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Look Up! Gleaming Geminid Meteor Shower of 2018 Peaks Tonight
Head for dark, clear skies tonight — overnight Dec. 13-14 — to see the shooting stars of the
Geminid Meteor Shower
The shower is likely to be the best meteor shower of 2018, and it will be visible in both hemispheres — though the Northern Hemisphere will have an advantage. While the August Perseid meteor shower is more famous, experts are saying to get outside for this one as well.
"Maybe [it's less well known] because it's cold for so many during this shower's peak," Diana Hannikainen, Sky & Telescope's observing editor, said in a statement. "But the Geminids are often the best display of 'shooting stars' all year."
According to Sky & Telescope, the Geminids are set to peak at 7:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT) on Dec. 14, when Earth plunges through the thickest part of the trail of dust and debris left behind by the asteroid 3200 Phaethon as it orbits the sun. That means that the best times to watch are when it's dark in your local time zone surrounding that peak, such as just before dawn on Dec. 14.
But if you won't be up in those early hours, you can also start watching a couple hours after sunset; the moon will set at about 10:30 p.m. local time on Dec. 13, and about 11 p.m. local time on Dec. 14, so just look after that on either of those nights.
"If you've got a clear, dark sky with no light pollution, you might see a meteor streak across the sky every minute or two from 10 p.m. until dawn on the night of the peak," Hannikainen said.
The darker the skies, the more meteors you are likely to see, but some are bright enough to see in even less-than-favorable conditions. The meteors can appear all across the sky, but they'll appear to be flying away from the area of the bright star Castor in the Gemini constellation.
Leading up to the peak, fainter meteors are more common, and at the peak the brighter ones are, according to Sky & Telescope. Though they'll appear in fewer numbers, the week surrounding the Geminids' peak may still provide a good show.
The meteors are bits of material left behind by 3200 Phaethon — they burn up in Earth's atmosphere, creating streaks and fireballs in the night sky. 3200 Phaethon, a 3-mile-across (4.8 kilometers) object, orbits the sun every 1.4 years, ejecting rocky dust along its path. The asteroid passes closer to the sun than any other known asteroid, according to Sky & Telescope.
As Earth barrels through that dust and debris, its particles hit the atmosphere at 22 miles per second (35 km/s) and are vaporized in a fiery glow. Particles that hit straight-on, near the radiant, will have shorter streaks, whereas those grazing the atmosphere farther away from the radiant will leave longer streaks. (There may be more of those in the early evening, when the radiant is lower in the sky.)
To best take in the Geminids, dress warmly and prepared to be outside for a long time — it takes at least 20 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark. You'll see the most meteors if you lean back and look at as much of the sky as possible; don't be tempted to use a telescope or binoculars, because they'll restrict your field of view.
"Go out in the evening, lie back in a reclining lawn chair, and gaze up into the stars," Hannikainen said. "With the radiant rising in the evening, this is a good shower for younger observers who may have earlier bedtimes. But as always, it's good to remember to be patient."
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I got the news of the discovery of an elderly man found dead of natural causes in his room at a remote ranch in Texas the way so many of us do nowadays: from a news app on my smartphone. It happened to be while I was walking with my husband on a white sand beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death at 79 years old has heated up an already volatile presidential campaign when, only hours after the announcement of his passing, Senate leaders and the candidates from one party declared their intention to block any attempt to allow President Obama—as is his constitutional duty—to nominate and have hearings held to vote on his choice to fill this vacancy.
Candidates—and voters—on either side of the conservative/progressive divide realize that the makeup of the court, beginning with filling this position, cannot be underestimated in terms of the power this body holds over our day to day lives and the future of our nation. (And the global community, as their most recent vote to block implementation of our participation in climate accords.)
Until such time as this happens, an eight member, deeply divided Court may well issue split 4-4 decisions which will have a great impact, in the case of women's reproductive rights, either for good or ill. And if (or rather when) the nomination process goes forward, the choice of replacement for Justice Scalia may change the tenor and majority rulings of SCOTUS in critical ways.
Katha Pollitt, feminist essayist and columnist for The Nation, has written a piece titled "America Changed. Antonin Scalia Never Did." She noted that his vote was part of a 5-4 majority in opinions directly impacting women: gutting the Violence Against Women Act and the Hobby Lobby case, which favored the so called religious freedom rights of closely held corporations over their female employees in the mandate to offer contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
And if he had his way, she believes it might well have been much worse.
"In his world," she writes, "women would be barred from the Virginia Military Institute, Roe v Wade would long be overturned… The list goes on and on."
On women's rights, Pollitt says, we have moved far away from the world view and legal opinions of this conservative Catholic. While his positions may have been more in sync with social mores of Reagan-era America when he was appointed in 1986, they were dissonant by the time he died.
In the area of abortion rights, he continued to have some popular backing, Pollitt tells us: late trimester abortion and so called partial birth abortions for example. But in terms of the case that he would have been ruling on during this session of SCOTUS—Whole Women's Health v Hellerstedt, the case involving a new law in Texas imposing onerous restrictions on clinics providing pregnancy terminations—when polled large majorities of voters don't approve. They understand that the desired legislative outcome was not to make abortions safer, but to shut down the providers of this procedure.
There is no way of absolutely predicting what may have been the decision if Scalia had not died and left a vacancy. It may have been that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has been a swing vote on some of these cases, would have voted with a 5-4 majority to disagree with the district federal court decision and to overturn this law, as well as similar laws passed in Louisiana and Mississippi.
If the position remains unfilled prior to the hearing and a tie vote results, the original lower court ruling would prevail, but would not apply to future state laws in other jurisdictions imposing the same or similar regulations unless and until another case is presented to SCOTUS.
Or the court could decide to rehear the case completely once a new justice is appointed, delaying any decision, which leaves wide open any speculation on what might happen, as it is so dependent on who the replacement might be—and who appoints her or him.
The second case those of us who focus on reproductive rights are closely following this session is the second case to be heard by SCOTUS on the Affordable Care Act mandate for employers to provide birth control coverage to women workers, Zubik v Burwell. In this case, the lower courts have been divided. If there is a 4-4 Supreme Court tie, there will be no decision.
