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How much must Alex Jones pay Sandy Hook families in total counting every lawsuit?
A failed bid to cut the amount he is to be forced to pay in a defamation verdict leaves him staring down a financial barrel.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has failed to cut one of the big lawsuits against him by tens of millions of dollars after Judge Maya Guerra Gamble rejected arguments that a Texas state law prevented Jones from needing to pay the full amount.
His lawyers argued that state law caps non-economic punitive damages, which would have represented $45 million of the $50 million payout. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the cap does not apply due to a section relating to intentional abuse of a disabled person, saying trauma over their son’s death counted as a disability.
“Our clients are pleased that the jury’s verdict was upheld in totality and my remaining clients look forward to closing out this vile chapter of American history by continuing to hold Mr Jones accountable,” Heslin and Lewis’ attorney, Mark Bankston, told Reuters after the hearing on Tuesday.
The combined value of both of the lawsuits against Alex Jones are around $1 billion. That includes the $50 million lawsuit that was under review here as well as the staggering $965 million litigation ruling against Jones from other parents.
How will Jones be able to pay these lawsuits?
While it is unlikely that Jones will ever be able to pay the full amount to all the families, his estimated personal worth which was revealed during the trial to be between $70 million and $270 million. Jones and his companies were making more than $50 million a year between 2016 and 2021 due to his immense social media presence.
“We can’t put a finger on what he does for a living,” said financial expert Bernard Pettingill during the Austin trial. “He didn’t ride a wave – he created a wave.”
In the Connecticut trial another financial expert testified that Jones and his company are worth around $270 million, a figure Jones has disputed.

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'BF/C' with new track 'To Grace - Main Theme'
We love being able to feature contrasts in styles, and after the harder edged rock of 'Candide Baby', we'll switch direction to a really unusual composition by 'Californiaman', one half of the Swedish duo 'BF/C'. Again this doesn't quite fit into any specific genre, but what I can tell you is that it was written for a production of Lars Von Trier's 'Dogville', which has been playing at 'Folkteatern' in Gothenburg. 'BF/C' themselves are an indie electro duo whom I've been listening to this morning, and I guess I'd make the comparison with my favourite 'local' band 'Metronomy', with really clever swirling beats and rhythms, and always melodic too.
Anyway that all makes 'To Grace - Main Theme' even more interesting, as it is clearly very different, a stately rhythm is offered at the beginning, before the most delicious musical theme is introduced, and then developed with a mass of swirling instruments that I defy anyone to individually name through a quirky cacophony of sound. I love the changes in pace and dynamics and it is definitely a composition that you will have no idea quite where it's heading, but it always returns to small surges of intense melodic beauty that just brings a huge smile to my face. I do really like this very much, I guess it takes elements of folk and classical music in its writing, and the whole thing is beautifully and unusually arranged.
Please take a listen, this is 'To Grace - Main Theme':
Now I'm sure I've read somewhere that 'BF/C' have new music coming out soon, so please keep an eye out on their Facebook page to see if this is really true.


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This sci-fi story by M.T. Anderson imagines a future world where people connect to the Internet through feeds implanted in their brains. When a hacker disables their feeds and teenagers get a taste for thinking on their own, they decide to fight for more disconnection. (A National Book Award finalist.)
This PBS Frontline documentary by Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff looks at the ups and downs of our transition to online culture — from the risks of digital addiction to the opportunities of interactive learning. The website features interviews with Mark Bauerlein, danah boyd, Henry Jenkins, Clifford Nass, Todd Oppenheimer, Marc Prensky, Sherry Turkle and other leading thinkers. Watch the full program online here.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has on several occasions implored college graduates to find the meaning of life by putting away their devices. In this commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, he told students to turn off their cellphones and “discover all that is human around us.”
In this slim volume, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff — who also wrote Cyberia, Coercion, Life Inc., and Media Virus — offers ten commands for a digital age, including “Do Not Always Be On” and “Live in Person.”
Virtual-reality pioneer Jaron Lanier makes a counterintuitive case against collectivist culture, arguing that we undermine individual creativity when we accept the “wisdom of crowds” and the “hive mind.”
Susan Maushart, the device-addicted mother described in the subtitle, tells an engaging and humorous story about what happened when she coerced her family into trying a six-month experiment in unplugging.
Environmental activist Bill McKibben, who writes eloquently about the limits of technology, explored the value of unplugging from media in a Thoreauvian 1990s experiment. In this book, he compares what we learn by watching television versus by experiencing things first-hand.
A documentary produced by students at Carleton College who tried to unplug for three weeks as a class project. Will they resist temptation, or will they cheat? (What would you do?) You can watch the trailer here via YouTube, view the movie on Hulu, or purchase the DVD from the college bookstore.
In this essay, William Deresiewicz discusses how technology is taking our ability to be alone — or, rather, how we are doing this to ourselves. When he asked students about the place that solitude has in their lives, one of them said she was so unsettled by being along that she must sit with friends while doing homework. Another asked him, “Why would anyone
This article describes how one campus helped overwhelmed students cope with their “overscheduled, overprogrammed” lives by encouraging them to disconnect voluntarily from devices and give themselves a break.

