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Luxembourg (AP) - In the end, the federal government has approved the reform of EU copyright - despite all resistance. Immediately after the vote of the EU states, however, came the big but.
Deputy EU Ambassador Susanne Szech-Koundouros explained how the reform should be implemented on Monday in a four-page supplemental declaration: without an upload filter and with various exceptions. It sounds like a correction with simultaneous approval. Unconditional conviction, at least, looks different.
First of all, however, the German positive message: The reform is urgently needed, the current legal framework is no longer up to date, it says in the first of the twelve paragraphs. It follows the but. A but that feeds from weeks of protest.
Critics fear that platforms like YouTube, but also smaller providers, will have to use upload filters in the future because they have more copyright protection obligations. These are programs that detect and sort out protected content when uploading. Ultimately, could be blocked significantly more than necessary, it threatens censorship.
Tens of thousands had therefore demonstrated in Germany against the project. The grand coalition came under pressure. The paper, which was worked on until Sunday evening, now says: It is regretted that it was not possible to find a concept that "convinces all sides".
Do not worry, the federal government immediately calls its critics. "Upload platforms should continue to be available as free, uncensored communication channels for civil society." The aim must be "to make the instrument" upload filter "largely unnecessary". If technical solutions are used, the EU should promote the development of open technologies with open interfaces. This would promote transparency, interoperability - the ability of different systems to work together as seamlessly as possible - and standardization. It would also prevent powerful platforms - Facebook and Google, for example - from selling their filtering technology and consolidating their power.
Berlin also emphasizes that the regulation in question applies only to said powerful platforms such as YouTube or Facebook. Concrete exceptions are also mentioned: Wikipedia, software platforms such as Github, messenger services such as WhatsApp, sales portals or cloud services.
So far the Berlin reading of the new directive. But then the government makes it clear: it is assumed that a uniform EU-wide implementation is agreed.
And if all this does not work? If the freedom of expression is still restricted by the new rules? Or if this special path violates EU law? Then the reform should be corrected, they say. It will take years, though. First of all, EU countries now have two years to transpose the new rules into national law.
The critics would not be soothed by all that anyway. FDP leader Christian Lindner wrote on Twitter that the grand coalition did not use its last chance to prevent upload filters. The Green Party leading candidate for the European elections, Sven Giegold, criticized the additional declaration as "questionable cosmetics". And pirate politician Julia Reda, who was one of the sharpest critics of the project in the European Parliament, said: "The new copyright makes everyone to losers." In addition, ignore the grand coalition their coalition agreement. In it, the mandatory use of upload filters is rejected as disproportionate.
The approval of the EU states on Monday was scarce - and dependent on the German yes. The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Italy, Finland and Sweden voted against the reform. Belgium, Slovenia, and Estonia abstained at the meeting of agriculture ministers, who voted on behalf of their respective governments. Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) was initially represented by Ambassador Szech-Koundouros.
Copyright reform aims to bring outdated copyright law in the EU to the digital age, and to give creators better pay for their content on the web. Mid-February, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU states had reached a compromise. This was endorsed by the European Parliament at the end of March. The countries moved now. Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (CDU) said that the reform was "a great step forward for the digital single market and for a vibrant culture and creative industries". European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker also described the reform on Twitter as a missing piece of the puzzle of the digital single market.
In addition to new copyright obligations, the project also provides for ancillary copyright for press publishers. After that, news search engines like Google News have to pay money to publishers in the future for displaying article clippings. Here, critics especially for small publishers see disadvantages that would have a weak negotiating position with Google. In addition, they refer to Germany, where there is an ancillary copyright right since 2013, but that does not lead to notable cash payments to the publishers. However, the major German publishers' associations welcomed the reform.


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Top-seeded North Carolina scored three goals in the opening 32 minutes of the match en route to a 6-2 victory over Tennessee in the Round of 16 of the 2006 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament Saturday night at Fetzer Field before 2,145 fans. Six different Tar Heel players scored in the match as UNC built a 6-0 lead before the Lady Volunteers responded with a pair of goals in the final six minutes of the match.
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This is my understanding, it may not be perfect. (or what your asking might have gone over my head)
but fuck it I'll give this a shot.
What is the incentive for order books to track the true value of a real world asset?
There is no incentive, everyone knows that everyone else is going to expect the price to follow whatever asset it's pegged to, so if they catch it on a fluctuation they will buy or sell accordingly in anticipation of profit.
Is it an issue that 2x of equity must be pledged to get 1x of a particular Bitasset?
The person shorting it is who puts up the collateral. Unless they let it ride long enough for a margin call, they get all their collateral back when they buy some bitAsset from where ever and repurchase their collateral.
They don't get the bitAsset though, that's what they're shorting. The system just creates it when they short it, and matches it to somebody who wants to buy the bitAsset from the person doing the shorting (so they get half their collateral back on the spot). so they're really only putting up 1x collateral. (then if the bitAsset price drops they can buy the amount of bitAsset necessary to cover their short position for less than it would have cost to buy when they shorted, and wind up with 2.5x more btsx than they would have, but they also risk losing that much if bitAsset price rises)
What is the effect of a liquidations due to volatility?
price temporarily drops, people crap their pants that they can buy a dollar for less than a dollar, price goes up from those people buying.
in the early stages, there wont be enough market depth for the peg to track the price consistently because it'll be so easy to alter the market, so a feed will need to be temporarily implemented to halt trading at 30% above or below the asset's price... until market depth is such that the bitAsset will be able to stand on it's own. think of that as bitAsset training wheels.
I get the feeling everyone thinks asset value tracking will be awesome, but no one understands how it is supposed to work and what its chance of success is.
I think it will be awesome. After struggling back and forth with toast and tonyk in a different thread I think I finally wrapped my head around it. Chance of success? well it IS experimental, but BM mentioned in a thread that an accredited professor of economics has evaluated his ideas on this and declared them sounds (not that he needed that, he explained, but he wanted to silence the critics who would tell him that he's no economist)
edit: I actually tried to write an article about this. here it is
also this thread
will show you all the beating of my head into the keyboard I had to do to understand.

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A little East of Jordan,
A Gymnast and an Angel
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And Jacob, waxing strong,
The Angel begged permission
To Breakfast—to return—
Not so, said cunning Jacob!
‘I will not let thee go
Except thou bless me’—Stranger!
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Light swung the silver fleeces
‘Peniel’ Hills beyond,
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Cardi B and Bruno Mars are dropping a new collab tomorrow at midnight
Prior to deactivating her Instagram, Cardi B received a lot of criticism stating that she didn’t deserve the Grammy for best rap album. A couple of days after deactivating her Instagram, Cardi B returns to the social media and lets her criticizers know that they can’t keep her down along with some interesting news.
The “Money” rapper announced to her social media on Wednesday, after reactivating her Instagram, she is also releasing a new track with Bruno Mars on Friday at midnight.
Bruno Mars did a collab with Cardi for a remix of his hit song “Finesse” in 2018. The song ultimately broke the internet with their In Living Color-inspired video.
Her caption read, “Ok so I’m back from retirement to announce I have a brand new song coming out Friday at midnight with @brunomars,” under a picture of the two in what appears to be their new single’s cover art.


