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loopcreative channels 2001: A Space Odyssey in Sydney Tower redesign
A retrofuturist slant articulated through bold curves in the vein of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is at the heart of the Sydney Tower redesign by loopcreative.
The newly unveiled Bar 83 is at the centre of the multi-million refurbishment, which saw the Sydney practice overhaul three floors of one of the city's most iconic landmarks.
Its director Rod Faucheux describes the project as a effort to regift Sydney Tower to the locals, a gesture that's all the more important given the current COVID-19 travel restrictions.
"So everyone's got a story like yours and mine where they went to Sydney Tower once as a tourist and never returned," he tells ADR.
"But the locals have always stayed away."
Bar 83 in particular has been redesigned with Sydneysiders in mind.
"The idea is that more locals are going to make this part of their Friday or Saturday night, their special occasions and that sort of thing, and keep coming back," explains Faucheaux.
Originally an office and storeroom, the third floor of Sydney Tower provided loopcreative with a blank slate.
"We asked ourselves, 'If you could open the door, what would you expect to see up there?'," says Faucheaux.
"After some discussion, we decided that we wanted the bar to feel like it could justifiably have been there throughout the life of the building, but in some sense cut off from the rest of the world."
For Faucheaux, who is 50, this meant combining the futuristic aesthetic of his childhood and the history of the Sydney Tower, which was built throughout the 1970s, with a luxury sky-high airport lounge.
The bold curves and circular portals of Bar 83 exaggerate the round, radial form of the tower itself, while the palette of hyper-saturated red hues and luxe gold details speak of the "glorious, hedonistic excess" of the 1960s and '70s.
"There's a scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where they're sitting in a white circular room that rotates vertically and there's red furniture in that. So that's where the concept first developed."
The dominant red lounges are custom reimaginings of the Puffallo sofa by Ross Didier. They're accessorised by Bellhop and Attollo lights from Euroluce and "red-as-sin" carpets from Shaw Contract.
Bar 83 sits above Sydney Tower's other hospitality venues, both of which rotate and were also recently refurbished by loopcreative.
On the first floor, Infinity is a "sophisticated setting for discerning, worldly gourmands" based locally and abroad.
The fine dining restaurant is separated from the elevators by a wall of smokey quartz-tinted glass blocks by Obeco. The polished concierge desk in Concordia stone by Artedomus precedes space, which is divided across two levels.
The lower terrace provides a semi-private dining space to host up to 16 guests, while smaller groups of between two and eight are seated above.
"We wanted this level to feel elegant and refined," explains Faucheaux.
"Even the selection of furniture is more luxurious here than anywhere else. We custom-designed all the furniture, over 200 pieces, working closely with Ross [Didier] out of Melbourne."
A palette of deep royal purple carpeting, white marble table tops, dark-stained timber and rich leather banquettes define Infinity.
Gold metal accents echo the "warm lustre" of the building's anodized exterior and are paired with brass and timber chairs.
Low key lighting design, featuring Euroluce's Atollo and custom pieces by Darkon, imbues the space with a "glamour and a sense of theatricality".
Sandwiched between Infinity and Bar 83 is SkyFeast – a casual eatery that is designed with a "distinctly Australian vernacular" at its core.
From the arrival area, clad in pebblecrete evocative of the "nostalgic texture of Aussie backyard pools", the dining space has a "crisp white" palette mottled with earthy ochres and tactile finishes.
A custom terracotta breezeblock internal wall harks back to "suburbia", while tan leather banquettes, solid oak Fable chairs and bespoke tables, again designed by Didier, are "steeped with laconic local character.
"Traditionally, this is the floor that most appeals to tourists, but we wanted to design a venue that would also stand up independently and not rely on tourism," says Faucheaux.
"That's why we went with something that had a local vernacular to it, but in a subtle way that doesn't detract from the main event.
"In fact, if the design on this floor dominates to some degree, then we've not met the brief. People are there for the view. It's an amazing advertisement for Sydney, so our design very much plays second fiddle to it and to the food."
Photography: Robert Walsh.
loopcreative is an interior design studio based in Sydney, which specialises in residential, hospitality and retail design. The studio was also behind the 250sqm fitout for Melbourne's Long Shot in 2017.
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Interview: Author Graeme Sheppard on reopening Pamela Werner's 1930s murder
The retired police officer sheds new light on the brutal unsolved crime
Posted: Sunday December 9 2018
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Years after historian Paul French claimed to crack the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner in Beijing, concluding – spoiler alert – the murderer to be an American dentist, in his critically acclaimed non-fiction novel Midnight in Peking, British police officer Graeme Sheppard opens the historic case once more and lands on a different suspect. As his first book A Death in Peking hits shelves, Sheppard talks about his investigation and 'who really killed Pamela Werner'.
As a UK-based police officer, what was it about the historic, Beijing murder investigation of Pamela Werner that piqued your interest in your first book?
My wife's grandfather happened to be consul in Beijing at the time, she [asked me to read] Midnight in Peking... It was a good read, but I just thought [the conclusion] could not be right. Something about my police experience told me it was wrong that Pamela's father ETC Werner had succeeded at identifying suspects where the police had failed [as Midnight in Peking suggests]. I went to the national archives, looked up Werner's letters to the Foreign Office, which Midnight in Peking was based upon, and took it from there.
Given that the crime was committed over 80 years ago, how did you start investigating the case?
Using my police experience, I cast a net wide in search of evidence. There were books, memoirs, personal records, army service records, missionary church documents, letters between embassies, all from archives across the world. I even managed to speak with children Pamela had lived with just prior to her death who are now in their 90s, which was excellent first-hand evidence.
Did you have any apprehensions about challenging French's conclusion in Midnight in Peking?
I spent years collecting evidence. I'm confident about getting closer to the truth because I used a far wider source base, and didn't simply follow the murder theories of Pamela's father [like Midnight in Peking does]. Werner was a man who was in no way objective, had a long history of having trouble with the truth, and was described by his contemporaries who knew him well as being 'morbidly suspicious', 'maniacally quarrelsome' and 'completely mad'. [Werner] also decided upon the guilt of his suspect, and then went about collecting evidence to support that guilt, which evidentially put things the wrong way around. I could not conceive how police had missed suspects that he had identified. That was my principal reason for investigating further – to see where it had gone wrong for the police. But the emphasis that I want to give is that [A Death in Peking takes] an evidence-led approach. It's a very different book to Midnight in Peking, a different genre really. This is an investigation as opposed to a narrative. I don't wish to be negative about French, but there's a lot of creativity in [his work] and mine is strictly non-fiction.
Is there a chance that we still don't know 'who really killed Pamela'?
I keep an open mind as one should. There could be more evidence out there… and archive material in China yet to be found, but I doubt whether it would change matters radically. I am confident in my research and the strong likelihood is that the murderer was a teenage friend that was a Chinese student from her past.
What's next for you?
I have another project being developed. [While researching] you come across stuff that is fascinating, but unfortunately not relevant to the book. It's frustrating… however, that's led me to another project, so there's a good spin-off. But at the moment I'll have to keep my cards very close.
A Death in Peking is available on amazon.cn for 148RMB.
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PHOENIX (KSAZ) - This year, there are new guidelines to getting a flu shot and it's in accordance with recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bette Sowell has gotten the flu every year for the past few decades.
"I think it probably helps in a lot of the fighting off, a lot of the little cold and flu type symptoms," she said. "And I wait until October because I think then if there are going to be any changes in it, they've already changed it."
Last year many people got hit with the flu and Dr. Johnston says this year isn't looking any better. She says every year the shot changes and this year they've added a vaccine.
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The user can enter any content in there. Is there any way to get the event for when a user makes a selection within the div.
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A: you could try something like this:
There is no 'selectend' event but we can work out when the user has finished selecting by watching the mouseup event
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A: Following the answer by @Elliot and the comment by @Michael Bates, this seems to work flawlessly for both mouse and keyboard selection events (example is in TypeScript):
export function attachSelectionListener(element: HTMLElement) : void {
  if (!element.contentEditable) {
    return;
  }
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}

