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NBA Betting Picks – Wednesday December 29th, 2021
by Daryl Curnow | Dec 29, 2021
We have betting tips for three of the best NBA games on Wednesday.
There are five games on the Thursday card, including the highly anticipated Clippers vs Celtics, Hawks vs Bulls and Lakers vs Grizzlies.
NBA Betting Picks
Los Angeles Clippers vs Boston Celtics @ TD Garden
Nothing is going right for the Clippers and Celtics, but we think the Celtics are better positioned to make a winning run.
They come off tough losses to Milwaukee and Minnesota, but returning home should help. They had a great chance to beat the Bucks, but a fourth quarter collapse put an end to that.
Their last few games at TD Garden have been solid and they welcome the Los Angeles Clippers, who have lost four of their last five.
The Clippers were no match for the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday and playing without Paul George could end their playoff chances this early in the season.
The first meeting went to the Clippers, but we expect the Celtics to bounce back and secure an easy victory at home.
Bet: Boston Celtics
Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls @ United Center
The Chicago Bulls got the better of Atlanta on Tuesday and punters should expect them to add another win to their record.
They scored a 130-118 victory and it highlight the depth of the Bulls. They got help from a variety of players, including DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine.
Chicago is playing good basketball with four consecutive wins and at 21-10, it's one of the better teams in the Eastern Conference.
Atlanta has been hit hard by injuries and Covid, but it's no real excuse for how poorly they're playing. The Hawks have lost four of their last five games, including losses to the struggling Orlando Magic and New York Knicks.
It has been an attitude problem for the Hawks, who are 15-18 and in serious danger of falling further behind.
We don't fancy their chances of beating the Bulls, who have emerged as one of the better and consistent teams in the NBA.
Bet: Chicago Bulls
Los Angeles Lakers vs Memphis Grizzlies @ FedEx Forum
Not many people predicted the Los Angeles Lakers struggling this much, but we can't see it getting any better anytime soon.
The Lakers are 16-18 following five consecutive losses and losing Anthony Davis to a serious injury could all but seal their fate.
LeBron James is doing all he can to get the Lakers across the line, but he doesn't have much shooting talent with him on court. Russell Westbrook isn't a knock-down shooter, which is why the Lakers are struggling.
Memphis has rebounded from a tough stretch with wins over Sacramento and Phoenix. Beating the Suns 114-113 was a nice effort and it could give them the confidence needed to go on a lengthy winning run.
Ja Morant is playing superb basketball and he's getting help from Desmond Bane, who leads the team with 17.2 points per game.
The Grizzlies have a home record of 11-8, so we think they'll be tough to beat on Thursday. The defeated the Lakers 108-95 when they last met at FedEx Forum, so a repeat could be on the cards.
Bet: Memphis Grizzlies
About the Author: Daryl Curnow
After graduating from the University of Auckland (BA – English), Daryl was thrown into the world of sports and horse racing journalism.
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The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

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Mycologia 59(6): 1010 (1968)

#### Original name
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"...A federal Appeals Court in New York City has reinstated lawsuits against 16 of the world's largest banks, including the Royal Bank of Canada, alleging they colluded to manipulate a benchmark interest rate.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Monday restored the lawsuits, which had previously been dismissed by a lower-court judge.
The lawsuits were brought by people who bought investments sold by the banks that were based on a key lending rate known as LIBOR, an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate, with evidence the banks were lying about and rigging in their favor.
Royal Bank accused by FDIC of having role in LIBOR-rigging
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A previous judge had dismissed the lawsuits because he said the LIBOR setting process was collaborative rather than competitive. That judge also found any manipulation of the rate did not cause investors anti-competitive harm.
But a new judge disagreed with that Monday, and reinstated the suits.
'Appellants sustained their burden of showing injury by alleging that they paid artificially fixed higher prices,' Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three-judge appeals panel.
LIBOR is a lending rate that is the basis for hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of consumer loans and savings rates around the world. It's a number, calculated and released daily by banks in London, that is supposed to show the rate at which they are lending money to each other for the short term.
Two ex-bankers get jail time for trying to fix LIBOR
Deutsche Bank fined $2.5 billion for role in rigging LIBOR
The banks are alleged to have lied about their internal rates to put the LIBOR rate at a more favorable level for them. That would move other interest rates for consumers and businesses higher or lower than otherwise should have been.
'A LIBOR increase of one per cent would have allegedly cost the Banks hundreds of millions of dollars,' the judges said in the ruling.
Rigging the rate cost the bank's customers — large institutions named in the lawsuit such as the University of California, and cities such as Baltimore, Houston and Philadelphia — billions over the years, money they are now trying to recoup.
The financial stakes of reinstating numerous pricey lawsuits for damages are huge. As the judges' put it in their decision: 'Requiring the banks to pay … damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent LIBOR‐denominated derivative swap would, if appellants' allegations were proved at trial, bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions.'
Individual lawsuits could still be thrown out, but Monday's ruling means they must all be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis.
In addition to the Royal Bank of Canada, the following banks are named in the suits:
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Bank of America.
Société Générale.
Barclays.
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Rabobank.
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Lloyds.
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CPOP is a member of a new coalition of Overton Park supporters that is being organized by two prominent businessmen, George Cates and Gary Shorb, as reported in today's Commercial Appeal.
George Cates has been walking, biking and golfing at Overton Park for about 40 years -- long enough, as he puts it, "to see it deteriorate."
Now 73, Cates is taking initial steps to deal with what he views as the main threats to the 342-acre park in Midtown Memphis: inadequate maintenance and grass-mowing, litter, a steady encroachment into the old-growth forest and the lack of coordination among park users.
The retired chairman and CEO of Mid-America Apartment Communities has helped organize a group comprising representatives of park-user groups and tenants. Although it doesn't have a name yet, the group is made up of citizens who all "want to see the park restored to its former glory or greatness and become a jewel in the city's crown, as it once was," he said.
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Tchadailurus es un género de félido macairodontino que vivió a finales del Mioceno en Chad, África.