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Dot Com Pho After Hours Heads to Cloverdale
Sometimes we end up in the middle of nowhere by accident and sometimes on purpose. Whether it’s because you had a flat tire, or run out of gas, we always end up there sooner or later. Yesterday, we ended up there (as in nowhere) for another thrilling Dot Com Pho After Hours adventure!
This week, nowhere had a name and it was Cloverdale, which is sometimes the backdrop to popular TV shows like Smallville and Supernatural. I guess if they screw up and blow up the town by accident, it’s not such a big deal. It’s also close to where our Pho Phriends Gary Jones and Rainer Schmoll live. Since they often come out to Pho in Vancouver, enduring the long drive, it was only honorable that we come out and do an episode there at least once…and we could never do this with John Chow around as it would violate his five minute rule. Five minutes as in how long it would take him to drive from his house.
I thought I was alone till Ed Lau showed up…late as usual. But I have to give him props for showing. I did page Leo Chiang, but he said he was…umm…working. I think that was his code for “Fracking a Six” as he is, after all, our friendly neighborhood “Raptor Wrangler” on Battlestar Galactica. I’m sure being on the last episode got him some “play”. This week is also the episode where Michael Kwan returns in another thrilling “Kwan’s Korner” segment. Enjoy!
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Filmmaker Wajahat Ali Abbasi is gearing up to make the feature film “Sin”, inspired by a true incident where two boys were hanged to death because they were in love. This brutal, public killing took place In July 2005 witnessed by thousands of people in Iran. Pictures and videos of this incident were uploaded on the internet by spectators, but the Iranian government and media denied its occurrence.
Wajahat, through the cinema screen, will bring the tragic tale of these boys to life, while addressing an important question why in some societies people are denied the right to life because of their sexual orientation.
To make this film possible Wajahat has turned to no other than the popular crowdfunding site kickstarter.com, where their fund raising campaign has recently started. Kickstarter is the biggest funding platform on the internet for creative projects where anyone can support projects by making donations.
Wajahat says, “Kickstarter is the best way to fund ‘Sin’ because of some important reasons: Firstly, through Kickstarter, ‘Sin’ will build its audience worldwide, secondly, individuals who believe in this project will assist in spreading the word, and thirdly, crowdfunding will facilitate this project to take creative risks, and deliver a vision like few others have ever attempted”.
Iranian president Ahmadinejad, in response to gays in Iran, said during his 2007 visit to Columbia University in New York, “In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country”. While Iran is in total denial of the existence of homosexuality like many countries in the world, it will be interesting to see the world’s reaction to this controversial movie and how it will impact global public opinion on this issue.
‘Sin’ will be shot in English with a few words of Persian. Dubbed versions in Persian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic will also be made so that this story can reach out to larger audiences worldwide.
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"Over You" was released on 9 Jan 2012 as the second single taken from Miranda Lambert's fourth studio album "Four the Record" (2011). It is a country ballad, written by Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton and produced by Frank Liddell and Glenn Worf.
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The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish racial inferiority and insisted that under middle-class British tutelage the Irish would in time reach a standard of civilization approaching that of Britain. However, the potato famine of 1846-1852, which coincided with a number of external and domestic crises that appeared to threaten the stability of Great Britain, led a large portion of the British public to question the optimistic liberal attitude toward the Irish. Rhetoric concerning the relationship between the two peoples would change dramatically as a result.
Prior to the famine, the perceived need to maintain the Anglo-Irish union, and the subservience of the Irish, was resolved by resort to a gendered rhetoric of marriage. Many British writers accordingly portrayed the union as a natural, necessary and complementary bond between male and female, maintaining the appearance if not the substance of a partnership of equals. With the coming of the famine, the unwillingness of the British government and public to make the sacrifices necessary, not only to feed the Irish but to regenerate their island, was justified by assertions of Irish irredeemability and racial inferiority. By the 1850s, Ireland increasingly appeared not as a member of the British family of nations in need of uplifting, but as a colony whose people were incompatible with the British and needed to be kept in place by force of arms.
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CHESTER, PA – France and England renewed hostilities in the opening match of SheBelieves Cup at Talen Energy Stadium. France came away with a shocking 2-1 victory over England after the Lionesses had controlled and dominated much of the match. Marie-Laure Delie and Wendie Renard scored to cancel out a Jordan Nobbs first-half tally. The Olympique Lyon defender came on as a second half sub before scoring the winner at the death.
“I’m happy to score because it was the last occasion to score,” said Renard through a translator. “I’m very happy for the team, and I’m happy for me, too.”
France have always excelled on set pieces. It’s not a fluke that they are able to use their height advantage over their opposition. They practice and perfect crosses and set pieces.
“We know that these kind of tactics are really important,” said Renard. “They can help us to save a situation. Yes, we work it at least fifteen or twenty minutes at training and we try to make the best on it.”
England held a 1-0 advantage for the first eighty minutes. Arsenal Ladies’ Jordan Nobbs fired home a cracker from distance. France keeper Sarah Bouhaddi got a piece of the ball but was not able to turned aside the shot.
The Lionesses controlled the match through the midfield, and kept France from getting any pressure on them in the opening forty-five. Mark Sampson’s squad was first to every ball, and made sure to commit a strong defensive shape.
However, they could not keep it up. It was a tale of two halves for England and Manchester City goalkeeper Karen Bardsley.
“It certainly is,” said Bardsley. “I thought we were absolutely outstanding in the first half. Probably one of the best performances England have put out, especially against top opposition. I think we can take away a lot of positives from our performance in the first half. The second half, we were really disappointed with the overall lack of adjustment. We really should be able to squeeze the pitch and get pressure on the ball. They kind of exploited that. They had a lot of time, and they seemed very comfortable in the midfield. We were disappointed to concede and obviously in the manner that we did.”
Why did England switch off in the second half? It seemed as if they parked the bus and were content with trying to secure a 1-0 win. Surely, a tactic that never really works.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say it was a lack of anything that we did,” admitted Bardsley. “It was almost like France really stepped up their game. They brought on a lot of their starters that we kind of expected to start the game. They probably got a telling off at halftime. They obviously did make some adjustments, and really put pressure on us to really stretch us out. They kind of made it really difficult for us to get across the pitch. I think they exploited the flanks and got some quality balls in and obviously capitalized on set pieces. I think this is a really good learning experience for us.”
Manager Olivier Echouafni made five substitutions in the second half. In came Camille Abily, Renard, Eugenie Le Sommer, Elodie Thomis and Amel Majri. His decision to save his top performers for when England would likely tire and chase the match was brilliant. England reverted to defending without much effort to get forward, and it cost them.
France came in waves, with chance after chance. You could slowly see England trying to hang on and hope for their first victory over France since November, 9 1974. Eighteen matches without a win over France, and they came so close to making history.
But it was not to be. Marie-Laure Delie connected on a cross that Thomis sent into the England box. Delie split a pair of England defenders before converting on a header.
Four minutes of stoppage time went up, and England fans were hoping they could hold on for a respectable draw. Instead, France brought the house and weren’t willing to settle. Renard smashed home the winning goal via a header. France looked lost for eighty-minutes, but they woke up and claimed all three points over England.
England Starting XI: Karen Bardsley; Demi Stokes, Lucy Bronze, Steph Houghton(C), Millie Bright, Rachel Daly, 74 (Alex Scott); Jordan Nobbs, 87 (Izzy Christiansen), Jade Moore, Jill Scott; Jodie Taylor, 54′ (Rachel Williams), Ellen White, 74 (Nikita Parris). 5-3-2
France Starting XI: Sarah Bouhaddi; Eve Perisset,(66 Wendie Renard), Laura Georges, Jessica Houara D’Hommeaux, Griedge Mbock Bathy, Amel Majri 83); Amandine Henry(C), Claire Lavogez, 61 (Camille Abily) Gaetane Thiney, 76 (Elodie Thomis), Grace Geyoro; Kadidialou Diani, 72 (Eugenie Le Sommer) Marie Laure Delie. 4-4-2
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Fresh Produce, Healthy Ideas at Community Market's "Green Wednesdays"
For lots of people, it's simply not summer without tasting fresh produce. However, trying to avoid produce that's covered in pesticides is a real concern for many families, but now you've got more options.
