Ein neues britisches Team versucht den Sprung in die Profiszene und wird dabei von niemand geringerem als Sam 'RattlesnK' Gawn geleitet. Das Team spielt unter dem Namen Orgles5 und ist, wie der Name bereits vermuten lässt, organisationslos. Parallel dazu hat Tempo Storm mit Rafael 'zakk' Fernandes ihren neuen Coach vorgestellt. Alle Informationen zu den Themen findet ihr in dieser News.
We have been playing under the radar for the past few months now and have been focusing on getting ourselves to a good standard.
We know where we want to be, we realise we have a long way to go - it is important to us that we know what it takes to succeed, we are all motivated and hungry to achieve that.
We will be playing in ESEA Premier and EMS to give us a good test to see where we stand.
We are on the look out for an organisation, you can contact our coach on twitter @immi_cs or myself by email at Pete.wright3@gmail.com.
Das Team von Tempo Storm hat bekannt gegeben, dass zakk ihr neuer Coach werden wird, nach Luiz 'peacemaker' Tadeu einen Vertrag bei Team Liquid unterschrieben hat. zakk ist bekannt aus seiner Zeit bei Keyd Stars. Außerdem spielte er zusammen mit Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo bei ProGaming.TD, dem ersten professionellen brasilianischen CS:GO Team.
It could be applied to Counter-Strike, to one's job or to anything in life.
I have always managed to stay motivated because my friends/fans sent me support messages, even in the toughest periods, and today I begin a new chapter in my career, a challenge.
I join Tempo Storm with the feeling that I am not joining a team, but a family. I am very happy and motivated, these guys are incredible and I truly believe in their potential.
Re1ease und Rattlesnk waren ja stark bei CSS, hab sie bei Go nicht mehr verfolgt... bin gespannt. Wird aber vermutlich eh nicht lange halten..
Danke dir. Denke auch, wenn die wirklich mal länger zusammen bleiben und ernsthaft trainieren, dass da schon was geht. Mal abwarten :).


I think that a lifetime of adventuring probably does prepare a person for almost anything. On the whole, Alustan probably isn't very surprised at all to come home and see that something major has occurred in his absence. He probably would have been more surprised if something hadn't happened.
It must be awfully convenient to be able to just teleport wherever you want to go.
I do wonder if it counts as resisting arrest if you keep struggling after being completely bound, though.


17 people are dead in Parkland, Fla. because of the heinous actions of one Nikolas Cruz, who opened fire at the high school there.
This is a national tragedy, and we all share the burden together. Cruz must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He is responsible for these murders.
The victims are not — repeat, not — dead because of a regulation Congress rescinded in 2017 under the Congressional Review Act, "Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007" that had to do with certain individuals' names with mental illness being entered into the FBI database for background checks barring the purchase of firearms.
That regulation would not have applied to Cruz.
Now, to be fair, nowhere do Merelli, Timmons and Oh actually write that the regulation would have applied to Cruz.
Still, these articles and others, which are being widely circulated on social media such as Facebook and Twitter, have their readers convinced, wrongly, that the regulation Congress rescinded would have somehow stopped Cruz from purchasing his firearm.
There's only one problem. It wouldn't have. It's a monstrous lie. Fake news.
Those making political hay out of that regulation in the wake of the Parkland massacre are in effect diverting blame from where it belongs, on Cruz.
The disorders under the Listings include neurocognitive disorders, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, depressive, bipolar and related disorders, intellectual disorder, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders, personality and impulse-control disorders, autism spectrum disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, eating disorders, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
However, nobody has presented any evidence that Nikolas Cruz was either receiving Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income for treatment of any of those disorders, let alone that he required someone else to file for it on his behalf, which is the lynchpin for the regulation.
Again, you have to be so impaired by your disorder, that somebody had to file for your Disability or Supplemental Security Income on your behalf, and only then would you be entered into the database as a red flag against a firearms purchase.
Federal law also bars firearms purchases by anyone who has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Here, Cruz, did not meet that criterium either. Nor was he ever adjudicated by a court as having a mental disorder.
Neither anything in law presently nor under the rescinded regulation would have stopped Cruz' right to go and purchase the gun he used to commit the murders. Congress repealing that regulation simply had nothing to do with the case of Cruz.
Agree or disagree with those laws, or even with the Fifth Amendment, which states no person shall be denied constitutional rights without having been convicted of a crime, the facts are the facts. You don't get to shape them to suit a partisan political point.
Gun control regulations, such as the one that Congress rescinded via the Congressional Review Act, are not omniscient. They are not the precogs in Minority Report.
The person responsible for those murders is Cruz, and nothing in the law could have prevented his gun purchase. He should be prosecuted, and if convicted, given the harshest possible sentence. No not guilty verdict for reasons of insanity. He should be held accountable.
Maybe if we want to stop school shooters, we should shoot them first. Post armed guards at schools. Then at least people will have a fighting chance. Make it a hard target and these attacks will be deterred.
But let us not delude ourselves. No matter what the social justice warriors on Facebook will have you believe, if the regulation in question had remained in effect, Cruz still would have never been entered into the federal database for background checks barring firearms purchases. It's simply not true.