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March 9, 1997Unleashed on Manhattan
By M. G. LORD
An army of civilized, talking dogs, the dream of a mad Prussian scientist, descends on the city
Lives of the
By Kirsten Bakis.
291 pp. New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23.
LOOK at dogs differently these days. Where once all I saw were slavering lumps of fur, I now see intelligence, grace, the hint of a personality. I owe this transformation to ''Lives of the Monster Dogs,'' a bizarre, haunting, fiercely original first novel by Kirsten Bakis. We are not talking about Lassie here. Ms. Bakis's characters are strange hybrids of man and beast, genetically engineered in the late 20th century by the acolytes of a 19th-century Prussian madman, whose warped dream it was to produce a killer race of ''dog soldiers.'' Dressed in vintage military jackets with shiny buttons, these creatures walk upright and speak with the aid of mechanical voice synthesizers. Many wear spectacles or perch pince-nez atop their cold, wet noses. All have prosthetic hands, the brutality of whose surgical attachment they conceal under elegant gloves. Their character also involves concealment. Aspiring to appear fully human, they fall short, shamed and ultimately destroyed by the inexorable eruptions of their canine nature.
The dogs' tale begins with their inventor, Augustus Rank, an alienated loner whose sole joy as a child was performing sadistic surgery on animals. While other lads might have whittled a miniature cow from a piece of kindling, young Rank hacked the legs off a live heifer and reattached them backward -- a feat so striking to a distinguished surgeon that he whisked Rank off to study medicine at the University of Basel. Licensed at last to graft and mangle, Rank conceived the idea of ''building'' a super-smart canine army and found a patron to support it: Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern, later to become Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Rank's vision was not quickly realized, however, and the prince grew impatient. Threatened with the loss of their top-secret laboratory, Rank and his followers fled Germany for a remote part of Canada, founding Rankstadt, a sort of techno-Amish enclave where they could pursue their grisly experiments in peace. By the 1990's, their science bore fruit, though not the obedient progeny Rank had in mind. Upon realizing that they were slaves, the dogs rebelled, slaughtered their masters and followed a path common to provincial misfits who have burned their bridges: they moved to New York City.
Ms. Bakis tells this story from many points of view, cobbling together scraps of one character's manuscript, another's diary, even fictitious clippings from The New York Post and the libretto of an original opera. The made-up documents lend a veneer of historical authenticity to her off-the-wall tale, grounding it -- insofar as it can be grounded -- in real life. The other real-world touchstone is Cleo Pira, a 21-year-old student at New York University, who narrates much of the book. Distinguished mostly by her ordinariness, she becomes, through the fluke of her physical resemblance to Rank's mother, a confidante to the dogs.
If these plot turns seem outrageous, they are. Yet Ms. Bakis has built her fantastical edifice on emotional bedrock. At its core, ''Lives of the Monster Dogs'' is about love and death and loss -- themes so strong that they transcend even the boundaries of species. The dogs were conceived in loneliness. Abandoned by his father after his beloved mother's death, Rank grew up bent. ''I have never in my entire life known real love,'' he wrote before his suicide in 1916. ''The inconstant devotion of my people is a pale substitute. Had I completed my dogs, their love would have been fierce and undying, a passion.''
The dogs enter Cleo's life after she is dumped by a lover, and they divert her from her grief. Then there is the predicament of the dogs themselves: unable to reproduce, they must cope not only with their individual deaths but with the extinction of their tribe. ''So we burn, Cleo,'' writes Ludwig von Sacher, a bookish German shepherd struggling to leave behind a record of his kind. ''We are all burning, we are all murdered, anyone who lives is consuming himself, rushing avidly toward the sword, the disease, the accident, toward the day on which his life will end.'' Yet one has to resist despair: ''We must burn joyfully, and give off light.''
Although the novel addresses big themes, it is neither grim nor ponderous. Parts are laugh-aloud funny. In 2010, when the dogs break ground for a permanent settlement in Manhattan, it is still possible to satirize the indiscriminate way magazines like Vanity Fair worship any sort of notoriety, conflating the likes of a Richard Jewell or a Mark Fuhrman with movie stars. In a dead-on parody of that magazine, Ms. Bakis describes Neuhundstein, the dogs' Lower East Side fortress: ''The monster dogs' elaborate, much-hyped project, a proposed re-creation of Bavaria's most famous fairy-tale palace, reflects longings for a magical homeland in the past as well as their drive toward the most fantastic of all countries, the future. Klaue Lutz, the malamute mastermind behind the castle, takes Cleo Pira along for the ride.'' Having looted Rankstadt, the beasts have money; nobody treats them like dogs.
Maybe it was the book's humor or its fusty language or its lapses back into 19th-century German settings or its focus on the anguished childhoods of unstable adults, but ''Lives of the Monster Dogs'' reminded me of the work of the Canadian novelist Robertson Davies -- had he attempted, say, a Quadruped Trilogy. Cleo has a lot in common with Dunstan Ramsay, the drippy schoolmaster who narrates ''Fifth Business,'' the first volume in Davies's Deptford Trilogy. Both are taught to see beyond themselves, and beyond the everyday world, by unlikely guides: a famous conjurer and a pack of dogs. And when the dogs produce a dog-written opera based on their dog revolution, I thought of Davies's novel ''The Lyre of Orpheus,'' about the mounting of another vocal drama, whose libretto eerily mirrors the lives of its cast. Ms. Bakis could have located Rankstadt in any remote wilderness area, yet she chose Canada -- a homage, perhaps?
But if ''Lives of the Monster Dogs'' owes a debt to an existing work, it may be to the Soviet novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's ''Heart of a Dog,'' published in 1925. In Bulgakov's novella, Russian doctors implant a human criminal's pituitary gland in a dog, who is transformed into a model Soviet citizen, except for his nagging itch to kill cats. The story reveals the way the state rewards brutishness, eliminating civility because it is perceived to be bourgeois. In contrast, ''Lives of the Monster Dogs'' resists pat allegorical readings. It involves the casualties that result from a German impulse to build an unstoppable army, but it is not a parable about Nazism, as is Art Spiegelman's ''Maus.'' In fact, it seems more closely related to such cautionary fiction on the dangers of unethical medical experimentation as Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' and, more recently, Alisdair Gray's ''Poor Things.'' (In the 19th century, German was the lingua franca of science; when Bulgakov's Russian physicians don't want their canine patient to understand what they're saying, they speak to one another ''auf Deutsch.'')
At this point, I'm supposed to say, ''I liked this book, but,'' and list Ms. Bakis's shortcomings, of which there are few. As a prose stylist, she has stunning agility. Each voice she creates is distinct, whether it is that of a graduate student, a canine scholar or a crazed, revolution-minded mutt. Nor does she indulge in pyrotechnics for their own sake; when they appear, they are always used to illuminate her characters. This is not one of those flashy novels that ultimately prove hollow.
Even for those who use it well, language, Ms. Bakis suggests, has its limitations. At the story's startling finish, Cleo struggles to find words for something vast and real outside herself that she cannot get her tongue around. To reject despair in the face of death is to sense a connection to other creatures, even if it is not easily articulated. ''It's like all of these threads, these strands of other people's lives, are coming together in us,'' Cleo tries to explain. No better than the dogs, Ms. Bakis implies, we inevitably fumble with tinny voice synthesizers. Never violating its internal logic, the book unfolds like a rich, resonant dream that you can't stop thinking about the following day. Writing the lives of ''monsters,'' Ms. Bakis has produced a dazzling, unforgettable meditation on what it means to be human.
M. G. Lord's most recent book is ''Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll.'' She is working on an informal cultural history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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I've been seeing a lot of westerns lately. Ranging from featuring John Wayne to Clint Eastwood to the actors in between, directors from John Ford to Sergio Leone, and having loads of action, they are always entertaining.
Rancher Daniel Evans (Christian Bale) agrees to help take outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) to the 3:10 train to Yuma for his trial. But Wade is a cunning outlaw, so Evans has to keep a sharp eye on him. Throw in having Wade's gang coming after them and it's a fight for their lives.
So awesome. Take note that the final scenes are a homage to High Noon. By that, I mean as time passes the suspense builds. The thrill of an Eastwood western, the intensity of a John Wayne western, 3:10 to Yuma is just damn good. Bale and Crowe are a good actor pairing for this particular movie. Ben Foster, who plays a member of Wade's gang, is also very good. If you're a fan of westerns, this is just for you.
My Rating: ****1/2

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A mother whose two babies died in a running shower has given heartbreaking evidence of how she tried to hide her sadness while virtually housebound with her young children because she felt ashamed.
Miranda Hebble, 27, is the last witness at a coronial inquest investigating the death of her sons and Malachi Stevens, aged two years and ten months respectively when they died in November 2008.
The inquest has heard that Ms Hebble told emergency services she passed out while getting soap after placing her two children in a shower to wash them following an incident where Lochlan smeared the contents of his nappy in their Ellenbrook bedroom.
She had woken ten hours later to find the drains clogged and her children dead, with their potential causes of death listed as including drowning, hypothermia and hunger.
Today, Ms Hebble started giving evidence with her testimony revealing she had been extremely tired and also sad while looking after her two children with her partner working fly-in-fly-out.
She said she sometimes could not sleep at all as a result of her baby's erratic sleeping pattern and left the home about once a week unless her partner was back home.
She told the inquest she did not know why she was sad and had been too ashamed to tell her partner, family and friends.
"I was ashamed to talk about being upset all the time," she said.
"I like to keep everything inside... it's hard to talk about... I wanted to be strong... I wanted to prove I could do things and for (my partner) to be proud of me."
"I don't know why I was sad. I occasionally went to the shops or my Mum and Dad's when I was really down.... but I never showed it," she said.
Ms Hebble - who has anaemia and had suffered migraines - said she did not know why she did not see a doctor about her lethargy and tiredness which had occasionally seen her drop cups and not feel like doing anything.
"If I couldn't get to sleep I would watch TV... sometimes I just wouldn't sleep at all," Ms Hebble said.
Her cleanliness at home had also been affected, sparking arguments, she said.
"Lochlan was very active and Malachi was very sleepless so sometimes my cleaning did go under," she said.
The inquest has heard evidence from the boys' father, Christopher Stevens, that he had voiced concerns about her sleeping pattern and had offered to pay for extra help in the home.
Mr Stevens has since started a new family and has attended the inquest daily.
He had testified that he also called every second day to see how his then-fiancee was while he was away in the minesite.
Today, Ms Hebble said she had often felt that she had nothing to talk about aside from her boys because she never went out.
The WA Coroner, Alastair Hope, has suggested the case highlighted the plight of mothers trying to raise young children in isolation and a society that was becoming more and more insular.
Ms Hebble's evidence continues this afternoon.


