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Africa As The Cheetah: All Aboard Sub – Saharan Africa As A Frontier In Emerging Markets
By Ghanaian Chronicle
Africa's economies are consistently growing faster than those of almost any other region – and at twice the rate of the 1990s. This has led to improvements in several areas such as trade, mobilization of government revenue, infrastructure development, and the provision of social services. Indeed, over the last decade, Africa has been among the fastest growing regions in the world economy, and it is interesting to note that this improvement in growth performance has been widespread across countries.
Just some few years ago, news on Africa, whether the reality or perception, has suffered from extreme mood swings, with the pendulum moving from episodes of pessimism to bouts of euphoria. But what really is the case in Africa?
The impressive economic and political performance of Africa since the turn of the century has led to the description of the continent as 'Africa rising: the hopeful continent', 'Lions on the move: blazing a pathway to prosperity', 'Africa's rising middle class'; 'dynamic African consumer market'; 'Growth opportunities for investors' etc.
Exports are booming and export markets have become more diversified. Foreign direct investment has increased by a factor of six over the past decade. Private entrepreneurs have emerged as a dynamic force for change, driving innovation and transforming outdated business models. There is an emergent middle class, although its size is often exaggerated. For the first time in over a generation, the number of people living in poverty has fallen.
Fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday and more are getting into school. Steadier exchange rates, robust commodity prices, increased private capital flows and modest inflation are experienced in Africa. Africa has got a very good fiscal story with debt to GDP ratios at the sovereign level which are nowhere near the burden of what is seen in Europe, North America and other parts of the world.
Leading the frontier markets:
Emerging markets are the countries that are restructuring their economies along market-oriented lines and offer a wealth of opportunities in trade, technology transfers, and foreign direct investments. These are nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. Each of these countries is important as an individual market and the combined effect of the group as a whole is capable beyond all doubts to change the face of global economics and politics.
Africa has the potential to lead and direct global investments and take it rightful position in the global economy.
Rising middle class:
The world is getting richer and about 90% of the world's population lives in the emerging markets and the expectations are that we would have approximately 3 billion new people in the world's middle class by 2030 and a lot of those people will not just be coming from Asia but Africa.
Africa's middle class stands about 400 million people today and is estimated to balloon to 1.1 billion by 2060, thus representing 42% of the continent's population by that year. The increasing pace of urbanization and 'consumerization' in Africa is yet another force to consider. As Africans flock to cities and disposable incomes rises, their demand for modern goods and services, such as, telecommunications and banking services will accelerate. Global businesses whether based in Asia, Europe or the Americas as well as home-grown African firms can't miss out on this story.
Labour and Youthful Population:
Sub-Saharan Africa alone boast of a population of 872.3 million people. The labour story is very positive with 60-70% of Africans under the age of 25 and by 2050; Africa's population of 2 billion would have overtaken that of India (1.6bn) and of China (1.4bn).
This is a very young and dynamic population that global businesses and investors can leverage on. The continent is rich with untapped natural resources, arable land and ever buoyant consumer market. With a population of little over a billion, the continent possesses a strong consumer market for businesses. In terms of productivity, this continent is a great absorber of technology and is able to combine labour and capital to help spare economic growth.
Thus, with growth prospects buoyant, and the number of African consumers rising, businesses can no longer afford to ignore this vast continent, 54 countries and immense natural resources, including people.
An Infrastructure Deficiency:
Most operators in Africa will agree that the economic efficiency is not harmonized due to difficulty in accessing Africa's markets. Therefore, for Africa to realize its full potential, then a fully structured and sustainable infrastructure development is needed. Although the continent has successfully maintained an average growth rate of between 4 % and 6% for the past few years, Africa accounts for 12% of the world's population but only contributes 1% of global GDP and only 2% of world trade.
Faster growth in recent years has highlighted deficiencies, exposing bottlenecks in ports, roads, rail and power supply. Energy, water, sanitation, telecoms and transport have long being identified as a major setback to doing business on the continent. Energy supply continues to be Africa's largest infrastructure challenge with 30 countries experiencing frequent power outages with just over a third of Africa's population having access to electricity. Poor infrastructure cost each member countries growth to reduce by 2percentage point each year and cut productivity by as much as 40%.
Investments are needed in the areas of energy, water, sanitation, telecoms and transport etc. This is an investment space that global investors can tap into.
Rising Foreign Direct Investments:
According to the World Investment Report 2013, in 2012, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows decreased in all three major economic groups âˆ' developed, developing and transition economies, although at different paces.
In developed countries , FDI flows fell by 32 per cent to $561 billion — a level last seen almost ten years ago. The majority of European Union (EU) countries and the United States experienced significant drops in their FDI inflows. FDI flows to developing economies remained relatively resilient, declining by only 4 per cent, accounting for 52 per cent of global inflows in 2012.
According to the report, Africa was the only major region to enjoy a year – on- year increase in FDI inflows in 2012. FDI inflows to the structurally weak, vulnerable and small economies rose further in 2012 from a small base of $56 billion in 2011 to $60 billion, owing to the strong growth of FDI to least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island developing States (SIDS). Their share in the world total also rose, to 4.4 per cent from 3.4 per cent in 2011.
Five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa received FDI in excess of $3 billion in 2012. These countries are Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana.
Among other things, structural reforms for financial, legal and political space when championed could open up the continent for more business and investment opportunities. Most of the continents sectors require conscious reforms to allow businesses to operate fully. The economic growth of the continent can continue to be on the rise if there are proper and convenient regulations for businesses and investments. Political disputes should be consciously handled not to serve as deterrent to foreign investments. Signs of political instability could stagnate or reduce the pace at which the continent would grow.
Africa is the Cheetah. The continent is ripe for investments and the opportunities across countries are enormous and these would continue to rise into the foreseeable future.
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Canada to Invest in Urban Climate Solutions in Ottawa Français
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OTTAWA, Aug. 16, 2019 /CNW/ - In communities across the country, Canadians are feeling the impacts of climate change and want to be part of the solution. By investing in new technologies and projects that reduce pollution and make our communities more resilient to climate change, we can also create jobs, make life more affordable for families and businesses, and help Canadian companies compete and win in the new global low-carbon economy.
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, announced a $22-million investment for the Ottawa Community Foundation to establish an urban climate centre in Ottawa.
The Ottawa Community Foundation will operate the new Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3) local urban climate centre — one of seven new centres across Canada that are helping reduce the business risks associated with developing new technologies to help cleantech and climate solutions get to market sooner. This investment will also help establish a network across Canada that supports community leadership to improve energy efficiency and put practical climate solutions into action.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal FundTM will serve as the national centre for the LC3 program. Announced in Budget 2019, LC3 is part of Canada's $1.01-billion plan to reduce carbon pollution by making communities more energy-efficient. It will leverage federal investments to collaborate with private investors, public agencies, utilities, non-profit organizations and other levels of government to build long-term clean energy solutions.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates Canada's energy efficiency sector supported 436,000 jobs in 2018 — a number expected to grow by 8.3 percent this year alone. Investments like these are helping the energy-efficiency sector grow faster, supporting good, middle-class jobs and making the future healthier and more affordable for Canadians.
Through the national Generation Energy dialogue, we heard Canadians want our country to remain a leader in the transition to a clean growth economy. To support this goal and achieve Canada's climate commitments, Canada is investing over $60 billion in clean energy projects, public transit, reducing pollution, and improving energy efficiency in homes and businesses across the country.
"As our climate changes, people in cities and communities across Canada are coming up with practical, affordable solutions. The global market for climate solutions is worth trillions of dollars — so by investing in local climate solutions, we can help Canadian workers and companies succeed in the biggest economic opportunity of our generation. Establishing an urban climate centre here in Ottawa will also help make Ottawa's homes and buildings more energy-efficient, while keeping life affordable and supporting good local jobs."
Catherine McKenna
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada
"We already see our cities leading the way on low-carbon innovation, and this investment will unlock so much potential to go further — to build cost-saving energy solutions that build better lives for Canadians."
Bill Karsten
President, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
"With this strategic investment, we are well positioned to apply our expertise in endowment management and our solid relationships with local partners to contribute to the success of Ottawa's LC3 Centre. Together, we will pursue solutions that dramatically reduce carbon emissions, create local economic opportunities and help build our resilience to climate impacts. The Centre will support research, education, advocacy and action to ease policy, regulatory, financial and other barriers to practical solutions."
President and CEO, Ottawa Community Foundation
Canada's Energy Future
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RB Markese Stepp lands at Nebraska after transfer from USC
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)Running back Markese Stepp has transferred from Southern California to Nebraska, strengthening an area of need for the Cornhuskers following the departures of Dedrick Mills and Wan'Dale Robinson.
Stepp made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday. The 6-foot, 235-pounder appeared in five of the Trojans' six games and was the team's third-leading rusher with 45 carries for 165 yards and three touchdowns. He also caught three passes for 28 yards.
Mills, the Huskers' second-leading rusher, tweeted a couple hours after Stepp's announcement that he would enter the NFL draft. Nebraska lost one of its top playmakers Monday when Robinson announced he would transfer. Robinson was the Huskers' primary running back when Mills was out two games and most of another because of injury.
Stepp was rated a four-star prospect coming out of Cathedral High in Indianapolis in 2018. He played in four games in 2018, and he averaged 5.7 yards per carry through seven games in 2019 before spraining an ankle and missing the rest of the season.
Stepp was listed as the co-No. 1 running back with Vavae Malepeai this past season. He struggled to find rhythm, with a turf toe injury and a strained pectoral slowing him, and he saw diminished playing time the second half of the shortened season.
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Mormon single mom on survival, hope and how a community carried her
When Tracy McKay was a single mom living in poverty, the Mormon community carried her through.
Tracy Lamb, author of "The Burning Point"
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Tracy McKay, author of "The Burning Point." Photo by Melanie Aubrey Beus.
One of my favorite voices in the Mormon Bloggernacle is Tracy McKay, who writes for By Common Consent and also at her own site, Dandelion Mama.
Through the years, Tracy has blogged about her powerful story of spousal drug addiction, and a difficult divorce. For years she struggled with poverty as she tried to get a college education and raise her three kids alone. Throughout, she has been on the receiving end of some marvelous acts of love, both from her LDS community and the wider Internet world.
Now she's gathered that story in The Burning Point: A Memoir of Addiction, Destruction, Love, Parenting, Survival and Hope, out this month from BCC Press. (See here for more info about this new publishing house.) I highly recommend this beautiful book. – JKR
RNS: Why did you decide to write this memoir?
McKay: A good friend had asked me last winter, "What are you afraid of?" I jokingly said sharks, because that's also true. But it got me thinking. I'm afraid for my children, like all mothers are afraid for their children, but also there's something deeper.
I'm afraid of our beautiful sparks of glory being lost—the idea that if we don't write these things down, they're gone. David [my ex-husband] is dead now, and my children don't know the man he was. They only remember the broken parts. If someone was going to preserve the madness and glory and beauty of his soul, it had to be me. And so I started writing.
You know, often the question people ask me first is: "Why did you stay with David so long?"
RNS: That's interesting. I didn't really have that question when I was reading, because the flashbacks in the book make very clear what a good person he was.
McKay: I really experienced time as non-linear as I was writing. I would write about something that had happened, and it would pique all these other memories. I started to see continuity between my past and present, which is why I started writing the interludes and the flashbacks. It helped me also see what a profound influence David had been on my life in ways that I didn't always see as I experienced it.
RNS: During your marriage to David you converted to Mormonism. How much of that story do you tell in the book?
McKay: There's a chapter devoted to it, but it's not necessarily a Mormon book. I don't explain in particular about being Mormon, though I describe my search for God. If you read the end, and you read the section where I went to the temple of the first time and David was asking me about it. But I didn't want that to be a barrier to any non-Mormons reading the story, although the book is dedicated to my Relief Society.
RNS: Why the Relief Society?
McKay: It is dedicated to the Relief Society of the Belle Terre and Evergreen Wards because they are who carried me, day in and day out. The people who made sure that my kids had winter coats and boots when I literally had nothing. Who lined the streets to carry boxes when we moved.
It's also for Feminist Mormon Housewives, because of the support they gave me through a scholarship during a very hard time. My bishop had come to me at the beginning of the divorce when everything was so bad. I was losing my home and had nowhere to live, and he came to me and said, "The church can either help pay for child care while you work a crummy job or we can help pay your rent if you agree to go to school full-time. I strongly encourage you to go to school." For him it was the same amount of money either way. So I applied to college and got in, and worked my tail off. It was a brilliant way for him to help me help myself.
In 2012, I was starting my senior year of college and keeping the agreement, carrying an overload of classes. But the bishop had to tell me that he wasn't able to help me anymore. I was not receiving any spousal or child support at that time, and was literally contemplating living in the car. I was thinking: How do I keep a roof over our heads?
And so it was pretty much my lowest, darkest point. I had never felt so abandoned, basically, because I felt like I had done everything I could.
I wrote about it, which is what I always do to sort out my feelings. Within hours, through word of mouth and sharing, people were flooding in and offering support. By the next morning, I had gotten emails from fMh saying, "Hey Trace, we've got this." And the next day they started the scholarship. That scholarship actually paid for my senior year of college and all my grad school applications.
It was to me a great example of how an online, theoretical community became very real, very tangible. It had felt like God had abandoned me when the bishop withdrew his support, but actually the bishop had to get out of the way so that something greater could take his place. There were contributions from all over the world, literally.
[Note: The Tracy McKay fMh Scholarship for Single Mormon Mothers has become an annual tradition and applications just closed for 2017. ]
RNS: I remember when that happened, but there were a lot of details in the book I hadn't heard, like about how people rallied around your family in the first Christmas after the divorce. That scene had me in tears.
McKay: I cried a lot when I was writing. I had to shut myself in my office. To write it accurately, I had to go back and feel all those things again; I had to go back and be there.
RNS: Who is this book for? Who are you hoping to reach with it?
McKay: It was for me and for my children initially, but I'm realizing that it addresses some pertinent questions on the national scene right now. We are in the middle of an opioid epidemic and also a conversation about welfare and social safety nets, and our obligations to each other. If as Christians we're going to encourage women to stay home and raise children, what are our obligations to them if their marriage ends? These are really pertinent subjects right now.
Also, too often in our discourse we make addicts into one-dimensional characters. David was an addict, but he was so many wonderful and beautiful things too. He was not "just" an addict, and neither is anyone else who has an addiction.
RNS: Anything else you'd like to add?
McKay: My Mormon community, both in my ward and also online, was the reason I survived this. My readers online became real. When people started contributing to the scholarship, it felt holy. It brought the theoretical into the tangible. I couldn't see any of these people, but they were there and they were real, and it was an embodiment of my faith.
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Specializing in broadband access networks, Jack has a wide range of technical expertise across a diverse range of telecommunications technologies. Jack held senior engineering positions at Altice, Cablevision, and Lightpath. He has also worked at Viacom/MTV Networks, Tribune/United Cable and Warner Amex Cable. Jack was Chairman of the CableLabs PacketCable Certification Board from 2011 to 2017. He authored a quarterly column for Broadband Library magazine. For details on Jack's experience, click here.
David has a proven track record launching and growing B2B telecommunications and technology businesses. David held senior marketing positions at Lightpath, IBM, Sprint and AT&T. At Juniper Networks, he was the cable business development leader and managed part of the Comcast account. David had a long-term consulting engagement at Comcast Business – having designed and executed the original go-to-market plan for their Metro Ethernet services. For details on David's experience, click here.
Broadband Success Partners also has two associates, Joe Caruso, and Lenny Higgins, who are cable finance and cable operations, experts. Joe Caruso brings over 25 years of cable industry finance experience to Broadband Success Partners and its clients. Most recently, Joe was the SVP of Finance at Lightpath (Cablevision.) He played a key role in helping Lightpath grow its revenue from $3 million to $365 million. Joe also performed acquisition analysis, established SOX controls and internal processes, created plans to enter new markets and negotiated various carrier settlements. Lenny Higgins has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications, cable TV, and data center sectors. At Bresnan Communications, Lenny launched, built and led the broadband, telephone and business services groups – growing the business to over $150 million in annual revenue and eventual sale to Cablevision. Lenny was also the COO of LICT Corporation, a $100 million holding company that managed 10 rural telephone companies. Most recently, he was President & CEO of the Nexus Group, a data center, and managed services provider.
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Hightower, a cloud-based leasing portfolio management company, has raised $13 million in a Series B financing round. Venture capital firm RRE led the investment round, which takes Hightower's total capital raised to $22 million and makes it one of the industry's deepest-pocketed tech startups.
Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, which led Hightower's $6.5 million Series A round in August 2014, also participated in the Series B, as did new investors Pritzker Group.
The platform helps landlords and brokers keep track of current and prospective tenants in their often sprawling, multimillion-square-foot portfolios. Landlords can track how space is doing and zero in on inefficiencies in their portfolios, and brokers can assist landlords in marketing available space, find new tenants, and manage their deals in one place. Its major competitor is VTS, which following a January investment by the Blackstone Group was valued at about $35 million.
Landlords on Hightower include New York-based Kushner Cos., Two Trees Management, Durst Organization and East End Capital, as well as major national players such as Shorenstein Properties. Brokerages such as Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL are also clients. Landlords pay a subscription fee based on square footage handled on the platform, while brokers pay a monthly usage fee. Hightower is being used in 265 cities across five countries, Weber said, though the firm has offices only in New York and Los Angeles. The new investment, he said, will be used to fund growth into new markets as well as to hire talent for engineering, sales and customer support.
RRE's investment in this round comes up to about $7 million, bringing its total stake in Hightower to $7.5 million. "We really wanted to invest even more in previous rounds, but Thrive and Bessemer made more competitive bids," said RRE partner Steve Schlafman, who was colleagues with Weber at Microsoft. Both Schlafman and fellow investor Ethan Kurzweil of Bessemer Venture Partners cited Hightower's management team as a major reason for investing, and Schlafman claimed Hightower's technology is superior to rival VTS.
"Any time you have a platform with network effects, there will be one winner and a smaller second winner," he said. "We were afraid that once there was lock-in among VTS customers they wouldn't switch, but there are large institutional landlords that have switched," he added.


