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Perfect One Direction Song Download
Single by One Direction
from the album Made in the A.M.
Pop[1]
Jacob Kasher
Julian Bunetta
One Direction singles chronology
'Drag Me Down'
(2015) 'Perfect'
(2015) 'History'
'Perfect' on YouTube
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'Perfect' is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction. Released on 16 October 2015 as the second single from their fifth studio album Made in the A.M., it debuted at number one in Ireland, and reached the top 10 in several countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, France, New Zealand and Australia. The song was written by members Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, along with the band's regular collaborators, Julian Bunetta and John Ryan among others.
Background and composition[edit]
In various interviews, the band members and co-writers describe differing aspects of the composition and overall meaning of the song. The song is in D major and has a tempo of 100 beats per minute. Long-time writer and producer for the band, Julian Bunetta described the writing process as 'difficult' due to the writing occurring whilst the members travelled from country to country during their 2015 On the Road Again Tour.[2] Bunetta called the single 'a jam' and stated that he plays it in his car frequently.[2][3]
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Digital Spy's Lewis Corner praised 'Perfect', describing it as a 'scintillating slice of '80s pop' and also said that the song was a 'delicious retort' to Taylor Swift's (ex-girlfriend of band member Harry Styles) song 'Style'.[4] Former band member Zayn Malik was less complimentary about the song though. In his January 2016 cover story interview in Billboard, he said that the first single was 'quite cool' but heard the second single and decided not to buy the album.[5]
In the band's native United Kingdom, 'Perfect' debuted at number two. In the United States, the song became the band's second consecutive top-10 hit from their Made in the A.M. album and sixth overall when 'Perfect' debuted at number 10 on the Billboard issue dated 7 November 2015, after 'Drag Me Down' debuted at number three.[6] This debut also broke The Beatles' record for the most top 10 Hot 100 debuts among bands.[7]
The music video was directed by Sophie Muller with additional help from actor Giovanni Ribisi[8] and premiered on Vevo on 20 October 2015. The video, filmed in black and white, depicts how the band lives while on tour, and was filmed at the Intercontinental Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City in early September 2015.[9] The video features shots of the members as they relax in a hotel room during their 2015 tour.
The group performed 'Perfect' for the first time at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland on 16 October 2015 during the last leg of their On the Road Again Tour and continued to perform the song in their concerts until their last before their hiatus on 31 October in Sheffield, England.[10] The band also performed 'Perfect' at the 2015 American Music Awards,[11]BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge,[12]Ellen Degeneres Show,[13]Jimmy Kimmel Live!,[14]X Factor UK[15] as well as Jingle Ball festivals across the United States.[16][17][18] In November 2015, the band performed the song in front of Prince Harry at the Royal Variety Performance and Ed Power from The Telegraph listed the performance as 'the fifth standout moment of the night.'[19]
'Perfect' – 3:50
Digital EP[21]
'Perfect' (Stripped) – 3:51
'Home' – 3:14
'Perfect' (Matoma Remix) – 3:43
'Drag Me Down' (featuring LunchMoney Lewis) (Big Payno x AFTERHRS Remix) – 3:08
Note: 'Home' was written by Jamie Scott, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne.
Australia (ARIA)[22]
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[24]
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[25]
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[27]
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[30]
France (SNEP)[31]
Germany (Official German Charts)[32]
Italy (FIMI)[34]
Hungary (Single Top 40)[36]
Japan (Japan Hot 100)[37]
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[38]
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[39]
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)[42]
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[44]
South Africa (EMA)[45]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[46]
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[47]
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[48]
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[51]
Brazil (Brasil Hot 100)[54]
Canada (Music Canada)[58]
New Zealand (RMNZ)[61]
Platinum 600,000
None 817,000[63]
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
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^ ab 'One Direction Collaborator Breaks Down Group's New Songs'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
^ ')u1!@n on Twitter: ha i dont know if i could say that. But its a jam. I play it in my car all the time'. Twitter. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
^ 'EXCLUSIVE: 1D's new album Made In The AM first listen'. Digital Spy. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'Zayn Malik Speaks Out in Revealing Billboard Cover Story: 'I'm Not Censoring Myself Anymore''. Billboard. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'The Weeknd No. 1 for Sixth Week, Adele No. 1 next week?'. Billboard.com.
^ Gary Trust (27 October 2015). 'One Direction Breaks The Beatles' Record With Fifth Top 10 Debut on Hot 100'. Billboard. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
^ 'One Direction 'Perfect' by Sophie Muller on Promo News'. Promo News. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ Steiner, Amanda Michelle. 'One Direction cause trouble in hotel rooms in 'Perfect' music video'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
^ 'One Direction Setlist at 3Arena, Dublin'. setlist.fm. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'One Direction Bring 'Perfect' Performance to 2015 AMAs'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'One Direction, Live Lounge - BBC Radio 1'. BBC. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'See One Direction Perform 'Drag Me Down' on 'Ellen''. Fuse. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'One Direction Perform Medley of Songs on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live': Watch'. Billboard. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'One Direction Returns to 'X Factor' U.K. to Perform 'Perfect': Watch'. Billboard. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'One Direction Setlist at KISS FM Dallas' Jingle Ball 2015'. setlist.fm. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'Jingle Ball 2015: Watch Performances By 1D, Selena Gomez, The Weeknd And More Idolator'. Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com. 5 December 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'Jingle Ball L.A. Recap: One Direction's Last Gig, The Weeknd Gets Sexy & Selena Gomez Slays'. Billboard. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'The Royal Variety Performance 2015: the top 5 acts'. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
^ 'iTunes - Music - Perfect - Single by One Direction'. iTunes Store (GB).
^ 'iTunes - Music - Perfect - EP by One Direction'. iTunes Store (GB).
^'Australian-charts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^'Austriancharts.at – One Direction – Perfect' (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
^'Ultratop.be – One Direction – Perfect' (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
^'Ultratop.be – One Direction – Perfect' (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'One Direction Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)'. Billboard. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
^'ČNS IFPI' (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201543 into search.
^'ČNS IFPI' (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – RADIO – TOP 100 and insert 20165 into search.
^'Danishcharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. Tracklisten. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^'One Direction: Perfect' (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^'Lescharts.com – One Direction – Perfect' (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Offiziellecharts.de – One Direction – Perfect'. GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Chart Track: Week 43, 2015'. Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Italiancharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. Top Digital Download. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^'Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ' (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
^'Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ' (in Hungarian). Single (track) Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^'One Direction Chart History (Japan Hot 100)'. Billboard. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
^'Nederlandse Top 40 – One Direction' (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Dutchcharts.nl – One Direction – Perfect' (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Charts.nz – One Direction – Perfect'. Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^'Norwegiancharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. VG-lista. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
^'Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video'. Polish Airplay Top 100. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^'ČNS IFPI' (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201543 into search.
^'EMA Top 10 Airplay: Week Ending 2015-12-22'. Entertainment Monitoring Africa. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
^'Spanishcharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'Canciones Top 50. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^'Swedishcharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. Singles Top 100. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Swisscharts.com – One Direction – Perfect'. Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^'Official Singles Chart Top 100'. Official Charts Company.
^'One Direction Chart History (Hot 100)'. Billboard. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
