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"I think there is a very strong recognition that they need a new stadium," Goodell said. "That's going to be something they have to have in that community to be successful going forward. Everyone is working toward finding out how to do that."

So far Xiaomi’s teasers have pointed at something new, and that’s what we believe we are going to see at the 15th Jan event. Not a Xiaomi Mi5, or a new Redmi Note 2, but a new phone all together. A few days ago we pointed out that teasers of the new Xiaomi phone suggested that Xiaomi could be going down the path of building a higher quality product aimed at a similar target market as the Oppo R5 and Vivo X5 Max, but with all the Mi5 ‘leaks’ we got a little sidetracked. Today’s leak, suggest to us that our gut feeling was right and we will see a new phablet from Xiaomi. It will be a flagship in terms of build and design, but it won’t be succeeding the Mi5 or anything in the Redmi range. It is going to be something new! Xiaomi have been concentrating on their build quality and design of late, this is evident in the Mi4, but we believe that the 4th largest phone maker now wants to be seen as a company who can build high quality, desirable products with great design, and still at a reasonable price! This could be the first Xiaomi phone that embodies Xiaomi’s own style and breaks away from the bland look of the Redmi range and Apple inspired products of the past. it sounds like an all new flagship phablet an “Mi4 Note” or “Xiaomi Opera” perhaps? Looking at the teasers the new Xiaomi product is going to be larger, thinner, and better designed than any other Xiaomi phone to date. We believe that the cases and leaks we postes previously could be similar to the actual design of the new phone, but will look better than we had expected. This latest teaser posted by Xiaomi gives us the most damning evidence yet that the next Xiaomi flagship will be a new phone. I have quickly circled the most obvious words in the puzzle, feel free to look for others and post then in the comments: What I found were: Bigger Sound HIFI Glass Money Lighter Large New UNi Update also found: Note is also on the list, so a flagship phablet device is very likely. Perhaps a Xiaomi Mi4 Note? OIS Faster Opera (it is rumoured that this new device could be called the Xiaomi Opera) I’m sure there are more in there and I will continue to look (just needed to get this news posted). Im not sure if “uni’ is actually part of the puzzle but it could point to a unibody design. The other words are certainly clues “new” and the fact the puzzle is saying “hello” means this is a phone we have not seen yet. Xiaomi are bringing us something all new, that cannot be a Redmi Note 2 or a Mi5, it sounds like an all new flagship phablet an “Mi4 Note”, or “Xiaomi Opera” perhaps! Xiaomi Opera? Features of the new phone are also different to what Xiaomi have focussed on in the past, and show a change in direction for the brand. Audio quality, large display, glass panels are all features that we have seen on rival phones but not on Xiaomi devices. The above puzzle also mentions the name “Opera” which might the title of a new range of Xiaomi Opera phones that includes 2 devices at launch. As you can see we are pretty sure that something new is on the horizon, our only question will this new phone remain at the 1999 Yuan or below price that previous Xiaomi phones have shipped for, or is this new phone going to enter a slightly higher price bracket to fend off other high-class smartphones? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Opening up about his decision to walk out, Downey told Howard Stern on Tuesday, "I just wish I'd left sooner" and explained why that's likely what he'll do if he finds himself in a similar situation in the future. Unlike Quentin Tarantino, who had a similar dustup with Guru-Murthy in 2013, but stayed and berated him, Downey was surprised by and felt uncomfortable with the Channel 4 reporter's line of questioning. "I'm one of those guys where I'm always kind of assuming the social decorum is in play and that we're promoting a superhero movie, a lot of kids are going to see it," he said on Stern's SiriusXM show. "This has nothing to do with your creepy, dark agenda that I'm feeling like all of a sudden ashamed and obligated to accommodate your weirdo shit." He added, "I'm a 50-year-old guy … and I'm completely unevolved when it comes to simple boundaries. [I thought,] 'You know what? You're weirding me out. You're a bottom-feeding muckraker.'" He also doesn't think he should have to endure such probing questions when he's promoting a movie, and going forward, he says, he'll probably extricate himself from a similar situation before it leads to a physical altercation. "The assumption is that there's a button that because you've sat down there, you're going to be scrutinized like a kiddie fiddler who's running for mayor," the actor said. "What I have to do in the future is I just have to give myself permission to say, 'That is more than likely a syphilitic parasite, and I need to distance myself from this clown. Otherwise, I'm probably going to put hands on somebody, and then there's a real story.'" Listen to part of Downey's interview with Stern below.

This article originally appeared on PlanPhilly. — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney will soon announce a street sweeping pilot program following years of criticism over litter-strewn streets, said Nic Esposito, the director of the mayor’s Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet. “Right now we are looking at a possible pilot program, hopefully in the spring,” Esposito told WHYY Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane during Wednesday’s show. “We are putting it together with the cabinet, Managing Director’s Office, the Streets Department and the administration. We’ll see what that looks like, there will be more details to come.” Esposito said that the city has not yet selected a target area for the pilot. The official announcement of the program will come from Kenney, Esposito said. The on-air announcement comes a week after Kenney told Radio Times’ Moss-Coane that the city was exploring the restoration of “some form of street cleaning” after nearly two decades without a regular, citywide street cleaning program. Philadelphia is the only big city without regular street cleaning. In his earlier Radio Times interview, Kenney outlined the obstacles that had led the city to eliminate the last remnants of regular street cleaning. The mayor had said that his political confidant and former South Philly councilman Frank DiCicco had nearly lost reelection due to residents furious over being ticketing for failing to move their cars. “[DiCicco] was concerned with his re-election because people were so angry about having to move their cars when the streets were being swept,” Kenney said. “Think about how insane that was. So everyone was gun-shy after that.” Kenney had promised to restore citywide cleaning during his 2015 election campaign and formed the Litter Cabinet to make good on that pledge. Since, Esposito has maintained that street sweeping is “not a silver bullet” for the citywide litter problem. “We could sweep and then two days later it will go back to looking like it did,” he said. He has said that the cabinet favors a holistic approach that includes data analysis, enhanced enforcement around short dumping and an initiative to give out trash can lids in certain neighborhoods. Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Mike Newall, a Radio Times guest who has criticized the cabinet’s efforts to date, countered that the city sometimes seemed to be using studies as an excuse to delay the reintroduction of basic sanitation efforts. “I think it’s great we’re doing all these studies … if it was on top of a basic service that the city was long past the need for,” he said. “Do the studies, then start the trucks. I’ll drive one.”

New England Patriots running back Jeff Demps recently suggested on a radio interview that his track career -- not his NFL career -- is his top priority at this time. When asked what he would say to Patriots coach Bill Belichick if he asked Demps how he can handle the obligations of two sports, he replied, "Listen coach, I want to do both, but in order for me to get to where I want to be on the track and field side, it'll take a full year of preparation. And after the (track) season, if you guys are willing to let me come back, you know, probably midseason, and work out and train and get ready for the season, I'll be able to do that. If not, then I guess I'll just focus on running." In a follow-up question, Demps -- who was interviewed on Florida sports radio station AM 1040 -- was asked to clarify that his plan would be to return to the Patriots in the middle of the 2013 season because of his track schedule. "Midseason," he reiterated. "I'll probably miss three, four, maybe five games." The 23-year-old, who spent his rookie season on injured reserve, was asked if he feared his football career might not get off the ground because of the multiple obligations. "No, not really," he said. "If I'm not able to do football anymore, it's kind of like I'm just opening up another chapter of my life, and it's on the track and field side. Like I said, I'll be a rookie in the game, and I still have a lot to learn, even though I did it for four years in college and throughout high school. I still haven't seen or ran with any other big-name guys or the top guys in the world. I'm looking forward to it, I'm definitely looking forward to it." Demps is expected to compete for a spot as the Patriots' primary kick returner this offseason along with veteran Leon Washington, who recently was signed by the team. Demps joined the Patriots last August but soon after landed on season-ending injured reserve with a lower leg injury. Bill Belichick was asked about Demps and his desire to run track at the recent NFL annual meetings. "Well, we’ll deal with each player individually with their specific situations and circumstances, whatever they happen to be," Belichick said. "Alfonzo [Dennard] has some circumstances. Demps may have some circumstances. Players with injuries have different circumstances. We’ll deal with them all individually. In the end, we try to do the best we can, what’s best for the team. Same as we always do." Can Demps' track schedule be worked around? "We look at each player individually." Did it take him by surprise, Demps wanting to run track? "Well, again, we’ll just deal with each player individually."

SINGAPORE: Inspector Ho Lei Siang was playing with his one-year-old daughter the night of Sep 2, 2017, when he got a call to report to his police division headquarters in Clementi. As a senior investigation officer tackling commercial crimes, the now 33-year-old didn’t think twice about answering these late-night call-ups and leaving his family behind. At that point, he had been in the job for about seven years. His wife, who used to work in investigations at the Central Narcotics Bureau, was understanding. He knew the activation meant the case was urgent. INSP Ho confirmed this when he heard the brief: Two men had fled with S$1.5 million in cash from an office on Alexandra Road. This happened about three hours ago, so there was still hope of recovering the “huge sum” of money. “The first thing that came to our mind was: This person was trying to bring this money out of the country as soon as possible,” he told CNA in the division headquarters recreation room, rarely used but furnished with a recliner, television and gaming console. “We were fighting against time.” Over the next four days, dozens of police officers would embark on a relentless quest of combing restaurants, speaking to taxi drivers and sifting through hours of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage. INSP Ho, the lead investigating officer, would spend the next few days mostly camped in his cramped office, especially as his Woodlands home was an hour away by train. He had gotten used to four hours of sleep anyway. “It’s already a norm for me,” he said. But as he tirelessly chased the trail of the missing cash, nothing could prepare him for what he would eventually unravel: A transnational crime web involving cruise ships, mobsters and fake Euro notes. “I feel this whole case is like a drama,” he added. “This is one of the most unique cases I have ever done.” FROM PARIS, WITH LOVE Like every drama, this one had its protagonists too. Hours before INSP Ho was activated, Romanian Iosif Kiss, 40, and Frenchman David Weidmann, 37, entered the Alexandra office of Oceanic Group, a firm that deals in the buying and selling of non-commercial vessels like yachts and cruise ships. Iosif Kiss (left) and David Weidmann arriving in court. (Photo: TODAY) Oceanic had brokered a deal involving a foreigner buying a S$50 million cruise ship. The agreement was that Oceanic would get a deposit of €3.5 million (S$5.3 million) from the buyer’s representatives in Paris, and simultaneously pay S$1.5 million in commission to the representatives’ agents in Singapore. It was agreed that the sums would be paid in cash. In a hotel room in Paris, Oceanic managing director Chui Mun Yew received a duffel bag filled with Euro notes. He called his staff in Singapore to release the commission to Kiss and Weidmann. Both parties had earlier verified the cash amounts. INSP Ho at his desk in the Clementi division headquarters. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) As Kiss and Weidmann left Oceanic’s office in Singapore at about 7.43pm with S$1.5 million in a suitcase and briefcase, Mr Chui sat in the Paris hotel lobby and unzipped the duffel bag. His eyes widened in horror when he saw the words “PLAY NOTES” stamped on the crisp Euros. Oceanic staff tried to contact the pair but failed, so they extracted CCTV footage and made a police report at about 10.16pm. INSP Ho was on the way in. The chase was on. ON THE HUNT Within minutes, police issued a lookout alert with pictures of Kiss and Weidmann to counterparts like the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). At the same time, officers started mapping out the route they might have taken. File photo of travellers at Woodlands Checkpoint. (Photo: Marcus Ramos) The starting point was the CCTV footage provided by Oceanic, which showed the men taking a taxi after leaving the office. Police tracked the taxi driver and discovered that they alighted near Mustafa Centre. Officers spent the entire night speaking to people in houses and lodgings in the area, and managed to spot the pair in CCTV footage they reviewed at one hotel. As things started to get clearer, news came in that ICA officers had arrested Kiss and Weidmann at Woodlands Checkpoint. THE PLOT THICKENS INSP Ho rushed to the checkpoint to interview the men, but did not find the cash on them. “The checkpoint was not the ideal place to conduct a deep search,” he said. Back at the station, officers found about S$400,000 – in stacks of S$50 and S$1,000 notes – stashed in their boxer briefs. But there was still about S$1.1 million missing. The clock was ticking. “That aroused our inquiries,” INSP Ho said. “Where did the money go? There must be someone else.” INSP Ho looking at David Weidmann's file. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) The suspects stayed silent, so INSP Ho and his team had to work backwards. “If they refuse to talk, you can only go back to the traditional way of investigation: Find out how they got to the checkpoint,” he added. Through ground enquiries, police found that the pair had taken a bus to the checkpoint from a stop near their hotel. But there were still gaps in the timeline: Did they go somewhere else before boarding the bus? A BREAKTHROUGH While investigations intensified on the ground, INSP Ho cranked up the heat on the suspects. “We told them the facts straight,” he said. “There’s no denial that you went and took the money. You cannot run.” Still, Weidmann refused to cooperate, shifting the responsibility to Kiss and stating that he was there only to accompany him. “Here, we cannot whack them,” INSP Ho added. “We have to use objective evidence. Police had at least three thick files on David Weidmann alone. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) “Of course, I told Kiss what David is saying: He is pushing everything to you, so you will (take the blame). So, it’s better for you to cooperate with us. That is when Kiss decided to talk a bit more.” Kiss claimed all he could remember was that they had visited an Indian restaurant with a statue inside. The information was valuable but vague. “There are too many Indian restaurants and too many statues in those restaurants,” INSP Ho said. Shopping mall Mustafa Centre at Syed Alwi Road. (Photo: Jeremy Long) The next day, officers focused their investigations in a triangle-shaped area marked by the hotel, bus stop and Mustafa Centre. They checked all the restaurants in the area and examined their CCTV footage. Kiss was also brought to the scene to identify the restaurant. He picked out a few, but officers took it with a pinch of salt. The breakthrough came when workers at one of these restaurants said they recognised the suspects. This was confirmed by CCTV footage showing the men entering with their luggage. To ensure it was really them, officers questioned the staff further and were told that the men had bought a glass of Coca-Cola which costs S$7. It was a unique identifier, and details on the receipt matched the time stamp on the CCTV. The police had gotten their men, and the gap in the timeline had been filled. “From the CCTV, we could confirm that David had left the restaurant (with the luggage),” INSP Ho said. “The restaurant is actually opposite City Square Mall.” NEW PLAYERS Officers looked through the mall's CCTV footage and found that Weidmann had entered the basement toilet with a piece of luggage before exiting empty-handed. Also in the footage, they saw a different man enter with one suitcase and leave with two, before joining up with another woman. Nikolic Predrag in a police car. (Photo: TODAY/Koh Mui Fong) This pair would later be identified as Dutchman Nikolic Predrag, 46, and Frenchwoman Nikolic Dalida, 36. “A day had passed and we were fighting against time again,” INSP Ho said. “We didn’t have anything; only their image and attire.” Officers hit the ground again, guessing that the pair would likely take a taxi given the large amount of cash they were lugging around. This turned out to be true when a cabbie said he had dropped them near Marina Bay Sands (MBS). INSP Ho connecting the dots. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) Police searched the area but could not find them. Nobody had seen them either. It was a dead end, but INSP Ho didn’t give up. He discovered that the pair had used MBS as a decoy to cover their tracks. “We checked back the CCTV and found that they actually took another taxi to the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel,” he said. “There was a lot of time wasted.” TICKING THE BOXES But before officers could arrest them, they needed to ensure the circumstantial evidence was watertight. “We have to make our assessment,” INSP Ho said. “If we get them, but they have nothing with them, what’s the next course of action?” On Sep 5, police descended on the Grand Copthorne, speaking to staff to corroborate the pair’s identities and check-in times. It emerged that Predrag and Dalida had not checked out, meaning the cash was probably still with them. The Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel foyer. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) Officers got the green light to storm the room. They waited for the wee hours so guests would not be alarmed. They covered all escape routes, including the possibility that the pair would jump out of their window. They asked staff about the locks on the hotel doors. When they were told that the door could be latched from inside, officers went up with a heavy-duty cutter. They unlocked the door silently, cut the lock swiftly and burst into the room. Predrag and Dalida were jolted from their sleep. Police seized about S$740,000 from the room, but the rest had been remitted and could not be recovered. Dalida said she had followed instructions from France and given the remaining sum to an unknown man at Serangoon Road. This man, later identified as Muhammad Shafee Mohamed Anees, remains under investigation. On Jun 25 last year, Predrag and Dalida were each jailed for two years and six months after pleading guilty to dealing with the benefits of criminal conduct. Later that year on Aug 20, Kiss and Weidmann were each jailed for three years and eight months after pleading guilty to engaging in a conspiracy that facilitated criminal conduct. MAFIA AND MAGIC DRAWERS With that part of the case solved, INSP Ho proceeded to address what could have happened in France. Investigations revealed that in March 2017, Oceanic’s Mr Chui had met one “Boris” in Paris to discuss the terms and conditions of the cruise purchase. “Boris” insisted that payments be made in cash, and rejected other methods like telegraphic transfer or cheque. People stand at the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. (File photo: Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes) During the transaction, INSP Ho said Mr Chui’s associate had counted the €3.5 million cash deposit and verified its authenticity, a process that took more than an hour. After that, Mr Chui was told to put the stacks in a drawer. He didn’t seem to have a choice. “What I understand from the victim is that there were a lot of bodyguards,” INSP Ho said. “They portrayed themselves like the mafia. (The victim and his associate) were also scared because they were in a foreign country. If things happened, nobody was going to save them.” The drawer was shut before Mr Chui was told he could open it again to transfer the cash into the duffel bag. INSP Ho suspects the drawer had a mechanism that replaced the real notes with fake ones. Alternatively, the duffel bag could have somehow been switched out. “We won’t know what happened in France,” INSP Ho added. “Only the French authorities can do that.” INSP Ho preparing Iosif Kiss' charge sheet. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) INSP Ho found out that French authorities were already looking into individuals such as “Boris”, confirming his hunch that the scam was orchestrated by a syndicate. While the countries wanted to work together on the case, each had respective laws preventing the sharing of certain information. The French embassy also invited Mr Chui to lodge a report in Paris so French authorities could start investigations, but that didn’t happen for various reasons. “If you ask me, I also wouldn’t go to France anymore,” INSP Ho said, laughing and highlighting that the case had gone on the news and on an episode of Crimewatch. “After (the culprits) are released, they would know who I am. If I went to France, I’d also be scared.” PERSONAL SATISFACTION Not that it bothered INSP Ho, who strived to “account for every single cent” as he knows what it feels like to fall on hard times. He also credited his team for cracking the case, pointing out that it is one of his biggest to date due to its transnational nature and large sum involved. While INSP Ho has moved to the serious sexual crime branch at the Criminal Investigation Department, details of this case remain fresh in his mind. (Photo: Aqil Haziq Mahmud) “For a normal citizen who has been scammed, every single cent is their hard-earned money. To some people, that money is important. I can sympathise with them,” he said. “So if I don’t account for it, I cannot go to sleep. If I don’t account for it, the victim will be suffering.” WATCH the Crimewatch episode: More episodes of Crimewatch are available here on Toggle.

.- Cardinal Walter Kasper has released a criticism of Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s “Manifesto of Faith,” accusing it of containing half-truths and blanket statements that could lead to division and confusion in the Church. In a statement on katholisch.de, Kasper said that while the manifesto “contains many statements of faith that every upright Catholic can wholeheartedly affirm,” some of the truths in it “are pointed out so pointedly that it fades out the other half.” On Feb. 8, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, published a “Manifesto of Faith,” which he described as a response to Catholics who have requested that he issue a “public testimony about the truth of revelation” in response to “growing confusion about the doctrine of the Faith.” The manifesto addresses five areas of Catholic doctrine: Christology, ecclesiology, sacraments, morality, and eschatology, the branch of theology that addresses death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Each section draws heavily from references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In his document, Müller quotes the catechism, noting that “Anyone conscious of a grave sin must receive the sacrament of Reconciliation before coming to communion.” He adds that “from the internal logic of the sacrament,” that norm applies to “divorced and civilly remarried persons, whose sacramental marriage exists before God, as well as those Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Faith and the Church.” He also reiterated that the Church cannot ordain women to the priesthood and affirmed Church teaching on the existence of heaven and hell. Kasper, who has been an outspoken advocate of the admission of the divorced-and-remarried to Holy Communion, accused Müller of making “unacceptable blanket statements,” such as the assertion that “the conscience of the faithful is not sufficiently formed.” “It is undoubtedly true that the confession of the Triune God constitutes a fundamental difference in belief in God and the image of man from other religions. But are there not similarities, especially with the Jews and the Muslims, in the belief in the one God? And are not these similarities today fundamental to peace in the world and in society? Half the truth is not the Catholic truth!” Kasper charged. He also said that he was “totally horrified” to read Müller’s statement that failing to teach the truths of the Catholic faith “it is the fraud of Antichrist.” Kasper suggested that Müller was following the path of Martin Luther: “One who rightly advocates reforms in the Church, but wants to pursue these behind the Pope’s back and enforce them in opposition to him? I would find that hard to believe. For that could only lead to confusion and division. That could unhinge the Catholic Church.”

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Samsung S5 fingerprint flaw exposed Published duration 23 April 2015 image copyright Getty Images image caption Many smartphones can now be unlocked with fingerprints Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers. A flaw in Android makes it possible to steal the personal information so it can be used elsewhere, said the experts from security firm FireEye. Other Android-based phones that also use fingerprint ID systems could also be vulnerable, they said. Samsung said it took security "very seriously" and was investigating the researchers' findings. Stolen prints Fingerprint ID systems are being used more and more in smartphones to unlock the devices or as a way to check who is authorising a transaction. Paypal and Apple already accept fingerprints as an ID check and a growing roster of firms that are members of the Fido Alliance are keen to use them in the same way to remove the need for passwords. Android phones typically store sensitive data such as fingerprint information in a walled-off area of memory known as the Trusted Zone. However, Yulong Zhang and Tao Wei found it was possible to grab identification data before it is locked away in the secure area. This method of stealing data was available on all phones running version 5.0 or older versions of Android provided the attacker got high level access to a phone. They also found that on Samsung Galaxy S5 phones, attackers did not need this deep access to a phone. Instead, they said, just getting access to the gadget's memory could reveal finger scan data. Using this information an attacker could make a fake lock screen that makes victims believe they are swiping to unlock a phone when they are actually authorising a payment. In addition, they found, it was possible for attackers to upload their own fingerprints as devices did not keep good records of how many prints were being used on each device. In an interview with Forbes magazine , Mr Zhang said the flaws they uncovered were likely to be widespread throughout handsets running Android 5.0 and below. Updating to the latest version of Android, version 5.1.1, should remove the vulnerabilities, he said. The flaw is the latest in a series of problems uncovered with fingerprint ID systems on phones. In April last year, hackers discovered a way to fool the print sensor on the S5 by taking a photograph of a print left on a smartphone screen, making a mould from the image and using that to make a replica fake finger.

North Carolina state Rep. Donny Lambeth (R) North Carolina Republicans just can't quit their addiction to gerrymandering. GOP state Reps. Donny Lambeth and Debra Conrad have introduced a bill that redraws the City Council in Winston-Salem, a city of a quarter-million people, in what appears to be a classic racial gerrymander. The bill would replace the city's eight council districts with five districts and three at-large seats and would also make the mayor a voting member of the body. But the proposed districts heavily concentrate black voters into just two districts, which would diminish their voting power. North Carolina Republicans have repeatedly used their legislative majorities to gerrymander every political institution they can, find from Congress to state courts all the way down to school boards, but they have faced defeats in court at almost every level. In fact, Republicans tried to gerrymander the City Council in nearby Greensboro back in 2015, but a federal court blocked that plan from ever going into effect in 2017 because of—and this will sound familiar—its discriminatory impact on black voters. Republicans could pass this bill despite losing their veto-proof majorities in 2018, since Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper lacks the authority to veto redistricting laws such as this. However, if this gerrymander becomes law, yet another redistricting lawsuit is all but guaranteed.

More than 100,000 WA households could be entirely powered by their own solar energy using battery storage within five years under a 50 per cent tax rebate proposed by the Greens. In one of first major election commitments by the party, Upper House candidate Tim Clifford said the cost of battery units were currently out of reach for a lot of people. The Greens' proposed rebate would allow individuals to get up to half the cost of their storage system covered to a maximum of $5,000 in the first year and tapering off to $1,500 in five years. The $290 million scheme would also provide a $5,000 upfront grant to install solar for families earning less than $80,000. Households with solar panels in WA are looking to batteries as a way to offset the sharp fall in rebates Synergy pays them for their electricity. It is hoped the scheme would kick-start the industry and drive down the cost of units and power bills. Energy Minister Mike Nahan said a possible battery subsidy was discussed, but would not be implemented by the Government. "We discussed it within the bureaucracy ... and it has been suggested by many participants in industry," he said. "There is one in ACT now, I think it is $500 per household battery ... but the Government did not consider, or more importantly, is not going to implement a subsidy on batteries." Dr Nahan said the decision not to progress discussions on the subsidy was not related to the Government's proposed sale of Western Power. 'It's pretty embarrassing': Greens candidate But Mr Clifford said help was desperately needed. "We are relying on last century's technology, basically," Mr Clifford said. "We should be leading on this, WA is one of the ripest places in the world for battery storage uptake due to our high electricity prices ... and high solar radiation. "[But] we don't have a renewable energy target and other states do. It's dismal and I think it's pretty embarrassing that we are behind other the states." Mr Clifford said up to 3,000 WA businesses could also benefit, allowing their battery storage assets to be depreciated over three years rather than 15, which could pay off their battery storage unit within 10 years. The scheme would be co-funded from the removal of federal fossil fuel and mining subsidies. Greens supporter Rowena Skinner powers her home using solar panels but said she could not afford to install battery storage. "For most people, the price is the issue, it is the main barrier," she said.

Representing the various ways the Companions learned the Qur'an from the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), the different qira'aat of the Qur'an have been preserved for over 1400 years to the present day. Varying in the rules of pronunciation and recitation, these different styles of recitation are an indication of the miracle of the Qur'an, as they add to the shades of complementary meaning and eloquence of the Qur'an. Though the majority of us are familiar with only one of the qira'aat, Shaykh Hasan Saleh is a master of the other authentic styles of recitation, many of which we rarely, if ever, hear. Join Shaykh Hasan as he takes us on a journey through these different recitations, and gain a greater appreciation of the beauty of the Qur'an in this live FREE teleconference. Registration is required.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he will increase the GP workforce by 10% to deal with the added workload The government is promising a "new deal" for GPs in England - if they sign up to seven-day opening. In a speech on Friday, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will promise extra investment and help for under-pressure services. The package includes plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs and another 5,000 support staff, including practice nurses. Financial incentives may be offered to those willing to work in the most deprived areas. Those who have left the profession or want to work part-time will be given more help, Mr Hunt will promise. But he will say that in return, GPs need to get on board with his plans for weekend opening, which involves groups of practices pooling together to share the extended hours. Retirement It builds on plans set out at the start of this year for NHS England to make the profession more attractive as the NHS is struggling to recruit new doctors. More than one in 10 GP training places remained vacant last year. A survey of more than 15,000 GPs by the British Medical Association before the general election in May suggested a third were considering retiring in the next five years and one in 10 was thinking about moving abroad. Mr Hunt will urge GPs to work with him. "I want to be upfront: this is not about change I can deliver on my own," he will say. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Dr Niki Dhanjal: "We don't feel the pressure on Friday evenings or Monday morning, the whole week runs seamlessly" "If we are to have a new deal, I will need your co-operation and support. "Within five years, we will need to look after a million more over-70s. "Put simply, if we do not find better, smarter ways to help our growing elderly population remain healthy and independent, our hospitals will be overwhelmed." Read more on GPs Nick Triggle: Why are GPs so angry? Reality Check: Have GP services got worse? Dr Chaand Nagpaul, of the British Medical Association, said GPs were "ready to work with the government". But he warned seven-day services may not be the right idea to push forward with. "Pilots of seven-day routine working are increasingly demonstrating a low uptake of routine weekend appointments," he said. "Therefore, to make the most of the limited GP workforce and precious NHS resource, the government should focus on supporting practices during the day and further develop the current 24/7 urgent GP service so that patients can be confident of getting access to a quality GP service day and night."

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Delhi Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung. Delhi Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung. Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has sought the Centre’s opinion on whether the Delhi government has the power to set up a commission of inquiry to probe the 2002 CNG fitness scam, without seeking his approval first. The probe could put some senior bureaucrats of the erstwhile Congress government under the scanner, sources said. While Jung has apprised the Centre of the Delhi’s government’s decision to probe the scam, the central government will respond to Jung’s query only after seeking legal opinion on the issue, said sources. On August 11, the AAP government had decided to constitute an independent Commission of Inquiry to probe various aspects of the award of work in connection with the scam in the transport department. The one-man commission, appointed under the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952, will be chaired by Justice S N Agarwal, a former judge of the Delhi and the Madhya Pradesh high courts. The commission is expected to complete its probe within three months from the date of its first sitting, government officials said. The Delhi government has claimed that it has the power to set up a commission and the approval of the Lt-Governor is not required for that. The cabinet decision was taken after the government received complaints about alleged attempts to brush the scam — in which the state exchequer suffered losses of over Rs 100 crore — under the carpet, Delhi government officials had stated. Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the AAP government to submit its reply to a plea challenging its notification for setting up a commission of inquiry to probe the scam. The bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath asked the Delhi government to file a short affidavit within two weeks stating whether the Lt-Governor’s approval is required to issue such a notification. During the brief hearing, counsel for petitioner Rajender Prasad, a retired inspector of the transport department, said the state government had “arbitrarily” issued a notification on August 11, setting up a commission of inquiry without prior approval of the Lt-Governor, and sought its quashing. 📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines For all the latest Delhi News, download Indian Express App.

HELL'S KITCHEN — Forget buses — the Port Authority is getting a host of new bike parking spots. The Department of Transportation is building new "bike corrals" in the shadow of the city's massive bus terminal on Ninth Avenue, to complement a recently installed bike lane along the stretch. Each corral takes up a space roughly the size of a parking spot next to the bike lane, with four racks in each corral — making room for approximately eight bikes each. The city is rolling the corrals out along Ninth Avenue over the next few days, with spaces slotted for spots between West 35th and 36th streets, West 38th and 39th streets, and one that's already been installed between West 39th and West 40th streets, according to DOT and CHEKPEDS chairwoman Christine Berthet. The new corrals are among a handful that have been installed citywide. Each corral can be requested by a nearby business, which agrees to maintain the sites. Along Ninth Avenue, the corrals were requests by restaurants Casa di Isacco, Pomodoro Italian Restaurant and Aura Thai Cuisine.

A motorcyclist has captured some seriously bad behaviour on one of Perth's major freeways on camera, and says the footage should be a strong message to other riders about staying safe on the state's roads. Mark Smith was driving on the northbound stretch of the Mitchell freeway near Whitfords at about 4.45pm on Tuesday when he spotted the car erratically overtaking drivers in the right hand lane. "As a motorbike rider on Perth's roads for over 30 years, I thought I'd seen it all, but then I came across this one yesterday," he wrote. The video captures the driver overtaking Mr Smith in the narrow emergency lane, before speeding up and tailgating a second driver.

Egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness, and others are among the traits that stand for the malevolent dark sides of human personality. As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, these traits share a common 'dark core'. So, if you have one of these tendencies, you are also likely to have one or more of the others. Both world history and everyday life are full of examples of people acting ruthlessly, maliciously, or selfishly. In psychology as well as in everyday language, we have diverse names for the various dark tendencies human may have, most prominently psychopathy (lack of empathy), narcissism (excessive self-absorption), and Machiavellianism (the belief that the ends justify the means), the so-called 'dark triad', along with many others such as egoism, sadism, or spitefulness. Although at first glance there appear to be noteworthy differences between these traits -- and it may seem more 'acceptable' to be an egoist than a psychopath -- new research shows that all dark aspects of human personality are very closely linked and are based on the same tendency. That is, most dark traits can be understood as flavoured manifestations of a single common underlying disposition: The dark core of personality. In practice, this implies that if you have a tendency to show one of these dark personality traits, you are also more likely to have a strong tendency to display one or more of the others. As the new research reveals, the common denominator of all dark traits, the D-factor, can be defined as the general tendency to maximize one's individual utility -- disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others -- , accompanied by beliefs that serve as justifications. In other words, all dark traits can be traced back to the general tendency of placing one's own goals and interests over those of others even to the extent of taking pleasure in hurting other's -- along with a host of beliefs that serve as justifications and thus prevent feelings of guilt, shame, or the like. The research shows that dark traits in general can be understood as instances of this common core -- although they may differ in which aspects are predominant (e.g., the justifications-aspect is very strong in narcissism whereas the aspect of malevolently provoking disutility is the main feature of sadism) . Ingo Zettler, Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, and two German colleagues, Morten Moshagen from Ulm University and Benjamin E. Hilbig from the University of Koblenz-Landau, have demonstrated how this common denominator is present in nine of the most commonly studied dark personality traits: Egoism: an excessive preoccupation with one's own advantage at the expense of others and the community Machiavellianism: a manipulative, callous attitude and a belief that the ends justify the means Moral disengagement: cognitive processing style that allow behaving unethically without feeling distress Narcissism: excessive self-absorption, a sense of superiority, and an extreme need for attention from others Psychological entitlement: a recurring belief that one is better than others and deserves better treatment Psychopathy: lack of empathy and self-control, combined with impulsive behaviour Sadism: a desire to inflict mental or physical harm on others for one's own pleasure or to benefit oneself Self-interest: a desire to further and highlight one's own social and financial status Spitefulness: destructiveness and willingness to cause harm to others, even if one harms oneself in the process In a series of studies with more than 2,500 people, the researchers asked to what extent people agreed or disagreed with statements such as "It is hard to get ahead without cutting corners here and there.," "It is sometimes worth a little suffering on my part to see others receive the punishment they deserve.," or "I know that I am special because everyone keeps telling me so." In addition, they studied other self-reported tendencies and behaviors such as aggression or impulsivity and objective measures of selfish and unethical behaviour. advertisement The researchers' mapping of the common D-factor, which has just been published in the academic journal Psychological Review, can be compared to how Charles Spearman showed about 100 years ago that people who score highly in one type of intelligence test typically also score highly in other types of intelligence tests, because there is something like a general factor of intelligence. "In the same way, the dark aspects of human personality also have a common denominator, which means that -- similar to intelligence -- one can say that they are all an expression of the same dispositional tendency," Ingo Zettler explains. 'For example, in a given person, the D-factor can mostly manifest itself as narcissism, psychopathy or one of the other dark traits, or a combination of these. But with our mapping of the common denominator of the various dark personality traits, one can simply ascertain that the person has a high D-factor. This is because the D-factor indicates how likely a person is to engage in behaviour associated with one or more of these dark traits', he says. In practice, this means that an individual who exhibits a particular malevolent behaviour (such as likes to humiliate others) will have a higher likelihood to engage in other malevolent activities, too (such as cheating, lying, or stealing). The nine dark traits are by no means the same, and each can result in specific kinds of behaviour. However, at their core, the dark traits typically have far more in common that actually sets them apart. And knowledge about this 'dark core' can play a crucial role for researchers or therapists who work with people with specific dark personality traits, as it is this D-factor that affects different types of reckless and malicious human behaviour and actions, often reported in the media. 'We see it, for example, in cases of extreme violence, or rule-breaking, lying, and deception in the corporate or public sectors. Here, knowledge about a person's D-factor may be a useful tool, for example to assess the likelihood that the person will reoffend or engage in more harmful behaviour', he says. Fact box: Dark personality traits studied in the research project:

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From Tuesday, 24 November, viewers will be able to use an Android mobile device, or Chrome internet browser on a computer, to stream All 4 content directly to their TV using a Chromecast dongle. Chromecast is a £30 dongle that can be plugged into a non-smart TV that has an HMDI port. A mobile device can be used as a remote control. Apple iPhone and iPad users will be able to use the service from the All 4 iOS app from mid-December. Channel 4 is advertising the launch of All 4 on Chromecast with a TV campaign starring Phil Spencer, the presenter of Location, Location, Location, and Spencer Matthews, a cast member of Made in Chelsea. "Spence and Spence" imagines the two men as flatmates who are sitting on a sofa and fighting over what to watch using Chromecast. Matthews plays up to his egotistical persona by persistently choosing to watch scenes from Made in Chelsea. The 30-second spot was created by John Paul Smith at creative agency The Outfit and will break on Channel 4 tonight (20 November) during TFI Friday, which airs at 8pm. It was directed by Will Clark. Chris Braithwaite, the agency principal at Channel 4, said: "We’ve enjoyed working very collaboratively with Google on this campaign and, with the help of Channel 4’s Spencers, the creative shows a new and innovative way to consume All 4 content." Follow @OmarOakes

Derrière les platines, il se fait appeler DJ Collins. En référence au grand Phil? Il secoue la tête: «Non, rien à voir. Ça remonte à l’enfance. Mon nom, c’est Maillard et les copains disaient Colin pour «colin-maillard», ça m’est resté.» On retrouve ce midi-là Cédric Maillard, alias DJ Collins, dans une pizzeria bondée de Saignelégier. Il vient de fêter ses 40 ans, a une petite fille de 3 ans «qui fait sa sieste en ce moment», et il est une sorte de célébrité locale. Parce qu’il est DJ Collins et qu’il a longtemps été le patron de La Trappe, la boîte de nuit du coin. Saignelégier, c’est le Marché-Concours national de chevaux en août, c’est la course de chiens de traîneau en janvier (annulée cette année faute de neige), ce fut La Trappe, tout au bout du chemin de la Tuilerie, un peu à l’écart de la ville. Il n’en reste rien. Ou si peu. Des murs. Griffés aujourd’hui d’échafaudages. On construit, paraît-il, des appartements. Cédric n’aime pas trop traîner par là, à cause du passé, «le bon vieux temps». En 2014, il se démenait pour sauver sa petite entreprise. Baisse de fréquentation, chute du chiffre d’affaires, factures impayées. «J’ai imaginé des trucs pour faire venir les gens, des conneries comme Les Anges de la téléréalité», se souvient le Franc-Montagnard. Peine perdue. Concurrence très forte Même des soirées de soutien n’ont pas sauvé la discothèque. Elle a été ouverte en 1989, s’appelait alors La Licorne. On raconte qu’elle a pris le nom de La Trappe le jour où un fêtard a jugé que quitter l’établissement avant 4h était chose impossible. Les noctambules affluaient par centaines de La Chaux-de-Fonds, de Delémont, de Porrentruy, du Jura bernois. On venait pour les trois salles et autant d’ambiances, les musiques disco ou rock et les soirées mousse. En 2015, deux repreneurs ont injecté de l’argent et relooké l’endroit. Ambiance plus clubbing, feutrée, moins musique «à donf». Nouvel échec. La Trappe a fermé, définitivement. Pour Cédric, la concurrence est aujourd’hui devenue très forte. «Il y a les réseaux sociaux, les jeunes sont devenus flemmards à cause de ça, plus besoin de se déplacer pour organiser quelque chose, ils se donnent rendez-vous et font des soirées privées.» Autre chose: les fêtes de village qui se multiplient. «Les boîtes sont devenues des bouche-trous, quand on y va, c’est parce qu’il n’y a rien d’autre», résume-t-il. Cédric Maillard est désormais vendeur TV-radio-hifi. Il collectionne les cassettes VHS, avoue une prédilection pour les films d’horreur et les séries B. Et il fait le DJ pour des mariages, des banquets, des fêtes d’entreprise. Salon de coiffure A une demi-heure de voiture, on accède au col des Rangiers qui relie Delémont à Porrentruy. Impression de s’enfoncer davantage dans les Franches-Montagnes. Sitôt que la nappe de brume est percée, le soleil inonde les champs. Arbres et bétail, saupoudrés de givre, paraissent figés. Christian Dürrer a donné rendez-vous au Relais d’Ajoie. Jadis, il y avait là un restaurant prisé par les routiers et les motards ainsi qu’une boîte de nuit, la plus fréquentée de l’Arc jurassien. La taverne s’est muée en un salon de coiffure tenu par Séverine Mahon, qui fait ses permanentes là où les chauffeurs découpaient leur pavé de bœuf. Le dancing est fermé depuis les années 2000. Christian Dürrer, le dernier propriétaire, a aménagé les lieux en un loft confortable. L’ancienne piste de danse, demeurée dans l’état, fait fonction de salon. Le bar interminable invite à des apéros qui traînent en longueur. Les toilettes, spacieuses, peuvent soulager dix personnes à la fois. Christian Dürrer vit là, seul, avec ses souvenirs. «On a reçu ici un after de la Gay Pride de Delémont, ce fut mémorable», dit-il. C’est un dénommé Jean-François Guenat, surnommé Quinet, qui, dans les années 1980, a ouvert ici une piste de danse pour les noctambules ajoulots. Jusqu’à 1400 entrées certains samedis soir. Il avait l’appui des édiles d’Asuel, le village d’à côté, qui ont aménagé des abris antiatomiques au sous-sol. Dans les années 1990, les discos mobiles et les clubs dans les villes se sont multipliés. La conjoncture est devenue difficile d’autant que Delémont et Porrentruy se sont retrouvés reliées en 1998 par une autoroute qui a isolé le Relais d’Ajoie. Une bonne nouvelle pour beaucoup parce que la fête a souvent tourné au drame là-haut. «A l’époque, une vingtaine de personnes qui allaient à la discothèque ou la quittaient ont perdu la vie sur la route des Rangiers», rappelle Olivier Frund, 54 ans, qui travaille à la surveillance environnementale du canton du Jura. «Plus raisonnables» Ce matin-là, il sonde un cours d’eau à Asuel. Sourire convenu quand on lui parle du Relais d’Ajoie: «J’y allais comme tout le monde, il y avait toutes les musiques et ça buvait beaucoup, ça paraît inimaginable aujourd’hui tout ça.» Il poursuit: «Des types organisaient des courses de côte la nuit, ils avaient des talkies-walkies et prévenaient s’il y avait des voitures qui arrivaient en face.» Gaby, le garde-forestier, ajoute: «Les jeunes aujourd’hui sont plus raisonnables, il y en a toujours un qui ne boit pas pour ramener les autres. Nous, on se torchait tous.» Christian Dürrer ne croit pas, lui, à une génération qui serait plus vertueuse que les précédentes: «Quand la téléphonie mobile est apparue, les gens envoyaient des SMS pour prévenir qu’il y avait des contrôles d’alcoolémie sur la route, du coup 150 personnes ne montaient pas au Relais, ça nous a plombés.» Tout comme DJ Collins, il pense que l’arrivée d’internet a nui aux discothèques. «On venait aussi en boîte de nuit pour écouter de la musique et découvrir des sons nouveaux. Maintenant, les nouveautés sont accessibles sur la première plateforme gratuite venue.» Il est un brin nostalgique: «La boîte, c’était aussi les slows et la drague. On se prenait des râteaux bien entendu mais il y avait de la préparation, des manœuvres de séduction. Maintenant, tu te connectes avec la personne avant de la voir et tu sais déjà si ce sera oui ou non. Il n’y a plus de charme.» Autre contrainte, selon Christian Dürrer: l’interdiction de fumer dans les lieux publics. «Deux cents personnes dansent et d’un seul coup 30 sortent pour griller une cigarette, ça plombe l’ambiance et surtout ça casse le DJ.» L'horaire libre Sur la route de retour, à 20 km des Rangiers, une friche, tout à coup, à l’intersection de deux routes. L’inscription «Restaurant de La Roche» est encore visible sur la façade principale où des volets brinquebalants menacent de chuter. On lit aussi «dancing» à l’arrière de la bâtisse fouettée par les hautes herbes. DJ Collins nous avait prévenus: «Vous allez passer par La Roche, c’est une grosse baraque avec un grand parking, un ancien haut lieu festif, à l’abandon aussi.» Au Locle, à 40 km de là, il n’est pas question d’abandon. Bien au contraire. La mythique Pyramide, ouverte en 1989, est devenue un… Aldi. Adieu à la nuit, bonjour au caddie. La discothèque en forme d’immense pyramide a été rasée en 2015. Certains imaginaient qu’avec un nom pareil, on pouvait voir les étoiles au travers de la structure vitrée. C’était un leurre: des alcôves en forme de grotte habillaient l’intérieur. Intimité assurée «pour voir les étoiles dans les yeux de son amoureux». Le quotidien ArcInfo a porté en 2015 un regard nostalgique sur la disparition de l’un des repères de la ville. Témoignage d’une noctambule: «Il y a trente ans, tout le monde bossait ensemble et il y avait la tradition de l’apéro le vendredi à La Pyramide. Maintenant il y a l’horaire libre, la voiture et chacun va de son côté.» Arnex, dans le Nord vaudois, tout près d’Orbe. Accolé au restaurant Le Toucan, l’ancienne boîte de nuit est voie de destruction. Une pelle mécanique s’active en ce moment, déchirant tout sur son passage. Des appartements seront construits. Elle a été ouverte en 1976, s’est appelée successivement le Cash Box, Arthur’s et le Why Not lorsque Claude-Alain Thomann a repris l’affaire en 1988 et ce jusqu’en 2002. Il a accepté de revenir sur les lieux «de la plus belle période de ma vie». Avec un gros pincement au cœur à la vue du ravage. «Il y avait une âme ici», soupire-t-il. Histoire épique. En 1976, des jeunes du coin viennent gratter la guitare dans ce local prêté par la mairie. La musique, c’est bien mais avec de la bière c’est mieux. La commune délivre une autorisation qui, de fait, équivaut à une patente. Un filou flaire le bon filon et ouvre une discothèque. C’est ainsi que ce village de 600 âmes a vu défiler Patrick Juvet, Boney M, Patrick Hernandez (Born to Be Alive), Michel Delpech, Patrick Bruel et l’équipe de Suisse de football. En 2006, le Why Not ferme dans l’attente d’un repreneur. Qui ne se présente pas. «Sans exploitation durant vingt-quatre mois et un jour, un tel établissement voit sa patente supprimée. La mairie a sauté sur l’occasion pour en finir avec ce lieu qu’elle n’avait jamais voulu à cause des nuisances», relate Claude-Alain Thomann. Néo-ruraux Enseignant suppléant à l’Unil, Alexandre Dafflon a posé son regard de sociologue sur les sociétés de jeunesse des cantons de Vaud et Fribourg. Une enquête ethnographique qui a fait l’objet de son travail de thèse. Elle est désormais publiée sous forme d’un livre titré Il faut bien que jeunesse se fasse! (Editions L’Harmattan). Il a réalisé une centaine d’entretiens auprès de membres de sociétés de jeunesse. Il explique: «Ces jeunes sont issus de familles historiques, ils sont moins mobiles que les citadins. Ils aiment à sortir encadrés par les associations parce qu’ils savent qui ils vont y rencontrer.» Dans le même temps, les campagnes (Gros-de-Vaud, La Côte, Nord vaudois, La Broye) ont vu affluer ceux que l’on appelle les néo-ruraux, citadins nouvellement installés dans les villages. «Ce sont des nouveaux styles de vie, le capital économique et culturel est supérieur. Les parents travaillent en ville, les enfants ne cherchent pas à s’intégrer dans le tissu local. Ils sortent dans l’espace urbain, dans les bars, les clubs.» Si, en ville, les boîtes de nuit «traditionnelles» résistent encore à la pression des clubs et autres bars à thème, les fermetures ont tendance à se multiplier. A Sion, le sulfureux Brasilia a été rasé en 2015. A Rolle, la mythique Débridée s’est muée en un gastro pub. A Nyon, l’After Club est en chantier et un nouveau concept sera proposé «pour attirer une clientèle jeune», selon le gérant. A un jet de laser de Genève, le colossal Macumba fondé en 1977 a débranché la sono en 2015. La grosse boîte aux superlatifs, aux 5000 entrées le samedi soir, a été rachetée par Migros France qui devrait y étendre ses activités commerciales et de loisirs. Pour l’heure, il ne se passe rien sinon la naissance d’une friche pathétique mais presque belle à la tombée du jour.

When it comes to maintaining a multistep form in your application, it can turn into quite a big headache, as any step or combination of steps can affect others, and you need to have real-time knowledge of both the form’s overall validity as well as each step’s status. But not when you have Akita! Apart from being one of the leading state management libraries, with over 240K downloads to date, Akita has an additional library, AkitaNgFormsManager , which offers form-specific functionality that can significantly simplify your form management experience. The AkitaNgFormsManager lets you sync Angular’s formGroup , formControl , and formArray , via a unique store created for that purpose. The store will hold the controls' data such as values, validity, pristine status, errors, etc. Unlike other libraries, this form manager doesn’t require the user to learn a brand new API; Instead, it relies on the existing Angular forms API. Let’s take a look at a multi-step form and see how we can use AkitaNgFormsManager with it and what benefits we get from that. We won’t use the entire library API, but you can read about all the available methods here. Form Value Persistence via a Single API Call For this example we create a form with three steps; The first will ask for the user’s name and email, the second for details in the user’s address, and the third will ask for the user’s children’s names. We store each step in our AkitaNgFormsManager store separately, by using the library’s upsert method. Here’s how the form management looks like when we inspect the store in Redux DevTools: Step one: Step two: Step three: This isn’t your regular run-of-the-mill upsert method —it inserts the form in AkitaNgFormsManager ’s store if a form by that name doesn’t already exist for the given key, but if it does, it updates the component’s newly created form with the values and fields already stored for the existing form. This ensures that the changes made in each form are preserved even as we leave that form and the component in charge of it is destroyed. And it does that in a single, elegant, API call. The component in charge of the third step is a bit more clever than a regular form: it adds and removes form fields dynamically, based on the selected number of children. To ensure that the modified FormArray can be recreated the next time the component is initialised, we add a third config parameter in the upsert call, containing a factory function for generating each FormControl in the array. This ensures that upon ensuing visits to the form page, the correct number of fields will be generated based on the form saved in the store. Tracking Validity via the Store To keep track of each step’s validity and dirty status we create a directive, ValidStepDirective : The directive receives as input the form’s key in the store, allowing it to simply observe the required form status values (using the combineLatest operator). In this case, we combine the two values and return false if and only if the form is both dirty and invalid. The result controls whether the host element receives the “invalid” class, allowing us to signal to the user which step is invalid. Accessing Form Values via the Store The parent component also requires each step’s validity status for an additional reason: Since these are all steps of a single form, the parent component, OnBoardingComponent , holds the single submission button for the entire form, enabled only when all steps are valid: Once again, simply by accessing the store, OnBoardingComponent can easily determine the overall validity of the form at any given moment. And upon submission, it gets each step’s form value from the store in order to submit it to the server (or in our example’s case, log it in the console). Here’s the end result: In summary: Managing the state of complex, multi-step forms, has never been easier. AkitaNgFormsManager takes care of all the boilerplate needed to consistently deliver each step’s values, as well as track its validity and dirty status. Here are some more articles about Akita: Follow me on Medium to read more about Angular, Akita, JS!

At the peak of flooding on Sunday evening, Caleb Hartsell headed out from the East Bay Domino’s pizza with 4 orders while the clock was ticking. After driving through plenty of flooded streets and getting the first two to the door within minutes, he turned onto Smith St. and saw half a block under about a foot and a half of water. After a line of cars ahead of him turned around, he decided to brave it and plowed through. Once he parked on the other side, he simply took his shoes off and walked back into it. An astonished girl opened the door to see him standing in front of the water. Matter of factly, he collected the payment and walked back into the rippling river of a road. He still had another delivery to make and there were orders piling up back at the store. Hartsell has been working for Domino’s for two months and said,”It’s definitely been one of the craziest days, because of the flooding and all.” For the $18.00 order of two medium pizzas and a 2 liter of soda, he got a $4.00 tip. He wasn’t disappointed in the tip, but said, “my craziest tip was when I delivered to a frat house and they had a stripper. I got invited in, but it was like 3’oclock in the afternoon, you know?” He declined the offer. Some video of flooding around downtown on Sunday: Smith and Vanderhorst Calhoun near Rutledge

ANN ARBOR, MI -- A community bath house is coming to downtown Ann Arbor. The City Council approved plans this week for the 12,398-square-foot, two-story Sun Baths to be built at 319 N. Main St., just north of Miller Avenue in the Kerrytown area. The estimated cost of construction is $3.5 million. So, what's a bath house? If you ask Peter Woolf, owner and operator of Sun Baths, it's somewhere between a spa and a water park. "It's a different kind of space in this way," he said. "The intent of it is essentially a quiet space, a meditative space, a space for relaxation, a space with hot tubs, a space with saunas, a space with places to relax, a restorative community-centered place, so that's our intent with the space overall." If that sounds like a new concept, that's because there's nothing quite like it anywhere around here, Woolf said. So, why a bath house? "It's essentially a place to build community," said Woolf, who has lived in Ann Arbor for several years -- as a graduate student, engineering professor and manager of a number of tech startups. "We increasingly live in a disconnected community where people are more and more isolated by their devices, their cars," he said. "They live in their little bubbles, and they're people who historically have been drawn to places of warmth, water and plants. This is what we're trying to achieve here is to create a place where people can come together and people can, in quiet and relative less distraction, actually experience what it's like to act as a community." Woolf said operating a bath house is energy and water intensive, so the team behind Sun Baths is working to make it as green as possible. The building is designed to harvest most of the rainwater that falls on the roof for reuse within the building. It also is designed to be LEED Platinum and net-zero certified, with rooftop solar panels supplying all of the building's energy needs. "We're incredibly water, incredibly energy efficient, unlike anything the world has seen in this way," Woolf said, noting those efficiencies translate to improvements to the company's bottom line to make it more economically viable. "So, it's actually where doing well economically and doing well socially come together." Woolf, who has a background in chemical engineering, said small technical improvements can yield tremendous improvements in performance. The building will contain a mix of common bath and sauna areas, as well as smaller private bath spaces. There will be a larger pool area that is the "main waters" area for bathers to rest and relax between other bath areas. No onsite automobile parking is proposed, though plans indicate there will be bicycle parking. Before the council unanimously approved the project Monday night, Council Member Sumi Kailasapathy, D-1st Ward, asked about the building's potential to be repurposed in case it doesn't succeed as a bath house. Woolf responded by saying it could be reconfigured for office or restaurant use without too much trouble. Council Member Chuck Warpehoski, D-5th Ward, said he's really excited about the environmental features built into the project and he hopes it paves the way for other property owners to make the best use of rain and sunlight. "This building is truly one of the most extraordinary buildings that we've seen here in Ann Arbor," Ann Arbor resident Matt Grocoff, a consultant on the project, told members of the city's Planning Commission last month. Aside from being a beautiful building, he said, it follows stringent environmental standards. He described it as a building of the future and noted there even would be an urban agriculture component with food grown on the property. Ryan Stanton covers the city beat for The Ann Arbor News. Reach him at ryanstanton@mlive.com.

La adăpostul nopții, în liniștea apăsătoare a izolării sau în lumina albastră a calculatorului pe care îl folosesc pentru un vot de la distanță, PSD-iștii continuă să facă singurul lucru pe care îl înțeleg și la care se pricep: distrugerea instituțiilor statului român. E ca un blestem din care nu se pot desprinde, dependenți de rău și intrigă murdară. E un calcul politic, dar unul din care nu câștigă nimeni, pentru că în spatele pornirilor iliberale pândește o societate dezmembrată și paralizată. Ultima victimă a planurilor PSD este Consiliul Concurenței. O instituție care a fost construită și a funcționat ca un exemplu de bune practici pentru o societate democratică. Pe același tipar și la fel ca până acum, din izolarea propriilor case, senatorii pesediști au propus modificări substanțiale la legea de funcționare a Consiliului. L-au exclus pe președintele României din procedură și au decis că Parlamentul pe care-l controlează este singurul abilitat. Nu e o întâmplare. Mandatul președintelui Consiliului Concurentei expiră în curând și PSD vrea să își subordoneze instituția fără pic de scrupule. Modelul operațional este deja binecunoscut în ultimii ani în Europa. L-am văzut experimentat în Ungaria și în Polonia și implementat la noi de către PSD. Instituții-cheie sunt deturnate prin schimbări legislative și în fruntea lor sunt numiți oameni de casă ai partidului pentru a controla segmente din economie sau din viața politică. Rezultatul este dezastruos. Instituțiile dau rateuri în funcționarea lor în beneficiul societății pentru că devin anexe ale partidului care le controlează. Este drumul cert către un dezastru economic și social. Avem un șir lung de exemple în România pe această temă. Nu întâmplator, ele sunt experimentate de PSD cu ajutorul unui partid lacheu ca ALDE. Puteți să vă uitați liniștiti la activitatea centrală a Consiliului Național al Audiovizualului, a Autorității Naționale de Reglementare în Energie, a Curții de Conturi, a Curții Constituționale sau a Avocatului Poporului. Toate au fost burdușite de politruci și toate au răspuns la comenzi atunci când partidul a avut nevoie. Oameni dispuși să ignore societatea pentru o sinecură grasă au făcut jocurile PSD, care a apăsat pe pedala iliberalismului de cumetrie. Au încercat să facă același lucru și cu Banca Națională, dar drumul către pușcărie al lui Liviu Dragnea i-a împiedicat. Totuși, nu întâmplător, doi dintre cei care au făcut presiuni pe BNR, senatorii Nicolae Șerban și Daniel Zamfir, sunt artizanii distrugerii Curții de Conturi. Așa că nu ne rămâne decât să facem un apel la colegii parlamentari din PNL și USR pentru a încerca să facă tot posibilul pentru a opri această lege. Dezamăgitor este repetarea jocului la două capete al PMP, care a susținut această inițiativă legislativă periculoasă. Dar trebuie să constatăm că PSD este de neoprit în dorința sa de a acapara statul român și că tăcerea pesedistă din ultima vreme este înșelătoare. Trebuie să ne pregătim ca după trecerea pandemiei să luam cele mai bune măsuri astfel încât să nu ne trezim din nou cu PSD la putere, pentru că e nevoie să înțelegem cu toții un lucru esențial: statul român nu va mai rezista încă unui asalt PSD dacă la alegerile viitoare aceștia se vor afla la guvernare. Poate că se înțelege mai bine acum sensul armistițiului politic pe care PLUS l-a propus săptămâna trecută. Demolarea Consiliului Concurenței este un nou exemplu de ce ne așteaptă și cred că nu mai avem nevoie de exemple ca să înțelegem ce reprezintă PSD astăzi: calea sigură spre dispariția democrației din România.

There are many stories floating around Silicon Valley but none have been as insightful and revealing into the corporate culture as the the story of Uber. With countless sexual harassment charges, Internal, investigations, Corporate shakeups, The Waymo vs Uber case and bad PR.Uber has become a breeding ground of everything that’s wrong about the corporate and Silicon valley culture But as The Verge pointed out in their article consumer’s don’t care about all the investigations and the only thing that matters is whether they are getting good service or not. Uber is still the leader of the taxi services because of there extremely competitive prices and service compared to other service like Lyft etc.But there’s one trend that I’m seeing that might put Uber’s competitive edge at risk and that is Self-driving cars. It once looked like Uber was going to remain the leader even with the advent of self-driving cars.As they shared there big plans for 2020 to employ a massive fleet of self-driving cars and they started their testing in and around California.Then things started spiraling out of control as dash cam videos came out showing their self-driving cars breaking red light and then the Waymo lawsuit came around which truly showcased how out of depth Uber is currently in their self-driving technology.There’s no questioning that Uber will lose the lawsuit, potentially paying hundred’s of millions of dollars as fine.

Gov. Brian Sandoval and a bipartisan group of 10 other governors have signed a letter urging the Senate to abandon increasingly unlikely efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “The Senate should immediately reject efforts to ‘repeal’ the current system and replace it sometime later,” they wrote. “This could leave millions of Americans without coverage. The best next step is for both parties to come together and do what we can all agree on: fix our unstable insurance markets.” The letter came Tuesday morning, shortly after President Donald Trump told reporters he was disappointed that repeal efforts have sputtered, that it’s time to “let Obamacare fail” and that “I’m not going to own it.” A clean Obamacare repeal was briefly under consideration after two more senators announced Monday that they wouldn’t support a repeal and replace measure, effectively dooming that bill. Trump’s latest comments suggest any repeal is, for the moment, a lost cause. Sandoval had expressed his concerns for weeks about repeal efforts’ potential impacts on Nevadans, saying his standard was that nobody in the state would lose insurance under the bill. Top Trump Administration officials made a full court press during a National Governors Association meeting in Rhode Island last week, trying to convince him — and in turn, swing-voting Republican Sen. Dean Heller — to get on board. Even after meetings with Vice President Mike Pence, who framed the bill as a way to make the Medicaid more sustainable, Sandoval and other governors seemed unconvinced that the bill’s steep cuts to the federal health insurance program wouldn’t have drastic consequences for their states. Heller, who stood alongside Sandoval in opposing an initial version of the Senate bill, has been noncommittal through the past week on supporting revised versions of the measure or voting to bring the measure up for debate. The Republican voted for a similar measure fully repealing the law in December 2015 that was vetoed by then-President Barack Obama. Found Dean Heller coming in a side door. He's keeping his options open on the motion to proceed. Wants to hear what McConnell plans to do. — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 18, 2017 Other governors who signed onto the letter included Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Bipartisan Statement on Revised BCRA 071817 by Riley Snyder on Scribd

* All Rare and Very Rare items in the Immortal Treasures now use escalating chances whereas previously only the Ultra Rare items operated along that mechanic. Rarity rolls have been backfilled to users who have already opened Immortal Treasure I, and those with successful rolls will find the respective items waiting in their Armory.* Added an option for a hotkey to toggle autoattack state (between current and off)* Performance optimizations to the Immortal Gardens terrain* The -refresh cheat now refreshes Glyph and Scan

Heart failure hospitalization more than doubles during inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares, according to a study of more than 5 million Danish people. The research was presented today at the Heart Failure Congress 2014, held 17-20 May, in Athens, Greece. The Congress is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. Dr Søren L. Kristensen, lead author, said: “Previous studies have shown an association between chronic inflammatory diseases (psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, celiac disease and IBD) and an increased incidence of venous- and arterial thrombotic disease (primarily heart attack and stroke). Researchers suggest the link is at least in part caused by inflammatory prothrombotic effects.” He added: “However not many studies have investigated whether the risk of heart failure is elevated in patients with these inflammatory diseases, and none at all in patients with IBD. In the present study we aimed to clarify whether IBD patients had an increased risk of heart failure, and secondly whether this risk was correlated to periods of activity or ‘flares’ in the IBD.” The researchers used a nationwide cohort of 5 436 647 Danish citizens aged 18 years and above with no history of IBD or heart failure. In this study IBD was defined as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. During 1997 to 2011, IBD developed in 23 681 patients, of whom 553 were hospitalised with heart failure during follow-up. Rates of hospitalization for heart failure were compared between the IBD group and the remaining Danish population, adjusted for age and sex differences. In patients with new-onset IBD, disease activity (flare, persistent activity, remission) was monitored continuously throughout the study and determined by hospitalizations and prescriptions of glucocorticoids. Flares were defined as a prescription or hospitalization following a quiescent period. Persistent activity was defined as repeated prescriptions or hospitalizations. Dr Kristensen said: “We found that patients with new-onset IBD had a 37% increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure during a mean follow-up of 6.4 years compared to the healthy population. But the risk more than doubled during periods of IBD activity.” He added: “When IBD patients had flares their risk of hospitalization for heart failure was 2.5 times greater, and it was 2.7 times greater during persistent activity. There was no increased risk during the quiescent stages of IBD. Our findings suggest that efficient IBD treatment aimed at reducing the length and number of disease activity episodes might lower the risk of heart failure.” Dr Kristensen continued: “We found an increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure in IBD patients of all ages, not just older patients. Gastroenterologists and other health professionals need to be aware of the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, in their daily handling of patients with IBD. It’s also important that they don’t neglect younger patients, who are also at cardiovascular risk.” IBD is known to have effects in the body beyond the intestine including anaemia, and musculoskeletal, dermatologic, hepatic and ocular complications. Dr Kristensen said: “Our results indicate that heart failure may need to be added to this list, and hence be considered when assessing these patients. Detecting heart failure early is crucial to halting its progression and improving prognosis.” Biological anti-inflammatory treatments offer the possibility of longer term remission to patients with IBD. Dr Kristensen said: “It will be interesting to see if these medications, which are increasingly used in IBD, lead to a reduction in the risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. We will investigate this question in a future observational study of all IBD patients in Denmark who are taking biological treatments.” He continued: “We cannot rule out the possibility that glucocorticoids used to manage IBD contribute to the risk of heart failure.” Dr Kristensen concluded: “There have been calls for patients hospitalized with IBD flares to receive thromboprophylaxis but such a general strategy needs more clinical validation. What is required is cardiovascular risk assessment of these patients, especially during IBD flares, so that heart failure and other cardiovascular complications can be detected early and treated appropriately.”

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform experienced a major outage on Wednesday, with its service management system down for several hours, reports said earlier today. But the fix did not follow the cloud script, and the problem — identified as a leap day security certification bug — continues. “We have started a gradual rollout of the hotfix in North Central US sub-region. As we proceed through the rollout, we will progressively enable service management back for customers. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers,” Microsoft said earlier today. But the situation that was supposed to be resolved quickly, thanks to the cloud, instead got worse, according to Microsoft: “We continue to work through the issues that are blocking the restoration of service management for some customers in North Central US, South Central US and North Europe sub-regions. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.” At about noon on Wednesday Pacific Time, the Azure service dashboard showed multiple outages including Access Control 2.0 in the South Central U.S. and Northern Europe, as well as SQL Azure Management Portals in at least six regions, and its service management remains down globally:

Two 18-year-old men are accused of trying to rob a runner during a race in Oakville. The runner was participating in the Ragnar Relay along Lakeshore Road West early Saturday morning when the two teens tried to rob him of his wallet at gunpoint. Two other runners, who came upon the scene, tried to help but were threatened by one of the men who fired several shots at them. One was grazed across her nose by a pellet but didn’t need medical treatment. The two accused fled but were located nearby by police. Justin Culos, 18, of Oakville, faces robbery with a firearm and assault, among other criminal offences. Luka Zivkov, 18, of Oakville, faces robbery with a firearm, assault, discharging a firearm and pointing a firearm. All three runners who were from the United States continued with the race, which goes from Cobourg to Niagara.

