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Prosecutors say a 75-year-old Northern California man was implicated in a cold case double murder on the high seas by his two sons.
Silas Duane Boston, of Paradise, was charged Thursday in Sacramento with killing a young British couple off Guatemala in 1978 in front of his sons, who were 11 and 13 at the time.
A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, the Sacramento Bee reported.
His attorney told the paper that Boston has been living in a convalescent home and suffers from arthritis and has difficulty hearing.
The complaint against Boston reads like a crime novel.
COUSINS ENTER PLEAS IN 1973 SHOTGUN SLAYINGS OF 2 GIRLS
It alleges Boston tortured Christopher Farmer and Peta Frampton and then tossed them overboard from his boat. Their bodies were found on July 8, 1978.
Authorities interviewed Boston but the case went cold.
The break in the case came last year when Sacramento police began looking again into the 1968 disappearane of Boston's wife.
At the time Mary Lou Boston disappeared, Boston told police that his wife dumped him for another man after looting their bank account, the complaint says.
When cops spoke to Vince and Russell Boston about their mother, they told them about Farmer and Frampton.
“Nothing would have happened if the Sacramento Police Department had not thought to consult with this office about what could be done with a 38-year-old homicide in the Caribbean Sea,” U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert said in a press release.
The complaint says cops and the FBI were told Boston may have killed his wife when they interviewed of friend of his.
The friend said Boston told him he killed his wife because she wanted to divorce him.
MOM OF MISSING BOY IN HAWAII PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER, NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER HIS DISAPPEARANCE
The complaint also says one of Boston’s sons told a Sacramento detective that his father mowed down a man in a fatal hit-and-run in 1972.
The sons are quoted as saying they were afraid of going to cops out of fear Boston would kill them.
Boston appeared in court for his arraignment in a wheelchair. | positive |
Look back at the biggest plays that made Russell Westbrook the most valuable player in the NBA in 2017-18. (1:46)
Westbrook's new deal comes off of season for the ages (1:46)
Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook, the NBA's reigning MVP, has signed a five-year, $205 million contract extension, league sources told ESPN.
The deal starts with the 2018-19 season and delivers Westbrook the biggest guaranteed contract in NBA history -- six seasons and $233 million through 2022-23. It includes a player option on the 2022-23 season, league sources said.
Westbrook's agent, Thad Foucher of Wasserman Media Group, and Thunder general manager Sam Presti finalized the deal Friday afternoon, league sources said. The plan was to announce it Sunday before a public team scrimmage at a local high school, but Westbrook showed up at the practice facility Friday and said it was the day to make it official.
By signing for the designated player veteran extension, it allows for Westbrook to sign for 35 percent of the salary cap and five additional seasons. Westbrook will earn $233 million, which includes $205 million for the new extension and $28 million for his 2017-18 salary. His 2018-19 salary, the first year of the extension, will be $35.3 million.
Editor's Picks How Westbrook became the $205 million face of Oklahoma City After locking up a massive long-term deal, Russell Westbrook has another mission: make his new superteam last.
The Thunder confirmed they had signed Westbrook to a multiyear extension in a news release Friday afternoon.
"We are extremely fortunate to have an athlete, competitor and person such as Russell wear the Thunder uniform," Presti said. "To have him cement his legacy as a leader as we enter into our 10th season in Oklahoma City is extraordinary. I am extremely grateful to Russell, his family and to our ownership for the commitment and support that they have demonstrated in supporting our vision for the Thunder."
In the statement, Westbrook, 28, said there was no place he'd rather be than Oklahoma City and that he was "so honored" to continue his career with the Thunder.
"When you play in Oklahoma City you play in front of the best fans in the world, I'm looking forward to bringing everything I've got, for them, this city and for this organization. WHY NOT?" he said -- a sentiment he echoed in an Instagram post Friday afternoon.
WHY NOT?? A post shared by Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) on Sep 29, 2017 at 12:16pm PDT
After a historic MVP season, during which Westbrook averaged a triple-double of 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists, his choice promises the Thunder relevance and contention into the foreseeable future -- and even stands as a victory for the NBA's beleaguered small-market teams.
The timing of Westbrook's extension could become a crucial cog in the recruitment of his new Thunder teammate Paul George, who will become an unrestricted free agent in July. For Westbrook and Presti, the chance to convince George to spurn big-market overtures, including from his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, could go a long way in selling George that his best chance to beat Golden State belongs with the core of Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony in Oklahoma City.
Westbrook, a two-time All-Star Game MVP, has become an iconic NBA figure in Oklahoma City, one of the league's most thrilling and unique talents and owner of an off-court persona built around the fashion industry. Westbrook signed a 10-year contract with Jordan Brand in September to become the face of the shoe giant.
In the aftermath of Kevin Durant's free-agent departure to the Warriors in July 2016, Westbrook agreed to a contract renegotiation that extended his contract through the 2018-19 season, including a player option on the final year. Amid the Thunder's despair in losing Durant, Westbrook's shorter-term commitment gave Presti and assistant GM Troy Weaver the ability to pursue the trades with Indiana and New York to acquire George and Anthony, respectively.
Westbrook was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft out of UCLA, and rapidly developed into one of the NBA's biggest stars.
ESPN front-office insider Bobby Marks and ESPN.com's Royce Young contributed to this report. | positive |
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Having shell with full access to the project files and database is crucial to its development and testing.
In this tutorial, we will use Cookiecutter Django.
First, we need to install and run it:
1 2 sudo pip install "cookiecutter>=1.4.0" cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
Cookiecutter will ask us for configuration options. We can keep pressing enter (selecting default option) until the use_docker [n]: which we accept by y .
Start here if you already have a project
First, we add Jupyter to the pr | positive |
In Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's bastion Gorakhpur, the ruling BJP's Maya Tripathi lost ward number 68 to an independent Muslim candidate, Nadira Khatoon.
The famous Gorakhnath Temple, of which Yogi is the Mahant, is situated in this ward.
The setback to Yogi in his own backyard is only an aberration to an otherwise stunning victory he has ensured for the BJP in the UP civic polls, the Chief Minister's first major test since assuming power in March this year.
"I fought on the agenda of development and people made me win," Khatoon told news agency ANI. When asked if she will support Adityanath's BJP, she said, "If needed, I will do it."
Fought on agenda of development and people made me win. If needed will do it: Independent candidate Nadira Khatoon who won from ward no 68 in Gorakhpur on question if she will support Yogi Adityanath pic.twitter.com/fZ4FbODpfo - ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 1, 2017
In a related development - and a big boost for Yogi to compensate for the Gorakhpur loss - the BJP won Amethi, which happens to be the Lok Sabha constituency of soon-to-be Congress president-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi.
"The Congress wiped out in Amethi," Adityanath said in a press conference today after the trends showed the BJP set to win 14 of 16 municipal corporations.
Adityanath called it a "historic win" and attributed it to "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision and BJP chief Amit Shah's guidance".
"The BJP will now look forward to achieve the goal of 100 per cent success in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls," Adityanath said. In 2014, his party had won 71 of the 80 seats in the state.
Adityanath happens to be the head priest of that temple, and was a five-time MP from the Lok Sabha constituency of Gorakhpur.
BJP's Maya Tripathi loses ward no 68 in Gorakhpur. Independent candidate Nadira wins. Gorakhnath Temple is situated in this ward #UPCivicPolls2017 - ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 1, 2017
But it wasn't all bad news: The BJP did win mayoral seats in Gorakhpur and in six other cities and towns.*
I would like to give credit of this win to all BJP workers who worked for the party to communicate its agenda of development to all. I would also like to thank all the voters: UP CM Yogi Adityanath pic.twitter.com/SisjnWK8D4 - ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 1, 2017
Adityanath said a press conference this afternoon that the Uttar Pradesh civic body polls would be an eye-opener for people comparing the it with the upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat, a BJP stronghold.
Votes are being counted in 75 Uttar Pradesh districts after a three-phase election to 652 urban local bodies took place last month.
You can get all the latest updates on our main live blog. For city or town-specific coverage, click on any of the links below.
NOTE: *This number reflects results announced at or before the time when this story was published.
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Matthew Ng's supporters urge Government to free 'Chinese political prisoner' jailed at Silverwater
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The Federal Government is being urged to show leniency to Matthew Ng, the prisoner transferred from China in a hard-won deal that now has him serving out the remainder of an 11.5-year sentence at Sydney's Silverwater jail.
Key points: Matthew Ng sentenced in China to 11.5 years' jail on charges of fraud and bribery
Ng was transferred to Australia in 2014 under deal that would see him complete sentence here
Lawyers say Ng is a 'political prisoner' and no crime was committed
After a commercial dispute with a Communist-owned enterprise, the entrepreneur was found guilty of fraud and bribery and served four years in a Chinese prison before being transferred to Australia in 2014.
Ng's 14-year-old daughter died in that time and his wife is now seriously ill, leaving the father-of-three desperate for release so he can care for his family.
Ng's wife Nikki Chow has been trying to hold it together for their children since her husband's imprisonment.
"It's really harsh. There's a moment I broke down and cried but crying doesn't help. I put everything into protecting my children and not let anything hurt them," she told Lateline.
The family had welcomed Ng's 2014 transfer to Australia and the prospect of leniency from the Federal Government.
"Me and my kids were very happy that he's being transferred back here. I hoped that he could be released earlier so he could get back to his normal life and be with the kids in their growing up," she said.
His friend David Marquard, who studied with Ng at the University of New South Wales, has been visiting the former businessman in jail and says he is distraught at what may happen to his family.
"He is not in a very good space. His wife has been hospitalised recently and is not very mobile and he's very stressed about looking after his children," he said.
"You can see the tears in his eyes. He's continually trying to bottle down the emotions but you can see the pain and the stress."
Ng's lawyer Tom Lennox said his client was Australia's first Chinese political prisoner.
"A fair description of Matthew can be as Australia's first Chinese political prisoner — that is, the subject of a state-imposed sanction whereby your liberty is denied for circumstances that would not constitute a crime on any reasonable test," he said.
Dreams of building Chinese travel business
In the late 1990s, after graduating with a masters of business administration, Ng had headed back to his homeland with his wife and their growing family, with the dream of starting a travel business in China's booming economy.
The company he established, ET China, was about to expand after the successful acquisition a state-owned company.
During preparation for its listing on the London stock exchange, Ng found himself in a bitter dispute with the state-owned company he had purchased.
Ms Chow said her husband was determined to stay in control.
"If you want to do business in China you have to play by their rules. You can't bring your Western concepts to China. You have to play by their rules," she said.
Ng was arrested outside their home in Guangzhou soon after.
"It was almost dinner time and he was coming back. He called me and said: 'Can you come down to the car park?'" Ms Chow said.
"OK, which I did. I saw eight policemen surrounding him.
"He just passed me his briefcase and asked me to call the consul general. Then off he goes in the van and he never came back."
Ng was tried in a closed court in southern China and sentenced to 11.5 years in prison for fraud and bribery. All his property was expropriated.
His lawyer Tom Lennox said Ng had done nothing wrong in his business dealings.
"It was all perfectly above board, scrutinised by big accounting firms, there were lawyers scrutinising the deals," he said.
"This was no back room deal, this was Matthew building a business, on the cusp of great success and obvious increase in value and it was taken from him.
"The allegations of fraud and bribery, anywhere in the Western world that's not fraudulent, that's growing your business, that's not bribery, and that's what Matthew was found guilty of."
Daughter 'couldn't cope' with father's imprisonment
For Ng's 14 year-old daughter from his first marriage, Isabella, the stress of her father's ordeal proved fatal.
"She [couldn't] stop crying, learning that Dad has been taken away to jail. I think that's how the problem starts. She couldn't cope," Nikki said.
Suffering from anorexia, Isabella died in a hospital intensive care unit a year after her father's imprisonment.
Ng's transfer from China to Australia was the first of its kind between the two countries.
Mr Marquard said his friend was grateful to the Gillard-Rudd government and Frances Adamson, the ambassador at the time, for brokering the deal.
But he and Ng's other supporters cannot understand why he is still in jail 18 months later, for a crime he would never have been found guilty of in Australia.
Mr Marquard has written to Attorney-General George Brandis pointing out that under Australia's Prisoner Exchange Act, he has the power to adapt a sentence to Australian law.
"When I write to the Attorney-General's Department and [Justice Minister Michael] Keenan and I get a … letter back saying we're not going to do anything, when you know they have the clear capacity and ability and legal right to fix it — it just doesn't seem right," he said.
With Ng's wife now seriously ill, the stress is becoming too much for him.
"If the Attorney-General had believed he was innocent it's inconceivable to Matthew that they would not release him. He's quite buried by that," Mr Marquard said.
A spokesperson for the Minister for Justice, Michael Keenan, told Lateline the Government was considering the case.
"The Australian Government's policy is to apply the sentence imposed on the prisoner in the sentencing country in order to ensure the transfer scheme remains available for future cases," they said.
"The Government is aware of Mr Ng's personal circumstances. His application for early release on licence due to these personal circumstances is being given careful consideration."
In a message through his friend Mr Marquard, Ng said he did not think there was any reason for him to be kept in jail.
"His message is that any support and any encouragement he can get towards getting early release and getting his life back would be very much appreciated," he said.
Ng is eligible for parole in August.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, china, australia
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NPR‘s Fresh Air just aired this fantastic 30-minute interview (here’s a transcript) with Pete Souza, the Chief Official White House Photographer for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. In it, Souza reflects on 8 years of capturing Obama’s presidency, creating an archive of over 1.9 million photos during that time.
Souza was a silent observer and a fly on the wall, present at virtually every meeting and moment during Obama’s tenure. Here’s what NPR writes about his silent documenting:
Souza sought to minimize his presence at the White House by working with what he calls a “small footprint” — not using a noisy camera, not using flash and moving around gingerly. “I’m not sure if ‘invisible’ is the right word,” he says. “But I was certainly trying to be a piece of the woodwork.”
Souza has just published a new book this week titled Obama: An Intimate Portrait. It’s a 352-page hardcover book containing a collection of Souza’s favorite photos during his latest stint in the White House.
Here’s a selection from the book:
You can purchase Obama: An Intimate Portrait for $29 over on Amazon. To hear more of Souza’s thoughts about his photos, check out this 30-minute talk he gave earlier this year at Ohio University.
Image credits: Photographs by Pete Souza/Little, Brown and Co., New York | positive |
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Police have confirmed the female remains found Thursday in Shenandoah National Park are that of missing Fairfax County firefighter Nicole Mittendorff.
Thursday, around 2 p.m. Virginia State Police announced missing remains of a woman were found, "in a remote location more than a mile from the Whiteoak Canyon parking area," near where Nicole's car was seen last week.
ABC7 reporter Jeff Goldberg says her body was found in very a treacherous, rocky, and steep area about a mile from where her car was parked.
Police say in addition to finding Nicole's body, they also found a suicide note in her vehicle. Police do not believe her death is suspicious, and have also ruled out foul play.
On Friday, the Medical Examiner said Nicole's death was "suicide-hanging."
Prior to police announcing it was Nicole, her family took to their personal website and said, "Nicole has been found. Our hearts are broken. We thank you for your support and ask that you keep our family in your prayers in the challenging days ahead."
The 31-year-old was a three-year-veteran firefighter in Fairfax County. She hadn't been heard from since last Wednesday. The fire department says she called in sick the day before she went missing.
She completed her Monday shift, but then called out Wednesday.
On Friday, she failed to report for duty and did not answer her phone when co-workers called her, her Captain told media.
Volunteers, firefighters, and concerned citizens have been sweeping the difficult terrain for a week now to no avail, until Friday.
"I, along with the men and women of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, are profoundly saddened to learn that the body found earlier today in the Shenandoah National Park is thought to be that of Firefighter-Paramedic Nicole Mittendorff. As we wait for further information, we continue to extend our thoughts and prayers to Nicole's friends and family," Fire Chief Richard Bowers said.
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View this post on Instagram She has arrived 🌸 #HudaBeautyNewNude 🌸 A post shared by hudabeautyshop (@hudabeautyshop) on Oct 31, 2018 at 10:05pm PDT Fenty Beauty Killawatt Foil Freestyle Highlighter Palette, $54 $46 We’re totally heart eyes for any good ol’ highlighter, but these one-of-a-kind colors just scream glowy ice queen — and we’re here for it. View this post on Instagram Avoiding cuffing season? So are we! Look hot enough to date, but cold enough to keep 'em away🔥🙅🏼♀️🙅🏿♂️🙅🏽♀️🙅🏻♂️🙅🏾♀️❄️ in our limited edition #KILLAWATTFOILPALETTE. These shades are made for stone-cold and fiery hot highlight goals that will for sure keep you #CUFFINGSEASONPROOF! AVAILABLE NOW at fentybeauty.com, @sephora, @harveynichols, and #SephorainJCP!! A post shared by FENTY BEAUTY BY RIHANNA (@fentybeauty) on Oct 12, 2018 at 5:08pm PDT Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Jelly Sheet Mask, $8 $6.80 With holiday travels coming up, we’re stocking up on sheet masks to keep our skin fresh and bouncy. 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Arjen Lubach, a Dutch late-night host whose show, “Zondag met Lubach” (“Sunday With Lubach”), made the video that started the trend, said, “Because we realize it’s better for us to get along, we decided to introduce our tiny country to him in a way that will probably appeal to him the most.”
The English-language voice-over on this video belongs to a Dutch-based American comedian named Greg Shapiro. “I’ve been working on the imitation for a while,” Mr. Shapiro said in a phone interview on Sunday from Paris. All it takes, he said, is repeating Mr. Trump’s interviews or tweets verbatim. “There’s hardly any heightening necessary,” he said.
After the video went viral, Mr. Shapiro said, “it was nice having family from America send me these clips saying, ‘Oh, this is like Dutch and Trump.’ And I’d say, ‘Yeah, that’s my voice.’ My mom did recognize it.”
Mr. Shapiro, 48, has seen a bump on his YouTube channel, where he offers lessons in Trump impressions on his “United States of Europe” show and posted a spoof news conference on Monday,in which he impersonates the president. | positive |
We've Struck Gold! $GLDG Set to Mine Gold in Canada This Spring! Penny Stock Newsletters Section Home Research Directory Message Boards Penny Stock Newsletters Canadian Stocks Newsletters Hub Newsletters Promoters Promoted Stocks Paying Parties Home > Newsletters HYPE REPORT Top 20 Most Heavily Promoted Penny Stocks For September 2022 Pink Sheets OTC BB ADVERTISEMENT Newsletter DETAILS We've Struck Gold! $GLDG Set to Mine Gold in Canada This Spring! Oct 27, 2014 08:30 Promoter: Gold Medal Penny Stocks Paying Party: No Third Party Stocks covered: Compensation: Avg $ Volume for Period: GLDG $2000 UNKNOWN Max Profit: 50.00 % Gain at close: 0.00 % We have struck gold, loyal subscribers! We've alerted Golden Global Corp. (OTCPK: GLDG) once before, and investors saw great double digit returns. The company has recently released great news, and we expect that profitable opportunities could present themselves again. 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"Okay, this time, don't pull until I say so. Got it?"
BioWare had long promised that SWTOR would justify its subscription plan... but the reality was that simple bugs took months to fix and genuinely fresh content was disturbingly rare.
Someone put StarFox in my Star Wars!
"Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!"
Before the free server migration, this was what SWTOR looked like most of the time.
"The trend for free-to-play doesn't supplant great top quality premium games that support a subscription." Muzyka added that SWTOR isn't really suited for a free-to-play model, though.
That thing will kill Boba Fett 4,000 years (roughly) from now.
Giant beasts are no match for an electric jolt from a droid.
I wonder how my hero is doing these days...
As many of you know by now, yesterday BioWare announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic would add a free-to-play option to its beleaguered MMORPG following news that subscriptions had dropped below the million mark. At this point, the news doesn't have the sting it once might have. Even I, who maintained hope that SWTOR's situation would improve (despite some decidedly pessimistic early concerns ) found myself unwilling to continue playing after the second patch in April as there simply wasn't enough to keep me interested. For the most part, I was playing the same game I'd reviewed earlier in the year. By the time the third content update rolled around in late June, I didn't even have the client installed on my personal computer.To me, then, the failure of Star Wars: The Old Republic's subscription model springs less from the clear shift toward free-to-play payment structures over the last couple of years than BioWare's failure to provide the frequent updates it promised throughout the MMO's development. BioWare had long promised that SWTOR would justify its subscription plan with such updates, but the reality was that simple bugs that could have been written off as launch-day stumbles took months to fix and genuinely fresh content was disturbingly rare. A group finder probably could have kept the MMORPG from sinking early on, but by the time BioWare implemented one half a year later, few people were around to care. When a comparatively small studio like Trion Worlds can whip out meaty updates almost monthly but BioWare can't get more than one significant content update out over the course of seven months, there's going to be trouble. Established veterans like World of Warcraft can get away with such content droughts (such as the one WoW is experiencing right now), but in these days, sluggish updates spell death for even the most well-intentioned projects.Still, looking back over the history of SWTOR's development, it's clear that BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk were constantly confronted with the question of making Star Wars: The Old Republic a free-to-play game, even when the outlook wasn't anywhere near as grim. Competitors and colleagues warned that BioWare wouldn't be able to sustain the subscription model almost from the beginning, and outbursts from disgruntled former employees added further cause to worry.Below, I've charted a timeline of some of the "official" responses over the past couple of years, which reveals an unwavering insistence that SWTOR would provide enough updates to justify their subscription plan. I've left out the many fan-based predictions that SWTOR would end up being free-to-play as they would make this article much longer than it already is. As the final months dragged on, Muzyka and Zeschuk became increasingly removed from the discussion, and, for the most part, the promised updates never came.Referencing Warhammer Online, Muzyka and Zeschuk relate how including a limited free-to-play model has succeeded in bringing more players to the MMORPG. In Muzyka's words, "We've tried some free-to-play models for some of the earlier levels, and I think that's actually drawing people back in. We have new content planned and all kinds of cool expansions for it." (Source: UGO In an interview with VideoGamer.com, Zeschuk acknowledges that a free-to-pay payment plan will likely be the dominant MMORPG payment plan of the future, but doubts that it'll ever completely eclipse subscription plans. Importantly, he hints at possible frequent updates in the form of "long-term benefits. "You can't offer a subscription on something that's exactly the same as a free to play game. The expectation is that for subscription it will be deeper and have other longer-term benefits that perhaps wouldn't be as significant in a free-to-play game. Or maybe the free-to-play game will offer the exact same thing, but it's going to cost you the exact same thing anyway [via micro-transactions] - the price is the price is the price, no matter how much you dress it up." (Source: VideoGamer.com In one of the first major signs of trouble, a blogger claiming to be an former employee claims that SWTOR cost more than $300 million to create (which is later refuted by EA ). His blog receives widespread attention at the time, partly because of his claim that "[The] Old Republic will be one of the greatest failures in the history of MMOs from EA. Probably at the level of the Sims Online. We all know it too." (Source: EA Louse Not long after the uproar created by EA Louse's blog, Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz warned attendees at the London Games Conference that Star Wars: The Old Republic will never be profitable. "If you look at Star Wars from EA and BioWare, they estimated a development budget of over $100m," he said. "This is an online game for many million of subscribers, so the publisher does not understand that a subscription model is not the future. With micro-transactions maybe I see the game having a chance but I don't think that EA or BioWare will ever be profitable with this game." (Source: MCV Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey informs Gamasutra that investors are worried about the success of SWTOR. "We believe many investors are betting against SWTOR achieving market success, provided the company's and industry's track record at releasing successful new MMOs." His reasons include "a suspected subscription pricing model versus a market that is quickly transitioning to free to play, generally modest previews of the game and elevated development expense and suspected aggressive royalty to LucasArts." (Source: Gamasutra In a widely circulated editorial, Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley expresses doubts that MMORPGs can continue to survive with a traditional subscription model. In it, he claims that SWTOR is "going to be the last large scale MMO to use the traditional subscription business model. Why do I think that? Simply put, the world is moving on from this model and over time people aren't going to accept this method. I'm sure I'm going to hear a lot about this statement. But I am positive I'm right." (Source: GamesIndustry.biz When asked if subscription-based MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft (which had recently reported subscriber losses) are threatened by the free-to-play model, Zeschuk responded "The trend for free-to-play doesn't supplant great top quality premium games that support a subscription." Muzyka added that SWTOR isn't really suited for a free-to-play model, though. "We do believe in the play for free model too, like Wrath of Heroes we've announced, and that's awesome fun, it's really cool. And that's an example of a really fun accessible 15 minute, pick up and play fast game. That fits a classic model of the play for free experience. And The Old Republic is on the other end of the spectrum, equally high quality but in a very different way. We believe in both business models, and we're doing social games as well, so we have a pretty diverse portfolio for Bioware now as a label, and obviously within EA as a larger company too." Zeschuk also speaks of updating the game's content after release to suit the players: "Like Ray said it's ultimately driven by [the players], finding what they like the most. We may have plans right now but after we've launched for a few months we might go "whoah, we never expected that this would be so popular, we'll make more of these and less of these." (Source: GamesIndustry.biz Greg Zeschuk defends BioWare's subscription plan in an interview with Kotaku on the date of SWTOR's official release, stating that "Free-to-play works best when a game is built that way from the ground up." When asked if BioWare would ever consider following in the footsteps of DC Universe Online, Zeschuk replies: "We're not saying never ever, but we certainly have no plans like that in the foreseeable future. We're going to support the game to make it better and better as it goes on. It's going to be worth showing up for." Zeschuk's idea of support for their " premium projects" revolves around content updates: "We're launching with 19 huge worlds, and hours and hours of story and content to explore. And we're going to be adding to that for months to come."(Source: Kotaku A little over a week after Star Wars: The Old Republic's official release, Muzyka and Zeschuk defend SWTOR's subscription model in an interview with Joystiq. Zeschuk again defends the subscription model with hints of content that only a studio like BioWare can provide: "I'm not saying it's better or worse. It just doesn't supplant the other things. 'Cause we can do some things no one else can. The free-to-play people can't invest to the level we can invest, and can't create something of the size and scale of something we can create." Still, Muzyka hints that BioWare isn't averse to using a free-to-play model elsewhere: "We have some other stuff we haven't announced yet coming from our play-for-free team that I'm really excited about. It's gonna bring back some IP that people have a lot of fond memories around." (Source: Joystiq Following the release of Patch 1.1, Game Director James Ohlen discusses the extent to which the shift to free-to-play models in MMORPGs affected the development of SWTOR: "It didn't really impact us. We felt, and we still feel, that there is a place for subscription-based games and if you're going to build a subscription-based game it's got to be huge in scope. People have to feel that it's worth paying a subscription fee every month, so the scope of the game has to be much bigger than the free-to-play games. The quality, the polish has to be very, very high, and then you need to have a plan to continue to deliver free content on a regular basis. If you do those things, I think you can succeed as a subscription-based game. Obviously, there can only be a few subscription-based games. There is a limited MMO audience and not a ton of that audience is playing more than one MMO, but I still think there's room for more than just one really successful online game. I think Star Wars: The Old Republic can coexist with World of Warcraft and other successful games like Rift. You can have multiple MMOs with a subscription being successful as long as those games fulfill the requirements of high quality, good polish, lots of content, and continuing to do high value updates on a regular basis." (Scource: IGN.com BioWare releases its first "Weekend Pass Free Trial" for Star Wars: The Old Republic, which allows players without subscriptions to experience all the content up to level 15. On the heels of its release, BioWare announces another free trial on the following weekend. "The response was overwhelmingly positive, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who took part. However, we also understand that not everyone has had the opportunity to play the game. To that end, we are excited to announce that individuals who did not take part in the first Weekend Pass Free Trial will have another opportunity to live out their very own Star Wars saga, for free, with the second Star Wars: The Old Republic Weekend Pass Free Trial!" (Source: SWTOR.com BioWare releases Patch 1.2, which brings UI customization, guild banks, the full implementation of the long-promised "Legacy" system, a new flashpoint, a new operation, a new warzone, and a host of other updates. You can read my editorial on the patch here . (Source: SWTOR.com Following the release of Patch 1.2, BioWare announces that Star Wars: The Old Republic has lost 400,000 subscribers in the three months since their last update. (Source: IGN.com Zeschuk and Muzyka announce layoffs for the SWTOR development team while avoiding details. Regardless, the announcement ends on a high note: "We still have a very substantial development team working on supporting and growing the game, and we feel we are in a strong position, with your continued involvement and feedback, to continue to build Star Wars: The Old Republic as one of the most compelling and successful online experiences in the world today." Again, they promise updates: "There are many strong initiatives planned for cool new content and new features that we're excited to tell you about in the upcoming weeks and months." (Source: SWTOR.com Bioware announces the upcoming release of Ultima Forever, a free to play, cross-platform, action RPG set in Ultima IV universe. (Source: GameSpy.com SWTOR Lead Designer Emmanuel Lusinchi acknowledges to GamesTM that SWTOR could be free-to-play before the year is out. The original post read: "The MMO market is very dynamic and we need to be dynamic as well. Unless people are happy with what they have, they are constantly demanding updates, new modes and situations. So we are looking at free-to-play but I can't tell you in much detail. We have to be flexible and adapt to what is going on." It was later amended to read that Luscinchi had actually said "We are looking at everything but I can't tell you in much detail. This decision is a little bit above my pay grade." (Source: GamesTM Over at GameTechTV, a supposed former BioWare employee by the name of "Jenny" opens up about the upcoming shift to free to play. "If you haven't noticed the interviews we had given sometime back had been removed. Mainly, the interviews that gave it "away" that we are looking at adding F2P model. We are indeed adding free to play to the game. [sic]" (Source: GamerTechTV Jeff Hickman, executive producer of SWTOR, releases a statement confirming the upcoming shift to free-to-play. "Since launch, our team has spent a lot of time trying to find new ways to be able to bring the Star Wars: The Old Republic experience to as many potential players as possible. We quickly became aware that our subscription only model was a major barrier for a lot people who wanted to become part of The Old Republic universe. In fact, many players who have left the game said they would happily come back if they could play without the commitment of a monthly fee. We feel that flexibility and choice in playing our game is important for all current and future players. For that reason, we began the exploration of expanding the game to include a Free-to-Play option." (Source: SWTOR.com : The best thing about SWTOR's move to a free-to-play model is that everyone can experience the story aspects without having to pay that monthly fee. It's like we can all finally enjoy Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3, 4, & 5 in its own special way. | positive |
This is the second in a series of posts covering the WePlay Dota 2 Tournament, sponsored by WePlay.ua and primarily casted in English by LD at BeyondTheSummit.tv. I am not affiliated with either of these organisations and you should absolutely support them via your internet patronage or Dota 2 tournament ticket purchase.
