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'I drank too much': Timberlake responds to cheating rumours
by Kat O'Connor
Justin Timberlake has issued an emotional statement after he was spotted 'getting close' to his co-star Alisha Wainwright a few weeks ago.
The Cry Me a River singer admitted that he had a 'lapse in judgement' and 'too much to drink' on the night in question.
However, he stressed that absolutely nothing happened between him and fellow actor Alisha, despite photos of them holding hands.
Justin was also pictured without his wedding ring on the night.
He apologised to both his wife and son in the statement.
He wrote, "I stay away from gossip as much as I can, but for my family I feel it is important to address recent rumours that are hurting the people that I love."
A post shared by Just Jared (@justjared) on Dec 4, 2019 at 5:54pm PST
The actor continued, "A few weeks ago I displayed a strong lapse in judgement – but let me be clear – nothing happened between me and my co-star."
"I drank way too much that night and I regret my behaviour. I should have known better. This is not the example I want to set for my son."
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Dec 4, 2019 at 5:05pm PST
Justin shared, "I apologise to my amazing wife and family for putting them through such an embarrassing situation, and I am focused on being the best husband and father I can be. This was not that."
He added, "I am incredibly proud to be working on Palmer. Looking forward to continuing to make this movie and excited for people to see it."
Justin and Jessica have a four-year-old son Silas.
The couple have been married since 2012.
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'Completley innocent': Justin isn't romantically involved with co-star
The Internet erupted with cheating allegations seconds after Justin Timberlake was spotted holding hands with his Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright.
The co-stars were photographed 'getting cosy' outside a bar in New Orleans, where they are currently filming together.
A post shared by (@celebs_in_touch) on Nov 24, 2019 at 4:15am PST
However, a source close to both actors has told People that there is nothing going on between the pair.
They stressed that the photos are completely innocent and that the actors were simply hanging out with the movie's cast and crew.
A post shared by Twitter: @variedadesymuch (@variedadesymuchomas) on Nov 24, 2019 at 4:13am PST
"It's a balcony with a group of people and it was definitely nothing happening. He's down there shooting [his film] Palmer, they're starring in the movie together and they're cool and everybody was just hanging out," they said.
The source added, "The video may look a way, but literally it was nothing. It was some friends, members of the team, crew and people like that. They all know each other and were hanging. Like come on, they're on an open balcony in New Orleans and he's famous. It was nothing."
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Jul 4, 2019 at 2:41pm PDT
A representative for Wainwright added, "There is no validity to this speculation. They are currently working on a project together. Members of the cast and crew were all together."
Justin has been married to Jessica Biel since 2012. The couple has a four-year-old son together.
Jessica Biel's birthday post to Justin Timberlake will make you cry
by SHEmazing Team
Jessica Biel is sending some serious lurrrrrve vibes Justin Timberlake's way. The married pair are absolutely adorable, and share three-year-old son Silas together.
Biel, who recently produced and starred in the incredible Netflix show The Sinner, has now uploaded the CUTEST message to her husband, and we can't stop weeping.
The 36-year-old actress posted a photo of the happy couple smiling underwater, and captioned the note;
"Since the days of embarrassing pink ruffled bikinis and underwater photo shoots, you have been infusing my life with so much joy and laughter that I blame YOU for my smile lines. But I wouldn't trade them for the world."
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Jan 31, 2019 at 3:48pm PST
She continued; "I wear them with pride knowing that I am the luckiest human around to have the honour of hearing your jokes, your words, your voice, every day of my life."
"Happy birthday to the man of my blue ocean dreams. I love you." OH. MY. SWEET. LORD. The man of my blue ocean dreams? That's some poetry right there.
Timberlake is celebrating his 38th birthday with his wife, and headed to the theatre to watch a performance of To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway,
The singer is currently wrapping up his Man of the Woods national tour, which has a show slated on the day of his actual birthday.
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Jan 30, 2019 at 3:47pm PST
Their big night out seemed to take a lot out of Biel, who fell asleep in the car, much to Justin's amusement. He posted a hilarious video singing happy birthday to himself, while his wife is fully in dreamland beside him.
He added the cheeky caption; "Gotta work tomorrow for my bday so wifey really going all out tonight…" She playfully replied; "I'm just preparing for our big night out. Just preparing."
Thursday night's Madison Square Garden performance was originally meant to happen in October, but Timberlake had ongoing bruised vocal cords and was forced to postpone it.
The former *NSYNC member previously had an operation to remove his throat nodules back in 2005.
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Oct 30, 2018 at 10:10am PDT
The Hollywood pair tied the knot in 2012 in a magical ceremony in Puglia, Italy. The pair always say that laughter is the core of their relationship, with a joke first bringing them together.
Timberlake revealed in his first book, Hindsight: & All the Things I Can't See in Front of Me, back in November that the duo met at a Hollywood party and clicked immediately.
The SexyBack singer wrote;
"When I met Jess, it was undeniable how beautiful she is. I made some sort of sarcastic comment, really dry. Nobody got it except her."
"She laughed, and I noticed, all of a sudden, and in the way where you wonder if a person's like you, if they have a very dry, dark sense of humour, too," he said.
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Sep 17, 2018 at 4:39pm PDT
Justin couldn't stop thinking about Jessica after their first meeting; "I'm kind of really interested in that girl. There was just something about that girl. Kind of interested in that girl. Goddamn it."
The actress later came to a show during his FutureSex/LoveSounds tour. He finally asked for her number after offering her a lift in his tour bus.; "Then the Golden Globes came up, and that's when we planned on seeing each other."
"We've had a lot of unforgettable times," Timberlake added. "She's become a huge influence on my life, and I have such an admiration for her, especially seeing her as a mother now."
The romance didn't stop there, with him gushing about her influence; "But I had admiration for her before. She's a very good writer. She's a poet. She's a tremendous actor. She's funny. Very funny. And she's one of the most patient people I've ever met… She changed me. She changed my life."
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Justin Timberlake reveals the moment he fell for wife Jessica Biel
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are one of our favourite celebrity couples. The parents have been married for six years and are more in love than ever.
However, like every couple, the duo had to endure those early days of awkward dates, cheesy flirting and confusion.
Justin opened up about the first time he met his now wife and there's no doubt he was smitten from the get-go.
He shared the momentous moment in his book Hindsight.
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Sep 17, 2018 at 4:47pm PDT
"When I met Jess, it was undeniable how beautiful she is," he gushed.
The Cry Me A River singer said Jessica's sense of humour stole his heart when they first met at a Hollywood party: "I made some sort of sarcastic comment, really dry. Nobody got it except her. She laughed, and I noticed, all of a sudden, and in the way where you wonder if a person's like you, if they have a very dry, dark sense of humour, too."
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Aug 24, 2018 at 4:45pm PDT
That moment won the Can't Stop The Feeling over: "There was just something about that girl. Kind of interested in that girl," he confessed.
He may be an award-winning singer, but even Justin was nervous about asking The Sinner actress out: "I had to psych myself up. I had to remind myself that I was me — giving myself a pep talk, shadowboxing with myself, rubbing my own shoulders."
A post shared by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Jan 8, 2018 at 8:43pm PST
The dad admitted they didn't get together until the Golden Globes. Both Jessica and Justin were very wary of getting too attached to one another: "We were both still seeing other people, keeping ourselves safe from getting hurt, from really putting ourselves out there. It took a bit for both of us to admit to ourselves that we were really, really into each other."
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Justin Timberlake's son Silas in the Louvre is all of us
by Aoife Loughnane
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are one of Hollywood most gorgeous couples so it makes sense that their young son, Silas, is absolutely adorable.
The pair, who have been together since January 2007 and married in October 2012, are parents to only Silas, who turned three in June.
The family recently visited the Louvre in Paris and Jessica revealed in an interview that he was just like every other kid there.
You guessed it…bored.
According to Us Weekly, Jessica spoke about it when she was on Late Night with Seth Meyers, saying that she had taken the toddler there during Justin's world tour.
If that pic doesn't say 'City Of Love' then I'm out…
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Jul 6, 2018 at 5:59am PDT
"We're at the Louvre, and we're looking through all of the most incredible old painters and the paintings," Jessica said.
"I'm like 'Look, look! This is important!'"
Silas, however, was less than impressed and as Jessica explained, more interested in his iPad than looking at priceless pieces of art.
While her son might not be fascinated by art, Jessica mentioned that other parts of their trip to the City of Lights appealed to him.
"He now knows what the Eiffel Tower is and that's something that he loves. He wouldn't have these experiences if we weren't able to just get out there and go for it."
The last 3 years of my life have brought more joy than I could ever imagine. Being a father is such a trip… an amazing discovery every day. My son: it is my honor to be your Daddy. You make me feel a love that I didn't know existed. I will ALWAYS be there… to pick you up when you fall, to lift you up when you are ready to soar, and to remind you that your humility will be your guide through this thing called life. And to all the Dads out there: Keep on keeping on! Our children are watching and listening more than we know! I'm celebrating you all today! Happy Father's Day! Cheers!
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Jun 17, 2018 at 12:17pm PDT
The cute snap of Jessica and Silas in Paris was captioned, ''if that pic doesn't say 'City Of Love' then I'm out…''
The picture got an outpouring of comments from fans gushing about how gorgeous Silas' curls were to how fast the toddler years go by.
One wrote, ''he is adorable. These moments fly by too fast! Love this pic. Beautiful'' while another said, ''this baby's hair is more glamorous than mine so I'm jealous. I love this sweet pic! Hold on to him tight and cherish these moments.''
We couldn't agree more – what a sweet family!
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Pink OWNS concert critics for calling her out in beach picture
by Sorcha McManigan
Pink has been touring the world with her two children, which just shows how much of a true lady boss she is.
However, the singer has had to defend herself when she was papped on a beach, (SIGH).
As if she hadn't enough to contend with between being a mum and a rockstar.
A post shared by P!NK (@pink) on Aug 2, 2018 at 9:08pm PDT
The star penned the reality of balancing both in the midst of cancelling an Australian concert after being ill and receiving criticism from an unknown publication.
The shot shows the 38-year-old on a beach with her daughter, Willow and the headline reads: "Pink's Sydney Concert cancelled as she chills in Byron Bay."
In a lengthy response on Instagram, the mum told fans that the picture didn't show you the difficulty she had "trying to do what was best for my children, while also putting on the best and most physically demanding and beautiful show of my life."
The picture she said also didn't depict the fact that she had been "sick twice."
A post shared by P!NK (@pink) on Jul 28, 2018 at 3:21am PDT
The singer still managed to be a super mum and push through the first time the illness struck despite her demanding schedule.
Pink explained just how hard the second time around had been and how that snapshot couldn't have ever have shown fans the truth behind the mum's life:
"This time, what these parasite paparazzi don't show you, is two doctor visits in Byron on two consecutive days, antibiotics, steroids, Vick's, nose spray, throat spray, more steroids, NyQuil, a screaming baby in the middle of the night, every night, while mama gives him warm baths and tells her daughter everything is fine," she wrote.
Defending herself, she said that she "never taken advantage of anyone" and she mothers "with everything I have whilst handling all the rest."
To conclude her post, she addressed the cancellation of the show and how her friends came to her rescue entertaining her daughter whilst she was attempting to get better.
