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Pixel Scroll 4/30/20 A File And Scroll Reunion Is Only A Pixel Away
Posted on April 30, 2020 by Mike Glyer
(1) CATS TRIUMPHANT. Naomi Kritzer has had a big week. Her YA novel Catfishing on Catnet won an Edgar Award today, and won a Minnesota Book Award on Tuesday. Here's an excerpt of the Q&A she did for the St. Paul Library:
How does it feel to be a Minnesota Book Award finalist?
It is a huge honor and feels amazing!
Tell us something about your finalist book that you want readers to know?
It is loosely based on my (Hugo Award-winning) short story Cat Pictures Please, which you can still find online:
Share something about your writing process and preferences. For instance, where is your favorite place to write?
When I'm outlining or brainstorming, I use a notebook of unlined paper, like a sketch diary. I like to write in my sunny living room but discovered at some point that the ergonomics of a couch, hassock, and lap desk will lead quickly to back problems, so I usually write at a desk in my home office.
(2) BOOKSTORE LOVE. LitHub tells the world "Now you can use your favorite indie bookstore as your Zoom background." Like this shot of Vroman's – where John King Tarpinian and I got John Scalzi to sign our copies of The Collapsing Empire a few years ago. The complete list of bookstores with notes on each one can be found on the Lookout + Ecotone blog.
(3) INGENIOUS. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand blog gives a good rundown of Alison Scott's plans for "The Virtual GUFF Tour", since she can't travel there in person this year. It's an effort completely worthy of a former editor of the fanzine Plokta, "The journal of superfluous technology."
Alison Scott is the recently elected European GUFF delegate. The plan was for the winning delegate to travel down under to meet local fans and addend the 2020 Worldcon – CoNZealand. Of course because of you-know-what the borders are closed and CoNZealand has gone virtual. But Alison appears undaunted – she now plans to take a virtual tour of Australasia visiting Australian and New Zealand places and fans before attending the virtual worldcon. There will be a proper itinerary mimicking a physical journey and Alison even plans to adhere to the local timezones (yay jetlag!). You can read more about her plans and follow her progress over on the facebook group dedicated to the trip.
(4) RAMPING UP TO THE APOCALYPSE. The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has completed the ADA compliant ramp in front of their building. The January 20 Pixel Scroll ran details about the permits coming through. Club President Dale S. Arnold said today –
Although the COVID-19 emergency and related closures caused some delays, eventually the weather and logistics worked to allow completion. Many years ago when the plan for renovations to the BSFS Building was announced the author Jack Chalker commented that if a bunch of SF Fans were able to pull off that complex of a plan it would be a sign of the coming apocalypse. With the completion of this ramp (except final painting the door which was altered in the ramp design) we have now realized the dream from 1991 having completed everything planned when we bought the building.
And BSFS didn't finish a moment too soon, because the apocalypse appears to be just around the corner.
(5) NOT GENTEEL. Errolwi points out how well today's Merriam-Webster tweet complements James Davis Nicoll's famous quote about the English language:
Because English rejects order. It actively opposes it. It lures order into an empty house and sets a series of Home Alone-style traps to hit it with paint cans and light its hair on fire. #AskMW https://t.co/2wYGbG6yyu
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 30, 2020
(6) AIMLESS, IF NOT LOST, IN SPACE. And by no coincidence whatsoever, the next item is about James Davis Nicoll's latest Tor.com post, "Far From Any Star: Five Stories About Rogue Worlds".
It's been weeks since you last socialized (in the flesh) with anyone outside your household…or with anyone, if you live alone. Loneliness is tough. But things could be worse: you could be a rogue world, ejected from your home system billions of years ago. You could be a pitiful world formed far from any star. Such worlds are commonplace in our galaxy. They are not quite so common in science fiction. Still, a few of them feature in books that you may have read…
(7) JEMISIN AND GAIMAN. The Fisher Center will present "UPSTREAMING: Neil Gaiman in Conversation with N. K. Jemisin" on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. EST. However, the website says, "Tickets are not currently on sale. Call the box office for more information, 845-758-7900." So if you're interested, call.
Join Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman for a remote, live streamed conversation with Hugo Award-winning author N. K. Jemisin (Broken Earth trilogy), whose new work The City We Became was released in March to great acclaim. The conversation is part of an ongoing Fisher Center series in which Gaiman discusses the creative process with another artist.
(8) LE GUIN IN '75. Fanac.org has posted a video recording of an Aussiecon (1975) Worldcon panel with Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood and others, "Worlds I Have Discovered."
AussieCon, the 33rd Worldcon, was held in Melbourne, Australia in 1975. This panel centers on questions to Guest of Honor Ursula Le Guin's on her writing for young adults (or at least classified as for young adults). The panelists, moderated by Fan Guest of Honor Susan Wood, are Ursula herself, Stella Leeds, Peter Nicholls, Anna Shepherd, and Ann Sydhom. The video quality leaves a lot to be desired, but the discussion on Le Guin's process of writing, the panel's views on children's literature, and children's literature as a literary ghetto remain interesting and very pertinent. Remember, this was decades before the phenomena of Harry Potter.
Andrew Porter sent the link with this reminder that the same year his Algol Press published Dreams Must Explain Themselves, a 36-page chapbook whose title essay is about how Le Guin got ideas for books.
April 30, 1955 — Science Fiction Theatre's Y.O.R.D. episode first aired. Directed by Leon Benson from a screenplay by him and George Van Marter as based on a story written by Marter and Ivan Tors. Truman Bradley Was The Host and the cast included Walter Kingsford, Edna Miner Louis, Jean Heydt and DeForest Kelley. The latter would be playing Captain Hall, M.D. You can watch it here.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge. Bonus typos provided by OGH.]
Born April 30, 1913 — Jane Rice. Her first story "The Dream" was published in the July 1940 issue of Unknown. Amazingly, she'd publish ten stories there during the War. Her only novel Lucy remains lost due to somewhat mysterious circumstances. Much of her short stories are collected in The Idol of the Flies and Other Stories which is not available in digital form. (Died 2003.)
Born April 30, 1920 — E. F. Bleiler. An editor, bibliographer and scholar of both sff and detective fiction. He's responsible in the Forties for co-editing the Best SF Stories with T.E. Dikty. They later edited Best Science-Fiction Stories. He also did such valuable reference guides like The Checklist of Fantastic Literature and The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. (Died 2010.)
Born April 30, 1926 — Edmund Cooper. Pulpish writer of space opera not for the easily offended. His The Uncertain Midnight has an interesting take on androids but most of his work is frankly misogynistic. And he was quite prolific with over twenty-four novels and a dozen story collections. A lot of his work is available at the usual digital suspects. (Died 1982.)
