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Breakfast at the Diner — #51
For weeks, the road to the diner has been ripped up for construction, and I'm weary of driving on dirt, so this morning I drove a different route, approaching from the east instead of my ordinary north. This took me past a big retirement center, several stories tall. Ten years ago you would've called it a nursing home, but 'retirement center' is the new nomenclature.
Apparently, Bouffant Walker is one of the retirees. He's standing under the shelter, at the bus stop in front. You can't miss his shock or white hair, standing almost straight up. I've occasionally heard him talk about "the home" where he lives, and now I've accidentally found it.
I'm running late, and it's about 6:05 AM. Bouffant reliably arrives at the diner by 6:30, and from this I deduce, he's waiting for the bus that'll bring him.
Pulling my car over and offering him a ride flashes across my mind, but — nah. Nothing against the guy, but he's somewhat out of whack, and giving him a lift would almost make him a friend, and cripes, I don't want that.
Too late now, I've driven past. Also, my car is a catastrophe inside. His bus would be there before I could clear the passenger seat, so — onward!
With wicked new COVID variants on the move, a sign has been posted on the front door. Again. Handwritten with a thick felt pen on cardboard, it says: "Masks required. If your not wearing a mask, do not enter. If you disagree, eat somewhere else." Perfect, except it should be you're, not your.
Inside there are seven customers, but like last week, I don't see Kirstin. From the kitchen, Harvey shouts a greeting at me, "Morning, chief," and then he adds, "With you in a minute."
There's ample room and not many customers, so I can sit at the corner of the counter I like best. This morning I'm perched on my very favorite stool. It's been a month since I've won that prize, not just a stool near the best stool, so I'm a happy hungry old fat man, eager to answer all of Harvey's questions — yes to coffee, house omelet please, wheat toast, hotcakes.
He isn't asking, though. He's still in the kitchen.
Looking around, I see there's no Slim. Usually it's Kirstin the waitress, and Slim and Harvey are in the kitchen. When Kirstin's not working, the restaurant runs with just two workers, Harvey taking your order and Slim cooking it. That's been the drill since the Clinton administration, but is it only Harvey this morning? Working alone, taking everyone's orders and cooking everyone's breakfast?
Nah, that's impossible. Slim must be on the toilet.
Harvey said he'd be with me in a minute, but it's longer than that before he comes from the kitchen with four plates in his arms, and delivers them to four customers. "Sorry to keep you waiting," he says to me.
"Coffee, chief?"
I answer, "Yes, and a house omelet please, with wheat toast and hotcakes." Harvey scribbles on his green order-pad, pours my coffee, but he doesn't take my ticket to the kitchen. Instead he approaches a newcomer, pours him a coffee, and takes his order, too. He pours coffee refills, and makes a fresh pot.
Then he announces, "Back in a minute," steps into the kitchen, and starts frying eggs for me and the other guy.
Either Harvey is running the diner alone, or Slim is having a dang difficult drop in the men's room. I've been here more than five minutes now, and Harvey is the only employee I've seen. Breakfasts are sizzling in the kitchen, though.
A customer comes in, and Harvey says to him loudly from the grill, "Good morning, chief — with you in a minute." Hope you're not in a hurry, I think but don't say.
It's fun watching Harvey play two, maybe three roles, like he's Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove. I'm enjoying the show, the coffee is great, and I haven't even opened my magazine yet.
Maurice and Phil are blathering at each other, as always. For years it was M and P and The Fixture in that corner; now it's M and P and whoever sits nearby. They're talking to each other about nothing interesting, as they usually do, which is why my favorite stool is at the counter's opposite corner.
Knitting Needle and Underwear Model are eating eggs together and talking, laughing at a table in the back. There are three men I've never seen before, one black, one white, one who'd check "other" ethnicity, and all with tables between them.
Hangover Harry walks in, looking miserable of course, and from the kitchen Harvey says, "How ya doin', Harry. With you in a minute." Well, we all know how Harry's doing. Shitty. Just look at his pink and puffy eyes. I've always assumed he's a drunk and I might be dead wrong, but whatever's up with Harry, he is not a happy dude.
He sits with one stool between us. That's closer than I'd like, but under the current pandemic rules it's allowed, I think. "Good morning," I say to him, and he nods and looks at the coffee pot. Sorry, man, there's no-one to pour. He keeps staring at the pot.
Harvey comes out of the kitchen, arms full, and slides my breakfast onto the counter in front of me. Almost cheerfully he says, "Bon appetit, buddy." To Harry he says, "Just a minute," and then he's gone, delivering another customer's breakfast from his other arm. Then he's back, saving Harry's life by pouring him a cup of coffee.
He pours more coffee for me, too, and I ask, "Why are you working alone, man?"
"Slim called in sick," he says. "What the hell else am I gonna do?" And then he's taking someone's order.
My breakfast, of course, is extremely good and exactly right. The diner never disappoints, and right now the diner is Harvey. Watching him here and there and everywhere, it reminds me of the US Postal Service. Something about snow and rain and gloom of night, and the swift completion of his appointed rounds.
Two pretty women come in, probably university students. Harvey is in the kitchen, and he hollers, "Morning, ladies. With you in a minute." If I know Harvey, he's disappointed he won't have time to flirt with them. Together, they might add up to his age, and he'd like that math.
Me, I barely even glance at them. I'm a scoundrel at heart like any heterosexual man, but I make an effort not to be obnoxious about it. And yet, without even taking a third look, I can tell you that one's blonde and one's brunette, they're mid-20s, the blonde is wearing a skirt to the knees, the brunette is in jeans and has long fake eyelashes, and neither is wearing a wedding ring.
Here's Bouffant Walker, walking and rolling by. Harvey hollers, "With you in a minute," and I'm not sure about this. If customers keep coming into the diner, will Harvey be able to keep up? He hasn't complained yet, though. Hasn't muttered anything amusing under his breath like he usually does. He's too busy for muttering.
Bouffant says good morning to me, to everyone, in his almost Porky Pig squeaky voice, and my coffee has me in a good mood so I reply, "Good morning, sir." The 'sir' is because my mother always stressed good manners, plus I don't know Bouffant Walker's name.
He takes his ordinary table, and I wonder if he saw me drive past him this morning. If he did he doesn't mention it, and he's already talking to the wall.
I'm a nut for old movies, so I ought to be intrigued that Phil and Maurice are talking about their favorites, but it's mostly Casablanca. They agree that it's good, and it is, but everyone knows that. Maurice says it would be better in color, and Phil gives away the movie's ending, out loud, in front of everyone, even Hangover Harry.
The movie is 80 years old, almost as old as Maurice, but the spoiler rule should still apply, ya bastard. I say nothing.
A third young woman comes, and joins the other two. "With you in a minute," Harvey says. That's the morning mantra. Harvey shouts it to everyone who comes in.
He's got a system — he takes orders and pours coffee, makes more coffee and clears tables, and then he says, "Back in a bit," and darts into the kitchen to chef up all the orders. Several "in a minutes" later he delivers the food, does another round of taking orders and pouring coffee, and then he says, "Back in a bit" and he's in the kitchen again. It's not ideal, but it gets breakfast on your plate.
Should I be surprised, or not at all surprised, that none of this seems to phase Harvey? He doesn't sound stressed. If anything, he's swearing less than he usually does. He's Harvey-at-the-diner, same as ever. Less chatty today than most of the time, but that's OK. I don't want to chat with him.
The slow service and "in a minute" doesn't seem to bother any of the customers either, except one older white man in a suit. He comes in, looks around, and Harvey says, "Morning, chief — with you in a minute," same as he's saying to everyone, but the suit frowns.
Even cooking in the kitchen, Harvey knows what's what and who's who, so he adds, "Gonna take longer than usual." That line works — the suit turns around and leaves, exactly as Harvey was hoping.
My coffee isn't refilled very often, but Hangover Harry leads the way. Without a word he rises off his stool, slowly walks behind the counter, and pours his own refill. From the kitchen Harvey says, "Cream and sugar?"
Taking that as permission, when Harry returns I go behind the counter, and pour myself to a refill, too. And since I'm there, I pour refills for everyone at the counter. I'm not doing table service, though.
If this was a different restaurant maybe I'd be annoyed, but it's entertaining, and I'm impressed by Harvey.
He won't survive the lunch rush, though. R.I.P., man.
Near Bouffant, there's a middle-aged white woman at a table by herself, talking on her cell phone in a Southern accent. She goes on and on about everything insignificant — someone got a permanent, someone else argued with someone else, and so on. Everything in this woman's life is insignificant, but she describes all of it in detail. It's less annoying with a Southern accept, though.
After ten minutes of this piffle, she suddenly says, "OK, we'll talk later," and clicks off. In my mind's ear, I'm certain the voice on the other end had been saying, "Gotta go, Mabel. Seriously, gotta go," and I'm grateful to the voice on the other end. Then Mabel makes another call.
"Cavalry to the rescue," says a grouchy, gravelly voice at the diner's back door. It's Bob, the owner. Harvey is at the grill in the kitchen, and Bob is immediately behind him, reading the tickets. Then Bob taps Harvey's shoulder and says, "I got this."
"No onions in the Denver," Harvey says as he leaves the kitchen, and then he's up front, saying "How ya doin', chief" to someone who just came in. Now he's making a pot of coffee, back to being the diner's second-best waitress, and Bob's your uncle.
After that, Harvey gets chattier and occasionally profane, and spends too much time at the women's table up front. Bob doesn't say anything, but that's normal. He never has much to say, unless he's out front eating with the customers.
As I was leaving, though, I heard him say to Harvey, "Slim better be damned sick."
I'm a grumpy old man who lives alone and has few friends — basically a hermit. Once a week I have breakfast at my favorite diner. Most weeks it's my only in-person interaction with other humans, which is not my strong suit.
Yeah, I'm aware of the coronavirus, so I go to the diner at dawn, before it gets busy. I wash my hands before and after, cough into my elbow, spray Lysol on my food, pay at my plate, tell the waitress to keep the change, and hold my breath while leaving until I'm outside. It's a little more dangerous than staying at home, but life would suck without breakfast at the diner, so get off my lawn.
And remember, decent people leave a generous tip. This morning I left an extra fivespot.
Breakfast at the Diner
Brandon August 29, 2021 at 9:06 AM
Zippidy doo-dah, I thought the breakfasts had been canceled! Happy brekfast is back and this one is delicious!
Doug Holland August 29, 2021 at 4:09 PM
Order the hotcakes, they're fabulous.
Shannon August 29, 2021 at 11:55 AM
I loved this. Thank you!
Always appreciated a kind word, grazi.
Captain Hampockets August 30, 2021 at 5:49 AM
Always love the Diner tales, butyou now that.
When I still lived in NJ, I did the graveyard shift at 7-11. 11 PM to 7 AM, alone the whole shift. Dead until about 4:30, when the early risers came in. I had morning chores to do - taking the freshly-delivered bagels and rolls, slicing them, slapping Cream Cheese or butter on 'em, wrapping them, making a few hot dogs and hoagies, and keeping up with, IIRC, FOURTEEN standard sized glass coffee pots. By 6 AM, the line was constant, and impossible to keep up with.
We had three or four regulars, who'd come in, take a courtesy cup, drink their free coffee, and take care of the coffee for me. It was a great system. Saved the owner a few bucks on salary vs free coffee, saved my fat ass from keeping people waiting.
Doug Holland August 30, 2021 at 6:08 AM
Did your helpful regular customers get anything for their trouble, beyond quick access to their coffee fix?
I mean, the coffee was free, and unlimited. They could hang around and bullshit amongst themselves as long as they wanted, with free coffee.
Henshaw August 30, 2021 at 10:58 AM
Heck this is good. I want to work at the diner. Everyone seems to drip competance and who ever heard of the boss covering a shift?
I haven't worked in a restaurant since I was a kid, but the boss *anywhere* covering a shift is against the laws of physics.


