If God exists, what are his powers, really?
Here's an even trickier question: What is he really like?
In The God Projekt, which together with Dorme closes this season's Puppet Series at La MaMa, Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe proposes some answers. God (played by the aptly named Augustine) is an aged vaudevillian and magician, powerful enough to create living creatures out of dust and spit, but at the same time too decrepit to heal a sick little girl. This Yahweh certainly can't keep track of the trillions of prayers he receives and then stores on color-coded index cards in a huge bank of file cabinets.
Unusual and thought-provoking, if too diffuse to carry the full impact of its ambition, the show brings to mind Beckett's great situational monologues. God is trying to get the Word out definitively once and for all, and the age of YouTube is the perfect time, as he can create a series of videos of his very own. Krapp's Last Tape in particular comes to mind. Yet this God is hopelessly out of date, recording on used VCR tapes and mucking around with decades-old communications technology (a Dictaphone!?), not to mention all those physical file cabinets.
Old-time flavors pervade the show, from the vaudeville-era songs and jokes to the deluxe tuxedo God wears in the second act. But it's all in the service of some cutting-edge puppetry, not technologically but creatively. "Creative" is the word: one project God conceives is to re-create mankind, and what he does to himself to get the organs for his new Adam is certainly cutting-edge. At first just a clump of blood vessels, this re-creation grows into a beating heart, then a half-made figure – sentient but with exposed organs, nonfunctional vocal cords, and as yet no legs. Tension builds as it dawns on us that this Adam might never get past this half-made horror-movie state.
But there are too many slow-moving elements for anxiety to mount in a sustained way. Augustine and co-creator Edward Einhorn engage in a variety of sometimes aggressive tactics, such as turning up the house lights to thrust the audience into the action. And numerous moments hit home: when God realizes a man he's welcome-homed into his lair isn't really Jesus; when he learns the fate of a little girl he thought he'd healed; the Adam puppet, alone and apparently forgotten by his distracted creator, trapped and menaced by the wild beasts he hasn't yet the voice to name; God, youthful in memory, dancing with the puppet legs of his beloved.
The Yahweh character study is compelling, too, along with the questions raised along the way. Ultimately, what this experimental work lacks in focus it makes up for in ingenuity. It's surely one of the most unusual shows I've seen this year. This world premiere, presented by Lone Wolf Tribe in association with Untitled Theater Co. #61, runs through Nov. 24 at The Club at La MaMa.


It's an $11.2 million project and—the developer is promising—would bring 120 full-time jobs to Chesterton.
On the strength of that pledge, Long Term Care Investments (LTCI) LLC of Elkhart is seeking a 10-year-tax abatement for a 120-bed, 70,000-square foot nursing home facility proposed for vacant land, currently owned by Porter hospital, at 1150 Dickinson Road, just south of the Chesterton Medical Center.
The project, however, is contingent on the Town Council's granting of that abatement, attorney Greg Babcock, representing LTCI, told the Chesterton Tribune today.
The Tax Abatement Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on the matter at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Although LTCI is developing the project, the actual facility would be managed by Extendicare Health Services Inc., which currently administers 180 such facilities in 12 states, 15 of them in Indiana, according to the abatement application.
•All 120 would be full-time and would include health insurance, vacation, and sick benefits, along with a 401(k) retirement package.
•The average wage would be $16.88 per hour or $35,110 per year: that is to say, 63 percent of the median household income of $55,530 in the Town of Chesterton, the abatement application notes.
•60 of the hires would be technicians—including certified nursing assistants—at an average wage of $14 per hour; 30 would be professionals—including RN and LPN nurses—at a wage of $21 per hour; 15 would be managers and supervisors at a wage of $18 per hour; and 15 would be clerical—including dietary, housekeeping, and support staff—at a wage of $14.50 per hour.
The eight acres in question—purchase price: $750,000—is zoned B-2 and no variances are anticipated being applied for in the course of the project, with a projected start day of Oct. 1 and estimated completion date of Jan. 1, 2012.
The single-story building itself is expected to cost $8.575 million to build and another $1.875 million to equip. All rooms would be singles.
For the record, Babcock said that he does not believe that the project would affect the soccer fields off Dickinson Road.


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HOLLOW WORLD is a new Australian discovery for me. So in order to get t o know them a bit better I had to interview them. Anders Ekdahl ©2016
-We're Hollow World, a Melodic Death Metal band from Australia's South East. We play pretty fast and heavy music along the lines of The Black Dahlia Murder, At the Gates, etc.
How does one come up with songs that have not been written yet? There is just so many chords to be used.
-This can vary quite a lot, sometimes someone will have a moment of inspiration and show up to practice with a full song, sometimes it's a riff here and there that we work on together and other times we'll sit down together and write in a dedicated session. As far as methods go, picking a key to play in and the general feel we want to aim for is usually the starting point.
-As a general rule not at all, we all entered the band with pretty similar tastes when it comes to metal. Fast, melodic and aggressive!
-Lyrics are incredibly important to us, they convey the story behind the music for the listener to hear.
We generally have fantasy based lyrics that deal with battles, magic and death. However our upcoming material is going to take a slight change of focus in terms of breaking away from our normal content.
5. How important is the cover art work for you? How much do you decide in choosing art work?
Once again we feel that the artwork is an integral piece of the story. In much the same way that the lyrics can tell the story, cover art can help a viewer to visualize and feel what we're envisioning for the cd/release.
Where outside of your country have you had success? How do you define success?
We haven't yet started to branch outside of Australia too heavily (aside from what interest we garner on social media and the internet). However in the future we'd love to get ourselves established in the international circuit.
For us, success would be playing shows to crowds who genuinely love what they're hearing. In this day and age, to be making music with some hope of becoming rich is just not gonna happen, you've really got to do it for the love.
Why is it that we do not see more metal bands from Australia making it big internationally?
-I guess it's where you're looking. From an Australian point of view we see bands like Thy Art Is Murder, Twelve Foot Ninja, Aversions Crown, Psycroptic, Be'lakor and Ne Obliviscaris (just to name a few) absolutely killing it in Europe, Asia and America. However because we are just SO far away, plane tickets and touring expenses can be really quite intimidating for a lot of smaller bands and this stops them managing to get out of the country and play to the world.
-The Australian metal scene is great, we're also lucky to live in Melbourne where we honestly believe the scene is at it's strongest. There's so many fantastic people to meet, play with or go and watch play. Couldn't be more positive in our opinion!
-Metal will definitely get you pigeonholed pretty easily. A lot of non fans will see guys with piercings, tattoos, long hair and band shirts as either intimidating or deadbeats.
I hear time and time again "It's just noise", "I can't understand a word they're saying!" but I think that comes from a certain close minded point of view.
-More music, more shows! We plan on continuing our journey and growing as a band whilst we do so!
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Forbes recently came out with their list of top CEOs and no surprises, Jeff Bezos was up there among them. But what makes the man so great? Is it because he is the only person who has the technical expertise to give customers what they want, or it is because he is a marketing genius and is able to get the resources he needs to undertake practically any project that tickles his fancy?
Most would argue that it's the latter. Whereas Elon Musk is the type of CEO who is very interested in the day to day nuts and bolts of his company, Bezos is a little more aloof. His business – something that began as a narrow ecommerce outfit – grew because of some clever marketing ploys which ultimately paid off.
Amazon didn't become the global ecommerce platform of choice by chance. Instead, they did it by testing absolutely everything. All this testing led to a lot of rules about what kind of images people could have for their products, and which they couldn't. Their research ultimately led them to discover that when products are displayed on a plain white background, they sell more often. This then led them to adopt a rule with their sellers that they could only display product images on a white background. Over time, this created uniformity and helped consumers see what they were buying, making using Amazon a better, overall experience.
What this demonstrates is the importance of testing. Just because you think that something will work well, doesn't mean that it actually will. Make sure that if you do implement changes, however minor, you test them thoroughly before they go live.
Amazon quickly realised that just having a site that sat in the browser wasn't sufficient to properly market their brand or their product. Every ecommerce website in the world has a site (not surprisingly) – and so getting your particular site to stand out is difficult. Functionality on websites is heavily constrained by the browser itself, detracting from the customer experience.
To be successful, Amazon needed more than a site. It needed a web app. Because it was one of the first to use web apps, the cost of creating it was enormous. But now there's a Magento agency around every corner, offering inexpensive, high-quality web app solutions for practically any ecommerce businesses. Web apps tailor the user experience and help you escape the confines of the browser.
What else is important for on-site marketing, besides image properties and web apps. The next step in the process is descriptions: the information customers can glean about your products in a split second. Amazon quickly realised that customers looked at images first and then quickly moved on to find out more about the features of a product in quick, successive bullet point format. That's why you'll regularly find a "key features" section on Amazon product pages, no matter who the seller. Key features are an efficient way to let a customer know whether or not a particular product will actually meet their needs.


