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What Happens When You Let Your House Go Back to the Bank?
Losing your house is a traumatic experience that can have wide-reaching consequences. In addition to the loss of your home, you'll probably experience significant impacts to your credit, as well as potentially being subject to a collection action for years to come. On the other hand, it can give you a chance to start fresh and be free of your mortgage.
Losing Your House
The process by which you lose your home in a foreclosure varies from state to state and it can depend on the type of loan you have. Generally, you'll get a warning after you miss a few payments. If you don't make your back payments, your house will eventually be sold at an auction. Your state's laws determine how long you have to move out after the auction sale.
The bigger issue is whether you allow your house to be foreclosed upon or you work out an arrangement with the lender, typically called a "deed in lieu of foreclosure" where you relinquish ownership of the property to the bank. This saves the bank from the inconvenience and expense of foreclosure. At the same time, it also keeps you from having a foreclosure on your credit report. Although a deed in lieu will show up on your report as well, the impact on your credit may be less.
After you lose your house to the bank, you may not be finished with responsibility for it. Many states allow lenders to pursue the difference between what you owe the bank and what they recover from the sale of your house after they take it back. If you owe $210,000 and the bank only gets $160,000 after selling your house and paying its expenses, you'll be on the hook for the remaining $50,000. It's important to talk to a real estate attorney to find out what your liability could be. If you negotiate a deed in lieu of foreclosure, the attorney can also help you ensure that the bank agrees not to pursue you for the deficiency after accepting the deed.
A foreclosure affects your credit report in two ways. The first is that your credit score will suffer from the late payments leading up to the foreclosure. The foreclosure itself will usually decrease your credit score by around 100 to 150 points, and it will stay in your credit report for at least seven years. Furthermore, a foreclosure can make you ineligible to take out a mortgage for a period of time. For example, Fannie Mae won't underwrite a mortgage for you for seven years after you go through a foreclosure.
Mortgage Free Living
One of the biggest benefits of losing your house is that you will usually enjoy a period of time during which you can live in your house without making any mortgage payments. While it might be tempting to spend the money you save, it's crucial that you use this opportunity to build up some savings. After all, you'll eventually have to find another place to live.
Your Next Step
Losing your house has another benefit. It means that you no longer have to make monthly mortgage payments that you can't afford. You're free to move somewhere less expensive so you have more disposable income.
- Bigger Pockets: The Foreclosure Process: Understanding How Foreclosures Work
- KnowYourOptions.com: Mortgage Release (Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure)
- Forbes: Foreclosure, Deficiency Judgments and the Perils of Anti-Deficiency Statutes
- Nolo: Deed in Lieu vs. Short Sale
- Realtor.com: How Foreclosures Affect Your Credit Score
Steve Lander has been a writer since 1996, with experience in the fields of financial services, real estate and technology. His work has appeared in trade publications such as the "Minnesota Real Estate Journal" and "Minnesota Multi-Housing Association Advocate." Lander holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Columbia University.

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The University of Florida law school graduate convicted of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in her Queens apartment has been sentenced to life without parole, a judge said Tuesday.
Jason Bohn, 35, was found guilty in March of first-degree murder in the June 2012 slay of Danielle Thomas, a financial analyst for Weight Watchers who was killed in the Astoria home the couple rented.
Her body was lying face up in the bathtub surrounded with bags of ice, and there was bruising on her face, shoulders and neck, and lacerations on her face, mouth and chest. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the neck and torso. She was believed to have been killed the previous weekend.
Weeks prior to her death, Thomas had told police Bohn had beaten her a month earlier, leaving her with two black eyes and on crutches. He called her cellphone while she was at the police station and Thomas put it on speaker; the detectives heard Bohn threaten to bash in her skull and hunt her down like a dog.
Bohn was arrested that day and Thomas was granted an order of protection. Charges of assault and aggravated harassment were pending against him when she died.
At Bohn's sentencing Tuesday, Thomas' grandmother called him "a bully and a coward."
"I'm trying not to hate you, Jason. The Bible says I must forgive and I will," she said.
Jamie Thomas-Bright, Thomas' mother, said life would never be good for her again and that she dreaded getting older because she would likely do so alone.
Bohn tearfully apologized before he was sentenced. He turned, bawling, to Thomas' mother and grandmother and whimpered, "I don't know what to say. I don't know how this happened."
Bohn's attorney, Todd Greenberg, previously said his client had been suffering from emotional disturbances, but wouldn't say whether his client had a history of mental illness.
Two handwritten notes were found by Thomas' body, apparently written by Bohn. One pledged his love for her. The other read, "It was an accident. It was an accident."
Thomas was 27 when she died. A native of Danville, Ky., she attended both the University of Florida and University of Central Florida, where she was a member of the Eta Sigma Delta Honor Society.

