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Wow! I just got back from the Purple Door, and I’m exhausted! The phrase “shit-canned” comes to mind, but I don’t know if that covers it. Here’s the deal. I was sitting at a table listening to an Irish band playing a wide range of music, from old sailor ditties to Irish blues, with a few Bob Dylan and Van Morrison covers. Some people were dancing but most were hanging out at tables and listening. I was drinking beer and trying not to think too much, just playing with the bandage on my finger. All of a sudden I see Rose McGowan—that’s right, Rose McGowan—sitting across the room with a bunch of her goth friends.
I was on my third beer, and while I wasn’t ready to start doing wall push-ups, I was feeling good and loose. The loud music made the brick walls expand with each beat. Hot blood pulsed in my ears. Given my New Year’s resolution to act on impulse, I had no choice but to get up and introduce myself to the starlet. No staggering, no spilling, just a straight walk to the table, a tap on the shoulder, and a quick “Excuse me, but I really enjoy your body of work.” Her goth friends stared at me with that bleary look that concentration camp victims give to a photographer through barbed wire. I needed a couple more beers.
It’s taken me a long time to figure out what most guys learned in high school, distinguished reader, and here it is—chicks dig confidence. They like guys to be sensitive, yes, and gentle, maybe, but only after a show of strength. No matter what anyone tells you, a sensitive guy who fails to show strength is at best a friend. So no matter how badly I cowered inside, I knew that any expression of contempt must be countered with cocksureness. No more emotional beat-downs. So that’s when I said it:
“You wanna dance?”
I half-smiled, nonchalant, as if I were asking a child come down from a tree. Take it or leave it, kid—this is your only chance. Rose shot a big smile at one of her friends, a pasty guy with black hair and one constricted pupil. As she arose from her chair, I tried not to act shocked. For a brief moment, I wanted to run out of the bar, get on a bus, not go any deeper. I put the beer down, hopped onto a platform, and started dancing. I knew I had to put my best foot forward, as the saying goes. The band was playing a upbeat ditty, so I combined a toe-tapping jig with my best belly dance moves.
Rose McGowan’s a dancer. She said something to me that I couldn’t hear, so I flapped the back of my ear, shrugged, and kept dancing. When the song ended, she leaned close and asked my name. “Daniel,” I shouted. I have no idea why I said Daniel. The band worked into a new song with a slower groove. I told Rose to dance with her arms up high, like this, and when she did so I sidled up to her and grooved around her. “Oh when the ship comes in,” the singer belted, “You’ll see me lass come smilin’.” We had something going, Rose and I. It felt like everyone was watching us, even the band. Getting down, hooking up.
It didn’t happen for us. It turns out the guy with the constricted pupil was more than just a friend to Rose. He hopped onto the platform and said something to Rose that I couldn’t hear. I just saw his black lips contorting in anger. She seemed put off, and that’s when I realized they had a history. She emasculated him by calling him a woman’s name and told him to go away. Rose was no woman with whom to be trifled. I was dancing slowly, wondering whether to jump in and tell the guy to buzz off or to let Rose sort things out herself—the same old paralyzing collision between chivalry and feminism.
The band moved into a faster song. “There once was a bloke named McQuiver,” the band sang, “Who took to his drink by the river.” The guy with the constricted pupil made his play. He wedged himself between us and began dancing slowly with his back to me. I grabbed his tiny shoulders and slowly but firmly moved him aside. Crazy, detached eyes stared at me from behind a pasty face.
“Old Seamus ne’er said no to a feast,” the band sang, “And drank whiskey like a Belfast Priest…”
Time to dance. I busted a lindy circle followed by a double spin. The goth paused a beat and did the same step. We eyed each other, as if for the first time. I worked up a trade-slide block turn in skater’s position, and he followed the move effortlessly, moving into a Frankie’s Roll that consisted of a tap-back foot on the second beat, followed by a roll-roll-triple on four. We were now dancing side by side. I duplicated the block turn, working a stomach roll into the trade slide. Other dancers moved aside and cheered each completed move.
The goth and I were drenched with sweat. Each dance move was equaled and bested in turn. I jumped into a toe-click-heel-tap kickout that morphed into an old-time cabbage patch. He took the cue, and we threw down a cabbage patch in sync, both of us working in a quarter turn every fourth beat. When the song ended, the goth and I looked at each other with respect. We hugged tightly, like two gladiators after a hard-fought draw, each of us so secure in his own masculinity that the groping of buttocks and genitals meant nothing more than an assessment of manliness.
Then it turned nasty. He was there.
Michael Flatley had been dogging me ever since I bested him in a contest last October. He quit his tour and moved to Seattle to study my moves. Some people never learn that victory or defeat means nothing compared to the assertion of will, and Michael is one of those people. I can only assume that this failure—combined with insane jealousy and wine coolers—contributed to the wild haymaker he threw at me. I ducked and slammed a fist into his gut, causing Mr. Flatley to double over. Instead of finishing him off, I let him gather his wind. Mistake. He kicked my shin, put me in a headlock, and took the liberty of rapping his knuckle, hard, against the top of my head. I’ll say this for Mr. Flatley—he’s a scrapper. I would have been done for if Rose hadn’t pulled the Lord of the Dance off me and whisked him outside.
Whew! I need to wrap this up and get some sleep. Anyway, to make a long story short, I talked my way out of being arrested and Rose McGowan is now dating my nemesis Michael Flatley. I vow that we shall meet again.

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Despite high Mississippi River levels fishing in much of coastal Louisiana is looking good. Delacroix is especially hot for catching fish right now!
Looking for speckled trout, redfish, and more like this? I’ve got just the place for you this weekend.
Delacroix Is The Place To Fish
This is a great time to fish Delacroix!
Captain Jack Payne, G.W. Finn’s Chef Teddy Flynn, Maddie McFarlane, and I left the Sweet Water Marina in search of everything that would bite. Never expecting what might bite.
I asked Captain Jack Payne how long we’re going to see this continue for what?
“About a month and a half. Speckled trout stick to the inside,” Captain Jack Payne said.
Full Box Of Fish
We caught a great box of fish today: speckled trout, redfish, sheepshead, and even a big blue catfish!
This was only Maddie’s second fishing trip and she said it was by far her favorite.
So there you go, a lot of great fishing action down in Delacroix. Come see Captain Jack Payne at Sweet Water Marina.
That’s this week’s BIGFISH report, I’m Captain CT Williams for WAFB 9News.
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Protected areas, such as national parks, natural parks and / or UNESCO World Heritage areas, are a great attraction for tourists interested in exploring the natural areas, culture, and wildlife in the Mediterranean.
This week Malaga will be the focal point of a meeting for the promotion of ecotourism in Mediterranean protected areas, with the participation of representatives from six countries at a training event organized by the IUCN-Mediterranean Mediterranean Cooperation Center. The training takes place under the framework of DestiMED, a new project funded by the European Union under the Interreg Mediterranean Programme.
Ecotourism is experiencing growing global and regional demand. In the Mediterranean area, ecotourism is still organized in a fragmented way, with an absence of standards and a need for improved coordination of management and marketing strategies.
The DestiMED project brings together 13 protected areas to collectively develop, manage, and promote ecotourism across the region, and during this week;s training session, the protected areas will be trained to develop new products that inspire transformative nature experiences and cultural exchange. DestiMED is the result of the MEET initiative "Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism", a cooperation project that ended in 2015 and was the inspiration to launch cooperation in the field of ecotourism in the Mediterranean basin.
"Through DestiMED, IUCN promotes a new vision for tourism that reduces the negative environmental and social impacts of visitors while transforming ecotourism into a concrete alternative for local development and biodiversity conservation”, says Carla Danelutti, coordinator of DestiMED project at the IUCN Mediterranean Cooperation Center.
The DestiMED project is promoting the creation of standards, as well as monitoring tools to measure and improve on the sustainability and quality of ecotourism in protected areas in the Mediterranean region. Ecotourism packages are developed locally in cooperation with key community stakeholders, including protected area managers, tour operators, homestay owners and community policy-makers. The project is led by the Lazio region (Italy) and the partners are: the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, Federparchi - Europarc (Italy), the network of managers of marine protected areas in the Mediterranean (MedPAN) located in France, WWF Adria (Balkans) and the WWF Mediterranean Program.
During this week's event, IUCN-Med will launch a new association called MEET, or the Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism. MEET will function as a destination management organization, responsible for promoting ecotourism in the region, while providing communities in and around protected areas with the the capacity and tools needed to manage ecotourism efforts, and encouraging collaborative marketing strategies under a single recognized brand. DestiMED’s protected areas will eventually transition to participate in the MEET Network after concluding their pilot actions.
The meeting is being held from 4 to 5 July at the facilities of La Noria (C / Arroyo de los Ángeles 50) provided by the Diputación of Málaga.


