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Savage Henry has looked long, far and hard for the most educated and informed cannabis experts in the industry…but those snobs are expensive so we found these two guys trying to break into the Savage Henry office one day so we put them to work smoking, dabbing and eating all kinds of marijuana and then talking about it. Please enjoy.
Birthday Skywalker OG
Redbeard: Wawa weee wa. I got a fat crispy bag of this loud-ass skunk nugget for my birthday and boy howdy it packs one sick Rasta punch. I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars, but now that I've been there I can say "Hey maybe Yoda needs to chill the fuck out a little bit." Or "Jabba can you please tell me where the dank pizza is on Tatooine?" If you wanna get so fucking high your hand falls off, fuck with it.
10 out of 10 1983 Return of the Jedi '65C-BACK' Boba Fett Action Figure.
Evan: The first thing I think of when I hear the term "Skywalker" is just happy lad just trottin' through the clouds without a care in the world. The second is obviously Star Wars but the Skywalker OG strain reminded me a lot more of the first thing. With a sweet stink that permeates the room when you crack open the bag, you know you're in for a treat immediately, and boy does it deliver. Noticeably strong and stoney, it's definitely a strain you should avoid if you have to do stuff. If you find this strain, definitely make the investment. You won't regret it.
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Roommates Tim Parker and Marc Rzatkowski feature on this episode of Kickin' It, hosted by Matt Harmon. The guys give updates from preseason camp, talk about signing new contracts with RBNY, and life in New York.
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Content marketing copywriter
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- £25,000 - £35,000 + Benefits
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- 19 Jun 2019
- Closes
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- Community Management & Social Media, Copywriting
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CIPHR is a rapidly expanding, innovative, UK based tech company who provide online (SaaS) HR systems and solutions to help organisations attract, engage, manage and retain their workforce more effectively.
CIPHR's mission is to be a strategic partner in the delivery of software and services, to unlock the true value of people-related data. We work hard to meet client demands through software, outsourcing, data management, and new forms of knowledge-based services.
With ambitious growth plans, and working in a rapidly changing and developing market, we are looking for extraordinary and talented people that will implement creative and innovative ideas and solutions.
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A fantastic opportunity for a high-performing content marketing copywriter has arisen in our ambitious marketing team, which is central to achieving CIPHR's growth strategy. You'll be a great communicator and enjoy creating clear, concise, compelling and creative content for a range of purposes, audiences and mediums to a high standard.
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- Create marketing collateral such as brochure and website copy, email promotions and newsletters, social media adverts, presentations, and product information
- Social media and online community management, including creating and scheduling posts and engaging with HR professionals online, with the goal of increasing engagement with CIPHR through social media
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- Engage with members of the HR community, including stakeholders at CIPHR partner vendors, to cultivate relationships and create a network of guest authors for CIPHR's blog
- Interview CIPHR clients to create testimonials, Q&A interviews and case studies, including working with a freelance video production team to record video interviews
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- Help to organise webinars with clients, prospects, industry experts, partner companies and CIPHR employees on a variety of topics
- Help to ensure the consistency and accuracy of all CIPHR internal and external communications
- Identify, develop and execute new ideas for CIPHR's ongoing content marketing strategy
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- Demonstrable experience in a business-to-business (B2B) marketing, copywriting or editorial environment
- Excellent grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Experience using social media to engage with an audience and distribute marketing content
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Counting down the top authentic Mexican dishes according to personal taste, WatchMojo.com covers this delicious cuisine we've come to know and love (not to mention make like pros) here in Texas. Omitting dips, sauces, and drinks, they cover only the most authentic cuisine – in the tastiest way possible… practically smell-o-vision!
Their video, found on the WatchMojo.com YouTube channel, is based on voting suggestions which were submitted by channel viewers. Although we're sure it's not the most comprehensive, the fact that they cover some of our favorite dishes doesn't hurt whatsoever! Unfortunately, what's known as Tex-Mex is completely overlooked in this clip. However, beginning with dessert (one of our favorite meal courses ever) they cover what they see as 10 tremendous Mexican foods that are certainly worth the time to learn how to make, or to simply go out and get you some!


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Vinod Chandra
Vinod ChandraAssociate Professor , Physics
- BSc: Kumoun University, 2001
- MSc: Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2003
- PhD: IIT Kanpur, 2009
Email: vchandra -AT- iitgn.ac.in
Work Experience
- Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2020 to Present)
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (July 2014 to Feb 2020)
- DST-Inspire Faculty, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Bhopal, India (Jan 2014 - Jun 2014)
- INFN Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)-Section of Florence, Italy (May 2012 - Jan 2014)
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Dec 2009 - Dec 2011)
Selected Publications
Covariant kinetic theory for effective fugacity quasiparticle model and first order transport coefficients for hot QCD matter (with Sukanya Mitra), Physical Review D 97, no.3, Feb. 2018. 034032 (2018).
Collective excitations of a hot anisotropic QCD medium with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collisional kernel within an effective description (with Avdhesh Kumar; M Yousuf Jamal, Vinod, Jitesh R. Bhatt), Physical Review D 97, no.3, 034007 (2018).
Effective description of hot QCD medium in strong magnetic field and longitudinal conductivity (with Manu Kurian), Physical Review D 96, 114026 (2017).
Transport coefficients of a hot QCD medium and their relative significance in heav-ion collisions (with Sukanya Mitra), Physical Review D 96, 094003 (2017).
Collective excitations of hot QCD medium in a quasi-particle description, (with M. Yousuf Jamal and Sukanya Mitra), Physical Review D95 no.9, 094022 (2017).
Thermal Relaxation, Electrical Conductivity and Charge Diffusion in a Hot QCD Medium (with Sukanya Mitra), Physical Review D 94, 034025 (2016).


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I am in the part of Pennsylvania that resembles rural Alabama, an hour west of State College. We have more deer than people. It is definite Trump country here, solidly Republican. I am in a teeny minority, one of 160 registered Libertarians in Jefferson County; Dems have about 9,000 registreees, Republicans 16,000, all others 3,100 or so. You see some Trump signs, almost no Hillary signs, just one Gary Johnson sign (mine).
So there isn't much fluctuation here. The few Democratic areas hate Trump. The many traditionally Republican areas hate Hillary. This election will be the most negative in my memory (I am 73). I'm willing to bet that more than half the votes cast hereabouts will be "neverTrump" votes, people holding their noses and voting for Hillary because Trump scares them, or "neverHillary" votes, people holding their noses and voting for Trump because they don't trust Hillary.
It's just hard to predict what will happen when people stand in front of those machines.
I'd love to be more specific, but it just boils down to "nobody knows."
Pennsylvania is back in play.
Republican lawmakers are making a difference in Philadelphia.
Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey is a strong contender for his seat.
He won by 1% against an outsider Democratic House Rep.
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In this episode of Security Token Insight:
An expert interview with Dr. Stephanie Hurder, partner and founding economist at Prysm Group. Dr. Hurder explains what people should know about token economics, tokenization of assets (including real estate) and more from the StartEngine Summit in Santa Monica, California. StartEngine is a Gold Corporate Member of the Security Token Academy.
Jamie Finn, co-founder, and president of Securitize discusses security token standards with Security Token Academy host Amy Wan (also from the StartEngine Summit). Hear which standards he supports – and which ones don't matter. Securitize is a Gold Corporate Member of the Security Token Academy.
How can you unlock equity in your home without taking on more debt? Learn about fractional equity ownership from Matthew Sullivan, founder & CEO of QuantmRE. The company is tokenizing real estate on the blockchain.
Preview of our next Security Token LA Meetup on January 31, 2019
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on what's propelling the security token industry.
Dr. Hurder is a Harvard-educated economist specializing in blockchain, human capital, market design, and the future of work. She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at industry and academic blockchain events; recent and upcoming appearances include the Federal Reserve, UC Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and the StartEngine Summit.
Dr. Hurder has held research positions at MIT, Microsoft Research, and Merrill Lynch, and appeared as a seminar speaker or guest lecturer at Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, and Washington University in St. Louis
Prior to co-founding Prysm Group, Dr. Hurder was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where she was recognized as a firm-wide expert on organizational effectiveness and design and co-authored multiple publications on these topics.