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|Title:||Development of chitosan based optical fiber chemical sensors||Authors:||Ravikumar, Raghunandhan||Keywords:||DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics||Issue Date:||2018||Source:||Ravikumar, R. (2018). Development of chitosan based optical fiber chemical sensors. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.||Abstract:||In recent years there has been a tremendous progress in the development of polymer based fiber optic sensors. Particular emphasis on research has been focused on in-line fiber optic interferometric sensors owing to their many advantages like compact size, high sensitivity, immunity to electromagnetic interference etc. Among the polymers used in sensing applications, chitosan a natural biopolymer, has attracted a significant amount of interest. This thesis explores the possibilities of integrating chitosan with inline interferometric sensors for the sensing of chemical and biological species. The first work presented in the thesis involves an interferometric sensor with a no-core fiber (NCF) spliced between single mode fibers (SMF) and functionalized with chitosan (CS)/poly acrylic acid (PAA) self-assembled polyelectrolyte layers for the detection of heavy metal ion Nickel (II) (Ni2+). The sensing scheme is based on multi mode interference (MMI) i.e. interference of fundamental modes and excited higher order modes in the NCF, to detect changes in refractive index induced by Ni2+adsorption on the functionalized sensor. Wavelength shifts were measured real-time for the continuous monitoring of adsorption of Ni2+at different concentrations. The proposed sensor exhibits a linear response in the concentration range upto 500μM, with a Ni2+detection sensitivity of 0.0554 nm/ μM and concentration detection limit of 0.1671 μM. The second work presents an interferometric fiber sensor for detection of hexa-histidine tagged microcin (His-MccS). This intermodal fiber sensor is implemented by a no-core fiber (NCF) functionalized with chitosan (CS)-nickel (Ni) film for direct detection of small peptide: microcin. The fiber intermodal sensor relies on the refractive index modulations due to selective adsorption event at the chitosan (CS)-nickel (Ni) film. Owing to the strong affinity between Ni2+ ions and histidine, the immobilized Ni2+ ions in the chitosan film were utilized as binding agents for the direct detection of hexa-histidine tagged microcin. A comparative study in relation to different target size was conducted: full proteins trypsin, bovine serum albumin (BSA) and human serum albumin (HSA), with high histidine content on their surface and His-MccS (peptide, 11.6 KDa), have been employed for sensor evaluation. Results have shown selectivity for His-MccS relative to trypsin, BSA and HSA. The most telling contribution of this study is the fast detection of small biomolecule His-MccS compared to standard detection procedures like SDS-PAGE and western blot. The proposed sensor exhibits His-MccS detection sensitivity of 0.0308 nm/(ng/ml) in the range of (0-78) ng/ml with concentration detection limit of 0.8368 ng/ml. The third work involves an inline reflection mode intermodal sensor based on direct ligand immobilization for detection of nickel ions (Ni2+). Covalently immobilized nickel specific ligand, Meso-Tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphine, on the NCF surface serves as adsorption site for Ni2+ and can induce ambient refractive index (RI) change around the NCF on occurrence of binding events. The change in RI results in spectrum wavelength shifts, which was measured for continuous monitoring of Ni2+ concentration. The proposed sensor was observed to exhibit a sensitivity of 0.1210 nm/M towards Ni2+ ions. The final work demonstrates the use of molecularly imprinted chitosan functionalized PCF based MZI interferometric sensor for the detection of Ni2+ ions. The chitosan was crosslinked with epichlorohydrin (ECH) to increase its mechanical strength and thereby to improve the sensor stability. The sensor exhibits a Ni2+ detection sensitivity of 0.0604 nm/μM in the linear range and a limit of detection of 0.2008 μM. The sensor also shows a good specificity to Ni2+ ions compared to Cu2+, Ca2+, and Na+ ions. Investigation was carried out to examine the effect of crosslinking on the sensor performance by varying the ECH to chitosan molar ratio (5:1, 10:1, and 15:1). It is observed that the sensor achieved its best performance when the molar ratio was 10:1.||URI:||http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73155||DOI:||10.32657/10356/73155||Fulltext Permission:||open||Fulltext Availability:||With Fulltext|
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NASA Selects APL-Managed Balloon Mission to Untangle the Complexities of the Interstellar Medium
The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2 (STO2), shown prior to launch on December 9, 2016, from McMurdo, Antarctica. The same gondola will carry the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) mission high above Earth to measure emissions from the interstellar medium. Launch is scheduled for 2021.
Credit: University of Arizona/JHUAPL
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NASA has selected an Ultralong-Duration Balloon (ULDB) science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars.
The Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) mission, led by principal investigator Christopher Walker of the University of Arizona, will consist of a telescope with carbon, oxygen and nitrogen emission line detectors carried to a height of approximately 110,000 feet on a gondola built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). APL, located in Laurel, Maryland, will manage the project and also handle GUSTO mission operations.
The unique combination of data from the telescope and detectors will provide the information needed for the GUSTO team to untangle the complexities of the interstellar medium, and map out large sections of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.
“GUSTO will provide the first complete study of all phases of the stellar life cycle, from the formation of molecular clouds, through star birth and evolution, to the formation of gas clouds and the re-initiation of the cycle,” said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “NASA has a great history of launching observatories in the Astrophysics Explorers Program with new and unique observational capabilities. GUSTO continues that tradition.”
The completed GUSTO gondola, which will weigh about two tons, will be carried high above Earth’s atmosphere (roughly 21 miles) and the water vapor that can prevent ground-based telescopes from making these kinds of observations. The mission is targeted for launch in 2021 from McMurdo, Antarctica, and is expected to stay in the air between 100 and 170 days, depending on weather conditions.
“The GUSTO gondola is a proven, highly capable and adaptable platform that has successfully delivered high-quality planetary and interstellar science,” said Dewey Adams, GUSTO project manager at APL. “All of the GUSTO teams are excited about the great science that this low-cost mission can deliver.” Both Adams and APL’s Pietro Bernasconi, the mission systems engineer and mission manager, have considerable expertise in balloon-based scientific missions.
By focusing on measuring emissions from the interstellar medium, GUSTO will help scientists determine the life cycle of interstellar gas in our Milky Way galaxy, witness the formation and destruction of star-forming clouds, and understand the dynamics and gas flow in the vicinity of the center of our galaxy. Both Adams and APL’s Pietro Bernasconi, the mission systems engineer and mission manager, have considerable expertise in balloon-based scientific missions, including 2014’s Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) mission.
“If we want to understand where we came from, we have to understand the interstellar medium,” said the University of Arizona’s Walker, GUSTO principal investigator, “because 4.6 billion years ago, we were interstellar medium.”
Artist rendering of the the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) mission high above Earth to measure emissions from the interstellar medium. Launch is scheduled for 2021.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The University of Arizona in Tucson will provide the GUSTO telescope and instrument, which will incorporate detector technologies from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Arizona State University in Tempe, and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. GUSTO will cost approximately $40 million, including the balloon launch funding and the cost of post-launch operations and data analysis.
NASA’s Astrophysics Explorers Program, the agency’s oldest continuous program, requested proposals for mission of opportunity investigations in September 2014. A panel of NASA and other scientists and engineers reviewed two mission of opportunity concept studies selected from the eight proposals submitted at that time, and NASA determined that GUSTO has the best potential for excellent science return with a feasible development plan.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan summoned some ministers and senior leaders
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday summoned some ministers and senior leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for making a statement on the controversial decision of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).
While chairing the Federal Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to the statements of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Human Rights Minister Shirin Mazari and Member of the National Assembly, Assad Omar, in which he analyzed Anchors as an anchor by PEMRA. The car criticized the directive not to attend an event.
According to the Dawn newspaper, a person attending the meeting, on condition of anonymity, said, "Actually, Special Assistant Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan had complained to the Prime Minister that Fawad Chaudhry, Shireen Mazari, and Asad Omar had tweeted. I gave remarks against the government's decision. '
He further said that the Prime Minister instructed the leaders not to discuss the government decisions publicly.
To which the Minister of Science and Technology told the Prime Minister that PEMRA opened the way for criticism of the government by not making the right decision, its move caused controversy in the media and in government circles as well.
In his tweet, Fawad Chaudhry termed PEMRA's order irrational, irrational and unnecessary.
In his tweet, former Finance Minister Asad Omar said, "Preventing anchors from attending others' talk shows and expressing their views is a surprising decision for Pemra, rather than pressing anyone's opinion, including Anchors." The action against fake news should work better. '
Shireen Mazari, on the other hand, said, "An interesting debate has begun automatically, 'Who is an expert'? So after studying politics, now I have to take a degree to become an expert in politics? Now I have a human." Should I go on television to talk about human rights issues? "
National Executive Committee
At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting, Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the Cabinet approved the National Executive Committee, headed by Minister for Economic Affairs Hamad Azhar, who is also the Director-General of Military Operations and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Will join
The aforementioned committee will work to prevent money laundering and terror financing under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010.
It is believed that this is the first time in the history of the country when the heads of the most sensitive military companies are part of a government committee set up to finance money laundering and terrorism.


