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Patriots 2017 7-Round Mock Draft
The start of the NFL Draft is just under a week away. Currently the Patriots will not pick until the third round with the 72nd pick overall after trading their first round pick to the New Orleans Saints in exchange for wide receiver Brandin Cooks and their second round pick to the Carolina Panthers for defensive end Kony Ealy and the Panthers third round pick which is 72.
I did a seven round mock draft using the draft simulator on FanSpeak.com. While some players may not be around in the actual draft while they were in the simulation I selected the players who I thought helped fit the biggest needs for the Patriots.
Round 3, pick 72: Ryan Anderson, Edge Rusher, Alabama
Edge Rusher remains the biggest need for the Patriots after the offseason, even with the addition of Kony Ealy. The team lost Chris Long and Jabaal Sheard to free agency and have little depth at the position. Anderson is a very good pass rusher and can get after the passer standing up and with his hand in the dirt. One down side with Anderson is his size, only standing at 6'2 253 pounds he could face problems against bigger tackles. Given the relationship between Bill Belichick and Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Anderson is someone who the Patriots could definitely look to draft to help their issues at the defensive end/ outside linebacker position.
Round 3, pick 96: Sidney Jones, cornerback, Washington
While I don't expect Jones to last near this long the Patriots should draft him immediately if he does. Jones would have been a first round pick if it wasn't for the torn Achillies injury he suffered at his pro day. Jones is a very physical corner who possesses good speed, and also has a knack for finding the ball with his nine career interceptions during his time at Washington. Jones insisted that he would be ready in time for training camp, and even if he isn't would still be a great pick at this point in the draft with the talent he possesses. If the Patriots do part ways with Malcolm Butler either this year or next, Jones could be a great replacement in the secondary.
Round 4, pick 131: Jake Butt, tight end, Michigan
Like Jones, Jake Butt saw his draft stock slide due to injury. Butt suffered a torn ACL in the Orange Bowl against Florida State and is currently rehabbing the injury. Butt wont burn you defenders with his speed but is a consistent, reliable pass catches and a very good blocker for the tight end position. When you watch Butt you can see flashes of Cowboys tight end Jason Witten in his game. The Patriots lost Martellus Bennett in free agency but acquired Dwayne Allen in a trade from the Colts to pair up with Rob Gronkowski. The issue? Both Gronkowski and Allen have had their share of injury problems since entering the league. Adding another tight end into the mix would be a wise move for the Patriots in the draft; and because of the deep tight end class and injury that he suffered Butt could be a potential steal for the Patriots in the fourth round.
Round 5, pick 163: James Conner, running back, Pittsburgh
Running back is not a huge position of need for the Patriots, especially if Buffalo does not match the offer sheet that the Patriots gave restricted free-agent Mike Gillislee earlier this week. But as of now Gillislee isn't a member of the Patriots so James Conner is the pick here. Conner is a big physical back with a powerful running style, similar of LaGarrette Blount, who still remains a free agent. Conner could give the Patriots the big, physical back that the team is currently missing and has been a key piece to the offense over the past several seasons. Even with the addition of Gillislee, Conner could be someone who could find a place on the Patriots practice squad.
Round 5, pick 183: Erik Magnuson, tackle, Michigan
Magnuson has experience playing both guard and tackle while at Michigan. He has pretty good size at 6'6 305 pounds, but could bulk up a little bit if his full-time position is at tackle. Magnuson was named to the first-team All-Big Ten team this past season with the Wolverines and played well against good competition such as Ohio State and Wisconsin. Magnuson would be an upgrade over LaAdrian Waddle and Cameron Fleming as a backup tackle.
Round 6, pick 200: Bryan Cox Jr., edge rusher, Florida
The son of former Patriot Bryan Cox, Cox Jr. has the size to play defensive end and outside linebacker in the NFL at 6'3 265 pounds. Cox Jr. had a productive first three seasons at Florida before battling injuries during his senior year. Cox Jr. isn't a very polished pass rusher and only ran a 4.89 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine, but is a good run defender. During his best season as a junior, Cox Jr. had 10 tackles for a loss with 3.5 sacks. Adding Cox could give the Patriots another big body on the outside that the team currently does not have much depth in.
Nov 14, 2015; Starkville, MS, USA; Mississippi State Bulldogs wide receiver Fred Ross (8) runs the ball during the game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Davis Wade Stadium. Alabama won 31-6. Mandatory Credit: Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports
Round 7, pick 239: Fred Ross, wide receiver, Mississippi State
Wide receiver is not an area of need for the Patriots this season but could be later on down the road and drafting Ross could give the Patriots someone they could hold onto and develop more and maybe keep on the practice squad. Ross possesses good size and speed for the position, standing at 6'2 and running a 4.5 40-yard dash. Ross had a breakout junior season with Dak Prescott at quarterback, setting a school record with 88 receptions and surpassing over 1,000 yards receiving. His numbers slipped a little during his senior season without Presott, but had 12 receiving touchdowns. Ross also contributed on special teams for Mississippi State and could help the Patriots in that department as they struggled with Cyrus Jones returning kicks and punts last year.
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DE Justin Tuck Interview
Q: What have you seen from Osi so far this week?A: I think he needs another week?
Q: Are you kidding?A: Only Osi knows his body, but I don't think he's 'Old Osi' yet. But he wants to play.
Q: Are you guys ready to go?A: No, but we don't have to be ready to go yet. We don't play until Sunday night.
Q: Are you being serious that Osi shouldn't…A: I just wanted to give you all something to talk about. That's all.
Q: What can he do?A: You'd have to ask Osi what he can do.
Q: What do you think he can do?A: I don't know. I guess we'll find out in the game.
Q: Do you think what you did last week in overcoming injuries inspired Osi to play?A: No, I don't. I just feel as though a high ankle sprain is something you don't really want to play with until it's ready. I think it's feeling a little better and he wanted to give it a go.
Q: How long does it seem to you since you've been in the playoffs?A: It seems like years, which it is years, but it seems like a lot longer than it actually has been.
Q: Is that a driving force to win this game?A: I would hope so. Obviously that's why we play, to get an opportunity to play for the Super Bowl. To have that opportunity, you have to make the playoffs.
Q: With Osi back, is there an added fire that we'll see?A: I hope so. I keep telling y'all I can't tell the future. We'll see what happens on Sunday. It is encouraging to have all of us playing or appear to be playing.
Q: What did Romo do the last time you faced him? What stands out?A: He had a big game. It stands out that he was a good quarterback before we played him and he was a good quarterback when we played him. I don't think he did anything different from what he's been known to do. He made the throws that were there and in some cases he created when they weren't. That's what we expect from him and that's one of the reasons why he's one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
Q: How can you contain him?A: By containing him. That's the best way to contain him. He has a knack of knowing where the holes are. You send guys to the left and try to bait him to the right, he steps up to the middle. You just can't get caught up in thinking about containing him. You just have to rush like you normally rush and let our instincts take over. When you start thinking too much you get rocked.
Q: These last weeks, can they turn a bad season into a good one for you?A: Sure they can. Obviously most of the time in this league it's all about what have you done for me lately. Hopefully I can have a good end to the year.
Q: It looked like your energy and efforts were a spark for the team.A: A lot of people told me that, but you just try your best to be humble about it and the gifts God has given to you to play this game. That's all I try to go out there and be. I don't get caught up in putting my foot in things. Whether it's true or not, just go out there and try to give your all and lay it on the line and be all in. Somehow or another it seems like things work out for the best when you do that.
Q: How frustrating is it to not be able to play the way you were playing?A: It's frustrating. I think I let the frustration get to me earlier in the year, but at this point it is what it is. Like I said, just go out there and give what you have. If you are 100 per cent, give 100 per cent. If you're 70, give 70. Nobody is making any excuses for us. At this time of the year everybody is kind of banged up.
