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Zopa to close ALL investor accounts - what this means for you
Emily White | News Reporter
Zopa has this week closed all of its 60,000 existing investor accounts. If you're an investor, you'll be able to access your money by 31 January 2022 at the latest. If you're a borrower, nothing is changing and you should carry on with your repayments as normal.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa blames the decision on a "lack of customer trust in P2P investments" as well as the cost of running the service. Here's what the move means for investors and borrowers. See below for an explanation on P2P lenders.
Investor accounts have closed and you'll get penalty-free access to your cash by 31 January 2022
Here's what the move means for peer-to-peer investors, including ISA savers:
Zopa investor accounts, including ISAs, have closed as of 7 December 2021. With these accounts, investors put in their cash, which was then loaned out by Zopa to borrowers. But Zopa now needs to buy these loans back in order to repay you your capital, so you can't currently access the funds in your account or sell your loans yourself. Zopa will begin buying the loans this month, starting with the newest through to the oldest. This process will be completed by 31 January 2022. However, if you need urgent access to your cash, you can contact the Zopa customer services team to talk through your options.
You'll continue to earn interest until your loan is sold. Interest will be at your existing rate, which varies as it's based on an average of rates your money was lent out at.
Once the loan is sold, your money will be automatically placed into your holding account. You should receive a confirmation email after each loan or tranche of loans is sold. You can then either withdraw the cash immediately or, if you're an ISA customer, you can find a new ISA provider and ask it to transfer out the final amount for you - see our What type of ISA should I get? guide if you need helping deciding where to switch to. You'll have access to all of your money by 31 January 2022. You won't earn interest on money in the holding account, as is the case now.
'Fully research where to save your cash now - and make sure you're happy with the level of risk'
Helen Saxon, MoneySavingExpert.com money editor, said: "With Zopa closed to new investors and reinvestment of repayments for existing investors taking more than two months recently, the writing's been on the wall for Zopa investors for a while.
"There's now one fewer place for savvy investors who knew the risks to get a decent return. And those investors are now faced with deciding where to put what could be significant sums of money.
"Many will face a stark choice of accepting lower returns in normal savings accounts, or upping the risk - and the research needed - with investments in the hopes of higher returns.
"Whatever you choose, make sure you've fully researched your choice, and that if you do invest, you're happy with the level of risk on the investments you've chosen."
There's no real change for borrowers
Zopa says there is no impact on borrowers as all loans are serviced by Zopa Bank, which is a separate arm to the P2P business. Loan rates and all other terms and conditions will stay the same, so you need to keep making repayments as normal.
The P2P market has taken a hit due to Covid-19
P2P lenders, like Zopa, act as financial matchmakers, meaning investors can put in cash to be lent out to individuals and businesses. Investors can sometimes get higher returns than they would with savings accounts, but they have to take a risk with their cash – we've always warned that peer-to-peer investing doesn't come with safety guarantees as savings do.
But many P2P firms didn't survive the Covid-19 pandemic; Ratesetter, for example, also closed all of its investor accounts earlier this year. And even the ones that came through saw their businesses change overnight – more borrowers defaulted and more lenders wanted to get their money back as they needed to use their savings. Loan rates went up, but so did bad debt provisions, so the 'target' interest rates for investors went down.
As outlined above, it's crucial to do your research properly before making any decisions about where to move your money to next.
Zopa closes investor accounts
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Hotel quarantine to be scrapped for travellers from 'red list' destinations from Wednesday
Hotel quarantine for travellers arriving in England from red list countries is set to be scrapped, along with the so-called 'red list', from 4am on Wednesday 15 December.
UK Government website still showing £1 Covid test deals despite concerns few consumers can get these prices
Companies offering PCR travel tests for as little as 30p can still be found on the UK Government's website despite a number of the cheapest deals being pulled on the back of concerns that travellers are being misled by providers offering super cheap deals just to boost their position in the list.
Barclays takes the axe to current account rewards scheme meaning 100,000s could earn NOTHING
Barclays is hiking its monthly Blue Rewards membership fee for hundreds of thousands of customers from March next year.
Over 78,000 QuickQuid borrowers expected to receive payouts after being mis-sold loans - but they'll only get back up to half of what they paid
Around 78,500 QuickQuid and Pounds to Pocket borrowers, who were mis-sold loans they couldn't afford, are expected to receive refunds of some of the interest and fees they were charged. But they'll only get back up to half of what they paid - and some will receive less than a third.
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The better part of valour?
What chance of the Archbishop of Canterbury's support as pressure mounts on the Home Office to save 19-year-old gay Iranian Mehdi Kazemi from execution? At first the Home Office refused to re-consider his deportation, scheduled once the teenager is returned from hiding in Holland later this week.
Like around 4,000 gay Iranians executed by the Ayotollahs since they came to power in 1979, Kazemi faces death by hanging if he is returned to his country. There is no logic to the Home Office line that gay Iranians are safe as long as they are 'discreet' and that having once refused to grant him asylum, his case cannot be re-heard unless new facts emerge.
Kazemi claimed asylum in 2005 after his lover was executed in Tehran. After his asylum application was refused he fled to Holland where a court has decided he must be returned to Britain. He is currently on 'suicide watch'.
An appeal has been launched through the European Court of Human rights and more than 60 leading peers, including the Bishop of Liverpool, have signed a letter to the Home Office in his support.
In a moving statement to the Home Office he writes:
"The Iranian authorities have found out that I am a homosexual and they are looking for me. I can not stop my attraction towards men. This is something that I will have to live with the rest of my life. I was born like with feeling and can not change this fact... If I return to Iran I will be arrested and executed like Parham."
Will the Archbishop of Canterbury join them? Still bruised by his worthwhile contribution to the debate about Sharia, an urgent intervention by him would seem to be more than timely.
After this post was written the Home Office announced that after campaigning by his MP, Mehdi Kazemi had been granted five year's 'leave to remain' in the UK.
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SEC Continues to Push for Global Accounting Standards, Kicks Off Research into IFRS Implementation
In a move that may allow the practices of the world of pricing and valuations to become more harmonised globally, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated it is keen for a single set of high quality globally accepted accounting standards to be implemented. To achieve this goal, the regulator has finally begun to put words into action and has kicked off an evaluation process about what needs to happen to narrow the gap between US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
SEC chairman Mary Schapiro admits that it has been a long road but feels progress will be made now: "For nearly 30 years, the Commission has promoted a single set of high quality globally accepted accounting standards, which would advance the dual goals of improving financial reporting within the US and reducing country by country disparities in financial reporting. But supporting this goal is only the beginning of the discussion, not the end."
SEC staff have now been charged with executing a work plan, the results of which it hopes will aid the regulator in its evaluation of the impact that the use of IFRS by US companies would have on the US securities market. Included in this work will be consideration of IFRS, as it exists today and after the completion of various "convergence projects" currently underway between US and international accounting standards setters. By 2011, assuming completion of these convergence projects and the staff's work plan, the SEC has pledged to decide whether to incorporate IFRS into the US financial reporting system, and if so, when and how.
However, this is not the first time the SEC has promised progress, back in November 2008, it proposed a series of milestones, known as the proposed roadmap, that would guide the SEC in determining whether to transition US capital markets to IFRS. The feedback to these proposals was a rather mixed bag and the regulator has since been cautious to force through change. "It is important to carefully consider and deliberate whether such a change is in the best interest of US investors and markets," notes the regulator in its statement.
The work plan will therefore consider a range of issues related to moving to IFRS including whether the international standards are "sufficiently developed and consistent in application for use as the single set of accounting standards in the US reporting system". Given that they are implemented elsewhere, this should be evident but the SEC doesn't want to appear callous.
It will also be charged with ensuring: that accounting standards are set by an independent standard setter and for the benefit of investors; investor understanding and education regarding IFRS, and how it differs from US GAAP; evaluation of the legal implications of such a change; consideration of the impact on US companies; and determining whether the people who prepare and audit financial statements are sufficiently prepared, through education and experience, to make the conversion to IFRS.
The SEC staff has stated that it will provide public progress reports on the work plan, as well as the status of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) convergence projects, beginning no later than October 2010 and frequently thereafter until the work is complete. As noted by Reference Data Review last month, this work has recently focused on fair value accounting standards.
The US regulator has said that it expects US companies would need approximately a four to five year timeframe to successfully implement a change in their financial reporting systems to incorporate IFRS. Therefore, if the regulator determines in 2011 to incorporate IFRS into the US financial reporting system, the first time that US companies would report under such a system would be no earlier than 2015 (who said progress wasn't speedy).
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About 79 percent of health apps shared users medical data with outside companies, according to research published Thursday in The BMJ.