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Yay, and Happy Mother’s day to me! This was a wonderful Mother’s day gift. It was something I had hoped to receive! Now, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nick, SA, P-nut, Chad and Tim of 311 will be nothing BUT Superb. They are on track to release a new cd in June or July, so I am looking forward to some new music as well as my old favorites.
Sublime with Bradley Nowell back in the ninety’s was awesome. Bradley’s voice WAS Sublime. RIP Bradley Nowell. Sooooo, what is Sublime with Rome? What is it going to sound like? Well, I’ve snooped around on the internet and listened to a few video’s of this new guy Rome Ramerez. I’ve heard him sing the new track from the new cd, Panic. And I’ve heard him cover the old favorites. He is pretty talented. So, as an opening act, I think they will be pretty good. Nick Hexum has nothing but praise for this band.

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Training camps don't begin for another month, but the war of words between the Giants and Eagles is in midseason form.
The latest dig came from defensive back Walter Thurmond, the Eagle who spent 2014 with the Giants but tore a pectoral muscle in Week 2 and missed the rest of the season.
Sidelined for the majority of the year, he had plenty of time to take note of Tom Coughlin's philosophy on injuries, and according to Thurmond, the old-school coach doesn't subscribe to "modern medicine."
In an interview with Bleacher Report, Thurmond, who's on his third NFL team in three years after winning the Super Bowl with the Seahawks in the 2013 season, was asked about the differences between Coughlin, Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly's personalities. The latter two coaches have been at the forefront of accruing all sorts of data to make sure their players are in optimum conditions mentally and physically.
"(Coughlin) doesn't believe in the sport-science aspect like Coach Carroll or Coach Kelly and the newfound technology for the players," Thurmond said of the 68-year-old coach. "His style takes a hit, because he doesn't believe in this aspect. He believes in winning, but he doesn't believe in the modern medicine to progress the players to that next level."
Thurmond did say all three coaches are very motivated to win Super Bowls and will try to get them by doing it their own respective ways. "I'll start by saying they all have one thing in common: They are driven to win a championship," Thurmond said. "And they believe with every fiber in their bodies all the way to their core in their philosophies."
Thurmond noted Coughlin is "a little old school, but he's starting to come around to the times," just not enough in Thurmond's mind. It is clear Coughlin has relented in some respects. That was on display when a team-operated drone was seen flying over minicamp earlier this month, which the Federal Aviation Administration is looking into as the Giants didn't obtain proper clearance.
Thurmond's comments come days after Giants punter Steve Weatherford made headlines for telling WFAN he wouldn't want Eagles quarterback Tim Tebow "taking snaps for my team," despite being "the biggest Tim Tebow fan in the world."
He also compared the oft-injured Sam Bradford to "a Ferrari that maybe won't be running all the time." That prompted Eagles center Jason Kelce to respond on Twitter. "Of course a player who is literally not allowed to be touched is talking s---... Is interviewing punters a thing now? @Weatherford5," he tweeted.


In his year-end report, Russian Defense Minister Shoygu not only publicized what the MOD received by way of arms and other equipment in 2019, he also mentioned what the military is supposed to get this year.
According to Shoygu, it will receive:
- Twenty-two ICBM launchers with RS-24 Yars (SS-27 Mod 2) and Avangard “hypersonic glide vehicles.” The latter is the long-in-development weapon that will be placed on “dry” SS-19 ICBMs Moscow received from Kyiv in the early 2000s.
- Six modernized Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
- The first “series produced” project 955A Borey-A SSBN Knyaz Oleg. (But the very first 955A Borey-A Knyaz Vladimir wasn’t accepted in 2019. It’s now scheduled for delivery during the first quarter of this year.)
- 565 “modern” (presumably new or modernized) armored vehicles, 436 missile and artillery systems, two battalion sets of Buk-M3 SAMs to round out 11 formations and units. (565 doesn’t go too far — perhaps six motorized rifle regiments, but 436 is a lot — maybe 24 artillery battalions, enough for eight MR brigades.)
- 106 new and modernized aircraft.
- Four regimental sets of S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) SAMs.
- Six battalion sets of Pantsir (SA-22 Greyhound) gun-missile systems.
- One Kupol early warning satellite (fourth overall).
- 14 surface combatants of varying size, three submarines, and 18 other vessels. (Not real precise.) One Bal (SSC-6 Sennight) coastal missile system.
Shoygu said the RF Armed Forces will have 70 percent “modern” arms and equipment in 2020, fulfilling the order given by President Putin in 2012.
He also noted that the Defense Ministry signed long-term contracts for 76 Su-57 Felon (PAK FA) fighters (although the first series model crashed) and more than 200 combat helos in 2019. He reported that 22 ships for the “distant ocean zone” are under construction and eight more will be laid down in 2020.
On January 13, Krasnaya zvezda quoted Shoygu saying procurement will be about 1.5 trillion rubles ($25 billion), about the same as 2019, with 68 percent going to purchase new equipment. Nearly 4,000 new armored and other vehicles(i.e. trucks, etc.) will arrive in 2020 along with 1,700 artillery and missile systems. (How does that track with the 436 above?? Perhaps it includes slightly modernized or repaired?)
RIAN offered its own list of what the Russian military is supposed to get this year. It noted that the MOD and OPK signed about 50 contracts in 2019 worth more than 1 trillion rubles of weapons and equipment. Not all for delivery in 2020 of course.
According to the official news agency, the Russian Navy will receive the second project 636.3 Improved Kilo Volkhov for the Pacific Fleet, the second project 677 Lada Kronshtadt also for the Pacific, and the second project 885M Yasen-M Novosibirsk. (But in 2020 the Navy is still awaiting the first Yasen-M Kazan and expects renovated project 949A Belgorod that will carry Moscow’s doomsday torpedoes.)
RIAN says the Russian Navy will get its second project 11711 LST Petr Morgunovin the first quarter of the year. The Black Sea Fleet will accept 16 new ships and other vessels. And the Baltic Fleet will be content with catamaran-type hydrographic survey vessels (project 23370).
The Aerospace Forces will acquire new Su-35S fighters, six Mi-28NM helos, S-400 SAMs, and more S-350 Vityaz SAMs. (These initial deliveries are for troop testing and training. Series production of this system is slated for 2021-2027.)
More random notes on 2020:
- Mil.ru says the Ground Troops in 2020 will get more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles. Its Moscow-based 1st Tank Army will receive more than 250 weapons systems and other pieces of equipment.
- Interfaks-AVN indicated some will be BMP-3, BMP-2, and BMPT armored vehicles with new unmanned turrets.
- The Russian Army is supposed to receive 40,000 new AK-12 assault weapons.
- The VDV’s 76th DShD in Pskov already got a battalion set of BMD-4M and BTR-MDM armored vehicles.
- The Central MD reports it’ll acquire more than 850 new or modernized items including 19 aircraft, 10 radars, 145 armored vehicles (30 T-72B3M tanks), four battalion sets (two regiments) of S-400 SAMs.
- Ilyushin had to bounce two of five new Il-76MD-90A transports it couldn’t finish in 2019 to this year.
- Christian Russia Celebrates The Revelation Of Baby Jesus, Dunking In Ice Water, 3 Times For Father, Son, And Holy Ghost
- Russian Parliament To Install Mikhail Mishustin As Prime Minister