GDPR Vs. Facebook – Facebook confronts the Next Big Issue! GDPR has stirred the Ad tech industry (enough to make us nauseous). But the major impact will be on the duopoly (Google and Facebook) as they collect, process, and target ads based on behavioral data. Google released its GDPR update for publishers and said it will be completely GDPR Compliant by 25th May. On the other hand, Facebook has been quite busy with the data scandal and the US Senate hearing. Now, it is compelled to face the next big issue. ‘Targeting Ads’ The problem is, it has no solution yet. Facebook has been targeting ads for a user based on behavioral data. When GDPR goes live, it won’t be able to collect and use data to target ads behaviourally (No News Feed data assessing and mining too). If we’re being optimistic here, it can. Only when a user allows the social network to do so. With the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the Senate hearing, the odds are thin. So, what are the options for Facebook? Follow Google – It can offer an option to run non-personalized ads for advertisers similar to Google. Back to School – It can use ‘contextual targeting’. Johnny Ryan, PageFair’s Head of Ecosystem said Facebook can still place broad and contextual ads, to offer reach and compliance for advertisers. Take away: Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, Facebook will apply the GDPR law globally. But as per the latest report, it’s not going to do so. It reportedly moving 1.5Bn users out of Ireland to ease the burden. So, 370 million users in Europe might experience a different Facebook experience. Facebook’s GDPR Update – https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr Twitter looking to hit a home run? Twitter videos have been attracting advertisers more than any other video ad. Even though Youtube has billions of viewers, Facebook Watch has been investing $1 billion in content, Advertisers prefer to stick with Twitter. Bloomberg’s Twitter Network is getting 750,000 daily viewers! What’s so special about Twitter? Advertisers are getting higher video views on Twitter and thus, are happy to move some bucks from other social media channels. In addition, Twitter said that advertisers are seeing 60 percent Year-over-Year increase in 2017 payout. Twitter provides options to buy inventories based on topics and opens up the premiums too. Twitter has dozens of video series (Like Buzzfeed’s AM to DM), which can be grabbed by any advertisers. Twitter pays publishers on the basis of ad packages. No licensing model like Facebook or a subscription model like Youtube. This, in turn, healthified both the supply and demand side. Google expands its ‘Funding Choices’ to help Publishers. The online publishing industry majorly depends on digital advertising revenue to fuel its existence. But, the use of intrusive and annoying ads has increased the usage of Ad blockers among users. The good news is users are willing to remove or “whitelist” websites, in order to view the content. In fact, as per the report, around 67 percent of users are willing to remove the ad blocker to access the content. This is where Google’s Funding Choices will help publishers. When a user with adblockers land on your site, it displays A message that doesn’t limit the content access. A message that limits the number of articles the user can view (with the ad blocker installed). A message that completely locks the user out of the content. In this case, the user has to buy an Ad removal pass or remove the ad blockers to continue reading. What message? Funding Choices was launched back in June 2017 and now, Google announced that it’s expanding it to 31 countries following the successful test run. In the last month, over 4.5 million visitors who were asked to allow ads said yes, creating over 90 million additional paying page views for the websites using ‘Funding Choices’. How can the user buy an Ad removal Pass? Purchasing can be done through Google contributor. It is a global ad removing service powered by Google and allows you to get a $5 pass. Every time you visit a page, the fee-per-page is deduced from the pass. Users can add the sites from the list provided by Google and remove them any time from the pass. And yes, Google takes a cut in this process. Mobile Ad Spending > TV Ad Spending According to eMarketer, Mobile Ad Spending will take-in 69.9% of total digital ad spending this year. It accounts for 33.9% of the total US Ad Spending and suppresses the TV to become the leading advertising medium of the world’s largest ad market. What’s more surprising? It is expected to hit 47.9% by 2022. Thus, almost half of the advertising spend will be on mobile advertising. eMarketer’s forecasting analysts believe that the lift is mainly due to the rise of mobile commerce. Nowadays, people love to buy the products on the go, using their mobiles. Hence, it became an obvious marketing channel for advertisers around the globe. Want us to deliver the roundups straight to your inbox? Subscribe here.

Camping World is moving away from its strategy of acquiring outdoor retail stores to create business synergies with its existing RV outlets. In a statement, the Lincolnshire-based company said it will “strategically shift away” from its existing locations that do not have the ability to sell and service recreational vehicles. The move could mean 27 to 37 stores are either sold, closed, relocated or repurposed. That would represent a roughly 22 percent elimination of Camping World’s total outlets, with 165 locations currently able to sell or service RVs. “We believe the sale and/or servicing of recreational vehicles is our core and most important offering and, with the RV and outdoor consumer crossover, we believe there is an opportunity to continue growing our market share and improve our financial performance through the operation of locations with RV sales and/or service and, when feasible, our hunting, fishing and camping products,” CEO Marcus Lemonis said in a statement. “We will continue to operate our RV sales and/or service locations under three banners: Camping World, Gander RV and Outdoors, and Gander RV.” Lemonis and company executives spent around $100 million scooping up outdoor retailers the past few years but spent the first half of 2019 selling off those assets as the main RV business suffered a slowdown. The acquisitions of specialty outdoor retailers like Uncle Dan's and Rock Creek, along with Lemonis' purchases of bankrupt Gander Mountain locations, were a move to "give us access to a more diverse base of outdoor lifestyle consumers" and attract a "loyal customer following that we believe will leverage over time by cross-selling products and services," he told analysts in a 2017 fourth-quarter earnings call. Now Camping World is more reliant on RV sales, which are experiencing a 12-month slowdown. Analysts predict the downturn will last through 2019. Camping World shares were recently at $7.40 in after-market trading, down 84 percent from a peak of $47 reached in December 2017.

Event information MIPRO 2014 - 37th International Convention DRIIS - Dionici i razmjena informacija u informacijskoj sigurnosti Thursday, 5/29/2014 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Nava 1, Hotel Admiral, Opatija Thursday, 5/29/2014 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Nava 1, Hotel Admiral, Opatija U sklopu savjetovanja ISS ove godine organizira se cjelodnevni skup s ciljem međusobnog upoznavanja različitih dionika u području sigurnosti te mogućnosti razmjene informacija. Sigurnost je izuzetno široko područje i u tom smislu zahtjeva puno resursa kako bi se na zadovoljavajući način pokrivalo. Rijetke su institucije, konkretno u Republici Hrvatskoj, koje to mogu učiniti na zadovoljavajći način. U tom smislu treba što je moguće više težiti suradnji. Na skupu bi se trebali predstaviti znanstvenici (FER/FOI), voditelji sigurnosti (male banke, HT), razne državne institucije (UVNS, MUP, HNB). Konačno, na okruglom stolu bi se raspravljalo o mogućnostima operacionalizacije suradnje, potencijalnim problemima i rješenjima. Program: 0800 - 0900 Registracija sudionika 0900 - 0930 Uvod: Pozdrav sudionicima i pregled događanja 0930 - 0950 Pogled iz perspektive Ureda Vijeća za nacionalnu sigurnost 0950 - 1010 Pogled iz perspektive Zavoda za sigurnost informacijskih sustava 1010 - 1030 Pogled iz perspektive MUP-a 1030 - 1050 Pogled iz perspektive Nacionalnog CERT-a 1050 - 1105 Pauza 1105 - 1125 Pogled iz perspektive telekomunikacijskog operatera (HT) 1125 - 1145 Pogled iz perspektive regulatora bankarskog sektora (HNB) 1145 - 1205 Pogled iz perspektive voditelja sigurnosti male tvrtke/banke 1205 - 1225 Pogled iz perspektive znanstvenika (FER/FOI) 1225 - 1500 Pauza za ručak 1500 - 1700 Okrugli stol i rasprava - mogućnosti operacionalizacije suradnje - analiza na primjeru nedavnih prijevara putem Internet bankarstva 1800 Koktel: Druženje sudionika Osnovni podaci: Voditelji: Stjepan Groš (Croatia), Tonimir Kišasondi (Croatia) Predsjednik Međunarodnog programskog odbora: Petar Biljanović (Croatia) Međunarodni programski odbor: Alberto Abello Gamazo (Spain), Slavko Amon (Slovenia), Vesna Anđelić (Croatia), Michael E. Auer (Austria), Mirta Baranović (Croatia), Ladjel Bellatreche (France), Eugen Brenner (Austria), Andrea Budin (Croatia), Željko Butković (Croatia), Željka Car (Croatia), Matjaž Colnarič (Slovenia), Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Italy), Marina Čičin-Šain (Croatia), Marko Delimar (Croatia), Todd Eavis (Canada), Maurizio Ferrari (Italy), Bekim Fetaji (Macedonia), Tihana Galinac Grbac (Croatia), Liljana Gavrilovska (Macedonia), Matteo Golfarelli (Italy), Stjepan Golubić (Croatia), Francesco Gregoretti (Italy), Stjepan Groš (Croatia), Niko Guid (Slovenia), Yike Guo (United Kingdom), Jaak Henno (Estonia), Ladislav Hluchy (Slovakia), Vlasta Hudek (Croatia), Željko Hutinski (Croatia), Mile Ivanda (Croatia), Hannu Jaakkola (Finland), Leonardo Jelenković (Croatia), Dragan Jevtić (Croatia), Robert Jones (Switzerland), Peter Kacsuk (Hungary), Aneta Karaivanova (Bulgaria), Dragan Knežević (Croatia), Mladen Mauher (Croatia), Igor Mekjavic (Slovenia), Branko Mikac (Croatia), Veljko Milutinović (Serbia), Alexandru-Ioan Mincu (Slovenia), Vladimir Mrvoš (Croatia), Jadranko F. Novak (Croatia), Jesus Pardillo (Spain), Nikola Pavešić (Slovenia), Vladimir Peršić (Croatia), Goran Radić (Croatia), Slobodan Ribarić (Croatia), Janez Rozman (Slovenia), Karolj Skala (Croatia), Ivanka Sluganović (Croatia), Vlado Sruk (Croatia), Uroš Stanič (Slovenia), Ninoslav Stojadinović (Serbia), Jadranka Šunde (Australia), Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia), Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos (Hungary), Davor Šarić (Croatia), Dina Šimunić (Croatia), Zoran Šimunić (Croatia), Dejan Škvorc (Croatia), Antonio Teixeira (Portugal), Edvard Tijan (Croatia), A. Min Tjoa (Austria), Roman Trobec (Slovenia), Ivana Turčić Prstačić (Croatia), Sergio Uran (Croatia), Tibor Vámos (Hungary), Mladen Varga (Croatia), Marijana Vidas-Bubanja (Serbia), Boris Vrdoljak (Croatia), Robert Wrembel (Poland), Baldomir Zajc (Slovenia), Damjan Zazula (Slovenia) Prijava/Kotizacije: Prijava / Kotizacije Cijena u EUR-ima Prije 12.5.2014. Poslije 12.5.2014. Članovi MIPRO i IEEE 50 90 Ostali 60 100 Kontakt: Stjepan Groš Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva Unska 3 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska E-mail: stjepan.gros@fer.hr Opatija - 170 godina turizma: Opatija, često nazivana i biser Jadrana, jedna je od najpoznatijih destinacija u Hrvatskoj s turističkom tradicijom koja ove godine slavi 170 godina. Smještena uz rub Mediterana, na obali Kvarnerskog zaljeva i padinama planine Učke koje se blago spuštaju prema moru, Opatija svojim klimatskim karakteristikama, prekrasnom arhitekturom, kvalitetnim hotelima, prekrasnim njegovanim parkovima i šetnicama pruža mogućnosti za ugodan boravak tijekom cijele godine. Prvi je čari Opatije otkrio riječki patricij Iginio Scarpa, sagradivši ovdje 1844. godine svoj ljetnikovac koji je nazvao Villa Angiolina po svojoj preminuloj supruzi, čime je otvoren put razvoju turizma. To je bio tek početak. Hotel je otvoren 27. ožujka 1884. godine. Nazvan je Hotel Quarnero, a gosti su na raspolaganju imali 60 soba. 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Copts point to lack of security at churches despite threats Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer protect them from neighbours bent on their murder. Forty-four people were killed in the attacks on Palm Sunday, a joyous festival a week before Easter. At Tanta University hospital morgue, desperate families were trying to get inside to search for loved ones. Security forces held them back to stop overcrowding, enraging the crowd. “Why are you preventing us from entering now? Where were you when all this happened?” shouted one woman looking for a relative. Hours after the attack, Kerols Paheg and other young Coptic Christians were already digging graves in the basement of the devastated St. George Church in the northern Nile Delta city, where the first of the bombs exploded, killing 27 and wounding around 80. He showed photos on his phone of the carnage: human remains, blood and shattered glass strewn across the floor of the church on one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar. From now on, Christians will have to protect their churches themselves, rather than rely on the police, “because what’s happening is too much. It’s unacceptable,” he said. Copts make up about 10% of Egypt’s 92 million people, the largest Christian minority in West Asia. Yet despite a presence dating back to the Roman era, the community feels increasingly ostracised and has repeatedly been targeted in attacks, including by Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombings. Hours after the blast in Tanta, the second bomb blew up at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, the historic seat of the Coptic pope, killing 17 people. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised to protect the Christian minority as part of a campaign against extremism. But Copts in Tanta said security was almost non-existent on Sunday despite repeated warnings in recent weeks. “We were not expecting people who live with us in the same country, people with whom we’ve shared love and friendships, and with whom we’re familiar, to do these things,” said Tanta priest Tawfik Kobeish.

Spectators come in representative colors. Electrically amplified cheering and sing-alongs by fans of each team echo throughout ball parks. Cheerleaders, dancing along to K-pop hits during the breaks, wow the tens of thousands in the crowd. The cheering culture of South Korean baseball fans can be overwhelming -- something akin to the overflowing emotions pioneered by the high-profile cheering squad at the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. Back then, a number of Korean soccer fans clad in trademark red shirts often gathered in Seoul Plaza to support the national team. Kia Tigers players celebrate their victory in the first round of Korean baseball wild card match Monday. Yonhap. One noticeable feature at Korean ball games is the sheer volume of cheering. In fact, loudness seems vital as many Korean fans believe ear-splitting sounds can drive a batter to hit further. Park Ki-hwan, 26, has been a fan of Seoul-based professional baseball team LG Twins since he was in third grade. He said he was amused by the resounding cheers from his first visit. “It was more entertaining than anything else,” said Park. “And I believe such a loud volume will have a positive effect on our players.” Playfulness is another important element that define the country’s baseball cheering culture. Some fans make noise in hopes of players hitting a home run. Others generate a repetitive harmony of balloon clappers in unison. Songs representing players are played and sung together. A male cheerleader is seen hollering at spectators, using a drum and microphone. Other than entrance music -- a segment of original music representing a player -- Korean fan communities assign batters specific songs, arranged by cheerleaders, with some lyrics changed. Once the songs are out at the official fan page run by the team, fans can download them and sing-along later at the venue when they come through speakers. LG Twins’ outfielder Moon Sun-jae advances to second base after a two-run homer against Samsung Lions on Sept. 18. Yonhap The roaring sound is not limited to a favorite team or players. For example, a quick bark of “Ma” -- meaning “Do not” in Korean -- by spectators supporting Busan-based Lotte Giants is used to discourage an opposing pitcher from attempting to pick off Giants’ runner at the first base. The 26-year-old Park asserted such loud cheering helps the fans feel a sense of belonging. “The moment of victory will come with a victory chant, and spectators will sing it while swaying shoulder to shoulder, regardless of whether they know each other or not,” he said. The unity of Korean spectators is not only audible but also visible. The same colored uniforms and balloon clappers make up the team identity. Fans of professional baseball teams tend to follow the tradition of gathering together at seats in the first base side, except for Gwangju-based Kia Tigers and Daegu-based Samsung Lions, where home fans take the third base side. Each side has a small stage and speakers in front of the second-tier seats. If fans do not know how to move balloon clappers, they watch a group of cheerleaders’ gestures and follow suit. Spectators at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul chant slogans with the cheering squad. Yonhap Colors are not the only things that divide each side. When their team is winning, Lotte Giants’ fans put on headgear made of a plastic bag with some air in. To non-Korean baseball fans, this distinctive cheering culture might come off as a barrier. Paul Ahn, 25, was a Cardinals fan when he was studying overseas in St. Louis. His impression was that the Korean way of cheering does not appear to offer an “open invitation” to match-goers. “The Korean way (of cheering) is more exciting, while the American way is more admiring, making it easier for people to join in,” he said. “Those who are not familiar won’t pick it up easily.” By Son Ji-hyoung (json@heraldcorp.com)

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Trump, (R) Presidential Candidate: “We want to take our country back. Our country is disappearing. You look at the kind of deals we make, you look at what’s happening. Our country is going in the wrong direction, and so wrong, and it’s got to be stopped, and it’s got to be stopped fast. We can’t go another four years. I know that maybe Hillary will be here, and if she is, you can play this back. We can’t have another four years of Barack Obama. We can’t have another four years of Hillary Clinton.” (applause) ++BLACK++ 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Trump, (R) Presidential Candidate: “Iran is taking over the Middle East. We have totally destabilized the Middle East, and I said this in 2004, we have totally destabilized the Middle East. It’s a disaster. And you look at this new Iran deal which took forever to get done. You look at how bad it is and how one-sided it is, you look at how one-sided this deal is. And yesterday I heard ‘we’re getting our hostages back’. See people call them prisoners, some people call them hostages, I don’t care. So we’re getting them back. And then I heard ‘well wait a minute, we’re paying a big price’. They getting seven back,we’re getting actually four. They say five but the other one they can’t find. He’s in Iran. I tell you what, that’s another thing we’re going to be looking into. And we’re getting four back, they’re getting seven, they’re getting 14 off the Interpol watch list. These are real bad customers. They’re getting all sorts of advantages, including free market oil. They’re getting unbelievable advantages. They’re going to be an immensely wealthy country - and a wealthy terror country - and they’re getting 150 billion dollars. So when our sailors were captured last week I said that’s one of the saddest things I’ve seen when those young people were on their hands and knees, in a begging position with their hands up and thugs behind them with guns and then we talk like it’s ok. It’s not ok. It’s lack of respect. We can’t let that happen to this country. It’s lack of respect and we’re not going to let it happen to this country. We’re going to be strong, we’re going to be vigilant, we’re going to have powerful borders and strong border. And look just what happened this morning - I don’t know for any of you who’ve been reading the news or seeing the news - three people have just been kidnapped in Iraq because they see what the heck we pay 150 billion dollars for four people, three people just this morning, and this is going to take place all over. They should have come back as part of the deal three years ago when they started talking about the deal, not now, not now.”

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s security cabinet on Thursday approved the building of the first new settlement in the occupied West Bank in two decades, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negotiates with Washington on a possible curb on settlement activity. Slideshow ( 3 images ) The unanimous vote in favor of construction of the new settlement in an area called Emek Shilo came after Netanyahu earlier told reporters: “I made a promise that we would establish a new settlement ... We will keep it today.” The result of the vote was announced in a government statement. Palestinian officials swiftly condemned the move. “Today’s announcement once again proves that Israel is more committed to appeasing its illegal settler population than to abiding by the requirements for stability and a just peace,” said Hanan Ashrawi, an executive committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. There was no immediate reaction from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which is in discussions with Israel on limiting the construction of settlements on land Palestinians seek for a state. Such settlements, in territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, are deemed illegal by most of the world. Israel cites biblical, historical and political links to the land, as well as security interests, to defend its actions. Netanyahu first promised the new settlement at Emek Shilo in February, shortly before dozens of Israeli families were evicted from another West Bank settlement called Amona. Their houses were razed after Israel’s Supreme Court said they were built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land. Establishing a new settlement may be a way for Netanyahu to appease far-right members of his coalition government who are likely to object to any concessions to U.S. demands for restraints on building. Israeli political sources, however, said the new construction would actually take place within the boundaries of an existing settlement. The new community would then be declared its own settlement, a nuance that might be enough to stave off possible U.S. opposition to the move. Trump, who had been widely seen in Israel as sympathetic toward settlements, appeared to surprise Netanyahu during a White House visit last month when he urged him to “hold back on settlements for a little bit”. The two then agreed that their aides would try to work out a compromise on how much Israel can build and where. Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, this week wrapped up a second trip to the region aimed at reviving Middle East peace talks that collapsed in 2014. A new settlement would be the first built in the West Bank since 1999. About 400,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank which is also home to 2.8 million Palestinians. Another 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem. Palestinians want the West Bank and East Jerusalem for their own state, along with the Gaza Strip.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A diverse group of Americans whose loved ones are dead by the hands of illegal alien criminals had the opportunity to tell their stories in front of cameras from inside the White House just days ago when President Donald Trump honored them at a roundtable event. Kate’s Law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act passed the U.S. House last week with the full Davis-Oliver Act still waiting for a vote. Davis-Oliver would enhance the ability of the federal government and immigration authorities to enforce immigration law and crack down on sanctuary cities. Kate’s Law and No Sanctuary for Criminals are portions of Davis-Oliver. These bills were discussed at the White House meeting but got scarce coverage in the mainstream media, a phenomena these “Angel” families have experienced for years. Trump dedicated his most recent weekly address to these families. The President pointed out that many of those responsible for killing these Americans have extensive criminal records and had been repeatedly deported, yet were in the U.S. at the time of taking an American life. “If the government had simply enforced our immigration laws, these Americans would still be alive today,” said Trump. He spoke of two bills passed this week in the House and called for the U.S. Senate to vote on them and get them to his desk for signing “as soon as possible.” He thanked Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte for moving the bills forward, while referencing “other crucial legislation that will soon be considered as well.” This likely includes the Davis-Oliver Act. Join us as @POTUS delivers the Weekly Address. pic.twitter.com/LgLPPZX4Z7 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 30, 2017 Trump called on members of both parties to stand with these victims of illegal alien crime, “either vote to save and protect American lives or vote to shield and comfort criminal aliens who threaten innocent lives, and they’ve been shielded too long.” “The foundation of freedom is rule of law,” said Trump who looked forward to the 4th of July, Independence Day. He asked Americans to remember those families who have an “empty seat at the table this year” and asked all to pledge to “protect, defend, and save American lives.” Trump asked the families to tell their stories as the clicks of cameras could be heard in the background. Sitting next to Trump was Jamiel Shaw Sr. Shaw told of the murder of his teenage son Jamiel Shaw Jr. “He was living the dream. That was our dream, ya know. And it was squashed out.” Shaw Jr. was killed in 2008 by an illegal alien gang member who had been released from jail just the day before, according to reports from the L.A. Times and MyFOXLA, as documented on michellemalkin.com. Shaw Sr. heard the shot from his house when criminal alien Pedro Espinoza gunned down Shaw Jr. The senior Shaw has previously recounted the prosecutor’s argument that his son was killed for the color of his skin and the color of his red Spiderman backpack. Espinoza was sentenced to death in 2012 for the crime. Julie Golvach spoke of her son Spencer Golvach who was shot and killed in January 2015 while sitting in his vehicle waiting for a spotlight to change. The illegal alien who killed Spencer had been deported multiple times before he murdered the 25-year-old young man and another man in a shooting spree. He wounded three police officers before a Harris County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him, according to the Texas Tribune. Golvach told the room and cameras: We’ve lost everything. He was my only child. I want some action. If this would have been done years ago, my son would still be here. This is not anything you want anybody to ever go through. I want some action…I don’t want anybody else to feel what we have to feel. Spencer’s father Dan Golvach added, “This is what some politicians in the country have decided is acceptable for us. It’s not acceptable.” Mary Ann Mendoza lost her son Sgt. Brandon Mendoza of the Mesa police department when an illegal alien, drunk to three times the legal limit and high on meth, drove the wrong way on a highway and hit and killed Brandon. The individual also perished as a result of the crash. “I’m tired of our politicians not caring about their fellow Americans,” said Mendoza. “When did it ever become more important to our elected officials to protect illegal criminals in our country and not care about us?” Melissa Oliver spoke of losing her father, Sacramento sheriff’s Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, and the illegal alien who had been deported twice before killing him and had a criminal record. “This senseless crime has affected my family in many ways that are unexplainable, the pain is tremendous, and it’s something we’ll never get over.” Oliver stressed the importance of passing the Davis-Oliver Act, “We need our law enforcement officers to have more information about these people that are in our country illegally and so we can go ahead and get them detained and so this can’t happen to another family.” The Act is named for Sheriff Oliver and Placer County sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis. A criminal alien has been charge with shooting and killing Oliver, then taking off with his own wife before being confronted by Davis and another Deputy. He has admitted to shooting both, killing Davis and wounding the other. The offender, Marcelo Marquez, was arraigned in October 2014 for the crimes. Fox40 interviewed Marquez from behind bars. The reporter said that he smiled the entire time and that his first words were that he knew he was famous. He admitted to planning to kill three people, but not law enforcement. He has several aliases and obtained false identification after crossing the border. Asked what led him to California, he said his wife was cheating with his brother and a couple from Craigslist and he planned to kill the brother and couple. He had stolen firearms and said he fired at law enforcement in fear of being arrested, though he claimed he didn’t kill both officers. He admitted to having used drugs in the past and being involved in a Mexican drug cartel. Michelle Wilson-Root’s daughter Sarah Root was killed shortly after graduating from college. Root recounted for a Congressional committee that the illegal alien was street racing while drunk to allegedly four times the legal limit when he rear-ended Sarah’s vehicle and killed her. Edwin Mejia spent only four days in jail before posting bail and taking off on the run. He was believed to have fled back to Honduras. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement added Mejia to it’s “Most Wanted” list in March of this year. Root said at the White House meeting: Why do we have to encounter any type of violence and, I’m sorry, these laws that are trying to be passed, most of them are common sense. And until this happened to me, I thought this is what was in place. And to find out that it wasn’t terrifying to me. And I am telling you, these congressmen and Senators that don’t vote for these laws, the blood is on their hands for the next victim and that victim’s family. Legal immigrant Sabine Durden shared the story of her son Dominic who was killed by an illegal alien who had been twice convicted of driving drunk. The illegally present Guatemalan national was given just 90 days in jail. “I did it the right way. I came here knowing I wanted to be here. I had to go through certain steps so I did that and I’m a proud citizen now. And I had one child, my son Dominic, I brought him with me,” said Durden as she held up a very small urn that held some of Dominic’s ashes. “That’s all I got.” Durden spoke of wanting to commit suicide before hearing Trump speak the words “illegal immigration” during his June 16 campaign announcement, “I was walking through my living room and I dropped to my knees. Cause it was my little sign from God, you not doing anything, you stay around.” A short time later Trump met with a group of Angel families, including Durden, in Los Angeles. She continued, “You were the only one that ever met with us and became our voice.” Steve Ronnebeck lost his son Grant when an illegal alien came into the convenience store where Grant worked and shot and killed the 21-year-old young man. In 2015, Ronnebeck told Breitbart News, “The man pulled a gun, Grant offered up the cigarettes and the man executed him, shooting him in the face. Stepped over his body, grabbed two more packs of cigarettes and fled.” Grant’s killer is a self-professed member of the Sinaloa cartel. The alien had a criminal background including burglary, which Ronnebeck has said was pleaded down from home invasion and a week-long sexual assault. “Every one of our children’s deaths have been preventable,” Ronnebeck said at the White House meeting. “I don’t think I would wish the devastation that we’ve felt every day, on anyone.” The individual charged with killing Grant Ronnebeck is set to go on trial in September of this year, according to the Toronto Sun. Apolinar Altamirano faces the death penalty if convicted. Today the House passed Kate's Law & the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act. It's time for tragedies like Juan's to end: https://t.co/BVQx1ZD0OY pic.twitter.com/rTz9KHbUTj — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 29, 2017 Juan Pina told the story of his 14-year-old daughter Christy Sue Pina who was “strangled, stabbed, raped, sodomized. Her nude body was thrown in an artichoke field in the middle of winter” in 1990. The field was in Castroville, California. Accused killer Arsenio “Archie” Leyva fled to Mexico again and has been fighting extradition since he was found there in 2015. Leyva had previously kidnapped and tortured another 14-year-old girl in 1987, recounted Pina. He got out of jail on $50,000 bail after paying $5,000. “He got out, went back to Mexico, this is in July of ’87,” Pina added. Pina said the criminal alien returned in September and kidnapped, “did the same thing,” possibly worse, to another girl. He was jailed, but that was just “another slap on the arm,” said Pina. Then he returned to Mexico. The Californian reported that the offender, Arsenio Pacheco Leyva, raped both girls in 1987 with a foreign object, according to court documents, and got 300 days in jail and three years probation for those crimes. “Came back in ’90. February the 8th they found my daughter out there in the artichoke field,” said Pina, who added that the alien wasn’t caught then and took off. The criminal alien would later attempt to kidnap a 12-year-old on her way to school. Pina went on to give an account of troubles with the District Attorney’s office and being told to keep quiet about what happened to his daughter: I’ve gone round and round with the District Attorney there in our county and we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of stuff. They wanted me to keep my mouth shut about a lot of things, but I don’t. I’m my daughter’s voice. And what I think that we’re, Mr. President here is trying to do is the best thing ever and if you need a pen with a lot of ink, I’ve got one of those too. And I’m all for everything that you’re doing. Gotta put our people safe, just like they said over there. They protect them and that’s not right. Americans First. Americans First. We gotta get all these bills that he wants passed. Gotta get ‘em passed. Soon. Not later. Now. Laura Wilkerson recounted the killing of her 18-year-old son Joshua. “In November of 2010, he was systematically tortured, brutally beaten, murdered, and then his body set on fire after death. From somebody who shouldn’t have been in this country. Josh was a good kid.” Wilkerson said he was about to graduate from high school and had aspirations of joining the Air Force as his older brother had. “He was very kind, soft spoken, compassionate. He was giving this kid a ride home, which is something we taught him to do, to show compassion for other people and that’s what he was doing, and this kid intentionally murdered him and set him on fire because he wanted Joshua’s truck,” said Wilkerson. “This is not about politics, it is about safety,” she said, emphasizing that “both parties should be on board with this.” Belize national Hermilo Moralez confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison in 2013. He would be eligible for parole after 30 years, according to the Houston Chronicle. Moralez had been previously arrested for stalking his ex-girlfriend. He was jailed less than five months before murdering Joshua Wilkerson. A day ahead of last week’s meeting with Trump, several of the Angel families announced the new Angel-family led group Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime. Rep. Steve King joined the families for the announcement as he heralded the new group and plans to work with them to see America’s immigration laws enforced. King also called for a concrete wall along the U.S. southern border. Breitbart News live streamed the entire announcement. In July 2014, Durden and her fiancé, Anthony Coulter, spoke with Breitbart News in the middle of clashing illegal immigration protests in Murrieta, California. As a minority himself, Coulter asked, “Who speaks for me?” as he held up a sign declaring that “illegal” is not a racial word. In a video of his statement, Duden is standing by his side holding up the image of her son Dominic. Coulter says he is speaking for Duden’s half-black son Dominic. In July 2015, Donald Trump met with several families whose loved ones had been killed, and afterward he held a press conference. With a host of media outlets gathered there in Los Angeles, he spoke briefly before handing the podium over the families, allowing them to tell their own stories. Durden, Shaw, Don Rosenberg, Lupe Moreno, and Brenda Sparks were all present at the meeting. Each has lost a child or nephew due to criminal aliens. Each of those who participated in the July 2015 meeting told their stories before being included at the National Day of Remembrance for Americans killed by illegal aliens. Breitbart News reported on The National Day of Remembrance event in November 2014 and again in 2015 after the Trump press conference. Despite organizers’ statement in 2015 to Breitbart News that they had informed several media outlets, no other media outlet showed up. On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Kate’s Law, named for criminal alien victim Kate Steinle, and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act which includes Grant’s Law and Sarah’s Law. Grant’s Law is named for Grant Ronnebeck and Sarah’s Law is named for Sarah Root. The future of the bills as they move on to the U.S. Senate is uncertain. Many continue to hope that the House will pass the substantial Davis-Oliver Act, which despite the passage of these other laws, is still waiting for a vote. On the day last week that these two bills passed the House, the “Big Three” television networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — dedicated a massive 12 minutes and 14 seconds to Trump’s tweets about MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, yet only NBC’s Lester Holt covered passage of the two bills and even then only gave it 26-seconds, according to NewsBusters. Fox News did report that both bills passed with some measure of bipartisan support. Follow Michelle Moons on Twitter @MichelleDiana

In 2011-12, Perth barrister John Cameron first tried to have the High Court of Australia test the citizenship status of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. The matter was never heard and Mr Cameron is critical of the court for not clearing the air then. Despite at least eight MP's having now been ruled invalid to sit in Parliament, Mr Cameron tells Raf Epstein suggests there could be bigger scandals on the horizon.

President Trump has weighed-in on the “Megxit” scandal — saying he felt “sad” that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step back from their royal roles. Trump expressed disappointment with the bombshell decision from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and had plenty of sympathy for the Queen, in an upcoming Friday night interview on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News. “I think it’s sad. I do. I think it’s sad. She’s a great woman,” Trump said, referring to Queen Elizabeth II. “She’s never made a mistake if you look. I mean, she’s had like a flawless time.” When asked by host Laura Ingrahram if he thought the rogue royals should return to Buckingham Palace, Trump replied: “I just have such respect for the Queen, I don’t think this should be happening to her.”

gym Sports tattoos pistols knives Alok Kumar modus operandi bureau rowdy sheets Rowdies try to look intimidating, rather than carrying armsMale. Regular at the. Has long locks.. If you have checked any of these boxes, you may want to watch your back. The city police’s unofficial guide to identifying rowdies includes a look-book of sorts with the aforementioned features. These, police say, defines thugs today with killer looks replacingand. Think Trejo sans machete.The trend was observed recently, says Additional Commissioner of Police (law and order), when he ordered officers from his division to round up about 500 repeat offenders from the city. The ‘rowdy parade’ saw a line-up of the New Age gangsta. Kumar himself supervised the roll call and noticed that more than 80 per cent of the convicts wore tattoos, had stylish, coloured manes, and well-built bodies.So? me tattoos, though, reflected the rowdies’ gentler sides with names of mums and girlfriends inked. Horses, tigers, scorpions and the Sun and heart appeared most popular. These were etched on visible areas of the body like hands, neck, chest and shoulders. However, a trend of sporting similar tattoos was noticed among gang members.Acting on this cue, police have notified parlours to keep track of their customers’ tats to help trace gangs and update(MOB) cards andPolice say rowdyism has changed over the decades. A senior officer noted how rowdies, earlier, carried machetes, swords and daggers that made them easily identifiable. Over time, these weapons were replaced by pistols and revolvers. Currently, weapons are used on a need-basis only. A menacing appearance is enough for most Bengaluru criminals. Police added that attitudes, too, had changed over the years. Convicts, these days, play it cool even in the presence of senior policemen. Their bravado can be attributed in large measure to political affiliations.In the interest of the public, Alok Kumar appealed to these ‘evil-doers’ to look and be like mainstream citizens, saying menacing appearance should not be used to intimidate.

