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Congress Wasn't Brainwashed into Iraq-They Just Brought a "Light Load" to the Laundromat
From time to time my friend Elliot sends me a joke or a funny video. But Saturday, put my name on the wrong list. Elliot forwarded me a letter from Congressman Wexler of Florida. The letter said in part:
"President Bush deliberately created a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people and the charges detailed in this impeachment resolution indicate an unprecedented abuse of executive power.
Not being one to exercise political self restraint I jotted off a note telling the Congressman that with all the problems America is facing, his wasting of congressional time on petty partisan politics was a dereliction of duty, and that I was considering moving to is district just so I can vote against him.
Now two days later I realize that I sent my letter too hastily. What I said was all true, but what I left out was even more important. George Bush didn't Brainwash Congress into this war, they saw the same intelligence reports as he did, and they VOTED FOR the WAR. Two years after the onset of the Iraq war, Congress issued a report saying that faulty intelligence convinced us to got to war.
Congress wasn't brainwashed, they just brought a "light load" to the laundromat, and now, to distance themselves from their own votes, they are stuck on the spin cycle:
Bush never lied to us about Iraq
The administration simply got bad intelligence. Critics are wrong to assert deception.
By James Kirchick
Touring Vietnam in 1965, Michigan Gov. George Romney proclaimed American involvement there "morally right and necessary." Two years later, however, Romney — then seeking the Republican presidential nomination — not only recanted his support for the war but claimed that he had been hoodwinked.
"When I came back from Vietnam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get," Romney told a Detroit TV reporter who asked the candidate how he reconciled his shifting views.
Romney (father of Mitt) had visited Vietnam with nine other governors, all of whom denied that they had been duped by their government. With this one remark, his presidential hopes were dashed.
The memory of this gaffe reverberates in the contemporary rhetoric of many Democrats, who, when attacking the Bush administration's case for war against Saddam Hussein, employ essentially the same argument. In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate's 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: "We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true." On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham Clinton dodged blame for her pro-war vote by claiming that "the mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress."
Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war.
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Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House "manipulation" — that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction — administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods.
In 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously approved a report acknowledging that it "did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments." The following year, the bipartisan Robb-Silberman report similarly found "no indication that the intelligence community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."
Contrast those conclusions with the Senate Intelligence Committee report issued June 5, the production of which excluded Republican staffers and which only two GOP senators endorsed. In a news release announcing the report, committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV got in this familiar shot: "Sadly, the Bush administration led the nation into war under false pretenses."
Yet Rockefeller's highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that "top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11." Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were "substantiated by intelligence information." The same goes for claims about Hussein's possession of biological and chemical weapons, as well as his alleged operation of a nuclear weapons program.
Four years on from the first Senate Intelligence Committee report, war critics, old and newfangled, still don't get that a lie is an act of deliberate, not unwitting, deception. If Democrats wish to contend they were "misled" into war, they should vent their spleen at the CIA.
In 2003, top Senate Democrats — not just Rockefeller but also Carl Levin, Clinton, Kerry and others — sounded just as alarmist. Conveniently, this month's report, titled "Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information," includes only statements by the executive branch. Had it scrutinized public statements of Democrats on the Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees — who have access to the same intelligence information as the president and his chief advisors — many senators would be unable to distinguish their own words from what they today characterize as warmongering.
This may sound like ancient history, but it matters. After Sept. 11, President Bush did not want to risk allowing Hussein, who had twice invaded neighboring nations, murdered more than 1 million Iraqis and stood in violation of 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions, to remain in possession of what he believed were stocks of chemical and biological warheads and a nuclear weapons program. By glossing over this history, the Democrats' lies-led-to-war narrative provides false comfort in a world of significant dangers.
"I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in South Vietnam to stop communist aggression in Southeast Asia," Romney elaborated in that infamous 1967 interview. That was an intellectually justifiable view then, just as it is intellectually justifiable for erstwhile Iraq war supporters to say — given the way it's turned out — that they don't think the effort has been worth it. But predicating such a reversal on the unsubstantiated allegation that one was lied to is cowardly and dishonest.
A journalist who accompanied Romney on his 1965 foray to Vietnam remarked that if the governor had indeed been brainwashed, it was not because of American propaganda but because he had "brought so light a load to the laundromat." Given the similarity between Romney's explanation and the protestations of Democrats 40 years later, one wonders why the news media aren't saying the same thing today.
James Kirchick is an assistant editor of the New Republic.

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TASMANIA – As reported by the Australia Examiner:"The Greens deliberately misled State Parliament over claims that Federal Hotels would gain $3.14 billion (US$2.18 billion) from a 20-year agreement to operate poker machines in Tasmania, Premier Paul Lennon claimed yesterday.
"Greens gaming spokesman Kim Booth claimed in a Budget estimates committee last week that an independent Citigroup analysis had shown that the company would earn $157 million a year from the agreement.
"But Citigroup analyst Jenny Owen yesterday said that the study, conducted in July 2003, had shown that $157 million was the total figure for the whole 20-year life of the agreement.
"On the other hand, the Government's own calculation of its expected tax revenue from pokies appears to show that the $157 million is far too low.
"…Mr Booth denied he had deliberately misled Parliament but said he was happy to accept that the figure was incorrect…"


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If you notice the river in Buckingham looking much cleaner this month, it's because it's been the recipient of some much needed TLC courtesy of the annual River Rinse.
Over 40 people, armed with litter pickers, gloves, black bags and buckets came out on September 10 to help comb a section of the river, stretching from the skate park to the university.
Stowe Sub Aqua, a diving group based at Stowe school, and Buckingham firefighters helped residents paddle, wade and swim through the river for two hours, collecting dumped rubbish and floating litter.
This year's haul included a cigarette vending machine, a service banned in the UK in 2011, bike parts, plenty of signage and a radiator.
Although previous year's efforts have returned horse skulls from the riverbed, this year's must gruesome uncovering was a cow's vertebrae - expected to be from the old abattoir.
Two children's scooters were also salvaged and instantly recycled, donated to two boys who had joined the group after walking past.
River Rinsers have been cleaning the river since the 1990's, with members of the council determined to keep maintenance up for years to come.
Cllr Robin Stuchbury said: "It's a great community activity, the same people come out every year and now their children are growing up and they come as well.
"Gradually and eventually the river is getting better, we're getting less detritus out and more casual throws and fly tipping.
The next schedule River Rinse takes place on October 1, starting at Bourton Park Car Park on Bourton Road. For more information head to the Town Council website.


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Monero (; Abbreviation: XMR) is a decentralized cryptocurrency. It uses a public distributed ledger with privacy-enhancing technologies that obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses trading monero, transaction amounts, address balances, or transaction histories.

The protocol is open source and based on CryptoNote, a concept described in a 2013 white paper authored by Nicolas van Saberhagen. The cryptography community used this concept to design Monero, and deployed its mainnet in 2014. Monero uses ring signatures, zero-knowledge proofs, "stealth addresses", and IP address–obscuring methods to obfuscate transaction details. These features are baked into the protocol, though users can optionally share view keys for third-party auditing. Transactions are validated through a miner network running RandomX, a proof-of-work algorithm. The algorithm issues new coins to miners, and was designed to be resistant to application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining.

Monero has the third-largest developer community among cryptocurrencies, behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. Its privacy features have attracted cypherpunks and users desiring privacy measures not provided in other cryptocurrencies. It is increasingly used in illicit activities such as money laundering, darknet markets, ransomware, and cryptojacking. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has posted bounties for contractors that can develop monero-tracing technologies.

Background
Monero's roots can be traced back to CryptoNote, a cryptocurrency protocol first described in a white paper published by Nicolas van Saberhagen (presumed pseudonymous) in October 2013. The author described privacy and anonymity as "the most important aspects of electronic cash" and called bitcoin's traceability a "critical flaw". A Bitcointalk forum user "thankful_for_today" coded these ideas into a coin they dubbed BitMonero. Other forum users disagreed with thankful_for_today'''s direction for BitMonero, so forked it in 2014 to create monero. Monero translates to coin in Esperanto, and the Esperanto moneroj is sometimes used for plural. Both van Saberhagen and thankful_for_today remain anonymous.

