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Srinagar, Nov 24: State Bank of India (SBI) is set to launch India's first comprehensive digital service platform YONO, acronym for 'You Only Need One'. This will be an integrated Omni-channel digital platform that offers just about everything related to financial services and lifestyle products / services will be launched at the hands of the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley in Delhi. In addition to an array of banking & financial services, YONO will also allow customers to meet their lifestyle needs across 14 categories including booking & renting cabs, entertainment, dining experience, travel & stay, medical needs and so on. The bank has partnered with over 60 E-commerce players to provide customized offers and discounts to customers. Some of the key e-commerce partners include Amazon, Uber, Ola, Myntra, Jabong, Shoppers Stop, Cox & Kings, Thomas Cook, Yatra, Airbnb, Swiggy and Byjus, among others.
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YONO can be accessed through mobile phones, both android and iOS, and on the web through a browser, and allows a seamless omni-channel customer experience.
Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, SBI said, "India is going digital at an unprecedented pace and we at SBI have been taking significant strides in the digital banking space. With the launch of YONO, customers will be able to seamlessly access lifestyle offerings and financial services with a single user id and password. The portal has been designed to offer maximum customer convenience where each journey has been designed with minimum possible clicks with easy to understand descriptions. We believe this app will help us increase engagement with our customers and enhance their banking."


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As the Trump administration seeks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, a key issue for U.S. trade negotiators is better and more enforceable protections of intellectual property (IP) rights. This must include more legally binding protections of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other engines of invention and creation, which face a growing array of threats in foreign markets, including even our closest North American trade partners.
America's trade negotiators are now in the process of crafting a 2.0 update of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Fortunately, it now appears that Donald Trump's intention on NAFTA is to mend it, not end it. The trade deal has been a stunning economic success for all three nations: Canada, Mexico and the United States. Freer trade has meant steady increases in the volume of trade, greater competitiveness and lower prices.
There's a famous old Woody Allen joke that: "those who can't do, teach. And those that can't teach, teach gym."
The latest Trump tax cut plan would be a steroid injection for the U.S. economy. Bravo to the White House and congressional leaders for packaging the biggest pro-growth tax cut since Reagan.
The White House and congressional Republicans have released their tax plan that President Donald Trump boasts would be "the biggest tax cut since Reagan."
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Having first appeared together on the 2009 American Idol finale, followed with a performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Adam Lambert soon became a fixture with Queen, and with the band performed several big concerts and television performances in 2012 and 2013, followed by a fully sold out 24 date US tour in 2014.
Queen + Adam Lambert closed 2014 in spectacular style when they were invited to perform an exclusive concert on New Year's Eve from London. Queen + Adam Lambert Rock Big Ben Live took place in the build up to the clock striking midnight to see in 2015 and continued after the spectacular, world famous fireworks display along the river Thames. The special was seen by a peak of 12 million people and in the subsequent 24 hours 'Adam Lambert' was the top of the trending searches on Google in the UK with more than 500,000 searches for his name.
Early 2015 saw Q + AL return to concerts with 26 sold out shows in 10 countries throughout the UK and Europe taking their critically acclaimed show to France, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Poland. When the band ended their European tour on 27 February 2015 in Sheffield, UK, they had notched up 67 sold out concert dates across the world in less than a year drawing universally rave reviews: "Queen + Adam Lambert delivered just over two hours of pure sensation straight into the nerves and bones of anyone fortunate enough to witness it. Freddie may be gone, but he would surely approve." (Brisbane Times) "Did they rock us? Oh YES!" (New York Daily News).
More recently, invited back to Brazil's Rock in Rio festival to headline the September 18, 2015 opening night thirty years after Queen performed the opening and closing at the inaugural festival event in 1985, Queen + Adam Lambert made the most of their passage to the Southern Hemisphere and booked a six date tour of three Latin countries: Brazil, Argentina and Chile, playing stadiums and arenas. The tour sold out in record time and Queen - fronted this time by Lambert - made a triumphant return to the continent which in the 80's provided them with their biggest concert audiences ever reached: their two 1985 Rock in Rio performances drew a total audience of more than half a million people, the largest paid audience in history.
In a career spanning over 40 years Queen has amassed a staggering list of sales, awards, and hall of fame inductions that is second to none. Record sales in the hundreds of millions of units continue to put Queen in the top ten of all-time iTunes sales, plus seven Ivor Novello Awards, an MTV Global Icon Award, two songs enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame - "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" – which also remain the most played songs at sports events and arenas around the world, make Queen one of rock's most honoured bands. Queen has also achieved the distinction of becoming the first artist ever to sell over six million copies of an album in the UK with their Greatest Hits album. Even with the tragic loss of their uniquely talented singer Freddie Mercury, Queen remain one of the most revered bands in rock and pop history, able to claim one of the most enduring song catalogues of all time, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Radio Ga Ga", "Killer Queen", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Bicycle Race", songs that form the backdrop to the lives of generations of fans across all ages. With their sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality, and colossal spectacle of their live performances, Queen – Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon - captured hearts and conquered charts like no other band in history, a legacy that continues to live through the ongoing work and concert performances by May and Taylor, now joined by Adam Lambert. October 31 sees Queen celebrate the 40th anniversary of their history making single "Bohemian Rhapsody".
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Adam Lambert's debut album For Your Entertainment earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and a worldwide smash hit with 'Whataya Want From Me'. His second album, Trespassing, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. In 2013, Adam appeared as a guest star on the hit TV series, GLEE and as as a featured vocalist on Avicii's album 'True'. Adam released his highly anticipated third album, 'The Original High' this summer, it entered the worldwide chart at number 3, and took his overall worldwide sales to over 2.5 million. The Single 'Ghost Town' has had over 100 million streams worldwide including 37 million views of the video. He has just announced his brand new single "Another Lonely Night"
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A new report indicates that the popular Microsoft productivity suite Office is expected to be released for the iPad very soon as a new test build has been uncovered showcasing a Metro interface and indicating four apps that will be a part of the suite.
According to a report by The Daily, a test build of Office for iPad was uncovered and the productivity suite contains several Office applications such as Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. On top of that, the interface is similar to the one currently in OneNote and has a hint of Metro. Documents can be created and edited locally or online.
A previous report indicated that Microsoft was working on an Office app for the iPad and that it would be released sometime this year.
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Research staff from the University are lending their expertise to the development of a new 'green app' which is looking to encourage people to live healthier lives and play a more active role in their communities.
The BetterPoints mobile app rewards users for taking part in activities which benefit the environment and their local community. This includes activities like volunteering, car sharing and using certain types of public transport.
Users receive 'BetterPoints' in recognition of their work, a form of community currency which can be used to purchase a number of online rewards including vouchers from Amazon, M&S and Boots. Alternatively, users can choose to donate their BetterPoints to their favourite charities.
