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Police and tax investigators have raided the Sydney home of a man that members of the Australian bitcoin community say might be the mastermind behind the controversial cryptocurrency, just hours after reports emerged in the United States suggesting that he may be its secretive creator.
However, Fairfax Media has been told the raid at the property of Craig Steven Wright relates to an "individual taxation matter" involving Mr Wright, rather than his apparent role in creating the encrypted currency.
The alleged creator of Bitcoin, Australian Craig Steven Wright.
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The Australian Federal Police attended Mr Wright's home in Gordon, on Sydney's north shore, on Wednesday afternoon to assist the Australian Taxation Office in carrying out a search.
In a report published on Wednesday morning, US tech publication Wired said it had uncovered enough evidence to suggest that bitcoin's mysterious founder, who operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, was actually 44-year-old Mr Wright.
Wired acknowledged that its report was based on "unverified leaked documents" that it admitted "could be faked in whole or in part".
Fairfax Media attempted to contact Mr Wright for comment but received no response. The Australian Federal Police referred matters to the ATO. The ATO declined to comment.
Mr Wright is listed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as a director of Hotwire and another company, Panopticrypt, which are both registered at a residential address on Sydney's North Shore. He has been a shareholder and director in a range of other enterprises, the ASIC database shows.
This Sydney property owned by Craig Steven Wright was searched by police on Wednesday.
He is also listed as chief executive on the website of a company called DeMorgan, which describes itself "a pre-IPO Australian listed company focused on alternative currency, next generation banking and reputational and educational products." Calls to this company went straight to voicemail.
'He was a bit weird'
At about 4.15pm, the real estate agent managing the Gordon home leased by Mr Wright entered the house after being told by a neighbour, who knew the owners, that it was being searched.
The AFP and tax investigators raid Craig Wright's home in Gordon.
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Federal Police and the ATO officers were then later seen leaving the property, at 4.50pm. Asked why the federal police were at the house, they offered "no comment".
Neighbours, who didn't wish to named, said Mr Wright was an elusive man who had two children and a partner. He had an expensive taste in cars, they said, having seen him pull up to the house in a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Lexus, and a Jaguar.
Mr Wright, his partner, and children were not seen within the vicinity of the house.
Apart from owning a dog, which one neighbour described as "noisy", he also owned hens, which could be seen out the back of his house.
"I thought he did something with insurance or was an entrepreneur or something," said one neighbour, who described Wright as a "daggy dad" often seen exercising in his garage gym. "He was a bit weird."
Another neighbour said Mr Wright apparently had three-phase, 450-volt power — normally used for industrial applications — installed at the home.
The same neighbour said he recently heard that Wright had packed up the house as he was apparently off to go live in London. None of the neighbours interviewed said that Wright had told them he was the creator of Bitcoin.
Plausible candidate
Chris Guzowski, founder of ABA Technologies and a regular on the Bitcoin conference circuit, said Wired had uncovered enough circumstantial evidence for Mr Wright to be a plausible candidate.
"It certainly makes sense," said Mr Guzowski. "He's definitely been in Bitcoin from the very start and has accumulated a really big stash of Bitcoin. He's also been in this huge stoush with the ATO for a long time."
Andrew Sommer, a partner at Clayton Utz and who testified at last year's Senate Inquiry into digital currency, is reputedly Mr White's lawyer.
But Mr Sommer said he couldn't comment on any client when contacted by Fairfax.
Zhenya Tsvetnenko, founder of bitcoin remittancy company Digital BTC, has discussed business with Mr Wright previously and was struck by his understanding of Bitcoin and his long history with the protocol.
"It could definitely be him, I remember thinking this guy could be Satoshi at the time," Mr Tsvetnenko said
"I asked him how many Bitcoin he had and he said enough to buy a pizza. Which is a joke because it's well known in the Bitcoin community the first thing bought with the very first Bitcoin was a pizza."
The Wired story was not the first time a media outlet has claimed to reveal the true identity of bitcoin's founder.
Last year, US magazine Newsweek said it had found the mysterious person behind the cryptocurrency t. However the man it named, Dorien Nakamoto, unconditionally denied Newsweek's claim, and subsequently sued the publication.
The Wired report cites archived blog posts from as far back as 2008, purportedly written by Mr Wright, which discuss aspects of the distributed ledger that is a key element of bitcoin, as well as leaked emails and a liquidation report by Australian corporate recovery firm McGrath Nicol involving one of Mr Wright's companies.
McGrath Nicol confirmed the veracity of the liquidation report, which states that the company, called Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence, was backed by $30 million in capital that was "injected via bitcoins".
Potential hoax
Wired acknowledged that the trail of evidence leading to Mr Wright could be part of an elaborate hoax.
Asher Tan of CoinJar, Australia's largest bitcoin exchange, said he was skeptical of Wired's claim, pointing out the bitcoin community relies on mathematical proof.
Solid technical proof should be given more weight than speculation, he said.
"There are some methods of doing this," Mr Tan said. These would include "moving bitcoin attributed to Satoshi's personal stash or utilising his personal encryption key (PGP) to communicate.
"These aren't foolproof methods of identifying him, but anyone who publicly stakes a claim to being Satoshi would be expected to demonstrate either of these methods."
The New York Times, which conducted an inconclusive investigation of its own into the matter, has described Mr Nakamoto's identity as "one of the great mysteries of the digital age".
But many in the bitcoin community believe that the identity of the person (or people) behind Nakamoto is irrelevant, since the virtual currency is an open source and community driven technology. It sure is a fun story though.
Do you know Satoshi Nakamoto? Email our reporters.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police confiscated a stash of drugs, guns and cash in a bust this week in Sunnyside, Queens.
Around 5 a.m. Tuesday, members of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit and the Patrol Borough Queens North Anti-Crime Units raided a residence at 39-14 44th St. in Queens, police said.
They found four loaded firearms, three imitation pistols, 169 rounds of ammunition, seven marijuana plants, about 17.5 grams of crack cocaine, 136 Hydromorphone pills, and 48 Xanax pills – along with $3,124 in cash, police said.
A man at the residence – Daniel Tone, 42 – was arrested at the scene. He was charged with eight counts of criminal possession of a weapon, as well as drug charges and violation of local law charges.
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World War Z Game Trailer: A Former SAS Soldier Does Whatever It Takes To Survive
It only takes a single bite for a person to be turned into a zombie, which will give their allies enough reason to put them down before they turn into a member of the undead. The truly practical individual wouldn't waste a precious bullet on a former friend and would rely on other means of dealing with them, such as tossing them out of a helicopter while it's still in the air, which is exactly what happens in the latest trailer for the World War Z video game.
