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Looters Descend on Downtown Chicago; More Than 100 Arrested
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CHICAGO — Hundreds of looters descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city's South Side, with vandals smashing the windows of dozens of businesses and making off with merchandise, cash machines and anything else they could carry, police said.
Some 400 additional officers were dispatched to the area after the department spotted the post. Over the next several hours, police made more than 100 arrests and 13 officers were injured, including one who was struck in the head with a bottle, Brown said.
When police shot a man after he opened fire on officers Sunday afternoon, the incident apparently prompted a social media post hours later urging looters to converge on the business district, Police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference.
Brown dismissed any suggestion that the chaos was part of an organized protest of the shooting, instead calling it "pure criminality" that included occupants of a vehicle opening fire on police who were arresting a man they spotted carrying a cash register.
No officers were wounded by gunfire, but a security guard and a civilian were hospitalized in critical condition after being shot, and five guns were recovered, he said.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot agreed that the melee had nothing to do with a protest. "This was straight-up felony criminal conduct," she said. "This was an assault on our city."
Videos of the Vandalism Showed Huge Crowds of People Smashing Their Way Into Businesses
The looting brightened the national spotlight that has been on Chicago for weeks after a surge in gun violence that resulted in more homicides in July than any month in decades. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the handling of the violence, recently ordered more federal agents to the city to take part in what Attorney General William Barr called "classic crime fighting."
Witnesses described a scene that bore a striking resemblance to the unrest that unfolded when protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis devolved into chaos. Brown suggested that the lenient treatment of people arrested then played a role in what happened Monday.
"Not many of those cases were prosecuted to the full extent," he said. "These looters, these thieves, these criminals being emboldened by (the lack of) consequences … emboldened to do more."
At the same news conference, Lightfoot addressed the looters directly, telling them that police had collected a lot of surveillance video and other evidence that will be used to arrest and prosecute as many as possible.
"We saw you, and we will come after you," she warned.
Videos of the vandalism showed huge crowds of people smashing their way into businesses and streaming out of the broken windows and doors loaded down with clothes and other merchandise. They loaded up vehicles and drove off, some leaving behind boxes of rocks that they had apparently brought to shatter the windows. Cash register drawers and clothes hangers were strewn about the streets, along with automatic teller machines that had been ripped from walls or pulled from inside businesses.
Stores miles from downtown were also ransacked, their parking lots littered with glass and boxes that once contained television sets and other electronics.
More Than an Hour After the Shooting, Police and Witnesses Said a Crowd Faced off With Officers
"This was obviously very orchestrated," the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a prominent Roman Catholic priest and activist on the city's South Side, told Chicago television station WBBM.
Police responded about 2:30 p.m. Sunday to a call about a person with a gun in the South Side Englewood neighborhood and tried to confront someone matching his description in an alley. He fled from officers on foot and shot at officers, police said.
Train and bus service into downtown was temporarily suspended. Bridges over the Chicago River were lifted, preventing travel to and from the downtown area, and state police blocked some expressway ramps into downtown. Access was to be restored later in the day.
Brown said the department would maintain a huge presence in the downtown area indefinitely, telling reporters that all days off had been canceled until further notice.
Officers returned fire, wounding the man, who was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was expected to recover. Three officers also were taken to a hospital for observation, the statement said.
Brown later said the 20-year-old man had a long criminal history, including arrests for domestic battery and child endangerment, He said a gun was recovered at the scene.
More than an hour after the shooting, police and witnesses said a crowd faced off with officers after someone reportedly told people that police had shot and wounded a child. That crowd eventually dispersed.
But a short time later, police came across the social media post about a caravan of cars "being prompted to go to our downtown to loot," Brown said. "Within 15 minutes, we respond and almost immediately the caravan is in our downtown area."
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The following information was released by the HHS Office for Civil Rights in Action on August 4, 2016.
Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) involving electronic protected health information (ePHI). Advocate has agreed to pay a settlement amount of $5.55 million and adopt a corrective action plan. This significant settlement, the largest to-date against a single entity, is a result of the extent and duration of the alleged noncompliance (dating back to the inception of the Security Rule in some instances), the involvement of the State Attorney General in a corresponding investigation, and the large number of individuals whose information was affected by Advocate, one of the largest health systems in the country.
Advocate Health Care Network is the largest fully-integrated health care system in Illinois, with more than 250 treatment locations, including ten acute-care hospitals and two integrated children's hospitals. Its subsidiary, AMG, is a nonprofit physician-led medical group that provides primary care, medical imaging, outpatient and specialty services throughout the Chicago area and in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
Read the press release, resolution agreement and corrective action plan on the HHS website.
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import tweepy, sqlite3
from pasteee import Paste
from pprint import pprint

dbPath = "shows.db"

consumer_key, consumer_secret = 'yvVTrxNtVsLkoHxKWxh4xvgjg', '39OW6Q8fIKDXvTPPCaEJDULcYaHC5XZ3fe7HHCGtdepBKui2jK'
access_token, access_token_secret = '3214835117-OXVVLYeqUScRAPMqfVw5hS8NI63zPnWOVK63C5I', 'ClcGnF8vW6DbvgRgjwU6YjDc9f2oxMzOvUAN8kzpsmbcL'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

def unpackEpisode(episode):
	conn = sqlite3.connect(dbPath)
	c = conn.cursor()

	cursor = c.execute('SELECT * FROM stray_episodes')
	columnNames = [description[0] for description in cursor.description]

	conn.close()

	episodeDict = dict.fromkeys(columnNames)

	for i, key in enumerate(episodeDict.keys()):
		episodeDict[key] = episode[i]

	return episodeDict

def prettifyEpisode(episode):
	returnString = ''
	for key, value in episode.items():
		returnString += key + ': ' + str(value) + '\n'

	return returnString

def createPasteee(episode):
	return Paste(prettifyEpisode(episode), private=False, desc="My first paste", views=10)

def tweetString(episode):
	print(type(episode['episode']), episode)
	tweetString = '@KevinMidboe\nAdded episode:\n' + episode['name'] + ' S' + str(episode['season'])\
	 + 'E' + str(episode['episode']) + '\nDetails: '
	return tweetString

# TODO What if error when tweeting, no id_str
def tweet(tweetString):
	response = api.update_status(status=tweetString)
	return response.id_str

def updateTweetID(episodeDict, id):
	conn = sqlite3.connect(dbPath)
	c = conn.cursor()

	c.execute('UPDATE stray_episodes SET tweet_id = ' + id + ' WHERE original is "' + episodeDict['original'] + '"')

	conn.commit()
	conn.close()

def tweetEpisode(episode):
	pasteee = createPasteee(episode)
	tweet_id = tweet(tweetString(episode) + pasteee['raw'])
	updateTweetID(episode, tweet_id)

def getLastTweets(user, count=1):
	return api.user_timeline(screen_name=user,count=count)

def verifyByID(id, reponse_id):
	conn = sqlite3.connect(dbPath)
	c = conn.cursor()

	c.execute('UPDATE stray_episodes SET verified = 1, response_id = ' + reponse_id + ' WHERE tweet_id is "' + id + '"')

	conn.commit()
	conn.close()

