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NMSU's New Weight Room Equipment Installed Locally
The NMSU Coca Cola Weight Facility of Aggie Athletics is getting a much needed upgrade this spring. It is being done locally by Samson Weight Training Inc, of Las Cruces. Samson Weight Training Equipment was founded by Dave and Linda Schroeder in 1976. Both Attended New Mexico State University, with Dave playing on the Football Team. Linda would go on to be the Head Coach of Women's Swim, Gymnastics and Field Hockey at NMSU.
Marshall Accepts Job With Green Bay
LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- New Mexico State head football coach Doug Martin Announced Wednesday that offensive line coach Steve Marshall has accepted a coaching position with the Green Bay Packers as their new assistant offensive line coach. Marshall was hired at NM State back in mid-January.
"Obviously we hate to lose coach Marshall to Green Bay but I understand what a great opportunity this is for him and his family," Martin said. "We wish him the best of luck."
Martin will begin a search for Marshall's replacement immediately.
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2 From Women's Tennis on All WAC list
Denver, Colo. – Sophomore Ashvarya Shrivastava and junior Susana Alcaraz were named second team All-WAC singles selections announced by the conference office, Wednesday morning. "Obviously I'm very proud of Susana and Ashvarya being named as second team All-WAC singles selections," head coach Ivan Fernandez said. "They had the most wins out of anyone on our team, which is why I nominated them. For them to come in and be new members of our team and earn All-WAC honors is a great accomplishment."
5 from Men's Tennis Earn All WAC Honors
Denver, Colo. – The New Mexico State men's tennis team earned four All-WAC honors announced by the conference office Wednesday morning. Sophomore Strahinja Trecakov earned first team singles honors, while sophomore Naveen Manivannan was named a second team honoree. "This is a bright light after a very tough ending to the season last week," head coach Carlos Vargas said. "I'm happy for all the guys and their accomplishments this year and this is well deserved. It's a great honor to be recognized after a very good season."
Updated: 2nd Annual Aggie Awards Recap
The 2nd Annual Aggie Award took place on Monday April 28th, at the Corbett Center Ball Room. Awards were given out to Individual Student Athletes, Teams and Coaches.
Ezenyilimba Among Top 10 Freshmen
LAS CRUCES, N.M.--Freshman field athlete Akuadasou Ezenyilimba is among the top 10 freshman in the country for the hammer throw event according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Association's under 20 list.
Swimming & Diving Celebrate 2013-14 Season
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State swimming and diving team held an end-of-the-year banquet on Sunday to celebrate a successful 2013-14 season, hand out its postseason awards and recognize the five seniors on the squad, Terrin Seaver, Tricia Kiss, Jaymee Porter and sisters Alessandra and Brianna Zuniga.
Women's Golf To Play In The West Regional
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Women's Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Regionals.
Swimming & Diving Inks 5 for 2014-15
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico State swimming and diving head coach Rick Pratt announced Monday the signing of five athletes, three swimmers and two divers, to National Letters of Intent to join the Aggies for the 2014-15 season.
Women's Golf Wins 2014 WAC Championship
Courtesy of New Mexico State University & the WAC
MESA, Ariz. – The New Mexico State women's golf team picked up its first Western Athletic Conference title after winning the 2014 WAC Women's Golf Championship on Sunday at the par-72, 6,163-yard Longbow Golf Club.
NMSU Moves Into 2nd In WAC Commissioners Cup
With today's high finishes by WGLF, WTEN, MTEN, @NMStateAggies move into 2nd place in the @WACSports Commissioners Cup behind Idaho.
— Bill Harty (@BHartyNMSU) April 27, 2014
Women's Tennis Advances to WAC Championships
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State women's tennis team advanced to their first-ever WAC Championship finals with a 4-2 win over No. 2 seed Texas-Pan American, Saturday morning at the NM State Tennis Center.
Men's Tennis Advances to WAC Championship
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The No. 1 seed New Mexico State men's tennis team advanced to the finals of the 2014 WAC Tennis Championships with a 4-0 win over No. 4 seed Kansas City, Saturday morning at the NM State Tennis Center. "I think we preformed great," head coach Carlos Vargas said. "We haven't done this format all year and all of a sudden we have to start with singles instead of doubles and play on three courts instead of six so there were a lot changes thrown at us kind of spur of the moment. But our team handled it great and I feel confident in the way they played."
Women's Tennis Advances to Semifinals
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State women's tennis team defeated Seattle U, 4-0, on Friday in the opening round of the 2014 WAC Women's Tennis Tournament being played at the NM State Tennis Center.
Sim Bhullar Declares For The 2014 NBA Draft
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico State men's basketball head coach Marvin Menzies announced on Friday, April 25 that center Sim Bhullar has decided to forego his remaining collegiate eligibility by entering his name into the 2014 NBA Draft.