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Honolulu police gather near the scene of a shooting near Diamond Head State Monument on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii already has some of the nation's strictest gun laws, but the fatal shooting of two Honolulu police officers by a man his lawyer and neighbors believe had psychiatric problems has added new urgency to efforts to close gun control loopholes and bolster mental health care...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cellphone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked in what appeared to be an attempt by Saudi Arabia's crown prince to "influence, if not silence" the newspaper's reporting on the kingdom, two U.N. human rights experts said Wednesday...
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FILE - In this June 23, 2005 file photo, Dr. James C. Metts Jr., the Chatham County coroner, poses in front of a portrait of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski in Savannah, Ga. Metts whose four decades as coroner in the Savannah area earned him a part in the bestselling book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," died Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at his Savannah home, where he had been under hospice care. He was 88. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)
Coroner featured in 'Midnight in the Garden' book dies at 88
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Dr. James C. Metts Jr., a Savannah physician whose four decades serving as an elected coroner earned him a small part in the bestselling book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," has died at age 88. Metts died Monday at his Savannah home, where he had been under hospice...
2 German men of murder for shooting dead Polish woman
BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court on Wednesday convicted two German men of murder in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old Polish woman. German news agency dpa reported that the court concluded that the defendants had "wanted to see what it's like when somebody dies." Berlin's regional court sentenced the...