# TODO Add more parsing than confirm
def parseReply(tweet):
	if b'\xf0\x9f\x91\x8d' in tweet.text.encode('utf-8'):
		print('Verified!')
		verifyByID(tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str, tweet.id_str)

def getReply(tweet):
	conn = sqlite3.connect(dbPath)
	c = conn.cursor()

	tweetID = tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str
	c.execute('SELECT * FROM stray_episodes WHERE tweet_id is ' + tweetID + ' AND verified is 0')
	row = c.fetchone()

	if row:
		episode = unpackEpisode(row)
		conn.close()

		parseReply(tweet)

	conn.close()

def lookForNewEpisodes():
	conn = sqlite3.connect(dbPath)
	c = conn.cursor()

	c.execute('SELECT * FROM stray_episodes WHERE tweet_id is NULL')

	for row in c.fetchall():
		episode = unpackEpisode(row)
		tweetEpisode(episode)

	conn.close()

def checkForReply():
	for tweet in getLastTweets('KevinMidboe', 10):
		if tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str != None:
			getReply(tweet)

def tweetNewEpisodes():
	lookForNewEpisodes()
	checkForReply()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	tweetNewEpisodes()

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HorrorNewsSeaworld Parks and Entertainment
Busch Gardens Tampa reveals someone lurking in the Dark Side of the Gardens as Howl O Scream hype ramps up
By ErikAug 08, 2012, 11:44 am
In the dark side of the gardens, there's so much you will find. It appears that Busch Gardens Tampa has opened the gate to the "dark side of the gardens" once again this year for their annual Halloween event, Howl O Scream. After promising Facebook fans a glimpse of the new Icon (the official spokes…thing…for the event) the HOSInsider kept true to his(her?) word and let a small picture slip earlier today. Of course, in true HOSInsider fashion, there's much left to the imagination, and plenty of time to wait for more.
"I hang it there so they will use it…"
Call me creeped out. We see a lone figure, a male as HOSInsider tells us, but who is he? Busch Gardens uploaded a much clearer version of this year's creepy icon. The caption above makes a lot of sense looking at the clearer version. You can see a key hanging just under the lantern.
Last week the Insider let another pic slip with another creepy message.
"They can't resist The Golden Key That taunts and calls and beckons thee."
A gate, and a key. The Keymaster? The Gatekeeper? Zuul? (okay enough ghostbuster references). Other possibilities include a groundskeeper, and even an evil gardener. This year marks the 13th year for Howl O Scream, and the return of an Icon. The last Icon was 2010's Sylvie…a skinny Emo girl who would cut off the fingers of her ex-boyfriends.
In fact, we may see some of the old icons this year as Howl O Scream will have a scarezone that will feature past icons, and characters that we've come to know and love from years past.
Here's a rundown of some past icons:
2010-Sylvie, lead singer from My X. Cut off your finger
2009-Ms. Vayne, Vampire fashion designers. Her and her vamp fashion models would eat you
2008-Raven Twins, once conjoined twins who were horribly scarred. They would lure young men in and…double team them
2007-Death Jockey, an evil DJ who would get you dancing, then bring you to your knees with terrifying No beats
2006-No One 2 Trust, ironically…there was no icon, just a dead man holding a bloody cell phone
2005-Evil Jack in the Box, your darkest fears from childhood and beyond came to life.
2004-Hack, the evil taxi driver. You could enter, but you couldn't escape the cab of doom
2003-F.E.A.R. the ultimate controller of horror roamed the streets of Howl O Scream seven years before being unleased at Halloween Horror Nights
2002-Death, the ultimate bad spirit. No one escapes death, though many have tried
2001-Torment, Mangler, and Pernicia Doom…because of the events of September 11th that year, the Icons were downplayed and not used as much, though they still did roam the park
2000-Dr. Livingsdoom. Love this character! The mad scientist that stalked the African plains. This year was the first official year of Howl O Scream and Dr. Livingsdoom was officially the first character. He was played in advertising by the now creative director, Scott Swenson, and this is the one character that I'm hoping we see return…played by the original actor!
With the long rich history of interesting characters that Howl O Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa has dug up, we can be certain that whoever our shadowy friend is, he'll be very interesting to say the least.
For more information about Howl O Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa, visit the official website!
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We are seeking a Stage Manager for our production of Mamma Mia, to start immediately. Email resume and cover letter to apply@summerplacetheatre.org.
We are looking for help bringing our 2019 season to life! Summer Place is powered by dedicated, creative, generous, efficient people who donate their time to getting our shows off the ground.
Sign up to hear about volunteer opportunities
Whether you can help for only one night, all summer or for a hour here and there, we would love to have you be part of the team! Volunteering opportunities include set building, costuming, backstage crew, ushering, concessions and box office support, props coordination, marketing and promotion, fundraising, play reading, and more. Find out how you and your family can get involved by emailing volunteer@summerplacetheatre.org.
Here's a partial list of what our awesome volunteers do:
Ushers greet audience members at the door of the theatre and pass out programs, point out bathrooms, assist people with the elevator, and help people to their seats as needed. They open the doors at intermission, monitor the bringing of concessions into the theatre (politely remind them to finish their concessions in the lobby), and assist the House Manager as requested. Ushers may watch the show in the theatre once the audience is seated. This is a one-time commitment.
Box Office Staff
The Box Office staff checks in season ticket holders, scans tickets, sells tickets (either by collecting cash and returning correct change, or scanning a credit card), and directs audience members to the theatre. They may perform other tasks as requested by the Box Office Manager. This is a one-time commitment.
The volunteers who sell concessions during intermission will collect cash and return correct change, replenish concessions as needed from the provided supply, and report any food or drink items that need to be replenished to the House Manager. This is a one-time commitment.
Stage Crew fills in behind the scenes as requested by the Stage Manager. They may move set pieces, place props on stage, run the sound or light board, operate spotlights, relay instructions from the Stage Manager, and perform other tasks as needed to ensure the show runs smoothly. They often work in very low light and lift heavy objects. The stage crew is committed for tech week and each performance.
Set Building
Tech Week: Volunteers who help to build the set will work under the Technical Director and/or Master Carpenter to construct, paint, and dress the set. They use power tools, paint set pieces and furniture, and perform other tasks as requested to prepare the stage for the opening of the show. This is a short-term commitment of one or two weeks.
Strike: At the end of the run of the show, the strike crew will dismantle the set and assist the staff with cleanup so we can vacate the theatre or prepare for the next show. These tasks could include
Helping the Lighting Designer unplug and remove or reposition lights
Helping the Sound Designer collect and inventory microphones and cables
Helping the Props Master collect and inventory props
Helping the Stage Manager collect and erase scripts
Helping the Costume Designer collect and inventory costumes
Helping the Technical Director or Master Carpenter take down the set and set dressings
Helping the Music Director dismantle the pit by moving instruments or chairs and music stands
Taking set pieces, furniture, props, and costumes to storage
This is generally a one-time commitment.
Production Team Volunteers
We need plenty of help to get the show from rehearsal to final curtain. Our production team needs help with costume design, props, operating the sound or light board, assisting the director or the stage manager, and acting or playing in the pit. These volunteers are committed for the run of the show.
Publicity volunteers help spread the word about Summer Place Events. They create and post flyers, brainstorm marketing campaigns, post on social media, and perform other tasks as requested by the Publicity Chair. Some other tasks may include:
Collecting cast and crew bios and headshots
Taking cast and crew headshots
Photographing rehearsals, shows, and other events
Updating the website with news articles
Visiting retirement communities to distribute publicity materials to their program director
Posting information about upcoming events on online calendars
Sending press releases to local newspapers
Volunteers may serve on the publicity committee for the whole year, or simply put up posters one Saturday morning. There's something to fit every schedule.
Fiduciary Committee
Volunteers on the Fiduciary Committee help to keep Summer Place running throughout the year. They research and write grants, brainstorm and plan fundraisers, balance our accounts, sell ads and solicit donations, and act in the best interests of Summer Place Theatre. These positions can be long-term, or you can join us for a single grant-writing night.
Can you do one of these tasks? Email us or let us email you!
About Summer Place
The Summer Place, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and receives our funding through sales of affordably priced tickets, program ads, concessions, from a small number of grants and from the kind donations of our patrons.
We are Naperville's Community TheatreSM. Our all volunteer board, crew and cast work hard together to produce entertaining plays and musicals for the Naperville area. We invite you to get involved!
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Illegal, or unlawful, typically describes something that is explicitly prohibited by law, or is otherwise forbidden by a state or other governing body.

