One of this month's highlights is a partnership among Pundi X with two KYC service providers, Refinitiv and Real ID. Pundi X's XWallet has adoptedRefinitiv's World Check API which increases the quality of Pundi X's Know-Your-Customer (KYC) mechanism. Real ID's KYC cloud technology allows enhanced identity verification with artificial intelligence, machine learning and facial recognition techniques. The partnerships help create a more robust KYC process for XWallet, XPASS and XPOS to ensure better compliance.
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In the second half of 2019, we will start the Function X — f(x) — testnet. The native token for the f(x) blockchain is FX. The majority of the f(x) tokens from the token generation event (TGE) will be allocated to holders of NPXS and NPXSXEM. Qualified holders can get FX tokens through staking from the TGE pool. We started the staking process in March and it will last 12 months. The 45% of TGE allocated for conversion will begin on April 16.
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Alexis Lateef Reviews Paul Hetherington
By Alexis Lateef | 5 September 2016
Burnt Umber by Paul Hetherington
UWA Press, 2016
Artistically, burnt umber is an earthy shade intensified by heat. It is a colour synonymous with this country – familiar to anyone who has trekked through Western Australia, from where Paul Hetherington originally hails. In this collection, it is also a metaphor for memory, which, through the heat of feelings in the present, attains an intensity that overwhelms the original events. This is the 'recollection skewed' that is confirmed in 'Painting Four: Doppelgänger', from the opening sequence of ekphrastic poems titled simply 'Pictures at an exhibition 1'. Despite its 'skewed' nature, the slippery persistence of memory is a theme that haunts these pages. Hetherington does not simply write about memory; he grapples with, dissects, and questions it. The title poem begins with a clock that 'blanks, and blanks again'. Unlike memory's allure, time gives no reassurance. It serves to remind us of the unknowable maelstrom of the future towards which it moves, tyrannically. For Hetherington, traditional solace in the presence of art is lacking – instead, there is uneasiness and tension. Paintings have a physical presence that reach out and interfere with time, space and memory. He writes, 'the painting flattens me'. The dog in the picture has a burnt umber grin that 'eats its mouth', the way time eats at us – as Baudelaire rightly obsessed over more than a hundred years ago, and as poets since have regularly confronted.
'Pictures at an exhibition 1' consists of impressionistic poems that blur reality and art, past and present. We experience the art in an unsettling manner through the consciousness of the poet. There is a sense of trust between reader and author that is implicit in ekphrastic poetry, usually because we have no immediate access to the images viewed by the poet. In Hetherington's case, we are not given the names of artists, or any specifics. This trust reinforces the poet's impressions as paramount; that we must not hanker after facts. Rather than present us with order, Hetherington delivers a stream-of-consciousness approach that verges on the playful. In some lines, he is part of the images; in others, figures from the artwork interact with him in strange ways. Their colours literally seep into his world, or art itself becomes confused with what it depicts, such as in 'Painting 2: Gunship', when 'a splash of black paint explodes in a cornfield'. The abrupt lines convey the clipped mental tone of the poet as he moves around, gathering impressions. A friend or former lover itches at the edge of his mind as he gazes, never quite revealing their identity. He stresses the point that a single motif can recur in memory – in this case, green clothing – in a way that was hardly considered in life. A painted street reminds him of 'a different year / looking for you- / your green scarf and coat / as if, after all, the place was just paint, as if in departure / you stepped into pigments the painter forgot.'
And so, art becomes another scene to rendezvous with memory. In 'Painting 6: Eyes', Hetherington recalls T. S. Eliot and the paranoia of modern life in his query: 'what walks about me / in dirty boots, holding my ideas / ridiculous?' The future is a constant, worrying presence so the poem relaxes back into memory's comfort, as 'the painting becomes the green / of your scarf / its future tucked / out of sight.' Is art only relevant insofar as it stirs our past and distracts us from the future? This is a question Hetherington seems to ask. 'Rooftop: a prose poetry sequence' highlights the poet's propensity for stylistic variety. We are treated to seventeen snapshots that operate both as singular junctures and as a story in entirety. It relates an encounter with a woman on a rooftop in Italy who is no replacement for the one who haunts his memory, but with whom he tries to connect and later, to summon by retracing his steps to the rooftop. Through lagoons and canals and endless stairwells, this former lover follows them. Even the water 'was a hundred discolourations of memory'. In the tenth poem, he speaks of 'art's ineffable transport', but transport to where? Is it into a dream or into the past? Hetherington struggles with his recollections, questioning his feelings for both people, and the details of their moments together, which are not certain. The sequence contains exquisite phrasing, such as in the seventh poem, when he writes: 'Yet his knowledge of her was meagre as the catch from yesterday's canal. Old water; two silver and squirming slippages of light.' This confirms Hetherington as a poet who delights in the potential for thought and language to appear tangible.
