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Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 20, 2020, by and among Diamondback Energy, Inc., Bohemia Merger Sub, Inc. and QEP Resources, Inc (Filed With SEC on December 21, 2020)
Second Amendment, dated as of November 2, 2020, to the Credit Agreement, dated May 28, 2019, as amended on October 23, 2019, by and among Rattler Midstream Operating LLC, as... (Filed With SEC on November 5, 2020)
Description of the Companys Securities (Filed With SEC on February 27, 2020)
Diamondback Energy, Inc. Senior Management Severance Plan (including forms of participation agreements attached thereto as Schedules C-1 and C-2) (Filed With SEC on February 27, 2020)
Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 26, 2020, among Diamondback Energy, Inc., Diamondback O&G LLC and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (including the... (Filed With SEC on May 26, 2020)
Underwriting Agreement, dated May 18, 2020, among Diamondback Energy, Inc., Diamondback O&G LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo... (Filed With SEC on May 21, 2020)
2020 Form of Performance Vesting Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Filed With SEC on February 27, 2020)
2020 Form of Time Vesting Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (Filed With SEC on February 27, 2020)
Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2019, between Diamondback Energy, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (Filed With SEC on December 5, 2019)
First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2019, among Diamondback Energy, Inc., Diamondback O&G LLC and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (including... (Filed With SEC on December 5, 2019)
Underwriting Agreement, dated November 20, 2019, among Diamondback Energy, Inc., Diamondback O&G LLC and BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo... (Filed With SEC on November 22, 2019)
Consent Letter, dated August 28, 2019, between Diamondback Energy, Inc., as parent guarantor, Diamondback O&G LLC, as borrower, certain other subsidiaries of Diamondback Energy,... (Filed With SEC on September 4, 2019)
Exchange Agreement, dated as of May 28, 2019, by and among Rattler Midstream LP, Rattler Midstream GP LLC, Rattler Midstream Operating LLC and Energen Resources Corporation (Filed With SEC on May 29, 2019)
Underwriting Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2019, by and among Rattler Midstream LP, Rattler Midstream GP LLC, Rattler Midstream Operating LLC, Diamondback Energy, Inc. and... (Filed With SEC on May 29, 2019)
Tenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 25, 2019, between Diamondback, as parent guarantor, Diamondback O&G LLC, as borrower, certain... (Filed With SEC on March 29, 2019)
Third Supplemental Indenture for the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2024, dated as of January 28, 2019, among Energen Corporation, Energen Resources Corporation, and EGN Services, Inc.,... (Filed With SEC on February 25, 2019)
Second Supplemental Indenture for the 5.375% Senior Notes due 2025, dated as of October 12, 2018, among Sidewinder Merger Sub Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, the Company, the... (Filed With SEC on February 25, 2019)


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Most stars in our galaxy behave predictably, orbiting around the center of the Milky Way at speeds of about 100 km/s (62 mi/s). But some stars achieve velocities that are significantly greater, to the point that they are even able to escape the gravitational pull of the galaxy. These are known as hypervelocity stars (HVS), a rare type of star that is believed to be the result of interactions with a supermassive black hole (SMBH).
The existence of HVS is something that astronomers first theorized in the late 1980s, and only 20 have been identified so far. But thanks to a new study by a team of Chinese astronomers, two new hypervelocity stars have been added to that list. These stars, which have been designated LAMOST-HVS2 and LAMOST-HVS3, travel at speeds of up to 1,000 km/s (620 mi/s) and are thought to have originated in the center of our galaxy.
The study which describes the team's findings, titled "Discovery of Two New Hypervelocity Stars From the LAMOST Spectroscopic Surveys", recently appeared online. Led by Yang Huang of the South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, the team relied on data from Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to detect these two new hypervelocity stars.
Astronomers estimates that only 1000 HVS exist within the Milky Way. Given that there are as many as 200 billion stars in our galaxy, that's just 0.0000005 % of the galactic population. While these stars are thought to originate in the center of our galaxy – supposedly as a result of interaction with our SMBH, Sagittarius A* – they manage to travel pretty far, sometimes even escaping our galaxy altogether.
It is for this very reason that astronomers are so interested in HVS. Given their speed, and the vast distances they can cover, tracking them and creating a database of their movements could provide constraints on the shape of the dark matter halo of our galaxy. Hence why Dr. Huang and his colleagues began sifting through LAMOST data to find evidence of new HVS.
Located in Hebei Province, northwestern China, the LAMOST observatory is operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over the course of five years, this observatory conducted a spectroscopic survey of 10 million stars in the Milky Way, as well as millions of galaxies. In June of 2017, LAMOST released its third Data Release (DR3), which included spectra obtained during the pilot survey and its first three years' of regular surveys.
Containing high-quality spectra of 4.66 million stars and the stellar parameters of an additional 3.17 million, DR3 is currently the largest public spectral set and stellar parameter catalogue in the world. Already, LAMOST data had been used to identify one hypervelocity star, a B1IV/V-type (main sequence blue subgiant/subdwarf) star that was 11 Solar Masses, 13490 times as bright as our Sun, and had an effective temperature of 26,000 K (25,727 °C; 46,340 °F).
This HVS was designated LAMOST-HSV1, in honor of the observatory. After detecting two new HVSs in the LAMOST data, these stars were designated as LAMOST-HSV2 and LAMOST-HSV3. Interestingly enough, these newly-discovered HVSs are also main sequence blue subdwarfs – or a B2V-type and B7V-type star, respectively.
Whereas HSV2 is 7.3 Solar Masses, is 2399 times as luminous as our Sun, and has an effective temperature of 20,600 K (20,327 °C; 36,620 °F), HSV3 is 3.9 Solar Masses, is 309 times as luminous as the Sun, and has an effective temperature of 14,000 K (24,740 °C; 44,564 °F). The researchers also considered the possible origins of all three HVSs based on their spatial positions and flight times.
"The three HVSs are all spatially associated with known young stellar structures near the GC, which supports a GC origin for them. However, two of them, i.e. LAMOST-HVS1 and 2, have life times smaller than their flight times, indicating that they do not have enough time to travel from the GC to the current positions unless they are blue stragglers (as in the case of HVS HE 0437-5439). The third one (LAMOST-HVS3) has a life time larger than its flight time and thus does not have this problem.
In other words, the origins of these stars is still something of a mystery. Beyond the idea that they were sped up by interacting with the SMBH at the center of our galaxy, the team also considered other possibilities that have suggested over the years.