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George Miller teases two more 'Mad Max' movies
"Mad Max: Fury Road" director George Miller has revealed that he has ideas for two more movies in the franchise.
In an interview, the Australian filmmaker said he is pretty sure that the films will make it to the big screen in future. "There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. We're still solving, we've got to play out the Warners (Bros) thing, it seems to be pretty clear that it's going to happen," Miller said.
"I think we're still waiting on being given the opportunity and the greenlight to go ahead on the next one. But when I engaged on that there was a plethora of material on it," he added.
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Katrina's sister Isabelle Kaif to make Bollywood debut with Salman's brother-in-law Aayush Sharma
New Delhi: Salman Khan's brother-in-law Aayush Sharma made his Bollywood debut last year with 'LoveYatri'. The film released in October 2018 and also marked the debut of the gorgeous Warina Hussain.
Aayush has already backed his second Bollywood film and it is titled 'Kwatha'. The recent development is that the film has already locked its female lead and it is none other than Isabelle Kaif—sister of actress Katrina Kaif.
Chhichhore trailer: Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor will take you back to college on Friendship Day—Watch
New Delhi: Friendship Day is being celebrated in many countries today including India. On the occasion, the makers of Sushant Singh Rajput and Shraddha Kapoor starrer 'Chhichhore' have unveiled the trailer of the film. Well, we must say that their timing couldn't have been more perfect as there is no better day to think about college! (Nostalgic already, aren't you?)
The film is directed by Nitesh Tiwari, who also helmed 'Dangal' and is based on the life of eight friends who reunite after several years in times of crisis. Indeed, no matter how much your friends drift apart, they will be right beside you in the hour of need.
Without wasting much time, check out the trailer here:
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Parineeti Chopra starts shooting for The Girl On The Train
Actress Parineeti Chopra has started shooting for the Hindi remake of the American film "The Girl On The Train". The movie is directed by Ribhu Dasgupta, who has previously helmed "TE3N" starring megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
Dasgupta tweeted on Saturday night: "Hopping on to a train ride today with Parineeti Chopra, soon to be joined by Aditi Rao Hydari and Kirti Kulhari." Parineeti took to her Instagram story, where she shared the film's clapboard.
The psychological thriller will be produced by Reliance Entertainment. The Hollywood film was based on author Paula Hawkins' 2015 debut novel of the same name.
Based on the 2015 bestseller by Paula Hawkins, the film narrates the story of a divorcee woman who gets entangled in a missing persons investigation that throws her life to the brink.
Shabana Azmi to Feature in Steven Spielberg's Web Series Halo
Veteran Indian actor Shabana Azmi has boarded the cast of Showtime series Halo to be produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.
The series, which will begin production later this year in Budapest, will be directed by Otto Bathurst. An adaptation of the mega-hit video game of the same name, Halo also features Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Bentley Kalu, Natasha Culzac, and Kate Kennedy, reported Variety.
McElhone will star as two characters—Dr Catherine Halsey, the creator of the Spartan super-soldiers, and Cortana, the most advanced AI in human history—while Woodbine will essay the role of Soren-066.
Azmi will be seen playing Admiral Margaret Parangosky, the head of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
In the past, the 68-year-old actor has been a part of several international projects, including Madame Sousatzka, La Nuit Bengali, City of Joy and Son of Pink Panther. She has also starred in TV shows Banglatown Banquet, Capital and Next of Kin—a six-part series.
Halo is produced by Showtime in collaboration with 343 Industries and Amblin Television.
Meanwhile, on the Bollywood front, Amzi has just signed Faraz Arif Ansari's forthcoming LGBTQ drama Sheer Qorma. She will be seen as a mother in the film, which stars Swara Bhasker and Divya Dutta in lead roles.
Amitabh Bachchan and Chiranjeevi's Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy to release on October 2
Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi has announced that his upcoming magnum opus "Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy" will hit the screens worldwide on October 2. The Telugu film co-stars Amitabh Bachchan, Anushka Shetty, Nayanthara, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sudeep, Vijay Sethupathi and Jagapathi Babu in important roles.
Chiranjeevi made the announcement about his upcoming Telugu biggie in an interview to daughter-in-law Upasana Konidela's magazine, "Bpositive".
Directed by Surender Reddy, the film will narrate the story of Kurnool-based freedom fighter Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy.
Sadak 2, Vikram Batra Biopic Shooting Schedules in Kashmir Delayed Over Article 370 Abrogation
Several top actors including Sanjay Dutt, Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra were scheduled to shoot in Kashmir for upcoming projects over the next few months, but the repeal of Article 370 has put Bollywood's plans to shoot in Kashmir on hold for now.
On Monday morning, Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Rajya Sabha that the government has decided to revoke Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The government also announced its decision to split the region into two Union territories—Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without legislature.
The abrogation of the Article has had a ripple effect on the shooting schedules.
Ekta Kapoor green signals 'Naagin 4', cast to be unveiled soon - Watch
New Delhi: Television czarina Ekta Kapoor announced the fourth installment of the supernatural franchise 'Naagin'. She revealed the big news on social media with a small teaser, taking the excitement levels a notch higher.
Ekta revealed in her post that in September, the cast of 'Naagin 4' will be unveiled. She wrote: "Happieeee naagpanchami guys! Sept we will announce d next #naagin for #naagin4! Some surprises on wat I'll see n where ull see!!!!"
Suhana Khan makes her film debut, first look poster out! Check inside
New Delhi: Before you think it's a big-budget Bollywood movie, hold your horses! Shah Rukh Khan's darling daughter Suhana Khan will be seen in a short movie and the filmmaker named Theo Gimeno has shared the first look poster of his film starring Suhana in a lead role.
The title of the short film is 'The Grey Part Of Blue'. Besides Suhana, the movie stars Robin Gonnella in the lead role. It has been written by Theo Gimeno. He took to his Instagram handle and shared the posters.
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Shah Rukh Khan to Replace Hrithik Roshan in Shankar's Underwater Sci-fi Action Drama: Report
Shah Rukh Khan hasn't announced his next film after his last release Zero bombed at the box office. But if a report in Pinkvilla is to be believed, the 53-year-old actor has been approached for an underwater sci-fi action drama, to be helmed by director S Shankar.
A source close to the director says that after actor Hrithik Roshan reportedly assigned his dates to another Bollywood project, Shankar's team decided to offer the role to Shah Rukh.
"The talks are just in very early stages. It's an octopus-like creature who possesses superpowers and a superior intellect. It would be exciting to have SRK give his nod for this one, as he and Shankar have never worked before earlier," the source was quoted as saying.
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Aug 29, 2021 Airship, Blimp, Health, Lab on a Chip, Lies, Truth
A short while ago, I felt quite ill on a night out, and subsequently discovered that I had difficulty passing urine, which was very dark coloured, and smelt disgusting. I recognised the symptoms from a previous episode; it had to be a urinary tract infection. Mrs B promptly went to the pharmacy, bought some very strong anti-biotics, and within six or seven days, I was totally back to normal and feeling fine.
Of course, traditionalists would quite rightly suggest I should have seen my doctor, waited for her to make the diagnosis, and relied on her experience and knowledge to decide the course of action. But doctors are a tad busy at the moment, and me, being a bloke, obviously would not want to make an unnecessary fuss.
So, here's what I would like very much indeed; to be injected with a tiny device which oh-so-cleverly monitors all my bodily functions, tests my blood, and looks for any signs of obnoxious oriental diseases. It would also manage to pick up on any tumour that may have the temerity to start messing with me, but most cleverly of all, it will transmit all the details and diagnosis to its sister app, nestling comfortably on my iPad and phone.
Imagine waking up every day, going straight to your app, to be told what exercise would be best for you today, that your current diet is fine and suitable, but you are developing an UTI, which needs this treatment. (Of course, if you look at this with a half-empty attitude, the app might have a picture of the Grim Reaper, together with a message that you will suffer a massive heart attack in 6 hours, from which there is no recovery.)
But assuming you use the app properly, and abide by its scientifically proved recommendations, I could see myself living until I'm at least 120 years old, or until England next wins football's World Cup. Whichever comes later.
So when this absolute marvel becomes available, let me know soonest – I will go into settings, instruct it not to tell me to cut down on my alcohol intake, but to keep an eye on everything else. Happy living!
In December 1998 I bought myself a cell phone, an Ericsson, and then it was a revolution to me. Now we can't imagine how is it to leave home without a smartphone. Or not to get into social media or not google stuff.
In the last 25-30 years, Hi-Tech has made a giant leap for humanity. The time kind of collapsed to produce new technologies and gadgets unthinkable before, from internet to cell phones to WhatsApp.
We can now surf the internet, google useful things, communicate with people around the world virtually for free, work remotely online. We still talk about life, politics, everyday problems, etc. but things have really changed. The landscape is totally different than it used to be when I was born in 1974.
What else then?
I just think that the next thing that really matters could be something so extraordinary that it would be comparable to inventing fire, oral or written language.
I've read somewhere that in the very distant past, back into the deep Stone Age, people didn't lie to each other (just like modern 'wild' tribes that still exist in the jungle) because they could read each other's thoughts by means of telepathy.
Lying was just not an option in this case, just a nonsense. This is why the white colonizers could so easily trick the aborigines sometimes because those people were still living by this ancient tradition that we lost a millennia ago.
To make a long story short: the technological telepathy invention would be this kind of thing.
I don't know if it would happen at all. I don't know how it would affect our privacy and the whole way of life. I don't know if it would be legal to even try to develop it.
I know this would have been a tremendous Hi-Tech thing to fully change the world. Once again.
The tech I want to see is old-school: Airships. Except there is nothing old about these ships, and they are coming in the next twenty years. I've always been something of a fan of these things.
When I say airship, the first thing you may think of is the Hindenburg and a certain morning in New Jersey. It's funny how life works; the crash sealed the fate of airships, while biplanes prospered and the technology continued to be developed.
You know as well as I do that more people have died in airplanes than airships. But there is a difference. When a biplane crashed, maybe two people died and there was no massive fireball. No news crew was on hand to film the event.
I also suspect the politics of the period played the decisive role. The Hindenburg was filled with flammable hydrogen because of an embargo against the Nazis on helium. Because Germany had a clear lead in the technology, the Allies had little incentive to precipitate in civilian airship development. From this political perspective, if the airship went away, it was a good thing.
But the world continued to spin and life goes on. Modern avionics makes airships as safe as any other airborne machine. And large airships now make economic sense. The International Air Transport Association says airships can be more cost effective than Jets for air cargo. Especially bigger craft transporting parsable food stuffs. This is down to fuel cost. By the way, here is a PDF from another source on the subject if you are interested.
Here's some numbers to contemplate:
The first row is a non-starter. I understand this is more expensive than trucks, so no. But the next row .20¢ per ton per kilometer, can compete with rail and the third competes with ships. The bigger the airship, the cheaper the cost per ton.
BUT! These papers are several years old and life has changed in the last year and a half. The cost of freight has shot up making these numbers even more attractive. Here are two factors that play well for the future of airships:
Carbon Footprint: jets create many tons of greenhouse gases a year. If carbon taxes become wide spread, airships become even more attractive.
Covid-19: The longer airlines stay on the ground, the more attractive heavy-lift airships become. It turns out that passenger jets carry a large percentage of air-freight and the loss of this capacity has increased the cost of freight shipping. As crazy as it sounds, the more variants of Covid, the more likely large airships will fly.
I have made a conscious decision to only talk about economics. Regular readers know I believe corporations are soulless and don't care if oceans rise and people starve. The only thing that matters is stock dividends.
So, my techno wish is based on cold, hard economics and not the romance of cruising the sky. Of course, if roomy passenger ships become a thing, that's great; count me in. If you want to see uber-cool airships take to the skies, here's a well-researched YouTube video for you.
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Manisha Koirala's 3-day wedding celebration starts today!
The actress is marrying businessman Samrat Dahal in a glittering three-day ceremony starting today. While the wedding is scheduled for Saturday, the engagement will take place today and the reception is on Sunday.
entertainment Updated: Jun 19, 2010 11:46 IST
As Nepal hosts Manisha Koirala's wedding Saturday, the most intense speculation is whether President Ram Baran Yadav will come face to face with his bete noire, Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, and the latter with his, ex-king Gyanendra.
Or will they come up with polite excuses to wriggle out of the invitation and along with it, a most embarrassing situation?
The 40-year-old actress, who is finally marrying Nepali businessman Samrat Dahal in a glittering three-day ceremony starting Friday, has invited former king Gyanendra as well as his arch-enemy Prachanda, the Maoist chief whose party fought a 10-year war to abolish monarchy in Nepal.
The wedding is scheduled Saturday, after an engagement ceremony Friday. The reception is at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza Hotel Sunday.
Most of the key political players have preferred to wait and watch and are yet to confirm their presence.
Former king Gyanendra has decided to stay away from Kathmandu.
The last king of Nepal left for Bara district in southern Nepal Wednesday to inaugurate a new temple. He will be camping in the Terai till Sunday despite the heat and the discomfort.
On Friday, Gyanendra, whose bid to rule Nepal with the help of the army had received Manisha's support in 2005, will go to Birgunj town to offer prayers at the Maithan temple as well as at the infamous Gadimai temple, where tens of thousands of animals are slaughtered every five years.
From there, he will proceed to Rautahat Saturday to visit a Shiva temple.
With the former king planning to return to Kathmandu only Sunday, it is certain that he will not be present at the engagement or the wedding.
Though a morning flight will bring him back to Kathmandu Sunday in good time to attend the reception, there's still no certainty as the flight will depend on the weather.
During the former king's earlier visit to the Terai town of Nepalgunj, he had to postpone his return to Kathmandu due to bad weather.
As for Prachanda, his aides said it was still not confirmed if he would attend the ceremonies.
The top leaders of the Maoist party are currently locked in an intense debate over future strategy as well as leadership after failing to topple the coalition government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal despite almost a year of protests.
If any major meetings are scheduled Sunday, Prachanda would not be able to attend Manisha's wedding reception, his son Prakash told IANS.
In 2006, when King Gyanendra held a controversial municipal election, Manisha had flown down from Bollywood to campaign for it. The Maoists had tried to stop the polls and in retaliation, announced a "ban" on films of Manisha, the granddaughter of the nation's first elected prime minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala.
Her father Prakash Koirala consented to become a minister in the king's cabinet, an acquiescence that caused him to be expelled from his Nepali Congress party.
Also invited to the reception is President Ram Baran Yadav.
Yadav replaced Gyanendra as the head of state. He also aroused the enmity of the Maoists by reinstating the army chief the Maoist government had sacked, an action that caused the fall of the Maoist government.
Since then, the Maoists had been boycotting all official functions attended by the president.
Now it remains to be seen if Prachanda and the president would be present at the same programme.