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As I have mentioned before, I was raised as a Christian. I am going to do my best to tell the story of how I came to be an atheist. I didn’t have a singular moment in which I decided to become an atheist, so I can’t really say when I first became an atheist. I do have a rough idea though.
I grew up in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas, colloquially referred to as “The Metroplex.” It’s not the most conservative part of Texas, but it’s still pretty conservative compared with the rest of the country. When I was younger, both of my parents were pretty religious, and so we went to church every week. We attended a fairly liberal Disciples of Christ church, but nonetheless were pretty devout. As a kid, I viewed church list most kids. The stories were kinda fun, there were other kids to play with, but it was pretty boring overall. As I grew older, I started getting more into religion.
In high school I still attended church regularly, did bible camp in the summers, and so on. On the surface I looked like a pretty standard Christian, albeit a liberal one. I thought I was a Christian, and called myself a Christian, but I now know that I wasn’t really a Christian. I believed in God in a somewhat strict Abrahamic sense, but I can’t say I ever really believed in Jesus. I heard the stories and sort of accepted them as true on the surface, but I tended to ignore Jesus. I think that a part of me knew I didn’t believe the whole Jesus thing, but I did my best to push it out of mind. I viewed the bible as a collection of stories that were inspired by God, but written by man, in the sense that there was a kernel of truth (historical and philosophical), but that it required interpretation and had to be viewed in relation to the cultural beliefs of the time.
When put into context, my religious beliefs make a lot of sense. I was a loner in high school. I had one good friend, but everyone else I knew was an acquaintance at best. In many ways I was a typical outcast nerd. I was one of the smartest kids at school, I took several college classes at a nearby university before I graduated high school, and I was involved in theatre. Church was a social outlet for me. The other high schoolers at my church were accepting of me, and it was a chance to socialize. Almost all of my interactions with girls were through church, and even my first kiss was at church camp. At this point in time in my life, I was mostly attending church for social reasons, not religious reasons. I was obviously aware of the social reasons for going to church, although I didn’t quite separate this from my reasons for believing. If anything, I think I confused the social interactions I had at church, which were a good thing, with the religion of the church itself being good, i.e. “look at all the good things Christianity has done for me, of course it must be The Answer®”. This was never an intellectual argument though in my head, it’s just too silly. Rather, it was an emotional argument, one of those things you feel is right but can’t (or won’t) put into words. Not coincidentally, this is why people become so convinced of their religion; they are using emotional arguments, not reason-based arguments.
Things changed a lot for me when I entered college about 10 years ago. College is a time of great transformation for most people, and I was no exception. I found that not only were there other nerds like me, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of them! I made more friends in my first year in college than the previous 13 years in grade school. During my first year of college, I really didn’t do anything religious; no church, no bible studies, nothing. I no longer needed church as a social crutch, so I just ignored it. I wish I could say that this is when I began to cast of the chains of religion, but it was not to be just yet. I started feeling guilty about not attending church, so I went with some of my friends to their church. I attended pretty regularly for about another year or so until I got an out of state internship. During my time away, I never attended church and lapsed again, only this time I stopped feeling guilty about it. I haven’t been to church since.
I didn’t have a “Eureka!” moment when I became an atheist. About 3 years ago, I realized that I was an atheist and had been for some time, but I’m not really certain when the switch occurred. I have a few interesting memories that give me a rough idea. When I was still attending church in college, I can remember a time when I was praying in my dorm room and all of a sudden the thought “You know you’re just talking to yourself, right?” popped very prominently into my head. At the time I just did my best to ignore it, but I think it signifies the beginning of my deconversion. I also remember how, at my wedding a few years later, I felt a little uneasy about it being a Christian service because I didn’t really feel like a Christian then. I think a part of me already knew I was an atheist. During this whole time, I was learning more and more about science through my coursework and extracurricular reading. One evening, my wife and I were talking about religious belief and what we really did believe in, and we both admitted to each other that we were atheists. This was the first time I had consciously called myself an atheist, which kinda surprised me.
After this moment, I started thinking about what it meant to be an atheist. I knew what my basic beliefs (or lack thereof) were, but I had no idea what it meant from a cultural standpoint to be an atheist. For a while I just mused in my head and discussed with my wife, but eventually I started reading blogs. I found Greta Christina’s blog first and have been hooked ever since. Along the way I found many more incredible blogs that have helped me to solidify, expand upon, and challenge my opinions, as well as good tactics for dealing with the religious confrontations. The change from theism to atheism was quite easy for me; I’ve always supported full equality for LGBT people, separation of church and state, creationism is bogus, etc, so I didn’t really change much compared to a lot of others who left religion. The biggest change for me was really how I felt about my beliefs (now lack thereof). When I finally self-identified as an atheist, it just felt right; like I was finally admitting to myself what I had always known. I finally allowed myself to be, well, myself and believe what I think is correct, not what I grew up with. It was freeing in a way I had never experienced before. The fact that there is so much empirical evidence to back everything up is just icing on the cake.

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Libya’s Supreme Judicial Council’s Litigation Department revealed two recent court rulings in favour of the Libyan state. Two European courts dismissed lawsuits that sought substantial financial compensation from the Libyan authorities.
The statement said that the Libyan State secured victory in the Court of Appeal in Paris, against the Turkish company “Gorch.” The court invalidated a claim filed by the Turkish company demanding €19 million Euros in compensation for its business losses in Libya.
The Litigation Department disclosed that the court ordered the Turkish company to pay legal fees amounting to €1.4 million Euros, in addition to legal expenses to be paid to Libya totalling €20,000 Euros.
It’s noteworthy that the Turkish company initiated an arbitration proceeding in 2021, before the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris against the Libyan state. This action was based on the bilateral treaty between Libya and Turkey, aimed at promoting and protecting investments between the two countries.
Similarly, the Civil Court in Rome annulled a performance order that compelled Libya to pay €560,000 Euros to the Italian civil association, Valterno.
The court, in a session held last year, also obligated the Italian association to cover expert fees and legal expenses, sparing the Libyan state from paying the ordered amount.
In November, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), Libya’s state-owned sovereign wealth fund, achieved a significant legal milestone by lifting the last of the judicial freezes on its assets in France.
This decisive success marks the end of a protracted legal struggle. It represents the first time since the tumultuous events of 2013, that the LIA’s assets in France have been completely freed from legal constraints.
Established in 2006, the LIA was created to manage Libya’s oil revenues, and diversify the national economy. However, following the 2011 Libyan revolution and the ensuing political upheaval, the LIA found itself embroiled in international legal battles. Numerous entities and corporations globally targeted the LIA’s assets, claiming them for alleged debts linked to the Libyan state. This resulted in a series of asset freezes that threatened the fund’s global investment portfolio.