Our tongues are being taken over by chemicals to invoke, for false profit, the taste and the memory of foods that no longer exist. This fooling of the taste buds — this mocking of experience with lies — provides us a context that crumbles in ignition and a present that only mirrors the past instead of finding reflexively inspired knowing.
How did we come to this faked chemistry of tasting instead of relying upon natural taste to guide our palate and soothe our levels of delight?
Factory farming is one cause — we've immorally ruined the taste of the things we eat by feeding animals their own kind and by using pesticides to betray the natural abilities of crops to thrive or die based on their own fortitude and ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
I think the rise of chemical additives changed a lot of the quality of our modern foods. 30 years ago there was far more human effort in making things taste good naturally with natural ingredients.
Now we can replicate any taste in nature from a chemist's lab much cheaper and faster than we ever could by relying on nature alone. I can tell the difference between a scientist's hand and a cook's palm but maybe that's because I'm always looking for the human touch.
I find any sort of food that requires sweetness to make its notes is not the same as a similar childhood delight. I blame it on the rise of high fructose corn syrup, refined sugar and chemical sweeteners.
Will we ever be able to return to simple food enhancers like salt and sugarcane?
Or have we perpetually left behind the simple pleasure of the tongue in exchange for the complex and complicated vulgarities of chemical taste buds?
Artificial flavor is cheaper no doubt but the original tastes much better.
Yes! The mechanization of taste is glorified now with cheap chemicals that burn the mouth and ruin any sense of natural taste. What a disappointment in technology and science! Sometimes nature is better left alone and untouched.


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Declaration of Independence: History, Meaning, Continental Congress, and Facts
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It was also agreed that Adams periodically consulted with Jefferson during the writing process. In one of Jefferson's later notes, he stated that:
unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught [sic]. I consented; I drew it; but before I reported it to the committee I communicated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrections….I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to the committee, and from them, unaltered to the Congress.
The historical records show that the Committee of Five had about three weeks to write up this draft and present it to Congress. Therefore, the writing was most likely done in haste. After several consultations among the 5 men, the draft was born. The draft had 5 sections: introduction; a preamble; a body (with two sections); and a conclusion.
On June 28, 1776, the Committee presented their document to Congress. It was titled "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled." It must be noted that the Committee of Five did not take any minutes of their meetings. As a result of this, there exist very little details about how the drafting of the document occurred.
The Draft Document is put before Congress
In the next couple of days, Congress collectively made some further alterations to the committee's document. Some statements were removed and others added. For example, the assertion that slavery was imposed by the British on the colonies was removed from the document. Jefferson was not too happy about this and many other changes that Congress made to his draft. However, he was content with the fact that the central theme of the document (Liberty and Freedom) remained intact.
On July 1, 1776, the document was put before Congress that was presided over by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia. There was still slight opposition to the planned declaration of independence. John Dickinson maintained that foreign aid might get affected after the declaration. Hence, he proposed that the declaration be postponed a bit later into the future when enough support had been obtained. Then, there were the counter arguments in favor of an instantaneous declaration. This back and forth went on for some time.
Finally, the day of voting came. Although there were multiple delegates from every colony, the voting system rules allowed for a single vote from each of the colony. What this meant was that the delegates from a colony had to decide among themselves whether to vote yes or no, or to abstain.
First day of Congressional Voting
The first round results showed that South Carolina and Pennsylvania voted against the independence declaration. The New York delegates decided to abstain because they did not have the legal authorization from their colonial assembly (their authorization later came on July 10, 1776). The Delaware vote was nil because the two delegates (George Read and Thomas McKean) from the colony could not come to a consensus. George Read voted no while McKean voted yes. The delegates from the nine remaining colonies voted yes. The resolution was now half way through. All that was left was for Congress to vote on it. However, this was not done immediately because Edward Rutledge (South Carolina) called on Congress to conduct the second voting the following day.
Second day of Congressional voting
On the second day (July 2, 1776) of delegate-level voting, South Carolina delegates all voted yes. Also, Pennsylvania was able to turn their earlier no into a yes. With regard to Delaware, the nil vote turned into a yes upon the arrival of Caesar Rodney. And as stated earlier, the New York delegates had to abstain because they still had no authorization.
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Interesting. Is this because of Ireland/Portugal/Spain/someone else I am missing?
I think its the dollar going up...gold has been waning a little in dollar terms anyway.
Same for the last 18 months pound hits 1.4 or so, strengthens, pound hits 1.6, weakens.
Engineered by the central banks?
Dollar up and everything else down. I've had to buy more US long bonds just to have some semblance of diversification.
Although I am starting to tinker with a long physical gold and short commodity future basket as well.
The thing to 'hang on to' is that you can never satisfy greed.
I admire your restraint RB.
I think you may find that gold is consolidating.
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The Cromwell Current (also called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent or just Equatorial Undercurrent) is an eastward-flowing subsurface current that extends the length of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.