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Female paedophile exposed after neighbour spots Christmas card
Simon RobbSunday 1 Jan 2017 1:35 pm
Tracy Lyons in 2009 – she was jailed in 2010 for a series of child sex offences (Picture: Solent News)
A paedophile who served time for abusing a two-year-old had her cover blown after a neighbour spotted a Christmas card at her home.
Tracy Lyons, 46, was sentenced to four years in prison for her part in a paedophile ring led by Little Teds nursery worker, Vanessa George.
Man confronts beggar who admitted lying about being homeless
But when Southampton neighbour, Richard Hurren, stopped by her house for a coffee, he noticed a Christmas card signed by a charity called Circles.
After a Google search, he discovered Circles is a taxpayer-funded group which rehabilitates sex offenders, like paedophiles and rapists.
Hurren said he could not find anything about Lyons at first because she has since changed her last name, according to The Mirror.
'I Googled the surname she was going by here. I couldn't find anything. Then I put in 'sex offenders Portsmouth' and found 'Tracy Lyons Portsmouth' and her picture. I recognised her straight away,' he told the newspaper.
Lyons was linked with nursery worker Vanessa George who was also jailed (Picture: PA)
Lyons was jailed after taking pictures of herself abusing a two-year-old and sending them to another convicted paedophile, Colin Blanchard.
She was part of a nationwide paedophile gang linked to the nursery in Portsmouth.
Man admits 'scaring shopkeeper to death' after drunkenly smashing up store
As the news spread around the neighbourhood, Lyons was confronted by a group of people on Christmas Eve and called the police, according to the newspaper.
Hurren said: 'Police arrived and went into her property. Twenty minutes later a taxi arrived and they came out with boxes and her pets. She left with her head down.'
Lyons pleaded guilty in March 2012 to assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child under 13, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three offences of distributing indecent photographs of a child.
Metro.co.uk approached Hampshire Police for comment.


