Getting up before 8:00 a.m. wasn't something that came easily for my mom, so many mornings between kindergarten and the third grade, my older brother and woke to our own alarms, dressed ourselves, and walked ourselves to school. It wasn't a big deal; our town in Oregon was small and safe and the walk was short. On winter mornings, the sun had just begun to come up as we arrived at school a good 30 minutes before the first bell for breakfast.
Our school had a relatively high poverty rate, which meant we certainly weren't the only kids with the scarlet mark of a free or reduced-price lunch ticket (the yellowish paper sleeve literally said "FREE LUNCH" on it). Still, breakfast at school was a somewhat bleak affair; the cafeteria was much emptier than at lunch time and custodial staff bustled around to prepare for the day. Given our choice of a pair of commercial-grade sausage links, a bready pancake with syrup that was more corn than maple, or cold cereal, we'd often pick the most appealing of choices: A single doughnut. Specifically, a maple bar, which the adults around us had no problem considering a healthy breakfast. Neither did we, and neither, it seems, did millions of kids at schools around the country.
For more than 40 years, USDA's School Breakfasts Program has provided assistance to low-income families by providing students an extra meal before the beginning of class. The program is grounded in copious research that links a full stomach to scholastic aptitude and is considered an investment in the future, but it comes with the immediate added benefit of helping the estimated one in five children in the United States who lives in a food-insecure household get at least two meals each day.
Unfortunately, the program leaves much to be desired. There are some issues with the nutritional requirements—remember the scandal around pizza as a vegetable? It's a bit like that—which are vague enough that offerings may include sugary treats like my doughnuts or, like ChalkBeat's Amy Schimke explained in 2014, the "Frudel," a pastry served in Denver Public Schools.
Cost is, of course, a major factor; kids' palates are another. Whereas children from wealthier households are often raised with a taste for healthy foods, low-income parents, who are at higher risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes, don't have the luxury of trying broccoli or buckwheat pancakes until their picky eaters grow to like them. Kids who eat breakfast at school are also often—though of course not always—kids who are more comfortable with and eager to try a doughnut than a spinach frittata. In this way, when school breakfasts cater to a demand for unhealthy foods, they perpetuate cycles of obesity in low-income kids, and later, adults.
There's also the matter of when breakfast is available. Typically served before the school day begins, school breakfasts may be out of reach for families who rely on the school bus. Numerous states have begun lobbying for and passing breakfast after the bell programs to reduce the hardship on families and students, but serving breakfast in the classroom comes with its own issues.
Breakfast served in the classroom often forces the school's meal staff to rely on convenience foods, further highlighting the issue of unhealthy choices—like, say, a Frudel. And of course, there's the stigma; when you're early to class—possibly even before the teacher has unlocked the room—because you were there to eat breakfast, everyone knows you're poor. Breakfast after the bell makes it easier to disguise who needs breakfast and who's just snapping up a maple bar because it's there—but for teachers who are charged with keeping doughnuts out of the hands of kids whose parents already fed them at home, class lines are clearly drawn.
Sitting in our hand-me-downs, relying on a meal from a stranger (no matter how delicious that "meal" was, or how kind the lunch lady), it was hard not to notice the difference between us and the kids whose parents were up, bright and early, frying eggs and cutting fruit before heading out to their white-collar jobs. You never saw kids eating breakfast alone at school on TV; you saw families, sharing a bowl of cereal that also somehow came with other components as part of a complete breakfast. Because, despite the best efforts of educators and the USDA—to normalize eating breakfast at school, to ensure that kids are getting what they need, and to generally make an uncomfortable situation bearable—it's not just the shame of eating breakfast at school; it's that you're doing it at all, because there is no other way for you to do it.
For us, breakfast at school wasn't just a meal that resembled dessert more than dinner—it was a meal that was there because there might not be a meal otherwise, and even maple icing can't quite make that easier to swallow.


Did you know that 'ghost gear' – discarded fishing line and nets – pose a real threat to marine wildlife? Sea creatures get tangled in or swallow the loose materials which can result in their death.
The World Cetacean Alliance (WCA) is a partnership that works to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans). They operate in 23 countries worldwide, aiming to conserve and protect cetaceans and their habitats.
This image, designed and constructed from material found on local beaches, was made to help promote the WCA's Net Effect campaign. It aims to raise public awareness of the problem of ghost gear and the threat it poses to marine wildlife.
Each letter was individually manipulated from netting or fishing line that had washed up on the beaches of Brighton and East Sussex. A big thanks goes out to our super studio buddy Claire Potter for scavenging and cleaning the materials — Claire has also created an amazing chandelier as part of the same project. The letters were then lit and photographed on a contrasting background. The resulting image, after some minor retouching and colour correcting, was made into a poster.
We wish the World Cetacean Alliance good luck in their fight to educate, raise awareness, release trapped wildlife and bring an end to ghost nets.


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Updated: Wed 8:35 PM, Jul 24, 2019
JACKSONVILLE, Texas (AP) - Authorities say an East Texas sheriff's deputy has survived being shot in the protective vest during an attempted traffic stop in which a suspect fled but was captured several hours later.
Henderson County Sheriff Botie (BOH'-tee) Hillhouse says 39-year-old Jeremy Brian Cook of Grand Prairie was arrested Wednesday on a charge of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer. The shooting happened before dawn near Berryville, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southeast of Dallas.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says Cook, who fled on a motorcycle, was located in a wooded area near Jacksonville.
The sheriff says the deputy, whose name wasn't released, was treated and released from a hospital.
Cook was being held without bond. Online jail records did not list information for an attorney representing him.

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Euthiconus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.

The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.

Species:
 Euthiconus conicicollis (Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1855)
 Euthiconus latus (Brendel, 1893)

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Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae genera

