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thinking about stranded again.......

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Wrap Your Head Around This: BTC Is Now Featured as a Token on Ethereum

It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token.Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.Kyber Network, Bitgo and Ren spearheaded the “community led” initiative, which has spread its reach to AirSwap, BitGo, Blockfolio, Compound, DDEX / Hydro, Dharma, Gnosis, GOPAX, Kyber Network, Loopring Protocol, MakerDAO, OmiseGO, Prycto, Ren, Set Protocol, and TheOcean. These members of the WBTC DAO are a mixture of liquidity, infrastructure and custodial partners. The token’s network will rely on some of them to facilitate BTC to WBTC swaps for its users.To exchange their BTC for WBTC or vice versa, users must enter into a request with a WBTC merchant, someone who basically “sells” (or more accurately, distributes) WBTC to users in exchange for bitcoin (or bitcoin in exchange for WBTC) and go through KYC. These merchants act as a go-between for the user and the network’s liquidity pool, the custodians.That merchant takes this request to a custodian, who will either deny or honor the request and mint or burn WBTC for the user. Minting and burning takes place directly between the merchant and the custodian through an atomic swap, a protocol that allows users to trustlessly trade assets cross-chain —in this case, BTC and WBTC.To trigger the process, a merchant would submit a minting request to an Ethereum smart contract while simultaneously sending bitcoin to the custodian.“The custodian then waits for 6 confirmations on the bitcoin chain, and approves the minting request on the Ethereum network, and the approval triggers the mint operation in which the merchant gets the WBTC,” Yaron Velner, the CTO of Kyber Network, told Bitcoin Magazine.The user is not involved in this swap in this first swap in any way. To claim their tokens/bitcoin, the user then has to enter in either an atomic swap or a trusted exchange with the merchant.Kyber Network and Republic Protocol will kickstart the network as its first merchants, andEight Wrapped Bitcoin community members(AirSwap, Dharma, ETHfinex, GOPAX, Kyber Network, Prycto, Ren and Set Protocol) will kickstart the network’s WBTC and BTC liquidity vehicle as merchants, while BitGo will be the sole custodian to start.Members of the WBTC DAO will oversee a multisignature wallet that will handle the permissions and keys necessary for assigning or retracting merchant and custodian roles.The (Peg) Ins and OutsThe project promises to bring Ethereum smart contract utility to bitcoin and the benefit of bitcoin’s liquidity to ether’s token market.Currently, Ethereum dominates the decentralized exchange (DEX) landscape, and there’s no way for traders to directly trade their bitcoin for tokens (they have to go through centralized exchanges for that). Giving traders the option to import bitcoin to Ethereum to trade its value as an ERC-20 token, WBTC could unleash a sea of bitcoin liquidity into Ethereum’s Decentralized Exchanges — this is likely why IDEX, the largest DEX on Ethereum, is involved, along with Airswap, DDEX, ETHfinex and others).As an ERC-20 token, WBTC can also execute smart contracts, meaning dApps could use the token (like WBTC community partners Compound, Dharma, dYdX, bZx, Gnosis, Maker and Set protocol), and developers can start building new applications on WBTC. Wholesale, the project sells itself as “ the benefits of Ethereum and Bitcoin, making it simple to handle the wrapped currency with only the Ethereum node.”It’s an ambitious project, bringing together crypto’s two most valued networks, one that wants to utilize the best of both cipher worlds. It’s one, though, that Wrapped Bitcoin is backing up with immediate utility and liquidity at launch, but it’s also one that comes with tradeoffs.“Kyber Network and Ren have procured an initial amount of WBTC tokens from their own Bitcoin inventory to provide initial liquidity and make WBTC immediately available for swaps with users. BitGo will be the initial custodian,” a press release states.“Eight initial merchants will be facilitating conversion between WBTC and BTC: AirSwap, Dharma, ETHfinex, GOPAX, Kyber Network, Prycto, Ren, and Set Protocol.”The token service is starting centralized, and you have to go through KYC to be verified with merchants to submit token minting or burning requests. BitGo will be the sole custodian from the beginning, meaning that all swaps will be conducted by the blockchain and wallet services company.“Various decentralized and centralized exchanges have also procured WBTC inventory to support liquidity for the token with the live supply of WBTC observable on the WBTC dashboard,” the press release also states.” WBTC will also have usage on a handful of dApps out the gate, including “bZx, Compound, Dharma, dYdX, and DApps and wallets integrated with Kyber Network.” CoinGecko, the project’s market data partner, will be covering WBTC data.Cautions and ClarificationsThe service is fairly centralized out of the gate, something the project recognizes in its whitepaper, describing its structure as a “federated governance model.” Even if the merchants are distributed (and sparsely at that for the time being), BitGo’s custody of pegged-in bitcoin is both a counterparty risk and single point of failure. Of course, BitGo has multisignature and cold wallet services to mitigate these risks.But for a project that brands itself as giving users an out from centralized services like exchanges, it offers a similar degree of centralization with just a few more steps (instead of submitting your coins to the custody of a centralized exchange, you’re putting them in custody with a separate company and then using the tokens of credit this company gives you (instead of the credit you’d use on the centralized exchange) to trade them elsewhere.Still a functional bitcoin-to-ethereum bridge is a novel addition to the industry's architecture, something that RSK is working on and Blockstream could theoretically build with Liquid. And, as Vitalik Buterin said on Twitter, Liquid’s federated sidechain is semi-subject to the same centralization as Wrapped Bitcoin, but Liquid’s liquidity partners are more evenly distributed (and don’t require a third party for custody).WBTC, like Liquid, could sufficiently decentralize in the future given enough adoption, Buterin concludes. Sidechains like Liquid work in exactly the same way. Granted Liquid currently has more participants, but I hope WBTC can decentralize somewhat over time too.— Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) January 30, 2019 Wrapped Bitcoin lists BitGo as its “initial” custodian, leaving a vague sense that more will come in the future, but they will have to be regulated to hold the bitcoin, the project’s whitepaper makes clear If its influence fans out, more merchants and custodians could provide some risk mitigation and help the project decentralize. Its website has open applications for partnerships, keeping with the initiative's claim to be a community-driven effort.“The fundamental design of WBTC and the continuing commitment of all members to openness will form the essential building blocks for a transparent process framework and governance structure. Relying on these foundational principles, WBTC will remain a firmly community-led initiative into the future, focused on driving continued innovation for the enhancement of the entire ecosystem.” Source link Read the full article

