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March 03, 2017
23:52
FDA OKs Noctiva, First Treatment for Nocturnal Polyuria
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The newly approved drug reduces the number of times adults wake up at night to urinate because they overproduce urine.
FDA Approvals

23:50
Sveriges kvinnor deltar i strejken
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Initiativet till den svenska delen av Internationella Kvinnostrejken drivs av Feministiska Aktionsgruppen för Internationell Kvinnostrejk 8 mars – Sverige.

Agnes Lou representerade Socialistiska Partiet och Rött Forum på ett av förberedelsemötena inför kvinnostrejken i Stockholm:
– Det var ett bra möte med ett tjugotal kvinnor, de flesta under 40 år gamla, och med bakgrund från flera olika länder och rörelser. Detta är ett initiativ som i vissa länder kommer att mobilisera mycket stort. Det är viktigt och bra att det nu också nått Sverige och Stockholm, och som resonemangen gick på mötet kan detta bli starten på en ny feministisk rörelse eller grupp i Stockholm.
Fackförbundet SAC har varslat sina kvinnliga medlemmar om strejk och såväl gymnasieskolor, högskolor, komvuxutbildningar, SFI-skolor och olika arbetsplatser runt om i Stockholm och Sverige är involverade i strejken. Även många kvinnor som inte har arbetsplatser eller skolor att gå till deltar i strejken.

På de arbetsplatser där strejk utlysts kommer det inte i alla fall handla om total arbetsnedläggelse, även symboliska aktioner är en del av strejken. På Facebook-eventet ”Internationell kvinnostrejk 8 mars” kan ni läsa om olika varianter på “strejk” som planeras i Stockholm och Malmö.
Förberedelser pågår även i länder som Argentina, Tyskland, Brasilien, Chile, Sydkorea, Sverige, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Skottland, Honduras, Nordirland, Irland, Israel, Italien, Mexiko, Nicaragua, Peru, Polen, Ryssland, Turkiet och Uruguay.
– Vi lever i en värld som hatar, förtrycker och dödar kvinnor, men utan kvinnor stannar världen! Kvinnor i många olika länder har i alla tider använt strejken som kampmetod. Att strejka för mig innebär att inte stå till samhället och patriarkatets förfogande, att ta tillbaka makten över sin tid. Vi kvinnor, och framförallt invandrade kvinnor, bär upp samhällets produktion och reproduktion med våra kroppar, vår omsorg, våra kön, våra liv. Att för en dag vägra att ställa upp på det och gå samman med andra kvinnor över hela världen är ett kraftfullt sätt att protestera mot den misogyna, patriarkala, kapitalistiska världsordning som råder, säger Clara Lee Lundberg som är en av initiativtagarna till den svenska delen av strejken.

Isabella Höglund är en av de gymnasieelever som förbereder skolstrejken på Kulturamas Gymnasium i Stockholm:
– Det känns som att tjejers åsikter inte värderas lika mycket. Jag upplever ofta att när jag pratar så kommer män och pratar över en. Det händer också att gubbar skriker sexistiska saker efter en på stan, säger Isabella Höglund. Hon avslutar:
– Vi strejkar för att visa att vi täcker varandras ryggar. För att det måste bli en förändring. Trumps sexism, Putins legalisering av hustrumisshandel – det är inte okej. Speciellt vi unga måste ta täten, vi som har framtiden framför oss.

Marco Jamil Espvall

MANIFEST: Kallelse till Internationell Kvinnostrejk 8 mars 2017
Arbetet stannar och jorden skakar! Den 8 mars 2017 kommer världens kvinnor samlas tillsammans i ett gemensamt vrål genom en internationell kvinnostrejk.
Det är en dag då vi organiserar oss och omsätter i praktik den värld vi vill leva i.

#tamaktenöverdintid
Den åttonde mars 2017 tar vi makten över tiden och strejkar:

För ett samhälle utan förtryck och exploatering, där kvinnor och icke-binära behandlas med värdighet och respekt oavsett etnicitet, sexualitet, klass, funktionsvariation, ålder eller religion.

För alla dem som faller offer för patriarkalt våld och mord. För dessa röster som våldsamt släcks i Sverige och runt om i världen. I Sverige dödas mellan 15 och 20 kvinnor varje år.

För rätten att bestämma och ha autonomi över våra kroppar.
Mot mediernas reproduktion av sexism där våra och våra flickors kroppar framställs och erbjuds som en marknadsvara.

För att stoppa den nykoloniala kapitalistiska frammarsch som skapar och reproducerar ojämlika maktrelationer mellan fattiga och rika länder där kvinnor, barn och naturen drabbas värst.

För att inte leva under rädsla över att bli våldtagna eller att våra döttrar våldtas.
Vi organiserar oss och använder strejken som verktyg för att vi inte accepterar den patriarkala ordningen i det svenska samhället eller i världen.

Vi ser att läget är akut! Högerpopulismen och fascismens framfart gynnar och förstärker denna världsordning som verkar repressivt och förtryckande på oss alla.

Vi organiserar oss överallt: på våra arbetsplatser och i våra hem, i våra städer och i våra bostadsområden. Kraften i vår rörelse är de band som vi knyter mellan varandra.
Strejken blir social och transnationell när den rör sig mellan arbetsplats och samhälle.
Vi är del av ett globalt kvinnouppror.
Vi organiserar oss för vi glömmer inte. För att vi älskar, för att vi drömmer och för att vi vågar kämpa för att skapa en värld utan patriarkat och förtryck.

Den åttonde mars 2017 strejkar vi i förändringens, feminismens och framtidens namn.
Vi strejkar tillsammans i ett systerskap utan gränser!
Feministisk aktionsgrupp för internationell kvinnostrejk 8 mars – Sverige.
Stockholm, februari 2017.

Utdrag ur Feministiska Aktionsgruppens strejkmanifestet, hela manifestet återfinns på aktionsgruppens Facebook-event.

23:50
Today in Obamacare: The GOP plan keeps evolving — and looking more like ACA
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What we know about the newest Republican replacement plan.
The newest GOP replacement draft: what we know
We finally have a draft of the latest Republican replacement plan — Sen. Rand Paul couldn't find it, but Politico's Paul Demko did. The new plan is, by and large, similar to the old plan. But there is one key change in the works: Lawmakers are considering barring the highest-income Americans from qualifying for health insurance tax credits.

What it means: Both Obamacare and most Republican replacement plans include financial help for some Americans who purchase coverage on the individual market. These tax credits go toward the monthly premiums for health insurance.

While Obamacare’s credits are based on income, meaning poorer people get more help, the Republican plan would base them on age. The result would be regressive: Wealthy people would get more help buying insurance, while poor people would likely get less assistance.

Legislators are now considering the possibility of an income cap on who can qualify for financial help. This isn't quite the same as Obamacare's income-based tax credits; a low-income American still wouldn't get any more help than a middle-income American. But it would cut out the ultra wealthy. What we don't know at this point: where Republicans want to set that threshold for who is too wealthy to qualify.

Why Republicans are making this change: Republicans generally prefer age-based tax credits to income-based one. The justification is often twofold.
1. Age-based tax credits are easier to administer. When everyone gets the same amount, you don't have to set up programs to verify income.
2. Age-based tax credits eliminate work disincentives. Giving more help to people who earn the least, the argument goes, creates an incentive to stay in a lower-paying job and get more help.
That's the case for age-based tax credits. But lately, the case against this type of structure has emerged for two main reasons.
1. Some Republicans don't like the idea of helping the wealthiest Americans buy insurance. Messaging a tax credit for billionaires like Bill Gates could be a problem. “I’m not real eager to be providing tax credits to the Warren Buffetts of the United States,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told Politico this week. “I have a real problem with an open-ended tax credit for insurance that would go to very wealthy individuals.”
2. Universal tax credits are expensive. The more people who receive tax credits, the more funding Republicans will need to come up with. Capping the tax credit will likely reduce the bill's eventual cost score from the Congressional Budget Office.
The Obamacare replacement continues to look more like Obamacare
I've spent months now watching Republican replacement plans evolve from white papers to legislative language. The one thing that has struck me the most: They continue to look more and more like Obamacare.

Over the past few months, we've seen the size of the individual market tax credits go up — not all the way to the level of the Affordable Care Act, but certainly getting closer. The latest change, barring high-income people from receiving tax credits, would bring the GOP replacement even more in line with standing law.

Another place where you see this evolution: Medicaid expansion. Before the election, most Republican replacement plans would have eliminated the Medicaid expansion outright. But Republican governors have spoken out in the program's defense. Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Scott Walker of Wisconsin are currently working on a proposal that would keep the program intact.