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Protesting Trump's immigration policy? You might be accidentally helping him
Outrage over the threat to undocumented immigrants may be fuelling undue panic, and could be part of Trump's big plan
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The spectre of deportation is haunting communities, but the data shows that removals have not spiked since Donald Trump's inauguration. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters
An awkward question has begun to nag opponents of Donald Trump's immigration policies: is the resistance inadvertently helping the administration?
Few say it publicly but there is concern that the rallies and marches, alerts and tweets, workshops and press releases are helping the administration sow fear among undocumented immigrants.
The spectre of deportation so haunts communities across the United States that some people are afraid to report crimes and others have reportedly decided to return to Mexico and Central America before they get swept up.
The beauty pageant to build Trump's border wall is beginning
Yet the perception of ramped-up deportations is, for now, false.
Removals have not spiked since Trump's inauguration, according to figures Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) supplied to the Guardian: 35,604 removals in January and February, versus 35,255 over the same period last year.
Mexico's foreign minister said last month that under Trump there had been no rise in the number of deported Mexicans, and that numbers had in fact slightly fallen. Carlos García de Alba, Mexico's consul general in Los Angeles, told the Guardian that up to 27 March 193 Mexicans had been arrested in LA county since Trump's inauguration, with roughly 50 deported – "much less than the average with President Obama".
Yet consulates and immigration attorneys report a surge in people seeking information about Ice raids, real and imagined, and advice about what to do if detained and deported.
This reflects a White House strategy to rattle the 11 million-strong undocumented population, said Lizbeth Mateo, a prominent undocumented LA-based activist. "It is enforcement through attrition – instilling so much fear that people leave on their own."
Workers and immigration activists march in Queens, New York, in March. Trump has vowed to deport millions of people. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Many immigrant rights groups play into the strategy by hyping the risk of deportation, a message then echoed by media, she said. "Some media is really helping further Trump's agenda."
Roberto Suro, a journalism and Latino affairs scholar at the University of Southern California, said the White House may struggle to match Barack Obama's record-breaking deportation levels but that tough rhetoric and scattered high-profile Ice operations were generating energetic immigrant activism and news coverage.
"Fear is a natural consequence. People appear to be changing their behavior. There's talk of folks at least thinking about going home. That obviously would suit Trump's purposes."
Activists face a dilemma.
On one hand, they feel they must sound the alarm. During the election Trump vowed to banish all 11 million undocumented people. In office he drastically broadened enforcement guidelines and vowed to swiftly deport 2 million to 3 million people.
It is enforcement through attrition – instilling so much fear that people leave on their own
Lizbeth Mateo, undocumented LA activist
Anecdotal evidence – such as the detention of Dreamers, a father driving his daughter to school and a mother in Phoenix – suggest more aggressive Ice tactics. And in a statement an Ice spokeswoman, Sarah Rodriguez, said operations were targeted and lead-driven but that the net had widened. "We do not engage in indiscriminate sweeps or raids. However, as [homeland security] secretary Kelly has made clear, with very limited exceptions, Ice will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. Any alien encountered during the course of targeted enforcement actions is subject to removal."
But in sounding the alarm activists spread fear, thus serving the president's agenda – a quandary that "almost requires a degree in postmodern French philosophy", said Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. The administration sought to make citizens afraid of immigrants and immigrants afraid of government. "They're playing the media like a symphony."
Even so, said Newman, there was only one option: resist. "Our overall view is when in doubt, fight back, even if it means amplifying Trump's message."
For Mateo, the activist, some fellow activists and media outlets, especially Spanish-language broadcasters, do a disservice by telling people to brace for the worst, as if deportation were something to prepare for rather than resist. "It's very disempowering."
One media group said 'reporters should write about the fact that Trump is trying to drive this fear and anxiety'. Photograph: Olivier Douliery / POOL/EPA
From the opposite end of the spectrum Rodriguez, the Ice spokeswoman, lamented hype and false rumours. "They create panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger. Those who are falsely reporting such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support."
In the current political climate there was no easy balance between informing and frightening people, said Doris Meissner, who headed the Immigration and Naturalization Service under Bill Clinton and now works at the Migration Policy Institute. "It's a real dilemma."
Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option
It could be a year before Ice ramps up deportations but the broadened deportation categories meant more people were already at risk, she said. "It's not unreasonable to be fearful. But the likelihood of being in the wrong place at the wrong time does appear to be quite low."
Janine Jackson, program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (Fair), said the journalists needed to report fear without fuelling it. "You don't need to cover every deportation. The media should be wary of carrying water for the White House. Reporters should write about the fact that Trump is trying to drive this fear and anxiety."
Others think activists, and the media, have a straightforward task: blow the whistle, hard, because Hurricane Trump is gathering force.
"I actually think the media's coverage has been good in letting undocumented people know the gravity of the situation. Because those deportations are coming, and are actually already happening," said Gustavo Arellano, editor of OC Weekly and author of the syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!
Lucas Zucker, of Cause, an immigrant rights group on California's coast, said people urgently needed to know what to do if Ice came knocking. "The Trump administration is absolutely gearing up to do mass deportations so it is important in this calm before the storm for our community to know their rights."
Trump immigration policy spurs ire at Kentucky Derby: 'We can't find workers'
Horse owners and trainers have voiced fury amid a reported shortage of workers, as immigrants fear deportation and activists take a stand
Donald Trump defied at Wembley as Jaguars and Ravens kneel for anthem
Around 25 players from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens took a knee during the singing of the US national anthem at Wembley Stadium on Sunday
NFL players kneel for anthem in unprecedented defiance of Trump
Ravens and Jaguars players lead protest in London and owners voice solidarity before president says his attack on protests over racial injustice has 'nothing to do with race'
Texas bill would punish police who do not comply with immigration enforcers
House passes bill targeting 'sanctuary city' police with criminal charges if they do not help federal authorities with detention requests, including children at school
Stevie Wonder takes to his knees at the Global Citizen festival – video
Homeland security unveils Trump's controversial immigrant crime office
May Day to have immigrant tilt as workers plan to protest against Trump
Memo to Trump after his NFL rant: sport is, and always has been, political
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Ramblings, rants and random stuff by author and web developer Ben Woods
SiteFinder leaves Web users at a loss
Imagine going to the library to find a specific piece of literature. The problem is, you remember the words "corn" and "facade" are in the title, but you can't remember the author or any other information. Was it "The Children of the Corn Facade"? Or maybe "The Facade of Corn Flakes"?
But instead of a normal search through the card catalog, using the Dewey Decimal system, you are subjected to a chain bookstore trying to sell you books with some of the same words in the title. You're pretty positive the book is not titled, "Fads, Facades, Crayons and Corn," but if you want, you can purchase this bestseller at the store near you. I'm guessing you wouldn't be too happy because not only was the correct title not located, now you are inundated with advertisements for things you never wanted in the first place.
Well maybe this isn't the greatest analogy, but it addresses the problems created recently by VeriSign's SiteFinder. During the last month, if you accidentally typed in the wrong Web site address, you may have noticed a different error than before. Instead of receiving the normal 404 File not Found, an unknown URL took visitors to Site Finder, which allowed searching, gave a couple domain names that do exist and contained a section with popular categories. As of Oct. 3, VeriSign voluntarily suspended Site Finder until a determination could be made as to whether or not this was legal in the first place.
Although it might seem generous for VeriSign to provide all these tools even if you type in a name wrong, the company has stepped over the boundary this time.With the help of Paul Vixie, a major contributor to Internet protocols and software, I can explain why this is really, really bad (read the entire Vixie interview here). VeriSign is the gatekeeper of sorts for domain names. Unlike Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters II," the gatekeeper isn't in charge of ghosts but instead, controls the main database of .com and .net domain names. In September, the company added a wild card to the database, meaning it represents all names not listed in the database. I know, when I first saw wild card, I thought I had a full house too.
When Web users hit the wild card, which would happen if they enter an address that doesn't exist, they are forwarded to Site Finder. And while Site Finder might seem a little better than a "Page Not Found" error, the site is shows paid links and advertisements. Talk about shutting down a free market. VeriSign has successfully managed to gain a huge advantage to any other search engine only because the company is in charge of it. Not even Moranis would pull a stunt like this.
This change also directly effects domain registrars. If users are looking for an available domain name, and they type the address in their browser just to see if it exists, they are automatically taken to a VeriSign site, and of course, VeriSign is a registrar. A number of sites have sued the company in hopes of getting this stopped immediately, which may have been reason enough for VeriSign to halt the service momentarily.
The wild card also causes email and security problems. I think it may have even caused my plants to freeze and my radio to stop working. Actually, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has scheduled a fact-gathering meeting for Oct. 7 in Washington, D.C. There's no guarantee that anything will be solved at this meeting, mainly because it still needs to be decided who should be in charge of handling the database of domain names in the first place.
I guess it could be worse. VeriSign could be misdirecting every Web surfer to its site. Even still, it would be nice to have an impartial, non-profit organization to control companies who try to take advantage of the power they have. I would like to nominate Rick Moranis as president and all the children of the corn as board members.
Corporate Ties
Why exactly do people give up their independence to become company drones? Check out my latest book, Corporate Ties and take it with you during the next boring business meeting!
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Yamaha Launches The EC-03 Electric Scooter
Transportation Posted on —by Gadget 4
The key to make many green gadgets more acceptable to the public is by making them more affordable. Electric vehicles as a primary mode of transportation has not yet caught on mainly because they still remain quite an expensive alternative to the current vehicles running on fossil fuel. Although it may be still years away, many companies like Yamaha have continued on developing vehicles running on cleaner energy sources such as electricity just to move forward little by little.
Along the same lines, Yamaha has recently launched a new electric scooter in the new Yamaha EC-03. It is an electric 50cc scooter powered by a 50V/14Ah lithium ion battery. It has a range of 43km on flat roads per charge. A single charge of the Yamaha EC-03 takes 6 hours using a household outlet. The Yamaha EC-03 e-scooter is set to be made available on pre-order in metropolitan Tokyo around this month and followed by the rest of Japan a couple of months later. Its expected price would range around US$2,850. Its availability in the international market however, has not yet been announced.
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Barbara Franzoni
by Barbara Franzoni
Barbara is a friend of the group and the creator of this website along with other initiatives such as #AbleHour and our social media outreach. Here, Barbara talks about the documentary she made on the group.
Finally we can draw a line under the documentary!
The documentary is something that started life as a request from Colette to the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, where I was a student. My lecturer adapted it into a professional project for me to complete as part of that semester's coursework. The final project was due in May 2016. There were many organisations looking for help from ITB but I chose this assignment, as I felt that it was not just another piece of coursework, but something to benefit a group of people that I was about to get to know. That was during my third year of college – I have since completed all four years, officially graduated last month and had the revised documentary premiere this week.
In March 2016, as a third year student, I excitedly met with Colette and Nora to discuss the project. The plan was to tell the story of the group through the people who make up that group. This suited me well and so we set about arranging interviews. I enjoyed attending my first group meeting. The group was enthusiastic about the project and happy to help. This further fuelled my desire to make a great documentary reflecting the spirit of the group.
The group agreed that I could film a monthly meeting on a particular date. Amazingly, group founder, Michael Ryan happened by accidentally on filming day. And so fate, destiny or simply good luck brought about my very first interview which set the scene. This was a peer support group where people could happen by unexpectedly to a warm welcome.
Home visits followed. I first visited the home Gerry and Helena Lyons and then out to Drumcondra to see Lorraine. I already had the interviews I recorded at the meeting. So now I had to shut myself away in an editing room to bring it all together.
Final Hand-up May 2016
I presented the documentary to the group and to my panel of lecturers at the end of that semester. Everyone liked the documentary at that point. Classmate comments made it clear it had opened their eyes to some of the issues facing people with disabilities. My project was complete and this was no longer a college assignment. However, the group had made a decision to change their name which made my documentary a little outdated already. I suggested that I could update the documentary over the summer with the new name. But the new name had not yet been decided. The group changed it's name to The Dublin 15 Disability Peer Support Group some months later. Unfortunately by that time, I was ready to start back in college for my final and most challenging year.
Revisiting the project after college
A year later and I had completed my BA(Hons) degree and was back filming for the documentary. I chose Colette to explain the name change. She also talked of the online advances the group had made. I no longer had college resources at my disposal but we managed. Finally the story was complete and I added open captions to ensure the documentary was as accessible as possible.
Documentary Screening
This week, the completed documentary was screened at The Draíocht in Blanchardstown. Colette and Naoise created the premiere screening event to coincide with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Unfortunately that day fell on a Sunday but the premiere was the following day and a huge success. Despite no longer being an ITB student, I was honoured that the President of ITB agreed to compere the event. Local TD, Joan Burton, and our Mayor of Fingal, Mary McCamley, also agreed to speak at the premiere which was another huge honour.
I was nervous, as I suspected that my informal style would surprise people. The documentary didn't include many somber moments, somber music, or long shots of accessible bathrooms. I am more impressed by peoples' words than their toilet needs. Feelings, not bathrooms, captured my interest. Everyone talked about how the group had helped them and I wanted to show this.
Another thing all the interviewees talked about was how they would like to see the group getting bigger. As one of the documentary 'stars', Joe, said; with more people, we'll get more done. I was delighted to see how the group had grown by the time of the screening. A lot of the group's members are people who came on board after Joe's interview. And Joe was there are the screening, looking great and I hope he was feeling proud too.
If the group gets bigger, we'll get more things done.
– Richard Joseph Byrne
Surprising thing
During the panel talk on the day of the screening, I was asked what was the most surprising thing for me. I replied that it was how willing the interviewees were to speak openly on camera and how warmly both the documentary and I were welcomed into the group.
I thought about this afterwards. In previous, and subsequent documentaries, I've found most people are shy about speaking on camera. The people who took part in this particular documentary were braver. I think the main reason is that the opportunity to speak is not so commonplace for people with disability. The opportunity to say "this is me, this is my life, this is how I feel", is rare and was grasped with great enthusiasm. We live in a world where people with very little to say can become wealthy celebrities for appearing on ridiculous reality tv shows. It's good to hear from people who actually have something to say and who can open the eyes of so many. And to hear it with good humour, charm, a smile and an open heart, is the nicest surprise of all.
Photos to follow but for now, here is the documentary.
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23 days in United States Itinerary
Created using Inspirock United States trip planner
Start: Brisbane
Brisbane (BNE) — Orlando (MCO)
Fastest: 23h 15min(flight time: 19h 45min)
14761 kms / 28h
Brisbane (BNE) — Tampa (TPA)
SkyConnect Passenger Terminal Station — SkyConnect Rental Car Facility Station
SkyConnect Rental Car Facility Station — Pierce St + Whiting St
Pierce St + Whiting St — Tampa Union Station
Tampa Union Station — Orlando
Brisbane (BNE) — Miami (MIA)
Miami (MIA) — Kissimmee, FL - Walmart Supercenter
Orlando (MCO) — Buffalo (BUF)
Marion Transit Center — SkyConnect Passenger Terminal Station
Tampa (TPA) — Buffalo (BUF)
— Few hours
34 kms / 1h
Bus + Fly: 5h 30min
Niagara Falls — Buffalo (BUF)
Buffalo (BUF) — New York La Guardia (LGA)
Buffalo (BUF) — Newark (EWR)
Newark (EWR) — Bus Lanes
New York JFK (JFK) — Los Angeles (LAX)
Bus Lanes — Newark (EWR)
Newark (EWR) — Los Angeles (LAX)
Los Angeles (LAX) — Brisbane (BNE)
16h 30min non-stop(flight time: 13h)
11693 kms / 20h 45min
Los Angeles — Ontario/San Bernardino (ONT)
Ontario/San Bernardino (ONT) — Brisbane (BNE)
16h 15min via PHX, LAX
Los Angeles — Old Town Transit Center
Old Town Transit Center — Palm Street
Palm Street — San Diego (SAN)
San Diego (SAN) — Brisbane (BNE)
15h 15min via HNL
End: Brisbane
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Things to do in United States
Theme Park Capital of the World
For most people, any mention of Orlando immediately conjures up images of sprawling theme parks filled with characters plucked right out of popular animated movies.
Have a day of magic on the 30th (Tue) at Walt Disney World Resort. Pack the 1st (Wed) with family-friendly diversions at Universal Orlando Resort. And it doesn't end there: find something for the whole family at Universal's Islands of Adventure, make an unforgettable trip to Epcot, see Meet Favorite Disney Pals, and laugh and play at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
For maps, where to stay, reviews, and tourist information, refer to the Orlando trip itinerary website .
Brisbane, Australia to Orlando is an approximately 23.5-hour flight. You can also do a combination of flight and bus. Traveling from Brisbane to Orlando, you'll gain 15 hours due to the time zone difference. When traveling from Brisbane in April, plan for a bit warmer days and about the same nights in Orlando: temperatures range from 34°C by day to 21°C at night. On the 10th (Fri), you're off toBuffalo.
Theme Parks Fun & Games Nightlife
10:30am, Sat May 4
10:00am, Thu May 2
Happily Ever After Fireworks
The most populous city in the state after New York, Buffalo serves as the gateway to Niagara Falls and Canada for many travelers.
For maps, reviews, more things to do, and tourist information, use the Buffalo trip itinerary planning site .
Traveling by flight from Orlando to Buffalo takes 5.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of flight and train; or drive. In May, Buffalo is a bit cooler than Orlando - with highs of 24°C and lows of 11°C. On the 11th (Sat), you're off toNiagara Falls.
Things to do in Buffalo
Parks Outdoors Museums
Honeymoon Capital of the World
The city of Niagara Falls houses the U.S.
On the 12th (Sun), admire the sheer force of Niagara Falls and then enjoy breathtaking views from Niagara Falls Observation Tower.
To see other places to visit, where to stay, photos, and more tourist information, read our Niagara Falls online trip itinerary planner .
Niagara Falls is just a short distance from Buffalo. May in Niagara Falls sees daily highs of 24°C and lows of 11°C at night. On the 13th (Mon), wrap the sightseeing up by early afternoon so you can travel to New York City.
Things to do in Niagara Falls
9:30am, Sun May 12
Niagara Falls Observation Tower
12:30pm, Sun May 12
Writer Pearl Buck once called New York City "a place apart," and this giant urban center remains unlike any other in the world.
Your day-by-day itinerary now includes The Lion King, Charging Bull (Wall Street Bull) and Radio City Music Hall. The adventure continues: take in the pleasant sights at Central Park, snap pictures at Brooklyn Bridge, make a trip to Broadway, and pause for some photo ops at Statue of Liberty National Monument.
To see traveler tips, reviews, other places to visit, and tourist information, read New York City day trip tool .
Do a combination of bus and flight from Niagara Falls to New York City in 5.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of bus, flight, and train; or drive. Traveling from Niagara Falls in May, you can expect nighttime temperatures to be a bit warmer in New York City, with lows of 15°C. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 19th (Sun) to allow enough time to travel to Los Angeles.
Parks Historic Sites Nightlife
9:30am, Thu May 16
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Surrounded by mountain ranges, forests, valleys, beaches, and deserts, the metropolitan area of Los Angeles is home to over 17 million people.
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Will we ever see a tower in the downtown area that will reach 500'+? A lot of the towers we have going up right now are max'd out at 300-325'. However, all the towers going up (especially the John Ross and block-38) are very very nice. I just wish we would develope a 500'+ tower one day to take the attention off the god aweful Wells Fargo tower!
31-stories, you gotta love the Benson Tower design!
I think Portland is truly ready for a new signature tower. However, isn't there restrictions, not necessarily on height, but the amount of sun any new building would block and that is one reason why there aren't any mega towers downtown?
I'm not exactly sure. I mean.. Nashville (yes, Nashville!) has a new signature tower going up at 1024' (!!!!!). I'd love to see a 600' sleek tower between the koin tower and "big Pink". I believe the tallest tower is the Wells Fargo at 560', just an aweful design, imo.