[nwbeerguide]

Pelican Brewing's responds after Kiwanda Cream Ale wins at this year's Oregon Beer Awards

image courtesy Pelican Brewing Company

Press Release

Pacific City, Oregon ... Pelican Brewing Company last night earned another Gold medal for its popular flagship brew Kiwanda Cream Ale at Oregon’s Academy Awards Ceremony for beer, the Oregon Beer Awards.  Kiwanda Cream Ale, one of Pelican’s top-selling and most-decorated brews with 45 medals, won a Gold in the German Kölsch category—a clear, top-fermented beer with a bright, straw-yellow hue. 

The Oregon Beer Awards select and celebrate Oregon’s top beers in 22 categories, and honor Oregon's exceptional breweries, bars and festivals in seven additional categories. It is the only statewide double blind beer tasting competition in Oregon. Last year, OBA recognized 42 medalists in 14 categories out of 525 individual entries by 78 breweries in 25 cities. In 2016-17, 974 beers were entered by 112 breweries in 34 cities.

Inspired by one of America's traditional indigenous 19th century beer styles, Kiwanda Cream Ale is a nod to Pelican’s founding brewmaster Darron Welch’s love of history and reputation for brewing beers as they are intended to be. Pelican is the first known craft brewer to revive the pre-Prohibition style of American Cream Ale.