function handleSelectionChange(element: HTMLElement): void {
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}

function retrieveSelection(element: HTMLElement) : void {
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When using this in your app, you probably want to check if you need to remove the listeners again at some point.

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With the 1.3 version of the OakLib, Toradex has introduced some changes in the programming interface of the library. In most cases, migrating your application is simply a matter of recompiling and linking your application against the new version of the library, but in some cases (mainly if you are using a programming language that offers no easy bridging feature with C DLLs), you may need to tweak your code to be able to use the version 1.3 of the OakLib. This document will detail the motivation behind the changes, and tell you how to adapt your code.
In versions prior to 1.3, the OakLib used 'ALIGN' compiler directives to control the padding in data structures. In a few words, in order to optimize performance, the compiler can insert 'gaps' in data structure so that data members are optimally aligned for CPU operations. The programming languages makes sure the padding is made transparent to the user, and in most cases, you do not have to worry about padding. You can find more details about the topic in the following article. 'align' compiler directives that give control over the padding have been removed in OakLib 1.3, and data structures now use the default padding policy for the x86 platform. In practice, this means that the tChannel structure remains the same as in 1.2 and all padding bytes are removed from the tOakSensor structure (see the tables below for details).
Align directives are not compatible with .NET.
C/C++, .Net langages: (re)compile your application. .Net developers may want to check our [[Oak_in_Visual_Basic_.NET_and_C_Sharp|dedicated wiki page]].
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Who brought these religious activities to the Philippines?
Who brought the Catholic religion in the Philippines?
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Who discovered the Philippines?
Who brought Christianity to the Philippines?
Is Magellan brought Christianity in the Philippines?
What started Christianity?
Who was the Buddhism founder?
Is Philippines a Buddhist country?
Why the early Chinese traders called the Philippines as Ma Yi?
Who established martial arts in the Philippines?
What is the main religion in Philippines?
How Japan influenced the Philippines?
Spain introduced Christianity to the Philippines in 1565 with the arrival of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. Earlier, beginning in 1350, Islam had been spreading northward from Indonesia into the Philippine archipelago.
It was only later in the 16th century that the voyages of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) first brought Catholicism to the archipelago, originally named St.
Christianity was first brought to the Philippine islands by Spanish missionaries and settlers, who arrived in waves beginning in the early 16th century in Cebu.
In the 13th century, Buddhism and Hinduism were introduced to the people of Palawan through the Srivijaya and Majapahit .
Francisco and Josephine Acosta Pasricha, Hindu influences and folklore arrived in Philippines by about 9th to 10th century AD. The Maranao version is the Maharadia Lawana (King Rāvaṇa of Hindu Epic Ramayana).
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Islam was the first-recorded monotheistic religion in the Philippines. Islam reached the Philippines in the 14th century with the arrival of Muslim traders from the Persian Gulf, southern India, and their followers from several sultanate governments in the Malay Archipelago.
The Philippines were claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, who named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. They were then called Las Felipinas.
Christianity was brought to the Philippines in 1521 when Magellan landed on the small island of Limasawa in Cebu. Magellan was heading a Spanish expedition in an effort to find a western sea route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia.
Christianity began in the 1st century CE after Jesus died and was resurrected. Starting as a small group of Jewish people in Judea, it spread quickly throughout the Roman Empire. Despite early persecution of Christians, it later became the state religion. In the Middle Ages it spread into Northern Europe and Russia.
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The Chinese traders favored Ma-i as the wholesale trading center in the Philippines, even though the more populous Pu-li-lu was nearby, because Ma-i natives were honest. None of their goods were lost or stolen, and the traders sold their goods on credit.
The efforts of the two and Senator Miguel Zubiri resulted in Arnis being declared as the National Martial Art and Sport of the Philippines by virtue of Republic Act 9850 which was signed into law in 2009. Knowledge of the Filipino fighting skills is mandatory in the Philippine military and police.
Christianity. The Philippines is the only country in Asia in which Christianity is the national religion. This is probably the result of the Spanish Catholic reign in The Philippines for more than 300 years. Religion still plays a central role in the lives of most Filipino Americans.
Through ODA, Japan has helped construct and improve infrastructure in the Philippines. These include major arterial highways, bridges, airports, railways, and ports.
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Vladimir Khomyakov releases a highly anticipated New Album "Romance."
The pandemic created global challenges we have not experienced in the last century for everyone in the performance industry. Lockdown forced numerous artists, musicians, and dancers to urgently adjust their activities to new realities or sometimes go entirely out of business. On the other hand, many renowned musicians turned themselves into studio work during the hardest lockdowns. One of them — Vladimir Khomyakov, Ukrainian-born American concert pianist, based in Los Angeles, California — came up with a new album, "Romance," which is something extraordinary you don't want to miss.
"It was that hot pandemic summer of 2020 when the most massive lockdown was in place. Everyone was stuck at home and could not see each other when even the beaches were closed. I was on my own in my studio with my piano and suddenly decided to do something I had never done before — record an album right here, not at some fancy concert hall or studio, but on my instrument — the instrument that I'm living with and practicing in every day. There will be no massive passages and bombastic fireworks of chords and octaves — but an album of my favorite romantic miniatures, slim and beautiful, to tell the story of all those feelings and emotions during uncertainty and total silence. In the world of classical music."
It is so rare in today's world of the classical music industry when a particular recording affects a listener in such a profound way.
The CD is an ultimate collection of masterpieces by four iconic European composers — Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Robert Schumann. Known for his large-scale virtuosic pianism, this time, Khomyakov shows his lyrical face and takes us on an intimate romantic journey. The selection of pieces flows in one breath, from the first notes of Chopin's Grand Valse till the last sigh of Schumann's Romance. All of the tracks are perfectly balanced in moods, tonalities, and tempi, which is quite rare to hear in a classical album these days.
The middle cornerstones of the album — the dramatic and passionate Chopin's Nocturne in C minor and Liszt's Liebestraum (Love Dreams) — showcase excellent technique and control of the piano, sincere feeling and simple but genuine phrasing, without any extra-sweetness and unnecessary exaggeration. The simplicity and poetic mood of Chopin's Waltz in C-sharp minor, Liszt's Consolation, and Schumann's Arabeske Are guaranteed to touch your heart. In two, Brahms' Intermezzi — those that you would love to hear out of probably all composer's works: the stunning A Major and B-flat minor — Khomyakov's interpretation brings some unique freshness and delicacy to these famous works. Along with the audience's favorites, several tracks were the real hidden treasure of the album — the rarely performed Chopin's E-flat Major Nocturne Op.55 №2, with its beautiful Rachmaninoff-long melody skillfully traveling through harmonic challenges; and the closing track — Schumann's Romance F-sharp Major, a fantastic example of composers' refined minimalistic writing creating such powerful impression. "Romance" is an enchanting story about the thing you desire the most — from the first innocent dreams of youth through the blissful temptation to the calm happiness of true love. Each tender whisper and ecstatic exclamation uttered by the music will excite your imagination, arouse long-lost affections, and capture your heart. Wickedly passionate, with its mesmerizing blend of power and poetry, this recording will be a treat of pure romantic delight. You can listen to Vladimir Khomyakov's new album. "Romance" on Spotify and Apple Music. To connect with Vladimir, please visit his official website, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Chanel
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The Emerson Fellow of the Netter Center
Applications for 2018-19 will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please contact ABCS Coordinator Faustine Sun at abcscoordinator@sas.upenn.edu with intent to apply.
Final submission is due Monday, February 11, 2019.
The Emerson Fellow of the Netter Center offers one graduating Penn senior—who has worked with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, and/or university-assisted community schools (UACS) programs as undergraduates—an opportunity to engage meaningfully in practice, research and policy and to disseminate their work to a national audience through a one-year (potentially renewable to a second year) appointment.
Based at the Netter Center as a full-time employee, the Emerson Fellow will work on two main areas:
First, the Fellow will work to advance university-assisted community schools locally in West Philadelphia. The Fellow will be tasked to increase the amount of resources from Penn, the community, and governmental agencies to support university-assisted community schools, as well as the integration of these resources. The Fellow will work closely with Netter Center Associate Director Cory Bowman, as well as the Center's Director of University-Assisted Community Schools and its Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Coordinator on strategies to identify and integrate such resources at the school sites. The Fellow will also write reports and assist in evaluation of the effort to engage and coordinate additional Penn, governmental and community resources.
Second, the Fellow will work to advance the Netter Center's national and international activities. The Fellow will work with Joann Weeks, the Netter Center's Associate Director for National/International programs, to help advance the Netter Center's national and international work. The Netter Center expects to provide unique opportunities to engage with policy and practice, meet leaders of major national organizations, as well as become involved with influential national organizations such as the Coalition for Community Schools and the Anchor Institutions Task Force. The Emerson Fellow will support the development of a university-assisted community school network of over 100 national leaders that the Netter Center has developed in collaboration with the Coalition for Community Schools. The Netter Center expects that Emerson Fellows will, as young scholars, begin to contribute to the field through research, publications, and presentations at national conferences. While most of this work will be done from the Netter Center's offices, there will be occasional travel, mostly to NYC and D.C.
Emerson Fellows Application Process
The Netter Center will select one Fellow from the pool of graduating seniors who have outstanding academic credentials and have shown leadership in and commitment to the university-assisted community schools program. Indicators of such involvement would include: number and types of academically based community service courses taken and performance in these courses, leadership roles in student programs that support the Netter Center's university-assisted community schools (e.g., Community School Student Partnerships), and participation in an academic year and/or summer internship.
Students must develop an application portfolio - that includes:
An essay on interest in and goals for being an Emerson Fellow, as well as the relationship of the position to their future career goals
Note: This essay will serve as the cover letter. Please also separately attach the following:
List of ABCS courses completed, as well as internships and Netter Center-related work-study positions.
Recommendation letter waivers - download here:
Emerson Fellowship Waiver 2019
The following should be sent directly from your references to the Netter Center:
Letters of recommendation from at least two Penn faculty members.
Letter of recommendation from a university-assisted community school principal, teacher, community school director, or community partner.
In addition to submitting a hard-copy of the completed application portfolio along with a transcript (can be unofficial) to the Netter Center (Attn: Joann Weeks, St. Leonard's Court, 3819-33 Chestnut Street, Suite 120, 19104), applicants must also apply online at Jobs@Penn (http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/). Search under ORG 00155, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, or Reference Number 02-27654.
For more information, please contact nettercenter@upenn.edu or RSVP to an information session on Tuesday (12/11) 3pm or Wednesday (12/12) 3pm in the Netter Center small conference room.


