We wish to first cover the story of the IDF rescue of the eight-hundred White Helmets (Syrian civil organization of emergency responders) and their families from southern Syria war zone. Coverage by Arutz Sheva with a short video can be viewed here. This operation was carried out by Israel in response to pleas from President Trump, Canada and other European countries. One can only wonder how long before the same Europeans claim that Israel is not a nice nation as is their usual.
United States President Trump and Iranian President Rouhani have been exchanging verbal threats with President Trump adding in a social media Tweet just for good measure (see image below). President Trump even went so far as to use "caps lock" just for emphasis. President Rouhani promised in his retort to something President Trump stated which he found upsetting, that, "Peace with Iran would be the mother of all peace and war with Iran would be the mother of all wars." We seem to remember a neighboring country's ruler promising an American President the "Mother of all Wars" once before and that did not end all too well for Saddam Hussein. The reality is that Iran very well could be speaking from a position of relative strength unlike Saddam Hussein. We thought we would play with some thoughts, fears, and potential realities which should be taken into consideration and all intelligence gone through with a fine tooth-comb before stepping into the void.
Iranian President Rouhani could have the ability to back up much of his threat with very real actions. Iran has been researching nuclear weaponry in various forms since the late 1980's or, at best, the early 1990's including specific research into EMP devices and miniaturized warheads. For argument's sake, we will pretend that Iran had no real urgency about their research, something of which we actually believe they likely had a great deal, and their research proceeded at a leisurely pace. The Manhattan Project started in 1942 and developed the atomic bomb within three years and the United States tested their first hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear bomb, within ten years of the start of the Manhattan Project. The United States had to start from scratch while the Iranians had knowledge on the architecture for both atomic and thermonuclear devices almost from the start. Their main difficulty was the processing or manufacturing of sufficient Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239 for the core of their devices. One item which is well known to those who have been paying attention to Iran is that they have been developing more and more advanced centrifuges capable of separating out enriched Uranium-235 at a fairly well advanced pace. Further, it can be assumed that their cooperation with North Korea has permitted them to test at least one or two devices over the years if not numerous more. They also would probably have exchanged information back and forth both on nuclear weaponry and guided missile technology which explains both nations' fairly rapid advancement in both areas. Lastly, as the Chinese very likely had stolen or otherwise received the complete schematics and machining and design specifications for the United States W-88 warhead, it can be assumed that both North Korea and Iran have had access to that same information, though one could hope such is not the case. We are attempting to avoid using hope as our main argument in this instance.
So, it is painfully obvious that by the year 2000 Iran would easily have built sufficient processing facilities to produce the fissile and fusion elements for the production of thermonuclear warheads and the sole question is how many devices might they have produced. This is where estimates have been all over the board. According to sources reported and quoted by the Times of Israel, "Tehran has crossed all points of no return and already has its first nuclear weapon, and maybe more." The same article also reports that the IAEA has assured the world that Iran in no way could have conceivably developed and built a nuclear bomb. We recall that the IAEA are the same people who claimed Saddam Hussein was not working on nuclear weapons, that Syria had no nuclear weapon dreams, that Libya had no nuclear program and that North Korea was years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon days before their first nuclear test. The IAEA has not been the most reliable source on nuclear proliferation as they are presumed to be preventing it and have decided that if they see no evil and hear no evil then they are able to speak no evil. Below we have included an artist's rendition of two IAEA inspectors and one spokesperson. The evidence is that should Iran have desired to construct nuclear weapons, then the only question remaining is exactly how many of them have they produced, what are their projected yields and how distant can their missiles deliver them. These are serious questions which deserve answers which should be made known to the world through the United Nations or by the nation who knows the reality making the knowledge more generally known. This means if the CIA has solid evidence proving that Iran has nuclear tipped missiles, they should be producing such evidence for the world to see and reveal the perfidy of the Iranian claims of innocence and having no desire to become a nuclear-armed nation.
As things currently stand, it would be more prudent to assume that Iran has nuclear tipped missiles in the ready and that these missiles are capable of striking anywhere on the planet. It should also be assumed that they would have such shorter-range missiles stored within what appear to be normative cargo vessels as they have developed such vessels to use to strike at cities along the shores of the United States and Europe should hostilities become to their advantage. These missiles would be extremely difficult to intercept, as their targets would be struck within minutes of the missile launching, as the ship would be only one-hundred miles offshore or closer. Iran has tested these systems finding them to be accurate and an efficient and difficult to deter system for delivering a warhead. The cargo ships they would utilize would more than likely be registered with a country other than Iran making them all but invisible unless the warhead could be detected. Iran is also rumored to have developed a non-nuclear EMP device which is capable of destroying the electrical grid for a city and surrounding region depending on the level of hardening the electrical grid has had installed. One can pretty much expect that at least the streetlights and traffic signals would be affected and stop functioning for a period of time. The real problem is if transformers are destroyed and the larger the transformer, the more serious the outage. The largest transformers can take up to two years to produce in sufficient numbers should an entire grid region be destroyed.
The truth is that both President Trump and President Rouhani are playing with fire and their bellicose threats can escalate potentially leading to one or the other taking the decision that the insults have reached a level beyond that which they are willing to accept and in order to save face they must act. This could lead to problems and further escalations which could end further than desired from the starting point. The Iranians including Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari has promised that should the United States prevent Iranian oil sales, they will prevent all oil from traversing the Straights of Hormuz. According to Xinhua, Jafari stressed, enemies can understand the meaning of Hormuz Strait "either for all, or for none." The United States has promised that they will protect the use of the Straights of Hormuz for the oil shipments of both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, so should President Trump prevent Iranian oil shipments and Iran act on their threat, there would necessarily be a confrontation. Iran today is not the same Iran which fought Saddam Hussein during the 1980's. They have more potential and are well practiced at their swarming tactics which create a great deal of difficulty against which to defend. Any naval confrontation within the Arabian Gulf and especially the Straights of Hormuz would also include Iranian shore batteries which would take time, short as it may be, to render inoperative which would also be seen as a further escalation. One can readily see how any confrontation over the free movement of oil in and out of the Straights of Hormuz could very quickly spin out of control. One can only guess as to how the United States would react should one of their nuclear aircraft carriers be attacked and actually sunk. Such would lead to reprisals which would provoke reprisals in return and back and forth until something inevitable and regrettable resulted. Wars have started over far less; take World War I for example. How many people died over a single terrorist act murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie the Duchess of Hohenberg. So, now we are at the point of which leaders lower their level of vitriol, and let us pray one of them sees the wisdom in doing exactly that.
Why not just get the most over-hyped part out of the way right off the bat. Yes, FBI lawyer Lisa Page sent a text message to her lover at the FBI asking, "(Trump is) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" with an actual ?! which where we come from shows distress, uncertainty and heightened anxiety. Then the fateful reply from FBI agent Peter Strzok who texted back stating, "No. No he won't. We'll stop it." So, what can we conclude from this evidence? Well, that the rest of the five-hundred page report will end up as fodder for the mainstream media while social media will be tossing back and forth how that exchange is meaningless and also that it signifies the end of the world, it all depends upon which side of this battle you side.
We have a different take on the whole report and a few of the outstanding minutia which we believe should have sounded alarm bells somewhere within the FBI or the Justice Department but obviously did not. The first thing is this was the Justice Department selecting an inspector to inspect the FBI which is part of the Justice Department. The fact that this investigation found absolutely nothing untoward should have been the expected response. Basically you had an enforcement officer from the Justice Department investigating if the department which pays his salary did anything wrong. Why is it we see something not quite right here? Well, because this investigation which was largely to see if there was any bias in favor of Hillary Clinton and/or against Donald Trump during the 2016 election cycle was performed by the agency where the bias presumably was centered while the investigation into whether Trump's campaign was working hand in glove with the Russians went to a special prosecutor. The important difference there is the special prosecutor is paid independently and thus will often be more thorough. Both of these investigations should have been investigated by a special prosecutor or neither of these investigations should even have been executed. Having the Justice Department investigate the Justice Department is the quickest means to reaching a conclusion that nothing was done which requires any further investigation, now can we get back to running the country as we see fit while basically ignoring the President and Congress unless we agree with them.
But we believe there was one little item which really should have set off alarms. This concerns FBI agent Peter Strzok. Even before his little reassuring text message, there was something not quite correct in his behavior. Mr. Strzok was part of the investigation by the FBI into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server. Mr. Strzok was part of the investigation by the FBI into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Mr. Strzok was initially part of the special counsel probe being run by Robert Mueller. Any normal human being would probably grow suspicious of any person who wormed their way into every aspect of investigating and potentially affecting the Presidential campaign. One would think that Mr. Strzok's immediate supervisor would have at least called him in for a consultation and inquired as to what was it that had him working on so many closely related investigations. Then, a good supervisor would have made him give up at the very least one of the positions if not just choose which one in which he most desired to take part. Leaving one person in all three of these investigations was an error of management. Additionally, Peter Strzok's wife, Melissa Hodgman, was appointed by President Obama as Associate Director of the SEC's (Securities and Exchange Commission) Enforcement Division in 2016. We guess the good news is that Joseph Burrow, the husband of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, has a position which is not with the government and may actually be above suspicion of anything except probably really upset about his name being dragged like this because his wife was having too much fun at the office parties.
What we love about this entire boondoggle is that it exposed something those of us who grew up around Washington D.C. already knew, that there is a government within the government which actually runs the day-to-day operations and because Congress grew fat and lazy, they also decide how the general concepts and ideas which Congressional legislation contains are interpreted and applied into regulations which have the weight of law. President Barack Obama understood this which is why during his first term; Cass Sunstein was named the Administration's Regulatory Czar. President Obama's initial instructions to Mr. Sunstein were to go through the legislation passed during the last decade and look for regulations which could be derived out of these pieces of legislation. Needless to say, Mr. Sunstein was very efficient and the number of regulations during President Obama's first term was significant. So, yes, Virginia, there really is a "Deep State" and it lives within the agencies which are largely manned by left-leaning to extreme left individuals with, every so often, a conservative who spends much time ducking to remain out of sight and hopefully out of mind. The reason for this is very simple to understand. During Republican conservative administrations, true conservatives, they more often than not put in place a hiring freeze, consolidate departments, which often lead to numerous government workers being sent to new agencies where they bump another worker who has less time in service at their level or is a lower pay grade who then bumps the next until the most recent hire found loses their job. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is a very strong and powerful union and has garnered near chiseled in stone guarantee that once you complete your probationary period you can only be fired if you really do something stupid like texting on your government provided computer, "(Trump is) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" or reply to this text saying on your government provided computer, "No. No he won't. We'll stop it." One of these people was forced from their position and the other merely demoted and barred from active investigatory positions. So, even doing such as these might not get you fired. So, Republican conservatives block hiring new personnel when they might have some sway in the process. Then when a Democrat or Republican Progressive and often leftist is elected, the flood gates open and the hiring circus begins and things are good in old D.C. This is how and why most federal government employees are liberal or even leftists and the promotion ladder is stacked even further to the left than the middle and lower level positions. President Trump has revealed this truth for the world to see. Unfortunately, most of the world, and even the American people, do not care and most honestly believe that there is nothing that can be done to repair this problem. The really sad news is that they are correct.
Thomas Jefferson realized that this would be a problem, that with parties that the government employees would tend to be more from one party than the other and with time would create a poisonous atmosphere which would threaten the people's freedoms and liberties. Thomas Jefferson stated it outright when he wrote to his friend William Smith, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson once confided that he believed for the United States to stay true to its founding declarations that it would take a revolution every twenty years to force the nations to start again from scratch with only the Declarations of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. This, in his opinion would be found to be necessary otherwise; the federal government would usurp the power of the states and become tyrannical. He was very likely a tad too pessimistic thinking twenty years, but two-hundred and twenty would probably have reached that stage in his mind. When people who have positions of such power as obviously Peter Strzok must have wielded getting on every investigation of note about the election all to work to the detriment of one of the candidates and the favor of the other, then there is a problem. That it took an investigation by an Inspector General to make possible the airing of the full scope of the problems was significant. What became even more significant was that the Inspector General was so invested in the swamp that is the Deep State that he saw nothing inherently wrong or partisan in these events. Basically, the report states that everything was just as normal as could be expected, all things considered. This is what is considered normal then there is a deep-seated problem and it needs to be pulled up by its rotting foliage, roots and all. But, that is something the American people need to wrestle with and decide. We hope that the solution found will be peaceable but thorough leading to efficient and balanced government similar to the initial days of the nation where the government represents the people and not represses the people. We wish you well as you enter your two-hundred-forty-third year.
Richard Nixon was wrong, as wrong as wrong can be. He utilized the investigative powers of the Federal Government, the FBI, Justice Department, IRS and whatever might have aided his reelection, against his opponent, anything and anyone was a target, forging a theft which was his downfall. This was criminal in every way and President Nixon was fortunate to only have to resign and not spend many months or years in prison. His reputation was in tatters with everything positive he had accomplished now tarnished. His actions resulted in half a century of more and more liberal policies and culture taking over America. Now the tables have turned and the shoe is on the other foot and a million other trite sayings.
The questions now revolve around where will the investigation lead and who will be held culpable. Some of the names tossed about range from lesser known until the recent political free-for-all while others are household names. Who had heard of Mueller, Comey, Clapper, Steele, Brennan and other names which will become all too familiar in the near future, as everything plays out? Then there are the two names which we all are already very familiar with, former Secretary of State, Senator for New York and First Lady Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. The same questions from the Nixon era will be heard all over again. Questions such as how high did it go, who knew and when did they know and a host of others will be thrown around and featured in article after article. Then there will be the big question, who, if anyone, will fall on their sword to save those above them who actually gave the orders. This was done and bartered into making himself into a folk hero of an odd sort when Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North in full uniform took total responsibility for the Iran-Contra Affair. His standing at attention while taking the oath and taking his valiant responsibility clearing President Reagan of any accountability.
Now we have heard reports that former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied in their testimony given to Congress. This is a crime, obviously, defined by U.S. Code sections 1621 and 1001 of Title 18. These crimes could result in a maximum five-year prison sentence and potential fine. Both men are highly unlikely to actually face anything more than fines, especially if they are willing to give testimony leading to indictments of what are often called bigger fish. The truth should be sought over making the entire affair into some kind of vendetta. But there is a larger question involved this time around; is it worth the time, effort and attention for the Trump Administration to expend when the same efforts can be used to accomplish the Trump and the nation's agendas.
This is what we will attempt to predict. President Trump is unlikely to seek convictions of his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, or of former President Barack Obama. What the FBI and other agencies desire may be something of a different matter. The FBI and CIA will likely desire to clear their agencies of any hints of corruption and could turn on their former heads which might not fare well for James Comey and John Brennan. These two disgraced their agencies and these are not agencies which can stand for politics entering into their lairs as these are investigatory agencies whose reputation is for providing administrations of both parties with equal diligence. But as far as Clinton and Obama, they will probably not face any serious difficulties, well; Obama will not likely be facing any charges. Hillary Clinton may face some charges for her handling of classified information while Secretary of State but will get a pass in sentencing if the charges are even pursued. The one thing is this might prove to be an interesting circus to watch while the antics are filling the three rings with the media doing its finest job at making molehills out of mountains. In the meantime, the media will be making mountains out of absolutely nothing over the presumed Trump-Russia collusion fantasy. The mainstream media has become so unfortunately predictable.
The main driving force in these investigations will probably be completely independent of President Trump and his closest team members. Coming from the business world, President Trump probably looks at the moves and machinations which were used to attempt to defeat his election as a done bad deal and in business; you move on from such difficulties and simply hope to never need to deal with such people again. President Trump is more forward looking and wants to get things accomplished, not dwell on things he would rather simply ignore and forget. President Trump has plans which he wants to get done and knows that looking back is counter-productive to getting everything accomplished as quickly as possible. President Trump probably has some long term plans which he realizes will take a second term, and he knows a second term is not a guarantee. This means he has a driving force to get as much accomplished as quickly as possible. This has been evident to anybody who has watched the blizzard of Executive Orders he issued almost as soon as he returned to the White House after the Inauguration. Things have slowed somewhat as much of what he desires to accomplish requires Congress, and Congress is a problem for Presidents, something Prime Ministers are unfamiliar with facing. A Prime Minister has the support of his coalition until he doesn't, and then he has a problem which is called a new election. Presidents know when their next election is, they just are never quite sure if Congress will work with him, even if his party is in the majority. President Trump has realized that in spades.
That brings us to what President Trump is probably most concerned with over the coming six months, the mid-term elections. He is about to attempt what most Presidents have found very difficult, increasing his party's numbers in both houses at their first mid-terms. Sitting a mere 9,387 kilometers, or 5,833 miles, from Washington D.C., we must rely on articles to get a feel for the electorate and information on the tricky Senate where only one-third of the Senators are up for re-election at any election cycle. From what we have read, the predictions are all over the place with some predicting the Republicans gaining three to five seats while others predict the Democrats taking control of the Senate gaining as many as seven or eight seats. We are glad we will not be in the business of predicting the outcome of the thirty-five seats up for election, apparently there are a couple of special elections making it more than the normal thirty-three seats. Perhaps when the coverage becomes somewhat more informative closer to the election and we will know who made the biggest gaff or posted a disturbing Tweet we will be bold enough to take a stab at a prediction. The only prediction we can make now is that President Trump will probably work hard to retain the House of Representatives and try very hard to increase his majority in the Senate by at least three seats giving him a better advantage at accomplishing his legislative agendas. This will mean much more to President Trump than wasting efforts on gaining conviction against people for past grievances. That he will leave up to the wheels of justice which move ever so slowly that we often forget what the crime was when politicians face prosecution for past misdeeds.


