We've made it to Friday, readers.
While political campaigns and their volunteers will spend their weekends working the phones and knocking on doors to get out the vote for Tuesday's midterms, President Trump will be on a final campaign swing, holding rallies in West Virginia, Indiana, Montana, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.
All of these states were carried by Trump in 2016, and all play host to competitive Senate and gubernatorial contests. The outcome of these races will have a lasting impact on both policy and politics, as these governors will oversee redistricting from the 2020 census.
• Trump has nothing on his public schedule until 2:15 p.m., when he departs the White House to kick off his final weekend campaigning for the 2018 midterms.
• Trump's first stop is in West Virginia, where Republicans are trying to oust Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. The senator has a stubborn lead, with polls showing him on track to win re-election, despite West Virginia being Trump's best state in the 2016 presidential election. Trump's rally in the state begins at 4 p.m.
• From West Virginia, Trump is then headed to Indianapolis, where Republicans are trying to oust Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. The race between Donnelly and his opponent, Republican businessman Mike Braun, is exceedingly close, with Donnelly holding a slight edge. A loss here would be an embarrassment for the White House, as Vice President Mike Pence served as governor of the state and has campaigned for Braun. The rally in Indiana begins at 7:15 p.m.
Trump has turned the volume of his anti-immigrant message up to 10 in the final days of the midterm election, giving what amounted to a campaign rally speech from the White House in which he said a migrant caravan filled with "strong men" were planning an "invasion" of the U.S. He also said that if immigrants throw rocks, border patrol agents and military stationed at the border will treat that as use of a firearm.
The speech itself was laden with lies and fear-mongering, with Trump understating the percentage of immigrants who claim asylum that show up to court dates after they are released. He said only 3% show up to court, when in actuality the vast majority show up to their court dates.
"If you don't want America to be overrun by masses of illegal immigrants and massive caravans, you better vote Republican," Trump said.
The speech came after the Trump campaign released a racist closing campaign ad that featured a criminal undocumented immigrant who committed murders in the U.S. — crimes he blamed on Democrats who he said allowed the immigrant back into the country.
Yet the undocumented immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, was actually deported under former President Bill Clinton's administration and returned to the U.S. during former President George W. Bush's administration, according to the Daily Beast.
It's unclear how Trump's rhetoric will impact the election if at all. Republicans fear Trump's rhetoric could hurt vulnerable House Republicans, many of whom are running in educated suburbs, but may actually help in competitive Senate races — which are being waged in states Trump carried by large margins in 2016.
He actually said this: Trump held a campaign rally in Missouri Thursday night in which he lamented the attempted bombings and the mass shooting in Pittsburgh — not because of the number of people who were injured or killed, but because they thwarted Republican "momentum" in the midterms.
Streisand effect: If Barbara Streisand taught us anything, it's that trying to censor information you don't want public has the absolute opposite effect. Nebraska GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry apparently never learned that lesson. After a professor at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln "liked" a Facebook picture showing one of Fortenberry's campaign lawn signs defaced with googly eyes and his named changed to "Fartenberry," his office reached out to that professor's bosses to complain. The incident only drew attention to the defaced campaign lawn sign that Fortenberry must have found embarrassing.


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Two bears will be last animals to leave notorious zoo where Cher's elephant was rescued from
Two unwell Himalayan brown bears will be the last animals to leave a notorious Pakistan zoo where "the world's loneliest elephant" was relocated from last month.
Suzie and Bubaloo were due to be airlifted from Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad.
The pair, who were badly neglected and kept separately in cramped conditions, are destined for a new home in Jordan.
They will be the final two animals to leave the zoo before it shuts down, following a ruling by the Islamabad High Court earlier this year.
Its squalid conditions sparked international outrage and caught the attention of singer Cher, who campaigned for the release of one of its residents - Kaavan - dubbed the world's loneliest elephant.
He is now settling into life in a sanctuary in Cambodia and has been filmed making contact with another elephant for the first time in eight years.
The two bears, both 17-years-old, will live in a sanctuary 3,330ft above sea level, where the cold and snowy conditions will be much closer to their natural habitat.
They will be making their way there with the help of the Princess Alia Foundation, which is headed by the eldest daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan.
Both are in poor health, with Bubaloo suffering an abscessed tooth and Suzie severely malnourished and missing all her teeth.
They used to work as "dancing bears", a practice common in Pakistan.
It sees bear cubs forced to stand on a hot plate with their paws protected only by Vaseline.
As they move their feet up and down to avoid the heat, it appears as though they are dancing.
Dr Amir Khalil, of Four Paws International, the global welfare group which has been caring for Marghazar's sick animals, said: "Sadly this continues until this day not just in Pakistan."
He said the pair have "serious health problems" but a "really wonderful nature".
Giving an update on Kavaan the elephant, he added: "The last video I saw Kaavan was taking food from the other female elephant.
"So I see really Kaavan is improving, (but) still a long trip for him to learn how to be a wild elephant."

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Victim of Child Sex Traffickers Speaks Out
A young woman who was victimized as a teenager by child sex traffickers and turned to the FBI for help talks about escaping the streets and looking to the future. "They had my past but not my future," she said.
Alexandria: It's happening here. I can tell you right now there's a hotel right down the street where it happens. I've seen women walk—I think part of it's a highway—there's women walking. So it happens everywhere. It could be your neighbors next door.
Text slide: Every year, thousands of chidren and teens are victimized by sex traffickers.
Alexandria: My name is Alexandria, and I'm 21.
Text slide: Alex, a victim of child sex trafficking, was recovered by the FBI and helped put her pimps behind bars.
Alexandria: So I got lucky to be able to walk away from it with no arrest, no kidnapping. I never got hurt, so I'm lucky, really really lucky. I'm one of the few that can say that.
Text slide: At age 16, facing problems at home, Alex found herself on the street.
Alexandria: It didn't appeal, it was more of desperation. You can't feed yourself, you know. You learn quickly, but the only people who are willing to really feed you, clothe you and shelter you, are your parents. So, I had to figure something out… At first it was terrifying, and then you just kind of become numb to it. Not like an alter ego but just like a different person, you put on a whole different attitude. You feel empty. Nothing. You are at the bottom of the bottom. And you have nobody to go, not even to go for help or for a hug. There's nobody…
Text slide: Many victims of child sex trafficking believe there is nowhere to turn for help.
Alexandria: I called everybody. I need help. I called my family. I called all my friends. I called everybody I knew, and nobody picked up.
Text slide: Eventually, Alex called the FBI. The FBI's Innocence Lost Task Force arrested Alex's pimps, whose multiple victims included underage girls.
Alexandria: If I could say one thing… from my experience and what I know, and I think it was kind of my saving grace, is… they can take everything from you—your voice, your freedom. They can take your fight and will, your everything. But you cannot ever let them take your heart; you have to always keep fighting. Bad things happen, worse things than what have happened to us, all over the world, and people seem to keep going through it and living on and living life. The important thing is to try and turn every negative into a positive and make something good out of it. They don't have you anymore; they can't hurt you, and you have a power now to wipe them out. The strongest thing that we have isn't in our fists or—it's our words. It's what we say, it's what we do. So, fight.
Text slide: The FBI Office for Victim Assistance helped Alex get the resources she needed.
Alexandria: I try to not let it run my everyday—it brings me down. Sometimes I think about everything, and I'll cry. It happened, and I can't change it. I can only change my future. That's it. They had my past, but they don't have my future.
Text slide: To date, the FBI's Innocence Lost National Initiative has resulted in the identification and recovery of 2,700 children who were victims of sex trafficking.
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Aquaman has officially passed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. Arriving in theaters one year after the critical and commercial disaster of Justice League, there was a lot of pressure on James Wan's DC Extended Universe entry to be a comeback vehicle and establish some positive momentum for the woebegone franchise. Fortunately, that's exactly what happened. Steamrolling the competition through the holiday season, Aquaman has dominated the box office since it opened in late December - especially internationally. It ranks as Warner Bros.' highest-grossing release ever in China.
DC's latest seemingly passes the cumulative total of a different comic book adaptation on a daily basis, already earning more than Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Considering how strong Aquaman's legs have been, it unsurprisingly is the top DCEU entry and inevitably made its way to the $1 billion club.
According to Forbes, Aquaman crossed that milestone, becoming the 37th film in history to gross that much. It's the first DC adaptation since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises to gross $1 billion globally.
Aquaman's proved to be an extraordinary rebound for the DCEU, earning mostly positive reviews and surpassing even the rosiest of commercial expectations. This is just what WB needed as they look to establish a new course of action for their DC properties. 2017's Wonder Woman (which has a sequel dated for 2020) gave them one key character to build around moving forward, and now the studio has two at their disposal. Having Jason Momoa and Gal Gadot emerge as the faces of the franchise must come as a relief to executives, who were probably sweating the apparent departures of Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck. While Superman and Batman are two of pop culture's most iconic superheroes and likely have a future on the big screen in one way or another, knowing they don't have to heavily rely on them to find success is great news for WB. With fans and critics supporting Momoa and Gadot, they can carry the torch.
Hopefully, this is a harbinger of things to come (and not just a fluke) for the DCEU. In a few months, Shazam! will debut in theaters, looking to give the studio yet another character that could spawn a series. Excitement for that film remains high, largely due to the trailer that premiered during San Diego Comic-Con last summer. Perhaps Arthur Curry, Diana Prince, and Billy Batson can be the unlikely Trinity for DC Films as they enter a new era.