^'One Direction Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)'. Billboard. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
^'One Direction Chart History (Pop Songs)'. Billboard. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
^ 'ARIA Charts - End of Year Charts - Top 100 Singles 2015'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
^ 'As 100 Mais Tocadas nas Rádios Jovens em 2016'. Billboard Brasil (in Portuguese). 4 January 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
^ 'Canadian Hot 100 Year End 2016'. Billboard. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ 'Hot 100 Songs - Year-End 2016'. Billboard. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
^ 'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 Singles'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
^ 'Canadian single certifications – One Direction – Perfect'. Music Canada. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^ 'ifpi.dk - One Direction - Perfect'. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
^ 'Italian single certifications – One Direction – Perfect' (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 27 March 2016. Select '2016' in the 'Anno' drop-down menu. Select 'Perfect' in the 'Filtra' field. Select 'Singoli online' under 'Sezione'.
^ 'New Zealand single certifications – One Direction – Perfect'. Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
^ 'British single certifications – One Direction – Perfect'. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 2 June 2017. Select singles in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type Perfect in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
^ 'Billboard: One Direction's Career Sales'. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
^ 'American single certifications – One Direction – Perfect'. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 15 December 2015. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.
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3 Smart Water Monitors That Shut Down Leaks
posted by Elizabeth Harper on January 31, 2018 in Home Safety & Security, Health and Home, Automation Systems, Guides & Reviews :: 2 comments
Anyone who's ever had a leak at home knows how serious — and expensive — they can be. But finding leaks before they can do serious damage (or run up your water bill) isn't so simple. The typical water leak sensor is just a device that you place where a leak might occur: then, when it detects water, it blares out an alarm or, if it has connected capabilities, send a notification to your smartphone. In short, they won't you know something is amiss until there's actually a puddle of water on your floor.
That's a real problem, because while big leaks can certainly be catastrophic — even when you catch them early — little leaks can be just as bad. A leaky faucet can waste 3,000 gallons of water per year, and the EPA estimates the average home could save 10% on its water bills by eliminating leaks.
But how do you track them down? A new range of smart home water monitors wants to help out. Instead of detecting water after it leaks, these water monitoring system connect to your water line to keep tabs on water use in your entire home all the time. They'll let you know if there's a leak (no matter the size), and will alert you before a little leak turns into a big flood.
That helps you avoid the property damage that comes with a major water leak, saving both the cost and the frustration of handling repairs (and your insurance company). These monitors can shrink your utility bill every month of the year by pinpointing minor leaks that add up to big bills. Some insurance companies will even offer discounts if you have one of these leak monitors installed, so you might save on your annual homeowners insurance, too. With the cash they can potentially save, any of these gadgets could eventually pay for itself.
There are, however, some downsides. Most of these sensors have a hefty up-front cost and they may require professional installation at an additional cost. Combined, that can be a pretty big price tag. Additionally, they aren't compatible with all plumbing systems. Before you buy, you'll want to check on the total price as well as compatibility — because otherwise you could just wind up with an expensive gadget that doesn't work with your home.
But even though they're an investment, there's a lot of appeal to avoiding the headache of a burst pipe. If you think a water monitor makes sense for your home, we have three great options.
Streamlabs Smart Home Water Monitor
The Streamlabs Smart Home Water Monitor is both the most budget-friendly and the easiest to install. While the other monitors on this list require some significant plumbing knowledge or professional installation to connect them to your water main, the Streamlabs monitor simply snaps on to the outside of your pipe — beyond that, all you need to do is plug it into a power outlet and connect it to your Wi-Fi network.
This simple setup is possible because the Streamlabs monitor uses ultrasonic technology to track your home's water use. While other devices need to be installed so water flows through them, Streamlabs monitors water flow using sound waves. This offers a little less data than you'll find on other devices, but it does exactly what you need it to do: detect leaks and notify you. The biggest downside to the product is that it can't shut off the water itself, so if intervention is required, you'll have to do it yourself.
In the case of a major leak, the time it takes to shut off the water — especially if you aren't at home when you find out about the leak — can leave you open to serious property damage. This is a risk other water monitors eliminate, but with its relatively low price tag and solid feature set, it's a good buy if you're worried about leaks. Though it can't automate everything, it's a heck of a lot smarter than an ordinary leak detector.
The Streamlabs Smart Home Water Monitor costs $199, which isn't exactly cheap, but it's quite modest for this kind of whole-home monitor. Considering that a basic connected leak detector — each of which can only detect the presence of water in one place — can set you back $30 to $40, the $199 price tag may not seem that bad. Plus the Streamlabs Smart Home Water Monitor is available right now, so you can start keeping a closer eye on your water use immediately.
While the simple setup of the Streamlabs monitor has a lot of DIY appeal, products that are hooked up to your home plumbing — typically requiring cutting pipes to install — offer more smart features. Flo Technologies recommends professional installation for its Flo water monitor, though you can install Flo yourself if you have the plumbing know-how. Going the DIY route won't void your warranty.
Once installed, the Flo — like the Streamlabs monitor — watches your entire home's water use 24/7, looking for leaks or anything that might cause leaks in the future. It tracks water pressure, flow rate and temperature, with a suite of sensors that enable it to catch leaks as small as one drop per minute.
If Flo senses a problem, it will alert you and can even shut off your water automatically before serious damage can be done. Flo will also give you troubleshooting tips and put you in touch with a plumber to fix your leak. Flo is partnered with American Leak Detection, which offers access to more than 1,000 professional plumbers nation-wide — all of whom can access data from Flo to track down leaks quickly, which can save you more cash from plumbers' bills.
Flo costs $499 (plus the cost of installation), which is a sizable increase over the Streamlabs option. What you're paying for is extra intelligence and more automation, which mean better protection for your home — and, in case of a serious leak, potentially avoiding big water damage bills. You can pre-order Flo now and it will start shipping in February.
Phyn Plus
At the high end of the price range, you have Phyn Plus, which will set you back $850 plus professional installation from Uponor Pro Squad (installation cost will vary depending on how complicated the job is). Professional installation from Uponor is required, and while this gives you the advantage of knowing your system is installed and configured perfectly, it definitely runs up the price.
So what are you getting for that extra cash? Again, it's about intelligence. Phyn Plus monitors water flow and pressure, tracking changes in pressure 240 times a second to get extremely detailed information about what's happening with your water.
Phyn has been in development for nearly a decade and installed in private homes for a year — and it's been learning all the while. All of the data Phyn has collected allowed it to develop a "fingerprint" of different appliances. In short, Phyn Plus can tell the difference between a running faucet and a dripping faucet, and it keeps getting smarter as it collects more data. The time and testing that's gone into Phyn's development is evident — it simply offers more detailed information than other sensors.
But those smarts don't equate to much more feature-wise. Like Flo, it can detect leaks of all sizes and notify you or automatically shut off the water to a catastrophic leak. The idea is that Phyn's detailed pressure monitoring could tell you more about your water use. However, neither Flo nor Phyn are on the market yet, so it's hard to say whether the extra information will be worth the extra cost.
Phyn Plus will be available in select cities across the country starting late spring 2018. You can sign up now to be notified when Phyn will be available in your area.
[Image credit: leaking pipe via BigStockPhoto, Streamlabs, Flo Technologies, Phyn]
Too dear
From Timothy Morgan on April 03, 2018 :: 1:04 pm
For these prices, and electric shut-off valve should be standard.
I concluded that most refrigerators with water&ice; dispensers eventually leak, and my kitchen has hardwood (engineered flooring. I constructed a pan under it and stuck a $10 water detection which should set off an alarm. I'd upgrade to one with Wifi only if it was capable of cutting the water.
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/*
 * This file is part of Nucleus, licensed under the MIT License (MIT). See the LICENSE.txt file
 * at the root of this project for more details.
 */
package io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.modules.back.listeners;