Illegal may also refer to:

Law
 Violation of law
 Crime, the practice of breaking the criminal law
 An illegal immigrant, a person that performed illegal immigration

Entertainment
 The Illegal (novel) (2015), by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill

Films
 Illegal (1932 film), British
 Illegal (1955 film), American
 Illegal (2010 film), Belgian
 The Illegal (2019), film starring Suraj Sharma

Music
 Illegal (group), a 1990s rap group
 "Illegal" (song), a track from pop singer Shakira's 2005 release, Oral Fixation Vol. 2

See also

 Illegal agent, also known as Operational cover
 Illegals Program, Russian spies arrested in the United States in 2010
 The Illegal (disambiguation)
 Illegalism, an anarchist philosophy which openly embraced criminality as a lifestyle

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Like art class, it's fun to paint and play with the Baby Alive Finger Paint Baby doll. . .and there's so many ways to be creative! Dress her in her smock and put the canvas on the easel to begin. Kids can wipe her hand with the brush to reveal paint. Place her hand on the blank reusable canvas to reveal a handprint. The color on her fingers will fade with a mommy or daddy's warm touch. Reveal fun colors on the second reusable canvas, too! Fill her paintbrush with water and drag it along to see. The doll can hold her brush so kids can imagine their baby is a budding artist. The images on each canvas disappear when the water dries. She drinks her bottle too -- fill it up with water to feed her. After her bottle, she wets! Mommies and daddies can change her diaper (additional diapers sold separately) and comb her rooted hair. Girls and boys can embrace their artistic side while pretending to be a nurturing mommy or daddy.
Includes doll, outfit, smock, easel, 2 canvases, paintbrush, wipe, bottle, diaper, comb, and instructions.
Each doll sold separately. Subject to availability.
Baby Alive Finger Paint Baby (Brunette) is rated 4.4 out of 5 by 5.
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Obituary, W. E. Renth
Posted on October 30, 2013 by franklin268
W. E. Renth, 87, of New Baden, Ill., born May 2, 1926, in St. Louis, Mo., died Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at Faith Countryside in Highland, Ill.
Mr. Renth was a veteran of the United States Navy serving in the Pacific during World War II aboard the USS Franklin CV13. The ship was hit off the coast of Japan on March 19, 1945 and the ship ended up being towed back to the United States. Upon his return from service he attended St. Louis University and was then hired at Farmers & Merchants State Bank in New Baden as a temporary employee. He progressed to full time and finished his 60 year banking career as executive vice-president of First County Bank of New Baden. He was a graduate of New Baden High School class of 1944 and St. Louis University School of Business and Commerce. He also attended numerous financial seminars. He was a member of Zion United Church of Christ in New Baden where he formerly served on the board of trustees. He was a member of the American Legion Post 321 in New Baden where he was the longtime chief financial officer, and was a former member of the New Baden Lion's Club.
He was preceded in death by his parents, W. F. and Amelia E., nee Trippel, Renth; two sisters, Wilma P. Renth and Arline Barrow; and a brother-in-law, G. H. Barrow.
Surviving is his sister, Betty L. Renth of New Baden, Ill.
Memorials may be made to the donor's choice and will be received at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at http://www.hempenfuneralhome.com
Visitation: Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, at Hempen Funeral Home in New Baden, Ill. The American Legion will visit the funeral home at 7 p.m. on Monday.
Funeral: Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, at Zion United Church of Christ in New Baden with Rev. Gretchen Sterrett officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Greenmount Cemetery in New Baden, Ill.
HEMPEN FUNERAL HOME, New Baden, Ill.
Published in Belleville News-Democrat on Sept. 15, 2013
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Home » Korean » 25 Most Viewed Kpop Music Videos Of All Time: A Major Throwback For Kpop Lovers
25 Most Viewed Kpop Music Videos Of All Time: A Major Throwback For Kpop Lovers
March 28, 2021 March 28, 2021 / Korean, K Pop, Music / By Rashmeet Kaur
As K-Pop becomes more popular worldwide, views on K-Pop music videos have been skyrocketing. Gone are the days where it's unusual for a Korean pop song to get hundreds of millions of views, now that the genre is more mainstream and loved by so many around the globe. Here's a look back at the current 30 K-Pop music videos with the most views on Youtube. Kpop accounts for less than 1% of YouTube's content. Yet it gets close to 5% of the views. Clearly, a lot of people, not just Koreans, watch Kpop music videos on YouTube.
There's one thing we're sure you already know though, and its the fact that kpop groups, with their combination of catchy tunes, impeccably-choreographed videos, intriguing storylines, ever-changing hair colors and attractive members – have already captured the global imagination.
Big Kpop management companies like BigHit Entertainment (home of BTS and TXT); SM Entertainment (including artists such as EXO, NCT, Red Velvet, and SuperM); JYP Entertainment (home of TWICE, Stray Kids, and ITZY); Pledis Entertainment (SEVENTEEN and NU'EST's label); and YG Entertainment (which includes BLACKPINK, TREASURE, iKON, and WINNER).
What is ' KPOP '?
Kpop (short for Korean popular music) is a genre of popular music originating in South Korea. It is influenced by styles and genres from around the world, such as experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. The more modern form of the genre emerged with the formation of one of the earliest K-pop groups, Seo Taiji and Boys, in 1992. Their experimentation with different styles and genres of music and integration of foreign musical elements helped reshape and modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene.
Modern K-pop "idol" culture began with enormous fandoms of teenagers and young adults from in and outside of South Korea 'stanning; their favourite kpop groups. After a slump in early K-pop, from 2003 TVXQ and BoA started a new generation of K-pop idols that broke the music genre into the neighboring Japanese market and continue to popularize K-pop internationally today.
Here's a list of the 20 most viewed Kpop music videos of all time.
20. PSY's "Daddy" ft. CL (2015)- 556 million
19. BTS' "Save ME" (2016)- 571 million
18. TWICE's "TT" (2016) – 574 million
17. BTS' "DOPE" (2015) – 629 million
16. Blackpink's "Playing with Fire" (2016)- 633 million
15. Blackpink's "Whistle" (2016)- 638 million
14. BTS' "Fire" (2018)- 684 million
13. BTS' "Blood Sweat and Tears" (2016)- 715 million
12. BTS' "Idol" (2018)- 878 million
11. BTS' "Mic Drop" (2017)- 887 million
10. BTS' "Fake Love" (2018)- 892 million
9. BTS' "Dynamite" (2020)- 959 million
8. Blackpink's "As If It's Your Last" (2017)- 983 million
7. Blackpink's "Boombayah" (2016)- 1.14 billion
6. BTS' "Boy With Luv" (2019)- 1.18 billion
5. BTS' "DNA" (2017)- 1.23 billion
4. Blackpink's "Kill This Love" (2019)- 1.24 billion
3. PSY's "Gentleman" (2013)- 1.39 billion
2. Blackpink's "DDU DU DDU DU" (2018)- 1.53 billion
1. Psy's "Gangnam Style" (2012) – 4.02 billion