Etimología
El nombre del género Tchadailurus proviene de Chad, el país donde se encontraron los fósiles originales, y del griego -ailurus, que significa gato. El nombre de la especie adei proviene de la palabra "pequeño" en Goran, un idioma local.

Taxonomía
Tchadailurus adei se describió basándose en fósiles encontrados en 2018 en una localidad fechada en el Mioceno tardío en Chad. Se colocó en la subfamilia Machairodontinae debido a que tenía características dentales similares a las de los gatos dientes de sable posteriores, pero las características relativamente primitivas y la edad de los fósiles hicieron imposible asignar la especie a una tribu específica.

Descripción
Tchadailurus se describió en base a un único espécimen que consistía en un cráneo y un esqueleto parciales (incluidas varias vértebras y partes de las piernas y las patas), probablemente de un solo individuo. De tamaño similar al de un lince, Tchadailurus adei tenía una cola más larga y los caninos "aplanados" característicos de los macairodontinos.

Las características primitivas de Tchadailurus adei indican que podría ser ancestro de linajes posteriores de macairodontinos.

Paleoecología
En el desierto Djurab en el norte de Chad en África central, Tchadailurus parece haber vivido junto a los también macairodontinos Lokotunjailurus, Amphimachairodus y los primeros representantes del género Megantereon, así como otras cuatro especies de felinos. Además de estos otros gatos, animales como cocodrilos, caballos de tres dedos, peces, monos, hipopótamos, osos hormigueros, tortugas, roedores, jirafas, serpientes, antílopes, cerdos, mangostas, zorros, hienas, nutrias, tejones de miel y el homínido Sahelanthropus habitaban aquí, proporcionando abundante comida. Sobre la base de estos y otros fósiles, se teoriza que Djurab fue una vez la orilla de un lago, generalmente boscoso cerca de las aguas con áreas similares a sabanas a cierta distancia. La gran cantidad de especies de félidos en el medio ambiente indica que había un espacio significativo y nichos disponibles para que coexistieran múltiples especies de grandes felinos.

Referencias

Machairodontinae
Mamíferos del Mioceno
Fauna extinta de África

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Apple is already facing its first lawsuit over the FaceTime eavesdropping bug that was discovered just last night, reports Bloomberg.
Houston lawyer Larry Williams II today filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that his iPhone allowed an unknown person to listen in on sworn testimony during a client deposition.
He is suing Apple for unspecified punitive damages for negligence, product liability, misrepresentation, and warranty breach. The bug, says Williams, violates the privacy of a person's "most intimate conversations without consent."
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So he's admitting to having a prohibited item in the courtroom.
Well that didn't take long for the shysters to come out from under their rock!
Taking a deposition doesn't mean he was in court. He could have been in his own office while the person was being deposed. The angle for Apple to take would be to try and prove that he staged the deposition after learning about the bug in order to file a lawsuit. Apple's failure to deal with this sooner will cost them and ultimately this will be good for the consumer.
It was a deposition his client was at, most likely not in a court room. Sworn depositions generally happen in an office or conference room, usually at a law firm if I'm not mistaken.
Are you saying Android is more polished than iOS or do you consider Android to be in the same boat? Because those are really your two choices for top $ phones.
Nope. He is saying iOS is too unpolished for the premium price you pay, he didn't even mention Android. Your argument is like saying "I am a thief but he is a thief too!".
What if Apple was in the wrong on this? Oh wait...Apple is never wrong.
Apple is more unpolished with its software than I would expect for paying top $ for a phone. That includes at the XR price point too.
how is it that he knows an unknown person was eavesdropping?


