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Old-fashioned whodunnit mysteries are all about who gets arrested at the end of the story. Sometimes it’s more interesting to ask who triggered the arrest, and what their game plan is.
In early July, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, who is running the phone hacking inquiry in Britain for the Metropolitan Police, revealed that in mid-May News Corporation’s Management and Standards Committee, run by Will Lewis, had stopped co-operating with police.
This breakdown seemed to coincide with charges being laid against former News International chief Rebekah Brooks. After the MSC resumed providing information to police in mid-June, News Corp counsel Gerson Zweifach took over running it.
This defensive move came as Akers signalled that the Crown Prosecution Service was looking at charges for “both individual and corporate offences". This could put News International and directors including
It’s in this context that police arrested the former head of the News of the World legal department, Tom Crone, “on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept communications". Reportedly this followed information that the MSC had passed to police.
Naturally the only sensible conclusion is that this is a ghastly misunderstanding, and time will show Crone emerging undaunted and unsullied.
It’s only the scurrilous who would ponder any other motives and effects that might be at play.
In any case against News International or its directors, Crone would seem to be a key witness. Of course if he is facing criminal charges himself this could affect his credibility.
On the other hand, most conspiracy cases depend upon one or more alleged conspirators rolling over. Sometimes this happens after charges have been laid.
There is another factor that comes into play because as a company lawyer, much of Crone’s correspondence could be held to be privileged legal advice that prosecutors cannot use or even see.
However, if charges are laid that Crone was part of a conspiracy, then it seems possible that the veil of legal privilege may be breached for anything that related to the alleged conspiracy. In fact that might open up a great deal of correspondence that has not yet seen the light of day.
The Australian Financial Review


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In case you wondered…
What makes Burning Silk a Reinhabitory Novel?
I had been waiting for someone to ask the question. David Simpson did.
What makes Burning Silk a reinhabitory novel and further, what makes the book ideal to introduce sitio/tiempo press? The first book should set a bar.
True, Burning Silk is fiction, while most of our writings have been poetry and nonfiction. And it features a female protagonist and a strong sensory coda. And yet Burning Silk, the first in the Textile Trilogy, is a reinhabitory novel through and through.
Adaptation to the watershed
In the voice of a member of the silkmakers’ family, the book quotes Zenuemon of Japan as their guide: “Quality of silkseed and filament can only be improved by gradually adapting a strain of moth to regional climactic and geographic conditions.” The story documents a rare instance in the history of raising silk, of moving a domesticated silkmoth to a different continent, to acclimate to a different and unique home watershed. The Duladiers, a French Huguenot silkmaking family, collaborate with their native American neighbors on the Delaware watershed to find a native silkmoth to mate successfully with their domesticated one, a risky venture that could accelerate acclimatization.
Assimilation and differing ways-of-life
This not-very-subtle metaphor is echoed between the native and European families, who also have a metis child incubating in the womb by the end of thebook. And in a syndrome that has historically plagued metis communities, problems arise between the cultures. In the second book in the Textile Trilogy, Linen Shroud, conflict also arises between the Iroquois warrior societies and Quaker pacifists regarding participation in the American Civil War. And there’s a third element: the women of the silk worship a female deity, The Black Madonna, who–cruel when necessary–abhors war.
All of these conflicts are strongly reinhabitory, as we witness the differences in ways-of-life tear apart this family who has intermarried…and witness the victory of the industrial revolution over the traditional guild way of life
The third novel, Oil and Water, set on the early oil fields in NY/PA, dramatizes the triumph of the Petroleum Age over arts-and-crafts sensibilities as oil becomes the prevailing definition of modernity.
Part of the historical analysis we are calling reinhabitory involves seeing how these conflicts and struggles have formed the legacy we have inherited.
Matrilineality: agricultural societies
The proximity of matrilineal native neighbors–where everything, clan, property, land, name, comes through the maternal Archives line —lead European women directly on the path to Seneca Falls seeking similar rights and status. This buried history is
a deep reinhabitory issue which has received no attention anywhere that I can find, a task to which reinabitory fiction is well suited.
My idea of reinhabitory fiction draws heavily on Milan Kundera’s notion that the role of history in the novel is to reinhabit those critical crossroads in history where we buried certain values “in that vast cemetery of forgetting,” and walked on with others. This definition is still a rough draft but it moved Jerry Martien to say he had a novel which he also felt was reinhabitory fiction. He describes it as a land use story.
“It re-tells the events of the Lincoln County War, takes it back to Billy the Kid’s origins in the myth of Pan, the old nature god, and forward to the assassination of his killer and biographer Pat Garrett in 1908. The story is documented by an El Paso reporter who’s a recovering war correspondent wounded in the Philippines, our first foreign adventurer in empire. It’s all the same war, re-enacts the same question, whether the land belongs to us or we belong to the land.”
We hope to raise $50,000 in the next six months, so that we can publish The Authentic Life in the manner it describes and move forward with other books waiting in the pipeline.
We plan to publish other creative reinhabitory works, such as plays that have been produced over the last three decades to enthusiastic audiences, and both children’s and young adult books.
We have extensive group experience in letterpress printing, access to print studio, and some extraordinary poets who would love to have limited edition printing of their work.
Art, music, architecture: it’s time to expand the range of bioregional thinking and practice. If the First Wave was defining bioregionalism, and the Second Wave was tying together the groups who grasped the concept immediately and imported it to their home watershed, may the Third Wave be marked by the imprint of sitio/tiempo press.