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« edited: January 13, 2021, 09:23:24 PM by MT Treasurer »
One who understood that politics essentially boils down to theatrics and branding. His astonishing success in the realm of political image-making (which notably has lasted well beyond his presidency) is one of the greatest marketing wonders in American history, especially given the Iran-Contra episode, the long list of broken promises which fly in the face of the pompous rhetoric (particularly to social conservatives/the Religious Right, groups he and his successors used as props), and the divisive rhetoric ("They act like Tarzan, look like Jane, and smell like Cheetah", etc.). Probably the one president who comes as close to the fabled 'Trump with a brain and actual political shrewdness' as you can realistically get. A masterful manipulator (especially in reading and playing his audience) and rhetorician, but the fact that he didn't sink under the weight of his rhetoric is the real story of his presidency/legacy.
e: I highly recommend this gem, you'll see why it's really amusing (and illuminating):
Billing, William C. "Reagan in Youngstown." The Ripon Forum, vol. 40, no. 5, Oct - Nov 2006.
https://riponsociety.org/article/reagan-in-youngstown/
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Quote from: Lechasseur on January 13, 2021, 06:36:38 PM
Quote from: KaiserDave on January 12, 2021, 09:10:06 PM
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Quote from: TheReckoning on January 11, 2021, 12:36:15 AM
The fact that the Democrats on this board are calling the 7th best president ever (according to independent analysts) a HP show they aren't as objective as they think.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/19/opinion/how-does-trump-stack-up-against-the-best-and-worst-presidents.html
Of course we're not objective. How do you think opinions work?
Saying that Reagan was a horrible president is like calling Trump an amazing president. If you want to say that's simply an opinion and not objectively wrong, then go ahead.
Political opinions can't be "objectively" anything. Ranking Presidents is an opinion no matter how you slice it. I believe Reagan and Trump were both very bad Presidents (although Trump has certainly proved himself to be worse) and my ratings would reflect that.
I think the question then becomes: why is your opinion so out of line with effectively all political scientists, including Democrats? Why do you believe you know better than them?
Usually most rankings by political scientists and historians of recent Presidents judge them without prejudice to their accomplishments, and rather just the amount of accomplishment they had or effect on the country
Yeah that's... not true. George W Bush definitely had a larger on the county than his father, but one of them is ranked higher than the other.
Well Bush again, obviously egregious and horrible. The full scope of the disasters of Reaganism are less subtle than Bush's, who left office with the economy obviously on fire.
Eh, those were still great times of massive prosperity compared to what we're dealing with now.
In 2008, everyone I knew was doing fine (at least economically). Myself and my whole family has been devasted by this 2020-2021 great depression though.
The long term impacts of 2008 were worse , and unemployment currently is at Jan 2014 levels .
Heck on Election Day 49% of Americans thought the economy was good while that number was 36% in 2016
RINO Tom
FF and much better President than everyone since.
I used to think of RR as FF, but I don't think that way anymore.
First of all, I disapprove of the fact that he vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, which was good legislation, and RR's argument against it, as well as Pat Robertson's, was BS.
Secondly, I eventually realized what a hypocrite RR was regarding the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. In 1987, when Reagan announced he was appointing Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, he said that Bork "shares my view that judges' personal perferences and values should not be part of their constitutional interpretations. The guiding principle of judicial restraint recognizes that under the Constitution it is the exclusive province of the legislatures to enact laws and the role of the courts to interpret them." But more than a dozen years later, all of Reagan's successful appointees to the Court -- Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and William Rehnquist (elevated by Reagan to be Chief Justice) -- joined in together to perpetrate the Bush v. Gore decision, which was a decision that had absolutely nothing to do with judicial restraint, and which certainly had nothing to do with Originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation. That Court decision punctured my faith that Republicans appoint better Justices than do Democrats, and it drove me to making the decision to stop voting (for over a dozen years).
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Quote from: Old School Republican on January 13, 2021, 09:53:12 PM
Yeah i have a hard time believing that. Empirically it just doesn't make sense.
Well with polling we all know what a joke that is. You can just make it say what you want it to say.
And with the unemployment rate, i think the difference is in 2008 people were still trying to find work. In 2020 many simply aren't bothering as there's no work out there. And you're not counted as unemployed if you're not actively looking for work.
It makes perfect sense for economic fundamentals to be better now than the Great Recession, as there has been no credit crunch this time at least to anywhere near as the levels of the Great Recession. Also the fast growth since June makes sense as the bad economic numbers last spring were inflated due to the lockdowns not really cause of any major fundamental problem with the economy.
Also unemployment rate even if you include discouraged workers is lower now than that number was from 2009-2012
Alcibiades
I could list all the bad things Reagan did as President, or all the corrosive impacts he's had in the years since, but I think that would be missing the ultimate point as to why I think he was such an HP.
The Reagan political playbook (utilised to immense success) was ultimately based off demonising the vulnerable: poor people, black people, unions, industrial workers, and gay people, to name some of his favourite groups to pick on. I would contend that choosing easy targets such as these to appease the middle class majority who felt somehow threatened by and/or jealous of them is the epitome of cowardice, and why Reagan completely lacked the qualities required to be a truly great leader.
As much as people bemoan the the current culture war alignment (and I think Elliott County, KY, voting for the right-wing candidate while Darien, CT, votes for the more left-wing one is just as insane as anyone), I think it is better than the Reagan-era class alignment. Reagan very successfully, using the above strategy, gathered up the affluent suburbanites (ranging from the merely centre-right in the burbs of places such as Philadelphia and Chicago, to his rabidly right-wing base in Orange County and the Sunbelt), as well as the legendary Reagan Democrats, who had got a bit of money, and desperately wanted to feel middle class, which they did by joining in with the bashing of marginalised groups. I think this gets at some of the irony that MT Treasurer hints at in the link to the article in his excellent post above (although Youngstown was never really representative of that group in the same way as Macomb was), as well as the obvious future echoes to the Trump era.
But this is why the Reagan coalition was so toxic; it was, in essence, like a completely rigged game, with the confident and upwardly mobile majority against the voiceless, marginalised, substantial minority. It was like high school bullying, and, somewhat perversely, this was apparently manifested in the high school culture and politics (especially in middle-class and affluent suburbia) of the 1980s (I have heard a number of people talk about this, ranging from 90s indie rockers talking about going to high school in the 80s in interviews to Badger on this forum), a reflection of the stifling conformity of the decade in which outsiders were relentlessly picked on. I have often thought that being a liberal or a poor kid or other social outcast in a well-off section of 80s Orange County* as a teenager must have ranked as among the most hellish social experiences possible. Fortunately, that suburban world is now dead as these places have greatly diversified. In his book Which Side Are You On?, Thomas Geoghegan talks about organised labour as being the counterculture of the 80s. I think there is a certain forlorn beauty in these macho middle-aged men in a dying subculture being the #Resistance of their day, but at the same time it captures the hopelessness of being on the wrong side in Reagan's America.
Quote from: RINO Tom on January 13, 2021, 10:05:46 PM
I'm surprised that you think so highly of Reagan, considering how you've spelt out your vision of a Republican Party which is a sensible check on the more outlandish currents within the Democratic (a vision which I have a lot of sympathy for, even if I think it is a bit optimistic given the party's current state). It was Reagan after all, who destroyed any hope for this kind of GOP; while the Rockefeller faction had passed its sell-by date at that point, it was by no means inevitable that the GOP had to end up as a coalition of the various particularly toxic elements Reagan worked to bring together, including the Religious Right (whom, remember, Goldwater hated with a passion) and the white resentment/ex-segregationist Southern crowd; there was of course frequent overlap between the two. Not to mention, of course, Reagan being the first to pursue (again, very successfully) the kind of fact-free, responsibility-free rhetoric which has come to define the modern GOP, to again reference MT Treasurer. I think it is a stretch to say that Trump is Reagan's spiritual successor, but by no means inaccurate to say that, without Reagan, the kind of GOP which gave rise to Trump would not have been possible.
*The irony is that movement conservatism, which ultimately succeeded in mostly overturning the New Deal Order, would have never have existed without the Sun Belt suburbs, which never would have existed without the massive investment and development the New Deal brought to the South and West. Similarly, the Reagan Democrats, in their desperate quest to be truly middle class, voted for a man who helped destroyed the ladder from working class to middle class.
Quote from: Alcibiades on January 14, 2021, 06:35:14 PM
Reagan is liked by all wings of the Republican Party given how successful he was(definitely are most successful president at least since Eisenhower).
Also the Reagan gop was pretty different than the type of gop Trump wants to bring and if you actually look at the 1976 GOP map , Ford does better in the Trumpian blue collar areas than Reagan does while Reagan is obviously the candidate of sunbelt suburbs .
Reagan is probably the most popular candidate our nation ever had in the suburbs
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Ridiculously overrated.
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In a piece of bizarre casting, Italian football coach Carlo Ancelotti will be making an appearance in summer blockbuster movie Star Trek Beyond.
The Bayern Munich boss - who has formerly managed the likes of Real Madrid, Juve, Milan and Chelsea - was rumoured to have filmed scenes last year, and he has now confirmed the casting.
"I am a doctor on the Enterprise," he told Sky Sports. "The husband of actress Zoe Saldana is Italian, and I have a good relationship with the family.
"They were in Vancouver to film the movie, and they asked me to watch.I went, spoke to the director, and he said: 'I'll put you in - small part'."
Directed by Fast and Furious helmer Justin Lin and written by Simon Pegg and Doug Yung, Star Trek Beyond returns to basics with the Enterprise's famous five-year mission to 'go where no one has gone before'.
The film will make its global premiere in an open-air IMAX event at this year's San Diego Comic-Con on July 20 and is due for release in Ireland on July 22.
A new trailer released last week seems to show Captain James T Kirk with daddy issues. It also includes aliens with eastern European accents and possibly our first glimpse of Idris Elba as the baddie, Krall . . .


