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Rider's College of Continuing Studies has generous transfer credit policies. We transfer up to 90 credits (60 credits from two-year institutions) toward a bachelor of arts (B.A.) or science (B.S.) degree, up to 75 credits toward the business (B.S.B.A.) degree, and up to 30 credits toward an associate degree (A.A.). We also transfer credits older than 10 years (except for certain business disciplines).
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by Chisun Lee
Bias crime victim John Lee could use the Republican vote. photo: Brian Finke
Three months after his skull was fractured by a group of white classmates, Binghamton University student John Lee still experiences short-term memory loss and needs antiseizure medication. Friends and eyewitnesses recall that the cry "You damn Chinks" heralded the brawl.
The attackers—Chad Scott, Nicholas Richetti, and Christopher Taylor—have been indicted on, or pled guilty to, charges of misdemeanor assault, attempted assault, and disorderly conduct, respectively. But Lee's legal adviser, Sin Yen Ling of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says the outcome falls unacceptably short of the Broome County prosecutor's initial intent to bring felony indictments.
In any of 41 other states, she argues, the consequences for the assailants—especially Scott, who faces disorderly conduct charges in another incident involving harassment of Asian students—would likely be graver. With a law expressly condemning hate crimes, she says, it "absolutely" would be easier to demonstrate the hostile motivations of the attackers. Assistant D.A. John Romani says such a statute would have been useful in this case, where "the precipitating factor was a racial slur."
But New York is one of a handful of states still without such a law. A "hate crime is designed not just to hurt an individual but to send a message to a group, saying, 'It could have been you,' " says the New York regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Howie Katz. Right now, he says, New York prosecutors have no direct means of "coming back and saying that's wrong."
This year's state legislative session was when Ling and other minority rights advocates were supposed to get their hate crimes law. Even with less than two weeks to go before the session closes, advocates are still optimistic, and, they say, not blindly so. Particular circumstances, they claim, make the time right for a vote on any of three virtually interchangeable bills—including one introduced by Republican senator Roy Goodman and another by Governor Pataki—that have languished for years without action.
Public support for hate crimes legislation is, advocates say, at an all-time high. It has always been high—a November 1998 Zogby poll showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers favored some form of hate crimes legislation. But recent instances of violence against minorities—such as a white supremacist's one-day shooting rampage last August that killed one Filipino postal worker and wounded five occupants of a Jewish community center in California—have put hate crimes in the national spotlight. And in this presidential election year, which features an unusually interesting U.S. Senate race, state Republicans up for reelection are feeling increased heat from newly galvanized voters, the measure's advocates maintain.
Those advocates call this confluence of factors unprecedented and hope that it will engender an equally unusual about-face on the part of senate majority leader Joe Bruno, who single-handedly has kept the measure trapped in committee. Legislation proponents say that getting the necessary number of votes has never been the problem. Instead, they say, Republicans—including prime sponsors Goodman and Pataki—have been "all talk" in their efforts to get Bruno to budge. A Pataki spokesperson says the governor has "done everything he can." But, she emphasizes, "Senator Bruno has his own beliefs."
Those beliefs, officially speaking, are legalistic—Bruno objects to creating special categories of crimes and potentially limiting judge and jury discretion. (Far-left critics of the legislation to some extent share his concerns, fearing that, in a system they say disproportionately punishes people of color, any additional penalties will only hurt minority communities.)
But Bruno's critics agree that his true reason for balking—in keeping with his view that gay and lesbian lifestyles are "abnormal"—is homophobia, plain and simple. "The whole idea of codifying two words—sexual orientation—in an affirmative way is repellent to him," says Tim Sweeney of Empire State Pride Agenda, a nonpartisan statewide organization.
But for a while there, standard-bearer Bruno seemed poised to recant. Provoked by a possible threat to his party's majority come November, some say, he recently declared, "We feel [that this] is an important issue; it's one that should be . . . discussed and voted on. And we intend to do that in this session." Bill sponsors immediately latched on to the statement as an ironclad pledge, and Goodman says, "I believe Senator Bruno will honor that commitment." Bruno's office will say only that the bill "is one of the issues we were going to take a look at in the next couple of weeks," presumably before the session ends on June 14.
But then again, by the grace of Rick Lazio, maybe not.
For Hillary Clinton, his arrival gave rise to the opportunity (or need) to attack an opponent on issues rather than personality. She could hardly have bashed Rudy for being soft on hate crimes, since he had made his own statements, similar to hers, supporting a state statute. But since Lazio grabbed the party baton, the Clinton campaign has condemned him for, among various conservative sins, his refusal to cosponsor the federal hate crimes bill, which would seem to place him at odds with most New Yorkers. Even some conservative Catholics, prompted by a recent spate of icon vandalism, support such a law, says Katz. He and Goodman both claim that, before falling gravely ill, Cardinal O'Connor indicated an interest in endorsing the legislation.
Lazio's record on the federal bill, along with his refusal to sponsor a bill to prohibit antigay discrimination in the workplace, earned him a rating of 18 out of 100 from the national gay and lesbian lobby Human Rights Campaign. Critics doubt that the Lazio who blithely uttered the slur "pansy" on network television loses sleep over the risk some New Yorkers face merely because of their minority status.
With the coming of Lazio, one Democratic Assembly aide says, there is "not a chance in hell" that the bill will pass this session. The burst of conservative energy Lazio has brought may spare Republicans, previously fearful of losing votes this November in moderate suburbs, from capitulating to gay rights activists. Moreover, passing the state bill would only provide fodder for those eager to highlight Lazio's refusal to do so on a federal level.
When polls show the two-week-old candidate already pulling off a statistical tie, why rock the boat?
But Katz says he believes that Lazio will support a state hate crimes law—a popular way to convey his moderateness, if Conservative Party leader Mike Long will look the other way—and that, in doing so, he will enable party members to do the same without losing face. In fact, Lazio's support of Medicaid coverage for the disabled has already swayed state Republicans to reconsider a plan previously nixed by the governor as too expensive.
Democratic state senator Tom Duane, a prime sponsor of one of the bills, naturally is "optimistic" that some version of the law will be passed in the next two weeks or that a special session will be called later this year for that purpose. But, he says, "I never thought about Lazio as the person you went to in Congress to get other Republicans to support hate crimes legislation." If Lazio does change his tune, Duane says, "it would strike me as being something that only had to do with the Senate race." But hate crimes legislation advocates have long said that however they get the law, they'll take it.
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Blondin, 6th, & Christ, 8th, earn best-ever ranking while Morrison finished 7th at World Allround Long Track Speed Skating Championships
Ivanie Blondin and Kali Christ earned their best-ever overall ranking at the 2015 ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Sunday at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, taking the 6th and 8th positions while Denny Morrison took the 7th spot, finishing among the top-10 for the fifth time in as many tries in that competition.
Blondin (Ottawa, ON) and Christ (Regina, SK) respectively finished sixth and eighth in overall standings, as both skaters earned their best result in three career World Allround Championships so far. Blondin was 18th last year and 20th in 2011, while Christ was 10th last year and 12th in 2013.
"I see a trend there," joked Christ, 23, alluding to the fact she has improved by two places each year. "But I'm happy with the fact that I was able to set personal bests in all four of my races over the weekend, although I still have things to improve on, here and there."