In other words, if this vacancy remains unfilled for any length of time, decisions may well be stalled or muddied.
This week the UU Women's Federation signed on to an interfaith letter to the U.S. Senate, originated by the National Council of Jewish Women and joined by other members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. In it, we urged the President and Senate to fulfill their constitutional duties to fill the vacancy in order to see a civil, fair, and expeditious process.
"As people of faith, we are inspired and informed by the pursuit of justice…" our letter maintains. "If we fail to expeditiously advance the filling of the current vacancy, we abdicate our responsibility to justly serve the dignity of all."


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|Also appearing is a Christmas tree. Also my photography skills have not improved much since last time.
Yeah, I know, I know; Cure Beauty's actually a pretty old figure by now. She was released in January of 2014, but she was an exclusive–and one that I wanted pretty badly at that. I had been itching for another figuarts since getting Cure Happy. If I would ever get another figuarts, it'd have to be a character from the Precure line. For the Smile series, Cure Peace was the only other team member that had a standard release; everyone else (Cure Sunny, March, and Beauty) were all exclusives. Cure Beauty was my second favorite character of the series, but I held off on buying her, because it was impossible to find her at anything less than 9000 yen last year. But luckily a batch of Cure Beauty figuarts has been on sale recently at Amiami for a more reasonable price of around 5000 yen, so I snapped one up for myself.
Anyway, Cure Beauty's civilian name is Aoki Reika. She's an elegant girl with a calm demeanor, and is basically stated to be the smartest member of the Smile Precure team. She's also possibly the only one who can wield "weapons" in her civilian form, being part of the archery club. In her Cure form, she has power over ice, and can later manifest ice swords to fight with. Blue is my favorite color, and I love ice-themed things; so it's not hard to see why she became my second favorite.
|Not much to say here.
So, the figure itself. There aren't very many extra parts, which typical for the Precure line of figuarts. Including her wide-mouthed smiling face, Cure Beauty also comes with a closed-mouth smiling face, a serene-looking face, and an angry shouting face. Cure Beauty has four pairs of hands in all, along with one clasped-hand part. There is a pair of hands specifically made so that she can hold her ice sword. The clasped-hand part also comes with a teeny-tiny Smile Compact, which I've shown next to it.
I want to start off with the negatives for this figure, because there are quite a lot. I must have just been unlucky with my particular figure, because while Cure Beauty has almost no visual defects, she has a couple significant functional defects. First off, her right hand peg. As with Cure Happy, you switch hands on this figure by removing it from the wrist peg and popping another hand on. I think it's mainly that Cure Beauty's right hands are all too tight because I had the hardest time trying to get any hand parts off and on. I honestly don't remember Cure Happy's hands being this hard to switch out (unless I somehow forgot) but this really dampens my enjoyment of this figure. The fun in poseable figures lies in the ability to pose it, and if you can't switch out hand parts, then that already dampens some of the fun. That's why there are fewer photos in this review than in my other figure reviews: I just didn't have the motivation to switch out her right hands too much because I was so afraid of accidentally breaking something. It wasn't impossible but it was still difficult and made my fingers sore from trying to jam a tiny figure piece onto an even tinier peg.
Secondly, her right thigh seems to be… stuck somehow? The joint piece where her right leg begins doesn't have the same range of rotation as her other leg. I have a hard time trying to rotate it slightly for poses. Also, her right foot. It seems that the ankle joint was inserted incorrectly because her right food only moves left to right instead of forward-backwards like it should. And trust me, I've checked my Cure Happy figuarts at these exact points so I'm almost positive that these are defects. It's just so… disappointing. I mean, Cure Happy had a ton of visual defects (her front bow being messed up is the most egregrious), but I'd honestly take visual defects over functional defects anyday. Visual defects can be ignored, but functional defects are downright terrible.
|This pose is weird because it was really hard to get her to even balance like this with her wonky ankle joint. She generally needs her stand to keep her upright.
Like with Cure Happy, Cure Beauty's stand is a clear claw stand. I think the figuarts line does this so that there aren't any unsightly holes on the back of the figures. The claw stands aren't always visually appealing but they do their job well enough. In Cure Beauty's case you don't even need to close the claw, Cure Beauty's back hair strands usually help to keep her attached to her stand pretty well.
|I'm too poor to get the rest of the team.
Onto the positives: Cure Beauty (despite her annoying functional defects) is still a really pretty looking figure. It's actually quite fun to compare the subtle differences between her and Cure Happy. Their uniforms are just slightly different. Cure Beauty's actually a bit taller than Cure Happy, like in the anime series. Cure Beauty's skin is also one shade paler than Happy's. It's actually really amazing that these subtle difference were translated into figure forms. There's even some subtle difference in the way the the two hold their fists: Cure Beauty has her thumbs out, Cure Happy doesn't. It's really cute.
|This was me attempting to use the hands with the fingers closer together. I don't really like this pair of hands that much tbh.
|Cutesy pose!
|I just basically got bored here.
Unfortunately, you can't swap faces between figuarts, because the pegs and holes are different. On the one hand, it's understandable, since the girls do have different eye colors/face shapes. But on the other… I really wanted to use that serene-looking closed eyes face for Cure Happy… Ah well. You can still swap the hands between figures.
|I had her in a cooler pose with the sword before but that required switching out her right hand and no way am I doing that.
|It's actually quite difficult to get her in the pose that she has in the Smile OP.
Of course, I have to give a mention to Cure Beauty's ice sword. It's honestly kinda flimsy, but I guess it needed to be light enough so that the figure can actually hold it. It slots into the hand parts (meant to hold it) fairly easily and at least stays in place so there's no complaints. From afar it still looks pretty neat.
|The wind-up to the "Beauty Blizzard" ultra attack.
|From another angle.
Finally, there's the clasped hand part with the Smile Pact. This hand part is ridiculously hard to get on, and I highly suggest taking the Smile Pact piece out before doing so. As much pain as this one piece has put me through, I still can't hate it because this was the main reason I got this figure. I just really love this pose, because I feel it sums up Cure Beauty's personality so well. And it's such a graceful pose too. I don't know how I feel about the Smile Pact being a separate tiny piece, but you can probably put other objects into Cure Beauty's hands if you felt like it?
