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Our Managing Editor, Anumita, shares an interesting version of the egg curry. Egg Malai Masala is her mother’s recipe. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths.
Eggs are a very versatile ingredient. It can be used for all type of meals, be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert or even snacks.
My family loves egg curry. It is one of the main dishes for lunch or dinner. Egg curry can be prepared in many ways. I chose one of the easiest recipes. Egg Malai Masala was a recipe I grew up with.
While searching through my old diaries, I found this recipe handwritten by Ma. So here is the recipe for Egg Malai Masala.
2 big onions
Few green chillies
Cilantro leaves chopped
1 tsp garam masala
2 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
Salt to taste
Boil the eggs and peel.
Grind onion and ginger and some chillies.
Add the salt and the eggs.
Slowly incorporate the milk or the yogurt mixed milk.
Lower the heat and stir slowly.
Add the milk.
Then sprinkle garam masala and simmer on low heat till gravy thickens.
Sprinkle chopped cilantro and sliced green chillies.
Serve hot with naan or steamed white rice.
©Anumita Chatterjee Roy
Photos by the author
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Earlier this month, I listed some of the most under-appreciated final girls. Today is all about the final guys in horror! Although, instead of listing the most underrated final guys, this list consists of my personal favorites. I made my choices based on their bravery and selflessness. I also ran out of time writing this post, so I’m going to have to split it into two parts. Part 2 will be posted soon! (WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!!!)
Arkin – The Collector
Though Arkin (Josh Stewart) is a criminal, once he comes across The Collector (Juan Fernández), he quickly becomes the hero. His initial plan was to rob a rich families house, but once he realizes that the family never left and is being tortured, his conscious doesn’t let him leave them to die. So, he tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to save the family members, steal from their safe, and maneuver around The Collector’s vicious traps without getting caught. When he’s finally free from the house, he notices the last living member of the family is still trapped. He throws out all of the effort sneaking around and immediately makes his presence known so she had a chance to escape. Then, Arkin devises a plan to get The Collector to shoot the front door so they could escape. It’s definitely one of my favorite acts of heroism!
Paxton – Hostel
As Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and his buddies backpack to Slovakia to dive head-first into a sea of beautiful foreign women, their dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare when they become hunted down by rich sadists. Now Paxton wasn’t a saint, but he showed he genuinely cared about other people. After his best friend Josh (Derek Richardson) is killed, Paxton manages to escape the ‘factory of tortured tourists’. However, once he’s outside the building, he starts to hear the screams of a young girl, Kana (Jennifer Lim). He could’ve ran off, but he ran right back in the building to help her. Then, during his escape, he was able to get revenge on the people who brought him to that factory AND the man who killed his best friend. He definitely showed he could be both caring and merciless.
John and Billy – Day of The Dead (1985)
Initially, it seemed like John (Terry Alexander) and Billy (Jarlath Conroy) were jerks who didn’t want to help the scientists or military men in the underground facility. When confronted about this, John tells Sarah (Lori Cardille) that he believes she and the other scientists are wasting their time. They’re trying to get the world back to the way it was, and John believed they should adapt to the new world and start over. Though they didn’t see eye to eye with the other survivors, John and Billy both proved they didn’t just think about themselves. When Sarah and Billy are left to fight for their lives against the zombies, John fought to find them and save them so they could all escape that underground Hell.
Nick – The Fog
Nick (Tom Atkins) is one of my favorite 1980s heroes. As a mysterious fog filled with vengeful spirits enters his town, Nick really steps up as much as he can. When his friends disappear at sea, he does everything he can to track their boat down. Then, as the danger rises, he hears a cry for help on the radio as a young boy, Andy (Ty Mitchell) is trapped in his house, about to be killed. When Nick hears the address, he doesn’t even hesitate to drive in that direction, and he saves Andy JUST in time! Then, as guilt-ridden Father Malone (Hal Holbrook) tries to sacrifice himself to the spirits, Nick jumps right into the danger to pull Father Malone out. He repeatedly jumped into danger to help other people, and he still survived!
Clay – Friday The 13th (2009)
Clay (Jared Padalecki) is definitely one of the best brothers in the horror genre. After his sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti) goes missing, Clay spends the next six weeks searching for her. From handing out flyers, to driving all around the lake and the forrest surrounding it, he stops at nothing to track her down. On his search, he comes across a group of friends hanging out at their nice cabin. He tries to help all of them when Jason (Derek Mears) traps them all in the cabin. He unfortunately couldn’t help them all, but he finally found Whitney. With just the two of them, they successfully defeat Jason together.
Tommy Jarvis – Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
I almost included Thom Matthews’ Tommy Jarvis in Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. However, in that film, he was the one who resurrected Jason in the first place, so the events in that film were indeed his fault. When Tommy (Corey Feldman) first encountered Jason (Richard Brooker) in The Final Chapter, he was just a young boy who was obsessed with making spooky masks. When Tommy’s neighbors are slaughtered, he and his sister, Trish (Kimberly Beck) are next on Jason’s killing spree. With so little time, Tommy quickly figures out who Jason is, and how to stop him. Instead of bailing while Trish detracts Jason, Tommy set himself up to look like a younger version of Jason. This gives Trish enough time to stab Jason in the face, and in a fit of rage, Tommy delivered the final blows, killing Jason for good!… until Part VI, of course.