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Bristol Show 2015: Quad unveils S Series speakers and Artera components
By Pete Hayman 2015-02-19T12:15:13Z
Sound and Vision – The Bristol Show is often a great chance for us to take a first look at the latest products from the major hi-fi and home cinema brands, with Quad proving no exception this year.
Now into its 79th year, Quad is celebrating with the launch of its brand-new speaker range: the S Series. The new line is being released this spring and is being exclusively revealed at the show.
The S Series incorporates a specially-designed ribbon tweeter and consists of two stand-mounts, two floorstanders and a centre speaker for multi-channel systems. Prices start at £600 per pair.
MORE: Read all our Quad reviews and news
Located in the Old Vic Suite of the Lower Ground floor at the Marriott City Centre Hotel, Quad will be giving you the chance to be among the first people anywhere to hear the S Series in action.
MORE: Bristol Show 2015 – news, exhibitors and all the details
Also making a debut at the Bristol Show 2015 is Quad's Artera range. Official details are scarce at this point, but here's what we know so far. It comprises a CD player with a built-in pre-amp, and a matching power amp. A streaming component will follow. Each component will cost around £1500. The range is due to land this autumn.
In addition to these two Quad unveilings, the company is also showcasing the latest components, amps and speakers from sister brands including Audiolab, Luxman, Mission and Wharfedale.