In just it's third year, "Green Market Wednesdays" at the Lynchburg Community Market have been thriving. It's an opportunity for only farmers to sell their freshest goods directly to the public. The Market's Director of Marketing Jennifer Kennedy says the Wednesday schedule gives only farmers a chance to sell their freshest goods. Kennedy says "We want to give farmers the opportunity to be able to go out and actually pick the produce for you that morning, so what you getting, is really, really fresh."
Starting two years ago with just two farm stands, Green Market Wednesdays has now grown to include nearly 15 farmers from around the area, with fresh fruits and vegetables to offer. Kennedy says it can be a great way for consumers to get to know the food, and their farmers, a bit better, continuing to say "Whether or not you have questions about, what their growing methods are, or maybe you want to exchange a recipe, you are literally talking to the person who cultivated it, picked it, and now is bringing it for you to take home to your dinner table.".
Many vendors offer produce with low, or no sprays involved. It's an experience that gives new meaning to the phrase "farm to table". The market has attracted several new vendors in recent weeks, including Barbara Reynolds from "The Secret Garden". With an array of fresh beets, potatoes, and several other offerings, Reynolds says it's an opportunity for people to explore what local farmers are growing, saying "They're deciding to eat a certain way, they're eating healthier, and that's what we believe in."
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After three hundred years of Spanish rule, and half a century in American rule one does not find the original Philippine culture but instead a new culture, with new customs, religions and music.
History[ edit ] s: Early years[ edit ] In the early s, as electric instruments and new technology became available, instrumental American and British bands like The Shadows and The Ventures flourished.
Induring the British Invasionbands such as The Beatles rose to mainstream audiences worldwide. Their widespread popularity and their embrace of the counterculture injected the possibility of socio-political lyrics with mature comments on real life into popular music.
Immensely influenced by this new breed of British artists, many Filipino bands began adopting similar musical styles. One of the first popular Filipino balladeers was Bobby Gonzales, whose major hit was "Hahabul-Habol".
Eddie Mesa, another teen idol from the period, became known as the "Elvis Presley of the Philippines".
Back then, many Filipinos referred to rock bands as "combos", many of which used nontraditional instruments like floor-bass bongos, maracas, and gas tanks. Manila Sound and classic Pinoy rock[ edit ] Into the early s, Filipino music was growing more nationalistic and socio-political in nature, as well as using Tagalog more often.
This helped innovate the so-called "Manila Sound". However, emerging social and political consciousness somehow creeped into the industry with the traditional allied genres that are folk and rock music. InFreddie Aguilar's debut single, " Anak ", became the most commercially successful Filipino recording in history.
The song became known also in other Asian countries and in Europe. Perhaps Asin, an ethnic-folk band, was the first commercial band to successfully bring a pro-environment song to the airwaves with "Masdan Mo ang Kapaligiran".
Also famous for providing subtle rebellious anti-Marcos dictatorship sentiment was growing at that time and peace messages behind its skillful vocal harmonizing, Asin gave the masses hits such as "Bayan Kong Sinilangan Cotabato " and "Balita".
Being influenced by the counterculture, the bands of the '70s were known to have never been sidelined commercially and sometimes took the center stage by storm. Howlin' Daveprovided the much-needed support and publicity to Pinoy rock during this era.
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The Dawn is another Pinoy rock band that emerged in the '80s; the songs that they created were influenced by new wave music and post-punk. The Dawn released their independently released single " Enveloped Ideas " in Many music journalists and enthusiasts, as well as musicians themselves, attributed the flourishing in the mid-'80s of new wave and post-punk influenced bands to DWXB-FMwhich began playing independently released singles of unsigned local bands.
Other bands emerged including Dean's December, Ethnic Faces, Identity Crisis and Violent Playground, all of which were able to record and release their respective albums in the years that followed. The group was established in July Guevara and Bobby Wuds Balingit were sing-along home boys that were born and bred in the streets of a tough Manila neighborhood.
Before forming the group, Guevera and Balingit had first created an acoustic folk singing group called Think God, playing covers of James Taylor and Crosby, Stills and Nash songs at various Shakey's Pizza parlors in the Philippines.
May Learn how and when to remove this template message During the start of the decade, The Hayp, Introvoys and AfterImage were among the prominent bands enjoying mainstream recognition. An underground music scene was already burgeoning in some unknown bars in Manila.
Red Rocks which later became Club Dreddtogether with Mayric's now Sazi's and Kampo Yosh in the mid '90swere the only venues where unsigned bands were allowed to play their own songs. The late s and early s marked the beginning of what was known as the era of underground rock and progressive music, with NU Its prestigious NU Rock Awards honored the Philippine rock industry's best and brightest for 17 years.
To add to the plight of the underground bands, radio stations would not play their music due to the payola system in the radio industry despite the fact that most of these bands, if not all, had self-produced indie albums. Pinoy rock enthusiasts were finally elated to hear their favorite underground bands ruling the airwaves.
The commercial success of Eraserheads paved the way for more Pinoy rock acts such as RivermayaSiakolRizal Underground and The Youth getting record deals. Rappers crossed over with great success Francis M with Hardware Syndrome and Erectusdespite some earlier controversy with hip hop-bashing allegedly incited by some artists.
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To very few people’s surprise, Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin announced that he is gay. What I found interesting regarding this news is the extremely varied reactions people have upon his coming out.
Most people. “Duh!” “In other news, CNN declares that the sky is blue." "His closet must’ve had glass doors.” “The only news is the fact that this is news.”
Naive people. “OMG! I can’t believe Ricky Martin is gay!”
Cynics. “He just wants the attention to boost his faltering career.” “This is a publicity stunt. Nothing more.”
Positive LGBT rights activists. “His coming out is a big deal since it will serve as an inspiration for countless LGBT people and a means to help end discrimination and hate in the U.S. and especially Latin America, where homophobia still reigns supreme.”
Grammar Nazis. “Ricky, it’s ‘were’ not ‘where’!”
Clueless. “Why is this a big deal? All of these coming out stories are so overrated. It doesn’t matter what people do behind their bedroom door.”
Loyal fans. “We’re so proud of you, Ricky!”
Negative LGBT rights activists. “He should have come out at the peak of his career when he could have made a bigger impact to the gay community, not now when he has nothing else to lose.”
Extremist Bible thumpers. “God hates fags and God hates Ricky Martin. He will burn in hell.”
Local showbizmongers. “Piolo, you’re next!”
So, what do you think? While I wasn’t surprised (c’mon, those pictures of him at the beach in Speedos with an equally hunky guy and his having twins via a surrogate pregnancy are damning evidence), I think that this will have a huge positive impact on the acceptance of LGBT people worldwide. It’s just too bad that coming out has to be an issue at all. I can’t wait for the day when one’s sexuality is no longer something newsworthy.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
I have restored the My Love Story!! main page back to public view after Photobucket's TOS change. (gone through 467 lines of HTML code and replaced 35 images links)
Monday, June 26, 2017
- Added 100 images to the gallery. In my recent estimate, there are 6119 Ore Monogatari images on my account, so it's going to take some time to transfer them to the gallery.
Friday, June 23, 2017
- working on adding meta tags on the website.
- made minor adjustments to the image gallery
regarding height of the background cover.
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
- the OM logo above has been linked to the changelog.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
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layout has been finished. Populating the website with more pages will be next.
- Reshuffled the downloads and gallery links on the top navigation bar. Adjusted the downloads and gallery section on this front page. Link to the gallery has been established.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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As you probably know, the Golden Globes were last night. While many of the categories went the way that they'd been expected to, there were a few surprises. Although a Golden Globe win doesn't always directly translate into an Oscar, there are a few things we can take from the show last night that will help with handicapping the Oscar race.
- As a result of her 2 Golden Globe wins last night, Kate Winslet's chances just got that much stronger. She'd already cemented herself in the Supporting race, but now I think her chances in the Best Actress race are a lot better now. She's still going to have to go through Sally Hawkins and Meryl Streep, but it is possible.
- The stigma against deceased actors winning Oscars got a little smaller with Heath Ledger's win at the Globes last night.
- In case you hadn't already realized it, Slumdog Millionaire is now the heavy favorite in the Best Picture and Best Director races. There's still a ton of time between now and the Oscar telecast on February 22, but all the momentum is its corner. Consider this: Slumdog Millionaire won 4 Golden Globes last night. Frost/Nixon: 0. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 0. Doubt: 0. Those are some heavy duty competitors, and Slumdog held every last one of 'em off.
We'll see . . .