Monero has the third-largest community of developers, behind bitcoin and Ethereum. The protocol's lead maintainer was previously South African developer Riccardo Spagni. Much of the core development team chooses to remain anonymous.

Improvements to Monero's protocol and features are, in part, the task of the Monero Research Lab (MRL). The lab is a rotating cast of researchers, scientists, cryptographers, and developers. Similar to the core VC development team, a portion of the MRL chooses to remain anonymous or otherwise work pseudonymously.

 Privacy

Monero's key features are those around privacy and anonymity. Even though it is a public and decentralized ledger, all transaction details are obfuscated. This contrasts to bitcoin, where all transaction details, user addresses, and wallet balances are public and transparent. These features have given Monero a loyal following among crypto anarchists, cypherpunks, and privacy advocates.

The transaction outputs, or notes, of users sending Monero are obfuscated through ring signatures, which groups a sender's outputs with other decoy outputs. Encryption of transaction amounts began in 2017 with the implementation of ring confidential transactions (RingCTs). Developers also implemented a zero-knowledge proof method, "Bulletproofs", which guarantee a transaction occurred without revealing its value. Monero recipients are protected through "stealth addresses", addresses generated by users to receive funds, but untraceable to an owner by a network observer. These privacy features are enforced on the network by default, though users have the option to share a private view key to permit third party auditing of their wallet, or a transaction key to audit a transaction.

Monero uses Dandelion++, a protocol which obscures the IP address of devices producing transactions. This is done through a method of transaction broadcast propagation; new transactions are initially passed to one node on Monero's peer-to-peer network, and a repeated probabilistic method is used to determine when the transaction should be sent to just one node or broadcast to many nodes in a process called flooding. This method was motivated by the growing blockchain analysis market and the potential use of botnets for analysis.

 Efforts to trace transactions
In April 2017, researchers highlighted three major threats to Monero users' privacy. The first relies on leveraging the ring signature size of zero, and ability to see the output amounts. The second, "Leveraging Output Merging", involves tracking transactions where two outputs belong to the same user, such as when they send funds to themselves ("churning"). Finally, "Temporal Analysis", shows that predicting the right output in a ring signature could potentially be easier than previously thought. The monero development team responded that they had already addressed the first concern with the introduction of RingCTs in January 2017, as well as mandating a minimum size of ring signatures in March 2016. In 2018, researchers presented possible vulnerabilities in a paper titled "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain". The Monero team responded in March 2018.

In September 2020, the United States Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division (IRS-CI), posted a $625,000 bounty for contractors who could develop tools to help trace Monero, other privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies, the Bitcoin Lightning Network, or other "layer 2" protocols. The contract was awarded to blockchain analysis groups Chainalysis and Integra FEC.

 Mining

Monero uses a proof-of-work algorithm, RandomX, to validate transactions. The method was introduced in November 2019 to replace the former algorithm CryptoNightR. Both algorithms were designed to be resistant to ASIC mining, which is commonly used to mine other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Monero can be mined somewhat efficiently on consumer-grade hardware such as x86, x86-64, ARM and GPUs, a design decision which was based on Monero project's opposition to mining centralisation which ASIC mining creates, but has also resulted in Monero's popularity among malware-based non-consensual miners. In October of 2021 the Monero project introduced P2Pool, a mining pool running on a sidechain which gives participants full control of their node as with solo mining configurations.

 Illicit use
Monero's privacy features have made it popular for illicit purposes.Kshetri, Nir (2018). "Cryptocurrencies: Transparency Versus Privacy". Computer. IEEE Computer Society. 51 (11): 99–111. .

 Darknet markets
Monero is a common medium of exchange on darknet markets. In August 2016, dark market AlphaBay permitted its vendors to start accepting Monero as an alternative to bitcoin. The site was taken offline by law enforcement in 2017, but it was relaunched in 2021 with Monero as the sole permitted currency. Reuters reported in 2019 that three of the five largest darknet markets accepted Monero, though bitcoin was still the most widely used form of payment in those markets.

 Mining malware
Hackers have embedded malware into websites and applications that hijack victim CPUs to mine Monero (sometimes called cryptojacking). In late 2017, malware and antivirus service providers blocked Coinhive, a JavaScript implementation of a Monero miner that was embedded in websites and apps, in some cases by hackers. Coinhive generated the script as an alternative to advertisements; a website or app could embed it, and use website visitor's CPU to mine the cryptocurrency while the visitor is consuming the content of the webpage, with the site or app owner getting a percentage of the mined coins. Some websites and apps did this without informing visitors, or in some cases using all possible system resources. As a result, the script was blocked by companies offering ad blocking subscription lists, antivirus services, and antimalware services. Coinhive had been previously found hidden in Showtime-owned streaming platforms and Starbucks Wi-Fi hotspots in Argentina. Researchers in 2018 found similar malware that mined Monero and sent it to Kim Il-sung University in North Korea.

 Ransomware

Monero is sometimes used by ransomware groups. According to CNBC, in the first half of 2018, Monero was used in 44% of cryptocurrency ransomware attacks.

One group behind the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, the Shadow Brokers, attempted to exchange the ransom they collected in bitcoin to Monero. Ars Technica and Fast Company reported that the exchange was successful, but BBC News reported that the service the criminal attempted to use, ShapeShift, denied any such transfer. The Shadow Brokers began accepting Monero as payment later in 2017.

In 2021, CNBC, the Financial Times, and Newsweek reported that demand for Monero was increasing following the recovery of a bitcoin ransom paid in the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack. The May 2021 hack forced the pipeline to pay a $4.4M ransom in bitcoin, though a large portion was recovered by the United States federal government the following month. The group behind the attack, DarkSide, normally requests payment in either bitcoin or Monero, but charge a 10–20% premium for payments made in bitcoin due to its increased traceability risk. Ransomware group REvil removed the option of paying ransom in bitcoin in 2021, demanding only Monero. Ransomware negotiators, groups that help victims pay ransoms, have contacted Monero developers to understand the technology. Despite this, CNBC reported that bitcoin was still the currency of choice demanded in most ransomware attacks, as insurers refuse to pay Monero ransom payments because of traceability concerns.

 Regulatory responses
The attribution of Monero to illicit markets has influenced some exchanges to forgo listing it. This has made it more difficult for users to exchange Monero for fiat currencies or other cryptocurrencies. Exchanges in South Korea and Australia have delisted Monero and other privacy coins due to regulatory pressure.

In 2018, Europol and its director Rob Wainwright wrote that the year would see criminals shift from using bitcoin to using Monero, as well as Ethereum, Dash, and Zcash. Bloomberg'' and CNN reported that this demand for Monero was because authorities were becoming better at monitoring the Bitcoin blockchain.

Publicity
 After many online payment platforms shut down access for white nationalists following the Unite the Right rally in 2017, some of them, including Christopher Cantwell and Andrew Auernheimer ("weev"), started using and promoting Monero.
 In December 2017, the Monero team announced a partnership with 45 musicians and several online stores for Monero to be used as a form of payment for their merchandise.
 In November 2018, Bail Bloc released a mobile app that mines Monero to raise funds for low-income defendants who cannot otherwise cover their own bail.

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A Week On The High Street
A Week On The High Street from the Local Data Company. This weekly round up aims to bring you the latest retail and leisure location news from around the UK.
* Dixons Retail Group, owners of PC World and Currys, has announced plans to reduce its estate from 557 stores to between 400 and 420 stores and will focus on the new format of store that is being showcased at their Currys/PC World Black store at Westfield Stratford.
* Patisserie Valerie will open a new store on June 22 on Lincoln High Street, taking over the unit formally occupied by Blue Salamander.
* Next is to open its second Home & Garden Centre Superstore this week atMartleshaw Heath Retail Park inIpswich.
* JoJo Maman Bebe is to open a new store this week onSouth Roadin Haywards Heath. It will take over the former La Senza store.
* Game administrators are to close the remaining 31 Game stores after failing to find a buyer for the business.
* Administrators for Clinton Cards have announced plans to close a further 122 stores.
* Peter Werth has opened a pop up concept store this weekend on Lamb's Conduit Street inLondon. The store will be open until June 30th for their new spring menswear collection.
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El Oceania Rugby Women's Championship del 2018 fue la segunda edición del torneo femenino de rugby.

El campeón fue la selección de Fiyi, quienes obtuvieron el bicampeonato en la competición.