In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote a letter on the meaning and purpose of life when asked by his friend, Hume Logan, for advice. In just a few paragraphs, Thompson’s letter offers deeply thoughtful ideas, and what makes it all the more profound is the fact that at the time the world had no idea that he was about to become one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Thompson was not successful when we wrote this letter, so his beliefs on purpose were just hypothetical, or maybe statements of faith. But if the idea that we become what we fervently believe holds true, then Hunter S. Thompson is perhaps the best example of a man who lived totally reaching his highest potential. Let his words of wisdom inspire you and change your perspective on life: “I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” – Hunter S. Thompson April 22, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City Dear Hume, You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind. “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles … ” (Shakespeare) And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you’ve ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don’t see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect — between the two things I’ve mentioned: the floating or the swimming. But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty. So how does a man find a goal? Not a castle in the stars, but a real and tangible thing. How can a man be sure he’s not after the “big rock candy mountain,” the enticing sugar-candy goal that has little taste and no substance? The answer — and, in a sense, the tragedy of life — is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It’s not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis? The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on “the meaning of man” and that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use the term “god only knows” purely as an expression.) There’s very little sense in my trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because I’m the first to admit my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two paragraphs. I’m going to steer clear of the word “existentialism,” but you might keep it in mind as a key of sorts. You might also try something called “Being and Nothingness” by Jean-Paul Sartre, and another little thing called “Existentialism: From Dostoyevsky to Sartre.” These are merely suggestions. If you’re genuinely satisfied with what you are and what you’re doing, then give those books a wide berth. (Let sleeping dogs lie.) But back to the answer. As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors.WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES. But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors — but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires — including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter. As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires). In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life — the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual. Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN — and here is the essence of all I’ve said — you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH. Naturally, it isn’t as easy as it sounds. You’ve lived a relatively narrow life, a vertical rather than a horizontal existence. So it isn’t any too difficult to understand why you seem to feel the way you do. But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, “I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.” And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know — is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice. If I don’t call this to a halt, I’m going to find myself writing a book. I hope it’s not as confusing as it looks at first glance. Keep in mind, of course, that this is MY WAY of looking at things. I happen to think that it’s pretty generally applicable, but you may not. Each of us has to create our own credo — this merely happens to be mine. If any part of it doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that — no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. And that’s it for now. Until I hear from you again, I remain, Your friend, Hunter Featured image credit: Curt Livingston

Storm Preparation If you are prepared, you will be able to save your home and other things. Disaster may take place anywhere and anytime, and this is the reason why you have to be prepared before it takes place. Disaster can be tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, snowstorms and windstorms. Some of the disasters can take place during a certain period of a year, and others may strike during any season. The best part is that at a certain level, the Hurricanes may be predicated and this is why there are some months of a year that are known for the Hurricanes. You will not lose anything when you are prepared, and it is good if you have the right hurricane protection for your business and home. The problem with the storm is not mostly about the water, and this can be predicated easily, but it is about the wind. When there is a strong wind that comes with the storm, they are going to rip away the structures that are poorly built, and they can toss the piece of the wood or the metal like the missiles near the property. This is what will do too much damage. The window protection against a hurricane is important. The hurricane A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, and it forms the tropics, and it is accompanied by the thunderstorms or counterclockwise circulation of the wind. It takes place mostly starting June until November. Hurricane has four different stages; Tropical disturbance is when the clouds of the rain start (moist air will rise and will become cooler) Tropical depression: thunderstorms (low pressure with the winds that are in the circular patterns) Tropical Storm: 38 miles per hour wind (storm clouds with rough seas) Hurricane: it is over 74 miles for every hour wind and it has heavy rain (a developed eye with an eye wall) Hurricane hazards Storm surge is the water which is pushed to the shore by the wind’s force, and it will be swirling on the storm. The advanced surge may combine with normal tides to create hurricane storm tide, and it may create mean water level up to 15 feet and even more Inland Flooding: in 30 years, the inland flooding had been responsible for half of the deaths that are caused by the tropical cyclones in the US High winds: Hurricane can force the winds to destroy the building that is poorly built and the mobile homes. The debris that is being left out as the small items that were left outside, roofing materials and the signs turn into the flying missiles in the Hurricanes Tornadoes: sometime the hurricanes may produce the tornadoes, and they add the destructive power to the destructive power of the storm. The tornadoes can take place in the right-front quadrant of a hurricane. You need to be extra careful in the following situation When the hurricane watches has been issued, and you are at the part of a coast. This is the indication that it is possible to experience the hurricane problem in 36 hours. The watch needs to be triggered by the disaster plan of your family with the proactive measures that have to be initiated for the actions that will need more time like getting the boat or leaving the barrier island. Hurricane warning is given to a certain part of a coast. This means that the wind which is over 74mph is expected in 24 hours. When the warning is issued, the family has to be already in the process of finishing with the proactive actions or deciding on the safe place where they have to be in during that storm. When you take some simple precautions and doing the planning with the family, you will be prepared if the disaster strikes; you are going to be able to cope in an emergency. Preparing your home Look for the loose parts of the structure like fences, porches or patios that are found outside of a house. When you can shake them using your hand, you need to remove them or to secure them. Now, it is the right time that you have to get the shutters and to protect your own The openings of the home will need to have protection to keep the strong winds away and the rain out of your home. From the experience, it has been proven that when a home does not have the protected openings, it will be at great risks of getting more damage. The trees have to be trimmed to minimize any damage that may take place to your house or your neighbor’s house. The vehicles that are kept out maybe overturned with high winds. In case you do not have the carport or the garage, you have to locate the protected spot where you may park the car. The best location is on the leeward side of a house, and it should be away from the main force from the wind Check for loose electrical wiring and shaky gas connection outside and inside. Do the repairs and if you can, you should call the contractor to do it if you are not able to do it alone. If there are items that are found on the outside like the yard equipment, grills or lawn furniture, they need to be kept in the house before the storm starts. In case they are left out, they are going to be picked by the high winds, and they may be turned into deadly missiles. You have to fasten the shelves and to hang the units in your house and place items that are heavier at low shelves. You have to make sure that the mirrors, pictures and other items that hang are put away of the couches and the beds. In case they are near, they have to put down. You need to ensure that the water heater is strapped at wall studs, and another one is at the solid base. You have to examine the home to see if there are hurricane connectors and straps at the framing members, rafters and roof trusses. The home which does not have these protective reinforcements can be at the risk of losing a roof or walls if there is a strong force from the hurricane winds. Equipment and supplies The experience from the past has taught the people that they have to get prepared so that they may live without some basic services or utilities for about a week or more during the hurricane. However, many people are not prepared to do this, and it is not that obvious that people should be prepared to go through such adventure. The best way to know what you may need is trying to live a day without using the utilities and to see a list of the things that became evident that you may need them. The parents have to try out one-day comp in with the children on some occasion. This will make everything to be less traumatic for them when it happens if they are forced living without things that they normally take just for guaranteed. You need to make sure that all vehicles are full of the fuel before the storm starts. You have to remember to get to ATM or banks to secure the cash because the banks may be closed for some days when there has been a severe storm. You have to keep a photo ID that shows the home address with you. This can be important if you have to ask the police officers or the National Guardsman a permission to enter the neighborhood. Be aware of the weather report

Sam Blankenship is in the process of applying to law school. STRONGSVILLE -- It's not a stretch to say that, by all appearances, the partisan divide in America is only widening. Both sides, right and left, are radicalizing at what appears to be an ever-accelerating pace. With this has come a harshening of the rhetoric and discourse from American leaders and from American citizens. Most of the proposed solutions to this paralyzing problem revolve around changing people. "They need to be more informed!" some cry, while others lament that the other side "doesn't understand us." I don't think changing individuals, or even groups, will do much good at all. Rather, it's time we started to look at changing the system that got us here in the first place. Much of our system relies on "first past the post" elections. A candidate who receives 50 percent of the vote, then at least one more vote, wins and is expected to represent, at least in theory, everyone who voted in that particular election. It's a system that pretty much demands the existence of only two parties; any more, and it wouldn't really work. With the two-party system comes, by necessity, radicalization. Everything's in black and white; it's "us versus them" in its purest form. Over time, the parties grow to hate one another, constant and bitter rivals that they are. It gets us to the place we now find ourselves: bitter divide; unflinching dislike and hatred; and a government that has ground to a halt. The solution lies in revamping our election system and embracing the idea of proportional representation. In such a system, legislative districts would either be done away with entirely or consolidated into just a few per state. These larger congressional district's representatives would be decided by the proportion of the vote their party received. If 60 percent voted Republican and 40 Democrat in in a part of Ohio allotted 10 congressional representatives, for example, there would be six representatives from the Republican Party and four from the Democrats. In effect, every vote would matter, not just the votes for the party that gets more than 50 percent. The benefits to such a system are numerous. Most importantly for our current situation, a proportional representation system allows for, and almost demands, more than two parties. Suddenly, a fringe or single-issue party that can manage to get just a small percentage of the votes can have a seat in Congress. You no longer have to choose the lesser of two evils if you don't identify with the Democrats or the Republicans. Is the environment all you care about? Vote the Green Party. Afraid of government overreach? The Libertarians are for you. Your vote isn't just a protest vote in this system; it could actually result in the ideals to which you ascribe having an impact on our national government. With many parties comes a great potential for improving our discourse. It's a lot harder to maintain the level of ire we currently see when there is more than one target. Furthermore, compromise would be necessary. Likely, no party would have a majority in the proportional representation system. Thus parties would have to form coalitions, working together with other parties with diverse opinions to be able to get anything done at all. As it stands, whoever has even a single representative advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives has access to complete control. The minority party can, and does, only become embittered and further radicalized in such a system. Naturally, proportional representation is not without its flaws. There is potential for far more radical parties to take the national stage, albeit in small numbers, and there would be less direct representation of geographic areas. However, the benefits that changing to this system could provide our country, and the potential it carries for healing our poisoned and destructive national discourse and politics, far outweigh these disadvantages. At the very least, making this change merits serious consideration. For now, that's probably all that we can do for it: Think about it. Many reading this are probably thinking, "Well it sounds fine, but it'll never happen here." Almost right: It'll be wildly difficult to change our electoral system, but just barely not impossible. The first step is to start a national conversation and get American citizens thinking about the possibilities. Our political environment has shown it is going to get worse, not better, on its own. Perhaps it's time to change the system that let it get so bad in the first place. Sam Blankenship is a Law School Admission Test (LSAT) instructor and is in the process of applying to law school himself. ******** Have something to say about this topic? Use the comments to share your thoughts, and stay informed when readers reply to your comments by using the Notification Settings (in blue).

G iven the fights there have been over the backstop, are there no conceivable alternatives to it? The hunt for such alternatives inevitably leads to examples of other borders and it is usually only a matter of time before someone volunteers the Switzerland-France border as a model. Switzerland is in Schengen (so no need for passport checks) and regulations on goods are broadly aligned with those of the EU. Switzerland is not in the EU’s customs union nor its VAT regime, and that means border checks are required. Its watches and cuckoo clocks literally run like clockwork, so, the argument goes, must its borders. But it’s not as simple as that. As the Swiss Federal Customs Administration makes clear, even though they have the latest technology and much paperwork is done away from the border, there is still some physical infrastructure and delays of up to four hours if a lorry is searched. In 2018 Switzerland launched a new IT-based customs transformation programme. This programme aims to simplify, harmonise and fully digitise customs tax and duty collection processes. It should be in place by 2026. However, this programme will not make controls at the border redundant. Quite the opposite. Because routine administrative work and bureaucratic procedures will be replaced by IT-based solutions, personnel will be freed up. These people will be used to strengthen security, especially for control functions and reinforcement of criminal prosecution. Some of these functions will continue to apply at the border. Hence, even with a highly technologically advanced customs management system, controls at the border will not become obsolete and nor will customs infrastructure vanish. How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Show all 14 1 /14 How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Passports British passports that expire after 29 March 2019 will continue to be valid as UK travel documents, but will lose the power that comes with being a European Union passport – notably the right of free movement within the EU27. UK passports issued from 30 March 2019 will have the words “European Union” removed from the cover and the first page (along with the translations into Welsh and Gaelic). But they will still be burgundy. By October 2019, new British passports will have dark blue covers Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Pets You will still be able to travel to the EU with your pet after Brexit, but it could well get more complicated depending on the status that the European Union decide to apply. If the UK is given “Part 2 listed status”, there would be some extra requirements for travelling pets and owners post-Brexit. “These would require an additional visit to the vet and some additional papers to be carried but would not prevent you from enjoying your trip,” says Eurotunnel. But it adds that if the UK is given unlisted, third-country status, “owners who wish to travel with their pets from the UK to EU nations will need to discuss their specific preparations and requirements with an Official Veterinarian at least four months prior to their desired travel date AFP/Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Eurotunnel/Eurostar The Treaty of Canterbury between the UK and France governs the Channel Tunnel link and operations will continue – subject to any local disruption at Folkestone and/or Calais AFP/Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Driving Motorists, whether taking their own cars or hiring abroad, are likely to need to obtain an International Driving Permit or two; different EU countries are signed up to different treaties, so for a trip embracing Spain and France you would need both types. These are currently sold from a limited number of Post Offices, but the government intends to make them widely available. The cost is £5.50 for each. Motor insurance will no longer automatically extend to the EU. Insurers will provide on request a “Green Card”, for which an extra charge will be made PA How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Flights Even in the event of a no-deal Brexit, flights will continue to operate between the UK and European Union. However, in the event of the UK leaving with no deal, many flights are likely to be cancelled because departures would be capped at 2018 levels. As UK airlines have already announced thousands of new flights to Europe from the end of March 2019, some would have to be cancelled Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Air routes The network of flight links between Britain and eastern Europe could be affected by any reduction in the number of workers from those countries. Not only do they use the flights – so do their families and friends PA How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Flight disruption rights Current European passengers’ rights rules, known as EC261/2004, stipulate high payouts for delays and cancellations that cannot be attributed to “extraordinary circumstances”. Buried in a document called Beyond the Horizon: The Future of UK Aviation, the government says “the UK will not fall below current standards of protection when we leave the EU” AFP/Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Entry regulations to the European Union From 11pm GMT on 29 March 2019, UK travellers will become “third-country nationals” when travelling to Schengen countries and subject to the standard rules of admission for citizens of nations such as the US, Japan and Australia. That means there must be at least 90 days (roughly three months) left on your passport beyond your intended date of departure. Because third-country nationals can remain in the Schengen area for 90 days, the actual check carried out could be that the passport has at least six months’ validity remaining on the date of arrival Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Online registration prior to travel – ETIAS From 2021, non-EU nationals who do not require a visa to enter the Schengen area – including British travellers – will need to request prior authorisation to visit Schengen countries. The Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is aimed at reducing the “migration, security or public-health risk” from nationals of visa-exempt third countries, which is what the UK will become after Brexit. It costs €7 for three years AFP/Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe ‘Brexit clauses’ A large number of travel providers – even including National Express coaches – have added “Brexit clauses” to their terms and conditions. These generally specify that they will not be liable for “consequential losses” as a result of Brexit-related issues PA How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe ‘Fast track’ lanes for passport control entering EU countries British passport holders will not be able to use them, and must join the queue for third-country nationals. People holding an EU passport or ID card as well as a British passport will be able to exit the UK on the British passport but enter Europe on the EU document Getty How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Ferries The ferry industry insists vessels will continue to sail. The UK Chamber of Shipping says: “Unlike the carriage of cargo, trade deals do not have a significant effect on the cruise and passenger ferry industry. The explicit standardisation of commodity codes and tariffs associated with trade deals have little relevance to holidaymakers.” Having said that, the government and Kent County Council are planning for possible chaos at Channel ports because of a backlog of trucks in the event of a no-deal Brexit. This would impinge on holidaymakers’ plans PA How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) The EU says: “If you fall ill or have an accident during a visit to another EU country, as an EU citizen you have the right to receive the necessary public healthcare in any EU country under the same conditions as people in the host country.” The EHIC also works in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Treatment, says the NHS, is “at a reduced cost or, in many cases, free of charge”. From 11pm GMT on 29 March 2019, when the UK ceases to belong to the European Union, British travellers will have no automatic right to use the EHIC. There is no certainty about what may replace it PA How Brexit will affect your travel to Europe Mobile phones From 30 March 2019, the law banning mobile phone firms from charging extra for calls and data in Europe will cease, though operators have yet to set out exactly what will replace it. In theory, mobile phone firms can impose whatever fees they think the market will bear. But Dave Dyson, chef executive of Three, says his firm is “committed to maintain the availability of roaming in the EU at no additional cost following Brexit” AFP/Getty What about another favoured example, the Norway-Sweden border? Norway is not in the customs union either, so the origin of goods must be checked. Again, Norwegian Customs make clear what is required. Although it is technologically advanced, there is still a delay. The average time from when a lorry arrives at the border to when it leaves is about 20 minutes. This includes roughly ten minutes waiting time, three to six minutes of handling time, and the time spent coming off the road to complete the customs process. And there’s physical infrastructure too. All this despite existing agreements on customs facilitation, transit and rules of origin between the EU and the European Free Trade Association states, of which Norway is one. Less often talked about are Andorra and San Marino. Both are small European nations that are in a customs union with the EU. Although Andorra’s treaty only covers goods, its borders with Spain and France are strictly controlled. This is due to the fact that Andorra has no VAT (yet) and is known as low tax territory. Thus, smuggling has always been a concern of the neighbouring countries. The customs union with San Marino covers all goods except coal and steel. It has traditionally kept an open border without checks at its frontier with Italy. However, it levies an import tax, at 17 per cent. The Bulgaria-Turkey border is worse. Turkey is in a customs union with the EU, which removes tariffs and quantitative restrictions in bilateral trade between EU member states and Turkey for the goods covered. It also sets a single external tariff for both the EU and Turkey, so they charge the same duties on imports from non-EU countries. Theresa May says she's 'not proposing' to replace Irish backstop Unlike the customs union covering EU member states, the EU-Turkey agreement is incomplete. It covers industrial goods but not agricultural products (except certain processed agricultural products), coal and steel products, or public procurement. Finally, the border between Turkey and the EU is bureaucratic and lengthy. Lorry drivers need an export declaration, a customs permit, invoices for the products they are transporting, insurance certificates and a transport permit for each EU nation they will drive through. The queues at the border can be up to 17 kilometres long and the wait as much as 30 hours. While Turkey has invested significantly in modernising its border, with checks taking place an hour inland, Bulgarian officials check the paperwork for every truck and x-ray all refrigerated lorries. Which brings us to the US-Canada border. Again, much resource has been put into streamlining this border but there are still delays - the length can be seen online. All of this indicates that regardless of the technological capabilities of the EU’s neighbouring countries, there will be checks and the borders and this means infrastructure.

This is the world's first total artificial heart. Surgeons Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley placed it into Haskell Carp's chest on April 4, 1969 in Houston. They removed it 64 hours later when a donor heart became available. But the heart did what it was supposed to do, explained Judy Chelnick, an associate curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The patient did not live long, but not because the manmade heart malfunctioned. It worked just fine, laying the stage for many later variations. The piece of medical history is now stored in a formaldehyde solution in a cabinet behind the scenes at the museum. The NMAH had kindly invited us over to look at their patent medicine collection, and we just happened to stumble upon Chelnick going about her business. She pulled the heart from a cabinet and set it on a cart for us to look at. The cabinet looked like this: I couldn't stop staring down into the two chambers of the heart. I had one of those obvious realizations that feel profound anyway: the heart is really just a pump. As you stare at the heart, what's striking is that it looks so rugged and industrial, almost steampunk. Somehow it reminded me of a gas mask from World War I. This is not a bright and shiny object. In the top photo, check out the blue thread and the mesh; they mark this prototype as the product of human hands.I couldn't stop staring down into the two chambers of the heart. I had one of those obvious realizations that feel profound anyway: As I snapped pictures circling the heart, I was particularly struck by the coagulated blood on one of its chambers. It reminded me that this mechanical object had been in a human's body for almost three days, and it had simulated his heart. As I snapped pictures circling the heart, I was particularly struck by the coagulated blood on one of its chambers. It reminded me that this mechanical object had been in a human's body for almost three days, and it had simulated his heart. Update: As drjayo notes in the comments, these are the drive lines that supplied the hydraulic power for the pumping chambers. They made sure the blood came in and the blood went out, and Carp stayed alive. Update: As drjayo notes in the comments, these are the drive lines that supplied the hydraulic power for the pumping chambers.They made sure the blood came in and the blood went out, and Carp stayed alive.

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research suggests that people with a narcissistic self-view are more likely to demonstrate lower support for democracy. They are also more likely to feel that democracies are not good in maintaining order, or that it would be better if countries were run by strong leaders or the military. The research, which was co-led by psychologists at the University of Kent, suggests this is probably because narcissists tend to feel entitled and superior to others, which results in lower tolerance of diverse political opinions. In contrast, people who take a positive, non-defensive self-view and trust others are more likely to show support for democracy, the research found. The study, the findings of which are published as My way or the highway: high narcissism and low self-esteem predict decreased support for democracy, consisted of two parts that analysed the relationship between different types of self-evaluation—narcissism and self-esteem—and support for democracy in the US and Poland. The team, led by Dr. Aleksandra Cichocka, of Kent's School of Psychology, and Dr. Marta Marchlewska, of the Polish Academy of Sciences, set out to understand the psychological mechanisms driving support for democracy. They built on previous research which demonstrated that basic personality traits can predict broader opinions about the organisation of the social world. Dr. Cichocka said: 'The jury is out on whether the new generations are becoming more narcissistic than previous ones, but it is important to monitor how societal changes can affect the self. We need to make sure we are not fostering feelings of entitlement or expectations of special treatment. In the end, these processes may have important implications for our social and political attitudes.' Explore further Support for populist ideologies linked to feelings of disadvantage and national narcissism More information: Marta Marchlewska et al, My way or the highway: High narcissism and low self-esteem predict decreased support for democracy, British Journal of Social Psychology (2018). Journal information: British Journal of Social Psychology Marta Marchlewska et al, My way or the highway: High narcissism and low self-esteem predict decreased support for democracy,(2018). DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12290

Calling all MagicBand fans! Today, we’re providing our readers with a first look at two brand new MagicBand colors debuting at Walt Disney World Resort on November 29. The first new MagicBand is a dark gray color that is fashion-forward and sleek. This bold color complements any look for your Disney Parks visit. The second new color is a mint green color showcasing an effervescent and fun look. This cheerful color is sure to be a fan favorite! MagicBands are an all-in-one device that allow you to access your Walt Disney World Resort plans in the My Disney Experience app, from entering the parks to redeeming FastPass+ selections, connecting Disney PhotoPass photos and more. Items will be available for purchase wherever MagicBands are sold throughout Walt Disney World Resort. What is your favorite new MagicBand color? Let us know in the comments!

Looking to Purchase a BMW? Stephen James BMW Now Accepts Bitcoins for Payment! With real life use of cryptocurrencies making its way to society, a giant from the car industry has recently announced its favoritism for Bitcoin by accepting it as a payment method for vehicle purchases. The tweet was made by none other than Stephen James BMW, a BMW and MINI car dealership based in London and Kent. The tweet made on July 5th, 2018 goes as follows: “Stephen James is now accepting Bitcoin for the purchase of your new BMW! Contact us today to find out more about how you can use Bitcoin to walk away with a brand-new vehicle #bitcoin #bitpay.” The announcement also reveals that the car dealership will be working alongside BitPay, a global platform that accepts Bitcoin payments, whether it entails retail, ecommerce, billing purposes and more. BMW is not the first to make such a revolutionizing move, as a smaller established custom cars provider, Classic Recreations has also been accepting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin [BTC], Bitcoin Cash [BCH], Litecoin [LTC], Ethereum [ETH] and Docademic [MTC] to name the least. According to the Owner of Classic Recreations, Jason Engel, cryptocurrencies will eventually become a “legitimate currency on the global market”, and his desire for technological advancements made it necessary for him to provide numerous payment options for consumers. Will consumers start to reconsider cryptocurrencies despite negative press and its volatility?

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Neljän lapsen isä kuoli, kun ravintolan valomerkin jälkeen jälkeen häntä lyötiin kerran leukaan. Lyöjä vetosi oikeudessa huonoon onneen. Hovioikeus lievensi rangaistusta. Neljän lapsen isä kuoli, kun häntä lyötiin ravintolan valomerkin jälkeen yhden kerran takaapäin yllätyksellisesti leukaan ulkona. Lyönnin seurauksena hän kaatui suorilta jaloilta asvalttiin ja löi päänsä. Lyöjä potkaisi uhria vielä kerran kylkeen keväällä 2015 Hyvinkäällä. Uhri menehtyi päävammoihinsa tulematta enää tajuihinsa. Hyvinkään käräjäoikeus tuomitsi lyöjän pahoinpitelystä ja kuolemantuottamuksesta yhden vuoden ja viiden kuukauden ehdottomaan vankeusrangaistukseen joulukuussa 2015. Helsingin hovioikeus lievensi lyöjän rangaistuksen samoista rikoksista yhden vuoden ja kahden kuukauden ehdolliseksi vankeusrangaistukseksi. Sen oheen 24-vuotias mies määrättiin 80 tunniksi yhdyskuntapalveluun. Lyöjän mukaan hän ei voinut mitenkään odottaa, että yksi lyönti voisi johtaa kuolemaan. Lyöjän mukaan kyse oli ”onnettomuudesta tai huonosta onnesta”. Lyöjän mukaan ”toisen lyöminen ei yleensä aiheuta tämän kuolemaa vaan pikemminkin tappelun”. Havaittuaan runsaan verenvuodon ja uhrin tajuttomuuden lyöjä hälytti paikalle ambulanssin kaverinsa kanssa. Lyöjä ilmoittautui itse hätäkeskukseen aamulla, kun kuuli uhrin kuolleen. Tapahtumat saivat alkunsa ravintolasta, jossa uhri häiritsi lyöjän mukaan naisporukkaa. Lyöjä oli kehottanut uhria jättämään naiset rauhaan, jolloin uhri oli lyöjän mukaan uhannut tappaa lyöjän. Lyöjän kaverin mukaan kumpikaan ei ottanut uhkausta vakavasti, vaan kyse on normaalista ravintolahuutelusta. Valomerkin jälkeen lyöjä huomasi uhrin tyttöporukan luona ulkona. Hän suuttui, juoksi uhrin luo ja löi tätä heijarilyönnillä takaviistosta leuan alueelle. Kun uhri kaatui, lyöjä vielä potkaisi vielä maassa maannutta uhria kylkeen. Uhri ei ehtinyt havaita iskua. Hän oli tilanteessa puolustuskyvytön. Lyöjä on aiemmin, 2013, tuomittu törkeästä pahoinpitelystä ehdonalaiseen vankeusrangaistukseen. Helsingin hovioikeus katsoi, ettei miehen aikaisempi rikollisuus ja nyt tuomitun vankeusrangaistuksen pituus edellyttäneet ehdotonta vankeusrangaistusta. Hovioikeus piti uhrin kuolemaa eli teon seurausta lyöjän kannalta yllättävänä. Lyöjä hankki paikalle ambulanssin, ilmoittautui itse poliisille ja pyrki kuulusteluissa selvittämään tapahtunutta, minkä hovioikeus otti käräjäoikeuden tavoin jossakin määrin huomioon rangaistusta alentavana seikkana. Uhrilta jäi neljä alaikäistä lasta, joille isä oli läheinen ja välit lasten ja isän välillä lämpimät. Lyöjä määrättiin maksamaan 6 000 euroa jokaiselle lapselle isän yllättävän ja väkivaltaisen kuoleman aiheuttamasta kärsimyksestä.

11 March 2019 Just when you thought these two notorious helmet zealots had done enough damage to Australia’s cycling participation and safety outcomes with their previous insidious and deceptive “studies”, Jake Olivier and Raphael Grzebieta back with their most outrageous deception ever. After debunking previous myths like helmets reduce the odds of head injuries by 70% and helmet laws saw head injuries reduce compared to arm injuries, the dastardly duo have returned with a study for the University of New South Wales that claimed helmet laws almost halved cycling fatalities upon their introduction. They also took the opportunity to slander those against the pernicious helmet law regime as an “ill-informed, small but vocal group of anti-helmet advocates who claim that the MHL has been a disaster for cycling in Australia” and “These advocates are no different to the climate change deniers and the anti-vaccination groups and belong in that same category of people that do not believe in scientific evidence. It would not matter what you present to such people. They will always live in denial.” Quite ironically, it’s Olivier and Grzebieta that don’t believe the science, hence, their continued crusade to create their own. When that fails, they straight out lie. Let’s pick them apart again. HELMET LAWS SAW AN IMMEDIATE 46% REDUCTION IN FATALITIES AND AN ESTIMATED 1332 FEWER FATALITIES SINCE 1990 This is the classic fraudulent manipulation of statistics by Jake Olivier, and debunked in the report’s own conclusion: “In the absence of robust evidence showing a decline in cycling exposure following helmet legislation or other confounding factors, the reduction in Australian bicycle-related fatality appears to be primarily due to increased helmet use and not other factors.” The use of the term “robust” is Olivier’s way to dismiss the plethora of creditable evidence actually out there that shows cycling did reduce, and many other factors were in play. 1) Data from Victoria and New South Wales shows there was an immediate drop in cycling rates by 30% to 40% following the introduction of helmet laws, with teenagers seeing the largest decrease of 47%, and secondary school students 67%. Commuting by bicycle dropped roughly 30% to 40% as a percentage of mode share. Western Australia, two specific count points showed a 28% and a 36% reduction in cyclists between 1991/92 and 1995/96. That’s much of the 46% reduction in fatalities right there. 2) In Victoria, total hospital admissions were 40% lower than pre-law while the percentage of those with head injuries fell by only 1.7 percentage points. Curiously, similar results were observed for pedestrians. Western Australia largely echoed Victoria with only 4.8% less serious head injuries. This confirms two things: overall participation did drop about 30% to 40%, and that increased helmet wearing made little or no difference to head injuries. New Zealand shows a similar pattern when their helmet law started in 1994. 3) The report misleadingly suggests the helmet law transformed a zero helmet wearing population into a 100% wearing one, and only a helmet law would encourage people to wear a helmet. In fact, helmets were increasingly being worn in the preceding years and it took many years to reach a high percentage of wearing, either through compliance or participation attrition. Observed helmet wearing rates before the law were between 30% and 37%, depending on the state, and between 75% and 82% following the law. Note: that is a percentage of people cycling, so excludes people that stopped riding. If they continued cycling then the helmet law increased helmet wearing to about 50% of the pre-helmet law cycling population. 4) Fatalities were already on a downward trajectory, just as they were for other road users, notably motorists and pedestrians. These trends continued for all road users after helmet laws, which suggests general road safety improvements and safety campaigns at the time regarding speeding and drink driving were significant factors in reducing fatalities. From the late 1990s into the 2000s, safety continued to improve, except for cyclists. This is despite tougher enforcement and higher fines. In New South Wales in 2015, a 500% increase in fines and heavy policing directly saw cycling numbers drop without reducing injuries. Nationwide, fatalities increased too. 5) The estimated 1332 lives saved is grossly inflated, being 50 per year, and seems deceitfully based on picking a high year 1988 (98 deaths) with a low year 1992 (41), and presuming 98 in total would continue to die every year without a helmet law. Except, helmet laws weren’t enforced nationwide until 1992, and in the immediate five years after, fatalities increased to 45, 59, 48, 57 and 52, respectively. There’s also the deceitful assumption that every cyclist before the helmet law would continue their exact same behaviour until today, and improvement in road conditions, bike lanes and awareness campaigns would cease. In fact, we know helmet use would have increased to near 100%, especially for sports and more serious cyclists, because it has in other countries. Only the slower, safer, urban types typically go without a helmet. In Canada, where provinces have different helmet requirements, a comprehensive study found that compulsory helmets had a minimal effect to reduce injuries. 6) The obsession over helmet wearing and their grossly exaggerated benefits has killed cyclists by luring them into situations they ordinarily would not risk, taking more risks in general, and has allowed governments to avoid the only true safety measure of separating cyclists from motorists. Western Australian hospital data shows overall hospital admissions increased after helmet laws even as helmet wearing increased. Of all the lives allegedly saved, it would have been much more with more attention on infrastructure and less on wearing a flimsy foam hat. If we were to be as deceitful as Olivier and Grzebieta, we could calculate, based on a 70% better safety record in parts of Europe and the approximate 1040 deaths in Australia since helmet laws, that Australia’s obsession with helmets over infrastructure has killed over 700 people. 7) In trying to prove that helmet laws reduced head injuries compared to arm injuries, their data shows cycling became more dangerous overall as both forms of injury increased, only that arm injuries increased at a more rapid rate (likely caused by the surge in popularity of weekend pack riding MAMILs). Things improved for both once infrastructure increased, more so for head injuries. This graph does not consider the reduced cycling activity after helmet laws either, so the injury rate was actually much higher. 8) Olivier and Grzebieta are proven liars and manipulator of statistics to produce the conclusion they want. Grzebieta has often mentioned how the Netherlands is the most dangerous place to cycle in Europe and more dangerous than Australia, and bases this on data per population level, not per distance cycled. Also note the contempt he has for those that question him, and the sordid inference of Dutch cycling policy failure. Most Dutch fatalities are caused by motor vehicles and, as we’ve seen in Australia, forcing people to wear a foam hat is not the answer. Of course, we know the Dutch cycle far more often, and per distance cycled, Australia is far more dangerous. THERE IS NO STRONG EVIDENCE THAT HELMET LAWS LEAD TO FEWER PEOPLE CYCLING To quote Olivier: “It is one of those things where it has been repeated so many times that people just believe it to be true, and won’t question it because they’ve heard it so often”. So much for living in denial. It must be an illusion that all those countries with mass participation of cycling don’t have helmet laws. Australia’s bicycle use is roughly the same as the USA, and this graph clearly illustrates that helmet laws or excessive helmet promotion correlate to less cycling. A survey in 2013 of Melbourne’s failed bike-share showed that helmets were a deterrent, either directly not wanting to wear one or “safety concerns” (helmets create a perception cycling is dangerous). Of course, if people were happy to wear a helmet, then there’d be never any helmet fines, and certainly not a strictly enforced law with harsh penalties. There’s thousands of fines a year nationwide, which obviously would only represent a fraction of those going without a helmet, and failing to wear a correctly fitted helmet is the most common cycling law broken. The below graphs are from the city of Adelaide and the state of New South Wales. Even in Australia, helmets are exempt in the Northern Territory on footpaths and bike-paths, and they have the highest per capita cycling rate in Australia and the best safety record. Thankfully they have resisted any temptation to change their sensible and enduring law on helmets following this dubious report, with Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics Minister Eva Lawler telling NT News, “Australia and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world with mandatory helmet legislation. In the Australian context, levels of cycling are relatively high in the NT, with 25.6 per cent of the population cycling in a typical week compared to 15.5 per cent nationally.” IF LAWS WERE REPEALED, THERE WOULD BE A SUDDEN UPTAKE IN THE RATE OF SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES AND FATALITIES Grzebieta goes on to say: “The subsequent increase in hospitalisation costs would further exacerbate the already overwhelming demand for crash trauma treatment at hospitals and cause a significant increase in health costs.” Blatant fear-mongering, if not an outright lie. Several countries have repealed helmet laws, notably Mexico, Israel, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Malta, and there’s no evidence of increased injuries and fatalities. That’s because those most predisposed to crashes and injury – sports and enthusiast cyclists – would always wear a helmet. They don’t need a law. As for crash trauma treatment in hospitals and increased health costs, that’s not only infinitesimal compared to the trauma and costs caused by motorists and their vast amount of head injuries, it shows you an insight into the warped and bigoted thinking of Grzebieta towards cyclists. He advocates for “five star roads” for motorists, whereas cyclists must do with a flimsy foam hat. WE ARE HIGHLY SKEPTICAL THE BENEFITS OF CYCLING FAR OUTWEIGH THE ‘DISBENEFIT’ OF HELMET LAWS Grzebieta suspects “poor assumptions are being made in the scientific methodology”. No, it’s common sense and simple mathematics. We know regular exercise is a proven way to improve health, so the less people that ride, the less overall exercise there is among the population, so the more unfit and unhealthy they become. A recent British study showed that regular cyclists reduced their chance of any form of early death by 41%, incidence of cancer by 45% and heart disease by 46%. A Dutch study estimated the health benefits of cycling were substantially larger than the risks of injury, while a Danish study put a number on that at 21 to 1. THE FOCUS ON HELMET LEGISLATION DETRACTS FROM THE MORE IMPORTANT CONCERNS Olivier continues to say those concerns are “construction of dedicated cycling infrastructure, education of all road users, and supportive legislation to protect cyclists, such as minimum passing distances”. This is rank hypocrisy as Olivier is obsessed with helmets, that obsession has contributed to the very inaction on infrastructure and other measures, and repealing helmet legislation would end the distraction. Let’s see if this is the last of his dubious “studies”. Debunking the Biggest Myths of Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Law Advocates