Well, day 1 of WePlay is over, with Group E following the alternate scenario I envisioned in yesterday’s post. Final standings of the group:
Group E Results
1) No Tidehunter (advance)
2) Fnatic.NA (advance)
3) Isurus ESports
4) Rat in the dark
After a tense Match 1, the rest of the games of the day were not close. Let’s quickly recap the games.
Highlight Match: Isurus vs Rat
This, the first game of the day, was also the strategically most interesting match of the group, with some unusual strategic choices made by Isurus and a stalemate position developing in midgame. So much the better, since reviewing this game allows us to bookend yesterday’s detailed overview of this matchup.
Isurus draft Magnus, Rubick, PL with an SD in the first ban set and a 5th pick of Tidehunter. This was an unsurprising lineup for them; Nova wasn’t present, with prodigious13 filling in on Leshrac, and as discussed Isurus’s no-Nova lineup places Ifrit on the hard carry and Shoko usually on Magnus. I had noted in pregame that since both of these teams substantially favour Magnus, the team that had him would have scored somewhat of a coup. Rat draft Gyro, Nature’s Prophet, Undying and then Puck in the second phase, plus CM. The use of Nature’s Prophet and Puck for Rat wasn’t surprising and Undying was an interesting choice to try to get a laning advantage, but I questioned the pickup of the Gyro, a hero that I feel doesn’t play to Rat’s hard carry player sifla’s strengths and one that they hadn’t used in prior tournaments. Teams picking up Gyrocopter for dubious reasons became a theme in Group E play.
The laning phase unfolds a huge surprise: Isurus elect to send PL mid against the Puck, with Magnus in the farmer slot bottom. This is an extremely unusual choice, intended to defuse the issue of the PL getting potentially bullied and outlaned in bottom leading to an insuperable farm deficit. Rat get first blood but it’s a Gyrocopter trade for Leshrac in the bottom, with the kill not going to Gyro either; they do, however, continue to bully bottom with periodic teleports from Nature’s Prophet and dives past the Tier 1 tower. I noted in yesterday’s writeup that this is how Rat loves to play in the lane: generally very safe, but with periodic coordinated dives to generate kill advantage. So far, so good for them, especially after adding a kill on Ifrit’s vulnerable PL in the middle.
This gives Rat what they feel is a comfortable lead, and they seek to leverage it into farm for sifla’s Gyrocopter and spin’s Furion and tower kills. By 12 minutes game time Rat is ahead 5k gold including 2 towers. With a fairly easy solo lane, Tidehunter is well developed, but Gudii struggles early in the game to track down any Rat heroes to actually force into an engagement, and so Isurus’s massive initiation capacity from the Magnus and Tidehunter goes largely unused. Meanwhile, the exigencies of a difficult middle lane mean that PL doesn’t even start his Diffusal until after completing Tranquils, a Bottle (!), and Drums.
The game settles into a passive mode, with Rat happy to run up the gold differential by adding on a Roshan at 19 minutes to their already advanced farm. However, the lack of sense of urgency from Rat is somewhat concerning. PL’s only died once- in fact, there are only 6 kills on the board altogether by 19 minutes- and it’s not clear that Rat are seeking to end the game before he becomes a major threat. The first true engagement immediately follows Rat’s Roshan. RP and Ravage both land (the latter only just), but Isurus only manage to get Puck and CM, plus Aegis, to trade for Tide and Rubick.
With Blink on the board for Magnus and Tide, plus Puck on Rat’s team, Isurus make their second bold strategic choice of the game. Noting that Rat, despite accumulating good farm and pressuring outer towers, seem to be at a lackadaisical pace vis a vis actually ending the game, Isurus decide that they might as well look to go late as well. Very late. Very, very late. They start to clandestinely build Refresher on both Shoko’s Magnus and Gudii’s Tidehunter while Ifrit continues to build standard PL-for-lategame.
Rat are still ahead, and will be for some time yet, but the game is at this point thoroughly slotted into one of their weaknesses: converting an extant but not dramatic lead into high ground and rax. By 26 minutes into the game Isurus are down by 4 towers (1 outer to 5 outer) and lose their final outer at 30, but Rat continue to assiduously avoid attempts at conversion to highground, and PL, playing carefully and safe, hits his Heart around that time.
Displaying strong flash farming skills, both Shoko and Gudii hit their Refreshers around 36-37 minutes. At this point PL has added a Butterfly onto his total, and with Rat still totaling 0 actual highground attempts despite having a very powerful Nature’s Prophet ostensibly capable of split pushes, the story of Match 1 is almost written. To the dismay of LD and Bruno, cocasting the game, Spin on Furion never makes a particularly concerted effort at a split push. Despite BKBs on Gyro and Nature’s Prophet and a Hood on Undying, the 20-kills-in-in-first-38-minutes game is blown wide open in the first engagement after the Refreshers come online.
When their ensuing last-ditch Roshan fails, Rat are all but ready to tap out, and do so shortly thereafter as PL and co. blow up each set of rax in turn. Game time: 46:16. MVP: Isurus’s Shoko ran with a very weird lane setup and excelled time after time again on his Magnus, more than once using Blink+Skewer to attain absolutely free kills without even spending RP.
Overall, despite an early lead Rat seemed incapable of showing what makes them excel as a team, while Isurus showed us exactly their strengths: patient, careful tactics combined with inventive and even cheeky strategy (two Refreshers!). Gyrocopter is a great carry, one of the preeminent choices in the Western scene right now, but I would have loved to see sifla piloting one of the more out-and-out hard carries he has in his pool and seeking to overwhelm PL that way. More damning, Rat took an advantage and an extremely farmed Furion and did nothing so far as push with it. Perhaps tournament jitters were to blame, or perhaps Rat underestimated the flash farming ability and patient play that Isurus were ready to deploy, or perhaps they just need more top-level practice with their post-Jerax lineup. Either way, a small upset started off Group E action; unfortunately, it was the first and last game of the day where the outcome was murky for any length of time past draft.
Rest of Matches
The rest of the matches in Group E were less interesting and so we’ll rush through them.
Fnatic.NA vs No Tidehunter: In Fnatic.NA’s second big-stage tournament appearance after their Bigpoint Battle fixture with TL, NTH gets 20 kills in 20 minutes and Fnatic.NA’s fountain gets one. Probably not the début they envisioned. As part of a Group E common theme, Fnatic.NA unsuccessfully deployed a Gyro (in the #2 slot, this time). MVP: NTH’s EGM, on Rubick, generated a mass of kill opportunities, picked up an early Urn of Shadows that saw abundant use, and stole and deployed Eclipse from Fnatic.NA’s Luna three consecutive times.
Fnatic.NA vs Rat in the dark: Forestalling possible humiliation, Fnatic.NA bounce back in their second game of the group. While Rat do score Magnus in this go-round, they once again plant sifla on Gyro, this time locking it in with the other of their first two picks. Fnatic.NA are abundantly prepared for this approach and draft a dual-core Lifestealer and Weaver, backed up by roaming SD + Rubick, and Hannah_Montana’s excellent Dark Seer play in mid, that will make it extremely difficult for sifla, even with very solid farm throughout the game, to actually get any kills. After a quiet beginning, Weaver begins to assert himself, and rockets to 4-0-2 by 15 minutes that begins a reign of terror over Rat’s team comp. MVP: Fnatic.NA’s MSS played a hyperaggressive Weaver that took the Finns completely out of their comfort zone and was eminently difficult to catch with Magnus, Clock, or Veno lockdown.
No Tidehunter vs Isurus Esports: Plainly goofing off, NTH showboat their way over the Peruvians, who understandably felt the pressure against a vastly favoured team to do a tricky, pocket-pick heavy draft. What they ended up with was an extremely clunky lineup and even clunkier lanes that at one point sent Shoko’s Clinkz into the jungle well before hitting level 6, left Nova struggling mid, and, for the 4th time across 3 teams in group E, trying and failing to leverage an early Gyro pick. Meanwhile, on NTH, this happened:
MVP: Nobody.
Isurus Esports vs Fnatic.NA: With NTH locked in 1st place, the largely Spanish-speaking Twitch chat audience turned their hopes to this match for second place in the group and advancement through to the next stage. Unfortunately, although a clearly rattled Isurus did draft up some of their favourite heroes in Ifrit’s Storm Spirit, Shoko’s Magnus, and Gudii’s KOTL, they took Loda’s trollish Armlet Dragon Knight play as a cue to attempt same, and ran face-first into the first CK/Wisp play of the tournament executed near-flawlessly by Fnatic.NA from the laning phase onwards. MVP: While the CK/Wisp play from MSS and Ego was flashy and well-coordinated, Fnatic.NA’s HANNAH_MONTANA most impressed me with his critical execution of the farming #3 role. By beating Isurus’s Ifrit handily to his Orchid, he tipped the Storm/QOP fulcrum early and thus completely held down a hero that could otherwise generate serious issues and possibly spearhead a comeback.
PS: In case you were wondering, yes, there was a Gyro in that last game, and yes, it was on the losing team, this time as a #4, making for a full 5/5 games, across 3 teams, occupying 3 different positions, that Gyro didn’t deliver on the day. This isn’t necessarily commentary on the hero- to me, it’s more baffling that both Isurus and Rat would try to force the Gyro meme so hard given that they don’t typically favour him otherwise. Just because a tournament might be a bigger stage doesn’t mean you have to play exactly the picks of the big stage teams; it can be argued that instead as a newer and less known team you should play exactly to what you know to maximize your familiarity and minimize stage fright.
Let’s transition to talking about today’s games.
GroupA: March 17
At 1700 CET today (17 March), the WePlay tournament moves to Group A play, kicking off with Na’vi vs Eosin+4 followed by Imperium vs Vivacity. My information about this group is incredibly spotty, so while it’s pretty clear who’s going to take first, there are two teams about which prediction is going to be difficult to impossible, and potentially more than one fairly close downticket matchup. I’ll share what I know.
Na’vi: When ARS-ART/Smile and LightOfHeaven were muscled out of the #5 and #3 positions to make room for the addition of Funn1k from Empire and Kuroky from Mouz, I was skeptical if not borderline hostile about the change. Why dump the two players that seemed from the outside to be the most consistent, dependably high-quality performers? Why beggar 2 other excellent teams just to prop up one with a strong legacy that nonetheless seemed to be dipping into a lacklustre shadow of its former self? As can be common in eSports, I underestimated the psychology. Perhaps we’ll never get good details of what was failing Na’vi in the past team dynamic, but since the roster change, the three incumbents (Xboct, Dendi, and Puppey) have been playing with a renewed spring in their step, aggressive, playful, and scary as hell to oppose. It’s important to remember in any discussion of how Kuroky and Funn1k are slotting in that there are preexisting friend networks that the roster change leveraged: Puppey and Kuroky go way back [1] and Xboct and Funn1k are also tight friends. The new Na’vi is not without vulnerabilities but they’re easily on a shortlist to win the tournament and the days when they might drop a game to the calibre of teams they’re paired against in this group stage are in the rear-view mirror.
Eosin+4: For what it’s worth, on a pure MMR basis Valve rates Eosin+4 among the very best. Being composed of 4 North Americans and a Euro makes it even more difficult for the team to play together and practice on a regular basis than it already would be for a semi-pro team with coordinated timezones, so their weakness lies in the fact that most of the ‘practice’ they get comes in the form of actually participating in tournaments, rather than scrimming constantly or what have you. This is certainly a substantial handicap, but natural talent has managed to get them placements in tournaments like GosuCup (where they beat Brazilian hopes Pain Gaming before falling to ROOT) and DotaCinema’s Smoke of Defeat (where they won the whole thing). And they’ve taken games off Dignitas in small-scale tourneys- no mean feat.
Imperium Gamers: Imperium Gamers is a relatively new Polish eSports organisation that signed the Polish amateur team Down Them All. Down Them All doesn’t have many high placing tournament fixtures- about all they’ve done that’s earned notice from the major match trackers and sites has been to lose to AL.Main in a Raidcall EMS One grinder- but, to their credit, has maintained a fairly stable roster and plugged away for almost half a year in a world where even top tier pro teams drop like mayflies. Another thing I like about Imperium is that they obviously practice; their members are extremely active in TMM together. From what I can glean in their match history they really like Wisp, really like Lifestealer, and really like using them together. So, an Eastern European team through and through. I’m less optimistic about their overall robustness thus far; if Wisp cops one too many first phase bans or Lifestealer gets countered, especially if they find themselves staring into Na’vi’s recent Storm Spirit fetish, Imperium could be on the wrong side of a stomp.
Vivacity Esports: Vivacity is an organisation that appears to have started out, bafflingly enough, in the 3D Dota clone Smite [2] before deciding to host an open call for a Dota 2 team that ended in them signing the mixed-Russian/Belarus team Oslyk Gaming. This crew has some bona fides, having captured good results at some of the semi-pro competitions that have been springing up like the Adroit Tt Esports Weekly 5 (they won) and the Alienware Cup 30 (they placed second behind Lions’Pride in a field that included Fnatic.NA, FOTA, and Eosin+4). Additionaly, their #5 player Alba has been around the scene for some time, with stints in some revolving-door CIS teams like XX5. The rest are largely untested kids, but promising, with their presumptive mid player ggSanta loading up on even public matchmaking games with QOP, Puck, Storm, and Nyx over the past couple days.
Match 1: Na’vi vs Eosin+4: Eosin, of +4 fame, doesn’t seem too confident. Na’vi.
Match 2: Imperium vs Vivacity: Due to poor information density I can’t really call this much more than a toss-up. Vivacity have better recent results to show, while Imperium seem by all appearances to practice together more. Both are important for successful teams. Look towards the mid lane matchup between mnick from Imperium and either ggsanta or __brain from Vivacity to be highly determinant of the way the game turns. In the end, I’d tip this to Vivacity, especially if Imperium’s highly-favoured Wisp finds its way into the initial bans. Vivacity.
Match 3: Na’vi vs Vivacity: Either Dendi, Xboct, or both get a double digit number of kills and no more than 1 death. Vivacity still walk away happy, because you can only be so mad at losing to Na’vi as a recently uplifted semi-pro squad. Na’vi.
Match 4: Eosin+4 vs Imperium: I think Eosin take this one on raw playskill. The two teams have never faced each other, but Eosin+4 just bring more at each position and have played together just as long as Imperium. An upset isn’t impossible but isn’t epxected either. Eosin+4.
Match 5: Eosin+4 vs Vivacity: The game to determine who advances out of the group behind Na’vi should be an interesting one no matter the two participants. I think the explosive style of play favoured by teams from the region Imperium and Vivacity hail from- #rusdoto- is well suited to best of 1 matches due to its inherent openness and higher risk/reward, but Eosin+4 have, aside from Alba, been doing this for longer and should have a good idea by this game of what they’re looking at. A major complicating factor in this group may be which server games are played on, with 3 teams around Russia and just the one set of mostly Americans. Eosin+4, though I reserve the right to say I wasn’t wrong if they end up dropping to 3rd or 4th via having most of their games on EU.East or something.
Standings prediction:
1) Na’vi (advance)
2) Eosin+4 (advance)
3) Vivacity
4) Imperium
Again, watch the games today, starting at 1700 CET (12PM EDT), on Beyond The Summit. Or buy the tournament ticket on the Dota 2 Store. For a live stream of my blather, occasionally check out my twitch page.
[1] Kuroky’s more-or-less love letter to Puppey is one of the most guileless and emotionally appealing eSports-related readings out there.
[2] I have nothing against Smite, it’s a pretty good game.
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Church Leaders Are Always Asking This Question… | energized by the steady, deliberate journey in generational learning Menu Skip to content Home Welcome to 27gen! 27gen Posts About Contact Information Auxano Church Leaders Are Always Asking This Question… Posted on January 9, 2012 by Bob Adams How do we discover/train/keep more volunteers in our church? I have dozens of conversations with church leaders every week. In almost every conversation – no matter what the original topic – the question above comes up. Large or small, rural or urban or suburban, traditional or contemporary, denominational or non-denominational, the question is always being asked. With that in mind, I wanted to visit the concept of volunteers in ChurchWorld. I’ll introduce the topic today and tomorrow with a couple of articles written in 2009 for Church Solutions magazine. They were based on a unique experience I had at my church that summer – one that changed my perspective and trajectory. Volunteers-The Lifeblood of Your Church (originally published 8/9/2009 in Church Solutions magazine) What do you do when a church experience built on volunteers throws a “No Show Sunday”? That was the experience at all of Elevation Church’s (Charlotte NC) multiple campuses this weekend as the staff designed a unique service both to honor current volunteers and encourage new volunteers as Elevation (3 campus locations, 8 services) prepares to add their first permanent site this fall and increase the number of services at each location. Initially crafted as a response to being “a one-man show”, the weekend services began with no greeters, no parking crew, or no signs all over the place – typical Elevation features. As a matter of fact, one of Elevation’s core values is honoring guests. Not this weekend! Participants walked in to the campus locations with only a single sign at the entrance: “Elevation Church worship today”. No welcome team of any kind. Only a couple of staff members checking in kids at the different children’s areas. No resource booth. No energetic music or hosts outside the worship center: just a single sign pointing out the printed lyric sheets. A bare stage with a couple of portable speakers and a single mic stand. At each location, a single worship leader came out and led the crowd in music printed on the sheets. When it was time for the sermon, Pastor Steven Furtick was onscreen as usual, with a simple greeting: “Welcome to the worst Sunday ever at Elevation Church!” What followed was a powerful message for the church today, based on Jesus’ first public miracle as recounted in John 2:1-11. The wedding scene in John 2 reflected a time when guests received honor; today at many churches, guests show up and we have nothing prepared. Jesus disassociated himself, deferring to another time. He owed nothing at the event, but gave everything. We, who owe everything, give nothing. Mary’s “do whatever He tells you” gave us instructions for obedience. I was reminded of a comment by Uptown campus pastor Larry Hubatka several weeks before: “You never get the full experience at Elevation until you volunteer.” I wrote it down, and it came back full force today in the absence of all volunteers. Elevation Church is driven by volunteers: 1,860 volunteers are in the database. Each weekend over 860 volunteers work over 3,295 hour per week in the four broad areas of Family Services, Guest Services, Production, and Administration. The powerful close came when Furtick reminded the audience that when Jesus turned the water into wine, the only ones who witnessed the miracle were the servants. When you serve, you get to witness the power of God. Where do I sign up? 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Rangers outfielder Shin-Soo Choo is hitting the DL with a fractured left forearm, according to an announcement from VP of communications John Blake. The tough-luck injury occurred on a hit-by-pitch.
Given that it’s mid-August, it’s certainly possible that Choo’s latest injury could keep him out for the rest of the season. After all, Jon Jay is still on the DL after breaking his forearm nearly two months ago. And Rangers catcher Robinson Chirinos missed two months with his own, similar injury.
That sort of timetable makes a post-season return possible, though that may be a tall ask if Choo doesn’t have a chance to rehab in live game action. And it isn’t yet clear whether Choo will require a full two months; we’ll need to wait to learn of his particular prognosis.
Regardless, it’s a big blow to Texas and to Choo. It seems that Ryan Rua will take his spot on the active roster, and the club also has slugger Joey Gallo available. Those two will be useful replacements, as will Delino DeShields Jr., and Drew Stubbs, and the club can mix and match at its leisure once rosters expand in September.
But Choo remains a strong on-base threat at 34 years of age, and is especially excellent against right-handed pitching (despite carrying reverse platoon splits in his limited action this year), making him a difficult player to replace. It just hasn’t been meant to be this year, as he has now hit the DL on four separate occasions for a variety of ailments. Texas has already needed to find replacements for Josh Hamilton (Ian Desmond) and Prince Fielder (Carlos Beltran) earlier in the year.
If the Rangers do take to the market once more, they’ll have a few options, as MLBTR’s top twenty current trade candidates list shows. Melky Cabrera would represent a rather similar player, though the Rangers may not love the idea of taking over his future commitments. Brett Gardner and Nick Markakis are other potential left-handed-hitting options. Carlos Gomez can be had, though he’s an uncertain commodity and hits from the right side.
Looking past the present campaign, Choo remains a somewhat frustrating player for the Rangers. He carries a useful .259/.361/.422 slash over 1,377 plate appearances since signing before the 2014 season. But that’s not quite what the team hoped to receive out of the first three of seven years in his huge contract. Choo is still owed $82MM over the remainder of that pact. | positive |
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FISA Court Tries, Once Again, To Justify Allowing Bulk Collection Of Data On All Your Phone Calls
from the let's-try-this-again dept
In light of the importance of the national security programs that were set to expire, the Executive Branch and relevant congressional committees worked together to ensure that each Member of Congress knew or had the opportunity to know how Section 215 was being implemented under this Court's Documentation and personnel were also made available to afford each Member full knowledge of the scope of the implementation of Section 215 and of the underlying legal interpretation.
The Supreme Court's more recent decision in United States v. Jones... does not point to a different result here. Jones involved the acquisition of a different type of information through different means.
Last week, the FISA Court (FISC) renewed yet again (as it has every few months for over 7 years) the ability of the government to demand data onphone call from American telcos. Last month, the FISC (for the first time) published its rationale for allowing the collection -- one that many experts found extremely lacking. Not only did the court incorrectly state that members of Congress were fully aware of the details of the program when they renewed it, but it also made up some of its own rules and ignored some of the Supreme Court's statements on such forms of data collection.Today, the court has declassified the new justification that was written up for this latest round of rubber-stamping , and it's written by a different judge than before. This time, it's Judge Mary McLaughlin, who notes that this is the first time she's had to review such an application, but for the most part she "agrees with and adopts" the reasoning used back in July by Judge Eagan to justify the collection. However, she also attempts to go into a little more detail, perhaps in response to the public criticism to Eagan's reasoning. Eagan's ruling stated the following:Unfortunately, as many have pointed out (and the White House has admitted). Rep. Mike Rogers didshare the details with members of the House, despite the White House recommending strongly that he do so. While he did set up "briefings" with the NSA, they were clearly designed to keep Representatives in the dark . Among the many tricks that Rogers pulled, was sending announcements of the briefings to what's considered the "spam folder" of representatives, holding them at very inconvenient times (when most Reps. were out of town) and then leaving it up to the Reps. to guess what they should be asking about.In this latest ruling, McLaughlin doesn't make the claim as directly as Eagan did, but still suggests that every member of Congress "had the opportunity to learn about the scope of the metadata collection and this Court's interpretation of Section 215." Thus, because they reauthorized it (thanks mostly due to fear-mongering by the heads of the Intelligence Committees), it must mean that Congress approved of the interpretation of the law. That seems specious, at best. It's increasingly clear that the heads of the intelligence committees actively sought to mislead others in Congress over these programs. Pretending that they were well informed is simply fiction. The very fact that so many in Congress (including some on the Intelligence Committee) have noted that they were kept in the dark about many important details, Judge McLaughlin is playing games here that don't reflect reality.She also attempts to deal with the fact that in theGPS case, the Supreme Court indicated that when there'scollection of data, it's possible to cross over from not being a 4th Amendment violation, to being one. In other rulings, the suggestion had been that if a single data point wasn't a 4th Amendment violation, then the bulk collection couldn't be either -- even though Justice Alito's opinion instrongly argued otherwise. McLaughlin tries to hand-wave this away:More specifically, she argues that because Jones was aboutand this case is aboutit's different. That also seems questionable, as Alito himself made the comparison to wiretapping. To argue that they're not analogous seems like it's ignoring what was said. McLaughlin does, legitimately, point out that Justice Sotomayor's opinion suggested that the whole notion of the 3rd party doctrine (saying there's no 4th Amendment protection for information given to a third party) should be revisited, but that the Court declined to do so in Jones.Hopefully, this is setting up a situation in which the Supreme Court will no longer be able to punt the issue, as it did in Jones, and we can get some renewed respect for the 4th Amendment, especially in cases where bulk data is collected and accessed by government officials.
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Fifty-eight percent said they support banning assault-style weapons. Vets poll: 91 percent back gun checks
The vast majority of veterans support universal background checks, a new poll shows.
According to a survey commissioned by the organization Vote Vets and the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, 91 percent of veterans support requiring “a criminal background check of every person who wants to buy a firearm, including 74 [percent] who strongly support it.”