Blondin's sixth-place finish is the best result by a Canadian female skater at the World Allround Championships since 2012, when Christine Nesbitt was third overall and Cindy Klassen was fifth. Blondin's and Christ's qualification for the 5000m race was also a first since 2012 for the Canadian women.
"I did better than I thought I was capable of. But I knew that by qualifying for the 5000m, which was my goal, I would be in a position to better my ranking because that's more my distance," said Blondin, 24, who has broken through at the international level this season with six World Cup medals, five in the mass start and one in a 5000m race (a bronze), in addition to a silver medal in the mass start event at the recent World Single Distance Championships.
"It shows that there's a lot of potential on this Canadian team," said Morrison of Blondin's and Christ's results this weekend. "We're still three years away from the next Olympics, several of our athletes took a year off this season and may come back next fall, so it bodes well for the future because that means that we'll have a team with a lot of depth going into 2018."
Morrison seventh overall
Morrison (Fort St. John, B.C.) ended up seventh overall, to finish in the top-10 for the fifth time in as many participations in the World Allround Championships. The 29-year-old Olympic multimedalist was also seventh the last time he skated in this competition, in 2009. He was sixth in 2008, 10th in 2007 and fifth in 2006.
Morrison was the first Canadian male skater to finish among the top-10 overall since Lucas Makowsky in 2010 (9th).
"Seventh is a pretty standard finish for me at this competition," noted Morrison. "Since I'm pretty good in the 500m and 1500m races, getting into the top-8 is pretty automatic for me. Skating in the 10 000m is a tough task in my case. It's a bit like asking Usain Bolt to run with marathoners in a 10 000m foot race!"
"Still, I'm satisfied with seventh place considering this is the first year after the Sochi Olympics. Mentally and physically, I'm leaps and bounds ahead of where I was the year after the 2010 Olympics", added Morrison, whose victory in Saturday's 500m was Canada's first podium finish by a male skater since 2009 at the World Allround Championships.
Only the top eight male skaters and the first eight female athletes in overall standings after Sunday's 1500m races were invited to skate in the women's 5000m and men's 10 000m events, and go for the World Allround Championship title. The men started off the weekend with a 500m and a 5000m on Saturday, while the women raced in a 500m and a 3000m on day 1.
The Czech Republic's Martina Sablikova won the 5000m in six minutes and 51.21 seconds and earned first place in overall standings, and was therefore crowned World Allround Champion for the third time of her career. Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, who was third in the 5000m, finished second overall to give up the world title she had won over the previous four competitions.
On the men's side, Dutch skater Sven Kramer won the men's 10 000m race in 12:56.69 and was crowned World Allround Champion for the seventh time. He is now one world title away from matching Germany's Gunda Niemann, who won eight titles in the 1990s.
Blondin and Christ together in the 5000m
Blondin earned fifth place in Sunday's 5000m, with a time of 7:06.99, while Christ was eighth, albeit with a new personal best of 7:24.10. The two Canadians skated in the same pairing.
"I was happy to be with Kali, it brought a level of comfort that was good, I told myself that if something happened, she'd be right there with me," said Blondin. "Personally, my goal was to be consistent from one lap to the next."
"I knew Ivanie was going to be faster, because the 5000m is her distance and not mine, but it was a nice feeling that we did it together," said Christ. "For my part, I just wanted to keep my laps flat."
Morrison finished eighth in the men's 10 000m, with a time of 13:54.90. He qualified for that race after finishing fifth in the 1500m (1:44.35), one of his specialties (he won a bronze medal in that distance at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and finished second in the 1500m events raced at the 2007 and 2008 World Allround Championships). That result placed him fourth in overall standings after three races.
Christ and Blondin qualified for the women's 5000m after finishing fourth and 12th, respectively, in the women's 1500m, earning them fifth and seventh place in overall standings after three races. Christ and Blondin both came up with new personal bests in the 1500m, with times of 1:54.44 and 1:56.85, respectively.
"Just making it to the 5000m was a big deal to me, since the 1500m is my best distance and the 5000m, not as much," stated Christ.
"Considering it was only the fourth time this season I was skating in a 1500m, it wasn't a bad time and it gave me an OK ranking," commented Blondin. "Being paired with Ireen Wust was intimidating at first, but it ended up helping me. Even though she was skating fast and was in front of me, I knew that by keeping up with her, that would still give me a good time."
"I reached my goal, since it allowed me to qualify for the 5000m."
Bloemen makes amends
Although he did not qualify for the men's 10 000m, Ted-Jan Bloemen (Calgary, AB) saw his competition end on a relatively good note, as the skater who specializes in the longer distances came close to a personal best in the 1500m. He skated Sunday's 1500m in 1:46.89, a little over a half-second away from the time of 1:46.36 he registered last October 23 in Calgary, to finish 17th in the race. He concluded the weekend in 16th place overall, the same rank he was in after Saturday's 5000m, a race in which he finished eighth, a disappointing result in his mind.
"I had trouble shaking off that 5K, but this morning I was able to skate better, and I started the process of trying to learn from that race and see the 1500m as a challenge to deal with in trying circumstances," said Bloemen. "Things did go better, I'm happy with the way I recovered from Saturday's races. I will learn from this, and I will be better in the future."
Bloemen was taking part in his first World Allround Championships with Canada after skating twice in that competition for the Netherlands, earning fourth place overall in 2010. He did appreciate skating in his new city of residence and in front of fans from his new home country.
"I really like competing here, I like it when the fans cheer me on like they did (this weekend). I'm just disappointed I couldn't give them better results," said Bloemen.
The 2014-15 international long track speed skating season will conclude with the World Cup Finals, to be held March 21-22 in Erfurt, Germany.
More information can be found on Speed Skating Canada's website: www.speedskating.ca.
TODAY'S CANADIAN RESULTS:
1500m W
4. Kali Christ (1:54.44)
12. Ivanie Blondin (1:56.85)
1500m M
5. Denny Morrison (1:44.35)
17. Ted-Jan Bloemen (1:46.89)
5. Ivanie Blondin (7:06.99)
10000m M
8. Denny Morrison (13:54.90)
Final ranking – W
6. Ivanie Blondin
8. Kali Christ
Final ranking – M
7. Denny Morrison
16. Ted-Jan Bloemen
About Speed Skating Canada
Speed Skating Canada (SSC) is the governing body for competitive long track and short track speed skating in Canada. Founded in 1887, the association is comprised of 13 provincial and territorial branches representing more than 13,000 individual members, and counting. SSC believes that sport is an apprenticeship for life and prizes respect for others, integrity, excellence of effort, as well as a safe, healthy environment. SSC recognizes and values its outstanding volunteers who give freely of their time and expertise. It also celebrates the 63 Olympic medals won by Canadian athletes since 1932, as well as the coaches, officials and other dedicated individuals who helped them on their journey.
SSC is proud to be affiliated with partners that share the same vision and values including our premium sponsor Intact Insurance, as well as our funding partners, the Government of Canada, Own the Podium, and WinSport Canada.
Jeff MacKinnon
Coordinator, Media and Communications Services – long track
Speed Skating Canada
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Former Indian State Minister Arrested For Allegedly Raping Malaysian Actress
The actress has also accused the former minister of cheating, causing miscarriage, causing hurt, and criminal intimidation.