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Despite its unorthodox premise and its recent valuation fluctuations in certain quarters, bitcoin has seemingly managed to defy all the odds and sustain its status as a viable currency, especially for luxury products, such as high-end real estate. Indeed, for many who plan to purchase property in exclusive areas, such as the Cote d'Azur, or are seeking luxury villa rentals on the French Riviera, bitcoin has become the go-to currency of choice.
While there may be several reasons to explain this emerging preference for bitcoin as a favoured currency for luxury real estate transactions, there is one specific aspect of this cryptocurrency that renders it particularly attractive when it comes to completing substantial property deals.
Bitcoin's prospects are currently looking relatively rosy after an initially inauspicious beginning and its more recent market wobbles on the global financial stage. In fact, a glance at the arc of its usage over the last 12 months – discounting a few blips here and there – reveals a healthy, even meteoric rise. Plus, with credible estimates stating that bitcoin now enjoys as many as 10 million unique users, and with that figure seemingly only poised to grow, there's every possibility that an even greater surge in bitcoin's popularity and feasibility lies ahead.
Among the many reasons why bitcoin has been able to gain traction as a desirable monetary instrument, are its immediacy and convenience, its legitimisation by blockchain technology and its enhanced portability and rapidity of movement facilitated by its existence largely outside the purview of traditional financial regulatory agencies.
one specific benefit stands out above the rest. In a nutshell, bitcoin considerably reduces – and in many cases almost erases – the often-massive fees and middlemen expenses that customarily accompany large-scale, luxury transactions.
Bitcoin payments that involve vast asset transfers function quite differently than those associated with or achieved through most financial institutions, which traditionally charge their customers percentage-based transaction expenses for the movement of funds from one account to another. Whereas banks, credit card companies and the like levy fees on most monetary payments – fees which only grow in accordance with the size of the purchase – bitcoin, in contrast, merely charges a minimal, capped, non-percentage amount, regardless of the size of the transaction.
The normal state of affairs when it comes to luxury deals usually ends up costing acquirers inordinate sums in expenses, charged by financial institutions for the simple act of transferring your funds from point "a" to point "b". Depending on the amount of a purchase or an asset transfer, these costs can skyrocket exponentially into tens of thousands or even conceivably hundreds of thousands of euros. Yet, with bitcoin, the fee for a million-euro transaction, would currently stand below €100. Clearly, this represents an incredible savings for those who use bitcoin to operate within luxury marketplaces, such as the high-end real estate milieu.
As part of our pledge to afford our clients the benefit of the most up-to-date, cutting-edge technologies and advances in the field, Cap Villas is pleased to announce that we now accept bitcoins – for luxury villa rentals on the Cote d'Azur and property sales on the Cote d'Azur – for the agency commission side of the transaction. (Of course, it is still up to the property owner to decide how they accept their rental or sale fee, and this will also depend on the notaire and the legal process.) This move is another sign of our commitment to provide our clients with the very best service, prices and portfolio available in the luxury real estate market in the South of France.
So, when it comes time for you to select a luxury villa rental on the Cote d'Azur, it's good to know that Cap Villas gives you the ability to use bitcoin to reap the rewards that this form of currency can offer. And, if you're not convinced quite yet that bitcoin is something you're comfortable with, hopefully you'll be reassured by the knowledge that, at Cap Villas, we are continually working to make sure that the very best options are open to you.
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"Now bear with me here, because I know this luxurious little gem of a hotel is not in Wembley and I am suggesting you stay here for the FA Cup Final on May 30 at Wembley Stadium. But COME ON, wouldn't you rather stay in a rinky-dinky salubrious little number like this than in a bog standard concrete monster in Wembley? Thought so. And The Chesterfield, with its gloriously OTT gilt and scarlet colour schemes, dining rooms that look like they hosted Jules Verne when in town and fab old school service, is bang on the Jubilee Line (at Green Park) that will take you directly to the footie faster than you can say I Like David Beckham's New Tattoo. Lovely."
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We have stayed at this lovely hotel before and I am pleased to say it keeps improving. From the moment you arrive, you are made to feel welcome. The hotel has an excellent bar, the rooms are very well fitted out with everything you need. On top of all this, you are right in heart Mayfair. Thank you, Chesterfield, for a lovely stay and see you again soon.
We stayed here for my brother in laws wedding. So baby friendly. Provided a robe and slippers for my little boy when we arrived in the room, along with a teddy bear and then in the bathroom products for him to use in the bath. They were so helpful when we needed milk as well. Would definitely recommend!
You made the first stay in your hotel a special and a memorable one. Every staff member is extremely polite and caring. Wonderful breakfast with warm dishes, your eggs Benedict / Royale is the best. The attention given throughout my 5-night stay during the dinner at the Butlers Restaurant is memorable. Farewell cupcake personally delivered to the room on the previous evening made it special.
It was like we were in old time England. The service from start to finish was excellent. I had read good reviews about the service when we decide to pick this hotel but they didn't come closet to expressing the quality of care we received when we were there. from the door man to the check in to the maid service all were very efficient, courteous, and quick to serve when asked and sometimes before you asked. they had water in the rooms, and left little gifts every evening on your pillow(don't know if I should have mentioned this because it was a wonderful surprise). I am 60 years old and of all the traveling we have done, this is the first hotel that actually read our special request for a low floor room, and went our of their way to find one; to the extent that they actually upgraded our room from a queen to a king in order to locate us on a lower level. As for location it was great. We walked to Picaddilly Circus, and to Regent street easily and there was a great little group of restaurants and shops a block away, with even a small grocery store, Shepards Square I believe the name was. the area was very nice and safe, and there were parks, and bus stops everywhere. Taxi's were always at the front door so we never had to wait for one if needed, and there was a fantastic piano player in the pub in the hotel and even had a jazz nite while we were there. Just can't say enough about it. If we ever go back to London, this is where we are staying.
My husband and I stayed at the Chesterfield Mayfair in June as part of a business/pleasure trip. Our room was lovely and the breakfasts were delightful, with delicious food and gracious service. We needed some help with train reservations and the front desk helped us tremendously. Everyone we encountered had a smile on his or her face. We are looking forward to returning next summer.


