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Palestine Refuses to Deal With US as Sole Mediator in Mideast Talks - Abbas
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Palestine does not want the United States to be the sole mediator in the Middle East negotiations, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Monday.
"In this current atmosphere created by the actions of the United States, we declare that starting from now, we refuse to cooperate in any way with the Americans as mediators, as we oppose their actions," Abbas said at talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Abbas stressed that if an international event (on Israeli-Palestinian conflict settlement) takes place, Palestine asks that its result be the creation of such a mechanism, in which the United States will not be the only mediator, but part of a group of mediators.
"We agree, we do not have any objections against a multilateral format of mediation, for example, the 'Quartet' plus some other countries like it was done with the Iran deal," he said.
READ MORE: US Has Lost Credibility by Adopting Israeli Position - Palestinian Spokesman
Jerusalem Issue
The Jerusalem problem is the cornerstone of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The ancient city has been disputed ever since the foundation of Israel and the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948. The city was then separated into the Western and Eastern parts with the first one becoming a part of Israel and the second one being viewed as the capital of future Palestine.
READ MORE: Direct Talks Between Palestinian, Israeli Leaders Not Planned - Ambassador
The conflict over the disputed territory has further escalated after the US President Donald Trump's controversial December 6 decision to recognize it as Israeli capital and to move the country's embassy there. This move was, however, rejected by the UN resolution.
Israel seized the eastern part of the city in 1967 and recognize the "undivided" city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
READ MORE: US, Jordan 'Agreed to Disagree' on Trump's Jerusalem Decision - Pence
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Nationwide Series Breakdown: 2009 NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Montreal
July 17, 2022 August 30, 2009 Bryan Davis Keith
For the third year in a row, Marcos Ambrose was the class of the field. And for the third year in a row, he failed to take the checkered flag at Montreal.
Ambrose, who in an interview that ran during the race broadcast was quoted calling his secret to road racing "minimizing the mistakes made on every lap," broke his own golden rule on the final circuit. Coming to the course's final turn, Ambrose was attempting to block a hard-charging Carl Edwards by running the middle of the track. And while the move successfully blocked Edwards, it also put Ambrose out of position for the last turn. The Aussie completely ran over the final rumble strip, throwing his No. 47 out of the groove and allowing Edwards to steal his first career NASCAR road victory.
Carl Edwards Takes Advantage of Marcos Ambrose's Error to Win in Montreal
Ambrose was thoroughly dejected upon exiting his car, with the entirety of his TV interview stating, "I made a mistake and it cost me the race," before walking off to cool down in his hauler. (Editor's Note: Ambrose did appear for the mandatory press conference later.)
Besides the thrilling finish, the event was one of the ugliest the Nationwide Series has seen in recent memory. Taking nearly four hours to run, 11 cautions slowed the field for 31 of the 76 laps run. Rain also came late in the event, causing a red flag and a five-minute clock for a changeover to rain tires. But Mother Nature wasn't the only one causing havoc; when all was said and done, the number of cars damaged on-track was extremely high, with the field perhaps the most tattered seen in a non-plate race since Charlotte was first levigated.
Edwards's victory was one that allowed him to close within 192 points of Kyle Busch, who was running in second before a pileup during the final restart relegated him to 10th in the final running order. Brad Keselowski also closed to within 282 markers, as he recovered from three separate spins during the event to finish fifth, his career best on a road course.
The ESPN crew made note on more than one occasion of the large crowd that braved the rain and myriad of caution flags to watch Sunday's race, and the Canadian drivers in the field gave them plenty of reasons to cheer. While Jacques Villeneuve could probably have been dubbed the fan favorite judging from the crowd noise (and his fourth-place finish after his spotter miscommunicated the team's pit strategy earlier in the day merited every bit of it), a number of others gave the Montreal race fans plenty to celebrate.
Andrew Ranger, the current Canadian Tire Series points leader and who has proven time and time again unafraid to mix it up with the leaders, drew the ire of both Ambrose and Edwards for his aggressive driving at the front of the field. Chalk the complaints up to whining on the part of the two Cup regulars, though. The bottom line is Ranger knows the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve well and it showed on Sunday as he came home third to deliver the strongest finish by far for CJM Racing since they released former driver Scott Lagassse Jr.
5 Points to Ponder: 2009 NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Montreal Edition
Credit is also due to Jean-Francois Dumuolin, whose seventh-place run was by far a season best for the R3 Motorsports No. 23 car, and to Alex Tagliani. Though he finished 26th after being involved in a late-race accident, Tagliani was running seventh in the No. 81 car coming to the final restart. Had Tagliani held on, it would have been the first top 10 for MacDonald Motorsports since Kevin Lepage scored one at Charlotte back in 2006.
And again… Michael McDowell. Driving what has been a start-and-park car all year in the No. 96, McDowell took a car that wasn't even a road-course chassis, ran in the top five for much of the middle of the race and delivered an 11th-place run for K-Automotive. Those top-15 finishes are really starting to add up for this underdog.
One Canadian all-star who didn't get to do much for his home fans was Patrick Carpentier. After a disappointing qualifying run relegated the former Cup driver to a 40th-place start, Carpentier only 15 laps into the race missed a shift and ultimately destroyed the motor in his No. 99 Camry, leaving him with a 38th-place finish and only start-and-parking with Tommy Baldwin Racing left on his NASCAR plate for 2009.
Colin Braun also had motor issues, though his were not self-induced. Getting a rare start in the No. 16 car, Braun was only on track for two laps before losing oil pressure and having his engine grenade. He finished 40th. Yet another to succumb to mechanical woes was Mark Green, who instead of start-and-parking the No. 49 car actually lasted 39 laps before an oil pump failure ended his day in 33rd.
Finally, Jeffrey Earnhardt's hard-knock introduction to Nationwide Series racing continued in Montreal. Earnhardt wrecked in practice, only to have to pull into the garage a few laps into the race because of a broken transmission (Marty Reid actually had to check whether or not he was start-and-parking). The Key Motorsports No. 40 team got Earnhardt back into the race, but not before losing 10 laps and all hope of a competitive day. He finished 31st.
Justin Allgaier looked very much like a rookie on Sunday. Entering turn 7, Allgaier (as he later admitted) got into the corner way too hot, and even though he floored his brakes the No. 12 car entered a wheel-hop from which there was no return. Allgaier made heavy contact with Ron Fellows, destroying both his machine as well as Fellows's No. 5 (one that early on was the only machine in the field able to keep up with Ambrose's No. 47). Rare as these episodes have been for the current Rookie of the Year leader, Allgaier very much was deserving of his yellow stripes north of the border.