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Those figures come as the Senate prepares to take up gun legislation, a debate in which the question of universal background checks for gun purchases will figure prominently. On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) reached a bipartisan agreement on the issue.
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The poll, provided to POLITICO, also found that 61 percent of the veterans surveyed back banning high-capacity ammunition magazines, and 58 percent said they support banning assault-style weapons.
Those surveyed viewed the National Rifle Association favorably, 43-36 percent.
Eighty-five percent of veterans surveyed said it is “important” for leaders in Washington to address gun violence. The same number said that “we can protect responsible gun owners’ Second Amendment rights while still making it more difficult for criminals and other dangerous people to obtain guns.”
The survey of 804 military veterans, who are also registered voters, was conducted April 2-4 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 percent. | positive |
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Wilfrido and his older brother were involved in a police chase back in 2007 that ended up killing another man. Wilfrido was cleared of wrongdoing, though his brother — the driver — had been using drugs and alcohol. The mother of the victim sent an email to Pujols’ foundation in 2014 which accused him and his wife of financially aiding the brothers. Pujols’ wife, Diedre, responded by writing, “These two young men have ruined many lives.” The mother posted the statement to her Facebook page publicly. Wilfrido says that statement made by Diedre ruined his reputation and helped derail his baseball career. Wilfrido wanted $27 million. He won’t be receiving anything. Follow @Baer_Bill View 7 Comments Scroll Down For: Cards’ Pujols hits 700th career home run, 4th to reach mark Associated PressSep 24, 2022, 12:23 AM EDT Gary A. 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This was his 14th home run since the start of August for the NL Central-leading Cardinals, and his 21st of the season. Pujols’ historic homer was a three-run shot against Dodgers reliever Phil Bickford. The ball landed in the first few rows of the left-field pavilion, the same location his two-run shot touched down the previous inning off left-hander Andrew Heaney. Pujols received a prolonged standing ovation from the crowd – he finished out last season while playing for the Dodgers. He took a curtain call, raising his cap in acknowledgment. The fans chanted “Pujols! Pujols!” They finally sat down after being on their feet in anticipation of seeing history. Pujols snapped a tie with Alex Rodriguez for fourth on the list when he hit career homer No. 697 against Pittsburgh on Sept. 11. Reaching 700 homers seemed like a long shot for Pujols when he was batting .189 on July 4. But the three-time NL MVP started to find his stroke in August, swatting seven homers in one 10-game stretch that helped St. Louis pull away in the division race. “I know that early in the year … I obviously wanted better results,” Pujols said after he homered in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Aug. 22. “But I felt like I was hitting the ball hard. Sometimes this game is going to take more away from you than the game (is) giving you back. “So I think at the end of the day you have to be positive and just stay focused and trust your work. That’s something that I’ve done all the time.” Pujols has enjoyed a resurgent season after returning to St. Louis in March for a $2.5 million, one-year contract. It’s his highest total since he hit 23 homers for the Angels in 2019. He plans to retire when the season ends. Pujols also began his career in St. Louis. He was selected by the Cardinals in the 13th round of the 1999 amateur draft and won the 2001 NL Rookie of the Year award. The Dominican Republic native hit at least .300 with at least 30 homers and 100 RBIs in each of his first 10 seasons. He helped the Cardinals to World Series titles in 2006 and 2011. He set a career high with 49 homers in 2006 – one of seven seasons with at least 40 homers. He led the majors with 47 homers in 2009 and topped the NL with 42 in 2010. Pujols left St. Louis in free agency in December 2011, signing a $240 million, 10-year contract with the Angels. He was waived by the Angels in May 2021, and then joined the Dodgers and hit 12 homers and drove in 38 runs in 85 games. 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Total UK unemployment dropped between April and June in the run-up to the Brexit vote, official figures indicate.
The UK's jobless total fell by 52,000 to 1.64 million, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.9%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The number of people on the claimant count in July, the first month since the UK's vote to leave the EU, was 763,600, down 8,600 from June.
Wages excluding bonuses rose 2.3% in the three months to June, the ONS said.
Including bonuses, earnings growth was 2.4%.
"The labour market continued on a strong trend in the second quarter of 2016, with a new record employment rate," said ONS statistician David Freeman.
"However, little of today's data cover the period since the result of the EU referendum became known, with only claimant count and vacancies going beyond June - to July for the former and to May-July for the latter," he added.
The jobless total is now at its lowest for eight years, while the unemployment rate is at its lowest since the summer of 2005, according to the ONS figures.
The employment rate reached a record high of 74.5%, with 31.8 million people in work in the three months to June - 172,000 more than the previous quarter.
Brexit 'labour market toll'
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said that the UK economy showed "impressive resilience in the run-up to the EU referendum and the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave".
However, he warned: "It is premature to draw any firm conclusions from this... It remains likely that softening economic activity and heightened uncertainty will take a toll on the labour market over the coming months."
Hargreaves Lansdown economist Ben Brettell said that while forward-looking surveys to gauge business confidence had suggested the Brexit vote had delivered a shock, "surveys are driven by sentiment, and can therefore overreact".
"The dramatic fall in confidence may not ultimately be borne out by activity, and today's claimant count number is a tentative sign that things might not turn out as bad as many predicted," he said.
Anna Leach, head of economic analysis and surveys at employers' organisation the CBI, said that before the Brexit vote, "the UK's jobs market remained in rude health, though vacancies have continued to tick down since the beginning of the year."
She said the Bank of England had been right "to act swiftly to shore up confidence and keep money flowing through the economy" by taking steps such as lowering interest rates.
She called on the government to "make ambitious decisions in the Autumn Statement that will secure the UK's economic future as changes to trade, regulation and access to skills loom on the horizon".
'Boost confidence'
Suren Thiru of the British Chambers of Commerce said: "Labour market indicators tend to lag behind the wider economy, so it is likely to be some time before the full post-referendum employment picture emerges.
"However, more needs to be done to boost business confidence, so that firms can continue to grow and recruit."
Employment minister Damian Hinds described the figures as "record-breaking" and said the UK was "in a position of strength".
"The job now is to build on this success story so that everybody can benefit from the opportunities that are being created regardless of who they are or where they come from," he added.
Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said the fall in unemployment was "welcome", but accused the Conservatives of presiding over an economy that was "over-reliant on low paid insecure work".
"If Theresa May is serious about supporting working people, we need to see serious action on tackling low pay and investing in the high-skilled, high-wage jobs our economy needs," she said.
The ONS said it was 95% confident that the change in the unemployment total for April-to-June is somewhere between a rise of 25,000 and a fall of 129,000. | positive |
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged on Wednesday that her open-door migrant policy had unleashed a wave of aggression from right-wing opponents in Germany but made clear that her course was unchanged.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a meeting with the National Regulatory Control Council at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Stefanie Loos
The comments, made to Die Zeit weekly, come two days after several hundred right-wing protesters jeered her in the eastern city of Dresden.
Her decision last year to open Germany’s borders led to the arrival of around 900,000 refugees, mostly Muslims. That triggered fears among voters about integration and eroded Merkel’s own popularity.
In the interview, Merkel said it was indisputable that aggression had risen dramatically in the last year.
“The confrontations now from social media are sharper and broader ... That is democracy today,” she said. But she added it would not stop her from trying to explain her policies to people.
Despite the growing opposition, she stood by her underlying decisions, she said.
“Policy is also always in flux, but its basis has remained constant,” she said.
Her policy was based on helping people in need due to war or terrorism, rejecting human trafficking that endangered people’s lives and sticking to the EU’s principle of freedom of movement.
After two regional election losses in September, Merkel said she wished she could turn the clock back on her migrant policy and prepare better for the influx.
The ‘mea culpa’ was widely seen as a conciliatory gesture to her critics, especially on the right of her conservative bloc, but it stopped short of offering any actual policy concessions.
“If I talk about mistakes, then I mean the whole system of European refugee and migrant policy, how Europe behaved towards refugees and migrants over many years,” she told Die Zeit. | positive |
Ian Lucraft, the customer, told news source The Star :
We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text.
It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no-one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages.
The shirt featured Lucille, but printed on the back of the shirt is the rhyme sung by Negan as he chose his first victim to kill.
Though the song is known as an innocent nursery rhyme, Lucraft insists the song has racist beginnings. He told The Star :
"The slogan is “Eeeny meenie miny moe…..” It stops there, but of course we all know what the original said: “catch a n***** by his toe." "The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood. This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America. "It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood."
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The slogan is “Eeeny meenie miny moe…..” It stops there, but of course we all know what the original said: “catch a n***** by his toe."
The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood. This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America.
It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood.
Whether or not this was the intent, is up for debate. Many fans of the series are upset at the accusations. However, a spokesperson for Primark apologized on behalf of the company and the shirt has been pulled from sale. | positive |
Mario, the most recognizable game character in the world, would look TOTALLY different with a set of huge female boobs.
Luigi shares something in common with his brother, he looks absurd when given a set of humongous female boobs.
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Super spy Solid Snake's greatest disguise would be a pair of ludicrously huge boobs, he looks completely different!
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This is a picture of Mega-Man with XX-cup boobs.
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Master Chief with an outrageous rack would be a horrible design decision. I'm literally crying looking at this.
Oregon Trail with boobs is making me cry even harder. | positive |
Some things never change at Utah. The Utes enter a new season with a tough and experienced defense and an offense filled with question marks. Utah is optimistic those question marks turn into favorable answers in this week's season opener against Southern Utah.
The Utes are breaking in a new starting quarterback in Troy Williams and several new receivers. Williams comes to the team as a highly touted junior college transfer and offers hope that Utah's passing game can become a genuine threat for the first time in ages.
Related: Talented Newcomers Leading Utah's Offense in 2016
Southern Utah has the potential to test Utah more than a typical FCS opponent. The Thunderbirds won the 2015 Big Sky championship behind a defense that allowed just 20.8 points per game. SUU is 10-30 overall against current FBS teams — with recent wins over UNLV (41-16) in 2011 and South Alabama (22-21) in '13.
Southern Utah at Utah
Kickoff: Thursday, Sept 1. at 8 p.m. ET (6 p.m. MT)
TV: Pac-12 Networks
Spread: N/A
Three Things to Watch
1. Can Utah's passing game evolve this season?
Beating teams through the air has rarely been a strength for Utah since joining the Pac-12. Erratic quarterback play and a flurry of dropped passes by receivers has undermined the Utes in recent seasons. This all has potential to finally change.
Williams earned the starting nod at quarterback after beating out Tyler Huntley and Brandon Cox in camp. The junior showed what he was capable of at Santa Monica (Calif.) College last season, throwing for 2,750 yards and 31 touchdowns with just four interceptions on 180-of-265 passing. Utah also hired Guy Holliday as a receivers coach during the offseason and Holliday has brought renewed intensity and improved execution in practices.
What will it mean for a passing game that generated just 180 yards per game last season, ranking 11th in the Pac-12 and 106th in the FBS? Utah expects a night and day difference in the team's ability to move the chains through the air.
Williams, who played at Washington as a freshman, is excited for a second chance to show what he can do as a Pac-12 quarterback.
“I'm just going to go out there and take every play and every second as if it was my last,” Williams said. “Just going through that whole process makes you a lot more hungry and appreciative of everything.”
2. NFL factory
Utah has not completely cornered the market on NFL defensive talent in the Beehive State. Southern Utah is quietly churning out some pro talent of its own on that side of the ball. The T-Birds had safety Miles Killebrew and cornerback LeShaun Sims both taken in the 2016 NFL Draft and defensive end James Cowser signed a free agent deal with the Oakland Raiders.
A few talented defensive standouts on this year's SUU team could also make a push for the next level. First-team All-Big Sky linebacker Mike Needham returns to anchor the defense and is joined by Taylor Nelson. They tallied 94 tackles apiece last season and combined for 15.5 tackles for a loss — ranking in the top five on the team in both categories.
3. Avoiding the upset bug
Big Sky teams have played the role of spoiler in recent seasons. Twice in the last three years, a Big Sky team has knocked off a Pac-12 team in the opening week. Eastern Washington beat then-No. 25 Oregon State 49-46 in 2013 and Portland State took down Washington State 24-17 a year ago.
It certainly has caught Utah's attention. The Utes have not lost to an FCS opponent since falling to Idaho 28-17 in 1993. Since that time, Utah has beaten seven consecutive FCS teams by an average margin of 40.5 points per game.
The Utes are determined to not let an FCS team sneak up on them this time around.
“It happens every year and our goal is to not be one of those teams,” Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said.
Final Analysis
History is on Utah's side against Southern Utah. The Utes are 37-0 all-time against current Big Sky opponents and are 7-1 against in-state opponents since joining the Pac-12. SUU gave Utah State a scare in the season opener a year ago, but facing a Utah team talented enough to contend for a Pac-12 South title is a whole different animal. Utah has too much speed, depth and talent for the T-birds to keep it close for longer than a quarter.
Prediction: Utah 49, SUU 7
— Written by John Coon, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network. Coon has more than a decade of experience covering sports for different publications and outlets, including The Associated Press, Salt Lake Tribune, ESPN, Deseret News, MaxPreps, Yahoo! Sports and many others. Follow him on Twitter @johncoonsports. | positive |
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Nikon to Develop Three New 1 NIKKOR Lenses for the Nikon 1 Advanced Camera with Interchangable Lens System
TOKYO, JAPAN – Today, Nikon Corporation announced the development of three new lenses for the Nikon 1 Advanced Camera with Interchangeable Lens System. These lenses will be welcomed additions to the current lineup of popular 1 NIKKOR lenses, and will provide system owners a breadth of new NIKKOR optics to explore new shooting perspectives.
The development of these new 1 NIKKOR lenses will strengthen Nikon’s lineup of 1 NIKKOR lenses while providing three new options to fit the various shooting needs of Nikon 1 users, whether for still images or HD video. The new lineup will include a 32mm medium-telephoto fixed focal length lens (equivalent to 86.4mm in 35mm format) with a fast maximum aperture of f/1.2, ideal for portraits and creating a bokeh effect. The second lens is a 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6 ultra wide-angle zoom lens (equivalent to 18-35mm in 35mm format) that includes Vibration Reduction (VR) and is the first 1 NIKKOR lens to offer a wide, 100-degree angle of view. The third lens is a compact and lightweight 10x zoom lens, a 10-100mm f/4-5.6 (equivalent to 27-270mm in 35mm format). This lens is convenient and portable enough to take everywhere, including weekend getaways and family vacations.
The 1 NIKKOR interchangeable lens lineup follows in the tradition of the renowned Nikon F-mount lenses that were first introduced more than half a century ago. The 1 NIKKOR lenses are specifically engineered for the Nikon 1 system of cameras and are developed using optical technologies that Nikon has cultivated with years of experience in optics expertise. The 1 NIKKOR lens lineup offers the same superior image quality that users have come to expect from the Nikon and NIKKOR brands, whether capturing still images or HD videos.
The addition of the three new lenses will join the six 1 NIKKOR lenses currently available:
1 NIKKOR VR 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 standard zoom lens
1 NIKKOR VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 compact telephoto zoom lens
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1 NIKKOR VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM lens equipped with a power drive mechanism (recommended for movie recording )
1 NIKKOR 11-27.5mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens
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Nikon will continue to develop and expand the 1 NIKKOR lineup with lenses that make the most of the capabilities and performance offered by the revolutionary Nikon 1 system. | positive |
SALT LAKE CITY — If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons’ growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers.
The once-a-decade study was assembled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, which included self-reported data on adherents for 153 participating bodies.
Its report pegged U.S. Mormon growth at 45.5 percent, jumping from 4.2 million in 2000 to 6.1 million in 2010. The 2000 figure, however, was much lower than the 5.2 million listed in the LDS church’s own almanac for that year. If researchers had been given that figure, the percentage of growth would have been considerably smaller, closer to 18 percent.
The LDS church also supplied smaller Utah membership numbers to the state — figures government officials use for planning.
Here’s how the LDS church explains the discrepancy between the 2000 Religion Census figure and its own almanac for the same year.
“Total (LDS) Church membership numbers are derived from those individuals who have been baptized or born into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” spokesman Scott Trotter said Wednesday (May 2). “They are neither projections nor estimates.”
Trotter acknowledged that, in past years, LDS membership figures reported to the census researchers “were understated.”
For those years, he said, the LDS church “left out numbers of members who, although baptized, were not currently associated with a specific congregation. This year, we included total membership numbers to more accurately reflect all of those found on church records.”
Dale Jones, a researcher on the Religion Census, said he wished the LDS church had alerted him about the change in its reporting methods. But Jones, director of research services at the Church of the Nazarene Global Ministry Center in Kansas, said he had no problem with the shift.
“Any group can define (its membership) however they like,” Jones said. “Mormons are not the only ones to change, and it’s not a big deal.”
If the LDS growth rate slipped from 45 percent to, say, 20 percent, it would still put the Mormons “at the top of the list” among Christian faiths, he said. “I don’t care if it’s half as much. It’s not the same story, but it’s still a great story.”
In fact, Jones said, reporting the LDS church’s entire membership list “is closer to what most Protestants do.”
In his own Nazarene faith, officials “have an inactive members list as well, and we do include them in our total membership,” he said. “In that sense, this move actually strengthens our case for saying our data is pretty comparable across denominations.”
The LDS church does not remove any name from the list unless the person is excommunicated, asks to be removed or is dead. That means that a large number of members remain on the rolls who no longer attend or even consider themselves to be Mormon.
“We estimate that only 40 percent of LDS church members in the U.S. attend church regularly,” said Matt Martinich, an independent researcher who studies Mormon demographics for cumorah.com. “That number varies by region — some areas have very high attendance like 70 percent and some as low as 20 percent.”
Martinich gets that activity rate by comparing the ratio of members to congregations, LDS seminary and institute enrollment, and member and missionary reports.
Unlike other studies, which track beliefs and attendance, the Religion Census attempts to count the actual number of people affiliated with U.S. congregations. For instance, it listed Utah’s Catholic population at 160,125. But Catholics, who make up by far the state’s second-largest religion after the predominant Mormon faith, say the real figure is closer to 300,000.
(Peggy Fletcher Stack writes for The Salt Lake Tribune.)
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Danford 2 years ago Deep learning continues to be just one of the hottest fields in computing, and although Google’s TensorFlow stays the most well known framework in absolute quantities, Facebook’s PyTorch has rapidly acquired a status for becoming less complicated to grasp and use. PyTorch has taken the world of deep learning research by storm, outstripping TensorFlow as the implementation framework of preference in submitted papers for AI conferences in the previous two many years. With new advancements for producing optimized styles and deploying them to generation, PyTorch is undoubtedly a framework completely ready for use in marketplace as effectively as R&D labs. But how to get started out? You will discover a good deal of publications and compensated assets readily available for learning PyTorch, of study course. But there are also a good deal of assets on the Internet that will enable you get to grips with the framework — for certainly nothing at all. Moreover, some of the cost-free assets are of even higher high quality than what you can pay out for. Let us choose a search at what is on present. PyTorch.org tutorials Most likely the most clear area to commence is the PyTorch site alone. Along with the common assets such as an API reference, the site involves more digestible will work such as a 60-minute movie and textual content blitz via PyTorch via setting up an picture classification product. There are guides for each the common and the more esoteric capabilities of the framework, and when a new key functionality is added, such as quantization or pruning of styles, you will generally get a speedy tutorial on how to employ them in your individual programs. On the draw back, the code in the various tutorials tends to vary rather a whole lot, and in some cases common measures will be missed or passed more than in order to clearly show off the aspect that the tutorial is concentrating on fairly than producing idiomatic PyTorch code. In fairness, the tutorial code has undoubtedly improved more than the previous few of many years, but you do in some cases have to be a small watchful. For this purpose, I wouldn’t suggest employing the PyTorch site as your key useful resource for learning. Nevertheless, it’s a valuable useful resource to have on hand — and the ideal area to find out how to use the latest new capabilities. Udacity’s and edX’s PyTorch deep learning classes I’m bundling Udacity’s Introduction to Deep Finding out with PyTorch and edX’s Deep Finding out with Python and PyTorch collectively in this article as they have very similar constructions, include a whole lot of the exact same ground, and show up to suffer from the exact same difficulties. They each have a traditional collection of lectures that construct up from the foundations of deep learning, introducing you to thought just after thought, then tackling more sophisticated eventualities such as picture and textual content classification by the end of the study course. This is a absolutely high-quality way to go about instructing deep learning, but it does signify that you will be sinking some significant time into the classes in advance of you get to do just about anything interesting with PyTorch, in contrast to, say, what comes about with the Quick.ai study course. Both equally the Udacity and edX classes do show up to suffer from becoming a small out of date in terms of information and PyTorch alone. You won’t find out just about anything about generative adversarial networks (GANs) or Transformer-centered networks in possibly study course, and the Udacity study course is centered on PyTorch .4. This isn’t essentially a issue, but we’re currently at PyTorch one.five, so you may perhaps discover on your own jogging into deprecation warnings when making an attempt to replicate code on the latest variation. If you are picking out amongst these two classes, I would give Udacity a slight edge more than edX because of to the Fb stamp of acceptance. Quick.ai’s Simple Deep Finding out for Coders Considering that its beginnings 2016, rapidly.ai has been the gold common for cost-free deep learning education. Each yr, it has launched a new iteration of its two-portion study course, iterating on the earlier incarnation and pushing matters ahead a small every single time. Even though the 1st yr was centered on Keras and TensorFlow, rapidly.ai switched to PyTorch from yr two and hasn’t truly looked back again (even though it has solid a handful of glances at Swift for TensorFlow). Quick.ai has a to some degree unique technique to instructing deep learning. Other classes devote quite a few of the early lectures and content laying the foundations in advance of you even consider building even the tiniest neural community. Quick.ai is, effectively, a lot quicker. By the end of the 1st lesson, you will have developed a point out-of-the-artwork picture classifier. This has led to some criticism that the Quick.ai study course leans far too greatly on “magic” fairly than instructing you the basics, but the pursuing lectures do give you a excellent grounding in what is taking place underneath the covers. And but, I’d be a small hesitant to suggest Quick.ai as your sole useful resource for learning PyTorch. Due to the fact Quick.ai uses a library on prime of the framework fairly than pure PyTorch, you are likely to find out PyTorch indirectly fairly than explicitly. That is not to say it’s a lousy technique the Part Two Classes of the 2019 study course include things like an astonishing set of lectures that builds a to some degree-simplified variation of PyTorch from scratch, resolving bugs in actual PyTorch along the way. (This set of lectures, I consider, puts compensated to any idea that Quick.ai is far too magical, for what it’s worthy of.) That said, you could possibly want to use Quick.ai in conjunction with an additional study course in order to fully grasp what Quick.ai’s library is carrying out for you compared to common PyTorch. EPFL’s Deep Finding out (EE-559) Next up, how about a study course from an actual university? EE-559, taught by François Fleuret at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, is a traditional university study course, with slides, routines, and movie clips. Even though it commences with the basics, it does ramp up beyond what’s on present with the Udacity and edX classes by using in GANs, adversarial samples, and closes out with Notice mechanisms and Transformer styles. It also has the benefit of becoming recent with new PyTorch releases, so you must be self-confident that you are learning procedures and code that are not employing deprecated capabilities of the framework. Other PyTorch learning assets There are a handful of more assets that are pretty valuable but maybe not core to learning PyTorch alone. 1st, there’s PyTorch Lightning, which some explain as PyTorch’s equivalent to Keras. Even though I wouldn’t go that much, as PyTorch Lightning is not a entire large-stage API for PyTorch, it is a good way of producing organized PyTorch code. Further more, it gives implementations of common boilerplate (for facts like instruction, screening, validation, and using treatment of distributed GPU/CPU setups) that you would normally end up re-creating for most of your PyTorch function. The documentation on the project’s site involves some excellent tutorials to get you started out. In distinct, there’s a fantastic movie that demonstrates off the approach of changing a regular PyTorch task to PyTorch Lightning. The movie truly demonstrates off the adaptability and ease-of-use that PyTorch Lightning gives, so undoubtedly have a search at that at the time you have mastered the basics. Next, there’s Huggingface’s Transformers library, which has grow to be the de facto common for Transformer-centered styles more than the previous 18 months. If you want to do just about anything approaching point out-of-the-artwork with deep learning and textual content processing, Transformers is a fantastic area to commence. Made up of implementations for BERT, GPT-two, and a brace of other Transformer styles (with more becoming added seemingly on a weekly basis), it is an astounding useful resource. Fortunately, it also involves a choice of Google Colab notebooks that will get you up and jogging with the library quickly. And third, I just can’t write his posting without mentioning Yannic Kilcher’s explainer videos. These are not PyTorch specific at all, but they are a good way to preserve track of recent papers and research traits, with clear explanations and discussion. You probably won’t need to have to watch these when you commence learning PyTorch, but by the time you have long gone via some of the coursework talked about in this article, you will be seeking to know what else is out there, and Kilcher’s videos point the way. Finding out PyTorch deep learning If you are hunting to find out PyTorch, I consider your ideal guess is to function via each the Quick.ai study course and just one of the more traditional classes at the exact same time. (My choose for the companion study course would be EE-559, since it stays recent with PyTorch.) As a bonus, there’s a Quick.ai e-book coming out in August that will be just one of the ideal introductory texts for deep learning. 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Through running this website, I’ve been able to check out a lot of really extravagant and incredible gear. I’ve also had more than a few opportunities to give some of that gear away. I’ve been extraordinarily lucky and consistently humbled by the generosity of those builders and purveyors who have been willing to not only ship something beautiful over for a review, but to let me pass these instruments along to you as well.
All that said, the subject of today’s review exceeds every expectation I had about the opportunities I’d be afforded by this website. The chance to spend time with an instrument like this that represents such remarkable devotion to craftsmanship and care is just more than I could ever ask for.
As if that weren’t enough, I get to give this unbelievable snare drum to one of you.
I want to say a special thank you to Michael Outlaw of Outlaw Drums and Jeremy Brieske of Gearpipe.com for setting this up. This is the kind of luxury I never could have imagined when I began this website only a few years ago. Thank you so much.
I’m going to keep this review fairly short, and try and let the sound of the drum speak for itself as much as possible. Watch the video, then scroll down to the bottom to enter for a chance to win the drum featured in this review.
Specs:
Dimensions: 14×6”
Shell: 7/16” Aged Heart Pine
Finish: Deep Weathered
Edge: 45 Degree Inside Cut
Features: Dunnett R4 Throw Off and Butt, Diecast Hoops, 16 Strand Puresound Wires, Evans Heads, Tube Lugs. All hardware treated with a hand rubbed finish to create a satin or brushed look.
A Little History
Outlaw Drums is a truly American enterprise. Several years ago, owner Michael Outlaw, a drummer and furniture maker, stumbled upon a Civil War-era home awaiting demolition. He asked if he could take some of the scrap wood to use as building material, and quickly fell in love with the unique characteristics of the approximately 500 year old heart pine. An experienced woodworker, Outlaw made the easy jump into incorporating the old world boards into drum shells, and thus, Outlaw Drums was born.
To learn more about the history and environmental commitment of Outlaw Drums, watch this beautifully produced video.
The snare drum that we received for review is the first shell built with materials from the Jewel Crowe house. Check out the video below to for a documentary-style look at the home and Outlaw’s inspiration.