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Thomas Martin Crowley (15 November 1901 – 18 October 1965) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography
Crowley was born at Innisfail, Queensland, the son of James Crowley and his wife Margaret (née Fitzgerald). He was educated at the Good Samaritan Convent in Innisfail and after leaving school was a wholesaler of wines, spirits and groceries in Cairns and a sugar cane and tobacco farmer at Mossman.

On 30 June 1926 he married Kathleen Agnes Pease (died 1952) and together had two sons and four daughters. He died in Sydney in October 1965 and was buried in the Macquarie Park Cemetery.

Public career
Crowley was an alderman on the Cairns City Council from 1938 to 1947 and then beat the sitting member for Cairns, Lou Barnes, at the 1947 state election. He held the seat for nine years, retiring in 1956.

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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1901 births
1965 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
20th-century Australian politicians


Coates has made a life and a living off of the lands of Burgundy while never making wine. His "Côte D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy" canonized the vineyards. This book, published in 2008, provides a broader overview of the region. A must-have for those who are fascinated by the wines and the vineyards of Burgundy.
All five responded with one word: Burgundy.
Now, all five of these winemakers have dabbled in the production of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, but their primary wines range from Port to Cabernet. And yet, when asked, they all answered with the same response. Why are the wines from Burgundy considered by those who make wines to be the finest in the world?
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When these five winemakers answered my question with the word "Burgundy" they are generally speaking of very specific selections of wines from a tiny section of a much larger region that produces many styles of wines. They are specifically referring to the amazing wines of the Grand Cru vineyards, the most valuable and sought-after vineyard land on Earth. In the classification system of Burgundy, a tiny percentage of wines qualify as Grand Cru. These are wines that originate in the 1,400 or so acres that have been officially designated as the very best, the creme de la creme, of Burgundy. They total less than 2 percent of all the vineyards in Burgundy and account for less than 1.5 percent of the region's total production.
The names of these vineyards are legendary to Burghounds, or Burgophiles, as those who dabble in the rarefied air of the Grand Cru world are occasionally referred. Romanée-Conti, Richebourg, La Tâche and Échezeaux are tiny vineyards, all under a 100 acres (Romanée-Conti itself is less than five acres), and are the cradles of the great red wines of the Côte de Nuits.
And to the south, in the Côte de Beaune, the Grand Cru vineyards of Corton-Charlemagne, Bâtard Montrachet and Montrachet play host to the beautiful and much sought-after Chardonnays that are the basis for the white wines of Burgundy. If you have the means to afford these wines and to drink them on a regular basis, then you do indeed have means. A love affair with these wines can and has become an obsession for many.
The attraction for these wines is myriad. There is the taste — and that is an inexplicable thing as it changes from vineyard to vineyard, from maker to maker and from vintage to vintage. Great Burgundy defies description although the words power and delicacy, fruity and flowery, balanced and intense often alternate in any conversation of the wines. Then there is the cost and prestige that make drinking Burgundy a rite of habit for those who prefer the very best. Even if they are not necessarily certain why it is the best.
But you can drink Burgundy without having to pay the price of the Grand Crus. 98 percent of all Burgundy does not carry the prestige of the Grand Cru, nor does it carry the price. Below the Grand Cru are the Premier Cru designations and then come the Village wines.
Burgundy lies to the east of Paris, and the northern-most portion of the region, Chablis, is just over two hours away by car. This area is well known for the production of dry white wines made from the Chardonnay grapes. At the southern end of Burgundy is Beaujolais, a region that is best known for making fruity young red wines from the Gamay grape. These wines can be fun, easy-drinking reds and you can find a good Beaujolais for less than $15 a bottle.
But it is the wines from the heart of the region that truly inspire. I suggest that if you wish to learn about Burgundy, find a producer with a range of wines from the region. Start with the Village wines, then move up the ladder. Try the wines from Chablis and Beaujolais. Read a book or two. Eventually, the region will begin to make sense and you'll start wondering what a '37 Volnay or a '42 La Tache tastes like.
But I warn you, like winemakers from all over the world, you may become hooked.
Kelly J. Hayes lives in the soon-to-be-designated appellation of Old Snowmass with his wife, Linda, and black Lab named Vino. He can be reached at malibukj@aol.com.