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Linda Povich of CCHC Imaging Center said the 3D mammography produces a three-dimensional view of the breast tissue that helps radiologists identify and characterize individual breast structures without the confusion of overlapping tissue.
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Povich said the 3D mammography is especially valuable for women receiving a baseline screening, those with dense breast tissue and/or women with a personal history of breast cancer.
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Many studies show that problems with eating disorders are much more common among college students compared to the general population.
Many studies show that the excess of the standard norm of eating disorders among students is 20-30 percent, compared with other national sections of the population.
It may seem like a small number, but in fact, there are hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from rather complex disorders that manifest themselves both on a physical and psychological level.
They can not only worsen the quality of life and health, but even cost a person's life.
Therefore, the study of the reasons for such an excess of the percentage of eating disorders is very important in order to find student specific ways out of this situation.
Eating disorders have very serious consequences, such as malnutrition, organ damage and, even in some cases, death.
Eating problems affect mental health, the ability to participate effectively in social groups, academic performance, and overall quality of life.
It is very significant to track these symptoms both at the small college level and at the national level.
Today we will talk about where this problem often comes from and how to communicate with people who have this problem, or you think they have it.
Factors Causing Eating Disorders Among Students
There are many causes of eating disorders among students and other populations.
We won’t be able to talk about them all, but we will definitely talk about the most frequent, common and those that statistically have the greatest effect.
Perhaps you will see among this list how you eat, your friends or relatives and so on. Some of these factors can be eliminated, some you just need to be aware of, understand their possible impact and minimize the risk of their impact on your life.
Stress and excessive pressure
College is a very stressful environment and students constantly say they are under a lot of pressure, both academic and social.
You have to study hard and be social at the same time, and many students look for a side hustle to make money.
All this stress triggers the coping mechanism, and one such coping mechanism is under-eating, or over-eating, or over-concern about what you eat, which can manifest itself through orthorexia.
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Appearance Based Pressure
In our culture, especially when it comes to young people who want to be part of a community, it is very important to look a certain way, and in order to look good in certain clothes and a certain image, people often go on very strict diets, then break they overeat, and getting into this cycle, they often develop eating disorders.
Difficult Transition Period
College is a big change compared to all the previous life that students had before.
Many students move away from home, meet new people, make new friends, and deal with new responsibilities such as complex food preparation, meal planning, budget planning, and finding the nearest laundry.
For many, these changes are too strong, they are looking for protection, a refugee in comfort food.
Unfortunately, there is a certain genetic component in eating disorders that you cannot change, remove, or influence in any way.
You can only find out about it by doing certain genetic tests. And understand that you have a predisposition to problems with eating disorders, and in case you think that something is going wrong, you should consult a doctor, a psychologist, a nutritionist, and the like.
If you have a genetic disorder in this particular area, then what other people may be completely innocent of, for example, going on strict diets, can provoke eating disorders in you, so getting information about your genetics is very important.
How to Communicate with Students Who Have Eating Disorders
You must first understand that eating disorders are a psychological issue that must be treated very sensitively and with great care.
Restrain yourself not to make any assumptions and not to judge yourself, not to make any assumptions and not to judge people, because you do not know what exactly provoked this situation, and you are not in the place of this person, you are not an expert, and therefore your advice can only make things worse.
Practice active listening, which means giving the person a chance to talk about how they feel about the issue before you start commenting and giving advice.
Often a huge issue for students with eating disorders is the constant feeling of shame, which provokes them to overeat or undereat even more, depending on the type of eating disorder.
If you validate their feelings, if you do not show that you are judging them, then it is much easier for them to deal with this concern.
Help them to believe that professional help can really help. As we have already said, a lot for these people depends on their sense of shame in relation to their actions, and it is difficult for them to turn to a specialist, because they will have to tell everything.
Find and tell them general examples of how therapy and nutritionists have actually helped students with eating disorders get back to normal life.
Acknowledge that this is indeed a disease and show that you understand that this is a really serious difficulty that can be dealt with the help of specialists.
And there is nothing uncomfortable here when it comes to returning to normal life.
One of the reasons why college students with eating disorders do not go to specialists is because they believe that their issue is insignificant compared to the real problems of many people, and if they turn, they will be laughed at, or their environment will treat them.
Dismissively. Therefore, focus on actually helping, and not on becoming such an environment in the eyes of young people with eating disorders.

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A fox takes a snooze in the snow in Stratford Saturday
A red fox was seen taking a nap in the snow in Stratford Saturday and did not seem the least bit disturbed by vehicles whizzing by on the nearby Trans Canada Highway. it may have appeared to be half asleep, but as soon as the photographer started to move closer the fox was up and scurrying to the nearby woods. Thirty minutes later it was seen sleeping in the same place.


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WASHINGTON — The Washington Nationals have fired Matt Williams and his coaching staff, prompting the necessary question of who will be hired to manage the club next.
Mike Rizzo, Nationals General Manager and President of Baseball Operations, stressed in a conference call Monday the need to interview candidates with a “diverse background” while mentioning “experience” several times.
“We’re going to bring in a group of people with diverse backgrounds, diverse experiences and diverse skills sets,” he said. “I think that’s something that we did not do last time. Last time we brought in managing candidates with little or no managerial experience.
Williams had little managerial experience when he was hired as Nationals manager in 2013. He had managed in the Arizona Fall League, prior to which he served as first and third base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
“I think that we’ll have a great pool of manager candidates this year,” Rizzo said. “Stemming from very experienced to limited experience, and really go through a process that gets to know the manager personally, first, and then professionally, and what he does on the field.”
The Nationals’ search for their next manager begins immediately. The list of available candidates is vast.
“We’re going to really dive into the manager pool and the candidates of our new manager immediately,” Rizzo said. “We’re going to let those details come out as we see fit. We don’t see any reason right now to give out a litany of Major League managing candidates.”
Will they turn to another first-time manager, like Dave Martinez, currently the bench coach for the Chicago Cubs and also a former player?
Available candidates could include retreads, like possibly Ron Gardenhire, who managed the Minnesota Twins to six division titles in 13 seasons, or Bud Black who, despite never winning a division title in eight-plus seasons in San Diego, has a “deep understanding of pitching and an ability to relate to his players,” according to The Washington Post’s Barry Svrluga.
Perhaps current Angels manager Mike Scioscia — who led his club to a World Series title in 2002 — is in play, as well. He would have to exercise an opt-out clause in his contract, though he is not commenting on the matter at this time.
Randy Knorr, had he not been a part of Monday’s coaching purge, would have seemed a likely candidate. The former bench coach was a player favorite during Washington’s managerial search two years ago. He may not be out of the mix just yet, though.
“Randy’s been a source for this organization for many, many years,” Rizzo said on Monday. “He’s managed in the minor leagues. He’s got a great rapport, not only with the front office, but with a lot of the players in the clubhouse, and would be a great candidate for anybody’s managerial job, including our own.”
Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. said in August he personally had “serious discussions” with the Nationals about the 2013 vacancy. At his charity event last week, Ripken was asked, jokingly, by Kevin McCarthy of WTTG if he would consider the position for a “$300 million, 15-year contract.”
“I’m not good in dealing in hypotheticals,” Ripken said. “So I guess I’d have a comment when something becomes real.”