Equipos participantes

 Selección femenina de rugby de Fiyi
 Selección femenina de rugby de Papúa Nueva Guinea
 Selección femenina de rugby de Samoa
 Selección femenina de rugby de Tonga

Posiciones

Nota: Se otorgan 4 puntos al equipo que gane un partido y 2 al que empatePuntos Bonus: 1 punto por convertir 4 tries o más en un partido y 1 al equipo que pierda por no más de 7 tantos de diferencia

Resultados

Véase también

 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship

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Rugby en 2018
Rugby en Fiyi
Fiyi en 2018
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Maynooth Biology Researchers Discover a Novel Antibody for Diagnosing a Serious COVID-19 Associated Fungal Disease.
Researchers at the Department of Biology in Maynooth University have successfully produced a novel antibody in the laboratory and licensed it to an Irish company for commercialisation. The antibody can be used in a lateral flow test (LFT) to help diagnose a serious fungal infection of the lung caused by the airborne pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. The often-fatal disease is called Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA) and occurs in some COVID-19 patients who end up in ICU, immunocompromised individuals and those with pre-existing lung disorders. Worldwide, upwards of 400,000 people contract IPA annually.
The team produced the unique monoclonal antibody which can specifically detect a secreted fungal peptide, called a siderophore, the presence of which has been shown to be a biomarker of IPA disease. They have also undertaken a major effort to identify the antibody 'sequence' and then produce it as a recombinant monoclonal antibody which can be generated continuously in large amounts - an essential requirement for commercialisation.
Lead Investigators Professor Sean Doyle and Associate Professor David Fitzpatrick at Maynooth University, spear-headed the work, which was funded in the initial stages by Science Foundation Ireland. Along with former PhD student and now Research Fellow at Cambridge University, Dr Nicola Moloney, in collaboration with Dr Annemarie Larkin, IT Sligo and Austrian researchers, they worked over the past 4 years to bring the concept to reality and it has now been published as open access in the international journal, Analytical Biochemistry and can be accessed here.
Commenting, Professor Doyle said that "This is a first-in-class recombinant monoclonal antibody, which we have called Tafcimab, with significant potential for diagnosing IPA, a significant COVID-19 associated lung infection. We have now licensed the technology to an Irish company, Accuplex Diagnostics Limited, who will commercialise the technology for research and diagnostic purposes. We also intend to continue the work to validate and demonstrate additional biomedical uses of Tafcimab, and the innovative strategy used to produce it, at Maynooth University.". Fitzpatrick added "Our efforts show that integration of expertise ranging from bioinformatics, chemical biology, proteomics, molecular biology and immunology can produce tangible biological deliverables with both biotechnological and commercial potential. Tafcimab may also have applications for diagnosing some infectious veterinary diseases too. "
This is just one example of the leading-edge and real-world, innovative, work being undertaken by all Life Science Researchers at Maynooth University. Their research outputs are gaining significant international recognition as measured by the increased number, and impact, of their peer-reviewed publications. This in turn is leading to an expansion in Life Science research activity at Maynooth University.


Stratovolcano Kizimen 3,900m high in the Kronotsky Reserve, famous for its Geyser Valley, is situated some 265km from the region's largest city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Its seismic activity also by far exceeds normal: over 80 local earthquakes have been registered near the volcano in the last 24 hours. The pillar of gas and ash rises to 4,400m above sea level. At night the red glow could be seen in the sky above its crater.
Kizimen 'woke up' in 2009 after the last big eruption in 1928-29 and since then its activity has only been growing.
Plosky Talbachek volcano 3,140m, a part of two-dome volcanic pile (the second dome Ostry Talbachek is 3,689m), became active on November 27, 2012, some 36 years after precisely predicted "Great fissure Tolbachek eruption" in 1975-76.
Plosky Talbachek has been erupting lava for weeks now. Two openings below the crater level were sending lava flows that reached 6 and 18km. The flows are glowing in the nighttime, which means that more and more masses of lava continue to arrive, reported Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
Though increased volcanic activity and eruptions pose a certain threat to air travel over the Kamchatka Peninsula, volcanologists closely monitoring the situation report no imminent danger to settlements close to any of the three volcanoes.


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If you are concerned about the quality of your food and/or the environment, there are some very sound reasons to eat local. And, it is becoming so much easier all the time. Even if you live in the middle of the city, you shouldn't feel bound to shop at a supermarket because there are all sorts of ways that local produce from the greater metropolitan areas is finding their way into the city. Check out these very compelling reasons to eat local.
Although it might seem simple, one of the biggest reasons to eat local food is because it simply tastes better. The fresher the produce, the better it will taste – and it doesn't get any fresher than coming from the farmer's field just down the road. Why would you want to pay for bland, overripe fruit when you can get some amazing produce locally?
Rather than contributing to the huge farms that have been taken over by multinational companies, you might consider eating local produce because you're helping your local farmer. It's a struggle to make a profit as a farmer nowadays, especially when it comes to meat – supermarkets have cut down prices so much that farmers are sometimes losing money on the produce that they sell. If you really want to help local farmers, see if you can buy from them direct – they will make more money, and you'll be ensuring that you get the freshest produce available.
It's a good idea to think about how many miles your dinner has traveled before it got into the oven. What would you rather: buy chicken breasts that were produced in China under awful conditions, or pay a tiny bit more for a chicken that came from a local farmer? If you are worried about your impact on the environment, a good way to start reducing the strain on the planet is to eat local food. It's easy and tastes better!
When you purchase food from a supermarket you have lost control over what is in your food. Even if you are someone who buys all fresh produce from the supermarket to cook meals from scratch, you never know how the ingredients you're using have been treated. If you want to get rid of the triple-sanitized vegetables and replace them with good, fresh produce that you can enquire as to how it was cared for, then you've just found another of the good reasons to eat local food.
Another of the great reasons to eat locally-grown food is that you start to know your community better. If you wake up at 11am on a Sunday morning, roll out of bed and put some Canadian bacon in the skillet, you have lost all sense of community. Instead you can get up at 8am, head on down to your local fresh produce market and meet the people who grow your food. Nothing is better than understanding how your food was grown, and the only way to truly do that is to know who grew it.
The fresher the food, the more nutrients that are still packed in. The greater the time between tomatoes being picked and making their way onto your plate, the greater number of nutrients that will be lost. The same principle works for all fresh food – if you really want your fruit and vegetables to be packed full of goodness, make sure that you buy local food whenever you can.
If you've ever taken a stroll around the farmer's market, you know that you see so many colors of fruits and vegetables that you didn't know existed. Purple carrots? Black tomatoes? Yellow beetroots? If you're interested in getting some unique items that you won't find in your supermarket, buy local food from your local fresh produce market. If you want a way to get the kids to eat their greens, look for greens that aren't actually green – they will learn more about food, and so will you!
Did you know there are so many great reasons to eat local and support your nearby food producers? Do you stick to the supermarket and grocery store or do you like farm shops and farmers markets? Pray do tell!


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Parents to learn fate of Norfolk's closure-threatened children's centres
Dan Grimmer
dan.grimmer@archant.co.uk
@dangrimmer24
Parents voicing their concerns to Jeremy Corbyn during his visit to North City Children's Centre. Picture: Neil Didsbury
Parents and campaigners will soon find out if councillors are likely to push ahead with proposals to close all but seven of Norfolk's children's centres.
Jon and Clare Watson, with sons Callum and Aiden. Picture: Janet Watson
Conservative-controlled Norfolk County Council revealed proposals in September to shut 46 of the 53 children's centres, with the seven which would remain acting as bases for outreach support.
Council bosses said it would bring services out of buildings and into the community.
But there has been vociferous opposition from parents and politicians, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backing campaigners when he visited Norwich's North City Children's Centre in Angel Road.
The council had said schools, village halls, libraries and other buildings would be used to provide the services people currently get at children's centres.
In February last year, Norfolk County Council agreed that the budget for children's centres would be halved from £10m to £5m, coinciding with the contracts for the 12 current providers of the services coming to an end.
More than 1,600 people responded to the council's consultation over the proposals, with the changes labelled as "short-sighted" and "reckless".
Seven of the existing children's centres would remain as bases in each district of the county, but council bosses say it will bring services out of buildings and into the community.
The council's children's services committee is due to discuss the proposals when it meets on Tuesday January 22.
The agenda for that meeting will go public on next week, when it will become clear whether the council has had any second thoughts over the proposals.
The council has indicated that there has been an update, following the recent consultation.
Jon Watson, whose sons Callum and Aiden have used the centre at Humbleyard, in Clover Hill, urged councillors to rethink.
Mr Watson, who lives in Bowthorpe, said: "They are a lifeline to people. People rely on those centres to get the help they need."
A county council spokesman said: "Our latest proposals for an early childhood and family service, which have been updated following our recent consultation process, will be published next week, before they are considered by the children's services committee on January 22."