Andy – Child’s Play (2019)
The new Child’s Play film really surprised me this year, especially with the main character, Andy (Gabriel Bateman). In the original film, Karen and Mike were the ones figuring out the mystery of Chucky and Andy was mostly the one that had to be rescued. In this film, Andy did need help dealing with Chucky (Mark Hamill), but he did everything he could to try and stop Chucky’s blood-lust. When no one else believed him about Chucky, Andy really took matters into his own hands, and then he had to go deeper into the danger when his mother’s life is at stake. He’s definitely one of my favorite horror heroes of 2019!
Benny – Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
I have to say Benny (Ken Foree) is undoubtedly the best thing about this film. He was tough, intelligent, and a hell of a fighter. He went up against the Sawyer family to help a pretty useless final girl (but that’s a rant for another time). He actually wasn’t supposed to survive the film, but audiences liked his character, so they added that final scene, showing he survived that chainsaw to the head (I know, it doesn’t make much sense). I’m still happy that he survived, and he deservedly earned his place on this list!
Kyle – Never Hike Alone
Though he’s technically the only one facing-off against Jason in this Friday The 13th fan film, I’m still including him. He fought for his life so hard, it has to be commemorated! As Kyle (Drew Leighty) hikes through the woods, he stumbles across a very familiar camp – Camp Crystal Lake – where Jason Voorhees (Vincente DiSanti) resides. What follows is an epic fight for survival as Kyle uses whatever he has to kill Jason and escape Crystal Lake. He does a fantastic job fending Jason off until help arrived. Not only do I consider Never Hike Alone an official F13 sequel, Kyle goes down as one of my favorite F13 protagonists!
Neil – A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
Though Dream Warriors has 3 final guys, Neil (Craig Wasson) is definitely the most underrated of them all. When his patients start to die, Neil was originally skeptical when Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) tries to convince him that dream demon, Freddy (Robert Englund) is the one killing them all. However, once he realizes it’s all true, he really stepped up to help the kids and woman he cared about. He forces Nancy’s father to finish what he started and track down Freddy’s remains to bury them on hallowed-ground. He even had the guts to steal a cross and holy water from a church for the burial. When Freddy seemed to have the upper-hand, Neil came through and put Freddy back in his grave.
Val and Earl – Tremors
As Graboids terrorize the peaceful town of Perfection, it’s up to the lasting residents to figure out what they are and how to kill them. Even though handymen Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) are reluctant to help everyone, they soon become the intelligent heroes who basically come up with all of the ideas to stop them. When there’s just one Graboid left and the residents believes they were out of options, Val comes up with the perfect way to get it to fall off of a cliff. Val and Earl are both caring, hilarious, and they’re smarter than they initially believed.
Paul – Friday The 13th Part 2
It’s still debated whether or not Paul (John Furey) actually survived in Friday The 13th Part 2, so I’m choosing to include him on this list anyway, but only as an honorable mention.
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Kenta Kiritani, Sarutoki Minagawa, Hirofumi Arai Join Live-Action Bakuman Cast
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This year's 43rd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday three new manga artist characters for the live-action film of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman. manga. Kenta Kiritani (Beck, Crows Zero) will play Shinta Fukuda, Sarutoki Minagawa (Death Note, Ashurajō no Hitomi) will play Takurō Nakai, and Hirofumi Arai (Kiki's Delivery Service, Space Brothers) will play Kazuya Hiramaru.
Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Beck, Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru, Ryōmaden) will play Moritaka Mashiro, a boy who aspires to be a manga artist, and Ryunosuke Kamiki (Howl's Moving Castle, Summer Wars, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Princess and the Pilot) will play his classmate and story collaborator Akito Takagi. The film follows Mashiro and Takagi as they walk the path to becoming manga creators.
The two lead actors happen to also co-star as Kenshin Himura and Sōjirō Seta in the live-action sequel films Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen) and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen). Up-and-coming actress Nana Komatsu (Kawaki) will play the heroine Miho Azuki.
Hitoshi Ōne (Moteki, Koi no Uzu/The Vortex of Love) is directing the film. Obata emphasized that he is not just credited as a creator of the film's concept, but also as a staff member directly involved in the production. His own art will appear in the film as the various manga that Mashiro draws.
The two creators of Death Note serialized the Bakuman. manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 2008 to 2012, and Shueisha published over 15 million copies of the manga's 20 compiled volumes. The manga inspired three television anime series from 2010 to 2013. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America, and Media Blasters released part of the television anime on DVD in North America. The manga topped the Male category of the "Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" list in 2010.
The live-action film is slated to open in Japan in 2015.