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The Rolling Stones won't get no satisfaction from Donald Trump
May 24, 2016 by Gregor Pryor
Donald Trump recently saw his musical options dwindle yet again, as The Rolling Stones joined Adele and Steven Tyler in requesting that he cease using their songs on his campaign trail.
The Stones will struggle to stop The Donald playing their songs on the campaign trail, says Pryor
Yet for those advising artists on their legal recourse for this type of unwanted artistic co-opting, the issue is much less straightforward than many would assume.
While the artist might feel rightly aggrieved about the misappropriated connection between the art they created and the politician's use of it, the law actually provides limited redress for this unauthorised endorsement – despite the potential reputational damage involved.
So how was Trump able to use The Rolling Stones' music without their permission and what, if anything, can be done to manage the damage?
The central issue is that the staging of a political campaign event is not one that automatically demands consideration of music rights licensing.
In most cases the chosen venue will have a vanilla public performance licence that permits music to be played through speakers.
Cameras will be present, but they will be filming the campaign as a news event.
Playing music when the candidate comes on stage is therefore permitted by copyright licence.
Typically politicians will not seek prior permission of artists, songwriters and labels when deciding which music to use – despite the fact music is very pointedly selected by the politician in question.
Trump is one of a long line of politicians who have carefully chosen songs to portray an image or message to the public.
The problem is that as soon as that politician walks on stage and the song is played, an association is born.
No amount of injunctions, legal threats and cease and desists can turn back the clock and prevent this 'musical endorsement'.
That is not to say that there is no remedy available.
Where John McCain used the Jackson Browne song 'Running on Empty' in a campaign advertisement without permission, Browne, a lifelong Democrat, filed a lawsuit under US copyright law.
The case was settled with payment of an undisclosed sum and a grovelling apology. However, as this was a professionally produced advertisement in a commercial slot, permission was explicitly needed.
A situation where a song is played in a venue and filmed by a news crew is not so easy to remedy.
However, some have still gone to exceptional lengths to seek redress for artists blindsided by politicians.
Peter Paterno, a US music lawyer, took the unusual step of issuing an open letter to Senator Joe Walsh on behalf of his client, a guitarist in the Eagles.
The letter poked fun at the Senator while reminding him of the various legal remedies available to the artist (the Senator had even changed the lyrics of the song in question).
Some might say that this has a better deterrent effect than issuing proceedings.
The reality for The Rolling Stones, in the days of social media immediacy, is that the pen is likely mightier than the legal sword.
An acerbic tweet and some earthy press coverage about their disapproval may provide greater deterrent than a lawsuit.
However, in the case of The Donald, the registration of disapproval has not yet proven to be an effective means of preventing his campaign.
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Apophenia - what's the one thing the SAS have in common with actors?
Patterns in trivia
You wouldn't think actors had much in common with the SAS, would you? Apart from a sense of the dramatic, though in the SAS's case they back it up with a bit more than a vodka and tonic and a moan about how their agent just isn't getting them the right auditions. But there is one other thing shared by the two groups of people, and it's an example of a weird thing our brains engage in called 'apophenia'.
The word 'apophenia' was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, a neuropsychologist who defined it as an 'unmotivated seeing of connections' which gave 'the specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness'. He was talking about it in the bad sense, when it leads to psychotic problems - paranoia, for instance. You make all sorts of connections where they don't really exist, and end up believing that the world is out to get you. But since Conrad's time the word has become more widely used, referring to apophenia in healthy people too. Which is a good job, because trivialists thrive on apophenia. Seeing connections where they don't really exist is at the heart of how trivia gets swapped.
Take actors and the SAS, for example. It's a theatrical tradition that you never say 'good luck' before going on stage ('break a leg' is the common substitute). And what's the one thing the SAS never say before embarking on a mission? Yep, you guessed it - 'good luck'. A conversation between two trivia-lovers might lead to one of them passing that information on. That's one of the joys of such conversations - within seconds you can be light-years away, talking about a completely new subject that's linked to the last by just one tiny yet fascinating tangent. First marriages, for instance. One of you might mention that Denis Thatcher's first wife was also called Margaret (yes, there was another Margaret Thatcher, before the future-PM became his second wife). The other, apophenia-gland all a-twitch, will be reminded of Evelyn Waugh's first marriage. The woman who became his bride had as her first name ... Evelyn. Evelyn Waugh was married to Evelyn Waugh.
Or it could be films. There are two Dustin Hoffman films, for instance, that end with him sitting on the back seat of a bus. The Graduate is the obvious one. I'll give you until the end - the asterisk to be exact - to think of the other. Or the conversation could lead somewhere else from The Graduate. One of you could mention that the poster for the film featured not Anne Bancroft's legs, as you were led to believe, but those of a leg model (who just happened to be Linda Gray, the woman who would one day play Sue Ellen in Dallas). In this case the tangent would be 'secret substitutions', and the other person would be pointing out that Ursula Andress's voice in Dr No was completely overdubbed by another actress.
You're probably wondering at this point why the picture accompanying this blog post is of a pizza. Well, sometimes the pattern can be one of opposites. Ringo Starr, you see, has never eaten a pizza. Shane Warne, on the other hand, only eats pizzas when he goes out to dine, often embarrassing those he's with by forcing upmarket restaurants to cook him one. Perhaps those facts stick in the mind because in each case it's exactly what you'd expect of the person involved - but there they now are, cross-referenced in the mind as twins of trivia. Apophenia has worked its magic again.
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Why a Zetas Split is Inevitable
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Regardless of the veracity of the current rumors that Mexico's feared Zetas organization has split into pieces, the organization's breakup is a foregone conclusion given the group's local revenue streams.
In the latest of a flurry of articles, a US law enforcement source told the Associated Press that Zetas second-in-command Miguel Angel Treviño, alias "Z-40," has successfully taken over control of the entire group, displacing Heriberto Lazcano, alias "Z-3," its long-time number one.
This fight, which InSight Crime has also chronicled, has been public for weeks. In August, police said that a Zetas commander in Quintana Roo state, Charly de Jesus Alcantara Trejo, alias "El Caricaturas," was handed over to police by the Zetas. El Caricaturas was loyal to Z-40, and was allegedly betrayed by a faction loyal to Z-3, local media reported. A wave of violence in San Luis Potosi state has also been interpreted as indicative of a rift between Z-40 and another local Zetas commander, Ivan Velazquez, alias "El 50" or "El Taliban," according to statements made by the San Luis Potosi state attorney general.
But the evidence is hardly definitive. The AP article cites but one US law enforcement official and various "narco-banners." These banners, however, accused both leaders of betraying several of Zeta operatives, suggesting the rift was from below, not between the top echelons. Other banners appeared in Zetas strongholds, like Tamaulipas and Veracruz, denying that such a rift has occurred.
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Whether the rift is real or not, the breakup of the Zetas will happen. Unlike the group's progenitors the Gulf Cartel — who earn most of their profits from the international export of drugs, and thus concentrate their finances, the know-how and the contacts at the top levels of leadership — the Zetas follow an entirely different financial model. According to a recent book on the Zetas, "The Executioner's Men," by Sam Logan and George Grayson, only 50 percent of the Zetas' revenue is from cocaine trafficking. (InSight Crime believes it is even less.) The rest comes from Zetas' low-level criminal activities — extortion, kidnapping, theft, piracy and other licit and illicit activities.
And since a large portion of the Zetas' revenue streams come from the bottom and local sources, rather than the top and international sources, this makes it more likely that local Zetas cells see how these businesses work and how much money is being pocketed by this hard work. Perhaps more importantly, the barriers to entry into these businesses are minimal: The infrastructure needed to manage them is already there; and the wherewithal to recruit and operate on the local level already exist. The result is that the a mid-level commander will be more likely to break away from his bosses simply because he can.
This is arguably what makes the Zetas' model of organized crime different and more menacing than the older, traditional cartels. Cartels who earn most of their revenue through international drug exports essentially cannot run their business without the international contacts necessary to do so. But in the Zetas' case, because of their revenue comes from local criminal activities that can be practiced anywhere and by virtually anyone, they have created the ultimate "democratic" model of organized crime. It is a model that can be easily replicated across Mexico, and is inherently vulnerable to suffering internal splits.
So while a dispute between top leaders Z-40 and Z-3 operates in the realm of speculation, there is no doubt that the Zetas as an organization will not last.
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What are Mega/High Potent Formulas?
Nutritional guidelines have long assisted healthconscious consumers in assessing foods, beverages and supplements based on each product's content of certain important nutrients. During World War II, the United States National Academy of Sciences established the Food and Nutrition Board, which created Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in 1941. These guidelines remained in place for decades with occasional revisions.
Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is a system similar to DRI but is utilized for product labels that feature nutritional facts. Nutrients present on these common labels are displayed as percentage of Daily Value (DV) and include macronutrients such as fatty acids, sodium and protein, along with various vitamins and minerals. They do not factor in trace minerals and other nutrients that may also be significant to dietary health.
Particularly in recent decades, research has indicated that for some individual nutrients, notable benefits only registered with larger serving sizes. This kind of assessment led to increased RDAs for calcium and vitamin D in 2010. With this revision, the calcium RDA for the average adult was elevated to 1,000 mg while the vitamin D RDA moved upward to 600 international units (IU).
During the 1960s, Nobel Prizewinning scientist Linus Pauling introduced the concept of higher nutrient servings into popular culture, asserting that large amounts of vitamin C could have numerous positive effects on health. This approach is referred to as "megavitamin therapy" or "high-dose vitamin therapy." Pauling's work continues via the Linus Pauling Institute, which has advocated higher daily levels of many nutrients. The LPI, for example, believes that 120 mg, rather than 90 mg, should be the RDA for vitamin C.
In regard to stating how potent a product may be, the FDA has issued the following qualified health claim: "The regulation states that the term 'high potency' may be used in a claim on the label or in labeling to describe individual vitamins or minerals that are present at 100 percent or more of the Reference Daily Intakes (RDI) per reference amount customarily consumed (21 CFR 101.54(f)(1)(i)). This means a supplement may be labeled as 'high potency' for each nutrient(s) that is present at 100% of the RDI per serving."
Numerous mega/high potent formulas feature concentrated extracts that offer 4:1 or even higher ratios of their active compounds. These supplements supply large amounts of a specific nutrient despite a physically small serving. Tart cherry, for example, is offered in 300 mg capsules; with a 4:1 ratio, it means that one capsule contains 1,200 mg of the active ingredient. It is crucial to keep these ratios in mind when taking nutritional supplements that use this method.
Given the vast array of nutritional supplements available, it can be difficult for consumers to distinguish one from another, particularly in relation to potency levels. Mega/high potent formulas have become popular in part because they clearly offer elevated amounts of certain nutrients. In addition to supplying higher potency, these products are also convenient, since their concentrated formulation involves taking less of a given supplement while still receiving the desired amount of its active ingredient.
Mega/high potent formulas supply generous levels of specific nutrients. Some of these supplements are derived from botanical sources, and many offer active ingredients at concentrated ratios such as 4:1 or 10:1. For nutrients that have daily values, these products regularly exceed those DVs, sometimes by a considerable percentage. Supplements are typically available as caplets, capsules and softgels.
Before starting a highpotency supplement regimen, talk to your health care provider. While some of these products have standard RDAs, others do not. Capsules may vary widely in terms of specific nutrient levels based on active ingredients, often ranging from 10 mg to 1,000 mg.