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University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Vol. 165 Nbr. 7, June 2017
UNORTHODOX CIVIL PROCEDURE: MODERN MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION'S PLACE IN THE TEXTBOOK UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROCEDURE.
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Author: Gluck, Abbe R.
Position: Special Issue on Class Actions
INTRODUCTION 1671 I. UNORTHODOX CIVIL PROCEDURE: MDLS AND THE WORLD BEYOND PROCEDURE 1677 II. NATIONALISM V. FEDERALISM 1681 A. The Race to the Courthouse: Horizontal Parity, not Sovereignty, Is the Issue 1682 B. Evolving Procedure Doctrine for the National Context 1684 C. General Jurisdiction as an Example of Modernizing Procedure? 1685 III. THE FRCP v. A FEDERAL COMMON LAW OF MDL PROCEDURE 1687 A. MDL Exceptionalism when It Comes to the Rules 1689 B. Transparency 1689 C. The Creation of MDL Common Law 1691 D. MDL as Delegation 1693 E. Unorthodox Lawmaking, Redux 1694 IV. MDL, ACCESS TO COURT, AND THE CLASS-ACTION COMPARISON 1695 V. MDLs AND THE TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 1698 A. Horizontal Federal Judicial Relationships and the New Judicial Elite 1698 B. Relationships With and Among Counsel: The Dominance of Consent 1699 C. Horizontal Judicial Relationships Across State and Federal Systems 1703 D. The Final Vertical Relationship: Appellate Review 1706 E. A Snapshot of MDL Appellate Review 1707 CONCLUSION: UNORTHODOX CIVIL PROCEDURE 1709 INTRODUCTION
From the very first paragraph of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)--in which is set forth the goal of the "just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action" (1)--it is evident that the system is anchored in a set of competing norms and tensions. The rules and doctrines of the field themselves may be understood as mechanisms to effectuate this constant mediation of tradeoffs. There is the structural tradeoff between federalism and nationalism, evident in procedure's theories and doctrines of jurisdiction and choice of law. There is the negotiation between transsubstantive, or "one size fits all," rules of procedure and rules that are instead tailored to particular kinds of cases. (2) And the system struggles with the competing norms linked together by Rule 1, that is, between access to justice and efficiency. Through it all is a meta-debate about the value of the FRCP themselves as a system-organizing mechanism, and the process by which the rules are made--a process very different from what emerges when judges make procedure in common law fashion. To understand these systemic tensions is also to understand the institutional arrangements that the rules and doctrines of procedure have painstakingly arranged. Central to those arrangements are the horizontal and vertical relationships among the system's key players--clients, lawyers, and judges (both state and federal)--who interact with one another, sometimes as adversaries, other times as peers and collaborators, and still other times as superiors and inferiors, in the more traditional hierarchies of the judge--lawyer relationship and appellate review.
Enter multidistrict litigation. The so-called "MDL" is an old-but-new procedural tool that significantly disrupts many of these worked-out equilibria. The MDL is unorthodox, modern, non-textbook, civil procedure. It also may be a symptom of deeper pressures now on the system to recalibrate even more of procedure's traditional normative and doctrinal baselines.
But this does not mean that MDLs are rare, or even new. Born fifty years ago as the quieter sibling of class actions, the MDL has recently evolved from its initial purpose--to accommodate a rash of antitrust litigation against electrical equipment manufactured (3)--into a more central procedural mechanism than ever imagined. Today, actions consolidated in MDLs comprise thirty-nine percent of open cases on the federal docket. (4) Thirty-nine percent--a number that tends to shock even those law professors who teach procedure, because MDLs have attracted so little attention in academic work (5) or the casebooks. (6) The average number of pages devoted to MDLs in the leading first-year civil procedure casebooks is two. (7)
MDLs are unorthodox because they are workarounds to the currently accepted baselines of civil procedure: the FRCP as preferred over common law rules; federalism considerations; traditional institutional relationships; and--in the ultimate unorthodox workaround--MDLs are designed to avoid trial itself. Although styled as a mechanism for only pretrial resolution of cases unamenable to class action but with sufficient similarities to justify some consolidation, (8) it is the worst-kept secret in civil procedure that the MDL is really a dispositive, not pretrial, action. MDL judges, unlike judges even in class actions, do not generally manage to trial or even to the possibility of trial. (9) Only about three percent of cases remand to the originator (transferor) district judge; all others settle in or are resolved--for instance, through summary judgment--by the MDL court. (10) That is a shocking statistic when one considers the mandate of the MDL statute itself, which provides that any MDL "action . . . shall be remanded by the panel at or before the conclusion of such pretrial proceedings to the district from which it was transferred." (11) By all accounts, the statute's idealized vision differs dramatically from the real-world practice of MDL. Indeed, most MDL cases are understood by all involved to be unamenable to trial at the outset. As one judge put it, "[i]t's the culture of transferee courts. You have failed if you transfer it back."
MDLs are modern because they see the need for a national, not state-centered, approach to questions of jurisdiction and even choice of law. The way MDLs respond to this challenge also is emblematic of bigger forces pushing procedure in a multitude of different areas. MDLs are the product of the nationalization of the modern economy and a symptom of the lack of tools inside the FRCP to accommodate those changes.
MDLs also depend almost entirely on consent and, in turn, disrupt traditional relationships among their players, turning judges and lawyers into deeply collaborative partners in (as one judge put it) "practical problem solving." MDLs have created a judicial elite among the federal judges chosen to lead them, subverting the baseline premise of horizontal equality among federal district judges and instantiating Judge Richard Posner's view that federal judges, with life tenure and little prospect for formal promotion, are eager to find some way to distinguish themselves from the pack. (12) The MDL judge in many ways acts more like a modern administrator than the judge the FRCP envisions, not least because, like agencies, the particular MDL judges who are chosen for these cases are delegated to specifically for their expertise in practical administration. (13)
Finally, MDLs exemplify procedural exceptionalism. This is a type of litigation that judges insist is unique, too different from case to case to be managed by the transsubstantive values that form the very soul of the FRCP. Instead, judges develop their own special MDL procedures, often in collaboration with specialist lawyers, that build on previous MDLs or analogous actions. As a result, what has emerged is essentially a federal common law of MDL procedure. Yet, in another deviation from the norm, this common law is rarely treated as precedential or even subject to the customary judicial appellate review.
These deviations from the painstakingly crafted textbook of procedure have caused academic anxiety. Many scholars worry about the lack of MDL transparency, the loss of the individual claim, and the dearth of uniform MDL procedural law. (14) Some put MDLs together with arbitration as another mechanism that undermines trial and the traditional class action. (15)
But of course, 99% of all filed civil cases today are resolved without trial. (16) The FRCP also now gives judges broad case management discretion in all kinds of cases and encourages a general managerial approach. My goal is not to convince the reader that the MDL is unique. Rather it is to present the MDL as a perhaps extreme example of developments in procedure that may tell us something about the modern pressures on the system, both in traditional cases and otherwise. These pressures are likely to produce only more unorthodoxies over time. (17) And in the MDL context, the deviations do tend to be especially far-reaching, with many judges adopting a discernable cowboy-on-the-frontier mentality that is not as apparent in other contexts. In other words, as the old saying goes, a difference in degree may convert into a difference in kind.
However labeled, the view from the ground seems very different from the view in the academy. This Article relies on lengthy and confidential oral interviews of twenty judges (fifteen federal, five state), each with significant experience in MDL litigation. (18) The federal judges who try these cases, and even some of the state judges who try parallel proceedings, are emphatic proponents of the MDL form. These judges describe MDLs as immensely satisfying, "roll up one's sleeves" work. They find MDLs superior to class actions, in large part because they feel they are better "litigated," even though they never go to trial. (This reveals another unanswered question: what does it mean to "litigate" in the modern era of infrequent trial?) What's more, MDL judges resist at all cost imposing rules--whether in the FRCP or through uniform federal procedural common law--on the MDL process.
This Article focuses on large MDLs, which the judges described as quite different from smaller ones. It is the unique pressure of managing hundreds, often thousands, of individualized claims in the aggregate that has birthed the procedural unorthodoxies that are the subject of this Article. To appreciate the scale of these large MDLs, note that the vast majority of cases on the MDL docket have been consolidated into a very small number of MDLs--in March 2017, for instance, 87% of cases were consolidated into only 18 MDLs, each with 1000 or more civil actions. (19)
MDL judges deny that MDLs undercut the individual case or individual access to justice. Instead, they argue...