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The Young and the Clueless
ObamaCare may work, provided no one responds to its incentives.
Would you buy an insurance policy from this woman?
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By James Taranto
(Note: We'll be on the road tomorrow, returning Friday.)
ObamaCare has been the law of the land for 3½ years, but the law's central provisions don't begin taking effect until next Tuesday. Politico warns that "the Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation":
Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won't get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers won't need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected won't run their own insurance marketplaces. And a growing number of workers won't get to keep their employer-provided coverage.
Other than that, it'll go swimmingly. Well, actually it won't, as we'll explain presently--or rather, as we'll let Bill Clinton, whom President Obama condescendingly calls his "secretary of explaining stuff," explain. But first, speaking of whom, check out this delightfully Clintonian quote from a Washington Post story:
More importantly, software glitches on the federal exchange are making it difficult for the Web site to "reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage," according to a report last week by the Wall Street Journal.
In response, Joel Ario, a former HHS official who oversaw health exchange matters at the agency, told The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff that "nobody is going to say we're not starting on October 1, but in some situations, you may see a redefinition of what 'start' means."
If they want to make their "redefinitions" stick in the media, they should change the name of the program to ChelseaCare.
As the Washington Free Beacon reports, however, Clinton said something decidedly un-Clintonian--that is to say, straightforward--in an "interview" yesterday with Obama: "This only works . . . if young people show up." By "show up," he means "buy ObamaCare policies." A Bloomberg report elaborates:
[Twenty-five-year-old Steven] Binko is one of 2.7 million healthy 18- to 34-year-olds, dubbed the young invincibles, that the Obama administration has said are needed in the exchanges to offset the cost of providing care for millions of other uninsured people who are likely to be older and sicker. Without young adults, who pay for insurance yet rarely use it, premium costs in the exchanges may soar. . . .
The challenge is how do you make young people see the value of having insurance at a time in their lives when they are least likely to use it and least capable of affording it.
That's not just a challenge, it's a contradiction. Bloomberg stipulates that an ObamaCare policy will, at least for the young, be expensive (they are "least capable of affording it") and offer minimal benefit (they are "least likely to use it"). You can't "see the value" of such a proposition, because it's a bad deal.