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We asked local aesthetic providers for their picks to get you prepared for the holiday season. Whether you're attending galas, work parties or spending time with family, these non-invasive procedures have little to no down time and will give you that extra confidence boost so you look and feel your best. Who doesn't love a little pampering!
SilkPeel Diamond Facial
The SilkPeel Diamond Facial is a non-invasive treatment to refresh and revitalize the skin. Before treatment, your skin is cleaned and prepped, then your provider uses the SilkPeel wand on your skin, moving it over the area of concern to exfoliate skin, extract impurities from pores, and infuse your pores with serum. With no downtime, the SilkPeel Diamond Facial renews and refreshes skin after just one treatment. With continued SilkPeel treatments, skin texture and pigmentation improve; reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and revealing clearer, smoother, more youthful-looking skin.
“To get healthy glowing skin with the SilkPeel Diamond Facial, I recommend three treatments, each two weeks apart. Additional treatments such as chemical peels and IPL Laser treatments can also address issues like sunspots, redness, and uneven skin tone.” Christopher P. Downing, M.D., FAAD, Houston Dermatology Specialists HoustonDermatologySpecialists.com
EMSCULPT NEO works to reduce fat and increase muscle for a more toned look, by using high-intensity focused electromagnetic fields (HIFEM) to stimulate supramaximal contractions of the muscle, at a higher level of efficacy than can be achieved through voluntary exercise. One 30 minute EMSculpt treatment is the equivalent of 20,000 sit ups. Kaasen TruCryo Body Sculpting, cools the surfaces of the skin to 39 degrees F in a matter of seconds, destroying underlying fat cells without damaging other body tissue. The fat cells are permanently destroyed and are flushed out by the body’s waste management system. Results can be noticed after the first session, with multiple treatments leading to enhanced, longer lasting results.
“Non-invasive medical technologies like EMSCULPT NEO and Kaasen TruCryo Body Sculpting offer a genuine opportunity for positive body transformations. These cutting-edge devices have shown remarkable potential in addressing stubborn areas of fat and sculpting figures effectively. These sessions are less than 30 min with no downtime - perfect solutions for busy schedules.” Sakina Broachwala, M.D., Reinvi MD ReinviMD.com
Laser Hair Removal
Laser hair removal is the safest and most effective way to remove unwanted hair on the face, neck or body. Permanent hair removal offers a lifestyle of lasting smooth skin and the convenience of no longer having to shave, pluck, and wax. Cutera Xeo Laser Hair Removal is a proven permanent method for hair removal, safe and effective on all types and shades of skin. Most clients will need 6 sessions, one month apart, with treatments lasting between 15-60 minutes depending on the area. Multiple treatments are recommended to achieve the best results.
“With very little downtime, and permanent results for all skin types, Cutera XEO laser hair removal is the latest technology on the market! Our Cutera XEO laser can also perform IPL treatments and laser skin resurfacing–great for reducing dark spots as well as pigmented and vascular lesions.” Ashley Smith, Owner, Aesthetica MD Cypress AestheticaMDCypress.com
Gold Infusion delivers a customized cocktail of antioxidants, vitamins, hydrating ingredients and even BOTOX® beneath the skin via a gentle stamping method using a micro-infusion device made of 24 karat gold micro needles. Suitable for all skin types and colors; even thin and sensitive skin. Gold infusion stimulates collagen production, refines skin texture, tightens pores and hydrates skin. Also effective in targeting scars, dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles. Depending on desired skin care goals, a series of treatments over the course of a few weeks are recommended for best results, with minimal downtime.
“Results are visible 1–3 days after treatment and continue to improve for weeks following treatment. Often dubbed as the "red carpet treatment" ahead of award shows and wedding days, gold infusion will have your skin seriously glowing.” Maegan Griffin, Skin Pharm Founder & CEO SkinPharm.com