The first full-length teaser trailer for Asif Kapadia's new Amy Winehouse documentary – simply titled Amy – has just been released and it's just as heartbreaking as we expected.
The emotional and moving film received rave reviews after its debut at Cannes Film Festival this week and features live performances, home videos, interviews with family and friends, and archive footage, as well as previously unreleased songs from the star.
The talented team behind the film includes director Asif Kapadia, who previously directed the 2010 BAFTA-winning documentary Senna, and James Gay-Rees, who produced Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop.
The film originally had the blessing of Amy's father Mitch, who has now spoken out against the documentary makers. Amy's family believe that the film portrays them in a bad light and as being absent during the star's most troubled times. Mitch is now threatening to sue for defamation.


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2022 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Predictions | Preview & Picks For The European Tour At Yas Links
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Written By Tyler Duke on January 18, 2022 - Last Updated on January 19, 2022
The 2022 European Tour season gets things started this week with one of its biggest tournaments of the year, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
Despite the fact that this event takes place overseas, anyone interested in golf betting on the PGA Tour may also find themselves enjoying the European action this season, as bettors can wager on these big late-night/early-morning events thanks to the wide range of markets offered at online sportsbooks in a growing number of states.
Below, we'll preview the new host, Yas Links, and hand out a few picks for who can come out on top to start the new European Tour season as we make our Abu Dhabi HSBC championship predictions.
2022 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Betting Preview
We'll see 14 of the top 60 in the world tee it up at Yas Links this year, a new host for the Abu Dhabi event. Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, and Viktor Hovland will headline the field as household names among fans of the PGA Tour. Last year, Tyrrell Hatton outlasted McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood to take home this title.
Yas Links will be quite a change for longtime Abu Dhabi participants. This is as true of a links test as you'll find outside of the United Kingdom, as it appears it features all of the usual traits of seaside links tracks. This will bring more styles of play out and open things up a bit from the usual favorites, but playing at more than 7,400 yards, you'll still prefer power if you want birdies this week. I'm focusing on ball striking and SG: Around the Green.
One more note is the winds are forecasted to be as high as 35 mph this week. I'm looking strongly at great wind players to handle that.
2022 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Picks & Predictions
Tommy Fleetwood To Win (+2400 or better)
An off-year in 2022 dropped Fleetwood to 41st in the world, the lowest he's been since early 2017. He seemed to be figuring this out a bit late in the year, and this is a crazy number for someone who has two wins and a second-place finish in his career in this event.
It's a new course, but if anything a links test should suit the Englishman even better. He's one of the best players in the world in high winds and controls his ball flight as well as anyone. On top of that, he's always been extremely tidy around the greens, so I find this to be a perfect test for Fleetwood to get his first win since 2019.
Thomas Pieters to win (+3600 or better)
I'm all in on Pieters reaching and perhaps surpassing his career-best mark of 24th in the world rankings this year. After some slumping years, he really brought his game back in 2021 and was playing his best golf as the year ended.
Pieters has played well in Abu Dhabi in the past and is a powerful player who is fantastic in high winds. He's able to flight his ball exceptionally well and as one of the better short-game players in Europe as well, I was surprised to see this number well into the 30s when he could have been priced with Hatton and Lowry based on form.
Adam Scott To Win (+3500 or better)
The Aussie will come to Abu Dhabi for the first time since 2007, and with more difficult conditions on a proper links course, it's likely the perfect time. Scott has always been another exceptional wind player, and I do believe some of the veterans might have an advantage on a course with more quirks than pros are used to seeing.
Scott has dropped outside the top 50 in the world, but a 2nd at Wyndham and 5th at the CJ Cup had him looking more in form than he was all in 2020 and into 2021. An exceptional driver of the ball who has gotten better on and around the greens as of late, I think this is a great spot for him to start 2022 strong.
Matthias Schwab To Win (+6500 or better)
One of my favorite young players for years now, Schwab has been unable to break out on any Tour the last couple of years despite stretches of great play. He got PGA Tour status through the Korn Ferry Tour at the end of 2021 and played decent golf in America to end the year. He's a powerful driver of the ball whose best skillset might be around the greens. That should play well here, and if he catches hot with the irons, he could build on some success he's had in the Middle East.
With a number approaching 70/1 at some spots, you're betting a guy who is often down in the low 20s in a normal European Tour field. I don't think the presence of just the three big names warrants that big of a drop, so I'm in on the Austrian this week.
Matthias Schmid To Win (+15000 or better)
I'm going to end with a longshot on perhaps the most promising rookie on the European Tour this year. Schmid has a ton of game and contended for a win multiple times last year in some of his first starts on the big tour. He has all the skill you'd ever want in a young player and seems to possess the temperament alongside it.
You should expect to hear a ton of his name in 2022, and a price like this is way too big to pass up for one of the most skilled guys in the field. It's better to be early than late on someone who will likely be priced much, much lower than this all year.
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How to Get An Asian Girlfriend By Valentine's Day, According to Non-Asian Experts
Jin Hyun
Ever wonder what goes on inside the mind of an Asian woman? Dating can be difficult, especially when your yellow fever is scaring away every female in your life.
If you're on the lookout for an Asian girlfriend by Valentine's Day, let the internet help you. After all, you know what they say: if you want to know what Asian women want in their love lives, just ask a mediocre white guy named Chad, Derek, John or Chuck, they'll definitely know what they're talking about.
Here are some of the so-called ingenious and fool-proof ways to get yourself an Asian girlfriend according to the self-proclaimed "experts" of the internet. Because you know, all Asian women are exactly alike.
They all love toxic masculinity
According to Dean Cortez, "Asian women want to be around a masculine presence, because they are so utterly feminine."
"This is not the case with a lot of American women these days. Not only do they want to "wear the pants" in the relationship, they'll also adopt a masculine style of dress — such as wearing baggy sweatpants and baseball caps. You simply will never see an Asian woman dressing this way, even if she's just going to the store," he writes.
Treat life like a soap opera
Apparently, all Asian women grow up watching what Dean calls, "romantic serials."
"This stuff may sound corny to you, but Asian women are raised to believe in it. And so, they expect men to 'court' them."
"Of course, there are Asian women who are less traditional and will date 'bad boy'-type men. But most high-quality Asian women, since they never want to shame themselves or their families, won't be seen in public with a foreign guy who dresses shabbily and has lots of visible tattoos."
Unlike with Western women, you're allowed to compliment them
"It's absolutely OK to pay an Asian woman a compliment on how nice she looks," Cortez reassures readers.
"With American women, I don't advise you to do this. (They take this as a sign that you're just another desperate guy trying to hook up with them.) Asian women, however, because they are so wonderfully feminine and take pride in how they look at all times, will be genuinely appreciative of a sincere compliment."
If she doesn't react immediately or becomes shy, don't worry because you're actually doing this right. "Although she may act shy, and blush when you tell her, this just means that you've touched her emotionally," Cortez says.
Make her smile
Dan Bloom has come up with a fool-proof three step method when it comes to speaking to Asian women:
"Casually get a conversation started based on something she's wearing or doing, ask her if she's a tourist from Africa (90% this gets a laugh because it's unexpected), once she laughs tell her that you like her taste of humor and ask for her name."
"This 3-step combination is a good start. It's also tailored for women from Asia. If you told this to women back home many of them would wonder if you're 'normal'. Most Asian women are more 'fun' and will play along. That's one reason why I love girls from the Orient."
Enlist help from other "Orientals"
Worst comes to worst, if you still can't find your perfect Asian girl, ask for help. "If you're in Korea or Japan you can even tell your colleagues that you're looking for an Asian girlfriend. It's customary in certain Oriental countries to help friends out with getting dates," Bloom writes.
Lie to her about your yellow fever
"You'll get asked by any Asian girl on the first date whether you have an Asian fetish. Just say that you've never dated an Asian girl and she'll suddenly see you as a challenge. (Trust me, works every f**king time. Every. F**king. Time)," Lance writes.
Lance says that Asian women are more likely to fall for the charming and polite type than other races, "Once again, think about rom coms and how the hero acts – obviously don't be that guy though – he never gets laid," Lance says. So basically, invent a whole new identity is what he's saying.
Be willing to put up with her BS
According to Lance, "Asian girls are REALLY f**king clingy. They will text you all f**king day long and pout about how you didn't text them enough."
Apparently Asian women are also too obsessed with money and wealth. "Asian girls expect the guy to pay and they care about money more than other populations," Lance writes.
In an article written by Colt Williams it states, "East Asian girls are probably the most traditionally submissive women you will ever encounter. They will not lend much of a hand to you in their own seduction, so you must boldly lead them to the bedroom. And if you can do so while maintaining your frame, they'll wet themselves in anticipation for what's to come."
In a different article by a man who calls himself "G-Freedom," he argues the same rings true outside of the bedroom as well. "Asian women will generally not challenge a man too strongly when it comes to decision time," he writes.
"Plenty will have their say and give their opinion, but when it comes time to make the big calls, the man is wearing the big boy boots. This comes with the burden of responsibility for those decisions, so make sure you are ready to lead."
If they seem scared, keep trying
"Due to the fact that in ancient times families arranged marriages and they still try to do it nowadays, Asian women don't really have a proper sense of what it means to seduce, flirt or date someone," Daniel Marques writes in his book, "Dating Asian Women: What to Know and How to Behave When Dating an Asian Woman."
"If a foreigner man approaches them in the street they often react as confused as also anxiously afraid. Even if their English is perfect, at this point their brain stops working and they have no idea about what to do, say or reply. You may start believing that something is wrong with you, if you ask about a certain road to a strange girl in the streets of several Asian countries and she starts running away."
However, you shouldn't worry. Because according to Marques YOU are not the problem. It's simply due to the fact that these women watch U.S. television on a daily basis but are anti-social and have never seen a real foreigner before.
"The main problem with these societies is that what's seen in television doesn't match their family values, so these women live between two worlds, in which theirs is often taken as unpleasant and uninteresting while the other frightens, excites and astonishes."
Talk down to them
In yet another book by Daniel Marques called, "The Dark Side of Asian Women: What to Expect From an Asian Woman Before It Happens" he writes, "many Asian women have daily fantasies about meeting a foreigner man and marrying him, have a family with him, etc."
Asian women are obsessed with American romantic movies and these films have essentially brainwashed them so it's important to be realistic with them but be gentle, because according to Marques, they are highly sensitive.
"The best solution in dealing with these situations consists in gradually teaching them about the personality of the man they're dealing with and slowly bring them to reality without confronting in a way that may make them burst into tears of disappointment."
Marques recommends asking something along the lines of, "We haven't kissed enough to talk about marriage, I think! What do you think?" or, "You know, in the movies, everything happens very fast because it has one hour and a half, but you can't rush life in one hour and a half and compress it all there. Don't you agree?"
BUT BEWARE
According to Marques, "Asian women fear being abandoned by men and tend to be immature when dealing with relationships."
"One of the most common situations is when she requests to have sex without a condom," he writes. Asian women do this because they believe the only possible way to keep a man is to have a child with him.
"Some women, either very young, or already in their 40s, want a baby so much that they will have sex without protection with as many men as possible until they have what they want."
Marques also notes, "Their immaturity about life and relationships is what makes them special and at the same a headache for the less patient men."
As an Asian woman, allow me to add a final note to help you on your quest for love – STAY THE HELL AWAY AND JUST LEAVE US ALONE.
Honestly how do you even come up with this BS? That's enough of the internet for me today.
Editor's Note: In case you haven't realized it already, this article is a satire piece.


