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Pope demands tech companies prevent kids from viewing porn
Pope says tech companies should assume a moral responsibility to protect young people from what he said were the ruinous effects of pornography on their emotional and sexual development.
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Pope Francis called Thursday for Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other tech companies to urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and prevent children from accessing pornography online.
Francis told a Vatican conference of religious leaders and high-tech representatives that it's no longer acceptable to merely follow the law in monitoring online content, because technology is fast outpacing regulation.
He said tech and computer software companies should assume a moral responsibility to protect young people from what he said were the ruinous effects of pornography on their emotional and sexual development.
"There is a need to ensure that investors and managers remain accountable, so that the good of minors and society is not sacrificed to profit," he said.
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Francis was addressing participants at the conference "Promoting Digital Child Dignity," which follows on a 2017 conference hosted by the Jesuit university in Rome and a 2018 meeting in Abu Dhabi.
Francis cited obligatory age verification technology and artificial intelligence to eliminate criminal porn from the web as two concrete measures high tech companies and software-makers could take to protect children.
The Vatican has sought to raise awareness about protecting children online as part of its response to the Catholic Church's dreadful record with clergy sexual abuse. The issue has hit close to home for Francis, after one of his diplomats was sentenced to five years in prison by a Vatican court for viewing child pornography, and one of his own Argentine bishops was placed under investigation by the church after porn was found on his cellphone.
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The two-day conference at the Vatican featured speakers from Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Paramount Pictures, UN and EU officials, as well as the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians and the grand imam of the Al-Azhar university in Cairo, the seat of Sunni learning. Francis' secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, was to close out the conference on Friday, in an indication of the importance the Vatican placed on it.
In his remarks, Francis said technology has obvious benefits for children, but also poses risks and negative effects that often aren't apparent until it is too late to remedy them.
He indirectly dismissed claims by Facebook and other social media companies that they are merely "platforms" for others to share content.
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"It is now clear that they cannot consider themselves completely unaccountable vis-a-vis the services they provide for their customers," he said. "So I make an urgent appeal to them to assume their responsibility toward minors, their integrity and their future."
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By 2050, 1 is 6 people in the world will be 65 or older, forcing the countries of the world deal with an aging population. The number of senior has jumped an astounding 23 percent in the last decade.
According to studies, the world's population has been graying for decades due to declining birthrates and an increase in longevity. Italy, Japan, Germany and Monaco have the most senior citizens, with more than 20 percent of their respective populations over 65 years of age.
Here in the United States, residents who are 65 or older represent approximate 13 percent of the overall population, but that number is expected to double in the next 40 years. This raises serious concerns as to how we are going to be able to handle the growth.
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It just is what it is.
Posted by: TCF Blog Team on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
The following is a guest post by blogger, intern, and friend of TargetCancer Foundation, DJ Webster.
The words, "I have cancer," are a combination that no family member wants to hear. It immediately arouses countless intense feelings of pain, doubt, fear and helplessness. The only worse combination of words than "I have cancer," is when it is followed by, "I'm going to die." Those two small sentences have the ability to change lives immeasurably. While friends and family members will survive the loss of a loved one, they do not escape unscathed. Cancer will test relationships, personal strength and core beliefs. While the cancer may eventually win the physical fight against the patient, it is important to never allow it to prevail emotionally and allow it to ruin relationships, make us weak, and abandon our values. As long as we continue to fight against cancer, it will never win.
I had just graduated high school, committed to the college of my dreams and was looking forward to my last summer at home when my father was diagnosed with inoperable cholangiocarcinoma. He had called my family and me into Massachusetts General Hospital where he had spent a week prior due to jaundice and abnormal blood readings for a family meeting. Having a mother who defeated breast cancer and several family members who beat other forms of cancer, I didn't think too much of the meeting. I had figured that my father would be diagnosed with some curable disease where he may struggle but overall, would be okay. Whether this ignorance was a coping mechanism or my true belief, I still don't know, but I was unprepared for the news my father would deliver. "I have cancer," my father said comfortably. He hesitated while my family and I looked on with worrisome eyes. He slowly continued, "and I have a year to live." The man I had looked up to for the first 17 years of my life as an immovable rock on which my family was built was rendered into a man facing his mortality. The man that I had never once seen cry had become so overwhelmed with emotion that there was no other possible reaction besides to weep.
All of a sudden, my dreams of college seemed miniscule in comparison to my father's death sentence. Attending school while he would be going through grueling chemotherapy treatments and fighting for his life just seemed irresponsible. When I expressed these concerns to him, he immediately dismissed them. My father wanted me to go to college for him, to continue my education and better myself for him. He wanted me to continue my plans because although his life was winding down, mine was only beginning. I went to school in the fall and came home every weekend to be with my family. Some days my father was upbeat and active, while others he was exhausted and didn't get out of bed. Although it was uncertain how my father would interact every weekend, it was evident that he was growing weaker and weaker every seven days that I saw him. Since childhood, my dad had convinced me to drink milk at every meal to "grow up big and strong" like him, and now, the man I had idolized, was slowly deteriorating before my eyes.
While he was physically weakening, my dad's sense of morals and beliefs remained the same. As I drove him to the hospital for an appointment one weekend, we talked about life after his death. While a morbid conversation, it was an important one in the development of who I am. My dad said that he was not scared of dying and was more scared of how my mother and sisters would deal with it. It amazed me that a man facing his own mortality could think about how others, who would survive, would deal with it. While worrying about my sisters and mother, he was not concerned about me. He believed that I would be okay and said, "I'm not worried about you, you're going to be just fine. Let's just enjoy the time we have." While I didn't believe it at the time, he was right.
The selflessness that my father demonstrated in that one, short conversation forever changed my outlook on life. He demonstrated selflessness. He showed humility. He taught me to not worry about what you can't change. As he always said, "It is what it is." We just have to take the cards that we are dealt, make the most out of them and enjoy the little things in life, even if it is just a simple car ride with your dad.
My father died in December, just five short months after his original one-year diagnosis. While it was one of the worst days of my life, it was also an important one. Using his lessons, I have strengthened my relationships with friends and family members. I have become a stronger person and have maintained my values. While it hurts that my father is gone and will miss many life experiences like meeting my future wife or holding my first child, I know that a piece of my father will be there in me. My father has shaped who I was, who I am and who I will be. Cancer may have taken him physically from me too early in life, but cancer can't take his legacy. It just is what it is.
DJ Webster is a communications major in his senior year at Boston College. He has worked with TargetCancer Foundation in a formal capacity as a TargetCancer Foundation intern and a member of the Target the Darkness: Community for a Cure planning committee.