The Republican replacement plans are, to be sure, not a mirror image of the Affordable Care Act. The Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt has a good list of some of the elements that don't exist under the new proposals:

Ways emerging GOP plans are NOT like the ACA:
Less help for low-income people.
No minimum benefits.
More age rating.
Caps on Medicaid $.
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) March 3, 2017

These are significant policy changes that will affect millions of Americans who rely on the health care law. But make no mistake: The Republican response is evolving, and each draft looks more like Obamacare, not less.
Chart of the Day EpiPen competitors' surge in wake of pricing debacle AthenaInsight
Remember that whole fight over EpiPen's 400 percent price hike this summer? New data from the health records firm AthenaHealth suggests it has cost the drug a whole lot of market share. The numbers show a surge in claims filed for EpiPen competitors in January and February. Read more here from AthenaHealth.
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- "How a Republican plan to shrink Medicaid could hurt red states": “'We’re very fortunate to have $2.5 billion coming into a state like Kentucky,’ said Dr. Eric Loy, who runs health centers in rural Kentucky that serve many patients on Medicaid. Loy said you can think of the money as an economic stimulus package. ‘If you look before the Affordable Care Act, there were four or five hospitals that were in bankruptcy,’ he said. ‘Now after [expanding Medicaid,] the hospitals have stabilized, the pharmacies have stabilized. Outpatient clinics have stabilized.’” —Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace
- "Tying ObamaCare repeal to Planned Parenthood worries some in GOP": “Some Republicans say tying Planned Parenthood to the ObamaCare bill could put the repeal at risk. ‘I think we should also separate out the Planned Parenthood issue from the broader healthcare issue. I think healthcare reform is controversial and complex enough without Planned Parenthood. Why put it in it puts this whole exercise more difficult,’ said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)” —Jessie Hellmann, The Hill
- "Employers gear up for next fight after Cadillac tax ": “The House Republicans' leaked draft of its ACA replacement plan would limit the tax break to the 90th percentile of current group health insurance premiums. Benefits above that threshold would be taxed. The cap would be the single source of revenue to fund the replacement plan, according to the draft. Republicans lawmakers say the draft is now outdated. Still, given the GOP support, it wouldn't be a surprise to see a change to the tax exclusion in the final plan.” —Shelby Livingston, Modern Healthcare

23:46
“Nobody Knew That Health Care Could Be So Complicated”
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This post is adapted from a recent segment of Mike Pesca’s podcast, The Gist. To listen to the audio version of this segment, click the player beneath this paragraph.

Nobody knew health care could be so complicated? Nobody? See, I thought everybody knew that. I’ve even seen a supercut put together by Politico of President Obama saying that, over and over again. “Health care is complicated.” “Our health care system is so complex.”

But there’s something more going on here than the simplest explanation, which is that Trump does not know what he’s talking about. In fact, you just have to decode what Trump is saying. When Donald Trump says “nobody,” what he really means is “almost everybody.”

Example: When Chris Wallace asked Trump how he felt about climate change, Trump responded, “Nobody really knows.” Meaning, almost every informed citizen knows climate change is real.

Likewise, Trump will often say there’s “nobody” better, which in Donald Trump’s mouth means “actually, millions of people are better.” So many, many better people.

Here’s another example:

Almost everybody could do it better than her!

If “nobody” means “pretty close to everybody,” what does “everybody” mean?

It means “almost nobody says that.” Pretty much nobody says Donald Trump’s financial review is very impressive!

So “everybody” means “almost nobody,” and “nobody” means “almost everybody.” To wit, here are a couple of things Donald Trump says he could do better than “anybody,” or what he knows more than “anybody”:

And who could forget this:

I think “everybody” agrees with him on that.

If “everybody” means closer to “nobody” and vice-versa, what about “somebody”? When does Donald Trump refer to the “somebodies,” the “some people”? Here’s when: when he needs to introduce a theory or crazily inaccurate statement that even he doesn’t want to own. “Some people,” “a lot of people,” “many are saying”:

Some people tell me. A lot of people are saying.

Here’s another example of what “some” folks are saying—this time, it was about President Obama not “getting” the fact that the Orlando nightclub attack should be labeled “Muslim” terrorism:

It’s not that Donald Trump can’t even speak the truth. It’s that we don’t speak Trump, and he expects us to. Can’t anybody speak Trump? And what does “anybody” mean in Trump, anyway?

No, not “anybody”—everybody!

Anybody can figure out what a certain somebody in the Oval Office means when he says “everybody” and “nobody.” Now, “some people” are saying this is not excusable—that there’s another word for it: rampant, wanton, uncontrolled lying. But “everybody” knows a president wouldn’t do that, right?

Anybody?

23:39
Fed-chefen flaggar för räntehöjning i mars
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En höjning i mars är lämplig om ekonomin utvecklas som väntat. Det sade Fed-chefen Janet Yellen i ett förskrivet tal på fredagen...

23:33
Sex spelare borta för landslagsspel – så här ställer Kif Örebro upp: "Får se vilka som tar chansen"
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Fem spelare från F19-laget i truppen.
Och första matcherna från start den här säsongen för ex-landslagsspelarna Marina Pettersson-Engström och Jenny Hjohlman sina första matcher från start den här säsongen.
Det blir resultatet när Kif Örebro saknar hela sex spelare på landslagsuppdrag i lördagens träningsmatch mot Mallbacken.

23:30
Melodifestivalen fönster för nysläppt singel
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Melodifestivalens öppningsnummer och mellanakter har inte gjort någon kritikersuccé. I Andra chansen står Linda Pira för pausunderhållningen, och framför sin nya singel – släppt två dagar innan sändning.

23:28
CRISPR Controversy Continues Despite Patent Win for Zhang
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Controversy continues in the weeks after the patent office resolved the CRISPR gene-editing suit. There is ongoing debate about the tradeoff between business incentives and scientific innovation.
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23:26
Amazon Explains S3 Internet Outage
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Some of you may have noticed part of the Internet was not working earlier this week. This is because Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) for the US-EAST-1 region partially went down and recently the company explained what happened. An S3 team in Northern Virginia was debugging an issue involving the S3 billing system and while following an established playbook during this work, one of the team members accidentally input an incorrect command. You see, S3 is designed to endure a loss of capacity due to removal or failure, and for the work being done, the team was going to take a small number of servers offline. However, the wrong input was used for one of these commands, causing far more servers to shut down than intended.

As it turns out, these servers that were inadvertently taken offline supported two S3 subsystems, the index subsystems and the placement subsystem. The index subsystems is necessary for all GET, LIST, PUT, and DELETE requests, while the placement subsystem is needed for allocating storage during a PUT request. Because of how many servers were removed, both of these subsystems needed to be restarted, and during that time S3 could not take requests. The restarting process also took a long time because of all the safety checks that needed to be done to validate the metadata and how much S3 has grown in recent years. Once the index subsystem was up the GET, LIST, and DELETE APIs were functional and then the placement subsystem could start recovering. Once this was done, S3 was operating normally, but some services needed to catchup on a backlog of work from the disruption.

To prevent this from happening again, the tool that shut down the servers has been changed to remove capacity more slowly and has safeguards to prevent capacity from dropping below a minimal level. Other tools are also being audited to add similar checks. Finally, a plan to partition S3 subsystems into smaller cells later this year has been moved up to happen immediately, as smaller partitions will limit the radius of future failures and improve recovery.

Source: Amazon

23:20
Want to see what protests can be? Look at what they have been.
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Throughout history, the most successful protest movements have been the ones that have set their own agendas.

The most successful protest movements in history have been the ones that have set their own agendas. Whether abolitionists, women’s suffrage advocates, or civil rights activists, progressive change movements have gained influence by disrupting politics as usual — not by slavishly aligning themselves with electoral parties.

However, electoral politics — in particular, Democrats’ desire to win the next round of elections — is distorting conversations about the significance of the protests that have unfolded since the election of Donald Trump. Numerous commentators — including Nate Silver, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, “Democratic strategists,” and assorted columnists — have weighed in on the protests with only one line of questioning in mind: Are they good for Democrats? Does the nearly nonstop activism portend electoral wins for the Democratic Party, in much the same way that the Tea Party movement of 2009 produced electoral gains for Republicans?

The surge of activism may well create a favorable environment for the opposition party. But it is wrong to analyze the protests solely in terms of the zero-sum dynamics of partisan politics. That narrow focus only obscures a broader point: The protests are an indictment of both political parties and a call to protect and preserve a threatened democracy.

Comparisons to the Tea Party also are of limited utility. Current protesters need not mimic the goals and tactics of the Tea Party, as observers fixated on electoral dividends of activism have recommended. Initially a product of populist anger, the Tea Party evolved into a “grasstops” endeavor funded by Washington lobbyists and think tanks and aligned with the Republican Party.

No one should consider it a model grassroots change movement.

Rather, to see what protests can be, we ought to look back at what they have been — and what we will discover is an appreciation of the deeper roots of recent efforts.

Current demonstrations are part of a wave of activism that stretches back to the anti-World Trade Organization protests of the 1990s and includes the battle for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and grassroots anger over big bank bailouts that gave rise to the early Tea Party movement. Like these predecessors, the current wave of activism bespeaks many Americans’ sense that electoral politics — and the political process and policies that result from it — are ineffective and, in some instances, rotten to the core.

Political action committees influence elections. And too often, lobbyists for big banks, agribusiness, big pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, among other wealthy and powerful organizations and individuals, disproportionately influence which issues Congress prioritizes, as well as the content of federal laws.

Because the protests are a byproduct of the popular disdain for politics as we know it, it is perverse to view the new waves of activism only in terms of what they mean for the two major political parties. For many of those who have turned to the streets to protest, the major parties are a part of the problem — not the solution to what ails society.

Instead of only asking if the protests are good for Democrats and bad for Republicans, we ought to consider how the people’s power can be harnessed to prioritize Main Street over Wall Street interests and to improve the overall health and functioning of American democracy.