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Top 20 – Films to watch before the 2016 Oscars
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There's a long way to go until we find out the winners of the 89th Academy Awards. However, the films that are going to be in contention at the 2016 Oscars ceremony are starting to find their way into UK cinemas in abundance, marking the beginning of the awards season release market.
To help you sift through the myriad glossy biopics and historical dramas, here's a list of 20 films that are likely to be big players at the 2016 Oscars, along with their UK release dates.
Unfortunately, not every film that will be in the discussion fit on this list. There wasn't room for music biopic Straight Outta Compton, crazy action movie Mad Max: Fury Road or Brie Larson drama Room. All of those in more could be in with a chance next year, but here are 20 awards season must-sees.
20. The Martian
Based on a buzzy sci-fi novel and directed by genre master Ridley Scott, The Martian looks set to be one of the biggest blockbuster movies of the latter part of 2015. With a prestige director at the helm and a near-solo performance from Matt Damon at its centre, the film could also target awards bodies.
The film has been receiving solid reviews since it premiered at Toronto earlier this month, with Damon's performance being praised in particular. The visuals are impressive, too, lensed by regular Scott collaborator Dariusz Wolski, hinting at potential technical nominations.
It's not a movie that's going to make massive waves over awards season, given its commercial edge, but if it hits in the same way that Gravity did last year, there could be room for it at the 2016 Oscars ceremony.
UK Release Date: 30th September 2015
19. Inside Out
Last year, The Lego Movie felt like a guaranteed pick for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, only to find itself completely absent from the category, nommed only for Best Original Song. There's little chance of Inside Out – the latest film from Pixar – being snubbed, but is there a chance that it could perform outside of its home category?
The film is a sophisticated study of humanity wrapped up in a colourful animated film. It has real heart, depth and stunning voice performances as well as the studio's trademark visual invention. Few films have the feel of an instant classic for both adults and children, but Inside Out certainly does.
No animated feature has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture, but if anyone can do it, Pixar can. Two of their works – Up and Toy Story 3 – have been rewarded with nominations in the category before and Inside Out is one of the studio's most accomplished films. This year, the Best Picture category is wide open and an unusual choice could creep in.
UK Release Date: Out now
18. Black Mass
After a string of critical and commercial duds, Johnny Depp is in need of a return to form in his career. Black Mass, in which Depp plays ruthless Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, who spent years on the FBI Most Wanted list before his arrest in 2011.
Director Scott Cooper, last seen with dark drama Out of the Furnace, channels Scorsese with his gangster tale, aided by Depp delivering a dark, violent and transformative performance. Academy favourite Benedict Cumberbatch has a supporting role as Bulger's politician brother.
It's Johnny Depp who stands the best chance at awards glory for Black Mass, but there's always a chance that Cumberbatch or Joel Edgerton could sneak into Supporting Actor contention by the time the 2016 Oscars come around.
UK Release Date: 27th November 2015
17. In the Heart of the Sea
Ron Howard is a fixture of awards season, with many of his films drawing the attention of awards bodies. His latest, In the Heart of the Sea, traces the true story of shipwreck and animal attack that inspired Herman Melville to write his iconic novel Moby Dick.
The film is set on the whaling ship Essex, focusing on captain Benjamin Walker and first mate Chris Hemsworth. Disaster strikes when the boat is attacked by an angry sperm whale and torn apart, leaving the crew stranded miles from land. They are eventually forced to resort to cannibalism when rescue is not forthcoming.
In the Heart of the Sea was originally slated for release earlier this year, but was shifted to a more awards-friendly date. The film's impressive mix of historical weight, a prestige director and visual spectacle could make it a major player.
UK Release Date: 26th December 2015
16. Beasts of No Nation
Netflix makes its first major move into heavyweight cinema with awards hopeful Beasts of No Nation, starring British performer and almost certain Bond of the future Idris Elba. The streaming service will release the film globally next month after a successful run on the festival circuit.
Director Cary Fukunaga sets the film in an unnamed West African country, focusing on Elba's mercenary and his army of child soldiers, recruited in the midst of a civil war that has destroyed their families and communities.
Aside from its rather experimental release method, Beasts of No Nation has been widely praised for its approach to violence and Elba's intimidating performance. It is Elba who is most likely to appear at the 2016 Oscars, with his name one of the first on any list for Best Supporting Actor thus far.
UK Release Date: 16th October 2015
15. Macbeth
Justin Kurzel exploded onto the movie scene with brutal Aussie true crime drama Snowtown in 2011. His follow-up to that incendiary cinema debut is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, following in the intimidating footsteps of the likes of Welles, Kurosawa and Polanski.
Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous military man, who traces a bloody path to the Scottish throne after a premonition from three witches, egged on by his wife (Marion Cotillard). Trapped in an endless cycle of blood, he is driven insane by the violent world in which he is forced to live.
Kurzel's film has been achieving five-star rave reviews and excellent critical notices since debuting at Cannes in spring. Fassbender and Cotillard are being lauded for their central performances and Kurzel's visual invention could propel him to awards glory if the film lands on its cinema release.
UK Release Date: 2nd October 2015
14. Joy
In the last few years, with the double whammy of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, writer-director David O Russell has established himself as a fixture of awards season. For the 2016 Oscars, O Russell has once again turned to leading lady Jennifer Lawrence for Joy.
Lawrence will play Joy Mangano. Mangano was a struggling single mother in America but turned her life around when she invented the Miracle Mop and started a career in business. Fellow O Russell collaborators Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper appear as, respectively, Mangano's father and an exec at the Home Shopping Network.
With Hollywood darling Lawrence in a strong female role, Joy is a dead cert to occupy some space in the awards season discussion. Whether it will capitalise on any of its nominations is another question, as American Hustle's total shutout made clear.
UK Release Date: 1st January 2016
13. Everest
Sold on the basis of enormous spectacle and its embrace of 3D tech, Everest is currently making its way through cinemas as a tentpole release. However, with its starry ensemble cast and heart-breaking true story basis, it's also a film that could make an appearance on the red carpet.
For Jake Gyllenhaal, one of the film's major stars, this is the third entry in a loose trilogy of physicality – after Nightcrawler and Southpaw. Alongside Josh Brolin and Jason Clarke, Gyllenhaal will be looking to find a footing in the acting categories for his role in the intense drama.
Everest might be a film too commercial to trouble the Academy all that much, but it should put on a decent showing in the technical categories at the 2016 Oscars and could nab an acting nod as well.
12. Youth
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino made his last appearance at the Oscars when he won Best Foreign Language Film for The Great Beauty last year. His latest film, Youth, stars acting royalty Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
Caine plays a retired orchestra conductor holidaying with his daughter Rachel Weisz and film director friend Keitel. He receives an invitation from the Queen to come out of retirement and perform for Prince Philip.
Sorrentino's meditation on ageing has attracted strong critical notices thus far, debuting at Cannes and making its way to Toronto. Its best awards chances are in the acting categories, with reviews suggesting that Caine does his best work in years with the film.
UK Release Date: 15th January 2016
11. The Big Short
Out of nowhere this week, a trailer arrived for Anchorman director Adam McKay's drama The Big Short. The film had originally been set for a release at some point in 2016, but was suddenly moved to a Christmas release Stateside and January over here, courting Oscar nominations.
The film, starring an ensemble of the biggest Hollywood stars, follows a young group of investors who made a tonne of money by essentially predicting the global financial crisis. With such weighty names as Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt attached, this could be a major awards player.
Paramount must have a certain degree of confidence in The Big Short in order to have moved it into such a prominent awards position. If it's half as good as they think it is, the 2016 Oscars could have a surprise entry in their midst.
UK Release Date: 22nd January 2016
10. Spotlight
Films about journalism often do well at the Academy Awards, with All the President's Men nominated for Best Picture and winning the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. The latest film to explore that world is ensemble drama Spotlight, which had its script by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy featured on the 2013 Black List of unproduced screenplays.
Spotlight is based on the work of the eponymous Boston Globe team covering a sexual abuse scandal. The ensemble is full of awards-friendly performers, including Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams.
The film premiered at Venice this month to strong critical reviews and looks certain to figure in some way at the 2016 Oscars. Whether it's for performance, script or the whole shebang, Spotlight is sure to make waves.
9. Brooklyn
A co-production between the UK, Ireland and Canada, Brooklyn is a sweeping love story of the kind that the Academy laps up like a stray cat who finally gets let in the back door. English novelist Nick Hornby has written the script, adapted from Colm Tóibín's novel.
Saoirse Ronan takes the lead role as an Irish immigrant who moves to New York in the 1950s. She is seduced by the appearance of romance in her new home, but soon her past starts to tug her sharply back and she must decide which side of the Atlantic she wishes to reside.
If the Academy is looking for an inoffensive film to lavish praise on at the 2016 Oscars, Brooklyn seems like the ideal candidate. Ronan is one of the best actors of her generation and it's only a matter of time before she receives some awards recognition for that.
UK Release Date: 6th November 2015
8. Suffragette
Focusing on one of the most important equality movements in the history of the United Kingdom, Suffragette is a historical drama written by Shame and The Iron Lady scribe Abi Morgan. It combines true historical elements with a fictionalised narratives to paint a picture of a turbulent time.
Carey Mulligan stars in the lead role as a fictional woman who becomes embroiled in the battle for women's suffrage, inspired by the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst (a cameoing Meryl Streep). The film promises soaring drama, emotional moments and a massive heart.
Suffragette hasn't received the uniformly positive reviews of some of the other films on this list, but the uplifting story and distinct Britishness is a recipe for awards success.
7. Bridge of Spies
Steven Spielberg is set to return to the awards picture ahead of the 2016 Oscars with Cold War drama Bridge of Spies, based around the true story of an American plane shot down in Soviet airspace in 1960.
Tom Hanks stars as negotiator and lawyer James Donovan, who is aiming to secure the release of the US pilot. British acting royalty Mark Rylance, last seen on villain duty in The Gunman, also stars alongside Hanks.
