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The first public swimming pool to open in Dallas in more than 50 years is now open.
From a diving board, to a climbing wall, to slides, a river and ropes; the Crawford Aquatic Center in Dallas' Pleasant Grove neighborhood was a hit with some of its first visitors.
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After a half-century without a new swimming pool in Dallas, it's no surprise that hundreds of people waited for hours Saturday, to be the first inside.
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Dallas was originally planning to open this and two other aquatic centers at the start of the summer, but a series of mishaps led to a host of delays.
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The Story Behind the Unjust Shutdown of Gothamist and DNAinfo
By Anna Heyward
Former staffers of the shuttered local-news publications say that, in both coded and explicit ways, management under Joe Ricketts warned them that if they unionized, the sites would cease to exist.Photograph by Kris Connor / Roadside Attractions / Getty
Last Thursday, Emma Whitford, a reporter for the New York City news Web site Gothamist, was writing up a story about the placement of protective concrete barriers along the West Side Highway in the wake of the terrorist attack that killed eight people and injured eleven more on Halloween. Around 5 P.M., an editor told her that the content-management system was down. They thought nothing of it at first—it happened from time to time. Then Whitford looked at the site's home page, or what used to be the home page. It was gone, along with all of the site's current and past stories. Internal communication networks, such as the company's Slack channel, were also closed.
Gwynne Hogan, a reporter who covered the Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn for Gothamist's sister site, DNAinfo, was in the field that afternoon, sitting on the stoop of the home of an eighteen-year-old girl whose body had recently been found. Hogan had noticed that the girl, before her death, in July, had posted a picture of herself on social media taken in the place where her body was eventually recovered—yet, for four months, as police searched, apparently, no one had thought to look there. "I called my editor and I was explaining what I'd found, and during the phone conversation he started saying, 'Oh, my God, oh, my God.' I thought he was reacting to what I was saying, but he was looking at the site. He'd seen the letter."
The letter was from Joe Ricketts, the billionaire owner of Gothamist and DNAinfo. At the URLs of both sites was a statement in which Ricketts explained that he was closing them because they weren't profitable. "I'm hopeful that in time, someone will crack the code on a business that can support exceptional neighborhood storytelling," he wrote. Reading the letter, Whitford told me, "I burst into tears. It could not have been more abrupt or brutal." The sites' archives were reinstated the following day, after an angry backlash—not just for the vanished journalism but also for the hundred and fifteen laid-off reporters, editors, and other staff. How were they supposed to find new jobs without their writing clips to show?
Ricketts, the founder of the online stock brokerage TD Ameritrade, launched DNAinfo, in 2009, as an ambitious investment in the diminishing field of local-news reporting. Operating in New York and Chicago, the site's journalists covered topics such as real estate, zoning, roads, schools, and parks, in neighborhood beats. They'd publish stories on subjects ranging from a cat trapped inside a shuttered building to minor road repairs in Brooklyn to outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx—the kinds of granular street-level accounts that have been increasingly overlooked as digital media focusses on more ad-friendly national and international markets. In March of 2017, Ricketts acquired Gothamist, a franchise of eight city-centric Web sites that did local reporting as well as blog-style editorials, opinions, cultural coverage, and snark. After the purchase, which was for an undisclosed sum, Ricketts said in a statement that Gothamist "fits right in with our vision for future expansion," adding, "We think the result will be the most potent online source of neighborhood news and information available anywhere." Ultimately, the newsrooms operated jointly for only eight months.
A week before the sites were shuttered, the staffs of DNAinfo and Gothamist had unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East. At many other media outlets that have successfully unionized in recent years—among them Vice and Gizmodo, which is owned by Univision—"the guy in charge has a liberal-media-owner reputation to maintain," as Whitford put it. Ricketts, by contrast, is a major right-wing donor who—as Jacobin recently reported—has given millions of dollars to anti-labor politicians at the state and federal level. It is not illegal for a C.E.O. to shut down a business because his company has formed a union, but threatening employees with closure is against the law. In recent days, multiple former staffers told me that, in both coded and explicit ways, management had warned them repeatedly in the months before they unionized that doing so would mean that the sites would cease to exist. Some asked to speak to me off the record, for fear of angering their former bosses. Ricketts did not respond to my request for comment. His representative, who asked to be cited as "a spokesperson for DNAinfo," said, in an e-mailed statement, that "While DNAinfo had made progress toward profitability, that progress wasn't sufficient to continue the business."
When Ricketts merged DNAinfo and Gothamist, last March, Hogan and Whitford told me, there was little sense of management's plan for how the sites would fit together. The two newsrooms had previously competed for stories in New York and Chicago; now, Hogan told me, of Gothamist, "It felt like they were still my competitor." There were other points of confusion: Jezebel reported, in March, that Gothamist had deleted at least five stories from its archive that were critical of the Ricketts family's politics. One DNAinfo reporter told Jezebel at the time, "Nobody seems to know what's going on. Our editors want to give us information, but I don't think they even know." Jen Chung and Jake Dobkin, who co-founded Gothamist, in 2003, and, after selling it to Ricketts, remained at the site as executive editor and publisher, respectively, told Jezebel that "no one asked us" to delete the Ricketts stories; they did it because "we don't cover Mr. Ricketts." Whitford told me that the deletion of pieces raised "questions about censorship: did we have new restraints all of a sudden that we didn't know about?"
Gothamist staff members had already begun discussions of unionizing before the merger. Afterward, they started to bring their new DNAinfo colleagues into the conversations. None of the employees I spoke to had complaints with their working conditions under Ricketts. Many told me that they were treated fairly and compensated well. The mission in unionizing, Whitford said, was, "We want this to be a place that's good to work at and stay. To keep the newsroom strong and vital, and to clarify communication." The effort, multiple staff members told me, also became a way for the newly consolidated teams to have productive discussions about how their jobs had changed. "That was more effective than top-down management at getting us together," Whitford said.
Within a few weeks, though, management got wind of the staff's unionizing discussions. On April 7th, just before the two sites were to be integrated officially, with Gothamist staff moving from Dumbo to midtown Manhattan, Jen Chung called a meeting to speak with the DNAinfo staff in the presence of Dan Swartz, whom Ricketts had appointed as chief operating officer the month before. At their office in midtown, Swartz and Chung stood in front of the newsroom and delivered a set of prepared remarks. In an audio recording of the meeting that a DNAinfo reporter shared with me, Chung says that she's heard there's been talk of unionizing, and that staff members should "just know what you're getting yourself into."
"When you sign the union card, you give up the right to speak for yourself, because the union is going to be speaking for you," she added, and continued, "You may have heard that joining a union automatically gets you higher wages, better benefits, if you sign the card. That's not how it works." The staff had known this speech was coming; the same meeting had been held in the Chicago office the day before. In New York, Noah Hurowitz, a reporter for the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, told me, the staff wore all black in protest, and said nothing from the time Swartz and Chung began to when they left the room. Toward the end of the meeting—before she and Swartz headed to Brooklyn, to deliver the same remarks to the Gothamist newsroom—Chung tried to engage the assembled DNAinfo staff, saying, "So, I'm sure some of you have questions . . . " In the recording, this remark is followed by several seconds of ambient static as the room remained silent. A few days later, the New York Daily News was leaked a letter Swartz had written to the DNAinfo staff. Ricketts had invested "literally tens of millions of dollars of his own money" in the site, Swartz said in the note, adding, "Would a union be the final straw that caused the business to be closed?"