Dr Steve McCabe, Director of Research Degrees, and Senior Lecturer Tony Birch will be working on the evaluation of the software to find out what sort of impact the app is having on people's behaviour. The University is a partner in the BetterPoints project which is being funded by Climate-KIC, the EU's main environmental initiative.
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Uber, the ride-hailing company, launched an in-app chat feature Thursday (Aug. 10).
According to a report in Mashable with the new feature riders can message the drivers directly via the app. The idea behind the in-app chat capability is to enable riders to give drivers a better idea of where to pick them up or if there are any obstacles that could make it tougher for the driver to pick up the passenger. Prior to launching the feature Mashable reported Uber users would wait around for the drivers similar to using a taxi service. There was the option to call the driver, but in this digital world that was very cumbersome.
Uber's new in-app chat feature is now at the bottom of the Uber feed, and in order to make it work users simply hit contact and then chat to begin a conversation. The text is read out loud to the drivers so they won't get into an accident. The driver taps the screen once to send a thumbs up emoji so the user knows he or she received the message, noted the report. The feature will be rolled out in the next few weeks, reported Mashable.
The move to make it easier for drivers and users to communicate comes at a time when the ride-hailing service is gearing up to close out or sell its car-leasing division in the U.S. by the end of this year. According to news from CNBC, Uber will shut down, sell to a partner or consolidate the car-leasing business to make it more efficient. The ridesharing company is taking a harder look at expense management after losses of $3 billion last year. The Wall Street Journal reported that the average loss per vehicle in the leasing division was about 18 times what Uber executives had estimated. In fact, the actual losses were about $9,000 per vehicle, more than the estimated losses of around $500 per vehicle, according to the WSJ. Scaling back on leasing would affect about 500 jobs out of Uber's workforce of 15,000, the ride-hailing company will make sure there's a vehicle option for drivers who use its Xchange leasing division.
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The Chief bought Finnich Malise in 1990 when he was posted to become Managing Director of Allied Distillers in Dumbarton. It sits on the boundary between Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire, just outside the new Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. The house had been rented by its owner to the Neill family for nearly twenty years, and was in need of major repairs and renovation. Marguerite's experience as an Interior Designer and Decorator were a vital ingredient in the taking on the project. After the house, they turned their attention to the gardens, and then to the complete renovation of the Steading buildings, where after several years work,
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Finnich is Gaelic for "clear or white place", there are several Finnich names in the area, and the Finnich burn runs to the South into Blane Water, and thence to Loch Lomond. Malise is an old Scottish name. In 1398 Malise Carrick, a faithful vassal of Duncan, Earl of Lennox is mentioned in connection to the lands of Finnich. The property then passed through the Blair and Stewart families until 1804 when William Leckie, a Glasgow hosier iinherited it. It was he who built the original Georgian house between 1806 and1809. The estate changed hands several times in the 19th century. Large parcels of land were sold off in1872, which was around the time that the two wings of the house were added. John Wilson, a Glasgow shipowner bought the estate in 1873 and owned it until his death in 1928. In 1888 plans were drawn up to completely rebuild the house in a Neo-Gothic style. Having seen the designs it was a blessing that he decided not to proceed.
Finnich was then owned by Col and Mrs Shand from 1928 until 1947, and they remodelled much of the interior in an Edwardian style. It then briefly passed into the hands of the playwright James Bridie. In 1949 two Mitchell sisters returning from abroad bought the estate and kept it in perfect condition. They left it to their Grand-nephew Stephen Lee who rented it, and then sold it to Andrew and Marguerite in 1992.
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PIQUA — As part Women's History Month, Assistant Professor Beka Lindeman of the English department at Edison State Community College gave a presentation on activism with a focus on the local chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, of which she is member.
"The Harry Potter Alliance … is an organization that helps turns fans into heroes," Lindeman said, adding that they want to use the power of storytelling to solve real-world problems. She said that, while books and stories can act as escapism from the real world, they can also be used to go deeper into thinking about reality.
"They believe in unironic enthusiasm," Lindeman said. That genuine interest can be used to make a difference, Lindeman said. Lindeman added that they believe "the weapon we have is love" to be activists and make good changes in the world.
"So what's this look like in the real world?" Lindeman said.
For example, Lindeman explained that the Harry Potter Alliance found out that the chocolate frogs at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter were allegedly made through unfair labor practices. The Harry Potter Alliance then banded together to get Warner Brothers to use certified Fair Trade chocolate to make the frogs.
"That's a big deal," Lindeman said. "That's not something I can do by myself, take on Warner Brothers."
Other examples of initiatives from the Harry Potter Alliance include a voter registration drive, a yearly book drive called "Acciobooks" to promote literacy, their "Hunger Games" campaign called "Odds In Our Favor" to focus on issues of hunger and inequality, and more.
"Last year, they built a library in Uganda," Lindeman said.
The connection to Women's History Month is that, while the organization is open to everyone, approximately 85 percent of the members are women.
"The Harry Potter Alliance is most definitely women-oriented," Lindeman said.
The Miami Valley chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance is called Diagon Valley and is open to anyone in the community of any ages.
As Diagon Valley, Lindeman said that they have done events like a live reading of "The Cursed Child," a special viewing of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," craft sales, book drives, and more.
"We try to do things right here in the community," Lindeman said.
They also try to encourage their members and other followers on social media to do "Magical Acts of Kindness." They will suggest small actions that people can do to remind themselves to be kind, Lindeman said.
They once traveled to a shelter in St. Louis for homeless youth where they had a card-making party for the residents, along with giving them winter hats filled with toiletries. They also attended the Hermione Granger Academy.
Currently, they are working on planning another craft event where they can create items to benefit the community, such as making fleece blankets for people in need.
"Those are all acts of activism," Lindeman said. "Acts of kindness. That's one way to be an activist."
Lindeman went over tips about how to be an activist, beginning with listening to others about a problem one might be interested in addressing and listening to learn.
"Listen so that you can learn about the actual issue," Lindeman said.
Lindeman then suggested involving others and utilizing those people's strengths.
"Understand how people want to be involved," Lindeman said. She then said that activists should understand what their actual roles are as well.
"Also, set 'SMART' goals," Lindeman said, defining SMART goals as specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based. The realistic goals should focus on specific ways in which activists want to change the world, instead of a general, broad goal of changing the world.
"Then take action," Lindeman said.
Ways that people can take action include joining a club or a group that addresses a specific issue, contacting one's representative in Congress, attending events to learn more about an issue, researching to learn about an issue, and more. Lindeman also suggested listening to and learning about people's different life experiences.
"Don't discount their experience just because it hasn't happened to you," she said. "Understand that other people have experiences that are different than yours."
After taking action, Lindeman also said that activists need a chance to recharge and focus on their personal needs. "Self-care is a form of activism," she said.
Overall, Lindeman encouraged people to "just be kind to someone."