Dr. Hurder is deeply committed to ensuring all individuals have access to quality labor market opportunities and devotes substantial volunteer time to education and workforce nonprofits. She holds an AB in Mathematics Phi Beta Kappa, an AM in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Security Token industry is here and you can get involved. Coming up on this episode of Security Token Insight, the co-founder and president of Securitize talks about security token standards.
Plus details on our next security token meetup. That and much more is coming up on this episode of Security Token Insight.
Hey everybody I'm Adam Chapnick.
And I'm Amy Wan. Welcome to Security Token Insight brought to you by the Security Token Academy. The security token industry is here and will provide a key foundation for the evolving financial internet.
The Security Token Academy provides insights about this new era for security token enthusiasts, investors and issuers.
Coming up on today's episode of Security Token Insight, in your security token (STO) investing news, Securitize receives funding from Coinbase. Find out why. We've got an expert interview with the co-founder and president of Securitize Jamie Finn. Plus learn about token economics from the Prysm Group's Dr. Stephanie Hurder and we'll let you know the date of our next security token meetup. That and more is straight ahead.
Now it's time for your security token investing news. StartEngine is looking to raise 10 million dollars in its STO. The Reg D offering is open to accredited investors with a minimum investment of 10 thousand dollars. The company plans to launch a broker-dealer and alternative trading system called StartEngine Primary and a security token trading platform called StartEngine Secondary.
StartEngine is a Gold Corporate Member of the Security Token Academy. Security token platform Securitize is also making headlines this week. Their DS Protocol allows for security tokens to be traded in a compliant manner on global exchanges and marketplaces. Securitize just announced it's raised more than 12 million dollars in a series A round. Participants in the round included Coinbase Ventures, the company behind Coinbase exchange. Other companies that backed around include Blockchain Capital and Ripples's Xpring Fund.
And finally Securitize is poised for a global expansion. The company has partnered with Elevated Returns as it looks to expand security tokens in Thailand. The partnership will allow Elevated Returns to boost the real estate tokenization program in South East Asia through the Securitize platform. Securitize is as Gold Corporate Member of the Security Token Academy.
You can find more information about Securitize as well as about StartEngine on our website, securitytokenacademy.com. Just click on the directory.
Speaking of Securitize, I had the privilege of sitting down with the co-founder and president Jamie Finn at the StartEngine Summit in Santa Monica. Here are his thoughts on token standards and more, take a look.
There are a proliferation of security token standards out there. What is going on? What's happening? Why are there so many?
Why? I think it's a great question. So I think we've seen over the past few weeks any number of different companies launching standards. And if you have a number of companies launching standards by nature those are not standards. And so we're kind of looking at this thing backwards. Everyone's obsessed with standardizing something that nobody knows how to do. And so in our world we've been learning is as we go and launching these things with actual marketplaces and exchanges it's much harder than it appears. And everything you thought you thought of that was right, guess what? You forgot something.
Interesting. Are there any standards in particular that you think right now are getting a lot of traction?
Yeah. ERC-20. Honestly we don't need anything else. People have gotten obsessive.
Not ERC-1400?
I don't believe in 1400, 1450, 1442 14 whatever. None of them matter. All that stuff is noise because it's being deployed by companies who haven't actually issued any security tokens. So people are talking about standards, they're not actually deploying. What we need at this space is to get actual tokens in investors' hands.
What are you seeing now in terms of standards on other blockchains aside from Ethereum?
Yeah, I mean we've been looking at a lot of other different blockchains. There are some of the interesting ones out there. We had great conversations with the NEO team, with Cardano, with Stellar and really kind of digging deep, and even EOS, digging deep to understand how we would deploy our protocol in those environments. And for the most part we found that actually most of what we built would actually work on these different blockchains.
There is some engineering effort but again at the end of the day we're waiting for the full ecosystem to develop around it. So what Ethereum has, which is very powerful, is its ecosystem. They have wallets, they have exchanges, consumers are learning how to use it, investors are learning how to use it. Now you have to learn how to use an EOS wallet. I own a bunch of EOS but I don't actually know how to use it.
I should probably learn that.
Interesting. So given that there are so many competing blockchains, right? Do you think the future of security tokens is going to exist on public blockchains or private blockchains?
I mean for me public security should be listed on a public blockchain. I've heard of some companies trying to create their own variance of it. Thus far those companies haven't been tremendously successful with it. Remains to be seen if anybody has enough market power to do that. We at Securitize are not building our own private chain. We have no interest in that area. We feel that security should be public. All the information should be public and it should be traded on public blockchains.
How about for private companies?
So private companies who opt to lease securities are going to do that on a public blockchain because they have public investors. They have investors all over the world. Why would you hide the transactions from them? It doesn't make sense. The only thing I have seen a little bit of is out of Europe. Some data protections issues that have come up. For the most part, with what we do at least, everything is hashed and so none of it is actually visible. We hash identity on the blockchain as a component of what we do. And so that's efficient around European Regulatory Law, which is the most strict in this environment. So for now I don't think there's anything really needed that has to be on like a secret private blockchain that nobody knows about.
Do you think the future of security token industry is going to be with a self-custodial flare or with these custodial entities?
Well I think it's a mix. It depends on the investors. At the end of the day an institutional investor needs a custodian to hold these securities. They can't do that, right? Whereas a family office who's relatively well versed in technology can hold their own securities if they feel comfortable doing it. It's hard. The systems aren't there. We've seen some new stuff from Ledger which looks super promising in that area for self-custody and for governance. Which is another piece people don't talk about enough. With these securities, how do you transfer them? When do you issue them? Who has the rights to issue them? How is that controlled? So all those different things aren't really there yet they're being built by a few companies which will help. But I think at the end of the day we're going to have self-custody and we're going to have institutions using custodians who are ensured and regulated.
Given that now at least some people who have that capability can presumably hold their own security token, what happens if they lose their private keys?
In the security tokens space it's not as big an issue, right? So you lose your keys and you can prove that you've lost them and you had control of that wallet and everything was done properly through a proper forensics investigation then those tokens can be reissued or burns on the existing ones. You can basically pull them back and reissue them. So it's not as much of an issue but it's still a security, it's still a bare instrument. So it has to be traded with the appropriate protection.
Is there any topic that you think has not been adequately addressed or hasn't been talked about enough in this security token space today?
Capital formation. To me talking tech in the space is actually not that useful. What we have to focus on is getting investors into the space. It's a very hard space. Carlos, my co-founder, said it last month. It was like 99 percent of people didn't know. Now we've done this whole push around security tokens. Now 98 percent don't know about security tokens. So one percent increase. And so nobody knows about this space. We're talking to ourselves. We need to bring investors into it and really make them comfortable with it and stop focusing so much on tech.
What do you think is going to be the thing that makes investors want to invest in security tokens more?
To hear Jamie's answer to that question go to our website securitytokenacademy.com and click on the interviews page.
Security Token Academy is on the leading edge of the security token industry. We've interviewed the top experts, lawyers and business leaders from all over the world. Today's expert interview is with Dr. Stephanie Hurder.
Dr. Hurder is partner and founding economist at the Prysm Group. She's also founder of Retrain.LA and got her PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University. She spoke to me about token economics and more at the StartEngine Summit.
You're an economist by training and so I assume you know a lot about ... what everyone talks about in terms of token economics. So let's explore that for a little bit. Both on the traditional security side and on the side of actually security token having some sort of utility purpose. So let's talk about traditional first. What should people know about token economics from that angle?
So for traditional sort of when we think about security tokens one of the big things we like to emphasize is that you need to be really clear about the rights that the token gives you. And a great example I like to think about, for example, suppose you wanted to tokenize a piece of art, like your fine art, art isn't just about the financial return, right? It's about enjoying the art and then if you owned a token you would probably also want some input into what happens to the art. Who does it get sold to? When does it get sold? How much does it get sold for?
And so just issuing a token isn't enough. You have to think about the rights and the governance in the other pieces of the platform in order for your token to be useful and valuable.
Fantastic. That was an excellent point. How about on the non-security side?
