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Fallecio el Maestro Estevan Arellano
Friends, loved ones, and colleagues are mourning the passing of Estevan Arellano, a widely respected figure in New Mexico and internationally for his deep knowledge about acequias, food, culture, and community. Regarded by many as a maestro, or teacher, Estevan was considered one of the most important acequia scholars of our time. He was well known for his vibrant storytelling about the dynamics of daily community life in an acequia community as well as his scholarly lectures about ancient acequia history and language. He not only professed the profound importance of language but put language into practice. Many who spent time with him appreciated his mastery of the northern New Mexico Spanish dialect and the locally familiar cadence that carried his words of wisdom and unique style of analysis.
As an asociaciado, or associate, of La Academia de la Nueva Raza, Estevan applied his journalist training, deep sense of community, and love of culture to collecting stories from the ancianos of northern New Mexico. His experiences gave him a lifelong appreciation for the diverse voices that comprise an acequia village and gave him unique insights into the worldview of the people of the region. He and his loving wife Elena were aficionados of traditionally prepared foods and he was well known as a zealous proponent of locally grown heritage foods. He and Elena raised gardens and livestock, recently completing an NRCS project with irrigation improvements and a hoophouse. Many of his colleagues and associates were fortunate to have been guests in the Arellano home and participated in gatherings in the gentle shade of an ancient and grand apricot tree near their adobe house.
He had several publications including his most recently published book, "Enduring Acequias," for which he was currently engaged in numerous book signings and readings. His novel "Inocencio" helped to define a genre of literature based in the distinctive style of storytelling of his contemporaries. His writings also helped to popularize the concept of
querencia, or love of place, and numerous conferences and publications have built upon his articulation of querencia. His life and voice served as a bridge to ancianos, or elders who were his teachers, and his spirited engagement in current political issues. Estevan was highly sought after as a speaker at numerous conferences on the topics of water, food, culture, and community and was recently a featured presenter by video teleconference at the Congreso Internacional de Regadio recently held in Valencia, Spain.
Estevan served as a member of the Concilio of the New Mexico Acequia Association for many years and as President of the Embudo Valley Acequia Association where he served as a devoted servant to local acequias, advocated for restoration of the watersheds that feed acequia flows, and secured resources for the improvement and repairs of local acequias. He hosted numerous workshops including the annual
Celebracion de las Acequias in Embudo which was one of the most widely attended acequia events in New Mexico.
Those close to him will carry vivid memories of his wit, intellect, and passionate opinions on a wide variety of issues. His loyalty, love and devotion to his family, wife Elena, children, and grandchildren, were evident in his daily life. Estevan's passing will leave a great void in his local community and the broader community that he helped to cultivate with his writings and his work.
Memorial services for Estevan will be held on Saturday November 8th at 10:30am at DeVargas Funeral Home in Española, followed by a meal served at the Mission Embudo.
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I've been testing this software throughly for the company I work for and would like some feedback. The administrator PC is running Windows XP Pro SP2 and the remote clients are running Windows XP Embedded 2002 SP2.
1) When making flash based media restores using the administrator PC local version, at the end of the process, the screens says "Failed to synchronize the hard disk with the operating system". I usually ignore and cancel with reboot since retry produces the same results. After reboot, the media is removed and tested in the industrial PC with no problems. I tried this with a Dell and Toshiba laptop with the same result. I did a similar test with ATI Home v11 Build 8101 on the same computers with no problems. Whats going on here?
2) The B&R industrial client PCs we use have two ethernet ports. Device 1 is Intel 8255 PCI Adapter and Device 2 is Intel PRO/100 VE. When using the remote connection, you can deploy the agent software to the clients from either ethernet port with no problems. After the agent is installed, you can only connect to the remote client using Device 1. As I read in the forums, this should have been fixed in a previous build. Changing the registry folder "Server" to "Server1" gets Device 2 working, but after disconnecting and reconnecting, the client agent service must be restarted. Why can't I use either port for connecting to the remote computer? We would like to use device 2 as a separate ethernet level to the machines.
3) When making backups and restores with the remote connection to a network share folder, you must enter the computer name or IP address with path to connect. For some reason, the user name and password login fails to pop up, so I must type this in manually to make a connection to the network. Why is this?
4) Using bootable rescue media, I cannot get the static IP settings to take as suggested by Acronis support when booting the agent. Any suggestions?
5) Is Windows XP Embedded supported by this product? For me, it seems to work for the clients.
If items 1-3 could get resolved, I would consider buying more licenses. Looking forward to all the feedback.


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After cancer, Supreme Court's Ruth Bader Ginsburg hits the road to prove her vitality -- and longevity
WASHINGTON – Over her 86½ years on earth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been lauded as a women's rights pioneer, a Supreme Court justice and a cultural icon. These days, she receives hearty ovations just for staying on the job.
To satisfy some of her liberal allies, she must do that for at least another 16 months.
Fresh off three weeks of radiation treatment for her fourth bout with cancer, the woman fondly known as the "Notorious RBG" is traveling the nation giving speeches, staging conversations and accepting awards and honorary degrees. By demonstrating her vitality before adoring audiences, she hopes to tamp down concerns about her longevity.
"As cancer survivors know, that dread disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, it's not universal," she quipped Thursday night at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City. She vowed to stay on the job "as long as I'm healthy and mentally agile."
The concerns are based on the political calendar. Ginsburg must remain on the nation's highest court at least until January 2021 to avoid giving President Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Senate the opportunity to replace her. Such a doomsday scenario for liberals would give conservatives a 6-3 hold on the high court – solidifying their majority, perhaps for decades to come.
Currently divided 5-4 and with John Roberts in the chief justice's chair, the Supreme Court has been less reliable than conservatives would like. With the help of Roberts or another conservative justice during the last term, the court's four liberals held sway in as many 5-4 decisions as their counterparts.
More:Conservatives' takeover of Supreme Court stalled by John Roberts-Brett Kavanaugh bromance
But add a sixth conservative justice and "it becomes so much more difficult," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, who caught flak in 2014 for suggesting Ginsburg should step down while President Barack Obama and a Senate Democratic majority could have replaced her.
If Democrats eventually prevail in confirming a liberal-leaning justice to their liking, Chemerinsky says, "This could be the swing vote down the road."
Ginsburg's predicament is similar to that faced by the court's last civil rights pioneer, Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, in 1991. With his health declining as he approached his 83rd birthday, he retired during the third year of Republican George H.W. Bush's presidency. The New York Times headline blared: "Marshall retires from high court; blow to liberals."
Marshall ultimately lived four days into the administration of Democratic President Bill Clinton. But by then his seat was held by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, still the court's most conservative member.
Ginsburg has shown no similar signs of "coming apart," as Marshall described himself in a calamitous 1991 press conference, though she did miss the first oral arguments of her career in January while recovering from lung cancer surgery.
The lone statement issued by the court after her latest bout with pancreatic cancer was upbeat. "The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," it said. "Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."
Crisscrossing the country
The statement was issued Aug. 23, and three days later Ginsburg was at the University of Buffalo to receive an honorary degree and speak at several events. That was a warm-up act for her visit to North Little Rock, Ark., the following week, where she received a standing ovation from a crowd estimated at 16,000, including many in "Notorious RBG" T-shirts.
"We all hope that she will stay on that court forever," former President Bill Clinton, who nominated her to the Supreme Court in 1993, said by way of introduction.
For her part, Ginsburg was more circumspect. "I'm pleased to say I am feeling very good tonight," she said.
Then it was on to the University of Chicago and Georgetown University Law Center the following week, and two appearances in her native New York City this week, where she took on directly the critique that she should have stepped down years ago.
"When that suggestion is made, I ask the question: Who do you think that the president could nominate that could get through the Republican Senate that you would prefer to have?" she said Wednesday night at the Yale Club, according to CNN.
But Democrats controlled the Senate in 2014, when Chemerinsky started the drumbeat with a Los Angeles Times column. "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should retire from the Supreme Court after the completion of the current term in June," he wrote that March. "Only by resigning this summer can she ensure that a Democratic president will be able to choose a successor who shares her views and values."
Ginsburg resumes her national hopscotching tour Monday at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., where she will appear before about 1,600 fans. The following week, she will be at Amherst College in western Massachusetts.
The court's 2019 term begins Oct. 7, briefly keeping Ginsburg in the nation's capital, where her latest accolade was a two-story mural unveiled Monday on a downtown D.C. building. When two weeks of oral arguments are completed, she is scheduled to travel cross country to California.
"It's a travel schedule that would exhaust the rest of us," says Marge Baker, executive vice president of the liberal group People for the American Way. "This is a statement that's she's making, and she seems to draw energy from it."
For years, Ginsburg has traveled and spoken publicly more than most of her colleagues. Before Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's death in 2016, the two ideological opposites occasionally made joint appearances that called attention to their longtime friendship. Ginsburg has made more than 170 public appearances in the last five years; only Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has done more.
"When I am active, I am much better than when I am just lying about feeling sorry for myself," Ginsburg said at the Yale Club event. "The necessity to get up and go is stimulating."
The most deadly cancer
Before her latest cancer was diagnosed, Ginsburg said she hoped to stay on the bench for at least five more years, noting that Associate Justice John Paul Stevens served until age 90. Stevens died in July at 99.
The latest health scare is particularly worrisome to many because it's her second bout with pancreatic cancer. The average five-year survival rate is 9%, lowest of all cancers. But Ginsburg has lived 10 years since her first bout.
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's website lists the names of public figures whose lives have been impacted by pancreatic cancer. The list includes 16 survivors such as opera singer Marilyn Horne, whose vow to live following her 2005 diagnosis Ginsburg admires. But it also names more than 250 public figures who succumbed to the disease.
Julie Fleshman, the network's president and CEO, says the three weeks of radiation Ginsburg received at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York is the go-to treatment for small, localized tumors. A more serious form of the cancer would have called for surgery or further treatment, she says.
The justice's first major health scare was colon cancer in 1999. Chemotherapy and radiation left her depleted, so her late husband Martin convinced her to get a personal trainer. She has worked out twice a week ever since.
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Her first bout with pancreatic cancer in 2009 was caught early following a routine blood test, and she made a full recovery. She received a stent in a heart procedure in 2014. Then last November, she fell in her Supreme Court chambers and fractured three ribs, forcing her to miss new Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh's investiture ceremony.
By then, her supporters were increasingly rattled. Twitter was flooded with good wishes as well as medical offers.
"Ruth Bader Ginsberg (sic) can have my ribs," actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano tweeted. "And my kidneys and a lung. And anything else she needs."
The fall proved fortuitous, because it enabled doctors to find and remove two malignant nodules from her left lung. To recover from surgery, Ginsburg was forced to miss two weeks of oral argument in January – the first time she's been absent from the bench.
Her latest cancer has not slowed Ginsburg down, much to her supporters' chagrin. Fleshman says that may not be a bad thing.
"We see so many patients who want to go back to their job, who want to resume their life the way that it was," she says. "For her, it probably is the very best thing to stay at it."
'The fight of our lifetime'
How long she can stay at it is anyone's guess. That's why both liberal and conservative interest groups are preparing for the inevitable.
"We've been literally planning for her retirement for many years now," says Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, which raised and spent millions of dollars to promote the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh nominations. "Our commitment is to always be ready, because you can't predict when a vacancy will come."
For liberals, "this will be the fight of our lifetime," Baker says – both because of what Senate Republicans did in 2016 to block Obama's choice and because it could impact the Supreme Court for generations to come.
"There could not be a higher-stakes battle for our country were that vacancy to occur," Baker says. "There will be an enormous mobilization of people making their voices heard."
If Ginsburg's health holds out, next year's presidential and Senate elections will decide whether Democrats or Republicans choose her successor. If the White House and Senate end up in opposite hands, a stalemate could result in an extended vacancy.
That's a risk liberals would gladly take.
"It seems like for more than a decade, Supreme Court observers have been trying to guess Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last day as a justice. It's a hopeless effort," says Elizabeth Wydra, president of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center. "She has an unmatched drive to do superlative work and an iron will to do whatever it takes to keep her body in shape to do it."