Dobkin, the publisher of Gothamist, did not participate in the meeting, but over the months that followed he began having one-on-one lunches with members of his staff. One Gothamist reporter who attended such a lunch in June, and took notes afterward, said that Dobkin told him, "I think Joe Ricketts says what he means," and "It sure would be horrible if everybody lost their jobs because of what you guys are doing." The reporter added, "There'd be a lot of eyebrow-raising, like, 'Do you know what I mean?' " Another former Gothamist reporter who attended a lunch in May told me, "It was textbook union-busting stuff." Gwynne Hogan told me that members of management brought her into a room, away from the rest of the staff, to explain to her explicitly that, if the union was successful, Ricketts would close the company rather than recognize it. (Through a spokesperson, Dobkin and Chung declined to comment for this story.)
Even at liberal-minded media companies, it's not uncommon for employers to attempt to discourage their staffs from unionizing. Just recently, after learning of a staff effort to join the NewsGuild union, Tronc, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times, distributed flyers among the staff that read "DON'T BE MISLED BY THE GUILD'S PROMISES." In March, around the same time that the Gothamist and DNAinfo newsrooms were merging, the employees of the Web site Slate signed cards to unionize with the Writers Guild of America. In an e-mail explaining that Slate would not be voluntarily recognizing the union, Jacob Weisberg, the site's former editor-in-chief and the current chairman of the Slate Group, made the argument that unions restrict working writers rather than empowering them, because with a union "the freedom writers and editors have to pick their stories, to work at home, to work flexible hours, to change jobs and roles, and to take time off to write books" becomes subject to "negotiation and team-wide rules, rather than your own discretion and a 1:1 discussion with your editor." He made an economic appeal, too, arguing that a union could hurt the company's bottom line.
Still, Lowell Peterson, the executive director of the Writers Guild, told me that the guild has helped unionize around seven hundred digital-media workers, and Ricketts was the first owner "to openly react" to the unionizing effort. In September, as the bargaining unit was seeking recognition from the National Labor Relations Board, a step that's necessary in cases where management doesn't recognize a staff's unionization voluntarily, Ricketts wrote a post on his blog titled "Why I'm Against Unions at Businesses I Create." In it, he explained that "the type of company that interests me is one where ownership and the employees are truly in it together, without interference from a third-party union that has its own agenda and priorities." Despite these warnings, the staff continued their efforts. On October 26th, the bargaining unit voted 25–2 in favor of unionization. The outcome was celebrated among the staff, and written up by the Times and the Observer. By the time the Web sites were shut down, a week later, the guild had not yet made demands of the company, and no bargaining had begun.
Larry Cary, a union-side attorney and labor historian, told the legal-analysis center Law360 on November 3rd that, in the case of Gothamist and DNAinfo, "the union could conceivably pursue an N.L.R.B. charge over any purported threats made by the sites' management team to close down operations if workers vote to unionize, since any such threats made during an organizing drive are viable unfair-labor-practice charges." Yet, even if it were determined that Ricketts and management did make illegal threats, that wouldn't help the workers much, Cynthia Estlund, a professor of labor law at New York University, told me, because "there's no effective remedy for it." The only plausible penalty for Ricketts would be to require him to promise that this won't happen again, by posting a notice at the location of the business—the now empty midtown office of DNAinfo and Gothamist. Matt Bruenig, a lawyer and the founder of the think tank People's Policy Project, told me, "It obviously shows the general weakness of our institutions that we are unable to protect people against something like this." He added, it's "a clear failing of the law." As of Monday, anyway, it's a moot point: as part of a severance-package agreement that the Writers Guild negotiated, the staffers agreed not to file unfair-labor-practice charges against their former employer.
Last spring, not long after Ricketts acquired Gothamist, the Columbia Journalism Review dedicated a special issue to the state of local journalism. It included a map that showed the United States' declining number of local-news outlets and a long article on the finances of Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and a hundred and nine local papers; the newspaper chain's ad revenue fell from six billion dollars, in 2005, to $1.6 billion, in 2016. "Local journalism is in dire shape," Kyle Pope, the Review's editor, wrote in his letter for the issue. "Pick your metric—numbers of reporters, newspapers, readers—and nearly all the trends veer downhill. It's not a happy story." Local digital advertising, on which such sites depend, now goes predominantly to Facebook and Google. Outlets that run national and international stories are able to attract advertising because of their potential to reach broad audiences. In journalism, "the Internet rewards scale," Ken Doctor, a media analyst and the author of the "Newsonomics" column for the Nieman Journalism Lab, told me. And "if you're counting page views, local loses every time."
This downward trend in local-news outlets made the kind of work that sites like Gothamist and DNAinfo did increasingly precious. One of the roles of local journalism, not unlike that of unions, is to hold power accountable. Last month, Katie Honan, a Queens reporter for DNAinfo, sat through a three-hour meeting in Jackson Heights, where the popular Arepa Lady food cart was applying for a liquor license for a brick-and-mortar restaurant on Thirty-seventh Avenue. There, Honan learned that the restaurant was applying for a license because it wasn't allowed to sell any coffee products—Starbucks, which had opened on the same block, had negotiated a clause in its lease with the city that prevented other restaurants on the block from selling coffee. "I was the only reporter there in the meeting," Honan said.
Sam Biederman, the assistant commissioner for communications at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, told me, of reporters from both sites, "They were hungry for details, and they were relentless." He added, "I would throw up my hands sometimes. 'I've told you everything!' " Julia Wick, the former editor-in-chief of LAist, another site in the Gothamist network, wrote, in a piece last week for City Lab, about the unusual editorial freedom that came with being a "scrappy" news site. "At larger outlets, especially ones with dwindling resources, writers often have to justify the time they're spending on each story." She continued, "If we thought something was meaningful—even to an extremely small contingent of people—we published it."
Since the shutdown of Gothamist and DNAinfo, there has been talk among laid-off staff members of seeking funding to start a new local-news outlet to replace what's gone. Their experience with Ricketts, several said, has only confirmed their belief in the importance of unions in protecting the rights of workers. On a recent afternoon, former staffers held a rally at City Hall, at which politicians, union leaders, and reporters from other publications showed up in solidarity. It was a muggy, overcast day. Peterson, the Guild director, told the crowd, "We come not to mourn but to organize." Whitford, wearing a black T-shirt and black jeans, spoke later. "Anyone out there thinking of unionizing, don't be scared by what happened to us, because this is the worst that can happen," she said. Later, Ben Kallos, a city-council member from the Upper East Side, told the crowd, "Head over to Broadway, see a little show called 'Newsies.' I don't want to give the end away, but the workers always win."
Anna Heyward is a writer living in New York.
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At six hours a day, Mr Aloysius Kee is spending almost twice the average time Singaporeans spend online for non-work usage.TNP PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
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S'poreans are spending more time online than the regional average, contributing to an unhealthy lifestyle for some
Seow Yun Rong
He gets up only at noon and the first thing he does is switch on his computer.
As the two - yes, two - screens come alive, Mr Aloysius Kee, 19, starts on his daily routine.
One screen is for watching videos and the other, for playing games.