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IHI successfully developed a technology for stable culture of algae expected highly to be the next-generation biofuel for aircraft. The company confirmed that improved algae proliferated while maintaining the high concentration and reduced the estimates production cost per liter from 1,000 yen to 500 yen. IHI wishes to reduce the production cost further to 100 yen per liter to compete successfully with the existing aircraft fuel by 2020.
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The most critical problem with alga fuel is mass production because it is necessary to realize mass culture even in the condition susceptible to contamination. IHI NeoG Algae, one of IHI’s subsidiaries, succeeded in stable culture of Botryococcus outdoors for more than half a year, opening up the road to mass production. The company plans to increase the culture scale by 20 times and conduct the substantiative experiment in a test plant of several thousand square meters. In Japan, IHI, Denso, and JX Nippon Oil and Energy are competing in the development of algae to be used for jet fuel for aircraft toward 2020.
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NMC Health shares suspended as accounting scandal grows
Shares in Gulf healthcare firm NMC were suspended from trading on Thursday after its chief executive was dismissed amid a growing accounting scandal at the firm.
The largest medical network operator in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday said the UK financial regulator had agreed to its request to suspend temporarily share trading "to ensure the smooth operation of the market".
"The company is focused on providing additional clarity to the market as to its financial position and to restoring its admission to trading," NMC said in a statement.
That was followed by another announcement later in the day that the Financial Conduct Authority had begun a formal enforcement negotiation and that the company "will continue to co-operate with the FCA and any and all other relevant authorities".
A company-commissioned investigation on Wednesday found that businesses controlled by the NMC Health founder BR Shetty and his executive vice-chairman Khalifa Butti al-Muhairi allegedly accessed $335m in secret off-balance sheet financing without the knowledge of the company’s board.
Shetty this month resigned from the board over allegations he had misrepresented his shareholding and the discovery of a web of director share pledges which the company was forced to admit were “incorrectly reported historically to the company and the market”.
The findings of US law firm Glaser Weil and former Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis Freeh, discovered that unnamed entities controlled by the pair used undisclosed supply chain financing arrangements.
Suppliers were allegedly paid by credit facility providers, guaranteed by NMC in the event of non-payment or default. About $335m had been drawn down on the facilities by the end of last year and had been in place for about two years.
Chief executive Prasanth Manghat was fired and replaced on an interim basis by chief operating officer Michael Davis. Chief Financial Officer Prashanth Shenoy was granted extended sick leave, NMC said in a statement issued after trading closed on Wednesday.
“As a result of these issues and a belief that the independent review has been obstructed, one member of the company's treasury team has been suspended pending completion of the independent review. The board is reviewing whether other individuals have been involved and will take action as appropriate,” the company added.
The crisis at NMC began last year when short seller Muddy Waters Capital raised concerns about the company's accounting practices and corporate governance, sparking a plunge in the healthcare firm's share price. NMC has denied the allegations.

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The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that could have reversed a ruling that allowed students identifying as transgender to use the bathroom of their choice, effectively shutting down one of the major efforts against progressive transgenderism in schools.
The Court declined to hear the case concerning Gavin Grimm, a Virginia transgender student who sued the Gloucester County school board for stating that restrooms were “limited to the corresponding biological genders.”
Grimm, a biological female who identifies as a boy, alleged that being instructed to use a unisex bathroom instead of being able to use the boys’ restrooms created a feeling of being “stigmatized and isolated.” Grimm successfully sued the high school in 2015 after it changed its bathroom policy to prohibit transgender people from using whichever bathroom they pleased, instructing them to instead use the bathrooms that corresponded to their biological gender.
“The case initially reached the Supreme Court in 2017, but the argument was canceled after President Trump reversed an Obama administration rule that had directed schools to allow students to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity,” the Washington Post reported.
In 2016, the Obama Department of Education wrote:
“Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) and its implementing regulations prohibit sex discrimination in educational programs and activities operated by recipients of Federal financial assistance. This prohibition encompasses discrimination based on a student’s gender identity, including discrimination based on a student’s transgender status. … A school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, but must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity. A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so.”
In February 2017, the Trump Department of Education withdrew the Obama guidance, arguing that the Obama administration did not perform extensive legal analysis or explain how the position is consistent with the language of Title IX.
Arguing against the Trump administration, the ACLU claimed that requiring Grimm to use separate single-stall bathrooms “stigmatized him as unfit to use the same restroom as his peers.”
The case was to be brought to the Supreme Court by Virginia’s Gloucester County School Board after an appeals court ruled in favour of Grimm.
As SCOTUS declined to hear the case, Josh Block, a senior staff attorney declared it “an incredible victory for Gavin and for transgender students around the country.”
“Being forced to use the nurse’s room, a private bathroom, and the girl’s room was humiliating for me, and having to go to out-of-the-way bathrooms severely interfered with my education. Trans youth deserve to use the bathroom in peace without being humiliated and stigmatized by their own school boards and elected officials,” said Grimm in a statement.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito expressed dismay and said the Supreme Court should have taken the case.