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Rebuttal to Jonathan Rauch's article in the Atlantic
Another Jonathan to be heard from. Chait rebuts Rauch. Chait's article (reprinted below) is from New York Magazine.
In other news, I just discovered that there's a "Visibility" menu that offers me the option to "stick this post to the front page." Let's see if it works.
Why American Politics Really Went Insane
By Jonathan Chait Follow @jonathanchait
It's plain to many people that American politics has gone badly off the rails if we have reached the point where a bigoted and hyperbolically unqualified reality-television star can win a major-party nomination. But what, exactly, has gone wrong? One answer is that the presidential system is inherently unstable, because it pits the legislature against the executive. During the 20th century, the system worked because the ideology of the two parties overlapped heavily, but polarization has turned the mechanism designed by the Founders into a doomsday machine. Another answer specifically blames the extremism of the Republican Party, which, by the nature of its uniquely extreme ideas about the role of government, is unable to share power in a rational way. (These explanations are not mutually exclusive, and I find each somewhat persuasive: The design of American government is vulnerable to collapse under the weight of a radical faction like the modern GOP.)
Jonathan Rauch's Atlantic cover story, headlined "How American Politics Went Insane," offers up a third answer. Rather than the presidential system, or the Republicans, Rauch instead blames the demise of what he calls the "informal constitution." American politics used to have practices like political machines, pork-barrel spending, powerful committees in Congress, and centralized fundraising, which drained the confrontation from the system and, even though it was ugly and sometimes corrupt, made things work. Reforming those practices has led to a more open form of politics that people hate, resulting in "reflexive, unreasoning hostility to politicians and the process of politics." Rauch cites not only Trump but also the two major-party runners-up, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, both of whom ran as purists in opposition to the corruption and inefficiency of normal politics.
Rauch has some things right. Large numbers of Americans fail to understand the source of partisan conflict, find gridlock inexplicable, and retreat to a simplistic populism to make sense of the mess. But Rauch also fails to adequately or correctly explain the causes of political dysfunction. The trouble with his theory becomes clear if you run through his examples of government dysfunction. "House Republicans barely managed to elect a speaker last year," and then hard-liners revolted against the Speaker's budget deal; members of Congress are worried about "being the next Eric Cantor," the House leader who lost his primary to an upstart tea-partier; it's "hard to raise the debt limit or pass a budget"; the Senate has refused to consider any nominee at all for the Supreme Court vacancy; annual appropriations bills often fail to pass; the government has shut down, and Congress has threatened not to lift the debt ceiling; a grand bargain on the long-term deficit failed in 2011; plus, of course, Trump, whose nomination is the most important factual premise of Rauch's essay.
The links between these failures and the causes that Rauch identifies for them are tenuous at best. More pork-barrel spending would not mollify the angry activists who drove Congress to shut down the government and oppose various deals; Congress banished pork-barrel spending because it enraged the activists. Nor is it easy to see how giving committees more power, or reverting to older forms of fundraising, would tamp down the populist uprisings that have scared members of Congress away from deal-making. Grassroots demonstrators have effectively scared away members of Congress from compromises that were struck in the open, behind closed doors, in committees, between the leaders of Congress, or anywhere else.
The link between the design failures of the presidential system itself and these failures is clear enough. The worse things go for the president, the better the chances for the opposition party to regain power. Cooperating would merely give the president bipartisan cover, making him more popular and benefiting his party as well. Republican leaders have openly acknowledged these incentives. In the Obama era, this has forced the Republican leadership to mount a scorched-earth opposition, demonizing the president as an alien socialist who threatens America's way of life. That opposition has raged beyond their control, resulting in displays of anger like the shutdown, or birtherism, or the nomination of Trump that hamper rather than enable the party's political interests. It is hard to see how Rauch's list of small-bore process changes would have much impact one way or another on the basic incentive for the opposition to oppose.
The more serious problem with Rauch's argument is this: Virtually every breakdown in governing he identifies is occurring primarily or exclusively within the Republican Party. Democrats have not been shutting down the government, holding the debt ceiling hostage, overthrowing their leaders in Congress, revolting against normal deal-making, or (for the most part) living in terror of primary challenges. Rauch is right that Sanders has encouraged unrealistic ideas about a revolution that would make compromise unnecessary, but the signal fact is that Sanders lost. And Sanders's notion of a purifying revolution, while thrilling to a handful of left-wing activists, has no influence over Democrats in Congress — arguably not even with Sanders himself, who votes more pragmatically than his stump rhetoric would indicate. The disconnect implies a fatal flaw in Rauch's analysis. Since he identifies causes of illness that afflict both parties equally, while the symptoms have manifested in only one of them, what reason is there to trust his diagnosis?
Indeed, the more closely we look at the composition of the two parties, the more obvious it is that only one of them truly exhibits the tendencies he describes. Over the last decade, writers like me, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, and Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein have written about the growing asymmetry between the two parties. The GOP, but not the Democratic Party, is fully identified with an ideological movement. The almost-all-white Republican Party is far more ethnically monolithic than the polyglot Democratic Party, and more ideologically monolithic, too — more than two-thirds of Republicans identify themselves as conservative, while fewer than half of Democrats call themselves "liberal." (Self-identified moderates and conservatives comprise a majority of the party's supporters, albeit a shrinking one.) Democratic voters rely on news sources that, whatever their unconscious bias, strive to follow principles of objectivity and nonpartisanship. Republican voters mostly trust Fox News and other party organs that merely amplify the party's message.
The political scientists Matt Grossmann and Dave Hopkins have found that Democrats tend to conceive of their policies in concrete terms, while Republicans present theirs in ideologically abstract terms. The pragmatic deal-making Rauch venerates is simply far more compatible with the style of the modern Democrats than the Republicans. (This is why the two-year period of Democratic control of Congress and the presidency from 2009 to 2010 produced several important reforms that brought together a diverse array of stakeholders, from business to labor, environmentalists and consumer advocates.)
A series of polls have all found that Democratic-leaning voters want their leaders to compromise, while Republican-leaning voters do not. Many Democrats feel frustrated with the system, but they want to make it work. Republicans do not feel this way at all. Rauch believes that restoring the kludgy legislative structures of the postwar era would bring back the same results those systems produced. But the 20th-century party system worked because the parties of that era were qualitatively different. Rauch's proposal is merely one more in the latest of a series of well-intentioned but doomed plans to bring back a world that can never be restored.
How American Politics Went Insane
Go here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
to read one of the best-written, most cogent, most inspiring articles I've ever read in a long time.
No pun intended, but it will make you sick. Read it anyway, if you dare.
Obama's June 14 speech
I'm kind of cheap when it comes to paying for on-line readership, but who can afford to pay for very many of the newspapers and magazines one wants to look at on the web? So anyway, the New Yorker magazine lets me see a few articles for free each month, and I was delighted to read John Cassidy's analysis of President Obama's remarks on Tuesday. I'm reprinting it below, with huge apologies to The New Yorker for sharing its content with my readers. First, a few of my thoughts. Barbara and I were sitting at the dining room table, focused on other matters but listening to the President as sort of background noise. I was afraid that Obama would be in for (unfair) criticism for what sounded like a self-congratulatory recitation of the fight against ISIS in view of the escalation of terrorizing events on U.S. soil. But when Obama came to the rousing and angry finish, my ears perked up and then even more of me perked up. I stood at attention in front of the TV and soaked it all in. One final remark: although he didn't mention specifically the internment camps for citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, I'm sure he was thinking especially of them when he got to the part about how we've historically mistreated some of our citizens.
And now, here is Mr. Cassidy's report:
This morning, I took a mental-health break from coverage of the attack that took place in Orlando over the weekend. But, at lunchtime, when I turned on NY1 to check the local news, there was President Obama, looking as ticked off and impassioned as we've ever seen him. Gone were the lofty detachment and professorial tone that sometimes characterize his oration. In their place were flashing eyes, hand gestures, and a tone that varied from urgency to anger. Speaking for about twenty-five minutes, Obama delivered a ringing defense of his approach to terrorism and a stinging denouncement of Donald Trump and all that he stands for.
Whether Obama intended to deliver such a consequential address, I'm not entirely sure. At times, he appeared to be ad-libbing. But his remarks, which were delivered from a podium in the Treasury Department, where he had met with his national-security staff, turned into perhaps the most important address he has given this year. Indeed, historians may look back on it as one of the defining speeches of his Presidency.
Obama didn't utter Trump's name. He didn't need to. Instead, he began by saluting the Orlando victims and their families. He described the shooter, whom he also didn't name, as "an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized." By their nature, lone-wolf attacks are hard to stop, Obama pointed out, and he praised the law-enforcement and intelligence efforts that go into preventing them. But, he added, "We are all sobered by the fact that, despite the extraordinary hard work, something like Orlando can occur."