Born April 30, 1934 — William Baird Searles. Author and critic. He's best remembered for his long running review work for Asimov's where he reviewed books, and Amazing Stories and F&SF where he did film and tv reviews. I'm not familiar with his writings but I'd be interested to know who here has read Reader's Guide to Science Fiction and Reader's Guide to Fantasy which he did, as they might be useful to own. (Died 1993.)
Born April 30, 1938 — Larry Niven, 82. One of my favorite authors to read, be it Ringworld, The Mote in God's Eye with Jerry Pournelle, or the Rainbow Mars stories which I love in the audiobook version. What's your favorite Niven story? And yes, I did look up his Hugos. "Neutron Star" was his first at NyCon 3 followed by Ringworld at Noreascon 1 followed by "Inconstant Moon" (lovely story) the following year at L.A. Con I, "The Hole Man" (which I don't remember reading) at Aussiecon 1 and finally "The Borderland of Sol" novelette at MidAmericaCon. He's not won a Hugo since 1976.
Born April 30, 1973 — Naomi Novik, 47. She wrote the Temeraire series which runs to nine novels so far. Her first book, His Majesty's Dragon, won the Astounding Award. She most deservedly won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for Uprooted which is a most excellent read. I've not yet her Spinning Silver, so opinions are welcome.
Born April 30, — Gal Gadot, 34. Wonder Woman of course in the DC film universe. Other genre work, well, other than voicing Shank on Ralph Breaks the Internet, there really isn't any. She did play Linnet Ridgeway Doyle in the Kenneth Branagh production of Murder on the Orient Express which is quite lovely but hardly genre or even genre adjacent.
(11) SOUNDTRACK. Steve Vertlieb would like to introduce the world to French film composer, Thibaut Vuillermet.
(12) REVENGE OF THE GRINDHOUSE. SYFY Wire reports "Trolls World Tour Rocks $100 Million On Vod".
The decision to skip a theatrical release in the age of coronavirus was a wise move that led to big returns for DreamWorks' Trolls World Tour.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the animated movie has racked up nearly $100 million in the three short weeks since it arrived on VOD and digital platforms Friday, April 10. With approximately 5 million rentals at $19.99 a pop, Universal has generated over $77 million from a digital release model that allows studios to keep an estimated 80 percent of profits. Since the traditional theatrical model relies on a 50-50 kind of split, a film playing in a physical venue has to make a lot more money in order for a studio to turn a profit.
The real point here is that Trolls Would Tour has brought in more tangible revenue during its first 19 days on demand than the first movie did during five months in theaters.
However, one theater chain intends to punish Universal for their plans to reproduce the success by simultaneously releasing movies in theaters and through video-on-demand, presumably trimming their revenue. The Hollywood Reporter covered the announcement: "AMC Theatres Refuses to Play Universal Films in Wake of 'Trolls: World Tour'".
AMC Theatres on Tuesday delivered a blistering message to Universal Pictures, saying the world's largest cinema chain will no longer play any of the studio's films in the wake of comments made by NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell regarding the on-demand success of Trolls World Tour and what it means for the future of moviegoing post-coronavirus pandemic….
"The results for Trolls World Tour have exceeded our expectations and demonstrated the viability of PVOD," Shell told The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the numbers. "As soon as theaters reopen, we expect to release movies on both formats."
In a strongly worded letter to Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman Donna Langley, AMC Theatres chairman and-CEO Adam Aron said Shell's comments were unacceptable. AMC is the largest circuit in the world.
"It is disappointing to us, but Jeff's comments as to Universal's unilateral actions and intentions have left us with no choice. Therefore, effectively immediately AMC will no longer play any Universal movies in any of our theaters in the United States, Europe or the Middle East," Aron wrote.
"This policy affects any and all Universal movies per se, goes into effect today and as our theaters reopen, and is not some hollow or ill-considered threat," he continued. "Incidentally, this policy is not aimed solely at Universal out of pique or to be punitive in any way, it also extends to any movie maker who unilaterally abandons current windowing practices absent good faith negotiations between us, so that they as distributor and we as exhibitor both benefit and neither are hurt from such changes…."
(13) CHICKEN EATER OF THE SEA. [Item by Chip Hitchcock.] From the Harvard Gazette: "Water Beast: New paper argues the Spinosaurus was aquatic, and powered by predatory tail".
New paper argues the Spinosaurus was aquatic, and powered by predatory tail
Back in the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated the land and sky. They also, a new paper argues, terrorized the aquatic realm. Recent fossil evidence has revealed that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, among the largest of all known carnivorous dinosaurs, was a creature of the water, with a center of gravity and a giant tail fin perfect for swimming. The same paper shares robotic modeling by two Harvard scientists that shows how that large, flexible tail fin — unique among dinosaurs — would have given the giant predator a deadly propulsive thrust in the water, similar to a salamander or crocodile tail.
The paper, "Tail-Propelled Aquatic Propulsion in a Theropod Dinosaur," in the April 29 issue of Nature, uses new fossil evidence and robotically controlled models created by Harvard co-authors Stephanie E. Pierce and George V. Lauder, professors of organismic and evolutionary biology, to show its power.
Pierce said the new fossils were necessary to make their argument, as much of the fossil evidence of Spinosaurus, unearthed by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer, had been destroyed in World War II. University of Detroit paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, the Nature paper's lead author, had located more traces of the dinosaur in Morocco in 2014, and in 2018 he went back, successfully excavating extensive Spinosaurus remains. The fossils included tail vertebrae with meter-long spines that seemed to form an expanded paddle, raising questions as to what the tail was used for.
"The working hypothesis was that Spinosaurus used its tail to swim through water," said Pierce, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Ibrahim and his team reached out to Pierce, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to test their idea. She was immediately intrigued by the 5-plus-meter-long tail.
Yes, Dave, "Predatory Tail" would be a great name for a band.
(14) YOUR MISSION… "Nasa names companies to develop Moon landers for human missions"
Nasa has chosen the companies that will develop landers to send astronauts to the Moon's surface in the 2020s.
The White House wants to send the next man and the first woman to the Moon in 2024, to be followed by other missions.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based Dynetics were selected to work on landers under the space agency's Artemis programme.
The 2024 mission will see astronauts walk on the Moon's surface for the first time since 1972.
Combined, the contracts are worth $967m (£763m; €877m) and will run for a "base period" of 10 months.
"With these contract awards, America is moving forward with the final step needed to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024, including the incredible moment when we will see the first woman set foot on the lunar surface," said Nasa's administrator Jim Bridenstine.
"This is the first time since the Apollo era that Nasa has direct funding for a human landing system, and now we have companies on contract to do the work for the Artemis programme."
(15) RECIPES WITH CHARACTERS. "Need new recipes for quarantine? Pixar's YouTube channel is here to help". Entertainment Weekly shares some examples.