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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 1996 file photo, American real estate mogul Donald Trump, left, checks out sites in Moscow, Russia, for luxury residential towers. Trump's decades-long dream of building a luxury tower in the heart of Moscow flared and fizzled several times over the years, most recently when his presidential campaign was gaining momentum. That latest plan led his former lawyer Michael Cohen to plead guilty to a charge of lying to congressional investigators about key details in the negotiations, most notably that those talks stretched far deeper into the 2016 campaign than previously thought. (AP Photo/Igor Tabakov, File)
Behind Cohen plea: Trump's longtime dream of a Moscow tower
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump for decades dreamed of building a Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow, a plan that flared and fizzled several times over the years, most recently when his presidential campaign was gaining momentum.
That last plan led Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to plead guilty Thursday to a charge brought by the special prosecutor looking into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Cohen admitted he lied to Congress about key details in the negotiations for the Moscow tower, most notably that those talks stretched much deeper into the presidential campaign than previously thought, to June of 2016.
Trump, speaking to reporters Thursday, disputed Cohen's timeline and suggested his former fixer was telling prosecutors what they wanted to hear to save his own skin. As for why the most recent deal failed, Trump said he made the decision himself for one main reason.
"It was very simple," he said. "I was very focused on running for president."
Trump's plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow went back as far as 1996 when the future president paid a visit to the Russian capital to check out building sites on land being developed by a U.S. company.
That idea fell through, along with plans to revamp the dilapidated Hotel Moskva next to the Kremlin, but the real estate mogul raised the prospect of a "super-luxury residential tower" bearing his name on other sites he visited on his three-day stay in the city.
"Moscow is going to be huge," Trump told Playboy magazine in a 1997 interview.
Trump revived the idea in 2013 during his visit to Moscow as owner of the Miss Universe pageant. Trump later said he had discussed the idea with Aras and Emin Agalarov, a father-and-son Russian development team close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump reportedly scouted a potential site, but the idea again faded.
The tower idea came back yet again in October 2015, when Andrey Rozov, an obscure Russian real estate developer, signed a letter of intent sent by Cohen to advance the construction of a Trump World Tower that would feature 250 luxury condos, no fewer than 15 floors of hotel rooms, commercial and office space, a fitness center and an Ivanka Trump spa.
It was a potentially lucrative deal for Trump's company, handing it $4 million in upfront fees plus possibly millions more from a cut on everything from food and banquet fees to spa charges. His share on the first $100 million in condo sales alone would reach another $5 million.
Rozov's signed letter was sent back to Cohen by Felix Sater, another Trump world figure who had worked on and off for the Trump Organization and operated as a government informant following a 1998 conviction in a stock fraud case.
Sater sent Cohen an email expressing optimism: "Let's make this happen and build a Trump Moscow. And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce and business are much better and more practical than politics."
Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were copied in on emails about the project in late 2015, according to a person close to the Trump Organization. In one email, Ivanka Trump even suggested an architect for the building, the person said, noting the Trump Organization provided the emails to congressional committees. The company's email traffic about the project ends in January 2016, said the person, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Like the previous failed projects, the Rozov-helmed effort soon ran aground. According to Cohen's testimony in 2017 and his plea agreement, negotiations with Rozov's group stalled, and the two Trump associates turned to aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin to move the project forward.
Cohen told congressional investigators last year that he had sent an email in January 2016 to Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman. Cohen told the committee he never heard back from Peskov and the tower deal collapsed by the end of that month.
But according to Cohen's new statement to prosecutors, the tower deal remained viable as late as June 2016, after Trump had vanquished his Republican presidential rivals and was mounting his general election campaign against Hillary Clinton. Cohen said he kept Trump, named as "Individual 1" in the plea, updated about the deal's progress, and also "briefed family members of Individual 1 within the company about the project."
Cohen said in his plea that he also spoke by phone with an assistant to Peskov — identified in the plea as "Russian Official 1" — in January 2016 and outlined the project and "requested assistance in moving the project forward."
According to the plea, Cohen later discussed traveling to Moscow to jump-start the deal. In May 2016, a month after Trump had emerged the winner of the GOP primaries, Sater — identified as "Individual 2" — told Cohen that Peskov wanted to meet him in mid-June at an international business forum in St. Petersburg and "possibly introduce you" to Putin or Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
BuzzFeed News reported Thursday that Trump's company considered giving the Moscow tower's penthouse apartment to Putin. Sater told BuzzFeed: "My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin."
Sater and Cohen continued to email about the foundering project well into June 2016, soon after a much-scrutinized meeting at Trump Tower in New York between Trump's son Don Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, campaign chairman Paul Manafort and several Russian attendees, purportedly to discuss the possibility of "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
On June 14, Cohen met Sater in the tower lobby and told him his potential trip to St. Petersburg was off.
Thursday, Trump suggested his consideration of a Moscow tower was all part of being a businessman who was also running for president.
"I decided ultimately not to do it," he said. "There would be nothing wrong if I did do it."
"There was a good chance that I wouldn't have won, in which case I would have gone back into the business, and why should I lose lots of opportunities?"
Associated Press writer Chad Day in Washington contributed to this report.
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Home » CFPB policy priorities confirm rulemaking plans, interest in small business lending
CFPB policy priorities confirm rulemaking plans, interest in small business lending
By Barbara S. Mishkin on February 26, 2016
Posted in CFPB Rulemaking, Regulatory and Enforcement
In conjunction with yesterday's meeting of the CFPB's Consumer Advisory Board, which included a session on the CFPB's strategic outlook, the CFPB issued its "near-term priority goals where we hope to make substantial progress over the next two years."
The CFPB's policy priorities over the next two years involve the following nine areas, which are listed alphabetically: arbitration, consumer reporting, debt collection, demand-side consumer behavior, household balance sheets, mortgages, open-use credit, small business lending, and student lending. (The CFPB defines "open-use credit" as "any credit product that is offered without an expectation that the loan will be used for a specific purpose" and includes overdraft products, payday, auto title and installment loans.) For each goal, the CFPB provides its rationale for making it a near-term priority and indicates how it intends to use its tools over the next two years to reach its goal.
Much of the CFPB's discussion of its goals tracks previous comments made or positions taken by the CFPB. For example, like Director Cordray's recent remarks to the American Constitution Society, the CFPB's arbitration discussion signals that the CFPB is on track to implement the proposals it outlined last fall which would prohibit class action waivers in consumer arbitration agreements. However, the priority goals do provide the following noteworthy information:
In previous statements, the CFPB indicated that it had not decided whether it would engage in overdraft rulemaking. However, it now appears that the CFPB has decided to move forward with overdraft rulemaking. In discussing how it intends to reach its goal for open-use credit, the CFPB stated that it "will initiate a rulemaking process with the goal of developing rules to make the overdraft market fairer and more transparent."
The CFPB confirmed that it plans to propose a "larger participant rule" for the installment lending market as another way of reaching its goal for open-use credit. The CFPB had previously indicated only that it was considering such a rule.
The CFPB indicated that to reach its goal for debt collection, it will "initiate the rulemaking process with the goal of finalizing a rule that will establish clear rules of the road to ensure that debt collectors (both first-party and third-party) treat consumers with dignity and respect, obtain and retain the information necessary to substantiate the debts they collect on, and provide consumers with appropriate information about their rights and the debt collection process."
We have previously reported about developments indicating a growing CFPB interest in small business lending. The inclusion of small business lending in the CFPB's near-term priority goals confirms the CFPB's interest. In describing how it intends to reach its goal for small business lending, the CFPB lists its plans to build a small business lending team and begin market research and outreach for rulemaking on business lending data collection; subject to an assessment of feasibility, build an infrastructure to intake and analyze small business lending complaints; and continue to examine small business lenders for fair lending compliance. (Dodd-Frank Section 1071 amended the ECOA to require financial institutions to collect and maintain certain data in connection with credit applications made by women- or minority-owned businesses and small businesses. Such data includes the race, sex, and ethnicity of the principal owners of the business.)
The CFPB also notes that while its strategy focuses on its forward-looking priorities, there are "additional priority work streams that are well-established and ongoing, and we will see that work through to completion. This includes, in particular, our fair lending oversight of indirect auto lenders and our rulemaking on prepaid cards." The CFPB is expected to issue a final prepaid card rule this Spring.
The CFPB also cautions companies to "continue their focus on complying with the law beyond the particular issues described in the goals, whether or not they see their particular industry or product mentioned explicitly among the shared cross-Bureau priorities."
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Not Another Year: VGX
Posted on December 11, 2013	by Gaines Hubbell
This weekend's VGX (the Spike TV Video Game awards show with special guest, the letter X) was a new high in the ongoing television pursuit of alienating video game players. Most years, I tuned in to see what won and see what absurd, alienating thing would happen that year. I cannot say I ever watched it for the game trailers—I've got other outlets that I go to for that kind of in-bed-with-industry journalism and advertising.
In case you missed it. You can watch all three miserable hours here. It was hosted by Joe McHale (from The Soup) and a Bag of Doritos. Rather than a theatre or theatre-like venue, it happened in a bizarre, steampunk studio with a car, a couch, and a balcony. Both hosts were either reading from a script that was uncomfortable at best or poorly speaking extemporaneously. Representatives from games studios occasionally showed up on the couch to awkwardly converse about their new projects with the hosts. Awards winners walked in from behind the cameraperson, whose last job was the Blair Witch Project, to stand with their little black award statue.
This year's show happened to coincide with other events in the world of games this weekend and in my life, which I'll detail later, that made it particularly reprehensible. But, before I get there, I think a little historical perspective is in order.
A Brief History of Timocracy