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We refer to periods of subduction strain accumulation beneath the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, as "supercycles," because each culminates in a series of partial ruptures of the megathrust in its final decades. The finale of the previous supercycle comprised two giant earthquakes in 1797 and 1833 and whatever happened in between. This behavior between two great ruptures has implications for how the megathrust will behave between its more recent partial failure, during the Mw 8.4 earthquake of 2007, and subsequent large ruptures. We synthesize previously published coral microatoll records and a large new coral data set to constrain not only these two giant ruptures but also the intervening interseismic megathrust behavior. We present detailed maps of coseismic uplift during the two earthquakes and of interseismic deformation during the periods 1755–1833 and 1950–2000, as well as models of the corresponding slip and coupling on the underlying megathrust. The large magnitudes we derive (Mw 8.6–8.8 for 1797 and Mw 8.8–8.9 for 1833) confirm that the 2007 earthquakes released only a fraction of the moment released during the previous rupture sequence. Whereas megathrust behavior leading up to the 1797 and 2007 earthquakes was similar and comparatively simple, behavior between 1797 and 1833 was markedly different and more complex: several patches of the megathrust became weakly coupled following the 1797 earthquake. We conclude that while major earthquakes generally do not involve rupture of the entire Mentawai segment, they may significantly change the state of coupling on the megathrust for decades to follow, influencing the progression of subsequent ruptures.
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World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship!
Whew! I have just completed my essay for the 2012 World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship. Writing comes so naturally to me, and I did not anticipate that this would be any difficult. What I didn't expect to be hard, however, was the character count.
I misspoke earlier in the week when I said the essay had to be 2000 words. It was actually 2000 characters, including spaces. I was half-way through my manifesto when I realized this, and so attempted to chop and truncate it into a choppily written essay with a good idea. Realizing my failure, I started from scratch and it went easier, but still wasn't right. I finally combined the two and somehow that worked out the best.
I checked out the painfully long comments page on the World Nomads website which helped fill in the gaps, and others had questions on whether the essay could be posted to your blog. Turns out it can! Here is the final product of my labour, along with the personal essay on how cool I am and why I should win. Enjoy, and wish me luck!
Tucked along an Italian cobblestoned piazza in Florence, Trattoria Massacio was a small and unassuming restaurant. Inside, a dark waiter sat me at a long wooden table with paper placemats typical of the family-style, casual atmosphere of a traditional Italian eatery. With his long hair and handsome features I wanted to call the waiter Fabio, but his name was Simone. I ordered spaghetti pomodoro: a simple pasta with tomato sauce.
Simone brought me bread and red wine in a charming bottle that was set in a basket which emphasized that I was in Italy. More basket-bottles were hanging from the ceiling. A pair of old women in the corner were tucking into their first course: roast chicken. While eating, they sipped on white wine that they had mixed with aqua frizzante to make a spritzer.
A little later, Simone returned with my spaghetti pomodoro. It was a simple meal but was cooked to perfection. The wholesome starch of the pasta and the tangy sauce of tomatoes with zesty herbs was savory and delicious. I dipped the bread into a plate of olive oil and red wine vinegar and tasted the mellow, warm oil combined with the sharp acidity of vinegar soaked into crusty bread. The combination of flavors were both comforting and invigorating. Drinking the wine was like consuming a part of Italy itself. It was pungent, fruity, and passionate.
Food and wine, and the enjoyment of both, are central to Italian culture, and it crossed my mind that the fullness of the flavors reflected that of the Italian people. The love that goes into wine making and cooking is the same love that causes a pair of old women to spend hours over a several-course lunch, quietly chirping away all the while.
By the time I bid Simone "ciao" and "gratzi," the old women were only on their third course, a crisp salad. I went back into the streets of Florence feeling full, satisfied, and deliriously happy.
As a dabbling travel writer, this opportunity is huge. I have long been an avid traveler and writer, but it wasn't until recently that I thought to combine the two. While traveling, I've written detailed diaries and emails. The response from these was overwhelming, with many people including my father, a professional journalist, telling me to consider this as a career path. Recently I started a travel blog to hone my skills and feel out a response to my writing.
One of my ambitions is to write my own guidebook. Author Rick Steeves' guidebook to Europe has been a huge influence on myself as a traveler. I would like to combine his back door philosophy and cultural knowledge with a younger, hipper perspective. Winning this scholarship will bring me closer to realizing this dream.


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Instagram announces a new crackdown on controversial branded content
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Instagram is cracking down on influencers and brands publishing content relating to a few controversial topics.
While the company has had policies restricting branded content related to vaping, tobacco products, and weapons, the company is introducing a new policy which will more vigorously enforce these restrictions.
The ramp up of enforcement will come over the coming weeks, giving brands and influencers a small amount of time to plan their future marketing efforts.
Instagram also says it will be enacting more rules related to branded content promoting alcohol and diet supplements in the coming year.
Details on the initiative are limited, but the company says it is building new tools to help enforce age-based content restrictions which will help creators ensure adult content is not seen by minors.
While the site may be restricting a few types of branded content, the company says its overall goal is to help creators grow and connect more with their audiences.
As the policy announcement concludes:
"Creators on Instagram are a vital part of our community, and we will be investing even more resources in 2020 to help them build their businesses on Instagram."
December 19, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Instagram to Test Removing "Like" Counts From U.S. Users
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Instagram will start testing the removal of "Like" counts in the US as early as this week, the company's CEO announced recently.
The company has already been testing eliminating the "Like" counts from view for users in Canada, Brazil, Japan, and Australia. However, this is the first time they will be testing the concept for American users.
Notably, in these tests, Instagram has not totally removed the presence of Likes or the ability to view your total likes. Instead, the site has hidden the total number of Likes from other users viewing a person's post on desktop or viewing a person's profile. This makes it so that only account owners can view the number of Likes a post receives.
If Instagram proceeds to remove Likes entirely from public view, it could have a significant impact to how users interact with content and how online success is measured.
For instance, influencers and marketers will likely stop relying on Likes as a measure of their posts success. Instead, they might shift to other, deeper engagement metrics such as clicks, comments, or shares.
For now, Instagram is just testing removing likes. Given that they have slowly been expanding this feature around the world, however, it seems likely that the platform is seriously considering hiding your Likes from public view for good.
November 12, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Facebook Announces New Tools To Prepare Businesses For The Holidays
Advertising, Facebook, Marketing, News, Social Media Marketing
The holiday season may still feel like it is far in the distance, but most studies show consumers start their holiday shopping in November – if not earlier. That means now is the time to start preparing your holiday marketing efforts.
To help, Facebook is releasing a wave of new tools aimed at assisting businesses with their holiday marketing.
Customizable Story Templates
Facebook is releasing a number of customizable templates for ads in Facebook Stories, Instagram, and Messenger.
The templates are simple, visually pleasing ways to showcase products and brands throughout the shopping season, with customizable backgrounds, music, and CTAs.
These templates will be available this week.
Improvements to Instagram Direct and Messenger
Closer to the Holiday season, Facebook says it will be bringing a number of new features to Instagram Direct to improve communication between businesses and customers.
As the company says in the announcement:
"From fulfilling orders to keeping up with customer requests, we know staying on top of customer communications is important, so we also created new messaging tools like labels, search and folders to help businesses stay organized."
Within the coming weeks, Facebook will also be launching an 'instant replies' which lets businesses create custom automatic responses for when they are not immediately available.
These "away" messages can be useful for days when your business is closed or when no one will be available to respond to messages for a prolonged period of time.
Along with these improvements, Facebook is also introducing a new 'saved replies' feature which will allow you to respond to common questions with pre-written responses.
October 15, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Instagram is Testing a Way To Remind People About Your Newest Products
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Instagram is testing a new way to notify customers about the release of new products when launch day arrives with stylish stickers and push notifications.