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I found this adorable onesie for my niece at Marshalls and just had to get it for her second birthday. As she is now a toddler and no longer a baby I wanted to transform it to a t-shirt instead. This was my first sewing project on my own outside of class, so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out.
Sewing level: beginner
Step 1: Measure length of shirt by using an existing t-shirt and add one inch for seam allowance. Cut off bottom portion of onesie.
Step 2: With shirt inside out fold up 1/2 inch along bottom. Iron to hold fabric in place.
Step 3: Fold another 1/2 inch along bottom to enclose raw edge. Iron to hold fabric in place.
Step 4: Turn shirt right side out and sew along bottom hem. I used a straight stitch along the 3/8 inch guideline to ensure I caught all the layers.
Step 5: Admire your work. As a new sewer I am always thrilled when a project turns out as expected!
Update: Now that my sewing knowledge and skills have improved I realize I should have used a stretch stich since the cotton jersey fabric was quite stretchy. Luckily my stitching has held through wearing and washing so far. Also, I would trim some of the excess from the side seams next time to make it easier as you stitch across them for the bottom hem.

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SAN DIEGO -- Eduardo Escobar knew he needed a triple to complete his first cycle, and he was going to do whatever it took to get it.
Sure enough, he did.
The switch-hitter sent an opposite-field drive off lefty reliever Tim Hill over the head of right fielder Nomar Mazara and off the wall. Escobar sped around the bases and pulled into third in front of his cheering teammates lining the dugout rail. He pumped his right arm, clapped his hands and blew a kiss skyward.
"This is a great moment. It's unbelievable," the 33-year-old third baseman said. "It's hard hitting the cycle at this level. Today's a special night for me. Most important is the win."
The ball from the triple was perched in his locker.
Escobar came in batting just .227 but has three homers and 12 RBIs in his past nine games.
He credited hitting coach Eric Chavez and his teammates, "to everybody who helped me." He said his teammates encouraged him to keep working hard "because your moment's coming. ... I'm so happy I started hitting now and now I help the team win. That's the most important."
Escobar hit a two-run moonshot homer that sailed well over the party deck atop the right field wall off Craig Stammen with no outs in the eighth. It was his fifth.
Escobar also hit a two-run single in the first and a double in the fourth.
It was the 11th cycle in Mets history and the first since Scott Hairston on April 27, 2012.
It was also the first cycle at Petco Park, which opened in 2004.
"Any guy is fun to watch, especially him, what he means to his teammates," New York manager Buck Showalter said. "It's almost like they hit it."
The Mets, an NL-best 38-19, won their third straight and for the ninth time in 11 games. The Padres, who have the NL's third-best record at 33-22, had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Carrasco (7-1) won his fourth straight start by holding the Padres to two runs and five hits in seven innings while striking out a season-high 10 and walking none. He limited the damage to two innings. Jorge Alfaro doubled leading off the third and scored on Jurickson Profar's one-out single. Ha-Seong Kim singled with two outs in the seventh and scored on Mazara's double.
"Carrasco was the story of the game, I thought," Showalter said. "He was sharp. Big out, the last one."
Carrasco ended his night by striking out Alfaro with a runner on second.
"He was able to kind of get our bullpen back on their feet a little bit," Showalter said.
The Mets tagged Blake Snell (0-3) for three runs in a plodding first inning that took 27 minutes while the left-hander threw 43 pitches. He allowed Starling Marte's one-out single, struck out Francisco Lindor and then issued three straight walks to force in a run. Escobar followed with a two-run single.
Luke Voit hit a three-run homer for San Diego off Drew Smith with two outs in the eighth, his fifth. The ball bounced off the top off the wall in left-center and back onto the filed, and Voit paused at second. After an umpire review, it was ruled a homer.


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About Arietta Richmond:
Arietta Richmond has been a compulsive reader and writer all her life. Whilst her reading has covered an enormous range of topics, history has always fascinated her, and historical novels been amongst her favourite reading.
She has written a wide range of work, from business articles and other non-fiction works (published under a pen name) but fiction has always been a major part of her life. Now, her Regency Historical Romance series is finally being released. The Derbyshire set is comprised of 6 shorter novels. She also has a standalone longer novel shortly to be released, and two longer series of novels in development.
She lives in Australia, and when not reading or writing, likes to travel, and to see in person the places where history happened.
What inspires you to write?
Many years of reading historical romance, and of doing historical recreation things (like making period costume, cooking – all that stuff). Writing about it just seemed the logical next step.
Tell us about your writing process.
Outline – but a very flexible one, based on the concept of the outcomes I want in the story. It starts with a plot concept description, in approximate order, on about two pages in a word document, and grows from there.
For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
Sometimes – it depends on the character…..
What advice would you give other writers?
Some people will hate it, some people will love it – just write it, and give the ones who will love it a chance to find you!
How did you decide how to publish your books?
Collaboratively self publish – best of both worlds!
What do you think about the future of book publishing?
People will always read – how, well, who knows – how we read now didn’t even in exist, in many cases, 5 or 6 years ago.
What do you use?: Beta Readers
What genres do you write?: Historical romance (and a few other things under pen names)
What formats are your books in?: eBook, Print, Both eBook and Print
All information in this post is presented “as is” supplied by the author. We don’t edit to allow you the reader to hear the author in their own voice.


Thursday, September 9, 2021
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Kyle Meng is an Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Climate and Energy Program Director at the Environmental Markets Solutions Lab. Professor Meng studies the equity and efficiency consequences of environmental policies, with a focus on climate policies.
This seminar is part of the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics series hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is open to everyone interested in research on the economics of climate change.
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Spirit of Seduction
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A tale of otherworldly temptation and erotic elation as a woman encounters a spirit with some very mortal desires.
When Zoe Bell was young, every summer would bring the promise of spending two weeks in Cape Cod, where she was fascinated and awed by the big, rambling house on Chapin Point. Now, the entrepreneurial Zoe has the money and means to buy Chapin House. But the house already has a resident-a long-suffering entity that has connected with Zoe in a way she never dreamed anyone would in this life, let alone the next.
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Supporting the development of Big Society in new Localism?
Kirstin Couper, Associate Director
22 December 2010
Empowering local communities to shape local areas has been a goal of central government for the past decade, for some essential to the success of Big Society, and so it was unsurprising to read about it in the new the Localism Bill.
Big Society: what of the new localism bill?
Victoria Harkness, Head of Local Government Research
15 December 2010
We’ve been waiting with bated breath for the new Localism Bill, finally published on Monday, 13 December. Not a lot of surprises in there – we’ve known for some time of the desire of Eric Pickles and co. to “fundamentally shake up the balance of power in this country”.

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UTEP Opera Scholars
Opera is unique—incorporating classical, unamplified singing, high drama, dance and visual art (scenery, costumes). This intense combination of creative arts is highly appealing to people with a deep love of music and theater. Yet, high school students who love opera and aspire to perform it may find few peers in their school with whom to share their passion.
Each fall, four classical singers are selected from El Paso area high schools to become UTEP Opera Scholars. They will take part in a variety of events coordinated with UTEP’s opera program and become a part of a community which can nurture and educate them in their quest for opera knowledge and experience.
UTEP Opera Scholars may:
- Perform with Opera UTEP in fall and spring productions as appropriate.
- Attend Metropolitan Opera live broadcasts at Cinemark theaters with UTEP voice students, faculty and community members.
- Attend pre-broadcast Opera Breakfasts to learn about and discuss the operas.
- Assist Opera UTEP backstage during the final week of rehearsals before performances.
- Attend master classes with Opera UTEP guest artists.
- Receive one Opera UTEP T-shirt
To audition for UTEP Opera Scholars, interested students should sign up for and attend UTEP Song Festival (a day of learning for high school vocal soloists). A student's performance on that day will serve as their Opera Scholars audition. Learn more about the UTEP Song Festival.
There is no cost to participate in the Opera Scholars.
- Learn more about majoring in Voice at UTEP. We offer degrees in performance, education and commercial music. Our faculty is comprised of world-class performers, pedagogues and scholars.For more information, visit http://utep.edu/voice and/or contact Dr. Elisa Fraser Wilson.
- A day of learning for El Paso area high school vocalists. Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 For more information, visit utep.edu/songfestival and/or contact Prof. Brian Downen.
- Opera UTEP is the performing arm of UTEP's Opera Workshop class. Productions generally include an opera scenes concert in the fall and a complete opera in the spring. Students enjoy seminars, workshops and master classes with guest artists on the subjects of dance, acting, movement, voice and career planning. For more information, visit http://utep.edu/opera and/or contact Prof. Cherry Duke.