So if we're thinking about utility tokens one conflict we see a lot is that people want a token that's used as a means of exchange but they also want it to go up in price. And these two things are really at a tension. If you're thinking about a token that's used to buy and sell things you don't want it to fluctuate in value that much. Because people end up thinking, "Do I buy this product or service or do I hold it? Or do I not want to buy your token at all because by the time I go to buy product or service it's worthless?" And so when you're thinking about utility token design or any kind of token design your token really has to have sort of one point. You can't have a token that does multiple things at once.
What do you see now in the market both from the issuer and the investor side in terms of ... is everyone now just tokenizing traditional equity or debt or are people still adding utility functions onto the security tokens? What kind of the state of the market?
So I'm seeing a lot of tokenized assets. Obviously real estate art. And those I think are particularly interesting. I don't see a ton of projects that ... actually as we know the regulatory process takes a very long time. So I'm interested to see what innovations actually make it to market.
So you mentioned tokenized real estate and prior to the tokenized real estate industry there was the real estate crowd funding industry. And one thing that we always saw in that industry is that there's an adverse selection problem, right? A lot of the times the people approaching you to raise money in this new way are the ones who would not otherwise be able to really raise money. How do we combat that?
I think that's a great point and if you think about, for example, the current state of utility token ICOs at this point doing an ICO is almost a bad sign. It says like, "Why couldn't you go out and do a standard equity round?" And so I think part of this will come through diligence. If we don't have VCs doing diligence who do we outsource this to? How do we make sure that companies are actually doing what they're supposed to? But I think it's going to be a challenge with any new funding mechanism.
What are some best practices around token design for STOs?
Your token has to be a functioning part of your entire platform. A lot of times when we talk to companies, they come to us and they say, "I want token economics." And we say, "That's great but your token is going to do best if it's a functioning part of a well-developed platform overall." So what is the business purpose? What are the contracts you need as you know? What kind of market design do you need to make your platform function? What governance do you need? And then what do you tokenize in there so that everything works together? So that's really how we approach things. So a lot of our processes taking someone who's looking for token advise and saying, "No, no, let's back up and look at the entire platform and then think about how your token functions within that."
So you mentioned governance and property rights which are two very important concepts that ... I think a lot of people just aren't thinking about enough today. When it comes to those things, right? If I am an art holder and I have a fractionalized piece of real estate or art via token and I want to decide what happens to that piece of art or that piece of real estate, it can become very unwieldy to figure out how I vote for the 500 fractional pieces of art I own. In regular democracy when we want people to vote on stuff we have a hard time getting a voter turnout. And I feel like the same thing's going to happen here for token governance.
I've actually heard this. So last week ... we've written a research paper on governance design and one thing I heard from many, many people is exactly what you're saying. It's that we've set up a participatory governance and no one votes. And so I think part of this is when you're designing your platform there's an impetus to just democratize everything. You know like we're going to have 25 votes today and everyone's going to take ... and you have to think really critically about what are the core decisions that you're going to distribute? I think we're going to end up seeing more centralized platforms. You're going to either need a leaders' counsel or someone to just make decisions on behalf of the platform.
One thing I've always thought is the reason startups are startups is they have to iterate a lot. They have to pivot. It takes years to find product market fit and there's a lot of tokens that have been issued in 2017 and continue to be issued where they set into stone what their token represents. And then it's really difficult to change it even if there is a voting structure. Do you have any comments around that?
I think that it's really tough. And I mean we even see that with some of the earliest platforms. I don't know where Ethereum is on its payment from proof of form to proof of state but it's been taking quite a while. So I think that's just one of the challenges that you have to think about and maybe we will see more centralized governance because you'd need to be able to pay back.
What is your one wish for the security token industry in 2019?
To hear Stephanie's wish and the fore interview go to our website securitytokenacademy.com and click on the interviews page.
Thousands of people from around the world attended Crypto Invest Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center in October. Security Token Academy was there conducting interviews with some of the biggest names in the security token industry. That's where we met Matthew Sullivan, founder and CEO of QuantmRE. The company is tokenizing real estate on the blockchain. Learn how you can unlock equity in your own home without taking on more debt and more. Take a look.
This is CEO Matthew Sullivan of QuantmRE, thanks so much for joining us.
And it's a pleasure to be here.
I'm a little bit nerding out on this because for many months on the show I joke around with guests about when are we going to see the opportunity for me to tokenize and divide up my house so that my neighbors can unlock my equity? And now that I've met you guys that may be upon us, I'm I right?
It is. That's exactly what we do.
Oh my goodness. I'm just very excited. Tell us what is QuantmRE.
If you're a home owner, QuantmRE allows you to unlock the equity in your home without taking on more debt. We do that by using cryptocurrency in the blockchain. So we are creating a token but by real estate assets. The money that we raise from the sale of those security tokens goes into our traditional restructure that is audited and allows us to buy the equity in your home. Which means that you get some cash without having to move out, without having to sell and most importantly without having to go back to the bank and borrowing more money.
Incredible. So for arguments sake, I don't know if I'm using the right terminology, but there it becomes like a cup table on my home where I own most of it and some other either person or group of people own the rest of it in the pie?
It's less complicated than that.
Oh even less complicated?
So there's no transfer of title which means that the banks don't get upset. There's no acceleration clauses. We don't insist that we move in and take your spare room. What happens is you sign an optional agreement with us where we share in the potential future increase of the value of your home. And that option runs for 30 years. So you've got up to 30 years to either sell your home or refinance the option. And the way it works is that we agree a percentage of the value of your home and that's subject to underrating. And we can release up to 30 percent of the value of your home. What we then do is that we then send an appraiser around and if everything checks out we write you a check for the amount that you raise.
When you sell your home you pay us back together with a percentage of the increase in value of the home. So that's how we make our money.
And in the event that it stays flat or goes down?
Because it's a partnership we take that risk. Unlike a bank, when they take your money come rain or shine, if your house stays flat we just get our money back. If it goes down in value we run the risk potentially of sharing in some of that loses as well. So it's a true partnership rather than being debt.
You guys are the first company that are stepping into the use case that we've been talking about. And how long have you been around?
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Looking forward to giving the Marshall McLuhan Lecture at the transmediale festival in Berlin next month. The talk will be called "Money is the Medium" and will follow up on McLuhan's description of money as a social medium.
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David, I just watched the video of your talk in Berlin and I'm inspired to inform you of an op-ed that McLuhan wrote for the N.Y. Times on Sept.21, 1974. He coins the phrase "disequilibrium economics" in it, and if you are unaware of this article, I think you will find it invaluable for your present work:
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ISIS Video Unveils New Weaponized Drone Program
In new video footage circulating around various social media sites, ISIS supporters have been openly boasting about a weaponized drone program which the terrorist organization has been using to target Iraqi forces in Mosul. While the video appears to be, in part, CGI-enhanced propaganda, other portions reveal actual IED attacks on armored vehicles and human targets.
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Most important moments from #ISIS very recent media from Ninawa featuring VBIEDs & its first attack drone ever bombing the #Iraq|i army.. pic.twitter.com/RsnHPqQ6I1
— Rami (@RamiAILoIah) January 24, 2017
While Major General Gary Volesky, commander of the 101st Airborne division, described the ISIS drone program as nothing more than "commercial, off-the-shelf kind of things," their unsophisticated aerial IED attacks have nevertheless resulted in numerous injuries including a reporter and cameraman working for a U.S.-funded media outlet last week in eastern Mosul. Per PJ Media:
A reporter and a cameraman for U.S.-funded Al-Hurra were injured last week in an ISIS drone attack on eastern Mosul.
Iraq's defense ministry announced that their forces are in control of eastern Mosul — a city divided by the Tigris River — and have begun planning operations to retake smaller but more densely populated western Mosul.
In mid-October, just after the Mosul operation began, Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commander of Combined Joint Forces' Land Component Command for Operation Inherent Resolve and commander of the 101st Airborne, told reporters that ISIS drones were in use.
The general described them as "really, a lot of commercial, off-the-shelf kind of things we've seen" — though they're "clearly not the capacity or capability" that the coalition has.