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Deplorable: How I came to cast my vote for Trump
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From the Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampsire early last month. (Photo: Kyril Wolfe)
From the Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire early last month. (Photo: Kyril Wolfe)
"Donald Trump: death or exile?" That was the half–serious joke I told to my customers at the grocery store where I worked. To some people today, that might seem controversial, but back in July 2015, about three weeks after Trump had announced his candidacy and managed to offend every demographic in the United States, even some white people, it was universally good humour.
Market Basket Store 20 in Woburn, Massachusetts has a diverse workplace. We had people from all walks of life. Many of my coworkers were either immigrants or children of immigrants from places like Brazil, Argentina, India, Albania, Ukraine and Portugal. Many came from working class backgrounds, and my managers had worked their way up to their positions from entry-level jobs. We had high school and college students who just wanted to earn a bit of money, and we had people whose very livelihoods depended on their job.
Whatever background we had, we all were parts of the same community. We were more than coworkers: in fact, we were friends. So when many of the people I cared about were being insulted, I took it personally myself. Donald Trump disgusted me, and I hoped that he would drop out. I only wanted respectable people to become president, and Trump was very far from that.
When the Republican primary was effectively over, it was May 4, 2016. My preferred candidate, John Kasich, had just announced that he was dropping out of the race. I respected Kasich as a person, and his views were very close to my own on most issues. He had promised to fight all the way to the convention for the Republican nomination, but Trump's margins of victory had only become larger over time, and the anti-Trump vote was no longer enough to beat him. Ted Cruz had dropped out the day before, and though I despised him, I found myself wishing that even Cruz could have won.
On the Democratic side, it was still to be decided, and I prayed that Bernie would win, so that, even though I disagreed strongly with him, I could at least vote for somebody respectable. But soon enough it was June. Hillary, with all of her increasingly unpopular super-delegates, had won the nomination, and I had a difficult choice to make.
July 5, 2016: "No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," said James Comey. Frankly, after a litany of what sounded like wrongdoings, that was the last thing anyone expected him to say. Comey practically made an opening argument for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton over the course of more than ten minutes, and then made a complete U-turn. It was strange to me, and to most of the people I knew. Even where I was from, in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts, people thought Hillary was guilty. People thought the meeting between the Attorney General and Bill Clinton was sketchy as hell. In short, people were a bit ticked off.
Later that week, Clinton had an interview and said that she was cleared of any wrongdoing, Colin Powell did this, it was within the rules, etc. Almost all of this was shown to be false in one way or another. Even worse than that, most media outlets and Democrats were trying to make it sound like a small deal. In case you readers didn't know, under laws such as the Espionage Act and the Freedom of Information Act, each email kept on the server could have constituted a felony charge. Laws concerning tampering with evidence made her deletion of 33,000 emails suspect, especially when not overseen by a government official. These things were hardly of the sort to lie about.
I thought to myself, "If she had come out on day one and said, 'I made a mistake. We are giving the authorities everything they ask for. I apologize for this,' then I could probably vote for her." But the only thing more insulting to me as a voter than the first twelve months of lies was that she continued to lie. And I didn't even want to think about the election.
A truck. No explosives. No guns. No pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line. Just a truck, and a bunch of people celebrating Bastille Day.
Many people liked to talk about fear mongering throughout the campaign. Many people thought when the Republicans were foretelling the apocalypse that it was being manipulative. Many people thought the world wasn't ending at all. But seeing the body counts on the news didn't give me much confidence in the idea that things were alright.
I remembered that if April 15, 2013 hadn't been a state holiday, I would've been in school, in Marlborough Street, in the Back Bay of Boston. As it was the end of senior year, I might've left school early. I would've walked to Copley Square Station, right where one of the bombs was planted. Even with the day off, I had been considering whether or not I wanted to go down to watch the race. One might've considered staying at home comforting, but it was far from it. The manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers shut down the city of Boston and its closest suburbs. Rumors went around about a sleeper cell in other parts of Massachusetts. Nobody felt safe.
I knew the world wasn't ending this past summer. I knew it wasn't going to end any time soon. However, that summer averaged one terrorist attack roughly every four days: shootings, bombings, hostage situations, you name it, and all around the world. And while the Republicans were blowing these incidents out of proportion, any Democrat who spoke about it was booed, almost as if there was no need to worry. But I was afraid. Many people I knew were afraid of what had happened, what was going to happen. And only one party was truly acknowledging our fears.
The Republican convention was of only adequate quality overall. There were some good speakers, and some silly sounding ones. Many Republicans hadn't shown up out of protest against their nominee. Ted Cruz had taken the stage and promptly proceeded to make an idiot of himself on national television, becoming wildly unpopular overnight. Melania had taken a few lines from Michelle. It was not "great".
When it was Trump's turn to speak, he had for a few weeks been trying to increase outreach from the GOP to the minorities in inner-city communities, and the LGBTQ community in the wake of the Orlando shooting. But whom was he kidding? This was a man who had said he might not have supported any other Republican who had won the nomination. This was a man who insulted the wives of his fellow candidates. This was a man who actually welcomed discussion about the size of his "hands". My expectations of bigoted, abrasive, bombastic, off-script stupidity were justifiable, given the evidence.
He took the stage to thunderous applause, and I sat on the couch watching and waiting on every word. It was a mild surprise to see him reading off of a teleprompter, but the novelty soon wore off as he frequently returned to his macho ad-libs. Much of what he had to say was about the failures of the American political system. Given that he was the nominee, I found that a bit ironic. He carried out a damning criticism of Democrats, and especially Hillary Clinton, but when the crowd chanted, "Lock her up", he shrugged it off and said that she would be defeated in November. This took me aback, as I had never seen him treat any candidate on the Republican side with any such decency.
I was still skeptical at the point when he said that he planned to protect the LGBTQ community from terrorism in the wake of the Orlando shooting. There was a lot of applause for this statement, a standing ovation, but I assumed that was just part of the show. Then he said words that struck me deeply:
"And I have to say, as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said. Thank you."
I had followed elections since 2008, primaries, general elections, mid-term elections: I had never heard a Republican genuinely say something that amounted to respect for the LGBTQ community. As someone who had disagreed with Republicans, including my parents at some times, on the gay marriage issue for a few years, I thought Trump had initially been trying to be politically convenient. But here he was, not only giving support to the LGBTQ community, but also criticizing the Republicans by marveling at them finally coming around.