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E-Commerce Riding High Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season, Brick & Mortar Retail Shows Q3 Comeback
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E-commerce sales volume reached $211.5 billion in Q2 2020, growing 32% from Q1 and 44.5% year-over-year
Though down slightly from Q2, e-commerce sales still had a strong Q3 just shy of $210 billion — up 37% compared to Q3 2019
In-store retail reached an all-time quarterly high of $1.259 trillion in Q3, rebounding 14.5% after a shaky Q2
As of October, there are approximately 947,000 couriers and messengers nationwide — up from 860,000 in January and 850,000 in March
As soon as the first stay-at-home orders were announced in March, it was immediately obvious that e-commerce would see a surge as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As retailers shut their doors and remained available only for curbside pick-up or delivery, Americans spent more on online retail and ordered from the internet more often.
But, even before this transformative year, e-commerce was on an upward trend. In fact, the industry grew from representing 4.2% of all retail sales in 2010 to almost 12% at the beginning of 2020. However, the lockdown measures predictably sent e-commerce sales through the roof.
Previously, the largest quarterly growth for e-commerce sales in the last 10 years was 5.9% in Q4 2011. Q2 2020 shattered that record as e-commerce sales skyrocketed up 32% compared to Q1, reaching $211 billion in total sales as people across the nation began relying on online orders for all necessities.
For comparison, it took three years for e-commerce sales to grow from $110 billion to $160 billion, whereas they soared from $160 billion to $211 billion in just a single quarter this year.
E-commerce then saw a small drop of 1% in quarterly sales volume in Q3, down to $210 billion. Given that in-store retail gradually reopened beginning in May, this incremental decrease means that many customers maintained their online shopping habits from the height of the lockdown. As a result, e-commerce sales volume is hovering around a 15% share of total retail sales ahead of a holiday shopping season that is bound to be unique in the current environment.
Meanwhile, Q3 2020 showed a significant comeback for brick-and-mortar stores, which recorded an all-time high of $1.26 trillion in total sales volume — a growth of 14.5% compared to Q2. This comes after the industry was near a plateau between 2010 and 2019 — with quarterly changes between -1.1% and +3% — and a difficult Q2 2020, in which sales dropped below the $1.1 trillion mark for the first time in four years. Multiple factors, including stimulus checks and spillover sales after restrictions eased, could have contributed to this spike.
While some types of retailers — such as grocery stores or building material suppliers — saw virtually no change in quarterly sales volume between Q1, Q2 and Q3 2020, some categories of in-store retailers contributed more to the uptick in sales in Q3. For example, sales in car dealerships dipped from $266 billion in Q1 to $257 billion in Q2, only to jump 21% in Q3 to $310 billion. This means that sales volume for car dealerships represented more than 21% of total retail sales in Q3.
Furniture and electronics stores saw a similarily strong rebound — after falling by 29% in Q2, sales rebounded by 50% in Q3. Clothing and accessory retailers saw 95% more sales in Q3 than in the previous quarter, reaching $55 billion — just shy of Q1's $56 billion in sales.
This rebound of brick-and-mortar retail makes the online retail's solid Q3 even more remarkable. With surging in-store shopping numbers and solid online sales, overall retail sales volume reached $1.47 trillion, beating the previous record of $1.38 trillion from Q4 last year.
With the exception of 2015, total retail sales were stronger in Q4 than in Q3 in every year since 2010. However, with rapidly changing conditions, retail — both in-store and online — may be tested further during the 2020 holiday season.
The increasing importance of e-commerce is also evident in the number of couriers and messengers recorded throughout 2020. Unemployment has been one of the major talking points since the beginning of the pandemic as work-from-home orders and economic challenges brought along a considerable number of unemployment claims. However, the number of couriers in the U.S. has been growing month-over-month since March, reaching almost 947,000 in October. Moreover, with the increased demand for online sales logistics, the number of employees in this field was growing even when unemployment was above the 10% mark between April and July.
This uptick is also part of a larger trend: Retailers rushed to provide curbside pick-up or home delivery during the lockdown and are now continuing to develop e-commerce infrastructure to account for new shopping habits. For example, Amazon recently broke ground on two fulfillment centers in Kansas totaling 2 million square feet, in addition to increasing its footprint in New York City. The company also hired 175,000 new employees during the pandemic, of which it expected to retain 125,000 as long-term employees to help address the growth in online sales.
The upcoming holiday shopping season will likely test the lessons imparted on retailers during the lockdown. However, a strong third quarter for retail — both online and in-store — points toward a Q4 that could allow room for growth for both types of retailers.
Estimates on total retail sales volume and e-commerce sales volume were provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales volume for non e-commerce (brick-and-mortar/in-store retail) sales volume was obtained by subtracting e-commerce sales volume from total retail sales. All quarterly sale estimates are seasonally adjusted.
Monthly employment for couriers and messengers was provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Oman was never really on my Bucket List, but receiving a great offer for a live-aboard there and needing a break from work, I decided to just go for it. Another motivation was to meet up with a dive buddy in Qatar after and do a desert tracking / camping.
The flight from Amsterdam to Doha with a stop-over in Qatar was good, only having to wait for 8 hours in the airport of Qatar was not really a pleasure. The available seats were all with armrests, so lying down on them was almost impossible.
Doha airport itself was fairly small and passing through customs was very quick. The pickup service of the live-aboard was on time and within half an hour I was at the boat. The vessel looked quite luxurious and crew was very friendly. It was still in progress of being cleaned from the last trip, but restaurants and hotels were close by, so you could have a relaxing time there.
Once aboard and settled my holiday was on it's way! Beers were free on board, so lying on the sun-deck with a cold one was great!
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What I really liked about diving in Oman was that it still is not yet discovered by the large numbers. We were always the only boat on the dive site. In general the diving was OK, nothing spectacular, but viz was mostly good and marine life was healthy. If you like loads of moray eels and pufferfish, this is the place to go.


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KINOdiseea International Children's Film Festival Bucarest: ECFA Award to "The Day My Father Became a Bush"
Nicole van Kilsdonk's latest film "The Day My Father Became a Bush" (The Netherlands, Belgium & Croatia, 2016) received the ECFA Award at the KINOdiseea International Children's Film Festival in Bucarest.
(22.11.2016) The professionals' jury has chosen "Blanka" by Kohki Hasei (Italy & Japan, 2015) as best film for children with a special mention for "At Eye Level" by Evi Goldbrunner & Joachim Dollhopf (Germany, 2016). The children's jury awarded "Abulele" by Jonathan Geva (Israel, 2015), the audience voted for "Jill and Joy's Winter" by Saara Cantell (Finland, 2015) as best film for children.
As best film for young people the professionals' jury has awarded ex aequo "Sing Street" by John Carney (Great Britain, 2015) and "My Name is Emily" by Simon Fitzmaurice (Ireland, 2015). Their discovery award the jury has given to "The Trip We Took With Dad" by Anca Miruna Lazarescu (Romania & Germany, 2016).
The jury of young people has chosen "The Trip We Took With Dad" as their favourite with a special mention to "Lena Love" by Florian Gag (Germany, 2016). The audience award in the category films for young people received "The Pitch" by Eduard Bordukov (Russia, 2015).
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