One scene from the video also reveals a coordinated effort between IED drone strikes and suicide bombers on the ground.
The video uses photography from another drone to show a weaponized drone flying toward its target, and cameras on the weaponized drone itself show the impact from dropping an IED on a group of people in a street. When vehicles start to respond to the scene, a suicide bomber in a car drives in and detonates in a follow-up attack.
ISIS continues to show a variety of other explosive drops from a drone's vantage point, mostly targeting individual parked vehicles or small groups of people.
The blasts produced by the explosives are akin to grenades, appearing to inflict some injuries when aimed directly at people but seeming to have little effect when dropped on tanks.
And while the "ISIS drone program" is unlikely to reach a level of sophistication required to take out armored vehicles anytime in the immediate future, Former US special forces officer, Mitch Utterback, said that the aerial IED attacks can nonetheless be very effective in targeting specific, unprotected high-ranking officers. Per the Daily Mail:
Former US special forces officer, Mitch Utterback, who discovered the devices, told the Mail: 'Iraqi forces are very, very concerned about these.
'My concern is them being used to target specific, high-ranking officers who are leading the ground combat against Islamic State.'
He said the devices' electronics had been modified to release grenades.
The drones can drop a single 40mm rifle grenade – which could kill or injure within a five meter radius, he added.
'With the precision guidance of the camera, they can and are used to directly target troops in the open' he added.
Of course, while this low-level technology may not be incredibly effective on the battlefield just yet, we suspect it's only a matter of time until it's used to target crowded streets in the major metro areas of the U.S. and Western Europe.


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The Instance #179 & #180 talks about new mounts, and by all things holy I think we can go way past riding Hoverboards and Wasps, we can reference the fun ideas in a shared topic on Blog Azeroth, which started it up for me a while back in August 2008.
We might soon see submarines, and all sorts of oceanic mounts. I expect I'll never see the phoenix or another ultra-low-drop-rate mount, but some of the stuff the Instance crew talk about in #179, and touch on in #180 is interesting.
Just saying its a great thing to add in an expansion, gives breadth of fun to everyone, and has no balance issues to speak of really. And I kind of support a Jetpack for Engineers; more so it can explode or go out of control.


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United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division
July 25, 2019
Anthony Wright, Daniel Hansen, and Kenneth Privette, all individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated Plaintiffs,v.Waste Pro USA Inc., Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., Waste Pro of South Carolina, Inc., Waste Pro of North Carolina, Inc., Defendants.
matter comes before the court on defendants Waste Pro USA and
Waste Pro of Florida's ("Waste Pro FL")
motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, lack of
subject-matter jurisdiction, failure to state a claim, and
preemption, ECF Nos. 37, 38; on Waste Pro of South
Carolina's ("Waste Pro SC") and Waste Pro of
North Carolina's ("Waste Pro NC") motions to
dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, failure to
state a claim, and preemption, ECF Nos. 39 and 40; and on
plaintiffs Anthony Wright ("Wright"), Daniel
Hansen ("Hansen"), and Kenneth Privette's
("Privette") (collectively,
"plaintiffs") motion to sever and transfer, ECF
No. 129. For the reasons set forth below, the court
GRANTS Waste Pro USA and Waste Pro FL's
motions to dismiss and DISMISSES them as
defendants from this case. The court also
DISMISSES all plaintiffs who are not
employees of Waste Pro S.C. or Waste Pro NC. The court
GRANTS Waste Pro NC and Waste Pro SC's
motion to dismiss plaintiffs' North Carolina Wage and
Hour Act ("NCWHA") claim. The court finds that
the remaining North and South Carolina plaintiffs do not have
standing to sue both Waste Pro NC and Waste Pro S.C. and
orders plaintiffs to file an amended complaint pursuant to
the instructions given in this order. The court finds
MOOT defendants remaining arguments, but
defendants may re-file their motions regarding standing and
failure to state a claim if plaintiffs do not properly
re-plead their complaint. This order also renders
MOOT plaintiffs' motion to sever and
brought this action against defendants individually on a
collective and class wide basis. Plaintiffs are waste
disposal drivers for defendants. They claim that, due to the
defendants' company-wide policies, they were deprived of
wages for hours actually worked. According to plaintiffs,
defendants did this in the following ways: (1) erroneously
calculating their prevailing hourly rate; (2) only paying
plaintiffs "half-time" for all hours worked over
forty hours in a given workweek; (3) requiring them to
perform pre-shift and post-shift duties while not clocked in;
and (4) automatically deducting thirty minutes for lunch
breaks that defendants knew plaintiffs worked through.
Plaintiffs bring this action on behalf of all other similarly
situated non-exempt waste disposal drivers who were paid a
day rate and who have been employed by Waste Pro entities
throughout the United States, at any time from September 29,
2014 through the final disposition of this matter. Plaintiffs
all filed consent forms to join this collective action
lawsuit against Waste Pro USA only. ECF Nos. 30-3, 30-4,
30-5. However, each plaintiff specifies that they work or
worked for a particular Waste Pro facility-Wright worked at
Waste Pro's facility in Florida, Hansen in South
Carolina, and Privette in North Carolina.
filed suit in this court on October 2, 2017, and filed their
second amended complaint on December 5, 2017, bringing the
following causes of action: (1) violation of the Fair Labor
Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§
201, et seq.; (2) violation of the South Carolina
Payment of Wages Act ("SCPWA"), South Carolina
Code §§ 41-10-10, et seq.; and (3)
violation of the NCWHA, North Carolina General Statutes
§§ 95-25.1, et seq.. ECF No. 30-2. On
December 20, 2017, Waste Pro USA and Waste Pro FL filed a
motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,
lack of personal jurisdiction, and failure to state a claim,
and also seeking the dismissal of plaintiffs' North
Carolina claim based on preemption grounds. ECF Nos. 37 and
38. The other defendants filed nearly identical motions that
same day, with Waste Pro S.C. and Waste Pro NC declining to
bring a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction.
ECF Nos. 39 and 40. On January 16, 2018, plaintiffs filed
virtually identical responses to all of the motions. ECF Nos.
46, 47, 48, and 49. On February 2, 2018, defendants filed a
joint reply to those responses. ECF No. 54. Pursuant to the
court's order to conduct jurisdictional discovery, WP USA
and WP FL filed their supplemental briefing on the personal
jurisdiction issue on November 30, 2018, ECF No. 124, and
plaintiffs filed their supplemental briefing on February 15,
2019, ECF No. 141, and filed a reply to plaintiffs' brief
on February 25, 2019, ECF No. 143.
matters have been fully briefed and are now ripe for the
court's review.
Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
the defendant challenges personal jurisdiction, the plaintiff
has the burden of showing that jurisdiction exists. See
In re Celotex Corp., 124 F.3d 619, 628 (4th Cir. 1997).
When the court decides a personal jurisdiction challenge
without an evidentiary hearing, the plaintiff must prove a
prima facie case of personal jurisdiction. See Mylan
Labs, Inc. v. Akzo, N.V., 2 F.3d 56, 60 (4th Cir. 1993).
"In considering the challenge on such a record, the
court must construe all relevant pleading allegations in the
light most favorable to the plaintiff, assume credibility,
and draw the most favorable inferences for the existence of
jurisdiction." In re Celotex Corp., 234 F.3d
at 628 (quoting Combs v. Bakker, 886 F.2d 673, 676
(4th Cir. 1989)). However, the court need not "credit
conclusory allegations or draw farfetched inferences."
Masselli & Lane, PC v. Miller & Schuh, PA,
215 F.3d 1320 (4th Cir. 2000).
Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter
standing argument implicates this court's subject matter
jurisdiction and is governed by Rule 12(b)(1). Crumbling
v. Miyabi Murrells Inlet, LLC, 192 F.Supp.3d 640, 643
(D.S.C. 2016). The determination of subject matter
jurisdiction must be made at the outset before any
determination on the merits. Steel Co. v. Citizens for a
Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998). "The
plaintiff bears the burden of persuasion if subject matter
jurisdiction is challenged under Rule 12(b)(1)."