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The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM P78.1 became effective on October 1, 2018.
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Q: pandas Grouping based on two variables +---------+---------+-------+
| g_var_1 | g_var_2 | group |
+---------+---------+-------+
| A       | B       | 1     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| B       | A       | 1     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| C       | D       | 2     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| D       | C       | 2     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| E       | F       | 3     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| F       | E       | 3     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| G       | H       | 4     |
+---------+---------+-------+
| H       | G       | 4     |
+---------+---------+-------+

Using pandas:
I am trying to create a "group" variable based on "g_var_1" and "g_var_2". As you can see from the above ASCII table, the logic is that the same combinations of "g_var_1" and g_var_2" are grouped together. So observations with (g_var_1 == "A" and g_var_2 == "B") would be in the same group as observations with (g_var_1 == "B" and g_var_2 == "A").
The dataset that I am working with has more than a thousand rows, so doing this manually is not an optimal solution for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

A: First sort then use ngroup with groupby
l=['g_var_1','g_var_2']
pd.DataFrame(np.sort(df[l],1),columns=l).groupby(l).ngroup().add(1)
Out[340]:
0    1
1    1
2    2
3    2
4    3
5    3
6    4
7    4
dtype: int64
df['group']=pd.DataFrame(np.sort(df[l],1),columns=l).groupby(l).ngroup().add(1)

.values

A: Create a column with a combined g_var that stores a tuple including the two values.
In order to make them compare the same, keep the tuple sorted, so "B", "A" will also become ("A", "B").
You can use the apply() method, using a custom function, to achieve that result.
def make_tuple_var(row):
    var1 = row['g_var_1']
    var2 = row['g_var_2']
    if var1 > var2:
        # Swap them.
        var1, var2 = var2, var1
    return (var1, var2)

Then you can use it in:
df['g_var'] = df.apply(make_tuple_var, axis=1)

And finally you can groupby('g_var'), which will group all equivalent pairs together.

