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Dasuki: Appeal Court Varies Bail Condition, Faults Choice Of Civil Servants As Sureties
A file photo of the Court of Appeal in Abuja
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has acceded, to the request of the detained former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki for the variation of the terms attached to the bail earlier granted him.
In a unanimous judgment, a three-man panel of the court expunged the requirement that Dasuki produced a Level 16 civil servant, who must own a property worth N100million within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as surety.
Justice Stephen Adah, in the lead judgment, said the inclusion of civil servants as surety was an oversight on the part of the court.
He ordered that Colonel Dasuki should instead; produce two sureties, with property worth N100 million within the FCT.
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Colonel Dasuki, who is currently being held in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) despite being granted bail, challenged his continued detention (since December 2015) before the Federal High Court in Abuja via a fundamental rights enforcement suit.
In a judgment on July 2, 2018, the Federal High Court granted Dasuki bail but attached conditions, which the ex-NSA found too stringent to meet.
He asked to the appeal court on that issue and sought a review of the bail conditions, a request the appellate court acceded to in its decision of June 13, 2019.
Part of the new conditions set by the Court of Appeal was that Dasuki produces a surety, who must be a Level 16 official in the Civil Service of either the Federal or state government, who must own a property worth N100m within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Dasuki found this part of the latest conditions difficult to meet and returned to the court, via an application, and prayed for a further review.
He stated, in the application that it was difficult to find a Level 16 Civil Servant who could own N100m worth of property in Abuja through his legitimate earnings.
Justice Adah, in the Appeal Court judgment, said the court's decision to request that Dasuki produce a civil servant as surety was an oversight.
He said: "Of concern to us is that we as a court must be ready and sensitive enough not to do anything that will run against the laws of the land.
"The issue of involving civil servants or public officers in the service of the federation or the state in bail of people accused of offences has never been the practice anywhere that is civilised, and we should stop it at this level.
"It was an error that we allowed that to stay. So, it is in this respect that we will act ex debito justitiae (as a matter of right) ensuring that aspect of the condition is removed from the conditions of bail that were granted.
"It is in this respect that we grant this application, thereby inaugurating a new regime of bail. Bail is now granted to the appellant/applicant in the sum of N100m with two sureties in like sum.
"The sureties shall be resident within the jurisdiction of the trial court and each of which shall furnish evidence of ownership of the property in Abuja. This shall be the order of the court," Justice Adah said.
Justices Abubakar Yahaya and Emmanuel Agim, who were also on the panel, agreed with the lead judgment.
Posted on November 22, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories LocalTags Court of Appeal, National Security Adviser, Sambo DasukiLeave a comment on Dasuki: Appeal Court Varies Bail Condition, Faults Choice Of Civil Servants As Sureties
Appeal Court Affirms Darius Ishaku As Taraba Governor
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has upheld the judgment of the Taraba state governorship election petition Tribunal, which affirmed Mr Darius Ishaku of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), as the duly elected Governor of the state.
A five-man panel of the court led by Justice Chidi Uwa held that the All Progressive Congress (APC) had no candidate in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Taraba state, by virtue of the disqualification of Mr Abubakar Danladi, by a Federal High Court in Jalingo on the 6th of March 2019.
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The Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had on the 20th of September 2019, delivered a judgment that Mr Danladi was not qualified to contest the 2019 election and that the appellants failed to prove their claims that the election was marred by irregularities and failure to comply with the electoral act. It dismissed the appeal for lacking merit.
Posted on November 18, 2019 November 19, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories PoliticsTags Abubakar Danladi, APC, Court of Appeal, Darius Ishaku, PDPLeave a comment on Appeal Court Affirms Darius Ishaku As Taraba Governor
Appeal Court Dismisses Ogboru's Appeal, Upholds Okowa's Victory As Delta Governor
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed the case filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Great Ogboru on the March 2019 Governorship Elections in Delta state for lacking in merit.
A unanimous decision by a panel of five justices affirmed the decisions of the tribunal which upheld the victory of Ifeanyi Okowa as Governor of the state.
Mr. Ogboru had approached the appellate court in a bid to upturn the September judgement of the elections tribunal that dismissed its petition seeking the cancellation of the March 2019 elections in which Okowa was declared a winner for lacking in merit.
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The APC candidate who appealed on 37 grounds stated that the tribunal erred on the point of law.
He contended that the total number of votes declared for the PDP candidate outnumbered the total number of accredited voters during the elections.
But the appeal court ruled in favour of the respondent, Ifeanyi Okowa on the ground that the appellant is unable to prove the case.
The panel also held that the appellant was unable to mention at least one accredited voters who did not vote in the election, nor was he able to call at least an agent of the political party who on the point of law is the most qualified person to testify in a case of over-voting.
The court, however, dismissed the entire appeal for lacking in merit.
It affirmed the decisions of the tribunal which upheld the victory of Ifeanyi Okowa in the March 2019 governorship election.
No cost was however awarded against the appellant.
Posted on November 15, 2019 November 15, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories PoliticsTags Court of Appeal, Delta State, Great Ogboru, Ifeanyi OkowaLeave a comment on Appeal Court Dismisses Ogboru's Appeal, Upholds Okowa's Victory As Delta Governor
Delta Election: Court Reserves Ruling In Appeal Filed By APC's Great Ogboru
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Chief Great Ogboru, against the election of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as the Governor of Delta State.
A five-man panel of the court led by Justice Uzo Ndukwe-Anyanwu, reserved judgment on Monday after the lawyers to the parties in the appeal adopted and argued their final briefs.
Chief Ogboru is seeking a reversal of the decision of the Delta State governorship election petition tribunal which returned Senator Okowa as the winner of the March 9 governorship election.
He had raised 37 appeals through his lawyer, Mr Nicholson Ichekor, upon which he is asking the court of appeal to set aside the entire judgment of the tribunal.
The APC candidate alleged over-voting and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.
Posted on November 12, 2019 November 12, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories PoliticsTags APC, Court of Appeal, Delta State, Election, Great Ogboru, Okowa, PDPLeave a comment on Delta Election: Court Reserves Ruling In Appeal Filed By APC's Great Ogboru
Appeal Court Sacks Senate Spokesman, Adeyeye
The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal has nullified the election of spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye.
The Appellate Court subsequently upheld the tribunal judgment which declared Senator Biodun Olujimi and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party as winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February 23.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressive Congress as winner of the February 23 , 2019 National Assembly election , but Mrs Olujimi challenged the result at the tribunal on the grounds that she scored the highest number of votes cast.
READ ALSO: Ekiti South: Tribunal Sacks Senate's Spokesman Adeyeye, Declares Olujimi Winner
In her petition, Senator Olujimi asked the tribunal to nullify Adeyeye's victory on the grounds that the election was marred by massive irregularities .
In her written address, the petitioner claimed that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Acts, having been allegedly fraught with all manners of irregularities. The tribunal in its judgment nullified elections in some polling units and declared Mrs Olujimi the authentic winner of the polls.
Dissatisfied with the tribunal judgment, both Adeyeye and His party, APC filed a petition at the court of appeal asking it to set aside the ruling of the lower court.
However, while delivering a unanimous judgement on Wednesday in Kaduna state, , Justice Uzor Anyanwu upheld the judgment of the tribunal and ordered INEC to issue fresh certificate of return to Senator Biodun Olujimi.
Posted on November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories PoliticsTags Court of Appeal, Dayo Adeyeye, KadunaLeave a comment on Appeal Court Sacks Senate Spokesman, Adeyeye
Appeal Court Upholds Senator Sani's Election, Dismisses PDP's Petition
A Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna State has upheld the election of Senator Uba Sani as the lawmaker representing Kaduna Central senatorial district in the National Assembly.
Senator Sani, a former political adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State won the February 23 National Assembly election in the zone with 355,242 votes.
He defeated his closest rival in the poll, Lawal Adamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 197,497 votes.
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Adamu and his party had petitioned the Election Petitions Tribunal alleging that the exercise was marred by massive rigging, ballot-box stuffing and snatching, as well as intimidation of voters among other claims.
The Tribunal had dismissed their petition for lack of merit but the appellants were not satisfied with the judgement, prompting them to challenge the verdict at the appeal court.
In a unanimous judgment delivered on Monday, the appellate court dismissed Adamu's suit for lacking in merit and upheld Senator Sani's election.
The court agreed with the August 24 judgement of the Tribunal which ruled that the petitioners failed to provide substantial evidence of all the allegations contained in their petition.
Following the ruling of the court, counsels to the PDP and its candidate did not react.
Counsel to Senator Sani, Sule Shuiabu, on his part, described the judgement as victory for democracy and rule of law.
He added that both judgments by the Tribunal and the Appellate Court were a clear affirmation of the wish of the people of Kaduna Central district who voted overwhelmingly for his client.
Posted on October 21, 2019 October 21, 2019 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories PoliticsTags Court, Court of Appeal, Kaduna, Uba SaniLeave a comment on Appeal Court Upholds Senator Sani's Election, Dismisses PDP's Petition
PHOTOS: Security Operatives Barricade Appeal Court Premises
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A combined team of security operatives from the Army, Police and Civil Defence have barricaded the premises of the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
The appellate court serves as the venue for the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Nuhu Ribadu and Uche Secondus
Posted on May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories In PicturesTags Court of Appeal, Presidential Election Petition TribunalLeave a comment on PHOTOS: Security Operatives Barricade Appeal Court Premises
Appeal Court To Deliver Judgment In Onnoghen's Appeal Today
The Court of Appeal has has fixed Friday to deliver judgement in the various appeals filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Justice Onnoghen had filed various appeals concerning his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal where he was tried and convicted for false asset charges.
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It is not clear which of the appeals pending at the appeal court will be decided on Friday, but some of the appeals before the appellate court include an appeal against the decision of the chairman of the tribunal mister , Danladi Umar, who refused to recuse himself from the matter on allegation of bias by justice Onnoghen.
Justice Onnoghen is also challenging the legality of his trial at the CCT.
He is also challenging the order of the tribunal which instructed the president to suspend him from office, an order President Muhammadu Buhari relied on to suspend the chief justice.
Posted on May 9, 2019 May 10, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories LocalTags Court of Appeal, Danladi Umar, Justice Walter Onnoghen, OnnoghenLeave a comment on Appeal Court To Deliver Judgment In Onnoghen's Appeal Today
[UPDATE] Statutory Levies: Appeal Court Dismisses NLNG Suit Challenging NIMASA's Powers
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, today has dismissed a judgment of the Federal High Court, which declared as illegal, levies imposed on Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
The NLNG in 2013, had approached the Federal High Court, seeking a judicial determination of (among other things), the legality or otherwise of the levies sought to be imposed on it by NIMASA, on behalf of the Federal Government and the consequent blockade of the Bonny Channel by NIMASA and its agents as a result of the dispute.
In Oct 2013, the Federal High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Muhammed Idris, (who has now been elevated to Court of Appeal) held that NLNG, was not liable to pay three percent gross freight on its international inbound and outbound cargo, Sea Protection Levy, two per cent cabotage surcharge on all activities carried out for and on its behalf, as well as other sundry claims, as insisted by NIMASA.
Justice Idris also held that NLNG was not liable to make the said payments to NIMASA and that all payments already made by NLNG to NIMASA should be refunded to NLNG forthwith.
The judge further held that NIMASA was wrong in blockading the Bonny Channel for the purpose of enforcing the payments against NLNG.
Dissatisfied with Justice Idris' decisions, NIMASA filed an appeal before the Appeal Court in Oct 2017, challenging the judgment on the ground of fair hearing among other grounds.
In a unanimous judgment delivered today, Friday the three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Garuba Lawal held that the Federal High Court was wrong.
They, therefore, dismissed the judgment of the lower court for lack of fair hearing
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The Appeal Court also ordered that the matter be taken back to the Federal High Court and be reassigned to another judge for retrial.
The judgment which was read by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, on behalf of the panel members held: "The appeal is allowed, and the judgment delivered by the lower court in October 2017 is hereby set aside".
"The case is hereby ordered to be sent back to the administrative judge of the Lagos Division of the lower court to be assigned to a judge for expeditious determination on its merit.
'Parties are to bear the administrative cost of the appeal."
In its suit before the court of appeal, NIMASA claimed that NLNG is liable to pay three per cent gross freight on its international in-bound and out-bound cargo as sea protection levy.
It also claims NLNG is to pay two per cent cabotage surcharge on all activities carried out for and on its behalf as well as other sundry claims.
All of these claims were, however, disputed by the NLNG which claimed it lost about 475 million dollars while NIMASA blocked Bonny Channel.
NIMASA says that with today's judgment, the status quo is to remain and NIMASA will continue to collect statutory levies from NLNG on behalf of FG.
Posted on March 29, 2019 March 29, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories LocalTags Court of Appeal, NIMASA, NLNGLeave a comment on [UPDATE] Statutory Levies: Appeal Court Dismisses NLNG Suit Challenging NIMASA's Powers
Court Reduces Jolly Nyame's Jail Term, Orders Him To Pay N495m Fine
File photo: Jolly Nyame
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reduced the jail term of the former governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame from 14 years to 12 years.
The court also fined the former governor the sum of N495million.
The lead judgment on Friday held that the lower court erred when it took it upon itself not to impose fine as such in counts 1, 2 and 6 that have to do with criminal breach of trust.
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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja had earlier this year sentenced the former to 14 years imprisonment after being convicted of misappropriating N1.64 billion from the state's treasury through shoddy stationery contracts which he awarded at the tail of his eight years administration in 2007.
Posted on November 16, 2018 November 16, 2018 Author Ronke IdowuCategories HeadlinesTags Court of Appeal, Jolly NyameLeave a comment on Court Reduces Jolly Nyame's Jail Term, Orders Him To Pay N495m Fine
Buhari Approves Appointment Of 21 New Judges For Appeal, High Courts
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of new Judicial Officers for the Court of Appeal, Federal High Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.
A total of 12 news judges were approved for the Court of Appeal, nine judges approved for the Federal High Court.
Also, seven judges were approved for the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.
The twelve Justices approved for the Court of Appeal are:
Hon. (Mr) Justice P. A. Mahmud
Hon. (Mr) Justice F. O. Ojo
Hon. (Mr) Justice I. A. Andenyangsto
Hon. (Mr) Justice G. O. Kolawole
Hon. (Mr) Justice B. B. Aliyu
Hon. (Mr) Justice Ebiowei Tobi
Hon. (Mr) Justice J. G. Abundaga
Hon. (Mr) Justice A. S. Umar
Hon. (Mr) Justice A. M. Talba
Hon. (Mr) Justice A. M. Bayero
Hon. (Mr) Justice A. M. Lamido
Hon. (Mr) Justice M. B. Idris
The nine judges approved for the Federal High Court are:
Sunday Bassey Onu
Mrs. Adefunmilola Adekemi Demi-Ajayi
Hon. (Mr) Justice Peter O. Lifu
Obiora Atuegwu Egwuata
Sa'adatu Ibrahim Mark (Mrs)
Mobolaji Olubukola Olajuwon
Aminu Bappa Aliyu
Tijjani Garba Ringim
Nkeonye Evelyn Maha
The seven Judges for the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory are:
Binta Mohammed
Modupe Osho-Adebiyi
Gaba Venchak Simon
Babangida Hassan
Akobi Iyabeni Anna
Samirah Umar Bature
Asmau Akanbi Yusuf
The Justices of the Court of Appeal will be sworn-in by the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, National Judicial Council, Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen on Friday June 22, 2018, by 10.00 am.
Those appointed for the Federal High Court will be sworn-in on Monday, June, 25 2018, at 2.00 pm.
Judges appointed for the High Court of the FCT are to be sworn-in on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, by 2.00 pm at the Main Hall of the Court Room of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Posted on June 20, 2018 June 21, 2018 Author Ronke IdowuCategories LocalTags Court of Appeal, Federal High Court, President Muhammadu BuhariLeave a comment on Buhari Approves Appointment Of 21 New Judges For Appeal, High Courts
Extradition: Kashamu Challenges Appeal Court Decision, Approaches Supreme Court
The lawmaker representing Ogun East senatorial district, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has approached the Supreme Court asking it to enforce his rights.
Through his lawyers, Senator Kashamu filed two notices of appeal at the apex court, urging it to set aside the judgement of the Court of Appeal which dismissed his fundamental rights suit on Friday last week.
READ ALSO: Kashamu Loses Appeal As Court Vacates Injunction Restraining Extradition
Addressing reporters on Tuesday in Lagos after filing the suit, the lawmaker noted that the appellate court erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice by dismissing his objections.
He also argued that his affidavit before the Court of Appeal was full of facts showing the conclusion of a plot by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and others to purportedly abduct and transport him to the United States to face trial over alleged offences in respect of which he had been exonerated.
Senator Kashamu added that the Court of Appeal was wrong in assuming that he ought to wait until the plot to have him abducted had been executed before he approached the court for redress.
He further took a swipe at certain interpretations given to the Court of Appeal judgment.
The lawmaker urged the Attorney-General Of the Federation not to allow his office to be used to punish an innocent Nigerian, in a bid to satisfy the desire of some political opponents or external forces whose interest was to seek and gain political advantage.
Posted on May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories LocalTags Buruji Kashamu, Court of Appeal, Supreme CourtLeave a comment on Extradition: Kashamu Challenges Appeal Court Decision, Approaches Supreme Court


