{"text": " 42 The tragic incident took place on Sunday evening, ending the life of a much-loved and respected national team's No.1\n\nSouth Africa and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper and captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead on Sunday in Vosloorus, South Africa. 32 The exact details of the incident are yet to transpire, but the South African Police Service (SAPS) have provided confirmation of the South African international's tragic death. 39 The 27-year-old was declared dead upon arrival at hospital, according to the authorities, who appealed for calm as people rushed to the hospital and the house where he was shot to grieve and pay their respects. 25 MEYIWA STATEMENT: The @Orlando_Pirates family has learned with sadness of the untimely death of our number 1 keeper & captain Senzo Meyiwa. 42 \u2014 Orlando Pirates FC (@Orlando_Pirates) October 26, 2014\n\nMEYIWA STATEMENT: \"This is a sad loss to Senzo's family especially his children, to Orlando Pirates & the nation\", said Chairman Dr Khoza. 78 \u2014 Orlando Pirates FC (@Orlando_Pirates) October 26, 2014\n\nMEYIWA STATEMENT: This statement is being issued whilst Club officials are up & about dealing with matters arising from the unsettling news \u2014 Orlando Pirates FC (@Orlando_Pirates) October 26, 2014\n\nThe Orlando Pirates star was in action as recently as Saturday, in his side's 4-1 win over Ajax Cape Town in the quarter-final of the Telekom Knockout tournament. 36 Meyiwa captained Bafana during the recent 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Congo, Nigeria and Sudan, taking over the skipper's armband in the absence of Kaizer Chiefs' Itumeleng Khune. 39 Meyiwa's contribution to the national team has been immense in the Afcon qualifiers, with Bafana yet to concede a goal after four games while topping their table ahead of Sudan, defending champions Nigeria and Congo. 29 Pirates Chairman Dr Irvin Khoza tweeted, \"This is a sad loss to Senzo's family especially his children, to Orlando Pirates & the nation.\" 14 The club have announced that they will hold a press conference on Monday."} {"text": " 16 Ijen Volcano Crater is one of the most attractive and dangerous places in the world. 35 Active volcano, constantly spewing sulfur smoke clubs, the world\u2019s largest acid lake Kawah Ijen, incredible in its beauty blue fire and extremely hard working conditions in the sulfur mine. 14 We went down into the crater to see everything with our own eyes. 18 The Ijen volcanic complex consists of several stratovolcanoes and cinder cones and a 20 km wide caldera. 8 Ijen caldera is the largest in Java. 27 The size of the crater is about 960 m x 600 m. The primary dangers at Ijen are pyroclastic flows, lahars, and lava flows. 19 But tourists are interested in the acidic crater lake shore which is a natural large deposits of sulfur. 26 Way to Kawah Ijen\n\nIn order to reach the famous lake, you must first climb to the top and then descend into the crater. 33 The way from the ticket office to the top takes about 3 km, the altitude difference is 500 m. If you do not hurry up, the road is rather simple. 15 It\u2019s steeper at the beginning and almost flat after a cafe halfway. 10 Typically an entrance to the crater opens at 1am. 24 But in case of a high activity of the volcano this time can be shifted to the morning or even prohibited for tourists. 14 On the day when we climbed, the entrance opened about 3.45 am. 24 This meant that we had less than an hour to arrive to the crater lake, if we want to see blue fire. 19 We got to the top in about 45 minutes, and another 15 minutes spent on the descent. 17 To be honest, it wasn\u2019t easy for me to move with such speed. 9 And, admittedly, we arrived to late. 31 On the top of Ijen crater we saw a few flashes of blue fire, but when we descent to the lake after 5 am, it was already light. 15 So I could make some pictures with just one blue fire flash on photo. 13 It was too late for a super photo filled with blue light. 7 The road back is very beautiful. 27 Mountain peaks of volcanic complex, a fog and clouds shrouding slopes, scorched trees and dense vegetation of forests and fields are on the way. 8 Is It Dangerous to Visit Ijen Crater? 18 It is impossible to stay a long time close to a dense acid gas without a mask. 6 Olivier Grunewald\n\nYes for sure! 13 Acrid sulfur gas (sulfur dioxide) is very dangerous to health. 13 High temperature near the pipes from which sulfur flows is a life-threatening. 14 For good pictures, I went to the epicenter of heavy whitish-yellow smoke. 36 Despite the mask, it was very difficult to breathe, my eyes filled with tears, workers shouted \u201cDangerous!\u201d after each next step on the slope above the hot liquid sulfur. 10 All day long I \u201cfelt my lungs\u201d. 22 I think that just one such adventure is not terrible, but it\u2019s better do not risk once again. 16 It\u2019s better to be careful when you are going down into the crater. 13 First, be sure to wear a respirator or a protective mask. 10 The more effective it filters the air the better. 11 There are casualties among tourists, who neglected safety rules. 13 Second, keep in mind that the road goes across the rocks. 11 Comfortable shoes and gloves will help you overcome the way. 20 Crater Stunning View\n\nBeing on the slopes of Ijen crater you remember Divine Comedy and 9 circles of hell. 28 Lifeless slopes, flowing red-hot sulfur, clubs of acrid yellow gas rushing from the earth and emerald deadly acid lake with sulfur plumes on the surface. 33 Kawah Ijen Acid Lake\n\nKawah Ijen Crater Lake, at the top of the volcano, is the world\u2019s largest such body of water filled with hydrochloric and sulfuric acid. 26 The volcano emitted hydrogen chloride gas, which reacted with the water and formed a highly condensed hydrochloric acid with a pH of almost 0. 15 In fact, it\u2019s the hydrochlori acid that makes the water turquoise-blue. 15 The lake is a deadly dangerous, however it can be touched by hand. 16 A temperature on the surface is 50-60\u00b0\u0421, and in the depths \u2013 over 200\u00b0\u0421. 10 The depth of the lake is about 200 meters. 20 Blue Fire\n\nThe blue fire is ignited sulphuric gas, which emerges from cracks with temperatures up to 600\u00b0\u0421. 15 The glow is quite weak, so it can be seen only at night. 22 Lava flows burning with blue flame can be seen on the Ijen extremely rare\n\nSometimes sulfur is ignited by the workers. 26 To speed up the formation of the mineral, a mining company installed ceramic pipes on an active vent near the edge of the lake. 14 The pipes route the sulfur gases down the vent\u2019s sloping mound. 26 When the gases cool, they condense into liquid sulfur, which then flows or drips from the pipes and solidifies into hard sulfur mats. 9 Workers sell these stalactites to tourists as souvenirs. 15 Lava flows burning with blue flame can be seen on the Ijen extremely rare. 20 Unfortunately, many websites show pictures of Olivier Grunewald and give the impression, that it happens every night. 6 Don\u2019t believe it! 14 Usually you can see burning sulfur dioxide gas, no lava at all. 17 Sulfur Mines in the Crater\n\nMiners have been extracting sulfur here for more than 40 years. 9 This is a very difficult and dangerous job. 19 Without protective clothing, and without masks, miners cut sulfur pieces and put them into a basket. 37 Then they carry these baskets 200 meters to the top of the crater, and then descend 3 km to the foot of the volcano to a village, where they are rewarded for their work. 19 The weight of such baskets is 60-80 kg, some people manage to lift up to 110 kg. 9 Typically workers do such journey twice a day. 23 For 1 kg of sulfur they get 900-1000 IDR, which means about $ 5 per basket or $ 10 per day. 13 By local standards it\u2019s a highly paid and prestigious job. 14 Java is a very high populated island, a lot of people unemployed. 9 Sulfur miners are a kind of working elite. 14 The best thing you can do for workers is to give a respirator. 11 However, this doesn\u2019t help them live long. 27 Sulfur gas is so dangerous to the health, that young guys look like old men, and the average life expectancy of about 47 years. 15 Despite the extremely hard working conditions, miners are amazingly friendly and cheerful people. 27 I experienced culture shock when a worker with a basket, the weight of which exceeds his own, had step side to let me go. 17 All the time they show tourists a better way across rocks and gladly posed for photographers. 21 The best thing you can do for the workers is to give them a respirator or even a face mask. 13 They have no money and no opportunity to even change the filters. 14 Many workers don\u2019t know that the air they breathe is dangerous. 4 All miners smoke. 15 They say that it helps them to reduce smell of sulfur a little bit. 4 Where to Stay? 11 Usually travellers stay as close to Ijen crater as possible. 21 You can look at Asparin Homestay 1* or Ijen Resort and Villas 3* located near by the volcano. 10 How to Get to Kawah Ijen Volcano from Bali? 11 It\u2019s not difficult to Ijen volcano from Bali. 33 You need to get to the ferry terminal on the west of Bali island, take a ferry to Java island and drive about 2 hours to the foot of the volcano. 21 It\u2019s better to start climbing at night, so plan to spend a night near by the volcano. 28 Most of people combine a trip to Ijen volcano with a trip to the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park and climbing to the top of Bromo crater. 34 In this case, the possible alternative is to arrive in Jogjakarta (Yogyakarta), Surabaya or other town in Central / East Java, and then drive east to the volcanous. 22 But please take into account that the way from Jogjakarta (Yogyakarta) to Bromo may take up to 12 hours. 88 General Information:\n\nDate of the trip : 22 of February, 2015\n\n: 22 of February, 2015 Place : Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen)\n\n: Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen) Location : Ijen, East Java, Indonesia\n\n: Ijen, East Java, Indonesia Ticket price : 15,000 IDR\n\n: 15,000 IDR Time for visiting: 4-6 hours\n\nKind request If the post was useful for you, please share it on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or any other social network. 8 You can find all social buttons below. 6 It's just one click! 5 Thank you very much! 3 Nearby Attractions:"} {"text": " 16 You don't have to go far to find examples of everyday discrimination in Europe. 61 There are Croatian landlords who refuse apartments to lesbians, Belgian cafes that won't serve women in headscarves to \"maintain security,\" French banks who refuse loans to people on disability benefits, German swimming pools that deny access to blind women, and Slovakian clinics that refuse certain treatments for multiple sclerosis patients older than 45. 43 All these examples come from a recent report by Equinet, an umbrella organization for European equality bodies, one of more than 40 organizations that on Thursday issued a fresh call for the European Union to adopt a single anti-discrimination law. 58 \"In many countries, people with disabilities can be refused access to offices, gays and lesbians can be refused hotel rooms, people can be refused rental cars because of their age, and people can be denied rental contracts because of their Jewish or Muslim religious beliefs,\" the organizations said a statement. 14 \"Such differing levels of protection should no longer exist in Europe.\" 60 Disability access is a particular concern across Europe\n\nDifferent standards\n\n\"Europe is a community of values where human rights are upheld, so it shouldn't be that people in different countries get different human rights protection,\" said Maja Liebing, discrimination specialist at the German branch of Amnesty International, which also signed the appeal. 31 \"There is relatively good protection against discrimination on the basis of ethnic background, and I think no one would question that it is important in other areas.\" 22 A draft law has been on the table since 2008 - seven years during which Germany has been holding up negotiations. 31 \"For a long time Germany wasn't the only country to do it, there were others who expressed reservations - but that's changed,\" said Liebing. 16 \"Now Germany really is the only country at the EU level still blocking.\" 15 That is ironic, because Germany has relatively comprehensive discrimination protection laws in place. 15 \"We don't understand why Germany is stopping this,\" Liebing said. 17 \"It's something that affects German citizens too, when they travel abroad in Europe. 25 If a gay German couple went to an eastern European country, for example, they could find themselves being refused a hotel room. 16 Even in Austria, two lesbians were thrown out of a cafe for kissing.\" 6 Who is holding things up? 21 Germany\n\nAll three of Chancellor Angela Merkel's successive governments have failed to even offer an explanation for their position. 14 \"The government has just not faced the issue,\" said Liebing. 22 \"There is no official position, and the issue doesn't come up in the coalition contract at all.\" 36 Amnesty thinks the Chancellery is still harboring reservations\n\nWhen DW asked the government for a statement, Family Ministry spokeswoman Verena Herb said: \"The consultations within the government have not yet been completed. 17 That is why we have not yet taken a position on the matter in Brussels.\" 50 The junior partner in the current coalition government, the Social Democratic Party, has said it is in favor of the directive, which suggests the Chancellery still harbors reservations - though what they are is anyone's guess as it has not said anything on the topic. 23 \"A first step would be for them to explain why they have a problem with this issue,\" said Liebing. 22 Should the law be passed in Europe, EU member states would have to adopt the legislation at a national level. 22 Different countries would have to make different adjustments - but broadening disability access would likely be one of the largest areas. 6 Currently there is some movement. 34 The European Commission has recently made the issue a priority, again, and wants to finally put a bill before the European Parliament - if Merkel's government will let that happen."} {"text": " 23 SEATTLE, WA, November 21, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The extinction of salmon is a real threat that must be stopped. 20 The construction of dams and water diversions has done irreversible damage, blocking the natural passage of the salmon. 19 Activities like gravel mining, logging and urban development have also seen the returns on salmon dip sharply. 20 Dam operators are spending billions and are frustrated with the current direction, with minimal results towards the threat. 20 This is where Northwest Fisheries Enhancement would make a perfect fit, and hopefully dam operators will back NWFE. 16 This is why NWFE is launching this all out crowdfunding campaign to save the salmon. 37 The Seattle Times argues that budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump will essentially put an end to funding for salmon recovery, leaving state and local resources strained, and endangering the species even further. 28 With an increasing reliance on imported fish, and shrinking jobs in hatcheries and fisheries every day, it is clear a salmon extinction will be devastating. 8 Salmon are an important way of life. 9 Rivers full of salmon mean a healthy ecosystem. 13 Alive, the salmon check the levels of algae and smaller fish. 17 When they die, the nutrients from their bodies nurture forests and the ecosystem at large. 5 It goes full circle. 27 Not only does their movement bring nutrients to our rivers and shores, they are a big pull for tourists and they create jobs for locals. 14 They are a cornerstone of culture, diet, economy and our environment. 16 Northwest Fisheries Enhancement seeks to actively play a role in stopping the extinction of salmon. 13 It is a non-profit organization whose approach is geared towards salmon recovery. 24 It will do this through:\n\n- Developing partnerships that offer hatchery owners competitive management options without relying too heavily on the government. 21 - Strengthening and building Community Fisheries Organizations (CFOs) to help improve Salmon and Steelhead returns to their rivers. 20 - Meeting responsible and modern practices for Hatchery options and Wild/ Natural Origin Salmon with New and Proven models. 12 You can join the efforts to save salmon from extinction today. 18 It is a solid, reasonable investment, as shown by the Seattle Times in March 2017. 24 By restoring watersheds and other projects, investing in the recovery of salmon created more than 16 jobs for every 1 Million dollars. 17 The money remains in the local county too, meaning more can be done with it. 36 It is the the intention of NWFE to help Community Fisheries Organizations (CFO) with Salmon and Steelhead egg, fry and smolt plantings and re-introduction into their rivers and streams by the millions. 26 There are hundreds if not thousands of River and streams where CFO's can make a difference in saving and returning salmon and Steelhead runs. 27 NWFE will provide hatchery management for hatchery owners, improving their Salmon and Steelhead smolt releases by the millions, decreasing management costs and improving efficiency. 22 By donating to the cause now, you are saving the jobs of the people who work daily with the salmon. 14 This is the surest way to eliminate the loss of salmon through mismanagement. 16 Take matters into your own hands; join Northwest Fisheries Enhancement in creating real change. 22 For information on how to donate so \"Save The Salmon\" crowdfunding, visit: https://www.generosity.com/animal-pet-fundraising/save-the-salmon\n\n# # #"} {"text": " 33 From Artificial Intelligence and connected objects to bots, Bluetooth and RFIDs \u2013 the demand for IoT technology is increasing more than ever in Canada, according to a report from IDC. 37 Beta Kit reported that with the costs of connected devices going down, around 50% of mid to large Canadian businesses adopted or intend to adopt at least one IoT solution between 2016 and 2017. 25 And even though the United States seems to be leading the pack, there are many factors indicating that Canada is right behind it. 45 According to last year\u2019s report from Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship:\n\nThe tech sector was directly responsible for $117 billion or 7.1 percent of Canada\u2019s economic output, greater than that of the finance and insurance industry. 21 864,000 Canadians were employed in the tech sector, which made up 5.6 percent of Canada\u2019s total employment. 22 At over $9.1 billion, the tech sector was by far the largest private sector investor in research and development. 21 The tech sector was also comprised of nearly 71,000 firms that year, representing 6.1 percent of all Canadian businesses. 20 Tech sector employees earned approximately $67,000 a year, compared to the national average of nearly $48,000. 6 The scenario is definitely promising. 40 Whether you\u2019re a startup looking to disrupt an industry or an established company looking into generating more revenue, there are endless reasons to invest in the Internet of Things (IoT), especially in mobile. 49 Canada is already seen as a leader in technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, and companies like Google and Uber are already aware of the opportunities: as we mentioned in our past blog post, they\u2019re heavily investing in their own AI hubs in Toronto. 24 According to Jennifer Sewell, Product Marketing Manager at mnubo, \u201cIoT and AI have positioned Canada as an innovative hot bed. 12 But more importantly, it is opening the door for entrepreneurs. 38 With access to resources and skilled workers, entrepreneurs are encouraged to keep their business local.\u201d\n\nAs a mobile app development agency, we like to stay informed and keep our eyes open to emerging technologies. 30 That\u2019s why we love benchmark and made a list of the Canadian Internet of Things (IoT) app startups we should all keep an eye on. 5 Ready to get inspired? 33 Toronto IoT App Startup #1: EcoBee\n\nAccording to the team:\n\n\u201cThe Toronto-based company introduced the world\u2019s first Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostat across North America in 2007. 27 Since then, ecobee has enabled hundreds of thousands of consumers to control their home comfort anytime, anywhere using their smartphone, tablet or computer. 27 Because half of a home\u2019s energy use comes from heating and cooling, ecobee is one of the best investments a homeowner can make. 12 It has proven to deliver a return on investment within approx. 10 1 year, saving 23% (avg.) 70 on your heating and cooling bills, without sacrificing comfort.\u201d\n\nCity: Toronto, ON\n\nSize: 201-500 employees\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nToronto IoT App Startup #2: Flybits\n\nAccording to the team: \u201cFlybits is changing the mobile paradigm by creating context-aware software that can sense and adapt to who you are, where you are, and what you\u2019re doing. 18 Our platform enables consumer-focused enterprises to deploy and manage mobile experiences that deliver targeted content and services. 70 While we are focused on mobile today, our vision extends as far as wearables, smart devices, embedded technology and emerging Internet of Everything trends.\u201d\n\nCity: Toronto\n\nSize: 11- 50\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nToronto IoT App Startup #3: ModGarden\n\nAccording to the team: \u201cModern modular approach to \u2018hyperlocal micro-farming\u2019 (TM) for the urban dweller. 27 Modgarden is a vegetable growing unit that allows users to grow a variety of plants from leafy greens, herbs, microgreens and some root vegetables. 15 The system uses a soil based approach to maintain the organic-ness of the produce. 20 This approach significantly expands the universe of vegetables that can grow in Modgarden, given the variant planter depths. 12 Further versatility is accomplished with adjustable shelves and stackability of units. 22 The solution is meant to be pragmatic to achieve a significant portion of the dinner plate increasingly supplanting the grocery store. 33 Feature wise the system has App functionality for monitoring, guidance and maintenance with a community forum where users interact compare (and trade with those within \u201cTinder\u201d radius). 70 There are cloud and IoT aspects that will grow as the product takes hold.\u201d\n\nCity: Toronto\n\nSize: 11- 50\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nToronto IoT Startup #4: Open Channel\n\nAccording to the team: \u201cSimple Ecosystem Management \u2013 From API to UI, OpenChannel provides everything you need to create and manage your partner directory or plugin marketplaces on the app store. 18 Our API and customizable UI templates give you full control over your developer and end user experience. 25 Create your own \u201capp types\u201d and custom workflows across web, mobile, desktop, wearables, IoT and even virtual reality! 41 By eliminating internal development, unexpected delays, ongoing support and maintenance, your marketplace will be and running in days or weeks, not months or years \u2013 getting you to market 10X faster and 90% more cost-effectively. 20 Our focus on the marketplace, developer and ecosystem needs means you can focus on building a world-class ecosystem. 25 Improving documentation, technical support and program design are the front lines for you and your team, and now you can be there. 57 City: Toronto\n\nSize: 11- 50\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nGreater Toronto Area IoT App Startup #5: Alert Labs\n\nAccording to the team: \u201cAlert Labs\u2019 Insight series protects our customers\u2019 properties by gathering and analyzing real-time data using attractive, reliable, and easy-to-install IoT hardware and software. 31 Sensors can be installed by anyone in less than 2 minutes, and then they are on the alert for water leaks, floods, power issues, and more. 22 Alert Labs monitors your water usage, power, heating/cooling, temperature, humidity, sump pump, and water softener. 13 Customers receive real-time alerts to their smartphones for emergency events (e.g. 14 a flood) and gain insight with long-term big data analytics (i.e. 26 escalating water use or inefficient equipment) in order to avoid damage to their properties and to save money, hassle, and natural resources. 10 Sensors are cellular, so no Wi-Fi is required. 12 Battery back-up ensures sensors continue to monitor during a power outage. 74 Our target audiences are property managers, landlords, cottage owners, and homeowners.\u201d\n\nCity: Kitchener (Greater Toronto Area)\n\nSize: 11- 50\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nToronto IoT App Startup #6: Knitt Labs\n\nAccording to the team: Knitt is an Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and software platform that tracks, measures and monitors electricity consumption at an outlet and switch level. 32 Knitt\u2019s hardware is Wi-Fi enabled and can be used as an outlet of any kind, a switch, at the breaker level and even as a power bar. 19 Knitt\u2019s software is where the data is accessed and can be viewed historically and in real-time. 24 The software also enables households and businesses to remotely control, schedule and set smart rules for when things turn on or off. 20 Smart rules are trigger-based rules like ambient temperature, humidity, light, sound level, and much more. 18 This is made possible by our environment sensor that we created to integrate with the Knitt platform. 21 Knitt is also smart, it has machine learning algorithms built into it that learns the way we consume electricity. 24 It helps us automatically manage our usage better, which reduces energy waste, in turn saving us money and helping the environment. 39 City: Toronto\n\nSize: \u2013\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nToronto IoT App Startup #7: Ubiquilux\n\nAccording to the team: \u201cCustomers have been using simple switches on a daily basis all their lives. 31 We augment these ubiquitous interfaces in a way which keeps the \u201cold\u201d way of using the switch but adds patented features enabled by the GestureSense\u2122 and ActiveSaver technology. 33 Our first product (shipping now) is an \u201caugmented\u201d gesture controlled and actively energy saving dimmer switch, followed by a family of smart lighting products including connected switches. 73 Our e-Motion switch can be described as:\n\nCapable \u2014 As good or better than high end dimmers, works with LED lights\n\nConvenient \u2014 Use with or without having to touch it\n\nSanitary \u2014 Touchless feature stops spread of dirt and germs\n\nNovel \u2014 Unique aesthetic design\n\nSmart \u2014 Reacts to its environment\u201d\n\nCity: Toronto\n\nSize: 1 \u2013 10\n\nWebsite | Angel List Profile\n\nDid we miss any? 7 Did you agree with this list? 15 Don\u2019t hesitate to reach out and let us know what you think!"} {"text": " 31 Management Info\n\nPreventative measures:\n\nRisk assessment models by the Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia, classifies the common myna in the highest threat category (Bomford 2003). 13 The common myna is prohibited in Western Australia (Massam 2001). 38 A Pest Animal Risk Assessment using a numerical risk assessment system developed by Bomford (2006) was carried out by the State of Queensland, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, in 2009. 14 Indian mynas in Queensland were assessed as an \u2018extreme\u2019 threat species. 26 See Markula et al 2009\n\nPhysical: Foraging traps are very useful for the control of small myna populations if poisoning is not an option. 19 The Tindall Trap and the Tidemann Trap have been used successfully in New Zealand and Australia, respectively. 28 The Decoy Trap, Kadavu Trap, Larsen Trap, Rat snap-trap and other foraging traps have also been used for trapping myna birds with less success. 21 Please follow this link to view a plan of Peter Green's starling, sparrow and myna trap is available . 17 Mynas roost in large concentrations and netting operations and nest trapping may be appropriate for control. 19 Mynas should be provided with food, shelter and perches in cages a few days prior to trapping. 15 Mynas should be killed humanely by euthanasia with carbon dioxide (Thomas 2004). 18 For more information on humane trapping and disposal of birds please see the Tidemann, C. 2007f. 13 Common Indian Myna Website > Trapping Mynas and Tidemann, C. 2007g. 8 Common Indian Myna Website > Humane Disposal. 20 Chemical : Starlacide DRC1339 has been used against mynas and is effective where there are no non-target species issues. 14 Alphachloralose paste is used for temporary local control of mynas in cooler climates. 13 For more information on the use of these toxins please see NZFSA. 2 Undated. 8 DRC 1339 For Bird Control and Nelson. 2 1994. 38 Bird Control in New Zealand Using Alpha-Chloralose and DRC1339.\\r\n\nIntegrated Pest Management : As invasive bird species are frequently associated with human modified environments IPM is an appropriate strategy (Lim Sodhi Brook and Soh 2003). 15 Long term management practices may include habitat modification, resource limitation and public education. 20 Restricting food available to the myna is difficult as it has such a variable diet (Thomas 2004). 12 The need to raise public awareness is important part of IPM. 11 Envirotalk Australia has a forum discussion on the myna topic. 11 The Minimising Myna Website aids public education on the issue. 32 The Canberra Indian Myna Action Group is a community group that has developed a number of strategies, including public education and a trapping program, to tackle the common myna. 28 CIMAG's trapping program has been highly successful and has humanely removed over 12 000 Mynas from around Canberra in around 18 months (CIMAG Undated)."} {"text": " 71 Buy Photo Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie speaks during a presentation before the start of the spring session on April 18 in Window Rock, Ariz. (Photo: Noel Lyn Smith/The Daily Times)Buy Photo\n\nFARMINGTON \u2014 A new bill is asking Navajo lawmakers to place a referendum before tribal voters, asking them to approve consolidating the nation's 110 chapters into a regional government structure. 31 The bill, which was posted July 9 on the Navajo Nation Council's website, asks the council to place the referendum on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. 19 The referendum would require a simple majority of votes in order to pass, according to the bill. 18 If voters approved the measure, it would consolidate the current 110 chapters into 24 regional governments. 22 It would also eliminate the positions of chapter president, vice president and secretary-treasurer and replace those positions with elected commissioners. 35 The proposed ballot language explains that chapters with fewer than 1,000 registered voters would be represented by one commissioner, and chapters with more than 1,000 registered voters would be represented by two commissioners. 27 There are 11 chapters in the Northern Agency that have more than a 1,000 registered voters, according to the Navajo Election Administration office in Shiprock. 21 The chapters would remain as nongovernmental communities, and the transition would occur within four years, the bill states. 33 Delegate Leonard Tsosie, who represents the Baca-Prewitt, Casamero Lake, Counselor, Littlewater, Ojo Encino, Pueblo Pintado, Torreon and Whitehorse Lake chapters, is sponsoring the bill. 23 The bill was assigned to the Resources and Development and Naa'bik'\u00edy\u00e1ti' committees and to the council, where final authority rests. 25 In a telephone interview Thursday, Tsosie said the referendum was developed based on a recommendation from the Title 26 Codification Task Force Committee. 46 The task force was formed by the Resources and Development Committee in May 2015, and membership includes personnel from the Office of Navajo Government Development, the Land Department, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Auditor General and other entities. 35 If regional governments were established, the amount the tribe allocates to chapters for administrative and operational costs could be reduced and funds to provide services at the local level increased, Tsosie said. 27 The total amount of funding distributed in the fiscal year budget is divided among the 110 chapters, according to the Office of Management and Budget. 45 For the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget, the Budget and Finance Committee recommends approximately $11.8 million for nonadministrative costs, approximately $3.8 million for capital infrastructure and $13.7 million for operational costs, according to figures provided by the OMB. 21 Chapters also receive sales tax revenue, which is also divided between the 110 chapters, according to the OMB. 25 Earlier in the year, the Office of Navajo Government Development held public education sessions to present information about amending the chapter government system. 16 Tsosie said he attended a number of sessions and heard several comments opposing the change. 18 \"It's an idea, and I've been telling chapters to give it a chance. 15 \u2026We hope the people will give it a serious evaluation,\" he said. 24 After the standing committees consider the bill, it could go before the council during a special session in August, Tsosie added. 12 Noel Lyn Smith covers the Navajo Nation for The Daily Times. 7 She can be reached at 505-564-4636. 9 Read or Share this story: https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2016/07/15/bill-proposes-referendum-tribal-voters/87144380/"} {"text": " 22 Police have released photos of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side. 24 The assault happened about 5:40 a.m. on Oct. 26 in an alley on the 5600 block of North Kenmore Avenue, police said. 24 The woman was walking in the alley when a man approached her and struck her numerous times in the head, police said. 11 The man robbed her and tried to sexually assault her. 28 The man was described as black, between the ages of 18 to 25, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 175 pounds, police said. 25 The man has a dark complexion and was last seen wearing a white jacket with a red stripe on each shoulder, police said. 22 Anyone with information can contact the Area North Detective Bureau at (312) 744-8261.\n\ndawilliams@tribune.com\n\nTwitter: @neacynewslady"} {"text": " 23 You may remember last year Callin\u2019 Oates was setup as a wonderful hotline to hear your favorite Hall & Oates songs. 28 This year they have added 8 more Hall & Oates songs as well as a hotline for Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Phil Collins and Chicago. 14 We highly recommend adding these to your phone directory in case of emergency. 43 Here\u2019s the info via twilio:\n\nNew: Bob Dialin\u2019 (Bob Dylan Helpline) \u2013 +1 (615) DYLAN \u2013 26\n\nDid you forget how if feels to be on your own, with no direction home? 10 Do you need shelter from the Bob Dylan-less storm? 18 Don\u2019t think twice, call Bob Dialin\u2019 to hear your favorite Bob Dylan tunes. 70 Press #1 for \u201cLike A Rolling Stone\u201d\n\nPress #2 for \u201cDon\u2019t Think Twice It\u2019s Alright\u201d\n\nPress #3 for \u201cShelter From The Storm\u201d\n\nPress #4 for \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Baby Tonight\u201d\n\nNew: Diamond Rings (Neil Diamond Helpline) \u2013 +1 (424) 543 \u2013 NEIL\n\nHankering for some Neil? 23 Play it now, play it now, play it now my baby\u2026 Here\u2019s what Diamond Rings has to offer. 98 Press #1 for \u201cCracklin\u2019 Rosie\u201d\n\nPress #2 for \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d\n\nPress #3 for \u201cCrunchy Granola Suite\u201d\n\nPress #4 for \u201cBrother Love\u2019s Traveling Salvation Show\u201d\n\nNew: Phil Call-ins (Phil Collins Helpline) \u2013 +1 (424) 888 \u2013 PHIL\n\nWhether you need to hear that iconic drum fill on \u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d in a pinch, or just figure out what exactly Phil Collins is saying on \u201cSussudio,\u201d you can count on Phil Call-ins. 77 Press #1 for \u201cEasy Lover\u201d\n\nPress #2 for \u201cAgainst All Odds\u201d\n\nPress #3 for \u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d\n\nPress #4 for \u201cSussudio\u201d\n\nNew: If You Ring Me Now (Chicago Helpline) \u2013 +1 (34724) 25 (or) 624\n\nSaving If You Ring Me Now in your contacts is almost as good as having Peter Cetera\u2019s cell number. 12 Just give it a call to hear your favorite Chicago songs. 86 Press #1 for \u201c25 or 6 to 4\u201d\n\nPress #2 for \u201cSaturday In The Park\u201d\n\nPress #3 for \u201cOld Days\u201d\n\nPress #4 for \u201cBaby, What A Big Surprise\u201d\n\nUpdated: Callin\u2019 Oates (Hall and Oates Helpline) \u2013 (719)-26-OATES\n\nDial in to the hotline that started the whole viral sensation and let Hall & Oates take you away to a \u201870s to early \u201880s dreamland. 11 With all new classics and even a B-side or two. 79 Press #1 for \u201cWhen The Morning Comes\u201d\n\nPress #2 for \u201cYou Make My Dreams\u201d\n\nPress #3 for \u201cEverytime You Go Away\u201d\n\nPress #4 for \u201cSay It Isn\u2019t So\u201d\n\nPress #5 for \u201cHad I Known You Better Then\u201d\n\nPress #6 for \u201cAdult Education\u201d\n\nPress #7 for \u201cOut Of Touch\u201d\n\nPress #8 for \u201cGo Solo\u201d"} {"text": " 8 CNN - The CIA's News Network? 42 By Dave McGowan\n\nMay 2000\n\nI n February of this year, a story that had appeared in the European press was reported by Alexander Cockburn - co-editor of Counterpunch - concerning the employment by CNN of military psychological warfare specialists. 