The Cromwell Current was discovered in 1952 by Townsend Cromwell, a researcher with the Honolulu Laboratory of the Fish and Wildlife Service (later the United States Fish and Wildlife Service). It is  wide and flows to the east. It is hidden  under the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the equator and is relatively shallow compared to other ocean currents being only  from top to base. It is a powerful current with top velocities of up to 1.5 m/s (2.9 knots; 3.4 mph). The current's core coincides with the thermocline and its distance from the parallel Equatorial Counter Current is approximately . It has 1,000 times the volume of the Mississippi River and its length is .

Discovery
In 1951 researchers on board a Fish and Fish and Wildlife Service fisheries research vessel were engaged in exploratory longline fishing when they noticed that the gear deep under water drifted eastwards. This was considered unusual because the surface currents of the Pacific Ocean flow westwards at the equator, following the direction of the winds. In 1952 Townsend Cromwell led a research party to investigate how the currents of the ocean varied as a function of depth. They discovered a fast-flowing current that flowed eastwards in the deep surface layers.

Mechanism
It is difficult to explain the Cromwell Current easily. At least two different mechanisms are at work in order to guarantee the constant eastward current: (a) Because the Cromwell Current is located on the equator, the Coriolis force is equal to zero and does not act upon a water parcel. This means that the east–west pressure gradient functions without being diverted from the high-pressure area in the west toward the low-pressure area in the east, simply following the gradient. The cause of the pressure gradient is at least partially the trade winds blowing from the east westward. (b) Any water parcel flowing eastward from the west that would somehow be perturbed from its path would be diverted northward if north of the equator and southward if south of the equator. In such a case the local Coriolis force would force the parcel immediately back into the main current that flows from west to east.

Detailed data
Depth: The surface currents flow west. There is reversal point about  down, where the water starts to flow east. The current goes down to about .
Flow rate:The total flow is up to around  per second. The top speed is around 1.5 m/s (2.9 knots; 3.4 mph), which is about twice as fast as the westerly surface current.

Length:

Interaction with El Niño
El Niño is a reversal of the normal situation in the Pacific Ocean. Surface water is blown westwards by the prevailing winds and deeper water is forced upwards to replace it. Every now and then, the surface water sloshes back across the ocean, bringing warm water temperatures along the eastern coasts of the Pacific. In non-El Niño years, the Cromwell Current is forced to the surface by underwater seamounts near the Galapagos islands (this is called upwelling.) However, during El Nino years the current does not upwell in this way. The waters around the islands are therefore considerably warmer during El Niño years than during normal years.

Effect on wildlife
The Cromwell Current is both oxygen- and nutrient-rich. A large number of fish are concentrated in it. Upwelling occurs near the Galapagos Islands. This brings food supplies to the surface for Galápagos penguin. Upwelling, however, is a sporadic phenomenon; it fails to occur on a regular basis, and so the food supply comes and goes. The penguins have several adaptations to cope with this, including versatility in their breeding habits.

Possible effect on climate
The effect of this current on world climate is not well understood.

References

See also

Currents of the Pacific Ocean

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Cyber Fail
The Obama administration's lousy record on cyber security
Ben Avny
Barack Obama is probably America's most web-savvy president ever. But when it comes to actually crafting policy for the nation's cyber security, his administration has been consistent in only one aspect: bluster. Obama's major legacy on cyber security, it increasingly seems, will be an infrastructure for waging a non-existent "cyber war" that's incapable of defending the country from the types of cyber attacks that are actually coming.
The Obama administration wants the public to believe it is taking cyber security seriously. In October last year Defense Secretary Leon Panetta darkly warned, yet again, of a "Cyber Pearl Harbor," an attack that could cause "physical destruction and loss of life, paralyze and shock the nation, and create a profound new sense of vulnerability." In November, President Obama signed a directive that, for the first time, "established principles and processes for the use of cyber operations," including the offensive use of computer attack. The Pentagon, meanwhile, has reportedly been at work on the rules of engagement for battle in cyberspace.
The administration's latest initiative came last week, when the Pentagon leaked its plans to massively boost its Cyber Command. What had been a 900-person nascent military outfit housed at Fort Meade in Maryland will be expanded to a team of 4,900. The move, the Washington Post reported with excitement, was designed to turn a largely defensive organization into a more offensively-minded "Internet-era fighting force."
But neither the Obama administration's actions, nor its rhetoric are backed up by the facts. 2012 was by all accounts a busy year for cyber security; indeed, it was the busiest on record. There were the multiple instances of creatively-named malware incidents—Flame and Gauss, Shamoon, Red October, and Mahdi. (The latter was a major sabotage attack against the oil company Saudi Aramco that deleted the hard drives of as many as 30,000 of the company's workstations, although it didn't succeed in interrupting the oil production.) There were major denial-of-service attacks against the websites of leading US retail banks. And most recently The New York Times and other news organizations revealed that Chinese hackers rummaged around in their networks for several months.
But the rhetoric of war doesn't accurately describe much of what happened. There was no attack that damaged anything beyond data, and even that was the exception; the Obama administration's rhetoric notwithstanding, there was nothing that bore any resemblance to World War II in the Pacific. Indeed, the Obama administration has been so intent on responding to the cyber threat with martial aggression that it hasn't paused to consider the true nature of the threat. And that has lead to two crucial mistakes: first, failing to realize (or choosing to ignore) that offensive capabilities in cyber security don't translate easily into defensive capabilities. And second, failing to realize (or choosing to ignore) that it is far more urgent for the United States to concentrate on developing the latter, rather than the former.
At present, the United States government is one of the most aggressive actors when it comes to offensive cyber operations, excluding commercial espionage. The administration has anonymously admitted that it designed Stuxnet (codenamed Olympic Games) a large-scale and protracted sabotage campaign against Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz that was unprecedented in scale and sophistication. Close expert observers assume that America also designed Flame, a major and mysterious espionage operation against several Middle Eastern targets mostly in the energy sector. The same goes for Gauss, a targeted and sophisticated spying operation designed to steal information from Lebanese financial institutions.
Developing sophisticated, code-borne sabotage tools requires skills and expertise; they also require detailed intelligence about the input and output parameters of the targeted control system. The Obama administration seems to have decided to prioritize such high-end offensive operations. Indeed, the Pentagon's bolstered Cyber Command seems designed primarily for such purposes. But these kinds of narrowly-targeted offensive investments have no defensive value.
So amid all the activity, little has been done to address the country's major vulnerabilities. The software that controls America's most critical infrastructure—from pipeline valves to elevators to sluices, trains, and the electricity grid—is often highly insecure by design, as the work of groups like Digital Bond illustrates. Worse, these systems are often connected to the internet for maintenance reasons, which means they are always vulnerable to attack. Shodan, a search engine dubbed the Google for hackers, has already made these networked devices searchable. Recently a group of computer scientists at the Freie Universität in Berlin began to develop their own crawlers to geo-locate these vulnerable devices and display them on a map. Although the data are still incomplete and anonymized, parts of America's most vulnerable infrastructure are now visible for anyone to see.
Defending these areas ought to be the government's top priority, not the creation of a larger Cyber Command capable of going on the offense. Yet the White House has hardly complained that the piece of legislation that would have made some progress towards that goal, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, has stalled indefinitely in the Senate.
Yes, the administration is currently preparing an executive order to circumvent Congress. But a leaked draft of the document shows that private sector lobbying has successfully managed to soften it dramatically. The White House's rather humble goal now seems to be the creation of a yet to-be-defined "framework," one that would create voluntary incentives for companies to abide by new security standards only a full year after publication. Worse: the Department of Homeland Security, the document says, "shall not identify any commercial information technology product." But the very battlefield for cyber attacks is almost exclusively in the hands of private companies. How can their vulnerabilities be corrected if they can't even be identified? It calls into question whether Obama is really serious about defending the nation against cyber attack.
The presidential directive also seems to be contradicted by the recent announcement about the Pentagon's Cyber Command. The Pentagon's cyber-operations annex will also be tasked with securing national infrastructure. It's not yet clear how that authority will align with the Department of Homeland Security's responsibility to enforce Obama's executive order; nor is it clear what kind of legal authority the Pentagon would have in investigating the security arrangements of private companies deemed critical to national infrastructure. "There's no intent to have the military crawl inside industry or private networks and provide that type of security," one official hastened to tell the Washington Post.
But it is telling that an administration that vowed to be unprecedentedly open and transparent with the public, while being tough on national security leaks, has chosen to ignore these principles in its approach to cyber security. The Obama White House treats cyber security as a mission that the public can be informed about through furtive leaks and unidentified officials, cloak-and-dagger style.
An impressive contrast is not far out of view: The New York Times handled its recent attack with graceful transparency. Such transparency engenders accountability and trust—resources crucial to a massive undertaking like the protection of the entire country's digital infrastructure. The Obama administration would be wise to crib from the Times' model. Unless its goal isn't cyber defense, but cyber offense—a statement of priorities that it would also be the public's right to know.
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Andrew is one of the primary organizers of the Vancouver Bitcoin Meet Up, and the Director of Public Relations for the Bitcoin Cooperative. He spearheaded merchant adoption in Vancouver, having signed up the world's first Indian restaurant, the Waves that houses the world's first ATM, Vancouver's first nightclub, and more! He is also the founder and lead coordinator of CoinFest, the first "decentralized" decentralized currency convention.
Smart property is to deeds as Bitcoin is to money. In the same way that Bitcoin revolutionized the concept of currency, smart property revolutionizes the concept of ownership, removing the need for a central authority to say who owns what. Our system of ownership is just one in a growing line of things to be decentralized, but will inevitably be among the most important. The question is, how can we enforce such a system without the firepower backing modern courts?
For those of you still trying to grasp this idea, it's helpful to remember that bitcoins are not actually things: Bitcoin is a decentralized system for deciding who has how much money, and bitcoins are the unit of measurement it uses–they reside nowhere except the imagination of Bitcoin's users. Just like traditional ledgers of account, however, the blockchain can be adapted to track who has what assets and property. This is being done by Bitcoin "2.0" platforms like Mastercoin and Counterparty, and some platforms like Ethereum are building new blockchains altogether.
For some types of property, this might seem kind of simple: things like trademarks, copyrights and patents are no more physical by necessity than money is, in contrast to houses and land. The question is, how can we ensure that people will respect the blockchain's authority? You can show up at my home with a blockchain claiming it belongs to you, but I'm not going to vacate the premises.
In reality, this is a misleading question because it applies equally to the judicial system–the American Supreme Court, for example, maintains no armed forces, and must simply hope that the Executive Branch (which the President leads) will respect its decisions. They usually do, but partially because they appoint the judges, and it's good PR. When politics goes awry, however, the Constitution is occasionally ignored, which politicians as celebrated as Abraham Lincoln are guilty of doing.
To the same extent that other government branches enforce the rule of courts, however, there's no reason they couldn't enforce the rule of the blockchain. A stranger cannot move into your house because a court has verified a document stating that you own the property, which means that if you call the police, they will remove the stranger. The police are equally capable of enforcing a blockchain verified by nodes in a peer-to-peer network.
But what if we wanted to go a step farther and decentralize the enforcement system, as well? It would certainly be nice if we could obsolete the police. While it's not yet possible for everything, it is increasingly possible for electronic items: a computer could be designed to respond only to its blockchain-designated owner, who could be given remote access. Users could be verified physically or remotely by anything from a simple pass-phrase to advanced biometrics; without a central authority and with full encryption, there's less cause for concern about your personal data.
As technology advances and electronic integration becomes more widespread, these sorts of methods will become more feasible. Vehicles increase in processing power every year, to the point that autonomous cars for mainstream consumers are a serious topic. A "smart" car would not respond to the commands of a thief as designated by the rightful owner, and instead turn off or drive to the nearest detention center. A home with integrated air conditioning and electronic locks could be designed to behave similarly, and increasingly advanced automated security systems will add weight to the blockchain's decisions.
In the far-off future, it's conceivable that technological replacements could obsolete the police, too–maybe not Robocop, but a functional means of controlling lawbreakers. Thereafter, selling a house is as easy as exchanging altcoins: you can send a transaction yielding ownership of the property, and receive a Bitcoin transaction in return. Just like sending an email.


