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Chicago Tribune Explains Why Kim Foxx 'Will And Should Lose Her Job' Over The Smollett Case
The stunning announcement Tuesday that all 16 felony charges against "Empire" star Jussie Smollett were dropped without clear explanation has prompted a massive backlash against the state's attorney from key figures and entities in the city, among them Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Police Department, and the Chicago Tribune, which has devoted several articles to calling out the "indefensible" actions of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and her office.
In a column Thursday, the Tribune's Eric Zorn makes the case that Foxx "will and should lose her job" over her office's' "spectacularly" bad handling of Smollett.
Justice in the Smollett case "demanded resolution and accountability," writes Zorn, yet "Foxx appeared oblivious to this imperative as she made the media rounds attempting to explain why her office sent Smollett on his merry way Tuesday morning without extracting an admission of guilt or collecting a meaningful fine."
In her much-criticized media appearances, Zorn writes, Foxx has made a series of "tone-deaf statements," including trying to downplay the case by "equating Smollett to the raft of no-name, low-level, nonviolent offenders who have received the 'go and sin no more' treatment."
"High-profile criminal cases are the lens through which the public sees and evaluates the administration of justice as a whole," Zorn explains. Smollett's extremely high-profile case required both the high-level attention of the police department and prosecutors. The police department held up their end, dedicating massive resources to the investigation. When the buck was passed to the state's attorneys office, however, "They failed spectacularly."
They failed in transparency, not even bothering to notify reporters, the police department, or the mayor of their decision to suddenly wipe clean Smollett's record. They also didn't bother getting a confession or apology out of Smollett, allowing the actor to immediately "preen for the cameras about his innocence" and his lawyers to gallingly declare Thursday: "It is the mayor and the police chief who owe Jussie — owe him an apology — for dragging an innocent man's character through the mud. Jussie has paid enough."
Foxx's office dropped the charges despite making clear afterward that they had full confidence in the police investigation and do suspect that Smollett is guilty of staging a hoax hate crime against himself. (Read the full column here.)
After claiming that she had recused herself because she had personal contact with the Smollett family early on in the investigation, it was revealed this week that Foxx had not in fact officially stepped away from the case. "It turns out that, although Foxx claimed to have 'recused' herself from the Smollett case over concerns that she'd communicated with a member of Smollett's family, she never made her recusal official. The term was used 'colloquially' rather than 'legally,' her office told Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass," The Daily Wire noted Thursday.
Foxx had also been in contact with prominent Chicago attorney Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff of Michelle Obama, who talked with Foxx on the family's behalf about trying to get the investigation out of the Chicago Police Department's hands.
Related: Michelle Obama's Ex-Chief Of Staff Admits She Did Try To Intervene In Smollett Investigation
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Social History of Medicine: new journal editors sought
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Due to the existing editors demitting office in the near future, new editors are required for the journal Social History of Medicine which is published three times yearly by OUP for the Society for the Social History of Medicine.
Appointments will be for four years initially with one editor to be appointed by 1 September 2003 and the other by 1 September 2004. Informal enquiries about the nature of the posts may be directed by email to either of the present editors, Professor Roger Davidson (Email: [email protected]) or Dr Helen King (Email: [email protected])
Applications for these posts should be by a short CV accompanied by a brief statement (no more than 300 words) on how you view the editorial role during the coming years. These should be sent to the Secretary of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Dr Lesley Diack, Department of History, University of Aberdeen, Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, email [email protected], by the 31 May 2003.
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CALL TO ACTION: Urge Your Florida House Representatives and Senators to aggressively support "Keep Florida Free"
Action Alerts / By Scott Sutherland
All of us at Florida Citizens' Alliance commend and thank Governor DeSantis for calling this Special Legislative Session to fulfill the primary responsibility of government; securing the rights of the people. As the Declaration of Independence affirms, Americans form government to secure their rights.
The Special session is scheduled for Nov 15-19.
By calling a special legislative session to strengthen parental rights and protect health care rights, our Governor is leading the nation in defending and preserving the rights of the people. When you send this Action Alert, it will go to your own legislators urging them to support the Governor's Initiative
It is time for your Florida House Representatives and Senators to prove they will aggressively support "Keep Florida Free".
We urge you to demand your legislators to join us in supporting the Governor's initiative. There is no room for equivocation! Together, we can show people everywhere that Florida is a land of liberty where free people thrive. Together we can lead the nation through the uncertainty and chaos of our times to the bright future embodied by the resolve and resilience of the people of Florida.
Let the bright sunshine of Florida banish the darkness of masks and mandates. When liberty is secured, hope is renewed!
Tell your legislators to Vote yes on these 4 bills:
SB 2B / HB 1B: REJECT COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES
Sponsored by Senator Danny Burgess (R-Zephyrhills) and Representatives Erin Grall (R-Vero Beach) and Ralph Massullo (R-Lecanto), this comprehensive legislation protects students, parents, employees and employers in our state by creating a framework for employees to make the best decision for their health and affirming the rights of parents to make health care decisions for their children.
What this bill does:
A) Creates Options for Private-Sector Employers and Employees. Specifically, the legislation prohibits employers from having a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for employees without providing at least the five following individual exemptions:
Medical reasons, as determined by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant. Medical reasons include pregnancy or expectation of pregnancy.
Religious reasons, based on a sincerely held belief
Immunity based on prior COVID-19 infection, as documented by a lab test
Periodic testing, agreeing to comply with regular testing at no cost to the employee
Personal protective equipment (PPE), agreeing to comply with use of employer-provided PPE
B) Prohibits Vaccine Mandates for Government and Education Employees
The legislation builds on provisions of SB 2006, passed earlier this year, by affirming that no public educational institution or governmental entity may require COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
C) Protects Parents as the Sole Decision Makers for their Children
The legislation makes it clear that parents and guardians have the sole discretion regarding whether their child will wear a mask in school and prohibits schools from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine. The legislation also prohibits quarantining of asymptomatic students and teachers to mitigate harm of learning loss.
D) Enforces Measures with Fines and Parent Cause of Action
If an employee is improperly denied an exemption, they can file a complaint with the Attorney General. Fines of up to $50,000 apply for employers who improperly terminate an employee, or the employer can reinstate the employee. If a public employee rights' are violated, the Department of Health may fine per violation, not to exceed $5,000. Furthermore, parents and guardians have the right to sue to stop the mandate and can recover their attorney fees and court costs to help ensure that the above provisions regarding their children are not violated.
SB 4B/ HB 3B: PROTECT PRIVATE HEALTH CARE AND RELIGIOUS INFORMATION
Sponsored by Senator Burgess and Representatives Massullo and Grall, the legislation protects workers from undue retaliation by creating a public records exemption for certain information, such as personal medical information or information regarding an employee's religious beliefs, contained in files created during an investigation of an employer that refuses to provide the individual exemptions or terminates an employee based on COVID-19 vaccination status.
SB 6B/ HB 5B: BEGIN WITHDRAWING FROM OSHA
Sponsored by Senator Travis Hutson (R-St. Augustine) and Representative Ardian Zika (R-Land O'Lakes), the legislation takes the first step toward developing a proposal to withdraw from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and assert state jurisdiction over occupational safety and health issues.
SB 8B/ HB 7B: REMOVE AUTHORITY OF STATE HEALTH OFFICER TO ORDER VACCINATIONS
Sponsored by President Pro Tempore Aaron Bean (R-Fernandina Beach) and Representative Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola), the legislation repeals provisions of existing law, which have never been used, that could allow the State Health Officer to force vaccinations on Floridians.
Use the petition below to contact your legislators and ask them support "Keep Florida Free"!
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These are a series of site-specific paintings in the corridors of the Yale painting studio.
Yale's graduate painting building is a clean, white, fluorescent-lit structure that starkly contrasts the usual paint-encrusted studio environment. When we first arrived, many in my group of first-year graduate students seemed to regard it as colorless and sterile. Disrupting this official regularity, however, the light fixtures contained bulbs of various mismatched color temperatures that illuminated the walls from different directions in various kinds of warm and cool light. Thus the ostensibly bland building was actually a quite colorful place, though everyone seemed to disregard it.
Continuing a line of experimentation with light and surface colors I began in Cheshire, I began to paint segments of the corridor walls. I carefully mixed flat interior latex colors to match the appearance of one of the nearby "white" walls as it appeared in the light of the space. I'd choose, for example, an external corner where two hallways intersected and paint one side of the corner to match the apparent color of the other. These paintings are difficult to convey in photographs, unfortunately, since they played upon an immersed experience of the shifting colors of ambient light as one moved through the building. In situ, however, the paintings were easy to grasp, though not always easy to spot. Camouflaged as they were, they typically went unnoticed at first until someone happened to notice, say, a seam above a doorway where the colored paint ended and the truly white paint continued. From there, word of mouth helped spread awareness of the existence of these pieces throughout the building.
Blue Corner. The main hallway appears in cool fluorescent light while the hallway branching to the right is lit with warmer fluorescents. The visible wall of the branching hallway is painted blue to match the color of the main hallway.
Pink Column. One side of a column appears pink in the red glow from a nearby vending machine; a second side is painted to match this color.
Beige corner. The front face of this column is painted beige to match the adjacent left face, which remains white but appears in dimmer, warmer light. The beige paint can be seen near the ceiling, where a little of the original white remains visible.
Warm Doorway. The end wall of a hallway is painted orange to match the dominant warm color of the hallway. The effect is imperceptible from the far end of the hall but unmistakable up close. The rim of the door window has also been painted yellow to match the warmly-lit white wall beyond.
Basement Cluster. A collection of paintings in close proximity. I repeated the green square appearance of a white wall through a door window on either side of the door itself. Nearby, the gap between a door and its doorframe is copied onto the doorframe itself. I applied the cool green appearance of the tiles in the sink alcove to the side of a fire extinguisher box. A blue trapezoid echoes the visible portion of a distant wall.
Beyond the initial simple delight in the illusion of these paintings, an interesting phenomenon emerged among the other graduate students. Since the treated parts of the wall appeared so similar to the untreated parts, the students began to watch keenly for the subtle cues that revealed a new artwork. Like weather, this shared experience of the environment became a topic of conversation and a common point of reference for the community of painters. They became attuned to the shifting planes of color within the seemingly colorless building, so that some began to see artworks where I had created none. For example, one of my colleagues complimented me on a delicate beige monochrome that turned out to be not a painting, but a shadow she had never before noticed despite passing it daily. She had incorrectly perceived it as my creation, but since precisely that type of sensitivity to omnipresent color phenomena inspired the whole game in the first place, I found her aesthetic appreciation of the shadow entirely appropriate.
How do we distinguish what we are supposed to see from what we see? If the beige monochrome is a Duchampian readymade, who is its author—my colleague or me? And does it make a difference? I became unsure whether the color paintings were individual artworks, or a single assisted readymade. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle drew a distinction between seeing and observing, and created an imaginary person who could observe everything. Perhaps we are not capable of such a feat. But how do we decide which of our perceptions are significant and which are to be ignored?