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Q: How to safely add bool field to gRPC server struct? I'm looking to add what's essentially a "status" boolean field to my gRPC Server.
The idea is that the state of the server could be set when certain conditions are met, so when any new gRPC requests come in, the response would be tailored accordingly.
I have a server struct that I'm using, and for this example, I've added a HappyHour bool field.
I have a goroutine that runs when the server is started, and every minute it checks the time of day. If the time of day is between 5-7pm, HappyHour gets set to true. Otherwise, it gets set to false.
type server struct {
    HappyHour bool
    mu     sync.RWMutex
}

func (s *server) OrderDrink(ctx context.Context, req *bar.DrinkRequest) (*flatbuffers.Builder, error) {

    drink := string(req.drink())
    qty := req.qty()

    // Code here to look up the price of the drink in the database
    total := price*qty

    // Use a mutex to check HappyHour status
    s.mu.RLock()
    defer mu.RLock()
    if s.HappyHour == true {
        total=total/2
    }

    b := flatbuffers.NewBuilder(0)
    // Serialize the response and send it to the client
}

func main() {
    lis, err := net.Listen("tcp", "0.0.0.0:50051")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    s := grpc.NewServer(grpc.CustomCodec(flatbuffers.FlatbuffersCodec{}))

    var srv server
    bar.RegisterBARServer(s, &srv)

    // Monitor happy hour
    go happyHour(&srv)
}

Things seem to be working from my initial testing, but I'm quite new to gRPC, and am a bit worried about using a mutex on the server struct.
Will there be negative performance impacts if there are many clients connecting to the server? If I'm reading or updating HappyHour, and the lock has been acquired, would this impact new users connecting or sending requests? Or would this only impact the actual HappyHour field?

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Dave Collier has been photographing the annual steam train which runs from Fort William ever since they were introduced on an initially modest scale by the former British Railways. 2016 was his 32nd consecutive photographic visit to Fort William and every year he finds new, noteworthy locations. Having both rode on 'The Jacobite' and photographed it in the landscape many times he never a fails to be thrilled by the drama of the steam train powering through the stunning landscape, no matter what the weather. Truly one of the Greatest Train Journeys of the World.
'The Jacobite' runs through dramatic and impressive scenery, with none more so than at Glenfinnan with its stunning viaduct – the location for scenes in the Harry Potter films.
Looking down on Glenfinnan viaduct and Loch Shiel on Monday 24 October. 45407 on the Jacobite.
45407, 24 October working up to Glenfinnan station.
Glenfinnan is surrounded by an impressive mountain range. To the south east a dominant point is the peak of Meall a' Bhainne at 559 metres, with commanding views down Loch Eil towards Corpach to the east and overlooking Glenfinnan viaduct and Loch Shiel to the north west. To the west of this stands the peak of Ant t–Sleubhaich at 533 metres which looks down on Glenfinnan village and to the west has views beyond Loch Eilt to Loch Nan Uamh.
45407 on 24 October. Looking up Glenfinnan.
45407 on 24 October. Looking down on Glenfinnan village and Loch Shiel.
On 24th and 25th October 2016, for the last week of operation of the 2016 main season for 'The Jacobite', steam buff and railway photographer Dave Collier made the arduous climbs to the top of these two peaks to photograph 'The Jacobite' in its superb autumn landscape. Loaded with heavy camera gear he made the two hour hike to the summit of Meall a' Bhainne on 24th October to get some remarkable photos of 'Black 5' locomotive No. 45407 heading 'The Jacobite' through the autumn gold colours to Glenfinnan, on its way to Mallaig. While he was slowly working his way up the mountain over a boggy landscape, watched by curious stags as he passed by at a distance, back in Fort William locomotive owner and registered West Coast Railways driver Ian Riley was preparing his locomotive No 45407 for the journey while on the platform West Coast train guard Florence MacLean was busy selling the remaining tickets to pay ;on the day passengers for the sellout ride.
The views from the mountain top were stunning as 'The Jacobite' steamed past and over the impressive Glenfinnan viaduct. The train in its landscape was awe inspiring. After a 1½ hour decent intrepid photographer Dave Collier decided to do another peak the next day. On Tuesday 25th October he set out early to climb to the top of Ant a–Sleubhaich just beyond Glenfinnan. It was –4C and the whole of Fort William and the whole length of Loch Eil right down to Glenfinnan were covered in a deep mist. Even the mountain he climbed the previous day couldn't be seen. After a 1½ hour trek across a river, boggy ground and up a steep mountainside he reached the peak, for clear views of Glenfinnan and towards Mallaig. As No. 45407 came into view with its train, and with Ian Riley driving again, presented a stunning site again in the dramatic golden landscape.
Tuesday 25 October the 45407 heads away from Glenfinnan towards Loch Eilt and for Mallaig.
Tuesday 25 October. 45407 heading away from Glenfinnan for Mallaig. Beyond Glenfinnan village Loch Eil lies under a dense covering of mist on a frosty morning.


The success of an e-commerce business highly depends on its chosen hosting service. It directly influences end user experience such as page load speed, how the site copes with variable traffic loads during peak demand, and how much resources the business needs to invest in development, optimization, and system management. In short, choosing the wrong hosting service can end your e-commerce business.
Matching China is a successful e-commerce business established over 15 years ago. As the business grew, their off-the-shelf e-commerce platform could no longer meet their needs. It didn't contain the necessary functionality out-of-the-box and was too hard to extend or modify. At the same time, they were losing sales because their hosting servers were frequently down or unreliable, and despite trying several hosting providers each offered very poor support at the times it was needed most!
Matching China developed their own bespoke e-commerce platform to support their continued growth, and by migrating to Jelastic PaaS hosting provided by Layershift now have reliable servers backed by an attentive support team. Gordy Bone, co-founder of Matching China shared his experience and discussed the benefits this change provided to his business.
Having used an off-the-shelf commerce solution (augmented with custom PHP-based administration systems) for a number of years, we decided to migrate to a fully bespoke system. We deployed to our Jelastic environments from the first iteration, and the new systems went live early in 2018.
Why did you develop your own bespoke e-commerce platform?
We started out using off-the-shelf, but there was an inevitable mismatch in requirements. Off-the-shelf platforms seek to cater for the needs of a wide variety of businesses, so there was a lot of unused functionality that just got in our way and caused unnecessary complexity. At the same time there is no way for the developers of such systems to anticipate our every need, so we missed some crucial functionality.
In particular, the vast majority of off-the-shelf products use the section as their primary abstraction. In our old implementation that mapped to both brands and patterns; two quite different concepts. This resulted in data duplication and architectural fragility. The limited extensibility/modifiability of our LAMP-based e-commerce system was sufficient reason to warrant a change.
One of the fundamental characteristics of successful architectures is that they represent the fundamental problem domain (business) concepts faithfully. Developing our systems from the ground up enabled us to get the domain model right, allowing a more flexible and maintainable architecture.
What stacks is your e-commerce platform built on?
The tech stack for our application is fairly straightforward. We have a Tomcat instance with an NGINX load balancer and MariaDB for the persistence layer. Our development language is Java, and our system is monolithic. It's a Spring MVC web application deployed in a WAR file.
Before starting development we weighed up the benefits of a number of languages including PHP and Python. Given that the majority of our professional development experience has been in Java, we leaned heavily in that direction (since familiarity with a language tends to lead to a higher productivity). Speed and security were also strong points as far as Java was concerned. The crucial factor in our decision, though, was the availability of established web/application frameworks. I am a huge fan of Spring, the de facto framework in the Java ecosystem, so all-in-all the choice of language was not a difficult one.
What made you move from VPS to Jelastic PaaS?
We wanted to simplify our deployment process, and we needed to create and clone environments easily.
Jelastic solved both concerns. We now have the ability to clone environments with ease or modify topology (e.g horizontal/vertical scaling, changing persistence-layer technology or Java version etc.) – none of which were available to us with our previous VPS host. There are so many features in Jelastic that weren't available in our VPS environment. One simple feature that I appreciate is being able to view log files without having to access the server via SSH.
The Jelastic administration panel is outstanding and very full-featured, deployments are straightforward, and it's amazing how easy it is to manage and configure environments. I also love that we don't pay for unused resources. Billing is very transparent.
When moving to Jelastic, we chose Layershift as our hosting provider. Layershift's outstanding customer service and technical support were evident from the outset, which we very much appreciated.
How does your experience hosting with Layershift compare to your previous providers?
We used a few different providers over the years, generally moving on due to poor customer service or poor reliability. Server downtime means lost orders, and unfortunately, we experienced unacceptable levels of downtime from several providers.
To say that we're satisfied with Layershift would be a considerable understatement! From the first interaction, their customer service was excellent, and their support is second-to-none.
We were delighted to find that although Jelastic provides us with hugely better functionality (and Layershift provides significantly better support), the costs are much the same as they were with our VPS provider.
Jelastic makes deploying and managing web applications easy and enjoyable. There aren't too many companies that I would recommend wholeheartedly, but Jelastic and Layershift are definitely among them.
Looking for stable, reliable, easy-to-manage and cost-effective cloud hosting with the high level of support for your e-commerce projects? Follow the lead of Matching China and try out Jelastic PaaS offered by service providers worldwide.