The World War Z franchise is best-known for the 2013 movie and the novel that it's based on, but the series is entering the realm of video games later this month with a new four-player co-operative shooter title that follows several different groups of survivors in locations across the world, such as Moscow, New York, Jerusalem, and Tokyo, as they complete varied missions while facing off against massive hordes of zombies. World War Z uses the proprietary Swarm Engine to allow the players to face off against hundreds of zombies at once in desperate pitched battles, where they will need to use the environment to their advantage in order to survive.
Related: World War Z Horde Gameplay Trailer Recreates Movie's Zombie Tsunami
The latest character to be featured in a reveal trailer for World War Z is Ethan Wolfe, who spent sixteen years as a British SAS soldier before being hired by the Mossad as an advisor. Ethan was in Jerusalem when the zombie uprising happened and he had to rely on his training in order to survive, which required him to make some sacrifices along the way.
Ethan's trailer begins with him being punished at school for his misbehavior, which transitions into showing a much older Ethan as a soldier, who has learned to suppress his instincts until the moment when they are needed. The moment arrives when one of his fellow soldiers is bitten by a zombie, which prompts Ethan to toss him out of the helicopter door to his doom.
There have been several character trailers released for World War Z and the playable cast members have to use their unconventional skills in order to survive, such as a former weapons dealer who returns to his homeland in order to defend it, an ex-gangster whose criminal career is cut short by the arrival of zombies, and a computer hacker who used her knowledge of the upcoming undead horde to prepare for the war to come. Ethan's military background might make him the most suitable character to deal with zombies in combat, but his practicality might make him even more efficient at dealing with his allies, should the situation arise.
World War Z is due to be released for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on April 16, 2019. For more information, visit the official website: https://wwzgame.com/
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It might "trip on it's ambitions," but Noah is "distinctive" and "powerful." It's almost "never dull" and the flood scenes are "particularly impressive." Crowe is "incredibly good." You definitely "don't see movies like this every day."
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Mar 30, 2014 05:21 am
Joe said: C
Emma Watson and Logan Lerman were so much better in WALLFLOWER. This is an overblown fable treated as a swords-and-sandals adventure. The CGI becomes tiresome. Left out of this wet-fest: Noah was 600 years old when he built the ark.
Apr 03, 2014 04:40 pm
john said: F
One of the top five worst big budget movies ever made. Where do they get their clothing, milk, food, with no herd animals, do they eat rocks? Rock angels, stowaways on the Arc, where is this coming from? Also they had metal spears.
Apr 05, 2014 10:54 pm
joe said: F
horrible,the movie has you rooting for noah to be killed,stone transformers aka watchers,not a positive emotion in the entire film. stay away
Jun 10, 2014 11:28 pm
Andy said: A
Aug 02, 2014 10:52 am
Jim said: D
Nonsensical combination of science fiction and gross distortions of the biblical tale. Overacted to the max. CGI is cartoonish. Might make a great Rifftrax movie.
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|November 30, 1986
|BC Place Stadium
|Most Valuable Player
| Offence: Mike Kerrigan
Defence: Grover Covington
|Most Valuable Canadian
|Paul Osbaldiston
|Jake Ireland
|CBC: Don Wittman, Ron Lancaster, Brian Williams, Steve Armitage, Dave Hodge.
The 74th Grey Cup was the 1986 Canadian Football League championship game that was played at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Edmonton Eskimos. The Tiger-Cats unexpectedly dominated the Eskimos 39-15.
Game summaryEdit
Hamilton Tiger-Cats - (39) TDs, Steve Stapler, Jim Rockford, Ron Ingram; FGs, Paul Osbaldiston (6); cons., Osbaldiston (3).
Edmonton Eskimos - (15) TDs, - Damon Allen, Brian Kelly; 2 pt-con., Damon Allen; cons., Tom Dixon.
Losers of the previous two Grey Cups, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats gave their long suffering fans something to celebrate with an unexpected dominant performance over the Edmonton Eskimos.
Hamilton's defence, which was led by Grover Covington and Ben Zambiasi, sacked Edmonton quarterbacks' Matt Dunigan and Damon Allen a total of 10 times. They also forced eight turnovers to tie a Grey Cup record.
Hamilton jumped out to a 29-0 lead at halftime. They got it going early when Covington forced a Dunigan fumble, the ball recovered by Leo Ezerins. This set up quarterback Mike Kerrigan's 35-yard touchdown pass to Steve Stapler. The game was just 1:35 old. The Tiger-Cats then got a big play from their special teams when Mark Streeter blocked Tom Dixon's punt attempt, which Jim Rockford recovered for another touchdown.
Hamilton then rode the boot of kicker Paul Osbaldiston, who kicked five of his record-tying six field goals in the first 30 minutes, two of which came off turnovers; one on Howard Fields' interception off Allen, and another on a Dunigan fumble forced by Covington. Edmonton's offence produced minus-one yard in offence in the first 30 minutes.
The Tiger-Cats continued their assault in the second half, when Kerrigan hit Ron Ingram with a 44-yard touchdown pass.
The Eskimos finally got on the scoreboard late in the third quarter courtesy of a blocked punt by Larry Wruck which Craig Shaffer recovered at the Hamilton 37. Quarterback Matt Dunigan got the Eskimos to six yards from the goal line, and backup Damon Allen ran it in from there. The Eskimos would add another major in the fourth quarter, but by then it was too late. Allen hit Brian Kelly with a 13-yard touchdown pass then ran it in for a two-point convert.
Osbaldiston added his sixth field goal, a 47-yarder in the game's final minute on what was an already decisive Grey Cup win.
The only other time the Edmonton Eskimos and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats had met in the Grey Cup was the 68th Grey Cup in 1980, which was also lopsided, with Edmonton winning 48 to 10.
Paul Osbaldiston's (the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian) six field goals tied Montreal Alouettes' Don Sweet's record, set in 1977.
It was Hamilton's first Grey Cup title since 1972, and their first win over the Eskimos since 1977. The Ticats entered the game as 12-point underdogs.
Grover Covington finished the game with three sacks. Ben Zambiasi recovered two fumbles, had one quarterback sack and six tackles. Both are inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
It was Al Bruno's second Grey Cup triumph, his first as a head coach. Bruno won one as a player with the 1952 Toronto Argonauts.
