Relegation battlers Spezia will host an AC Milan side eager to return to winning ways and prepare for the Champions League semi-finals next week.
Stefano Pioli will want his side to answer critics about a passive performance as the designated home team in their huge Champions League semifinal on Wednesday. AC Milan, who face Spezia next, struggled to break down rivals Inter Milan, who notched a 2-0 first-leg win.
Pioli will know the pressure he is under ahead of next Tuesday’s second leg but will hope for a turnaround. Before that, Milan travel to face relegation-threatened Spezia, hoping to bounce back from their midweek disappointments.
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Le parole di Pioli alla vigilia di #SpeziaMilan #SempreMilan pic.twitter.com/YbPpOO1UMe
— AC Milan (@acmilan) May 12, 2023
Following two draws against AS Roma and Cremonese in recent matchdays, Milan raised their game against top-four rivals Lazio last weekend. Goals from Ismael Bennacer and Theo Hernandez secured the three points and helped open up a gap over fourth-placed Roma. Milan still have plenty of work to secure Champions League football next season. So Pioli will hope for a victory against Spezia.
Since Leonardo Semplici’s men beat Inter Milan in the league and have gone eight games without a win. Their defeat to Cremonese last weekend matched the club’s record for a winless run, something Zpezia will hope to halt on Saturday.
However, they face the prospect of getting three vital points against a wounded Milan side. Then there is the looming threat of relegation, as Spezia need to do much more to secure their safety. Despite bringing in the bottom three, they still have only trail 17th-placed Hellas Verona by 3 points, something Semplici will hope to recover.
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Spezia have a long list of injured personnel to deal with alongside Kevin Agudelo, who misses out with a suspension. With at least eight players likely to miss out against AC Milan, Jacopo Sala is the only one with a chance of making the squad.
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➡ Sono 21 i convocati di Mister Semplici per #SpeziaMilan #Eurovision #Eurovision2023 @Recrowdita pic.twitter.com/TCO6fKTPZM
— Spezia Calcio (@acspezia) May 12, 2023
Emil Holm, Joao Moutinho, Daniel Maldini, Petar Zovko, Julius Beck and Agudelo are out of the game against Milan. Yet, the Spezia manager is likely to keep up his team’s shape and continue to feature a 4-3-3 attacking shape in a bid to get goals and possibly an upper hand.
The big boost for Spezia will come from top scorer M’Bala Nzola, who is available again for selection. They were using Eldor Shomurodov in his absence earlier, but the Uzbek striker can now return to the bench or replace Agudelo in the wide areas. There’s also a chance for Daniele Verde to feature as part of the front three.
Probable lineup (4-3-3): Dragowski; Amian, Ampadu, Nikolaou, Reca; Ekdal, Esposito, Bourabia; Nzola, Gyasi, Verde
Stefano Pioli will heavily rotate his team for the Spezia trip keeping the Champions League game against Inter Milan in mind. The big news from the first leg clash was the injury to Ismael Bennacer. The midfielder has been a key player for the Rossoneri and will be missed.
Looking ahead to #SpeziaMilan #SempreMilan
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— AC Milan (@acmilan) May 11, 2023
Pioli hopes the Algerian is not out for long and could assess his situation before Wednesday. Meanwhile, the manager could bring fringe stars like Ante Rebic, Divock Origi and Charles De Ketelaere for the Spezia game.
The AC Milan boss will hope to have Rafael Leao for the second leg. And even if the Portuguese winger proves his fitness for the weekend, he is unlikely to make the lineup.
Hence, Milan will field a much-changed side for the Spezia trip, but Pioli could have a few of his regulars in the team. Davide Calabria, Sandro Tonali, Fikayo Tomori and Theo Hernandez will keep their places, while Alexis Saelemaekers will also feature from the start.
Probable Lineup (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Calabria, Kalulu, Tomori, Hernandez; Tonali, Krunic; Saelemaekers, De Ketelaere, Rebic; Origi
- Spezia have lost their last three matches in Serie A.
- Spezia are winless in their last eight games in Serie A.
- Spezia have failed to score in ten of 19 matches this year.
- AC Milan have picked up only 23 points from their last 15 Serie A games.
- AC Milan have won three of their last five Serie A games against Spezia.
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Theo Hernandez just ran the entire length of the pitch to score a wondergoal… again! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/HupGn4Z5js
— GOAL (@goal) May 6, 2023
With few options in the left-back position, Pioli will forcibly use Hernandez at left-back. The full-back also has a point to prove at the weekend after a sub-par display in midweek against Inter Milan. The Frenchman is a massive threat in the attacking play but needs to pick up form.
With the full-back likely to start against Inter Milan next week, he will want to use the Spezia game as a Kickstarter to polish his play. These are two big games for the full-back to show Stefano Pioli he can be relied upon for big moments.
Spezia 0-2 AC Milan
AC Milan have no choice but to win this game and provide a good performance. Three points away from home to Spezia will do their confidence a world of good, which will come in handy on Wednesday for the second leg against Inter.
Going by form, there’s nothing to suggest Spezia can cause an upset and boost their safety chances. Coming to Serie A, Milan are under pressure to consolidate their top-four position, and a win against Spezia would be a massive boost to their chances.
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Hi, Vladka here!
The card I did today was inspired by spring colors! I used Distressed Inks to get the look I wanted. Let’s go step by step so you too can create this card. I used white cardstock for the background with some stamped leaves for more interest. For the stamping, I used yellow and green Distress Inks. I also spritzed some water on it to get more of a watercolor look.
I cut out the circle with the new die from the Stitched Circle Set and added some splashes of yellow Distress ink mixed with water. When everything was dry, I cut out two Butterflies. One out of yellow cardstock and one green. I attached them over the circle with the splashes. I added the Happy Birthday Cupcake expression out of white cardstock (after I cut off the cupcake) to the middle of the two butterflies.
This is a clean and simple card for someone’s birthday. The colors just scream happy!! Also check out our other dies from the Happy Birthday release. They are all so beautiful and fun to play with!!
Have a great day!
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- Government of Serbia decided yesterday (January 24, 2008) to additionally capitalize Komercijalna Banka with about 40m EUR and Postal Savings Bank with about 26m EUR - said Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mlađan Dinkić.
At the press conference after the meeting of the Government of Serbia, he said that European Bank for Rehabilitation and Development (EBRD) would additionally capitalize Komercijalna banka with about 10m EUR, but its ownership share of 25% in that bank would not be changed.
Dinkić expressed expectation that, after additional capitalization by the state, EBRD and minor stockholders, total additionally capitalized sum will be about 100m EUR.
Explaining the rasons for such decision of the Government, Dinkić said that Komercijalna banka must be strengthened in order to make easier market penetration in Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He pointed out that that bank had collected over 800m EUR worth of new foreign currency savings in 2007 and that it had market capitalization worth about 1.05 billion EUR, while its total capital would be increased from current 220m EUR to about 320m EUR.After additional capitalization of the Savings Bank, worth about 26m EUR, capital of that bank will be increased to about 40m EUR, said Dinkić and announced that the management and the way how operations were done in that 100% state-owned bank wpi;d be changed.