Spike TV hosted the first VGAs in 2003. David Spade was the host, Lil' Kim and DMX were there, and there, uhm, was a WWE tag team wresting match too. It had some strange categories, such as "Most Anticipated" and "Best Fantasy Game." A year later, Snoop Lion hosted and BloodRayne, the main character of BloodRayne 2, won "Cyber Vixen of the Year," the title most coveted by the fictional creations of a sexist video game industry. "Best Military Game" was introduced to differentiate military-themed games from the Sci-Fi shooters that populated the "Best First Person Action" category.
In 2007, with Samuel L. Jackson hosting, the "Best Shooter" category appeared for the first time, and that sexist "Cyber Vixen" shit finally went away for good. Also in 2007, the VGAs had "Best of" categories for the consoles, ending the long othering of PC and handheld games. The next year we saw the "Best Independent Game" for the first time—I should mention, for Doritos' sake, "Best Independent Game" was "Fueld [sic] by Dew." "Most Anticipated Game" appeared, relatively recently, in 2011.
As far as I can tell, the winners and nominees for each category have always been chosen by an "advisory board" of editors from prominent video games journalism/criticism outlets, with the exception of the few viewers' choice awards, such as "NFL Blitz Cover Athlete" and "Character of the Year." (Please leave me a comment if you have found a list of all the past VGAs boards of judges!) This year's advisory board was made of a similar mix of prominent editors of video game publications, a dickwolf, and a Bag of Doritos:
Geoff Keighley (Host / Executive Producer, SPIKETV)
Darren Franich (Staff Writer, Entertainment Weekly)
Andy McNamara (Editor in Chief, Game Informer Magazine)
Ludwig Kietzmann (Editor in Chief, Joystiq)
Tal Blevins (VP Games Content, IGN Entertainment)
Shane Satterfield (Editor in Chief, GameTrailers)
Jeremy Parish (Editor in Chief, 1UP.com)
Chris Kohler (Games Editor, Wired.com)
Francesca Reyes (Editor in Chief, Official Xbox Magazine)
Justin Calvert (Executive Editor, Gamespot)
Dale North (Editor in Chief, Destructoid)
Mike Snider (Entertainment Reporter, USA Today)
Jeff Gerstmann (Editor in Chief, Giant Bomb)
Jerry Holkins (Co-Creator, Penny Arcade)
Mike Krahulik (Co-Creator, Penny Arcade)
Ben Silverman (Yahoo Games)
Chris Slate (Editor-In-Chief, Nintendo Power Magazine)
Sophia Tong (Editor in Chief, GamesRadar)
Logan Decker (Editor in Chief, PC Gamer)
Lou Kesten (AP)
Chris Grant (Editor, Polygon.com)
Brian Crecente (News Editor, Polygon.com)
Russ Frushtick (Senior Editor, Polygon.com)
Stephen Totilo (Editor-In-Chief, Kotaku.com)
Tina Amini (Coordinating Editor, Kotaku.com)
To my mind, this advisory board begs the question that there is no appreciable line between journalist, critic, and Bag of Doritos. Although, with a few notable exceptions, this mix of journalists, critics, dickwolf, and Doritos did a decent job of selecting award-worthy games, this kind of hand-picked set of judges establishes the VGAs as a certain kind of awards. But, it also presupposes that the highest level of respect for games journalists and games critics can aim for is the level populated by Bags of Doritos and dickwolves. And, it takes an out of touch corporation to make a Bag of Doritos the executive producer; however, it takes a Bag of Doritos to put dickwolves on the advisory board instead of Ben Kuchera.
And, to be honest, none of the previous VGA shows were great. There has been plenty of on-point criticism for the previous VGAs. In 2010, Jeff Green said the show is not about honoring award winners, but about honoring men and commercials. In 2011, Alex Navarro suggested that the VGA exclusives are a Bag of Doritos' hoard of "delicious, exclusive acorns"—by the way, sorry for mixing that metaphor, also nothing's changed. That same year, Jason Schreier wrote an open letter to Spike TV criticizing their representation of the gamer community and their choice to not demonstrate the cultural significance of games. And, I don't think I need to say how timelessly sexist the "Cyber Vixen" awards were.
This year's VGX met with biting criticism as well. Samantha Allen justly pointed out how tasteless and insensitive Joe McHale's transphobic comments were. Simon Parkin read it and argued the term "gamer" gives rise to these kinds of comments that education can solve. Aran Suddi took issue with the representation of gamers in general. Truthtellah, at Giantbomb (one of the advisory board member institutions), posted a mostly satirical take on why the letter X appeared as special guest. David Hinkle and Xav De Matos, at Joystiq (another advisory board member institution) liveblogged a moment by moment observation of the tragic awkwardness and multiple failures of the night. Finally, Owen Good, at Kotaku (also an advisory board member institution) observed that "gamers care more about the VGX than the show did." Seems like there is a lot of criticism coming from writers at the same publications that are on the advisory board…
Strange that a publication like Polygon hasn't been on the criticism bandwagon. Brian Crecente (literally on the advisory board) wrote a veritable press release for the VGX rebranding. But, I suppose Crecente deserves some credit for getting Casey Patterson to expose how involved Viacom is in the rebranding.
A Certain Kind of Awards
And that's just it. It's a certain kind of awards show: a Viacom kind of awards show. Let's do some comparison.
At the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a group composed of Oscar nominees and significant contributors to film, comprising 17 "branches" of film production, select nominees and award winners via secret ballot. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was conceived over dinner in 1927 and a second dinner a week later created the founding group, containing some of the most respected names in film production. We're mostly familiar with what their award categories look like: "Best Actor in a Leading Role," "Best Actress in a Leading Role," "Best Makeup and Hairstyling," "Best Production Design," "Best Original Song," etc. Suffice it to say, these categories are about people first and product second. Where the product is the subject of the award, for example "Best Picture," it broken by only the largest of generic constraints: Animated or not, Documentary or not, Musical or not.
The SAG awards are given annually by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a labor union representing some 160,000 actors and behind the scenes employees in radio, television, and film. Two randomly chosen committees of 2,100 people each nominate people, and then all dues paying members can vote for winners. Again, we're mostly familiar with the categories ("Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role," "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series," "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries"); they are about people first. Where generic constraints enter into the category it is by the constraint they place on the performance, i.e., the type of job the person does.
The MTV Video Music Awards are given annually by a group of hand-picked people. The VMAs offer categories based industry retail genres, hip-hop, pop, rock. Moreover, the categories mix people and product with little distinction between them:
Justin Timberlake (person)—"Mirrors" (product) won Video of the Year;
Robin Thicke, featuring T.I. and Pharrell (three separate people)—"Blurred Lines" (product) won Best Male Video (a video with a penis and/or an inexplicable and sense of biological superiority?);
Austin Mahone (person)—"What About Love" (product) won Artist to Watch (a comically obtuse award for celebrity culture and panopticism?).
The Spike TV VGX Awards are given annually by a group of hand-picked people. The categories are broken along industry retail genres mixed with technological exclusivity ("Best Fighting Game," "Best Nintendo Game," "Best Handheld Game"), and they recognize people as voices alone ("Best Voice Actress").
See what I'm getting at? Spike TV's Video Game Awards portray video games in the same celebrity culture spotlight that MTV's Video Music Awards do. Except they do not recognize the person, ten people, or hundreds of people who put hard work and absurd amounts of time into creating that honored celebrity product. They reduce the entirety of video games writing to a single character. They maintain the, now silly, industry retail genres, relegating games that challenge this generic status quo to "Best Independent Game" and "Best PS3 Game." Rather than doing the work of watching the credits on video games, the award goes to the game.
I'd say that it's strange to watch a Bag of Doritos have such unbridled fandom for the executives of the gaming industry and then give awards to their products, but it's the modus operandi for Viacom awards shows. This same dynamic happens at the VMAs, where we're sold pop culture celebrities, except, apparently Viacom has decided that video game developers won't work as celebrities (because gamers don't know who Kojima and Blow are?).
This Year is Not Most Years
Let's let Spike TV have the VMAs of video game awards. The rest of us deserve a real awards ceremony for the developers.
If this were any other year, I wouldn't be an editor for the Journal of Games Criticism, and I would've talked venomously about VGX at the bar for a week and dropped it. I wouldn't be aware that there's a community of exceptional video game critics that are better suited to take on the Spike TV establishment than ever before.
If these VGAs were any other weekend, they wouldn't have coincided with Zoya Street's effort to start a games criticism event:
I think we need a games criticism event. Do you agree? Then put your name to it here: https://t.co/Q0KQiqJ3a6
— Zoyə Street (@rupazero) December 9, 2013
Viacom, there is a community of funny, knowledgeable, presentable people writing and talking about video games. But, I don't actually want Viacom to have any part in connecting video games with credibility/recognition. I'd rather see it come from a professional organization partnering with an industry association or television studio, like the Academy Awards does. And that still wouldn't be entirely satisfying: It would be a video games award ceremony masquerading as a film awards ceremony.
The Game Developers Conference hosts the Game Developers Choice Awards. It's the less televised and more reputable alternative to Spike TV's VGX. It's judged by an invitation only group, and nominations come from professional game developers. Although its categories still grant awards to games, buried in the rules section are rules for how awards are attributed to people, so the capacity for a video game awards ceremony about people is there already.
What's not there is television. With Viacom having had 10 years to parade around video games as curios of popular culture, it's time for competition. I imagine, that with the Entertainment Software Association's help, the Game Developers Choice Awards could be that competition.
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Accessibility on the web isn't something that necessarily comes to mind when we think about providing accessible services, but as our lives migrate more and more into the virtual space, making digital content accessible is a crucial part of building an inclusive society. The AODA drafters did not overlook this, and AODA does apply to digital content.
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with: legislative amendments that expanded the access to Employment Insurance benefits; a case where a former employee was awarded six months' compensation in lieu of notice after she had declined a severance package offered to her by the employer; further recent updates regarding the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with AODA January 1, 2015 compliance deadline; consequences of competing with employer on the side; and, obligation to protect employee from third party harassment.
The Accessibility Standards for Customer Service require employers with 20 or more employees to document policies. The Integrated Accessibility Standards require employers to document policies and multi-year accessibility plans if they have 50 or more employees. So smaller organizations might breathe a sigh of relief knowing that they don't have to document and keep track of their accessibility policies and plans under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
There are some simple ways all of us can alter our daily habits so that people with a variety of disabilities who depend on a screen reader can understand your information. What is a screen reader? A screen reader reads aloud electronic communications.
On September 2, 2010, the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services published the proposed Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR) under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) for public consultation by interested stakeholders. The IAR combines the information and communications, employment and transportation standards into a single, integrated regulation. The proposed compliance timelines are also listed.