I watched the rest of the speech, but something had changed, and all of a sudden I was withholding my skepticism. I had criticized Trump more than anybody I knew, and was very outspoken on my dislike for him. But now I knew he wanted actual change, for his party and for the nation. I knew he was standing up for some sort of principle, despite the many things he'd said. I knew I could actually believe that, unlike so many politicians before him, Trump meant what he said when he claimed to care about people.
And that was when I first became open to the possibility of voting for him.
The Democratic convention was mired in bad publicity before it even started. Wikileaks had released emails from the Democratic National Committee, showing that they had organized the entire party's structure to make sure Bernie Sanders lost the primary, and by many unethical means to boot. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned as DNC chair, and then, controversially, got a job with the Clinton campaign. In what was seen as a further insult to Sanders supporters, Hillary chose her Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Kaine, a former head of the DNC himself, and very establishment. This led to hundreds of protesters gathering in Philadelphia, and an ironic moment when the Democratic Convention put up a fence to keep them out.
Not even Sanders' speech endorsing Clinton escaped criticism from his own supporters. They still wanted his political revolution, but he could not give it to them. Instead, they felt abandoned, and most of them walked out.
As for the rest of the convention, Leon Panetta's speech on opposing ISIS was booed, for reasons I still don't understand. Bill Clinton talked about falling in love with Hillary, leaving me with an overall odd feeling. And Hillary's speech was exactly what you'd expect and nothing more. There was no real change in my opinion of her for the better, so I was leaning Trump from that point.
Coming back to campus in September was not without its difficulties. This isn't to say that everybody had the same positions concerning the election, but there wasn't too much variety either. The impression was that the election was at best a choice between the lesser of two evils. Nobody denied that both candidates had issues, but almost everybody believed that Trump was far worse than Hillary.
The entire year before was passed with very little thought for the election. Everyone joked about it from time to time, but nobody ever talked about it very seriously. It could be ignored. It wasn't really happening. We all had a bit of distance from it. But now, it was unavoidable. The news was always covering the election. The rhetoric was as polarizing as it was sensational. The world was on the edge of its seat, and almost everybody at King's was rooting for Hillary. I myself had always been willing to talk about any topic and express any opinion of my own, but this situation gave me pause. In the end, I figured I could still be authentic to myself. The arguments that ensued were very testy, but, happily, I was able to keep my friendships going–not the most typical outcome for the people I know.
The story of October was that Trump had a scandal, and a big one. The Access Hollywood tape was beyond crude–it was downright disgusting. I could barely listen to what he was saying, I was so disgusted. That kind of talk treated women like pieces of meat. That kind of talk thought women could just be bought with fame and money. That kind of talk was absolutely unacceptable. Nobody should ever talk about anyone like that.
Two days after the release of the tape, the second presidential debate was on, and I was watching. I had no clue what was going to happen, but I expected Trump was going to be destroyed. He had just given Hillary, the media, everybody the ammunition they needed. I had no desire to vote for anyone at that point, and I was even hoping the Republicans would remove Trump from the ticket. I was that mad.
Then, something weird happened. Prior to the debate, Trump held a press conference, and most media were reporting that holding it was dangerous: Trump would get easily ripped to shreds. But that didn't happen, because he showed up with Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick, all of whom were accusing Bill Clinton of coercive sexual acts, and Hillary of intimidating or silencing them. Also present was Kathy Shelton: she was the 12 year-old girl that was raped in 1975. Hillary defended the rapist, got him off on lesser charges, and, allegedly, bragged about the case on multiple occasions.
Even further, when Trump took the stage for the second debate, he was cast as having practically lost the election. Nobody was going to vote for him, except for that "basket of deplorables". Any idea that he could continue the campaign was only the result of his madness and the misogyny of his supporters.
But Trump fought back again. From the minute the debate started, Hillary Clinton and the moderators, Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz, had Trump in their crosshairs. They painted Trump with broad strokes, as, I suppose, was their duty. But Trump pivoted attention back to Hillary Clinton's shortcomings: the protection of Bill Clinton, the 33,000 emails, the Clinton foundation, everything. And while pundits thought his performance was aggressive, combative, and un-presidential, he had won me over again. What he said was unacceptable, but he at least had the decency to apologize for it, even as he also defended himself.
Hillary Clinton, to her discredit in my eyes, kept misrepresenting the email scandal, blaming Russians, anything but take full responsibility. Not only that, she wouldn't take it to Trump in a way that seemed to take what he said seriously. She smirked, and made stump speeches–controlled, even, but dispassionate. Some friends said that, if she had been more passionate, she would've been dismissed as an emotional woman. I didn't believe that for myself, because it would've shown me that she cared genuinely for others. Trump, by being himself, for better or worse, showed that he cared about right and wrong.
And what did I think? I thought that Hillary deserved just as much criticism as Trump. I thought that any political system that protected the Clintons from 20 years of wrongdoing needed to be destroyed. Trump was not a better person than Hillary, but he was taking more responsibility in my eyes, and if he had a chance of bringing my country's political system to its knees, I was signing up.
As I had never been to a political event of any kind before, I decided to take the opportunity to go to Trump's rally in Manchester, NH, one day before the election. The lines were long, and filled with people from all over Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. When we got inside, however, the room didn't seem full at all. Given that the past week had seen Hillary be cleared again by James Comey and also recover in the polls, I didn't expect Trump to win.
But by the time Trump took the stage, the SNHU Arena, which holds about 12,000 people, was completely full. My mother remarked that our row of four seats was full of Hillary's constituents: a millennial (me), a woman (my mother), and two men of African descent, one of whom was a Haitian immigrant. And I looked around the arena. As much as I could see, at least half of the audience was women, and there was a decent minority contingent as well. They were cheering loudly, all of them, for the warm-up speakers. When Trump finally came along, they stayed on their feet for almost all of his speech.
It was exhilarating, and for the first time, I thought Trump might just win.
The next day, I went to the voting booths. As I walked over, I thought once more about what I was going to do. I thought about everything that had happened, and everything that could happen afterwards. And I thought and breathed deeply. You never are quite sure about yourself until you find yourself in the booth. But then I knew what my decision was going to be, and I filled in the bubble next to Trump's name.
My mom had fallen asleep on the couch, but I woke her up at 3am on Wednesday morning to say I had been right. Pennsylvania had swung to Trump, and he'd just won the election. We were a bit ecstatic, because, for the first time, we felt like the elites, the special interests and the corrupt had been defeated.
Trump came out to give his victory speech looking like he was overwhelmed. I don't think even he had thought much about what would happen if he won. But there he was, the President-Elect. He gave a gracious speech, and did no dishonor to Hillary Clinton or anyone else that night. Instead, he thanked all the people who had helped him, and promised once more to do his best for the American people.