Business interruption insurance covers lost income and operating expenses when a disaster forces a business to slow operations or temporarily close down. Covered events include vandalism, fire, and some natural disasters. Business interruption insurance can be purchased as part of a business owner's policy or added on to a commercial property policy.
Imagine if you suddenly had to close down your business tomorrow, and you had no idea when you'd be able to get it running again. It's pretty scary for a small business owner to face such a thing, especially if you (or your employees) depend on your business for a livelihood. But fires, vandalism, storms, and other events can strike unexpectedly.
Fortunately, you don't have to live in fear of this happening. Business interruption insurance is a type of small business insurance that can help you stay on your feet even if you company is hit by a disaster. This insurance can replace income that you lose during a slowdown or shutdown, allow you to continue paying yourself and your employees, and cover operating expenses until you're back in business.
Learn more about business interruption insurance, what it does and doesn't cover, the cost of this coverage, and where to purchase it.
Business interruption insurance (BII), also called business income coverage, replaces lost income and pays for operating expenses when events beyond your control force your business to slow operations or shut down. This can be vital to a business's continued success, but only 35% of small businesses actually have business interruption coverage, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Many small business owners forego business interruption insurance, assuming that their standard commercial property insurance or general liability policy will suffice. Commercial property insurance will repair or replace property that's damaged or stolen. However, it won't cover lost income or future expenses—which can be essential to keep your business going after a disaster.
If you have a brick-and-mortar business, you're most in need of business interruption insurance because you heavily depend on your store and the physical assets inside it. If you need to close down a portion or all of your shop, you clearly lose potential customers. Home-based and online business owners have less of a need for business interruption insurance, but should still consider their situation. Most homeowners policies won't cover lost business income. And although online businesses might have their own physical assets, business interruption insurance can still help if a supplier in your supply chain is affected by a disaster.
You can't buy business interruption insurance on its own. You either add it on to commercial property insurance or buy it as part of a business owner's policy (BOP). A BOP combines general liability and property insurance in one policy and is more affordable than buying each type of coverage on its own.
What Does Business Interruption Insurance Cover?
Business interruption insurance is both backward- and forward-looking in terms of coverage. It covers income that you've already lost from a disaster, but it also covers the things you'll need to keep your business operating and recover.
Lost income: This includes the estimated profits you would have made if your business hadn't experienced a disaster.
Payroll costs: The insurance will ensure that your employees get their paychecks even if disaster hits your business.
Business loan payments: If you miss payments on any business loans, you could end up paying interest or penalties. Business interruption insurance lets you keep up with loan payments.
Taxes: Business interruption insurance gives you the money needed to cover your small business taxes, even if your regular income sources are interrupted.
Relocation costs: You can claim insurance benefits if you need to temporarily move your business while the original location is being repaired.
Lease/mortgage payments: Business interruption insurance will let you keep paying your lease or mortgage payments. Your landlord's insurance likely doesn't cover tenants, so you should have your own business interruption insurance.
Fires, storms, riots, vandalism, and theft are examples of events that would trigger business interruption insurance. Floods and earthquakes usually require separate commercial flood insurance or earthquake insurance.
Your commercial property insurance and business interruption insurance are two separate policies, but they work together. Commercial property insurance covers the repair or replacement of damaged property, and business interruption insurance makes sure that your business can keep operating despite the financial losses that the property damage might cause.
Business interruption insurance is a very specific type of coverage designed to keep a business on its feet when it's recovering from a disaster or unexpected situation.
Utilities: If your business premises are rendered completely unusable, you should call the utility provider to stop service, so most insurance companies won't cover utility costs.
Floods and earthquakes: This requires separate commercial flood insurance or earthquake insurance.
Direct property damage: Commercial property insurance insures your business's belongings. Business interruption insurance is for the ensuing loss of income and expenses.
Employee injuries: Business interruption insurance will help you pay your employees' wages. However, to insure against physical injuries or illnesses that happen while working, you need workers compensation insurance.
Liability: Business interruption insurance is not a form of liability insurance, which means that it won't cover you for lawsuits arising from any property damage or bodily injuries that your company causes.
Voluntary closures: It shouldn't come as a surprise that voluntarily closing your business doesn't allow you to claim any insurance benefits.
Seasonal slumps: Seasonal slumps or natural business trends are also not something that an insurance company will cover.
For example, say you have a retail wine shop in Portland, Oregon, that imports wines from a wholesale supplier in Napa, California. A fire in Napa forces the supplier to close down for several weeks, disrupting your supply of wine and slowing down your sales. If you have appropriate coverage in your business interruption insurance policy, you could claim benefits for lost income.
What's the Cost of Business Interruption Insurance?
Business interruption insurance can only be purchased as an add-on to a commercial property policy or as part of a business owner's policy (BOP). The average cost of a BOP is $1,191 per year, according to business insurance marketplace Insureon.
Business location: Location in an area that's prone to natural disasters will increase premiums.
Business size: Businesses with larger premises take longer to rebuild and are costlier to rebuild.
Type of business: A business like a restaurant with many physical assets will pay more than an online business.
Business's claims history: Having a clean claims history could earn you lower premiums.
Safety measures to protect your business premises: Having a sprinkler system, security cameras to deter looters, or other safety mechanisms could lower your premiums.
How Much Business Interruption Coverage Do You Need?
Obviously, a big factor that affects your cost is the amount of insurance coverage you're looking to get. In order to calculate how much business interruption coverage to buy, you first need to figure out how much you stand to lose in a worst-case scenario—if a disaster hits your business and leaves it completely unusable.
Calculate your business's projected income. Estimate your business's annual income for the coming year, and divide your estimate by 12 to get projected monthly income.
Calculate how long it would take to get your business running again. This is called the period of restoration. For instance, if your business was completely destroyed, you would have to call an insurance adjuster and appraiser to appraise the losses, an architect to design a new building, and a contractor to construct a new building. You might have to relocate while you wait for the new building to be ready. This period of restoration could take several months, depending on the size of your business.
Calculate lost income and operating expenses during the period of restoration. Since you know your monthly income, add up how much income you'd lose during the period of restoration. You should also write down your monthly expenses for that time period, such as employee wages, loan and rent payments, and taxes.
Keep in mind that the amount of money you'll receive from the insurance company for each claim is based on records of your business income and expenses, so you should have an effective business accounting software or system.
According to Cate Steane, founder of Make It Happen Preparedness Services, "Having a BII policy is useful only if you have current, accurate documentation of your business revenues and expenses. Having a good bookkeeper and having your financial records on the cloud is critical to successful pursuit of business interruption claims." If there are disagreements about the amount of loss you experienced, the insurance company will call in an appraiser.
Remember that you can't buy business interruption insurance on its own. You have to buy it along with a commercial property policy or as part of a BOP insurance package. Small businesses with 100 or fewer employees and up to $5 million in annual revenue are usually eligible for BOPs, and you can find them at almost any midsize or large insurance company.
When shopping around for insurance, don't focus just on saving money. The goal is to get the right amount and type of coverage you need for the best price. You should also make sure your insurance company is A rated or higher by A.M. Best. This is a financial strength rating used in the insurance industry to assess an insurer's ability to pay claims.
Hiscox is a leading, A rated consumer and business insurance provider. They have a BOP that combines general liability and property insurance under one policy. The BOP doesn't come standard with business interruption insurance, but you can customize it by adding it on.