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Gregory's Girl
"... there's a little bit of him in all of us."
Gregory's Girl is a coming-of-age romantic comedy that follows the main character, Gregory, and his awkward interactions with the girl he is after, Dorothy. Gregory is at the age where boys are starting to pay attention to women, and Dorothy gets him a spot on the school football team. In fact, she is even a better player than him! This hilarious comedy takes place in Scotland, and is a great film for reliving some of our own old school memories.
| 1980 | 1 hr 31 min | 7.1/10
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A report was commissioned last year after the accessing of journalists' records.
The NUJ is seeking to meet the watchdog over its accessing of private data.
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Games of the week for 06/22/08: Cheeky Muslim edition
Posted 15 years ago by James Stephanie Sterling
I have recently been getting into the comedy work of Ross Noble, a fine Geordie fellow who only writes about 5% of his shows and improvises the rest, using the audience to help spur his random, insane tangents along. I only saw one set of his on TV ages ago and recently decided to track down more. There are some full shows on Youtube that I recommend, should you enjoy the above. The fact that most of it totally comes out of nowhere and on the spot is pretty impressive.
Also, the people at Binge Gamer awarded me their Lager of Excellence award for my Employing Jack Thompson article which ran earlier in the week. I humbly accept this prestigious beverage-based award in the name of Destructoid!
Also also, there were videogames to be had this week by all in Dtoid Land. You can check out our alibis after the stupid jump.
Jim: ITALICS ITALICS ITALICS PLEEEEEEASE!
(exceptNickhegetsafreepass)
Hamza: I played some Halo 3 like every week and went out to San Francisco a couple of times to play Smash Court Tennis 3, Deer Hunter Tournament, N+ and Legendary for the third time.
Savant: This past week has been nothing but training for the SUPER SUMMER SMASH-OFF. Unsure what that is? Yeah, well, it's just a small 2v2 Smash Brawl tournament my buddies are throwing. Things have gotten pretty heated, and some serious sh!t is really going down, for sure.
We were looking for a suitable trophy just the other day. We stumbled across a pimp cup at Spencer's. It was green, mean, and had a huge money sign on it. As fitting as this may seem, we decided against buying it because the damn thing cost $20. Oh well.
What else? Hmm… Oh! I bought Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy for the Wii this week. As a shmup fan, this game is nirvana in disc format. The editors are rich and complex, yet basic and accessible. For anyone who enjoys games like Gradius, R-Type, or even Katamari Damacy, you really need to check this one out.
Nick: Slow week for gaming on my end. Still making my way through my Prizefighter career, and Don King is still hilarious. The coming week should be better. I bought Space Invaders Extreme for the DS, Spore Creature Creator, and I just got a preview build of a game whose name rhymes with Faxanadu Clue Pan.
Jim: Been all about the DS this week. Some Elite Beat Agents, and more Pokémon than any sane man should be allowed to enjoy. Beautifly fucking OWNS you, you cunts!
Also, I've been playing Lunar Knights, and there is so much wrong with that game it hurts, especially as it comes from Hideo "God" Kojima. It's a great game in theory, but the retarded blocking, restricting energy recovery system, tiny inventory and badly paced combat really ruin what could have been an amazing action game. I'm still going to play through it, but the more I do, the more disappointing I'm getting.
Topher: Stop what you're doing and go get a copy of Soul Bubbles for the DS. I've been enjoying that game more than I have anything on Nintendo's handheld in quite a while. Aside from that, I've just been playing preview builds of stuff Nick told me not to talk about, so I won't, because he hits when he's angry. And it hurts. On the inside. 🙁
DMV: After finishing Metal Gear Solid 4, I went ahead and played some River City Ransom, Escape from Bug Island, and Red Steel with friends. Been running around a lot, so gameplay time has been minimized. Instead, I'm hanging out at AnimeNEXT, where you can see all the coverage over on Japanator.
Colette: Playing Carcassone and Puzzle Quest on Live, Rock Band to work on my World Tour, Indiana Jones Lego for my DS and Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for Wii, which I'm really enjoying despite the fact it's on rails.
Samit: Is it bad that I've been sitting here for five minutes, staring at Nick's blurb and trying to figure out what in the hell he's talking about with that rhyme there? Yeah, it's bad, isn't it? Damn it.
Anyway, I saved right before the "big choice" at the end of GTA IV, so I was able to play through both endings. Saying I liked the "green icon" ending over the "red icon" one isn't a spoiler, right? It is? Well, too frickin' bad. I don't feel that way. Now that I'm done with the story of the game, I'd like to keep playing because I think I'm a little under 70% done, but other games await…
By that, I mean The Orange Box. I booted up Half-Life 2 yesterday and noticed that the date on my most recent save file was May 19th (in other words, I hadn't played the game in a month). So I traipsed all the way through Route Kanal with my trusty airboat, and I saved right at the beginning of the next chapter, Black Mesa East. That game is awesome.
Niero: I'm playing with aluminum foil and sticks! And replaying though MGS2 🙂
Gameboi: Other than a brief romp with Rock Band, it was Metal Gear 4 once again. Nothing else managed to capture my limited attention span this week.
P.S. It was hard not to italicize the entire thing, Jim. You tempted me 😉
Dale: I wish I had something interesting and rare to list, but I don't. This past week, 100% of my gaming time has been dedicated to Metal Gear Solid 4. As a reviewer on the game, Brad Rice was playing this game way before the rest of us. He asked me to let him know when I got to Act 4 of MGS4. A few days back I finally found out why. Amazing!
Justin: All the good buzz MGS4 has been getting finally prompted me to play through Metal Gear Solid — I've only ever played Snake Eater — and start on Sons of Liberty. I'll be playing as Old Snake soon enough.
I also started on Terranigma, which has been pretty fun so far.
Chad: This week it was nothing but (more) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, N+, and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Xbox 360 version). I don't know what it is about those LEGO games, but, man, I love them so much.
Samit: I presume you finally figured out how to save in LEGO Indiana Jones, then?
Chad: Yes, I did. I think there was a glitch, as when I restarted it auto-saved automatically. Unfortunately, there is a new dilemma — one ever more baffling than the first.
In order to get 100% in the game, you have to collect 10 artifacts in each level. On one stage, my artifact tracker accessory says two artifacts are in the same place. Perplexed, I checked online and found out there is only one there — the other is in another location. Well, the other location is empty and the tracker still tells me that another artifiact is still in the place I already got one.
Because of this, I will never be able to collect that final artifact, since the game thinks there is an artifact where there really isn't one. I guess another glitch. This one lethal as my OCD completionist side is so angry. Talk about annoying! 🙁 🙁 🙁
Hamza: Return your game, it's defective.
Samit: Yeah, I second that notion, Chad…try exchanging your copy.
Man, glitches piss me off so much. I remember this really annoying one in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (it's similar in that it prevented me from fully beating the game). You could get 116% completion in that game because Insomniac put in 16 "skill points" for doing extra stuff. One of them was beating this race within 30 seconds or something. I was able to get my time down to, like, under 27 seconds…but it never gave me the damn skill point. Being stuck at 115% was so aggravating, ugh.
Nick: Why does this games of the week emailer keep turning into multi-thread
conversations? Jim's job is hard enough, what with me not italicizing anything. Ever.
Jim: Yeah, you fucking clutzes never think of Jim "has to italicize everything Nick Chester has ever written" Sterling, do you? Do you? I also have to transcribe your insane drivel and Hamza's drunken shenanigans every week.
Hamza: Ohhh poor you Jim, you have to work so hard writing two paragraphs that have nothing to do with videogames and then copy pastaing our writing. WAHHHHHHHHHH 😀
Jim: Well I know I'll never make the sacrifices you do. I don't envy those back-breaking hours spent looking at half naked gamer girls and getting drunk on a Sunday afternoon.
Dyson: I love this column. To bad it always gets posted around the ass crack of the evening here in Cali.
If anyone cares, though, I'm about to play some Zack and Wiki. I feel it's high time I completed this game, and thanks to Tactix's twitter about it, I'm making the rest of my day about playing it.
Also, Happy Birthday Husky Hog!
Samit: Zack & Wiki is awesome. Two of my best friends own it, and we some great times on a couple of evenings just sitting there solving puzzles as a group. They never beat it, though; apparently, the last puzzle is hard, but not in a good way — they said it was poorly designed and "stupidly hard", and it's too long (so if you fail, you have to go all the way back to the beginning).
Hamza: I get drunk Saturday nights thank you very much.
Jim: Then I retract all admiration. That takes no effort at all.
Hamza: … 🙁
James Stephanie Sterling