import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.Nucleus;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.NucleusAPI;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.api.service.NucleusJailService;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.internal.CommandPermissionHandler;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.internal.interfaces.ListenerBase;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.internal.interfaces.Reloadable;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.modules.back.commands.BackCommand;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.modules.back.config.BackConfig;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.modules.back.config.BackConfigAdapter;
import io.github.nucleuspowered.nucleus.modules.back.services.BackHandler;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.Living;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.player.Player;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.Listener;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.entity.DestructEntityEvent;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.entity.MoveEntityEvent;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.filter.Getter;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.filter.type.Exclude;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

public class BackListeners implements Reloadable, ListenerBase {

    public static final String ON_TELEPORT = "targets.teleport";
    public static final String ON_DEATH = "targets.death";
    public static final String ON_PORTAL = "targets.portal";
    public static final String SAME_DIMENSION = "exempt.samedimension";

    private final BackHandler handler = Nucleus.getNucleus().getInternalServiceManager().getServiceUnchecked(BackHandler.class);
    private BackConfig backConfig = new BackConfig();
    @Nullable private final NucleusJailService njs = NucleusAPI.getJailService().orElse(null);

    private CommandPermissionHandler s = Nucleus.getNucleus().getPermissionRegistry().getPermissionsForNucleusCommand(BackCommand.class);

    @Override public void onReload() {
        this.backConfig = Nucleus.getNucleus().getInternalServiceManager().getServiceUnchecked(BackConfigAdapter.class).getNodeOrDefault();
    }

    @Listener
    @Exclude(MoveEntityEvent.Teleport.Portal.class) // Don't set /back on a portal.
    public void onTeleportPlayer(MoveEntityEvent.Teleport event, @Getter("getTargetEntity") Player pl) {
        if (this.backConfig.isOnTeleport() && check(event) && getLogBack(pl) && this.s.testSuffix(pl, ON_TELEPORT)) {
            this.handler.setLastLocation(pl, event.getFromTransform());
        }
    }

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New Decade, New & Old Threats: A 2020 Message From MCS
January 1, 2020 by Jeff Anderson
If you're like me, you hope for the best… but you plan for the worst as we start this new decade.
I hate to say it, but just because the calendar changes doesn't mean other things do.
Yes, we're looking at new threats in the coming year.
But we also have to deal with some threats that have never gone away… and some that are getting worse.
For example, I was reading a news article in CNBC last week – I know, I'm a thrill a minute, right? – that really made me worry.
It said that presidential elections have turned into "money wars" – basically, a competition among corporate political action committees.
These super PACs and other "dark money" groups, including Big Tech, are "infusing their interests" into our politics.
In other words, Big Tech is buying Big Government – and the two are working overtime to destroy YOUR freedoms.
Fueled by (and bought out through) this "dark money," our administration(s), "intelligence" community, the tech Bigwigs who run "social media" and determine what you can and can't say, and even the upper echelons of law enforcement have turned their targeting inwards to our own citizens.
They've collected our data without permission.
They've banned us for "wrongthink" whenever we step out of line.
They've spied on us, tracked us, scanned us, and even called us "terrorists" without due process of law – all because of what we think and what we say.
Every time you turn around, there's some new scandal involving Google and Facebook manipulating us.
Everywhere you look, politicians are doing an end-run around the Constitution, infringing on our rights in the name of the "greater good."
(And that's to say nothing about all the talk in Virginia right now about banning guns – or using social media and tech databases to amass "confiscation lists" to take your right to self-defense.)
Lately, they're all excited about using "red flag" laws to take away your guns – again, without due process.
All it takes is somebody accusing you of "thoughtcrime" and then you're guilty until proven innocent.
The Feds even demanded recently that Apple and Google hand over the names of their app store customers, so the government can investigate anyone who downloaded a gun scope app.
That's right: They're targeting gun owners in the name of "keeping us all safe," because they claim the app developer violated export restrictions.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that they'll be able to use the app data to make a list of anybody who owns a rifle with a scope on it (who also used the app).
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that official government documents labeled the most patriotic of our citizens — people like you and me — as "enemies of the state".
The sad fact is, in 2020, our government and our Big Tech overlords will STILL be treating us, the American public, as the real threat to their power.
In the name of protecting us from future terror attacks, or stopping "bad people" from doing "bad things" here at home, they're scanning our emails… tapping our phones… and collecting our personal data without our knowledge.
In fact, just a couple months ago, Google and YouTube were fined $170 MILLION DOLLARS by the Federal Trade Commission for collecting your kids' information without permission.
To your government and to giant corporations like Google, hundreds of millions of dollars are just a drop in the bucket.
With nothing to stop them, they're going to keep on spying on you, manipulating you, and violating your Constitutional rights…
…all while telling you that it's for your own good!
And thanks to government initiatives like The Patriot Act and all the new laws they're passing now, you can be "red flagged," rounded up, and held against your will as a potential "home grown terrorist" because of your beliefs — things like:
Believing in the 2nd Amendment
Storing away "survival food"
Buying more than 2 guns
Purchasing "excessive" amounts of ammo
Even comments you make on Facebook and Twitter!
And that's not even the worst of it…
Your neighbors will actually be financially REWARDED to turn you in as a "suspect" if they know (or even THINK) you are doing any of these actions, because the government has set up "tip lines" so they can squeal on you.
If you see something, say something… right?
Please hear me now…
Things continue to get worse out there.
And with the presidential elections coming this year, it's going to start getting that much more terrifying… that much faster!
But you already know that, don't you?
What you might NOT know are the simple steps you should be taking… no wait… that you MUST be taking… in order to protect yourself from these attacks on our rights and freedoms.
Don't tell yourself that there's nothing you can do.
Don't just give up, or try not to think about it.
There are things we can do to stay off the radar.
We need to STOP giving our information to the government and to Big Tech.
I'll share the exact steps I'm personally taking in this video here…
It isn't actually difficult to stop them from spying on you.
But you've got to start now.
Don't make more mistakes.
Don't make it easier for these people to invade your privacy and attack your rights.
We need to start living as "underground patriots."
The country needs people like us.
A "new world" of threats – as we enter this new decade – calls for a new kind of "patriot".
But we can't be there for our country and for those we love and protect if we're sitting in jail after getting red-flagged as "domestic terrorists."
In 2020, now more than ever, it's time to stand up for both our country and our rights as Americans.
Are YOU Worried About Your Rights And Liberties As We Head Into The New Year?
Please Share Your Concerns Below Now…
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Steampunk Market featuring stalls from traders with a wide range of items to satisfy your desires for the eclectic and bizarre.
A Cup Full of Tentacles In which you will be entertained by Nimue and Tom Brown with young James Weaselgrease with Steampunk and period songs and strange folklore for your Sunday Morning. May include surprise guests.
Herr Döktor (Maker of amazing steampunk artefacts and all around mad genius) is interviewed by Count Rostov on the subject of his early days of "making" and how he started on this adventure. Of particular interest to "makers" or those who wish to become one.
Nils Visser returns, with fish! Fine Weather for Foul Folk is a presentation that will enlighten you on the subject of the finer points of being a 19th century Sussex airship smuggler. Fish may be thrown (Not actual fish, obviously, this is Stroud after all) Chaos and mayhem are guaranteed.
3.15 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Bill Jones returns to show us How To Grow Victorians In Your Garden. Bill Jones (sometimes known a Miserable Malcolm Stroud's gloomiest poet) offer sage advice on this subject including such wisdom as- "In spring, tender Victorians need protecting from whooping cough, influenza and other blights. Cloches are recommended".
Craig Hallam will read from his work. If you are thinking, "Oh goodness. That sounds a bit tame." you do not know Mr Hallam. Silly voices are a certainty and his habit of interrupting himself with side thoughts makes this more "entertainment" than "a reading" Though his work is certainly gripping enough to hold your attention regardless! Craig is almost frighteningly charming. You have been warned.