Underdog Performer of the Race: Tony Raines. That's right. Raines finished sixth… on a road course. Frankly I was caught a little off-guard on Monday to see that Raines was going to drive the No. 34 at Montreal, given Front Row Motorsports' history of placing road-course ringers in their machines. But Raines has been solid and steady with FRM's NNS team all year, and that pattern continued on Sunday.
Between the rain and the bumper cars being played throughout the pack, Raines kept his No. 34 car on track and for the most part out of trouble, delivering the team's best finish since Talladega in doing so. Raines is one of the most underappreciated full-timers in the Nationwide ranks and his owner Bob Jenkins one of the most overlooked in the sport. It was great to see both of them get a run they wholeheartedly deserved.
Yeah, Edwards has made up ground on Busch two weeks running, but that ship has long sailed. Instead, some notes on Montreal:
Ambrose: For better or worse, he's becoming a Cup driver. Yes, he put on a road-racing clinic Sunday and yes he has gone from being an aw-shucks I'm just happy to be here novelty to a threat to win every weekend. But hearing him whine and complain that a driver up front was racing too hard was an episode way out of character for a driver that has been anything but high maintenance since coming to big-time stock car racing. And since I know that there will be readers out there moaning as to why I'm not calling Ambrose out for sulking away after the race was over, let's be clear: Ambrose didn't throw his team or car under the bus. His words were "I made a mistake." I'm not going to name names, but I'm not so sure a certain other driver out there wouldn't have blamed his team for failing to build a car capable of jumping 10 feet over rumble strips.
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve: This race was ugly. Very ugly. And it wasn't the rain tires… they ran less than half the race on them. Rather, as I mentioned as early as last year, this particular road course is not at all conducive for stock car racing. It's too narrow, too technical, whatever term that can be used to describe a road course that can't handle side-by-side competition. The Nationwide Series should not be racing on this particular track, period… and stock cars in general shouldn't either. That's not to say that NASCAR should just hightail it out of Canada, though, as the fan turnout was again fantastic for Sunday's event. These fans deserve big-time races, just at another venue. There's plenty of short tracks in Canada. Why not give their ovals a shot? I'll bet big money the fans will still show up in droves.
Final word: For the love of God, NASCAR is caution-happy. 31 of 76 laps under yellow. It was like watching a parade. Let's be clear… a spinout is NOT a mandate to put out the yellow flag. Debris is NOT a mandate to put out the yellow flag. Especially not on a 2.7-mile course where it takes over a minute to complete a lap. By the end of the race, NASCAR was being inconsistent as always, letting things go for the sake of timeliness (funny how the cautions started flying later the longer the TV broadcast went over scheduled time).
I'm sick and tired of seeing the yellow fly all the time because someone has to gather up their car or because a piece of rubber is on the pavement. Fans come to see green-flag racing, not pace laps. Give them some more of it. Hell, with as long as it takes to run caution laps on these road courses, stop the field during clean up or don't count caution laps during said events. But I'm sure none of my suggestions will ever come to pass and as a result we'll continue to see caution flags we don't need to see provide ample opportunity for commercials and interviews with Jason Ratcliffe. Boy, do I love watching ESPN's telecasts.
Bryan Davis Keith
Richmond, Virginia native. Wake Forest University class of 2008. Affiliated with Frontstretch since 2008, as of today the site's first dirt racing commentator. Emphasis on commentary. Big race fan, bigger First Amendment advocate.
https://frontstretch.com/author/bryank/
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Craziest video we've seen in ages.
Announced for PlayStation 3 and PS4 consoles in July, this version of Goat Simulator was a partnership between Coffee Stain Studios and Double Eleven.
It contains two-player local co-op on PlayStation 3, and four-player on PS4 along with a score multiplier.
The PlayStation editions of Goat Simulator also include the debut of GoatVR which delivers an "authentic simulated GoatVR experience" without a headset.
Goat Simulator arrived on PS4 and PS3 today.


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Home People Outstanding Alumni Lisa Ronson
Lisa Ronson (BSc Management Sciences 1990) – Commercial Director, Heron International
Commercial director for high-end property development firm Ronson Capital Partners, one of Europe's leading property development companies, Lisa Ronson and her family have a long-standing relationship with The University of Manchester. The Gerald Ronson Foundation, set up by her father, property developer Gerald Ronson, have been a generous supporter of the University and Lisa currently serves as a member of Manchester Business School's Advisory Board, counselling the School on its strategy and engagement with business.
Lisa herself arrived in Manchester in 1987 to begin an undergraduate management sciences degree, from which she successfully graduated in 1990. After graduation she joined the graduate programme of BZW bank in South East Asian equity sales, covering the UK, European and US financial institutions.
She spent eight years at the bank, latterly in New York, before returning to London in 1998 to take up the role of marketing director at Heron International Plc, the property development business managed by her father.
Today, Lisa leads the interior design, branding, marketing, PR, sponsorship and advertising for Ronson Capital Partners developments, as well as Heron's leisure portfolio, which includes major developments in Spain.
Lisa is a great supporter of the University and has returned to speak to undergraduate students about both the property and marketing sectors.
In partnership with other organisations, she is very involved in supporting undergraduates from universities across the UK, including Manchester, helping them prepare for the workplace and find work placements.
Lisa also gives her time to a number of other charitable and community activities, including being a trustee of the Development Board of the Natural History Museum, a trustee of the Gerald Ronson Foundation, as well as the JW3, a North London Jewish Community Centre, and Traine Traide, which assists and trains people back into the workplace.


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Bookings shall be confirmed in writing (E-mail , fax, or via post). Bookings shall be considered confirmed only when the booking is accompanied by a deposit valued at 30% of the tour price, whose receipt has been acknowledged by our bank. The remaining 70% must be paid 6 weeks before the tour begins. Please see the payment section below to see what types of currency we accept.
All cancellations must be advised in writing, signed by the signatory of the booking form and sent to Viola Tours & Travel at info@violatours.com. Cancellations are effective on the day they are received by Viola Tours & Travel recorded delivery is strongly recommended. Since we incur costs in cancelling your travel arrangements, the following cancellation charges will be payable, depending upon the number of days prior to departure, Viola Tours & Travel receives your notice of cancellation.
