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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s English-language channel Press TV says that it has been dropped by the satellite that had broadcast its signal to North America.
The Saturday report says that the Galaxy 19 satellite serving audiences in the United States and Canada has removed both the state-owned news channel as well as a movie channel, iFilm
.It said the move was part of sanctions imposed on Iran as part of broader efforts to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies that it is developing weapons, saying its nuclear activities are aimed at peaceful purposes. The Luxembourg-based company Intelsat, whose website says that Galaxy 19 is part of its satellite fleet, could not immediately be reached for comment.


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Host of HGTV’s “Carter Can”, Carter Oosterhouse has returned to his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan to film a special episode for the holiday season of 2009! Elizabeth Edwards goes down to Firehouse 2 to talk to Carter on set and get a bit of a behind the scenes peek at just what he is up to. Read all about what Carter is doing for a local firehouse as part of this special in Carter Oosterhouse Comes Home and by reading my blog about the afternoon I spent on the set. And watch for a featured article on the project in the December 2009 issue of Northern Home & Cottage.
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Ontario sport minister confident OHL will play games in 2021
OHL last of three major-junior leagues to restart after COVID-19 shutdown
Ontario's sport minister is optimistic the Ontario Hockey League will get approval to stage a 2021 season during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lisa MacLeod says she's "feeling great" about the OHL's chances of playing games.
The OHL is the only one of Canada's three major-junior hockey leagues not to begin a 2021 season.
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League started close to its usual October start date, but the season was suspended in late November before resuming in January. The Quebec teams are playing in hubs, while those in Atlantic Canada are playing in home arenas.
The Western Hockey League now has approval for all four divisions to play with some divisions in hubs and some in home arenas. The season started Feb. 26.
The OHL will have to figure out what to do with its three American teams – the Saginaw Spirit, Flint Firebirds and Erie Otters – with border restrictions coming into play. The WHL's five American teams are playing exclusively against each other.

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(TIML NEWS) A Romanian billionaire was killed — along with his wife, son and five other people — when the plane he was piloting crashed into a building in Italy on Sunday, local media reported.
Dan Petrescu, 68, one of the richest men in his home country, was operating a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 that was seen in flames before it slammed into an office building undergoing renovations in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, authorities said.
The fatal wreck took place minutes after the plane took off from Milan’s Linate airport at about 1 p.m., according to aviation agency ANSV, which has opened an investigation.
The plane’s black box has been recovered, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported, citing
deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano.


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"Shchekinoazot" in May-June 2011, plans to launch a range of methanol production value of more than EUR 150 million.
Previously entered into commercial operation the capacity of 450 thousand tons of methanol was planned in the IV quarter of last year, but the date was moved to amend the investment project.
"Shchekinoazot" began construction of the methanol production M-450 in 2007. In August 2009, put into operation the first starting complex — a warehouse of methanol. Methanol is planned to implement the domestic and foreign markets.
It takes individual tests on the nitrogen oxygen compressor, the program developed by the specialists of «MAN Diesel &Turbo». After the successful completion of their compressor is preserved until startup of production.
Fully ready reservoir of crude methanol, water rotation cycle, the buildings of energy, a central control, compression, as well as the main pier. The department is being installed compression process piping, compressors installed synthesis gas and natural gas.
Within the department of energy equipment is being installed, and in the department of rectification of these works have been completed.
Completed installation of metal in one of the most complex construction projects — the main flyover. Is an installation of process piping, installation of steel structures for instrumentation and electrical lines. Have to do a lot of work for the wiring of cable lines from North and South substations. You will then be energized to test the equipment at the site of the M-450. Installers confirm that at the end of December the bulk of the installation of technology and you can begin to test all production lines.
"Shchekinoazot" (Tula region) — the largest manufacturers of industrial chemicals: methanol, caprolactam, hexamine, ammonium sulphate, ion-exchange membranes, as well as household products. Volumes of production enterprises account for more than 1 million tons of chemical products annually.


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"If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down by definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business!” – Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Salesforce.
All over the IT world for the last decade, the cloud computing has been a very important and substantial part of technology. Cloud computing is one of the defining IT technologies amongst technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Robotic Process Automation, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality. We have all heard about the cloud, and it is likely most of us use the cloud in one way or the other at a personal level – be it Dropbox or iCloud services (such as iCloud email sync) but have not realized. The true power of the cloud is at the enterprise level, and that is what truly fascinating! The global cloud computing market size was worth a massive $371.4 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow by $832.1 billion by 2025.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services — including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence — over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently and scale as your business needs change.
In other words, the cloud does away with local hardware requirements. Maintaining a server can be tedious and quite difficult for a corporation. The hardware and maintenance itself can increase the cost quite rapidly. With cloud computing, the user needs to pay only for the part of the cloud he is using. The load of the physical server, security, maintenance, etc. are all up to the service provider!
There are three main types of cloud computing – public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud computing. Let’s go deep to understand the types of cloud computing.
A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), applications, or storage, available to users remotely. Public cloud services may be free or offered through a variety of subscription or on-demand pricing schemes, including a pay-per-usage model.
Some public cloud examples include those offered by Amazon, Microsoft, or Google. These companies provide both services and infrastructure, which are shared by all customers. Public clouds typically have massive amounts of available space, good data upload speed, higher bandwidth, which translates into easy scalability. A public cloud is often recommended for software development and collaborative projects. Companies can design their applications to be portable so that a project that is tested in the public cloud can be moved to the private cloud for production. Most cloud providers package their computing resources as part of a service. Public cloud examples range from access to a completely virtualized infrastructure that provides little more than raw processing power and storage (Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS) to specialized software programs that are easy to implement and use (Software as a Service, or SaaS).
Private clouds usually reside behind a firewall and are utilized by a single organization. A completely on-premises cloud may be the preferred solution for businesses with very tight regulatory requirements, though private clouds implemented through a colocation provider are gaining in popularity. Authorized users can access, utilize, and store data in the private cloud from anywhere, just like they could with a public cloud. The difference is that no one else can access or utilize those computing resources. Private cloud solutions offer both security and control, but these benefits come at a cost. The company that owns the cloud is responsible for both software and infrastructure, making this a less economical model than the public cloud.
Hybrid clouds combine public clouds with private clouds. They are designed to allow the two platforms to interact seamlessly, with data and applications moving seamlessly from one to the other.
The primary advantage of a hybrid cloud model is its ability to provide the scalable computing power of a public cloud with the security and control of a private cloud. Data can be stored safely behind the firewalls and encryption protocols of the private cloud, then moved securely into a public cloud environment when needed. This is especially helpful in the age of big data analytics when industries like healthcare must adhere to strict data privacy regulations while also using sophisticated algorithms powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to derive actionable insights from huge masses of unstructured data.
There are two commonly used types of hybrid cloud architecture. Cloud bursting uses a private cloud as its primary cloud, storing data and housing proprietary applications in a secure environment. When service demands increase, however, the private cloud’s infrastructure may not have the capacity to keep up. That is where the public cloud comes in. A cloud bursting model uses the public cloud’s computing resources to supplement the private cloud, allowing the company to handle increased traffic without having to purchase new servers or other infrastructure.
The second type of hybrid cloud model also runs most applications and houses data in a private cloud environment but outsources non-critical applications to a public cloud provider. This arrangement is common for organizations that need to access specialized development tools (like Adobe Creative Cloud), basic productivity software (like Microsoft Office 365), or CRM platforms (like Salesforce). Multi-cloud architecture is often deployed here, incorporating multiple cloud service providers to meet a variety of unique organizational needs.
The adoption of cloud services is the way forward for any industry in the IT field in the 21st century. Offline data centers will soon be obsolete, and it is paramount that companies keep up with the current trends. The cloud is faster, safer, more secure, cheaper and simply a more efficient solution for businesses to adopt. There is a massive global market for cloud services with many competitors, including big names like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alibaba as well as specialized cloud companies all vying to deliver the best possible solutions for end-users!
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Central Board of Direct Taxes
3 senior IRS officers chargesheeted for creating uncertainty and panic by publishing unauthorised tax hike report, stripped of charge
One of the officers, Prashant Bhushan, is the general secretary of the IRS Association and his wife is a Congress MLA from Begusarai in Bihar.
Record number of Income Tax Return filed in a single day, I-T dept to issue PAN if ITR filed with only Aadhaar
The dept will allot a fresh PAN to a person who files I-T Returns (ITR) with only Aadhaar as part of a new arrangement to link the two databases
Government refutes reports of issue of en masse prosecution notice to TDS defaulters, says reports completely misleading
The taxation body claimed that a few defaulter firms are deliberately misleading the media to thwart action against themselves.
Direct Taxes collections this year have exceeded budget expectations.