He does both concurrently online for about six hours a day and leaves his seat only when he needs a toilet break and when his stomach growls.
Mr Kee says: "I'll play until the wee hours of the morning and regret it, but it's still worth it."
He is one of the many young people here who lead a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle.
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Singapore placed ninth out of 15 countries across the region in insurer AIA's 2016 Healthy Living Index Survey. China came in first as the healthiest, while Hong Kong ranked last.
Of the 10,316 regional respondents, 501 are Singaporeansand most of them say they spend too much time online, whether it is on their mobile phones or computers.
Two in three say they have difficulty breaking away from their screens.
And almost the same number admit they spend too much time on social networking websites and the Internet.
While the regional average is three hours daily for non-work usage, Singaporeans spend 3.7 hours.
Mr Kee's average is almost double that. The Singapore Polytechnic graduate, who is waiting to enlist into NS, weighs 100kg, partly because of his online addiction.
He fell in love with gaming after his father bought him his first PlayStation when he was five.
He says: "I didn't know what a PlayStation was at that time, but once I started, I couldn't stop.
"I also had many friends who would play MapleStory (an online game) with me in primary school, and that got me hooked on computer games."
Mr Kee, an only child, often felt lonely.
He says: "I can't remember why my father bought me games, but they definitely helped with my loneliness."
Mr Kee was also drawn to how video games allowed him to explore a whole new universe.
"When I'm gaming, I have the freedom to be an adventurer who explores different worlds.
"I love to see new things in a fantasy setting because there are no such things in real life," he says.
He bought four more gaming consoles over the years and now has more than 100 video games.
As he went on his gaming binge, his weight rose from 70kg in 2009 to 100kg in 2014.
The excessive use of digital devices leads to a lack of sleep, change of diet, and mood swings, counsellors and psychiatrists tell The New Paper on Sunday.
Again, Mr Kee says he can relate to the perils of gaming.
When he was living in a three-storey semi-detached house, he would fill his room with snacks and drinks to avoid climbing the stairs.
And when his supplies ran low, he enlisted the help of his helper.
Mr Kee says: "At least back then, there were physical education lessons. Without them, the only exercise I would have got was running after the bus in the morning."
In 2012, his family of three moved to a five-room HDB flat.
Now, his gaming devices are installed in the living room and it takes just 10 steps for him to go to the kitchen or toilet.
He does not leave his home much and he says he has not taken on a job after graduating.
He says: "I go out once or twice a week with either my mother or some of my friends.
"I'd go for badminton or a swim with a few friends once a month, but I wouldn't join them if it's too early."
Mr Kee goes to bed at around 3am every day and turns down any outings that start before 11am.
His mother Madam Lim, a nurse, says: "I'll tell him to cut down on the number of hours he plays and to go to bed early."
But despite her pleas, he says he cannot quit his love for gaming because "it's very relaxing".
He rarely weighs himself unless it is compulsory, saying: "If I don't remind myself of my weight, I wouldn't have to worry about it.
"I want to shed weight, but I don't have the motivation because gaming helps to take my mind off things."
But he hopes "things will change within these two years... Hopefully, I'll get in shape after NS".
Spending eight hours online affects his weight
He goes to bed at 6am and gets up at noon.
His friends often call him a sloth because he rarely moves, choosing instead to spend about eight hours daily on his laptop watching YouTube videos and playing online games.
Jerome, 19, describes the online world as an avenue for stress relief.
The Ngee Ann Polytechnic graduate, who will be enlisting into NS in a month's time, says: "I go online to pass time and play with my friends.
"It helps to forget any worries in real life."
He sees gaming as a form of escape from thinking about the future, such as furthering his education and finding a job.
Jerome explains that his gaming habit has led to him having irregular meal times too.
"I'd have lunch at 7pm and dinner at 3am sometimes.
"I like it when everyone has fallen asleep because it is peaceful," he says.
"After everyone sleeps, I feel more awake because I get my own alone time in isolation."
His irregular eating pattern has affected his weight. Despite being 1.7m tall, Jerome weighs only about 56kg.
His parents used to tell him to sleep earlier and cut down on the time he spends gaming, but they recently have been more accepting of his habit as he will be enlisting soon.
But keeping those hours can affect Jerome's mood.
He says: "Sometimes, I'd wake up after four hours and won't be able to fall back asleep.
"I'd get very agitated and moody throughout the day."
The AIA survey found that excessive screen time has affected the health of children.
Children do not get enough exercise due to spending too much time online and playing video games.
And their parents know it too, with 67 per cent of them admitting that their children do not get sufficient exercise because of those reasons.
The survey also found that Singaporeans are aware that prolonged time online is bad for them.
69 per cent say it prevents them from getting adequate exercise. Singaporeans spend 2.6 hours a week exercising, compared to the regional average of 3 hours.
69 per cent say it prevents them from getting sufficient sleep. Singaporeans sleep 6.4 hours, versus the regional average of 6.9 hours.
69 per cent said it also affects their posture.
Excessive online use is bad: Experts
Excessive gaming and Internet use not only lead to addiction but other health issues too.
They include sleep deprivation, mood swings, and weight gain, experts say.
Dr Carol Balhetchet, senior director for youth services at the Singapore Children's Society, says: "The games are filled with very attractive and vibrant colours.
"After excessive usage of digital devices, our senses are heightened, and it gets harder to fall asleep."
She says that physically, it takes us about an hour to get into a relaxed state to fall asleep. It is therefore important to stop using digital devices before we go to bed.
Dr Lim Boon Leng, a psychiatrist in private practice, says sleeping late leads to a delayed sleep phase that does not fit in with normal routines such as having lunch.
He says: "Young people like to play through the night when everyone's sleeping, and wake up late in the morning. They also tend to skip meals because of the delayed sleep phase.
"Sometimes, they will skip breakfast and just have lunch and dinner because they woke up too late."
Family counsellor John Vasavan says excessive Internet use and online gaming results in young people being desk-bound.
He says: "The youth of the past often played in the rain or ran around in fields, butthey are nowadays more desk-bound, and lack exercise."
According to the Ministry of Education, obesity in school children has steadily increased from 10 per cent in 2000 to 11 per cent in 2013 and 12 per cent in 2014.
Mr Vasavan says the digital addicts tend to pick food that does not interfere with their gaming frenzy. "Buying fast food makes them happy because they can eat with one hand and game with the other. This is how they become obese over time."
Dr Lim and Mr Vasavan say the lifestyle hurts the young people's interpersonal skills.
"As children grow up, there are certain age groups to learn different sets of social skills.
"So if a child spends his time playing games all the time, he is very likely to miss out on cultivating the important social skills, which leads to a vicious cycle of resorting to playing even more games because he has no friends," says Dr Lim.
He adds that the serious cases often lead to truancy and poor academic results in school.
"Overall, it's a very bad lifestyle, because not only do they skip meals, but the lack of having daylight activities and enough sleep results in psychological problems as well."
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FTC Finds 60% Increase in Pay-to-Delay Deals
In fiscal year (FY) 2010, the number of patent settlements in which the manufacturers of branded products paid makers of generic drugs to postpone the introduction of their products reached its highest level ever, according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report. The number of these ?pay-to-delay? deals rose from 19 in FY 2009 to 31 in FY 2010, an increase of more than 60%. FY 2010 agreements involved 22 branded pharmaceutical products with combined annual US sales of about $9.3 billion, according to the report.