While the test is currently limited to a small number of brands selected as part of Instagram's closed checkout beta, it would deliver a promising way to boost the profile of your product launches and improve early sales.
As the company says in their announcement:
"We wanted to make it easier for people to discover and follow upcoming product launches from brands and creators they love."
The feature works by letting users opt-in to receive reminders about upcoming products when they see early promotional materials.
Come launch day, they can then be notified of the product release and even make the purchase without leaving the Instagram app.
To accompany the new feature, Instagram also launched a new sticker which can be used in Stories to promote your latest products.
Since the new feature is just in testing, it is hard to predict when or even if it will eventually reach all brands and advertisers. Still, it provides an insight into how Instagram is aiming to help brands keep their products in the front of customers' minds.
October 1, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Facebook Now Lets You Schedule Instagram Posts Up To Six Months Early
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For the first time, Facebook is giving you a way to schedule Instagram posts ahead of time without the use of a third-party tool or app.
The new functionality, available to all business accounts through Facebook's Creator Studio, allows you to plan your Instagram pictur updates and IGTV videos up to six months in advance.
The new feature also opens scheduled posts to the full abilities of Instagram. With most third-party tools, users are frequently limited to just one image per post and few offer support for IGTV videos.
How To Gain Access To Scheduled Instagram Posts
You still have to meet a few requirements to be able to start scheduling your Instagram updates. Specifically, you need to:
Have a Facebook Business account
Have an Instagram business or creator account
Have linked your Instagram account to your Facebook page
Once all that is in order, you can start scheduling your posts through the Facebook Creator Studio by clicking the Instagram logo at the top of this page.
It should be fairly obvious, but the new feature does not allow for the scheduling of Instagram Stories ahead of time. This makes sense, as those posts are specifically intended to capture a moment in time. If you begin scheduling those posts days or weeks ahead of time, it would lose the authenticity that makes Stories so engaging.
September 17, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Facebook announces major changes including a huge redesign and new features
Major changes are coming to Facebook as the company tries to balance a more privacy-focused approach with several new features aimed at encouraging people to interact with their Facebook accounts more.
At the company's F8 developer conference this week, Facebook announced a wide range of features, changes, and redesigns which will roll out over the next year.
At the same time, representatives from Facebook hammered home the importance of privacy and protecting data with more advanced encryption and a huge redesign to shift how people use the platform.
The Redesign
Leading the pack of changes is Facebook's most significant visual overhaul since its launch. While the most noticeable difference is the removal of blue on the page to create a more vibrant space for you to explore, it also holds many deeper revisions which intend to change how we use the platform.
For example, the interface will now highlight more Groups and private messages to make the platform feel more cohesive.
The redesign is already rolling out on Android and iOS mobile devices, though the company says it will take a few months for the full update to go live. Meanwhile, Facebook says it will begin testing the desktop redesign in the "next few months" before bringing it to the public.
Facebook Dating?
One of the most bizarre introductions during this year's conference was the launch of a new feature called "Secret Crush" which allows users to pick nine of their friends which they have a crush on. Then, if any of those nine friends also select that user as a crush, they will be notified. If the attraction is not returned, however, the other person will never know.
Meet New Friends
In a similar (but less creepy) vein is Facebook's coming "Meet New Friends" feature. As you might expect from the name, the opt-in feature aims to help connect people who share schools or jobs, or those who live in the same city.
Messenger Comes To Desktop
As part of an effort to make Facebook's Messenger a more widely accessible platform, the company is launching a standalone version of the service for desktop computers. While Messenger has always been available on the desktop version of Facebook, it has been limited in several ways. For example, features like Group calling have been exclusive to the mobile app. With the launch of the desktop app, users will now be able to take advantage of all of Messenger's features from any type of device.
Instagram Create Mode
Facebook isn't the only platform getting an overhaul. Instagram also has several changes on the way, including a considerable reworking of the camera in Instagram Stories. With the new Create Mode, users can now create images for Stories that don't come directly from their phone without extensive workarounds. Now, you can easily edit your Stories to create the images you want to share without leaving the app.
Instagram Likes Go Secret
One of the more surprising tests Facebook announced is that it will begin hiding the like count on photos and videos on Instagram in an effort to encourage people to pay more attention to the content and focus less on popularity contests.
In the test, followers will not be able to see a photo's total likes or a video's view count while viewing the content in their feed or visiting another user's profile. However, the person sharing the content will still be able to look at their post's metrics by tapping through a post. The test is expected to begin this week for users in Canada, though it is unclear when this might appear in the US.
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"Checkout on Instagram" lets shoppers buy products within Instagram's app
Instagram is launching a new in-app checkout feature for a limited number of brands which will let users make purchases without ever having to leave the app.
For now, the new feature is limited to just 23 big-name brands like Adidas, Burberry, and MAC Cosmetics, but the company says it will be expanding the feature to more brands in the coming months.
The in-app checkout is Instagram's latest effort to make its service more retailer-friendly without hurting their own platform. While they have included several shopping-related features over the past few years, shoppers would ultimately have to leave the app to make a purchase.
With the new feature, users will now see a "Checkout on Instagram" button on product pages from brands' shopping posts.
When tapped, shoppers will be allowed to choose from a variety of options like size and color, then taken to a payment page within Instagram.
Users who make purchases within the app will also receive shipment and delivery notifications within Instagram to keep them informed.
"The new technology gives Adidas' audience the power to go from inspiration to purchase in an instant. Our consumer-obsessed approach to e-commerce focuses on simplified immersive connections with the brand and Instagram Shopping allows us to deliver a content-rich experience on a platform where our creators are exploring and curating their lives," said Adidas SVP of digital Scott Zalaznik.
March 19, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Instagram now lets you post to multiple accounts simultaneously
Marketing, News, Social Media Marketing
Instagram has launched a new feature that makes it possible to share posts across multiple accounts simultaneously. Currently only available to iOS users, the feature allows account managers to share a post to two or more of their accounts without the need for duplicating posts or creating multiple versions for each account.
"We are rolling out this feature to provide a better experience for people who often post to multiple accounts," explained a spokesperson for Instagram.
If you have a business with multiple locations or individual brands for specific services, you likely can already see the utility of the new feature. In the past, to post across several accounts you controlled, you would essentially have to recreate the same post multiple times or use third-party tools to create and schedule your posts.
Now, you can save the time and effort by selecting the "Post to other accounts" option when creating a new post. From there, you simply have to toggle which accounts you would like to share the content on.
It also means that brands who aren't using third-party social management tools can now effectively manage their multiple pages from directly within the Instagram app.
Unfortunately for Android users, Instagram hasn't given any indication when the feature might be available outside of iOS devices.
January 10, 2019 /0 Comments/by Taylor Ball
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Instagram releases new 'stickers' to encourage engagement
Marketing, Mobile, News, Social Media Marketing, Video
Instagram has released a set of new features aimed to encourage better engagement and participation with followers, especially when live streaming or creating Stories.
Do you have a big event, announcement, or live stream coming up? Now you can highlight it with an interactive countdown sticker in your Instagram Stories.
Once you've created the countdown and set the time limit, you can easily insert it in all your stories to remind your audience about important events or promotions. You can also use the stickers to raise awareness of a limited-time offer that is expiring soon.
