yours. I’ve experienced poverty, prosperity, marriage, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting, caretaking, loss and grief. If you’ve ever been curious about the life behind the advice column, I hope you’ll consider picking up my memoir, “Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home.” (2017, Hachette).

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule Tuesday that seeks to restrict the types of scientific studies that regulators can use to determine the impact of pesticide and pollution exposure on human health.
Pruitt said the change, long sought by chemical manufacturers and fossil fuel companies, would increase transparency in the agency's decision-making by requiring all underlying data used in scientific studies to be made publicly available.
"The era of secret science at EPA is coming to an end," Pruitt said. "The ability to test, authenticate and reproduce scientific findings is vital for the integrity of the rule-making process. Americans deserve to assess the legitimacy of the science underpinning EPA decisions that may impact their lives."
Facing a swarm of ethical questions about his use of taxpayer money for personal perks, Pruitt signed the proposed order at EPA headquarters in an event livestreamed on the agency's website but not open to the press.
Critics that include former EPA administrators and scientists said the policy shift is designed to restrict the agency from citing peer-reviewed public-health studies that use patient medical records that must be kept confidential under patient privacy laws.
Such studies include the Harvard School of Public Health's landmark Six Cities study of 1993, which established links between death rates and dirty air in major U.S. cities. That study was used by EPA to justify tighter air-quality rules opposed by industrial polluters.
"This policy converts transparency from a principle for improving science into a weapon that undermines it," said Brian Nosek, a psychologist who directs and co-founded the Center for Open Science, which advocates for open data and transparency in research.
If finalized after a 30-day public comment period, the new policy would follow other moves by Pruitt that have included replacing academic scientists on EPA advisory committee with those either directly employed by industry or who accept research funding from corporate interests.
In adopting the "secret science" ban, Pruitt is implementing restrictions that conservative lawmakers have sought for years but been unable to pass, even with Republican majorities in both the House and Senate.
"For too long, the EPA has issued rules and regulations based on data that has been withheld from the American people," said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, a Republican who chairs the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. "It's likely that in the past the data did not justify all regulations. Today, Administrator Pruitt rightfully is changing business as usual and putting a stop to hidden agendas."
Smith also took the opportunity to lend his support to the embattled EPA chief.
"I know of no other administration official who goes on the offensive, who isn't intimidated, and who does what he thinks is the right thing regardless," Smith said.
Top scientists and experts in the environment slammed Pruitt's new policy, saying it will pit public health research against privacy and the public will lose out.
"I think the underlying motivation here is pernicious," said Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor M. Granger Morgan, who chaired EPA's Science Advisory Board under Republican President George W. Bush. He said the policy is an attempt by people who aren't interested in using science to find the truth "to raise doubts about what at this stage is very clearly established and well-reviewed science."
Scientists say when they do epidemiological studies — which look at what's happening in the real world and comparing it to illness and deaths, such as cancer clusters — they have to abide by health privacy rules.
This rule would say research results that don't post such private data couldn't be used by EPA "unless subjects have surrendered their right to privacy," William K. Reilly, who was EPA chief during the George H.W. Bush presidency, said in an email.
Pruitt cited two closed access journals — Science and Nature — as positive examples of transparency. But those journals have strict programs that allow outside experts to review private data, checking it for accuracy yet not making it public.
Tom Burke, EPA science chief during the Barack Obama administration, called the new policy "an invitation to endless delay."
He said it could "tangle up public health actions" when dealing with people and cancer-causing substances in water and air. "When something has spilled and is coming down the river, you need to set a number for when to shut the water off," said Burke, an epidemiologist who now heads the Risk Sciences Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
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U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he departs the White House in Washington, U.S. April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
WASHINGTON A U.S. appeals court on Friday granted a Trump administration request to put on hold a legal challenge by industry and a group of states to former President Barack Obama's regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, rules that the Republican president is moving to undo.
A 10-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the request to put the litigation involving the regulations, known as the Clean Power Plan, in abeyance for at least 60 days while the administration plans its next steps.
The court also asked the administration and other parties to file briefs on whether the case should be sent back to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Supreme Court last year put the regulations on hold pending the outcome of the case.
In a separate order issued on Friday, the same court put on hold a case challenging another set of Obama climate regulations aimed at new power plants.
Twenty-seven states, led by coal-producer West Virginia and industry groups, challenged the Obama regulation. Other states and environmental groups backed the former administration.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who sided with the previous administration's EPA to defend the Clean Power Plan, brushed off the court's move, saying it simply puts the litigation on hold for 60 days.
“Today’s temporary pause in the litigation does not relieve EPA of its legal obligation to limit carbon pollution from its largest source: fossil-fueled power plants," Schneiderman said. "I will continue to fight in court to ensure EPA fulfills its legal responsibility."
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who led the challenge against the rule, said Friday's decision signaled that the court has acknowledged the change in the political landscape "and that a decision on the merits is not appropriate at this time."
An executive order by Trump was part of his effort to cut federal environmental regulations to revive the energy drilling and coal mining industries, a promise he made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Energy analysts and executives have questioned whether Trump's broad moves against environmental regulations will provide a big benefit for their industries, and environmentalists have called his actions reckless.
The Clean Power Plan was designed to lower carbon emissions from existing U.S. power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels. It was seen as the main tool for the United States to meet the emissions-reduction target it promised to reach at U.N. climate talks in Paris in December 2015. Power plants are the largest source of U.S. carbon emissions.
David Cherney, an energy analyst for PA Consulting, said the D.C. Circuit ruling gives the Trump administration more time to come up with a replacement to the Clean Power Plan, which will inevitably be followed by more legal challenges.
"Any change to the Clean Power Plan by the Trump administration will be challenged in courts and would need to be sufficiently justified to survive legal challenge from the environmental lobby," Cherney said.
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici; editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Dan Grebler and Jonathan Oatis)