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In Canada and the United States annually between 50 to 90 percent of the calls to the 911 system are deemed non emergencies. This puts an extreme burden on the system and interferes with real calls for help.
Each year an estimated 200,000 calls go unanswered at the 911 system in Los Angeles. That means that if 10% of the calls were emergencies then 20000 true emergency calls were not answered. How many people could die needlessly because of this?
In Los Angeles an audit of the 911 system has revealed that about 85 percent of the 4.9 million calls a year that flood the system we're not actual emergencies.
Years ago when the City of New York installed a new one hundred and fifty six million dollar state-of-the-art 911 system a study revealed that some callers were being put on hold for as long as 8 minutes.
If someone is there trained in CPR when you collapse, your survival rate doubles or triples.
You have less than 8 minutes to get help for a cardiac victim. Every minute that elapses after cardiac arrest lessens your chance for surviving.
Studies reveal that fewer than 4 percent of cardiac arrest patients will live to be released from the hospital. time is important when it comes to cardiac arrest. 911 saves lives.
Cardiac surgeons state that even 35 seconds faster in getting heart attack patients to treatment can prevent serious damage to the heart.


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For ages 10+
Since their parents' strange disappearance several years ago, 12-year-old twins Mei and Yun have been raised by their grandfather, who makes the best mooncakes around using a secret ingredient.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor sends his son to sample Grandpa's renowned mooncakes—but instead of tasting wonderful, they are horrible and bitter, strangely mirroring the odd, gloomy atmosphere and attitudes that have been washing over the village in the last few days. Grandpa is arrested for insulting and harming the prince, and Mei and Yun realize they are the only two people who will come to Grandpa's aid.
The twins set out on foot for the long journey to the emperor's palace where Grandpa's being taken, but a surprising stop in the eerie City of Ashes, a visit with the legendary, mystical Jade Rabbit, and an encounter with a powerful poet whose enchanted words spread curses, influence just how Mei and Yun will manage to clear their grandfather's name.
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Books for Kids Selection
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A CCBC Choice Book of 2022
★ "Peeling away at the many layers of the narrative sits revenge and love at the center. The captivating resolution is an emotional rollercoaster, but well worth the escapade. The story is balanced with imagination, love, sadness, new friends, old foes, and enchantment." – School Library Journal (starred review)
"Readers will find themselves entranced by Schmidt's writing, which will draw them in much in the same way that a storyteller captivates listeners when retelling a folktale." – Booklist
"Schmidt creates a beautifully folkloric atmosphere imbued with elements of Chinese culture and myth." – The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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The American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference (scheduled for June 20-25, 2019 in Washington DC) is the premier event for libraries in the United States.
If you're displaying in IBPA's Cooperative Booth at the ALA Annual Conference (single-title or full-shelf), you may also reserve up to four (4) FREE attendee badges.
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What is the ALA Annual Conference?
Over 10,000 librarians attend the ALA Annual Conference each year in order to save time and money by reviewing the books and services put on display by the hundreds of onsite vendors.
Since IBPA has been attending the ALA Annual Conference for over 20 years, we have first pick of preferable space on the show floor. If you display with IBPA you won't be stuck in the back corner of the exhibit lot: you'll be up front and center where you belong.
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N. Pavliček et. al., Nature Nanotechnology 12, 3 (13 February 2017) © MacMillan Publisher Ltd.
Researchers have synthesized a triangle-shaped molecule they've had in their sights for nearly 7 decades. When atoms come together to form molecules, electrons on different atoms pair up to form bonds that lock the molecule together. Molecules called free radicals have a leftover unpaired electron, an arrangement that makes them highly reactive, eager to pair that remaining electron. But in rare cases molecules with an even number of electrons can behave like radicals, because the arrangement of their atoms prevents all the electrons from finding partners with which to pair up. In 1950, Czech chemist Erich Clar predicted that a triangle-shaped hydrocarbon made from six fused circular benzene molecules would have an even number of atoms and electrons but be unable to pair two of its electrons due to the molecule's geometry. Clar tried to synthesize this molecule—called triangulene—in solution, but failed because it was so reactive it immediately bound up with other triangulene fragments. Now, researchers have succeeded by first synthesizing a larger precursor that has a couple of extra hydrogen atoms on it that stabilize the molecule. They then blasted their molecule with an electron beam to tear off the extra hydrogens, leaving them with triangulene, and an impressive molecular portrait (pictured). Triangulene's unique electronic arrangement is expected to make it magnetic and could make it valuable for quantum computing.