It is not just the inner life that motivates the poet. Hetherington explores the trauma of domestic violence that impacts a young boy in 'House', a poem that brims with both the beauty of a child's imagination and the ugly tension that threatens it. In 'Refugees', he presents a piercing survey of the suffering of people in detention, forgoing accusations for a tender empathy. He comments on 'three men with names / that guards can't pronounce – / close, intimate syllables / with which their parents caressed them'; imploring us to recognise the humanity and love inherent in people deemed aliens by far-right terminology. The poem ends with the image of a young girl dancing, not out of joy but out of madness and a sense of her own oblivion. Finally, someone pushes her over 'for fear that the rhythm / would graft to their bodies'. Here is a sense of a people forced to live in a circular time with no sense of a future, and Hetherington leaves us to wonder how this could be allowed.
In 'A museum of the future' there is a moment of comic relief, as Hetherington examines our modern life from the point of a view of a future tour guide. The survey is both wry and sobering. Yet, the poet indicates a way forward with the last line, as the narrator, after scoffing at the amount of time people spent on screens, refers to groundbreaking inventions of the Romans as a current 'mini-drama'. It reminds us of how language, and signs, can evolve beyond their original specifications in hopeful ways. The future need not be dystopian, and the science of language may hold some answers. This is another fascination for Hetherington, as it has been for contemporary David Malouf, that is, how communication frees us and yet traps us, bringing us together but also separating us.
In the sensual, hymn-like tribute to a holiday and slight confrontation with death, 'Savasana', Hetherington writes: 'we sense what was valued / when boundaries of creek and hill / valley and stiff-backed ridge / were structures of language'. The present time, with its political catfights and terse monetary values, is troubling. Hetherington states in 'Lung': 'what did he know, except the failure of knowledge to put things right? And speaking's obduracy'. It is a matter that confronts us in the current climate, the sinking knowledge that perhaps language cannot hold the weight of what is happening. 'Savasana' appears to be a postscript to 'Refugees'. The words we speak do not always dissolve into air. They harden, like rock, and become unyielding and persistent. Communication does not live up to its name. In 'Roadways', Hetherington presents us with the mundane image of a couple eating pasta, 'words sticky in their believing mouths'. The poem suggests that an inherent trust of words can become problematic. Thus, in the second part of the poem, a child stands at a window looking into the Milky Way, 'beginning to recite parables', which in this context exudes a hint of delusion. Only by dismantling the terminology of those presently in positions of power, can we reach a future where it may be possible for language to highlight and heal the trauma of current times. However, 'Heroes', speaking from the perspective of Greek heroes ordained to die, ends with the foreboding line 'never think of the future': Hetherington perhaps commenting that looking too far into the future is not conducive to effecting change in the present.
The failure of language is evident in the World War II sequence, and pervades the mini-narratives of sudden bombs, lost life, trauma, and the sinister nature of memory in shell-shocked lives. The first poem in this sequence, 'Trench', demonstrates how the presence of bombs, or 'thumping exclusions of sense', induces the thought that 'language and thought / had lost all bearings'. It ends with a close-up of a person's face changing colour rapidly in the horrific circumstances, a focus on the fragility of blood and skin. Hetherington inhabits the minds of these characters from wartime with his usual empathy. 'Meeting' is an account of romantic betrayal that comes as spontaneously as a bomb, and yet there were many betrayals during WWII. Language itself is a betrayal in such a world. In 'Court Martial', which tells of an abrupt killing of prisoners to set an example, one of the men recalls his past idyllic life, where 'Ambrose insisted that grammar / would put right the world'. In 'Bombs', the poet relates the story of his father who was in Darwin when Japanese bombs hit—how he survived and got up 'saying something they didn't catch'. It's not just what we say that can fail us, it is often a lack in the understanding of others that language fails to bridge. Perhaps poetry is a way of reconciling this by shedding light on the problem. 'Bombs' is also a vulnerable account of his late father, a war veteran whose presence, like the woman in the green scarf, informs this collection.
There is hope in the section 'Mythologies', in which traditionally doomed figures like Lorelei, Prometheus and Icarus manage to survive grief, torture and death to come to realisations they might not have had otherwise. There is space for healing, if we allow it, and Hetherington expresses this via the timeless mythical men and women who seem eternally trapped within their tragic experiences. Prometheus, who knows he is responsible for the invention of firearms and war, reconciles himself with 'a moment of watery dousing', a cleansing of self-hate. Icarus recognises he was carried away 'by an absurd happiness', and lives to understand it. However, it is 'Ariadne and the minotaur' and 'Minotaur' that dazzle and astound, and highlight Hetherington's penchant for conveying startling new hues within ancient tales. The poems mirror each other, but are not equal. The first explores Ariadne's perspective in a series of compassionate but resolute observations, betraying a love for the Minotaur despite his monstrosity; the other reveals the abrupt, limited thoughts of the monster, whose slivers of humanity are conveyed in unusual double phrases, such as 'tangle-spittle', 'blood prickle' and 'laugh-look'. There are postcolonial undertones in this, as both serve to illustrate how language may advantage one subject over the other. However, there are other ways of speaking. Ariadne notes, 'many nights she went again / to hear him talk ardently / in jabbering language / and with gesture when meanings / jagged in his throat'. In the end, we are presented with a resigned Minotaur who lets her go. The second poem then causes us to empathise with the Minotaur as her handsome rescuer arrives. It reminds one of John Gardner's novel Grendel, which set a new benchmark for modern empathy with monsters of legend. Hetherington provides a particularly sensitive reading and invites us to question the danger of stereotypes and old prejudices, especially in a world where some continue to harbour them.