"I'm doing the absolute best I can, and you can believe it or not. What they don't show you in this picture is me drinking water and lying down while my friends try to entertain my seven-year-old," she said.
A post shared by P!NK (@pink) on Jun 28, 2018 at 1:35am PDT
The incredible mum added that she will be going ahead with her show the following day, "whether I'm better or not" and the cancelled show will be rescheduled.
Other stars were quick to comment messages of support for the singer, including fellow parent and performer, Justin Timberlake.
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Apr 29, 2018 at 5:27pmm PDT
The 37-year-old shared nothing but praise for Pink in the comment section by saying:
"You won't find a harder working, more authentically talented, and more thankful for her place on that stage and her fans than this woman."
"Now…as a parent on tour as well, and an artist who LOVES their fans just as much and wants to give them an unprecedented experience, and is currently battling an injury, a sinus infection and trying to be the Dad I want to be too?? I say HATS OFF to you my friend."
Justin who shared the stage twice with Pink during her tour finished off by wishing her a speedy recovery.
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Feb 4, 2018 at 5:43pm PST
It's time people cut working mums some slack and not be so quick to jump to conclusions.
Get well soon Pink!
Justin Timberlake says new album will be his most 'personal' yet
Justin Timberlake has just announced the release of his fifth studio album, Man of the Woods – and as expected, fans can not contain their excitement.
The singer shared the news in a YouTube clip uploaded on Tuesday, revealing that the new record is due to drop on February 2, with a single due to be released this Friday.
JT explains how the new material is some of the most "personal" he has ever released.
"This album is really inspired by my son, my wife, my family, but more so than any other album I've ever written, where I'm from," he says in the teaser.
The short video show the singer as he walks through forests, wades through water and shares an intimate moment with wife Jessica Alba.
It's thought that the clip's earthy vibe is in keeping with Justin's reinvented style of music, some of which features in the soundtrack to the video.
It's been over four years since JT's last release, and needless to say fans are ready to hear some new material.
Justin Timberlake is releasing a new album in February. 2018 is already better than 2017. #ManOfTheWoods pic.twitter.com/HCOjsmsEjC
— Avery Mills (@alynn422) January 2, 2018
Just saw Skateboard P in the Justin Timberlake album ad and my eyes did this pic.twitter.com/0awNwYqqR9
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) January 2, 2018
2018 just started and Justin Timberlake is already teasing a new album? Shit, this really is about to be a great year.
— Brennon O'Neill (@GoldGloveTV) January 2, 2018
On to today's actual news… JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE HAS A NEW SONG RELEASING FRIDAY AND ALBUM RELEASING NEXT MONTH I AM GOING TO CRY!!!!!!!!! 2018 IS GOING GREAT NOW!!!!
— Gwenna Gentle (@gwennagentle) January 2, 2018
15 years on… Justin Timberlake talks THAT double-denim disaster
When it came to fashion, the early noughties weren't exactly kind to any of us.
From teaming Ugg boots with ra-ra skirts to smothering ourselves in velour, we're all lucky we made it out alive.
And no one appears to know this more than Justin Timberlake who made the very bold decision to address his most iconic fashion disaster while appearing on an Australian talk show recently.
After being asked what he's learned from his time in the music industry, Justin didn't offer any music-related pearls of wisdom, but instead made reference to perhaps one of the most misguided fashion choices of the 21st century – the double denim.
Referring to the moment he and former girlfriend, Britney Spears, rocked a red carpet in matching ensembles, Justin said: "If you wear denim on denim, it will get documented."
It may have taken more than a decade, but it looks like the man himself is finally able to laugh about it…
So, Jessica Biel ripped it out of Justin Timberlake, and we LOVE it
There are people who lovebomb their other halves at every available opportunity (Liam Payne, we're looking at you), and then there are other people who use Instagram to rip it out of their significant others.
Step forward, Jessica Biel.
In a move which will surely garner her a whole host of new fans, the actress decided to take the p*ss out of JT and his recent brush with the law.
Having snapped himself voting in the US presidential election, the Cry Me a River singer found himself on the wrong side of the law for violating a new Tennessee law which prohibits voters from using phones for any purpose while voting.
Reminding the public of her husband's misdemeanour, Jessica took a shot of herself rocking an 'I voted' sticker and gave a shout-out to Justin in the process.
When you're so turnt up about voting that you do a photo shoot with your sticker and think it's cool but then second guess it, but you've already posted, but at least you waited to get home before snapping so you won't almost go to jail, shout out to @justintimberlake.
A photo posted by Jessica Biel (@jessicabiel) on Oct 31, 2016 at 12:38pm PDT
"When you're so turnt up about voting that you do a photo shoot with your sticker and think it's cool but then second guess it, but you've already posted, but at least you waited to get home before snapping so you won't almost go to jail, shout out to@justintimberlake."
Jessica's post, which has clocked up more than 77,000 likes, has been inundated with comments from fans who loved her spin on the incident.
"Omg I'm dead! She is too funny," wrote one while another added: "Relationship goals."
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Yikes! Justin Timberlake caught at centre of voting SELFIE controversy
He may be one of music's most beloved golden boys, but that doesn't mean Justin Timberlake is totally immune from trouble.
The Cry Me a River singer landed himself in hot water this week when he snapped himself voting in the US presidential election in his home state of Tennessee.
Alongside a picture of himself posing in a polling station, the singer wrote: "I just flew from LA to Memphis to #rockthevote!!! No excuses, my good people! There could be early voting in your town, too."
After sharing the image on Instagram, the 35-year-old was reported for violating a new Tennessee law which prohibits voters from using phones for any purpose while voting.
Yesterday, the Shelby County District Attorney's Office released a statement saying it had been "made aware of a possible violation of election law" and that "the matter is under review by the D.A.'s Office".
But luckily for Justin, the office seems to have since changed its mind as Local Memphis has reported that the D.A. will not be reviewing JT's case.
NBD… Just hanging with The Notorious at #UFC200
A photo posted by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Jul 9, 2016 at 7:15pm PDT
In a second statement, D.A. Amy Weirich said: "The statement released earlier today by my office regarding Justin Timberlake and an investigation was incorrect and was released without my knowledge."
"I am out of town at a conference. No one in our office is currently investigating this matter nor will we be using our limited resources to do so."
I see you…getting your #TimberlakeAndChill on…. @netflix
A photo posted by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Oct 12, 2016 at 3:40pm PDT
Sounds like Justin won't be spending 30 days in jail after all!
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Where's ours JT? Justin Timberlake sent huge PIZZAS to his fans
Celebrities are cool and everything, but celebs that send you pizza are even cooler.
Yep, that's what Justin Timberlake did this week to celebrate the debut of his Netflix special, Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids.
To mark the occasion, JT sent out pizza to his fans who tweeted throwbacks of his #JY2020Tour. Here's some of the best reactions:
Many, MANY thanks to @jtimberlake & @THETNKIDS for the pizza! This means the absolute world to me! #TimberlakeAndChill #JT2020Tour @netflix pic.twitter.com/6s7I0f8PHT
— b r i t t_m a r i e (@nuggetbritt) October 12, 2016
Holy crap balls! @jtimberlake and @THETNKIDS sent us #timberlakeandchill it's on! pic.twitter.com/R6FFfGT94Q
— Lori Cowan (@loricowan) October 12, 2016
Huge huge thanks to @jtimberlake & @THETNKIDS for the pizza I already dug in #TimberlakeAndChill is happening @netflix pic.twitter.com/m342Vpq99i
— Meegan (@_ItsMegan) October 12, 2016
When @jtimberlake and @THETNKIDS buy you pizza, you #TimberlakeAndChill !!! #bringitondowntowrappinville @netflix #bestdayever #thankyou pic.twitter.com/nsWrYXrscB
— Angela (@AngeGlorioso) October 12, 2016
Sound, Justin!
'Too soon?' Justin Timberlake threw shade at Kim's Paris ordeal
From Karl Lagerfeld and members of the public to the National Rifle Association of America, people have been less than sympathetic over Kim Kardashian's terrifying ordeal in Paris earlier this week,
Given the criticism levelled at her from all directions this week, we'd have thought she might have found a reassuring and supportive presence in her fellow celebrities.
But if Justin Timberlake's recent comments are anything to go by, it looks like we were wrong.
While performing in London this week, the What Goes Around Comes Back Around singer threw a little shade in poor ol' Kim's direction before realising how badly it may be taken.
After being asked by an audience member in London's Indigo O2 venue whether they could Snapchat his set, Justin admitted he wasn't down with the kids when it came to that particular app.
"I can't use Snapchat because I'm an adult," he quipped before adding "You know Kim Kardashian gets paid like £10 million to do this? Too soon? I'm sorry."
We wonder if this is Justin's revenge for Kanye revealing that the Mirrors singer had shed tears at least year's VMAs…
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Procrastination the thief of time.
Sometimes a great idea will come to you. Sometimes you will see it in action, sometimes it will almost be thrust upon you and sometimes it will appear from the most inconsequential beginnings. So what to do with the idea when it happens.
Let me illustrate! Some years ago my self and my then girlfriend visited York for the weekend. We had a great time. Amidst all the history, fantastic places and interesting things to see, one thing stood out. It stands out for two reasons, it was fantastic entertainment and it was my biggest lost opportunity ever. It was very simple; we went on one of York's many ghost walks or tours.
From the first instance we knew we were in for a good time. The actor conducting the tour arrived in Victorian costume ringing a bell to beckon the assembled to follow him. There followed a hour of first class story telling and top comedy whilst giving an insight to the supernatural side of York the most haunted city in Britain. After the tour we joined the actor in one of the local pubs for a further hour of excellent story telling. An amazing night out that still sticks in the memory.
On a business footing rather than an emotional one, our host pocketed in my estimation over £350 for one hours work! My mind was racing; I decided that I would put together a ghost walk in my home city of Liverpool. Liverpool has more than enough spooky stories to construct an evening of top class entertainment and in so doing make large amounts of cash. So what did I do about it? Nothing, diddly squat that's what. I thought about it for years, I did nothing, not even some basic planning or research. Great idea no action, then came the stab to the heart. I picked up a leaflet advertising Liverpool's only ghost walk. Someone had beaten me to it, called it Shiverpool and make a very good living out of it. Good luck to them they took action and I did not, a classic case of not acting immediately.
So you may think I never made another error! Next the mistake I made that cost me thousands.
Hey Rob thanks for the comment, yea I have taken a look around your blog and I have to say it looks great. Keep up the great work and wait for the success I think it will be your way really soon.
I like your blog alot, and I'll be back.
Nice blogging mate – keep up the good work. Not sure I agree that they speak English in the good old USA and Oz – but something approaching.
Robert, I could not agree with you more on this. Procrastination steals our dream. Thanks for sharing this post. See you over in the master class.
A very interesting post highlighted and backed up by personal experience, I like your slant!
I think we can all recall instances where 'we should have' but didn't and then lived to regret but I believe this all adds to experience as you have proven by writing this piece!
Well done, I will keep tabs on your future postings!
Thanks for the posts guys, Its good to know (I think!) that I,m not the only one who misses out on these opportunities.
Just passing by to check your blog and see how it is taking shape.
Looks great and I enjoyed reading about procastinations.
Not sure if you checked out my blog yet and I invite you to.
Also, if you haven't yet got around to being on Twitter, I encourage you to!
check it out at http://www.twitter.com/nicolasbaron and let's Twitter!
I wish you all the best with the course which I hope you are enjoying as much as I am.
There's no doubt that procrastination steals our time. Not only our time but also our goals. It's one of the hardest obstacle in internet marketing. There are a lot of distraction since we are working at home. This distractions leads as to procrastinating and it's just a shame that most people don't know how to deal with it. In my experience, it's just a matter of proper mindset and self-discipline.