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Sentimental trophies destroyed in Sussex
Seaford Golf Club loses a
Golfmagic News
Wed, 26 Sep 2012
Trophies worth thousands of pounds have been stolen from Seaford Golf Club in East Sussex and found destroyed in a burnt out car.
According to Eastbourne Herald, more than 20 historic trophies were raided from the clubhouse in the early hours of Saturday September 15.
Shortly after 6am, officers were alerted to reports of a burnt out car in Rickney Lane, Hailsham, and the ruined trophies, some of them worth £2,000 and dating back 100 years, were found inside.
"We've lost a huge part of history at our club," said Seaford Golf Club's general manager Lawrence Dennis-Smither. "It's an extremely sad event for us."
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The incident occurred just months after a series of other clubs in the town were targeted – one of which saw a charity box and safe stolen.
"On this occasion, it seems the target has been trophies, some of which have been of great sentimental value to the club and therefore particularly upsetting," said police officer Chris Wright.
If anyone has any information contact Hailsham Police on 01323 414200.
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Here's another gem from the Valkyria Chronicles soundtrack. It's one of the game's more iconic battle themes (despite the name, it plays in regular rather than boss battles); to me, this is VC. Enjoy!
We're back into game soundtracks with this week's song, the "Main Theme" to the PS3 tactical RPG Valkyria Chronicles. It was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, of Tactics Ogre/FFT/FFXII fame, and it lives up to that pedigree. Enjoy!


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This Frightening Video Shows a Tree Falling on a Children's Playground
By Justin Worland
A large tree collapsed at a park in Chelsea, Mass. Monday evening, injuring two children and leaving the park closed for inspection, the city police department announced in a press release.
The collapse, captured on video, occurred in the "children's playing area" of the park. Children can be seen running and playing in the seconds before the tree falls. The two injured boys, ages 2 and 8, were transported to local hospitals and were being treated for serious injuries.
"I am wishing both of the injured children a speedy recovery and am grateful that others in the park escaped injury," said Chelsea Police Chief Brian A. Kyes in a statement.
Write to Justin Worland at justin.worland@time.com.


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Tyrecycle rips tyre issues to shreds
April 21, 2017 December 12, 2016 by Waste Management Review
With new partnerships in place and market growth on the horizon, Tyrecycle CEO Jim Fairweather talks about the company's direction and his aspirations for the tyre recycling sector.
When Tyrecyle announced a partnership with Barwick's Landscapes to recycle Tasmania's scrap tyres this past August, it was met with a mixture of relief and hope from locals and environmentalists.
Tasmania has one of Australia's largest stockpiles of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) at Longford – estimated at about 800,000 – a problem compounded by a lack of practical tyre recycling options in the state.
As Australia's leading tyre recycler, and with the country's largest crumbing plant across the Bass Strait at Melbourne, Tyrecycle was to many the logical option to step in and use its expertise and equipment to help with the problem.
The joint venture has seen Barwick's invest $1.5 million for a purpose-
built facility at Bridgewater, where it undertakes primary shredding of tyres collected from its 12 retail sites.
The material is then transported to the Tyrecycle facility in Melbourne for processing towards use in fuel, civil engineering materials, building and automotive products and other rubber surfaces.
For Jim Fairweather, Tyrecycle's CEO, it was a pragmatic and environmentally sound business decision – both characteristics of the business he runs.
"When I started working at ResourceCo, Tyrecycle's parent company, I saw this amazing blend
of solid commercial acumen with sustainability and caring for our environment. It excited me," Jim says. "Tyrecycle plays a critical role in the management of Australia's end-of-life tyres. It is incumbent on us not only to do things right, but also to do the right thing."
In a previous role, Jim worked in a disposable packaging business, which had opened his eyes to the importance of better managing resources.
After a number of leadership roles across a variety of sectors, Jim joined ResourceCo about five years ago, originally as Sales and Marketing Director.
The organisation now processes over two million tonnes of waste a year and is one of the leading resource recovery groups in Australia.
"Being in a recycling business at that level, you see what the commercial drivers are. It taught me that recycling businesses must be manufacturers first and recyclers second," Jim asserts. "Idealistic recycling businesses don't work because they're not sustainable. You have to find a way to make products out of the waste stream you are collecting with a genuine market, then you generate the environmental benefits."
After gaining a thorough grounding in ResourceCo, which bought Tyrecycle in 2012, just under three years ago, Jim was asked to take over as its Chief Executive.
Jim says his role has evolved over his time in post. When he started, he had some work to do in re- establishing Tyrecycle as a thought leader in the industry, as well as embedding a customer-centric state of mind within the business.
"If we're making a decision that doesn't help our customer, then we don't make it," Jim says.
A wholly-successful trinity
Tyrecycle effectively runs across three business areas: collections, manufacturing and processing, and sales for tyre derived fuel (TDF) and other products.
The company currently has strategic partnerships in place with more than 1,000 tyre retailers across Australia to source ELTs. These include the country's well-known stockists, such as Bridgestone, from whom it has handled more than 106,000 tonnes of scrap tyres alone over the course of the relationship.
To read more, see page 12 of Issue 9.
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These are the best pre-Christmas sales offering bargain discounts of up to 44%
Last minute shoppers are set to bag the best bargains ever in the run up to Christmas, as retailers discount items by record levels.
Shops are currently discounting stock by an average of 44 per cent, and this is expected to rise to 48 per cent by Christmas Eve – a new record high.
Where are the best pre-Christmas sales?
A wealth of UK retailers have already rolled out huge discounts in stores and online, presenting shoppers with some welcome bargain deals ahead of Christmas.
Here are some of the best sales currently on offer if you're still on the hunt for the perfect gift.
Shoppers can enjoy up to 50 per cent discount on Christmas decorations, gadgets and gifts, including beauty and homeware.
Coats, knitwear, cold weather accessories, and going out clothing are up to 50 per cent off.
The catalogue retailer is running its lowest ever toy prices sale, including discounts on selected LEGO, Barbie, Vtech and Playmobil, among others.
There's up to half price discount on womenswear, shoes, kidswear, beauty and fragrance, along with up to 30 per cent off men's and women's watches.
Discounts of up to 50 per cent off Christmas decorations and gifts, and 25 per cent off nightwear and slippers are on offer both online and in store.
The online retailer is currently offering 24 per cent off absolutely everything for 24 hours only (beginning 18 Dec), as well as 30 per cent off menswear.
There's up to 50 per cent off fashion, footwear, gifts, accessories and more while stocks last.
Up to 40 per cent off selected men's, women's, children's and homeware is up for grabs.
There's up to 50 per cent off selected fashion and footwear.
Enjoy up to 50 per cent off selected party shoes, and up to 30 per cent off selected UGG and Timberland lines.
There's up to 30 per cent off Christmas decorations and accessories.
The retailer is offering up to 50 per cent off selected clothing, plus an extra 10 per cent off with the code EXTRA10 on online orders.
Tumbling prices
According to a report by accountancy firm Deloitte, an over-supply of unwanted stock, caused in part by the mild winter weather, is to blame for tumbling high street prices.
Varying levels of success with promotional events such as Black Friday, as well as general economic and business uncertainty, have also pushed retailers to slash prices in an effort to shift unsold stock in the run up to Christmas.
The firm analysed more than 800,000 products and found there is a wide spread of discounts already available across the retail market, with prices drops ranging from less than 2 per cent to more than 80 per cent.
It is anticipated these discounts will continue to grow as Christmas approaches, reaching an average of more than 52 per cent from Boxing Day onwards.