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HON. DANLADI IBRAHIM BABABUDAN, is a former Kogi State House of Assembly member who represented Lokoja 11 state constituency. In this interview with AMUDA DAN SULAIMAN FAB, the House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, spoke on his desire to move up to the national assembly as the representative of the people of Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency in the lower chamber and his performances during is tenure as a former state lawmaker.
Why do you want to represent Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency in the House of Representatives after a term as a state legislator?
Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency is where I come from. I live among the people and I understand them very well. I also feel what they feel because I have once served my state constituency as a legislator. Now, the same people who had sent me to the State Assembly want me to go to the House of Representatives as their legislator. My passion is to serve my people always. As such, in any capacity they want me to serve them, I will be willing to do.
Relatedly, politics is now very dynamic and sophisticated. Under the new dispensation, Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency, which comprises of Lokoja and Kogi Local Government Areas of Kogi state needs a representation that has ideas. They need a representation that has the willingness and ability to make things happen. They need a representation that will go to Abuja and bring back the dividend of democracy. They need a representation that is very close to the grassroots.
What is your agenda for your constituency?
My legacies as a former member of the state assembly speak for me. I had given back to my society, I have learnt that you have to consult the people to know what they want and such provide for them.
During my tenure, after examining the traditional birth system in my constituency, I had to bring in medical doctors to train the traditionalists. We also gave them safety kits to deliver babies. I also renovated and built new block of classrooms in about 3 schools in my constituency.
We also initiated free eye surgery to cater for our elderly and also gave out free glasses. We have been running a free ICT centre for our youths and other interested persons for years. Many people have taken advantage of that over the years.I promised to do that during my campaign and I am glad I fulfilled that promise. So, these are some of the things we plan to replicate as a federal legislator. And even do more.
Are these achievements the basis for seeking their support for your ambition?
It is in view of these and many more that I have done that the people are now saying I should represent them. Having done so much for my constituency then, they have the confidence that I can add value to their lives at the law-making level. To actually do more for my people, I need to go to Abuja, to ensure that all the activities and infrastructures that are being distributed all over the federation will come to Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency.
The people in the constituency do not have access to these facilities at present. All we hear is that the constituency gets constituency projects which are never actually done. This time around we are going to ensure that what is due for our people are brought to them. Again, there is what we call quality representation, which is contributing to the affairs of the nation. Everybody is talking about corruption in the nation; everybody is talking about lack of infrastructure and insecurity. The constituency will maintain an office where the people can go and make their complaints which will in turn make representation in Abuja.
These and many more need to be addressed. The Federal Government must give Kogi State what it deserves. I believe I can add my own voice to it and push for what we deserve in the state and my constituency. The voice of Lokoja/Kogi must be heard. There are so many things we need to ask for as a people. There are so many opportunities we need to take advantage of. These are the reasons why I want to represent my people at the national assembly.


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As Miklos’s focus returned and took stock of where he was he said, “What a waste of magic, a magic portal to nowhere, lets just hope it’s also to nowhen eh?” he then noticed the missing party members. “Ah, perhaps not so useless. Its an intruder filter, very clever. I have not overlooked the irony of your words before you entered Saeth. Now the question remains, do we attempt to re-enter? Assuming that the mirror lets two through at a time or do we assume that someone intelligent designed it and it will only let pass certain individuals who meet a set of criteria?”
Maruc grinned, “Knowing at least that Nicolai does not lack common sense, I’ve yet to make up my mind about the Siswa, I suspect they will attempt to draw the creature to us. Especially if my theory that it may only be harmed buy enchanted weapons or magic. Interesting that only those without magic items where allowed to pass. The sword, the axe and the wand were barred. Mighty Halav may have intervened in my case, or it may be that I am a spell-user. But then why did Hasan pass? The ring of Elyas perhaps?”
The dwarf, obviously not as swift as the others when it came to things magical, was still a bit confused. “So where are we exactly? It seems we went no where.. ” He looked to the still burning edges of the curtain and frowned. “Where are Hasan and Nicolai? What are you saying about the mirror? You think my axe is keeping me from passing through?” Feldard grimaced as he considered such. He’d felt the tingle going through and his beard was still itching because of it. He didn’t particularly relish the notion of trying to go through that again WITHOUT his trusted axe.
“If you think the issue is our magic blades, what if we were to reach something unensorcelled through, something we could tow Hasan and Nicolai back with?” Saeth was confused enough about the portal’s result that she was quite prepared to listen to the others. “Does anyone have a rope?”
Miklos continued pontificating, “All this conjecture does rather lean on the fact that the Guardian is actually beyond the mirror, it could…” warned Miklos.
From behind the strange shimmering mirrored surface of the portal, the group now heard the unmistakable sounds of battle.
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Hasan’s eyes widened in surprise. The ancient laboratory could well have been from Elyas himself. But where were his companions? Still, there was no time to mull over such issues. The fallen elf construct clearly had malevolent intent.
Readying himself for a battle he felt woefully unprepared for, Hasan looking down at his Siswa blade. Doubt grew. Recognizing that it was a weapon with more ceremonial importance than offensive power, he backed away from the construct. Panicking now, he’s eyes flickered across the room, looking for something that could even the odds in this fight.
That was when he saw the Pendant of the Elyan. The match to his ring and something Elrond had promised from beyond death would bring power when it was needed most. That pendant must be his goal.
Hasan’s instincts took control. Easing himself away from the construct, he recalled in an instant the time when he stumbled as a young elf into a cave still occupied by brown bears. Panicking and totally weaponless then, he had survived when scrabbled dirt clouded the vision of his pursuers and give him time to flee. He would do the same now.
Slowing down, Hasan let the construct approach closer and closer, while he tried to get a table and a large cluster of laboratory equipment between them. Brandishing as fiercely as he could the sword he feared was worthless, he challenged the soulless elf-thing to melee. But when the moment was ripe to attack, Hasan swung not at the construct, but used his sword to broom the equipment at his opponent. Hoping an arc of debris would slow his opponent, Hasan turned and sprinted to the pendant.
The gargoyle swiped at Hasan with his claws, managing to inflict a shallow wound upon the elf as he sped toward the Elyan treasure.
Seeing what Hasan was aiming for, Nicolai fired an arrow the stone Elf in an attempt to distract it. The rogue’s arrow ricocheted ineffectively off of the stoneskin of the construct.
The Siswa reached the pendant and spun around. The creature paid no attention to the human—it only had concern for what the elf now held in his hand.