Bud Kaeding, Levi Jones, Kody Swanson and Bryan Clauson all enter this Saturday afternoon's "Rollie Beale 150" at the Toledo (Ohio) Speedway with a mathematical chance to win the 2010 USAC Silver Crown driving championship.
Kaeding leads Jones by a single point, with Swanson 27 back and Clauson 49 in arrears. A total of 66 points are available at Toledo, where a 150-lap race is on tap, honoring the former USAC Sprint Car Champion (1973) and Chief Steward who posted 32 career wins in USAC competition.
Jones, of Olney, Ill., caught leader Dave Darland on lap 95 and led the final six laps of Saturday night's 100-lap USAC Silver Crown "Sumar Classic" at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track. Jones was followed at the checkered flag by his Tony Stewart Racing teammate Bryan Clauson, Shane Cottle, Terry Babb and Kody Swanson. Jones piloted the Bass Pro Shops/Armor All Beast/Kistler Chevy to the win, his second this season.
Darland flipped on lap 99 trying to regain the lead from Jones and officially finished ninth. Pole starter Jon Stanbrough failed to finish. Kaeding led 17 laps of the race but finished 15th.
Shane Hmiel suffered critical injuries in a single-car qualifying accident and was transported to Indianapolis' Methodist Hospital for treatment of neck and back fractures.
Saturday's Toledo activity gets under way with practice at 12:30 pm. A USAC Regional Midget "special event" is also planned as part of the day's racing schedule.