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Nowadays, the use of artificial intelligence is increasing in almost every field. Various problems are searched in an unconventional way through Artificial Intelligence so that they can be solved automatically in future. It is evident that in such a situation the demand of professionals who are aware of Artificial Intelligence is also increasing. In such a situation, in the era of Kovid-19 epidemic, the Ministry of Education is giving a chance to take a free online artificial intelligence course at home. Free online courses of various sectors are being run on the ‘SWAYAM‘ portal of the Ministry, among which are courses in Artificial Intelligence. A number of courses are available on the portal from UGC to AECTE, IET, IIM, various universities and other education institutes or organizations.
How to Join Online Artificial Intelligence Course?
- To join the Artificial Intelligence Courses being run by the Ministry of Education itself (SWAYAM), you have to visit the portal swayam.gov.in. After this, one has to search Artificial Intelligence courses by browsing in ‘Course Catalog’ or through ‘Search Catalog’. After this, you can enroll or join online by choosing the course according to your desired results. Direct links to some Artificial Intelligence courses are given below.


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Hospital cuts costs by moving cancer patients to hotels
Published: 20 November 2005
UP TO a third of cancer patients at a leading NHS trust will be moved out of wards and put up in nearby hotels under plans to save tens of millions of pounds on hospital beds.
Patients staying in privately run hotels benefit by spending more time with their families and they avoid the risk of picking up hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA.
More than 100 patients suffering from cancer or blood disorders at University College hospital (UCH) in London have already stayed at NHS expense at the Radisson Edwardian Grafton, a four-star hotel where rooms cost £168 a night.
Despite the high cost of the accommodation, it is cheaper for patients to stay in the hotel than in hospital. A bed on a cancer ward costs between £500 and £600 a night.
Two other hospitals in the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have transferred patients to local

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Progress with God
True progress is being with God not against him; acknowledging your frailties so God becomes the center of your life. As strong, smart, talented, and successful as you may be, you are nothing without God. Our pride has a way of getting in between us and God. God does not want to impede your ability to grow or progress. He wants you to go from glory to glory, strength to strength. But what does that look like?
Look at Genesis 4:16-26 to see two positions juxtapose each other. This story is really about the progress of two-family lines: Cain and Seth. In short, one family line wanted to show their worth their reliance upon themselves, through worldly advancement or progress. The other family chose to show their progress through glorifying God.
Progress is not a bad thing to want to see happen. However, it is bad when that progress is only about man and one’s belief that they are the only one responsible for it. That’s what the first part of our verse shows. Cain creates an image of progress apart from God. As a result of Cain’s “progress”, we can make three observations:
1. Defiance of God – I can do this on my own
2. Lust and perversion – lust of the flesh
3. Pride – attempting to come to God on your terms, not His
Today, many inventions that were made in man’s own image to “help” humanity grow are now being used to keep people away from God, preventing real progress. This causes humanity to be about self; yet God opposes the proud. Progress reliant upon self is not real progress.
There is hope as we see true progress through Seth’s lineage. Seth’s mother, Eve, refused to give up hope that there would be progress. She realized that the promises of God do not happen through human effort, but only through God’s will. Through Seth, people began to rely upon the name of the Lord and not on them selves (v26). Seth recognized that sin was no mere imperfection of human nature, but something destined to destroy both the individual and culture unless it should be overcome by the grace and power of the almighty God. Seth also began to acknowledge two other things: they began to acknowledge their frailties and their dependence upon the Lord. Seth and his descendants began to call upon God as the personal, caring God, trusting Him fully. Placing God at the center of your life brings true progress, true transformation. You want to see real progress in your life? All you have to do is believe in God’s promises for your life as shown through the Bible.
To view the service & listen to the full sermon by Pastor Armand on 4/19/20 click here: Progress with God

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The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe..
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Rape and Domestic Violence: Conviction for rape, including of men, carries a maximum penalty of 16 years in prison. Judges typically imposed sentences of two to three years. The law does not explicitly address spousal rape.
The law criminalizes domestic violence and specifies a maximum penalty of 16 years in prison for violations.
Survivors of domestic violence can request police to remove perpetrators physically from the home for up to four weeks at a time. Police can also impose a 72-hour restraining order to prevent abusers from coming into proximity with the victim, and courts can extend this restraining order for up to a year. The law entitles survivors of sex crimes to a lawyer to advise them of their rights and to help them pursue charges against the alleged assailants. As of August 26, approximately 74 women and 64 children had sought temporary lodging during the year at shelters for women in Reykjavik and Akureyri.
The police procedure for handling domestic violence states that law enforcement should report to the location of the incident. If responding officers are unable to enter the premises and have reasonable suspicion that the life of an individual inside might be threatened, they are allowed to use force to enter. If a child is present, an official from the child protective services must be called to the scene. All parties present are questioned, and the case is entered into the police database. If the situation warrants, the responding officers can arrest the perpetrator and assist the survivor in seeking medical care and offer guidance on legal recourse. The victim can request a temporary restraining order be imposed on the perpetrator. In some cases officers, child protective services, or the family of the victim can request the restraining order. If officers deem the survivor to be in danger following the imposed restraining order, they provide an emergency services call device.
The government helped finance the women’s shelters in Reykjavik and Akureyri, the Counseling and Information Center for Survivors of Sexual Violence, the rape crisis center of the national hospital, and other organizations that assisted victims of domestic or gender-based violence. These organizations offered services free of charge, regardless of the victim’s citizenship. In addition, the government assisted immigrant women in abusive relationships, offering emergency accommodation, counseling, and information on legal rights.
Sexual Harassment: Under the general penal code, sexual harassment is punishable by imprisonment for up to two years. In addition, the law on equal status defines sexual harassment more broadly as any type of unfair or offensive physical, verbal, or symbolic sexual behavior that is unwanted, affects the self-respect of the victim, and continues despite a clear indication that the behavior is undesired. The law requires employers and organization supervisors to make specific arrangements to prevent employees, students, and clients from becoming victims of gender-based or sexual harassment. The law establishes fines for violations, but more severe penalties could be applicable under other laws.
Reproductive Rights: There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization on the part of government authorities.
The government provides access to sexual and reproductive services for sexual violence survivors, both on-site at hospitals, and via government-funded nongovernmental organizations that provide free counselling and psychiatric services. Emergency contraception was available as part of clinical management of rape.
Discrimination: Women have the same legal status and rights as men according to the constitution and the law. Although the government enforced the law effectively, employment discrimination occurred.
Systemic Racial or Ethnic Violence and Discrimination
All discrimination is illegal, in both society and the labor market, including discrimination based on race and ethnicity. Immigrants and asylum seekers, mainly of non-European origin or from Eastern Europe or the Baltic countries, suffered occasional incidents of social harassment based on their ethnicity. Law enforcement agencies recorded 11 potential hate crimes during the year.
Birth Registration: A child acquires the country’s citizenship at birth if both parents are citizens, if the mother is a citizen, or if the father is a citizen and is married to the child’s foreign mother. If a mixed-nationality couple had obtained a judicial separation at the time when the child was conceived, the child acquires the mother’s citizenship. A stateless child can become a citizen at the age of three. By law all children have access to social services regardless of citizenship. If a child is not legally domiciled in the country or is living in the country without legal guardians, a child protection committee in the municipality where the child is physically located assumes care if needed and takes measures to secure his or her best interests. Registrations of births were prompt.
Child Abuse: Child abuse is illegal. The government is legally mandated to provide services for children, including a safe residence for children as well as specialized services. Under the law the general public has a duty to notify authorities if suspicion of any form of child abuse arises. The Government Agency for Child Protection is responsible for implementation of the law. The agency operated a diagnostic and short-term treatment center for abused and troubled minors and was responsible for one short-term treatment center in Reykjavik and two centers in other locations. The government maintained a children’s assessment center to secure their well-being, lessen the trauma experienced by children, coordinate victim protection, and accelerate prosecution in child sexual abuse cases. The prime minister appoints the ombudsman for children, who acts independently of the government. While the ombudsman’s recommendations are not binding on authorities, the government generally adopted them.
Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: The minimum age for marriage is 18 for both sexes. There were no reports of forced marriages during the year.
Sexual Exploitation of Children: The law prohibits the payment or promise of payment or consideration of another type for the commercial sexual exploitation of a child younger than 18. Violations may be punished with fines or imprisonment for up to two years. The law punishes child pornography by up to two years in prison. The law criminalizes statutory rape with incarceration of one to 16 years. The government effectively enforced these laws.
The minimum age for consensual sex is 15. The law includes a requirement for explicit consent for sexual acts, meaning that consent is not considered to be given freely if obtained through violence or the threat of violence, any kind of force, or the use of drugs or alcohol.
International Child Abductions: The country is a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. See the Department of State’s Annual Report on International Parental Child Abduction at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction/for-providers/legal-reports-and-data/reported-cases.html.
The resident Jewish community was estimated at approximately 300-400 individuals. Jewish community leaders noted an uptick in anti-Semitism during the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas in May, including one physical assault against a man wearing a Star of David necklace at a Reykjavik bar.
Trafficking in Persons
See the Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report at https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/.
Persons with Disabilities
The constitution prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities, and the country has several laws that describe the rights and protections provided to persons education is on the national level. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture oversees and issues the national curriculum which establishes standardized rules for all levels of education. According to the law on the issues of persons with disabilities, all municipalities are obliged to ensure that all school-aged children who have learning difficulties stemming from special needs, social, or emotional difficulties due to disability or health reasons are entitled to specialized support in accordance with their needs. The same rules apply for upper secondary and university education. The national curriculum emphasizes nonsegregated education to the extent possible.
By law persons with disabilities are free to hire their own assistance providers and tailor assistance to their needs. The law provides that persons with disabilities have access to buildings, information, and communications.
The government generally enforced the laws effectively, but occasional discrimination did occur, and disability rights advocates complained that authorities did not fully implement the law and regulations. While violations of these regulations are punishable by a fine or a jail sentence of up to two years, one of the main associations for persons with disabilities contended that authorities rarely, if ever, assessed penalties for noncompliance.
There were no reports of violence, harassment, intimidation, or abuses against persons with disabilities.
There were no laws nor reports of government action or inaction that limited the rights of persons with disabilities to participate in civic life, including accessibility in elections.
Acts of Violence, Criminalization, and Other Abuses Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
While the constitution does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, it does so implicitly. The law prohibits anyone from denying a person goods or services based on that person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It also prohibits denying a person access to a public meeting place or other places open to the public on the same footing with others on grounds of that person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The law further prohibits incitement to hatred against persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity and the dissemination of hateful material.
In January the Gender Autonomy Act (passed in 2019) went into effect. Within the first week, 12 persons registered to change their legal gender to nonbinary.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) activists reported generally positive conditions. Nevertheless, the same activists continued to note the lack of explicit protections for LGBTQI+ individuals based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics, in hate crime laws.
Other Societal Violence or Discrimination
Immigrants and asylum seekers, mainly Muslims of non-European origin, suffered occasional incidents of harassment based on their religious beliefs (see section 7, Worker Rights).