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Alexis Lateef is a West Australian writer. She studied English at The University of Western Australia, and has worked as a tutor, editor and bookseller. Her poetry has appeared in Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Southerly, Australian Book Review, Cordite, Island and in other places. In 2016, she appeared as a guest at the Perth International Writers' Festival, and was selected for the Westerly Writer Development Program. She is editor of the West Australian journal Writ Poetry Review, currently on hiatus for grant consideration.
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The beige limestone has been on this blog before as it is used in the shop surrounds of the new Longbridge Town Centre in south Birmingham. Many of the same fossils feature at Grand Central – belemnite guards, ammonites, sponges, and fossil debris, as well as stylolites. This rock is Jurassic in age, so about 145 – 200 million years old.
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Dragons Skin is a new type of body armer being developed by a private US contractor. What makes it different is that it consists of a series of overlapping "scales" much like a Dragons Skin or medieval scale mail. In the past year the manufacturer of Dragons Skin have spread a lot of stories around about how much more effect it is over the body armor currently being used by US serviceman and has been in the news several times. These stories prompted a military ban on soldiers using privately purchased Dragon Skin and public outcry to arm our soldiers with the very best.
The truth is that the stuff doesn't work and it's too freaking heavy.
NBC for some reason thought they would let the American people weigh in on the decision making process and put the story on national TV. Of coarse they rigged the tests. Didn't tell you the whole story. NBC also lied outright.
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The Dragon Skin armor is the Best protection that our servicemen and women, according to Jim McGee the original designer of the Interceptor - which is the current bodyarmor used by our troops.
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3 NFL Running Backs You Need on Your Fantasy Football Team
The 2015-16 NFL season is underway and it's time to get your fantasy football team rocking so you win that office pool at the end of the year. If you're still looking for a reliable running back and you're willing to make a trade or two, here are the top three options you should consider so you get the most points each week.
Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
After serving a damn near, one season suspension following child abuse allegations in his home state of Texas, Peterson will likely comeback fresh and ready to punish defenses even more so than before. While the running back is now 30-years-old, which typically spells trouble for most backs in the history of the NFL, after a year off and only three seasons removed from his 2,000 yard campaign, it's hard to imagine Peterson not having a stellar year,
The RB rejoins the Minnesota Vikings as the primary feature of their offense, with a quarterback who performed well to end the year, and talented wide receiving corps. With Norv Turner's running-centric offense, you know, the same offense that helped LaDainian Tomlinson solidify himself as a potential first ballot Hall of Famer, Peterson is going to be touching the ball quite a bit. From double-digit carries to catches in the flats and across the middle, expect Peterson to have a monster comeback year. Don't forget, he finished 2013 with 1,200 yards and 10 touchdowns, which was a "down year" after joining the 2,000 yard club the previous year.
Marshawn Lynch, Seattle Seahawks
Remember that time the Seahawks forgot they had the most dominant short-yardage running back in the league on their team, and Russell Westbrook threw an interception which led to the New England Patriots winning the 2014 Super Bowl? Don't expect the Seahawks to make the same mistake this year.
Lynch has been one of the most dominant running backs, often making it virtually impossible for defenses to stop him, particularly in goal line situations. In 2014, Lynch finished the year with a league-tying 13 rushing touchdowns. His 2014 campaign also marked the eighth season in a row, Lynch carried the ball more than 300 times.
With the addition of tight end Jimmy Graham, expect Seattle to test out their aerial attack to start the season, with Lynch getting significantly more targets through the air. This may slightly decrease his carries to start the season, but if he's still in the area of 20 carries per game, you're definitely going to want him on your fantasy squad.
Eddie Lacy, Green Bay Packers
The Packers have one of the most high-powered offenses with Aaron Rogers firing on all cylinders and Eddie Lacy providing a just as deadly running attack. Lacy, has the ability to run over linebackers at the point of attack, picking up significant chunks of yards with each carry. He also has the ability to outrun linebackers and break open on simple passing plays, which makes him even deadlier.
Last year, when Rogers was struggling with a calf injury, Lacy was able to rise to the occasion and takeover the offensive burden, rushing for nearly 1,200 yards and 13 touchdowns during that stretch. With Lacy has a huge offensive threat, expect him to continue to perform well this season, especially as the Packers near goal line situations.
For the full list of running backs you may want to consider, click here.
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