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Q: What does this Python cProfile output mean? ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
    1    0.000    0.000   65.417   65.417 <string>:1(<module>)
    1   43.675   43.675   65.417   65.417 primenumber_o.py:3(main)
    1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
99999   21.742    0.000   21.742    0.000 {range}
    2    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {time.time}

Specifically, the third line. I read up on cProfile, but nothing explained what that line means. It also doesn't provide any keywords I could search for on Google, so I'm stumped.
The Python script I'm profiling finds prime numbers.
I see that 21 seconds is spent in the loop, on line 5. What I don't understand is what the other 43 seconds is doing.

A: The third line is all of the code in the file that isn't range().

A: I haven't used cProfile, but it looks to me that it assigns runtime into buckets based on function names. 21 seconds is being used by the built-in function range() in the for statement. The other 43 seconds isn't in a separate, named function, so the name it is considered to fall within is main, as in:
if __name__ == '__main__':
    ...

If you put the body of the loop into a function, the 43 seconds (or most of it) will show up there. If you split up the body into multiple functions, you'll get more fine-grained profiling.

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COVINA — A car crashed into a vacant laundry business Wednesday, though no injuries were reported, police said.
The crash occurred just after 5 p.m. in the 1400 block of N. Citrus Avenue, Covina police Sgt. Trevor Gaumer said.
The female driver in her 30s was uninjured, and her 11-year-old daughter, who was a passenger in the Nissan Maxima, was treated at the scene for a minor cut to her hand, Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Tom Jones said.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation, Gaumer said, however there did not initially appear to be any criminal behavior involved.
No arrests or citations were made, he said.
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An autopsy determined he died from natural causes, Dietz said.
According to Covina police Sgt. Trevor Gaumer, someone called officials to report seeing the man "unresponsive" in his taxi shortly before 6:20 a.m. in the parking lot of 7-Eleven, 1085 N. Citrus Ave.
Authorities performed first-aid on the man, but he was pronounced dead, the sergeant said.
GLENDORA — A former Glendora police officer accused of stealing money and drugs while on duty entered a not guilty plea in court Wednesday, court officials said.
Timothy Radogna, 33, was charged in May with grand theft, possession of drugs for sales and possession of drugs with a firearm.
He was fired from the Glendora Police Department in December of 2008 after he became the target of an integrity investigation three months earlier, officials said. He was arrested in May.
In the investigation, Radogna allegedly stole about $1,000 and a small amount of methamphetamine from a car he was asked to book into evidence.
Radogna was a 3-year veteran of the Glendora police, who had also served on the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Covina Police Department.
Court officials said Radogna is due back in Los Angeles Superior Court Oct. 29 for a hearing.
WASHINGTON — The House has passed a bill sought by California lawmakers that would create a national registry of convicted arsonists.
deadly fire in the Angeles National Forest in Southern California led to a renewed push for an arsonists' registry.
Currently, California, Illinois and Montana maintain a database of convicted arsonists.
Investigators say a nationwide registry would help them better keep track of repeat offenders.
The registry would be available only to law enforcement and would contain information such as the arsonist's photo, address and place of employment.
Similar legislation is pending in the Senate.
PASADENA, Texas — Authorities say a Houston-area woman who was burned up at her former common-law husband fried their pet goldfish and ate some of them.
Pasadena police say it's a civil matter and no charges will be filed. The seven goldfish were purchased together by the couple during happier times.
Mitchell says the two argued earlier about some jewelry the man had given her but took back.
She wanted the jewelry returned.
Officers who were dispatched to the woman's home arrived to find four fried goldfish on a plate. The woman said she already ate the other three.
ROSEMEAD – Attackers shot a man with a shotgun and hit him in the head with a baseball bat late Tuesday, authorities said.
Deputies responded to reports of "shots fired" about 11:35 p.m. in an alley near Garvey and Del Mar avenues, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Mark Glatt said.
They found a Latino man in his 20s who had been shot at least once in the leg with a shotgun, the lieutenant said. The wounded man also told deputies he had been struck in the head with a baseball bat.
He was taken to the hospital where he was expected to survive, he said.
The victim did not appear to be fully cooperating with investigators, Glatt said, and a motive in the attack was unknown.
The only information available about the suspects was that they were seen driving in a black SUV, he added.
A 25-year-old Pomona man died Tuesday after he was shot several times in the 600 block of Illinois Street.
It's the 12th homicide in Pomona this year. That leaves the city with twice as many slayings as any other city in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas. Pasadena is a distant second with 6 killings.
That makes 70 homicides in the region this year. Seventy percent of them are by gunshot.
See the numbers on our homicide map.
CITY HALL — Four days after the city released a statement calling the latest lawsuit filed against its Police Department "baseless and disingenuous," Mayor Gary Bric on Tuesday said the FBI was investigating the allegations.
He also announced that the Burbank Police Department was being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was to turn over its findings to the county district attorney's office, paving the way for the city to bring in its own outside attorney to review the allegations.
Seven current and former members of the Burbank Police Department have filed lawsuits since May, claiming everything from unfair demotion and retaliation, to sexual harassment and racial discrimination.
In a taped interview, a friend of two cousins charged in the January 2008 murder of 16-year-old Sammantha Salas told detectives the cousins wanted "to send a message" to avenge the death of their uncle, who had been recently killed by Latino gang members.
On the recording, which was played in court Tuesday, Douglas Ross first identifies himself by name. He then goes on to tell detectives that Nickelis Blackwell, 22, and Rayshawn Blackwell, 26, had gathered with friends and relatives at the Blackwell's Sherman Avenue home in Monrovia on the night of Jan. 26, 2008, following the funeral of the Blackwells' uncle.
Authorities believe the uncle, 64-year-old Sanders Rollins, was shot to death on his porch by a Latino gang member 13 days before.
"What was on everybody's mind was revenge," Ross said on the tape played for the judge at a preliminary hearing for the Blackwell cousins in Alhambra Court.
He also described to investigators how he saw the Blackwells carry a duffel bag stuffed with an Uzi and other firearms into a green Camry and drive off on the night Salas was shot in unincorporated Monrovia.
When the cousins returned home at about 12:30 a.m. that night, Nickelis said, "I killed her," and looked "distraught," while Rayshawn consoled him, Ross allegedly said on the tape.
Geoffrey Pope, Rayshawn Blackwell's attorney, declined to comment on the case.
Testimony in the hearing is scheduled to continue today.cq Upon its conclusion, Judge Laura Priver cqwill rule whether prosecutors presented sufficient evidence to hold the Blackwells for trial.
Authorities have said Salas was not involved in gangs.
But 18-year-old Jenifer Mandi, who was shot along with Salas that night, testified that a third friend they were walking with at the time of the shooting, Abraham Ramos, was affiliated with a local gang, Monrovia Nuevo Varrio.
"He just hangs around with them," Mandi testified.
Mandi, Salas, Ramos and a few other friends had been drinking beer in an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Peck Road the night of the shooting, when the three decided to walk to a neighborhood store. Mandi and Ramos had also been smoking marijuana, she said.
As soon as the group walked out the front gates of the apartment complex, Ramos looked back and began running. Mandi and Salas froze, she testified.
"We were just standing there, thinking, 'What do we do?'" Mandi testified. Then, "I heard people say, 'Stop running!'" she said.
Mandi turned around to see two men in hooded sweat shirts standing about 25 feet away with their guns pointed. The men were dressed head to toe in black and were wearing black bandanas that covered their faces, she testified.
"We couldn't even taken a step and they started shooting," she said.
Mandi testified she felt "a really big burn" from a bullet that hit her in her right hip, went "across my stomach" and ended up in her left thigh. She recovered at a hospital after being unconscious for 11 days.
She remembered seeing Salas fall a few feet from her.
Mandi testified that the eyes of her shooter that night looked similar to those of Rayshawn Blackwell.