In fiscal year (FY) 2010, the number of patent settlements in which the manufacturers of branded products paid makers of generic drugs to postpone the introduction of their products reached its highest level ever, according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report. The number of these "pay-to-delay" deals rose from 19 in FY 2009 to 31 in FY 2010, an increase of more than 60%. FY 2010 agreements involved 22 branded pharmaceutical products with combined annual US sales of about $9.3 billion, according to the report.
Pay-to-delay settlements postpone the market entry of generic drugs by an average of 17 months longer than settlements that do not include a payment, according to an FTC staff study. Generic drugs, which typically cost at least 20–30% less than their branded equivalents, help reduce costs for taxpayer-funded health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
"Collusive deals to keep generics off the market are already costing consumers and taxpayers $3.5 billion a year in higher drug prices," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in a press release. "The increasing number of these deals is a win–win proposition for the pharmaceutical industry, but a lose–lose for everyone else."
The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) quickly criticized the FTC report. "The FTC is continuing to perpetuate the myth that procompetitive, proconsumer patent settlements are harmful to consumers," GPhA said in a press release. The organization also said that FTC has the authority to review and reject patent settlements that it considers unlawful.
In fact, FTC has challenged several of these patent-settlement agreements in court, arguing that they are anticompetitive and violate US antitrust laws. In 2003, an appellate court held that pay-to-delay agreements were illegal, but some appellate courts have upheld these agreements since 2005. FTC has asked Congress to pass legislation to prohibit pay-to-delay agreements.
A total of 113 final patent settlements were filed during FY 2010, according to the FTC report. Of the 31 pay-to-delay settlements, 26 involved generics that were first filers (i.e., the first companies to seek FDA approval to market a generic version of the branded drug). Delaying a first filer's market entry can block other generic manufacturers from entering the market, according to an FTC press release.


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What types of weapons are you planning to include in the mod?
For the initial release we're not aiming for too many surprises in terms of weapon loadouts. We already have the assault rifle, sniper rifle, and anti vehicle rocket launcher coded up and in game. There are a few tweaks (multiple grenade types for the assault rifle, mouse wheel zoom levels for the sniper rifle) but it should be pretty familiar to most fps players.
We have plenty of ideas for some new weapon types but we are waiting to see how the play balance works out before putting too much into production. Players will also have a number of inventory items depending on the player class and role - things like medipaks (to heal other players), binoculars (that can be used to call in airstrikes), and ejector packs. Gameplay is the key element for us so we won't be adding things into the mix unless we think there is a strong gameplay driven reason for doing so.
What gametypes will the mod have in the first release? in future releases?
We're keen to make sure that we get something released as soon as possible so in practice that will mean that for the first release we only expect to have one game type. At the moment that is pencilled in as CTF - it's popular and the rules are fairly well defined. More Gametypes in future though is a certainty - Assault will probably appear second, but we also have a few new ideas ready in the wings.
How far along in the mod? when do you expect to have a copy released for public consumption?
Well, Conquest Marines has been going since the start of the year. For the first couple of months the team consisted of Vanilla and myself. During that time we put together most of the background and design. Over the last month or so recruitment has picked up and team numbers have started to increase. Considering where we are now, things have gone really well and as a team we've achieved a huge amount. We've started making regular internal releases of the game code (pretty much every week) and we're constantly getting feedback on how each build plays.
Our main challenges now are getting the graphics side of things complete and focussing on 'testing to destruction'. We've got some really nice graphics stuff in game already but there is a great deal of work left to do. We're hoping to be able to recruit some more people to help us get those assets completed and hence get the release out sooner.
On the code side we're really starting to enter into the 'tweak n test' phase - scaling up the number of players and making sure that everything holds together in the heat of a real battle. You can already play with most of the weapons and vehicles on a network game - it's now a question of hunting down all the bugs and getting things ready for the stresses and strains of real life gaming.
Hehe - I've managed to totally avoid the 'when' question ! If I'm going to have to step up to the plate then I'll say that our goal is to get something out by the middle of the year - June, July time. That would mean about six months from initial concept to a production release, which would be a really impressive achievement.
How do you feel about the upcoming UT2k3 mod competition? will Conquest Marines be entered?
From what I've read the competition sounds like a great idea. Building a mod is a huge undertaking so it's great to have something like a competition to help spur people on and give them an extra incentive to complete their vision. Details are a little scarce at the moment but from what I can gather it seems like it's a great opportunity to get your work recognised by an even wider audience. As soon as we get some definitive information from Mark and the rest of the guys at Epic we'll be working hard to make sure that Conquest Marines is in a position to enter.
If after reading this anyone out there wants to become part of the Conquest Marines team then please get in touch. We are always looking for new people - drop us an e-mail or use the forum at www.ConquestMarines.com to let us know what you can do.
Also, thanks to BeyondUnreal for giving us the chance to reach a wider audience - it's a great site and I'm constantly impressed with the quality of the articles you guys feature. It's really cool to see Conquest Marines up there on the same page.
No problem on the news posting, after all, it is my job as a pimp here at BU to make sure stuff like that gets done. It looks like a really promising mod. The screenshots below are from "devolper builds", so anything that looks ugly will look ten times better in the final release!


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Q: Is it possible to receive events from Azure Event Hubs using REST API? Is it possible to receive events from Azure Event Hubs using REST API?
I have found only send event API in the Azure documentation.
How to GET events?

A: REST is not supported on the Event Hubs consumer side. Consumers must use one of these two protocols:

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*AMQP

*Kafka

Please check this sample on sending and receiving events: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/get-started-dotnet-standard-send-v2

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You know how the old saying goes – a rough road leads up to the stars. Well, these filmmakers that you are going to read about sure know a thing or two about how this saying plays out in real life.
When you watch a movie, a talented filmmaker can help you travel through space and time by immersing you in a completely different world. But doing so requires an awful lot of effort, sweat, and tears. Sometimes even the most genius creators are rejected by the giant Hollywood money-making machine, which goes to say that not everything that is profitable is bound to be good and vice versa.
As it is always interesting to get behind the scenes of famous movies, Bored Panda offers you a peek at what happens before they are made. This time, it's not about props or the mighty CGI. This time, it's about the films that no one believed in or which were so hard to make that only through the sheer power of will and sometimes – a single stroke of luck – they have been made. All of these movies sooner or later proved to be huge successes, despite the hardships they (or more specifically, the people behind them) endured.
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Psycho was based on a 1959 novel of the same name, for which Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights anonymously from Robert Bloch for only $9,000. The director then bought as many copies of the novel as he could, to try to keep the ending a secret.
Before Psycho happened, Paramount and the genius director Alfred Hitchcock had a contract that meant that the next flick Alfred makes is going to be under this studio giant. However, Paramount didn't want Psycho to happen. The studio heads did not like "anything about it at all" and found the book "too repulsive" and "impossible for films." The studio denied Hitchcock his usual budget and even deferred most of the box-office profits to him, completely convinced that the movie would flop.