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A multi-proxy study of the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum in northern Spain
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At the boundary between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs (ca. 56 Ma) a significant global warming event, termed the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), occurred. Records of this event are characterised by a negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE) which has been associated with the release of thousands of petagrams of isotopically light carbon into the ocean-atmosphere system, initiating changes in the carbon cycle, the climate system, ocean chemistry and the marine and continental ecosystems. The amount of isotopically light carbon that was required to cause the event, its source and the rapidity of its release are, however, are still debated. This study uses δ13CTOC, δ13Cn-alkane, δ13CCARB and palynological data to evaluate the PETM CIE in terms of the magnitude of the CIE in both continental and marine settings, rapidity of release and drawdown of carbon, and mobilisation of different organic matter (OM) pools as a response to the climate change. The sections studied span a continental to marine transect in northern Spain. This represents the first organic geochemical study of these PETM sections, one of the first comparisons of CIE magnitude between continental and marine sections within the same sediment routing system, and one of the first comparisons of the same OM proxies within different depositional environments. The data suggest that different OM pools were mobilised in response to the PETM, with reworking of older material, soil residence times, and contemporaneous vegetation all contributing. CIE profile shapes predominantly suggest a rapid onset and recovery from the event. The magnitude of the CIE was also assessed. The current resolution of the data suggests that the differences between continental and marine CIE magnitudes could be minimal within a single sediment routing system, perhaps establishing a realistic CIE magnitude for the PETM, for use in future modelling scenarios.
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Mango delivered a 9% rise in both revenues and profits over the last year as the chain expanded its retail space.
Turnover rose to €1.85bn (£1.53bn), while profits increased to €120.5m (£99.8m) during the 2013 calendar year. Just 17% of sales were generated by its domestic Spanish market with 83% coming from outside the country.
It did not break out UK sales.
The retailer created an additional 538,195 sq ft of selling space, finishing the year with 6.46m sq ft worldwide across 2,700 stores. During the year Mango also created 1,200 jobs and now has 13,000 employees. It plans to enlarge its workforce by more than 2,000 employees by the end of the year.
Online sales reached €124m (£102.7m), representing 6.7% of total company turnover, a 77% increase on last year. The retailer now sells online across 64 countries and plans to expand online into Australia and several Central and South American countries during 2014.


Sarmatia to sign agreements on Brody-Plock pipeline in October
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The International Pipeline Enterprise (IPC) "Sarmatia" plans to sign the cooperation agreements with all Polish administrative-territorial units, through which a plot of the Brody-Plock oil pipeline ("Adam's gate") will stretch in the first half of October, Sarmatia IPC Director General Sergey Skripka told Trend over phone.
"It is likely to be no later than early October," he said. "We have agreed upon the text of the agreement. It is necessary to fix a date, as many entities will be involved in signing."
He said that in particular, the cooperation agreement will be signed with the Ljubljana region (administrative unit) of Poland, as well as with all powiats and gmina (small units of Polish rural self-government). About 90 percent of the Brody-Plock pipeline will stretch through the Ljubljana region.
He said that separate cooperation agreements will be signed with each gmina through which the pipeline will stretch.
"Moreover, we will have to sign the agreement separately with each gmina," he said. "We will sign agreements with gminas before signing the general agreement. These two processes are carried out in parallel."
The German ILF will finalize an environmental impact assessment report on the Brody-Plotsk Pipeline in September-October 2012, Sarmatia IPC General Director Sergey Skripka said earlier.
Skripka said the feasibility study that was prepared earlier passed the first level test and received a positive assessment.
Following completion of the EIA, amendments will be made to the feasibility study, after which it will be submitted for examining in the second level to the relevant authorities of Poland, he said.
After passing this test, the feasibility study will be presented to the European Commission (EC).
The feasibility study is expected to be submitted to the EC in late 2012, he said.
The direction of the future Brody-Adamova Zastava oil pipeline was studied, Skripka said earlier. The length of the route will be 377 kilometers, of which 120 kilometers will be built in Ukraine, and 257 kilometers in Poland."
The Brody-Plotsk oil pipeline project was named as a priority project in the EU Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program. About 495 million zlotys (about 177 million euro) were allocated to the project under the program.
Sarmatia was created by Ukrtransnafta and the Polish PERN Przyjazn company on July 12, 2004 to attract investments to design and complete the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Plock.
The Odessa-Brody oil transportation project sought to diversify oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries and develop the country's transit potential. The pipeline's construction was completed in May 2002. Its trunk has a length of 674 kilometers, with a pipe diameter of 1,020 millimeters. The pipeline's and terminal's capacity provided 9-14 million tons per year during the first stage.


Waves with mist trailing off of their crests, sea gulls crying, fishing boats on the horizon, the rewards of enjoying life by the sea are vast. But along with the rewards comes danger. There is a threat to sea life that can change all of our lives, ocean acidification.
Ocean acidification will either cause adaptation or extinction for most marine life.
Stephen Palumbi, a professor in marine sciences from the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, says that we have gone from an overabundance of marine life 100 years ago to there being no marine life 100 years from now.
Robert Matthews, a criminology major at Humboldt State, had never heard of ocean acidification and learning about it shocked him.
“Ocean acidification is a big problem, it’s bad enough there is a trash vortex,” Matthews said.
Carbon dioxide absorbed into the ocean helps reduce greenhouse gases in the environment, but this results in ocean acidification.
Ocean acidification is when the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean change the chemistry of the seawater. Fossil fuel carbon emissions are also changing the chemistry of the ocean.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the oceans have absorbed 25 percent of the carbon dioxide produced since the beginning of the industrial revolution and humankind’s industrial and agricultural activities.
Biochemistry professor at HSU Jenny Cappuccio has been involved in a project with University of California, Berkeley by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the ground.
“I never expected to be involved in rocks, it wasn’t in my background. It’s great to learn new things,” Cappuccio said.
Cappuccio’s work on the project had to do with bacterial microbes converting carbon dioxide gas to carbon dioxide solid.
“Ocean acidified seawater has shifted [seawater] equilibrium to dissolve marine calcifying organisms, shells and corals, rather than build them,” Cappuccio said.
“Calcifying organisms like shells sequester carbon dioxide,” O’Shea said.
Oceanography professor Danny O’Shea has hope that we will be able to turn it around.
“Things are getting better faster than they are getting worse,” O’Shea said. “People like us are going to school and making positive changes out there.”
At HSU, students, staff and faculty are working to combat ocean acidification. HSU marine lab technician and student Kindle Murie has put her education and future into ocean acidification research.
“Lab work is paying off,” Murie said.
Murie is looking forward to a new research project on the effects of ocean acidification in kelp forests, both in the ocean and in the marine lab.
HSU has grown with knowledge and funding for ocean programs enabling students and faculty to do more research.
“Water gets more acidic the further you go down,” oceanographer Hal Greer said. “It is getting harder on the ocean and its organisms to buffer the affects of carbon dioxide.”
At the HSU marine lab, undergraduate and graduate students work together with professors making new research discoveries.
According to Grant Eberle, the HSU marine lab equipment technician, ocean acidification is currently a “hot topic.”
“We have a unique upwelling of reduced pH ocean acidic seawater in Trinidad,” Eberle said.
This unique setting gives students a good opportunity to research ocean acidification.
The oceans absorb more carbon dioxide and heat from the atmosphere every day. The importance of this research demands our attention.