For more information about the Miami Valley chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, visit www.thehpalliance.org or email email@example.com. People can also follow on Tumblr at thehpalliance.tumblr.com, Facebook @DiagonValley, on Twitter @DiagonValleyOH, and on Instagram @DiagonValleyOhio.
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On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman. Just over a year later, Zimmerman was acquitted of murder, sparking deep-seated reactions in white and black communities across the country.
In the wake of the Zimmerman acquittal, black communities embraced the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter as an expression of their deepest feelings of betrayal, anguish, and frustration at the structural evil of racism that continues to regard the violent deaths of black people as acceptable. This acceptance of the violent deaths of blacks is the legacy of a culture that actively participated in the enslavement, murder, and lynching of black people for generations.
Slavery, lynching, forced breeding, Jim Crow, and rampant injustice and disregard for the basic human dignity of black lives is the very real history of our country.
In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched by two white men for flirting with a white woman. He was a 14-year old black boy visiting relatives in Mississippi from his home in Chicago. His mother insisted that there be an open casket at the funeral so that the world could see what had happened to her son. His death sparked national outrage, as did the acquittal of his two killers the month after his murder and has been cited as a major factor in moving the Civil Rights Movement forward.
In similar ways, the death of 17-year old Trayvon sparked a similar social movement. President Obama famously said, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." This statement was monumentally important in our cultural context largely because the majority of white America did not "see" Trayvon as looking like their child.
What they saw was a young, black man. In a hoodie. In a gated neighborhood. Instead of their child, too many white Americans saw someone that they too might fear if they ran across him in their own neighborhood.
In her reflections on the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the founders commented:
So I started writing a love note to Black people on Facebook, saying that it wasn't our fault. And it didn't have anything to do with pulling up your pants, or voting, or education, or any of that. That fundamentally what it has to do with is systemic racism. And what I said was something to the degree of, "Black people I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. We matter. Black Lives Matter.
She titled the post "A Love Note to Black People." With that, a new social movement was born.
One year later, Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, MO captured the headlines across the country for many weeks as the citizens of Ferguson rallied to demand justice for Brown and changes in the policing structures and culture of racism that shape their everyday lives. People from around the country poured into Ferguson over the following weeks and months, uniting under the banner of "Black Lives Matter." Many who couldn't make the trip held "die-ins" at college campuses, legislative bodies, and protests across the country in solidarity with the citizens of Ferguson to emphasize the expendability of black bodies.
Less attention was given to another killing that very same week in Ohio. Just four days before Michael Brown's death, John Crawford, III, a 22-year old black man and father of two was shopping in Walmart when he picked up a toy rifle for his son and continued walking around the store and talking to the mother of his children on his cell phone. A white male customer in the store saw Crawford with the toy rifle and called 911. White police officers arrived, approached Crawford and told him to put the gun down. They then shot and killed him. His last reported words were "It's not real!"
The real problem is that there are so many Trayvon Martins, so many Michael Browns, so many John Crawfords. Cops killing black men is too common. Black males between the ages of 15-19 are 21x more likely to be shot and killed by police than white male teens. The Washington Post noted in a recent article that "Although black men make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year."[1]
The phrase "Black Lives Matter" entered our lexicon in the midst of a world where black lives are treated as expendable, in the midst of a world where young black men are killed seemingly indiscriminately simply because they are black and their very normal actions are "read" as "scary" or "dangerous" or "threatening." Actions that you or I, as white people, might make on a daily basis with no thought of the possibility that our actions might be perceived as scary, dangerous, or threatening.Several weeks ago, I read about what happened to Marcia Bowden and her husband Ira Marche when they were stopped for speeding in Mississippi, just across the state line from their home in Memphis, TN. Bowden is a well-respected physician in her community and she and her husband were both arrested after a traffic stop for speeding "escalated" when neither Bowden nor Marche were able to find their driver's licenses.
I, too, have been stopped for speeding, more than once. I have driven without my license, more than once. Both of these things are against the law. Yet, I have never feared that a traffic violation would "escalate," that I would be arrested for traffic violations, or that I might be in any danger when being stopped by the police. But I am white, and Marcia and Ira are black.
That is white privilege. I didn't ask for it. I didn't do anything to receive it. But there it is.
There is actually now data that supports what many of us already know. The New York Times recently did an in-depth study of racial profiling in Greensboro, NC, the town where I live and where our law school is located. They found:
More than four times as many blacks as whites are arrested on the sole charge of resisting, obstructing or delaying an officer, exactly what happened to Marcia and Ira just outside Memphis.
They also found that in addition to extremely disproportionate rates of being stopped for no apparent reason between black and white drivers, black drivers and their cars are searched twice as often as white motorists, despite the fact that drugs and weapons are found significantly more often when the driver is white.
Now, many whites across this country have reacted in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. However, too many whites have reacted with surprise or anger toward the Black Lives Matter movement. Some have even indignantly suggested that we ought to rally around the cry that "All Lives Matter."
Well, of course all lives matter. But that's beside the point. It distracts from the point. In fact, it misses the point entirely. "All lives" are not under threat. It is black lives that are being disrespected, constrained, poisoned, imprisoned, beaten, raped, and extinguished.
Slavery, lynching, forced breeding, Jim Crow, and rampant injustice and disregard for the basic human dignity of black lives this is our inheritance as a country, this is our original sin, this is our legacy of racism – a deep and abiding fear of black men in our culture and an equally deep and abiding condescension and scorn of black women.
This is why the call that "Black Lives Matter" is so deeply resonant and important in our society. It is important for black people to say and to hear and it is equally important for white people to say and to hear. Black Lives Matter. Full stop.
For non-blacks to join the Black Lives Matter movement is to express the deep Christian tradition of solidarity, of crossing lines of difference in brotherhood and sisterhood in the name of Christ. To join together in solidarity is to live into the prophets' call for justice (Micah 6:8) and the gospel call to follow Jesus in breeching traditional barriers and reaching across lines of difference to recognize human dignity in the other. Jesus did this time and time again, with the Canaanite woman, with lepers, and prostitutes, with Zaccheus, with Samaritans (Canaanite woman, Mt. 21-28). All of these folks were disdained and reviled in Jesus' time, yet he recognized their humanity and reached out to them in solidarity.
The call to social justice is deep in the Christian tradition and many Christians have shaped their lives in response to that call. The Black Lives Matter Movement is a call to action to challenge the deep structures of racism in our country that allow for the abuses and indignities afforded to blacks on a daily basis. It is time for Christians to stand up and respond.
I offered these remarks at an evening event focused on Engaging Race, Racism, Privilege, and the Bible this week as part of Elon's winter term .


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Apple Pay became available to users in October 2014, and already, we have a worthy alternative mobile payment app to it – the Samsung Pay, which has released with the latest Galaxy flagship phones. In today's discussion, we will analyze which of the two applications is better, on the basis of certain vital parameters.