Q: Do you feel fortunate that you got mentally right at this time of the year?A: Definitely. We lost four in a row and still owned our own destiny. In this league, that's fortunate. We know we are fortunate to have the opportunity we have and we're just trying to take advantage of it.
Q: Is 80 snaps too much?A: No. Not at this time of year. At this time of the year what are you saving for? You don't have too much to save it for. You can save it and go home.
Q: But Osi's presence could take that number down?A: That's the ideal, but again, if we have 90/100 snaps this week then we have to do it.
Q: What do you think when people react the way they do when you say you hate the cowboys?A: I'm very amused by it. What am I supposed to say? I love the Cowboys? According to D Ware I wish I played for them. C'mon man. You all ask questions that have obvious answers to them and when I give the obvious answers people look at you like you're crazy. That reminds me of the Eli 'elite' question. What is he supposed to say? I suck or I'm not in the category of the best quarterbacks in the league?
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An Exploited Website Can Cause Apple Products To Crash | Computerama, Inc.
Users of Apple tech have a new reason to worry. A security researcher named Sabri Haddouche, who works for an instant messaging app called "Wire," has published a proof of concept web page. It contains a fatal exploit that can crash and restart iPhones, iPads and any Mac.
Essentially then, the entire Apple ecosystem is vulnerable. Worse, the security flaw can be exploited using nothing more than CSS and HTML code. The flaw resides in Apple's WebKit, which is its web rendering engine used by all apps and browsers running on Apple's OS.
Haddouche tested the exploit using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and the Safari web browser. He got the same result each time using both a MacBook Pro and an iPhone X. Apple users are advised to exercise extreme caution when visiting any web page until a patch can be issued.
The company is currently investigating the issue, and to this point has not given their legions of users a timeframe for a possible fix.
Sadly, this isn't the first time a flaw like this has been discovered, and it's unlikely to be the last. If there's a silver lining, it is that Apple has historically been quick to patch flaws of this kind, and it should be noted that Linux and Windows systems are not affected.
It's especially worrisome for small business owners, and until Apple gives us a time frame for a fix, your best bet is to steer clear of any websites but those that are business critical, and trusted sites that you know to be safe.
Although the exploit was specifically engineered to crash Apple devices, it's easy enough to envision a nastier implementation which could critically damage the OS, rendering the device targeted by the attack completely inoperable. Stay vigilant, and stay tuned for a fix to what could be a devastating issue.


Stones, cuts in the shake, lines of stones, cut indents, all these were done so as to agree with one another on explicit days of the year - the equinoxes and the solstices were imperative to the people of yore, as these were explicit days that could be depended on as achievements in the year. homework help websites. The observatories let them know when it was the solstice or the equinox.
I'm looking at a glorious full moon right now ....... with no street lights to detract from it.
It almost looks like daytime, the moon is so bright.


The Trocadero is a well-known retail business center in London and one highlight of the location would certainly be the Funland facility there, home to many great arcade games as well as serving as a prime spot for many location tests of various upcoming coin-op game products. It's one of the few locations we had a specific tag for since news of these tests often made their way to us. It's one place that I had always hoped to visit if I ever made it over to England but it looks like I am going to miss out on that now. One of our readers, Rjay63 tipped us off to this a few days ago and now news has broke as to what is going on. You can read the full statement about why the Funland is closing here at Intergame Online but to break it down to a nutshell – the management and the landlord have had some sort of dispute and after the landlord disconnected the power to the facility on July 3rd, the negotiations broke down completely from there. At present, that leaves 95 people unemployed now and who knows what will become of the awesome games the Funland had on hand. There is a sign there currently however telling people to head over to the Las Vegas arcade at 89/91 Wardour Street, perhaps they will help pick up the slack here. Also suggested to me as an alternative location is Namco Land at County Hall by the London Eye.
Our friend and contributor Kevin Williams has an online album showing some recent before and after shots of Funland, it was the kind of location that leaves a very noticeable mark on the entire mall there with it closed.
I pop in their every year or so when I'm visiting London and the place has been on the slide for a decade or more. The building is well located but seems totally dead for some reason. The layout isn't the best for some reason and things are just placed at random without any sort of flow, it's hard to put a finger on it. That said the range of games is pretty interesting although you have to trawl through a million boring racing and lightgun games to get to the good stuff. The place just didn't have the atmosphere of other smaller locations like Casino on Goodge Street (the best arcade in the UK in my opinion). It just lacked that certain spark since it changed from being associated with Sega.
As you may be aware from my Segaworld/Funland post on the Arcade Heroes' forum, a new hotel is currently being built on the top floors of the Trocadero (the old Segaworld floors). I guess this would make the location more desirable to business that could easily woo the hotel crowd (bar, casino, boutiques, travel agents). So maybe that why such a drastic measure was taken so quickly; the landlord can easily get new tenants to fill the Funland space.
I will miss the venue and feel for the 95 redundancies – wish all the best, and hope we see a new FEC site in there soon.
This is terrible news. I were gonna go down in a few weeks to have a go at darius bust another chronicle but now I can't. I had a look on Intergame Online but I can't view it for some reason. Can anyone post it on here so I can see why its been closed? Seems a bit drastic due to a power surge cuz of some dickhead landlord or whoever decided to pull the power. Whatever happens I hope it gets relocated or opens soon.
I just heard from my friend who works for Las Vegas that they will have most of the machines from Funland in the basement. Also upon request and if the demand is high you can request machines. Yay! A mini Funland lol!
Hi guys. Here's an article I wrote for Intergame on how the closure of that arcade affected so many of us, thought you might find it interesting.


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Welcome back, friends! It's been a while since I've bothered to post anything here due to traveling and work obligations. Time to make this little labor of love a bit more active!
We start out by posting a classic rhumba-and-calypso-influenced tune from what was then the Belgian Congo, then Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of The Congo). The bank, O.K. Jazz, were one of the finest exporters of this type of sound in South-Central Africa, and they gave the world one of the true giants of African music, the guitarist François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, know to his legions of admirers simply as Franco.


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Q: Escape Velocity and its effect on the atmosphere I've been doing some world building and wound up with a bit of a physics puzzle that's stumped me. So rather than a long winded explanation I'll simply state the primary parameters.
Under otherwise "earth standard" conditions, what effect would changing the escape velocity have on the atmosphere? Surface is still 1g, atmospheric mix unchanged, etc.
So far all I have found is basic theory regarding kinetic energy of gasses with respect to molecular masses and how loss rates differ with respect to molecular mass. Jean's escape, etc.
Is this really the only thing that would change about the atmosphere? We would loose less of it? No subtle increase in the density at the highest layers as less escapes? No change in the limit/value of any properties?

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Friday 12 Jul 2019 12:00 am
DUP opposes repealing Northern Ireland's blasphemy laws while all other parties come out in favour
All the major political parties have come out in favour of repealing Northern Ireland's blasphemy laws – except for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
In response to a Northern Ireland Humanists campaign, Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, the Alliance Party, the Green Party, and the People Before Profit Alliance have all come out in support of repealing the laws. The Ulster Unionist Party does not appear to have a position on the matter, but Northern Ireland Humanists understands those who have replied stating a view have suggested they support repeal, with previous leader Mike Nesbitt announcing his intention to turn the matter into party policy.
However, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Arlene Foster, has stated that it opposes repealing the law. This is in spite of England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland abolishing these offenses in recent years, and Scotland committed to doing the same, over concerns they violate the right to freedom of speech and are used to justify human rights abuses abroad. It is also in spite of the party's campaigning work against blasphemy laws globally – where such laws are often used to persecute Christians.
In a letter to a constituent, Ms Foster stated '[the DUP] are skeptical of the argument that our laws provide any justification for violent oppression of religious minorities in other countries', adding that 'the removal of a specific protection for Christianity should not be considered in isolation.' She also expressed concerns that hate crime and equality laws are insufficient to protect Christians, citing the entirely unrelated 'gay cake' case as evidence of this.