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Customized trainings on GIS/RS applications, Geospatial Application Development, and Hydrological Modelling and provisions for on the job trainings and participation in regional and global events for relevant stakeholders. Joint Collaboration with Kabul University to conduct trainings on GIS/RS.
Enhanced access to data
Facilitation of a national data sharing policy in close collaboration with USAID-Afghanistan; Development of an integrated irrigation portal for assimilation of data management and visualization processes related to irrigation in Afghanistan; Mapping and monitoring of glaciers to understand the impact on water resources.
Development of decision support tools
Development of a wheat mapping application to aid food security planning; drought monitoring system for improved seasonal forecasts and early warning; development of a framework for collection and dissemination of information utilizing mobile devices.

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The NIBP100D noninvasive blood pressure system provides a continuous, beat-to-beat, blood pressure signal recorded from the fingers of a
subject. The system outputs a continuous blood pressure waveform that is similar to a direct arterial pressure waveform. The monitor displays values for systolic, diastolic, mean blood pressure, and heart rate.
With a few calibration steps, AcqKnowledge or BSL PRO software and NIBP100D work together to provide automated, continuous, noninvasive blood pressure measurements.
This Application Note details NIBP100D Calibration using BIOPAC’s MP160, MP150, or MP6R hardware and AcqKnowledge software, or MP36, MP35, or MP45 hardware and BSL PRO software.
NIBP: Noninvasive Blood Pressure - Record high-fidelity noninvasive blood pressure with industry leading hardware for humans or small animals. MRI options are also available for both human and animal blood pressure recording. AcqKnowledge software includes the following automated Arterial Blood Pressure Analysis routines, along with dozens of other automated analysis routines and transformation tools:
fNIR Imaging Systems are stand-alone functional brain imaging solutions for continuous NIR spectroscopy (NIRS). They provide an in-lab cognitive function assessment and eliminate a great many of the drawbacks of a functional MRI. fNIR optical imaging technology measures neural activity and hemodynamic response in the prefrontal cortex. Subjects wear an fNIR sensor (IR light sources […]
BIOPAC provides software and hardware that allow for research teams to record and analyze respiration activity in physiological experimentation. Here are a few notable studies covering HRV, EMG, and EEG measurement. HRV (Jing Wei, Hong Luo, Si J. Wu, Paul P. Zheng, Genyue Fu, and Kang Lee) Humans encounter various stressful situations everyday at work, home, and school. Such stress when experienced at high degrees and/or […]
Alan Macy Answers Proust Questionnaire BIOPAC co-founder and R&D Director, Alan Macy, was interviewed recently by Roger Durling for the Santa Barbara Independent. The article, “The S.B. Questionnaire: Alan Macy,” provided a background excerpt of the Santa Barbara entrepreneurs’ past as well as his answers to the Proust Questionnaire. The biomedical technology developed at BIOPAC reflects an ambitious […]