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The Mummy (2017) – C-
Quick Hit – Buckle in young'ins, it's gonna be a long one today.
I've made it abundantly clear how fond I am of horror films. So I had cautious optimism when I began to hear rumblings that Universal was talking about building a present day cinematic universe with their famous cache of monsters. I stress "present day" because people forget that years before Kevin Feige and Robert Downey Jr. were born, Universal had the original cinematic universe with their monsters. There was Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein which essentially accomplished what Marvel has, and DC is trying to today. These movies are fantastic examples of how a series can go off the rails, by becoming parodies of their own genre in order to survive the ever daunting boredom of audiences.
That's a long way of saying that the idea of a movie based on The Mummy (1932) starring a then practically unheard of Boris Karloff, has a lot of merit in my mind. Most modern audiences haven't seen a mummy movie that wasn't played for comedy, and instead embraced for the horror classic that it is. But the more I saw about the movie The Mummy (2017), the more my optimism waned. It was starting to look more and more like Brendan Fraser's The Mummy (1999 – all these dates are getting confusing). That's because it was looking more and more like an action/comedy, and less and less like a horror film.
Don't misunderstand me dear readers – I'm a pretty big fan of Brendan Fraser's series. It has some extraordinary effects and some truly scary moments that haunted me for weeks as a ten year old (like the mummy absorbing peoples body parts *Shiver*). But I don't want that from a cinematic universe (at least not in the first one) about my Universal Horror Monsters. I want the horror aspect.
So, as I stood in line, all these things ran through my head, and I sat down wondering how bad it was going to be.
Honestly, all my worries were proved correct. This movie is overstuffed, and has such a tonal dissonance that much of the movie is a complete washout. Not a total one, mind you, but a lot of it.
After a large exposition delivered by a hidden Russell Crowe (who will know forever sound like Jor-El to me) explaining Ahmenet's roots in Egypt, we are treated to Tom Cruise being Brendan Fraser in modern day Iraq. It's interesting, because after the extremely serious opening (which features infanticide), we now have Cruise and side kick Jake Johnson trading quips in a desert. It's the first example in a long series of them of how the movie seems to want to have its cake and eat it too.
Cue future action scenes with Tom Cruise running, and a needless (though cool) zero gravity scene in a falling airplane. After this point full of seriousness, we're back to comedy with a now dead Jake Johnson. Flip away from Cruise, and we finally get to see the mummy being a mummy. It may be one of my favorite moments in the movie because it's actually scary. The movement, the setting, and the effects are awesome. It's truly gruesome and horrifying, and the Mummy's beginning is great.
Ok, to this point I've pretty much given you half the movie, but it's half the movie you were going to know about anyway, so I don't feel that bad. I'll now do some real reviewing and quit ranting about everything.
There are some high points in this movie. The scene I mentioned prior to this is one. There are also some other standouts – I particularly liked Crowe's Dr. Henry Jekyll. I liked how they combined the science of evil with the magic of superstition and evil. It's something that few films can do successfully, but this is one point that they knocked out of the park. The effects overall are pretty good, though I didn't like some scenes that included the undead. The whole explosion into dust thing wasn't my favorite, but you have to take that kind of thing with Mummy movies.
I also really liked the look of Sofia Boutella's Ahmenet. She looked spooky, she acted spooky, and she had no issues really portraying an Egyptian goddess. I also thought that Tom Cruise was solid, if cliché, as the action hero here. His acting is rarely something I rave over, but he consistently hit all the emotional beats he needed to, even if they were lessened by the constant comedic/dramatic shift of the script.
Again though, I have to fall back onto the overstuffedness of it all. There are some scenes that seem straight out of Amazing Spiderman 2 that show images that are only meant to set up future things (I see your Creature from the Black Lagoon and Wolfman references). There is the constant comedic dead friend, who is reminiscent of An American Werewolf in London (thanks to Matthew at the screening for giving voice to this thought). And then there's the overall Batman V. Superman feel of inclusion of scenes that only serve the purpose to set up future movies. I like seeing Eddie Hyde as much of the rest of them, but I sure can say it didn't further the plot at all.
This film has lots of problems and only a few bright lights. It somehow manages to thrill me and times and ultimately disappoint me. I left the theater wanting more, but not necessarily more of this movie. I want more of the moments that are good. Give me horror Universal, and I shall give you the grade accordingly. It's entertaining, but not enough to go to the theater to see it. I'm going to give this rendition of The Mummy a sad "C-".
For more on this movie check out IMDB.
I thought it a B- at best.
But Now that you mention it the dead friend does remind me of American werewolf.
I wish they did take these films down a more horror route but horror is seemingly hard to do so I kind of get it.
Like you I want more of this universe since I felt entertained overall.
Thanks for your comment Samuel!
Do you think they could make a modern day Mummy movie that is good if it was horror based?
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
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Posts Tagged 'Ed Nash'
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – " Everything Else Has Gone Wrong "
Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club, Ed Nash, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, Jack Steadman, Jamie Maccoll, Suren De Saram
Everything Else Has Gone Wrong is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the British band's acclaimed number 1 charting, Mercury Music Prize nominated fourth album, So Long, See You Tomorrow released back in 2014.
The new album was largely recorded out in the US alongside Grammy Award winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent / Sharon Van Etten / War on Drugs). It features the band's euphoric new single, Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You).
Speaking of the record's title, vocalist/guitarist Jack Steadman explains: "This is an album for anyone who's ever turned to music in a time of need. It's about the solace one can get from listening to music or playing music. For me personally it's about the frustration of not being able to express myself to others, of leaving conversations feeling dissatisfied and misunderstood. Music's the way I'm able to truly express myself".
Bombay Bicycle Club have continued to grow, develop and evolve since the release of their debut album, I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, back in 2009 when they signalled their arrival as young teenagers. Rarely in recent years has there been a British guitar band who have the craft and ability to avoid categorisation whilst uniting hundreds of thousands of fans across the globe. With an innate ear for melody and invention, the four-piece are a very welcome return to the fold just as British guitar music makes a timely renaissance.
jack steadman – vocals, guitars
jamie maccoll – guitars
suren de saram – drums
ed nash – bass
Both Vinyl versions come with a Limited Print, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, out 17th January 2020
TOOTHLESS – " Palm's Backside / Innocence Is Bliss " Feat MARIKA HACKMAN
Posted: November 11, 2016 in MUSIC
Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club, Ed Nash, Marika Hackman, The Sirens, Toothless
Toothless is the solo project of Bombay Bicycle Club's Ed Nash. On his latest single, produced by the always in-demand Chris Coady, he teams up with the Staves, the artful folk-rock sister trio and Bon Iver associates .
Ed Nash's latest music released under his new Toothless moniker. Having spent the past ten years playing bass in Bombay Bicycle Club, he's been dreaming up this self-produced solo project for a while and has already released the cinematic and starry tune "Terra", a slow-mover that is an absolute pleasure to sink into. This time round, Ed has called on label buddy Marika Hackman to join him on Palm's Backside, a beautiful Belle & Sebastian-alike duet that tells of times shared, hands held, moments captured and love lost.
"The Sirens" finds Nash and the Stavely-Turner sisters flexing their harmonic powers over icy electronic rock production. This is an earlier couple of tracks one remixed by Darby of the Brooklyn band the Antlers also featuring another singer songwriter with vocals from Marika Hackman the effect is something like one of Sufjan Stevens' early folk-rock epics transposed into his mid-career digital phase — only smoother, sleeker, and more propulsive
TOOTHLESS – " The Sirens "
Tags: Ed Nash, The Sirens, The staves, Toothless
Toothless is the solo project of Bombay Bicycle Club's Ed Nash, whose new track 'The Sirens' features Folk-Rock sister trio and Bon Iver associates The Staves. With the new album now complete and due for release early next year, Ed is set to play it start to finish later this month in London – with a few surprises and guest's thrown in!
Director Kit Monteith, who made the video alongside Joseph Keirs and Sef Tedder, We spent "4 sleepless nights in Ibiza trying to show the island's surreal and seductive qualities in ways that have never been done before. When one thinks of Ibiza, particularly when it appears in music videos, its all beach parties, clubs and heteronormative perspectives.
"We wanted to show a stranger side; full of surprises, gender fluidity and mystical abandon. We've tried to show a 'normal' guy's journey into a world of hedonism; where he is chewed up and spat out by the Sirens of the island where it's always unclear who is using who?