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Bankruptcy code is a new deal between the state and businesses in India
Ila Patnaik and Shubho Roy
11 January, 2019 09:32 am IST
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It has shaken up the protection model.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) isn't just an antidote to the problem of companies not repaying banks. In the short-term, the implementation of the code can be seen as a system of recovering debts. In the longer term, the code reflects a fundamental shift in the way the Indian state approaches business and capitalism. We are moving away from a cosy relationship between existing businesses and the state, in which the state placed heavy restrictions and taxes on existing businesses on the one hand, and on the other, protected those businesses from failure. In New India, both entry and exit are essential.
Restrictions on businesses
The bad old days started with the expropriation of textile mills in Mumbai on the grounds of mismanagement. This trend continued till the late 1970s with the nationalisation of banks. The policy environment resulted in India being left with only a handful of large businesses. Their activities were heavily restricted on the one hand and their companies protected on the other.
The state enacted business-unfriendly legislation leading to high taxes and labour protection. Production, investment, expansion of capacity, imports and exports were all highly restricted. Permissions and licences had to be obtained for almost any activity a company undertook.
Also read: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, NCLT have improved borrowing & lending since Congress era
Protection for businesses
India enacted a series of laws and policies to protect existing businesses. Foreign competition was constrained through laws like Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) which prevented foreign companies from entering India. Within the country, laws like industrial licencing and the MRTP act would ensure that existing businesses did not face competition from other businesses or new ones. While taxes were high, there were generous exemptions for activities which only established businesses could undertake, such as R&D. Low-interest loans were provided to existing businesses with physical collateral.
India's banking and credit culture was also an extension of the same economic model. If a business failed, it was a problem to be solved by the state. The state would make attempts to revive the business through various schemes and protect the interests of promoters.
Bank loans would be restructured, renegotiated and ever-greened as it were. The attempt was to never allow a company to go bankrupt. Protecting jobs was an oft-used excuse when trying to revive sick companies. In the India of industrial controls and restrictions, almost all business difficulties could be attributed to some taxation, industrial policy or law enforced by the state. There was no good reason to shut down one company and allow another to take its place.
The new ones would have performed equally badly. Bad performance was not due to the promoters or the management as much as it was a feature of the restrictive economic policy framework. Bankruptcy had little economic rationale.
Also read: New bankruptcy law has instilled fear among debt holders: IBBI chairman Sahoo
Liberalisation removed restrictions
The liberalisation of the Indian economy removed many constraints under which business had to operate. The MRTP law was replaced with a more business-friendly Competition Act which does not prohibit companies from growing. Taxes were reduced. Many restrictive laws like the Aluminium and Cement Control Orders were relaxed. FERA was replaced with Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), which made cross-border investments easier.
India joined the WTO, opening trade of many goods.
In today's India, companies do not face as many restrictions as they did in the past. They can expand, invest, import and export as they like. Well-managed companies perform better and grow.
However, at the same time, companies have to face competition due to low tariffs, foreign companies and foreign technology. Badly managed or outdated companies fail in the face of competition. If new companies are allowed to enter markets, those that fail must also be allowed to die. If instead of a handful of incumbents, who can be protected forever, the economy consists of a large number of entrepreneurs entering businesses, they cannot be
protected the way the old ones were.
The economy cannot afford it. Promoters who cannot run businesses well have to lose their companies. Resources need to be reallocated to efficient firms all the time and cannot be stuck in unproductive use. Failing businesses cannot not be protected by the state. Loans cannot keep getting renegotiated bringing credit growth to a halt.
However, businesses in India are used to protection. Many business strategies were probably based on the assumption that the protections would continue or not be dismantled at such a fast rate. The IBC is a tectonic shift for the old guard in India. Most businesses have seen the endless renegotiation with banks and the alphabet soups of CDR, SDR and S4A.
It is not pleasant to wake up to a world with them suddenly gone. It is only rational for businesses to try as hard as possible to try to go back to that cosy world of protections.
Arguments to protect firms in the name of protecting jobs have started resurfacing in the new world. While the government has taken the bold step of bringing in a bankruptcy law, it must vigilantly protect it from slipping back into the old ways.
The IBC has many teething problems and institutional issues that need to be solved. The fundamental purpose of the reform and its economic rationale must remain the guiding principle to make any changes.
Shubho Roy is a consultant at NIPFP
Ila Patnaik is a Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
This is the first of a series of articles the authors will write on law and economics in India.
liberalisation
Amitava Banerjee 15 January, 2019	At	3:10 pm
It is fair in other countries. Why should India be an exception? If you borrow money you have an obligation to pay it back. That is fair. And if you borrow money from banks, who in turn take the money from depositors, you have an obligation to pay back your debt, failing which, you should forfeit the business, for the overall health of the financial system. Loans are not equity investments, and they should be treated with caution.
Hargovind Sachdev 13 January, 2019	At	9:36 am
Please do not glamourise IBC in its infancy.
It takes 20 years for a promoter to build a business and IBC gives 180 days for Money Bag holders to grab it in 180 days at 20% of cost….
Is it fair ?
Rashmi 11 January, 2019	At	10:59 am
The ameded insolvency code is revolution in itself. It allows small companies to take a higher risk. Can't argue with commies