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Hi there sweets!
First I have to confess I sowed some sweet peas on my window sill lol
They're quite big already and right after our trip to the sea (we're flying to Turkey next Wednesday) I'll take them to our summer cottage to plant them on the lawn!
Yup, being in the spring mood for anything that grows, I have designed a kit for gardening fans! No matter if you're not one - the kit looks lovely with almost every picture you pick :) 46 handpainted ellies and 9 papers are included into it - the new kit is called Greenfingers and - hurry up! - it's on 20% OFF sale!!!!
Get these lovely quickpages FREE together with your purchase of the kit (by the way, they are on sale too in case you want them alone!):
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A Sunwing flight bound for Cuba was turned back to Toronto Wednesday due to "two unruly female passengers," the airline says.
Toronto will be growing up and up after this week’s council meeting.
If the NHL truly is going to expand, Don Cherry says there is no question in his mind where that should be first.
A 36-year-old male was struck and killed by a train Wednesday afternoon in the city's west end.
The city’s chief planner says the city can handle the coming growth but can’t hit the brakes on the downtown relief line.
Council put off a push by the Toronto Board of Health to ban the sale of energy drinks in conjunction with alcohol.
Guessing at the ticket price of the new airport rail link isn’t wise because Metrolinx hasn’t made a final decision yet, the transit agency’s CEO said Wednesday.
Investigators are trying to piece together a double shooting at a nightclub in the Entertainment District that left a woman dead and a man fighting for his life.
Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti has never given up hope that one day his city will have a hockey arena that will house a NHL team and recent news reports of possible league expansion has only helped keep his dreams buoyant.
Nelson Mandela Blvd. is coming to Toronto.
After a heated debate, council gave the Cornerstone Place homeless shelter permission to relocate.
Catherine “Kit” Currie, 50, vanished from her home in the city’s west end two weeks ago after suffering a mental health episode.
A “destroying angel” mushroom has put one person in hospital and has prompted a warning from Toronto Public Health.
It’s time to drop the puck on a second NHL team in Toronto, fans around the heart of Leafs Nation said Wednesday.
Summer just didn’t heat up this year.
In our time-starved society, knowing you can get to the airport in just 25 minutes is a big deal.
The Toronto Zoo has an adorable new addition to its family.
A data breach at the Rouge Valley Health System, which resulted in new mothers’ private information being sold to RESP companies, may be more widespread than originally thought.
A Provincial Court judge questioned a decision by the Barrie Crown attorney to withdraw 26 counterfeit money charges against a Brampton man so he wouldn’t be deported.
Olympic sprinting champion Donovan Bailey was slapped with a hefty $1,500 fine and barred from driving for a year after pleading guilty to a 2012 drunk driving charge.
Dear Gary: What’s keeping you? Love, Toronto hockey fans.
Toronto Police released video of a brutal beating in the city’s club district in hopes of identifying the thugs behind the attack.
Investigators are anxious to talk with two witnesses following a weekend hit-and-run that claimed the life of an elderly man in Scarborough.
A 32-year-old former Niagara Falls woman shot outside a Toronto nightclub early Tuesday morning had dropped by to wish a friend happy birthday.


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This Module deals with some of the links between cybercrime, trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants. The Module reflects the relevant articles of the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), the Protocol to Prevent, Supress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Protocol against Trafficking in Persons), and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants). This Module focuses on how technology is used to commit crime in the context of trafficking and smuggling, with a particular focus on the use of the Internet in cybercrime. It also acknowledges that State investigations should not infringe data and privacy rights, particularly of victims.
Perpetrators of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants may exploit the Internet to facilitate organized crime in numerous ways, such as:
- Communication between members of a criminal organization
- Coordinating actions and activities
- Online grooming
- Recruiting trafficking victims, including for labour and/or sexual exploitation and organ removal
- Recruiting would-be migrants for smuggling activities
- Marketing goods and services that are the product of activities related to trafficking, such as sexual services or labour services involving exploitation, including child trafficking for labour exploitation (child labour)
- Controlling victims by menace or coercion such as threats to make sexual content public or available to persons particularly important to a victim
- Trading in child abuse material
- Live-streaming abusive conduct
- Taking online payments for services provided by exploited trafficking victims or through smuggling activities
- Laundering the financial proceeds of trafficking and smuggling, and
- Jurisdiction shopping such as creating online content in one jurisdiction for dissemination in another jurisdiction to circumvent domestic legislation. This is particularly prevalent in live streaming child sexual abuse.
Trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants offer lucrative business opportunities for organized criminal groups (see Modules 1 and 6). With the development and advancement of modern technologies and the ever-expanding role of the Internet, it is essential that law enforcement agencies, particularly those specializing in cybercrime, maintain an up-to-date understanding of how criminals are using the Internet to commit trafficking and smuggling crimes and how organized criminal groups use increasingly sophisticated technologies to evade detection, particularly through use of the dark web. Cryptocurrencies also present a new challenge to law enforcement, with criminals embracing this technology in order to launder the proceeds of crime. For more information, also see the University Module Series on Cybercrime.
Tackling the linkages between trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants and cybercrime requires a commitment to the development and adaptation of modern technologies to counteract, detect, investigate and prosecute cyber-based offending (also see Module 13 on Cyber Organized Crime of the University Module Series on Cybercrime). At the same time, State authorities must be mindful that they avoid the practices that violate the rights of migrants and victims. Students should develop an understanding of the investigative techniques used in their domestic jurisdiction and the mechanisms available for international cooperation. This may help identify gaps in countering trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants.
- Identify the links between cybercrime, trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants.
- Assess ways in which trafficking and smuggling currently intersect with types of cybercrime in practice.
- Critically evaluate frameworks to counteract cybercrime, trafficking and smuggling.
- Identify potential cyber innovation, challenges and future trends.
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Bulletrain was founded back in 2006 by guitarist Mattias Persson and drummer Jonas Tillheden in the suburbs of Helsingborg, Sweden. Led by their dreams they found like-minded people with singer Robert Lindell, bassist Tim Svalö and guitarist Adam Börvall who later was replaced by the guitarist Robin Bengtsson. Bulletrain released their first EP "Johnny Gonebad" on their own in 2007. The record was produced by Klas Ideberg, the guitarist of the Swedish thrash metal band Darkane. "Johnny Gonebad" was well received and the band expanded its fan base by playing along with bands such as Crashdïet, Bullet and Crazy Lixx.
A fellow Austrian reader is introducing to us a new band from Germany, RED RAVEN, and their debut CD "Chapter One: The Principles" to be released all over Europe next week.
The Hard Rock quartet featured seasoned musicians from the local scene, but perhaps the most known is singer Frank Beck, who replaced Kai Hansen when he got sick during Gamma Ray's Empire of the Undead tour. More»
Having honed their craft for over 12 years, rocked hundreds of stages around the world and sold over 35,000 albums since their inception, Sweden’s SISTER SIN have delivered their most intense and charismatic work yet on their fifth full-length album, Black Lotus. More»
On 24 October 2014 the FYRE via Nuclear Blast! Debut album "Missy Powerful" published.
Argentine singer and guitarist Alejandra Burgos obtain their cooperation. Was completed, the new band called FYRE! of the Spanish Tolo Grimalt (guitar), Sergi Tomas and Jaune Amengual. More»
The new bass player slot is filled by an illustrious musician, a member of one of the most high profile bands in the world, namely Mike LePond from the almighty SYMPHONY X, who provides a fierce performance as expected from such a magnificent skilled bassist. More»
Michael Voss & Holggy Begg with a mix of new material and cover songs...
BEGGAR'S BRIDE: Holggy Begg, Fritz Schneider, Rosa E. Haas, Michael Voss and friends (Don Airey, Mark Schulman, Molly Duncan, Gary Barden and more). More»
Black Veil Brides are an American rock band based in Hollywood, California. The group formed in 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is currently composed of Andy Biersack (lead vocals), Ashley Purdy (bass, backing vocals), Jake Pitts (lead guitar), Jinxx (rhythm guitar, violin) and Christian "CC" Coma (drums). Black Veil Brides are known for their use of black makeup, body paint, tight black studded clothing, and long hair, which were all inspired by Kiss' and Mötley Crüe's stage persona, as well as other 1980s glam metal acts More»
The SILVER history began in 2001 when Gary Barden (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, PRAYING MANTIS, STATETROOPER) and Michael Voss (CASANOVA, BONFIRE, MAD MAX, DEMON DRIVE) first met and started to join forces with Andreas Broon (SISTERS OF MERCY/DORO) to write the songs for the legendary first SILVER album. More»
The two-up, two down, features, on the Ground Floor, the powerhouse foundation of Clive Edwards (dr) and Rocky Newton (b). On the First Floor, there's the magic of Laurence Archer (guit) and the seemingly unstoppable drive of Danny Peyronel (voc). All the materials used in this construction were forged in some of England's best, toughest and most demanding quarries and foundries, the guys having worked between them previously with: Def Leppard, Meat Loaf, M.S.G. and U.F.O.,
Artist: King Crimson Country: UK Title Of Album: Live In Hyde Park, London Year Of Release: 2002 Genre: Progressive Rock / Eclectic Prog / Avant-Prog Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, scans) Full Size: 339 Mb
Neil Percival Young, OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, later joining Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. More»
Artist: Jimmy Barnes & Joe Bonamassa
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Bleeding In Stereo, is a four piece band from Jacksonville Florida. Blending some harmonious vocals with punchy straight forward guitar riffs. You will find that the lyrics are a lot deeper than face value and were not written just to fill a page with words but to express real life emotions through our instruments and out your speakers. Spawning the name "Bleeding In Stereo". More»
In 2010 Asphalt Horsemen started their rehearsal in Gödöllö (Hungary). First they led into jams of songs of bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Stone Cherry, Pride and Glory. Soon came up their own ideas of songs which were working out and tested at smaller gigs. The audience reaction was splendid as they felt heavy-load beating of southern rock on their skin. The genre what AH plays fills a gap in the rock music-scale in Hungary, it’s not really found this style among local bands. More»
Best known for his legendary work with Hardline and the memorable "Double Eclipse" release in 1992 with Journey members Neal Schon and Dean Castronovo, the popular follow up "Hardline II" in 2002 with Neal back as special guest, singing with Japan's known rock guitarist Jun Senoue on his releases including Sega since 1998 and Crush 40 in 2003, and the multiple platinum Axel Rudi Pell records he has performed on since 1998. More»
From one angle, the story of power pop is all about underdogs — artists who rarely achieve commercial success of their own despite their influence on others. Maybe it’s a prerequisite for writing anthemic gems with sweet, sweet melodies and razor-sharp edges. More»
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1976 Quo Live! 2CD; 1976 Tokyo Quo; 1974 Australia '74
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Live! is the first live album by English Rock band Status Quo. It contains 2 discs. It is an amalgam of performances at Glasgow's Apollo Theatre between 27 and 29 October 1976, recorded using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. More»
Shred Alliance is an intense shred guitar orientated album that not only has the high impact intense hyper-speed guitar shredding but also emotion and feel. This album features many of the worlds greatest guitar warriors including Michael Angelo Batio, Per Nilsson, Simone Mularoni, and many more! More»