This was the last Grey Cup to use the dual CBC/CTV commentator sets, a practice that dated back to 1971.
On the blocked punt, Jim Rockford ripped the seat of his pants rolling into the end zone to score. He left the field and went to the locker room to change.
1986 CFL PlayoffsEdit
West DivisionEdit
- Semi-final (November 16 @ Vancouver, British Columbia) BC Lions 21-14 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- Semi-final (November 16 @ Edmonton, Alberta) Edmonton Eskimos 27-18 Calgary Stampeders
- Final (November 23 @ Edmonton, Alberta) Edmonton Eskimos 41-5 BC Lions
East DivisionEdit
- Final - Game 1 (November 16 @ Hamilton, Ontario) Toronto Argonauts 31-17 Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- Final - Game 2 (November 23 @ Toronto, Ontario) Hamilton Tiger-Cats 42-25 Toronto Argonauts
- Hamilton won their 2 game total-point series against Toronto by outscoring them 59-56. The Tiger-Cats advanced to the Grey Cup Championship game.
External linksEdit
- "Grey Cup: 1986". Canadian Football League. http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1986.
- Ticats eat em' raw


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This once again goes to prove that I blab a lot. Simple questions. Not-so-simple answers.
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? Hmm… density seems ok.
2. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? Rs. 1150 (and no Credit Card!). God Bless ATMs!
3. What's a word that rhymes with DOOR? Bore. I am… (Bored)
4. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone? Maa… Sigh! So predictable!
5. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone? Mar Jawan. It starts really nicely (Piano piece!) And some James Blunt tracks!
6. What are you wearing right now? Checked Jockey Boxers…
and denims and an army green T-shirt.
7. Do you label yourself? Yep. A rebel. A Drama Qu.. King.
8. Name the brand of the shoes you're currently own? Puma. I choose not to be part of Mass Hysteria and fads, but the sister forced them on me. I also wear Woodlands sometimes, though. And nice Leather Dress Boots (unbranded, from South Ex). And Reeboks to the gym.
9. Bright or Dark Room? Oh, Dark… any given day! Romantic. Eerie. Sublime. Divine.
10. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you? Chandu? One lucky bitch. But a bit of a nut. Pakka Delhi-ite, without being a born Delhi-ite.
11. What does your watch look like? Metallic. Casio. Maa picked up from Dubai.
12. What were you doing at midnight last night? Consuming a third kind of Alchohol from my cousin's glass. First Bacardi, then Whiskey and then some Breezer. And this was at an Uncle's place! I'm going to be reminded constantly of that evening, for the years to come. And I wasn't even high!
13. What did your last text message you received on your cell say? "Hey, I'm glad we met. We should do this more often. Hope you weren't late for lunch."
No, it wasn't a date! But yes, I met someone new.
14. What's a word that you say a lot? Phuck. Except that the Ph is an F. Oh, and it's mostly preceeded by a "What the…"
That, and "Shut up". Picked that up from the sister.
15. Who told you he/she loved you last?(please exclude spouse , family, children) Sigh! Either Tanuja or Hagatha or Alika. All girls. Hmph!
16. Last furry thing you touched? My cousin's (though I'd rather call him a nephew, because he's younger than all my nephews, but that'd mean my uncle was my cousin!) stuffed toys. Dogs, Bears, an Elephant. And the last living furry thing would probably be… my cousin's dog I guess. I like dogs 🙂
17. Favourite age you have been so far? 21. It's been a good few months. Otherwise, eighteen I guess. Or maybe when I was one. Because I remember so little, it's better than all the other ages that I didn't like so much between then and when I turned Eighteen.
18. What was the last thing you said to someone? Umm… I talk far too much to be able to remember that. The last significant thing I said must've been "Hell no, I won't have any fries." But I still had some 😛
19.The last song you listened to? "Jugni" from Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. Not out of choice. Otherwise, "Volare" by Gypsy Kings on my Pod.
20. Where did you live in 1987? I didn't. Was yet to be born. Though if I'm a reincarnation, then I was probably in London. Though probably at least a 100 years old, because I'm sure my former self lived through at least some of the Colonization. And I was probably part of it, which would explain my being gay in this lifetime. (Ouch. I know. But hey, it's not easy!)
21. Are you jealous of anyone? Yep, of all people abroad, committed, with straight hair, with hair, with loads of cash, with successful careers that they enjoy, with rich and handsome husbands and so on and so forth.
22. Is anyone jealous of you? I hope so. I hope everyone's jealous of me. But I know everyone isn't. I hope at least a few are.
23. Name three things that you have on you at all times? Phone, wallet, iPod.
24. What's your favourite town/city? Paris, London, NY, SF… and I haven't been to any of them!
25. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it? I don't recall at all. Don't know if I ever did, acutally. I've been on a computer before I knew what "gay" means. And before I knew what "pontificate" means. Except that I still don't know what "pontificate" means.
26. Can you change the oil on a car? Can anyone change the oil on a car??
27. Your first love/big crush: what is the last thing you heard about him/her? Was a girl! (I know. Third standard. Phase of denial. Or lack of awareness of sexual diversity.) Haven't heard anything about her, except that she was allegedly a childhood bestfriend's former bestfriend. Except that I bet that's what he thinks, and she probably didn't like him at all. I know, I'm a bit of a bitch. But I'm still better than Britney Spears.
Okay, I didn't mean that. I don't really dislike Britney. Have no opinion of her, actually.
28. Does anything hurt on your body right now? Nope. Thank god for that. My feet were aching a lot last night, though. What a silly question. What were you hoping to hear anyway??
29.What is your current desktop picture? Silhouette of a tree with a cloudy background, and the sun playing hide and seek with the clouds. Took it on a lovely evening, in college. With my crappy Phone Cam. Came out amazing though!
30. Have you been burnt by love? Umm… I guess not. And that I've answered this question as I have goes to prove that I CAN avoid exaggeration. Ha!
Everyone's who reads this is tagged. Except Chandni. I don't like her anymore. She knows my name and she won't tell me how!


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Here's some helpful information that is written for entrepreneurial folks who hope to start a low vision eyeglasses business. Read this before you begin your venture.
Thinking about opening a low vision eyeglasses business? We tell you what you need to know to get started.
Representing a niche within the optical services industry, low vision patients can be a profitable specialty area for optical products and services companies.
Low Vision Businesses Fit & the Optical Services Industry
Low vision is a medical condition that affects one in twenty (14 million) Americans. It's characterized by non-correctable, reduced vision resulting from cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and other optical disorders.