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The mapping of the human genome has paved the way for a variety of genetic tests. Expectant mothers can have their fetus screened for a variety of genetic abnormalities, and couples worried that they might be carriers for a genetic disorder can be tested before deciding to have children. Women can be screened for the BRCA2 gene that has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer. Individuals curious about their ancestry can find out more about their heritage. Genetic testing can also be used to establish paternity and help solve crimes.
Part of Greenwood's Health and Medical Issues Today series, this book is divided into three sections. Part I explores the history of genetic testing, including the rise of direct-to-consumer tests, and outlines the current applications and contexts in which genetic testing is performed. Part II delves deep into the ethical, legal, financial, medical, and psychological issues and controversies that surround genetic testing. Part III provides a variety of useful materials, including case studies, a timeline of critical events, and a directory of resources.

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Trafficking in Persons Report 2008 - Algeria
|Publisher||United States Department of State|
|Author||Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons|
|Publication Date||4 June 2008|
|Cite as||United States Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2008 - Algeria, 4 June 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/484f99fe4c.html [accessed 27 May 2016]|
ALGERIA (Tier 3)
Algeria is a transit country for men and women trafficked from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. These men and women often enter Algeria voluntarily, but illegally, with the assistance of smugglers. Once in Algeria, however, some women are coerced into commercial sexual exploitation to pay off smuggling debts, while some men may be forced into involuntary servitude in construction and other low-skilled work. According to one NGO, an estimated 9,000 sub-Saharan African migrants currently residing in Algeria are victims of trafficking. In addition, Algerian children are trafficked internally for the purpose of domestic servitude or street vending.
The Government of Algeria does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. The government did not report any serious law enforcement actions to punish traffickers who force women into commercial sexual exploitation or men into involuntary servitude. Moreover, the government again reported no investigations of trafficking of children for domestic servitude or improvements in protection services available to victims of trafficking. Algeria still lacks victim protection services, and its failure to distinguish between trafficking and illegal migration may result in the punishment of victims of trafficking.
Recommendations for Algeria: Reform the criminal code to specifically punish all forms of trafficking; significantly increase prosecutions and punishment of trafficking offenses; institute and apply a formal procedure to identify victims of trafficking among illegal migrants, and refer victims to protection services; and improve services available to trafficking victims, including children trafficked for forced labor, such as shelter, medical, psychological, and legal aid.
The Government of Algeria did not report any progress in punishing trafficking offenses during the reporting period. Algeria does not prohibit all forms of trafficking in persons, but prohibits the trafficking of minors under 19 years old for commercial sexual exploitation and most forms of sex trafficking of adults through its prohibition on pimping in Articles 342-344 of its penal code. The prescribed penalty for trafficking minors into prostitution – five to 10 years' imprisonment – is sufficiently stringent and commensurate with those prescribed for other grave crimes, such as rape. Despite the availability of laws against sex trafficking and other statutes prohibiting related acts such as kidnapping and assault, the government did not provide evidence of investigating, prosecuting, convicting, or punishing any individuals for trafficking offenses this year. Reform of Algeria's criminal code to specifically prohibit all forms of trafficking, including forced labor and acts such as recruiting and harboring victims of trafficking, is recommended.
The Government of Algeria's efforts to improve victim protection did not improve over the reporting period. The government continued to lack formal procedures to systematically identify trafficking victims among vulnerable people, such as foreign women arrested for prostitution or illegal migrants. As a result, trafficking victims may be deported or otherwise punished for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being trafficked. The government neither encouraged victims to assist in investigations against their traffickers, nor provided them with shelter, medical, or psychological services. Algerian law does not provide for alternatives to the deportation of trafficking victims, even in cases in which such victims might face hardship or retribution as a result of the deportation. According to local NGOs, the government does not provide specialized training to government officials in recognizing trafficking or dealing with victims of trafficking. A formal mechanism to identify victims of trafficking within vulnerable groups, such as illegal migrants and women arrested for prostitution, would improve Algeria's ability to protect trafficking victims. Establishing victim protection services or providing funding or in-kind assistance to organizations offering such services to victims of trafficking is also needed.
Algeria did not make efforts to prevent trafficking in persons during the year. Although the government continues to work closely with the governments of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and Malta to prevent the illegal migration and smuggling of people to Europe, Algeria did not report specific actions taken to prevent trafficking in persons. The government did not have any public awareness campaigns to raise awareness of trafficking or to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts.


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Wow. It feels good to be alive and feel. FEEL. IT. ALL.
I believe it was Dostoyevsky that said,
‘the darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer to God.’
I am learning to bravely accept life’s invitation to dive deep into the reservoir of grief. For once I do, once I humbly settle in beneath the pain of my resistance, I find myself floating in a sea of Spirit.
My dear Bailey, thank you for these God moments.
Loving you and missing you. xo


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“There is no better place to come together and celebrate your fandoms than San Diego Comic-Con and we’re excited to finally bring back this immersive experience,” said Perkins Miller, CEO of Fandom. “Being back together in person with fans, creators and partners is a true fan homecoming.”
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Doors will open at 7pm. No word yet on when tickets will be available, but in years past, they’ve dropped randomly online and been first come/first serve.