Made of all local, hand-sourced ingredients, the Kölsch Gold medal winner Kiwanda Cream Ale is pale gold with a fruity, floral hop aroma, golden color, refreshing body and clean, snappy finish. Two-row malt, flaked barley, Mt. Hood hops, CaraPils malt, pure local water and pure ale yeast combine to make Kiwanda Pelican’s flagship and fastest selling brew:

·         ABV: 5.4% ·         IBU: 25 ·         Plato: 12°

“It is an honor to have accepted this award on behalf of Pelican—we’ve been brewing Kiwanda Cream since the brewery was founded 21 years ago and the fact that it still tops the charts is a thrill," says Maia Chong, Pelican Brewing sales representative. 

If you love Pelican’s flagship beer, you’re not alone—Kiwanda Cream Ale is now available in 12-packs in the grocery craft beer aisle as well as 6-packs, 22 oz. bottles and on-draft.

“The beauty of Kiwanda is it is so delicious you can just enjoy and not have to think about, or you can sit back and sip it slowly and savor the complex malt flavors and hop aromas,” says Jim Prinzing, CEO, Pelican Brewing Company. “Kiwanda is a rare beer that both craft beer aficionados and casual drinkers can enjoy equally and in many ways it is a lot like the Pelican Brewing—approachable and not pretentious, but with care given to every detail.”   

Born at the Beach Pelican was born at the beach 20 years ago as a small, stand alone brewpub in a small town on the Oregon coast—Pacific City.  Pacific City is still a small town, but with consistent growth and demand for its products, Pelican sales are up more than 500% from 3,500 barrels in 2013 to 18,000 barrels this year. The company recently doubled its brewing and bottling capacity at its Tillamook facility and opened a new brewpub in Cannon Beach. Pelican also recently won a bronze medal at the World Brew Cup℠ and eight medals including Champion Medium International Brewery at the Australian International Beer Awards.

About Pelican Brewing Company Pelican Brewing Company was founded in 1996 by Jeff Schons and Mary Jones in Pacific City with Oregon's only oceanfront brewpub. Celebrating its 20th year, the brewing company has created masterpieces like Kiwanda Cream Ale, India Pelican Ale, MacPelican’s Scottish Ale, Tsunami Stout and Doryman’s Dark. With the vision, creativity and brewing expertise of founding brewmaster Darron Welch, Pelican Brewing has won over 300 awards including the 2014 World Beer Cup© Champion Small Brewing Company and Brewmaster of the Year. Pelican Brewing currently distributes 22oz bottles, 12oz bottles in 6-packs, a new mixed 12-pack, and 50 liter and 20 liter kegs via a network of distributors in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii and Vermont. The company operates brewing and brewpub facilities in Pacific City, Tillamook and Cannon Beach.

For more information, visit Pelican Brewing Company.

from The Northwest Beer Guide http://bit.ly/2mkT8As

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PROJECT TOPIC ON ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN BENIN METROPOLIS, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

PROJECT TOPIC ON ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN BENIN METROPOLIS, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

PROJECT TOPIC ON ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN BENIN METROPOLIS, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

    This study undertook an “Assessment of the Role performance of Secondary School Principals in Benin Metropolis”. Eight objectives were set out to be achieved andeight research questions were formulated while eight null hypotheses were stated and…

[howardlyontx]