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C:Who Programs the Programmer?
Who gets to tell the story of the hacker? Who has programmed the programmer? There's the hacker you see coming out of the courtroom in shackles. There's the hacker that gets banned from the internet. There's the hacker that almost accidentally starts WW III, a la Matthew Broderick in War Games. But none of these really get us to the real hacker. Steven Levy and others argue that today's connotations of the word "hacker" efface the true meaning of the word. Written in 1986, Loyd Blankenship's Hacker Manifesto describes the "true" hacker:
"Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for."
We'll address numerous questions in this class, including: Who gets to tell the story of the computer programmer, the problem solver, the coder? Has this story been told fairly? Has it been told completely? How could one tell some counter-stories/counter-histories of the hacker? How do representations of the hacker character in literature and popular culture contribute to hacker culture? Do hackers thrive on this image, or do they disregard it altogether?
This course will take on these questions and many more in an attempt to understand representations of the computer programming community. We will begin from the assumption that literature, culture, and stories matter just as much as the code that sits behind/underneath/inside your operating system. Representations of the hacker and the "computer geek" do important work in constructing images and categories. Our job will be to compile these stories. That is, we'll compile narratives the way a computer program is "compiled" – we'll decode and recode the narratives of the computer programmer.
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Braddan Bridge (Irish: Naomh Breandán, Saint Brendan of Clonfert, the Navigator or the Voyager) is a bridge over the river Dhoo on the Douglas to Peel road, from which a halt on the Isle of Man Railway's first line to Peel took its name.

It is a landmark on the Isle of Man TT road-race course, situated in countryside close to the outskirts of Douglas town where motorcycles slow to negotiate a left-right 'S' bend over the river. A traditional viewing spot with seating, in common with other vantage points around the local Douglas area, it is within walking distance of the Ferry Terminal where sea ferries from England, Scotland and Ireland traditionally disembarked day-trip or longer-stay passengers.

Bridge and TT races

The bridge is on the boundary between the parishes of Braddan and Onchan. It is situated between the 1st and 2nd Milestone road-side markers on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix races, on the junction of the primary A1 Douglas to Peel road and the A23. The stretch of former railway line from the Braddan Bridge halt to Quarterbridge forms part of an access road which allows motor traffic to pass between the inside and outside of the race course when the main road is closed for the races.

Railway halt

Usage
Braddan Halt saw infrequent use, mostly in connection with the open air church services that took place at the nearby Kirk Braddan for many years, for which special train services were operated.

Royalty
In 1963 the Queen Mother travelled from Douglas to here to attend one of the church services in the Royal Coach F.36 which is now in preservation in the Port Erin railway museum at the line's southern terminus.

Re-use
Long after the railway had closed (the last trains ran in September 1968), the station's booking office and waiting shelter remained extant. However, in 1991 the building was removed, refurbished and now resides at the operational station of Colby on the south line.

Today
Upon removal the original shelter was replaced by a modern version in 1989, which itself has since been removed. There is now no evidence that the railway passed through here except for a section of rail used as fence posted on the Western side of the bridge.

Route

See also
Isle of Man Railway stations

References

 Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association

External links

Roads in the Isle of Man
Railway stations opened in 1881
Railway stations closed in 1968
1881 establishments in the British Empire