The American Optometric Association defines low vision as impairment ranging from 20/30 vision (extremely mild) to 20/1,000+ vision (near blindness). However, the majority of treatable low vision patients fall in the 20/100 to 20/1,000 range.
Low vision eyeglass businesses represent a specialty or niche within the optical services industry. As a low vision startup entrepreneur, you will specialize in fitting low vision patients with magnification devices designed to maximize their residual vision.
It's important for low vision entrepreneurs to understand that their patients' needs are much different than a typical optical patient. The permanent loss of vision is a highly emotional event for many individuals, so low vision eyeglass technicians may need to be equipped with patient care and sensitivity skills before working directly low vision sufferers.
Making PR Pay for a Low Vision Eyeglass Startup
The nature of the low vision industry practically mandates that low vision practitioners and eyeglass providers become advocates for their clients. The aging of the baby boom generation means that the number of low vision sufferers will likely skyrocket in the coming years, giving low vision eyeglass startups that leverage PR strategies an opportunity to stake their claim in local and regional markets.
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Startup entrepreneurs slave over the creation of their business plans, investing countless hours in the details of their startup strategy. Now it's time to address details about your industry.
Industry analyses are standard chapters in low vision eyeglasses company business plans and are often required by lenders or investors. Industry analyses are critical for contextualizing your startup within an industry setting.
To succeed, you'll need to be careful to avoid common industry analysis mistakes and to accurately represent your startup in an industry context.
Review the Competition
Long before you open a low vision eyeglasses business within your community, it's worthwhile to see how strong the competition is. Try our link below to generate a list of competitors in your city. Complete the form by entering your city, state and zip code to get a list of low vision eyeglasses businesses that are close by.
Prior to opening your doors for business, be sure you fully understand the competitive landscape and where your new business will fit in.
Turning Competitors Into Collaborators
If you are interested in starting a low vision eyeglasses business, it's a smart move to have a conversation with someone who is in the business. If you think owners of nearby low vision eyeglasses businesses will give you advice, think again. The last thing they want to do is help you to be a better competitor.
On the other hand, an individual who has a low vision eyeglasses business in a different city will be much more likely to talk with you, after they realize you reside far away from them and won't be stealing their local customers. In fact, they are often very willing to share startup advice with you. It can take a while to find an entrepreneur who is willing to talk, but it's well worth the effort.
What's the best way to find a low vision eyeglasses business founder who is willing to talk to you but doesn't live nearby?
Simply, try our helpful link below, type in a random city/state or zipcode, and start calling.
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Common sense will tell you that to enter the world of low vision eyeglasses business, you'll either need to start a new business or acquire a promising company on the business-for-sale marketplace. Although startup low vision eyeglasses businesses are common, many new entrepreneurs overlook the benefits of buying a low vision eyeglasses business on the business-for-sale marketplace.
In today's marketplace, buyers clearly have the upper hand, making it relatively easy to find a low vision eyeglasses business that meets your personal and professional objectives.
Franchising May Be a Better Way to Go
The probabilities on your becoming a successful entrepreneur greatly improve if you go the franchising route instead of doing it all on your own.
Before opening a low vision eyeglasses business, a smart move is to assess whether franchise opportunities in your space might be the right move for you.
The link below gives you access to our franchise directory so you can see if there's a franchise opportunity for you. You might even find something that points you in a completely different direction.
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By Claire Cameron
POLISH football fans run riot after Europa League match.
Tensions sparked yesterday after thousands of Polish football fans descended on Dundee city to watch Dundee United play Slask Wroclaw in the Europa League qualifier.
Tayside Police have estimated that 2000 Polish fans travelled to the city ahead of the match, but that a
"small number' tried to cause chaos.
Despite increased police presence ahead of yesterday's match, there were reports of drunkenness and disorder amongst some Polish fans throughout the day. Police confirmed that three Polish men were arrested on minor offenses before the kick-off.
In an attempt to curb the disorder, police escorted the Polish fans to the ground in an effort to keep them from apart from the Dundee Utd supporters. Dundee pub and off-license owners were also encouraged to close their doors to help prevent drunkenness. Once inside the ground, officers ensured a peaceful match by confining the opposing supporters to separate stands.
But though the game went off without a hitch with Dundee Utd winning 3 goals to 2, the situation worsened away from the grounds.
Chief Insp Graeme Donald of Tayside Police said:
"The game passed without incident but after the match, a small but vociferous number of Polish fans were involved in running skirmishes with the police in the areas around the ground and spreading to the city centre.
"Bottles were being thrown by some of the Polish fans and there was some damage to property but serious disorder was prevented by police officers responding quickly. "
Tayside Police have praised the home side's supporters, saying:
"To their credit, Dundee United fans did not get involved in the trouble. "
Many of the Polish supporters have now left the city, some under police escort. Tayside Police said that the majority of Slask Wroclaw supporters had not taken part in the disorder, and that only an intoxicated few were to blame for the unrest.
Chief Inspector Suzie Mertes said:
"There were problems with small groups of Polish fans but most of them were well behaved. "
Chief Insp Donald added:
"The troublesome fans were escorted onto buses and left Dundee around midnight.
"A number of Polish fans stayed in the city overnight but their behaviour has been peaceful and no other incidents have been reported.
"As is often the case in these instances, the trouble was caused by a small number of fans fuelled by alcohol who were bent on hooliganism but these were dealt with quickly and effectively by the police and have now left the city.
"I think it is safe to say that we did prevent some significant disorder, which was a distinct possibility. "


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A locally-based charity who work to improve reading skills and life chances for young people held their annual literacy conference last week.
This year's conference was created to address the issue of 'Closing the Literacy Gap' and how to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve the same as their more fortunate peers.
Popular children's authors, Tom Palmer and Andy Seed both presented at the conference speaking about ways to make reading more accessible for all children and the role that authors can play in igniting a love of reading.
The conference keynote speech was delivered by Bradford-born Matt Bromley, a leading education writer and consultant who was able to raise his own aspirations and academic achievement above those expected by his circumstances by becoming an avid reader.
Matt spoke of the importance of reading for pleasure on social mobility and how the "word rich" will inevitably become more affluent and the "word poor" more impoverished. He implored teachers, as those who have the "superpower" of being literate and loving books to pass it on and stressed the value of parents reading to their children at home.