If current activists want to pursue these goals, they should not look to the co-opted, grasstops version of the Tea Party as a model of how to move forward. The 20th-century civil rights and women’s rights movements and the 19th-century abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements provide more useful archetypes. During each of these movements, activists organized for change — in society and culture, as well as in law and public policy — while deliberately avoiding domination by the two parties. They did collaborate with particular political figures — think Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson — but only when doing so suited the movements.

Take the civil rights movement — a model grassroots campaign for social change. Following events that catalyzed a mass movement for racial justice (such as the mistreatment of black World War II veterans and the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955), participants in the black freedom struggle organized, specialized, and defined goals. The major civil rights organizations — the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Urban League, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) — all united around the goal of ending Jim Crow.

At the same time, these organizations pursued goals and used tactics appropriate to their individual missions. Dr. King’s SCLC set its sights on policy and legal change; by dramatizing injustice through nonviolent civil disobedience, it successfully sought civil rights and voting rights legislation. SNCC, a student-led group, staged sit-ins and boycotts to protest discrimination and engaged in community organizing to uplift and empower oppressed local people.

During the mid-1960s, some SNCC veterans (such as John Lewis and Julian Bond) transitioned from “protest to politics.” Instead of relying on reluctant elected officials to represent black and poor communities, student movement veterans became public officials themselves. The Urban League focused on jobs. And the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, filed lawsuits in pursuit of equal opportunity in politics, education, and employment.

The late-20th-century struggle for women’s liberation also included a variety of organizations focused on different objectives, none defined by a political party. As an initial step toward collective action, some women’s groups focused on raising consciousness; they educated women about how readily accepted gender norms and stereotypes perpetuated oppression of women. Other groups, such as the National Organization for Women, embraced a strategy focused on legislative and legal change. In the thick of its campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, NOW courted the support of public officials for an initiative that first-wave women’s rights advocates had imagined.

The same kind of independent organizing defined the best-known 19th- and early-20th-century political movements. Stirred by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford denying citizenship to people of African descent and depriving Congress of the right to ban slavery’s expansion into federal territories, abolitionists pushed and aroused the public and political parties to take a stand for immediate emancipation of enslaved people. They established numerous organizations and deployed a variety of tactics, including petitions, moral suasion, assemblies, and anti-slavery literature, to advance an abolitionist agenda that many elected officials opposed.

Like some abolitionists, proponents of women’s suffrage, led by Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul, defined their own goals and pursued their own, sometimes divergent, tactics. “Suffragettes” established the National American Woman Suffrage Organization, made speeches, lobbied legislators and presidents, and formed the Woman Suffrage Party in a successful campaign to enact the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Each of these historical examples shows that change movements gain power through pressure tactics that disrupt politics as usual. If current activists hope to transform their protests into powerful movements with significant political power, they, too, should organize, specialize, and set their own agendas. Activists should focus on crystallizing grievances, dramatizing injustice, and mobilizing supporters — all with a view toward gaining political influence, forming coalitions, and making strategic electoral calculations.

The last thing that genuine grassroots change agents ought to do is forfeit their independence to career politicians.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an award-winning legal historian and expert in constitutional law and education law and policy at Harvard Law School. Her 2011 book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, won the Bancroft Prize in US History.

This post is part of Polyarchy, an independent blog produced by the political reform program at New America, a Washington think tank devoted to developing new ideas and new voices. See more Polyarchy posts here.

23:20
Want to Win Breakfast? Cook a Week’s Worth at a Time.
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Americans are famous the world over for being hearty breakfast eaters. We've built an industry around our love of elaborate breakfast foods, and entire weekend plans tend to revolve around it. Yet very few people are consistently good at breakfast. According to a recent survey by Kellogg’s, only 34 percent of American adults eat breakfast every day. And I'm sure that many within this small group are getting by with unsatisfying cold cereal or lining up like zombies to buy some breakfasty version of junk food on the way to work. The health benefits for regular breakfast eaters are immense. This habit has been connected to maintaining healthy weight, mental sharpness, and better heart health. It’s also the most delicious good habit you can foster.

While I've always been a breakfast lover, I have only recently become a breakfast master—and I’m here to share my wisdom with you. Four years ago when pregnant with my first child, I suffered from terrible morning sickness, and the only thing that kept it at bay was a protein-heavy breakfast first thing in the morning. Purely for survival, I started making a week's worth of breakfast every Sunday. It was satisfying and made for such smooth mornings that I never let the habit fade. In fact, it’s become even more crucial to a great start after I became a mom.

You, too, can become a breakfast master without a lot of time, money, or even kitchen skills. I invest about 30 minutes a week, usually Sunday afternoon, and it makes every subsequent morning that much better. When I first started my new breakfast routine, my go-to recipe was quiche. I made a new quiche with various veggies and fillings every week. That got boring pretty quickly, and, let's be honest, it is probably not healthy to eat quiche every day.

I've since built a pretty great repertoire of breakfast recipes that keeps things interesting and delicious. This week I'm eating migas—yes, San Antonio’s most famous egg dish. Here’s my technique: I sauté onion, jalapeño, and tomato then add some chopped up corn tortilla to the pan. In two minutes it’s crispy. I add some whisked eggs (six for a week’s worth) with a touch of milk, some grated cheese, salt, and pepper. Once the eggs are barely set I scoop it into my silicone muffin pan and bake them for ten minutes. Done and done. Every morning this week I had a delicious, hot—and slightly indulgent—breakfast that powered my morning.

Want to give it a shot? I recommend starting with the humble frittata, which is the base for all my favorite breakfasts. Bake it in a muffin pan for perfect, individual portions that should be warmed in a toaster oven. One week I’ll take inspiration from my favorite greek omelette (feta, spinach, tomato), which is healthy and satisfying. At other times I’ll use leftover roasted potatoes (french fries also work!) and lots of sauteed onion and paprika for an amazing Spanish tortilla. If you get tired of eggs, add overnight oats to the schedule but make enough for the week rather than the usual single-serving recipe. It keeps really well. My favorite oats are inspired by pumpkin pie. Just take the basic one-to-one oat and liquid recipe (I like yogurt and almond milk), then mix in a can of pumpkin, some honey, pumpkin pie spice, and some nuts or dried cranberries. You’ll thank me. Something better suited for spring? Use greek yogurt, chopped apple, and berries instead.

I’ve also been known to whip up a week’s worth of egg "McMuffins" (way better than the McDonald’s version), breakfast tacos, or pancakes. I take this healthy pancake recipe and add blueberries to make it a great breakfast. Make a big batch and lightly toast a serving each morning. My toddler loves this option.

Why slog through your mornings hungry and/or rushed? This little bit of weekly planning will turn you into a morning warrior. And trust me, it’s amazing to have one less thing to worry about on your way out the door.

Read more from Awake, a blog about mornings.

23:16
Apple releases two more ads for the iPad Pro
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Last month, Apple released four commercials about the Apple iPad Pro. Each ad was centered on a real-life tweet that had the profile picture changed for obvious reasons. The solution for each problem mentioned in each tweet is the Apple iPad Pro. The features noted include support for Microsoft Word, LTE connectivity and the iPad Pro's proclivity not to catch any viruses. Today, Apple released two more ads in the series.

One spot opens with a sleepy student in class. She tweets, "My math notes are a mess since I'm half asleep." The answer is the Apple iPad Pro combined with the ...

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Become the Hero of Legend With This Zelda Gift Guide
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is finally upon us with the release of the Nintendo Switch. It’s the latest and greatest adventure Zelda fans won’t want to miss, and in celebration […]

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Today in Conservative Media: Democrats Met With Russians Too!
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A daily roundup of the biggest stories in right-wing media.

At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he would recuse himself from any investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign. In the wake of that announcement, conservative media outlets continued to defend Sessions. LifeZette, for example, ran a lengthy summary of an interview between Sessions and Tucker Carlson under the headline, “Sessions: Recusal ‘Not an Admission of Any Wrongdoing.’ ”

Many publications also took up a new line of commentary, arguing that liberals were connected to Russia too. Both Breitbart and the Daily Caller ran articles pointing out that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak appeared on the guest list of the Obama White House at least 22 times. After citing the years of those visits and the administration figures who hosted Kislyak, the Daily Caller wrote, “The Obama visitor logs are known to be an imperfect record of how often someone visits the White House—since scheduled, but unfulfilled appointments are often included—but the logs make clear that Kislyak was welcome at 1600 Penn on more than a handful of occasions.”

Fox News took up a similar line in “Sessions Not Alone: Russian Ambassador Also Met With Numerous Democrats.” As that article acknowledged, “The central issue dogging Sessions is not so much that he met with the ambassador but that he claimed during his confirmation hearing he had no ‘communications’ with Russian officials during his time as a Trump campaign surrogate.” Nevertheless, the piece went on to cite a number of other Democratic senators who had met with the ambassador, including, “Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.”

Gateway Pundit zeroed in on another senator, publishing a post on Thursday evening titled, “Flashback: Chuck Schumer Meets With Putin in New York City.” “Where’s the outrage?” that post asked, adding, “Democrat Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer continues to push the Russia conspiracy. But it was Schumer who met with Putin in New York City – not Trump.”