Honestly, I just love Cure Beauty's closed eyes face in general so have another photo of it:
|You are lucky you're so pretty *grumble*
Overall, Cure Beauty was somewhat of a mixed bag for me. While I was initially very excited to get the figure, my excitement waned when I discovered all her defects. However, she's a very pretty figure and I guess I don't entirely regret being able to get her. Other than her functional defects, I do find her a bit hard to pose at times because she's such a graceful, elegant character (as opposed to Cure Happy). It just feels weird to put her in super cutesy poses. The bottom line is, unless you already love this character, I wouldn't really recommend getting her. Now that I own two figuarts figures, I can see that the production quality varies greatly. Cure Beauty was an exclusive figure and she still has pretty bad defects. Because of the randomness of what you'll get, along with how pricey Cure Beauty is, I don't think it's worth it to just buy this figure on a whim.
Out of five for this figure:
She would have scored lower if she weren't so pretty.
|Happy holidays everyone.


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Inside Radio (11/25/08) reports Hersey president David West crediting radio as the catalyst for increased sales for Kit Kat (+7%) and Twizzlers (+9%). Both used radio in late Fall. Walmart has also become one of radio's biggest advertisers this year. And, both Hershey & Walmart have outperformed their peers during this recent economic crisis. Radio works!
If we create content that matters, we will always have an audience.
"If we create content that matters, we will always have an audience." Mark Ramsey of Mercury Research and Hear 2.0 summarized what radio should take away from this New York Times story about How Industries Survive Change – If They Do.
Read it and remember Mark's advice.
Here's Why Advertising During a Recession Is Good Business
Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. 2008
A few years ago when my wife was expecting our second son, we realized it was time to move our first born out of the nursery and into a regular bed. So, on a Saturday afternoon, we retrieved my old bunk-beds from my parent's attic. All we needed to do was buy a couple of new mattresses. The following morning, as we lingered over coffee and the Sunday paper, my wife pointed to several ads and exclaimed, "Look at all these sales. We picked the perfect time to buy a new mattress!" Being in the advertising business, I chuckled, and said, "Honey, that's the beauty of advertising. Mattresses are always on sale, but no one ever notices that until they're in the market for one."
Off to an underwhelming start.
The first advertising revenue figures of the year are now coming in with the January 2008 Miller-Kaplan report. New York City posts a 7.5% drop at radio. But, as bad as radio may look to outsiders, things are worse at print where the New York Times just fired 100 people. Magazines are feeling the pinch from lower automotive and financial services buys. And, the Writer's Guild of America strike will certainly affect TV revenue for Q1 & Q2. The big number to watch, though, is the subprime mortgage rate – the first indicator for a national economic recession, which has everyone spending cautiously at the moment. The good news is radio looks much better for February and March.
The opportunity now is for radio to present a uniform message to advertisers that our medium is the most cost-effective means of reaching the most consumers, with high frequency, and specifically targeted campaigns. Our value is clear when compared to the TV and print.


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Kashmir violence: Nawaz Sharif condemns Burhan's killing; is he trying to avoid home pressure?
Islamabad, July 11: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani by the Indian security personnel and many other civilians during protests with the forces in Jammu and Kashmir. [Why killing Burhan Wani was "absolutely" necessary]
Sharif, who recently returned from London where he underwent an open-heart surgery to face a possible challenge to his authority, made a late-night statement on the issue on Sunday.
"The Prime Minister of Pakistan has expressed his deep shock at the killing of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani and many other civilians by the Indian military and paramilitary forces," Sharif's office said in the statement.
Sharif, who has is facing heat from both the Opposition and the Pakistani Army over the allegations against his kin of amassing wealth outside and responding to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's goodwill gesture, said it was "deplorable that excessive and unlawful force was used against the civilians" who were protesting against Burhan's killing.
He also said such oppressive measures could not stop the people of Jammu and Kashmir from going forward with their demand of "exercising their right to self-determination in accoridance with the UN Security Council resolutions." [Burhan Wani's killing will not end militancy in Valley: Omar]
Sharif expressed concern over the deterntion of separatist leaders and asked India to abide by its human rights obligations and resolutions under the UN.
Meanwhile, the death toll due to the violence following Wani's death went up to 30.
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3 Reasons why you should go Bullish on OmiseGO (OMG) in 2018
OmiseGO (OMG) was just as affected by the dip we are currently experiencing as any other coin so right now it is hard to know in which coin one should be bullish right now. February is expected to be a great month for crypto since the market bouncing is clearly eminent if you observe the pattern behavior in previous years.
The track for the trillion-dollar mark was already set and, because of the correction we saw in January, the crypto market is now involved in a lot of FUD which causes the dip to last longer. Yet, a crypto investor who is in it for the long run should be able to identify the most appropriate timing to buy-in.
OmiseGO (OMG) is a project that should be on your wanted list, regardless of the market conditions, below I give you reasons why.
#1 – Plasma Network pending release
OmiseGO (OMG), with the announcement of their plasma network, has caught a lot of attention for investors as this coin promises to be one of the top performers in 2018. Plasma promises almost an unlimited number of transfers per second and it is expected that the boundaries for this network are only defined by hardware and not by the architecture. Currently it is estimated that they will be able to handle 1 million transfers per second which would completely change the landscape for transferring value.
This number completely smashes top non-crypto performers such as PayPal and Visa, where Visa, #1 performer can only handle 24,000 transactions per second. If OmiseGO (OMG) is actually able to deliver these promises then it will be outstanding to see its value increase.
Plasma is a similar attempt of scalability such as the Lightning Network but its focus is to scale Ethereum's network, so once this plasma network is released you should see an increase in both OmiseGO (OMG) and Ethereum (ETH).
Even though many people thought that the release of Plasma would be pending on Ethereum's network, the moderator for OmiseGO subreddit stated that it would be the other way around. He said:
"(…) OMG Network will scale the Ethereum mainnet for everyone to use."