Shell
Now that you’ve got a good idea of what makes Outlaw such a unique and interesting builder, let’s talk about the actual drum itself. The snare features a stave shell construction with heart pine pieces that are nearly a half inch thick. Normally, that kind of thickness would produce a super heavy drum, but if I were to guess, I’d say the fact that the wood was harvested between 150 to 200 years ago gave it plenty of time to lose some density to moisture and erosion.
That creates two really, really interesting results. First, the exterior has a heavily textured feel with big grain grooves – running your fingers over the finish feels just like touching an old barn (without the splinters, thankfully).
Second, the thick shell narrows the sound chamber just a bit, but doesn’t seem to raise the drum’s pitch as much as other thick shells I’ve played. That leads me to the best part: the sound.
Sound
Right out of the box, the drum had a crazy sharp focus with ridiculous response. Seriously, the wires perked up even when I cleared my throat. I’m not sure if that’s a result of the fairly shallow snare beds, the wires or the shell itself, but the drum’s sensitivity was off the charts.
Initially it was a little dry – somewhere between mahogany and aluminum, interestingly. This lead to the wires occupying most of the sound, particularly at higher volumes. For the first few days I had it, the drum felt overwhelmed by snare response. However, with some time on the stand, the sound really seemed to mellow, and more of the shell began to poke through.
I found that really interesting. Maybe it was the recently applied finish that needed some extra time to settle down, or maybe the drum just needed to be played in a bit. Either way, the Outlaw snare underwent a very noticeable change in just a couple of days – and definitely a change for the better (the video was recorded after the drum settled down).
Once the drum found its voice, it became a really, really special instrument. The thick, but lightweight shell coupled with diecast hoops gave it a clear, fat focus with an earthy body to follow. At a medium tuning, this drum was begging for studio time. It had kind of a Nashville, Black Beauty thing with a warmer finish that just knocked me out.
Tuned up high (just below choking), the snare gave me a tight, funky ring, but didn’t give up any of that big body. Those diecast hoops kept the overtones under control, but still left enough liveliness in the note to give it some spark.
As much as it loved going up high, the Outlaw snare felt like it was born to live low. Slacking some of the tension off the top head gave me that big, burly boom that rock records absolutely love. The sharp, 45 degree bearing edges and thicker shell kept the attack in focus, but left plenty of room for fat, bumping bottom end. I just couldn’t get enough of this thing tuned low.
Don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t be happier to give this drum to one of you guys, but damn I’m going to miss it.
Appointments
The history and construction of this drum are the real standouts, but Outlaw’s decision to equip it with some killer appointments really help seal the deal. First, the addition of tube lugs and diecast hoops made it easy to dial in the fat, microphone-ready sound this drum lives for. I’m not always a fan of diecast hoops, but their use here was a perfect choice.
Next, the single-ply, coated, Evans batter head and 16 strand Puresound wires gave the drum a professional sound with no need to tinker. It drives me insane when builders use cheap wires on drums of this quality, so I was very pleased to see the even, crisp Puresounds in place.
The drum also ships with a Dunnett R4 throw and butt combo. Simply put, this just rules. A bad or poorly functioning throw can really curb a drum’s appeal, so having access to such a smooth, efficiently designed unit is a huge plus. I won’t take up a bunch of extra space with a breakdown of all the R4’s features, but I’d thoroughly recommend a quick Google search to learn more about the excellent accessory.
Finally, the hardware finish and badge totally took the drum’s eye appeal to a new level. Outlaw hand-rubbed the chrome finish to give it a stunning brushed steel look that adds to the historic, rustic appearance. That, coupled with Outlaw’s antiqued, rough-edged badge just killed me. Absolutely beautiful.
Wrap Up
Alright, so that wasn’t short at all, but I’ll keep the wrap up nice and tight. The drum I received from Outlaw is just about a perfect ten. Clean, focused, versatile and drop dead gorgeous, this snare is beyond special. One of you is going to win a truly extraordinary instrument. No question about it.
Michael, you really hit this one out of the park.
Contest Closed!
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According to CNN, the Secret Service is investigating an incident where someone appears to have thrown something at President Trump’s motorcade in West Palm Beach today.
The incident happened near Mar-a-Lago as the motorcade traveled from the airport. It was not clear if any of the vehicles were struck. No one was hurt.
A large number of police officers and Secret Service agents gathered at an intersection along Southern Boulevard. A group of protesters had been at the corner when the motorcade passed.
CNN photojournalist Khalil Abdullah at the scene has video of a rock about the size of a baseball and a second item they were examining on the ground. Agents went into nearby stores and a gas station seeking video.
A crime scene unit from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department collected the two items and carried them away in brown bags. | positive |
First Detection of Ebola Reston Virus in Pigs
First Detection of Ebola Reston Virus in Pigs
FAO/OIE/WHO offer assistance to the Philippines
MANILA 23 December 2008– Following the detection of the Ebola Reston virus in pigs in the Philippines, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO)that the government of the Philippines has requested the three agencies send an expert mission to work with human and animal health experts in the Philippines to further investigate the situation.
An increase in pig mortality on swine farms in the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Bulacan in 2007 and 2008 prompted the Government of the Philippines to initiate laboratory investigations. Samples taken from ill pigs in May, June and September 2008 were sent to international reference laboratories which confirmed in late October that the pigs were infected with a highly virulent strain of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) as well as the Ebola-Reston virus.
Although co-infection in pigs is not unusual, this is the first time globally that an Ebola-Reston virus has been isolated in swine. It is not, however, the first time that the Ebola-Reston virus has been found in the Philippines: it was found in monkeys from the Philippines in outbreaks that occurred in 1989-1990, 1992, and 1996.
The Ebola virus belongs to the Filoviridae family (filovirus) and is comprised of five distinct species: Zaïre, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Bundibugyo and Reston. Zaïre, Sudan and Bundibugyo species have been associated with large Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) outbreaks in Africa with high case fatality ratio (25–90%) while Côte d’Ivoire and Reston have not. Reston species can infect humans but no serious illness or death in humans have been reported to date.
Since being informed of this event in late November, FAO, OIE and WHO have been making every effort to gain a better understanding of the situation and are working closely with the Philippines Government and local animal and human health experts.
The Department of Health of the Philippines has reported that initial laboratory tests on animal handlers and slaughterhouse workers who were thought to have come into contact with infected pigs were negative for Ebola Reston infection, and that additional testing is ongoing. The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) of the Philippines Department of Agriculture has notified the OIE that all infected animals were destroyed and buried or burned, the infected premises and establishments have been disinfected and the affected areas are under strict quarantine and movement control. Vaccination of swine against PRRS is ongoing in the Province of Bulacan. PRRS is not transmissible to humans.
The planned joint FAO/OIE/WHO team will work with country counterparts to address, through field and laboratory investigation, important questions as to the source of the virus, its transmission, its virulence and its natural habitat, in order to provide appropriate guidance for animal and human health protection.
Until these questions can be answered, the FAO and WHO stressed the importance of carrying out basic good hygiene practices and food handling measures.
Ebola viruses are normally transmitted via contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of an infected animal or person. In all situations, even in the absence of identified risks, meat handling and preparation should be done in a clean environment (table top, utensils, knives) and meat handlers should follow good personal hygiene practices (e.g. clean hands, clean protective clothing). In general, hands should be regularly washed while handling raw meat.
Pork from healthy pigs is safe to eat as long as either the fresh meat is cooked properly (i.e. 70°C in all part of the food, so that there is no pink meat and the juices run clear), or, in the case of uncooked processed pork, national safety standards have been met during production, processing and distribution.
Meat from sick pigs or pigs found dead should not be eaten and should not enter the food chain or be given to other animals. Ill animals should be reported to the competent authorities and proper hygiene precautions and protection should be taken when destroying and disposing of sick or dead pigs. The Philippines Department of Agriculture has advised the Philippine public to buy its meat only from National Meat Inspection Services certified sources.
As a general rule, proper hygiene and precautionary measures (wearing gloves, goggles and protective clothing) should also be exercised when slaughtering or butchering pigs. This applies both to industrial and home-slaughtering of pigs. Children and those not involved in the process of slaughtering should be kept away.
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Amid recession-era challenges in higher education and concerns about the nation's competitiveness, Americans are simultaneously proud of colleges in the United States and critical of the direction in which they're heading, according to the results of a national opinion poll released on Monday by Northeastern University.
While a majority of those surveyed said American colleges are pre-eminent in the world, an overwhelming number saw a strong need for higher education to innovate in order to preserve its global competitive edge.
According to the survey, conducted for Northeastern by FTI Consulting in October, three in four respondents said American colleges outranked those in both emerging and mature economies. But 83 percent said American higher education "needs to change to remain competitive." That view was even more prevalent among adults ages 18 to 30, 90 percent of whom agreed with that statement.
The telephone and online survey of 1,251 respondents confirmed that many Americans view higher education as important to being able to achieve the "American dream," which the survey described as "the opportunity to go as far as your talents and hard work will take you and to live better than your parents," and crucial for maintaining the nation's standing in the world.
However, the results echoed and reinforced prevalent concerns about rising tuition costs and college accessibility, as 86 percent of respondents said that paying for college was a big obstacle to obtaining a college degree, and 64 percent of those ages 18 to 30 reported that high college costs had led a close friend or family member to postpone college or not attend at all.
Furthermore, the survey found that four out of five Americans, regardless of political affiliation, believe that the U.S. government should spend more on higher education. That number encompasses the 91 percent of Democratic, 81 percent of independent, and 64 percent of Republican respondents who replied in favor of increased government support, according to a statement released by Northeastern University. | positive |
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Humana Inc. is in advanced talks to join with two private-equity firms in a deal to acquire home-care provider Kindred Healthcare Inc., a move that would add to a cascade of transactions aiming to bring together insurance operations with other health-care businesses.
As part of the complex deal, Kindred, a sprawling company with $7.2 billion in revenue last year, is to be divided, according to people familiar with the matter. Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe and TPG would take over Kindred’s facility-focused business, which includes long-term acute-care hospitals and rehabilitation centers, while the private-equity firms together with Humana would get its home- and hospice-care operation.
The deal would value Kindred at $9 a share, the people said, a modest premium to where the shares currently trade after rallying sharply in recent weeks. Kindred stock closed Friday at $8.60, giving the debt-laden company a market value of about $750 million. Factoring in debt, Kindred has a so-called enterprise value of about $4 billion.
Though a deal could be announced soon, it’s still possible the talks could fall apart.
Kindred is the biggest home-health and hospice operator in the U.S. Its facilities business, meanwhile, includes around 77 long-term care hospitals and 19 rehabilitation hospitals.
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Its shares have lagged amid skepticism about the future of some of the company’s core businesses, which are heavily dependent on reimbursement from the federal Medicare program. Kindred’s 2015 acquisition of Gentiva Health Services Inc. also left the company with a heavy debt load. To help improve its finances, Kindred has been selling off its nursing homes.
Humana believes closer ties to home-health services and physicians will help it improve care and hold down costs. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News
Humana, like Kindred based in Louisville, Ky., already has some home-health operations, and has said it wants to get deeper into that business as a way to better manage the health of its Medicare enrollees. The insurer has said it believes closer ties to home-health services and physicians will help it improve care and hold down costs. “Home is often a superior clinical environment to deliver care and reduce high-cost hospital admissions,” Chief Executive Bruce Broussard said during Humana’s third-quarter earnings call on Nov. 8.
Rivals are making similar moves. UnitedHealth Group Inc. has been on a yearslong campaign to purchase doctor groups, urgent-care clinics and surgery centers. The company announced earlier this month it would buy the physician-group unit of DaVita Inc. for $4.9 billion.
Meanwhile, Aetna Inc. recently agreed to be acquired by drugstore giant CVS Health Corp. for nearly $70 billion. CVS and Aetna have said they want to use the pharmacies as a source of care and coordination for members, including in the home.
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The insurers’ moves into the health-care provider businesses, often with the goal of reducing patients’ use of hospitals, are being countered by hospital companies. Major nonprofit hospital operators Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives have announced they are combining. Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health, also nonprofits, are in talks about a potential merger that would create the biggest U.S. hospital owner.
For insurers, the tack is partly a reaction to the death of a previous round of proposed deals. Aetna’s $34 billion planned acquisition of Humana ran aground this year in the face of an antitrust challenge by the Justice Department. Anthem Inc.’s planned takeover of rival Cigna Corp. was also blocked. Cross-industry combinations like the new round of proposed deals could avoid such pushback.
In the wake of the collapse of its Aetna deal, analysts have suggested Humana itself might be acquired, a possibly that would seem more remote as a result of a tie-up with Kindred—at least for now.
Humana has a long, on-and-off history in the health-care provider business. In 2015, it sold off Concentra, an urgent-care and occupational-health clinic operator. It was once a major owner of hospitals, but spun them off in 1993 after rival health plans steered patients to competitors.
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TPG and Welsh, Carson have deep experience in the health-care industry. This year, for example, TPG agreed to sell surgery-center owner Surgical Care Affiliates Inc. to UnitedHealth for $2.3 billion.
—Laura Cooper contributed to this article.
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With the announcement that Cal Crutchlow is to move to the LCR Honda team for 2015, making space for Andrea Iannone to move up to the Factory Ducati team, the beginnings of a MotoGP grid are starting to emerge for 2015. Both Repsol Honda seats are confirmed, as are both Factory Ducati riders and Valentino Rossi at Movistar Yamaha, with Jorge Lorenzo expected to announce a deal with Yamaha very soon. In the satellite teams, only Pol Espargaro is confirmed at Monster Tech 3 Yamaha, as is Crutchlow at CWM-LCR Honda.
With those names in place, we can start to draw up a list of who will be where, and who could be where for 2015. We have broken that list into three separate tables, based on the certainty of their deals: riders with confirmed contracts; riders and teams with deals that are expected to be confirmed very soon; and deals which are likely to happen, but are still not certain. The confirmed deals speak for themselves, those riders will definitely be on those bikes in 2015 (or longer - the contract date is in the last column of the table). The interest is in the expected and possible tables, where things are still far from certain.
Jorge Lorenzo is certain to stay at Movistar Yamaha, the question is more when his contract will be announced. At Gresini Honda, Scott Redding will stay on for another year and is almost certain to take over the full factory RC213V currently being ridden by Alvaro Bautista. The only details which remain to be debated are the choice of brakes and suspension: Redding would like to switch to Ohlins and Brembo, Gresini are keen to retain their deal with Nissin and Showa. Though nothing has been officially announced, it seems certain that Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Viñales will form Suzuki's MotoGP team in 2015, while Yonny Hernandez looks a shoe-in to retain the Open bike at Pramac Ducati. The Avintia team will switch from Kawasaki to Ducati, with Hector Barbera almost certain to stay.
Aprilia's participation seems certain to go ahead in 2015, though the question of who will ride for them remains open. There are strong rumors that Marco Melandri will make the switch with Aprilia, though they could leave Melandri in World Superbikes, and bring Eugene Laverty back into the fold to race in MotoGP. Alvaro Bautista looks like a solid candidate for the Aprilia ride, given his extensive experience in MotoGP, and with Aprilia in the past.
As for the rest of the riders - the second Tech 3 bike, the other Open Hondas at LCR (now looking certain to take place), Gresini, and the second seat at Aspar, the two Forward Yamahas - it is hard to determine who will go where. The most desirable ride is surely the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha bike, and Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal had been looking at young riders to take the place of Bradley Smith. The problem is that most of the young talent is already under contract, Herve Poncharal told me: Maverick Viñales is off to Suzuki, Alex Rins and Alex Marquez will be going to Moto2, Jonas Folger is locked into a contract in Moto2, and Jack Miller is in the hands of HRC. That makes Bradley Smith a more attractive prospect once again. "We will for two more races, and see if Bradley can fulfil his potential," Poncharal said. There was no rush to make a decision. "We can wait until Silverstone if we have to."
At Forward, the odds are good that Stefan Bradl will take one of the two free slots, though Bradl is also being linked to the open seat at Pramac, as is Danilo Petrucci. Jack Miller's future is still undecided - the Marc VDS Racing team have accepted that he will not be riding for them in 2015, but are still pursuing the claims of the contract they hold with the young Australian - with HRC keen to put Miller in MotoGP, with strong backing from Dorna. Miller also has a slot with the Pons Moto2 team, which would be the logical place for him to land.
There are a couple of names waiting in the wings from the World Superbike championship as well. Eugene Laverty is being strongly linked to rides in MotoGP next year, and Jonathan Rea is also a strong candidate. Rea is rumored to have been chasing the LCR Honda ride, but lost out when Crutchlow grabbed that seat. From Moto2, Mika Kallio has strong interest from several Open class teams, even stronger than last year. A ride at Aspar or Forward could be possible for the Finn, though his future is far from decided.
With the paddock set to reconvene at Indianapolis in a couple of days' time, negotiations will move to a higher gear. Many satellite riders had contracts forbidding them to open negotiations for next year before 31st July, and Indy is the first opportunity to hold face-to-face meetings discretely. The Red Bull Indianapolis GP is likely to see several deals closed, and a provoke further flurries of speculation.
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Repsol Honda Marc Marquez 2016 Dani Pedrosa 2016 Movistar Yamaha Valentino Rossi 2016 Factory Ducati Andrea Dovizioso 2016 Andrea Iannone 2015 LCR Honda Cal Crutchlow 2015 Monster Tech 3 Yamaha Pol Espargaro 2015 Drive M7 Aspar Nicky Hayden 2015 Cardion AB Karel Abraham
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Movistar Yamaha Jorge Lorenzo 2016 (option to leave after 2015) Go&Fun Gresini Honda Scott Redding 2015 Suzuki Aleix Espargaro ? Maverick Viñales 2017 Pramac Ducati Yonny Hernandez 2015 Aprilia? Alvaro Bautista? Eugene Laverty? Marco Melandri? Avintia Ducati Hector Barbera
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It’s really amazing to see how right they, even though not exactly right. Yes, today dresses (and clothes in general) can be dressed up and down for evening, for example, the “hair raise” actually took place, but in the 1970s and 1980, while dresses of transparent net are not something that uncommon today. We loved the girl that was wearing a light bulb attached to her head, it somewhat reminded us of the Google glasses. Anyway, they were quite wrong when it came to
men’s fashion. Suits and ties did not disappear, but they do come with phone and radio (and so much more). Wow, amazing how they could forecast all these things.
Of course, predictions are made regarding the status quo of the era they are made in. We can not invent things that have not been invented. In the 1930, people cold not have predicted the invention of the computer. If they could have, they would have invented it.
The things that are happening in an era and the social advances make us rethink the future: in the 1920s (as you can see in the picture) it was believed that the radio would play a huge role, because they could not predict cell phones. It is amazing that they predicted video calls and if look closely at the picture, you will see how the video call was connected to a globe (something like the GPS today).
In the 1970s, it was thought that in the future people would fly around carrying some sort of jet propellers attached to their backs. That was, of course, influenced by the recent moon and space explorations of that time.
Today we have a lot of wearable technology, we have so-called e-textiles, which are used to create effects like making a dress glow when you receive a phone call, but these are all just gadgets incorporated into clothes. These textiles go great with smaller and smaller processors and chips that help you improve your life, especially for people who do sports or business.
Wearable technology could make sports fairer, could make story telling different and will make human interaction different. How that would be, is a thing we can’t predict at this moment.
We believe that in the future people will discover a new sense of style, this is what we always try to bring up with our blog, where each individual discovers how he can use fashion to create style. Using something just for the sake of it is useless, this is why we want to help people discover and fulfill their own needs and desires.
As we said earlier, technology and style should go together hand in had in fields such as sports or medicine. We think it is possible that in the future there will be a code such as the driving signs that the whole world knows. For example, if someone’s clothes turn a certain color, everyone on the street should know that person is having some sort of medical attack and call the ambulance before the symptoms are made visible.
Can technology be stylish? Yes. But technology should help people or process things, and that’s how it should be incorporated into fashion.
In the end, we can only remind you that you know how they say: “The future is ours to create.”
Fraquoh and Franchomme
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Look at any map and the Middle East is a region of straight-line states, a sure sign of the artificiality of borders. Not all states are artificial, however. Iran and Egypt have legacies stretching back millennia, and Moroccan identity goes back centuries. Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and perhaps even Bahrain likewise have identities that predate the establishment of modern nation-states. But other states do not. Saudi Arabia is an artificial country, a conglomeration of regions stitched together by military conquest, and Kuwait was essentially carved out to deny Germany a railhead in the waning years of the Great Game.
Qatar is about as artificial a state as they come. Historically, the Thani family that rules their kingdom absolutely were traitors: From the late 18th century, Qatar was a province of Bahrain, and the Thanis were simply governors subordinate to the Khalifas; but they split off in the 1860s. That split might have been a blip—an insignificant rebellion—had it not been for the British, who imposed a truce that essentially made Qatar its own distinct entity. Thani rule and Qatari identity, however, remain relatively recent phenomena and are not imbued with the historical permanence that many other monarchies and kingdoms enjoy.
Saudi Arabia might also make a claim on Qatar. Both regimes are Wahhabi, and Saudi Arabia has similar historic claims on the peninsula. But given Saudi expansionism throughout history, many of the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries would oppose any precedent of Saudi Arabia acquiring more territory. Indeed, when Bahrain invited Saudi forces onto the island in 2011 to quell sectarian unrest, both Bahraini’s ruling Sunnis and Kuwaitis worried that Saudi rhetoric about confederation might undercut the independence of the tiny emirates and monarchies and spark a broader proxy war throughout the region.
Qatar also has a long history with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While visitors to the UAE might think of it as a unified country, it is very much a confederation of seven separate emirates, the best known of which are Dubai and Abu Dhabi (the others are Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Fujairah, and Ras al-Khaimah). Initially, however, there was much discussion about Qatar joining the union. Ultimately, it did not, but the Qatari ruling family isn’t all that different from those of any of the other emirates; the only difference is that Qatar chose independence and then got lucky with gas fields.
It’s not the place of the United States to erase other countries; indeed, while critics of U.S. policy often say the United States fights wars for oil, the most common (but not only) factor bringing the United States into wars beginning with World War II is one country’s seeking to annex other countries by force. Still, the longer the Qataris dig in their heels and refuse to stop financing extremism, the more people in the region will question the basis of Qatar as an independent entity. It won’t be long before those same states leading the blockade of Qatar start to ask whether the region and the world would have been a better place with Qatar as the eighth United Arab Emirate. That’s certainly not on the table now, and Qatar may believe that Turkish or perhaps Iranian support will be enough to blunt the Arab action. But the longer Doha allows the crisis to play out, the more intractable the debate may become and the more unpredictable the outcomes. More than a week into the crisis, Qatari authorities should be very cautious about how far they want to escalate because they may not fully understand how great the stakes may become. | positive |
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Gov't of Canada Supports NB-based Company to Develop Wastewater Sol’n - Water Canada Home News Features Issues Events Blue Economy Webinar Series Downstream 2022 Canadian Water Summit 2022 Water’s Next Awards Subscribe Media Kit Contact Us Search Saturday, September 24, 2022 Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. 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The Government of Canada is providing a conditionally repayable contribution of $500,000 for this project through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) Business Development Program (BDP). Design Built Mechanical is also investing $500,000 toward this $1 million project. The new wastewater treatment solution will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the amount of chemicals needed to control algae in effluent ponds, and aeration requirements. This system will also aim to enable municipalities to extend the life of their lagoons, lower operating costs, and produce cleaner treated water for residents. René Arseneault, Member of Parliament for Madawaska-Restigouche made the announcement on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for ACOA. Rémi Massé, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, also took part in the announcement along with representatives of Design Built Mechanical. “Design Built Mechanical is an important business in this region, providing employment to approximately 120 residents,” said René Arseneault, Member of Parliament for Madawaska-Restigouche. “By developing innovative solutions to wastewater treatment, the company will have a positive impact on the environment in communities around the world as it continues to provide economic benefits here in Charlo.” “We are very pleased to partner with ACOA in this project that will lead to clear environmental and economic development benefits both locally and provincially,” said Luc Bernard, president of Design Built Mechanical Inc. “We are developing a solution that will make wastewater treatment more efficient and affordable for smaller communities while maintaining the ability to scale to larger communities. We are very excited by its potential. This will create good, sustainable and long-term jobs right here in northern New Brunswick as we roll out this innovative technology and process to communities that partner with us.” See also Concrete Company Recycles Wastewater TAGS wastewater Wastewater Treatment Solution New Brunswick René Arseneault Rémi Massé Navdeep Bains Minister of Innovation Science and Economic Development Government of Canada Design Build Mechanical Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Business Development Program Treatment Solution Previous articleGov’t of Canada Invests in Flood Mitigation Infrastructure in Drumheller, AB. 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After the United States government announcement that it will no longer challenge a nationwide hold on protections for transgender students, nearly 800 parents of transgender children sent a letter to President Donald Trump condemning the decision and calling on his administration to fully enforce federal civil rights laws. The letter, signed by parents from 45 states plus Washington, D.C., was organized by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and its newly formed Parents for Transgender Equality Council, a coalition of the nation’s leading parent-advocates working for equality and fairness for transgender people.
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From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
Omastar (Japanese: オムスター Omstar) is a dual-type Rock/Water Fossil Pokémon introduced in Generation I.
It evolves from Omanyte starting at level 40, after it is revived from a Helix Fossil.
Biology
Omastar is a sky-blue ammonite Pokémon, with several tentacles and a pale yellow, helix spiraled shell on its back. Several sharp spikes line the shell's midsection, spanning from its forefront to just a little towards its back. The shell's hem has two circular indents where Omastar's eyes come out. Its eyes have yellow sclerae and vertically-slit pupils. It has an oval mouth with a four-way jawed, fang-like beak. Once caught, it never lets go of prey, immediately biting down on its victim with immense power.
It is believed that Omastar's extinction was a consequence of the increasingly heavy weight of its own shell that affected it mobility, including its hunting. Omastar swam the seas in search of prey, including prehistoric Shellder. Omastar's used it tentacles to ensnare its prey before biting down with the deadly force of its beak. With the shell broken, it would suck out the contents. Omastar is thought to be a distant ancestor to Octillery. Carracosta is a natural predator of Omastar.
In the anime
Major appearances
Two Omastar debuted in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon, alongside all of the other Generation I Fossil Pokémon. They were sleeping under Grampa Canyon until a dynamite blast woke them up. The Rock/Water-type Fossil Pokémon chased Ash Ketchum and Team Rocket until Aerodactyl showed up and scared them off.
Multiple Omastar appeared in Fossil Fools, alongside their pre-evolved form Omanyte. These Pokémon were discovered to be living in the Ruins of Alph, but they were moved into a museum.
An Omastar appeared in Dealing With Defensive Types! in the Canalave Gym. It caught Team Rocket trying to steal food from the Gym kitchen whilst Ash was having his Gym battle with Byron, and attacked them with Water Gun, sending them blasting off.
Minor appearances
A Omastar appeared in Pikachu's Vacation as one of the Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Theme Park.
An Omastar appeared in Team Rocket's fantasy in Imitation Confrontation.
An Omastar appeared in a fantasy in A Ruin with a View.
An Omastar appeared in a fantasy in Where's Armaldo?.
An Omastar appeared in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew as one of the Pokémon living in the Tree of Beginning. Also, one appeared in the opening sequence of the movie.
Dr. Yung uses a Mirage Omastar in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon.
Pokédex entries
Episode Pokémon Source Entry EP046 Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, and Kabutops Ash's Pokédex Omanyte and Omastar, Kabuto and Kabutops. It is believed these Pokémon became extinct tens of thousands of years ago. The details of their behavior is shrouded in mystery. Though some have speculated that they may still exist, none of these Pokémon have ever been seen alive. Original series entries continue below.