The huge bill has been angrily attacked as “ludicrous” and “eye-watering” by Scottish politicians, who point out that the money could be used instead to build dozens of schools or hospitals. But the MoD insisted it represented “best possible value” for taxpayers.
The UK defence minister, Philip Dunne, told MPs that a total of £13 billion had been earmarked over the next decade for “maintaining the Trident strategic weapons system including costs associated with the nuclear warhead.” That amounts to 18 per cent of the MoD's entire £72 billion equipment support programme.
According to the Scottish National Party (SNP), about £1 billion of the £13 billion is due to come from taxpayers in Scotland if they remain part of the UK. That money could be used instead to build 125 new primary schools, or 20 new community hospitals, it says (see table below).
A further £1.6 billion of the defence equipment budget had been allocated for “nuclear propulsion”, Dunne said. This will include the costs of running the reactors that power the four Vanguard-class submarines that carry Trident missiles, as well as those that drive conventionally armed Astute submarines.


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Princess Beatrice revealed that she’s expecting her first child with her casual nobleman husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi yesterday, and apparently everyone’s spiraling over the timing of her announcement. You know, because yesterday also happened to be Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s three-year wedding anniversary? Pretty sure two pieces of happy news can exist at the same time, but a “highly placed source” tells Page Six that the timing of Beatrice’s announcement was some sort of “dig” at the Sussexes over some past drama at Princess Eugenie’s wedding.
“It was a total dig at Harry and Meghan,” said highly placed source notes. “They stole Eugenie’s thunder on her big day, after all, and it appears that has not been forgotten.”
Meanwhile, another source notes that Harry and Meghan get along extremely well with Eugenie (she lives at their home, Frogmore cottage!) but admits the timing is weird: “Beatrice and Eugenie do really like Harry and Meghan, but Beatrice must have known what the timing would look like, surely?”
By the way, if this wedding drama is brand new information to you, Meghan and Harry reportedly told some members of the royal family about their first pregnancy at Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding. As biography Finding Freedom notes “It did not go down particularly well with Eugenie, who, a source said, told friends she felt the couple should have waited to share the news.”
I mean…for all we know Beatrice checked in with Meghan and Harry about the timing and they had no issue whatsoever with it. Just saying!!!
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The Symphony #2 of Franz Schmidt (written in 1913) is a pleasant, rather bubbly but disjointed romantic work which however, to be honest, is nowhere near musically as fine as his Symphony #4, which he wrote some twenty years later and for which he is far more likely to be known (see: Zubin Mehta's classic Decca recording with the Vienna Philharmonic.)
Although the second symphony as played here is generally well done by Stefan Blunier leading the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, the SACD recording is miked too distantly from the players to adequately reveal much of the bucolic instrumental detail, and Blunier's pacing also unfortunately emphasizes the occasional plodding nature of the second movement variations. (Neeme Järvi for example, in his performance with the Chicago Symphony, on Chandos is almost 2 minutes faster.) Indeed, overall Järvi's quicker pacing throughout helps the entire work.
BUT - call me perverse if you like - I have to recommend this disc none-the-less - for the sensational performance of Richard Strauss' Festival Prelude. Long one of my favorite concert curtain raisers, this is one of the greatest demo pieces ever written, and maybe predictably, here the SACD engineers do themselves proud. Blunier and the Beethoven Orchestra could be giving Ludwig the ultimate Lazarus wake-up call to return to the living. WOW! Together with the organ accompaniment, they play the lights out of this rousing piece. Forget the opening of "Also Sprach Zarathutra," although rarely performed this Prelude is maybe Strauss' finest bravura showpiece for brass, organ. and orchestra.