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love | I am JuJu!
These 3 guys are my favorite fathers on earth! From left to right, my brother-in-law, Jeff, my husband, Chris, and my dad, Tom. All 3 of them are dedicated dads, hard workers, great husbands, spiritual leaders, & they are all totally funny! They always have a good time when they are together!
I am so thankful for a husband who loves his daughters with an amazing kind of love!
Who prays with them over FaceTime while at military training.
Who is willing to picture text clothing options when his daughter is sick!
Who sits in a warm hyperbaric chamber so that they aren't frightened.
I'm also thankful that he loves our nieces & nephew like they were his own!
And that he is never afraid to be silly!
I'm also thankful for Jeff! I'm so thankful that he came into my sister's life when my oldest niece, Rebecca was a year old. He has been an amazing dad to my nieces & nephew and you only have to be around them for about 5 minutes to realize that they are CRAZY about their dad & that the feeling is mutual!
When my sister went through cancer years ago, Jeff never left her side & I never stopped thanking God for bringing him into our family.
And then there is my dad! He has been such a source of encouragement to me and to my sister for our entire lives!
And he is always a helper for Skylar!
But I must say that one of the things I love the most about my dad, is how much he loves my husband! He has been a spirtual mentor to Chris and he is one of the first people Chris goes to for career advice.
And it sure doesn't hurt that they share a deep love for the Arizona Wildcats!
I can't convey enough to you how blessed I have been by these men! I am so thankful that the Lord saw fit to place each and every one of them in my life.
Wishing You Love, ALL Year Long!
So those of you who know me well, know that I am not a big fan of Valentine's Day. Why is there ONE day during the year to show your loved one that you really love them? I totally believe that it is a day that merchants can charge $100 for a boquet that you would normally get for $15. Don't get me wrong…I love flowers, chocolate, and tokens of affection as much as the next person, but it means a heck of a lot more to me when Chris brings me those things on a whim, in July! I am extremely blessed to have a husband who shows me and tells me that he loves me every day of the year. For that, I am truly thankful!
Now that I have all that out of the way, I do like to do fun love themed things for the girls around Valentine's Day and now that they are being homeschooled, I try to still do Valentine's with them as that was one of their favorite things to do at school. Since they are not getting a ton of individual cards this year we made sure to get them a fun card.
I will also admit that Valentine's brings some of our favorite candies packaged together. What other time of year, besides Halloween, can you get Twix and Snickers together in fun-sized packages?
I have an entry table that I decorate around the different seasons throughout the year and during the month of February I do decorate it in a fun love theme. The subway art hanging above the table came from the lovely ladies of Eighteen25. I love their blog and all of their fun ideas. I actually have a subway art for just about every season, holiday, etc. They all are housed in the frame and I just open the back and rotate them.
Each year I add to the mix and this year I made these yarn-wrapped LOVE letters. You can find the tutorial HERE. I will just say that they were not as quick and easy of a project as I would of liked, but I do love the finished product. The frame with the "love u" art also came from Eighteen25. That frame also houses multiple 4×6 sized holiday themed prints. This makes a really fun gift that keeps giving all year long! You can find the links for the subway art and 4×6 framed art HERE. The heart shaped candy dish is just a bowl from Target that I adhered to a candlestick that was given to us as a wedding present. I glued them together with E6000, which can be found just about any place where craft items are sold (Michael's, Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's, Wal-Mart). That was another really simple idea I saw on the Eighteen25 blog. Their blog is truly one of my favorite, go-to places for projects.
This year we actually put a box of goodies together for my sweet friend, Heather who is experiencing her first Valentine's without her husband. As many of you know, going through a year of "firsts" after the loss of a loved one is so very hard. We wanted to shower Heather and her kiddos with love as they go through this day without Buddy.
I do hope that you have a beautiful day with your loved ones, but most importantly, I hope that you shower those loved ones with love and affection all year long!