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Choose... ------------------ dance A plenitude of Cinderellas Chunky news Delirium Queerly constrained ------------------ onscreen - media art An other writing Australia's expanding screen culture Challenging the seer Digital media across the arts Digital rules! Erasing the line between film culture and new media Media arts and online culture: enter or escape? Millennial maverick Online Australia Pixelated privates Pixelvisions Spacing the digital The animal logic of the antz in the matrix The big suture The distribution challenge The fantastic adventures of Ling Change The real/digital festival The rise of digital exhibition in the UK Works in progress: dance Works in progress: interactive Installations Works in progress: performance Works in progress: pt1 (A-L) Works in progress: pt2 (M-P) Works in progress: pt3 (R-Z) Works in progress: sound & screen, public art Works in progress: video & film WriteSites
Working the Screen 1999
Works in progress: interactive Installations
Mari Velonaki, Amor Veneris A
Amor Veneris A
Mari Velonaki
Amor Veneris A is a breath-activated installation (hard disk, breath sensor, various electronic media). A woman's face is viewed through a magnifying glass which is installed on the top of a wooden box. The spectator can activate/awake her by blowing against her face using the breath switch which protrudes from the box and connects the spectator with the screen woman.
To use the breath switch to activate the quick-time movies, adaptations had to be made due to the fact that the switch was initially designed as an assisting device for people with paraplegia. These adaptations were implemented by means of a differential communications interface (RS-422) in a fully custom made electronics box. Breath sensor (switch) supplied by Enabling Devices-Toys for Special Children, NY, USA.
Mari Velonaki lives and works in Sydney. In a series of installations she aims to engage the spectator with the digital character in an interplay activated by sensory triggered interfaces (speech recognition, eye-tracking, breathing/blowing). Her work has been shown at Artspace, PICA and Ton-Bild Spectakel/Greifensee. Amor Veneris A is a derivative of Amor Veneris, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney, Mardi Gras, 1999.
MAAP 99, Science Centre, Brisbane, September 3 - 12.
A very Pentatonic Scale
Damian Castaldi
Video, installation and tuned aluminium bars. "The video plays the instrument" as light intensity levels vary depending on the changing video image of Curl Curl rockface and the spectator's body movement between the screen and five transducers (mounted on a pentatonic scale).
The challenge is to program a MAX patch that will successfully coordinate the triggering process. This involves translating source data from Low Level 2 transducers to an analog to MIDI digitiser and outputting to actuators which play the pentatonic scale, to create an intriguing synergy between video, body and acoustics.
Damian Castaldi's work explores audiovisual and instrumental crossroads between gesture-based, interactive audio systems and digital image for installation and the web. He was the 1997 recipient of the Australia Council New Media Art & Technology partnership with the ABC and works independently and in collaboration with the national artists' collective nervous_objects.
Completion August 1999.
self remembering—optimal viewing distance
James Verdon
This is the 4th in a series of digital screen based installations interrogating memory and the electronic viewing screen as utilising common technologies of re-presentation and simulation. The installation seeks to articulate connections between memory and the electronic screen as viewed through the sieve of these technologies.
The primary technical challenges relate to the use of relatively unproven digital video delivery technology. The project utilises broadcast quality random access digital video and audio data from dedicated "black boxes." This data is mixed with live video feed signal and lighting controls all triggered by a visitor's jumping through a hopscotch court. No one in Australia has used this particular hardware before, and so the project has been a series of steep independent learning curves.
James Verdon is an artist working primarily with electronic media and emerging technologies, often utilising light as a primary interactive element. He is Course Coordinator and teaches theory and studio components of Electronic Design and Interactive Media (EDIM) in the Arts Department at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, August-September 1999. Australia Council.
Facemen
Utilising small 'panasonic' video LCD projector, commercial doll, video camcorder and face peep hole, Faceman is an installation which uses a small video projector to project the face of the onlooker onto a small puppet. By placing his/her face in a peep-hole cut in a flat surface the viewer then sees a puppet figure with a video-projected face. The work examines the complicity of the viewer in the form and nature of spectacular society.
In playing along with the implicit request of the work (to poke one's head through the hole) the viewer automatically finds her face and speech transposed onto the symbol of manipulation—the puppet. The work aims to playfully examine the complex relationships between viewer and work, and by extension the role of video imagery in society as a whole.
The work extends ideas explored in earlier work, such as my 1990 black and white film Puppenhead. This and my 1998 film Otherzone examined the overall themes of identity, paranoia and technophobia. David Cox is Digital Screen Production Lecturer, Griffith University, Brisbane.
RealTime issue #32 Aug-Sept 1999 pg. 18
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Many of us in the effort to save energy and money, replaced our old standard light bulbs with environmentally-friendly new generation energy saving light bulbs. However, the new generation of energy efficient light bulbs are so toxic that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created an emergency protocol you need to follow in the event of a bulb breakage, due to the poison gas that is released. If broken indoors, these light bulbs release 20 times the maximum acceptable mercury concentration into the air, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Fraunhofer Wilhelm Klauditz Institute for German's Federal Environment Agency.
1. Energy saving bulbs contain mercury. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that is especially dangerous to children and pregnant women. It is especially toxic to the brain, the nervous system, the liver and the kidneys. It can also damage the cardiovascular, immune and reproductive systems. It can lead lead to tremors, anxiety, insomnia, memory loss, headaches, cancer and Alzheimer's .


We deliver a full range of insurance and risk management products and services, including traditional and loss-sensitive coverages, captives, alternative risk solutions, and financial products to clients around the world. For additional information, please refer to Career Opportunities with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
The Senior Human Resources Business Partner for Gallagher Global Brokerage Mid South Region will provide both overall strategic HR leadership and hands on day-to-day support to the region. This position requires excellent business partnering, change management, and organizational development skills. The successful candidate will implement best practices and will use measurement tools and analytics to drive and support decision making. A strong understanding of practical and applicable organization processes and structures, combined with human resource expertise is critical.
Provide the overall leadership and development of world-class human resource programs aligned with the Region's mission, values and strategic goals.
Cultivate strategic internal customer relationships, working across branches, division, field staff and corporate support to partner and influence at all levels.
·Design new and enhanced processes for improving the investment in human capital. Particular emphasis will be placed on development of the sales force and Branch Management talent as well as workload analytics to drive staffing level assessments.
Drive performance management and a pay for performance culture; proactively manage problem areas and key issues.
·Manage compensation practices throughout the region including executive compensation, sales compensation and benchmarking/surveying to market.
Working with Director Talent Development, take an active part in talent management strategy development and deployment; establish proactive employee lifecycle talent management programs (assessment & selection, on-boarding, development, retention, career launch, Intern program etc.), as well as on formalized succession planning and talent review.
Work closely with the Regional Manager on critical development programs like GCAP (extern) and Gallagher's Intern Program.
Conduct training needs assessment and advise on core curriculums and leadership opportunities.
Develop a regional recruiting/staffing strategy for key positions delivering qualified candidate slates on time and in the most cost effective way.