Fast Algorithm for Planning Optimal Platoon Speeds on Highway
2014 (English)In: Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014, International Federation of Automatic Control , 2014Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
To meet policy requirements on increased transport energy eciency and reduced emissions, smart control and management of vehicles and eets have become important for the development of eco-friendly intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The emergence of new information and communication technologies and their applications, particularly vehicle to vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, facilitates the implementation of autonomous vehicle concepts, and meanwhile serves as an eective means for control of vehicle eet by continuously providing support and guidance to drivers. While convoy driving of trucks by longitudinal automation could save 5-15% of fuel consumption due to the reduction of airdrag resistance, this study attempts to investigate the energy saving potential of truck platoons by intelligent speed planning. Assuming that real-time trac information is available because of communication, an ecient speed control algorithm is proposed based on optimal control theory. The method is faster than the conventional dynamic programming approach and hence applied in the study to analyze energy saving potential of simple platoon operations including acceleration and deceleration. The numerical result shows signicant improvement on energy saving due to speed planning during platooning. It can be further applied for more complex platooning operations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
International Federation of Automatic Control , 2014.
, World Congress, ISSN 1474-6670 ; Volume19 | Part 1
Platooning operations, speed planning, acceleration and deceleration, adaptive cruise control, optimization
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154520ISBN: 978-3-902823-62-5OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-154520DiVA: diva2:757248
The 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control,24 to 29 August 2014, Cape Town, South Africa
QC 201411072014-10-212014-10-212015-01-29Bibliographically approved


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Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD Takes Position in Veeva Systems Inc. (VEEV)
Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD purchased a new position in Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE:VEEV) during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund purchased 7,291 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $447,000.
A number of other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. LS Investment Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Veeva Systems during the second quarter worth approximately $105,000. Huntington National Bank increased its stake in shares of Veeva Systems by 10.6% in the second quarter. Huntington National Bank now owns 2,668 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $164,000 after buying an additional 256 shares during the period. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA increased its stake in shares of Veeva Systems by 135.6% in the first quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA now owns 3,809 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $195,000 after buying an additional 2,192 shares during the period. Capstone Asset Management Co. bought a new stake in shares of Veeva Systems during the second quarter valued at about $202,000. Finally, Pennsylvania Trust Co bought a new stake in shares of Veeva Systems during the second quarter valued at about $203,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 79.24% of the company’s stock.
Shares of Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE VEEV) opened at 59.91 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $8.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 96.47 and a beta of 1.63. Veeva Systems Inc. has a 52-week low of $36.55 and a 52-week high of $68.07. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $62.83 and a 200-day moving average of $54.48.
Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 25th. The technology company reported $0.14 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $157.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $151.82 million. Veeva Systems had a return on equity of 12.28% and a net margin of 15.86%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 31.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.15 earnings per share. Equities analysts expect that Veeva Systems Inc. will post $0.83 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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VEEV has been the subject of several research reports. Stifel Nicolaus restated a “buy” rating and set a $67.00 price objective (up from $60.00) on shares of Veeva Systems in a research report on Sunday, May 21st. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Veeva Systems from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $53.00 to $68.00 in a research report on Monday, June 5th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and set a $75.00 price objective (up from $48.00) on shares of Veeva Systems in a research report on Sunday, May 28th. Bank of America Corporation upgraded shares of Veeva Systems from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $48.00 to $70.00 in a research report on Friday, May 26th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Veeva Systems from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $75.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Wednesday, May 31st. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $62.00.
In related news, SVP Jonathan Faddis sold 34,065 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $66.67, for a total value of $2,271,113.55. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 35,139 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,342,717.13. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, EVP Alan Mateo sold 8,025 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $56.57, for a total transaction of $453,974.25. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 14,445 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $817,153.65. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 292,258 shares of company stock valued at $18,468,436. 19.17% of the stock is owned by insiders.
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Veeva Systems Inc (Veeva) is a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the global life sciences industry. The Company offers solutions for a range of requirements within life sciences companies, including multichannel customer relationship management, regulated content and information management, master data management and customer data.
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Will 2005 be the year that the U.S. economy finally stages a full recovery? Don’t hold your breath, the findings of a new survey of CFOs suggest.
Indeed, chief financial officers of U.S. corporations are less bullish about the economy in 2005 and are particularly concerned about health-care costs and intense competition According to the Duke University/CFO Magazine Business Outlook survey.
They also rank the budget deficit and Iraq at the top of a list of items on which President Bush should focus during his second term. And executives at 36 percent of the companies surveyed report that fears about domestic terrorism are significantly affecting their bottom lines.
The Business Outlook survey asks CFOs from a broad range of public and private companies about their economic projections. The most recent study was concluded Dec. 5 and generated responses from 308 executives.
The survey asked executives to choose the top four items, from a list of 12, on which President Bush should focus his attention during his second term. More than two-thirds of the CFOs believe that addressing the U.S. budget deficit should be at the top of the president’s list, while another 65 percent think the situation in Iraq should be a top priority. Health-care costs, Social Security and tax-code reforms, and homeland security are other top priorities; each was chosen as one of the top four items by about 40 percent of the executives.
“This is a tall list of priorities that demand the president’s attention,” said John Graham, professor of finance at Duke and director of the survey. “But several notable items do not rank as priorities. Fewer than one-fourth of CFOs believe that the president’s top priorities should include improving relations with allies, the trade deficit, the weakness of the U.S. dollar, or high oil prices. Lack of concern about high fuel prices carries through to corporate activities, as only one in five of the companies we surveyed has implemented strategies to reduce fuel consumption.”
The survey also asked executives to choose the top four risks to their companies during 2005, again out of a list of 12. Two-thirds of CFOs list health-care costs as one of their top concerns, and another 56 percent list intense competition as one of their fears. Slightly more than 40 percent are concerned about the price of fuel and rising interest rates.
Concerns about domestic terrorism have declined since last quarter, but the survey’s business terrorism index shows that the possibility of an attack is hurting business results. Researchers for the survey asked CFOs to rank on a scale from 0 to 100 the negative impact that the threat of terrorism is having on their bottom line (where zero means no impact and 100 indicates maximum negative impact). While the terrorism index currently stands at 19.4, 36 percent of firms say the threat of terrorism is significantly affecting their bottom line.
After robust growth this fall, employment gains appear to have stalled. CFOs expect employment to grow only 0.8 percent in 2005, down from 3.1 percent predicted last quarter. Also, health-care costs are expected to rise 8.4 percent.
Despite those concerns, the survey results indicate that the bottom line should fare moderately well next year, with earnings expected to increase by 11 percent. Moreover, just over half of the executives say they are more optimistic about the economy, and their firms, than they were last quarter.
“All of these numbers are down from last quarter, and other predictions are even less favorable,” noted Graham. “Capital spending is expected to grow only at a ‘replacement level’ of 3.8 percent, and tech spending will increase just 4.9 percent. Worse still, the CFOs say, advertising and marketing expenditures will rise by only 2.3 percent, which is less than half of the growth predicted in last quarter’s survey.
“In addition, outsourced employment is expected to rise at more than half of the firms we surveyed, with the increase in outsourced employment expected to increase 4.3 percent. Finally, CFOs are significantly less bullish than Wall Street about the prospects for economic growth: respondents forecast a GDP growth rate of 2.8 percent, compared with Wall Street’s consensus forecast of 3.3 percent,” he said.
The survey also asked CFOs how much employees should expect from year-end bonuses this year. The average bonus will exceed last year’s by about 10 percent—and will represent about 11.5 percent of annual wages. Although the average bonus will increase, it will be bigger at only about half of companies. Bonuses will decline at one in five firms, the researchers found.