As Pixar taught us, anyone can cook… and now the animation studio is giving you something to cook.
The Pixar YouTube channel features a series called "Cooking With Pixar," a collection of recipes inspired by the studio's films. At the moment, the series only has three videos, but they should provide some inspiration if you're in need of something new to cook — which, it's fair to say, most of us probably are at this point.
(16) YOU'RE MELTING! "Nasa space lasers track melting of Earth's ice sheets" – BBC has the story.
Scientists have released a new analysis of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed, from 2003 to 2019.
The study shows that ice losses from melting have outpaced increases in snowfall, resulting in a 14mm rise in global sea-levels over the period.
We've had a number of very similar reports to this recently.
What makes this one of interest is that it uses data from the highest-resolution satellite system dedicated to studying the poles – IceSat.
This system flies space lasers over glaciers and other ice fields to track their constantly shifting shape.
The US space agency (Nasa) has now launched two of these altimeter instruments.
The first, IceSat, operated between 2003 and 2009; the second, IceSat-2, was put up in 2018.
Thursday's report is a first attempt to tie both satellites' observations together.
(17) BROTHER GUY'S AIR. "Antarctic meteorites yield global bombardment rate"
A team of UK scientists has provided a new estimate for the amount of space rock falling to Earth each year.
It's in excess of 16,000kg. This is for meteorite material above 50g in mass.
It doesn't take account of the dust that's continuously settling on the planet, and of course just occasionally we'll be hit by a real whopper of an asteroid that will skew the numbers.
But the estimate is said to give a good sense of the general quantity of rocky debris raining down from space.
(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. Horizon on Vimeo is a short film by Armond Dijcks based on images taken by the International Space Station.
[Thanks to Joyce Scrivner, Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, Martin Morse Wooster, Michael Toman, Errolwi, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Matthew Johnson.]
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Andrew on May 2, 2020 at 7:17 pm said:
Thanks Chip. I found Mythologies on Fanac (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Mythologies/) and found part of the discussion in Issue 12 http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Mythologies/Mythologies12-15.html; I'll look more tomorrow.
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That Newton and Miller are the best players on their respective squads only strengthens the mystique of the 2011 class.
The 2011 draft class – there were a lot of special guys there, man.
That season also was a banner year for new 49ers general manager Trent Baalke. He landed Jim Harbaugh as his head coach, then played the free-agent market perfectly in bringing in low-cost, high-yield veterans Carlos Rogers, Donte Whitner and Jonathan Goodwin.
To top it off, his 10-man draft class was a home run with several members – from Aldon Smith to Chris Culliver to Bruce Miller – making key contributions that year. At the end of the season, one in which the 49ers came within an overtime fumble of the Super Bowl, Baalke was named the NFL's Executive of the Year.
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2. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick: He was benched after eight games in 2015 and his future with the team is in limbo. The New York Daily News reported this week that Kaepernick wants to leave the 49ers and the Jets are his top destination.
3. Cornerback Chris Culliver: He embarrassed the 49ers in the run-up to the Super Bowl three years ago, then was picked on in the game. The 49ers allowed him to leave in free agency last year and he now plays for Washington.
4. Running back Kendall Hunter: The 49ers cut Hunter last year after he was slow to recover from an ACL tear. They could have used him later in the season when they were low on runners, but a paperwork snafu prevented it.
5. Center Daniel Kilgore: After being injured for most of 2015, he regained his starting spot late in the season and gave the offensive line stability it lacked in his absence.
6a. Wide receiver Ronald Johnson: He was overmatched during training camp and was released before the 2011 regular season.
6b. Safety Colin Jones: The 49ers saw Jones as a special-teams ace. They traded him to the Panthers in 2012. Jones appeared in 15 games this year for the NFC champions with three starts at safety.
7a. Fullback Bruce Miller: He's one of the better fullbacks in the NFL, but he now plays for a coach, Chip Kelly, who didn't have a fullback on the roster when he was with the Eagles.
7b. Tackle Mike Person: He was released before the 2011 regular season and now plays center for the Falcons.
7c. Cornerback Curtis Holcomb: He tore his Achilles' tendon before his rookie training camp and didn't play a snap for the 49ers.
When the 2016 season begins, it's possible Kilgore will be the only player from that 10-man draft class on the roster. The 2011 draft has crumbled quickly, and so has Baalke's standing.
But the 49ers' general manager has a chance to rebuild it.
Baalke again hired an aggressive, offensive-minded coach in Kelly whose reputation was built largely on what he did in the Pacific-12 Conference. The 49ers also are expected to have more salary-cap space than all but two teams, which signals a big free-agency haul.
And, like 2011, Baalke will go into the draft with a lot of selections – 12 this year – including the same first-round spot, No. 7, at which he took Smith five years ago.
Can Baalke recapture his old magic? That appears to be his approach.


In my professional work, I've gotten used to all the freedom that comes from having access to Unreal source code. Meanwhile, at home, I've been using the UDK and have been extremely frustrated by how much my development speed drops because I don't have access to my usual workplace tools.
The biggest slowdown culprit has been the Unreal Frontend. Ostensibly a tool to give you easy access to every step of the Unreal workflow, it can slow development to a crawl because it forces you to cook data every time you update your script. It does this by hardcoding the "-seekfreeloading" flag when it launches UDK.exe. With this flag enabled, UDK.exe will only load seek-free packages which only get updated when cooked. Considering that cooking can take minutes depending on your machine and any script you edit needs to be cooked if you want to see its effect in-game, the "-seekfreeloading" flag can slow the typical edit->compile->run cycle to a crawl.
At work, I can modify and rebuild Unreal's tools to match my (and my team's) preferred workflow with no problem. Using the stock binaries that come with the UDK, I have to be a bit trickier. In this case, it's not too hard because all the Unreal Frontend does is marshall parameters for executing programs on the commandline. This means that I can replicate almost anything that the Unreal Fronted does by using batch files.
You can call this from the root folder of the UDK with "MyGame_Entry" being replaced by a map of your choice. When launched this way, UDK.exe will use the compiled script and editor content packages directly instead of loading pre-cooked data. The key here, of course, is the lack of "-seekfreeloading" as a parameter for UDK.exe.
Calling UDK.com instead of UDK.exe allows the output from the make command to stay in the same console window instead of launching in a new window. This is great when you want to see errors that come up from mistakes in your UnrealScript.
Now, my workflow can be edit script -> save -> double-click LaunchUDKGame.bat -> check my changes -> repeat. Much faster without the cooking step. This means I can spend more of my time making my game instead of just waiting for the UDK to run.
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On being Wrong... REALLY WRONG!
The following quotes, from experts in their chosen field, might have seemed logical at the time, but in retrospect are pretty funny, not to mention DEAD WRONG!