The highlight of the day was when children from two Bradford schools – Dixon's Kings Academy and Bowling Park Primary School spoke to the enthralled delegates about how their Reading Leaders training had helped them to improve the confidence and reading ability of their younger reading partners.
The Reading Leaders training which prepares older pupils to provide effective one to one reading support to the younger ones is a great way to engage children from disadvantaged backgrounds who often learn better from other young people.
The other expert speakers were Dr Paula Clarke of The University of Leeds who shared strategies for teaching language comprehension to support those that struggle, Deborah Bullivant of the Grimm and Co social enterprise in Rotherham that uses an apothecary shop as the inspiration for creative writing and Rachel Van Riel who shared tips on how to make library spaces for children as attractive and accessible as possible.
Workshops covered topics relevant to 'Closing the Literacy Gap' including the best support for those with English as an additional language and using comics to enhance learning.
Over 150 people attended the conference, mainly teachers from primary and secondary schools along with librarians, learning mentors and other education professionals with some travelling from as far as London to be part of this motivating event.
Rachel Kelly, Chief Executive of Reading Matters said: "It was a really inspiring and enjoyable day and it's so great to bring together all these people who are dedicated to doing their best for children and helping them to reach their potential".
Reading Matters has been helping young people to read with confidence and enthusiasm since 1997 and provides schools with Reading Mentors in South and West Yorkshire. Their accredited training courses are available nationwide for peer mentors, education professionals and parents.
The charity, which specialises in one to one reading support for young struggling and relucatant readers currently helps around 6,800 children each year with an average improvement in reading age of 13 months in just 10 hours.
For more information please see the charity's website: www.readingmatters.org.uk
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As the chaos of the first weeks of classes gradually dies down, we have all formed first impressions of each of our courses for the semester. Although we may have registered months ago, it is not until we skim through the syllabus for the first time that we feel confident — or not so confident — about the structure, workload and style of the class and professor. While many factors affect the overall dynamic of a class, an important one that always sparks debate is the use of technology in class, by both professors and the students. Both sides of the "technology in the classroom" debate have merit, but in the end, it is still up to the professor and the students to make the class worthwhile.
I have had both extremes of professors at the College of William and Mary — those who never even use the Blackboard site and only believe in writing on a real blackboard and those who use as much technology as possible, both in lectures and assignments, to enhance their course. Using technology for effective communication is key for all professors. It is frustrating when professors are delayed in responding to emails or don't have important course information and documents uploaded to Blackboard. However, in the past, these inconveniences have forced me to go to the professor and ask my questions in person. For our technology-minded generation, learning to embrace face-to-face conversations — with people other than our friends and family — is important. That being said, receiving a quick email response from a professor five minutes after you sent it, even late at night, is incredibly convenient, especially when going to their office is not an option. Luckily, most professors have adapted to at least this basic use of technology for their classes.
As for during the actual class, I've found myself frustrated with professors who insist on writing illegibly on chalkboards, as well as with professors who zip through a Powerpoint presentation with too many animations. In this regard, I've come to the conclusion that it truly depends on the professor. Overall, I prefer a class with less technology because it usually promotes better discussion and interaction than if students are watching a Powerpoint show or surfing the internet on their laptops. However, if a teacher is able to use technology to make the class more interactive or appealing to students, then I'd prefer that to a strict no-technology policy.
No professor will ever use technology in the exact same way or to the same extent as another. As long as professors can be reached using technology, the way they choose to incorporate technology into their class shouldn't matter. In fact, it is more detrimental when professors use technology only for the sake of using it, which often ends up detracting from the class as a whole.
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IP Routing 3
Question 1
Floating static routes are static routes that have an administrative distance greater than the administrative distance (AD) of another static route or dynamic routes. By default a static route has an AD of 1 then floating static route must have the AD greater than 1. Floating static route has a manually configured administrative distance greater than that of the primary route and therefore would not be in the routing table until the primary route fails.
Question 2
A host route for IPv4 has the mask /32, and a host route for IPv6 has the mask /128. If an IPv4 address is configured with a mask of /32 on an interface of the router, which is typical for loopback interfaces, the host route appears in the routing table only as connected (for example in the routing table we will see this line: "C 10.10.10.1/32 is directly connected, Loopback0".
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/ip-routing/116264-technote-ios-00.html
Question 3
If the IP address exists in the routing table then we can say the local router knew the way to reach that destination. But this question wants to ask if the destination has communicated to the local router or not ("an IP address is known to a router"). Maybe it is a tricky question.
Question 4
In all the way on the path, the source and destination IP addresses never change, only the source and destination MAC address are changed on each segment.
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To check the connectivity between a host and a destination (through some networks) we can use both "tracert" and "ping" commands. But the difference between these 2 commands is the "tracert" command can display a list of near-side router interfaces in the path between the source and the destination. The "traceroute" command has the same function of the "tracert" command but it is used on Cisco routers only, not on a PC -> B is correct.


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Bowling & BBQ Fun Day!
Another great Volunteer Fun Day with delicious food and a chance to have a game of bowls.
We like to look after our volunteers at the shop and run regular events to bring everyone together to say thank you for all your hard work. We thought that August would guarantee a sunny day, but as always, the Dartmoor weather had other ideas!
Regardless, everyone had a smashing afternoon and it gave us all a chance to see Emma again and to give her some super Farewell presents from the Community and from the Committee.


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Originally published on January 3, 2019 12:12 pm
Five years ago, Leena Sanzgiri was living her childhood dream...New York city apartment, job at Vogue, and a boyfriend she planned to marry. Until the July day she woke up in the hospital, and everything changed.
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CHICAGO — Self-service laundry sales were up in all four regions for a second straight month in February, according to the most recent AmericanCoinOp.com StatShot unscientific survey.
February sales in the South were up 6.8% (compared to February 2011 sales). Sixty percent of the respondents reported an increase in sales, while 20% reported a decrease. Sales were unchanged for 20% of respondents.
Sales in the Midwest rose 5.6% compared to February 2011 sales. Roughly 64% reported year-to-year sales increases, while 14.3% reported decreases. Sales were unchanged for 21.4% of respondents.
"My customer count is up 15% over last February," a Midwest operator reported.
In the West, February sales were up 3.6%. Fifty-five percent of respondents reported a bump. "Coin sales very spotty," reports an operator there. "Have added credit card readers to one-third of the Laundromat, which resulted in better results."
February sales were up 2.4% in the Northeast, where 57% of respondents reported increases.
Despite the rise in sales overall, many operators offered gloomy comments. Some said their local markets are suffering because of the economy.