If you’ve been doing Angular any amount of time, I hope you’ve found and started using the great ui-router library. It truly helps when building anything that’s larger than a simple project. A really useful feature is resolves. It is ui-router’s way of letting us provide values to the different controllers it manages, in a way that makes them simpler – it hides asynchronous operations and so controllers are more linear. For example, a controller that needs a specific goat might be written like so with vanilla Angular: 1 2 3 4 5 6 angular . module ( 'app' ). controller ( 'GoatCtrl' , function ( GoatService ) { var self = this ; GoatService . getGoat (). then ( function ( goat ) { self . goat = goat ; }); }); But if this is a controller of a route defined by ui-router, we can use a resolve to hide the promise from it: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 angular . module ( 'app' ). config ( function ( $stateProvider ) { $stateProvider . state ( 'goat' , { url : '/goat' , controller : 'GoatCtrl as goatCtrl' , templateUrl : 'goat.html' , resolve : { goat : function ( GoatService ) { return GoatService . getGoat (); } } }); }); angular . module ( 'app' ). controller ( 'GoatCtrl' , function ( goat ) { this . goat = goat ; }); The benefits, I assume, are clear: cleaner controllers, especially if you have multiple things that need fetching and less meddling with asynchronous code and promises. But, as always, there are pitfalls and use cases where this solution comes short that you should be aware of in order to make the right decision. The pitfalls Might feel slow/laggy/stuck You’ve had this happen to you many times (probably earlier today): you press a button which triggers a route change. If that route has a resolve that takes a few seconds to complete, you won’t get any feedback about anything happening until the resolves are resolved. This can be frustrating, making you wonder did I click it? Perhaps you’ll click again just to make sure. In a resolve-less state, the new controller and template would start rendering immediately, which by itself provides some feeling of progress. I usually go for not using resolves in this case and have the controller show a proper loading state for itself. This way it doesn’t matter where you’re transitioning to this route from, you’ll still have the proper loading indication. You can also, of course, have the button show some spinner or something until the route transition happens. Errors happen in no-man’s-land You have a resolve that makes an AJAX $http call. Eventually it will fail. Where will you handle the error? You don’t have a controller yet to manage things at this point. Make sure to either have some generic error handling or make your resolves always return some value, even on errors, and then handle those situations in your controller. It adds complexity to the code Even though the solution makes some parts of the code clearer, like the example at the top of this post, it has a price. The dependencies of the controller are now pushed away to a place far far away. Some of the setup of the controller now happens in a different place, even though it is still very coupled – each resolve maps to an argument for the controller. I don’t always like the effect this has on my code and if I notice that I have to keep flipping back and forth between the controller and the state setup I might decide to just push it all together (maybe using a helper service) to make things clearer and have them just sit together. Take aways Resolves can be very handy and I definitely use them, but it’s important to understand where they might clash with maintainability and UX and make sure to keep tabs on it. Happy routing!

A growing consensus among economists and sociologists about the pay gap between men and women has even The New York Times acknowledging sexism might not be the primary cause. Evidence is backing up what has been apparent for some time to those willing to consider causes for the gap other than sexist policies driven by the so-called patriarchy — women, especially mothers, are choosing to work fewer hours. NYT correspondent Claire Cain Miller highlighted this fact in an in-depth piece on a shift in the American economy that is disproportionately rewarding those who work long, inflexible hours. Many mothers, it turns out, are choosing to stay home more as a result. “There are many causes of the gap, like discrimination and a lack of family-friendly policies,” she writes. “But recently, mounting evidence has led economists and sociologists to converge on a major driver — one that ostensibly has nothing to do with gender.” (RELATED: Gender Wage Gap Is Due To Men Working Longer Hours) The story centers on a couple who chose to divide the labor, so that the mother works part-time in order to focus on raising their children, while the father works 60- to 80-hour weeks at a law firm. Her choice to set aside her full-time job allows him the ability to work inflexible hours now, which in turn will lead to long term financial gains for their family. Miller is quick to point out that women like this mother aren’t opting out of work altogether, but the fact remains that they are making a choice to focus on their family at the expense of work hours. “For the most part, women who work extreme hours get paid as much as men who do,” Miller writes. “But far fewer women do it, particularly mothers.” While Miller’s report casts all this in a negative light, because of the choices the changes to the economy are forcing some women to make. But it’s also an example of one of the positive benefits of traditional divisions of labor in marriage. The woman sacrifices work hours, but in return the entire family prospers in the long run. Follow Rachel Stoltzfoos on Twitter

“I believe in that old political maxim that an attack unanswered is an attack agreed to,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said in an interview Thursday. More than a dozen Capitol Hill Democrats, many of whom are backing Biden’s candidacy, said in interviews that the vice president needs to fine tune his response, pivoting away from the at times emotional and defensive rebuttals he’s offered on the campaign trail. Their advice was wide-ranging: Some said Biden surrogates should attack Trump’s adult children for benefitting from the presidency anytime Trump goes after Biden’s son. Others said he should be prepared to lay out the facts of the Ukraine case, which debunk the allegations of corruption Trump has leveled. Others still said Biden should simply remind voters that it was precisely this attack that led to Trump’s impeachment last year. But regardless of their advice, Democrats widely agreed that the Burisma matter wouldn’t weigh heavily on Biden’s chances because it’s been thoroughly debated for months and the facts are on his side — even as the president’s allies in the Senate are planning to use Burisma as a cudgel against Biden. House Majority Whip James Clyburn. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “Not one bit, not one bit,” said House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), a prominent Biden ally. “You can make anything you want an issue. You can eat too much ice cream and make that an issue. And I think the president is eating too much ice cream.” Other Biden supporters pointed to the swell of support he’s received on Super Tuesday as proof that voters don’t buy into Republicans’ claims. “As we've seen, the president has been saying that for months and Vice President Biden has received overwhelming support and I think it will continue,” said Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), a House impeachment manager who endorsed Biden earlier Thursday. Democrats’ comments came amid growing expectations that Trump and his allies in the GOP-controlled Senate are preparing to unleash a tsunami of Burisma-related attacks on Biden in an attempt to tarnish his campaign. Trump's legal team and allies in Congress spent months launching attacks on Biden and his family — based on the disputed testimony of two former Ukrainian prosecutors removed for their own alleged corruption — to allege Biden leaned on the Ukrainian government to protect his son from a corruption investigation into Burisma. The charge has been refuted by senior State Department officials, who said Biden championed anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine in partnership with U.S. allies. His efforts, they said, made it likelier that companies like Burisma would face legitimate scrutiny, rather than escape it. But Trump pressed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation of Biden last year, a push that ultimately led the House to impeach Trump for abusing his power by soliciting foreign help in his reelection. The president was acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate trial. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been mounting a year-long campaign to promote the discredited attacks on Biden and on Thursday echoed a call to revive them now that Biden has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner. And on Capitol Hill, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) this week announced a new phase in his long-simmering Burisma investigation, including a plan to authorize subpoenas next week related to Hunter and the release of an interim report over the next two months. Johnson said he believed Democratic primary voters should see his findings before casting their votes. Johnson’s push has led to some unease even among Republicans. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the only Republican to support Trump’s removal from office in the impeachment trial, said Johnson’s investigation appeared political in nature. Democrats raised concerns during the impeachment process that Biden often failed to clearly articulate a rebuttal to the Burisma attacks — he even memorably tussled angrily with a voter who questioned him about it, calling him “a damn liar.” Some also acknowledged that Hunter’s work for Burisma did present at least the appearance of a conflict, even if there was no underlying wrongdoing. Rep. Terri Sewell. | Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images “The reality is, optically, it doesn’t look good, but I think the facts speak for themselves,” said Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.). “We need to put to bed any rumors about Joe Biden’s involvement at all on Burisma by just the facts, making sure the facts were out there.” But some now say it wasn’t as urgent for Biden to develop a concerted response then because he was facing a field of Democrats that wasn’t mounting similar attacks. That’s about to change. “His democratic opponents didn’t go after him on those — maybe a light blow here and there,” Beyer said. “With Trump it’ll be much different. One of the things I’m sure the Biden campaign won’t do is treat this the way John Kerry did the Swift Boats.” For some Democrats, the key to neutralizing the impending attacks is for Biden to turn them right back around on the president, questioning the Trump children’s many financial and business entanglements as they continue to advise their father -- both formally and informally -- while he’s in the White House. “If Donald Trump wants to talk about children, let’s talk about the president’s children and the immense amount of money they’re making off of their father’s name,” said Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who hasn’t endorsed in the Democratic primary. “I’m Irish too, so you fight back hard. When somebody throws this kind of sleaze at you, you respond.” But some longtime Biden allies on Capitol Hill said they didn’t expect the vice president to take that advice, noting it just wasn’t in his nature to attack politicians’ children, no matter what he is being accused of in the interim. FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo “Biden is a good guy. He wants to be tough but he wants to be completely clean,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). “I know there are people on our team who wanted him to say, ‘Look, let’s talk about your kids.’ But Biden is not a hater.” Some senior Democrats have not been shy in their criticism of Biden’s campaign. Cleaver, who endorsed Biden last fall, said Biden’s responses to the Ukraine questions so far have not been effective. And Clyburn, speaking more broadly about the campaign over the weekend on CNN, said there needs to be some “retooling,” a sentiment Biden later agreed with. With Biden consolidating his grip on the primary, though, allies see an influx of resources and support that could help him recalibrate his campaign to respond to those types of attacks. “I think you’re going to see his message fine-tuned now that he has resources,” Cleaver said. “He hasn’t had the resources and so he hasn’t had the people who can sit around and craft the response he needs.” But whatever the message Biden settles on, Democrat say he must be prepared for the issue to get ugly. “The president will pound on whatever the president can pound on,” said Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.). “This isn’t pattycake. It’s going to be a tough, bloody fight.” Sarah Ferris contributed reporting.

WASHINGTON -- Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is calling for the elimination of college athletic scholarships, saying the move is necessary to "de-professionalize" college athletes. "As we near the exciting conclusion of 'March Madness' -- which would more accurately be described as the 2011 NCAA Professional Basketball Championships -- it's time we step back and finally address the myth of amateurism surrounding big-time college football and basketball in this country," said Nader, whose League of Fans is proposing that the scholarships be replaced with need-based financial aid. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the proposal Thursday, ahead of its official release. NCAA spokesman Bob Williams said that referring to college athletes as professionals defies logic. "They are students, just like any other student on campus who receives a merit-based scholarship," he said. Nader, a former presidential candidate, argued that his plan would also help reduce the "win-at-all-costs" mentality in high schools, by reducing the incentive of college scholarships. "An entire industry has developed in the youth sports arena -- club teams, personal trainers, etc. -- to prey on families' dreams of an athletic scholarship," he said. "The lure of the elusive athletic scholarship is the primary -- sometimes the only -- marketing tool these youth sports entrepreneurs use." He said he would try to gin up support for his proposal from university presidents, Capitol Hill and the Education Department "We'll use all the levers," Nader said. "We'll use the parents of athletes who've been mistreated and sick, and forced to play when they're injured." Nader added that he hadn't yet canvassed Capitol Hill, but figured he'd find lawmakers who are concerned about the way college athletes are treated. The Drake Group, a college athletic watchdog organization, has called for replacing one-year athletic scholarships with need-based financial aid, or with multiyear athletic scholarships that extend to graduation. Nader said that colleges should either integrate athletics into the educational mission by eliminating college scholarships, or, "openly acknowledge the professionalism in big-time college sports, remove the tax-exempt status currently given to athletic departments, and make universities operate them as unrelated businesses." The longtime former head of the NCAA, Walter Byers, has called for paying college athletes. Nader said his proposal was the opening initiative of a rejuvenated League of Fans, a sports reform group that has been dormant for some time.

The changes made in ITR are an attempt to catch tax evaders, a tax official said. All cash payments of over Rs 2 lakh for paying loans and credit card bills during the 50-day period post demonetisation will have to be disclosed in the new one-page Income Tax return form. The tax department a few days back notified new Income Tax Return (ITR) forms for filing of returns for the Assessment Year 2017-18 (financial year 2016-17).Besides providing for declaring income, exemption claimed and tax paid, the forms have a new column providing for declaration for any deposit of over Rs 2 lakh in bank accounts made during November 9 and December 30, 2016 after the old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes were demonetised.This column is also to be used for declaring cash payments in excess of Rs 2 lakh for repayment of any loan or settlement of credit card bills during this 50-day period, a senior official told Press Trust of India here."The column is an attempt to match the cash deposits made post demonetisation with the annual income," he said.While all credit cards are linked to permanent account number (PAN) of the holder, almost all loans by scheduled banks are also provided on furnishing of PAN. The tax department will collate the data it has of cash payments made in excess of Rs 2 lakh with the returns filed."We want to see if the income profile matches with the cash payments made," he said. The move comes amid concerns of unaccounted cash or black money being used to settle bills after credit cards were used to make heavy purchases. It could also be that black money could have been used to repay loans.Post-demonetisation, the government had provided a 50-day window beginning November 9, 2016 to deposit the junked notes in bank accounts. For those with unaccounted cash, it gave them one last opportunity to come clean by depositing 50 per cent of it as tax and parking another 25 per cent in a zero-interest bearing deposit for four years.The changes made in ITR are an attempt to catch tax evaders, the official said.Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia had last week told PTI that the new column of cash deposits made during November 9, 2016 and December 30, 2016 was a one-time feature in the ITR and would not be there in the ITR from next year onwards.The ITR, he had said, would evolve or change every year depending on the need.While coming out with new ITRs, the CBDT had also rationalised them and cut down the number of forms to seven from earlier nine. While all taxpayers will have to now mandatorily link Aadhaar with their PAN cards, ITR1 (Sahaj) form has been shortened from 7 page to 1 page to enable filing of returns bypeople with income up to Rs 50 lakh by July 31.ITR2 is to be filed by individuals and HUFs who do not have income from business or profession and ITR3 is filed by individuals and HUFs having income from a proprietary business or profession.Also ITR 2 and ITR 3 also have a Schedule AL which require assessees to declare their assets and liabilities at the end of the fiscal. ITR4 (Sugam) is filed by those individuals who have opted for income calculation under presumptive income from business and profession.

Version 4.17: - API Version 100032 - Removed the shipped LibAddonMenu. You have to install and update it separately from now on. - Added endless loop icon to: "/falkreathfrolic" - Refactoring Version 4.16: - API Version 100031 - Added a smaller/optional variant of the radial quick menu. Search for "Radial Menu Variant" in the settings menu of LovelyEmotes. Version 4.15: - API Version 100030 - The number of tabs for favorite emotes has been increased from 4 to 8. - The width of the main window and selection window has been slightly increased to make room for the new tabs. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/festivebellring", "/mistletoeposterior", "/mistletoe", "/arachnophobia", "/eggscramble", "/onyourmark", "/egghatch", "/lichen", "/angrydustoff" - Refactoring Version 4.14: - API Version 100029 - The shipped LibAddonMenu has been updated to version 2.0 r30. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/slapknee", "/summonbat", "/wardingsymbol", "/drinkfromskull" Version 4.13: - The copy function has been reworked and now gives information about the selected tabs. - Copy buttons are now disabled if an empty tab is selected. - Added Russian translation (unfinished). - Fixed a bug that caused the first account-wide tab to never have less than 5 emotes after reload. - Fixed a bug that caused some new emotes not localized correctly. Version 4.12: - API Version 100028 Version 4.11: - It is now possible to mark favorite slots as "empty". The idea behind this is that you can create space between favorite emotes and sort them in the individual tabs. - A button has been added to the emote selection window to empty the selected favorite slot. - Missing favorite emotes (e.g. emotes removed from the API) are no longer selectable. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/salty", "/rollingpin", "/esraj", "/goutfang", "/whisperingclaw", "/guarstomp", "/slicefood", "/desertrain", "/brightmoonsgreeting" - Fixed a bug that caused interactions with controls located behind the custom buttons window. Version 4.10: - Added a setting to add personalities to the emote list. This can be useful to save personalities as favorites and to switch them via hotkeys or the radial menu. (disabled by default) - Activated personalities are highlighted with an individual color. - More efficient emote list. - Added a missing German string. - Fixed a bug that caused the emote list not to reset properly after a personality was activated or deactivated. - Refactoring Version 4.9: - API Version 100027 - Added a setting to add locked emotes to the available emotes list. (enabled by default) - Added a slider to resize the minimized window. - Some settings were assigned to the wrong header. - Fixed a bug that caused some ignored emotes to appear after closing the custom buttons window. Version 4.8: - LibAddonMenu is now included as a standalone. If you don't want to use the included version of LibAddonMenu (currently 2.0 r29), you can simply delete it in the subfolder "Dependencies". - Compatibility with the latest version of LibAddonMenu and some older versions. Version 4.7: - Added a button in the main window to show and play unlocked personalities. - Added a setting to enable/disable the minimized window state. - The minimum value of the "Visibility (Minimized)" slider has been increased from 0 to 20. - The size of the emote list button in the main window has been slightly increased. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/handpuppet", "/mimewall" - The second "/crouch" emote does not seem to work properly and has been removed. - Updated LibAddonMenu to version 2.0 r29 - The Reload UI button has been removed from the settings menu because it is no longer needed. - Fixed a bug that caused emotes to update multiple times after switching personalities. Version 4.6: - Locked emotes in the emote list are no longer clickable. - Locked emotes are now more visible in the emote list. - Added French translation. - Updated LibAddonMenu to 2.0 r27 - Refactoring Version 4.5: - The chat string check of the emote synchronization has been reworked and limited to the first two words to avoid possible misbehaviour. - Synchronized emotes via whisper chat have been fixed and should now work as intended. - Custom Buttons: When an empty slot is selected, the input field of the command is automatically focused. - Favorites selection: The display name is now hidden if the display name and the slash name are identical. - Added a fade animation to the selection window. - Chat messages when copying emotes have been replaced by alerts. - Added an alert for successful copy. - Added an alert when a missing favorite emote is triggered by a hotkey. - Implemented a workaround for a concurrency issue with another addon. Version 4.4: - API Version 100026 - Added some sounds. - Added a setting to replace some of the default click sounds with alternative sounds. (enabled by default) - Fixed: The number of custom buttons is no longer added to the number of available emotes. Version 4.3.1: - Fixed: Synchronized emotes can no longer be accidentally played through unauthorized chats. Version 4.3: - Added custom buttons. * Custom buttons are similar to emote buttons, but they can execute chat commands. * Created custom buttons are shown like emote buttons in the emote list and can be saved as favorites. * Once custom buttons are defined, a new category named "Custom" is created in the emote list. - Added a slash command "/lecustombuttons" to open the custom buttons window. - Added emote synchronization. You can sync emotes via chat with other people who are using LovelyEmotes. - Added a submenu in the settings menu to configure the emote synchronization. - Refactoring Version 4.2: - Added key bindings for each tab. - Added key bindings to select the next and previous tab. - You can now also select tabs in the radial/wheel menu using the key bindings. Version 4.1: - Added a setting to change the number of tabs available in the main window. (default 4) Version 4.0: - Added 4 tabs in the main window for your favorite emotes. Each of these tabs contains up to 15 emotes and can be customized in the settings menu. - The saved emotes of previous versions are moved to the first tab. - The radial/wheel menu displays the saved emotes of the currently selected tab. - Key bindings play the emotes of the currently selected tab. - Depending on the settings, the last tab displayed is saved account wide or locally for the character. - Reworked and improved settings menu. - "Character Wide Settings" has been replaced by "Emotes Settings". - "Account Wide Settings" have been renamed to "General Settings". - Added sliders for the new emotes tabs. - Sliders of the emote settings now manage both account wide and local values. - Copying emotes no longer requires reloading the user interface. - Some names and descriptions have been changed. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/gladiatortaunt" - The default position of the windows on the vertical axis has been changed from 3/4 to 3/5 of the screen height. - Updated ingame description. Version 3.8: - Automated updating of LovelyEmotes windows when new emotes are unlocked. (I couldn't test this, but it should work. If someone finds out, please let me know.) - Some changes in preparation for the next update. Version 3.7.1: - Fixed the "View All" function in the category dropdown of the emote list. Version 3.7: - Emotes that are overridden by a personality are now highlighted. - Changed the default emote category icon of the radial menu. - General improvements. - Fixed: The property "ReplaceName" in the EmoteDataMod.lua file no longer hides unchanged default entries. Version 3.6: Note: A new internal command has been added to replace the display names provided by ZeniMax. - The "/eat2" and "/eatbread" emotes are basically the same, but at different speed. The provided English display names were wrong and has been corrected. - Added an option to highlight locked emotes in the emote list (enabled by default). - Added a way to modify emotes yourself. - The random emote function does not try to play locked emotes anymore. - The "Show Endless Loop Icons" option no longer resets the emote list. - Refactoring - Fixed a bug that made it difficult to drag the main window after switching between favorites and emote list. Version 3.5: - API Version 100025. Version 3.4: - You can now switch between account-wide (shared) favorites and character-specific favorites without reloading the user interface. - You can now change the number of favorite buttons without reloading the user interface. - Warning icons have been removed from the "Is Using Shared Favorites", "Favorite Emotes Count" and "Shared Favorite Emotes Count" settings. - Added right-click behavior to all buttons. - A right click on an emote in the emote selection window selects the emote without playing it. - Settings that have no effect due to another setting will be deactivated. - Fixed a minimize/expand bug. Version 3.3: - Added endless loop icon data for: "/festivalbeggar", "/jugglepumpkin", "/skullponder", "/throweggs", "/throwtreats", "/tracker" - Refactoring Version 3.2.1: - Fixed: The addon stopped working after the "Is Using Shared Favorites" option was disabled. Version 3.2: - Added a new button design which is now the default. - Added an option to change the button design of the favorite emotes in the main window. - Added an option to change the button design in the emote list. - Improved performance of the emote list for a more stable frame rate on weaker computers. - The code of the main window has been reworked. - The position of the emote list has been corrected. - The background of the main window is now less transparent. - The entry to ignore "/testme" is now obsolete and has been removed. - Changed the default value of the "Visibility (Minimized)" setting to 50. - Some optimizations. Version 3.1: - API Version 100024. Version 3.0.1: - Fixed: Search bar was not working. Version 3.0: - Added a button in the main window to switch the list between all emotes or favorites only. - Changed the main window render order to show in front of the default UI. The main window has a lower tier when minimized. - The emote selection menu now also shows the display name of the selected emote. - Updated ingame description. - Fixed: An issue of the emote list build code. - Fixed: Several bugs where the emote list was not correctly reseted. Version 2.9: - Added localization support for the settings menu and the key bindings. - Added localized strings for the German language for the settings menu and key bindings. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/glowglobe", "/showtime" - Some renamings and text changes in the settings menu. Version 2.8: - Added an option to show/hide the endless loop icons (enabled by default). - Added an information text in the addon settings menu to show how many emotes are currently available. - Refactoring - Fixed: Redundant emote list initialization. Version 2.7: - API Version 100023. - Added a button in the upper right corner of the main window to lock/unlock the positions of the windows. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/tada", "/happyface", "/sadface" - Updated LibAddonMenu to 2.0 r26 Version 2.6: - Improved code for faster and more efficient emote playback. - Better performance when playing emotes by pressing a key. - Added endless loop icon data for: "/kickthedirt", "/comegetsome", "/iseeyou", "/lineinsand", "/flipthebird" - Added a slash command "/lerandom" to play a random emote. - Fixed: An issue after changing the alpha value of the minimized main window. Version 2.5: - Empty emote categories are now hidden in the emote list window. - Refactoring Version 2.4.1: - Fixed: Executing emotes using keys. Version 2.4: - Improved minimize/expand code. - Reduzed the size of the minimized window. - New button for the minimized window. - Windows that can be moved are now highlighted. - New (unique) buttons for save and cancel in the emote list window. - Fixed: Initialization issue. Version 2.3: - Added a search bar to search in the emote list for a string. Display names of the current language and slash names are considered. - When the emote list is displayed, it no longer resets each time a favorite is selected. - Added a reset button in the bottom right corner of the emote list window. - Refactoring - Fixed: The emote list is no longer sorted over and over again. Version 2.2: - API Version 100022. - The position of the minimized window is now saved separately. Version 2.1: Note: Don't worry, your old favorites are still available. All you have to do is turn off the "Is Using Shared Favorites" setting. You can also copy your old favorites to the shared list (see the "Copy Favorites" submenu in the addon settings menu). - Added an option to save favorites account wide (enabled by default). You can disable this option for each character individually if you have characters that need different emotes. - Added a submenu in the addon settings menu to copy favorite emotes from and to your specific or account wide favorite emote list. - The "Toggle Cursor" option is now enabled by default. - A few text changes in the addon settings menu. - Refactoring - Fixed: Radial Quick Menu show/hide bug. Version 2.0: NOTE: Because of the changes it is unfortunately necessary to reassign your keys once. - Added a "Radial Quick Menu" for mouse/keyboard users to make emoting more convenient. The radial menu will display all available favorites from the main window. This radial menu works like any standard radial menu in the game, but you have to assign a key first. - Added a key binding for the new Radial Quick Menu. - Added a slash command "/letoggle" to toggle the main window. The idea is that you can switch the invisible main window without having to bind a second key when using the addon as a simple quick menu. - Added a slash command "/lesettings" to open the "AddOn Settings" menu. - Removed obsolete code. - Some code changes to avoid possible conflicts with other addons. - Fixed: Rare error message when using a key to execute emotes. Version 1.10: - Added an option to display the slash names in alphabetical order instead of the localized names in the emote list (disabled by default). - Added a link to the LovelyEmotes website on ESOUI. - Fixed: Menus are no longer accidentally closed by pressing the "Toggle Main Window" key. Version 1.9: - Added a setting to change the visibility of the main window and the emote list. - Fixed: The main window should no longer appear in menus. - Fixed: Duplicates are no longer invisible. Version 1.8: - Added an option to automatically minimize the main window when the cursor is hidden (disabled by default). - Added an option to toggle the cursor by pressing the key binding "Toggle Main Window" (disabled by default). - Removed the "Use cursor key" option. Version 1.7: - Added setting to set the visibility of the minimized main window. Set the value less than 10 to hide the window instead of minimizing it. - Support for character name changes. Version 1.6.1: - Fixed combat event bug. - Refactoring Version 1.6: - Key bindings for favorites: You can assign a key for each selected favorite (up to 15 favorites can be selected). Even hidden favorites can still be played by pressing the set key. Version 1.5.1: - Added a keybind to toggle the main window (again and now forever). Version 1.5: - Highlight selected favorites: Whenever the emote list opened, the selected favorite button is highlighted to give you a better overview of which favorite to be replaced. - I have decided to remove the keybind for toggling the main window. Instead, I added an additional setting in the "Addons" menu to toggle the main window using the ESO's own "Toggle In-Game Cursor" keybind. The main window expands and the mouse becomes visible at the same time. This is probably the more convenient solution. (Disabled by default) Version 1.4: - Added a keybind to toggle the main window (can be found under "Controls -> General -> LovelyEmotes"). - Fixed: Some button textures and sounds. Version 1.3: - I added a category box at the top of the emote list to make it easier to find the desired emotes. The categories are updated automatically. Translation by ZeniMax. - Refactoring Version 1.2: - Added an option to start minimized (disabled by default). Version 1.1: - Minimizes in combat and shows up again when you leave the fight (enabled by default). Has no effect if the window is minimized by the player. This is optional and can be disabled in the menu "AddOn Settings".

A mother-of-one was caught trying to sell €90,000 of stolen gold jewellery to a cash for gold shop, a court has heard. Kathleen Kiely (31) of Lymington Avenue, London, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to handling stolen property on January 21, 2018. She has no previous convictions. Garda Sergeant Aidan Carroll told Fiona McGowan BL, prosecuting, that gardaí had placed the Gold Digger jewellery shop in Tallaght under surveillance after receiving information that two men were to call there. A woman exited a car driven by her former partner and approached the “cash for gold” shop carrying a handbag and a second large bag that appeared to be heavy. She was stopped by gardaí who discovered that the second bag contained a large amount of badly damaged gold jewellery. Expand Close Kathleen Kiely pleaded guilty to handling stolen property PIC: Collins Courts / Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp Kathleen Kiely pleaded guilty to handling stolen property PIC: Collins Courts The original value of the gold jewellery was €90,000, but the court heard that due to the damage it suffered, the value was reduced to €37,000. The jewellery was traced to a burglary in Lucan several days earlier. Kiely had come into the shop the previous day and asked the owner how much he would pay for 18 carat gold, saying her husband had some he wished to sell. Sgt Carroll agreed with John Griffin BL, defending, that Kiely was not the primary target of gardaí. He accepted that there was no suggestion she was involved with the burglary. The mother of one lives in London and was attending an engagement party in Ireland with her former partner at the time of the offence. Mr Griffin said his client was influenced by her former partner Michael Maughan (25) to commit the offence. He said Kiely instructed him to express her remorse and apologies to the victim and the court. Maughan of Hazel Hill, Tallaght, Dublin, also pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to handling assorted stolen jewellery on January 21, 2018. Judge Melanie Greally sentenced him to four year's imprisonment with the final two suspended. Judge Karen O'Connor ordered a probation report and adjourned the matter to July 30 next. Online Editors

To avoid a full-blown climate crisis and global food shortages, ending the use of fossil fuels won’t be enough—we must also restore and preserve lands and drastically change the way we eat, says a new UN report. The world must take urgent action and stop cutting down tropical forests, draining peatlands, expanding deserts, and degrading soils, and change the way we produce and manage food—or risk not being able to feed ourselves, according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called "Special Report on Climate and Land," written by more than 100 scientists from 52 countries. Two years in the making, the report draws its data from more than 7,000 scientific papers. More than half the authors are from developing countries, and the report is notable for including the vital contributions of Indigenous peoples and local communities. “For the first time, the world’s top scientists have confirmed what we have always known: respecting the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities is an immediate and actionable climate change solution,” Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, told Motherboard in an email. The IPCC report makes clear that the world needs to transform its relationship with land if we are going to survive as a species, Tauli-Corpuz said: “Indigenous peoples can lead this transformation.” Humans have increased our footprint to 73 percent of the planet’s ice-free surface, transforming it from uncultivated carbon sinks into major emitters of greenhouse gases. In less than 50 years, more than 2 million forested square miles have been converted to agriculture, much of it intensive and that uses pesticides, compacts the soil, and increases erosion. At the same time meat consumption has doubled, replacing plant forms of protein and resulting in a 70 percent increase in methane emissions from cattle and sheep. Simply replacing meat protein with beans, lentils, and nuts can have a significant impact, the report says. Scientific modeling indicates we will need large areas of land to draw carbon dioxide out of the air to limit warming to 1.5 C. Indigenous peoples already manage at least 22 percent, or 218 gigatons, of the total carbon found in tropical and subtropical forests, an alliance of Indigenous and community leaders from 42 countries said in a statement to policymakers. According to the World Bank, Indigenous peoples own, occupy, or use a quarter of the world’s surface area, and safeguard 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity. Colonial governments formally recognize their ownership rights to only 10 percent. The IPCC report found that innovative combinations of Indigenous, local, and scientific knowledge can contribute to overcoming the combined challenges of climate change and desertification, and further cited Indigenous knowledge, land stewardship, and land rights as possible solutions. Land titling and recognition programs, particularly those that authorize and respect Indigenous and communal tenure, can lead to improved management of forests, including for carbon storage, primarily by providing legally secure mechanisms for the exclusions of others, a leaked copy of the report said, although this was removed from the final version. The report also recommends traditional agroecological practices such as local forest, water, soil, and fertility management, local seed use, improved grazing, and ecological restoration based on Indigenous knowledge and practices. Similar findings by French think tank IDDRI last December showed an agroecological food system in Europe could slash emissions by 40 percent compared to emissions in 2010.