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Chelsea vs Man Utd Live Stream
Today supporters of either team can watch Chelsea and Man Utd live via the web on 19-05-2018!
Our feeds can be seen on a smart phone and tablet device with the flash and html5 feeds.
Around 15 mins prior to the kick-off, our team will display the best game feeds for Capital One Cup.
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Today's Chelsea FC - Manchester Utd event is played in English League Cup and is scheduled for 19-05-2018 in England. Streams from the internet are here.
* Regional restrictions
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Samsung has been rolling out the Galaxy Note to quite a few places since its announcement but news now comes from the UK that O2 will be making it available soon. No pricing details can be taken from the information as of yet but Samsung has already gone on record to say it will be November 17th so that date appears to be sticking. We've gone over the device in our review, so make sure you check that out and as always -- when we know more, you'll know more.
Samsung Galaxy Note making its way onto O2 in the UK
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I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory
Time & Location
About the Event
Each registration confirmed at the live reading will receive a Johnny Magory Book in the post.
Johnny Magory Books
The purpose of the books is quite simply to get children outside exploring. The aim is to educate them about Irish wildlife, heritage and culture through the stories and illustrations.
About the author:
Growing up in Ireland each and every night Emma-Jane’s Mammy and Daddy told her “a story about Johnny Magory”.
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a) Currently held on two separate fee-simple sections
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c) Road frontage is approximately 40m2
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2017 RV: $85,000 per sites
Rates: $2,275 combined both sites
No services currently on site
TENDER [unless sold prior] 12noon Thursday 19th November 2020
* subject to the local GDC bylaws and any applicable consents as may be directed.
- Address: 00 Lyndhurst Street,
- Area: Awapuni
- State/Country: Gisborne/NZ
- Zip: 4010
- Property Id: RX2565077
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SINTEF to research ammonia as a green shipping fuel
SINTEF will work on solving research hurdles linked to the use of ammonia as a zero-emission fuel for the shipping sector. The Minister of Climate and Environment for Norway, Sveinung Rotevatn, announced at the end of last week that the project Ammonia Fuel Bunkering Network would receive NOK 89 million through the Green Platform Initiative.
NOK 120 million for the green shift in the aquaculture and fishery industry
The Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Iselin Nybø (V) and the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research Guri Melby (V) were in Trondheim yesterday to present NOK 120 million to the ZeroKyst project. Among other things, ZeroKyst will enable a Norwegian consortium to demonstrate solutions for hydrogen-electric vessels and mobile energy supply for fisheries and aquaculture.
Europe's largest PEM electrolyser for hydrogen production in operation – the capacity will tenfold the coming years
The REFHYNE project, backed by a European consortium, will accelerate hydrogen production, and contribute to Europe’s goal to achieve climate neutrality.
Major wind research centre kicks off its activities
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY – The NorthWind research centre on wind energy launched its activities today with its first General Assembly.
SINTEF researchers awarded the prestigious RCS Horizon award
Chemists all over the world can now grow virtual crystals with the new software CrystalGrower. SINTEF's Duncan Akporiaye and Bjørnar Arstad are among the researchers that developed the software and were awarded this year's Horizon award for their achievement. The award is given by The Royal Chemistry Society (RCS).
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SINTEF and ACC join forces to make industry emissions-free
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CO2 as a raw material becomes a "game changer" for the industry
CO2 emissions equivalent to what 2,200 cars produce in a year can be turned into new products using biotechnology. In the EU project PyroCO2, the greenhouse gas CO2 will become a profitable business, at the same time the project will contribute to zero emissions and a sustainable economy.
All Hydrogen Technologies needed to reach Net Zero
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NASHVILLE, TN (CelebrityAccess) — Dolly Parton gently requested that Tennessee’s legislature take a pass on considering erecting a statue of the beloved country music icon.
Parton said she was “honored and humbled” by a bill that would have seen a statue of Parton erected the grounds of the state’s capitol but stated that it was not the right time for such gesture.
“I want to thank the Tennessee legislature for their consideration of a bill to erect a statute on the Capitol grounds. I am honored and humbled by their intention, but I have asked the leaders of the state’s legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration,” Parton wrote.
“Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,” Parton added. “I hope somewhere down the road several years from now, or perhaps after I’m gone, if you still feel I deserve it, then I am certain I will stand proud in our great State Capitol as a grateful Tennessean.”
Parton’s demurral on the statuary comes just weeks after she turned down a Presidential Medal of Freedom from former President Donald Trump for the second time. Parton declined the honor the first time because her husband was sick and the second time, she declined, stating that she couldn’t travel to Washington D.C. during the pandemic.
She also stated that she would refuse the honor if offered again, stating that she wanted to avoid “doing politics” and adding that she wasn’t sure she deserved the accolade.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is considered to be the highest honor that an American civilian can receive but President Trump stirred controversy when he awarded the medal to a number of his political supporters, including the late Rush Limbaugh, as well as congressmen Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan.
President Trump, an avid golfer, also recognized multiple professional players with the honor, including South African Gary Player, Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, and American golf icon Tiger Woods.

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Sumit Pannu, Md. Jawaid Akhtar and Bhupinder Kumar* Pages 1 - 18 ( 18 )
Background: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was originally launched as an antimalarial drug, but now it is also used as a slow-acting anti-rheumatic drug. It contains equal proportions of (-)-(R)-hydroxychloroquine and (+)-(S)-hydroxychloroquine.
Introduction: Hydroxychloroquine, a synthetic 4-aminoquinoline derivative, possesses antimalarial, anti-rheumatic activity and also exerts beneficial effects on lupus erythematous disease. Substantial levels of three metabolites of HCQ, which are desethylchloroquine (DCQ), bisdesethylhydroxychloroquine (BDCQ), and desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ), have been determined by various analytical techniques from blood and plasma.
Methods: Various analytical techniques have been reported for asynchronous and simultaneous estimation of HCQ and their metabolites in pharmaceuticals and biological samples like (serum, whole blood, and urine). The analytical techniques are Square-wave voltammetry employed with the cathodically pretreated boron-doped diamond electrode, fast UHPLC–fluorescent method, UV spectrophotometry, UHPLC-UV analysis, RP-HPLC, mass spectrometry, NMR, and CE.
Results: We have complied various analytical methods to detect HCQ with its various metabolites simultaneously or alone in pharmaceutical dosage forms, biological and environmental samples.
Conclusion: The authors believe that the above-mentioned studies compiled in this report will give a choice to readers to select the most appropriate and suitable method for the analysis of HCQ. Further, it is also believed that this study will help the researchers to develop a more sensitive, convenient, and rapid method for these based on literature reports.
Hydroxycholorquine, analytical methods, metabolite estimation, RP-HPLC methods, UV methods, pharmaceutical analysis.
Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Ghal Kalan, G.T Road, Moga, Punjab, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Ghal Kalan, G.T Road, Moga, Punjab, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Ghal Kalan, G.T Road, Moga, Punjab

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– Keynote Address –
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Listening to Local Voices and Doing What it Takes to Support Our Communities
In the aftermath of the Lismore-Bundjalung Country flooding this year, the team at the Koori Mail stepped in to support the community when government agencies could not. Naomi says that “Indigenous people and communities have always been capable of self-determining what care for our people looks like during a crisis”. In this keynote address, Naomi will speak about listening to local voices and local knowledge, collaboration, resilience, and self-determination.