"There will never be a bigger plane built."
- A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that carried ten people.
"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
- Albert Einstein, 1932
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
- Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. arguing against the PC in 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."
- Western Union memo, 1876
"We will never make a 32 bit operating system."
- Bill Gates
"I think there's a world market for about five computers."
- Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."
- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.
"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."
- Lee DeForest, inventor
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax."
- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin English scientist, 1899
"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."
- Hewlett Packard excuse to Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Computers instead.
"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market."
- Business Week, August 2, 1968
"The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad."
- The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903
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Male Mysteries -- Solved!
Experts explain why men act the way they do.
Why he gets tongue-tied saying "I love you"
You probably have no problem saying it to your guy, but why do some men literally choke on these three words? It all starts with our brains, according to Scott Haltzman, M.D., author of The Secrets of Happily Married Women.
Women are better at putting emotions into words, because compared with a man, we have more fully developed pathways between the brain hemispheres that enable us to integrate information from the left brain (where language is processed) with the intuitive right brain.
"But men may have difficulty making the right brain talk with the left brain so that they can access emotion and language at the same time," says Haltzman. That's why for a lot of men, it's really difficult for them to verbalize their love in a manner that does not feel forced or phony.
That doesn't mean your guy doesn't express his emotions, though. He just does it in other ways. When he cooks you a meal or gives you a massage, those loving actions may be his way of showing his affection for you.


The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library received the State of Ohio Auditor of State Award with Distinction for its 2012 financial audit. The award is given to government entities that file a comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) and other financial reports with the State of Ohio, anreceive a clean audit report. Less than 5 percent of government offices in Ohio receive the award.
Michelle Stys, Cleveland regional liaison for the Ohio Auditor of State's office, presented the award on May 15 to Levin and Jana Nassif, Heights Libraries' fiscal officer.
Stys told Levin and Nassif that, judging by the preliminary results of the 2013 financial audit, which wrapped up in early May, Heights Libraries likely will receive the award again next year.


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Q: Way to open popup in a new window Is there any way to force IE8 to open new window only in a pop-up? I don't want to change the browser settings. I want to open it and throw Javascript window.open(). Firefox is opening it in a new window but IE8 is opening the same in a new tab. Please suggest.

A: You cannot control whether a browser opens a window in a new tab or new window.
Although, one work around is to set height and width dimension in the call to window.open() alongwith disabling the addressbar and statusbar.
window.open ("http://www.example.com", "mywindow","status=0,toolbar=0,height=600,width=900");

It worked for my case, I'm not sure if this satisfies your question.

A: hold a SHIFT button while you click on an Internet hyperlink on your browser screen. This will force the link to open in a new window

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Chair massage revitalizes employees in only 15 minutes leaving them relaxed but alert.
Chair massage is done through clothing making it convenient and psychologically comfortable for the employee.
Chair massage is done with the client in a seated position and thus requires little space. A portable massage chair is used and can be set up in almost any location – a conference room, break room, empty office or a quiet corner. After the day's session the space can be returned to normal use. The special massage chair fully supports the employee in a comfortable position while exposing – neck, back, shoulders, arms and hands for massage.
As a wellness program, chair massage requires little motivation on the part of employees resulting in high utilization. Unlike other wellness modalities there is nothing to practice, learn, or accomplish. In fact, the less the client does the more effective the work will be.
The results of a chair massage are immediate.
Chair massage increases effectiveness – It's tough to focus when your neck hurts and your shoulders are in knots. A massage literally clears your head.
Chair massage controls responses to stress – Even a short massage induces relaxation and breaks the cycle of stress response.
Chair massage improves work relationships – Yes! People with less muscle tension that feel less stressed are easier to get along with.
Chair massage counters the circulatory problems inherent in office work – Massaging muscles through skin increases the flow of blood to legs and arms that may have reduced flow due to sitting in one position too long.
Provide a much appreciated and healthful stress break – Employees need to get up from their desks periodically to avoid muscle stiffness and eye strain. Add in a massage during a break and your staff will feel management is doing something proactive for their well being.
Reduce muscle pain – Sitting in a massage chair opens up the back muscles and relieves strain on the neck. Even 15 minutes of massage to the neck, back, arms and hands can reduce tension headaches, stress and anxiety.
massage is beneficial for physical health, and it is tuned the mind and body together, resulting in a sense of serenity and peace.
When you don't have time to exercise – have a massage.
To help you look great and be cool, give yourself a quick firming body chair massage everyday!
When you have time – just have a massage.


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Where to watch the royal wedding (in real time) in Toronto
By Jean Grant | May 16, 2018
By Jean Grant | 05/16/2018
The marriage of ex-Torontonian Meghan Markle to royal hunk Prince Harry goes down this Saturday, May 19, at 7 a.m. Toronto time. While plenty of places are capitalizing on the royal frenzy, only a few die-hard establishments are opening up early enough to screen the wedding of the year as it happens in real-time. Here, a handful of spots where you can flaunt your British best and catch the ceremony at the crack of dawn.