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Just a few users will get a preview of what Chorus calls "the world's fasted broadband experience"
The trial, using 10Gbit-PON technology, is expected to start in March.
Chorus is working with its retailers to deliver what it describes as "the world's fastest broadband experience" to Kiwis.
So far 2Talk, Kordia, Orcon, 2degrees, Slingshot, Trustpower, Stuff Fibre and Vocus Communications have signed up for the trial.
"Customers are ever demanding higher and higher speeds and this is showing no signs of slowing down," Chorus said in post to its partners. "10Gigabit-PON is definitely coming and we would like to invite you to participate in this trial.
"In fact the game is already on in few countries around the globe, and the good news is that it's time for us to join them and unleash the full potential of our world-leading fibre broadband network."
Chorus is making the initial phase of this trial available to a total of just 30 end customers in Avondale and Birkenhead in Auckland and in Johnsonville in Wellington.
Chorus followed up that invitation with details of how potential end-user customers should be selected.
The company suggested trial participants could include campuses or businesses with large numbers of users, SMEs or home businesses involved in creating and uploading high quality video or graphics content, multi-site customers with need to exchange large quantities of data between sites and high end gamers or early adopters.
"We are keen to understand if you have more customers both inside and outside these initial pilot areas that may be interested to participate in the pilot," Chorus said.
"If there is sufficient demand, we will assess the suitability and viability of expanding the pilot, both within these exchanges and elsewhere."
Last June, after trialling the technology in its innovation lab, Chorus told partners that 10GPON allows 10 Gbps bidirectional access over existing passive optical network (PON) infrastructure.
Specifically, it co-exists with existing NGA GPON services to provide an evolution for customers' "insatiable demand for faster and better broadband".
The 10GPON trial was based on Nokia's XGS-PON technology.