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MTN Nigeria and Chams Resort will address a national audience on Smart City at the August edition of Ennovators Breakfast Series [EBS], themed Building Tomorrow’s Cities, an information technology knowledge-sharing forum at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
MTN’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Lynda Saint Nwafor, would address the bespoke gathering on ICT as a Critical Driver for Building Smart Cities, while founder and CEO, Chams Resort, Demola Aladekomo would speak on Overcoming the Challenges of Building a Smart City in a Challenged Economy.
According to MD/CEO, eMaginations, organizer of the EBS, Sola Fanawopo, as the chief initiator of Lagos Smart City development, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is expected to give the keynote address at the forum.
Smart City is a growing concept that draws from the success of Dubai’s innovative knowledge-based industry clusters to empower business growth for companies and knowledge workers all over the world. The Smart City rides on the convergence of technology, economic development, and governance.
Recently Lagos State government and the City of Dubai have struck a historic partnership that would raise the status of Lagos as the first Smart City in Africa. The collaboration is part of the larger vision to make Lagos safer, cleaner, and more prosperous.
Fanawopo said the vision of tomorrow’s smart city holds an enormous amount of promise. “Picture a densely populated city like Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Onitsha, and Abuja, that is safer, more efficient, and environmentally conscious than today’s urban corridors”.
According to him migrating a city’s energy grid, transportation system, or water supply to more efficient platforms that are interconnected “is an extremely complex undertaking that requires the cooperation of different entities such as telcos, tech companies, federal, state, and local governments”.
He, however, stressed that the wireless network of the future would be more sophisticated than today’s. “Experts believe that tomorrow’s wireless network framework would have a mix of cellular, Wi-Fi, short-range sensors, M2M communications”, he explained.
Among other subjects, the August edition of EBS would delve into the services that make a smart city, how wireless carriers, tech companies, and cities improve connectivity and automation, how city officials and managers make their cities smarter with technologies deployment, and big data, the revolution that will transform how we live, work, think in our cities.
Enumerating the need to attend the forum, Fanawopo said the EBS would assist businesses to understand and utilize smart strategies, discover the disciplines that would change because of the need for more sustainable cities. “With a vast availability of technologies, cities of the future would face the challenge of creating more organised spaces”, he said.
Those whose responsibility cover the internet of things, government initiatives, information systems, connected X, smart mobility, connected devices, platforms as a service, big data predictive analytics and business intelligence are expected to attend the forum. Others are those in data architecture, data infrastructure, data science, data designing and decision science.
To be moderated by Chineye Mba-Uzoukwu, the EBS would have General Manager, IBM West Africa, Taiwo Otiti; acting Director General, Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency [NITDA], Vincent Olatunji; Google Nigeria, General Manager, Juliet Ehimuan and acting MD, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority [LAMATA], Iyiola Adegboye as speakers.


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Continuing the mending theme, I want to share two books I recently acquired. There are other books on mending but I’ve only purchased two. Today I’ll review a book about sashiko stitching and next week on mending book with a wider focus.
Jessica Marquez’s book, Make and Mend, covers the art of Japanese sashiko stitching. Sashiko is a straight running stitch that is usually sewn in geometric patterns. The first part of the book discusses the technique, tools and thread and then has a variety of new projects that can be made. The projects run from a simple sachet to a really great market tote bag (see the back cover below for a glimpse of the tote).
The second part of the book is about mending. Techniques include patching jeans, darning using a pattern of stitches, applique and three ways to change a hem.
Finally, at the end of the book, there is a great collection of 20 sashiko pattern samplers with instructions on how to stitch the patterns.
This is a beautiful book. It’s the sort of book that makes book lovers sigh with contentment. Just holding it makes me happy!
If you want to learn sashiko stitching, or if you are a perfectionist and want your mending to be truly beautiful as well as functional, this this the book you should get!
As much as I love this book, I’m not a perfectionist. Next week I’ll review a book that is closer to my style—have fun, do it well, and get it done!