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Berlin with its thriving international arts and literary communities, is a perfect city for writers and visual artists, full of inspiration for creative people. Berlin always was and is a multicultural artistic hub, a city open to the world – and the world gladly accepts its invitation. Countless galleries, museums, theaters, world-class exhibitions, ambitious collectors and an educated audience make Berlin one of the most important art cities in the world. Check out these possibilities to write and live almost for free in Berlin and start applying:
American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin is now accepting applications for the 2016-2017 academic year. Deadline is September 30, 2015. The American Academy in Berlin is a private and independent, nonprofit institute for advanced study located in Berlin, Germany. Its fellowship program promotes advanced research in a variety of academic, cultural, and political disciplines. Worldliteraturetoday.org wrote: “Since reunification—and of course famously also before—artists and writers have felt the allure of Germany’s new-old capital. It remains slightly remote from the trends of western Europe, and—rather like New Orleans in the States has its own styles and its own cults.”
Academy fellows are comprised of established and emerging scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study. Berlin Prizes have been awarded to historians, economists, filmmakers, art historians, journalists, legal scholars, linguists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others. Fellowships are restricted to candidates based permanently in the US. However, US citizenship is not required,
Fellowships are typically awarded for an academic semester or, in some cases, for an entire academic year. Fellowship benefits include round-trip airfare, housing at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend of $5,000 per month. The Academy’s furnished apartments at the Hans Arnhold Center are suitable for individuals and couples. All fellows are expected to reside at the Hans Arnhold Center during the entire term of the award.
Private furnished apartments, including small kitchens, are provided in a villa on the shores of beautiful Lake Wannsee. The Wannsee train station (a stop for S-Bahn and regional trains) is less than a ten-minute walk away. Trains reach downtown in ten to twenty minutes.
The PenTales Hemingway Fellowship
Writers, travelling to Berlin privately? Bring your laptop and write during your FREE stay there.
It’s an unusual opportunity: Stay in an amazing Berlin apartment for four days for the price of nothing (but your creativity)
Berlin Instigator Louisa Lowenstein and PenTales are excited to announce the opening of the PenTales Hemingway Room – a small beautiful room in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s most inspiring and creative neighborhoods.
Creative souls of all stripes are invited to stay in the room for FREE for up to four days. The only requirement: they produce creative work during their stay, including but not limited to writing, drawing, film making and photography. Their work will join that of other Hemingway Room guests on www.pentales.com and in a larger PenTales Hemingway Room exhibition in Berlin.
Email Louisa at email@example.com introducing yourself, what days you hope to visit Berlin, and what work you plan to pursue in the Hemingway Room. Please include samples of your previous work. The PenTales Hemingway Room is open year-round and always welcomes applications.
For New Zealand Writers ONLY
The Berlin Writers Residency will be offered in Berlin, Germany in 2015 and 2016. The residency is for a period of up to eleven months, starting after 1 November 2015 and finishing no later than 30 September 2016. The opportunity is open to New Zealand writers only.
It provides a unique opportunity for a New Zealand writer to live and work in Berlin. A stipend of NZD $40,000 is offered to cover travel to Berlin, insurance and living costs. Creative New Zealand provides a one bedroom, 180 sqft apartment in the district of Friedrichshain in former East Berlin, which has a reputation as a lively and dynamic district.
The Künstlerhaus Bethanien is an international cultural centre in Berlin. An artist-in-residence programme with workspaces for professional artists and exhibition spaces, it is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary visual arts.
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The “artist in residence” program is the key to the purpose of the Starke Foundation. For a period of 3-12 months, the foundation will provide residential and working premises to selected artists. Besides this long term support for young artists, short-term apartments for established artists are available. Stiftung Starke is located at Koenigsallee 30, in the beautiful and posh area of Grunewald. In addition the Starke Foundation arranges numerous national and international contacts to museums, galleries and public institutions as well as to representatives in the fields of culture, science, economy, sports and politics.
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service
An invitation to the Berliner Künstlerprogramm is one of the most sought- after scholarships in the world. The Artists-in-Berlin Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (commonly referred to as DAAD) provides about 20 grants to international artists in the fields of literature, visual arts, music, and film, Application forms can be downloaded at www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de under the link scholarship. For Writers: Your publications (preferably in German, otherwise if possible in English or French) – but please no more than 4 or 5 books; reviews. No manuscripts.
Residency is for an approximately one-year stay in Berlin. The grant includes a monthly stipend, an apartment, workspace (studio), and funds for projects. The deadline for applications to the program is December 31, 2015. http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/stipendien.html
ZK/U-Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
The ZK/U-Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanistics) provides residencies of two to eight months “for artists, scholars, and practitioners (curators, activists, autodidacts, etc.) interested in cross-disciplinary theory and practice dealing with ‘the city’.” ZK/U offers fellows optimal working and communication structures. Various spaces will be available for production, exhibiting, exchange and leisure, including the individual studio-apartments, the event space, the communal kitchen, the library (in progress), the basement for events, the roofed terrace, the surrounding park and local municipal workshops in the immediate neighborhood. ZK/U is located in one of Berlin’s former railway depots, a landmark building with an overall footprint of 6000 sqft. Located in Moabit, a central district of Berlin, the center enjoys easy access to transport links. Surrounded on all sides by water, Berlin-Moabit was an enclave populated in the 19th century by Huguenots who had fled from France and gave this area its name.
For individual fellows selected for the program, depending on the studio-apartment and the length of the stay, costs can be between 500 and 800 Euros per month. ZK/U will work with selected fellows in support of efforts to obtain funding to cover the cost through external grants. The deadline for applications for 2017 is early June 2016. http://www.zku-berlin.org/apply/
Many writers crave a peaceful period of uninterrupted time dedicated to writing. The solution is a writers residency. A room of one’s own, maybe some meals thrown in and a little pocket money. Or even just the room. The opportunity to travel can lead your writing into creative, unexpected, and exciting directions. Getting a quiet place to write could easily be a turning point in a writer’s life, providing crucial time to finish an important piece of work. It certainly doesn’t hurt to learn at least a couple of words in German.
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The political leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) Simeon Freeman says the Government of Liberia sees her critics as enemies and has therefore vowed to remain robust on ills in the society.
According to him, Liberia has assumed a new dimension; and he is tough on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf government because Liberians are still living in abject poverty.
“Those of us who caution the government are those in the interest of the people of Liberia. We are there to remind the government of its obligations. And so, we are classified as enemies,” he said, though he did not name others that have been declared enemies by the government because of their critical stances against President Sirleaf.
He made the statement yesterday upon his arrival at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) following months away from the country.
He stated that the current government is not working in the interest of the Liberian people; therefore our leaders allow corruption and poverty to eat up the citizens while a certain segment of the population enjoys the wealth of the nation.
“When the government agency, the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) went down, the President took responsibility and this means that she is shielding criminals. And those of us who see these things and bring them to the attention of the state are seen as the greatest enemies that are undermining the development of the country,” he said.
Mr. Freeman called on old politicians to give way to the new breed of politicians to take over and transform the country.
“Come 2017, you people will be able to look at the politics in the country and let these old politicians get out of the process in order for Liberia to assume a new dimension,” Freeman said.
He called on Liberians to make a decision in 2017 that will benefit the country, saying the time has come for Liberians to give power to those who have the country at heart, including himself.
Freeman has been out of Liberia for more than nine months since he evaded arrest by the Liberia National Police (LNP) to answer questions for his allegations that the Liberian government had a ‘hit-list’ of vocal Liberians it wanted to eliminate. His failure to provide substantive proof for his allegations turned many people against him, considering him as someone who wanted attention and using the government to get recognition abroad.
The LNP ordered 15 armed Police Support Unit (PSU) and Emergency Response Unit (ERU) officers to Mr. Freeman’s residence, after he was invited but failed to come to the LNP headquarters to provide clarity and help the police sort out the confusion.
But Freeman claimed he made the statement based on widespread speculation in the media, following the mysterious death of Harry Greaves, who spent the last months of his life enlightening the public about the many ways people in power were exploiting and further corrupting the system to the chagrin of the masses. Mr. Greaves was found dead on the beach behind the Foreign Ministry in February 2016. International pathologists and forensics experts ruled his death as drowning, a conclusion many in the general public flatly rejected.
Freeman, who himself could not provide any proof on Greaves’ death or his hit-list allegation, realized the unnecessary tension he had caused and went into hiding. He managed to evade capture and snuck out of the country. Weeks later, seeing that it was pointless chasing a man who no one knew how he left the country, the Liberian government abandoned its pursuit and eventually threw out any charges that would have been pressed against him.
Freeman’s absence from the country has not helped his cause as a champion of those he claimed he has advocating for. Many called him a coward for not standing by his utterances like others who were invited by police for questioning around the same time. Whether his return to the scene singing the same song of “people living in abject poverty” will draw the masses to his side remains to be seen. For many of those living in “abject poverty,” the man who ran away from his own words is just history, but he now has a chance to prove them otherwise.