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AO World downplays Brexit as European sales heat up
The stock market listed firm said its European revenues has increased year on year by 101 per cent.
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Online electrical retail giant AO World said business growth remained on track as it doubled its revenues from continental Europe.
Its Netherlands roll-out continues and it has started deliveries from its Regional Distribution Centre in Bergheim, Germany.
In a trading update, chairman, Richard Rose said: "We expect our operations to be fully up and running from there by the end of our second quarter and we look forward to accelerating growth over the second half of the year as a result.
"Our expectations for the European business, over the whole financial year, remain in line with our previous guidance."
Shares rise as AO World forecasts strong trading
The Bolton firm said its UK business has performed well over the first quarter of the new financial year, with year-on-year growth in AO branded UK sales of 29 per cent and total UK revenue growth of 25 per cent, driven predominantly by improving brand recognition.
It also said its expectations for the UK business remain unchanged despite the recent economic uncertainty following Brexit and its potential effect on consumer confidence
Mr Rose said: "The business remains on track with its long-term strategic plan. Customer satisfaction continues to be exceptional in all of our territories, and development of the UK computing and German audio-visual categories progresses as we look forward to launching them for our customers later this year.
"Our brand awareness continues to grow, underpinned by our unique culture, values and proposition."
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List compiled by David Auger from British Phone Books. These show the local Rainham businesses in the early 20th Century and the growth of the telephone between 1908 and 1925.
Rainham 1 PUBLIC CALL OFFICE Cozens, E.
Rainham 1 RAINHAM High Street Cozens, E.
When we lived in Rainham in the early 1960s, presumably because the existing Rainham Exchange was at capacity, a temporary exchange was created called Berengrave; it consisted of 3 numbers and ours was 334. There's a memory!