Followers who see the countdown can also choose to follow it, which will ensure they receive a notification when the countdown is over.
Question Stickers
One of the biggest ways people like to use Instagram's live videos is to answer viewer questions. The only problem is this can get a bit hard to follow when you have lots of viewers asking questions back to back. It can also be hard for new viewers to know what question is being answered.
Now, viewers can create and share question stickers during live streams to make it easy for everyone to stay on the same page.
The stickers are easily browsable for streamers to pick from. Once chosen, the question will be shown at the bottom of the screen so that viewers know what question you are answering. You can see an example below:
Both of these features are now available for both iOS and Android users. However, broadcasting live videos is only available currently on iOS. Android users can still view the streams and share questions.
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Instagram launches IGTV for hour long videos
General, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Video
Instagram is betting big on long-form videos with a new video platform called "IGTV" which will show off videos up to an hour long. Until now, users were only allowed to upload videos up to one-minute-long, so this is a big upgrade for users.
While the feature is entirely accessible within Instagram's app and web platform, Instagram is also launching a stand-alone app available on both iOS and Android devices today.
"We made it a dedicated app so you can tap on it and enjoy video without all the distraction," CEO Kevin Systrom explained.
So far, indications are that Instagram "celebrities" will get most of the attention within the IGTV section on the Instagram app, but businesses can still get some use out of the ability to upload longer, more in-depth videos.
Businesses may also benefit from being able to curate their own Channels of content that users can subscribe to within IGTV. This way, they will be notified anytime you post a new video.
For now, Systrom said that IGTV is entirely-ad free, but it likely won't last forever. Once it has established itself on Instagram's platform, I'd expect ads to start appearing.
How to start your own IGTV Channel
Creating a channel is easy and can be done within the Instagram app.
Step 1: Tap the IGTV logo near the top-right corner of your Instagram home screen.
Step 2: Tap the gear icon on the bottom right of the screen.
Step 3: Select "Create Channel" at the bottom of the screen.
Step 4: After a brief introduction to IGTV, select "Next" on the following two screens. Then, tap "Create Channel."
Step 5: Congratulations, your channel is officially active and you can start uploading videos to IGTV.
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Dombeya kirkii Mast.
This species is accepted, and its native range is S. Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]
Sterculiaceae, Martin Cheek & Laurence Dorr; Nesogordonia, Laurence Dorr, Lisa Barnett. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2007
Leaves ovate to broadly ovate or suborbicular, usually unlobed, rarely shallowly 3-lobed, 3.5–18 cm long, 2–13 cm wide, acuminate or subacuminate, rarely acute or rounded, margin evenly or irregularly serrate or crenate toothed, base cordate, upper surface sparsely stellatepuberulous, lower surface pubescent; petiole 1.5–9 cm long; stipules lanceolatesubulate, 0.4–0.7 cm long, 0.1–0.15 cm wide, pubescent, caducous
Inflorescence axillary, 3–12.5 cm long, the two main branches bearing numerous subumbellate, 3–5-flowered clusters on short branches or single flowers; peduncle 1.9–7.2 cm; bracts and bracteoles not seen; pedicels 0.7–1.5 cm, shortly stellate to villous; epicalyx bracts inserted on calyx base or pedicel, ligulate–oblong, 0.3–0.4 cm long, caducous
Calyx lobes reflexed, lanceolate, 0.4–0.7 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, acuminate
Petals white, spreading, 0.7–1.3 cm long, 0.4–0.7 cm wide.
Androecium
Androecium 0.6–0.8 cm long; staminal tube dilating towards apex, 0.1 cm long; staminodes 0.5–0.7 cm long; longest stamen 0.3–0.45 cm; anthers ± 0.15 cm long; ovary tube dilating towards apex, 0.1 cm long; staminodes 0.5–0.7 cm long; longest stamen 0.3–0.5 cm; anthers ± 0.15 cm long
Ovary globose, tomentose; style 0.2–0.3 cm long, glabrous, 3-branched
Capsule oblate, 0.4–0.6 cm diameter, tomentose; seeds 0.2–0.3 cm long, ± 0.2 cm wide, dull pale brown, rugose
Fig 12: 1–3, p 71
Forest edge, Acacia bushland, bushland on rocky slopes; 600–2400 m
A widespread and common taxon, here assessed as of Least Concern.
Types: Malawi, 16° S, Meller s.n. (K, lecto., chosen by Seyani, 1991); Mozambique, Lupata, Kirk s.n. (K, syn.)
Small tree or shrub 2–15 m tall; stems terete, densely pubescent to subglabrous, hairs simple, stellate and subsessile-glandular
Flora districts: U2 U3 U 4 ; K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T7 Range: Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]
Sterculiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
Much-branched shrub or small tree up to c. 9 m. tall; young branches tomentellous or densely pubescent, dark brown and glabrescent later; bark smooth and light grey.
Leaf-lamina up to 13 × 10 cm., ovate, usually unlobed, rarely shallowly 3-lobed, apex acuminate, cordate at the base, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, base cordate and 5 (7)-nerved, thinly scaberulous-pubescent above, softly and rather thinly pubescent below, nerves fairly prominent below; petiole up to 5·5 cm. long, densely pubescent or glabrescent; stipules c. 5 mm. long, very caducous, subulate, tomentose.
Flowers white, in many-flowered axillary panicles; peduncles slender, densely pubescent with both long and short stellate hairs; pedicels up to c. 2 cm. long, with similar indumentum; bracts c. 4 mm. long, very caducous, linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent.
Calyx-lobes c. 7 × 1·5 mm., narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, tomentellous outside.
Petals c. 1 × 0·6 cm., very obliquely cuneate.
Stamens united below for c. 1 mm.; staminodes c. 6 mm. long, narrowly linear, glabrous.
Ovary depressed-globose, tomentose; loculi glabrous inside; ovules 2 (3) per loculus; style 2 mm. long, glabrous; stigmas 3, recurved.
Capsule c. 5 mm. in diam., depressed-globose, somewhat 3-lobed, tomentose.
Seeds c. 3 × 2 mm., dark brown, usually 1 per loculus, obovoid; testa almost smooth or very minutely reticulate.
Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Assonia kirkii Kuntze
Dombeya gillettii Gilli
Dombeya laxiflora K.Schum.
Dombeya mukole Sprague
Dombeya umbraculifera K.Schum.
Dombeya warneckei Engl.
Dombeya kirkii Mast. appears in other Kew resources:
Aug 1, 1982 Kirk, J. [s.n.], Mozambique K000241086
Aug 1, 1982 Dawe [182] K000241114 Unknown type material
Aug 1, 1982 Warnecke [480] K000241112
Aug 1, 1982 Holst, C. [8993], Tanzania K000241110 Unknown type material
Aug 1, 1982 Holst, C. [9171] K000241111
Aug 1, 1982 Hildebrandt, J.M. [s.n.] K000241113 Unknown type material
Aug 1, 1982 Hannington, J. [s.n.], Tanzania K000241109
Aug 1, 1982 Meller, C. J. [s.n.] K000241085
First published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 227 (1868)
Kalema, J. & Beentje, H. (2012). Conservation checklist of the trees of Uganda: 1-235. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Cheek, M. & Dorr, L. (2007). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Sterculiaceae: 1-134.