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Deglobalization leads to less trustworthy data worldwide
Hey, everybody, Peter Zeihan here coming to you from breezy, chilly, California. And today we’re going to talk about
statistics. Yes, yes, yes, I know. But it’s a lot better than it sounds. So I can’t do anything that I can do with analysis, much less forecast without decent data. And in some countries, that’s just more difficult to do than others. I’m not talking here about like, bureaucratic interfaces, or anything I’m talking about just outright lies. So the two countries that have always been a bit of a black hole, when it comes to the data are China and Russia. In the case of China, the lies are primarily of choice. So you’ve got individual local leaders who are pumping up their own numbers to get more money from the federal government, or in order to curry favor. So if the government says we want 6% growth, they’ll get six and a half. But some of it is just outright greed. The point where the Chinese system admits that you’re a person and starts to count on you is when you enroll for kindergarten, basically. So local governments have bumped up the number of people who have enrolled in order to get more cash, you play that forward for 40 years, the Chinese are now admitting that they’ve over counted their population by in excess of 100 million people. And this is a big part of why China today is now in terminal economic decline. They just don’t have the people anymore, and they didn’t see it coming because the numbers told them otherwise. And the case of Russia, it’s more of a classic one upmanship. There’s a general belief among Russian bureaucrats that they have to be better than the United States, even if they have to completely fabricated everything. So my personal favorite statistic out of Russia, is that the Russians see that roughly 1/5 of American agricultural land is irrigated. So in Russia, 25% is your good because 25% is more than 20%, that mix is better than you, which is, of course, you know, dumb because if you’re irrigating land, that means you have to pay for it. And it’s usually not as efficient. Anyway, this has always been a challenge. We normally deal with this by evaluating Counterparty. So if the Chinese say Export, some product, let’s call electronics to other countries, then you look at the import data for those other countries. And you use that to back up to estimate how much came out of China. Same with the Russians. What we’re seeing now with the Ukraine war, and the onset of sanctions at volume, is that the Russians are no longer lying about their data. They’re just not reporting it at all. And in the case of China, they’re not just lying about the data, there’s in many cases not collecting it. So a good example of that very, very recent, just the last few weeks is with COVID. Now, Chinese data on COVID has always been nudge wink, questionable, but they just stopped collecting it all after their opening. And you can kind of see why. I mean, let’s assume for the moment that the anti vaxxers and the conspiracy theorists among us in the United States have actually been right all along. And COVID is no more dangerous to you than the common cold. Well, if that is true, China still lost a million people in the last several weeks as COVID spread through the population for the first time. It’s probably almost certainly significantly worse. And if the Chinese don’t collect the data, and you have an information closed society, then no one knows. But I don’t want to just pick on the autocracies out there because the whole world is going to have a problem with data moving forward. A couple things. First, if you’re talking about a breakdown of the global trading system, we are going to have spasm mean inflation as some products get produced in some zones, but can’t get to others for assembly, or raw commodities can produce somewhere but can’t get shipped everywhere. Every part of the world is going to have different inflationary deflationary and disinflationary trends, different from not just product to product but component to component. And keeping track of that much less putting into an index is going to be a fool’s errand. We’re just going to feel the term of product shortages across the entire system. And until you can home shore or near shore or French shore, in that order, the component production themselves the material processing itself, it’s not going to go away because it’s going to be vulnerable to security interruptions. Second, most of our economic laws and rules and understanding are rooted in the idea that the economy gets a little bit bigger every year, not necessarily from technological advancement or economic growth classically, but simply from populations expanding. If you have more people every year, you have a little bit more consumption every year, you have a little bit bigger economic pie every year. Only that’s no longer true. In the aftermath of World War Two, the whole world started to industrialize, which is another way of saying the entire world started to urbanize. And as you move from the farm and into town, you have fewer kids until you get to modern day say China. We’re in the cities, you’re averaging now less than one person per woman for her lifetime. After 75 years of this
process. We are now well past the point that the advanced countries are repopulating China’s on that list. And over the course of the next 10 to 20 years, a lot of the advanced industrial world, places like Korea are gonna follow suit, which means that the pie is not getting bigger, which means that the tools we’ve developed, the theories we’ve helped develop, the monetary policy that we’ve developed, is no longer appropriate for the world that we’re in. It is going to take us years, if not decades, to come up with a replacement system and replacement rules and replacement understandings and theories and especially policy tools to adapt to this, North America gets a bit of a pass. First of all, the Mexicans have the healthiest demography not just in the rich world, but in their own pure class better than India better than Brazil better than Turkey. And the United States, we have one of the highest birth rates in the world among the rich countries, and now higher than many advanced developing countries as well, at at current rates of aging, we will actually be younger than the Brazilians in the mid 2040s, and younger than the Indonesians around 2050. So we’ve got time, Canada doesn’t have that kind of time. But Canada has gotten cleverer and has a cheat code and basically has embraced immigration as a national identity issue. And so they’ve been able to import a huge number of people in their 20s and their early 30s in a way that they haven’t done before. And that’s bought them on time by importing an entire generation. That means North America is at least partially resistant to these trends. And the countries of North America are not going to have to be the ones to pioneer a fundamentally different economic model simply to preserve their societies. We can wait we can watch we can learn. Anyway, that’s it for me. I’ll see you guys next time.
Chinese housing overbuild may erode support for Xi Jinping
What was once a thriving Chinese housing market has now become a liability. According to He Keng, a former deputy head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, there is now enough excess inventory in the country that it could house its entire population of 1.4 billion people. China’s largest privately-run property developer, Country Garden, is
Will China invade Taiwan as a diversion?
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Visa, the biggest credit card network in the U.S., on Friday took its first official step toward becoming a public company, outlining to federal regulators how it proposes to restructure and combine its global operations.
The registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had few financial details, said Visa will float 51 percent of the company in an initial public offering that will take place later this year. That means about half its 775 million shares outstanding — now owned by the network’s member banks — would be sold to the public.
Visa, following the lead of rival MasterCard Inc., wants to convert into a public company as a way to streamline operations and raise capital to invest in new payment technologies. The offering will also help insulate member banks from billions of dollars in potential legal damages from antitrust claims brought by merchants.
The San Francisco-based credit card processor, which originally told Wall Street it didn’t need a stock listing to remain competitive, announced in October its intention to list on the New York Stock Exchange. It stands to secure an enthusiastic reception from investors, especially after shares of MasterCard quadrupled since it went public in May at $39 a share.
“We believe the restructuring will enable us to compete more effectively and better serve our customers,” Visa Chief Executive and Chairman Joseph W. Saunders said in the filing. “We believe that the restructuring will enable us to facilitate a common, global approach to the legal, regulatory and competitive issues arising in today’s marketplace.”
Visa said in the filing it plans to combine Visa Canada, Visa International and Visa USA into a single private stock company, Visa Inc. Its West European businesses will be left in the hands of its member banks, which will together own a minority stake in the parent company.
This restructuring must happen before the company can begin working out terms of its public flotation. After the SEC declares the registration statement effective, Visa said it will begin the process of securing member approval.
The restructuring also calls for Visa to set up a panel that will consider how much money from the IPO should be set aside for legal matters. Retailers have filed suit against Visa and MasterCard, accusing them of illegally fixing the transaction fees applied to merchants with every purchase.
These lawsuits have put the payment associations’ members at risk, and going public will help mitigate their liability. For instance, Visa and MasterCard settled one such lawsuit in 2003 for about $3 billion. Others are still pending.
The biggest beneficiaries when Visa goes public will be the dozens of banks that make up its membership, including major U.S. financial institutions like Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co., and JPMorgan Chase & Co. They stand to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains if they sell part of their stakes.
After MasterCard completed its initial public offering, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan cashed out of their holdings and walked way with one-time gains worth more than $100 million.
Visa, which started in 1958 by BofA as the BankAmericard, has long been the dominant player among the world’s major credit card brands. MasterCard became a serious rivalry when it was formed by a group of banks in 1965.
Since then, Visa and MasterCard have seen few competitors challenge their space as the leading brands. Morgan Stanley’s Discover unit, which is set to be spun off from the investment bank next week, and American Express Corp.’s offerings are its biggest challengers.

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Yes, folks, the eyes have it this year, too. Little Dollar Store finds make up the cutest flower bouquet, if you like that Addams’ Family decor. I like Halloween, even if no one else in this household does. I enjoy the kids and like to hear them comment on the eerie sounds coming from my haunted house. Last year I dressed up a little like Morticia, black with crow feathers. My hair was long last year, so no wig necessary. My greeter was Clyde the Crow. He has made an appearance again this year. I was not in costume like my neighbor, but it was fun. My neighbor from yesterday’s post makes all her own costumes. I can not sew and do not even own a sewing machine. My mother was the seamstress.
This is one of the light standard decorations that my neighbors attached to the poles. I got all the corn stalks and corn from the farm and bundled them up for the neighbors to hang.
The winds got to this display, but it is still looking fine. The heads were purchased last year and hung on the poles by themselves. This year, we added the corn stalks to make a scarecrow. Well, sort of anyway.
The one I put up in front of my house had a scarecrow that I purchased. I posted it on Tuesday for my squirrel post. As you can see here , the squirrels were very happy to get the corn. A bite is taken out of the ear, and now, no corn is left on any of the decorations. The squirrels made the association of corn stalks to corn, to a free meal.
My theme was black crows, ravens and mice. I painted the pumpkins rather than elaborate carving. I did have some carving for night-time treaters, but most of the kids are small and come during the daylight hours.
This pumpkin was black until a huge raven flew by and down came raven droppings. The two above, were a bit classier, ala Morticia Addams. I used white pumpkins with classy braided, black trim and silver sequins.
I carved openings in the two pumpkins below and inserted candles. Sorry, no night shots because our neighborhood gets no break during Halloween. Kids come continuously.
The nesting raven also had a candle inside and coordinated with my door wreath, which I will get to in a minute.
I used regular black house paint, gloss and matte. BTW, painting on pumpkins is not a lot of fun. The depressions make it a real pain if you want an intricate design. You can see I sort of gave into the pumpkin. It would have been too time consuming to be more careful with the brush.
The moms liked the pumpkins.
Inside the door is the foyer. Here is what I had when the door opened. The vine wreath was spray painted, pulled apart a bit, and then became a home to nesting ravens. I have it on the outside door this year.
The foyer was decorated with a little dark bling. I painted the pumpkins black and pewter. I cut out ravens from black museum board, they decorated windows and a twig wall hanging I made.
The twig wall hanging was made by tacking branches together with brads and twining the edges in a frame. The cutout mice were purchased, but I made more of them myself. It was a bit difficult to do this by hand, but I made so many architectural models before, I knew it could be done. Here is the mice chirp recording that was like yesterday, put on a loop with the ravens and crows, squawking for the kids entertainment. I used my iPod and wireless speakers. The kids were looking all over for the animals. So cute.
My paintings below were done just for Halloween. I thought more people would get the reference, especially since a raven was beside the prose. Alas, only a few literature aficionados got it. I should not have used the text speak I guess.
The acrylic paint had an additive to make it three-dimensional. I made the frames and hung them for the kids and parents to see.
Inside I had more painted pumpkins. I also painted leaves pewter and black and decoupaged them to a real pumpkin. The big faux pumpkin was painted to look like a gourd. I really like this one. The lily painting on the sideboard is on of my works. It is a study for a 3 foot by 3 foot oil painting I am working on.
Nothing fancy, but I brought in garden foliage and placed them in a vase. I used spray fixative to keep the little seed heads intact, since there was no time for proper drying.
And in case you thought I forgot about my dollar store finds, here is what I made with some faux flowers and plastic eyes. The tablecloth is actually black trash bags. They worked out great.
A little black spray paint goes a long way when you want to Halloween up the house.
And as I get ready to retire, here is an appropriate image of my very creative neighbor’s foyer decoration. She has this very pretty witch over a mirror.