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/omise_go/comments/7tkh8i/isnt_omg_dependent_on_eth_to_release_plasma_well/
#2 – Stripe ends Bitcoin Support and mentions OmiseGO
For those of you that don't know Stripe I will tell you only this, Forbes Cloud 100 lists Stripe as the #1 company for cloud computing in 2017. You can see the 10-billion-dollar company mentioned in their article below:
"Hundreds of thousands of businesses use Stripe's software to handle sales and other transactions on their sites, including Facebook, Lyft, Target and Unicef."
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/07/11/cloud-100-hottest-companies-of-2017/#477253773028
Now that you know who I'm talking about I'll show what they said regarding cryptocurrencies in the future. Stripe just stopped supporting Bitcoin, and this company was one of the first to implement Bitcoin support in 2014. They are currently making arrangements that will stop completely the Bitcoin form of payment on April 23, 2018.
Yet they say that the impact of cryptocurrencies is still one that they should look at, and two of the crypto projects that they would be looking closely would be OmiseGO (OMG) and Stellar Lumens (XLM). Tom Karlo, Stripe's product manager, said as quote:
"OmiseGO is an ambitious and clever proposal; more broadly, Ethereum continues to spawn many high-potential projects. We may add support for Stellar (to which we provided seed funding) if substantive use continues to grow."
Source: https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
Also, Starbucks CEO said that they would start accepting cryptocurrencies as soon as any major payment processing company would allow them to, and guess who is the company that will do that? Stripe, since they already provide support for Starbucks which will be very exciting in the future.
#3 – PoS Staking Transition Benefits
The third reason to go Bullish in 2018 with OmiseGO (OMG) is that they plan on transitioning from PoW (Proof-of-Work) to PoS (Proof-of-Stake) which means that in the future a OMG holder will be able to stake his tokens to get a passive return from network confirmations.
A lot of estimates have been around and most people place the return possibly at $4 USD per OMG token. This is without a doubt one of the most exciting features for investors and it will cause a dramatic increase in value of OMG tokens.


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March 25, 2016
The Gamma Kappa Chapter (Kent State University) held its second Hike for Hearing in September, 2015. The chapter raised over $3,900 with the help of the Greek community and Gamma Kappa alumnae. The chapter held its spring philanthropy event, Lip Sync, in February, 2015. Last year's event raised more than $77,000 for speech and hearing, thanks to the hard work of the chapter and the support of the Greek community.
Gamma Kappa, Kent State University
About Gamma Kappa Chapter
Gamma Kappa was founded on May 15, 1948 at Kent State University in Kent, OH. We've been around 71 years and going strong!
Our chapter is a part of Delta Zeta Region 5. We currently have a total of 165 members in our chapter and our average GPA is 3.45! For the academic year Fall 2016 through Spring 2017 our chapter has donated 1529 service hours and $1910.00!
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E Sun Bank fits face recognition to ATMs
E Sun Commercial Bank has fitted face recognition security to its ATMs... More
E Sun Commercial Bank has fitted face recognition security to its ATMs... More
Now, face recognition to authenticate Aadhaar, but with biometrics or OTP — Times of India — "To be made available by July 1, the face authentication option will be allowed in combination with fingerprints, or iris scans, or an OTP to verify the details of Aadhaar users… Face authentication will not require any new reference data as photos of citizens are already on the Aadhaar database."
Visitors and employees at the newly opened Pleinair Casino in Marseilles, France will soon be given a biometric smart card equipped with a fingerprint sensor that will enable them to gain access to privileged areas and make payments across the venue... More
Indian mobile wallet Paytm "expects to lose 20-30%" of customers making offline payments using QR codes, OTP or mobile-to-mobile transfers when the Reserve Bank of India removes cash withdrawal limits on March 13, The Financial Express reports... More
The Reserve Bank of India has removed two-factor authentication — involving the use of one-time passwords sent to mobile phones — for online card transactions up to Rs 2,000 (US$29), Live Mint reports... More
Customers of Pakistan's Askari Bank can now withdraw cash from ATMs using their mobile phone... More
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto is to supply its Ezio Mobile Suite to financial solutions provider Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) to help the company secure mobile payments, internet banking and related services in Japan... More
McDonald's customers across West & South India can now pay for their orders in-store using their mobile device... More
Bangalore-based Ultracash Technology Labs has launched a mobile payment service that lets consumers make payments at close to 500 merchants in the city using a high frequency sound-based technology... More
MasterCard has unveiled MasterCard Identity Check, a suite of solutions that make use of biometrics and one-time passwords delivered via SMS to secure online mobile transactions... More
More than 17m users of Indian mobile wallet service MobiKwik will be able to make in-store payments at 55 WHSmith India stationery and book stores, the first time the service has been available for payments in physical locations... More
Korean financial institutions are to offer streamlined NFC authentication for mobile banking transactions starting from as soon as the first half of 2015, according to local media reports... More
Seven in ten (71%) US IT operations, security, and electronic deployment professionals consider NFC to be essential or very important to their organization's security, a survey by Ponemon Institute for HP Atalla has found, with host card emulation (HCE) following closely behind at 68%... More
MasterCard is working with Visa to create a new authentication standard for online payments that will gradually replace the 3D Secure protocol with "invisible authentication", far fewer prompts for passwords and support for a range of biometric technologies... More
Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) has launched a virtual bank branch for Facebook, letting its online banking customers check balances, pay credit card bills, transfer money between accounts and track expenses from within the social network... More
Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched a bank-agnostic payment service for Facebook that will enable 250 million Indian bank account holders to transfer money by choosing a recipient's name from their friends list... More
Zimbabwe-based banking solutions provider Edgetech Solutions is preparing to launch a new mobile payment service that uses sound-based communication technology from NearBytes to let people make payments in stores with their phones... More
Computer giant IBM has added a two factor authentication solution to its IBM Worklight mobile app platform, providing "an extra layer of security when using an NFC-enabled device and a contactless smart card to conduct mobile transactions."... More
Momentum is building for Fido, an open security authentication concept that aims to allow users to replace passwords with a range of authentication methods, including NFC and biometrics. Both Google and NXP have now signed up to the project, alongside founder members that include PayPal and Lenovo. More
The NFC World team has identified ten pressure points that suggest the arrival of mobile payments will result in a fundamental change in the overall cost of processing payments and the way in which merchants transaction fees are calculated — and we'd like to hear from anyone who is working on ways to use mobile technology to cut the cost of processing transactions at the point of sale. More
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Shiny Darkly
Thursday 8th November 2012
It has been a meteoric rise for the Copenhagen trio Shiny Darkly. The band was formed in May of 2011 and to celebrate their one year anniversary, they will release the debut EP exclusively on vinyl and digital download. And this a mere two and a half months upon signing their deal with Crunchy Frog. A label representative had these words on the signing:
"This is a band that's not afraid to make a stand, to be themselves. They know what they're doing and do it bleedingly well - a diamond that has never been in the rough so to speak!?"