Almost a year ago, when I was reading about sharing economy and impact investing, I came across the term “collaborative capitalism”. I felt that the world was adjusting itself between capitalism at one end and communism at the other, and now blockchain technology has the potential to take it one step closer to communism.
Until about a couple of weeks ago, I was explaining blockchain as a “decentralized database”. Then the focus was on blockchain as an innovative data store, but the idea of decentralisation is even more powerful. I have researched and discussed some interesting business models based on blockchain that I’ll cover below.
The first Blockchain use case was bitcoin, but the applications go far beyond financial services. Telecommunication, cloud computing, sharing economy, gambling, internet of things are some of the other industries that could potentially be disrupted by blockchain.
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Firms like SETL and Ripple are trying to disrupt the payments landscape using blockchain by providing a real time settlement and clearing platform, commonly described as DCL (distributed consensus ledger). With the regulators cracking down on financial services firms to provide accurate transaction reporting, blockchain could potentially help bring robustness and transparency to the post-trade environment.
Elliptic is a start up that identifies with a high level of accuracy, the origin and destination of transactions on the blockchain. This could help immensely in anti money laundering.
Everledger are trying to combat insurance fraud by using a fingerprinting process based on blockchain technology. They identify precious metals (for a start), with a view to expanding into all sorts of luxury goods, such as high end watches, designer handbags and fine art. Basically high value items whose provenance might otherwise be reliant on paper certificates and receipts that can easily be lost or tampered with will be centrally identified and tracked using block chain.
The web which is currently controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), could be potentially disrupted by a blockchain based DNS which would be decentralised, private but most of all more democratic. While this may sound dodgy to a few, it may come as a blessing to many who think their freedom of speech and expression is being affected by the centralised nature of the web.
Storj is a start up that uses blockchain and peer-to-peer protocols to provide a secure, decentralised and private cloud infrastructure. To best protect data, files are encrypted client-side on users’ computers before they are uploaded. Each file is split up into chunks which are first encrypted and then distributed for storage across the Storj network.
Applications of blockchain are increasingly discovered by the minute. The concept of decentralisation (via Blockchain) has been used in distributed computing Zennet, and in Internet of Things (IoT) by IBM.
Distributed Autonomous Company (DAC)
The most interesting model with blockchain for me has been Distributed Autonomous Company (DAC). A DAC will not take the form of a company, in the formal sense, meaning it will not be subject to regular company laws, but will instead be governed purely through the alignment of incentives.
For example, Play, a blockchain based casino, claims it offers a third-party verifiable mechanism to ensure true randomness and fairness for gamers by placing the games’ logic on a blockchain. This would remove the need for trust in centralized institutions. The chips used to play are called Playshares (PLS), which are also the tokens of the system. PLS are designed first to be the shares of the PLAY System, and thus the unit in which dividends are paid to PLS holders and delegates of PLAY are paid for their contributions to the system. As the individual players own the system through PLS and play using PLS, if the house wins, individuals win.
A sharing economy firm called La’Zooz are the blockchained version of Uber. It is a Decentralized Transportation Platform owned by the community and utilising vehicles` unused space to create a variety of smart transportation solutions. With this idea, the users are rewarded for sharing information about their usage, and in the process help build the network. In this way, early adopters of La’Zooz network are gaining value and thus being incentivised to take part in the establishment of the network before its technological benefit takes effect and the transport service is available.
Isn’t that a new economic model? Build a network of customers by getting information from them, and getting them to partake in an event and incentivise them for that. Early adopters will get higher incentives, and as the network of users/nodes increase, incentives are harder, but the business is robust and established. The key differentiator is that it is decentralised, data intensive and capital light.
This decentralised model could potentially disrupt the energy, technology infrastructure, food and agriculture and micro finance sectors. While ideas in most of these industries are still being experimented, it feels like a new economic and social phenomenon is brewing, and it most definitely is a step further away from capitalism!!
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₹328 crore scam money used to make film on ex-prime minister Manmohan Singh: Congress, NCP
Mumbai city news: Gangakhed Sugar and Energy Private Limited, a sugar mill owned by Ratnakar Gutte and others, allegedly used names of 2,298 farmers from the village in Parbhani district, some of whom were dead, to apply for loans worth Rs328 crore from six banks including five nationalised and one private one.mumbai Updated: Jul 07, 2017 23:36 IST
Opposition parties in Maharashtra alleged that Rs328 crore used to make ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ — a movie based on a book written on former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh — was derived from a sugar factory scam.
Vijay Gutte, son of the main accused in the scam, who has produced movies like Badmashiyaan and Emotional Atyachar, is the director.
The book, by Singh’s media advisor Sanjaya Baru, gave a detailed account of the tenure of his first term as PM. It had sparked a controversy when it was published ahead of the 2014 general elections.
Gangakhed Sugar and Energy Private Limited, a sugar mill owned by Ratnakar Gutte and others, allegedly used names of 2,298 farmers from the village in Parbhani district, some of whom were dead, to apply for loans worth Rs328 crore from six banks including five nationalised and one private one. The matter came to light after a few farmers approached a bank for crop loans and found that they already had loans in their names.
Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant said this shows the link between the film makers and the BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). “Since the BJP is in power, I doubt whether the matter will be investigated seriously and the culprit punished,” he said.
Nawab Malik, NCP spokesperson, said, “We believe many ruling party members are involved in the scam and the money was siphoned for making the movie. This cannot be done without backing of those who are in power.” He added, “The police should immediately arrest the accused and the case should be handed over to ED for investigation.”
Ratnakar Gutte, also leader of BJP ally Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSP), refuted the allegations saying his son is an independent person and the charges are politically motivated.
When contacted Vijay Gutte said the movie has no connection with the allegations made against his father and requested not to involve it into any controversy. “I don’t know anything about this alleged scam. I have not visited the said sugar mill even once in the last five years,” Gutte said.
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It's been roughly four years since he last released new music for his fans and McCartney hopes his new song will brighten everyone's spirits.
"I was in the studio for the past couple of years and one of my buddies, Brandyn Burnette, he and his girlfriend actually helped me write the song," he explained. "It was kind of a crazy time last year and I just felt like there was a lot of division among everybody. It was very intense both politically and socially. I just felt like there needed to be a song that made people feel better and just kind of bring people together."
McCartney believes that the song is relatable in the sense that listeners will know somebody or can find somebody that makes them a better version of themselves. When he cut the final version in the studio, he knew this was a really special song and a jumpstart to what will become his sixth studio album, which is still in the works.
As to whether "Better With You" is autobiographical, the singer shared that he indeed has that special someone in his life that brings the best out of him, but wouldn't actually reveal who that person is. However -- he affirmed his fans -- that your "special someone" doesn't have to be explicitly your boyfriend or girlfriend, it can also just be your mom, or even your pet(s).
When it comes to the actual music video for the track, McCartney got to put his creative hat on and shared his vision and input for the overall feel and aesthetic.
"I sat down with my director Jo Roy who just did such an incredible job, and she and I sat down and we just sort of banged our heads together," he said of the creative process. "It was kind of a collaborative effort. We decided we wanted to do something like a butterfly effect where something as incidental as a quarter rolling past your shoe can change the entire outcome of your future and your future relationships and that's what we set out to do.'
In the music video, which took just two days to shoot and about thirty costume changes, you'll see McCartney starring alongside actress Danielle Campbell who plays his love interest.
"It's hard because of a song like this, it can so easily be like a slice of cheese, you know, it could be super cheese-ball but we wanted to incorporate things that made a relationship look authentic. That's why we had this fight scene in the middle, and it was the highs and lows of a relationship that we wanted to sort of highlight and I think this video executed that," McCartney added.
The 30-year-old artist told the audience that he was amazed that ever since the release of the song just a week ago, his dedicated fans have already learned the lyrics and have been singing along when he performs it live.
"I've been doing a lot of live shows. They're already singing the song," he said with excitement. "It's really cool! It's funny, I've never seen in like fifteen years that I've been doing music, I've never been performing at a live show where the fans have so quickly learned the lyrics, even if they hadn't heard it, by the second chorus, they're already singing along. It's a special feeling."