Happy Memorial Day Aggie fans, we'll return tomorrow to wrap up some thoughts on the baseball team's season. But first, a congratulations to Aggie senior right fielder Nate Shaver who was named to the 2010 WAC All-Tournament team. The Aggies were eliminated from the tournament earlier much earlier than the Aggies hoped but Nate Shaver certainly did his part for the Aggies in the two games.
And we mentioned it yesterday but here is video of the Wahine's walk-off two-run home run to send them to Oklahoma City for the Women's College World Series. As Dave at the WAC Softball Blog mentioned, it's the first time that the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament has not advanced to the WCWS.
Teddy Feinberg of the Las Cruces Sun-News talks about the end to the Aggies' 2010 season.
Teddy also blogs about his most memorable moments and personalities from the past year of NMSU sports.


My favorite thing about this pack is how it feels to wear. The shoulder straps, detachable hip belt and ventilated back padding work wonderfully to carry the weight evenly and comfortably. Whether lightly or heavily packed this thing hugs the back in the mountains, in the streets or at the beach. Also, if you've read my other pack reviews on here, you know I'm a sucker for pockets. This bag has an abundance of organizational opportunities for the pocket lover in you.
Now for some quick facts: The whole pack is made with lightweight 200D nylon double ripstop fabric and comes at a total weight of 2 lbs 14 oz. The exterior has lots of upgrades with dual water bottle holders, trekking pole loops, integrated rain cover and two awesome accessory straps on the bottom (perfect for my skateboard). The interior has two zippered main compartments plus two accessory pockets. I easily carried my camera pouch, tripod, rain jacket, snacks with lots of room to spare. Last, but not least this thing is under the $100 price point making it a really affordable option for a solid day pack.


Balancing small knives and thin stock.
I am having some trouble getting balance on my thin stock .100 and under mainly .050 stock short blades. I have tapered the tang on .078 but I think .050 tapered is really pushing the envelope.
Re: Balancing small knives and thin stock.
Balancing as in not blade heavy or handle heavy balancing?
How many inches/cm/mm is a short blade ?
What handle material and how skinny ?
Tapered the tang to .078 but I think .050 tapered is pushing limit .. of thickness?
Does the blade portion of the blade have a distal taper? Does it mirror the tang taper in any way?
What is the hardest cutting the knife has to be able to do ?
Of my ability to taper them, thick stock grind is easy you have a couple chances to sort it out with .050 one slip and it all over. Some do some dont.
I am not sure I follow .050-.100 sounds thick?
if you are experimenting you could look at some different lighter weight styles of handles.
the scapel hybrid style can work well in those thin small blades.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/07/2018 12:34PM by oldsailorsknives.
Ckc- I may try that.
I also thought as much until I made .098 stock balance people that have no interest in knives like the balance one more knowing nothing.
If one slip removes too much material, use different grit or belt speed for tapering?
Or switch to balancing by drilling holes/skeletonizing?
Just how stiff does a sub 3in blade need to be?
How much force you can generate with the handle?
Sustain for 5 cuts? 50 cuts? 500 cuts?
How much force would break the blade and what is acceptable?


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SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME                 "selalib")
SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY    "${CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME}")
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SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR     "0")
SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR     "5")
SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH     "0")
SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION "${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR}.${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR}.${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH}")

SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/RELEASE.txt")
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SET (CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX "/usr/lib/selalib")
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SET (CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL libraries headers fortheaders)

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SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT "pierre.navaror@inria.fr")