News Corp. Gives GOP Governors a $1M Boost
Posted on Aug 18, 2010
As if any doubt remained as to News Corp. titan Rupert Murdoch’s political proclivities, we have hard monetary evidence in the form of the media megacorp’s newly committed $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association. However, as one of News Corp.‘s alert spokespersons has pointed out, the editorial and business sides of the conglomerate are not one and the same! Of course not. —KA
The New York Times:
The contribution from Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation, which owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and other news outlets, is one of the biggest ever given by a media organization, campaign finance experts said.
[...] “News Corp. has always believed in the power of free markets, and organizations like the R.G.A., which have a pro-business agenda, support our priorities at this most critical time for our economy,” said Jack Horner, a company spokesman.
Mr. Horner said that the company’s corporate side made the donation with no involvement by its news operation and that the gift would not have any impact on newsgathering operations. “There is a strict wall between business and editorial,” he added.
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Haley goes rogue on President Trump
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and one of the highest-ranking women in the Trump administration, became the latest of the president’s men (and women) to veer off script and speak, well, candidly. Haley told an interviewer on CBS’ “Face the Nation” broadcast Sunday that the women who had accused President Trump of sexual misconduct “should be heard, and they should be dealt with.” Then after acknowledging that Trump’s accusers had been heard from before the election, she added, “I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.”
Granted, Haley did not say she believed the women. But she didn’t try to discredit them. That’s in stark contrast to the president and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who’ve said the women lied, the issue had been addressed during the campaign and dismissed by voters, and that was that.
Haley now takes her place next to the handful of other prominent administration officials who have dared to break ranks with the president — or whose private criticisms have gone public. From all appearances, these bursts of candor have not been well received.
For instance, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who reportedly called Trump a “moron” when speaking privately with several officials, has been marginalized and undermined repeatedly by Trump on his two biggest diplomatic challenges, North Korea and Iran. And Gary Cohn, the White House’s top economist, saw his chances of leading the Federal Reserve evaporate after he called on the administration to more clearly condemn hate groups after Trump repeatedly refused to hold the organizers of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., responsible for the violence that left one person dead.
The more people there are surrounding Trump who can pull him back when he goes off the rails, the better for all of us. That’s a function of not just his appointees’ willingness to take a moral stand, but also Trump’s evidently limited ability to put up with it. After Tillerson’s last falling out with Trump, one of the rumors circulating in Washington was that the secretary of State would be fired and Haley would replace him. Her interview on “Face the Nation” no doubt changes that calculus.
Kudos to Haley for speaking up on the issue of sexual misconduct in general and treating it with the seriousness it deserves. In Haley’s case, it’s either courage or calculation; the former governor of South Carolina may believe that showing independence from Trump is good for her future political prospects. Either way, her remarks are a significant acknowledgment from within the administration that even the president’s conduct — albeit his conduct before he ran for office — is fair game for scrutiny.
On Monday, a day after Haley said women have every right to speak up, that’s just what a group of women who have accused Trump of varying degrees of sexual misconduct was doing at a news conference in New York. They are demanding an investigation by Congress; unfortunately, Republican leaders there have been largely unwilling to call Trump to account for anything.
Their allegations that Trump kissed and groped them in ways that they neither invited nor wanted had all been aired during last year’s campaign. More than a dozen women all told stepped forward with accusations when Trump was running for president. He denied them all, and yes, he won the election.
Yet those accusations were lodged in a very different climate from what we are experiencing now. The harsh public reckoning that the revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein unleashed, which spread swiftly through Hollywood and the media industry, is now filtering into politics and forcing the resignations of a growing number of elected officials. Trump’s accusers and his denials haven’t been tested in this new era of justifiable outrage at sexual harassment and zero tolerance.
In recent weeks, Trump has publicly and aggressively supported Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, an accused sexual predator — he has downplayed the allegations against Moore, even when other supporters have not and his own daughter Ivanka has said she has “no reason to doubt the victims’ accounts.” Trump insists that he respects and loves women. But with his dismissive attitude toward those who allege sexual harassment, he fails to live up to these claims.
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Reid tries to push through Iran sanctions bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to pass a new Iran sanctions bill through the Senate without any amendments or debate in a legislative move many see as designed to prevent both Republicans and Democrats from adding even more sanctions to the legislation. Reid announced on the Senate floor Tuesday morning that he ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to pass a new Iran sanctions bill through the Senate without any amendments or debate in a legislative move many see as designed to prevent both Republicans and Democrats from adding even more sanctions to the legislation.
Reid announced on the Senate floor Tuesday morning that he wanted to bring up the Johnson-Shelby Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Human Rights Act of 2012, a new set of sanctions that would punish anyone who provides Iran with equipment or technology that facilitates censorship or the suppression of human rights, including weapons, rubber bullets, tear gas, and other riot control equipment — as well as jamming, monitoring, and surveillance equipment. It also calls on the Obama administration to develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran and speed related assistance to pro-democracy activists in the country.
The legislation, named for Senate Banking Committee heads Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Richard Shelby (R-AL), would formally establish that U.S. policy is intended to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and would require the administration to report extensively and repeatedly on its efforts to increase diplomatic and financial pressure on the Iranian regime.
But here’s the rub: Reid wants to bring up the bill for passage by unanimous consent, meaning there would be no debate and no amendments offered. The bill could be passed by a simple voice vote if nobody objects, but Reid said the Republicans won’t let it happen.
"I’m going to ask consent soon to moving forward on this unanimously reported bill out the Banking Committee. Unfortunately, I have been told that my Republican colleagues will object to moving forward with these new sanctions because they want to offer additional amendments," Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning.
"I have Democrats who want to offer additional amendments also, but we don’t have the time to slow down passage of this legislation," he added. "When we put this away, we’re not going to be finished with Iran. … But in an effort to get sanctions in place now, Democrats have agreed to streamline the process and refrain from offering their amendments. We can’t afford to slow down the process."
Senate aides from both parties told The Cable that Reid’s office is working behind the scenes to prevent more amendments that would strengthen the sanctions in ways the administration and Reid are resisting. The Cable has obtained the text and a detailed summary of one lengthy amendment that would add several new punitive measures to the bill.
The amendment isn’t signed but it appears to come from the office of Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) because it contains expanded sanctions against all Iranian banks that matches legislation Kirk had already been working on. An aide to Kirk declined to comment on the amendment.
The summary of the proposed amendment includes a direct rebuttal to Reid’s argument that the Johnson-Shelby bill should be passed quickly and that there will be plenty of other chances to sanction Iran after that.
"As Iran continues inching closer to ‘red lines’ surrounding its illicit nuclear weapons program, S. 2101 will likely serve as the last legislative vehicle to impose further economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic until December," the summary reads. "Therefore, as long as opportunities exist to incorporate new ideas and creative sanctions into the legislation, we should seize upon those opportunities in overwhelming bipartisan fashion. In this way, we keep our promise to the American people and support the President’s stated objective to exhaust every available diplomatic option."
The proposed amendment would expand sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran to include all Iranian banks and would threaten sanctions on any international firms that facilitate those banks’ transactions, including the EU-based international transactions facilitator SWIFT and Clearstream, a firm that works with SWIFT to process worldwide money exchanges. Swift has already taken some actions to cut off Iran’s Central Bank.
The amendment would also target the Iranian insurance industry, expand sanctions against the Iranian energy sector, target Iran’s high-tech and telecommunications sectors, and try to narrow the conditions under which the administration can exempt third countries who are still buying oil from Iran from existing sanctions. The State Department exempted 11 countries from Iran sanctions last week and has yet to make a determination on 12 others.
There are plenty of other potential amendments out there as well. For example, a bill ruling out containment of a nuclear Iran led by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and Bob Casey (D-PA), could also become an amendment.
By calling for unanimous consent on the Johnson-Shelby bill today, Reid is trying to portray the GOP as objecting to quick passage of Iran sanctions. It’s likely that after he files for unanimous consent today and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) objects, the two will retreat behind closed doors and negotiate a compromise way forward. A similar dynamic played out over the last round of sanctions when Kirk and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) wanted to sanction the Iranian Central Bank over the administration’s objections.
"Sooner or later — and most likely it will be sooner — both sides are going to sit down together and figure out a way forward that everyone can live with — reflecting the overwhelming bipartisan consensus that exists in support of additional Iran sanctions," one senior Senate aide told The Cable.
"Hopefully calm will prevail on all sides after today and the Majority Leader will authorize Chairman Johnson to negotiate with key Democrats and Republicans on the contents of a manager’s amendment that includes everyone’s best ideas," another senior Senate aide said. "In the end, the president says the window of diplomacy is shrinking and we owe it to the American people to consider every available non-military option."
UPDATE: In a short interview, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said he does want to offer an amendment to the Johnson-Shelby bill and does not want to see it go through the senate via unanimous consent.
"Senator Graham and I are the lead sponsors of a bipartisan resolution that says containment is not an acceptable policy against Iran. With regard to the bill coming out of the banking committee, we’re having a discussion with Sen. Reid about when to take it up and how many amendments to allow," Lieberman said.
"We are a little bit concerned. I’d really prefer to have a bipartisan agreement with a limited number of amendments on both sides. I think that’s Sen. McConnell’s position. So I’m going to talk to Sen. Reid and try to work that out."
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said this afternoon that Republicans will continue to object to moving forward on the bill until Kirk’s amendment gets a hearing.
"I just wanted to say that Senator Kirk is doing a lot of homework but he’s not here, would like to add an amendment — a change to the proposal and therefore, would hope that we could work out something with the leader so that we could accommodate Senator Kirk’s desire in that regard," Kyl said.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) filed the formal objection to unanimous consent on the Johnson-Shelby bill, due to his desire to be able to offer an amendment of his own.