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For fans who still need to watch the Love Is Blind reunion episode, here is everything you need to know about where to find it on the Netflix YouTube channel. In this quirky dating series the men would choose a woman to propose to, without even knowing what she looked like. The couples who managed to stay together got married and have appeared on the special episode which aired today, March 5.
Fans of Love Is Blind, which follows the same premise as Married At First Sight, will be pleased to know this is not the last they will see of the couples.
The end of the series featured the couples who had managed to stay together through all the ups and downs.
The finale was an emotional day and included the weddings of couples like Lauren and Cameron.
The creators behind the Netflix series have just announced a reunion special will air, giving fans insight into want went on behind the scenes after the show.
Love Is Blind: When is the reunion show?
Viewers may be shocked to hear the series was actually filmed back in October 2018, with the weddings taking place in November of that year.
This means the couples had to keep their marriages a secret for more than a year, and a lot has gone on in that time.
The men and women have had to get used to each other’s families, friends, lifestyles and homes, and it has been a lot to take in.
The streaming service confirmed the reunion episode will drop on the platform on Thursday, March 5.
How can I watch the Love Is Blind reunion?
According to Newsweek, the additional episode will not be airing on the streaming platform itself.
The website says the reunion episode will be air exclusively on Netflix’s YouTube channel.
This means fans will not find it on the streaming platform on their televisions, tablets or mobiles.
To access the streaming platform’s YouTube channel, fans can visit www.youtube.com/user/NewOnNetflix or simply search Netflix on the YouTube site.
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Fans are already looking forward to a second series of the show and although it has not officially been confirmed, the creators are keen to keep the show alive.
There is even talk of the series making its way across other countries, so we could be seeing it in the UK soon.
The creators said there were many other cities they wanted to explore after the debut series was filmed in Atlanta.
Creator Chris Coelen admitted he wanted to see a series 12 of the show, which has been extremely popular with fans.
In the reunion episode, couples Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed, Carlton Morton and Diamond Jack, Damian Powers and Giannina Gibelli, Mark Cuevas and Jessica Batten, Matt Barnett and Amber Pike, Kenny Barnes and Kelly Chase chat with hosts Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey
They answer all the questions fans have about who is still together and who would have acted differently.
Netflix suggested the reunion episode was a result of public demand, as the debut series was such a hit across the globe.
During filming the couples spent a lot of time together and some have become good friends.
Love Is Blind is available to watch on Netflix now


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Release Notes for HelenOS 0.5.0
HelenOS 0.5.0 (Fajtl) was released on August 9, 2012 and represents a major release with lots of new features and bug fixes.
This document contains a summary of changes made to HelenOS since release 0.4.3.
Special Notes for this Release
- The HelenOS/ia64 support for running on real hardware has been revived, currently in UP mode only.
- The HelenOS/ppc32 support has been revived.
- The HelenOS/sparc64/sun4v support remains broken since 0.4.3, mainly due to a lack of a development platform.
Features Introduced in This Release
- Introduced memory reservations in the kernel
- Prevents from committing to allocate more memory than is really available
- Support for non-identity kernel mappings
- Enables the kernel to access arbitrary physical address and removes thus the previous limitations.
- Scrollback support in the kernel debugging console
Services and Drivers
- USB support
- UHCI and OHCI host controllers (USB 1.1)
- Usable with EHCI HCs (will hand over to companion USB 1.1 host controller)
- USB HID Keyboard and Mouse
- USB Mass Storage (standard USB flash drives)
usbinfoutility (list and query USB devices)
- Network adapter drivers
- DDF'ized Novell NE2000 driver
- Intel PRO/1000 driver
- Realtek RTL8139 driver
- New SATA disk driver (experimental)
- Only tested in QEMU
- Location service
- Replacement for device mapper, services instead of devices
- Services registered by name, can be added to categories
- Service categories replace devman device classes
/dev/devicesis now in
/loc/devices, instead of
ls /dev/classuse the
- Device driver framework (DDF) improvements
devctlutility to print and manage device tree
- Anticipated device removal (using
devctl) support (only works with some drivers)
- Added read-only support for Ext2 file system
- Added initial read / write support for exFAT file system
- The FAT file system server now supports also FAT12 and FAT32 variants
- The FAT server now supports the LFN extension
- Added initial support for the ISO 9660 file system (no LFN)
- Added read / write support for MINIX file system
- VFS now supports multiple instances of the same file system via the
--instanceargument that can be passed to the
mountcommand and the respective file system server.
mountcommand without arguments will list all mounted file systems
- NIC driver framework to ease writing of network card drivers
- Almost entire networking stack rewritten from scratch
- New implementation of TCP, UDP, IP+ICMP, ARP
- NICs and IP datalinks exposed via location service (e.g.
loc show-cat nic,
loc show-cat iplink)
inetcommand-line utility instead of
- Web server improvements
- Serve files from the file system
- Proper HTTP error responses
- Network terminal emulator
- Netcat-like network terminal emulator (over TCP)
- Remote console service
- HelenOS can be accessed using
- HelenOS can be accessed using
- Shell syntax for input/output redirection
- Shell command/file name completion (using Tab key)
- Besides FAT16,
mkfatcan create FAT12 and FAT32 too
mkexfatutility to create an empty exFAT file system
mkmfsutility to create an empty MINIX file system
- Ported assembler and linker from GNU Binutils
- Ported PCC (Portable C Compiler)
- Ported MSIM (MIPS R4000 simulator)
- libc and some other libraries can be optionally made dynamically loaded on ia32
- libposix was introduced to provide a POSIX-compatibility layer
- GRUB 2 is now used for booting ia32 and amd64 (kernel still supports legacy Multiboot spec.)
mkfat.pyscript used to build the initial RAM disk now supports long file names
- Some binaries were renamed to make use of long file name support (e.g. clip → clipboard)
Features Removed in This Release
- Support for running HelenOS on the Sun Enterprise 6500 and Serengeti machines has been removed as the support for these platforms depended on the availability of the commercial Simics simulator.
Fixed Logged Bugs & Enhancements
- For the list of all logged defects fixed in this release, see this report.
- For the list of all logged enhancements integrated in this release, see this report.


Xbox is closing the season with a bang.
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Check out your awesome freebies for June.
4 new titles are available to expand your game's collection.
To better understand the Xbox live service, and to answer the ultimate question – ‘’is Xbox Live free?’’, we must first look at what the service provides, and what’s the intention behind it.
Microsoft has already announced free games for the upcoming month.
All games listed here are available for free on Xbox during the weeks of March.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress may force President Barack Obama into a showdown with Mexico over free trade.
Lawmakers are preparing to cut off the money for a 1½-year-old pilot program that opened the way for up to 500 Mexican trucks from 100 operators to drive deeper into the United States.
The U.S. has allowed only a few Mexican trucks to drive beyond a southern border buffer zone, although it agreed when it signed the North American Free Trade Agreement to allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S. roadways beginning in 1995.
If the U.S. doesn't comply with the NAFTA agreement, Mexico can take retaliatory action such as placing or raising tariffs on U.S. goods.
"If the program is finally defunded by Congress, Mexico will (keep) open all its options, including retaliation," said Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador to the U.S.
White House spokesman Benjamin LaBolt declined in an e-mail to comment about the truck program. Tren Nguyen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. trade representative's office, said the office is examining all possible options, but she would not say what those options are.
For now, Congress isn't one of the options.
The Senate is considering a $410 billion House-passed spending bill that halts funding for the Mexican truck program. Two years ago, the Senate voted 74-24 to cut off the program's funding. Voting with the majority at the time were Obama and Joe Biden, now the vice president.
Senate Republicans don't even plan trying to keep the program alive now that a Democrat is in the White House.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who tried to keep the money flowing in 2007, is not inclined to do so again, an aide said this week.
"It's very disappointing that my colleagues have chosen protectionism over job creation by eliminating the NAFTA trucking pilot program with Mexico," Cornyn said.
Money for the program could be slipped into other spending bills, but would again face heavy opposition.
Obama discussed NAFTA with Mexican President Felipe Calderon when the two met about a week after Obama took office, and Obama said he would work immediately to strengthen the relationship between the two countries.
Since 1982, most Mexican trucks have been confined to driving no further than 20 miles into the U.S., except in Arizona, where the limit is 75 miles.
The Teamsters, consumer groups and independent insurers have been pressuring Congress to keep the trucks off U.S. roadways, citing safety concerns.
But some of the strongest opposition has come from unions also concerned about U.S. drivers losing jobs and work to lower-paid Mexican drivers.
The Bush administration began the pilot program after a Mexican truck company sued under NAFTA and won. Congress cut funding for the pilot last year. The Bush administration continued it with funding from other parts of the transportation budget.
Bill Adams, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, declined to comment on whether the agency would do the same again.
Inside U.S. Trade, an online publication, quoted Doug DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Transportation Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, as saying Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood ordered a review of the Mexican trucks program on Feb. 9. As a House member, LaHood also voted to end the program.
The Mexican ambassador said keeping Mexican trucks from U.S. roads will raise the cost of goods for producers and consumers.
"This is protectionism. It has nothing to do with the safety or security of American roads," Sarukan said.