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Tuft and Needle Mattress Reviews
February 12, 2019 December 12, 2018 Pain Away Devices Team
A quality mattress is a difference between restful sleep and early-morning grogginess. It may not seem like much, but if you've ever suffered from a bad mattress you know what that lost rest can do for the rest of your day. Feeling tired makes you unproductive, lethargic, and ready to crawl back into bed even after you've just left it. This article is going to review the Tuft and Needle mattress.
If it's been a while since you've shopped around for a mattress, you're probably most familiar with mattresses made with metal springs. You've heard of memory foam, sure, but aren't those mattresses incredibly expensive? Well, there are some top-of-the-line mattresses which do command a high price, but plenty of them offer an outstanding product for a reasonable sum.
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Competition in the Market
What is a Tuft and Needle Mattress?
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Product Specs of Tuft and Needle Mattress
Pricing of Tuft and Needle Mattress
How The Tuft and Needle Mattress Compares
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Contains latex and polyester, which could trigger allergies
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It's because there is so much competition in the mattress marketplace that consumers have watched mattresses improve in the past decade. When it comes to mattress shopping, there's a lot less hassle and guesswork than there once were. Armed with the right information, you can make an informed choice on a comfortable, supportive mattress without having to shell out all that cash you've got hiding under the box spring.
Come to think of it; if you do keep wads of bills under your mattress at home, then you might have identified why you're not getting such a good night's sleep in the first place!
The Tuft and Needle mattress came onto the scene with a new kind of business model designed to shake up the industry and deliver directly to consumers. For years, the mattress business had been dominated by companies which set prices artificially high so that dealers could then mark down those prices and attract customers with promises of "low prices" and "amazing savings."
But Tuft and Needle saw an opportunity to draw in consumers by selling their mattresses at a reasonable price right from the start with no gimmicks. The Tuft and Needle mattress are made with a foam layer they designed in-house, which means that you won't find the same material used in a competitor's mattress.
The proprietary foam layer is not only comfortable, enveloping your body as soon as you lie down, it also takes the pressure off those areas of your body where it's needed most. Pressure points vary depending on how you sleep.
If you sleep on your back, it's your head and back that need the most support. For side sleepers, it's the arms and thighs. And for those of us who sleep on our stomachs, that's the part that needs to have the pressure eased. The Tuft and Needle mattress were tested by sleepers who favor each of these positions and passed the test with each.
Since it's on the firmer side, side sleepers said they prefer other mattresses which are a little softer. The firmness is higher than will be ideal for some, so if you feel that a softer mattress is a better fit for you then you might consider a different mattress instead.
The mattress consists of two parts, the comfort layer, and the base layer. The comfort layer weighs around 3 pounds and is 3 inches thick. These 3 inches cushion your back, hips, and shoulders providing support for your whole body.
The base layer is 7 inches, bringing the combined total thickness to 10 inches, which is the same thickness as the Helix mattress which is also featured in this review. The base is there to support the comfort layer so that it maintains its shape even after several years.
Tuft and Needle mattresses come with an impressive 10-year warranty. Since buying a mattress is always a big commitment, what's great about Tuft and Needle is that they have an excellent return policy. If you're not happy with it, you can return it within 100 days of purchase.
There are mattresses that have an array of different features, some customizable based on preference. You won't find that from Tuft and Needle. Their aim is to build a good quality mattress that will appeal to a broad audience at a fair price. There are no bespoke options to choose from, no added features you can get if you upgrade.
Since size determines the price, the cost of a Tuft and Needle mattress will vary depending on what size unit you're looking for. The cheapest is a twin at roughly $325. The price goes all the way to a California King, which costs around $700. Interestingly, the King and California King both cost the same, despite a slight difference in size.
Since most buyers will be looking for either a Queen or King size, you can expect to pay approximately between $500-600, perhaps a little more with tax included. This makes it a reasonably-priced option for those who want a great mattress that won't break the bank.
We picked a couple of similar products available on the market to see how they compare:
Price (Depending On Size)
Temperature Regulation
Before you can purchase a Helix mattress, you've got to take a test. You won't need to answer trivia questions or solve differential equations, but it can be somewhat intimidating for uninitiated buyers who know the answers they provide will be used to build their mattress.
What if you're not sure how much support you need? How about temperature regulation? Point elasticity? It can be hard to know how to answer these questions honestly if you don't first have some baseline for what these questions mean. You'll probably know whether you're a hot or a cold sleeper, but there are a lot of intangibles that go into creating a mattress which is harder to guess at.
However, if you know what you want, and can provide detailed feedback, then Helix can use this to design a bed to your exact specifications. To some, this level of control is a dream come true. No two beds are going to be exactly alike, just like no two sleepers are.
The mattress is made up of four layers. Polyfoam sits at both the top and bottom with microfoils and a material called dynamic foam sandwiched in the middle. It's the microfoils which seem to steal the show, as they really do an excellent job of dissipating heat.
It's hard to speak accurately about firmness in a way that applies to every Helix mattress since the design isn't standardized. The Helix mattress used for this review could be considered a "medium" in terms of firmness.
Full-sized mattresses start at around $600 and go up to around $1,200. 12-month financing plans are available for those who don't have the cash-on-hand. It comes with a 10-year warranty.
Custom firmness levels available
Microcoils provide cooling
Multiple layers provide support
Starts to sink over time
May not be ideal for side sleepers
Relies on information provided by consumers
Casper Sleep Foam Mattress, Queen, 2018 Edition
4-layers of premium foam construction for support, breathability, and bounce
Breathable open-cell foams have tiny pores to let hot air escape, keeping you cool at night
Combination of softer foam for shoulder region and supportive firm foam for core and hip area
Casper mattresses have been getting a lot of attention lately, partly because of their stylish presentation. If you check out their website, you'll see that Casper has received positive mention from publications like Time and Fast Company. We appreciated the blue and white striped rectangular box the mattress arrived in which seemed to feel somehow "millennial" or at least contemporary.
Taking a hard look at the practical features of the Casper mattress, it's harder to figure out what makes it different. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a well-made mattress. The foam is bouncy, but you can still sink into it when you lie down. There's plenty of lumbar support for those who sleep on their back.
What's nice is that even as you sink in, there's this counterbalancing force which is also supporting you. It's got a nice balance between support and comfort. The mattress itself is made up of four layers, rather than the two layers in a Tuft and Needle mattress. The bottom two layers are polyfoam for support, and then you have a memory foam layer with a latex layer on top.
While it doesn't trap heat and manages to remain cool, there are some other competitors who manage to do this a little more efficiently.
Casper Mattresses start around $600-1,200. Most likely Casper and Helix are competing for the same market share by positioning their costs so close to each other. Both are well above Tuft and Needle in terms of cost.
Multiple foam layers
Minimal motion transfer
Other mattresses dissipate heat better
Relatively high-priced
Might create sinkage in heavier users
Purple mattresses are slightly thinner than their counterparts by Tuft and Needle. It's one thing that these mattresses don't have in common, though you might not even notice it. Purple mattresses are a scant half an inch shorter, 9.5 inches in height rather than even 10 inches.
One of the selling points of Purple is that it can comfortably support a lot of weight and distribute it evenly. Purple boasts that it can support up to 300 pounds on each side of the bed, which is a claim that Tuft and Needle can't make. At least it doesn't make any specific claims about allowable weight limits.
In a lot of respects, Purple and Tuft and Needle are comparable. They both have a 10-year warranty, just like all the mattresses in this review. They both can boast minimal transfer of movement. And both of them are comparably firm. In fact, without the tags, it might be hard to distinguish the two.
However, there is one deciding factor which gives Tuft and Needle a definite edge. There's a roughly $200 price difference, more or less depending on the size of the mattress. All other things equal, Purple just can't compete with Tuft and Needle on price.
Slim design
Cools well
Multiple layers for added comfort
Relatively expensive
May feel too firm
Added fee if shipping outside the continental U.S.
So what's the verdict? After comparing it to so many great mattresses, the Tuft and Needle mattress manages to stand up against some stiff, or rather soft but firm, competition. All of these mattress brands jockey for position by offering many of the same benefits. Also, all of them come equipped with excellent 10-year warranties, and each of them can be returned within 100 days if you're unsatisfied.
All of them have some combination of foam layers. While the Tuft and Needle mattress only have two foam layers, rather than four like some other models, it also manages to offer a balance of support and sinkage that's really superb. While it doesn't have microfoils, the Tuft and Needle still dissipates heat well and doesn't overheat.
Many of the mattresses reviewed are produced in the USA. At least two of them, Casper and Purple use specific fonts and colors to attract customers. Mattress companies are, in short, in an extremely competitive market sector with each hoping to win business. But there is one key factor that we kept coming back to. Tuft and Needle is hands down the best value for the money.
It's considerably cheaper than the other brands, and it offers the same features they do. Tuft and Needle could fairly be referred to as "no frills" but so what? Do frills matter? It lacks nothing in terms of comfort, temperature regulation, warranty, or design. In fact, it's been around longer than many of the others and still consistently out-competes them on price.
That's why Tuft and Needle earns a 5 out of 5 from this review team. If you're looking for a quality mattress but don't want to pay more than you have to, then look no further than Tuft and Needle. That said, all of these mattresses deserve a test nap, and you can't go wrong by taking one for yourself. Sweet dreams!
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UAE network names changed: Here's why
Written by Vysakh Somarajan on 14 March 2019
Have you noticed a change in UAE's network name ?? As the name has changed to 'Child Day' to mark Emirati Children's Day. Observed on March 15 each year, the day coincides with the UAE signing of the International Childhood Convention and issuance of the Federal law No. (13) of 2016 Converning Child Rights Law […]
'Mera Naam Shaji' teaser is out!
Superstar Mammootty released the teaser for 'Mera Naam Shaji'. Giving a glimpse of comedy in the teaser, which is directed by Nadrisha. We could see Asif Ali playing the character of Shaji George and Baiju as Shaji Sukumaran, find out that Biju Menon as Shaji. The movie is set to hit the theater on 5th […]
New smart camera's in Dubai can tell how happy you are
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has launched the newest smart camera in the town. Where the new lenses capture facial expressions and determine how happy or frustrated the customers are. We could find the smart cameras in four RTA Centres like Al Barsha, Umm Al Ramool, Deira and Al Awiras part of the […]
Dulquer Salmaan and Sonam Kapoor's The Zoya Factor gets a releasing date!
Dulquer Salmaan next will be a Bollywood movie 'The Zoya Factor. Dulquer playing the Indian cricket caption and Sonam Kapoor as an advertising agent. It is adapted from the well-received book of the same name by Anuja Chauhan. Abhishek Sharma, who has done a movie like 'Tere Bin Laden' is directing the movie. After […]
Sreenivasan to make his mark again.
Written by Vysakh Somarajan on 5 March 2019
Sreenivasan's roles in Udayanaanu Thaaram and Padmashree Bharat Dr Saroj Kumar are memorable because the actor put on a satirical performance as a cine artiste in these films. For his upcoming movie And The Oscar Goes To… the veteran actor will once again don the grab of a film actor. Directed by Salim Ahamed, the film has Tovino Thomas […]
'Soothrakkaran' trailer wows fans
Written by Vysakh Somarajan on 25 February 2019
Filmmaker Anil Raj's upcoming movie 'Soothrakkaran's' trailer was recently released and Gokul Suresh plays a character named Madhathil Aravindan in the movie. In the recently-released trailer of the film, we get to see him jumping out of a jeep wearing the classic achayan-style mundu and kurthi, complete with a sunglass. Many on social media were quick to […]
Oru Adaar Love to have a new climax
Wink star Priya Varrier's debut film Oru Adaar Love has finally released but the response to the film wasn't something the makers would have expected. The film received mixed response from the audience and critics, majority of them disliking the film. After seeing this, director Omar Lulu decided to change the climax and reshoot that […]
Veteran Malayalam actor Jagathy to face the camera once again
Senior Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar, who has been confined indoors following a major car accident in 2012, will soon face the arclights again. His son Rajkumar told mediapersons here on Tuesday that his father would act in an ad film for a water theme park in what the family members expect to be the beginning […]
Fahadh Faasil's new movie to be released in April.
The eagerly awaited movie starring Fahadh Faasil & Sai Pallavi has finally been given a title and has released posters. "Athiram" is the title, with the directorial debut of Vivek. The film has wrapped up its principal photography last month and is scheduled to hit theatres in April 2019. The film is touted to be […]
Mammooty celebrates success!
'Peranbu' producer celebrates film's success with Mammootty on 'Madhura Raja' sets 'Madhura Raja' director Vysakh also arranged for a cake-cutting on the sets. Peranbu, after creating waves in the global circuit by featuring in prestigious international film festivals, is finally out in theatres in India. Starring Mammootty in the lead role and directed […]