Hiscox calls this "office insurance for fire and business interruption." With this comes coverage for up to 12 months of lost income. They guarantee 60 days of payroll expenses as well. As is typical, flood, earthquake, and volcano damage aren't covered. Utilities and computer repair also aren't covered.
The rate for a Hiscox BOP starts at $400 per year, and you can choose to pay your premiums all at once or monthly. They even give you 14 days to review your policy. As long as you haven't had a claim, you can cancel anytime within that time period and receive a full refund. You can get a free quote and purchase your BOP online. Alternatively, you can go through a licensed insurance agent or broker.
Chubb small business insurance is a top contender for buying business interruption insurance. Chubb is A++ rated by A.M. Best, which is the highest possible financial strength rating for an insurance company. They are very transparent about what is included in their BOP, so there are no surprises.
The business interruption insurance from Chubb doesn't just cover your business's office or primary site location. It also extends to disasters that might affect your company at offsite events, such as trade shows and conferences. Loss of utilities and internet is also covered in Chubb policies. You're also covered for interruptions in your supply chain from any vendors that you're dependent on, no matter where they are located around the world.
Chubb's most helpful feature is their online business income coverage calculator. This will remove some of the guesswork out of how much business interruption insurance coverage you need. The calculator walks small business owners through the income and expense calculations to figure out the ideal coverage limits.
The Hartford is another A+ rated insurance company that offers various types of small business insurance. Unlike Hiscox, in which you have to pay extra to add on business interruption coverage to a BOP, basic business income coverage is already included in The Hartford's BOP.
That said, the Hartford does offer various customizations. For instance, you can choose business interruption insurance for essential personnel so that your most valuable employees keep receiving their wages even if your business is temporarily closed. You can add coverage for unexpected interruption to your computer network or hacking into your computer systems, something that many other insurers exclude outright from business interruption coverage. There's also optional coverage if offsite property is damaged or utilities are interrupted.
Most business interruption policies stop paying out once your business reopens, but The Hartford recognizes that while your business was closed, your customers might have gone to competitors. They'll included extended income coverage to help you win those customers back or acquire new customers. You can get a quote online but need to complete your policy purchase by speaking with an agent or broker.
A+ rated Nationwide Insurance is a great pick for a customizable BOP. They sell your standard BOP which includes standard general liability, commercial property insurance, business interruption insurance, and equipment breakdown coverage.
However, Nationwide doesn't stop here. They also offer industry-specific BOPs tailored to the risks most commonly faced by the auto, retail, food, and other industries. For example, restaurants tend to need more business interruption coverage because they have more expensive kitchen equipment to replace. It also takes longer for a restaurant to get back in service (due to government regulations on restaurants). Nationwide recognizes these differences with tailored product offerings.
Nationwide has a 24/7 phone line if you have a claim or question, and they even employ business experts to handle calls from commercial policy holders. You can request a quote online, but to purchase a policy, you'll have to work with an agent.
CoverWallet is an insurance marketplace that lets you shop around for business insurance quotes. You can apply online within about 15 minutes for a BOP, which includes general liability, commercial property, and business interruption insurance.
The nice part, however, is that you won't just see one quote when you're finished with the form. You'll be able to compare quotes from multiple A-rated insurance companies and choose which company is offering you the most coverage for the lowest price.
Once you get a policy, you can also add an additional insured, expand coverage, or get proof of insurance online. CoverWallet offers one of the quickest ways to get business interruption insurance. A process that can take days with an insurance company takes just minutes on CoverWallet.
Throughout the life of your business interruption insurance policy, make sure you keep accurate records on income and expenses. That way, if you have a claim, the insurance company will reimburse you the right amount of money.
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Pete Buttigieg is running for the Democrat ticket in 2020
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Republican has a totally bizarre theory about why Pete Buttigieg will help Trump win
Despite recent polls showing the Buttigieg finishing just behind former vice president Joe Biden for the Democratic nominee, Chandelle Summer, a contributor to MSNBC believed he wouldn't fair well against Trump because "he is so far from the norm".
He will be the first Maltese-American and Episcopalian gay, millennial war veteran ever to have reached for the presidency.
He is so far from the norm when it comes to political candidates that I think that voters will flock in droves to Donald Trump as a candidate just because they will find this so unusual and frightening.
Will Pete Buttigieg be the first gay US president?
By Daniel J. McLaughlin
Mayor Pete is running for president - and he wants the Democratic Party ticket to face Donald Trump in 2020.
Pete Buttigieg is hoping to be the first openly gay president in American history.
However, some conservatives argue that his candidacy could add more support for Trump.
The Midwestern mayor announced he would run for the Democratic nomination on Sunday, Metro reports.
Not only would he be the first openly gay president, the 37-year-old could be on course to be the youngest to enter the White House.
He told an audience assembled at a former auto plant: "I recognise the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor. More than a little bold, at age 37, to seek the highest office in the land."
Buttigieg said: "When Chasten and I started dating, and eventually got married in South Bend, we weren't exactly sure how the idea of the first-ever male first gentlemen, let alone a same-sex one, would be received in town.
"And pretty quickly, we just hit on the idea of expecting to be treated like any other couple. We'd act like any other couple, we'd hope people would treat us that way. And for the most part that's what people did."
The Mayor of South Bend in Indiana, who took office in 2012, said being gay is "part of who I am, and it's part of my story, and it has shaped me in some important ways".
The veteran also said he wanted to "turn the page" from "divisive identify identity politics" employed by Trump.
He added: "The forces of change in our country today are tectonic. Forces that help to explain what made this current presidency even possible. That's why, this time, it's not just about winning an election – it's about winning an era."
The Counterclaim
However, a US conservative radio host argues that Trump will win support, because openly gay Buttigieg is "unusual and frightening", according to indy100.
Chandelle Summer, a contributor to MSNBC, said: "He will be the first Maltese-American and Episcopalian gay, millennial war veteran ever to have reached for the presidency.
"He is so far from the norm when it comes to political candidates that I think that voters will flock in droves to Donald Trump as a candidate just because they will find this so unusual and frightening."
While she said she didn't find Buttigieg "personally terrifying", Summer argues that the American public will "find it so abhorrent and different from the usual candidates and won't be able to wrap their heads around it".
She added: "I mean, he is 37-years-old. I can remember when I was 37-years-old and my thought process, the way I analyse things is different than now and you need experience in life to be a good leader and to understand all the different dynamics of the economy, the world, the global situation, national security.
"I just don't think voters will trust someone that young and I don't think the fact that he's gay is a big problem personally. I feel like we have crossed that bridge in this country."
Most Americans are okay with a gay presidential candidate, NBC News reports.
A combined 68 per cent are either "enthusiastic" (14 per cent) or "comfortable" (54 per cent) with a gay or lesbian person running for president, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll.
This is a big shift in opinion over recent years. A similar poll conducted in 2006 found that more than half of Americans said they would be "very uncomfortable" (34 per cent) or have "reservations" (19 per cent) about a gay or lesbian candidate. Only five per cent of Americans said they would have been enthusiastic about a LGBT candidate at the time.
They report: "What's more, that jump isn't just due to increasing tolerance among the younger voters who Buttigieg, a millennial, can claim to represent.
"The share of those under 35 who say they're enthusiastic or comfortable with a gay candidate increased by 28 percentage points between 2006 and now, jumping from 47 per cent to 75 per cent now."
Americans are talking about Buttigieg's candidacy. He was the second most mentioned candidate on cable television last week, behind Bernie Sanders, who is also running for the Democrat nomination.
FiveThirtyEight have been tracking every mention of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
Sanders was mentioned in more than 660 clips last across the three cable networks, while Buttigieg saw an increase of over 19 per cent from the previous week.