36 Other than Cockburn's piece, and the issuance of an 'Action Alert' by the media-watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), the report was ignored by the American press. 40 As originally reported by Abe de Vries in the Dutch periodical Trouw, the story went something like this: \"For a short time last year, CNN employed military specialists in 'psychological operations' (psyops). 13 This was confirmed to Trouw by a spokesman of the U.S. Army. 16 The military could have influenced CNN's news reports about the crisis in Kosovo.\" 6 (1)\n\nCould have? 10 The word 'duh' would seem to apply here. 26 In fact, here's a news flash: the military influenced the news reports of all the media outlets that covered the Kosovo bombardment. 15 The only news coming from the area was coming from NATO and the Pentagon. 18 When you are the sole source of information, you tend to have a lot of influence. 8 But that's not the issue here. 24 The concern here is with CNN hiring military personnel to package for viewers the information provided as 'news' by other military personnel. 58 This is said to be a most disturbing development, and I suppose it would be were it not for the fact that the U.S. media - as a whole - is infested with so many intelligence assets that it is hard to see how a few more in the mix could make much of a difference. 24 Of course, most of them are posing as reporters, editors, news anchors, analysts, producers, publishers, etc. 18 The difference here is that these particular spooks were employed openly at CNN, without journalistic cover. 38 As Major Thomas Collins, of the U.S. Army Information Service acknowledged:\n\n\"Psyops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our programme 'Training With Industry'. 8 They worked as regular employees of CNN. 13 Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. 9 They helped in the production of news.\" 19 (1)\n\nThe phrase \"production of news\" is notably ambiguous when used in this context. 11 It could easily be defined as the manufacture of news. 14 Manufacturing news is, in fact, exactly what psychological warfare specialists do. 27 As de Vries notes:\n\n\"The military CNN personnel belonged to the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 21 One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information'. 29 [We should pause here, briefly, to note that in this context, the phrase 'selected information' generally means vicious distortions and outright lies.] 31 \"American psyops troops try with a variety of techniques to influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests are said to be at stake. 24 [We need to pause again to note that 'American state interests' generally means the financial interests of U.S. monopoly capitalists.] 20 The propaganda group was involved in the Gulf war, the Bosnian war and the crisis in Kosovo.\" 20 (1)\n\nIn other words, they did during the war in Kosovo what they have always done. 11 This time, however, they did it more openly. 26 This could have proven to be a major blunder for CNN, with scores of competitors airing this story to embarrass and discredit a rival. 15 But that would require that we have some actual semblance of a free press. 25 Instead, what happened was that the story got a couple of brief mentions in the alternative press that were easily overlooked and ignored. 22 And this was only after the translated article began appearing on internet sites, most notably on the Emperor's Clothes. 20 Had this not been the case, the story likely would not have surfaced at all on these shores. 17 Nor would a follow-up article by de Vries in the same publication a few days later. 45 De Vries refers to the Commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, Colonel Cristopher St. John, who described the cooperation with CNN as \"a textbook example of the kind of ties the American army wants to have with the media.\" 44 (2)\n\nThe kind of ties that will allow it \"to spread handpicked 'information' and keep other news quiet, ... to control the internet, to wage electronic warfare against disobedient media, and to control commercial satellites.\" 21 (2) Most of which, it should be noted, the intelligence community already does to varying degrees. 10 Still, the control is not yet complete enough. 37 De Vries reports that the psyops personnel were not completely satisfied with the Kosovo operation: \"In their opinion, too much information about the unplanned results of the bombings has come to the surface. 24 [We must pause yet again to note that 'unplanned results of the bombings' refers to the entirely foreseeable civilian carnage.] 38 Rear Admiral Thomas Steffens of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) reportedly would like to have the capacity to bring down an 'informational cone of silence' over areas where special operations are in place. 21 What that can mean in reality was shown by the bombing of the Serbian state television RTS in Belgrade.\" 5 (2)\n\nIndeed. 37 And speaking of the bombing of the Serbian television station, there was another story that ran in the European press concerning that particular incident which also happened to cast CNN in a particularly bad light. 15 Considerably more so than the story told in the Dutch publication, in fact. 14 Significantly, this story was not aired at all in the United States. 21 It did appear, however, in the U.K., in an article by corespondent Robert Fisk in The Independent. 34 The report reveals that:\n\n\"Two days before NATO bombed the Serb Television headquarters in Belgrade, CNN received a tip from its Atlanta headquarters that the building was to be destroyed. 18 They were told to remove their facilities from the premises at once, which they did.\" 14 (3)\n\nApparently it helps to have those psyops specialists on board. 45 Fisk goes on to recount that the next day, Aleksander Vucic, the Serbian Information Minister, received an invitation to appear on the Larry King Live show, ostensibly to give Larry's audience the Serbian view of the conflict via satellite. 12 There were two rather serious problems with this invitation, however. 30 First, the notion that CNN would invite a Serbian official on the air to give the Serb point of view is rather far-fetched, to say the least. 15 More importantly, the studio to which Vucic had been invited was now deserted. 16 Nevertheless, he was asked to arrive for makeup at 2:00AM for a 2:30AM appearance. 25 \"Vucic was late - which was just as well for him since NATO missiles slammed into the building at six minutes past two. 18 The first one exploded in the make-up room where the young Serb assistant was burned to death. 40 CNN calls this all a coincidence, saying that the Larry King show, put out by the entertainment division, did not know of the news department's instruction to its men to leave the Belgrade building.\" 13 (3)\n\nCNN's explanation is, of course, preposterous. 29 In fact, the notion that there is some kind of distinction between CNN's 'entertainment division' and its 'news department' is rather preposterous as well. 19 The truth appears to be that CNN was directly complicit in the attempted commission of a war crime. 13 And this action was, to be sure, a war crime. 23 The deliberate targeting of a foreign dignitary for assassination - even in time of war - is definitely an international war crime. 41 So it appears that our media have crossed the line from complicity in the covering-up of U.S. war crimes - which has been a mainstay of the press for decades - to complicity in the actual commission of war crimes. 25 A rather serious transgression, one would think, yet one which has been politely overlooked by the rest of the American media outlets. 22 This is quite likely due to the fact that the intelligence community and corporate America pretty much controls all the media. 42 That is why even when stories such as the CNN/Psyops reports emerge in the 'progressive' media, albeit in a very limited way, they are accompanied by amusing commentary and analysis intended to downplay the significance of the incident. 34 For example, Cockburn wonders if: \"It could be that CNN was the target of a psyops penetration and is still too na\u00efve to figure out what was going on.\" 28 (4) To the contrary, it appears that CNN was well aware of - and actively participating in - \"what was going on.\" 39 Similarly, for FAIR what is \"especially troubling is the fact that the network allowed the Army's covert propagandists to work in its headquarters, where they learned the ins and outs of CNN's operations. 31 Even if the psyops officers working in the newsroom did not influence news reporting, did the network allow the military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission against CNN itself?\" 26 (5)\n\nOr, more likely, is CNN itself an \"intelligence gathering mission,\" and has it been from its inception? 32 It was CNN, it will be recalled, that pioneered the concept of military conflict as mini-series - complete with theme music and title graphics - during the Gulf War. 27 That is, of course, the blueprint that has been followed by the media at large for all coverage of U.S. military actions since then. 24 One of the specific purposes for which CNN seems to have been born is the packaging of imperialist military conquests as humanitarian missions. 36 In other words, \"to spread 'selected information'\" in order to \"influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests are said to be at stake.\" 61 Glorification of U.S. high-tech weaponry, vilification of America's enemy of the moment, canonization of genocidal military leaders and advisers, rote reporting of the NATO/Pentagon/State Department line, deliberate avoidance of reporting clear-cut cases of American brutality and war crimes - all of these are indicative of a psyops program, not an allegedly independent news agency. 18 As the group FAIR noted: \"CNN has always maintained a close relationship with the Pentagon. 30 Getting access to top military officials is a necessity for a network that stakes its reputation on being first on the ground during wars and other military operations.\" 28 (5)\n\nBeing first on the ground during military operations is, to be sure, a good place to be if one is a reporter. 24 It is also a good place to be, it should be noted, if one is a member of the spook community. 38 Whether CNN was born as an intelligence front is probably now largely an irrelevant issue, as the cable titan has since the Kosovo war announced that it is to become a part of the AOL family. 34 And AOL is, as was noted in a recent Spin Cycle article (Sony's Magic Cameras), doing a pretty damn good job of masquerading as an intelligence front itself. 44 So if CNN was not originally conceived as a psychological warfare entity (which appears to be the case, despite its purported status as the brainchild of Ted Turner, husband of Jane Fonda), it has certainly evolved into one. 20 And by the way, does anyone remember when Jane was supposed to be one of the good guys? 3 Just checking."} {"text": " 23 The Fair Work Ombudsman said it was concerned about the lack of any meaningful response or commitment from Pizza Hut head office. 41 Credit:Neil Newitt An estimated 90 per cent of franchisees claim losses and business collapses as a direct consequence of orders that they slash the cost of pizzas up to 50 per cent to take market share from rivals. 26 A contract obtained by Fairfax Media shows a driver can earn $6 a delivery, with no more than two deliveries per round trip. 20 Under the terms of the contract drivers provide the car, pay for fuel, vehicle maintenance and insurance. 55 A delivery driver, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, said the franchisee had offered him an $8 an hour arrangement plus $4 per delivery as a compromise to the $6 per delivery contract, which includes the logo of Pizza Hut on the corner. 13 \"That's the best pay methods we can do so far. 11 The business need to make some money to keep running. 7 Please understand,\" emails show. 27 Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein, who reviewed a copy of the contract said, in his view, the contract was a \"sham\". 29 Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein, who reviewed a copy of the contract for Fairfax Media, said in his view the contract was a \"sham\". 15 \"Is this driver an independent business person in the business of delivering pizzas? 12 In my view, absolutely not,\" Mr Bornstein said. 15 \"He is employed to deliver the company's product as and when directed. 10 He is not genuinely running a pizza delivery business. 15 In other words, in my view, the contract is a sham.\" 13 Other Pizza Hut franchisees are also believed to be using similar contracts. 6 These are not legal rates. 14 They've [drivers] have got to be paid the award rate. 28 Gerard Dwyer, Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association Driver sources suggested the model means drivers can only earn as little as $12 per hour. 20 The revelation comes after a joint investigation by Four Corners and Fairfax Media revealed systemic worker exploitation at 7-Eleven. 33 Workers at a range of fast food chains, nail salons, restaurants and retail stores have also been caught out underpaying and mistreating workers, many of whom are international students. 15 One worker in a northern suburb of Melbourne said the franchisee was paying cash. 11 \"There is no paperwork and neither there is proof. 29 But the biggest proof is employees, who are working there, who are exploited and have no other option apart from working and supporting them selves.\" 20 Another said one franchisee was paying $10 an hour plus $1 or $2 for each delivery. 28 A spokeswoman for Pizza Hut said the company was not aware of the specific contract and said it was out of step with the chain's practices. 29 \"This contract, if authentic, is inconsistent with Pizza Hut's enterprise agreement which is in place for Pizza Hut franchisees,\" the spokeswoman said. 37 \"Pizza Hut with its franchisees have negotiated a national enterprise agreement with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) under which includes rates of pay for drivers and team members.\" 18 It is understood Pizza Hut has in the past pushed to have delivery drivers put on contracts. 30 SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer said he was outraged to hear Pizza Hut franchisees were using independent contracts to pay delivery drivers as little as $6 per delivery. 7 \"These are not legal rates. 19 They've [drivers] have got to be paid the award rate,\" Mr Dwyer said. 14 \"We have an agreement in place that does not allow for contractors. 24 We're in the midst of negotiating a new agreement with Pizza Hut where we are looking for an increase in rates.\" 38 Mr Dwyer said under the current EBA delivery drivers at Pizza Hut are to be paid $20.35 per hour if employed as a full-time worker or $25.44 per hour if employed as a casual worker. 18 Drivers also receive $2.13 per delivery on top of the hourly rate to cover vehicle costs."} {"text": " 30 Raids On Unauthorized Immigrants Won't Let Up, Homeland Security Says\n\nThe Obama administration says it's targeting some Central American families who've arrived since last summer. 14 Immigrant advocates are preparing other groups as well for the possibility of deportation. 26 RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:\n\nOver the weekend, U.S. immigration officers picked up scores of people in several states who have been ordered deported. 20 They're mainly young mothers from Central America and their children, who entered the U.S. illegally last year. 29 The raids have made a lot of immigrants and their advocates nervous, concerned that more raids are coming with little or no recourse for people facing deportation. 7 NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports. 33 HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: Here at Atlas: DIY, a Brooklyn advocacy group for young immigrants, the new year began with hours of phone calls to their clients. 9 J. J. MULLIGAN: (Speaking Spanish). 10 WANG: That's immigration attorney J. J. Mulligan. 8 How many calls have you made today? 12 MULLIGAN: Today, I've made about seven or eight. 10 It kind of took over the day, really. 20 WANG: Mulligan's been calling people who have lost their immigration cases and are waiting to be deported. 24 He's trying to prepare them for raids that may come, like last weekend's in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas. 22 MULLIGAN: The government's showing up in the middle of the night at your home, pounding on the door. 7 I mean, that's terrifying. 10 These are people that have lived in the shadows. 11 And that's, like, their biggest fear realized. 17 WANG: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson oversees U.S. immigrations and customs enforcement, or ICE. 28 He said in a statement that all of the people ICE picked up during the recent raids have, quote, \"exhausted appropriate legal remedies.\" 15 And that's why Jessica Vaughn supports the raids, though with some reservations. 24 She's the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for more restrictive immigration policies. 30 JESSICA VAUGHN: It's appropriate for ICE to be going around and gathering up people and sending them home, but ICE shouldn't have to do that. 40 WANG: Vaughn argues that raids could be avoided if the U.S. immigration policy discouraged more people from entering the U.S. illegally in the first place and that relying on raids is one more sign of a broken system. 18 [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story inaccurately characterizes Jessica Vaughn's opinion about the U.S. immigration system. 26 In fact, Vaughn does not believe that the system is broken, but does think that current policies are not being enforced adequately.] 6 VAUGHN: They are expensive. 8 They're potentially dangerous for ICE officers. 34 And they're alarming to others in the community when they see people being removed from their homes - or what has become their home - and sent back to their home country. 18 WANG: Immigrant advocates offer another criticism of the raids, which is they don't work. 10 Pablo Alvarado heads the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. 20 He says raids are not an effective deterrent to the recent uptick of illegal crossings along the southern border. 36 Over the past couple years, more than 100,000 families from Central American have entered the U.S. Alvarado says many have no choice but to flee from the violence and insecurity in their home countries. 26 PABLO ALVARADO: When families find out the risk of staying is bigger than the risk of leaving, they will definitely take the road. 9 So that's not going to deter people. 38 WANG: And Alvarado and other immigrant advocates say there's another problem - people who have been through the courts and now face deportation may not have had adequate legal help to navigate the immigration system. 14 ALVARADO: It's an obsolete set of laws that must be modernized. 13 And the reality is that the legal system has failed these people. 21 WANG: Thirty-eight-year-old Gloria Rivas of El Salvador crossed the border from Mexico illegally last May with her 12-year-old daughter. 28 She says, last weekend, ICE officers first picked up her daughter, who then led them to the hotel where Rivas worked as a housekeeper. 8 GLORIA RIVAS: (Speaking Spanish). 21 WANG: \"They treat us like criminals,\" Rivas says from a phone at a Texas detention center. 9 \"The truth is, we're not. 16 We're just looking to save our lives and the lives of our kids.\" 21 Rivas says she left El Salvador to escape gang violence and isn't sure what would happen if she returned. 7 RIVAS: (Speaking Spanish). 29 WANG: \"The truth is I don't know,\" she says, \"but the gangs have never been interested in anyone's life.\" 34 Rivas' lawyers say the Board of Immigration Appeals has temporarily delayed her deportation to review her case, though NPR was not able to confirm that order with the board before broadcast. 21 The Department of Homeland Security says it will enforce the law, and raids will continue this year as appropriate. 10 Hansi Lo Wang, NPR News, New York. 5 Copyright \u00a9 2016 NPR. 4 All rights reserved. 15 Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 28 NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. 19 This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 6 Accuracy and availability may vary. 13 The authoritative record of NPR\u2019s programming is the audio record."} {"text": " 26 Four-year-old Michael Finder of East Germany is tossed by his father into a net held by residents and firemen across the border in West Berlin. 14 The father, Willy Finder, then prepares to make the jump himself. 18 Pictures taken from the booklet \u201cA City Torn Apart: Building of the Berlin Wall\u201d. 15 These photographs are taken around the same time the Berlin Wall was being erected. 29 The Soviet occupation zone in Germany (and Berlin) suffered from serious movements of educated individuals from their sectors toward the West throughout the 1950\u2019s. 40 This brain drain encouraged the Soviet Union to begin construction of a \u201cFascist Protection Wall\u201d that would keep East Germans protected from \u201cFascism\u201d that the Western Allies had \u201cnot eradicated in their sectors \u201c. 18 Of course, this wall was only really to keep East Germans from emigrating to the West. 8 The wall later became the Berlin Wall. 13 These apartments were along Bernauer Stra\u00dfe (Bernauer Street) in Berlin. 12 A line which saddled the border between East and West Berlin. 19 After the wall was first constructed in 1961, many escape attempts were made through these apartment blocks. 24 So much so, that the Soviets had to brick up the windows and raid the apartments of the people who lived there. 9 They evicted the people living in those apartments. 44 So what we are seeing when these people are jumping from the 4th floor are the people who are making a last ditch attempt at the West before all their (relatively safe) options out of East Berlin were gone for good. 35 These apartments were later torn down and the Berlin Wall that most of us picture in the news reels, and have chunks of in our museums all over the world, was erected. 15 Between 1945 and 1988, around 4 million East Germans migrated to the West. 17 3.454 million of them left between 1945 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 18 The great majority simply walked across the border or, after 1952, exited through West Berlin. 21 After the border was fortified and the Berlin Wall was constructed, the number of illegal border crossings fell drastically. 15 The numbers fell further as the border defenses were improved over the subsequent decades. 17 In 1961, 8,507 people fled across the border, most of them through West Berlin. 28 The construction of the Berlin Wall that year reduced the number of escapees by 75% to around 2,300 per annum for the rest of the decade. 28 The Wall changed Berlin from being one of the easiest places to cross the border, from the East, to being one of the most difficult. 10 (Photo credit: The Central Intelligence Agency)."} {"text": " 3 The Capital. 21 Image: Wikimedia\n\nOver the last four years, Congress developed a reputation for institutionalizing an \"anti-science\" attitude. 35 During the 112th and 113th Congresses, the label was typically applied to its Republicans, who controlled the House of Representatives, and typically because of their propensity to dismiss climate change science. 48 Typically, but not only\u2014misinformed musings about women's reproductive processes, support for creationist education, attempts to remove the peer review process at the National Science Foundation, and efforts to roll back funding for research programs also ignited the ire of the science-loving public. 11 It's climate change that figures most prominently, though. 30 An incredible consensus of scientists\u201497 percent of climatologists working in the field, according to one peer-reviewed survey\u2014agree that greenhouse gas emissions produced by humans are warming the globe. 29 A significant majority of congressional Republicans have consistently disagreed, and, succumbing to genuine scientific ignorance or mere political expedience, have vocally denied the science outright. 21 Some ventured to call climate change a hoax, others falsely and repeatedly claimed the science simply wasn't settled. 37 In 2010, political historian and journalist Ronald Brownstein noted that \"it is difficult to identify another major political party in any democracy as thoroughly dismissive of climate science as is the GOP here.\" 37 Eileen Claussen, then the president of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, told Brownstein that there is \"no party-wide view like this anywhere in the world that I am aware of.\" 10 (Now, some contenders may have emerged.) 46 The House grew so hostile to climate science and environmental regulations that Democrats drew up a report, backed with a mountain of vote-count evidence, to try to demonstrate that Republicans were leading \"The Most Anti-Environment House in the History of Congress.\" 10 But until 2015, Republicans only controlled the House. 19 The Democratic Party's slim majority in the Senate served as a check on its climate change-dismissing twin. 34 While the science-challenged House succeeded in blocking any significant legislative efforts to reduce US carbon emissions, that was essentially all it did: lock President Obama's environmental agenda in a stalemate. 48 After the sweeping Republican victory in November, which wrested the Senate from Democrats, both of the House's legislative branches are now controlled by politicians who either willfully ignore, disavow, or deny outright some of the best-supported science produced in the modern era. 57 The notion can still seem bizarrely dissonant\u2014we're in a new scientific renaissance; we're on the verge of 3D-printing human organs, we're landing probes on comets, and the GOP's party line is to entirely disregard the legion of scientists who point out that our greenhouse gases are trapping excess heat. 21 Science denial was wrong then, as it is now, but it was not as obviously and egregiously wrong-headed. 46 The \u200bpaleoclimatologi\u200bst Michael Mann, whose work has been instrumental in reconstructing past climate records, and who has been a \u200bfavor\u200bite target of climate denier attacks, says anyone who holds science in high esteem should probably be actively worried about this 114th Congress. 3 He is. 26 \"As a nation, we have always led the world when it comes to technological innovation and scientific progress,\" Mann told me. 16 \"Our quality of life has benefited greatly from our commitment to unfettered scientific exploration. 24 Now, with a Congress that is firmly controlled by those who possess an antipathy toward science, all of that is threatened. 13 It is a matter for great concern among all of us.\" 22 You'd be hard pressed to find another time in modern history when scientists were so under siege, Mann said. 20 Or, for that matter, when both branches of Congress were controlled by politicians so contemptuous of science. 39 \"Well, on one level there is a precedent,\" the \u200bHarvard scienc\u200be historian Naomi Oreskes told me in an email, \"which is when the Republicans controlled Congress in the 1990s and scuttled Kyoto. 13 In that sense, this is deja vu all over again.\" 27 \"On the other hand,\" Oreskes continued, \"the situation today is much worse than in the 1990s, and much less excusable. 23 This is because while at that time the science was coming together, it was not as iron-clad as it is now. 36 In the 1990s, scientists had already come to consensus that climate change was real and anthropogenic, but there was still a lot of debate about the timing, the likely severity, etc. 21 Science denial was wrong then, as it is now, but it was not as obviously and egregiously wrong-headed. 41 Now climate change is well underway, the science is as good as science gets, which makes it that more obvious that the denial is denial (as opposed to confusion, lack of understanding, etc.)\" 15 That explicit brand of denial is prominent in the party's new Senate leadership. 41 Many of the men\u2014and they are all men\u2014who are now stationed in the nation's most influential science posts each exhibit views that can be considered science-illiterate at best, and at worst, outright hostile to modern scientific inquiry. 11 ***\n\nA Congress of Denial\n\nSenator Ted Cruz. 43 Photo: Gage Skidm\u200bore, Flickr\n\n\"The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming,\" Ted Cruz (R-TX), the new chairman of the Science, Space, and Competitiveness subcom\u200bmittee, recently told\u200b CNN. 22 \"Contrary to all the theories that\u2014that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. 6 It hasn't happened.\" 9 Except, of course, that i\u200bt has. 13 2014 was the hottes\u200bt year on record, according to satellite data. 47 Cruz's appointment \u200bmade h\u200bead\u200blines, primarily because worried NASA-watchers noted that he has voted to reduce the agency's funding, questioned the value of its non-space programs, and once did permanent damage to its o\u200bngoing research by successfully advocating for the government shutdown. 23 And, of course, because he does not believe in climate change, a phenomenon the agency has documented at length. 43 Cruz has a\u200blready hinted that he wants to refocus NASA solely on space, and away from what he calls \"political distractions extraneous to NASA's mandate,\" leading some\u200b to speculate he's eyeing gutting its earth science budget. 41 Marco Rubio (R-FL), who now chairs the subcommittee that considers ocean and air issues and controls the \u200bNational O\u200bceanic\u200b and Atmospheric Administration, the organization that monitors the climate, also doubts that climate change is real. 34 \"I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,\" Rubio sai\u200bd in a 2014 interview with ABC. 34 James Inhofe (R-OK), the man now in charge of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is perhaps the most flagrantly and unabashedly opposed to mainstream science of all. 21 Far beyond merely doubting its existence, he calls global\u200b warming the \"greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.\" 8 And that's just in the Senate. 44 Over in the newly reshuffled House of Representatives, Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), a man who once ac\u200btually demanded Obama apologize to the state of Oklahoma for funding climate change research, has been appointed t\u200bhe chairman of its Environment subcommittee. 31 That subcommittee is a part of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the organ that oversees scientific matters on the other side of the legislative divide. 14 Its members, new and old, are also profoundly ignorant of science. 11 The defenders of tobacco never controlled both houses of Congress. 18 They did not have political leaders who made it a point of pride to reject well-established science. 43 In fact, after Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) delivered his infamous biology lesson on \"legitimate rape\" in 2012, I was compelled to list, in detai\u200bl, the myriad ways the House Science Committee had science backwards. 38 Now Akin is gone, but many of its other members persist: Lamar Smith (R-TX), the committee's climate chang\u200be-denying chairman, continues to lead the committee, and continu\u200bes denying climate change. 16 Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is still convin\u200bced that global warming is \"bogus.\" 41 James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who once said that he personally believes that \"solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do,\" continues to r\u200begard climate change as \"propaganda.\" 40 Meanwhile, the sitting chair of the space subcommittee, Steven Palazzo (R-MI), led a charg\u200be to cut $650 million worth of NASA's earth science programs, as well as its asteroid research funding. 17 All told, he proposed $1 billion worth of cuts to the already contracting agency. 25 According to the Center for American Progress, 56 percent \u200bof the Republicans in the 114th Congress have publicly dismissed or denied climate change. 36 Broken down, \u200b72 p\u200bercent of Republican Senators deny climate change, as do 68 percent of the new Senate and House leadership, and 62 percent of the members of the House Science Committee. 21 By way of comparison, \u200b83 percent of Am\u200bericans believe in climate change, according to a December 2014 poll. 13 ***\n\nThe Road to Denial\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. 11 Image: \u200bGage Sk\u200bidmore\u200b\n\n\u200b\n\nHow can that possibly be? 47 How can so many public leaders, seeking to govern a rich, technologically advanced, thoroughly modernized nation, who are at least intelligent enough to run a savvy campaign to get themselves elected, be so confounded by what amounts to very basic science? 20 How have we come to see the rise of what may be the most anti-science Congress in recent history? 40 Oreskes says that this strain of science denial originated as a political strategy much like the one Congresses past deployed to shield tobacco companies from the powerful, emergent consensus in the medical establishment that cigarettes caused lung cancer. 35 She authored a book, \u200bMerchants of Doubt, that \"showed how the strategy of denial came from the tobacco industry, and was applied to acid rain, ozone, etc.\" 15 \"In that sense,\" she said, \"this is old news. 31 However, what is really terrifying about what is going on now is this: In the case of tobacco, the industry was in sustained denial for decades.\" 31 The fossil fuel industry, a major Republic\u200ban donor, has a vested interest in preventing or delaying restrictions on carbon pollution, the necessary step to combatting climate change. 45 Oil giants like Exxo\u200bn and industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute have spe\u200bnt a fortune lobbying Congress to oppose climate measures and, as with the tobacco fights, funding pseudoscientists and front groups to seed doubt about cli\u200bmate change in public forums. 48 Thus, Republicans often renounce scientific findings in order to justify advocating coal, oil, and gas interests, as when they call for clean air protections to be struck down, or for the construction of a tar sands oil pipeline like the Keystone XL. 28 \"This is an overall, leadership-led agenda,\" David Goldston, the director of Governmental Affairs for the Natural Resources Defens\u200be Council, told me. 16 \"And that agenda explicitly involves trying to undermine a wide range of environmental protections. 19 They've been very explicit that they want to block any and all action on climate change.\" 25 Congressional Republicans, from the leadership down to the rank-and-file, have clearly demonstrated they will deny science in order to justify doing so. 46 \"There were politicians from tobacco states who defended the industry (and Jimmy Carter notoriously said that they were going to make 'even safer' cigarettes),\" Oreskes said, \"but the defenders of tobacco never controlled both houses of Congress. 18 They did not have political leaders who made it a point of pride to reject well-established science. 24 Our political leaders never defended tobacco disinformation in this systematic and sustained manner that the Republican leadership has defended fossil fuel disinformation.\" 33 Physicist and climate expert Joe Romm, who runs Climate Pr\u200bogress and served as an advisor on Showtime's global warming series A Year of Living Dangerously, echoes Oreskes' analogy. 31 \"Scientists are now as certain that humans are the primary cause of climate change as they are that smoking is harmful to your health,\" Romm told me. 39 \"The hammerlock science deniers have on the Senate and House shows that the political strength and disinformation campaign of the fossil fuel industry is of a vastly greater scale than the tobacco industry's ever were.\" 39 Now, there are certainly a number of Republicans (and some Democrats) who genuinely do not believe that climate change is real, as opposed to those who knowingly distort scientific truths expressly for political purposes. 37 Some, like ex-Congressman Pa\u200bul Broun, do appear to believe that biblical truths render the concept of anthropogenic warming impossible, and others have no doubt sincerely let political ideology blind them to scientific fact. 15 They could do a bill that says NASA shouldn't be doing climate work. 41 Research published\u200b in November 2014 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that \"in the case of climate change, Republicans are especially skeptical of the relevant science, particularly when they are compared with Democrats.\" 11 The researchers found \"that this phenomenon is often motivated. 31 However, the source of this motivation is not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.\" 27 Resistance to environmental regulations and carbon pricing probably come first, in other words, and the climate denial follows, not the other way around. 11 So it likely is with the party as a whole. 24 In 2005, the conservative columnist David Brooks wrote that, \"Global warming is real (conservatives secretly know this).\" 41 Shortly before that, the infamous Luntz memo leaked, which was meant to advise Republicans on opposing climate measures, and noted explicitly that \"the scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed.\" 45 The room for reasonable doubt was shrinking, and Luntz suggested Republicans\u2014who at that point were reluctantly agreeing with the science (even George W. Bush pledged to fight climate change in a State of the Union address)\u2014fabricate some of their own. 22 \"Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.\" 79 Republicans took his advice, to spectacular effect, and, after years of repeating 'the science isn't settled' like a mantra on campaign trails, and with the help of fossil fuel industry contributions, a phony 'climategate' scandal, and a Tea Party caucus intent on maintaining ideological purity, willing to punish candidates who endorse climate science, the party eventually convinced itself of the veracity of its own cynical anti-science proclamations. 14 ***\n\nCoping Mechanisms\n\nThe Keystone Pipeline, waiting to be assembled. 27 Photo: \u200bShannon P\u200batrick, Flickr\n\nSo, it's 2015, and Congress is more awash in climate change denial than it ever has been. 51 \"One really has to go back to the dark era of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, where scientists were jailed if they disagreed with the party line on matters of science, to find an analogue for what we are facing here today,\" Dr. Mann said. 4 He should know. 37 Republicans \u200bop\u200bened an \"investigation\" into his research\u2014ostensibly in relation to the phony hacked climate email scandal\u2014in a move that fellow scientists saw as a disturbing indication that unfavorable science could be put on trial. 13 The investigation, of course, never uncovered any evidence of wrongdoing. 16 But it raises the question: What kind of damage could a science-averse Congress do? 9 \"They'll go after the smog rules. 20 They want to block the ability of the president to declare national monuments,\" NRDC's Goldston said. 35 \"Not like they're proposing alternatives, but it's clear they want to block the rule the EPA has put out to protect and strengthen the Clean Air & Water Act.\" 22 \"The way they're going to be most damaging is going to be through spending bills,\" Goldston said. 16 \"They're going to try to load up the spending bills with riders.\" 16 In the now-Republican controlled Appropriations committee, Republicans can roll back research and regulatory budgets. 30 The EPA especially is under the crosshairs, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has expli\u200bcitly said getting the agency \"reined in\" is a \"top priority. 13 But what will happen in the science committees is open to speculation. 20 \"They could do a bill that says NASA shouldn't be doing climate work,\" Goldston said. 22 \"There's been a movement by a couple of these individuals to take NASA out of the Earth Sciences altogether. 18 There's been a greater tendency to single out climate research than there has been before.\" 14 Belligerent committee leaders may pose some problems to science agencies, he said. 24 \"Cruz,\" for instance, \"can use his position in problematic ways, including pushing bills that may be damaging. 12 But the greatest danger resides in the overall leadership-driven plan.\" 23 And that includes dismantling the Obama administration's carbon pollution regulatory regime, the first nationwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 19 To guard his climate legacy against Congress, Obama may be forced to keep his veto pen inked. 21 The president \u200bhas alr\u200beady hinted he'll use it if Congress succeeds in passing legislation to approve the Keystone XL. 11 This is a mistake the Republican party has made repeatedly. 13 They think that by attacking the environment they can get broad agreement. 26 Still, even as climate denial reaches its apogee in Congress, there are signs that this historic science-forsaking frenzy may be on the wane. 23 A majority of the public strongly believes that climate change is happening, and most believe that it is caused by humans. 37 The same is true even of Republican voters, a new Yale \u200bpoll shows, providing even further evidence that it is the donations-soliciting party leadership that outspokenly denies climate change, not its science-literate constituents. 20 The notion that climate change is a hoax \u200bwas \u200bvoted \"lie of the year\" by PolitiFact readers. 42 This shifting attitude may be why industry-friendly candidates had to resort to the now-infamous \"I'm not a scientist\" dodge on the 2014 campaign trail, in order to avoid incriminating themselves as dullards to an increasingly climate-observant public. 65 And Republican Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) was forced to say not only t\u200bhat he was sorry, but to stress that yes, he actually believed in manmade climate change to appease his voters, who made a stink when he claimed that global warming wasn't caused by humans, and that Greenland had been melting long before the Industrial Revolution. 67 The ultimate test of this Congress's dedication to science illiteracy could come as soon as next week, when the Senate may be force\u200bd to vote on an amendment to the Keystone bill, offered up by Bernie Sanders (D-VT), which would require senators to publicly state whether or not they believe the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet. 29 Climate change is well-accepted by the American public, and the Senate risks embarrassing itself by denying the science so directly and so squarely on the Congressional record. 15 Such a vote would reveal just how disconnected the party is from the mainstream. 16 \"This is a mistake the Republican party has made repeatedly,\" Goldston said. 8 \"They made it in the 80s. 7 They made it in the mid-1990s. 29 They think that by attacking the environment they can get broad agreement, both within their congressional members, Senate and House, and with the broader public. 16 And, what has happened every time, they find out that they were wrong. 8 This is not a good political issue. 9 And they're making that mistake again.\" 11 The question is whether they're making it fast enough. 25 Congressional Republicans have proven \u200bremarkably resolute in their capacity to deny \u200bclimate science, even as public opinion the world over shifts around them. 31 This year, the international community has its best chance yet to draft a treaty to reduce global carbon emissions\u2014and this Congress will almost certainly prevent the US from signing. 61 Couple that with likely-to-shrink budgets for science programs, an incipient assault on environmental protections, and continued hostility toward climate scientists, and educators, students, researchers, and, sure, any member of the public that enjoys the fruits of scientific research had best brace themselves for the tenure of the most science-allergic Congress in decades. 34 \"The President and indeed all Americans must be vigilant if we are to ensure that the pro-pollution, anti-science forces do not succeed in destroying a livable climate,\" Romm said."} {"text": " 15 The 107% rule is a sporting regulation affecting Formula One racing qualifying sessions. 42 During the first phase of qualifying, any driver who fails to set a lap within 107 percent of the fastest time in the first qualifying session will not be allowed to start the race without permission from the race stewards. 29 For example, if the fastest Q1 lap time was 60 seconds, each driver must complete at least one lap within 64.2 seconds to guarantee a start. 17 The 107% rule was introduced for the 1996 season and remained in force until 2002. 17 It was reintroduced for the 2011 season with minor modifications due to the knock-out qualifying format. 55 History [ edit ]\n\nUnless the track was declared wet by the race director, any driver eliminated during Q1 whose best qualifying lap exceeds 107% of the fastest time set during that session, or who fails to set a time, will not be allowed to take part in the race. 30 Under exceptional circumstances however, which may include setting a suitable lap time in a free practice session, the stewards may permit the car to start the race. 24 Any driver accepted in this manner will be placed at the back of the starting grid after any other penalties have been applied. 27 Should there be more than one driver accepted in this manner they will be arranged on the grid in the order they were classified in P3. 68 - Article 35.1 of the 2018 Formula One Sporting Regulations[1] - Article 35.1 of the 2018 Formula One Sporting Regulations\n\nIntroduction [ edit ]\n\nThe governing body of F1, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), introduced the 107% rule at a meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in June 1995, immediately prior to the French Grand Prix. 26 [2] This followed a recommendation from the Formula One Commission, a working group of F1 representatives, to introduce such a measure. 39 [3] Over the previous few years, the number of entries per season had dropped to 26, the maximum threshold for race starters, allowing every entrant to qualify for the race regardless of speed. 36 For 1995, new technical regulations spaced out the field, whilst numerous teams with comparatively small budgets and slow cars, such as Forti, Pacific and Simtek, were competing in the sport. 33 The regulation was originally planned to come into effect from the 1995 Hungarian Grand Prix, but this required unanimous support amongst the teams, and was vetoed by Forti and Pacific. 29 Nevertheless, the fact that it was supported by the majority of the teams allowed the 107% rule's introduction from the start of the 1996 season. 34 [3] The mid 1990s also brought a number of pay drivers to the sport whose speeds would not have allowed one to race, such as Giovanni Lavaggi and Jean-Denis D\u00e9l\u00e9traz. 37 Commenting on the introduction of the 107% rule, FIA President Max Mosley said that \"any small team which is properly organised will be able to get within the 107 per cent margin\". 30 [4] The sport's commercial rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone, agreed with this sentiment, saying in an interview that \"Formula 1 is the best. 15 And we don't need anything in it that isn't the best.\" 55 He also accused some of the smaller teams of having a \"startline special\" mentality, in that they were solely concerned with entering the race to gain television coverage for their sponsors, and were not too occupied with actual performance given that all the entrants were guaranteed to make the race. 42 [5] On the other hand, the smaller teams were concerned at the prospect of having to lap within a maximum time in order to qualify, which they saw as exacerbating the inequalities already existent within the sport. 29 Pacific's commercial manager, Mark Gallagher, said: \"We have to say the 107% rule gives rise to concern among teams without works engines. 21 It's got more to do with engines than chassis, and that's an area outside our direct capability. 19 Closing the gap to Minardi is quite feasible, but the sudden arrival of the rule is worrying. 30 If you have three years to plan whether or not to do something, that's very different from having the goalposts moved while you are playing the game. 22 \"[3]\n\nApplication [ edit ]\n\nThe 107% rule was thus introduced at the 1996 Australian Grand Prix. 27 It was breached immediately, as Forti drivers Luca Badoer and Andrea Montermini failed to lap within 107% of Jacques Villeneuve's pole position time. 41 This had been an expected outcome, as the team was using an upgraded version of the previous year's Forti FG01 chassis, which had only qualified within 107% of pole position on one of thirty-four occasions beforehand. 22 [6] Both drivers also failed to qualify for the European Grand Prix, the fourth round of the championship. 37 At the following race, the San Marino Grand Prix, Badoer drove the more competitive FG03 chassis for the first time, whilst Montermini failed to make the 107% cut in the older car. 17 [7] Both then failed to qualify for the Spanish Grand Prix two races later. 46 By the tenth round of the championship, the British Grand Prix, the team was running out of money and made only a token attempt to qualify after not taking part in the preceding free practice sessions, neither car making the time limit. 26 [8] Following the next race, in which the team did not complete any laps at all, Forti withdrew from Formula One. 40 In the latter half of the season, the Minardi team replaced regular driver Giancarlo Fisichella with the paying Giovanni Lavaggi, who failed to make the 107% cut at the German, Belgian and Japanese Grands Prix. 17 In 1997, the 107% rule was only invoked at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. 23 Villeneuve again set pole position with a time over a second faster than his nearest rival, resulting in a well-spaced field. 24 [9] As a result, Pedro Diniz, Vincenzo Sospiri and Ricardo Rosset all failed to make the 107% mark. 38 Diniz was allowed to race at the discretion of the race stewards, who judged him capable of lapping within the limit, as he had indeed done so during the free practice session prior to qualifying. 28 [9][10] The FIA cited \"exceptional circumstances\" as the reason for his failure to do so during the qualifying session itself. 36 [11] Sospiri and Rosset, driving for the new MasterCard Lola team, were, however, five and six seconds off Diniz's time respectively, and well outside the qualification limit. 22 [9] Neither driver was allowed to start the race, and the team folded before the next Grand Prix. 17 During the 1998 season, Rosset\u2014now driving for the Tyrrell team\u2014failed to qualify on five occasions. 22 He lapped outside the 107% time during qualifying sessions for the Spanish, Monaco, Hungarian and Japanese Grands Prix. 39 He also failed to qualify for the German Grand Prix, but this was due to him not completing any laps at all after injuring his right elbow as a result of a heavy crash during free practice. 15 [12]\n\nThe 107% rule was invoked on two occasions in 1999. 27 At the first round of the championship\u2014the Australian Grand Prix\u2014Marc Gen\u00e9 failed to lap within the required percentage of the pole position time in his Minardi. 24 As with Diniz two years earlier, he was given dispensation to race after lapping within the limit during the free practice sessions. 52 [13] At the French Grand Prix later in the season, a qualifying session marked by a varying intensity of rainfall saw five drivers\u2014Damon Hill, Gen\u00e9, Luca Badoer, Pedro de la Rosa and Toranosuke Takagi\u2014miss the cut-off, but all were allowed to start the race. 26 [14]\n\nAfter a 2000 season in which no driver transgressed the 107% rule, it was enforced on three occasions in 2001. 19 At the opening race in Australia, Tarso Marques failed to lap within the required time for Minardi. 41 He was given permission to race under the reason of \"exceptional circumstances\", but this was despite the fact that he had not managed to set a time within the 107% mark in any session all weekend. 46 [15] It was rumoured that Marques was allowed to race because the team had been bought prior to the start of the season by Australian Paul Stoddart, who wanted both cars to compete in Minardi's new \"home\" Grand Prix. 27 [16] At the British Grand Prix, Marques again fell foul of the regulation, but was not allowed to start on this occasion. 44 [17] The Belgian Grand Prix also witnessed a wet qualifying session in which the track steadily dried, resulting in the four slowest qualifiers\u2014Jos Verstappen, Fernando Alonso, Enrique Bernoldi and Marques\u2014failing to lap within 107% of pole position. 22 As in the similar case of the French Grand Prix two years previously, all were allowed to start the race. 16 [18]\n\nThe 107% rule also came into effect during the 2002 season. 48 At the first round of the championship, the Australian Grand Prix, Takuma Sato crashed heavily during free practice and had to use the Jordan team's spare car for qualifying, only for the replacement to stop with a gearbox problem without setting a time. 36 By the time his teammate, Fisichella, did his first run and handed over his own chassis, it had begun to rain, leaving Sato with no chance of making the required time. 22 However, he was allowed to start the race as in the case of previous cases affected by changeable weather conditions. 43 [19] Minardi driver Alex Yoong failed to qualify for the San Marino, British and German Grands Prix under the conditions of the rule, a turn of events which led to his replacement by Anthony Davidson for two races. 50 [20] At the French Grand Prix, the Arrows team was running out of money and made a token appearance during the qualifying session to avoid FIA-imposed fines for missing rounds of the championship; drivers Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Bernoldi failed to lap within the required time. 21 Frentzen subsequently left the circuit with ten minutes of the session still remaining, making the team's ploy obvious. 33 [21] Fisichella also failed to set a time during this session, although this was the result of his withdrawal from the event following a heavy crash during free practice. 30 [21]\n\nIn total, there were 37 cases in which 107% rule was broken during the period in which it was a Formula One Sporting Regulation. 19 Of these, 13 drivers were allowed to start the relevant race due to \"exceptional circumstances\". 15 The rule affected 23 out of the 116 Grands Prix in which it applied. 37 Abolition [ edit ]\n\nThe qualifying system changed for the 2003 season with the introduction of two ordered single-lap sessions to replace the previous free hour-long session in which drivers were allowed to complete twelve laps. 14 Drivers also had to qualify with the race fuel on board their cars. 50 Due to the scope for greater time disparities throughout the field that could occur as a result, the 107% rule was not mentioned when the FIA finalised the format prior to the beginning of the season, despite an earlier assurance that the rule would still apply. 37 [22][23][24] The governing body subsequently proposed the formal cancellation of the rule,[25] which ceased to apply with effect from the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix. 30 Following the 2003 season, the timing of the two single-lap sessions was altered for them to occur on the same day, within 15 minutes of each other. 71 This proved unpopular with the smaller teams, who were liable to make their runs at the end of the first session (as this was run in championship order) and at the beginning of the second session (which was run in reverse order of the results of the first session), and with TV spectators, who had to watch a longer programme as a result. 44 During the 2004 season, the system's flaws were exposed, and proposed changes to the qualifying system made midway through the championship at one point seemed to suggest that the 107% rule would return as part of a new format. 20 In the end, however, only minor changes relating to the timing of the existing sessions were made. 18 [26] Minardi team owner Paul Stoddart was particularly opposed to the reintroduction of the rule. 54 [27]\n\nReintroduction [ edit ]\n\nAt the start of the 2010 season, new FIA President Jean Todt said that he was in favour of re-introducing the 107% rule, as the qualifying system has changed again so that all of the sessions are carried out with low fuel levels. 30 [28]\n\nOn 23 June, a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council determined that the 107% rule would be reintroduced for the 2011 season. 16 The rule applies only to the first of the three qualifying sessions for each race. 41 [29]\n\nSince its re-introduction and till the end of the 2015 season, the 107% rule has been broken a further 16 times at 11 different races, exclusively by HRT, Caterham, and Virgin/Marussia drivers. 38 Unlike the rule's first period of application, where infringing drivers were very rarely allowed to compete, only four of these occurrences of the rule violation resulted in the drivers being barred from the race. 35 These were Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, and Pedro de la Rosa and Karthikeyan at the 2012 Australian Grand Prix \u2013 all of whom drove for HRT. 35 At the 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix, 11 cars failed to reach the 107% limit as the session was stopped for inclement weather and subsequent incidents, but all were permitted to compete. 29 List of 107% rule violations [ edit ]\n\nUse in other formulae [ edit ]\n\nThe 107% rule has also been used in other motorsport formulae. 24 GP2 Series [ edit ]\n\nIt is currently in operation in the GP2 Series, where it has been applied on three occasions. 40 Marcos Mart\u00ednez failed to qualify for his debut race meeting at the Hungaroring in 2007 after failing to set a lap time due to engine problems, despite lapping within 107% of the fastest time in free practice. 36 [31] At the Monaco round of the 2009 season, Ricardo Teixeira failed to lap within 107% of the pole position time and was not allowed to take part in the races. 74 [32] During qualifying for the round of the championship held at the Hungaroring later that year, Romain Grosjean and Franck Perera collided before either had set a representative lap time: Perera was judged guilty of impeding and was barred from taking part in the first race, but allowed to start from the back of the grid in the second; Grosjean was given dispensation to start both races. 18 [33] Perera also failed to qualify for the Spa-Francorchamps races under the 107% criteria. 20 [34]\n\nGP3 Series [ edit ]\n\nThe 107% rule is also used in the GP3 Series. 14 So far, a driver has only failed to qualify on one occasion. 22 In the 2012 Silverstone round, Carmen Jord\u00e1 failed to set a lap time within 107% of the pole time. 25 As she was also outside 107% of the fastest time in the practice session, she was not allowed to start the race. 20 Super GT [ edit ]\n\nIn Super GT series, a slightly different 107% rule is being used. 24 The base time was being calculated by averaging time of top three vehicles in their class rather than by taking pole position time. 19 All drivers in the non-seeded team must finish within this time in order to qualify for the race. 31 However, teams which could not qualify in official qualifying sessions, may still be allowed to retry in following day's practice session, providing reasons such as accidents. 33 In this case, the 107% of top three cars in practice session's will be used instead, in return, they will start at the back of the grid. 29 In race using knockout format, a separated qualifying will be launched prior the knockout qualifying to decide teams which are allowed to take part in the race. 50 [35]\n\nAnother major difference of the 107% rule in Super GT is that there is a protection system called \"seeded teams\", which is awarded to each class's team which participated in all races and finished within top 12 in the previous season. 33 \"Seeded teams\", provided they meet other entrance requirements, are allowed to participate in the race even when they have not met the qualifying time in official qualifying sessions. 29 The right will be forfeited when the team switches class or withdraws from the series, the void caused by this will not be filled by other teams. 5 References [ edit ]\n\nFootnotes"} {"text": " 26 Photo UP\n\nProminent investigative journalist and EuroMaidan activist Tetyana Chornovol was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning in Boryspil (near Kyiv). 20 She was driving towards the village of Hora when another car forced her to the side of the road. 36 There are slightly different versions: Mustafa Nayem seems to have spoken to her at around 3 a.m. and writes on facebook that she noticed she was being followed, and turned back towards Boryspil. 17 It was then that the other car began ramming her and forcing her off the road. 13 It appears that there were 2 assailants who set to beating her. 7 The pictures unfortunately speak for themselves. 29 Chornovol is well-known for her investigative journalism on, among other things, the corrupt schemes behind the privatization of Viktor Yanukovych\u2019s controversial residence at Mezhyhirya. 39 Last year, frustrated by Yanukovych\u2019s continuing failure to keep his promise and show journalists the reportedly sumptuous and increasingly top-secret residence, she climbed into the grounds and managed to take photos before being caught. 22 On Friday she published photos and information about the anything but modest home of the current Interior Minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko. 14 The title reads: This is where a butcher [literallyexecutioner) lives. 12 The photos are well-worth viewing http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/chornovol/52b9e29e4286c/\n\nPhoto: Alexei Hrytsenko"} {"text": " 50 Story highlights Dolphins may communicate in different pulses which resemble words and sentences\n\nBut scientist says more, open-water testing will be needed to confirm dolphin language\n\n(CNN) A conversation between dolphins may have been recorded by scientists for the first time, a Russian researcher claims. 44 Two adult Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, named Yasha and Yana, didn't interrupt each other during an interaction taped by scientists and may have formed words and sentences with a series of pulses, Vyacheslav Ryabov says in a new paper. 22 \"The (pulse) exchanges reminds us of an exchange with sentences between two people,\" Ryabov told CNN. 31 Joshua Smith, a research fellow at Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, says there will need to be more research before scientists can be sure whether dolphins are chatting. 34 \"I think it's very early days to be drawing conclusions that the dolphins are using signals in a kind of language context, similar to humans,\" he told CNN. 2 Read More"} {"text": " 62 Peter Betham and Freddie Burns return to the Leicester Tigers line-up for Sunday's European Champions Cup Pool 4 meeting with Munster Rugby at Welford Road (5.15pm).Australia international Betham is named alongside Matt Smith at centre after missing the game in Limerick last weekend, while fly-half Burns replaces Owen Williams who jarred a knee in that match. 26 There are no changes among the forwards for the second leg of the head-to-head fixtures, with Ed Slater leading the team on home ground. 25 Tom Croft has recovered from illness to take a place among the replacements in the only other change to last week\u2019s line-up. 6 Match tickets are still available. 23 Book at the Welford Road ticket office, phone 0116 319 8888 (option 2) or online at the Tigers website. 19 For a full matchday guide, including news of the Tigers Christmas Market from 2.15pm, click here. 186 Leicester Tigers (v Munster Rugby, Welford Road, Sunday 5.15pm) 15 Telusa Veainu 14 Adam Thompstone 13 Peter Betham 12 Matt Smith 11 Vereniki Goneva 10 Freddie Burns 9 Ben Youngs 1 Marcos Ayerza 2 Tom Youngs 3 Dan Cole 4 Mike Fitzgerald 5 Graham Kitchener 6 Ed Slater (c) 7 Brendon O\u2019Connor 8 Lachlan McCaffrey Replacements 16 Harry Thacker 17 Matias Aguero 18 Fraser Balmain 19 Dom Barrow 20 Tom Croft 21 Sam Harrison 22 Tommy Bell 23 Seremaia Bai Munster Rugby: 15 Andrew Conway, 14 Keith Earls, 13 Francis Saili, 12 Denis Hurley, 11 Simon Zebo, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Conor Murray; 1 James Cronin, 2 Mike Sherry, 3 John Ryan, 4 Mark Chisholm, 5 Donnacha Ryan, 6 Robin Copeland, 7 Dave O'Callaghan, 8 CJ Stander (c) Replacements: 16 Niall Scannell, 17 Dave Kilcoyne, 18 Mario Sagario, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Jack O'Donoghue, 21 Tomas O'Leary, 22 Rory Scannell, 23 Lucas Amorosino"} {"text": " 38 All the Proof You Need That President Obama Loves Kids\n\nObama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets Nicholas Tamarin, 3, just outside the Oval Office on Oct. 26, 2012. 10 President Obama seems to have a way with children. 53 Whether it's the baby of a staffer he's taken to joining for a crawl on the floor or the visiting child dressed up like Pope Francis, moments between the Commander-in-Chief and some of his smallest constituents have made for some of the most compelling\u2014and adorable\u2014photos from the Obama Administration. 30 In February of last year, a flurry of social media users shared their favorite photos of #ObamaAndKids using the hashtag created by activist and entrepreneur Michael Skolnik . 18 Here's a look at some popular photos of President Obama and some of America's youngest."} {"text": " 28 When SMACK/URL announced its \u201cSummer Madness 3\u201d card, some were surprised that DNA was not billed to perform at the annual Battle Rap event. 41 DNA, who performed at \u201cSummer Madness\u201d and \u201cSummer Madness 2\u201d addressed his not being scheduled to appear at \u201cSummer Madness 3\u201d with a verse about the event and an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. 47 The verse DNA released features commentary on this year\u2019s \u201cSummer Madness 3\u201d and it acts as DNA\u2019s response to a recent blog from SMACK, who said some of the more known battle rappers have not been delivering quality performances. 68 \u201cSMACK dropped a blog saying top tier battlers need to become more motivated and take their craft serious, so I decided to do so and drop a round getting at everyone on the \u2018Summer Madness 3\u2019 card and have some fun lyrically and let URL know I\u2019m still willing to battle,\u201d DNA said in an exclusive statement to HipHopDX. 14 \u201cI took SMACK\u2019s blog as being a good and bad. 21 Good [because] it\u2019s gonna make a lot of us top tier battlers step it up. 48 [But it was] bad because some battlers feel like he took shots and the way he went about it was wrong.\u201d\n\nDNA also said he understood that some of the more notable figures in the Battle Rap circuit were not taking their work seriously. 14 \u201cYeah, some of them weren\u2019t,\u201d DNA said. 15 \u201cBut its a lot of stuff behind-the-scenes that can make an artist unmotivated. 12 Me playing devil\u2019s advocate, I see both sides. 42 As a company, you want your product to perform to its fullest capability, but if the product isn\u2019t happy then it\u2019s hard to do that.\u201d\n\nDNA was asked about the \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d matters. 17 \u201cI mean I don\u2019t know everyone\u2019s situation,\u201d DNA said. 10 \u201cBut money is the root to all evil. 84 I\u2019ll just leave it at that.\u201d\n\nSo while DNA isn\u2019t scheduled to battle at this year\u2019s \u201cSummer Madness 3,\u201d he still took time to discuss the current card, which features Daylyt versus Swave Sevah, Arsonal versus K-Shine, Math Hoffa versus Serius Jones, Big T versus O-Red, Calicoe versus T-Rex, JC versus John John Da Don, Tay Roc versus Ill Will and Jaz the Rapper versus Ms. 2 Hustle. 26 \u201cI think the \u2018Summer Madness 3\u2019 card has a lot of dope battlers and talented emcees on it,\u201d DNA said. 22 \u201cI just think \u2018Summer Madness\u2019 has had so many big names on it that people expect a lot. 33 The previous \u2018Summer Madness\u2019 events were historic so we have to wait and see how this one turns out.\u201d\n\nDNA\u2019s verse can be seen and heard below. 19 DNA isn\u2019t the only battle rapper to respond to SMACK\u2019s blog about quality performances. 21 Loaded Lux spoke with HipHopDX about his grievances concerning the \u201cSummer Madness 3\u201d card and the SMACK blog. 35 \u201cFor [SMACK] to say that [in the blog], I owed it to my real fans to respond,\u201d Loaded Lux said in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. 10 \u201cI want them to know the whole story. 15 So I rewrote the second verse [of \u2018Bout My Money\u2019]. 16 Also, when they revealed the money discussions, I thought they crossed the line. 34 I had been promoting that I was gonna be on \u2018Summer Madness 3\u2019 based on five months of assurances from the URL camp that they would meet our financial requirements. 16 We had a meeting in March 2013 to discuss \u2018SM3.\u2019 Everything was good. 5 We had an agreement. 14 Then in July, they tell me [there was] no deal. 13 I sacrificed a lot waiting for them to get their act together. 16 Now it seems like they just played me to keep interest until the last minute. 18 So it was imperative that I have my say, so I put it in the song. 8 It just seemed to fit the song. 13 I felt I was standing up for the pioneers of our profession. 16 If it wasn\u2019t for us, you don\u2019t have the up-and-comers. 5 Older against the younger. 27 That\u2019s a divide-and-conquer tactic, oldest trick in the book.\u201d\n\nURL\u2019s Beasley addressed the matter in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. 61 \u201cWe have some of the usual suspects from past \u2018Summer Madness\u2019 events like T-Rex, Calicoe, John John Da Don and K-Shine, but we also brought in a lot of new faces, leaving some of the top tier emcees without a slot to participate,\u201d URL\u2019s Beasley said exclusively to HipHopDX. 27 \u201cSMACK made a blog talking about how some of the top-tier emcees aren\u2019t showing up and how he wants to see more hunger. 24 The blog set off a firestorm of Twitter rants, blogs, Facebook discussions and eventually led to the Loaded Lux diss record. 10 [Other] emcees have threatened to not attend. 8 Others have made slick remarks on Twitter. 9 This is so selfish and self-centered to me. 32 Why can\u2019t you be happy for other emcees [who are] your friends, who finally have their shot to shine on the biggest event in Battle Rap? 19 These are the same guys who supported you when you appeared on Summer Madness events in the past. 35 I think when these guys begin to become allies outside of competition on stage, the culture will flourish.\u201d\n\nRELATED: Loaded Lux Blasts SMACK/URL, Explains Absence From \u201cSummer Madness 3\u201d"} {"text": " 56 Assume your opponent is rated somewhere between 6-600 in the world.Please state your reasoning \ud83d\ude42 There are actually numerous options available here, but I think we\u2019re about to uncover something fairly interesting here\u2026\n\nHere, you\u2019re not in a particularly good position with a tied score and a vowel-less rack. 30 High valuation plays such as JO 14b and SWARF b6 don\u2019t do very well: they keep a weak leave and don\u2019t score particularly well. 29 Quackle valuation has you winning less than 60% of the time after either option, especially after a fairly balanced range from your opponent (HAO). 32 However, there is an opportunity to increase your win percentage with a lower valuation setup that is very difficult to block: OF k13, setting up the OF-F hook. 17 (Yes, there are other options, and we\u2019ll get there later.) 25 With an O or E, you can draw FJORD/FJELD next turn for over 80 points, giving you a stranglehold on this game. 21 Of course, in addition to the low valuation and undesirable entropy, there are two downsides to this play. 23 The first downside is that you don\u2019t yet have either FJELD or FJORD, and you need to draw them. 40 While this might happen next turn, it might take several turns to draw one of these letters, and in the meantime your rack is completely hamstrung, relegated to low scoring options and likely falling slightly behind. 27 You might need to exchange next turn or (more likely) a low scoring play using the W, committing to fishing for 15k monsters. 74 The second problem is that there is one (and only one) way to block this setup: the T. Since OF is an immediate setup, it is fairly obvious to your opponent that you have a big play (or will draw one soon) that uses that spot, so your opponent will always block with the T unless they have a huge play (like a bingo). 33 In many cases, T plays along row 5 will score 25 or more points, giving them a huge leave and leaving you with a huge potential of a vowel-less rack. 35 And even if they don\u2019t have the T yet, you often haven\u2019t drawn a play in column 15 either: they can always draw the T on future turns. 20 If we are just looking at the next turn, these two factors alone make OF not worth it. 22 You\u2019re not going to get to play on row 15 often enough, and it gets blocked too often. 16 However, there\u2019s another factor we\u2019re not considering here: recursion. 17 Approximately 3/4 of the time, your opponent is not going to have the T here. 38 And when they don\u2019t, they are extremely unlikely to draw the T *next* turn, giving you additional time to fish for a devastating (and basically game ending) fishing play. 43 Even if they draw the T or have the T, a lot of times they are relegated to a low scoring blocking play, and if you get FJELDS/FJORDS at b1, that\u2019s a perfectly good tradeoff for you. 74 While it\u2019s obvious that your opponent can block with the T, a lot of people assume that they can block well, but it\u2019s hard to make a 5 letter play starting with T. In addition, sometimes they will have to sacrifice major points to block this setup, or might ignore it entirely because of either a high scoring play or bingo elsewhere on the board. 44 And your opponent has no reason to do something like play 5 tiles or exchange 7 tiles to hope to draw the T, assuming they don\u2019t have it: from their perspective, you probably have the F play already. 38 Next turn you will often get to play 2 tiles, or maybe even 3 (and commit to picking FJELD or FJORD, probably FJELD) and if you miss, you get to fish again. 33 Even after just dumping OF, you\u2019ll get to hit FJORD/FJELD over half of the time due to this recursive threat, making you a huge favorite over your opponent. 23 Recursion is an extremely powerful tool, and while it does not show up very often, it has to be respected. 18 When someone has a recursive threat, it has to be taken care of immediately and urgently. 33 Even if he didn\u2019t have the D (and the D were still in the bag), without the T blocking OF-F, FJELD/FJORD would probably come down eventually. 7 Letting recursion go is a disaster. 19 We\u2019ve now established that OF is a strong play: however, there are other options. 36 Even ROW 6l is an option, as it scores okay and preserves the same setup possibility with a higher valuation, although the setup option is blocked too often to make it quite worthwhile. 20 REF 14i does something very similar, setting up a diversion T-REF hook, and gunning specifically for FJELD. 25 (Since you\u2019re drawing two tiles and there are more Es out, you are more likely to hit this fish.) 63 While this is a slightly stronger version than the OF version, this is still essentially the same play with a few additional downsides to compensate for the additional odds of hitting FJELD: your opponent now might have a 15d play that scores well, or a T play like LUXATE that completely neutralizes FJELD even when you do hit it. 61 In addition, most top players (though not everyone) should sniff this out and block accordingly with the T. This is a really bad diversion: it doesn\u2019t make sense on any level to be anything but a strong F setup where you\u2019re willing to give your opponent a 40+ point play for free. 22 Your rack is still fairly face up: you have to have the F, and it probably will be blocked. 27 (Or you have the T, in which case your opponent is going to block T-REF, but they will score decently doing so.) 29 It\u2019s the only thing that makes any sense at all, especially coming from a top player, and its results are potentially devastating and recursive. 25 If they play the T, you\u2019re going to get that F play eventually, and it will probably hit very hard. 67 If they have EORTV, they are going to play TROVE for 33 and block the F rather than play VOTE for 40, and often they\u2019ll even just make a blocking play (either a cheap 5 starting with T or even a shorter play) since any competent player who is capable of range-finding can figure out your approximate range fairly easily. 18 Of course, there is another option that is less transparent: WO 14b (10). 25 This is far less transparent, as there is nothing being set up and it\u2019s just not obvious what you are doing. 46 This very obviously looks like a T setup, and your opponent in this case should (and will) broadcast whether or not they have the T, as they simply can\u2019t leave it alone without having the T in their rack. 27 If they don\u2019t have the T, they will block since there are too many major threats with the T to leave it open. 40 While WO might bait out the T more often than REF, it won\u2019t do it a heck of a lot, because again, we run into the same problem: it looks like a bait. 59 There\u2019s simply no reason for your opponent to ever spend the T because of recursion, and when it looks like a bait and you can use the T on a future turn, there\u2019s no reason to spent the T unless you have a huge play (like LUXATE or a bingo). 52 Even though your opponent won\u2019t likely figure out what you are up to, elite opponents are still unlikely to use the T.\n\nThe problem with this option, again, is when they do have the T, because in this case, your opponent ALSO has recursion! 16 This means that there is no reason whatsoever to spend the T for several reasons. 43 The first reason is that there\u2019s no where to go but up: no one is going to make a T setup only to block it next turn when it goes unused, as that makes little to no sense. 41 The second reason is that it looks somewhat like a bait to draw out the T so that something can be set up, either as a bingo line or a scoring line (in this case, OF). 36 Thus, your opponent should usually play elsewhere, and then you ultimately make the play that opens the F spot, your opponent should be able to still sniff it out and block accordingly. 30 The irony of this play is that both REF 14i and WO 14b should never (or almost never) flush out the T in the way you want. 17 The same concept (recursion) that makes the setup viable also helps your opponent immensely. 34 The strength of these plays relies entirely on how often the T is drawn out: even some top players will play the T too often, as illustrated in the previous positions. 33 WO is more likely to work than REF in practice, but against players who truly save the T frequently enough, the correct option is to play REF or OF immediately. 38 Given this analysis, you might be wondering \u201cWhat can I take away from all of this?\u201d From this, I\u2019ll list off the main points that I think are most important. 2 1. 9 Recursion is important, and it is brutal. 48 You can keep fishing for FJELD/FJORD if you aren\u2019t there yet, while your opponent can fish and preserve the T endlessly and hit you pretty brutally in the meantime, since they only have to save one tile while you have to save 5. 2 2. 35 Top, elite players are always thinking something, and even if you don\u2019t get what they are thinking, you should take measures to protect yourself against their ploys and tactics. 37 If a top player makes a play for a weird reason, you should think about the motivations even if it\u2019s not clear and you can\u2019t deduce those motivations definitively or immediately. 29 Yes, if you\u2019re well respected and at their level, you might get mind-gamed, but this is more the exception and not the rule. 2 3. 28 Even very good players are not going to react to situations perfectly, especially if they are unusual and don\u2019t fit the current equity paradigm. 46 Computers are far away from appreciating WO as an option here even though it\u2019s a good option, and even a lot of very strong players don\u2019t understand the options well when they don\u2019t fit the typical equity paradigm. 64 Concepts such as recursion (and there are many other concepts that are like this, and this is not anomalous: positions that clearly break the equity paradigm happen all the time) are often foreign to even some of the highest rated players since there are many unique positions in Scrabble that are not best explained through the current equity/valuation paradigm."} {"text": " 41 A Christian care worker has claimed she was subjected to \"repeated pressure\" to \"violate her beliefs\" by her council employers, as she appealed for a landmark ruling allowing her to refuse to work on Sundays. 25 Celestina Mba, 58, went to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday asking for the legal right not to work on the Sabbath. 31 Ms Mba\u2019s lawyers asked three judges to overturn a ruling by a High Court judge which dismissed her claim for constructive dismissal against the London Borough of Merton. 39 Last year\u2019s ruling \u2013 which upheld an earlier decision by an employment tribunal \u2013means that Christians have no right to decline working on Sunday as it is not a \u201ccore component\u201d of their beliefs. 29 But Ms Mba, a Baptist Christian from London, says she has never worked on a Sunday and wants to secure the right to practise her faith. 47 The mother-of-three says she took up a position as a carer at the Brightwell children\u2019s home in Morden, south-west London, on the understanding that managers would accommodate her faith by allowing her to keep Sunday as a day of rest and prayer. 33 But Paul Diamond, Ms Mba\u2019s barrister, told the Appeal Court on Wednesday that within months of starting work she was \u201crepeatedly rostered\u201d to work on Sundays. 31 By ordering Ms Mba to work on Sundays when it was clear she would not do so, her employers were \u201cforcing her to resign\u201d, he said. 36 Mr Diamond said the tribunal should have given more weight to Ms Mba\u2019s individual beliefs instead of concluding that observing the Sabbath was not a \u201ccore component\u201d of the Christian faith. 25 It would only have cost the home \u00a319.44 for alternative staff to work in Ms Mba\u2019s place on Sundays, he added. 32 \"It is our case that this appeal raises a number of important issues,\u201d Mr Diamond told Lord Justice Maurice Kay, Lord Justice Elias and Lord Justice Vos. 39 Merton council\u2019s lawyers argue that the employment tribunal which first dismissed Mrs Mba's claim was \"plainly and unarguably right\" and the employment appeal tribunal (EAT) was justified in upholding its decision. 31 The council has said it had tried to accommodate Miss Mba\u2019s beliefs by offering to arrange her shifts to allow her to attend a Church service each Sunday. 51 Ms Mba, who is now a childcare worker with a company which allows her to have Sundays off, insists she is not attempting to force her beliefs on others, but says an employer has a duty to \"reasonably accommodate\" the beliefs of a Christian employee. 36 Speaking outside the court, Ms Mba, who is being backed by the Christian Legal Centre, said her previous employers \u201cdishonoured\u201d her beliefs by insisting that she should work on Sundays. 22 \u201cI was given a choice between my faith and my job and I chose my faith\u201d, she said. 21 If she wins her appeal, it could establish new religious rights allowing Christian workers generally to avoid Sunday working. 36 Shop workers are already entitled to refuse to work on Sundays, but employees in other areas can be required to do so if their employer shows there is \"a legitimate business need\". 20 The judges reserved their decision and said they would hand down their judgment in writing at a later date."} {"text": " 16 If you read the Los Angeles Times you may have heard of the Sparkle Cookie. 24 It\u2019s the signature cookie of pastry chef Thomas Haas and it has been billed as the best cookie in the world. 9 Is it really the world\u2019s best? 15 It probably comes close, so long as you don\u2019t overcook it. 10 Here\u2019s a picture of three sparkle cookies. 24 They don\u2019t look decadent, but when you bite into them you will find they are soft, fudgy and rich. 7 Again, don\u2019t overcook. 56 Chocolate Sparkle Cookies\n\n1/2 lb very good quality bittersweet chocolate\n\n3 tablespoons room temperature butter, cut into pieces\n\n2 eggs\n\n1 T honey\n\n1/3 c sugar \u2014 plus more for rolling\n\n3/4 c ground almonds\n\n2 tsp cocoa powder\n\n1 pinch salt\n\nCoarse sugar for garnish\n\nMelt chocolate on top of a double boiler. 4 Add the chocolate. 28 In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, gradually adding the sugar and honey until light & the mixture falls in thick ribbons (10 minutes). 6 Fold into the chocolate-butter mixture. 20 Add the cocoa powder and salt to the ground almonds & mix; gently add to the chocoate mixture. 5 Cover and refrigerate overnight. 8 Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 15 Use a small ice cream scoop to form the dough into 1 inch balls. 10 Working quickly, roll the balls in granulated sugar. 10 Place on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart. 20 Bake at 325 degrees F for about 12 minutes, until the centres are most, but not wet. 3 Cool slightly. 9 Dust lightly with coarse (sparkly) sugar. 3 Makes 36 cookies"} {"text": " 36 BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2014 In 1989, 26-year-old Hungarian lawyer Viktor Orban gave a speech credited with firing up his countrymen to throw out their Communist dictators, leading to the revolution of that year. 21 Now, demonstrators are protesting Orban, \u201cthe Viktator,\u201d as his opponents call the nationalist prime minister. 16 He has become what he once most despised: an autocratic leader, they say. 18 Since the fall of Communism, Hungarian politicians have imposed laws restricting press freedoms and muting dissent. 12 They have also been quick to order police to squash protests. 29 And for the most part, Hungarians backed down because Hungary, in the words of Austrian writer Paul Lendvai, has long been a democracy without democrats. 13 But huge anti-government street protests have choked downtown Budapest in recent weeks. 23 And while no one is prepared to predict what comes next, organizers in the capital say a Hungarian spring is underway. 38 \u201cHungary used to be one of the most politically passive countries I know of,\u201d said demonstration organizer Attila Steve Kopias, who helped bring tens of thousands of Hungarians onto the streets on Monday. 52 \u201cBut now people are waking up\u2026 many people say this era has to end as soon as possible.\u201d\n\nThey point to what they say are harsh policies toward the down-and-out, such as jail terms for the homeless, those who pick through trash for scraps, and beggars. 45 And they say that the new constitution that Orban has put in place contains a variety of measures that restrict personal freedoms and impose his government\u2019s conservative views, such as his anti-abortion stance, for example, onto the entire population. 36 In-depth series: #Occupy World\n\n\u201cI have serious concerns about women\u2019s continuing access to abortion under the new constitution,\u201d said the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Stefania Kapronczay. 27 Striking journalists\n\nThree Hungarian journalists have been on a hunger strike for nearly a month outside the state media compound, protesting government heavy-handedness and interference. 13 Accusations leveled at Orban's meddling with the media are nothing new. 20 In March last year, his government set up a Media Council to control Hungary\u2019s state broadcasters. 14 Since then, journalists say the situation has gone from bad to worse. 16 Journalists there describe coming under extreme pressure to slant the news and blur out dissenters. 12 They say a government-appointed news director tells them what to broadcast. 54 \u201cWe joke that the only noise you hear at our offices these days is the director telling the journalist in the office next to you what to write through an earpiece,\u201d said one journalist at Duna TV, who declined to be identified out of fear of losing her job. 14 Economy in crisis\n\nOrban is not just fighting liberals or journalists these days. 11 Orban\u2019s interventionist style has unsettled investors, too. 24 Fitch became the last of the major credit-ratings agencies to downgrade Hungary\u2019s credit rating to \u201cjunk\u201d status on Friday. 14 The agency blamed \u201cunorthodox policies undermining investor confidence\u201d for its decision. 14 Fitch\u2019s decision could have serious consequences for on the Hungarian economy. 14 The country has traditionally been a large beneficiary of investment from neighboring Austria. 18 The downgrade came at a time when confidence in Hungary\u2019s financial system was already slumping. 14 Orban\u2019s reputation for making erratic economic decisions has fueled declining confidence. 12 Orban, for example, recently nationalized Hungarians\u2019 private pensions. 14 He also introduced, and subsequently retracted, a 16 percent flat tax. 28 Meanwhile, 22 percent of Hungarians can no longer pay their utility bills, according to a survey conducted by Dijbeszedo, a Hungarian debt collection agency. 19 \"Have faith\"\n\nThe Hungarian National Bank put out a very unusual statement late on Thursday night. 18 \u201cThe Hungarian National Bank stresses that the Hungarian banking system is stable,\u201d it read. 15 It followed rumors about bank runs, which spread \u2014 unconfirmed \u2014 on Thursday. 13 By Friday, many ordinary Hungarians were considering moving their savings abroad. 19 A Budapest banker told GlobalPost that Austrian banks have put up signs touting Hungarian-speaking staff in recent days. 31 She added that securing an appointment with one of those Hungarian-speaking staff members can now take as long as a week and a half at branches on the Austro-Hungarian border. 15 Fears of an imminent collapse of the Hungarian financial system prompted government denials Friday. 44 Former Finance Minister Peter Oszko told Hungarian Channel One that such fears were not \u201crational,\u201d while Prime Minister Orban assured savers that the government would not seize their deposits if Hungary did not secure a new International Monetary Fund loan. 32 That loan has been looking less and less likely in recent days, after Orban\u2019s decision to assume new powers at the Hungarian central bank, weakening its independence. 31 The European Union and the IMF terminated negotiations on Hungary\u2019s second financial bailout in four years after the extent of the planned changes became clear in late December. 3 Joining Berlusconi? 26 Although Hungary is in social, economic and political crisis right now, the government says it wants to press ahead with its new constitution. 26 It contends that the concerns expressed by other members of the European Union and by the United States reflect the interests of the banking lobby. 42 \u201cIf someone reads the Hungarian constitution, and not just the headlines elsewhere in Europe, they will find that it is democratic,\u201d said Jozsef Szajer, who represents Orban\u2019s Fidesz Party in the European Parliament. 37 Szajer says other European countries are targeting Hungary because it has used \u201csome unusual methods to share the burden of the crisis\u201d including imposing a tax on banks and telecommunications companies, he noted. 18 \u201cIt\u2019s these interests that are motivating many of these criticisms,\u201d Szajer said. 27 That kind of statement might play well in Hungary, where Fidesz still remains ahead in opinion polls, and commands a two-thirds majority in parliament. 21 Yet Orban\u2019s strength at home, slowly and steadily diminishing some say, disguises his weakness in Brussels. 20 If Hungary\u2019s financial position continues to worsen, Orban may soon face Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s fate. 20 Many Italians loved the media tycoon almost to the bitter end \u2014 but that didn\u2019t save him. 9 Petra Hajdu contributed to this report from Budapest."} {"text": " 20 Former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre had quite the interview with Michael Landsberg of TSN's Off The Record. 31 When the discussion quickly steered towards his concerns over an expanding culture of performance enhancing drug use in MMA, St-Pierre says he isn't interested in a witch hunt. 23 Although he refuses to name names, St-Pierre believes he's faced at least a few opponents using some sort of steroid. 24 \"I can not answer this question, but there [are] a lot of people on drugs,\" says St-Pierre. 8 \"I'm never sure 100%. 12 The reason is I don't want to accuse any individual. 10 If you accuse one individual 20 others will arrive. 6 What I want to attack? 7 I want to attack the system. 9 I don't want to attack the individual. 14 People have to understand, I don't want to attack the UFC. 17 I'm one of the guys that stands for the sport, stands for the UFC. 14 I want to do that to help the brand, help the sport. 15 I'm one of the guys that fights for the legitimacy of my sport. 11 \"I think right now there is a big problem. 20 When I came out with this I got so many text messages from guys who are afraid to speak. 23 Not even fighters, reporters are afraid to lose their credentials, but they tell me 'You're doing the right thing. 6 We support you.'\" 40 While St-Pierre and UFC president Dana White have done most of their communicating through the proxy of interviews, it seems GSP has found UFC CEO and owner Lorenzo Fertitta to be a bit more responsive to his concerns. 19 \"I had a talk with Lorenzo and I think it's going to be a good thing. 21 It's going to be a lot of change and it's going to be all good for the sport. 20 I think it's the next step for us to reach even more people, to be more legitimate. 6 It's a new sport. 6 \"Lorenzo is the boss. 14 You have to understand, I'm not afraid or mad at Dana. 5 Dana is the promoter. 11 He said stuff and I don't take it personally. 6 Dana is the business guy. 33 He's a promoter and it's his role as a business man to want to make a rematch [with Johny Hendricks] because it will attract a lot of people. 5 That's his role. 22 He doesn't care if you like it or love it or hate it, he wants you to tune in. 9 That's the main role of Dana White. 5 He did it well. 3 Everyone reacted. 15 He doesn't care if people say, 'Oh he's so bad!' 6 No, he's not. 5 He's a promoter. 15 Probably the best promoter in the world right now, of all sports.\" 28 As for St-Pierre's self-imposed hiatus from MMA, the former champion says the weight of being the UFC's posterboy had finally reached a breaking point. 19 \"I don't want to have a psychologist or help to keep me on the right track. 7 The stress was eating me alive. 24 Few people can understand this so I needed to step out of it to feel better and to find enjoyment in my life. 4 Now I do. 7 \"It's not a retirement. 22 I would call it more of a break because I don't know if I will retire or not right now. 11 I just knew I needed a break from the competition. 7 I started doing it for fun. 7 Then the fun became a business. 7 Then it was not fun anymore. 7 It was too much pressure.\" 25 Ultimately, St-Pierre seems to blame his own neurosis for needing to step away from the sport he worked so hard to help build. 6 \"I'm a perfectionist. 14 People that know me, they know I'm a little bit off. 4 I'm OCD. 8 I want everything to be done perfectly. 11 Because of that I put so much into my work. 4 I became obsessed. 11 I'm a crazy obsessive person about what I do. 21 I want it to be 100%, which is a good thing but it's also a bad thing. 6 It can drive you crazy. 8 That's what was happening to me. 7 I needed to just step off. 5 Not think about fighting. 9 I don't regret it for a second. 11 I've never been a victim in my life.\" 8 5 MUST-READ STORIES\n\nEvans out six months. 15 Rashad Evans will undergo surgery this week after consulting with physicians in Los Angeles. 4 Signal to noise. 14 Luke Thomas breaks down the best and worst of UFC Fight Night 36. 4 Rousey plus one. 15 Chuck Mindenhall tries to figure out the decisive lack of buzz surrounding Sara McMann. 3 The best? 14 Ronda Rousey believes her striking is the gold standard of women's MMA. 2 Balenciaga! 36 New UFC strawweight Felice Herrig may have been paid $32K coming off a loss, but that doesn't mean she'll go quietly about the promotion's future plans for a company uniform. 8 MEDIA STEW\n\nUFC 170: Extended Preview. 2 TheSHOOT! 4 with Daniel Cormier. 26 Never enough GSP, especially if he's speaking with the team I've chained my hopes and dreams to through the clutches of geography. 2 Hail. 6 Cage Warriors FC 64 recap. 12 Breaking down Gegard Mousasi's sweep at UFC Fight Night 36. 8 Urijah Faber jazzercising at the 36:00 mark. 3 Long watches. 24 Knuckle Up #430: The Steroid Chronicles wrap, a REAL Brazilian on UFC Fight Night 36\n\n-\n\nTWEETS\n\nHeading to Vegas. 13 Just got to Vegas and my man Burt is right there waiting. 6 Always got it under control. 47 Right on target... http://t.co/UiNRKj8rRa \u2014 Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) February 18, 2014\n\n#dayinthelifeof a little bit of shadowboxing before hitting the road http://t.co/qinIVcuyDR \u2014 Ronda Rousey (@RondaRousey) February 18, 2014\n\nGet well soon. 4 At my Drs. 11 Appointment waiting for Dr. Kvitne to take my stitches out! 3 I think..... 7 If they're ready!!... 20 http://t.co/mbSMbpHbjn \u2014 Julianna Pe\u00f1a (@VenezuelanVixen) February 18, 2014\n\nJust in time for Christmas. 4 UFC fight week! 19 I will be at the @LVFightShop on Friday 2/21 at 12pm 4 my Autographed Limited Collectible Figurine. 17 pic.twitter.com/qANWwy4517\" \u2014 Roy Nelson (@roynelsonmma) February 18, 2014\n\nLike the fight? 19 People keep asking if I would give up a title shot to fight Gilbert Melendez yes I would. 38 To be the best you have to fight the best, Period \u2014 Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) February 18, 2014\n\nAll official responses should include the word 'Swag' within the first three sentences. 26 My official response to the @UFC uniforms http://t.co/mEFMvmehY1 \u2014 Felice Herrig (@feliceherrig) February 19, 2014\n\nIn the can. 41 Terminamos as grava\u00e7\u00f5es,foi irado ter esses dias de imers\u00e3o total no nosso esporte,ver o surgimento de... http://t.co/gswvAdMJaI \u2014 Wanderlei Silva (@wandfc) February 19, 2014\n\nRay Lewis getting more dangerous. 4 In the blood. 64 FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS\n\nAnnounced yesterday (Feb. 18 2014)\n\nJohn Howard vs. Ryan LaFlare at UFC Fight Night 39\n\nChris Gruetzemacher vs. John Gunderson at WSOF 9\n\nSean Cantor vs. Bryson Hansen at WSOF 9\n\nJimmy Jones vs. Rudy Morales at WSOF 9\n\nPhil Dace vs. Danny Davis at WSOF 9\n\nGil Guardado vs. Jimmy Spicuzza at WSOF 9\n\nTanner Cowan vs. A.J. 18 Williams at WSOF 9\n\nFANPOST OF THE DAY\n\nToday's Fanpost of the Day comes via Archelon. 12 UFN 36 Ramblings: Wherefore art thou, Subs and Wallopings? 15 If we expect anything from Brazil's Fight Night cards, it's violence. 13 This card, by and large, did not deliver the violence. 38 It was actually a better FN card than usual on paper (4 middleweight contenders, a bunch of good prospects) which really increased the disappointment when it did, in fact, kind of suck. 40 You can blame Dana, or Zuffa international expansion, or the Fox deal, but if there's any real culprit here, it's Zane Simon, who made us think it was going to be good. 3 Goddamn Zane. 6 Let's all blame him. 18 Poor prospects The prospects on this cards under-delivered a little, for a variety of possible reasons. 34 Eastern Europeans / Russians tend to be bulletproof to nerves, but combine first-time octagon jitters with fighting in the hostile and alien Brazilian environment and even Soviet Commubots will feel the effects. 1 ... 9 Check out the rest of the post here. 12 Found something you'd like to see in the Morning Report? 18 Just hit me up on Twitter @SaintMMA and we'll include it in tomorrow's column."} {"text": " 15 The New Jersey Devils hired John Hynes as their new head coach on Tuesday. 21 Hynes has served as head coach of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Pittsburgh Penguins\u2019 AHL affiliate, since 2010. 21 His overall record of 231-126-27 and five-straight playoff appearances makes him the winningest coach in the team\u2019s history. 19 He was hired in 2009 by then-Penguins general manager Ray Shero as assistant coach and was quickly promoted. 35 The Devils hired Shero at the beginning of May after Lou Lamoriello stepped aside, so it\u2019s not a big surprise that he\u2019s turning to a familiar face in Hynes. 6 Lamoriello remains the team president. 30 New Jersey (32-36-14) suffered its worst full season since 1988-89 \u2014 an especially long fall, considering they made it to the Stanley Cup Final in 2012. 21 They fired Peter DeBoer in December and finished the season with Lamoriello, Adam Oates and Scott Stevens as co-coaches. 11 DeBoer has since been hired by the San Jose Sharks. 21 Here\u2019s what you need to know about John Hynes:\n\nAge: 40\n\nBirthplace: Warwick, R.I. 19 Playing career: Forward with Boston University (1993-1997); won 1995 NCAA national title with Terriers. 55 Head coaching jobs: AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (2010-2015); USA National Development team (2003-09)\n\nAwards: AHL Coach of the Year (2010-11); 2010-11 AHL regular-season champions (first time in franchise history); finalist for U.S. Olympic Committee Development Coach of the Year (2007). 35 It\u2019s also interesting to note that upon graduating from BU, Hynes served as a graduate assistant under longtime Terriers coaching legend Jack Parker, who spent 40 years with the club. 45 He wastes no time in winning\n\nHynes kicked off his successful AHL coaching career by leading the Penguins to 40-plus wins in his first four seasons with the club, earning 100 wins in the 2nd-fewest games in league history (152 games). 43 He\u2019s got a reputation for cultivating young talent\n\nPrior to joining the AHL\u2019s Penguins, Hynes spent six years coaching the U.S. National Team Development Program and has seen plenty of talented young players come across his bench. 40 Here\u2019s what Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane said of his time under Hynes on the team:\n\n\u201cI thought it was a huge part of my development and Coach (John) Hynes was awesome to me. 48 He was very hard on me, but at the same time, he tried to get the best out of me.\u201d\n\nHynes led the U.S. Under-18 Team to three IIHF Championship medals (gold in 2006, silver in 2004 and bronze in 2008). 34 He also has two years of experience on the bench for the World Junior Championship, serving as assistant coach in 2004 (bronze) and head coach in 2008 (4th). 23 Speaking of young talent, Hynes himself is considered an up-and-comer, and will be the youngest coach currently in the league. 29 He believes in the power of preparation\n\nProcess and preparation are two of the cornerstones of Hynes\u2019 coaching perspective \u2014 especially when it comes to the playoffs. 19 He said the following during a 2014 interview on usahockey.com:\n\n\u201cIt really comes down to preparation. 11 It\u2019s the most fun time of the year. 15 It\u2019s the time of the year that\u2019s the most rewarding. 9 You go through all of your training camps. 10 You go through all of your trials and tribulations. 8 There\u2019s something on the line. 10 It\u2019s really just trusting in that preparation. 26 When you\u2019re prepared for a difficult game, you\u2019re more relaxed going into it because you\u2019re prepared for it. 9 You can go play and enjoy the competition. 16 It\u2019s more just making sure that we\u2019re prepared for each situation. 47 Then we want to go out there and compete and enjoy the process of competing.\u201d\n\nHe\u2019ll join a successful line of AHL Penguins to make it to the big leagues\n\nHynes was the ninth head coach in the history of the Baby Pens. 20 Past AHL Penguins coaches who are now NHL bench bosses include Dan Bylsma, Todd Richards and Michel Therrien."} {"text": " 29 Learn more about Sledgehammer\u2019s new asymmetrical competitive mode, and how it\u2019s injecting new life in Call of Duty WWII\u2019s multiplayer combat. 19 September\u2019s Call of Duty WWII beta confidently demonstrated Sledgehammer Game\u2019s vision and gameplay goals. 16 Most notably, a return to the gritty and grounded setting of World War II. 16 But Sledgehammer\u2019s ambitions extend far beyond a mere change in tone and scenery. 24 With its new War Mode, the studio is looking to contribute a fresh chapter to Call of Duty\u2019s competitive legacy. 38 War Mode pits two teams against each other in a mission with shifting objectives that plays a bit like an FPS tug-of-war, with one sides digging in to hold ground and the other pushing forward relentlessly. 31 I enjoyed my time with War Modes, so I caught up with Multiplayer Designer Sean Soucy to learn more about the genesis of Sledgehammer\u2019s gritty new gem. 10 Read on, and get ready for November 3! 16 PlayStation.Blog: What drove your decision to develop an asymmetrical, objective-based mode like War? 37 Sean Soucy, multiplayer designer, Sledgehammer Games: Each year we look to bring fresh new experiences to our players and especially with the return to World War II, War was a great fit. 58 It gave us, in partnership with Raven, the opportunity to bring a little World War II history into the mix in new ways for MP, and implement various new mechanics like buildable walls and MG nests, and the mix of unique objectives and objective sequences you\u2019ll experience from map to map. 26 We also wanted to take team play to a new level, and in War, team coordination is much more critical to your success. 46 It really matters what Division you select relative to your teammates, what role you choose to play, whether that\u2019s getting up close on the objective as an Airborne soldier, or hanging back and providing some ranged cover with Mountain Division. 21 There are so many layers and tactics and it\u2019s something the team is really excited about this year! 20 PSB: What other interesting new dynamics are you bringing to War maps in the final game on 11/3? 30 SS: There are a number of things we\u2019re excited about that players will see for the first time in our three War Mode maps at launch. 18 We\u2019ve got some multi-part objectives which allow a nice layer of player/team choice and tactics. 56 For example, in your first objective in Operation Neptune, our D-Day-based War Mode map, you\u2019ll have to capture two cliff-side bunkers that are being defended by Axis soldiers trying to mow you down with their MG42 machine guns from atop the cliffs as you try to advance up the beach. 18 You can take them in any order, but you must take both in order to advance. 21 I don\u2019t want to give too much away, but there is plenty more in store for players. 21 PSB: Do you think it\u2019s important to experiment with new ways to encourage different types of teamplay? 4 SS: Absolutely! 18 All aspects of team coordination are much more important in War than many of our other modes. 30 Your Division selection is important, calling out enemy locations, building up defenses, where you choose to attack and defend and at what time, and more. 25 There are many ways to achieve victory and you\u2019ll find the most success with good coordination and team play with your allies. 12 PSB: What about the narrative possibilities for modes like War? 12 The tug-of-War dynamic brings a very different dynamic to competitive multiplayer. 5 SS: It does! 9 The narrative is the context for the action. 40 In each War Mode map, there is a primary mission objective \u2013 a reason why you\u2019re there doing what you\u2019re doing, and they\u2019re all inspired by real World War II battles. 14 Each step along the way is meaningful towards completing your primary mission objective. 64 For example, in Operation Breakout, the map players got to experience in the Beta, you\u2019re capturing a command post to acquire intel on German defenses, building a bridge so that your tank can push forward, and then finally destroying an enemy ammo supply and escorting your tank to destroy a series of Flak 88\u2019s. 19 The narrative is key to the experience in that sense \u2013 it ties all of the action together. 22 PSB: During development, were you ever tempted to go with huge player counts and bigger, more sprawling maps? 18 SS: We wanted to ensure the best gameplay experience with a high level of team coordination. 32 Our goals were to strike a balance where you feel like you\u2019re really in a World War II battle, while also keeping the gameplay experience tight and fun. 26 PSB: Some fans have pointed out apparent similarities between War Mode and missions from the Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 campaigns. 9 Was this conscious, or a happy coincidence? 58 SS: We draw inspiration from a variety of mediums and from a ton of different standpoints across the team, but our primary consideration when it came to mission selection for War Mode was that we felt that we had to put players in the middle of some of the most iconic World War II battles. 37 It\u2019s something our players haven\u2019t experienced before in Call of Duty multiplayer \u2013 to be immersed in those iconic battles and do the things that actual soldiers did during World War II. 25 It all came together and we could not be more excited for fans to jump in and play all three War Mode maps themselves."} {"text": " 24 Taking a look into some numbers that reveal why the Seahawks are struggling as they enter the final week of the regular season. 31 It\u2019s time for one more in-season review of some of the Seahawks\u2019 key statistical numbers before they play their final regular season game Sunday at San Francisco. 27 And with most stats now unlikely to change much, many stand out in revealing why the Seahawks have had some uncommon struggles in recent weeks. 7 TOTAL OFFENSE\n\n2016 \u2014355.9, 15th. 6 2015 \u2014 378.6, 4th. 29 Comment: The Seahawks appear set to have a not-insignificant dropoff in total offense this season from the past two years \u2014 Seattle averaged 375 yards in 2014. 20 Seattle was as low as 26th in week nine before gaining 420 yards in the win at New England. 15 Seattle has gained 391 yards or more in four of seven games since then. 8 YARDS PER PLAY\n\n2016 \u20145.6, 13th. 6 2015 \u2014 5.85, 5th. 10 Comment: Seattle prides itself on explosive offensive plays. 27 But as the YPP stat shows, the Seahawks have also been a little less successful at that this year than in the past two seasons. 30 The Seahawks have averaged 5.2 yards per play or less in each of the last three games after having averaged 6.4 or better in five of the previous six. 10 RUSHING YARDS\n\n2016\u2014 100.3, 22nd (tie). 6 2015 \u2014 141.8, 3rd. 29 Comment: Seattle is on pace for the worst rushing season since Carroll\u2019s first year in 2010 when the Seahawks averaged just 89 yards per game. 41 That was the year the Seahawks acquired Marshawn Lynch in October and the Seahawks averaged better than 110 yards per game rushing in the last five games of that season, heralding the rushing breakthrough to come the following season. 20 And making the fact that Seattle has yet to find a consistent post-Lynch running game all the more ominous. 10 RUSHING YARDS PER PLAY\n\n2016 \u2014 4.0, 21st. 6 2015 \u2014 4.5, 7th. 35 Comment: The dropoff is drastic in this category, too, and after an uptick from mid-November to early-December Seattle has averaged just 2.4 and 2.9 yards per carry the last two weeks. 20 Christine Michael averaged exactly the team average during his stint with the Seahawks \u2014 469 yards on 117 carries. 24 But Thomas Rawls (3.3), Russell Wilson (3.6) and Alex Collins (2.9) have brought the number down. 7 PASSING YARDS\n\n2016 \u2014255.7, 12th. 6 2015 \u2014 236.9, 20th. 44 Comment:With less of a rushing game, Seattle has had to go to the air more this year to compensate and Seattle is on pace to break the franchise record in passing yards of 254.9 yards per game set in 2002. 9 YARDS PER PASS\n\n2016 \u2014 7.8, 7th. 6 2015 \u2014 8.3, 3rd. 61 Comment: This stat shows, though, that the passing game hasn\u2019t necessarily been better \u2014 Seattle has just had to do more of it (Seattle\u2019s 529 attempts this year have already shattered the 489 of last season and Seattle will likely surpass the high of the Carroll of 544 set in 2010). 13 POINTS SCORED\n\n2016 \u2014 21.9 (points per game), 20th. 8 2015 \u2014 26.4, tied for 4th. 40 Comment: As I noted a few weeks ago, what remains a big difference this year is the lack of return touchdowns \u2014 Seattle remains with just one, the fumble return by Earl Thomas against the Saints. 16 Seattle had five, three, four and six return touchdowns the last four seasons. 18 Seattle has 35 touchdowns this season after scoring 43 or more each of the past four years. 8 TOTAL DEFENSE\n\n2016 \u2014 323.1, 7th. 6 2015 \u2014 291.8, 2nd. 30 Comment: Seattle is on track to allow what would be the most yards in a season since 2011, when the Seahawks gave up 332.2 yards per game. 45 But as the yards per play stat below shows, it\u2019s in part a function of offenses staying on the field longer \u2014 opponents have already run more plays against Seattle this year, 962, than all of last season 947. 9 YARDS PER PLAY ALLOWED\n\n2016 \u20145.0, 4th. 5 2015 \u20144.9, 2nd. 37 Comment: While this number is not much different from a year ago, it has crept up quite a bit from the dominant Super Bowl year, when Seattle allowed just 4.4 yards per play. 36 That grew to 4.6 in 2014, 4.9 last year and now hovering at 5.0, though with a chance to bring that down against one of the worst teams in the NFL this week. 8 RUSHING YARDS ALLOWED\n\n2016\u2014 95.0, 8th. 6 2015 \u2014 81.5, 1st. 39 Comment: Opponents have really tried to stay committed to the run against Seattle this season \u2014 teams have rushed the ball 410 times against the Seahawks this season compared to 362 last season and 380 in 2014. 46 This will be the first season when teams run the ball more against Seattle than Seattle has against them, as the Seahawks have just 378 rushing attempts (consider that last year Seattle ran it 501 times compared to the 362 of opponents). 40 You can debate the value of a running game, but it\u2019s hard to argue looking at the numbers through the Carroll era that Seattle has been more successful when it has been able to run it. 10 YARDS ALLOWED PER RUSH\n\n2016 \u2014 3.5, 1st. 8 2015 \u2014 3.6, tied for 3rd. 42 Comment: Here\u2019s the stat that shows it\u2019s more about opponents\u2019 willingness to stick to the run this year leading to higher rushing totals more than it is Seattle\u2019s inability to stop the run. 17 Seattle hasn\u2019t allowed more than 4.4 yards per carry in any game this season. 11 PASSING YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME\n\n2016 \u2014 228.1, 8th. 6 2015 \u2014 210.3, 2nd. 35 Comment: Passing is where the real dropoff is in Seattle\u2019s defense this season, both in terms of overall yards allowed, and as shown below in yards allowed per attempt. 10 PASSING YARDS PER PLAY ALLOWED\n\n2016 \u20147.1, 16th. 6 2015 \u2014 6.6, 5th. 19 Comment: This is also another stat that has real crept up since the 2013 Super Bowl season. 14 That year, Seattle allowed an average of just 5.82 yards per attempt. 13 But that rose to 6.32 in 2014 and then 6.6 last year. 32 The upshot is that teams are allowing 1.3 yards allowed per passing attempt, which to me is the biggest number that stands out along with the rushing yards on offense. 25 The Seahawks allowed a whopping 9.9 yards per attempt against Arizona, which comes two weeks after Green Bay averaged 9.1 yards per attempt. 33 Those are the two highest totals against Seattle this year, and come in two of the first three games the team has had to play without Earl Thomas at free safety. 48 The yards per pass allowed Saturday was the most since at least 2012 \u2014 the high in that time before Saturday came when the Rams averaged 9.5 yards per attempt in the season opener in 2015, a game Kam Chancellor missed as part of his holdout. 9 POINTS ALLOWED PER GAME\n\n2016 \u201417.9, 2nd. 6 2015 \u2014 17.3, 1st. 32 Comment: All of the above defensive numbers have helped contribute to the Seahawks likely losing a chance to lead the NFL in fewest points allowed for a fifth straight season. 40 Seattle has allowed 269 heading into the final game, second in the NFL but 33 behind the 236 of the New England Patriots, who have allowed just a lone field goal each of the last two weeks. 18 Seattle, meanwhile, has allowed 75 points in the three games it has played without Thomas."} {"text": " 26 Oklahoma police say Leland Foster was shot and killed by his neighbor after he was found trying to drown his 3-month-old twins on June 2. 27 (KFOR)\n\nPolice in Oklahoma say a father held his estranged wife at knifepoint while he tried to drown their 3-month-old twins in a bathtub. 9 A neighbor was alerted and killed the father. 28 Leland Foster, 27 years old, of Ada, Okla. allegedly went to the home of his estranged wife, Michelle Forrells, and their twins. 34 Foster pulled Forrells into a bathroom, threatened her at knifepoint and began trying to drown the children \u2014 a boy and a girl, according to Ada Public Information Officer Lisa Bratcher. 18 A 12-year-girl inside the home at the time ran to a neighbor\u2019s house for help. 21 That neighbor, Cash Freeman, grabbed his revolver, entered the house and shot Foster in the back twice. 7 He later died of his injuries. 16 The twins were airlifted to an Oklahoma City hospital and were released the next day. 46 Police told NBC News that the babies were \u201cdoing great.\u201d\n\nOne neighbor, Summer Pierce, told KFOR, \u201cI think he did the right thing because who knows what would have happened to the babies if he hadn\u2019t intervened. 17 They might not have made it.\u201d\n\nAda police say Freeman was questioned after the incident. 12 The district attorney will determine whether it was a justified homicide. 14 Freeman said he did what he had to do to save the children. 15 However, he told KFOR he was concerned that he could be in trouble. 23 Other neighbors say they heard the mother screaming \u201chelp me, help me.\u201d\n\nSome online are calling Freeman a hero. 14 Address this hero by the name his mother gave him: Cash Freeman. 32 https://t.co/1XYZ0yqERX \u2014 Nupac Shakur (@KENNotBeStopped) June 4, 2017\n\nSorry if you don't agree, but to me, #CashFreeman, is a hero. 30 Unequivocally \ud83d\udcaf% #hero Posted by Trixie Knox-Isaacs on Sunday, June 4, 2017\n\nMr Cash Freeman needs to be given a reward for saving those babies! 29 Posted by Lynn Mills on Sunday, June 4, 2017\n\nIn 2011, Foster was charged with arson and domestic violence by strangulation in the first degree. 20 In that case, Foster was accused of choking his ex-girlfriend and setting clothes on fire inside an apartment. 10 Police found the bathtub filled with water and electronics. 5 He pleaded no contest."} {"text": " 15 Medi\u00e1tico is delighted to present an inaugural contribution to this website by Nat\u00e1lia Pinazza. 12 Pinazza is an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. 21 She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Bath and a BA from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. 13 She undertook a UNESCO fellowship at the University of Ottawa, Canada. 14 Her research interests include Latin American and Lusophone cinema and transnational film theory. 35 She is the author of Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era and co-editor of World Cinema Directory: Brazil, and World Film Locations: S\u00e3o Paulo. 10 You can follow her on Twitter at @natiapina. 45 Narcos: Screening \u201cLatin Americanness\u201d\n\nBy Nat\u00e1lia Pinazza\n\nSince its premiere on the 2nd of September, the second season of Narcos, Netflix\u2019s historical drama about Pablo Escobar, has again made waves both in Latin America and abroad. 22 In a recent Facebook post, Escobar\u2019s son Juan Pablo Escobar has noted 28 errors in the second season. 37 Narcos, which is the result of a partnership between Netflix and Spanish language network Telemundo, can be situated within a broader context of recent Latin American cultural productions that focus on violent subaltern youths. 80 Two standout texts in this corpus of films, Brazilian blockbuster Elite Squad (2007) and its sequel Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), are significantly directed by one of Narcos\u2019 producers and directors, Jos\u00e9 Padilha and also star Wagner Moura, who has gone from the role of Capit\u00e3o Nascimento, a Squad captain who fights drug lords in Rio de Janeiro favelas, to the legendary Colombian kingpin in Narcos. 32 However, Moura\u2019s physical transformation (he gained 40 pounds to play the role) has been less controversial than his version of Pablo Escobar with a Brazilian accent. 82 In fact, Moura has openly admitted that he had to study Spanish to integrate into a cast formed by actors from across the continent, including the USA (Boyd Holbrook), Chile (Pedro Pascal), Costa Rica (Leynar Gomez), Colombia (Cristina Uma\u00f1a, Juan Pablo Raba), Mexico (Stephanie Sigman, Ra\u00fal M\u00e9ndez, Paulina Gaitan, Diego Cata\u00f1o, Bruno Bichir) and Puerto Rico (Luis Guzm\u00e1n). 26 Further diluting the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of the series, is Narcos\u2019 bossa nova theme tune \u201cTuyo\u201d by Brazilian singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante. 40 Whilst cross-border collaboration both in front of and behind the camera renders Narcos a legitimate Pan-American cultural product, the hodgepodge of Latin American accents testifies to the series\u2019 preoccupation with a global rather than a domestic audience. 47 For this reason, despite the patchy Colombian accents of many (but not all) of the actors and resultant issues of authenticity and historical accuracy, Narcos\u2019 success raises important questions of how \u201cLatin Americanness\u201d is constructed in a transnational context. 91 If, on the one hand, the series gives international prominence to cultural aspects of Latin America, including language, history and music, on the other, it complies with an aestheticized version of violence and poverty in evidence in a number of Latin American cultural products \u2013 for example, Amores perros (Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, 2000) and City of God (Fernando Meirelles and K\u00e1tia Lund, 2002), and the latter\u2019s spin-off series City of Men (2002-2005). 30 Clearly there are narrative and marketing strategies in Narcos that are internationally recognized in crime thrillers across the globe, including for instance, True Detective and Breaking Bad. 29 Yet, the series needs to be acknowledged as part of a tradition that capitalizes on violence in Latin America through its depictions of slums and drug lords. 24 Questions of ethics regarding the representation of slums, have been widely explored in scholarship, most notably by Brazilian critic Ivana Bentes. 75 Drawing on Glauber Rocha\u2019s seminal text \u201cAn Aesthetics of Hunger\u201d, and the fact that the favelas (slums) were a key site of representation for the Cinema Novo movement, Bentes coined the term \u201ccosmetics of hunger\u201d to refer to more contemporary approaches to the favela, in films like Padilha\u2019s Elite Squad and Fernando Meirelles\u2019s City of God (2002). 78 She suggested these films were characterized by \u201ca camera that surfs on reality, a narrative that values the beauty and the good quality of the image, and is often dominated by conventional techniques and narratives.\u201d Although Bentes\u2019 argument provides insights into contemporary representations of slums, its application of the parameters of 1960 and 1970s\u2019 revolutionary filmmaking to the analysis of films made in globalized and post-dictatorship context has proven controversial. 44 As in City of God and to a certain extent Elite Squad, Narcos\u2019 violence is naturalized by realism, which juxtaposes actual footage (home movies, news reports) and images of real life individuals and events with fictive constructions. 19 The series also draws attention to its historical content through the use of voice-over in the past tense. 21 In Narcos, Steve Murphy, a DEA agent narrates in first person voice-over his experiences fighting the drug lords. 37 Padilha employed a similar strategy in Elite Squad to create an empathetic relationship between the viewer and the \u201cgood\u201d person, who sacrifices his personal life to fight the \u201cevil\u201d drug lords. 37 Like Capit\u00e3o Nascimento whose pregnant wife leaves him because of his professional choice, Murphy\u2019s wife in Narcos goes back to Florida with their adopted baby as she does not feel safe in Medellin. 41 However, in Narcos\u2019 case, this narrative strategy has different implications as the narrator is an American character, who evokes an \u201cus\u201d, the \u201ccivilized English speaker\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d the barbarians. 65 This dichotomy between \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d is not only pertinent to the historical and political context of the story \u2013season one in particular emphasizes the context of the latter years of the Cold War and the United State\u2019s massive presence and intervention in Latin America at the time\u2013 but also to the mixing of languages in the dialogue. 40 The choice of certain Spanish words in the English dialogues such as sicarios (hitmen) and gringos and the interweaving of Latin music with sequences of extreme violence perpetuate the exoticisation of the Latin American \u201cother\u201d. 39 The only character who seems to transcend the binary between \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d and blur boundaries between Latin Americans and North Americans \u201cgringos\u201d, is agent Javier Pe\u00f1a (Pedro Pascal). 32 Pe\u00f1a has native command of both languages, and despite working for the DEA, he does not convey the same \u201cforeignness\u201d that Murphy does both physically and culturally. 13 He interacts \u201cnaturally\u201d and even works collaboratively with local people. 40 Perhaps this is a direct reflection of the choice of actor, Pascal, who was born in Chile, but raised in the USA and also known for other successful English speaking series such as Game of Thrones. 30 Arguably, Pe\u00f1a\u2019s bi-culturalism speaks to an increasing number of Latinos in United States audiences that resist the discursive tradition of the Latin American \u201cother\u201d. 26 Bi-cultural characters like Pe\u00f1a thus raise questions about ongoing changes in the very profile of international audiences, in particular audiences from the United States. 44 With its Latin American actors, directors, producer and predominantly Spanish language dialogue as well as its open acknowledgement of Escobar\u2019s status as a Robin hood figure for Colombians of the popular classes, Narcos is a counter hegemonic text. 29 At the same time, the series also complies with the mainstream genre conventions and global gaze of other internationally known representations of drug wars in Latin America."} {"text": " 6 It's about the people. 53 The Associated Press\n\nApple has announced it will fight a court order requiring it to develop a custom version of its iOS operating system so the FBI can hack into an iPhone that belonged to one of the terrorists who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California last year. 26 We don't know exactly what legal claims Apple will raise, but some speculate that Apple may argue that the order violates the Constitution. 8 And that's where things get interesting. 23 Apple Inc. is a corporation \u2013 an artificial legal entity that exists because of a charter granted under the laws of California. 23 Corporations are not people, and they shouldn't be treated as if they have constitutional rights like living, breathing people. 13 But that doesn't mean Apple doesn't have a good case. 22 It just needs to rely on an ancient legal doctrine with a Latin name and a 40-year-old precedent involving beer sales. 12 Let's step back and consider Apple's possible constitutional arguments. 16 First, some suggest that forcing Apple to write new software is unconstitutional compelled speech. 33 Many laws require corporations to produce written reports that they'd rather not produce, whether it's mandatory disclosures to stock investors or pollution discharge reports under the Clean Water Act. 8 But these aren't First Amendment violations. 20 The First Amendment's purpose is to protect democratic self-government and expressive autonomy, and neither is implicated here. 27 To be sure, in recent years corporations have managed to persuade courts that everything from milk-labeling requirements to securities disclosure laws are unconstitutional compelled speech. 49 But a court order requiring a software corporation to develop a slightly different version of its software as part of a criminal investigation isn't much different from a subpoena ordering a witness to testify, and that power of the courts doesn't infringe freedom of speech. 47 Second, the American Civil Liberties Union has suggested that Apple may also have a claim under the Fifth Amendment's due process clause, which says that no \"person\" can be deprived of \"liberty\" without \"due process of law.\" 22 Even for those who claim that the word \"person\" means \"corporation,\" this is a weak argument. 32 Corporations don't have \"liberty,\" and the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the due process clause protects \"the liberty of natural, not artificial, persons.\" 29 As for \"due process of law,\" the FBI went to a judge and got a court order, which Apple is now challenging in court. 12 How much more legal process does Apple think it's due? 44 That leaves the Fourth Amendment, which provides that \"[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.\" 21 According to pundits, Apple may argue that forcing it to break encryption might be an \"unreasonable\" search. 9 But let's unpack the Fourth Amendment argument. 12 The question here is whose Fourth Amendment rights are at stake. 10 Apple's claim as a corporation is very weak. 16 The Fourth Amendment applies, in its own words, to \"the people.\" 25 And as the Supreme Court has recognized, \"corporations can claim no equality with individuals in the enjoyment of a right to privacy. 7 They are endowed with public attributes. 21 They have a collective impact upon society, from which they derive the privilege of acting as artificial entities.\" 32 We shouldn't conflate the privacy of \"the people\" in \"their persons, houses, papers, and effects\" with the business operations of a multinational corporation. 19 But there's someone who does have a right to privacy at issue here: Apple's customers. 27 The government's demand here could both create a broader vulnerability in iOS and set a precedent for allowing the government to require backdoors in general. 20 Unfortunately, customers whose privacy might be at stake can't easily come into court to challenge the order. 21 That's where the ancient legal doctrine known as jus tertii (in English, third-party standing) comes in. 24 Usually, when you go to court, you have to argue your own rights, not someone else's, were violated. 21 But under jus tertii, sometimes X can go into court and argue that Y's rights are at stake. 26 Courts don't always allow these claims \u2013 there's a four-part test \u2013 but there are legitimate circumstances, and this might be one. 25 The classic jus tertii case involved an Oklahoma law that set different drinking ages for males (21) and females (18). 17 The question was whether the law unconstitutionally discriminated against young men on the basis of sex. 15 But the plaintiff in the Supreme Court wasn't a 19- or 20-year-old man. 18 Rather, the court allowed the case to be argued by a (female) beer vendor. 31 The beer vendor hadn't been discriminated against at all, but her male customers had, and she came into court and argued a sex-discrimination claim on their behalf. 4 And she won! 18 When corporations claim constitutional rights, ask whether the rights of any actual people are at stake. 38 Treating the artificial legal entity itself as having constitutional rights leads to bizarre results, like the theory that a publicly traded corporation has a constitutional right not to disclose information about its own products to investors. 8 The beer vendor approach makes sense here. 17 As a corporation, Apple doesn't have constitutional \"privacy\" rights of its own. 5 But its customers do. 28 This isn't one of the all-too-common scenarios where corporations make constitutional arguments that have no connection to the constitutional rights of any living, breathing people. 44 Here, where the court order threatens to compromise the privacy of people who aren't even involved in the case, Apple might well be the best, or only, party to raise claims based on iPhone customers' privacy rights. 33 And letting Apple make legal arguments based on its customers' rights is far sounder than indulging the fiction that a multinational corporation is a person with inalienable rights under our Constitution."} {"text": " 21 Repackaged for 2010\n\nThe Flapper Mini was originally designed in 2006, about a year after its older DMX-controlled brother. 29 Many of our customers were doing \u2018one-off\u2019 briefcase\u2019 gigs and didn\u2019t have time run data cables to the facility\u2019s video projectors. 9 Or there wasn\u2019t an optosplitter handy. 7 Or enough five pin data cable. 12 Or an extra channel on the light board they could use. 7 One-night gigs can be like that. 62 \u201cSo,\u201d we thought, \u201cwhy not strip away the expensive DMX interface, keep the same motor assembly and manual controller, lose the LCD display and set the whole thing free?\u201d\n\nPERFECT SYNCHRONIZATION\n\nThere\u2019s really not much to say about this one: what you see is pretty much what you get. 22 The front panel sports a male XLR jack, a power supply connector, a red LED and a green LED. 16 The LEDs glow when the flap is in position #1 or #2 respectively. 24 So all you need to do is mount the Flapper Mini near your projector and run 3-pin XLR cable to your control position. 5 That\u2019s it! 21 No universes, no patching, no splitting\u2026 Just quick and simple video reveals, any time you need them. 42 Since the unit is operated by simple contact closure, you can also use the Flapper Mini as part of an AMX / Crestron system \u2013 or anything, really \u2013 which has can handle closing a set of low-voltage contacts. 19 Sturdy Construction\n\nJust like its older brother, The Flapper Mini was designed by technicians, for technicians. 19 We\u2019ve \u2018been there & done that\u2019 long enough to understand how gear gets abused. 18 The manual switchbox is totally isolated from the base unit electrically, making control simple and trouble-free. 6 The Mini is completely self-contained. 15 You won\u2019t need to buy an expensive external power supply or controller. 15 You don\u2019t need to worry about complicated, intricate internal mechanisms breaking. 16 We didn\u2019t include any small parts to lose in the dark during strike. 24 The decal / reference panel is reverse printed on 10 mil Lexan, then attached to the chassis with a super-aggressive 3M adhesive. 16 The text won\u2019t get scratched off after a couple years on the road. 9 The chassis is constructed of durable powder-coated aluminum. 23 The \u2018wings\u2019 on the chassis contain holes of various sizes, which allow the entire chassis to be conveniently mounted. 17 We think you\u2019ll agree that it\u2019s an idea whose time has come. 47 Documentation Which May be of Interest\n\nImportant Flapper Mini Safety Warnings [pdf]\n\nFlapper Mini Instruction Sheet [pdf]\n\nA Word About the Mounting Screw [pdf]\n\nWarranty [pdf]\n\nTry it For Yourself\n\nTry a Mini risk free for 30 days. 21 If it doesn\u2019t absolutely delight you, send it back for a full refund of the purchase price. 12 But we\u2019re certain that you\u2019ll love it. 10 Flapper Minis are in stock and ready to ship. 8 Grab yours in the online store today. 16 We also offer long and short term equipment rentals at reasonable weekly / monthly rates. 6 Contact us for more details."} {"text": " 26 PELHAM, N.C. - In today\u2019s racially charged environment, there\u2019s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. 52 Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carolina-Virginia border, masked Ku Klux Klan members claimed Donald Trump\u2019s election as president proves whites are taking back America from blacks, immigrants, Jews and other groups they describe as criminals and freeloaders. 22 America was founded by and for whites, they say, and only whites can run a peaceful, productive society. 49 But still, the KKK members insisted in an interview with The Associated Press, they\u2019re not white supremacists, a label that is gaining traction in the country since Mr. Trump won with the public backing of the Klan, neo-Nazis and other white racists. 8 \u201cWe\u2019re not white supremacists. 28 We believe in our race,\u201d said a man with a Midwestern accent and glasses just hours before a pro-Trump Klan parade in a nearby town. 28 He, like three Klan compatriots, wore a robe and pointed hood and wouldn\u2019t give his full name, in accordance with Klan rules. 17 Claiming the Klan isn\u2019t white supremacist flies in the face of its very nature. 44 The Klan\u2019s official rulebook, the Kloran - published in 1915 and still followed by many groups - says the organization \u201cshall ever be true in the faithful maintenance of White Supremacy,\u201d even capitalizing the term for emphasis. 30 Watchdog groups also consider the Klan a white supremacist organization, and experts say the groups\u2019 denials are probably linked to efforts to make their racism more palatable. 10 Still, KKK groups today typically renounce the term. 27 The same goes for extremists including members of the self-proclaimed \u201calt-right,\u201d an extreme branch of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. 17 \u201cWe are white separatists, just as Yahweh in the Bible told us to be. 6 Separate yourself from other nations. 21 Do not intermix and mongrelize your seed,\u201d said one of the Klansmen who spoke along the muddy lane. 53 The Associated Press interviewed the men, who claimed membership in the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, in a nighttime session set up with help of Chris Barker, a KKK leader who confirmed details of the group\u2019s \u201cTrump victory celebration\u201d in advance of the event. 22 As many as 30 cars paraded through the town of Roxboro, North Carolina, some bearing Confederate and KKK flags. 40 Barker didn\u2019t participate, though: He and a Klan leader from California were arrested hours earlier on charges linked to the stabbing of a third KKK member during a fight, sheriff\u2019s officials said. 11 Both men were jailed; the injured man was recovering. 22 Like the KKK members, Don Black said he doesn\u2019t care to be called a white supremacist, either. 41 Black - who operates stormfront.org, a white extremist favorite website, from his Florida home - he prefers \u201cwhite nationalist.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhite supremacy is a legitimate term, though not usually applicable as used by the media. 60 I think it\u2019s popular as a term of derision because of the implied unfairness, and, like \u2018racism,\u2019 it\u2019s got that \u2018hiss\u2019 (and, like \u2018hate\u2019 and \u2018racism,\u2019 frequently \u2018spewed\u2019 in headlines),\u201d Black said in an email interview. 24 The Klan formed 150 years ago, just months after the end of the Civil War, and quickly began terrorizing freed blacks. 18 Hundreds of people were assaulted or killed as whites tried to regain control of the defeated Confederacy. 19 During the civil rights movement, Klan members were convicted of using murder as a weapon against equality. 50 Leaders from several different Klan groups have told AP they have rules against violence aside from self-defense, and opponents agree the KKK has toned itself down after a string of members went to prison years after the fact for deadly arson attacks, beatings, bombings and shootings. 64 Hate, harassment on the rise since Election Day\n\nThe Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, which monitor white extremist organizations and are tracking an increase in reports of racist incidents since the election, often use the \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d label when describing groups like the Klan; white nationalism and white separatism are parts of the ideology. 6 But what exactly is involved? 85 The ADL issued a report last year describing white supremacists as \u201cideologically motivated by a series of racist beliefs, including the notion that whites should be dominant over people of other backgrounds, that whites should live by themselves in a whites-only society, and that white people have their own culture and are genetically superior to other cultures.\u201d\n\nThat sounds a lot like some of the ideas espoused by today\u2019s white radicals, yet they reject the label. 37 That\u2019s likely because they learned the lessons of one-time Klan leader David Duke, who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana this year, said Penn State University associate professor Josh Inwood. 14 \u201c(There was) this peddling of kinder, softer white supremacy. 16 He tried to pioneer a more respectable vision of the Klan,\u201d Inwood said. 26 Extremist expert Sophie Bjork-James, a scholar at Vanderbilt University, prefers the term \u201cracist right\u201d to describe today\u2019s white supremacists. 22 \u201cThey are not simply conservative or alt-right, but actually espousing racist ideas and racist goals,\u201d she said. 45 \u201cThey won\u2019t agree with this label, but I think it is important to be clear about what they represent and what their goals are.\u201d\n\nWhatever you call them, the muddy-road Klansmen said their beliefs have gained a foothold. 33 The popularity of Trump\u2019s proposal to build a wall on the Mexican border - an idea long espoused by the Klan - is part of the proof, they said. 33 \u201cWhite Americans are finally, most of them, opening their eyes and coming around and seeing what is happening,\u201d said a man in a satiny green Klan robe."} {"text": " 34 Quebec taxi drivers have an ultimatum for the provincial government: regulate Uber before the end of June or the taxi industry will start withholding about $10 million in taxes every month. 44 \u201cWe don\u2019t want to steal this money, we\u2019re not going to send it to tax havens,\u201d Guy Chevrette, spokesperson for Quebec\u2019s biggest taxi-industry lobby group, told the Montreal Gazette on Monday. 70 \u201cWe\u2019re going to deposit it (in a trust) temporarily and then give it to the government later because that money pays for government services, while what Uber is doing is purely tax evasion.\u201d\n\nChevrette\u2019s group \u2014 the Comit\u00e9 de concertation et de d\u00e9veloppement de l\u2019industrie du taxi \u2014 represents Quebec taxi companies that oversee about 5,000 taxi permits. 41 If Quebec does not pass a law to bring Uber into line before the end of the current National Assembly session in June, taxi drivers will not forward sales taxes to the federal and provincial governments, Chevrette said. 18 Drivers will also withhold income taxes they must pay on revenue earned driving cabs, he added. 21 \u201cIt\u2019s a pressure tactic that doesn\u2019t disturb traffic and doesn\u2019t anger the public. 14 \u201cIt would be indecent for the government (to fine us). 52 They would be penalizing those operating legally while they\u2019re not penalizing those who have been operating illegally, from A to Z, since 2014.\u201d\n\nChevrette said taxi drivers have lost up to 40 per cent of their revenue because of Uber, whose drivers are not licensed. 14 In March, Quebec Transport Minister Jacques Daoust said Uber is acting illegally. 18 He promised to put forward a draft law to deal with Uber by the end of March. 16 He later backtracked, saying the issue was \u201cmore complicated\u201d than he expected. 24 The Regroupement des propri\u00e9taires de taxi de Montr\u00e9al (RPTM), which represents about 2,500 Montreal cabbies, backed the industry group. 28 The RPTM is \u201closing confidence in the government and (also) threatens to withhold taxes,\u201d said Max-Louis Rosalbert, president of the group. 26 Quebec is allowing \u201cillegal multinationals\u201d like Uber to thrive at the expense of taxi drivers who support 22,000 Quebec families, Rosalbert said. 22 The city of Ottawa recently adopted new rules that will allow companies like Uber to operate legally as of Sept. 30. 25 The move angered Ottawa taxi drivers because the city is creating a dual licensing system with taxi drivers and Uber operating under different rules. 24 In May, Toronto city council will vote on a plan that has been denounced by taxi drivers who say it favours Uber."} {"text": " 33 There should be more regular visits between Canadian and Chinese leaders, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday after getting a mild chiding for waiting so long to visit the Asian country. 29 In Beijing for the first time to meet with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Harper was reminded that a Canadian prime minister had not visited in five years. 37 \"Five years is too long a time for China-Canada relations and that's why there are comments in the media that your visit is one that should have taken place earlier,\" Wen said. 15 Harper also said he would like see Chinese leaders come to Canada more frequently. 18 \"I think on both sides, more regular visits would make sense,\" he said. 21 In an earlier meeting, Chinese President Hu Jintao also pointed out twice that it was Harper's first visit. 14 Harper said it has been five years since a Chinese leader visited Canada. 16 Despite the gentle proddings, Harper's visit to China seemed to be producing results. 36 In a joint communiqu\u00e9, the countries said China will bestow the label of \"preferred tourist destination\" on Canada, a move that will make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit Canada. 9 China will also open a consulate in Montreal. 25 The statement only briefly mentioned the issue of human rights, saying the two sides agreed they had \"distinct points of view.\" 80 \"We always make sure when we bring up these matters \u2014 whether they relate to particular cases that you\u2019re aware of in the newspaper that have been discussed from time to time, or whether they\u2019re broader questions such as the situation in Tibet \u2014 we always bring these up in a way that is frank, at the same time in a way that is respectful of Chinese sovereignty,\" Harper said. 28 Cool relations\n\nRelations between Canada and China have been cool in recent years as Harper has pressed the Chinese government to improve its record on human rights. 27 In their joint communiqu\u00e9, the leaders pledged to keep discussing human rights, trade and investment, and to co-operate on \"green\" technology. 35 Commenting on the scolding from the Chinese leadership, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said it was as though Harper \"had received a slap in public\" and that it will cost Canada jobs. 10 \"He lost face today,\" Ignatieff said. 24 \"And in that culture, losing face is very important and I do think it's cost Canada economic opportunity today.\" 33 Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae charged that Canada has paid a price for four years \"of not just living on the margins, but actually, deliberately disregarding China.\" 54 \"This was a deliberate decision on [Harper's] part to ignore the relationship and to assert that it had no particular importance for him, and I think we\u2019re now paying a very, very heavy price for that decision,\" Rae told reporters on Parliament Hill. 36 In another development, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman called on Canada to deport Lai Changxing, who is accused by China of running a smuggling empire that netted him more than $10 billion. 15 Changxing has taken refuge in Vancouver for the last nine years after fleeing China. 13 Chinese newspapers have taken a somewhat mixed tone toward Harper's visit. 45 On Wednesday, the government-run China Daily ran a story touting Harper's arrival as a sign that ties between the two countries may \"thaw,\" while another article described Harper's visit as \"late\" but \"still welcome.\" 39 An editorial in the Global Times, a publication of the country's Communist Party, accused Harper of criticizing the Chinese government to appease his electoral base and of turning \"a cold shoulder to China.\""} {"text": " 45 PITTSBURGH (March 25, 2017) \u2013 The Pittsburgh Riverhounds (0-0-1) and defending league champion New York Red Bulls II (0-0-1) battled to a 3-3 draw in a back-and-forth affair that saw the Hounds three times overcome one-goal deficits. 35 Opening the 2017 season in front of 3,352 people at Highmark Stadium, the Hounds were buoyed by a two-goal performance from Corey Hertzog, as well as one goal from captain Kevin Kerr. 19 Netting the tallies for New York was Vincent Bezecourt, also with two goals, and Florian Valot. 26 The pace of play was flying to open the match, as both clubs traded several chances resulting in a 1-1 score after 10 minutes. 6 Pittsburgh had two near misses. 39 In the second minute, Jack Thompson saw his shot from the center of the box miss high, and then in the fourth minute, Hertzog had a go from distance that missed right of the goal. 37 New York would not miss, converting on its first serious threat in the sixth minute, as Arun Basuljevic split the Hounds defense with a through-ball into the box to Valot for the eventual score. 21 The opposing squad\u2019s lead was short lived, however, as Hertzog went full-highlight reel just minutes later. 30 Receiving the ball on the end line from Taylor Washington, Hertzog eluded two defenders and goalkeeper Rafael Diaz in an incredible balancing act before slotting the ball home. 19 The next couple minutes followed a similar theme with Pittsburgh controlling possession, but New York being opportunistic. 32 In the 16th minute, Andrew Tinari flicked a useful ball to Bezecourt in space, who then fired a shot past a diving Keasel Broome to recapture a 2-1 lead. 35 Strong keeper play from Broome kept the deficit at one before a pretty run by defender Rich Balchan, making his Hounds debut, led to the first half equalizer in the 39th minute. 20 Balchan, Marshall Hollingsworth and Kerr connected with a quick three-touch effort resulting in the latter finishing past Diaz. 17 Locked at two at halftime, pace of play slowed considerably in the final 45 minutes. 20 Physical play resulted in five cautions alone for the Hounds, as well as penalty kicks for each club. 23 New York was awarded the first PK in the 75th minute after Ryan Adeleye fouled second-half sub Ben Mines in the box. 12 Bezecourt would go onto secure the brace on the penalty try. 32 The Hounds attack did not relent though, mounting a considerable amount of pressure following the penalty, including a shot from distance by Victor Souto forcing a save from Diaz. 23 Regaining possession shortly after the save, the Hounds were awarded a PK in the 80th minute after Hertzog was taken down. 20 Shooting for his second goal of the night, Hertzog\u2019s penalty take was initially saved by Diaz. 35 The Hounds forward though stayed with the shot after Diaz could not maintain possession, collecting the rebound and beating the keeper on the second chance attempt to secure a point for the Hounds. 28 The draw marked an encouraging start to the season for the Hounds compared to last year, when the club scored three or more goals only twice. 46 For Hertzog, his two-goal effort was the third of his career with Pittsburgh and his now 15 career goals in Black and Gold move him into a tie for eighth all-time in club history \u2013 Said Ali and Gary DePalma being the other two. 30 The Hounds are right back at it next Saturday at Highmark Stadium, as they will take on FC Cincinnati at 5 p.m. For more information, visit Riverhounds.com."} {"text": " 35 Fired FBI honcho James Comey has come out swinging as he told a Senate intelligence committee that he was shocked and unnerved when President Trump \"chose to defame me\" following his ouster. 42 Comey said that in conversations with Trump both before and after he had moved into the White House, he was repeatedly told he had been doing a great job as FBI director, so his dismissal came as a surprise. 96 Read: After Trump Tweets About Terror Attack, London Mayor Wants President's Visit Canceled\n\nAddressing the president's assertions that the FBI was in disarray under him, Comey said Trump's remarks were \u201clies, plain and simple.\u201d\n\n\u201cAlthough the law requires no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the FBI by saying that the organization was if disarray, that it was poorly led, that the work force had lost confidence in its leader. 8 \u201cThose were lies plain and simple. 31 And I am so sorry that the FBI work force had to hear them and I am so sorry that the American people were told them,\u201d he said. 21 Comey told lawmakers that he had \"no doubt\" that the Russian government tampered with the 2016 presidential election. 42 Comey was asked by Senator Richard Burr when he became aware of Russia\u2019s election cyberattacks and said it came in the \u201clate summer of 2015,\u201d which would have been months after Trump jumped into the race. 43 He was also asked if President Trump tried to stop the Russia investigation, and Comey replied: \u201cnot to my understanding, no.\u201d\n\nLater in the questioning, Comey said: \"There should be no fuzz on this. 12 The Russians interfered with our election\u2026 They did it with purpose. 6 They did it with sophistication. 8 It\u2019s not a close call. 10 It happened.\u201d\n\nComey was fired on May 7. 21 At the time, he meeting with the L.A. bureau of the FBI, and learned the news on television. 12 He later returned home to the East Coast as a civilian. 51 Read: Trump Slams London Mayor After Terror Attack and Shuns 'Political Correctness'\n\n\u201cI want the American people to know this truth \u2014 the FBI is honest, the FBI is strong, and the FBI is and always will be independent,\u201d he said during his testimony. 37 After he was sworn in, Comey said he would not read his opening statement submitted Wednesday, but addressed his former FBI staff when he said he was sorry he was unable to say goodbye. 26 During an impassioned speech before questioning, Comey said: \u201cI worked every day at the FBI to help make that great organization better. 9 The FBI will be fine without me.\" 9 Watch: Is Trump Recording Oval Office Visitors? 6 Speculation Grows as Impeachment Talk Swirls"} {"text": " 46 The Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night in what was Kobe Bryant's final road game as an NBA player but it was a pair of female fans that stole the show once they were placed on the Kiss Cam. 51 As you can see from the video clip above, one female fan in attendance at Chesapeake Energy Arena pump faked the cameraman once she appeared on the Loves Kiss Cam by moving towards the man on her right before changing course and kissing the woman seated on her left. 37 Naturally, fans in Oklahoma City were shocked by what they saw on the scoreboard and the Thunder decided that it would be in their best interests to simply cut the rest of the bit short."} {"text": " 21 With just two episodes remaining in its sophomore run, The Newsroom has allegedly been renewed for a third season. 35 Star Jeff Daniels \u2014 whose portrayal of anchor Will McAvoy on the HBO drama earned him a 2013 Emmy nod \u2014 announced the news late Tuesday, tweeting, \u201cIt\u2019s official. 75 \u201c#Newsroom coming back for a Season 3.\u201d (The cabler, for its part, released the following statement: \u201cWe are excited about proceeding to a Season 3 and are continuing our conversations with [creator] Aaron [Sorkin] about schedules.\u201d)\n\nRELATED | True Blood Cancelled \u2014 HBO Confirms Season 7 End Date\n\nA Newsroom pick-up seemed a foregone conclusion at the Television Critics Assoc. 43 summer press tour in July, when HBO president Michael Lombardo shared, \u201cConversations with Aaron Sorkin are all about scheduling, as he has other commitments\u2026 I will be shocked if you would not be hearing about a renewal soon. 23 The numbers this season are surpassing last season.\u201d\n\nThe Newsroom\u2018s penultimate Season 2 episode airs this Sunday at 10/9c."} {"text": " 33 Please enable Javascript to watch this video\n\n$4,040,404,040,404.04 is what Molly Layes of Fort Smith saw on her computer screen Tuesday morning (Oct.3) when she checked her bank account. 15 She said she couldn\u2019t believe her eyes when she saw the numbers. 27 \"Your hearts starts racing when you see a large amount of money, especially when it's in your bank account,\u201d said Layes. 39 \u201cIt was almost scary.\u201d\n\nAfter Layes saw the digits on her screen, she wasn't sure if they were real or not, so she called BancorpSouth Bank to see if the numbers added up. 33 \"Our bank over the last two days has been saying, what in the world created this?\u201d said Saundra Lockhart, Vice President of BancorpSouth Marketing in Fort Smith. 20 \u201cWe don't have an answer, it was not real numbers it was just a display.\" 17 Lockhart said to her knowledge this is the first time BancorpSouth has encountered anything like this. 23 Although the bank said the trillions of dollars was an error, Layes said she had a few purchases already in mind. 20 \"One of my coworkers actually decided to plan a trip to buy an island,\u201d said Layes. 20 Layes said she's been banking with BancorpSouth for close to three years and will continue to do so. 21 In addition to buying an island she said she would have donated most of her $4 trillion to charity. 28 The trillions of dollars that appeared in the account, is about a quarter of our nation\u2019s debt, which is nearly $17 trillion."} {"text": " 46 It's been far too long since our thoughts have turned to Kath and Dave's dog-parenting, Toni and Candace's bathroom policy, or Lance and Nina's safe words so thank god(dess) that Portlandia's third season premieres tomorrow. 84 There's been a lot of scuttlebutt about what celebrities and musicians Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have lined up this go-round (following the likes of Aimee Mann, St. Vincent, Steve Buscemi, Kristen Wiig, Miranda July, Tim Robbins, Andy Samberg and Eddie Vedder -- to name but a few) so we've done some digging and have come up with a guide to whom you can expect to see next in the City of Roses. 29 And, if the information below feels like it contains too many season three spoilers, just (telepathically) shout \"cacao\" and we'll stop. 40 New Guest Stars\n\nChlo\u00c3\u00ab Sevigny will play Fred and Carrie's third roommate who, we hear, may cause some tension in their living arrangement (and get her picture taken by the Mayor, apparently). 24 [Photo via IFC]\n\nRoseanne Barr will take over the mayor's office after Kyle MacLachlan's goes missing (again). 31 Fred Armisen told EW of her two-episode arc:\n\nThrough a temp agency, [Barr] fills in as mayor...She does things in the most efficient way. 22 Because the character didn't grow up in Portland, she doesn't have the same understanding of how things go. 24 She's more like, 'Look, this is a city, so we have to do those things that cities do.' 16 We wanted an outsider to come in and say, 'What is this place?' 201 Jack White in \"The Studio\"\n\nBobby Moynihan in \"Vagina Pillows\"\n\nRELATED\n\n\"Carrie Brownstein Without Irony\"\n\n[Photo by Frank Di Marco viaOn the recent winter special, which aired last month, comediansand) played a bearish couple who own a fledgling stew shack called Stu's Stews (Featuring Donald).Actresswill play Fred's love interest.Also on the winter special was's, who added another layer to feminist bookstore co-owner Candace (Armisen) when he appeared as her son, asking his mom and her colleague Toni (Brownstein) to watch his newborn baby and demurring when the Women & Women First gals pressure him into buying a vagina pillow.Comedianwill play an elusive Evite user whose fake RSVPs have become legendary among the electronic invitation circuit.is reportedly appearing as someone's cuckoo ex-girlfriend (here's hoping she used to date Brownstein's Lance).MTV All-Starsandwill play themselves in a sketch that features righteous bike messenger Spyke (Armisen) and his better half Iris (Brownstein) recruiting the VJs to stage a takeover of MTV and to bring back music programming to the station's airwaves. 30 [Photo via Vulture made a cryptic appearance in the winter special, arriving to a home recording studio owned by a vintage music gear-obsessed character played by Armisen. 134 (have a fun little cameo playing themselves after they're hired by Brownstein's butch biker dude, Lance, to perform for his girlfriend Nina on her birthday.writer, PAPER Beautiful Person and closet smoocherand actress(who plays Susie on Adult Swim'sspoofand Jack McBrayer's amorous wife in) will play a young couple who are prepared to go into debt in order to attend an outlandish birthday party, hosted by the aformentioned Nina.We also hear, the, and tennis champwill be heading out (North) West but you'll have to watch season three to find out their roles and where they fit in on thespectrum.andare returning as the WASP-gone-weird mayor and (we assume) the eccentric owner of an artisanal knot store , respectively. 43 Comedianwill also be back, this time forgoing his role as a waiter at Around the World in 80 Plates for an equally maddening bank employee character who helps Mike O'Brien and Maria Thayer's couple take out a \"birthday loan. 28 \"And, in case you missed the winter special last month, below are a few choice clips featuring cameos by Bobby Moynihan and Jack White. 19 Also head over to Eater to watch Jim Gaffigan and Matt Lucas play the hirsute stew-slinging couple.Bottom line? 8 We can't wait for season three."} {"text": " 51 The contradiction and tragedy of communist-anarchism Part IV Share This:\n\nEGOISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM\n\n\"Many a year I've used my nose\n\nTo smell the onion and the rose;\n\nIs there any proof which shows\n\nThat I've a right to that same nose?\" 14 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller\n\nThe philosophy of individualist-anarchism is \"egoism.\" 52 It is not my purpose here to give a detailed account of this philosophy, but I would like to explode a few of the more common myths about egoism and present to the reader enough of its essence so that he may understand more clearly the section on individualist economics. 33 I am tempted here to quote long extracts from \"The Ego and His Own,\" for it was this book which first presented the egoist philosophy in a systematic way. 19 Unfortunately, I find that Stirner's \"unique\" style does not readily lend itself to quotation. 23 So what I have done in the following pages is to dress up Stirner's ideas in a language largely my own. 20 Voltaire once said, \"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.\" 19 Bakunin wisely retorted, \"If God DID exist, it would be necessary to abolish him.\" 8 Unfortunately, Bakunin would only abolish God. 10 It is the egoist's intention to abolish GODS. 23 It is clear from Bakunin's writings that what he meant by God was what Voltaire meant - namely the religious God. 20 The egoist sees many more gods than that - in fact, as many as there are fixed ideas. 31 Bakunin's gods, for example, include the god of humanity, the god of brotherhood, the god of mankind - all variants on the god of altruism. 15 The egoist, in striking down ALL gods, looks only to his WILL. 8 He recognizes no legitimate power over himself. 14 * The world is there for him to consume - if he CAN. 9 And he can if he has the power. 13 For the egoist, the only right is the right of might. 32 He accepts no \"inalienable rights,\" for such rights - by virtue of the fact that they're inalienable - must come from a higher power, some god. 30 The American Declaration of Independence, for example, in proclaiming these rights found it necessary to invoke the \"Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.\" 19 The same was true of the French Revolutionary \"Declaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen.\" 32 ---------------------------------------\n\nHe does not, of course, claim to be omnipotent. 7 There ARE external powers over him. 46 The difference between the egoist and non-egoist in this regard is therefore one mainly of attitude: the egoist recognizes external power as an enemy and consciously fights against it, while the non-egoist humbles himself before it and often accepts it as a friend. 40 ---------------------------------------\n\nThe egoist recognizes no right - or what amounts to the same thing - claims ALL rights for himself. 23 What he can get by force he has a right to; and what he can't, he has no right. 13 He demands no rights, nor does he recognize them in others. 23 \"Right - is a wheel in the head, put there by a spook,\" [73] says Stirner. 14 Right is also the spook which has kept men servile throughout the ages. 11 The believer in rights has always been his own jailer. 20 What sovereign could last the day out without a general belief in the \"divine right of kings\"? 10 And where would Messrs. Nixon, Heath, et. 2 al. 11 be today without the \"right\" of the majority? 10 Men make their tyrants as they make their gods. 45 -----------------------------------------------------\n\n* Many people cite trade unions as a \"proof\" of man's solidarity and sociability. 6 Just the opposite is true. 17 Why else do people strike if not for their own \"selfish\" ends, e.g. 10 higher wages, better working conditions, shorter hours? 81 -----------------------------------------------------\n\nLet us look at a hive of bees to see what would happen if \"reason\" were suddenly introduced into their lives:\n\n\"In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square. 29 All sorts of systems and inventions would be tried, until long experience, aided by geometry, should show them that the hexagonal shape is the best. 5 Then insurrections would occur. 54 The drones would be told to provide for themselves, and the queens to labour; jealousy would spread among the labourers; discords would burst forth; soon each one would want to produce on his own account; and finally the hive would be abandoned, and the bees would perish. 26 Evil would be introduced into the honey-producing republic by the power of reflection, - the very faculty which ought to constitute its glory.\" 19 [75]\n\nSo it would appear to me that reason would militate against blind, selfless cooperation. 19 But by the same token, reason leads to cooperation which is mutually beneficial to all parties concerned. 13 Such cooperation is what Stirner called a \"union of egoists.\" 24 [76] This binding together is not done through any innate social instinct, but rather as a matter of individual convenience. 11 These unions would probably take the form of contracting individuals. 58 The object of these contracts not being to enable all to benefit equally from their union (although this isn't ruled out, the egoist thinks it highly unlikely), but rather to protect one another from invasion and to secure to each contracting individual what is mutually agreed upon to be \"his.\" 14 By referring to a man's selfishness, you know where you stand. 8 Nothing is done \"for free.\" 4 Equity demands reciprocity. 17 Goods and services are exchanged for goods and services or (what is equivalent) bought. 13 This may sound \"heartless\" - but what is the alternative? 20 If one depends on kindness, pity or love the services and goods one gets become \"charity.\" 21 The receiver is put in the position of a beggar, offering nothing in return for each \"present.\" 29 If you've ever been on the dole, or know anyone who has, you will know that the receiver of such gifts is anything but gracious. 11 He is stripped of his manhood and he resents it. 21 Now the egoist isn't (usually) so cold and cruel as this description makes him out to be. 15 As often as not he is as charitable and kind as his altruist neighbour. 17 But he CHOOSES the objects of his kindness; he objects to COMPULSORY \"love.\" 4 What an absurdity! 11 If love were universal, it would have no meaning. 21 If I should tell my wife that I love her because I love humanity, I would be insulting her. 25 I love her not because she happens to be a member of the human race, but rather for what she is to me. 20 For me she is something special: she possesses certain qualities which I admire and which make me happy. 24 If she is unhappy, I suffer, and therefore I try to comfort her and cheer her up - for MY sake. 7 Such love is a selfish love. 8 But it is the only REAL love. 12 Anything else is an infatuation with an image, a ghost. 41 As Stirner said of his loved ones, \"I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes ME happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. 9 I know no 'commandment of love'.\" 15 [77]\n\nThe lover of \"humanity\" is bewitched by a superstition. 21 He has dethroned God, only to accept the reign of the holy trinity: Morality, Conscience and Duty. 12 He becomes a \"true believer\" - a religious man. 13 No longer believing in himself, he becomes a slave to Man. 21 Then, like all religious men, he is overcome with feelings of \"right\" and \"virtue.\" 22 He becomes a soldier in the service of humanity whose intolerance of heretics rivals that of the most righteous religious fanatic. 27 Most of the misery in the world today (as in the past) is directly attributable to men acting \"for the common good.\" 9 The individual is nothing; the mass all. 7 The egoist would reverse this situation. 19 Instead of everyone looking after the welfare of everyone else, each would look after his own welfare. 51 This would, in one fell swoop, do away with the incredibly complicated, wasteful and tyrannical machinery (alluded to previously) necessary to see to it that not only everyone got his fair share of the communal pie, but that everyone contributed fairly to its production. 26 In its stead we egoists raise the banner of free competition: \"the war of all against all\" as the communists put it. 14 But wouldn't that lead to (dare I say it) ANARCHY? 5 Of course it would. 13 What anarchist would deny the logical consequences of the principles he advocates? 13 But let's see what this \"anarchy\" would be like. 28 The egoist believes that the relationships between men who are alive to their own individual interests would be far more just and equitable than they are now. 7 Take the property question for example. 9 Today there is a great disparity of income. 21 Americans make up about 7% of the world's population, but they control over half of its wealth. 20 And among the Americans, nearly one quarter of the wealth is owned by 5% of the people. 19 * [78] Such unequal distribution of wealth is due primarily to the LEGAL institution of property. 31 Without the state to back up legal privilege and without the people's acquiescence to the privileged minority's legal right to that property, these disparities would soon disappear. 25 For what makes the rich man rich and the poor man poor if not the latter GIVING the former the product of his labour? 35 ---------------------------------------------\n\n* Contrary to popular belief, this gulf is getting larger. 30 Since 1966, despite a constantly mushrooming GNP, the American factory workers' REAL wages (as opposed to his apparent, inflationary wages) have actually declined. 42 [79]\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nStirner is commonly thought to have concerned himself little with the economic consequences of his philosophy. 42 It is true that he avoided elaborating on the exact nature of his \"union of egoists,\" saying that the only way of knowing what a slave will do when he breaks his chains is to wait and see. 14 But to say that Stirner was oblivious to economics is just not so. 4 On the contrary. 49 It was he, after all, who translated into German both Adam Smith's classic \"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations\" and Jean Baptiste Say's pioneering work on the free market economy, \"Traite d'Economie Politique.\" 92 The few pages he devotes to economics in \"The Ego and His Own\" are among his best:\n\n\"If we assume that, as ORDER belongs to the essence of the State, so SUBORDINATION too is founded in its nature, then we see that the subordinates, or those who have received preferment, disproportionately OVERCHARGE and OVERREACH those who are put in the lower ranks....By what then is your property secure, you creatures of preferment?...By our refraining from interference! 6 And so by OUR protection! 9 And what do you give us for it? 32 Kicks and disdain you give to the 'common people'; police supervision, and a catechism with the chief sentence 'Respect what is NOT YOURS, what belongs to OTHERS! 9 respect others, and especially your superiors!' 19 But we reply, 'If you want our respect, BUY it for a price agreeable to us. 17 We will leave you your property, if you give a due equivalent for this leaving. 20 '...What equivalent do you give for our chewing potatoes and looking calmly on while you swallow oysters? 26 Only buy the oysters of us as dear as we have to buy the potatoes of you, then you may go on eating them. 49 Or do you suppose the oysters do not belong to us as much as to you?...Let us consider our nearer property, labour...We distress ourselves twelve hours in the sweat of our face, and you offer us a few pennies for it. 9 Then take the like for your labour too. 5 Are you not willing? 26 You fancy that our\n\nlabour is richly repaid with that wage, while yours on the other hand is worth a wage of many thousands. 73 But, if you did not rate yours so high, and gave us a better chance to realise value from ours, then we might well, if the case demanded it, bring to pass still more important things than you do for the many thousand pounds; and, if you got only such wages as we, you would soon grow more industrious in order to receive more. 67 But, if you render any service that seems to us worth ten and a hundred times more than our own labour, why, then you shall get a hundred times more for it too; we, on the other hand, think also to produce for you things for which you will requite us more highly than with the ordinary day's wages. 51 We shall be willing to get along with each other all right, if only we have first agreed on this - that neither any longer needs to - PRESENT anything to the other....We want nothing presented by you, but neither will we present you with anything. 52 For centuries we have handed alms to you from good-hearted - stupidity, have doled out the mite of the poor and given to the masters the things that are - not the masters'; now just open your wallet, for henceforth our ware rises in price quite enormously. 27 We do not want to take from you anything, anything at all, only you are to pay better for what you want to have. 5 What then have you? 11 'I have an estate of a thousand acres.' 21 And I am your plowman, and will henceforth attend to your fields only for a full day's wages. 7 'Then I'll take another.' 34 You won't find any, for we plowmen are no longer doing otherwise, and, if one puts in an appearance who takes less, then let him beware of us. 24 There is the housemaid, she too is now demanding as much, and you will no longer find one below this price. 11 'Why, then it is all over with me.' 4 Not so fast! 35 You will doubtless take in as much as we; and, if it should not be so, we will take off so much that you shall have wherewith to live like us. 9 'But I am accustomed to live better.' 22 We have nothing against that, but it is not our lookout; if you can clear more, go ahead. 16 Are we to hire out under rates, that you may have a good living? 19 The rich man always puts off the poor with the words, 'What does your want concern me? 21 See to it how you make your way through the world; that is YOUR AFFAIR, not mine.' 35 Well, let us let it be our affair, then, and let us not let the means that we have to realise value from ourselves be pilfered from us by the rich. 12 'But you uncultured people really do not need so much.' 28 Well, we are taking somewhat more in order that for it we may procure the culture that we perhaps need....'O ill-starred equality!' 11 No, my good old sir, nothing of equality. 27 We only want to count for what we are worth, and, if you are worth more, you shall count for more right along. 23 We only want to be WORTH OUR PRICE, and think to show ourselves worth the price that you will pay.\" 74 [80]\n\nFifty years later Benjamin Tucker took over where Stirner left off:\n\n\"The minute you remove privilege, the class that now enjoy it will be forced to sell their labour, and then, when there will be nothing but labour with which to buy labour, the distinction between wage-payers and wage-receivers will be wiped out, and every man will be a labourer exchanging with fellow-labourers. 28 Not to abolish wages, but to make EVERY man dependent upon wages and secure to every man his WHOLE wages is the aim of Anarchistic Socialism. 9 What Anarchistic Socialism aims to abolish is usury. 20 It does not want to deprive labour of its reward; it wants to deprive capital of its reward. 23 It does not hold that labour should not be sold; it holds that capital should not be hired at usury.\" 35 [81]\n\nFranklin D. Roosevelt said in his second inaugural address that \"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.\" 16 I've tried to show in this section that self-interest is \"good morals.\" 12 I now intend to show that it is also good economics. 21 Back to category overview Back to news overview Older News Newer News\n\nThe tyrant is a man like any other. 11 His power comes from the abdicated power of his subjects. 19 If people believe a man to have superhuman powers, they automatically GIVE him those powers by default. 23 Had Hitler's pants fallen down during one of his ranting speeches, the whole course of history might have been different. 8 For who can respect a naked Fuehrer? 4 And who knows? 40 The beginning of the end of Lyndon Johnson's political career might well have been when he showed his operation scar on coast-to-coast television for the whole wide world to see that he really was a man after all. 44 This sentiment was expressed by Stirner when he said, \"Idols exist through me; I need only refrain from creating them anew, then they exist no longer: 'higher powers' exist only through my exalting them and abasing myself. 43 Consequently my relation to the world is this: I no longer do anything for it 'for God's sake,' I do nothing 'for man's sake,' but what I do I do 'for my sake'.\" 22 [74] The one thing that makes a man different from any other living creature is his power to reason. 17 It is by this power that man can (and does) dominate over the world. 20 Without reason man would be a pathetic non-entity - evolution having taken care of him long before the dinosaur. 21 Now some people say that man is by nature a social animal, something like an ant or a bee. 29 Egoists don't deny the sociability of man, but what we do say is that man is sociable to the extent that it serves his own self-interest. 15 Basically man is (by nature, if you will) a selfish being. 7 The evidence for this is overwhelming. 46 *-----------------------------------------------------* Many people cite trade unions as a \"proof\" of man's solidarity and sociability. 6 Just the opposite is true. 17 Why else do people strike if not for their own \"selfish\" ends, e.g. 90 higher wages, better working conditions, shorter hours?-----------------------------------------------------Let us look at a hive of bees to see what would happen if \"reason\" were suddenly introduced into their lives:\"In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square. 29 All sorts of systems and inventions would be tried, until long experience, aided by geometry, should show them that the hexagonal shape is the best. 5 Then insurrections would occur. 54 The drones would be told to provide for themselves, and the queens to labour; jealousy would spread among the labourers; discords would burst forth; soon each one would want to produce on his own account; and finally the hive would be abandoned, and the bees would perish. 26 Evil would be introduced into the honey-producing republic by the power of reflection, - the very faculty which ought to constitute its glory.\" 19 [75]So it would appear to me that reason would militate against blind, selfless cooperation. 19 But by the same token, reason leads to cooperation which is mutually beneficial to all parties concerned. 13 Such cooperation is what Stirner called a \"union of egoists.\" 24 [76] This binding together is not done through any innate social instinct, but rather as a matter of individual convenience. 11 These unions would probably take the form of contracting individuals. 57 The object of these contracts not being to enable all to benefit equally from their union (although this isn't ruled out, the egoist thinks it highly unlikely), but rather to protect one another from invasion and to secure to each contracting individual what is mutually agreed upon to be \"his. 15 \"By referring to a man's selfishness, you know where you stand. 8 Nothing is done \"for free.\" 4 Equity demands reciprocity. 17 Goods and services are exchanged for goods and services or (what is equivalent) bought. 13 This may sound \"heartless\" - but what is the alternative? 20 If one depends on kindness, pity or love the services and goods one gets become \"charity.\" 21 The receiver is put in the position of a beggar, offering nothing in return for each \"present.\" 29 If you've ever been on the dole, or know anyone who has, you will know that the receiver of such gifts is anything but gracious. 11 He is stripped of his manhood and he resents it. 21 Now the egoist isn't (usually) so cold and cruel as this description makes him out to be. 15 As often as not he is as charitable and kind as his altruist neighbour. 17 But he CHOOSES the objects of his kindness; he objects to COMPULSORY \"love.\" 4 What an absurdity! 11 If love were universal, it would have no meaning. 21 If I should tell my wife that I love her because I love humanity, I would be insulting her. 25 I love her not because she happens to be a member of the human race, but rather for what she is to me. 20 For me she is something special: she possesses certain qualities which I admire and which make me happy. 24 If she is unhappy, I suffer, and therefore I try to comfort her and cheer her up - for MY sake. 7 Such love is a selfish love. 8 But it is the only REAL love. 12 Anything else is an infatuation with an image, a ghost. 41 As Stirner said of his loved ones, \"I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes ME happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. 9 I know no 'commandment of love'.\" 15 [77]The lover of \"humanity\" is bewitched by a superstition. 21 He has dethroned God, only to accept the reign of the holy trinity: Morality, Conscience and Duty. 12 He becomes a \"true believer\" - a religious man. 13 No longer believing in himself, he becomes a slave to Man. 21 Then, like all religious men, he is overcome with feelings of \"right\" and \"virtue.\" 22 He becomes a soldier in the service of humanity whose intolerance of heretics rivals that of the most righteous religious fanatic. 27 Most of the misery in the world today (as in the past) is directly attributable to men acting \"for the common good.\" 14 The individual is nothing; the mass all.The egoist would reverse this situation. 19 Instead of everyone looking after the welfare of everyone else, each would look after his own welfare. 51 This would, in one fell swoop, do away with the incredibly complicated, wasteful and tyrannical machinery (alluded to previously) necessary to see to it that not only everyone got his fair share of the communal pie, but that everyone contributed fairly to its production. 26 In its stead we egoists raise the banner of free competition: \"the war of all against all\" as the communists put it. 14 But wouldn't that lead to (dare I say it) ANARCHY? 5 Of course it would. 13 What anarchist would deny the logical consequences of the principles he advocates? 39 But let's see what this \"anarchy\" would be like.The egoist believes that the relationships between men who are alive to their own individual interests would be far more just and equitable than they are now. 7 Take the property question for example. 9 Today there is a great disparity of income. 21 Americans make up about 7% of the world's population, but they control over half of its wealth. 20 And among the Americans, nearly one quarter of the wealth is owned by 5% of the people. 19 * [78] Such unequal distribution of wealth is due primarily to the LEGAL institution of property. 31 Without the state to back up legal privilege and without the people's acquiescence to the privileged minority's legal right to that property, these disparities would soon disappear. 60 For what makes the rich man rich and the poor man poor if not the latter GIVING the former the product of his labour?---------------------------------------------* Contrary to popular belief, this gulf is getting larger. 30 Since 1966, despite a constantly mushrooming GNP, the American factory workers' REAL wages (as opposed to his apparent, inflationary wages) have actually declined. 42 [79]--------------------------------------------Stirner is commonly thought to have concerned himself little with the economic consequences of his philosophy. 42 It is true that he avoided elaborating on the exact nature of his \"union of egoists,\" saying that the only way of knowing what a slave will do when he breaks his chains is to wait and see. 14 But to say that Stirner was oblivious to economics is just not so. 4 On the contrary. 49 It was he, after all, who translated into German both Adam Smith's classic \"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations\" and Jean Baptiste Say's pioneering work on the free market economy, \"Traite d'Economie Politique.\" 92 The few pages he devotes to economics in \"The Ego and His Own\" are among his best:\"If we assume that, as ORDER belongs to the essence of the State, so SUBORDINATION too is founded in its nature, then we see that the subordinates, or those who have received preferment, disproportionately OVERCHARGE and OVERREACH those who are put in the lower ranks....By what then is your property secure, you creatures of preferment?...By our refraining from interference! 6 And so by OUR protection! 9 And what do you give us for it? 32 Kicks and disdain you give to the 'common people'; police supervision, and a catechism with the chief sentence 'Respect what is NOT YOURS, what belongs to OTHERS! 9 respect others, and especially your superiors!' 19 But we reply, 'If you want our respect, BUY it for a price agreeable to us. 17 We will leave you your property, if you give a due equivalent for this leaving. 20 '...What equivalent do you give for our chewing potatoes and looking calmly on while you swallow oysters? 26 Only buy the oysters of us as dear as we have to buy the potatoes of you, then you may go on eating them. 49 Or do you suppose the oysters do not belong to us as much as to you?...Let us consider our nearer property, labour...We distress ourselves twelve hours in the sweat of our face, and you offer us a few pennies for it. 9 Then take the like for your labour too. 5 Are you not willing? 25 You fancy that ourlabour is richly repaid with that wage, while yours on the other hand is worth a wage of many thousands. 73 But, if you did not rate yours so high, and gave us a better chance to realise value from ours, then we might well, if the case demanded it, bring to pass still more important things than you do for the many thousand pounds; and, if you got only such wages as we, you would soon grow more industrious in order to receive more. 67 But, if you render any service that seems to us worth ten and a hundred times more than our own labour, why, then you shall get a hundred times more for it too; we, on the other hand, think also to produce for you things for which you will requite us more highly than with the ordinary day's wages. 51 We shall be willing to get along with each other all right, if only we have first agreed on this - that neither any longer needs to - PRESENT anything to the other....We want nothing presented by you, but neither will we present you with anything. 52 For centuries we have handed alms to you from good-hearted - stupidity, have doled out the mite of the poor and given to the masters the things that are - not the masters'; now just open your wallet, for henceforth our ware rises in price quite enormously. 27 We do not want to take from you anything, anything at all, only you are to pay better for what you want to have. 5 What then have you? 11 'I have an estate of a thousand acres.' 21 And I am your plowman, and will henceforth attend to your fields only for a full day's wages. 7 'Then I'll take another.' 34 You won't find any, for we plowmen are no longer doing otherwise, and, if one puts in an appearance who takes less, then let him beware of us. 24 There is the housemaid, she too is now demanding as much, and you will no longer find one below this price. 11 'Why, then it is all over with me.' 4 Not so fast! 35 You will doubtless take in as much as we; and, if it should not be so, we will take off so much that you shall have wherewith to live like us. 9 'But I am accustomed to live better.' 22 We have nothing against that, but it is not our lookout; if you can clear more, go ahead. 16 Are we to hire out under rates, that you may have a good living? 19 The rich man always puts off the poor with the words, 'What does your want concern me? 21 See to it how you make your way through the world; that is YOUR AFFAIR, not mine.' 35 Well, let us let it be our affair, then, and let us not let the means that we have to realise value from ourselves be pilfered from us by the rich. 12 'But you uncultured people really do not need so much.' 28 Well, we are taking somewhat more in order that for it we may procure the culture that we perhaps need....'O ill-starred equality!' 11 No, my good old sir, nothing of equality. 27 We only want to count for what we are worth, and, if you are worth more, you shall count for more right along. 23 We only want to be WORTH OUR PRICE, and think to show ourselves worth the price that you will pay.\" 74 [80]Fifty years later Benjamin Tucker took over where Stirner left off:\"The minute you remove privilege, the class that now enjoy it will be forced to sell their labour, and then, when there will be nothing but labour with which to buy labour, the distinction between wage-payers and wage-receivers will be wiped out, and every man will be a labourer exchanging with fellow-labourers. 28 Not to abolish wages, but to make EVERY man dependent upon wages and secure to every man his WHOLE wages is the aim of Anarchistic Socialism. 9 What Anarchistic Socialism aims to abolish is usury. 20 It does not want to deprive labour of its reward; it wants to deprive capital of its reward. 23 It does not hold that labour should not be sold; it holds that capital should not be hired at usury.\" 35 [81]Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his second inaugural address that \"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.\" 16 I've tried to show in this section that self-interest is \"good morals.\" 12 I now intend to show that it is also good economics. 49 Printer Friendly Wendy McElroy - Saturday 27 June 2009 - 06:00:00 - Permalink I am delighted to publish an original essay by friend and Voluntaryist Ken Knudson on the intellectual contradiction that is \"communist-anarchism\" and the tragic debacle of trying to translate the contradiction into reality. 17 Wendymcelroy.com blog should be cited with a link back if the essay is quoted or reprinted. 22 Click on Part I ; click on Part II ; click on Part III : Revolution, The Road to Freedom? 23 The author invites comments and feedback menckenfan\u00a9gmail.com [Editor: Ken and I have an ongoing and well-trod disagreement about rational egoism. 13 I am among those who subscribe to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ghost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of natural rights. 12 Ah well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a little pepper in a friendship just seasons it.] 25 Check back to tomorrow for the next segment of Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s excellent essay.EGOISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOMThe philosophy of individualist-anarchism is \"egoism.\" 52 It is not my purpose here to give a detailed account of this philosophy, but I would like to explode a few of the more common myths about egoism and present to the reader enough of its essence so that he may understand more clearly the section on individualist economics. 33 I am tempted here to quote long extracts from \"The Ego and His Own,\" for it was this book which first presented the egoist philosophy in a systematic way. 19 Unfortunately, I find that Stirner's \"unique\" style does not readily lend itself to quotation. 41 So what I have done in the following pages is to dress up Stirner's ideas in a language largely my own.Voltaire once said, \"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.\" 19 Bakunin wisely retorted, \"If God DID exist, it would be necessary to abolish him.\" 8 Unfortunately, Bakunin would only abolish God. 10 It is the egoist's intention to abolish GODS. 23 It is clear from Bakunin's writings that what he meant by God was what Voltaire meant - namely the religious God. 20 The egoist sees many more gods than that - in fact, as many as there are fixed ideas. 31 Bakunin's gods, for example, include the god of humanity, the god of brotherhood, the god of mankind - all variants on the god of altruism. 15 The egoist, in striking down ALL gods, looks only to his WILL. 8 He recognizes no legitimate power over himself. 14 * The world is there for him to consume - if he CAN. 9 And he can if he has the power. 13 For the egoist, the only right is the right of might. 32 He accepts no \"inalienable rights,\" for such rights - by virtue of the fact that they're inalienable - must come from a higher power, some god. 30 The American Declaration of Independence, for example, in proclaiming these rights found it necessary to invoke the \"Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.\" 19 The same was true of the French Revolutionary \"Declaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen.\" 31 ---------------------------------------He does not, of course, claim to be omnipotent. 7 There ARE external powers over him. 84 The difference between the egoist and non-egoist in this regard is therefore one mainly of attitude: the egoist recognizes external power as an enemy and consciously fights against it, while the non-egoist humbles himself before it and often accepts it as a friend.---------------------------------------The egoist recognizes no right - or what amounts to the same thing - claims ALL rights for himself. 23 What he can get by force he has a right to; and what he can't, he has no right. 13 He demands no rights, nor does he recognize them in others. 23 \"Right - is a wheel in the head, put there by a spook,\" [73] says Stirner. 14 Right is also the spook which has kept men servile throughout the ages. 11 The believer in rights has always been his own jailer. 20 What sovereign could last the day out without a general belief in the \"divine right of kings\"? 10 And where would Messrs. Nixon, Heath, et. 2 al. 21 be today without the \"right\" of the majority?Men make their tyrants as they make their gods."} {"text": " 8 What\u2019s that up your nose? 27 Researchers have found carbon nanotubes lurking in the lungs of children in Paris, marking the first time the tiny tubes have been observed in humans. 34 New Scientist reports thatDuring a study of the fluid found in the airways of 64 astmathic children, a team from the University of Paris-Saclay found carbon nanotubes in each and every sample. 28 In five cases they also found the nanotubes within the immune cells of lungs, known as macrophages, that help clear unwanted particles from the airways. 7 The results are published in EBioMedicine. 35 Advertisement\n\nUpdate: For a little bit of extra context for those unfamiliar with carbon nanotubes, they\u2019re cylindrical carbon molecules \u2014 imagine a sheet of graphene wrapped up into a tube. 26 Their material properties of light weight, good conductivity and high 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can use to teach her new skills and add her into devices and applications of your own. 14 On Sunday October 16th we bring you the Hackster.io + Amazon Alexa workshop! 20 Memo Doring, Alexa Developer Evangelist at Amazon, will be teaching Alexa Skill Building 101 starting at noon. 42 In this talk, intended for software and hardware developers interested in voice control, home automation, and personal assistant technology, we will walk through the development of a new Alexa skill and incorporate it into a consumer-facing device. 15 The talk will be followed by snacks and sandwiches and an afternoon of hacking."} {"text": " 18 The Prime Minister spoke today at the Bank of England to celebrate its 20 years of independence. 40 But she has failed to recognise the irony of trumpeting the virtues of capitalism in the seat of monetary policymaking which has, for the past ten years, undermined many of the principles on which capitalism is based. 30 In theory, the central bank operates independently of Government, but in practice, its unconventional monetary policies have acted as a democratically unaccountable arm of the Treasury. 26 It is understandable that, in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers were looking for new ideas to save the banking system. 29 They used monetary policy as the weapon of choice, on the pretext that there was no alternative and Japanese-style economic conditions must be avoided at all costs. 20 This view prevailed and the side-effects or long-term consequences of so-called \u2018Quantitative Easing\u2019 were not really considered. 14 As an emergency response, one can understand that this policy had appeal. 18 It could be introduced quickly, would boost capital markets and allow Governments to borrow more cheaply. 20 But the transmission mechanisms for economic revival were not carefully monitored, nor were the damaging side-effects considered seriously. 28 The fact that QE has turned out to be just a fancy name for \u2018printing money\u2019 to finance government borrowing has still not been recognised. 29 Instead of the politicians printing the money, as would be the case in many banana republics, this time is was the \u2018independent\u2019 central banks. 28 This gave the exercise an air of respectability and the benefits to Government and financial markets were so enormous that it has been adopted around the world. 68 Normally, markets would punish countries which just created new money to finance their borrowing, but when all major countries are doing this and the policy enriches financial market players and the wealthiest groups, the capital markets have turned a blind eye to the underlying reality and keep pretending that central banks can just \u2018unwind\u2019 QE once it wishes to tighten policy again. 9 Of course, this is simply not credible. 37 But far from worrying about how to deal with the stock of debt on central bank balance sheets, for the past years they have just kept on creating more huge sums to increase their purchases. 16 Even after the economic emergency has passed, the monetary drug continues to be administered. 41 Talk of \u2018tapering\u2019 has already caused market dislocations, but don\u2019t forget that this \u2018tapering is only creating less new money\u2019, it\u2019s not stopping the policy, let alone reversing it. 38 The Fed has begun to make noises in this direction, but the scale of the task is so enormous, it\u2019s hard to see how anything meaningful could be achieved without causing market mayhem. 10 And politicians have bought into the QE story completely. 12 Of course they have, because it helps them so much. 40 Without QE, the cost of borrowing to finance current Government spending would be far higher and politicians would have to make difficult decisions (much harder than the \u2018austerity\u2019 that has been so vilified here). 22 They would have to cut spending further, or raise taxes or keep borrowing ever more until the markets lose confidence. 15 But the truth is that central banks have become an arm of fiscal policy. 22 Buy buying so much sovereign debt, they have allowed policymakers to believe they can afford more spending and lower taxes. 25 The longer QE persists, the deeper the hole is being dug in public finances and the harder it will be to climb out. 11 But the difficult decisions cannot be ducked for ever. 27 I believe the fallout from the unconventional monetary policies is having political consequences which are now causing a loss of confidence in our entire capitalist system. 10 Ordinary people have not perceived much benefit from QE. 20 Yet they have seen how it has enriched wealthy groups, boosted asset markets and helped the financial sector. 48 Meanwhile, they have felt the pain of rising rents and house prices, students have been saddled with mounting debts that don\u2019t reflect current low rates, younger workers have been shut out of final salary-type pensions as QE has made them increasingly unaffordable. 9 Recent political events demonstrate disaffection with conventional politics. 26 The votes for Brexit, Trump, Macron and far-right nationalists in Germany and other EU countries have been a shock to the established order. 24 I think one could argue that the sudden surge in populism represents a loss of confidence in capitalism, economic policy and democracy. 16 Britain is suddenly engaged in a battle between the hard left and the hard right. 8 It is also facing a hard Brexit. 34 There are no easy choices, but leaving the EU when there is the real threat of Marxist expropriation of private assets and punitive taxes on wealth creation would further damage future generations. 23 I suggest that unconventional monetary policies may have played a role in the rise of populism and voters\u2019 desire for change. 10 So far, such potential impacts have been ignored. 28 Yet, the side effects of Quantitative Easing (QE), especially after so long, may be feeding popular disaffection with the entire capitalist system. 17 Mrs. May has not recognised this yet, but it would be advisable to consider it. 17 Capitalism assumes free flows of capital and market forces, to allocate resources and determine outcomes. 27 But global monetary policy has interfered with capitalism as central banks have artificially distorted capital markets, possibly undermining the basis on which the system depends. 24 QE was introduced as a supposedly temporary emergency experiment to revive growth by lowering long-term interest rates once short rates were approaching zero. 14 Buying sovereign debt with newly-created money pushed up bond prices thus lowering yields. 29 Initially, savers were told they should be grateful for a return \u2018of\u2019 their capital, rather than expecting a return \u2018on\u2019 their capital. 58 I believe there were alternatives to QE \u2013 for example if the Government had decided to take RBS (and possibly Lloyds) into national ownership on a temporary basis, it would have ensured shareholders lost out in the way capitalism intended, rather than being paid by the Government for shares that were effectively worthless. 22 I know this may sound heretical, but it is a sounder capitalist solution than QE has turned out to be. 30 It would also have helped shore up the prudence of the banking sector, when shareholders realise they can lose everything if they allow companies to operate so irresponsibly. 43 Once in public ownership, these huge commercial banks could have used their nationwide networks and branches to ensure lending reached small businesses across the country and could have been managed by keeping bank staff on, rather than by civil servants. 48 The aim would be to sell the banks back into the market once the economic emergency was over (as it has been for several years) and better protections had been put in place to avoid a repeat of the reckless lending that caused the crisis. 19 That is of course with the benefit of hindsight, but I was saying this at the time. 27 However the attractions of QE were much greater and Labour was frightened of nationalisation, having spent so many years trying to overcome their leftist image. 22 It is ironic that the fallout from fears of nationalisation has been partially to boost the rise of extreme left Labour. 25 These policies have been roundly discredited in the past and Venezuela is a more recent example of the economic failure of extreme left economics. 18 But with so much anger and disaffection at the status quo, more radical ideas are required. 21 The Tories really need to confront the problems facing our nation with a better understanding of what has gone wrong. 23 And when will they admit that a \u2018no deal\u2019 Brexit would compound the economic catastrophe that seems to be looming. 14 With or without Brexit, the perils of monetary policy should be recognised. 21 It seems that the drug is so powerful for strong groups that they cannot bear to give it up. 16 But the short-term \u2018fixes\u2019 are storing up more problems as time goes on. 17 The problem for capitalism is that Government bonds are supposed to be \u2018risk-free\u2019 assets. 22 As the lowest risk asset class, other capital markets \u2013 and models of capital market pricing \u2013 use this benchmark. 9 QE has distorted this \u2018risk-free\u2019 rate. 20 With a buyer determined to boost the price of these assets, it is no longer a free market. 24 And when bond yields fall sharply, investors need to find other sources of return, which pushes up all other asset prices. 8 Asset prices across most markets have soared. 12 And the policy has been maintained well beyond the economic emergency. 33 Despite rising growth and employment, global central banks have continued creating more money to buy more and more bonds, thereby artificially distorting capital markets even further for almost ten years. 24 This has benefitted powerful interest groups, which may explain why the policy has been prolonged, but it has also disadvantaged others. 49 With 90% of ordinary people\u2019s savings being in cash or cash-like instruments, most people felt the pain or QE as saving rates plunged, while the wealthiest 10% have benefited enormously from rising asset markets in which they hold much of their wealth. 17 Artificially boosted asset price increases have negative effects on society, because assets are unevenly distributed. 24 The top 5% of households own nearly half of UK assets and 80% of all assets are owned by the over-45s. 31 So, the wealthiest and older households have become even wealthier, while QE-induced house price rises lead to higher rents, which have further disadvantaged non-homeowners and the young. 35 Such social and distributional side-effects of unconventional monetary policies are under-recognised, perhaps because the policy is so beneficial to Governments, but politicians would do well to consider the potentially damaging political consequences. 12 In effect, monetary policy has acted like regressive fiscal policy. 28 If politicians announced tax changes to enrich the wealthiest groups and redistribute money away from younger and less wealthy people, there would be a voter backlash. 16 But disguising such fiscal measures as monetary policy has achieved similar impacts without democratic accountability. 41 The powerful groups who benefit most from QE \u2013 governments, financial market participants and the wealthiest \u2013 have so far held sway, but it is important to consider the democratic dangers to capitalism which prolonged QE may pose. 19 Such ongoing redistribution may at least partly explain disaffection with the \u2018establishment\u2019 and rise of populism. 30 Many voters have started to realise that something is not quite right, that the economy is not really working well for them, but are not sure why. 12 So they vote for change, anyone that promises different ideas. 12 Politicians may have started to feel the consequences of such disaffection. 8 But what can they do about it? 18 Asset bubbles have been inflated in many areas, debt levels have risen and consumers are over-extended. 21 Perhaps a dose of \u2018people\u2019s QE\u2019 or debt write-off will be needed in years to come."} {"text": " 83 \"The Himalayan Trust raises money for the Sherpa and other Nepalese people living in the shadow of Everest, and I do hope you will choose to support our worthwhile projects through this fundraising initiative\"\n\nCommemorative $5 Bank Note\n\nThis commemorative $5 banknote is a mint condition, genuine uncirculated banknote, provided by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as the only officially authorised banknotes available for the Sir Edmund Hillary Project and this valuable fundraising initiative. 27 Sir Edmund Hillary was perhaps the only living person worldwide depicted on a banknote of a country's legal tender, apart from heads of state! 27 Each unique banknote was personally signed 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one time and for whatever reason that it shall decide. 14 The single order limit has been set to a maximum of five banknotes. 11 Multiple orders from individuals or organisations may not be actioned. 20 Orders will only be actioned and dispatched once payment by credit card has been confirmed to the Clubs satisfaction. 11 All orders received will be actioned following confirmation of payment. 32 Since the banknotes are kept in secure bank vault storage it could take up to 14 working days to access them, package your order, and arrange for courier delivery. 11 Recognised international and domestic courier services are used for delivery. 14 Delivery costs, registration and insurance costs are included in your purchase price. 23 A street address or personal delivery address is required in your application to ensure a record of personal receipt of your banknotes."} {"text": " 5 Chocrotes is a chicken. 12 He lives in a far away world inhabited by only chickens. 17 In his world questions are illegal, but the problem is Chocrotes likes to ask questions. 19 In fact Chocrotes' parents named him after a famous chicken philosopher who asked all sorts of questions. 20 Chocrotes parents allow him to ask questions at home, but tell him not to ask questions anywhere else. 16 The evil Rooster king, Doodle Doo, has anyone who asks a question arrested. 15 Chocrotes may be a chicken, but he is no... umm... turkey? 20 He asks a question in school and for it he is banished by King Doodle Doo to another land. 15 After five long years, Chocrotes returns to try to overthrow King Doodle Doo. 16 I really like the message in this book - asking questions is good for everyone. 16 It also has the message of standing up for yourself when you believe in something. 14 I thought that it being set in a world of chickens was great. 16 I think chickens are funny and I love the idea of a world of chickens. 11 I am not fond of the artwork in the book. 20 Chocrotes is a good main character and he helps to get the message of the book to the reader. 16 I like the play on the name Socrates and the idea of a chicken philosopher. 19 :) Because the story idea is really good, I was wanting more out of the book. 29 I thought it was to short (only 31 pages) for the ages it is meant for (ages 10-13) and more details could be given. 28 Even though I think the story needs to be added to, I am glad I read it and it is a story that makes me think. 19 **Note - I got a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review."} {"text": " 20 SOCCEROOS forward Robbie Kruse has revealed he wants to finish his playing career in the A-League with Melbourne Victory. 26 The 26-year-old is closing in on peak fitness after missing almost nine months, including the World Cup in Brazil, with a knee injury. 31 Kruse joined the Socceroos pre-Asian Cup training camp on the weekend and it is apt that it is being held in Melbourne as that is where he kickstarted his career. 39 After an often turbulent two seasons in Brisbane, Kruse switched to Victory in 2009 where he would go on to score 16 goals in 39 games before securing a move to Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf in the German Bundesliga. 35 ASIAN CUP FIXTURES\n\nSOCCEROOS SQUAD SELECTOR\n\nASIAN CUP TOURNAMENT PREDICTOR\n\nKruse currently sits fifth on Victory\u2019s all-time leading goalscoring list, but indicated on Tuesday he intends to add to that mark. 22 \u201cMelbourne is definitely my favourite place here in Australia, I definitely call it home now,\u201d Kruse said. 24 \u201cI want to live here when I finish my career and I\u2019d love to end it here with Melbourne Victory. 29 \u201cI have fond memories of AAMI Park and playing in front of the Victory fans - they\u2019re definitely some of the best in the league. 35 \u201cSo hopefully they can pack the stadium here (for the game against Kuwait) and create a hostile environment.\u201d\n\nRobbie Kruse wants to finish his career at former club Melbourne Victory. 36 Source: Getty Images\n\nKruse was one of Australia\u2019s most important players before he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while training for current club, German giants Bayer Leverkusen. 32 When it became clear he would be unable to join his Socceroos teammates in Brazil, Kruse said it helped to have the Asian Cup on home soil on the horizon. 34 \u201cObviously my rehab went for about seven or eight months, so I felt that this tournament (was something) I was working towards the whole time,\u201d he said. 25 \u201cI see it as something where I can kind of right the wrong of not being able to go to the World Cup. 18 This is going to be a big tournament for me to get back to where I was. 14 \u201cI\u2019ve been looking forward to this for a year now. 31 You go through so many emotions when you miss such a big tournament like the World Cup and I\u2019m thankful this has come around just six months later. 43 \u201cHopefully I can do my part for the team, we can put on a good performance and hopefully win the tournament.\u201d\n\nAnother Socceroo who can use a past injury as motivation in the coming weeks is fullback Ivan Franjic. 52 The Victorian started at right back for Australia\u2019s first World Cup match against Chile and would go on to set up Tim Cahill for his headed goal, only to suffer a serious hamstring injury in the second half that ruled him out for the remainder of the tournament. 31 \u201cIt\u2019s always disappointing from a personal perspective, getting injured, but I think everything happens for a reason, especially in football,\u201d Franjic said. 20 \u201cI\u2019m ready for the Asian Cup because that\u2019s what I\u2019m living on. 25 The World Cup is in the past now, I\u2019m looking towards the future and the Asian Cup is in the future. 57 \u201cIt\u2019s definitely given me more hunger though and I\u2019ve been training a lot harder to make sure I\u2019m ready come the first game of the Asian Cup.\u201d\n\nFranjic completed his move from Brisbane Roar to Torpedo Moskva just after the World Cup and made his debut in October. 13 Robbie Kruse is fit and ready to fire at the Asian Cup. 25 Source: Getty Images\n\nThe 27-year-old said after a slow start he felt as if he has started to find his feet in Russia. 34 \u201cIt\u2019s definitely changed my game especially because we\u2019re a team that defends a lot because we\u2019re at the bottom of the table,\u201d he said. 19 \u201cSo it\u2019s helped me in a defensive sense and helped me improve as a player. 14 \u201cIn terms of quality and experience it\u2019s a great league. 39 I just had a bad start because I had to go for my operation with the hamstring and recovery (from that) so it\u2019s taken a bit longer to get in to the groove there. 22 \u201cBut once I got in there and really started playing with the team I started getting used to the league. 18 I just needed a bit of time to adjust from the Australian to the Russian league.\u201d"} {"text": " 16 This article was written by Yosef Cohen, a Financial Analyst at I Know First . 41 Nvidia Stock Analysis\n\nSummary\n\nNVDA company summary\n\nEarnings Analysis\n\nFinancial Statement Analysis\n\nPartnerships and elite and diversified products\n\nI Know First Forecast on NVDA\n\nNVDA Company Summary\n\nNVDA has grown a miraculous nearly 200% since the beginning of 2016. 10 Speculation shows that its run isn\u2019t over. 16 Nvidia Corporation (NVDA) is in the semiconductor industry and produces visual computing chips. 38 Nvidia\u2019s main products are GPUs (graphics processing units) for the gaming industry and Tegra chips (system on a chip units) for the mobile computing and newly introduced, the automotive market. 18 The main product sectors in Nvidia are gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automobiles. 19 Q3 Earnings and Analysis\n\nNvidia had very strong Q3 earnings which sparked a stark increase in stock price. 13 Revenue topped $2.0 billion, trouncing expectations of $1.7 billion. 13 This was a 53.6% increase from last quarter\u2019s revenue. 12 Earnings per share were $.83 beating expectations of $.57. 16 Nvidia surpassed earnings expectations every quarter this year showing their bullish trend for future earnings. 24 Net income this quarter reached $542 million, which is a 107% increase from last quarter\u2019s $261 million. 17 GPU sales were up 53% to $1.7 billion (85% of revenue). 11 Tegra processors were up 87% to $241 million. 15 GPUs sold to gamers crossed the billion-dollar mark in revenue despite dwindling PC sales. 10 These stunning numbers aren\u2019t just a fluke. 39 As CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said at earnings \u201cWe had a breakout quarter \u2013 record revenue, record margins and record earnings were driven by strength across all product lines.\u201d There are reasons earnings were this strong. 17 Nvidia has spent two billion dollars on R&D to provide better products to consumers. 22 They have made alliances with companies that use their chips, which is what raised Nvidia\u2019s revenue so much. 17 Next quarter\u2019s earnings should be stronger based on ongoing relationships and further product evolution. 16 Revenue is expected to reach $2.1 billion with a 2% margin of error. 17 Financial Statement Analysis\n\nOther aspects of Nvidia\u2019s financial statements make it a good buy. 21 The company\u2019s gross margin is at 59.03% and has steadily been increasing over the last several quarters. 15 This shows a decreasing cost of goods sold which is netting Nvidia higher profits. 28 This, combined with higher quality products that has increased Nvidia\u2019s revenue so much, is a strong augur for growing profits in the future. 14 Nvidia\u2019s retained earnings is also at an impressive $4.68 billion. 17 This year added one billion dollars to retained earnings showing what a successful year Nvidia had. 23 Dividends were raised 22% to $0.14 per share after this quarter in order to give back more money to investors. 30 Nvidia also spent $509 million in share repurchases in 2016, which shows Nvidia\u2019s board\u2019s belief in Nvidia growing into an even larger success. 13 Nvidia also has relatively low long-term debt at only $2.0 billion. 28 This debt was taken on to do R&D this year on AI (which will be used in Tesla\u2019s autopilot car program). 15 This is significantly lower than retained earnings showing that Nvidia is a safe investment. 20 It also shows that Nvidia took the loan to better its products \u2013 a promising investment for the future. 14 Nvidia also has few little debt because it is in the tech industry. 10 Most of their expenses are from R&D. 23 This strong financial information is part of what makes Nvidia an attractive option even though it has already nearly tripled this year. 22 Partnerships and Elite and Diversified Products\n\nNvidia has branched out over the last year in terms of both products and partnerships. 14 New lower-end products have cut into AMD\u2019s market share in GPUs. 17 Q2\u2019s numbers for GPU market share were 70% Nvidia and 29.9% AMD. 11 This quarter\u2019s numbers should be higher for Nvidia. 23 Nvidia has also been diversifying its products by entering new markets such as artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and virtual reality. 16 This will lead to further products being released from Nvidia, which will increase revenue. 11 Partnerships have also been what is making Nvidia so successful. 30 Highlights this quarter include a partnership with Tesla for self-driving cars such as the Model S, Model X and the Model 3 and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. 23 Nvidia\u2019s chips are also being used for research in several universities: Stanford, New York University, and Berkeley. 15 Nvidia\u2019s products have and will continue to draw draw in more companies. 23 Companies such as Microsoft and Sony can switch over from AMD\u2019s GPUs to Nvidia\u2019s for their next systems. 19 Many other companies may also use Nvidia\u2019s new AI technology as well as their advanced GPUs. 21 This leads to large opportunities in Nvidia\u2019s future, which can cause its stock price to further soar. 13 I Know First Forecast\n\nBelow you can find the forecast for NVDA. 16 NVDA is projected to perform superbly in the next month, three months and year. 15 I Know First has predicted NVDA\u2019s stock movements correctly in the past. 18 This article was bullish on NVDA in June, and NVDA is up 96% since then. 15 This forecast was sent to I Know First subscribers on June 21st, 2016. 6 To subscribe today click here."} {"text": " 21 Angolan authorities should immediately drop charges against two journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. 44 Rafael Marques de Morais, who runs the anti-corruption website Maka Angola, and Mariano Bras, of the weekly, O Crime, were charged with \u201ccrimen injuria,\u201d which is similar to insult laws, the journalists told CPJ. 28 Morais said a prosecutor questioned him for three hours on December 27 before charging him over an article he wrote and published on Maka Angola in October. 23 The article alleged wrongdoing by Angola\u2019s attorney general, Jo\u00e3o Maria de Sousa, in his purchase of state-owned land. 29 Bras, who republished the article in his paper, said he was questioned for three hours the following day, before being charged with the same crime. 23 Bras said he was questioned about the veracity of the report in his paper and for details about who owned the publication. 13 Morais said a court date has not been set for his case. 14 If convicted, the journalists could be jailed for six months and fined. 30 \u201cAngola\u2019s prosecution service should drop all charges against Rafael Marques de Morais and Mariano Bras,\u201d said CPJ\u2019s Africa program coordinator Angela Quintal. 36 \u201cAngola should immediately stop persecuting these journalists simply for doing their jobs by reporting on allegations of official corruption.\u201d\n\nThis is not the first time for Morais to be charged by Angolan authorities. 40 He was given a suspended six-month prison sentence last year for defaming Angolan generals in his book Blood Diamonds: Torture and Corruption in Angola that documented allegations of torture and murder in diamond fields, according to reports. 26 In 1999 he was imprisoned for 43 days without charge after referring to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos as a dictator, The Guardian reported. 47 Bras has been under investigation since June 2015 for alleged abuse of press freedom, defamation, and insult of public authorities, following a complaint by Angola\u2019s army chief and the minister of interior, according to rights group, Front Line Defenders."} {"text": " 32 On the 9th of November, hundreds of marchers took to the streets for the \u201cOur Generation Our Choice\u201d march against climate chaos, racism, and militarized policing. 27 Simultaniously, a rally was taking place in front of the White House protesting Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s, visit begging Obama for more military aid. 17 When the climate march arrived at 16th and H, they stopped and blockaded the intersection. 13 Police tried and failed to prevent the two protests from joining forces. 22 Police attempted to close the crossing into Lafayette Square from H st, permitting people to leave but not to enter. 21 This failed as Palestinian protesters who crossed to interact with the climate marchers defied police and returned to their rally. 18 meanwhile, police were blocking traffic several blocks away from the closed street as they usually do. 17 The resulting traffic jams surely would have complicated an effort to move Netanyahu around by motorcade. 24 The location of the blockade may have been a surprise for police, as a line of cars was trapped on H st. 10 Drivers in expensive luxury cars leaned on their horns. 13 Finally police were able to extract the traffic jam from the back. 16 Police chose not to attempt to arrest the blockaders, instead simply waiting things out. 23 When marchers finally left 16th and H, the Palestine protesters marched out with them, fusing the two protests into one. 8 Both protests were in part about colonialism. 29 The Middle East is subject to colonialism to extract oil, and US support for Israel provided the colonists with a difficult to dislodge base in the region. 20 Extraction of fossil fuels, minerals, and uranium on Turtle Island also comes part and parcel with colonialism. 28 An estimated 30% of remaining fossil fuels in the so-called \u201cUnited States\u201d is on land even the US government admits is Native American land. 28 The march and blockade was called \u201cOur Generation Our Choice\u201d and was composed mostly of young people with a lot to lose from climate chaos. 42 The keynote speakers at the pre-march rally were two Lakota youth from South Dakota, one of whom lives just five miles from the route of the defeated Keystone XL, which was known as the Black Snake to the Lakota. 44 One of the speakers said racism, poverty, and pollution of the land from uranium mining have created conditions so dire that young people are committing suicide or killing each other off at a rate that threatens the future of the tribe. 27 Yes, genocide against Native Americans is ongoing, and now just as when gold was first found in the Black Hills greed is the motive. 29 The failed Keystone XL and all that oil fracking and \u201cman camps\u201d in North Dakota are but two of the most blatent examples of domestic colonialism. 17 The former Harper regime\u2019s behavior towards First Nations is Occupied Canada is another example. 25 These are also examples of resistance, as Native and non-Native people have joined hands and killed off pipeline after pipeline in both countries. 24 Enbridge is looking at possibly losing ALL their new tar sands projects north of the Canadian border, and the Keystone is dead. 15 With investment shifting away from fossil fuels, tar sands projects are being cancelled. 33 In addition, Shell has given up their offshore arctic drilling plans after spending billions of dollars and fighting protesters who blockaded one of their ships only to drill a dry hole. 71 Video of the march and blockade(2 min 30 sec)\n\nThe intersection of 16th and H completely blocked by \u201cOur Generation Our Choice\u201d\n\nThe Palestine protest in front of the White House against Netanyahu\u2019s visit to beg for more US aid\n\nOur Generation Our Choice marching to the blockade\n\nThe combined protests marching on K st instead of expensive cars full of corporate lobbyists\n\nAdvertisements"} {"text": " 27 If Hugh Jackman wants to quit the \u201cX-Men\u201d franchise, Keanu Reeves would jump at a shot to take on the role of Wolverine. 38 Reeves admitted to Moviefone he\u2019s always enjoyed the comic book roles and auditioned for both Christian Nolan\u2019s \u201cDark Knight\u201d trilogy as well as Wolverine in Warner Bros. \u201cX-Men\u201d films. 8 \"I always wanted to play Wolverine. 7 But I didn't get that. 8 And they have a great Wolverine now. 9 I always wanted to play The Dark Knight. 8 But I didn't get that one. 11 They've had some great Batmans,\" Reeves said. 13 \"So now I'm just enjoying them as an audience.\" 29 Unfortunately for Reeves, the actor would\u2019ve been unlikely to land the role of Bruce Wayne in \u201cBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice\u201d. 31 The film\u2019s producer Charles Roven recently explained to \u201cThe Hollywood Masters\u201d series why the production wanted Ben Affleck to play Batman over other actors in Hollywood. 20 \"He was the first guy we went to, that's who we wanted,\u201d Roven said. 23 \u201cWe knew that we wanted a very mature Batman, because we wanted to juxtapose him with this very young Superman. 37 \u201cSo we wanted a guy, who was tougher, rugged, who had signs of life, who had lived a hard life, and we wanted the guy to have chops for sure. 22 So when we went down that list, there just weren't a tremendous number of guys who could carry that. 9 We also wanted a guy with big stature. 4 Ben is 6-4. 28 Henry [Cavill] is a 6-1.\u201d\n\n\u201cBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice\u201d will be released to theaters on March 25, 2016. 15 Do you think Reeves would\u2019ve made for a great Batman or Wolverine? 11 Chime in on the conversation in the comments section below."} {"text": " 38 Draft nugget from KC Johnson over the weekend:\n\nCoincidentally, with Rose entering the final year of his contract, the Bulls are targeting a point guard aggressively in the draft for the second straight year. 30 Last year, the Bulls were fully prepared to select a point guard from a draft deep at that position before Bobby Portis unexpectedly dropped to them at No. 2 22. 12 This year's draft isn't as deep at point guard. 28 If the Bulls don't trade up, one player sources say intrigues them \u2014 Providence combo guard Kris Dunn \u2014 certainly would be gone at No. 2 14. . 20 One major limitation is the current roster is the Bulls inability to develop a point guard behind Derrick Rose. 27 The front office, who 'preferred to build through the draft' in KC's words, used that strength to select Marquis Teague in 2012. 19 Teague didn't last 2 seasons with the Bulls and shortly after was out of the NBA entirely. 34 While Derrick Rose had better health last year in terms of games played, he also showed to no longer be someone who can take on typical high-minutes and usage of a starter. 21 Whether that means he's traded this offseason or his minutes reduced, the Bulls definitely need more PG help. 23 Their backups in the past few years have been a revolving door of fringe gunners and the lifetime contract of Kirk Hinrich. 25 At least KC didn't suggest Kirk comes back on a 'reasonable 1-year minimum' deal, though that is surely what will happen. 41 Even so, the Bulls will still either have to really hit on this pick to get a PG to immediately take over a larger-minute role behind Rose, or they'll need another PG in free agency as well. 9 Apparently trades just aren't their 'preference'. 29 Funnily enough, there's mention of the Bulls 'aggression' in trading up in the draft, with the evidence being it happened twice in eleven years."} {"text": " 46 WASHINGTON -- Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of a war gone horribly wrong. 26 The men claimed self-defense, but federal prosecutors argued that they had shown \"a grave indifference\" to the carnage their actions would cause. 8 All four were ordered immediately to jail. 13 A lawyer for one of them quickly said he expected to appeal. 20 The federal jury found Nicholas Slatten guilty of first-degree murder, the most serious charge in a multi-count indictment. 30 The three other guards - Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard - were found guilty of multiple counts of voluntary manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and gun violations. 19 Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. 42 Cliff Owen, AP\n\nCBS News' Paula Reid reports that the verdict sheet asked the jury -- comprised of eight women and four men -- to make more than 100 separate findings pertaining to 33 counts against the four defendants. 17 The outcome after a summer-long trial and weeks of jury deliberation appeared to stun the defense. 20 David Schertler, a lawyer for Heard, said, \"The verdict is wrong, it's incomprehensible. 4 We're devastated. 12 We're going to fight it every step of the way. 10 We still think we're going to win.\" 27 Former Blackwater guards Nicholas Slatten, Dustin Heard, Paul Slough and Evan Liberty appear in court in Washington, D.C., October 22, 2014. 5 William Hennessy, Jr. 40 However, one of those struck by gunfire in the shootings, Hassan Jabir, said in Baghdad that \"at last we are hearing good news where justice has been achieved and Blackwater will receive their punishment.\" 33 He said there are two bullets still inside his body, one in his hand and one in his back, which doctors have said it would be very risky to remove. 22 The shootings on Sept. 16, 2007, caused an international uproar over the role of defense contractors in urban warfare. 23 The State Department had hired Blackwater to protect American diplomats in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, and elsewhere in the country. 21 Blackwater convoys of four heavily armored vehicles operated in risky environments where car bombs and attacks by insurgents were common. 16 On the murder charge, Slatten could face a maximum penalty of life in prison. 10 The other three defendants could face decades behind bars. 21 The case was mired in legal battles for years, making it uncertain whether the defendants would ever be tried. 17 The trial itself focused on the killings of 14 Iraqis and the wounding of 17 others. 25 During an 11-week trial, prosecutors summoned 72 witnesses, including Iraqi victims, their families and former colleagues of the defendant Blackwater guards. 11 There was sharp disagreement over the facts in the case. 30 The defendants' lawyers said there was strong evidence the guards were targeted with gunfire from insurgents and Iraqi police, leading the guards to shoot back in self-defense. 18 Federal prosecutors said there was no incoming gunfire and that the shootings by the guards were unprovoked. 20 The prosecution contended that some of the Blackwater guards harbored a low regard and deep hostility toward Iraqi civilians. 26 The guards, the prosecution said, held \"a grave indifference\" to the death and injury that their actions probably would cause Iraqis. 29 Several former Blackwater guards testified that they had been generally distrustful of Iraqis, based on experience the guards said they had had in being led into ambushes. 36 The four men had been charged with a combined 32 counts in the shootings and the jury was able to reach a verdict on all of them, with the exception of three against Heard. 8 The prosecution agreed to drop those charges. 16 Slough was convicted of 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter and 17 counts of attempted manslaughter. 16 Liberty was convicted of eight counts of voluntary manslaughter and 12 counts of attempted manslaughter. 16 Heard was convicted of six counts of voluntary manslaughter and 11 counts of attempted manslaughter. 23 Voluntary manslaughter carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and attempted manslaughter carries a maximum seven years in prison. 20 All three were also convicted on gun charges that carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison. 43 Prosecutors said that from a vantage point inside his convoy's command vehicle, Slatten aimed his SR-25 sniper rifle through a gun portal, killing the driver of a stopped white Kia sedan, Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubia'y. 29 Eyewitness tells story of mass shooting in Baghdad\n\nIn 2007, CBS News interviewed Ali Khalaf Salman, a police officer who was an eyewitness to the shooting. 15 He said that he heard a woman scream and he rushed to the car. 18 \"She started screaming 'My son' and she held on to him,\" he said. 20 \"I opened the door and I found that he has been shot three times in the head.\" 27 At the trial, two Iraqi traffic officers and one of the shooting victims testified the car was stopped at the time the shots were fired. 17 The assertion that the car was stopped supported the prosecution argument that the shots were unwarranted. 50 Defense lawyers pressed their argument that other Blackwater guards - not Slatten - fired the first shots at the Kia sedan and that they did so only after the vehicle moved slowly toward the convoy, posing what appeared to be a threat to the Blackwater guards' safety."} {"text": " 14 There\u2019s nothing like Passover to remind us where we come from. 30 In many Jewish homes, Passover traditions are carried down from father to son, establishing the family\u2019s customs and setting the standards for their Passover pantry. 12 Growing up, my family\u2019s standards were quite stringent. 18 We did not eat any processed ingredients, and we only used produce that could be peeled. 24 My mother prepared simple syrup in place of sugar, and we seasoned our dishes minimally with kosher salt, no spices allowed. 14 Thankfully, I married into a family whose customs were slightly more lenient. 25 My in-laws allow a variety of fruits and vegetables, including cabbage, as well as some minimally processed foods, like tomato sauce. 31 When I spent Passover with my in-laws last year, I decided to pay homage to my roots by adapting my grandmother\u2019s stuffed cabbage recipe for the holiday. 32 While my grandmother would never have made this recipe for Passover, to me, it signifies the union of my husband\u2019s familial customs with my Eastern European heritage. 9 And that is precisely how we celebrate Passover. 80 Ingredients 1 head of green cabbage\n\n1 lb ground beef\n\n1 heaping cup leftover mashed potatoes\n\n1 small onion, grated\n\n1 egg\n\nsalt and pepper, to taste For the sauce: 2 15 oz cans tomato sauce\n\n1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and grated\n\n1 large tomato, finely chopped\n\n1/3 cup sugar\n\nJuice of 1 lemon\n\nsalt and pepper, to taste Directions Place the cabbage in the freezer overnight (about 12 hours). 12 Remove and place in a colander in the sink to defrost. 10 This makes the cabbage pliable for rolling and stuffing. 10 Remove the outer leaves of the cabbage and discard. 17 Peel the remaining large leaves, taking care not to tear the cabbage as you go. 14 Set the whole leaves aside and chop up the remaining cabbage for later. 19 In a bowl, combine the ground beef, potatoes, onion, egg, salt and pepper. 3 Set aside. 15 Set up a stuffing station with your whole cabbage leaves and ground beef mixture. 31 With a paring knife, trim the thick part of the stem off the base of the leaves, taking care not to cut through the rest of the leaf. 14 Place the leaves upright so that they are curling upward like a bowl. 22 Place a small handful of filling towards the base of each leaf and fold over the leaf from the left side. 25 Roll the cabbage leaf up and using your finger, stuff the loose end of the leaf inward, pushing it into the center. 14 Rolling the cabbage this way ensures that they hold together nicely during cooking. 5 Continue with remaining leaves. 22 If you have any leftover filling, simply roll them into meatballs to place in the pot alongside the cabbage rolls. 15 Place the stuffed cabbage rolls in a large pot and cover with sauce ingredients. 17 If you had any leftover cabbage or meatballs, add them to the pot as well. 16 Bring the sauce to a gentle boil over medium heat and reduce to a simmer. 21 Cover the pot, leaving it slightly open so that the steam does not force the cabbage rolls to open. 18 Cook for approximately 2 \u2013 2 1/2 hours, until cabbage is tender and sauce has thickened. 17 VARIATION: for unstuffed cabbage soup, shred the cabbage and roll the meat into balls. 10 Place everything into a pot and continue as above. 10 kosher Your browser does not support the audio element. 18 Pronounced: KOH-sher, Origin: Hebrew, adhering to kashrut, the traditional Jewish dietary laws."} {"text": " 40 Hungarians rose up in one of the largest protests against the seven-year rule of right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday, protesting against new legislation that could force out of the country one of its top international universities. 47 The Central European University (CEU), a school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, could be forced to leave Hungary after a bill passed in Parliament this week by Orban's Fidesz party set stringent, new conditions under which it must operate. 24 The bill has led to criticism from hundreds of leading academics worldwide as well as from the U.S. government and the European Union. 21 The protest drew some of the largest crowds against Orban's seven-year rule, with organisers estimating attendance around 70,000. 31 The crowd marched across a bridge over the river Danube and filled the square outside Parliament, which was defended by several lines of police, some in riot gear. 57 Thousands of people, mostly students, stayed on after the main protest for an unannounced march on the building of the Education Secretariat, then on to the headquarters of Fidesz, where where they chanted anti-Fidesz slogans before, with numbers dwindling, they blocked Oktogon square, a busy intersection in central Budapest. 9 Though passionate, the protest remained peaceful throughout. 16 Hungarian President Janos Ader must now sign the bill by Monday to make it law. 20 The protesters said they wanted to convince Ader to reject the bill and refer it to a constitutional review. 9 \"What do we want Ader to do? 7 VETO,\" the crowd chanted. 8 \"Free country, free university!\" 51 \"The government wants to silence pretty much everyone who doesn't think the same as them, who thinks freely, who can be liberal, can be leftist,\" protest organiser Kornel Klopfstein, a PhD student at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, told Reuters. 28 \"According to the government one of the centres of these people is at CEU...We should stand up for academic freedom and for CEU.\" 27 The students sat down on the pavement and chanted slogans like \"Here is the end, Viktor\", or \"Fidesz is dirty\"."} {"text": " 80 October 29, 2011\n\n2012-02-11T12:00:19-05:00\n\nhttps://images.c-span.org/Files/519/304241-m.jpg\n\nFormer constitutional rights lawyer Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the \u201chaves\u201d and one for the \u201chave-nots.\u201d Mr. Greenwald presents his argument by tracing the evolution of judicial inequality, from President Richard Nixon\u2019s pardon for the Watergate scandal to what the author deems were economic and political crimes committed during the George W. Bush administration. 19 The author posits that both political parties and the media are culpable for creating an unequal judicial system. 13 Glenn Greenwald presented his thoughts in conversation with political activist Noam Chomsky. 11 They also responded to questions from members of the audience. 21 This was a special event of the Harvard Book Store, held at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 29 Former constitutional rights lawyer Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the \u201chaves\u201d and one for the\u2026 read more"} {"text": " 49 Craig Thomas Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images\n\nWe still don\u2019t know if the upcoming season of How I Met Your Mother will be its last, but over the weekend, CBS execs suggested they would prefer that the show go on a little longer. 29 \u201cWe want the show to come back next year,\u201d Eye entertainment division chief Nina Tassler told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. 20 But she also said that no deal had been done and that talks were still in the early stages. 40 This is all both good and bad news to HIMYM\u2019s producers, who very much have a plan in place on how to answer the show\u2019s titular question (and wrap up the series). 18 But executing that plan requires them to know well in advance precisely when their show will end. 31 So with writers already shaping scripts for season eight and actors set to return soon, how are the powers that be at HIMYM going about planning out this season? 31 We caught up with co-creator and exec producer Craig Thomas Sunday night and peppered him with questions about just how he and partner Carter Bays are coping with the uncertainty. 14 You don\u2019t know if this is your last season or not. 14 So how are you handling the writing of early episodes of the show? 17 We are shooting the premiere to launch the final season of How I Met Your Mother. 16 Whether it\u2019s the final season or not, I don\u2019t know. 10 But the premiere sets us up to end it. 16 You obviously would like to know sooner rather than later how many episodes are left. 17 At a certain point in the season, there\u2019s a point of no return. 15 We\u2019re hopeful that the deals will be made before that moment happens. 8 There\u2019s some nail-biting going on. 15 There\u2019ll be a moment where we have to start telling the ending. 9 So what can you reveal about the premiere? 28 We give the audience a glimpse, a flash forward into that future Barney and Robin wedding day, deeper than we\u2019ve ever gone before. 11 We give them a hint of how the series ends. 18 It\u2019s one of those things where you get a chill writing it and shooting it. 13 Will that activate the exact ending of How I Met Your Mother? 11 It doesn\u2019t have to, but it could. 9 Can you tell me what the reveal is? 5 Is there yellow involved? 25 [Editor\u2019s note: Past episodes of HIMYM have indicated Ted first met the Mom when she was carrying a yellow umbrella. 6 Try to keep up.] 7 There may be some yellow involved. 14 It\u2019s cloudy with a chance of yellow in the season premiere. 32 There\u2019s a genuine gasp moment in the premiere of season eight, where I think the fans will be on the floor about what we\u2019re showing them. 21 Then it\u2019s just a matter of how fast we\u2019re barreling toward the finish line from there. 15 And that will be determined by people far more powerful and attractive than us. 33 But whether it\u2019s the last year or the second to last year, you\u2019re going to see some stuff you haven\u2019t seen on the show before. 7 We\u2019ll tell stories differently. 10 We\u2019ll tell entire arcs in different years. 18 We\u2019re so close to the end, we feel liberated to do whatever we want. 17 This is not us treading water; this is us headed toward a distinct finish line. 10 What\u2019s the title of the premiere episode? 21 It\u2019s called \u201cFarhampton,\u201d after the name of the town where Barney and Robin get married. 17 We now know that Barney and Quinn (Becki Newton) are about to break up. 14 How long will you play out what\u2019s left of their relationship? 18 There\u2019s a very funny demise to that relationship, which takes place in episode two. 8 It frees Becki up for other projects. 13 I hear she\u2019s got something good going on at Fox. 6 Have you cast the Mother? 7 I can\u2019t tell you. 7 I can\u2019t tell you. 16 When you do cast the Mother, will you want to keep that casting secret? 13 Do you want to keep it a surprise until viewers see it? 2 Yes. 11 Do you think you can actually keep it a secret? 3 I do."} {"text": " 47 Photo: Jim Mone/AP\n\nNear the end of oral argument in a high-profile affirmative-action case Wednesday, conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that black students benefit from a \u201cslower track\u201d at less prestigious schools and are thus harmed by affirmative action. 23 The comments come during a time of racial turmoil on campuses across the country, from Yale to the University of Missouri. 55 \u201cThere are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well \u2014 as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well,\u201d Scalia said from the bench. 28 \u201cOne of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don\u2019t come from schools like the University of Texas. 60 They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they\u2019re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.\u201d\n\nScalia went on to say that it could be bad if the \u201creally competent blacks\u201d do not go to these \u201clesser\u201d schools because they might then not become scientists. 27 \u201cI don\u2019t think it stands to reason for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible,\u201d he concluded. 21 Scalia appeared to be referencing an amicus brief filed by Gail Heriot of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. 44 In her brief, Heriot points to a study that shows minority students are less likely to major in science or engineering if their test scores and grade point averages put them in the bottom half of the admitting class at their institution. 40 Heriot says that if UT actually wanted to help minorities, it would find black students who were admitted to MIT and convince them that their chances of succeeding at UT, which is less selective, are higher. 32 The brief also points out that one-third of blacks who received a doctorate in science or engineering in 2006 got their degrees from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). 13 These colleges, on average, have lower admissions standards than UT. 13 Multiple studies have looked at this so-called mismatch theory of affirmative action. 25 Some have shown that minority students benefit from attending elite institutions even when their high school backgrounds are weaker than average for the class. 21 In another brief in front of the court, a group of scholars argued the mismatch theory has been disproven. 22 The point is irrelevant in this case, however, because affirmative action itself is not supposed to be on trial. 33 The plaintiff, Abigail Noel Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to the class of 2008, has not asked the justices to ban the use of race entirely. 41 And in an earlier decision sending this same case back down to a lower court for further review two years ago, seven of the justices wrote that universities may weigh applicants\u2019 race for the purpose of achieving diversity. 36 At question in this case is whether UT has shown that it needs to consider race, and if the university is using the most narrowly tailored possible means to achieve its goal of diversity. 36 The university admits most of its entering class through a race-blind top 10 percent plan, which automatically admits any Texas high school student who graduates in the top tenth of his or her class. 18 The plan boosts admission of minority students, in part because many Texas high schools are segregated. 39 But the university has contended that it needs to use race as one of many factors in admitting the 20 percent or so of its entering students who do not get in through the top 10 percent plan. 23 These include out-of-state students and talented applicants who attend highly competitive high schools where they were edged out of the top tenth. 31 Most of the black students admitted in the portion that considers race have higher test scores on average than the black students admitted in the race-blind top 10 percent plan. 42 This calls into question Scalia\u2019s point that affirmative action hurts black students by putting them in classes where they are out of their depth, since Texas\u2019 consideration of race tends to net students with higher test scores. 36 Some of the Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed to question the utility of considering race in admissions at all, suggesting they may be backing away from their compromise on Fisher two years ago."} {"text": " 36 On the most recent episode of This Week in Startups, host Jason Calacanis sat down with Blockchain CEO Peter Smith to discuss everything from darknet markets to Ethereum-based initial coin offerings (ICOs). 25 During the chat, Smith also shared his views on the possibility of a government issuing their own digital currency in the near future. 20 For those who don\u2019t know, Blockchain is the most widely-used consumer bitcoin wallet in the world. 8 They also recently added support for ether. 45 24 Months from a Government-Backed Digital Currency\n\nAt one point during the conversation, Smith noted that he went back and forth with Bank of England governor Mark Carney on how a government will issue a sovereign digital currency at the World Economic Forum. 24 When Calacanis asked Smith how far away a government is from issuing their own digital currency, Smith responded, \u201cNot far. 36 24 months from a major government \u2014 not from a little one but a major one.\u201d\n\nSmith then clarified that he\u2019s talking about a \u201ctop 30\u201d government in the world. 32 In terms of the United Kingdom, which is where Blockchain is based, Smith guessed that they would be the first of the G7 countries to issue a digital currency. 18 He added that the UK may have moved even faster on this if Brexit hadn't happened. 24 When it came to the United States, Smith was less bullish on the issuance of a digital currency in the near term. 31 He pointed to gridlock in Washington DC and the dominance of the US dollar in the world today as reasons that the United States will move slowly on this front. 11 Why Would a Government Want to Issue a Digital Currency? 33 When Smith spoke about the reasons a government would want to issue a digital currency in the first place, he pointed to simple competition between various government-backed currencies around the world. 26 \u201cCentral bankers know what a lot of us don\u2019t know, which is their product is a product,\u201d said Smith. 13 \u201cThe dollar is a product; the pound is a product. 28 If there is something out there that is faster, more efficient, provides better data, more trust, [and has] lower infrastructure cost . 1 . 1 . 40 then they have a problem on their hands.\u201d\n\nCalacanis then provided a hypothetical example of Ireland issuing their own digital currency and asked Smith to share the sorts of benefits that would go along with such a move. 41 \u201cIf you can move $100 million in Irish money for two dollars and you can do it in 20 minutes, you\u2019ll settle in Irish dollars instead of [English] pounds,\u201d explained Smith. 27 Smith added that a move to digital currency could also speed up the velocity of money, which could have a serious impact on economic growth. 38 \u201cThe faster money is moving around and the more it\u2019s being utilized, the more capital is being utilized and the more economic growth you\u2019re going to see,\u201d said Smith. 42 The Blockchain CEO then pointed to a study by the Bank of England (PDF) where they estimated that moving 30% of transactions to a digital currency would lead to three to four percentage points of added economic growth."} {"text": " 88 Carlos Bolanos and his coworker George Cardenas were painting the inside of a Salem, Oregon, home when two ICE agents stepped inside, without their permission and without a warrant, to demand ID from Bolanos, with one saying that \u201cI have reason to believe you\u2019re not in the country legally.\u201d Cardenas began shooting the video when the agents refused to identify themselves and defiantly claimed that \u201cwe don\u2019t need a warrant to come in this home. 34 No one lives here\u201d:\n\nOne of the agents insisted that there was no one living in the house and, because it was vacant, they didn't need a warrant. 18 But Cardenas said he never invited any of them inside and continued to ask them to leave. 3 They refused. 12 \"At what point did I say he is here?\" 12 Cardenas calmly asked the agents, who are dressed in plainclothes. 10 \"At what point did I say come in? 11 At what point, can you please tell me?\" 19 Cardenas asked repeatedly for the agents' names, but they stood silent or declined to provide them. 12 \"We don't need to introduce ourselves by our names. 17 There's no law that says we have to,\" one of the agents said. 15 \"There's a law that says you can't come into private property. 6 Did you know that?\" 3 Cardenas asked. 14 \"That is correct and you are right,\" the agent replied. 20 While the agents stood around, the co-workers said they were calling the homeowner to come to the property. 12 Cardenas warned them that the owner would tell them to leave."} {"text": " 32 In a state abounding with politicians, the fact that only three lightly qualified Democratic candidates put themselves forward for lieutenant governor ought to raise serious questions about the office itself. 27 None of the three men \u2014 Steve Kerrigan, Mike Lake, and Leland Cheung \u2014 boasts extensive experience, and none compensates with unusual charisma. 10 Yet one of these men could plausibly become governor. 35 Cheung, a three-term Cambridge city councilor, is the strongest candidate by dint of his determination to reject the past uses of the job as a political liaison with strong links to patronage. 16 Instead, he plans to advocate for broadband access and high-tech jobs to underserved areas. 36 But given the overall weakness of the field, the state also needs a serious discussion about how to reform an office that\u2019s utterly useless \u2014 until the moments it becomes critically important. 21 By law, the lieutenant governor has virtually no responsibilities except to step in if the governor dies or resigns. 22 Indeed, the position has been vacant since former Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray resigned last year, with few noticeable effects. 40 Every every role lieutenant governors take on is subject to the governor\u2019s whim \u2014 making it unsurprising that recent governors have assigned their lieutenant governors tasks too lowly, or too politically tainted, to undertake themselves. 34 Murray, for instance, served as Governor Patrick\u2019s liaison to cities and towns, managing some of the unsavory patronage hiring that Patrick himself apparently preferred not to know about. 40 If someone in the executive branch has to play those roles, it should probably be a staffer in the governor\u2019s office, so that the governor can\u2019t escape accountability for his or her actions. 32 Still, given the way the lieutenant governorship has evolved, it\u2019s fitting that two of this year\u2019s Democratic candidates are longtime apprentices to prominent state politicians. 41 Kerrigan, a former aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Lake, a protege of both former Boston Mayor Kevin White and ex-Governor Michael Dukakis, each seem eager to step into the super-staffer role that Murray vacated. 33 Perhaps a little too eager; Kerrigan, who claims to understand why voters are frustrated with politics, also speaks uncritically about the practice of recommending political supporters for state jobs. 43 He promises to advocate only for candidates in whom he has confidence, but does not explain how his years as a Kennedy staffer and the organizer of the 2012 Democratic National Convention make him qualified to assess resumes in specialized fields. 31 Lake, a nonprofit executive, speaks knowledgeably about the transportation challenges facing Massachusetts, but struggles to explain how electing him to the lieutenant governorship would help solve them. 37 Advertisement\n\nCheung, however, has an entirely different and more ambitious vision for the job, a keener understanding of why it\u2019s fallen into disrepute, and a promising record in elected office. 22 While he plans to maintain Murray\u2019s municipal portfolio, Cheung says he will not get involved in political hiring. 14 Instead, Cheung wants to serve as a liaison to the innovation economy. 28 He boasts of being the only candidate in the race (or, likely, any other statewide race) who knows how to write computer code. 41 Cheung\u2019s competent record on the Cambridge council suggests he has a knack for using low-profile jobs effectively, having advocated for preserving office space for small startups and helping innovative companies like Bridj take root in the city. 30 Cheung also shows some reform inclinations: He favors abolishing the archaic Governor\u2019s Council and changing the state constitution to make lieutenant governor a more meaningful office. 19 Get Today in Opinion in your inbox: Globe Opinion's must-reads, delivered to you every Sunday-Friday. 8 Sign Up Thank you for signing up! 17 Sign up for more newsletters here\n\nIndeed, a thorough reassessment of the job is overdue. 35 It doesn\u2019t have enough everyday authority to draw top-tier candidates, yet, when lightning strikes, it has too much power to entrust to the kind of candidates who seek it. 37 One option would be to join states like Oregon and New Hampshire that dispense with lieutenant governors altogether, and designate another constitutional official like the secretary of state as the replacement for a gubernatorial vacancy. 35 Another would be to end the practice of candidates running as a single ticket in the general election, making it theoretically possible for the governor and lieutenant governor to come from different parties. 53 This would force lieutenant governor candidates in the general election to make an affirmative case for themselves instead of riding the gubernatorial candidate\u2019s coattails; stronger candidates might emerge if they felt they could stand on their own merits and not risk being dragged down by a lackluster gubernatorial nominee. 21 Another would be to give the lieutenant governorship formal responsibilities, so that it attracts a higher caliber of candidates. 37 The next person to hold the job \u2014 whether one of the three Democrats or Republican Karyn E. Polito, who is running unopposed in the GOP primary \u2014 should lead a discussion of those options. 37 Indeed, if Cheung is elected, an ideal outcome would be for him to transform the lieutenant governorship into an important enough position that no candidate with his level of inexperience ever wins it again."}