By May Vin Ang — 24 Jun 2021, 03:02 PM
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A former Indian state minister was arrested in Bengaluru, India on Sunday, 20 June, after allegedly raping a Malaysian actress, along with several other alleged offences
According to The Hindu, the arrest comes after the actress lodged a complaint against Dr M Manikandan at the Adyar All Women Police Station in Chennai last month.
Manikandan, who was Tamil Nadu's information technology (IT) minister from 2016 to 2019, was accused of cheating the victim after she claimed that he had promised to marry her but kept postponing a divorce with his wife.
The already-married Manikandan was introduced to her, known for acting in 2009 film Nadodigal, in 2017 and they developed a friendship under the pretext of making an investment in Malaysia.
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Besides cheating, the police have also booked Manikandan for rape, causing miscarriage, causing hurt, and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code
India Today reported that the 36-year-old actress also alleged during their five-year, live-in relationship, 44-year-old Manikandan impregnated her and forced her to get abortions three times.
She also claimed that when she insisted he marry her, he has attacked her, issued death threats, threatened her family members in Malaysia, and also threatened to release their intimate photos and videos online to blackmail her multiple times.
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The former state minister was finally arrested by a special police team on Sunday after he was summoned for inquiry but did not appear
According to The Indian Express, Manikan was evading arrest and ran off to neighbouring Karnataka after his advance bail was rejected by the Madras High Court.
Manikandan has reportedly denied all allegations against him.
These Malaysian organisations aim to help survivors of rape and sexual assault:
1. WOMEN'S AID ORGANISATION (WAO)
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Contact: +603-30008858
SMS/WhatsApp: +6018-9888058
2. ALL WOMEN'S ACTION SOCIETY (AWAM)
Operating hours: Weekdays (9.30am - 4.30pm)
WhatsApp: +6016-2284221 | +6016-2374221
3. WOMEN'S CENTRE FOR CHANGE PENANG (WCC PENANG)
Operating hours: Weekdays (9am - 5pm)
Contact: +604-2280342 | +604-3988340
WhatsApp: +6011-31084001 | +6016-4390698
4. SARAWAK WOMEN FOR WOMEN SOCIETY (SWWS)
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Anonymously and confidentially report child sexual abuse content and non-photographic child sexual abuse images with IWF's Reporting Portal.
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OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY! Communication & Conflict Resolution In this session, we will explore effective communication strategies for families or individuals when faced with conflict. Families will learn about, and take part in engaging exercises from Pia Mellody's Conjoint Communication model. Additionally, we will continue to explore strategies for establishing healthy boundaries that began in our last session, and take families through conflict resolution exercises to help them navigate competing needs within a family system.


It's walking distance to ICONSIAM, but far from others. Taxis do not like going tot hat side of the river. Not much amenities. Great room service. Good size rooms. Right in front of river with great view. It is far from the city center and others though.
Great hotel as all Shangri La hotels are. Everything you need and more. Great food, view from balcony was great.


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Future of Health and Healthcare
Healthcare Delivery
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
How AI can inspire doctors to be more inventive
Getting to the heart of the matter: Smart AI could free up doctors
Image: REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
Nick Peters Professor of Cardiology and Head of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial College London
In 2017, DeepMind's AlphaGo computer beat the world champion of the strategy board game Go. The computer knew only the rules of the game, which has more possible moves than there are atoms in the visible universe. Some saw it as a watershed - the point at which machines officially became more intelligent than humankind.
Yet, a subtle point (not so widely reported) was that AlphaGo defied long-held conventions for moves. Consequently, the grand masters of the game have admitted to being liberated, and have dared to imagine new moves and strategies which are leading to extraordinary winning streaks.
But what does this have to do with healthcare?
We are currently in the throes of a technological revolution in which machines are being empowered with the ability to learn and to work out solutions for themselves. Machines are beginning to challenge human imagination in a way that may not have been anticipated, and which could, paradoxically, teach humankind to dare to imagine beyond our current constraints and unleash a revolution in creativity. In this way, in the context of healthcare, machine learning is likely to identify new physiological measures that can inform and inspire doctors towards new ways of maintaining health and stabilizing disease.
Shut up and calculate
The entirety of clinical science has been shaped solely by an historic ability to measure something. We measure blood pressure only because 150 years ago someone found that they could, without at first understanding the full implications. A decade or so later, doctors showed that individuals with high blood pressures were having more life-threatening health events than those with a lower value, and this in turn encouraged the development of drugs that could lower high blood pressure. Several years later, conclusive evidence arrived that these agents could reduce life-threatening cardiovascular events, including stroke, fatal heart attack and kidney failure. And so a whole field of clinical science and an associated industry of diagnostics, investigation and treatment evolved from this initial enquiry into blood pressure.
The coming revolution will start with conventional measures of health that underpin existing clinical fields, then evolve to use machine learning to identify other signals derived from the use of consumer devices that can be incorporated into the cradle-to-grave pathways of healthy living.
Consider, for example, how the healthcare ecosystem might evolve around ubiquitous availability of the electrocardiogram (ECG), or an equivalent indicator of heart beating and rhythm.
A major clinical challenge for conventional clinical science is a heart rhythm disturbance called atrial fibrillation, which is increasing in prevalence and is often present without symptoms until the point of causing a stroke. Atrial fibrillation may be intermittent, but it is easily diagnosed from the ECG and easily treated to prevent stroke. Incidentally, the recently launched Apple Watch 4 incorporates an ECG, and although yet to prove its value, it nonetheless demonstrates how consumer diagnostics might have an impact on population health.
Once such diagnostics are widely available, novel population care pathways will evolve. Another, different type of heart rhythm disturbance can cause sudden cardiac death and is detectable by ECG or an equivalent indicator of heart beating. Someone in the state of cardiac arrest needs to receive CPR within five minutes to avoid brain damage. An ecosystem that uses smart consumer devices to alert and recruit a nearby citizen who has registered their competence to deliver CPR would have a major impact on survival rates.
Beyond this, the long-term monitoring and consolidation of large volumes of ECG with other biosensor and general lifestyle and behavioural data will bring to light as yet unrecognized signals that are relevant to health outcomes. Most importantly, it will enable entirely new fields of sharper, better and more cost effective clinical science to emerge that may supersede blunt measurements such as the likes of blood pressure.
Healthcare revolution
In the face of the inexorable increase in the burden on healthcare systems worldwide, there is a very worrying trend of diminishing numbers of young people aspiring to study medicine. Many cite unnecessarily long and inflexible hours and the failure of healthcare systems to embrace innovation as contributing factors.
Healthcare has become less based on clinical acumen and judgement, and more based on tests and investigations to produce data for protocoled management decisions. The result is an increasing obsession with numbers that has changed both the role of the doctor and the expectations of an increasingly demanding public.
Paradoxically, the solution may lie in even more data, algorithms and protocols, but with these processes taken out of the hands of the healthcare worker and fully automated using smart technologies. This has enormous advantages that include a greater knowledge base and objectivity, indefatigability and the ability to identify and then exploit new and previously unrecognized data signals in patients.
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The problem right now is that we are in a transitional phase, in which clinical staff are having to deal with data overload as well as managing increasingly demanding patients. The algorithmic component of care, estimated to be 70% of the workload of a doctor, needs to be taken on by technologies. This would free up the doctor to focus on the 30%, resulting in better, more cost-effective and more enjoyable healthcare delivery.