Episode Pokémon Source Entry EP163 Omastar Ash's Pokédex Omastar, the evolved form of Omanyte. This extinct Pokémon is believed to have used its sharp fangs to break through the shells of its prey in order to feed. This concludes the entries from the original series.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Main article: Omny
Yellow has an Omastar, nicknamed Omny, whom she originally obtained from Misty as an Omanyte. He evolved into an Omastar by The Might of... Metapod?!.
In the TCG
Game data
NPC appearances
Pokédex entries
Generation I Red A prehistoric Pokémon that died out when its heavy shell made it impossible to catch prey. Blue Yellow Sharp beaks ring its mouth. Its shell was too big for it to move freely, so it became extinct. Stadium Attacks by ensnaring its enemy with its tentacles and biting with sharp fangs. Its overly-large shell makes it sluggish. Generation II Gold Apparently, it cracked Shellder's shell with its sharp fangs and sucked out the insides. Silver Once wrapped around its prey, it never lets go. It eats the prey by tearing at it with sharp fangs. Crystal Its heavy shell allowed it to reach only nearby food. This could be the reason it is extinct. Stadium 2 Apparently, it cracked Shellder's shell with its sharp fangs and sucked out the insides. Generation III Ruby Omastar uses its tentacles to capture its prey. It is believed to have become extinct because its shell grew too large and heavy, causing its movements to become too slow and ponderous. Sapphire Emerald An Omastar uses its tentacles to capture its prey. It is believed to have become extinct because its shell grew too large, making its movements slow and ponderous. FireRed Its tentacles are highly developed as if they are hands and feet. As soon as it ensnares prey, it bites. LeafGreen Despite having strong fangs and tentacles, it went extinct when its heavy shell made it unable to catch prey. Generation IV Diamond It is thought that this Pokémon became extinct because its spiral shell grew too large. Pearl Platinum HeartGold Apparently, it cracked Shellder's shell with its sharp fangs and sucked out the insides. SoulSilver Once wrapped around its prey, it never lets go. It eats the prey by tearing at it with sharp fangs. Generation V Black It is thought that this Pokémon became extinct because its spiral shell grew too large. White Black 2 It is thought that this Pokémon became extinct because its spiral shell grew too large. White 2 Generation VI X Its tentacles are highly developed as if they are hands and feet. As soon as it ensnares prey, it bites. Y Once wrapped around its prey, it never lets go. It eats the prey by tearing at it with sharp fangs. Omega Ruby Omastar uses its tentacles to capture its prey. It is believed to have become extinct because its shell grew too large and heavy, causing its movements to become too slow and ponderous. Alpha Sapphire Generation VII Ultra Sun Its heavy shell is thought to be the reason this ancient Pokémon died out. It's apparently a distant ancestor of Octillery. Ultra Moon It wraps its prey in its tentacles to immobilize them and then finishes them off with its sharp fangs. Let's Go Pikachu Its sharp beak rings its mouth. Its shell was too big for it to move freely, so it became extinct. Let's Go Eevee
Game locations
In side games
Held items
Stats
Base stats
Stat Range At Lv. 50 At Lv. 100 HP : 70 130 - 177 250 - 344 Attack : 60 58 - 123 112 - 240 Defense : 125 117 - 194 229 - 383 Sp.Atk : 115 108 - 183 211 - 361 Sp.Def : 70 67 - 134 130 - 262 Speed : 55 54 - 117 103 - 229 Total: 495 Other Pokémon with this total Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs , IVs of 0, and a hindering nature , if applicable.
Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable.
This Pokémon's Special base stat in Generation I was 115.
Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
Under normal battle conditions in Generation VII, this Pokémon is: Damaged
normally by: Normal ½× Fighting 2× Flying ½× Poison ½× Ground 2× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel 1× Fire ¼× Water 1× Grass 4× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× Fairy 1× None Weak to: Normal ½× Fighting 2× Flying ½× Poison ½× Ground 2× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel 1× Fire ¼× Water 1× Grass 4× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× Fairy 1× None Immune to: Normal ½× Fighting 2× Flying ½× Poison ½× Ground 2× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel 1× Fire ¼× Water 1× Grass 4× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× Fairy 1× None Resistant to: Normal ½× Fighting 2× Flying ½× Poison ½× Ground 2× Rock 1× Bug 1× Ghost 1× Steel 1× Fire ¼× Water 1× Grass 4× Electric 2× Psychic 1× Ice ½× Dragon 1× Dark 1× Fairy 1× None
Learnset
By a prior evolution
Generation VII Other generations: I - II - III - IV - V - VI Stage Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP This Pokémon has no moves exclusive to prior evolutions. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Omastar
indicates a move that gets when used by Omastar Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Omastar
indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Omastar Click on the generation numbers at the top to see moves from other generations
By a prior evolution
Generation VII Other generations: I - II - III - IV - V - VI Stage Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP This Pokémon has no moves exclusive to prior evolutions. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Omastar
indicates a move that gets when used by Omastar Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Omastar
indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Omastar Click on the generation numbers at the top to see moves from other generations
Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
Trivia
In early English-language promotional material for Pokémon Red and Blue, Omastar was originally known as "Kargo". This name is derived from "escargot" (French for snail ).
). Omastar is the only Fossil Pokémon whose extinction has been explained: its shell was too heavy for it to move, leading it to die out from starvation. This explanation may also refer to the giant orthocone, ancestor to the modern octopus. The orthocone resembled a slow, cumbersome octopus with a long, pointed shell.
Origin
It seems to be based on a type of ammonite.
Name origin
Omastar's name is a combination of a phonetic anagram of ammonite and star (based on its body shape).
Omstar is a combination of オウムガイ ōmugai (nautilus) and star.
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The Northwest’s rock star in the global 2011 Cleantech Open is Indow Windows of Portland, Oregon. The team brought home some serious glass from the Open’s finals in Silicon Valley.
Indow Windows was named last month as the Northwest region’s Sustainability winner, giving the company a shot at the contest’s top echelon of prizes in the final judging rounds November 16.
Now joining that award on Indow Windows’ shelf are four more: Runner Up in the overall global competition, the Northwest Regional Award, the National Sustainability Prize, and the Energy Efficiency Category Award.
Indow Windows has developed a way to add glazing without replacing windows, reducing heat loss and providing better insulation than the single-pane glass typically found in older homes. Its acrylic window inserts press into place on the inside of a window frame to deliver double-pane window performance at a fraction of the price of replacement windows.
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Along the way, the front office, led by Executive Vice President Sashi Brown, got hammered from coast-to-coast for botching the day. NFL Network analysts blasted them all afternoon, and words like "debacle" and "disaster" described them on social media. In addition to losing some of their own free agents, they also failed to land any of the big-name players they had been linked to, such as Bengals receiver Marvin Jones.
But Brown and coach Hue Jackson had made it clear that they wouldn't panic, that they'd be disciplined and that they'd build through the draft. Jackson went so far as to say "it will not be disappointing" if we lose the big-four free agents.
Here's a behind-the-scenes look at what happened on the challenging first day:
1. Mitchell Schwartz: The Browns made Schwartz an offer shortly before the NFL Combine that was far below what he felt he could get on the open market. Sources said it was somewhere in the $7 million-a-year range. His agent, Deryk Gilmore, told the Browns that the former second-round pick would test free agency. Schwartz' goal was about $8 million to $10 million a year, taking into account the growing importance of the position against the Von Millers of the world. When Schwartz opted to test the market, the Browns assumed he was gone and turned their attention to other players.
But Gilmore told cleveland.com Thursday that Schwartz wanted to return to Cleveland and wishes he could've stayed. His fiancee is from here, he purchased a house here and he's entrenched in the community. After testing the market, which wasn't good for right tackles, Schwartz went back to the Browns in the hours before free agency and ultimately planned to accept their pre-combine offer. But they were informed by Cleveland that the offer no longer stood, at least not at $7 million a year. It may have been posturing on the Browns' part, but any hopes of reaching a deal were apparently dashed when NFL Network reported Wednesday morning that the Browns had pulled their offer.
The 'nonsense' Mitchell Schwartz endured en route to new deal
Feeling Cleveland was no longer an option, Schwartz opted to sign a five-year, $33 million deal with the Chiefs, including about $15 million guaranteed. His brother, Geoff Schwartz, congratulated him on the deal after the "nonsense'' he endured during the day, presumably from the Browns. NFL Network's Mike Silver reported that the Browns didn't negotiate in good faith.
In the end, the Browns had moved on before Wednesday when Schwartz opted to test the market without engaging with their $7 million offer. For Schwartz' part, it's common for a player to shop a team's number in hopes of making more.
Ultimately, he didn't, at least not in terms of yearly average. The $6.6 million a year average makes him the second-highest paid right tackle in the NFL, but it's short of the payday he was hoping for. The Browns now have to hope that Austin Pasztor can step in, or they need to find a replacement. Bottom line: It didn't have to come to this. The Browns were willing to pay Schwartz $7 million a year, more than he's getting from the Chiefs. His $15 million guaranteed from Kansas City is more than what the Browns were offering, but a deal could've been struck had things not gotten ugly on Wednesday. It's unfortunate for both sides.
2. Alex Mack: The Browns wanted to keep Mack, but only at the right price, and he knew he could make more on the open market. Peter King of Sports Illustrated reported that Mack will average $9.5 million a year, and that he turned down $500,000 more per year from the Browns to join Kyle Shanahan in Atlanta. I'm told that the $9.5 million represents the maximum value of the contract, with every incentive being hit and that the actual average is more like $9 million a year.
As for Mack taking less money to play for the Falcons, the Browns never actually made him a concrete offer after he voided the final three years of his contract (at $8 million a year) last week. Mack's representatives agreed to keep the Browns in the loop, but it was generally assumed that Mack, 30, would make more than the Browns wanted to pay. As for the Mack team, they found the Browns to be extremely professional and easy to work with and they look forward to doing business again in the future.
3. Travis Benjamin: The Browns wanted Benjamin back and made him an offer, but it wasn't close to what he could get in free agency. The Browns viewed him more as a situational player and returner, and didn't want to go as high as the Chargers did: four years, $24 million, $13 million guaranteed and $18 million over the first three years. The Chargers paid him like a No. 2 receiver, and will likely use him as such.
4. Tashaun Gipson: The Browns did not aggressively pursue Gipson and basically let him walk. He signed a five-year deal with the Jaguars worth $35.5 million, including a $12 million signing bonus. Incentives push it to $36 million. The Browns made him a multi-year offer before last season and he opted to play out his $2.356 million tender. He also skipped some voluntary workouts in an apparent contract statement, and then missed three games because of a sprained ankle. Gipson never seemed to recover from the contract issues of last year. The Browns will likely count on Jordan Poyer to replace him.
5. Marvin Jones: The Browns threw out a number for Jones, but it wasn't competitive and they weren't viewed as serious contenders. A source said if Jackson had really pushed it, the Browns may have gone after him harder. But Jackson probably knew the Browns wouldn't match what Jones got from the Lions: five years, $40 million including an $8 million signing bonus and $20 million guaranteed.
The Browns will have to keep looking for receivers, because they don't have nearly enough weapons. They can't count on Josh Gordon coming back from suspension to save the day, and they're not. If he's reinstated, they'll go from there. But hanging out with Johnny Manziel is not the way to make a good first impression. | positive |
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Aleksandar Mitrovic looked down at his pistol fingers and chuckled.
A teammate had just demanded an explanation why he sprayed imaginary bullets into the St James’ Park crowd after scoring against Norwich last week.
The reply demonstrates the thrill he is getting from leading the line, and scoring, for Newcastle United.
“I tell them when I score a goal I have so much aggression, passion, adrenaline that I could run around the pitch ten times and jump over the stadium!,” explained striker Mitrovic.
“I need to do something to put everything out. It is a release of emotions.”
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Those emotions will have to be controlled at Sunderland's Stadium of Light this weekend and if he is to “earn the right” to wear the No9 shirt one day. Sunday’s game has symmetry for Mitrovic.
Three years ago, he started his career by scoring in the black and white of Partizan Belgrade against red and white Red Star Belgrade.
He scored and says: “We talk about dangerous derby games... that is a dangerous game!
“Why? In Serbia, so much rivalry from the fans. Out on the pitch, before and after the game, there is really a problem of fights between the fans. It is really dangerous. But I play two derbies and I had really good experience from them.
“We are black and white, they are red and white, and in Serbia it is the same. It is a coincidence, and a good omen!”
There will be focus on Mitrovic because of his sending off earlier in the season, causing his temperament to be questioned.
At Newcastle’s training ground, the 21-year-old speaks with a mischievous smile, a deep voice, and an inner confidence.
He now has two goals to his name since his £14million summer transfer from Anderlecht, but being a focal point to the United attack is almost as important.
He has discovered from the fans’ reaction how they treat a goal-getting targetman on Tyneside.
“Here it is like a religion to have a real No 9 strong striker, a box player, always in the box, give the ball, score goal,” he says.
“This is the most special place for strikers to play. All strikers who score here are big players and they come after legends. It is an honour to be a striker here. I hope I have a lot of goals here to celebrate.”
He hasn’t met his childhood hero Alan Shearer yet, but hopes to.
(Image: Stu Forster /Allsport)
“I have 204 goals to go! I have time! Shearer came here when he was 26 til 36. Why not!” he says, only half joking.
“I always look at those legends. Shearer is No1 here. Everyone was behind him. He did a lot for this club and this is how I want to play. Maybe one day I can become a legend. It is just beginning.
“I hope to meet him. He is my idol. I only came here two months ago, and I don’t want to leave soon, so it will happen.”
Mitrovic won’t be demanding the famous No 9 shirt yet. He chose to wear 45 this season because the two numbers add up to nine.
He said: “I want to earn the No 9. It is a big responsibility at this club. We know who was No 9 before, and you need to earn that. You earn it by scoring big goals in games like Sunday. For now, I am happy with 45.
Sunderland may target him, but they’ll encounter a calculating opponent who is growing up fast, and fitting in at his new club.
Mitrovic recently played a flash-point Euro qualifier against Albania, and came through the battle unscathed.
He explained: “Aaah, this game is different! Sunderland Newcastle is sport. That game is politics! A different rivalry.”
Sunday looms. He can’t wait.
“Big game! We need to win (laughs). We did not win five in a row (in fact Sunderland won them all). That is really difficult.
“I say we go there to try to play football, stay calm and give it a go. We have a good team, we believe in ourselves and we know we can win it — although we respect Sunderland.”
ALEKSANDAR MITROVIC ON...
...aims for the season “I don’t want to speak now about being fifth or sixth. First two games we said top seven or six and we started bad. So we have to go game to game. Everything will come if we work hard. We can do a lot more and better than we are now.”
...how it will feel to be hated at the Stadium of Light “I don’t listen to what they sing or what they say. A good atmosphere is nice, but if you listen to what they say you are not 100% concentrated. You can’t hear the crowd. You concentrate on the ball and on the pitch. “
...staying calm “I put all my aggression to help my teammates. To score goals, to run for my team, that is the best way to use passion, aggression and everything you have.”
....his crazy haircuts from the past “I was young. My teammates wouldn’t let me do those styles here. I tried a new one every day. I had this cut or that — just for fun. Not any more. I have one haircut all the same.”
...tattoos “I have my initials on my neck. I might have some more. A Newcastle badge? Why not? I know many fans have this done.”
...living in ex-Toon boss Alan Pardew’s former home “Yes I am told this is where he lived. Nice house. I had something like this in Anderlecht. My mum and dad come over. They have a visa and come for a while then someone else comes over. I am never alone.”
...being a normal bloke “I like family life. At home most of the time in house. Nothing special, like a normal person. I train, I rest, sometimes go for dinner. Really, I am normal.” | positive |
Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo will debut a line of modest-wear in Canada in February, including hijabs and abayas, the long black dress worn by women in Saudi Arabia, and pieces inspired by the baju kurung, a tunic-and-pants outfit worn widely in South East Asia. “It’s really for everybody, but in terms of a more specific demographic, it’s for anyone who sort of wants that more modest aesthetic,” said Hana Tajima, the British designer behind the line.
Designer Hana Tajima displays various pieces in her collection of modest-wear. "It’s about creating pieces that are versatile and allow people to interpret the idea of modesty for themselves,” says Tajima. ( Bernard Weil / Toronto Star )
The collection, for spring and summer 2017, will land at Uniqlo’s two Canadian stores, at Toronto’s Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Mall, on Feb. 24. “Uniqlo really pays attention to consumer demand and there is a consumer demand for modest-wear and we are happy to oblige,” said Kat Adams, Uniqlo spokesperson. “This is such a diverse market, we are very hopeful that it will receive a positive reaction.”
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Uniqlo has been selling modest-wear in other markets since 2015 and it’s not the only fashion retailer to do so. Since 2014, designer fashion houses including Dolce & Gabbana and DKNY and fast fashion retailers Zara and Mango have launched modest-wear collections of varying sizes and prices. Market research from the advisory firm DinarStandard in 2015 reported that global Muslim consumer spending on food and lifestyle reached $1.8 trillion (U.S.) in 2014 and is projected to reach $2.6 trillion in 2020. “I think it’s brilliant,” said Maureen Atkinson, senior partner, research insights, J.C. Williams Global retail advisors. “I think there is a large enough base that it’s a good business decision. I would like to think that most Canadians would support it, but I think there are those who are offended because people don’t dress modestly and they are offended because people do dress modestly.”
The full Uniqlo modest-wear collection includes 30 items in 81 colours and patterns and will be available across 15 countries. The pieces range in price in Canada from $7.90 for a headband to $39.90 for a hijab and up to $79.90 for a long dress. The pieces in the spring-summer collection include long skirts and pants and tunics that can be put together like the baju kurung of South East Asia; a long black dress with a high neckline and long sleeves inspired by the Saudi abaya, as well as foundation pieces, like inner hijabs to wear under a hijab or while playing sports, to keep hair in place.
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The collection does not include burkas, which cover women from head-to-toe, or niqabs, which cover the face. “We started in South East Asia, with the local markets there,” said Tajima. “From then it’s really grown. Each season we brought it to new countries and the response has been really fantastic, not just from the Muslim market.” She said the clothing crosses religious and ethnic lines because it is comfortable, loose-fitting and stylish. “Really it’s about creating pieces that are versatile and allow people to interpret the idea of modesty for themselves,” said Tajima, who grew up in a small English village and became a Muslim at the age of 18. She said it’s hard to tell if modest-wear is having an impact on fashion generally. “There is definitely for me, a sort of trend towards this more androgynous style or looser silhouettes and both are sort of feeding into one another in a way that is really interesting.” Natasha Bakht, associate professor, faculty of law at the University of Ottawa, who is working on a book on the rights of niqab-wearing women, said the idea of modest-wear sold at a fashion retailer shouldn’t be controversial. “It should be celebrated as another marker of diversity in our society,” said Bakht. “Frankly, I think it’s good business. It’s really tapping into a market that many people are recognizing. Fashion and modesty are not mutually exclusive.” | positive |
Keywords performance + at work | Bingpix Image Gallery Theater Department Welcome to the New Bingpix Gallery of the Binghamton University Theater Dept. It is a work in progress, but eventually all pictures that were taken, all the way back to the 1970's, will appear for each show. Currently, many of the early shows are represented by a small number of photos. Keep an eye out for more! Albums Spring 2016: Costume Shop makes Elvis costume for Atheltics 78 Fashionable Impressions: Spring 2017 - Collaboration with Costumes & Art Museum 19 Headshots 91 2021-22 Productions 451 2019-20 Productions 248 2018-19 Productions 400 2017-18 Productions 1548 2016-17 Productions 1905 2015 - 16 Productions 2275 2014-2015 Productions 1605 2013-2014 Productions 1369 2012-2013 Productions 2122 2011 - 2012 Productions 2790 2010 -2011 Productions 2640 2009 - 2010 Productions 1853 2008 - 2009 Productions 1074 2007 - 2008 Productions 1206 2006 - 2007 Productions 1205 2005 - 2006 Productions 1525 2004 - 2005 Productions 1080 2003 - 2004 Productions 1603 2002 - 2003 Productions 1178 2001 - 2002 Productions 848 2000 - 2001 Productions 75 1999 - 2000 Productions 241 1990's Productions 2370 1980's Productions 2471 1970's Productions 1219 1960's Productions 6 Theater Dept. Productions at the Cider Mill Playhouse 1976-1991 4375 1982 Festival of Alternatives in the Arts 76 Research 23 Costume Shop Organization Files 3279 2013 Spring construction class photos 26 Guido and Anne went to China 4052 Preliminary Research 14 Hairspray Preliminary Research Plates 534 2016 Spring construction class projects 58 47850 photos Keywords +acting +blue shirt +co stars +co-stars +gray suit +grey suit +in costume +in front of audience +live show +musical +Nick Jonas +on stage +performer +performing +show Specials Most visited Recent photos Recent albums Random photos Calendar Menu Keywords (227) Search About Notification Identification Login Quick connect Username Password Auto login Sort order Sort order ✔ Default ✔ Photo title, A → Z ✔ Photo title, Z → A ✔ Date created, new → old ✔ Date created, old → new ✔ Date posted, new → old ✔ Date posted, old → new ✔ Visits, high → low ✔ Visits, low → high slideshow Calendar Calendar ShowHideInfo Home / Keywords performance + at work 1 hairspray-nick-jonas-hollywood-bowl-08062011-10.jpg 48611 visits · Login · About Bingpix Image Gallery | negative |
You forgot Mother's Day. Again. With Father's Day coming up wouldn't it be nice to have a reminder among your often-used Google Now cards, in addition to the ones you've set in Google Calendar, Google Keep, and the sea of sticky notes attached to your monitor? It's possible to set holiday and movie reminders within Google Now on your device, but now you've got another alternative: setting reminders via a Knowledge Graph search on your desktop. Just make sure you're signed in, make a relevant search, and click that shiny new "remind me on Google Now" text.
At the moment there are a few limitations. Only well-known holidays and movie releases seem to be working - I tried to search for President Obama's birthday, for example, and did not get the reminder text. There's also no way to manually select how far in advance you'll be notified. Holidays will pop up into Now one week in advance, while movies will notify you on the day of release. Strangely, the only way to add a reminder from the Google Now app is to use a voice command - mobile searches aren't showing the reminder icon . It wouldn't surprise us if more options are coming soon.
If you want to see a list of your current reminders or dismiss a few of them, open Google Now on your Android device and tap "My stuff" then "Reminders".
Update: As commenter lbrfabio points out, you can manually add reminders by searching for "add reminder" (and other strangely arbitrary commands) in Google Now.
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Rep. Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanBrexit and exit: A transatlantic comparison Five takeaways from McCabe’s allegations against Trump The Hill's 12:30 Report: Sanders set to shake up 2020 race MORE (R-Wis.) suggested tying approval of the Keystone pipeline to raising the debt ceiling Monday night.
"We've never just done nothing," Ryan said on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, which was being guest-hosted by Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), when asked how Republicans would handle the debt-ceiling negotiations. "We want to make sure that we’re taking steps in the direction of fiscal conservatism, of fiscal responsibility. I, for one, think we need to do more in the energy sector. I believe we need to approve Keystone pipeline.”
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Ryan also said that removing some energy regulations could also be a step.
“If we just get the government out of the way, it could be a real renaissance of oil and gas exploration in America — lower our gas prices, stop sending this money to foreign countries,” he said. “It helps us with our foreign policy. So I think there are things we can do in our majority to leverage, to get some of that going as well.”
Ryan helped reach a bipartisan ceasefire over the budget with the deal he and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) struck last week. These comments suggest another fight could come sometime between March and June, the window given by the Congressional Budget Office for when the country could hit the debt ceiling.
Ryan suggested the debt ceiling could be a chance to reopen the negotiations.
“I didn’t get the entitlement reforms I wanted. Patty Murray didn’t get the tax increases she wanted,” he said. “Maybe we can go back at some of those things that we were looking for.”
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Lava fountaining above the volcanic fissure of the Holuhraun flood basalt eruption in Iceland in September 2014, which can be considered as a smaller scale analogue for the eruptions in the Deccan Traps, 65 million years ago. Credit: Michelle Parks (University of Iceland) New research may draw a 'curtain of fire' on dinosaur extinction theory
The role volcanic activity played in mass extinction events in the Earth's early history is likely to have been much less severe than previously thought, according to a study led by the University of Leeds.
Asteroid impacts and long-lasting volcanic eruptions called continental flood basalts—the two most commonly cited possible causes of mass extinction events—would have propelled gas and dust into the atmosphere and altered climate for years. But, until now, the impact of years of sulphur dioxide emissions from continental flood basalts was unknown.
In a study published online today in Nature Geoscience, researchers have provided for the first time a quantitative estimate of the degree and nature of the effects that such eruptions had on the Earth's climate, vegetation and oceans.
Study lead author Dr Anja Schmidt, from the University's School of Earth and Environment, said: "At the time when the dinosaurs reigned, numerous long-lasting eruptions took place over the course of about a million years. These eruptions, called 'continental flood basalts' were not like volcanic eruptions we often see today, with lava gushing from the ground like a curtain of fire.
"Each eruption is likely to have lasted years, even decades, and eruptions were separated by periods without volcanic activity. The lava produced by an eruption of average intensity would have filled 150 Olympic-size swimming pools per minute."
An artist's impression of a typical flood basalt eruption, including lava fountaining along a curtain of fire. New research shows that the climatic impacts of such eruptions were less grim than scientists had previously suggested, with most of the volcanic gases and aerosol particles confined to the lowermost atmosphere. Credit: Jonathan Poulter
In the new study, the researchers used a sophisticated computer simulation of the spread of the gas and aerosol particles, which showed that the climatic impacts of flood basalts was less grim than scientists had previously suggested. They found that only if such flood basalts oozed for hundreds of years, without interruption, may the climatic impacts have had a severe effect on plants and animals.
The researchers used information on the duration and intensity of continental flood basalt eruptions, such as the Deccan Traps eruptions 65 million years ago, which covered one-third of what is now India, to estimate the climatic and environmental effects of the huge quantities of sulphur dioxide gas emitted by these eruptions.
Their computer simulation showed that temperatures on Earth were indeed cooler as a result of the eruptions—by as much as 4.5 degrees Celsius—but that the temperature would return to normal within 50 years after an eruption ceased.
Dr Schmidt noted that the conclusions are based on the assumption that climate feedbacks were very similar to those today.
"Perhaps most intriguingly, we found that the effects of acid rain on vegetation were rather selective. Vegetation in some but not all parts of the world would have died off, whereas in other areas the effects would have been negligible," said Dr Schmidt.
The new findings will challenge the earth sciences community as a whole to re-examine the causes of mass extinctions and the role of volcanism. "We now need to better understand how long both the individual eruptions and the periods without volcanic activity lasted," concludes Dr Schmidt.
Explore further: Icelandic volcano's toxic gas is treble that of Europe's industry
More information: Selective environmental stress from sulfur emitted by continental flood basalt eruptions, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2588
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In this Essay, Professor Patrick Weil reexamines the constitutional function of the passport in relation to American citizenship. The State Department recently developed a policy of passport revocation whereby some Americans are transformed into de facto stateless persons, like Edward Snowden, or are prohibited from living abroad as citizens, like dozens of Yemeni Americans. In the Yemeni Americans’ case, the State Department confuses the legality of passports and naturalization. Revoking Snowden’s passport violates the right for a citizen to possess a passport confirming his or her legal identity—including citizenship—while abroad. This passport function, recognized since 1835, is one of the privileges and immunities of American citizens protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court has never authorized its suspension by the executive for national security reasons, unlike the other function of a passport—the right to travel. New technologies offer a way to distinguish between these two functions and to make effective a constitutional right.