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The Calgary Flames have hired Bob Hartley as their new head coach, the team announced.
Hartley, who also coached the Atlanta Thrashers and Colorado Avalanche, spent the past season in Switzerland coaching Zurich. He returns to the NHL for the first time since being fired by the Thrashers after an 0-6-0 start in 2007.
"Bob Hartley is a winner," Flames general manager Jay Feaster said in a statement. "Bob has won at every level he has coached, from the QMJHL to the AHL to the NHL to Switzerland, and we are confident he is going to continue his winning ways in Calgary. He is a tireless worker, an outstanding motivator, a great bench boss and game strategist, and a teacher at heart. Moreover, he is a great person as well."

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text: The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at Mumbai is the nearest airport to the village of Khodala. It is about 30 km away. The Airport is well connected to all major cities and towns within India via regular, daily air routes. It is also linked to several cities abroad. There are taxi services available from the airport to help you reach Khodala. The Gandhinagar Airport at Nashik and the Lohegaon Airport at Pune are two other domestic airport options that are viable for a comfortable air journey.

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The adept young Ghanaian engineer known for the famous water bicycle invention has proven he features a bag of ideas as he comes up with another innovation- a sweeping bicycle.
Frank Darko has invented a tricycle that sweeps along as you ride it and he calls it a ”sweeping bicycle.”
The Takoradi based engineer explained that his invention may be a contribution to solving a number of Ghana’s sanitation problems.
Ghana, in 2015, was ranked the 7th dirtiest country in the World by the planet Health Organization and Frank believes that focus should be paid to the country’s sanitation challenges.
“In 2035, Ghana will to be a miserable place for a child to grow. But we will be able to change the future depending on the actions we take now. We must totally change our behavior towards the immediate environment in which our lives depend on”, he said.
Even today graduates have joined in littering the environment. As an honest citizen, I even have to try something to assist stop the dark future that’s hanging upon us.”
Asked what inspired his invention, the engineer didn’t mince words in expressing his disgust for the utter disregard for cleanliness in our surroundings.
He particularly spoke about the canal which leads the Odawna River to the ocean in Accra and the way it’s been full of sand and refuge.
“In my vision I see the canal being used as a walking path because it’s finally choked with sand and plastic waste. Vehicles could even ply on it. The sad part is how people will lose their homes and lives in the event of heavy downpour”, he expressed.
In a new video, Frank takes the general public on a mind trip as he reveals what influenced his idea and the way he went about putting the ”sweeping bicycle” together.
The young man who is currently on a full scholarship at the Takoradi Technical University gave props to Dr. Phyllis Hendrichs, Engineer Kakra Mchammah, the CEO of Muhammad Engineering Company, and the President of CILT GHANA Ebo Hammond for their contributions to his life.
Frank Darko added that he still had tons more intriguing ideas to figure out after his first innovation, a bicycle that would travel on water, brought him national recognition, and was featured during a BBC documentary.


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Directed by Rensil D’Silva, Dial 100 tells the story of a policeman’s fight to save his family on an ill-fated night. With an OTT-fit cast comprising Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta, and Sakshi Tanwar in lead roles, this fast-paced crime-thriller releases on Zee5 today.
Dial 100 story —
On a seemingly usual night, the Police emergency control room receives a call from a woman who appears suicidal. Officer Nikhil (played by Manoj Bajpayee) tries to calm her down and understand what is bothering her, but he discovers that the woman has a weapon. As Nikhil presses her to reason her possession of the weapon, she tells him to wait and watch for her real intentions. Time passes on, and more calls are exchanged. It is clear to Nikhil that the woman has sinister intentions, and his family is in danger. Nikhil has little time to save his family from the clutches of the hysterical woman.
Suspense ensues in the emergency control room when Officer Nikhil receives a call from a disgruntled woman. Soon, the trailer introduces the woman as Seema Palwa (played by Neena Gupta), who has taken Nikhil’s wife and son hostage. She seems to be acting out of deep revenge, and when Nikhil asks her what she wants, she says she wants justice. Seema has lost her child, and for some reason, she holds Nikhil responsible for the tragedy. He must try everything to protect his family from this unpredictable woman.
Dial 100 movie cast —
Manoj Bajpayee is quite comfortable playing the role of a cop, having displayed excellent performances in The Family Man, Special 26, Naam Shabana, and more recently in Zee5’s Silence: Can You Hear It?. In this movie, the versatile actor plays the role of an officer with a plan.
The famed actress of the yesteryears is making her presence felt yet again. With movies like Sardar ka Grandson and recently Chhatrasal, and Masaba Masaba to her credit, Neena Gupta brings old charm in the modern digital space. Here, Gupta plays an antagonist, a vengeful woman who has taken Nikhil’s family hostage.
Best known for her roles in Kahaani Ghar Ghar kii and Bade Acche Lagte Hai, Sakshi Tanwar plays the role of a scared mother and wife after being taken hostage by Seema Palwa. Tanwar was last seen in Mission Over Mars on Zee5.
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There is no such thing as a stupid question, but there are people too stupid to ask a question.
Your dealer should have explained to you that all you need to do is plug in the car (a totally drained battery will take about 10 hours @120 volts and about 2 1/2 to 3 hours @ 240 volts (I could be off on the time, I use a 240 volt level 2 charger and it seems to take a little more than 2 hours but it is rare for me to go below 25% charge)
Some of the following goes against factory recondimations
I just leave the button set to EV. The car will run on battery power until the battery goes down to 2 bars (the computer holds two bars in reserve in case you need extra help to climb a mountain, don't forget the Clarity ICE is smaller than some motorcycle engines so that is why always holds some battery in reserves case you need help getting up a mountain ) Contrary to what some people have written on the forum if you leave the car in EV mode the computer will automatically run the gas engine so there is no need to run the engine (ICE) yourself (it is referred to ICE for internal combustion engine) It does this automatically to make sure the oil keeps the engine lubricated.
You can charge the engine while driving (up to 78%)but in my opinion it is inefficient to use the ICE to charge the battery. If you insist on doing it all you have to do is press and hold the HV button.
Since I usually get 58 tp 62 miles on a charge and I normally do not go further than 40 miles I never use gas
I have over 2,000 on my car and I thought the gas gauge may not be working because it has not moved since I got the car. I pulled into a gas station for a fill up and to check the gauge was working. it was only ably to take 0.4 gallons which meant to me the gauge was fine and the 0.4 of a gallon that was used was to keep the ICE lubricated. To sum it up leave it set to EV and forget about it the computer will handle everything.
I hope I explained this in a easy to understand manner and you understood my explanation.