By John C. Roberts John C. Roberts is dean of DePaul University College of Law in Chicago.
IN a recent speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Poland's Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki spoke eloquently of the need to create throughout Eastern Europe regimes based on the rule of law - to guarantee human rights and safeguard against tyranny. The US will undoubtedly provide financial aid and economic advice to the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and already planeloads of political consultants have flown east to advise the many new political parties in the nuts-and-bolts of democracy. But noticeably absent from all this activity is the crucial aspect of nation-building that Mr. Mazowiecki emphasized.
There is much that American lawyers, judges, scholars, and political leaders can do to help these nations as they struggle with the new and difficult questions stemming from their decision to create a free and open society. The Bush administration should be doing everything possible to stimulate and encourage such a consultative process. The process need not be government-to-government, but the president can mobilize private lawyers and scholars, as President Kennedy did in helping to form the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in the civil rights days.
We tend to take for granted the rights embodied both in the Constitution and in our positive law, as well as the institutions and practices that protect these rights. But for many nations now struggling to understand the implications of their new freedom after years of autocratic rule, these issues are as alive and controversial as they were at the time of our Philadelphia convention in 1789.
In a recent speech to a group of law teachers in Chicago, federal judge Jon O. Newman recounted his recent experiences as part of a group of American lawyers and judges visiting the Soviet Union. The Americans met with Soviet constitutional scholars, lawyers, and public officials who were hungry to learn about American rights and institutions. The Soviet experts looked to the US as a model. They vigorously quizzed the Americans about a range of civil and political rights so interwoven in the fabric of American society that many of us have ceased to reflect on them.
How, for example, can the Soviet Union create from the ruins of a police state a system of police practices that protect citizens against arbitrary arrest, detention, and prosecution? How can it create press freedoms? Should the Russians emulate the American principle of separation of church and state? Should they repeat our costly, unique commitment to freedom of information? How can they set up laws to regulate the political process?
How, indeed, can Soviet leaders create the fundamentals of a fair legislative process? Perhaps most important, based on the Western experience, was the question of how to create an independent judiciary in a country without such a tradition? Should it be endowed with the American power of judicial review?
Underlying these concerns - shared by all the Eastern and Central European countries today - is the need to create a legal profession large enough and responsible enough to serve as a guardian of human rights.
With all their recognized faults, American lawyers have played a key role in preserving civil liberties from majority passions, and in protecting citizens from government arbitrariness. The process now at work in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries is not unlike the US experience in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is a process of constitution-making, and just as important, one of adjusting and adapting the newly created rights to the changing needs of society.
While Americans should offer financial aid, and investment and business advice to help create workable market economies in Eastern and Central Europe, there is a need for another kind of help - a Marshall Plan of ideas. Because America is a country with long experience in articulating and protecting ``rights'' in a bewildering variety of contexts, our lawyers, judges, and academic experts should take the lead in assisting those in Europe who are reshaping their societies to conform to the rule of law. To be sure, all of our institutions are not transportable to other nations, for cultural or historical reasons. All of our ``rights'' are not universally accepted as desirable, even in this country. But we have experience with the rule of law, good and bad, that can help others.
The nations of Eastern Europe have a fierce desire for democracy and legal reform, and are in the position of benefiting from the experiences of others. As part of the rejuvenation of Eastern and Central Europe, then, why not organize delegations of American legal and political experts to confer with their counterparts there? We can explain American experiences with separation of church and state, judicial review, press freedom, and Miranda warnings, and assist those countries in fashioning solutions to their problems regarding human rights, and respond to their peculiar needs. Why not bring delegations of lawyers, judges, policemen, and civil servants to this country to study first-hand the successes and failures of our system?
President Bush should see such an alternative as a constructive way to answer critics who have attacked him for not responding more strongly to the revolutions of 1989. Compared to economic aid and investment, the costs of such an exchange will be paltry. Best of all, we would be exporting the highest achievement of our society - our protection of individual freedom of action and expression.
What's going wrong with rebuilding Afghanistan? Inspector general has a list.