Iron is one of the most important elements for plant growth and metabolism. Plant growth promoting bacteria such as Pseudomonas fluorescens isolates play an important role in the absorption of iron by plants under iron deficiency by production of microbial siderophore. In this study, 25 bacterial isolates were isolated from corn plants rhizosphere in Khorasan Razavi Province, Iran in 2017. Based on physiological-biochemical and molecular diagnostic methods, by using 16SPSEfluF and 16SPSER specific primers, bacterial isolates were identified as P. fluorescens. Among these isolates, the highest amount of siderophore production was related to the isolate PFD1 and the lowest to the isolate PFD3. Moreover, in the study of iron absorption by corn (Single Cress 704), the highest iron absorption was obtained from PFG5 treatment (283 ± 2/3 ppm) and the lowest from control treatment (7/1 ± 6/107 ppm). Isolate PFG5 showed the highest yield increase on fresh and dry weight of root and aerial parts among treatments. PFG5 isolates could be introduced as an effective isolate in iron deficiency conditions.
Aguado-Santacruz G.A.A., Moreno-Gómez B.A., Jiménez-Francisco B.B., García-Moya E.B., and Preciado-Ortiz R.E., 2012. Impact of the microbial siderophores and phytosiderophores on the iron assimilation by plants: a synthesis. Journal of Microbiology. 35, 9ââ'"21.
Ahmed E., Holmström S.J., 2014. Siderophores in environmental research: roles and applications. Microb Biotechnol. 7, 196-208.
Sah S., Singh N., Singh R., 2017. Iron acquisition in maize (Zea mays L.) using Pseudomonas siderophore. Journal Biotech. 7, 121-127.
Kalam S., Das S.N., Basu A., Podile A.R., 2017. Population densities of indigenous Acidobacteria change in the presence of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in rhizosphere. Journal Basic Microbiol. 57, 376-385.
Becker J.O., Hedges R.W., Messens E., 2008. Inhibitory effect of pseudobactin on the uptake of Fe by higher plants. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 49, 1090-1093.
Crowley D.E., Wang Y.C., Reid C.P.P., Szaniszlo P.J. 2009. Mechanism of iron acquisition from siderophores by microorganisms and plants. In Y Chen., Y Hadar., eds, Iron Nutrition artd Interaction in Plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 213-232.
Jurkevitch E., Hadar Y., Chen Y., 2009. The remedy of limeinducedchlorosis in peanuts by Pseudomonas sp. siderophores . Journal of Plant Nutrition. 9, 535-545.
Maunsell B., Adams C., O'Gara F., 2006. Complex regulation of AprAmetalloprotease in Pseudomonas fluorescens M114: evidence for the involvement of iron, the ECF sigma factor, PbrA and pseudobactin M114 siderophore. Microbiology. 152, 29-42.
Bar-Ness E., Hadar Y., Chen Y., Shanzer A., Libman J., 2015. Iron Uptake by Plants from Microbial Siderophores. Plant Physiol. 99, 1329-1335.
Sharma A., Johri B., 2003. Growth promoting influence of siderophore-producing Pseudomonas strains GRP3A and PRS9 in maize (Zea mays L.) under iron limiting conditions. Microbiol Res. 158, 243-248.
Radzki W., Mañero F.G., Algar E., García J.L., García-Villaraco A., Solano B.R., 2013. Bacterial siderophores efficiently provide iron to iron-starved tomato plants in hydroponics culture. Cogent Food & Agriculture.104, 321-330.
Gomes L.H., Duarte K.M.R., Andrino F.G., Tavares F.C.A., 2014. A simple method for DNA isolation from Xanthomonas spp. African Journal of Microbiology Research. 57, 553-555.
Scarpellini M., Franzetti L., Galli A., 2004. Development of PCR assay to identify Pseudomonas fluorescens and its biotype. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 236, 257-260.
Silva-Stenico M.E., Pacheco F.T.H., Rodrigues J.L.M., Carrilho E., Tsai, S.M., 2005. Growth and siderophore production of Xylellafastidiosa under iron-limited conditions. Microbiology Research. 160, 429-436.
Carrillo-Castañeda G., Muñoz J.J., Peralta-Videa J. R., 2005. A spectrophotometric method to determine the siderophore production by strains of fluorescent Pseudomonas in the presence of copper and iron. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 81, 35-40.
Crowley D.E., Reid C.P., Szaniszlo P.J., 2016. Utilization of microbial siderophores in iron acquisition by oat. Plant Physiology. 87, 680-685.
Mirmajlessi S.M., Destefanis M., Gottsberger R.A., Mänd M., Loit E., 2015. PCR-based specific techniques used for detecting the most important pathogens on strawberry: a systematic review. Syst Rev. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-4-9.
Palleroni N.J., 2010. Present situation of the taxonomy of aerobic Pseudomonas. In: Pseudomonas Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Galli, E., Silver, S. and Witholt, B., Eds.), American Society for Microbiology, Washington. Front Microbiol. 105ââ'"115.
Mahmoud A., Abd-Alla M., 2001. Siderophore production by some microorganisms and their effect on Bradyrhizobium-Mung Bean symbiosis. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 3, 157-162.
Gull M., Hafeez F.Y., 2012. Characterization of siderophore producing bacterial strain Pseudomonas fluorescens Mst 8.2 as plant growth promoting and biocontrol agent in wheat. African Journal of Microbiology Research. 6, 6308-6318.
Leclère V., Beaufort S., Dessoy S., Dehottay P., Jacques P., 2009. Development of a biological test to evaluate the bioavailability of iron in culture media. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 107, 1598-1605.
Vansuyt G., Robin A., Briat J.F., Curie C., Lemanceau P., 2007. Iron acquisition from Fe-pyoverdine by Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 20, 441-447.
Ahemad M., Kibret M. 2014. Mechanisms and applications of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: current perspective. Journal of King Saud University - Science. 26, 1-20.
Radzki W., Mañero F.G., Algar E., García J.L., García-Villaraco A., Solano B.R., 2013. Bacterial siderophores efficiently provide iron to iron-starved tomato plants in hydroponics culture. International Journal of Agricultural Research. 104, 321-330.


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Piracy News and Crypto Updates
Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet
June 13, 2012 in Piracy News and Crypto Updates
When "The Oatmeal" webcomic creator Matthew Inman got the recent lawyer letter demanding $20,000 of his money, he just did what came naturally—drew a picture of the lawyer's mother seducing a Kodiak bear.
Then he turned to the Internet to find the cash, which would be donated to charity rather than sent to the lawyer. Inman raised the money in an hour; within a day, people had pledged $100,000.
"Deliver to me a check"
The controversy goes back to last June, when Inman got fed up with his comics appearing on user-generated humor site FunnyJunk, often without attribution.
"I realize that trying to police copyright infringement on the internet is like strolling into the Vietnamese jungle circa 1964 and politely asking everyone to use squirt guns," he wrote in a blog post last year. "I know that if FunnyJunk disappeared, 50 other clones would pop up to take its place overnight, but I felt I had to say something about what they're doing."
So he said something, which included negative comments about FunnyJunk's business model:
Gather funny pictures from around the internet
Host them on FunnyJunk.com
Slather them in advertising
If someone claims copyright infringement, throw your hands up in the air and exclaim "It was our users who uploaded your photos! We had nothing to do with it! We're innocent!"
Cash six-figure advertising checks from other artists' stolen materialThe war between FunnyJunk and The Oatmeal passed quickly. FunnyJunk removed many of The Oatmeal's comics, and a site admin noted that FunnyJunk "has been around for 10 years. It is not a run by not [sic] scam operation that steals content for advertising profits... The site barely affords to stay alive as it is and has enough problems."
The dispute died off, another entry in the long series of skirmishes between creators and user-generated content sites on the Internet. Inman thought everything was over, until June 2 brought him a letter from lawyer Charles Carreon, who said he was representing FunnyJunk.
That little excerpt above about FunnyJunk's business model? Defamation, said Carreon, who demanded that Inman remove every reference to FunnyJunk from his website—and "deliver to me a check in the amount of $20,000 payable to the order of FunnyJunk, LLC."
FunnyJunk's position was that it was just like YouTube; sure, users upload (and re-upload...) infringing content, but FunnyJunk takes it down when notified. Inman's comments, and the resulting controversy, were bad for (an entirely legal) business.
Inman's position was that he can't spend his life doing this, and that the site is profiting off his work. Thus, the demand that he pay them $20,000 felt particularly galling.
FunnyJunk made its decision—to target Inman with a lawyer and perhaps a lawsuit should he fail to comply—and Inman made his. His plan was to raise the money requested by FunnyJunk, take a photo of it, and mail the photo of the cash along with the pic of Carreon's (purported) mother seducing a rather complacent-looking bear. The actual cash would be split evenly and sent to the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. ("Think of the sexy bears!" said the donation button. "Think of the shitty cancer!")
Though Inman gave himself two weeks to raise the money, Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad blew through its goal. "Holy shit $20,000 in 64 minutes!" wrote Inman as people funded him in an hour. "YOU PEOPLE ARE AMAZING."