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F1: Rosberg tops Friday practice in Brazil
The German was a couple of tenths behind his Mercedes team-mate during early running, when the field was using the slower medium-compound Pirellis.
Nico Rosberg beat Formula 1 title rival Lewis Hamilton to fastest time in Friday practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The German was a couple of tenths behind his Mercedes team-mate during the early running, when the field was using the slower medium-compound Pirelli rubber.
But on his first flying lap after bolting on the softs, Rosberg jumped to the top of the timesheets ahead of Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo, who had been the first driver to use the faster rubber.
Hamilton, just behind Rosberg on the road, was already 0.275s slower than Rosberg after the first two sectors, but ran wide at the Mergulho corner and ended up six tenths behind.
Although Hamilton did improve on his second flyer, and set the fastest time of the session in the middle sector, he still ended up two tenths slower than Rosberg.
Kimi Raikkonen was third fastest after leaving his soft-tyre run later than most, although he subsequently had a brief off.
That put him ahead of Ricciardo, who shaded the two Williams entries of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa.
Fernando Alonso was seventh fastest, a second off the pace, but his session came to a spectacular end that caused a red flag.
The rear of his Ferrari caught fire in what is suspected to be a power unit-related problem, causing him to stop on the straight between the Sol curve and Descida do Lago.
Alonso jumped out of the car and ran behind the barrier, returning moments later with a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze.
Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat was classified as high as fourth at one stage, but ended up eighth ahead of the second Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel.
Kevin Magnussen rounded out the top 10, beating the lead Lotus of Pastor Maldonado by just two hundredths of a second.
Romain Grosjean was 12th ahead of Nico Hulkenberg's Force India, with Sauber pairing Esteban Gutierrez and Adrian Sutil 14th and 15th, the latter complaining of understeer.
Gutierrez, who suffered electrical problems in the morning, also had trouble this afternoon, grinding to a halt with 13 minutes remaining and bringing out another red flag.
Jenson Button had also missed most of the morning session after suffering a loss of power. He was down in 16th place and the slowest of those to complete serious running in the session.
Jean-Eric Vergne completed only five laps after taking over the Toro Rosso run by Max Verstappen in the morning.
He suffered what also appears to be a power unit-related problem and stopped on track, which brought out the first of the three red flags after 11 minutes.
Only 17 drivers ran during the session, with Sergio Perez unable to participate after Force India reserve driver Daniel Juncadella shunted his race car during the morning session.
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m12.123s - 36
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m12.336s 0.213s 36
3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m12.696s 0.573s 32
4 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m12.956s 0.833s 24
5 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m13.035s 0.912s 31
6 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m13.099s 0.976s 27
7 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m13.122s 0.999s 20
8 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Renault 1m13.254s 1.131s 35
9 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull/Renault 1m13.333s 1.210s 28
10 Kevin Magnussen McLaren/Mercedes 1m13.479s 1.356s 33
11 Pastor Maldonado Lotus/Renault 1m13.497s 1.374s 33
12 Romain Grosjean Lotus/Renault 1m13.714s 1.591s 37
13 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m13.882s 1.759s 32
14 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber/Ferrari 1m13.902s 1.779s 25
15 Adrian Sutil Sauber/Ferrari 1m14.204s 2.081s 36
16 Jenson Button McLaren/Mercedes 1m14.209s 2.086s 31
17 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso/Renault 1m17.171s 5.048s 5