Jeb Bush just made the race for the 2016 Republican nomination a lot more interesting.
“It’s easy to say, ‘Well, anything you propose is amnesty,’ but that’s not a plan,” Mr. Bush said during a discussion with local business leaders here. “That’s a sentiment, that’s not a plan. I think the best plan, the most realistic plan, the grown up plan, if you will, is once you control the border and you’re confident it’s not going to be another magnet, is to say, ‘Let’s let these folks achieve earned legal status where they work, where they come out of the shadows.’”
Later, during a brief exchange with reporters, Mr. Bush said he could also be supportive of a path to citizenship for people in the country illegally – as he did at one time – but said there currently isn’t sufficient political support for it.
“If you could get a consensus done, where you could have a bill done and it was 15 years [to achieve citizenship] as the Senate Gang of Eight did, I’d be supportive of that,” Mr. Bush said, referring to the comprehensive immigration legislation the Senate passed in 2013.
It’s important to note that his statement to reporters goes beyond giving “legal status” to undocumented workers (what he has suggested recently) and indicates that he would be supportive of a “pathway to citizenship” as was contained in the bipartisan Senate bill. That distinguishes him from every other candidate in the field. Notice the implication by Bush that his competitors don’t have an “adult plan.”
This is likely to lead to some interesting exchanges in the upcoming Republican debates. It could force other candidates to either articulate their “deport ’em all” position or hedge and be accused of promoting “amnesty.”
At the same time, it is a position that would make Bush much more competitive in a general election. But he’ll have to get the nomination first. Did he just ruin his chances with Republican primary voters? His position on the Senate immigration bill now aligns with President Obama’s. I suspect he’ll be hearing it phrased just like that in the coming weeks.


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Novel–Dual Cultivation–Dual Cultivation
Chapter 650 – B.r.e.a.s.t Milk advice bad
“That farming performance is absolutely not fair… but what else could we count on from somebody that had been an Immortal on his earlier life?” Zhu Mengyi claimed by using a grin on the face.
when a dog is lame
“Let’s not throw away it…” Wu Jingjing spoke as she set about licking the Yang Qi off Zhu Mengyi’s system.
Following a minute of silence, Wu Jingjing questioned him, “For those who don’t imagination me wanting to know, how have you pass on within your earlier everyday life?”
“Nonetheless, after passing it on some thought, I actually have wanted to quit as a coward and convey those who want to be around me on the Divine Heavens. All things considered, when i cannot even protect the ladies I really enjoy, am i able to even be termed as a person?”
After sucking on her b.r.e.a.s.ts for a couple moments, Su Yang spoke which has a pleased smile, “It preferences wonderful. The feel is soft and rich and creamy while favor is subtly great. I wouldn’t protest when i simply had to take in this everyday.”
“Let’s not throw away it…” Wu Jingjing spoke as she began licking the Yang Qi off Zhu Mengyi’s entire body.
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Su Yang nodded and licked around her pink group of friends well before sucking in it with compel, contracting her b.r.e.a.s.t milk regarding his mouth area.
“Can come right here,” Su Yang drawn both the beauties towards himself and manufactured both the ones sit on every one of his laps.
Seeing and hearing their response, Su Yang nodded having a teeth and reported, “Ahead of we follow the customs, allow me to explain to you the household principles.”
Wu Jingjing and Zhu Mengyi traded glances with one another just before nodding in silence. They converted to check out Su Yang and spoke all together, “Our company is keen!”
At some point afterwards, Su Yang calmly placed around the bed furniture, because it was finally the ladies’ turn to drink his milk products.
“We are willing!” They replied without doubt.
Su Yang silently waited because of their remedy.
He then proceeded to explain the guidelines they should stick to as part of his Su Friends and family.
Just after delivering Wu Jingjing and Zhu Mengyi a second to get ready themselves emotionally, Su Yang spoke, “Let’s start with my track record. Firstly, my body system might only be 18 years of age, having said that i am actually much older in truth, as I have memories of my recent lifestyle. Quite simply, I have got encountered reincarnation, and I used to be an Immortal inside my earlier existence.”
A handful of occasions down the road, Su Yang licked his lip area and nodded by using a content facial area, “Mmm… it’s approximately the same as Wu Jingjing— I really like it.”
“That farming performance is just not fair… but what else can we assume from someone that had been an Immortal in the preceding everyday life?” Zhu Mengyi said with a laugh in her deal with.
Then he proceeded to describe the guidelines they ought to adhere to as part of his Su Friends and family.
“Whoa~! There’s a great deal!” Zhu Mengyi exclaimed, experiencing warm all over her entire body.
“Even so, immediately after creating some believed, We have thought to prevent learning to be a coward and carry those who want to be around me on the Divine Heavens. All things considered, if I cannot even secure the women I love, should i also be referred to as guy?”
On the other hand, Wu Jingjing and Zhu Mengyi been working together to joy Su Yang’s lessen entire body with Wu Jingjing stroking his divine sword and Zhu Mengyi ma.s.saging his jewels making use of their hands and wrists while sitting on his lap.
“We are willing!” They replied without reluctance.
Hearing their response, Su Yang nodded which has a laugh and said, “Before we follow the customs, let me let you know family members guidelines.”
Equally Zhu Mengyi and Wu Jingjing stared at him with broad eyes filled up with jolt, since they didn’t expect a real revelation from Su Yang.
“Then allow us to begin the unique, where by I will give you my Family Secure.” Su Yang spoke as he started off loosening his robes.
On the other hand, Wu Jingjing and Zhu Mengyi been working together to happiness Su Yang’s lessen body system with Wu Jingjing stroking his divine sword and Zhu Mengyi ma.s.saging his jewels with regards to their fingers while on his lap.
Then he proceeded to explain the principles they have to observe as a member of his Su Family.
A few momemts down the road, he inquired them, “I am going to ask you one final time— are you keen?”
“Whoa~! There’s a lot!” Zhu Mengyi exclaimed, sensation very hot around her physique.
“Let’s not waste it…” Wu Jingjing spoke as she started out licking the Yang Qi off Zhu Mengyi’s body system.
A number of times later on, Su Yang licked his mouth area and nodded by using a pleased encounter, “Mmm… it’s approximately the same as Wu Jingjing— I really like it.”
“Now onto the key reason why I didn’t need to carry responsibilities. Despite the fact that I am now nowadays, We do not intend on staying on this page all through my life, and I currently have plans to abandon this location and come back to my own personal entire world in about a couple of years. We have lots of enemies on the Divine Heavens, and so i didn’t desire to place you or our children in danger, for this reason why I didn’t dare to take you with me.”
A couple of minutes in the future, Su Yang also launched his dairy products, taking pictures it all over their bodies as well as attaining the roof.
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New Delhi, Aug 06, 2022: Jagdeep Dhankhar, former Bengal Governor, was declared elected as the Vice President on Saturday. He bested Opposition’s Margaret Alva to emerge winner.
The BJP-led NDA candidate won the election comfortably with 528 votes against Ms Alva’s 182, the voting for which took place earlier today. The Vice President is also the ex officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
The returning officer of the vice presidential election said of the total 780 electors, 725 cast their ballots but 15 votes were found to be invalid. The turnout was 92.94 per cent, he said, adding that a candidate needed 356 votes to get elected.
Of all the valid votes, Mr Dhankhar secured 74.36 per cent. He has the highest winning margin in the last six vice presidential elections held since 1997. As many as 55 MPs did not vote in the vice presidential election held from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday.
The Trinamool Congress, which has a total of 36 MPs, including 23 in Lok Sabha, had abstained from the election. However, two of its MPs had cast their ballots.
Margaret Alva congratulated Mr Dhankhar on the win. She also thanked leaders of the Opposition, and MPs from across parties who voted for her in this election. "This election is over. The battle for protecting our Constitution, strengthening our democracy & restoring the dignity of Parliament, will continue," she said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with BJP chief JP Nadda, went to congratulate Mr Dhankhar on on his election as the Vice President. Mr Dhankhar, a Jat, was born in 1951 into a farmer’s family in a small village in Rajasthan.
Mr Dhankhar had the support of several other non-NDA parties - Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal, Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Akali Dal and the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Aam Aadmi Party and the nine MPs of Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction supported Ms Alva.
In the last election, Opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi received 32 per cent of votes.
Under the system of proportional representation by a single transferable vote, the elector has to mark preferences against the names of the candidates.