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The Landline Episode on ABC on Sunday 11th July at 12:30pm will feature staff from Waite Research Institute, The University of Adelaide and CSIRO. Professor Matthew Gilliham and Associate Professor Matthew Tucker, Waite Research Institute and Dr Ian Dry, CSIRO were interviewed for the upcoming episode. The episode will showcase research utilising GM plants on the Waite Campus and discuss the potential for utilising GM plants for agriculture on earth and beyond.


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Louis Trichardt is situated in the Vhembe region of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The town once attracted ivory hunters and traders, as well as gunrunners and is also known as Makhado. This is after Chief Makhado of the Venda tribes, who overran the town. This historical story is retold in exhibits at the open-air Schoemansdal Museum.
Other activities and attractions in the area include San rock art, Voortrekker heritage sites, the Manavhela Ben Lavin Nature Reserve and the Albasini Dam. The dam offers water sports and other recreational activities. Travelling approximately 35Km south of Louis Trichardt along the N1 there is a sign indicating the Tropic of Capricorn.
Louis Trichardt, is located at the base of the Soutpansberg Range. This is a popular visiting spot as the views are spectacular. The area is filled with bananas and litchi growing.
The N1 running through the town will take you, after about an hours drive, to the Zimbabwean border.
There are a variety of accommodation options available in Louis Trichardt from Bed and Breakfasts, guest houses to self-catering units. There are also camping and caravaning facilities. The streets are lined with many restaurants pubs, coffee shops and even tea estates.
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The premium(or Top) variant Vivo Nex will have the latest Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB RAM and 256GB inbuilt storage with a pop-up front camera on top. The 8-megapixel pop-up selfie camera is hidden on the top of the Smartphone and it is claimed to elevate from the body in just 0.8 seconds. This elevating camera also includes an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and features such as smart optimization, multi-frame preferences, ultra-dynamic, character optimizations, and natural tones. It will also have a 91.24% percent screen-to-body ratio, half-screen fingerprinting scanning technology.
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Before talking about Vivo Nex Price in India Lets talk about Vivo Nex Specification.
Pre-Order Vivo Nex : Specification
The Vivo NEX Specification Starts with the display, The Phone features an Ultra FullView Super AMOLED display measuring 6.59-inches with the Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2316 pixels, a 19.3:9 aspect ratio, and 91.24% screen-to-body ratio. The Vivo Nex India Model coming with8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage without a microSD card slot.
The Vivo Nex sports a third generation in-display fingerprint sensor as well. The NEX will be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset with 2.7 GHz processor and an Adreno 630 GPU. Vivo Nex Specification also includes all the trending connectivity features like Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, BeiDou, USB Type-C port, and Dual 4G VoLTE.
We can’t miss the Cameras in Vivo NEX Specifications, So Nex sports a 12MP + 5MP dual camera setup on the back. It comes with large 1.4um pixel size, Dual Pixel PDAF for fast autofocus speeds, and 4-axis optical image stabilization and 4K videos at 30 fps. As we already know that Vivo NEX which is Coming to India is the Top variant/ Flagship Variant and It features a Pop- Up camera to give more space to display, The Pop-Up Camera offers 8MP resolution and is paired with a f/2.0 aperture.
The Vivo Nex Specification also includes a 4000mAh non-removable battery with 22W fast charging support. The Vivo NEX will run Android 8.1 Oreo-based Funtouch OS 4.0. It also comes with a dedicated AI button for AI services. The Vivo Apex aka Vivo NEX includes dual CS43199 + SSM6322 amplifier for awesome sound quality. Now Lets Talk about Vivo Nex Price in India and Offers.
Pre-Order Vivo Nex Price in India
You Can Pre- Order Vivo Nex in India on Today at 12 PM. Vivo Nex Price in India has been discovered before the launch. Nex will be launched In India Exclusively through Amazon.in. Vivo Nex Price in India will be Rs. 49,990.00/- which is equal to 729.89 USD after conversion.
Vivo NEX in India will be cheaper than the OPPO Find X which is released just yesterday in India.Amazon.in is also providing some cool offers on Vivo Nex Buy. Some of them are listed below.
Vivo Nex Pre Order Offers on Amazon.in
- Rs.5,000 extra off on exchange on the Vivo NEX, So final Vivo Nex Price in India will be under the Rs.45,000 with Exchange on Buying Vivo Nex.
- HDFC Bank credit and debit cardholders will get cashback on Vivo Nex Buy. Final detail will be out soon.
- Mobile Damage Insurance/ One Time Free Screen Replacement.
- No Cost EMI up to 12 months, and assured buyback.
- Jio subscribers will receive additional data offers.
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These Offers can be changed in future so we have to wait for the final update on Pre-Order Vivo Nex in India. Vivo Nex is an Amazing Flagship Phone which offers many unique features. Vivo Nex will be available to Pre-Order in India on Today at 12 PM, So all the details will be confirmed on that day. Keep visiting and sharing.
What do you think about the Vivo Nex Price in India? Would you Pre- Order Vivo Nex for yourself in India??
Tell us in the comments down below! And as always, stay tuned for more smartphone news! Thank You and Keep visiting.