On May 19th, join us for a Royal Breakfast at the Windsor Arms to view the nuptials of #PrinceHarry and Ms. #MeghanMarkle live in our stunning Courtyard Ballroom. ?? Swipe left ⬅ for a look at the menu and head to our bio for more information! #WindsorArms #RoyalWedding #Toronto #Yorkville
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For the sophisticated tea
The Windsor Arms Hotel
Kicking off at 6 a.m., the iconic Yorkville hotel is hosting a high tea breakfast in its ultra-swish Courtyard Ballroom—and really, the setting is as regal as it gets. Guests can sip all the loose-leaf tea they desire as they watch Markle prance down the isle, and munch on an assortment of sweets (cranberry scones), savouries (crumpets with Scottish smoked salmon and fig preserve), poached eggs and roasted vegetable potato hash. For dessert, there will be a lemon-elderflower wedding cake worthy of the Queen herself. $95 per person. 18 St. Thomas St., 416-971-9666, windsorarmshotel.com
We have limited availability for our "Duke & Duchess For a Day" stay package! Book today for your royal experience! Tap link in bio. #RYHRoyalRomance #TravelTuesday
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For an immersive experience
The Royal York
This historic hotel has hosted many royals over the years and was even the setting of Markle's fictional wedding in Suits. No surprise, then, that it's going all out for the celebration. The lobby has been transformed into an English garden with dangling wisteria, and te morning of the wedding, the hotel's Epic Lounge will host a traditional English breakfast ($25 and up). For those who'll find any excuse to take a staycation, there's the "Duke and Duchess for a Day" package (from $349), where you and your boo can spend a night at the hotel, rising to room service, champagne and the royal wedding on your private TV. 100 Front St. W., 416-368-2511, fairmont.com
A few weeks ago we did high tea at the Ritz! Can't wait to go back! . . . #foodie #tea #foodstagram #instafood #instagood @ritzcarlton
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For the late shifters
DEQ lounge at the Ritz-Carlton
If you don't care to wake up with the sun but still want to gawk at the glitz, the Ritz will broadcast recorded footage of the wedding during its Royal Tea service on May 19 (either at noon or 3 p.m.). It's a much more reasonable hour to inhale lobster and quail-egg sandwiches and guzzle as much prosecco as you want. $54 per person. 181 Wellington St., 416-585-2500, ritzcarlton.com
David Mirvish hosts Toronto's Biggest Royal Wedding viewing party. Venue named after Lady Diana, The Princess of Wales will welcome 2,000 wedding guests, Sat May 19, 2018 5:30 AM to 8:30 AM. For more details and to reserve your ticket, go to mirvish.com, link is in profile #RoyalWedding #PrincessofWalesTheatre #toronto
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For the big screen
Princess of Wales Theatre
The King West theatre is a rather fitting place in which to take in the nuptials—it's named after the groom's mother, after all. Starting at 5:30 a.m., the venue will broadcast the event on a screen so large you might feel like you're really there. Admission is free, but tickets, which will be open to Mirvish subscribers first, have to be booked in advance. Since seating is general admission, so you may want to arrive even earlier than recommended. Free. 300 King St. W., mirvish.com
Something extremely British is happening May 19th – that's right the #royalwedding Join us at the Duke of Cornwall at 6:30 AM to witness the ceremony with us. We are filling up fast so RSVP today – 416.640.3853 or dukeofcornwall@rogers.com
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For the traditional take
The British Canadian Chamber of Trade and Commerce
Hosted at the Duke of Cornwall Public House, this formal affair requires guests to show up at 7 a.m. in fancy dress, complete with a fascinator or bowler hat. In addition to watching the festivities, guests will play royal trivia, celebrate with complimentary wedding cake and receive a jar of Chivers jam as a parting gift. You'll have to pay for breakfast, and possibly shell out for raffle tickets (50 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to the Wounded Warriors charity). Afterward, the bar will be showing the FA Cup Final featuring Chelsea and Manchester United. Free. 400 University Ave., bcctc.ca
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In every corner of the world you'll find a JCB machine. JCB is one of the world's top three manufacturers of construction equipment. We employ over 12,000 people on four continents and sell our products in 150 countries through 2,000 dealer locations.
Throughout our 70+ year history, we have always invested heavily in research and development, keeping JCB at the cutting edge of innovation.
Today, JCB has some of the finest engineering facilities across the globe, produces a range of over 300 machines and maintains a reputation for unrivaled customer service.
Because of their unique design, JCB's Tier 4 Final engines offer easier maintenance and better resale, qualities that are especially important for certain industries, including rental. Engines over 74 hp meet stringent Tier 4 Final emissions legislation by using a compact, highly efficient SCR system for NOx reduction, requiring no diesel particulate filter (DPF). Engines less than 74 hp require no DPF and no DEF utilizing JCB's innovative, efficient combustion technology to handle emissions within the engine combustion chamber.
JCB has introduced a new demolition application package available across its entire range of 18 skid-steer and compact track loader models. This new specialty package was designed to equip JCB skid steers with the additional durability and safety features required to meet the increasingly rigorous demands of the demolition industry.
The JCB 524-50 Telescopic Handler features a hefty 5,000-pound maximum lift capacity, a 17-foot 4-inch maximum lift height and an 83-hp JCB Dieselmax engine. These machines also feature a 9-foot 10-inch turning radius, good traction and performance in soft ground conditions, and an 18.6 mph travel speed. A comfortable, centrally-mounted cab gives operators panoramic forward visibility, while a low boom design keeps a clear view to the rear.
The 436 Waste-Master from JCB is one of several new loaders introduced by the company recently for the solid waste market. Productivity improvements on these models include increased rated capacity as well as greater engine horsepower and torque. The model 456 WasteMaster is designed for bigger jobs than the 436 and has an extra large cab. WasteMaster machines build on specifications of standard JCB models, adding guards and grills, improved cooling packs, additional lighting and uprated engine and cab filtration.
The 436 WasteMaster wheel loader offers a hydraulic reversing cooling fan, a Turbo 11 pre-cleaner for the carbon air filter, belly brake pipe and screen guards, a fire extinguisher, additional working lights (front and rear), and a smart reversing alarm. Productivity improvements on these models include increased rated capacity as well as greater engine horsepower and torque.
WasteMaster Tel-etruk forklifts feature a telescopic boom that allows for loading and unloading of trucks from one side, making them ideal for use in transfer stations and waste collection centres. A wide range of quick hitch attachments can be used with Teletruks, including buckets, grabs, grapples and a fork rotator that works particularly well for loading and carrying scrap autos. The model TLT35D features a 7,000-pound lift capacity and a new slim line boom for improved visibility. A TLT30D model (shown here) is also available.
Part of JCB's WasteMas-ter lineup, the latest industrial Teletruk forklifts are available in TLT30D and TLT35D models. The TLT35D features a 7,000-pound lift capacity and a new slim line boom for improved visibility. The Teletruk's telescopic boom allows these units to load and unload trucks from one side, making it an ideal machine for use in transfer stations and waste collection centres. A wide range of quick hitch attachments can be used with the Teletruks, including buckets, grabs, grapples and a fork rotator that works particularly well for loading and carrying scrap autos.
Part of JCB's WasteMaster lineup, the latest industrial Teletruk forklifts are available in TLT30D and TLT35D models. The TLT35D features a 7,000-pound lift capacity and a new slim line boom for improved visibility. The Teletruk's telescopic boom allows these units to load and unload trucks from one side, making it an ideal machine for use in transfer stations and waste collection centres. A wide range of quick hitch attachments can be used with the Teletruks, including buckets, grabs, grapples and a fork rotator that works particularly well for loading and carrying scrap autos.
The JS200W scrap handler, one of 26 new offerings in JCB's expanded WasteMaster lineup, is purpose-designed for use in ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycling. Units feature nearly 12 metres of reach, four stabilizers, solid tires, tire protection, cab guards, and a wide range of grabs, buckets and specialist equipment (including a selector grab with full rotation or a five-tine cactus grab). The JS200W also features an upgraded cab environment, excellent visibility, as well as a fixed or hydraulically raised cab that allows clear views into containers, hoppers or shredders. The WasteMaster line from JCB builds on standard models, with the addition of guards and grills, improved cooling packs, additional lighting and upgraded engine and cab filtration.