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No refund is available for cancellation after travel has commenced. If you make any alteration to any portion of your holiday while you are away, costs incurred by such alteration will be at your own expense. After the holiday has commenced, no refunds are available for any services/ground content provided in the tour price but not utilized by you for any reason.
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8.3 If the company is affected by force majeure it shall be entitled to, and may at its sole and absolute discretion, vary or cancel any reservations or cancel any reservation or arrangement in relation to the visits. Payment of any refund by the company to you as result of the non-performance of any company shall use its reasonable endeavors to reimburse you where possible. However, the company shall be entitled to deduct from any refund recoverable to the reasonable actual and potential costs to the company of the force majeure.
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Rates include all the expense in connection with the vehicle and driver /guide for the itinerary as set out, hotel accommodation with full board table hotel meals whilst on safaris (arrangements are on fallboard basis while on safari unless otherwise stated )all government hotel taxes ,hotel services charges and game drives as applicable to the itinerary and all the entry fee except where these are specifically quoted separately in the price list are included.
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The company draws your attention to the fact that there are certain inherent risks present when on Safari, or when engaging in any strenuous physical activity. It is your sole responsibility to obtain appropriate medical advice as to medication, immunization, and whether or not you are fit enough to undertake the trip, prior to departure. The company shall not be liable for illness, injury or death sustained whilst visiting the properties owned and managed by the company.
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The crypto exchanges have become the thing that we have originally fought against. Their power is immense. Hitbtc, for example, has increased suffering for millions of poor people who cannot afford the minimum buy-in since it is greater than their monthly income. Boycott them.


Distribution build systems are interesting beasts, complex and with many moving parts. In the past year, containers, Project Atomic, and other changes have forced a rapid evolution in how we consume source and deliver a distribution.
This talk will take a look at the entire chain of building a distribution from start to finish. We'll look at how source is packaged and built, and then complex combinations of packages are joined together to make a cohesive Linux distribution that successfully installs and runs in a diverse set of environments - from aging x86 hardware to public cloud environments, Linux containers, and immutable systems.
We'll talk about the security considerations, collaboration between hundreds (thousands?) of packagers, and working on the engine while the car is running.


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Nationwide News: Nipomo High teacher earns first Golden Owl Award
As the No. 1 insurer of farms and ranches in the United States*, Nationwide is bringing attention to the importance of agricultural education through the Golden Owl Award. This annual award honors exceptional agricultural teachers across select states and provides financial support for their education programs.
"It's an honor to recognize outstanding teachers for their dedication to agricultural education in their communities," said Brad Liggett, president of Agribusiness at Nationwide. "This award symbolizes the hard work individual teachers put into agricultural education to help students pursue their passion for farming or other careers in ag."
In partnership with the California Farm Bureau Federation and the California FFA, Nationwide is proud to announce Rosemary Cummings, agriculture teacher at Nipomo High School in Nipomo, as California's first Ag Educator of the Year through the 2019-20 Golden Owl Award. As a result of her efforts, Cummings will receive the Golden Owl Award trophy and $3,000 in funding to help bring new educational opportunities to the program and its students.
Nominations for Cummings shed light on the true impact she's made on the students she serves.
One student wrote, "[Cummings] has been my teacher, mentor, and hero all four years of high school. My life has been impacted by her many times whether being coached by her, lifting my spirit up and instilling in me the true value of hard work."
Another nominator described her passion for helping others and encouraging positivity, saying she "consistently puts the good of the organization and the welfare of her students above all else. She is always willing to be a lending hand and never ceases to have a positive attitude."
Cummings was one of six extraordinary California teachers recognized as finalists for the 2019-20 Golden Owl Award, after more than 400 nominations were submitted by local students, fellow teachers, parents and community members. The five runners-up include: Michael Campbell, Imperial High School, Imperial; Andreé Earley, Las Plumas High School, Oroville; Cody Jacobsen, Golden Valley High School, Merced; Julie Luxon, Madera South High School, Madera; and Alissa Sarvinski, Eureka High School, Eureka. Each finalist received an individualized plaque and $500 in funding for their program.
"Almost anyone who farms, ranches or works in an agricultural business can refer back to an agricultural teacher who helped guide or inspire them," CFBF President Jamie Johansson said. "We're pleased to join with Nationwide and the California FFA in this program to highlight outstanding agricultural teachers."
Nationwide inaugurated the Golden Owl Award during 2018-19 by recognizing the contributions of 17 Iowa and Ohio agricultural teachers. Following the recognition, the Iowa Educator of the Year, Brad Taylor of Roland-Story High School, quickly saw a 30-student increase in his agricultural shop class for the fall semester—at a high school with just over 300 students.
As a result of the positive response from the communities in which Golden Owl Award nominees make a difference, the 2019-20 Golden Owl Award was expanded from two states to five: California, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The 2019-20 award has honored 31 outstanding agricultural educators across the five states. Nationwide plans to expand the program even further to recognize top teachers in additional states for the 2020-21 Golden Owl Award.
"Educators devote countless hours, and often their own resources, to positively impact the lives of their students," Liggett said. "As a company with deep roots in agriculture, we're proud to supply these hardworking and compassionate public servants with additional funding, and we hope to eventually expand our efforts to recognize the work of teachers all across the country."
As the top farm and ranch insurer in the country, Nationwide supports the future of the agricultural community through meaningful sponsorships of national and local organizations. In conjunction with the Golden Owl Award, Nationwide is donating $5,000 to each participating state's FFA, including the California FFA, to further support the personal and professional growth of students, teachers and advisors alike.
The Golden Owl Award is the result of a partnership among Nationwide, the California FFA, California Farm Bureau, Illinois FFA, Illinois Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers, Farm Credit Illinois, the Iowa FFA Foundation, Ohio FFA, Ohio Farm Bureau, Pennsylvania FFA, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and Compeer Financial.
For more information or to learn more about the California Golden Owl Award finalists, visit www.goldenowlaward.com.
*Source: 2018 SNL Financial Report. Based on statutory data.


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A big part of legalization is debunking the nasty rumours people have been spreading about weed for the last...like, four decades. It's actually not the devil's lettuce, no matter what your grandmother told you.
Now let's get to some common questions about cannabis that definitely need to be answered.
Is Greening Out A Real Thing?