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New Video: Kindred the Family Soul – Another One (Remix)
The prominent couple of independent soul music, Kindred the Family Soul have just released their new video for a remix of their single "Another One". The original version of the song was contained on their album "Legacy of Love" which released during the Summer of 2016.
Also included on that album was the hit single "All My People" which featured a cameo from fellow Philly native Freeway in the video. "Legacy of Love" was the group's sixth album overall, and first since "A Couple Friends" in 2014.
In addition, the group will be hitting the road this Summer as part of the Nu Soul Revival Tour. They'll be joined by Musiq Soulchild, Lyfe Jennings, Avery*Sunshine, as well as Dwele, Chrisette Michele, and Foreign Exchange in select cities.
New Music: Kindred the Family Soul – All My People
New Video: Kindred the Family Soul "A Couple Friends" (Short Film)
New Music: Kindred the Family Soul "Never Loved You More" (DJ Spinna Remix)
New Video: Kindred the Family Soul "Everybody's Hustling"
New Video: Kindred the Family Soul – All My People (featuring Freeway)
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Review: Now or Never (San Francisco Thunder #4) by Victoria Denault
"You are incredibly beautiful, despite your personality, you know that?" - Holden Hendricks
Author: Victoria Denault
Series: San Francisco Thunder #4
Publisher: Forever Yours
Source: publisher for review
Buy Links: Amazon - Barnes & Noble - iBooks - Kobo - Google Play
From the bestselling author of the Hometown Players series comes a sexy romance about a bad boy hockey player who wants a second chance to win the heart of his high school crush.
All Winnie Braddock wants is a quiet place to be alone and time to heal her battered heart. But the refuge she'd hoped for in her family's summer cottage is destroyed when she gets there to find Holden Hendricks literally camped out in the driveway. He made her life hell when they were kids, and despite what he says, it doesn't look like much has changed. She doesn't care if her brother hired Holden to renovate the house this winter; she wants him gone.
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Holden knows that hockey saying all too well. After all, he could have gone pro if he hadn't messed up so much as a kid. But now he's desperate to prove he's changed for the better, especially to Winnie Braddock. As the two work together to fix the cottage piece by piece, they realize that perhaps they can give each other the new beginning they've both been waiting for-if they're just willing to take the shot.
In the two years since I first read Score, Victoria Denault has quickly become one of my favorite hockey romance authors. Her books always have an authentic feel to them that can only be described as written by a true hockey fan. After reading Slammed and When It's Right, I knew the final book in the San Francisco Thunder series was going to be an emotional ride and it was.
The beginning of Now or Never starts five days after the death of the Braddock patriarch and as Winnie watches her siblings go on like life will somehow go back to normal, she can't help but feel lost. Standing at a crossroads... Does she go back to Toronto with her longtime boyfriend and act like everything is okay? Or will she take some time to be by herself and heal? She doesn't feel at home in San Francisco like her brother and sisters do. Her heart isn't in Toronto. The only place she feels comfort is in the tiny cottage her father loved. So, she does what her heart wants and stays behind. To her surprise, Winnie's brother hired her teenage nemesis and former bad boy to renovate the cottage. So much for healing on her own...
They say you can never go home... Holden Hendricks wishes that were true. Let's not beat around the bush, he was a little shit when he was a teen. What most people don't know was that was a facade. Hidden underneath the bad boy image was a lost kid. He never quite recovered from the death of his mom and acting out what the only way he could get attention. So he did. Those things he was guilty of? Most of them were probably done by his shitty friends. And the things he did do, he wishes he could take them back. Prime example, tormenting Winnie. Now he's back in town working on the Braddock's cottage, he thought he could keep his head down, work on the cottage, and get his new renovation business of the ground. With Winnie around... Things get a bit more complicated.
After I finished When It's Right, I immediately messaged Victoria because I had to know what was going to happen with Winnie. We know that her relationship with Ty is rocky, but we don't know why. The only thing Victoria told me was to just wait... And so I did... Would Now of Never break my heart with the passing of their dad? Yes! Would we find out why Winnie and Ty are on the rocks? Yes. Will the Braddock family be okay? Yes. All my questions were answered and the San Francisco series was wrapped up perfectly. I adored Now of Never. Holden slowly helping Winnie's heart heal from the loss of her dad... Winnie standing up for Holden when no one else would... All perfection. I loved every moment of this book.
Victoria Denault loves long walks on the beach, cinnamon dolce lattes and writing angst-filled romance. She lives in LA but grew up in Montreal, which is why she is fluent in English, French and hockey.
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President Trump said Monday there would be a price to pay for Saturday's apparent chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma, days after Trump said he wanted the U.S. out of Syria entirely. Early in the morning, airstrikes hit a Syrian base near Homs, which Russia and Syria pinned on Israel. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports.
Journalists at the Denver Post sounded the alarm about years of devastating job cuts.


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Usage: in web2py models/db.py

from gluon.contrib.heroku import get_db
db = get_db()

"""
import os
from gluon import *
from gluon.dal import ADAPTERS, UseDatabaseStoredFile,PostgreSQLAdapter

class HerokuPostgresAdapter(UseDatabaseStoredFile,PostgreSQLAdapter):
    drivers = ('psycopg2',)
    uploads_in_blob = True

ADAPTERS['postgres'] = HerokuPostgresAdapter

def get_db(name = None, pool_size=10):
    if not name:
        names = [n for n in os.environ.keys()
                 if n[:18]+n[-4:]=='HEROKU_POSTGRESQL__URL']
        if names:
            name = names[0]
    if name:
        db = DAL(os.environ[name], pool_size=pool_size)
        current.session.connect(current.request, current.response, db=db)
    else:
        db = DAL('sqlite://heroku.test.sqlite')
    return db

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Stephen James Taylor
Ervin Wilson
Stephen James Taylor October 3, 2018
Stephen has composed most all the scores for the films of legendary Academy Award winning director, Charles Burnett, as well as the musicals, comedies and dramatic films of Robert Townsend. In 2009 Academy Award nominated producer Reginald Hudlin tapped him to write the main title song and underscore for the limited animated series, The Black Panther. His body of work encompasses shows and films from all the major studios. The score to Richard Tanne's feature film, "Southside With You" , received rave reviews, and his classical orchestral works have been performed by the Atlanta Symphony (1996 Olympics Opening Ceremonies), the Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Symphony. After receiving his music degree from Stanford he went on to study privately for several years with Henri Lazarof (composition professor at UCLA), Dr Albert Harris (conducting), and microtonal scale pioneer, Ervin Wilson.


In the book of Daniel, there is a story about three men who refuse to worship a golden idol and the furious king who casts them into a fiery furnace as punishment. To the royal's astonishment, the men are trapped in an "exceeding hot" fire, as he decreed, yet they do not burn. Because the men had faith, a higher power protects them, and they walk out of the furnace unscathed.
This is the tale that Brad Brown, a chaplain at Feather River Hospital in Paradise, Calif., told the sick, scared people huddling inside his Honda Odyssey as flames burned on both sides of them and embers flicked onto the hood. "This is what we need to do here," Brown recalls saying as they, like thousands of others, tried to escape the deadly Camp Fire that continues to torch Northern California.


We all need time out to destress but not everyone can take advantage of a spa day or a night out at the movies. And this is even more challenging for care givers supporting loved ones with mental illness.
Everyday life and circumstances sometimes cause us to want to just stay under the covers and, well, sleep, or not even that and it can be overwhelming. Exhaustion. Busyness. Too busy to listen to our bodies that at times scream "STOP!".
Our loved ones need us but what do we do when we reach breaking point and start to unravel?
What if you could have a day where you can do whatever you want?
What would a day like this look like for you? A day without interruptions, obligations or expectation. Are you able to make it a reality or is life so hectic that you aren't able to take a breather?
As a care giver your daily life is most likely filled with the added stress of caring for a loved one and it's very easy for you to experience overwhelm and even burnout. The stressors of caring for a loved one may cause the body to become overloaded to the point of emotional, physical and mental breakdown causing the body's adrenal system to completely shut down. It can make you sick.
However, looking at the situation and alleviate the stress of daily life will go a long way in avoiding burnout.
Learning to recognise the symptoms of stress.
Now, if any of these symptoms persist I recommend a visit to your local doctor as there may be other causes.
Depending on what you like to do there are ways to cope with the stress in our lives which go a long way to helping you live a less stressed life. Here are some ideas but the possibilities are endless.
Do some colouring in. Yes, children do this but it helps take your mind off the current situation.
Have some fun – see a movie, play a board game with a friend, visit a favourite coffee shop, etc.
As a carer, stress is part of your daily life. What matters is how you handle it. If you are doing everything to alleviate the symptoms of stress and you still feel you're becoming too overwhelmed, I suggest you find a trusted friend who knows your situation and can listen as you process your feelings.
In the midst of your unique situation, remember, you are ok, take a deep breath & just breathe.
What kinds of activities do you do to help destress your life? We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Kay is trained through the Australian Institute of Family counselling where she received her Advanced Diploma.
She has had over 10 year's experience in the counselling field and is a member of the Christian Counsellors Association of Australia where professional integrity is paramount and is currently working as a church chaplain at Hunter Christian Church, Newcastle.
Kay's confidential and empathetic counselling service is for women focussing on grief and loss, stress management and depression in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW, Australia.
Please welcome our first Guest Post Blogger, Angela, The Mental Health Blogger, who brings some great practical advice to us on how to help a friend when you think they may have a mental illness issue.
What do you do if you find that your friend or loved one is suffering from a mental illness? What do you do if you even suspect that they may need professional help?
depression. Their words have not been edited. They are raw and honest.
Are you supporting a spouse/partner with depression? We are inviting people to contribute their story to help others. Click here to find out more.