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Grounding in economic development principles provides students with knowledge and skills related to the context in which government acts, i.e., the function of the market system, the internal operation of business, and their needs. See UST 300, UST 301, MKT 301, OSM 311, MGT 321, AND MKT 441.
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Why not a buyout program for all crops?
Over the next two years, in the run up to the 2007 Farm Bill, one can expect to see a wide variety of ideas being floated as alternatives to a continuation of the present set of policy instruments.
Much of the discussion of various farm policy proposals is being driven by two factors. The first is the U.S. budget deficit and the need to reduce the $20 billion annual price tag of the current legislation. The second is the desire to make U.S. farm policy compliant with the WTO commitment to trade liberalization.
The idea of doing a farm program buyout, similar to the recent tobacco and peanut buyouts, was presented by David Orden at the 2005 Agricultural Outlook Forum. The basic idea is to permanently eliminate farm programs by paying farmers a lump sum payment to compensate them for the elimination of the fixed-direct and counter-cyclical payments. He argues that "A buyout of this type should be on the agenda in discussions of the next farm bill."
In his paper, "Key Issues for the Next Farm Bill: Is a Farm Program Buyout Possible?" (http://www.usda.gov/oce/forum/speeches/Orden.pdf), Orden reviews the recent peanut and tobacco buyouts, arguing that as the benefits of those programs began to diminish, the possibility of a buyout became more acceptable to the producers of those crops. He also notes that "narrowly defined benefits, specifically production quotas, may be easier to buy out than broader support policies."
Much of the paper deals with the cost of a buyout, which Orden calculates to be twice the cost of the current program over the 10-year payment schedule. This number is hard to reconcile with the fact that one of the reasons for re-looking at farm programs is the budget deficits and the need to reduce the costs of these programs.
The proposal does not deal with the nature of crop agriculture and the reasons why farm programs were established in the first place. As a result, it does not identify how a buyout will serve to address the chronic problem of supply growing faster than demand and the resulting low prices. By not addressing the issue that low prices do not result in either significantly expanded food purchases by consumers or timely reduction in crop output by farmers, the report fails to show that crop agriculture will be able to make the adjustments necessary for the free market to work on its own after a buyout. Overproduction would continue unabated.
This is one of a genre of proposals that treats the issue of farm programs as if farmers have some unjustified, mythical right to receive money from the government. If you buy that - and apparently many unfamiliar with how agriculture works have - the reasonable thing to do in the long-term is to buy out the farmers' right to receive these payments.
Orden writes, "Contracts for buyout payments could require that the acreage for which the payments were bought out (and the output from that acreage) be ineligible for future support legislated by Congress. To ensure compliance, such contracts might be structured similarly to those by which farmers sell their "development rights" to state and local governments." But they could plant and harvest any crop they chose.
The proposal assumes that a buyout program that may be appropriate for two specialized crops planted on a few million acres would be equally effective when applied to the totality of major crops planted on 250 million acres. Tobacco and peanut farmers can take their money and then plant corn, cotton, soybeans or other program crops on their acres when prices are low. Once all of the major crops are included in a buyout, crop switching, while available, doesn't provide the same benefits.


TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2019 /CNW/ – Today, YouthfulCities launches its inaugural Urban Work Index, the first of its kind to look specifically at urban work in Canada. The Index, which was funded by RBC Future Launch, ranks 21 Canadian cities based on 48 urban work indicators, and found Edmonton to be the top-ranked city in the country. Edmonton scored 713.86 points out of a possible 1,310 available points.
Valerie Chort, Vice-President, Corporate Citizenship, RBC, sees a clear link between the YouthfulCities Urban Work Index and RBC's commitment to empowering Canadian youth for the jobs of tomorrow through RBC Future Launch.
Since 2012, YouthfulCities has designed programs that build a unique base of urban knowledge while engaging youth (15-29 years) to design and develop innovative solutions to their cities' critical issues. Our urban indexes ignite an important dialogue about the importance of youth to the future of cities.


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Q: using xgboost to model a Tweedie regression I'm trying to use xgboost to make a tweedie model, however I get an obscure error message.
Here is a reproducible example:
Preparing the data:
library(xgboost)
library(dplyr)

set.seed(123)
xx <- rpois(5000, 0.02)
xx[xx>0] <- rgamma(sum(xx>0), 50)

yy <- matrix(rnorm(15000), 5000,3, dimnames = list(1:5000, c("a", "b", "c")))

train_test <- sample(c(0,1), 5000, replace = T)

Preparing the xgboost, the important thing here is : objective = 'reg:tweedie', eval_metric = "tweedie-nloglik" and tweedie_variance_power = 1.2 :
dtrain <- xgb.DMatrix(
  data = yy %>% subset(train_test == 0),
  label = xx %>% subset(train_test == 0)
)

dtest <- xgb.DMatrix(
  data = yy %>% subset(train_test == 1),
  label = xx %>% subset(train_test == 1)
)

watchlist <- list(eval = dtest, train = dtrain)

param <- list(max.depth = 2,
              eta = 0.3,
              nthread = 1,
              silent = 1,
              objective = 'reg:tweedie',
              eval_metric = "tweedie-nloglik",
              tweedie_variance_power = 1.2)