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Detroit leaders and organizations are working with JPMorgan Chase to deploy the bank's $100 million commitment in various ways that are advancing the city's priorities when it comes to helping startups and minority-owned businesses launch, grow, and scale.
Food sector small businesses are a fast-growing part of Detroit's community of entrepreneurs. Incubators like Shed 5 at Eastern Market and efforts like Chase's Entrepreneurs of Color Fund, which supports minority-owned small businesses, play a key role in helping these businesses get up off the ground.
In 2014, JPMorgan Chase made a $100 million five-year pledge to accelerate Detroit's recovery. Two years in, Detroit's local minority-owned businesses are seeing real results, says Hajj Flemings, founder of Brand Camp University, which runs the largest personal branding conference in the midwest. He is also the author of The Brand YU Life: Re-thinking Who You Are Through Personal Brand Management (Third Generation Publishing; $14.95).
Flemings—who also launched a tech startup called Gokit, a company that develops identity kits—believes that innovative ideas and efforts that are spurring Detroit's turnaround are providing models for other cities seeking advance progress. This past January, he headed to Silicon Valley for Rebrand Detroit: Innovating Detroit Neighborhoods, a project sponsored by the Knight Foundation. During his trip, he met with investors, VCs, influencers, and startups about partnership opportunities. Flemings gained national attention in 2011 when he was featured in CNN's documentary Black in America 4: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley.
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Horses benefit from companionship, and although they often keep each one another company, other animals can provide companionship to horses as well.
Deer Creek Structures has compiled a list of animals that get along well with horses, and are good at providing companionship to them.
Dogs make great companions for horses, especially horses who don't love to live the solitary life. A well-trained dog can be a travel buddy as you trailer your horse from competitions, and they also make great company when you go out for a ride with your horse.
Dogs can also give your horse an added layer of protection: he'll bark or growl when something or someone unfamiliar approaches, and in doing so can form quite a strong bond with your horse as his protector and advocate. Some breeds that are well-known for being great horse dogs include: Golden Retrievers, Australian shepherds, Dalmatians, and Australian Cattle Dogs.
You've all head of barn cats but do they really make good friends for your horse? As it turns out, they do! Many barn cats grow attached to their horse companions, and will keep them company in the field or in the barn.
Cats do not typically make good travel buddies though because they usually don't want to leave the comfort of their home.
Goats and sheep will also make good friends for your horses. Since goats and sheep graze just as horses do, the different internal parasites that they carry can actually act as a natural parasite control to keep the horses healthy. Goats will also eat the weeds and other things in the pasture that your horse won't want to snack on so your fields will look nice and neat.
If you're searching for top quality barns and cabins to house your horses and other barn animals, contact Deer Creek Structures today.