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The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified
06/25/2021 Comments Off on The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified
At least, not by the Gap.
By Ainara Tiefenthäler
Among the many rainbow-colored products and sparkly knickknacks for sale during Pride month this year, a T-shirt briefly available from the Gap stood out for its sober design. Printed on a plain white crew neck with short sleeves was a bomb encircled by the words "The Lesbian Avengers."
The logo originated with an unsung radical activist group that had its heyday almost three decades ago. Seeing its insignia at a mass-market retail chain left people familiar with the group confused and divided over whether the T-shirt was more evidence of the corporate commodification of L.G.B.T.Q. allyship or a sign of growing recognition of a marginalized community.
Others were outraged. One of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers, the journalist and novelist Sarah Schulman, tweeted on May 19: "I just heard about this today and of course they stole it." Activists, including members of former Lesbian Avengers chapters around the country, expressed their frustration on social media.
A letter published on June 18 by three founding members of the Lesbian Avengers, including Ms. Schulman, demanded that the company "halt its production, sale" and "distribution" of the T-shirt, calling the act a "commodification and co-optation of our lives and history."
"Our lesbian history and movement are not for sale," the letter read. "The Lesbian Avenger name and our bomb logo have always existed and been made available as open-source name/graphics to be used in good faith only by and for Lesbian Avengers activities, actions and projects — not to be sold or used to raise funds by a commercial venture."
By then, the shirt had disappeared from the Gap's site. But its back story turned out to be more complicated than a case of coldblooded corporate appropriation.
The designer of the logo, Carrie Moyer, a Lesbian Avenger herself, had sold it to the Gap.
"To be honest, at first, I didn't even think they were going to want to use it because it's more provocative than how they're attempting to depict gay people," Ms. Moyer said of the Gap and the bomb logo. "It's kind of like a teaser for a history that very little is known about."
As Ms. Moyer told the website Autostraddle, "the idea of having this sort of mass dispersal of T-shirts, was like, wow, this is a way to get information out that seems really expedient."
This did nothing to sway the perspective of other Avengers, who view any corporate branding of the group's history and ideas as antithetical to its mission.
"What's visibility without substance?" Ms. Schulman said.
Building 'a Presence Around Lesbianism'
The Lesbian Avengers were founded in 1992, a year that Ana Maria Simo, a playwright and activist, remembers as an angry one. George H.W. Bush was running for re-election in part on his foreign policy successes, especially the relatively bloodless conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, in which 148 Americans died.
But AIDS had claimed over 140,000 lives in the United States alone. The federal government was still responding with indifference both to the virus that decimated a generation of gay men and to the activism that it had ignited.
More urgently, Ms. Simo was incensed by the gentrification of the East Village, which had been something of a safe haven for lesbians, and by a vicious fight over whether New York City public schools should adopt an elementary school curriculum, known as "Children of the Rainbow," that affirmed the existence of gay people and other minorities.
She invited a group of women to dinner at her home, all of whom had experience as activists: Ms. Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine d'Adesky, Marie Honan and Anne Maguire. Over wine and cheese, they planned to start a group that would fight for lesbian visibility.
"It was called The Avengers because Diana Rigg was a lesbian icon on the TV show 'The Avengers'," said Ms. Schulman.
The group's mission was to increase awareness of lesbians — and promote their rights — both within queer culture (radical lesbian politics were mostly associated with second-wave feminists living in insular communities) and the mainstream.
"Lesbians are invisible, and we don't want to be invisible," Ms. Simo said recently over Zoom. "We want to make our existence known to the world. We want the streets to belong to us. We want to be out there."
That June, at the Gay Pride March in New York City, members handed out "club cards," colorful pamphlets that read "Lesbians! Dykes! Gay Women!" and "We want revenge and we want it now!"
Printed at the bottom of the handouts was a little icon of a bomb — Ms. Simo's spur-of-the-moment addition, a nod to her "little obsession" with revolutionary movements of the past. It "was kind of a 19th-century anarchist type of thing," she said.
The leaflet landed in the hands of Ms. Moyer, a graphic designer who was immediately taken by the group's romanticized revolutionary stylings. She joined the Lesbian Avengers shortly afterward, putting her skills to use making print materials and eventually designing the group's official logo: a lit bomb, ringed by the words "The Lesbian Avengers" in a bold sans-serif typeface called Frutiger.
"Separatist lesbian culture was kind of willfully low-tech. Everything was sort of homemade," Ms. Moyer said. "Having a presence around lesbianism that looked like it was part of the sort of sophisticated visual world — part of the world in general, the world that was targeted to everyone — felt really important."
The logo was put to a vote. Not everyone was a fan at first. Ms. d'Adesky said she worried the imagery read as aggressive.
But, she said, "humor was going to be part of our messaging because there was a stereotype that remained in the culture around: You are angry, humorless lesbians." She grew to embrace the bomb.
Like their logo, the Lesbian Avengers's activism was in-your-face and tongue-in-cheek. (Their manifesto calling on "all lesbians" read, in part, "closeted lesbians, queer boys and sympathetic straights should give us money.") At their first action, outside a Queens elementary school where the school board had rejected the Children of the Rainbow curriculum, the Avengers arrived with a marching band, handing out purple balloons to children that read, "Ask About Lesbian Lives."
On Valentine's Day in 1993, they gave out chocolate kisses in Grand Central Terminal with the message "You've just been kissed by a lesbian," and unveiled a papier-mâché figure of the lesbian socialite Alice B. Toklas next to the sculpture of the writer Gertrude Stein — Toklas's more famous lover — in Bryant Park.
At the New York City memorial for a lesbian and a gay man who had burned to death in Salem, Ore., after a Molotov cocktail was tossed into their apartment, members of the Lesbian Avengers ate fire and chanted: "The fire will not consume us. We take it and make it our own." (Fire-eating eventually became one of the group's hallmarks.) Chapters cropped up in dozens of cities across the country and even abroad, many using the bomb logo, which the New York group made available for reproduction.
The Lesbian Avengers's longest lasting legacy is the annual Dyke March, which was first held on April 24, 1993, on the eve of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, one of the largest protests against L.G.B.T.Q. discrimination ever held in the United States.
In response to what the Avengers saw as a male-dominated events calendar — and in the spirit of civil disobedience — the group called on women to take to the streets of the capital without a permit the day before. "We didn't even realize how brilliant we were by doing it in D.C., where people had come from all over the world," Ms. Schulman said. "The women went home to their towns and their cities and they did the same. The next year these marches were everywhere, without any coordination, and some of them still exist."
The Dyke March will convene for the 29th time this weekend in cities including New York and San Francisco — in many places, still without a permit.
Amplification or Commodification?
In late 2019, Ms. Moyer, the logo's designer, was connected to the Gap through Avram Finkelstein — a friend, former ACT UP member and co-founder of the collective that made the famous "Silence=Death" anti-AIDS graphic — who was collaborating with the retailer on a line of graphic T-shirts.
The Gap T-shirt was modeled on an original Lesbian Avengers T-shirt from the 1990s. But where the original tee featured the words "We Recruit" on the back (a satirical sendup of right-wing fears that gay people were "recruiting" children into their lifestyle), the Gap version sported a paragraph on the history of the Avengers, including the names of the six founders.
Ms. Simo said she found out by stumbling across a screenshot of the Gap's website: "It was a really bizarre thing to see."
Like other Lesbian Avengers members who spoke with The New York Times, Ms. Simo said she was not contacted by either Ms. Moyer or the Gap in advance, but found out about the shirt through social media.
"Somebody tweeted at me the page from the Gap," Ms. Schulman said. "I said, 'Oh, they stole it from us.'"
In an interview, Ms. Moyer said she did not contact all of the Lesbian Avengers founders before licensing the image but did confer with one of them: Maxine Wolfe.
"The thing that won out was that the historical information would be on the back and would get to people who otherwise would not get it. And it wasn't information like, 'Smile, it's Pride,' but information about a direct action group," Ms. Wolfe said. "More people have been speaking about the Lesbian Avengers than have in a long, long time."
Ms. Moyer received $7,000 from the Gap for the use of the logo on the shirt, all of which, she said, she donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, which has been collecting and preserving lesbian history for over four decades.