Williams v. United States, 50 F.3d 299, 304 (4th
Cir. 1995). If the plaintiff cannot overcome this burden,
then the claim must be dismissed. Welch v. United
States, 409 F.3d 646, 651 (4th Cir. 2005). When a party
contends that "the complaint [] fails to allege facts
upon which subject matter jurisdiction can be based[, ] . . .
all the facts alleged in the complaint are assumed to be
true." Luna-Reyes v. RFI Const., LLC, 57
F.Supp.3d 495, 499 (M.D. N.C. 2014) (quoting Adams v.
Bain, 697 F.2d 1213, 1219 (4th Cir. 1982)). "[A]
trial court should dismiss under Rule 12(b)(1) only when the
jurisdictional allegations are 'clearly . .
.immaterial, made solely for the purpose of obtaining
jurisdiction or where such a claim is wholly unsubstantial
and frivolous.'" Kerns v. United States,
585 F.3d 187, 193 (4th Cir. 2009) (quoting Bell v.
Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 682 (1946)).
Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), a party may move to
dismiss for "failure to state a claim upon which relief
can be granted." When considering a Rule 12(b)(6)
motion to dismiss, the court must accept the plaintiff's
factual allegations as true and draw all reasonable
inferences in the plaintiff's favor. See E.I. du Pont
de Nemours & Co. v. Kolon Indus., 637 F.3d 435, 440
(4th Cir. 2011). But "the tenet that a court must
accept as true all of the allegations contained in a
complaint is inapplicable to legal conclusions."
Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009). On a
motion to dismiss, the court's task is limited to
determining whether the complaint states a "plausible
claim for relief." Id. at 679. Although Rule
8(a)(2) requires only a "short and plain statement of
the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief,
" "a formulaic recitation of the elements of a
cause of action will not do." Bell Atl. Corp. v.
Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007). The "complaint
must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to
'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its
face.'" Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678 (quoting
Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570).
Waste Pro USA and Waste Pro FL seek dismissal of
plaintiffs' second amended complaint for lack of personal
jurisdiction, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
12(b)(2).[1] ECF No. 37 at 4. The court has considered
whether it may exercise jurisdiction over these entities
under various legal grounds-general personal jurisdiction,
specific personal jurisdiction, joint employer / single
integrated enterprise theory ("JE/SIE theory"),
[2] and
agency theory. The court has analyzed the evidence the
parties have put forth in their supplemental briefings and
finds that plaintiffs have not demonstrated that the court
should exercise personal jurisdiction over Waste Pro USA or
Waste Pro FL under any of these legal grounds.
Background Law on Personal Jurisdiction
evaluating a challenge to personal jurisdiction under a
state's long-arm statute, the court engages in a two-step
analysis. Ellicott Mach. Corp. v. John Holland Party
Ltd., 995 F.2d 474, 477 (4th Cir. 1993). First, the
long-arm statute must authorize the exercise of jurisdiction
under the facts presented. Id. Second, if the
statute does authorize jurisdiction, then the court must
determine if the statutory assertion of personal jurisdiction
is consistent with due process. Id. South
Carolina's long-arm statute extends to the outer limits
allowed by the Due Process Clause. Foster v. Arletty 3
Sarl, 278 F.3d 409, 414 (4th Cir. 2002). Consequently,
the only question before the court is whether the exercise of
personal jurisdiction would violate due process. ESAB
Grp., Inc. v. Centricut, LLC, 34 F.Supp.2d 323, 328
The due
process test for personal jurisdiction involves two
components: minimum contacts and fairness. See World-Wide
Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 444 U.S. 286 (1980). Under
the minimum contacts test, a nonresident defendant must have
certain minimum contacts such that the suit does not offend
"traditional notions of fair play and substantial
justice." Int'l Shoe Co. v. State of Wash.,
Office of Unemployment Compensation and Placement, 326
U.S. 310, 316 (1945). Due process is satisfied if the court
asserts personal jurisdiction over a defendant who
"purposefully avails itself of the privilege of
conducting activities within the forum state, "
Hanson v. Denckla, 357 U.S. 235, 253 (1958), such
that it "should reasonably anticipate being haled into
court there, " World-Wide Volkswagen, 444 U.S.
at 297. After a showing of the defendant's purposeful
availment, the reasonableness inquiry balances any burden on
the defendant against countervailing concerns such as the
plaintiff's interest in obtaining relief and the forum
state's interest in the controversy. See id. at
A party
may be subject to the court's power either through
general personal jurisdiction or specific personal
jurisdiction. A court has general personal jurisdiction over
a foreign corporation when its contacts within the forum
state "are so 'continuous and systematic' as
to render them essentially at home." Goodyear
Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown, 564 U.S. 915,
919 (2011) (quotes omitted). "[T]he paradigm forum for
the exercise of general jurisdiction is the individual's
domicile" and for a corporation, it is the
corporation's place of incorporation and principal place
of business. Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117, 137
(2014). While this is the general rule, there may be
"an exceptional case" in which "a corporate
defendant's operations in another forum 'may be so
substantial and of such a nature as to render the corporation
at home in that State.'" BNSF Ry. Co. v.
Tyrrell, 137 S.Ct. 1549, 1558 (2017) (quoting
Daimler, 571 U.S. at 139 n.19). For example, the
Supreme Court found a Philippine Island corporation to be
essentially at home in Ohio because it was forced to set up a
temporary principal place of business in Ohio while
activities in the Philippines were ceased during World War
II. Perkins v. Benguet Consol. Mining Co., 342 U.S.
437, 447-48 (1952).
personal jurisdiction arises when a cause of action is
related to the defendant's activities within the forum
state. See S.C. Code Ann. § 36-2-803;
Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S.A. v. Hall,
466 U.S. 408, 414 (1984). The Fourth Circuit has established
a three-part test for evaluating the propriety of exercising
specific jurisdiction: (1) whether and to what extent the
defendant purposely availed itself of the privileges of
conducting activities in the forum state, and thus invoked
the benefits and protections of its laws; (2) whether the
plaintiff's claims arise out of those forum-related
activities; and (3) whether the exercise of jurisdiction is
constitutionally "reasonable." Christian Sci.
Bd. of Dirs. of the First Church of Christ v. Nolan, 259
F.3d 209, 215-216 (4th Cir. 2001) (citing
Helicopteros, 466 U.S. at 414-16; Burger King v.
Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 472, 476-77 (1985)).
No. General Personal Jurisdiction over Waste Pro USA
have not demonstrated that Waste Pro USA should be subject to
the court's general or specific personal jurisdiction.
Courts can exercise general personal jurisdiction over
foreign (out of state) corporations in two ways: (1) if the
corporation's contacts within the forum state "are
so 'continuous and systematic' as to render them
essentially at home, " Goodyear, 564 U.S. at
919; and (2) if the foreign corporation is a parent company
with a subsidiary that is subject to the court's general
personal jurisdiction and if "the subsidiary functions
as the agent or mere department of the parent" in a
manner that justifies treating it as an alter ego and/or
piercing the corporate veil, Builder Mart of Am., Inc. v.
First Union Corp., 563 S.E.2d 352, 358 (S.C. Ct. App.
2002), overruled on other grounds by Farmer v. Monsanto
Corp., 579 S.E.2d 325 (S.C. 2003).
court can assert general jurisdiction over business entities
only when the 'continuous corporate operation within a
state is thought so substantial and of such a nature as to
justify suit against it on causes of action arising from
dealings entirely distinct from those activities.'"
Afa Polytek (N. Am.) Inc. v. Clorox Co., 2014 WL
12608562, at *4 (D.S.C. Jan. 17, 2014) (quoting Nichols
v. G.D. Searle & Co., 991 F.2d 1195, 1199 (4th Cir.
1993)). "With respect to a corporation, the place of
incorporation and principal place of business are
'paradig[m] . . . bases for general
jurisdiction.'" Daimler, 571 U.S. at 137.