The deal signed and in the books, label and band fired up to start recording an EP. A couple of studio sessions saw eight tracks ready to be recorded, supervised by label mate Jens "Benz" Søndergård (partly responsible for fine releases by Thulebasen and Pitchfork darlings Iceage) in his shady studio in the industrial outskirts of Valby. The recordings were then mixed and mastered in assistance with Jesper Reginal (who has produced and mixed for Crunchy Frog artists such as PowersSolo, 18th Dye, Junior Senior and many more) at Crunchy Frog's very own Kondi Frost studio. Five days and intensive nights and the vinyl hit the press. "Shiny Darkly" contains six strong tracks from the recording sessions and the artwork is designed by lead singer and songwriter Kristoffer Bech.
The "Shiny Darkly" EP takes the listener to a dark, highly electric, narcotic drone-like universe, much inspired by the post punk and shoegaze of the 80s by the likes of Joy Division, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen and Jesus & The Mary Chain. Even links to the 60'es and 70'es and The Velvet Underground, The Stooges and 13th Floor Elevators can be heard. Kristoffer Bech's chanting and insisting vocals, sometimes bordering a lecturing is reminiscent of great personalities such as Nick Cave, Ian Curtis and a young Steen Jørgensen – it goes beyond reason that a 22 year old kid from fashionable Frederiksberg can carry such darkness, such weltschmerz and infinite longing. That is, unless you've seen the band's convincing live performances.
Rumors about the in every sense young band spread like wild fire in Copenhagen's underground music environment in the first couple of months of 2012 after a couple of live performances at below the radar venues. Since then, Shiny Darkly has wasted no time or breath. Show upon show in Copenhagen, even a handfull in London has strengthened their abilities and thus their performance by the week. Other than SPOT Festival, Shiny Darkly played the renowned and respected Roskilde Festival 2012.
Shiny Darkly is Kristoffer Bech on guitar and vocals, Mads Lassen on drums and Oliver Matthew Volz on bass. On the record and live they also count Kristian Marstal on Delta korg.


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Angus McNae's Racing UK Blog
|Wednesday 7th June 2017
Bank on Princess to Reach the Pinnacle
There is plenty of racing to have a go at on Racing UK on Saturday with Catterick, Haydock, Beverley, Newmarket and Chester all staging competitive cards.
With plenty of rain around earlier this week and a fair amount forecast for Thursday field sizes could be somewhat depleted.
Given changeable ground conditions it could also pay to tread carefully when punting. That said I am pretty keen on Ajman Princess in the Betway Pinnacle Stakes at Haydock (3.20pm). Here is my reasoning.
1. Ajman Princess is clearly the most progressive filly in the field. After a bloodless win when sent of at 1-20 at Kempton Park and she duly cantered home to an easy win. She progressed a good deal when winning at Goodwood next time. That race was the Listed Warwick Stakes and she was mightily impressive. She readily thrashed Saturday's opponent Elysian Fields by five lengths but I cannot see how she can reverse the form. This race represents step up in Grade as it is a Group Three but she looks more than ready for a tougher test.
2. This is not the strongest Group Three I have seen. Ajman Princess is joint top-rated with Abingdon at 107. Maleficient Queen is next in off 105 and then the rest are all rated between 85 and 99. Admittedly the likes of the William Haggas-trained Signe is open to improvement and may be better than her rating, but the same has to be said of Ajman Princess who is surely a good deal better than her mark of 107. I am basing my argument largely on one run at Ascot last year, when Ajman Princess finished second in the Ribblesdale Stakes to Even Song. On that occasion she had The Black Princess and the very useful Queen's Trust behind her. Queen's Trust went on to win the Grade One Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita in November and The Black Princess has won a Grade Three in France. This is by far the best form in the race.
3. The ground at Haydock is likely to be on the easy side, which should be of no inconvenience. Amazingly her run in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot was on soft ground and her sire Teofilo does get horses who act on easy ground.
4. She must be highly thought of, given that her trainer Roger Varian ran her in the Group One Irish Oaks where she clearly went wrong and finished last. The eight-month break between that run and her success at Lingfield is surely a tell-tale sign that all was not well at the Curragh. It is also surely an indication that the trainer harbours a belief that she is actually a Group One filly.
5. Both trainer and jockey Andrea Atzeni are in good form. In the last 14 days they gave both been striking at around 25 per cent and when in form they are very much a combination to be feared.
She may well go off favourite for the race, but looks like a very solid short-priced wager and she could get shorter if the field cuts up.
Angus McNae's - Something For The Weekend:
3.20 Haydock: Ajman Princess at 3-1 with bet365


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Though in some states lawyers nevertheless manage the purchase and sale of residential real estate, in Colorado genuine estate brokers have largely removed lawyers from the scene. Nevertheless, a purchaser or seller may have particular defenses to the contract which would allow that celebration to stay away from performance of the contract. EMINENT DOMAIN: If the home is condemned by eminent domain soon after the effective date hereof, the Seller and Buyer shall agree to continue the closing, or a portion thereof, or cancel this Contract. The Texas Association of REALTORS® does have a new type about mineral clauses, Details about Mineral Clauses in Contract Types (TAR 2509).