On June 22, 2013, Edward J. Snowden, a Hawaii-based computer specialist and contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had his passport revoked by the United States State Department. While working for the NSA, Snowden had secretly downloaded classified documents detailing NSA surveillance operations. By May 20, 2013, Snowden had left Hawaii for Hong Kong, where he started releasing the top-secret material in his possession to the press.
On June 14, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against Snowden in federal district court. The following day, the Justice Department formally requested that Hong Kong authorities issue a provisional arrest warrant for Snowden. Eight days later, on the very morning—Hong Kong time—that his passport was revoked, Mr. Snowden was able to board a flight to Moscow. He remained in Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport’s transit zone until August 1, 2013, when Russian authorities granted him a one-year temporary asylum along with an identity document.
The State Department reaffirmed that Snowden remained an American citizen. However, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Snowden only remained eligible for a “limited validity passport good for direct return to the United States.” The State Department had thus effectively voided Snowden’s U.S. passport. Only if and when he decides to return to the United States will the State Department grant him an official document permitting his return to the U.S.; it will not grant him a passport of the common kind, which allows a U.S. citizen to remain abroad.
Snowden’s is not the only passport of an American citizen that the U.S. State Department has recently revoked. According to the Washington Post, the State Department revoked the passports of a few dozen—if not a hundred—Yemeni Americans after arguing that because these individuals were illegally naturalized, their passports were also obtained illegally.
From an analysis of historical and legal precedents, it seems clear that the State Department has acted in violation of the Constitution in each of these cases. The revocation of Snowden’s passport violates a privilege and immunity of American citizenship, protected by the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment—namely a U.S. citizen’s ability to keep a passport while abroad as a document proving her legal identity and citizenship. This is a function of the U.S. passport that the Supreme Court has recognized since 1835. The revocation of the passports of the Yemeni Americans is similarly suspect. If the U.S. State Department contests the legality of their naturalization, their cases should be brought to court on the claim that there is good cause to revoke their citizenship. The cases do differ; Snowden’s citizenship is uncontested while the citizenship of the Yemeni Americans in question seems contestable. But in both instances, when prevented from directly revoking or attacking the citizenship of American citizens—which is staunchly protected de jure by Supreme Court jurisprudence and relevant statutes—the State Department has developed a strategy of attack whereby Americans are transformed into de facto stateless persons (as in the case of Snowden) or individuals who are no longer able to live abroad as U.S. citizens (like the Yemeni Americans). It is time for the courts to intervene and set the rules by clarifying the link between U.S. citizenship and a U.S. passport.
I. snowden’s passport
At first glance, Supreme Court jurisprudence seems to offer support for the Obama Administration’s position in Snowden’s situation. In a 1981 case, Haig v. Agee, the Court upheld the revocation of ex-CIA agent Philip Agee’s passport. Agee, who was living in West Germany at the time, had traveled extensively to other countries in order to publicize the activities of undercover CIA agents, triggering government action against him. The Court affirmed the authority of the Secretary of State to revoke a passport when the holder's activities in foreign countries were causing serious damage to national security.
Agee attacked the Secretary’s action on statutory grounds—Congress had never authorized the Secretary of State to revoke passports, either by an express delegation or by “an administrative practice sufficiently substantial and consistent to warrant the conclusion that Congress had implicitly approved it.” Agee prevailed in the district court and court of appeals on the basis of that argument. He further claimed that his passport should be returned on three constitutional grounds, described by the Supreme Court as:
[F]irst, that the revocation of his passport impermissibly burdens his freedom to travel; second, that the action was intended to penalize his exercise of free speech and deter his criticism of Government policies and practices; and third, that failure to accord him a prerevocation hearing violated his Fifth Amendment right to procedural due process.
The Court backed the government’s right to revoke Agee’s passport for national security reasons. Denying his constitutional claims, it stated that the freedom to travel abroad was subordinate to national security and foreign policy considerations. It saw no foundation for his First Amendment claim and his request for a prerevocation hearing.
Yet, in so deciding, the Court dealt with only one dimension of the American passport: the one that guarantees American citizens the freedom to travel, i.e., to leave U.S. territory and to cross foreign borders and territories.
The Court did not discuss a second dimension of the passport, which was first clearly distinguished and recognized in an 1835 Supreme Court decision, Urtetiqui v. D’Arcy. The Court in Urtetiqui stated:
[A passport] is a document, which, from its nature and object, is addressed to foreign powers; purporting only to be a request, that the bearer of it may pass safely and freely; and is to be considered rather in the character of a political document, by which the bearer is recognised, in foreign countries, as an American citizen; and which, by usage and the law of nations, is received as evidence of the fact.
In Agee, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that distinction by quoting the entirety of this paragraph. The executive branch itself noted this dual function of a passport; responding to a question raised by Justice Rehnquist during the oral argument, U.S. Solicitor General Wade McCree asserted that a passport “serves two purposes. First, the purpose of identifying the bearer as a citizen or a national of the issuing nation; and second, to request free passage for him from a foreign nation as well as the efforts of the foreign nation to facilitate his travel.”
The 1981 Court did not deal with the second function of the passport—namely, to be “recognised, in foreign countries, as an American citizen” and to “identify[] the bearer as a citizen or a national of the issuing nation.” Agee did not invoke it, and Chief Justice Burger—who only included answers to Agee’s constitutional claims in the final stages of writing the majority opinion —did not raise the issue sua sponte.
The majority opinion in Agee was hotly debated within the Court, provoking a strong dissent by Justice Brennan. For him, the right to travel out of the United States had been recognized as “an important personal right included within the ‘liberty’ guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment” which could only be curtailed by Congress in the exercise of its lawmaking function. He feared that the Agee decision “has handed over too much of that function to the Executive.” Brennan’s criticism is not the point of my argument; let us concede that the revocation of a passport is a necessary executive power insofar as it provides a means to restrict freedom of travel across borders for security reasons. It is not as convincing, however, that, for security reasons, an American citizen should be deprived of her right to a legal identity as an American citizen, the second function of a passport.
While stating that “there is only a constitutional ‘freedom’ to travel internationally—a freedom that may be curtailed within the contours of due process of law,” the Court also reaffirmed in Haig v. Agee a constitutional “right” to interstate travel. For the Court this distinction was important: the right to travel abroad was a freedom that could be subjected to due process or legislative limitation. The right to travel within the United States was an absolute right before which both the executive and the legislative powers had to bow. I believe that if the Court had inquired further, it would have also affirmed a constitutional right for an American travelling or residing abroad—that of keeping his or her passport as a valid identity document. If asked today by Edward Snowden, for example, the Court would have to confirm that it is his absolute right not to be deprived of his legal identity as an American citizen. This absolute right can first be deduced from the absolute protection afforded to him by his status as a citizen.
This absolute protection was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1967 in Afroyim v. Rusk and has received additional confirmation in subsequent cases. In the preceding decades, citizenship was conditional: starting in 1906, naturalized citizens who would return to reside in their country of origin would be denaturalized. Starting in 1907, American women marrying foreigners would lose their citizenship. Later, under the 1940 Nationality Act, Americans could and did lose their citizenship if they voted in foreign elections, escaped the draft, or remained six months or longer within any foreign state of which he or either of his parents was ever a national —adding to a list which already included denationalization for Americans who became citizens of a foreign state. Between 1945 and 1967, more than 100,000 Americans, mostly native-born, were denationalized. Citizenship was less protected than liberty, life, or property, for denationalization was legally possible without due process.
In 1967, in Afroyim, the Supreme Court secured American citizens against deprivation of their citizenship, on the basis of a literal reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Black concluded the majority opinion by affirming:
We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to, and does, protect every citizen of this Nation against a congressional forcible destruction of his citizenship, whatever his creed, color, or race. Our holding does no more than to give to this citizen that which is his own, a constitutional right to remain a citizen in a free country unless he voluntarily relinquishes that citizenship.
Since then, the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted as a right that is granted absolute protection. Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment states first that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States. Then it continues with the following sentence: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” These privileges and immunities were narrowly defined in the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, a decision that provoked and continues to provoke great controversy. Many scholars have claimed that the Court did not fulfill the original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment. Nevertheless, the Constitution affirms some privileges and immunities of American citizens and—however narrowly defined by the Court in the Slaughter-House Cases—even this minimalist conception turns out to be consequential.
The privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, Justice Miller wrote for the majority, are those which “ow[e] their existence to the Federal government, its National character, its Constitution, or its laws.” Miller then enumerated these privileges and immunities, and it is possible to distinguish the ones he defines as owed to the Constitution—namely, the rights guaranteed by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, as well as rights to peaceably assemble, petition for redress of grievances, and claim the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus—from those owed to the federal government and to its national character—for example, the right to freely access the nation’s seaports and to use the navigable waters of the United States. All these privileges and immunities are said to protect American citizenship from any abridgment by the states.
Yet, in his majority opinion, Justice Miller also deals with the privileges and immunities of the American citizen abroad, in a foreign land, which arise not in relation to his or her state, but rather to the federal government of the United States:
Another privilege of a citizen of the United States is to demand the care and protection of the Federal government over his life, liberty, and property when on the high seas or within the jurisdiction of a foreign government. Of this there can be no doubt, nor that the right depends upon his character as a citizen of the United States.
One century later, in Afroyim, Justice Black agreed that the main consequence of the denationalization of a citizen is to “take from him the privileges of a citizen.” This tied privileges and immunities to the status of being a citizen of the United States, now protected absolutely and independently of any crime or illegal act committed by the citizen. The privileges of American citizens abroad—like the privileges of an American citizen within the United States—seem to have different sources. When the Court mentions the right of a citizen “to demand the care and protection of the Federal government over his life, liberty, and property,” it is as much a reference to the U.S. Constitution as a reference to the national character of the United States, given that the basic protection of one’s government belongs “to those privileges and immunities which were, in their nature, fundamental; which belong of right to citizens of all free governments.”
The protection by the federal government of life, liberty, and property is a constitutional right subject to due process. The rights of protection and care while abroad, part of the privileges and immunities of citizens of all free governments, have evolved over time. I believe that the right to possess basic identity documents detailing one’s date and place of birth, along with names and surnames, has become an absolute right, as much a fundamental human right developed throughout the twentieth century as a constitutional one stemming from Afroyim.
II. developments in international human rights support the protection of the legal identity of americans
Among the numerous rights proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, the “right to a nationality” guaranteed in Article 15 has become one of the most respected and protected.
When a person lacks citizenship, the international community provides a proxy: protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and rights in the country of residence fulfill the functions nationality plays in linking an individual with a nation-state. The international community does not provide an analogous proxy in situations where other rights are denied, for example, when due process is lacking or gender discrimination is obvious.
Beginning in 1922, some international agreements provided refugees with a certificate that served as both a travel and identity document—like a passport. Under Article 28 of the 1951 UNHCR Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, contracting states are required to issue travel documents to refugees, “unless compelling reasons of national security or public order otherwise require.”
But the 1951 convention provides in Article 27 that “[t]he Contracting States shall issue identity papers to any refugee in their territory who does not possess a valid travel document.” This is an absolute obligation. There is an exception to the required provision of travel documents: security reasons. There is no exception to the obligation to provide identity documents: all contracting states must issue identity papers to any refugee in their territory who does not possess a valid travel document. This means that the United States is obliged to deliver identity documents to foreign refugees who are in its jurisdiction and lack them.
The right to be provided identity papers when abroad is expressed by the fact that when a human being does not possess a nationality or the protection of a state that can provide identity papers, the international community has agreed to enter into an absolute obligation to provide them. Should not this obligation, traditionally fulfilled by nation-states voluntarily for all their citizens who happen to have lost their passport while abroad, be considered a fortiori imposed on the signatory states—including the United States—for their own citizens?
When the United States canceled the validity of Snowden’s American passport, thereby stripping him of an identity document, it set the stage for a humiliating paradox: an identity documentaffirming and certifying his American citizenship (by listing his place of birth and citizenship) has been delivered to Snowden by the Russian authorities.
The individual right to be recognized before the law found in Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as a child’s right to be registered with a name and a nationality at birth found in Article 7 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, offer further foundations for the duty to issue identity documents in international law. By doing so, the United States would fulfill the normal obligation of all states toward their own citizens, especially those states that are democracies. The ability of an American citizen to keep a legal identity has become one of the privileges and immunities of American citizens as defined in the Slaughter-House Cases because it now constitutes a “right of citizens of all free countries.”
This principle can also be deduced from Afroyim. In the early twentieth century, Edwin Borchard—drawing on eighteenth-century legal thinker Emerich de Vattel’s The Law of Nations—addressed the question of the protection of the citizen living abroad. He believed that, at least in his pre-World-War-II era, states had the right, but not the obligation, to protect the interests of their citizens while abroad. This right seemed to be derived from the nature of national sovereignty: because the interests of a citizen were also the interests of the state, the state had the right to vindicate those interests abroad whenever it thought doing so was necessary.
Yet Afroyim has reversed this classical conception of sovereignty. In his majority opinion, Justice Black—after having conceded that all nations possess an implied attribute of sovereignty—stated that “[o]ther nations are governed by their own constitutions, if any, and we can draw no support from theirs. In our country the people are sovereign and the Government cannot sever its relationship to the people by taking away their citizenship.” It is on the basis of the sovereignty of the citizen—a sovereignty limited to the status of citizenship itself and to certain privileges and immunities stemming from it—that American citizenship has become absolutely secured. However, since Afroyim, the Supreme Court has not ruled on a case that would allow the Justices to bring the privileges and immunities of the U.S. citizen up to date with this new understanding of citizenship. Is it not time for the Courtto read the Privileges or Immunities Clause and the Slaughter-House jurisprudence in the spirit of Afroyim—i.e., to declare as an absolute right the possession by all Americans abroad of a document attesting to their legal identity, a right to which the executive and legislative powers must defer?
Being identified as an American citizen abroad is a function of the U.S. passport, recognized as such by the Supreme Court since 1835. This function is especially important when, once a passport has been issued permitting an American citizen to travel abroad, its full revocation would lead to a situation wherein its previous bearer could not be recognized as an American citizen in foreign countries. A valid passport is the only identity document requested from any citizen of the United States leaving North America, and has been since 1978. It is the ultimate and definitive proof of citizenship and identity under international law; other identity documents such as driver’s licenses and birth certificates are not necessarily available or recognized abroad.
At the time of the Urtetiqui decision in 1835, the State Department could claim that it was difficult to distinguish within a handwritten passport between the freedom to travel and the right to an identity document. In 1981, at the time of Haig v. Agee, it was also difficult to revoke the freedom to travel without seizing the passport. This is no longer the case. The technology of the passport has been significantly transformed and now permits one to distinguish quite easily within the passport between the freedom to travel and the right to bear a legal identity. The biometric passport emerged as a global standard following the implementation of stricter border security measures after the September 11 attacks. More and more states have developed versions of this technology. It is equipped with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that contains the biometric information of the passport holder. Biometric data are physiological and behavioral characteristics of the individual, including fingerprints, voice, and typing patterns, that serve to identify her within a certain population.
Even when not issuing biometric passports, all member states of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations specialized agency, have achieved their goal of “global interoperability,” understood as the capability of inspection systems (whether manual or automated) in different states throughout the world to exchange data, to process data received from systems in other states, and to utilize that data in inspection operations in their respective states on Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs). It is therefore easy for the executive to suspend the first function of a passport—the right to travel—and to make this information available throughout the world without revoking the passport as a document that permits its bearer to prove her identity and to be recognized as an American citizen. If a fundamental right of any American citizen is at stake in the distinction of the different functions of a passport, and if no technical issue can be raised as an obstacle for the fulfillment of this right, the time has come for the courts to consider the issue.
When Chief Justice Burger wrote the majority opinion in Haig v. Agee, he at first did not deal with the constitutional issues raised in the case; he did so later, reluctantly, and in the opinion of Justice Powell, with a “summary” treatment. The revocation of Snowden’s passport could offer the Court an opportunity to finally examine the different dimensions of a passport in a new constitutional and technological context. This is especially true given that Snowden’s case is one among an increasing number of cases where the State Department seems to have confused a passport policy with citizenship itself.
III. the yemeni americans in yemen
In recent months, a significant number of U.S. citizens residing in Yemen have been summoned to the U.S. embassy in Sana’a. When they leave, it is without their passport—which has been confiscated and revoked. The ACLU and other civil rights organizations have recently warned that the U.S. embassy in Yemen has pressured American citizens to surrender their passports and sign confessions without the advice of an attorney.
The reproach directed at Yemeni Americans by consular officers is that they—or their parents, years earlier —misinformed U.S. authorities about some factual elements regarding their identities, dates of birth, last or first names, and so forth. It seems that “[m]any Yemenis have a patronymic, tribal or geographic name that identifies their origin, which is often shortened for convenience when they immigrate to the U.S. and when they fill their application for naturalization. That’s what embassy officials used to claim fraud was committed.”
Asked about this situation, a State Department official stated that they “provide fair process to every individual that enters U.S. Embassy Sana’a, while upholding [their] obligations under the law,” adding that “[t]he Department has authority to deny and revoke a U.S. passport under certain conditions, including those involving false identity.”
If reports from the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and the ACLU are accurate, it seems that the State Department is confusing its power to revoke a U.S. passport with the possibility of revoking one’s naturalization. Deprived of their passport, these Yemeni Americans are not without identity documents, as they are most often dual citizens and therefore also Yemeni; they are instead illegally deprived—de facto—of their American citizenship.
If a passport has been delivered listing the same information contained in an individual’s naturalization certificate, it is not attesting to a false identity—instead, it lists one’s identity as a naturalized citizen. Therefore, the passport is valid and remains so for as long as the individual remains an American citizen. If the State Department has some doubt regarding the validity of the naturalization, the case must be brought to court. When the power to naturalize was transferred by the Immigration Act of 1990 from the courts to the Attorney General, another provision of the same Act transferred to the Attorney General the power “to correct, reopen, alter, modify, or vacate an order naturalizing the person.” But in 2000, in Gorbach v. Reno, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the exclusive statutory competence of the courts to revoke citizenship. Following this decision, the Department of Homeland Security has not attempted to resume the use of administrative denaturalization. Since 2001, only several dozen naturalized Americans have lost their citizenship, through judicial proceedings, largely because they committed different kinds of fraud during the naturalization process. This small number is in part explained by Kungys v. United States, in which the Court refused to uphold the denaturalization of Juozas Kungys because the government had not shown that his misrepresentation concerning the date and place of his birth were facts that, if known, would have warranted denial of citizenship.
This is not the first time in its history that the State Department has exercised discretionary power over passports as a proxy for nationality policy. The 1907 Expatriation and the Protection of Citizens Act contained a provision stating that a residence of two years in the foreign state of origin by a naturalized citizen, or of five years in any other foreign state, would allow the government to assume that he or she “has ceased to be an American citizen.” The provision transformed some instances of denaturalization from a judicial to an administrative procedure. Furthermore, there was no longer a time limit placed on penalizing the maintenance of a residence abroad. Soon thereafter, Attorney General George Wickersham held that the new law had been enacted not to deprive naturalized Americans living abroad of their citizenship; rather, it was meant only to relieve the State Department of the burden of protecting them after an extended stay abroad. In the years following the Wickersham opinion, under the Taft and Wilson Administrations, this remained the Justice Department’s interpretation of the 1907 Expatriation Act.
Starting in 1911, the State Department rebelled against the Department of Justice’s interpretation, de facto denaturalizing naturalized Americans residing abroad simply by refusing to deliver them a passport. In the 1924 decision United States v. Gay, the Supreme Court endorsed the Justice Department’s approach and described the presumption of loss of citizenship based on foreign residence as “easy to preclude, and easy to overcome.” In 1926, the State Department subsequently reached a truce with the Justice Department. “The presumption that a naturalized American living abroad had ceased to be an American citizen would no longer exist ‘upon his return to the United States and his reestablishment here in good faith of a permanent residence.’”
The State Department, waiting for an occasion to reestablish the scope of denaturalization of foreign-born Americans residing abroad, found it in the Nationality Act passed in October 1940, steeped in the climate of fear caused by the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Sections 404-06 of the Act applied an automatic loss of citizenship to naturalized citizens residing as few as two years in their country of origin or five years in any other foreign countries during any time after their naturalization. Congress went far beyond foreign-born Americans by deciding to denationalize different categories of native-born Americans perceived to be un-American. During the period from 1940 until Afroyim v. Rusk in 1967, when the revocation of one’s passport followed as a consequence of the loss of citizenship, the State Department did not stop using its passport power as its citizenship policy. In 1959, the State Department tried to challenge the validity of a certificate of citizenship of the son of a naturalized American born in Germany. The Immigration and Naturalization Service considered the certificate valid. The Attorney General issued an opinion in which he stated that Congress, in providing for the issuance of the certificate of citizenship to the former, meant “to deprive all other administrative officers of the United States of the power to put in issue the citizenship status recognized by a certificate regular on its face.” And he added, “[t]o rule that the Department of State may deny a passport . . . on the ground of non-citizenship although he is in possession of a certificate duly issued would mean that the same treatment might be accorded the thousands of persons holding like certificates.”
However, in the years following Afroyim, during which time U.S. citizenship has become more and more protected and the incidence of denaturalization has declined, the State Department might once again be tempted to use the revocation of a citizen’s passport as a proxy for revoking naturalization. Such a claim is reinforced by the argument that the same office charged with delivering passports should have the power to revoke them. When asked in 2000 to determine the constitutionality of the 1990 Immigration Act’s delegation of the power to denaturalize to the Attorney General rather than the federal courts, the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, stated:
[T]here is no practical sense in supposing that, because the Attorney General can naturalize, she needs to have the power to denaturalize. The former power is typically exercised wholesale, the latter retail. An administrative agency is useful for performing large numbers of repetitive, routine tasks (from the agency’s viewpoint, not the new citizen’s), such as naturalization, that do not take away important liberties from individuals. But administrative agencies, accustomed to treat a case as “one unit in a mass of related cases,” are dubious instruments for performing relatively rare acts catastrophic to the interests of the individuals on whom they are performed.
The same reasoning could apply to the State Department, which is in charge of delivering millions of passports every year. The significance of this logic extends well beyond the cases that have recently come to light. At least those Yemeni Americans subject to State Department action had their cases taken up by some lawyers and NGOs. Other Americans abroad do not have similar access to legal counsel and may not know that they have grounds for legal appeal should they feel that their status as American citizens is unfairly contested. This further underscores the need for clarification by the courts.
Conclusion
The State Department seems to be abusing its power with passport revocation—unknowingly in the case of Snowden, as the Department could at first glance rely on a jurisprudence that seemed until recently to favor executive power, and willfully in the case of the Yemeni Americans. It therefore seems that it is time for courts confronted with passport revocations to reexamine the constitutional function of the passport and its status in relation to American citizens who, since Afroyim, have gained more protection over their citizenship in relation to the state—including in relation to the Secretary of State. Today it is commonplace to say that new technologies infringe upon civil liberties—they often do. However, in the case of passports and the essential right of Americans to maintain a legal identity, new technologies offer an avenue to protect that very right. By affirming both that a passport belongs among the privileges and immunities of an American abroad and that the Secretary of State cannot revoke a passport as a matter of administrative routine, courts could make the passport an almost inalienable auxiliary of the American citizen abroad: the symbol and substance of an irreducible citizenship which the Supreme Court has already proclaimed.
Patrick Weil is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a senior research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.) in the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. His most recent book is The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Among his other recent publications are From Conditional to Secured and Sovereign: The New Strategic Link Between the Citizen and the Nation-State in a Globalized World, 9 Int’l J. Const. L.615 ()and (with Son-Thierry Ly) The Anti-Racist Origins of the American Immigration Quota System, 77 Soc. Res. 45 (2010).
I would like to thank especially Daniel Hemel, Yaman Salahi, and Michael Wishnie, as well as Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Michel Dejaegher, Giorgios Dimitropoulos, Owen Fiss, Itamar Mann, Gerald Neuman, Noah Rosenblum, and Eugene Rusyn for their numerous and decisive contributions to this Essay. I am most grateful to Idriss Fofana and Nicholas Handler, my research assistants at Yale Law School, for their invaluable creativity and reactivity. At the Yale Law Journal, Benjamin Farkas has been a fantastic editor and discussion partner, Benjamin Eidelson encouraged me to submit a proposal and then, together with Ryan Thoreson, has worked behind the scenes. Thanks to all.
Preferred citation: Patrick Weil, Citizenship, Passports, and the Legal Identity of Americans: Edward Snowden and Others Have a Case in the Courts, 123 Yale L.J. F. 565 (2014), http://yalelawjournal.org/forum/citizenship-passports-and-the-legal-identity-of-americans. | positive |
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In December 2005, Republicans were poised to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, an achievement they had sought for decades. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) had attached the provision to a must-pass defense spending bill and threatened to keep lawmakers in Washington until Christmas if they tried to strip it. Desperate to remove the provision, leaders from national environmental groups turned to a handful of key GOP senators for help.
With only days left before the critical vote, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski and Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund President Rodger Schlickheisen obtained a private audience with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). McCain had been on both sides of the Arctic drilling issue over the course of his career, and the two leaders of the fight against opening the refuge were eager to know whether he would come down in their column.
His answer disappointed them. In the brief meeting, the senator said he was unwilling to risk blocking a bill involving the military at a time of war -- even though it was clear the broader funding bill would pass quickly and by a wide margin if opponents managed to strip the ANWR provision from it. "We told him, 'This may be the key vote, this may be the time we win this,' " Schlickheisen recalled in an interview. "He said, 'Not on this bill.' That was it."
Ultimately environmental activists were able to defeat the measure with the aid of two Republican senators -- Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) and Mike DeWine (Ohio). But they have not forgotten McCain's decision, and many say it exemplifies his approach to environmental issues.
"There's no question that among a lot of bad Republican votes in the Senate, he's one of the better ones," Schlickheisen said. "He is perhaps the most unpredictable, erratic, of those votes."
McCain has made the environment one of the key elements of his presidential bid. He speaks passionately about the issue of climate change on the campaign trail, and he plans to outline his vision for combating global warming in a major speech today in Portland, Ore.
"I'm proud of my record on the environment," he said at a news conference Friday at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. "As president, I will dedicate myself to addressing the issue of climate change globally."
But an examination of McCain's voting record shows an inconsistent approach to the environment: He champions some "green" causes while casting sometimes contradictory votes on others.
The senator from Arizona has been resolute in his quest to impose a federal limit on greenhouse gas emissions, even when it means challenging his own party. But he has also cast votes against tightening fuel-efficiency standards and resisted requiring public utilities to offer a specific amount of electricity from renewable sources. He has worked to protect public lands in his home state, winning a 2001 award from the National Parks Conservation Association for helping give the National Park Service some say over air tours around the Grand Canyon, work that prompts former interior secretary and Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt to call him "a great friend of the canyon." But he has also pushed to set aside Endangered Species Act protections when they conflict with other priorities, such as the construction of a University of Arizona observatory on Mount Graham.
Doug Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser, said the senator does not always please "environmental groups who are single-issue, litmus test" organizations. Instead, he said, McCain seeks to weigh the costs and benefits of each environmental issue.