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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an agent's location within it. While this initially appears to be a chicken or the egg problem, there are several algorithms known to solve it in, at least approximately, tractable time for certain environments. Popular approximate solution methods include the particle filter, extended Kalman filter, covariance intersection, and GraphSLAM. SLAM algorithms are based on concepts in computational geometry and computer vision, and are used in robot navigation, robotic mapping and odometry for virtual reality or augmented reality.

SLAM algorithms are tailored to the available resources and are not aimed at perfection but at operational compliance. Published approaches are employed in self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, planetary rovers, newer domestic robots and even inside the human body.

Mathematical description of the problem

Given a series of controls  and sensor observations  over discrete time steps , the SLAM problem is to compute an estimate of the agent's state  and a map of the environment . All quantities are usually probabilistic, so the objective is to compute

Applying Bayes' rule gives a framework for sequentially updating the location posteriors, given a map and a transition function ,

Similarly the map can be updated sequentially by

Like many inference problems, the solutions to inferring the two variables together can be found, to a local optimum solution, by alternating updates of the two beliefs in a form of an expectation–maximization algorithm.

Algorithms
Statistical techniques used to approximate the above equations include Kalman filters and particle filters. They provide an estimation of the posterior probability distribution for the pose of the robot and for the parameters of the map. Methods which conservatively approximate the above model using covariance intersection are able to avoid reliance on statistical independence assumptions to reduce algorithmic complexity for large-scale applications. Other approximation methods achieve improved computational efficiency by using simple bounded-region representations of uncertainty.