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IF(CPACK_HOSTNAME MATCHES "irma-suse")
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SET (CPACK_PACKAGE_URL "http://selalib.gforge.inria.fr")
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radiator season
Helena Fitzgerald Oct 11, 2019
radiator seasonone more quick note on subscriptions: It turns out that it's complicated to turn off new paid subscriptions but keep sending subscriber-only emails. So…
Helena Fitzgerald
one more quick note on subscriptions: It turns out that it's complicated to turn off new paid subscriptions but keep sending subscriber-only emails. So, all griefbacon emails from now until the end of the year will be free for everyone. They'll still be once a week, as planned, so those of you who paid for subscriptions will get the same amount of content promised in my last email, but paid subscriptions will end as of today (if you had a paid subscription, you might see an email that it's been cancelled). Emails will continue once a week until the last week of December. If this is too many emails, feel free to ignore them, unsubscribe, etc. I hope this is ok for everyone, but of course please email me with any questions and I hope we can get any issues worked out. If this is confusing, please ask me to help, and otherwise, I'll see you once a week for the next couple months. xo
anyway. it's radiator season.
The heat came on in my building and I got mad about it. It had been ninety degrees two days ago, and, on the day the heat came on, I still couldn't imagine anything but being warm. Many of us still expect fall weather to arrive all at once, immaculately familiar, on October 1st, but it never does, and hasn't for a long time, if it ever did. It arrives when it arrives, with a sudden jolt, like a doorbell ringing when you aren't expecting anyone. The heat is like that too -- one day you come home and your apartment is warm and smells like reheated dust, like steam, like metal, like indoors. It smells like staying home. It smells this way even if you hate your apartment, transforming for a moment a cramped or dirty or fraught space into a pair of open arms, into the welcome of a glowing doorway on a dark night. It doesn't last; most things go from novel to itchy very quickly and the heat in New York apartments, which grows almost immediately miserable, is certainly a record case. But for a few days, the ghosts welcome us all home.
The ghosts, because every radiator is full of ghosts. Almost every year I have a moment where I forget that the noise I'm hearing is the radiator and it terrifies me. There's a low growl and a scratch, a soft keening, like some horrible otherworldly mourning. This happened a lot when I lived alone. I would be sure for a few long minutes that I had stranded myself in a small space with something malevolent, logic and daylight dissipating into a crawling, back-of-the-neck threat. And then I remembered it was the radiator, and felt cozy. It was getting cold, and the old rusty pipes in the old rusty building (I have only ever lived in old, rusty buildings here although I understand this is less and less a common experience of New York) are yawning and stretching and waking up, trying again. Everything left behind, left unfulfilled and unfinished, coming back to haunt the corners of the apartment, the places near the windows and the bed where the steam rises, where the heat is thick and soporific in the morning.
Ninety degree weather in October is a living disaster, an actual fast-motion crisis pinned to the wall of a single day. The weather has become the exact opposite of small talk. It is politics and panic and confessions, everything small talk is meant to guard against. The weather and the seasons are about repetition: These are the secular rituals that guide our lives, the things by which we chart our progress and by which we understand what we have lost and to what we can return. They are the ways in which we recognize ourselves, the ways in which we can chart a path through our own changing. In the most immediate and most selfish way, the global climate crisis means we do not know what to expect, or how to measure ourselves against expectation, repetition, and return.
October is supposed to remind me of all the other Octobers in my life, all the other center-of-fall months I have spent in this city reaching back to the first one, when the streets got soft with falling yellow leaves and the days sped faster into darkness, into haunting, when the lights of everyone else's windows appeared earlier and everyone threw parties to ward off the cold and the dark, heaving artificial suns up toward the ceiling, the days when we were beginning to hoard the interiors, to make plans for what we could harvest and store. The radiators would come on, and nighttime would feel like a meaningful challenge, with a tangible reward at the end, the colder weather delineating the doorways of buildings, making a home a home. We expect the past to arrive in the present; the past is the only thing we've done, the only information we have to go on. Some part of me, when it turns October, expects everyone I've ever loved in this weather, at this turning time of year, to show up again, standing on my doorstep in a sweater, ready to explain and ready to forgive, as though the familiarity of the weather were itself a second chance. When the radiator comes on, it signals a return: here we are again, in the same place, an understood step in the dance.
But when the radiator came on this year, it had been ninety degrees two days previous, and I was furious, itchy in my skin, lashing out at everyone around me, lying on the couch in shorts and a sports bra in a sulky sprawl, sweat-sheened and miserable. I had barely gotten a chance to even notice the cold outside. I had wanted to sleep with the windows open, to wear a sweater in the house, to wake up shivering. But more than anything, what I really wanted was for the world to be the familiar world I expected, for everything to continue on its path the same as it had before. I wanted to be cold before the radiator came on, and when it did come on, I wanted to startle at the ghosts I have lived with and known for years, singing their old songs, up to their old tricks. I wanted to greet them as old friends, the same as last year and the year before and the distant one seventeen years ago, the crisp-sky weather closing up the gaps between.
One thing that struck me during the climate strike, and at the many climate strikes around the world, was how much the dividing line between an older generation and a younger one was about avoidance versus confrontation (another thing that struck me was the strangeness of being firmly in the older generation, no longer under the broad and optimistic category of youth, at best a repentant villain in the story). To keep expecting to get back to the old rituals, for the heat to come on when it is already cold outside, for everything to work the way it once did, is avoidance. There is no reason, were I to have confronted ongoing realities that have been loudly clear for some time now, for me to expect it to be cold in September or early October, for me to expect the long-ingrained schedule of the radiator in my old building, which is owned and run by even older people, to keep up with the real temperatures, the current weather, the ways in which the world is changing, and has already changed.
Because fall is a time for a ghosts, it is also a time for mourning, a season about the dying earth. The promise of it, the thing that glitters up the air, is the undergirding knowledge that this death, at least, is temporary. We are comforted by the cyclical because it includes a return, because it says nothing is permanent, and all is redeemable. The horror of change, even the sort of standard-issue small-scale personal change that isn't a global crisis, the thing that cuts furrows through a life, is that change offers an opposite and irrefutable thesis. Not everything is redeemable; mostly life does not move in a circle, but in a single relentless line. The same is now true of the weather. We are all driving toward the cliff together; we are not coming back home. Fall feels like it is about return, but it isn't; it gets colder later every year, and none of the people whom the changing weather summons up in memory are going to climb back out of their lives and arrive in mine; there would be neither room nor welcome for them if they did.
Most hauntings are versions of ourselves, who we were and what we believed was the future. What arrives every fall is the memory of who I was and what I thought I would achieve in previous Octobers, on previous days when the weather turned so sharply that I thought I could taste resurrection in the cold of it. We are just barely past back-to-school season and all its ambition is still ringing in aftershocks, like a symphony that has only just stopped playing. All my past resolutions crowd in, brought up from the dirt alive again. Somewhere, I am cold, and then warm, in a too-small room where the radiator has just come on. I am still stupid about the world, about the people in it as well as about its larger injustices from which I have been in so many ways protected. I think that everything is already full of ghosts, but I have no idea what I am accumulating, and what I will not be able to carry with me into the next year and the next, as the weather turns later and later each time and the radiator's ghosts become less and less friendly, as the water in which I am submerged boils, as I wake up too late to it, too small and too late and too old, another fall, another thing that isn't quite right, another warning sign, another loss, another haunting.
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Paris voyeur gets jail term for toilet films
A 36-year-old Frenchman has been sentenced to a six-month suspended jail sentence, it emerged on Thursday, after being found guilty of filming women visiting the toilets in Paris bars, something he said was "more exciting than porn".
A 36-year-old Frenchman was given a suspended six-month jail term on June 5th for filming women in toilets across Paris, something he said was "more exciting than porn." File photo: Keoni Cabral
The man was apprehended when he tried to install a miniature camera on April 18th at a bar in the tenth arrondissement of Paris.
When questioned by the police, he admitted to placing other hidden cameras across bars in the first, second and tenth arrondissements of the French capital.
He had targeted five bars in total, with French radio Europe1 reporting that he admitted to the police that the had "voyeuristic tendencies".
When police searched his home they found various mini cameras in the form of pens, as well more than 80 recordings on his computer's hard drive. The device that first grabbed the attention of the bar owner who alerted law enforcers, was a camera hidden in a cigarette packet.
The man was charged with attempting to disrupt the integrity of another's private life by capturing images.
During court proceedings, the suspect had attempted to blame his voyeurism on his mental state, saying his emotions were at a low point when the behaviour began.
"Two years ago, I wasn't well. I isolated myself and no longer saw anyone," the man told court.
"I watched (the videos) during periods of my life when I wasn't feeling well," the 36-year-old said, adding only after the persistent questioning of the court that he used the material for masturbation.
He said he had not disseminated the videos online, keeping them on his home computer – "only for my own pleasure", he told the judges.
This is not the first time a 'video voyeur' has landed in hot water with the law after being caught filming women in toilets.
In March, The Local reported how a French grandfather was handed a one-year suspended sentence for filming more than 1,500 women in the toilets of supermarkets in Brittany.
He also allegedly burned one woman with acid, "hoping she'd have to go and get changed."
He was sentenced for invasion of privacy, as well as ordered to undergo treatment and pay €350 in compensation to the woman who first made the complaint against him.
Ann Törnkvist [email protected]
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More than $500,000 raised for IDF's Iron Trails Brigade
by Jewishnews
More than 1,550 prominent young professionals and supporters of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) from across New York raised more than $500,000 for the IDF's Iron Trails Brigade during the New York Young Leadership (YL-NY) Division's 12th Annual Gala Saturday night at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan.
The Jewish world's most successful Young Leadership fundraising event, dubbed "the Jewish Oscars" by The New York Observer, featured gourmet food, live music, casino-style games, and offered over $50,000 in luxury prizes, including jewelry, vacation timeshares, trips to Israel, and more.
The Gala is Young Leadership's largest event of the year and raised funds to benefit the brave men and women of the Iron Trails Brigade, which the young FIDF leaders adopted as part of FIDF's Adopt a Brigade program.
The Adopt a Brigade Program allows supporters to go beyond their donation and become one with the soldiers they are supporting. Adopt a Brigade focuses on providing financial aid for soldiers and their families, supporting Lone Soldiers, general wellbeing activities, and scholarships. Subordinate to Israel's Southern Command and part of the Armored Corps, the Iron Trails Brigade tank units courageously lead ground forces into battle and are crucial to the IDF's effort to protect Israel.
"With the new 2014 Young Leadership Board came a great number of young, fresh faces to our events year-round. This was the first year where we sold out every YL-NY event. We raised more funds for the soldiers than any other year and are on track to fulfill our pledge of $1.5 million, our most daring goal to date," said FIDF NY Young Leadership President, Lemor Bar-Or. "I could not be any prouder to work with such dedicated, passionate, and philanthropic go-getters who support our Israel and the soldiers who protect it."
Among the leading participants at the gala were Bar-Or; Gala Co-Chairs, Stefanie Cohen, Jake Dardashtian and Alexandra Faivus; Chairman of the Board, Jane Oster; FIDF National Board Member and YL-NY President Emeritus Tony Felzen, and FIDF Director of National Young Leadership, Dan Haskell.
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On Saturday, I went to Nuit Blanche! For those who haven't been there before, its simply an art show that's held every year downtown Toronto! It starts when the sun sets and ends when then sun rises!
and then we bundled up and drove downtown! It was so chilly and packed!
We didn't get to see much since we were with a big group of people but we still saw some pretty cool things - like breakdancers, a man in a pink tutu, a pen that writes by itself and a large canvas with all sorts of food drawn on it!
but we ended up finishing two plates of noodles!