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Home Architecture Botanique Hotel & Spa / Candida Tabet Arquitetura
Botanique Hotel & Spa / Candida Tabet Arquitetura
© Tuca Reinés
Nestled in a confluence of three rich river valleys, amid picturesque hillsides and stunning ridges in the heart of the Mantiqueira Mountains, south-east of Brazil, Botanique Hotel & Spa is enveloped and surrounded by lush, mid-tropical Atlantic forests, 1.200m above sea level.
The process began by studying the built tissue of the vicinity areas. In the main town nearby lie a large number of private houses from the 19th century, that although being in Brazil, they follow a Normand style. Architecture was about dealing with an existing local "European borrowed" styling and to introduce a contemporary appeal besides authenticity.
On the other hand, the whole design of the complex was developed around the concept of elegantly combine the owner's reclaimed wood collection with the beautiful environment. The client spent many years rescuing and collecting from different demolition sources beautiful and rare wood elements such as beams, columns and parquets, with the idea to give them a new life in what then became the buildings that compose this project. More than 250 cubic meters of old wooden pieces (some dating from more than 120 years ago) were reused on floors, doors and structural elements, proving the amazing durability of wood as a construction material.
Botanique's architecture proposes then, the experience of having a wood construction placed in the heart's source of its raw material: the forest.
The complex consists of a main building containing six rooms, a restaurant and a spa. Detached from this building eleven villas were designed as a series of connected views, bedrooms, fireplaces and charming bathrooms providing continuity to a sequence of experiences.
The main building's design was focused on harmonizing pitched roofs floating over monumental glass facade, creating playful asymmetries and mixing vernacular materials such as local stone and wood. A truly unique style emerged as large volumes of stone, towering glass facade, chocolate colored slate and the old reclaimed wood pillars and beams combined among themselves.
The beauty of the rough wood with its screwed junctions was deliberately exposed, going beyond their natural structural function but becoming a key element of the aesthetics of the building and of the interior architecture. When confronted to solve a complex wooden structure, and working close to wood engineering specialized consultants, technical and ingenious solutions appeared. This fact indeed became (and enriched) the aesthetics of the project as well.
In the villas conception it was intended to take the maximum advantage of each individual implantation, creating all different plans but giving them a common identity at the same time. Basically we positioned the villas considering their accessibility and in a way that they would not interfere on the site's existing topography.
The enormous stones contributed to keep the warm feeling when combined with the wood, keeping the main elements within a calm colour palette based in nuances of yellow. So the green of the surrounding forest was the only color allowed to be juxtaposed onto the natural yellowish stone and wood tones that enveloped the building. Due to the lightness and transparency of the monumental glass facade, this natural green backdrop completed the interior design just as beautifully as it composed the exterior views.
Location: São Carlos do Pinhal, SP, Brazil
Site Area: 80 000 sqm
Built Area: 7 000 sqm
Architects: Candida Tabet Arquitetura
Photographs: Tuca Reinés
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Bill banning microbeads moves forward in U.S. House
Todd Spangler
WASHINGTON — A U.S. House committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would phase out the use of microbeads, synthetic particles used in cosmetics and personal-care products that are considered an environmental hazard to the Great Lakes and other waterways they are flushed into.
With Wednesday's vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the legislation, known as the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, is expected to see a vote in the full House in the days or weeks to come. A companion bill has yet to be considered in the U.S. Senate.
"Microbeads may be tiny plastic, but they are big-time pollution, especially for our Great Lakes," said U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, a Republican from St. Joseph who chairs the House committee and was an original co-sponsor of the bill this year. "Today's unanimous approval of this critical bipartisan bill will protect Lake Michigan and all of our waters from these pesky pieces of plastic."
Under the legislation, the manufacture of microbeads would stop in 2017, with bans on their use in cosmetics and over-the-counter drugs to end in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In Lansing, state lawmakers are already looking at a similar ban that would make Michigan the 10th state to take such a step.
Environmentalists say microbeads pose a threat to fish, birds and other wildlife that eat them once they are discharged by sewer systems into waterways. Beatthemicrobead.org, a campaign against their use, has noted in the past that several corporations —including Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson and Crest — have already eliminated microbeads from products or are phasing them out.
"This legislation will protect the Great Lakes from plastic microbeads that are fouling our waters and contaminating fish," said Molly M. Flanagan, vice president of policy at the Alliance for the Great Lakes, a conservation group based in Chicago.
Contact Todd Spangler: 703-854-8947, tspangler@freepress.com or on Twitter @tsspangler


Maria Valtorta was born on March 14, 1897, in Caserta, Italy. After suffering an abusive childhood, which her biography describes as "brushing with death during her birth, Maria remained an only child, having as wet-nurse a wretched mercenary."... Maria Valtorta was a twentieth century mystic who, throughout the 1940s and '50s, reported experiencing visions of Jesus Christ who, according to Valtorta, showed her His life in first-century Palestine which she recorded in her voluminous book The Poem of the Man God.
Maria Valtorta was a twentieth century mystic who, throughout the 1940s and '50s, reported experiencing visions of Jesus Christ who, according to Valtorta, showed her His life in first-century Palestine which she recorded in her voluminous book The Poem of the Man God.
Maria Valtorta was born on March 14, 1897, in Caserta, Italy. After suffering an abusive childhood, which her biography describes as "brushing with death during her birth, Maria remained an only child, having as wet-nurse a wretched mercenary."
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Okręg Białostocki – jeden z dziewięciu okręgów Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów w RP liczący 9 zborów, ponadto 1 placówka. Przewodniczącym Rady Okręgu jest pastor Mieczysław Piotrowski. Przedstawicielem okręgu w Radzie Kościoła jest pastor Mieczysław Piotrowski.

W roku 2013 okręg liczył 513 członków (nie licząc dzieci).

Zbory
Lista zborów okręgu białostockiego (w nawiasie nazwa zboru):

 zbór w Białowieży
 zbór w Białymstoku
 zbór w Białymstoku ("Ku Zbawieniu")
 zbór w Bielsku Podlaskim
 zbór w Dubiczach Cerkiewnych
 zbór w Hajnówce
 zbór w Kleszczelach
 zbór w Narwi
 zbór w Orli

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Przypisy

Białostocki

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Herald Sun has published this recently - a cute look on her hobbies and passions.
ACTOR Gigi Edgley was trying her luck in La La Land in her early 20s when she met her now-fiance, world champion unicyclist and performer Jamey Mossengren.
"After the work stopped because of the writer's strike in 2007, I was going to come home, but Jamey convinced me to stay," she recalls. "He taught me to ride and for the next year, we did street performances all over the world." Since returning home, the 34-year-old - who stars in Nine Network drama Tricky Business, Mondays at 9.30pm - has kept up the hobby, often heading out on her unicycle for hours each day, accompanied by the couple's golden retriever, MacGyver. "It's great exercise and hang-time."
One day, Jamey said, "I've thought of the perfect name for our child - MacGyver, after the TV show!" And I said, "Well, I don't know about that, so let's get a dog." He's the naughtiest little thing, because we let him be.
I grew up doing contemporary dance and ballet, but I've started burlesque as well. It's empowering and a great way to discover your inner goddess. It's nice to be feminine at times.
This belonged to my late uncle; he was a sailor and quite whimsical. My sisters and I would spin the globe and put our fingers down saying, "This is where I'll meet the love of my life."
Because of my dad [showbiz promoter Michael Edgley], I grew up backstage at circus shows. There's something about flying through the air and feeling effortless.
In this industry, you need something to keep you grounded. I've started doing Bikram yoga, which is in 40-degree heat for an hour-and-a-half.
There are seven of us kids; they put up with me through all my ups and downs. Mum [Jeni, top] is spiritual; Dad [above centre, at his wedding to Edgley's step-mum, Justine] is about working tirelessly - two energies critical to what I do.
My skin was really tired when I was filming [sci-fi series] Farscape, because of all the make-up. My sister Capi is a naturopath and used me as an experiment for her skincare line; the range is amazing and all free trade.