At this stage, Obama was his usual self: calm and meticulous. Referring to some written notes, he delivered an update on the military campaign against isis (isil, in the President's parlance), saying, "This continues to be a difficult fight, but we are making significant progress." The group, he said, was "under more pressure than ever before," and had lost more than a hundred and twenty of its military commanders and nearly half of the populated territory that it once held in Iraq. "And it will lose more," he added.
Turning to the home front, Obama issued another call for "common-sense" gun-control measures, which he rightly insisted were consistent with the Second Amendment. "We have to make it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on weapons of war that let them kill dozens of innocents," he said. "People with possible ties to terrorism, who are not allowed on a plane, should not be allowed to buy a gun." About now, the first glints of irritation, or anger, appeared in the President's eyes. "Enough talking about being tough on terrorism," he snapped. "Actually be tough on terrorism and stop making it as easy as possible for terrorists to buy assault weapons."
With that, Obama paused for a few seconds, as if gathering himself for what he was about to do. "And let me make a final point," he said. "For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle in the fight against isil has been to criticize this Administration, and me, for not using the phrase 'radical Islam.' That's the key, they tell us. We can't beat isil unless we call them radical Islamists."
For a moment, Obama looked down. "What exactly would using this label accomplish?" he said, raising his eyes, looking around the room, and gesticulating with his left hand. "What exactly would it change? Would it make isil less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction."
Obama's tone had changed: it was harder and more than a little scornful. "Since before I was President, I've been clear about how extremist groups have perverted Islam to justify terrorism," he said. "There's not been a moment in my seven and a half years as President when we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label 'radical Islam.' Not once has an adviser of mine said, 'Man, if we really use that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around.' Not once."
Trump, of course, is one of the Republicans who has castigated Obama for not using the term "radical Islam." He did it as recently as Monday. Obama didn't overtly link his riposte to Trump, but it was clear where he was heading. He said that U.S. Special Forces fighting on the ground in Iraq and Syria know full well who the enemy is, as do the intelligence and law-enforcement officials who spend "countless hours disrupting plots and protecting all Americans, including politicians who tweet"—here, he paused for effect—"and appear on cable-news shows." There was, he added, "no magic to the phrase 'radical Islam.' It's a political talking point; it's not a strategy."
To be sure, it isn't just Trump and other Republicans who use the term "radical Islam" and its variants. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has criticized "Islamist extremism." The French President, François Hollande, has used the phrase "Islamist terrorism." (Hillary Clinton also said, on Monday, that she was willing to use the term "radical Islamism."*) Obama insisted that for him to resort to this sort of language would validate claims by groups like isis and Al Qaeda that America is at war with Islam. "That's their propaganda; that's how they recruit," he said. "And if we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them."
By this point, Obama was gesticulating emphatically with his hands, first one and then the other, for emphasis. "We're starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we're fighting, where this can lead us," he said. Then he alluded directly to Trump: "We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States to bar all Muslims from emigrating to America. We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop?"
The shooters in the attacks in Orlando and Fort Hood, and one of the killers in San Bernardino, were all U.S. citizens, Obama noted. "Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith? We've heard these suggestions during the course of this campaign. Do Republican officials actually agree with this?"
"That's not the America we want," he went on. "It doesn't reflect our democratic ideals. It won't make us more safe; it will make us less safe, fuelling isil's notion that the West hates Muslims, making young Muslims in this country and around the world feel like, no matter what they do, they're going to be under suspicion and under attack. It makes Muslim Americans feel like their government is betraying them. It betrays the very values America stands for." Again, Obama paused. "We've gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it. We've seen our government mistreat our fellow-citizens, and it is has been a shameful part of our history."
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, the White House, out of respect for the victims and their families, had cancelled an appearance that the President was scheduled to make with Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. But this was a much more consequential political intervention than a campaign speech. It was a Commander-in-Chief—flanked by a four-star general, Joseph Dunford, who is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence—making the case that Trump, and Trump's approach to fighting terrorism, represent every bit as big a threat to the United States as the terrorists themselves do.
"This is a country founded on basic freedoms, including freedom of religion," Obama continued. "We don't have religious tests here. Our founders, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights are clear about that. And, if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world but we would have betrayed the very things we were trying to protect: the pluralism and the openness, our rule of law, our civil liberties. The very things that make this country great. The very things that make us exceptional. And then the terrorists would have won. And we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen."
He could have ended there. Instead, he recounted a recent appearance at the Air Force Academy's commencement ceremony, where he was struck by "the incredible diversity of these cadets." Some cadets were American-born, and some were immigrants. Some were gay, some were female, some were "proud, patriotic Muslim Americans, serving their country in uniform, ready to lay their lives on the line to protect you and to protect me," he said. "That's the American military. That's America. One team. One nation."
"Those are the values that isil is trying to destroy," he continued. "We shouldn't help them do it."
By this stage, Obama was perhaps belaboring the point. But he was clearly intent on insuring that these values weren't forgotten amid the political back-and-forth—and indeed that they helped to define the coming Presidential campaign. He again cited the country's diversity, its ability to draw on the talents of all of its citizens, and its principle of not judging people on the basis of faith, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. "That's what makes this country great," he said. "That's the spirit we see in Orlando. That's the unity and resolve that will allow us to defeat isil. That's what will preserve our values and our ideals that define us as Americans." At this, the President was almost done. "That's how we are going to defend this nation, and that's how we're going to defend our way of life," he concluded. "Thank you very much."
Hate is self-poisoning. If you find yourself in a hateful mood, it's more than likely that you need help. Because you're poisoning yourself.
The last thing a person needs, if he's feeling hate, is a gun. The last thing the world needs, is for that person to have his hands on a gun. The world needs for that person to get help.
De-stigmatize mental illness. We all need help, on occasion. How do we will ourselves to get the help we need if it feels disgraceful to be mentally ill?
There are so many useful and easy things to do here.
1. If a politician is endorsed by the National Rifle Association(NRA), then vote against that person. That's useful and easy to do.
2. Ban assault rifles. What good are they? That's useful and easy to do, if you're a congressman who's not bought and paid for by the NRA. Do your job, congressman.
3. Put away the hate. Do you really think you feel better when you're busy hating? Read the story of the two wolves. Then put away the hate. I promise you'll feel better.
4. Read Edwin Markham's poem, "Outwitted." You think that's hard to do? It's easy to do. And useful. Here, I'll make it even easier for you to find it. Here it is:
"He drew a circle to shut me out,
heretic rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win,
we drew a circle that took him in."
5. Pay attention to what the churchgoers in Charleston did, after Dylan Roof did his nastiness. That's easy to do. And useful.
In a comment that I posted just yesterday (on the "Roots" post) I wrote this:
I want to post a poem by William Ellery Channing called "I Call That Mind Free." If you wanna read something great, feel free to look it up, because I don't see any free time coming up for me in the foreseeable future!
Well, I just tried to look it up, and every version I saw was:
A. Different.
B. In awkward, stilted, 19th-century prose
C. Not only was each rendering different from each other, but none matched what we read in church Sunday.
What we read in church was understandable, moving, inspiring, and reminded me so much of Muhammed Ali's significance that I wanted to post the poem as an "In Memoriam" sort of offering.
Oh well. I tried. I'm still trying.
The 2016 "Roots"
I well remember the "Roots" miniseries of four decades ago. It was an unsettling, but entertaining, cultural event that told the story of slavery through the eyes of Alex Haley, and I found the time to record and watch the 2016 remake.
It was painful, but rewarding in the last 40 minutes of the 8-hour remake, to bear witness to what happened to Africans as a result of being transported to America into lives of slavery.
I said to Barbara just today, "I neither encourage you to or discourage you from watching the four episodes." I don't know if she'll have the patience to endure the many hours of depiction of the horrors that African-Americans endured as slaves. The catharsis that I experienced during the satisfying final 40 minutes were just barely worth the torture of watching unremitting cruelty.
I've just read about what the critics think, and predictably, the reactions correspond to the political leanings of the reviewers. My take, and I'm trying not to be influenced by my biases, is that the remake is more realistic, which is why it was so painful for me to watch.
We're still in terrible shape in this country. But progress is being made.
Barack Obama is the president.
Donald Trump is about to become the Republican nominee for president.
Hmm. Progress will still be the defining noun, as long as the voters reject Trump in November.
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goog.provide('lime.Director');