Set-membership techniques are mainly based on interval constraint propagation.
They provide a set which encloses the pose of the robot and a set approximation of the map. Bundle adjustment, and more generally maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP), is another popular technique for SLAM using image data, which jointly estimates poses and landmark positions, increasing map fidelity, and is used in commercialized SLAM systems such as Google's ARCore which replaces their prior augmented reality computing platform named Tango, formerly Project Tango. MAP estimators compute the most likely explanation of the robot poses and the map given the sensor data, rather than trying to estimate the entire posterior probability.

New SLAM algorithms remain an active research area, and are often driven by differing requirements and assumptions about the types of maps, sensors and models as detailed below. Many SLAM systems can be viewed as combinations of choices from each of these aspects.

Mapping
Topological maps are a method of environment representation which capture the connectivity (i.e., topology) of the environment rather than creating a geometrically accurate map. Topological SLAM approaches have been used to enforce global consistency in metric SLAM algorithms.

In contrast, grid maps use arrays (typically square or hexagonal) of discretized cells to represent a topological world, and make inferences about which cells are occupied. Typically the cells are assumed to be statistically independent to simplify computation. Under such assumption,  are set to 1 if the new map's cells are consistent with the observation  at location  and 0 if inconsistent.

Modern self driving cars mostly simplify the mapping problem to almost nothing, by making extensive use of highly detailed map data collected in advance. This can include map annotations to the level of marking locations of individual white line segments and curbs on the road. Location-tagged visual data such as Google's StreetView may also be used as part of maps. Essentially such systems simplify the SLAM problem to a simpler localization only task, perhaps allowing for moving objects such as cars and people only to be updated in the map at runtime.

Sensing

SLAM will always use several different types of sensors, and the powers and limits of various sensor types have been a major driver of new algorithms. Statistical independence is the mandatory requirement to cope with metric bias and with noise in measurements. Different types of sensors give rise to different SLAM algorithms which assumptions are most appropriate to the sensors. At one extreme, laser scans or visual features provide details of many points within an area, sometimes rendering SLAM inference unnecessary because shapes in these point clouds can be easily and unambiguously aligned at each step via image registration. At the opposite extreme, tactile sensors are extremely sparse as they contain only information about points very close to the agent, so they require strong prior models to compensate in purely tactile SLAM. Most practical SLAM tasks fall somewhere between these visual and tactile extremes.

Sensor models divide broadly into landmark-based and raw-data approaches. Landmarks are uniquely identifiable objects in the world which location can be estimated by a sensor, such as Wi-Fi access points or radio beacons. Raw-data approaches make no assumption that landmarks can be identified, and instead model  directly as a function of the location.

Optical sensors may be one-dimensional (single beam) or 2D- (sweeping) laser rangefinders, 3D high definition light detection and ranging (lidar), 3D flash lidar, 2D or 3D sonar sensors, and one or more 2D cameras. Since 2005, there has been intense research into visual SLAM (VSLAM) using primarily visual (camera) sensors, because of the increasing ubiquity of cameras such as those in mobile devices. Visual and lidar sensors are informative enough to allow for landmark extraction in many cases. Other recent forms of SLAM include tactile SLAM (sensing by local touch only), radar SLAM, acoustic SLAM, and Wi-Fi-SLAM (sensing by strengths of nearby Wi-Fi access points). Recent approaches apply quasi-optical wireless ranging for multi-lateration (real-time locating system (RTLS)) or multi-angulation in conjunction with SLAM as a tribute to erratic wireless measures. A kind of SLAM for human pedestrians uses a shoe mounted inertial measurement unit as the main sensor and relies on the fact that pedestrians are able to avoid walls to automatically build floor plans of buildings by an indoor positioning system.

For some outdoor applications, the need for SLAM has been almost entirely removed due to high precision differential GPS sensors. From a SLAM perspective, these may be viewed as location sensors which likelihoods are so sharp that they completely dominate the inference. However, GPS sensors may occasionally decline or go down entirely, e.g. during times of military conflict, which are of particular interest to some robotics applications.

Kinematics modeling
The  term represents the kinematics of the model, which usually include information about action commands given to a robot. As a part of the model, the kinematics of the robot is included, to improve estimates of sensing under conditions of inherent and ambient noise. The dynamic model balances the contributions from various sensors, various partial error models and finally comprises in a sharp virtual depiction as a map with the location and heading of the robot as some cloud of probability. Mapping is the final depicting of such model, the map is either such depiction or the abstract term for the model.

For 2D robots, the kinematics are usually given by a mixture of rotation and "move forward" commands, which are implemented with additional motor noise. Unfortunately the distribution formed by independent noise in angular and linear directions is non-Gaussian, but is often approximated by a Gaussian. An alternative approach is to ignore the kinematic term and read odometry data from robot wheels after each command—such data may then be treated as one of the sensors rather than as kinematics.

Acoustic SLAM
An extension of the common SLAM problem has been applied to the acoustic domain, where environments are represented by the three-dimensional (3D) position of sound sources, termed. Early implementations of this technique have used direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimates of the sound source location, and rely on principal techniques of sound localization to determine source locations. An observer, or robot must be equipped with a microphone array to enable use of Acoustic SLAM, so that DoA features are properly estimated. Acoustic SLAM has paved foundations for further studies in acoustic scene mapping, and can play an important role in human-robot interaction through speech. To map multiple, and occasionally intermittent sound sources, an acoustic SLAM system uses foundations in random finite set theory to handle the varying presence of acoustic landmarks. However, the nature of acoustically derived features leaves Acoustic SLAM susceptible to problems of reverberation, inactivity, and noise within an environment.

Audiovisual SLAM
Originally designed for human–robot interaction, Audio-Visual SLAM is a framework that provides the fusion of landmark features obtained from both the acoustic and visual modalities within an environment. Human interaction is characterized by features perceived in not only the visual modality, but the acoustic modality as well; as such, SLAM algorithms for human-centered robots and machines must account for both sets of features. An Audio-Visual framework estimates and maps positions of human landmarks through use of visual features like human pose, and audio features like human speech, and fuses the beliefs for a more robust map of the environment. For applications in mobile robotics (ex. drones, service robots), it is valuable to use low-power, lightweight equipment such as monocular cameras, or microelectronic microphone arrays. Audio-Visual SLAM can also allow for complimentary function of such sensors, by compensating the narrow field-of-view, feature occlusions, and optical degradations common to lightweight visual sensors with the full field-of-view, and unobstructed feature representations inherent to audio sensors. The susceptibility of audio sensors to reverberation, sound source inactivity, and noise can also be accordingly compensated through fusion of landmark beliefs from the visual modality. Complimentary function between the audio and visual modalities in an environment can prove valuable for the creation of robotics and machines that fully interact with human speech and human movement.

Collaborative SLAM
Collaborative SLAM combines images from multiple robots or users to generate 3D maps.

Moving objects
Non-static environments, such as those containing other vehicles or pedestrians, continue to present research challenges. SLAM with DATMO is a model which tracks moving objects in a similar way to the agent itself.

Loop closure
Loop closure is the problem of recognizing a previously-visited location and updating beliefs accordingly. This can be a problem because model or algorithm errors can assign low priors to the location. Typical loop closure methods apply a second algorithm to compute some type of sensor measure similarity, and reset the location priors when a match is detected. For example, this can be done by storing and comparing bag of words vectors of scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) features from each previously visited location.

Exploration
Active SLAM studies the combined problem of SLAM with deciding where to move next to build the map as efficiently as possible. The need for active exploration is especially pronounced in sparse sensing regimes such as tactile SLAM. Active SLAM is generally performed by approximating the entropy of the map under hypothetical actions. "Multi agent SLAM" extends this problem to the case of multiple robots coordinating themselves to explore optimally.