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You'll be £19.99 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Textiles: A History. What's this?
A fascinating and accessible history of textiles, including the key personalities and inventions which revolutionised the industry, together with the East End workshops and the creation of artificial materials such as rayon. Textile expert, Fiona McDonald, includes tips on the care and repair of materials and advice on what's worth collecting and the best materials to wear, as well as safe cleaning, tips on collecting. As well as a handy glossary of textile terms, there is an A-Z of different textiles, full of interesting facts – did you know that velvet was originally made from silk and its name derives from the Latin word, vellus, meaning fleece or that cabbage was the term used in the rag trade to refer to the extra outfits clever cutters created and sold off the books by careful placement of the pattern. A fascinating and often surprising subject area explored at an accessible but informative level.
Fiona McDonald's textile creations are much in demand. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were both tailors, her grandfather creating shorts out of hessian bags for fellow prisoners at Sandakan during the Second World War. Fiona has also written several craft books based on her designs for toys and is fascinated by the history of the textiles used in her creations.


Baking soda is anti-acid, or antacid, sodium bicarbonate. Bacteria normally prefer an acidic environment. Turning the pancreas into a slightly alkaline should eliminate the worms colonizing the organ, which is the primary root cause of your pancreatic cancer.
By creating a situation conducive for healing, you can always correct any unfavorable conditions. A good balance between oxygen and hydrogen ensures the right blood pH necessary for the autoimmune system to functions at its optimum.
When used as a feminine spray, she must find out the right pH for herself, and she can monitor the same with over-the-counter pH strips, and maintain the same pH by regulating its use across the board.
Finally, according to psychology experts, about 85% of the population have unconscious death wishes, and it's easy to identify them when they say something just can't be done, or it's up to the Lord Almighty.
Are you part of the irresponsible fatalist 85% majority, or are you brave enough to fly outside of the box that the system has allocated for you?
The Science says it's still your call.


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'jOBS' biopic starring Ashton Kutcher premiering at Sundance Film Festival Jan. 27
- Dec. 3rd 2012 3:10 pm PT
Sundance Film Festival announced this afternoon that the Steve Jobs biopic, titled "jOBS", starring famed-actor Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, would premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival this January.
As we previously covered, the biopic will look at the early founding and 30 years of Apple, while centered on the late co-founder Steve Jobs. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will make an appearance in the film, played by Josh Gad, and former CEO and cofounder John Sculley will make an appearance, played by Matthew Modine. Scenes in the movie were also filmed in the "historic garage" where Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. The film's early scenes will even feature Jobs' Los Altos home where he grew up to maintain "accuracy and authenticity" during the movie-making process, as the film makers revealed in the summer.
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival will run from Jan. 17 to Jan. 27, and "jOBS" will get the honor of being the festival's closing film on Jan. 27, as Hollywood Reporter first noted. It is not clear whether it will air thus after.
Some have noted, however, that the portrayal of Jobs we should really wat for is Aaron Sorkin's version that is backed by Sony. With rights to the official "Steve Jobs" biography written by Walter Isaacson, Sorkin's movie will only consist of three scenes. Each scene will be 30 minutes long and will follow Jobs backstage just before the unveiling of the Mac, NeXT, and the original iPod. Not much else about the film is known.
. Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in iconic early pose – Press Shot
Ken Segall, the author of "Insanely Simple," took to his blog in May to discuss the biopic starring Kutcher. "Apparently, there are two ways to make a Steve Jobs movie," explained Segall. "You can do a low-budget indie film using director Joshua Michael Stern (who?) and first-time screenwriter Matt Whitely, and give it an appropriately cheesy name like [original name was 'Steve Jobs: Get Inspired', but it is now 'jOBS']. Or you can pay Isaacson a million bucks for the rights to his book, and prepare to pay far bigger bucks for everything that follows. Which is what Sony Pictures has done, bless their little hearts."
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Eerie. Jobs & Kutcher. pic.twitter.com/9mjWDkVN
— Lidija Davis (@MadLid) December 4, 2012
Via: The Verge, Hollywood Reporter Source: Sundance Film Festival
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I love lemonade in the summer, and as the summer comes to a close, I still try to savor every last drop. It is, in my eyes, the drink of the season. Since we often have a lot of delicious fresh fruit on hand in the summer, I often use it to flavor our lemonades when we are in the mood. Watermelon lemonade is a particular favorite because we are always buying huge melons at the market and never eat quite enough wedges. There is always a little left over. This recipe is super fun to make with the kids too because they can really get involved and drink their reward. This sweet, delicious beverage is great for cookouts or just when you are hanging around on the porch.
The taste of summer, made right in your own kitchen!
Step 1: Add the watermelon to a blender and puree until smooth.
Step 2: Then, add the lemonade and puree the mixture again until the watermelon appears fully incorporated.
Step 3: Pour the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a large pitcher and serve.


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Q: Site displays with Curl but not within the browser I've set up a dev-enviroment on Debian 7 and installed the following services:

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*Apache

*Bind9

I have one site that is reachable through "asix.debian.local". I've set up the zone and added NS and A registry to the db.debian.local file.
Everything is working, this is the response I get with curl:
"curl asix.debian.local"

Apache default

         It works!!
 Aquest es la pagina de benvinguda de ASIX
So I guessed I got everything up and working, but when I type in the same URL in browser, I get "Server not found error - Iceweasel can't find the server at asix.debian.local."
Only nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf is the local IP of the server.
Why can't browser reach the website if curl did?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

A: For someone reading this in the future:
For me it wasn't a DNS issue but one with https:
curl my-domain.com worked because it used http protocol.
However, modern browsers seem to always attempt to use https nowadays and that's not always obvious.
So for me, setting up letsencrypt and enabling https solved the issue.

A: For such case please add line in /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4

to be
hosts: dns files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4

A: Removing the headers is what worked for me:
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Being a mom is hard work. I have a teenage boy, a ten-year-old diva-girl and an autistic toddler, so this I know. But no matter how many kids a person has, at any age, with any level or variance of challenges, it is hard work to parent.
They come into our lives so tiny, so adorable and so completely dependent upon us. Our world revolves around them and we hung the moon in their eyes. For a while. Our job is to give them the tools and skills they need to become wonderfully self-sufficient adults. Our job is to prepare them to need us a little less every day.
As my kids get older, I seem to fret more about whether I'm doing this right. I am confident I have made mistakes and will continue to do so, but I am striving to do my best. Just about the time I think I've fouled up terribly, I get a glimmer of something I've done right.
I call them popcorn moments. Sometimes they come out of nowhere, bursting into the day unexpectedly. And often they are gone just as quickly. If I am not careful I will miss them – but these popcorn moments are fuel for my soul, when I am smart enough to savor them.
Maybe it's Jake getting up early on a Saturday to help at a homeless shelter, or when I catch him holding the door for a lady without being reminded. There are those moments when the teenage angst is at bay and we can just laugh, because he is marvelously clever and entertaining. Or the way he is with Wil – loving, attentive, engaged.
Maybe it's Tess deciding not to care what the 'popular kids' think and just being that girl's friend anyway, or the moment she chose to 'just get over it' and be able to sing a solo. It's the hand-written notes she sometimes leaves me. Then there is the way she takes care of her baby-bubba – pushing him to do his best because she believes in him so fiercely.
With Wil the moments are different. I am still figuring out parenting a child with autism. What I am learning most is how much I have to learn from him. How to truly listen. How to slow down and take it all in. How to take time to shut out the rest of the world and just enjoy the beauty of whatever is right in front of me. How to smile more and laugh often, no matter what life flings by me. How to be more accepting, more loving, more peaceful and kind.
Life is hard, but there are beautiful popcorn moments every day if we just stop and notice them. And it's those popcorn moments that get us through.
I love that song. Those popcorn moments keep us slogging along.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and for sharing a positive thought!