In October this year, JCB unveiled their expanded line of WasteMaster machines at a press event held in England. The JS200W scrap handler, one of 26 new offerings, is purpose-designed for use in ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycling. Units feature nearly 12 metres of reach, four stabilizers, solid tires, tire protection, cab guards, and a wide range of grabs, buckets and specialist equipment (including a selector grab with full rotation or a five-tine cactus grab). The JS200W also features an upgraded cab environment, excellent visibility, as well as a fixed or hydraulically raised cab that allows clear views into containers, hoppers or shredders. The WasteMaster line from JCB builds on standard models, with the addition of guards and grills, improved cooling packs, additional lighting and upgraded engine and cab filtration.


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Causes of tear overproduction include anything that irritates the surface of the eye, such as a foreign body, an in-turning eyelash and even dryness of the eye. In each case, watering occurs because irritation of the corneal nerve endings excessively stimulates the lacrimal gland leading to excessive production of tears.
Inability of the tears to reach the entrance of the nasolacrimal passageway (known as the 'punctum'). This may be due to a lax lower eyelid, or an ectropion (an eyelid margin which is slightly turned outwards away from the surface of the eye).
A blockage or narrowing along any part of the nasolacrimal passageway.


"comfort zone" emotional need to be recognized for one's achievements.
Less concerned with glamour. More concerned with security, protection, conversation, craft.
Israel-PM 1898-1978 Our Strength Golda Meir took very little interest in beautifying her appearance. She wore no cosmetics, no hair style, simple basic western women's clothing, and sported a grandmotherly figure. Her homeliness (Chandra-Hasta) was endearing to many due to its peculiarity not its beauty.
Hasta-Chandra has a profound and self-defining core need for emotional security, which expresses via technical excellence (Budha) and wanting to appear as a provider of artisanal skill and craft (Budha).
Marvelous for any practitioner of hand-craft such as musician, surgeon, architectural drafter, massage therapist or laboratory chemist. The hands are intuitively sensitive and measurements are accurate.
Hasta-Chandra seeks emotional stability and security via drawing, diagramming, instructing, manipulating, pushes buttons and pulls levers on mechanical instruments.
Uses the hands and the emotions in synthesis. Hasta-Chandra needs to express caretaking and protective instincts via handcraft, instrument operation, soothing touch.
Hasta-Chandra exhibits a pronounced emotionally-motivated engagement of the hands nearly all of the time. Rhythmic routine movements such as housekeeping tasks (Chandra) of laundering, floor-washing, carpet-cleaning, dish-washing, all of the manual acts of kitchen management, cooking, sewing, sweeping, ironing nest-building, et-cetera are soothing and natural to Chandra-Hasta.
When Chandra-Hasta is not using their hands for domestic routine, they paint, write, sculpt, use tools, manually locate things into piles and boxes, and engage in everything sort of household rhythmic activity. They can be fussy when the household service is not to their standards, but are quite willing to serve the servants. Even the wealthy ones may be found cleaning and nourishing, right alongside their domestic staff, who are broadly considered as part of the family in any case.
Cares for elders and infants, attends the vulnerable, sick, weakened, pregnant; protects and shelters the family.
Feels comfortable when gesturing, measuring, compounding and composing, writing, sculpture, painting; in choreography, stenography, documentation, notation; using the hands in craftwork, touching musical instruments, massage, when engaged in emotionally grounding routines with neighbors, siblings, and work-mates.
compounding. May be an excellent compounding pharmacist and maker of medicaments.
Intuitive" voice" of Budha-communication runs through the palm chakra and finger chakra in The hands.
Genius of skilled manual crafts , healing and decorative arts, from blacksmithing to writing to sculpting to model-building to bhava-building to massage.
If doing a healing massage or crafting a fine musical instrument or repairing a boat engine, this native will hear a soft interior voice delivering a quiet narrative of instruction as to what should be done, in what sequence, for best results.
Secret Doctrine 1831-1891 Theosophy Helena Blavatsky * Chandra-yuti-Zukra-nichha * wrote thousands of pages rapidly, by hand; plus, she was a capable sketcher and manual drafter. Her skills of legerdemain (nichha-Zukra) were notorious as well.
Smart and clever, with notable intuitive communicatio n capabilities.
Like to talk, gesture, and measure . (Chandra-Budha).
Emotionally possessive and dislikes change of the established cyclical calendar. Needs a regular lunar cycle of ritual seasonal returns.
every variety of small tool and implement, gardening, hoes, spades, rakes, scythes, bhava-cleaning, bhava-keeping,"yard-work"
These three nakshatra being ruled by protective, emotional, impressionable, absorptive, oscillating-rhythmic Chandra can display super-sensitive reactivity to imagined slights and threats to the regular cyclical flow of work-home-family.
These three nakshatra = Moon-ruled = deeply needy of constant emotional stability. They enjoy a regular cycle of emotional fluctuation but major upheavals may create a "personal tsunami"and they may react with urgent retreat into self-protection via declamation (Budha) that everything is fine.
Dealing directly with the problem is not instinctive; passive defense against the problem is more natural for these folk and they will summon the verbal-emotional resources for "defense of the homeland" when feels threatened.
They may feel the need of boundary "fencing"around the electro-magnetic emotional core.
Mounting of peripheral defense can involve reinforcement of the "facade" similar to the face of a building.
These natives when under stress may exhibit psychological defensiveness which is out of proportion to the scope factual threat.
as a result of putting up a defensive shield which they try to use as a 'decoy' to deflect predatory interests, these folk who are quite pure of heart can develop Ironically a reputation for falseness and pretense .
The honest truth may seem like an inadequate defense to Hasta, who may erect a protective facade of perfect contentment (Chandra) in order to mask the human weaknesses of one's self or one's job skills.
Often restrained or abused in childhood, where emotional approval is provided only upon obedient performance of duty .
Throughout life, then, one craves order and routine with regular praise for performance .
In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Hasta behavior.
Meditations 1596-1650 logic Rene Descartes attracted a Hasta-style soothing, caretaking, grounded, routine-loving partner. Unlike his rather high-strung mathematical, argumentative and intellectualized self, his partner was an uneducated woman of simple tastes. She was devoted to him, and moved whenever he moved (which was often, sometimes multiple times in a year). She was his housekeeper with whom he fathered a daughter. Descartes never mentioned her in his copious writings but others knew that she was with him for many years. When their daughter died Descartes left their partnership; however he arranged and paid for her marriage to a local tavern-keeper, and she lived happily thereafter in the Hasta rhythmic, caretaking, serving way.
Under emotional stress in relationships, the native with navamsha Chandra in Hasta can suffer inner reactions of compulsive communications and obsessive measuring .
Partner of the native may be grasping and possessive, tending to repeat crafty, manipulative behaviors either mental or manual or both.