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In Albrecht, US Supreme Court narrows implied preemption of failure-to-warn claims, finds preemption is legal issue for judge, not jury
21 May 2019, by Ilana H. Eisenstein, Loren H. Brown, Lucas P. Przymusinski, Stan Panikowski, Adam Pierson
The US Supreme Court has issued its decision in Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht (In re Fosamax), vacating the Third Circuit's judgment and remanding for further proceedings. (See here and here for prior alerts from DLA Piper's team and for more detailed explanation of the action's background).
On May 20, all nine members of the Court agreed that preemption of failure-to-warn claims is a legal question decided by a judge, not a factual question decided by a jury. The majority opinion recognized that scenarios may exist where the legal determination of preemption will depend in part on the resolution of some facts. But the Court held that these factual disputes, such as whether the drug manufacturer submitted all material information to the FDA, are not for a jury to resolve. Rather, courts facing such a task "may have to resolve subsidiary factual disputes that are part and parcel of the broader legal question." Op. 16-17. Because the Third Circuit had treated preemption as a factual question, the Court vacated its judgment and remanded.
The Court, however, did not stop at that dispositive issue. The Albrecht decision instead clarified and substantially narrowed the scope of preemption under the Wyeth v. Levine "clear evidence" standard. The Court stated that preemption is limited to circumstances where (1) "the drug manufacturer fully informed the FDA of the justifications for the warning required by state law," by "submitt[ing] all material information to the FDA" and (2) the FDA "informed the drug manufacturer that the FDA would not approve a change to the drug's label to include that warning." Op. 2, 16.
The Court, moreover, limited preemption to situations where FDA actually rejected the proposed labeling change through formal decision-making. Specifically, for its actions to have preemptive effect, the FDA must have communicated its disapproval of a warning through action "taken pursuant to FDA's congressionally delegated authority." Op. 15. To illustrate the point, the Court gave several examples of official FDA acts that could preempt state-law failure-to-warn claims, including "disapproval of a warning by means of notice-and-comment rulemaking," "formally rejecting" a warning label in a complete response letter, denial of a New Drug Application because of a false or misleading label, or label changes requested by the agency. Op. 15. Notably, the Court's examples do not include FDA journal publications, FDA advisory committee determinations, or informal correspondence with manufacturers on proposed labeling changes.
In addition, in the common situation where FDA fails to take action or where no new label was proposed, the Court's decision likely forecloses the argument that the FDA would have rejected a new warning. Op. 13-14 (noting that the "possibility of impossibility" is not enough for preemption); Op. 14 ("The existence of a hypothetical or potential conflict is insufficient to warrant the preemption of the state statute"). The Court's opinion underscores that preemption applies only where "federal and state laws 'irreconcilably conflict[].'" Op. 14 (quoting Rice v. Norman Williams Co., 458 U.S. 654 (1982)); see id. (opining that "a drug manufacturer will not ordinarily be able to show that there is an actual conflict between state and federal law such that it was impossible to comply with both").
Further raising the bar to a successful preemption defense, the Court suggested that the preemptive effect of any FDA decision may depend on "what information the FDA had before it," and whether "the drug manufacturer submitted all material information to FDA." Op. 16. The Court recognized that "litigants may dispute" these threshold questions, and it will be for the judge to decide "contested brute facts" about the "meaning and effect of an agency decision." Id. This requirement opens the door to arguments by plaintiffs that the FDA acted on the basis of incomplete information.
All that said, the Court acknowledged that, under the Changes Being Effected (CBE) regulations, "manufacturers cannot propose a [label] change that is not based on reasonable evidence." Op. 14 (citing 21 C.F.R. 314.70(c)(6)(iii)(A)). The decision leaves unresolved, however, how courts should proceed when a genuine dispute arises over whether such evidence exists, ie, where the plaintiff failed to identify (a) "newly acquired information" or (b) "reasonable evidence" of a causal association with the relevant risk. See Gibbons v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., 919 F.3d 699 (2d Cir. 2019) (finding failure-to-warn claim preempted where plaintiffs "do not plausibly allege the existence of newly acquired information that could have justified Defendants' revising the . . . label through the CBE regulation"). While the Albrecht decision suggests the bar is high for such arguments to succeed, it did not foreclose preemption on that basis.
Four justices authored or joined concurring opinions. Justice Clarence Thomas joined the Court's majority opinion in full, but also wrote separately to explain his doubt as to the ultimate merits of Merck's preemption defense. On the other hand, Justice Samuel Alito, along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined the majority's judgment and wrote separately to explain why the evidence supported Merck's claim of an impossibility-preemption defense.
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice : decolonizing community contexts
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This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore different understandings of change that forge sustainable, inclusive and just communities and examine issues related to citizenship, resistance, peacemaking, critical literacies, and second chance opportunities. The authors seek to promote advocacy of change that recognises the importance of an informed engagement with cross-cultural issues in order to foreground those missing perspectives that are often marginalised, silenced, ignored or denied. All contributors are concerned with how the process of change can bridge the gap between social justice and exclusion and develop critical understandings of the implications of changing policy and practice for those within and working with the educational organisations and communities.
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Hooray! Sukkot is here – one of our favorite holidays. Nava helped build the sukkah (as she did last year) and we took fun pictures.
. This year, as last year, we went to our relative's houses and helped prune their trees for our schach (the fun leaves and branches that go on top of the sukkah). Nava helped mallet the metal frame in place, and helped Abba put up all the leaves.
And Nava helped put up the decorations. This year, we had a light! Last year we ate in the dark. Next year, Jerusalem….
Enjoy your holiday, let us know if you want to come to our Sukkah and eat. We like guests….


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Marietta cheerleaders lead their team on to the field to take on Parkview during the semifinals last week Marietta won 42-31 to advance to the state finals for the first time since 1967. Photo by John Amis / Special
Class AAAAAAA blog: Marietta-Lowndes is classic matchup
Todd Holcomb
Marietta-Lowndes might be the best state finals matchup in the highest class this century.
Another that comes to mind is Grayson vs. Roswell in 2016. Those teams were undefeated and fielded more major Division I players than any other state final in history.
But Marietta-Lowndes, slated for Saturday at 8 p.m. at Georgia State Stadium, has more intangibles.
Marietta was the preseason No. 1 team and made the top 10 of several national polls. Lowndes is the current No. 1 and now ranked nationally, as high as No. 3 by Prep Nation.
Marietta has six of Georgia's top-100 senior prospects but no state title appearances since its 1967 Class AAA championship. Lowndes has no top-100 players but five state titles since 1980, the most of any current Class AAAAAAA school.
Add the north-south thing – Marietta is metro Atlanta's oldest football program, Lowndes the flag bearer for storied Region 1 – and this game has the makings for a classic.
Marietta has won seven straight games, four against top-10 teams, since losing to McEachern in October. Only one team this century, Peachtree Ridge in 2006, has won a state title in the highest class after losing a game in October or later.
The Blue Devils' list of blue chips include QB Harrison Bailey (4,000 yards passing, committed to Tennessee), WR Arik Gilbert (1,614 yards receiving, committed to LSU), WR Ricky White (1,246 receiving, Michigan State) and RB Kimani Vidal (1,511 rushing, Troy), DE B.J. Ojulari (LSU) and DB Rashad Torrence (Florida).
Lowndes' best player, LB/RB Gary Osby, has not played since the first round, but it is hoped he will return Saturday.
Lowndes' offense is built around sophomore QB Jacurri Brown, who has rushed for 1,508 yards and passed for 1,253 yards.
Marietta and Lowndes have four common opponents, one more conspicuous than the others. Lowndes beat Grayson 28-20 in the quarterfinals. Grayson beat Marietta 28-14 on Sept. 13.
School history lesson
Here's some background on each school that you might find interesting:
*Lowndes opened in 1966 with the merger of Hahira and Lowndes County high schools. The old Lowndes County was known as the Golden Eagles. The local city school, Valdosta, had won 15 state titles by the time Lowndes beat Valdosta for the first time in 1976. Lowndes' coach then was Joe Wilson, a former Valdosta star player and long-time assistant who felt slighted when he didn't get the Valdosta job in 1972 when the legendary Wright Bazemore retired. Wilson got more satisfaction when Lowndes won a state title in 1980. The stadium at Lowndes' Martin Stadium was named after Wilson in 2017. But it wasn't under Milt Miller came along in the 1990s that Lowndes was a consistent winner. Miller, who had won a state title at Worth County in 1987, got Lowndes its second state title in 1999, and Lowndes was rolling. Over the past quarter decade, Lowndes is 251-63. That's the most wins in that time for a school in the highest class. (Camden is second at 238-67.) Current coach Randy McPherson was hired in 2002 and built on that foundation with eight region titles and state championships in 2003, 2004 and 2007.
*Marietta fielded its first high school football in 1902, according to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association. The Blue Devils have played at Northcutt Stadium since 1940. That's two miles from the high school. Under coach French Johnson, Marietta won its lone state title in 1967 with a 14-7 victory over Columbus in the rain at Grant Field. A player well-remembered in Marietta named Eddie Woody returned a punt 61 yards on the wet turf for the game-winner. The previous year, another Marietta school won a state title. That was Lemon Street, the high school for African-Americans. The school closed and merged with Marietta prior to that 1967 season. Most of Lemon Street's top players had graduated, so it would be a stretch to call the '67 season a true ''Remember the Titans'' moment, but Lemon Street's coach, Ben Wilkins, became a beloved long-time assistant at Marietta. Wilkins passed away in 1984, but his motto ''Be Somebody'' and legacy still live at the school and community. Marietta had good teams for years, but some of the best seasons came under coach Dexter Wood, who won four region titles, two with Eric Zeier as quarterback. Now, coach Richard Morgan has taken things a step further. The 2017 quarterfinal finish was the best playoff run since 1994, and the current team is the first finalist since '67.