This will ultimately prompt a global rethink about how healthcare is organized and delivered. Could connected technologies herald a real and sustainable means of enabling effective large-scale disease prevention and management programmes? For the first time, we have connected care tools to give people greater control over their own health and well-being, and to drive changes in attitudes, expectations and behaviour.
Just like the reinvigorated grand masters of Go, let doctors and researchers dare to imagine that the transition to connected self-care, coupled with deep machine learning, can identify better and more useful signals around which to enrich clinical science to improve population health.
Nick Peters, Professor of Cardiology and Head of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial College London
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We've talked about North Korea before, yes. Past articles have stressed just how isolated the country remains even in their new period of openness to (strictly regimented and guided) international tourism, and also the fact that NK's computers share only a closed-door intranet that is mostly separated from the outside world. The reality also remains that major countries in the Asia-Pacific are concerned about the hermit nation's continuing defiance of the world by carrying on with its nuclear testing in spite of God knows how many economic sanctions have been leveled upon it. The international community enforces these restrictions with a zeal that is often not equal to effectiveness, except in this instance.
According to Digital Trends, online streaming megabrand YouTube has shut down one of its numerous channels last month for violating its terms of service. What's unique about this particular YouTube channel is that it's the official one used and updated by Korean Central Television, an all-news TV network in North Korea run by the autocratic government as their small-screen propaganda source.
The news broadcasts featured on its programs would almost always consist of the itinerary of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un and his regular "guidance tours" of factories, farms and other facilities across his country; other times it reports updates on the military's preparations towards its next new nuclear weapon launch test.
Not anymore though. The main page of KCT's YouTube page now displays the note that it had been terminated – closed permanently – for violations of the site's Community Guidelines. It can be debated whether any news or propaganda content shown by the channel could stand in violation of any terms set by YouTube; but the actual reason for its shutdown, if analysts are to be believed, is that the violations committed by KCT's page was not against the mother site but on North Korea's standing economic sanctions itself.
The thing is, on March of this year the US Treasury Department imposed a sanction that prohibited American companies from transacting business with the North Korean government's Propaganda and Agitation Department, which happens to be the immediate controlling agency of Korean Central Television. This is to ensure that NK could earn no profit from business with these firms.
A YouTube channel like the one KCT had is able to generate revenue from its platform's advertising system, part of which is earned by the channel's owner, in this case North Korea. It therefore falls under existing international sanctions, thus obliging YouTube to shut down their operations as of November.
It should be noted however that the amount of money KCT was earning for NK through their YouTube channel isn't really much by any stretch of the imagination, but rulings are rulings.


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Misery of the Maxwells: Bankruptcy, sudden death, huge fortunes made and lost
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Robert Maxwell was a ruthless bully who rose from impoverished beginnings in Czechoslovakia to become a multi-millionaire publisher living a life of luxury — funded by £460 million stolen from the Mirror Group pension pot.
His youngest daughter — and 'favourite' child — Ghislaine is now in hiding in the wake of the death of her ex-lover and mentor, the paedophile and alleged sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
But what of the other Maxwell siblings? From a brilliant scientist who fled to Argentina, to a former actress branded 'ugly' by her bullying father, they have all had their fair share of ups and perhaps inevitable downs.
Christine and her twin sister Isabel made The Sunday Times Rich List in 1999 after amassing their £100 million in the dotcom boom.
But Isabel would later fall on hard times, going from being worth an estimated £50million in the 1990s to declaring bankrupt in 2015.
Here, JANE FRYER reveals the extraordinary lives of the Maxwell offspring.
Robert Maxwell (back row, centre) pictured with his wife Betty (sat with youngest daughter Ghislaine on her knee) and seven of their eight children at home in Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. When this photo was taken Ian (5) was 11 years old and attending preparatory school, while Isabel, then 17 (4) was at grammar school with their sister Christine (3), and youngest son Kevin, 8, (6) was at preparatory school. Second oldest son Philip, (1), had entered his second undergraduate yer at Balliol College, Oxford, while Anne (2) was also studying at the university, but at St Hugh's College.
Robert Maxwell's youngest daughter Ghislaine pictured at the 2010 Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. She is currently in hiding in the wake of the death of her ex-lover and mentor, the paedophile and alleged sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
A TRAGIC EARLY DEATH
Michael, Ghislaine's oldest brother
Robert and Betty Maxwell's first-born fell into a coma aged 15 after a car crash in 1961 and died eight years later, never having regained consciousness.
BRILLIANT SCIENTIST FLED TO ARGENTINA
Philip, 70, is the second-eldest sibling
Philip fled to Argentina to 'get as far away from (his father) as possible'
'Poor Philip', as his friends always knew him, was a brilliant scientist and mathematician who won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, aged just 16. But he so loathed his domineering father that, as soon as he could, Philip fled to Argentina to get 'as far away from [him] as possible'.
The pair fell out irretrievably when he married Nilda, an Argentine, in 1977, against Robert's wishes.
The marriage didn't last — Nilda moved out taking their daughter Marcella with her and a second marriage also failed. Philip was last heard of living in a £65-a-week flat in North London trying to be a writer. The subject? His bullying father.
EX-ACTRESS WAS CALLED 'UGLY' BY HER FATHER
Anne was called 'ugly' by her father
Anne, 69, is Ghislaine's eldest sister
When her fledgling acting career floundered, her father's reaction was: 'What have you and Pope John Paul II got in common? You're both ugly and you're both failed actors.'
Having studied Italian and French at Oxford, she then trained as a Montessori teacher, married an osteopath and is now believed to be a hypnotherapist in Surrey, practising under another name.
She has kept out of the limelight since her father's death at the age of 68. He was found floating in the Atlantic off the Canary Islands after he went missing in 1991 off his private yacht, named Lady Ghislaine after his youngest daughter.
Robert Maxwell (second left) with his wife Elisabeth (second right) and children Anne and Philip outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in 1971
DOTCOM TYCOON WHO MADE THE RICH LIST
Christine, 68, is one of twins
Christine amassed a £100million fortune during the dotcom boom
She is the author of The Dictionary Of Perfect Spelling (a book with 20,000 words aimed at secondary school pupils) and is married to a Roger Malina, an astrophysicist at a French university.
They have two sons and a daughter and split their time between a Spanish-style mansion overlooking San Francisco and Aix-en-Provence in the South of France.
In a rare interview in 1998 about her then role on the Internet Society Board Of Trustees (which works 'for an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy internet for everyone'), she spoke of the years spent in her father's publishing business:
'Both of my parents had a strong work ethic, which they instilled in me and my brothers and sisters when we were very young. They also communicated a very clear understanding that advantages always come with responsibilities — that there was no such thing as a free ride.'
'FIREBALL' LOST £50M AND WED ILLUSIONIST
Isabel, 68, is the second twin
Isabel lost an estimated £50million that she made during the dotcom boom with her sister
Once described in The Jerusalem Post as 'a fireball' who is 'always in your face', Isabel was always the Maxwell to watch. She never wanted to join the family firm, so after graduating from Oxford with a degree in modern languages, followed by a masters from Edinburgh, she became a TV reporter.
In 1981, she moved to California to work in TV before making a film set in 1968 starring rock singer Neil Young. 'It wasn't ET,' she said, '. . . more a labour of love.'