How To Pick The Best Foundation Primer?
Even if you really love makeup, you probably don't want to be thinking about it while you go about your day and need to focus on other things. A foundation primer makes that ideal much more achievable.
What does makeup primer do?
It would be very easy to condemn foundation primers as a fad. They only became really big in the last couple of years and still don't feel as essential as some other makeup products might. Somehow we have been surviving without them for decades, even centuries, so what do we suddenly need a primer for? What is makeup primer and what does it do?
The answer is quite simple: Think of how makeup used to look during those past decades and centuries. If you wanted your base to last throughout the day, you had to cake foundation on in thick layers and seal them with an industrial amount of powder, occasionally even something as drastic as hairspray. Not only does that sound awful, it also looks awful up close, not to mention the nasty effect it tends to have on your skin's condition. Face primers make it possible to enjoy your makeup look all day long without major touch-ups and be confident without having to constantly think about whether your blusher is still on or not.
Oily skin will naturally benefit from a different primer than dry skin, or even skin with prominent wrinkles.
What effect do you want to achieve with the primer?
There are illuminating makeup primers with tiny light-reflecting particles, mattifying primers that make your skin smooth while preventing unwanted shine, colour-correcting primers that will help if your skin is prone to redness, and many other versions designed to address specific needs.
If your skin is generally on the oilier side, you probably need to combat some shine on a daily basis. A mattifying primer is great for that purpose, especially if you pair it with matte foundation and other products that have a similar finish.
Mattifying primers create a thin film on your skin that acts both as a base for your foundation to stick to and as a smooth matte surface that will make sure your skin remains shine-free without becoming dry.
Dull and tired skin needs light, first and foremost, and an illuminating primer will offer just that. Not only will it make your skin look refreshed and young, it can also help accentuate the contours of your face in different lighting.
You should always look for a high-quality illuminating primer, like for instance the Météorites by Guerlain, that way the shimmer particles will be really fine, well dispersed and won't just sit in your pores.
Most primers have a smoothing effect to some extent, but it's still best to pick one that was designed specifically for this purpose. Depending on the particular product, a smoothing primer can make your large pores less visible, your wrinkles less obvious, and generally help cover most imperfections.
Does your skin often get irritated, or is it just red overall? A good colour-correcting primer might be the perfect solution. By adding a light green or yellow tint to your skin, it counteracts the redness and gives your skintone more of a neutral shade.
If your skin is only red in certain places, like for example around the nose and mouth, you can of course use a colour-correcting makeup base on these spots, and a different type of product on the rest of your face.
How to use a foundation primer?
Are you still a little fuzzy on how exactly one is supposed to put on a foundation primer? It's quite simple, really. A primer goes on after your moisturiser and before foundation. In certain cases, particularly if your skin is oily, you can actually skip the moisturiser altogether and go straight for the primer, because it will provide you with enough of a barrier and protection to keep your skin from drying out.
Whatever primer you choose, make sure that at least one of the makeup products you're using to create your base contains SPF high enough to protect you from the harmful effects of sun exposure. To make your look last even longer, set it with a dusting of finishing powder and light spritz of thermal water or setting spray.


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The 2017 CC Global Summit: Sharing and the Commons – What's Next?
We're proud to announce that summit registration is now open, along with our call for community submissions. Please consider joining us, whether you are a longtime contributor, or new to the CC community.
We're proud to announce that summit registration is now open, along with our call for community submissions. Please consider joining us, whether you are a longtime contributor, or new to the CC community. Hope to see you 28-30 April, 2017 at the beautiful new Delta Hotel in Toronto! Please help us spread the word.
What pressing challenges and/or threats does the Commons currently face?
What issues need the network's focus and support in the next two years, particularly given our shift in focus toward meaningful human collaboration?
How do we strengthen, expand, and celebrate our ties to the creators of the culture that makes the Commons visible and real to people?
We are creating the summit program with your collaboration. If you're interested in contributing to the program, please answer our Call for Submissions with ideas. We welcome ideas from affiliates, partners, supporters, and anyone else you know who might help us design a great event. You can submit your own ideas, or just help us get the word out.
We'd love to hear how you'll bring your ideas to life at the Summit. Deadline for submissions is 27 January 2017.


Jason Treat at Atlantic Monthly established a Gallery Section within the magazine, featuring self-generated works on topical subjects by a range of artists. This piece commented on the Republican party's "reinvention" in the months since Bush left office, "Whitewash." 20 x 16 1/4, acrylic, oil on wood panel.


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Los benzimidazoles son hidrocarburos aromáticos y heterocíclicos, caracterizados por la fusión de benceno e imidazol. El compuesto benzimidazol más prominente en la naturaleza es el N-ribosil-dimetilbenzimidazol, que sirve como ligando axial del cobalto en la vitamina B12.