And finally calling the xgboost:
resBoost <- xgb.train(params = param, data=dtrain, nrounds = 20, watchlist=watchlist)

which gives this obscure error message:
Error in xgb.iter.update(bst$handle, dtrain, iteration - 1, obj) :
  [17:59:18] amalgamation/../src/metric/elementwise_metric.cc:168: Check failed: param != nullptr tweedie-nloglik must be in formattweedie-nloglik@rho

Stack trace returned 10 entries:
[bt] (0) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(dmlc::StackTrace[abi:cxx11]()+0x1bc) [0x7f1f0ce742ac]
[bt] (1) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(dmlc::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()+0x28) [0x7f1f0ce74e88]
[bt] (2) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(xgboost::metric::EvalTweedieNLogLik::EvalTweedieNLogLik(char const*)+0x1eb) [0x7f1f0cea00db]
[bt] (3) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(+0x68ef1) [0x7f1f0ce78ef1]
[bt] (4) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(xgboost::Metric::Create(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)+0x263) [0x7f1f0ce7ede3]
[bt] (5) /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/xgboost/libs/xgboost.so(xgboost::LearnerImpl::Configure(std::vector<std::pair

The problem seems link with the parameter eval_metric = "tweedie-nloglik" because if I change the eval_metric to logloss it passes:
param$eval_metric <- "logloss"
resBoost <- xgb.train(params = param, data=dtrain, nrounds = 20, watchlist=watchlist)
[1]     eval-logloss:0.634391   train-logloss:0.849734
[2]     eval-logloss:0.634391   train-logloss:0.849734
...

Any idea how to use the eval_metric = "tweedie-nloglik" parameter as it seems like the most appropriate in my context?  Thanks

A: TL;DR: thanks to Frans Rodenburg Comment: use eval_metric="tweedie-nloglik@1.2
I was looking on the implementation of tweedie eval (I don't even know what tweedie is) and on the logloss eval in the following link
tweedie:
struct EvalTweedieNLogLik: public EvalEWiseBase<EvalTweedieNLogLik> {
  explicit EvalTweedieNLogLik(const char* param) {
    CHECK(param != nullptr)
        << "tweedie-nloglik must be in format tweedie-nloglik@rho";
    rho_ = atof(param);
    CHECK(rho_ < 2 && rho_ >= 1)
        << "tweedie variance power must be in interval [1, 2)";
    std::ostringstream os;
    os << "tweedie-nloglik@" << rho_;
    name_ = os.str();
  }
  const char *Name() const override {
    return name_.c_str();
  }
  inline bst_float EvalRow(bst_float y, bst_float p) const {
    bst_float a = y * std::exp((1 - rho_) * std::log(p)) / (1 - rho_);
    bst_float b = std::exp((2 - rho_) * std::log(p)) / (2 - rho_);
    return -a + b;
  }
 protected:
  std::string name_;
  bst_float rho_;
};

logloss:
struct EvalLogLoss : public EvalEWiseBase<EvalLogLoss> {
  const char *Name() const override {
    return "logloss";
  }
  inline bst_float EvalRow(bst_float y, bst_float py) const {
    const bst_float eps = 1e-16f;
    const bst_float pneg = 1.0f - py;
    if (py < eps) {
      return -y * std::log(eps) - (1.0f - y)  * std::log(1.0f - eps);
    } else if (pneg < eps) {
      return -y * std::log(1.0f - eps) - (1.0f - y)  * std::log(eps);
    } else {
      return -y * std::log(py) - (1.0f - y) * std::log(pneg);
    }
  }
};

It looks like EvalTweedieNLogLik should get a parameter named param. Also appear like you get those exact lines:
CHECK(param != nullptr)
    << "tweedie-nloglik must be in format tweedie-nloglik@rho";

When I'm comparing it to EvalLogLoss the relevance difference is that it doesn't need a variable and that's why its working.
Thanks to @Frans Rodenburg Comment I kept searching and read an example of how to use it here.
use eval_metric="tweedie-nloglik@1.2
I also got it wrong at the first time when read those lines from xgboost documentation:

tweedie-nloglik: negative log-likelihood for Tweedie regression (at a
  specified value of the tweedie_variance_power parameter)

It might be only relevant to python.

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Molly Presnell Named CoSIDA Academic All-District Performer
HUNTSVILLE | The 2021 Academic All-District Volleyball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors Association, were announced recently, and The University of Alabama in Huntsville was represented by Molly Presnell as a CoSIDA Academic All-District performer.
This is the first time Presnell has been awarded a CoSIDA Academic All-District distinction, as she represents the Chargers in District V which features teams from the Gulf South Conference, Sunshine State Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
A native of Montgomery, Alabama, Presnell has been a leader for the Chargers both offensively and defensively, as she leads the team with 262 kills while rating second on the team with 331 digs.
She has posted 10 or more digs on 16 occasions so far, while notching double-digit kills in 10 matches. Presnell boasts four double-doubles with digs and kills as well.
Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in mid-December.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed on the links above, and are divided into geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
The Division II and III CoSIDA Academic All-America programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2021-22 Divisions II and III Academic All-America programs.
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Aquaculture, school gardens, oxen, whoopee pies, distilleries, sustainability, biodiversity and more will be the focus of this year's National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in Portland, Maine. For the first time, New York Agriculture in the Classroom has dedicated scholarship funding to provide sixty New York teachers the opportunity to attend the premier professional development conference about teaching through a lens of food and agriculture. The scholarship is valued at over $1,200 for each winner.
During this unique experience teachers will network with educators from across the country, participate in over thirteen experiential learning workshops, and bring home resources with the latest technology, methods, and tools for integrating agriculture and food systems in their classrooms. This year's conference theme is "Agriculture for ME – On Land and Sea". Educators will receive a scholarship value of $1,200 which includes National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference registration, transportation, lodging, and 28 hours of CTLE Professional Development Credit.
Fifty-one teachers, including Sarah McArdle at Berne-Knox-Westerlo, eight Cornell Cooperative Extension educators, and one post-secondary administrator were awarded scholarships. The teachers span in grade levels from Pre-K through grade twelve in all subject areas, and range in teaching experience from one to thirty-two years. The organization is most proud that the attendees are representative of each region of New York State; from north of the Adirondack Mountains in Franklin County, as west as Buffalo, throughout the heart of Central New York, surrounding the Capital District, and a strong contingent from four of New York City's boroughs and Long Island.
"It is of great excitement that we can provide this exceptional professional development experience to so many educators from across our state. I know that each scholarship recipient will leave the conference with plans on how they will use agriculture as a vehicle for student learning and achievement," says Katie Carpenter, Director of New York Agriculture in the Classroom.
New York Agriculture in the Classroom is an outreach program of Cornell University, with a goal to increase the agricultural literacy of our students so that they may be able to understand and communicate the source and value of agriculture as it affects their daily lives. Special thanks to the New York Farm Bureau State Promotion and Education Committee for assistance in reviewing applications and providing recommendations in this competitive process.
For a full list of winners, please visit the New York Agriculture in the Classroom website.