But technology was her future. She and twin Christine co-founded one of the earliest internet search engines, known as Magellan, in 1992.
In 1996, they sold it for shares in a rival company Excite — which rocketed in value, giving the sisters their joint £100 million fortune, before dipping again.
But despite being worth an estimated £50 million in the 1990s, she was declared bankrupt in 2015.
She was married twice. Her first husband was U.S. film-maker Dale Djerassi, with whom she has a son, and then she wed Magellan co-founder David Hayden.
Robert Maxwell with his 'favourite' daughter Ghislaine watching the Oxford vs Brighton football match in October 1984
Robert Maxwell pictured speaking to the press and at the Football Writers' Association in 1990
Her third 'husband', illusionist Al Seckel, was once a significant player in the Californian literary, academic and celebrity scene. He was famous for holding parties for the great and good. Jeffrey Epstein was a friend.
In 2009, the two men organised a science conference called Mindshift on Epstein's private island Little Saint James.
Isabel and Seckel 'married' in Malibu in 2007 but their union was never legal as he had forgotten to file the papers to annul the second of three previous marriages (to Denice Lewis, a former model who appeared in music videos for Bryan Ferry, Elton John and Cliff Richard. She became an artist specialising in memorial paintings in which the ashes of the deceased are mixed with the pigment.)
Isabel was branded a 'fireball' by The Jerusalem Post and someone who is 'always in your face'
Similarly, Seckel had forgotten to repay countless debts over the years that resulted in endless legal proceedings.
One law suit, brought by Ensign Consulting Ltd, a firm based in the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, accused both him and Isabel of perpetrating a fraud involving 'the purchase of antique rare books and a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton painted in 1689'.
In 2015, Seckel was found dead below a cliff near their home in the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in France's Lot Valley. Isabel still lives in the south of France.
HEARTRENDING LOSS
Karine, the middle sister
Died of leukaemia aged just three in 1957.
WIFE SOBBED AS HE WAS ARRESTED
Ian, 62, the 'fall guy' brother
Ian's wife, American former college Basketball star Laura Plumb, was photographed sobbing when he was arrested
Taunted mercilessly at home — his father would ridicule him in front of visiting friends. When he joined the family business, he was compared unfavourably to his younger brother, Kevin. In the aftermath, of their father's death, Ian, then 35, and Kevin, 32, assumed control of the company and stood trial for their part in their father's £460 million pension fraud.
They were acquitted, but the Maxwell name was mud for years and business opportunities were limited to overseas ventures. Ian's first wife was an American former college basketball star and model called Laura Marie Plumb.
They met when she moved to London to help set up a TV cable company. The couple married in 1991 — the year of Robert Maxwell's death — and the ensuing media attention put Laura under great strain. On the day that Ian and Kevin were arrested, she was photographed sobbing. The couple divorced in 1996.
Next, he married Tara Dudley Smith, the daughter of a Jockey Club steward and ex-Army officer. But that relationship also ended. He found happiness with Cecilia French, 58, director of public protection at the Home Office.
Recently, after pursuing business opportunities in property, energy and telecoms, mostly outside the UK, Ian and Kevin said they'd felt the urge to do something for the greater good. So three years ago, in the middle of the Greek financial crisis, they launched an organisation similar to the Prince's Trust in Greece which has raised millions of euros and helped to launch several hundred businesses.
Robert Maxwell pictured with his son Ian (left), who was taunted mercilessly by his siblings, and youngest son Kevin (right), who became Britain's biggest ever bankrupt when a £407million bankruptcy order was made against him
Ian pictured with his wife Laura at court on the first day of his trial, where he and his brother were accused of taking at least £122million worth of pension funds
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST EVER BANKRUPT
Kevin, 60, the youngest brother
Kevin was arrested and charged with fraud in 1992 after hundreds of millions disappeared from the Maxwell empire's employee pension funds
The cleverest son and driving force of the family, Kevin was crestfallen by his father's death, saying that he 'missed his presence and ability to dominate'. He admitted to being totally in awe of him.
The only Maxwell sibling ever to express remorse in public for the fallout from Robert Maxwell's crimes, Kevin made reference to the 'moral burden I will bear for the rest of my life'. His first wife, Pandora Warnford-Davis called her father-in-law Robert the 'fat fraudster'.
When, in June 1992, Kevin was arrested and charged with fraud after hundreds of millions disappeared from the Maxwell empire's employee pension funds, she appeared at the window of their home at dawn and shouted: 'P*** off, or I'll call the police!' only to realise the early morning callers were the police.
In 2007, they divorced after 23 years and seven children together. Pandora was last heard of living in Oxford, renting out a room through Airbnb. Soon after his arrest, Kevin became Britain's biggest ever bankrupt when a £407 million bankruptcy order was made against him.
Kevin (left) became Britain's biggest ever bankrupt when a £407million bankruptcy order was made against him in 2007. (Right: Kevin pictured shortly after being declared bankrupt)
Ian photographed trying to drive a moped while wearing a suit and tie. Three years ago, in the middle of the Greek financial crisis, he launched an organisation with his brother that has raised millions of euros to save several hundred businesses
The bankruptcy was discharged in 1995, following the mandatory three years. And, after an Old Bailey trial that cost taxpayers £12 million in legal aid, he was acquitted of fraud a year later — even though a subsequent Whitehall report concluded Kevin bore a 'heavy responsibility' for what happened.
In 1998, he went on to co-found media company Telemonde, a U.S.-based commercial vehicle for what he hoped would be 'the Maxwell comeback story'. It was not to be. When Telemonde floated in 1999, Kevin looked on course to becoming a multi-millionaire; on paper he owned a seven per cent stake, worth £16 million.
But by 2001, the company had debts of more than £100 million and failed. Kevin then moved into high end commercial property.
His venture came tumbling down in 2011 when he was disqualified from being a director for eight years. The same year, Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz, two tycoons he shared an office with, were arrested by the Serious Fraud Office. Today, he is working again with Ian in their Greek charitable venture.
Robert Maxwell once said: 'The thing I'd most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.' Considering how some of his own turned out, it was perhaps the most prescient thing the old rogue ever said.
Kevin's first wife Pandora Maxwell, who referred to his father as the 'fat fraudster'. They divorced after 23 years of marriage and having seven children together. She was last heard of renting out a room through Airbnb in Oxford
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They are putting in place a beacon system to be able to guide aircraft into land without the use of their existing radar ( vectoring) system. Initially it will be used as a back up safety feature as not all aircraft using the airport are equipped with the technology.
The becon route will guide aircraft in over Hoo and between Cliffe and Cliffe Woods.
The traffic we are seeing today is about 50% of the total allowable flights so it is possible that we will see an increase in existing traffic with appropriately 10% of that traffic using the new beacon route.
The allowable height for aircraft flying over the peninsula is not changing.
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Hi Andrew, Henrik,
congratulations! This is really good news.
I just got really puzzeled when I read the recent Oracle/ARM announcement:
"ARM AND ORACLE ANNOUNCE PLANS TO OPTIMIZE JAVA SE FOR ENTERPRISE AND
EMBEDDED MARKETS"
(http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-and-oracle-announce-plans-to-optimize-java-se-for-enterprise-and-embedded-markets.php)
They announced that "ARM ... has entered into a multi-year agreement
with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard
Edition (Java SE) for ARM® 32-bit platforms and to add Java SE support
for ARMv8 64-bit  platforms."