Spielberg is always a reliable horse to back in awards season discussion and with the backdrop of patriotism, this could be one of the major candidates at the 2016 Oscars.
6. The Hateful Eight
It looked like Quentin Tarantino was set to shelve his second Western The Hateful Eight when a version of the script leaked online. He eventually decided to press ahead with the film, having secured his dream cast for the film, set in Wyoming after the American Civil War.
The film follows the eponymous group of Westerners, who hide out in a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard. The casting is incredibly interesting, with Tarantino regulars Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen joining the likes of Bruce Dern and Kurt Russell.
Tarantino is a reliable awards season presence when he has a film out and odds are that one, if not more, of his eight stars will earn a Supporting Actor nomination and an Original Screenplay nod is far from out of the question.
UK Release Date: 8th January 2016
5. Sicario
Denis Villeneuve has been a big figure in recent thriller cinema, bursting onto the scene with Incendies and then consolidating his presence with the flawed, but entertaining, Prisoners in the English language. His newest film, Sicario, is undoubtedly his best yet – exploring the brutal actions of Mexican drug cartels.
Emily Blunt stars as the by-the-book cop tasked with joining maverick CIA agent Josh Brolin and taciturn assassin Benicio Del Toro. She soon becomes embroiled in the brutality and murky morality of the cartel world.
Sicario is an enormously accomplished film, which is immaculately lensed by long-overdue Oscar hopeful DoP Roger Deakins. The performances are terrific and Villeneuve's direction is top class. Gradually growing in esteem since its premiere at Cannes, this is going to be a player on 2016 Oscar night.
UK Release Date: 8th October 2015
4. Steve Jobs
Cinema is in love with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, from Ashton Kutcher's critically reviled biopic to a recent documentary from Alex Gibney. The latest person to take on Jobs is director Danny Boyle, from an Aaron Sorkin script, with Michael Fassbender as his star.
The film follows Jobs at three product launches, tracing the evolution of Apple from technology upstart to powerhouse of the industry. Fassbender's central performance is the main story, but Seth Rogen provides ample support as fellow co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kate Winslet as a member of the apple team.
It's Fassbender who boasts the best chance of a nomination for Steve Jobs, depending on how the film compares to the star's performance in Macbeth, but Sorkin can often be counted on for a nomination in a writing category.
3. The Revenant
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu shocked the world earlier this year when he scooped the triple whammy of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars for Birdman. Rather than rest on his laurels, Iñárritu has embarked on another hugely ambitious project – The Revenant.
The film is the ambitiously mounted tale of woodsman Leonardo DiCaprio, who is robbed and left for dead by his companions. Shot by DoP Emmanuel Lubezki using only natural light, the film ran over-budget and over-schedule with five extra months eventually added to principal photography.
The Revenant, if it turns out to not be an expensive disaster, could well be a frontrunner in the race for the 2016 Oscars. Lubezki has won the last two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and looks like a fair bet to win the gong again. Elsewhere, there's the usual intrigue around whether DiCaprio can finally break his Oscar duck.
2. Carol
Perhaps the buzziest title coming out of the festival circuit, Carol is proving to maintain a stunning amount of momentum since its debut in competition at Cannes earlier this year, where Rooney Mara was joint winner of the Best Actress prize.
The film, from director Todd Haynes, follows Mara's 20-something as she falls in love with Cate Blanchett's older, married woman against the backdrop of New York in the 1950s. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel from author Patricia Highsmith, published in 1952.
Depending on the way The Weinstein Company chooses to position its performers, Carol could stand a great chance of securing the prizes for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Also lauded for its direction, the film is also likely to make a showing in the other major categories.
1. The Danish Girl
Since the first stills were released of Eddie Redmayne as trans pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, speculation has mounted that Redmayne could be the first man to win back to back acting Oscars since Tom Hanks in the 1990s.
The film follows Redmayne as Einar Wegener, husband to Alicia Vikander's artist and illustrator. When Wegener is painted by his wife as a woman, he begins to realise that he is more comfortable as a woman and ultimately undergoes the first ever male-to-female gender reassignment surgery.
The Danish Girl will almost certainly pick up a handful of nominations at the 2016 Oscars, with Redmayne and Vikander definitely in the running for two of the acting prizes. The question is whether anyone can usurp Redmayne from retaining his crown.
What do you think of my list of films to watch before the 2016 Oscars? Which do you think will emerge triumphant on the big night? Have I missed any major films off this list? Let me know in the comments section.
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Orange skies blanket Bay Area shores as fires blaze across the state. (Photo courtesy of Leanne Harris.)
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An oppressive sepia-colored sky blanketed Northern California this week as firefighters continued to battle more than 40 wildfires ravaging the state from North to South. The smoke caused by the fires has produced hazardous health conditions, with Accuweather forecasting Contra Costa's air as "unhealthy" to "very unhealthy" through Sept. 12, ranging between 108 and 169 on the air quality index.
Following recent explosive temperatures across the state that topped 115 degrees in many places, more than 12,000 lightning strikes in recent weeks sparked almost two dozen major fires. According to Cal Fire, more than 2 million acres of land have burned as of Sept. 7, setting a new record.
The August Complex Fire, just north of Sacramento, has become the largest fire in California's history. Bay Area residents have fled from Vacaville, Fairfield, and parts of Napa as fires destroyed at least 50 structures in local communities, according to the East Bay Times.
"Practically every single first responder unit in town is actively working to safely notify, evacuate and fight the fires, so our residents are safe," the Vacaville Police Department reported on Twitter.
Jonathan Aragona was one of many residents in Fairfield forced to evacuate from the flames. Aragona and his family feared the risk of losing their home.
"I was working one day and found out in the news that the Fairfield Police Department announced an immediate evacuation," Aragona told The Inquirer. "The dry winds made the fires worse, and because of how close it was they had to close the freeways down."
"I tried rushing back to my house only to find out police were blocking areas of my neighborhood, and I had no choice but to turn around and head over to my family's house in Antioch," he added.
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By entering into his first plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, Michael Cohen drew the federal Russia investigation closer to his one-time boss, President Donald Trump.
In a major development in that probe, Cohen's criminal information linked Trump's foreign business interests with his 2016 campaign for president. It puts Cohen in touch with Trump, Trump's family and high-level Russian government officials about efforts to develop a new project in Moscow just months before Election Day.
Cohen pleaded guilty at federal court in Manhattan Thursday to willfully lying about those contacts during interviews with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees last year, and the court documents reveal that Cohen met with Mueller's team at least seven times since August.
"This basically reflects that Michael Cohen is cooperating on the central focus of the Mueller investigation, which is the conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign," former federal prosecutor Nick Akerman told TPM.
"It goes right to the bulls-eye of what Mueller's looking at," Akerman added.
Another former federal prosecutor, Harry Sandick, pointed out that getting these damning details out in the open allows Mueller to keep the public appraised of some of what his investigation has turned up. Sandick said that while there is great expectation that Mueller will release some sort of report, the special counsel regulations don't guarantee that any such report would be made public.
"I think that this is the report in real time," Sandick told TPM.
Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, downplayed the news, claiming Cohen is lying about the Moscow project in order to reduce his prison sentence. Cohen already faces another four to five years in prison in a separate case brought by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. He pleaded guilty to a slew of financial crimes, including campaign finance violations stemming from hush money payments Cohen made to women on Trump's behalf.
Cohen has emerged as the greatest threat to Trump as the special counsel and congressional committees continue to dig into the President's financial and business ties to Russia.
Per the criminal information, Trump's former attorney lied about the Moscow project to "minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1," who is identifiable from the document as Trump. Cohen falsely suggested that work on the project ended before the January 2016 Iowa caucus "in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations," Mueller's team alleged.
Former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter told TPM that the filing made it clear that the special counsel trusted Cohen's version of events.
It's unclear if Trump provided answers on that specific topic. It's also not yet known exactly what Cohen told Trump and his family members—who are not identified by name in the information—about the Moscow project planning.
"That has to be seen as a message directed at not only other members of the Trump family, but anybody that had anything to do with any of these cases that I, Mueller know a lot, I've got a lot of information, and you really really shouldn't lie to me because you could lie to me about something you think that I'll never know, but in fact I do," he told TPM.
According to court documents, planning for the Moscow project, which Cohen coordinated with longtime Trump associate and mob-linked felon Felix Sater, continued through June 2016—a month after Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Cohen also worked with the office of Dmitry Peskov, President Putin's spokesman and top deputy, to try to hammer out the details of the project.
Sater claimed that Peskov invited Cohen to attend a June 2016 conference in St. Petersburg where he'd have the opportunity to meet with Putin or Russia's Prime Minister, according to an exchange included in information. They had multiple discussions about the possible trip between May 4 and June 14, 2016.
All of these new details contradict what Trump has said about his business dealings with Russia. In July 2016, he said that he had "zero" investments in and "nothing to do with" the country.
It's unclear if Donald Trump Jr., who worked at the family company at the time and now manages day-to-day operations with his brother Eric, is one of the family members mentioned in the information. Trump Jr. testified to Congress last year that he knew "very little" about the Moscow deal. He said he was only "peripherally aware" of the Moscow project, and knew about it mainly from press reports.
Former prosecutors say Thursday's news provides even more evidence that Cohen provides the thread connecting all of the matters imperiling Trump's presidency: Russia, hush money payoffs, and the Trump Organization's sketchy finances. Already, according to ABC News, he has provided more than 70 hours of testimony to Mueller's team.