Cyanogen on Thursday announced that it has entered a new partnership with Microsoft in which the company will include Microsoft's app in its software on smartphones powered by its OS. It sounds similar to Microsoft's agreement with Samsung, in which some of the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge units come pre-installed with Microsoft services.
Cyanogen said it will include Microsoft's "consumer apps and services, including productivity, messaging, utilities, and cloud-based services." Meanwhile, Microsoft will natively integrate those apps with Cyanogen's software. Bing services, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook and Microsoft Office are the apps that we'll likely see come preloaded on future Cyanogen devices, the companies said Thursday.
The Cyanogen OS has been known for its relatively clean interface and experience, and we hope this means that Microsoft's apps don't feel like bloatware. They're valuable, of course, but some folks might prefer to remove them altogether, and we hope that's an option.
Update: Cyanogen reached out to confirm that the apps can always be deleted. Also, just to make sure everyone understands, this applies to Cyanogen OS, not CyanogenMod. Here's the statement: "
Given the complexity of handset manufacturers, distribution methods, and carriers, there is more than one way MSFT apps can show up. Cyanogen is predicated on user choice with an open operating system that is bringing best in class products and services to consumers. MSFT apps will be surfaced contextually and will always be downloadable. Users will always be able to delete apps they don't want.


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Free the Kremlin's 20 Ukrainian Hostages Now
In the last two years, campaigns persecuting Ukrainians have become an entirely normalized and systemized form of Russian military aggression.
How can Ukraine claim it's safe to send opposition activists back to Russia?
Incredibly, given the ongoing imprisonment of Nadiya Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and other Ukrainians, as well as long sentences passed on Russians for peaceful protest, Ukraine's migration service is still claiming that Russia is a democratic country to which activists can be returned.
Savchenko court bans photos on 27th day of hunger strike, rejects more defence evidence
Oleg Sentsov & Oleksandr Kolchenko have passed letters of support to Nadiya Savchenko, whose trial has resumed on Nadiya's 27'th day on hunger strike. The court has reportedly refused to allow videos and photography in the courtroom, probably because of mounting concern about the 34-year-old former military pilot, now Ukrainian MP's health.
Russian Environmentalist on Trial Charged with 'Extremism' & 'Inciting Enmity'
Valery Brinikh is accused of "abetting extremism" and "denigration" of the people of Adygea for an article reproaching residents for not defending their rights and protesting against environmental damage from a pig-farming complex owned by Viacheslav Derev, a senator in Russia's Federation Council.
Afanasyev: I broke my chains when I retracted my testimony against Oleg Sentsov
Gennady Afanasyev, one of the four Crimean political prisoners held in Russia for a non-existent 'terrorist plot',, dates his personal liberation from July 31, 2015. On that day, he stood up at the trial of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, and stated that he did not know the men and that all previous testimony against them had been tortured out of him.
Solidarity & asylum needed as Russians face persecution for opposing aggression against Ukraine
There is strong evidence that the draconian sentence against Ildar Dadin was in part because of his support for Ukraine, while Rafis Kashapov is serving a 3-year sentence for opposing Russia's annexation of Crimea. The list of those facing persecution in Russia for a pro-Ukrainian stand is rapidly increasing, and there can be no excuse for Ukraine's authorities to send activists back.
Russian Blogger gets 5 years for 'extremist' criticism of authorities & war in Donbas
35-year-old Vadim Tyumentsev from Tomsk is the latest Russian to receive a serious prison sentence for calls to peaceful protest and critical comments on the Internet regarding Russian military aggression in Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists
Kremlin Miscalculates Badly on Ukrainian Prisoners
If the Kremlin hoped that the trials of Ukrainians held illegally in Russia would cause a brief stir, then be forgotten, it miscalculated badly on the people, like Nadiya Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and others it dared to imprison, and the level of lawlessness demonstrated.
10 Laws Putin's Foes Say Russia Needs To Scrap
A group of prominent Russian dissidents has identified what it says are Russia's 10 most harmful laws. Their project, "Sanatsia Prava," or Sanitation Of The Law, calls for the abolition of legislation that they say causes extensive harm to Russian society.
Russia's bombing in Syria has killed hundreds of civilians - new report
Amnesty International has published evidence indicating that Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and caused massive destruction in residential areas - striking homes, a mosque and a busy market, as well as medical facilities - in a pattern of attacks that show evidence of violations of international humanitarian law
18-year-old Russian hounded for supporting Ukraine has killed himself
18-year-old Vlad Kolesnikov has killed himself 6 months after his defiant demonstration of opposition to Russia's annexation of Crimea lost him his home, his place in technical college and led to a campaign of harassment against him
Russia raids offices of Khodorkovsky's Open Russia and its staff's homes
Russian state investigators turned up on Tuesday morning at the offices of the NGO linked with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and also searched the homes of employees and even their relatives. At least 10 homes are reported to have been targeted
76-year-old Russian on trial for peaceful protest seeks political asylum in Ukraine
Vladimir Ionov, the 76-year-old whose verdict on charges under Russia's new draconian anti-protest laws was delayed after he was hospitalized with severe chest pains, has arrived in Ukraine where he plans to seek political asylum
Russian 'federalization march' activist jailed for critical social network posts
A Krasnodar court has sentenced 26-year-old Darya Polyudova to 2 years imprisonment ostensibly over material posted or even just reposted on her social network page. The persecution, however, dates back to attempts to hold a peaceful march in favour of greater federalization for Kuban
From Communist Gold To Kremlin Power: Spanish Prosecutors Outline Russia's Captive State
Suspicions of connections with organized crime have dogged Vladimir Putin since his stint in the St. Petersburg mayor's office in the early 1990s.The accusations have gained new momentum in recent weeks with two important developments
Kremlin claims Putin didn't admit to Russian military presence in Ukraine
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly stated that "we have never denied that there are people [in Ukraine] resolving various tasks, including in the military sphere", his Press Secretary has claimed that the President was "misinterpreted".
Putin Admits Lying over Russian Military Involvement in Ukraine, Talks Ransom Language
In a response where the Russian President admitted for the first time that Russian military personnel are 'resolving issues' in Donbas, he also spoke on the subject of an exchange of Savchenko, Sentsov and others in language more befitting a kidnapper than a President
Sentsov & Kolchenko are being moved to Russian prisons. Write to them!
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko have been moved to another remand prison in Rostov [Russia] and are likely to be sent to Russian maximum security prisons any day now
Russia sends 73-year-old Ukrainian pensioner accused of 'spying' to almost certain death
Yury Soloshenko, the 73-year-old Ukrainian pensioner with a heart condition whom Russia accuses of 'spying' has been sent away from Moscow to serve a 6-year sentence in a maximum security prison colony.
Russian Investigators: Ignore Bad News, Bad News Kills
Vladimir Markin from the powerful federal Investigative Committee has appealed to Russians to "ignore" bad news about their country in the media, asserting that negative headlines can have a psychosomatic effect and increase the death rate.


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Nelson scores 2 to lead Islanders to 6-4 win over Devils
Brock Nelson scored twice, Cal Clutterbuck had a goal and an assist and the New York Islanders beat New Jersey 6-4, handing the first-place Devils just their second regulation loss in 21 games.
Devils top Oilers, tie franchise mark with 13th straight win
Nico Hischier had three assists and the no-name New Jersey Devils beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 to tie a franchise record with their 13th consecutive win.
Hughes scores to back Vanecek, Devils beat Avalanche 1-0
Jack Hughes scored on a power play early in the third period and Vitek Vanecek made 24 saves for his first shutout with New Jersey in the Devils' 1-0 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night.
Bratt scores 2, Devils hand Wings first regulation loss, 6-2
Jesper Bratt had two goals and an assist as the New Jersey Devils beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-2.
Devils dominate Red Wings, handing them first regulation loss
DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings started fast the first few minutes Tuesday. The New Jersey Devils overcame a slow start to dominate most of the night and defeat the Red Wings 6-2 at Little Caesars Arena, handing Detroit its first loss in regulation. The Red Wings (3-1-2) were the only team without a regulation loss. The Red Wings were turnover-prone and lost the special teams battle as the Devils scored on the power play and shorthanded. Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings.
Nedeljkovic, Larkin lead Red Wings past Devils 5-2
Alex Nedeljkovic had 37 saves and Dylan Larkin had a goal and two assists, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils.
Larkin's first career hat trick lifts Red Wings over Devils, 5-2
Dylan Larkin got his first career hat trick and added an assist as the Detroit Red Wings handed the New Jersey Devils their fifth consecutive loss, 5-2.
Marchand scores twice, Bruins end Devils 3-game win streak
Brad Marchard scored twice and Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves and the Boston Bruins beat New Jersey 5-2, ending the Devils' three-game winning streak.
Buchnevich gets 3; Rangers beat NJ for 3rd time in 5 days
Pavel Buchnevich celebrated his birthday with his first career hat trick and the New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 6-3 on Saturday for their third win over their Hudson River rivals in five days.
Several Stanley Cup winners breaking up championship core
FILE - In this June 15, 2015, file photo, Chicago Blackhawks' goalie Corey Crawford kisses the Stanley Cup Trophy after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final series in Chicago. The past few weeks have seen several recent Stanley Cup winners get rid of members of their championship core. The Blackhawks moved on from Corey Crawford, the Washington Capitals did the same with Braden Holtby, the Pittsburgh Penguins traded fellow goalie Matt Murray and forward Patric Hornqvist and the St. Louis Blues signing Torey Krug means captain Alex Pietrangelo will sign elsewhere. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
FILE - In this June 15, 2015, file photo, Chicago Blackhawks' goalie Corey Crawford kisses the Stanley Cup Trophy after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final series in Chicago. The past few weeks have seen several recent Stanley Cup winners get rid of members of their championship core. Hornqvist was "blindsided" the Pittsburgh Penguins wanted to trade him. The past several weeks have featured several recent Stanley Cup winners breaking up their championship core by saying goodbye to a key player with his name on the trophy. The agitating, go-to-the-net winger helped Pittsburgh win the Cup in 2016 and 2017.
Spirited 3rd Period Entertained Fans But Wings Still Lose 4-1
Schneider made 27 saves for his first victory of the season, leading the Devils past the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Tuesday night. Valtteri Filppula had the only goal for the Red Wings. The 18-year-old Hughes was called for tripping, a penalty that led to the Red Wings only goal. I thought it was a five, but they called it a two.As the game wound down, Bertuzzi hit Hughes after Hughes had given up the puck. Red Wings: Host Minnesota on Thursday night.