DUP legislators frequently campaign against blasphemy laws in other countries. For example, Jim Shannon MP is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief, and has repeatedly spoken out against such laws. In 2017 the Group published a report, to which he wrote the foreword, that says,
'FoRB [freedom of religion or belief] does not provide protection from someone's religion or belief being subject to adverse comments or insults. This is an important point to note whenever arguments are given in support of concepts such as 'defamation of religion', or laws prohibiting blasphemy (speaking 'offensively' about God)… The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has noted that forbidding actions which disrespect a religion or belief system, including blasphemy laws, are almost always incompatible with essential human rights and freedoms, including FoRB and the right to freedom of expression.'
Commenting on the parties' responses, Northern Ireland Humanists Coordinator Boyd Sleator said: 'We are delighted to see all bar one of the major parties come out in favour of repealing our blasphemy laws, but we have been let down by the DUP. It is amazing that the DUP leader will oppose removing the blasphemy laws from the statue books. Sadly, the reasons the DUP leader has given for this position demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of these laws and the wider consequences of maintaining them.
'The existence of blasphemy laws in European countries is used by brutal regimes to justify persecution of religious minorities, including Christians. In 2009, Pakistan proposed a motion to the Human Rights Council within the UN General Assembly seeking to enact global sanctions for blasphemy, the wording of which was taken verbatim from the now-repealed blasphemy legislation in the Republic of Ireland. So it cannot be claimed that our laws exist in isolation from the international context.
'Further, it is fundamentally wrong to suggest that the repeal of these laws would result in any disadvantage to Christians. We already have laws that protect all of us, whether Christian or not, from abuse and illegal discrimination. All blasphemy laws do is protect ideas from proper scrutiny and debate. The DUP should urgently think again.'
What the different parties have said on blasphemy laws
Since launching its campaign to repeal the blasphemy laws in March, Northern Ireland Humanists supporters have been writing to their MLAs asking them to set out their views on the matter. Here's what the parties and MLAs have said:
DUP's Arlene Foster's response
'First, we must make the point that no action can be taken on any legislative issue while Sinn Fein continues to block the formation of an Executive for Northern Ireland without which no proposals can be subject to ministerial, committee scrutiny and civil debate. Second, the absence of working devolution has created a backlog of decisions and legislation that should be the first priority of the legislative time of a new Assembly and Executive e.g. the Domestic Violence Bill.
Third, we are sceptical of the argument that our laws provide any justification for violent oppression of religious minorities in other countries. Sadly brutal regimes will always find excuses for their sadistic punishments regardless of our laws.
Fourth, it is difficult to sustain the argument that it presents any real impediment to free speech through its lack of application by prosecuting authorities and courts. In addition, there is a practical protection through the Human Rights Act 1998 which requires court interpretation of the law to be compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
Fifth, legislative protections have developed for religious communities and expressions of their faiths primarily through 'hate' crime and equality protections. However, the relationship with these laws for the Christian community has been problematic with the legislation often serving to limit rather than protect them. For example, they have been used to interfere in public preaching (freedom of speech) and in Northern Ireland, the public institution charged with delivering equality unsuccessfully targeted a company trying to work within the Christian values of its owners. Thus the removal of a specific protection for Christianity should not be considered in isolation but within broader discussion about how we address the complex interaction of faith, freedom, rights and protections.
For these reasons the DUP respectfully disagrees.'
Sinn Fein's response
'Sinn Féin supported removing blasphemy from the constitution and we actively campaigned for its removal throughout the 2018 referendum in the south.
As a 32 county organisation the position we took on the referendum in the south is reflective of our party's position in the north.
The laws are outdated and not representative of the Ireland we live in today.
The UUP has not seen a consistent response across MLAs, but all seem sympathetic to repeal, and previous party leader Mike Nesbitt has told a constituent, 'I agree with you so will ask the party leadership to consider supporting change.'
The SDLP's response
'The SDLP agrees with your view that maintaining these laws here, even if they aren't routinely used as the basis of prosecutions, provides tacit support to other nations which use similar laws to violently oppress minorities. How can we oppose those regimes which imprison, torture and murder individuals on the basis of faith if we aren't prepared to look at our own laws?
The SDLP has previously supported attempts to amend our libel laws to remove offences related to blasphemy. In the absence of an Executive or an Assembly, it's not currently possible to affect change in this area. When power sharing is restored, the SDLP will continue to support efforts to amend the law in this area.'
The Alliance Party has seen different responses from different MLAs, all supporting repeal. For example, their leader Naomi Long said:
'I support the repeal of Northern Ireland's blasphemy laws. As a liberal, I believe in the right to both freedom of speech and freedom of religion and belief, and believe blasphemy laws are contrary to both.
During my time in Westminster, I was vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion and Belief and, in my campaigning work, saw first hand how blasphemy laws are used in many countries to suppress, often brutally, both minority religious views, including those of other faiths and none, and also justified criticism or challenge of a state religion.
My colleagues and I have not only actively campaigned for freedom of thought, religion and belief at home and abroad, but have also sought to ensure that those subject to persecution on this basis are treated seriously when seeking asylum or refugee status in the UK.
I believe firmly that the role of the state in matters of faith and belief is simply to uphold as fully as possible the fundamental rights and freedoms set out in Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, namely: the right to hold a belief; to worship freely; to associate with others who share that belief; to share your belief with others; to live according to your beliefs and to change or reject your religion or beliefs at any time. It also includes the right to live free of the imposition of religious observance and belief, and the right to theistic, non theistic and atheistic beliefs.
No state or government should seek to impose a faith on its people or disadvantage those who dissent from a majority view, but should seek to protect freedom insofar as it is compatible with good order.
There are other laws in Northern Ireland, particularly those regarding incitement to hatred and hate speech, which I believe are better able to protect members of our community from abuse or illegal discrimination, whether direct or indirect, (eg. Islamophobia, anti-semitism) than blasphemy laws, which are designed not to protect people but rather deities and tenets of faith from criticism or ridicule.
As you rightly state, other parts of these islands have either repealed or are in the process of repealing their blasphemy laws and I believe that Northern Ireland should do likewise. I would be happy to advance this at such times as we return to devolution at the Assembly.'
The Green Party's response
'The Green Party Northern Ireland is fully supportive of abolishing existing blasphemy laws.
As you will be aware, there is currently no sitting Assembly nor has Direct Rule been implemented therefore there is currently no vehicle through which to deliver this change. However, should the Assembly return I would be behind proposals to remove these laws.'
People Before Profit's MLA Gerry Carroll's response
'I can confirm that People Before Profit do indeed support the call for ending of the Blasphemy laws. They are a relic of the past and need to be rescinded.'
Northern Ireland Humanists is yet to see a response from Traditional Unionist Voice's Jim Allister or independent unionist Claire Sugden. Independent unionist Jim Wells has said he opposes repealing the blasphemy law.'
Blasphemy law repeals around the world
In October 2018, citizens in the Republic of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to repeal the country's blasphemy laws. In England and Wales, these same laws were repealed in 2008. Last year, the Scottish National Party came out in support of the same move in Scotland, and Humanists UK's sister charity Humanist Society Scotland is campaigning to see that happen.
Since 2015, five further European countries and Canada have also abolished their blasphemy laws, and in March, New Zealand became the latest country to do likewise.
Humanists UK is a founding member of the End Blasphemy Laws coalition and this year made several interventions at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva calling on states to abolish blasphemy laws.
For further comment or information, please contact Humanists UK Campaigns Officer Rachel Taggart-Ryan at rachel@humanism.org.uk or on 0207 324 3065.