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I had wanted to come in to Grappellci's for a long time but my boyfriend is lactose intolerant and so pizza is not on his radar. Luckily for me I was out and about on my own one day and thought pizza for lunch would really hit the spot! Boy did I get more than I bargained for! Thinking that... 更多
Our motorcycle touring group ate here as it was convenient. The menu was varied, and everybody chose different things. My husband ordered a tuna wrap, and I ordered a thin sliced pepperoni pizza. Both very good. It is not a pretentious place, but we enjoyed our meal and the counter server was friendly and helpful. Four stars. Good location at... 更多
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We stopped here for a quick lunch while moving into town. What a neat menu; something for everyone. The menu... 更多
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The only major American sport that had not lost a game yet to the coronavirus pandemic may finally be getting affected and seeing its schedule changed.
Multiple outlines like ESPN are reported that the NFL will shorten this year’s preseason from four to two games to give players who would have worked out by now but haven’t a better chance to be prepared for the season. The NFL said no decision has been made or even endorsed by the NFL Players Association, as some members are in favor of playing no preseason games ahead of the 2020 NFL season. The league said a call between the league and union later today (Thursday) would clarify the situation.
The league would essentially cancel the first and last August preseason game. The league had already canceled the Hall of Fame Game, traditionally the first preseason game, between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers, and the annual Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies on Aug. 6 and 8, and moved them to 2021.
The NFL on Thursday advised its teams to expect an on-time start for training camps on or July 28, depending on the team. Now, the first preseason games won’t be played until Aug. 20-24. The second week of preseason games is scheduled for Aug. 27-31. Some re-shuffling of the original preseason schedule for Weeks 2 and 3 will occur so each team will play one home game and one road game.
The NFL and it’s Players Association continue to discuss protocols for reopening team facilities, what its testing programs and other matters related to playing amid a pandemic, like travel. New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have mandated that people coming from states where coronavirus cases are spiking, like Florida and Texas, to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival.


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England have secured their spot in the semi-finals of the World Cup in France after putting Norway to the sword in a comfortable victory in Le Havre.
Manchester City's Jill Scott opened the scoring just minutes into the game with the fastest ever goal the Lionesses have scored at the World Cup, with new City signing Ellen White doubling the Three Lion's advantage before the interval.
In the second-half, Lucy Bronze emulated her wonder strike against the same opponent in Canada four years ago to add further gloss to the scoreline and it could have been more, as her new Lyon teammate Nikita Parris saw a late penalty saved.
The Lionesses are now heading to Lyon for a World Cup semi-final clash against either host nation France or defending champions the United States, who lock horns in Paris on Friday evening.
You can find a recap of all the action from the match below.
Jordan Nobbs in a confident mood
“It was great to see the girls last night, they were so relaxed.
“Lucy Bronze is one of my closest friends and I am so proud of what she is doing, she will be a key part as to why we win the World Cup.”
“I was practicing that [free kick] this morning. At the end of training we were having a few shots and practiced that one. I’ve been dreaming of playing in Lyon and getting to that semi-final again, I think all that pressure and passion came out in that strike. I’m excited to be going to Lyon now.”
“We’re where we want to be. I think we’ve seen tonight Lucy Bronze is the best player in the world, without a shadow of a doubt – with her athleticism and quality. There’s no player like her in the world. I played full-back but never to that level.
“Ellen White has got the bit between her teeth. She’s a predator. You feel for Jodie Taylor. She’s chomping at the bit. We’ve got competition for places which feels good.
“We want to play them both [France and USA], I’m not bothered who we play. We’ll go to Lyon, the atmosphere and occasion will be incredible. The players have proved the bigger the occasion, they better we are. We’re having fun.”
England win 3-0 and are through to the World Cup semi-finals!
A fantastic performance from Phil Neville’s side, with goals from Jill Scott, Ellen White and Lucy Bronze.
It could have been more but Nikita Parris saw a penalty saved. Either France or the USA now awaits.
Five minutes of added time are called for, as Stanway whistles an effort wide of the far post with the outside of her right boot.
Nikita Parris steps up and fires to the goalkeeper’s right but the effort is stopped.
It remains 3-0.
Stanway floats an excellent free-kick into the middle and Thorisdottir pushes Steph Houghton, giving the referee an easy decision.
10 to go
Good luck picking a Player of the Match out of this bunch.
Lucy Bronze, Steph Houghton, Ellen White all fantastic.
Problem for England
Ellen White goes for a second and clatters with the Norway goalkeeper.
She requires treatment, as does her opponent.
Georgia Stanway replaces Fran Kirby for England, as Norway replace Guro Reiten with Amalie Eikeland.
20 to go
England starting to concede chances and are hanging onto their clean sheet.
The Lionesses have not conceded since the opening game of the group stage against Scotland.
Norway are coming closer but this time it’s Bardsley who makes a crucial save to retain her clean sheet.
OFF THE LINE!
Houghton will not let anything pass her by!
A glorious chance for Norway but guess who is back on the line to clear the ball away?
Lisa-Marie Utland has come on to take the place of Karina Saevik.
Meanwhile, England look like scoring in every attack.
England haven’t been at their best so far at the World Cup - until now.
Whether it’s the United States or France in the semi-finals, Phil Neville’s side will fancy their chances.
WHAT A GOAL! 3-0 England
Deja vu for Lucy Bronze! England are 3-0 up!
Norway don’t pick up Bronze outside the box, Beth Mead passes it across to the Lyon ace and she thunders a phenomenal strike into the back of the net.
That’s the 900th goal in the history of the Women’s World Cup.
Huge moment for Norway as the ball falls to Caroline Graham Hansen and it seems like a goal is imminent - but Houghton makes a decisive tackle right at the last, then clearing the ball away.
England 2-0 Norway
Jill Scott scores the fastest World Cup goal in Lionesses history.
Ellen White now leads the way for World Cup goals for the Lionesses.
Not bad at all.
GOOOOAL! 2-0 England
Ellen White becomes the highest goalscorer for the Lionesses in the World Cup of all-time and she’s now joint top-scorer at the tournament.
Bronze plays a fine pass to Parris, who in turn provides a superb cross for White and it’s an easy finish.


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Energy in the Climate Future: Predictions from the International Energy Agency
The annual World Energy Outlook was just released, and along with it, various forecasts for the future of energy sources and the climate crisis. Clean energy is growing, but not fast enough, it reports.
It’s true—clean energy forms like wind, solar, and electric vehicles are spreading around the world faster than expected. But this rapid growth is not enough to curb climate change crises, slash humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, or keep up with energy demands.
According to the International Energy Agency, which published its annual World Energy Outlook on Tuesday, clean-energy trends are on the uptick in general, but that doesn’t necessarily solve our problems. The report, an 810-page document that forecasts global energy trends to 2040, shows an increase in the agency’s future projections for offshore wind farms, solar installations, and battery-powered cars.
The noted increase in more renewable energy forms is largely in response to more ambitious energy targets and lower costs for these energy forms around the world. Technologies keep getting cheaper, and countries like India are making bigger targets for clean-energy, according to the New York Times.
This is all good and well, but the report issues some stark warnings. Even with a swing toward global clean-energy efforts, the report says the current energy policies countries currently have could still cause global greenhouse gas emissions to continue for the next 20 years.
The reason? The world’s demand for energy is surging, which means that while clean energy forms are increasing, it cannot keep up with worldwide energy demands. Fossil fuels, especially natural gas, are still growing to satisfy the rest.
It appears that at the rate the world is going, not only will we miss climate goals for the next 20 years, but we will miss by a lot:
“Without new policies in place, the world will miss its climate goals by a very large margin,” said Fatih Birol, the agency’s executive director.
Coal: Dead or Alive?
You might have heard it before: “coal is dead.” This is partially true, and partially not. The world’s consumption of coal—the dirtiest of all fuels—is indeed starting to stall. Many are going out of business thanks to competition from larger plants and natural gas. The report also notes that global investment in new, coal-fired power plants has sharply decreased in recent years. As a result, countries like India are developing other, cheaper, forms of energy like solar panels and battery storage for electricity.
And the report clearly predicts that clean-energy forms will dominate the world’s energy forms and surpass coal soon. By 2030, wind, solar, and hydropower are expected to grow to 42 percent of global generation, and coal would drop to 34 percent. Natural gas—while cleaner than coal but still a major contributor to climate change emissions—still is expected to play a major global role and cut into coal’s market share.
But, coal is finding new life in other ways. Asia has seen a number of new coal plants pop up, and the majority are an average of 12 years old with a long lifespan ahead. The new coal plants, particularly in Asia, will make it difficult to really affect greenhouse gas emissions unless these plants are run less frequently, retired, or upgraded with ecofriendly technology, says the report. However, the technology that captures plant carbon dioxide pollution and buries it underground is expensive, and the likelihood of plants investing in it is unlikely.
Offshore Wind Blowing Up
Wind—on land and water—is becoming an increasingly cheaper form of energy. In the earlier years of wind energy, it was much cheaper to build wind turbines on land. But recently, wind technologies for offshore farms in Europe have shown huge potential in harvesting stronger and steadier winds over the ocean. This windy success means costs are falling and technology is increasingly affordable and attractive for many countries.
Wind now holds 2 percent of the European Union’s electricity cards, and the agency’s report predicts a ninefold increase in wind production by 2040. Companies in the United States, China, South Korea, and Japan are reportedly planning major new offshore wind farms.
As for electric cars, consumers are buying more and more around the world—but there’s a catch. Consumers bought 2 million electric cars last year after battery costs fell and places like China and California saw generous vehicle incentives. The agency expects electric car sales to continue to accelerate and for the global gasoline and diesel use for cars to peak in the mid 2020s.
However, more people are buying electric cars, but they’re also buying gasoline-hungry S.U.V.s. Larger S.U.V.s use more gasoline than conventional cars, and the sale of S.U.V.s have soared in the last two decades. In 2000, just 18 percent of passenger vehicles sold were S.U.V.s. Today, it’s 42 percent.
The rise in S.U.V. dependency could really hurt global oil and gas savings from the electric-car boom. Now, it’s a matter of whether carmakers can figure out how to manufacture, and convince people to buy, batter-powered versions of popular S.U.V. models.
Energy Efficiency Efforts Roll Back
You would think that with an increase in clean-energy and a heightened concern for global warming would mean an increase in global energy efficiency efforts. Well, not so fast.
The report said that 2018 had only a 1.2 percent improvement in the energy intensity of the global economy, a measure of efficiency. This is the lowest rate it’s been in years—mainly because countries are weakening their policies. This includes the United States, where the Trump Administration has worked on easing regulations on a number of fronts on coal, vehicle fuel, and light bulb regulations.
Mr. Birol reminds people that there is significant room for improvement in every country. In addition to switching to cleaner energy sources, countries can also curb their emissions by improving the energy efficiency of their factories, homes, and vehicles through policies like building codes and fuel economy standards.
Still, “Two out of three buildings worldwide today are being built without efficiency codes and standards,” Birol said. “And those buildings can last for five to six decades, so focusing on efficiency is very important.”
All Eyes on Africa
While urbanized and developed countries have an obligation to use available technology, the other side of the coin involves countries that are soon to industrialize—like Africa. This year’s report notes that Africa is expected to urbanize over the next few decades at a faster pace than China did in the 1990s and 2000s. If the country does so while prioritizing fossil fuels over clean-energy forms, like China did, this could really affect greenhouse gas emissions.
However, there might be hope for a greener Africa. The continent, reports Mr. Birol, is about 40 percent of the world’s potential for solar energy but still has less than 1 percent of the world’s solar panels.
“I think energy developments in Africa are going to surprise many of the pessimists,” Birol said.
As it turns out, this year’s World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency was a mixed bag of promising news and scary truths. The global climate crisis is incredibly complex and dependent on a number of factors, but one thing is for sure: energy is at the heart of it all.