Logan Parham was so shocked by the wording of his vocabulary quiz from his advanced English class last week that he took out his cellphone and snapped a photo of it. The seventh fill-in-the-blank statement stood out in particular: "Right when it appeared the nation was becoming increasingly tolerant of alternative lifestyles, immigration, and minorities, the vocal and angry right wing forced the nation to make a complete ________, embracing bigotry, xenophobia, and sexism." Image source: WKMG-TV video screenshot Parham — a founding member of the Republican club at Florida's St. Augustine High School — told WKMG-TV he found the words "very degrading." Image source: WKMG-TV video screenshot How did his mother react? His mother Reanna agreed, telling the station she "had to read it twice. I was really surprised. Shocked." "It leads people to believe that anyone who leans toward the right — they're a sexist or racist or a bigot," she added to WKMG. "That happens a lot of times. We hear those kinds of things. We are not, and this doesn’t help." Image source: WKMG-TV video screenshot Another statement on the quiz mentions "supporting the financially elite." “That is not something an educator should be doing," Parham told WJAX-TV. "I feel like these are our tax dollars, they work for us. It is 'we the people.' You can't just say and do whatever you want with our kids. It's not OK." How did another parent react? Osbert Cato, who has a ninth-grade daughter at the school, took a look at the quiz and added to WJAX that he also found the question disturbing. Image source: WJAX-TV video screenshot "These are really trying times, and I think that as a community, people need to get together and talk things out,” Cato added to the station. What did the school have to say? The quiz was created by the teacher, according to a letter the school's principal sent to the teacher Tuesday in the wake of the controversy, WJAX said. The letter reminded the teacher that he must use good judgment concerning "sensitive" classroom material. The St. Johns County School District added to WJAX that the statement from the quiz won't be on future assignments. Here's the WKMG report:  (H/T: EAG News)

IKEA, the Swedish retailer that opened a furniture store in Canton, may be seeking to open another location in Michigan, according to reports. The company, based in the Netherlands and known for pick-it-up and assemble-it-yourself furniture, said it has not announced plans to open a second Michigan store and would neither a confirm nor deny reports that it is seeking to build another store in Michigan. "We haven't communicated that yet," IKEA spokeswoman Monda Astra Liss said, pointing out that no public announcement has been made. "If we haven't posted it yet, if we haven't communicated it yet, then we wouldn't be able to acknowledge it one way or another." Crain's Detroit Business, citing "sources familiar with the search who requested anonymity," reported Monday that IKEA is "looking in the Detroit area for a location for a new store that would complement its Canton Township flagship in Michigan." Crain's reported that IKEA aims to build a 300,000 square-foot store, potentially at I-94 and Hall Road in Macomb County, and suggested Oakland County also has sites that could be contenders — those now occupied by the Pontiac Silverdome, the Palace of Auburn Hills, and Summit Place Mall in Waterford Township. Read more: Art Van CEO outlines strategy to dominate Midwest furniture sales Ikea buys TaskRabbit in move that helps baffled do-it-yourselfers Since IKEA opened in 2006, the 355,000-square-foot IKEA store has been a draw for customers throughout the state who are seeking lower-priced furniture and Swedish meatballs, which the retailer serves in its cafeteria. The store, which is near I-275 and Ford, sells more than 10,000 items, including home goods. Two years ago, IKEA added 44,000 square feet to its Canton store, demolishing an adjacent, former ABC Warehouse to make room for the expansion. It also made road improvements in the area to alleviate traffic congestion. IKEA, an international company, has more than 350 stores worldwide. In September, the company announced that it is acquiring the handyman app TaskRabbit. TaskRabbit helps people in 40 U.S. cities and London search for contractors, called "Taskers," who can be hired for various tasks ranging from laundry to moving. One of its categories is called "assemble Ikea furniture." Retail commerce sales of furniture and home furnishings in the U.S. is expected to be $36.53 billion in 2017, up 16.1% from $31.47 billion last year, according to New York-based research firm eMarketer. By 2020, it is projected to hit $55.33 billion. But, young furniture buyers are spending less on furniture than previous generations. For instance, to redecorate their living rooms, millennials planned to spend $1,500, while for generation X it was $2,500, and baby boomers, $3,000, according to a 2016 Furniture Today survey. Meanwhile, Art Van Furniture — the Warren-based furniture company that was sold last year to Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners — is building a new store across the street from IKEA in Canton. To signal the competition in Canton, Art Van said it is putting up a sign that says "welcome" in Swedish. Contact Frank Witsil: 248-351-3690 or witsil@freepress.com.

If ESPN ever decides to create new installments of their 30 for 30: Broke documentary about pro athletes who had it all (i.e. money, cash, cars, mansions, and groupies) but then lost it all due to careless life and financial decisions (i.e. paternity suits, bad ideas for opening businesses, pandering to numerous vultures' needs around them), don't expect Marshawn Lynch to make an appearance in it. The legendary Seahawks running back is definitely f**kin' up some commas (yeah!). According to NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport and professional athlete contract breakdown source Spotrac, Lynch has accumulated approximately $50 million in savings from his nine-year NFL career alone. That doesn't include the millions that he's received in endorsement deals, nor the profits generated from his new Beast Mode clothing line. The bucks keep flying into this Seahawk's account, and they don't seem to be slowing down. Even if he doesn't come back next year to put on his spikes and decides to retire, he's still going Beast Mode all the way to the bank. Take notes, rookies, because "Beast Mode Capital Funds" can even help advise your 401k plans so that you don't withdraw your retirement cash before age 59-and-a-half and consequentially incur tax penalties. Send all complaints, compliments, and tips to sportstips@complex.com. [via BroBible]

In fact, President Trump signed a law in February revoking an Obama-era regulation that made it more difficult for the mentally ill to purchase guns. Mr. Trump, who spoke favorably as a candidate of vigilante shootouts for self-defense, also suggested that if a civilian had not briefly exchanged shots with the Texas shooter after the massacre, the casualty toll “would have been much worse.” The implication was that the bloodshed in Texas, which also included more than 20 wounded, actually makes the case for more guns — that the disease of gun violence is also its cure. This is a fantasy, not a rational argument; it doesn’t bear the slightest scrutiny. As our colleague Nicholas Kristof notes, the United States outstrips the world in both gun ownership per capita and gun deaths per capita. States with higher proportions of gun ownership also have rates of death by guns higher than the national average. Incidents in which victims kill attackers in self-defense are vanishingly few compared with gun homicides, and suicide is by far the leading cause of gun deaths. From expanded background checks to assault weapons bans, proposals put forward by gun-safety proponents, unlike continually increasing private American arsenals, would do something to thwart mass shootings. The Texas killer was not motivated by racial hatred, as was the killer of the Charleston churchgoers, but by family grievance, underlining the lethal combination of domestic abuse and firearms. Abusers’ access to guns increases the risk of intimate partner homicide as much as fivefold, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. While federal law prohibits those convicted of domestic violence, as Mr. Kelley was, from buying or possessing firearms, the Air Force failed to add him to a federal database, allowing him to pass necessary background checks. The right law was on the books but enforcement was lax. And yet so many politicians continue to promote the wares of the gun industry. Two years ago, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas tweeted “I’m embarrassed: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California. Let’s pick up the pace Texans. @NRA.” On Monday he said the problem was out of human hands. “We have evil that occurs in this world,” Governor Abbott declared, as if from a pulpit, equating all manner of global terrorist attacks, including the murder of eight last week by a truck driver in Manhattan. When asked how the evil of gun violence can be overcome, he replied “you do that by working with God.” Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, even envisioned “arming some of the parishioners or the congregation so that they can respond” if another massacre occurs. This is the level of pro-gun argument being offered by Republican leaders and some Democrats. It is made in service to the N.R.A. and the gun industry, not the American public.

A fun blog post popped up yesterday in which John Nunemaker ported a Quicksilver-style Live Search to jQuery. Taking a look at his code, I decided to have a little fun and re-port it to jQuery – trying to use the functional style that jQuery promotes. I think the end result is quite simple and elegant. The final code – compare with John’s port: jQuery.fn.liveUpdate = function(list){ list = jQuery(list); if ( list.length ) { var rows = list.children('li'), cache = rows.map(function(){ return this.innerHTML.toLowerCase(); }); this .keyup(filter).keyup() .parents('form').submit(function(){ return false; }); } return this; function filter(){ var term = jQuery.trim( jQuery(this).val().toLowerCase() ), scores = []; if ( !term ) { rows.show(); } else { rows.hide(); cache.each(function(i){ var score = this.score(term); if (score > 0) { scores.push([score, i]); } }); jQuery.each(scores.sort(function(a, b){return b[0] - a[0];}), function(){ jQuery(rows[ this[1] ]).show(); }); } } }; A couple points to note:

When Robots Were Enemies: 30s Anti-Recorded Music Ads You know the musical scores that accompany movies, amplifying the mood of each scene? These musical accompaniments used to be performed live in the movie theater by a band of talented musicians. As of 1927 and the release of the movie The Jazz Singer – in which synchronized sound was used for the first time – the bands’ services were no longer required. Rather than sitting back and watching their livelihood disappear, the former theater musicians decided to take a stand against the changes happening in their industry. In 1930, according to The Smithsonian, the American Federation of Musicians came together to form the Music Defense League. The new organization’s goal was to defend the careers of musicians who would be displaced by the “robot music” being played to accompany movies. The organization spent a staggering (for 1930, anyway) $500,000 on an ad campaign imploring the American public to refuse the “robot music” and insist on real, live humans on stages and in movie theaters. The ads featured a robot as the representation of recorded music. In various pictures the evil robot seeks to wrestle music culture away from real artists, seduce an innocent young girl, and physically harm human musicians. According to the Music Defense League, this shift from live music to recorded music would only erode the country’s love of “real” art. The musicians strongly believed that this first step would lead humans away from their enjoyment of live music and usher in an era of “canned music.” They were right, of course, to a certain point. After that time pre-recorded music slowly began to surpass live music in popularity. But today in our technology-loving society, we see this as a good thing because it allows more people access to a greater variety of music. As the Music Defense League predicted, there is now a relatively small pool of musicians who provide scores for motion pictures. But luckily for us, our modern recording methods have allowed us to hear music from all over the world.

Germany became the first country in Europe on Friday to give parents the option of a third "indeterminate" gender description for their newborn on birth certificates in addition to standard choices of male or female in a move hailed as a "legal revolution." The option of gender: “blank” is an attempt to enable children born with characteristics of both sexes to decide whether they want to be considered male or female in later life. But the new law also stipulates that individuals can opt to remain “blank” for the whole of their lives and stay outside the gender binary altogether. “This is the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female or are both,” said Konstanze Plett, a Bremen University law professor on Friday. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines German passports, which currently list the holder’s sex as M for male of W for female (Weiblich) will have a third designation, X for so-called “intersex” people - individuals with a mixture of male and female chromosomes. The Süddeutsche Zetiung newspaper said the change in the law amounted to a “ legal revolution”. The law is an attempt to remove the difficulty faced by parents with newborn children of indeterminate gender who are often under pressure to submit their offspring to surgery which places them in a recognised male or female gender category. As many as one in every 2,000 people are estimated to have characteristics of both sexes. In one case, a person with no clear gender-defining genitalia who was subjected to gender-defining surgery complained years later: “I am neither a man or a woman. I remain the patchwork created by doctors, bruised and scarred.” Despite Germany’s decision to change the law, the European chapter on International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association said the European Union was lagging behind on the issue. “This is an interesting move but it doesn’t go far enough,” said Silvan Agius, the organisation’s policy director, on Friday. “ Unnecessary surgeries will likely continue in Germany with devastating consequences because being classified as “other” is still considered undesirable,” he added. He said that European Union reports had shown that discrimination against such groups was “ still rampant in all EU countries” and that it was important for society to “open up” to the notion of people of indeterminate gender. Germany just failed to become the first country in the world to introduce an indeterminate gender category. The title has been claimed by Australia which introduced legal guidelines on gender recognition in July this year

We had to feel a little bit sorry for director Bryan Singer when we visited the set of X-Men: Days Of Future Past last year. Not only did he have a gigantic summer film to create, but he also had a terrible cough (“Sorry, my allergies are going crazy,” he told us), and he had load of jet-lagged writers gathering round to disrupt his day. Yet despite his hectic schedule, Bryan Singer was kind enough to take about half an hour to answer our questions about his new X-Men film in a lively group interview. He also spoke about how Days Of Future Past harks back to the ensemble filmmaking of The Usual Suspects, and also his lifelong affection for Star Trek, which led to his brief cameo in Star Trek Nemesis. Can you tell us how you came to have two casts? Originally it began with a discussion Matthew Vaughn and I had, where we felt that although fans love seeing new characters, they also love the familiar. So it was a way to make it special, and do a movie that isn’t a sequel or prequel, but what I call an interquel. And Days Of Future Past’s framework was a really great jumping-off point, because it’s such a great book.

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List and the cons operator (:) are very common in Haskell. Cons is our friend. But sometimes I want to add to the end of a list instead. xs `append` x = xs ++ [x] This, sadly, is not an efficient way to implement it. I wrote up Pascal's triangle in Haskell, but I had to use the ++ [x] anti-idiom: ptri = [1] : mkptri ptri mkptri (row:rows) = newRow : mkptri rows where newRow = zipWith (+) row (0:row) ++ [1] imho, this is a lovely readable Pascal's triangle and all, but the anti-idiom irks me. Can someone explain to me (and, ideally, point me to a good tutorial) on what the idiomatic data structure is for cases where you want to append to the end efficiently? I'm hoping for near-list-like beauty in this data structure and its methods. Or, alternately, explain to me why this anti-idiom is actually not that bad for this case (if you believe such to be the case). [edit] The answer I like the best is Data.Sequence , which does indeed have "near-list-like beauty." Not sure how I feel about the required strictness of operations. Further suggestions and different ideas are always welcome. import Data.Sequence ((|>), (<|), zipWith, singleton) import Prelude hiding (zipWith) ptri = singleton 1 : mkptri ptri mkptri (seq:seqs) = newRow : mkptri seqs where newRow = zipWith (+) seq (0 <| seq) |> 1

IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) -- UC Irvine's student executive council vetoed Saturday a resolution that banned hanging a flag from any nation in the lobby area of student government offices. The ban is "counter to the ideals that allow us to operate as an autonomous student government organization with the freedoms of speech and expression associated with it. It is these very symbols that represent our constitutional rights that have allowed for our representative creation and our ability to openly debate all ranges of issues and pay tribute to how those liberties were attained," the student executive cabinet released in a statement. The ban, narrowly approved by the school's student legislative body in a 6-4 vote Thursday, prompted the removal of the American flag from the lobby. The resolution was authored by student Matthew Guevara, who offered 25 reasons for the ban, including that the American flag could symbolize "exceptionalism and superiority." The resolution also states "freedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible, can be interpreted as hate speech." UC Irvine student Taylor Fong said the ban did not represent the opinions of her or her fellow students. "It's all very ludicrous," said Fong, who noted petitions had been circulating on the issue. "It's disrespectful to people who fight for our country and people who will continue to die for our country," student Paul Do said. Others say they still can't believe a flag ban was even proposed. "It's a very goofy idea, very unusual for how open minded everyone on campus seems to be. It was a big shock when I saw and heard about everything," graduate student Ebony Madry said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Sarah Bouhaddi n'aime pas trop l'exercice médiatique, c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire. Pour autant, la gardienne des Bleues ne recule jamais devant une interview, avec un ton parfois direct mais toujours franc. Celui qui lui a permis de durer au plus haut niveau malgré les embûches et ses sautes de concentration : comme cette sortie ratée en demi-finales des JO 2012 contre le Japon (1-2), ou ces relances manquées, face à la Colombie d'abord en phase de groupes du Mondial 2015 (0-2), puis contre l'Autriche au premier tour de l'Euro 2017 (1-1). Une compétition durant laquelle les critiques, dans nos lignes et chez nos confrères, l'ont blessée.

EXCLUSIVE: Batman Slept With Superman’s Mom What started the epic beef between Batman & Superman? It looks like Ma Kent might have spent a few nights in stately Wayne Manor.

Однако РБК удалось найти фотографии солдат и командиров реактивной батареи 7-й базы, собранные в российских социальных сетях украинскими волонтерами из команды сайта Informnapalm. На них артиллеристы и их командиры позируют на фоне «Градов» с боекомплектом у границы с Украиной (судя по меткам геолокации). Среди этих военных есть и два собеседника РБК. Корреспондент РБК обнаружил своих собеседников на фотографиях российских артиллеристов у границы с Украиной (Фото: Екатерина Кузьмина / РБК) Фотографии датированы началом ноября. Двумя месяцами ранее на границе с Украиной погиб служивший на 7-й базе контрактник из Астраханской области Анатолий Терехов. Первым об этом сообщил эксперт астраханского Комитета солдатских матерей Анатолий Салин, местные СМИ подтвердили его информацию. Сейчас заявление солдат 7-й базы с просьбой о расторжении контракта окружная прокуратура переправила в гарнизонную, сообщила РБК ответственный секретарь Союза комитетов солдатских матерей Валентина Мельникова. В самой прокуратуре не смогли оперативно прокомментировать эту информацию. Спорные контракты Принуждение к подписанию двухлетних контрактов для переброски на учения в Ростовскую область с неформальным обещанием уволить досрочно (которое выполняется не всегда) происходит и в других частях постоянной боевой готовности, сообщают организации солдатских матерей из разных регионов. «Сыну объяснили, что контракт – формальность. Он нужен, потому что срочников можно отправлять на учения только на месяц, а в Ростовскую область требуется на три», – рассказал РБК отец одного из военнослужащих 138-й мотострелковой бригады, дислоцированной в Ленинградской области. Его сыну не только устно пообещали уволить в срок, когда должна была завершаться его служба по призыву, но и выдали соответствующую справку. Такую же выдали и его сослуживцу: «Командование войсковой части обязуется уволить заключившего контракт на 2 года военнослужащего по собственному желанию на дату окончания срока его службы по призыву (копия справки за подписью начальника штаба есть у РБК)». Председатель Военной коллегии адвокатов Владимир Тригнин не видит разницы между контрактниками и срочниками относительно участия в учениях. Направить в зону конфликта могут как срочника (если он прослужил не менее 4 месяцев), так и контрактника, объясняет эксперт. «Скорее всего, отдельным командирам необходимо укомплектовать часть контрактниками, а из числа срочников желающих недостаточно. Со срочниками удобно заключать контракт, так как по истечении 3 месяцев он уже фактически прошел учебку и знает, как обращаться с оружием и освоил военно-учетную специальность», – констатирует Тригнин. Что касается обещаний и справок от командования, то они, по мнению адвоката, будут иметь ничтожную силу при попытке оспорить контракт. В гарнизонном суде, куда следует обращаться, аргументом может стать либо сведение о принуждении к подписанию контракта, либо отсутствие выплат заработной платы, уточняет Тригнин. «Однако ключевым аргументом для суда будет подпись под контрактом», – говорит адвокат. Согласно «Положению о порядке прохождения военной службы» и ФЗ «О воинской обязанности», контракт считается действительным после подписания сторонами: солдатом и уполномоченным командиром части. География жалоб Подписывая контракты в части, командование все-таки нарушает приказ министра обороны «Об утверждении Временного типового положения о пункте (отбора на военную службу по контракту)», настаивает председатель нижегородского Комитета солдатских матерей Наталья Жукова. По ее словам, согласно приказу, сначала желающие служить по контракту подписывают проект контракта для подготовки приказа о вступлении контрактов в силу. К ней регулярно с апреля прошлого года обращаются родители солдат с похожими историями. Она, в свою очередь, обращается в военную прокуратуру и к вышестоящему командованию. Согласно выписке из журнала обращений военнослужащих, Жуковой удалось помочь 18 срочникам. Среди них нижегородцы из 9-й висленской мотострелковой бригады и 6-й танковой бригады из Мулино. Основания для опасения у родителей есть, считает Жукова. Известны случаи гибели во время этих учений контрактников 9-й бригады Армена Давояна и Александра Воронова, а также попадания в плен к украинским военным рядового той же бригады Петра Хохлова, подписавшего контракт во время срочной службы в 2014 году. Осенью Хохлова обменяли на пленных украинцев и передали в руки ополченцев. Подробно в этих случаях РБК разбирался в октябре. 26 января Жукова направила в прокуратуру заявление о ситуации с двумя выпускниками вуза, которых в ноябре уговорили вместо прохождения службы по призыву сразу подписать двухлетний контракт. В итоге их направили вместо учебной части в 6-ю танковую бригаду – войсковую часть постоянной боевой готовности, где младшие командиры пообещали двум вчерашним студентам скорую отправку «на Украину». После вмешательства родителей и правозащитников их оставили в части, идет разбирательство с участием вышестоящего военного начальства, говорит Жукова. Солдатским матерям также удалось добиться вынесения представления гарнизонной прокуратуры в адрес командования 36-й борзинской бригады в Забайкалье (документ есть у РБК) за несвоевременное увольнение пятерых военнослужащих. Они полгода, до лета 2014 года, проходили службу по призыву, затем их уговорили подписать все тот же двухлетний контракт, пообещав, что позволят уволиться уже в ноябре. Однако в части их задержали. Прокуратура признала их срочниками, подлежащими демобилизации в ноябре. Но в то же время она не нашла нарушений в самом акте подписания контракта. Несколько подобных обращений зафиксировали в организации «Солдатские матери Санкт-Петербурга», рассказал ее пресс-секретарь Александр Передрук. Депутат городского заксобрания Борис Вишневский попросил окружную военную прокуратуру проверить, не отправляют ли срочников на Украину. Передрук рассказал РБК также о ситуации с призванным из Пермской области солдатом 51-го тульского полка ВДВ, которого принуждали подписать контракт в августе 2014 года. В сообщении на сайте пермского омбудсмена говорится, что правозащитникам удалось добиться от суда и прокуратуры признания действий командования незаконными. Просьбы о помощи поступают и от подписавших контракты срочников из 200-й мотострелковой бригады (поселок Печенга) к мурманской правозащитнице Ирине Пайкачевой. По ее словам, речь также идет о вернувшихся из Ростовской области военнослужащих, пытающихся расторгнуть такие контракты. Перегибы на местах В пресс-службе Минобороны пообещали ответить на официальный запрос РБК о случаях давления на срочников с целью отправки в Ростовскую область в установленные законом сроки. При этом в ведомстве обратили внимание на неоднократные официальные опровержения присутствия российских военных на территории Украины. В случаях возможного давления на срочников при заключении контрактов, скорее всего, имеют место «перегибы на местах» или даже ложные заявления солдат, родителей и правозащитников, преследующих личные цели, разъяснил источник РБК в Минобороны. В армии заинтересованы исключительно в добровольном принятии решения о приеме на службу по контракту, настаивает собеседник. В случае возможных нарушений при подписании контрактов военнослужащие должны обращаться в военную прокуратуру, подчеркнул собеседник. Мельниковой удалось получить ответ начальника Главного управления кадров Минобороны Виктора Горемыкина на обращение с описанием подобной ситуации. «Командиры воинских частей не наделены полномочиями по приему военнослужащих, проходящих военную службу по призыву, на военную службу по контракту. Все мероприятия производятся через пункты (отбора на военную службу по контракту) при военных комиссариатах», – говорится в разъяснении Горемыкина, датированном 16 сентября. Командирам частей просто не хватает нужного числа контрактников для ротации ростовской группировки войск, объясняет Мельникова нарушение установленной процедуры. «Думаю, они пытаются соблюдать требование, что участие в этой секретной операции должны принимать только контрактники», – говорит правозащитница. В частях действительно могла возникнуть нехватка контрактников, соглашается военный эксперт Александр Гольц. «В процессе реформы армии существовал замысел сформировать 10–15 частей постоянной боевой готовности, укомплектованных преимущественно контрактниками, – говорит Гольц. – Эти силы позволяли одержать быструю победу над любым противником на пространстве СНГ, но были рассчитаны на скоротечный конфликт, например отражение вторжения талибов в Среднюю Азию. Проблемы возникли, к​огда текущая операция в Ростовской области затянулась почти на полгода и требует регулярной ротации». Эксперт не исключил и сокращение количества желающих служить по контракту после новостей о похоронах контрактников-отпускников в регионах.

Here is What The Brain Can Remember From Infancy (Even When Consciously It’s Gone) The astounding power of the unconscious to store information we’ve consciously forgotten. The echoes of a ‘lost’ mother tongue can be seen in the brain decades after the language was last heard, a neuroscience study finds. The girls in the Canadian study were between 9 and 17-years old when tested and were adopted at an early age by French-speaking families from Chinese parents. Their exposure to Chinese had, therefore, been minimal and they certainly had no conscious recollection of their mother tongue. Lara Pierce, the study’s first author, explained the study’s rationale: “The infant brain forms representations of language sounds, but we wanted to see whether the brain maintains these representations later in life even if the person is no longer exposed to the language.” The French-speaking girls adopted from Chinese families were compared with bilingual girls who spoke Chinese and French as well as another group born and raised with just French. The results surprised the scientists: “It astounded us that the brain activation pattern of the adopted Chinese who ‘lost’ or totally discontinued the language matched the one for those who continued speaking Chinese since birth. The neural representations supporting this pattern could only have been acquired during the first months of life. This pattern completely differed from the first group of unilingual French speakers.” The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, played fragments of Chinese to participants while fMRI was used to scan their brains (Pierce et al, 2014). Although the adopted children had no conscious memory of Chinese, their brains showed precisely the same pattern of activation as those who were native Chinese speakers. The researchers took advantage of the fact that Chinese is a language in which tone can radically change the meaning of words, rather than just changing the subtext of what is being said, as it does in French and English. Girls adopted from Chinese mothers into French families showed activation in the left superior temporal gyrus — an area crucial for processing sounds — that was identical to Chinese native speakers. The French speakers, who were not sensitive to tones in the same way, showed activation in the corresponding area, but on the other side of the brain. The study’s authors conclude: “The similarity between adoptees and Chinese speakers clearly illustrates that early acquired information is maintained in the brain and that early experiences unconsciously influence neural processing for years, if not indefinitely.” (Pierce et al, 2014). Image credit: Aikawa Ke

BBC Formula 1 correspondent and lead commentator for BBC Radio 5 live, James Allen, explains what is going on at Sauber, who have failed to overturn a court ruling that asserts that Giedo van der Garde must race for the team at Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. Van der Garde, 29, a former test driver for Sauber, says he was promised a race seat for this season, a claim backed by the Victoria Supreme Court this week. Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr are the team's nominated drivers for 2015. Australian Grand Prix coverage details. Available to UK users only.

Jürgen Klopp explicou que notou uma reação do FC Porto nesta segunda mão dos oitavos-de-final da Liga dos Campeões e admitiu que foi difícil preparar a sua equipa depois da expressiva vitória na primeira mão. "Fizemos o nosso trabalho e o FC Porto fez o dele. Obviamente eles mostraram reação. Foi difícil prepararmo-nos após o 5-0, não passei por essa situação muitas vezes. Tentámos ignorar o primeiro jogo e apenas ganhar este, mas não aconteceu. Não foi um jogo perfeito mas estamos na próxima ronda e por isso foi um resultado perfeito", começou por dizer à Sport TV.O técnico do Liverpool elogiou os dragões e disse mesmo que provavelmente vão celebrar o título português no final da temporada: "Foi um jogo completamente diferente. Gosto da maneira como o FC Porto joga, é uma equipa de posse, muito forte. Mas mudaram muitos jogadores hoje, tal como nós mudámos alguns. Não é importante. Creio que o principal objetivo do FC Porto é ser campeão português, o que provavelmente vai conseguir no final desta época. E é uma temporada fantástica para eles, qualificarem-se novamente para a Champions. E nós temos nos nossos objetivos e ainda estamos em aprova. Estamos felizes por isso".Questionado sobre qual o jogador do FC Porto que mais o impressionou nos dois jogos, Klopp respondeu de forma original: "Não digo nada sem a presença do meu advogado".