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Bassist Trevor Bolder, who played with David Bowie's Spiders From Mars, Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, died yesterday after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 62. Uriah Heep announced Bolder's death on their website.
Bolder joined Bowie's backing band in 1971, replacing Tony Visconti on bass in time to play on four of Bowie's studio albums, including Hunky Dory in 1971, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars in 1972 and Aladdin Sane in 1973.
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"Trevor was a wonderful musician and a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with," Bowie said in a statement. "But he was foremostly a tremendous guy, a great man."
Bowie parted ways with the Spiders From Mars ways after Pin Ups in 1973, and the bassist joined Uriah Heep in 1976, playing on four albums including Firefly, Innocent Victim and Conquest before the band fractured in 1981. After a short stint with the hard-rockers Wishbone Ash, Bolder joined a new lineup of Uriah Heep, the band he stayed with until his declining health forced him to quit earlier this year.
"Trevor was an all time great, one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, and one of the finest and most influential bass players that Britain ever produced," Uriah Heep said in a statement.
Born in June 9, 1950, in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire, England, Hull came up on the local R&B scene before joining guitarist Mick Ronson in the band Ronno in 1970.
Bolder also performed with the bands the Cybernauts and the Rats.
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I will try to get on here to update about Liam and our family and post prayer needs.
Prayer: Liam has had two doses of Endocin to close his PDA. He will get one more dose in this round. Please pray that it will close and a second round won't be needed. The medicine has serious side effects.
Pray that Liam wouldn't suffer any seizures.
Praise: I got to change Liam's diaper tonite, take his temperature and put lotion on him. It felt so good to feel like a mother to him- even if it was only for a moment. I left the hospital in much better spirits just from those precious moments.