You've probably seen the terms "Active Investing" and "Passive Investing". We wanted to take a little while to describe the difference, particularly as it applies to the Real Estate investing in which we participate.
If you are actively investing in Real Estate you are actively working to make your investment a success. Let's say you decided to become a landlord. You contact a real estate broker, find a home to buy, negotiate with the seller upon a price and contract, procure a loan, and buy the property. Then, you advertise for a tenant, screen the prospective tenant(s), do all of the paperwork, and get the tenant moved into your property (and start collecting rent). Then, as issues come up with the home… roof work, HVAC work, clogged toilets, etc…. you take care of them, according to the terms of the lease you worked through with the tenant. You collect all of the rent, and you are responsible for making sure that everything gets done. That's the basic idea behind an active real estate investment. To be a bit extreme, "active" = "J.O.B.".
A passive investment in Real Estate is similar in some ways, and different in others. There is still a real estate broker involved, a property, a negotiation, a loan (typically), a purchase, tenants, screening, paperwork, and maintenance/upgrade issues with the property. But, the passive investor doesn't deal with any of them. The passive investor contributes funds that are needed for the property, and an asset manager does all of the steps above. The investor and the asset manager will divide the income from the property according to the terms they have agreed upon.
We act as an asset manager and offer the opportunity to passively invest to investors that are a good fit for us and the specific piece of real estate.


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Q: Storing mdb in database I am a beginner in database.
I have a script of integration Python/ArcPy which with each time or it is carried out, to create two databases (mdb):

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*integrable.mdb,

*not integrable.mdb.

For the moment these databases are safeguarded in folders and with time I lose them.
I'm looking for a way to save feature classes and tables  each time they are created in a database that will be updated each time new data is created.
For the moment I don't see the way to do this.
Do you have an idea of how to do this?
The purpose of this approach is to save data and to have an archive so as not to lose data.

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The new trend stems from Instagram, mostly among the middle-aged aiming at being trendy. Returnable Insta-fashions is self-explanatory: purchasing new clothes online, snapping a shot in them and then returning the items.
The practice of ordering clothes for the sole purpose of posting an "outfit of the day" picture on Instagram is becoming increasingly common. The #OOTD tag regroups over 200 million public posts on Instagram, with various similar hashtags, e.g. #ootdfashion or #ootdmen, linking to a couple million public posts.
Research from Barclaycard found that nearly 10% of online shoppers in the United Kingdom have purchased clothing online for a social media post, before returning the goods. Men and Women aged 35 to 44 are more likely to participate in the trend, as 17% of shoppers in this demographic admitted to Insta-returns. Surprisingly, more men engaged in this trend than women, with 10% of men stating they would be embarrassed to be seen wearing the same outfit twice, against 7% of women.
"Try before you buy" policies may have a role to play in this trend. As e-commerce retailers have made it easier for customers to try on their clothes before buying, consumers have gotten increasingly comfortable taking them up on that offer. The evolution of the old scheme where someone would hide tags on an expensive fashion item in order to wear it an event, only to return it afterwards.
The $740 million joint venture, between Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (DAFZA) and wasl Asset Management Group, will be the first e-commerce free zone in the region.
The Swedish furniture retailer giant reported that, after growing by 10% in 2017, its e-commerce business reached 15% of its British sales.
The German-Israeli payment security firm Fraugster has launched an artificial intelligence-based fraud prevention tool.


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Preakness Helps Raise More Than $65,000 For Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance
Posted by Editor | Jun 23, 2015 | Latest News, Racing, Sports | 0 |
The Maryland Jockey Club announced today that a community-wide fundraising effort helped raise more than $65,000 for the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) during the Preakness Meet at Pimlico Race Course.
Events and fundraising included Canter for the Cause, an All-Female Handicapper Challenge, the raffle of a John Deere Gator, and Karaoke for the Cause.
In addition to being named the sponsor of the $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3), Sagamore Racing donated $30,000 to the TAA.
"The fundraising for the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance that was conducted in Maryland for the Preakness was a huge success, having raised more than $65,000," said Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance President Jimmy Bell. "Our special thanks go to Kevin Plank's Sagamore Racing and The Stronach Group along with the women who participated in the Handicapper Challenge, who donated their handicap competition winnings, and pulled together to help such a worthy cause. Through their collective efforts, the TAA continues to gain national awareness and significance throughout the thoroughbred industry."
Said Sal Sinatra, President and General Manager of the Maryland Jockey Club; "Aftercare has always been a priority with our Chairman Frank Stronach, his family, and everyone at The Stronach Group. We're happy with the efforts by all of those who helped in raising awareness and funds for Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance during this year's Preakness. Our hope is to continue to partner with the TAA during the Preakness and the rest of the year and build on this year's success."
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World Jump Day, que em português significa algo como "O Dia Mundial do Pulo", foi um hoax e um flash mob global marcado para 20 de Julho de 2006 às 8:39:13 ou 11:39.13 GMT (07:39:13 horas do Brasil), a organização do evento planejou ter 600 milhões de pessoas do hemisfério ocidental pulando simultâneamente, onde pretendem mover a órbita atual da terra para uma nova, e que assim o aquecimento global cessará. O site foi uma instalação artística criada por Torsten Lauschmann (alega ser um Professor Hans Peter Niesward do Instituto de Física Gravitacional de Munique).

Origens e Participação

De acordo com as informações de DNS, o domínio www.worldjumpday.org está hospedado no Reino Unido, no http://uk2.net/  e está registrado em nome de  Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschman é um artista Alemão morando atualmente em Glasgow, Escócia. Seu site pessoal (http://www.lauschmann.com) tem uma ligação para o site do World Jump Day e para o site de outro artista conhecido como "Slender Whiteman" (https://web.archive.org/web/20140209001327/http://www.slenderwhiteman.com/)

O contador do site, mostrando a quantidade de usuários registrados também é falso. Ele parece ir para cima e para baixo. um ponto de referência foi dado às 21:37 do dia 18 de Julho de 2006, que marcava 598,196,296 mas apenas 15 minutos depois o contador caiu para 598,106,000.  Menos de 12 horas antes do evento o contador do site estava marcando 600,256,820 registros, quase 50% de todos os internautas do mundo .

Ciência
Mesmo se fosse analisado seriamente, a proposta do World Jump Day é completamente não-científica e foi extensamente desacreditada . Existe um número de razões para rejeitar a tese:

 É impossível mudar permanentemente a órbita da terra usando sua própria massa (na qual inclui a população mundial) a menos que tal massa fosse ejetada da terra em velocidade de escape (ver: Terceira Lei de Newton). O centro de gravidade do "sistema" contém a terra e a população que permanecerão exatas a mesma órbita de sempre durante todo o salto. De qualquer modo, por um curto período de tempo quando os puladores estão no ar, a órbita da terra mover-se-ia um pouquinho - sendo restaurada na sua exata localização pela força da gravidade agindo entre os puladores e a terra quando eles estiverem no ar.

 Mesmo ejetando tal massa da terra (ou colidindo ela para fora), a energia resultante seria equivalente a somente 2% da energia que é liberada de uma bomba de hidrogênio moderna, deslocando a órbita da terra apenas uma pequena fração do raio de um átomo .

 Desde que a órbita da terra é elíptica, existem grandes variações na distância do sol (algo em torno de 5,000,000 km) e nenhuma mudança notável na temperatura foi registrada. Aplicando uma breve força na superfície da terra ela não se afastaria para mais longe do sol - mudaria meramente a forma da elipse - sendo assim em certas ocasiões do ano a terra realmente estaria mais perto do sol, enquanto em outras mais longe.

Cronograma

 Às 11:20 GMT, o servidor do site caiu; porém agora está de volta, os resultados do projeto não seriam publicados por alguns dias, de acordo com o site.
 Às 11:47 GMT, o projeto parece ter falhado.
 Às 12:51 GMT, o site havia retido a data original do evento; entretanto, o cronômetro começou a retroceder às 10:39 GMT do dia 12 de Junho.

Ligações externas
 Página do World Jump Day
 Contra World Jump - site diz que "mexer com a mãe natureza pode ser muito perigoso, e não sabemos o que pode acontecer se o planeta mudar de órbita" e convocam um contra-world jump day para as 11:39 pm do mesmo dia, para voltar a órbita normal.
 Artigo: World Jump Day, o dia mundial do pulo. E daí?