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By Daniel J. Vance MS, LPCC
Seven years ago, 44-year-old Wisconsinite Keith Buisse was outside doing what many people in his area of the country enjoy in winter: snowmobiling.
In a telephone interview, Buisse said, “I was on a snowmobile, going probably 110 miles an hour, and hit an open field where my handle hit some dirt chunks under the snow. The snowmobile suddenly was going straight up to heaven and I knew it was going to land on top of me. So I pushed off and landed on my elbow and lower back. I slid for a long ways and after stopping did a body check. My arms and head were okay, but my back hurt. I went to touch my legs and it was like touching the ground. There was no feeling.”
Buisse was paralyzed from the waist down, permanently.
What happened next was entirely unpredictable. He said, “I don’t think people believe me, but when I say now I don’t wish this not to have happened, I really mean it. People can’t imagine why I am fine (with having paralysis). The reason I accept it is because it has brought me closer to God. We’re on Earth only a short time. I’ll be here only 25 or 50 years, but I’ll be in heaven trillions of years after that. I’m a very positive person and people can see how this doesn’t affect me.”
Before the snowmobile accident, Buisse was a printing and publishing industry salesperson. About 15 months ago, he started a small business, Wheels Small Engine Repair, in Racine, Wisconsin. He and two employees fix small engines in push lawn mowers, riding mowers, and snow blowers. The name “Wheels” refers to his manual wheelchair, which he uses to get around the business.
He said, “I’m perfectly fine from the waist up.” Business has been going well.
In terms of advice, he said of people recently paralyzed due to injury, “They need to accept it. Those that don’t accept it tend to have a harder time getting through life. They often make their whole life about (their paralysis) and can’t get past it. But by accepting it, you can get beyond. One of the first things I ask (an affected person) is where their faith is. I got through because of my faith and belief in prayer. Without that, I could have become a bitter and angry person.”
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Samsung today provided a glimpse of what the Galaxy S10 will offer with the introduction of its new Exynos 9820 chip.
The new silicon is designed to run AI-driven applications through the help of a dedicated "neural processing unit" or NPU on board. This allows the chip to perform AI task about seven times faster than the last-generation Exynos 9810 chip, Samsung said in a press release.
So expect faster processing times when using the company's voice assistant, Bixby. Samsung has been pushing hard to make the technology competitive with Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant. The goal is to create a whole ecosystem of devices, such as home appliances, that will work over Bixby.
"With the NPU, AI-related processing can be carried out directly on the device rather than sending the task to a server, providing faster performance as well as better security of personal information," Samsung added. The NPU will also power AI tasks over your camera so that it can recognise objects and automatically adjust the photo-shooting settings based on the surrounding light.
The Exynos 9820, which features eight CPUs, also promises to be faster than its predecessor. Samsung isn't saying what the new chip has been clocked at, but it's built with an 8-nanometer manufacturing process, allowing Samsung to pack more transistors on the processor.
As result, the new chip can offer a 15 to 20 percent performance increase over the Exynos 9810. The next-generation silicon can also consume up to 10 percent less power.
But one area where the chip will disappoint is the lack of an integrated 5G modem. The Exynos 9820 chip comes with a still fast LTE modem capable of 2 gigabits per second download speeds, and 316Mbps upload speeds.
In terms of camera performance, Samsung designed the Exynos 9820 to record 8K video at 30 frames per second. The chip can also record 4K video at up to 150fps.
The Exynos 9820 will go into mass production by year's end. However, Samsung has generally used Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors when selling its flagship handset in the US. Reportedly, Qualcomm will make a new announcement about an upcoming Snapdragon processor next month. The company has also designed a 5G modem capable of 5 gigabit-per-second speeds that can paired with its chips.


The simple fact is that any Budget gains will be hit by motor premium increases
In their article for the Irish Independent on October 9, Insurance Ireland ironically confirm my point that €1bn of what policyholders pay for motor and liability insurance is not accounted for in published data on personal injury claims which we are told are the cause of increased charges.
What this means for consumers is that we have no transparency on the 24pc price increase over the past year nor on the further 20pc increase signalled over the next year by some insurers.
In simple figures for a family budget, a €600 motor premium will be increased by nearly €300 after levies paid to the Exchequer. For many people that extra cost will significantly erode what they hope the Government can deliver in the Budget.
It is necessary to restate the known facts.
From the website of the Central Bank we can see the annual publication of insurers' statutory returns. These show the totals (only) of payments on claims along with relative premium income for motor and liability at a net total of €1.4bn (Tables 15 & 17) in 2014.
If you go to the website of the Courts Service you can see on page 42 of the 2014 annual report that the total of all Court awards last year was €169m.Even if we were to pretend that every one of the 1,527 Court awards fell to be paid by members of Insurance Ireland (although readers will know that many multi-millions euro cases relate to medical negligence will falls on the State and in turn the taxpayer) the value of those awards would equate to 12pc of premium.
Insurance Ireland estimate, on what they call a 'generous' basis, that 20pc of claims payments is accounted for by PIAB injury awards. Why is there a need to estimate, generous or otherwise? If you go to the website of the Injuries Board you will find the PIAB 2014 annual report.
On page 23 it clearly gives the value of accepted awards for motor and liability claims at €166m with a delivery cost of €11m making a total of €177m. That would account for another 12pc of premium.
So above amounts of €169m and €177m total €346m, which equates to 24pc of premium, relate to published records on injury compensation awards. That is being generous in terms of accountability since medical negligence and many other Court awards against organs of the State do not relate to these insurers.
Insurance Ireland have, however, added another piece to the jigsaw of motor claims costs as they (to quote) "estimates that 25pc relates to vehicles in all of the motor accidents that happen every day". Why the estimate? Do they not know?
In the same article Insurance Ireland say 'The Central Bank requires detailed and frequent returns from insurers, including detailed claims returns, and they publish these annually". I'm sorry but I cannot find those details, other than the totals of payments in and out as referred to above from Tables 15 and 17.
What you can find, however, on the Central Bank website is their letter of October 7, 2011, to non-life insurers after inspections by the Regulator of over 6,000 injury files. To that letter was attached an Appendix with 16 headings of data insurers should be recording. While making very clear than not all insurers were at fault, the Central Bank expressed concern that "certain data provided initially by a number of insurers was either incomplete or not in the format requested by the Central Bank". The Motor Insurance Advisory Board [MIAB] had similar issues with insurer data during their investigation. No doubt that has all been resolved by now.
For clarity, the MIAB was 'stood down' in 2004 and I retired from PIAB on April 3, 2014, so I do not have a brief for either of those organisations.
However, it saddens me to see that half of the hard-won 40pc premium savings that were delivered to consumers over a decade of investments in reforms is being eroded so quickly. We can ill afford this backward step as we rebuild the economy. Far from my being "in denial about the existence of a crisis" as asserted by Insurance Ireland, I am acutely aware of it. I also readily recall the previous crisis which preceded the 2002 MIAB report after insurance costs had increased by 81pc subsequent to the previous jurisdictional increases. What that MIAB investigation found, compared to what insurers might have wanted to focus on solely, was quite complex. Matters are unlikely to be more simple now and it might be wise to test the reasons we are being given today.
Back in 2002 among the more straightforward solutions which were devised by MIAB included reducing barriers to motor policyholders moving from one insurance company to a better value one.
A subsequent survey found that 80pc of policyholders who switched providers made savings. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission found in March this year that "for comprehensive cover the difference in quotes received was found to be between €156 and €1,249" and those details are posted on their website.
It seems the only action consumers can take right now is to shop around while we await transparency. Perhaps thereafter, armed with hard data, Government action will be taken to design appropriate reforms to halt the upward spiral of whatever is behind the recent price increases?
Dorethea Dowling was chairwoman of the Injuries Board for 10 years until she retired last year. She is also a former head of claims for the CIE group