"Look, he always balances what are the environmental implications of these enterprises and what are the economic benefits that could come from them," Holtz-Eakin said. "That is, in general, an approach which may be harder to read than a flat ideological X or Y, but it's how he reads these things, it's how he evaluates these kinds of decisions."
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Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew's recent draft told us one very important thing about the receiving corps.
Mayhew is very happy with the recovery of Ryan Broyles and Nate Burleson.
Many NFL observers believed Mayhew would select a receiver early in the 2013 NFL draft because of previous season-ending injuries to Broyles and Burleson. Broyles sustained an ACL injury last year, while Burleson had a tibial plateau fracture, and turns 32-years old in August. Burleson recently declared he was fully recovered, and Mayhew seemingly agreed.
Detroit did not select a receiver until the sixth-round of the recent NFL draft (Virginia Tech's Corey Fuller). The last time Detroit waited that long to draft a receiver was when Mayhew selected Tim Toone (seventh-round) in 2010. Prior to that, Detroit waited until the seventh-round to select Wyoming receiver Marcus Harris in 1997.
Mayhew avoided receivers USC receiver Robert Woods and California receiver Keenan Allen in the second-round and selected Mississippi State cornerback Darius Slay. He also selected Kentucky guard Larry Warford in the third-round, which showed a receiver was not high on his list of priorities.
While Broyles and Burleson's health likely influenced Mayhew, the offseason addition of running back Reggie Bush was another factor.
Bush has pass-catching ability, plus can line up as a receiver in offensive coordinator Scott Linehan's offense. With teams having to find ways to stop Calvin Johnson and Bush, picking up another receiver proved to be a luxury for Mayhew, not a necessity.
STILL ROOM FOR MOORE: Speaking of the draft, Mayhew considered drafting his first quarterback since Matthew Stafford in 2009.
Lions backup quarterback Shaun Hill is a free agent after this season, while Kellen Moore was heavily criticized for his performance during last year's training camp and preseason games.
Detroit could have drafted a quarterback in the late rounds to compete against Moore, but Mayhew went in another direction. He eventually signed Western Michigan quarterback Alex Carder as an undrafted free agent to compete against Moore.
"Yeah, I mean, you look at the board, you see guys with grades up there that you think highly of," Mayhew said. "That thought crosses your mind. We thought about that. There were guys up there that we graded very high who we considered drafting, and we didn't."
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A Russian Su-24M tactical bomber performing a combat sortie over the territory of Syria in the vicinity of the Turkish border was brought down by a Turkish Air Force fighter jet. Ankara and Moscow have conflicting versions of what exactly happened on Tuesday.
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Ankara claims the Russian Su-24 frontline bomber was downed after it violated Turkish airspace. The alleged violation reportedly lasted 17 seconds. The Russian military says the jet never entered Turkish territory and the Turkish F-16 fighter itself breached Syrian airspace.
Airspace violation contested
According to an official narrative that Turkey hastily put forward, its F-16 fighter jets intercepted two “unidentified” aircraft as they were approaching the Syrian-Turkish border. Both had reportedly violated airspace above Turkish territory in the south and one of them was shot at while in Turkish airspace. To back up its claim, Turkey released a flight map of the incident.
#BREAKING Pentagon spox confirms Turkey warned Russian pilots repeatedly before shootdown, pilots did not respond pic.twitter.com/DiKUWmdPWn — CNN Türk ENG (@CNNTURK_ENG) November 24, 2015
In a letter to the UN, which was leaked online, Turkey claimed it had warned the bomber 10 times in five minutes before the F-16s fired air-to-air missiles. The letter says that the plane spent 17 seconds inside Turkish airspace before it was taken down.
Turkey's statement: Claims Russia violated airspace for just "17 seconds" with very slow 243 miles/hour jet. pic.twitter.com/knhdy0RWIA — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 24, 2015
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied any communication attempts on behalf of Turkey before the incident.
It said the downed Su-24 had never entered Turkish airspace, demonstrating a flight track contradicting that released by Ankara. The ministry added that the Su-24 was shot down over the Syrian territory about 1km from the border and crashed 4km from it.
#SYRIA#Rudskoy Objective monitoring data confirmed no attempts of Turkish plane to establish communication or visual contact with Rus crew — Минобороны России (@mod_russia) November 24, 2015
The Russian military said that the Turkish F-16 jet that shot down the Russian warplane had entered Syrian airspace in order to attack in an act that violated Syria’s sovereignty.
Previous incidents
Russia and Turkey have previously had disagreements over Russian military jets flying close to the Turkish border. In early October, a Russian warplane briefly entered Turkish airspace in what the Russian military later said an evasive maneuver taken in response to a Turkish fighter jet locking on the Russian plane.
Ankara protested and Russia apologized for the mistake, which appeared to be the end of the conflict.
“We’ll warn any country that violates our borders in a friendly way. Russia is our friend and neighbor. There is no tension between Turkey and Russia in this sense. The issue of Syria is not a Turkish-Russian crisis,” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at the time.
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Even if Turkey’s version of what happened on Tuesday is true, the response to alleged violation by Russia appears to be disproportionate and contradicting Ankara’s own position. In 2012, Turkey lost an F-3 Phantom warplane to a Syrian attack after it strayed into Syrian territory.
“A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was then-Turkish prime minister, told BBC at the time as he expressed rage over the downing of the plane.
And Turkey has prior form in terms of violating other nations’ airspace. In 2005, Turkey entered Greek airspace 1,017 times, or as often as 40 times a day, according to a WikiLeaks document.
Russia’s anger over the incident is aggravated by the fact that it happened shortly after Moscow signed an agreement with Washington on how to prevent such incidents over Syria, where both Russian warplanes and aircraft of the US-led coalition conduct anti-terrorist missions. Turkey is part of the American coalition and is subject to the agreed rules.
Russian Su-24M jet shot down by Turkey over Syria Turkey shoots down Russian Su-24 fighter jet over Syria. Turkey says it violated airspace, Russia denies. READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6xe7 Posted by RT Play on Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Complaining to NATO
One of Turkey’s first moves following the incident was to call its NATO allies while stonewalling Russia’s requests for communication, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The alliance expressed support for its member.
“We stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integrity of our NATO ally, Turkey,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after the emergency meeting.
But Ankara’s explanations to fellow alliance members were reportedly not that convincing.
“A number of representatives of member countries of the alliance reacted very cautiously to the Turkish complaints,” an insider source described the meeting to RIA Novosti.
The source added that Turkish military called not 10 times, but only twice before opening fire and that the recordings of those communications “are characterized as quite obscure.”
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Flawed rules of engagement
So far the incident seems to boil down to Turkey either violating its rules of engagement or having an extremely aggressive approach to foreign warplanes. The use of force is justified in defending national borders, but usually a clear and imminent threat is required to resort to such drastic measures.
Russia and Turkey are (or at least were) friendly nations and the Turkish military would be justified in expecting that any unidentified plane approaching Turkey from Syria could be Russian. In mere minutes it decided that the “unidentified” warplanes posed a threat to Turkey and responded with lethal force. Over a 17-second violation, according to Turkey.
Considering the short timeframe, the decision to fire that missile was likely taken even before the alleged violation took place.
Turkey’s haste contrasts with the way the US-led coalition engages terrorist forces. In a recent attack on a truck convoy it sent fighter jets to drop leaflets warning about an imminent attack 45 minutes ahead.
Premeditated provocation?
According to some experts, the decision may have been taken long before the incident and the downing of the Russian warplane may have been a premeditated act on Turkey’s part.
“This airplane was not making any maneuvers to attack the territory,” former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, told Fox News. “It was probably pressing the limits, that's fair. But you don't shoot 'em down just because of that.”
“I don’t really trust President Erdogan in what he is doing,” he added. “I think it was an overly aggressive maneuver and at NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense] command region we would not use this kind of rules of engagement. That had to be preplanned.”
There is other evidence pointing to a possible provocation. At least four different people managed to film the fall of the Russian plane from different points despite the fall taking about a minute. One may suspect that they knew beforehand that the plane would be taken down.
“It appears that the Turkish media knew about the incident beforehand. An anti-Russian spin had started on November 23 evening and the cameras were already there on the next day to film the falling Russian plane,” Vladimir Avatkov, a politics scientist specializing in Turkey studies at MGIMO, Russia’s leading foreign relations university, told Lenta.ru news website.
Classified US cable: Turkey violating Greek airspace 40 times a day https://t.co/iboxOyFJIwpic.twitter.com/YKFmyJZkSf — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 24, 2015
The incident resulted in the deaths of two Russian troops – one of the pilots and a marine killed in an attack on a Russian helicopter sent to rescue the two pilots of the Su-24 bomber.
Russia’s relations with Turkey have taken a heavy blow, with Moscow accusing Ankara of aiding and abetting terrorists to protect revenues from oil smuggling in collusion with Islamic State. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the incident a “stab in the back.”
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In March of 2014, the Republican presidential field looked like a mess. Gov. Chris Christie's administration was mired in the Bridgegate scandal. Sen. Marco Rubio had lost popularity after backing immigration reform. Gov. Scott Walker faced his own tough reelection fight, and had never been tested on the national stage. And Sen. Rand Paul — a candidate unacceptable to many party insiders — was rising in polls and building a national network.
So party elites took action. On March 29, the Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Robert Costa reported, "Many of the Republican Party’s most powerful insiders and financiers have begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the 2016 presidential race." The courting of Bush played out over the rest of the year — and finally culminated in Bush's December announcement that he'd form a presidential exploratory committee, a signal to many that he was very likely to run.
GOP elites wanted a candidate, and now it looks like they may get him. This is an example of how the "invisible primary" can shape the nomination contest long before the voters have a say. And while we're still a year out from the first real primaries, the invisible primary is, at this point, in full swing. Here's what it is — and how you can follow it.
1) What is the invisible primary?
The term "invisible primary" refers to the attempts by important elements of each major party — mainly elites and interest groups — to anoint a presidential nominee before the voting even begins.
"The invisible primary is essentially a long-running national conversation among members of each party coalition about who can best unite the party and win the next presidential election," political scientists Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller write in The Party Decides, a 2008 book arguing for the centrality of the invisible primary in the nominations process.
Essentially, party insiders — elected officials, donors, interest groups, activists, and political staffers — are attempting to individually decide who they want their nominee to be, and often to coordinate with others in the party. These insider deliberations take place in private conversations with each other and with the potential candidates, and eventually in public declarations of who they're choosing to endorse, donate to, or work for.
"These people who have a stake in the outcome aren’t going to just let it play out. They’re going to try to rig it in their favor," says Noel, a Georgetown government professor.
2) Is the invisible primary a new phenomenon?
The term "invisible primary" has been in use at least since a 1976 book of that name by journalist Arthur Hadley. But it's been fleshed out through the work of political scientists trying to understand the massive changes that have occurred in the parties' nominating processes since the 1970s.
the nomination process may be closer to the old days than many think
Throughout most of American history, the major parties determined their presidential nominees at conventions. Delegates around the country — many of their votes controlled by powerful political leaders or bosses — would converge in one location, and high-level negotiations would take place in various "smoke-filled rooms." Eventually, the party insiders would reach a consensus on one ticket. The "voters" had quite little to do with their choice.
But after reforms in the 1970s, the vast majority of delegates were now awarded according to the results of statewide presidential primaries and caucuses. At first, the party elites appeared to have lost control over the process — as demonstrated when Jimmy Carter, a little-known one-term governor of Georgia, managed to win the 1976 Democratic nomination. It looked to many like Carter won by going over the heads of party insiders and taking his case straight to the voters. It seemed like the smoke-filled room was dead.
Over the next few decades, though, many establishment favorites have won nomination — raising the possibility that the nomination process is still closer to the old days than many think. So several political scientists have begun trying to analyze what happens during this invisible primary period. The authors of The Party Decides in particular argue that party insiders' actions during this phase play a hugely important and often decisive role in determining the nominee.
3) What happens during the invisible primary?
First things first: potential candidates have to decide whether to run or not run. "The people who would like to run meet others active in the party — donors, elected officials, other interest groups. They have private conversations, gauge support and see if there's any interest in them running," says Karol, a co-author of The Party Decides. And sometimes — as in the case of Jeb Bush — it's the party insiders who are reaching out to a potential candidate, and urging him or her to run. These preliminary talks help guide potential candidates' assessments about whether they have a path to victory, and therefore whether they should mount a non-invisible campaign.
"The invisible primary puts constraints on what happens after the primaries and caucuses begin"
Once candidates actually get in the race, there's a more intense round of discussions among members of the party network about who their nominee should be. According to Noel, two main things are taken into account. "The first is, 'Is this person someone who I like and want to be president?' Ideology is a big part of this, but it's also about whether a person is going to be loyal to the rest of the party." Second is electability: "Can they win? Do they have what it takes to be appealing?"
Some party network members then start to endorse particular candidates. Most of these announcements dribble out in the year before the primaries actually begin. Declared candidates, after failing to win support and raise enough money, often drop out during this period. Once the field has been winnowed down somewhat, a frontrunner is sometimes — but not always — anointed by the party.
Then, the voters actually start going to the polls — but the effects of the invisible primary still persist. "The invisible primary puts constraints on what happens after the primaries and caucuses begin," says John Sides, a political science professor at George Washington University. "A candidate can win an unexpected victory in an early state. But whether they can capitalize on that depends on how much support they've built up to that point."
For instance, in 2012, Rick Santorum (very narrowly) won in the GOP Iowa caucuses, and Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary. But it was evident that neither candidate had enough support from the party network to sustain a broader, national campaign. "Who's going to give you money? How are you going to do the campaign work you need to do to build on your success? Without any support of the party you're not going to muster that," Sides says. "I don't think there’s any indication that a couple of rich guys and a Super PAC is enough."
4) How do we know who is winning the invisible primary?
By nature, things that are invisible are difficult to watch. So the main data presented by the authors of The Party Decides focuses on the most visible aspect of the invisible primary — endorsements.
The authors amassed a ton of data on endorsements that occurred before the Iowa caucuses — from sitting governors, to former elected officials, to local officeholders and even celebrities — and weighted it by the importance each endorser seemed to hold in the party. In most of the competitive primaries starting in 1980, the authors found, one candidate had a clear advantage in these weighted pre-primary endorsements — and that candidate went on to win the nomination.
So, the authors argue, watch endorsements. They matter more than you probably think.
However, the authors aren't saying that endorsements specifically cause a candidate to win. Rather, endorsements are a signifier of how the invisible primary is going — and therefore of which candidate the party network is choosing to favor. "In our theory, party insiders rally to the candidate of their choice, endowing him or her with endorsements, access to fund-raising networks, and pools of talent and volunteer labor," they write.
This is in contrast to theories arguing that the causal arrow goes the other way — "candidate-centered" accounts arguing that inherently stronger contenders "attract endorsements, money, and volunteer talent." So Dave Hopkins, a political science professor at Boston College, cautions that "we have to be careful about assuming that the endorsements are causally prior to the candidate demonstrating mass popularity. No one wants to endorse a candidate who can't get mass popularity. There's a cost to betting on the wrong horse."
5) How often do party insiders get the nominee they want?
Not everyone agrees that the party's influence is so decisive. "I think the Party Decides people have done a great job in highlighting the role of elite activity. And when they make the point that we're not living in the '70s anymore, that the elites have figured out the dynamics of the primary process much better than they initially had, I'm completely sympathetic to that," says Hopkins, the Boston College professor. "But the nomination process is incredibly complex. And while the role of elites is an important one, but I don't think it's the only one."
How good are party elites at coordinating?
There have been 13 at least somewhat competitive presidential primaries since 1980. In 9 of those 13 contests, there has been one decisive winner of weighted pre-primary endorsements that has gone on to win the nomination. These are Reagan and Carter in 1980, Mondale in 1984, George HW Bush in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992, Bob Dole in 1996, Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
So, by the Party Decides authors' own metric, there are 4 recent cases where the party did not successfully anoint one candidate as the nominee — Dukakis in 1988, Kerry in 2004, and McCain and Obama in 2008. Indeed, only once in the past four competitive primaries has there been a decisive endorsement winner who then won the nomination (Romney in 2012).
Karol, one of the co-authors of the Party Decides, emphasizes that Kerry and McCain were in fact considered frontrunners in the earliest media coverage, before the endorsements started going out. Still, he expresses some doubt about how effectively each party can pull the strings. "My skepticism is, how good are party elites at coordinating? I think the cases where the party has coordinated on a candidate during the invisible primary, it's always been somebody fairly obvious," he says. For instance, they've thrown their support behind a current or former vice president (Mondale, George HW Bush, Gore), a close relative of a former president (George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton), or the runner-up in the previous competitive contest (Reagan, Dole, Romney).
There was one time when the party did appear to successfully coordinate on a non-obvious choice — Bill Clinton in 1992. "Clinton did emerge during the invisible primary period and was clearly ahead of the other people in endorsements, though he didn't get the kind of wall to wall support Gore or George W. Bush had in 2000," Karol says. But overall, it seems party elites may be better at stopping an unacceptable candidate than anointing one acceptable one among several.
6) Tell me more about some of the exceptions.
1988 : For the Democrats, endorsements were split, with just a narrow plurality going to eventual nominee Michael Dukakis.
: For the Democrats, endorsements were split, with just a narrow plurality going to eventual nominee Michael Dukakis. 2004 : For the Democrats again, John Kerry was third in endorsements according to the authors' metric, trailing both Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean — there was no clear favorite.
: For the Democrats again, John Kerry was third in endorsements according to the authors' metric, trailing both Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean — there was no clear favorite. 2008: For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton clearly won pre-primary endorsements and lost the nomination. For the Republicans, endorsements were split between John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson — McCain seems to have held a narrow edge, but there was no decisive favorite.
The authors of The Party Decides viewed McCain's win in 2008 as particularly ill-fitting with their theory — Karol says it's "the worst case for us." Before the primaries began, there was no party consensus candidate. "Romney had a late conversion to social conservatism and his religion was an issue, Giuliani was not a social conservative, and McCain wasn't seen as a reliable party man," says Karol. "There was a demand for someone else."
This yearning for an orthodox and party-loyal conservative led former Senator Fred Thompson to make a much-hyped entry into the race in September 2007. The Party Decides authors, who were putting the finishing touches on their book, were thrilled. According to Karol, one co-author jokingly emailed to the others that if Thompson got the nomination, their book would win the Nobel Prize.
But once Thompson entered the race, he performed unimpressively on the trail and his lead in national polls vanished. And after Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses, John McCain effectively became the de facto Republican establishment pick by winning New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida — because of actual early state outcomes, not backroom conversations with party insiders. "I think in 2008, lots of Republican elites wouldn't have minded if Romney got the nomination instead of McCain, but they didn't care that much," Hopkins says. "But in that case, did the party really decide?"
"The best part of the McCain story for us is what he did between 2003 and 2008," says Karol. "The party supported Bush and not McCain in 2000 because he wasn't entirely predictable, wasn't a reliable party man. And then, early in Bush's first term, McCain was very much a troublemaker from the standpoint of the Republican Party. But at a certain point, he decided he could run again in 2008, and decided to get back into the good graces of the party, and did all these things that his admirers kinda cringed at. He went to Falwell's university" — Liberty University, where McCain delivered a commencement address in 2006 — "and accepted an honorary degree after he had called him an 'agent of intolerance.' Went around saying 'look, I'm really a good boy, really a team player.' He recognized he had to change his ways, and he did."
So McCain made himself into an acceptable nominee for the party. Still, he seems to have won the nomination because of his electoral strength as demonstrated in visible primaries, not the invisible one. "This is social science. We don't have laws. We make generalizations, we try to identify mechanisms, but nothing is 100 percent," Karol says. "Individuals matter."
7) What's going on in the invisible primary for 2016?
For the Democrats, Clinton is clearly winning the invisible primary at this point. "Hillary has basically almost been nominated," Karol says, though he admits that's "a dangerous statement to make." Hopkins frames the key question as whether there's any important enough group in the Democratic Party network — of elites, activists, or base voters — "who are not okay with her just winning." If there is such a group of people, he says, they'll still face the problem of finding and coordinating on an alternative. "But it may just be that the party in general is at least willing to tolerate her as the nominee, and is not willing to put blood, sweat, and tears into stopping her. If that's the case, then that's that."
The GOP's situation is much more unsettled. These recent examples show that, despite the attempts of some to anoint Jeb Bush, it's not at all a sure thing that just one insider favorite will emerge — and, if so, that that favorite will win the nomination. "The Republican field, though, they have a lot of time to have this discussion, and to learn about these people," Karol says.
There's also the question of whether the world is changing in ways that undermine the theory. In our modern wired media environment, increasingly plugged-in voters could conceivably weaken the power of party insiders, and give candidates without elite support a boost. "There's Fox News now, which didn't exist," Karol says. "There's the internet, which didn't really exist. Now, Herman Cain wins a straw poll in Florida, and he gets a ton of national media attention. Gingrich explodes for months on those debates."
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2 Iranians charged with threatening US voters in 2020 | SunOnline International Local World Sports Entertainment Business Travel Maldive Islands Local World Sports Entertainment Business Lifestyle Travel Maldive Islands date_range Saturday 24 Sep 2022 Dhivehi Edition + Local World Sports Entertainment Business Lifestyle Travel Maldive Islands close Advertisement 2 Iranians charged with threatening US voters in 2020 1 By Associated Press Nov 19, 2021 10:54 The grand jury indictment against Iranian nationals Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian is photographed Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) WASHINGTON (AP) — Two suspected Iranian computer hackers have been charged in a broad campaign of election interference aimed at intimidating American voters during last year’s presidential race and undermining confidence that the results of the contest could be trusted. The activities, prosecutors say, exploited not only computer vulnerabilities but also existing social divisions to sow discord and confusion among voters. The Iranian cyber campaign included bogus emails that targeted Democratic and Republican voters with different messages, the distribution of a fabricated video that purported to show acts of election fraud and an unsuccessful effort the day after the election to gain access to an American media company’s network. The overall effort attracted publicity in the run-up to the November 2020 election, when law enforcement and intelligence officials held an unusual evening news conference to accuse Iran of orchestrating an email campaign aimed at intimidating Democratic voters in battleground states so they would vote for Trump. The indictment makes clear that even as much of the public concern about foreign interference in last year’s election centered on Russian efforts to disparage Trump’s challenger, Joe Biden, Iranian hackers were engaged in a wide-ranging influence campaign of their own. U.S. intelligence officials said in a March assessment that Iran’s efforts were aimed at harming Trump’s reelection bid, and probably authorized by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, but that there was no evidence that Tehran or any other foreign actor had done anything to change the vote totals. The indictment, filed in federal court in Manhattan and unsealed Thursday, accuses Iranian nationals Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian of helping carry out the scheme. The Treasury Department also announced sanctions against the men, some of their colleagues and the company they worked for. The defendants, described in the indictment as experienced hackers who worked as contractors for a cybersecurity firm, are not in custody and are believed to be in Iran still. But officials hope at minimum that the indictment and accompanying sanctions will restrict their ability to travel. Each faces a broad array of charges, including voter intimidation, transmission of interstate threats and computer crimes. Asked Thursday whether the defendants’ activities were endorsed by the Iranian government, a Justice Department official who briefed reporters on a conference call noted that the indictment alleges that the company the men worked for — formerly known as Eeleyanet Gostar — provided services to the government. But the indictment does not directly implicate the government because the Justice Department can rely only on unclassified, admissible evidence that it can bring to court, the official said. Court documents allege vast efforts to spread disinformation about the presidential contest and to intimidate and pressure voters. Some of the activities persisted even after the election. As part of the cyber campaign, officials say, the hackers attempted in the weeks before the election to compromise voter websites in 11 states, and successfully downloaded voter information related to more than 100,000 people in one state. While the defendants did not use that information to attempt to change vote totals, officials say, they created the appearance that the election results could not be trusted by leaving the false impression that it was possible to submit fraudulent ballots. They also sent Americans what officials describe as carefully curated messages, specifically tailored to appeal to — and divide — members of both major political parties. That included messages that purported to be from a far-right group, the Proud Boys, that threatened Democratic voters with physical harm if they didn’t change their party affiliation and vote for Trump. “You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you,” the email said, according to prosecutors. Though the messages pressured voters to support Trump, they may have been designed to actually harm his campaign by aligning him in the minds of voters with the Proud Boys after he was criticized for failing to unequivocally denounce the group during the first presidential debate. To Republican officials and people associated with the Trump campaign, meanwhile, the hackers crafted Facebook messages that falsely claimed that Democrats were planning to exploit security vulnerabilities in state voter registration websites and commit voter fraud, the indictment says. 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B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver says Alberta should “get with the program” and move away from oil and gas.
OK, let’s do it.
The first step would be to stop shipments through the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline to the B.C. Interior and Lower Mainland.
Almost 90 per cent of the fuel for Vancouver and the southern coast comes out of that pipeline, either as gasoline or crude to be refined.
Kinder Morgan is also a major supplier of gasoline to Kamloops and the wider interior. In a separate operation, the company pipes jet fuel to Vancouver Airport.
Imagine the progress if all that was cut off — car-free streets, silent skies, parked transport trucks, happy strolls to pick up the kids and the groceries. Such a blessing!
The Alberta government could actually do something like that. In fact, it already has.
Since at least the 1970s, the province has had authority to prohibit shipments of energy products outside the province.
Former PC premier Peter Lougheed once cut the volume of crude oil sent to eastern refineries, as part of his epic battle with Ottawa over control of the industry.
Energy Minister Don Getty, later the premier, stopped signing permits for natural gas going down the pipeline to Ontario refineries.
It was a protest against federal policy that discouraged refining in Alberta.
“What really bothered us were the petrochemical plants in Sarnia,” Getty told me in 2011, recalling the episode with delight.
“The government and the companies had decided that the future development of second stage industry was going to happen there, using our feedstock.
“So we just stopped sending it to them. I had authority to approve all shipments eastward, and all those documents just piled up on my desk, because I didn’t sign.
“The next thing we knew, Bill Davis (the Ontario premier) was phoning Peter and saying, ‘Hey, we have to come and see you, because we’re out of gas here.’”
The Lougheed PCs also won a Supreme Court ruling against a federal export tax slapped on oil and gas shipped to the U.S.
Currently, the export permit system is handled by the Alberta Energy Regulator and applies to natural gas. The Notley government, never reluctant to change laws and regulations, could easily broaden that power and take it back into the energy minister’s office.
Weaver and his NDP collaborator, John Horgan, are messing with a province that has heavy weapons and a long history of using them. And the truth is, the power balance is heavily tilted toward Alberta.
Just as Alberta is landlocked, B.C. is in a way sea-locked. Most B.C. products going to the rest of Canada pass through Alberta.
The B.C. NDP and Greens show no respect for the new Canadian Free Trade Agreement. They invite retaliation against shipments of wine, lumber and scores of other products.
But B.C.’s main vulnerability is oil and gas, the very industry Weaver and Horgan want us to blithely leave behind.
Kinder Morgan is the only Canadian pipeline that transports “batches” of petroleum products — crude one day, gasoline the next, maybe bitumen after that. This unique variety, and the fact that it’s the only coastal pipeline, makes B.C. heavily dependent on Alberta’s complex industry.
Natural gas producers in the B.C. northeast routinely send their product to Fort Saskatchewan for processing, and then bring it back for sale. Isn’t that double jeopardy for the environment? We’re getting with the program here — maybe we should stop it.