Now that the pandemic has roused the sleeping proletariat at least so far as to slap at the snooze button and miss, I’ve been thinking about professionalism in the modern age.
I was already thinking about it a little bit since watching (and re-watching) a Netflix documentary about the music mogul Clive Davis — which is really quite fascinating as a rich vein of artifacts in our cultural history. The documentary follows not just Davis’s career, but several careers of artists he’s worked with over the years; but to me the most interesting on a personal level was the career of Barry Manilow.
Now, people snicker behind their hands about Barry Manilow, and I admit I’m not a fan. But here’s the story: Manilow put out a record on a small label and it didn’t sell. Davis recruited him for Arista Records and put together a songwriter shop to compose him some hit singles. Then Manilow streaked to the top of the charts! But as his career progressed, he pushed back on singing songs he didn’t write himself, and worked out a compromise with Davis about the makeup of his albums.
It seems to me that there are some parallels between the music business and the book business. As Davis points out, you need a “continuity of hits” to remind people that you’re there and get them to take interest in the rest of your work. A similar pressure seems to be weighing on authors to be massively prolific so they can continue to meet their publisher’s ROI goals. And content outlets like Kindle Unlimited have turned books into a commodity that can be sold in bulk — and who knows how much of that money the author sees. I’m guessing it’s not much.
I didn’t know these things about the publishing industry when I was making my decisions what to do with Ryswyck. I plunged into the world of aspiring authors on Twitter and in writers’ and agents’ lists and forums; entered a few contests; wrote a few pitches. There was a pervading atmosphere of assembly-line marketing, and a tacit assumption that the apex goal of a writer’s schematic was to be accepted by an agent and publishing house and thus accorded the status of Professional Author.
I still feel the pull of that forlorn attraction. But even so, this seemed (and still seems) to me to be entirely backwards. As I saw it, the entire point of being a published author was to get the book I wrote into the world. I didn’t write a book as a means to obtain Pro Author status. I wasn’t interested in producing an upmarket, high-concept, trendsetting property of 110k words or less. I wanted to sell Ryswyck, which is (if I understand those buzzwords correctly) none of those things.
The disappointment was brief and acute. But I got up and dusted myself off, and shook out my Project Manager hat, and started making spreadsheets for all the things an independent author needs to do. And, as it turns out, really the signal difference between an independent author and a traditionally-published one is indeed that marker of status. My trad-pub author friends either have day jobs or families to support them; they do a great deal of their own marketing; their advances are designed to clear overhead and little more than that. Only the highest-grossing authors really make a living doing this; everybody else makes their living by doing “this” and some other stuff, including busting their hump to make appearances at cons and land speaking gigs.
So what makes a professional? In the modern age, we tend to judge it by the Olympic definition: a professional gets paid to compete, and an amateur pays for the privilege. But not all Olympic events are equal, and the more artistic ones suffer by this definition. Michael Jordan can play on the Dream Team and then go back to his highly-visible salaried position on a professional baskeball team; figure skaters, once they turn pro, are hardly heard from again unless they become commentators or you find yourself with tickets to an ice show. If I asked a 20-year-old who Kristi Yamaguchi is, would they know?
Our remaining tickets at the Symphony were cancelled due to the pandemic. Luckily, enough philanthropists have underwritten the losses that the professional musicians did not immediately lose their jobs. But: they’re still professionals…even if…they’re not getting paid. The performing arts are heavily subsidized by philanthropists; the publishing industry is heavily subsidized by the day jobs of their authors. And I doubt they buy their authors group health insurance either, but that’s a whole other ball of wax.
What makes a professional? Besides the Olympic definition, there’s the class theory definition: a professional is someone who completed an education or training course and has been certificated by the profession’s constituent authority. A tradesperson…sells goods or labor for their income. But very often they also have to get certified — I mean, you’re not going to hire an uncertified electrician for your house remodel. When I worked as a library paraprofessional — that is, a person with two degrees neither of which was a Library Science degree — I often thought that the market had become overprofessionalized. But now I think it’s the opposite: no one is a professional anymore; we are all in a trade. We all sell our labor and our goods for our living, only some (many) of us need some kind of certification to do so.
I don’t have the chops to go into how this is both levelling and massively difficult if not impossible in late-stage capitalism. Suffice it to say that while the publishing industry makes a good (if ruthless) business model, it makes a very poor guild.
If there’s a conclusion to be drawn from this, I don’t yet know what it is. Except that I think it’s high time we artists set about to rethink the definition of our professionalism and stop overlooking how much we subsidize our own careers. If these chin-stroking plutocrats admire feudalism so much, wait till they have a real guild to deal with.


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Last month I worked on an old idea for a scene with a sea buoy, thanks to the inspiration provided by the sea image recently posted by Tek at the POV-Ray newsgroups.
The sea surface is a POV isosurface, and the water coloration is done with a combination of interior attenuation and fog under the surface. The lighting was borrowed from Project Tierra and uses Lightsys, but withouth radiosity, just with some fill lights.
The birds at the background are a quick hack, just to be seen at distance, but features random wings pose and placement. The bird on the buoy was modeled with Wings3D, as well as the buoy. The bird texture is procedural, while the buoy one is based on a rusty metal texture from www.mayang.com.
Note: The source code doesn’t include the birds nor the buoy, just the sea and sky, ready to use with your prefered floating object.