Thought I saw the new Jordan's around town. Turns out it was just a Smart car. It was traveling at walking pace, it was similar in size, and there was a person in it….alas, it was not the new Jordans. I should have known anyway. Those things are for sure sold out…the Jordans are sold out I mean.
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Ohio Democrat Double Dares Voters to Track Down Women in His Past
RUSH: Cleveland.com: "Ohio Dem Discloses Sexual Relationships with '50 Very Attractive Females.'" We're talking here about Ohio gubernatorial candidate Bill O'Neill. He went to Facebook, and he started bragging about all the women he's been with. This is a proactive stance. Rather than waiting for women to come out of the woodwork, this guy is going proactive. "'I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females,' [he writes].
"[He] took to Facebook on Friday to boast about having been 'sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females,' and blast the 'national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago. Now that the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken, I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males. As a candidate for Governor let me save my opponents some research time,' O'Neill wrote. 'In the last fifty years, I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females.
"It ranged from a gorgeous blonde who was my first true love and we made passionate love in the hayloft of her parents' barn and ended with a drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland. Now can we get back to discussing legalizing marijuana"? That's what he wrote. So what do you think of this? He's now an associate justice on the Ohio Supreme Court, and he's running for governor. He's not worried about what they're doing to Roy Moore. He's not concerned. No, no! He says now that they're "calling for the head of Senator Al Franken," (paraphrased) I have to get the news out where I've been with whom I've been and how much they and I both loved it.
It's like a double dare to go find somebody who did not enjoy it with him.
Ohio Dem Discloses Sexual Relationships with '50 Very Attractive Females'


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Can anybody help me out chalking out the places to visit and the places to stay. My budget is around 20K excluding flight expenses. Any leads would be appreciated.


The first episode of the new talk show focused on the role of movies and role models in public awareness raising about HIV. This theme was suggested by the recent release of a new Russian series Call DiCaprio where the main character gets HIV and then struggles to overcome despair, isolation and rejection.
Vinay Saldanha, Director of UNAIDS regional office for EECA, Tigran Yepoyan, UNESCO regional HIV and health education advisor, together with a popular Russian actress Irina Starshenbaum, film critic Egor Belikov, scriptwriter Evgenia Khripkova and other guests discussed how HIV and people living with HIV were portrayed in movies years ago and are presented today, how the movie plots and characters influence public perception of HIV and attitude towards people living with HIV.
Over 1.9 million people watched this talk show and got an opportunity to dissipate their misconceptions and learn real facts about HIV transmission, prevention, testing (including self-testing) and treatment. They were encouraged to check their knowledge of HIV through an online game-quiz #learnyourstatus developed by UNESCO IITE.
Designed as a short game, the quiz offers multiple choices in each of six different life situations than anyone can get into: learning about an HIV-positive classmate; being caught in a storm of passion but having no condoms; learning that daughter's fiancé did drugs in the past; meeting an old friend who confesses to be HIV-positive; planning to have children and being asked by a doctor about HIV-status; dreaming to buy a new suit/dress and learning that it has just been tried on by an HIV-positive person. Depending on selected reactions, the quiz provides correct information about HIV transmission and risks factors. In the end, the quiz tells where and how HIV test can be taken and in which cases it is highly desirable. The quiz complements and reinforces the talk-show in raising HIV awareness, promoting HIV testing and overcoming stigmatizing and discriminatory attitude towards people living with HIV.
As a result of this livestreamed talk show, the number of subscribers of the newly rebranded public OK.RU\TEST (developed and maintained by UNESCO and UNAIDS) has grown by 6% just within two days and reached 63.5 thousand people. OK.RU\TEST serves as an HIV knowledge dissemination platform for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. More livestreamed talk shows will be organized at the platform in 2019.
* Fact Sheet – World AIDS Day 2018, UNAIDS, 2018.


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Vista Desktop Search Fight Gets Uglier
By Keith Ward
The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes.
In a seven-page "friend of the court" brief to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Monday, Google said that while it "welcomes" the steps to which Microsoft has agreed in order to promote more choice in choosing a desktop search tool, "it appears that more may need to be done to provide a truly unbiased choice of desktop search products in Vista and achieve compliance with the Final Judgment." The Final Judgment is the finding in 2002 that Microsoft was a monopoly and has to submit to federal oversight to ensure competition for its Windows-related products.
Google also argues that Microsoft's proposed solutions to Vista desktop search are too vague. Microsoft agreed to give OEMs and end users the ability to set a new default desktop search product, which is currently Vista "Instant Search." Microsoft also said it would provide links to the default search engine in the Start button and Windows Explorer windows, and instruct third parties how to best integrate other desktop search tools so they work well with Vista.
Google thinks more detail is needed.
"Until more is understood about the proposed remedies and how they might affect user choice, it is difficult to assess them fully," it wrote in the brief. "The Court and the public would benefit greatly from a description of the precise measures Microsoft is planning to implement and the practical effect they will have on users of desktop search."
Google also has concerns about the timing of the proposed changes. Microsoft said the new desktop search functionality will be included in Vista SP1, which is expected to be released early next year, after a beta release toward the end of 2007. Google notes that the federal consent decree governing Microsoft's actions is set to expire Nov. 12, and would like to see the decree extended to after the release of SP1 to make sure Microsoft's remedies meet the standards of allowing competition.
Now Microsoft has responded with its own seven-page memo, contending that Google has no standing in the case, and should, in essence, shut up. As reported by Computerworld, Microsoft stated: "Google has nothing new to offer the Court, except for the veiled request that this Court go behind the enforcement decision of the plaintiffs and make Google the '20th Plaintiff'."
Furthermore, Computerworld reported, Microsoft said Google won't play by the legal rules.
"Dissatisfied with the Plaintiffs' enforcement of the Final Judgment, Google is seeking to make an 'end-run' around the prohibition on non-parties directly enforcing the decrees," Microsoft said in the memo. In other words, Microsoft and the state and federal governments agreed on the desktop search engine remedy, and that should close the matter.
The initial complaint about Vista's Instant Search was filed by Google last December. Google claimed that Instant Search was anti-competitive because it discouraged the use of other desktop search engines (like Google's Desktop search, which the company claims has been downloaded 640,000 times since its December 2004 release), and that Microsoft essentially rigged Vista to make competing desktop search tools run sluggishly compared with Instant Search.
Microsoft and the various government entities, including the attorneys general of all 50 states, agreed to the remedies on June 19.
Keith Ward is editor of Virtualization Review magazine. You can contact Keith at kward@1105media.com.


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What is SEVP and SEVIS?
Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program that administers Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). It ensures that government agencies have essential data related to nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors to preserve national security. SEVP provides approval and oversight to schools authorized to enroll F and M nonimmigrant students and gives guidance to both schools and students about the requirements for maintenance of their status.
Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is a web-based system for maintaining information on international nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors to the United States. It is the core technology for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in this critical mission. SEVIS implements Section 641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996, which requires DHS to collect current information from nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors continually during their course of stay in the United States. In addition, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act; Public Law 107-56, amended Section 641) mandated implementation of SEVIS prior to January 1, 2003.