Although the standard for exercising general personal
jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporate defendant
"is a stringent one, it is the consequence of the
problems inherent in attempting to sue a foreign corporation
that has carefully structured its business so as to separate
itself from the operation of its wholly-owned subsidiaries-as
it may properly do." Builder Mart, 563 S.E.2d
at 358. Furthermore, "the mere fact that a subsidiary
has minimum contacts with a forum is not enough to confer
personal jurisdiction over the parent company." Afa
Polytek, 2014 WL 12608562 at *5; accord Jazini by
Jazini v. Nissan Motor Co., 148 F.3d 181, 184 (2d Cir.
1998) ("[T]he presence of the subsidiary alone does not
establish the parent's presence in the state.").
Such a model would "approve the exercise of general
jurisdiction in every State in which a corporation engages in
a substantial, continuous, and systematic course of business,
" which is a formulation that the Supreme Court has
held to be "unacceptably grasping."
Daimler, 571 U.S. at 138.
have not demonstrated that Waste Pro USA's contacts with
South Carolina are so "continuous and systematic"
that this state could be considered the corporation's
home. Waste Pro USA's state of incorporation and
principal place of business is Florida. ECF No. 37-2 ¶
3. It is a holding company that does not provide goods or
services in South Carolina or elsewhere, nor is it authorized
to conduct business in South Carolina. Id. ¶
4-5. It does not own any real property, have any bank
accounts, or pay taxes in this state. Id. ¶ 7,
9-10. Finally, Waste Pro USA does not have any direct
employees in South Carolina or maintain an agent for service
of process here. Id. ¶¶ 6, 8. Plaintiffs
have provided certain evidence to the court of Waste Pro
USA's limited involvement in South Carolina through its
subsidiary, Waste Pro SC, which will be discussed in greater
detail in the sections on alter ego and piercing the
corporate veil. However, none of this evidence or any of
plaintiffs' allegations about Waste Pro USA show that
Waste Pro USA operates so continuously and systematically in
South Carolina as to render this state its
the mere presence of a subsidiary within the court's
personal jurisdiction does not subject a foreign corporation
to the court's reach, courts may rely on agency
principles to exercise personal jurisdiction over a parent
corporation through its subsidiary if the parent company
exercises a certain level of control and supervision over its
subsidiary. South Carolina courts recognize two tests that
will subject a parent corporation to the court's personal
jurisdiction through its subsidiary-alter ego and piercing
the corporate veil. See, e.g., Builder
Mart, 563 S.E.2d at 358; Afa Polytek, 2014 WL
12608562, at *6; ScanSource, Inc. v. Mitel Networks
Corp., 2011 WL 2550719, at *6 (D.S.C. June 24, 2011);
see also Mendez v. Pure Foods Mgmt. Grp., Inc., 2016
WL 183473, at *1-7 (D. Conn. Jan. 14, 2016) ("Under the
agency test, the court may attribute the subsidiary's
actions to the parent if the parent exerts considerable
control over the activities of the subsidiary.");
Wm. Passalacqua Builders, Inc. v. Resnick Developers S.,
Inc., 933 F.2d 131, 142-43 (2d Cir. 1991) (observing
that when parties are actually alter egos of one another, a
"jurisdictional objection evaporates" because
"the alter egos are treated as one entity").
Alter-Ego / Agency
determining whether to exercise jurisdiction based on the
alter-ego theory, the court must find the following factors:
(1) common ownership; (2) financial independence; (3) degree
of selection of executive personnel and failure to observe
corporate formalities; and (4) the degree of control over
marketing and operational policies. Builder Mart,
564 S.E.2d at 358. "For the courts to have personal
jurisdiction" under this theory, the plaintiff
"must show that the subsidiary functions as the agent
or mere department of the parent-that is, that the subsidiary
does all the business which the parent corporation could do
if here on its own." Id. "It is
essential that all four factors be present with
sufficient factual specificity to confer jurisdiction on
[ ] courts." Id.
attached multiple exhibits to their supplemental briefing
reflecting the evidence they collected during jurisdictional
discovery which they claim shows that Waste Pro USA and Waste
Pro S.C. were operating as mere alter-egos of each other,
such that the court should exercise personal jurisdiction
over Waste Pro USA because it has general personal
jurisdiction over Waste Pro SC. First, plaintiffs'
supplemental briefing does not include any evidence of common
ownership, although it does show that all four defendants
have the same CEO and CFO. However, this alone does not
create personal jurisdiction via an alter ego theory. See
ScanSource, Inc., 2011 WL 2550719, at *5 ("[T]he
fact that [the parent and subsidiary], like many companies,
share executives does not establish that [the parent]
controls the selection of the executives."); Weiss
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India investigates Chinese interest in its power grid
India: India's ministry of power has set up a committee to investigate concerns related to the participation of Chinese companies in the country's fast-growing transmission sector.
Indian companies as well as some security experts are concerned about letting large Chinese firms, which typically have close ties to the Chinese government, manage large inter-state power transmission networks in the country, reports Ultra News.
Two Chinese companies — China Southern Power Grid International and CLP (originally China Light & Power) have bid for large power transmission projects in India so far.
In 2015, CLP bid for four projects, but failed to win any of them. At present, it has submitted bids for another three projects, including the Eastern Region Strengthening Scheme project, in consortium with China Southern Power Grid International.
Under India's foreign investment laws, any foreign company can own 100% of any company engaged in power transmission business in India.
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SEATTLE — Video captured the chaos when a barricade collapsed during a performance at Seattle's Bumbershoot music festival late Saturday night.
Cell phone footage shows a crowd of fans starting to sway and scream before artist Jai Wolf played the Fisher Green stage at the Seattle Center.
When Jai Wolf greeted the crowd, people surged forward, causing a 4-foot steel barrier to collapse. Fans in the front were knocked down and trampled as more people rushed forward.
Around 3,000 people were in the crowd, Seattle Fire Department spokesman David Cuerpo told the Associated Press.
Four people were taken to Harborview Medical Center, where they were treated and released. The fire department said they evaluated approximately 25 people for injuries at the venue.
Cindy Raley recorded the footage from a nearby balcony after she noticed the crowd getting rowdy.
"There was a lot of surging and mini mosh pits before he even came out," Raley said.
The scene turned chaotic after the barrier collapsed, and fans were pinned to the ground. The music set stopped and lights were brought up. Footage shows a throng of people at the front of the stage, urging others to move back.
Security, police, and emergency crews began crowd-control and assisting the injured. A witness named Lexi said several people complained of twisted ankles.
Ethan Lee and his friends came back to Bumbershoot Sunday despite being knocked down in the incident Saturday night. Lee said it didn't seem like security was trying to control the crowd.
"There were no measures to prevent overcrowding, especially in mosh pits when people are trying to make space and people get, like pushed in, it's kind of scary," Lee said.
Joey Knapp wasn't at the Jai Wolf show but he thought Bumbershoot attendees seemed more aggressive this year.
"Crowds are a little rowdier this year, mosh-pitting a little scarier than previous years," Knapp explained. "We decided not to get up close anymore because it was a little scarier than it has been."
The music set was canceled after the barrier collapsed Saturday. The Jai Wolf announced was rescheduled to perform Sunday night at the larger Memorial Stadium.
Bumbershoot officials said they installed a new barricade at the Fisher Green Stage and honored Saturday tickets at Sunday's performance.
The festival released the following statement Sunday, "Safety is our top priority at Bumbershoot, and we have been working closely with police, medics, and security to ensure tonight is a great evening for fans."
A spokesperson for Seattle Center said they plan to meet with staff on Tuesday to debrief Saturday's incident. Center officials said they will stop using that style of barricade until they complete an investigation into the collapse.
Early reports on Saturday indicated a sign had fallen on multiple people, rather than a barricade collapse.


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This year's observance of World Post Day highlights the sector's value not just for delivering the mail, but for delivering good.
Resilient postal systems offer support during natural disasters, financial services to hundreds of millions of people; and essential information in times of crises.
This network, through its international treaties and emphasis on universal service, is a constant voice for multilateralism and force for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It also promotes literacy and education for children.
I encourage the world's postal sector to continue its laudable efforts to advance progress for all and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.


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At Le Bistrot Paul Bert, chef Thierry Laurent transforms beef cheeks, a humble, relatively tough cut, into a meltingly tender entree by first marinating the beef in a heady mixture of red wine and aromatic herbs and then braising it for four hours in the marinade until the meat becomes supple and fork-tender.