Por razón de que el benzimidazol es una extensión del elaborado sistema del imidazol, se ha empleado como esqueletos de carbono para los N-carbenos heterocíclicos, utilizados generalmente como ligandos para complejos con los metales de transición. A menudo son preparados al deprotonizar una sal benzimidazol N,N'-disustituidos en la posición 2 con una base.

Preparación
La preparación del Benzimidazol disponible comercialmente se logra habitualmente con la condensación de la o-fenilendiamina con ácido fórmico, o el trimetilortoformiato equivalente:
C6H4(NH2)2 + HC(OCH3)3 → C6H4N(NH)CH + 3 CH3OH

Y al alterar el ácido carboxílico empleado para la reacción, este método generalmente es capaz de producir 2-benzimidazoles sustituidos.

Farmacología
Los benzimidazoles son efectivos para el tratamiento de la ascariasis intestinal, aunque algunos autores están en contra de su administración en el primer año de vida y durante el embarazo debido a sus efectos teratogénicos en animales. Los agentes más comúnmente recomendadas son el albendazol y el mebendazol. La ivermectina y pirantel son alternativas, este último se sugiere para las pacientes embarazadas en quienes los probenzimidazoles están contraindicados. Un agente antihelmíntico producido en China, la tribendimidina (a una dosis de 300 mg), ha demostrado ser tan eficaz como el albendazol.

El albendazol disminuye la producción de ATP en el gusano, causando el agotamiento de la energía, la inmovilización inminente, y finalmente la muerte del mismo. El mebendazol produce la muerte del gusano bloqueando de forma selectiva y de forma irreversible la absorción de la glucosa y otros nutrientes a nivel del intestino, donde moran los helmintos.

El benomilo, conocido con el nombre comercial de Benlate® es un fungicida efectivo en contra de numerosas enfermedades de las plantas causadas por diversas especies de hongos. Otros benzimidazoles usados en la agronomía son el carbendazol, Bavistin® y el tiabendazol usado durante el transporte y almacenamiento de frutas para su protección.

Véase también
 Benzimidazolina.
 Indol, un análogo con un CH en lugar del nitrógeno en la posición 3.
 Purina, un análogo con dos átomos de nitrógeno en el anillo de seis carbonos.
 Triclabendazol, medicamento usado comúnmente en contra de platelmintos hepáticos.
 Polibencimidazol, un tipo de fibra.

Referencias

Farmacología
Clasificaciones farmacológicas
Antihelmínticos
Aminas
Compuestos aromáticos
Compuestos heterocíclicos

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Looking to the future: RCHS students visit Black Hills State University
by Christopher Ives
"No matter what anyone says or does, [Pine Ridge Reservation] will always be my home," says Patrick Clark, a senior at Red Cloud High School. While this area will always be home to Clark, he has big things lined up for his future. He is one of many students who have attended college visits this year, planned with the intention of finding the best fits for Red Cloud graduates.
Nakina Mills '98, RCHS Director of Student Advancement and Alumni Support, has brought high school students to nine schools in four different states this semester and has more visits lined up in Kansas this spring. After working in the social services field for a number of years, Mills came back to RCHS this fall to support the next generation in their goals for post-secondary education. The visits are part of what RCIS calls "completing the circle," providing students with the tools they need to achieve their greatest potential, from kindergarten through graduation day.
This past weekend, Mills brought students to Black Hills State University where they had a Q&A session with students, professors, and Red Cloud alumni who currently attend the University. They also received a tour of the campus and were able to eat in the student union building with current BHSU students. Finishing the day, they visited the Center for American Indian Studies and were invited to a BHSU home football game, before returning to Pine Ridge last Saturday.
"It is great to work with these students who want to succeed," says Mills. "A lot of kids want to attend college for their families and their communities and it is very rewarding to be part of the process." Mills has seen a number of students who found a renewed sense of purpose and direction after attending a college visit. "When I was in school we didn't have opportunities like this," Mills remembers. "Now these students are getting a chance to visit schools in person and they have support during the application process." Attending a college visit gives students something tangible to work toward and inspiration for their future.
Senior William Bell has found the visits to be particularly beneficial. "Originally I thought I would have to leave the state to find the major I was looking for," says Bell. "After visiting Black Hills State I found out that they actually have my major: genetic technology." Bell, Clark and their classmates are now actively planning for futures at colleges around the country and taking the necessary steps to get there. Both plan to join the Marines after graduation to help pay for school before continuing on to a college degree.
"My mother always told me to be prepared for anything and to plan ahead," says Clark. "I now know that a college education is accessible and with the G.I. bill I can take advantage of that." Confident in their abilities and the support behind them, Clark's study of criminal justice and Bell's work in genetic technology are sure steps to a stronger home for them to return to someday s


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FSANZ Internet Our science Monitoring nutrients in our food supply Assessing the 2011-13 AHS against the Australian Dietary Guidelines Classification system development
Classification system development
Assigning NNPAS foods to ADG classifications
Recipe database development
Application of discretionary foods flag
Classification system developmentCurrently selected
ADG Five Food Groups and sub-food groups
The ADG's are accompanied by the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) (Figure 1) (NHMRC, 2013). The ADG classification system is based on the Five Food Groups identified in the AGHE.
Source: Eat for Health - Australian Dietary Guidelines Summary (NHMRC, 2013).
Figure 1. The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
The Five Food Groups are:
Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties
Vegetables and legumes/beans
Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or other alternatives, mostly reduced fat
Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans.
In addition to the Five Food Groups, the AGHE recommend drinking plenty of water and if using unsaturated oils and spreads, use in small amounts.
The AGHE provided some qualitative guidance on the types of foods that fit within each of the Five Food Groups. For example, for the grains group, the AGHE says: 'Grain (cereal) foods mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties', while for milk products it says 'Milk, yogurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat'.
Within the ADG Summary document, recommended serve sizes are provided for representative foods within each of the five food groups. For example, Figure 2 below illustrates standard serve size equivalents for the vegetables and legumes and beans food group.
Figure 2. Standard serve size equivalents for vegetables and legumes/beans
Classification system for the purpose of assessing the NNPAS food consumption data against the ADG
The ADG classification system for the purpose of assessing the NNPAS food consumption data against the ADG is based on the Five Food Groups that make up the central plate on the AGHE as well as water and unsaturated spreads and oils. Within the ADG classification system, the Five Food Groups were divided into food sub-groups based on the food groups and sub-groups used for the original dietary modelling process undertaken to assist with the development of the dietary guidelines.
As the ADG uses different serve sizes for some types of foods within a food group (e.g. for bread versus breakfast cereal within the cereals group), some sub-groups were created in the classification system in order to apply the relevant serve size to the foods within that group.
The final food groups and food sub-groups used in the classification system for this project included wholegrain cereals/grains, refined cereals/grains, green and brassica vegetables, orange vegetables, legumes as a vegetable, starchy vegetables, other vegetables, fresh/canned fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice, dairy foods (modelled as lower, medium and higher fat options), red meats (beef, lamb, veal, pork, venison, kangaroo), poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, nuts and seeds, legumes as a meat alternative, water and unsaturated spreads and oils. The ADG classification system is outlined in Appendix 1, including examples of the types of NNPAS foods that fit into each classification.
Numeric classification system
A 3-tier numeric classification system was developed to allow each individual food group and sub-group to be assigned a classification code, in a hierarchical format. Two, three and four digit classification codes were used. Each of the major food groups, such as fruit, were assigned a two digit code, and each sub-group under that (e.g. dried fruit) a three-digit code. Where different serve sizes needed to be assigned to specific foods, a 4 digit classification code was assigned for some food groups only (e.g. low, medium and high fat milk). The food groups and their numeric classification are set out in Appendix 1.
3-tier numeric classification system
2 digit code level represents the AGHE Five Food Groups plus other key food groups
3 digit code level represents ADG sub-food group classifications developed for the project
4 digit code level represents ADG sub-food group classifications by serve size.
This hierarchical system also allows aggregation back up to higher food group levels (3 or 2 digit classification code level) if required for data analysis.
Some foods are included in the AGHE in more than one of the 5 food groups. These include legumes which can be in the meat and meat alternatives or the vegetables groups, and nuts that are can be in the meat and meat alternatives and the unsaturated oils groups. These foods have been given two separate classification codes, one in each of the groups they are in. This is intended to enable a user to classify these foods in several ways depending on the purpose of their data analysis.
The numeric classification used in this database is not the same as the food classification system used in AUSNUT 2011-13 and in reporting the results of nutrient intakes from the 2011-12 NNPAS.
Serve sizes
The majority of the serve sizes assigned to each classification are those specified in the ADG summary document. It was assumed that these serve sizes referred to the amounts actually consumed, and not to purchase amounts that may include inedible portion (e.g. apple cores, orange peel etc.).
The ADG does not cover all the foods that were reported as being consumed in the NNPAS. For these other foods the serve size assigned were determined from the nutrient profile and adjustment of the serve from a similar food in order to provide the same nutrient intake. For example, dairy based desserts such as custards were assigned the same serve size as yoghurts given that they have similar calcium levels.
Some of the serve sizes specified in the AGHE for liquids such as milk and juice were changed from millilitres to grams based on their density because the consumption amounts in the NNPAS are all expressed as grams. Where the ADG summary document has provided a serve size for both cooked meat and raw meat, the cooked meat serve size was used to align with the cooked consumption amounts reported in the NNPAS.
For the foods given two different classification codes in two food groups (i.e. legumes and nuts), different serves sizes were assigned to the classifications according to the food group. For example, when legumes are considered to be in the vegetables group they are assigned a serve size of 75 grams and when considered in the meat and alternatives groups they are assigned a serve size of 150 grams.