Earlier this year, we launched The Keywee Facebook CPC Tracker, a monthly update on Facebook CPCs based on analysis of data from over 500 publishers. Our goal? To provide a useful information on that month's Facebook CPCs and the state of paid content distribution in general.
This November, we saw just a small month-over-month CPC increase. This was, however, accompanied by a healthy year-over-year increase in prices, like we've seen in general this year, and especially in H2.
The 7% increase in monthly CPCs is somewhat lower than one might expect going into November, which is typically considered to be the most expensive month in the digital marketing space.
1 – There was a large month-over-month spike in prices in October. This started the quarter out with high pricing, so CPCs didn't have to increase very much to hit the ceiling price for the year.
2 – The shift in types of campaigns could also have an impact. In November, we saw additional investments in audience development campaigns, which typically have lower CPCs than some other types of campaigns (like email capture or paid subscription acquisition).
3 – Knowing that CPCs would be high in November, many publishers took the opportunity to scale spend on relevant campaigns when they saw pockets of low CPC days in the middle and at the end of the month (post-Cyber Monday). This helps bring down the monthly average CPC to a much more palatable number.
November marks the official start of the holiday season (although the Christmas creep is real), and with it, we saw some interesting spend trends on Facebook.
We saw a 20% increase in month-over-month spend on branded content campaigns in November. Not only is Q4 the peak season for branded content campaigns, but increasingly, top publishers are utilizing Facebook as a distribution channel for it. This is due to the deep engagement and high quality audiences it can drive (Read more about some of the ways publishers are utilizing sophisticated distribution techniques for branded content campaigns here). We expect this increase in spending around branded content to continue through the end of the year, as brands turn to branded content to drive brand awareness and loyalty throughout the holiday season, especially around topics such as travel, gifting, and the holidays.
There was also a renewed focus on affiliate monetization. Whereas last November, just 7% of publisher dollars went to affiliate content campaigns, this month we saw 14% of spend there. Throughout 2018, we've seen an increasing number of publishers turning to affiliate revenue as an additional revenue stream. This trend is even more pronounced in Q4, when affiliate publishers have the most to gain, since consumers do the bulk of their shopping for the year for themselves and others this quarter. November was a great time to write about holiday shopping, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and stocking up on winter gear.
To learn how the original affiliate publishers are growing their business, watch our webinar with Wirecutter – How Wirecutter Grows Its Affiliate Revenue, and if you have any questions about it, check out our Affiliate Revenue FAQ.


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De pelskever (Attagenus pellio) of bonttorretje is een kever uit de familie van de spektorren (Dermitidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 als Dermestes pellio gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus.

Kenmerken
De volwassen kever is 4 tot 6 mm lang, ovaal en heeft op beide dekschilden een witte stip. Op het halsschild bevinden zich 3 stippen. Ze hebben een haarbundel aan het achterlijf.

De larven zijn 9 mm lang en gestreept.

Leefwijze
De larven voeden zich vooral met wolvezels en harig stof in wollen of gedeeltelijk wollen tapijten. Zij staan ook wel bekend onder de naam "wollen beren" en hebben in het verleden zelfs museumstukken vernield. Ook lederwaren en bont worden niet ontzien. De volwassen kevers voeden zich met stuifmeel en nectar.

Wanneer de kever verstoord wordt houdt hij zich dood.

Verspreiding en leefgebied
Ze komen voor in huizen, tuinen en vogelnesten. Ze kunnen in huizen behoorlijk wat schade aanrichten.

Spektorren

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Twenty Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life.
The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory, a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility and practicality. Sun tzu's maxims are widely applicable beyond the military because they speak directly to the the need of survival. Your new tools will serve you well, but don't flaunt them. Remember Sun tzu's advice: "Though effective, appear to be ineffective."


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Radew () – rzeka w północno-zachodniej Polsce, prawobrzeżny dopływ Parsęty (w górnym biegu Debrzyca). Płynie przez Pojezierze Pomorskie i Pobrzeże Koszalińskie (w województwie zachodniopomorskim).

Długość rzeki – 83 km, powierzchnia dorzecza – 1091,5 km².

Przebieg
Jej źródła znajdują się niedaleko wsi Żydowo, na południe od Drzewian, na Pojezierzu Bytowskim (ok. 8 km na wschód od Bobolic). Przepływa przez jezioro Kwiecko, z którego wypływa już jako Radew.

Początkowo płynie w wąskiej dolinie wśród lasów; przepływa przez kilka jezior (m.in. przez sztuczne jeziora Hajka i Jezioro Rosnowskie), dalej Kanałem Rosnowskim. Przed ujściem skręca szerokim łukiem na północ. Dolina rzeczna jest tu znacznie szersza, na jej dnie widoczne są stare zakola. Ujście rzeki znajduje się w Karlinie.

Miejscowości, przez które przepływa Radew: Żabiniec, Bobrowo, Mostowo, Rosnowo, Niedalino, Wronie Gniazdo, Białogórzyno, Nosowo, Parsowo, Karlino.

Zlewnia

Lewe dopływy:
 Chociel
 Bielica
 Chotla

Prawe dopływy:
 Czarna

Ochrona przyrody
Dolina rzeki została objęta obszarem chronionego krajobrazu "Dolina Radwi" oraz obszarem sieci Natura 2000 – Dolina Radwi, Chocieli i Chotli.

Zagospodarowanie
W Rosnowie na Radwi (44,7 km) zlokalizowana jest mała elektrownia wodna o łącznej mocy 3300 kW.

W Niedalinie (36,0 km) zlokalizowana jest mała elektrownia wodna o łącznej nominalnej mocy zainstalowanej 1100 kW.

W Karlinie (0,53 km) bezpośrednio poniżej mostu drogi Karlino-Białogard znajduje się stały próg, za pomocą którego wody Radwi kierowane są na kanał energetyczny i na małą elektrownię wodną o mocy 155 kW. Dalej wody odpływają do rzeki Parsęty. Przy turbinowni tej elektrowni wykonano przepławkę dla ryb.

Historia
Na polskiej mapie wojskowej z 1937 r. podano polski egzonim Radwa na oznaczenie rzeki.
Nazwę Radew wprowadzono urzędowo w 1948 roku, zastępując poprzednią niemiecką nazwę rzeki – Radüe.

Szlak kajakowy
Radew stanowi szlak kajakowy na odcinku Żydowo - Karlino (około 50 km). Szlak prowadzi głównie przez tereny zalesione i jest stosunkowo trudny: w górnym i środkowym biegu występują głazy i szypoty. Na brzegach zalewów zlokalizowano pola biwakowe i kąpieliska. Przy elektrowniach wodnych zachodzi konieczność przenosek.