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Babbal Rai starts shooting for his next song!
Babbal Rai, our Youtube star came into limelight when his Australian Challa went viral overnight. In the video we could see him along with his friends chilling after a birthday party. The song described the plight of NRI’s and the odd jobs they have to do for their survival.
Ever since then, Mr. Rai dropped mega hits and increased his clan of followers and supporters. He was last seen in “Main Terra Akshay” with Bohemia which released under “Humble Motion Pictures“. The song did pretty well and the masses enjoyed it.
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The rain line between Norwich and Lowestoft is set to be closed until Monday following damage caused during last Friday's floods.Network Rail had hoped to re-open the track later this week, but has revised its estimate after revealing a third of a mile of track had been severely damaged in the Haddiscoe area.
The main line between Norwich and Lowestoft will be closed until Monday following damage caused during last Friday's floods.
Network Rail had hoped to reopen the track later this week, but has revised its estimate after finding that a third of a mile of track had been severely damaged in the Haddiscoe area.
Patrick Hallgate, Anglia Route director for Network Rail, said: “The damage to the tracks and surrounding embankments has been quite extensive, but our engineers are working hard to repair the track and resume services as soon as we can.”
Last week's flooding washed ballast away, leaving large holes under the line.
A shuttle train service is running to Reedham and One is operating a bus replacement service between Norwich and Lowestoft.
Passengers are advised to check with national railway inquiries on 08457 48 49 50 or the One train company before they travel. Latest details are available at www.onerailway. com.
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Travellers whose journeys include the stations at Somerleyton or Haddiscoe should contact One on 0845 600 7245 for details of alternative services.
Meanwhile, the bascule bridge in Lowestoft was closed from 8pm last night for emergency checks following damage during the floods. the bridge was due to reopen at 6am today. A Highways Agency official said the closure was required to test electrical systems, which had to be repaired.
It is not part of the scheduled programme of closures for the ongoing £2.3m maintenance programme, which resumes from 8pm on Saturday until 6am the following Tuesday.


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Let's now take a white car and make it black. You really have to use your imagination when making these drastic corrections. Making a white car black when there is so little information available is a challenge. Just as in the previous example, let's start by making a mask or selection of all the colored areas we wish to change and saving that selection. Our new image with the white parts selected is shown in Figure 3-59.
Figure 3-58. The final look of the now-white car
When changing a white car to a darker color, it isn't necessary to mask the individual elements of the car, hood, doors, etc., because the door gaps, jams, and join lines will be enhanced when the correction is made. (Unlike when changing a black car to white, where they would have become lost with the correction to white and become far too light.) Use the Channel Mixer to create information on the black channel, as shown in Figure 3-60.
Figure 3-59. Select the white parts of the car to be turned black
Figure 3-60. Use the Channel Mixer dialog box setup to create information into the black channel
Figure 3-61. Make a Curve adjustment to the image after the Channel Mixer
As before, we'll copy the selection of the white body of the car and paste it to a new layer. Now apply a crazy curves designed for the white-to-black conversion. Figure 3-61 shows what the curve looks like.
The car is getting there, but it is a little green looking, so I'll make an addition change with the Channel Mixer to swing the color to a neutral black. Figure 3-62shows our white car now black. Take a very close look at the final change, and make sure you haven't missed any spots on the car. With a drastic color change like this to an object, it is critical that you don't miss any spots, as they will show up clearly because the color is so different.
Figure 3-62. Neutralize the black color of the car with a Channel Mixer adjustment
To finish, set a highlight layer (set to Normal) to create highlights on the car as you did to the white car. Figure 3-63shows our white car is now black.
Figure 3-63. The car is now complete
Turning an object from white to black or vice versa is an extreme case, and typically a correction will fall somewhere in between these two colors. These same techniques can be applied to any color you wish to use. If you wish to change the color of the object to, say, a red or blue, take or create a black car, if it isn't black already, and use the Channel Mixer tool to make up any other color you wish to make the object. Just be sure and watch to make sure that you do not add too much color to the highlights and the various shapes in the object to the