You have got to hand it to Apple and Samsung for continuing with, and in fact, expanding their professional rivalry. As has been the norm over the years, the battle between the latest smartphones of the companies (iPhone 6/6 Plus and Galaxy S6/S6 Edge respectively) is going strong – and the tussle between the tech giants has now spilled over to the domain of contactless payments (i.e., mobile payments) too.
Samsung announced its mobile payment platform – Samsung Pay – at this year's Mobile World Congress, barely six months after Tim Cook had let everyone know about Apple Pay (last September). Apple Pay debuted on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, while the Korean company included Samsung Pay in the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge handsets. In this Samsung Pay vs Apple Pay battle for superiority, which one comes out on top? Let's do a point-by-point comparison:
- Compatibility – To start things off, let's see on which devices users would be able to avail the services of the two mobile payment channels. As was widely expected by software and mobile app developers worldwide, Samsung Pay is ONLY available on the latest Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The device compatibility of Apple Pay is rather limited too, since users who own the iPhone 6/6 Plus, or are early adopters of Apple Watch, can make payments with it. Both of these are proprietary software, unlike Visa Checkout or the proposed Android Pay platform. Apple Pay has the advantage of arriving earlier at the market, but the difference would hardly matter in the long-run.
- Security – Once again, there is nothing to choose between the two. The process of generating random numerical values by Samsung Pay and Apple Pay ('tokenization') ensures that the actual card details never get disclosed to the merchants and sellers. According to experts from the domain of mobile transactions and app development, 'hacking' card details is virtually impossible when payments are made via either of the two platforms. There is, in fact, a school of thought that mobile payment channels like these will gradually eat into the popularity of traditional credit card usage.
- Setting up the apps and adding cards – The edge lies marginally with the product from the Cupertino company here. There is no difference in the card registration/addition procedure on Apple Pay and Samsung Pay – it can be done either via scanning cards with the camera, or simply typing in their unique number and expiration date. However, there is a difference when it comes to accessing the cards for payments. To use Samsung Pay, an upward screen swipe (from the bottom) is required. On the other hand, whenever the latest flagship iPhone is in the vicinity of a contactless reader, the card details immediately appear on its lock screen. No extra swiping involved!
- Retailer support – Trust the two persistently warring tech giants to gather plenty of retailer support for their ambitious mobile payment channels. Within 72 hours of Apple Pay being available for iPhone-owners, more than a million cards were reportedly registered on it. The total number of retailers supporting Apple Pay stands in excess of 200000, with most American banks and credit card companies having pledged support to it. On its part, Samsung has announced that nearly 31 million retail companies already have the setup to support Samsung Pay transactions. The key factor here is: iPhone 6 is already a hit, giving a cushion to Apple Pay. To become a success, Samsung Pay will be heavily reliant on how well (or otherwise) the Galaxy S6 phones fare.
- Tracking transaction history – Apple does not, in any way track or store the details of the transactions conducted via Apple Pay. Mobile software analysts and iOS app developers feel that this eases a major security concern from the minds of users. Neither is any transaction data provided to third-party retailers. Samsung also refrains from tracking user-purchase and transaction history. Given that it is still early days for mobile payment technology, its main rival is Apple Inc., and there is still some apprehension among people about using these platforms – the Korean tech giant can hardly afford to slip up in this regard.
- NFC and more – Wherever Apple Pay works, Samsung Pay works. The reason is simple enough: both the mobile payment gateways support near-field communication (NFC), which makes transactions quick, hassle-free and completely secure. The fact that Android-users had a feel of NFC before Apple finally got around to it on the iPhone 6 is a point in Samsung's favor (since Android-users are more familiar with the technology). Samsung Pay offers yet another advantage too – it can also be used on magnetic credit card readers (Magnetic Secure Transmission, or MST). Since there are many retailers who have not adopted NFC yet, the reach of Apple Pay can remain limited. Samsung, however, has the software for point-of-sale terminal usage.
- Ease of usage – Apple Pay keeps things brief and systematic. All that iPhone or Watch-users have to do to use it is select the card for payment on the screen, and authenticate it via fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor feature of the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge phones is central to the use of Samsung Pay as well. Users have to tap their phone screen at the magnetic strip of the merchant or the contactless card reader – which is an extra step. What's more, many mobile app development experts as well as general users have reported that it is rather troublesome to hold devices in the 'correct' way over the magnetic stripe readers. Handing over the Android handset to the merchants is, understandably, not an option that finds favor among users. The difference is not much, but Apple Pay is just a tad simpler to use.
- A bit more about MST – Samsung Pay offers MST payment support over and above the NFC technology. This, in theory, should give it an advantage over Apple Pay (As we have pointed out earlier). What's more, Samsung would, in all likelihood, move to the developing nations with its mobile payment platform – and in these countries, magnetic card readers are still way more popular among retailers than the NFC setup. In fact, Samsung had acquired LoopPay in mid-February to ensure that it did not need NFC for remaining functional. However, the Magnetic Secure Transmission has also been hailed by many iOS developers as a piece of outdated technology. Particularly in the United States, this extra feature won't give any additional leverage to Samsung Pay over Apple Pay.
- Provision for in-app purchases – This one is a serious advantage in favor of Apple Pay. The terminal can be used for in-app purchase transactions, on freemium applications in the iPhone 6 phones, iPad Mini 3, and iPad Air 2. Those who are making payments via MST on Samsung Pay cannot use the platform for any form of in-app purchases – since the technology supports only older terminals. There is some uncertainty over whether Samsung Pay with NFC will be usable with general Android applications.
- Partnership with credit card companies – Both Samsung Pay and Apple Pay are already working in partnership with major players like MasterCard, Visa and American Express. From the perspective of the users, this means that cards will be automatically accessible and usable on either of the two applications, once they have been registered. However, Apple enjoys a first-mover's advantage here, since it has already entered into tie-ups with close to 120 major financial institutions (including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup). It remains to be seen how many, and how quickly, Samsung Pay is able to get into partnerships with the same leading financial institutions. One thing is clear though: it is a win-win scenario for credit card companies.
- Availability on wearable gadgets – Apple provides it, Samsung (as yet) does not. Android app development professionals worldwide feel that the next generation of Galaxy Gear devices would have Samsung Pay – but till then, the mobile payment app is available only on the recently released Galaxy S6/S6 Edge. Apple Pay, on the other hand, is available for use on Apple Watch – the company's first smartwatch. As per early reports, using Apple Pay on Watch is extremely easy. Until Samsung Pay becomes available on its wearable gadgets, it will be at a slight backfoot.
- Geographical reach – The need to pick one from Apple Pay and Google Pay is an option that is available only to American users at present – since United States is the only country where both the mobile payment technologies are available. Apple Pay is, in fact, available only in the US, while Samsung Pay can be used for making payments in USA and…no surprises here…Korea. The advantage of geographical reach, however slight, lies with Samsung.