But this didn't make everyone happy, of course. My own sister called crying, scared about what had just happened, and my mother had to comfort her. As for the rest of the aftermath, it was best described as everyone flipping out at the same time. It was at once comical and frustrating. Anti-Trump protests broke out in cities across the country, some of which turned into full-on riots where people got hurt. The media came up with thousands of new explanations for Trump's victory every day. The worst of Trump supporters started holding essentially Neo-Nazi rallies and meetings, or else harassing members of any minority. It was bad.
But what struck me the most was how many people thought it was about hatred. "Whitelash" was the term used by CNN contributor Van Jones, and many co-opted the phrase. What did I believe? I remembered my grandmother, who was a working-class single mother for most of her life, and without a college education. She had been a lifelong Democrat when the Democrats were for the poor. And she said, "The poor man would have his turn, then the rich man would have theirs." But no one could say anymore that either party was for the real people. Trump was different. He seemed interested in people who had been long left behind. And so when the time came, to overthrow a dirty establishment, Trump was voted in.
And in the midst of all this, Trump had, strangely enough, begun to soften. He denounced his racist supporters, and urged them to stop their activities. He said he wouldn't fight against gay marriage. He decided not to ever pursue charges against Hillary Clinton. He was going to keep some of the aspects of Obamacare. He was still going to deport criminal illegal immigrants aliens, but was open to different possibilities for those who were law-abiding law-abiding residents. In a completely shocking move to me, he even said he was open to staying in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
All of the things I had hoped for were true. Donald Trump was showing himself to be better than he was on the campaign. He was showing that he was willing to work with people, and that he wouldn't be disgraceful in victory. And as I sit here, writing this last section, I can express to you, reader, a feeling of hope. Hope for the future, and for a President who, though with plenty of faults, may just do well for the people of my country. And if not, well, then many of the same people who elected him, including myself, who fought hard for the victory, will also fight hard for what is right.
In any case, at least we know that we, the people, can win now, no matter what stands against us.
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Pentium 4: Worth the price?
Intel's forthcoming Pentium 4 chip will be fast, but will it be faster than a Pentium III? Some analysts say it will be slower
By John G.Spooner | August 25, 2000 -- 08:00 GMT (01:00 PDT) | Topic: Hardware
Intel, which revealed a host of new details about its Pentium 4 processor this week at the Intel Developer Forum, is betting the chip will become the most desirable engine for high-horsepower PCs.
But for analysts attending the conference, the big question was: why pay more for a Pentium 4 when a Pentium III may be faster?
At the Developer Forum, the chip maker used two near-production systems to show off the Pentium 4's multimedia capabilities, including real-time video capture and 3D graphics rendering.
"Everything is much faster, but it's not going to run as fast as a 1.5GHz Pentium III chip would, if you had that," said Steven Leibson, editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report. The current Pentium III tops out at 1.13GHz.
Slated to ship in the fourth quarter, the Pentium 4 promises higher clock speeds -- including 1.3GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz early next year -- but analysts said it would not blow Pentium III out of the water.
In fact, compared with a Pentium III chip at the same clock speed, the Pentium 4 could run up to 20 percent slower, some analysts said. Although its clock speed doesn't necessarily translate into a doubling or tripling of performance, it will give Pentium 4 a decent boost.
How will the Pentium 4 perform alongside Advanced Micro Devices's Athlon chips, with its Mustang processor core? Since analysts have yet to receive chips to test, Leibson said. "It's too soon to tell."
The Pentium 4 does have other advantages over the Pentium III, analysts said. It packs an improved floating point unit and a new set of multimedia instructions, called SSE2, that allow the chip to process multimedia in parallel, thereby speeding performance.
So far, no software optimised for the Pentium 4's architecture has been announced, and that makes for another performance hit. That will change as developers begin to write applications for the architecture and the SSE2 instruction set.
Instead of optimising the design for the current generation 0.18-micron technology, Intel "made the [Pentium 4] design to take much better advantage of the next process step [0.13]," said Leibson.
Mike Feibus, principal analyst at Mercury Research, said the end result will be a chip that runs anywhere between 20 percent and 200 percent faster, depending on the application.
Consumers who buy a Pentium 4 system to use as a word processor will see only a relatively small bump in performance. On the other hand, consumers using it for high-end graphics will see a significant improvement, according to Feibus, who said, "I think [Intel] is going to focus on audio/video enthusiasts."
Pricing is also likely to preclude buyers of most PCs -- usually priced in the $900 to $1,000 range -- from using the new chip to write email. Analysts such as Feibus predict Pentium 4 systems with Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM) will run at least $2,000 to $2,500.
That makes sense in the early stages, he said, "When you look at the makeup of the market today, even AMD isn't shipping hundreds of thousands of high-end chips."
The chip measures 217mm square, sources said, roughly twice the size of the Pentium III. With its manufacturing capabilities already constrained, analysts said Intel is unlikely to produce the Pentium 4 in any significant volume until the company implements the 0.13-micron manufacturing process.
Intel's Albert Yu acknowledged the Pentium 4 would come with a higher price tag, "But as the volume builds [prices will fall]. There's nothing new here."
Even with the additional cost of RDRAM, Yu believes that customers will still chose Pentium 4.
"The pricing is very much in the hands of the RDRAM suppliers," Yu said. "We're working with them on that issue. A little premium over SDRAM is okay, but not what we've got now. The premium is way too high," he said.
Intel chose Rambus, he said, because, "When we introduce a new platform, we should deliver the best possible performance. We believe that the Pentium 4 with RDRAM will be the best possible performance."
"As a consumer, if I could get something more interesting for a couple hundred more, I would do it," Yu said. But the Pentium III chip will live on for "some time", he said.
As Yu sees it, the Pentium 4 will be at the high end of Intel's product line, the Pentium III will remain in the mainstream, and Intel's Celeron chip, made for value PCs, will cover the low end of the market. Consumers may adopt Pentium 4 first, but companies will likely stick with the Pentium III until Pentium 4 prices come down.
The Pentium 4 is larger than the Pentium III, which means the newer chip has room for more transistors: 42 million, compared with 28 million for the Pentium III. Intel also disclosed that the Pentium 4's Level 2 cache size will be 256KB, and it will get a 400MHz system bus. The system bus provides a pipeline between the chip and I/O subsystems of a PC, such as memory.
At the forum, Intel demonstrated versions of the chip running at 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz. During his Tuesday keynote speech, Yu showed off a 2.0GHz Pentium 4.
The demonstration, designed to show the new chip's potential, began with a Pentium 4 system with a chip running at 1.5GHz and rose to a clock speed of 2.0GHz without any special cooling. The Pentium 4 is not expected to reach 2.0GHz until the latter half of 2001.
The demo was really meant to show the chip's potential, Yu explained. So, in order to pull it off, Intel picked a Pentium 4 chip that was running at a higher clock speed.
When processors are manufactured, they yield a fairly wide distribution of clock speeds, much like a bell curve. Intel went to the high-end of the curve, choosing a Pentium 4 chip running at 1.8GHz, or possibly 1.9GHz, and tweaked it to run at 2.0GHz. Adjustments were also made to the system bus for the demonstration.
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