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Q: Efficient way of checking proxies in python? I was wondering if anyone knew how to check proxies in an efficient manner without taking too long. I've already found an old StackOverflow question from 11 years ago that doesn't exactly give what I'm looking for. The methods that I've currently tried are either deprecated and don't work anymore or are extremely slow. An example of something I've tried is this:
def checkProxy(proxy):
try:
    proxy_handler = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http': proxy})
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_handler)
    opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
    urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
    req=urllib.request.Request('http://www.google.com')
    sock=urllib.request.urlopen(req)
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
    return False
except Exception as detail:
    return False
return True

with open(prxyfile,"r+")as proxyfile:
    for proxy in proxyfile:
        proxy=proxy.replace("\n","")
        if checkProxy(proxy):
            # proxy is good
        else:
            # proxy is bad

This works in theory but is extremely slow.
I'm hoping that anyone may know some libraries or modules that would be good for checking proxies. I would also greatly appreciate it if anyone knew how to check proxies for specific URLs, and not just if they work in general. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

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World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view events, 2016 pay-per-view events, Money in the Bank (PPV)
Money in the Bank 2016
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Money in the Bank 2016 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, which took place on June 19, 2016 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the seventh annual Money in the Bank pay-per-view.
See also: Professional wrestling
WWE's Money in the Bank pay-per-view event centers around a match of the same name, in which multiple wrestlers use use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. The winner is guaranteed a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at a time of their choosing within the next year.
On November 4, 2015, Seth Rollins was forced to vacate the WWE World Heavyweight Championship due to injury. Rollins returned on May 22, 2016 at Extreme Rules, attacking champion Roman Reigns after his successful title defense against AJ Styles. Rollins was granted a title match against Reigns at Money in the Bank the next night on Raw by Shane McMahon. Meanwhile, critics wondered if WWE was "leaving money on the table" by not slotting Rollins as a babyface and Reigns as a heel, as this was the opposite of what fans wanted (fans were cheering Rollins and booing Reigns).
On the May 30 episode of Raw, John Cena returned after recovering from a shoulder injury that left him out of action for five months. AJ Styles then came out to welcome him back until Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, Styles' former teammates in The Club (which had broken up the previous week on Raw) appeared looking for a fight. Cena and Styles prepared to brawl with them, until Styles attacked Cena alongside Gallows and Anderson, turning heel and reforming The Club in the process. On June 3, a match between Cena and Styles was scheduled for Money in the Bank. On the June 13 episode of Raw, Cena presented Styles with two contracts: one allowing Gallow and Anderson to be in his corner, the other banning them so they could fight uninterrupted, so Styles chose the latter.
The winner of the Money in the Bank ladder match will win a contract for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at any time within the next year. On the May 23 episode of Raw and the May 26 episode of SmackDown, Kevin Owens, Cesaro, Alberto Del Rio, Sami Zayn, Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho all qualified for the match by defeating AJ Styles, The Miz, Zack Ryder, Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler and Apollo Crews, respectively.
At Payback, a tag team match pitting The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch) against Enzo Amore and Big Cass to determine the #1 contender for the WWE Tag Team Championship ended in a no contest after Enzo Amore suffered a legit concussion. Subsequently, the Vaudevillains challenged WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day at Extreme Rules in a losing effort. On the May 30 episode of Raw, during a rematch between The Vaudevillains and The New Day, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson attacked The New Day. The following week on Raw, The Vaudevillains defeated Enzo Amore and Big Cass by disqualification. Later in the night, Gallows and Anderson defeated The New Day. Taking an idea by Teddy Long, Stephanie McMahon scheduled the four teams in a match at Money in the Bank in a Fatal 4-Way match for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
On the May 26 episode of SmackDown, after WWE United States Champion Rusev defeated Kalisto to retain the title, Titus O'Neil came out to help Kalisto when Rusev refused to break his Accolade submission. On the May 30 episode of Raw, after defeating Zack Ryder, Rusev would take the mic and start to insult the crowd, stating that he was what America should be about, declaring himself a "true American hero" and being better than everyone in the audience leading to O'Neil coming out and responding to Rusev with a right hand, sending him outside the ring and retreating to the back holding up the United States Championship. On June 8, a match between O'Neil and Rusev for the United States Championship was scheduled for Money in the Bank. On the June 13 episode of Raw, Titus O'Neil walked out for his match when Rusev attacked him on the stage and applied the Accolade. WWE officials tried to pull Rusev off of O'Neil as he would pass out to his Accolade submission and go on to taunt O'Neil with the United States Championship in his face.
At Extreme Rules, WWE Women's Champion Charlotte defeated Natalya due to distraction by Dana Brooke dressing as Ric Flair. On the May 23 episode of Raw, Charlotte turned on her father, Ric Flair, claiming he was no longer needed, and therefore aligned herself with Dana Brooke as her apprentice. On the May 26 episode of SmackDown, Natalya defeated Brooke by disqualification. On the May 30 episode of Raw, after Brooke defeated Natalya, Becky Lynch came out and help Natalya. On the June 9 episode of SmackDown, Lynch defeated Brooke. On June 13, a match pitting Charlotte and Brooke against Natalya and Lynch was scheduled for Money in the Bank.
At the Extreme Rules Kickoff, Baron Corbin defeated Dolph Ziggler in a No Disqualification match after deliberately using a low blow following with the End of Days. On the May 23 episode of Raw, during an backstage interview with JoJo, Ziggler interrupted Baron Corbin, challenging him to a "technical wrestling match" for next week on Raw, to which Corbin accepted. On the May 30 episode of Raw, Corbin defeated Ziggler by disqualification after Ziggler deliberately hit Corbin with a low blow as retaliation for what happened at Extreme Rules. On June 17, their fifth encounter, pitting the two, was scheduled for Money in the Bank.
On the May 23 episode of Raw, frustration toward losing his Money in the Bank qualifying match to Sami Zayn earlier in the night, Sheamus attacked Apollo Crews during an backstage interview with Renee Young, telling Crews that he's sick of him promoting the "New Era" and that no one would replace him, leading to Crews losing his Money in the Bank qualifying match to Chris Jericho later in the show. On the June 9 episode of SmackDown, backstage watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows movie, Sheamus bragged to Zack Ryder, Goldust, R-Truth and Summer Rae about how great he was and how everyone should be waiting on him and how he is an A-list star, leading to Apollo Crews confronting Sheamus and punching him, sending Sheamus into a number of cardboard boxes behind him. On the June 13 episode of Raw, after defeating Zack Ryder, Sheamus continued to viciously attack Ryder leading to Crews coming down to help Ryder. On June 17, a match pitting the two was scheduled for Money in the Bank.
After Goldust replaced R-Truth with Fandango as his tag team partner in their match in the Team Championship #1 contender tournament on the April 14 episode of SmackDown, R-Truth found a new partner in Tyler Breeze. Following singles match victory on Raw by Breeze over Goldust and R-Truth over Fandango, the two teams faced each other on the May 12 episode of SmackDown; Tyler Breeze and R-Truth defeated Golddust and Fandango when Fandango turned on his partner. After the match, Fandango and Breeze continued to attack Goldust, who was then rescued by R-Truth. After Breezango (Breeze and Fandango) defeated The Golden Truth (Goldust and R-Truth) on the May 16 and the May 30 episode of Raw, a third match between the two teams was scheduled on June 17 for the Money in the Bank pre-show.
On June 17, a match pitting The Lucha Dragons against The Dudley Boyz was scheduled for the Money in the Bank pre-show.
The Money in the Bank Kickoff Show was hosted by Renee Young, with Booker T and Corey Graves as analysts. Lita returned to join the pre-show panel for the first time since WrestleMania 32, replacing Jerry Lawler due to him being suspended, while Tom Phillips conducted backstage interviews.
Michael Cole, John "Bradshaw" Layfield (main show), Mauro Ranallo (pre-show) and Byron Saxton (all matches) served as the English commentators, while the Spanish and German commentators also called the matches live at ringside. Lilian Garcia and JoJo served as ring announcers.
During the Pre-Show, Golden Truth (Goldust and R-Truth) faced Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango). Breezango suffered from major cases of sunburn, which their opponents exploited throughout the match. The end came when Goldust executed a Final Cut on Fandango to win the match.
Later,The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) after Kalisto executed a Salida Del Sol on Bubba Ray followed by Sin Cara executing a Dragon Bomb on Bubba Ray to win the match.
The actual pay-per-view opened with a Fatal 4-Way Tag Team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship between champions The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston, accompanied by Xavier Woods), Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows), Enzo Amore and Bi Cass and The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch). The match ended with Big E and Kingston executing the Midnight Hour on Anderson, and Kingston pinning English to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship.
The second match saw Baron Corbin defeat Dolph Ziggler. The match ended with Corbin executing the End of Days on Ziggler for the pinfall.
In the next match, WWE Women's Champion Charlotte and Dana Brooke defeated Natalya and Becky Lynch. The match ended with Charlotte executing a Natural Selection on Natalya for the pinfall. After the match, Natalya attacked Lynch, turning heel.
The fourth match saw Apollo Crews defeat Sheamus. After Crews kicked out of White Noise off the Top Rope, Crews executed a Crucifix Pin on Sheamus for a pinfall.
In the fifth match AJ Styles faced John Cena. During the match, both wrestlers managed to execute their respective finishers - Cena executed an Attitude Adjustment and Styles executed a Styles Clash - but in both cases the opponent kicked out at a two count. Later, Cena executed a second Attitude Adjustment on Styles but accidentally knocked down the referee. This allowed Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows to interfere, executing a Magic Killer on Cena and placing Styles on top of Cena. The referee recovered and counted the pinfall, giving Styles the victory.