"I saw the whole interaction as a way to support" the archives, Ms. Moyer said, "this place that has basically preserved our history since the beginning."
But she also said she had never signed off on a finalized design that would list the names of the founders on the back of the shirt. She said she was surprised both by the shirt's release this spring, which she learned about on Facebook, and by the text on its back, which she had not approved.
When she spoke to the Gap, the person who had initially been in charge of the project had left the company. "I found out that the copy on the back of the T-shirts (listing the names of the founders) was never replaced with the correct text," Ms. Moyer wrote in an email to the Times. "This violates the contract I signed."
About 1,100 shirts were produced in total, and the shirts were sold only online, a spokesperson for the Gap said. The company also said that it had a long history of supporting the L.G.B.T.Q. community, noting that in the 1980s it became "involved in the fight against AIDS through donations to AIDS foundations," and that the company donates every year to "organizations that help raise awareness on critical issues happening with the LGBTQ+ community."
Ms. Moyer stands by her initial decision to license the Lesbian Avengers logo: "I designed the logo, and that logo is out in the world and in a bajillion places," she said. She pointed out that several websites without any affiliation to the Lesbian Avengers sold merchandise featuring the design.
But for Ms. Schulman, Ms. Simo and Ms. d'Adesky, the commercialization of the logo by a multinational corporation was irreconcilable with the anti-establishment ethos of the group. "The nature of the beast is that it needs to be fed," Ms. Simo said. "Now everybody is the hero of the day when they can become commodities that can be sold."
This specific disagreement speaks to a much bigger question when it comes to progress for the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Pride month, in this era, comes with a sort of motion sickness for many who fought not just for visibility but also for their lives and basic rights. And while there may be Pride flags in storefronts, and more queer characters on television — and potentially, more T-shirts with activist logos — the number of hate crimes against L.G.B.T.Q. people reported by the F.B.I. hasn't changed much over two decades; there are legislative assaults on trans rights nationwide; and functionally no lesbian spaces are left in the country.
Pride provides a moment of collective catharsis — a celebration of the humor and playfulness that has kept queer people alive. With rah-rah rainbow merch, corporations play to that legacy while also cashing in on images of acceptance and inclusion that may be more palatable to the majority culture than reflective of the daily realities of queer people, who continue to fight for their safety and rights.
The Lesbian Avengers T-shirt sold by the Gap managed, in its fleeting existence, to cut across both of those realities. It bypassed love-is-love platitudes to sell a memory of a community's radical roots — for $34.95. In its contradictions, the short-lived shirt has become a fraught collector's item for this moment in L.G.B.T.Q. history: a limited edition item that is as unlikely to beat people into consumerist apathy as it is to shock them into revolutionary fervor.
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Founded by BitMEX Group CEO Alexander Höptner and CFO Stephan Lutz, BXM Operations AG announced today its plans to acquire Bankhaus von der Heydt, one of the oldest banks in Europe, to create a regulated crypto one-stop-shop in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Dietrich von Boetticher, the owner of the German bank, and BXM have already signed a purchase agreement. However, it still requires the approval of BaFin, the German financial services regulatory authority. The purchase is expected to be complete by mid-2022.According to the announcement, the company's objective is to expand its operations in Europe. Following the launch of brokerage service BitMEX Link in Switzerland, the acquisition of Bankhaus von der Heydt aims to make room for more product development and reach expansion for BitMEX.BitMEX CEO Alexander Höptner says that a mixture of the digital asset expertise of Bankhaus von der Heydt and the innovation and scale of BitMEX may lead to great things. "I believe we can create a regulated crypto products powerhouse in the heart of Europe," he said.BitMEX CFO Stephan Lutz also shared his thoughts about Germany. According to Lutz, Germany, being the largest economy in Europe, makes it a good great market for BitMEX's Europe expansion.Related: Cathie Wood's ARK ETF reportedly buys 6.93M shares of SPAC merging with CircleOther crypto exchanges are also announcing their entry to Europe. Mercado Bitcoin operator Brazilian 2TM Group recently announced its entry to Portugal. The exchange revealed their acquisition of a controlling stake in CriptoLoja, a crypto exchange licensed by Portugal's central bank.Meanwhile, other firms are also making a push to expand the crypto ecosystem. Gemini exchange also recently announced that it will acquire Bitria, a San Fransisco-based start-up. The firm will integrate several features created by Bitria into its exchange.
Kevin O'Leary-backed WonderFi to buy Bitbuy parent company for $162M
podľa Cointelegraph By Erhan Kahraman | jan 5, 2022 | 0 |
Kevin O'Leary-backed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform WonderFi Technologies is increasing its footprint in Canada by buying the first regulated crypto exchange in the country. WonderFi agreed to pay close to 206 million Canadian dollars ($162 million) to acquire First Ledger Corp., the parent company of BitBuy. WonderFi aims to become an end-to-end consumer platform for crypto and DeFi, according to the official announcement.Founded in 2016, Bitbuy became a fully-regulated crypto exchange in Canada after being licensed by the Ontario Securities Commission last November. The platform has over 375,000 users who transacted more than $3.4 billion. The announcement states that Bitbuy generated over $24 million in revenue in the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 2021.The transaction details revealed that WonderFi would fund the acquisition by issuing 70 million new shares and paying $15.7 million in upfront cash and $23 million in deferred cash via a vendor-takeback note due in 12 months. "WonderFi will retain substantially all current Bitbuy employees and enter into employment agreements with key members of the management team," the announcement reads.Related: Binance gets the green light from Canada and BahrainHighlighting the importance of a licensed marketplace as a gateway to the digital asset economy, WonderFi CEO Ben Samaroo said:"The integration of Bitbuy's product suite will accelerate and expand the reach and scope that WonderFi can offer to the market, and will drive long-term growth and value for the company."[embedded content]Kevin O'Leary, a former Bitcoin (BTC) critic who turned to a crypto advocate, commented that the acquisition would enable two teams to "have the bandwidth, assets and licenses to provide an institutional-grade compliant crypto platform to investors interested in exposure to centralized and decentralized financial services." In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, the Shark Tank celebrity said if stablecoin regulations become more precise, he'd b ready to increase his crypto allocations up to 20%. O'Leary is more interested in the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins as he sees them as an effective hedge against rising levels of inflation.
Centralized systems are here to stay, says Binance CEO CZ
podľa Cointelegraph By Joseph Hall | dec 31, 2021 | 0 |
The Chinese-Canadian business executive's standout message was that centralized exchanges like Binance would remain relevant in 2022 and beyond. Riposting to a loaded tweet about centralized finance's dark side as well as the future of decentralized finance, CZ said, "Today, we still need the centralized systems to integrate with the traditional financial industry so that we can bring the money into and out of crypto."He caveated the sentiment with reference to the cryptocurrency market as still being a nascent industry, prone to "hackers, Ponzi schemes and scammers."Keen readers will remember one of 2021's legendary rug pulls, Squid Game token (SQUID), which clocked a 45,000% gain before dumping. In early November, Binance launched an inquiry into the token to trace funds associated with the epic pump and dump. Inevitably, when prompted about favoritism towards certain blockchain projects, or even coins that, according to one Twitter user, are "totally fake," CZ set the record straight: "Binance lists about six or seven hundred coins out of probably 6 million coins. So only one in 10,000 coins that's ever created gets listed on Binance. That's about 0.01%. It is a very small number."While coin selection is a moot issue, tighter management of centralized exchanges (CEX) has been rife during 2021. No strangers to compliance themselves, Binance Turkey was recently fined 8 million lira for non-compliance against money laundering, while CEXs as a whole came under pressure in August this year.Related: Binance to finalize acquisition of Swipe, paving for CEO exitIn terms of the group's growth, Binance now numbers over 90 million users worldwide, dwarfing its team of "a couple of thousand Binancians." 2021 goes out with a bang, as regulatory approvals in Canada and Bahrain will bring Binance services to more crypto enthusiasts across the globe. CZ, meanwhile, will continue to hodl his two favorite coins, Binance Coin (BNB) and Bitcoin (BTC). Reaching 36 on Cointelegraph's Top 100 Notable People in Blockchain in 2021, he wishes us all a Happy New Year while he will "continue to work on Binance users' feedback in 2022." In a tongue-in-cheek hot seat video to round off 2021, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, or "CZ," responded to a series of curated Tweets from the Binance community.