New push to clear the air in Europe .. Automotive News TV/car news

thanks for joining us on this Friday morningcoming up driverless benefits for the blind but first your headlines severaldevelopments on the diesel front first luxury brand OD has launched a recallfor up to 850,000 diesel fuel cars in EuropeHowdy’s thing today that it plans to update emissions control software thisin a bid to avoid potential driving bans how D says the service is also beingoffered to Porsche and Volkswagen branded cars using the same six andeight cylinder engines earlier this week Daimler announced similar plans to cutdiesel pollution including investing 255 million dollars to update more than 3million mercedes-benz diesel cars in Europe according to Reuters autoindustry officials and politicians in Germany have agreed on a two point threebillion dollar plan to prevent diesel bans by cleaning up vehicles throughsoftware updates meantime the European Commission is set to be examiningwhether German automakers colluded in systems they use to clean exhaustemissions the German business newspaper handles blond says the collusion probewas triggered by an Audi presentation that was seized in raids at VW howdy isa division of Volkswagen Group spokesman for the EU Volkswagen and Audi alldeclining to comment and in the u. s. Volkswagen will pay the state ofCalifornia an additional one hundred fifty four million dollars in penaltiesstemming from the automakers emission scandal the California Air ResourcesBoard announcing that it had filed a consent decree requiring the additionalpayment as The Associated Press reports this takes VW’s total settlement inCalifornia to 1. 3 billion dollars Ford is shaking up his design team to shortenproduct development cycles and better define the group’s overarching stressgee among the changes Joel pious Kowski director of Ford of Europe design comesto the US as global director of design overseeing cars and crossovers ChrisVenson design director of the Americas has been named global director of designoverseeing trucks suvs and commercial vehicles david Woodhouse director ofLincoln design takes on the additional role of director of global strategicdesign an uncle lienard’s who will replace pius Kowski as director of fordof europe design for more on the changes see oughtta news. comfinally a gala night in Detroit Thursday as the automotive Hall of Fame inductedits latest numbers among those enshrine in this year’s class former GeneralMotors design chief Ed Welburn Jack Roush the CEO of Roush Fenway Racing andchairman of Roush Enterprises in Alberto Bamba say President of breaking giantBrembo the hall also inducting the late August FRU Hoff inventor of thesemi-trailer and founder of the fru-u– Hoff trailer company his granddaughterRuth accepting on his behalfself-driving cars had the potential to transform mobility for the elderly andpeople with disabilities that’s why advocates for the blind for example havejoined automakers and tech companies in lobbying Congress to help spur therollout of driverless cars the intention of this legislation is to increaseself-driving vehicle testing on US highways a US House panel on Wednesdayapproved their first legislation on autonomous vehicles and advocates forthe blind have a special set of concerns as bloomberg reports the advocates wantaccessibility incorporated into car design and states to steer clear of lawsthat would prohibit the blind from one day sitting in the driver’s seat onechallenge today is that policy makers and companies working on fullyautonomous cars assume riders see the road aheadcase in point some states including New York already have laws that requireoperators of automated vehicles to have a driver’s license which requires avision test time companies including Google’s way Moe unit and GM are gettinginput from the blind as they develop robot cars the vehicles though stillmany years away from being widely availableremember your industry news update is available 24/7 atnews. com enjoy your weekend we’ll see you right back here Monday morning

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New push to clear the air in Europe .. Automotive News TV/car news

thanks for joining us on this Friday morningcoming up driverless benefits for the blind but first your headlines severaldevelopments on the diesel front first luxury brand OD has launched a recallfor up to 850,000 diesel fuel cars in EuropeHowdy’s thing today that it plans to update emissions control software thisin a bid to avoid potential driving bans how D says the service is also beingoffered to Porsche and Volkswagen branded cars using the same six andeight cylinder engines earlier this week Daimler announced similar plans to cutdiesel pollution including investing 255 million dollars to update more than 3million mercedes-benz diesel cars in Europe according to Reuters autoindustry officials and politicians in Germany have agreed on a two point threebillion dollar plan to prevent diesel bans by cleaning up vehicles throughsoftware updates meantime the European Commission is set to be examiningwhether German automakers colluded in systems they use to clean exhaustemissions the German business newspaper handles blond says the collusion probewas triggered by an Audi presentation that was seized in raids at VW howdy isa division of Volkswagen Group spokesman for the EU Volkswagen and Audi alldeclining to comment and in the u. s. Volkswagen will pay the state ofCalifornia an additional one hundred fifty four million dollars in penaltiesstemming from the automakers emission scandal the California Air ResourcesBoard announcing that it had filed a consent decree requiring the additionalpayment as The Associated Press reports this takes VW’s total settlement inCalifornia to 1. 3 billion dollars Ford is shaking up his design team to shortenproduct development cycles and better define the group’s overarching stressgee among the changes Joel pious Kowski director of Ford of Europe design comesto the US as global director of design overseeing cars and crossovers ChrisVenson design director of the Americas has been named global director of designoverseeing trucks suvs and commercial vehicles david Woodhouse director ofLincoln design takes on the additional role of director of global strategicdesign an uncle lienard’s who will replace pius Kowski as director of fordof europe design for more on the changes see oughtta news. comfinally a gala night in Detroit Thursday as the automotive Hall of Fame inductedits latest numbers among those enshrine in this year’s class former GeneralMotors design chief Ed Welburn Jack Roush the CEO of Roush Fenway Racing andchairman of Roush Enterprises in Alberto Bamba say President of breaking giantBrembo the hall also inducting the late August FRU Hoff inventor of thesemi-trailer and founder of the fru-u– Hoff trailer company his granddaughterRuth accepting on his behalfself-driving cars had the potential to transform mobility for the elderly andpeople with disabilities that’s why advocates for the blind for example havejoined automakers and tech companies in lobbying Congress to help spur therollout of driverless cars the intention of this legislation is to increaseself-driving vehicle testing on US highways a US House panel on Wednesdayapproved their first legislation on autonomous vehicles and advocates forthe blind have a special set of concerns as bloomberg reports the advocates wantaccessibility incorporated into car design and states to steer clear of lawsthat would prohibit the blind from one day sitting in the driver’s seat onechallenge today is that policy makers and companies working on fullyautonomous cars assume riders see the road aheadcase in point some states including New York already have laws that requireoperators of automated vehicles to have a driver’s license which requires avision test time companies including Google’s way Moe unit and GM are gettinginput from the blind as they develop robot cars the vehicles though stillmany years away from being widely availableremember your industry news update is available 24/7 atnews. com enjoy your weekend we’ll see you right back here Monday morning