Biological inspiration
In neuroscience, the hippocampus appears to be involved in SLAM-like computations, giving rise to place cells, and has formed the basis for bio-inspired SLAM systems such as RatSLAM.

Implementation methods

Various SLAM algorithms are implemented in the open-source software Robot Operating System (ROS) libraries, often used together with the Point Cloud Library for 3D maps or visual features from OpenCV.

EKF SLAM
In robotics, EKF SLAM is a class of algorithms which uses the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for SLAM. Typically, EKF SLAM algorithms are feature based, and use the maximum likelihood algorithm for data association. In the 1990s and 2000s, EKF SLAM had been the de facto method for SLAM, until the introduction of FastSLAM.

Associated with the EKF is the gaussian noise assumption, which significantly impairs EKF SLAM's ability to deal with uncertainty. With greater amount of uncertainty in the posterior, the linearization in the EKF fails.

GraphSLAM
In robotics, GraphSLAM is a SLAM algorithm which uses sparse information matrices produced by generating a factor graph of observation interdependencies (two observations are related if they contain data about the same landmark).

History
A seminal work in SLAM is the research of R.C. Smith and P. Cheeseman on the representation and estimation of spatial uncertainty in 1986. Other pioneering work in this field was conducted by the research group of Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte in the early 1990s. which showed that solutions to SLAM exist in the infinite data limit. This finding motivates the search for algorithms which are computationally tractable and approximate the solution. The acronym SLAM was coined within the paper, "Localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicles" which first appeared in ISR in 1995.

The self-driving STANLEY and JUNIOR cars, led by Sebastian Thrun, won the DARPA Grand Challenge and came second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in the 2000s, and included SLAM systems, bringing SLAM to worldwide attention. Mass-market SLAM implementations can now be found in consumer robot vacuum cleaners and virtual reality headsets such as the Meta Quest 2 and PICO 4 for markerless inside-out tracking.

See also

 Computational photography
 Kalman filter
 Inverse depth parametrization
 Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
 Monte Carlo localization
 Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge
 Neato Robotics
 Particle filter
 Recursive Bayesian estimation
 Robotic mapping
Stanley (vehicle), DARPA Grand Challenge
 Stereophotogrammetry
 Structure from motion
 Tango (platform)
 Visual odometry

References

External links
 Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox with a clear overview of SLAM.
 SLAM For Dummies (A Tutorial Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping).
 Andrew Davison research page at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London about SLAM using vision.
 openslam.org A good collection of open source code and explanations of SLAM.
 Matlab Toolbox of Kalman Filtering applied to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Vehicle moving in 1D, 2D and 3D.
 FootSLAM research page at German Aerospace Center (DLR) including the related Wi-Fi SLAM and PlaceSLAM approaches.
 SLAM lecture Online SLAM lecture based on Python.

Computational geometry
Robot navigation
Applied machine learning
Motion in computer vision
Positioning

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COLOMBIA: Risky Games Against National Peace Meeting
By Constanza Vieira
One of Colombia's most popular national radio stations broadcast the wiretapped telephone conversations of a leader of a regional movement of displaced persons, David Martínez, misreporting that the voices heard were those of "guerrilla ringleaders".
SA needs to do more to protect mothers
By IPS Correspondents
The number of women who are dying while giving birth is on the increase in South Africa. HIV and negligence in the healthcare system are being blamed. Zukiswa Zimela reports from Johannesburg.
Obama Challenged to Stand Up to Big Oil Lobby
The United States' biggest environmental groups put aside their differences last week to make an urgent intervention on the country's addiction to oil. The first step on the long road to recovery, they say, is to stop the proposed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that will "mainline" the world's dirtiest oil from northern Canada into the U.S. heartland.
Executed for Being Gay
By Matthew Charles Cardinale
Five nations still outlaw homosexuality and carry out executions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, according to a recent report by the U.S. group Human Rights First.
Afghan Security Faces Long-Term Challenges
By Barbara Slavin
U.S.-led efforts to build Afghan security forces capable of preventing Taliban resurgence face a series of challenges, from the reluctance of southern Pashtuns to serve in a national army, to maintaining the billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment provided by the U.S. and other foreign countries over the past decade.
Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri
In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon earlier this month has continued the practice of the U.N investigation before it of refusing to acknowledge the much stronger evidence that an Al-Qaeda cell was responsible for the assassination.
MEXICO: Women Inmates Share Prison Conditions with Their Children
By Patricia Briseño
María S. lays her infant son down on one of the cold concrete slabs of her cell in the central penitentiary of Santa María Ixcotel, in the metropolitan area of this city in southwestern Mexico.
CUBA: Swim at Your Own Risk
By Dalia Acosta
They get ready for the jump, a spectacular airborne pirouette follows and then a stream of saltwater spray rounds off the plunge. Dozens of youngsters, mainly boys, cool off from the summer heat with daring dives from the sea wall lining the Malecón, the Cuban capital's famous seaside avenue.
TRADE-NAMIBIA: No Progress on Access to European Markets
By Servaas van den Bosch
Weariness surrounds the negotiations on an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) regulating trade access between Southern Africa and the European Union (EU).
EUROPE: Some Rich Want to Get a Little Less Rich
By Julio Godoy
In the face of the severe sovereign debt crisis in most industrialised countries, some extremely rich people are urging governments to increase taxes on wealth.
ISRAEL: Children Facing Deportation Find Friends
After Israel's Interior Ministry attempted to deport the first migrant workers' child educated in the Israeli school system, human rights groups are calling on the Israeli government to develop a clear immigration policy and an official protocol that will minimise the psychological impact of detaining and deporting young children.
Watchdogs Blast Ethnic Cleansing in South Kordofan
By Kanya D'Almeida
On Jun. 19, Angelo al-Sir, a subsistence farmer from a small village east of Kadugli, capital of the oil-rich South Kordofan state in Northern Sudan, saw his pregnant wife, two of his 10 children, his nephew and another relative killed in an airstrike in broad daylight.
ARGENTINA: Child Allowance Restores Families' Ties with Schools
By Marcela Valente
Conditional cash transfers to poor families with children in Argentina "have had a very positive impact," says an enthusiastic Graciela Dulcich, the principal of a primary school in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
U.S. Muslims Upbeat Despite Scrutiny Since 9/11
Despite increased public scrutiny since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and well-funded campaigns promoting Islamophobia, U.S. Muslims express a significantly higher level of satisfaction with their lives, their local communities, and the country's general direction than does the public at large, according to a major new survey released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
MAURITANIA: Fresh Attempt at Irrigated Agriculture
In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is turning to several new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.
BRAZIL: Rainforest Defenders Marked for Death
By Fabíola Ortiz
Raimundo Francisco Belmiro dos Santos, a defender of the Amazon jungle, has requested urgent protection from the authorities in Brazil after reporting that a number of hired gunmen are looking for him, because landowners in the northern state of Pará have offered a 50,000 dollar contract for his death.
HAITI: Patchy Healthcare Adds to Miseries of Women and Girls
"I just gave birth on the ground...I had no drugs for pain during delivery," one Haitian mother tells Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Tuesday that says a year and a half after the country's devastating earthquake, women and girls are still facing gaps in access to available healthcare services necessary to stop preventable maternal and infant deaths.
Q&A: "When People Are Mad, They Start to React" to Corruption
By José Domingo Guariglia
The fight against corruption has taken centre stage in the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and has led to the resignation or dismissal of several ministers over just a few months.
INDIA: Grave Issues Trouble Kashmiris
By Athar Parvaiz
Rights activists say that thousands of unmarked graves newly uncovered along the Line of Control (LoC) in Indian Kashmir may hold the bodies of 'disappeared' people rather than those of militants killed while trying to cross the fortified de facto border between India and Pakistan.
EGYPT: Military Trials on the Rise After Mubarak
By Cam McGrath
Amr El-Beheiry's trial in a military court lasted just five minutes. The 33-year- old Egyptian was arrested on Feb. 26 and sentenced without a lawyer present to five years in prison for breaking curfew and assaulting a public official during a demonstration in Cairo.
Aiming a Kick at Homelessness
Loud bursts of cheering startled the throngs of tourists posing for pictures in front of the Eiffel Tower here last weekend.