'The Long Song' is a book about the slavery in Jamaica which we are told through an initially nameless narrator (who has written this book for her son is a publisher and thinks the tale should be told) a depiction of the life of a slave girl in the 1800's. We follow July from her birth onwards through the trying times of her separation from her mother when Caroline Mortimer, not long arrived in Jamaica, decides she wants her as a pet pretty much, through the Baptist War in 1831 and onwards. I don't want to give anything away other than to say it's quite a journey because I do want to urge people to read this.
July is a wonderful character to follow all of this through the eyes of. From her very birth there is a drama and a determination around her which proceeds as she becomes a maid from the rich white people left to fend at the age of 9 for without her mother. Rather than become a victim, which would be understandable, she becomes a wily, spritely and rather rebellious young woman who knows how to get what she wants and get away with a heck of a lot. Levy doesn't just create funny and heart-warming characters there are also ones who become villainous throughout the book. The aforementioned Caroline being one, her tale is that of a rich young woman forced to live with her brother who initially delights in Jamaica and all its ways before turning bitterly against it, she has a complexity to her that I liked though I didn't like the character myself. She treats her staff poorly, beating them often, is spoilt and yet there is a naivety which comes from her breeding and place in society that's oddly interesting to look at.
Slavery is always going to be a tough subject and yet the way Levy writes it both hits home the horrors of what took place, sometimes in quite graphic detail, and yet through her wonderful narrators voice there is a humour there. At first when I accidentally let a big laugh out on the tube I felt incredibly guilty, how awful of me to sit and laugh at a book about such a subject. It almost made me waver with the book slightly. However I put the book down for a day and thought about it and through the characters and the humour in their tales of trialling lives I think what Levy is doing is showing you the spirit that some of these people (I am writing about them as if they were real but they are drawn so very vividly you believe it all) had which only hits home the terrible situation to the reader even more.
I have seen some rather poorly received reviews of this book and I can't help thinking it's because of its predecessor. It's hard to not compare this book with the wonderful, wonderful 'Small Island', which is an incredible book, yet to do so would be a disservice to this book, I do like to judge an author on each book they write. I could also mention its long listing for the Orange Prize (which I guessed it would – hoorah) but I think we all know the Longlist quite well by now. I do hope it gets shortlisted; I will leave it at that.
If you haven't read any Levy then this is a great book to start with. If you have already had the pleasure then this book continues to show that Levy is a wonderful author who can take you to far away places with wonderful characters and make it all look effortless. It also has one of my favourite opening lines (have you all been keeping notes on yours) in quite some time. "The book you are now holding within your hand was born of a craving." This is a truly wonderful book that haunts you in both its humour and its horrors.
No more Granny Savidge Reads for a while, you will just have to make do with me from now on. Well until the spring when I am off, with the Converted One of course, up north for a weekend of blogging respite for me but blog building for a certain someone. Today's post is all about one of Gran's favourite books which is Small Island by Andrea Levy which I had decided to read while she was staying here and also before the second half of the BBC adaptation is on. Now my Gran and I agree on a lot of books but heartily disagree on many too. Which category would this book fall into?
Small Island starts as two of its main characters come face to face. On a street in London in 1948 Queenie Bligh opens the door to be faced with Hortense Gilbert fresh from Jamaica, a woman she has never seen before but one who turns out to be the wife of one of her lodgers Gilbert. One of several lodgers that Queenie's neighbours do not approve of as they are black, the fact that Gilbert fought for the British in the War it's recovering from doesn't matter one jot. With her husband away Queenie needs the cash and besides she isn't prejudice, she takes people as she finds them and she finds them alright. Though at first you wouldn't think these two women have anything in common you soon learn they do and not just in personality or the facts they didn't marry for love… there is something in their very different pasts that links them too.
I am making it sound like the book is just about these two women and that isn't the case at all, they just take over every scene they are in even when they aren't narrating it. The book is actually narrated by Queenie, Hortense and their two husbands Gilbert (who is just lovely) and Bernard. Each has a very interesting tale to tell not only on their lives and backgrounds, which are revealed in a slightly disjointed order. They also give four voices to war, culture, love and racism which aren't small topics by any means.
Hortense who comes to England after buying her marriage to a man she doesn't love only to find it isn't the dream she dreamt of and that despite her high opinion of herself society sees her as the lowest of the low is a particularly interesting story. Gilbert, who always tries to better his life and his difficult wife's dreams, yet gets stuck at every step because of the colour of his skin. Queenie's story comes later in the book but it packs a punch or two, especially when the repressed Bernhard comes back.
I could gush and gush on and on all the praise I have for this book for hours. It just worked on so many levels for me. It had great storylines and plots; in fact this book had so much to say and was so delightfully written I think I could have read another few hundred pages of the voices and their backgrounds and thoughts on the situations they were in. My only wish is that I hadn't seen the first half of the BBC adaptation (which you can see on iPlayer) before I started reading the book as it gave away some of the forthcoming plots and twists, but only some, and it is a wonderful adaptation.
So like my Gran I absolutely loved this book; in fact I utterly adored it. Could you tell? I thought it was just so wonderfully written, the characters vivid (I think Hortense and Queenie are two of my favourite characters of the year). How Levy came up with the back stories and how they all interweaved together I will never know, they were completely believable despite happening on opposite sides of the world and you couldn't guess how it would all work out. So good indeed was this wonderful novel that I ended up missing my stops on the tube several times reading this book which is a very good sign. One of my books of the year, in fact a book that will be whizzing straight into my top ten books of all time. Utterly marvellous, if you havent read it (which I think most of you will have – what did you think?) then you simply must!
This is something a little bit different for the blog which I thought might be fun. I have seen on various people's blogs such as Stuck-in-a-Book who does weekly miscellany posts with links they have liked and other bookish bits and so I thought well why not? I also thought I could throw in some questions for you all. The first question I think I should ask you all is whether you prefer Simon's Saturday Salon or Simon's Bookish Bits, your choice shall be what this feature becomes.
This feature might become a weekly thing; it might become something I do once a month one a year who knows let's just see how we go for now. As with reading it seems nicer to do things on a whim rather than to plan things for weeks to come. After a rather awful case of book burn out/readers block I am back to reading on whims it's the only way. Mind you having to read the latest book group choice pushed me through it. You can see what the latest book that Linda chose was on the Book Group page.
Do any of you do podcasts, I dont mean do you make your own. I wish I could I would love that. A weekly Simon Says can you imagine… ok back to earth now. If you do enjoy a podcast then my podcast of the week has to be the BBC's National Short Story Award podcasts where you can get them all for free!
The one book I am racing through at the moment is Small Island by Andrea Levy. I think I might just be one of the last people on earth to have read this book. I simply have to finish it by 9pm Sunday night as its on the BBC and I cant watch it and then read it, never have been able to never will. You can see the trailer here and I think it will be available on BBC iPlayer afterwards, I think its going to be a not to be missed drama. So this has been my favourite book this week what has yours been?
Oh and speaking of youtube links… are you looking for the perfect Christmas book? Then what about a slightly twisted and comic collection from the wonderful Augusten Burroughs? You can see all here. It's one that I want quite badly, even the book cover makes me really, really giggle! I am quite a fan of Augusten Burroughs work and know that these tales will have me giggling throughout the festive season! If you haven't already read Burroughs and in particular 'Running With Scissors' then you absolutely must. It's heartbreaking and heartbreakingly funny all in one go. What books are you hoping Santa brings you this year?
And what did I leave with, how many books did this book addict walk away with… None, absolutely nothing! I think I might be ill. Mind you its probably for the best as my TBR is out of control. The lovely Kimbofo has been sorting her TBR pile out and has listed what she has. I am so nosey I loved this post. I then thought 'oh maybe I should have a go' however the shame of listing all 793 books I have on my TBR piles/shelves and in my TBR boxes is too shameful to share I think. Maybe one it decreases? Maybe!
I really must dash as I have to pick a very special someone up from St Pancras Station today; can you guess who it is? That's right Granny (though she hates that term its 'Gran') Savidge Reads is coming to stay for a while. I have a shift at Highgate and then I will be picking her up and we have a rather hectic London itinerary which she knows nothing about yet. I shall of course report back. I did wonder though if you would all enjoy a bookish interview with Granny Savidge Reads? It would be a bit like a Savidge Reads Grills though instead of an author I could interview my Gran about 'the life of a reader' at 68 she has been reading quite sometime and am sure has anecdotes and novel tales aplenty. So what would you like me to ask her?
Blimey you do have a lot to answer today. What do you prefer Simon's Saturday Salon or Simon's Bookish Bits for this feature title? What's the best book you have read of late? Last but certainly not least… what would you really like to ask Granny Savidge Reads, though remembering to respect your elders of course, about a literary loving life?


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Today's fantasies: 'Bio-oil', CIA to fix all that ails the rabble in Libya
Posted in Bombing Moe, Phlogiston at 7:31 am by George Smith
From Yahoo, where the on-line news staff collects a daily pile for your pleasure — stories about the richest places to live in the US, stories about which careers in the US make the most money (financialization, fossil fuel), stories on which cities to flee because of raging unemployment, stories about the most opulent mansions, pieces on which made-in-China gadgets to buy right now and fantasies like the next one — on 'bio-oil', the algae cure all, ready to replace the Middle East.
Excerpt of press release journalism:
At a time when companies are redoubling their efforts to find alternative energy sources, the idea is to reproduce and speed up a process which has taken millions of years and which has led to the production of fossil fuels.
"We are trying to simulate the conditions which existed millions of years ago, when the phytoplankton was transformed into oil," said engineer Eloy Chapuli. "In this way, we obtain oil that is the same as oil today."
The microalgae reproduces at high speed in the tubes by photosynthesis and from the CO2 released from the cement factory.
Every day some of this highly concentrated liquid is extracted and filtered to produce a biomass that is turned into bio-oil.
The other great advantage of the system is that it is a depollutant — it absorbs the C02 which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.
"It's ecological oil," said the founder and chairman of BFS, French engineer Bernard Stroiazzo-Mougin, who worked in oil fields in the Middle East before coming to Spain.
Ecological oil, as if the new 'oil', when burned doesn't release all the alleged CO2 used making it. All the laws of chemistry, mass action and combustion rewritten.
Five to ten years and we'll replace Iraq, says the man.
"US oil giant ExxonMobil plans to invest up to $600 million in research on oil produced from algae," it is said.
About the same amount of money for the first two weeks of the war on Libya. That's pretty niggardly, considering they're going to rewrite history and physics.
"Companies, in particular those in the aeronautic sector, have shown keen interest in this research, hoping to find a replacement for classic oil," it concludes.
And finally, the dilemma of training and weaponizing the Libyan rebel rabble. Can the CIA do it? Or special ops? And what heavy weapons can we ship them, cadged up from eastern bloc and Chinese surplus on the arms trader market?
Which leads to bringing in the 'coalition's' best fence, Qatar.
On the nature of armed rabble:
They would have more ammunition if they did not keep firing into the air … Decisions are often made after heated arguments or by following whoever shouts loudest and despite the courage of some, the tendency is to flee in disarray …
Don't forget the talent for V-signs.