However, Alfred wholeheartedly believed in his project and agreed to take 60% of the movie's gross instead of his usual $250,000 salary. In addition to this, due to the poor financing, the director financed the Psycho production himself through his own Shamley Productions. To keep the costs down, the movie was shot in black and white and most of the film's crew was from his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, including the cinematographer, set designer, script supervisor, and first assistant director.
Today, Psycho is considered one of Hitchcock's best films and is highly regarded by film critics and scholars alike as a major work of cinematic art. One of the earliest examples of the slasher film genre, Psycho is now ranked among the greatest films of all time.
Three major studios – United Artists, Universal, Disney – passed on the script of Star Wars – none were believers of the space opera genre. Finally, Fox agreed to finance the film as they were hoping to put a new up-and-coming director (whose American Graffiti was recently nominated for best picture in the Oscars) under their wing. They settled on a $8 million budget and George Lucas flew to Tunisia to start filming.
However, even the actors of Star Wars weren't convinced of the success of the movie. Harrison Ford's "George, you can type this sh*t, but you can't say it" line pretty much sums up how actors and crew members felt about the movie before its release. Another line dissing Star Wars was said by Alec Guinness: "… new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper – and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. I just think, thankfully, of the lovely bread, which will help me keep going until next April."
Prior to the release, George Lucas showed an early rough cut to a group of his movie director friends. Reportedly, one of them called it it the "worst movie ever". Even George Lucas – the director himself – was so sure that the movie would flop, that instead of attending its premiere, he went on vacation to Hawaii with his friend Steven Spielberg.
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
This timeless piece had to go through so much trouble, it almost seems like a miracle that it made its way to the theaters. For starters, the film went through four different producers and three directors before it was released to the public.
Richard Thorpe, the first director, was fired after Buddy Epsen got sick from his Tin Man makeup and the production was shut down for two weeks (Buddy was then replaced by another actor). The studio then replaced him with George Cukor, who later left the film to work on Gone With the Wind. Then, Viktor Fleming took his place, but not for long. Apparently, George Cukor got himself fired from Gone With the Wind by Clark Gable – rumor has it that it was because Gable found out that the director was gay – and came back to The Wizard Of Oz.
Speaking of production nightmares, not only was Buddy Epsen poisoned from his makeup, the Scarecrow costume left the actor Ray Bolger with serious scars and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) got severely burned. It also, supposedly, was the reason Judy Garland got addicted to drugs. At the time of shooting, Garland was already a teenager but the story required a prepubescent girl, so she was prescribed with amphetamines to keep her weight down followed by barbiturates to help her sleep after mentally and physically exhausting 16-hour days of shooting. It is believed that this was the beginning of her drug addiction and the root cause behind her fatal drug overdose in 1969.
The quirky drama-comedy about a dysfunctional family was a small movie written by Matthew Broderick's former assistant and two first-time directors. It had no "no movie stars and no foreseeable foreign box office," the New York Times wrote more than a decade ago. But the story behind its production has a Cinderella-like quality to it with a happy ending.
While the plot of the movie takes place mostly over a single day, the actual movie took five years to make. Back in 2001, Jonathan Dayton together with his wife Valerie Faris, read the script written by Michael Arndt – Matthew Broderick's former assistant who had decided to pursue a career in writing and thus quit his assistant job. Jonathan and Valerie had never directed a movie – only commercials and music videos, but they were wanting to make one for years. "This film really struck a chord," said Ms. Faris.
Having bought the script, the directors pitched the project to various studios in Hollywood which all passed. Only Focus Features (called USA Films at the time) were showing interest, but the executives kept hesitating. "They didn't think the movie would travel," said one of the producers to the media. "And there wasn't enough star power." Eventually, Focus informed the filmmakers that they are not going to proceed with the movie. It was then that one of the producers decided to self-finance it, believing it will succeed.
Ultimately, the film proved to be a huge success and prompted a bidding war between studios after its premiere. In the end, the studio Fox Searchlight ultimately won, the film received 81 award wins and proved everyone, who wasn't a believer, wrong.
Back to the Future – a science fiction comedy directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis – was the highest-grossing movie of 1985. However, back in 1981, the script for Back to the Future "was rejected over 40 times by every major studio and by some more than once", as Bob Gale, its co-writer, tells. And when it was offered to Disney, its executives deemed it too dirty.
Bob Gale, the co-writer of the film remembered Disney telling them that "a mother falling in love with her son was not appropriate for a family film under the Disney banner." Eventually, Universal Pictures picked up the movie only after witnessing the success of the other Robert Zemeckis movie Romancing the Stone.
Blade Runner (1982)
When director Ridley Scott started shooting the film, he faced numerous problems. Having already made Alien in the UK, Ridley found it hard to adapt to a different production process of making a movie in Los Angeles. What made matters even worse were the comments the director made to one UK newspaper – apparently he was more keen on working with UK crews and told the journalist so. Ridley Scott probably didn't realize at the time the offense he had caused and later, when he came to the movie set, he found the entire crew wearing T-shirts with slogans like, "Yes gov'nor my ass." Ridley responded by showing up some time later wearing a T-shirt that said: "Xenophobia sucks".
On top of this, the filming shoots ran late, various studio heads were angry at the director for going over the original budget, the original script kept getting re-written by various people on numerous occasions before, after and during the production. Also, the studio didn't like the original Blade Runner ending and pushed the director to change it up to a happy one.
However, one of the most famous incidents associated with Blade Runner is the voice-over. Apparently, when Harrison Ford signed the contract, he asked for the script's voice-over narration to be replaced with some extra scenes, as the narration made him feel "like a detective who did very little detecting." But before Blade Runner was released, the studio decided that the voice-over was needed and insisted Ford on making various versions of it.
Here's what the actor thought about it: "When we started shooting, it had been tacitly agreed that the version of the film that we had agreed upon was the version without voice-over narration. It was a f**king nightmare. I thought that the film had worked without the narration. <…> I went kicking and screaming to the studio to record it."
Even though Blade Runner was not met enthusiastically by critics or viewers, it has grown on people over the course of time and is now considered one of the finest examples of science fiction movies.
One former Disney animator – John Lasseter – became fascinated with the idea of making an entirely computer-animated film and pitched the idea to his Disney bosses. However, Disney wasn't so keen on it and rejected the proposal. But after John went on and co-founded Pixar and created a computer-animated short Tin Toy that won an Academy Award, it made Disney regret their initial decision.
Pixar was then approached by Disney to produce another computer-animated film, but this time a feature-length one. When the script was finally approved by Disney in 1993, Pixar began working on its production and casting. Every two weeks, the Pixar team would put together their storyboards or footage to show Disney only for each presentation to get torn up by the executives. After many rounds of change-ups and rewrites, it was concluded that Woody had been stripped of "almost all charm." Even Tom Hanks, while recording one of the dialogues, at one point exclaimed that Woody was "a jerk."
After the first half of the movie was done, one of the Disney executives declared it a complete mess and stopped the whole production.
John Lasseter was crushed. He asked the studio's head for one more chance, which he finally agreed to. Three months later, the Pixar team came back with a new script and by February 1994, the film was back in production. In a month, the voice actors returned to record their new lines and the crew grew from the original 24 to 110 people.
When Toy Story was finally released in 1995, it was met with critical acclaim and praise, 17 award nominations and 22 award wins (including an Oscar).