South Korean crypto exchanges to follow Coinone in verifying private wallets
Major South Korean crypto exchanges including Upbit, Bithumb and Korbit will follow Coinone's lead in banning transfers to non-verified wallets, industry analysts say. Yesterday Coinone announced that it would reject deposits from unverified private wallets starting Jan. 24 to reduce the risk of money laundering. All Korean exchanges, including Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit and 20 others, are expected to implement similar or identical measures as Coinone by or before March 25. The Korean government set the deadline for exchanges to track coin transactions on and off their platforms accurately.Korean blockchain industry analyst Jun Hyuk Ahn told Cointelegraph, "Korean exchanges are creating their own Travel Rule solutions in order to meet the requirements to operate post-March.""All the Korean exchanges are going to have to use some travel rule system by March because that's when the government has set a deadline for them. Coinone just did it first."The rule for exchanges will also help the far eastern nation come into compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) "travel rule."According to anti-money laundering (AML) Compliance service Sygna, the travel rule stipulates that national governments must "ensure domestic exchanges share real-identity information with transmittal counterparties or face increased AML/CFT monitoring."These compliance stipulations for exchanges are part of a long series of regulatory restrictions for crypto exchanges which started with the real-name bank account requirement for all users. Before that rule was implemented in 2018, crypto exchange accounts could be linked to a bank account owned by multiple individuals. By Sep. 2021, exchanges were required to have Internet Security Management System (ISMS) verification and a single domestic bank partner which would issue real-name accounts. All exchanges that could not meet the requirements were forced to remove KRW pairs from trading or suspend services altogether.Related: Binance Turkey fined 8M lira for non-compliance against money launderingThe country has grappled with global FATF compliance issues related to nonfungible tokens (NFT) as well. Financial regulators flip-flopped on their policy direction regarding NFTs until the latest statement from the Financial Services Commission stated on Nov. 24 that it would explore its options to regulate and tax NFTs.Globally, South Korea's exchanges are the outliers in complying with the rule. As of now, there are no other major crypto spot exchanges that require users to verify their private wallets.
Speed, scaling, regulation to play key role for crypto in 2022: FTX CEO
FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as "SBF," rounded off 2021 on an optimistic note. SBF waxed lyrical about the crypto market's state in 2021 while revealing the roadmap for FTX in 2022 in a Twitter flood.In his view, there are three keystones to industry progress in 2022: regulation, scaling and transaction speeds. He proposes solutions to each puzzle piece, referencing his exchange's involvement.On regulation, SBF states stablecoins could be better reported and audited. In line with FTX stablecoin policies, he said more transparency would solve "80% of the problems while allowing stablecoins to thrive onshore." Meanwhile, better markets oversight and an anti-fraud-based regime for token issuances could address other regulatory gaps. Secondly, while crypto users number somewhere around 200 million, "punching way above their weight," more blockchain network effects are needed to achieve wider mainstream adoption.Fortunately, FTX is leading the charge. It doubled its user count in the fourth quarter, cementing itself as one of the top exchanges in crypto at a $25-billion valuation. SBF explained that while smart contracts have paved the way for metaverses, decentralized finance and Web 3.0 developments, video games could be the path to massive scaling: "Tapping into the existing userbase of video games could be huge–billions of users and hundreds of billions of dollars each year."However, he went on to say, "This only makes sense if it makes the virtual worlds more engaging, not less." Blockchain integrations in games, such as nonfungible tokens, only work if they improve an already great game or virtual experience. Related: Alameda Research leads $35M fundraise for crypto trading app StackedFinally, cryptocurrency transactions must change gears. Levels of 50,000 transactions per second are not enough to satisfy industrial-scale applications. Without high speeds, the other two issues cannot execute well. He joked:"I always laugh when a blockchain says they're already fast. None are! […] Fast means millions of TPS. No one is there yet."As the wealthiest person in crypto according to Forbes, SBF's net worth of $26.5 billion puts the 29-year-old just outside of the world's top 100 people. He's no stranger to the limelight and being a highly regarded figure, sharing Twitter spaces with Tom Brady and reaching Cointelegraph's third most notable person in blockchain in 2021.
Binance gets green light from Canada and Bahrain
podľa Cointelegraph By Arnold Kirimi | dec 27, 2021 | 0 |
Binance is celebrating the new year with approvals from two different sides of the world.The crypto exchange has been granted an in-principle license by the Central Bank of Bahrain to operate as a crypto asset service provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain. According to the announcement, the in-principle approval a first for a Binance entity in the Middle East and North Africa region. In a statement, Binance CEO CZ said that approval from national regulators is "essential to build trust in crypto and blockchain and help further improve mass adoption."When it comes to licensing, it is "a matter of formalities,'" according to Abdulkarim Haji, director for licensing at the country's central bank. He highlighted Bahrain as the ideal location for Binance to establish its headquarters in the region.In a surprise move, Binance has also obtained a crypto financing license in Canada, incorporated as Binance Canada Capital Market. The new subsidiary of the exchange will handle digital assets, money transfers, foreign exchange and function as a Money Service Business (MSB).CZ confirmed the licensing on Twitter. He said they're excited to expand their customer support team to include customers and other crypto exchanges.Boxing day. https://t.co/XmnyQIODLT— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) December 27, 2021On December 24th, the crypto exchange applied FINTRAC for an MSB license, approved on December 27th. The exchange's current financial license will expire on December 31st, 2024. Bahrain, the Gulf's smallest economy, has been a frontrunner in the digital assets sector. Rain Financial became the first licensed crypto-asset platform in the region after receiving permission from the country's central bank to operate in 2019. In January, Bahrain's monetary authority renewed a license for Manama-based CoinMENA.Binance's decision reflects the firm's increased focus on the Middle East region. The company recently became the first crypto exchange to join a new crypto hub established by Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, reported by Cointelegraph. Related: Binance introduces BNB Auto-Burn to replace quarterly burn protocolBinance's regulatory odyssey has been nothing short of thrilling in 2021, as the cryptocurrency exchange continues to expand into new countries and obtain appropriate regulatory approval. At the same time, it has faced serious criticism, warnings and fines from several authorities.Most recently, Binance Turkey was fined $750,000 by the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) for failing to meet financial surveillance reports requirements.
Just 1.3 million Bitcoin left circulating on crypto exchanges
In glad tidings for an orange Christmas, Bitcoin (BTC) supply is drying up to lows not seen for years. In a recent tweet by CryptoRank, just 6.3% of the total Bitcoin supply, or 1.3 million BTC, is held on cryptocurrency exchanges. The decreasing supply is nothing new, trending down since the Bitcoin halving in 2020 when the BTC block reward was cut in two. BTC availability on exchanges followed suit, slowly trending down over the past year. Exchange wallets accounted for 9.5% of the BTC supply in October 2020, just before the 2020 Christmas all-time highs, and 7.3% in July this year. The 6.3% December figure is the lowest recorded in 2021.Interestingly, Coinbase's BTC wallet dominance is also slipping. The American exchange used to custody more BTC than all other exchanges combined. Its dominance has slipped from 50.52% to 40.65% over the past year. The news follows a swathe of positive price metrics that dovetail the upward price action of Bitcoin. Firstly, the illiquid BTC supply has iced over for the winter as the BTC supply going from a "liquid" to an "illiquid" state is now 100,000 BTC per month. In essence, more BTC is locked away into cold storage than the amount being mined. Glassnode, the on-chain analytics company, shared further bullish news regarding exchange behavior. The seven-day moving average for BTC's exchange inflow volume just reached a 5-month low of 978.452 BTC and has been trending down week on week. The exchange supply shortage may continue with less and less BTC sent to exchanges. Furthermore, it's important to note that many retail investors and some companies store their BTC on exchanges, indicating that the 'illiquid' BTC may be even lower. Some BTC hodlers would leave the custody of their keys to exchanges instead of taking their BTC offline into cold storage.Related: Bitcoin needs to clear $51K to reduce the chance of new sell-off from BTC whalesUnsurprisingly, Binance CEO and co-founder Changpeng Zhao has encouraged the hot wallet practice, despite the best efforts of Bitcoiners like Andreas Antonopolous ensuring 'not your keys, not your Bitcoin' is part of everyday BTC mantra. As a result, while 1.3 million BTC rests on exchanges, they may not be 'circulating', and may in fact contribute to the illiquid supply. Nonetheless, despite calls for a "Santa Rally" off the back of bullish analytics, the bears are not yet out of the woods. A tweet by BullRun Invest using Glassnode data shows that 24.6% of all BTC supply is sitting above the price of $47,000. It suggests that roughly a quarter of the BTC bought at those price levels are currently underwater. If BTC fails to make progress into the 50s, there may be fewer presents under the tree tomorrow.