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Did a 16-Year-Old Have A Hand in Twitter Hack?
Krin Rodriquez September 2, 2020
When authorities arrested Graham Ivan Clark, who they reported was the "mastermind" of the the latest Twitter hack that ensnared Kanye West, Invoice Gates and many others, a single element that stood out was his age: He was only 17.
Now authorities have homed in on an additional individual who seems to have performed an equal, if not far more substantial, role in the July 15 attack, in accordance to 4 folks involved in the investigation who declined to be discovered mainly because the inquiry was ongoing. They explained the person was at least partly accountable for organizing the breach and carrying out some of its most sensitive and complex things.
His age? Just 16, public records exhibit.
On Tuesday, federal agents served the teen with a search warrant and scoured the Massachusetts residence wherever he lives with his moms and dads, claimed a single of the people today included in the operation. A spokesman for the F.B.I. verified a research warrant experienced been executed at the deal with.
The lookup warrant and other documents in the case are under seal, and federal brokers may come to a decision not to charge the youth with a crime. If he is in the end arrested, the scenario is possible to be handed about to Massachusetts authorities, who have far more leverage than federal prosecutors in charging minors as grownups. (The New York Moments is not naming the teen at this level for the reason that of his age and because he has not been billed.)
Hardly ever have federal agents long gone soon after someone so young in a hacking circumstance, especially specified the clear sophistication of the attack. Throughout the hack, considerably of Twitter — together with President Trump's unfiltered communications on the provider — was largely immobilized. The attackers gained handle of the social network's programs and compromised the accounts of Barack Obama, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Jeff Bezos and a lot of other prominent people, exposing just how vulnerable Twitter could be.
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was accused by Florida prosecutors of currently being the "mastermind" of the assault. Credit score…Hillsborough County Sheriff's Place of work, via Related Push
Authorities have now billed 3 other men and women in the hack. They include Mr. Clark, who Florida prosecutors billed in late July as an grownup with 30 felonies. He has pleaded not guilty and has not manufactured the bail payment to get out of jail. The other two individuals are Mason John Sheppard, 19, of the United Kingdom, and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Fla., who ended up billed by federal prosecutors.
Twitter declined to comment.
The Massachusetts teenager appeared to get associated in setting up the Twitter attack with Mr. Clark in Could, in accordance to investigators. Although Mr. Clark and some of his accomplices talked with one particular yet another on the messaging board Discord, the youth restricted himself to using encrypted messaging methods like Sign and Wire, numerous hackers who noticed the messages claimed.
"He was smarter than the rest," Joseph O'Connor, a hacker regarded as PlugWalkJoe, reported of the teenager. Mr. O'Connor reported he talked with some of the persons involved in the hack on the working day of the Twitter assault and was aware of the teenager's part in the scheme.
The youth's protected communications manufactured it more difficult for investigators to establish him. But Mr. O'Connor and other men and women in the on-line dialogue that working day reported that he manufactured movie phone calls to pals on the working day of the hack and confirmed them that he was within Twitter's back-close techniques, which some accomplices in no way received in the vicinity of.
The teen was acknowledged for calling staff members of corporations, this sort of as Twitter, according to investigators and other hackers. He frequently posed as a contractor or staff to encourage workers to enter their login qualifications into fraudulent websites exactly where the credentials could be captured, a technique recognised as voice phishing or vishing. The login qualifications built it doable for the hackers to then accessibility the internal workings of the companies' methods.
Following the Twitter hack, the boy grew to become a focus of investigators simply because he ongoing to be concerned in voice phishing assaults, people today involved in the probe said.
"Using vished qualifications, cybercriminals mined the sufferer organization databases for their customers' private info to leverage in other attacks," federal authorities said in a warning about the ongoing plan issued in August.
According to on the internet forensic study and social media posts, the teenager life in a modest two-tale household in a coastal Massachusetts metropolis exactly where he attended a nearby private university. Fb posts showed him with floppy hair when heading for his black belt in martial arts at age 11.
His mom and dad submitted for divorce two yrs back and appeared to battle with cash. His mother, a wellness teacher, reportedly misplaced her task after lying about her qualifications, according to area newspapers. His father was foreclosed on 4 times and declared personal bankruptcy twice, in accordance to community records.
Close to age 13, the boy purchased a sequence of web-sites with pornographic names and attempted to resell them using his private handle and electronic mail, according to area data.
All over the same time, on the internet forum accounts tied to his email address and home world-wide-web protocol deal with confirmed up on the website OGusers.com, a web page that was the property for the others associated in the Twitter assault, according to two on-line forensic companies. The site supplies a place for hackers to invest in and sell coveted "original gangster" consumer names on social media web sites, this kind of as one letter accounts like @a or @6.
The teen rotated amongst several aliases tied to his a variety of on the internet accounts, according to intelligence investigation done by the organization Intel471. The messages from the accounts involved profanities, anti-Semitic remarks and homophobic remarks. At a single position, the teen complained about getting rid of around $200,000 on a Bitcoin gambling site. He also available to provide a user name for $3,000 in Bitcoin, in accordance to messages from the discussion board that ended up later leaked.
"IF your broke and just can't pay for or dont consider thats a very good cost JUST DONT EVEN Concept ME!" he wrote in late 2018.
He later on connected up with Mr. Clark on line and they started doing the job collectively, folks concerned in the investigation claimed. Their early work, hackers claimed and investigators verified, was on so-identified as SIM swaps, a hacking technique that is usually utilized to steal social media accounts and cryptocurrency.
Late previous year and early this yr, hackers and investigators reported, the teenager was part of a team that acquired inside the website GoDaddy, a business that sells and secures web page names. The hackers had been in a position to obtain and change purchaser data. GoDaddy verified the hack in a letter to prospects.
In Could, the Massachusetts teen and Mr. Clark began tricking Twitter employees to give up their logins, main to the July 15 hack. The boys, employing the alias Kirk, started offering important Twitter user names to customers.
Just just after noon California time that working day, the other accomplices dropped out, they claimed in interviews with The Times a several times later on. Mr. Clark and the Massachusetts teen then took in excess of prominent Twitter accounts — like those belonging to Mr. Obama and Elon Musk — and used them to send out out a Bitcoin scam. Investigators stated the Massachusetts teenager was logged into Twitter's programs and dealt with at minimum some of the improvements to the accounts and the tweets that went out from them.
Folks responding to the scam despatched the teens close to 12 Bitcoin, worth all over $140,000. Individuals proceeds appeared to have been about break up in half among the two persons in demand, according to the public ledger of Bitcoin transactions.
Kate Conger contributed reporting. Sheelagh McNeil contributed investigate.
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Q: Encore webpack or assets generating wrong path to image in symfony 4 I am trying to learn to use encore webpack.
Well, following this guideEncore + webpack + bootstrap sass and this guide Symfony 4+ enconre + Bootstrap 4 I got symfony to use the scss and js assets I use.
But the problem is when I insert an image in my scss code (for a bg) the relative url I see in the browser is wrongly generated.
Webpack is generating the image here:
public\build\images\2.f26e9a05.jpg

But the url in the browser ends up like this:
/public/build/build/images/2.f26e9a05.jpg

(if I delete the second "build/" the image loads like it should)
this is my folder estructure:
assets:
   css:
     app.scss
   js:
     app.js
public:
   images:
     2.jpg

app.scss:
@import '~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap';
...
.parallax {
background-image: url("images/2.jpg");
}

Webpack.config.js:
var Encore = require('@symfony/webpack-encore');

Encore
// the project directory where compiled assets will be stored
.setOutputPath('public/build/')
// the public path used by the web server to access the previous directory
.setPublicPath('build')
// the public path you will use in Symfony's asset() function - e.g. asset('build/some_file.js')
.setManifestKeyPrefix('build/')

.cleanupOutputBeforeBuild()
.enableSourceMaps(!Encore.isProduction())

// the following line enables hashed filenames (e.g. app.abc123.css)
//.enableVersioning(Encore.isProduction())

// uncomment to define the assets of the project
.addEntry('app', './assets/js/app.js')
//.addStyleEntry('css/app', './assets/css/app.scss')

// uncomment if you use TypeScript
//.enableTypeScriptLoader()

// uncomment if you use Sass/SCSS files
.enableSassLoader()