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Disney's animated feature The Emperor's New Groove was originally planned to be a dramatic musical named Kingdom of the Sun – a "romantic comedy musical in the 'traditional' Disney style." However, the underwhelming box office performances of Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame scared big Disney execs and they felt that the project needed more comedy in order not to flop like the two other animations. So, one of the producers contacted and offered Mark Dindal to be co-director on the film. In the summer of 1997, the team was confirmed – Roger Allers and Mark Dindal would work as the film's directors while Randy Fullmer will be the producer.
Sadly, in the summer of 1998, it became apparent that due to the hectic production, the crew was not going to be able to meet the 2000 summer deadline as planned. It is rumored that around that time, one of the Disney executives walked into the producer's office, placed his thumb and forefinger a quarter-inch (5 mm) apart and stated, "Your film is this close to being shut down." Director Roger Allers tried to negotiate and extend the production time further to at least six months, but the request was denied and Allers left the project.
The prospects of the movie were looking rather dim now with production costs amounting towards $30 million with only 25% of the film animated. The producer was given an ultimatum: two weeks to salvage the project or the production would be completely shut down. Even Sting, who recorded the official soundtrack, wasn't as amused as he was before: "I write the music, and then they're supposed to animate it, but there are constantly changes being made. It's constantly in turnaround."
However, the biggest sting to Sting was when his songs, related to specific scenes and characters that were now taken out of the movie, had to be dropped. Sting went from "angry and perturbed" to wanting "some vengeance." Eventually, Disney agreed to allow three of the six deleted songs to be released as bonus tracks on the soundtrack album.
But the disagreements didn't end there. Apparently, the original ending of The Emperor's New Groove had one of the main characters building an amusement park. Again, Sting wasn't so amused: "I wrote them a letter and said, 'You do this, I'm resigning because this is exactly the opposite of what I stand for. I've spent 20 years trying to defend the rights of indigenous people and you're just marching over them to build a theme park. I will not be party to this.'" As a result, the ending was changed to Kuzco constructing a shack similar to Pacha's.
While the movie wasn't a huge box office success, the critics applauded it and it found its way into people's hearts when it was released for home media, becoming the bestselling DVD of 2001.
Things were so tense during the shooting of Titanic that the press assumed the film would be a total flop. It also earned the director James Cameron reputation of "'the scariest man in Hollywood."
Firstly, the filming schedule stretched from an originally-intended 138 to 160. Many members of the cast, including Kate Winslet, were coming down with colds, flu, or kidney infections due to long hours spent in cold water. Three stuntmen had broken their bones while several other crew members left the production all-together.
Even though Kate Winslet almost begged James Cameron to let her play Rose, after working on Titanic, the actress pledged to never work with the director again, unless she "earned a lot of money."
Then, things took an even more unexpected turn when one of the crew members (to this day, no one knows exactly who) put a dissociative drug PCP (known as angel dust)in people's (including James Cameron) soups during lunchtime. "There were people just rolling around, completely out of it. Some of them said they were seeing streaks and psychedelics," said actor Lewis Abernathy. The drug sent 50 people to the hospital.
Naturally, after such a long and tedious production, when James Cameron heard that the studio bosses wanted to cut the movie as it was "too long"… "You want to cut my movie? You're going to have to fire me! You want to fire me? You're going to have to kill me!"
No one dared to fire Cameron and today we can all appreciate Titanic – maybe not for being a cinematic masterpiece, but a heart-wrenching love story that's embedded in our collective consciousness.
The director of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, has infamously once said about the movie, "We were in the jungle. We had too much money. We had too much equipment. And little by little, we went insane."
Out of the many misfortunes that plagued the production were the following: the film took much longer to make than was estimated, the film's crew were coming down with various tropical diseases as they were shooting in the Philippines, Martin Sheen had suffered a heart attack, Francis Ford Coppola – several nervous breakdowns. On top of this, Martin Sheen was battling his alcohol addiction at the time and mental health issues and reportedly told his friends: "I don't know if I'm going to live through this."
In addition to this, the legendary actor Marlon Brando came to the set completely unprepared, without having read a single line from the script. He was also heavily overweight which was not the look the filmmakers were going for an amped-up soldier. While Brando was learning his lines, the whole production with 900 people was put on hold.
In addition to the aforementioned chaos, the Philippines government that had lent several of its helicopters to feature in the film, were taking them away from time to time as the dictator Ferdinand Marcos needed them to fight anti-government rebels. Oh, and let's not forget about the dead bodies laying around on the filming set, too! Apparently, one of the prop guys working on the set was a grave robber and would supply the crew with real-life cadavers without the production team knowing. Naturally, after they found out, the crew was livid. Police were called, they took everyone's passports while the investigation was ongoing. After a while, the truth came out and the grave robber was put in jail. All in all, despite the nightmarish production, it went on to became an epitome of the war film genre and is now regarded as an all-time classic.
"'This is the worst thing ever written. It makes no sense. Someone's dead and then they're alive. It's too long, violent, and unfilmable." This was said about the now-classic Pulp Fiction when its co-writer Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino took the script to TriStar. It was also called "too demented." The studio executives were definitely not a fan of non-linear storytelling, which ultimately made the film so memorable.
The story goes that if it weren't for the infamous Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob at Miramax, Pulp Fiction would have never seen daylight the way it was written. "Quentin was given complete and total command to make that movie exactly as he sees it in his head," co-writer Roger Avary later recalled to the media.
The Exorcist (1973)
If it weren't for a sheer stroke of luck, we wouldn't have the movie The Exorcist today – one of the most famous (and frightening) horror movies made to this date.
It was first written as a novel by William Peter Blatty in 1971, later adapted to a screenplay and finally brought to the big screen by director William Friedkin. However, when Blatty published the book, it "got very nice reviews," the writer recalled. "But nobody was buying the book." Then, according to the writer, he was helped out by a "divine hand." After he did a pre-interview for a potential guest appearance on one the episodes of "The Dick Cavett Show," the interviewer told him to not to get his hopes up, as the host wasn't a huge fan of paranormal stories.
Then, one day he was having a dinner with one of the publishers, when suddenly she got a call from the TV show. They needed William Peter Blatty to get to the show in minutes, as one of their guests has canceled. Apparently, the other guest that did get on the show on time, was a little bit tipsy and what had to be a 5-minute interview with the writer of The Exorcist, extended into a 45-minute conversation on his book on national TV. This gave the book the boost that was so needed and got the attention of Hollywood executives.
Soon enough, the then-Warner Bros. studio head gave a green light to make the movie and paved the way for it to become a classic in the horror genre.
Dumb And Dumber (1994)
The movie that ultimately solidified Jim Carrey's career was originally turned down by practically every major Hollywood studio. The script kept getting rejected because no studio wanted to associate themselves with Dumb and Dumber as they found the title ridiculous. Written by the Farrelly brothers, the script had to be re-named (to Go West and then A Power Tool is Not a Toy) just to get studio execs to read it.
Eventually, the script made its way to the New Line Cinema whose president Mike De Luca loved it and agreed to make it. However, the CEO Bob Shayne didn't like it but after long consideration, agreed to take it up only under one condition – if the directors could secure two leading actors from a list of 25 ones provided by the studio. Unfortunately, all of the actors turned down the role.