G B. Henning, A. M. Zalevski, N. J. Hill; Cue weighting in stereoacuity with lines and closed forms. Journal of Vision 2003;3(12):49. doi: 10.1167/3.12.49.
It might be supposed that depth perception provides an ideal situation in which to study cue weighting — the end result is usually an unequivocal indication of depth and there are cues based on horizontal disparity as well as cues that we shall simply describe as "perspective " cues. The latter include the subtense at the eyes of vertically orientated lines of equal length but different distance, the angles that horizontally orientated elements of closed figures make with the vertically orientated elements in the retinal projections of the rectilinear figures we use, and the angle between the projections of horizontal elements of stimuli that do not lie in a fronto-parallel plane. One major difficulty is that these factors cannot readily be measured in isolation (although monocular viewing gives some hope of measuring "perspective" cues in the absence of horizontal disparity). A second problem is not knowing the extent to which the weights that might attach to each class of cue are fixed (in early experience, say, and influenced, perhaps, by the extent of each observer's phorias) or remain plastic and change with the task, the stimuli, and the experimental requirements. (We have some evidence that any "weight" is not completely plastic from the fact that observers' performance is drastically affected by making perspective cues irrelevant; irrelevant cues should be, but appear not to be, ignored in our 2-AF-C tasks with feedback.) A third problem is not knowing the extent to which the weights are optimal. We report an attempt to solve some of these issues.


Signal processors, effects pedals, stomp boxes… What's in a name? That which we call a pedal by any other name would sound just as sweet! What would not sound so sweet, on the other hand, would be a-million and-one of the things plugged into your rig not knowing why they're there or what to do with them.
Last time I talked about the benefits of compression, which led me to want to talk about some of the other heavy hitters in the world of signal processing. The first thing you need to ask yourself is: "what am I looking for?" Are you looking for a boost or more gain? The opposite? Are you looking for something to thicken up your tone, or maybe just some fancy sounding effects? In this article I'll give some examples for each of these, and an idea as to where they can be used.
Let's say you're looking to enhance the clarity of your tone, and perhaps even clean things up beyond what the EQ enables you to do. This is where a compressor pedal would come in handy (like I talked about in my last article) or even a filtration/EQ pedal. There are some pedals that allow you to dial in and adjust specific frequencies, which could be useful if you're playing a venue that doesn't have a professional sound system / technician. You could also purposely crank or take out certain frequencies to create interesting effects, or to make it easier to get feedback from your amp if that's your thing! Other pedals have a pre-set frequency range that they alter, such as the popular Ibanez Tube Screamer. This guy pushes your midrange, and is a very effective way to make your lead guitar work…well… scream.
Perhaps rather than cleaning up, you're looking to make things dirty or just give yourself a nice boost. With a tube amp, generally speaking you want your tubes to run hot to get your best tone. That said, the more gain you put in, the dirtier the signal will be when it comes out.
A good boost pedal (I'm partial to the MXR micro amp) will increase the signal level of your guitar before it reaches the amp, thus pushing the amp harder. Think of it as instantly raising the height of your pickups with the flick of a switch… Or stomp of a foot. You can use one of these in band situations during a solo section where you need to be heard, or just to enhance your tone if you like it dirty! Many boost pedals come with an output volume knob, so you could theoretically use it in the opposite way to quiet yourself down, or clean up your tone a bit.
Modulation and time-based effects processors are next: these are the ones that fall under the "fancy effects" category.
Time-based effects are things like delay and reverb. A lot of amps come with their own reverb installed, but you can always experiment with different pedals to try a variety of different sounding ones. Generally, reverb is used to thicken up your tone. Be careful not to use too much! While it may sound nice and creamy right next to your amp, in large rooms especially you can start to sound very muddy if you over do it.
A "slap-back" delay is another way of getting a thick sounding guitar tone. "Slap-back" is a term used to describe a delay of just one repeat that comes very quickly after the initial hit. Again, you can use a delay pedal not just as a tone enhancer, but also as an effects pedal by playing around with the settings!
Once you have a few pedals, it's important to decide which order you're going to chain them in. While the generally accepted rule of thumb is to start with your dynamics, then do EQs and filters, then modulation, followed by boosts, and finally time based processors… you're always free to experiment! Maybe you want your delay to go through a boost, or maybe you want to boost everything before you put on that tremolo. After all, these effects you're using weren't created without experimentation! There's a world of soundscapes to explore.