The producers and pipeline companies would not like shipping restrictions. Political disputes cut into their revenue. But the earlier grudges faded when Lougheed’s actions turned out to be in their long-term interests.
The Alberta NDP is so far saying nothing about retaliation. Premier Rachel Notley’s view is that the pipeline will get built without resorting to punitive measures.
But that’s just for now. B.C.’s weak underbelly in the fight against the pipeline expansion, ironically, is its very reliance on Alberta oil and gas.
Weaver and Horgan could get a preview of petroleum-free B.C., sooner than they think.
Don Braid’s column appears regularly in the Calgary Herald
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Jim Antle makes the understatement of the year:
Santorum has also given little indication of having learned from the foreign policy blunders of the Bush years.
What makes Santorum a bit different from other hawkish candidates this cycle is that he doesn’t avoid the subject of Bush-era foreign policy. Gingrich was every bit as much the vocal proponent of invading Iraq, but you don’t hear him talk about it now. Most of the things that Antle and I would call foreign policy blunders Santorum still supports today as much as he ever did, and he is happy to tell people about it. I don’t think any other 2012 pro-war candidate has presented his support for the Iraq war as an example of his support for spreading freedom as Santorum does here:
I supported America’s security and freeing Muslims and others from oppression in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Santorum has been an outstanding example of an Iraq war supporter who not only never learned from the mistake of the war, but also continues to repeat talking points from 2003-2004 as if he really believes them to be true. Invading Iraq seriously damaged U.S. interests, wasted thousands of American lives, left tens of thousands of Americans wounded, destroyed Iraq’s ancient Christian communities, and resulted in the deaths of 100,000+ Iraqis and the displacement of millions. Iraq is an unfree country ruled by a semi-authoritarian, sectarian government, but it is also a much more dangerous and poorer place to live than it was before the war. Santorum voted for a policy that devastated an entire people and cost the U.S. greatly in lives and wealth, and even now he boasts about it as if it were something admirable.
Santorum is probably one of a handful of former or current office-holders convinced that the biggest problem with Bush’s foreign policy was that it wasn’t always as aggressive as it could have been. Like Republican hawks who thought that Reagan had gone “soft” on the USSR in his second term (or, for some of them, as early as December 1981), Santorum positioned himself as a critic of the Bush administration after 2005 because Bush was not calling the enemy by its proper name and wasn’t doing enough to confront Iran. Santorum would probably say that the main “blunder” of the Bush era was not challenging Iran more directly. He still thinks that his landslide defeat in 2006 is a testament to his political courage rather than proof that the public rejected the hard-line ideology he was peddling. The “lesson” Santorum learned from 2006 is that he was right all along, and didn’t need to make any changes to the way he thought about the U.S. role in the world, which is why he continues to advocate horrible policies with all of the zeal of an Iraq war supporter in 2003. | positive |
As NFL Draft weekend creeps closer, the intrigue about how the Chicago Bears will approach their rebuild is approaching its zenith for Bears fans.
For me, the particularly interesting question will revolve around how the Bears prioritize their “wants” vs. what they need, particularly in the early rounds. Do they follow the “best player available” rule or do they draft based on positional need?
While the focus here is differentially on the first few rounds of the draft as these picks will undoubtedly shape the Bears’ later decisions, a little bit of late-round action will be addressed. And though I obviously have prospects I like, I’m most interested in how these prospects could fit into each category and what these picks could mean for the Bears’ overall approach.
Wants—only draft high if it’s your guy; otherwise, draft later
• Ezekiel Elliott/running back
Should Elliott—widely touted as the most complete running back prospect to enter the draft in years—manage to fall to #11, he would almost certainly be the best player still available and a very tempting option for the Bears, though it would also be allow some glaring roster holes to go unaddressed until later rounds.
The latest news, however, is that the Bears might not be willing to wait to see if he’ll slip down to them. Rumor is that they could be talking to the Cleveland Browns about moving up to #8 overall, where they would likely take Elliott provided that he is available. Should this happen, it would surely make things interesting as far as how they chose to address their defensive picks depending on how many picks/which picks they give up.
If the Bears chose to stay put and wait to add a running back, several intriguing players would likely still be on the board after Round 1. Alabama’s Derrick Henry could go in the first round but might slide into the second, while Notre Dame’s CJ Prosise and Indiana’s Jordan Howard will be available in Rounds 3-4; all of these are big-bodied runners that could complement the speedy, yet smaller Jeremy Langford.
• Quarterback
Roll your eyes if you want, but the fact is that Jay Cutler is a good starting quarterback coming off one of his best seasons in a league desperate for good quarterback play. While the clock is certainly ticking on Cutler’s career—he turns 33 in two days—entertain the thought that he can give you three more effective years: why draft a replacement in the first round that might sit three years (unless you’re dead convinced he’s a stud) when you could draft players right now that can contribute immediately at positions of need?
That said, the Bears should draft a QB this weekend, since they’re currently one injury away from starting Matt Blanchard, David Fales, or insert random veteran here. Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg and Stanford’s Kevin Hogan—he of the unorthodox delivery—would top my list of talented mid-round options that could develop behind Cutler this season and yet also be clear upgrades over their current backups in case of injury.
• Offensive tackle
The Bears may not be 100% comfortable with Charles Leno Jr. at left tackle going forward after he showed flashes of his potential last year but had an up-and-down season overall. As such, two more players popping up on more mock draft boards at #11 lately are Notre Dame’s Ronnie Stanley, an athletic pass protector with Pro Bowl upside, and Michigan State’s Jack Conklin, a more bruising presence that could fit the Bears’ run-heavy style. If the Bears happened to make a move up to #8, Stanley would become a real possibility if Elliott were gone.
Should they pass on Stanley or Conklin, I could see the Bears still looking to add depth at tackle within the first four rounds if the right guy is available. A few intriguing prospects in that regard would be Indiana’s Jason Spriggs, Auburn’s Shon Coleman, and Texas A&M’s Germain Ifedi; all of which are first-round-type talents that could slide into Day 2. A Round 4-5 pick that mock drafters have linked to the Bears is none other than Carson Wentz’s North Dakota State blindside protector Joe Haeg, a developmental prospect that fits best as a zone run-blocker but is more accomplished in pass pro.
Needs—draft high if possible, but don’t reach
• Tight End
Yes, the Bears are putting their stock in Zach Miller to produce heavily in the starter’s role vacated by Martellus Bennett. After him on the depth chart is Khari (cool, right?) Lee, who totaled one reception for seven yards last season. Given Miller’s injury history, the Bears should think very hard about adding another tight end via the draft.
Unfortunately, this draft class does not have a strong tight end pool, with Arkansas’ Hunter Henry (project Round 1-2 pick) generally regarded as the top prospect. That said, I did like the flashes I’ve seen from Stanford’s Austin Hooper, the only other TE prospect listed as having visited the Bears this spring. Both Henry and Hooper appear to be Day 2 picks, so if the Bears feel strongly enough about what they added to their defense at the start of the draft (they’re not going to pick either until the defense is addressed), remember those names.
Also, for college basketball fans out there, former Oregon power forward Rico Gathers could be an intriguing 6th round TE upside pick, having impressed at his pro day while trying to become the next crossover star that can present matchup nightmares a la Antonio Gates and Jimmy Graham.
• Outside linebacker
Ultimately, grabbing a dynamic pass-rushing outside linebacker could end up being the most valuable pick the Bears can make in this draft despite not being their most glaring roster hole, provided they get the right guy.
The Bears have one of the most disruptive outside linebackers in the league from a year ago (Pernell McPhee) and a couple of capable players on the other side in Lamarr Houston and Willie Young. However, one can never have enough dynamic pass-rushers off the edge (think Denver Broncos), and this draft is full of potential prospects that the Bears could nab high. Georgia’s Leonard Floyd and Clemson’s Shaq Lawson should be high on the list, with Eastern Kentucky Noah Spence as a darkhorse prospect with tremendous upside as a pass-rusher.
The biggest wild card here in my opinion is Myles Jack, whose injury status has left teams with concern regarding his longevity in the league and yet could be franchise-altering when he’s on the field. And, unlike fellow injured, ultra-twitchy linebacker prospect Jaylon Smith, pick #11 (or pick #8 if the Bears were to switch with the Browns) would be the only shot the Bears get at him if he happened to fall that far and if they aren’t completely scared away by his injury.
If the Bears pass on Jack, it would indicate they’re also unlikely to pick up Smith either, though he’s projected to fall to approximately the late 3rd/early 4th round, at which point his potential might begin to equal or outweigh his risk. If you’re looking for a nice, safe pick later in the draft, though, then Maryland’s Yannick Ngakoue (Round 3-4) or Stonybrook’s Victor Ochi (Round 7) might interest you as developmental pass-rushers.
Big needs—draft high/draft often
• Defensive end
The Bears badly need at least one more 3-4 defensive end early in the draft. Despite the acquisition of Akiem Hicks adding a startable, though not elite, player to pair with Eddie Goldman on the interior defensive line, a one very big hole exists at the other end spot which, at this point, would be occupied by a combination of Ego Ferguson and Will Sutton. Not good…
Grabbing an edge rusher is certainly needed in the first few picks, but the Bears really need to add someone up front that will help them stop giving up 4.5 yds/carry in the run game. While adding Danny Trevathan and Jerrell Freeman will certainly upgrades the front seven, those guys could benefit from having a player like Sheldon Rankins or Jarran Reed in front of them at the point of attack. It’s too much to hope that DeForest Buckner will be around at #11, but trading up into the top 10 could potentially being him back into play if the Bears can’t pick up Elliott.
There’s also good value later on that the Bears can take advantage of in players like Louisiana Tech’s Vernon Butler or Mississippi State’s Chris Jones—both of whom the Bears appear to have interest in and could be had in the second round. They have also scouted local Illinois prospect Jihad Ward, a raw yet remarkable athlete with that should be available in Round 3, and Notre Dame’s Sheldon Day, an undersized but high-energy interior pass-rusher that will similarly be around until Round 3-4.
• Cornerback
When Kyle Fuller and Tracy Porter are your top cover corners, you definitely need another one, which explains the emergence of Vernon Hargreaves, William Jackson III, Eli Apple, and Mackensie Alexander in discussions about the #11 pick (Jalen Ramsey will be long gone). Even if the Bears skip this position in the first round, there’s a really good chance that they grab a corner by the end of Round 3 and certainly should grab at least one more throughout the draft.
Two players I like for later cornerback value are Notre Dame’s KeiVarae Russell and Georgia Tech’s D.J. White. Russell could have been a bordeline first-round pick had he not missed 2014 due to academic suspension and showed some rust upon his return. White has also been tabbed by many as a mid-to-late-round favorite of the Bears, showing off impressive ball skills that Chicago might be able to utilize after some seasoning and having noted special teams value as well.
Later round grabs
• Wide receiver: assuming a healthy positional group to start the year, the Bears will have their top four receiver slots already penciled in (Alshon Jeffery, Kevin White, Marquess Wilson, and Eddie Royal). Of course, none of those players could stay healthy for the duration of last year, but the point is that it’s low on the totem pole as far as needs go. The Bears likely won’t look to add receivers until Round 3 at least, provided that they have addressed their defense sufficiently. Look for Oklahoma’s Sterling Shepard here as a potential steal if he happens to slip into Round 3, and especially keep an eye out for Georgia’s Malcolm Mitchell and Michigan State’s Aaron Burbridge (a pick I would love in the middle rounds) on Day 3.
• Safety: Aside from monster DB prospect Jalen Ramsey, there probably aren’t many safeties the Bears would take early on that would be more valuable than an edge-rusher or defensive end. As such, the Bears will likely wait until the middle-late rounds to address this position. Boise State’s Darian Thompson could break that mold if the Bears like him enough in Round 3 or 4, as his size and ball skills could be useful defending the middle of the field. One guy being talked about later on—and one that the Bears have notably met with—is Notre Dame strong safety Elijah Shumate, who’s projected as a 7th rounder/FA. Though he’s very raw in coverage, Shumate is a big hitter with some size that could develop into a nice find after learning at the NFL level for a bit.
While the Bears could certainly use a couple of players on the offensive side of the ball, the most clear-cut needs for this team are unquestionably on defense, which improved from the past two seasons but still struggled across the board. Finishing 22th in both rushing yards allowed (26th if you like yds/carry better) and in sacks, tied for 25th in passing touchdowns surrendered, 28th in takeaways and 29th in third down efficiency last year underscores the need for impact players on this unit.
If the Bears happen upon Elliott/trade up for him or go for an offensive tackle they like at the right time for their first pick, they might elect to go offense first, address the DE/OLB situation in Round 2, and then perhaps double up on the front seven or grab their first corner next. If the Bears go with edge rusher or defensive line first, that opens up the door for a tight end, running back, or offensive tackle steal on Day 2 or early Day 3. Then, once Round 4 rolls around, I see the formulas looking fairly similar no matter what, with the Bears adding a receiver prospect or two for depth and stocking up on defensive backs throughout the late rounds. With so many positions needing help, however, very few options are truly off the table no matter what’s speculated.
Without just one positional need, the most prudent thing to do would seem to be get the best available players to upgrade both sides of the ball, as drafting just based on need can lead to truly impactful players being missed. Picking one side or the other will always have its drawbacks, though, and so it will be interesting to see how often Pace is able to strike gold and get the best player available where the Bears need him most. | positive |
Image caption Dreamland will include a collection of restored historic "thrill rides", salvaged from all parts of the UK
The redevelopment of the historic Dreamland theme park in the Kent resort of Margate should be more than just a funfair, its designer has said.
Outlining his plan for the site, Wayne Hemingway explained that the "thrilling historic rides" would only be one part of the park's revival.
He is working on the overall scheme and branding and said the site could also host festivals and performances.
The restored park should be for people of all ages to enjoy, he said.
It is hoped that stage one of the project to turn the site into a £10m heritage park will open in 2014.
'Up-cycled materials'
It will include a collection of restored thrill rides, salvaged from all parts of the UK and dating back to the 1920s.
The Grade II* listed Scenic Railway - the oldest rollercoaster in the UK - will also be restored and operated by a brakeman at the back, rather than being controlled by a computer.
Mr Hemingway said other ideas included using "up-cycled materials".
Image caption Wayne Hemingway said the restored park would be for people of all ages to enjoy
"Old waltzer cars that could make fantastic seats in a restaurant," he said.
"Another idea is a tea-cup cafe - sitting in the tea-cups from an old ride that can no longer be a ride because too much is missing.
"It's changing evocative things that may have ended up in a scrapyard and bringing them back to life."
HemingwayDesign is working in partnership with the Dreamland Trust and Thanet District Council to revive the amusement park.
More than £10m has been granted by the Department for Culture Media and Sport's Sea Change programme, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the council to fund the project.
However, the owner of the site, DreamlandLive and eight other parties, have appealed against a government decision to award a compulsory purchase order to the council, and the High Court judgment is awaited.
In the meantime, the Heritage Lottery Fund has given the council and the Dreamland Trust permission to start design work and restoring the rides. | positive |
Japan, China to craft new political document for Xi's state visit ENGLISH 简体中文 繁體中文 日本語 Latest Japan World Sports Feature Arts Coronavirus Olympics 3/11 Fukushima Japan, China to craft new political document for Xi's state visit KYODO NEWS - Jan 9, 2020 - 22:25 | All, World Japan and China have decided to craft a new major political document that will lay the foundation for their future relations, to be unveiled when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits as a state guest in the spring, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Xi agreed to create the document, the fifth of its kind since the countries normalized diplomatic relations in 1972, in a meeting in December last year in Beijing, the sources said. While relations between Japan and China have often been frayed by differing views of wartime history and territorial disputes, ties have improved in recent years amid Beijing's trade spat with the United States. To start the drafting process for the document, Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba will visit China possibly on Monday, one of the sources said. Another said the document will likely include a reference to the "responsibility" both countries should bear to maintain peace and stability in East Asia. There are currently four political documents that are considered to be the foundation of Japan-China relations. The first, a joint communique signed in 1972 between then Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, ended the "abnormal state of affairs" between the countries following the end of World War II and resulted in China renouncing its demand for wartime reparations. The second, a peace treaty concluded in 1978, affirmed the countries would settle all disputes by peaceful means and refrain from using force, while the third was created when then Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Japan as a state guest in 1998. The fourth, created when Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, visited as a state guest in 2008, said the countries would promote a "mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests." Japan, for its part, is seen as hoping the drafting of a new document will help keep China committed to the international rule of law and rein in its economic and military expansionism. It will be looking to cover environmental issues and North Korea's nuclear program in the upcoming discussions. But the drafting process could be complicated by outstanding differences, including China's dispatch of government ships to waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands. The islets in the East China Sea are controlled by Tokyo but are also claimed by Beijing, which calls them Diaoyu. The countries are also at odds over China's detainment of Japanese nationals who Tokyo argues are being held on unclear charges. While Abe has been eager to invite Xi as a state guest, some conservative lawmakers in his Liberal Democratic Party have urged for the trip to be canceled, citing such outstanding issues as well as the human rights situation in Hong Kong and the far-western Xinjiang region. Japan is hoping to avoid the new document including keywords espoused by Xi such as the Belt and Road initiative and the concept of a "community of shared future for mankind" out of concern it would give the impression China had taken the lead in its creation. 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PORTLAND — No, I am not making this up. At OSCon, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), best known to you as the people checking up on you between the airport parking lot and your flight, quietly announced that they're now offering a service for checking out your open-source code for security holes and bugs: the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP).
"Why," you ask?
Because Patrick Beyer, SWAMP's Project Manager at Morgridge Institute for Research, the project's prime contractor, explained, "With open source's popularity, more and more government branches are using open-source code. Some are grabbing code from here, there, and everywhere." Understandably, "there's more and more concern about the safety and quality of this code. We're the one place you can go to check into the code"
This is true, but the government has been using open-source software since before the phrase "open source," or even the earlier phrase, "free software" existed. Some of NASA's COSMIC free scientific code collection, for example, dates back to the 1960s and the Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), the first electronic health record (EHR) system, began in the early 1980s.
During my own time at NASA in the 1980s, Linux was introduced. Soon thereafter, the first Linux supercomputer architecture, Beowulf, was created at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1995. More recently, in 2010, the popular open-source cloud program OpenStack, got its start as a joint project between RackSpace and NASA.
So it is that government agencies have long both used and created "open-source" software. What's been missing, and what the SWAMP tries to provide, is a centralized way of checking the code for errors and security problems.
While SWAMP is funded by a $23.4 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), SWAMP is designed by researchers from the Morgridge Institute, the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Each brings broad experience in software assurance, security, open source software development, national distributed facilities and identity management to the project.
The SWAMP servers themselves are hosted at the Morgridge Institute in Madison, WI. At the Institute, the clustered servers are kept at a secure facility. The SWAMP cluster currently has 700 cores, 5TBs of RAM, and 100TBs of storage to meet the continuous assurance needs of multiple software and tool development projects. SWAMP opened its services to the community in February of 2014 offering five open-source static analysis tools that analyze source code for possible security defects without having to execute the program.
These tools currently are:
FindBugs: Identifies errors in Java programs using Java bytecode rather than source code.
PMD: Finds common programming flaws in Java, JavaScript, XML, and XSL applications.
Cppcheck: Detects bugs usually missed by compilers in the C and C++ languages.
Clang Static Analyzer: Finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs.
GCC: The Gnu C compiler is used to ensure C and C++ code is syntactically correct.
CheckStyle: Evaluates a wide variety of programming style rules for Java.
error-prone: This tool finds violations in Java code using Google’s best practice programming style.
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According to SWAMP, "These static analysis tools review program code and search for application coding flaws, unintentional or intentional, that could give hackers access to critical company data or customer information. Each of them has been proven to be an effective SwA measure. The new interfaces make it easy for software developers to apply one or many of these tools to a single software package."
In addition, SWAMP hosts almost 400 open source software packages to enable tool developers to add enhancements in both the precision and scope of their tools. On top of that the SWAMP provides developers with software packages from the National Institute for Standards and Technology's (NIST) Juliet Test Suite.
The Juliet Test Suite is a collection of over 81,000 synthetic C/C++ and Java public domain programs with known flaws. These known flaws are used to test the effectiveness of static analyzers and other software assurance tools. The Juliet Test Suite covers 181 different Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) and also includes similar, but non-flawed, code to test tool discrimination.
Beyer added that the SWAMP team "keeps the tools updated and supported for dozens of versions of Linux to test again. Simultaneously, thanks to its integrated viewer for all its tools the SWAMP is easy to use." SWAMP's testing suites can be used at no cost by both government and other programmers.
"Software has become a core fabric to all aspects of our lives. It is integral in the operation of our home appliances, embedded devices, point of sale systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and of course, our mobile devices; and we must not forget that software powers our critical infrastructure. The ubiquitous nature of software makes us all vulnerable and susceptible to potential attacks," said Software Assurance Manager Kevin E. Greene of DHS S&T in a prepared statement. "DHS S&T recognizes the importance of software; the SWAMP is a response to better protect this nation and improve the quality of software that powers our critical infrastructure, the Internet, and our daily lives."
“Because the network perimeter has been successfully secured to a great degree, most malicious attacks are now directed at applications, making the need to assess software more critical than ever,” concluded Beyer. “SWAMP provides easy access to a powerful platform that lowers the cost and complexity barriers of software assurance. It allows today’s software developers and security professionals to increase the level of confidence that their software is free from vulnerabilities either intentionally or accidentally designed into the software during its lifecycle. Now, today’s professionals have an array of tools to help ensure their software functions in the intended manner.”
Oh, and because I know some of you are wondering "How can I trust my code to the DHS!? Beyer assured would-be users that, "All SWAMP activities performed by users are kept completely confidential. The only one who sees your code are you and the SWAMP system administrators. In no way does testing your programs on SWAMP give the government any access, control, or rights to your programs."
Personally, while I still think the DHS is an unlikely sponsor for this project — the National Security Agency (NSA) or NIST seem like its more natural home — I think the SWAMP sounds like a very useful one-stop for anyone wanting to double-check their pre-production code for errors before release.
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Aldrin Navo.com: KEEPING YOUR COOL Aldrin Navo.com Thursday, August 28, 2008 KEEPING YOUR COOL Do you often let other people's nonsense change your mood? How often do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? One thing to keep in mind is this: the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. There was someone who shared his experience to illustrate this perspective in this way from the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened...”I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches! The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean...he was friendly. So, I said, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck." "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'll be happy you did." This must be the right attitude one should have when dealing with such people. Allowing them to ruin your day will cause you to miss out the many good things of the day. It will take only one such event to make the whole day sour. Keeping our cool must be the norm of the day. Many incidents occur when one is overcome by their feeling of being taken advantage by another. If not careful, it could result in unnecessary confrontations with the other person. It will be wise to heed the admonition of the following Scriptures: · Proverbs 14:17, “A quick-tempered man does foolish things…” · Proverbs 15:18, “A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel. “ · Proverbs 17:14, “Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.” Having such important guidance in dealing with such circumstances will benefit us greatly. Keep in mind that there are other things that we could redirect such energy. Here are some specific points to remember for each day that you have: 1. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets 2. Love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don't 3. Believe that everything happens for a reason. Never let the garbage truck run over you... It is not that you are not allowed to be angry but just make sure that we remember what the Scripture says about anger in James 1:19-20, “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” Keep this reminder close to your heart and mind because we will need it. Keeping our cool is better than starting a fire without knowing the effect it will bring personally and those around us. The Psalmist has an excellent prayer that all of us must say each and every day. Here it goes: “Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.” (Psalms 141:3) If you must know, I believe that our teeth could become the guard over what our mouth will say. Bite your tongue intentionally whenever there is an urge to retaliate. When you do, you will be the better person always and you’ll be glad you did. Let’s talk again! 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Back in 1996, when the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed Congress by an overwhelming majority, they had the feelings of the country behind them. A 1996 Gallup poll showed that 68 percent of Americans rejected marriage equality for gays and lesbians. Fifteen years later the picture looks quite different.
Last week, a Senate committee approved a bill that would repeal DOMA. The 10-8 vote on the Respect for Marriage Act in the Judiciary Committee was along party lines, but proves, according to sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein, that Democrats are willing to vote against DOMA even in the midst of pending elections.
The bill certainly has an uphill climb in both the Senate and the House, if it even gets introduced in this session. That fact caused Republicans—who spent their time recently passing a measure to re-affirm “In God We Trust …” as the national motto—to accuse Democrats of wasting time.
But, the fact that the measure could get out of committee is a big step for the eventual repeal of DOMA. The latest polls show that a slim majority, 53 percent, of the population now favors marriage equality for gays and lesbians. The political reality is that is often takes time for the people’s will to ever see the light of day in Congress, so DOMA may remain the law of the land for the foreseeable future, but this vote gives it momentum in the right direction.
Reaction from the religious right was predictable, of course. Over at Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, bloggers opined about “actual human beings who will be hurt if DOMA is struck down.” Those actual human beings (since gays and lesbians apparently aren’t) are the children. “Think of the children!” is, of course, the right wing’s favorite battle cry.
They take the passage of the measure out of committee as an opportunity to talk about the “harm” being done because Catholic charities may have to stop adoption services rather than consider same-sex couples.
“The Catholic Charities of Illinois were supposedly protected, too, but the state decided to run them out of business. You can’t change marriage without harming a lot of people,” CitizenLink quotes Peter Breen from the Thomas More Society.
It’s certainly true that Catholic Charities can’t do business with the state anymore after civil unions were passed but they were hardly “run out” of business. The rules of doing business with the state changed, and it was Catholic Charities that chose to not play by those rules. If Catholic Charities really cared about the children they would find a way to work with the state instead of taking their services and depriving children of good homes—whether they were gay or straight parents. If religious organizations choose their dogmas over serving children, then it is that organization that is inflicting harm—not those who are working for marriage equality.
The real harm is to gay and lesbian couples, many who are raising children together, who are denied the rights and benefits that come with marriage like medical leave and Social Security. One organization, however, is arguing that focusing on “rights” doesn’t do much to put that “actual human” face on the marriage debate. The moderate think tank Third Way is advising in a new report, instead, that gay and lesbian people begin to focus on telling their stories—and how the denial of marriage rights hurts their families in very real and tangible ways to make the point that “actual human beings,” including the children, are being hurt by DOMA and its consequences.
That focus on “commitment” over “rights” may well be what’s needed to completely turn the tide so the stories of “actual human beings” can be told in a clear manner. No argument will sway the hardened positions on the religious right, but when enough people in that “moveable middle” begin to see the harm being done to same-sex couples because of DOMA then perhaps the vote to repeal it will one day be as much of a no-brainer as passing it was. | positive |
From the New York Times:
By Timothy Williams, September 25, 2017
Violent crime, including homicides, rose for the second consecutive year in 2016, driven by increases in a few urban centers including Baltimore, Chicago and Las Vegas, according to F.B.I. data released Monday.
Violent crimes increased nationally last year by 4.1 percent and homicides rose by 8.6 percent, one year after violence increased by 3.9 percent and homicides jumped by 10.8 percent. A total of 17,250 people were murdered in 2016, the F.B.I. said.
While crime over all and violent crime remain well below their levels of the 1980s and 1990s, last year was the first time violent crime increased in consecutive years since 2005 and 2006, according to the F.B.I. data, which is collected from local police departments around the nation and released annually.
Police officials and criminologists continue to express puzzlement about the upsurge. | positive |