Story highlights President-elect Donald Trump's 41% approval is lower than Barack Obama's 72% in December 2008 Vice President-elect Mike Pence's favorability rating is also underwater Washington (CNN) Americans are less approving of President-elect Donald Trump than they were of previous presidents during their transitions into office, a new Pew Research Group poll shows. Americans say Trump has also done too little to distance himself from white supremacists. And a majority are concerned that his business ties will present conflicts. As Trump prepares to take office, 41% say they approve of the job he has done explaining his plans and policies for the future of the American people, while 55% say they disapprove of the job Trump has done. That 41% approval rating is lower than President Barack Obama's 72% in December 2008 and President George W. Bush's 50% in January 2001 -- in the wake of a disputed election. It's also lower than President Bill Clinton's 62% in January 1993 and President George H.W. Bush's 65% in March 1989. Read More

Kommt das Pfand auf Milchtüten und Weinflaschen? Bundesrat will Rücknahmepflicht für weit mehr Getränke erreichen - 14.02.2017 14:20 Uhr NÜRNBERG - Geht es nach dem Bundesrat, dann soll die Pfandpflicht nicht mehr nur für Bier, Wasser und andere Getränke gelten. Sondern schon bald zum Beispiel auch für Milch, Wein und mehr. Statt die Verpackung in den Müll zu werfen, wäre dann für den Verbraucher der Gang zum Rückgabeautomat angesagt. Doch die Industrie schlägt schon Alarm. Der Griff zur Milchtüte ist schnell geschehen. Ohne Pfand für den Verbraucher, ohne Rücknahme-Verpflichtung für den Hersteller. Künftig könnte das jedoch alles anders werden, mit einem Pfand auf Milch, Wein und mehr. © Oliver Berg / dpa Der Griff zur Milchtüte ist schnell geschehen. Ohne Pfand für den Verbraucher, ohne Rücknahme-Verpflichtung für den Hersteller. Künftig könnte das jedoch alles anders werden, mit einem Pfand auf Milch, Wein und mehr. Foto: Oliver Berg / dpa Bislang ist das System einfach: Wein- und Sektflaschen landen im Container, genauso wie anderes Leergut. Milchtüten und Saftverpackungen kommen dagegen in den "Gelben Sack". Das könnte für die Verbraucher alles anders werden, wenn sich eine Idee des Bundesrates durchsetzt. Dann könnten auf weit mehr Verpackungen als bisher bis zu 25 Cent Pfand erhoben werden. In einer Stellungnahme zum geplanten Verpackungsgesetz kritisiert der Bundesrat nämlich den Entwurf der Bundesregierung mit scharfen Worten. Die Trennung von Müll in Haushalten würde durch das Gesetz, das 2019 in Kraft treten soll, mitnichten verbessert. Eine höhere Quote von Mehrwegprodukten werde damit schlichtweg verfehlt. Die Länderkammer fordert deshalb unter anderem Änderungen beim Pfand und bei der Kennzeichnung von Einwegverpackungen. Was unterliegt der Pfandpflicht, was nicht? Der Vorschlag des Bundesrats liest sich zwar schwammig, hat es aber in sich: Das Pflichtpfand soll sich in Zukunft nicht mehr an Größe und Inhalt der Getränkeverpackung orientieren, sondern an der Art des Verpackungsmaterials, schlägt das Länder-Parlament vor. Die bisherige Regelung, Pfand nur auf bestimmte Getränkeverpackungen wie Bier und Mineralwasser zu erheben, führe zu Verwirrung und ermögliche den Herstellern vielfältige Ausweichmanöver. Der Bundesrat fordere jedoch "keine ausdrückliche Pfandpflicht für Milchtüten oder Weinflaschen, sondern nur allgemein einen Wechsel bei der Bepfandung, ohne einzelne Verpackungsarten zu nennen", erklärte eine Sprecherin im Nachhinein. Der Milchindustrie-Verband (MIV) reagiert indessen entsetzt. Es gebe gute Gründe, warum Milch, Saft und Wein bisher von der Pfandflicht ausgenommen waren. "Die Rücknahmeautomaten in den Geschäften sind für solche Verpackungen gar nicht ausgelegt", meint MIV-Hauptgeschäftsführer Eckhard Heuser. "Saure Restmilch erzeugt unangenehmen Geruch und ist im Lebensmittelhandel unhygienisch und gesetzlich streng geregelt." Außerdem fürchtet Heuser explodierende Kosten für Bauern, Molkereien, und den Verbraucher. Sein Fazit: "Das Gesetz gehört in die Mülltonne." Schilder im Laden sollen Kunden die Augen öffnen Da mutet ein fester Bestandteil im Gesetzentwurf schon fast komisch an: In den Läden solle künftig am Regal ein Schild stehen, das die Kunden auf Mehrweg- und Einweggetränke hinweist, damit jeder den Unterschied auf den ersten Blick erkennt, heißt es im Gesetzestext. Der Bundesrat hat auch dazu seine Meinung: Hilfreicher sei eine klare Kennzeichnung auf der Verpackung. Außerdem sei kaum kontrollierbar, ob sich bundesweit alle rund 125.000 Supermärkte, Tankstellen, Kioske oder Bäckereien an die Schilder-Pflicht hielten. Die vernichtende Kritik der Länderkammer am Gesetzentwurf unter Umweltministerin Barbara Hendricks (SPD) ist eindeutig: Es sei bedauerlich, "dass es nach jahrelangen Diskussionen noch immer nicht gelungen ist, ein effizientes, ökologisches, verbraucherfreundliches und bürgernahes Wertstoffgesetz auf den Weg zu bringen", ist in der Empfehlung des Rates zu lesen. Die Bundesregierung würde mit dem Entwurf die angestrebten Ziele im Sinne einer ökologischen, effizienten und bürgerfreundlichen Wertstoffsammlung nicht im Ansatz erreichen. Das Gesetz soll nun am 9. März im Bundestag beraten werden. Ob die Länder den Vermittlungsausschuss anrufen oder im weiteren Verfahren noch Zugeständnisse erreicht werden, gilt als offen. Offen ist damit auch, ob das Gesetz angesichts der knappen Zeit bis zum Ende der Legislaturperiode nicht scheitert. Johanna Husarek

Image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko showing where the Rosetta spacecraft should touch down on Sept. 30, 2016 (red circle). Europe's history-making Rosetta probe has just hours left to live. At around 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT) today (Sept. 30), Rosetta is scheduled to crash-land intentionally on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ending the spacecraft's epic 12-year mission. You can watch this grand finale live here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. Confirmation of the touchdown won't come until 7:20 a.m. EDT (1120 GMT) or so, because it takes 40 minutes for signals from Rosetta to reach mission control. (Rosetta and Comet 67P are currently about 447 million miles, or 719 million kilometers, away from Earth.) [Rosetta's Amazing Comet Mission in Pictures] Rosetta and the comet are zooming out toward the orbit of Jupiter, getting ever farther from the sun. It will soon be difficult for the solar-powered probe to harvest enough sunlight to operate, which is part of the reason the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to end the mission today with a slow, controlled impact. The red circle shows where on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko the Rosetta probe was scheduled to land on Sept. 30, 2016. (Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam) "Although Rosetta will be put down as gently as possible on the surface of the comet, it was not designed to land, and mission scientists will lose contact with the spacecraft at the moment of touchdown," Alan Fitzsimmons, a professor at Queens University's Astrophysics Research Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said in a statement. Rosetta "will continue to send information until the final seconds, but the work won't end then," added Fitzsimmons, who is not part of the core Rosetta team but has made observations in support of the mission. "We still have months and years of working through all the data to uncover everything we can," he said. The 1.3 billion euro ($1.46 billion) Rosetta mission launched in March 2004, and then took a long and looping route to the 2.5-mile-wide (4 km) Comet 67P. Rosetta rendezvoused with the icy body in August 2014, becoming the first spacecraft ever to orbit a comet. The mission notched another first in November 2014, when it deployed a washing-machine-size lander called Philae to the comet's surface. This touchdown didn't go as planned; Philae's anchoring harpoons failed to fire, and the lander bounced twice before finally setting down for good in a shady spot that prevented it from recharging its main batteries with solar power. But Philae did operate for 60 hours on Comet 67P's surface, collecting a variety of data and snapping dramatic images of its surroundings. Overall, the Rosetta mission has been a tremendous success, Fitzsimmons said. "Rosetta and Philae have revolutionized our understanding of comets and their birthplace — the solar nebula from which the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago," he said. "Throughout this mission, Rosetta has viewed with unprecedented detail the changing surface of the comet and the material it has released. Among the many findings was the discovery of hard ice on the surface, the first probing of a comet interior by radar and the detection of amino acids in a comet." Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

DC is cherry blossom-obsessed with good reason. Thousands of flowering trees draw more than a million tourists annually for the month-long Cherry Blossom Festival. But our claim to cherries—the official fruit of DC? That’s a different story. You may have missed this moment in legislative history. In 2006, the DC Council introduced the “Official Fruit of the District of Columbia Act” to designate the cherry as our non-state fruit. It was approved by mayor Anthony Williams and Congress and became a law, forever binding the District to the cherry—and dooming DC to an annual scourge of terrible cherry food and drink specials. So how did this happen? Cherries aren’t prolific in DC. The cherry blossom trees you’ll find along the Tidal Basin don’t produce edible fruit, hence all the pink dye and maraschinos anointing those cherry blossom cocktails. We broke down the clauses in the Official Fruit Act to expose the stone fruit fraud. (a) Twenty-six states have an official fruit, 2 of which picked their official fruit based on suggestions from children. We’ll get to the fact that kids barely out of diapers making municipal decisions. First, let’s talk about the fact the fruit was already claimed by two legit cherry producing states: North Dakota, home of the chokecherry, and Utah, which harvests roughly 2 billion cherries per year. How many cherries are hanging around DC? There’s no readily available data—maybe because DC cherries aren’t a thing. (b) Washington, D.C. is named in honor of our first president, George Washington, who is symbolically associated with the cherry because of the well-known tale of the president, as a child, and a certain cherry tree, the moral of which was the importance of honesty. Turns out that moral is all based on lies. The story of young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree was a myth created by bookseller by Mason Locke Weems in 1806. (Mt. Vernon has all the salacious details.) Fancy jargon like “symbolically associated” isn’t fooling anyone! Washington did cultivate fruit trees, including cherries, at the Mt. Vernon Estate. But wouldn’t that give Virginia the greater claim? (Virginia perhaps wisely opted out of a state fruit, in case you were wondering.) (c) Every year, the District of Columbia holds the Cherry Blossom Festival, which includes a parade and other events celebrating the beauty of the cherry tree and the original gift, in 1912, of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington, D.C. Yes, yes it does. We celebrate the gift of 3,000 cherry trees that don’t actually produce cherries. (d) Washington, D.C. is more closely associated with the cherry than any other fruit. Only because of lies, deceit, and shoddy logic. (e) The matter of an official fruit was studied by the students in Mr. Bunton’s class at Bowen Elementary School, and they proposed that the cherry be named the official fruit of the District of Columbia. (f) The District of Columbia Board of Education supports the students. Okay, (e) is admirable and pretty darn cute. But (e) plus (f) does not equal Cherry Town DC. We all love to support elementary school kids, but caving to the whims of children and their concept of reality is a slippery slope. Should ‘Baby Shark’ be our official song? Should chocolate milk be the official beverage? How about Big Bird as the official bird? (g) The cherry is hereby designated the official fruit of the District of Columbia. ASF$🍒@&FW!🍒🍒🍒!KFQW&🍒🍒🍒🍒*&OGP!! Join the conversation!

El Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT), la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) y dependencias como la Sedesol y la Sedatu no han entregado, ni al Comité de Participación Ciudadana del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción o a ciudadanos que lo han solicitado, información pública sobre el esquema de desvío de recursos públicos, documentados en La Estafa Maestra Desde hace cuatro meses, los integrantes del Comité de Participación Ciudadana, uno de los pilares del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción, solicitaron al SAT las facturas emitidas por las empresas fantasma o con irregularidades contratadas por universidades públicas para hacer servicios al gobierno federal, pero que nunca se cumplieron, de acuerdo con la ASF. “Aún no hay respuesta”, dice José López Presa, miembro del Comité. “Desde nuestra perspectiva, tratándose de recursos públicos no hay pie a la reserva de la información”, pero la negativa ni siquiera se ha expresado a través de un documento oficial, simplemente el SAT ha “ignorado” la petición. La estafa maestra es el esquema de desvío documentado por Animal Político y Mexicanos contra la Corrupción en el cual once dependencias públicas “contrataron” a ocho universidades públicas por 7 mil 670 millones de pesos para hacer supuestos servicios, pero éstas subcontrataron a 186 empresas, de las cuales 150 son irregulares y, por tanto, no cumplieron los servicios. El dinero simplemente desapareció. De acuerdo con la ley, el SAT tiene una actuación preponderante para encontrar a los posibles responsables de la estafa porque es el encargado de revisar la legalidad de las empresas y las operaciones que realizan; por tanto, tienen la información fiscal de las 186 compañías que supuestamente fueron contratadas en este esquema. Parte de esta información es pública, toda vez que el SAT publica listas quincenales en las que incorpora a las empresas fraudulentas que detecta. Por eso es que, hasta diciembre de 2017, ya había boletinado 61 empresas como fantasma y presunta fantasma, 22 compañías más que las detectadas hasta septiembre pasado, cuando se publicó el reportaje. Además, otras 89 compañías son irregulares, según comprobó el equipo de investigación de La estafa maestra, debido a que cuando se buscaron en las direcciones registradas, en realidad son lotes baldíos o comercios; fueron desmanteladas, su objeto social no coincide con los servicios supuestamente contratados, no fueron localizadas por la Auditoría Superior de la Federación o ni siquiera tienen dirección. El dinero público que terminó en estas 150 empresas irregulares asciende a 5 mil 137 millones de pesos. Documentos claves Pero las facturas darían información adicional respecto a las operaciones y detectar a más implicados en la trama, por eso “hicimos la solicitud a través del derecho de petición y no a través de la ley de transparencia y acceso a la información”, dice López Presa. Por lo que esperaban que la información se entregara de manera expedita, al ser miembro del Sistema Nacional, que está conformado por cuatro cabezas: el Comité Coordinador, el Comité de Participación Ciudadana, el Comité Rector del Sistema Nacional de Fiscalización y los Sistemas Locales Anticorrupción; pero no ha sido así. Aunque la razón de existencia del Sistema Nacional es la prevención e investigación de casos de corrupción, con la participación de ciudadanos, hasta el fiscal anticorrupción o el presidente del Tribunal Federal de Justicia Administrativa, en la práctica no está ocurriendo porque aún faltan nombramientos y los intentos de investigar casos como La estafa maestra están detenidos. López Presa explica que podría haber interpretaciones jurídicas en las cuales las autoridades federales sustenten que el Comité no tiene facultades para conocer esa información, lo cual “no nos favorece. La duda hace que las interpretaciones jurídicas sean lo más cerradas para evitar que nosotros tengamos este acceso a la información”. La negativa “está impidiendo que se combata con efectividad a la corrupción”, al igual que la falta de nombramientos como el fiscal anticorrupción y los sistemas locales en el resto del país, asegura López Presa. PGR y dependencias, por la negativa El 6 de noviembre de 2017, la Asociación civil Mujeres de Hierro interpuso una petición ante la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) para saber el estatus de la investigación sobre los involucrados en el presunto desvío de 7 mil 630 millones de pesos, documentados en La estafa maestra. La organización, presidida por Lorena Villavicencio, pidió conocer si se estaba investigando a los presuntos responsables o si la carpeta de investigación ya había sido consignada ante el juez para abrir un juicio. El 15 de noviembre pasado, la Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delitos Federales de la PGR respondió que no podía entregar ninguna información al respecto porque el artículo 218 del Código Nacional de Procedimientos Penales lo impide. En el oficio UEIDCSPCAJ-1057-2017, la PGR explica que dicha legislación establece que “los registros de investigación, así como todos los documentos independientemente de su contenido o naturaleza, los objetos, los registro de voz e imágenes o cosas que le estén relacionados son estrictamente reservados y, únicamente las partes (imputado y su defensor, la víctima u ofendido y su asesor jurídico) podrán tener acceso a los mismos”. Por lo tanto, “no es posible proporcionarle la información que solicita”, informó el titular de la Unidad especializada en investigación de delitos cometidos por servidores públicos y contra la administración de justicia, Sergio Antonio López Escalante. Pese a la negativa, la organización Mujeres de Hierro prepara un amparo para continuar con la pelea por la información, dice Lorena Villavicencio. Aunque se trata una investigación judicial que efectivamente guarda secrecía según el Código de Procedimientos Penales, la solicitud por conocer el estatus de la investigación es porque “como ciudadanos tenemos derecho a que nuestros recursos no sean desviados ni se permita el uso de dinero público para simulaciones o fines diversos”. ¿Información reservada? La Secretaría de Desarrollo Social también intentó reservar información sobre los convenios que realizó con universidades públicas y mediante los cuales entregó 2 mil 224 millones de pesos entre 2013 y 2014, cuando la titular era Rosario Robles. Durante la investigación de La estafa maestra, se hicieron solitudes de información a la dependencia, pero una de las respuestas por parte de la Sedesol, incluso, pretendió reservar los documentos de un convenio con la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) por cinco años, argumentando que contenía datos “sensibles” y que se encontraba en un proceso de auditoría. En febrero de 2017, el equipo de investigación solicitó a la Sedesol el convenio DGI/33301/04/2012, firmado con la UAEM, cuyo objeto era “la coordinación plurianual para el servicio administrado de infraestructura de misión crítica”, además de anexos y convenios modificatorios. En la primera respuesta, la Sedesol dijo que tacharía datos “sensibles” sobre particulares. Pero al tratarse de un documento público, en el que intervinieron sólo funcionarios públicos, se interpuso un recurso de revisión para evitar que se entregara información parcial. Entre los alegatos de la dependencia, estuvo que el convenio formaba parte de una investigación por parte de la Auditoría Superior de la Federación, pese a que ésta ya había determinado posibles irregularidades y había publicado la auditoría como parte de la Cuenta Pública de 2014. Además, explicaba que este mismo criterio de negativa había sido utilizada por el Instituto de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información Pública y Protección de Datos Personales del Estado de México y Municipios (Infoem) en una resolución a otro recurso de revisión interpuesto por el equipo de investigación y en el cual la UAEM había negado entregar el convenio. Por ello, los alegatos incluían la propuesta de reservar la documentación “por un periodo de cinco años”, explicaba el Comité de transparencia de la Sedesol, encabezado por Javier Ortiz, suplente del abogado general y comisionado para la transparencia. En agosto de 2017, el Instituto Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales (INAI) rechazó la petición de reserva y mandató a la Sedesol a entregar los documentos, al tratarse de información pública. La negativa de este tipo de información también la aplicó otra de las dependencias que no estuvieron contempladas en el reportaje publicado en septiembre de 2017, pero que también hicieron convenios con universidades públicas, como la Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Territorial (Sedatu). Dicha dependencia hizo convenios con la Universidad Politécnica Francisco I. Madero en 2016, cuando la titular era Rosario Robles, luego de ser removida de la Sedesol. Aunque se solicitaron todos los convenios realizados, también los negó bajo el mismo argumento del proceso de auditoría. Según su respuesta, el personal de la Sedatu ni siquiera tenía acceso a la documentación porque los expedientes relativos a los convenios “se puso a disposición de la ASF en un área de acceso restringido al interior de esta Secretaría, de ahí que el manejo y resguardo de esta documentación es responsabilidad exclusiva del grupo auditor hasta la formalización del cierre de esta auditoría”. Personal de la Auditoría Superior de la Federación consultado aseguró que, en ningún proceso de auditoría, se impide el acceso a la documentación a los funcionarios de la dependencia y mucho menos trabajan en un “área restringida”. De acuerdo con funcionarios del INAI, el proceso de auditoría no es una razón para impedir la entrega de los convenios o comprobantes de servicios, toda vez que no se pide el expediente de investigación, sino documentos que contienen información pública. Universidades opacan contratos millonarios de La Estafa Maestra Pero no solo la PGR clasificó información de La Estafa Maestra. También las universidades públicas que participaron en la trama de desvío reservaron contratos con empresas que ‘desaparecieron’ miles de millones del erario. Una de las casas de estudio que con mayor celo ‘blindó’ la documentación es la campechana Universidad Autónoma del Carmen (Unacar). Tal y como evidenció la Auditoría Superior de la Federación (ASF) en un informe forense, la Unacar violó la ley de adquisiciones para que 826 millones de pesos de la filial Pemex Exploración y Producción (Pemex-PEP) acabaran en las cuentas de 32 compañías que tienen un amplio abanico de irregularidades. Por ejemplo, 11 de esas empresas están en la ‘lista negra’ del SAT de sociedades investigadas como ‘fantasma’; seis no tienen dirección fiscal donde localizarlas; y cinco más acumulan otras graves irregularidades, como no tener antecedes registrales en la Secretaría de Economía. A través del portal de transparencia de Campeche, Animal Político solicitó los contratos millonarios con estas empresas. Pero la universidad los clasificó como ‘reservados’ alegando que estos se encuentran “en proceso de auditoría”. Por lo que la Unacar, por poner solo uno de los casos, negó información de la subcontratación de empresas como Grupo Industrial Ahcof, que ganó 57 millones del erario, y cuya dirección lleva hasta una colonia en Cuautitlán Izcalli, Estado de México, donde se localizó una casa particular en la que una señora dijo no saber nada de ninguna empresa. Tras interponer múltiples recursos de revisión, en los que se argumentó que no se estaba solicitando la investigación de los contratos, sino los contratos como tal -los cuales, al implicar recursos del Gobierno Federal deben ser de acceso público, de acuerdo con el artículo 70 de la Ley General de Transparencia-, el instituto de Transparencia de Campeche ordenó a la Unacar entregar 13 de los contratos con estas empresas. Pero el resto continúan reservados. Para no entregar información relativa a La Estafa Maestra, la Unacar utilizó siempre el mismo argumento. De hecho, de 52 solicitudes de transparencia que le formuló Animal Político, la universidad clasificó 50 como ‘reservadas’. Y no solo reservó contratos, sino también las facturas de pago, los comprobantes sociales –fotografías, bitácoras de trabajo, etcétera, que demostraran que las compañías cumplieron con los servicios-, así como los convenios con Pemex-PEP, mismos que la dependencia, en cambio, sí entregó por transparencia. Otro ejemplo es la Universidad Autónoma del Morelos (UAEMOR), la cual utilizó exactamente el mismo argumento legal –proceso de auditoría abierto- para reservar, entre muchos otros, los contratos con Grupo Comercializador Cónclave SA de CV y Prodasa SA de CV; compañías declaradas oficialmente por el SAT como ‘fantasmas’, y que se quedaron con 373 millones de pesos del erario que debieron destinarse a la Cruzada Nacional contra el Hambre.

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La Unidad Central Operativa de la Guardia Civil (UCO) investiga desde hace meses una trama de blanqueo de capitales procedentes del narcotráfico y en el epicentro de los movimientos hay un nombre que destaca como pieza clave del puzzle: Jorge Messi, padre de uno de los mejores futbolistas del mundo. La investigación está bajo secreto de sumario. Acaba de comenzar, según fuentes cercanas al caso. Por el momento se ha tomado declaración a varias personas en el juzgado que dirige la instrucción, el número 51 de Madrid, y también en Barcelona, donde han prestado testimonio cuatro futbolistas ante la UCO: Leo Messi, Dani Alves, Pinto y Mascherano, todos jugadores del Barça. [Tras la publicación de la noticia en EL MUNDO, fuentes de la Guardia Civil han señalado que la investigación por blanqueo de capitales se centra en la sociedad Amigos de Messi. El padre del jugador, Jorge Messi, no es propietario de dicha sociedad y no tendría conocimiento aparente de que algunos partidos cuyo protagonista era su hijo servían para blanquear dinero de la droga]. La instrucción del caso, que dirige el juez Eduardo López-Palop, el mismo que lleva el sumario del Madrid Arena, está tomando tal cariz que lo más probable es que acabe en la Audiencia Nacional, ya que la trama tiene ramificaciones internacionales, además de haber operado en más lugares de España, no sólo en Madrid. El caso comenzó a raíz de unas investigaciones de la UCO en las que se descubrió que eventos con fines benéficos, como los partidos denominados Amigos de Messi, así como conciertos de rock celebrados por estrellas musicales sudamericanas, podrían ser utilizados por importantes narcotraficantes para blanquear ingentes sumas de dinero. Aún no hay cifras muy concretas, pero estaríamos hablando de millones de euros. Falseamiento de entradas Según las mismas fuentes, el sistema utilizado podría consistir en falsear la venta de entradas de la denominada Fila 0, es decir, de tíquets que se venden para gente que no va a asistir al evento, porque al tener un fin benéfico prefiere sólo comprar la entrada para colaborar con la causa y quedarse en casa. Se investiga si se blanqueaban fondos con la compra de entradas en la Fila 0 Es muy complicado comprobar si en un evento se han vendido 1.000 o 50.000 entradas de la Fila 0, porque al no haber público los organizadores pueden asegurar que han colocado cualquier cifra. Eso proporciona una situación ideal a los narcos, porque son eventos multitudinarios, en principio fuera de sospecha por su carácter altruista, y en cada uno se pueden lavar varios millones. Jorge Messi, el intermediario Así, se sospecha que esta trama ha aportado cifras infladas de la venta de entradas procedentes de la Fila 0, que en realidad estarían escondiendo ingresos de dinero negro procedente de la venta de drogas por parte de narcos colombianos. El presunto papel de Jorge Messi en este asunto sería el de contacto de estas bandas, fundamental para el entramado. Los agentes creen que el padre de Messi sirvió de intermediario para hacer que su hijo y otros deportistas participaran en los partidos benéficos, a cambio de un porcentaje del dinero. Además, los partidos Amigos de Messi forman parte de la actividad de la fundación que tiene el futbolista del Barcelona para obtener fondos con los que hacer proyectos sociales. Según cuentan en la propia página web de la Fundación Leo Messi, la familia del jugador tiene un papel activo en la misma. Comisión de entre el 10% y el 20% Según creen los investigadores, la comisión que se llevaría el padre de Lionel Messi podría oscilar entre un 10% y un 20% del capital blanqueado, aunque aclaran que las pesquisas, complejísimas por tener que seguir rastros de empresas, tapaderas y testaferros, están en su fase inicial. La declaración de los jugadores como testigos, producida recientemente ante agentes de la UCO en las oficinas del Fútbol Club Barcelona, sólo ha dejado claro de momento que ellos no parecen saber nada del asunto y que participaron en los eventos benéficos que les ofrecieron como hacen en tantas otras ocasiones, sin saber cuál era el fin último oculto tras el partido y sin preguntar de dónde provenían los ingresos obtenidos. Partidos y actuaciones musicales Entre los varios partidos y actuaciones musicales que se investigan, hay un concierto en Madrid, en el estadio Vicente Calderón; otro recital en Barcelona, en el Palau Sant Jordi; así como partidos de fútbol en varios países de América. Estudian partidos de 'Amigos de Messi' en América y conciertos musicales El pasado verano se celebró una gira de cuatro partidos de Amigos de Messi con escala en Lima (Perú), Chicago y Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos), y Medellín (Colombia). En el verano de 2012 se realizó otra gira similar, con partidos en Bogotá (Colombia), Miami (EEUU) y Cancún (México). El concierto celebrado en el estadio Vicente Calderón, pista fundamental para tirar del hilo, ha sido la causa de que la fase inicial del caso haya recaído sobre el Juzgado número 51 de Madrid. Paralelamente, la policía de Colombia especializada en crimen organizado, Dijin, también tiene una investigación abierta sobre este mismo tema. Hay que recordar que este no sería el primer problema del padre de Messi con la Justicia, puesto que el pasado mes de septiembre tuvo que declarar en un juzgado catalán por defraudar más de cuatro millones de euros en impuestos a la Agencia Tributaria, por lo que la Fiscalía se había querellado contra su hijo. Ya en el juzgado, tanto el padre como el hijo reconocieron que es el progenitor quien se ocupa del dinero. Por esta evasión de impuestos, la familia Messi ha abonado ya cinco millones de euros a Hacienda, entre la deuda contraída por el futbolista desde 2007 a 2009 y los intereses. Jorge Messi se ha encargado de administrar el capital de su hijo.

AKRON, Ohio -- Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan announced plans yesterday for a new fire station to replace the existing Akron Fire Department Fire Station 4 on the corner of East Thornton and South Main Streets. The new 37,000-foot Fire Station 4 will house the City Fire Administration and countywide operations, along with regular fire suppression and EMS services. Horrigan said rebuilding the fire station is critical to uniting all 31 Fire Administration employees under one roof. "For years, Fire Command has been separated in the CitiCenter building downtown," Horrigan said in a news release. "It was critical to reunite these functions into a fire house setting to ensure the most effective coordination and management of day-to-day operations." Horrigan said constructing a combined fire station that consolidates offices will allow the city to reduce utilities, maintenance and overhead costs. The historic CitiCenter building, located at 146 S. High St., will be sold by the city to a private developer for future revitalization. The city will also sell the old Fire Station 4 property to Rubber City Arches Main and Broadway per a 2014 redevelopment agreement. The company will use the space to build a McDonald's restaurant with the goal of adding new jobs to the neighborhood and improving 10 nearby developable acres. The new Fire Station 4 will be located on East Thornton Street between St. Mary's Church and the former Riedinger Middle School. Construction on the station will be financed through a Development Finance Authority of Summit County bond and will begin after ground is broken on Fire Station 2 in Akron's Middlebury neighborhood. Costs will be repaid with Issue 4 funds over a period of 20 years. The new Fire Station 4 will include existing countywide resources, one of four City ladder trucks and Akron's only bariatric unit that assists in the transport and emergency care of severely obese patients. "Located just south of downtown, Station 4 services the entire county and is the center of operations in critical emergency events," Akron Fire Chief Clarence Tucker said in a news release. "It is essential for the health of the community that Station 4 remains at the forefront of technology and efficiency." Construction on the new Fire Station 4 is set to be completed by spring of 2020. Want more Akron news? Sign up for cleveland.com's Rubber City Daily, an email newsletter delivered at 5:30 a.m. Monday through Friday.

By Michael Voss BBC News, Havana Mr Obama said he would lift restrictions on family travel and remittances A group of Cuban dissidents has backed a call by the US presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, for direct talks with the new Cuban President, Raul Castro. The organisation, Women in White, is made up of female relatives of Cuban political prisoners. In an open letter to Mr Obama they wrote of their hope that his policies may help free their husbands and sons. Mr Obama told Cuban exiles in Miami on Friday that America needed to talk to its enemies as well as its friends. Mr Obama also said that - if elected in November - he would lift President George Bush's restrictions on family travel and remittances to Cuba but maintain the US trade embargo. Applauded The position of both Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican hopeful John McCain is that any change in policy would only benefit Cuba's communist leaders. The founder of Women in White, Miriam Leiva, and her recently freed dissident husband, Oscar Chepe, also wrote an open letter to Mr Obama. They applauded his offer to allow Cuban Americans to freely visit relatives here. They also wrote that a more creative policy could help the transition towards democracy and that the current confrontation is used by the authorities in Havana to justify their repression. The Cuban government denies that there are any political prisoners on the island, calling them all mercenaries in the pay of the United States.

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NHK's "The Style of Professional Work: New Jobs Special" NHK aired a special in their series on jobs about new types of jobs, with a focus on a YouTuber and Professional Gamers. I'll summarize some interesting points for the Pro Gamer section, which featured Diago Umehara. The YouTube portion followed Hikakin, who I didn't know anything about. Interesting guy, but I don't think people reading this blog are interested in that as much as they are Daigo. ;-) Cameos: Person Comments Arlieth Gettting hype in a crowd. Verloren Billed as "Pro Gamer" and he explains that Daigo is a Legendary player Tokido "Pro Gamer Kouhai" If Daigo didn't exist, there probably wouldn't be pros in Japan Otani (I think) Talks with Diago about the Akuma/Guile matchup. James Chen On commentary at CapCom Cup UltraDavid On commentary at CapCom Cup MenaRD Beating Daigo at CaoCom Cup Momochi Winner of previous CapCom Cup, loses to Daigo in losers as Daigo goes to top 8 Moke Beats Daigo in top 8 I didn't realize it, but they introduce three books that Daigo has written (links to books on Amazon Japan in Japanse): The story opens with a discussion of Daigo's daily schedule. He goes four times a week usually to a place where pros and high level amateurs practice. We get shots of Verloren, Phenom, Tokido, Fujimura (I think), and Luffy there too, so I'm curious when this was filmed. Now I know why on twitter a few people were joking about NHK letting the cat out of the bag on a secret training facility. Verloren says that Daigo's play always changes, and it is hard to predict how he will play. Others say that Umehara's play is very unique, and it is very difficult to imitate what he does. They show Tokido and Daigo running sets as Akuma/Guile, and say that Daigo gets beat up pretty bad losing 3-0 (again, now I really wonder when this was filmed). They visit Daigo's house later on, and show how he labs up the Guile/Akuma match looking back at how he lost. Daigo talks about how the previous night he was thinking about how he could go more on the offense in the match, but that Guile's character concept is not built that way, so it is difficult. They explain Akuma's character concept, that he is the most powerful, but that Daigo doesn't use the most powerful character, and how he is better on defense. Daigo talks about how you have to search for answers in matchups like this, and explains that if you put a lot of time and effort into it you can find interesting things. Things that the developers of the game did not intend or hadn't thought about. You have to think of different and unique ways to use the character's tools. Discovering those things is very fun for him; it is fun to use a weaker character in unexpected ways. They spend a lot of time showing Daigo countering various Akuma moves, getting the distance right, whiff punishing. Daigo say that one of the most important things for a pro gamer along with winning is entertaining the audience. The "goal" of his "job" is to entertain the audience and to satisfy them [TL: could also be "to let them understand"]. You have to think about how the people watching will feel. Daigo: Usually these are moves that you can't counter (Akuma's cr. medium kick). But if I am able to punsih that consistently, it will be an original playstyle and people watching will also be excited. He also explains how the timing is tight - about one frame, and the show talks about that a bit. Interesting tidbit [TL: I debated whether this is worth talking about, but eh.] Daigo says that he used to have big eyes when he was a kid. But he plays a lot of games, and the more he plays, the more he squints his eyes from looking at and concentrating on the screen all day. So he talks about how his eyes are more narrow now. Also, he has to stop his training mode practice because his eyes have just had enough. [TL: As a programmer, I'm with him on that one.] They head back to the secret practice place in the evening and wouldn't you know it, Tokido is here. [TL: Important for the narrative.] They played again, and Daigo lost again, but others comment on how his play changed. They cut to Daigo talking with "a young player" who wants to change to a stronger character because he hasn't been winning lately. He tries different tactics, but still can't win. Daigo tells him there is still purpose in that. He then talks about things that are much more abstract to me - what is important is that you know who you are, how much effort you put into things, and what is important is how you interact with people and what sort of influence / impact you have on them. [TL: Every time I see Daigo in things like this he always gets abstract and talks about bigger concepts than the game.] Daigo goes to his parent's house, and they talk about Daigo's life as a kid, and how his parent's didn't think being a pro gamer could be a job. Read his book The Will to Keep Winning for more on that (that link to Amazon.com, in English, and I'm not making referrer money off this). The program talks about Daigo's past achievements and how he got into fighting games. They talk about his work as a nursing assistant, and how that is an important job, but not something that put his skills and thought process in the spotlight. Then he started getting back into fighting games, and was invited to an international tournament, won that, and hooked up with MadCatz. Again, it's in the book, and it is a good book so check it out. So they cut now to a spotlight on another "new job": Data Scientist. I'm also skipping this, even though that is basically what my job is. They mention that they are now at the end of November, and they had been talking about CapCom Cup, so I suppose this was filmed prior to CapCom cup. I hadn't mentioned before, but in the scenes in Daigo's house there was a dog, and you heard a woman off camera sometimes. Now we open and Daigo's like "it's a lot more quiet around here now" and when the NHK person asks why, he says that the dog is gone. His girlfriend of four and half years broke up with him, and the dog was hers. He is also missing a lot of electronics (rice cooker, microwave, TV, etc.) I watch a lot of these TV specials, and I'm always surprised at how the human side of things hits me. Particularly the shows with Momochi and Chocoblanka, how hard they work and struggle, how emotional things get when there are losses at tournaments. Daigo here seems, as Daigo always seems to me, very calm and relaxed, saying that "Things will be fine", but this is a really personal look into his life, and the candor these programs show is often surprising to me. He says the main reason for the breakup is that he didn't pay enough attention to her. He says a lot of gamers are getting married, and that takes a lot of courage. He's not sure how that would work. He is talking about all of this while in training mode on the remaining 24" non-TV monitor. Now the show moves to Anaheim for Capcom Cup. He goes to a hotel room that is just dirty with setups and Japanese players practicing. Setups everywhere. Twenty people or so, all the big names. They talk about and show Daigo matches at CapCom cup. They translate some of UltraDavid and James Chen's commentary on the Daigo - MenaRD match. More interesting is Daigo's commentary over the play: I play to really enjoy myself . . I really enjoy it when people see my play and say "That was amazing!", or when they are moved and excited by my play. Even if I don't win. I really want people to see players who are enjoying themselves. So my job is to enjoy boldly playing games in as fun a manner as possible. They get a few people from the crowd to talk about Daigo, I have no idea who they are. Daigo says that when the crowd gets into that much, he really feels like it was worth all the effort he put into things over the year. Of course, he isn't 100% satisfied, but it was a good result and he had fun. I enjoyed the show. I am shocked that they did not go into what I think is an even more important part of what Daigo does in his job: thinking of new approaches to involve people in the FGC. Daigo (and Jiyuna!) made BeasTV which always puts on interesting exhibitions, and the Kemonomichi stuff is great, Project 9Road, the roundtable discussion he hosted on money and games in Japan, all sorts of interesting stuff. A large part of what he does is broaden the scope of what FGC can be, and thinking about what it should be. They also didn't touch on the business side of things like finding sponsors and getting advertising, things like that. Still, it was an interesting show. Comments Provide your email address when commenting and Gravatar will provide general portable avatars, and if you haven't signed up with them, a cute procedural avatar with their implementation of Shamus Young's Wavatars

Rockwall (Texas) Rockwall-Heath safety/outside linebacker DeShon Elliott announced his commitment to the Texas Longhorns on Twitter Tuesday: I'm taking my talents to the REAL DBU. Officially committed to the University of Texas. Thanks to all my supporters. #Hookem #TEXASTRONG 🐂 — DeShon. (@DeShonElliott_4) March 18, 2014 The versatile defender had posted plenty of activity on his Twitter page that indicated a commitment was coming Tuesday, but during the afternoon it appeared that he had put off the decision in advance of a visit to Austin set for this weekend. Elliott is the first player among the eight 2015 pledges for head coach Charlie Strong to select Texas over Texas A&M, while the Aggies currently hold commitments from eight players with offers from the Horns, including top Texas targets at a handful of positions. The 6'1, 200-pounder burst onto the recruiting scene during a junior season in which he made 70 tackles, including seven for loss, with three interceptions and three forced fumbles. Ranked as the No. 19 safety nationally and the No. 45 player in the state of Texas, Elliott is a near four-star prospect. Elliott's recruitment took off at the start of 2014 following his breakout season. At the time of his commitment, he held offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech. Elliott had declared Baylor his leader on Feb. 10, five days after receiving his offer from the Bears, but Texas vaulted into the lead following a Junior Day visit on Feb. 22. The teammate of A&M offensive tackle commit Trevor Elbert and the former teammate of two other Aggie football players visited College Station on Feb. 28, four days after declaring Texas his leader, but it wasn't enough to move the Aggies past the Horns on his list. Sporting the nickname "the Kraken," Elliott backs up the lofty implications of the moniker with his play on the field. A pure, natural striker who has the short-area quickness to possess a wide tackling radius and the ability to consistently square up opponents, Elliott brings his feet with the sink-and-explode coiling and uncoiling possessed by all the true top enforcers, whether safeties or linebackers. It's no surprise watching Elliott tackle that he reports a 425-pound squat. And Elliott can deliver some huge, launched shots with his shoulder, too. He just does it along the sideline where he knows that the momentum of his hit will keep the ball carrier from picking up extra yardage. When he's a partially-guided missile, he's doing so with little risk. Not the most rangy safety in the state, Elliott nonetheless shows that he can take good angles in coverage and transition to make plays on the football. In college, however, it's unlikely that he plays the role of single deep safety on a consistent basis, in part because that role doesn't take advantage of his versatile skillset. Some project Elliott as a linebacker in college. He has experience at the linebacker position, much like 2014 Texas signee Edwin Freeman spent his last two years playing linebacker at Arlington Bowie. The 2015 prospect probably has a little bit more range than Freeman from the safety position, however, with his reported 4.58 40-yard dash, 4.32 shuttle and 36-inch vertical. Elliott had a wider role for Rockwall-Heath during his junior season than Freeman did during his third year at Arlington Bowie. Freeman perhaps has a bit better nose to avoid blockers to get to the football, but what's impressive about Elliott is his ability to consistently beat blockers, whether running backs in pass protection, tight ends on the perimeter or even offensive linemen. His tackling force translates to quick hands aided by his lower-body explosiveness, but he also understands the proper hand placement to control and shed, too. There's no question that his skill set will lend well to a hybrid position that allows Elliott to spend some time in coverage and also work off the edge. Asking Elliott to handle the nickel back role with zone drops, blocker-beating play against the run and some blitzing from the edge represents his possible collegiate upside. He shows evidence on film of being projectable to those tasks. In sum, Elliott has the versatility to do the things that are in a pure safety's repertoire, but his elite tackling ability and overall physicality getting to the football around the line of scrimmage suggests that his role will likely be from the box to the sideline like a linebacker, possibly with some zone concepts to allow Elliott to undercut routes and make plays. Elliott's commitment pushes Texas into the No. 9 ranking nationally in the 247Sports Composite rankings, and the No. 2 spot in the Big 12 behind surprising West Virginia.