When you have received the Ace of Swords in your reading, there is a certain level of enhancement of your intellect as well as increasing a perspective of mental clarity present with you at this time.
You are capable of having a balanced mind, and you are a very receptive person. You have moved away from feeling confused and being full of doubt to a more expanded knowledge that is blessed by the heavens. The Ace of Swords is a gift yet to come. It recognizes that you are highly analytical, as well as rational and you have developed many beneficial skills such as communication, administration as well as the ability to teach and to absorb lessons. Right now you are going to be blessed with a level of intellectual fulfillment. Now is the time to take into consideration your own ability to shine brighter than those around you.
The image of the Ace of Swords from the Rider Waite Deck is depicted as a giant hand that emerges from the heavens holding a double edged sword. The crown of victory encircles the hand, where the olive brand of mercy and the palm branch of severity hang from it. This card is known to be symbolic of justice, energies that maintain order as well as the equilibrium between forgiveness and rigidity. There is an encouragement of the adventure found in conquest, of a triumph over adversity with a time of great activity. This card will be influencing you in the way that there will be strong levels of love or hate, depending on the circumstances surrounding your life at the point of your reading. The Ace of Swords is the bearer of championing for oneself as well as the possibility of new fruit to be born. For example, this could be a symbol of a child being born who has a heroic temperament.
Balance the pros and cons of the different up and coming events in your life. The Ace of Swords allows you to be cutting in your decision making; you should only allow yourself to make room for that which is pushing you forward. Therefore you must embrace the strength that is being gifted to you at this time by cutting through excess baggage that will allow you to focus on your goals and desires like a flashlight. What will bring you the most success at this time is to stop worrying about what might be and instead take charge over what can be controlled now, what IS. Now you must put all of your energy into creating new plans and ideas. If you are experiencing a time of frustration or misery, you must work to strengthen your thoughts on the happiness that you wish to create, because if you truly want it to happen, then you will.
The pursuit of wisdom allows you to see beyond illusions to the spiritual knowledge housed within life. The mind, without intuition, leads only to more fantasy or illusion. At this time, as in all of life, love is integral if you wish to find truth in the wisdom of the world. Your emotions are what guide you to bigger and better things in life. The Ace of Swords asks for you to consider what problems you are confronting at this time as well as what is happening in your mind on a regular basis.
The Ace of Swords in Love The Ace of Swords presents itself in a Love reading to make sure that you are paying attention. The hand is reaching out to you from the heavens to clear the way of that which does not bring you closer to your desires in love. If you have been feeling as if you are never going to find someone because life is too complicated or you can never find a person that really matches you on an integral level, now is the time to relax because the hand that is reaching from the heavens is clearing the way for you. Things will become extremely less complicated and you will be able to find someone that will be an appropriate match at this time. But you must make sure that you are connecting to your intuition so that you can be guided to the right person.
The Ace of Swords in Health The Ace of Swords presents itself in your reading regarding health to advise you to lessen the amount of excess busy-ness that you have in your life right now. Often this card will show up when the question of surgery has arrived in a person's life. This is the answer that you have been looking for, if there is a removal of some kind of growth necessary, the Ace of Swords provides a protective force throughout the procedure, which means now is a good time to begin to sign the paperwork and gets the procedure going. Other examples of the Ace of Swords in Health revolve around removing excess. For example, you may want to work on excess foods and excess unhealthy indulgences so that you do not get stuck with excess physically that you cannot handle.
The Ace of Swords in Work and Wealth In work, the Ace of Swords is offering to you the opportunity of a lifetime, to get rid of the work environment or communication with coworkers that take up your time needlessly. Now a promotion is in your future, one that will allow you to use your creative skills and intuition and get paid for it. Keep your eyes open. When this card is drawn in a working spread it means that there will be a period of action that is needed. This could be also having clear clarity and full understanding of a situation, having honest open dialogues. An ace is also connected to new beginnings and the sword can show that you might need to arm yourself for defence. It's like you are armed for a fight and the other person knows your also armed. This is giving you the chance to say sharp words - think of the sharpness of the sword. Communications must be reached with of course clarity in a situation.
Reversed Meaning - Ace Of Swords When you have received the Ace of Swords in the reversed position, you will find that you are having a hard time formulating an idea or setting up the plans to complete your goals. This is likely because you have so much going on that it is hard to focus on more than one thing at a time. Therefore the Ace of Swords is telling you that you must let go of what is needless or you will get stuck in a negative cycle. Try not to be too hasty in your decisions. Think them through.


Astrology is an assortment of beliefs and traditions, which states that the position of the constellations or planets of the solar system at times have an influence on our lives. This article provides you with 10 interested facts about astrology.
Astrology is the correlation between celestial bodies and nature / human affairs on Earth. It is a phenomena that has been studied for thousands of years by many ancient and modern societies. Astrology is very popular, but also extremely controversial. The word "astrology" comes from the Greek word Astrologia, which means star study or 'reason' of the stars.
Astrology focuses on the sun, moon and planets within our solar system. The purpose of astrology is usually to forecast the destiny of a person, or gain insight into a person or event. Predictions are based on the positions of the sun, moon, and planets at the time of birth. Interpreting the location of celestial objects and using a map called a "horoscope", astrologers claim to predict and explain the course of life, help people, companies, and nations in their most important decisions.
The popular use of the term astrology almost always refers to western astrology. The term astrology can have different meaning to people, depending what culture they are from. This is because different cultures are formed their own astrology systems, which differ slightly. In fact, some astrologers consider their practice only able to describe the personality traits of an individual, others ensuring that it is possible to describe the different paths their lives, even their distant future. Below are 10 interesting facts about astrology!