On Friday morning, the Drudge Report linked to that article in its prime home page slot. Soon after, Trump tweeted about Schumer’s “ties to Russia and Putin.”

Posts promoting allegations of Democratic party hypocrisy over Russia were widely shared from conservative Facebook pages:

23:00
Edward St Aubyn. ”Jag trodde att alla skulle äcklas av mig när boken kom ut”
» ‎ DN.se - Kultur & Nöje - Senaste nytt - Kultur

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I romanserien om Patrick Melrose berättar Edward St Aubyn om sin egen uppväxt i den brittiska överklassen: ett övergivet barn som utsattes för incest och som blev en vuxen man som missbrukade droger. DN:s Björn af Kleen möter den Sverigeaktuella författaren i London.

22:51
Trump broke his H-1B promise. Now what?
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On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump was so determined to present himself as the solution to H-1B visa abuse – the kind that has American IT workers training their foreign replacements -- that he promised to launch an investigation of the program on day one of his administration. Not in due time, on day one.
Today is day 43. No investigation has been launched. No changes have been made to the H-1B program. And it’s not clear when or if any will be forthcoming.
That no one should be surprised does not mean no one has taken notice. From a Computerworld story:
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22:50
Mapping in R just got a whole lot easier
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Simple features in R
Would you like to make a color-coded choropleth map in R? Until recently, working with geospatial objects was a bit more complex than with many other types of data. That's because R "Spatial Polygons Data Frames" objects were structured something like this if you ran an R str() command to see their structure:
Screen shot of an R object structure
Structure of a Spatial Polygons Data Frame in R, without simple features
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22:43
BrandPost: In the cloud or moving to it?
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Managing a growing hybrid cloud infrastructure, no matter the size of your team, can introduce a lot of complexity. You want to be able to take inventory, diagnose and respond to misconfigurations, and monitor deployments across your environment. You want to be able to scale, and do it securely.
We’ve put together a resource kit to show you how cloud management can be done. It includes:
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22:43
BrandPost: In the cloud or moving to it?
» ‎ Computerworld

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Managing a growing hybrid cloud infrastructure, no matter the size of your team, can introduce a lot of complexity. You want to be able to take inventory, diagnose and respond to misconfigurations, and monitor deployments across your environment. You want to be able to scale, and do it securely.
We’ve put together a resource kit to show you how cloud management can be done. It includes:
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22:43
BrandPost: In the cloud or moving to it?
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Managing a growing hybrid cloud infrastructure, no matter the size of your team, can introduce a lot of complexity. You want to be able to take inventory, diagnose and respond to misconfigurations, and monitor deployments across your environment. You want to be able to scale, and do it securely.
We’ve put together a resource kit to show you how cloud management can be done. It includes:
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22:42
30 år av stöd till socialistiska studier
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Tom Gustavsson

För trettio år sedan bildades Tom Gustafssons minnesfond som sedan dess varit Socialistiska Partiets fond för stöd till partikamrater och sympatisörer för studier. Har fonden gjort någon nytta? Internationalen ställer frågan till Maria Sundvall från fondens styrelse:
– Absolut. Vi har regelbundet kunnat stödja deltagare från låginkomstländer att delta på internationella socialistiska seminarier och kurser som ordnats av världsorganisationen Fjärde Internationalen tillsammans med andra radikala rörelser. Det har handlat om ungdomsskolor, globala rättviseskolor, kvinnoseminarier.
Men vi har också aktivt valt att stödja svenska deltagare på internationella seminarier. Förra året gick stipendiet till Anders Berg från Socialistiska Partiet i Göteborg för att delta på en ungdomsskola. Det handlar inte bara om att stödja dem med de största ekonomiska behoven, utan om att bidra till ett utbyte av erfarenheter mellan socialister i olika länder.
Efter 11 september 2001 och i samband med den så kallade alternativa globaliseringsrörelsens framväxt märkte vi att sådana initiativ blev ännu mer angelägna.

Något annat Maria Sundvall är stolt över är att fonden särskilt stött ungdomars studier.
– Den yngsta stipendiaten jag kommer ihåg var en 14-årig ungsocialist. Hon och närmare 10 andra ungsocialister fick dela på stipendiet inför en partiskola vi ordnade 1994.
Under ett tiotal år från mitten på 80-talet till 1997 ordnade Socialistiska Partiet regelbundna partiskolor varje påsk, under flertalet år på Bona folkhögskola, och flera år gick stipendierna just till de unga deltagarna vid dessa skolor.

Är det någon särskild utdelning du kommer ihåg?
– År 2014 var det en indonesisk kvinnlig fackföreningsaktivist som fick stipendiet för att resa till en skola om hbtq-frågor. Bakgrunden var att hon och hennes kamrater i arbetet på den lokala industrin hade blivit alltmer medvetna om hur homosexuella kvinnor var utsatta för ett särskilt förtryck.

Vem kan söka stipendiet?
– Medlemmar och sympatisörer till Socialistiska Partiet samt Fjärde Internationalen.
Syftet har ju varit att skapa en stimulerande atmosfär för ett brett spektrum av studier, så det är också viktigt att enskilda medlemmar och sympatisörer kan söka för egna projekt. Men erfarenheten har väl lärt oss att vara lite försiktiga med sådana utdelningar. Det är svårare än många tror för den som stretar på med kanske både partiarbete, rörelseaktivism och heltidsjobb att få tid och energi att gräva sig ned i det där projektet man drömt om länge.

Vad önskar ni av livet efter 30?
– Större resurser, vad annat? Dels får fonden inte särskilt många insättningar, dels begränsas vi av att vi inte investerar i aktier eller liknande. Så de senaste åren har vi bara delat ut vartannat år. Ett önskemål skulle vara att fler gjorde som en partikamrat häromåret – bad sina gäster på ett födelsedagskalas att ge pengar till fonden istället för presenter. Eller att personer som fått ett arv skänkte en tanke till fonden.

Marco Jamil Espvall

Tom Gustafssons minnesfond

Fonden utlyser nu ett stipendium på 5 000 kr. Den som vill söka ska skriva ett brev, tala om vilka studier det handlar om och vad de kommer att kosta, samt vad personen har för egna inkomster. Senast 1 maj måste ansökan vara inne. Skicka in den till Tom Gustafssons minnesfond, c/o Internationalen, Box 5073, 121 16 Johanneshov. Eller maila till info@socialistiskapartiet.se.
Stöd studierna genom att sätta in ett bidrag på Socialistiska
Partiets minnesfond, pg 18 77 62-0, märk talongen ”Tom
Gustafssons minnesfond

22:39
Så ser Andra chansen ut
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Utökad pyro när artisterna ska duellera om de fyra sista finalplatserna. Så här ser Andra chansen i Linköping ut.

22:33
First look: Nintendo's iPad-like Switch hybrid game console launches, with iOS support on the way
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Taking a cue from the touchscreen tablet market kickstarted by Apple's iPad, Nintendo on Friday launched a hybrid home and portable game console. It's set to feature integration with an official Nintendo app for iOS, though it is not yet available at launch.

22:30
We Finally Have a Full Cast for the ‘Inhumans’ Show
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Marvel is about to get weird thanks to its upcoming Inhumans series, and we finally have a cast to round out the Royal Family, who will star in the show. Over the past […]

The post We Finally Have a Full Cast for the ‘Inhumans’ Show appeared first on Geek.com.

22:30
Dear Silicon Valley, It Pays To Care About Public Health
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Why public health and technology need to start working together.