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They Say, We Say: "Criticism of Israel, even by people who claim to support Israel, only feeds the global campaign to delegitimize Israel."
Criticism of Israel, even by people who claim to support Israel, only feeds the global campaign to delegitimize Israel. Public criticism of Israel has to stop.
A truly pro-Israel position is one that recognizes that criticism of Israeli policies and actions must be judged on its content. It is both true and deeply troubling that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment is sometimes cloaked in criticism of Israeli government policies and actions. At the same time, it is both true and deeply troubling that some Israeli policies and actions legitimately merit criticism.
The notion that being pro-Israel leaves no room for any criticism of Israel, on the grounds that such criticism "delegitimizes" Israel, should trouble anyone who cares about Israel's future and Israel's democratic character.
It is foolish, as well as reckless and irresponsible, for anyone to deny Israel's right to exist, call for Israel's destruction, or deny Jewish ties to the land of Israel. At the same time, criticizing and challenging Israeli policies and actions - like its continued settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, its harsh treatment of non-violent protestors in Israel and the West Bank, its continued closure of Gaza, or the ongoing attacks inside Israel on democracy and democratic institutions - is entirely legitimate and, indeed, appropriate.
A vibrant debate over these issues, both in Israel and the U.S., is sorely needed. Efforts to quash all criticism/protest - whether in Israel or outside Israel - by labeling it "delegitimization" are inconsistent with the core democratic values of both Israel and the U.S. - like freedom of speech, freedom to organize, and freedom to peacefully protest.