Narendra Modi is Manmohan Desai of politics, says Sitaram Yechury
Yechury also said that the Modi government was not convening the winter session of Parliament as it is trying to elude uncomfortable questions related to issues such as Paradise papers, Jay Shah, GST fallout and rising unemployment etc,
New Delhi: CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday compared Prime Minister Narendra Modis style of functioning with the filmmaking style of renowned Bollywood director Manmohan Desai, saying neither give any thinking space to their respective audience.
"Once, when filmmaker Manmohan Desai was at the fag end of his career, a journalist asked him as to what is the secret behind the huge commercial success of each of his film.
"Desai replied that the secret is not to give the audience any space to think, because if the audience get to think the film will flop," Yechury said in a lighter vein at an event here in which Bollywood actor and Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha was also present.
"Same is the case with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Everyday he comes up with a new slogan to keep the public engaged and giving them no time to think," the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader added.
Desai produced some of the biggest Bollywood hits of their time including "Chhalia", "Sachcha Jhoota", "Parvarish", "Naseeb", "Amar Akbar Anthony" and "Coolie" among others.
Yechury also said that the Modi government was not convening the winter session of Parliament as it is trying to elude uncomfortable questions related to issues such as Paradise papers, Jay Shah, GST fallout and rising unemployment etc.
"There is uncertainty over the winter session of Parliament. This has never happened in the last 50 years. They (government) are deferring the session till the Gujarat polls are over because they do not want to face uncomfortable questions amidst the Gujarat elections," he said.
"There are several issues such as Paradise papers, Amit Shah's son Jay Shah's windfall profits, GST fallout, rising unemployment etc and the government is afraid raising these issues in Parliament may affect Gujarat elections," he said.
The leaders voiced their support towards spreading awareness about the ongoing vaccination drive and provided their ideas and suggestions for preventing the third wave, as per the PMO
The 78-year-old Lingayat strongman said this evening that he was yet to receive the 'message' from the party's Central leadership on whether he should continue in his post or quit
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Travel nursing is an excellent opportunity anywhere in the United States, but nurses enjoy extra benefits in Michigan. Travel nursing jobs in Michigan is considered a hotspot for recreational activities and is a great state to explore nature and see the scenery. It is also a place where you can find many different types of forests, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, and mountains. The state has more than 10,000 inland lakes perfect for fishing or boating.
Do you love spending your days off outside exploring nature as a travel nurse? If so, we have collected a list of the FIVE best destinations and fun things to do in Michigan for those who love the outdoors.
The Michigan History Museum, located in Lansing, is a place you can visit to learn about the state's history. The museum is a two-story building with various exhibits and activities for all ages.
The museum has many permanent exhibits that are open year-round. The main display is called "Michigan's Great Outdoors," which covers the natural history of Michigan from the Ice Age to the present day. This exhibit also includes an interactive theater where visitors can experience Michigan's past through virtual reality technology.
In addition to the permanent exhibits, temporary exhibits change every few months or so. When travel nursing in Michigan, you'll be able to see something new every assignment! These exhibits include topics such as Michigan in World War II and how Native Americans have influenced what we know about Michigan today.
You should expect to spend at least one hour at this incredible History museum, if not longer.
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The island is only accessible by boat, and it's not open to visitors during the winter months. Visitors can enjoy picnicking on the lawn, walking along the shoreline, or exploring the lighthouse. In early May, over 100,000 tulips are planted for the Tulip Time Festival. In the summer, you can see the klompen dance
It's one of those rare places that feels like you've stepped back in time with its beautiful natural landscape and historic buildings.
When planning fun things to do in Michigan, Detroit Institute of Art is a must-visit. It is a museum that houses over 66,000 pieces of art and attracts over 1 million visitors every year.
The museum was founded in 1885 and has undergone several renovations since then. The latest one was completed in 2007 for $40 million. The renovation included a new entrance hall, an expanded auditorium, and a new wing for temporary exhibitions.
The museum houses collections from all around the world, with some of the most famous being paintings by Monet, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir, and Picasso. Unlike many other museums that focus on only one type of art like painting or sculpture, this museum covers all types like drawing, prints, photography, and architecture. Due to the large gallery, you may find yourself returning multiple times to get the full experience when travel nursing in Michigan.
You can also join the Detroit Institute of Art conference, which focuses on agendas and research that utilize the arts to improve patient outcomes.
The national seashore is a spectacular place to visit. It has a beautiful coastline, a variety of wildlife, and an assortment of fun things to do for the whole family. The national seashore is a very popular place because of the rocks and natural elements, including manganese oxide, iron, and copper. This element-rich seashore is a mix of beaches, dunes, rocky shorelines, and cliffs.
The National Seashore consists of four units: Sleeping Bear Dunes, Apostle Islands, Pictured rocks, and Indiana Dunes. All have unique features that you should visit when travel nursing in Michigan.
You can visit to experience nature and enjoy activities, including camping and boating. This is also a trendy place for outdoor enthusiasts as the area is open for cross country skiing and snowmobiling in winter. You can also visit a nearby grand island national recreation to explore more.
Traverse City, Michigan, is a popular tourist destination and has a lot to offer. From the breathtaking views of Lake Michigan to the bustling downtown area, there is something for everyone. The city is also very accessible and easy to get around.
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Gareth Bale came off the bench to score one of the great goals in Champions League history and add to Loris Karius' personal ordeal by sealing Real Madrid's third consecutive European title with a 3-1 win over Liverpool.
What a mistake from Karius as his throw gets blocked by Benzema and ends up in the back of the net! pic.twitter.com/F5KsQ8ts1Y— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) May 26, 2018
Much of the pre-match build-up centred on the anticipated battle between star forwards Mohamed Salah and Cristiano Ronaldo in Kiev, but the duel was cut short before the half hour when Liverpool's talisman suffered an apparent shoulder injury.
The 25-year-old landed awkwardly on his left shoulder after grappling with Sergio Ramos and Ronaldo remained on the periphery throughout.
Step forward Bale.
With the game locked at 1-1 in the 64th minute and 122 seconds after replacing Isco – who earlier hit the crossbar – Bale scored and overhead kick of rare brilliance.
The opening goal six minutes into the second half was as farcical as the winner was fabulous – Karim Benzema the beneficiary of goalkeeping incompetence from Karius, much like he was against Bayern Munich and Sven Ulreich in the semi-finals.
Karius AGAIN with the mistake in net!— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) May 26, 2018
This time he gifts Gareth Bale his second goal of the night, putting Real Madrid up 3-1. pic.twitter.com/iZEA7RnZMr
Sadio Mane found a swift response for Liverpool but Bale, benched frequently on the big occasions this term, had other ideas.
Karius had no chance on that occasion but seven minutes from time he pushed the Welshman's speculative drive tamely into his net, confirming Madrid as European champions for the 13th time in their illustrious history.