I mean, not really. But you can absolutely start to feel unwell if you consume too much cannabis within a short period of time.
If you do start to feel unwell, take some deep breaths, drink a lot of water, get comfortable, and let time do its thing. You'll be okay after a while. Just take note of how much you consumed to make you feel this way, and maybe don't do that again.
Is it true that most potheads are lazy?
First of all, how dare you?
Second, no. It's not true.
We'd go so far as to say it's FALSE. How's that for debunking a myth? Different strains of cannabis have different effects. Plus, different people have different experiences. Have we used the word DIFFERENT enough?
Are the munchies a real thing?
Here's our favourite buzzword again: DIFFERENT.
Different people have different reactions to different strains. That being said, some people have experienced the munchies. So it's not a total myth. Keep in mind though that some people are just always in the mood for a snack, cannabis or not.
How can you tell if someone is high?
...are you high right now?
Can I get a hangover if I smoke too much?
You can't, so that's a big plus.
That being said, it's totally possible that if you consume too much the night before, you could wake up still feeling the effects. So it's not so much a hangover as it is a continued high.
Is it true that planting cannabis seeds during a full moon is best?
Some people do garden based on the moon cycle, but it hasn't been scientifically proven to affect anything.
It's sorta like how some people have a lucky charm. It doesn't really hurt anything by using it, but there's no evidence to back up the claims that a rabbit's foot will make you win the lottery.
True or false: you can juice cannabis leaves.
TRUE. Smoothies just got a whole lot better, huh?
Keep in mind though, that since the cannabinoids in the leaves have not been decarboxylated, there are no psychoactive effects involved.
Is it true that the freezer is the best place to store weed?
Okay, who told you this? Unless you like freezer-burned cannabis, it's not a great idea. The cold temperatures can make the trichomes on your bud brittle, which then makes them fall off the flower. Who wants that? Your freezer should be left for ice cream, waffles, and that frozen pizza you bought six months ago.
The older weed gets, the better it is. True or false?
It's not wine. Once cannabis has been cured, there's no improvement to be made over time. That being said, if you store it properly, it'll last for a long time and not lose quality. So that's a good thing.
True or false: terpenes get you high.
The only evidence for terpenes getting people high is anecdotal. There isn't any scientific research to back this up, but everyone is different...so...maybe?
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If you were excited to see the Villain Kids back on the Disney Channel with new bigger, badder, and bolder adventures then you'll be happy to know that you can now pick up your own copy of the hit Disney Descendants 2 on DVD. Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Mitchell Hope star in the sequel to the record breaking Disney Channel Original Movie.
When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon and returns to her roots on the Isle of the Lost. Hoping to retrieve her, Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle. But Mal's former archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula, has seized power. And together with her pirate crew, Uma prepares to unleash havok on the VKs and Auradon!
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Today is the day. The big official reveal of new work at Artspace1616. I have been so excited making this new work the last year and a half. Seeing it up at the gallery is all that I could have hoped for. Newman and Mima are such great supporters of the arts and artists, I am lucky to get to have the Artspace1616 experience! You can find a short video of the install and an interview at my studio just before the install in the Events-News page. Hope to see my friends out tonight, and perhaps even make a few new ones!


Athletes, fans, and community members are encouraged to "Team Up Against Cancer" in southwest Michigan. The annual event is a community fundraiser dedicated to help those fighting cancer, provide information to increase awareness and prevention of cancer, and celebrate cancer survivors.
One of the most important ways to support "Team Up Against Cancer" is by purchasing apparel available at this on-line store. All proceeds will go to assist local cancer patients and will be distributed to Berrien County Cancer Services and the Marie Yeager Cancer Center at Lakeland Health. The purchase of a t-shirt will also admit the wearer into all high school sporting events at St. Joseph High School during the week of September 24 to September 28.
The TUAC main event will be held on Friday, September 28 during the St. Joseph High School varsity football game at Dickinson Stadium vs. Portage Central. Gates will open at 5:00 p.m. with local vendors offering a variety of pre-game food and beverages with 25 percent of the sales to benefit area cancer support organizations. A pre-game survivor walk will be celebrated and, after the game, anyone wearing a TUAC t-shirt will be invited on the field to help the band form a memory ribbon.
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I am trying to pass a value from one fragment to another

I din't notice its Fragment to Fragment Communication.
You need to use interface as a call back to the activity. Then communicate value to other fragment
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To wash or not to wash the rice before cooking?
Cook in cold or boiling water?
What proportion of the water and rice to take? What is the cooking time?
Perhaps these questions torture me only, but if there is one interesting to you, I hasten to share my findings.
I must say that of all the read and digested information, I chose only the one that refers to or directly affects the process of cooking rice. Overboard remains the information relating to the beneficial or not beneficial nutritional properties of rice, saving or disappearing of them.
As the basis, we consume imported rice. To improve its appearance, as well as to preserve it during the transportation, the rice is "glazed". "Glazing" is covering the grain with the mixture of glucose and talc in special glazing barrels. Therefore washing rice is needed to remove the talc, which is used for processing of rice. Some rice is processed with starch derived from cereals, and washing in fact is not mandatory, but it is better to wash off the excess starch – it will only improve the final result.
Exception – Italian Arborio, Vialone Nano, Carnaroli, if used for making risotto.
Soaking allows more rapid and uniform cooking of rice. In addition, soaking allows you not to think of two variables: the aging and drying. These and the other processes affect the moisture content of rice – the dryer the rice is, the more water is required for its preparation. Since you often do not know this information, then by soaking the rice, you will get rid of unnecessary worries.
Depending on the method that you use for cooking the rice usually in cold water, rice is cooked with the lid closed. When the water starts boiling, reduce the heat and continue to cook rice with the lid closed on a very low heat until the water is completely absorbed. In boiling water, cook rice with the lid open, until the water boils away, then reduce the heat, cover rice with a lid and steam on a very low heat. The method chosen depends largely on the type of rice and the dish.
To Stir or Not to Stir? To Salt or Not to Salt?
Do not stir it and do not add salt, if you want to cook crumbly rice, not risotto or porridge. Stirring and salt destroy the grain structure, making it more sticky.
Here it's possible to write a thesis on hundreds of pages with a bunch of formulas, calculations and tables. Limited to a few conclusions: the proportion of 1 cup rice to 2 cups of water is far from universal. For the preparation of crisp rice with a moisture content of 64%, 100 grams of rice with a moisture content of 12% 145 grams of water is needed. One cup of rice – about 205 grams, then for its preparation you need 1 cup of water, or 240 grams. Provided that during the preparation the water does not evaporate.