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Grime On Your Phone Can Reveal Huge Insights Into Your Life

It isnt just the stuff you get up to on your phone that canreveal your dirtiest secrets, its also the chemicals, molecules, and microbes on them.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that researchers can identify a persons lifestyle based on the molecule traces left on an everyday object. This includes their diet, if theyre on medication, their choice of soap or moisturizer, whether theyre ill, where theyve been, and a handful of other personal habits.

You can imagine a scenario where a crime scene investigator comes across a personal object like a phone, pen or key without fingerprints or DNA, or with prints or DNA not found in the database. They would have nothing to go on to determine who that belongs to, seniorauthor Pieter Dorrestein, a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, said in astatement. So we thought what if we take advantage of left-behind skin chemistry to tell us what kind of lifestyle this person has?

They put their highly sensitive technique of mass spectrometry to the test by gathering 39 participants and swapping four spots on each of their phones andeight spots on each of their hands. They then paired these results with a crowdsourced database of chemical structures from commercial products and medicines.

Although they couldnt create one-to-one matches like fingerprints or DNA evidence, they created a personalized lifestyle read-out from each phone. This picked up on things such as if they had used anti-fungal skin creams, hair loss treatments, eye drops, or antidepressants. It even managed to tell if they had used sunscreen or insect repellent in the past few months.

“By analyzing the molecules theyve left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely female, uses high-end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray and therefore likely spends a lot of time outdoors all kinds of things, added first author Amina Bouslimani.

Not only that, but thechemicals on the participants’ hands could matched to their individual devices. In 69 percent of the cases we could perfectly match up the chemical profile, the molecular profile, on the phone to the person that it belonged to, said Dorrestein.

This technique has its obvious applications in forensics and police work, like detecting traces of firearms, explosives, or illegal drugs. However, the researchers also hope it could be used in medical and environmental studies. For example, it could test for a persons exposure to environmental pollutants or chemical hazards. It could also assess how people are metabolizing medications during clinicaltrials.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/grime-on-your-phone-can-reveal-huge-insights-into-your-life/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/grime-on-your-phone-can-reveal-huge-insights-into-your-life/

[adambstingus]

Grime On Your Phone Can Reveal Huge Insights Into Your Life

It isnt just the stuff you get up to on your phone that canreveal your dirtiest secrets, its also the chemicals, molecules, and microbes on them.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that researchers can identify a persons lifestyle based on the molecule traces left on an everyday object. This includes their diet, if theyre on medication, their choice of soap or moisturizer, whether theyre ill, where theyve been, and a handful of other personal habits.