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The Prime Minister's Office is a ministerial level executive agency within the Government of Singapore that handles the ministries and other political matters that are of great importance to the nation, such as corruption and elections. It is headed by the Prime Minister and its politicians. In Singapore, a politician appointed as a 'Minister in the Prime Minister's Office' was previously and essentially known as 'Minister without Portfolio', an official cabinet appointment title in other Westminster parliamentary system. More information...
In June 2020 the website pmo.gov.sg was on the 13,985th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 23,748th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "pmo.gov.sg" is the 32,633rd most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
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Q: Is IP over USB 3.1 type-C between two Linux hosts at 10Gbps possible? I've been unable to determine on my own if I can do this. I'm wondering if it is possible to connect two Linux systems with USB 3.1 with type-C connectors to setup a point to point network (IP or Ethernet + IP) at the full 10Gbps the standard claims to permit. Do the host adapters support this? Do newer Linux kernels/tools support this? Can a regular cable be used?
Gigabit just isn't fast enough and USB 3.1 cards are cheap and built into new motherboards (like mine). 10Gbps Ethernet would be my second choice I guess, but it involves buying all new hardware and I'd have to go second hand.

A: If you find a Prolific PL-27A1 host-to-host USB 3.0 cable, there is a kernel support in v4.11 to use it:
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net/+/6f2aee0c0de65013333bbc26fe50c9c7b09a37f7%5E%21/
This is apparently available as goobay Active USB 3.0 Data Link and Unitek Y-3501 cables per the commit message.
What isn't clear, is if it actual gets 10Gbit speed. A functionally identical earlier version of the patch claimed to get 1.5Gbit only