Visit our Northern Ireland blasphemy campaign here: https://humanism.org.uk/what-you-can-do-to-help/ni-blasphemy-repeal/
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Arthur "Sambo" Irby, 61
Drummer who is remembered most for being a member of the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band and for an amazing ability to imitate the sound of a harp with only his mouth
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Roe Erister "Rick" Rick Hall, 85
1.31.32–1.2.18
Alabama record producer who is considered the Father of Muscle Shoals Music and was the owner of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL; of cancer
Billy Corston, 65
Original bass player for Doug James and the Pocket and more recently, The Screamin' End; of pancreatic cancer
Denise LaSalle, 78
Born Ora Denise Allen, this soul blues singer was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011. She is most famous for the songs, Trapped By a Thing Called Love and Down Home Blues; from complications of surgery
Edwin Hawkins, 74
Grammy award winning singer who merged gospel and secular songs and was most famous for the hit, Oh Happy Day; of pancreatic cancer
Terry Evans, 80
Mississippi soul blues singer/guitarist who got his start in the church choir, but gravitated to the secular music of Elmore James, Little Walter, Albert King and B.B. King; released seven solo albums
Preston Shannon, 70
Singer, songwriter, guitarist who was considered a Memphis blues legend and known as "The King of Beale St."
Floyd Miles, 74
4.13.43–1.25.18
American blues/R&B singer who mentored Duane and Gregg Allman in 1960s Daytona Beach, FL
Eddie Shaw, 80
Revered Chicago tenor sax player, who led his own band, Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang after four years in Howlin' Wolf's band; of natural causes
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Del Delker, 93
10.21.24–1.31.18
Gospel singer with the Voice of Prophecy radio ministry beginning in 1947
Dennis Edwards, 74
2.3.43–2.1.18
Frontman for the R&B group, The Temptations; from complications from meningitis
Algia Mae Hinton, 88
One of the last surviving Piedmont style blues guitarists and vocalists; of natural causes
Sunshine "Sonny" Payne, 92
11.25.29–2.9.18
Host of the King Biscuit Radio Time on KFFA in Helena, AR, since its beginning in 1951
Craig MacGregor, 68
Longtime bass player for the blues/rock band Foghat; after a long battle with lung cancer
Little Sammy Davis, 89
American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player based in the New York Hudson Valley; born in Mississippi, he settled in Chicago by the late 1950s and played with Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter; in his later years, became a close musical associate of Levon Helm
James "Nick" Nixon, 76
4.9.41–2.28.18
An omnipresent, beloved figure in Nashville's blues and R&B scenes for 50 years who worked with everyone from legendary rock 'n' roll guitarist Scotty Moore to the gospel group the Fairfield Four; of pulmonary lung disease
Jay B. Ross, 76
aka Bernard Rosenblatt
2.12.42–3.1.
Much loved entertainment lawyer in Chicago whose clients included Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and James Brown; of a heart attack
Herbert Wiley, 76
?.?.42–3.4.18
Oxford (MS) blues guitarist and master cobbler; of cancer
Russell Malcolm "Russ" Solomon, 92
Founder of Tower Records, who opened his first Tower Records with $5,000 in 1960 in what had been his father's drugstore in Sacramento, CA; declared bankruptcy in 2004 and in 2006 was forced to liquidate and close; of an apparent heart attack
Siva Choy, 70
Singaporean blues musician and comedian; of a stroke
Jason Buie, 47
Canadian guitarist based on Vancouver Island who had just won the Maple Blues Award for New Artist of the Year in January; no cause of death revealed
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Shakey Jake
West Side Chicago blues singer not to be confused with harp player Shakey Jake Harris, who died in 1990
Yvonne Staples, 80
A member of the legendary Staples Singers; after a short battle with cancer
Mama Inez, 88
Inez died just short of her 89th birthday, which would have been April 24. She was the grandmother of the (Eddie) Taylor clan and the sister of Chicago guitarist Jimmy Burns
Michael "Sleepy" Riley, 59
Much loved bass player for Eddie Shaw and a cousin of Nick Charles, the late bass player for Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues; after a long illness (he suffered a stroke in 2017)
Deborah Coleman, 61
10.3.56–4.21.18
Guitarist, singer and songwriter who was nominated nine times for a W.C. Handy Blues Music Award; died from complications from bronchitis and pneumonia
Charles Neville, 79
The "horn man" for the legendary Neville Brothers; of pancreatic cancer
Art Shay, 96
Photographer who photographed many of Chicago's blues legends, among many other subjects
Jab'o Starks, 79
Drummer with the James Brown Band; from a bone marrow disorder and cancer
MAY 3
Lenin "Doc" Pellegrino
The man who brought Chicago Kingston Mines 50 years ago on Lincoln Ave. After the roof caved in, the joint moved onto Halsted, where it has been offering blues seven nights a week ever since
Julius Holmes
Dr. J of Dr. J's Lounge, a West Side Chicago nightclub
Eddy Clearwater, 83
aka Edward Harrington
Mississippi-born, left-handed Chicago guitarist who played West Side Chicago blues, recorded 17 albums and billed himself "The Chief"; of heart failure
Clarence Fountain, 88
Founding member and longtime leader of the Blind Boys of Alabama; of complications from diabetes
Danny Kirwan, 68
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist who played on several recordings, including Blues Jam at Chess
Nate Appelwhite, 86
Most famous as the drummer for Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Dominic Joseph "D.J." Fontana, 87
Rockabilly icon best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley
Matt "Guitar" Murphy, 88
Casual blues fans know him as one of the members of the Blues Brothers Band, but the rest of us know he had a better resume, playing with musicians such as Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Memphis Slim. Cause of death was a heart attack, but he suffered a stroke in 2002 that forced him into semi-retirement.
Lil' Howlin' Wolf, 87
aka Jessie Sanders
He was mentored by Howlin' Wolf and took the name Lil' Howlin' Wolf in 1976 when Wolf died as a tribute to his mentor and father figure. His career lasted more than 70 years, playing with Jimmy Reed, Hound Dog Taylor, Magic Sam and other legendary Chicago musicians.
Thomas J. Radai, 73
He founded the Blues Management Group in 1966, and became America's only multiple of the W.C. Handy Award winner. He represented blues legends that included Jimmy Rogers, Phillip Walker, William Clarke, Otis Spann and Sam Lay. He also was the founder of the Wisconsin Blues Society.
Robert "Dancin'" Perkins, 86
?–8.15.18
Bass player who was a Maxwell St. regular and father of local Chicago drummer Chris Alexander; of natural causes
Aretha Franklin, 76
What more needs to be said about the undisputed Queen of Soul, who was a singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress and pianist?
Eddie "Chank" Willis, 82
The original Motown Funk Brother, nicknamed Chank because of his muted, propulsive guitar style; played on hits such as Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her and The Marvelettes' Please Mr. Postman.