Then, one of the film's producers got Jim Carrey to read the script, who was a promising new-comer to the comedy scene as someone remembered "that white guy" from In Living Color.
Jim liked the script, filmmakers liked Jim and together they eventually made history, as Jim became the first actor to headline three number one box office movies in the same year (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber). Bet the studio execs who turned down the movie feel so dumb right now.
The Omen (1976)
After Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist had already proved to be a huge success, producers knew The Omen was bound to be a money maker.
However, after signing the contract, the executive who pitched the idea of The Omen, suddenly began warning everyone that the movie would be cursed. "The devil didn't want the picture to be made," he said
Now here is the short version of all the odd things that happened before, during and after the production of The Omen. Firstly, two months prior to filming the movie, lead actor Gregory Peck's son shot himself. Then, while on an airplane to London in September, the same actor's plane was struck by lightning. Few weeks after the incident, the executive producer of the film was flying when his airplane was also struck by lightning. The London hotel where the same producer and others were staying was bombed by the IRA (Irish Republican Army), just after they left.
On top of this, an animal handler who helped the cast with the baboon scene (in the movie, a bunch of baboons attack a car while the boy and his mom are inside of it), was killed by two lions soon after the shooting wrapped. Then, special effects artist John Richardson, responsible for the gruesome decapitation scene, got in a car crash during the post-production of the film when driving on a deserted road. Apparently, he crashed head-on into another car and the collision decapitated his passenger's – assistant Liz Moore's – head. Mind you, the manner of decapitation was eerily similar to the one depicted in the movie… John Richardson also reportedly saw a road sign near the scene of the accident marking the distance to a Dutch town that read: Ommen, 66.6 km.
Lastly, a plane that was hired by the crew of the film, but was switched at the last minute, went crashing down shortly after takeoff and killed everyone on board. It's certainly a miracle that the movie got made when you think about it.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Written by Charlie Kaufman, this off-beat drama-comedy was tough to sell. Kaufman wrote the script back in 1994 and although it was widely read by executives of various studios, they all turned it down. Still hoping to find a producer for the project, the writer sent the script to Francis Ford Coppola, who passed it on to his then-son-in-law Spike Jonze.
Spike had agreed to direct the film and brought the script to Propaganda Films who agreed to produce it in partnership with Single Cell Pictures. The producers from Single Cell then pitched the film to numerous studios. Again, every studio rejected it, including New Line Cinema, who passed on Being John Malkovich after chairman Robert Shaye asked: "Why the f**k can't it be Being Tom Cruise?" Even John Malkovich himself understandably had some reservations: "Either the movie's a bomb and it's got not only my name above the title but my name in the title, so I'm f**ked that way; or it does well and I'm just forever associated with this character."
Finally, the movie was finished and distributed thanks to USA Films, becoming an immediate hit and garnering three Oscar nominations. One of the nominations was actually for the best original screenplay.
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Word of this as the Democratic Labour Party launched its constituency branch office in St Joseph.
Scores of party supporters as well as government ministers showed their support for candidate Dennis Holder, as the office was officially opened Sunday.
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Revenge porn could become criminal
Angela Conners
By Assistant Metro Editor
Revenge porn, the term for maliciously posting nude photos online without the subject's consent, could soon be a crime in Illinois if a bill that unanimously passed the Senate Feb. 27 makes its way through the House of Representatives.
Sen. Michael Hastings (D–Orland Hills) introduced the bill that would punish posters of revenge porn with fines of up to $25,000 or a maximum of three years in prison.
If the bill is passed, the law would help curb the number of revenge porn websites and posters, Hastings said.
Illinois is one of 16 states currently addressing the issue of revenge porn and could become the third state to outlaw the act. California and New Jersey have already passed similar legislation.
One in 10 people have threatened to expose sexually explicit photos of an ex online and 60 percent of those issuing threats have actually posted the images, according to a Jan. 3 study by the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's End Revenge Porn campaign.
However, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois believes that criminalizing this behavior is wrong because it may punish the innocent, according to Ed Yohnka, ACLU Illinois director of communications and public policy. He said the way the law is drafted could criminalize people who view and share these pictures rather than going after the website creators and posters of the content.
"There is a First Amendment-protected right to take these pictures, [to] have these pictures or even to share them," Yohnka said. "But it is not protected in terms of nonconsensual sharing. What we are concerned about is the degree to which the law is drafted that doesn't make the distinction between that which is and is not consensual sharing."
Yohnka said victims are able to file civil lawsuits for their photos to be removed from revenge porn websites, which he said is a better alternative to criminalizing offenders.
But Hastings said civil suits are time consuming, expensive and must prove infringement, libel or false light to successfully have the photos removed.
"We are coming out of a recession," Hastings said. "People do not have the money to spend on an attorney. Those legal fees will cost thousands of dollars and it's not fair that the rich people get protected more than the poor people."
Charlotte Laws, a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative whose daughter was a victim of revenge porn, said civil lawsuits are also damaging to victims because they can make personal details a matter of public record. If passed, Laws said the bill could protect victims of revenge porn by making it possible to prosecute the offender without exposing the victim's personal details.
In 2011, Laws had to cancel meetings and take time off work to remove nude photos of her daughter from the now defunct revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.com. Website creator, Hunter Moore, was recently arrested.
Laws' daughter used her cellphone to snap semi-nude photos of herself with no intent of showing them to anyone, Laws said. Her daughter uploaded the pictures to her computer after sending them via email. Three months later, Laws' daughter discovered that her computer was hacked and her nude photos were posted online.
"It was a nightmare," Laws said. "It's a very seedy underworld that I had to absorb myself into in order to actually learn what was going on and to get the pictures of my daughter off the Internet."
As Laws worked to get the photos removed, she learned that most women pictured on the website did not give consent or were unaware the photos were online. Some victims' faces were even photoshopped on nude bodies of different women, she said.
According to the End Revenge Porn campaign, once the picture is put online, it is difficult for victims to keep their personal information private and 49 percent of victims said they were harassed or stalked online by users who saw their nude photos, and 93 percent said the content caused them substantial emotional distress.
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Aimée is the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at Advocates for Youth, where she oversees and coordinates the development, implementation, and evaluation of Advocates' strategic partnerships with youth activists and colleague organizations in allied social justice movements. She also oversees the Youth Organizing and Mobilization Team and the Policy Team.
Prior to joining the staff at Advocates, she served as the Interim Executive Director for the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and the Executive Director of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP). She sits on the Board of Directors for SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and Mobilize the Immigrant Vote and on the COMS Project Advisory Committee and the Oral Contraceptives Over The Counter (OCs OTC) Working Group Steering Committee. Aimee was previously a Public Voices Fellow with the Op-ed Project. She has spoken around the country at venues including the NOW National Conference, Netroots Nation, Center for American Progress, and Facing Race, and her writing and blogs have appeared on Women's e-News, Daily Kos, Feministing, Feministe, and Rewire among others. Aimée earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York.


Frog in a well : Old wisdom with a new philosophy!
The original story in two lines; there lived a frog in a well. That frog never believed ocean of infinite limits could exist.
This story has a twist. As usual there lived a King frog assisted by Ministers. Ministers always obeyed his king without a second thought. One-day King's son got a weird dream. In dream, he saw 80-foot long monster creature swimming in a body of water, which seems to be having no limits. He ignored the dream initially. Next day he saw color-changing creature having eight tentacles, brainless creatures, creatures having 5 arms so on. Day by day, his dream started getting bizarre.