So, it all depends on how much water evaporates in the cooking process, and mostly on the cooking time.
Most varieties of white rice are prepared for 15-20 minutes. If the rice was pre-soaked, the cooking time is reduced almost twice (but this does not mean that it takes two times less water, since most of the water evaporates).
Water losses are dependent on two components: the density and width of the cover of the pan. If you cook the rice in a deep and narrow pot, you will need less water, and vice versa.
3 cups rice – 3 ½ cup of water.
I hope that the above tips help you improve the process of preparing rice and achieve excellent results. As a bonus I offer you an exclusive video of 3 ingenious rules for cooking crumbly rice!


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One of the most dominant and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was a master of endless reinvention. While significantly contributing to the movements of Surrealism, Neoclassicism and Expressionism, he is best known for pioneering the groundbreaking movement of Cubism alongside fellow artist Georges Braque in the 1910s. In his practice, he drew on African and Iberian visual culture as well as the developments in the fast-changing world around him.
Throughout his long and prolific career, the Spanish-born artist consistently pushed the boundaries of art to new extremes. Picasso's oeuvre is famously characterized by a radical diversity of styles, ranging from his early forays in Cubism to his Classical Period and his later more gestural expressionist work, and a diverse array of media including printmaking, drawing, ceramics and sculpture as well as theater sets and costumes designs.
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Even some Republicans say Trump should apologize for suggesting John Dingell's in hell
Even some Republicans were chastising President Donald Trump for suggesting longtime Michigan congressman John Dingell may be in hell.
Even some Republicans say Trump should apologize for suggesting John Dingell's in hell Even some Republicans were chastising President Donald Trump for suggesting longtime Michigan congressman John Dingell may be in hell. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/19/donald-trump-should-apologize-dingell-remarks-republicans/2698607001/
Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press Published 1:39 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019 | Updated 6:00 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019
WASHINGTON – A day after President Donald Trump suggested at a political rally in Battle Creek that longtime U.S. Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, who died this year, may be in hell, even some Republicans were saying on Thursday that he went too far.
Several Republican members of Congress — including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other allies of the president — called on Trump to apologize for the remark, which was made in an attempt to mock the vote Dingell's widow, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, cast for impeaching Trump on Wednesday.
Graham, who said he didn't hear the remarks himself, told reporters Thursday that even to make such a suggestion "in a joking manner ... is out of bounds."
"He should, in my view, apologize," said Graham, who has been one of Trump's most steadfast supporters on Capitol Hill and one of his chief defenders during impeachment.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I knew John Dingell and to suggest, even in a joking manner -- you know, that would be wrong. That is out of bounds." pic.twitter.com/r3Z3mjr7Ut
— The Hill (@thehill) December 19, 2019
Graham was not alone in denouncing the president's remarks regarding Dingell, who died in February at the age of 92 and was the longest-serving member in Congress' history, having joined the House in 1955 and retiring in 2015. His wife, Debbie, replaced him in the House.
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, who has long been a friend of the Dingells, denounced the remarks. U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, R-Dryden, published a tweet on Thursday morning saying Trump — who he supports — used Dingell's name in a "dishonorable manner ... unacceptable from anyone."
"An apology is due, Mr. President," Mitchell said.
John Dingell was a well-respected man & I consider Debbie a close colleague and friend. To use his name in such a dishonorable manner at last night's rally is unacceptable from anyone, let alone the President of the United States. An apology is due, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump
— Rep. Paul Mitchell (@RepPaulMitchell) December 19, 2019
Mitchell also tweeted #IStandWithDingell, a hashtag that had gained some social media steam in the hours after Trump's remarks.
In his remarks at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek, Trump said that Debbie Dingell effusively thanked him for his giving John Dingell "the A-plus treatment" after his death but was now showing herself to be insincere by voting for impeachment. He went on to say Debbie Dingell told him that John was looking down from heaven, "Maybe he's looking up," Trump said, suggesting Dingell ended up in hell, instead. "I don't know."
Some of Trump's remarks on the subject made no sense, however. At one point, he mentioned the word, "Rotunda," as if he had ordered for Dingell's casket to rest in the U.S. Capitol as part of the memorial services. But Dingell's casket never rested in the Capitol and, if it had, it would have been Congress' call, not the president's.
It's worth noting that, while he was alive, John Dingell, a Democrat, chastised Trump harshly on Twitter too, including at one point suggesting the president "take two running jumps and go to hell," a remark he had also made in the past.
But given that Trump seemed to be going out of his way to insult a dead man — who was also a World War II veteran — as a way to mock his widow, it seemed to many people that the president had crossed a line. U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., called the remarks "reprehensible" and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called Debbie Dingell "an extraordinary public servant" and also said Trump owes her an apology.
.@RepDebDingell is an extraordinary public servant, one of the very best Michigan has to offer. I'm grateful she represents our state in Congress, and even more grateful to call her a friend. @realDonaldTrump owes her an apology.
— Gretchen Whitmer (@gretchenwhitmer) December 19, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asked about Trump's remarks at a news conference on Thursday, rebuked the president, saying, "cruelty is not wit."
"Just because he gets a laugh for saying the cruel things that he says doesn't mean he's funny. It's not funny at all. It's very sad."
Chuck Browning, the director of UAW Region 1A, which includes Detroit, put out a statement denouncing Trump's remarks "in the strongest possible terms," calling them "classless, distasteful and disgusting."
Even House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who is one of the president's staunchest supporters in the U.S. House, took time to note his friendship with the Dingells and their service to the U.S. U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said, "Merry Christmas Debbie, you deserve to be able to heal in peace. Those comments were totally unnecessary."
Merry Christmas Debbie, you deserve to be able to heal in peace. Those comments were totally unnecessary. https://t.co/eAn5Eu5hKM
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) December 19, 2019
Some politicians made no mention of it, however — including John James, the Republican businessman and former Army helicopter pilot looking to take on Peters in next year's election. James said nothing publicly after appearing with Trump at the rally. Also silent was Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, a Michigander who attended Trump's rally.
Trump's press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that while she was saddened by Dingell's loss, that she believed the president "was just riffing" in front of a supportive crowd.