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Edwards, S., Tadesse, M. & Hedberg, I. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 2(2): 1-456. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
Exell, A.W. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1961). Flora Zambesiaca 1(2): 337-581. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Robyns, W. & al. (eds.) (1948-1963). Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1-10.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Fl. Eth. 2, 2: 170 (1995).
K.T.S.L.: 164 (1994 )
Dombeya in Africa: 112 (1991)
Blundell, Wild Fl. E Africa: t. 189 (1987)
Seyani, Dombeya: 152 (1982)
F.C.B. 10: 247 (1963)
F.Z. 1: 527 (1961)
E.M. 5: 39 (1900)
F.T.A. 1: 227 (1868)
Flora Zambesiaca
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Once the idea got into my head of riding a motorbike again, no matter what fears I had, and there were plenty, I still wanted to do it.
It was just a case of finding how to do it. I still had a UK licence as you are not obliged to change it until it expires. A driving school in Alba told me I just needed to exchange my UK licence for an Italian one, do a simple bike test and the road is mine.
The estimated time for exchanging my licence was 4-6 weeks. We usually say that for Italy you need to times anything by 7 to get the truth.
I bought my Moto Guzzi Breva 750 in the Spring hoping I would be riding it in the summer. 8 Months later my licence finally came. To get things started I had to go and pay for the strangest medical, it was in Alba.
About 40 people were crammed into a tiny doctor's waiting room, all waiting for the compulsory medical examination for a new licence or renewal. I was a little worried. Bad eyesight, somewhat out of shape, hearing diminishing. You get the picture.
After about 35 minutes I was told to go see the doctor. He was laid back. Even another Italian would say he was laid back. The office was extremely dark and he reclined way back in his big leather swivel chair.
He had a few different colour pens on his big oak desk, he pointed at one and asked in English 'What is the colour?' I said 'Verde'. 'No!' he replied, laughing 'It's a green'.
He then shared his opinion, something he apparently gave considerable thought to, that women that have some weight are far more desirable than skinny women, that he didn't like skinny women and if I agreed. I did, I wanted my licence!
I was more than a bit angry with the school in Alba for taking so long to get my licence – a big part of the wait was their fault – so I went to a school in Canale.
A family business, run by the glamorous mother (not too fat!) and the two sons, Tony and Federico. Both nice lads that probably will get years of telling funny stories from me learning to ride again.
They saw I needed lessons, not to learn to ride properly and safely but so I could pass the test. I had to go for another medical to get what is called the Folio Rosa – Pink Slip – as anything could have happened since the last medical 8 months before.
For this one I had to go to the hospital in Canale. I was greeted by a plump young dottaressa (female doctor). I was tempted to ask her for her cell phone number as I knew a doctor in Alba that might like to meet her but I wanted my licence so kept quiet.
She spoke better English than the doctor in Alba, which was a shame as I have nothing funny to write.
She was much more thorough. She told me all the places she had visited in the English speaking world, asked if I had ever had any dangerous diseases, had I got AIDS and could I see the chart?
Then it was off to the school, wait a week for the Pink Slip (I think they said it would be 1-2 days).
I could then ride, without passenger on any motorcycle for 6 months but would have to take the test within that time, otherwise I'd have to have another 2 medicals. The urgency to pass had just got greater.
If you read my previous blog you'd know I hadn't ridden for 25 years. I remember reading 'The Perfect Vehicle' written by Melissa Holbrook Pierson, an American woman that decided to start riding a motorcycle and was terrified the whole time.
I understood how she felt, but like her, I was determined to enjoy it, eventually. For the first lesson I had to follow the Fiat Panda driving school car, with Federico onboard.
He was watching me in his mirrors (that's why Italian cars have mirrors!). Every now and again he'd pull over and give me some tips – keep looking in your mirrors was one bit of advice.
He encouraged me to make my head movements exaggerated so the examiner would see it. He reassured me that after the test I wouldn't have to bother with mirrors at all – presumably, unless I became a driving instructor.
Then it was on to the fruit market to go around the cones. This I found difficult, the figure of eight.. Federico showed me how easy it was.. thanks! Then I tried again, and again. 'Don't worry', he told me, 'keep practicing'.
The next day I went out and bought 8 mini cones, practiced and then dug out my Haynes 'Learner Riders' manual to see if I could get some useful tips – Ah, use the back brake, not the front, the front snatches so upsets your balance!
Why didn't I remember that? That was it. Easy! Shame Federico didn't point that out to me… as my instructor.
The next time out was with Tony. I liked Tony. He talked a lot and seemed to moan a lot. We had much in common. He loved bikes but had given up his weekend trips through the Langhe to the regular meeting point of all bikers, Montezemelo Langhe.
He had a Honda CBR600 but gave it up when his wife got pregnant – babies and bikes don't go.
He talked about his favourite Ducatis, that Jenson Button wouldn't win the F1 world championship (he did go on to take the title) and that Victoria Beckham should shove off back to England if she makes negative comments about Milan (the people of Piedmont hate the people of Lombardia of which Milan in the principal city, unless a foreigner criticizes it then they defend it. I can't imagine someone from London defending Manchester.).
The next time and last time was also with Tony. It was test day and I had very little idea what to expect, or really what I had to do. It seemed too straight forward.
I forgot to mention that although I had my brand new Moto Guzzi I had to use the school's bike. A worn out Kawasaki ER5.
The gearbox was much easier than my bike but the brakes and clutch were terrible. The clutch lever had been broken off twice by careless students dropping it - so fed up with buying new levers from Kawasaki they had grafted one off, well, I don't really know, a lawnmower?
It was curly and had a big knob on the end. It made controlling the clutch considerably harder.
Anyway, I followed Tony in his Punto to the fruit market, driven by a girl about 18 years old. We waited and waited.
Then Federico pulled up in another Punto. In the car was another 18 year old girl that looked 12 and a grumpy man, the examiner.
I was told to go around the cones – slalom, figure of eight, stop, accelerate in a straight line into 2nd then stop – perfect!
Then the 12 year old got into the driver's seat of the Punto, Tony disappeared, the examiner took my licence and pink slip and got into the back of the Punto and Federico into the passenger seat.
I was told to follow the car back to the school – about 8 minutes away. From his back seat position the examiner occasionally looked to see if I had fallen off and looked forward to see if the 12 year old was aiming the car properly.
We arrived back at the school and I was given my licence back. No one told me what to do next. I was invited back into the office, then waited.
What next? When's the test? After about 25 minutes I realised this wasn't my original licence, it was a new one and showed I had passed.
So, after medicals, months waiting and lessons that weren't really lessons at all I finally had my bike licence.
After 25 years, once again, I had that feeling of a bike underneath me and the sense of freedom you can only get with a two wheeled machine.


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Author: Cheyenne
Of all of my video game collections, my 3DS collection took the worst hit during the flooding of Hurricane Harvey. While all games survived, not all cases and artwork did. All told, I am down to cartridge-only for all but one of my Zelda games, several Mario games and a few other gems. I will rebuild, but that section between K-P took heavy casualties.
I spent yesterday taking inventory and storing them in their permanent location, which is about 4 feet off the ground (we took on 3 feet of water). I also moved all of my collector's items up to the top shelf in the room. See the pictures below!