Back when I was still able to travel, I would spend a considerable amount of time in London. Apart from taking in the culture and the occasional pint, I would be fascinated with the happenings going on at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. A designated area near Marble Arch, where people would be perched upon their platforms and freely voice their opinions on nearly any subject. Generally, this amounted to rants regarding politics, religion and social issues.
Occasionally, the speeches were quite interesting and I would take in the talk along with the novelty of it all. But more often than not, I would be more fascinated with the speaker who could not capture an audience and yet spoke with such strength and conviction. Appearing psychotic, these speakers would be shouting over the heads of the passersby, who would barely offer the speaker a condescending glance back.
Today, I find myself in a very similar situation. I have spent over ten years sharing my Lyme knowledge with others to help them avoid this debilitating disease. Generally, my warnings would fall on deaf ears. I, on the other hand, would feel much like that lonely speaker in Hyde Park without an audience.
Though I am often accused of thinking every ailment is the result of a tick bite, nothing could be farther from the truth. The message that I am trying to convey is that so many illnesses (e.g., MS, ALS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's Autism, Bell's Palsy, Fibromyalgia etc.) and symptoms (e.g., joint pains, stiffness, dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, etc.) MAY be the result of Lyme and that we should all be vigilant. Never rule out the possibility of these illnesses actually being Lyme until reliably tested.
The CDC now admits that Lyme is prevalent in the US and it is indeed an epidemic. The countless number of sick people we all see and hear about everyday should make us all suspicious.
Caught early, Lyme can be cured. Many of the other listed symptoms above can not be. So why would we not suspect Lyme? What do we have to lose?
Let's keep an open mind, and let's stay safe.
~ by Rob on January 15, 2010.
Thanks to you and others like you who keep stepping up on their virtual soap boxes even though it seems no one is listening. After several alarming stories about the potentially devastating effects of Lyme disease caught my attention I persuaded my brother, who's suffered with CFS for 10 years, to see a Lyme Literate doctor. I doubt you'll be surprised to hear that he tested positive for Lyme and is finally experiencing relief from some of the debilitating symptoms of CFS. He had none of the "classic" or "textbook" symptoms of Lyme nor any known exposure.
Hearing more arguments connecting Lyme to a number of chronic diseases, I finally took my elderly father to a Lyme Literate doctor for comprehensive evaluation. Like my brother he'd had no known exposure (except perhaps in his youth, pre WW2), and none of the typical symptoms. But I kept hearing that Lyme can cause Parkinson's, memory loss, and Alzheimer's, which my father suffers from, so I felt compelled to at least cancel it out. Despite all I'd learned about Lyme I was stunned with the results of his Western Blot were strongly positive for numerous Lyme strains.
You are so right to urge people not to rule out Lyme until they've been adequately tested. It's tragic that so many people are accepting deadend diagnoses like MS, Parkinson's, Autism without at least investigating whether Lyme could be the cause.
Please keep speaking out. Someone out there is listening! Thanks!
Thank you for your supportive comments. I am pleased that you were able to convince your brother and father to be tested. It's never pleasant to know that a person has Lyme, but at least it allows the person to be on the right path to improve their quality of life.
My British mother-in-law was diagnosed and treated for Parkinson's. I suspected that she picked up Lyme while she had been visiting us in the States.
Trying to convince UK doctors to test for Lyme is impossible. After a few years, I personally had her blood drawn and sent to Specialty Labs. Her Lyme titers were off the charts positive.
I thought that that would be the end of it, but, the doctor in the UK insisted that he too would need to do his own Lyme tests. Of course, his tests showed negative. He and UK's National Health Service then refused to treat her for Lyme and shortly thereafter, I lost her.
Unfortunately, I have other similar stories.
Thanks for keeping on Rob.