You can imagine a scenario where a crime scene investigator comes across a personal object like a phone, pen or key without fingerprints or DNA, or with prints or DNA not found in the database. They would have nothing to go on to determine who that belongs to, seniorauthor Pieter Dorrestein, a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, said in astatement. So we thought what if we take advantage of left-behind skin chemistry to tell us what kind of lifestyle this person has?

They put their highly sensitive technique of mass spectrometry to the test by gathering 39 participants and swapping four spots on each of their phones andeight spots on each of their hands. They then paired these results with a crowdsourced database of chemical structures from commercial products and medicines.

Although they couldnt create one-to-one matches like fingerprints or DNA evidence, they created a personalized lifestyle read-out from each phone. This picked up on things such as if they had used anti-fungal skin creams, hair loss treatments, eye drops, or antidepressants. It even managed to tell if they had used sunscreen or insect repellent in the past few months.

“By analyzing the molecules theyve left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely female, uses high-end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray and therefore likely spends a lot of time outdoors all kinds of things, added first author Amina Bouslimani.

Not only that, but thechemicals on the participants’ hands could matched to their individual devices. In 69 percent of the cases we could perfectly match up the chemical profile, the molecular profile, on the phone to the person that it belonged to, said Dorrestein.

This technique has its obvious applications in forensics and police work, like detecting traces of firearms, explosives, or illegal drugs. However, the researchers also hope it could be used in medical and environmental studies. For example, it could test for a persons exposure to environmental pollutants or chemical hazards. It could also assess how people are metabolizing medications during clinicaltrials.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/grime-on-your-phone-can-reveal-huge-insights-into-your-life/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/175692776472

[allofbeercom]

Grime On Your Phone Can Reveal Huge Insights Into Your Life

It isnt just the stuff you get up to on your phone that canreveal your dirtiest secrets, its also the chemicals, molecules, and microbes on them.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that researchers can identify a persons lifestyle based on the molecule traces left on an everyday object. This includes their diet, if theyre on medication, their choice of soap or moisturizer, whether theyre ill, where theyve been, and a handful of other personal habits.

You can imagine a scenario where a crime scene investigator comes across a personal object like a phone, pen or key without fingerprints or DNA, or with prints or DNA not found in the database. They would have nothing to go on to determine who that belongs to, seniorauthor Pieter Dorrestein, a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, said in astatement. So we thought what if we take advantage of left-behind skin chemistry to tell us what kind of lifestyle this person has?

They put their highly sensitive technique of mass spectrometry to the test by gathering 39 participants and swapping four spots on each of their phones andeight spots on each of their hands. They then paired these results with a crowdsourced database of chemical structures from commercial products and medicines.

Although they couldnt create one-to-one matches like fingerprints or DNA evidence, they created a personalized lifestyle read-out from each phone. This picked up on things such as if they had used anti-fungal skin creams, hair loss treatments, eye drops, or antidepressants. It even managed to tell if they had used sunscreen or insect repellent in the past few months.

“By analyzing the molecules theyve left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely female, uses high-end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray and therefore likely spends a lot of time outdoors all kinds of things, added first author Amina Bouslimani.

Not only that, but thechemicals on the participants’ hands could matched to their individual devices. In 69 percent of the cases we could perfectly match up the chemical profile, the molecular profile, on the phone to the person that it belonged to, said Dorrestein.

This technique has its obvious applications in forensics and police work, like detecting traces of firearms, explosives, or illegal drugs. However, the researchers also hope it could be used in medical and environmental studies. For example, it could test for a persons exposure to environmental pollutants or chemical hazards. It could also assess how people are metabolizing medications during clinicaltrials.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/grime-on-your-phone-can-reveal-huge-insights-into-your-life/

[doctorwhoisadhd]

aw andy + eight going on a little solo date <3

[ubfriends]