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What's your favorite ducker or ducking technique?
ReaComp per SideChain or volume automation. There is no magic on my side.
Ok, how do you set your range? wet/dry?
I use various compressors and SC. However, I have most recently been favouring Sound Toys Tremolator. it is a bit fiddly but it sounds amazing.
I mostly use a self made presets for kick ducking as a starting point. 0.6 attack, 35 release, 3 ratio, 1.8 knee, 0 RMS as i remember right. But i use it only because of laziness and change it every time until it fits the groove or pumping effect.
Several times i had to duck music with speech, but i don't remember how i set up the compressor. It's not so difficult to find a good setting if you are familiar with compression. And i don't think there are other tools needed.
And for total control (not in live situations) the good old volume automation is the best way to make room for incoming audio.
and ReaGate is not that intuitive to set up.
No fancy needed here, just looking for a simple one with for easy setting range.
Parameter modulation comes to mind. Isn't there the possibility to set a range for incoming audio? You could modulate the volume knob with an incoming audio this way.
Yes, but not my preferred way. Lot of fiddling and then it's all hidden, not so obvious to see later.
What kind of ducking are you trying to accomplish? Have any details as to what you are trying to solve?
Kickstart for songs with 4/4 patterns that are strict to the grid.
Typically ducking some mid-heavy instruments with vocal in sidechain, 1-3db.
Maybe I should just get confident wit ReaGate and wet/dry/mix.
Thanks, I may not fully up to speed on some of the needs. I'll rephrase a bit to see if it helps me understand... Let's say I have a piano banging out chords during a verse and I want it to duck behind the vocal automatically as the singer sings.
In that scenario, it's just a matter of placing ReaComp on the piano track, sending the vocal to it's sidechain then just setting the compression/threshold to duck a dB or few. That should do the job simply and elegantly minus something I'm missing. I just used this in a recent project because the keyboard track was important between vocal phrases but interfered when the singer was actually singing due to the midrange of both stepping on each other.
No. You don't want to duck the piano only when the vocal is loudest. You want it with a threshold far lower, but then 1-3db.
At the end of the day you want the keyboard reduced by something when the vocal is something (whatever that is) ?? so I'm not sure how you are running into some unique need everyone else isn't but I tried my best based on the tiny amount of info you are providing.
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where the music is ducked by the voice-over.
and instead of lowering the music-volume, he has this ducker set up to do the same, not muting the music completely, but with a set amount, like 3-12db.
I'll start using Klanghelm DC8C for this, as it has the range-button.
So your intention is to have the ducking taking place the whole time but depending from the sc signal level? Lets say from -20db to -12 db sc signal you want a 0 - 3 db reduction?
I guess this has potential but it would be to complicated for me. (Not sure if i even could hear something like that.) So instead i would try to make room with an eq and using a traditional side chain compressor. Besides that: there are useful compressors out there to solve your problem. Fabfilter pro-c for example has a range button and side chain input, but i don't own it my self. You could test if it fits your taste.
Btw: I have no idea how you could use the reagate the way you described. I know there is a reverse gate (ducking) button but it did not work the way i would expect.
Anyway. I hope you find something. Good luck!
I could also get more confident with the wet/dry amount on ReaComp and Reagate, but, for now, I'll use DC8C then.
Yes, all the time wherever there's narration and underscoring. Not so much to make an automatically correct level change but to make the mix so much easier and faster, either when there's constant narration and random underscoring or constant music bed/ambience and in and out narration. Since an assumption for a particular project might be that this bed is going to always need to subtly drop by a few db every time the narrator appears in order to keep the overall level constant when it does. And for it to raise back up during their long pauses is usually manually done anyway. I usually find a setting that gets it in the ball park and automate tweaks from there.
If you want a very versatile and flexible compressor that has a side chain input and a range control for its gain reduction, try the included JS plugin NP1136.
I'm not sure if release 100 is 100ms or not.
There's a different value at the bottom.
Right, I forgot about the indicator at the bottom. I'd been setting attack and release by ear until now.
I just gave it a test, and the release time is up to 1500ms (you can really hear how long the release time is, being over 1 second, so it was pretty obvious). The release time in ms is displayed in the indicator at the bottom. The numeric field beside the slider is relative. It's a bit unfortunate that the numeric field beside each control is relative, but it works well regardless as long as you remember to check the indicator at the bottom of the plugin. I looked at the code and I'm unsure how to change it such that the numeric fields display absolute numbers in microseconds (attack) and milliseconds (release).
Oh also TDR Nova has an external sidechain switch at the top, its a four band compressor if you enable them in the bottom section.
Nova is so easy to use. I bought C6 on sale and I'm still wondering why I even bothered.
I keep going back to the FabFilter C2 for most volume ducking tasks but have been getting excellent results with dynamic equalisers and s/c filtering..
This is what I usually use for track ducking. Works fine.
One thing wth parameter modulation is that I find it difficult or impossible to sometimes get the response to be exactly as I want. Using the audio of a narrative track, for example, to dictate the wet/dry of an eq. Trying to get the narration to trigger it to dry while the room tone between gets the eq (generally a dumping of frequencies in a noisy area that would affect the voice too much and isn't necessary to be on it) I have yet to be satisfied with as much as I could hone in on the response I needed using ReaEQ and PM. Using a dynamic eq such as toneboosters it's quick and easy to get it exactly where I want it. A dedicated ducker is my preference for this reason.
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I had and have still the topic as G-Sun. And I wonder why so much comps come with no range control, even new ones.
cause i dont like klanghelm, for some reasons, i use stillwell bombardier, just for this task. it has a range control.
Something I think a lot of people overlook is that you can use other plugins to condition the signal on the way to the sidechain. The classic example is to highpass it to make a compressor into a de-esser, but there's a lot more you can do.
In this case, putting a limiter on the sidechain before it reaches your compressor basically means the compressor will only ever get to a certain amount of gain reduction no matter how loud the original control signal was. The range then is the difference between compressor threshold and the limit you set on the control signal.
I get the idea that the OP is looking more for something like a triggered envelope where when the voice is happening, the music is turned down by a specific amount that is not actually dependent on the level of the voice itself. Like anytime there's a voice, the music should drop 9db or whatever. I'd almost call this "dimming" rather than "ducking", but I don't care to argue semantics.
To do that via sidechaining I think I'd first add a gate to the control signal and then a hard limiter or even clipper with a limit just above wherever the gate is set so that it's pretty much either off or as loud as it will ever get. Adjust gain of that signal against the threshold of the compressor until you get what you want.
I think it probably wants some lookahead/precomp, so that the attack fade happens just before the voice starts, though that might mean that the release fade starts before the voice is done. One could use JS Time Adjustment with a negative delay mixed 50/50 with the dry sidechain. Now we've got three plugs just conditioning the sidechain signal to make the one compressor do what we want, and for some reason there's suddenly tape on the bridge of our glasses and a pocket protector has spontaneously manifested in our shirt pocket.
It wouldn't take much to build a JS plug that could do this kind of on/off dimming thing without all that fuss, but I haven't had time to mess with it.
I think most people know about sidechaining and parameter modulation.
I think "most people" have to ask how to even make the sidechain connection at all and wouldnt know where to start to add plugins to the sidechain signal.
I read the reviews and bought it. It's not very intuitive at all. I went back to Nova, even though the frequency animation looks a bit slow to follow. Way more intuitive.