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Geometries of the first triplet and first singletn-π* excited states of benzaldehyde have been optimized using thesindo 1 molecular orbital wave-function (with CI) and the Newton-Raphson method. The triplet excited state geometry of the molecule is found to be appreciably non-planar whereas that of the singlet excited state is planar. A crossing of molecular orbitals occurs in going from the ground state equilibrium geometry to the triplet and singletn-π* excited state equilibrium geometries. Existence of the para-directing effect of the singletn-π* transition for electronic charges found in an earlier work is confirmed by the present work. The tripletn-π* excitation rearranges electronic charges mainly on the CHO group. It is found that the dipole moment of the molecule would appreciably increase following the singletn-π* excitation whereas the same would appreciably decrease following the tripletn-π* excitation.
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|Category: Simba » [S]|
|Year: 2019 ||Director: Aravind Sridhar
|Music: Vishal Chandrasekhar|
|Singers: Vishal Chandrasekhar, Anirudh Ravichander, Teejay, Anthony Daasan, Arunraja Kamaraj, Sinduri Vishal, Roshini, Aarnav, Siddharth, Aishwarya Ravichandran, Maria Kavita Thomas, Shilpa Natarajan, Solar Sai|
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FAA Pushes Starbase Environmental Assessment Back Another Month
The FAA is working toward issuing the final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the SpaceX Starship / Super Heavy on May 31, 2022. SpaceX made multiple changes to its application that require additional FAA analysis. The agency continues to review around 18,000 general public comments.
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‘Kirkland Native History Document’ spurs debate about Eastside Indigenous history
Jun 29, 2022, 11:36 AM | Updated: Jun 30, 2022, 12:55 pm
(City of Kirkland)
When the City of Kirkland published a document last week about the Native American history of that part of King County, one local historian wasn’t very happy.
For even those who pay scant attention, this is an exciting and dynamic time to be interested in local history. With the intersection of the profound social change of the past few years and a decades-long expansion of what truly counts as history – along with the spread of social media – there’s never been more information available to those who seek to know about the past, and more channels for individuals and organizations who wish to share what they’ve found.
It’s against this backdrop that the City of Kirkland just published what they call the “Kirkland Native History Document.” It’s a 16-page deep dive on Indigenous history in the longtime lakeside community. The report covers a lot of ground and mentions 12,000 years of habitation, ancient settlement patterns, native languages, and 19th-century treaties. The authors include tantalizing details about two “winter villages” that once stood in Kirkland, and describe wetlands along the lake at Juanita Creek where “Lake People” cultivated such plants.
The document is ambitious, and it may be the first of its kind in King County.
But not everyone is happy with the final product. Matt McCauley is a Kirkland historian affiliated with the Kirkland Heritage Society who, among other achievements, solved the mystery of Kellogg Island and shared with KIRO listeners stories of the old Houghton Shipyards.
McCauley believes the “Kirkland Native History Document” could have been better.
“I have to make it clear, I appreciate the sentiment here,” McCauley told KIRO Newsradio earlier this week. “Kirkland used to be very proud of its being the most historic community on the Eastside. There was a lot about that when I was a kid growing up in the 70s, all about [Kirkland namesake] Peter Kirk and the steel mill and all these sorts of things, and [the city] kind of drifted off that.”
“So initially, when I saw this document, I thought, ‘Cool, this is great, they’re putting some resources into this original research here,’” McCauley continued. “And so it was a little disappointing that it wasn’t a better final finished product.”
Jim Lopez is the City of Kirkland deputy city manager. Lopez told KIRO Newsradio that the idea of creating the “Kirkland Native History Document” dates to 2020, around the time when George Floyd was murdered. A group of City of Kirkland employees saw an opportunity to address one aspect of how the city was presenting itself to the public.
“Our staff noticed [that] documents and photos and images [on display] around City Hall were really post-colonial,” or from the time after the arrival of European settlers, Lopez said. “And you know, we were at that very same time thinking of doing a land acknowledgement to honor the Native roots of present-day Kirkland.”
“So it’s in that context that staff came up with this idea of creating a hyperlocal narrative history document for Kirkland” to go along with the land acknowledgment, Lopez said.
Matt McCauley’s specific quibbles with the document are that it’s rough around the edges and feels incomplete. After decades studying and writing about Kirkland history, he says there’s more to the story – such as the fact that some Duwamish descendants never left Kirkland; they married white settlers, and then remained part of the community for decades.
And though McCauley’s other main quibble might seem a little “inside baseball,” he says “inside baseball” is exactly what an official history – something authored and shared by a government entity – should have at its core.
“You have to make sure this stuff is tight when it’s going out,” McCauley said. “Do the sources all match up in the footnotes? It’s got to be accurate because it’s history.”
“What happens in the case of this stuff from a government organization is the Internet is forever,” McCauley continued. “People are cutting and pasting that stuff. They’re using it as sources for Wikipedia. And when something is wrong, it just keeps getting repeated, repeated, repeated over and over and over for years and years.”
“I’d like to avoid seeing that happen in this case and just maybe have them go back and revisit it a little bit and tighten it up,” McCauley said. “[That] would be satisfactory to me.”
Deputy Kirkland City Manager Jim Lopez says the history published online last week is a living document, and they would absolutely welcome a conversation with Matt McCauley to help make the document better. Lopez says that the city had research help from noted historian David Buerge (who wrote the acclaimed recent biography Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name) and that Kirkland staff met and consulted with tribal people whose history connects with what’s now Kirkland – Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, and Suquamish – to share drafts and then incorporate feedback.
To Kirkland’s credit, it appears they did put in the work necessary to credibly and sincerely gather information and connect with the right people in preparing the document. In addition, a quick check with other historians and public officials indicates that Kirkland may be the only city in King County that has commissioned a project like this.
It’s also true that no single book or web resource tells the comprehensive story of Indigenous history east of Lake Washington, or, really, gets at any aspects of the bigger collection of stories and how it all fits together, or, in some cases, doesn’t fit together.
One local author and historian told KIRO Newsradio that researching Indigenous history can be much more fruitful in an urban place like Seattle than it would be in Kirkland simply because there’s much more material to work with. That is, in Seattle, there are memoirs, diaries, archival newspapers, photos from the 19th century because Seattle was well on its way to becoming a dense urban area by the 1870s or 1880s. Kirkland, which boomed only briefly in the 1890s before going bust for decades, has only since about World War II onward become a major population center.
On the surface – via “windshield survey” and through a casual examination of museums and public parks – Seattle is also ahead of Kirkland and other suburban communities in incorporating Indigenous history into the landscape and weaving the stories into the city’s modern culture. For example, the Port of Seattle has renamed several Port parks after pre-European place names and installed large signs with those names written in the Indigenous Lushootseed language, and the City of Seattle has created trails honoring Indigenous people, such as Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop.
As Matt McCauley’s reaction has shown, being first has its drawbacks. However, at least one member of the Duwamish Tribe who participated in Kirkland’s effort is satisfied with the “Kirkland Native History Document.”
Ken Workman is a direct descendant of Chief Seattle and a member of the Duwamish Tribe. He reviewed a draft of the document before it was published, and he knows that what constitutes history – particularly Indigenous history – is evolving, and can be challenging to get right in a way that satisfies everyone.
However, Workman says, we are in a more enlightened era when it comes to daylighting local Indigenous history. He’s personally witnessed a lot of positive change over the decades.
“It was only okay to be Native only in the last you know, 40 years, 30 years, maybe 50,” Workman told KIRO Newsradio. Before that, he said, “to be a Native person out here was not good. And in my family, it was buried. Absolutely buried. You do not talk about it, you do not admit it. You fit into this dominant culture as best you can.”
“And so, how do you record these histories when, in fact, there’s so much – my word – ‘trauma,’ that it is shut down?” Workman asked. “My grandmother went to her grave, and she would not tell these things [about being Native] to her children and grandchildren.”
Workman agrees with the old adage that history is written by the victors – in this case, the dominant white culture that settled in the Northwest beginning in the 19th century and displaced much of the Native population. Adding to the challenge of now seeking to research and share Indigenous stories and history is the fact that Indigenous culture in the Northwest had no written language – it’s an oral tradition – and thus the written culture that came here along with whites had no ready means to recognize and share the stories of what had come before – short of the historians and ethnographers and journalists who tried to document stories and memories of the Indigenous people who were willing to talk.
But, Ken Workman says, in thinking about how these two very different cultures can somehow reconcile the history of this place, he sees no contradictions – not even any tension – between Native culture and its origin stories about things like weather and landforms, and the modern science that explains those things – or that tries now to get the history right.
“We come to these myths, and we try to explain things like what is thunder, what is lightning when you have no concept of what that is?,” Workman said. “I’m what I call a ‘modern Indian’; I know why airplanes fly, I know what lightning is, I know the modern sciences.”
“I have science on one side of my brain and I have a culture on my other as inherited through my DNA, Duwamish DNA [and] . . . these two things are on what I call a collision course,” Workman continued. “But there really isn’t any collision, because modern science is proving what our people have been saying all along. And that is, when we pass away, we decay and our biological material decays. It goes down in the ground and then it gets sucked back up into the roots of things.”
Things, Ken Workman says, like the cedar tree – easy to split, lightweight, strong, rot resistant. A cedar tree, he says, is a perfect object and a fitting metaphor for how old and new – even in something like the “Kirkland Native History Document – inevitably intersect and overlap.
“What other tree would you pick out here in the Northwest that would have such utilitarian value? It’s absolutely amazing,” Workman said. “How do you translate, or how do you tell modern people about these ancient connections?”
“What I tell people is, you want to save the planet? Plant a tree. You will sequester carbon, you get oxygen, and it’ll help everybody out,” Workman said.
It seems like the City of Kirkland may have tapped into something with this new document that other Eastside communities may want to also consider, or that an agency like the King County Landmarks Commission or the cultural affairs agency known as 4Culture may want to help facilitate for the entire county.
Jim Lopez says a next step for Kirkland is looking at things like foregrounding Indigenous names and creating signage for parks and other public areas. He seems genuinely excited by the possibilities of what Kirkland’s document – spurred to greater heights by the passion of someone like Matt McCauley and the perspective and wisdom of someone like Ken Workman – might help inspire.
“I can tell you, honest to goodness, we would love it if this inspired that kind of movement on the Eastside,” Lopez said. “We’d be a part of it. Kirkland would be a part of it.”
Along with the “Kirkland Native History Document,” the city also posted a link to David Buerge’s 92-page research treatise “Kirkland: Its Native American Past and Present.” For additional history from an archaeological perspective, Brandy Rinck, archaeologist and cultural resources coordinator for the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, recommends a 2016 report called “Archaeology of King County, Washington: A Context Statement for Native American Archaeological Resources,” which is available as PDF download.
You can hear Feliks every Wednesday and Friday morning on Seattle’s Morning News and read more from him here. If you have a story idea, please email Feliks here.