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LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A man was shot Thursday night outside a liquor store in Long Beach.
The victim went into the store in the 3600 block of Santa Fe Avenue around 8:50 p.m. and said he had been shot, police said.READ MORE: Jacqueline Avant, Wife Of Music Executive Clarence Avant, Found Shot To Death In Beverly Hills Home Invasion
The man, who was struck in the back at least twice, was taken to Long Beach Memorial Hospital in unknown condition, according to Sky9’s Stu Mundel.READ MORE: First US Case Of Omicron Variant Detected In California
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Kendrick Lamar made history this April when he won the 2018 Pulitzer prize in music for his album DAMN., the first non-jazz or classical artist to take home the coveted prize. It was a watershed moment for the music industry and definitely for Lamar, who reflected on the significance of it in an interview with Vanity Fair that was released on Thursday.
“It was one of those things I heard about in school,” he said in reference to his Pulitzer prize, “but I never thought I’d be a part of it. [When I heard I got it], I thought, to be recognized in an academic world . . . whoa, this thing really can take me above and beyond.”
Lamar, who also took home Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammys for DAMN., also pointed out that he felt that the recognition was a long time coming and that there were many hip hop artists who came before him that helped lay the framework for his Pulitzer.
“It’s one of those things that should have happened with hip-hop a long time ago. It took a long time for people to embrace us—people outside of our community, our culture—to see this not just as vocal lyrics, but to see that this is really pain, this is really hurt, this is really true stories of our lives on wax,” he said. “And now, for it to get the recognition that it deserves as a true art form, that’s not only great for myself, but it makes me feel good about hip-hop in general. Writers like Tupac, Jay Z, Rakim, Eminem, Q-Tip, Big Daddy Kane, Snoop…It lets me know that people are actually listening further than I expected.”
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People across the country are waiting in long lines to vote early. And when Americans show up to cast their ballots, they don't want to be turned away.
But that happened in Virginia this week.
From Texas to Georgia to Ohio, exercising a little patience is needed to exercise the right to vote early.
It's been the same way in Virginia where in-person early voting came to a screeching halt Tuesday. Workers accidentally cut a fiber optic cable, shutting down the entire state's online voter registration system for several hours.
On Wednesday, a federal judge extended the deadline by 48 hours for registering to vote in Virginia.
"I thought it was just affecting voter registration; I soon found out it was affecting more," Donna Patterson, the director of elections for Virginia Beach, told CBN News. "But our biggest concern was voter registration. It's the voter registration deadline today."
"Also, we've been averaging about a thousand voters a day here in Virginia Beach," she continued.
"That was kind of disappointing 'cause we did come down here prepared to vote," said Virginia Beach resident Lonnie Cartwright. "We had planned this out to make this an event to come here and vote today, and we weren't able to."
"So we thought we'd come knock this out today a little early before Election Day, and to try to get ahead of the big crowds possibly, and then just to find out that the computers are down – it's a little frustrating, but those things happen," said Ernie Hawkins, another Virginia Beach resident.
CBN News also wanted to know if this incident raises a concern about the safety and accuracy of this year's election. The voters we talked to weighed in on that as well.
"Things like this just make you more skeptical, but I'm still gonna go out; still gonna vote because it's the only way you can make the change that you want in this country," said Aaron O'Sullivan, a Virginia Beach resident.
"I've been concerned about this whole thing," said Virginia Beach resident Jill Cartwright. "You hear stuff where people are trying to stop you from voting and everything, so it's, yeah, it's concerning."
In Texas, many people waiting all day to vote have expressed concerns that this is an attempt at voter suppression. The governor of Texas is only permitting one drop-off box for mail-in votes per county, and a federal court backed him up this week.


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A Lesson Before Dying is a 1997 drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Christie, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The story follows a day in the life of an old man (Hawke) who is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. His nurse (Christie) takes care of him and tells him his days are numbered. Over the course of the day, they discuss his life and what he should do with it. He also has conversations with his wife (Hoffman) on the phone, as well as friends (John Cusack and Jack Black).
Where can I watch A Lesson Before Dying?
If you're looking for a movie to watch before you die, look no further than A Lesson Before Dying. This 2007 film is based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The story follows college professor and novelist James Agee as he travels to rural Alabama to visit his ailing father. While there, Agee learns about life and death from his father's friends and family members. The film is well-made and features excellent acting from its cast. If you're interested in watching it before you die, be sure to check out some of the legal streaming services that offer full movies without commercials.
Who stars in A Lesson Before Dying?
The cast of A Lesson Before Dying includes: Robert Downey Jr. (Sheriff Will Teasle), Jack Black (Dr. John Keating), and Ethan Hawke (Duane Jones).
What year was A Lesson Before Dying released?
A Lesson Before Dying was released in 1997.
How long is A Lesson Before Dying?
The movie A Lesson Before Dying is about a man who has terminal cancer and he's given just six months to live. He spends his time writing letters to people he's never met, telling them what he's learned in life. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It was released in 2007 and stars James Franco as the lead character. The movie is directed by Richard Linklater and it has a runtime of 97 minutes.
What genre does A Lesson Before Dying belong to?
A Lesson Before Dying belongs to the drama genre.
What's the plot of A Lesson Before Dying?
The plot of A Lesson Before Dying is about a man named Ernest Hemingway who is in a hospital bed dying. He has been told that he has only a few days to live and he wants to make sure that his life is meaningful before he dies. He decides to write one last novel. While he is writing the novel, he meets a woman named Catherine Barkley and they fall in love. However, when Hemingway learns that Catherine has cancer, he breaks up with her. Shortly after their break-up, Catherine dies from her cancer. Hemingway writes about his experiences with Catherine in his novel and it becomes an international bestseller.
Is A Lesson Before Dying a good movie?
A lesson before dying is a good movie. It has an interesting plot and well-developed characters. The acting is good, and the film moves at a good pace. Overall, it's an enjoyable watch.
Who directed A Lesson Before Dying?
A Lesson Before Dying was directed by Richard Attenborough.
Was a lesson before dying a book before it was a movie?
The book was published in 2006, and the movie came out in 2007. So it would be accurate to say that the book was a movie before it was a book.
Who wrote the novel “a lesson before dying” ?
The novel “a lesson before dying” was written by James Frey.
12 Why was jefferson convicted of the crime ?
Jefferson was convicted of the crime because he had a motive and opportunity to commit the crime. He had a motive because he was angry at King and wanted revenge. He also had an opportunity because King was alone in his house at the time of the attack.
13 What theme is explored in the film “a lesson before dying”?
The theme explored in the film “a lesson before dying” is life and death. The main character, James Earl Jones, discusses this topic with his doctor. He asks the doctor if he believes that there is life after death. The doctor does not know for sure, but he says that it is possible. James Earl Jones also discusses this topic with his wife. She tells him that she wants to go to heaven when she dies. He tells her that she should not worry about it because there is no way to know for sure what happens after death.


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Underwater photography has to be my favourite
Underwater ballerina- this is absolutely one of my very favorite pics of a ballerina
Seems legit Underwater Photoshoot.
These photos are what happens when you have a daughter who practically lives underwater, and a photographer mother.
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Road closure schemes outside schools are “beginning to collapse” due to volunteer fatigue.
The measures for drop-off and pick-up times were implemented outside Windmill Primary School, Larkrise Primary School and St Ebbe’s Primary School in Oxford, and outside St Nicolas Primary School in Abingdon earlier this year.
Automatic number plate recognition cameras were set to be used to enforce the rules.
But they are yet to be installed.
Volunteers have been manning the cut-off points with barriers over the past months, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
Oxford resident Jamie Clark has urged Oxfordshire County Council to release a timetable and provide a budget to pay for new staff where volunteers cannot continue to help.
“We were told cameras would be in by 1 November and we have no timetable whatsoever for their implementation,” Mr Clark said.
He added: “The schemes are beginning to collapse, people are moving back to their old ways and streets are beginning to get more dangerous.”
Councillor Andrew Gant, who is in charge of the county’s highways, thanked volunteers and said that while the authority intended to have cameras in place by the end of October there had been delays in obtaining them.
He added: “We all know what procurement issues are like, our officers are working extremely hard but they haven’t got them yet and I hope we will get over that problem as soon as we possibly can.”