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May 21: On this day in history, rap legend Biggie Smalls is born to Jamaican parents
'I love it when you call me Big Papa! Throw your hands in the air, if you's a true player' (Photo: Biography.com)
Notorious B.I.G. may have lived a short life but his music has transcended generations and he's still ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
On what would have been his 48th birthday, BUZZ presents some interesting tidbits about Biggie Smalls:
The rapper was born Christopher George Latore Wallace in Brooklyn, New York on May 21, 1978, to Jamaican parents Selwyn Latore, a welder and Voletta Wallace, a preschool teacher. He was the child born out of the relationship and the elder Latore left the family when Christopher was a toddler.
Over his career, B.I.G released two critically acclaimed studio albums, Ready to Die (in 1994) and Life After Death (in 1997). The rapper also has two projects released posthumously, Born Again (in 1999) as well as Duets: The Final Chapter (in 2005).
Biggie Smalls was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, earlier in 2020
Rolling Stone and Billboard have both ranked the MC as the greatest rapper of all time.
Not wanting to stain his memory and dedicating the project to his fans, Bad Boy Records released Wallace's double-disc second album, Life After Death, as planned. The album, which came out sixteen days after his death, hit number one on the Billboard 200 charts. It gained strong reviews and in 2000 was certified Diamond, the highest RIAA certification awarded to a solo hip hop album.
The records continued to tumble as Hypnotize and Mo Money Mo Problems contributed to his biggest success on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Both singles reached number one on the Hot 100, and made Wallace the first artist to achieve this feat posthumously. What's more, Hypnotize was the last music video recording in which Wallace took part in before he was assassinated.
He had two children T'yanna and C.J Wallace and was married to R&B songstress Faith Evans for three years.
Rest well, Biggie, still the greatest to ever hit the mic. Period.
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This 2008 Hunter 216 includes a galvanized trailer, and a 4HP Tohatsu Outboard Motor. The mainsail is in great shape, as is the roller furling jib. There is plenty of storage room in the cabin, and even room to take a nap. An incredible 10 ft cockpit with contoured seat backs has room for 6, so plenty of room for family and friends. The 500 LB lead, retractable Hydraulic Keel allow the boat to draft between 12 and 42. This boat has 252 square ft of sail, so she is quick and is a TON of FUN to sail!!!
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It Takes Two Developer Josef Fares: Better Shot In The Knee Than NFTs In Games
In an interview with The Washington Post, Josef Fares, the founder of Hazelight Studios, shared more about the development of It Takes Two. Fares speaks about the relationship between major films and games, and he also gives his opinion about the earnings model of games.
With experience in both movies and games, the writer/developer believes games deserve more respect from Hollywood. He doesn't think it's particularly easy to make great movies, but considers building a video game a "more complex art." For example, it takes six to nine months to develop a boss in It Takes Two, while players have already defeated it after five to six minutes.
It Takes Two was released on March 26 and has now surpassed the three million mark sold. Thanks to its innovative co-op mode, the adventure game took home the Game Of The Year award at the Game Awards early this month.
While Fares can't say what the next Hazelight game will be, at least he knows what features he'd rather ignore. As games increasingly adopt the live service model or integrate additional salable items (such as NFTs), he stresses that these buzzwords are not for him. Fares adds that "he'd rather be shot in the knee than implement NFTs in future games."
"I'm not saying that replayability is bad for every game, some games are designed for it. I'm just saying that for the games we make (story-driven games, most single player games) there shouldn't be a focus on replayability since these titles aren't focused on that at all. We already have a problem with people not even finishing single player games, so why focus on replayability?"
Source: The Washington Post
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Montero showing off his new duds in a place that I'm sure is much warmer than Seattle, or in my case, Moscow, Idaho.
Before Seattle Sounders FC officially sent forward Fredy Montero on his one-year journey to Colombia, they made sure his value would stay in Seattle for a few more years to come.
The Montero-to-Millonarios news is nothing new, in fact it first broke weeks ago and Montero himself is already in pre-season training with the Colombian champs. The news that came as a bit of a surprise today when the FO sent out the news release on Montero's loan was the fact that he and the club reached a contract extension alongside the loan deal.
Previous reports said Montero's previous contract was set to expire after 2014, but with a new contract extension (terms and length are never publicized per club and MLS policy) Montero's sale stock and the Sounders bargaining ability for a transfer fee increase compared to a player at the end of his contract.
The reality now though becomes that Montero is gone from the club this season. With his departure goes 22 percent of the organization's goals in all competitions, the club's leading assist man and the Rave Green's biggest threat.
The discussion for the club now becomes how to replace Montero's production. I feel like I'm in the war room for Billy Beane and the Oakland A's in Moneyball saying that we aren't going to replace Montero, but we need to replace his productivity. That replacement may already by signed to a contract with guys like David Estrada, Sammy Ochoa or Babayele Sodade playing a scorer by committee role, or it may be in a new designated player that General Manager Adrian Hanauer and manager Sigi Schmid bring in — an option now that Montero's DP slot is open as long as he's gone.
On another note, Sounders training camp opened up this morning at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwilla. Missing from the camp were US Men's National Team members Eddie Johnson and Brad Evans and Honduran National Team member Mario Martinez, while new additions include SuperDraft selections Eriq Zavaleta and Dylan Remick, former Sounders Cordell Cato, out-of-contract former Chivas USA/New England Revolution midfielder Blair Gavin and UANL Tigres reserve midfielder Mane Asprila. The other big name on trail with the club is 23-year-old Honduran center back Jose David Velasquez Colon who was rumored to join the club several times in the past two months.
here is also a video of Schmid talking about the first day of camp. As I always say, if you're looking for a reason to love the Sounders — look no further than sport's shortest offseason.


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A Rocha, an international conservation organization with a strong presence in Canada, has been working with community partners in the Little Campbell River watershed for the past nine years to restore and steward fish and wildlife habitat. A Rocha is currently establishing the Brooksdale Environmental Centre at 19353 16th Ave in Surrey. In order to best steward the remarkable Brooksdale property, A Rocha staff and interns have been conducting species surveys and habitat restoration projects on site. Their work includes an inventory study, capturing fish and amphibians in the Centre's pond, which lies in the floodplain of the Little Campbell River, to assess species abundance and to manage non-native invasive species such as American bullfrog and Pumpkinseed sunfish.
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What is the central question of your day? Having a core question that you try to answer each day will make you more productive, more attentive, and well on your way to doing something great. Think about it - what gets you up in the morning (other than an alarm clock, a dog licking your face, or a child demanding breakfast)? Why do you do what you do?
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Союз спасения («Общество истинных и верных сынов Отечества») — тайное политическое общество, первая декабристская организация, возникшая в Российской империи в Санкт-Петербурге  года на базе двух преддекабристских организаций — «Священной артели» и «Семёновской артели».

История создания

С 1814 года началось создание первых тайных организаций, получивших название преддекабристских. Всего насчитывалось 4 организации: «Орден русских рыцарей» (граф М. А. Дмитриев-Мамонов, генерал М. Ф. Орлов), «Священная артель» (Н. Н. Муравьёв и А. Н. Муравьёв), Семёновская артель (С. П. Трубецкой, С. И. Муравьёв-Апостол, И. Д. Якушкин, всего около 15—20 человек), а также кружок В. Ф. Раевского. По приказу Александра I в 1815 году Семёновская артель, самая многочисленная из всех преддекабристских организаций, была запрещена. Все эти организации существовали на легальном или полулегальном положении.

 года члены Священной и Семёновской артелей объединились в первую декабристскую организацию, получившую название «Союз спасения». Учредителями и организаторами общества были гвардейские офицеры А. Н. Муравьёв, М. И. Муравьёв-Апостол и С. И. Муравьёв-Апостол, князь С. П. Трубецкой. Помимо членов Семёновской и Священной артелей, в состав общества вошли также Н. М. Муравьёв, П. И. Пестель, майор М. С. Лунин, полковник Ф. Н. Глинка.