// uncomment for legacy applications that require $/jQuery as a global variable
.autoProvidejQuery()
;

module.exports = Encore.getWebpackConfig();

index.html.twig:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>{% block title %}100Monos{% endblock %}</title>
    {% block stylesheets %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ asset('build/app.css') }}">
    {% endblock %}

    {% block body %}

100Monos

Nuestra Web es mala porque pasamos todo el tiempo haciendo la suya

    {% endblock %}
    {% block javascripts %}

    {% endblock %}

A: I am responding to this rather old question, because I assume some things have changed in the meantime concerning yarn watch and the setting of the public path:
If I do a:
.setPublicPath('./')
yarn watch feels offended, and shows a:
WARNING   The value passed to setPublicPath() should *usually* start with "/" or be a full URL (http://...). If you're not sure, then you should probably change your public path and make this message disappear..
So I think the way this is meant to be is more like this:
Encore

    // directory where compiled assets will be stored
    .setOutputPath('public/build/')

    // public path used by the web server to access the output path
    .setPublicPath('/public/build')

    // only needed for CDN's or sub-directory deploy
    .setManifestKeyPrefix('public/build/')

So the public path should still be absolute while the "manifest prefix" takes care of the set up as a subdirectory.
Information on this can be found here:

*

*webpack-encore-readme

*webpack-encore-issue-13
Just added this for correctness, as I stumbled over it and others might as well...

A: I resolved it at the end, after testing many things. There was 2 problem I kept repeating.
First, the path was generated in a not relative way, solve it changing webpack with this:
    .setPublicPath('./')

But then the scss didn't load, what happen? Well, the prefix was the problem, because when you put the prefix in the asset function it takes the prefix and change it for the public path... so I changed the prefix for
    .setManifestKeyPrefix('webpack/')

(something random really)

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The Community Governance Partnership exists to empower others, through a combination of directed trainings, partnership development and assisting with community-based campaigns that tie into larger issues. CGP's mission is to see key social and environmental issues addressed through new, innovative community alliances, to address key planning and conservation issues with new tools, and make CGP's partners' work made more effective.
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The California Wilderness Coalition (CalWild) protects and restores the state's wildest natural landscapes and watersheds on public lands. These important wild places provide clean air and water, refuges for wildlife, mitigation against the effects of climate change, and outstanding opportunities for recreation and spiritual renewal for people. CalWild is the only statewide organization dedicated solely to protecting and restoring the wild places and native biodiversity of California's public lands.
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Chris Morrill
Chris brings years of international and domestic experience as an organizer, political strategist, and communications expert. He now is the Executive Director of CalWild. Prior to working with CalWild and The Next Generation, he held policy and political roles with the California League of Conservation Voters and Save the Children. He previously served as CalWild's Communications Director for two years, including managing social media campaigns. Through Chris' leadership, CalWild has continued to increase online advocacy work and effectiveness and has also been one of the driving forces in building CalWild's defensive work challenging the extreme measures coming from the Trump administration and Congress.
Ryan Henson
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Regional Field Director
Jackee's fervor for the natural world has fueled her career as a wildlife biologist and archaeologist, backcountry horse packer, and finally as the co-founder and Executive Director of Cannabis for Conservation, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit. She graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S. in Wildlife Management and Conservation, and a B.A. in Archaeology. She has worked for the US Fish & Wildlife Service and private organizations conducting wildlife research on endangered species including gray whales, desert tortoises, and Pacific fishers. Notably, her independent research of nesting shorebirds led to FWS protections and management of Salt Island in Connecticut. A graduate of our community organizer program, we immediately saw her potential. She joins us now to assist with CROP.
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Q: Using the response of a Axios/NodeJS API call function as a parameter to make another API call General concept: I am accessing two API endpoints. One responds with general information, and the other with specific information.
I have called the first endpoint and with the response, I return an object in the format that the second endpoint requires as a parameter.
Problem: I keep getting "Data after transformation must be a string, an ArrayBuffer, a Buffer, or a Stream"
I want to learn to use functions across controllers, so as not having to REPEAT myself.
Code:

This returns the object that I need to use in the second API call:
const axios = require("axios");
const getSpecials = async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get(`${apiURL}/categories`);
    let specials = [];
    let skus = [];
    response.data.forEach((element, index) => {
      if (response.data[index].is_special == true) {
        specials.push({
          name: response.data[index].name,
          product_skus: response.data[index].product_skus,
          _id: response.data[index]._id,
        });
        skus.push(response.data[index].product_skus);
      }
    });
    return { product_skus: skus.flat() };
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error.message);
  }
};

module.exports = {getSpecials}

This returns the product details if I post the return from the first API call as a parameter:
const axios = require("axios");
const { getSpecials } = require("./categoriesControllers");
const specialProducts = async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const response = await axios.post(`${apiURL}/products`, getSpecials);
    res.status(200).json(response.data);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error.message);
  }
};

Any suggestions on how best to do this would be great. I want learn to let the backend to do all the heavy lifting and I want to serve the data as cleanly as possible to the front end.

A: If I understand correctly, you just need to change
const response = await axios.post(`${apiURL}/products`, getSpecials);
to this
const response = await axios.post(`${apiURL}/products`, await getSpecials());
because right now you're passing a function declaration to second argument to axios post function, not a return value from getSpecials


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But I have only 8.
the time both Chrome and FF open, editing video, pictures etc.
I'm wondering how many tabs FF has open, what these tabs are.
After killing firefox (I restarted Thunderbird half an hour ago) I still have 2.3 GB in swap. After killing Th it is the same figure (using alpine to post this).
But, I get 5.6G free, and 1.3 in buff/cache temporarily. With no swap, free would be 2.2 less.
Having swap increases free memory, not the other way round. It makes the system actually faster. That's a common misconception, that having swap makes the system slower. No. What makes it slower is needing to use swap because there is not enough ram.
None of you have looked at the logs in the other post that indicate that the culprit of my problems can be alsa.