Lazy Lester, 85
Widely considered the last surviving member of the first generation of swamp blues players that included Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim and Lonesome Sundown; of stomach cancer
Big Jay McNeely, 91
Cecil "Big Jay" McNeely was a force of nature on the tenor sax; of advanced prostate cancer
Clarence Ludd, 85
Husband of Artis Ludd and co-owner of historic South Side clubs in Chicago that included Artis' Lounge, the High Chapparal and the Godfather Lounge
Otis Rush, 84
One of the most influential of the great Chicago blues guitarists who was a key architect of Chicago's West Side sound; was #53 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists; from complications related to a stroke suffered in 2003
Tony Joe White, 75
7.23.43–10.24.18
Gave us the classic 1969 hit, Polk Salad Annie, plus Rainy Night in Georgia, and had just released a blues CD in late September called Bad Mouthin' before he died; of natural causes
Melvin Ragin, 67
aka Wah Wah Watson
12.8.50–10.24.18
A member of the Motown house band, The Funk Brothers, who played on famous tunes such as Papa Was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On
John. T. Benson III, 90
?.?.27–10.28.18
Gospel music executive who was president of the Gospel Music Association from 1978–1980; also former president of the John T. Benson Publishing Co., which was founded in 1902 by his grandfather and is the oldest permanent music business operation in Nashville
Eddie C. Campbell, 79
5.6.39–11.20.18
Revered West Side Chicago guitarist, who performed with Luther Allison, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor, and who was a bandleader for Jimmy Reed; from complications from the result of a stroke and heart attack suffered in 2013
Jody Leon Williams, 83
2.35.18–12.1.18
A Blues Hall of Fame member who served as Chess Records' house guitarist for years; played on seminal recordings that include Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love, Howlin' Wolf's Evil and Forty Four, and Sonny Boy Williamson's Don't Start Me Talking; of cancer
Calvin Newborn, 85
Memphis guitar genius who gave guitar lessons to Howlin' Wolf, played on B.B. King's first record, was a Sun session musician and a member of the Delta Cats with Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston when they recorded Rocket 88, considered by many historians to be the first rock 'n' roll record; of respiratory failure
Nancy Wilson, 81
Of her many titles, this legendary singer, who got her start from Cannonball Adderley, preferred "song stylist"; she recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards; after a long battle with kidney cancer
Al Miller
Local Chicago harp player who recorded two CDs–In Between Time, with John Primer, Billy Flynn and Dave Specter, and Wild Cards, with Willie Kent, Dave Specter, Tad Robinson and Steve Freund
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EXPLAINER: Can Australians Sue The Government Over Its Climate Inaction?
As anticipation mounts for the Abbott government's post-2020 emissions reduction policy – with News Corporation this week floating a 7.25 per cent cut on 2000-level emissions as a possible target for 2030 – Australians are increasingly wondering if they can sue the government for negligence on climate change.
Ariane Wilkinson, a lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia, recently revealed the public interest law firm has "several clients around Australia who are very concerned about government inaction on climate change and that the current policies are failing us".
"They come to us when they're willing to use the law to check whether the government action is lawful and they would be choosing to do that because [of]the harm to Australians from government inaction on climate change," she told SBS.
In discussion with New Matilda, Wilkinson points out that "climate litigation has had an important role in improving Australia's laws," and Environmental Justice Australia "thinks that it will continue to do this in the future".
"We will keep an eye out on interesting and exciting developments from overseas," she added.
Wilkinson is bound by client confidentiality and can't discuss the cases which are in their "early stages", so New Matilda spoke with European attorney Roger Cox who inspired, and was the leading council in, a recent case that saw courts in the Netherlands force the Dutch government to up its emissions reductions targets for 2020 from 17 to 25 per cent.
"The basis of the case were some internationally accepted facts around climate change," he said. "Basically [it was]all based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports," which, like the Dutch government, Australia has accepted as the authoritative science on climate change.
"It's important to understand that during the climate conference in Cancun, in 2010, all 195 signatory states to the United Nations climate treaty agreed that two degree warming of the average temperature of the Earth constitutes 'dangerous' climate change as defined by the treaty itself.
The international treaties around climate change have a "soft law" status, but effectively the Dutch government was trapped by its own admissions on the global stage and domestic and European law was invoked to make those admissions actionable.
By accepting the climate science of the IPCC – that a two degree rise in global temperatures would endanger the ecosystems humans depend on; that to avoid a two degree warm a cut of between 25-40 per cent to emissions was needed by 2020 – and by failing to take that action, the Dutch government paved the way for a successful action in tort law.
Torts are the common law of civil wrongs, and the litigants' argument went that by not even aiming to meet the 25 per cent minimum it had agreed was required, the government was being negligent in its duty to act to protect the Dutch people from a known harm.
"If you're not contributing as a nation to keeping the warming below two degrees," Cox said, "then basically the facts show that you're actually contributing to creating an international, and therefore also a national, danger to your own communities and society".
It's a compelling rationale that's already spreading around the world, with cases being prepared or pondered in countries including Belgium, the United States, the Philippines and Norway.
But legal systems are, of course, complex and varied. Still, Cox believes the basic premise of the Dutch case "should have legal value in Australian courts as well".
"Canada and Australia would be two good countries to investigate further because the mitigation targets that have been set are very below-par," he said.
It's a method of change-making Cox has been exploring for years, notably through his book Revolution Justified which inspired the Dutch case. It investigates, as he put it to New Matilda, the opportunities for a legal remedy to break the stalemate on climate action because "20 years down the road the problem has only got worse".
"That shows you that politics has a hard time dealing with this problem…and I thought once you bring this whole case to a court, then the debate will be completely different. In a court, states cannot deny IPCC findings because they have agreed and established these reports in a way.
Effectively, governments are forced to argue with facts, rather than rhetoric.
The premise may be sound, but leading Australian climate litigation expert Professor Jacqueline Peel told New Matilda from California, where she's a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, that "the legal provisions the Dutch litigants relied on in the Netherlands system are quite different than anything we have in the Australian legal system".
This gives rise to complex legal questions, but Prof Peel said the bottom line is that to be successful a case would "require some judicial inventiveness to mould the existing tort law to fit that situation".
Historically that's often been the case when it comes to big breakthroughs on tough legal questions – the Mabo case that overturned the legal fiction of Terra Nullius springs to mind.
"It's certainly worth trying," said Prof Peel.
"My feeling at the moment," she said, "is that probably what groups will do is bring cases inspired by this particular case in the Netherlands rather than modelling litigation directly on it.
The first hurdle in a Dutch-inspired case is to establishing 'standing' – or the right to have your case brought before the courts. Australia's rules on standing are much stricter, and originate from common law rules which typically require litigants to prove a direct link to, or interest in, a particular matter.
Peel said a certain level of "judicial bravery" would be needed for courts to navigate these uncharted waters along the course proposed by litigants, but that she can "imagine, in the wake of the Dutch case, that environmental groups in Australia are definitely considering something along the same lines".
Obviously the lower the government sets its upcoming climate targets for the post-2020 period, the more compelling the sort of argument Cox makes could potentially be. It wasn't examined closely in the Dutch case, but Peel said it's possible the vast subsidies Australia pays out to fossil fuel interests could also prove significant, because it's something the government is "doing in an adverse sense to continue a high emissions profile".
"These questions about harm to Australians themselves and a failure of policy to deliver on the emissions reductions required to stop dangerous climate change have not been before an Australian court," Wilkinson said.
All three lawyers New Matilda interviewed for this story, though, believe that the Dutch case could open the legal floodgates on governments that aren't doing their share in the fight against climate change.
"The ramifications of the successful Dutch case are very strong," Peel said.


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What if new Google management decided that a search should cost $20, take eight hours, and be deliberately unreliable? (Bitcoin.)
Bitcoin Uncategorized Posted on November 17, 2017 • Updated November 17, 2017 • by Rick Falkvinge 18552 19
Toy with the following idea: with people used to Google searches having been free, instant and reliable for years, a new Google management decides that a "price market" should develop for searches, with Google prices suddenly costing upwards of 20 dollars, taking hours to complete, and being notoriously unreliable. Does this sound like a good scenario? Does this sound like a recipe for winning? It's what has happened to Bitcoin — the old bitcoin — under the new management of Blockstream (who keep insisting, against all evidence to the contrary, that they're not "in charge" of bitcoin).
Nobody I know shows off bitcoin (Bitcoin Legacy) to their friends anymore. It's painfully embarrassing. Nobody I know uses bitcoin for anything anymore, for the reason that transactions take hours to complete, cost upward of $20 (my last two transactions cost $30 and $70, respectively), and have been made unreliable by design, through something called RBF.