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Joan and I always have some local “TO DO” trips on the back burner when having obligations, lousy weather, or for other reasons.
With iffy weather moving in this past weekend, we went to the well for such a trip—one mere minutes from our home.
We started on a trail and fairly soon went cross country to see familiar sites from a different angle and places new to us.
As usual, we found signs that others had walked up here previously.
The many lithics and chert indicated a lot of activity here in the past.
And one astounding panel with many intricate images.
The potential rain came and went, with the sun occasionally peeking out and giving some interesting photos with the clouds and light.
And though the human travel paths always intrigue me, other local inhabitants also routinely walk this land.
Our travels that day brought us to other seemingly obvious waypoints and landmarks.
And the faded images on the boulders seemed to prove this theory.
Before rejoining the trail, we had one last unique look at the familiar differently.
We returned to our awaiting vehicle, headed home, and enjoyed the warm and dry house to welcome in the new year.
Not a bad way to end 2022.

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Peter Strzok Co-Wrote Draft Letter to Open Clinton E-mail Probe; Interview with Representative Jim Himes; First Woman to File Complaint to MSU on Nassar Speaks Out; Aired 7:30-8a ET
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[07:30:00] SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D), JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: The integrity of the premiere law enforcement agency in the United States, perhaps in the world. And an undermining of the rule of law. And for Donald Trump to be demanding these kinds of loyalty pledges, call them what you will, is I think reflective of a contempt for the Department of Justice and law enforcement.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Senator Richard Blumenthal, thank you very much. Nice to have you in the studio.
BLUMENTHAL: Thank you.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: We have a big CNN exclusive this morning. The agent at the center of allegations of bias in the FBI against the president played a key role in reopening the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation.
Now what will this mean to critics attacking him? Well, so far they're ignoring it. Why? We'll tell you next.
CUOMO: All right. Now to a CNN exclusive. Sources tell CNN the FBI agent whose text messages have led to allegations of bias in the Mueller investigation played a key role in reopening the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe just days before the 2016 election.
Peter Strzok was part of that gut shot to Clinton. He helped draft the letter that Comey made public about looking at those e-mails that they found on Anthony Weiner's laptop. Remember, they wind up being largely duplicative and illustrious of nothing new.
Joining us now, CNN national security commentator and former House Intelligence chairman, Mike Rogers.
Now why this is so relevant is because this guy is being painted as a patsy. He is a Clinton favorite. He was trying to help her. He is exhibit A of this fogazy (PH) deep state that people on the right are trying to construct. So what does this reporting do to that notion?
MIKE ROGERS, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY COMMENTATOR: A couple of things, Chris. First of all, you know, the reason that Strzok and Page were in trouble, the general counsel and this specific special agent, and went to the attention of the IG was not because of their investigative work. It was because they were in an inappropriate relationship and they were using government --
ROGERS: You know, services to do that. And so there's some notion that that -- taking the personal e-mails of those conversations that anybody might have either at the bar at night or after work or at home or on the patio or whatever, and try to stretching that back in the investigation. I would argue was inappropriate.
What they would need to have done is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt and I think both of them should get some due process here, is that their attitudes reflected their work in the investigation.
CUOMO: Right. Right.
[07:35:10] ROGERS: And clearly what these texts are showing is it didn't.
ROGERS: Yes, they had -- they were not happy with what sounds like to me with either candidate but they went through and did their job, or at least he did his job on this particular piece.
ROGERS: Now there's 50,000 of those texts we don't know what's in there. By it's certainly --
ROGERS: By all appearances they got caught doing something they shouldn't be doing.
ROGERS: It didn't impact their investigative work, or his investigative work.
CUOMO: The missing texts that were used as proof of a deep state cover-up and then the FBI gave them, and there was no correction of that. The same texts where one of them mentioned a secret society that elected lawmakers from your party jumped on as proof of a deep state. And then when the context came out, there was no back off of it.
I mean, Mike, you were loyal to your party and you are loyal to this country. Is there any question about the motivation for what's going on right now? These people haven't even seen the FISA application they're saying was wrong and unjustified. They haven't even seen it, Mike. How is this not about politics?
ROGERS: Yes. Yes. I'm a little bit disturbed by what they haven't seen and the fact that members didn't read the supporting materials before they went on to vote. I will say, Democrats have been equally bad about this. This is a messy --
CUOMO: But not right now. Got to deal with the instant situation.
ROGERS: I'm hearing you. But there -- they haven't been pure on this either.
CUOMO: Nobody is pure.
ROGERS: And here's --
CUOMO: That's why this is -- but, Mike, just so you understand.
CUOMO: The one reason this is going to be so effective, and this is my suggestion. When this comes out, I don't care what the basis for it is. People are going to read and see what they want to see in it. And one of the reasons they'll do that is because they don't trust anybody down there. Left, right, middle, center, any label you want to give yourself. They don't trust you guys because of stuff like this.
ROGERS: You guys?
CUOMO: Well, no. You're one of us, Mike. You look better already.
ROGERS: Yes, exactly. So I wanted to say this --
CUOMO: But -- tell me. Tell me.
ROGERS: I am concerned as well about the fact that through this process it appears to me that even their investigators haven't seen the FISA application. And listen, I've done what's called a Title 3, which is -- when I was an FBI agent, the criminal version of what they did in the -- an intelligence version in the FISA court. A criminal version in the regular court, Title 3 Court.
They're really hard. Very complicated. Lots of information goes in there. They are multiple, multiple pages. And so I hope what they have not done is taken a few pieces, the affirmation of the information that they liked and put it in this memo because it will be probably a distortion of what really happened.
And I just don't think that's -- it's not fair to the bureau, it's not fair, I think to other members of Congress who don't sit on those committees, to not have the full picture and sure they can run around and say this shows exactly what I want you to see.
ROGERS: And by the way the Democrats are talking about doing the same thing. They got one that will show something different and I'm sure that they are putting their own spin on these things.
ROGERS: And it really is messy. This is the one place none of that was supposed to happen, the Intelligence Committee.
CUOMO: Right. I mean, look, Trump's own cleansing agents, Christopher Wray at the FBI, Rod Rosenstein at DOJ, Steven Boyd at DOJ under Rosenstein. They're all telling the president this isn't the way to do it. We think stuff in there is wrong. And he's not listening.
That takes us to other headline this morning, Mike. The idea that the president asked yet another top official for loyalty, asking Rod Rosenstein, when Rosenstein came in in December to prepare for his House testimony, Trump said to him, are you on my team? Relevant?
ROGERS: You know, to me it would be all about context. You know? If you came in and you're in sort of gregarious moment, say, hey, are you on team America, you're on my team, that would be really, really different. If there was some other motive there. And I think that's what probably the special counsel is going to have to decide in each of these cases was there a pattern where it was suggestive of something versus hey, that gregarious moment of, hey, you know, we're doing great things for the country. And so I think just isolated, really, really hard to tell.
CUOMO: Understood. It's all about how they put together the context. The perfect point to make. And that's why you're the perfect guest. I trust you, Mike Rogers. I trust you.
ROGERS: Thank you, sir.
CUOMO: It's good to have you -- Alisyn.
CAMEROTA: He's been waiting for that assurance. House --
CUOMO: You know what? He's going to sleep a little easier tonight, I guarantee you that.
CAMEROTA: I can see. I can tell that. He looked very relieved.
CUOMO: I felt it.
CAMEROTA: House Republicans altered the Devin Nunes memo, and why? That's what Congressman Jim Himes wanted to know so he asked Devin Nunes directly about it. Congressman Himes joins us next with the answer he got.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) [07:43:25] REP. BRAD WENSTRUP (R), OHIO: The only thing I was aware of we're making some grammatical changes and making sure that we did not describe someone's job, if it was a matter of national security, but the content wasn't changed.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CAMEROTA: All right. Republican House Intel Committee member Brad Wenstrup on NEW DAY this morning denying that Chairman Devin Nunes made any significant changes to this controversial memo before sending it over to the White House. But Democratic member Jim Himes had worried that changes could happen. He tweeted about it. He says, "In a formal meeting I asked Chairman Nunes not once but twice if his memo would be released precisely as we reviewed it. He said yes. Then he altered it."
Joining us now is Democratic Congressman Jim Himes.
Good morning, Congressman.
REP. JIM HIMES (D), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Good morning, Alisyn.
CAMEROTA: Do you know what changes have been made to this memo?
HIMES: No, I don't. And neither does my friend Brad Wenstrup. And I think, you know, if you listen to his comment that you just ran he said the only thing I was aware of -- look, we committee members only learned last night that the memo had been altered before it was sent to the White House. And because we've all been out of --
CAMEROTA: And how did you learn that?
HIMES: Well, we learned it because Adam Schiff discovered it and wrote a letter to the chairman saying, hey, what's up with this? This is different -- a different memo than the one we approved.
Alisyn, it's -- at the end of the day, it doesn't even really matter how big the changes were. This is very serious stuff. When a committee votes to release an explosive memo that many of us believe is founded on falsehoods and is designed to tar the FBI, you don't then get to alter the language particularly when you now have read a Democratic memo which rebuts the allegations that are in that memorandum.
CAMEROTA: But --
HIMES: Can you imagine if Congress started, you know, changing the language on bills after they were voted on the floor?
[07:45:03] CAMEROTA: Well, I hear you. But I mean what if it's just grammatical changes?
HIMES: Well, so if you read Adam Schiff's letter, and Adam Schiff, whatever you think of him being a Democrat in this -- in what unfortunately has become a partisan fight is an attorney, he's very careful. He is not bombastic. He does not bend the truth and the words he used were that there were material and substantive changes. So I think it's now on Devin Nunes and others on the committee to show us exactly what those changes were.
CAMEROTA: I just want to read the exact exchange that you had with Devin Nunes because I do think that it is telling. So on Monday you asked him this very question if there would be changes. You say, "Is the intent to make the memo as presented to this committee and as shown to members of Congress that precise memo available to the public or will there be a process of redaction before it's made available to the public?"
Devin Nunes says only, "Yes. It is to make the content available, is what we will do." And you say, "Is that memo word for word to be made public or will it be redacted or altered in any way?" And he says, "Well, as the gentleman knows, we will send the content over to the White House, the president has five days to agree with us that it should be made public, or the president could say he does not want it to be made public."
He's not exactly answering your question.