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Billionaire globalist and messianic financier George Soros' MoveOn.org has been revealed to be a driving force behind the organizing of nationwide protests against the election of Donald Trump. He appears to be driving a wedge among Americans to foment a Socialist political revolution. The hard left has successfully made it racist and hateful to want borders, just as they've made it cruel to not grow the welfare system. They play identity politics, a very dangerous tactic.
The signs were printed by the Soros and Creamer groups. They were professionally pre-printed and ready to go on November 9th.
If you go to the United We Dream website, it doesn't take long before you realize it's an open borders activist organization supported by George Soros. There are many of these and you often find George Soros is behind them. Of this one, there is no doubt that he is.
The organization is dedicated to telling people here illegally how they can evade the law, because it's their right to be here illegally. The organization provides guidance and lawyers for them.
If you go to their twitter page, this is the first tweet that will greet you.
If you oppose illegal immigration and try to deport any, you are a hater. And they are of course out in the field stirring up trouble.
A George Soros and State Department funded organization, the New America Foundation, has released a report that states white Americans represent the largest domestic terror threat.
NBC News has highlighted the extremely misleading report and described the "biggest terror threat" as "white Americans" who should be sent to Guantanamo Bay. They suggested dropping Predator drones on militia groups along the border. It's propaganda.
The Media Research Center reported that George Soros is heavily funding "journalist" websites to the tune of $48 million and he also funds journalism schools. Since he came to the United States, he has been using this strategy and it pays off. The propaganda site ProPublica, an alleged investigative journalist website, has employees who have won Pulitzers.
But Soros funds foundations that fund other foundations in turn, like the Tides Foundation, which then make their own donations. A complete accounting is almost impossible because a media component is part of so many Soros-funded operations.
Soros' influence doesn't just include connections to top mainstream news organizations such as NBC, ABC, The New York Times and Washington Post. It's bought him connections to the underpinnings of the news business. The Columbia Journalism Review, which bills itself as "a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms," lists several investigative reporting projects funded by one of Soros foundations.
Local news reports will point the finger at Soros but the national media will rarely mention George Soros's name in connection with these riots/protests.
Hillary's campaign hired agitators to stir up trouble at Trump rallies as well. Her largest donor was George Soros.
A man from Trump's rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona back in March told ABC News he was given $3500 to protest.
"As for who these people were affiliated with that interviewed me, my guess would be Hillary Clinton's campaign," Horner said. "The actual check I received after I was done with the job was from a group called 'Women Are The Future'. After I was hired, they told me if anyone asked any questions about who I was with or communicated with me in any way, I should start talking about how great Bernie Sanders is." Horner continued, "It was mostly women in their 60's at the interview that I went to. Plus, all the people that I communicated with had an AOL email address. No one still has an AOL email address except people that would vote for Hillary Clinton." When asked about the other protesters at the rally, Horner said he saw most of them during the interview and training for the rally.
Horner said the group had a mandatory six-hour training class that had to be completed before protesting at Trump's rally.
The left's rioters/protesters are not generally grassroots. Soros, Hillary's campaign, and the DNC, as we know from Project Veritas, are using these paid political actors to destroy the opposition. It's McCarthyism.
So why isn't Soros in jail? He builds layers in between himself and the thugs which makes it difficult to nail him but this evil man is behind the riots and protests. One man with a lot of money and power can do a lot of damage. The media won't report this. Even Fox won't talk about George Soros except for O'Reilly and Hannity on occasion.
I say seize his assets, split them 50/50 w/the Russian Govt to atone for his Color Revolutions souring relations & bringing us close to WWIII, then hand the old Nazi collaborater over to the Russian authorities.
It would be better to seize the Clinton assets to compensate for the damage their foreign activities has caused and split them 50/50 with Americans, seeing as they collected money from corrupt anti women, anti gay, anti American gov'ts, then through a chain of laundered resources, the money ended up in the hands of America's enemies.
Soros should have been assassinated years ago, however now is a good time too … Why does someone not take him out ?
George Soros has been a manipulator of our government for a long time now. It is time to take him out one way or the other. The demonstrations are getting violent with looting and attacking citizens, this has to stop NOW. GO TRUMP.
The FBI should investigate Soros and if proven to be behind these Domestic Terrorist actions, he should spend a few years in jail for the damage he caused!
I just want to thank you for all the excellent reporting you do through these amazing times.
I'm sorry but these stories and propoganda that suggest its all SOROS is, in my opinion, BS. The REAL issue here is the anger and unrest in America today. And 2 of the nations most unpopular Presidential candidates and the theft of the election from Bernie for Hillary didn't help at all; and it all points to the BIGGEST issue here — GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION. Almost ALL OF IT is corrupt and in bed with big money and trying to point fingers at everyone else in hopes they don't get fired or imprisoned or who knows what else.
I am 50 years old, (young) but haven't seen this much unrest regarding a Presidential election in my lifetime. That said, government has to be careful how it responds to rioters; people do have a right to protest, true but rioters (though I don't agree with their actions) are people at the end of their ropes and ready to do ANYTHING. They can incite civil war. I am frustrated at Obama however for doing, seemingly, NOTHING about this. I think its their way of getting back at the Republicans after a sore loss. If Killary had won however there would be massive riots as well. Again that is how DEEPLY DIVIDED the US is now. Our people are tired of low wage jobs, working 60 plus hours a week and still not being able to have enough money to get ahead. Americans are TIRED of not being able to afford to educate their children. Americans are AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE in my humblest opinion and GOD HELP any US President at this point, but especially Trump; an unpopular President during a horrific time for America. I pray Government and our citizens find a way to work things out and put AMERICANS first for a change. It's getting bad out there and if government isn't willing to do its job and right by its citizens perhaps they should take the money they raped of the American people and leave the US. UGH.
Groups have been doing this for years. It's part of their plan for the new world order.
No one thinks it's all Soros but it's mostly Soros. There is no doubt people are upset but they wouldn't go out and burn things. You're the gullible one if you believe they represent half the nation though the media makes it look that way.
The divisions were fostered by the Marxist-in-Chief for 8 years.
You don't have money because of 8 years of an Obama economy.
When I was involved with Common Core, a well-known Communist took part in the anti-Common Core protests. He had a group of 35,000 Communists who live in the NYC environs he could call up with little notice. That's who you see instigating these protests.
I spent time with the Occupiers and MoveOn was deeply involved. I saw a payoff to so-called protesters by MORE – another Soros-funded org.
Ms Simms you would be incorrect in your thinking that Mr Soros is not behind these riots etc.
You all are really gullible if you think one billionaire is paying all these people around the country, from all walks of life, to come together and protest. Just look at all the pictures of thousands of people protesting, including high school walkouts, etc. Yea sure, everyone in all cities met with Soros and he cut us all a check to protests (HAHA Idiots). Trump was right went he went on record saying "If I ever run for office, I'll run Republican, they'll believe anything." Nice irresponsible reporting Independentsentinel! You're fooling your own people. Shame.
You're really a dope if you think we think that. Soros, as we know from Wikileaks, is behind uniting many of these groups and funds many of them or works cooperatively with them. There are other dangerous billionaires like Tom Steyer, there's the Socialist Party and its evil offspring, terrorists, the Communist Party and others along with millions of leftists. The school kids have been indoctrinated. My readers are too smart to not think on their own. You are very nasty.
Don't forget "Rule for Radicals" and how well Obama has done with those rules. Then Hillary and her love and admiration for Saul Alinsky. long dead but many "useful idiots", still trying to accomplish his goals.
look who's the gullible one. That quote was fabricated and false. Its a meme. Maybe go back and do some actual research instead of believing everything you hear, then regurgitating it back into the world. Ignorance like that is why there are protests and riots in the streets. A raunchy meme or fabricated quote catches the attention of the mentally enslaved morons, who cant wait to share their new founded lies, and the consequences hurt everyone except the idiots spewing the false narrative. I challenge you to spend a day researching George Soros. And maybe try more than one source ya? America isn't his first rodeo.
What quote are you referring to?
You do realize that "quote" from Donald Trump was a fake, right? Amy Schumar admitted it. And no, not all protests are caused by financed actors, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any. Whether Soros is behind any of them or not, I believe some of the protesters were paid. Albeit not all of them obviously. There probably would have even been protests had Hillary won as well. Who would they say financed some of those protests had Clinton won is beyond me.
Thousands of the rioters are paid, many are through Soros.