- Backward support – Apple Pay requires NFC, and hence, it is not (and will never be) usable on older iPhones (iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 owners will miss out). Similarly, Samsung has not revealed any plans till now of pre-installing the Samsung Pay app on the predecessors of the Galaxy S6 phones. Mobile application developers feel that, with backend support – both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay would have had higher adoption rates.
- Can Samsung Pay hurt Apple Pay adoption? – Even though the fight is apparently between the mobile payment platforms of the two companies, the competition is – in essence – not directly against each other. Android users are not likely to switch over to iOS simply due to the features of Apple Pay (neither is the opposite scenario likely). If Samsung Pay indeed becomes popular and Apple Pay keeps growing – they will contribute together to the growth of NFC technology in particular, and mobile payments overall.
In a recent comparison study, LoopPay beat Google Wallet hands-down, indicating that Samsung Pay (which comes with Infineon security assurance) is indeed an easy-to-use, secure and efficient mobile payment application. George Wallner and Will Graylin have ensured that the app is comparable to Apple Pay. While the robust sales of iPhone 6/6Plus phones have given a headstart to Apple Pay, its adoption is still sluggish (85% of iPhone 6-users are yet to give Apple Pay a try) – and even if Galaxy S6/S6 Edge sells equally well, the early adoption of Samsung Pay will not be very high. All things considered, Apple Pay holds the aces over Samsung Pay – thanks to its earlier arrival and popularity of the supported devices. Samsung Pay has plenty of high points too (in the short-run, the MST support can be a game-changer), and over time, has the potential to become equally popular.
The final winner? Contactless payments!
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Differing styles work for Boyer, Thornburg
MILWAUKEE -- There are the yin and the yang, night and day, the bratwurst and the Polish and, of course, the Brewers' Blaine Boyer and Tyler Thornburg.As seen on Wednesday night at Miller Park, Boyer and Thornburg took their different pitching styles to the mound in relief of a 4-3
MILWAUKEE -- There are the yin and the yang, night and day, the bratwurst and the Polish and, of course, the Brewers'
As seen on Wednesday night at Miller Park, Boyer and Thornburg took their different pitching styles to the mound in relief of a 4-3 win over the Braves, and did so as they have for much of the season: successfully.
Boyer, a sinkerballer who relies heavily on soft contact, pounded the zone to retire two batters in the sixth to preserve a 4-2 lead. Then, in the ninth, the newly appointed closer, Thornburg, picked up the save that included a strikeout on a sharp curve in the dirt.
With his 12.34 strikeouts per nine innings ranking among league leaders and an average fastball of over 95 mph, Thornburg has fit the mold of a hard-throwing, late-inning arm that has become a common trend in baseball. Meanwhile, Boyer's 3.26 ERA and 3.76 FIP that accompany a league-low 3.62 K/9 show that there, in fact, is more than one way to be an effective relief arm in baseball today.
"Each guy has to do what he's good at," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "It is going to be different for each guy. You can't ask Blaine to be a big strikeout guy. That's not his strength. His strength is early count contact. That's his strength."
Thornburg echoed his skipper's sentiment.
"I think especially at the beginning of the year we were all amazed that Blaine had like five strikeouts in his first 20 innings or something, but he always got weak contact," Thornburg said. "There's so many ways and different styles of pitching."
Boyer first learned to effectively tailor his pitching to his particular skillset in St. Louis is 2009 under pitching coach Dave Duncan, he said. Then 27 years old, Boyer's approach was to miss bats with his fastball -- which was just over one mph faster on average than he throws now at 35, per Brooks Baseball -- until his approach to attacking hitters reversed its course.
"When I went to St. Louis, I was not a good pitcher," Boyer said. "I had a good arm, I had a good fastball; but I just learned how to pitch over there. I learned how to take the stuff that I have and my abilities and give the team the best chance to win.
"When I pitched to miss bats, I walked a ton of guys. As a pitcher, this is my identity as a pitcher: weak contact and going right at somebody and trying to get it done in a few pitches or less."
Advanced metrics confirm that Boyer has been successful in his execution. Of the 172 pitchers that have allowed at least 150 balls in play this season, he has the lowest average exit velocity against at 85.1 mph, according to Statcast™.
"You get soft contact," Boyer said. "It's all about not getting squared up, not getting hit hard. You can get a guy out on his front foot, get a ground ball. If you can get a guy to take a huge hack and you're throwing sinkers, you're going to get a ground ball.
"For me, it's my sinker. Hopefully that thing is going down and I'm getting guys to see that thing. Then when it gets to the bat, it's lower than they thought it was."
Thornburg, meanwhile, misses bats and lots of them.
Among qualified relievers, Thornburg's 35.4 strikeout percentage ranks third among all NL relievers. As of Wednesday, on his two primary pitches, fastball and curve, the right-hander had induced strikeouts on 23.4 and 41.7 percent of swings, respectively. Thornburg has seen an uptick in velocity of nearly three mph on his fastball, which he attributes mostly to a healthy off-season entering the campaign.
In 37 games since May 7, Thornburg owns a 1.01 ERA with nine walks and 47 strikeouts.
Interestingly enough, Thornburg has reversed course from 2015 when his changeup was his primary offspeed strikeout pitch. Last season, he threw the change over 28 percent of the time, compared with just over 10 percent this year -- including none on Wednesday.
"I think it's just a situation when you're throwing late in games," Thornburg said. "It's one of those where if you're already beating the guy's bat with the fastball, it's really difficult to throw changeups. All of a sudden, make a mistake and it's a tie game or you blow the lead. It's one of those situations, where depending on the score we feel like we can go other places than the changeup."
Curt Hogg is a reporter for MLB.com based in Milwaukee.


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MacBook Air 2011 display fix
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The display for my MacBook Air 2011 was cracked from the top of the case, meaning some of the display was fine, while the remainder was lots of groovy colors.
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The repair was awesome. The parts I ordered from iFixit were exactly what I needed and suggested in the guide. The display was brand new. The guide was very easy to follow. I took apart the display and attached the new display, screwed everything back up and connected all the ribbons (no extra parts)!!
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My suggestion is to take your time! Lots of small ribbon connectors can easily be manhandled if you use too much force. Also, make sure you tuck in the antennae wire properly before you screw the back of the laptop back on at the end. I started screwing the long screw and it wasn't going all the way in.
When I opened up the back to see what the problem was, I realized that the screw was digging into the antennae wire. I had broken the insulation on the wire slightly, but fortunately it didn't go all the way through. I hope it doesn't affect any wifi capabilities—so far so good—but just a heads-up that this cable needs to be tucked in!