HIMES: Well, no. But I mean, if the intention has been to make any changes at all, look at my wording. Exact. Word for word. There would have been a pretty easy way to say, hey, we may clean up misspellings. We may, you know, change people's job titles. But of course that's not what he said.
But, look, Alisyn, this is indicative of the process that led to this memo's existence. As you know, all but two of the members who voted for this memo's release, it's laden with classified information that only two members on the committee had reviewed. You know, there was a vote to prohibit -- to prohibit -- the FBI and the Department of Justice to come in and talk to us about these allegations.
HIMES: You know, I have been in Congress a while. And when you have a problem with an agency, you invite them in.
CAMEROTA: Well --
HIMES: You don't start issuing press releases and that sort of thing.
CAMEROTA: Congressman Wenstrup, we had him on this morning. He says that the head of the FBI did approve of this memo. Let me play it for you. Listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
WENSTRUP: Christopher Wray saw the memo and said everything in it was factual. But I want you to keep in mind one thing. We have subpoenaed the FBI and the DOJ for months. And they have stonewalled us. We requested specific information and they were not turning it over. As a matter of fact, there's some information they said didn't exist. Then we found out that it did.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CAMEROTA: Your reactions, Congressman?
HIMES: Well, sadly, the first thing that Brad said, and Brad is a good friend of mine. And by the way I honor what he did yesterday in helping the people who were wounded in that crash. The first thing he said is simply inaccurate. The fact of the matter is that FBI --
CAMEROTA: When he says Christopher Wray saw the memo and said everything in it is factual. That's not true?
HIMES: That is very simply the opposite of the truth. Christopher Wray, by the way, who's a Trump appointee to that directorship, reviewed it late on Sunday night, the -- you know, 12 hours before we voted on that memo's release. And he did not say that everything was accurate. In fact this is a matter of public record. He then came out and said, I have profound misgivings. The Department of Justice said it would be extremely reckless. So no, of course, he did not sign off on it. And, you know, that has been the way this process has run from moment one.
CAMEROTA: Is it true that the FBI has stonewalled all of your requests for information?
HIMES: Well, you know, I think first of all it's very hard to know that because, although Devin Nunes maintains that there is a committee investigation into the FBI and the Department of Justice, that is very simply not true. There was never an investigation of the Department of Justice and the FBI set up by the committee. The ranking member, which is, under the rules required, was never informed that there was -- none of us had participated in that investigation.
Devin Nunes has fought a one-man war. This goes all the way back to, you know, President Obama wiretapped Trump, it goes back to Susan Rice and Sam Waters -- Sam Powers' improperly unmasking, allegations that were proved not just to be false but proved ridiculous.
HIMES: This is the latest installment of that. So guess what, maybe the Department of Justice and the FBI is saying, with our most highly classified stuff we're going to be a little careful about how fast we put it into Devin Nunes' hands.
But, no, they -- as far as I know they have been fully cooperative in what the committee has asked them for in the duties of our oversight.
CAMEROTA: OK. Congressman Jim Himes, we appreciate you coming on with all of your position on what's happening this week. Thank you.
HIMES: Thank you, Alisyn.
CUOMO: Another story of great importance. More victims of abuse are going to come forward against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. There is a second sentencing hearing. The first woman who filed a complaint with Michigan State is speaking to CNN. What she said and what the university did, next.
[07:53:01] CUOMO: So to this point, at least 265 women have come forward with detailed sexual abuse allegations against disgraced USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor, Larry Nassar. Convicted is more like it. Not just disgraced. That's according to the judge overseeing the case.
Dozens of those women are expected to come face-to-face with Nassar at his third and final sentencing hearing.
CNN's Jean Casarez sat down with the first woman to file a complaint with Michigan State against Nassar. Jean joins us live now from East Lansing, Michigan.
And Jean, you and I know, we've done a lot of these types of stories. I've never seen this volume of victimization, but to be the first is often the hardest.
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: To file the formal complaint. Amanda Thomashow says she knows exactly what she wants to tell the special prosecutor in Michigan and now investigating MSU.
AMANDA THOMASHOW, LARRY NASSAR VICTIM: They came to know that I was sexually assaulted in that examination room, and I somehow got the courage to talk about it. And instead of taking me seriously, MSU did everything they could to cover that up.
CASAREZ (voice-over): In 2014 Michigan State graduate Amanda Thomashow was the first to file an official complaint against Dr. Larry Nassar with the university under Title IX. She says the decision to come forward was agonizing.
THOMASHOW: If I didn't say something and protect possible victims, I wouldn't be OK with that.
CASAREZ: First step, Thomashow was interviewed by MSU Police.
THOMASHOW: They kept apologizing to me and they were disgusted by what happened. I thought that I was being taken seriously.
CASAREZ: Next she was told police would be talking with Nassar. In his 2014 police interview obtained by CNN Nassar said he's been doing medical manipulation treatment since 1997, saying, "I had no ill intent," calling himself the body whisperer, telling police, use the force, you feel it.
[07:55:16] Thomashow heard nothing from the university for weeks, finally getting a call to come to MSU.
(On camera): What did she say? THOMASHOW: She told me she was so sorry, there was nothing more --
that there wasn't anything else that she could do, but they found that his medical procedure was or his procedure was medical and it was not sexual.
CASAREZ: So when you walked out of that room --
THOMASHOW: I didn't walk out of that room. I stormed out of that room and I slammed the door. I could not believe that they weren't taking me seriously.
CASAREZ (voice-over): Thomashow received a copy of the Title IX report, the conclusion was three sentences long.
THOMASHOW: "We cannot find that the conduct was of a sexual nature. Thus, it did not violate the sexual harassment policy. However, we find the claim helpful in that it allows us to examine certain practices at the MSU Sports Medicine Clinic."
CASAREZ (on camera): Pretty short.
CASAREZ: So when you read that?
THOMASHOW: I just felt so dumb. I man, after that I ended up spending years not knowing what really -- I kept going back to the same details, I just relived them over and over again. The way that I said no, and he told, I'm almost done. And then I pushed him off of me and he hid in the corner and he was clearly aroused. I just kept coming back to these same details knowing this isn't right, this is not right.
CASAREZ (voice-over): For two years she lived knowing her alma mater didn't believe her. Then in 2016 she got a call from university police, another woman had come forward and Thomashow's investigation could be reopened.
(On camera): What did that do to you inside?
THOMASHOW: It was like winning and losing at the same time because finally what I knew that my truth was being listened to.
CASAREZ (voice-over): But just months ago, Thomashow discovered a second version of the Title IX report, one the university never shared with her. That version had a different conclusion.
THOMASHOW: "We find that whether medically sound or not, the failure to adequately explain procedures such as the invasive sensitive procedures is opening up the practice to a liability and is exposing patients to unnecessary trauma based on the possibility of perceived inappropriate sexual misconduct."
CASAREZ (on camera): So when you read this conclusion that gives you a little credibility. THOMASHOW: If I had gotten that full conclusion instead of the three-
sentence paragraph conclusion that I originally received, I would have felt so much more heard.
CASAREZ (voice-over): Then two months ago, a representative for MSU sent a letter to the state attorney general saying no MSU official believed that Nassar committed sexual abuse prior to summer 2016. Now with the announcement of an independent investigation into MSU that could become criminal, Thomashow's Title IX complaint may come front and center. She says she still has many questions.
THOMASHOW: I think that the way that my investigation was handled was not in a way to bring out the truth, but instead it was performed in a way to conceal and protect a pedophile.
CASAREZ: We have reached out to MSU several times on Amanda's case. They have yet to get back with us. And tomorrow, Larry Nassar's third sentencing hearing in Eaton County, Michigan, will continue -- Chris.
CUOMO: Jean, thank you so much for that interview.
You know, when it comes to these kinds of allegations, one should be enough for a major institution to look, not to jump to conclusions, but to look. They shouldn't need numbers to find the situation significant.
Jean, appreciate it. Thank you for the reporting.
All right. This morning there is just a fact-first feast going on. So let's get after it.
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"Astair, your glare is killing me. Astair, in skies of blue. The signs you wear are making me so confused. But the mountains and the trees, are they just what you need, or are they less than what you'd expect to see?" ~matt costa
School is canceled tomorrow due to the impending blizzard. I am thrilled. I think I'm going to rush a Broadway show (probably A View From the Bridge, starring Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber). Then we just have to finish out the week, and next week we have off for winter break. Lauren and I leave for Miami on Monday and I cannot wait. I need warmth.
I had a lot to write about but now I can't remember what.
I saw the Broadway production of A Little Night Music on Sunday. Angela Lansbury is fabulous. I also liked Catherine Zeta Jones; her "Send in the Clowns" was beautiful. Stephen Sondheim is such a genius; I'd enjoy any one of his shows just because I'd get to listen to his incomparable compositions.
Tonight Nic and I went to see A Lie of the Mind, which is an off-Broadway play directed by Ethan Hawke. I loved it. The cast was absolutely amazing (Josh Hamilton, Marin Ireland, Laurie Metcalf, Maggie Siff, Keith Carradine, Alessandro Nivola, Karen Young, and Frank Whaley). It's a Sam Shepard play, and it's bizarre and very intense and very powerful. I loved what Hawke did with it. I've seen other shows that he's directed and enjoy his directing work very much (I've also seen him in the audience at his own plays, including tonight). In fact, tonight there was only one person sitting between us, so I was sitting less than 2 feet away from Ethan Hawke while watching a play directed by Ethan Hawke. Quite odd and yet extremely cool. He laughed a lot (often he was the only person laughing, which was kind of adorable). I wanted to approach him and talk to him and tell him that we went to the same high school (we could chat about some crazy teachers that I know we both had), but instead I left him alone. The only words we exchanged were when I squeezed past him to get to my seat and said "Excuse me, I'm sorry" and he replied, "Oh, it's no problem." Deep stuff, huh? He's a cool guy, though. Tonight he participated in a talk-back with the audience after the show. He loved talking about the play; in fact, he wanted to stay after the moderator said we had to leave. But the moderator insisted that we all leave because they had to close the theatre. Anyway, it was a fun experience.
Question: What is wrong with being serious? Or a little down sometimes? Why does it always need to be explained? It bugs me that my mom seems to think I need to be perky and happy all the time. That is not normal. That is not me. And I am totally okay with that.
I suppose that's all for now. I want to leave you with this recording of mine (which I've already posted) from the best concert I attended this summer, The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus and Medicine Show (Counting Crows, Augustana, and Michael Franti & Spearhead). I keep listening to it over and over. I think my favorite songs are "Caravan" (I cannot get enough of that song), "A Murder of One" (duh), "Just Like a Woman," "Why Should You Come When I Call," "Cecilia," and "Rain King." Those group songs are just so joyful. There were exactly 20 people onstage making music together, and they seemed to be having so much fun together. You could tell how happy Adam was to be in his hometown (he says it quite a bit).
ETA: Okay, the player isn't working, so here's a download link if you're interested.
And a couple of videos that I took:


Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Production companies: Zentropa, Zentropa International Sweden
Release date: 20160114 (DK)
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After the acclaimed Palm d’Or, Golden Globe® and Academy Award®-nominated drama THE HUNT, Thomas Vinterberg is back in Denmark with his next film THE COMMUNE for Zentropa in co-operation with Toolbox Film. Shooting has just begun and will continue for a total of 8 weeks on location in Denmark and in Trollhättan in Sweden.
With a sizable stellar ensemble cast lead by Ulrich Thomsen (IN A BETTER WORLD, 2010; MORTDECAI, 2015), Trine Dyrholm (IN A BETTER WORLD; 2010; A ROYAL AFFAIR, 2012), Fares Fares (ZERO DARK THIRTY, 2012; CHILD 44, 2015) and Lars Ranthe (THE HUNT, 2012) among others, Vinterberg turns his attention towards group dynamics as he tells a story about the clash between personal desires vs. solidarity and tolerance in a commune in the 70’s.
Vinterberg is once again re-teaming with co-writer Tobias Lindholm for THE COMMUNE. Together, Vinterberg and Lindholm also co-wrote two of Vinterberg’s previous films SUBMARINO (2010) and THE HUNT (2012). For the latter they received a European Film Award for Best Screenwriter in 2012.
THE COMMUNE is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Morten Kaufmann for Zentropa Entertainments19 in co-operation with Toolbox Film, co-produced by Film Väst, Zentropa International Sweden, Topkapi Films and Zentropa International Netherlands with support from Danish Film Institute, DR, Eurimages, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, The Netherlands Film Fund, Swedish Film Institute and the MEDIA programme of the European Union.
Nordic distribution through Nordisk Film Distribution. TrustNordisk handles international sales.
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Before you read the rest of what I’m banging-on about today, let me first say congratulations to England on the Ashes Series win. As an Aussie, it’s hard to take but there is no doubt the best team won and deserved to do so. It must be wonderful to have an Aussie coach also. 🙂
If you’re not from parts of the world where you know what the Ashes is, it’s the traditional series of five Test cricket matches between England and Australia that have been going since 1877. For a country that plays many sports and is pretty good at many sports, an Australia v England Test cricket match is Australia’s greatest single sporting rivalry. Bar none.
It is akin to the Yankees v Red Sox in baseball, Chrissy Evert v Martina Navaratilova in tennis, Rangers v Celtic in Scottish football – except it’s a national team and international competition.
Up until a few years ago, the gap between an Ashes Series on home soil, either in England or Australia, was four years. As a consequence, when it rolled around each time, it was highly anticipated and attracted enormous interest from fans and media, and was one of the most commercially successful events on the international cricket calendar.
However, in recent years, as part of the great cricket coup that was reported on by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 4 Corners program this week, England and Australia upped the ante on the Test matches. In an effort to bring more money into the coffers, instead of one every four years in either country, we’ve been flooded with Test Series in the past few years, even to the point of two in seven months in 2013.
While still at healthy levels, interest has nonetheless waned. The once revered prize of the little Ashes urn has become more of a ‘ho hum’ feature in the regular churn of sporting contests, compared with being seen as the ultimate sporting prize – at least for Australians.
Thankfully, even the International Cricket Council and the respective national boards have seen the error of their ways and are reverting to the old pattern from this year. We will not see another Ashes Series in England until 2019 and the next one in Australia is the summer of 2017-18.
The recent experience of the Ashes Series is a good lesson to all sports brands about the balance between revenue generation – or in some cases out-and-out greed – versus the protection of long-term brand and values.
For all of football’s ills, for example, I can’t see FIFA ever trying to make the World Cup or the other continental cups – such as the Euros – anything other than quadrennial. Putting aside the issues of the busy sporting calendar, it would simple lessen the allure of being World Champion if that title was bestowed more often than a great global event every four years.
One sport that has got this balance right is the British Lions rugby tour. The British Lions is a composite rugby team comprised of eligible players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They tour every four years either to South Africa, Australia or New Zealand – which means each of those four southern hemisphere nations only see the Lions every twelve years.
It is an enormously successful concept that has been going since 1888. It brings great financial rewards for the organisers while also having broad appeal and allure to fans and competitors.
As with anything in life, sometimes the ‘less is more’ concept is the best approach. International and national sporting bodies might want to consider the same in the best long-term interests of their sport, their brands and what they stand for.