- West — "Not good. Nearby businesses are dropping their rate to 75 cents per top loader!"
- Midwest — "Maybe fair at best. The national media keeps reporting the economy is in the upswing, but I do not see or believe it."
- West — "The economic slowdown did not impact our rural area as quickly as most of the nation but is affecting us now. I had the lowest income in 14 years during November-January."
- Northeast — "Too much competition, but I am the best."
Respondents were also asked about drop-off-service sales for February (compared to February 2011). Every region reported sales were up, but there was quite a bit of difference in two of the regions compared to the others.
In the Midwest, where 71.4% of respondents have offered drop-off service for two years or more, sales were up 7.1%. Twenty-one percent don't offer drop-off service, and 7.1% didn't offer drop-off service last year but they do now.
Southern operators saw their drop-off-service sales rise 6% in February from the previous year. Eighty percent of the respondents have offered this extra-profit service for at least two years.
Sales increases were much less in the Northeast (0.5%) and the West (0.4%). Fifty percent of Northeast operators have offered drop-off service for at least two years, while 58.3% of West operators have offered the service during that time.
"Coin laundry flat, but oil drilling clothes for drop-off is great income," says a Midwest operator.
"We ran a great promo in February that really boosted drop-off," adds another. "Drop-off is thegrowth segment for our business."
AmericanCoinOp.com's StatShot includes information on sales, wages, costs or other financial data based on anonymous survey information provided by industry owners and operators.
Audience members are invited to participate in these unscientific surveys, which are conducted online via a partner website, on a regular basis. Self-service laundry operators are encouraged to participate, as a greater number of responses will help to better define industry trends.


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what did you learn in school today?
衡水中学 (Héngshuĭ Zhōngxué) is China's most notorious, most hotly debated, and highest-ranked high school.
Located in Hébĕi province a few hours south of Bĕijīng, the boarding school is feared and admired throughout China. Adhering to a military-style timetable, students study for 14+ hours a day, 7 days a week, with no cell phones, no snacking, and most certainly no dating.
All this is to get a good score in the universally dreaded gāokăo, the final exam at the end of high school that single-handedly determines where you can go to university. And however controversial the school's methods might be, students at Héngshuĭ indeed score higher than all the rest, and the school sends more students to top universities than any other high school.
The school has been called a prison by the media, perhaps prompted by the bars over the windows, allegedly put there to prevent suicide.
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DIS was involved in the development of the system and contributed with a number of new features along with maintenance and hosting of the system. A variety of technologies and languages have been used during the project, including web services, Visual Studio/C#, Eclipse/Java, etc.
Green Waves creates optimum working conditions for emergency vehicles and staff without endangering other drivers and pedestrians. Part of the development process was executed from DIS' offices.
Using GPS, information about the position, speed, direction and destination of the vehicle is sent by General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to a server, which calculates the optimal route by means of algorithms. As the vehicle approaches, the server sends a signal to the control boxes on the traffic lights involved, telling them to turn green in the direction of the approaching vehicle and red in all other directions.
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Each morning will begin with a meditation followed by an energizing vinyasa yoga practice. Each afternoon we will have a acro-yoga workshop lead by Gabi. We will then end each day with a long restorative yoga practice. The rest of your days will be spent relaxing by the pool and ocean, exploring the nearby secret beaches, making new friends, doing nothing or a wide range of other activities. Zhao, Justine and Gabi are Beijing based teachers and who love working as a team and share their passion for yoga with students of all levels. Come emerse yourself into your yoga and acro-yoga practice. Classes will be offered in English and Mandarin.
Below is an example of a typical day during the New Years Retreat :
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Four centuries ago this was the homeland of the Chickahominy Indians.
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Polly Apfelbaum: Evergreen Blueshoes
April 18, 2014 - June 7, 2014
For the last twenty-five years, Polly Apfelbaum's work has situated itself as a hybrid of painting, sculpture, and installation. Exploring the intricacies of color, Apfelbaum weaves her way through ideas of Minimalism, Pop aesthetics, and Color Field painting to blur the lines between two and three dimensional art making. Evergreen Blueshoes, a reference to a late 60s psychedelic rock band, continued her investigation of counterculture and experimental alternatives to art making. Apfelbaum's exhibition at BCA expanded her interest in color, the horizontal plane, and blurring the distinctions between fine art and craft as she designed and produced finely woven rugs and wallpaper. Guests were asked to make sure they wear nice socks and be prepared to leave their shoes at the door as they make their way through the exhibition.
Exhibition sponsored by Courtyard Burlington Harbor, Rolf Kielman and Stevie Spencer, Seven Days Newspaper, TruexCullins Architecture + Interior Design, UVM Department of Art and Art History's Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visiting Artists and Scholars.
Exhibition year sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
Funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment For The Arts
Farrell Distributing, Harpoon Brewery and Fluid Bar Service were proud sponsors of BCA Center exhibitions and events


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Recently I have been watching a lot of really old movies, stuff from the 1930s on up to the 1950s, partly because some of these films I have always wanted to see, The Crawling Eye (1958) is one that I have wanted to see since childhood. Another one that I have watched recently is I Wake Up Screaming (1941) (Which I watched because I wanted to branch out my movie knowledge in to the Noir sub-genre (And boy was I glad to!)
With that said, I have been noticing that more then a few of these movies that I have recommended recently have been what you might call, 'Hybrid Movies'…
Now you might be wondering what a 'Hybrid Movie' is. Well I could not combine this in to a singular word, but if we look at this definition of Hybrid from dictionary.com: (bred from two distinct races, breeds, varieties, species, or genera.) With that said, I have come to realize that there have been quite a few of these 'Hybrid Movies' that I have come to really love, and thus I decided that it would be cool to do a top 1o list of these types of movies….
So I hope you enjoy, my top 10 favorite hybrid movies list:
At number 10: Zone Troopers (1985)
Directed by: Danny Bilson (The Wrong Guys) and starring Tim Thomerson (Near Dark), Timothy Van Patten (Class Of 1984), Art LaFleur (Cobra), Biff Manard (Blankman) and William Paulson (Terrorvision).
Zone Troopers tells the story of an American Military unit that is behind enemy lines during World War 2, and the Alien that helps them as they are trying to make it to there side of the war…
Please enjoy this trailer for the Scifi/War movie, Zone Troopers (1985):
And at number 9 we got: Screamers (1995)
Directed by: Christian Duguay (The Assignment). Starring: Peter Weller (RoboCop), Roy Dupuis (Waiting For Michelangelo), and Jennifer Rubin (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors).