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In October, one of the leading jewelry stores of the UK, Graff, suffered a massive data breach, leading to stolen records of thousands of customers. Reportedly, the group behind this attack was one of the most influential cyber attacking groups, the Conti ransomware gang.
According to reports, after the breach, the Conti ransomware gang apologized to the victim in a statement and said that they entirely regret their decision of data breach. They said in a statement that was addressed to the entire world stating that the database consisted of profiles of many powerful personalities.
Last month, the Conti ransomware gang claimed that it stole data from around 11,000 Graff customers. The gang later leaked 69,000 documents from the jeweler’s data. The theft was reported by The Mail last week.
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People are discovering a recently-posted YouTube video that apparently shows both a portion of the oral argument in a campaign finance case in October 2013 and Wednesday's interruption of an oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The first half of the video says that it is shows the argument is in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, No. 12-536, a case argued on Oct. 8, 2013 which challenges the constitutionality of federal limits on contributions to non-candidate political committees. The date stamp on part of the video matches the date that the case was argued. While the audio of the Justices and lawyers speaking can be heard, its impossible to make out the words. The scene, however, is clearly the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The video then cuts to the interruption, during the Feb. 26, 2014 argument in Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness, No. 12-1184, a patent case. This half of video shows Kai Newkirk, a member of the group 99Rise -- which takes credit for the interruption in a press release -- interrupting the argument to state that the court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) should be overturned, and that the contribution limits at issue in McCutcheon should be upheld. The video also shows Newkirk being removed from the courtroom. (He was subsequently arrested and charged under 40 U.S.C. § 6134, which makes it illegal to "make a harangue or oration, or utter loud, threatening, or abusive language in the Supreme Court Building or grounds.")
Both portions of the video are jumpy and haphazard, and were apparently shot with hidden cameras in violation of the the court's strict prohibition on cameras in the courtroom. The video acknowledges this, beginning with the text, "What you're about to see have never been seen before. This is video from inside the chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court. Under their arcane rules, no one is allowed to record the proceedings. Not even C-SPAN ... (sic) in the year 2014." Other videos uploaded by the same YouTube user show what appear to be the full videos shot during the Octane Fitness argument. From the datestamps, it appears that three separate cameras were used. None of the words said in the videos are discernible, except for Newkirk's statement. A 23-minute video of the McCutcheon argument is also posted.
There has been growing pressure for the Supreme Court -- which controls it own rules -- to allow still and video cameras to cover its proceedings, including in an ad campaign launched last week. But there has been little movement on the issue, with federal trial courts conducting a second "trial" of cameras in selected courtrooms. When an attorney was indirectly tweeting from an overflow room at the court during oral arguments in the 2012 case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the court asked her to stop.
The new videos may be less remarkable for what they show, than that they exist at all. They demonstrate that not everyone is prepared to wait for the Court to reform its own procedures. It will be interesting to see how the Court reacts.
Eric P. Robinson is co-director of the Program in Press, Law and Democracy at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has taught media law and ethics at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Baruch College, and the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was also Deputy Director of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Courts and Media. He has also been a staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center and a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In addition to his posts here, he maintains his own blog at bloglawonline.com.

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text: Pro Libertate Nov 4th 2011 21:55 GMT Look very long and hard at the line for Washington, DC. Do you know what happened just before the decline? The Federal Court forced the district to allow people to own guns, including handguns! You could also include Chicago, which was similarly forced to allow the possession of guns - DC and Chicago had probably the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Again, the Chicago prohibition was struck down by the Federal Court. And AGAIN, homicide dropped by 34% after one year! Recognize a pattern here? MORE LEGAL GUNS, LESS CRIME!!! I never understood the radical anti-gun attitude of the Economist. Absolutely every reality check shows that legal guns REDUCE CRIME. Switzerland is the prime example in Switzerland: until 1998, it was legal to carry guns without a permit in most cantons. We had virtually no crime. 12 years after the carry prohibition, violent crime has exploded. So are you finally going to drop the act and support legal guns for self-defense in Europe? TJJackson in reply to Pro Libertate Jan 29th 2012 13:48 GMT Lousisiana has some of the most liberal gun laws in the country and New Orleans has no special prohibitions or restrictions, yet we have the highest murder rate not just in the country, but the world.Moreover, there are probably more guns per capita on the streets in New Orleans than in NYC or LA, also refuting your argument. Finally, DC's murder and overall crime rates went down during the gun ban AND while the city's economy was proving, refuting your "more guns" argument. Obviously, liberal guns laws aren't the answer.


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Today on F+ we are showcasing Jonathan Grinham’s, from Virginia tech, a student who’s design research has landed him between the social design world of architecture and robotics. His project a2o is an intense design research project, similarly to the work we posted in the RPI BUILDSMART studio. The project goes far beyond the logistics of design, but integrates actual social interaction between architecture and the user. Check it out after the jump!
“a2o explores ‘Appliance Architecture,’ manifesting itself as a new aesthetic affect that exploits the symbiotic relationships between the exterior and interior spaces of a building to discover a new order between the tectonic, kinetic and ornamental. The appliance, in this case, is a study of building subassemblies with imbedded intelligence. These system utilizes servomechanism, sensors, processors and algorithmic logic to ask, what architecture can be?
// a2o was developed as a full-scale prototype designed within Michael Fox’s classification of dynamic kinetic structure. These systems are understood to be singular systems able to actively influence localized climates within a building system. In the case of a2o, the design was based on the narrative of a sun-shading interface.
The design focuses on the capacity for realization. Therefore, a plug and play nodal design was adopted. A nodal design allowed a2o to have a small profile in elevation as well as a singular physical connection to the system’s framework. The use of a nodal system also shifted the understanding of a2o from an architecture that required a host building to an architectural product that was an expandable piece/part system.
The team envisioned a bottom up design for the physical construction within a top down computational logic. Each unit contains dedicated sensors (infrared range finder and photocell) and dedicated actuators (linear actuator, RGB LED, and piezo buzzer). Sensory data collected by each individual unit is relayed to a master controller – in this case an Arduino microprocessor – which controls a pixel of five units.
The master controller would then describe an action for the individual units to perform in direct relationship to the sensory data it collected. If the master controller recognizes a specific set of data – in this case no data – it could then describe a preset task for all of the units within its pixel to perform, producing a top down response. This logic structure, described as cellular automaton, allows for the piece/part system to be expanded infinitely as each pixel within the system becomes a unit within the subsequent pixel.”
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Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says fugitive leaker Edward Snowden performed a “public service” but still deserves to be punished.
“We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made,” Holder told former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod on an episode of “The Axes Files” podcast released Monday.
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|Correntropy function for fundamental frequency determination of musical instrument samples
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|Fundamental frequency or pitch determination is one of the main issues in the transcription of music. In this paper, we determined the fundamental frequencies of isolated musical instrument samples by computing the correntropy functions. As the correntropy function depends on kernel methods, we demonstrated its performance using various kernel sizes. We presented the better resolution of the correntropy function than the conventional and the summary autocorrelation functions by calculating the full-width-at-half-maximum of the peaks of the functions. The superiority was confirmed for the samples of 20 different instruments based on the average width of the peaks. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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