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When you imagine Nova Earth, what does it look like for you? Did you know that it starts within us, within our imagination? And that we can create what we’d like just by imagining the outcome with intent?
In the book, The Power of Awareness, author Neville Goddard states:
“ Our imagination connects us with the state desired. But we must use our imagination masterfully, not as an onlooker thinking of the end, but as a partaker thinking from the end. We must actually be there in imagination. If we do this, our subjective experience will be realized objectively. …
“To enter into the wish fulfilled is the secret of thinking from the end. Every state is already there as ‘mere possibility’ as long as you think of it, but it is overpoweringly real when you think from it.”
Neville goes on to describe how one winter he wished to spend time in Barbados with his family but that he was broke with no means to get there. He described how before he fell asleep at night he began “fixing his thoughts beyond the limits of sense, beyond that aspect to which my present state gave being, towards the feeling of already being in Barbados and viewing the world from that standpoint.”
Within a month he received a letter from his brother saying he had a “strong desire to have the family together. . .” The letter came with a ticket and so he spent the winter in Barbados.
By imagining the outcome with no worries about the, “how am I ever going to manifest this?” we have all the power in the universe on our side.
On Friday of this week, Jesus Sananda spoke to my friend, Donn Smith, about imagination:
“Often, when I travelled the world what is remembered of me is that I spoke in parables and that is what many have simply chosen to recollect and recall but I would also like to say to you that I am very plain spoken and when I gathered with my family, with my friends, like you, I had no hesitation to speak directly so that my words, my intention and the quality of the energy would be fully understood.
“There is a underestimation of what human beings call consciousness, imagination and inspiration and particularly imagination.
“If you can imagine it, it is possible. It is that simple.”
Can we imagine a world where everyone has a burning desire to share? Archangel Michael in An Hour With An Angel on Jan. 21, 2013, spoke of this:
“Money, abundance is the reflection, the outcome, part of the generosity that emerges from love and trust and sharing and prudence and temperance – and patience.
“Now, we know – and I particularly know – that these are not particularly popular qualities, are they? But as you anchor these qualities, it is reflected. It is reflected in economics.
“Let me explain. Not only does the spirit of sharing, of generosity, of caring, of consideration expand, the belief system – that some have the key and some do not; that some have chosen to live and die in poverty and some have not – disappears, so that there is this burning desire to share what one has. And that shifts.
“It shifts institutions, it shifts markets, it shifts neighborhoods and it shifts families. Similarly, it shifts power structures, what you think of as political structures.”
Can we imagine a world of sharing into being?
Let’s imagine that: abundance for all!


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We report power-aware 65-nm node CMOS device technology suitable for a body biasing scheme. For high-performance CMOS, both channel and halo profiles have been optimized to enhance the body-bias effect of 45-nm gate length devices. Standby leakage reduction without device reliability compromise has been demonstrated with simultaneous voltage control of the body bias and power supply. Moreover, high-k gate dielectric "HfSiON" has been adopted to reduce both gate leakage and GIDL, which are the dominant standby leakage components of low standby power CMOS.


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I’ve been using Roon for a couple of weeks now, mostly impressed but I do have a niggling problem which I can work around, but I’d like to know why it’s happening.
My Roon core is on a Windows 10 i7 PC with a 6Tb hard disk for the music, no streaming services linked. The music is various formats (flac, dsf, mp3, ogg) and all have the album art embedded in the file. I have Roon metadata set to prefer file. Almost everything works OK but occasionally I get an ogg vorbis file that has no picture and Roon says there is no image when there definitely is. This only seems to happen with ogg vorbis files and I can get around it by placing the album image in the same folder as the files.
After import I’ve tried restarting Roon server but no joy, only until I place the jpg file in the folder do I get a picture.
As I said, it doesn’t happen with every album, just the odd one.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I use mp3tag and have done for many years. I’ve never had a problem with it. My other music player software (JRiver) sees the art with no problem.
As I said, it’s is only the odd ogg vorbis file that doesn’t display the art, which is strange because the art is from the same file that is embedded in the corresponding flac file (I always have the two versions) and that always seems to work correctly.
It may be not the artwork itself but the way artwork is embedded into the file. When OggVorbis was originally released there wasn’t a standard way to add artwork and it was bit of a hack, but then they borrowed the flac way if doing it.
I wonder if some of your files use the old way of doing it and they are the problem files.
If you open the files in another app can it see the artwork?
If you remove the artwork from mp3tag and then re-add it to the file in mp3tag can roon then see it?
I have also experienced files that appear in Roon with the artwork missing( whilst the artwork is present in the metadata). By way of background, I rip my CD’s with Apple Music and then update/correct metadata as needed; this includes adding good quality album covers.
When Roon doesn’t recognize the artwork, I go through the Roon edit function and just add (import) the (same) artwork there. The glitch is occasional so it’s not a big deal, although it would be nice to have this corrected.
Perhaps I didn’t explain too well, but I always have 2 versions of a track. A flac version for my main hifi and an ogg vorbis version for my mobile devices. The image embedded in both files is the same. The flac file always displays correctly, the ogg vorbis file occasionally doesn’t.
Paul Taylor (see comment above) could be on the right track with the way it is being written into the file.
What I normally do after buying a new CD or vinyl record, is rip the album and then convert to flac. I then populate the flac files with the metadata (including the album art) using mp3Tag. Then I convert the flac file to ogg vorbis format using dbPoweramp. I have found if I delete the art from the ogg vorbis file after conversion and add it in again with mp3Tag, it seems to work OK so maybe it is is the way dbPoweramp is transferring the metadata during conversion.


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Pear & chocolate sushi
By EliselZ , blog Eat Design
- 1 bag of sushi rice
- ¾ litre of milk
- 50g of sugar
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 1 small tin of pears in syrup
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 egg yolks
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 15mins
Cost Budget Friendly
In a saucepan, heat the milk, rice and ½ vanilla bean.
Cook the rice over low heat, when it's cooked add the sugar.
Off the heat, remove the ½ vanilla bean, add the yolks and 5 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa powder, mix. Put into a bowl and leave to cool.
Drain the tinned pears and cut into slices.
Make small dumplings with the chocolate rice using two teaspoons, place a slice of pear on top, and press lightly, place the sushi on a plate and sprinkle with a little cocoa. Repeat the process until all the rice is used.
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