goog.require('lime.CoverNode');
goog.require('goog.array');
goog.require('goog.dom');
goog.require('goog.dom.ViewportSizeMonitor');
goog.require('goog.dom.classes');
goog.require('goog.events');
goog.require('goog.math.Box');
goog.require('goog.math.Coordinate');
goog.require('goog.math.Size');
goog.require('goog.math.Vec2');
goog.require('goog.style');
goog.require('lime');
goog.require('lime.Node');
goog.require('lime.events.EventDispatcher');
goog.require('lime.helper.PauseScene');
goog.require('lime.scheduleManager');
goog.require('lime.transitions.Transition');

/**
 * Director object. Base object for every game.
 * @param {Element} parentElement Parent element for director.
 * @param {number=} opt_width Optionaly define what height and width the director should have.
 * @param {number=} opt_height Optionaly define what height and width the director should have.
 * @constructor
 * @extends lime.Node
 */
lime.Director = function(parentElement, opt_width, opt_height) {
    lime.Node.call(this);

    // Unlike other nodes Director is always in the DOM as
    // it requires parentNode in the constructor
    this.inTree_ = true;

    this.setAnchorPoint(0, 0);
    // todo: maybe easier if director just positions itselt
    // to the center of the screen

    /**
     * Array of Scene instances. Last one is the active scene.
     * @type {Array.<lime.Scene>}
     * @private
     */
    this.sceneStack_ = [];

    /**
     * Array of CoverNode instances.
     * @type {Array.<lime.CoverNode>}
     * @private
     */
    this.coverStack_ = [];

    this.domClassName = goog.getCssName('lime-director');
    this.createDomElement();
    parentElement.appendChild(this.domElement);

    if (goog.userAgent.WEBKIT && goog.userAgent.MOBILE) {
    //todo: Not pretty solution. Cover layers may not be needed at all.
    this.coverElementBelow = document.createElement('div');
    goog.dom.classes.add(this.coverElementBelow,
        goog.getCssName('lime-cover-below'));
    goog.dom.insertSiblingBefore(this.coverElementBelow, this.domElement);

    this.coverElementAbove = document.createElement('div');
    goog.dom.classes.add(this.coverElementAbove,
        goog.getCssName('lime-cover-above'));
    goog.dom.insertSiblingAfter(this.coverElementAbove, this.domElement);
    }

    if (parentElement.style['position'] != 'absolute') {
        parentElement.style['position'] = 'relative';
    }
    parentElement.style['overflow'] = 'hidden';

    if (parentElement == document.body) {
        goog.style.installStyles('html,body{margin:0;padding:0;height:100%;}');

        var meta = document.createElement('meta');
        meta.name = 'viewport';
        var content = 'width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1,' +
            'maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no';
        if ((/android/i).test(navigator.userAgent)) {
            content += ',target-densityDpi=device-dpi';
        }

        meta.content = content;
        document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(meta);

        //todo: look for a less hacky solution
        if(goog.userAgent.MOBILE && !goog.global['navigator'].standalone){
            var that = this;
            setTimeout(
                function(){window.scrollTo(0, 0);that.invalidateSize_()}
            ,100);
        }
    }

    var width, parentSize = goog.style.getSize(parentElement);

    this.setSize(new goog.math.Size(
        width = arguments[1] || parentSize.width || lime.Director.DEFAULT_WIDTH,
        arguments[2] || parentSize.height * width / parentSize.width || lime.Director.DEFAULT_HEIGHT
    ));

    // --define goog.debug=false
    this.setDisplayFPS(goog.DEBUG);
    this.setPaused(false);

    var vsm = new goog.dom.ViewportSizeMonitor();
    goog.events.listen(vsm, goog.events.EventType.RESIZE,
        this.invalidateSize_, false, this);
    goog.events.listen(goog.global, 'orientationchange',
        this.invalidateSize_, false, this);

    lime.scheduleManager.schedule(this.step_, this);

    this.eventDispatcher = new lime.events.EventDispatcher(this);

    goog.events.listen(this, ['touchmove','touchstart'],
        function(e) {e.event.preventDefault();}, false, this);

    // todo: check if all those are really neccessary as Event code
    // is much more mature now
    goog.events.listen(this, ['mouseup', 'touchend', 'mouseout', 'touchcancel'],
        function() {},false);

    this.invalidateSize_();

    if(goog.DEBUG){
        goog.events.listen(goog.global,'keyup',this.keyUpHandler_,false,this);
    }

};
goog.inherits(lime.Director, lime.Node);

/**
 * disposeTransition
 * #20120406 trungnb
 */
lime.Director.prototype.disposeTransition = function() {
    goog.events.removeAll(this.transition);
    this.transition.dispose();
    this.transition = null;

}

/**
 * Milliseconds between recalculating FPS value
 * @const
 * @type {number}
 */
lime.Director.FPS_INTERVAL = 100;

/**
 * Default width of the Director
 * @const
 * @type {number}
 */
lime.Director.DEFAULT_WIDTH = 400;

/**
 * Default height of the Director
 * @const
 * @type {number}
 */
lime.Director.DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 400;

/**
 * Returns true if director is paused? On paused state
 * the update timer doesn't fire.
 * @return {boolean} If director is paused.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.isPaused = function() {
    return this.isPaused_;
};

/**
 * Pauses or resumes the director
 * @param {boolean} value Pause or resume.
 * @return {lime.Director} The director object itself.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.setPaused = function(value) {
    this.isPaused_ = value;
    lime.scheduleManager.changeDirectorActivity(this, !value);
    if (this.isPaused_) {
        var pauseClass = this.pauseClassFactory || lime.helper.PauseScene;
        this.pauseScene = new pauseClass();
        this.pushScene(this.pauseScene);
    }
    else if (this.pauseScene) {
        this.popScene();
        delete this.pauseScene;
    }
    return this;
};

/**
 * Returns true if FPS counter is displayed
 * @return {boolean} FPS is displayed.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.isDisplayFPS = function() {
    return this.displayFPS_;
};