Why public health and technology need to start working together.
When things go wrong, like the Zika virus arriving in your city or environmental contaminants ending up in the water supply, public health is the Caped Crusader of the health care industry, working in the shadows to prevent and defend against complex threats that can harm our fair communities.
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22:28
BrandPost: The Digital Transformation Marches On
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Chances are, by now you’ve been looking into what it takes (or have already started) to go digital. We’ve hit a hyper-connected age where business is done at the speed of technology, and that technology is changing rapidly to help your workplace evolve. The cloud, virtualization, mobility, the Internet of Things—all of this and more wouldn’t be possible without going digital at least in some part. But while you may have your research to do, or plans to make, what about others who are already (or are in the process of) going digital?
Recently, Connection performed a survey of your peers with their digital transformation in mind:
- 38% of the response base believe that “reduce cost and complexity” most closely aligned to their definition of a digital strategy.
- Budget, complexity, and fear of change are the top obstacles ITDMs expect when it comes to their digital strategy
- Over half of ITDMs think a digital strategy would improve operational productivity and boost IT innovation.
Take a look at all of the questions we asked, and let us know where your answers would rank. And when you’re ready to move forward with your digital transformation, give Connection a call. Our Networking Practice can help you upgrade your network to digital-class, addressing your network efficiencies, collaboration, increased speed, and greater productivity requirements.
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22:27
IoT and 5G are driving computing to the edge
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By 2020, an average internet user will use 1.5GB of traffic a day, and daily video traffic will reach 1PB, Intel predicts. A huge amount of data will be generated by autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, and internet-of-things devices.
Every day, more information is being collected and sent to faster servers in mega data centers, which analyze and make sense of it. That analysis has helped improved image and speech recognition and is making autonomous cars a reality.
Emerging superfast data networks like 5G -- a melting pot of wireless technologies -- will dispatch even more gathered information, which could stress data centers. Servers are already being redesigned to handle more data, and throughput technologies like Gen-Z and fiber optics will reduce latency.
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22:27
IoT and 5G are driving computing to the edge
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By 2020, an average internet user will use 1.5GB of traffic a day, and daily video traffic will reach 1PB, Intel predicts. A huge amount of data will be generated by autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, and internet-of-things devices.
Every day, more information is being collected and sent to faster servers in mega data centers, which analyze and make sense of it. That analysis has helped improved image and speech recognition and is making autonomous cars a reality.
Emerging superfast data networks like 5G -- a melting pot of wireless technologies -- will dispatch even more gathered information, which could stress data centers. Servers are already being redesigned to handle more data, and throughput technologies like Gen-Z and fiber optics will reduce latency.
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22:27
IoT and 5G drive computing to the edge
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By 2020, an average internet user will use 1.5GB of traffic a day, and daily video traffic will reach 1PB, Intel predicts. A huge amount of data will be generated by autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, and internet-of-things devices.
Every day, more information is being collected and sent to faster servers in mega data centers, which analyze and make sense of it. That analysis has helped improved image and speech recognition and is making autonomous cars a reality.
Emerging superfast data networks like 5G -- a melting pot of wireless technologies -- will dispatch even more gathered information, which could stress data centers. Servers are already being redesigned to handle more data, and throughput technologies like Gen-Z and fiber optics will reduce latency.
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22:22
Apple forfeits teachers' pet rep as U.S. share sinks
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Apple last year again lost ground in the U.S. K-12 market, as Google with its Chrome OS continued to make gains, a research firm said Thursday.
In 2016, 58% of the 12.6 million mobile computers shipped to educational customers -- or approximately 7.3 million -- were powered by Chrome OS, up from 50% of 2015's 10.7 million (or 5.35 million), U.K.-based Futuresource Consulting said in a report yesterday.
Meanwhile, Apple's OS X/macOS and iOS operating systems -- which power Macs and iPads, respectively -- fell from a combined 25% share in 2015 (or 2.7 million devices) to 19% in 2016 (or 2.4 million).
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22:22
Apple forfeits teachers' pet rep as U.S. share sinks
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Apple last year again lost ground in the U.S. K-12 market, as Google with its Chrome OS continued to make gains, a research firm said Thursday.
In 2016, 58% of the 12.6 million mobile computers shipped to educational customers -- or approximately 7.3 million -- were powered by Chrome OS, up from 50% of 2015's 10.7 million (or 5.35 million), U.K.-based Futuresource Consulting said in a report yesterday.
Meanwhile, Apple's OS X/macOS and iOS operating systems -- which power Macs and iPads, respectively -- fell from a combined 25% share in 2015 (or 2.7 million devices) to 19% in 2016 (or 2.4 million).
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22:20
Uber has a secret program to foil law enforcement
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For years, Uber’s app has had a secret feature designed to thwart local government efforts to stop drivers from driving without a taxi license, according to the New York Times. The feature, known as “Greyballing,” blocks suspected city officials from calling drivers. When blacklisted officials logged in to Uber, they would be shown a fake map populated with cars that didn’t actually exist. If officials hailed these imaginary cars, the ride would mysteriously get canceled before they got picked up.

The Greyball program was part of a cat-and-mouse game Uber has played with officials in various cities for years. Driving an unlicensed taxicab is illegal in many cities, but Uber insisted that it was simply a market maker — connecting drivers with riders — and not subject to city taxi regulations. So officials’ only option in many cases was to enforce the law against drivers: fining them or even impounding their cars if drivers were caught picking up passengers without a license.

To prevent officials from using its own software to target drivers, Uber essentially created a special fake version of the Uber app specifically for city officials that didn’t actually allow them to get a ride. Without the resources to systematically sweep streets for unlicensed drivers, that often made it impossible for officials to enforce the law.

Uber isn’t denying the existence of the program. “This program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service — whether that’s people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret ‘stings’ meant to entrap drivers,” Uber said in a statement.
Uber went to remarkable lengths to hamper law enforcement
Reportedly, Uber managers in a particular city would identify the locations of city government offices and monitor users who used the apps in those areas. They would check users’ names against known city officials and blacklist credit cards that were “tied directly to an institution like a police credit union.”

And then there’s this:

Enforcement officials involved in large-scale sting operations to catch Uber drivers also sometimes bought dozens of cellphones to create different accounts. To circumvent that tactic, Uber employees went to that city’s local electronics stores to look up device numbers of the cheapest mobile phones on sale, which were often the ones bought by city officials, whose budgets were not sizable.

According to the Times, Uber’s “Greyballing” tactics were mostly used outside the United States, where anti-Uber enforcement efforts tended to be particularly aggressive. But it was also sometimes used in the US, including in Portland, where a 2014 video showed officials trying and failing to hail Uber riders.

The Greyball story is the latest in a string of embarrassing recent allegations against Uber. Less than two weeks ago, a female Uber engineer accused Uber of having a misogynistic culture that turned a blind eye to sexual harassment. Days later, Google’s Waymo unit sued Uber, alleging that Uber used stolen Waymo technology in its own self-driving cars. Then video surfaced of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick lecturing a driver about “responsibility” during an argument about Uber’s falling fares.

22:16
Conservatives Are Losing the Health Care Fight
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It’s been a week since conservatives raised a fit over a leaked, early draft of the Republican health care bill, and neither House Speaker Paul Ryan nor any other managers of the secret bill appear to be budging. The main source of the split—refundable tax credits for individuals to purchase insurance, which conservatives deem a “new entitlement”—remains in the bill, according to a more recent draft obtained by Politico. When asked about the split various times this week, Ryan has reiterated a canned answer about how conservatives had little problem with the tax credits as recently as last year, a response that doesn’t hint at any second thoughts on his part. “We’re basically putting into law the [HHS Secretary Tom] Price plan as our replace plan,” Ryan said on a podcast Friday. “It’s very similar to the bill that Tom Price has worked on for so many years, that many conservatives co-sponsored last year.”

To review: Conservatives are raising hell over a central (and expensive) part of the all-but-finalized plan, and it’s not being changed to address them. What we’re seeing is the beginning of the process by which conservatives get rolled on health care. It has nothing to do with whether Paul Ryan is a secret “entitlement”-loving moderate or not. He is not. This is just the party’s best play.

The debate is over what, if anything, to offer lower-income people in the individual health insurance market in lieu of the premium tax credits that the Affordable Care Act offers. Conservatives are fine with offering tax deductions or nonrefundable tax credits as part of a replacement plan. They’re fine with this because they know that such deductions and credits are worth very little to those who most need assistance purchasing health insurance, and thus cost little. A refundable tax credit—which the ACA’s premium tax credits are!—is more like a check from the government for lower-income people, which is why today’s hard-right conservatives are derisively calling it an “entitlement,” a term they use to describe any financial assistance from the government for people who can’t afford basic living expenses.

“There’s a difference between tax credit and refundable credit,” Sen. Rand Paul, one of the most cavalier Republican critics of the leadership’s approach, said on Wednesday. “If they give you back some of your own money, that’s not an entitlement program. If they give you back somebody else’s money, that’s an entitlement program. So I’m not for a program that gives you someone else’s money.”

This would have been a successful Republican attack line against an Obama proposal. It is less so now. Limited government purists, like Paul, came to Congress in 2011 when yapping against spending was an effective, base-rallying political attack against a Democratic president. A generation of conservative Republican lawmakers has tricked itself into believing that voters actually care about “big government spending” because they did that one time back then. But there is now a Republican president and he is mostly on board with Ryan’s health care plan, to the degree that he understands any of this stuff. And most importantly, he wants ceremonial bill-signing photo-ops that make him look effective and accomplished. The base now rallies to him more than they do ideological commitments to low spending, which they only fleetingly cared about in the first place.

Giving people money to purchase health insurance—even if it’s not nearly as much money given by the Affordable Care Act, which also doesn’t give people enough money—is the best way to get that bill to Trump’s desk. It immunizes the party against the full brunt of the much more lethal political attack against the GOP: that it is taking away people’s health insurance and replacing it with nothing. With refundable tax credits, the line can at least be that they’re replacing it with something.

So what are the political consequences? Say you’re a conservative representative whose only real threat would come in a primary challenge. Are you going to be punished more for voting for a bill that offers some refundable tax credits for people to buy insurance, or for voting against the Trump-endorsed plan to repeal and replace Obamacare? Now say you’re a Republican representative from a lean-Republican or swing district and your threat is in the general election, i.e. the one that matters, and determines control of the House. You will be in the most trouble, of any representative, by voting for an Obamacare repeal that offers nothing to those who gained insurance over the last few years, imperiling Republican control of these seats.

Conservatives will get re-elected if they vote for a Trump-endorsed Obamacare repeal bill that spends some money to provide insurance. Moderates may not get re-elected if they vote for a Trump-endorsed Obamacare repeal bill that spends no money to provide insurance. Moderates have the edge. Conservatives will have to eat whatever unbendable small-government convictions they honed under a Democratic president and get with the new program.

22:14
Friday 5: a few of my favorite Mac apps [Video]
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In this Mac-centric Friday 5, I wanted to highlight features from several macOS apps that I utilize on a regular basis. A few of these apps are built-in macOS apps, while others can be found on the Mac App Store and directly from third-party developers.