Программа
В 1817 году Общество приняло устав, написанный «комиссией» в составе П. И. Пестеля, С. П. Трубецкого и И. А. Долгорукова. Согласно уставу, Союз спасения был переименован в «Общество истинных и верных сынов Отечества». Целями общества были провозглашены уничтожение крепостного права и замена самодержавия на конституционную монархию. Большинство предполагало добиваться этих целей мирным путём, посредством давления на общественное мнение. Сами члены общества обязывались вести себя и поступать во всех отношениях так, чтобы не заслужить ни малейшей укоризны. Члены общества стремились к обличению социального зла и пороков, в частности, невежества народа, казнокрадства, взяточничества чиновников, жестокого обращения с солдатами, неуважения к человеческому достоинству, несоблюдения прав личности. Меньшая часть общества предполагала действовать более решительными мерами. М. С. Лунин первым предложил план по убийству царя. Это предложение отвергал Пестель, предлагавший устройство тайного общества, разработки конституции и более чёткой организации. Разногласия в путях осуществления своей программы привели в конечном итоге к кризису и роспуску организации.

Организация
Во главе «Союза спасения» стоял Верховный собор из «бояр». Остальные участники делились на «мужей» и «братьев», которых предполагалось сгруппировать по «округам» и «управам». Однако этому помешала малочисленность общества, насчитывавшего не более тридцати-тридцати пяти членов. Была принята глубокая конспирация, беспрекословное подчинение нижестоящих членов вышестоящим. Принятие новых членов и переход членов из одной ступени в другую осуществлялись при согласии «бояр».

История
Разногласия по поводу путей осуществления своих целей привели к ожесточённым спорам внутри общества. В сентябре 1817 года состоялось совещание членов Общества (т. н. «Московский заговор»). Предметом обсуждения было предложение И. Д. Якушкина осуществить цареубийство во время пребывания императорского двора в Москве. Большинство членов общества отвергло это предложение. В итоге ввиду «скудости средств к достижению цели» цареубийство было запрещено. Передовые члены решили в конце концов распустить организацию, создав на её основе новую, более организованную, широкую и сплочённую. В качестве переходной организации было создано «Военное общество» в октябре 1817 года, в котором состояли большая часть членов Союза спасения. «Военное общество» было распущено в январе 1818 года, на его базе был сформирован Союз благоденствия.

В культуре
 Союз спасения (фильм) (2019)
 Союз спасения (сериал) (с 2022)

Примечания

Литература
 Троицкий Н. Декабристы // Россия в XIX веке. Курс лекций. М., 1997.