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Lore: Breaking Down the Ideological Barrier
"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue."
― Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, 1976.
"A vast army of ghosts, cripples and monsters inhabited my dream landscapes, where cities were burned and forests were mowed down by a hail of bombs."
―Melita Maschmann, Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self, 1964.
In 1933 when Melita Maschmann was fifteen years old, she secretly joined the girls'division of the Hitler Youth in a protest against her wealthy conservative parents. Her goal was to escape from her "childish narrow life," and attach herself "to something that was great and fundamental." For almost twenty years, she remained a committed, avowed Nazi supporter experiencing at times "overwhelming joy" as she worked in the press and propaganda sections during the 1930s and supervised the evictions of Polish farmers and the resettlement of ethnic Germans on their farms during the war years. By the end of the war, she exposed herself to danger expecting to die since she was unable to imagine "an existence robbed of the possibility an inner life." Even after she spent three years in prison and underwent the compulsory de-Nazification program, she remained an unrepentant Nazi. Then over the next twelve years she underwent a profound transformation that culminated in her mea culpa memoir, Account Rendered, which attempted to understand not excuse "the wrong and even the evil steps I took." It was the first time a former National Socialist publicly acknowledged that she had served "an inhuman political system" and admitted that she had not thought for herself. The vast majority, like the parents in the novella and film adaptation Lore, burned any incriminating documents. They regarded Maschmann's memoir as a form of betrayal and never forgave her.
Cate Shortland's Lore (2012)
Lore (short for Hannelore), the central character of Rachel Seiffert's "Lore," one of three interlocking novellas in the 2001 The Dark Room, and Cate Shortland's 2012 film, Lore, is about the same age as Maschmann was in 1933. The setting for the novella and the film is Bavaria in the spring of 1945. The girl of the title shepherds her four younger siblings that range from about twelve to a baby on a perilous trek through a ruined country under foreign occupation to reach the grandmother's home outside of Hamburg several hundred kilometres away. The film might be understood as a latter-day Grimm tale: the mother warns Lore to stay from soldiers because they kill all the children. Like Maschmann, she too undergoes a psychological odyssey from Hitlerian delirium to the beginning of awareness about the truth of the Nazi horror, a process in which she is forced to confront the demons of Nazi indoctrination and its consequences. As a result of her harrowing ordeal, Maschmann was permanently scarred. We do not know of course the future of Lore but the evidence from other sources suggests that the offspring and descendants of powerful Nazi officials did experience lives fraught with guilt and shame. Some sought reparation by converting to Judaism.
Account Rendered is cast in the form of an open letter to an unnamed Jewish woman whom she has not seen in twenty-five years, but who had once been a close girlfriend. Maschmann explains how she compartmentalized individual Jews that she liked from "the Jews" whom she believed were an "active force for evil." She especially regretted that she had succumbed to the pressure from the Gestapo to spy on her friend's family, who were suspected of hosting an anti-Nazi group in their home. As a result, the Gestapo arrested members of her friend's family. She regrets the experience as a "lamentable episode."
For years nobody knew the identity of her friend. There was even speculation that her "friend" was a literary construct. It now turns out that her friend was (and is) a living person: Marianne Schweitzer, now ninety five and living in La Jolla California. As reported by Helen Epstein in the New Yorker, Schweitzer was living in Panama teaching German and was invited in 1963 by the Goethe institute, along with other scholars, to visit Germany. There she met with Maschmann and read her manuscript. Schweitzer was so appalled by her former friend's betrayal that she never saw her again. In her interview with Epstein, Schweitzer, now ninety five, filled in missing gaps from Account Rendered. Whereas Maschmann does not recall ever discussing the issue of anti-Semitism with her friend, Schweitzer remembers telling her that Hitler sounded like a hysterical fanatic and Maschmann replying that she "was not able to appreciate his greatness because [she] had Jewish blood." Schweitzer also has vivid memories about what happened to her family as a result of Maschmann's infamy: her older sister was sent to a concentration camp, her mother was arrested and her father was badly beaten during Kristallnacht. Yet in retrospect, Schweitzer acknowledged Maschmann's courage for honestly confronting her Nazi past.
Niklas Frank
Unlike Maschmann, Lore's demons are not of her own making but that of her family and her country – but she has imbibed them. The war is over and the Third Reich is in a state of rigor mortis; her SS father, Vati, after a brief appearance disappears to an unknown future and her ice-cold Nazi mother, Mutti, has been beaten and raped. Yet Lore still believes the Fuhrer's pledge of a "final victory." Being the oldest child, she is more likely to parrot her parents' views. From the beginning it is clear, however, that Lore has a limited understanding of the Nazi worldview and events, and her perspective is what infuses the film and the novella. Unfortunately, Seiffert's prose is at times so lean that the reader is left to use his imagination; Shortland fills in the context. For example, there is only a brief reference to her father's uniform in the novella but in the film, the SS uniform and other small details suggests that he was the commander of the mobile death squads that killed millions on the Eastern Front. Before stoically surrendering to the Americans and providing her daughter with a smattering of her jewelry to purchase food, her mother admonishes Lore, "You must remember who you are." But in this vastly changed, almost surreal environment with corpses dotting the scorched earth and hoards of hungry people scavenging the land, being the children of the Nazi elite poses problems as their suspicious rural neighbours want nothing to do with them. They only grudgingly provide food after they have extracted money or a valuable from the children. One detail from the book that might have been inserted into the film is Lore's warning to her younger siblings that they should not tell Germans about their parents, an early indication that they are somehow contaminated.
Her Nazi assumptions further unravel when Lore catches glimpses of photographs from the death camps that the Allies have posted in the towns. While other onlookers dismiss the corpses as American actors (Maschmann initially believed these pictures were a propaganda trick), Lore is unsettled by the searing images, especially after she juxtaposes one of them with that of her father in uniform. Without any dialogue, she communicates confusion and hurt in her face as one layer of indoctrination is peeled away. Further complicating her feelings is the presence of Thomas, an older boy with a tattoo number on his arm who apparently has escaped from a concentration camp. He initially appears to be a predator but turns out to be their inscrutable protector posing as their brother. Although the boys are enthralled with Thomas – they are too young to be tainted by anti-Semitism – Lore has decidedly mixed feelings: all her life she has been inculcated with the belief that Jews were untrustworthy and enemies of Germany. Given her budding sexuality, she is torn between disgust and lust for him, and needing him. His survival skills and Jewish papers enable him to negotiate with the American soldiers at checkpoints, to cadge food and access the trains once they begin to operate. Those skills are tested in the most challenging part of the trip: the crossings from the American zone to the dangerous Russian sector before entering the safety of the British territory where their grandmother, Oma, lives. Maneuvering this treacherous terrain would have been impossible without his assistance. Once Lore and her brood arrive at their destination, the grandmother tries to reassure them that their parents did nothing wrong, a statement that Lore does not believe. As the grandmother demands greater reverence for adults, Lore's adolescent rage begins to boil and she seeks out an inanimate target for her rebellion. The novella's ending that combines Lore's pain and hopefulness about a better future is not as convincing.
Lore is of course fictional yet there are other sources available that suggest the adult lives of the offspring of powerful Nazi officials were difficult. Wibke Bruhns' 2009 intensely personal memoir, My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family (Arrow Books) was her attempt to come to terms with her family heritage that included an SS father who was tried and executed for his participation in the 1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. Bruhns was a baby when the war broke out and she never knew her father. Although an accomplished journalist, she avoided exploration of her family history because the topic had been too painful to tackle. Even a decade after the war, most Germans regarded individuals associated with the abortive plot as traitors and the government denied their families any financial assistance. "He was an open wound in her life," says Bruhns, who endured a lonely, troubled childhood. At school she was ostracized and later expelled as a troublemaker: the head said she had "bad blood." One of her sisters committed suicide. After she entered psychoanalysis and her mother died, she decided she was ready to investigate her daunting subject. Her parents' letters, her mother's diary and other family memorabilia were disturbing for her as they reveal their extreme nationalism, commitment to blood purity and wilful blindness to the cruelty that was perpetrated on the regime's victims. Writing the book was part of her therapy.
Similarly, Israeli director, Chanoch Zeevi's 2011 documentary, Hitler's Children, tracked down five descendants of Hitler's closest accomplices and encouraged them to talk about how their lineage has affected their lives. All of them carry the burden of their surname and have experienced guilt and shame. But they have responded in different ways: the great-niece of Hermann Goring had herself sterilized and moved to New Mexico, while the son of Hans Frank feels an urgent responsibility to educate the German young about the crimes committed by the Nazis, including his infamous father. Having some awareness about real life children or descendants of Nazi officials only enhances the poignancy we feel for the vulnerable young in Lore.
(Photo by Keith Penner)
– Bob Douglas is a teacher and author. His second volume to That Line of Darkness: The Shadow of Dracula and the Great War (Encompass Editions, 2011), titled That Line of Darkness: Vol. II The Gothic from Lenin to bin Laden, is available now. For more information, please visit www.thatlineofdarkness.com.
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5 tempting tea traditions from Asia
Take your tea milky? You're not the only one, says Brendan Wan. Here are five uniquely delicious interpretations of milk tea from Asia
The act of adding milk to one's cup of tea has long been viewed as the most quintessential aspect of British culture. Acclaimed travel writer, Bill Bryson once wrote: "to this day, I remain impressed by the ability of Britons of all ages and social backgrounds to get genuinely excited by the prospects of a hot beverage."
Tea was introduced to the British via the Portuguese in the 17th century. The exact origins of milk tea, however, still remains unclear. Some historians claim that the practice was used to appeal to the European taste buds unfamiliar to strong taste of tea. Others debate that milk was added due to fears that the scolding hot temperatures would damage the delicate porcelain cups used at the time.
Milk tea is a long-standing British tradition which has been revitalised and reinvented with numerous varieties in Asia, each holding their own distinct character and flavour...
1. Hong Kong milk tea
Hong Kong milk tea, also known as 'pantyhose' milk tea, is the perfect Hong Kong afternoon delight. Made using a blend of various tea-leaves, evaporated milk, condensed milk and occasionally egg shells, Hong Kong milk tea delivers a smooth, rich and creamy texture with a harmonious sweet and strong taste. A pantyhose-looking sackcloth strainer (hence the name) is used to strain the tea thoroughly, intensifying the caffeine and smoothing the tea aroma.
As many Hong Kong shopkeepers regard their recipe as highly guarded 'commercial secrets', the exact ingredients of which tea leaves are used differs among the teahouse community. The most basic combination used is said to consist of English breakfast, Irish breakfast, black lycee, jasmine green, Puh-er and Assam. However, it has been reported that some stores use up to 15 different types of tea in their recipe.
2. Taiwan's bubble milk tea
Bubble milk tea is the latest evolution of milk tea in Asia and the one that has become the most popular. On any given street corner in Taiwan, a bubble milk tea stand can inevitably be found, making it the contemporary counterpart to the traditional Chinese teahouses. Bubble milk tea recipes vary due to the vast number of flavours available but bubble milk tea mainly consists of brewed tea (green, black, jasmine or oolong), powder milk, flavouring, sugar syrup and tapioca balls.
It is deliciously sweet in taste and simply fun to drink due to the playful chewiness of the tapioca balls. But be warned: one regular cup of bubble milk tea contains roughly the same amount of calories as a Big Mac.
3. Thai iced tea
With its bright amber colour, Thai iced tea serves as the perfect drink on a sticky hot summer's day. This truly refreshing milk tea is usually served over ice and its ingredients consist of strongly brewed black tea, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and various aromatic spices including star anise, green cardamom, orange blossoms, cloves, cinnamon and grounded tamarind. Thai iced tea has an interesting mixture of enriching flavours that will intrigue your taste buds. It has a rich creamy texture, hints of floral character, a subtle liquorice aroma and a mild spicy bite to finish. The overbearing sweetness nicely binds all these vastly opposing flavours together, and with the added bonus of the ice; we get a milk tea beverage that cools our bodies and eases our minds. Thai iced tea is perfect when served alongside spicy Thai cuisine.
4. Malaysia's teh tarik
Teh tarik, literally translated as 'pulled tea', is a common milk tea beverage often found in hawker stalls and coffee shops throughout Malaysia. Made using Ceylon black tea leaves and condensed milk, teh tarik produces a soft creamy texture with an exceptionally strong tea aroma.
The name derives from the pouring process in which the tea mixture is repeatedly stretched from one cup to the other. This theatrical stretching process is believed to thoroughly mix the tea and condensed milk, accentuating the strong aroma and resulting in a thick frothy top that somewhat resembles a caffé latte.
For a real Malaysian breakfast experience, enjoy a cup of teh tarik alongside a plate of Roti Canai (Indian-influenced flatbread). Heavenly bliss.
5. Noon chai from Kashmir
Recognisable by its distinct pink colour, noon chai is the most unique out of all the milk teas in Asia. It is made using a type of Darjeeling tea called 'Pahari', whole milk, salt, baking soda and a variety of spices and nuts. The strange ingredient of baking soda is used to ignite a chemical reaction in the tea, causing noon chai's special pink colour. Noon chai delivers a really strange combination of exotic flavour to the drinker; a rich salty taste, aromatic spicy notes and an unexpected nutty texture.
Noon chai is believed to hold certain health properties; helping to promote digestion and boosting one's immune system. It is a common beverage in Kashmiri households served during breakfast, weddings and other special occasions, with freshly baked breads such as baqurkhani, kulcha or naan.
An avid traveller, Brendan Wan's greatest travelling feats include picnicking on the Great Wall; drinking champagne in Champagne, France; and scooting around Taiwan on a leaky old 125cc scooter named "The Green Hornet". Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he now lives in London and can be found drinking his tea with milk and honey. You can follow Brendan at The Travel Pop!