As a huge fan of the Mac, these are some of the apps that I use most often. Perhaps you’ll find a new gem in this week’s edition of Friday 5? more…

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22:10
Arnold Schwarzenegger is leaving The Celebrity Apprentice. He blames President Trump.
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“With Trump being involved in the show people have a bad taste,” he told Empire magazine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger will no longer host The Celebrity Apprentice — if the show continues at all — due to the “baggage” associated with the show’s connection to President Donald Trump.

That’s what he revealed to Empire magazine in an interview published today.

“Even if asked [to do it again], I would decline,” Schwarzenegger told Empire. “With Trump being involved in the show people have a bad taste and don't want to participate as a spectator or as a sponsor or in any other way support the show. It's a very divisive period now and I think this show got caught up in all that division."

Schwarzenegger followed up on his Empire interview with a statement released to the press praising those who worked on the show:

I loved every second of working with NBC and Mark Burnett. Everyone — from the celebrities to the crew to the marketing department — was a straight 10, and I would absolutely work with all of them again on a show that doesn't have this baggage.

Trump has mocked Schwarzenegger’s Celebrity Apprentice ratings publicly a couple of times, first on Twitter in early January and then at the National Prayer Breakfast in February. (Yep. You read that correctly.)

Schwarzenegger’s ratings were indeed down from Trump’s final season hosting the show (which aired in 2015), but the slide was largely comparable to most shows’ slides between 2015 and 2017.

With time-shifted viewership, the show averaged 4.9 million viewers per episode — not all that great, but better than plenty of shows. That audience skewed a little older than broadcast TV typically likes. Perhaps more importantly to NBC, however, the Wrap reported that The Celebrity Apprentice had lost more than half its sponsors because of the program’s affiliation with Trump. (The president remained an executive producer on the program.)

The show likely won’t be back — the ratings are low enough that it’s probably not worth it for NBC to put up with the headache of the president’s involvement — and the Hollywood Reporter reports that its staffers have been okayed to begin looking for other work (a typical sign of impending cancellation). Still, Celebrity Apprentice is cheap enough to produce that an unexpected renewal wouldn’t be a total surprise.

22:09
Melania Trump Reads to Kids in a Hospital—and Is Read by the Press Pool Report in Return
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Press pool reports may have gotten spicier since Donald Trump’s election, but a dispatch from the first lady’s visit to the pediatrics unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Thursday is beyond. Four hot peppers! Extra rice advisable. Melania Trump spoke to doctors and children to celebrate National Read Across America Day, as well as the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Here is how the White House described the meeting:

To recap: Mrs. Trump shared the joy of reading with children.

She gathered with children in the pediatric playroom and read to them from her and her son’s favorite book.

She instilled some lovely life lessons about the importance of reading.

She uttered some beautiful sentences, including, “Dr. Seuss has brought so much joy, laughter, and enchantment into children’s lives all around the globe for generations. Through his captivating rhymes, Dr. Seuss has delighted and inspired children while teaching them to read, to dream, to care.”

And here is how the pool reporter/sushi chef described the visit/diced the first lady into raw, quivering pieces:

Almost every statement in this document is a cut, a stroke of restrained contempt liberating an extremely stilted and uncomfortable Melania statue from the marble. The tone, though, is also tragic. The report conjures a bonanza of unbearable awkwardness—of silence, looking, forced-smiling, and waiting—that derives in part from Trump’s seeming despair.

In a small room … First Lady Melania Trump sat in a wooden chair and looked at several children in the room.

I already feel embarrassed. Does she know how to sit on a hard surface? Why is she just staring at the sick kids?

“We will read some books today,” said Trump. “So do you know what is today?” she said. The children looked at her blankly.

Wow, she’s really connecting to her audience. She has a politician’s touch! And, given her advocacy for the written word, not the best grammar.

She was wearing black stilettos, a soft, blue sweater, and a long black coat. She had a huge diamond ring on her left hand ….

Huge!

When she got to a passage in the book about a “slump,” she looked at the children and said, “So sometimes you don’t feel good, right? But then – what do you do?” The children waited.

Perhaps the FLOTUS and the kids are about to find some common ground. She’s just admitted (poignantly) that sometimes she is sad. They are in a hospital, which means they probably don’t feel awesome. So what’s her advice?

“You go places where you feel better,” she told them.

Hmm, that doesn’t sound very motivational. Also, what if you can’t get in to the better place because of the travel ban?

She read: “You’ll be as famous as famous can be,” and continued: “With the whole wide world watching you win on TV.” She smiled at them.

Wait a second. That is a terrible moral! Of all the quotes to pull from Seuss’s poem, our pool reporter has chosen to highlight lines about fame and media exposure as a possible consolation for unhappiness. Is the idea that the White House is a place you can go to “feel better” about marrying a gross misogynist maybe-despot? Are we to believe that the world’s attention fills a void in the first lady’s heart, or just humiliates her?

A moment later she read: “Remember that life’s a great balancing act.”

This is getting so real. Remember, kids, that life is a series of dispiriting compromises in which you sacrifice your integrity and desires for money and security.

After she finished, she looked at the children and said: “Do you like the book?”

Anyone?

One girl held up her hand.

Fake news.

Trump gave her the book and said: “I encourage you all to read a lot—to get educated.”

Perhaps there are lessons in books that could save you from my fate!

Then she posed for pictures with several of the children.

Woof. More like National Read Melania’s Tush to Filth Across America Day.

22:08
Analytics 50: Call for 2017 entries
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Last year, Drexel University and CIO.com teamed up to present the first Analytics 50 Awards program. We're proud of our partnership with our friends at Drexel’s Lebow College of Business and proud of the 50 innovative winners from our debut program, which included such impressive organizations as AstraZeneca, Farmers Insurance, GE, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Major League Soccer and UPS -- to name just a few.
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The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Transgender Rights Brief Is a Trenchant History Lesson
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Dozens of groups filed amicus briefs this week in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., a key transgender rights case at the Supreme Court. The case involves Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student who sued his school board after it prohibited him from using the boys’ bathroom. Grimm asserts that Title IX’s prohibition on “sex discrimination” in education guarantees him access to the facilities that align with his gender identity. Many of the amicus briefs filed on his behalf cogently explain why Title IX must be read to forbid sex stereotyping and discrimination on the basis of transgender status.

But one brief, filed by the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, together with the Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic and the law firm Stris & Maher, tackles a somewhat different topic: The vile history of bathroom segregation in the United States. As the brief explains in its opening passage, “there is a lengthy and troubling history of state actors using public restrooms and similar shared spaces to sow division and instill subordination.”

Not so long ago, bathrooms nationwide were designated “Colored Only” and “Whites Only.” A key lesson of that painful and ignoble era is that while private-space barriers like racially segregated bathrooms may have seemed to some like minor inconveniences or insignificant sources of embarrassment, they were in fact a source of profound indignity that inflicted deep and indelible harms on individuals of both races, and society at large. This disreputable tradition of state and local governments enshrining fear or hostility toward a disfavored group of people into laws requiring their physical separation from others should encourage this Court to view with skepticism the rationales proffered by local officials here.

Moreover, the brief notes, “state officials often justified physical separation in restroom facilities, swimming pools, and marriage by invoking unfounded fears about sexual contact and exploitation.” Needless to say, “purported concerns about sexual predation currently used as a basis for excluding transgender students from school bathrooms uncomfortably echo those used to justify the separate bathrooms for racial minorities.” And “the arguments offered to defend the discriminatory singling out of G.G. are painfully similar to those that this Court long ago deemed to be insufficient to justify discrimination based on race.” As the brief spells out:

The proposition that G.G. should go back to using the “separate restroom” parrots the functionalist logic that this Court discarded along with “separate but equal.” The Trump Administration’s recent withdrawal of the guidance on transgender students and its description of bathroom access as a “states’ rights issue” only amplifies the disconcerting historical echoes in this case. State and local officials often invoked “states’ rights” as a basis for opposing this Court’s decisions and insulating prohibited discrimination from statutory and constitutional review. Indeed “states’ rights” was the frequent refrain of officials who fought against racial integration, including in bathrooms. Ultimately, however, the claim of “states’ rights” has no relevance to this Court’s interpretation of a federal statute—in this case Title IX—as states are bound by this Court’s interpretation of federal law.

“We must not repeat the mistakes of the past,” the brief declares. “These all-too-familiar arguments—about sexual contact, predation, danger, and discomfort—remain both factually baseless and legally immaterial. Instead, the weight of precedent and the guarantee of equal protection inexorably support this Court in recognizing G.G.’s simple and inherent dignity by letting him use the boys’ bathroom with his peers.”

The brief goes on to detail “the physical separation of bathrooms by race, a defining feature of the Jim Crow era.” These state “visited an immeasurable indignity on African Americans”; many black parents “instructed their children to use the facilities at home and avoid using segregated public facilities. Often the use of segregated bathrooms involved walking long distances, in front of others, which further underscored the separateness and shame involved.” Bathroom segregation was justified by fear of “the high venereal disease rate among Negroes” and the alleged threat of sexual violence by blacks. Similarly, segregationists vigorously opposed the integration of swimming pools, claiming that “black men would act upon their supposedly untamed sexual desire for white women by touching them in the water and assaulting them with romantic advances.”