A: What you are asking about is setting one machine to USB "Device Mode" so the other can be host and we can setup an IP stack on it.
Unfortunately there are some driver conflicts issues with having device mode on some ports.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/usb/typec_bus.html
https://lwn.net/Articles/749740/
This is already a thing in the android worlds, where you can transfer files at high speeds with one device acting as host. It's only a matter of time before patches and documentation are deployed.

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In 2005, the president of the Institute of Slovenian Studies of Victoria, Aleksandra Čeferin, sent a formal letter of invitation to Daša Koprivec, senior consultant for Slovenian emigrant section at Slovene Ethnographic Museum, to visit Victoria in order to undertake the research of handicrafts subculture of Slovenian settlers in Australia.
The exhibition of Slovenian emigrant handicrafts emerged as a possible subject of mutual interest both to SEM and ISSV, as well as personal interests of Daša Koprivec and Aleksandra Čeferin.
The museum's application to the Office for Slovenes Abroad for funding was subsequently approved, and the visit was planned for May 2006.
The first meeting with handicrafts practitioners was organized by the Institute for Slovenian Studies of Victoria with the assistance of other Slovenian migrant organizations. The initiative presented at Baraga House in Melbourne at the beginning of May 2006 was received with enthusiasm and support. During the next few weeks Daša Koprivec and Aleksandra Čeferin would visit homes in Mel-bourne and Geelong areas, where samples of work would be viewed and photographed.
In the next three weeks the research field trips covered distances of over 1000 km in Melbourne and Geelong, resulting in documentation of over 400 photos. Aleksandra Čeferin subsequently collected sample exhibits for the planned physical exhibition at Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana.
At the same time the idea of the internet exhibition emerged in discussions between ISSV and SEM. The issue was an exhibition that could transcend the local nature of the physical exhibition and carry it to Slovenes worldwide.
These discussions were followed subsequently by meetings between SEM and ISSV in Ljubljana, and the concept began to take shape as a collaboration between SEM and ISSV. It was also envisaged that it might be expanded as an ongoing archive of Slovene Migrant Handcrafts in order to fulfill the mission of SEM as a collective memory of Slovene heritage to Slovenian migrant communities worldwide.


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