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Naomi Tea Cup
Naomi is a serene take on modern floral design. A silhouette of branches and leaves fades in from the edges of the dinnerware and extends across each piece. A warm cream rim serves as the perfect backdrop and is enhanced by a subtle platinum band. Naomi will add an elegant touch to your formal Dishwasher safe. Do not use in microwave. This tea cup is great for sipping a warm cup of fresh brewed tea. Tea cup holds 8 ounce.


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Distance: 7.25 miles
Elevation Gain: 3,700'
Roundtrip Time: 7 hours
This hike took place over Labor Day weekend in 2012, about 2 weeks or so after I had moved out to Wyoming from Pennsylvania. The week before, an email had been sent around by two grad students to everyone in my department asking if anyone was interested in doing a 14er hike that weekend. Being the newly adventurous person that I was, I jumped at the opportunity, not really having any idea what a 14er really entailed. My roommate decided to go as well. The two of us had recently hiked Medicine Bow Peak near Laramie, which tops out at a respectable but not very high 12,013'. The next logical step up was a 14er. I can't remember if I knew beforehand that I'd actually be hiking FOUR 14ers that coming weekend - all in one day - but it didn't really matter, it was a new experience and I figured why not.
The DeCaLiBro is an acronym often used when referring to the four closely-bunched 14ers near the Continental Divide southwest of Breckenridge, in Colorado's Mosquito Range. The four peaks are Mt. Democrat, Mt. Cameron, Mt. Lincoln, and Mt. Bross... hence, DeCaLiBro. They are essentially all connected by short ridgelines or saddles (i.e., low points along ridges connecting two peaks) and can easily all be hiked in one day. They are also fairly high in elevation, all exceeding 14,172'.
To hike the DeCaLiBro via the standard route, one must begin at the Kite Lake trailhead at 12,000' located in the large bowl at the base of the peaks (Photo 1). Our plan was to try and make it up the rough 2WD road the night before the hike to the parking lot at the trailhead and camp somewhere nearby. We managed to make it to within about 1/4 mile of the trailhead when we found a nice spot to camp on the side of the road. The road seemed to be at its worst just past this point, so we decided to stop there and set up our tents. The view from here during sunset was quite the treat (Photo 2).
We got up early the next morning (well, I thought it was early) and began hiking by 5 or 5:30am (I think), while it was still pretty dark. I've come to find out, after many more 14er hikes, that 5:30am is not really all that early. Anyway, beginning at Kite Lake, near 12,000', we headed north and then northwest to the base of the east slopes leading up to the saddle between Mt. Democrat and Mt. Cameron.
The trail was well-maintained and easy to follow, even in the dark. From the base of the slopes at about 12,600', we had a 750' climb to the saddle, which we reached around 9am. At some point while we were climbing the sun popped out of the dense clouds that were shrouding the peaks and gave us some welcome light and a little bit of warmth (Photo 3). The view from the saddle to the northwest was quite awesome (Photo 4).
We reached the summit of Mt. Democrat around 9:30 or so, chilled out for a few minutes, took some photos (Photos 5, 6, & 7), and started heading back down to the Democrat-Cameron saddle. I remembering it being very windy at one point going down, and I was probably thinking "Is this really gonna be worth it?".
The views continued to be incredible as we made our way back to the saddle. We took a brief break next to some cairns guiding the way (Photos 8 & 9) and began making the ~770' hike up to Mt. Cameron's broad summit.
The summit of Mt. Cameron is very flat, quite boring, and really doesn't do a 14er justice. But it is a nice place to stop and grab a quick bite to eat - and maybe call a family member - before beginning the second half of the DeCaLiBro loop. That exactly what we did (Photo 10) as we continued to enjoy some really cool views.
Interestingly, Mt. Cameron has the second-highest summit of the four mountains we climbed (at 14,238'), but is the only one to be officially unranked and therefore not included in the official list of Colorado 14ers. In Colorado, to be an official 14er, a peak must rise at least 300' above the highest connecting ridge/saddle between it and it's parent peak (i.e., the next highest peak). This is another way of saying that it must have a prominence of at least 300'. Mt. Lincoln is the parent peak in this case, since it's a half mile away and tops out at 14,286'. The highest connecting point between the two peaks is the Lincoln-Cameron saddle at 14,100', so Cameron's prominence is only 138'. Bummer for Mt. Cameron...
Next, we made our way down a pretty mellow and wide-open slope to the Lincoln-Cameron saddle (Photo 11). From here it was only a 186' climb up to the summit of Mt. Lincoln; however, this summit was the most fun as far as I'm concerned (Photo 12). It wasn't quite a scramble (where you have to use your hands), but the trail up to the summit had some decent exposure on either side, including a few steep gullies there may have only been 5-6' wide (Photo 13). Also, the summit was pretty small and confined, unlike the summit of Cameron which you could have played football on (Photo 14).
We were on and off the Mt. Lincoln summit fairly quickly, trying to get off the mountain as soon as possible. I think it was already after noon by this point, and it's always a good idea to try and be off these peaks by that time to avoid any afternoon thunderstorms and their frequent killer, lightning. The trail took us past the Lincoln-Cameron saddle to the south, toward the Lincoln-Bross saddle.
On the way up the trail to the Mt. Bross summit, we came across a sign that said the summit was closed due to some conflict between the private land owners and hikers. We were expecting this, but weren't sure if we were going to go forward and still gain the summit or not. Plenty of people do, and the closed sign isn't enforced, I don't believe. We ultimately decided not to go all the way to the summit and instead went up to 14,000' on Bross' slopes and were content with that. So, no actual summit, but that only means I now have to go back someday to finish it!
On the way back down to Kite Lake, the trail gets quite steep and we ended up sliding down a scree field (i.e., a slope with a bunch of smaller loose rocks). The views of the bowl/basin below, and Mt. Democrat across the way, were definitely stunning though (Photos 15 & 16).
Near the bottom, we found a nice little waterfall which provided some needed relief from a hard day's work (Photo 17).
We were back to the Kite Lake trailhead by 12:30pm, if my memory serves me right (I had to cheat and look at the time stamps on some of my photos). After packing up our tents and relaxing for a bit, we hopped in the car and headed back to the town of Frisco where we enjoyed an end-of-the-day meal at a nice Bar & Grille. Well, some of us enjoyed it... by then I had an awful headache and felt pretty sick due to the altitude. Nothing an Excedrin can't solve! All in all, a good first 14er hike for me, and also one of the easiest ones.