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The opening of Asia's first AuroMax Cineplex
In a FIRST for Singapore and Asia, Filmgarde Cineplexes has been working strategically with Mediacorp Audio Post, Auro Technologies and Barco. This alliance has led to the debut of the next generation immersive sound technology AuroMax® across all of Filmgarde's cinema halls at Century Square.
The brand new AuroMax® is the next frontier and epitome of the Auro technology. It is the format of choice for many international cinemas and is also supported by major and international organizations such as NATO (National Organisation of Theatre Owners), UNIC and DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative).
AuroMax® is also represented by major exhibitors, Hollywood studios and the SMPTE (the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers). As of June 2018, there are more than 600 theatres worldwide committed to the AuroMax® format. In addition, there are more than 50 leading post-production studios and 120 international films released in Auro®.
AuroMax® is confidently positioned as the ultimate immersive sound system on the market, creating a natural and 3D listening experience allowing Singapore’s audience to feel as though they are right in the film. The opening of Asia's AuroMmax immersive 3D sound multiplex brings Singapore cinemas and movies to international standards.
Movie Mixing Studio
Mediacorp’s Movie Mixing Studio is proud to have the first certified Auro3D® and AuroMax® mixing studio in Southeast Asia. It is responsible for the impressive sound post of multiple international and local acclaimed films such as Ah Boys to Men 4 and The Big Day. Singapore is the first in Asia to offer the full slate of immersive 3D sound, from having the technological expertise, to production facilities and the delivery of the full consumer experience on-screen. This first-of-its-kind cross-sector working relationship reinforces Filmgarde’s continuous effort to support local productions and raises the industry’s audio and visual capabilities.
Says Ms Doreen Neo, the Chief Content Officer of Mediacorp: “We are excited that Filmgarde Cineplexes is launching AuroMax® across all its theatres at Century Square. Together with Mediacorp’s Movie Mixing Studio, Singapore not only has the ability to produce, but also to showcase content in AuroMax®. This delivers an extraordinary international immersive sound experience to movie-goers in Singapore and gives the local film industry a significant boost in its production capabilities.”
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People Dem Collective is a registered CIC and community organisation based in Margate, Kent. Founded by members of the Black, Brown and *Diaspora communities.
*People of cultural heritage other than the place they were born.
The collective was born out of a lived experience of lack of space, engagement and inclusion for these communities and a desire to encourage healing and transformation.
People Dem, is a Patois term colloquially meaning ‘them’.
We facilitate systemic change, promote healing and continue the work of our ancestors by elevating the presence, work and visibility of people from Black, Brown and Diaspora communities. We focus on their inclusion, engagement and raising aspirations.
We are mobilising a shift in the fundamental structures within our community, to ensure our sectors, leaders and decision-makers reflect the communities that live here.
Our plan includes the development of a National Cultural Centre based in Margate. You can support our Crowdfunder for the project here.
We have much work to do, and the work starts now.
Our Collective Journey
Our Identity: "Meet People Dem Collective"-- 'Cene Magazine
Our Presence: 100 'Black Lives Matter' Protest Banners--Hypebeast
Our Solidarity: "From Margate to Minneapolis" -- New York Times!
Our Voices: Discussion with DJ Hannah Holland-- Nightwaves at the Turner Contemporary Live
Discussion with BBC Radio Kent-- Instagram Feature
Our Curation: 2020 Margate NOW Festival-- Margate NOW
Our Continued Activation: The 'Beautiful Youth' Programme featuring artist Kane-- 'Cene Magazine
Our Collective Goal: Establishing Britain's First National Cultural Center Dedicated to Black & Brown History
The Work Continues...

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Dubai Pearl developer sells $1.9bn of assets to Hong Kong investor
Deal shows increasing Chinese interest in booming property market
Property developer Dubai Pearl said on Monday it sold property assets valued at $1.9 billion to a Hong Kong investor, in a sign of increasing Chinese interest in Dubai’s booming property market.
The transaction, which brings to an end a two-year delay in the development of the Pearl project, includes the sale of high-end residences and serviced apartments and two 5-star hotels, the company said in an emailed statement.
Chow Tai Fook Endowment Industry Investment Development (Group) Ltd (CTFE), the exclusive development partner of China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs, will use Dubai as its first international destination for its Chow Tai Fook districts which it develops in various cities of China.
Dubai Pearl is a 20 million square feet mixed-use scheme overlooking the Palm Jumeirah containing branded apartments retail and leisure, commercial offices and hospitality units.
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The deal was cleared by the Board's apex council on November 2. Nike had a five-year deal during which they paid Rs 370 crore from 2016 to 2020.
MPL Sports, the sports merchandise brand from Mobile Premier League -- an e-sports platform -- offers a wide range of sports wear and cricket equipment, along with other accessories such as masks, wrist bands, footwear and headgear.
As per the newly-inked strategic partnership, MPL Sports has entered into a three-year agreement from November 2020 to December 2023.
MPL Sports' association with the BCCI begins with India's tour of Australia, which will see Team India sporting the new jerseys.
The senior men and women and the Under-19 teams are also a part of the deal for the new kits.
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As part of the deal, MPL Sports' designed and manufactured jerseys will be worn by the Indian men's, women's and the U-19 teams.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said: "We look forward to MPL Sports adding a new chapter to the team's kit, and bring official BCCI licensed merchandise within easy and convenient reach for the billion-plus fans who cheer for Team India."
Apart from Team India jerseys, MPL Sports will also sell licensed Team India merchandise.
MPL Sports will offer the jerseys and its wide range of Team India merchandise to fans at affordable prices.
Board secretary Jay Shah said: "The partnership leads us to a new frontier for Team India and for sports merchandising in the country.
"This partnership aims at facilitating access to high-quality Indian cricket fan merchandise, including the coveted Indian cricket team jersey for cricket fans not just in the country but globally."
The previous deal with Nike, a four-year contract, ended in September.
MPL is currently associated with two IPL franchises -- Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore --, a CPL team and the cricket boards of Ireland and the UAE.
Commenting on the partnership, MPL Sports' senior vice president Abhishek Madhavan said, "India is a market with a billion cricket fans and we see a lot of potential in the under-penetrated merchandise market in India.
"We hope to partner closely with the BCCI and take all kinds of Team India merchandise to the masses -- with offline as well as online distribution at affordable prices.
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