How does this agreement affects the AArch64 OpenJDK port?
Henrik, I think it would be really sad if Oracle would start a
competing, closed ARMv8 64-bit port on their own. Or are there any
plans to merge the porting efforts in the OpenJDK? At least in the ARM
announcement the word OpenJDK (or even 'open' :) isn't mentioned with
a single word!
Thank you and best regards,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce our first release of Java for the ARMv8
> 64-bit architecture.  This is a whole new port, completely
> unrelated to to the 32-bit ARM JDK.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64#ARMv8_and_64-bit
> Project status:
> This port is still very much a work in progress, but it passes
> its tests and it's good enough to run most Java programs.
> It is not complete.  We're missing support for optional features
> such as biased locking and JVMTI.  Also, it's rather scrappy in
> some places and the code could be more efficient and more
> idiomatic in many other places.  Patches welcome!
> The template interpreter and the C1 compiler are done.  The C2
> compiler is still at a rather early stage.
> You don't need an ARMv8 to test and run the port.  We've written a
> small simulator that links into the JVM, so you can run this port just
> like native Java on any 64-bit x86 GNU/Linux system.  We also provide
> advanced debugging capabilities via a set of GDB extensions.  This
> provides the best interactive debugging environment that I have ever
> seen for a Java VM.  You also can run on ARM's Fast Model if you
> prefer.
> We've provided full build instructions, but we'll help you if you get
> stuck.  We want people to try it out.
> I feel that I have to end with an apology.  When I started this port I
> wanted it to be an exemplary free software project: open discussion,
> open development, and the free exchange of ideas.  It hasn't worked
> out that way.  We needed very detailed technical information about the
> ARMv8 architecture long before it was made public, and ARM were kind
> enough to give us what we needed.  However, there was a caveat: we
> couldn't make it public.  So, we've been in stealth mode until a few
> weeks ago.  My thanks go out to the legal teams who worked hard to
> make this release possible.
> Also, a big shout to Mark Reinhold for sorting out all the crazy
> problems we had with OpenJDK's source code repository.
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README.aarch64
> Web: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/aarch64-port/
> Mailing list: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/aarch64-port-dev
> Andrew.


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Thousands of Airline Pilots Witness UFOs
By Shar Adams
WASHINGTON—Airline pilots see unidentified flying objects but very few report it because of ridicule.
According to the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, (NARCAP) there have been over 3,500 documented sightings of "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" by military, commercial, and civilian pilots. But Captain Jim Courant, a commercial pilot for over 31 years, says there are many more sightings that are just not reported.
"It is almost astounding how many people are in the know on this subject," he said, speaking before the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 3.
Courant has been researching and studying the phenomena of UFOs for years. He has collected over 3,000 books on UFOs and extraterrestrials, and hosted a television series on the issue titled "New Perspectives" which ran for three years.
He still flies for a commercial airline and because of his exposure on television has became known as an authority on UFO's and extraterrestrial encounters.He has been contacted, and still is, by many commercial airline and military pilots who are happy to discuss their UFO's encounters privately but do not want to talk publicly, fearing ridicule and in some cases retaliation.
"They are afraid," not so much about their status or their retirement benefits, but "they are more afraid for their families," he said. . . .
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Hummingbirds remind me of my grandmother. She loved all things hummingbird, and had various trinkets, jewelry, window hangings, and decor that reflected her love. As a child I remember identifying her with hummingbirds because of these items and because of the feeder, set just outside her screened in porch, that attracted hummingbird after hummingbird. I still think of her, 13 years after her death, when a hummingbird flitters by.
When I moved into my house I couldn't wait to hang my bird and hummingbird feeders to add some wildlife sightseeing to my backyard. I excitedly filled up my feeders and spent the day walking by my windows, periodically sneaking a peek, looking out for my winged visitors.
I was happy to see my bird feeder was getting a lot of attention, almost too much attention. I have to fill it up almost every other week just to keep up with the apparently starving birds that live in my neighborhood. However, the hummingbird feeder was not the case. I was disappointed after day one passed with no hummingbird sighting. Eventually day two and three came and went, followed by weeks, and even a couple of months.
Tired of continuously emptying, washing, and refilling my feeder for no apparent reason, I decided I would set it out one last time. If no hummingbirds came, I would have to declare it a lost cause. I set my feeder out one last time and forgot about it until one night when scenes of a single hummingbird discovering my feeder drifted into my dreams.
It was a lovely dream with a beautiful little bird and remnants of my grandmother. I woke in the morning in a good mood, ready to start the day. While finishing up some cleaning, out of nowhere Nick yelled at me to look outside, I quickly turned my head and out of the corner of my eye I caught my dream-turned-reality hummingbird flying away from my feeder.
Since that moment I have yet to see another hummingbird visit my feeder and I have slacked on my feeder filling chore. It still hangs outside of my window, empty, slightly dirty, and in need of the bright red liquid to fill it again. Although I am disappointed my hummingbird feeder wasn't a success, the split second I saw the hummingbird was worth it all in the end. I like to imagine it was my grandmother, seeking me out, answering a dream, and stopping by to say hello.
To create this visual journal page I decided to create the hummingbird feeder out of watercolor, to reference the liquidy look of the red sugar water, and the hummingbird out of colored pencils, to contrast the feeder. I started with the feeder by looking up a picture online. Once I found one that looked like the one I had at home I began sketching it onto a white sheet of paper. It is always best to start with pencil first, because you can erase mistakes, and add materials once you are satisfied with the base drawing.
After my sketch was complete I went in with watercolor. I painted the browns of the copper top and stand on the bottom, then moved to the red of the flowers and liquid. As I painted the liquid I added a lot of water to give it more of a light, transparent look. I added a little more red and a hint of purple at the bottom to give it a sense of dimension. Once the painting was complete I let it dry, then cut it out.
Next, I moved onto the hummingbird. Once again I found a picture to reference first and created my pencil drawing. After I was satisfied with the drawing I began coloring it in. I chose a medium green colored and completely filled in the bird. Next I used darker greens to create shadows and pull out details in the wings and tail. Then I added lighter greens, yellows, and blues to pull out highlights. As I built up my colors I kept coloring in small circles and didn't press down hard. Rather than trying to rush filling something in by adding one solid color try slowly building and layering different shades of one color. It creates a much more realistic and interesting end result.
After the hummingbird was complete I cut him out and glued him and the watercolor feeder down using rubber cement. When I looked at everything put together I decided to feeder wasn't popping enough. To add detail back in I used a thin sharpie to scribble along the edge of the painting and in recessed areas to emphasize the shadows. To finish off the page I added the words along the crease using a thing sharpie.
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What will your last 10 years look like? Will you be quick enough to play with your grandchildren? Strong enough to embrace every moment? Will you grow old with vitality or will you succumb to old age?
Your posture is a good indicator of how well you will age. When you have good posture your nerves and body will be able to work and function the way they are supposed to. However, with most of us now spending nine hours a day sitting down, our sedentary modern lifestyles are fast becoming a serious threat to our health.