Partner is a handy person with disarmingly : ) steady habits. Budha = very clever; the partner may have figured out how to successfully live a double life . (Two hands, two lives). The trick is in the calendar.


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UK Labour right wing tries to silence opposition to war
Julie Hyland
The right wing of the Labour Party has stepped up its campaign to outlaw opposition to war, after 66 MPs joined with the Conservative government to vote in favour of the UK bombing in Syria.
Last week's parliamentary vote was accompanied by a slander campaign, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, denouncing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and those opposed to war as terrorist sympathisers" and a threat to national security. This is despite the fact that Corbyn effectively guaranteed Cameron the majority he needed for military action when he caved in to demands for a free vote on war.
Corbyn presented his capitulation to his right-wing opponents as proof that Labour was a broad church, able to accommodate "differences of opinion within the party." In reality, it meant that a pro-war minority won the day, against the opposition of the overwhelming majority of Labour members—75 percent of whom had registered their opposition to military intervention in Syria.
Led by Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, Labour MPs had conspired with the government against their leader and party, with the Sunday Times reporting that "senior members of the shadow cabinet" had been in discussions with Tory ministers to build support for war.
Corbyn's surrender to the pro-war lobby has not sated the right wing. On the contrary, the result of the Oldham by-election in northwest England, the day following the vote, has only intensified their ire. Most of the media, egged on by the Labour right, had claimed that Labour was poised to lose the election to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in a backlash by the "white working class" against Corbyn's left-wing agenda. Instead, Labour's vote increased by 7 percent on May 2015, while UKIP trailed in second place on 23 percent. The Tory vote halved to 9.3 percent, and the Liberal Democrats (who also voted for war) lost their deposit.
The by-election result is only a pale reflection of the real state of political and class relations, given that Labour ran a deliberately low-key campaign so as not to further antagonise the right. It underscores the extraordinary isolation of the pro-war, pro-austerity parties.
In response, the right has responded with a hysterical disinformation campaign.
Former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has led demands that Corbyn pull out of speaking at a fundraising event called by the Stop the War Coalition (STWC), describing it as a "disreputable" organisation. Hunt cited "ugly comments" made about Benn by the STWC. This was in reference to protests called by students at Leeds University describing him as Hilary "Bomber" Benn, in reference to the Royal Air Force Marshal, Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris, who conducted the infamous firebombings of German cities at the end of World War Two.
Hunt is particularly incensed by calls for Benn and others to be removed from their constituency seats over their support for war. In the Orwellian language of the Labour right, any calls for MPs to be held politically accountable for their actions is tantamount to "bullying" and "intimidation."
Coming from MPs who have repeatedly supported neo-colonial wars of intervention by British imperialism against oppressed nations from Afghanistan to Syria, such claims are hypocritical in the extreme. They are made more so by Hunt's claim that the STWC's decision to hold a picket of the Labour Party HQ during the Oldham by-election campaign to protest over Syria was aimed at "preventing the election of a Labour Member of Parliament." This comes from the representative of a faction that made no secret of its desire that Labour lose in Oldham in order to strengthen their own position.
In the last days, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson had to retract his demand for Labour members engaged in a picket of a pro-war MP's constituency office to be expelled from the party.
Labour sources had reported that anti-war protesters had marched to the house of Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, and made threats against her after she voted for war against Syria. This was revealed to be lies. A vigil had been held outside Creasy's constituency office. This fact, together with misleading photographs, was used to launch a media campaign that the MP was being subjected to threats. In the end, Creasy came forward to explain that the described events had never taken place.
Other pro-war MPs have claimed they have been subject to abuse, including death threats, based on little more than a single e-mail or Facebook comment.
The veracity of these allegations cannot be established. But at the weekend, it was revealed that Tory MP Lucy Allan had doctored an e-mail from a constituent to make it read like a death threat.
Allan had published the real e-mail from a voter describing her as an "empty shell of a human being" for backing war in Syria. But she was forced to admit that she had added the words "unless you die" to the end, after the sender, Adam Watling, challenged her on social media.
Allan withdrew the posting, claiming that she had added the words from another e-mail as an "illustration" of the abuse she had suffered from anti-war protesters. "My Facebook is my Facebook and I can write on it what I want," she insisted. "What I did was selective editing and I am allowed to do this."
The resort to such deceit on the part of the pro-war lobby is inseparably bound up with the criminal nature of the Syrian venture. Within hours of parliament authorising UK involvement, the government all but admitted that its claims of "limited" engagement and a "peace" agreement in Syria were fiction.
Cameron said that UK military action would be "complex", "difficult" and would "take time", while Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said it could last "at least three years."
Arch war-monger Tony Blair laid bare the real objectives. "The precise means of commitment [in Syria] can be the subject of expert military advice," he wrote on his Tony Blair Faith Foundation website.
"It will include, first and foremost, stepping up the military action against ISIS as the USA, UK and France and many others are now doing. It might include heavier arming of the opposition we support and telling the Assad regime that continued use of barrel bombs against civilians will result in direct military action to disable those attacks; establishing an enclave where the opposition and people can be kept safe and protected by airpower; and more direct on the ground assistance to those fighting ISIS" (emphasis added).
Blair's threat of military action against the Syrian regime was made just days before US forces carried out a deadly bomb attack on government forces in Deir al-Zour.
He continued, "We have to put our best military minds on the task of constructing the force capability, drawn from willing nations and people, which can go and fight on the ground where the extremists are engaged in actual violence....
"And, crucially, those who are going to do the fighting have to be willing combatants. This is especially so if they will include, as they should, the soldiers of Western nations " (emphasis added).
Blair's statements make clear that the British bourgeoisie has determined a policy that threatens to set in motion a third world war involving nuclear powers. It knows that this path will inevitably generate mass opposition—hence its efforts to silence anti-war sentiment.
These are the political forces that Corbyn's surrender has given their head.
In a now typical mealy-mouthed response, Corbyn rejected calls for his withdrawal from the STWC event, arguing against attempts to "portray campaigning, lobbying and protest as somehow beyond the pale."
But while claiming these are the "heart of democracy," he refuses to take any measures against those attempting to suppress these democratic rights within his own party. Instead, according to reports, the Momentum group set up to support Corbyn is to draw up a "code of conduct" to prevent "hard-left groups" influencing Labour's political direction.
Under the new rules, Momentum supporters will not be allowed to vote or take part in meetings about the Labour Party unless they are party members. What this means in practice is that the group will police the party against efforts to remove right-wing MPs from their seats.
Momentum has stated it "strongly disapproves" of de-selection threats, while Corbyn has rejected such calls. The Guardian reports that the Labour leader is to make clear that Benn " hold[s] the government to account on Syria in line with the thinking of the Labour party."