Canada UBF (Winnipeg UBF) Cult Recruits on Campus Part One: In the Beginning…

The Projector: Student’s JournalDate September 25, 1989CULT ON CAMPUSCult Recruits on CampusPart One: In the Beginning…By Kim Van BruggenAdministration is warning stu-dents to stay away from a religious cult attempting to infiltratethe college.Known members of the University Bible Fellowship are attending classes at the college,according to Brian Hanson, V.P.Student Affairs.“They are primarily here to recruit,” Hanson said.The group has been active onthe U of W campus for the lastfour years, before being bannedfrom the property.They moved on to the U of Mcampus in February 1988, butwere forced off the campus afterwidespread publicity made re-cruiting difficult.“They call themselves missionaries, and the core of the group isKorean,” Gordon Gillespie ofManitoba Cult Awareness said. “It all starts very simply.They’ll try to zero in on the lonelyones. They’ll invite them out inthe evening to read the bible, ortake them out for lunch,” Gillespiesaid.“They use an orthodox bible,but they put their own meaningsto it.”The UBF started in Korea inthe early sixties. The headquarters of the group are now based inChicago under the direction offounding members Samuel Leeand Sarah Barry. There are UBFchapters in the U.S., Canada andeight other nations.“Ultimately, they want you towork full-time for them, recruiting students. They want you tolive with them.” he said.“It starts out very slowly, butonce they get to work on you it’svery hard to break away,” he said.After a long struggle, TheresaChaisson, 23, has managed toseparate herself from the group.“I had nightmares the first yearafter I left. I’d wake up in themiddle of the night in a coldsweat,” the second year RRCCnursing student said.Chaisson first came into contact with UBF while nursing atthe Health Sciences Center.“A friend invited me to biblestudy.” “That’s how they approach the students. They ask, ‘Have you ever studied bible?’ or ‘Do you believe in God?'”The UBF “church” is a house located in Fort Garry.“Once you’re there, they shower you with praise and kindness, making you the center of their attention—they call it “lovebombing,” Chaisson said.“They’ll get settled into the college and then send a certain number of missionaries to ‘pioneer the college” (a term used throughout UBF when they are recruiting.)“There are three Korean women—UBF members–enrolled at the college.”“I’ve seen them hanging around a cute little student and I could’ve just died. They’re surrounding her—she’s in the center of the three of them.”Next issue: The second part of Cult on Campus will detail what happens to a new recruit once inside the UBF, as described by former members.

[tragicbooks]

Taxpayer funds don't go toward abortion — which makes this move by Congress a bit weird.

Making the Hyde Amendment permanent would be a big step backward for reproductive rights.

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For the past 40 years, the Hyde Amendment has prevented federal tax dollars from paying for abortions.

While not a law, the amendment has become a routine addition to federal budgets — and a thorn in the side of reproductive rights advocates. For the most part, however, members of both parties have accepted its place in American politics and haven't put up too much of a fight so long as it remains merely a rider to be renewed on an annual basis and not a permanent law.

Pro- and anti-choice activists square off outside the Supreme Court in 2005. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would elevate the Hyde Amendment's status from budget rider to law.

On Jan. 13th, Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act. It's expected the full House will convene to vote on the bill — which is likely to pass, as it did in 2013 and 2015.

Less certain, however, is what chance the bill stands in the Senate, where it has been voted down after passing the House in each of the previous two attempts. To make it through the Senate, 52 Republicans and eight Democrats would have to join forces to put the bill on the president's desk.

Rep. Chris Smith. Photo by Kris Connor/ Getty Images.

Should it pass both chambers of Congress, President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill into law, fulfilling a campaign promise.

In September, Trump made a series of pledges aimed at courting anti-choice activists. Among those promises were plans to nominate "pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court," sign the so-called Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, defund Planned Parenthood "as long as they continue to perform abortions," and — yes — to make the Hyde Amendment permanent.

Early in the campaign, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spoke out against the Hyde Amendment.

Trump signs an executive order designed to restrict aid to nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion and family planning services. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images.

You may be asking yourself why it matters whether or not something that's been in effect for 40 years becomes permanent or not — and that's fair.

The truth is the Hyde Amendment, while a consistent part of American life in the post-Roe v. Wade world, disproportionately harms the 15.6 million low-income women who rely on Medicaid for their health care. By making the prohibition permanent, it becomes significantly more difficult to overturn (which would, again, require a majority in the House, a supermajority of 60 votes in the Senate, and the signature of the president to change).