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With the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology about to begin, here are some of the presentations to look for.
This year expect 15 oral and poster presentations covering brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris®, Seattle Genetics/Takeda), an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) directed to CD30, a defining marker of classical Hodgkin lymphoma and expressed on the surface of several types of peripheral T-cell lymphomas.
The drug, which is one of five approved and commercially available antibody-drug comjugates, is being evaluated globally as the foundation of care for CD30-expressing lymphomas in more than 70 corporate- and investigator-sponsored clinical trials.
"At this year's ASH meeting, [brentuximab vedotin] … will be featured in … updated analyses from ECHELON-1 and ECHELON-2 phase III frontline trials," noted Roger Dansey, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Seattle Genetics.
"We are encouraged by the ECHELON-1 update supporting a sustained progression-free survival benefit for brentuximab vedotin in combination with AVD when compared to ABVD in advanced classical Hodgkin lymphoma and additional analyses from trials evaluating ADCETRIS in combination with nivolumab. We continue to invest in our ADCETRIS clinical development program with the goal of improving outcomes for patients," Dansey concluded
Title Presented Abstract Session Date /Time Location
Safety and Efficacy of Brentuximab Vedotin in Combination with AVD in Stage II-IV HIV-Associated Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma: Results of the Phase 2 Study, AMC 085 P. Rubinstein, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. 130 Oral presentation Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphoma – Clinical Studies: Combination Chemotherapy and Biomarkers of Response in Hodgkin Lymphoma Saturday, December 7, 10:15 a.m. ET
Tangerine 2 (WF2)
Brentuximab Vedotin in First Refractory/Relapsed Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Treated By Chemotherapy (ICE) before Autologous Transplantation. Final Analysis of Phase II Study A. Stamatoullas, Departement d'Hematologie, Centre Henry Becquerel, Rouen, France 132 Oral presentation Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphoma – Clinical Studies: Combination Chemotherapy and Biomarkers of Response in Hodgkin Lymphoma Saturday, December 7, 10:45 a.m. ET
Tangerine (WF2)
Phase 2 Study of Frontline Brentuximab Vedotin Plus Nivolumab in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma Aged ≥ 60 Years C. Yasenchak, Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center/US Oncology Research, Eugene, Oregon. 237 Oral presentation Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphoma – Clinical Studies: Immunotherapy Approaches in Hodgkin Lymphoma Saturday, December 7, 2:30 p.m. ET
Brentuximab Vedotin and Nivolumab for Relapsed or Refractory Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma: Long-term Follow-up Results from the Single-arm Phase 1/2 Study A. Moskowitz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y. 238 Oral presentation Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphoma – Clinical Studies: Immunotherapy Approaches in Hodgkin Lymphoma Saturday, December 7, 2:45 p.m. ET
Long-Term Follow-up Confirms Durability of Single-Agent Brentuximab Vedotin as Pre-Transplant Salvage for Hodgkin Lymphoma 1555 Poster Presentation Saturday, December 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET
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A Phase I/II Trial of Brentuximab Vedotin (BV) Plus Rituximab (R) as Frontline Therapy for Patients with Immunosuppression-Associated CD30+ and/or EBV+ Lymphomas W. Pearse, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill. 351 Oral presentation Aggressive Lymphoma (Diffuse Large B-Cell and Other Aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas) – Results from Prospective Clinical Trials: Optimizing Frontline Chemotherapy Sunday, December 8, 8:00 a.m. ET
Hall E2
An Exploratory Analysis of Brentuximab Vedotin plus CHP (A+CHP) in the Frontline Treatment of Patients with CD30+ Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas (ECHELON-2): Impact of Consolidative Stem Cell Transplant K. Savage, British Columbia Cancer Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, University of British Columbia and the Department of Medical Oncology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 464 Oral presentation Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphoma – Clinical Studies: Novel Therapies in Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas Sunday, December 8, 12:15 p.m. ET
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A Pilot Study of Brentuximab Vedotin Combined with AVD Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Early Stage, Unfavorable Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma 2834 Poster Presentation Sunday, December 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Brentuximab Vedotin in Combination with Nivolumab, Doxorubucin, and Dacarbazine in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Advanced Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma 2836 Poster Presentation Sunday, December 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Brentuximab Vedotin in Front-Line Therapy of Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) and CD30-Expressing Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma (PTCL) in Adults Age 60 and Above 2852 Poster Presentation Sunday, December 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Patterns of Care and Clinical Outcomes in Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Patients Receiving First-Line Treatment in Routine Clinical Practice in France and the United Kingdom 3482 Poster Presentation Sunday, December 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Real-World Treatment Patterns and Overall Survival Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Newly Diagnosed with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma (PTCL) 3492 Poster Presentation Sunday, December 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Preliminary Results from a Phase 2 Trial of Brentuximab Vedotin Plus Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Etoposide, and Prednisone (CHEP-BV) Followed by BV Consolidation in Patients with CD30-Expressing Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas 4023 Poster Presentation Monday, December 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Brentuximab Vedotin with Chemotherapy for Stage III/IV Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL): Four-Year Update of the ECHELON-1 Study 4026 Poster Presentation Monday, December 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
A Phase 2 Study of Retreatment with Brentuximab Vedotin in Patients with cHL, sALCL or other CD30 Expressing PTCL 4054 Poster Presentation Monday, December 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET
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The Render Tab lets you control settings used in the render loop, layers, shadows, multithreading and more. Settings are saved in the scene on the VegetationStudio Component.
When checked the vegetation will only be rendered to the selected camera for the VegetationStudio Component. This can be usefull if working with multiple camera setups that are watching the same areas. Binoculars looking into the same terrain etc.
Disabling "Use instanced rendering" will force the render loop of instanced shaders back to Graphics.DrawMesh. This is slower but can be usefull for debuging of shaders that has problem with instancing. This has no effect on Vegetation Items set to Instanced Indirect.
when enabled multi threading will be used when spawning new areas and preparing render lists. This is only used in playmode and in builds. In editor mode single threading is used.
when enabled multi threading when creating new renderlists as camera rotates and visible cells change. This is only used in playmode and in builds. In editor mode single threading is used.
Enable this to use the compute shader renderloop for instanced indirect vegetation. This will merge all cell buffers and draw all items of a kind in a single drawcall.
Per item LODs are also calculated in the final compute shader before rendering.
With GPU culling enabled frustum culling will be done on the GPU in the final compute shader pass, reducing the number of instanced rendered to what is actually showing. No overhead for partial visible cells.
Enabling CPU frustum culling and LODs will do a 2nd level frustum culling on top of the normal cell culling. It also enables per item LODs on the objects and large objects. There is a compute cost for this and I recommend to only enable this if you have high poly objects or heavy shaders. To get individual LODs for high volume object count upgrade the shaders to Instanced indirect and do this in the compute shader loop.
Select if Vegetation Items will cast shadows or not in playmode. For grass and plants in deferred mode a full screen effect like Screen Space Shadows or Contacts Shadows is recommended as this is much faster.
Same as Shadows option above but used for editor mode.
You can select what layer each Vegetation Item Type will be rendered on. This is usefull to remove grass, plants etc from ocean reflection etc to increase rendering speed.
Assign the directional sun light here and set the distance you want to load additional trees and large objects.
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Australian Crypto Exchange Announces Massive Layoffs
Swyftx has fired more than a third of its staff, with the ongoing cryptocurrency winter becoming increasingly brutal
Australian cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx has fired 35% of its staff (90 employees) as it struggles to navigate the brutal cryptocurrency winter, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Most of the employees laid off were from the research and development department.
Swyftx suffered a 23% decline in profits due to rapidly falling crypto prices, according to its recent regulatory filing.
This is also the second round of layoffs for the Brisbane-based cryptocurrency trading platform in 2022. Earlier this year, it sacked 74 employees.
Ripple Listed as One of Top Workplaces Most Conducive for Parents
Of course, Swyftx is not alone. Last week, Melbourne crypto start-up CoinJar also axed 20% of its employees.
The entire cryptocurrency is reeling from the sudden collapse of the FTX empire, which some critics believe could be the end of crypto. Roughly 30,000 of Australians have been affected by the downfall of the $32 billion giant. While Swyftx didn't have any direct exposure to the troubled FTX exchange, it has been hit by a crisis of confidence triggered by the company's collapse.
Even before the FTX-induced crash, some key industry players, such as Coinbase and Gemini, announced mass layoffs. Kraken, Dapper Labs, Galaxy Digital and other prominent names were among those who were forced to reduce their staff amid the ongoing crypto winter.
However, Ripple and some other companies remain seemingly unfazed by the crypto winter as they continue hiring.
Alex Dovbnya (aka AlexMorris) is a cryptocurrency expert, trader and journalist with extensive experience of covering everything related to the burgeoning industry — from price analysis to Blockchain disruption. Alex authored more than 1,000 stories for U.Today, CryptoComes and other fintech media outlets. He's particularly interested in regulatory trends around the globe that are shaping the future of digital assets, can be contacted at alex.dovbnya@u.today.