1. Mercy Health-St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, is joining forces with OhioMeansJobs to fill positions at the hospital.
2. The new Broughton Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Morganton, N.C., is nearly complete and hiring for all positions.
3. Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health announced 500 job openings for salaried General Motors Co. workers who are being laid off.
4. Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, N.J., announced it was offering immediate temporary employment and free meals to employees of a nearby paper mill ravaged by a January fire.
5. Meade, Kan.-based Artesian Valley Health System hosted a job fair Jan. 31.
6. Mercy Health–Springfield (Ohio) hosted open interviews Jan. 30 to fill more than 15 positions.


Responding to the feedback, the authorities are planning to link the route with Sikanderpur metro station, Gurudronacharya metro station and DLF 3 metro station, said sources. This will be called route number 222.TOI had earlier reported on the poor response the Gurugaman bus service is receiving on the route number 112. Earlier, 20 buses were rolled out on this route, but now only 10 buses ply between Ghata and Krishna Chowk. The second bus route was to be launched in October 2018. Other 10 buses from this route will be diverted to the route connecting Krishna Chowk with Shankar Chowk, said sources in GMCBL.


The city located at the Förde is easily accessible from all directions. Our rooms are mainly located in quiet residential areas. Guest rooms and travelling technician rooms are often offered with use of a kitchen for self-catering. Holiday flats feature a private bathroom and own kitchen. Our hosts will gladly assist you with any questions you might have about the city.
Kieler Woche unfortunately it is as always very booked up. Unfortunately we can not offer individual nights this date.
familyroom in quiet area, the beaches at Ostsee are reachable in about 20min.
The capital of Schleswig-Holstein is situated directly on the Baltic Sea; hence the reference to everything connected with the sea, ships and sailing is quite understandable. Surely everyone has heard of the summer highlight "Kiel Week". This greatest sailing sport event in northern Europe offers around 1000 events over 9-10 days each year, which has helped make it an international cultural meeting place.
But Kiel also has a series of events for the rest of the year – rock, pop and jazz concerts. Kiel is also one of the locations of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and there are many other folk festivals held throughout the year. The two summer months of July and August offer festivals for all age groups within the framework of the "Summer of Culture in Kiel". Within the scope of this event some of the city's museums and galleries hold open-air exhibitions.
When the (in)famous northern bad weather takes over, visitors can brighten up their days in the extensive shopping malls situated directly on the sea watching the "tubs" sailing past or spend some time in cafes with views of the fjord.


NOTE: This review contains SPOILERS. New episodes will be airing Sundays (10PM EST) on AMC.
Sunny (Daniel Wu) and Bajie (Nick Frost) meet a legendary warrior.
Sunny and Bajie meet a big/tall/imposing former Clipper, Nathaniel Moon (AKA Silver Moon) on a bridge. They are defeated by him, BUT then find themselves under his roof (a VERY old/abandoned church). NOT only is this guy a strong actor (gravitas, anyone?)- he did his OWN stunts during the fight scenes (whoa)! Nathaniel (who's a BIT of a legend among Clippers) has killed 999 men in battle. His wife and son were killed long ago as revenge against him. Men like them can't have (normal) lives, he tells Sunny (who doesn't agree, of course). However, he and Nathaniel have a LOT in common also.
Sunny (Daniel Wu) fights Nathaniel Moon (AKA Silver Moon).
Afterbuzz hosts were thinking/hoping that Nathaniel would stay on longer on the series, BUT he has a final battle w/ Sunny. He considers Sunny a worthy opponent; he's in a league of his own w/ regards to fighting (as was explained by Waldo in a previous ep).
MK's roomie is caught trying to escape, so his powers are taken away. The procedure is performed by those same three robed monks that first captured M.K. in a cold/dirty operating room. M.K. looks horrified- HE may decide to make a run for it, instead of continuing his training w/ The Master.
To keep herself (and baby Henry) on Quinn's good side, she tells him that his brain tumor has NOT changed since last month. She hides the current x-ray, showing him the previous one. Quinn is acting weirder… and weirder- he's a VERY watchable character still.
Later on, he saves the life of the teenage boy (Cog) who was caught running away. Boy, was I surprised! Quinn sees that this kid is scared of fighting, so he motivates him (playing a father figure), then challenges him to attack.
The Widow (Emily Beecham) arrives at The Conclave.
The Widow (AKA Minerva) and Waldo arrive at Ryder's estate for The Conclave. Afterbuzz hosts wondered: How/when did Waldo ally himself w/ The Widow? It's a VERY good question; it seems like it happened rather quickly.