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Coffee Board of India annouced best coffee growers of the country in recently held Coffee Awards ceremony.
Awards are announced for the years 2016 and 2017.The awards were divided into national and regional categories.
“The coffee growers are facing a tough time with lack of water, change in policies and non-assured income. In spite of this, they are doing their best to continue the practice. The coffee awards are an effort to recognise the same,” said Dr M M Chengappa, chairman of Karnataka Planters Association.
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SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County health officials have reported nine new COVID-19 cases -- the lowest day-to-day increase since March 17 -- while the county's death toll remained unchanged at 19.
The number of COVID-19 cases stands at 1,283, with 103 people hospitalized and 51 in intensive care, Orange County Health Care Agency officials said Monday
“Overall, our trend has been headed in the right direction,” Dr. Nichole Quick, the county's chief health officer, said in a media briefing. “I am cautiously optimistic in Orange County.”
Quick added, “We do not have any specific explanation why our cases today were significantly lower.”
David Souleles, a deputy director of the OC Health Care Agency, said a single day's data is less helpful than a longer-term trend when determining when the county may get past the pandemic.
“The best we can do right now is continue and monitor and see how the trend line over the next week or so” changes, Souleles said.
The number of people tested for COVID-19 in the county stands at 14,175, with enough kits for 1,519 more specimens. Since Sunday, 647 people have been tested.
Of the county's total cases, 2%, or 20, involve people under 18 years old; 8%, or 105, are between 18-24; 17%, or 220, are between 25-34; 15%, or 191, are between 35-44; 39%, or 501, are between 45-64, and 19%, or 246, are 65 or older. Men make up 53% of the county's cases, and 53% of its fatalities.
Of the deaths, two were 25 to 34 years old, one was 35 to 44, five were 45 to 64, and 11 were 65 or older. Of the fatalities, eight were Asian, four were white, five were Latino, one was black and one was not classified.
Anaheim has the most COVID-19 cases in the county with 148, followed by Santa Ana with 114 and Irvine with 100. Huntington Beach has 87, but Newport Beach is close behind with 85.
The number of Orange County Jail inmates testing positive for COVID-19 stands at 13, sheriff's officials reported last week. A dozen of the inmates are men and one is a woman, and three have since recovered, said Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
The 10 inmates still afflicted with COVID-19 were in medical isolation, and 11 others were in medical isolation because they were showing symptoms of the virus but had not tested positive, Braun said.
No more inmates are being accepted in the men's and women's jails and they are not being transferred to other lockups, Braun said. Newly booked inmates are also being quarantined, she said.
Orange County's chief health officer on Thursday issued a recommendation “strongly encouraging” face coverings for workers at essential businesses that remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Quick, who has the authority to mandate the action, stopped short of doing so. Her order was issued two days after the Orange County Board of Supervisors rejected Supervisor Andrew Do's motion to make face coverings mandatory for at least food industry workers.
Quick said she decided on a recommendation versus a mandate “based on what we're seeing numbers-wise. I'm hopeful we're seeing a flattening of the curve.”
The evidence that there has been a slowing of coronavirus cases in Orange County due to social distancing may be shown in the fact that the county is not seeing an exponential increase in cases on a daily basis, Quick said. The number of hospitalizations has also remained stable, she noted.
If COVID-19 cases take off again down the line, Quick said she would revisit a mandate.
Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner said he learned on a conference call with UC Irvine Medical Center experts that there is concern about another wave of COVID-19 in the fall. Wagner said he would discuss with the rest of the board at Tuesday's meeting the possibility of stockpiling more masks and other types of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers for another potential wave.
“This is something that if we get a hiatus soon we need to start looking at what do we do to take care of it next time,” Wagner said.
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Renowned privacy-centric cryptocurrency, PIVX has temporarily disabled zPIV. The team first made the disclosure on their official Discord channel on March 7, stating that:
zPIV functionality has been temporarily disabled while we investigate a potential issue.
Details of the issue are yet to be revealed. However, the PIVX team has assured users that their coins are safe and their privacy has not been compromised in any way. Confirming this in a tweet, they noted that:
An in-depth vulnerability report written by the core development team along with the PR in GitHub will be published soon outlining all the details of the recently detected Zerocoin zPIV issue and the fix. Rest assured, it does not affect your coins nor their privacy.
The much we know is that the potential issue affects only custom Zerocoin implementation. As such, all PIVX forks have been advised to disable Zerocoin via spork and wait until a patch is released.
zPIV provides a protocol-level coin mixing service using zero-knowledge proofs to sever the link between the sender and the receiver with 100% anonymity and un-traceability. The use of zPIV also means your balance can be masked to avoid being targeted by potential thieves. This is a very unique feature that nearly no other cryptocurrency currently in the market possesses.


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Cheesey Bob's Quote Page
This is just a page of quotes I found to be intriguing enough to put here. I mainly like quotes about people, the mind and about technology.
Quotes by C.G. Jung
- I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears
- As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
- Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead- when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
Quotes by Marjane Satrapi
- The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we dont know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.
Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.


text: Fifteen years into the past, a 13-year-old Rob Lucci, as emissary of the world government, is sent into a country at war with pirates. Five hundred of their soldiers have been taken hostage and the pirates’ captain demands the throne in exchange for the men’s life. The country’s king is close to giving in when Lucci arrives. However, Lucci has not come to offer help, but to take matters into his hands. He goes to the pirates and allows them to capture him. They lock him up with the five hundred soldiers. Lucci kills them all, in the name of justice, because for a soldier it is a sin to be weak. Afterwards, he kills the pirates’ captain and ends the country’s crisis.

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It´s not every day you come across a factory made one of a kind road legal vehicle, especially one from such a revered organization as Maybach. The Exelero is an outright beastly two-seater based off the legendary Maybachs from the 1930’s. It is powered by a twin turbo V12 which delivers a stunning 700hp, pretty wild considering that the car was presented in 2005.
So how come the Exelero even exists?
Well, apparently the German tire manufacturer, Fulda Tires, used a 1939 Maybach SW 38 to test tires back in the 40’s and in 2005 Fulda tires wanted a new Maybach to test a new generation of tires. They commissioned the Exelero, which turned out to be more than just a show car – In tests on the Nardo high-speed oval, the prototype reached almost 350 km/h despite weighing over 2.66 tones.
The design is a result of a competition amongst students at the Pforzheim Polytechnic Department of Transport Design. A contribution from a 24 year old named Fredrik Burckhardt won and Fredrik got to work closely with Maybach during the development of the car. The Exelero project took shape out of the ashes of a Maybach 57 limousine.
When Fulda no longer required the service of Exelero it was purchased by a diamond industrialist by the name of André Action Diakité Jackson for 5 million euros. Jackson allowed Jay-Z to use it in his Lost One music video before selling it to a “European Entrepreneur” named Arnaud Massartic. In 2011 Arnaud announced that the Exelero was for sale yet again, and Bryan “Birdman” Williams almost immediately notified Arnaud that he was willing to pay a whopping 8 million dollars for it.
A few months later there was quite a few articles suggesting that Birdman had failed to present the money and nothing has been heard about it since. Who knows where it is now?
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RLST 152 - Lecture 17 - Paul's Disciples
Lecture 17 - Paul's Disciples
In ancient times, documents that were falsely attributed to an author, called pseudepigrapha, were a common phenomenon. Both the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians are most likely pseudonymous works attributed to the Apostle Paul. The writer of Colossians assures his readers that they already possess all the benefits of salvation and do not need to observe rules concerning feast days, Sabbaths, and worship of the angels. Ephesians seems somewhat based on Colossians, although it reads more like an ethical or moral treatise. Both letters differ from Pauline Christology in their realized eschatology and high Christology.
Ehrman, Bart D. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, pp. 369-392
Bible: Colossians; Ephesians

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Like any other self-respecting cities travel hub, visitors and their belongings were thoroughly checked by the Shanghai Dutch School (SDS) customs team from Year 2. Subsequently parents and visitors had to have their passports checked and stamped. Those people without a Belgian or Dutch passport would lucky enough to have one made on site at the travel fair. The next step was to check in at SDS Airlines counter with our Year 1 students. Once checked in, all visitors could enjoy and find out an overwhelming amount of information about many countries in Asia including China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, and beyond. Students from Year 3 up to Year 11 had researched travel options in these countries and put together amazing itineraries, covering not just the highlights, but also the hidden treasures. Exhausted from ‘travel shopping’ the potential travelers could enjoy refreshments in our aeroplane, hosted by flight attendants and pilots from Reception. What an amazing event and journey!
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ONTARIO PLACE URBAN PARK & WATERFRONT TRAIL
Where land meets water.
The Ontario Place Urban Park and Waterfront Trail concept plan proposes a dramatic transformation of an existing parking lot into a green oasis
that celebrates the legacy of Ontario Place and the landscapes of Ontario while creating both a destination and a landmark for the City of Toronto. The Park and Trail proposes a place you can come back to again and again, in all seasons, day and night for multiple activities and programs.
The design proposes an Upper and Lower Park connected by a mobius circuit with infinite views of the Lake, the City and the Islands. The interface between upper and lower park provides an opportunity for program and activities that enhance the experience of the circulation loop.
Forest, planted slopes and lawns bring a green footprint to what is now an asphalt parking lot. This new space will unlock a section of Toronto’s waterfront that has been gated to the public for more than 40 years.
See the latest updates & press announcements on our Ontario Place news feed
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Throwing an object from a moving UAV quadcopter isn't the easiest control problem to start in robotics. The reason is, that the system has a non-linear characteristics which means that the equations of motions have to do with ordinary differential equations. The box dropping problem is way more complicated than the famous three body problem which was researched by Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Newton was a professor at the Trinity college in Cambridge, which is one of the most prestigious Universities in the world.
This background information is important to understand which kind of theories are needed here. It has to be technology which is more advanced, that what Isaac Newton was using, because he struggles with the three body problem. The good news is, that such technology is available since the 20th century, it's called model predictive control. The first thing to do is to create the forward model of the problem. That means, a physics simulation has to be created which is calculating the position of the box under the influence of the wind parameter and the own speed of the UAV. Basically this task is equal to program a small game in which a graphics subsystem shows on the screen the movement.
The second subproblem is to use the forward model in the opposite direction. This is called predictive control. The controller gets as input the goal position of the box, and then he calculates the needed actions of the UAV to reach the state. In the literature, the concept is known as Receding Horizon Control. It contains of a prediction step, the result is stored in a graph and then a solver is searching in the graph for a goal node which fulfills the constraints. The edges on the graph are the action commands for controlling the UAV.