Политические заговоры
Организации, основанные в 1816 году
Исчезли в 1817 году

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In this joint event with the Bristol Cable we will be asking: how are Brexit voters from around the country represented in the news? How can we avoid London-centric reporting? How do we ensure a diversity of voices in the press? How can news organisations produce and fund the stories that matter?
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Sarah Crane is a Ph.D. candidate in Peace Studies & History. She spent the last year in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship for her research on how post-Holocaust trials shaped the post-war identity of German democracy. Sarah is preparing for another stage of her research in Israel where she will look into the ways these trials influenced the country and contemporary Israelis. In this Student Q&A, Sarah explains why she chose to study Peace and what she hopes to achieve through her research.
What made you interested in Peace studies?
My focus of study is centered around examining the Holocaust's influence on the current norms and values of international justice. I began this research not with an interest in the Holocaust specifically, but instead wanting to understand why the crime of genocide holds so much weight within the global discourse on our responsibility to respond to and prevent future atrocities. I began this research when I was living among the Tibetan Refugee Community of Dharamsala, India, and learned about this community's goal of garnering international support for recognizing the crimes committed in Tibet as "cultural genocide." Though it became clear that it was very unlikely that China would ever be formerly convicted for genocide in an international court, a conviction seemed less important to this community than the moral recognition that what many of them experienced, and were still experiencing, amounted to cultural genocide. I left wanting to understand why the label of "cultural genocide" was so important to this community. Research into the origins of the crime of genocide both in international law and within global discourse led me to the crimes of the Holocaust. I decided I wanted to focus on legal responses to the Holocaust to better understand the moral and legal responsibility embedded within the international community's commitment to "never again."
What are you focusing on during your Ph.D.?
My dissertation focuses on two trials specifically, the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel (1961), and the Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trial in Germany (1963-1965). Both of these trials placed former members of the Nazi regime on trial, but did so many years after the end of WWII. I study the motivations behind initiating these trials almost two decades after the fall of the Third Reich: what can be gained by putting someone on trial even decades after the crimes they committed? I found that the instigators of both trials saw a conviction as subsidiary to the effect that they hoped the trial would have on their country's collective memory of the Holocaust. They both saw reckoning with the past as an essential step in not only ensuring the long-term stability of both Israel and Germany, but making sure that the crimes of the Holocaust do not happen again. My research aims to connect their goals and motivations to the current discourse on international justice.
Describe your experience in Germany.
From September 2021 until July 2022, I was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt, Germany. This Institute was founded as a research center on the history and impact of the Holocaust and is named after the instigator of the Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trial, Fritz Bauer. I first got in touch with the Institute when I was trying to find examples of Fritz Bauer's articles, speeches, and interviews regarding the Auschwitz Trial and postwar Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. I was immediately impressed by their extensive archive as well as the caliber of cutting-edge research that they publish on the Holocaust. My goal for this year was to understand Fritz Bauer's goals for the Auschwitz Trial within the German legal and intellectual tradition that he was raised in, as well as explore how German language historiography articulates his legacy. Though I have read the English language literature on the Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trial and the Holocaust, understanding these events in a different language and within a different academic framework was challenging. I found I had to lean on many of my colleagues in the Institute to understand not only where to start, but get help with processing what I found along the way.
What are your next professional steps and goals?
I left Germany with a greater appreciation for pursuing grounded historical research that is not only focused on the remnants of past people and events that are found in archives, but how the legacies of those figures/events are continually constructed and reconstructed throughout a country's history. My next phase of research is focused on looking at the instigators of the Eichmann Trial, former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Chief Prosecutor Gideon Hausner. I will be traveling to Israel in January to pursue archival research on these two figures, and similar to my time in Germany, my goal is to spend time with Israeli academics who can help me engage with the impact of the Eichmann Trial on contemporary Israel. I hope to leave my time in Israel with a clear sense of how both the Eichmann and Auschwitz Trials influenced the international community's understanding of trials as not only legal exercises, but institutions that influence our collective understanding of our responsibility to remember and respond to past atrocities.
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Nancy Pelosi Pushes 'Technological Wall' Instead of a Fence
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reviving the establishment's "virtual wall" policy on the southern border to soften her uncompromising opposition to President Donald Trump's push for a real fence on the border.
"What the President is proposing is not the best way to protect our borders … We all support border security, and there is a better way to do it … The positive, shall we say, almost technological wall, that can be built is what we should be doing," Pelosi said January 10.
Nancy Pelosi's border security fix: Repair the border roads so it's easier for immigrants to enter U.S.https://t.co/X6ePFKurDQ pic.twitter.com/sYPgLLxHV9
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2019
Pelosi's focus on a "technological wall" of sensors and drones helps the Democrats hide their push for more migration, despite its impact on Americans' wages, productivity, tax spending, crime, and civic peace, said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
"They have to make it sound like they are for some kind of enforcement, and so what they say they are in favor of is 'smarter enforcement,' just like the [Barack] Obama administration used to say their ICE strategy of 'prosecutorial prioritization' was really 'smarter enforcement,'" she said.
The Democrats' push for a "technological wall," is also very important for the new Democrat legislators elected in swing-districts, she said, adding:
They know they cannot afford to be seen blocking border security. We have to remember that Nancy Pelosi is not in the Speaker's chair now because voters want to abolish ICE or open the border. The Democrats [in November] won because there were a lot of Democratic candidates who won because they said they were just as hawkish on immigration as Republicans.
Pelosi also has to manage her raucous caucus, which includes moderates from swing-districts and progressives who back the "Abolish ICE!" slogan, Vaughan said.
She has to satisfy the open borders wing of her caucus [and] not veer too far in the direction of the progressives … I think the Democrats in Congress are more extreme on immigration than most Democratic voters are, but they can't afford to be associated with Abolish ICE! and pro-caravan demands.
Overall, the party "want the charade of enforcement, not actual enforcement, and that is true of border security and every other type of enforcement," she said.
Other Democrats are touting technology as a full or partial substitute for a real fence. CNN reported January 4:
"It is nothing more than a symbol when you look at it in this perspective," Bustos said during an interview on CNN's "New Day," in reference to President Donald Trump's proposal for a wall. "If we have a partial wall, if we have fencing, if we have technology used to keep our borders safe, all of that is fine. But it has just become this symbol that the president is not going to have any give-or-take when it comes to this $5 billion."
.@RepCheri Bustos says the border wall has become "nothing more than a symbol," but notes that "in the end, we might have to give or take a little bit. It's just the way the world works."https://t.co/oiGb5OgcB7 pic.twitter.com/2aUrs7YK1Z
— New Day (@NewDay) January 4, 2019
Pelosi is also trying to shift the debate away from fences and towards amnesties: "We need to have comprehensive immigration reform … Dreamers and their families and the rest," she said January 10. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform is what this debate frankly should be about," she said.
That Democrats' opposition to a wall is entwined with Democrats' increasing promotion of migrants above Americans and their children.
On January 4, for example, Pelosi said that a wall "is an immorality — it builds walls in peoples' minds about who should come here."
On January 8, after Trump's national address, Pelosi downplayed the northward flow of economic migrants. The migrants "are a humanitarian challenge, a challenge that President Trump's own cruel and counter-productive policies have only deepened," she said.
On January 10, Pelosi said that Trump's proposed barrier to Central American migration is "discriminatory."
In February 2018, Pelosi gave a long speech in the House where she praised illegal migrants as better than Americans:
We recognize that they are a blessing to America … the dreamers are all over our country, Mr. Speaker, they are a blessing so across the board …
These are the best of the best. They are so fabulous …
I was impressed by the cumulative effect that they are making on their country. Each of them with their individual contribution to the greatness of America. So exciting, so proud of them …
[They have] great humility about conveying their stories because when you see them and they tell their stories and the passion and the pride — the patriotism, passion, pride, patriotism, that they demonstrate, you will see why anyone who has had the wonderful experience of being in conversation or observing our dreamers, understand why they have had such a high reputation among the American people. some of whom have met them, some of whom have heard about them, some of whom have just catch the spark, catch the spark. Recognize, recognize again the hard work ethic, the commitment to education, to community service, to faith, to family, to the United States of America. It's a beautiful thing …
Am I not lucky to be able to become so familiar with so many of these beautiful dreamers? We want to send these people back? This talent, this rich talent, this achievement, this determination, this faith in the future, this patriotism for America? I don't think so. We have to make [an amnesty] happen …
Let us acknowledge the dreamers and their optimism, their inspiration to make America more American…
Democrats are trying to revive the establishment's 'virtual fence' substitute for a physical barrier. G.W. Bush and Obama ran that $1 billion scam from 2005 to 2015, but it only ensured more migrants, lower wages, and Trump's 2016 election. https://t.co/ZAQiunXoKl
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 10, 2019
Nationwide, the bipartisan establishment's economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor of blue-collar and white-collar employees.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids' schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices, pricing poor U.S. whites, Latinos and blacks out of prosperous cities, such as Berkeley and Oakland.
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Pop-up poo-powered pub welcomes in punters after opening in Yorkshire
Not so much a boozer as a poo-zer, The Number Two Tavern is the world's first pub powered by recycled human waste.
Designed along the lines of a traditional Yorkshire pub, The Number Two Tavern serves water through a unique "pub style" water pump – and punters will be able to pose for photos on the pub's 'throne' – a prop toilet.
The power for The Number Two Tavern is coming from a ground-breaking process, called "anaerobic digestion", which converts waste into biogas that can be used to generate heat and electricity.
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Yorkshire Water has charged a Hybrid Power battery with the poo-power, which is being created at Yorkshire Water's Knostrop Recycling Centre.
This means that everything requiring electricity in the pub is powered by recycled poo.
Yorkshire Water Director of Wastewater Service Delivery, Ben Roche, said: "We're excited to be showcasing the future possibilities of renewable energy by opening the world's first poo-powered pub in Leeds."
"The Number Two Tavern is a way of showcasing how we are recycling materials to generate low carbon and renewable energy through anaerobic digestion, helping to lower our carbon footprint and become more self-sufficient.
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"As a water company, we are at the forefront of responding to climate change as we see, every day, the impact of today's variable and extreme weather on our environment.
"We know that more needs to be done to tackle climate change, and it is our hope that the opening of our poo pub this week will help spread this message, showcasing what could be possible as we move towards a lower carbon and more sustainable future."
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Danny Jones, Joint MD of Off-Grid Energy, the provider of the battery storing the poo power for The Number Two Tavern, adds: "The project is a great demonstration of how creative thinking can join up different technologies and resources to deliver sustainable ways to go about our everyday business.
"This is an added dimension in reducing emissions and helping to ensure we have clean air in our towns and cities where the provision of temporary power would otherwise involve the use of a diesel generator."
The Number Two Tavern is open at The Light, Leeds from 7th until 9th November.
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It has been an honor and privilege serving you for the last four years, and I look forward to being your representative at City Hall for another five-and-a-half years. On July 8, I took the Oath of Office in front of my family, federal, state and local leaders, representatives of partner organizations, and the South LA community. It was a joyous day, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the faith and trust you have put into me. Because of you, I won a decisive victory this past March.
When I first decided to run for Los Angeles City Council, I knew I wanted a progressive platform for South LA. I was not going to let the status-quo stand, so I challenged myself and my staff at every turn to do better for a more than deserving community. I looked closely at the residents of Council District 9 and the systemic neglect that communities of color are met with and took action.
Income inequality is a very real barrier for families in South LA. In 2014, I introduced policy to raise the wage for hotel workers to $15.37 per hour. One year later, I led the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020 for every Angeleno. To further strengthen job security, I brought key players to the table to make it mandatory that every employee, no matter their occupation, receive 48 hours of paid sick leave per year.
As I worked to strengthen working families, I knew more had to be done to remove unfair barriers to employment. Our policies were fostering unemployment and homelessness so we removed the "box" from job applications that asks candidates about their criminal record so people who have served their time will have a fair chance.
Not only are these major projects helping to bring more than 8,000 jobs to the Ninth District, but I have insisted, and will continue to demand, commitments to local hire. To capitalize on these opportunities, my Office will work diligently to inform local residents of the upcoming training and employment opportunities. And we will keep project developers accountable for the local hiring requirements, ranging from 30 percent to 40 percent, that they promised our community.
As you can see, we have made solid gains, but my work is not done. During my next term, we will increase the supply of affordable housing in the District. To this end, my office has secured 13 sites in CD 9 that will provide more than 700 units of new affordable housing. Just as importantly for me will be to preserve existing affordable housing units that are currently at risk of conversion to market-rate. While there is a need to build more affordable housing in the region, we must also protect the affordable rentals we already have. Many of these agreements offering affordability protections are set to expire, and we have to look at the issue of affordable housing as a whole to keep more individuals from falling into homelessness.
Over the last couple of years, my Office has allocated $1 million to homeless service providers LAHSA and HOPICS to provide intensive outreach in the District. I want you to know homelessness will remain a high priority for my Office. We are also putting the City's comprehensive homelessness strategy into action, which now includes a mobile shower and safe parking program here in the 9th District.
Furthermore, the success of Measure HHH—the $1.2-billion bond measure that voters approved in November and of which I was a co-sponsor—means that we'll construct up to 10,000 units of permanent housing with wrap-around services for homeless people over the next decade. We're poised now more than ever to combat homelessness Citywide, and I will be working very hard to reduce those numbers in my District.
Parks and green space will remain at the top of my priority's list. During my first term, more than $40 million were invested into public parks for new playgrounds, exercise equipment, the re-opening of a pool, three new pocket parks and a whole slew of other upgrades! For the future, we'll be working with LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) to bring art, cultural programs and instructional workshops to the Wetlands Park on 54th and Avalon. We will also continue to explore the possibility of building a dog park in the community, expand recreational activities for our youth and seniors, and make other repairs and improvements across neighborhood parks. Additionally, the recently adopted Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone policy will help address problems of food deserts and blighted lands by encouraging urban farming. I'm pleased to report, the first pilot project will take place in District 9.
Before getting elected to the City Council, I ran on a "Clean and Green" campaign, and I'm delighted to say we have delivered. Since taking Office, I've dedicated more than $4 million to clean up South Los Angeles streets and alleys, and install hundreds of new trash bins Districtwide. But we're also fixing our crumbling sidewalks, trimming overgrown trees and removing unsightly graffiti. I have used millions of dollars in City funds to address these quality of life issues, and I am committed to securing funding year after year to make our neighborhoods more livable.
Looking ahead, it is important that the updates to the South and Southeast Los Angeles Community Plans reflect the assets and cultural resources that make our communities great. Last year, the federal government designated a vast portion of the District as a Promise Zone. I am working very closely with the Planning Department to ensure that the land use policies under these Plans promote neighborhood-serving uses, businesses with fresh foods, and a great jobs-housing balance for long-term economic vitality in the District. I am including in these Plans methods for strengthening first mile-last mile strategies to our vast transit networks while also promoting connections to the new Metro Rail to River multi-use trail on Slauson Boulevard, which will begin construction in 2018. Additionally, my Office is partnering with the Urban Land Institute – LA to develop a technical advisory panel for the Goodyear Tract and other industrial lands along Slauson Boulevard. This is an exciting project that will not only look to retain existing manufacturing businesses but also promote creative industries.
Whenever I'm considering policy, seeking to attract investment to South LA, or debating how to use finite resources, I always put the interest of our families first. I will continue to be your voice on the City Council, stand up for what's right and always pursue the Promise of the NEW 9th! If you ever have any questions about what's going on in our community, please don't hesitate to reach out to my District Office at (323) 846-2651.
Thank you again for this amazing journey. I firmly believe our best days are ahead of us. To see all the photos from my swearing-in ceremony and community celebration, please click here.