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Furacão Hermine foi o primeiro furacão a tocar a terra firme na Flórida desde o Furacão Wilma em 2005, e o primeiro a desenvolver-se no Golfo do México desde o Furacão Ingrid em 2013. A nona depressão tropical, oitava tempestade nomeada, e quarto furacão da temporada de furacões no Atlântico de 2016, o Furacão Hermine desenvolveu-se a partir de uma longa onda tropical rastreada que havia produzido chuvas torrenciais em partes do Caribe. Depois de ter sido designado em 29 de agosto, o Furacão Hermine deslocou-se para o nordeste devido a um cavado sobre a Geórgia e progressivamente intensificou-se para um furacão de Categoria 1 pouco antes de tocar a terra firme no Panhandle da Flórida durante o dia 2 de setembro. Enfraquecimento rápido seguiu-se assim que a tempestade perdeu força e transformou-se em um ciclone pós-tropical antes de deixar a costa perto dos Outer Banks. Os remanescentes do Furacão Hermine continuaram a trazer fortes chuvas e correntes de retorno à Costa Leste dos Estados Unidos, antes que o Centro Nacional de Furacões encerrasse os avisos sobre o sistema, enquanto estava situado ao leste da Península de Delmarva.

Ciclones tropicais de categoria 1
Ciclones tropicais no oceano Atlântico
Temporada de furacões no oceano Atlântico de 2016
Desastres naturais em 2016


The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about old movies, about Dracula and Vampires. As all of you can probably figure out, I love movies. I really like the older movies as well. There is one, Nosferatu, that is just amazing. Released in 1922, it was the first Dracula movie ever made. Yes, this means that it is a black and white movie. It is also a silent film.
A lot of people do not realize just how much work went into making silent films. Sure, they do not have all of the special effects that we see in modern movies, but they still had to put a lot of work into them. Film sets back then were most often an actual location that best represented where the scene was to take place. For example, when the action takes place in a castle in Nosferatu, they are actually filming in a real castle. This is not the case for all movies; sometimes they had really good set crews. The set crew of Nosferatu got really lucky and found a castle in which they could film.
Another thing that is not always considered is the skill level of the actors in the movie. Acting in a silent film was not an easy job. The actors of Nosferatu would not have been able to do take after take after take. They would have been limited because film was really expensive. They did not have the option of digital filming like we have today. The actors in Nosferatu also had to actually portray all of their emotion for a line within a few seconds of screen time. Sure, there are times when they were overly dramatic, but they had to be in order to get the emotion across.
Keeping with the idea of portraying emotions to the audience, the composers working on Nosferatu, any silent film really, had an important role. Ok, I know that the genre title "silent film" can be a little misleading — these films did have music, but the actors were not heard. The only audio that the audience got was the music. I really think the composers of Nosferatu's sound track did an amazing job. The music they created really made people aware of the emotion that they were trying to portray.
Normally at this time I would be looking at the make-up artistry that went into this film. When looking into this stuff I found some interesting reports. Apparently the actor who played Dracula did not have any make-up or prosthetics done. That is how he actually looked in real life. He only acted this one time in Nosferatu, and he was never heard from after filming finished. It is said that he volunteered for the role, not accepting any pay for the job. He also would not be seen until the sun set and would be gone before the sun rose — only filming at night. There were also some reports of a few of his assistants disappearing. There were two or three of them and all were young women. So, I have to ask the question: Do you think that they were just trying to create hype for the movie with these reports, or did this guy actually think he was Dracula?
My grandmother and grandfather were Transylvanian Saxon. The moved to Cincinnati in the mid 50s, but most of our family is in Canada. Is there a community of people you have worked with when doing research for your book?
I have not forgotten about your comment. I am re-collecting information about the groups and communities and will post about it next week.


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Updated: Verizon reverses $2 fee after FCC inquiry, customer outrage
Meghan Kelly	 December 30, 2011 12:31 PM
Update, 12:31pm PST: Verizon wireless has reversed its decision to institute a $2 fee on customers paying their bills online. The company released a statement confirming the about-face on Friday, a couple hours after the Federal Communications Commission decided to look into the fee. The statement reads:
Verizon Wireless has decided it will not institute the fee for online or telephone single payments that was announced earlier this week.
The company made the decision in response to customer feedback about the plan, which was designed to improve the efficiency of those transactions. The company continues to encourage customers to take advantage of the numerous simple and convenient payment methods it provides.
"At Verizon, we take great care to listen to our customers. Based on their input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage customers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options, eliminating the need to institute the fee at this time," said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless.
Verizon's new $2 service fee for one-off online payments came under the scrutiny of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a statement by the agency on Friday.
"On behalf of American consumers, we're concerned about Verizon's actions and are looking into the matter," the FCC told the New York Times.
Verizon announced its new fee on Thursday, targeting customers who pay their bills one-at-a-time online or by phone. The fee, which would have cost consumers $2 per online credit or debit card transaction, puts emphasis on Verizon's free methods of payment. These include signing up for autopay and automatic deduction from a bank account or electronic check. After receiving the news, customers quickly opposed the new plan, voicing opinions on social networks. The outrage might have also been spurred by three Verizon Wireless outages that occurred this month. The company explained the downtime was simply an issue of "growing pains" implementing its LTE 4G service, in a statement today.
Some irate customers organized an online boycott of Verizon on Causes.org. A similar boycott was held when Bank of America announced a fee for debit card usage, which the bank quickly retracted.
Verizon called this a "convenience fee," though it really seemed to be an effort to avoid credit and debit card fees. As VentureBeat reporter Tom Cheredar pointed out on Thursday, customers have a reason to be concerned about signing up for an automated direct withdrawal system. Wireless carrier bills are notorious for being different every month. Many customers feel they have been over charged upon receiving a bill, and want to challenge those charges before making a payment. In fact, in 2010 Verizon admitted to over charging 15 million customers.
We have contacted the FCC and Verizon for comment and will update this post upon hearing back.
Image via Ian P. Miller/Flickr


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Q: Google Jquery API ping? If I use Googles Jquery load script  inlink, then if the user has the file already in their cache, will the users computer still contact Google in ANY way when the page loads?
Example:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

A: Depending upon the cache settings of the browser, the cache headers sent by the server when the file was originally loaded, and the time since the file was last loaded, the browser may still issue the request with a If-Modified-Since HTTP header - which would result in a HTTP 304 "Not Modified" response if the file was not modified server-side since it was originally received by the browser / client.
The HTTP headers being returned by Google for this URL are a bit interesting, though its been a while since I've had to deal with the specifics of this:
$ curl -i http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
Last-Modified: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:58:43 GMT
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:18:56 GMT
Expires: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:18:56 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: sffe
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Cache-Control: public,max-age=31536000
Age: 518244
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

The Date, Last-Modified, and Expires are all in the past - so I read this to mean that it expires immediately.  Yet, there are Cache-Control and Age headers which should allow this to be cached for 1 year (31536000 seconds) - if http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9 is being followed as required.