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Mediterranean Cucumber Roll Ups - cucumber roasted garlic hummus roasted red pepper and tangy feta. A quick easy healthy recipe for an appetizer or light lunch.
Caesar salad on a stick food appetizer idea! An easy way to serve salad as a finger good. Make it a caesar salad on a stick or strawberry poppy seed. The options are endless :)
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(CNN) -- Armed with signs reading "no taxation without deliberation" and "stop bankrupting America," tens of thousands of people spent national tax day at organized "tea party" demonstrations across the country, protesting what some view as excessive government spending and bailouts.
Crates of tea were dumped into Massachusetts' Boston Harbor during a "tea party" protest Wednesday.
"If you look at these nine little beautiful grandbabies, I'm here for them. Our government's out of control with spending and their future's being robbed," said Mary Wojnas, whose sign had a photo of her grandchildren next to the phrase, "Stop Generational Theft."
"Stop out-of-control spending and stop government takeover and intrusion in our lives. They're here to protect us and beyond that, get out of our way," said Wojnas, who attended a rally in front of the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta.
In Massachusetts, hundreds cheered as people dressed in 18th-century style wigs and clothes tossed crates of tea into Boston Harbor, harkening back to pre-Revolutionary War protests in that city against British taxation policies.
"I think it's only a matter of time before these people quit carrying signs and start doing something else," said Ed McQueen, an Ohio resident who attended the Chicago rally. "What that is, I don't know. Quit paying taxes? Are they going to start carrying sticks and clubs? I don't know." iReport.com: See McQueen's photos
Conservatives borrowed a page from President Obama's Web-savvy style to promote the gatherings on videos and blogs.
But many insisted protesters' grievances cut across party lines, reflecting a general anger among people who contend the government takes too much from their pocketbooks.
"The importance of these tea parties is to let our elected officials know that there's a lot of people out there who are unhappy. They're not Republicans, they're not Democrats, they're everyday Americans who are concerned about our taxes," said said T.J. Welsh, an organizer of a protest attended by thousands in Jacksonville, Florida.
Financial-industry and automotive bailouts were launched at the end of George W. Bush's presidency, but many demonstrators aimed their words and signs at the Obama administration, criticizing it in part for the recently passed stimulus package. iReport.com: See map showing where some tea parties took place
The $787 billion economic stimulus bill President Obama signed in February "was basically shoved down the throat of the American people," Welsh said.
"Now is not the time to be running a $700 billion dollar plus budget through that people did not talk about, that people did not read," Welsh said.
Along with concerns over too many taxes and excessive bailouts, a common theme that emerged from the demonstrations was the threat of big government on the lives of individual citizens.
"People are tired of the nanny state and the growth of government, tired of having our money basically robbed," a demonstrator in Jacksonville said. "[We] want to return to constitutional form of government, limited government that allows people to be free and independent."
"The biggest problem we have is the government is too big ... real people understand that and say we can't take the burden of a burgeoning government," said former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, whose organization, FreedomWorks, helped organize Wednesday's nationwide event.
"We need to reign in the size of government, and once having done so, we can cut taxes responsibly," he said.
Boston wasn't the only place where protesters played off the pre-Revolutionary War tea-dumping protests. As many Americans rushed to file their tax forms Wednesday, cheering crowds across the country heaved huge coolers with "Tea" painted on the side into bodies of water. iReport.com: Protest in Rochester, New York
Protesters on Wednesday said that like their colonial forebears, they felt their voices were not being heard by their government.
At one protest Wednesday morning a sign read, "I read as much of the stimulus bill as my Congresswoman." Another read, "You can't put lipstick on socialism."
McQueen, a 44-year-old litigation consultant and CNN iReporter, said he had no problem with paying taxes.
"But when no can tell us where this amount of money is going, no one can sketch it out for us, just seems like an injustice," he said. iReport.com: Check out McQueen's story
Bloggers in Seattle, Washington, were the first to bring conservatives together for a rally on February 16 against what they saw as too many government handouts to banks, the auto and mortgage industries. Protests followed in Colorado and Arizona.
The embers turned into a raging fire when later that month, CNBC personality Rick Santelli went off on Obama's policies live on air.
"The government is promoting bad behavior," Santelli said, asking why Obama would make Americans who pay their bills subsidize the mortgages of "losers."
Santelli said he wanted a tea party to happen in Chicago, Illinois, to stand up and angrily demand "No more."
Cheers erupted behind him on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor and a video of the rant became viral, drawing comparisons of Santelli to Howard Beale, the fictional "mad as hell" anchorman in the 1976 movie "Network."
The outrage spread, prompting rallies in the Midwest and the South.
Pajamas TV, a conservative Web site that says it gets about 1 million viewers a week, ran streaming video from several protests. PJTV hired McCain campaign poster boy Samuel Joseph "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher to act as a reporter at one of the protests. At least one video shows a protester asking Wurzelbacher if he would like to waterboard Obama.
"I don't approve of that," said Pajamas TV CEO Roger L. Simon. "I would like to hope, and I think, that most people are respectful."
Liberal tea party critics aren't buying it. They call the protests "Astroturf," saying they aren't real grassroots events, but are organized by old-fashioned Republican Party bosses.
The events have been promoted in part by FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, whose Web site says it engages citizens "in the name of limited government and free markets."
"Groups like Americans for Prosperity [are] working and helping an organizing, but no one group, no one organization, no one political party could pull off something like this," Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips said. iReport.com: Tax protest brewing in San Antonio
In remarks in Washington on Wednesday, Obama said he'd been true to campaign promises to lessen the tax burden on most Americans.
"My administration has taken far-reaching action to give tax cuts to Americans who need them while jump-starting growth and job creation in the process," the president said.
A tax cut enacted April 1, Obama said, "will reach 120 million families and put $120 billion directly into their pockets."
The plan offers a refundable tax credit of up to $400 for working individuals and up to $800 for married taxpayers who file joint returns, according to the IRS.
Not everyone disapproves of Obama's tax policies. In March, 62 percent of people taking a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said they approved how Obama is handling taxes. The sampling error was plus or minus 4.5 percent.
CNN's Aaron Cooper, Jim Acosta, John Couwels, Ashley Fantz and Jason Hanna contributed to this report.