Boatos

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This project consists of two main parts, an ios application and a .net dashboard/backend hosted on a local server. The purpose of the application is to scan 3of9 barcodes to grab a tag id, then take and upload photos for that tag id. The photos will be stored in a filesystem and the database records will add a record with that id and reference the file paths for the photos.
Will likely never be needed on a non-ios device, the hardware is specific to ios. Vertical orientation and photos only. Our initial mockups will be provided.
--There will be a per zone setting in the dashboard to determine if manual entry of the barcode is allowed as an option.
--The amount, order, and tile of the photos are unique for each zone and will need to be managed in the dashboard.
--Review and confirm each photo before moving to the next one.
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Beyond The Fall: How Jamie Dornan could shine on other shows
The Fall February 28, 2017
One of the things that we're really enjoying getting a chance to dive into at present is an article series themed for the most part around one thing: Casting dreams for some of our favorite actors with TV ties. There's one online for Sam Heughan, and we've also got one up for Idris Elba. Therefore, it makes sense now to discuss great TV roles for Jamie Dornan following his time on The Fall.
Note that this is obviously just for fun, and we're aware that there are probably hundreds of movie projects out there who'd also love to get him on board. Take a look at our suggestions, and then let us know some of your own!
The Good Place – Doesn't Jamie deserve to do something funny following Paul Spector or Christian Gray? Have him be the manager of a candy store or a Build-A-Bear within the Kristen Bell comedy's fictionalized version of "Heaven." (It's far more complicated than that, but it feels wrong to spoil the central premise for those who haven't seen it yet.) Dornan could be big and silly here in a way he doesn't always get to be.
Suits – This show's featured a variety of other cutthroat attorneys, but few have been a direct match to Gabriel Macht's own Harvey Specter. Cast Dornan as a name partner of another powerful firm who comes into contact with him for a heated civil case. The two have heard legends of each other, but never have had an opportunity to square off before. We already know that Dornan's got an impressive suit game, and he could really make Harvey start to shake within his boots.
The Flash – Who wouldn't want to see a Dornan take on a classic superhero villain? The problem here is that many of the biggest ones from the Flash universe have been used already for this show, so we would recommend for him here is either a new character (someone with the ability to read minds or something else cognitive), or a character another DC Comics franchise transported over to this show. He'd make an interesting Two-Face if there was ever a way to incorporate an iconic Batman villain.
Flaked – This is probably the most obscure of our choices for Dornan, but it's also the one that goes the further against type now given how he is known for a wide audience for someone very sleek and buttoned-up. The Will Arnett Netflix comedy is set in Venice, California, and you could make him into a Venice Beach hipster who sells license-plates made out of recycled goods who lives in some back alley. Let Jamie grow a beard and be artsy, weird, and all sorts of ridiculous. Changing the pace for any actor is good, and this is a complicated show worthy of more attention.
Once Upon a Time – Okay, we just couldn't resist throwing it on here. We know it's unlikely that a Sheriff Graham reprisal ever happens, but the same goes for all of the shows on this list. This is just fun! Seriously, though, Graham remains one of the biggest loose ends of the series given that there was a whole lot more to be explored there, even after he was killed off.
MaisyDaisy
March 2, 2017 @ 6:02 am
Good choices. Jamie says he would like to do more television so there's that. I personally would love to see him as James Bond.


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Original poster hunterfiveseven 5 posts
A little background on my history with this game so it can help understand my point of view when it comes to certain things I will mention.
I have been playing the game since day 1 and currently 7000 SHD level. I have done everything in the game has to offer and only play when our clan does raids to help people as that is about the only thing some of us still find fun after all this time.
Now, the mode and what I think about it.
I can see Countdown getting pretty repetitive, but I think it can be improved. The difficulty has to be looked at having just done my first group run with 4. Nothing changes as intended, but the base is way too low. 8 is super easy and that is way too many in one objective. You can split the team across the 3 objectives to drastically speed up getting to the main objective. When you are not currently inside a objective building and running around outside, you have a very good chance of running into a hunter. Once you complete 2 of the 3 objectives, the main objective becomes available. Completing this gives access to a huge loot chest along with materials. After that or when the timer runs out, you can move to a extraction phase where you have to clear a zone and fire a flare. You will meet heavy resistance doing this.
Takes everything from division like certain mechanics you see a couple times in side missions to summit objectives in a wider space. It does slightly remind me of R6 Extraction's sub-zone mission design in terms of random objectives on a fixed map. It lacks any customization in terms of directives, but it does have random countermeasures that act as debuffs to your team or buffs to npcs. However there is 3 SHD terminals that allow you to turn these into advantages. Examples include having your skill cooldowns doubled, but hacking the right terminal will instead cut down your cooldowns by a considerable amount. The mode also has selectable target loot just like summit which makes it a great farming location. This mode does drop tons of loot, I will say that. Overall individually, it doesn't have anything you haven't seen before, but it puts it all in one quick and easily accessible activity.
One more thing to add in terms of the 8 man mechanics as I feel some here also had similar thoughts of what this could be. To me, difficulty scaling aside, it seems a little out place coming from someone who does raids as their primary activity in the games lifecycle. The teamplay you see in 8 man squads currently does not fit. It is simply not needed. No specific roles are required or special set pieces that would encourage that. I had a mild expectation when I heard that it was going to a 8 player PvE mode where this would be step down of our current raids or a beefed up heroic stronghold. Thinking of something more like a incursion of div1. Has mechanics, but it can be done with randoms with some mild build roles to have that teamplay besides just DPS builds and shoot everything.
I think a majority of the disappointment is from the huge gap in content we had and this is the first thing we get. If this came out a year ago, I think it would be received a little better. Should at least have the difficulty of raid npcs as default maybe with a lesser difficulty if they truly want to have a 8 man experience. Ultimately, I see the mode as a nice addition, but there's only so much that will appeal to endgame players who have done everything. I'm curious to see what happens during the testing phase with the feedback.
in Feedback & Suggestions by Got-Your-VI
PTS Phase 3 Feedback and a small request
First of all, I would like to thank the Ubisoft teams for giving us this chance to try PTS. I waited for the completion of all 3 phase to give feedback for PTS, thank you to those who read the feedback in the other stages.
It is not included in PTS, but let me state from the beginning, every mission in Division 2 should actually be playable as a Legendary mission. Instead of Black Tusk, White Tusk may come, and a similar structure to the invasion may be established.
I got a lot of DELTA errors in both PVE and PVP, I hope I don't get these errors when the game is updated.
Expertise and Countdown
Players like me, who are passionate about the game, will add 500 – 1000 more hours to their game playing hours with this expertise update, which is a very good event.
The countdown mode is a really well-thought-out mode with its raid features and the opportunity to play with other friends, and the matchmaking system it includes, it's nice to have different structures to be finished in a short time, but it is nice to have an update that will increase the RNG of the players with low RNG, at least the exotic gear and weapons are reduced. I think we can increase it a little bit.
I hope you add what we see in PTS to the game as soon as possible. I want to reiterate that I think every mission should be played as a legendary because 3 legendary missions are not enough for us.
in Feedback & Suggestions by PassanCat
Countdown is really "eh"
After 12 games I am fairly confident that I will never do this mode if it goes live in the current state.
The music is fire. As expected for the Division at this point. However, It gets repetitive. out of 5 times, it was always the same song.The encounters are fine. Nothing good or bad. "Enough" variety to not make it boring.The objectives are fine as well, nothing good or bad from the usual hostage/warhound etc. design. It feels very low scale. Insanely un-epic mission overall. No helicopter-drones, no real threats. I do not mean bullet sponges, I mean "last boss" material from previous missions.Hunters are trash in my eyes. They do not have the same impact they had in Division 1. Just a massive bullet sponge with insane damage and mobility, with the ability to eliminate the usefulness of healers and CCs. Just over-glorified piñatas.Classes are not needed. Last times I did Iron Horse, tanks, healers and CCs were "needed" and it was great. Countdown however, for a 8 player mission is really underwhelming in terms of classes. Not to mention Hunters break skills... Just go full weapon DD, done. But big Kudos to the people who bring pulse!Now the point that pisses me off. The Map.
It is cool. It looks nice. It is huge. It is a maze. The vast majority of time is wasted trying to figure out where to run. 8 minutes running, barely 6 minutes fighting. I really do not like it. It breaks the flow of the game play, frustrating when following the line that leads you in a circle and it becomes tremendously boring.
How to fix it?
I do not see a reason for its existence in the first place. So some sort of legitimation for a 2x4 gameplay would be neat.
One team goes through the front and has to fight through until the big boss, while the other group gets dropped by the Heli and has to secure/rescue something or someone. Both would follow their linear path and complete objectives and meet the boss.
OR a 2 fronts attack, people could trigger alarms to lure enemies so the other team has it easier to complete their objective.
OR the heli of a team crashes and they have to fight trough waves to survive, while teh second team fights through waves/checkpoints to save the first team.
Also REMOVE THE MAZE ASPECT! Yea sure, linearity is perceived as bad, but holy smokes this is absolutely frustrating. It is so boring to just run around without any clue. I ran for like 6 minutes with a another guy to and from an objective while the rest of the team did something else.
in Feedback & Suggestions by Mr_Elite_Demon
remove the radar in countdown
whatever u call the mode, just remove it as it is a new 8p mode and not a raid, i dont remember do raid have this feature, assume it is, just remove it and getting the NPC come out randomly , and unexpected. i dont want to see ppl know where they are coming out and run as expected. i dont like to play this style but play it for fun only


Columbine, by Dave Cullen, is probably the best piece I've read about the Columbine shooting. The book is great for three reasons.
It has the perspective that comes with being published more than 10 years after the event.
Cullen makes the point that Columbine should be seen as a failed bombing, and not a shooting.
He also discusses the psycopathy of Eric Harris to a satisfying degree, and illustrates the differences between he and Dylan based on their writings.
It's not an easy read at parts, particularly if you (like me) don't think about Columbine all that often. It's a tough reminder.
This was the first full book I read through on my Kindle. Yeah, I know, I'm way behind the times. I love the super simple version of the device. I've been reading more since I picked it up.
Posted on January 22, 2013 by Ryan Imel.	This entry was posted in Books. Bookmark the permalink.