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For a generation overwhelmed not just by dust bunnies, but by bong water on the carpet, pee stains on the ceiling and vomit seemingly everywhere, Jolie Kerr, 37, dispenses cleaning advice free of judgment. Writing first on The Hairpin, The Awl's girlish sister blog, and now on Jezebel and Deadspin, Ms. Kerr gently cautions her readers to beware of their handbags, noting that researchers have found that the stuff banging around inside carries more bacteria than most toilet seats. But microbes are not the worst Coach-invader.
Ms. Kerr's thrillingly titled first book, "My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag... And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha" (Plume, $15), just out, is a collection of her greatest hits, packaged as a whole house/apartment primer, a Mrs. Beeton for the postcollege set. In case you're curious, saddle soap and sneaker deodorant are the cure for what ailed the soiled handbag. (This interview was edited and condensed.)
Q. Your author biography notes that you live in a teeny, tiny spotless apartment in New York City. Discuss!
A. It's on the Lower East Side, less than 400 square feet. Two-ish rooms: it's called a junior one-bedroom, which means an arch into the bedroom and the closet in the kitchen.
Are you married?
I'm a newlywed, four months. We have this joke that I'm under contract to say he never barfed in my handbag.
How did you become a Clean Person?
I sort of was always this way. I can remember it really kicking in around adolescence.
Your mother must have applauded.
Not necessarily. My parents were both lawyers, so things like homemaking were not emphasized.
Some of the situations you tackle I just can't share with our readers. Do you think up the questions, or are they all from readers?
Yes! In a million years, I could never make up these questions. So, the barfing did happen. I have stayed in touch with that girl. She is still with her boyfriend and he feels terrible about the bag.
Your readers seem mostly bedeviled by vomit, pee, sweat and mold. Am I missing anything?
Hair. Hair is everywhere. Last week, a guy wrote me on Deadspin that he'd just moved in with his girlfriend and she has this long beautiful hair, but it was everywhere. I love that one in particular, because it takes gender out of the equation. It's not just women who shed. Men's body hair is everywhere. We're all gross, and I love it when I can put cleaning on human terms instead of gender terms.
So how do you get rid of hair?
The short answer: Get both a hand-held vacuum and a full-size one. Put the hand-held in the bathroom for regular (every one to three days) cleanups, and use the full-size model weekly.
I was awfully impressed with your sex-toy research. That chart detailing how to clean them is so comprehensive! Who knew sex toys came in so many materials? To whom did you turn for that?
I went to Babeland, which is a sex-toy store in my neighborhood. They took me through the store and showed me every toy and material and explained the care and cleaning of each one.
I will say that the idea of toys in stone and Pyrex made me raise an eyebrow.
Yes, the first seems cold and the second, well, I would worry about breakage.
Also, I felt the bong-cleaning section was very thorough.
That was a friend who emailed me. I hadn't talked to him in a while, and he wrote and said: "Hey, how are you? San Fran's great, I'm seeing a new lady, and I want to impress her with a clean bong."
And I got to recommend denture tablets, which are my favorite trick. They'll clean your bong, they'll clean your Tupperware — you know when it gets tomato sauce stains? — they'll clean your vases. I clean my wedding ring with denture tablets.
Do you feel as if you were a catalyst in keeping the bag-barfer together with his girlfriend?
From what I hear, they have a funny and loving relationship. I would hope everyone would take her attitude. Accidents happen, we get sick and I have no truck with making people feel bad.


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Bathtubs & Showers
Bathroom Shelves – Convenient Shelving Options
Not every bathroom has the room for elaborate cabinetry, especially guest bathrooms. However that doesn't mean all hope is lost for your bathroom redesign. If you're looking for
bathroom shelves
that fit perfectly in your bathroom without taking up too much space, you need to start looking at free-standing, wall-mounted, and corner bathroom shelf units.
Bathroom shelf units are the perfect alternative to installing built-in shelving. These bathroom shelving units are smaller in size, often rest on the floor or can be mounted on the wall, and often have multiple layers and drawers built into them. Bathroom shelf units come in many different styles and designs. If you're looking for bathroom shelves that will accent your bathroom's look, a glass unit will do the trick. If you're looking for something with a bit more character, a wood unit will give your bathroom the solid foundation it needs.
Selecting Your Bathroom Shelves
Bathroom shelving units come in different sizes, shapes, makes, and colors. So you want to make sure you pick one that matches your bathroom's décor and fits in the space you have available. The reason you're opting for a shelving unit instead of built-in shelves is because of space constraints. So measure the space you have and find a unit that fits within those dimensions. If you're opting for a wall-mounted unit, make sure the wall area can handle the weight of the shelf unit. Make sure there are studs in the wall area to properly secure the unit. If there aren't, try and find a different, more appropriate location for the wall unit or see if a free-standing unit would be more appropriate.
Combining Bathroom Shelves with Your Vanity
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Hanging Around (Upside Down)
Two-blocked with meetings all day - I didn't feel like staying after 1700 like I normally do to answer emails - the wind was up and blowing past 15 mph!!!
I had the kite up and ready to go by 1730. Got some great jumps but this one in particular (and the one just after it) was awesome! I used to be able to do the 'tabletop' maneuver when I was new to kiting - primarily because I would jump unhooked (chicken loop out of the harness hook). I could rotate the lower half of my body (and the board) while I was approaching a horizontal profile with my entire body just as I hit the pinnacle of the jump. At the top of the jump, the board's bottom deck is pointing skyward, and the rider is horizontal facing the surface of the water.
Poetry in motion ....
Doing it is hard enough, but then being able to get a picture of it is a different level of effort all together. The GoPro takes a shot every 2 seconds - I have tons of pictures of everything but pinnacle shots, but every now and then you get lucky. This one isn't perfect (water stuck on the fisheye), but you have to take what you can get.
I have been using the chicken finger on the kite rig (so the chicken loop cannot come undone accidentally) a lot recently and as a side effect, I have not been able to do a complete rotation.
I pushed a little harder today and got close - next session I'll use the leash instead of the chicken finger to see if I can get the full rotation. GOING OLD SCHOOL!!!
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August 28, 2017, marks 100 years since Jacob Kurtzberg was born in an apartment on New York City's Lower East Side. In the century since that day, the artist who came to be known the world over as Jack Kirby change comic books forever multiple times.
Over his six decades making comics, the King produced literally thousands of comic books, strips and other related masterpieces -- and there are at least as many ways to honor the man's legacy. Plenty of tributes today will focus on his seminal work co-creating Captain America, the raw power of his imagery, his tenure as the definitive visual creator of Marvel or his more personalized and progressive later work at DC.
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But at CBR, we wanted to celebrate Kirby the trailblazer, the game changer… the innovator. That's because when you look around you at the state of comics and cartooning in America today, there's almost no kind of comic project that Kirby didn't already make first or better than the countless other talents that have swam in his wake. Here are 10 innovations that we have the King of Comics to thank for, 100 years later.