Immigration is one of the most divisive and polarizing topics today. Do immigrants take American jobs, or help our economy grow? Do immigrants drain our welfare funds, or can they help refill public coffers as our baby boomers retire? One argument you tend to hear in the immigration debate in the U.S. is that there is a fixed number of jobs in the economy — and immigrants just compete for a slice of the pie rather than helping the pie grow. This perspective is less prevalent when talking about startups, however, because the rate of entrepreneurship has declined significantly in the U.S. over the last 30 years, and fewer startups are being generated today.
With many places looking to stoke economic growth, state and local governments have clamored to launch initiatives to attract more immigrant entrepreneurs, hoping they will found businesses and create more jobs. Globally, many countries are doing the same — for example, Chile pays overseas entrepreneurs to come visit for six months through its Start-Up Chile program, as a way to build global bridges and foster an entrepreneurial culture at home. But to harness immigrant entrepreneurship for better growth and job creation, we need more hard facts. Good statistics on immigrant entrepreneurship are exceptionally difficult to assemble, and therefore it's challenging to create productive policies. Likewise, most standard government sources that are publicly accessible can only tell us about immigrant self-employment, which leaves a big question mark around job creation and economic growth. Our recent research aims to address this.
1. Immigrants constitute 15% of the general U.S. workforce, but they account for around a quarter of U.S. entrepreneurs (which we define as the top three initial earners in a new business). This is comparable to what we see in innovation and patent filings, where immigrants also account for about a quarter of U.S. inventors. The figure below shows that this immigrant share of entrepreneurship has been increasing dramatically since the mid-1990s, when the immigrant share of founders was closer to 17%. This rise in immigrant contributions to entrepreneurship is sharper than the rise in the immigrant share of all employees in new firms. You can also see that, in total, 35%-40% of new firms have at least one immigrant entrepreneur connected to the firm's creation.
We are still in the process of uncovering why. We have identified that the choices made by immigrants with respect to industry and geographic location are an important part of the story—that is, immigrants choose settings with heightened "up or out" dynamics. But we don't yet know whether this is due to greater risk tolerance by immigrants, better skills and ethnic social networks for navigating these settings, pure coincidence (i.e., immigrant happen to be arriving in cities that are very dynamic), or something else. If we use statistical methods to control for the location and industry of where a company is started, immigrant entrepreneurs are more likely to survive than their native peers, but they're only modestly more likely to experience employment growth, and their payroll growth is slower than that of native-founded firms. Thus, much of the growth and volatility properties of immigrant firms result from where they decide to found their companies.
Among VC-backed start-ups, immigrant and native entrepreneurs do not show meaningful differences in terms of our growth metrics.
5. We are just starting to be able to separate types of immigrant — e.g., those coming to the U.S. as children versus adults, those initially working in large companies versus in universities versus in startups. This will vastly improve policy making, which has so far suffered from having too little information to work with. For instance, let's look at Sergey Brin, who is frequently used as an example to advocate for expansion of H-1B visas under the assumption that this would boost American high-tech entrepreneurship.
There are several problems with the argument, one of which being that H-1B visas are mostly issued to skilled employees working in large firms, which means that any entrepreneurial stimulus would come with a time lag. Further, Brin came to the U.S. as a child, and is thus not representative of adult skilled migrants under H-1B. Now that we can study the age of arrival, we found that immigrants coming to the U.S. as children are more likely to start larger firms than immigrants arriving as adults.
Moreover, firms created by immigrants who have grown up in the U.S. are generally associated with better outcomes, in terms of lower closure rates and higher representation among larger firms. Much remains to be done here, but we hope this serves a spring board to the study of other migrant traits. We are by no means near the finish line at understanding the causes and effects of increasing immigrant entrepreneurship. We don't yet know, for example, what share of hiring created by immigrant-founded firms flows to natives or to other immigrants. But hopefully many more pieces can emerge in time for future debates about immigration.


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È stato il più giovane rookie nella storia dei New York Knicks, squadra con cui esordì nella NBA.

Biografia
Il padre Kenny McClary, era un giocatore dei Florida Gators alla fine degli anni ottanta. Il fratello più giovane è morto nel giugno 1996 cadendo dal trentesimo piano di un hotel in Venezuela.

Caratteristiche tecniche
Può giocare sia da ala piccola come ala grande (predilige il primo ruolo), è abile a tirare da 3 punti e a raccogliere rimbalzi, oltre a essere un buon difensore.

Carriera

High school e college
Ha frequentato la Westchester High School di Los Angeles, con la quale ha vinto il campionato statale californiano. Nel 2003 decide di iscriversi all'UCLA, ma dopo appena un anno si dichiara eleggibile per il draft 2004.

NBA (2004-)

New York Knicks (2004-2006)
Viene selezionato con la 43a scelta assoluta dai New York Knicks. Fa il suo debutto in NBA all'età di 19 anni, 4 mesi e 4 giorni, diventando la più giovane matricola di sempre dei Knicks. Utilizzato inizialmente come riserva, riesce a impressionare l'allenatore Larry Brown, che lo schiera 12 volte da titolare. È inoltre diventato la seconda matricola dei Knicks più giovane di sempre a disputare 80 partite. Nella sua seconda stagione da professionista ha disputato 36 partite, di cui 10 da titolare.

Orlando Magic (2006-2007)
Il 21 febbraio 2006 viene ceduto agli Orlando Magic insieme a Penny Hardaway in cambio di Steve Francis. Dopo lo scambio ha disputato 21 partite, con una media di 4,7 punti a partita. Nella stagione successiva ha disputato 57 partite, di cui 7 da titolare, con una media di 8,9 punti e 4,4 rimbalzi.

Los Angeles Lakers (2007-2009)
Nel novembre 2007 viene ceduto ai Los Angeles Lakers in cambio di Maurice Evans e Brian Cook. Nel gennaio 2008 si frattura il piede, saltando il resto della stagione regolare e ritornando per le finali di Western Conference contro i San Antonio Spurs. Nella stagione successiva disputa 80 partite, di cui 20 da titolare. Il 9 marzo 2009, durante la partita contro i Portland Trail Blazers, viene espulso per un fallo ai danni di Rudy Fernández. Il 15 marzo 2009, contro i Dallas Mavericks, realizza un career-high di 26 punti, oltre a 3 palle rubate, 3 rimbalzi e 2 assist. In gara-1 del primo turno di play-off contro gli Utah Jazz realizza un career-high ai playoff di 21 punti. È stato fondamentale nelle finali di Western Conference, contro i Denver Nuggets; in particolare in gara-1 ha intercettato un passaggio per Chauncey Billups, permettendo alla sua squadra di vincere, mentre in gara-3, con 37,1 secondi rimasti e i Lakers in vantaggio di 2 punti, ha intercettato un passaggio di Kenyon Martin per Carmelo Anthony. I Lakers sono quindi riusciti a qualificarsi per le finali NBA contro gli Orlando Magic. In gara-4 Ariza, che aveva tirato con 0/6 nel primo tempo, ha realizzato 13 punti nel terzo quarto, aiutando la squadra a vincere al tempo supplementare. I Lakers hanno così vinto il loro 15º titolo. Ai play-off Ariza ha avuto una media di 11,3 punti e 4,2 rimbalzi, tirando da tre con il 50%.

Houston Rockets (2009-2010)
Il 3 luglio 2009, rimasto free agent, firmò un contratto quinquennale a 33,5 milioni di dollari con gli Houston Rockets, che lo hanno ingaggiato per sostituire Ron Artest, passato proprio ai Lakers. Il 31 ottobre 2009 realizza un career-high di 33 punti contro i Portland Trail Blazers. Il 14 aprile realizza la sua prima tripla doppia in carriera, con 26 punti, 10 rimbalzi e 10 assist.

New Orleans Hornets (2010-2012)
L'11 agosto 2010 viene ceduto ai New Orleans Hornets in una trade a quattro squadre. Durante i playoff 2011 ha avuto una media di 15,5 punti, 6,5 rimbalzi e 3,3 assist in 40,2 minuti, quasi tutti career-high di Ariza in post-season.

Washington Wizards (2012-2014)
Il 20 giugno 2012 venne ceduto ai Washington Wizards insieme a Emeka Okafor in cambio di Rashard Lewis e della 46ª scelta del Draft NBA 2012. Il 12 febbraio 2014, in una sconfitta esterna dei Wizards contro i Rockets, realizza 32 punti, 11 rimbalzi, 3 assist e 3 palle rubate, diventando il secondo giocatore dopo Donyell Marshall ad aver messo a referto almeno 10 tiri da tre e 10 rimbalzi in una singola partita NBA (nel 2019 nell'impresa è riuscito anche James Harden e nel 2020 Damian Lillard). Il 1º marzo 2014 realizzò un career-high di 40 punti (tra cui 8 triple) nella vittoria per 122-103 contro i Philadelphia 76ers. Il 27 aprile 2014 realizza un career-high ai playoff di 30 punti contro i Chicago Bulls.

Ritorno a Houston (2014-2018)
Il 12 luglio 2014 firmò un contratto quadriennale a 32 milioni di dollari con i Rockets, facendo così ritorno a Houston a seguito di una trade a tre squadre (le altre due squadre coinvolte sono stati gli Washington Wizards e i New Olreans Pelicans). Tra l'altro in questa trade tutte le tre squadre coinvolte sono squadre in cui Ariza militò precedentemente in passato (Houston compresi dato che si tratta di un ritorno).