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The Major Pentatonic Scale is a 5 note scale. The major pentatonic guitar scale is usually played over major chords, and is used in rock music as well as country music.
The Major Pentatonic Scale uses the 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 notes of the major scale.
The diagram below shows the 5 Major Pentatonic Scale Patterns spread over the length of the guitar neck. Notice how the patterns connect to or overlap eachother. The diagram shows the A flat (A♭) Major Pentatonic Scale.
The formula for the Major Pentatonic Scale is 1 whole step, 1 whole step, 1 and a half whole steps, 1 whole step, 1 and a half whole steps.


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Director Josef Fares Talks about the first weeks following the launch of A Way Out.
A Way Out, a unique experience entirely built to be played in co-op, released on March 23, to great acclaim from players around the globe. We sat down with Josef Fares, the writer and director of the game, to talk about the weeks following the launch, how he's coping with his newfound success, and what's next for his studio Hazelight.
We imagine that the last few weeks have been pretty intense for you and the studio. Would you mind summarizing what it has been like?
Releasing something that you've worked on for three years is first and foremost a huge relief. Never in my life, even as a filmmaker, have I witnessed a reaction of this magnitude to something I've done, and it has been overwhelming. If you're in the creative business, the most important thing is that the stuff you do evokes some sort of emotion, and it sure seems A Way Out has struck a chord in that regard.
Reviews were great, and we know that the game has already sold a million copies and that it has been played by about two million people. What would you say is the appeal with A Way Out?
What has surprised me is that many have been treating this this game as a big AAA title, which has been both a blessing and a curse for us. We appreciate the comparisons with these huge blockbuster titles, but at the end of the day, we're a tiny studio and the game has a decidedly smaller scope than the big games out there.
This was the first game for Hazelight, your games studio. How has the team reacted?
When we kicked off development, Hazelight was a tiny team with just ten people. Now we've grown into a team of 40 people. The team is quite junior too, and for a lion's share of the developers, this was their first proper game release. For me personally, it's the second game I've ever built. So for the entire studio, to see our creation next to Far Cry on the 'What's Hot' section on the PlayStation Store, is just crazy and unimaginable. Every single one of us have poured our hearts into the game.
So what's next for Hazelight and for you?
The studio is now moving out from the building in Stockholm where DICE sits, and we've found our own location. And I'm already super excited about my next project. On the back of all the people that are playing A Way Out, we've established something of a fan base, and we've got to build on that.
I can't tell you what we're working on yet. But generally speaking, I think it's important for the games industry to have creative titles that break the mold, that dare to push things forward. My ambition is to continue to bring some guts into this industry and take some risks. I say this a lot, but I'm just so proud of the team and proud to be part of this industry. And I'm here to stay.
A Way Out is part of EA Originals, a program for small, independent game developers that hands all profits back into the hands of the studios making the games.


The book in question is The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, which appeared in the Novel Discoveries section of last month's post. I enjoyed If on a winter's night a traveler enough that I decided I wanted to pick this up once I came across it. I suspect I will enjoy this book more as well as it seems to be a blend of real science and science fiction while, telling tales that traverse the universe. I also love that the cover/binding designs of my Calvino books match. I'm not gonna be able to bring myself to buy any other editions now though. They will all have to match.
I also bought a couple of digital books this month, the first being Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy, which was on sale on Comixology. I've been wanting to check out this comic for a while, so much so that I've already started reading it. The Joker has managed to cure himself of psychosis and appears to be sincerely trying to better Gotham by holding Batman accountable for all the ills his vigilantism causes.
I bought "Galatea" by Madeline Miller because I love her adaptations of Greek mythology after reading Circe last year. This story retells the myth of Pygmalion from the perspective of Galatea, the statue who is turned into a real woman to be her sculptor's lover. It is only a short story, not a full novel, but I'm excited to read it nonetheless.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes is a retelling of the Trojan War from a female perspective, which sounds uncannily similar to the recent novel The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. I'm just as intrigued, regardless.
The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente is another book of his I'm mostly interested because of how much I enjoyed his run on The Incredible Hercules. The idea of a whodunnit set during a comic book convention does sound like a fun read, though.
I heard about We by Yevgeny Zamyatin from one of another blog's WWW posts. I don't know much about it, except that it's a dystopian novel that inspired the likes of 1984 and apparently foresaw the worst excesses of Soviet Russia. That's more than enough to colour me interested.
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver is a ghost story set during an Arctic expedition and I really like the idea of blending paranormal threats with a cold, unforgiving arctic wilderness. The cover is very striking to me too. Despite it being added more on a whim, I may go out of my way to pick this up sooner rather than later.
Stop me if I've brought this up before, but do you ever feel a little guilty about adding something short but published on its own, like "Galatea", to your Goodreads and counting it towards your yearly goal? It's just as much a book as other digital releases, or single bound editions of other short stories for that matter, but something about it feels a bit like I'm cheating. These are probably weird hang-ups to have. Pretty low stakes, at any rate.