Binance introduces BNB Auto-Burn to replace quarterly burn protocol
podľa Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra | dec 23, 2021 | 0 |
Binance officially announced the implementation of a new BNB Auto-Burn protocol to replace their current quarterly burn mechanism. In response to the requests of the BNB community, Binance changed its quarterly burning protocol for BNB tokens. According to Binance, this will provide more "transparency and predictability" to its community. With this, BNB will be burned automatically based on a formula consisting of on-chain data of total blocks generated and the average price of BNB. At the moment, there are two burning mechanisms for BNB. One is the real-time burning of a percentage of gas fees on the Binance Smart Chain. The second is the quarterly burn based on Binance's Accelerated Burn Program, which the BNB Auto-Burn mechanism would replace.Since the launch of BNB, Binance has committed to burning 100 million BNB which is half of the original total supply. When the total circulating supply of BNB goes below 100 million, the Auto-Burn will be discontinued. In the last quarterly burn, the company took 1,335,888 BNB, approximately $639,462,868 at the time, out of circulation. Earlier this year, the team destroyed $400 million worth of BNB tokens in the 16th quarterly burn event. At the time of writing, BNB trades down less than 10% on the month at $528. It's down 23.65% from its all-time high of $690.93 back on May 10, 2021, but is still up by 1295% since the start of 2021. Related: Binance VC arm leads $60M round in cross-chain protocol MultichainMeanwhile, Binance became one of the first to join the crypto hub established by the United Arab Emirates government in Dubai. The news came a day after the Dubai government announced the launch of its crypto hub.
Coinbase adds 'ETH2' despite tomorrow's Ethereum upgrade postponing difficulty bomb
podľa Cointelegraph By Yashu Gola | dec 7, 2021 | 0 |
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added a mirrored version of the Ethereum blockchain's native token Ether (ETH) to its crypto price index, just ahead of a key network upgrade on Dec. 10.Dubbed "ETH2," the symbol appeared to have been tracking the original Ether market data synchronously. For instance, the cost to purchase ETH2 came out to be the same as that for ETH. Meanwhile, their market capitalization, volume, circulating supply, and price changes were also identical.Coinbase is already promoting eth2 as a new coin? pic.twitter.com/C67UxooLU0— Nuno (@nvcoelho) December 6, 2021Nonetheless, unlike the original, the ETH2 token had no Trading Activity, Popularity Score, or Typical Hold Time, underscoring that its role — for now — is to merely track the ETH market data at least until mid-2022.ETH vs ETH2.0 market data. Source: CoinbaseThat is probably as ETH2 seems to have been posing as the native token of Ethereum's ongoing upgrade, dubbed Ethereum 2.0, which expects to go live fully by June 2022. But the Coinbase's index listing appears closer to "Arrow Glacier," a fork that would give developers more time to prepare for Ethereum 2.0.Before Ethereum 2.0The Arrow Glacier update aims to delay a so-called "difficulty bomb," an incentive hardcoded inside the Ethereum blockchain since its launch in 2015, which would make it difficult for people to mine Ether. In doing so, the BOMB, if triggered, would slow down the Ethereum network, for as long as it remains proof-of-work.Tim Beiko, one of the core developers working on the Ethereum upgrade, noted that Arrow Glacier might be the last upgrade before Ethereum 2.0 goes live next year. Meanwhile, Coinbase appears to have been treating the Arrow Glacier fork as a confirmation that they would exist a new token called ETH2 after the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade.In detail, Ethereum 2.0, also known as "Serenity," would enable significant changes to its design, including a full-scale transition from energy-intensive Proof-of-Work (PoW) — also used by Bitcoin (BTC) — to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).In the current version, nodes must validate every transaction to maintain Ethereum's public ledger. But the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade would launch "sharding," which would divide the network into various segments (called shards) and would randomly assign nodes to each shard. Beacon Chain and Sharding. Source: Vitalik.caThat would remove the need for each node to scan the entire chain, theoretically improving the speed and costs required to maintain the network. Meanwhile, individual shards would share the transaction details with a so-called Beacon Chain, which serves as the backbone of Ethereum 2.0.ETH2 is not a new cryptoBeacon Chain, which went live in December 2020, would validate the transactions on each shard, thus assisting the entire Ethereum 2.0 network reach consensus. It would also detect dishonest validators and initiate penalties by removing a portion of the validator's stake from circulation.Related: Vitalik Buterin outlines 'endgame' roadmap for ETH 2.0At the core of Ethereum 2.0's PoS design would be ETH (or ETH2), which primarily serves as a staking token for validators to participate in the network consensus and, in turn, to receive block rewards for it. Beacon Chain's deposit contract has received over 8.42 million ETH tokens from 55,300 unique depositors (validators) since its launch in December 2020.The balance of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract divided by the total ETH supply. Source: CryptoQuantThat being said, ETH2 is not a new coin and would not change the ETH amount one holds. Instead, as Coinbase's index listing suggests, ETH2 may end up becoming a rebranded version of the original Ether, without needing holders to swap one version for another.The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.
Australian women owning crypto has doubled in 2021: Survey
podľa Cointelegraph By Keira Wright | dec 7, 2021 | 0 |
A new survey shared with Cointelegraph has found that the proportion of Australian women who own crypto assets has doubled in the last year. The 2021 Independent Reserve's Cryptocurrency Index (IRCI) of 2000 Australians found that the number of women who currently or have previously invested in crypto rose from 10.3% in 2020 to 20% in 2021. The percentage of female Bitcoin owners also rose from 8.3% to 14.8% according to the survey.Independent Reserve is an Australian-based cryptocurrency exchange that was founded in 2013, it has more than 200,000 users. Karen Cohen, Deputy Chair for the Board of Blockchain Australia, said that more women have entered the crypto market this year as the asset class has continued to become a mainstream investment. Speaking to Cointelegraph, she said: "I think that it tells you that investing in crypto is less risky and is just one of many different ways you can invest. I think it's sort of giving the signal that if a bank thinks it's okay, then you know it's a safer place to invest." Cohen cited examples such as the CBA adding crypto trading options to its app in early November. Co-founder of Independent Reserve Adrian Przelozny added that "over time, as cryptocurrency investments become more acceptable and mainstream, the perceived risk also reduces."He added: "I think that as that happens, you'll see more and more women enter the market." Research by Grayscale from 2019 showed that women tend to be more risk-averse investors, which is often attributed as a reason for the gender gap between female and male crypto investors. The ICRI also found that women were more likely to listen to family and friends about crypto. 56.7% of the women surveyed said that they would enter the crypto market based on advice from family and friends, as opposed to 42.2% of the men surveyed. Cohen said, "A lot of women are getting referrals from their friends and family, so they're getting a feeling a bit safer to get involved."On the other hand, 45.9% of men said they would consider entering the crypto market due to interest sparked by media coverage, compare to 41.8% of women surveyed. Closing the gender gapCohen said that moving forward, she expects that total gender parity among crypto investors is still "a while away," because it's so entangled with gendered stereotypes and the way that women are brought up to understand risk and investment. Przelozny agreed, saying that he couldn't possibly speculate as to when the investment gap will close. He said: "As to when it becomes 50/50, I don't know. But I think it's definitely trending in the right direction."Cohen also said that as the Metaverse and blockchain gaming begins to dominate the crypto market, users can expect "the landscape to completely change again.""Is gaming more of a boy's club than crypto?" she asked, concluding that "nobody really knows." Related: How women are changing the face of enterprise blockchain, literally!In last year's IRCI report, Cohen urged decision-makers in the crypto industry to include women in events and panel discussions, saying "we are what we see".The IRCI is an annual cross-sectional survey of over 2,000 Australians conducted by PureProfile. Independent Reserve says its sample was reflective of the country's gender, age, and geographic distribution.