Zobacz też
 rzeki w Polsce

Przypisy

Rzeki w Polsce


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Play Ball! Oneonta Outlaws Gear Up For 2022 Home Opener
Oneonta Outlaws, Facebook, canva
The Oneonta Outlaws who call historic Damaschke Field in Oneonta, NY their home and are members of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, are all ready to take on the Watertown Rapids in the home opener on June 4.
Nothing says "summer" like taking in a baseball game and at Damaschke Field, it's definitely a real hometown experience, fun for people who aren't even baseball fans. I can attest to that since I'm not into watching sports in general and a few years back, my husband and I decided to go watch an Outlaws game and we had a great time! With the enthusiastic energy of the fans in the stands, the intense will of the Outlaw players to win against the visiting team, along with the amazing aroma of hotdogs and hamburgers cooking at the concession stand, it's just a great, all-around night during the summer.
Don't forget that if you haven't been to an Outlaws game in a while, Damaschke Field has undergone some major changes in the last few years and is an even better experience for the fans coming out.
Remember the big renovation project that began in the fall of 2019? That project was done in stages with the grandstand demolished and fencing removed, new concrete poured and new seats put in closer to home plate. Also, the box seats and dugouts were rebuilt with netting placed over them for safety. Fans got to enjoy those changes for the first time last season after the 2020 season was canceled due to COVID-19. The Damaschke Field changes are great and sure to please baseball fans for the season to come so make sure you squeeze in some home games this season and support our Oneonta hometown Outlaws team.
You can see the home game schedule below. For more information visit www.oneontaoutlaws.com.
via Oneonta Outlaws, Facebook
Road Trip! Sports Halls of Fame and Museums Are Everywhere in Upstate New York
Warm weather means road trips. And there is no better road trip in Upstate New York than to visit the many sports halls of fame and museums in the region. From the Hudson Valley to Western New York you will find museums and halls of fame dedicated to boxing, horse racing, baseball, stock car racing, fly fishing, and many other sports. Here are 8 of the best in Upstate New York.
LOOK: MLB history from the year you were born
Stacker compiled key moments from Major League Baseball's history over the past 100 years. Using a variety of sources from Major League Baseball (MLB) record books, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and audio and video from events, we've listed the iconic moments that shaped a sport and a nation. Read through to find out what happened in MLB history the year you were born.
30 famous people you might not know were college athletes
Stacker dug deep to find 30 celebrities who were previously college athletes. There are musicians, politicians, actors, writers, and reality TV stars. For some, an athletic career was a real, promising possibility that ultimately faded away due to injury or an alternate calling. Others scrapped their way onto a team and simply played for fun and the love of the sport. Read on to find out if your favorite actor, singer, or politician once sported a university jersey.
Filed Under: Damaschke Field, Oneonta NY baseball, Oneonta Outlaws
Categories: Articles, Local News, Local Sports
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St Mary's welcomes worshippers of all ages.
On the 1st Sunday of each month at 10.30am, people young (and those not so young!) worship together in an informal environment. This service is designed to enable all who attend to engage in worship, through teaching and music from our worship band.
Whenever there is a 5th Sunday in a month, we encourage our young people to be involved with the planning and leading of the main 10.30am service. We call this our, 'Youth led All-Age Service'.
Throughout the year, there are four Youth Parade Services: Mothering Sunday, End of Summer term, Harvest Festival and Toy Service. At these special services, local Guiding and Scouting groups, are invited to join in with for All-Age worship.
At other 10.30am services, young people spend the first ten minutes in church and then go to meet in age-appropriate groups. These groups are lively and stimulating, offering a chance for young people to discover more about their faith through a wide range of activities.
There is a carpeted area in church, where families with very young children and babies can sit if they would like to. This gives an opportunity for the children to play freely with a selection of toys, or for babies to roll around on a play mat, or bounce in a bouncy chair.


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Agency Huge Crunched Hundreds of Beer Reviews to Craft the Ultimate Data-Infused Recipe – Adweek
Since 2013, Brooklyn-based agency Huge has held a weekly meeting of beer geeks who gather to taste and rate unique and rare brews from around the world. Over that time, the Huge Brews team has sampled more than a thousand different beers.
Then the tech-savvy group started wondering what would happen if they took all that tasting data, fermented it with some machine learning and tried to formulate the ultimate, metrics-driven beer recipe.
For the past six weeks, members of Huge Brews have been brewing their own beer based on those years of tasting notes, along with data from two popular beer review websites. After looking internally at what beers they considered their favorites—which ended up being similar to a juicy IPA—the team then scraped user-generated reviews for about 250 beers, pulling in about 40 website reviews per beer.
The end result: two distinct batches including a juicy IPA with blackberry and another with raspberry and lactose—an ingredient that has grown in popularity over the past year with the rise of what's known as the Milkshake IPA. (Huge Brews worked with a home-brewing startup in Brooklyn called Bitter and Esters, which provided brewing expertise and equipment.)
Huge Brews is calling its new line of brews Off-Brand IPA.
The process obviously began by looking at which beers the Huge Brews team had liked most—a data point they soon realized had been changing over time as tastes and trends evolved.
"The ingredients have shifted over the years," said Kenny Chung, Huge's director of SEO and the leader of Huge Brews. "We were looking back at the first year or two of ratings and the beers that won back then were just a really good standard IPA and sometimes even an American pilsner. These days, I doubt we even have a standard IPA winning on a weekly basis."
Huge's analytics team then used natural language processing and machine learning to identify core attributes for what makes the "ideal" beer. After that, the data was broken down into word buckets—based on categories like fruit, color, body, opacity, and alcohol by volume—and then organized in a way similar to how a wine aroma chart might organize grape varieties.
Once they came up with a general type of beer they wanted to brew, the team looked back at the categories to see which were rated highly, then used that as a jumping of point. Based on the data, that meant the recipe should be full of citrus, tropical notes and berries along with with a flavor that was both sour and also "oak slash aged," according to Chung.
"[Veteran brewers] did tell us that the most important thing when brewing beer is note taking," he said. "And that's how most people refine the recipes, so it was definitely in line with how we were approaching it with a data-informed approach."
The beer, which was finally ready for tasting earlier this week, was then bottled and capped with labeling designs headed up by Huge's chief design officer, Derek Fridman.
"We actually did an internal taste test and everyone gave it a thumbs up," Chung said. "We're careful to not be too experimental and did things a little more broadly."
While the agency isn't licensed to sell the beer, it does plan to let a larger group of employees try it at a staff gathering on Friday.
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To commemorate the death anniversary of freedom fighter Subramania Bharati, Tamil Nadu government has declared September 11 as 'Mahakavi' Day. Bharati's innovative contributions to Tamil poetry and prose are considered to have sparked a Renaissance in 20th CE Tamil literature. But he also wrote extensively in English, of which little is known. In The Coming Age, published by Penguin Modern Classics, edited and presented by his great-granddaughter Mira T Sundara Rajan, we get a peep into Bharati's original English writings.
Mira T Sundara Rajan is a writer, a classical pianist, and a scholar and professor who holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University. She is the daughter of Bharati scholar S. Vijaya Bharati, and a great-granddaughter of Mahakavi Bharati. In this conversation, Sundara Rajan speaks about Bharati's everlasting relevance, his long-term agenda for writing in English, and his love for music, and shares some personal stories from his life.