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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev yesterday gave into pressure from his boss President Putin and signed off on Rosneft’s $5.3bn bid for a controlling stake in the smaller state-owned oil enterprise Bashneft oil – and then (more…)
A combination of targeted fiscal support, exchange rate adjustment, strengthened domestic liquidity management and structural reforms have helped Kazakhstan counter the effects of lower oil prices and slower growth in Russia, China and Europe, the IMF pronounced this week; and, while GDP growth slowed to 1% in 2016, it is expected to bounce back to 2.5% in the current year.
Kazakh privatisation programme: A significant proportion of the Kazakh government’s stakes in KazMunayGas, Air Astana and Kazakhtelecom operator are to be sold off over the next 18 months after a government commission gave its approval to plans drawn up last year by the Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund to privatise a total of 153 companies through a series initial public offerings (IPOs), the fund’s CEO Umirzak Shukeyev announced earlier this week. (more…)The Astana Times Read More»
Russian President Vladimir Putin took to the TV airways yesterday to celebrate the news that the commodity trader Glencore and Qatar’s QIA sovereign wealth fund – Glencore’s largest shareholders – had agreed to buy Moscow’s 19.5% stake in the state-run Rosneft oil giant for a figure Putin put at $11bn, boosted by what he described as “the rising trend in oil prices.”
The transaction was so big that Putin specifically asked Sechin to work with the Finance Ministry and central bank to ensure that it did not destabilize the currency market when the proceeds were converted into roubles. The rouble gained against the dollar in late trading after the deal was announced. and shares in Rosneft jumped by 6.4% on the news.
Putin haled the surprise deal as the “largest acquisitions in the oil and gas sector in the world in 2016.” It is certainly the biggest foreign investment in Russia since the crisis in Ukraine and comes little more than a year after Glencore Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenberg had to go cap in hand to his shareholders for a cash injection. Qatar’s involvement also marks a rare venture of an OPEC member into the Russian energy sector.
Putin was joined on air by his long-term ally and Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin who thanked the President for his part in brokering the deal which, he said, only “became possible thanks to your personal contribution,…..the negotiated price is in our view the maximum possible with the minimum discount of 5% to market prices.” Financing will be provided by “one of the largest European banks,” he added, without specifying which one.
The deal comes at the end of an eventful few weeks for Russia’s privatisation programme which has seen Economy Minister Alexey Ulyukaev dismissed and put under house arrest, accused of taking a bribe to end his objections to Rosneft taking part in the privatisation of Bashneft; and Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev announcing that hundreds of SMEs were likely to put up for sale next year as Moscow scrambles to raise cash to fill its $21bn budget deficit.
The new deal will go a long way to reducing that debt, but with Rosneft and Sechin himself subject to the sanctions imposed by the West after the annexation of Ukraine, Glencore announced that it would be “fully ring-fenced” from exposure to the Russian state company, apart from a 0.54% “indirect equity interest.”
Russia will retain a controlling stake in Rosneft after the deal, while BP owns a further 19.75% stake in the company.
Russian privatisation: Hundreds of Russian SMEs could be put up for sale alongside some of the country’s larger blue-chip companies next year, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev said yesterday, as he flagged Moscow’s intention to make a “significant push” to speed up its privatisation programme. (more…)reuters Read More»
Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukaev is under arrest after being accused of accepting a $2m bribe in exchange for signing off on Rosneft’s purchase of a stake in mid-sized oil producer Bashneft. “The minister is detained,” the Investigation Committee said in a statement released overnight. “In the near future (more…)reuters Read More»
Russia’s state-run Rosneft is in pole position to gain control of the Bashneft oil enterprise, it emerged this week, as Moscow bows to pressure to plug a budget deficit that is forecast to hit $48bn this year. Having firstly revoked its decision to postpone the privatisation of Bashneft until (more…)
Shares in Bashneft jumped yesterday after Rosneft Chairman Igor Sechin, undeterred by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s reluctance to allow Russia’s largest oil enterprise to take part in plans to privatise its smaller competitor, went directly to his long-term ally President Putin and asked for permission to buy a controlling stake for a premium $5bn. If Putin overrules Medvedev (more…)Bloomberg Read More»
Bashneft privatisation: The Russian government is considering putting its 19.5% stake in the Rosneft oil giant up for sale, it emerged yesterday, after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that the Kremlin was indefinitely postponing the privatisation of Bashneft, its smaller competitor.
The sale of Bashneft had been planned for this autumn and had been meant to help plug gaps in Russia’s budget caused by an oil price slump and Western sanctions imposed over the country’s actions in Ukraine; but the privatisation has become mired with controversy after Rosneft defied the authorities by asking to be included in the bidding process, despite a ruling from the government that, as a state-run enterprise, it was ineligible to take part.
Rosneft’s management has been claiming that a legal loophole gave it the right to participate and two sources familiar with the situation are quoted in the Financial Times as suggesting that there was now “too much noise” around the deal, prompting Medvedev’s spokeswoman Natalia Timakov to announce that the sale – which was expected to raise well over $4bn – was to be postponed for an unspecified period of time. Medvedev may also have been disappointed by the likely return on the sale. “The stake valuation was too high at current oil prices,” said Andrey Polischuk, an analyst at Raiffeisen Bank in Moscow. “Perhaps only Rosneft was ready to pay that much, but it doesn’t suit everyone as a bidder and probably this issue has yet to be discussed by the government.”
The sale had also been opposed by Rustim Khamitov, Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, where many of Bashneft’s oil fields are located.
While it is unclear if Moscow’s decision to look at selling Rosneft instead has been prompted by its disagreement with the company’s defiance over the Bashneft privatisation process, it has not come out of the blue; earlier this year, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told CNBC that it was hoping to divest its 19.5% stake in the second half of the year and would be expecting to raise just under $10bn.
The Russian government yesterday officially went ahead with its plans to sell a 10.9% stake in the Alrosa diamond mining company in attempts to help to shore up an economy reeling from the effects of weak oil prices. The world’s largest producer of rough diamonds when measured by carats, (more…)reuters Read More»
Alrosa privatisation: The Russian government is hoping to raise $889m through the sale of a 10.9% stake in the Alrosa diamond mining company, with OppenheimerFunds, Lazard and the AMG’s Genesis Asset Management reported to be ready to spend about $450m to buy 3.09%, 0.99% and 0.8% respectively, sources close to the company said over the weekend. A decision (more…)Kommersant Read More»