UPDATED 8:22 AM PT – Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Human Rights Watch has criticized the International Olympic Committee for kneeling to communist China. The organization called committee President Thomas Bach “shameful” for his recent video call with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.
Today, IOC President Thomas Bach, the Chair of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, Emma Terho, and IOC Member in China, Li Lingwei, held a video call with three-time Olympian Peng Shuai from China.
— Athlete365 (@Athlete365) November 21, 2021
It was Peng’s first appearance since mysteriously disappearing after accusing a high ranking Communist Party official of sexual assault. Political science professor Jules Boykoff accused Bach of participating in Chinese propaganda.
“Instead, he appears to have shoved the key issue of serious claims of sexual abuse off to the side while simultaneously making his goal very clear, which was to create a flimsy cover story for Chinese authorities so that the games could go on,” she stated.
Beijing is currently slated to host the 2022 Winter Olympic games.


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President Barack Obama talks with Rep. Chris VanHollen, D-Md., before addressing a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 8, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Assuming an unaccustomed feisty, combative and definitely not professorial demeanor, President Obama defied congressional Republicans not to pass the new stimulus package he presented to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night.
Speaking plainly for the benefit of his national audience, Obama contended that we have to choose our priorities.
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Numerous scholarly critiques of Gavin Menzies’ 1421: The Year China Discovered the World have revealed a plethora of factual errors and inconsistencies, but to little effect. Menzies has simply co-opted different artefacts to support his thesis, or has varied the thesis itself to dodge specific criticisms. Not until historians and intellectuals cease sparring with Menzies on his own terms, and instead criticise the flawed methodological basis of his enterprise–coupled with factual repudiations–can the 1421 thesis be discredited in a manner that affords no recourse. This article has been peer-reviewed.
Who does not think of masculinity and the Australian national character when they hear the word ‘mateship’? There are plenty of reasons for this, not least the efforts of labour leaders and blokish nationalists at the turn of the twentieth century. In this paper, however, I show that radicals in early 1890s Adelaide tried to give ‘mateship’ and the ‘brotherhood of man’ a feminist twist. This was especially the case among the men and women who took part in the Murtho experiment, a short-lived village settlement set up on ethical socialist principles in 1894. Their endeavours highlight the fact that notions of mateship, brotherhood and fraternity developed throughout Anglo culture in this period, not just in Australia. They also highlight the importance of ethical socialism to many of South Australia’s first-wave feminists, leading them to feel a sense of mutuality with labour and radical causes. This article has been peer-reviewed.
The presence in Australia of English and American magazines has not attracted significant critical attention in histories of magazines or writing. But the defence of imported magazines at a 1930 Tariff Board Inquiry stresses their importance to Australian magazine culture during the 1920s. This paper considers the evidence presented to the Inquiry in conjunction with the magazine holdings of several libraries and a small news- agency. In the commercial and cultural operations of retailers and lenders a new idea of Australian magazine culture emerges; one that does not reject imported culture, but embraces it as a significant element of its very existence. This article has been peer-reviewed.
Birth, death and marriage traditionally evoke our most powerful expressions of intimacy and sentiment. Yet for numerous Australian families up to the 1970s, those occasions triggered the opposite sentiments: estrangement, conflict and hostility, which sometimes endured beyond the grave. The cause: 'mixed marriage' between Catholics and Protestants in a pre-multicultural Australia, where religion was still code for a social and political identity that reflected English-Irish tensions derived from colonial days. This article is based on 48 oral histories recorded by Siobhan McHugh for a forthcoming doctoral thesis at the University of Wollongong. The marriages, which range from 1924 to 1983, are recalled by spouses, children and clergy.
The stereotyped transition of the Irish in Australia from rebellious dissenters to respectable citizens glosses an abiding sense of difference that was reproduced down the generations of Irish-Australians. Exploring these tensions in the personal biography of John Vincent Barry, a prominent judge, intellectual and civil libertarian of the mid-twentieth century, offers an unusual opportunity to assess what it meant to be of second or third generation Irish descent in a settler society. These tensions are examined through the rich archive of Barry's private papers as well as his public writing and action. Yes Yes
Curtin researcher Tom Fitzgerald amassed a wealth of evidence that John Curtin wrote under the pen name "Vigilant" in the early years of his editorship of the Westralian Worker. If true, the personal and literary columns penned by "Vigilant" provide new insights into the inner temperament of Australia's war time Prime Minister. Fitzgerald's evidence for Curtin as "Vigilant" is presented in this paper and the attribution is further explored by applying stylistic tests developed at the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle (NSW).
The Brisbane Fascio, established in 1930 as part of the Italian Fascist Party’s attempt to disseminate its ideology amongst Italian emigrant communities, enjoyed only limited success. By examining the Brisbane Fascist organisation and the reasons for its failure, this article addresses the particular elements that affected the response of Italian emigrants to Fascism and further illuminates the political, class and economic factors which shaped Italian community life in Queensland before World War II. This article has been peer-reviewed.
The recognition and conservation of contemporary history is a growing interest of both professional and lay communities. In creating archives and cultural collections of local and wider interest, collaborative partnerships can produce rich and innovative constructions of history. This paper outlines the development of the Victorian Women on Farms Gathering Heritage Collection which involves a collaborative partnership committed to the appropriate preservation of cultural materials and stories associated with the Women on Farms Gatherings. The Gatherings are an annual event organised in various rural communities across Victoria since 1990, and this paper records the women’s own recognition of their heritage, and the partnership that was subsequently established between representatives from the Gatherings and Museum Victoria. This arrangement enabled pathways in history-making to be forged. The scope of the collection and decision making processes supporting its management are outlined, prior to an analysis of how this collection illustrates generic and theoretical issues surrounding the innovations that can be supported in creating living history.
Recent debate about the history of historiography and the nature of history has tended to polarise between the postmodernist view and various more ‘conservative’ positions. This article critically examines a recent contribution to the debate, Ann Curthoys’ and John Docker’s Is History Fiction?, and proposes an alternative way of understanding the history of historiography that reveals the nature of history in a very different light. This article has been peer-reviewed.
This article considers some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls in teaching History as a compulsory course for professional degrees in areas such as education and journalism. It considers two quite different models for curriculum design based on distinct student cohorts, and suggests some of the dangers that need to be avoided, and some of the arrangements that need to be considered for desirable outcomes, in such service teaching situations.
Popular understandings of the Great Barrier Reef’s early-settler history are anchored to the Endeavour’s crashing in 1770. Recently, however, James Bowen, Margarita Bowen, and Iain McCalman have illuminated the diversity of settler encounters with the Reef. This article builds upon their work. It discusses the first century of settler engagement, specifically the perceptions of explorers towards the Reef. It argues that while the Reef was the site of wrecks, those who threaded through its waters helped foster an appreciation of the Reef’s potential as a safe sea-lane, a site of profitable marine industries, and a source of scientific interest, beauty and cultural heritage.