Son was convinced and tried to ignore all his dreams. Nevertheless, dreams of water bodies and very scary creatures obsessively haunted him every single day. King thought for a while and planned to send his son along with his obedient ministers to the neighboring lake, which he thought to be infinite, in order to prove his son wrong.
His ministers had travelled to that lake multiple times and for them that lake was more than everything was. For the first time King's son saw a bigger water body than his home and believed to some extent that his dreams are never going to be true. King was very happy that his son is following his path to become his successor. However, king's son came across rigorous sort of similar dreams. After sometime he started, thinking dreams cannot be true unless you try to pursue it. He was in a big dilemma for some period.
One fine day, Frog's son made a decision and escaped from his kingdom in search of mighty ocean. End is obvious. Ocean does exist for those who want to explore it.
We always come across such mental unrests and battles in our life. These battles define fate of our future. Many succumb to poor decisions made from unsought battles within their mind and some others battle throughout their life. The rest exist as if they have no battles to fight although they have lost the battles in period of time and time erased those memories of defeat or their ego don't want them to remember their lost battles.
Another thing from this story is there is lot of difference between what you believe you are and what others want you to believe you are. However veraciously what you actually are is much different.
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Dear Daily Signal: Collusion with Russia was the "insurance policy," a contrived b.s. story by Democrats to shift focus away from the faked criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal use of a personal computer server to send and receive classified and top secret State Department information ("Attorney General Sees No Case for Obstruction as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia").
Ironically, special counsel Robert Mueller's witch-hunt did find evidence of "collusion with the Russians to influence the election of 2016″—by the hacked Democratic National Committee at the time Hillary took charge of it.
Additional evidence pointed to obstruction of justice and perjury by Hillary Clinton and by officials of the Justice Department and FBI.
And it suggested the committing of fraud by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI agents who signed applications for FISA warrants to spy on Trump associates without informing the judges that the information in the "Steele dossier" was never verified by the FBI.
If Comey was fired by President Trump because of the Russian investigation, then he was fired for starting an investigation into a political enemy based on a known false document in order to overthrow the U.S. government.
In most countries, that would get you executed, rather than fired.
The collusion-asserting buffoons and bloviators in the media and among politicians should list all essential elements of the crime of collusion that must be proved with facts and evidence substantiating this ethereal offense.
But wait, you say? They're still looking, notwithstanding the fact that Robert Mueller's team did not find such evidence.
Consider this. Logic would dictate that if there is no federal crime of collusion, then searching for evidence of it would be oxymoronic.
But when have logic, critical analysis, and reason ever been material factors in a politician's or media pundit's mindset when political assassination, at considerable expense to the public, is the order of the day?
If there is no federal crime of "collusion," then how can efforts, if they existed, to hinder the gathering of facts to prove a nonexistent crime be considered a crime (aka obstruction of justice)?
Dear Daily Signal: Funny they should whine that President Trump is not above the law, when Hillary and Obama are judged to be, according to the same Democrats.
If they are so het up about transparency, let's investigate the whole last administration.—Marlene Marty Fowler-Helfrick, Spring Hill, Fla.
Lesson learned: Watch your back. Don't trust your friends to keep conversations private. Don't trust the people you "get along with" to not turn on you and twist your words. Stay clean. Don't give anyone a foothold.
Sad, but it's a politician-eat-politician world out there and there seems to be no such thing as real friends, real team players.—Suzu M.
Why can't the Democrats just quit it and start doing the job they were elected to do, while they still have a job, and spend some time securing our country?
There was insufficient evidence to charge obstruction of justice in the same way there was insufficient evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for her use of the private email server.
In any event, there are ongoing investigations by, I think, four House committees, along with all the investigations Mueller passed to the Southern District of New York for possible criminal activity by Trump and virtually all of his organizations.
Dear Daily Signal: I was not a Trump fan going into the election, but it has been an eye-opening experience watching the left have meltdown after meltdown, as Jarrett Stepman writes in his commentary ("Mueller Report Is a Damning Indictment of the Media").
Here is a man who has never held office before, has plenty of his own money, and places himself dead center in the bulls-eye. President Trump actually wants to put America first. Very simple.
Not being a career politician, he has refused to bow to the media. He has run his mouth when he felt like it and called them out.
After all this, he has still done more for this country than Obama did in eight years. In fact, it seems a good portion of his time in office has been spent trying to repair Obama damage.
Now you're being super-silly, Jarrett Stepman. You're making a lot of judgments about the Mueller report, but you haven't read it.
In fact, no one outside the Justice Department has read it. Aren't you doing exactly what you accuse "the media" of doing? Yes, you are being a hypocrite.
Bear in mind, right-wing media for the past two years, along with our dishonest president, have been proclaiming the special counsel investigation is "a hoax" and a "witch-hunt," "staffed by Democrats," which is "determined to unseat a sitting president" and reverse an Electoral College election result.
Among these, of course, were The Daily Signal and Fox News Channel, the latter being the most widely watched television news network in the country.
The mainstream media has lost all of its credibility because they have orchestrated fake news to support their political bias. They might as well rename themselves the Association of Progressives Network.
AG Barr informed the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees that he received Mueller's report.
Dear Daily Signal: What the Democrats have done over the last two-plus years is the most egregious abuse of power in U.S. history ("Mueller Delivers Report on Russia Probe to Attorney General").
They have accused the sitting president of a long laundry list of crimes, with zero evidence. They have broken more laws than Al Capone. They used a weaponized federal government, thanks to Obama's illegally turning it into a hit squad for the Democrat Party.
The media problem has the potential to destroy this country. To be legitimate media, the press needs to report the news, good or bad. Once they become the wing of one party, which the mainstream media has with the Democrat Party, they should lose their licenses.
Dear Daily Signal: Much of America today is an enormously divided nation, both politically and culturally. Hopefully, this situation soon will change in a manner that embodies and puts into practice the very special words of the American's Creed.
For this to happen, though, many politicians at all levels of government first need to learn what the American's Creed says and then use its words as a primary guideline for actions and decisions.
I write as a Vietnam veteran, member of the American Legion, and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Alabama, and Army War College.
I believe that if today's politicians at all levels, especially members of Congress, strongly embraced the American's Creedand let itguide them, it certainly would be in the best interests of America.
Such a lifestyle should help overcome, hopefully in a major way, the terribly bitter and divisive political environment that exists in America.–Paul Gardiner, Hoschton, Ga.


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Protein structure terminates doubt about how transcription stops
High-resolution structures of the bacterial Rho protein in complex with an RNA polymerase enzyme and partner proteins provide support for the long-held model of how Rho helps to terminate gene transcription.
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Over time, scientific concepts in textbooks can get enshrined into dogma. Occasionally, however, these assumptions are shaken up when new data arise that challenge those cherished models. In 2020, two cryo-electron microscopy studies1,2 called into question long-standing assumptions about a key facet of bacterial gene regulation known as transcription termination. Now, writing in Nature, Molodtsov et al.3 describe structures that restore the classical framework. Their results are an elegant demonstration that science sometimes needs to lurch sideways before it can move forwards.
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