When I got into bitcoin in 2011, transactions were free, reliable, and instant. Not free as in "very cheap", but actually free. The vast majority of transactions did not pay a transaction fee, and this was also Satoshi Nakamoto's original intention, according to email archives. It makes sense: you want to be able to write code that optimizes your money across addresses and databases without paying a lot of transaction fees in the process just for moving your own data around. It was extremely useful, it was amazingly cool to show off
Around 2014, a couple of people hijacked Bitcoin, for all intents and purposes, stripped the original known coder (Gavin Andresen) of his coding access privileges, and set out in a new direction. Bitcoin transactions should cost money, they decided, a lot of money, because the network wasn't sustainable otherwise (nevermind that it had worked just fine up until that point with subcent optional transactions, and was planned to do so for another 140 years). The company was called Blockstream, and they were met with such fierce opposition from the community, they literally had to start deleting every post off the bitcoin forums (bitcointalk, Reddit's /r/bitcoin, and the mailing list) that challenged the narrative that it was utterly moronic to deliberately congest the network to make it slow, unreliable, and expensive.
Yes, it just so happened that the people who formed this Blockstream company also were the ones controlling all the discussion platforms. Slowly, over years of influx of new users, people would only see Blockstream's message of how good it is that transactions are expensive, slow, and unreliable.
It was around this point that new forums, such as bitcoin.com and Reddit's /r/btc, slowly started to pop up and get attention — become a refuge, of sorts.
But the Blockstream fanboys were undeterred. "Look at how bitcoin rises in value!", they would say. "Who cares about transaction fees! It's a store of value, because the price goes up!" (This narrative also completely ignores what a economic store of value is, nota bene: it's a predictable stable store.)
This, of course, is the equivalent of "Who cares about if Google is the slightest bit useful under the new management! Who cares if anybody uses Google anymore! Look how the stock keeps going up!"
The Blockstream fanboys would further point at bitcoin's new uselessness as a sign of its success, believe it or not, drawing the analogy "nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, because it's too crowded", with the subtext that a crowded restaurant must be successful. But this is not success; this is utter failure to scale exponentially when you're an Internet startup, and it spells dooooooooooom.
And so here we are in 2017, with a bitcoin that nobody I know uses for anything practical (last time I used it for something was about six weeks ago, when I bought a burger with bitcoin, which cost me about $2.50 in transaction fees, just as much as the burger itself; at least I didn't have to wait eight to ten hours for the burger). What's new on the scene in 2017 is something called a US Dollar Tether.
You see, you can't buy big quantities of bitcoin — which is more or less "Blockstream stock" at this point — directly, not in amounts of millions of US Dollars. So this thing called Tether popped up, where a company named Tether claimed to issue US Dollar Tether, where one Tether was supposed to be good for exactly one US dollar. Today, the bitcoin price (the price of something that is unreliable, slow, and expensive, and which nobody uses anymore for anything remotely practical) isn't driven up by people buying it for US Dollars anymore, but by institutions buying it for large amounts of Tether, which is "kind-of-dollars-but-not-really-but-we-still-pretend-so".
The company Tether insists that they have backing; every Tether has a US Dollar backing it. There has been no proof to this. There have just been regular conjurings-up of new batches of ten, twenty, thirty million Tethers — not US Dollars, but Tethers — that are spent pushing up the bitcoin price as though the Tethers were dollars, and this happens basically every time the Blockstream PR machine happens to need a little boost. Maybe the Tethers are backed by dollars on a one-to-one ratio, as is asserted and refused to be proven. Maybe they aren't. Sure as hell doesn't look like they are.
This whole story reeks of a lot of people going to a lot of prison in a few years.
As to the people innocently claiming that it's "cheap" with a $1 or $20 transaction fee to store data in the precious secure blockchain, I have this to say: get the fuck out of business, because you don't have a clue as to how it works. If you're deliberately saying that you have "costs that deserve to be met", when there's Google who offers people to search the entirety of humanity's documents in milliseconds for free, you're so mediocre you should sit down and bow your head in shame. Are your costs higher than the cost of searching the entirety of humanity's documentation? In milliseconds? No? No they're not. It's you who suck at business. You're so mediocre you're not just hurting yourself but people around you, too. Get out.
Bitcoin needs to get back to instant, free, and reliable transactions.
Not "cheap". Most of the transactions need to be free. All other dotcoms can do it, and therefore, bitcoin can too.
I remember the bitcoin I fell in love with in 2011. I remember the very few times a popup showed up when I tried to send money, saying "this particular transaction requires a fee", as in requires a fee at all. It was a really rare event that this dialog showed up. The suggested fee would always be a sub-cent amount.
This is the promise of Bitcoin Cash, the bitcoin fork of August of this year. It's about bitcoin being useful again. It's about unwinding this idiotic bullshit new Google management that says it's good if searches cost $20, are unreliable, and take eight to ten hours to complete, because it isn't good, and I'm appalled that I have to write that out in cleartext to all the Blockstream fanboys insisting otherwise.
The promise of Bitcoin Cash is to bring transactions back to being instant, almost free, and reliable. To really succeed, it has to rewind a little further still — it needs the vast majority of transactions to be actually free, like the vast majority of Google searches are. But I have hope we'll get there, too.
Rick Falkvinge
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. He works as Head of Privacy at the no-log VPN provider Private Internet Access; with his other 40 hours, he's developing an enterprise grade bitcoin wallet and HR system for activism.
Jean carl COHEN
I was expecting your point of view for a long time now. GREAT to read this.
Wired to see blockstream is able to control forums and force people to accept their views.
What can be options to come back to the root of Satoshi's vision? Is BCH the only solution?
Some pirates would say that Google searches are not free and we pay for them with our data and attention. Furthermore, many people could confuse this analogy with Google PPC where it can cost a lot mot than $20 per click.
Interesting background information about Bitcoin.
koryu
Wouldnt google be broken if every user would have to store all users' searches ever made on his local pc?
Bigger blocks is a temporary solution.
This is precisely the "but we have so much costs on our backend" argument that I'm basically countering with a GTFO above.
Google searches are not free. We pay with our privacy and then they sell us targeted ads.
Though I agree the bitcoin network has a lot of problems, i do not see any real scaling solutions proposed by BitcoinCash. And the people behind it are suspicious (eg Roger Ver).
I think the real solutions are Litecoin and DASH for using day to day payments.
i don't get all this scam. I've just made a btc transaction it took 30 minutes to complete and costed 0,78$. I have NEVER paid more than one buck for a transaction and have never waited more than 45 minutes for it to be completed.
Bring back Gavin to the Bitcoin Cash team
so, basically, bitcoin got itself in the hands of bankers. also consistent with the sudden boom of "get into bitcoin now!" ads, coming from everywhere, for investment purposes (to keep the price up, driven only by artificial demand, like the USD) and not to use as coin. nice dream killer. i never could get into bitcoin and stopped trying after mt. gox, so as an outsider, it would seem bc legacy is doomed after a couple guys get very, very rich and some others very, very mad. but can bc cash surivive on its own and avoid the same fate? it's truly a candid question. i… still don't get bitcoin very well.
hopefully the software development will always remain decentralized. elliot wave international reckon that when social mood gets low you will always have people who want to control other people. this must be guarded against. it seems human nature has a tendency to head toward the "animal farm" scenario. i believe when the romans ruled northern africa they would change the governors regularly to guard against corruption. (i'm rambling). thank you for your clear insights rick
it would be great to develop an app where you could unofficially pose a referendum question in say Australia like: would you consider changing the style of government, ie abolish councils, abolish state governments, have an executive administration where you go out into the market and choose ministers with real expertise in their portfolio. all this would be verified on the block chain to prevent double voting. Australia is becoming a basket case and its because of bad management. so this app would link or communicate with all phones and if it had interest then it would spread exponentially. ie/ we need to take decisions away from the Australian government now because incumbent ministers wont vote for change of the style of government. Australia is in a death spiral and the constitution needs to change. we have technically uneducated people in power making disgraceful decisions:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-15/why-australias-economy-house-cards
David Gerard
This posits a link between Blockstream and Tethers. I've looked a bit at this and haven't seen one – is there anything public on this claimed link?
Real Pirate
What a shitty post, no surprise comes from a professional POLITICIAN.