I have an obsession with a company called Limited Run Games. They take some of the most popular digital-only release games and make physical media for the Playstation 4, Playstation Vita and now the Switch.
They are still a fairly new company, but I love what they are doing and have collected all but 3 of their Vita-released games. They are still releasing new ones, and I am sure to gobble them up on release day.
The significance of their name is that they keep each release to a very small number of cartridges. In most of the releases, you won't see more than 3,000 released world-wide. It adds a sense of exclusivity, which makes it very attractive to collectors such as myself. They also often have collector's editions with many of the releases. I will generally only do the collector's set if it's a game I really enjoy, such as Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee. I had that game for the original XBox and enjoyed it a lot.
They are only up to about 60 games released for the Vita, which is the platform I primarily collect for. I have about 20 of the PS4 releases as well. Even though I don't have a Switch, I have pre-ordered the first 10 releases there as well. If what happened with the first releases for the other systems, these will be worth a lot more than they are now.
Some of my favorite releases so far have been Saturday Morning RPG, Octodad, Thomas was Alone, Broken Age (gotta love DoubleFine), Oceanhorn, Steworld Dig and Heist and several Bit.Trip games.
Steam Stars – Pivross
Once in a while, I am going to share with you some of Steam's hidden gems that are fairly cheap ($10 or less). The first one that gets my nod is Pivross.
Pivross is actually a free game, but if you want to unlock 100 levels (which I did), you'll need to pay a bit extra for it. I felt it was worth it. I am currently on level 80 and it is getting just hard enough to make it a challenge. There are achievements and they are all related to the quantity of puzzles you finish and how many you perfect (no mistakes).
If you see my review for Picross 3D, this is pretty much the same game, just for PC and not the DS. You start with a block of cubes. You need to use deduction and logic to whittle away at the cube until you have the completed object in front of you, which might look like this:
It's simple once you get the hang of it. I have enjoyed it a lot and feel that I've gotten my $5 worth. If you like logic/puzzle games, check it out!
PC, Puzzle
Steam Stars
Oldies but Goodies – Acrophobia
Genre: Word
Back in the early days of the internet, we didn't have a lot of options for online gaming. There were chat rooms with various solitaire games, online pool was popular for a while, and there were word games. The games had to be small and efficiently programmed to allow the required communication over *gasp* dial-up modems.
One such game was Acrophobia. This was a fun game in which you were presented with an anagram, such as ACRO. Every player had a short amount of time to come up with what this anagram stood for. For example, ACRO could be Anyone's Capable Roman Orangutan (I didn't say I was good at it). All players would then anonymously vote on the one that they thought was best. Players got points and eventually, someone won!
Here's the voting round:
Both my mom and I spent a lot of time playing this one. It came out in 1995 and lasted for a few years. I think it pops up every now and then online still to this day. It was a fun game and certainly was an oldie but goodie!
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Oldie but goodie
I have tried and tried to like anime. It's not something that has come easily to me. I like English-language shows such as Samurai Jack or Voltron, but I have never been able to get into a Japanese-language anime. Then I saw Sword Art Online and was smitten.
It's only natural that I would enjoy this show – the premise is based in a MMORPG world. It starts with some folks playing a new MMO via virtual reality. I don't want to give away any of the plot, but it quickly escalates and the stakes become very real and very high. The first season really feels like two, but I watched the entire series in about two weekends. Since it's in Japanese with English sub-titles, I found that I had to pay very close attention, so it's an intense binge, should you choose to do the same.
I wish I could say that this was a gateway anime for me, but, alas, that was not the case. I have found a couple that I've liked since then such as Aggretsko and Neo Yokio, but I still struggle with the format. However, SAO sucked me in. I even bought all of the related video games (Playstation-only for now), a Funko pop of the main character and a plushie of another, Klein:
I have tried to get into the second season, but it just isn't happening. However, if you have never liked anime but love video games as much as I do, give Sword Art Online a shot!
Hi Folks! I know I've been absent from this blog for some time now, but life has thrown me some serious curve balls. It all started with the major flood damage we took from Hurricane Harvey and has kind of spiraled downward from there. However, I am now back in a writing mood and you will see lots of good posts from me soon. I have been spending a lot of time with my PS Vita and PS4 and have lots of goodies to share from those experiences.
Throughout it all, gaming remained a constant in my life. I am thankful for that.
Chey's Top 25 – #17 – Gems of War
Genre: Puzzle/Match-3/RPG
Platform: All (mobile, PC, PS4, XBox)
For the first time in Super Fun Time Gaming Girl blog history, a game is being replaced in my top 25 list. I know the list isn't fully done yet, but in this instance, the former #17, Puzzle Quest, is being replaced with Gems of War.
Puzzle Quest deserves all of the props that I gave it in my original post. I have since fallen in serious like with Gems of War, however. The game takes the mechanics that made Puzzle Quest great and really ran with it. It's the natural evolution of the game and it is oh so sweet.
This is a match-3 game combined with a card-based troop system with several different modes. It has an active online user base and is available on every platform, which makes it very accessible. I play it on all platforms but mobile. It's fun to create my different play styles over the different platform. For example, I play a bit of a trickster goblin party on my PS4, but a more serious dragon-based party on my XBone.
The developer is constantly making great updates to the game and it doesn't appear that they have plans to stop. Since I've been playing, they've added pets, weapon crafting and a completely re-done class system. One of my favorite modes is treasure mode, where you combine pieces to form bigger pieces and get more loot.
As you play, you can also conquer kingdoms and add troops to your arsenal. I am always adding, upgrading and maintaining new troops to my collection and tinkering with my lineups. There is also a PVP mode, although you aren't actually playing a live person. You are playing a person's team. I would love to see a live PVP and I wouldn't be surprised if it showed up one day. The map of kingdoms is quite large and is growing:
Anyway, if you like match-3 games, this is the mother of them all. It will keep you busy for hours on end and you will keep coming back for more!
Match 3, PC, PS4, Puzzle, RPG, XBone
Hidden Gems – Perfect Angle (PS4)
It's been a long time since I've added anything to this blog. Life has been throwing curve balls at me since the flood and I've struggled to get back on my feet. It took a game like Perfect Angle on the Playstation 4 (PS4) to get me excited enough to write again.
Perfect Angle is a zen puzzle game – unlimited hints, no timers and the mechanics are almost too simple. The premise is this – you are given seemingly random shapes on the screen and you manipulate the play area around it until you find the shape hidden within. Sometimes, it's a shadow on a wall. Other times, you have to remove a couple of pieces to find it. I am now on level 53 and it's never been so hard that I've wanted to rage quit. As a puzzle game, I give it a solid A.
However, this is more than a puzzle game. This game doesn't want you to play it. It wants you to experience its story. You are taken on a mysterious journey with an aging man and you are helping to put his memories back together. It really fits with the theme of the game itself and in the industry in which I work, which is senior living, it feels painfully relevant. If this game ends up the way I think it will, this one may just bump something off of my top 25 game list.
If you own a PS4, play this game. And play it through. You will not regret it.