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HomeNews CommentaryChinese Spy Pleads Guilty
Chinese Spy Pleads Guilty
November 26, 2019 10:00 am EST AlienMotives News Commentary 0
Flag of the People's Republic of China. Image by 古水.
Xeuhea "Edward" Peng, a naturalized U.S. citizen, plead guilty on Monday to charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China. The plea was part of an good-faith attempt at a plea deal which would provide a four year prison sentence and a fine of $30,000. The judge has declined to accept the deal until the sentencing phase of the trial.
Peng was a tour operator in San Francisco who was approached by Chinese officials during a trip to China in 2015, and agreed to deliver memory cards to them.
Peng would travel to various hotel rooms in the United States – for the six successful operations, he was directed to rooms in Oakland, CA; Newark, CA; and Columbus, GA – and leave envelopes containing $10,000 to $20,000. He would then leave the room, returning hours later to pick up the memory cards which would be left for him. After gathering the cards, he would fly to China and deliver them to state officials.
Peng was intercepted by the FBI during the seventh use of the "dead drop". According to information provided during the trial, the U.S. was providing the memory cards via a double agent from the start, and no harmful data was transferred during the operation.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Peng came to the United States in 2001 on a temporary business visa, became a permanent lawful resident in 2006 following his marriage, and became a naturalized citizen in 2012.
The arrest and trial are a reminder that the United States intelligence services are working to protect us from hostile foreign governments… in this case, via a case which was initiated under Barack Obama and continued through President Trump's tenure… and that it would be a terrible and foolish mistake to treat reports of foreign efforts against our nation in a cavalier fashion.
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Andy has such a talent when it comes to photography, and is a lovely person as well. He made us instantly feel comfortable and he was such a pleasure to work with.
As i was the one to put out the casting he asked my opinion on the shots and if i wanted any particular poses..etc.
i noticed he gave great directions to the model also, and was constantly looking for the best areas, lighting and poses to better what stunning shots we already had!
Andy definitely knows what hes doing, i would 100% recommend him!


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Granica austriacko-czeska – granica państwowa pomiędzy Austrią a Czechami, istniejąca od podziału Czechosłowacji 1 stycznia 1993. Jest wewnętrzną granicą UE oraz strefy Schengen.

Kształtowanie się granicy
Granica powstała po ogłoszeniu niepodległości przez Czechosłowację w 1918, w większości pokrywa się z granicą dawnego Królestwa Czeskiego i Moraw z krainami austriackimi - w trzech miejscach dokonano jednak niewielkich korekt na korzyść ówczesnej Czechosłowacji, motywując się głównie argumentami gospodarczymi (Valticko, Vitorazsko, Trójkąt dyjski). Rzeczywista granica etniczna biegła jednak dalej na północ, gdyż na terenach południowych Czech i Moraw mieszkała liczna społeczność niemiecka, którą wbrew własnej woli włączono do Czechosłowacji.

Przebieg granicy
Granica zaczyna się na trójstyku ze Słowacją, pomiędzy miejscowościami Hohenau an der March (AUT) i Borský Svatý Jur (SVK). Biegnie na zachód i północny zachód i 15 km na wschód od miasta Třeboň zakręca na południe. Na wysokości miasta Gmünd granica skręca ponownie na zachód i biegnie do trójstyku z Niemcami, w okolicy miejscowości Neureichenau (DEU), Nová Pec (CZE) i Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald (AUT).

Przejścia graniczne
Przejścia graniczne zlikwidowano po przystąpieniu do strefy Schengen.

Przejścia drogowe
 Wullowitz - Dolní Dvořiště
 Weigetschlag - Studánky
 Guglwald - Přední Výtoň czynne od 6 do 22 w okresie od 15 marca do 31 października, od 8 do 18 w okresie od 1 listopada do 14 marca; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy
 Schöneben - Zvonková czynne od 8 do 20 codziennie w okresie od 15 kwietnia do 2 listopada; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych, rowerzystów i motorowerzystów
 Plöckensteinersee - Plešné jezero czynne od 8 do 18 w okresie od 15 kwietnia do 31 października; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy
 Igelbach / Doppelbrücke - Ježová czynne od 8 do 20 w okresie od 1 kwietnia do 31 października; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych i rowerzystów
 St.Oswald - Koranda czynne od 8 do 20 w okresie od 1 kwietnia do 31 października; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych i rowerzystów
 Adalbert Stifter Denkmal (szlak turystyczny) czynne od 8 do 18 w okresie od 15 kwietnia do 31 października; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych (szlak turystyczny do pomnika Adlaberta Stiftera)
 Drasenhofen – Mikulov
 Fratres – Slavonice czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy
 Gmünd-Bleylebenstraße - České Velenice czynne od 7 do 19; dla obywateli Austrii i Czech oraz państw, z którymi te państwa mają ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych i rowerzystów
 Gmünd-Böhmzeil - České Velenice
 Grametten – Nova Bystrice
 Hardegg – Cizov czynne od 8 do 20 w okresie od 15 kwietnia do 2 listopada; tylko dla obywateli Austrii i Czech; dla pieszych i rowerzystów
 Kleinhaugsdorf – Hate
 Laa an der Thaya – Hevlin ruch towarowy tylko dla samochodów o masie do 6 ton
 Mitterretzbach -Hnanice czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli państw UE z samochodami osobowymi, motocyklami, rowerami i pieszo; dla obywateli innych państw, które mają z nimi ruch bezwizowy - z motocyklami, rowerami i pieszo
 Gmünd / Nagelberg – Halamky
 Oberthürnau – Vratenin czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli Austrii, Czech i państw mających z nimi ruch bezwizowy
 Phyrabruck - Nove Hrady czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli Austrii, Czech i państw mających z nimi ruch bezwizowy
 Reintal - Postorna czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli państw UE; dla obywateli innych państw, które mają z nimi ruch bezwizowy - z motocyklami, rowerami i pieszo
 Schlag – Halamky czynne od 8 do 18 w okresie od 1 maja do 30 czerwca i od 1 września do 15 października, od 8 do 20 w okresie od 1 lipca do 31 sierpnia; dla obywateli Austrii, Czech i państw mających z nimi ruch bezwizowy; dla pieszych i rowerzystów
 Schrattenberg - Valice czynne od 6 do 22; dla obywateli państw UE; dla obywateli innych państw, które mają z nimi ruch bezwizowy - z motocyklami, rowerami i pieszo

Przejścia kolejowe
 Gmünd-Bahnhof – České Velenice czynne od 7 do 1930
 Retz – Znaim czynne od 7 do 20
 Hohenau – Břeclav

Przypisy

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Watch Jon Jones and Overeem giggle as they play EA UFC against each other
Written by Team ME
Last updated on August 6th, 2014
Using careful balancing of skills and techniques, the MiddleEasy offices has actually turned EA UFC into a part-time kickboxing simulation, complete with the TKOs in three knockdowns, clinch rules and full backstories for our fighters that make everywhere from $4K to $175K a fight. February Bailey is a former cheese aging specialist who was discovered by a Wisconsin kickboxing promoter, now he's living the life, traveling the midwest and busting some heads with his limited, sluggish skillset. It's okay, at only eighteen, he has many years to learn how to punch. YouTube Watanabe is a 35-year-old bantamweight from Indianapolis who decided to start training kickboxing when he suffered a mid-life crisis. He changed his name to YouTube in an effort to get noticed by the kickboxing community, and because I randomly pick my fighter's first name by choosing the first word that pops up in my PS4's keyboard.
Overeem and Jon Jones didn't touch gloves and agree to stand and bang in this play-session, but a good fight took place yesterday in LA nonetheless. Jon Jones took Overeem down and at will, but the Reem fired back at Jones as Cain Velasquez while enjoying every second of it. Look at the banter, the yucks, and the fact that Reem and Jon Jones look the same size on the stage… Maybe it's the angle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCMkSG8bGk
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