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Schweida begins a Magic Millions Odyssey
Trainer Kelly Schweida resembled a proud father after The Odyssey rocketed into Magic Millions contention with an all-the-way win at Doomben.
The Odyssey ($16) improved on his debut second at the same track a fortnight earlier to turn the tables on Guntantes, who was slowly away and never really comfortable in behind horses.
"That feels pretty good. Obviously Better Than Ready was a great horse for us and to get his first winner means a lot to me," Schweida said.
"I've got about four of them in the stable, but I was underbidder on about six of them in New Zealand this year.
"I'm not really surprised he's done that.
"I thought he was the fattest horse in the yard first up and even (Guntantes' trainer) Robbie Heathcote said to me before the race he thought my horse was over the odds."
"I'm really stoked to get the first winner by Better Than Ready and I really think he'll make the grade as a sire," Schweida said. "They all look like him and they sell well."
Schweida believes Better Than Ready's versatility on the track has been passed on to The Odyssey.
"He ran third in a Group One on a bog track here and broke Northern Meteor's track record when he won the Crowley at Randwick," Schweida said.
"I think you need a stallion in Queensland that can handle the wet or dry and they're all good types."
Schweida said The Odyssey will have a week in the spelling paddock before being aimed at the Magic Millions (1200m) at the Gold Coast in January.
The colt, bought for $30,000, is owned by a group of women, including Schweida's wife Vera, which makes him eligible for the Millions $500,000 Women's Bonus.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Maroon 5 Band Member Just Released an LGBTQ Short Film and is located at https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/03/maroon-5-band-member-just-released-an-lgbtq-short-film/.
Maroon 5's keyboardist Jesse Carmichael debuted an LGBTQ-themed short film on Tuesday.
Thrive, a short created by Carmichael's film collective, 2 Minute Movies, was published to YouTube on March 12. He told OutSmart that the film was made to shed light on the issues that queer folks face.
Carmichael, an LGBTQ ally, partnered with bisexual movie makers Shivin Grover and his brother Sunny, who is questioning, to showcase what it is like to be a queer person in 2019.
Thrive is a two-minute experimental film that displays the ups and downs in the lives of six LGBTQ characters (portrayed by openly queer actors Kai Wes, Alex Ryan, Jacob Chabon, Jewel Sales, Sage N. Chavis, and Madysin Maniff). Throughout the movie, characters face intolerance and violence as well as acceptance and support.
"The idea was to juxtapose a safe space filled with love, acceptance, and positivity with the constant sacrifice, pain, and oppression that we fight," Shivin says.
Following each character's lows and highs, they all celebrate a moment of triumph together by chanting and holding Pride flags and posters that say "Equality." Martin Luther King Jr.'s inspiring monologue about American freedom and opportunity can be heard in the background.
Carmichael launched 2 Minute Movies last April as a side project from Maroon 5 to create film shorts in collaboration with other filmmakers. Thrive is Carmichael's first LGBTQ-focused film.
For more information about 2 Minute Movies, visit @2minutemovies on Instagram.


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The world of leading RF guru/entrepreneur James Stoffo.
During James Stoffo's career as an RF technician/frequency coordinator he's worked a considerable list of some of the biggest events on the planet, including multiple Super Bowls, NBA All-Star games, and the Grammys to name a few, as well as huge corporate affairs.
He's also provided consultation for clients running the gamut from Disney World to Microsoft, and is a serial entrepreneur in having founded Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) in 1994 and Radio Active Designs (RAD) in 2014.
On top of all that, Stoffo is a tireless advocate for arts, entertainment and culture in general; specifically in response to the challenges created by RF spectrum auctions and the increasing use of digital consumer/whitespace devices that share radio spectrum with other wireless technology – technology that is not only used in sporting and musical events, but also in nuclear facilities and military installations.
Stoffo's recent focus is building RAD, a manufacturing firm focusing exclusively on wireless intercom (com) technology co-founded by he, Geoff Shearing and Henry Cohen, and created with an eye to manufacturing wireless intercom solutions that can combat growing RF congestion and the ongoing impact of spectrum auctions. That focus also allows the company to avoid going head to head with wireless microphone manufacturers.
Essentially, stepping on the toes of colleagues in the pro audio is the last thing the 54-year-old wants to do in what he describes as "potentially" the final chapter in his career.
Coms have been Stoffo's main focus throughout his professional life, beginning in the 1980s when he served as a communications radio surveillance technician in the U.S. Navy submarine service. But his passion for radio goes much farther back, all the way to his youth growing up on Staten Island, NY.
It wasn't until high school that he could get formal training in electronics and radio, and he did so in classes normally reserved for seniors. Immediately after graduating, he joined the Navy because, as he puts it: "I just wanted to go on a submarine.
Between 1980 and 1986 Stoffo's time was split between training at various military institutions – including electronic surveillance training at Pearl Harbor – and operational duties as a crew member on a fast attack sub based on the Pacific coast.