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Japan PM Kishida's wage policies unlikely to support economy this year, most economists say: Reuters poll
By Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's policies aimed at raising workers' wages are unlikely to trigger a virtuous cycle of growth and wealth distribution that will support the economy this year, almost 80% of economists said in a Reuters poll.
The world's third-largest economy grew at a sharper pace than previously expected in the final quarter of 2021, as consumer demand recovered after taking a heavy coronavirus pandemic-induced hit in July-September, the poll also showed.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has rolled out policies aimed at raising wages as part of his commitment to push for a broader distribution of wealth, which he sees as key for helping boost household income and the economy's broader pandemic recovery.
Most analysts, however, doubted the government's policies would be successful.
Nineteen of 34 economists polled said it was unlikely to work. Another eight chose "very unlikely", which stood in contrast with seven who said it was likely and none who selected "very likely".
"Even if wages rise, Japanese people would pass those on to savings as long as their outlook on Japan's future is grim," said Hiroshi Namioka, chief strategist and fund manager at T&D Asset Management.
Since he took office in October, Kishida has urged Japanese firms whose earnings have recovered to pre-pandemic levels to raise wages by 3% or more, promising bold tax deductions for companies that increase pay.
But such measures could fall on deaf ears, in part because many smaller firms are unprofitable and already exempted from paying corporate taxes, two analysts in the poll said.
STRONGER REBOUND
On growth, Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to have expanded an annualised 6.5% in the final quarter of 2021, up from a 6.1% gain projected in December, according to the median forecast of 40 economists.
But economists trimmed their GDP growth forecast for this quarter to 4.5%, down from a previously estimated 4.9% expansion.
Some analysts said the recent rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant could weigh on Japan's recovery, though the extent of the fallout remains unclear and much depends on how severe any government-imposed curbs would be.
Core consumer price inflation, which excludes fresh foods but includes energy costs, will peak at 1.1% next quarter and gradually slow afterwards, the poll showed.
Annual core inflation for fiscal 2022 is forecast at 0.9%, slightly higher than 0.8% in last month's poll.
The Bank of Japan is seen raising its inflation forecast at a two-day policy meeting that ends on Tuesday, where it is also expected to maintain its ultra-loose monetary policy.
No economist polled by Reuters projected any changes in BOJ policies until at least the second half of this year.
About 95% of respondents said the central bank's next action, if any, would be unwinding of its ultra-easy monetary policy, though almost all don't expect that to happen until 2023 or later.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink; Polling by Md Manzer Hussain and Prerana Bhat; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
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Peter and his friends built a house made of 11,538 beer cans. The structure has an area of 4x4 meters and stands around 3.25 meters tall.
They set the record to raise funds for The Shake It Up Foundation Australia, who fund vital research in developing a cure and understanding of Parkinson's Disease. Over $1,500 was raised and the house has since been featured on national television and various other news mediums.
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We end the week with some more heat (as if we need it here on the East Coast) from The Empire State's own Preservation. He drops "Disorderly Conduct" off of his compilation Old Numbers, which features appearances by Yasiin Bey, Jean Grae, Jemini the Gifted One, Minnesota and Edo G and on the rise artists 32 FX, Yahzeed and Milly Mango. Preservation is known for his extensive work, production, and DJing for Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and this debut as a leader is a collection of years of work and collabos with a variety of artists. Preservation is a both a talented producer and DJ, and his reworking of Bey's 2009 record The Ecstatic aka The REcstatic raised eyebrows to those who were unfamiliar to the NYC native. A DJ, digger, and producer for 20 years, Preservation has not just been the tour DJ for Bey, but DJed produced the music for season six of Russell Simmon's Presents Def Poetry, and has the skills as a photographer and cinematographer as well. He launched his label Mon Dieu Music in 2012. The label offers a variety of cross genre projects.
"Disorderly Conduct", the video (also directed by Preservation), brings it back to the days of VHS. With guest appearances by Lyle Alzado's infamous Club commercial, vocal snippets from Red Foxx and Jimmy Walker, Kung Fu flicks, Queensbridge newcomers 32X flow nicely over the Preservation crafted beats. Gritty and catchy, "Disorderly Conduct" fills in the gaps in NYC Hip Hop that are missing. Lone gone are the sleepy, molly filled nonsense that dominate the airwaves in the Big Apple today. Preservation's choice of samples (the gritty guitar/ bass lines) dominate but don't overpower the other elements that make up this song and are an adrenaline injection to the lazy sound we too often hear. His production reminds me of somewhere between Thes One and Jake One, beautifully crafted with obscure samples that get the job done. The beats are hard for the street, but intelligent enough to turn a beat head's neck to try and find out what the sample is. (That's just me, I go for the beat/sample first, and the vocals later.) The two in this song blend nicely, and when Preservation puts together a DJ night later this year, complete with MCs dropping by to spit, I'm sure you will hear this one in the line up. Don't lose faith in Hip Hop people, it may go sideways, but when an album and song like this is dropped, there is still hope. Good music is still fighting the good fight and Preservation is helping the cause.
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House impeaches Trump for second time
English News |
House lawmakers on Wednesday impeached President Trump for his role in last week's deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, capping an extraordinary week of violence, apprehension and partisan brawling in Congress just as Washington cranks up security in preparation for Joe Biden's inauguration, just a week away.
The 232-197 vote was historic: It made Trump the first president in the country's history to be impeached twice.
And unlike the first debate, this time the president's Democratic critics had support across the aisle. Ten Republicans joined every voting Democrat to approve the single impeachment article, which accuses Trump of inciting violence against the same federal government he leads.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who oversaw both impeachment efforts, said Trump's refusal to concede his election defeat — and his subsequent efforts to rally supporters to the Capitol to overturn the election results — amounted to sedition. The president, she said, gave Congress no choice.
"We know we experienced the insurrection that violated the sanctity of the people's Capitol," Pelosi said in a floor speech before the vote. "And we know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion, against our common country.
"He must go," she added. "He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love."
The most prominent Republican to break with Trump was House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican leader and highest-ranking GOP woman in Congress, who said Trump "summoned the mob," "lit the flame" of the attack and — despite pleas from his Hill allies — refused to call it off.
"There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," Cheney said in a statement.
Her terse, fiery remarks threw fuel on the civil war that's now raging through the Grand Old Party, pitting Trump's MAGA supporters against the GOP establishment. A pair of conservative Trump foot soldiers, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), immediately called on Cheney to resign from leadership and on Wednesday began organizing an effort to oust her from power.
But Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is remaining defiant.
"I'm not going anywhere. This is a vote of conscience," she said before the vote. "It's one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented — since the Civil War — constitutional crisis."
The events of Jan. 6 were unprecedented by any gauge. After months of false claims that he had won the election, only to have it stolen by rampant fraud, Trump addressed thousands of supporters near the White House last Wednesday, urging them to march on the Capitol just as Congress — joined by Vice President Pence — was voting to certify Biden's victory.
"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," Trump said.
Shortly afterward, thousands of protesters arrived at the Capitol, where they quickly overwhelmed the Capitol Police, some of whom were maced and beaten with iron bars. The marauders marched through the sprawling building, smashing windows, ransacking member offices and attempting to storm onto the House and Senate floors while lawmakers, staff and reporters scrambled for cover.
Five people died during the riot, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was struck by a fire extinguisher, and a California woman who was fatally shot by another officer as she tried to storm the Speaker's lobby just off the House floor.
Trump, for his part, has denied any responsibility for the deadly violence, saying his speech was "totally appropriate." He also has not expressed regret for his actions, though on Wednesday, as the impeachment debate continued, he issued a statement that called for their to be no violence or vandalism amid reports of new demonstrations planned for next week's inauguration of Biden.
The impeachment vote will lead to a trial in the Senate, though the timing and outcome in the upper chamber are unclear.
In a remarkable statement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared Wednesday that he had not determined how he would vote in the trial, saying he would listen to the legal arguments.
The first time Trump was impeached, there was clear opposition from Senate Republicans and only one GOP senator, Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), voted in favor of one article of impeachment.
It seems likely more Republicans would vote to impeach Trump this time, though it will be after he leaves office and it is unclear whether there will be the 67 votes necessary to convict him.
If all Democrats vote to impeach, which is not a certainty in the Senate, 17 Republican votes would be needed to convict.
The long-term implications of both the Capitol siege and Trump's second impeachment remain unclear.
Republicans opposing the impeachment effort in the House did not all defend Trump's actions surrounding the Capitol assault; in fact, many condemned it. But they also warned that taking the drastic step of attempting to remove the president would only exacerbate the country's already cavernous political divisions, inflaming the resentment of the president's supporters — and perhaps leading to greater violence down the road.
Taking the floor just before the vote, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), a staunch Trump loyalist, conceded that Trump "bears responsibility" for Wednesday's assault. But he quickly cautioned that impeachment "would further divide this nation" and "would further fan the flames of partisan division."
"As history shows, unity is not an option, it's a necessity," he said.
That argument fell flat with Democrats, however, who wasted no time pointing to the many instances when Trump had divided the country with attacks on his political opponents — Democrat and Republican — with the blessing of his allies in Congress.
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- Find hi-ress pictures of the phone here on Flickr.
You can find the Landvo L200G on http://www.efox-shop.com for only $114 / €83, very cheap!
Are you sure about - WCDMA 900 ???
Because , i dont have this " in 900".
Your right, it doesn't have 900 in WCDMA, only 850. I have made a correction now, thanks for telling me this.