For example, most true estate contracts include the situation precedent that a purchaser have to safe financing just before he or she is obligated to tender the acquire price tag of the real estate contract to the seller. As a general rule, once the provide has been signed by the purchaser, and counter-signed by the vendor, a binding contract is designed, and the matter is final. He or she also may possibly affirm the contract in the course of a lucid interval or upon full recovery. A lease to obtain contract is an critical tool that can be utilized to generate acquire contracts on properties that have been on the marketplace a long time.
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You have a thorough understanding of all of the terms it consists of, especially the list price tag, the commission price, and the length of the contract. However, the real estate contract can specify a distinct date when possession modifications hands. Since a contract was never ever produced, nor signed, there is nothing for the buyer to enforce. Like most performance obligations in the contract, time is not of the essence." As a result, the buyer has a reasonable amount of time following the contract is executed by all parties to deposit the earnest money.
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Jayro Bustamante's "Ixcanul" won the Golden Gateway award in the international competition section at the 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (October 19 – November 5).
In the India Gold local competition section Gurvinder Singh's "The Fourth Direction" won the Golden Gateway honour. Jafar Panahi's "Taxi" won the audience choice award.
Other prizes in the international competition section included the Jury Grand Prize for Raam Reddy's "Thithi" and the Silver Gateway award for Mirlan Abdykalykov's "Heavenly Nomadic." Special Jury mentions included Cesar Augusto Acevedo for directing "Land and Shade", Maria Telon for her performance in "Ixcanul" and Farzana Nawabi for her performance in "Mina Walking," the ensemble cast for their performances in "Sleeping Giant" and Chloe Zhao for her screenplay for "Songs My Brothers Taught Me."
In the India Gold competition section Karma Takapa, Heer Ganjwala and Abhishek Varma's "Illusion of My Mind" won a Jury Special Prize, and the Silver Gateway Award went to Shlok Sharma's "Haraamkhor."
The festival closing ceremony was a star-studded event with attendees including Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh Radhika Apte, Jackie Shroff and Vidya Balan.
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Festival co-chair Nita Mukesh Ambani said, "I never imagined that Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival would be such a resounding success. It has truly exceeded our expectations. For one week, it was the talk of the town, will long queues lining up for every show. It is a matter of pride for Mumbai that Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival has become the destination where the best of Indian cinema met the best of global cinema."


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Q. Luo, Y.L. Yang, G.Y. Feng, N. Chen, N. Hu, K. Tang, J. Zheng, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China
The paper introduces magnets and magnetic field measurements of Hefei Light Source II. In the year 2012-2014, NSRL of USTC upgraded the HLS to HLS II. TheHLS II, which was built to improve the performance ofthe light source, in particular to get higher brilliance ofsynchrotron radiation and increase the number of straight section insertion devices, is now at commissioning stage. Main purpose of this stage is to achieve full energy with high current, fine emittance and enough life time based on adjustment of magnet current, RF voltage and so on. Most of the magnets were replaced during this project. A new magnetic field measurement platform was built and used for the sampling test on new magnets. Test results showed that the discreteness and uniformity of integrated magnetic field of magnets all meet the requirements.
The full paper is available here (this link opens a new window).


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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event October 13, 2004: Blair, British Government Admits 45-Minute Claim in Error. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair gives a speech to Parliament concurrent with the just-released dossier on Iraqi WMD (see September 24, 2002). Blair combines fact—such as Iraq's lengthy defiance and deception of UN weapons inspections since the 1991 Gulf War, the possible existence of tons of chemical and biological weapons material left unaccounted for in 1998, and the attempts by Iraq to subvert the UN's Food for Oil program—with speculation that Saddam Hussein's "chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons program is not an historic leftover from 1998.… His WMD program is active, detailed, and growing. The policy of containment is not working. The WMD program is not shut down. It is up and running." Unverified Claims - Blair calls the dossier "extensive, detailed, and authoritative," and says that according to intelligence data used to compile it: "Iraq has chemical and biological weapons.… Saddam has continued to produce them… he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shi'a population, and … he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability." Only the "45-minute" strike capability is not sourced from the dossier (see September 28, 2002). Blair makes a number of patently false allegations about Iraq's nuclear weapons, including the disputed aluminum tubes claim (see Between April 2001 and September 2002, April 11, 2001, July 25, 2002, September 24, 2002, October 1, 2002, Between December 2002 and January 2003, January 11, 2003, and March 7, 2003) and the tale about Iraq attempting to purchase uranium from Niger (see Between Late 2000 and September 11, 2001, October 15, 2001, October 18, 2001, November 20, 2001, February 5, 2002, March 1, 2002, Late April or Early May 2002-June 2002, and Late June 2002). "[W]e know Saddam has been trying to buy significant quantities of uranium from Africa, though we do not know whether he has been successful," Blair says. He tells the assembled lawmakers: "There will be some who dismiss all this. Intelligence is not always right. For some of this material there may be innocent explanations. There will be others who say, rightly, that, for example, on present going, it could be several years before he acquires a usable nuclear weapon. Though, if he were able to purchase fissile materiel illegally, it would only be a year or two. But let me put it at its simplest: on this 11-year history; with this man, Saddam; with this accumulated, detailed intelligence available; with what we know and what we can reasonably speculate: would the world be wise to leave the present situation undisturbed; to say, despite 14 separate UN demands on this issue, all of which Saddam is in breach of, we should do nothing; to conclude that we should trust not to the good faith of the UN weapons inspectors but to the good faith of the current Iraqi regime?" Regime Change - After all of this buildup, Blair says that he is not necessarily calling for military action against Iraq, but "the case for ensuring Iraqi disarmament… is overwhelming." He then makes the case for regime change, citing the need for a new leader "who can bring Iraq back into the international community where it belongs, not languishing as a pariah. Someone who can make the country rich and successful, not impoverished by Saddam's personal greed. Someone who can lead a government more representative of the country as a whole, while maintaining absolutely Iraq's territorial integrity. We have no quarrel with the Iraqi people. Liberated from Saddam, they could make Iraq prosperous and a force for good in the Middle East. So the ending of regime would be the cause of regret for no one other than Saddam." Blair says, "our purpose is disarmament," not military action, but it is hard to conceive how the regime change he advocates could be effected without military action. [10 Downing Street, 9/24/2002] Two years later, Blair will admit that the claim is erroneous (see October 13, 2004).