The City of Winnipeg will be opening several “Leaf It With Us” depots on April 20 to handle your spring clean-up waste. Residents can drop off leaves, lawn thatch, grass clippings and garden material. These depots will not take sand, street sweepings, animal waste, tree clippings or branches.
The start date for several depots located in parks will be delayed due to overland flooding. For up-to-date information on depots, you can visit Winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste, call 986-8888 (code 9813), call 311, or e-mail email@example.com.


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Laser cuts, die cuts and presses can leave a striking void in or pattern on your card. This kind of design can make your card memorable, because it looks and feels one-of-a-kind—just like your business. Folds give your cards a sophisticated look and also allow you more room for information and design elements.
A business card is a physical object that a potential prospect leaves the encounter with. Your brand stays with them. If you meet a prospect and exchange email addresses and phone numbers you each walk away with another contact on your mobile phone -- it ends there. If you hand over a creative business card that makes a great impression that person is likely to show it to other people -- putting you and your brand in front of additional prospects.
A well-designed business card is a potent brand symbol to use, too. It can showcase your brand s style, creativity, and get you noticed and remembered. These are all great reasons to have a card. One final reason to carry cards? Having them on hand shows people that you really do mean business, and that you are always prepared to conduct it.
The most common business card size is 84 mm by 55 mm, or 3.5 inches by 2 inches. You can go bigger, but if you do your cards are less likely to be kept. If you go smaller, you have a better shot, as long as they still fit in a typical card folio. Any non-traditional size is going to cost you more money.
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LCD Soundsystem (not to be confused with the trance act LCD who remixed 'Zorba's Dance') is a New York underground musical act whose only release so far is the DFA Records 12 inch single 'Losing My Edge', with 'Beat Connection (extended disco dub)' on the B side. Both songs are amazing dance-rock hybrids that recall The Fall, Talking Heads, Krautrock, disco, dub and electro.
The man behind it is James Murphy, who is, with Tim Goldsworthy, co-founder of DFA Records and half of the production team DFA, which stands for Death From Above, and should not be confused with the Italian progressive rock band of the same name. If you believe what you read on the internet, they have done production and remixing for Radiohead, Beck, Primal Scream, Massive Attack, The Beta Band, Can, UNKLE, Tortoise, Trans Am, Le Tigre, David Holmes, Radio 4, Six Finger Satellite, June of 44, Les Savy Fav, Aerial M, BS 2000, Zero Zero, Turing Machine and The Rapture. They work at the Plantain Recording House. The other artists on DFA Records are The Rapture, Juan Maclean and Black Dice.


Blockchain technology is the main concept in the world of cryptocurrency, and it is very important to know what it exactly is. Originally, this term was given to a distributed database in the Bitcoin system; and then it became the base of this cryptocurrency, performing the registry function of all operations. The blocks store cryptographic data about transactions. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to the previous block; all blocks form a sequential and continuous chain.
To record a new block, the system reads old block information, so the data accumulates and forms a complementary base, whose information cannot be removed or replaced. This database is formed autonomously, without a centralized server. Multiple computers process copies of block chains and store them independently of each other. Encryption ensures synchronisation of these copies between all users directly conducting operations.
Multiple copying guarantees transparency of transactions and provides a high level of dealings openness. Information in the blockchain is open, so anyone can see the history and size of the transaction. However, the information identifying the users is kept private. Access to the blockchain is available only by using trusted keys, which are presented as a set of cryptographic records. These keys are unique and cannot be replaced or hacked.
Miners and other participants, referred to as nodes, provide the security and functionality of the blockchain. Amongst them there are full nodes — users of a full-fledged wallet, which store the full version of the blockchain on their computers. Its volume regularly grows and it weighed over 100 GB in 2017. The more active full nodes are located in the network, the faster the transaction information is processed. To write new data to the blockchain, it needs a consensus of nodes, which allows to filter transactions by recording only legitimate ones.
All blockchain participants have equal rights and each one of them acts as a guarantor. Due to decentralization, all users are independent and do not need any intermediaries and regulative services. With the help of the blockchain, people from all over the world can perform data transfers and transactions, despite the differing jurisdictions of their countries.


This whole article treads lightly on reality. Republicans are demographically shifting themselves into a permanent minority. And what's not helping is the fact that they believe their own bullshit:
A few GOP consultants say the party's conservative philosophy hinders the sharing of its best ideas—both with other Republican campaigns and within individual campaigns themselves. "We are so individualistic on the Republican side, both in our philosophy and policy," Harris said. "It definitely bleeds over into how we are managing and structuring campaigns. And we have to break that."
Even the party's agenda can get in the way. As Robert Draper outlined in The New York Times Magazine in February, the party's conservatism on cultural issues might prevent it from recruiting the young operatives it needs from Silicon Valley and other places. The problems with these tech-savvy youths mirror the GOP's problem with young voters in general who might sympathize with the party's fiscal conservatism. As Draper wrote, the GOP's opposition to gay marriage and abortion rights alienates those would-be operatives. The talent pools the GOP must tap into, then, are running dry.
Hidebound and out of touch with the shifting of the culture is more like it. This is why the Republicans lose among minorities and lose among young people--they are still running on racial issues and tribalism. The people who supported racism and cultural conservatism in decades past are dying off. The longer the GOP waits for change--and by change we mean becoming more like Democrats just like always--the harder it will be to keep Gerrymandering their way into office.
You would have thought that there would have already been a Tea Party purge. Instead, they just keep doubling down, hoping that medical science will preserve enough Republican voters. Someone should have embraced a medical industry reform initiative so that older people would live longer. I hear Mitt Romney had an idea along those lines and couldn't run on it because his entire party was batshit crazy.