"He was at a political rally," she said. "He has been under attack, and under impeachment attack, for the last few months, and then just under attack politically for the last 2½ years. I think that as we all know, the president is a counterpuncher."
As for Debbie Dingell, she was on CNN on Thursday morning reacting to Trump's remarks and trying to set the record straight.
"I think it's time to put politics aside on these kind of shots. I try to be respectful of everybody," she said. "I have never taken a shot at this president."
"I didn't call him (regarding John Dingell's death), he called me to tell he was lowering the flags. John Dingell earned his burial at Arlington National Cemetery because he's a World War II veteran," she said, before adding that her family is still grieving his loss
"We need more civility in this country," she said. "Some things should be off-limits."
Meanwhile, Dingell's campaign committee on Thursday sent out a fundraising request taking note of Trump's remarks.
"Last night at a campaign rally in Battle Creek, President Trump repeated his same line of attack against Debbie over her position on impeachment," the fundraising email said. "But this time, he took it one step further — insulting the legacy of her husband in the process."
"We urgently need 500 supporters to step up right now and donate as a way of saying: President Trump, you are not going to get away with bullying and insulting our congresswoman."
Rep. Debbie Dingell: My father was 'mentally ill,' 'shouldn't have had a gun'
Bill Clinton at John Dingell funeral: He was a 'world-class doer'
Contact Todd Spangler: tspangler@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @tsspangler. Read more on Michigan politics and sign up for our elections newsletter.
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Festivals: San Francisco International Film Festival 2003
By Alice Lovejoy in the July-August 2003 Issue
The 21st-century condition of globalization, with all its promise and peril, was a theme that ran through many of the films at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival and resonated with the mostly local audiences. The collapse of the Soviet Union, of course, has been a prime catalyst for millennial melancholia, and Paul Devlin's Power Trip, a documentary on the privatization of electrical power in the former Soviet state of Georgia, captures the frustrations of life in a transition economy. When Georgia's state power company is bought by AES, an American corporation, Georgians must suddenly pay for electricity. At the start of the film, 90 percent of the company's customers have been disconnected for non-payment of bills (a monthly bill is half the average Georgian's monthly income), and AES's offices are overflowing with angry, confused people. But the problems predate capitalism: Georgia's president is a former KGB agent, and the Ministry of Energy is corrupt. Investigative reporters who begin to expose the inner workings of the system are murdered; poor Georgians who can't afford the electric bills hook up deadly bird's nests of live wires to their apartments. Much of the films—hot with available light—is suffused with a dark orange glow: power, diverted illegally to government-favored corporations, goes out regularly in Georgia. To both its benefit and detriment, Devlin's film relies on interviews with foreigners (from America and England) and educated, English-speaking Georgians (for whom the monthly power bills are more manageable) to illustrate the depths of the country's corruption. We don't hear much from the (non-English-speaking) people who have been literally and figuratively left in the dark, but those who are interviewed give a distinct sense that there's a new generation emerging in Georgia, one determined to figure out how to make the country function.
The promise of a new generation was central to another documentary selection, Thierry Michel's Iran, Veiled Appearances. Beginning with a pocket history of modern Iran from the Shah onwards, Michel's film looks at the push and pull of religious and secular factions in the world's first Islamic republic. Like Mobutu, King of Zaire, Michel's 1999 film, Iran is a thorough, methodical inquiry, dedicated to the tenets of balanced journalism even as it frames a polemic in favor of democracy. Alongside visitors to the Ayatollah's tomb and the families of young men who died in the Iran-Iraq war, Michel films high school students who spend Fridays in the mountains consorting with the opposite sex, and a group of girls on a weekend parasailing expedition. Iran demonstrates martyrdom's potency as a political tool, not just for the reactionary establishment, with its suicide bombers and war martyrs, but for the progressive opposition as well, whenever students are jailed for defending freedom of speech.
Although the program notes suggested it would be a standard reportage-documentary about Afghanistan, Heiner Stadler's Eat, Sleep, No Women proved to be one of the festival's most aesthetically and politically challenging films. It narrates a series of events that ostensibly take place all over the world on October 7, 2001, the day the U.S. started bombing Afghanistan. But what appears to be a traditional, linear documentary soon reveals itself as an unabashedly arrogant essay on the globalization of people and images. Eat, Sleep is a feat of time travel: culled from footage shot over a period of ten years, it follows American journalists in Afghanistan and an American travel writer in Hong Kong, gold miners in Brazil, Egyptian pop star Muhammad Mounir at a recording session in Cairo, an artist who paints movie posters in Pakistan, and tracks other threads set in Germany, Northern Ireland, Libya, Beirut, Israel, New York, Paris, and Johannesburg. Stadler grafts these narratives (real or fictional—we never know) onto 10/7/01, taking us on an immense global journey in a matter of hours. Stadler is a veteran photographer and cameraman, and it comes as little surprise that his beautifully photographed film is preoccupied with images and image-making, an interest that positions him in a cinematic lineage that includes fellow German film-essayist Harun Farocki.
The Castro, San Francisco's Art Deco movie palace, was the ideal place to see Flora Gomes's theatrical musical, My Voice, a series of colorful song-and-dance numbers whose narrative seems somewhat incidental. The film's young protagonist, Vita (Fatou N'Diaye), leaves her home in Guinea-Bissau to study in Paris, where she breaks an ancient curse that dooms any female member who sings. Ritual and custom—along with healthy doses of prejudice and superstition—rule, both in France and in Africa: a man is bullied by a small-time criminal into carrying the bust of a national hero until a suitable spot is found for it, and consequently wheels the statue around in a baby carriage for five years; the French are un-learning their racism—slowly. But Gomes's infectious musical numbers, like Vita herself, seem determined to break free from the constraints of tradition and turn an off-kilter world upside down. Watch out for an extraordinary array of coffins in the third-act finale.
The prodigal daughter theme also ran through Alain Corneau's Fear and Trembling, a taut, energetic comedy adapted from Amélie Nothomb's autobiographical novel about a young Belgian woman, born in Japan, who returns to Tokyo after college to work for a cutthroat Japanese corporation. Amélie (Sylvie Testud, one of France's most talented actresses) breathlessly takes in stride whatever bizarre tasks the corporation throws her way—she's punished for showing initiative by being forced to add together un-addable numbers for days on end; finally, she ends up as a bathroom attendant. Scored to Bach's Goldberg Variations, Fear and Trembling is ultimately a film about structure and the way radical elements are tolerated within functional systems. Bach's order and mathematical control dovetail with the tradition and arcane customs of the Japanese business world—a world from which Amélie remains blissfully isolated.