Entity Tags: Tony Blair, Saddam Hussein
Timeline Tags: Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
The Times of London uses the recently released intelligence "dossier" from British intelligence (see September 24, 2002) to report that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has sent agents into Africa to find uranium for Iraqi nuclear weapons. The Times does not inform its readers that many British journalists were shown evidence contradicting the British intelligence claims (see September 24, 2002). It focuses on the dossier's claim that Iraqi "agents" have secretly visited several African countries in search of uranium. Thirteen African nations produce uranium to one extent or another. A Whitehall source tells The Times that while Hussein may have attempted to find African uranium, those alleged efforts were unsuccessful. "If Iraq had succeeded in buying uranium from Africa, the dossier would have said so," the source says. The Times reports that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from, among other sources, the Democratic Republic of Congo, though at least part of that nation's uranium mines are currently under the control of troops from Zimbabwe. The dossier does not specify any other countries that may have been contacted by Iraq. The Times also repeats the dossier's claim that Iraq has biological and chemical weapons that can be launched against targets in as little as 45 minutes (see Late May 2003, August 16, 2003, December 7, 2003, January 27, 2004, and October 13, 2004), that Iraq is developing missiles with ranges of 600 miles (see January 9, 2003, January 16, 2003, February 27, 2003, March 7, 2003, and June 2004), and that Hussein may have given his son Qusay the power to order the use of those weapons. It also reports that the dossier specifically downplays suspected links between Iraq and radical Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda. Hussein has little sympathy for Islamist fundamentalists, The Times reports. [London Times, 9/25/2002]
Entity Tags: Saddam Hussein, London Times, UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's now-infamous claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction "within 45 minutes" is based on information gathered from a single, anonymous Iraqi defector of dubious reliability, British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram admits. According to Ingram, the defector was supplied by Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. The INC defector told American intelligence agents that if Saddam Hussein gave the order, WMDs, presumably contained in missiles, could be on their way to their targets in 45 minutes. The Americans shared that intelligence with their British counterparts, but British intelligence officials considered the story to be unreliable and uncorroborated. According to The Independent, "[h]ow it came to be included as the most dramatic element in the government's 'intelligence dossier' last September, making the case for war (see September 24, 2002), is now the subject of a furious row in Whitehall and abroad." The 45-minute claim was not part of the original draft of the September 2002 dossier (see September 28, 2002), and government officials deny that the claim was added at the behest of politicians who wanted the dossier "sexed up." Faced with thunderous denunciations from his own Labour Party and his Conservative opponents for apparently deceiving the nation about Iraqi WMD, Blair says that he has further intelligence, gleaned from former Iraqi scientists, that proves Iraq had an arsenal of WMD. He will present that intelligence in due course, he says. An intelligence source says: "The '45-minute' remark was part of the American intelligence input into the dossier. It was being treated cautiously by the British, but it was alighted on by the politicos and blown out of proportion." [Independent, 6/1/2003] Further verification of the hearsay nature of the claim comes in August, when a previously unreleased document shows that the claim came from an anonymous Iraqi source (see August 16, 2003).
Entity Tags: Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi National Congress, Tony Blair, Adam Ingram
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion
A previously unrevealed document shows that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that Iraq could strike a target with weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to deploy was based on hearsay information. The claim had already been shown to be the product of an unreliable Iraqi defector from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (see Late May 2003), but an internal Foreign Service document released by the Hutton inquiry undercuts the original claim even further. British and US officials had stated that the 45-minute claim came from an Iraqi officer high in Saddam Hussein's command structure; the document shows, however, that it came from an informant who passed it on to British intelligence agency MI6. The Guardian writes, "[T]he foundation for the government's claim was… a single anonymous uncorroborated source quoting another single anonymous uncorroborated source." Liberal Democrat Menzies Campbell says: "This is classic hearsay. It provides an even thinner justification to go to war. If this is true, neither the prime minister nor the government have been entirely forthcoming." [Guardian, 8/16/2003]
Entity Tags: The Guardian, Iraqi National Congress, Tony Blair, Walter Menzies Campbell, Ahmed Chalabi, Foreign Service (UK)
The lurid tale of Iraq's readiness to deploy WMD within 45 minutes, a claim used to great effect by both British and American officials to justify the war with Iraq (see September 28, 2002 and December 7, 2003), is shown to be false (see October 13, 2004)). Both the source, supposed Iraqi military official Lieutenant Colonel al-Dabbagh, and Iraqi government official Iyad Allawi, who turned over al-Dabbagh's raw intelligence to US and British agents, now say they bear no responsibility for the claims. Nick Theros, Allawi's Washington representative, says the information was raw intelligence from a single source: "We were passing it on in good faith. It was for the intelligence services to verify it." Middle East expert Juan Cole says that Allawi and al-Dabbagh "passed to British intelligence and to Con Coughlin at the Telegraph a series of patently false reports that bolstered the case for war against Iraq but which were wholly unfounded. (Coughlin is either gullible or disingenuous.)" [Newsweek, 1/12/2004; Juan Cole, 1/27/2004; Guardian, 1/27/2004] Theros now says al-Dabbagh's information was a "crock of sh_t," and adds, "Clearly we have not found WMD." [Newsweek, 1/12/2004; Guardian, 1/27/2004]
Entity Tags: Nick Theros, "al-Dabbagh", Con Coughlin, Iyad Allawi, Juan Cole
British Prime Minister Tony Blair formally admits that he was wrong to have claimed that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of giving the order (see September 24, 2002 and September 24, 2002). Blair's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, reveals that MI6, the British intelligence agency, has formally withdrawn the claim, as well as other intelligence concerning Iraq's ability to produce biological weapons. The claim has been heavily refuted for well over a year (see Late May 2003 and August 16, 2003). Straw refuses to say that it was a mistake to overthrow the Saddam government, saying instead that "deciding to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt would have required a huge leap of faith.… I do not accept, even with hindsight, that we were wrong to act as we did." He notes that other governments, most notably the US government, were also convinced that Saddam had an array of WMD which could have been quickly deployed against targets in the region. Conservative MP Gary Streeter says the Blair administration owes the nation a "full apology": "Not an apology for the intelligence but an apology for the way that the intelligence was conveyed by the government to the country." [Age (Melbourne), 10/14/2004] Liberal Democrat Party leader Charles Kennedy accuses Blair of "avoiding answering" questions about the absence of Iraqi WMD. Liberal Democrat deputy leader Menzies Campbell says: "The withdrawal of the 45-minute claim drives a horse and cart through government credibility.… The building blocks of the government's case for military action are crumbling before our eyes." [Belfast Telegraph, 10/13/2004]
Entity Tags: Jack Straw, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Walter Menzies Campbell, Charles Kennedy, Gary Streeter
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April 2017 Updates, Mother's Day poem, Augsburg Confession article
Besides the normal updating of the site (an endless task it seems) I wish to share with you the following new information. Have a blessed Easter Season! Gene
- A poem for Mother's Day (husband to wife) to be shared as you wish. It can be downloaded from this link http://churchmatterssolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/A-Garden-Poem.pdf
- An article by Arthur Drevlow, M.A. on events leading up to the presentation of the Augsburg Confession. See http://churchmatterssolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ConfessBelieveBeSaved.pdf.