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Sources suspect family slaughtered by drug cartel in Mexico was targeted: report
By Lia Eustachewich
November 6, 2019 | 10:13am	| Updated November 6, 2019 | 2:47pm
The three moms and six children gunned down by drug cartel thugs in northern Mexico were deliberately targeted, according to a new report.
The ambush on Dawna Ray Langford, Christina Marie Langford Johnson and Rhonita Maria Miller and their 14 kids occurred over several miles in Sonora state on Monday — even after Johnson hopped out to show she wasn't a threat.
Those details are why sources believe the family — residents of a Mormon community called La Mora founded decades ago by an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — was intentionally targeted, CBS News reported.
Taylor Langford, a nephew of one of the women killed in the attack, agreed.
"Three vehicles with women and children in broad daylight. There was no mistaken identity," he told the network on Tuesday. "I felt this was in broad daylight and … no one could have done that not knowing what they were doing."
Authorities are probing whether the family was slaughtered by drug lords who mistook their convoy for enemies — or whether the murders were deliberate.
The moms and six children, including Miller's 8-month-old twins, were killed in the gunfire, while several other children survived.
On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced the arrest of a suspect in connection to their deaths.
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A hearty stew is the perfect lunch or dinner in the days before Thanksgiving.
A crazy family may not be as crazy as they seem in You Can't Take it With You, which Clarksville Little Theatre will present beginning this weekend.
Culinary travel is booming and Louisville's promo efforts are paying off.
Fine ingredients, a cozy setting and thou: Cena's Italian menu is perfect for date night sharing.
For all of our Best of Louisville fans, I am sure you saw that the Mussel & Burger Bar won "Best Restaurant Worth The Wait", but have you tried The Place Downstairs? But don't get too comfortable with this place because it will now be changing in name, menu, and style.


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For this tutorial I am using the tube of Alicia Mujica called Kiera by Alicia Mujica 2014.
You can purchase it at http://aliciamujicadesign.com/gb/.
You must have a license to use this tube.
The kit I am using is also by Alicia Mujica called The Secret Garden.
Let's start off by making the FB Profile Ava.
Using your magic wand, C/P into selection Imagen20a.
C/P Kiera by Alicia Mujica 2014 and resize 30%.
C/P Cloud by Alicia Mujica 2014 and resize 15%.
Duplicate that layer and place to your liking.
C/P Deco9 by Alicia Mujica 2015 and resize 15%.
C/P Garden Deco 3 by Alicia Mujica 2015 and resize 40%.
C/P Buterfly 1 by Alicia Mujica 2015 and resize 15%.
Next, let's make the FB Timeline Cover.
Open a 851 x 315 canvas.
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Place tube to the left of the canvas.
C/P Kiera by Alicia Mujica 2014 and resize 50%.
Place tube to the right of the canvas.
Duplicate twice and place to your liking.
C/P Secret Garden by Alicia Mujica 2015 and resize 25%.
C/P Buterfly by Alicia Mujica 2015 and resize 15%.
I used the following settings for the font.
Add the Artist copyright and your watermark.
I think it's about time I start doing tutorials again. I really miss doing them. They make my creative juices flow.


After the city of Los Angeles opted to sue cable provider Time Warner over poor service, officials in nearby Costa Mesa say they might follow suit.
The Daily Pilot newspaper reported Friday that the city attorney in Costa Mesa, Kimberly Hall Barlow, said she has asked for a copy of the L.A. lawsuit "so that I can assess if we need to pursue action of our own" because of service complaints in that community.
Time Warner acquired the local cable system from Comcast in 2006, according to the newspaper, and the city in February brought a Time Warner Cable representative to a city council meeting to address consumer complaints. The TWC official at that time blamed the problems on the transition from Comcast and said the situation was improving.
Time Warner Cable acquired Los Angeles systems from Adelphia and Comcast and claims the transition there was more difficult that the company had anticipated.


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Loki – A TV series Review
Loki, what a revelation. It's taken me a little while to write this review as I wanted to get my thoughts in order because I found this Marvel series a challenging one, in a good way.
To start off with I must state that without equivocation I love Tom Hiddleston's portrayal of Loki in the Marvel Universe. The only part that turns me against him is the fact that he killed Coulson. Over the range of Marvel film's, he has proved to be an admirable foe and ally and everything in between.
Having seen Wanda Vision (underwhelming) and Falcon and the Winter Soldier (entertaining) I was not sure where the story would go. Loki is a great character played by a great actor, but you need more than that in today's TV market.
What I mean by challenging is the way in which my assumptions were constantly challenged. From episode one I was on a rollercoaster with its Wednesday release slot becoming an important weekly date. Episode 1 engaged the viewer with the story and Loki well. We see the arrogant trickster in all his glory scheming his way from scene to scene. Owen Wilson was surprisingly good as Mobius. He's what I call a lower end comedy actor but his delivery of Mobius as the world weary but dedicated TVA agent was great. The TVA in itself is a great inception and fascinatingly portrayed. The series dropped just enough clues as to what it was to keep you intrigued.
At the end of episode one I was disappointed, however. It was revealed that there was a big bad, someone threatening all of time. I looked forward to finding out about this villain but was annoyed to discover it was a variant of Loki. I felt this was lazy writing and a way to keep casting costs down. The anti-hero having to face off against themselves has been done before and I wasn't sure Marvel could come up with something new.
Episode 2 thankfully proved me wrong. The reveal of a lady Loki raised so many questions and the hook returned to me. I wanted to know more. Was this really a Loki, someone impersonating Loki or something deeper? Yet again I was disappointed when the previously bad ass Sylvie was apprehended with ease and humanised aboard the train. I admit the interaction between the two characters was excellent, but she seemed to be defanged too quickly. This was supposed to be the big bad and yet she was brought down so easily. Of course, with was yet another subversion.
Each subversion challenged the narrative, it took what I thought was happening and twisted it by 90 degrees. The TVA deception was a little obvious. It was cleat it wasn't what it seemed to be but getting there was wholly enjoyable. Mobius was an engaging foil and partner for Loki acting almost like a Jiminy Cricket to Loki's Pinnocchio who we found changing deeply through the series. He will always be the trickster, but a softer more nuanced side was emerging. In the past Loki could be very 'moustache twirling' but here we started to understand why Loki is how he is. His observations and decisions may not be right, but we can now understand where he was coming from and the fact that he essentially falls in love with himself is perfect for his arrogant narcissistic ego.
Whilst some aspects of Loki were predictable, most was not. Frog Thor and Alligator Loki anyone. At times Loki was bizarre and yet awesome. Richard E Grant as the original Loki was a stroke of genius. This actor gave it his all despite his god awful, dated costume. It added a little bit of hubristic weight to the action, here was a Loki making a redemptive action that would give Hiddleston Loki the cue for the finale.
So, to the ending, or rather the beginning. I assumed it was just a six-part series and that was it but the addition of a second series was excellent and gives the series a little more room to breathe. I loved the fights with Loki and Sylvie and was enthralled by the lengthy exposition by Kang. I am not well versed in Marvel lore to know about Kang, but it spoke to the power of the series that they were able to make such an engaging enemy in what was, a very talky end couple of scenes.
Aside from the fascinating plotting and great acting one other thing raised this series above all the rest, the music. OMG it was amazing. The stirring Loki theme was ominous and dramatic and carried the series in itself. Few pieces of music evoke such a rection, perhaps the Imperial March in Empire Strikes Back or Vangelis in Bladerunner. The music elevated everything and its something I could listen to on repeat ad infinitum. I look forward to series two and I hope the team are able to continue challenging me more and we get to see Loki and Sylvie in ever more interesting adventures as they challenge Kang.
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