Pairing note: a hearty dish such as this calls for a dark, well concentrated wine like the P. Amadieu Romane Machotte Gigondas 2007 ($24), with its nose of plum, cherry, and spice. —M.P.


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What Your Cat Needs To Have In Your Emergency Kit
Major catastrophes have struck the U.S. on nearly all sides, with massive wildfires and hurricanes. Most people know that for these emergency situations and others, having an emergency kit is a necessity. An emergency kit can help you escape, or simply sit put, and provide for you and your family, while you wait for aid. However, if your cat isn't included in your emergency kit, you're overlooking a major need. Here are the four things you absolutely must include in your emergency kit, to ensure your cat is well taken care of during a disaster.
Like humans, cats need food and water in emergency situations. The Department of Homeland Security suggests kits include at least three days worth of water and food for each human, so it's a good idea to follow the same guideline for cats, too. How much food you include should depend upon how much your cat typically eats over the course of a day, multiplied by three. Don't try to put your cat on a diet during a disaster. Starvation could lead to fatty liver disease, which could have devastating results.
Your cat should have any identification you have for them included in the kit. Keep a hard copy of a recent photo of your cat, as well as their name, microchip ID number, if they have one, and health information in your kit. This should include recent vaccinations, the name of their veterinarian, and information on any health conditions they might have, especially if it requires medical care on a regular basis.
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People panic badly enough during emergencies, but a cat that's frightened can be even worse. This is why it's so important to be able to keep your cat controlled, while you're on the move or forced out of your home due to a disaster.
Your kit should include a folding cat carrier - preferably a canvas or fabric cat carrier with zippers, not a flimsy cardboard carrier - to keep your kitty in. In addition, an extra collar, as well as a cat-sized harness and leash are a good idea. Your cat doesn't have to be comfortable with taking walks; you simply need a harness and leash to help prevent your cat from running away, when they're out of their carrier.
It's also not a bad idea to include a pair of gloves for whomever is going to handle the cat, since kitties can scratch and bite when they're frightened.
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Lastly, make sure your emergency kit includes some basic emergency supplies that can be used on a cat. You can put gauze, self-adhering bandages, and extra doses of any medication your cat currently takes in the kit. You can ask your veterinarian to give you a prescription for feline antibiotics in case of an emergency injury, too.
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Hotel Tambo Real
EPS Location 1 and 2Located in Quito, Hotel Tambo Real is a 2-minute drive from General Rumiñahui Coliseum and 6 minutes from Atahualpa Olympic Stadium. This hotel is 1.4 mi (2.2 km) from Basilica of the National Vow and 2 mi (3.2 km) from City Museum.EPS RoomsStay in one of 80 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.EPS Rec, Spa, Premium AmenitiesMake use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).EPS DiningStop by the hotel's restaurant, El Tambo de Oro, for lunch or dinner. Dining is also available at the coffee shop/café, and room service (during limited hours) is provided. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily from 6 AM to 10 AM.EPS Business, Other AmenitiesFeatured amenities include a 24-hour business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. A shuttle from the hotel to the airport is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
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Loveseats for Small Spaces
Loveseats for small spaces – Love of love is a versatile and warm tool, perfect for a small place because it can accommodate everywhere and interesting and practical. At present, the number of people living in confined spaces, the love seat for small spaces becomes very popular and commonplace; they come in many forms that can work with almost any decor. They are usually smaller than regular sofas, but can accommodate two people in a comfortable way. This is what is seen by love, but also; to realize a warm and warm atmosphere.
Choosing the right loveseats for small spaces is not too difficult If you make the right decision. The ultimate beast you need to remember to choose a love seat is to avoid as much nose as possible and, as always, as they impact bigger space, less than chaos. The carved armchair will also be used for smaller spaces, when visible foot and travel can also create larger free space. Under what circumstances, the love stitches that come with the feet are higher and can not provide some storage space beneath them.
The choice of sleeveless dress is best suited loveseats for small spaces, as it is a place, while still offering large and comfortable seating and stretch areas. If you plan a sleeping chair, the armed or unarmed version is sufficient for the bed, as the user has the freedom to have a few inches at both ends. Individuals who are challenged can always choose combinations of love armchair and armed and unarmed seats, as these are used for living rooms for coffee tables, especially for limited space provided and you need to use the minimum amount possible.
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The Vans Park Series is the singular concrete skateboard park competition served up on a yearly basis to hesh-hungry eyeballs on this curious spinning blue planet we call earth. This year, men and women compete in Sao Paulo - Brazil, Huntington Beach - California, Malmo - Sweden, Vancouver - BC - Canada, and the finals being held in China. The 2018 calendar of events can be found here.
Lucky enough to be in Vancouver this July 13th? Pop down to the Hasting Skateboard Park for a show of sheer physical skill, strength and stamina. You can watch the defending 2017 champion Pedro Barros (from Brazil) defend his title against top contenders Ivan Federico (Italy), Karl Bergland (Sweden) and Alex Sorgente (USA) while the atmosphere gets all whipped up by the roars and cheers of three thousand plus turbo stoked fans.
For those of you who have never had a chance to watch world champion skateboarders compete live, prepare to have your mind blown. The gravity defying maneuvers get crazier every year with a mix of old school style and boundary pushing never-before-attempted manoeuvres. Ever watch a human perform a switch lip-slide to smith grind spine transfer and then fly into the 12-foot bowl and blast an overhead McTwist 360-flip? Me neither. But it might happen tomorrow!
Can't make it to any of the live events? You can watch the live webcast here.
For added bonus points, peep our VIVA Instagram feed tomorrow at noon (PDT) and catch our editor Tyler Summers posting live from our VIP spot with access to all the action.
After the show there will be a free concert directly right after the awards ceremony in PNE building. Punk band The Spits will be playing.
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The thing about Nepal is that you can never run out of spiritual places to visit. And yet most of them are old temples with the same archaic architecture and follows a typical path of devotion. Shashwat Dham, on the other hand, is completely different, both in terms of ambience and philosophy practised in the establishment. In the calm and composed premises of Shashwat Dham, spirituality finds a new home and an evolved meaning altogether. The temple and ashram complex is located in the beautiful surroundings of Devchuli region of Nawalprasi district in south-central Nepal, on the east-west Mahendra Highway only 23 kilometres from the twin city of Bharatpur-Narayangarh. The sprawling expanse of Shashwat Dham spreads over 12 acres of land. Given the central shrine is dedicated to Lord Shiva, this could be a subtle token of reference to the 12 Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva that we know of.
In spite of the theistic presence, Shashwat Dham is not all about worshipping and following rituals. In the words of its founder and patriot Binod Chaudhary, it is a "living centre of excellence for spiritual learnings". The ideals on which Shashwat Dham stands have their roots in the origin story of the spiritual, residential and educational complex.
As mentioned earlier, Shashwat Dham is not only about worship, it is about the enrichment of the inner, spiritual self. The place takes spiritual learning and education very seriously, both literally and metaphorically. The Vaidik Karmakanda Gurukul is from young students who take admission in the ashram for education in the Vedic ways. They continue with their mainstream education as per the State Board syllabus along with the rules, rituals and inherent significances of Vedic literature, regulations and rituals and knowledge of performing pujas.
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More rain than usual has forced organizers at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival to make some changes.
The changes cost the festival an extra $20,000. The money will be spent on rig mats and sand being used to dry the area.
"We've had wet weather before," said Terry Wickham, a producer at the Folk Fest.
"Last year, we got it during the festival, but I'd much rather have it in advance."
READ MORE: Summer festivals and events for Edmontonians to experience in 2019
However, this isn't the first time that weather has affected the festival. In 2017, the event was evacuated due to heavy winds after a video screen had been knocked down.
Despite watching the weather, organizers are recommending people bring tarps to combat the wet conditions and say they can be used as cover in rainy conditions.
Unlike Taste of Edmonton and K-Days this year, Folk Fest will not allow alcohol outside of licensed areas this year, but is looking to find a way to loosen its alcohol policy, potentially as early as next year.