This movie tells the story of a highly advanced, self replicating weapon that was created during a decade long war. The only problem is, is that these artificial creature have become their own self perpetuating species with one intention (to exeterminate life every where.)
Please enjoy this trailer for the movie, Screamers (1995):
At number 8 we got: Alien 3 (1992)
Directed by: David Fincher (Se7en). Starring: Sigourney Weaver (The Ghostbusters series), Charles S. Dutton (Menace II Society) and Lance Henriksen (Terminator)
This movie tells the story of how Ripley (Weaver), Newt (Played by: Carrie Henn in Aliens), Corporal Hicks (played by Michael Biehn in the previous movie) and Bishop (Henriksen) are going home after the epic battle at the planet that has been designated LV-426 (The same battle that whipped out all of Corporal Hicks platoon.)
The only problem is, is that an Alien egg was left on board the Ship, after Ripley's battle with the Alien Queen in the previous movie… and has infected and killed Newt. With that said, and with the ship automatically releasing the last remaining crew pods in to space. It is now up to Ripley (who is the lone survivor of the crash landed escape pod, as well the inhabitants of a former penal colony to kill the Alien before the Alien kills them!
With that said, please enjoy this trailer for the movie, Alien 3 (1992):
At number 7: Appleseed (2004)
Directed by: Shinji Aramaki (Sôsei Kishi Gaiâsu). Starring: Ai Kobayashi (Detroit Metal City), Jûrôta Kosugi (Kamen Raidâ Bureido), Yuki Matsuoka (Trinity Blood), Mami Koyama (Dragon Ball Z).
This Scifi/Animated movie tells the story of a war hero/soldier that is pulled from the battle field of a war in the badlands to help protect and save the utopian city/state of Olympus…
With that said, please enjoy this trailer for the Animated Scifi movie, Appleseed (2004) :
And at number 6 we have the classic Mel Brooks Sci Fi/Comedy, Young Frankenstein (1974)
Directed by: Mel Brooks (Space Balls): Starring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn (Nixon), Marty Feldman (The Last Remake Of Beau Geste) and Peter Boyle (Outland).
This movie tells the story of the descendant of the original Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who has tried as hard as he could to minimize his connection with his ancestor… That is until he inherits his ancestral Castle and starts up with those darned experiments again…
For more information on this movie, please enjoy the trailer for the movie, Young Frankenstein (1974):
With that said we come to the half way point of our journey. At number 5 we got: Westworld (1973)
Now here is an interesting hybrid movie, a Science Fiction/Western…
Written and Directed by: Michael Crichton (Coma) and starring: Yul Brynner (The Magnificent Seven), James Brolin (The Amityville Horror), and Richard Benjamin (Catch-22).
This movie tells the story of a futuristic theme park/resort where if your fantasy is to be a cowboy and fight off desperado's you can, if your thing is to live in rome, etc… then you can do so in this computer controlled., robot enhanced enviroment… That is until one day when everything goes haywire and the Robots start really going after the visitors!
For more information on this movie, please enjoy this trailer for, Westworld (1973):
At number 4 we got: Predator (1987)
Directed by: John McTiernan (Diehard). Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Red Sonja), Carl Weathers (Bucktown) and Bill Duke (Deep Cover)
Predator tells the story of an elite unit of American special forces that end up being attacked by an Alien Warrior while on a rescue mission in South America…
With that said, for more information on this movie, please enjoy the trailer for Predator (1987):
At Number 3 we got: The Crawling Eye (1958)
Directed by: Quentin Lawrence (Catweazle). Starring: Forrest Tucker (F Troop), Laurence Payne (Vampire Circus), Jennifer Jayne (They Came From Outer Space), Janet Munro (Swiss Family Robinson) and Warren Mitchell (Jabberwocky).
This classic Scifi/Horror movie tells the story of an Alien that is shrouded by a sub-zero, radioactive cloud that is killing mountain climbers that climb this swiss mountain. Now during this time, three people come to the town on vacation, two of them are sisters who decide to stop off in this town on vacation, while the other is an agent with the U.N. who has decided after getting a letter from a Professor friend of his, to not only go on vacation in that Swiss town, but to also find out what the emergency is, and to help try and stop it!
For more information on this movie, please enjoy the trailer for the movie, The Crawling Eye (1958):
And coming up to number 2 we got: Queen Of Blood (1966)
Written and Directed by: Curtis Harrington (Games) and starring John Saxon (From Dusk Till Dawn), Dennis Hopper (The Glory Stompers) Basil Rathbone (The Hound Of The Baskervilles), Judi Meredith (Dark Intruder) and Florence Marly (Doctor Death: Seeker Of Souls).
During a time in which man has begun to really venture to the stars, a distress signal is heard on Mars, so the Earth's space agency decides to send a couple of rescue teams to find out what happened… What they find out there, will make them think twice about Alien contact!
For more information on this movie, please enjoy the trailer for the movie, Queen Of Blood (1966):
And last but but by far certainly not least we got at number 1: Aliens (1986)
Personally I love the first 3 of these Hybrid films, I got a lot of fond memories of watching these movies when I was a kid! With that said, this movie does happen to be my favorite of the hybrid films to date.
For more information on this movie, please enjoy this trailer for the movie, Aliens (1986):
In Summation:
1. Aliens (1986)
2. Queen Of Blood (1966)
3. The Crawling Eye (1958)
4. Predator (1987)
5. Westworld (1973)
6. Young Frankenstein (1974)
7. Appleseed (2004)
8. Alien 3 (1992)
9. Screamers (1995)
10. Zone Troopers (1985)


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Let S and S' be the following subsets of the plane: and
a) Show that S' is an equivalence relation on the real line and that .
Proof: Reflexivity–
Transitivity- If then and thus z-y is the difference of two integers which implies that z-y is itself an integer.
To show that we note that which
b) Show that given any collection of equivalence relations on a set A, their intersection is an equivalence relation in A.
Proof: Let be a nonempty class of equivalence relations and let
Reflexivity- If then .
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Inside the Panic
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940
Strange exodus, with no Promised Land and no Moses. But in May 1940 in France, Belgium, and Holland, the word "exodus" came into use at once. It must have seemed appropriate to the biblical proportions of this human tide, which Hanna Diamond calls the largest population movement in history up to that point. On May 10, the very day Hitler launched his attack on France and the Low Countries, people began leaving their homes in potential combat zones. At its peak, between late May and mid-June 1940, some eight million French, Dutch, Belgian, and other refugees—no firm count could ever be made—were on the road. Counting witnesses, helpers, and relatives, a majority of the French population was affected by the exodus.