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A Bell-led website blocking scheme may open the floodgates to widespread censorship
Digital Freedom Update
Marie Aspiazu
Civil Liberties Watch
Back in September, we were shocked by Bell Canada's overreaching proposal to introduce a mandatory website blocking system with no judicial oversight and radical new copyright rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is currently being renegotiated. Not long after, rumours surfaced that Bell was planning a similar proposal at home via the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). And this January, just when we thought we'd seen it all, Bell went full throttle and spearheaded a coalition of over 25 organizations calling itself "FairPlay Canada," including Cineplex and the CBC. This coalition has formally requested the CRTC to consider creating a website-blocking agency.
Bell's proposal is problematic because creating a censorship committee within the federal government has a huge potential to open the floodgates to widespread Internet censorship. Website blocking schemes often result in over-blocking, as seen in the U.K., where gay-teen support sites are being added to its ever-growing list of blocked websites. So if this proposal goes through, it won't be long before legitimate content and even services like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) become the coalition's next targets. FairPlay Canada's proposal is an attack on Canadians' right to free expression and our robust net neutrality rules that Minister Navdeep Bains and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have both expressed strong support for.
Bell's foundations for its website blocking proposal, that it's targetting piracy, prove rather weak. Canada is already home to some of the toughest anti-piracy laws in the world, and recent reports indicate that piracy rates are declining as people are rapidly shifting to legal alternatives. Plus, data shows online streaming services like Netflix, Spotify and Apple Music are thriving, demonstrating that if people are given affordable access to the content they want to watch, they are willing to pay for it.
But Bell seems to be telling different stories depending on its needs. On one hand, Bell is trying to convince the CRTC that piracy is a big problem in need of a radical "solution," emphasizing how it's leading people to cut the cord on their pricy cable packages. Simultaneously, Bell is emphasizing the success of its TV and online streaming services before business analysts (with no mention of the former).
This proposal from Bell is just one more example of the ways that Canada's vertically integrated telecommunications companies are trampling on our internet rights in favour of their concentrated media interests. Except, in this case, their plan won't even help put money back into their TV assets. It's time for Bell, and its partners, to ensure their content is available where Canadians want to watch it: online. And as has been made clear time and time again -- if they offer it, Canadians will pay.
OpenMedia has been pushing back against Bell's censorship proposal since it first tried to sneak it into NAFTA, and we will not back down. We spearheaded a nationwide day of action on February 28 and will continue to collect comments against Bell coalition's proposal, which we will be submitting as part of the CRTC's comment period (ending March 29, 2018). People can also submit their comments directly to the CRTC's website. Follow OpenMedia on Facebook and Twitter for the latest developments on Bell coalition's proposal.
Marie Aspiazu is a Campaigner and Social Media Specialist for OpenMedia, a non-profit organization that works to keep the internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.
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A short story about commuting
Auriane Mallein
dublin, social change, Travel
In France, these days, all six major lines of public transportations are on strike due to protests of public workers. In support of French citizens, stuck on their way to work, The Circular publishes this little story, to read on the DART or the bus.
Commuting, that's what she hated the most.
Photo by Jordan Harrison from Pexels
It had been her answer on the teambuilding quiz; every newcomer had had to come up with a "fun fact" about themselves as well as what they loved and dreaded the most.
That corporate spirit thing was not her thing. She had gone through the screening process pretty easily.
All four meetings and seminars, she had attended, complying with the requirements of what was deemed adequate corporate behaviour.
She had known the position was not for her at the fourth question into the form, what kind of expertise would she bring into the advertising team? What was her difference?
Her difference? Her expertise?
She had been trying so hard to make herself look like everybody else; being quirky is good but for the personal sphere …
As for her expertise, she was a witty 23-year-old, capable of making a mean gin and tonic pretty much anywhere, and her neighbours had never complained about her singing in the shower. She was an expert Joker …
The extra card in the deck, the one that's fun and scary at the same time.
The one that is completely useless most of the time, but that you'd bring out of your sleeve when in need of cheating.
That's what she felt like, stepping into the 8.08 pm. The train wasn't too crowded and she sat down in one of the empty booths, the furthest from the doors.
Apart from the little existential crisis, she was having at the moment, this first day at work had not been too bad, the welcoming team was well, too welcoming of course. To be fair, overenthusiastic people had always freaked her out anyways.
Only two guys had tried hitting on her, and by the end of the day, she had spotted one or two acceptable potential friends in the overachiever pond that was the intern's open space.
The kitchen area had two Nespresso machines, if she could get her daily fix in free coffee pods, she would potentially survive the six months internship she had managed to secure in the biggest advertising firm of the city.
by Martin Addison
"May I see you travel pass, Miss? "
"Yes. I mean, of course, just give me a second."
She began wrestling her bag for a wallet, that's where the damned ticket must have been put away. Of course, the controller would not check other people's ticket making her the only thing holding him back and therefore the whole wagon…
First came the leftover tuna and corn sandwich, then her thermos with coffee, after that it was her copy of Sapiens, everybody seemed to have read that book; carrying it around would probably make seem smarter, though the unfortunate copy had never been opened.
Then came: her sunglasses, a bright red lipstick she had forgotten to apply in the morning, that keychain she had lost like three years ago, a broken phone charger, two tampons, her apartment card and then her wallet.
As soon as she grabbed it, she remembered … The ticket was in her coat pocket.
"That way you won't need to empty your whole bag to find it". What a stupid thing to think whilst boarding a train.
She finally handed the half ripped ticket to the controller, he was looking at her as you would look at puppy under the rain, a mix of pity and amusement. Today really was not her day.
Wolverhampton Station by Elliott Brown
Grabbing her single hear working earphone, she turn her music on and leant on the window frame. Her timing was impeccable, as the train was leaving the station, the rain began pouring on the rails, drawing a curting of streaming water over the edges of the window.
As the stops unfolded before the window, the train slowly began its descent alongside the shores. That was her favourite part of the journey, the sea had turned emerald green, and it looked like frothy foam clouds were riding the waves. The show was scarily stunning. It was like an eerie scene was unfolding in front of the passengers of the 8.08 pm.
And to say that she had spent her day analysing customer behaviours regarding this stupid new line of perfume.
Mesmerized by the show, she hadn't even realised the train had stopped.
By Jeremy Grott
She was made aware of that very fact when it began raining inside the train.
In the process of taking off their jacket, the person who had just sat down next to her had also dumped the equivalent of two pints of water on her lap.
Appearing out of of the raincoat, a dimpled smile and very white teeth uttered an apology whilst handing her a tissue. Altogether very annoyed, she couldn't not notice the fact that his tissue was fabric-made, with initials in the corner – how old school of that fool.
"My apologies, you've seen the weather, it's a beautiful mess out there!"
He was carrying a camera like you would carry a newborn, was soaked to the bone and had dark hair but it's not important. Her bag was ruined, the already wrinkly wallet was dripping wet, the book was soaked. He picked it up from her hands :
"Well, I'm sorry about your book but you should know that the end is completely overrated"
The jerk was probably right …
"Oh really? And what would you know?"
He opened his mouth to answer but she didn't hear the answer. The train brutally stoped; screeching brakes, screaming people, glass flying everywhere and then the pain, in her leg, it was unbearable.
A ringing tone in her ears brought her back to reality. The railway car was lying on its side, the train had derailed, towards the beachside she thought …
But no, it was her alarm, every day, at 5.30 am for the past two years, it had been that way.
She began dressing up and hesitated for a second, and applied a nice coat of red lipstick.
"Just in case, I meet someone, on the train"
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Effective management requires strong leadership skills. These 10 online resources offer professional development for those seeking to strengthen their management and executive skills — and some of them are free.
Attaining a leadership position requires a balance of hard and soft skills, but until you hit management levels, you might not have considered how important leadership skills can be. Unfortunately, leadership skills don't always come naturally — whether that's communication, strategic budgeting, organizational planning or team-building.
But you don't have to look far to find effective, affordable – and sometimes free – online training. In fact, you might find that your alma matter even offers online professional development courses on leadership skills.
If you're looking to gain more broad leadership skills or hone specific skills, these 10 online training resources and certificate programs can help get you started.
You may not know that MIT offers material from more than 150 of its undergraduate and graduate courses for free, giving you access to an MIT education without the tuition. At MIT OpenCourseWare, you can get access to the Sloan School of Management, where you'll find plenty of undergraduate and graduate courses on all things business, including leadership skills, for free.
Coursera offers courses from universities and colleges across the country. There are business and leadership courses, but you'll also find courses on popular IT topics like data science, coding and more. Courses typically run four to six weeks and are priced from $29 to $99; specializations in specific skills take four to six months and range from $39 to $79 per month. You can even complete an accredited master's degree in one to three years — cost ranges from $15 to $25,000.
Villanova University offers individual courses, as well as a Master Certificate in Organizational Leadership. To obtain the certificate, you must complete three courses that are professor-led using video and audio, chat rooms and class discussions. Each course takes eight weeks to complete, and altogether the three-course certificate costs $5,095.
Class Central is another online depository of courses a wide array of topics — for the business category alone, there are currently 1,243 available courses. You'll find courses from multiple universities and other educational facilities, and Class Central even aggregates courses offered by other online platforms like Coursera or FutureLearn. You'll be able to find free and paid courses on nearly any subject from a wide variety of sources.
Universal Class offers comprehensive online programs on nearly any business topic you can think of. Courses are typically under $100 and are self-led with multiple lessons, exams and assignments. Leadership courses include leadership and supervision, team building, and running effective meetings. You can take multiple courses at a time and each course will earn you a certain amount of credits as you work towards completing a full certificate.
Cornell University offers a three-month online Executive Leadership program consisting of eight two-week courses. The website claims that "executive leaders can't be traditional managers anymore; they need to be effective coaches, creative problem solvers, savvy negotiators and skilled decision makers." Courses are run through the University's online learning subsidiary, eCornell, which offers flexible instructor-led courses entirely online. The program costs $4,800, or $650 per month.
Owned by LinkedIn, Lynda features leadership training and tutorials, among other topics. It promises to help you "develop talent and keep skills current with expert-led, on-demand eLearning." You can complete courses individually, but there's also an option for businesses to use Lynda to train your organization or specific departments on certain skills. You can try Lynda out for free for 30 days, after that the cost for a basic account starts at $19.99 per month, while a premium account starts at $29.99 per month and offers offline viewing and practice project files.
Don't let the slightly outdated website fool you — Master Class Management is a valuable resource for expanding your leadership skills. The website is home to free courses on management and leadership, with the goal to bring affordable professional development to anyone with an internet connection.
MindTools has an entire section dedicated to becoming an "exceptional leader" with over 60 skills and techniques to improve your leadership skills. Your first month of MindTools will only cost $1, but after that it's $19 per month for a standard membership and $27 per month for a premium membership. The courses contain material "normally taught only in management programs or MBA classes," and can also be used by companies for widescale training.