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Max Igan | A Path to Remedy or a Road to Oblivion, May 17, 2014
Dr. Nick Begich | Geophysical Correlations to the Economy, Politics and Social Trends, May 16, 2014
Labels Alex Jones, Dr. Nick Begich, Mindcontrol of Humanity /
Source: infowars.com, earthpulse.com
Dr. Nick Begich taking calls on the topics of Geophysical correlations to the economy, politics and social trends and the long term effects on the world as we know it.
New World Next Week | 9/11 Whitewash Memorial Opens in NYC, May 15, 2014
Story #1: Brazil Tells World Cup Attendees "Don't Scream When Robbed"
Brazil Crime Bosses Threaten 'World Cup of Terror'
Brazil's Plans for Anti-Terror Law Alarm Rights Groups
Brazilian Police Brutality Allegedly Related to World Cup
NWNW Flashback: Brazil Protests Erupt Over Public Services And World Cup Costs (June 2013)
Story #2: The 9/11 Story Told at Bedrock, Powerful as a Punch to the Gut
9/11 Artifacts, and the Stories They Tell
William Rodriguez on the Ceremony at Ground Zero
#BentleyBlockade: "It's just been announced on the ABC that Metgasco's license has been revoked."
Metgasco Drilling Suspended, Company Referred to Corruption Commission
FCC Chairman to Rethink Controversial Net Neutrality Proposals
Banker Death's Finally Get Noticed by Mainstream Media
'Fed Up' Documentary: Sugar Added to Food Causing Obesity
Rare Bee Believed Extinct Since 1946 Comes Back to Life
Dallas, Texas Considers Ending Over 50 Years of Water Fluoridation
Lagarde, Condi Cancel Speeches After Protests
New Study Finds Swearing Can Be Good for You
EuroMaidan Nightmare: How the Odessa Massacre Was Engineered in Ukraine, May 15, 2014
Labels Ukraine /
Source: GlobalResearchTV youtube
This video put together by the Oriental Review Open Dialogue Journal in Russia documents how the Odessa Massacre was engineered by the US-backed Yatsenyuk regime and its ultra-nationalist thugs.
Read the related article at: Oriental Review
Piers Corbyn | The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming | Space News | May 14, 2014
Labels Piers Corbyn, The Great Global Warming Swindle /
Source: weatheraction.com, thunderbolts.info
The recent Electric Universe conference in Albuquerque New Mexico featured investigators from wide ranging disciplines, who had come to a common conclusion. The key to understanding so-called climate change is the electromagnetic connection between Earth and the Sun. One of the most powerful of these voices is Piers Corbyn, who has received international acclaim for the accuracy of his long-range forecasts. Although we hear daily of a scientific consensus to the contrary, what does Piers make of mankind's alleged role in affecting the climate on Earth? -thunderbolts.info
CrossTalk: Ukrainian Red Lines, May 14, 2014
Why does the unelected government in Kiev call the eastern regions' referendums a farce? Is identity the main red line in the Ukrainian crisis? And will Ukraine as a sovereign state continue down the path of disintegration? CrossTalking with Martin McCauley, Michael Hudson and Daniel Welch. -RT.com
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is "Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete", May 14, 2014
Labels Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance /
Source: democracynow.org
In the final part of our extended interview, Glenn Greenwald reflects on the Pulitzer Prize, adversarial journalism and the corporate media's response to his reporting on Edward Snowden's leaked National Security Agency documents. "We knew that once we started publishing not one or two stories, but dozens of stories … that not just the government, but even fellow journalists were going to start to look at what we were doing with increasing levels of hostility and to start to say, 'This doesn't actually seem like journalism anymore,' because it's not the kind of journalism that they do," Greenwald says. "It doesn't abide by these unspoken rules that are designed to protect the government." -democracynow.org
Jobs for the boys: Biden's son signs for Ukraine gas giant, May 14, 2014
A son of the US Vice-President has joined the board of directors of Ukraine's largest private gas producer. Hunter Biden now leads the company's legal unit - getting the position a few weeks after his father's trip to Kiev. And, as Marina Portnaya explains, this could be more than just a coincidence. Read more at RT.com
The Eyeopener Report | China's "War on Terror", May 13, 2014
Labels James Corbett /
Source: BoilingFrogsPost.com, corbettreport.com
Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China's control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy "Al Qaeda" terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan's lawless border region and, as FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost founder Sibel Edmonds revealed in last year's series on Gladio B, direct support from NATO-associated Gladio operatives seeking to destabilize a geostrategic region in an ongoing, under-the-radar war for control of Central Asia.
Find out more about this important subject in this week's BoilingFrogsPost.com Eyeopener report.
Transcript & Sources
More NSA Secrets Revealed, May 13, 2014
Journalist Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide hit shelves Tuesday. In it, Greenwald tells the story of how he came into contact with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his months of reporting on the some of the NSA's most coveted secrets.The new book also contains a trove of new NSA documents that were released for the first time today. RT's Sam Sacks breaks down this new information being reveiled about the NSA. -RT.com
Vlatko Vedral | Decoding Reality, May 13, 2014
Labels Vlatko Vedral /
Source: legalise-freedom.com, quantumoxford.com
Vlatko Vedral on Decoding Reality – The Universe as Quantum Information. What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are the deepest questions that human beings have asked, that thinkers East and West have pondered over millennia. For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the blueprints for our basic forms to future generations using a digital code called DNA.
Decoding Reality asks some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. It explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. It describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance' and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach up into our reality.
The book concludes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers considered are exhilarating and challenge our concept of the nature of matter, of time, of free will, and of reality itself. Vlatko Vedral's Frontiers of Quantum Physics
Jay Parker and Mark Passio: Satanic Ritualistic Abuse | Truth Connections Radio
Labels Jay Parker, Mark Passio /
Source: truthconnections.com
This broadcast with Jay Parker and Mark Passio is sure to enlighten many about the darkness that has surrounded life as we have known it for centuries. Mark and Jay were keynote speakers at both Free Your Mind conferences that were held in Philadelphia on the topic of mind control. Both men have an amazing cautionary tale to tell about how they broke free from their controllers and deep rooted belief systems. Their stories will intertwine and paint a picture of the spell many have been under either directly or indirectly.
Jay Parker was born into a multi-generational Satanic/Illuminati family and suffered MONARCH trauma-based mind-control as a child. For the first seven years of his life, Jay was subject to Satanic Ritual Abuse in a large cult setting. On his radio show SRA Today, he speaks about recovery and healing methods for Satanic Ritual Abuse survivors. He will discuss in detail new neurological and biological discoveries related to ritual abuse and life in general. He will also discuss Satanic/Illuminati control in the U.S., world society, and religions. He will share his personal life experiences being brought up in a Satanic/Illuminati family, and Inter-dimensional (Luciferic/Satanic) or extraterrestrial forces that interact with and control the Satanic/Illuminati power structure. Below is the link to Jay's radio show. -truthconnections.com
The Robert Bingham - UFO Connection
Labels Robert Bingham, Ufo /
Source: tercermilenio.tv
R.I.P. H.R. GIGER | 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014
Labels H.R. GIGER /
Dedicated to Surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer H.R. Giger, winner of an Academy Award for best achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film 'ALIEN' (1979).
May the Light of Your Soul Guide You.
-Information Machine
Gerald Pollack: Institute for Venture Science — Funding "Out of the Box" Ideas | EU2014
Labels Dr. Gerald Pollack, water /
Source: thunderbolts.info
In recent decades the scientific enterprise has produced many technological revolutions but few conceptual revolutions. Professor Gerald Pollack describes the reasons why. He goes on to describe how the newly founded Institute for Venture Science will restore science to the creative enterprise it once was.
Dr. Pollack is a professor in the bio-engineering department of the University of Washington. He has spent the last 10 years researching the role of water in biological tissue. His discoveries will have a profound impact on the nature of disease and healing.
'US wants new Cold War, Russia should ignore it', May 12, 2014
Labels Paul Craig Roberts, Ukraine /
Washington desperately needs a new Cold War with Russia to ensure a healthy Military-Security Complex and to maintain global hegemony, former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts told RT in an interview. -RT.com
Michael Schratt | Man Made UFOs: Deep Black Budget Military Aerospace Vehicles | Hour 1 | May 12, 2014
Labels Henrik Palmgren, Michael Schratt, Secret Space War, Ufo /
Source: redicecreations.com, secretspaceprogram.org
May 12, 2014–Michael Schratt is a private pilot/military aerospace historian and has lectured across the USA on the unique subject of "mystery aircraft," and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military industrial complex. Michael talks about the evidence that supports the claim that elements within the military industrial complex (specifically the American aerospace industry) have designed, built and tested flown saucer shaped aircraft which mimic the form, fit and function of that as we perceive to be extraterrestrial UFOs.
In this program, we discuss the black budget, off black budget and special access programs that have laid the financial groundwork for those who have been developing secret aerospace megaprojects. We'll speak about military contractors such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin & McDonnell Douglas and their endless funding for their project. -redicecreations.com
US Spy Chief Cracks Down on Whistleblowers, May 12, 2014
Labels Edward Snowden, Surveillance /
Open-information activists are calling a new rule being implemented by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence a "gag order" on public debate. The rule in question prohibits employees of the office from publically discussing or writing about leaked information.
Activists believe this will prevent employees from speaking out on perceived wrongdoing by the intelligence community, forcing them to repeat official positions given by government officials. As many note, these official positions and the truth are often very different. RT's Lindsay France discusses the controversial new policy with Kathleen McClellan, the national security and human rights counsel for the Government Accountability Project. -RT.com
400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op, May 12, 2014
About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in southeastern regions of the country, German media reports. -RT.com
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Dr. Nick Begich | Geophysical Correlations to the ...
New World Next Week | 9/11 Whitewash Memorial Open...
EuroMaidan Nightmare: How the Odessa Massacre Was ...
Piers Corbyn | The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming...
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is "Neutered...
Jobs for the boys: Biden's son signs for Ukraine g...
The Eyeopener Report | China's "War on Terror", Ma...
Jay Parker and Mark Passio: Satanic Ritualistic Ab...
Gerald Pollack: Institute for Venture Science — Fu...
'US wants new Cold War, Russia should ignore it', ...
Michael Schratt | Man Made UFOs: Deep Black Budget...
US Spy Chief Cracks Down on Whistleblowers, May 12...
400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine...


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/**
 * Demonstrates usage of Proxy.
 *
 * The Proxy object is used to define custom behavior
 * for fundamental operations (e.g. property lookup,
 * assignment, enumeration, function invocation, etc).
 *
 * Allows to extend an object behavior. This is metaprogramming instrument
 *
 * Doesn't work on NodeJs 4.
 *
 * Created by Yuriy Stul on 1/13/2017.
 */
'use strict';
const handler = {
    // A trap for getting property values.
    get: function (target, name) {
        console.log(`in get: target is ${target}, name is ${name}`);
        // Return default value, if the name is not in target (doesn't exist in the object)
        return name in target ? target[name] : 37
    }
};

const p = new Proxy({}, handler);
// Add new properties
p.a = 1;
p.b = undefined;

console.log(p.a, p.b);       // 1, undefined
console.log('c' in p, p.c);  // false, 37

const o1 = {
    a: "the a",
    b: " 123"
};

const p1 = new Proxy(o1, handler);
p1.added="the added value";
console.log(p1.a, p1.b);       // 1, undefined
console.log('c' in p1, p1.c);  // false, 37
console.log('added' in p1, p1.added);  // true, "the added value"

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