New York Red Bulls midfielder Kaku saw the red mist descend on Sunday, after he threw a tantrum at the referee's decision and blasted the football straight into the face of a fan sitting on the front row.
Tensions boiled over during the 2-2 draw, with Kaku - full name Alejandro Romero - being sent immediately from the field due to his embarrassing actions.
After being disappointed by a decision of the referee, Kaku headed over to the ball as it nestled by the touchline and vented his pent-up fury.
Striking his foot through the ball with maximum backlift, Kaku pelted a wayward effort straight into the face of a supporter who had zero time to react.
The stand of supporters were immediately and understanably incensed, as opposition players honed in on Kaku and began to push the Red Bulls man around.
The referee was forced to intervene, and acted quickly to bring the situation under control.
In a gesture of goodwill and perhaps feeling shamed by their team-mate's actions, many Red Bulls players approached the stands to check on the fan immediately after the final whistle.
Sporting KC defender Andreu Fontas gave the injured fan his shirt after the game had finished, and admitted to ESPN he had a clear view of the incident.
'It was a very, very, very hard ball that he gets in his face,' Fontas said. 'I felt very bad for him because he was here to enjoy and to see a good show, a good match, and he doesn't deserve this.
Kaku tweeted an apology after the game, writing: 'I want to take the time and apologize for my actions during tonight's match.