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Q: Tensorflow seq2seq weight sharing def rnn_seq2seq(encoder_inputs, decoder_inputs, cell, output_projection=None,feed_previous=False, dtype=tf.float32, scope=None):
  with tf.variable_scope(scope or "rnn_seq2seq"):
    _, enc_states = rnn.rnn(cell, encoder_inputs,dtype=dtype)

  def extract_argmax(prev, i):
    if output_projection is not None:
        prev = tf.nn.xw_plus_b(prev, output_projection[0], output_projection[1])
    return tf.to_float(tf.equal(prev,tf.reduce_max(prev,reduction_indices=[1],keep_dims=True)))

  loop_function = None
  if feed_previous:
    loop_function = extract_argmax

       #seq2seq.rnn_decoder is provided in tensorflow/models/rnn/seq2seq.py
  return seq2seq.rnn_decoder(decoder_inputs, enc_states[-1], cell, loop_function=loop_function)

I want to create two RNN models, one for training and another for testing. For that, I can call the function twice passing the feed_previous to True or False.
train_op,train_states = rnn_seq2seq(enc_inp,dec_inp,cell,output_projection=op,feed_previous=False)
test_op,_ = rnn_seq2seq(enc_inp,dec_inp,cell,output_projection=op,feed_previous=True)

But if I call the above function twice, wouldn't it create two different RNNs ? I am wondering if they would be able to share the weights.

A: Both functions operate on the same default graph and so can reuse the variables, check out variable scopes tutorial and see if your variables are created with reuse=True parameter
As a sanity check, try following snippet to list all variables in the default graph:
[v.name for v in tf.get_default_graph().as_graph_def().node if v.op=='Variable']

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Forging a >50% renewable electric economy by 2030 is your company ready?
By 2030, more than 50 percent of the U.S. economy will run on electricity derived from renewables. What are the implications as we shift the U.S. and global energy economies away from fossil fuels?
For the first time ever, our harnessing of renewable energy has surpassed domestic reliance on coal, a critical milestone for democratizing energy.
Current technological advances in wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, hydroelectric power, nuclear and localized grids are forging a future of cheap, abundant, and ubiquitous energy.
Today's blog I'll be exploring the ways in which we are fast approaching an all-electric, renewable energy economy. Two areas of disruption take center stage:
How we produce energy;
How we utilize energy.
Simply put, our world in the coming decades will need a lot more energy than it does today.
The industrial and technological booms of emerging nations are bringing online billions of high-demand energy consumers, now just as voracious as their American and European counterparts. Already, China's energy consumption is expected to double by 2030, and India is right on its tail.
In our 'linear and scarcity-minded' world of fossil fuels, these skyrocketing trends present a problem: more demand equals more environmental devastation, higher prices, and increased geopolitical tensions as the 'haves' supply the 'have-nots.'
Luckily, a 'global and exponential mindset' offers an alternative. Rather than slicing the pie into thinner and thinner slices, let's just bake more pies.
Namely, higher-priced hydrocarbon fuels drive market incentives to invest heavily in alternative energy sources. Advances in batteries, solar, wind, geothermal, and even nuclear fusion offer humanity a future in which we can viably switch from coal, petroleum, and natural gas to renewables, and eventually to an all-electric economy.
Between 2010 and 2017, utility-scale solar photovoltaic capital costs in the U.S. have fallen by a factor of five, from $5-6 per kilowatt to a mere $1-2. And the only constraint to plummeting prices is technology, not resource availability.
In today's fossil fuels market, by far the greatest cost is the commodity itself, i.e. coal, oil, or natural gas. But the opposite is true for renewables. Think of the commodities needed: sun, wind, (to a large degree) nuclear power, and water are all free.
All costs borne by producers lie in building and maintaining the infrastructure to harness power from these renewable energies. As a result, the greatest business opportunities surrounding these sources are primarily unlocked by improving the technology.
And the rate of technological advancement is accelerating.
Companies like GE are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in microgrids and smart grids, which will make electricity far more accessible to larger populations. Several companies in solar energy, such as SunRun, Sun Power and Sunnova Energy Corp, are vastly improving the efficiency of solar cells, whether in production, installation or manufacturing.
But how is our energy used?
Today, transportation represents roughly 29 percent of the U.S.'s total energy use. Yet almost none of that energy use is currently electric.
Herein lies the greatest growth opportunity for U.S. electrification. As advancements in renewable energy drive down the price of electricity, the market will respond by capitalizing on this electrification.
While only 20.5 percent of the U.S. economy is currently electrified, that number has the potential to jump to more than 50 percent by 2030.
But how will this happen?
Because of exciting innovations across the three greatest energy-guzzling sectors: transportation, commercial and residential, and industrial.
While these sectors represent electrification potential to varying degrees, here's one route by which we might reach a 50 percent renewable energy economy over the next decade:
Shifting the Transportation Sector (29% of Current Energy Use) to Renewable Electricity:
Electric vehicles (EVs) are cheaper per mile, require less maintenance, demonstrate greater reliability, and have far fewer moving parts (<200 in electric cars vs. >1,000 parts in gas-fueled cars) than internal combustion engine-driven vehicles.
Ultimately, when a product is cheaper and better, consumers switch. Let's take a look.
The price per mile of an EV is already four times cheaper than that of its gasoline-fueled counterpart. (An EV's average operating cost is 3.72¢ per mile vs. that of a gasoline-fueled vehicle, which stands at 16.00¢ per mile.)
However, EVs represented only 2 percent of the U.S. personal car market in 2018. And while we are about to witness the massive electrification of personal and commercial vehicles over the coming decade, passenger vehicles represent only 63 percent of all transportation energy use. The remaining 37 percent consists of air and freight.
Nonetheless, companies and governments alike are achieving extraordinary progress in making these systems run fully on electricity from renewable energy sources.
Aircraft: This year's Paris Air Show witnessed the introduction of electric commercial airplanes, as EasyJet announced its partnership with startup Wright Electric to roll out a fleet of electric planes (capable of traveling a little less than 300 miles).
Trucking: In the large-scale ground transit arena, Tesla boasts that its electric trucks can save $100,000 per year on fuel costs.
And as projects like Hyperloop and the Boring Company reduce our dependency on air travel for long distance human and freight, exponential technologies like VR will soon begin to indirectly disrupt our need to physically travel in the first place.
Shifting the Industrial Sector (32% of Current Energy Use) to Renewable Electricity:
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While still constituting a minority, electricity represents a more significant chunk, 17 percent, of the industrial sector's energy use.
Beyond the obvious suspects — turning on lights, running air conditioners, etc. — several industrial processes use electricity on a tremendous scale.
Take aluminum production, a relatively modern invention dating back only to 1886, which requires a high-voltage electric current to extract aluminum from bauxite ore. Currently, the best smelters use around 13 kilowatt-hours to produce one kilogram of aluminum. (For reference, it takes approximately 29 kilowatt-hours to power the average American home for one day.)
Or look at the creation of synthetic gas, not to mention that of carbon-based polymers and aggregates, both requiring high amounts of energy in the form of electric current.
Tomorrow's advanced-materials economy will require a much higher proportion of energy to take the form of electricity.
Shifting the Commercial & Residential Sector (38% of Current Energy Use) to Renewable Electricity:
Lastly, almost half of the commercial and residential sector's energy use is already electric. And the reasons for this perhaps speaks best to the economic argument for electrification with renewables.
It used to be that almost all of this sector's energy was derived from fossil fuels. But as the price of electricity has continued to decline, home adoption rates of electricity have increased accordingly, as reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In the EU, it's mission critical to change the energy mix, once you look at whom is supplying the EU with energy imports. You'll get a better idea.
And as renewables and converging technologies continue to drive down cost, commercial and residential use of electricity will only soar.
Calculating for the Total
If we assume that energy use ratios by sector – transportation, residential and commercial, and industrial — remain relatively constant, our economy is already on target for over 50 percent electrification from renewables in the next decade.
Our trajectory to a 66 percent electric transportation industry by 2030 alone puts us at a 19.3 percent electric total economy.
Next up: if another 30 percent of the industrial sector becomes electrified — requiring a conservative annual increase of 3 percent — that adds another 7.1 percent to our aggregate economy's electrification.
And already today, the residential and commercial sector is well on its way to full electrification. With the continued rate of transition, a whopping 62 percent of this sector will be electrified using renewables in just ten years. That represents 23.6 percent of the U.S.'s total energy use.
Added together, these massive shifts represent a 50 percent renewable-electric economy, and a 110 percent increase in U.S. electrification in just 10 years.
Welcome to a future driven by electrons generated from renewable sources of energy.
What are the implications to your business? Your industry? What will the impacts be on global geopolitics, our families, and our environment?
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iTaste MVP 2.0 Kit by Innokin.
Colors: black and stainless steel.
Brief Features: As an upgrade of the original iTaste MVP the iTaste MVP V2.0 has substantial improvements in both appearance and function.
Variable Voltage:voltage can be adjusted from 3.3 – 5.0 volts in .1 volt increments.
Variable Wattage:Wattage can be adjusted from 6.0 – 11.0 W in .5 watts increments.
Ohms meter: Reads resistance of your atomizer/cartomizer/clearomizer.
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Built-in 3 digit display: Digital display shows Ohms meter, Voltage /Wattage setting, number of puffs taken since last time thebattery was turned off.
10-Second Cutoff: If the button is held down for 10 seconds or longer, the iTaste VV will shut itself off until the button is released.
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U.S. expresses 'strong concern,' 'disappointment' at termination of Seoul-Tokyo intel pact
The United States expressed "strong concern" and "disappointment" Thursday after South Korea withdrew from a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan.
Earlier, Seoul announced its decision to end the General Security of Military Information Agreement amid a bilateral dispute over trade and history.
In a rare public rebuke of its South Korean ally, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon expressed their displeasure with the move.
"We're disappointed to see the decision that the South Koreans made about that information-sharing agreement," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart in Ottawa, Canada.
"We were urging each of the two countries to continue to engage, to continue to have dialogue," he said, adding that he spoke with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in the morning.
Still, Pompeo voiced hope that South Korea and Japan will begin to mend their ties in consideration of the important work the three countries do together.
"We hope each of those two countries can begin to put that relationship back in exactly the right place," he said. "It's absolutely valuable not only to the work you mentioned in the context of North Korea, but important in the work we do all around the world."
The State Department's frustrations did not stop there.
"The United States has repeatedly made clear to the Moon administration that this decision would have a negative effect on U.S. security interests and those of our allies," a State Department spokesperson told Yonhap News Agency, referring to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The decision "reflects a serious misapprehension on the part of the Moon Administration regarding the serious security challenges we face in Northeast Asia," added the spokesperson.
The Pentagon echoed Pompeo's remarks.
"The Department of Defense expresses our strong concern and disappointment that the Moon Administration has withheld its renewal" of the agreement, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn said in a statement.
"We strongly believe that the integrity of our mutual defense and security ties must persist despite frictions in other areas of the ROK-Japan relationship. We'll continue to pursue bilateral and trilateral defense and security cooperation where possible with Japan and the ROK," he added. ROK stands for South Korea's official name, the Republic of Korea.
The two statements came only hours after a South Korean presidential official told reporters that the U.S. had expressed its understanding of Seoul's decision.
The Pentagon even replaced an earlier iteration of its statement, which had called on South Korea and Japan to work together to resolve their differences.
"I hope they can do this quickly," Eastburn had said. "We are all stronger -- and Northeast Asia is safer -- when the United States, Japan and Korea work together in solidarity and friendship. Intel-sharing is key to developing our common defense policy and strategy."
Asked by Yonhap News Agency to explain the replacement, the spokesman did not immediately give a response.
But a U.S. government source made clear that Washington was irked by the South Korean presidential official's remarks.
"We are especially unhappy that the South Korean government is saying it had U.S. understanding. Not true," the source told Yonhap on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. has filed a complaint with South Korean officials in Seoul and Washington over the assertion, "in addition to expressing our unhappiness with the actual decision," the source added.
The termination of GSOMIA marks the culmination of a spat that began with Japan's decision to curb exports of sensitive materials to South Korea in early July.
Seoul denounced the move as retaliation for a South Korean court ruling that ordered Japanese firms to compensate Korean victims of forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
The dispute escalated with Japan's delisting in August of South Korea from a list of trusted trading partners and Seoul's tit-for-tat action to remove Tokyo from its own list.
Washington has continued to encourage its two allies to find a solution while stating its readiness to facilitate dialogue between them.
Still, it has refrained from playing an active intermediary role out of concern it could be seen as taking sides.
GSOMIA, which was signed in 2016, is now set to expire in November, raising concerns about effective three-way cooperation against North Korea's nuclear threats and China's growing military assertiveness.
The pact would have renewed automatically after Aug. 24, as each side is bound by a three-month window to inform the other of any intent to withdraw. (Yonhap)