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Q: how to use Adiantum for encryption in android? Recently Google has launched Adiantum for efficient encryption . I've been using AES for that , but as google stated

Most new Android devices have hardware support for AES via the ARMv8
  Cryptography Extensions. However, Android runs on a wide range of
  devices.  In order to offer low cost options, device manufacturers
  sometimes use low-end processors such as the ARM Cortex-A7, which does
  not have hardware support for AES. On these devices, AES is so slow
  that it would result in a poor user experience; apps would take much
  longer to launch, and the device would generally feel much slower

So ,Considering this case .I wanna go for Adiantum for encryption which uses basically ChaCha family with Poly1305 authenticator. My Question is .

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*Can we use this encryption in Android while developing ? or its just for Android OS ?

*I couldn't find any documents related to how to implement it.

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Q: Unity: How to replace placeholder game objects with real artwork? I have created temporary primitives while I wait for art and animation to be completed.
I was wondering what the best way of achieving this?
I presume I create a primitive, should I child it in an empty game object? Or create a prefab.?
Does anyone use placeholder animation that would be replaced later?
I tried searching for some recommendations or tutorials but couldn't find any.

A: Yes just create a prefab. then update it once you have the right asset. please see the link below.
URL:
https://docs.unity3d.com/400/Documentation/Manual/Prefabs.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjWzUENGzQ


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The economic consequences of Huckabee
What would Jesus do in a recession? More tax cuts for the rich? Or a new New Deal?
By Andrew Leonard
Published January 4, 2008 3:14PM (EST)
"No one has articulated the message of the religious left more effectively than Mr. Huckabee," writes David Sanders in Friday's Wall Street Journal. That's right -- the religious left. Huckabee, explains Sanders, believes that his faith justifies "advocating greater government involvement in just about every aspect of American life."
Call it crazy, this notion that Jesus might have considered the alleviation of poverty a moral imperative for government, but Huckabee appears to believe it. His victory in the Iowa caucus has plunged mainstream Republicans into a distraught tizzy: a "Huey Long populist," as one commentator at the conservative blog RedState put it, his keyboard dripping with disgust, is, for today, the most popular Republican candidate for president.
Writes Sanders in "Mike Huckabee's New Deal: More God, More Government":
As governor, he championed the ARKids First, which extended free health insurance not only to children of the working poor but to some lower middle-class families. He pleased teachers unions with his consistent opposition to school choice and voucher programs. He satisfied labor by signing into law a minimum-wage hike of 21 percent. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" -- Mr. Huckabee's oft-cited scriptural justification for growing government -- proved costly for Arkansans, who saw government spending double and their taxes rise about a half-billion dollars during his tenure.
In the orgy of analysis sweeping the Net and the airwaves last night, (finally, finally, we have some real numbers to chew on) conservative commentators did their absolute best to marginalize Huckabee by pointing to the overwhelming support he received from self-identified "evangelicals." They desperately want to believe that Huckabee's win has nothing to do with his "government-should-help-the-little-guy" message and everything to do with the way he bears a cross as if it were a coat of arms.
Maybe they're right. Maybe Iowan evangelicals were so blinded by the light shining from that cross that they couldn't see (or didn't care about) his heretical economic platform. Or maybe the opposite is true -- maybe the Republican punditocracy is so blind to growing economic angst and uncertainty in the United States that they simply can't comprehend that Huckabee's popularity might have something to do with the fact that he is the only Republican candidate (outside of, possibly, Ron Paul) who sincerely appears to care that some people are having a hard time right now.
If some portion of Huckabee's support does come from evangelicals who are comfortable with the thought that Jesus might care about the environment, poverty, and hunger, or that, as Huckabee said in August, "we can't ignore that there are kids every day in this country that literally don't have enough food and adequate drinking water in America," then Republicans are faced with a great paradox. The GOP long ago made its bed with Jesus Christ. But there's nothing in the Bible that equates belief in the savior with a belief in small government and tax cuts for the rich. By selling its soul to Christian conservatives, the GOP may have surrendered its own ability to define the conservative economic platform.
Democrats have reason to be ecstatic, and not just because of the massive voter turnout for their candidates in Iowa. Should one of the other, more "traditional" Republican candidates manage to seize control of primary momentum and make Huckabee's victory seem like just a bad dream, where will the Christian conservatives who are concerned about the economy -- in an election year that quite possibly could include a recession -- go?
Because you don't have to look far to find a preacher on the other side of the fence, as anyone who watched Barack Obama's victory speech Thursday night can tell you.
UPDATE: Alex Koppelman has more on the mainstream Republican repudiation of Mike "dangerous leftist" Huckabee in War Room.
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VgetFresh is a startup and an e-commerce advanced technology grocery platform running in Lucknow, U.P., India, which offers the delivery services to customers at their place - home delivery and pick-up facility, of different categories like groceries, vegetables, fruits, frozen & meat, bakery, sweets & dairy products, agricultural, flowers, etc. in both B2C and B2B sectors. VgetFresh has a unique business model for delivering items to their customers with advanced technology platform. It is available on Android, web, call, and WhatsApp. It now focuses on 2 sectors - retail & agriculture.