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We talked to the guy from 'Hot Girls Wanted' about what it's like to be a porn agent
Some people think the Netflix documentary is a condemnation of sex work. Riley Reynolds thinks it's good business.
Susan E. Shepard— 2015-06-05 11:30 am | Last updated 2017-03-08 11:09 am
Florida native Riley Reynolds is the literal face of pornography thanks to Hot Girls Wanted, a new documentary that follows the work and personal lives of the young women he books for porn shoots through his agency, Hussie Models.
Directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus (Sexy Baby) and produced by actress Rashida Jones, the documentary posits that young women are seduced into emotionally and physically hazardous work via the Internet, aided by exposure to a pornified popular culture. It has been both hailed by anti-pornography campaigners as an expose of America's porn industry and criticized as reductive and cavalier about the data it presents by industry workers and supporters.
During Reynold's on-screen time, he comes off as an entrepreneurial young man whose chosen hustle is particularly camera-friendly. Hot Girls Wanted shows him posting ads on Craigslist, talking to potential hires on the phone, and managing a household of five young porn performers, keeping them happy with a puppy named Ducati and driving them to shoots. He comes off less as a porn Svengali and more as a den father of sorts.
While the film focuses on the women, Reynolds is an interesting character in his own right, an entrepreneur who has carved out a niche in a business that depends on his ability to connect with them.
On Wednesday, Reynolds spoke to the Daily Dot via Skype. He was joined by two performers, Kimmy Granger and Adrian Maya, who currently live in one of his Hussie Houses (he's expanded to two, up one from the time of filming) and his two dogs.
Now 25, the Tampa native was 23 and relatively new to the business during the Hot Girls Wanted shoot. He started as a performer but worked as an agent from his first day in the business, when an industry contact in Miami told him that bringing in other performers was a way to increase his income.
"I'm dating my girlfriend, and she broke up with me for this guy who she friend-zoned all her life, so I said, 'Fuck you, I'm doing porn.' And that's how I started," he said. "I represented guys for about six months and I was killing it doing that, and then I represented like my first girl and I made quadruple the money."
Reynolds places ads online to find new performers, or he's contacted by young women who find him on Twitter or the agency's site. His vetting process involves finding out if the girls like to party, so he can weed out potential heavy drug users. He also likes to suss out their motivations for doing porn, and most crucially, get multiple forms of ID to make sure they are of age.
"I've had a parent get mad because her daughter was over here and she refused to come home, and so her grandma decided to send the authorities over. She tried to say 'He's trafficking underage girls.' The cops have come a couple of times. They're friendly," he said.
"The cops have come a couple of times. They're friendly."
When the girls fly out and start working, Reynolds tells them about the business side of things—to save all their receipts for filing taxes, how the shoots will work, etc. He delegates general porn education to the veteran performers in the house, who act as mentors to the new girls.
"It was a blessing when I first began to have them giving me advice on how to act, what I should do, what I should say to certain people, what I should wear for certain sets. I can't even explain it. We are so close," said Kimmy.
The camaraderie between the performers is one of the charms of Hot Girls Wanted. The scenes of the girls together in the house during downtime are the best parts of the film. They play with the dogs, do their makeup, and trade horror stories about well-hung performers. Those scenes reflect what Reynolds thought he was signing up for when the Hot Girls Wanted filmmakers first approached him.
"It was originally supposed to be, like, 'behind the scenes of porn,' and that's why I agreed to do it, and then the movie came out," said Reynolds.
Adrian and Kimmy say their positive experiences in the industry weren't reflected in the film. While it seems fair to allow for the fact that their landlord/agent is present while they're speaking to me on Skype, the girls clearly think the film is one-sided.
"I was a little shocked by how it depicted porn and people in the porn industry. It made them seem almost as if they were miserable doing porn, and there just wasn't gonna be a good outcome for them. I've been in it for a year and I've had nothing but good things to say about the porn industry and everyone that I've worked with and all the companies I've worked with as well," said Adrian.
"They took all the negative aspects that could possibly go wrong, like certain times when you show up to a set and there's someone that you're not sexually attracted to and the whole day will just go shitty. They made it seem like that's how it is for all these young girls," said Kimmy. She said when she does have those days—for instance, when she gets on set and just doesn't want to do the shoot—Reynolds is understanding.
"I've heard horror stories about what agents do when girls cancel last minute, cancel even two days prior, and I've literally cancelled on set," Kimmy said. "So [Riley is] not only just a great friend but he's compassionate and understanding, [and] super patient."
Ava Taylor (left) with a male performer in 'Hot Girls Wanted.'
At the center of Hot Girls Wanted is Tressa, whose tenure in the business is brief and dramatic as she deals with family members and a boyfriend who want her to quit. The movie pivots on a scene where her mother confronts her about what she's doing, warning her about the stigma associated with porn.
While the film's focus is solely on the potential harm for young female performers, Reynolds has experienced repercussions of the stigma associated with porn as well. While he says his mother will happily tell people that she has one son in the Navy and one who does porn, his father isn't happy with his career choice and much of his extended family doesn't talk to him.
"It's not hard just for girls. Half my family, they hate it," he said.
Tressa, who has since left the industry, sent along well-wishes to Reynolds through the directors when the film was released. Another central character, Ava Taylor, has had a more complex relationship with porn and the documentary. She's done panel discussions and interviews where she's talked about how she's glad to be out of the business, even though she's worked within the past month.
"She did that interview for AOL and I haven't talked to her," said Reynolds. But he thinks Ava still keeps him in her mind. During the interview, one of the guests, Mark Kernes of Adult Video News (AVN), questioned Reynold's professionalism because he isn't licensed and bonded. "Ava was backing me up, she was like, 'Riley actually respected us.' She doesn't hate me so I don't know why she's not answering. She doesn't like to answer her phone, she's always been like that."
Watching the AOL interview last week made Reynolds curious about some of the statistics about porn cited in the film, such as a stat from the Kinsey Institute that claims 40 percent of pornography depicts acts of violence against women. The number is cited during a scene in which a performer is shooting for the site Latina Abuse, part of a family of sites formerly known as Facial Abuse.
"40 percent? That's almost half of porn. I would say maybe 10 percent is like abusive," said Reynolds. "Facial Abuse is a one-of-a-kind site. It also seemed like it made me look like I book my girls for all that stuff, but that was another thing. If they're cool with that, maybe I'll let them, but I'll make them watch like 10 to 20 movies before they even think about it. If they're cool with it, they're cool with it, but that's a site that [will convince] a girl [to] quit doing porn because of how much it'll fuck them up."
Reynolds prides himself on keeping performers on his roster, even after they're pursued by Los Angeles porn agents. He thinks that Miami is a good starting point for a porn career, but successful performers will eventually go to California and be targeted by other agents.
"They say whatever they can to get [a girl] to leave me…it's like a trophy if you want a girl from me. I don't make them sign contracts and they're still with me," he said.
Indeed, Reynolds appears to take a lot of pride in retaining performers. His attitude is at odds with one of his most-quoted lines in the film: "Every day, a new girl turns 18." Reynolds says that quote was taken out of context by the filmmakers.
"We were talking about how shitty the economy is, and how the economy crashed, and everyone lost their jobs so everyone's trying to do medical and military. At first everyone was like 'boom, getting hired, hired, hired' 'cause there wasn't enough, and then now they're cutting back," Reynolds said. "And then [the directors were] like: 'What about other agents, are you gonna be scared now?' And that's when I said: 'I'll never run out. A new girl turns 18 every day.' I've been getting a lot of shit for that quote," he said.
Adrian thinks that Reynolds said that as a way to "humble" his new performers. "I've been in for a year and he still tells me all the time that you need to remember another girl turns 18 every day, like, 'Don't get too big of a head on your shoulders just cause you get constant work,'" said Adrian.
"Every once in a while I have to tell them 'I'm not being a dick, but you are all replaceable.' I'm not being a dick at all, but it's true," he said.
When the film first came out, Reynolds was worried that it would make him look bad. But he says that so far, the response has been amazing. In fact, four new girls are flying out to work for Hussie in the next week.
"One of them saw the movie and she was like 'I want to do porn!' I'm like, "That movie made you want to do porn?' She's like 'Yeah!' I'm like, '…alright.' She sent me pictures and she looks really good, so I had her send me pictures of all her IDs and I had her get tested today. She's coming in Saturday."
Turns out that one person's industry exposé is another's feature-length promotional film.
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