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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — After 13 years of legal battles, O.J. Simpson, his former agent, and Fred Goldman have agreed to donate Simpson's so-called "acquittal suit" to the Smithsonian Institution.
The agreement came Monday during a court hearing after a judge called Simpson at a Nevada prison where he is incarcerated. His lawyer said Simpson's only requirement was no one should profit from the suit, shirt and tie.
Simpson's former agent Mike Gilbert, who has posession of the clothing, came up with the idea of a donation to end years of disputes. He said neither he nor any of the lawyers had contacted the Smithsonian to see if they want it. If not, the agreement says they will designate another museum or institution of higher learning to accept it.
Evidence of O.J Simpson's innocence was held back in the 1995 trial in which he was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, one of his former lawyers says in a new document.
In the 20,000-word document, F. Lee Bailey tells of four people who could have bolstered Simpson's case but never testified. He also gives an overview of the sensational trial from his own perspective.
Simpson was found not guilty. Most Americans are convinced that he is guilty, Bailey said, but the document might persuade some doubters that he is innocent.
Bailey wrote the document, "The Simpson Verdict," in 2007 as a proposal for a book that never materialized. He published it on his website Sunday.
"It's time somebody put out the real facts of the case," he told The Associated Press.
In the document, Bailey said the defense team was prepared to call four people who never testified -- a forensic scientist, an expert on battered women, a blood expert and the person whose possible testimony he says is the most important of the four: a man who might have seen the killers.
That witness, he wrote, saw a woman the night of the murders matching Nicole Simpson's description in an apparent confrontation with two men, neither of whom was O.J. Simpson. Upon hearing of the murders the next day, the witness recalled what he saw on a tape recording and wrote a detailed description and sketch of his observations.
But the defense team decided not to call any of the four to the witness stand out of fear that additional jurors would be dismissed and a mistrial declared if the eight-month trial didn't soon end, Bailey wrote. Bailey said Monday he thinks the real killers were out to collect a drug debt and killed Nicole Simpson and Goldman after mistaking them for their targets.
The document might sway a sector of the public into believing in Simpson's innocence in the 1995 case, Bailey said. But he knows there's another group whose minds couldn't be changed "with a sledgehammer," and thinks the trial damaged his reputation among that group.
"Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging," he said. "I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal."
Bailey was part of Simpson's defense team when the former NFL star was acquitted in the June 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
Bailey, who now lives and works as a consultant in this town 10 miles north of Portland, said his agent asked him to write an overview of the Simpson case for a publisher who was interested in a book. But the idea was shelved following the turmoil and eventual cancellation of Simpson's book, "If I Did It," in which Simpson put forth a hypothetical description of the murders.
But Bailey has shared his document with several dozen people over the years, and a number of them have urged him to release it. His website developer suggested he put it online, and it first appeared on both his website and that of the Portland Press Herald newspaper.
Although Simpson was found not guilty in a court of law, Bailey said it's important to prove him innocent in the court of public opinion.
"O.J. has what I call the damnation of an acquittal," Bailey said.
The last time Bailey talked to Simpson was in 2008, the night before Simpson he was found guilty of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges for his role in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel. He is serving a nine- to 33-year sentence.
Bailey said he isn't shopping his document in hopes of a book deal -- although he wouldn't turn down the right offer -- but still hopes to get it into the public arena.
He's not surprised that the document got more than 20,000 hits its first day online.
"I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.,'" he said.
Besides Simpson, Bailey has represented clients including Dr. Sam Sheppard, Patricia Hearst and Albert DeSalvo, the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, over the course of a storied legal career. He has also been a controversial figure, and has been barred from practicing law in Florida and Massachusetts.
Bailey was disbarred in Florida in 2001 for mishandling $6 million worth of stock for a client. After reviewing the Florida case, Massachusetts disbarred him two years later.
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March 14, 2011 | by Dennis N. Brager
A father and son team of Miami hotel developers have been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy and filing false tax returns; the government alleges they tried to conceal more than $150 million in assets in offshore bank accounts, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Most of the allegations in this case stem from the sale of a New York hotel in 2000, which generated $33 million. They probably didn't need a tax attorney to tell them that putting unreported income in an offshore bank account was illegal.
Mauricio Cohen Assor, 77, and son, Leon Cohen-Levy, 46, of Miami Beach, FL, were arrested on Tax Day, April 15, 2010. Cohen Assor has been ordered to pay $9.3 million in restitution, while Cohen-Levy has been ordered to pay more than $7.7 million.
The Internal Revenue Service accused them of concealing more than $150 million in assets, including mansions, yachts, luxury cars and bank accounts. Together, they failed to report more than $49 million in income to the IRS.
"American taxpayers who seek anonymity and shelter behind foreign bank accounts in tax haven jurisdictions are simply running out of places to hide," said U.S. Attorney for the District of South Florida Wifredo A. Ferrer. "Those who evade their income tax obligations will be found and will be held accountable for their actions."
The case is another illustration of why taxpayers may want to take advantage of the Internal Revenue Service's Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative, which permits citizens to avoid criminal prosecution by voluntarily reporting offshore bank accounts and paying interest and penalties. The IRS requires Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBARs) be filed each year, which disclose bank accounts that have a value of more than $10,000 at any point during the reporting year.
The two men were convicted of using shell companies and offshore tax havens in multiple jurisdictions, including the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. They are also accused of using shell companies to hide ownership of luxury homes and vehicles, file false tax returns, failing to file tax returns, and inducing witnesses to testify falsely under oath.
Cohen Assor and Cohen-Levy were the developers and owners of several hotels under the trade name Flatotel International, which had locations in France, Spain, Brussels and New York. About $33 million in proceeds from the sale of a New York hotel was transferred to HSBC in Switzerland and the income on the sale was never reported to U.S. authorities.
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Amsterdam, June 2, 2016 – BearingPoint, one of Europe's leading management and technology consultancies, had another strong year in 2015. The firm reported full-year revenue of 563.3 million euros, the highest level since the company's Management Buyout in 2009, and had record newly booked business. The consultancy delivered profitable and sustainable growth for the year, especially in the second half of 2015, and that has continued into the first quarter of 2016.
In 2015, BearingPoint reorganized its business and created three synergetic pillars: Consulting, Solutions, and Ventures. The three units work together to drive innovation, sustainable revenue, and client value. A large share of future growth is expected from the Solutions unit providing software solutions to deliver rapid results. BearingPoint invested heavily in this unit with a focus on digital transformation, regulatory solutions and advanced analytics. As a result, Solutions bookings grew by 44 percent. Another major step toward delivering more digital technology solutions was the acquisition of Helsinki-based Magenta Advisory, the leading independent management consultancy for digital business development in the Nordic region.
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Congressional Republicans are having a hard time agreeing on how to reform health care, and it's not clear what Congress will do next. In the meantime, insurers have filed their proposed rates for 2018 for plans in Tennessee's healthcare.gov Marketplace. Premiums across the state are set to rise, and some counties may have fewer options. If Congress cannot agree on legislative changes to the ACA, Tennessee's policymakers may want to consider the available state-level options and their trade-offs to reduce premiums and keep insurers in the individual market.
Status of Tennessee's Healthcare.gov Marketplace