DJ Astronomar, who's originally from Juneau, will perform in Anchorage.
DJing punched Astronomar's ticket around the world, but his magical music moment happened at home.
Summertime in Alaska. Downtown Anchorage streets closed and packed with party people. Astronomar bobbing behind the turntables, spinning his songs at ridiculously high volumes. One of the world's hottest performers prepping to go on after him.
"That was really incredible – probably the biggest electronic show ever in Alaska," he said, thinking back on the history and histrionics of the 2016 evening that he opened for Diplo, the famous DJ/producer/pop culture icon.
"I felt like I had done a lot to represent Alaska in dance music," he added, referring to his years of touring as a DJ and making music as a producer. "But that show was huge and it was great to be a part of it. I felt like a hometown hero, like I got put on."
In reality, Astronomar was a standout talent in Alaska's tight-knit DJ and dance music communities long before the night that put Alaska on the EDM GPS. He came up through the AK ranks, playing all sizes of parties and bars, underground raves and all-ages breakdancing jams. He was one of the brave and bold to leave Alaska and make a living DJing and creating music in bigger scenes: first, based in Seattle for five years; then, Los Angeles, where he's lived the past six.
"I just got back from the gym, got a pool party in a little bit," he said during a recent Sunday afternoon phone conversation from L.A., where he's still rocking a 907 area code on his cell. "It's convenient living here. You can fly anywhere. There's lots of talent here, lots of people to collaborate with and link up with. It's an inspiring place to be. And the weather's great."
Spoken like a true Southeast kid.
Born and raised in Juneau and of Tlingit heritage, Astronomar (Marlon Lumba) has indeed traveled the globe playing music. He also produces original songs. His new EP, "Nature's Candy," dropped in early August – remixes established tracks from a variety of musicians, offers artists a platform as part-owner of a record label, Main Course, and is constantly connecting with creatives.
After years of grinding as an up-and-comer, superstar DJs began mixing Astronomar's cuts into their sets recently, including Skrillex dropping Astronomar's remix of Wax Motif and Neoteric's "Go Deep" at Coachella.
"There was a long time when I was making tracks … and I kept getting better, practicing, putting in hours, trying new things," he said. "("Go Deep") was my breakthrough. I did that remix and two years later it blew up. Everyone was playing it. … People slept on that track. People say it was a little bit ahead of its time, so I guess the scene caught up."
He added, with a laugh, "Not to say I'm a forward-thinking producer, but maybe I am."
Not to say that he isn't loving living in the present, either.
"I never in my life imagined I'd go to Australia, Italy, France, Croatia to DJ," he said, then added, "It's unreal. I feel so grateful, but I definitely worked for it. It's a fantastic life."
One of the best parts, he said, is returning to Alaska a few times a year – usually to visit family, occasionally accompanied by big-name DJs. This weekend, he's bringing breakthrough star Wax Motif to Fairbanks (The Pub at UAF) and Anchorage (Koot's).
"It's my home territory and definitely important to keep those lines active," he said. "It's always really cool to come back. Since I moved away, more DJs and people are throwing events, people are more educated and getting into (electronic dance music), and dance music in general has evolved almost to like a state of pop. And it's definitely good for the scene to have DJs of really good caliber coming through more often."
Of the upcoming gigs with Wax Motif, he added, "They will be high energy, underground dance music. I will play tons of unreleased stuff, from my label and my friends, and fun dance music. And (Wax Motif) kills it – he puts on a great show, super-hype, gets the crowd engaged."
He calls Wax Motif "a workhorse" whose hustle has made the Australian a sought-out performer, producer and collaborator with dance music dignitaries and rap and hip-hop heavies alike. Don't know him? A quick Google or YouTube search will connect you to a collection of songs, videos and live performances with millions of plays.
Astronomar isn't racking up those numbers quite yet, but he's digging the trajectory: steady growth, continual creation, wider recognition, and enjoying every opportunity to play his music for fans, friends and strangers, wherever they congregate.
"I love playing my stuff out – that's why I make tracks," he said. "It's the best feeling."


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