The monumental jam of weary pedestrians, laden peasant carts, jalopies with a mattress on the roof, luxury limousines, and retreating military that clogged the highways of western France from mid-May into mid-June 1940 was the single most powerful image of the fall of France. Observing from the air, French air force pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry thought of a grape squeezer: a whole people was flowing along the roads "like a black juice."1 Soon a large part of this people would accept the father figure of Marshal Philippe Pétain with relief.
In her readable and well-informed book, the first general account in English and one of the most satisfactory in any language,2 Hanna Diamond states that the exodus of 1940 had no precedent. That is true if one refers to its extent and its political impact. But noncombatants had always fled from battlefields. Pitiful refugees with their meager possessions trying to escape from armies were a familiar form of misery from earliest times up through the particularly devastating Thirty Years' War that began in 1618 and on to the evacuation of Moscow as Napoleon approached in 1812.
By the outbreak of World War I, warfare had come to encompass far wider areas and to entail far greater destruction. The exodus of August and September 1914—contemporary journalists already used the term—in which civilians fled the invading Germans in Belgium and northern France reached proportions approaching those of 1940. About a million Belgians escaped into neutral Holland, where about 100,000 remained interned for the duration of the war. Another quarter of a million Belgian refugees reached England. Still others entered northern France, where the local inhabitants joined them on the road.
Rumors of atrocities by German soldiers fed the urge to flee. After World War I, such rumors were often debunked and the stories of German soldiers' misdeeds attributed to Allied war propaganda. Recently this subject was brilliantly demystified by John Horne and Alan Kramer of Trinity College, Dublin, who showed that while the babies with severed hands and the mass rapes were mostly if not entirely imaginary, and while the Allies did indeed use these rumors for propaganda, German soldiers' violence against civilians in Belgium and northern France was very real.3 Drawing upon its belief that armed…
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As I was doing my prep for this weekend's Best Bets, my prevailing thought was not about any specific team, coach or player. It wasn't about how I went 5-1 last week to get my groove back in a huge way (although that was pretty sweet by me). My prevailing thought was "Damn, I can't believe it's already Week NINE of the college football season."
College football is, by far, the season with the fastest pace, in which it seems to come and go in the blink of an eye. So let's enjoy these last few weeks of the upcoming season together by — CHA-CHING — cashing in! Shall we?
Here are this weekend's college and NFL picks to make us rich...
WEST VIRGINIA +7.5 over Oklahoma State
These are two teams that have one thing in common — their one Big XII loss is to TCU! Oklahoma State is coming off an ugly 13-10 win over Texas in Austin, and the Mountaineers are coming off a crazy 38-36 win in Waco over Baylor. West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen was once OSU's offensive coordinator under Mike Gundy, so there's a little extra oomph in that matchup. This is a clash of two of the better signal callers in the country, Mason Rudolph of OSU and Will Grier of WVU, and there will be fireworks. Give me the home team at more than one score in a probable shootout.
Iowa State +6.5 over TCU
Over the past few weeks, we have seen a slew of undefeated Top 10 teams get knocked off, many by unranked teams. Iowa State, in fact, was one of those teams when they beat Oklahoma in Norman three weeks ago. The Cyclones no longer qualify as unranked (No. 25 in the AP poll), but this is a super-dangerous spot for the Horned Frogs, with Texas and Oklahoma coming up the next two weeks. Human nature may have them looking ahead, the effects of which get exacerbated on the road. Toads win a close one and stay unbeaten, but we cash our ticket!
NOTRE DAME -7 over N.C. State
This is a matchup of two of the hottest teams in the country. The Wolfpack have won every game since a season-opening loss to South Carolina, and Notre Dame has reeled off five straight wins by 20 points or more, and covered in all five games, the latest of which was a 35-point pasting of archrival USC last weekend. Notre Dame's running game is practically unstoppable right now, behind a gigantic, senior-laden offensive line. The Irish have high hopes of sneaking into the College Football Playoff, and will need not just wins, but IMPRESSIVE wins, to make the committee notice. They will be relentless this Saturday.
SAINTS -8 over Bears
I think it's time we start taking the Saints seriously as a contender in the NFC South, especially with Atlanta regressing badly on offense, Tampa Bay being a freaking carnival of errors and Carolina's issues with inconsistency. The Saints are 4-2 after a workmanlike win over an Aaron Rodgers-less Packer team in Green Bay, and now they get to play a Bears team that trusted its rookie QB enough to allow him to throw the ball a paltry seven times last weekend, and they get them in the Superdome. Love the Saints here.
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SEAHAWKS -5.5 over Texans
I'll have a lot more on this game tomorrow, but I told myself if the spread was under a touchdown, I would bet the Seahawks (for investment purposes, and root for the Texans with my heart!)
Chargers/PATRIOTS OVER 49
This feels like the Texans and Panthers games that the Patriots played a month or so ago, where the final score had both teams in the 30s. Lots of points here.
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lucrative adj. 赚钱的,有利可图的(profitable;remunerative)
[例]Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a conventional but lucrative practice in London.
[同]advantageous, gainful, profitable, remunerative
ludicrous adj. 荒唐可笑的(so foolish as to cause disrespectful laughter)
[例]Although his attempts to appear psychotic were so clumsy as to be almost ludicrous , there is evidence that Ezra Pound was able to avoid standing trial for treason merely by faking symptoms of mental illness.
[同]laughable, comic, comical, droll, farcical
lugubrious adj. 悲哀的(mournful);忧郁的(dismal)
[例]Much of the clown's success may be attributed to the contrast between the lugubrious manner he adopts and the general hilarity that characterizes the circus.
[同]melancholy, dolesome, dolorous, lamentable, plaintive
luminous adj. 发光的(emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light);发亮的(of or relating to light or to luminous flux);光线亮的(bathed in or exposed to steady light);明白易懂的(clear, enlightening);有光泽的(shining, illustrious)
[例]Although supernovas are among the most luminous of cosmic events, these stellar explosions are often hard to detect, either because they are enormously far away or because they are dimmed by intervening dust and gas clouds.


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Fuu and the other two come to a standstill in a certain town, where the three decide to find some part-time work. Jin becomes a vendor pulling a cart, where a woman tells him she is set to begin working in the red light district starting the next day.