Bitcoin is under development. ALPHA Stage buddy.
The bcash shitshow, you was paid for to advertise, is an insecure unteste code, created by a couple of bad developers, hired my Jihan, minning Pablo Scobar.
You should be ashamed to difuse such a low quality read.
I have been reading through the older posts. What happened to the news service?
it's interesting to note that the higher the price of bitcoin goes the MORE likely it will be the settlement currency. ie/ an international contract of 10 million dollars with bitcoin at 2 million dollars/bitcoin. equivalent to 5 bitcoins
Ole Husgaard
I prefer to stay neutral in the bitcoin scaling debate, and I am not going to bash any of the sides in this debate, as I believe the arguments on both sides have merit.
But I do not recognize that transactions on the classic bitcoin blockchain cost $20 and take 8 hours to confirm. About an hour ago I did a payment here, with a transaction fee of about BTC 0.00066 (about 0.05 percent of the payment, which is acceptable to me), and the transaction was confirmed in just a few minutes (two minutes, according to blockchain.info, which means it was probably included in the very first block after my transaction was sent out on the network).
Of course, as you are right to point out, transaction fees of this size are way too high, in particular for smaller payments, and I fully agree that it would be best if transactions without a fee would have a reasonable chance of being included in the next block.
And here is where Bitcoin Cash might prosper due to the larger blocksize. If segwit will help the congestion problem for classic bitcoin still remains to be seen.
Bitcoin Cash played nice by enabling replay protection, which was not the plan for segwit2x. If the segwit2x fork had not been canceled, I would have sold/used all of my bitcoin before the time of the fork, as segwit2x would have been a classic 51% attack without the consensus I believe is needed for such a change. Now I just keep the Bitcoin Cash I got from the fork and slowly dispatch of part of my classic bitcoins as the price rises – in large transactions, to keep the transaction fee small compared to the transaction size.
As mentioned I do not take sides in this debate. Only the future (and the people using the two chains we now have) can decide if one side of this debate wins. IMHO a likely outcome will be that Bitcoin Cash will take over the role classic bitcoin was meant to have, while classic bitcoin will become a reserve currency similar to gold: Hard/expensive to transact in, but better as a store of value.
bitcoin market is getting crazy nowadays. as a bitcoin investor i a bit scare of this groving. i hope we'll get there
Puspack
I would have sold/used all of my bitcoin before the time of the fork, as segwit2x would have been a classic 51% attack without the consensus I believe is needed for such a change. Now I just keep the Bitcoin Cash I got from the fork and slowly dispatch of part of my classic bitcoins as the price rises
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News » News Features
Clear Channel likes skies bright, citizens in the dark
by Elaine Wolff
Clear Channel Outdoor is nothing if not punctual. Here it is just about a year since our City Council approved the 12-month digital-billboard pilot program, which allowed them to flip the switch on a dozen hi-def signs across the city, and they're back at City Hall, pushing a variety of agendas. Last week, Clear Channel was well-represented at the Infrastructure and Growth Committee meeting, where CMs Cibrian, Cortez, Ramos, and Galvan reviewed two proposals that could have a significant impact on where and how future digital billboards are erected if Council extends the pilot program.
The first item — a proposed "dark-sky" ordinance that would limit the type and manner of lighting within a five-mile radius of Camp Bullis, where the Army trains combat medics in various nightime arts — raises the question whether any local industry swings a bigger stick than the Mays family oligopoly. The proposed ordinance originally gave digital billboards a virtual pass, and it came to light during a Zoning meeting earlier in the week that the Army hadn't even known about the proposal until a particularly tenacious anti-billboard advocate called them in late October. (Note: My husband is the District 1 Zoning commissioner.) The Infrastructure Committee members took turns pledging their fealty to the military, but didn't send Clear Channel packing, either. The City is meeting with the Army, "lighting experts," and citizens' groups (after they put Cibrian on the spot) to resolve their differences between now and December 11, when the proposal goes to Council.
The digital-billboard issue, which I've covered extensively since August, mostly doesn't overlap with Zoning. In fact, as far as the public goes, it doesn't overlap with anything but the Electrical Supervisory Board — and curiously, a proposal to gut the ESB's authority was also on the agenda at last week's Infrastructure and Growth meeting.
San Antonio's digital-billboard pilot program was drafted loosely enough that Clear Channel was able to place several of them in Scenic and Scenic-Urban Corridors — where they normally would be prohibited — by "proving" (and I use that term loosely) that the cost of putting a digital face on an existing sign is a certain percentage less than erecting a new sign. The only forum left for citizens to challenge the locations of those signs — and to make sure Clear Channel is meeting the ordinance's take-down provisions by removing enough qualifying old billboards for each new digital — is the ESB. It's also worth noting that last year the ESB pushed for the limited digital-billboard pilot program and opposed grandfathering in billboards on Scenic and Scenic-
Urban corridors.
Then, this spring, the ESB kicked back four of Clear Channel's digital-billboard apps because they didn't think they met the application criteria. The City quickly overruled the ESB's decision. In a July 17 memo to City Manager Sheryl Sculley, Assistant City Manager TC Broadnax explained that "staff is now moving forward to issue the remaining four (4) digital sign permits as they meet the intent of the ordinance in light of applying the standards which are better elaborated within the Local Government Code provisions." Whatever the hell that means.
Less than a month later, District 9 Councilmember Louis Rowe put together a Council Consideration Request to revise the role of the Electrical Supervisory Board. That proposal would make the board strictly an adisory and appeals board, which the Director of Development Services could ask for advice when s/he feels like it and ignore the rest of the time. Citizens who wish to challenge a City staff decision at the ESB would have to pay $155 for the opportunity.
It's likely that more than one agenda has conspired to bring an end to the ESB as we know it, and the board may very well be in need of a tune-up or even a full-on enema. But with the exception of CM Galvan, who voted against sending the proposal to the full Council, the Infrastructure Committee declined to look into allegations by current ESB members that City staff have been uncooperative and consistently failed to provide them with minutes to their meetings in a timely fashion. A September 25 letter to Council from ESB Chair Paul Davila included an alarming allegation: Development staff rewrote a finished Electrical Board version of Chapter 10, he said, and submitted it to Council as if it were endorsed by the ESB.
When asked why and how the overhaul of ESB was proposed, Planning and Development Services Director Rod Sanchez told the committee that a key catalyst was "public outcry." But the stack of documents the Current received in response to an open-records request for complaints to the City or Council regarding the ESB doesn't back up this claim. They included two petitions asking that the number of laypersons on the ESB remain the same, and letters from the San Antonio Association of Building Engineers and the Electrical Sign Association asking the City not to change the ESB's role.
It's not surprising that the Infrastructure Committee would let these worrisome charges pass unremarked and uninvestigated. Mayoral candidate Diane Cibrian serves as chair, and was a member last year when the committee recommended the digital-sign ordinance to the council. She as much as anyone must be fully aware that Clear Channel's generosity to the City remains unabated: most recently it was demonstrated with a $25,000 gift to the Mayor's successful On Your Terms campaign to extend term limits. •
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thxthxthx is a book! like the blog, the book it's a collection of thank you notes written to all the people, places and things in life. it's not only "an exercise in gratitude" but a happy reminder that sincerity and a little bit of childlike wonder, go a long way. the book has one hundred new things to be thankful for. check it out!


Documents size is very small!
I am trying to back up the content of all my libraries in an external hard disk. OK. I did it.
BUT: My Documents content is shown as 3,52 GB only! Both in the computer and in the external hard disk!
In my other external (has a back up from February 2017), Documents' content has a normal size: 92 GB.
I tried to see if something is missing but I can't say.
I attach a photo from computer's Documents and from the external's Documents.
Re: Documents size is very small!
In the attachment below, it seems that when I hoover the mouse on the word Documents, the size is 93,6 GB.