A: If you don't want the browser to contact google upon loading the site, why don't you copy jquery to your server?
I mean cache can be disabled in the user's browser. Also, the user can force a refresh. And there are some http headers which may force the browser to contact google to refresh the file.

A: Leave it as is. If the user has a copy in their browser cache from google's CDN (very likely) then it will not download another copy, if they don't it will.


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È morto ad Albuquerque, in Nuovo Messico il 26 ottobre 2008 per insufficienza polmonare.

Ha scritto thriller di grandissimo successo pubblicati, oltre che negli Stati Uniti, in Inghilterra, Francia, Germania, Spagna, Portogallo, Finlandia ed Italia.
Personaggi principali dei suoi gialli "etnici" sono il tenente della polizia navajo Leaphorn ed il sergente Jim Chee.
Profondo conoscitore del mondo dell'ovest statunitense e delle riserve indiane, nelle sue opere miscela temi polizieschi, thriller e spiritualismo indiano.

Opere
1970 A Fly on the Wall,  finalista Edgar Award 1972.
1995 Finding Moon

Serie con Joe Leaphorn
1970 Il canto del nemico (The Blessing Way), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2312.
1973 Là dove danzano i morti (Dance Hall of the Dead), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 1787.
1978 Donna che ascolta (Listening Woman), HarperCollins 2022. Finalista Edgar Award 1979.

Serie con Jim Chee
1980 Il popolo delle tenebre (People of Darkness), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 1747.
1982 Il vento oscuro (The Dark Wind), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2291.
1984 La via dei fantasmi (The Ghostway), 	stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2340.

Serie con Joe Leaphorn e Jim Chee
1986 Lo stregone deve morire (Skinwalkers), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2364 e ristampato dalla Piemme come La notte degli sciamani.
1988 Ladri del tempo (A Thief Of Time), finalista Edgar Award 1989, stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2196.
1989 La maschera del Dio parlante (Talking God), stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero GM 2258.
1990 La fame del coyote (Coyote Waits), stampato dalla Mondadori.
1993 L'ultima danza del sacro giullare (Sacred Clowns), stampato dalla Mondadori.
1996 L'ombra del deserto (Fallen Man) stampato nella collana Il giallo Mondadori con il numero 2548.
1998 Il mistero della riserva indiana (The First Eagle) stampato dalla Piemme e pubblicato anche come Il contagio.
1999 Morte nel canyon (Hunting Badger), stampato dalla Piemme.
2002 Notte di Halloween (The Wailing Wind), stampato dalla Piemme
2003 The Sinister Pig
2004 Skeleton Man  (Skeleton Man), edizione Rizzoli HD,2010
2006 The Shape Shifter

Saggistica
1987 Indian Country
1992 The Best of the West
2002 Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir

Riconoscimenti
Nel 1974 ha vinto l'Edgar Award col romanzo Là dove danzano i morti (Dance Hall of the Dead).
Nel 1989 vince il Premio Macavity con il romanzo A Thief of Time
Nel 1991 vince il Premio Nero Wolfe con il romanzo La fame del coyote (Coyote Waits).
Nel 1991 gli è stato attribuito, per il complesso della sua carriera, il Grand Master Award.
Nel 1992 vince il Premio Macavity per il miglior saggio con Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
Nel 2002 vince il Premio Agatha per il miglior saggio con Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
Nel 2003 gli viene attribuito il Premio Agatha alla carriera.
Nel 2008 vince il Premio Owen Wister

Voci correlate
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Edizioni Piemme
Il Giallo Mondadori

Collegamenti esterni

Statunitensi della seconda guerra mondiale


The adoption by the Plenary Session of the European Parliament (EP) of a resolution recommending the suspension of accession negotiations with Turkey by a large majority in a vote on 13 March 2019 is a strong political message against an ever-deeper authoritarianism and the recent regime change towards a presidential system of government in Turkey. The resolution adopted by the EP clearly highlights the AKP's one-man system that disregards the achievements of the modern world as well as the destructive consequences of this system for our country.
Although the ruling party underestimates and qualifies as worthless this resolution on the grounds that it is not binding, it is of utmost importance for Turkey. Moreover, the worth and value of this resolution are to be determined by the institutions of the European Union rather than the ruling AKP. Indeed, this resolution will provide the basis for the relations between the new EP that will be take office after the direct elections, which will be organized from 23 to 26th of May, and Turkey during the next 5 years. There is a great risk that it will become harder for Turkey to make progress on issues such as visa liberalisation and upgrading the Customs Union Agreement during this new period.
As the primary culprit behind these negative circumstances that Turkey has been dragged into, the ruling AKP has gravely undermined Turkey's European future as it has done with all of the achievements of the Republic. Narrow-sighted European leaders and leading EU politicians who have vetoed even the opening of chapters on fundamental rights and freedoms as well as the independence of the judiciary and provided the single-man regime in Turkey with pretexts with their attitudes and actions contradicting European principles are the other players that have contributed to this outcome.
The AKP government has failed to internalize the importance of the fundamental values shaping the main framework of EU-Turkey relations such as the Copenhagen criteria, democracy and the rule of law, continued to reduce its relations with the EU to the situation of refugees and blackmailed EU member states over refugees, used reforms on fundamental rights and freedoms, which are the common denominators for EU member states, as bargaining chips and displayed a behaviour that embarrassed Turkey. This behaviour is also a sign of the ruling party's unwillingness when it comes to Turkey's membership to the EU. However, recent polls have shown that an ever-growing number, 78.9%, of citizens of the Republic of Turkey, who are fighting against an authoritarian government, support the objective of EU membership.
On the other hand, a call to the European Union to suspend negotiations with such an important country as the Republic of Turkey, whose foundation relies on its orientation towards Europe, as was made today by the European Parliament, is attempting to reduce relations with Turkey to the level of a third world country. This attitude, to put it in the simplest terms, is not a European attitude. Europe is a strong idea; it relies on transformation and progress. Those who do not feel this self-confidence and the European responsibility to structure the Europe of the future will condemn the EU to being an introverted actor that fails to globalise.
As CHP, we consider Turkey's full membership to the EU to be a fundamental objective in line with the founding values of the Republic and a milestone that will allow our citizens to become equal individuals in the modern world. We embrace our bid for full membership to the EU. We would like to reiterate CHP's commitment to Turkey's full accession to the EU as a sine qua non of Turkey's resolve for modernisation.
As Turkey goes through this exceptionally dark period, millions of citizens remain resolute in their fight for democracy and freedom. We have no doubt whatsoever that Turkey will regain its strength with its democracy and economy. We will continue to work so that a mindset that prevents the politicization of the judiciary, removes the oppressive guardianship of the executive on the other powers and re-establishes the rule of law reigns once again in Turkey, to embrace EU criteria and to fight to preserve fundamental rights and freedoms.
History will remember the kind of role Europe ends up playing in this process. This role will also serve as the litmus test for the European identity and the European ideal. As expressed by groups from all segments of Turkey that value democracy, law and justice to European leaders and politicians at every opportunity, we hope that Europe plays a contemporary and progressive role at this critical juncture. In regimes that are not libertarian, the only way for the struggle is through more freedom and democracy. We hope that the resolution of the European Parliament will be evaluated by the Council of the European Union in line with this historic responsibility.