PS4, Puzzle


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top six stories of the last two weeks (or so)
March 27, 2013 March 27, 2013 thecubsfan news
Ultimo Guerrero and Atlantis signed for a mask match. The date was left undecided, but there's a 99.9% chance it will end up happening on the 80th Anniversary show in September. It'll probably sell out the building.
Cibernetico and Perro Aguayo Jr. signed for a hair match. The date was announced as TripleMania on June 16 in Arena Ciudad de Mexico. It'll probably sell out the building. This match was announced at Rey de Reyes, with the mask match announcement following a few days later.
AAA announced a deal with FactoryMade as part of an expansion to the US. This deal includes a presence on FactoryMade's co-owned station El Rey (to launch on New Year's Day 2014.) Their plans include AAA shows starting in the US in late 2013 and running two separate tours (which was announced at Rey de Reyes.) AAA is very excited about the capabilities of their new partner.
Okumura lost his hair and Namajague lost his mask to Rey Cometa & Stuka in the main event of CMLL's annual Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show. Namajague was revealed to be NJPW trainee Kyosuke Mikami as expected. In undercard matches, Estrellita took Amapola's hair, Volador & Sombra won the incredible pairs tournament (with Ultimo Guerrero & Atlantis breaking up again), and Rayo Jr. returned to Arena Mexico to win by DQ over Universo in trios. Rayo de Jalisco Sr. was honored on the show. The show drew unexpectedly well, estimated between 12-13,000.
Mesias won the Rey de Reyes tournament on the show of the same name in Monterrey. He defeated LA Park and surprise inclusion Canek in the final. Other matches on the show saw Texano Jr. keep the mega heavyweight title over Blue Demon, Fabi Apache won the vacant Reina de Reinas championship, and Fenix won the new Fusion championship. The big news going forward is the hair match and the announcement AAA would be split in to two brands – Dorian led Evolucion and Joaquin led Fusion – but there are few details or other signs of a split so far. The show drew well in Monterrey, estimated as 11-12K.
Ray Mendoza held his retirement show on 03/16; he and his brother Villano IV defeated Hijo del Pirata Morgan & Cassandro in the finales of a losers advance mask/hair tournament. Hijo del Pirata Morgan was revealed to be Antheus Ortiz Chavez. The show drew very poorly, around 1-2,000 people in an 8,000 seat building with a very expensive lineup. Villano V said on facebook that he'd lost $38,000 (USD) on the show. Four days later, Ray Mendoza Jr. came back out of retirement to work on next Sunday's Arena Coliseo Anniversary show (along with other independent luchadors.)
Hijo del Santo resumed his Todo X El Todo shows this past Saturday, defending the CMB (boxing federation) Lucha Libre championship for the first time over evil foreigner Oliver John. Angel Blanco Jr. also defended the WWA Welterweight title he won from Santo last year on the same show, and the main event of the next show seems to either be Santo vs Angel or Santo & Mexicans vs Oliver John and the rest of his evil La Migra. No next show date has been announced, but Santo told the press he plans on running eight shows this year. There was no mention of Nieto del Santo's upcoming trip to start training in Japan.
Lucha Libre USA announced it's tour dates, with 9 shows between March and April. The promotion has gone from having short run TV with limited reach (and low turnouts) to no TV at all, and appears mostly reliant on doing local interviews in the day before the show. RJ Brewer continues to be the focus, facing off against Blue Demon and Solar on shows. Super Crazy, Hijo del Fantasma, and Melina are among those added to the roster. No lineups have been announced.
CMLL held a press conference to announce the Ultimo Guerrero vs Atlantis mask match, as well as tournaments (Gran Alternativa, En Busca de Idolo), a CMLL vs Independents themed Arena Coliseo Anniversary show (which seems to be getting a Dragon Rojo/Sombra match as well), and Titan being stripped of his national welterweight championship due to injury.
SuperLuchas magazines announced it was going on hiatus for at least a couple weeks. It was not announced as farewell issue, but many of the columns referenced it being an end, and it seems at least questionable if they'll actually be returning.
Alberto Del Rio told a follower on Twitter that WWE would be returning to Mexico in September, running shows in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City. No other information is known.
In another Incredible Pairs tournament in Puebla, Atlantis & Volador vs Shocker & Rey Bucanero will be the final next Monday.
Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. won Pirata Morgan's hair in IWRG's Prison Fatal match, continuing a bad weekend for the Pirata family. They rebounded the following weekend, winning the vacant IWRG trios titles.
Soberano won CMLL's Sangre Nueva tournament.
Infierno won Alteno's mask in Guadalajara.
Successful title defenses: Cien Caras (IWRG Heavy), Dinamic Black (twice!)
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LLL says:
I missed Marco Corleone and Lizmark Jr. on Despierta America. Tuned in a few minutes too late. But they hype the heck out of u videos on Univision website as a place to see the episode later on.
CMLL on Televisa: 2013-03-02
DTU in Arena Aficion, Shocker vs Aguila, Rayo beats Universo, Mascarita Dorada to WWE, Konnan Big vs Wagner


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US Army Will Study 'Metamaterials' Collected by UFO Study Group
The service has pledged to spend $750,000 to examine futuristic materials and technologies collected or studied by a group run by Blink-182's frontman.
Jack Corrigan
By Jack Corrigan
UFO truthers don't typically hold a lot of credibility within the research community, but today the Defense Department is acknowledging at least one such group could have some serious contributions to make.
The Army Combat Capabilities Development Command recently partnered with the To The Stars Academy to study a wide variety of different technologies and materials, most of which sound like they were pulled straight from a sci-fi movie. The cooperative research and development agreement is set to last five years and could ultimately help the Army develop new capabilities for its fleet of ground vehicles.
Within the UFO research community, the To The Stars Academy, or TTSA, carries some clout. While its chairman, former Blink-182 singer and lead guitarist Tom DeLonge, garners most of the public's attention, the group counts former defense and intelligence officials and industry executives among its members. To date, most of TTSA's work has focused on publicizing the Pentagon's encounters with UFOs, but under the latest agreement, the group would take on a more technical role.
"To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a company with materiel and technology innovations that offer capability advancements for Army ground vehicles," officials wrote in the agreement, a copy of which was provided to Nextgov. "The [Academy] will share their innovations with the government, who will use its laboratories and resources to characterize the technologies and determine if they have appropriate applications on ground vehicles."
Specifically, the Army wants to explore a handful of futuristic materials and technologies the group has either studied or has in its possession, including inertial mass reduction, quantum communications, beamed energy propulsion, active camouflage and directed photon projection. The Army also plans to study the "mechanical and [electromagnetic] sensitive" metamaterials—a type of synthetic material that can manipulate light and other waves—the group collected "as part of its field operations."
In the short term, Army researchers are particularly interested in studying how those metamaterials could improve "camouflage, concealment, deception and obscuration" capabilities of their ground vehicles, Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the Combat Capabilities Development Command, told Nextgov. By manipulating the light waves around a particular object, it's possible for metamaterials to render it virtually invisible.
In the years ahead, Halleaux said the partnership will place a special emphasis on developing secure quantum communications.
Both the Army and TTSA recognize many of these technologies are "purely theoretical," but some are already far along in the development process, according to TTSA Chief Operating Officer Kari DeLonge. In an email to Nextgov, she said the group's active camouflage technologies are "a very mature capability," for example, while secure quantum communication systems are still largely in the design stage.