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Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police and emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or other alleged incident. Additionally, it can be spurred on by a false report of a "mental health" emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed. In March 2019, a California man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for carrying out a fatal 2017 swatting.
The term derives from the law enforcement unit "SWAT" (special weapons and tactics), a specialized type of police unit in many countries, carrying military-style equipment such as door breaching weapons, submachine guns, automatic rifles, and sniper rifles. A threat may result in the evacuations of schools and businesses. Advocates have called for swatting to be described as terrorism due to its use to intimidate and create the risk of injury or death.
Making false reports to emergency services is a criminal offense in many countries, punishable by fines and imprisonment. It causes tax dollars to be wasted by the city or county when responding to a false report of a serious law enforcement emergency. In California, swatters bear the "full cost" of the response which can lead to fines up to $10,000.
Bomb threats were a concern to police in the 1970s, with some public buildings such as airports being evacuated in response to hoax calls that were designed to cause mass panic and public disruption, or to delay exams at educational institutions. In recent decades, hoax callers sometimes make use of techniques to disguise their identity or country of origin.
Swatting has origins in prank calls to emergency services. Over the years, callers used increasingly sophisticated techniques to direct response units of particular types. In particular, attempts to have SWAT teams be dispatched to particular locations spawned the term swatting. The term was used by the FBI as early as 2008, and has also entered into Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2015.
Caller ID spoofing, social engineering, TTY, prank calls, and phone phreaking techniques may be variously combined by swatting perpetrators. 911 systems (including computer telephony systems and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away from the location of the purported call, or even from other countries. The caller typically places a 911 call using a spoofed phone number (so as to hide the fraudulent caller's real location) with the goal of tricking emergency authorities into responding with a SWAT team to a fabricated emergency.
In the United States, swatting can be prosecuted through federal criminal statutes:
- "Conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, victim, or informant"
- "Conspiracy to commit access device fraud and unauthorized access of a protected computer"
- An accomplice may be found guilty of "conspiring to obstruct justice"
- In California, callers bear the "full cost" of the response which can range up to $10,000
In 2011, California State Senator Ted Lieu authored a bill to increase penalties for swatting. His own family became a victim of swatting when the bill was proposed. A dozen police officers, along with firefighters and paramedics surrounded his family home.
In 2015 a New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty announced a bill to increase sentences for hoax emergency calls, and was targeted by a hoax. The bill proposed prison sentences up to ten years and fines of to $150,000.
A 2015 bipartisan bill in Congress sponsored by Katherine Clark and Patrick Meehan made swatting a federal crime with increased penalties. Congresswoman Clark wrote an op-ed in The Hill saying that 2.5 million cases of cyber stalking between 2010 and 2013 had only resulted in 10 cases prosecuted, although a source for this was not provided. As revenge for the bill, an anonymous caller fraudulently called police to Rep. Clark's house on January 31, 2016.
In Brazil, Swatting can be prosecuted through the Criminal code as the following articles:
- Slander (Article 138: To slander someone by falsely imputing to him a fact defined as a crime), with penalties up to two years and fine
- Slanderous denunciation (Article 339: To cause the initiation of a police investigation, a judicial proceeding, an administrative investigation, a civil inquiry or an administrative impropriety action against someone, imputing him a crime that he knows he is innocent) with penalties up to eight years and fine
- False communication of crime or misdemeanor (Article 340: To provoke the action of authority, communicating to him the occurrence of crime or of contravention that knows to have not occurred), with penalties up to six months or fine
Injuries or deaths due to swattingEdit
On January 15, 2015, in Sentinel, Oklahoma, Washita County, dispatchers received 911 calls from someone who identified himself as Dallas Horton and told dispatchers he had placed a bomb in a local preschool. Washita County Sheriff's Deputies and Sentinel Police Chief Louis Ross made forced entry into Horton's residence. Ross, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was shot several times by Horton. Further investigation revealed that the calls did not originate from the home and led Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents to believe Horton was unaware that it was law enforcement officers making entry. James Edward Holly confessed to investigators that he made the calls with two "nonfunctioning" phones because he was angry with Horton. Ross, who was shot multiple times in the chest and arm, was injured, but was treated for his injuries and released from a local hospital.
On December 28, 2017, a Wichita police officer shot a man named Andrew Finch in his Kansas home in a swatting incident. Andrew Finch later died at a hospital. Based on a series of screenshotted Twitter posts, the Wichita Eagle suggests that Finch was the unintended victim of the swatting after two Call of Duty: WWII players on the same team got into a heated argument about a $1.50 (USD) bet. On December 29, 2017, LAPD arrested 25-year-old serial-swatter Tyler Raj Barriss, known online as "SWAuTistic" and on Xbox Live as "GoredTutor36," in connection with the incident. In 2018, Barriss was indicted by a federal grand jury along with two others involved in the incident. According to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister, the false hoax charge carries a maximum punishment of life in federal prison while other charges carry sentences of up to 20 years. On March 29, 2019, Barriss was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. The gamer that recruited Barriss in the bet plead guilty to felony charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to prison for 15 months as well as a two-year ban on playing video games.
Other notable casesEdit
In 2009, a blind phreaker, Matthew Weigman, was caught with the help of a Verizon fraud-investigator named Billy Smith. Weigman was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to charges including "involvement in a swatting conspiracy" and attempting to retaliate against a witness.
I just shot my wife, so.... I don't think I could come down there.... She's dead, now.... I'm looking at her.... I'm going to shoot someone else, soon.— 911 caller
In 2013, a number of U.S. celebrities became the victims of swatting, including Sean Combs. In the past, there have been swatting incidents at the homes of Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea, Jason Derulo, Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, and Clint Eastwood.
In 2013, a network of fraudsters involved in carding and doxing of public officials using stolen credit reports targeted computer security expert Brian Krebs with malicious police reports. Mir Islam, the leader of the group, had also used swatting hoaxes against prosecutor Stephen P. Heymann, congressman Mike Rogers, and against a girl he was cyberstalking who turned down his romantic proposals. Islam was convicted for doxing and swatting over 50 public figures, including Michelle Obama, Robert Mueller, John Brennan as well as Krebs, and was sentenced to two years in prison. The Ukrainian computer hacker Sergey Vovnenko was convicted of trafficking in stolen credit cards, as well as planning to purchase heroin and ship it to Brian Krebs then swatting him. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in Italy, and 41 months in prison in New Jersey.