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According to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, 2,119 companies operating in the country’s solid minerals industry were indebted to the federation to the tune of over N2.76billion.
NEITI disclosed this in its latest report of the mining sector for the year 2020, noting that Nigeria earned N624.45bn from the industry in 13 years.
The agency stated that the companies’ liabilities resulted from failure on the part of the 2,119 firms to pay statutory annual service fees for various mineral titles.
It said 6,010 existing solid mineral titles were valid as of December 31, 2020, while 7,605 mining titles were issued in the industry in the past five years.
The NEITI report, which was presented multi-stakeholders in Abuja by the agency’s Executive Secretary, Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, indicated that the total revenue contributions from the sector in 2020 rose to N128.27bn, an increase of over 54 per cent from the N74.85bn recorded in 2019 despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NEITI report also revealed that the sum of N8.89bn was shared among the federating units as solid minerals revenue in 2020.
A breakdown of the figure showed that the Federal Government received N4.07bn (45.83 per cent), states and Local Governments received N2.07bn and N1.59bn (23.25 per cent; 17.92 per cent) respectively, while N1.16bn (13 per cent) was recorded as derivation share.
The NEITI Independent Solid Minerals Industry Report tracked and reconciled financial flows in the sector, checked quantities of minerals produced, utilised and exported in 2020. It also examined the governance and process issues in the sector, outlined key findings and made recommendations that required urgent remedies.


At a Ramallah press conference, Tirawi said that the brother of Hamas spokesman in the Strip was listed to commit a suicide attack in Israel.
However, shortly before he was to be sent on the mission, the spokesman called the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and demanded that they put off his brother's operation.
"We arrested the brother before he carried out the attack and managed to smuggle him into the Gaza Strip," he said.
Tirawi at Sunday's press conference in Ramallah. (Photo: AFP)
Tirawi rejected allegations that Fatah activists had killed Hamas operatives in the West Bank. He stated that investigations among the Palestinian security forces revealed that several members had been killed over the last few weeks because of internal conflicts within the movement.
He added that Fatah was not cooperating with Israel. He called on Hamas to name any Hamas member who was assassinated by the security forces.
"I dare Hamas to tell the world how their senior members Abu Shanab, Makadmeh, al-Ghul, and "the Engineer" Yihyeh Ayash were killed. Let the Hamasniks reveal who told the Israelis that the commander of their military branch, Salah Shehade, would be in his Gaza home when it was bombarded," he challenged Hamas.
Tirawi said that Israel managed to assassinate these Palestinians after infiltrating the Hamas ranks. He also mentioned that members of the Palestinian security forces hid Hamas members from the Israelis.
"Ask Muhammad Deif where he hid throughout the intifada. We are a national organization that works for Palestinian interests, and Hamas' claims as if we are cooperating with Israel are a moral collapse of the movement, aimed at covering up their own crimes against the legal authority."
In addition to the wave of Hamas militants' arrests in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority is preparing to take over all the movement's non-profit organization and charities. If they succeed, it will be a fatal blow to Hamas and its political branch, which is considered the movement's strong point, through which it recruits many members and supporters.
Palestinian official: do not believe Abbas
On the other side, other Palestinian Authority senior members are calling upon Israel not to believe Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Spokesman of the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Haniyeh's dismissed government, Abu Halal, who has meanwhile retired from Fatah and formed a splinter movement, Fatah el Yasser, named after Yasser Arafat, appealed to Israel not to place its bets on Mahmoud Abbas at the four-way summit scheduled for Monday in Sharm al-Sheikh.
"Israel should not gamble on an authority and a government that were not capable of defending themselves," he said. "How do you expect it to protect you and provide your security?"
He added that "Israel's government is strong and making false promises, based on threats." He also said that neither Olmert's government nor the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas would bring security for Israel.
He called for a change in Israeli policy and emphasized that there was no chance for peace in the Middle East as long as Israel, he said, continued its crimes against Palestinians.