Ema, the 17-year-old protagonist of Czech director Benjamin Tucek's Girlie, is another study in isolation. Living with her widowed mother on the outskirts of Prague, taking one disaffected lover after another, she frequents secondhand clothing stores and hairdressers in a typical teenage quest to be different yet connected. (Her mom's on the same mission.) While it takes cues from the absurdist New Wave cinema of Chytilová and Menzel—mother and daughter perform theatrical calisthenics on the roof of their apartment building; a man tries to prove to his wife that he can fit an entire lightbulb in his mouth—Girlie is nevertheless a film about life in a changing Prague, Prague now, whose socialist housing complexes seem colder and grayer in contrast to Ema's constantly-changing hairstyles and costumes. Tucek's debut is one among many promising new features from the Czech Republic (and the first shot in hi-def video) and evidence of new cinematic life in the country.
Another entry in the "Young Woman Defying Tradition" genre was Whale Rider, which, despite my best efforts at self-restraint, left me in tears. Having spent 12 out of the first 13 weeks of its New Zealand release at the top of the charts, Niki Caro's debut is a proven crowd-pleaser. Set in a Maori village facing poverty and the erosion of its traditions and social cohesion, Whale Rider follows a well-worn narrative path—a demoralized community searches for a spiritual leader to heal it, aforesaid leader embarks on a journey of self-realization. The film's secret weapon is its remarkable lead actress, 12-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes, who plays Paikeia, a tomboy born with a mystical sensibility—spirited and expressive, with a remarkable emotional range, Castle-Hughes is a find.
Robert Altman received the San Francisco Film Society's Lifetime Achievement Award, and on my first day at the festival, I, along with about ten others, made it to a screening of Tanner '88, Altman's classic satirical HBO miniseries (written by Garry Trudeau), which follows the presidential primary campaign of the eponymous Jack Tanner (Michael Murphy) as he crisscrosses New Hampshire in a Jeep driven by his daughter (Cynthia Nixon). Sure, the story is clumsy at times, the characters broadly sketched, and the video technology now quaintly dated. But the upstart-Democrat-from-New-England narrative couldn't have been more timely or resonant. In a festival with an eye to a widening world, stories about home really matter. And any film (or TV series) in which Pat Buchanan, Gary Hart, and Bob Dole all have cameos is okay in my book.
From the July-August 2003 Issue
Chris Marker: Ghost World By Olaf Möller
Chris Marker: Kino-Eye By Paul Arthur
Vision: Omer Fast By Chris Chang
Categories: Festivals
Festivals: SFIFF
By Laura Kern
Festivals: Maryland & Little Rock
Festivals: Cartagena
By Violet Lucca
All About the Feathers, The Reconstruction, and Coherence: a trio of low-key standouts at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival
News from the front: in praise of two festivals that feature ambitious, vital programs
Sea, sun, and cinema at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI)


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Mixed Year for Putin as Tensions With West Grow
Western support for anti-Russian sanctions has remained unwavering
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Published Dec 30, 2018 at 3:06 AM | Updated at 4:34 AM PST on Dec 30, 2018
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 26, 2018.
It's been a mixed year for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin may look like a winner after an abrupt U.S. decision to pull out of Syria. But Russia's leader faces massive challenges in Syria and elsewhere, and he hasn't moved an inch closer toward throwing off the Western sanctions that have emaciated Russia's economy.
The Russian military campaign in Syria has achieved the Kremlin objective of shoring up Syrian President Bashar Assad's rule at a relatively modest cost and made Moscow an essential player in the Middle East. However, Syria lies in ruins after nearly eight years of fighting and Moscow has failed to persuade the West to help foot Syria's multi-billion reconstruction bill.
Even though the hasty pullout ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump could further bolster Moscow's clout in Syria, it leaves Russia pitted against Turkey, which is eager to expand its zone of influence. Moscow will also be saddled with the delicate task of trying to balance the conflicting interests of Israel and Iran in the region.
"It could be seen by some as Putin's success, but in fact it means trouble for Putin," Alexei Malashenko, a leading Moscow-based Middle East expert, said about the planned U.S. withdrawal. "The situation may change drastically, and Russia will be responsible for that. Bickering with the Americans was better than being left face-to-face with Turkey, Iran and others."
Trump's plan to halve the U.S. troops' presence in Afghanistan by the summer could spell more potential problems for Russia.
Putin has mocked the U.S. failure to stabilize the country despite a 17-year campaign, but the reduction of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan could foment dangerous instability by Islamic militants in Russia's underbelly of Central Asia.
Moscow may now find it necessary to invest more in Tajikistan, where it has a military base, to help seal the porous border with Afghanistan and try to expand its presence elsewhere in Central Asia.
Those challenges come as the Russian economy is still reeling from a combined blow of low oil prices and Western sanctions.
Western support for anti-Russian sanctions has remained unwavering.
The U.S. and the European Union sanctions came in response to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, Moscow's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the nerve-agent poisoning in March of a former Russian spy in Britain.
The sanctions have restricted Russia's access to international capital markets, limited imports of Western energy and military technologies and spooked international investors.
Putin has blamed the U.S. and its allies for trying to punish Russia for its independent course — a rhetoric amplified by state-controlled media that has fueled Russian hostility toward the West.
A recent opinion survey by the independent Levada Center showed that six out of ten Russian respondents had a negative attitude about the U.S., and half had a negative view of the EU. The survey also reflected growing public worries about Western sanctions, with 43 percent of those polled expressing concern about them compared to 28 percent a year ago.
The nationwide poll of 1,600 conducted in late November had a margin of error of no more than 3.4 percentage points.
Yet while the Western restrictions have stymied Russia's growth, they also gave Putin a convenient explanation for his domestic problems.
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"The American and European sanctions have in fact helped bolster Putin's power, allowing him to point to foreign pressure," Malashenko said.
Russia saw 1.5 percent growth in 2017 following a two-year recession and its economy is set to grow 1.8 percent this year. But the Russian government's hopes for faster growth haven't materialized and the nation has remained heavily dependent on exports of oil, gas and other raw materials.
As revenues drained, the government raised the retirement age this year — an unpopular move that fueled broad discontent and significantly dented Putin's popularity.