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It's been a couple years coming, but the COVID pandemic forced the government to defer the last tranche of social security contributions under the S.S.B. reform that took effect in 2018. But next Monday, that last part will take effect, so your next paycheck, whether it's made weekly, bi-monthly or monthly, will be a bit less than what your last one was. News Five spoke with Social Security Board C.E.O., Deborah Ruiz, who explained how the last segment of deductions will affect our pockets.
Deborah Ruiz, C.E.O., Social Security Board
"The lower wage band, for example, which is those persons earning under seventy dollars will only see a ten-cent-increase per week. Those at the higher income bracket who are going into the new category. So right now we're at four-sixty up to four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents per week. The new change will mean that we have a new wage group (for) five hundred dollars and over and that is the group that will see a significant increase because then they move to a new rate of twenty-three forty per week so that will be the difference there. There are thirteen wage bands. The second one would pay seventeen cents more week, the fourth one pays twenty-four cents. The other one – thirty-nine cents; fifty-nine cents; seventy-nine cents; the seventh one is at ninety-nine, then we go to one dollar and nineteen cents; one dollar and forty cents; one dollar and sixty-two cents; one dollar and eighty four cents,; two dollars and nine cents and then as I mentioned, because we have a new group, those persons would be paying twenty three dollars and forty cents. But they had already been accustomed to paying at the current group – eighteen dollars and seventy-eight cents. So it will be the difference between that that would now shift to the higher wage band, but that means of course that their benefits also increase."
Bigger Contributions Mean Bigger Benefits
But while the amount employees and employers pay in to Social Security will be more hereafter, our benefits will also be more, Ruiz explained.
"The wage bands have associated salary that we insure. So for the short-term benefits like sickness, maternity, injury, we pay eighty percent of that insurable salary. So that is where we see the difference, noh. Because of the new wage band, the higher group, the others won't see a major difference there. It's those people who are earning over four hundred and sixty dollars and now over five hundred dollars that would see the difference because the rate was up from three eighty-four that you were getting previously to now four hundred and sixteen dollars per week. The lower wage bands still remain at the same rate because it's just a rate that's changing and not the wage band for them."


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Westman RCMP report
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From Nov. 16 to 22 the Westman RCMP dealt with 61 police activities.
The business of junior hockey in Virden
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Public NOT to call Keystone Centre regarding vaccination
Nov. 17 - RCMP were dispatched to Sioux Valley for a report of an intoxicated female who left a residence with no shoes. RCMP located the person in the basement of a residence attempting to commit self harm. She was arrested under the Mental Health ACT and transported to the hospital where she received assistance.
Nov. 18- While conducting patrols in Sioux Valley, RCMP located a vehicle driving erratically. A roadside stop was initiated. Subsequent to investigation, it was determined that the driver was intoxicated. The driver was arrested for impaired operation of a conveyance. Breath samples of 220 mg/100 ml and 200 mg/100 ml were provided. The 34-year-old female driver was released on a future Court Date.
While officers were investigating the above, the intoxicated passenger approached officers waving a knife. The passenger was arrested without incident for assault with a weapon, and released on a future Court date.
Nov. 19- RCMP were dispatched to two break and enters in Pierson. Cash was stolen from the library and the municipal office. The matter is still under investigation.
Nov. 19 - RCMP were dispatched to Sioux Valley for a report of a male with a firearm threatening to shoot people. Subsequent to investigation, it was determined the male was carrying a machete. The 48-year-old male was arrested for uttering threats, and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. He was released on a future Court date.
Nov. 20 - RCMP were dispatched to Sioux Valley for a report of people fighting. Police located two people with minor injuries. They both said the fight was consensual and wouldn't co-operate with a police investigation.
Nov. 20 - RCMP were dispatched to the RM of Sifton for a report of a vehicle that possibly drove into the Assiniboine River. Police located the vehicle stuck at the bottom of a hill near the river. Subsequent to investigation, the driver showed no signs of impairment. A tow truck was contacted.
Three wellbeing checks and 11 traffic enforcement actions were undertaken during this reporting period.


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Turning loonies to dollars in the U.S. Sunbelt
Focus is on buying rental property in Phoenix
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Investor Janet Trpin-LePage found success in Phoenix — Robert Kruyt
At a recent Jurock real estate conference in Vancouver, Janet Trpin-LePage of Western Wealth Capital told a packed house of Canadian investors that they could make more money in the U.S. than they can at home.
Hard to believe at a conference surrounded by Canada's most expensive and fast-moving housing market, where the loonie is about the only investment heading south.
But Trpin-LePage put up convincing evidence that even at around $0.70 to the American dollar, Canadian money can go further and increase faster in the U.S. Sunbelt.
Trpin-LePage, a West Vancouver-based investor and property manager, specializes in the apartment rental market in Phoenix, Arizona, a city ranked No. 3 in the U.S. Southwest for residential investments, according to a recent All Property Management survey. Phoenix is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. Its population is forecast to rise by two million people to reach a total of six million within the next 15 years.
The Phoenix rental vacancy rate is falling and rental rates are rising, according to LePage, who often works with Ozzie Jurock's Real Estate Action Group investors.
Western Wealth owns 14 rental apartment properties in Phoenix with a total of 1,700 units, all bought in the past four years, and posting an average 2 per cent vacancy rate. While prices in Phoenix have risen, Trpin-LePage said her investors have been making steady 8 per cent to 10 per cent cash-on-cash returns annually.
"As prices have risen, financing has become easier and cheaper," she said. Mortgage rates on rental investments have dropped from 8 per cent to the 3 per cent range and the loan-to-value ratio is now 30 per cent, compared to 50 per cent in 2011, she explained.
Trpin-LePage said the lower-valued Canadian dollar represents an opportunity for Vancouver-area buyers.
For instance, Western Wealth and its partners have averaged a US$75,000 profit on each Phoenix rental building over the last three years. When that is translated to Canadian dollars, the profit is close to $100,000, Trpin-LePage said.
A senior Bank of Montreal analyst agrees.
"We expect the U.S. greenback to rise further against the Canadian dollar, boosting capital gains appreciation for Canadians who purchase U.S. property," said Sal Guatieri, senior economist with BMO Capital Markets.
BMO notes that U.S. house prices have soared 24 per cent in the past two years but are only about halfway back to their peak in 2006.
"Traditional destinations for Canadian snowbirds remain affordable," Guatieri said.
BMO is forecasting that U.S. house prices will continue to increase in an improving U.S. economy.
Trpin-LePage added that supplemental financing for 75 per cent of a property value can now be arranged, which in Arizona requires only an appraisal and inexpensive paperwork.
"We can use that 75 per cent to pay the investor partners quickly for their initial investment, while the building continues to make a profit," she said. "I love Phoenix, and Canadians should not be afraid of the lower dollar."


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