Kirby As Political Cartoonist
At this point, if there's any Kirby image people everywhere know it's his iconic cover of 1941's Captain America #1 showing the titular hero punching out Adolf Hitler. But that cover is more than a standard piece of WW2 era propaganda. As CBR's Brian Cronin recently pointed out, Kirby and his then-partner Joe Simon's choice to kick off their patriotic hero's career with that scene was no small thing. It was a bold and politically charged act for comic books, which was at the time considered a bottom barrel industry.
And throughout Kirby's career, the artist continued to promote his political worldview through his work. While his comics largely veered towards political metaphor over the years rather than outright portrayals of public figures (though his associates have drawn parallels between his great villain Darkseid and Richard Nixon, for instance), Kirby never shied away from offering his take on the days events. Over his career, the King was every bit the provocateur and rabblerouser as the political cartoonists in the newspaper page, and his political style has empowered comic book makers for generations to be similarly bold with their work.
Kirby As Romance Artist
In 1947, with the war behind them and comics in transition, Simon and Kirby launched Young Romance -- widely considered the first ever romance comic book. But while this fact is often cited as a comics footnote in either of the two men's careers, or in the life of a genre which has mostly been sidelined in recent decades, it's important to look at the creation of Young Romance for what it says about Kirby and his collaborator's approach to comics making on the whole.
For Kirby, comics wasn't a passing fad, a single adventure genre or a medium meant to pander to one audience. For him, comics were meant to be the biggest of big tents. He worked to draw in as many kinds of readers he could and was creatively interested in telling many kinds of stories. So any time someone tries to tell you that comics "aren't for girls" or "are run by superheroes," you tell 'em Jack Kirby disagrees. Plus, the Simon & Kirby romance comics are just plain great, and there are plenty of modern opportunities to track them down and give them a whirl.
Kirby As Self-Publisher
Today, self-publishing your own comic is as easy as logging into Tumblr and clicking "Post." And even if you insist on print publication, making mini-comics at a local copy shop is a breeze. But before the black-and-white boom of the '80s made putting out your own comic all the rage, Simon and Kirby were putting their creative fortunes in their own hands, when such a venture was trickier and riskier.
In the early '50s, the pair funded and launched Mainline Publications -- a line of comics completely owned, operated and created by them. Much like their Young Romance work, the pair's Mainline output displayed a variety of genres (romance, war, adventure and crime) meant to take advantage of as wide a readership as possible. And while the line was short-lived due to distributor problems (read more about it here), the effort is a reminder that Kirby's contributions to the model for a comics career are every bit as progressive as his work on the page.
Kirby As "Widescreen" Comics Maker
The above image is from The Fly -- one of the last major efforts from the team of Simon and Kirby for Archie Comics in the late '50s. The comic always began with a "Wide Angle Scream" spread -- a two-page splash meant to evoke the razzmatazz film gimmicks of the 3D era. While the technique is a period specific cliché, it's also an example of the way that Kirby pushed the comic book medium to its formal limits across his career.
Early comic books frequently followed the compressed style of their newspaper forbearers with stacks of small panels cramming as much story into each page as possible. But Kirby was one of the earliest and strongest voices for expanding the comic page's storytelling potential with innovative layouts, story patterns and splash pages that ratcheted up the excitement of comics as a visual medium. By the time Kirby landed at Marvel in the '60s and through his later work, the artist often drew images that pressed against the limits of every available space with godlike characters and his signature collage work still shocking young artists with the expanse of Kirby's imagination. Check out our tribute to Kirby from last year for a taste of how he broke comics into a "widescreen" mode, decades before the format became the go-to style.
Kirby As World-Builder
In the era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all the talk of Hollywood is centered on fictional worlds where character after character live side-by-side. And as the movie folks chase this perceived path to the bank with decidedly varied results, it's important to remember that Kirby's work with Stan Lee making the Marvel Universe was far more than saying "Iron Man lives down the street from Spider-Man."
What made the Marvel Universe a groundbreaking piece of fiction was its scope and depth. While stories may have started with the simple premise that superheroes occupied the same place, Kirby in particular worked over the years to make the "universe" concept much truer to its name. In particular, Kirby's work in the prime years of the Fantastic Four became all about the revelation of worlds within worlds. The unfathomable depths of the Negative Zone. The cosmic threats of Galactus, the Kree, Annihilus and more. The secret ancient civilizations at the heart of the Savage Land and the Inhumans' society on Attilan. All of these not only added to the verisimilitude and believability of the Marvel U, they also peeled back the layers of Kirby's mind in an endlessly rewarding creative exercise that writers and artists are still trying (and failing) to match up to today.


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Suddenly, a furious bellow was heard from behind Master Xia and a man in gray robes appeared and rushed forward. He soon reached Xia Ying and quickly raised his hand to check his pulse. He frowned, but a layer of frost masked his elderly features.
"Master, Xia Ying has ingested a deadly poison. There is no cure. He only has an hour left to live."
Elder Huiyi turned towards Master Xia, who remained calm and collected, and explained the situation. Shortly after, he turned towards Gu Ruoyun and glared at her angrily, speaking coldly, "Gu Ruoyun. You've murdered one of the Xia Family in our home. What do you have to say for yourself?"
"You say that I'm a murderer?" Gu Ruoyun smiled calmly, "Do you have proof?"
Elder Huiyi grew furious, Xia Ying was one of the most talented among the distant relatives. He has always looked favorably upon him and only needed an opportunity to give the Master his recommendation. He did not expect for this to happen. How could he tolerate this?
Especially since this woman's arrogance pretty much pierced all the way through to the Heavens. She actually dared to commit murder in the Xia Family's residence. Where did she get such ambitiousness and guts?
"Master, we can prove this!"
Hearing this, an assortment of voices came chiming in from the crowd.
"We, along with Xia Ying, were only kindly informing her of the rules in the Xia Family. Who would have thought this woman was far too arrogant and wielded the fact that she was the Master of the Hundred Herb Hall so she had no need to place the Xia Family her eyes. Furthermore, she raised a hand against Xia Ying, that's probably when she poisoned him!"
"That's right. Everyone here has seen her temperament with their own eyes, she murdered Xia Ying!"
The crowd burst into a discussion, pushing the blame of their intentions to cause trouble onto Gu Ruoyun's shoulders.
"If that was the case, when Xia Ying had raised his hand to strike me, and I was unable to fight back, what would happen then?" Gu Ruoyun smiled calmly. She showed no sorrow over her current situation. Her eyes were clear like water as if they could see through one's soul.
Master Xia's expression turned grave, his dignified gaze now fell upon the kneeling Xia Yu and he asked sternly, "Is the Gu girl speaking the truth? Was Xia Ying the first to strike?"
Xia Yu bit her lip, and softly nodded, "Regarding this matter, brother was the first to commit the wrong. But Gu Ruoyun simply cannot kill him just because he caused trouble for her..."