These bigoted antipathies have obvious parallels to the fight against transgender bathroom use. Gloucester County, along with the many amicus briefs supporting its attack on Grimm, insist that trans bathroom access creates a safety issue, allowing debauched students to assault unsuspecting victims in their most vulnerable moments. At the school board meeting at which the anti-trans policy was instituted, speakers called Grimm a “freak” and compared him to a person who thinks he is a “dog” and wants to urinate on fire hydrants. One speaker encouraged the creation of a bathroom just for Grimm, urging the school to divide the students into “a thousand students versus one freak.”

Gloucester County’s anti-trans policy is about health and safety as much as race-based bathroom segregation was—which is to say, not at all. “This Court,” the brief concludes, “must treat the arguments” against trans bathroom use with skepticism similar to that with which it treated arguments against racially integrated bathrooms. In both instances, bathroom segregation is motivated not be genuine safety concerns, but rather animus cloaked in flimsy pretense. And the Supreme Court must recognize that anti-trans discrimination does not become lawful simply because it is swathed in pretextual anxieties rooted in prejudice.

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Marketing Day: Google’s location tracking, mobile marketing ROI & Facebook Messenger
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Marketing Day: Google’s location tracking, mobile marketing ROI & Facebook Messenger
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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Google’s location tracking is better now than ever before
  Mar 3, 2017 by Andy Taylor
  Columnist Andy Taylor notes that Google has improved its ability to track search traffic at the ZIP code level, which is good news for advertisers who employ granular geographic targeting.
- Here’s how & why CDPs differ from CRMs & DMPs
  Mar 3, 2017 by Barry Levine
  We asked an executive from RedPoint Global if existing customer data systems do the same thing as Customer Data Platforms.
- [Podcast] Marketing Land Live #46: Snap’s IPO, YouTube TV and more
  Mar 3, 2017 by Matt McGee
  In this week’s show, the Marketing Land crew talks about where Snapchat is headed now that its parent company has gone public. We also discuss the video ad implications of YouTube’s new OTT TV offering and what advertisers can do about fake news and hyperpartisan sites on the Google Display Network.
- Should you bother rewriting your ads?
  Mar 3, 2017 by Jacob Baadsgaard
  Rewriting and testing your ad copy may not be the most glamorous way to improve your paid search campaigns, but columnist Jacob Baadsgaard points out that it can be an incredibly effective way to get more bang from your budget.
- How bots ruin on-site experiences for real humans
  Mar 3, 2017 by Liad Agmon
  Contributor Liad Agmon explains why the problem of fake web traffic extends far beyond advertising.
- How to create a competitive content insights report step-by-step
  Mar 3, 2017 by Rachel Lindteigen
  Tackling an in-depth competitor content insights report can be a daunting task, but columnist Rachel Lindteigen breaks the process down into steps to make the process easier.
- Locksmiths try again to sue Google over fake local listings
  Mar 3, 2017 by Greg Sterling
  Search engines can assert immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
- Why mobile marketers need to start measuring ROI right now
  Mar 3, 2017 by Shani Rosenfelder
  Contributor Shani Rosenfelder believes 2017 will be the year that mobile marketers everywhere finally recognize the value of mobile ROI measurement.
- Whitelists vs. blacklists for programmatic media
  Mar 3, 2017 by Kevin Lee
  Should you use whitelists or blacklists, and does it matter? In the age of fake news, says columnist Kevin Lee, it should matter a lot to programmatic advertisers.
- Google sunsets its AdSense plugin for WordPress
  Mar 3, 2017 by Ginny Marvin
  Google says automatic ads and upcoming initiatives will fulfill the plugin’s functionality.
- Facebook Messenger adds option for chatbots to avoid chatting
  Mar 2, 2017 by Tim Peterson
  Messenger bots can prevent people from typing in text to reply and make them use non-native menu buttons instead.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- 4 Analytics Reports Every Content Marketer Should Use, Content Marketing Institute
- How to Measure the ROI of Your Content Marketing Efforts – a Step-by-Step Guide, Duct Tape Marketing
Blogs & Blogging
- How Tumblr is quietly supporting fashion creatives, Digiday
Business Issues
Content Marketing
- How to Find, Write and Use Persuasive Testimonials (Plus 10 Customer Testimonial Examples), Orbit Media Studios
- The Best Content Marketing of February: 7 Brands That Mean Business, Contently
- Why You Need a Cross-Functional Content Marketing Calendar, Contently
- Your Content Strategy, David Meerman Scott
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 5 Old Marketing Phrases to Avoid, CopyPressed
- Revamp Your Website Pages for Better User Experience, Search Engine Journal
Domaining
- A surprising conclusion about the languages of new TLDs (Part #6), Domain Name Wire
E-Commerce
- Alibaba Raises Stake in India’s Crowded E-Commerce Market, Wall Street Journal
- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to start shipping packages to the Moon, The Verge
- Amazon plans to release new Alexa devices that can make phone calls and work as intercoms, Recode
- Amazon’s private label Elements expands for first time in years with invite-only vitamins and supplements, TechCrunch
- Chinese Ecommerce Market Pegged at $1.7 Trillion by 2020, Multichannel Merchant
- How Super Bowl ads impact sales on Amazon.com, Internet Retailer
Email Marketing
- 9 Expert Ways to Grow Your Email List with Facebook, Constant Contact
- How to Build Better Loyalty Emails, Movable Ink Blog
General Internet Marketing
- Accountability and Trust in the Ad Ecosystem, AdAge
Internet Marketing Industry
- Entravision Communications Corporation To Expand Digital Marketing Capabilities With Acquisition Of Headway, PR Newswire
- PullString Announces Support for Actions on Google., PullString
MarTech
- How to make sure your new chatbot gets a head start, VentureBeat
- Why Machine Learning Moves the Needle for Marketers, CMS Wire
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Mobile Kids: The Parent, the Child and the Smartphone, Nielsen
- 67% of small businesses plan to build a mobile app by end of 2017, Mobile Commerce Daily
- App downloads and usage decrease as smartphone traffic increases, Internet Retailer
- Brands scratching surface for app’s creative use, Mobile Commerce Daily
- Messenger Platform 1.4 Brings Even More Tools to Build Great Experiences, Facebook for Developers
- U.S. consumers now spend 5 hours per day on mobile devices, TechCrunch
Reputation Management
- Online Businesses Could Do More to Protect their Reputations and Prevent Consumers from Phishing Schemes, FTC
- Thought Leadership: How to Become Known to People Who Matter, Social Media Examiner
Social Media
- 5 Steps to an Effective Employee Advocacy Program, Marketo
- 6 Targeting Options on Pinterest, 3Q Digital
- Create Facebook Lookalike Audiences From Multiple Countries or Regions, Jon Loomer Digital
- Does Facebook advertising even work a lick?, Digiday
- Facebook adds a travel-planning feature called “City Guides”, TechCrunch
- How to Recover From a Big Social Media Blunder, Search Engine Journal
- Improving News Literacy Through Collaboration, Facebook Media
- Inside Facebook’s pitch for entertainment content, Digiday
- Publishers Weigh In: Snapchat Vs. Instagram Stories, AdExchanger
- Twitter Ads vs. Facebook Ads: The Social Advertising Smackdown, Flyte New Media
- User Demographics of the Top 7 Social Networks, MarketingProfs
Video
- 3 Big YouTube Numbers Video Marketers Need to Care About, Tubular Insights
- Facebook Intensifies Hunt for TV-Like Video Programming, Wall Street Journal
- Publishers Get Ready: All Facebook Videos To Autoplay with Sound on Mobile, Tubular Insights
- Schedule Facebook Live Videos and Webinars, Jon Loomer Digital
- This New Feature Could Be Huge For Twitch Influencers, MediaKix
- YouTube’s Mobile-Viewing Audience Reach, MarketingProfs

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Trump has responded to the Russia scandal by trolling congressional Democrats on Twitter
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President Donald Trump has responded to growing concerns about his administration’s ties to Russia — by trolling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a series of tweets.

On Friday, Trump first tweeted out this picture of the Democratic senator from New York sharing donuts and coffee with Russian President Vladimir Putin:

We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite! pic.twitter.com/Ik3yqjHzsA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

The picture is apparently from a Russian-owned gas station opening in Manhattan in 2003. The photo circulated far-right blogs before Trump tweeted it, and the far-right Gateway Pundit took credit on Twitter for Trump’s tweet.

Trump followed up on the Schumer tweet later in the afternoon, linking to a Politico article about Pelosi previously meeting with the current Russian ambassador despite recently saying she never had:

I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it. [https:]]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

Schumer, for his part, responded to Trump with his own tweet:

Happily talk re: my contact w Mr. Putin & his associates, took place in '03 in full view of press & public under oath. Would you &your team? [https:]]
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 3, 2017

Of course, there is a difference between a senator publicly meeting with a world leader and the multiple Russia scandals that Trump is facing. The question is not merely whether Trump and his team met in public with Russian officials, but if they actively worked with the Russian government to support Russian interests and tried to cover it up.

Most recently, it was revealed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who heads Trump’s Department of Justice, misled — under oath — the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings when he said, “I did not have communications with the Russians.” A Washington Post report this week found that Sessions had in fact communicated twice with the Russian ambassador last year, including “at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.” That has led Schumer — and other Democratic lawmakers — to call on Sessions to resign.