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Intel has sued the operators of the Mexico Watch newsletter, because its domain is LatinIntel.com. Of course, the reason for that is that it is using the commonly accepted abbreviation of “intel” as short for “intelligence.” It’s common shorthand, especially within government circles, to refer to gathered intelligence as simply “intel.” . . .
Subsequently, Intel’s complaint was dismissed, albeit quietly.
Well, they’re back! Intel filed an amended complaint.
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The Thermion XG50 is the latest and greatest Pulsar Thermal Scope. This new model has been awarded the Optic of the Year Award by American Rifleman and the Golden Bullseye Award. This scope features state-of the-art technology and unsurpassed target clarity. It also has a thermal detection range up to 2,400 feet. Atn Thor Hd Thermal Sight 2.5-18x Review.
Edge detection reduces night blindness by only showing the targets edges. This feature also allows you to view your target for longer periods of time without eye fatigue. The Thermion thermal scope has an excellent internal video recording system. These videos can be transferred directly to your computer for further viewing.
The Pulsar Thermion, if you are new to thermal optics is the right tool for you. Its objective lens is adjustable and has a simple-to-use interface. It also comes with a Quick Start Guide, which will guide you through the basic functions of the thermal scope.
Trijicon Thermal Scope
The Trijicon Thermal Scope reveals hidden heat signatures and helps hunters spot targets in pitch-black environments and brush. OpticsPlanet sells the Trijicon thermal scope. They offer customer service and product experts to help you find the perfect thermal scope. You can also get free shipping if you spend $49 or more! Here are some of the best features of the Trijicon Thermal Scope: Atn Thor Hd Thermal Sight 2.5-18x Review.
First, you need to check the refresh rate of a thermal scope. For crisp, clear images, this measure measures the number of image updates per seconds. If possible, choose a scope with a 60 hertz refresh rate to get peak performance. Battery life will be extended if the refresh rate is lower.
A thermal scope is an excellent tool for hog hunting. The scope’s large field of vision allows you to see targets up to 400 feet away. It’s also easy to use. You can also use it to hunt coyotes, which are known to destroy agricultural fields. This means that you can take out dozens of these pests with ease.
OpticsPlanet Thermal Scope
The thermal scopes can be used to track the environment. These instruments can be detached from your rifle and are perfect for hunting and patrolling. These instruments have a range of about 300 yards, making them ideal for property protection. They can be used to protect your livestock and ranch from varmints or hogs.
Thermal scopes are excellent for self-defense as well. These scopes are great hunting tools and can be used in low-light conditions to spot nocturnal animals. For example, you can use a thermal scope to detect hogs hiding in brush and fog. You can also use one for self-defense if you suspect an intruder has broken into your home.
When choosing a thermal scope, one important factor to consider is the refresh rate. A higher refresh rate means that the image is refreshed more often. This means you can get a more precise image. This is especially important when your target moves. While most thermal scopes can refresh at 60 Hz, some have higher refresh rates. Atn Thor Hd Thermal Sight 2.5-18x Review.
Depending on your needs, thermal scopes can cost thousands of dollars. A high-quality thermal scope should cost at least $2,000 if you’re considering buying one. Thermal scopes below $1,000 are rare so it’s worth spending more.
Night Vision vs Thermal Scope
Both thermal imaging and nightvision are high-tech devices with rapidly improving capabilities. However, there are differences. It is important to choose the right scope for your needs to optimize your viewing capacity and avoid potentially dangerous situations. Whether you’re hunting or protecting your property, it’s important to choose the right device for your needs.
One of the most important components of thermal imaging is the thermal core. The thermal core is responsible for detecting heat from objects and producing a better-quality image. The thermal core’s sensitivity is measured in millikelvins. Most modern thermal scopes have a minimum of 50 millikelvins.
Currently, thermal imaging and night vision devices use different methods to provide images. Infrared light is used in thermal imaging instead of visible light. Infrared light can create a more clear image than night vision in complete darkness. The thermal imaging scopes may also be used under bright lighting conditions. However, the image intensifier tubes could be damaged. Atn Thor Hd Thermal Sight 2.5-18x Review.
Thermal imaging is also affected by the refresh rates. Low refresh rates create lag in the image. This can add up to a significant amount of time while hunting. Fortunately, thermal imaging scopes can function during the day as well. In the real world, thermal vision optics aren’t nearly as good as night vision, but they can detect people and animals from several hundred yards away.
There are many models available to choose from if you want the best thermal scope. Some are built to be used in the military while others are designed for home use. You’ll want to choose one that is rugged enough to withstand water and extreme temperatures. The thermal scopes are also useful in property protection. Thermal imaging can be useful if you live on a ranch to protect your property from varmints or hogs.
Thermal scopes have a number of advantages over other night vision devices. They can function in darker environments than night vision devices because they don’t require light. They can also detect heat and display an orange color. Night vision devices, by contrast, typically output a green-tinted image.
The resolution of a thermal scope should be one of the most important characteristics to look out for. A thermal scope that is accurate should be capable of detecting targets at over 1,000 yards. This is a crucial feature for hunters who hunt close to their target. This will give them an excellent field of view and allow them to identify their target. If you are only looking to hunt with your thermal scope, it is worth considering one that has a smaller detection range. For example, one that can detect small animals. Atn Thor Hd Thermal Sight 2.5-18x Review.


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At Three Shores, we value our ability to create an impact - on people, on communities, and on the environment. We approach every opportunity with the desire to build something better and set the standard higher.
Our unique perspective on development allows us to think differently about design and function, and how it will ultimately contribute to the neighbourhoods we work in. We're helping to build not just a better building, but a better community.
With over 50 years of combined experience, we have a shared desire to take a focused, more thoughtful, approach to our place in the development industry. With capital markets experience, Mehdi Shokri brings a formidable financial background to the Three Shores team.
After managing large-scale projects and leading development for some of the largest developers in Canada and Internationally, Barry Savage is well-versed in the development process.


The SMAShiNG tool supports developers to build secure mobile applications. It is technologically agnostic, hence can be applied to all mobile applications developed for any operating system on the market nowadays
New developments in both software and hardware area have resulted into new significant threats for the mobile computing environment, highlighting the need for a tool to help the developers’ community. SMAShiNG touches upon crucial security measures such as:
- User authentication;
- Sensitive data protection;
- Secure software distribution;
- Device and application integrity;
- Protection from client side injections;
- Correct usage of biometric sensors.
SMAShiNG makes it easier for the developers’ community to follow guidelines, by selecting only the ones that are relevant to them. The tool allows for selecting security measures associated with a specific domain and export them as a checklist to follow in the design phase, based on the requirements of the developer.
The security measures featured by SMAShiNG are defined in the ENISA Smartphone Secure Development Guidelines report, which provides a guide for developing secure mobile applications.
The release of SMAShiNG is an important part of ENISA’s continuous work in promoting the ‘security-by-design’ principle, by which strong cybersecurity is built into products as early as the design phase, easing the burden of EU citizens to secure their devices and products.
SMAShiNG complements the work done by ENISA in this area, such as the recently launched online tool for IoT and Smart Infrastructures and the privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) knowledge management and maturity assessment.
ENISA aims to implement a series of enhancements and to broaden the scope of this tool, in order to facilitate users’ live interaction with security recommendations through a visualised and interactive page.
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Brava Studio Sessions
Brava Studio Sessions is a monthly reading series founded and curated by Brava staff to bring the work of playwrights to audiences in an intimate setting. Typically held on the third Tuesday of every month, new plays are performed by actors without the embellishment of stage and technical support, allowing the audience to experience the creative process.
Brava Studio Sessions are free to the public. Donations are happily accepted!
Brava Studio Sessions Events
Join Brava Studio Sessions when we present a work in progress showing of Vero Majano’s multimedia performance, Remember Los Siete.
Help Kevin Seaman solve the world’s testosterone problem in this preview of his debut solo show #femmasculine.
Brava Studio Sessions presents a staged reading of Marisela Trevino Orta’s Ghost Limb. This is a free event (donations happily accepted).
Brava Studio Sessions presents a staged reading of Robert O'Hara's An American Ma(u)l
We invite you to a unique staged reading/benefit to uplift our local community, respond to Orlando and the current status quo, and present stories by a terrific mix of established and emerging playwrights.
Brava Studio Sessions returns with a reading of El Niño by Javier Hurtado. El Niño tells the story of a son and his mother left to confront the ghost of the family patriarch, Don Alverez, after his death.
Brava Studio Sessions and BACCE present a staged reading of Robert O'Hara's provocative comedy, Bootycandy - a series of short pieces – plays, sermons, sketches – that follows the story of Sutter as he embarks on an outrageous odyssey of his boyhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms and even nursing homes in a kaleidoscope of meta-theatrics that weave a portrait of growing up black and gay.
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I enjoyed reading this article on why men stray
partly because of the underlying humour, and partly also because it highlights some of the paradoxes that we all face in our lives.
Here are some snippets from the article:
‘Every man faces the battle between the urge for monogamy and promiscuity…’
‘The wish to be free and the wish to belong…. the difficult bit has always been balancing the yearning for an impressive sexual CV and the longing for a wife, family and home….’
‘Some men stay early… some men stray late…. And men spend a lifetime trying to negotiate a peace settlement between these most basic of instincts…’
‘Some men stray for a bit and then they settle down. That is what many women find difficult to accept … sometimes a man strays not because he is a heartless fornicating bastard, but simply because he hasnt yet met the right girl…’
The author then gives examples of 3 well-known men:
– Tiger Woods: ‘ I thought I could get away with everything I wanted to…. I felt I had worked hard and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me…’
– Paul Newman: ‘You dont go out for hamburger when you have steak at home.’
Warren Beatty : ‘Look at Warren Beatty. Warren is not going out on the pull tonight. Because once you have had enough sex, the staying is better than the straying.’
The author comes to several conclusions…. he says : ‘ Men go out for a Big Mac when they have prime fillet waiting at home, they go out for fishfingers when sushi is in the fridge…….. we could save ourselves – and our girlfriends and our wives so much trouble if we could have a period of wanton straying, followed by decades of blissful staying…. if you are wise, if you are lucky – you get to that Paul Newman moment when you say ” you know what ? I am really sick of bloody fishfingers.”…. but to get to that Paul Newman Valhalla – you need to have had your fill of hamburgers. There can be no staying without the straying ………
The tragedy is that sometimes men get it all the wrong way round. They do their staying. And then they really get stuck into their straying…..
The staying should never be second best, the staying should matter more than the straying… the staying is what the straying should lead to…… however it doesnt work that way. Our twin basic instincts must forever live together in uneasy peace, punctuated by periods of bloody conflict. The need to stray and the need to stay – This is the Middle East of the male soul.’
Look out for our response to Tony Parsons….during the next few weeks, we will be writing some articles on sex therapy and the Tantric Tuition and Tantric Healing sessions we offer here at Tantric Massage London, which hopefully deal with some of these issues….