Things just get better for Noel Gallagher.
First, Man City thumped Man United and his solo album went to No1 on Sunday. And yesterday standing tickets for his gig at London's O2 Arena in February sold out in three minutes.
Three United players won't get a look-in if they go sniffing for freebie tickets though – they blew him out at his gig in Manchester on Wednesday.
Noel said: "All last week they were 'Bang up for it,' they 'Couldn't wait to see me,' and all that b*******. Then one of them mysteriously developed 'food poisoning,' another one had 'forgot it was half-term' – whatever that means.
Something's come up? What? Like a bit of sick that's been in there since Sunday?"
Noel played a brilliant sell-out gig in Edinburgh on Thursday.


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Q: Ubuntu Logs meaning Disconnected, Invalid user and etc. Server attack Recently installed new server, my first one and almost immediately started to receiving following log, it seems that someone is trying to access my server.
Could not find a detailed description about these logs:
If someone can help to understand what each line mean:
sshd: Invalid user admin from 141.98.81.38 port 43680

sshd: Disconnected from invalid user admin 141.98.81.38 port 43680 [preauth]

sshd: Invalid user ubnt from 141.98.81.37 port 17284

sshd: Disconnected from authenticating user root 222.186.30.187 port 10607 [preauth]

sshd: error: Received disconnect from 141.98.81.37 port 17284:14: Unable to connect using the available authentication methods [preauth]

kernel: [19614.450491] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=4a:04:c8:bf:78:72:cc:e1:7f:a8:1b:f0:08:00 SRC=193.32.163.9 DST=167.1XX.XXX.XXX LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=245 ID=51394 PROTO=TCP SPT=51676 DPT=33399 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

A: I feel like this is kinda normal. I recieve those attempts on many of machines. They usually try some very common usernames like: "pi", "admin", "ubuntu" or "teamspeak". My guess is, that they are just scanning for open ports on 22 to brute force over ssh. They are targeting users that use insecure passwords.
There are easy steps to avoid falling victim:
Install fail2ban and configure it to ban the IPs after 3 failed attempts for 24 hours. Just be careful to not lock yourself out ;).
Configure ssh to only accept pubkey authentication.
Don't allow root login over ssh.
Put ssh on some other port.


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World's Largest Importers Of Arms
India is the largest importer of arms in the world, followed by Saudi Arabia and China.
Cargo ships in India.
The international arms trade, facilitated by increased globalization, is lucrative, owing to little legal control.The market involves the manufacture, selling, buying, and licensing of military equipment, weapons, and facilities such as small arms, armored vehicles, military ships, ammunition, and military aircraft. Importations are mainly driven by economic growth, territorial disputes, and political alignments. Most of the importing countries buy arms from more developed countries with high-tech capabilities to engineer high-quality arsenals.
India has experienced a surge in economic growth in recent years. Increased resources to buy arms have made it the world's largest importer of weapons. India's military for years has experienced a shortage of arms after the Soviet era and has been on a quest to restock it. Between 2012-2016, India imported 18 billion dollars worth of arms. These efforts have been aimed to boost its influence in the region amidst growing tensions with China.
Recent conflicts have torn apart a number of Saudi Arabia's neighbors, namely Syria and Yemen. Saudi Arabia has sought to attain a strategic role in the region and has also intervened in some of its conflict-ridden neighbors such as Yemen. Saudi Arabia also feels threatened by Iran especially with looming alliances between Iran and the US. Saudi Arabia is an oil-rich country with plenty of resources at its disposal to purchase sophisticated machinery and ammunition. The primary source for its arms are the US, the UK, and France.
The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country in the Middle-East and is the third largest importer of weapons taking 4.6% of the global market. The UAE has attempted to exert its influence and take up a strategic role in the region by importing weaponry such as aircraft and missiles mostly from the US and France.
China takes its place as the fourth-largest importer of weapons. China has established itself as an emerging economy in Asia, becoming an exporter of global arms to poorer nations as well. China has sought to assert its influence over the region and stamp out threats especially from India.Arms imported to China have been on a decrease, due to the expansion of its local industry in military capabilities and has had to rely on more developed countries for certain types of machinery such as large aircraft, submarines, and engines for vehicles and warplanes. W
Other Nations Importing Large Volumes Of Military Armaments
Other countries taking up their fair shares in the global importation of weapons are Australia, Algeria, Turey, and Iraq. Global spending on the importation of arms is expected to increase fueled by the emergence of middle-class economies. Middle-East countries are projected to increase their volume of imports. Global attention is also being called for more stringent laws to govern the importation of arms. The increase in wars and conflicts has been attributed to countries being able to import arms with ease.
Which Countries Import the Most Arms?
Arms Imported (Millions of Dollars)
1 India 18,239
2 Saudi Arabia 11,689
3 UAE 6,593
4 China 6,381
5 Australia 5,636
6 Algeria 5,312
7 Turkey 4,721
8 Iraq 4,598
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Final Access Determination No. 1 of 2017 for the Superfast broadband access service (SBAS)
On 26 May 2017, the ACCC released its final decision on the Superfast broadband access service (SBAS) final access determination (FAD).
Final Access Determination No. 2 of 2017 for the Local bitstream access service (LBAS)
On 26 May 2017, the ACCC released its final decision on the Local bitstream access service (LBAS) final access determination (FAD).
Interim Access Determination No. 1 of 2016 for the Superfast Broadband Access Service (SBAS)
On 29 July 2016, the ACCC made the Interim Access Determination (IAD) for the Superfast Broadband Access Service (SBAS). The SBAS IAD expires on 28 July 2017, unless revoked sooner.
Final Access Determination No. 1 of 2016 for the Domestic Transmission Capacity Service (DTCS)
On 21 April 2016, the ACCC released its final decision on the DTCS final access determination (FAD). This FAD replaces the previous DTCS FAD (Final Access Determination No. 1 of 2012).
Final Access Determinations Nos. 2 to 8 of 2015 for Fixed Line Services
On 6 June 2019, the ACCC decided to extend the existing the final access determinations (FADs) for the declared fixed line services (LCS, WLR, LSS, ULLS, FOAS, FTAS, WADSL). The ACCC is extending these FADs as it will not be in a position to make the new FADs prior to their expiration on 30 June 2019. The existing fixed line services FADs are now extended to expire on the date immediately before the day on which the new FADs come into force.
Final Access Determination No. 1 of 2015 for the Mobile Terminating Access Service (MTAS)
On 24 August 2015, the ACCC released its final decision on the MTAS final access determination (FAD). This FAD replaces the previous MTAS FAD (Final Access Determination No. 7 of 2011).
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Pro-Tibetan activists held for protesting Xi's Swiss visit
Title: Pro-Tibetan activists held for protesting Xi's Swiss visit
Summary: BERN, SWITZERLAND (JANUARY 15, 2017) (REUTERS) ACTIVISTS HOLDING TIBETAN FLAGS AND BANNER READING (English) "FREE TIBET" / SWISS PARLIAMENT IN BACKGROUND ACTIVIST HOLDING SIGN READING (English) "DON'T DEAL WITH KILLERS" ACTIVISTS HOLDING TIBETAN FLAG AND SIGN READING (English) "DON'T DEAL WITH KILLERS" POLICE / ACTIVISTS HOLDING BANNER READING (English) "FREE TIBET" ACTIVISTS HOLDING BANNER AND SHOUTING "HUMAN RIGHTS IN TIBET", "FREE TIBET" POSTER WITH WORDS READING (English) "DON'T DEAL WITH KILLERS" ACTIVISTS HOLDING BOARDS AND SIGNS READING (English) "DON'T DEAL WITH KILLERS" POLICE WATCHING / SWISS PARLIAMENT IN THE BACKGROUND MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY HOLDING CHINESE FLAGS AND LOOKING AT THE PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (English) TIBETAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION IN EUROPE'S MEMBER, MIGMAR DHAKYEL, SAYING: "The situation inside Tibet is getting worse day by day. Our people are being oppressed, our people are being imprisoned, Tibetans are being killed by the Chinese government, and it is not possible that Switzerland, and as Swiss citizens, we are really concerned how our government, our own government treats us, doesn't permit us to demonstrate and does trade with such a dictatorship as China. So we are here to talk about human rights, we are here to talk about Tibet." VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS BEING PUSHED AWAY BY SWISS POLICE VARIOUS OF POLICE TRYING TO CONTAIN SWISS-TIBETAN ACTIVISTS IN A CLOSED AREA VARIOUS OF SWISS-TIBETAN ACTIVISTS BEING DETAINED BY THE POLICE AND PUT INTO A POLICE BUS ACTIVISTS SEEN IN THE BUS AS IT IS LEAVING BUS LEAVING FOR POLICE STATION
Keywords: Tibetan activists Xi Jinping anti-China protest Bern Switzerland
Location: BERN, SWITZERLAND
City: BERN, SWITZERLAND
Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
Reuters ID: LVA0015Z6Y6O7
Story Text: Swiss police said it had detained more than two dozen pro-Tibetans activists protesting against the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Switzerland on Sunday (January 15).
Swiss authorities had authorised a protest by pro-Tibetan groups in the Swiss capital on Sunday morning, with the condition it must end before Xi arrived in the city in the afternoon. Police were trying to prevent the kind of confrontation that marked the previous visit by a Chinese president 18 years ago, when demonstrators took roofs overlooking the Swiss Parliament with banners demanding "Free Tibet".
Switzerland's 6,500-strong Tibetan community, among Europe's largest, had agreed to the conditions, staging a peaceful protest about three blocks away from parliament. But the Tibetan Youth Association Europe wanted to organise a protest in the afternoon.
Amnesty International had also raised concerns that the Swiss were caving in to Chinese pressure, allowing a demonstration away from the view of the Chinese delegation.
After a failed uprising against the Chinese rule nearly six decades ago, tens of thousands of Tibetans including spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled into exile in neighbouring India and other countries.
Beijing vigorously condemns foreign leaders who meet the "splittist" Dalai Lama.
Trips abroad by Chinese leaders are often met with pro-Tibet protests, attempts by the police to keep them away from the visiting delegation and pro-China counter-protests.