The Hyde Amendment is discriminatory, outdated, sexist and wrong. #BeBoldEndHyde #United4Coverage http://pic.twitter.com/eXQZwHEL8W

— NARAL (@NARAL) September 28, 2016

Planned Parenthood warns the Hyde Amendment may result in women foregoing necessities like electricity, heat, and food in order to save funds to pay for an abortion out-of-pocket. Additionally, it may lead to dangerous attempts to self-induce an abortion.

Making the Hyde Amendment permanent would be a step backward for reproductive rights. Call your representative and senators and urge them to vote "no" on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act.

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New push to clear the air in Europe .. Automotive News TV/car news

thanks for joining us on this Friday morningcoming up driverless benefits for the blind but first your headlines severaldevelopments on the diesel front first luxury brand OD has launched a recallfor up to 850,000 diesel fuel cars in EuropeHowdy’s thing today that it plans to update emissions control software thisin a bid to avoid potential driving bans how D says the service is also beingoffered to Porsche and Volkswagen branded cars using the same six andeight cylinder engines earlier this week Daimler announced similar plans to cutdiesel pollution including investing 255 million dollars to update more than 3million mercedes-benz diesel cars in Europe according to Reuters autoindustry officials and politicians in Germany have agreed on a two point threebillion dollar plan to prevent diesel bans by cleaning up vehicles throughsoftware updates meantime the European Commission is set to be examiningwhether German automakers colluded in systems they use to clean exhaustemissions the German business newspaper handles blond says the collusion probewas triggered by an Audi presentation that was seized in raids at VW howdy isa division of Volkswagen Group spokesman for the EU Volkswagen and Audi alldeclining to comment and in the u. s. Volkswagen will pay the state ofCalifornia an additional one hundred fifty four million dollars in penaltiesstemming from the automakers emission scandal the California Air ResourcesBoard announcing that it had filed a consent decree requiring the additionalpayment as The Associated Press reports this takes VW’s total settlement inCalifornia to 1. 3 billion dollars Ford is shaking up his design team to shortenproduct development cycles and better define the group’s overarching stressgee among the changes Joel pious Kowski director of Ford of Europe design comesto the US as global director of design overseeing cars and crossovers ChrisVenson design director of the Americas has been named global director of designoverseeing trucks suvs and commercial vehicles david Woodhouse director ofLincoln design takes on the additional role of director of global strategicdesign an uncle lienard’s who will replace pius Kowski as director of fordof europe design for more on the changes see oughtta news. comfinally a gala night in Detroit Thursday as the automotive Hall of Fame inductedits latest numbers among those enshrine in this year’s class former GeneralMotors design chief Ed Welburn Jack Roush the CEO of Roush Fenway Racing andchairman of Roush Enterprises in Alberto Bamba say President of breaking giantBrembo the hall also inducting the late August FRU Hoff inventor of thesemi-trailer and founder of the fru-u– Hoff trailer company his granddaughterRuth accepting on his behalfself-driving cars had the potential to transform mobility for the elderly andpeople with disabilities that’s why advocates for the blind for example havejoined automakers and tech companies in lobbying Congress to help spur therollout of driverless cars the intention of this legislation is to increaseself-driving vehicle testing on US highways a US House panel on Wednesdayapproved their first legislation on autonomous vehicles and advocates forthe blind have a special set of concerns as bloomberg reports the advocates wantaccessibility incorporated into car design and states to steer clear of lawsthat would prohibit the blind from one day sitting in the driver’s seat onechallenge today is that policy makers and companies working on fullyautonomous cars assume riders see the road aheadcase in point some states including New York already have laws that requireoperators of automated vehicles to have a driver’s license which requires avision test time companies including Google’s way Moe unit and GM are gettinginput from the blind as they develop robot cars the vehicles though stillmany years away from being widely availableremember your industry news update is available 24/7 atnews. com enjoy your weekend we’ll see you right back here Monday morning

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