But when I right click on the word, and then select Properties, the size is 3,52 (see previous post-attachment).
I can't understand what is happening. I don't want to loose more than a year's work.
The first image above (on the left) had System "File Type" not Documents as I see when I check properties. Go to C:\Users\DR M and right-click on the Documents folder. What does that show you?
Perhaps 1803 Windows 10 update's bug?
Good find, Panos! It appears that the issue is caused when file names exceed the path limit of 255 characters. Thus, even if the individual folder names are not over 255 characters long, with sub-folders, that could result in exceeding the file length. From what I read at the links you provided and at TechNet, those who posted they solved the problem used TLPD.
As I understood it's a diagnostic tool. It finds all the paths that exceed a limit.
I tried the tool. After it found some specific long paths, I removed them from the folder Documents. Problem is solved, as you see in the attachment.
But if there is no risk to loose any of my documents, I prefer to wait for a fix from Microsoft. What do you think?
Your goal is to create a new backup that includes the new files since the backup was created in 2017, right? That being the case, now that you've fixed the size issue, it makes sense to me to go ahead with the new backup.
So, now I have to correct the long paths, and then back up again.
It was another interesting thing for learning!
From what I read, after correcting the long paths, it wouldn't hurt to run TLPD a second time before creating the backup.


Jaguar Land Rover has announced its leadership of an advanced powertrain research and development programme for state-of-the-art, next-generation hybrid and battery-electric powertrain technologies based on the Range Rover Evoque platform.
'Evoque_e' is a two-year £16.3m UK government Technology Strategy Board project. Jaguar Land Rover will contribute £4m to the project and will lead a consortium of 12 selected partners – eight from industry and three universities.
The partners include Zytek Automotive, GKN Driveline, Motor Design Limited, AVL, Drive System Design, Williams Advanced Engineering, Delta Motorsport, Tata Steel, Bristol University, Cranfield University and Newcastle University.
Starting in October 2013, the unique collaboration will design, develop and build three research vehicles showcasing state-of-the-art, next-generation powertrain concepts for a mild hybrid electric vehicle (MHEV); a Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) and a full Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV).
Peter Richings, Jaguar Land Rover Director Hybrids and Electrification,said: "The aim of the project is to develop technology platforms which are configurable and compatible within the architecture of an existing production vehicle. The modular technologies include single and multi-speed axle drives; modular battery packs and integrated power electronics, multi-machine, advanced control development and torque vectoring.
"The research teams will look at how the speed of the electric motor can be increased, to reduce its size, weight and cost while enhancing performance and durability. We will also look at the use of alternative materials to both reduce the use of rare earth materials and for systems optimisation.
As Britain's biggest investor in automotive research and development, and the biggest investor in manufacturing R&D, Jaguar Land Rover is spending £2.75 billion in the year to March 2014 on product creation. Jaguar Land Rover showcased a number of the other collaborative research projects it is leading at the LCV 2013 event. These projects include the extreme downsizing of internal combustion engines, efficient management and storage of heat energies and weight reduction of engines through innovative new design concepts.
Jaguar Land Rover already collaborates with a number of leading universities in the UK on a range of technology and skills projects. More than half of Jaguar Land Rover's research and advanced engineering team are based at Warwick University's Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), to work collaboratively on key new technologies including energy storage, weight reduction and digital verification.
Antony Harper, Jaguar Land Rover Head of Research, illustrated the importance of this work and its benefits to the company and the UK economy, saying: "We are keenly aware that not all the clever people work for us and our collaborative research programmes harness the best of UK engineering innovation, to develop new and exciting technologies.


I hope this is in the right place. I am one of the Key 3. So it looks like we may be losing the COR of our troop and pack, she is one of the parents. She said that she was done with the complaining of all of the parents (other non scout programs as well). I really don't know what happened, she changed so much so fast. She seems to be a my way or the highway type of person where she asks for help for stuff and then completely takes over, changes it, gets mad when she has to do it. She wont take suggestions and if you do suggest something you are one of "those" parents. She has literally done everything for the troop, not because people wont volunteer but because she just does it. Advancement records, rechartering, organizing events, everything. I have tried speaking to her about it and I believe I am on her list of bad parents. I get short answers with everything, "are you okay," "no". "Anything I can help you with" "no", etc. Part of me is dreading if she leaves because we have always had someone to do those things but the other part of me thinks it could be a positive experience because some things really do need to change. I do worry about our chartered organization too, it is our meeting place and she is the one with the keys and no one else is really involved with them.
If she does leave can I get a general list of things that we will need to continue our program like passwords to what sites, important dates to know, etc. etc. I want to see our organization thrive and grow. Also any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Are we speaking of the COR or the CC? COR's are the link between the charter organization and the unit and would normally not be overly involved in much of what you note? You should be able to get the things you need, but that is not saying you will if she is stubborn or something. Good luck, either way.
She seems to be a my way or the highway type of person where she asks for help for stuff and then completely takes over, changes it, gets mad when she has to do it. She wont take suggestions and if you do suggest something you are one of "those" parents.
And you're saying her leaving would be a bad thing...?
Kind of sounds like the only threat here is the keys into the building. That can be worked out.
@ncscouterz people often do have to "step back". Your COR has hit that wall where her idea of how things should be done clashes with what volunteers actually do.
Time to talk with the CO's institutional head (IH) and see who else can step in the gap. Really, the only replacement for the COR is a new COR. So, you have to make clear that you all will not ask as much of the new person. Expect it to be a little rough as you and the other adults have to take some of the responsibilities. This mostly means getting to know the CO a little better and understanding who expects what to happen.
1) I've found that one of the best ways to make your unit's organization thrive is to decentralize responsibilities. Start looking out for an advancement coordinator, membership coordiantor, activities coordinator, etc. First, it helps in these transitions. Second, it helps prevent individual leader burnout. Third, you end up with better results than one overstressed person doing it all. Unless you're a master adult recruiter it won't happen instantaniously - but over a year or two it's very achievable. I'm a pretty terribly adult recruiter, so it took me a bit longer. I'm going to gather your the Committee Chair, so it is entirely your place to make this change.
2) For your overstressed COR. Go buy her coffee or dinner and talk. Help her find the fun of why she started. She may be too burned out to appreciate it, but I've found that often when we get passed all our volunteer responsibilities, there's almost always a real person there who got started for a reason. Maybe by restructuring how you all do things you can help get to a place where she'll be happier and play a bit more nicely with others.
Change is tough, regardless of if is welcomed or not. Just embrace it with a cheerful spirit and make it as positive as possible.
Change in COR vs CC bring different challenges. But it sounds like this COR is basically doing the roll of CC and possibly some CM/SM duties as well. That will likely impose some greater challenges, but may also open some great opportunities as well.
Ideally, the COR acts under the direction of the IH and Chartered Organization. It is not always appropriate for the COR to disclose or explain everything to the unit leaders. Some discussions are kept in confidence with the IH.
It is possible that the COR was acting at the request of the IH. She might be stepping in because the IH asked her to step in, and she might not be happy in that role. Just a thought to consider.
When she steps down, the IH will appoint a new COR. Let the new COR decide how things will be done as far as the keys, passwords, etc. are concerned. These would be appropriate decisions for the new COR to make.
Where does she currently manage things like advancement? Is she the only person with access? Kind of unusual that in a whole troop there would only be one person tracking advancement records in Scoutbook or something like that.
If she hypothetically left and handed over nothing, you'd still be ok. It might take some digging but you'd be able to get access to your unit records with Council. Same for anything charter related, rostering, dues payments, etc. Keys can be replaced.
This might be a headache in the shirt term but it will be a blessing in disguise long-term. Once you get access to what you need, whether from her or Council, I'm sure you won't make the mistake she did and keep it all in one place. Get a bunch of people signed up on Scoutbook to share the advancement tracking. Get any key logins/access shared among your core leadership to help manage everything. It will be fine.