/**
 * Show or hide FPS counter
 * @param {boolean} value Display FPS?
 * @return {lime.Director} The director object itself.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.setDisplayFPS = function(value) {
    if (this.displayFPS_ && !value) {
        goog.dom.removeNode(this.fpsElement_);
    }
    else if (!this.displayFPS_ && value) {
        this.frames_ = 0;
        this.accumDt_ = 0;

        this.fpsElement_ = goog.dom.createDom('div');
        goog.dom.classes.add(this.fpsElement_, goog.getCssName('lime-fps'));
        this.domElement.parentNode.appendChild(this.fpsElement_);
    }

    this.displayFPS_ = value;
    return this;
};

lime.Director.prototype.setDisplayMousePos = function(value) {
    if (value) {
        this.mousePos_ = goog.dom.createDom('div');
        goog.style.installStyles('.lime-mouse-pos {float: right; background: #333; color: #fff; position: absolute; top:0px; right: 0px;}');
        goog.dom.classes.add(this.mousePos_, goog.getCssName('lime-mouse-pos'));
        this.domElement.parentNode.appendChild(this.mousePos_);

        goog.events.listen(this, 'mousemove', function(e) {
            goog.dom.setTextContent(this.mousePos_, 'X:' + parseInt(e.position.x) + ' Y:' + parseInt(e.position.y));
        }, false, this);
    }
    return this;
};

/**
 * Get current active scene
 * @return {lime.Scene} Currently active scene.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.getCurrentScene = function() {
    return this.sceneStack_.length ?
        this.sceneStack_[this.sceneStack_.length - 1] : null;
};

/** @inheritDoc */
lime.Director.prototype.getDirector = function() {
     return this;
};

/** @inheritDoc */
lime.Director.prototype.getScene = function() {
    return null;
};

/**
 * Timeline function.
 * @param {number} delta Milliseconds since last step.
 * @private
 */
lime.Director.prototype.step_ = function(delta) {
    if (this.isDisplayFPS()) {

        this.frames_++;
        this.accumDt_ += delta;
        if (this.accumDt_ > lime.Director.FPS_INTERVAL) {
            this.fps = ((1000 * this.frames_) / this.accumDt_);
//            goog.dom.setTextContent(this.fpsElement_, this.fps.toFixed(0));
            //----begin
            var text = this.fps.toFixed(0);
            if(goog.isDef(lime.scheduleManager.taskStack_))
                text += 'T:'+lime.scheduleManager.taskStack_.length;
            if(goog.isDef(goog.events.listeners_))
                text += 'L:'+goog.events.getTotalListenerCount();
//                text += 'L:'+countObject(goog.events.listeners_);*/
            goog.dom.setTextContent(this.fpsElement_, text);
            //----end
            this.frames_ = 0;
            this.accumDt_ = 0;
        }
    }
    lime.updateDirtyObjects();
};

/**
 * Replace current scene with new scene
 * @param {lime.Scene} scene New scene.
 * @param {function(lime.Scene,lime.Scene,boolean=)=} opt_transition Transition played.
 * @param {number=} opt_duration Duration of transition.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.replaceScene = function(scene, opt_transition,
        opt_duration) {

    scene.setSize(this.getSize().clone());

    var transitionclass = opt_transition || lime.transitions.Transition;

    var outgoing = null;
    if (this.sceneStack_.length)
        outgoing = this.sceneStack_[this.sceneStack_.length - 1];

    var removelist = [];
    var i = this.sceneStack_.length;
    while (--i >= 0) {
        this.sceneStack_[i].wasRemovedFromTree();
        removelist.push(this.sceneStack_[i].domElement);
        this.sceneStack_[i].parent_ = null;
    }
    this.sceneStack_.length = 0;

    this.sceneStack_.push(scene);
    scene.domElement.style['display']='none';
    this.domElement.appendChild(scene.domElement);
    scene.parent_ = this;
    scene.wasAddedToTree();

    this.transition = new transitionclass(outgoing, scene);

    goog.events.listen(this.transition,'end',function() {
            var i = removelist.length;
            while (--i >= 0) {
                goog.dom.removeNode(removelist[i]);
            }
        },false,this);

    if (goog.isDef(opt_duration)) {
        this.transition.setDuration(opt_duration);
    }

    this.transition.start();
    return this.transition;

};

/** @inheritDoc */
lime.Director.prototype.updateLayout = function() {
   // debugger;
    this.dirty_ &= ~lime.Dirty.LAYOUT;
};

/**
 * Push scene to the top of scene stack
 * @param {lime.Scene} scene New scene.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.pushScene = function(scene) {
	scene.setSize(this.getSize().clone());
    this.sceneStack_.push(scene);
    this.domElement.appendChild(scene.domElement);
    scene.parent_ = this;
    scene.wasAddedToTree();

};

/**
 * Remove current scene from the stack
 */
lime.Director.prototype.popScene = function() {
    if (!this.sceneStack_.length) return;
    this.sceneStack_[this.sceneStack_.length - 1].wasRemovedFromTree();
    this.sceneStack_[this.sceneStack_.length - 1].parent_ = null;
    goog.dom.removeNode(
        this.sceneStack_[this.sceneStack_.length - 1].domElement);
    this.sceneStack_.pop();

};

/**
 * Add CoverNode object to the viewport
 * @param {lime.CoverNode} cover Covernode.
 * @param {boolean} opt_addAboveDirector Cover is added above director object.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.addCover = function(cover, opt_addAboveDirector) {
    //mobile safari performes much better with this hack. needs investigation.
    if (goog.userAgent.WEBKIT && goog.userAgent.MOBILE) {
        if (opt_addAboveDirector) {
            this.coverElementAbove.appendChild(cover.domElement);
        }
        else {
            this.coverElementBelow.appendChild(cover.domElement);
        }

    }
    else {
        if (opt_addAboveDirector) {
             goog.dom.insertSiblingAfter(cover.domElement, this.domElement);
        }
        else {
             goog.dom.insertSiblingBefore(cover.domElement, this.domElement);
        }
    }
    cover.director = this;
    this.coverStack_.push(cover);
};

/**
 * Remove CoverNode object from the viewport
 * @param {lime.CoverNode} cover Cover to remove.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.removeCover = function(cover) {
    goog.array.remove(this.coverStack_, cover);
    goog.dom.removeNode(cover.domElement);
};

/**
 * Return bounds of director,
 * @param {goog.math.Box} box Edges.
 * @return {goog.math.Box} new bounds.
 */
lime.Director.prototype.getBounds = function(box) {
    //todo:This should basically be same as boundingbox on lime.node
    var position = this.getPosition(),
        scale = this.getScale();
    return new goog.math.Box(
        box.top - position.y / scale.y,
        box.right - position.x / scale.x,
        box.bottom - position.y / scale.y,
        box.left - position.x / scale.x
    );
};

/**
 * @inheritDoc
 */
lime.Director.prototype.screenToLocal = function(c) {
    var coord = c.clone();
    coord.x -= this.domOffset.x + this.position_.x;
    coord.y -= this.domOffset.y + this.position_.y;

    coord.x /= this.scale_.x;
    coord.y /= this.scale_.y;
    return coord;
};