In the Money in the Bank Ladder match for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match Contract, Dean Ambrose defeated Alberto Del Rio, Cesaro, Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. Near the end of the match, Ambrose pushed Owens onto a Ladder which was bridged between another Ladder and the Corner of the Ring. Ambrose retrieved the Briefcase to win the match.
In the seventh match, Rusev (accompanied by Lana) defended his United States Championship. Rusev retained the Title when Titus O'Neil submitted to the Accolade submission hold.
In the main event Roman Reigns defended his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Seth Rollins. After a back-and-forth match, Reigns attempted to execute a Spear on Rollins through the Barricade but Rollins avoided the move, causing Reigns to collide with the barricade. Rollins attempted a Pedigree on Reigns but Reigns countered the move and executed a Spear on Rollins. However, the referee had been knocked down too, allowing Rollins to eventually kick out at two. In the end, Reigns attempted a second Spear but Rollins countered with a Pedigree on Reigns, which Reigns kicked out of at a two count. Rollins executed a second Pedigree on Reigns to win the match and the championship.
After the match, Dean Ambrose hit Rollins with the Money in the Bank briefcase and cashed in his Money in the Bank contract. Ambrose executed Dirty Deeds on Rollins to win the match, thus becoming WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch reviewed most of the event's matches, giving the Reigns-Rollins world title match 3.5 (out of 5) stars due to a "very strong second-half after a sluggish first-half with Reigns playing a heel throughout." Caldwell attributed Ambrose's title win to WWE needing to "to do something after the 2.03 TV rating on Monday" for Raw, leading to "WWE switching the belt the one clear, 100 percent, Daniel Bryan-like babyface they have at the top of the card". Two of the event's matches were jointly best rated at 3.75 stars: Cena-Styles, "three-fourths of the way to an epic match that was hyped going into the PPV" but "Cena looked rusty"; as well as the ladder match, "very good" but with a predictable ending "since everyone got their shine while Ambrose was mainly in the background during the match". The rest of the matches on the pay-per-view broadcast were rated between 2.0 and 2.5 stars: the tag title match was "a bit of a mess"; "Ziggler made [Corbin] look good"; Lynch and Natalya should have gotten a "credibility-boosting victory since they always lose to Charlotte"; Crews's win was "unconvincing", and Rusev was repeating his 2014 storyline with the U.S. title.
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer deemed the first pre-show match a "nothing match" and the second pre-show match "normal". He opined that the tag title match drew the crowd into it but that the "execution was rough". Meltzer was negative on Corbin-Ziggler, which he called "too long", as the "feud has done Ziggler no favors" while "Corbin just doesn't show much of anything". The finish of Crews-Sheamus made him think "it's just the beginning between these two." The next two matches Meltzer deemed "excellent": Cena-Styles was about Styles being "the better wrestler than Cena, beating him at every turn but he couldn't finish him", while in the ladder match everyone (especially Cesaro) "took big ladder bumps but there was nothing really insane like used to be in such matches. Meltzer wrote the U.S. title match "was in the death spot" and "really had no chance with the crowd" despite Rusev and O'Neil having "worked hard in a physical match." The Reigns-Rollins match he called "flat at times because it went so long" and that Rollins was "not that over as a face" while "people just weren't into Reigns at all".
Jason Namako of Wrestleview felt that Money in the Bank was "a damn good show" with a "phenomenal ending": it featured "the resurrection of Dean Ambrose as a player in this company and it was an amazing success". That followed the Reigns-Rollins world title match, which was Namako's match of the night. Ambrose was Namako's Most Valuable Player of the night, with his "insane" ladder match featuring "tremendous effort" by all six men involved. Another notable match was the tag title match, a "super-fun opener with a real hot, frenetic pace to it". Meanwhile, Corbin-Ziggler was "solid", Crews-Sheamus was "decent", and O'Neil and Rusev "did the best they could" in the "epitome of a cool-down match". However, Namako felt the show also had negatives: the "masterful performance" by Cena and Styles was "tarnished by timid booking" with an "unneeded cheap finish" which did not "help Styles in the slightest"; while the women's match was "run-of-the-mill" and "it unfortunately looks like we are right back where we started one year ago before the 'Divas Revolution' began".
Aaron Oster, writing for The Baltimore Sun, wrote that Ambrose's win of the ladder match was predictable, yet "the main event was anything but predictable". Oster attributed the television overrun of the show to two reasons: firstly viewers who were watching the Game 7 of the NBA Finals could watch the main event, and secondly "it kept fans guessing exactly when it would end". "Hypothetically, if things go as the WWE wants with Brock Lesnar returning to UFC", Oster speculated, "many more eyes than usual will be turning toward the company for the entire summer, and especially at Summerslam. To have Dean Ambrose be the champion when that is happening is a huge statement from the company that shows how much confidence that they have in him." For the other events, Oster felt it was "weird" to portray Crews as an "underdog" but that was still "better than having absolutely no direction with him." Meanwhile, "Rusev as a jerk heel, and not simply an anti-American heel, is really a fantastic thing." Oster also remarked that Golden Truth had fan support but doubted that WWE would "actually go anywhere with it."
The day after Money in the Bank, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins wrestled on Raw for a future shot at Dean Ambrose's world title. That match ended in a double count-out, so Ambrose agreed to face both men, and Shane McMahon arranged a triple threat world title match at Battleground. On June 21, two days after Money in the Bank, Reigns was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Program, which uses drug testing to detect substance abuse. Pro Wrestling Torch reported that WWE knew of Reigns' violation before Money in the Bank, leading to Reigns being scripted to lose his world title at the event.
Golden Truth vs. Breezango Preview
The Lucha Dragons v The Dudley Boyz Preview
Fatal 4-Way tag team match Preview
Dolph Ziggler vs. Baron Corbin Preview
Charlotte & Dana Brooke vs. Natalya & Becky Lynch Preview
Apollo Crews vs. Sheamus Preview
John Cena vs. AJ Styles Preview
Money in the Bank ladder match Preview
Rusev v Titus O'Neil Preview
Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins Preview
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
Pre Show: Golden Truth (Goldust & R-Truth) defeated Breezango (Tyler Breeze & Fandango) (5:06)
Pre Show: The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto & Sin Cara) defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley) (8:48)
The New Day (Big E & Kofi Kingston) (w/ Xavier Woods) (c) defeated The Club (Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows) and Realest Guys (Enzo Amore & Big Cass) and The Vaudevillains (Aiden English & Simon Gotch) in a Fatal 4-Way tag team match to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship (11:43)
Baron Corbin defeated Dolph Ziggler (12:24)
Charlotte & Dana Brooke defeated Natalya & Becky Lynch (7:00)
Apollo Crews defeated Sheamus (8:36)
AJ Styles defeated John Cena (24:10)
Dean Ambrose defeated Sami Zayn, Cesaro, Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens & Alberto Del Rio in a Money in the Bank ladder match for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match contract (21:37)
Rusev (c) (w/ Lana) defeated Titus O'Neil by submission to retain the WWE United States Championship (8:13)
Seth Rollins defeated Roman Reigns (c) to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (26:00)
Dean Ambrose cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Seth Rollins (c) to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (0:08)
Other on-screen talent
Michael Cole (PPV)
John Bradshaw Layfield (PPV)
Byron Saxton (Pre-show + PPV)
Mauro Ranallo (Pre-show)
Carsten Schaefer (German)
Sebastian Hackl (German)
Carlos Cabrera (Spanish)
Marcelo Rodríguez (Spanish)
Pre-show Panel
Renee Young
Booker T
Corey Graves
Ring announcer
Lilian Garcia
List of WWE pay-per-view events
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Money in the Bank 2016 on DVD
Money in the Bank 2016 Official Website
Money in the Bank 2016 Pre show on WWE Network
Money in the Bank 2016 on WWE Network
Money in the Bank 2016 (PT) on WWE Network
Money in the Bank 2016 (JA) on WWE Network
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Money in the Bank 2016 (RU) on WWE Network
Money in the Bank 2016 (DE) on WWE Network
Money in the Bank 2016 Kickoff Show at CAGEMATCH.net
Money in the Bank 2016 at CAGEMATCH.net
Money in the Bank 2016 previews
Roman Reigns v Seth Rollins • John Cena v AJ Styles • Money in the Bank ladder match • Fatal 4-Way Match • Rusev v Titus O'Neil • Lucha Dragons v Dudley Boyz • Charlotte & Dana Brooke v Natalya & Becky Lynch • Dolph Ziggler v Baron Corbin • Apollo Crews v Sheamus • Golden Truth v Breezango
2016 World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-views
Royal Rumble • Fastlane • Roadblock • Takeover IX • WrestleMania • Payback • Extreme Rules • TakeOver: The End • Money in the Bank • Battleground • Back to Brooklyn • SummerSlam • Backlash • Clash of Champions • No Mercy • Hell in a Cell • TakeOver: Toronto • Survivor Series • TLC: Tables, Ladders, & Chairs • Roadblock: End of the Line
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When I was told I was reviewing a cushion I was a little taken aback but this is a really useful cushion indeed. Coated in a black velvet like material this triangular wedge shape cushion has a small pocket on the front to slip your table into. Be that an iPad or Galaxy Tab or even a Microsoft surface. The positioning is perfect for using the device on your lap or say reading in bed.
When using the iCushion on your lap you soon realise the real advantage of using a soft padded stand over a conventional tray or table. It moulds to your legs and as you shift weight it moves with you.
The iCushion can be purchased in many different colours to match your decor. I had the black one to review which felt right at home with my black Surface tablet. When used with the Surface there wasn't really a good way to attach the Surface keyboard and keep it in the iCushion pocket but that is not what it is designed for. Using it in the iCushion without the keyboard gave the perfect touch experience and was far more stable than using the Surface's kick stand on my lap.
I usually start to get shoulder ache when holding a tablet for extended periods this totally alleviated that. Its just great for watching movies as the viewing angle is perfect without the need to hold the tablet at all.
My only slight criticism is I found the tablet had a tendancy to fall out if I handed the iCushion to someone else but this is easy to avoid by holding the device in place - just something you have to remember.
It is really well put together and feels like it work stand up to every day use. The filling has a bean bag type feel to it which allows it to mould to uneven surfaces but maintain rigidity.


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public class Pojo {}