These prolonged periods of inactivity not only increase our risk of obesity they also affect our body shape and posture, which can, in turn, lead to a whole range of health problems. It is therefore no surprise that sitting has been blamed as the new smoking!
Modern technology sees many of us hunch over our smartphones and sitting slumped in front of a computer for hours. It's these commonly adopted positions that can lead to a loss of the essential cervical (neck) curvature. Another change often seen is a thoracic hyperkyphosis, which is sometimes referred to as 'Dowagers Hump' – this is an exaggerated curve backwards of the middle of the back. These changes in the shape of your spine can impair mobility and balance as we age and increase the risk of falls and fractures. It is known that those with a hyperkyphotic posture have a 44% greater risk of mortality than those without. The increased risk of death presented by a body mass index greater than 30 is of a similar value. A lack of physical activity, a poor diet, a stressful lifestyle, as well as smoking and regular alcohol consumption will also contribute to a decline in your health as you age.
Poor posture leads to decreased health and independence as we age.
For many years Chiropractors have assisted their community by not only keeping people pain free, but in also helping everyone to develop a healthy lifestyle. By detecting joints of the spine that are not moving properly and irritating the adjacent nerves, Chiropractors can restore function to those areas and remove the irritation to the nervous system.
Research shows better posture equals greater independence and health status as you age.
This realignment helps assist your body to heal, to achieve its optimum potential, improve overall posture and create a lifestyle full of vitality. To show how important this is, studies have shown that those with better posture have a greater independence and better health status as they age. Therefore posture and health are intrinsically linked.
So decide, how you want to age?
Change your future with Chiropractic and ultimately stand taller, move better and live better. Also, maintain regular physical activity, a natural, balanced diet, a lifestyle of minimised stress, as well as avoiding smoking and regular alcohol consumption.


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Suit upheld against San Diego deputies who killed suicidal man
A panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the go-ahead for a jury trial against San Diego County. Above, members of the court in 2009.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
By Maura Dolan
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court revived a wrongful death lawsuit against San Diego County on Monday, ruling that a jury should determine whether two sheriff's deputies who killed a suicidal man who was wielding a knife acted negligently.
A panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided 2-1 to overturn a lower court's ruling for the county and to let a jury decide whether two deputies violated the law when they entered the man's house in 2006 without first thoroughly investigating him and gunned him down without having ordered him to halt.
"The circumstances of this case can be viewed in multiple ways: as 'suicide by cop,' as officers suddenly threatened with a deadly weapon, or as a depressed man simply holding a knife when confronted by law enforcement," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the majority.
The fatal shooting of Shane Hayes occurred after two San Diego County sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a domestic disturbance at a neighbor's house.
Geri Neill, the owner of the house, told the first deputy who arrived that she and Hayes, her boyfriend, had been arguing about his desire to kill himself but that there had been no physical altercation.
She said Hayes had tried to kill himself on prior occasions and wanted to commit suicide that night by inhaling exhaust fumes from his car. The deputy did not ask about the nature of Hayes' prior attempts and did not know that he once tried to stab himself with a knife, the court said.
A second deputy arrived, and the two law enforcement officers entered the house to prevent the man from harming himself, according to the court.
The court said that after spotting Hayes in the dim light, one of the deputies ordered him to show his hands. Hayes raised his hands to shoulder level. In his right hand, he held a knife, the tip pointed downward. He took a few steps toward the deputies, who fired and killed him.
Neill said Hayes wore a "clueless" expression as he approached the deputies and had told them, "You want to take me to jail or you want to take me to prison, go ahead."
The court said it would be up to a jury to determine whether the officers used excessive force.
"Although Hayes was walking towards the deputies, he was not charging them, and had not been ordered to stop," the court said. " He had committed no crime and had followed all orders from the deputies at the time he was shot."
The court said the case hinged on whether it was reasonable for the deputies to have believed that Hayes posted an immediate threat to their safety and whether a shooting, rather than a warning, was warranted.
"Hayes' unexpected possession of the knife alone — particularly when he had committed no crime and was confronted inside his own home — was not sufficient reason for the officers to employ deadly force," the court said.
Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson argued in a dissent that Hayes clearly posed a threat to the deputies.
"Faced with a steadily advancing Hayes wielding a large knife, the officer had probable cause to believe that his life was in danger," Rawlinson wrote. "As our precedent makes clear, an officer need not wait for the assailant to strike a blow before acting to ensure his safety and the safety of others."
The 9th Circuit returned the case to the district court, instructing it to resolve a procedural question on standing.
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Kimanzi named January coach of the month
Mathare United coach Francis Kimanzi poses with the coach of the month award at the Goan Institute Grounds on Friday, February 22, 2019.
Head coach Francis Kimanzi was on Friday named the SJAK/Fidelity Insurance January coach of the month at the Goan Institute grounds.
Kimanzi, who has now clinched the award three times, registered four wins and two draws in the six matches played in January.
Mathare United were held by Gor Mahia (1-1) and Kariobangi Sharks (0-0) while they beat Kakamega Homeboyz (3-2), Vihiga United (3-1), KCB (2-1) and Tusker (2-1).
"It's something special because it shows we have been doing a good job. It has taken a lot of sacrifice from the players, the technical staff and the management to achieve this.
"Every time we tend to prepare our team to behave in a unique way on the pitch and that it involves a lot of work here on the training ground. I am happy to see that they have responded well and their behavior even when trailing has been unique. That's why results have been going our way," said Kimanzi.
He becomes the second coach to win the award this season after Western Stima's Paul Ogai clinched the December gong.
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TV Review: Squinters S2 should drive harder
Eccentric nuns defend their way of life with devilish consequences, in Foxtel's new mini-series adaptation. Chris Boyd says it pays big dividends despite some clumsiness.
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If you're not a fan of watching two people bickering in a car, you may want to overtake this ABC comedy, says Anthony Morris.
Image: Justine Clarke in Squinters S2. Source: ABC.
ABC series Squinters is a workplace comedy where the workplace never makes an appearance. Instead we follow a band of commuters as they head into work each morning and then home again at night. If you're making that kind of commute to and from the western suburbs of Sydney, you end up driving with the sun in your eyes both ways – hence, "Squinters".
It's a strong idea for a comedy series, which is probably why Squinters isn't the first car down this particular road. Co-creator and director Trent O'Donnell was one of the people behind Stan series No Activity, where two cops sat in the front seats of their stakeout car and talked for most of each episode. In the UK, Peter Kay's Car Share was basically the same show, only focusing on just two people travelling to and from work (plus wacky billboards and radio jokes), while Marion & Geoff stripped the idea back even further with Rob Brydon sitting in a car on his own delivering a monologue every episode for two seasons.
This second series – currently airing on the ABC Wednesdays, or you can binge all six episodes online – sticks to the commuter pattern, though some of the players have changed. The high-profile guest stars from season one (Jacki Weaver, Tim Minchin, Damon Herriman) have not returned, which has given the producers a chance to mix things up a little. But only a little: the nature of the series means that the dynamic in each car is relatively similar, so if you're not a fan of watching two people bickering you may want to drive on.