Parentesi a Phoenix e ritorno a Washington (2018-2019)
Scaduto il contratto con i Rockets, in estate Ariza firma un contratto annuale con i Phoenix Suns. Il 17 dicembre 2018 viene ceduto in cambio di Austin Rivers e Kelly Oubre facendo così ritorno ai Washington Wizards.

Sacramento Kings (2019-2020)
Diventato free agent il primo luglio 2019, firma con i Sacramento Kings.

Statistiche

NBA

Stagione regolare

|-
|align="left" |2004-05
|align="left" |
|80
|12
|17,3
|44,2
|23,1
|69,5
|3,0
|1,1
|0,9
|0,2
|5,9
|-
|align="left" |2005-06
|align="left" |
|36
|10
|19,7
|41,8
|33,3
|54,5
|3,8
|1,3
|1,2
|0,2
|4,6
|-
|align="left" |2005-06
|align="left" |
|21
|0
|13,8
|40,0
|0,0
|70,0
|3,9
|0,7
|0,7
|0,1
|4,7
|-
|align="left" |2006-07
|align="left" |
|57
|7
|22,4
|53,9
|0,0
|62,0
|4,4
|1,1
|1,0
|0,3
|8,9
|-
|align="left" |2007-08
|align="left" |
|11
|0
|10,5
|45,2
|0,0
|53,3
|2,2
|0,7
|0,4
|0,3
|3,3
|-
|align="left" |2007-08
|align="left" |
|24
|3
|18,0
|52,4
|33,3
|68,3
|3,5
|1,5
|1,1
|0,3
|6,5
|-
|align="left" |2008-09
|align="left" |
|82
|20
|24,4
|46,0
|31,9
|71,0
|4,3
|1,8
|1,7
|0,3
|8,9
|-
|align="left" |2009-10
|align="left" |
|72
|71
|36,5
|39,4
|33,4
|64,9
|5,6
|3,8
|1,8
|0,6
|14,9
|-
|align="left" |2010-11
|align="left" |
|75
|75
|34,7
|39,8
|30,3
|70,1
|5,4
|2,2
|1,6
|0,4
|11,0
|-
|align="left" |2011-12
|align="left" |
|41
|41
|32,9
|41,7
|33,3
|77,5
|5,2
|3,3
|1,7
|0,6
|10,8
|-
|align="left" |2012-13
|align="left" |
|56
|15
|26,3
|41,7
|36,4
|82,1
|4,8
|2,0
|1,3
|0,4
|9,5
|-
|align="left" |2013-14
|align="left" |
|77
|77
|35,4
|45,2
|40,7
|77,2
|6,2
|2,5
|1,6
|0,3
|14,4
|-
|align="left" |2014-15
|align="left" |
|82
|82
|35,7
|40,2
|35,0
|85,3
|5,6
|2,5
|1,9
|0,3
|12,8
|-
|align="left" |2015-16
|align="left" |
|81
|81
|35,3
|41,6
|37,1
|78,3
|4,5
|2,3
|2,0
|0,3
|12,7
|-
|align="left" |2016-17
|align="left" |
|80
|80
|34,7
|40,9
|34,3
|73,8
|5,7
|2,2
|1,8
|0,3
|11,7
|-
|align="left" |2017-18
|align="left" |
|67
|67
|33,9
|41,2
|36,8
|85,4
|4,4
|1,6
|1,5
|0,2
|11,7
|-
| align="left" | 2018-19
| align="left" |
| 26 || 26 || 34,0 || 37,9 || 36,0  || 83,7 || 5,6 || 3,3 || 1,5 || 0,3 || 9,9
|-
|align="left" |2018-19
|align="left" |
| 43 || 43 || 34,1 || 40,9 || 32,2  || 77,7 || 5,3 || 3,8 || 1,2 || 0,3 || 14,1
|-
| align="left" | 2019-20
| align="left" |
| 32 || 0 || 24,7 || 38,8 || 35,2  || 77,8 || 4,6 || 1,6 || 1,1 || 0,2 || 6,0
|-
| align="left" | 2019-2020
| align="left" |
| 21 || 21 || 33,4 || 49,1 || 40,0  || 87,2 || 4,8 || 2,0 || 1,6 || 0,4 || 11,0
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="2" |Carriera
|1.064
|731
|29,7
|42,3
|35,2
|73,2
|4,8
|2,2
|1,5
|0,3
|10,5
|}

Play-off

|-
|align="left" |2007
|align="left" |
|4
|0
|11,8
|31,3
|0,0
|25,0
|2,3
|1,3
|0,2
|0,0
|2,8
|-
|align="left" |2008
|align="left" |
|8
|0
|5,6
|58,3
|25,0
|50,0
|1,4
|0,1
|0,1
|0,1
|2,1
|-
|align="left" |2009
|align="left" |
|23
|23
|31,4
|49,7
|47,6
|56,3
|4,2
|2,3
|1,6
|0,4
|11,3
|-
|align="left" |2011
|align="left" |
|6
|6
|40,2
|41,2
|33,3
|72,7
|6,5
|3,3
|1,3
|0,5
|15,5
|-
|align="left" |2014
|align="left" |
|11
|11
|37,0
|48,1
|44,6
|77,8
|8,9
|1,7
|1,5
|0,4
|13,6
|-
|align="left" |2015
|align="left" |
|17
|17
|38,5
|42,6
|37,5
|90,5
|6,4
|2,6
|1,8
|0,1
|13,2
|-
|align="left" |2016
|align="left" |
|5
|5
|36,2
|25,5
|14,3
|75,0
|4,2
|0,8
|2,6
|0,2
|6,6
|-
|align="left" |2017
|align="left" |
|11
|11
|37,5
|42,3
|37,7
|92,9
|5,1
|2,1
|1,3
|0,2
|10,7
|-
|align="left" |2018
|align="left" |
|17
|17
|34,2
|36,0
|28,6
|74,2
|3,8
|1,3
|1,1
|0,1
|8,8
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="2" |Carriera
|102
|90
|32,3
|42,6
|36,7
|72,2
|5,0
|1,9
|1,4
|0,2
|10,3
|}

Record personali
 Punti: 40 vs. Philadelphia 76ers (1º marzo 2014)
 Rimbalzi: 15 (2 volte)
 Assist: 11 vs. Milwaukee Bucks (29 febbraio 2016)
 Stoppate: 4 vs. Memphis Grizzlies (17 marzo 2010)
 Palle rubate: 6 (7 volte)
 Minuti giocati: 57 vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (13 gennaio 2010)
 Rimbalzi difensivi: 12 (3 volte)
 Rimbalzi offensivi: 8 vs. Phoenix Suns (25 gennaio 2005)
 Tiri da 3 segnati: 10 vs. Houston Rockets (12 febbraio 2014)

Palmarès

Los Angeles Lakers: 2009
Nel novembre del 2020 diventa il giocatore più scambiato della storia NBA