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by Coffee Time Romance & More | May 15, 2015 | Blog | 0 comments
Interview With The Clocks of London Author Pamela Lyn
The cover of Pamela Lyn's The Clocks of London (2014, Gryy Brown Press) really pops and it immediately caught my interest. It features a snazzy submarine, a subterranean/water setting, and a determined-looking heroine. Therefore, what better excuse than a cool cover to invite the author to my steampunk café so we can learn more about it?!
To catch you up to speed, here's the blurb for THE CLOCKS OF LONDON:
Moira Gear is tired of being ignored. After years of begging to join her brother's investigative firm, she's off to seek her fortunes in the great tunnels of Water London. She's needed here, even if no one else thinks so. Street children are disappearing every day, but only she appears to notice. That leaves just one option – save them and, in the process, establish herself as private investigator.
Patrick Clock is THE investigator of the well heeled in Water London and all surrounding hubs. Taking only the best cases, he's earned quite the laudable reputation among both the municipal force and the common citizens. He wants nothing other than to focus on his work, but while out on a call, he spies a woman with a remarkable eye and a talent for trouble. What choice does he have but to follow her?
Their plans didn't exactly involve each other, yet Patrick and Moira find themselves tangled in a web of danger and lies. As their temporary partnership tumbles dangerously close to love, they must each find the courage to save the waters of London and each other.
And now for my interview with Pamela Lyn!
Heather: What are three little-known facts about Pamela Lyn?
Pamela Lyn: Hmm, let's see. How about a little game of two truths and a lie?
I've never ridden a bicycle.
I grew up on a nature reserve in Angola.
I still own a first generation iPod.
Heather: Tell us about the setting for your Waters of London series. What kind of world can readers expect?
Pamela: I love Victorian England and the huge differences between what society said of itself and what newspapers revealed. I took all the social mores, all the rules of propriety and the grime of the streets, then placed them in a world of tunnels beneath the waves.
Heather: What inspired you to write this series?
Pamela: Pinterest! No, seriously. A pin popped up of an underwater hotel and it was all over. Done!
Heather: The Clocks of London description hints at a mix of genres. How many would you say there are altogether?
Pamela: This never occurred to me while writing it, but as I sent the book around for reviews, folks labeled it as Romance, Victorian, Alternative History, Mystery, Steampunk and Sci-Fi. I'm just thrilled that each person was able to see their favorite genre within the book.
Heather: How would you describe the romance dynamic between Moira Gear and Patrick Clock?
Pamela: LOL, cute. It's the love she wants, when she's ready for it. She met him as a child, but I didn't want her agency diminished by that. Therefore, the romance doesn't properly begin until she's a woman who has chosen her own path. He doesn't make her journey and he's not the goal – he's there to walk the path with her.
Heather: On a scale of 1-10, please rate the story's action-adventure quotient.
Pamela: 8721x infinity. More or less. Basic math, obvs.
Heather: Outside of steampunk, what's your favorite book/TV show/film featuring investigators?
Pamela: You must not judge me for this. I mean it. Ok…*deep sigh*…the show Simon and Simon. I was a kid when it first came out and only now understand its true glory. You mad?
Heather: What kind of doctor will readers meet in The Doctor of London?
Pamela: I told this story to my newsletter subscribers, but I'd love to share it here. So, after The Clocks of London released, I received email after email asking for more of the hero's foster brother, Doctor Kennerick. I couldn't say no. I cleared my schedule, wrote nonstop, then begged my editor to make time for it.
Heather: The covers feature nifty submarines. Is there any Captain Nemo-style underwater journeys in the books?
Pamela: All of London exists below the water's surface. Sure, there are above water jungles (places like Persia and Arabia), but most of the world exists in series of tunnels. Most capitals are really city hubs and to get from one country to another, one needs to take a submarine from one collection of tunnels to the next. That's how Moira's journey begins.
Heather: If you could have any steampunk device you wanted, what would it be?
Pamela: Easy. An HG Wells style time machine. I'd then go to the future, discover police boxes and make my time machine look like one.
Heather: Do you have any plans for future tales in this series?
Pamela: Well, the good Doctor does have a sister…
Heather: Where can readers find you?
Pamela:
Website: www.lynbrittan.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/LynBrittan
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/lynbrittan/
Tumblr: http://lynbrittan.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AuthorLynBrittan
Heather Massey is a lifelong fan of science fiction romance. She searches for sci-fi romance adventures aboard her blog, The Galaxy Express and is the Releases Editor for the Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly.
She's also an author in the genre. To learn more about her published work, visit heathermassey.com. When Heather's not reading or writing, she's watching cult films and enjoying the company of her husband and daughter.