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CBT automotive newscast: August 6, 2021
Featured Interview:
What the latest Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index reveals about the used car market – Jonathan Smoke of Cox Automotive
On today's show, we're pleased to welcome Jonathan Smoke, Chief Economist for Cox Automotive. He discusses the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index and the used-vehicle market. The Manheim index tracks what's selling at Manheim. The monthly value report reflects the average price dealers are paying for used vehicles at auctions. It allows analysts to see, what car dealers are paying for their most expensive inventory. Watch the complete segment here.
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The Biden administration has announced its goal to make electric vehicles 50% of all car sales in the U.S. market over the next several years. However, the sales target will not be mandatory. Instead, the executive order encourages the U.S. auto industry and federal government to promote legislation and the adoption of electrified vehicles. The Biden administration also announced proposed federal fuel economy and emission standards that build on California's tougher regulations. It's unclear how many automakers will support Biden's fuel economy standards.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, says he doesn't know why Tesla was not invited to make an appearance at President Biden's Clean Car event that took place at the White House. Other U.S. auto giants, like Ford, GM, Stellantis, and the U.A.W. were all invited to stand alongside Biden at the event. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk commented on the situation by tweeting "yeah, seems odd that Tesla wasn't invited." A White House official who was asked about Tesla's absence, told CNBC, "We, of course, welcome the efforts of all automakers who recognize the potential of an electric future and support efforts that will help reach President Biden's goal."
Lithia Motors is in the running to become America's most valued new-car retailer, according to CNBC's Michael Wayland. The company is on target to exceed its five-year goals, which include achieving adjusted earnings per share of $50, and $50 billion in revenue by 2025. That would double the size of any new U.S. dealership group to date. After announcing the plan a year prior, the Oregon-based retailer has added $8 billion in expected annualized revenue, doubling its annual target. Market caps for Lithia and AutoNation remain below used vehicle retailers like CarMax at $22.3 billion and Carvana at $57 billion.
The New York Auto Show has decided to once again, cancel its in-person event, due to the uptick in COVID-19 cases and new government safety measures. The 121-year-old show was initially pushed back due to the pandemic and rescheduled for August 20 through the 29. However, now the show is expected to return in April. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week that proof of vaccinations would be required for indoor activities in the city, including restaurants. It's unclear what this cancellation will mean for vehicles that were set to debut at the show.
American Honda has named Noriya Kaihara as its new CEO. Kaihara will be replacing Shinji Aoyama. Aoyama will begin his new role as the full-time Global Officer in charge of electrification beginning October 1. This role was created for Aoyama as Honda begins to shift away from internal combustion engines. Kaihara's key role in Honda's collaboration with General Motors has, "allowed him to help lead honda's pursuit of electrification in North America." American Honda's U.S. sales have risen 35% this year to over 960,000 vehicles through July.
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Biden announces non-binding target for EVs by 2030
The Biden administration is continuing its efforts to facilitate the transition to all-electric vehicles, with Biden proposing a goal for 40% to 50% of vehicles to be either all-electric, hydrogen-powered, or plug-in hybrid by 2030 and also recommending other regulations. The push to have more EVs throughout the U.S. is much less strict than some countries around the world but still has a huge impact on the priorities of automakers. Read more
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Immigrant Landlord Slams Biden on Eviction Moratorium: 'Robbing Me of American Dream'
"This is simply not the America we signed up for."
Posted by Mike LaChance Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 10:00am 24 Comments
The CDC's blatantly unconstitutional extension of the eviction moratorium, approved by the Biden administration, and cheered by the Squad wing of the Democrat party, is nothing more than government sanctioned theft.
Landlords across the country, many of whom have not received rent payments for months, are being told to just accept this, with no consideration for their needs.
A woman who came to America at 18 and now owns rental property in Pittsburgh, appeared on FOX News this week and explained the impact this has had on her.
Here's a partial transcript via FOX News:
Immigrant landlord slams eviction moratorium for destroying small businesses
JEN SIDOROVA: You know, what I hear is that a lot of people just going out of business, exactly as you said, or maybe they're switching to the model that's more like a vacation rental, a short-term rental other than long-term. What it's really doing is that's pushing young people or vulnerable people, who we might normally give a break and give them a chance, we simply can't do this anymore because we cannot run the risk of having somebody living in our property for free and us having to pay mortgage and utilities and keeping it up. It's just impossible for somebody who only has maybe two or three units…
They made landlords villains. But honestly, I am an immigrant. I moved to this country when I was 18. I worked every day. I paid my taxes. It's been like 15 years since I was able to afford a property and now it's my time to build some generational wealth and invest, and the government is taking it right out of my hands. They're robbing me out of my American dream. Honestly, I feel like I speak on behalf of all the hard-working immigrants in this country. This is simply not the America we signed up for.
There are reportedly billions in unused funds to pay these landlords, but can you imagine the nightmare of trying to claim them?
One of the most amazing aspects of the extension, is that Biden knows it doesn't pass the smell test.
Politico reported:
Under intense pressure from liberal Democratic lawmakers and activists, Biden announced Tuesday that a revamped version of the eviction ban that expired on July 31 would be reimposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a pandemic mitigation measure. His reversal came after senior administration officials had said for a week that such a move would be fruitless and perhaps unlawful as a result of a Supreme Court ruling in June.
One striking part of Biden's announcement was his candor that the policy might well be illegal.
"The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster," the president told reporters, before adding: "But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it's worth the effort."
Biden did this at the behest of Cori Bush, AOC, and progressive journalists on Twitter.
That's who has power over him, and he will literally rob innocent Americans to placate them.
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Biden Administration, Economy, Immigration, Wuhan Coronavirus
buck61 | August 7, 2021 at 10:30 am
Undermining the concepts of property owners rights and contract law right before our very eyes.
Skip | August 7, 2021 at 10:36 am