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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3D animator / Story Artist
Chuck Veiman
The one the only - VIVO - first thoughts.
The power returns
Pura vida animada - Pure life animated- a very brief synopsis of the state of animation in Costa Ric
Artists in general know all too well the deep internal emotional and psychological strife of having universes full of stories locked within our minds, calling out and struggling to get out. This is one of the reasons why many of us go into areas like animation as a possible conduct to eventually help us push forward at least one of the narratives in the bubbling cauldron of our minds and souls and once out, possibly appease those fires for a little while.
But the process of visual narrative is at best a difficult one, more often than not a night impossible challenge to overcome. Yet every now and then devoted artists such as Kirby Atkins push through the current and achieve their ambition.
Director Kirby Atkins released Mosley on New Zealand on Oct 10 2019, a 3D animated feature produced by Huhu studios in cooperation with China Film Animation making it the first New Zealand animated film.
The films narrative is anything but happy fun time, it is a mixture of fantastical adventure with serious social tones. The story about Mosley a fantasy creature called a thoriphant who is, along with others of his race forced to work as slaves for humans in their farms, until one day his daughter finds a cave that depict other thoriphants who stand erect and have hands; through a series of events Mosley escapes and goes in search for these mystical thoriphants in hopes they may aid him and his family in becoming free.
Atkins has been working on this film for 20 years, writing and storyboarding the film since 1997; In an interview he provided some insights into the challenges he faced along the way many of which were psychological as a productions with limited financial resources often need to make compromises in order for production to move forward; Atkins has stated he would have wished for certain things like lighting to be better but due to costs he had to make due.
The idea of past failed enterprises was clear in his mind, films like [Richard Williams's] The Thief and the Cobbler had been in production hell for decades and despite all attempts and the faithful diligence and hard work of everyone involved, such movies succumbed to box office failure; still he was soldiered on.
After a failed attempt to get the film done in Spain, the death of Pres Romanillos forced him to look for other venues of production and New Zealand opened their doors to him.
The film lasted 3 years in production in New Zealand and 5 in China with a limited budget and compromises in quality Kirby hopes that the story itself will make up for some of its visual shortcomings, however the biggest challenge is promotion which may be surpassed if the film's reception is positive.
Since its release the film has received in average positive reviews, though it does not yet have a score in rotten tomatoes it has an IMBD rating of 8.2 stars and it is currently nominated for "Best animated feature" in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
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To Juul or Not To Juul
Gabe Greco
Juuling and other e-cigarettes have become increasingly popular at the high school level- the trend has also reached Wash.
Paris McNutt, Copy Editor
E-Cigarettes, especially JUULs have been the recent hype for high school students. There has been an increased use on campus and nationwide among teenagers. Currently, there is a large amount of effort to put an end to teenage use from a variety of resources within the school, in the community, and outside of the community.
E-cigarettes are electronic cigarettes that are often used as an alternative to traditional smoking. Vape pens, hookahs, and vaporizers are all known as e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes typically contain nicotine and come in different flavors. One popular e-cigarette product is JUUL, a vapor alternative to cigarettes. Its sleek design is similar to a USB and can be easily disguised.
A substance known as a JUULpod is easily popped in to the JUUL, providing flavor. On JUULFacts.com, it says, JUULpods contain a low amount of nicotine, approximately four percent, flavor, and other chemicals. One JUULpod contains the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. JUUL's website states the product is intended for adult smokers and not youth, but minors have been able to get their hands on the device. However, JUUL is using numerous tactics to prevent minors from using their products. For example, they require age verification, like providing an I.D., to make sure minors aren't purchasing their products online by faking their age. JUUL is making a large effort to make their products less desirable to minors, overall.
Some staff and faculty at Wash lack awareness of this growing issue on campus. Students claim some teachers even fail to notice a student using a JUUL as their back is turned and the student casually slips the JUUL in their pocket as soon as the teacher turns back around. The science department has yet to catch a student using an e-cigarette or JUUL device.
"I haven't caught a student yet. If it were to happen, I would report them and a possible suspension would happen," Jacob Johnson of the science department, said.
On the other hand, some staff members are well-informed of this issue. According to Officer Thaddeus Paiser, the school's resource officer, students are breaking school rules and the law in a few ways.
"Students aren't very smart about it. They use e-cigarettes in front of security cameras or in bathrooms," Paiser said.
He also added that minors are breaking Iowa's 453A.2 code that states minors are not allowed to use, possess, purchase, or attempt to purchase tobacco products, which includes vapor products.
"I don't understand why kids think it's acceptable to use e-cigarettes. You wouldn't just pull out a beer or cigarette in class." Paiser said.
Valerie Nyberg, associate principal, is making efforts to bring awareness to this issue to staff.
"We are educating people, both students and adults within the building, about the dangers of using e-cigarettes and the increased use with students," Nyberg said.
Students are up to date about the hype over e-cigarettes, especially JUULs. On average, students that use a vape or JUUL use the device 3.3 times a week, based on an anonymous survey the Surveyor conducted.
"I use a JUUL everyday. I feel the effects, but it doesn't stop me from doing it," one sophomore responder said. "I believe there are fewer chemicals within a JUUL."
Students are either for e-cigarettes or against e-cigarettes, there's no clear in-between.
"JUULs are really bad, but they are socially more acceptable than traditional cigarettes," Amelia Barnes, '20 said.
"JUULs should not be legal because you can get distracted from your priorities," an anonymous source said.
On the other hand, another anonymous source said JUULing should be legal for high schoolers, stating, "It is their decision whether or not they want to use them. If it were to be illegal, there's always going to be a way to get it [the JUUL] just like teens smoking weed or drinking alcohol."
Students have seen their peers pull out their JUULs in class, during lunch, and in the parking lots. They discreetly use the device in the courtyard, litter the parking lots with empty JUULpods, and show off their JUUL skins out in the open. Students know about ten of their peers that use a JUUL and see a JUUL being used on campus twice a week. There are consequences for use of e-cigarettes on campus, however.
"It's the same as using a traditional tobacco product on campus, so there would be an immediate suspension," Nyberg said.
Iowa's Attorney General Tom Miller has partnered up with JUUL to limit sales involving minors and to stop minors from using their products. Recently, Miller issued a statement about how JUUL uses age-verification to make sure adolescents aren't purchasing products under a different age or even access their website.
The statement also included JUUL is strongly encouraged for adult smokers looking for a safer alternative to smoking and it is not directed to minors in any way. Tom Miller's communications director, Lynn Hicks stated, "…JUUL has stopped marketing to teens in any way, including on social media."
As of Nov. 13, JUUL's official Instagram account is no longer active and along with that, they have made an effective change by deleting accounts marketing their product to minors.
Another paper written by Miller provided details about youth use of e-cigarettes, claiming their use is "somewhat reassuring."It says, "Only 1% of kids use e-cigarettes on a daily basis," and "An estimated 80% of their use is experimental." Miller's office is hopeful that simply educating people, especially minors, about e-cigarettes can stabilize or lower these numbers.
E-cigarettes and JUULs may still be used by teenagers for a while, despite the health effects that can worsen with continued use. JUULs have their advantages, such as only benefiting adult smokers, who are looking for a switch to a safer alternative. Spreading awareness to teens, adults, and teachers about the dangers of using e-cigarettes and JUULs will limit use overtime.
Juul data taken by a Survey given to 187 students. National data form a CDC survey. Graphs by Benjamin Janssen
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On January 30, a face-to-face photograph broke the internet. Seeing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together was not something the fans had anticipated.
It was reported that they met to settle the unresolved case of the custody of their children.
The jury did decide to give the full custody to Angelina while Brad can visit them during prescribed hours.
A family that has been torn apart can partly be a happy family in the future. Commenting on Brad, saying that he is a difficult reminder, still has the face of a saddened Jolie and her heart being terribly broken.
After making promises of staying together, Angelina cant get over the fact that it was a lie. It has been awfully difficult for the actress to move on since they got separated. After being married of the love of her life for three years, who could have imagined the fate.
On the other hand, it wasn't easy for Brad being on the other side either.
Some sources say, he was desperate to end the war with Angelina.
Surely dragging the matter with the lawyers and court is difficult but what can one do in the matter of love. It's becoming overly dreadful for both Angelina and Brad to continue this the process of their split. Hoping to come to a conclusion soon, Brad wants to close over the matter in person.
Seeing this dreadful stretch, the fans are hoping they come to a closure soon.
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Pfizer's boss thinks covid-19 is reshaping Big Pharma for the better
The industry is becoming nimbler and more innovative
The breathless race against covid-19 led pharma to "break all of the rules", says Tim van Biesen of Bain, a consultancy. This prompted CEOs to ask why they weren't more agile in their day-to-day operations. John Reed, head of research and development (R&D) at Sanofi, a French giant, says the pandemic has pushed decision-making lower down the corporate ladder, helping his firm move with a greater sense of urgency. "We got trial concepts together in three or four days that took three or four months in the past," he marvels.
Big Pharma's sclerotic innovation model is also being shaken up. In the past there were "way fewer targets" for drug firms to pursue, says Mr Bourla, so it made sense to bet big on a few blockbusters. Now, he observes, firms must choose among hundreds of possibilities. This "explosion of new platforms and drug candidates will result in much more collaboration" of the Pfizer-BioNTech sort, predicts David Risinger of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank. Drugmakers are obsessed with guarding intellectual property but many industry watchers, including Mr van Biesen of Bain, have long argued that they should embrace more open-source innovation. A flurry of recent collaborations suggests that they may at last be listening.
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