Now broke and driving a forklift at work, Lukas (Sam Simmons) is paired off with his lawyer aunt Alison (Genevieve Morris), his equally cash-strapped younger sister Rachel (the US-based Claudia O'Doherty) and his tinsel eating dog; the now pregnant and unintentionally racist Bridget (Mandy McElhinney) has a slacker Uber-driving sister (Anne Edmonds) replacing her woke teen daughter Mia (Jenna Owen); Talia (Rose Matafeo) has had a falling out with her last season's bestie and now Romi (Andrea Demetriades) has joined her car pool. After last season's big US take-over their workplace has gone through some shake-ups with their new corporate boss (Kristen Schaal) is planning more to come – though an asbestos-related discovery might derail her plans (and everyone else's).
The performers are this series' strong point, and they do a lot with characters who're just sitting still and staring straight ahead 90 per cent of the time. For the most part they play off each other well too, though having last seasons' wanking expert Macca (Juston Rosniak) now paired off with a partner (Justine Clarke) who won't let him work-wank because she wants to get pregnant feels like a nagging girlfriend set-up past its use-by date, and their developing woes over trying to conceive (eventually requiring both donor eggs and donor sperm) sounds funnier than it is.
With visual inventiveness not this series' strong point, the dialogue has to do much of the heavy lifting as far as the comedy goes. Co-creator Adam Zwar is credited as being the series' Head Writer and there's definitely a scripted element here, but cast members like Sam Simmons and Kristen Schaal have also talked about the way much of their dialogue is improvised. Unfortunately, a decade or so after improvised dialogue became the next big thing in comedy (see Curb Your Enthusiasm and the films of Judd Apatow) the freshness it once promised to add to comedy scripts is long gone.
Too often here the improv-heavy dialogue leaves a scene feeling like we're watching people messing about riffing variations on a joke rather than a segment that's going somewhere. When Sam Simmons says "man" fifteen times in eighteen seconds in his first appearance, it's kind of funny; when he's repeating the word "warehouseman" again and again in episode four, the thrill has gone.
While this is a series that's seemingly designed to be made on the cheap, a large portion of it is filmed in LA where O'Donnell is currently based. It's a decision that doesn't add much value for home viewers aside from appearances from a handful of US-based stars and the always funny Schaal, who was cast so late in proceedings the ABC's initial press release last November only said "And still to be announced…a major American female comedic talent has been cast as the new CEO."
But that's Squinters in a nutshell: it's a series filmed across two continents with one of Australia's main comedy writers as a producer and a cast of sharp performers… who get to just look straight ahead and improvise lines while pretending to drive a car down some generic Sydney streets. Sometimes it doesn't hurt for a series to aim a little higher.
2.5 stars ★★☆
Squinters Season 2
A Jungle Entertainment Production for the ABC
Directors: Trent O'Donnell, Amanda Brotchie, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Adele Vuko and Erin White
Australia, 2019, 6 half hour episodes
ABC, Wednesdays 9pm or ABC iView
Rating: M
First published on Thursday 11 July, 2019
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Airbnb has developed a new app customized for iOS and Android tablets in an attempt to give those users a better way to browse its million-plus home rental listings than with the devices' web browsers.
The free app, to be released Wednesday, lets users navigate its content as if they were flipping the pages of a magazine. Airbnb, founded in 2008, already has mobile apps for iOS and Android smartphones.
The tablet app emphasizes big, high quality photos of people's homes arranged on the screen in varying layouts, which can be easily flicked through. With the tablets' larger screen size, pages for individual listings also feature photos and links to similar listings, resembling the look of a print magazine's sidebar article. Rotate the tablet from a horizontal to vertical position, and the app's interface will reorient itself.
There's also a more prominent placement of the map view, to let users search for listings and see where they are located in relation to each other. And the app features dual-pane messaging like a regular email client.
Those are new features that Airbnb's smartphone apps currently lack but may eventually gain, as the company looks to double down on mobile. Roughly 12 percent of Airbnb's users already access its site through the web on tablets, according to the company, and two-thirds of all Airbnb reservations involve mobile in some way.
But, "the tablet is a natural device for Airbnb. It's more photo driven," said Alex Schleifer, head of design at the company.
Airbnb has over the past year cleaned up its desktop site and its mobile apps to make them easier to use and help people discover more listings. The company spotlights themed listings like "traditional yurts" or "underground homes," as well as getaways in select areas like California's wine country or Lake Tahoe. Last year, the company added an instant booking feature, which does away with the traditional pre-approval process for reserving places to stay.
As Airbnb strives to make its service more appealing to more people, it faces regulatory questions over its legality in some cities like New York.
The tablet app will be available to download Wednesday at 9 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time in the Apple App and Google Play stores.


The midsize luxury sedan just got a little hotter, with this year's 2019 TLX now for sale. We're here to review the 2019 TLX and help you realize that if you're in the market for a midsize luxury sedan, that prioritizes safety, comfort, technology, and performance, you need look no further.
There are three powertrain configurations. The first is a 206 hp 2.4 liter 4 cylinder with an eight speed dual clutch transmission, paired to Acura's Precision All-Wheel Steer system. The second option is a 290 hp 3.5 liter 6 cylinder with a nine speed automatic, also paired to Acura's Precision All-Wheel Steer system. The third option couples the aptly powerful 3.5 liter to Acura's Super Handling All-Wheel Drive.
Acura Watch, Acura's safety and driver assist suite, comes standard on all TLX models! In addition, Acura has made Apple CarPlay and Android Auto standard. You get a generously equipped vehicle and the peace of mind that only Acura can offer in the 2019 Acura TLX.
The TLX interior was created with luxury, comfort, and ease in mind. The moonroof and heated steering wheel make all seasons fun to drive in. With an 8 inch infotainment center, adaptable for both Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, controlling your apps and navigation has never been easier. A 7 speaker system comes in the Standard package and the more advanced packages have a 10 speaker system, allowing you to rock out to your favorite songs.
The Alcantara leather seats that come standard in the A-Spec model, are the definition of luxury. With 2-way lumbar support and 10-way power adjusting, Milano leather with contrast stitching and piping, and seat warmers in both front and back seats, you will be planning more road trips than ever just to stay in them longer. All models come with a push button start, dual zone climate control, and the Acura Watch comprehensive driver safety assists such as lane departure. There's no place like home, and there's no place like the feature filled interior of the 2019 Acura TLX!
This model looks as great as it drives, and it's a looker indeed. The jewel eyed LED headlights accentuate the front fascia, as the lines glide in a display of elegant prominence. Every TLX boasts a signature Diamond Pentagon Grille, a power moonroof, and heated side mirrors. Each trim also has signature cues that set it apart from its respective trim levels.
The Technology Package, when equipped with the V-6, rides on beautiful 19 inch wheels. The Advance Package elevates the appearance with a color matching rear spoiler, dual exhaust, lower bumper, and chrome accents. The A-Spec offers a piano black rear decklid spoiler, exclusive front and rear bumper, 19 inch wheels, black accents instead of chrome, exclusive badging, and more to set it apart.
The TLX is rich in features, and with a starting price at $33k, it's easy to see why the TLX is the leader of its segment. Stockton Acura wants our friends from Lodi, Elk Grove, and the greater Sacramento area to stop by and see this year's TLX in person. Our team is ready to show you all of our TLX models, and help you find the trim that's right for you. Stockton Acura is the place where you'll always feel that we're here to help, because we are.
*Government 5-Star Vehicle Scores are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program. For additional information on the 5-Star Safety Ratings program, please visit www.safercar.gov.


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