Early British imperial voyages to Australia did not occur entirely at sea or solely within the sphere of British influence. In the late eighteenth century Britain controlled few ports. Imperial expansion under sail therefore required supplies, rest and repair at the ports of other empires. Indeed, in 1787 the First Fleet laid over in the Atlantic harbours of Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro in Portuguese Brazil and the Dutch East India Company’s Cape colony in southern Africa. These layovers varied in length from a week to a month. During this time British officials went ashore on imperial business. What is less understood is that other voyagers also visited port townships and hinterlands to explore, socialise and make personal purchases, presenting opportunities to view settler colonialism under other empires. In her study of European travel writing, Mary Louise Pratt termed ‘imperial eyes’ the ways of seeing that produced othering discourses of non-Europeans. Through a new reading of 1787 travel accounts, and others from 1789 and 1791, this article argues that British imperial voyaging to Australia entailed seeing with trans-‘imperial eyes’ in the colonies of other empires. These encounters led to the formation of impressions about indigenous peoples under other colonial rule.
Sydney clay formed one of the earliest points of scientific interest in colonial New South Wales. Thanks to Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin, it became associated with elite ideas surrounding the development of a European ‘civilisation’ in the new colony through skilled arts and manufacturing. By following the utilisation of this clay until 1823, this article traces how non-elites adopted these ideas. It uses a methodology focused on material culture that combines the practices and sources of history and historical archaeology. It contends that even non-elite colonists behaved as if ‘civilisation’ was created and maintained by the skilled manufacture and use of certain items such as pottery. This outlook and practice excluded Aboriginal people and culture from the colony from the outset.
Alcohol was a persistent problem for the early governors of New South Wales. Despite repeated orders to limit the volume of spirits allowed into the colony, Phillip, Hunter, King and Bligh all failed to control the trade that helped establish a rival commercial elite and was seen as a leading cause of crime. This regulatory struggle is the basis for an exaggerated view of the distinctive significance of rum in the colony; despite recent revisionism our understanding of the trade still requires a broader context. In fact, the official failure to restrain the trade was unsurprising, given the ubiquity of alcohol in eighteenth century Britain and the peculiar importance of spirits to the colonial economy. But the status of drunkenness as a symbol of disorder meant that the unregulated trade undermined the colony’s status as a convict reformatory and challenged the authority of the early governors.
This article has been peer-reviewed.
The practise of eating kangaroo meat lay at the heart of a complex set of relationships amongst humans and other animals in the early colonial period in Australia. An exploration of this eco-cultural network demonstrates the often overlooked role of Australian native animals in the colonial project. The affordances offered by the members of this network to one another established relationships marked by differing degrees of dependence. It is argued that the meat of kangaroos played an important role in the establishment and expansion of the Australian colonies up to 1850, by which time colonial authorities had begun self-consciously to distance themselves from living kangaroos, maintaining a role only for captive and symbolic animals.
This article has been peer reviewed.
In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Philip King produced a vocabulary of words in the Māori language. It contained 199 entries, and was based on information he obtained from two Māori chiefs who had been kidnapped and taken to King at Norfolk Island, where work on the Vocabulary took place. This list of translated words inadvertently exposed aspects of the balance of cultural power in the region in this period, and the challenges of developing an orthography for a language that was still predominately oral. It also revealed small insights into the nature of Māori society on the cusp of British colonisation.
This article provides a brief history of the important contribution made by Aboriginal men in the Hunter region of central eastern New South Wales to colonial development from 1800 to 1850. In the Hunter, as in many parts of Australia, Aboriginal men gave critical aid to colonists exploring the vast, difficult terrains and waterways of the country. Aboriginal guides helped colonists in a number of ways, ranging from locating essential human needs such as water and food to discovering rich natural resources like coal and grasslands suitable for pastoral and agricultural industry. In particular instances, for example when individuals joined in major exploring expeditions, their assistance extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hunter region. Their invaluable contributions deserve a meritorious place in Australian exploration history.
This article has been peer-reviewed.
The penal colony of New South Wales occupied an uncertain place within the highly mobile and volatile world of maritime trade. The incidence of maritime madness brought its peculiarities and vulnerabilities into view. This article examines three instances of madness between 1805 and 1812 to which the colony’s governors were forced to respond. Together they show the liabilities madness presented in such a place: the commercial liability faced by investors and merchants and sometimes shared by colonial governments; the liability to fragile colonial hierarchies presented by imposture; and the liability produced by imperfect legal procedure, which opened governments to charges of despotism in the context of personal liberty and private property, key elements of protective lunacy proceedings. The introduction of the commission of lunacy in 1812 was a response to heightened concerns over liberty and property following the 1808–09 rebellion in Sydney, and also demonstrated broader concerns about marginality, mobility and despotism.
In a previous article, ‘Who Wrote “A Visit to the Western Goldfields”?’, our question was left unanswered. Further stylistic analysis has confirmed that this series and two subsequent ones published in the Sydney Morning Herald in the early 1860s were by the same author. Following a strong suggestion that this mystery author may have been Frederick Dalton, writings known to be by him were incorporated into the analysis. Since the only known writings of Dalton (until now) were mining reports, the stylistic analysis tests involved the comparison of writings in different genres. As well as a reporter, Dalton was a miner and geologist, in California as well as Australia, and subsequently a gold commissioner and mining warden in New South Wales. The identification of Dalton’s considerable goldfields writings has enabled us to learn more of one of the pioneers of gold mining in New South Wales.
This article has been peer reviewed.

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As I enter my final few weeks of pregnancy, I sometimes worry about ordering a cup of coffee. Too often, the barista responds, “Decaf?” or a stranger within earshot wonders aloud whether I’m “allowed” to drink that.
It’s not just coffee. When I was pregnant with my daughter, a waitress balked at my husband and my order of labneh, and a co-worker expressed shock that I was eating sushi (never mind that I’m vegetarian, and the sushi in question involved avocados and cucumbers). Read the rest of this entry →


Renne Ferguson, who is the woman at the centre of the Tim Paine sexting scandal, is all set to face trial over allegations that she stole cash and memberships from Cricket Tasmania.
Ferguson was allegedly sexually harassed by four employees of Cricket Tasmania including the former Australia National Cricket Team Test skipper Tim Paine. After this matter, which originally took place in 2017, became public, then-captain Paine stepped down from Australia’s Test captaincy, just half a month before the marquee Ashes 2021-2022.
Meanwhile, the 48-year-old Renee Ferguson, who worked from 2015 to 2017 as a receptionist for the state’s cricket organisation, is looking for financial compensation over alleged sexual harassment.
Looking to appoint new legal representation – Woman at the centre of the Tim Paine sexting scandal
A fresh Federal Court matter involving Renne Ferguson has come to light and she is alleged to have stolen thousands of dollars and taken out Cricket Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes memberships without paying for them, as per a report in The Sydney Morning Herald.
On Thursday, Ferguson appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court via video link from her car and told the court she wanted to maintain her plea of not guilty, which was made about 63 counts of stealing and 2 counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial benefit. Also, she revealed that she has parted ways with a high-profile lawyer, Greg Barns SC, who had been representing her.
“[I am] looking to appoint new legal representation,” she was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald.
Meanwhile, Magistrate Michael Daly said that he was prepared to sentence Ferguson had she changed her plea to guilty. He adjourned the matter until the 5th of August and ordered Ferguson to get fully engaged and appear in court.
“[I’m] not prepared to deal with this remotely any longer. You will need to be fully engaged from this point on,” he said. “There is a lot of work now that needs to be done. We need to commence preparation for this case for a trial.
“There is no point in you instructing lawyers that can’t be here. You need to appreciate the reality of your position at present.”
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