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Q: PHP shopping cart, inputting into database So what I have written right now is code for a user to place an order. They would add a book to the cart and press 'checkout' then from there it lists what they would have to pay and then they would press 'place order' which then needs to send the variables to my database. In my database I have two different tables, the first one is Orders where it has an OrderID which is incremented with each order placed. In Orders I have to input CustomerID,ShippingCost,Tax, and Total. Then FOR EACH ITEM, I must input into OrderDetails the OrderID,ProductID,Quantity, and LineTotal.
However, I cannot figure out how to input the OrderID with each item ordered corresponding to the OrderID generated in the Orders Table. As an example, I order two books, book a and book b. It will add a new Order and have CustomerID set to the ID of the user logged in, the shipping cost, the tax, and the total. It will then set the OrderID to one number higher than the last place, so lets say 19017. I must then get that orderID and input into OrderDetails the order id(19017), the ProductID (b1), the quantity(1) and the LineTotal(however much the book costs). I then must do the same for book b using the same OrderID. I cannot figure out how to pull the order id from when I insert it into Orders and use that when inputting OrderDetails. Thanks!
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        list($ProductID, $Title, $Price) = mysql_fetch_row($result);
        $cost = $Price * $quantity;
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    $query2="Select CustomerID from Customers where Email='$username'";
    $result2 = mysql_query($query2);
    list($CustomerID) = mysql_fetch_row($result2);
    $query3="Insert into Orders(CustomerID, ShippingCost,Tax,Total) values($CustomerID,$ship,$tax,$totalPrice)";