/**
 * @inheritDoc
 */
lime.Director.prototype.localToScreen = function(c) {
    var coord = c.clone();
    coord.x *= this.scale_.x;
    coord.y *= this.scale_.y;

    coord.x += this.domOffset.x + this.position_.x;
    coord.y += this.domOffset.y + this.position_.y;

    return coord;
};

/**
 * @inheritDoc
 */
lime.Director.prototype.update = function() {
    lime.Node.prototype.update.call(this);

    var i = this.coverStack_.length;
    while (--i >= 0) {
        this.coverStack_[i].update();
    }
};

/**
 * Update dimensions based on viewport dimension changes
 * @private
 */
lime.Director.prototype.invalidateSize_ = function() {

    var stageSize = goog.style.getSize(this.domElement.parentNode);

    if (this.domElement.parentNode == document.body) {
        window.scrollTo(0, 0);
        if (goog.isNumber(window.innerHeight)) {
            stageSize.height = window.innerHeight;
        }
        if (goog.isNumber(window.innerWidth)) {
            stageSize.width = window.innerWidth;
        }
    }

//    ------- Xem lai width & height cua ban tren android ----------
    if ((/(android|silk)/i).test(navigator.userAgent)) { //add silk for kindle fire
        if($(window).width() && $(window).height()){
            stageSize.width = $(window).width();
            stageSize.height = $(window).height();
        }
    }

    var realSize = this.getSize().clone().scaleToFit(stageSize);

    var scale = realSize.width / this.getSize().width;
    this.setScale(scale);

    if (stageSize.aspectRatio() < realSize.aspectRatio()) {
        this.setPosition(0, (stageSize.height - realSize.height) / 2);
    }
    else {
        this.setPosition((stageSize.width - realSize.width) / 2, 0);
    }

    this.updateDomOffset_();

    // overflow hidden is for hiding away unused edges of document
    // height addition is because scroll(0,0) doesn't work any more if the
    // document has no edge @tonis todo:look for less hacky solution(iframe?).
    if(goog.userAgent.MOBILE && this.domElement.parentNode==document.body){
        if(this.overflowStyle_) goog.style.uninstallStyles(this.overflowStyle_);
        this.overflowStyle_ = goog.style.installStyles(
            'html{height:'+(stageSize.height+120)+'px;overflow:hidden;}');
    }

};

/**
 * Add support for adding game to Springboard as a
 * web application on iOS devices
 */
lime.Director.prototype.makeMobileWebAppCapable = function() {

    var meta = document.createElement('meta');
    meta.name = 'apple-mobile-web-app-capable';
    meta.content = 'yes';
    document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(meta);

    meta = document.createElement('meta');
    meta.name = 'apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style';
    meta.content = 'black';
    document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(meta);

    var visited = false;
    if (typeof(localStorage) != 'undefined') {
        if (localStorage != null)
            visited = localStorage.getItem('_lime_visited');
    }

    var ios = (/(ipod|iphone|ipad)/i).test(navigator.userAgent);
    if (ios && !window.navigator.standalone && COMPILED && !visited && this.domElement.parentNode==document.body) {
        //alert('Please install this page as a web app by ' + 'clicking Share + Add to home screen.');
        if (typeof(localStorage) != 'undefined') {
            if (localStorage != null)
                localStorage.setItem('_lime_visited', true);
        }
    }

};

/**
 * Updates the cached value of directors parentelement position in the viewport
 * @private
 */
lime.Director.prototype.updateDomOffset_ = function() {
    this.domOffset = goog.style.getPageOffset(this.domElement.parentNode);
};

/**
 * @private
 */
lime.Director.prototype.keyUpHandler_ = function(e){
   if(e.altKey && String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode).toLowerCase()=='d'){
       if(this.debugModeOn_){
           goog.style.uninstallStyles(this.debugModeOn_);
           this.debugModeOn_ = null;
       }
       else {
           this.debugModeOn_ = goog.style.installStyles('.lime-scene div,.lime-scene img,'+
            '.lime-scene canvas{border: 1px solid #c00;}');
       }
       e.stopPropagation();
       e.preventDefault();
   }
}

/**
 * @inheritDoc
 */
lime.Director.prototype.hitTest = function(e) {
    if (e && e.screenPosition)
    e.position = this.screenToLocal(e.screenPosition);
    return true;
};