READ MORE: Edmonton festivals ditch beer gardens and loosen restrictions on where alcohol can be consumed
Watch below: (From July 21, 2019) K-Days and Taste of Edmonton have said goodbye to beer gardens and have changed their liquor rules to allow patrons to wander around with their drinks, Sarah Komadina has more.
Wickham speculates it's a cultural thing: having an area for people to drink beer and catch up, and another area for people at the festival who are watching the artists.
Folk Fest runs from Thursday, Aug. 8 to Sunday, Aug. 11 at Gallagher Park.
READ MORE: John Prine bows out of Edmonton Folk Music Festival due to health
Watch below: (From May 29, 2019) The full list of performers for the 40th annual Edmonton Folk Fest was released Wednesday.
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HTC Supersonic smartphone images leaked online; might sport 4G capabilities
We have been hearing so much about the upcoming HTC Supersonic smartphone, of late. However, not much info seems to be coming forth on the real device in terms of the product specs and the like. Stop being dejected though! Leaked images that hint at a real smartphone in the offing have emerged. Take a look!
Going by what the images tell us, the upcoming HTC Supersonic smartphone could come about as a device that might integrate a 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen and a 1GHz snapdragon CPU. Though not yet confirmed by the maker, it seems like these spec suggestions emanating out of the images found in the wild are going to be true. Expected to come to the market with Android 2.1 paired with HTC's Sense interface, the HTC Supersonic also will have kickstand that would enable video buff watch their favorite videos while on the go.
The HTC Supersonic is also expected to include components such as a 5 megapixel camera and integrated FM radio. It is also being said that the Supersonic will be one of Sprint's first 4G handsets, thanks to integrated WiMAX components.
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Integration and elegance define the project for this solid 500m2 apartment designed by Diego Revollo in one of the best neighborhoods in São Paulo. Photography by Alain Brugier.
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Higienópolis Apartment by Diego Revollo
Higienópolis Apartment is a project designed by Diego Revollo. "A life project. This was the briefing we received from a young couple with children when they reached out to our office. The old apartment, comprising of almost 500m2, was dark and compartmentalized and all the finishings were so old they needed replacing. Photography by Alain Brugier.
Dijon Kitchen by Diego Revollo
Dijon Kitchen is a project designed by Diego Revollo. Innovation defines this kitchen designed for a young bachelor, in a penthouse in São Paulo. Photography by Alain Brugier
Fisher Island Apartment by Diego Revollo
Fisher Island Apartment is a project designed by Diego Revollo. Secluded on the exclusive Fisher Island, where you can only get by the water, this apartment, overlooking Biscayne Bay and Downtown Skyline, is pure minimal chic relaxation and reminiscent of Brazilian art, a passion of the owner. Photography by Fran Parente
Brazil Design by Diego Revollo
Brazil Design is a project of by Diego Revollo. A masculine, sophisticated and timeless design was the request of the client – a young English businessman who had recently arrived in Brazil and was an admirer of the office's work. Photography courtesy of Diego Revollo.
Cumarú Apartment by Diego Revollo
Cumarú Apartment is a project designed by Diego Revollo. The young owners of this apartment in Alto de Pinheiros, São Paulo, wanted an interior design compatible with the life phase they were in: spacious enough to accommodate the daughter and without excesses that would hinder their stripped way of life. It was really necessary to adapt the architecture of the apartment to the style of the neighborhood in which it is situated: a quiet and mostly residential region, permeated by many green areas and abundance of sunlight. Photographer: Alain Brugier.
Bordô Apartment by Diego Revollo
Bordô Apartment is a project designed by Diego Revollo. An explosion of colors, combined with a well-blended mix of furniture and pieces hinting at the 1970s, elevate the visual appearance of this 260m² apartment in São Paulo. In cosy textures, the white and burgundy – color of the moment- highlight that luxury, above all, is comfort. A game that Diego Revollo plays like few others.
Modernos Eternos by Diego Revollo
Modernos Eternos is a Golden & Black project designed by Diego Revollo and is located in São Paulo, Brazil.
Café Portobello by Diego Revollo
The architect Diego Revollo and his team had as a challenge to develop the new project of Café Portobello, a disputed place by customers and partners which frequent the store.
Industrial Loft II by Diego Revollo
This 100 m2 Loft with structure and apparent installations is located in the noble neighborhood of Morumbi, Sao Paulo.
Although the aesthetic appeal of New York sheds converted into housing in the 1970s is the main justification for the male audience in explaining their desire for this style of property, Diego Revollo, who is knowledgeable about this repertoire and with some other lofts in his portfolio, knows that this profile prioritizes good materials and functionality.


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Bojan Stojiljkovic 'Ascent' was born in town Krushevac, Serbia.
He comes from a musician family, and as very yang started playing keyboards.When he grew little older, he started playing keyboards in Rock and Blues bands. When he had 20 years, he started he's career as a DJ in psychedelic Trance music. Work and play psytrance music all around Serbia on festivals and parties.2010 he start to pruduce and making a Progressive psytrance and downtempo-psychill music. Today he release his first digital ep on 'Goa Records'.
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Bringing investors and entrepreneurs together, the Equitise crowdfunding platform simplifies the investment marketplace. It removes traditional barriers to investing and sourcing capital by making the process quick, easy and safe.
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Constructed in 2007, the Piedmont and Brewer Park Trail has three different access points. The Hutchinson Road location has the most parking, but you can also jump on the trail from Haines Road and along Skyline Parkway near the Wheeler Field Overlook. COGGS Chair Member Waylon Munch says the best part of Brewer Park is the view.
"This is probably one of my favorite views of Duluth right now. We're at the very, very top of the ridge, we're above Skyline Parkway right now and you can't get a view like this looking out over the harbor, we can see the bridge behind us. It's phenomenal."
Munch says that the Piedmont Trail has a much more difficult terrain than the Brewer Park Trail.
"Piedmont is meant for the intermediate to advance rider, that's where the rocks get a little more jagged, a little bit more gnarly, some steep technical descents. Brewer has some of that, but it's more open, more flowing, a little more friendly."
The Piedmont Trail has 9 miles of terrain, while the Brewer Park Trail only has about 5. Munch says beginner riders can even enjoy part of Brewer Park.
"There's a trail called Lollygagger, which is a beginner level trail. Very wide, very smooth, and that branches of on to this trail it's called Homebrew that we're standing on."
Munch says these trails are pretty popular, so COGGS has a volunteer crew that does trail work and maintenance every Thursday at 5:30.
"It can be anything from building new trail, it can be taking care of some of those wet, muddy areas that we were walking over early, putting down gravel or some sort of paver stones to take care of that. It can be weed whipping as needed. But, it's really social, it's really fun, it's a great group of guys."
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At least 20 people have been killed, and a further 70 injured, following a large fire, at a packaging factory, in Bangladesh.
At least 20 people have been killed in a huge fire that broke out at a packaging factory in Bangladesh.
A further 70 people are reported to have been injured in the blaze at an industrial complex in Tongi, north of the capital Dhaka.
Police said about 100 people were in the four-storey building at the time, including machine operators and guards.
The blast was caused by an explosion in the boiler room, at the start of the working day, officials said.
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With Arms Wide Open under the Sun Light – at Barkota Hills Dalhousie
Well that's a line from 'arms wide open' by Creed. But that fits here perfectly. On the second day of my Dalhousie trip, I rented a cab and went for tour which started from Panchpula Waterfall and finished at Khajiyar in the evening at around 7 I guess. Barkota Hills Dalhousie was the second destination of the day.
While the cab was passing through a narrow road off the edge, the driver stopped the cab and said this is Barkota Hills. He told that it was a famous view point in that area. I stepped out and there were some other cabs and people were taking selfies. There were couples and kids. There were people who had rabbits and were asking tourists to get clicks with those cute bunnies. Well, that was paid.
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So, this area was actually near Potato Development Centre, Dalhousie. But the views from here were breath – taking. The air was pure and I was just lost in the serenity of this place. Wide open sky and hills covered with snow, land ornamented with huge pine and deodar trees. This is what a perfect landscape looks like.