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- Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, the protagonist of the television series Luther
- Luther, a character from The Adventures of Luther Arkwright limited comic book series
- Luther, a gang member in The Warriors (1979) American cult film
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- Luther (play), a 1961 play by John Osborne
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- Luther , a punk band from Philadelphia signed to Chunksaah Records
- Luther Burger, a hamburger or cheeseburger with a doughnut in place of a bun
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People often ask me why I took so long to watch “Game of Thrones,” and it’s pretty simple, really. For one thing, at the time, “The Walking Dead” had premiered, and my attention was completely on its season runs, and number two: I just didn’t want to invest time in it until I understood what it was about. In the past I’d invested time in period series based on source material, and came up with no real rewards for my investment. I spent many years watching “Deadwood” only for HBO to give it the shaft and never deliver the finishing movie that we deserved. “Carnivale” bored me to tears, and despite my best efforts to dig in to the world unfolding, “The Tudors” was just a tedious droning drama that offered nothing in return. I gave up after the second season, and I never tuned in to “The Borgias.”
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I watch a period show on Showtime ever again. No thank you.
In either case, I unfortunately wrote off “Game of Thrones” as another boring period show. And again, I was wrong about it. “Game of Thrones” is one of the very few popular properties I’ve ever sat down to watch and thought to myself: “I get it.” It’s not just the astonishing set design, and fantastic special effects, it’s the brilliant cast, and excellent writing that has HBO really aiming for a long haul television run. It’s barely in to season four and HBO has already renewed it for two more seasons. And who can blame them, really?
Just when you begin episode one, “Game of Thrones” is set in such a complex and harrowing world where centuries of history have already taken place. And much like modern times, it’s based on civilizations at war with one another where its people want to believe in magic and the supernatural. That time has long come and gone, unfortunately, and all the world’s dragons and ghosts have been believed to be extinct for many centuries. This is supposed to be a world where the reality is based around kingdoms fighting for the rule of the mythical Iron Throne, and the families at war to take control of it.
The king that rules over the Iron Throne completely rules all, and thanks to a series of horrific events, the iron throne is handed over to the sadistic monster child known as Joffrey. He’s the bastard child of manipulative harpie Queen Cersei of the widely known and respected Lannister family, forced to take the throne when his father is killed during combat. There are so many sub-plots and threads of family scheming against one another, and seeking to destroy their enemies that attempting to explain it would take at least thirty pages.
Suffice it to say, it’s easy to think that HBO likely cut out a large portion of the George RR Martin books to bring the series to television. My experience with “Game of Thrones” is almost parallel to my experience with “The Walking Dead.” They’re both adapted from critically acclaimed books with massive fan bases. Except, with “Game of Thrones,” I’ve only watched the series, and haven’t delved in to the novels just yet. In either case, much of “Game of Thrones” is based around a mythical world where magic is there, but is now presented in the most horrific fashions you can think of.
The dragons are still existent, except that they’ve required a special kind of blood line to bring them back in to our world. Enter Khaleesi, the Mother of Dragons. And outside the walls of the kingdom lie the White Walkers. We only gander at them in the opening of episode one of the series, where a soldier comes face to face a zombified young girl, and flees for his life. His cowardice grants him a beheading, despite insisting he’d seen a White Walker. The refusal to heed his warning comes of great consequence to the entire war of the five kingdoms. We learn in the season two finale that the white walkers are indeed very real, and absolutely horrifying.
Season three lets us know that this war for the throne is pointless, because the white walkers are nearing ever gradually, and they intend to murder and consume every man, woman and child, regardless of what family they belong to. My hunch is that they will all have to band together to stop the white walkers with the crows coming in to play. Tylant will reveal the Dragon glass can kill the white walkers, the dragons will help create dragon glass, and the war will end with many fallen, but the white walkers completely destroyed. And then they will all turn around and go back to fighting for the iron throne. That’s just how petty these characters can be.
The series has a long stretch ahead of it, and I’m anxious to see where it’s heading because the first three seasons have been so emotionally trying, already.
There’s been the death of Ned Stark, the controversial Red Wedding, and the incredibly graphic depiction of women being tortured left and right. Though the characters and sub-plots are numerous, I have a penchant for rooting for the underdogs, so naturally the underdog characters are my favorite Jon Snow’s journey from bastard son of Ned Stark to powerful Crow falling for a barbaric woman of the snow has been great, Tyrion’s battle to garner the respect of his family all the while hiding his love for a prostitute is gripping.
Finally, (my favorite) Arya Stark’s transformation from princess, to orphan, to runaway posing as a young boy, to warrior in training is compelling. Arya has many people she wants to kill for destroying the very family she treasured, and she’s going to raise hell the first chance she gets. And she has plenty of fuel for her hatred. It’s not enough they murdered Ned Stark and hung his head on a pike, but the massacre on Robb Stark and her mother Catlyn was despicable and gruesome. May they rot in hell.
Maisie Williams is adorable, and has raised Arya up to a level where she’s an empathetic and absolutely riveting heroine destined to strike down those that killed her brother and beloved father. I really hope Arya gets to murder King Joffrey. And I am anxious to see how her relationship with the Hound progresses. Especially considering she still hates him for engineering the murder of her friend at the kingdom. There are plenty of elements that fantasy and drama fans can fall in love with, along with so many characters to root for and hate. “Game of Thrones” is that pop culture phenomenon I hope stays around for a while. It’s rare a show like hooks me in so quickly, these days. I’m officially a fan and intend to see this excellent series to the end.


Both WiMAX and LTE are vying to be the successor to the current 3G mobile data standards. The first 4G LTE networks are going up around the world, but in the US they have yet to roll out. What we do see stateside is WiMAX 4G service beginning to crop up. Taking note of that, Dell has decided to
offer a WiMAX option
on the new version of the Mini 10.
The netbook has all the usual Wi-Fi 802.11 connectivity including the N standard. But that standard card can be replaced with a combo 802.11n/WiMAX card. This will give the system access to either Sprint 4G or Clearwire mobile broadband. The upgrade adds $60 to the price of the computer. If you want a new Mini 10 with all that 4G goodness, you can order now, but it won’t ship until early March.


NASA seeks help tracking satellite
NASA has asked amateur radio operators for help to determine if a recently launched satellite is operating. The NanoSail-D satellite was ejected automatically from the Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT on Wednesday, January 19. NASA needs reports of the beacon telemetry to determine if it is operating correctly. The beacon signal is on 437.270MHz using standard AX.25 packet so APRS and packet radio operators with 70cm capability should be able to receive it.
Predictions for the satellite can be found here. Reception reports can be submitted here. Full text of the NASA press release here.


- Apple confirms iPhone-killing “Error 53,” says it’s about security
- Researcher finds serious flaw in Chromium-based Avast SafeZone browser
- Internet Archive's malware museum takes you back to the days of cheeky viruses
- Dridex banking malware mysteriously hijacked to distribute antivirus program
- As cloud rolls in, SunRice plants infrastructure seeds with security refresh
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