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Monday was a very good day for Mark Mitchell — he was promoted to Defence Minister and his runaway dog Stig was found after five days AWOL.
Mitchell made a video for his Facebook page to mark the occasion. He spoke of the privilege and honour of being in Cabinet but spent most of the time talking about the return of Stig, a black Labrador his family had since it was a puppy in 2011.
Such is Mitchell's reverence for Dogs, he uses a capped D whenever he uses the word.
Mitchell, 48, is a genial, unassuming bloke who looks like a big softie. Do not be fooled. A former police Dog handler, he spent 14 years in the Police Force, dealing with the Mongrel Mob in Gisborne and getting painfully acquainted with the blade of a samurai sword in Rotorua.
He quit in 2003 and intended to pursue a gentler career training polo ponies. Instead he ended up in the Middle East, working in the volatility of Iraq in 2004 straight after the invasion of Iraq by US-led forces.
All up he spent eight years in the Middle East, first working for a British contractor providing security to the Coalition Provisional Authority and training Iraqi security forces.
Mitchell is yet to get his briefings for the new role, but said his own experience in the Middle East would help including high level contact with the defence and State Departments in Washington.
US President Donald Trump yesterday warned a major conflict with North Korea is possible in the standoff over its nuclear and missile programmes in a further sign of heightened tensions.
Mitchell said New Zealand had a longstanding relationship with the United States and it was "a natural ally".
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"There are strong, enduring relations. We've fought side by side and both countries hold pretty strongly to the same values."
However, if Trump says jump we won't be asking how high. "No, I think we should be proud we have an independent foreign policy — and defence policy as well."
On the uncertainties around North Korea and Trump, Mitchell said there was a need for stability and "clear minds, in terms of rational and properly thought-out decisions."
He believes there are lessons that can be taken from the mid-2000s.
"I guess something we need to be conscious of and careful of is that we don't take things on thinking we can achieve something when actually it can't be achieved. We have to be very realistic about what can be achieved. That always has to be part of our decision-making process.
"In terms of the invasion of Iraq there could have been some decisions made at the start of that process that were wrong, because countries got trapped into these thoughts of achieving what actually couldn't be achieved. I think we've learned a lot."
Mark Mitchell in his days as a police Dog handler. Photo / Supplied
Mitchell eventually set up his own security firm based in Kuwait but working across the Middle East and further afield, where he developed expertise in kidnap and ransom negotiations, as well as extricating hostages.
One of his most terrifying experiences was a five-day siege on the rooftop of the An Nasiriyah compound holding back Shi'a militia.
"We were heavily outnumbered and the most likely outcome was that the compound would be overrun and it was unlikely there would be any survivors. That was a very difficult time for me because my children were constantly in my mind. There were times when the outcome was uncertain that I was terrified of not seeing my kids again."
He also talks about getting caught up in IED attacks "which are always a bit tough on the system". He lost mates "and that's very tough".
There are things he will not talk about. He is likely the only MP who will not confirm or deny whether he has killed anyone. "I don't answer that question. All I will say is I worked in conflict zones where there were times there was engagement, and there are always casualties on both sides." He won't go into detail about his work as a kidnap and ransom negotiator and recovering hostages because of concerns it will put others in harm's way.
That time in his life has attracted criticism from some, including Auckland Peace Action spokesperson Virginia Lambert who said Mitchell had been a "mercenary fighter during the bloodiest period of the US occupation".
"Mark Mitchell not only went freely and willingly to fight in an illegal war of aggression, but he made a profit out of it. It is disgusting," she wrote in a press release after the announcement of Mitchell's position.
Such comments frustrate Mitchell, who says he was not a mercenary and has no qualms now about the work he did. "I wouldn't change anything I've done. I'm… quietly proud, I'm not someone that shouts it from the rooftops — I'm a Kiwi after all. But I'm proud of the difference we made in people's lives in terms of their security and ability to get on with their lives."
He points to work he did such as opening mass graves with scientists from the Hague gathering evidence for the war crimes trial of Saddam Hussein. "When you're opening mass graves and you're finding the remains of babies clinging to mums, it's a pretty clear reminder of the atrocities which were taking place. That was a very, very tough job for everyone involved. Instead of questioning why we were there, all it does is provide more resolve in terms of knowing there had to be changes made."
Asked if he is attracted to danger, he replies he is driven by public service rather than danger.
"I don't go out looking for dangerous jobs. Fundamentally, I don't really like bullies too much. Something triggers inside me when I see people who can't stick up for themselves facing atrocities some times."
His view on the personal danger is that he knew the risks when he signed up for both the police and the Middle East security work.
Former police dog-handler and now the new Minister of Defence Mark Mitchell (right) with Sergeant Logan Marsh (left) and Lad of the Tauranga police. Photo / Alan Gibson
That does not mean he will be gung-ho when it comes to making decisions about troops in his new role — all of whom made similar decisions at one stage.
"I have an educated and clear understanding of what they are being asked to do. You have to be careful before you ask people to put themselves in harm's way. Before you ask troops to deploy anywhere you have to make sure they are given every opportunity to have the equipment, the training and ability to be successful.
"Having worked and operated in a lot of these areas that now we find ourselves as being important to us, I've got an understanding of the complexities of the situations we are dealing with and the challenges we face."
It's quite the career path for a school dropout who left at 15 to be a shepherd. It is also not very surprising.
His grandfather was Frank Gill — a former Air Force pilot who saw action in France and England during World War II before becoming a National MP and cabinet minister from 1975 to 1980 — including as Defence Minister.
One of Mitchell's first dangerous experiences was spilling a cup of tea over Rob Muldoon when he was at Gill's house.
Mitchell says Gill was a massive influence on his life and when he died. "I went off the rails a bit".
Mitchell left Rosmini College to work, first as a dairy farmhand in Reporoa, a job his principal got for him. He changed jobs to a sheep farm, which also trained horses. "He's the guy who really straightened me out. He was just a hard, typical Kiwi farmer."
And that was where he got his first Dog.
Mitchell is married to Peggy Bourne, whom he met at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore about nine years ago. Peggy, the widow of Possum Bourne and Mitchell's third wife, moved to Kuwait with her children in 2008. In 2011 the family returned to New Zealand.
He was elected in Rodney, the seat vacated by Sir Lockwood Smith. Since then, the closest he's got to mortal combat was helping out in the Siege of Winston Peters in the Northland byelection in 2015.
He says he had always hoped to go down the international relations route in politics, rather than be pigeonholed as a former police officer. The role of Defence Minister was a natural fit, he says.
He has not planned his own extrication from politics yet — but does not intend to cut and run if National ends up in Opposition after the election later this year.
- NZ Herald
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Damien Hirst divided the art world last summer when he unveiled Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable in Venice.
The exhibition was made up of 189 works that filled two generous venues, took ten years to put together, and cost a cool $65 million to produce that was funded entirely by the artist's own bank account – apparently. Facts aren't all that clear here because there aren't really any.
The story goes that a team of marine archaeologists enlisted Hirst to recover some long-long treasure that they had discovered off the coast of east Africa. The booty in question dated back to the 1st and 2nd centuries and belonged to a former slave named Cif Amotan II – which, we now know, is actually an anagram for "I am fiction", and, turns out, a "self-portrait" of Hirst himself. Cue: art world division.
Naturally, the whole thing has resurfaced as a documentary/mockumentary seemingly to piss everyone off once again. Over 90 minutes, we dive to the depths of the ocean with Hirst and a team of researchers as they uncover Cif Amotan II's / "I am fiction"'s shipwreck, and dredge up somewhere between $330 million and $1 billion in sales for the artist.