2010 Mustang GT Bolt-On Buildup - Turning Wrenches
Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords Adds 40 RWHP To A 2010 Mustang GT With Simple Bolt-Ons.
Since the invention of the automobile, people have been finding ways to improve performance. As the car has evolved, so have the parts and the engineering that goes into them. When it comes to building a powerful street-car, the Mustang stands out as a solid foundation for enthusiasts and racers to build monster hot rods.
The Mustang has always been a fan favorite when it came time for performance modifications. The 5.0Ls of the late '80s and early '90s responded so well to basic bolt-ons, there wasn't much reason for the normal enthusiast to take things further.
Fastforward 20 years or so and the Mustang still serves as a great foundation for a new generation of performance enthusiasts. Although the ideals of the Mustang faithful haven't changed much over the years, Ford has stepped up its game considerably, improving the Mustang's power and handling, as well as its efficiency, giving us an incredibly fun-to-drive, reliable Pony. Being that we are now faced with a Mustang designed around power and efficiency, it's getting quite difficult to improve upon what we get off the showroom floor without spending buckets of cash.
With the 2010 model year rolling in, a new Mustang has hit dealerships. The all-new version of the Pony comes with a massive push from the Mustang aftermarket, and MM&FF jumped at the chance to play with Ford's latest ponycar. We headed down to Blow-By Racing (BBR) in Boca Raton, Florida, to follow along as Chris Jones and Matt Frith threw some basic bolt-ons at BBR's newest shop car.
Matt Frith of Lake Worth, Florida, bought this silver '10 Mustang with the intention of using it as an R&D tool at BBR, where he works as a mechanic. With a mere 2,500 miles on the clock, Jones and Frith tore into the Three-Valve to see what kind of power was available with the newest versions of the tried and true bolt-on performance parts. The day started with a baseline on BBR's Dynojet chassis dyno. Although the air conditions were less than favorable for making power, Frith's '10 spun the rollers to a respectable baseline of 269 rwhp with 296 lb-ft of torque.
Jones' first order of business was setting the tune. Using an SCT XCal3, he adjusted timing and fuel curves, and made a few other slight changes to improve driveability. The end result was a gain of just under 9 rwhp at peak with a consistent gain of no less than 7 rwhp across the entire rpm range.
Next on the list was a set of underdrive pulleys from Steeda. The kit comes with a new crank and water pump pulleys, and reduces accessory drive speed by about 25 percent. The pulleys have a great OE fit and finish, and install in no time. After reinstalling the serpentine belt, our '10 spun the rollers to just under 287 rwhp and 304 lb-ft of torque, netting us a gain just shy of 10 rwhp and 8 lb-ft of torque.
Being that Frith's Mustang is going to see plenty of track time, the guys at BBR chose an electric water pump as the next step in our bolt-on buildup. Meziere Enterprises supplied one of its modular Ford electric water pumps and a wiring kit. This installation is definitely something the average backyard mechanic could tackle with simple hand tools. The pump itself is a direct replacement for the stock piece and the wiring is quite simple with Meziere's wiring installation kit. It also has an idler pulley in the design so there is no need for different length belts.
With our '10 Mustang back at 160 degrees, Jones made another pull on the Dynojet. The addition of the electric water pump freed up 3 rwhp, bringing our total number to 289. "I was extremely surprised to see such a minimal gain from the Meziere pump," explains Jones. "We install these pumps all the time, and this is the first time we haven't seen at least an 11 rwhp gain." Even without the usual gain, Meziere's electric water pump is still a must for anyone who runs open-track days, autocrosses, or drag races. The added cooling benefits of constant water flow make this simple bolt-on invaluable the first time you need to keep your engine cool on a hot day.
As Ford stepped up power with the redesigned '10 Mustang, the GT now comes stock with a cold-air intake from the factory. This coupled with a few calibration changes has boosted the factory output from 305 hp to 315 hp. With this in mind, Jones and Frith decided to see what improvements could be made over the stock airbox. After a quick trip to the parts room, Jones emerged with a BBR GT500 throttle body and adapter plate, and quickly replaced the stock piece.
After a call to JLT Performance, Jay Tucker informed us that its '10 cold-air intakes were still in development. By the time this issue hits newsstands, JLT will have released an all-new 101 mm cold-air kit for the 2010 Mustang GT. This left us with two options-either leave the stock airbox or customize one of JLT's '09 kits looking for whatever gains we could find. Not ones to leave well enough alone, we unboxed the '09 kit and made a few changes to accommodate the engine bay of the '10. The '09 JLT cold-air kit replaces the airbox and intake tube and provides an 89mm MAF housing replacing the stock 86mm unit. The kit reuses the stock MAF sensor, which slips into the larger housing.
After a quick change in the tune, Jones was ready to make another pull on the dyno. Our test confirmed the efficiency of the stock cold-air setup as we only saw gains slightly under 4 rwhp and 2 lb-ft of torque, bringing our totals to 292 and 309. A second call to JLT reaffirmed that the '09 kit would not produce the gains seen on previous Three-Valves, and the new 101mm set would give us the numbers we wanted.
To finish off our mods on the topside of Frith's '10, Steeda sent us a set of its charge motion delete plugs. These billet-aluminum pieces replace the butterflies in the intake runners and allow for unrestricted airflow into the cylinder heads. Once the intake manifold is removed, the linkage assembly is removed from the backside of the intak, along with the butterflies. The guide clips are reinstalled on the new plugs, which slip right into the bottom side of the manifold. This requires changes in the tune and Jones was quick to reflash the ECM.
With another quick pull of the dyno, our 2010 was now pumping out 296 rwhp and 310 lb-ft of torque. Although we showed a slight gain across most of the rpm range, the full 4-rwhp gain was seen at the top of the rpm range.
After finishing the mods under the hood, Jones and Frith put the car in the air and turned their attention to the exhaust. Jones pulled a Magnaflo x-style midpipe off the shelf, and American Muscle sent us a Roush high-performance axle-back exhaust system. Both pieces are a direct replacement for the factory parts and fit perfectly.
With the exhaust off the car, it was the perfect time to upgrade the shifter. A call to Roush Performance scored us one of its '10 short-throw shifter assemblies, along with a billet shift handle, white knob, and new leather boot. The transmission was lowered and Frith quickly swapped shifters before installing the new exhaust pieces. Once the underside of the Stang was buttoned up and the tailpipes were aligned, Jones rowed through the gears, spinning the rollers to 309 rwhp and 325 lb-ft of torque.
After a lengthy day on the dyno, Blow-By Racing added 40 rwhp and just under 30 lb-ft of torque to a stock '10 Mustang GT with nothing more than simple bolt-on performance parts. "When the car was in stock trim, it was decent but definitely had room for improvement," Frith added. "The difference with all of the new parts is night and day. The car feels like it accelerates twice as hard."
Although the gains we've seen are not what they would have been 15 or 20 years ago, our base is leaps and bounds better than the Mustangs of yesteryear. Ford's effort to make the new Mustang a more efficient muscle car has definitely given consumers a much better starting point to build power, and the basic bolt-ons are still a great place to start.


(Wall Street Journal) — This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here. Ms. Barham just left. And she’s not coming back. In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned. Still, she defied friends’ pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog.


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Patna : `A Ray of Hope’, an NGO engaged in welfare of poor and downtrodden children, celebrated Deepawali festival with the children of slums at Kankarbagh colony, Patna on Sunday.
`A Ray of Hope’ members visited the slums colony near Kankarbagh Police station, Fire Brigade centre and Doctors’ colony and distributed sweets, biscuits, crackers among over 125 children, all members of the deprived classes. Children enjoyed Deepawali by dancing with them and shouting Happy Deepwali. Last year, the organisation had celebrated the Deepawali festival in the company of slums children of Patna Junction roundabout.


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Texas Rock Guitarist John E. Davis is the former CEO and Lead Music Instructor at the Texas Guitar School in Arlington, Texas.


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I devoured this book as if the pages themselves were on fire...an end of the world
tale with a blazing heart of hope at its core. A contender for book of the year
Joe Hill really could set the world on fire with this book: cleverly imagined and a compulsive read (Katherine Cowdrey, The Bookseller)
Joe Hill has always been good, but he's created something incandescent here,
soaring and original. He's a master storyteller who writes with fire in his veins
'Very well-drawn characters, some serious shocks, a great sense of humour and a willingness to break hearts as well as raise pulse rates.' (SciFiNow)
I would put money on this being huge. Can't put it down (Sam Baker, The Pool)
You'll be instantly hooked if you're obsessed with The Walking Dead. It's got the whole post-apocalyptic world nailed...there is a brilliant humour amid the darkness, and the action scenes feel like a movie (Cosmopolitan)
Taps into fears we all have about the world coming to an end, as Donald Trump stokes the fires of racial hatred in America, wars continue across the planet and diseases such as Zika and Ebola spread with shocking speed. (The Mail on Sunday)
Hill's writing has matured along with his ideas. He plays out the apocalypse so quickly and efficiently, through small-town witnesses and television broadcasts, that it feels absolutely devastating. And in the aftermath, he juggles a huge cast of characters with aplomb, giving each their time to shine, yet still managing to keep the tension high throughout (The Guardian)
Original, compulsive and very frightening (Woman & Home)
The NUMBER ONE New York Times Bestselling novel
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.
The fireman is coming. Stay cool.