    mysql_query($query3);
    $query4="Insert into OrderDetails(ProductID,Quantity,LineTotal) values('$ProductID',$quantity,$total)";
                mysql_query($query4);

    }

A: As you're using mysql_ functions, you can use mysql_insert_id e.g.
$query3="Insert into Orders(CustomerID, ShippingCost,Tax,Total) values($CustomerID,$ship,$tax,$totalPrice)";
mysql_query($query3);

$orderId = mysql_insert_id();

But I would strongly recommend using PDO or mysqli instead. See here for more information on that.

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Fort Worth Mayor Price Wins Fourth Term
By Scott Gordon	• Published at 10:18 pm on May 6, 2017
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price won a fourth two-year term on Saturday, beating her first challenger since she became the city's leader in 2011.
Chris Nettles, 29, a county worker and father of four, had promised to improve community relations after the controversial arrest of Jacqueline Craig in September.
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Nettles hinted he would run again for mayor in two years.
"Those issues have not been resolved," he said, referring to police-community relations. "And what I'm going to do as Chris Nettles, I'm going to continue to be an activist and I'm going to work to get a Citizens Review Board. I think we still need it."
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In Fort Worth city council races, all incumbents won reelection except for Zim Zimmerman in District 3, which includes much of southwest Fort Worth.
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Q: How does an .apk files get signed This is not a question about how to sign an .apk file. I want to know what does signing actually means and how it is implemented.
Inside the .apk file there is META-INF folder and inside that there are two files.
First one is CERT.SF contains SHA1 hashes for various components and looks like this:
Name: res/layout/main.xml
SHA1-Digest: Cox/T8fN1X9Hv4VqjH9YKqc/MsM=

Name: AndroidManifest.xml
SHA1-Digest: wZ418H9Aix1LNch3ci7c+cHyuZc=

Name: resources.arsc
SHA1-Digest: P+uoRrpFyVW6P3Wf+4vuR2ZSuXY=

Name: classes.dex
SHA1-Digest: cN3zXtGii9zuTOkBqDTLymeMZQI=

There is also a file called CERT.RSA. I assume it is the public key to verify the signature.
My question is, where is the signature for the whole .apk file is stored? And what is actually signed? It could be either

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*.apk file used as a single binary object and this is signed

*or CERT.SF is signed which contains individual hashes for different components

It would be also much better if you can point me to the documentation of the detailed signing and verification process.

A: This actually has nothing to do with Android. APK files are signed using jarsigner. Here is a link to the manpage.

A: Indeed this is not a specific Android question but a Java-in-general question however I post an answer anyway...
First of all: Only the XXX.SF file is signed; this means that all the files mentioned in the XXX.SF file are signed "indirectly" because XXX.SF contains their hashes. In fact all files not located in "Meta-Inf" should have hashes there! The whole .apk archive is not signed.
The XXX.SF file is more or less a copy of the MANIFEST.MF file. There is a line "SHA1-Digest-Manifest" which is the SHA-1 hash of "MANIFEST.MF" itself; the "SHA1-Digest" lines do not contain the hashes of the files but the hashes of the tree corresponding lines in the Manifest.MF file just like this:
SHA1("Name: filename"+CR+LF+"SHA1-Digest: "+SHA1(file_content)+CR+LF+CR+LF)
The file format of XXX.DSA/.RSA is the same as for an S/MIME email signature (for the content of XXX.SF) however the data is not base64 encoded and no header/trailer lines are used. "openssl smime -sign -outform DER" would create this format.
Multiple certificates can be used to sign a ZIP file. In this case multiple pairs of (XXX.SF/.RSA, YYY.SF/.RSA, ...) will exist.