In May 2014, Curtis Gervais of Ottawa, Ontario, was arrested for having made thirty fraudulent emergency calls across North America, leading to sixty charges "including uttering death threats, conveying false information with intent to alarm, public mischief and mischief to property". Gervais was sentenced to nine months of home detention. Ontario Court Justice Mitch Hoffman noted that the hoax calls, which resulted in the evacuations of schools, homes and a shopping center, caused thousands of people's lives to be, "put in turmoil and terrorized." He also called it, "a massive waste of public resources with significant cost to emergency services, and therefore to the taxpayer."
On August 27, 2014, YouTube user Jordan Mathewson, known online as Kootra, live streamed a game of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Twitch. A viewer called 911 claiming that there was a shooting in the building with hostages. A SWAT team raided the office out of which Mathewson's gaming company, The Creatures LLC, was operating. Mathewson was thrown to the ground and searched as officers searched the room. The events were broadcast live on the internet, until law enforcement blocked the camera lens on Mathewson's desk. Videos of the swatting went viral, gaining over four million views on YouTube and being reported on news programs all over the world.
On September 11, 2014, Bukkit programmer Wesley "Wolvereness" Wolfe was the victim of a swatting incident. An unidentified Skype caller told police that Wolfe had shot his parents and was on a killing spree. Wolfe believed he was targeted in retaliation to his issuing of a DMCA takedown of CraftBukkit from the Bukkit repository.
On November 6, 2014, the home of an unnamed executive with Bungie, a developer of the Halo and Destiny franchises, was raided by local police after a call, purported to be from someone inside the house, said that there was a hostage situation at the residence. The caller had demanded a ransom of $20,000 and claimed they had planted explosives in the yard. After 45 minutes, police determined the call originated from a computer and not from the residence; they further stated that the perpetrator of the hoax could face a fine and one year in jail if apprehended.
On December 5, 2014, police in Coquitlam, British Columbia, arrested a teenager using the pseudonym 'Obnoxious' who had committed at least 40 attempted and successful acts of swatting in several countries. The teenager historically targeted "mostly young, female gamers" that ignored friend requests in League of Legends and on Twitter. He used social engineering techniques and Skype tracking tools to obtain address details of victims from companies including Cox Communications and VoIP calling to mask his real location. He went so far as to live stream his swatting calls. The youth pleaded guilty to 23 crimes. A New York Times article on the case criticized Twitch for failing to block the user and his associates from the site.
On January 3, 2015, twenty Portland, Oregon, police officers were sent to the former home of Grace Lynn, a transgender woman. She stated that this was the culmination of months of online harassment from Gamergate supporters after she withdrew her support for the movement. The swatter, coming from Serbia, claimed to be not affiliated with Gamergate. Lynn said that she was alerted to the incident because she had proactively checked for online harassment daily, and she had defused the situation by contacting police.
In May 2015, Zachary Lee Morgenstern, 19, of Cypress, Texas, was arrested after he made a number of hoax bomb threats and "swatting" calls in Minnesota, Ohio, and Massachusetts, including for two schools in Marshall, Minnesota. The police obtained his IP address from Twitter and Google. Morgenstern pleaded guilty to several federal crimes, and, in December 2015, was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
In August 2015, the founder of the website Mumsnet was the target of a swatting, which resulted in the deployment of a London Metropolitan Police Service armed response unit attending her home address. The hoax was concurrent with a denial-of-service attack on the Mumsnet website and threats of a swatting attack.
On January 31, 2016, at around 10pm, U.S. Representative Katherine Clark was swatted by an anonymous caller who claimed there was an active shooter in the home. Melrose Police responded to the home, and left after determining the call was a hoax. Rep. Clark had sponsored a bill called the 'Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015', aimed at increasing the penalties for swatting, as well as making swatting a federal crime. After the incident, she said she had been very sympathetic to people who have been the victims of swatting before Sunday night but now fully understands what it's like. She further stated that the swatting "will really cause me to double down."
On April 28, 2017, Twitch user Paul Denino (pseudonym "Ice Poseidon") was live streaming before boarding an American Airlines flight. After the plane had landed, law enforcement showed up on the airport apron and removed Denino and one other person from the plane. An anonymous caller claimed that Denino had a bomb when he did not.
On October 16, 2017, Bitcoin engineer Jameson Lopp's neighborhood was locked down by law enforcement responding to a reported hostage situation. An anonymous caller claimed to have shot and killed one person while holding others hostage for ransom in a house rigged with C4. Lopp later wrote a first person account of the ordeal and offered a bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.
On May 16, 2018, popular streamer and former professional Overwatch player Felix "xQc" Lengyel had his home raided by police and was handcuffed mid-stream at his California apartment. Lengyel later revealed that three guns were pointed at him. While Overwatch League analyst Brennon Hook stated that the raid was due to a noise complaint from a neighbor, Lengyel asserted that it was an act of swatting.
On June 5, 2018, police were called to the Parkland, Florida home of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg. The caller claimed that there was a "hostage situation," prompting an emergency response that included a SWAT team. Hogg was not at home at the time, as he was in Washington, D.C., with his family to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award as one of the organizers of the March for Our Lives.
After winning the $3 million top prize in the Fortnite World Cup in July 2019, 16-year-old Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf was swatted during an August 2019 stream, with the local SWAT team armed on arrival. However, the situation was defused as one of the officers recognized Giersdorf from his championship and recognized the call as a prank.
Measures against swattingEdit
In October 2018, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) launched an opt-in registry aimed at people who fear that they might become victims of swatting, such as celebrities or live streamers. Using the registry, these people can provide cautionary information to the SPD, which will inform officers responding to potential swatting attempts targeted at the victim's address.
Security reporter Brian Krebs recommends that police departments take extra care when responding to calls received at their non-emergency numbers, or through text-to-speech services (TTY), since these methods are often employed by out-of-area swatters who cannot connect to the regional 911 center. :
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