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Yes, it's summer holiday! Finally! Those past weeks have been crazy, but now, finally some moments of calm… Not having to bring my kids to school or sports for a while. Finally some time to breathe. To relax. And to recharge.
Do you recognize this feeling? The need to relax once it's summer holiday? What if you could find a way to relax a little bit every day. To have some time just for you?
I love being a mom! I have two children and I am so happy and proud to be their mom. They are now 10 and 12, so they are more and more doing their own things. Needing their mom less and less. And that's OK. Although I still see my daughter as my little girl. Oh well, 10 is still quite small, right? Of course they both don't need me as much anymore as a couple of years ago, but they still need me. Hey, I'm their mom! But I also take care of myself. I try to take some me-time every day. It's not always easy, but I have found a few things that really work for me. And sometimes I'm simply too tired or too busy, and that's OK too. Because I know I will take me-time again the next day.
Those past weeks, the last weeks before the summer holidays were filled with parties, end of the year musical, a trip to the zoo (with the class of my daughter), more parties, school obligations (seriously, at my son's school even baking was kind of an obligation!), more parties (it was incredible this year!!), my daughter's birthday, and some stuff I wanted to do for myself, like meeting some Facebook friends in real life in Amsterdam. And you know what, this isn't even half of it! But I'm guessing you know what I mean, because I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who had such busy weeks! Especially in those crazy busy weeks it's important to take time for yourself! It's a choice you can always make! Choose to take a break. Choose to take some me-time!
I really don't know how my grandma did it with 10 kids! I can't even imagine having 10 kids! By the way, my other grandma had 14 kids! I think they never had a moment for themselves. Of course, my grandma didn't have a job, and I know my mom (almost the eldest) had to help her a lot. I'm really wondering what that would have been like. I might ask my grandma when I see her, how things were for her back then.
Nowadays we always want to do our own things as well. We know that some me-time helps us to recharge our batteries and that it serves everyone when we feel great! But as moms we often put ourselves in the last place. We take care of everyone and everything and then… oh, no time anymore, maybe tomorrow….
Now I have made a small list of things you can do to help you take time for yourself. Even if it's just 10 minutes a day! I'm sure it will do you lots of good!!
Make a list of easy to do things that make you really happy. Commit to doing at least one of those things every day!
Put on some music that makes you happy. You can do this in the car, while driving to school, while cooking or folding the laundry. You can put earphones in when you're not alone in the house and really escape to another world if you want to. I love putting on Spanish music and think back to when I was in Madrid as an exchange student….
Take a break. When you drink tea or coffee, take a real break. Even if it's just for a couple of minutes. Don't wait until your drink is cold and quickly empty your cup. Take time to enjoy your drink!
Start your day with some me-time. I know, especially on school days not the easiest thing to do! But… in the weekend this is an amazing way to start your day. Pick up your favorite book and read a few lines. Grab your journal and write down what you're grateful for. Listen to a meditation. These are all things you can do in only 10 minutes. And if you take half an hour, you can do them all! You might even want to get up before your kids during the week, to do one of those things!
Don't plan too much. Easy to say, I know, but sometimes you just have to skip some things.
Say no. When someone asks you to do something and you really don't have time, no matter how much you would love to help that person, you are allowed to say no. Using up your energy doesn't serve anyone!
Now of course you don't have to do all the things on this list. Just pick a few and see how it goes. Or start by picking one and adding something else when you feel like it. Or try different ones to see what works best for you. I'd love to hear from you how things are going!
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Macron's Win: The Center Holds Firm in France
Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron beat out far-right Marine Le Pen with 65 percent of the vote.
By Yasmeen Serhan
Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Lyon, France on February 4, 2017. (Robert Pratta / Reuters )
French voters handed Emmanuel Macron, the independent candidate, a decisive victory in the presidential runoff Sunday over Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate, buoying Europe's political establishment that had watched with despair as populist movements threatened to derail the European experiment.
Macron, 39, who had all but been endorsed by Europe's leaders after his first-round victory on April 23, earned 65.5 percent of the vote, according to early exit polls; Le Pen won 34.5 percent—slightly lower than polls had predicted. The polls projected Macron would win approximately 64 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was 74 percent by the time polls closed at 8 p.m. local time, markedly lower than the 80 percent that turned out in 2012. Approximately 4 million blank votes were cast.
Not only is Macron the youngest president in French history (he's a year younger than Louis-Napoléon, Napoléon Bonaparte's nephew, who was 40 when he was elected in 1848), he is also the first president in modern French history who does not belong to a major political party. Despite briefly serving as economy minister under outgoing Socialist President François Hollande, Macron quit the government in August 2016 to launch his own independent party, En Marche!, which he said aimed to "reconcile the two Frances that have been growing apart for too long."
"A new page of our long history is turned," Macron said in his first statement after the results were announced.
Macron's victory brings an end to a presidential contest labeled a rebuke of the political establishment. Both Macron and Le Pen cast themselves early on as outsiders who are far removed from the established parties that have ruled France for decades. It's an anti-system characterization the two attempted to use against one another—Le Pen derided Macron during the final presidential debate as a Hollande 2.0, whereas Macron cast Le Pen as "the heiress of a name, of a political party, of a system that has prospered for years and years on the back of French people's anger," in apparent reference to her National Front (FN) party, which has maintained a fringe presence in French politics for most of its 45-year history. But Le Pen was able to capitalize on French disaffection with the existing political system, an erosion of the parties that once championed the working classes, and the notion that something fundamental—foreign—ails France.
Addressing her supporters in Paris, Le Pen said the country had "chosen continuity" and wished Macron "success in the face of the immense challenges facing France." She added that her party must renew itself "to form a new political force."
Hollande, the outgoing president, congratulated Macron on his victory, which he said "confirms that a very large majority of our fellow citizens wanted to gather around the values of the Republic and mark their attachment to the European Union as a gateway for France to the world."
Macron's victory is merely the first step of his efforts to govern France: He must now turn his focus to the next month's parliamentary elections, during which voters will return to the polls to elect members of the National Assembly, the country's lower but more powerful house of parliament. The election is particularly important because it will likely determine who becomes Macron's prime minister, an individual who almost always comes from the party that controls the chamber.
Although Macron's young party doesn't hold any parliamentary seats—making the chances of him commanding a legislative majority or having a premier from his party less likely—it won't be that way for long. The centrist candidate has vowed to field candidates for all 577 of the chamber's seats, pledging not to make "backroom deals" with other parties and instead putting forward a diverse pool of candidates, half of whom he said would be new to politics.
It's an ambitious goal that polls suggest Macron may be able to pull off. A Wednesday poll by OpinionWay-SLPV Analytics puts Macron's En Marche on track to win between 249 and 286 seats in the National Assembly, making it the largest party but just short of a majority. Centrist and conservative parties are expected to win between 200 and 210 seats, while the Socialists are projected to have the greatest loss, slumping from 280 seats to between 28 and 43 seats. Conversely, the far-right FN is anticipated to win between 15 and 25 seats, a marked increase from the two seats it now has.
Though Le Pen's electoral defeat follows similar far-right populist losses in Austria and Netherlands, the ideological surge is far from dead. Indeed, while Le Pen may have lost the presidency, she also boasted her greatest political performance to date. Not only did she nearly double her 18-percent finish in the 2012 presidential election, but she also managed to take her father's historically fringe party and, for perhaps the first time in its decades-long history, push it into the political mainstream. Should the FN win as many seats in the legislative election's as polls suggest it might, Le Pen could enjoy another five years of being in the opposition before trying for the presidency again in 2022.
Such a result demonstrates neither the rise nor fall of the populist wave, but rather, the disintegration of the political establishment as we know it. As my colleague Uri Friedman noted shortly before the first round of the French contest:
A disaffected and discouraged citizenry isn't just a boon for populists, who condemn the "establishment" and ease worries about the future with nostalgic appeals to past greatness. It also has consequences for left-right politics. If you lack confidence in the government in general, you're unlikely to distinguish much between left, right, and center. If you doubt that your future is bright, you're unlikely to be satisfied with the same old ping-ponging policies of the center-right and center-left.
As Macron assesses the task of governing and Le Pen revels in her unprecedented performance, France will confront a future with its two traditionally main parties—the Republicans and the Socialists—being eclipsed, many of the issues that have made this election a contentious one—immigration, terrorism, employment—still relevant, and a legislative election that's likely to be as rancorous as this one.


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Why you need to rethink your stance on the Gold Coast
2016 hotspot
Site: Anna McClelland
It's not all theme parks, schoolies and flashy bars
12 million + tourists can't be wrong... that's the somewhat staggering number that flock to one of Australia's most famous stretches of sand each year, drawn to the beaches, the surfing and the luxury hotels (the world's first Palazzo Versace opened here in 2000).
But somewhere along the way, Surfer's Paradise developed a reputation for being anything but. Whether your opinion of the Goldie is shaped by your own schoolies week, or seeing that of others on 60-minutes, it's time to give it a second chance (just leave the Smirnoff Double Blacks and Midori at home this time, okay?).
Why? Because 2016 is set to be the Gold Coast's year. It's already got a fabulously quirky QT Hotel (more on that below), and next year the radically revamped Pacific Fair is due to open, after the completion of a $670-million redevelopment. Once open, it will take its place as Australia's fourth largest shopping centre, with the highest concentration of luxury retailers of any shopping centre in the country. We told you the Goldie was on the up.
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Add to that a resort-like indoor/outdoor shopping and dining precinct with pool, tropical gardens and a one-hatted restaurant (plus multiple options for a much-needed glass of champagne), and Pacific Fair is sounding tempting enough to drag you away from the beach. Did we mention the brand new Event Cinemas with Dolby Atmos sound? That's there too.
Stay at the QT Gold Coast, perfectly positioned a block back from the beach, for a taste of what Surfer's Paradise was like in its heyday: think nostalgic beach chic meets Miami Vice. From the retro-style bikes on offer for all guests to get around to the complimentary fresh lemonade on arrival, it's a hotel that's big on the little details that make a holiday so memorable (and, ahem, Instagrammable).
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A must-try is QT's in-house spa, which offers a 'freshly picked' option - simply book your appointment and decide when you get there whether a facial, mani, massage or body polish floats your boat that day. Post pampering, kick back with a sundowner from the hotel's bar, Stingray, indulge in a Japanese feast at on-site teppanyaki restaurant Yamagen and trust us, you'll see what the GC fuss is all about.
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