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Large parts of the Ugu district are without water this Tuesday morning because of an illegal strike by SAMWU union members. Sabotage is also suspected. eHowzit will keep you informed as things develop.
OFFICIAL MEDIA STATEMENT BY UGU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY ON MONDAY AFTERNOON:
Municipality warns of imminent service interruptions
The municipality wishes to advise residents of possible water interruptions following a sudden illegal work stoppage by workers affiliated to SAMWU union.
This follows the municipality’s implementation of a No Work No pay rule to workers who previously withheld their services during an unprotected strike which resulted in major water disruptions and the suspension of SAMWU shopstewards who recently invaded a management meeting.
The municipality views this action by workers affiliated to SAMWU as a bare disregard of the constitutional right of communities to provision of water and sanitation services. And we have identified that certain areas are currently being affected with water disruptions. The municipality will use all its available resources to ensure that service interruptions are minimised during this period. We have also engaged the services of the law enforcement agencies to deal with possible acts of sabotage to the municipal infrastructure.
We appeal to our communities to bear with us during this period while we work tirelessly towards arresting this situation.
UGU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
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The Cleveland Five are a sad-sack collection of wannabe terrorists if there ever was one. The amateurish young men who plotted to destroy a bridge outside Cleveland last week give the impression of needing the attention of a guidance counselor as much as a federal prosecutor.
But there’s no mistaking the seriousness of their attempted act. They allegedly planted what they thought were live bricks of C-4 underneath a well-traveled bridge connecting two suburban Ohio communities and repeatedly tried to detonate them.
The Cleveland Five have the honor of being the first bombers spawned by Occupy Wall Street, and may not be the last. They rejected the nonviolence advocated by Occupy Cleveland’s leaders, but they were active in the movement and perfectly represent the “black bloc” anarchism that is a part of it. If their stupidity and recklessness are different in degree from their fellow self-styled revolutionaries, they’re not different in kind. They’re the left’s homegrown terrorists.
Accused ringleader Douglas Wright was noted for his quiet commitment to Occupy Cleveland. Fellow plotter Brandon Baxter got arrested protesting foreclosures and organized an event called “Occupy the Heart Festival” that was supposed to kick-start Occupy Cleveland after a moribund winter.
Another plotter, Josh Stafford, listed Occupy protests on Facebook as his job. Yet another, Anthony Hayne, signed the lease for a warehouse used as living quarters by Occupy Cleveland protesters.
The Cleveland Five are the pathetic sons of Occupy — rootless, underemployed, drunk on a sophomoric radicalism, alienated from the American system to the point of lawlessness. One Occupy leader told The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer that Wright — a drifter with no known address and a checkered past — struck him as “stereotypical.”
An FBI informant met Wright at an Occupy Cleveland event where he was part of a group wearing the traditional regalia of masks and black clothing. They struck up a relationship, and Wright confided that he and fellow anarchists wanted to make a dramatic statement against corporations and the US government. Wright talked about knocking the bank signs off buildings in downtown Cleveland. The plotters mused about bombing everything from the Klan to the Federal Reserve until they settled on the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge.
It would be instantly rendered a shovel-ready project as a symbolic blow against the system. Despite their exertions, the plotters couldn’t set off the inert explosives and were soon swept up by the FBI.
It had to be a relief to “99 percent” commuters who didn’t know they were participating in their own repression by driving back and forth on State Route 82 over Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
As far as terroristic “propaganda of the deed” goes, an Ohio bridge doesn’t make any less sense as a target than the Greenwich Observatory that anarchists wanted to destroy in Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent.”
Blowing up a bridge is like smashing a window — a favorite pastime of the anarchists at West Coast Occupy protests — only on a much larger and more hazardous scale. The spirit of nihilistic destructiveness is the same.
As is the flouting of laws and authority. This tendency isn’t limited to anarchists but is at the heart of Occupy.
Writing in The Nation, Michael Moore imagines “nonviolent assaults” (whatever that means) on Wall Street and “wave after wave of arrests” in an attempt to shut it down. The romance of confrontation with the police is more central to Occupy than any specific agenda item. The movement welcomes a “diversity of tactics,” which means accepting the masked anarchists who are delighted so long as stuff gets, in the charming words of Wright contemplating his bridge, “f—ed up.”
If the Cleveland Five had been right-wing haters of the government, everyone in America would know their names by now. Instead, they’re a neglected sign of what nastiness lurks in Occupy’s fetid ideological stew.


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NCIS previously revealed that series star Mark Harmon's wife Pam Dawber would be joining the show in a brief recurring role for Season 18, and tonight is the big night that Dawber makes her grand debut. According to Entertainment Weekly, Dawber is playing a character named Marcie Warren, "a seasoned investigative journalist who uses her savvy wit and down-to-earth people skills to aid in her tireless pursuit of truth." After Dawber's debut in Thursday night's episode, she is scheduled to appear in three more episodes.
Dawber is Harmon's real-life spouse of over 30 years and is most recognizable for starring in the beloved sitcom Mork & Mindy, opposite Robin Williams. In addition to her TV work, Dawber also appeared in a number of movies, including Stay Tuned, the cult classic sci-fi flick, which also starred the late John Ritter. Notably, this is the first in the nearly two decades of NCIS being on the air that Dawber has appeared in the show. Dawber has mostly stepped away from being out in front of the camera over the years, with her most recent acting credit being an episode of the 2016 TV remake of The Odd Couple.
When last saw Harmon's character, Special Agent Gibbs, he'd been placed on an indefinite suspension for nearly beating a man to death. Gibbs' ire was invoked after he discovered that the man ran a dogfighting ring and killed the losing dogs. According to a description of the new episode from CBS, in the wake of Gibbs' suspension, "Vance assigns McGee, Torres and Bishop to COVID compliance duty at a foreign affairs summit, where they discover a link to another NCIS team's murder case."
With not many episodes left for Season 18, there still has been no update regarding if the show is being renewed for Season 19. It's been speculated that this may be due to Harmon wanting to exit and CBS not being sure if the show should go on if he does choose to leave. Back in February, Hollywood Reporter editor Lesley Goldberg stated that Harmon "is rumored to be ready to leave, but would be willing to return for a handful of episodes if CBS renews it for a 19th season." NCIS returns at 8 p.m. ET, only on CBS.0comments


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He pleaded guilty to selling foie gras hot dogs. But he's not the only chef who's been serving the delicacy. Chicago Public Radio's Adriene Hill reports.
It's been more than 6 months since the city said restaurants couldn't sell the goose or duck liver. Aldermen said foie gras prodution is too cruel to animals.
The ban hasn't stopped the chef at Cyrano's Bistro in Chicago's river north neighborhood.
Duran: We serve it as a garnish, we don't charge for it. It's like free.
And that may be why, Didier Durand says, the City's Health Department's hasn't hassled him.
Duran: They leave us alone. It looks like the law is badly written, and thus very hard to enforce.
A spokesman from the department says if restaurants aren't selling it, they aren't breaking the law. And he had a hard time coming up with the exact number of warnings the department has issued. Why? He says the ban is just low on the priority list.
I'm Adriene Hill, Chicago Public Radio.


The small, funky space of Salle Pianos was already closely packed when I arrived for pianist Lara Downes's CD release party, & I would not have had a seat at all if a few extra folding chairs had not been brought out at the last minute. The evening was also a benefit for Classical Revolution, who organized the event.
13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg is composite piece in which 13 composers in each contributed an "extra" variation to Bach's Goldberg Variations. Ms. Downes began by playing the original Aria then paused between every one to two variations to talk about the music. Her playing is direct, though introspective, & she gets very absorbed in the music, often lingering slightly over phrases.
Ms. Downes described the suite as an arc, moving away from the Aria then back again, but none of the composers strayed too far from the original. Fred Lerdah's pointillist Chasing Goldberg sounds like 2 pianists playing out of sync. I liked Ms. Downes's affectionate playing of Fred Hersch's song-like Melancholy Minuet. Derek Bermenl's Kontraphunktus builds to a noisy climax, while Ryan Brown's Ornament variation stays in the top 2 octaves of the piano. The final variation by Ralf Gothóni is a fun, over-the-top, over-ornamented mash-up.
The entire performance lasted about an hour, & the appreciative audience applauded each break. Ms. Downes played a 1933 Bösendorfer & read the music off an iPad. The crowd was an unusual mix of older & younger people. The old lady in front of me demanded that I not point my cell phone at her, as she is afraid of cell phones, & she eyed me suspiciously even after I stowed the phone in my bag. Wine was available, but serving it was a difficult task for the 2 ladies at the door. After the music, the audience lined up for a pasta & salad dinner. Several of the younger audience members showed up with instrument cases. They were members of Classical Revolution, who were playing there later in the evening.
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Djesse vol. 3 – Jacob Collier
January 28, 2021
The third album of four from 26 year-old London prodigy Jacob Collier, Djesse vol. 3 delights with a glittering, genre-bending 12 song array. Collier, Royal Academy of Music graduate and four-time Grammy winner, continues pushing boundaries by incorporating complex music theory with funk and pop-influenced groove. With an all-star list of unexpected collaborators including Ty Dolla $ign and Tori Kelly, the album takes a distinct approach to pop music. Djesse vol. 3 is perhaps the only album where you can find a Bach choral and the sound of dropping anvils on the same song (Sleeping On My Dreams). On Count the People, a danceable pop rhythm with a catchy, bouncy chorus, you’ll find T-Pain and dizzying rap verses from Collier himself. “Running out of Love” brings Tori Kelly’s shimmering vocals and Collier’s trademark harmonies together in the most serendipitous of combos. Every song on Djesse vol. 3 is a standout, ranging from soft ballads (“He Won’t Hold You”) to heartfelt jams (“Time Alone With You feat. Daniel Caesar”).
Jacob Collier is a uniquely 21st century musical genius, combining global influences and embracing eccentricity to create a singular, youthful sound. His music showcases the range of human emotions and the limits of musical boundaries. Give it a listen and be prepared to simultaneously be confused, surprised and delighted.
Check out the full version of this review in print and online in TKC’s Issue 6 magazine.