What are the top landmarks in Hong Kong SAR?
Explore themed worlds and enjoy exciting rides and attractions at one of Disney's famous ultra-modern resorts.
The thrill of the fun-fair, the playfulness of the pandas, the wildness of the water rides and the spectacle of the oceans – all can be had at Ocean Park.
Ride the famous Star Ferry to Hong Kong Island, enjoy one of the worlds great skylines and see the night sky light up in a symphony of light and sound.
Explore the waterfront in Hong Kong with a trip to Hong Kong - Macau Ferry Terminal. While in this culturally rich area, find time to visit its shops.
Jutting into busy Victoria Harbour, this modern facility looks like a winged creature ready to take flight. It hosts over five million event visitors annually.
The bright lights are shining, the clubs are heaving, and the music is pumping in Lan Kwai Fong – where the party never stops.
Fabulous hotels, first-rate restaurants, spectacular views and a raft of sea-front museums – Tsim Sha Tsui has it all.
Central is a metropolitan neighbourhood that's popular for its restaurants. The neighbourhood's architecture and skyline are just a couple of its charming qualities. Other highlights include the local shopping and the natural splendour of the island views.
The crowded bustling heart of Hong Kong, where the old-time streets are shopping aisles, and there is nothing that isn't for sale.
Wan Chai is a welcoming neighbourhood with many tasty options for restaurants and bars. The neighbourhood has many appealing features, among them its architecture and skyline. Broaden your horizons with some local shopping.
Causeway Bay is a scenic neighbourhood that's popular for its restaurants. The neighbourhood's skyline and natural features are just a couple of its charming qualities. Broaden your horizons with some local shopping.
Futian is a neighbourhood that welcomes all visitors.
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Hong Kong sits on the southern coast of China and is one of Asia's major economic centres. The former British colony is known for its deep natural harbour and its skyline, as well as 'East meets West' culture. It is an entertainment hub, a shopper's haven, a foodies' dream and has a huge number of attractions. Plus, there are over 400 hotels in Hong Kong that cater to all budgets. Asia offers 14 days visa free for Indian passport holders.
Hong Kong is split into five districts, with each having things to offer visitors. Many people stay in Hong Kong for at least four days.
Those interested in Hong Kong's heritage should walk along the Ping Shan Heritage Trail in the New Territories, visit the Kowloon Walled City Park and go to see the Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island, which, at 34 metres high, is the largest outdoor bronze Buddha in the world. The Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong Cultural Centre are also a must; all are in Kowloon.
Visitors should also take a tram to Victoria Peak to get the best views of Hong Kong. This is the highest point in the area, with the Peak Tower's galleria being the place to go for phenomenal views. For nature, a trip to the New Territories to visit the Hong Kong Wetland Park or the beautiful Sai Kung Peninsula should be on tourists' itineraries.
Families will find plenty to do in Hong Kong as it is home to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Ocean Park and Ngong Ping 360. Hong Kong Island also has some family friendly places to spend a day, like the Southern Playground, Stanley Ma Hang Park and Quarry Bay Park.
Hong Kong is a haven for foodies, with local must try dishes like dim sum, congee and noodles, along with cuisine from all over the world. It ranges from cheap street food to Michelin-starred restaurants like at The Langham, Hong Kong and the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong. Lan Kwai Fong, Wan Chai and Knutsford Terrace are the three main drinking areas, though no trip to Hong Kong should end without having a cocktail while overlooking the harbour at The Peninsula Hong Kong.
There is an abundance of shopping in Hong Kong, ranging from cheap markets to luxury international brand name stores. The Ladies Market, Stanley Market and Weekend Market are great places to pick up bargain items, while Festival Walk, the Landmark and Pacific Place are where visitors will find luxury brand shops. Tsim Sha Tsui on Kowloon and Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island are the most popular shopping destinations.
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Crypto Exchange Creating Wallet Blacklist to Fight Fentanyl Crisis
A Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange wants to coordinate with other startups around the world to help fight the international fentanyl epidemic.
Einstein, based in Vancouver, is trying to obtain lists of wallet addresses associated with fentanyl arrests and indictments, said Christine Duhaime, the firm's chief anti-money-laundering officer.
In parallel, the firm is also pursuing partnerships with other exchanges, starting in its home country and in the U.S., "to build a global database of bad wallet holders," said Duhaime, who also runs an eponymous law firm and is the founder of the Digital Finance Institute, a think tank.
The goal is for Einstein and other exchanges to prevent their customers from sending cryptocurrency to these wallets from their exchange accounts, Duhaime told a suit-and-tied crowd of 200 at the Blockchain for Business and Government conference in Toronto, Monday.
While cryptocurrency ranks at the bottom among ways fentanyl is paid for – bank wires and traditional money transmitters are more commonly used – Duhaime framed Einstein's efforts to combat the drug as philanthropic.
She told attendees:
"We would do a blacklist of wallets as our giveback [to society]."
Still, there's good reason for a Canadian exchange, one of the few serving the market actively, to seek to break ground on such an effort.
Fentanyl is a synthetic drug that's 50 times stronger than heroin and was responsible for a reported 66 percent of overdose-related deaths in the U.S. in 2016. But Vancouver is the "ground zero" of the problem, Duhaime said, with fentanyl accounting for nearly all the Canadian city's 922 drug overdose deaths that year.
She related a story of the teenage daughter of the head of AML compliance at a global bank who died from taking fentanyl at a graduation party. Even first responders have died from accidentally touching the stuff.
If successful, Einstein's effort could conceivably help the cryptocurrency space overcome its lingering public image as a hive of criminality. However, the strategy may not sit well with long-time crypto users who value their privacy highly and worry about the effect blacklists have on the fungibility of bitcoin and other tokens.
A more immediate obstacle, Duhaime told CoinDesk, is that law enforcement in Canada has been reluctant to provide Einstein with wallet addresses tied to fentanyl cases, out of concern that doing so would violate privacy laws.
In response, she said, she has argued that not even bank account numbers are considered identifying information under Canadian law, and noted that wallet addresses are public. The agencies are reconsidering, she said.
Einstein already has a blacklist of addresses associated with ransomware, but it was able to put that one together on its own. That's because ransomware victims who were Einstein customers came to the company with the information, Duhaime said.
The fentanyl effort, by contrast, will require law enforcement's help.
While acknowledging that criminals have ways to hide their tracks on the blockchain, she told CoinDesk that fentanyl users are likely "not as sophisticated" as other bad actors and less apt to change wallets or tumble their coins.
In an earlier presentation at the conference, Michael Gokturk, Einstein's CEO, acknowledged the irony of trying to position his company as a model of compliance in a market whose very creation was an act of rebellion.
"Cryptocurrencies need government regulation to deter price manipulation and related wrongs, but the absence of of such regulation is one of the biggest reasons that investors buy into cryptocurrencies in the first place."
Possibly compounding the challenge, Einstein, founded about a year ago, is currently a pipsqueak among exchanges, which might limit its clout in persuading potential partners to join the effort.
Gokturk said Einstein is currently handling $20 million to $30 million in daily volume (in USD), which would put it at the low end of the top 50 tracked by CoinMarketCap.
By comparison, Coinbase's GDAX, which ranks 12th, does about $240 million daily.
Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Coinbase.
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The Dec. 30 edition of TDN included a couple of wonderfully assembled "Year In Review" sections.
Several events were highlighted with large photos and thorough explanations of the events being portrayed. I looked repeatedly for something addressing the death of our 41st president, George H.W. Bush. I finally found the very small picture and caption practically hidden amongst the pictorial puzzle. The act of minimizing the coverage of the passing of one of our strongest leaders was disgraceful, disrespectful and a huge oversight in the compilation.
Time and space were taken by things as trivial as rural schools and Mexican fiestas, both of which consumed 1/3 of an entire page. Yet when addressing the death of an amazing President, TDN could find only a miniscule 3-by-5-inch slot. This is a sad indication of where TDN's priorities fall, and a slap in the face to those of us who love and respect how the Bush legacy has bettered our country.
Editor's Note: Just to clarify, The Year in Review sections included in the Sunday, Dec. 30 issue where produced by the Associated Press and Lee Enterprises (The Daily News' parent company). TDN's staff did not participate in either the selection or placement of any content in these sections.


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Alive Behind the Green Door is a live album by the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, recorded at Molly Malone's in 1997.

Songs
The album features two cover songs, "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" and "De (That's All Right) Lilah", which is a combination of "Delilah" by Tom Jones and "That's All Right (Mama)" by Elvis Presley. Of the original songs on the album, the song "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" has not been recorded in the studio. "Every Dog Has Its Day", "Selfish Man", and "Black Friday Rule" were recorded for Swagger (2000), "Swagger" and "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" were recorded for Drunken Lullabies (2002), "Laura" was recorded for Whiskey on a Sunday (2006), and "Between a Man and a Woman" was recorded for Float (2008).

Track listing
All songs by Flogging Molly unless otherwise noted.
"Swagger" – 2:50
"Every Dog Has His Day" – 4:42
"Selfish Man" – 3:08
"Never Met a Girl Like You Before" – 3:36
"Laura" – 4:40
"If I Ever Leave This World Alive" – 3:44
"Black Friday Rule" – 8:20
"What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made a Loser Out of Me)" (Glenn Sutton) – 2:45
"Between a Man and a Woman" – 4:00
"De (That's All Right) Lilah" (Arthur Crudup, John Barry Mason, David Leslie Reed) – 8:35

Personnel
 Dave King – vocals, acoustic guitar
 Bridget Regan – violin
 Ted Hutt – electric guitar
 Jeff Peters – bass
 George Schwindt – drums
 Toby McCallum – mandolin

References

Flogging Molly albums
1997 live albums