Hurricane Central Hurricane Maria Forecast to Pose a Potentially Serious Threat to Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands September 17 2017 05:00 PM EDT weather.com 01:58 Beta's Main Threats: Heavy Rain, Coastal Flooding Tropical Storm Beta is tracking through the northwest Gulf of Mexico and poses threats of flooding rainfall, storm surge and gusty winds to parts of Texas and Louisiana early this week. This is a developing weather story. Please click here for the latest forecast on Hurricane Maria. The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

THERE is 'no excuse' for an Oxford MP who admitted hitting an ex-boyfriend during a row, according to a political rival. James Fredrickson waded in following a confession by Layla Moran, Oxford West and Abingdon's MP. She said had hit the man during a party conference six years ago because she 'felt threatened'. Ms Moran is one of the favourites to take over as Lib Dem party leader when Sir Vince Cable stands down in May. Mr Fredrickson, who will stand as the Conservatives’ candidate against Ms Moran in Oxford West and Abingdon whenever the next general election is held, said: “There is no excuse for domestic assault, regardless of the circumstances or the sex of the perpetrator. READ THE STORY: MP's confession over slap “[The Lib Dems’ deputy leader] Jo Swinson recently said ‘domestic abuse is a stain on our society’ and that in addressing such abuse, ‘actions speak louder than words’. I support Jo Swinson’s view and hope that the Lib Dems are consistent in taking this approach.” According to the Safe Lives charity, nearly two million people – mostly women – suffer ‘some form of domestic abuse’ in the UK every year. In a Twitter post on Saturday, Ms Moran said she wanted to address ‘rumours’ that had begun circulating about her over recent weeks. She wrote: “In 2013, [her and her ex-boyfriend] had a row at the autumn conference in Glasgow that initially began over a lost computer cable. “The relationship had come under enormous strain in preceding months and regrettably it escalated and in the heat of the moment I slapped him because I felt threatened. “We both recognise it wasn’t our finest hour and were, both at the time and continue to be, grateful that the police mediated, and calmed things down.” She went on to say that she was initially charged but the case was later dropped with no case to answer. Neil Fawcett, a county councillor who works for Ms Moran, said it was ‘definitely the right decision to get [it] out in the open.’ He said he was ‘proud’ of Ms Moran’s decision, adding that ‘lots of very exaggerated rumours’ had been ‘doing the rounds’. Responding to Ms Moran’s confession on social media, many linked her post to the looming party leadership contest. ALSO READ: Layla Moran 'is the favourite' to become the next Lib Dem leader John Lubbock said: “Please stand. I don’t think this is an issue. Certainly not on the scale of ‘being in a government that enabled austerity and led to the loss of 80 per cent of [Lib Dem] representation in parliament’.” Others were less supportive. One – along with many other Twitter users – asked: “Does the loss of a computer cable deserve excessive anger that resulted in spending time in police station?”

CU Boulder is a state-of-the-art campus with many unique facilities that push students to excel both academically and in their daily lives. But although the Rec Center has many great activities that help encourage student wellness and relaxation, it is sorely lacking by having four pools and yet no hot tubs or waterslides, an essential part of any pool experience. As a university with such incredible resources, it makes no sense whatsoever that we don't have these essential things. By adding a waterslide and hot tub, students will not only be able to de-stress and get more done, but they'll also be more inclined to come to the Rec and thus adopt healthy exercise habits. It will also make CU more attractive for prospective students. CU Boulder - we're asking you to help make our student life more fun, fulfilling, and healthy. To those reading - sign and share this petition now to help make our dream a reality!

(Photo : Veikko Linko, Boxuan Shen and Heini Ijäs/Aalto University) The nanostructures constructed of DNA molecules can be programmed to function at pH-responsive cargo carriers, paving the way towards functional drug-delivery vehicles, according to a new study of the University of Jyvaskyla and Aalto University. University of Jyvaskyla and Aalto University's researchers have developed a customized DNA nanostructure that can perform a predefined task in human body-like conditions. To do so, the group built a capsule-like carrier that opens and closes according to the pH level of the surrounding solution. Now, it is possible to load and pack the nanocapsule with a variety of cargo, closed for delivery and opened again through a subtle pH increase. The function of the DNA nanocapsule has a basis on pH-responsive DNA residues. To this end, this team of researchers designed a capsule-like DNA origami structure functionalized with pH-responsive DNA strands. The simple hydrogen-bonding of two complementary DNA sequences controls such dynamic DNA nano designs. Here, one half of the capsule was equipped with specific double-stranded DNA domains that could further form a DNA triple helix, in other words, a helical structure comprised of three, not just two DNA molecules, by attaching to a suitable single-stranded DNA in the other half. The lead author of the study explained that when the surrounding pH of the solution is right, the triplex formation can happen. Scientists call these pH-responsive strands "pH latches" because when the strands interact, they function similar to their macroscopic counterparts and lock the capsule in a closed state. Also included are the various motifs into the capsule design to facilitate the capsule opening and closing based on the cooperative behavior of the latches. The opening of the capsule is indeed quite rapid and requires only a slight pH increase in the solution. And within the capsules, it is easy to load the nanoparticles and enzymes. The team tied the nanocapsules for carrying molecular payloads or therapeutic substances by designing the capsule with a cavity that could not host different materials. Also, the team demonstrated that both gold nanoparticles and enzymes could be loaded (high pH) and encapsulated within the capsules (low pH) and again displayed (high pH). While monitoring the enzyme activity, the researchers discovered that the cargo remained fully functional throughout the process. Ultimately, the capsules continued to be effective at physiological magnesium and sodium concentrations, and in ten percent blood plasma, and may continue to do at even higher plasma concentrations. Together, these discoveries help pave the way for developing smart and fully programmable drug-delivery vehicles for nanomedicine.

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In this episode I expose some troubling connections between the Clintons and key figures in the Obamagate spying scandal. I also address Jeff Sessions’ efforts to investigate spying abuses by the Obama team. Finally, I discuss the positive economic news and what it means for you. Show Notes:

There's a certain tension at the heart of every good theme park. As a park owner, you naturally want your punters to have a good time. But as a currency, smiles and laughter only go so far. At some stage, you're going to need them to open their wallets. "It's like a John Lewis advert, right?" says John Laws, art director at Frontier Developments. "I get the exact same feeling when I see the John Lewis advert at the end of each year: 'Oh, that's really nice production design, better than most other ads'. And ultimately they just want me to spend money. But I don't care, because it's nice to watch." Planet Coaster has been under construction for about a year at Frontier, and it's already nice to watch. It's become a cliché for developers to say they're building a game from the ground up, but in this case it's entirely accurate. Though its foundations are not set in stone; rather, they're in constant motion - when they're not queuing, at any rate. "The people are the beginning of the story, the first piece of the puzzle," says lead technical artist, Sam Denney. "When you open your park, these are the first things that start to move. They're the brains and the lifeblood of the park. They drive everything - you pour them in and off they go." Denney's team have done their homework on the rides, researching classic and modern coasters to get the details right and make them more convincing. This explains why Frontier has opted to focus the game's first developer diary on the technical challenge of creating realistic crowds. The studio's proprietary engine has matured to the stage where it's capable of rendering hundreds of individual characters, each of whom will behave like a human being. They will avoid collisions rather than passing through one another as in many previous sims, naturally forming groups when it makes sense to do so. The goal, says Laws, is to make each punter more believable than any previous coaster game, which Frontier believes is important for a variety of reasons. "Sam's team is working on the rides, and they're beautiful. It might sound like bullshit, but they really are lovely, each one feels solid, like a really heavy metal object. But it's when you put the people on there that they suddenly come to life." He hopes, too, that the effort invested in individualising each visitor will encourage players to care for their well-being, and to fulfil their needs. Whether you're following a family group looking for the kid-friendly attractions, or a thrill-seeking teenager searching for the most intense rides, you'll feel a greater sense of urgency in designing the arteries of the park to guide them there. "They're not just little butterfly particles that are avoiding stuff. They do actually care about what's going on and they do react to what you're doing." It's also about readability - being able to instantly spot a problem without the need to wait for a series of sad-face emoticons telling you what's wrong. "You can [gauge] their behaviours and their emotions," Denney chips in, "whether they're hungry, excited, tired or scared. It's that human element you connect with when you look at the park." At the finest level of detail, Frontier says you'll be able to see the individual motors, pulleys and gears on each ride. If all this is an incentive to shift the camera to ground level more often, Frontier is well aware that most players are likely to spend the vast majority of their time viewing their park from a much higher perspective. "You could say [it's] incredibly wasteful to show these low shots of how the crowd simulation works and watching that granularity when 80% of the game can be spent looking down from above. And yeah, we totally get that - you're going to be building scenery, coasters and amusement rides and you can only really do that from a position where everyone is a tiny little grain on the screen. But because you're aware that each person is an individual that's being tracked, and you get this mental image of who they are and how they emote, when you're placing things down and you see that wave of reaction that makes it more fun for you as a player." There is, adds Denney, a simple voyeuristic appeal to people watching that should, in theory, immerse the player more deeply in the simulation. "We've built our assets to a high level of detail, so when you [zoom in] you can see that we could push into a first-person mode and it would be quite acceptable. It's the reason why I like skeleton watches, because I can see that almost infinite detail - I can get in close and look at all the little mechanisms and appreciate the craftsmanship. I think people really enjoy that level of fidelity and detail." If there's a concern, it's that this apparent focus on the physical simulation could potentially come at the cost of the depth and scope of the game itself. After all, Maxis' 2013 reboot of SimCity drew as much criticism for its mechanical limitations as its litany of technical problems. Though Frontier says it has absorbed lessons and ideas from the likes of Thrillville and last year's Screamride, it's acutely aware that it has a balance to strike between accessibility and complexity. Indeed, the spirit of Planet Coaster hews much closer to the evergreen Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 - and may, in fact, go one step further in terms of systemic depth. Night and the City Chris Donlan plays through L.A. Noire with his dad, who grew up in the city in the 1940s. "Well, we're certainly not planning on dumbing down the design," says Laws. "Quite the opposite," adds Denney, who reveals that many of the original team on Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 are working on Planet Coaster, from designers to artists and coders. If one of the studio's biggest successes (the iOS version continues to sell well) is a strong influence, that isn't to say that the current team accepts that it already has a solid structure for the management elements. "Trying to emulate what's been done previously is no good," says Denney. "What we're trying to do is rebuild from the basic concept of building a park that suits a simulation. Our systems are far more complex than they were in RCT3, because a lot of that stuff wouldn't really fit into the traditional framework. We've reimagined the whole thing." Planet Coaster is being developed primarily for PC, though discussions about other platforms are ongoing. The pair bristle slightly when I observe that its stylised aesthetic could be described as 'console friendly'. "It's far from a console-friendly game," laughs Denney. "I always hate the way the word 'cartoon' is used as a perverse insult half the time," adds Laws, and that 'console friendly' [tends to] mean simplistic. If anybody told me that Mario was a kids' game... my child cries playing Mario. It's a tough game! I mean, Planet Coaster looks immediate, it's got a friendly face. But I don't see that as a problem. Like, when we made LostWinds, we had hard-arse core gamers thanking us. It showed you can present something which is accessible but on a gameplay level is really deep and very detailed. It doesn't follow that it shouldn't be sophisticated." It's clear Frontier is keen to be open and candid as Planet Coaster develops, and we should expect to see more on the management side in upcoming video diaries. But the sense of excitement at the studio is already tangible. Like a good park owner, Frontier naturally wants us to spend money on Planet Coaster. But it's especially keen to ensure its punters are having a great time.

Image 1 of 6 Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) made it three in a row at the Tour of Qatar (Image credit: AFP) Image 2 of 6 Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) (Image credit: ASO) Image 3 of 6 Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) made it three in a row at the Tour of Qatar (Image credit: AFP) Image 4 of 6 Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) wins stage 5 of the Tour of Qatar (Image credit: AFP) Image 5 of 6 Mark Cavendish was all smiles as he pulled on another leader's jersey (Image credit: AFP) Image 6 of 6 Taylor Phinney (BMC) in the white jersey (Image credit: AFP) Mark Cavendish moved a step closer to claiming overall victory at the Tour of Qatar when he reeled off his third win in as many days on stage 5 to Madinat Al Shamal. The Omega Pharma-QuickStep rider saw off the brisk challenge of Yauheni Hutarovich (Ag2r-La Mondiale) to take the bunch sprint and extend his overall lead to 15 seconds ahead of Brent Bookwalter (BMC). After having to fend largely for himself in the final kilometre on the previous two days, Cavendish was able to count on an impeccable lead-out from his Omega Pharma-QuickStep team on this occasion. Dutch champion Niki Terpstra acted as the last man, and performed the unfamiliar role with considerable aplomb, moving aside 250 metres from home for Cavendish to apply the finish. From there, the result was never in doubt. Hutarovich, who surprised Cavendish on the opening road stage of the 2010 Vuelta a España, looked to repeat the feat here, but the Manxman had enough in reserve to kick once more in sight of the line to ensure victory. Aidis Kruopis (Orica-GreenEdge) claimed 3rd ahead of Adam Blythe (BMC), while another Briton, Luke Rowe (Sky) finished 5th. Afterwards, Cavendish was typically fulsome in his praise for his new teammates and he acknowledged their role in helping him overcome the most significant obstacle to his bid to take overall honours in Doha on Friday. “I’ve always had commitment from the guys these last two days, but today they rode like a unit like I know QuickStep can, and I was so proud to be at the back of that,” Cavendish said afterwards. “We knew from last year that if we could get through this stage, we would be in with a very good chance of winning the Tour of Qatar. The guys just stayed there at the front and controlled it, controlled it, controlled it. I had four of five guys surrounding me the whole day, just keeping me sheltered. They’re big guys, I never saw the wind and they just rode perfectly.” Terpstra’s efforts on Cavendish’s behalf were a particular highlight of the finale on three laps of a 13km circuit around the seaside town of Madinat Al Shamal. First, Terpstra set up Cavendish to win the intermediate sprint with 26km to go, and he then latched onto a dangerous move from Taylor Phinney (BMC) and Bernhard Eisel (Sky) which ghosted off the front immediately afterwards. When that trio was swept up with one lap to go, Terpstra duly took up arms once again as part of the Omega Pharma-QuickStep train, and launched Cavendish towards victory in the finishing straight. “He led me out for the first sprint, so I sprinted and then he carried on,” Cavendish said of Terpstra’s policing of the Eisel-Phinney move. “He’s strong like that and he’s up there on GC as well, so we have options.” Fast start Before the start at Al Zubara Fort, Team Sky gathered under a canopy for a tactical briefing from directeur sportif Servais Knaven, and once the flag dropped, the squad was on the offensive in a bid to break Omega Pharma-QuickStep’s stranglehold on the race. Surprisingly, it was Norwegian champion Edvald Boasson Hagen who was the first attacker, bringing Marco Haller (Katusha) clear with him inside 15km. Puffed along by a slight breeze, the pair built up a buffer of 1:30 at one point, but once they turned back into a headwind, their effort petered out and they were reeled in after 45km. Soon afterwards, a five-man move featuring Martin Elmiger (IAM Cycling) was allowed to sally clear, although the pace behind remained high, and the bunch duly fractured into three groups when the race returned to Al Zubara Fort and swung sharp right into a stretch of crosswinds. Although BMC looked to seize the initiative, Cavendish and his phalanx of Omega Pharma-QuickStep footmen were placed safely in the front echelon, and it was clear that the golden jersey would not be changing hands at the day’s end. Undeterred, however, Phinney went on the offensive once again on the finishing circuit, after the break had been reeled in and the peloton had regrouped. Third across the line in the second intermediate sprint with 26km to go, Phinney never sat up and simply powered clear with Eisel and Terpstra for company. The American’s efforts brought their advantage to 30 seconds at one point, before Omega Pharma-QuickStep dutifully shut down the move. “I found a good group going up the road with Eisel and Terpstra, but unfortunately Terpstra wasn't working, which makes sense since his team has the jersey and he's not going to work to put me in the jersey,” Phinney said. “Bernie and I had a go, but we needed a couple of more horse powers. Still, it's better to give it a go rather than just sit back and let Cav take it.” Overall, Cavendish now holds a lead of 15 seconds over Brent Bookwalter (BMC), while Phinney lies a further 5 seconds back in 3rd. Barring disaster, Cavendish is on course to claim the second stage race victory of his career and he explained afterwards that he has been able to rely on some expert advice from the absent Tom Boonen, four times a winner of the race. “I was texting with him last night and he said to just bring it home. I was like, ‘that’s easy for some to say,’” Cavendish smiled. “I was a bit nervous actually but he was giving me tips yesterday.” Full results 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 3:11:11 2 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Ag2R La Mondiale 3 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge 4 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 5 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 6 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 7 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 9 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 10 Roger Kluge (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 11 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale 12 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 13 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 14 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 15 Blaz Jarc (Slo) Team NetApp-Endura 16 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 17 Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack Leopard 18 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge 19 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 20 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 21 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 22 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 23 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Astana Pro Team 24 Baden Cooke (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 25 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano 26 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 27 Dominique Rollin (Can) FDJ 28 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 29 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 30 Tom Veelers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 31 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 32 Pirmin Lang (Swi) IAM Cycling 33 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Ag2R La Mondiale 34 Yoann Offredo (Fra) FDJ 35 Murilo Antoniobil Fischer (Bra) FDJ 36 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 37 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) IAM Cycling 38 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 39 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team 40 Soupe Geoffrey (Fra) FDJ 41 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 42 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 43 Tiziano Dall’Antonia (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 44 David Boucher (Fra) FDJ 45 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 46 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 47 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Team NetApp-Endura 48 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) IAM Cycling 49 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 50 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling 51 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 52 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 53 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 54 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Cannondale Pro Cycling 55 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan 56 Hugo Houle (Can) Ag2R La Mondiale 57 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Katusha 58 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Katusha 59 Jonas Aaen Jorgensen (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 60 Ian Stannard (GBr) Sky Procycling 61 Gregory Rast (Swi) RadioShack Leopard 62 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Sky Procycling 63 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 64 Pengda Jiao (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 65 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 66 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale Pro Cycling 67 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) RadioShack Leopard 68 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan 69 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Cannondale Pro Cycling 70 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 71 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 72 Fumeaux Jonathan (Swi) IAM Cycling 73 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) IAM Cycling 74 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 75 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha 76 Markel Irizar (Spa) RadioShack Leopard 77 Paul Voss (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 78 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 79 Marco Bandiera (Ita) IAM Cycling 80 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Katusha 81 Chan Jae Jang (Kor) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:00:13 82 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 83 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 84 Vladimir Isaichev (Rus) Katusha 85 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 86 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 87 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 88 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Orica-GreenEdge 89 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 90 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 91 Jens Mouris (Ned) Orica-GreenEdge 92 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 93 Julien Berard (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 94 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 95 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 96 Junya Sano (Jpn) Japan 97 Russell Downing (GBr) Team NetApp-Endura 0:00:21 98 Wouter Mol (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:00:23 99 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 100 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Japan 0:00:27 101 Christian Delle Stelle (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:00:31 102 Marko Kump (Slo) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:37 103 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 104 Martin Velits (Svk) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 105 Marco Coledan (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 106 Steve Chainel (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 107 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 108 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 109 Matt Brammeier (Irl) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 110 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team 0:00:47 111 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 112 Brett Daniel Lancaster (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 113 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:50 114 Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman (Mas) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 115 Chun Kai Feng (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 116 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Sky Procycling 0:00:57 117 Hayden Roulston (NZl) RadioShack Leopard 118 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 119 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 120 Nelson Santos Oliveira (Por) RadioShack Leopard 121 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Japan 122 Evan Huffman (USA) Astana Pro Team 0:00:59 123 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha 124 Borut Bozic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 0:01:02 125 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:01:22 126 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:28 127 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 128 Stijn Devolder (Bel) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:36 129 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Katusha 130 Allan Davis (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 131 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack Leopard 132 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura 133 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 134 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:02:09 135 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 136 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:02:26 DNS Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Japan DNS Koen De Kort (Ned) Argos-Shimano DNS Mathew Hayman (Aus) Sky Procycling Sprint 1 - Al Zubara 1 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 3 pts 2 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 2 3 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1 Sprint 2 - Madinat Al Shamal (1st crossing) 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 3 pts 2 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 2 3 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 1 Points - Madinat Al Shamal 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 15 pts 2 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Ag2R La Mondiale 12 3 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge 9 4 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 7 5 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 6 6 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 5 7 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 4 8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 3 9 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 2 10 Roger Kluge (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 1 Young riders 1 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 3:11:11 2 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 3 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 4 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 5 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale 6 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 7 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 8 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 9 Blaz Jarc (Slo) Team NetApp-Endura 10 Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack Leopard 11 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge 12 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano 13 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 14 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 15 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 16 Soupe Geoffrey (Fra) FDJ 17 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 18 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 19 Hugo Houle (Can) Ag2R La Mondiale 20 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Cannondale Pro Cycling 21 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 22 Fumeaux Jonathan (Swi) IAM Cycling 23 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha 24 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 25 Chan Jae Jang (Kor) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:00:13 26 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 27 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 28 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 29 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 30 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 31 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:00:23 32 Christian Delle Stelle (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:00:31 33 Marko Kump (Slo) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:37 34 Marco Coledan (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 35 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 36 Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman (Mas) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:00:50 37 Chun Kai Feng (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 38 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:00:57 39 Nelson Santos Oliveira (Por) RadioShack Leopard 40 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Japan 41 Evan Huffman (USA) Astana Pro Team 0:00:59 42 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha 43 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:01:28 44 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura 0:01:36 Teams 1 Orica Greenedge 9:33:33 2 Ag2R La Mondiale 3 Bardiani Valvole-Csf Inox 4 Bmc Racing Team 5 Team Argos-Shimano 6 Omega Pharma-Quick Step 7 Fdj 8 Team Netapp-Endura 9 Sky Procycling 10 Iam Cycling 11 Astana Pro Team 12 Cannondale 13 Vacansoleil-Dcm 14 Katusha Team 15 Radioshack Leopard 16 Japan 17 Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:13 18 Champion System 0:00:26 General classification after stage 5 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 13:30:59 2 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:15 3 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:20 4 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 0:00:22 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 0:00:24 6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:25 7 Michael Schär (Swi) BMC Racing Team 8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling 0:00:29 9 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:30 10 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 11 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:00:35 12 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 13 Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack Leopard 0:00:36 14 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 0:00:38 15 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:40 16 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha 17 Alexander Porsev (Rus) Katusha 18 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:42 19 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 0:00:47 20 Baden Cooke (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:48 21 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge 22 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 23 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:00:49 24 Tiziano Dall’Antonia (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 25 Jonas Aaen Jorgensen (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:00:51 26 Ian Stannard (GBr) Sky Procycling 27 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 0:00:53 28 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 29 Dominique Rollin (Can) FDJ 0:00:54 30 Tom Veelers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 0:00:55 31 Yoann Offredo (Fra) FDJ 0:00:57 32 Markel Irizar (Spa) RadioShack Leopard 33 Roger Kluge (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 0:00:58 34 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Katusha 35 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 0:01:02 36 Paul Voss (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 0:01:09 37 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 38 Reto Hollenstein (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:01:13 39 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:01:16 40 Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 41 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:01:21 42 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:01:28 43 Rob Ruijgh (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:01:29 44 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:01:36 45 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:38 46 Gregory Rast (Swi) RadioShack Leopard 0:01:47 47 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) Team NetApp-Endura 0:01:51 48 Murilo Antoniobil Fischer (Bra) FDJ 0:02:00 49 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:02:01 50 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:02:02 51 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:02:20 52 Matt Brammeier (Irl) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:02:29 53 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 54 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Katusha 0:02:34 55 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) IAM Cycling 0:02:35 56 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 0:02:42 57 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 0:02:43 58 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:03:04 59 Gabriel Rasch (Nor) Sky Procycling 0:03:07 60 Martin Velits (Svk) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:03:12 61 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:03:32 62 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack Leopard 63 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:03:41 64 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 0:03:53 65 Pirmin Lang (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:05:11 66 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 0:05:12 67 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha 0:05:21 68 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura 0:05:49 69 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 0:08:27 70 Steve Chainel (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:09:15 71 Soupe Geoffrey (Fra) FDJ 0:16:50 72 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:16:57 73 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:16:59 74 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 75 Blaz Jarc (Slo) Team NetApp-Endura 0:17:00 76 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale 77 Jens Mouris (Ned) Orica-GreenEdge 0:17:03 78 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Orica-GreenEdge 79 Kristof Goddaert (Bel) IAM Cycling 0:17:04 80 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:17:06 81 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 82 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 0:17:10 83 Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:17:21 84 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano 0:17:24 85 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:17:26 86 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 87 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:17:49 88 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 89 Russell Downing (GBr) Team NetApp-Endura 0:17:50 90 Chan Jae Jang (Kor) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:17:54 91 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:17:58 92 David Boucher (Fra) FDJ 0:18:02 93 Marco Coledan (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:18:03 94 Markus Eichler (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 0:18:12 95 Nelson Santos Oliveira (Por) RadioShack Leopard 96 Stijn Devolder (Bel) RadioShack Leopard 0:18:14 97 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan 0:18:15 98 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan 99 Wouter Mol (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:18:23 100 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 101 Pengda Jiao (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:18:25 102 Marco Bandiera (Ita) IAM Cycling 103 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:18:29 104 Matthias Friedemann (Ger) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 105 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) Japan 0:18:30 106 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:18:33 107 Hayden Roulston (NZl) RadioShack Leopard 0:18:50 108 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:18:52 109 Chun Kai Feng (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:19:05 110 Gediminas Bagdonas (Ltu) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:19:09 111 Hugo Houle (Can) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:19:12 112 Vladimir Isaichev (Rus) Katusha 113 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Japan 0:19:14 114 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:19:20 115 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:19:22 116 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:19:29 117 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:19:31 118 Junya Sano (Jpn) Japan 0:19:33 119 Borut Bozic (Slo) Astana Pro Team 0:19:41 120 Fumeaux Jonathan (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:19:43 121 Brett Daniel Lancaster (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:19:48 122 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:19:52 123 Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman (Mas) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:20:05 124 Christian Delle Stelle (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:20:10 125 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 126 Stephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing Team 0:20:29 127 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Japan 0:20:31 128 Marko Kump (Slo) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:20:32 129 Anders Lund (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:20:53 130 Evan Huffman (USA) Astana Pro Team 0:21:53 131 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Katusha 0:22:17 132 Allan Davis (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 0:23:05 133 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:23:37 134 Julien Berard (Fra) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:23:39 135 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Sky Procycling 0:24:46 136 Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:24:53 Points classification 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 55 pts 2 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 24 3 Aidis Kruopis (Ltu) Orica-GreenEdge 21 4 Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team 15 5 Martin Elmiger (Swi) IAM Cycling 15 6 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 14 7 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 13 8 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha 12 9 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Ag2R La Mondiale 12 10 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 10 11 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 10 12 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 10 13 Gregory Rast (Swi) RadioShack Leopard 9 14 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 9 15 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 9 16 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 8 17 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling 8 18 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 6 19 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 6 20 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 6 21 Roger Kluge (Ger) Team NetApp-Endura 5 22 Jonathan Cantwell (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 5 23 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 4 24 Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Katusha 3 25 Pirmin Lang (Swi) IAM Cycling 3 26 Chan Jae Jang (Kor) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 2 27 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 2 28 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) FDJ 1 29 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 1 30 Soupe Geoffrey (Fra) FDJ 1 31 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale 1 32 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 1 Young rider classification 1 Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team 13:31:19 2 Adam Blythe (GBr) BMC Racing Team 0:00:02 3 Luke Rowe (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:10 4 Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack Leopard 0:00:16 5 Marco Haller (Aut) Katusha 0:00:20 6 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Orica-GreenEdge 0:00:28 7 Elia Viviani (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:00:29 8 John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 0:00:33 9 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:01:01 10 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano 0:02:22 11 Johan Le Bon (Fra) FDJ 0:02:23 12 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano 0:03:33 13 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha 0:05:01 14 Daniel Schorn (Aut) Team NetApp-Endura 0:05:29 15 Soupe Geoffrey (Fra) FDJ 0:16:30 16 Andrea Guardini (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:16:37 17 Lawrence Warbasse (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:16:39 18 Blaz Jarc (Slo) Team NetApp-Endura 0:16:40 19 Davide Appollonio (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale 20 Barry Markus (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:16:46 21 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) BMC Racing Team 22 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ 0:16:50 23 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Argos-Shimano 0:17:04 24 Filippo Fortin (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:17:06 25 Marco Canola (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 26 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:17:29 27 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 28 Chan Jae Jang (Kor) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:17:34 29 Marco Coledan (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:17:43 30 Nelson Santos Oliveira (Por) RadioShack Leopard 0:17:52 31 Wesley Kreder (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:18:03 32 Arman Kamyshev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:18:13 33 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team 0:18:32 34 Chun Kai Feng (Chn) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:18:45 35 Hugo Houle (Can) Ag2R La Mondiale 0:18:52 36 Guillaume Boivin (Can) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:19:00 37 Andrea Di Corrado (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:19:02 38 Daniele Ratto (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling 0:19:11 39 Fumeaux Jonathan (Swi) IAM Cycling 0:19:23 40 Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman (Mas) Champion System Pro Cycling Team 0:19:45 41 Christian Delle Stelle (Ita) Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:19:50 42 Kohei Uchima (Jpn) Japan 0:20:11 43 Marko Kump (Slo) Team Saxo-Tinkoff 0:20:12 44 Evan Huffman (USA) Astana Pro Team 0:21:33