Today, the healthcare.gov Marketplace covers just over 200,000 Tennesseans. That's about half of Tennessee's individual health insurance market. Since the Marketplace's launch in 2014, premiums have increased faster in Tennessee than other states. The number of participating insurers has also fallen in most parts of the state. These factors have likely contributed to the decline in Marketplace enrollment from 2016 to 2017 (Figure 1).
2014 Through Today
In 2014, Tennessee's Marketplace plans had some of the lowest premiums in the country (Figure 2). As it turned out, insurers had set premiums too low to cover their higher-than-expected costs and reported large losses for their Marketplace products. Premiums nationwide began rising faster than expected. In Tennessee, premiums more than doubled between 2014 and 2017 to become some of the highest in the country this year. As a result, 2 insurers faced unacceptable losses in their healthcare.gov products and left the state's Marketplace, and the co-op plan created under the ACA to serve the Marketplace closed down entirely.
Next Year's Forecast
According to the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, 3 insurers are tentatively willing to participate in Tennessee's Marketplace in 2018 (Figure 3). Most areas will have access to only 1 insurer. Blue Cross Blue Shield's proposed rates are on average 21% higher than in 2017. Cigna's proposed rates are 42% higher on average. Oscar Health (a new entrant) has proposed rates that are, on average, lower than those proposed by the other insurers.
Many view the recent premium increases and insurer exits as indicators that the state's Marketplace has become destabilized. Tennessee's Insurance Commissioner said in August 2016 that the state's individual health insurance market was "very near collapse."1
Some analysts, however, believe Marketplaces are stabilizing.2 They argue insurers lost money early on because they lacked sufficient information about the characteristics and costs of the people who would enroll. Enrollees in Tennessee's Marketplace had the 3rd highest "risk score" (i.e. expected costs) of any state in 2015, according to a recent analysis.3 This suggests the lower premiums in the early years of Tennessee's Marketplace were not sized to cover the actual costs of enrollees. Insurers' margins in the Marketplace have since improved, suggesting the more recent, much higher premiums come closer to covering enrollees' costs.
What Could Tennessee Do to Stabilize Its Individual Market?
Tennessee cannot substantially loosen the requirements for what and how much insurance plans must cover without an act of Congress. However, state policymakers have several more incremental options that might help reduce premium growth and stabilize the individual market. They include:
Creating a Reinsurance Program or High-Risk Pool
A federally-funded, state-run reinsurance or high-risk pool program could help reduce premiums in the state's healthcare.gov Marketplace by insulating insurers from the costs of covering high-risk individuals. Federal funding for state-run reinsurance and/or high-risk pool programs is available under current law, and the Trump administration has encouraged states to apply for it. Alaska recently became the first state to get approval for federal funding of its reinsurance program beginning next year.4 Each approach has its trade-offs (read a thorough discussion of them in our Reinsurance & High-Risk Pools piece), but they may help to make insurers' risk more predictable.
Prohibiting Non-ACA Compliant Insurance
Prohibiting lower-premium individual market plans that do not comply with ACA requirements might reduce premiums inside the Marketplace. These less expensive, less comprehensive plans attract younger, healthier individuals who keep risk pools broad and diverse and therefore more stable. The trade-off is that this would limit choice and likely increase premiums for people who currently have non-ACA compliant plans.
Transitional Plans
The Obama administration in 2014 gave states the discretion to allow individuals to keep non-ACA compliant plans purchased after the ACA became law but before it took effect. These "transitional" or "grandmothered" plans are currently allowed through the end of 2018. Tennessee is one of the states that allows transitional plans.
Because transitional plans have skinnier benefits than the ACA requires, the people who kept them are more likely to be younger and healthier than those who enrolled in the Marketplace. Recent studies have found that states with transitional plans have less healthy Marketplace risk pools and fewer participating insurers than other states.3,5
Farm Bureau Plans
Tennessee does not classify certain plans offered to Farm Bureau members as insurance. As a result, these plans do not have to comply with ACA rules like the essential health benefits and the prohibition on setting premiums based on a person's health status. Tennessee appears to be the only state with this type of exclusion6, which allows healthier individuals who might otherwise enter the Marketplace to retain lower premium, skinnier benefit plans. Individuals who purchase these plans don't get federal subsidies and must pay the ACA's individual mandate penalty.
Again, there are trade-offs to consider. Disallowing transitional and other non-ACA-compliant policies would end some healthier individuals' access to lower premium, less generous plans, but it could drive these individuals into the Marketplace for coverage, which may lower Marketplace premiums.
Expanding TennCare
Expanding TennCare eligibility — in whole or in part — might help to reduce Marketplace premiums. Two recent studies found that states that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA have healthier Marketplace risk pools and lower Marketplace premiums than non-expansion states.3,7 The lower-income populations that would become eligible for Medicaid under expansion tend to be less healthy and cost more than the Marketplace population. In non-expansion states, the sickest among them sign up for Marketplace coverage while the healthier tend to go uninsured. This makes a state's Marketplace risk pool more costly, which drives up premiums.
The trade-offs of expanding TennCare are that it would increase federal Medicaid spending and TennCare's administrative burden. The extent to which Tennessee might face increased state expenditures for the expansion would depend on the financing structure (e.g. use of hospital assessment fees, the federal match rate).
Limitations of State Action Alone
It is worth noting that, while state actions have the potential to improve Tennessee's Marketplace, insurers face uncertainties that are outside the control of state policymakers. One example is enforcement of the ACA's individual mandate. The individual mandate requires that every individual purchase insurance or face a monetary penalty. It is designed to increase participation by younger, healthier individuals, in support of a broad risk pool. The U.S. House and Senate bills would have eliminated the individual mandate but replaced it with continuous coverage provisions that seek to accomplish the same goal.
Without a strong incentive for lower-risk individuals to buy insurance, the individual market is at risk of becoming increasingly unstable. Although the mechanism is politically divisive, federal enforcement of the ACA's individual mandate is one effective tool for helping to broaden risk in the individual market in the absence of an alternative mechanism.
The ACA (like its alternatives) represents a distinct set of trade-offs that can be politically divisive. If Congress is unable to reach consensus on legislative changes to the ACA, however, it will remain the law of the land. Given the uncertainty over Congressional action, state policymakers should consider the tools and trade-offs available under current law that could improve Tennessee's individual health insurance market.
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1 Fletcher, Holly. "Tennessee Insurance Commissioner: Obamacare Exchange 'Very Near Collapse'." The Tennessean. August 23, 2016. http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2016/08/23/insurers-get-approval-for-2017-obamacare-rates/89196762/
2 Cynthia Cox and Larry Levitt. "Individual Insurance Market Performance in Early 2017." Kaiser Family Foundation. July 10, 2017. http://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/individual-insurance-market-performance-in-early-2017
3 Ashley Semanskee, Cynthia Cox, and Larry Levitt. "Data Note: Effect of State Decisions on State Risk Pools." Kaiser Family Foundation. October 2016. http://files.kff.org/attachment/Data-Note-Effect-of-State-Decisions-on-State-Risk-Pools
4 "Alaska Gets a State Innovation Waiver to Bring Down Premiums." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. July 11, 2017. https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/empowering-patients/providing-relief-right-now-for-patients/alaska-gets-state-innovation-waiver-to-bring-down-premiums/index.html
5 John Holahan, Linda Blumberg, and Erik Wengle. "What Characterizes the Marketplaces with One or Two Insurers?" Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute. May 2017. http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/90211/2001265-what_characterizes_the_marketplaces_with_one_or_two_insurers_0.pdf
6 Kevin Lucia and Sabrina Corlette. "What's Going on in Tennessee? One Possible Reason for Its Affordable Care Act Challenges." Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. April 11, 2017. http://chirblog.org/whats-going-tennessee-one-possible-reason-affordable-care-act-challenges/
7 Aditi P. Sen and Thomas DeLeire. "The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Marketplace Premiums." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. September 6, 2016. https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/206761/McaidExpMktplPrem.pdf
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