The active camouflage tools in the works today don't rely on metamaterials, she noted, but the research conducted through the partnership could eventually help develop a similar capability using such materials.
Unlike traditional contracts, cooperative research and development agreements, or CRADAs, are not transactional, so TTSA isn't getting any money from the partnership and the Army won't be directly acquiring any new tech. Rather, the agreement will help the Army expand its understanding of metamaterials and other technologies, and allow TTSA to conduct an in-depth analysis of the materials in its possession, Halleaux said.
"[CRADAs] give our scientists and engineers a chance to dig into the technology or the science with very little risk," he said. "We're not outlaying a bunch of money … it's truly a mechanism that gives us a chance to look at stuff early on and to decide whether [it's] something to look deeper at."
In the CRADA document, Army officials valued the TTSA partnership at around $1 million, though at this point they have no plans to enter a formal contract with the group, according to Halleaux.
Though he called the recent CRADA "one of the more adventurous" partnerships he's worked on, Halleaux was quick to dismiss any claims that the Army was studying "alien technology." TTSA may purport the metamaterials and other tech in their possession came from UFOs, but for the Army, those claims are irrelevant, he said.
"Speculation ... as to the origin of materials really to our researchers isn't what matters," Halleaux said. "The reason TTSA was taken seriously is the credentials of the people on their team. These are folks that have backgrounds in industry and backgrounds in materials science and defense work. [They're] serious professionals with respect to backgrounds."
NEXT STORY: Pentagon to Begin Testing 5G at Four Bases


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package com.opengamma.financial.convention;

import static com.opengamma.core.id.ExternalSchemes.bloombergTickerSecurityId;
import static com.opengamma.financial.convention.InMemoryConventionBundleMaster.simpleNameSecurityId;

import org.threeten.bp.Period;

import com.opengamma.core.id.ExternalSchemes;
import com.opengamma.financial.convention.businessday.BusinessDayConvention;
import com.opengamma.financial.convention.businessday.BusinessDayConventions;
import com.opengamma.financial.convention.daycount.DayCount;
import com.opengamma.financial.convention.daycount.DayCounts;
import com.opengamma.id.ExternalId;
import com.opengamma.id.ExternalIdBundle;
import com.opengamma.util.ArgumentChecker;

/**
 *
 */
public class TRConventions {

  public static synchronized void addFixedIncomeInstrumentConventions(final ConventionBundleMaster conventionMaster) {
    ArgumentChecker.notNull(conventionMaster, "convention master");
    final BusinessDayConvention following = BusinessDayConventions.FOLLOWING;
    final DayCount act360 = DayCounts.ACT_360;
    final ExternalId sg = ExternalSchemes.financialRegionId("TR");

    final ConventionBundleMasterUtils utils = new ConventionBundleMasterUtils(conventionMaster);

    //TODO need to check that these are right for deposit rates
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR1T Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 1d")), "TRY DEPOSIT 1d", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(1), 0, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR2T Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 2d")), "TRY DEPOSIT 2d", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(1), 0, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR3T Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 3d")), "TRY DEPOSIT 3d", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(1), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR1Z Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 1w")), "TRY DEPOSIT 1w", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(7), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR2Z Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 2w")), "TRY DEPOSIT 2w", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(14), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR3Z Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 3w")), "TRY DEPOSIT 3w", act360,
        following, Period.ofDays(21), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRA Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 1m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 1m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(1), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRB Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 2m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 2m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(2), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRC Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 3m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 3m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(3), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRD Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 4m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 4m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(4), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRE Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 5m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 5m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(5), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRF Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 6m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 6m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(6), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRG Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 7m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 7m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(7), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRH Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 8m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 8m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(8), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRI Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 9m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 9m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(9), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRJ Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 10m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 10m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(10), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDRK Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 11m")), "TRY DEPOSIT 11m", act360,
        following, Period.ofMonths(11), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR1 Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 1y")), "TRY DEPOSIT 1y", act360,
        following, Period.ofYears(1), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR2 Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 2y")), "TRY DEPOSIT 2y", act360,
        following, Period.ofYears(2), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR3 Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 3y")), "TRY DEPOSIT 3y", act360,
        following, Period.ofYears(3), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR4 Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 4y")), "TRY DEPOSIT 4y", act360,
        following, Period.ofYears(4), 2, false, sg);
    utils.addConventionBundle(ExternalIdBundle.of(bloombergTickerSecurityId("TYDR5 Curncy"), simpleNameSecurityId("TRY DEPOSIT 5y")), "TRY DEPOSIT 5y", act360,
        following, Period.ofYears(5), 2, false, sg);
  }
}

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The True North Troubadours was conceived out of another project: Byrd Dawg, Joel and Wayne's tribute to the Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel. One night while rehearsing, Joel suggested Diane join in and sing Leaving on a Jet plane. It was harmonious magic! Immediately they reached out to a local bass player, Steve Labish; they had immediate chemistry as a group, and the True North Troubadours came to be.
Performing a versatile set of classics, TNT have brought to life Folk music from the 60's ~ songs performed by notable folk music acts including Peter, Paul and Mary, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, the Byrds and many others.
True North Troubadours have been performing throughout BC since 2015, bringing their authentic style to the stage, delighting their audiences wherever they perform! Their shows feature rich vocal harmonies (Diane, Wayne & Joel) with acoustic guitar interplay (Joel & Wayne) and the upright bass (Steve) locking their groove down.
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Click here to view complete list of the 20 Worst Drinks In America. Sad to say but I used to frequent quite a few of these drinks in my earlier days. Amazing to see what we consume without really knowing what's in the drink and how much it really costs us in the form of exercise or health risks.
This video about exercise is hilarious! I had a "Smile Cramp" in my cheeks after watching. Loved his comment "I don't do ups". Enjoy.
90 years old Regina Brett of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio wrote these 45 life lessons to celebrate growing older. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
37. Your children need a childhood.
In 2006 Richard Carmona, the U.S. surgeon general, said America's obesity epidemic will dwarf the threat of terrorism if the nation does not reduce the number of people who are severely overweight.
"Obesity is the terror within," Richard Carmona said during a lecture at the University of South Carolina. "Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt."
Obesity rates have tripled over the past 40 years for children and teens, raising their risk of diabetes and other diseases. For the first time, Carmona said, children are being diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Lowering the nation's obesity rate depends on changing behaviors, but too many Americans are health illiterate, meaning they cannot understand medical terms and directions from doctors, Carmona said.
The surgeon general offered few specific solutions but said public policy reforms would not be helpful in curbing obesity, explaining that common-sense health decisions cannot be legislated.
Two out of every three adults are either obese or overweight. This is highly hazardous because carrying those excess pounds increases the risks of developing several diseases such as stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, liver disease, asthma, high cholesterol, and urinary incontinence, just to name a few.
The infographic below provides some additional information about obesity in America.


My grievance today is about the government's controversial 2014 federal budget measures and the effect they are going to have on the people in my electorate of Calwell, who will inevitably bear the full brunt of the government's budget cuts.
Speech: Muslim Leadership Program 2014 - October 2.
The Muslim Leadership Program (MLP) is an annual program co-coordinated by the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University and the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV).