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"It's been almost two years people, how have we not found them yet?" President Todds' voice boomed through the small conference room. "My son isn't that smart, he can't hide from me like this."
After I graduated high school, I moved to Bridgeport. My idiotic sister had escaped from the facility, and they were looking for any possible leads they could get. When I told them I was her sister and I was willing to help capture her, they hired me on the spot despite me being Fae.
Now, it had been almost two years since my sister and President Todds' son had escaped. We had no leads, no sightings, no anything. It was like they completely vanished off the planet.
"Their boat might have capsized, Sir." Christian, President Todds' younger son, chimed in. After they disappeared, no one knew how they got away until I showed up. I told them how my sister left the Valley on the boat, and how I thought they must've escaped from here on it too. "We might not even have anything to search for."
"We need to know for sure, Christian." He spat at him for the hundredth time. They always had this conversation, every meeting.
"Bryce, it's been two years. They can't possibly be alive still without a sighting. Their pictures are plastered on TV screens all over the world. There's a five million dollar reward for the person that finds them. If anyone saw them, I doubt they'd turn down that possibility." Carson explained calmly to Todds. Carson was the President of Starlight Shores, but he often flew over here for meetings with the council.
"No, they aren't dead. I'm sure of it." He sounded like he was trying to convince himself, rather than us. I had a feeling he didn't want them to be dead. No matter what Dimitri did, he was still President Todds' son. My guess was that he still had hope that he could change him.
"Well if they aren't dead, then why haven't we found them yet?" Rockwell asked angrily. He was bitter, he was shot in the knee during their escape and hasn't been able to walk right ever since.
"I don't know, but obviously our method's aren't working. We need a new idea." President Todds threw his fists down on one of the tables.
That's when I came up with an idea. My ideas weren't always taken seriously here, but I had to try and convince them that I was committed.
"Well, wherever they are, they're probably keeping tabs on everything, right? I mean if I were a fugitive, I'd want to know what the government was doing to try and find me, so I could stay one step ahead of them. If we air a message to them, threatening them in some kind of way, maybe they'll turn themselves in." I suggested. The best way to catch a criminal was to think like one.
"How can we be sure they're watching?" Christian asked and crossed his arms. He was completely convinced they were dead, and got upset whenever we came up with new plans centered on them being alive. He also didn't like me very much. Originally he tried to get me kicked off the council, no matter how many times his father insisted I was essential.
"We can't, but it wouldn't hurt to air something, right? If they see it, then we've got them. If they don't, then no harm no foul."
"She's right, actually." Carson chimed in, sounding shocked that someone of my occult could come up with such a brilliant idea. "Bryce, what do you think?"
"I think it's a good plan, but what could we threaten them with? If only we could get a hold of that child of hers…" He stroked his beard in thought.
"What about our family? My sister cares about them a lot more than I do. Threatening their lives would hurt her a lot more than it would hurt me." I offered. Before I left for Bridgeport, I told my parents how I felt about everything. About F.R.O., about humans, about my sister. They were shocked, I made my mother cry and my sister punched me in the face. But I didn't care, they meant nothing to me anymore. All that mattered was pleasing the humans.
"Can we do that?" One of the scientists asked.
"I can't see why not." I shrugged.
"Do we take them into custody, or fake the threat?" Carson asked me for my approval.
"Either way I don't care. Do whatever you please, Sir."
"I'll have to think about it, but we're definitely airing a threat." President Todds grinned maliciously. I could feel the excitement in the room. This time we might get them, we'll finally be able to punish them for what they've done. I couldn't wait.
Beside's keeping up with Stone, there wasn't much for Dimitri and I to do. One day out of extreme boredom, I started to write. At first it started out as a way for me to vent, but as time went on I realized I wasn't terrible at writing. So I started a book. Or more specifically, I started an auto biography. But I didn't write it for publishing. I wrote it as a way to cope with what I'd been through. It was helping, and it was a great way to kill time while Stone was napping.
"Momma?" Stone's voice whispered from behind his pacifier. I sighed, he'd been climbing out of his crib lately when he should be napping. Dimitri suggested we stop putting him down for naps, but I didn't think we should enable him like that. He was still a baby, he needed them.
"What're you doing up?" I scolded. He shrunk back and hid behind his hands.
"I wanna see Dada." He smiled innocently.
I shut my laptop and swiveled my chair around to face my mischievous little toddler.
"Oh yea? You wanna see Daddy?" I asked, and he nodded excitedly. "How bad?"
"So bad I could dawce!" He yelled excitedly, then started to dance around our room. This was becoming routine, he'd come in here, dance and scream 'la la la' over and over until I took him downstairs to see Dimitri. At first it was slightly annoying, but now I played along because it was pretty adorable.
"Alright, that's enough Bud." I stopped his little dance rountine. "C'mon, let's go see Daddy." I swept him up into my arms and he giggled with delight.
"Yay!" He squealed as I tickled him.
"You are a devious little boy, aren't you?" I asked, and he smiled sheepishly at me. I couldn't help but giggle.
"Dada!" Stone screeched as we descended the stairs. Stone loved Dimitri, he was definitely a Daddy's boy. I didn't really mind, I was just glad Stone had a father figure in his life.
Dimitri didn't respond to Stone calling out for him. As I got closer to him, I realized something was wrong.
"Dimitri, is everything alright?" I asked. He didn't answer me verbally, he just shook his head. I put Stone down on the ground and instructed him to go play. But in a true Stone fashion, he disobeyed and ran up to his dad.
"Dada, don' cwy." He wrapped his little arm's around Dimitri's shin. "It's otay."
"Thanks, Bud." He ruffled Stone's hair and gave him a half-assed smile. "Now go play."
"Otay!" He giggled and ran off to his toy box.
"Babe, what's wrong?" I asked when I plopped down next to him.
"Watch." He instructed, after rewinding the TV.
"Hello, this is President Todds of Bridgeport. I have a message, but unless you are my son or the mutt he's hiding with, then you can disregard this. Dimitri, as you know, we've been looking for you for almost two years now. All we want is the Mutt. If you give her to us, you will be free of all charges. I know you care for the thing, but is this really worth it? We have her family, if you don't turn yourselves in within the next three months, we're going to kill each one of them on national television. That may not mean anything to you, son. But it means something to that mutt. I'll let you decide what to do, hopefully I will see both of you within the next three months. Thank you." A man who claimed to be Dimitri's father spoke to him from our tiny television screen. It was obvious he was, judging by Dimi's reaction. I paused the TV when I noticed something, something I hoped I was seeing wrong.
"Oh my god, that's my sister." I leaned in close to the TV to get a better look. I knew my family anywhere, and that was without a doubt my little sister.
"What?" He looked up at the screen with tears in his eyes.
"That's Ivy, my little sister. What the hell is she doing there?" I asked with disbelief.
"She must be working with them, that must be how they found your family."
"No. That can't be. She was a good kid, there's no way she could be on their side. I'm her sister for fucks sake!"
I couldn't stand the thought of my little sister turning against me and my family like this. Why would she do this to us? What were her motives? I couldn't come up with a reasonable answer, and I don't think I'll ever understand.
"Shh, I'm here Jazz." Dimitri held me as I cried in his arms.
"What're we gonna do? We can't turn ourselves in, not while Stone is so young. But we also can't just let my family die."
"Hey, don't worry. I'll figure something out, alright? I promise, no one is gonna die and no one is turning themselves in." Dimitri looked me in the eye and promised.
"How, what can you do?"
"Just trust me, alright? I can fix this."
"I trust you." I sighed. Even though I trusted him, I still worried. There was too much on the line right now, it was hard to just accept that he'd take care of it. But I had to let him, I had no way of doing it on my own.
"Good. Now, let's watch something a little happier, yea?" He pulled me into a quick kiss and turned to Stone who was blissfully unaware of everything that had been happening. "Hey Bud, wanna watch some TV?"
"Yea Dada!" He grabbed his toy monster and crawled over to us.
We all sat on the floor and watched one of Stone's kid shows. He was totally engrossed in the show, while Dimitri and I were barely paying attention.
"He's so perfect, don't you agree?" Dimitri gave me a small smile.
"For the most part, yea I guess." I chucked. Dimitri playfully smacked my leg. "Maybe I should turn myself in." I whispered quietly. Right now, it seemed like the best option.
"What? I thought we discussed this. Why would you wanna do that?"
"Well, if I do that, the two of you will be in the clear. They'll stop looking for you, and you guys can live in peace. He's young, if I do it now he won't remember me, it won't hurt him as much as if I waited."
"No." He scolded. "You can't. He needs you. I need you." He placed his hand on my knee and gave me a kiss.
"Babe, you guys could live a normal life. You can get a job, he can go to school and make friends. You could get married, even have more kids. It's the best option." I suggested.
"No, no. You're the only person I want to spend my life with. You are not leaving us."
"Fine." I laid back against the couch and sighed. This discussion was not over.
After Ivy pulled her stupid little stunt, my parents were devastated. My mom quit her job, my dad barely ever even left their room. Neither of them had been doing well, especially with the warrant out on my eldest sister's head. Before my twin left I had plans for my life. I was going to move out, get a house with a few friends of mine. I was going to work at the private investigator firm in town, it operates out of the same building as F.R.O. But all my plans were put on hold for the time being while my parents recovered.
We spent a lot of time together recently. They rarely let me out of their sight. Not that I blamed them, they've already lost two daughters. I was a little frustrated, I was young and I wanted to have fun. But my stupid twin took that from me. She took everything from me. She took away my ability to trust people. Ivy was the one person in my life I thought I could trust, but I was wrong. All this time, she wanted to please the humans. All this time she was against us. After she left, I shut everyone but my parents out. I couldn't trust anyone.
My parent's and I were sitting at home watching TV. They had on Uncle Maple's latest movie, but I was paying more attention to my laptop than the television. Things were quiet, until their program was interrupted with breaking news.
A man appeared on the screen. He was a vampire, and he claimed to be the president of Bridgeport. The place my sister moved to, the place my older sister ended up. My head shot up to the screen at the mention of the town. My eyes instantly fell onto a dark purple figure behind him. Ivy.
The man spoke to Jasmine and a man named Dimitri. Over the years, we learned that this man broke my sister out of the facility and now they were no where to be found. The man then said something that peaked my interest even more. He mentioned us, Jasmine's family. He said he had us, but that was obviously a bluff. I glanced nervously over at my father. Even though his mouth was closed I could tell he was clenching his teeth.
Then the man threatened to kill us if my sister and this man didn't turn themselves in within the next three months.
"Dad, do you think…" I jumped off the floor in shock. He didn't answer, he just stared intently at the screen. My mind was racing, they were obviously lying about holding us, but what if they were coming for us? Were they really going to kill us, on national television? My mind was racing with questions, but I didn't ask any of them in fear of setting off my mother.
"No." My mom whispered as she too got up. "This can't be happening, right? This has to be some kind of sick joke." She was hysterical. I knew better than to try and comfort her, last time she freaked out and accidentally elbowed me in the face.
Nobody said anything as the message ended and the movie returned to their screen.
"Pack a bag, both of you." My dad demanded in a gruff voice I've never heard him use before.
"Where are w-" I started to question him, but he shot me a glare that could kill me.
"Not now Iris. Just pack a bag, I need to make some calls." He pulled his cellphone out and bounded up the stairs, without a doubt to go pack a bag.
I glanced around the living room. If we were leaving tonight, there was a chance we'd never come back here. I grew up in this house, I'd lived there my entire life. It was a strange feeling, to know that this was the last time you'd be seeing such familiar sights.
But right now was not the time for nostalgia. I snapped out of it, and nudged Mom. The two of us followed my father upstairs to collect some belongings. My stomach sunk as I finally realized who must be behind this all. This was without a doubt all my twin sister's idea.


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The Secretary General of the Economic Community of the Central African States (CEEAC), Ahmad Allam-mi, and the Head of International Relations of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Mauro Garofalo, held a meeting in order to proceed to the signing of a memory of understanding.
The agreement includes different areas intended for economic and social development, prevention and peaceful management of conflicts, in addition to the promotion and defence of human rights and International Humanitarian Law, humanitarian assistance and the fight against HIV-AIDS.
The CEEAC website has recalled that such memorandum forms part of the United Nations consultation report that both countries share, and the added value of the cooperation between a neutral and independent international institution with other regional and international organisations.
After signing the agreement, the representatives of both organisations were in agreement that the collaboration between them shall contribute to the improvement of both partners in regards to carrying out their respective areas of intervention, particularly in areas of security and peace, and a dialogue of cultures and religions for preserving and strengthening peace in Africa.
The two representatives also committed to respect the autonomy of each community, and to collaborate in the realisation of their objectives within the area of the CEEAC.
Source: Official Web Page of the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

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I made a test teapot block this morning! I used Pink Penguin's awesome pattern and tutorial, with the pattern enlarged to 150%. It came out to round about 7.75″ x 9.5″ and took me three hours, which included cutting out all the pattern pieces (both the paper and freezer paper ones).
Hoooopefully, I'll be able to ask my quilting bee-mates to make these for my month… I think a whole quilt of these would be fun!
Edit: Here's a picture of the freezer paper I have. I got it in the cling wrap / ziploc bags aisle in my local grocery store.
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Hmm, now I think that would be do-able (or at least I'd give it a stab) but we can't get freezer paper in the UK, so I think you'd have to include that. Incidentally, what exactly IS freezer paper? I've gathered that you don't stick it in the freezer, but that's about it!
These are really cute. I can see an entire quilt made of them. I like the fabrics and the selvage stripe too.


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Cholesterol tests are conducted as a way of prevention of different health conditions that could be caused by cholesterol. The most fatal effect of cholesterol would be heart attack wherein too much cholesterol in the body would eventually clog the arteries and prevent the heart from properly functioning. Through cholesterol testing, the patient will be warned in advance about the cholesterol level in his or her body.
For adults below 40 years old without any health conditions, cholesterol testing should be done at least once every five years. This type of testing could increase in frequency especially when the doctor determines a high amount of cholesterol in your body early on. Frequent cholesterol testing is also recommended for those whose lifestyle suggests high cholesterol level in their body.
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One more month and I'll be in a plane to my first stab at mainland Southeast Asia. I've been postponing it for years (check here, here, and here) for so many excuses, and finally it's becoming real. To tell you honestly, I can tell I'm really excited. Like, I find it hard to sleep every night I spend on reading guides, and there's this one time I was on a looping dream about being left by my flight! What the fuck! I know.
I've been revising my itinerary (twice for the couple of weeks, after months of researching) and listing down everything I need. I have the compulsion to pack already, too, but still have enough self-restraint. I've recomputed my budget over and over again, and kept on listing down work things so that it doesn't get in the way. I'm overly preparing, I know, but really, I just can't help it. It's how I am when I travel.
Sri Mariamman Temple, Chinatown, Singapore
I still can't help thinking about my first trip outside the country and in SEA, too! I obsessed over Singapore over and over, pre- and post-trip. I just couldn't have enough SG ever! I think what would be the difference now is that it's my first time in a developing country, pretty much the same like the Philippines. While I am so used to living in the PH and third world realness ain't really a problem for me – it's different when I travel. It is so easy to travel around Singapore – with the efficient transport system, tourist-friendly environment, near-zero-crime rate, and all those first world perks. Not to mention, data access IS so easy. I must stress this enough because bulk of my job relies on this – and I am never truly away for a holiday, truth be told.
Now, I may not have all these amenities – I mean let's face it – when you read about the mainland, you get scared about scams, partly because they mention it in every section in guides – and some have a dedicated section for this! It may have gotten me scared enough to back out once or twice, but nah, flights are booked already, I'm doing this bitch.
But what I will not live without is reliable data access. This is the part where I say I'm glad to be with Globe – because they're partnered with major cities around the world. Traveling can be easy for data-heavy professionals like me. Back in Singapore, all I need to worry about is my battery, since I spend most of the time out and roaming around. And they're starting to strengthen around Southeast Asia, specifically Thailand – where bulk of my trip will be at.
It cannot get easier than this. Read up on Globe's partners after the jump and find out why you need GLOBE when traveling around the world…
Singapore, 27 September 2013 – The SingTel Group today announced a strategic partnership with Samsung focused on driving next-generation mobile communication, infotainment and technology services in Asia. The new collaboration takes advantage of the scale of the SingTel Group and Samsung's innovative products and services.
Under this partnership, both parties will offer applications and digital services to customers of SingTel Group companies, including Advanced Info Service (Thailand), Airtel, Globe Telecom (Philippines), Optus (Australia), SingTel (Singapore) and Telkomsel (Indonesia).
In addition, the SingTel Group will work with Samsung to identify opportunities for joint launches and marketing campaigns of key Samsung device announcements. The companies will also be able to leverage each others' distribution channels to extend their retail reach to more customers.
SingTel Group's leading mobile brands combined with Samsung's mobile device ingenuity will grow the 3G and 4G customer base in each market and also enhance the experience of mobile customers and broaden their access to intelligent networks.
Mr. Mark Chong, CEO International, SingTel Group Consumer said, "SingTel Group and Samsung will deliver an exciting mobile experience for customers, through brilliant mobile and innovative devices.
"Not only will our companies mutually benefit, but our combined 400 million mobile customers will be able to take advantage of the unique offerings that will be provided in the future."
Mr. DJ Lee, President and Head of Sales & Marketing, at Samsung Electronics, said, "We are honored by this opportunity to provide our customers with advanced mobile experiences. In order to introduce Samsung's next generation mobile communications, we continue to fully support and work closely with leading mobile operators."
The SingTel Group and Samsung partnership will commence this month with joint projects beginning from the fourth quarter this year.
About SingTel
SingTel is Asia's leading communications group with operations and investments around the world. Serving both the corporate and consumer markets, it is committed to bringing the best global communications solutions to customers in the Asia Pacific and beyond. With significant operations in Singapore and Australia (through wholly-owned subsidiary SingTel Optus), the Group provides a comprehensive portfolio of services that includes voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms, as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. The Group has presence in Asia and Africa with 477 million mobile customers in 25 countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. To serve the needs of multi-national corporations, SingTel also has a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States. These offices enable SingTel to deliver reliable and quality network solutions to its customers, either on its own or jointly with local partners. SingTel employs more than 21,000 people worldwide and had a turnover of S$18.18 billion (US$14.63 billion) and net profit after tax of S$3.51 billion (US$2.82 billion) for the year ended 31 March 2013. More information can be found at www.singtel.com and www.optus.com.au.
About AIS
Advanced Info Service (Public) Company Limited or AIS, Thailand's No. 1 Wireless Communication Service Provider, has operated for 23 years with currently 36 million registered numbers. AIS incorporates the concept "Your World Your Way" in the Quality DNAs integral pillars including Device, Network, Application and Customer service excellence, For more information, visit www.ais.co.th
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 276 million customers across its operations at the end of August 2013. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com
About Globe Telecom
Globe Telecom is a leading full service telecommunications company in the Philippines, serving the needs of consumers and businesses across an entire suite of products and services including mobile, fixed, broadband, data connections, internet and managed services. Its principals are Ayala Corporation and SingTel who are acknowledged industry leaders in the country and in the region. For more information, visit www.globe.com.ph. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/talk2Globe and Facebook: http://facebook.com/GlobePH.
About Telkomsel
Telkomsel is the world's 6th largest cellular operator by number of subscribers and the market leader in Indonesia's telecommunication industry that serves more than 125 million subscribers. With 64,000 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) Telkomsel provides the largest network coverage in Indonesia, reaching almost all of Indonesia's population. As a pioneer in the development of Indonesia's mobile telecommunication industry and to enter the advanced stage of mobile broadband services, Telkomsel provides cellular services through GSM Dual Band (900 & 1800), GPRS, Wi-Fi, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, and HSPA+ networks throughout Indonesia, and is testing Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. To serve customers' needs, Telkomsel is supported by a 24-hour call center and 410 service centers throughout Indonesia.
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I'm in Maryland and scooped this little creature out of my pool yesterday. Can you tell me what it is? It's about the size of a ladybird / ladybug. Thanks.
Hi Sharon,
This is the first posting to our site of a Whitecrossed Seed Bug, Neacoryphus bicrucis, but we noticed another letter with the name in the subject header.
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Blockchain is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way". For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority.
Blockchain is going to change the way transactions happen. It allows for trusted transactions like exchange of money, property, shares between parties who do not trust each other while avoiding the services of middleman.
In Simpler terms, An Escrow transaction without the need for a middleman.
Blockchains Explained
Lets understand it with an example of a business network, each participant currently maintains their own logs and ledger. This is highly inefficient in a case where the logs don't match up with the logs of other participants.
A blockchain solves this problem by providing a shared, replicated and a permission ledger.
And it also comes with the following additional benefits.
Consensus – Everyone has to agree upon the transaction
Provenance – Track the history of the transaction.
Immutability – Once recorded, it cannot be changed
Finality – Single Source of Truth
Industries which can benefit from blockchains
Blockchain is commonly misunderstood as Bitcoin, however, bitcoin is just a very good example of a blockchain application. Ethereum is another such example. Some industries which can really be disrupted by blockchains are Transportation, Healthcare, Food, Finance
Supply chains and logistics are the first industries which are going to have biggest impact with blockchains.
How to get started with it?
There are many courses online which talk about blockchains and the technology behind it.
Blockchain technology & Bitcoin – https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
Ethereum Blockchain – Preethi Kasireddy explains it perfectly though you do need a fair about of understanding on blockchains. https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369
Blockchains for business; Hyperledger – https://www.hyperledger.org/
Our Effort
We at 8om, are creating solutions of SMEs which can improve the business processes by getting actionable insights. We are also exploring blockchains and how we can use the technology in production to improve Supply Chain across various industries and other such sectors.
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I have not been very good at posting book reviews recently — so much to do and so little time, as they say. I have just read The Heretics of Finance by Andrew W. Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic, a book of interviews with practitioners of technical analysis along the lines of Market Wizards. The comparison with the latter work should not be taken too far, however — Market Wizards is a book of conversations between a less-successful and various more-successful traders, while The Heretics of Finance is the result of academics putting a standardised set of questions to a number of people on the basis of their prominence in the field of technical analysis, not their track record.
The book contains a lot of the opinions of people who do not run money and who have a vested interest in supporting (and, indeed, believing in) technical analysis — strategists, analysts, newsletter-writers and the like. I read some of the interviews with them, but after a while started skimming through for the opinions of people who do run money. Happily, the introductions to the first thirteen chapters, of which each is a record of an interview with one person, make it reasonably clear who actually takes market risk and who does not. Of those who do, the ones most worth reading were Laszlo Birinyi, who was pretty sceptical about most technical analysis, and Linda Bradford Rashke.
Rashke was the most interesting to me, because some of what she said confirmed the way I am currently trying to do things (she does not use any fundamental analysis, but does not oppose it as a way of organising information). I trade on simple entry signals that work in trends, when I think there is a trend. Rashke says:
You can reduce everything down to the fact that you're trying to enter into a trending market, in the direction of the trend.
Page 234 gives the most tantalising glimpse of the kinds of things she investigates:
For me, an indicator is anything I can quantify. I have to be able to run an indicator on multiple markets and multiple time frames and still see a similar profile… If you've been up for two days, what are the odds that the next day is going to be down… those are the types of things I look at.
This has made me think that I have more work to do on improving my entry signals. My system ought to work, but if Raschke investigates things like this, then perhaps they can add to what I am doing. It sounds like they are not so much indicators as ways of adding to the basic edge — which is entering into the trend. I have neglected things like the odds of one kind of day right after another kind because I have thought that what is generally true of a market may not be true around my trading signals, so it is not obvious that this kind of analysis would help me — but the book has made me think it is time to test that hypothesis by back-testing.
Finally, Rashke says this:
You can make a lot of money on trends, but most people don't have the patience to stay on that type of time frame
I have not had the patience, and it is something I have been thinking about a lot recently. I did make a positive return in the past three months (Oct-Dec), but I would have made more if I had been more inclined to stay with my trades. I am not sure it is so much a matter of patience as of understanding that there is a tension between cutting losses quickly and avoiding exiting into weakness. I think I may have the balance between those things wrong when it comes to closing out winning trades.
Incidentally, I have recently read (actually, skimmed) The Evolution of Technical Analysis by the same authors. I thought it was of purely academic, historical interest, and of little use to a market practitioner. It starts with the ancient Babylonians — quite unnecessarily, considering that the bits of history that are likely to be of interest to the modern technical analyst, like early Japanese candlestick charts and Dow Theory, came along rather later, and most of the intellectual history of technical analysis has occurred in the past 100 years. I have always been frustrated by books that start in the ancient world and end in the present day, like several histories of economics, where again the useful bit is the past century or so (or Gombrich's The Story of Art, which would be much more interesting if it were the same length but began around 1500, or any number of other similar examples). The final section, on academic approaches to technical analysis, contained a short description of academic research by Lo and others that suggests there may be limited predictive power to some of the traditional technical-analysis patterns — but so limited that it tended to reinforce my scepticism. It does report that Lo has found strong empirical evidence against the random-walk hypothesis, but then, that was not a hypothesis that had ever given me much concern.


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The Heart of Prayer | Part 2
The heart of prayer is learning to pray in the way that Jesus taught us to pray. For years, my prayer life was rooted mostly in guilt: "I know I am supposed to pray, so I had better do it!" Underneath guilt-driven prayer is the assumption that God (or other people) are evaluating me based upon my moral and spiritual choices. If I get them all right, God will be pleased. If I mess up too much, God will be displeased.
It has taken me many years to realize that I pray, not because I have to, but because I get to! And yes, Jesus does command us to pray, not so that we can have a fine spiritual resume to hand to God someday, but so that we can participate in the with-God life that Jesus makes available to us. Some of the prayers of Jesus' day could be quite long and flowery, reciting over and over the names and attributes of God. Jesus tells us that when we pray, we should use one title only as we address God—"Our Father in heaven." That one term of address contains all that we need to know about who God is and how we relate to him!
Let me make three observations about how we address God in the Lord's prayer. First, God is our Father. The first word (in English) of our prayer reminds us that this relationship with God is not all about me. I am addressing a God who has many children, of whom I am but one. My concerns are neither more nor less important to God than the prayers of his children all over the world, high and low, rich and poor, young and old, of all races and backgrounds. This is a communal prayer. And even when I pray by myself, I am never truly alone, for billions of people have prayed it before me and are praying it with me right now around the world.
Second, Jesus tells us to pray to our father. There are other prayers from Jesus day that use the term "father" to refer to God. But this is the only term that Jesus gives us, and the writings of the New Testament infuse the term with an incredible intimacy. Paul tells us that when we are joined to Christ by faith, the Holy Spirit indwells us and adopts us as children of God—not only by creation but also by Christ's redeeming work–Galatians 4:6 "And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!'" In his earthly life, Jesus had absolute access to his Father and used simple, intimate language to express his trust (see Mark 14:36). And now, that same Spirit of Christ dwells in us, allowing us to approach our new heavenly parent in the same simple, trusting, childlike way.
Third, we are told to address our father in heaven. This simple phrase captures the two most significant attributes of God—his goodness and his greatness. God's goodness is shown in that he invites us into a new relationship through his Son, whereby we may call him Father and address him with the same boldness with which an infant cries out to its earthly parent. Yet God is also great. He is not to be trifled with, nor his name to be used carelessly. Like C.S. Lewis's lion Aslan, God is very good, but not safe! He will not be managed, nor will he share his unique glory with any other. He is our father in heaven, where he rules over all things. Yet he invites us into his goodness and his authority so that we can be remade by his holy love. We may now boldly pray to "our Father in heaven," and all of who God is is now available to us!
Opening Prayer (slowly, pausing as you need along the way):
O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you as the day rises to meet the sun.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Come, let us bow down and bend the knee: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
Psalm and Gospel for the Day: (slowly read the Psalm, maybe 2 or 3 times, pausing if there is a word or phrase that stands out to you; then take that word or phrase and turn it into a prayer. Then read the Gospel lesson.)
Mar.5 | Psalm 96:1-6 | John 6:16-24
Mar. 6 | Psalm 78:1-7 | John 6:25-34
Mar. 7 | Psalm 82:1-4 | John 6:35-44
Mar. 8 | Psalm 86:11-13 | John 6:45-59
Mar. 9 | Psalm 91:1-7; 14-16 | John 6:60-71
Mar. 10 | Psalm 136:1-26 | John 7:1-13
Personal Prayers (If you have felt God speaking from his word, respond in prayer; ask him to work in your life in specific ways.)
This week I encourage you to spend some time with a journal, reflecting on the following questions: What things am I feeling angry about? What things am I feeling sad about? What things am I feeling anxious about? What things am I feeling glad about? Then go through these lists and pray about the things that you have written.
Prayers for Others (especially pray for one person you would like to influence for Christ)
The Lord's Prayer (pray it slowly and thoughtfully, thinking about ways each phrase may apply to your life today.)
Closing Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit. We pray that your fruit would be in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Dear Jesus, help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go.


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On 20 August 2015, the Senate referred the Social
Security Legislation Amendment (Debit Card Trial) Bill 2015 (Bill) to the
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 12
October 2015.[1]
Details of the inquiry, including a link to the Bill and associated
documents, were placed on the committee's website. The committee also wrote to 32
organisations and individuals, inviting submissions by 18 September 2015.
The committee received 34 submissions. Submissions are listed at
Appendix 1 and published on the committee's website.
The committee held a public hearing in Canberra on 11 September 2015.
In 2013 the then Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP, asked Mr Andrew
Forrest to lead a review of Indigenous training and employment programs (The
Forrest Review).[2]
The Forrest Review made a number of recommendations aimed at ending the
disparity in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non‑Indigenous
Australians, including the introduction of a cashless welfare system known as
the Healthy Welfare Card.[3]
Mr Forrest suggested that a cashless welfare system for vulnerable Australians:
...poses a way of providing stability for families and
individuals so they can concentrate on finding employment, providing adequately
for their families, and sending their children to school.[4]
...poses a way of providing stability for families and
individuals so they can concentrate on finding employment, providing adequately
for their families, and sending their children to school.[4]
The Bill seeks to enable a trial of cashless welfare arrangements in
response to the Forrest Review's recommendations. The Explanatory Memorandum
(EM) notes that the purpose of the trial is to test whether cashless welfare
arrangements can reduce the habitual abuse and associated harm resulting from
alcohol, gambling and illegal drugs. The trial will also test whether cashless
welfare arrangements are more effective when community bodies are involved.[5]
In his second reading speech on the Bill, the Parliamentary Secretary
(Parliamentary Secretary) to the Prime Minister, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, noted
the 'potential upside' of the trial could be:
...a transformed community where women are safer, less money is
spent on alcohol and gambling, and more money is available for children's needs.[6]
...a transformed community where women are safer, less money is
spent on alcohol and gambling, and more money is available for children's needs.[6]
The Bill proposes amendments to social security legislation to enable a
trial of cashless welfare arrangements during the period 1 February 2016 to 30
June 2018.[7]
This schedule proposes to split welfare payments into restricted and
unrestricted portions with the payment of the restricted portion to a bank
account to be subject to certain restrictions on access and use.[8]
Under the proposed measure, 80 per cent of payments received by trial
participants receiving a working age welfare payment would be placed in the restricted
bank account. The remaining 20 per cent of payments would be available for use
at the trial participant's discretion. The proportion of payments made to the
restricted bank account may be varied by legislative instrument.[9]
In trial locations, payments made to the restricted bank account would
be accessed by a debit card. The debit card would not allow the purchase of
alcohol and gambling products or cash withdrawals.[10]
The measure allows for community bodies in the trial area to participate
in the trial. With the agreement of trial participants, the community body may
direct the Department of Human Services to lower the restricted proportion of a
person's welfare payment (to no less than 50 per cent).[11]
Under the proposed measure, the Minister for Social Services (Minister)
would determine trial participants by legislative instrument based on a
combination of class of person, receipt of particular welfare payments (known
as a trigger payment) and particular trial areas.[12]
Other welfare recipients in the trial area would be able to volunteer to
participate in the trial.[13]
The trial would be conducted in up to three discrete trial areas with no
more than 10 000 trial participants at any particular time. Trial areas
would be selected on the basis of high levels of welfare dependence and where
gambling, alcohol and/or drug abuse are causing 'unacceptable levels of harm'.[14]
In his second reading speech on the Bill, the Parliamentary Secretary
noted that Ceduna in South Australia would be the first trial area, and that
advanced discussions are underway with leaders in the East Kimberley region of
Western Australia.[15]
In August 2015, the Commonwealth Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with local government and Indigenous groups in Ceduna supporting the
trial of the debit card.[16]
The EM notes that the funding associated with the Bill is not publicly
available as negotiations with potential commercial providers are yet to be
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR) found the Bill
engages and places limits on a number of human rights, including right to a
private life, right to social security, right to equality and
non-discrimination and right to privacy and sought advice from the Minister on
whether the measures were justifiable.[18]
The PJCHR had not published the Minister's response prior to the tabling of
this report.
The committee thanks those individuals and organisations that made
submissions and gave evidence at the public hearing.
References to the committee Hansard are to the Proof Hansard.
Page numbers may vary between the proof and official Hansard transcript.
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This briefing looks at the new approach of redeterminations and appeals outlined in the Social Security (Scotland) Bill and how far it improves on the current system of mandatory reconsideration (MR).
CPAG is concerned that the Bill as published retains key characteristics of the current process (MR) that act as a barrier to a fair hearing.
The briefing paper also explores possible ways to improve the system of redeterminations set out in the Bill.


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Calling all youth ages 5 – 15! You're invited to participate in the Woodtrace Wilderness Kids Triathlon on Saturday, June 22, 2019 in the beautiful, Tomball-area community of Woodtrace, located in Pinehurst, TX. The race, a USA Triathlon-sanctioned event, will have two designated start times: 7:30 am for ages 5 to 10 and 8:30 am for ages 11 to 15. The swim will be 100 yards for ages 5-10 and 200 yards for ages 11-15; bike ride will be 2 miles for 5-10 and 4 miles for ages 11-15; and run will be 1 mile for 5-10 and 2 miles for 11-15.
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Sophie Chandauka, Virgin Money
Virgin Money's Sophie Chandauka is ranked on the Power List of 100 most influential black Britons and co-founded the Black British Business Awards. As nominations for this year's honours open, she talks about mergers, stockmarket flotations and board diversity
Sophie Chandauka has a lot to thank her school friend Andrea for. Chandauka was 15 and growing […]
Triodos UK chief executive Charles Middleton on understanding the financially conscientious customer
Ethical banking isn't new, but there are few lending institutions quite so squeaky clean as Triodos
Susan Sobbott, American Express
Susan Sobbott, president of global corporate payments at American Express, is a 24-year veteran of the organisation and has recently shifted her focus from the US market to international customers
As Director meets Susan Sobbott at London's Goring Hotel she's on a whirlwind tour of Europe – her second since taking on the role of president […]
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Anne-Marie Huby, co-founder of fundraising website JustGiving, joins the stellar line-up at the IoD Women in Business conference
Anne-Marie Huby, who launched JustGiving in 2000, will share the secrets of the charitable website's success at the IoD Women in Business conference at 116 Pall Mall on 7 November. JustGiving has enabled more than 22 million people […]
Ken Olisa, Restoration Partners
The founder and chairman of boutique technology merchant bank Restoration Partners looks back on his career
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Foodie entrepreneurs Eric Partaker and Dan Houghton spill the beans on raising £2.16m through crowdfunding for their Mexican restaurant chain Chilango via a 'burrito bond'.
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The Dragons' Den star and long-standing IoD member has had a diverse career – from selling ceramics, to running a family travel business, to owning a textile mill. As she collected an honorary doctorate from Bath Spa University, the serial entrepreneur told us what she's learnt so far.
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Fall 2019 will begin Mrs. Luna's seventh year as the Music Specialist at George Washington Carver Elementary School. You may know her as Miss Bonevac. She got married last year so has a new (easier) last name! Luna graduated with a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in Music Education from Southwestern University in May, 2013. She was a student teacher at Cooper Elementary in early 2013. She has been fortunate enough to sing with the St. Cecila Baroque Orchestra, Austin Baroque Orchestra, Conspirare Symphonic Choir, and more. Most recently, Mrs. Luna has released a CD with an extremely talented group of musicians.
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This event will be from 8:00-11:00pm on September 28th in Memorial Union, Great Hall (4th floor).
Jewop a cappella presentation: 10pm
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Two Weeks in the Reserves
Fascinating photo essay chronicling the day to day activities of some IDF reservists. Funny, they don't look like SS.
(Aside here - Had a boyfriend in college who used to joke about the worry that I'd drop him to run off with some Moshe in the Mossad. Don't know about that; I would, however consider one of these guys. Goodness.)
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and if no one can, it's a bit too late for him to take it along. ;)
(Hoping the wheel chair bound nephew knows the secret.)
Maybe he didn't want to share. The wheel chair bound nephew probably needs help from the blind uncle :-) Thanks for your comments Mary.Delete
And good luck to them. What a nasty trick to pull on people.ReplyDelete
Dear Subroto,
Hm. Looks like the estate will go to on one.
BTW. Last week you asked for a link to the full interview with Sonia. This week I have one. :) http://metrovoicenews.com/holocaust-survivor-sonia-warshawski/
Someone will deserve their reward, I think.ReplyDelete
Ha.. This seems like a likely beginning of generations in the Chancery ...
He really must have had a grudge towards his relatives. Who could decipher that?ReplyDelete
The one who took care of him is in the know and will keep it to herself until they all leave in frustration... ;-)ReplyDelete
Heh, he either had a sense of humour or he wanted his relatives to suffer after he was gone! This would make a good comedy film :-)ReplyDelete
Well, that was certainly clever on the part of the deceased. A puzzle-lover who wanted to make sure only an intelligent person with a mind like his would end up getting his fortune!
(And nasty!)
But here's a question: How would the Man in the Suit know if they got it right? I mean, they'd have to be really convincing at inventing a last will and testament in keeping with the deceased character. (Or did I miss something?)
Now would be the perfect time for a relative who's also one of Agatha Christie's detectives to tell everyone they have the answer, probably Miss Marple. They would least suspect her. Well done, Subroto. :D --- Suzanne


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Casey Dreier • February 16, 2016
We comb through NASA budget documents so you don't have to
The FY2017 President's Budget Request for NASA contains a lot of interesting data regarding how NASA intends to spend money in the future. It also contains fascinating data regarding how money was spent in the past. By combing through this and previous years' budget requests (and a few other public sources), we can reconstruct NASA's actual amounts spent on planetary science programs and missions.
Well, we did just that and have published the data to be used by anyone. You can view it online via Google Docs, or download the entire file as an Excel Spreadsheet.


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News Skandia Elevator appoints new head of Technical Customer Support
Skandia Elevator appoints Pär Svensson as new head of Technical Customer Support. He will be a part of the Sales Team and he will report directly to the Sales Manager. Pär will take over after Leif Svensson and the two will work together in 2019.
Pär is currently working as coordinator at Braathens regional / BRA where he is responsible for all technical issues in connection with the daily operation of their aircrafts and the planning of the maintenance.
The employment of Pär is an important part of continuing our efforts to deliver technical customer support and product development of the best quality so that we continue to be "The Leading Company".
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A Shorten Labor Government will deliver a fair go for First Nations people, with a comprehensive plan to close the gap and build a more reconciled Australia.
We believe that when Labor governments and First Nations people work together, we can achieve real change.
Labor will seek a new partnership with First Nations people to deliver positive change in the lives of Indigenous Australians, in the cities, regions and remote communities.
We recommit to the unfinished business of reconciliation, truth-telling and recognition.
We commit to redoubling our efforts to close the gap and achieve genuine equality for First Nations people, including:
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After five years of cuts and chaos under the Liberals, it is time to restore the fair go for our First Australians.
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'Reconnection to our culture again is part and parcel of healing,' says counsellor Robyn Hazard. [Full story at cbc.ca]
Two Mi'kmaw sisters are launching a crisis counselling service for people living on reserves in mainland Nova Scotia. Alsusuti Aboriginal Crisis Counselling Services will combine mental health support with traditional spiritual practices. "Our goal is to try to make sure that we are incorporating our culture at all times," said Robyn Hazard, who lives in Lunenburg.


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Winter Songs
Music: Joanna Forbes L'Estrange & Alexander L'Estrange
Words: Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
For Upper Voices + piano
Published by Faber Music
"This delightful set of seasonal songs is the perfect addition to any choral programme for youth or upper voice choirs celebrating the end of the year! Each song has a powerful message to convey, melodies are beautifully created and very singable, and audiences will enjoy the jazzy style and approachable harmonies.
I recommend these songs to all choirs looking for accessible, contemporary and imaginative repertoire." Ben Parry, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Composers' note
When asked to compose a set of songs on the theme of winter, it is tempting to write lyrics which describe idyllic snowy scenes, twinkling fairy lights and cosy pubs with open fires but, of course, this picture-perfect impression of winter is a far cry from many people's reality and, in any case, the repertoire is already bursting at the seams with such songs! What about the increasing numbers of people who struggle emotionally with the lack of daylight hours in winter? What about the pressure to spend more money than we can spare at Christmas, buying presents for family and friends? And what about all of those people who have no home to go to? How do they cope when the temperatures drop?
'Winter Songs' is a collection of three contrasting songs which depict a slightly alternative view of winter: Hibernation is a musical theatre-style ballad which sets the scene, describing the desire all humans have surely experienced on cold winter mornings to hide under the duvet and go back to sleep rather than facing the day; this may work for those animals who hibernate through winter but, sadly, it's not a viable option for us! Reality Check which opens with a powerful riff and a driving groove is written from the perspective of a homeless person in winter; the lyrics were inspired by a close friend whose family always invites a homeless person to join them for Christmas Day. The set of songs concludes with Presence, the idea for which came from a TED talk about our crippling culture of over-spending and how, ultimately, it's time we need to be spending, not money. In other words: presence not presents.
It is our wish that every young person who sings these songs will not only enjoy the catchy melodies, jazz harmonies and grooves but also be moved by the lyrics to recognise how fortunate many of us are and how we might become more aware of those less fortunate than ourselves.
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Collection continues - Richards Diary part 15
Thursday 29th April
We only need to collect two eggs at the most today but none of us feel complacent given yesterday's experience. We have to get back to the mill for 2pm to meet the vet again, but the mood remains relaxed.
We stop at crane viewing site near the village of Parlow. It's a lovely spot overlooking a moor, and a solitary crane suggests this is a good undisturbed spot to watch them. We don't have time for a closer look, which is a pity because the moor also supports breeding bittern, lapwing and a range of other wildlife, including large copper (although it wouldn't have been flying yet anyway).
Next, we make a quick stop at the Friedrichswalde bakery for doughnuts, then we're off to our first scheduled crane site, but the chicks are pipping in the eggs so we leave them. We visit another reedbed site but the eggs' vital statistics suggest they are only 12 days old and are likely to be too young to travel so we reluctantly leave them. Moving on, we pass a mixed group of young and adult cranes feeding close the road before reaching an alder swamp where we flush a pair of goldeneye.
Public crane viewing platform at Parlow
Discussing the day's collection tactics
Beate and Roland at one of the alder swamp sites
Converting egg measurements in estimated laying dates
Again as Beate and Roland reach the crane nest they can see that one egg has already hatched and one is piping, so they quickly withdraw. At a second alder swamp near a main road, we locate a nest with two eggs and measurements translated into estimated hatching dates suggest we should take one of the eggs, which we do, transferring it to the portable incubator. We now have egg 24. By midday we manage to locate another suitable egg from a feldsolle reedbed – egg number 25, our last, and return to the farmhouse for a drink. We return to the mill to prepare the eggs for the static incubator. With the arrival of the vet, Mr Ventland, we sit down to lunch and with the necessary papers signed by the vet, we relax and reflect on the past two days, contrasting the ease with which we collected last week with the past two days.
This is Roland's last night in Brandenburg so after dinner we light a fire outside and sit talking until late about the crane project and many other things. The night sky is much clearer here than back home, reminding us of the remoteness of the forest and the surrounding area. Tree frogs start their usual nightly chorus - we have grown very fond of them.
This is the diary of Richard Archer, RSPB Conservation Officer for Somerset. In mid April, Richard spent three weeks as part of the RSPB/WWT/Pensthorpe crane team collecting crane eggs in Eastern Germany. These are his personal reflections on the successful German visit. You can read all of Richards Diary here.
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Source: Memphis Flyer.
One answer in the affirmative is the Memphis Concrète festival going down all weekend at Crosstown Arts. Masterminded by synthesist Robert Traxler and launched in 2017 by a small tribe his fellow electronic devotees, the festival has gone from success to success ever since. One sure sign of this was when I happened upon my neighbor, who exclaimed, "Are you going to Memphis Concrète? Matmos is coming!"
Saturday 6/29:
10:05-11:05 pm: Matmos
8:45-9:45 pm: Rapoon
7:55-8:25 pm: Mykel Boyd
7:10-7:40 pm: Optic Sink
6:25-6:55 pm: Max Eilbacher
5:45-6:15 pm: MPX
3:55-5:45 pm: Tron movie w/ live score by Argiflex + Careful Handling
3:30-3:55 pm: Noiserpuss + Belly Full of Stars
3:00-3:25 pm: Mike Honeycutt + bihl
Sunday 6/30:
9:05-10:05 pm: Moor Mother
8:00-8:45 pm: Pas Musique + Shaun Sandor
7:00-7:45 pm: Tavishi
6:20-6:50 pm: Outside Source
5:40-6:10 pm: Artificer
5:00-5:30 pm: Paul Vinsonhaler
4:20-4:50 pm: Jack Alberson
3:40-4:10 pm: Linda Heck + Pas Moi
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DJ Profile
In the past 23 years, Tito Torres has played everywhere from Buenos Aires to Amsterdam and from Miami to Dubai – with his past recidencies at Pacha, El Divino, Amnesia and Space (all Ibiza), he has shared the DJ booth with many of today's legends including Danny Tenaglia, Deep Dish, Josh Wink, Tony Humphries, Sven Väth, David Morales and many more.
Tito is a regular guest at some of the best clubs and festivals around the world and has played at Nikki Beach in Miami with Armand Van Helden, Erick Morillo and Roger Sanchez during Winter Music Conference, The Lodge in Dubai with Tiësto, Hollywood in Milano with Joe T. Vanelli, the 20'000 capacity Energy festival in Zurich with David Guetta and Fedde Le Grand as well as Mint and Crobar in Miami, Le Queens in Paris, The Peppermint Lounge in Dubai and many more. He has also had his own truck at the annual Street Parade in Zurich for the past 13 years with up to 800'000 visitors!
Producer Career:
With no less than 28 (!) dj mix compilations for EMI, SonyBMG and Virgin Music under his belt, a long list of high-profile productions on labels including the mighty Ministry of Sound and remixes for artists like Armand Van Helden («Witch Doctor») or Right Said Fred (Sexaholic) and Gloria Gaynor (All The Man). After 8 weeks in the Swiss Dance Charts (peak at number 2), Tito's «So Many Why's» is turning into an international house anthem, while his new production «Shine On Me» just got signed to Universal Music in France.
With two new mix compilations («The Progressive Sound of Dubai Vol.2» as well as «Chill Dubai Sunset Session Vol. 4») to be released in June 2012 as well as confirmed gigs at the massive 60'000 capacity Nature One festival in Germany as well as Energy (alongside Tiësto and David Guetta) and his 22th (!) gig at Street Parade in Zurich, 2013 looks very bright for Tito Torres.
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Tito Torres is also running the labels Chic Music, Clubbeat Records and Arroganza Records. His tracks are licensed to more than 500 Mix compilations worldwide. He recently concluded a joint-venture with promarkMusic of Los Angeles on a dance album « Children Of The Night » where Promark is releasing tracks featuring singer/songwriter Ella Furmane.The album features her hit song "Sunrise" and soon to be released "We Control The Night".


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By Jaweed Kaleem
A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who pulled a BB gun from his waistband following a report of an armed robbery on Wednesday night, according to authorities. The gun was "practically identical" to the weapons police use, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said.
The boy, Tyree King, died at Nationwide Children's Hospital about half an hour after being shot several times by the officer in an alley in the the city's Olde Towne East neighborhood.
King is black. The officer who shot him, Bryan Mason, is white. He has been on the force for nine years and has been placed on administrative leave, city officials told reporters Thursday.
The shooting comes as officers around the nation have been under scrutiny for deadly shootings of black Americans. Nearly two years ago, a Cleveland police officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy holding a replica pellet gun.
Police responding to a robbery report Wednesday night arrived at the scene at about 7:40. A man told officers that a group, including one person with a gun, had demanded money from him. He said he gave them what "money he had," according to police, and kept walking down the street.
Police say they found three people nearby who matched the descriptions the man gave them, two of whom ran away and were chased into an alley. That's when one of the people, later identified as King, pulled a gun from his waistband and an officer shot him several times, police said.
Crime scene investigators later determined that the weapon King had was a BB gun, said Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman.
A second person was arrested without injury and later released, police said. Police did not say what happened to the third person who ran; they are looking for additional suspects. The case is being reviewed internally, standard procedure for Columbus police.
King was in the eighth grade at Linden STEM Academy, according to reports.
Police were not wearing body cameras at the time of the incident. The city began testing body cameras last month among a group of 30 officers, and officials have said they want to have the camera program fully running by the end of the year.
"You have to feel for the family in this and you also have to think about what the officer's going through," Weiner said. "There's no winners here."
The case is being compared to that of Rice, who police shot dead in November 2014 after a 911 caller reported seeing "a guy with pistol" that was "probably a fake" pointing it around at a city park. The caller also said the person was "probably a juvenile." Officers responding to the call were not aware that the caller suggested the gun may not be real, and heard a description of a "male black sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people."
Last year, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved in Rice's shooting. At the time, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the decision by saying that Rice had reached for the gun, which he called "indistinguishable" from a real gun.
Cleveland this year settled a $6-million civil suit with Rice's family over the death.
Jacobs, the Columbus police chief, said Thursday that it's too soon to draw comparisons to Rice's death.
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther appeared to choke up Thursday as he called for the community to come together to help ensure children remain safe. He questioned why an eighth-grader would have a replica of a police firearm.
"There is something wrong in this country, and it is bringing its epidemic to our city streets," Ginther said. "And a 13-year-old is dead in the city of Columbus because of our obsession with guns and violence."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Published: 07/02/2019 @ 03:17 AM Updated: 07/02/2019 @ 03:17 AM
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Indiana Target Area: Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, De Kalb, Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Noble, Pulaski, Starke, Wabash, Wells, White and Whitley Counties.
The National Weather Service in Northern Indiana has issued a Heat Advisory, which is in effect from 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ this afternoon to 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ this evening.
*Hot temperatures in the lower 90s today combined with humid conditions will cause heat indices to rise to near 100 degrees this afternoon into this evening.
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