- New project underway! Work has begun on How Art Teaches Theology, Part II. This will explore two paintings hanging in City Church, Wittenberg. Final editing and production will take place in May.
- Work is also underway on a new version of Your Reformation Walk suitable for epublishing. Due to the added information it will be 8 chapters long instead of 7. Stay tuned for further developments.
- Note: the recent project to update the constitution and bylaws for a congregation was completed and the new version approved by the district office. Total time from start to finish was 9 months.


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Fluffy pancakes next to Central Park
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While we were staying in NYC Sarabeth's was became our favorite Breakfast spot!
Enjoy the fluffiest Pancakes while looking into the Park.
Also try the French Toast and the Poached eggs!
And for hangover mornings the Bloody Mary was insanely good!


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Huddersfield win penalty shoot-out against Reading to seal Premier League spot
Lowe was among Huddersfield's shootout heroes, completing a dream first season in West Yorkshire having arrived on a free transfer from 2. "I just feel, I can't even describe it, euphoria". After Reading had taken an advantage through Ali Al-Habsi's save, back-to-back misses from Royals Liam Moore and Jordan Obita allowed German defender Christopher Schindler to roll in the decisive penalty.
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Last Ditch Appeal: Trump Team Takes Travel Ban to Supreme CourtThe administration also wants to be able to suspend the refugee program for 120 days, a separate aspect of the policy that has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii and is now being considered by the 9th U.S. This is actually the administration's second controversial attempt to impose a temporary travel ban on citizens from seven majority Muslim countries - Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Iran and Iraq.
Terrorism a major threat to humanity: PM Modi at SCO summitThe Declaration on the Establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was singed in China's Shanghai in June 2001 by six founding states - Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It's understood that where India-China have differences they should not become disputes. "Instead of talking about counterweights and containment, let us create shared spaces for all".
May to form govt. despite Tory slideConfirming her party will attend talks on Monday, Sinn Féin's Northern leader Michelle O'Neill said the DUP-Conservative relationship meant nationalists would turn away from the British government and instead look to the Republic of Ireland for impartial support in peace talks.
May's gamble backfires as Britons deliver hung parliamentThe Scottish independence movement represented by the Scottish National Party (SNP), which many pro-independence Catalans see kinship with, lost a third of its seats, despite retaining the most seats in Scotland. "She has fewer seats than she started with", Landale wrote. After weeks of campaigning, rhetoric and crises the UK General Election of June 2017 is finally reaching a conclusion.
'Qatar must do more to combat extremism,' says TillersonPreviously, the US had insisted the Qatar crisis wouldn't affect USA military efforts in the Middle East . On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and shut down land, sea and air links, accusing it of supporting terror groups in the region.
New Bosses for Hull City and MiddlesbroughReading finished third in the Championship but were denied promotion after losing to Huddersfield Town in a penalty shoot-out at Wembley last month. Radrizzani, who was also interested in Huddersfield's David Wagner prior to Town's promotion, is now weighing up a decision over whether to approach Reading for permission to speak with the ex-Holland global.
No corruption in BJP's three year rule: VenkaiahPilot also said that the opposition parties at the national level are working to collate an united front against BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Stating that India was "recognised" and "respected" at the worldwide level, he said the entire world is focusing on India. "Firstly, the BJP should understand that the Congress is not instigating this act of violence, but the farmers have not been getting their price from the Government, which the Centre should look into", he was quoted as ...
French new president Macron seeks parliament majorityStep two is nailing down the parliamentary majority France's youngest-ever president needs to be effective. The far-right National Front was expected to win 8 to 18 seats. "Part-time workers could have other part-time contracts at the European Parliament". Reconstruction after the floods in Peru earlier this year is one of the key issues on President Kuczynski's agenda during his visit to France and Spain.
Trump commits to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation mutual defense after hesitatingTrump , during a May 25 speech in Brussels, refused to affirm his commitment to Article 5 , though he praised the alliance's quick response to the 9/11 attacks ― the only time in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation history Article 5 has been invoked.
BJP ordered to open fire at farmers; we can't be blamed: CongressCongress leader Sachin Pilot said that if the video were authentic, the party disassociates itself from the call for violence given by its MLA. Mandsaur/Bhopal: In Mandsaur district, where six farmers were killed in clashes with the police on Tuesday, curfew, on Friday, was relaxed for eight hours from 10 am to 6 pm but no untoward incident was reported, Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Singh said.
UK Conservative Party loses majority, prepares for hung parliamentWhen Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin resigned, a second minority Labour government was formed, and MacDonald returned as prime minister. On the eve of the British election on Thursday, Nate Silver and Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight offered three equally probable outcomes for the contest: 1) a landslide win for Theresa May's ruling Conservatives, 2) a narrower win for the same, or 3) a hung parliament with no party garnering a majority but the Conservatives remaining the ...