The Kremlin's hopes for striking a deal with Trump that would see an end to sanctions have faded amid the U.S. investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Putin has denied interference in both the U.S. 2016 election and meddling elsewhere in the West. While the Russian leader needs the sanctions lifted, he has made it clear that he wouldn't budge on Ukraine or any other issues.
As if to prove that point, the Russian coast guard in November seized three Ukrainian naval vessels along with their crew in the Black Sea.
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Tatiana Stanovaya, an independent political expert who writes extensively about the Kremlin, noted that Putin's uncompromising stance stems from his view that the West will see any concessions as a sign of weakness and make more demands.
"Putin believes that if Russia gives in, the pressure will only grow and the sanctions will be expanded further," she said.
Amid rising tensions with the West, the Kremlin has focused on beefing up Russia's military arsenals.
Putin turned his state-of-the-nation speech in March into a presentation of an array of new nuclear weapons, including a hypersonic glide vehicle that streaks through the atmosphere at more than 20 times the speed of sound and an underwater drone fitted with a powerful atomic weapon capable of sweeping enemy coastlines with a devastating tsunami.
Vladimir Frolov, a Moscow-based foreign policy expert, saw Putin's statements as part of his efforts to persuade the West to sit down for talks.
"His goal is to win attention, fear and respect from the West, to get the right of veto regarding Western policies," Frolov said. "He's pushing for talks on Russia's conditions and without any unilateral concessions."
Air Force Major Charged With Wife's Gruesome Murder
The husband of a missing San Antonio, Texas, woman was charged with murder after authorities confirmed they'd found the remains 29-year-old Andreen McDonald. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office arrested Andre McDonald, 40, just two days after authorities found a human skull and bones Thursday night.
Putin warned that the planned U.S. exit from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty would trigger a Russian response. In an ominous statement this month, he lamented that global fears of a nuclear war have ebbed, leaving the world blind to a rising doomsday threat.
Stanovaya noted that Putin's talk reflected growing instability in the absence of a common agenda between Russia and the West.
"Moving further along the same track would inevitably lead to the point where it would become more difficult to control the situation regarding nuclear weapons," Stanovaya said. "Putin believes that nuclear weapons are Russia's ultimate argument that should influence Western politicians' thinking."


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5 Ludicrous Controllers That Help You Touch the Virtual World
Sean Buckley
PublishedMarch 5, 2015
Virtual Reality is a really neat idea but it's also problematic. The Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Galaxy Gear VR all let us see new, virtual worlds but none of them let us touch it. How do you physically feel what's not really there? Maybe with one of these batshit crazy controllers.
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There are dozens of them in a dark corner of the Game Developer Conference exposition floor, an area reserved for start ups with oddball innovations and big dreams. Here you'll find a ton of haptic feedback gadgets—controllers that take commands from your touch but also sorta touch you back. If someone can get it right, this could be the key to making virtual reality more real. None of the stuff I saw nailed it, but we're on the right, weird track.
Miraisens 4D Space Navigator
Force. Pressure. Tactile feeling. That is what the Miraisens 4D Space navigator promises, and then mostly fails to deliver on. The Navigator is an odd shaped, wired nub that's designed to be held in an uncomfortable three-finger grip. It vibrates as you move it around in a virtual space, ideally sort of like if you were rubbing something over a rough surface. But mostly it just feels like it's vibrating a lot.
To its credit, it's not just an isolated motor. Somehow, the Navigator's vibration features is capable of vibrating in a specific direction. One of the company's demos asked me to lift rocks or resist the gravitational forces of a black hole, and the little triangle definitely felt heavier for a moment thanks to its buzzing. I'm not sure what use that is, but it totally worked a little.
The Realm System
This one looks more like a piece of exercise equipment than a game controller, but it's actually kind of clever. In the Realm System, you secure a fitness belt around the your waist and then tether's your arms to your body with two short, stretchable cables that limit your movement. You can still extend your arms out all the way, but it takes extra effort—and the resistance can give you the illusion that the actions you're performing in game are a little more real.
Motion capture cameras and accelerometers in the grips at the end of the tether measure how much effort it takes to perform a particular action, translating that to simulated force in virtual reality. It's a good idea—and certainly good work in some games—but wearing the contraption does seem like a little bit of a hassle.
CyberTouch feedback glove
Here's the perfect example of what not to do: Stick a bunch of large, ugly force-feedback motors on a gardening glove. CyberTouch's harsh, out of place vibrations definitely let me know when I was supposed to be "touching" something, but to be honest, it felt more awkward than having no tactile feedback at all. Powerglove 2.
Tactical Haptics Reactive Grip
Gloves, vibrating triangles and resistance-based fitness belts may all be a wash, but the Tactical Haptics Reactive Grip almost feels real. Sometimes. The Grip is sort of like a wireless, motion-tracking joystick with a moving grip. Pick up something heavy in game? The controller's handle will gently pull down on the inside of your palm to emulate the friction of weight. It actually works, but only if you hold the controller just right. If you hold it too tight, it kind of hurts. Too loose? Then it's just a jiggling, awkward mess. A neat idea though for sure.
Striker VR
No, that VR doesn't stand for virtual reality, it stands for virtual recoil. Striker VR is a purpose-built force feedback system, design specifically to allow first-person virtual reality shooters to kick back with the appropriate amount of gun recoil. It works by using a special "linear engine" to throw the weight of a metal rod around the interior of the gun, creating backwards or forward momentum as necessary.
This itself is a neat idea—if a bit limited to just one genre—but the company's GDC staff was more interested in the bigger picture. Sure, they want people to look to their technology to create better FPS experiences, but they also want to work with companies like Tactical Feedback to create even more immersive VR gaming accessories. It's the right attitude: no single haptic feedback technology is going to be enough to make virtual reality feel real. Even if that means this whole controller thing could get out of hand fast. Who wants a closet full of 980213812098312 unique controllers, right?
Bonus: The Steam Controller
Okay, okay—technically Valve's funky gamepad wasn't lurking in GDC's start-up alley, but it does use haptic feedback of a sort. See those big, round touchpads? They purr with a light, tactile hum whenever your roll your fingers over them, and it's the only thing that makes them feel okay to use. The physical reaction gives the touchpads weight—and if we've learned anything from the demise of Microsoft's Kinect, it's that we have to feel like we're touching our virtual worlds for them to feel authentic… even if it's just a light touch.