Straight from Marxism to your door.
lhw | August 7, 2021 at 11:05 am
All your stuff belongs to us. You only think you own it. So what if there is a takings clause. After Kelo, that clause is dead.
It is past time that this country reverted to its original republican form. Yes, small r as in republic, although I would not mind if there were more Republicans in charge. The Constitution is a contract between the people as to how they will be governed. Like any other contract in law, it may be amended, but otherwise remains constant. This "living Constitution" stuff is just a fancy way to play Calvinball.
TempeJeff | August 7, 2021 at 11:07 am
Wall Street will buy her out cheap and, rent them out for fun and profit. Not for her, of course. Then mandates that you are vaxxed to rent and wear a mask at all times in your own home will be pushed by the genocidal CDC. Other than that, what could go wrong?
JusticeDelivered | August 7, 2021 at 11:16 am
In the end, this is a taking by government without compensation, when the dust settles the government will have to compensate landlords, and the rest of us will end up paying. How many of the rent weasels are receiving rent money as aid, and spending it on other things?
Olinser in reply to JusticeDelivered. | August 7, 2021 at 2:28 pm
The bulk of them. There are a number of stories about pieces of shit stopping rent payments, then using that money to buy their own fucking house and stiffing the landlord for tens of thousands of dollars.
And at the end of the day, just like the rest of the Democrat's bullshit, the people that this insanity hurts most is people that actually need help.
Because in the face of this insanity, landlords are now (completely reasonably) demanding the first 6-12 months rent in advance, and huge security deposits.
Rent is SKYROCKETING in Democrat shitholes because of this insanity.
randian in reply to Olinser. | August 7, 2021 at 3:57 pm
Most states have limits on how large a security deposit and advance rent you can demand. Even if they don't, so few tenants, even good ones, can afford 6 months rent in advance plus a huge security deposit that such a policy is self-defeating.
elliesmom in reply to randian. | August 8, 2021 at 1:48 pm
If the alternative is someone living in your property, using utilities, and causing wear and tear, an empty apartment or house might be a better way to go.
Albigensian in reply to JusticeDelivered. | August 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm
This would seem a government taking just as surely as a government mandate to house troops in your property without compensation would be.
Yet rent control would sees no less a violation of the Fifth, yet American cities have been doing it for decades.
UserP | August 7, 2021 at 11:20 am
"Robbing me of my Amerian Dream"
American Dream? That is so yesterday. Welcome to the future.
Ben Kent in reply to UserP. | August 7, 2021 at 3:50 pm
Welcome to the Progressive nightmare.
nordic_prince | August 7, 2021 at 11:40 am
Yet another attack on small biz…screwing over the little guy so Big Vulture Capitalists can swoop in, buy things for a song, then turn around and charge outrageous rents just because they're the only game left in town.
buck61 | August 7, 2021 at 12:07 pm
One thing I'm not sure about under the CDC ruling, once the terms of the lease expire, does the landlord have the right of removal? It's not an eviction, it is the expiration of a contract between two parties that was not renewed.
If a lease expires and they can still stay without payment that would take the problem to a new level.
If I was a landlord, I would not offer a one year lease to anybody. Six months would be a maximum lease term if I was a landlord in this environment.
How are the credit reporting bureaus handling those that aren't paying, some landlords require a minimum credit score to approve a lease?
randian in reply to buck61. | August 7, 2021 at 3:58 pm
If the tenant refuses to leave at the expiration of a lease they still have to be evicted, you can't (legally) remove them yourself.
buck61 in reply to randian. | August 7, 2021 at 4:33 pm
while I'm not a lawyer but I would believe in a legal sense, you don't have a valid lease once the lease has expired. They aren't being evicted, technically they are squatters at that point. I haven't read anywhere that there is a mandate that all expiring leases are automatically extended under their previous terms. However after doing some research on a few states, removing a squatter entails a similar process to evicting someone. I would expect some pushback at the state level if landlords can find a way to band together on this issue and get the laws modified.
On another front, the long term ramifications of this will be higher rents, larger deposits and shorter termed leases in the rental market. The people who can least afford will be damaged the most.
CommoChief in reply to buck61. | August 8, 2021 at 11:24 am
You still must file the paperwork with the CT, pay the filing fee, get the Sheriff to deliver/post the notice, the tenant gets to respond (usually they don't) ECT.
In FL which has a very streamlined process it took me 6 weeks to evict a tenant pre Covid. Rent due on the 1st, but accepted till the 5th. Then eviction process begun.
Landlords have to be strategic as well. The current and next month are net zero for rent anyway so there's no incentive to push too hard on the tenant. Do so and risk your building getting damaged.
Better to file, be a pro, don't be emotional and get the tenant out without damage. Use their deposit to offset a patch and paint in preparation for a new tenant.
FortesFortunaJuvat | August 7, 2021 at 1:46 pm
There is no eviction moratorium.
Romey | August 7, 2021 at 1:47 pm
Rent amnesty is just a numbers game, another way for the Dems to use someone else's money to buy votes. There are many more tenants than landlords.
Olinser | August 7, 2021 at 2:24 pm
This is 100% on Kavanaugh's complete and utter cowardice and dereliction of duty.
He OPENLY ADMITTED that the original moratorium was unconstitutional, but decided that since it was going to expire that they didn't need to ACTUALLY go ahead and rule on it and prevent them from ever doing it again.
No, he relied on a limpdick and legally irrelevant 'opinion' that if they extended it that he would probably find it unconstitutional.
And the Democrats took that for what it was – WEAKNESS AND COWARDICE, that he didn't actually WANT to strike it down and have to deal with people saying mean things about him.
Now the absolutely and pathetically predictable has happened. Democrats have called your fucking bluff you complete coward, and now you have to do what you SHOULD have done IN THE FIRST PLACE, and in the meantime people are receiving what may be unrecoverable financial damage.
Ben Kent in reply to Olinser. | August 7, 2021 at 3:55 pm
Truth. Men are tested in times like these.
>> These are events of biblical proportions.
In an age that calls for strength and integrity – we find most are weak and cowardly.
Skip in reply to Olinser. | August 7, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Agree, Fear of the Left is the biggest motivating factor in the country, world really.
mark311 | August 7, 2021 at 7:47 pm
Ummm there is rental assistance for both renters and landlords available. Maybe that should be pointed out before making blanket statements
ConradCA | August 7, 2021 at 7:54 pm
How will the courts deal with this clear violation of the law and constitution? I would think that any landlord who seeks to evict would easily win in court.
henrybowman | August 7, 2021 at 7:57 pm
Never was a communist born who wouldn't cross the street to kick a landlord.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT RENT PRESENTATION.