In that moment, Master Xia grew silent. A short while later, his gaze turned towards Gu Ruoyun and asked, "Little girl, did you poison Xia Ying?"
Gu Ruoyun laughed softly and casually shrugged her shoulders, "What do you think?"
"Hehe," Master Xia chuckled, "I may not know you very well, little girl, but based on what you've done in the past, you're not the kind of person who would willingly suffer a loss! You may have killed many people, but those people deserved to die. You did nothing wrong, so this time I believe that it was not you who poisoned him, someone must have had an ulterior motive. Even if Xia Ying did offend you, based on your temperament, you would only teach him a lesson, not kill him outright!"
Elder Huiyi's expression changed as he furiously retorted, "How can you bend the law in order to favor an associate? I understand that you're worried over the Young Master's illness and that you would offend the Ghost Doctor if you executed Gu Ruoyun, but showing such blatant favoritism... How many of the Xia Family brothers would feel bitterly disappointed? Furthermore, everyone else would think that they can kill our Xia Family brothers whenever they pleased! In such a situation, how can we maintain our control over Heaven City? Please give justice to the Xia Ying siblings, in the name of the Xia Family!"
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The Manchester Martyrs
The last man hung in this country was Michael Barrett on May 26th 1869. He'd tried to blow up Clerkenwell prison. But the penultimate public hanging on these shores was one that would happen in Manchester (well Salford to be exact) and have repercussions beyond these shores and would rally men to the cause of a free united Ireland in their droves.
The men hung were William Patrick Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien for the murder of Sergeant Charles Brett, a Blackley man. The hanging took place on the 23rd of November 1867, roughly ten weeks after the murder.
The story is quite simple: an uprising in Ireland had failed and as always most of the leaders were arrested and jailed. However one of the main conspirators Colonel Kelly together with his deputy Captain Deacy had escaped to England. And in England at the time the safest place for a man of fenian leanings was Manchester, where Angel Meadow, Red Bank and Ancoats were a hotbed of republicanism.
Once in Manchester Kelly assumed the role of leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the forerunner of the IRA). And it was while sorting out a minor IRB squabble that both Kelly and Deacy were arrested (on Oak Street in what this council calls the Northern Quarter but what we Mancunians know as Shude Hill).
The police arresting them mistook them for vagrants, but their American Irish voices gave cause for suspicion and they were remanded in custody awaiting identification.
News went around the Irish conclaves of Central Manchester and money and men were dispatched to Birmingham to pick up and bring back ten revolvers. And a daring plan was concocted to free the men as they were transported from court to Belle Vue gaol.
As the van passed under a bridge on Hyde Road Gorton, it was to be attacked by Fenians armed with the revolvers and crowbars and other tools.
However a mishap ensued and the tools weren't delivered and a coach and horse driver rode off to inform the police.
The Irish community had turned up in numbers and the pubs along the Hyde Road were awash with them.
The van was stopped under the bridge and a stand off followed. The Fenians stormed the van and attempted to smash their way in by the use of stones. The policeman on duty inside the van was Charlie Brett a battle harden Sergeant. Brett was proud and dedicated and refused to open the doors of the van. And as he peered through the lookout hole above the lock a gunman (Peter Rice) attempted to blow the lock off. His shot resulted in the death of Sgt Brett.
A female prisoner in the van (she had been arrested for soliciting) went through the dead officer's pocket and passed the key to the van out to the awaiting mob.
Kelly and Deacy were spirited away. It has always been maintained that they were taken to a house in Ashton, but police records show that they believed the two men were claiming sanctuary in the as yet to be finished Gorton monastery (which incidentally is open to the public every Sunday from 12-4pm). The reason the police didn't raid the monastery was that the conflict in Ireland was more palatable to public opinion if it was an English versus Irish problem rather than a Catholic versus Protestant problem.
At the scene of the crime Allen, Larkin and O'Brien (who gave his name as Gould) were arrested and charged along with two other men with the murder of Sergeant Charles Brett. The charges against the other two men were dropped as one had prominent American political friends and the other poor bugger had just spent two years on board a ship and couldn't have been involved.
The trial was a farce, with witnesses changing statements seemingly at will and on a whim. Murder, arrests, trial and hanging all took place within ten weeks. And the death sentence was inevitable given the political climate of Britain at the time.
The more Liberal newspapers were outraged and none other than Karl Marx threw his weight behind the campaign for clemency. The pleas and petitions were rejected out of hand.
So on the 23rd of November 1867 Allen, Larkin and O'Brien stood on a purposely-built scaffold on the walls of Salford gaol awaiting British justice.
What was the scene you may wonder? Jesters and carnival clowns and hawkers and prostitutes but no Irish. The local churches had sworn them not to attend. So that day Allen, Larkin and O'Brien faced the laughing underclass of Manchester Society. It was also attended by 2,000 special constables (the same class and calibre of man that had been responsible for Peterloo a half a century before).
On the night before all three men wrote letters to their loved ones and took their final confession.
The hangman was the notorious Calcraft (may he rot and burn in Hell). The first out was Allen, in his hand he held a crucifix. Next came O'Brien, a time served soldier in the American Civil War. By this time Larkin had a white hood over his head. O'Brien, history tell us, kissed the hood of his soon to be dead comrade and bade him farewell. The last man out was Larkin, a man who was too ill to participate on the day. Larkin wobbled at the knees. O'Brien moved to hold him steady. They were all hooded and bound. Then at a signal the hangman released the bolt and they swung in the air.
'Hurrahs' rang out in the Manchester sunshine and the party started. Punch n Judyand Dancing Bears.
THIS TAKEN FROM THE MEMORIES OF FATHER GADD (as reported to John O'Dea)
'Young Allen died instantaneously. His neck was broken. The other two ropes, stretched taut and tense by their breathing twitching burdens were in ominous and distracting movement. The hangman had bungled. For Larkin and O'Brien the drop had been too short. Canon Cantwell and Father Quick had retired as soon as the bodies had fell. So had the governor.
None remained but Father Gadd, a warder and the hangman. Calcraft then descended into the pit and finished what he could not accomplish from above. He killed Larkin. Then he turned his attention to O'Brien, but O'Brien was in the Monsignor's charge and he forbade the hangman to touch him. For three quarters of an hour he breathed and for three quarters of an hour the good priest knelt holding the dead man's hands within his own.
Then the long drawn out agony ended. O'Brien at last was dead.'
If you're ever passing St Joseph's cemetery in Moston there is a monument there to the three men. And if you are ever passing St Ann's church in St Ann's Square there is a memorial to Sergeant Charles Brett.
(For my late Auntie Mary who like me was a Fenian)


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The particular captivating spirits of men and women brought into this world from June 21st to July 22nd are actually positive more than enough to handle a Cancer zodiac symbol that provides individuals with a powerful meaning within their perspective in your daily course.
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