Last month, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign after it was revealed that he talked to a Russian envoy in December and may have suggested that Trump would lift sanctions against Russia — a potential violation of the Logan Act, which bans people outside the executive branch from making foreign policy on behalf of the US administration. (Flynn and Trump were not in office at the time of the call.) And in general, there have been questions about just how involved Trump’s team was with Russia’s hacks of the Clinton campaign’s and Democrats’ emails.

At face value, that seems much worse than merely sharing some donuts and coffee with Putin during the opening of a Russian-owned gas station or having a public meal with Russian officials.

And at any rate, responding to serious allegations with trolls on Twitter is not the kind of response one would normally expect from the president of the United States.

For more on the Trump-Russia scandals, read Vox’s explainer.
Watch: A timeline of the 3 Trump-Russia scandals

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Akta dig för att säga det här till dina singelvänner
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Ibland kan man som singel känna att vissa människor tror sig ha som livsuppgift att förklara för dig varför man är singel och hur man bör gå tillväga för att träffa någon. Känner du dig träffad är förmodligen det bästa tipset att sluta med detta omedelbart. Det är sällan särskilt uppskattat. När dejtingsajten Mötesplatsen, med […]

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22:01
Unpacking Jordan Peele’s Get Out
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- Aisha on why Get Out is an instant comedy-horror classic about the hilarious nightmare that is existing while black
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- New York Times: “Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False”
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- Aisha recommends The Stepford Wives (1975)
- Jamelle recommends episodes of Key and Peele and Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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Donald Trump brands Democrats ‘hypocrites’ over Russian links
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21:59
The Right to Divorce, “Personhood,” and Abortion “Reversals”: This Week in Women's Rights
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There’s plenty for women and women-supporters to worry about in federal politics these days—the return of the global gag rule, the promised end to free contraception, Donald Trump’s planned rollback of grants that support survivors of rape and domestic abuse. While these are eminently deserving targets for anxiety and rage, state legislatures are where a lot of the real fun stuff goes down. In case you’ve been too busy scrutinizing Kellyanne Conway’s knees to keep up with the wackadoodle state legislators elected by your fellow Americans, here’s a quick digest of the past week.

First, a few updates on abortion laws making their way from statehouse men’s rooms to women’s reproductive organs: On Monday, the Indiana House of Representatives approved a bill that would compel doctors who provide medical abortions to tell their patients that they can “reverse” the abortion mid-way through by not taking the second of the two medications and getting a progesterone injection instead. The bill’s supporters say women might change their mind halfway through the process. Several states have considered or are currently working on similar bills, which are all based on actual lies, since 0 percent of available evidence supports the claim that a medical abortion can be “reversed.”

While Indiana legislators were getting that done, a senate subcommittee in Iowa chose to advance a “personhood” bill that would endow fetuses with all the rights and protections the Constitution has to offer. This would outlaw abortion in the state, presenting a nifty challenge to Roe v. Wade if courts let it go that far. Lawmakers in the Texas senate also advanced a bill that would allow doctors to withhold information from a pregnant woman about her fetus’s health. If the bill passes, a doctor who learns a fetus has severe disabilities will be permitted to lie to the patient and hide that information from her, especially if the doctor fears the woman will want to terminate her pregnancy. According to San Antonio Current’s Alex Zielinski, most of the bill’s sponsors voted against Medicaid expansion in Texas, which would have made it easier for low-income women to raise a child with disabilities or chronic health care needs without falling into poverty.

In the great state of Mississippi, a committee in the state legislature blocked a bill on Tuesday that would have made it possible for people to unilaterally divorce their spouses if the spouses physically abused them. There are currently 12 reasons in Mississippi why a person might be allowed to divorce her husband without his agreement, including habitual drunkenness and impotency; advocates for the bill say the only current way for a survivor of domestic abuse to end the marriage on her own is to prove “habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.” The Republican chairman of the committee that stopped the bill, Baptist minister Andy Gipson, worried that it would have opened the “floodgates” to way more divorces. Better to have fewer divorces, but more people trapped against their will in marriages that threaten their safety? “If there’s a case of abuse, that person needs to have change of behavior and a serious change of heart,” Gipson said. “Hopefully even in those cases restoration can happen.” Hopefully!

21:54
Apple's latest iPad Pro ads focus on notetaking, decluttering desks
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Apple on Friday released yet another two videos in its ongoing ad campaign for the iPad Pro, using Twitter posts as a springboard to sell different features of the tablet.

21:51
Would killing Bitcoin end ransomware?
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Ransomware is running rampant. The SonicWall GRID Threat Network detected an increase from 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. According to a Radware report, 49 percent of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2016. Quite often the attacker asks for some amount of cybercurrency – usually Bitcoin – in exchange for providing a decryption key.
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PSA: Some unable to access Apple Music today due to Family Membership bug
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Some Apple Music users report being locked out of the service today from what appears to be a bug affecting those subscribed to a Family Membership.

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Watch ‘Doctor Who’ Series 10 Opener on Big Screen
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Join Whovians across the country this spring to celebrate the return of Doctor Who—on the big screen. Fathom Events invites fans to watch the season 10 premiere, “A Star in Her Eye,” at […]

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HackerOne offers bug bounty service for free to open-source projects
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HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.
"Here at HackerOne, open source runs through our veins," the company's representatives said in a blog post. "Our company, product, and approach is built on, inspired by, and driven by open source and a culture of collaborative software development. As such, we want to give something back."
HackerOne is a platform that makes it easier for companies to interact with security researchers, triage their reports, and reward them. Very few companies have the necessary resources to build and maintain bug bounty programs on their own with all the logistics that such efforts involve, much less so open-source projects that are mostly funded through donations.
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The "Day Without a Woman" strike, explained
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On International Women’s Day, women across the world will strike against President Trump and the social injustices that helped him rise to power.

March 8 is International Women’s Day, which is usually celebrated in the US with a feel-good awareness campaign about the importance of women’s rights. But this year, grassroots activists around the world are planning something more radical — a women’s general strike, both to oppose President Donald Trump and to make a big push for women’s equality.

The age of Trump is the perfect time for a women’s strike, a group of feminist activists and scholars argued in a February Guardian op-ed. The massive success of the Women’s March on Washington, they said, proved that “millions of women in the United States are finally fed up not only with the blatant misogyny of the Trump’s administration, but also with decades of continuous attacks on women’s lives and bodies.”

Women’s March organizers have declared March 8 “A Day Without a Woman,” alongside an International Women’s Strike taking place in more than 30 countries that day. They’re urging US women to take the day off work if they can, or to show support in other ways if they can’t.

It’s not clear how successful the women’s strike will be — especially in the United States, where the labor movement has become relatively weak and where “general strikes” are a difficult tactic to pull off.

But even if this particular event flops, it definitely won’t be the last we hear from women who oppose Trump. Organizers of the Women’s March have already done an impressive job turning a one-day event into a longer-term movement, and A Day Without a Woman is just one of many actions to come.
What will the strike look like? Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images It probably won’t look like this. That doesn’t mean it won’t be effective.
Women’s March organizers released some basic guidelines last week for “anyone, anywhere” who wants to participate in A Day Without a Woman:

1. Women take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor

2. Avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses)

3. Wear RED in solidarity with A Day Without A Woman

Male allies are also encouraged to show support by taking care of children and housework, or by starting conversations with decisionmakers in their workplace about how to promote family-friendly policies like paid leave or flexible scheduling.

All of these are things that, in theory, any individual can choose to do. If many individuals choose to do them, it could have a big impact.

Some businesses and organizations, like NARAL Pro-Choice America, are choosing to close their doors on March 8 in solidarity with the strike. Even some cities and municipal organizations are shutting down; one school district in North Carolina decided to simply cancel classes that day because it heard that so many of its female teachers were planning to strike.

Still, it’s not clear how the overall impact can be measured. Will there will be big, visible public events associated with the strike? Will we have any idea how many women or businesses participated? How will we know if the strike was a success?

“A Day Without a Woman is a very different type of action than the march,” Women’s March organizer Bob Bland told Vox. “The march was all about people getting out, coming together, and showing themselves very explicitly. A strike can be very different from that.”

But in general, a strike is much more distributed and local than a huge march and rally, Bland said. People will just be taking action wherever they are. And while that action will be local, people won’t even necessarily be publicly gathering in state capitols or town squares like they were at local Women’s Marches in January.

There will definitely be some outlets for public protest. The US branch of the International Women’s Strike has a website for finding and setting up local meetings with others who plan to strike. The Nation also published a somewhat more detailed list of suggestions on how to get involved from Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruzza, two US organizers of the International Women’s Strike.

Either way, Bland still thinks the protests will be visible in many ways — on social media, for instance, or in the sheer numbers of people who are wearing red that day. (US organizers are urging strikers to wear red, which they chose to symbolize “revolutionary love and sacrifice” and for its historical associations with the labor movement. Organizers in other countries chose black — a nod to October’s “Black Monday” protest in Poland, when Polish women wore black, went on strike, and stopped their government from passing a near-total ban on abortion.)

But, Bland said, the action is just as much about women not being present as being present and visible. It’s about showing what society looks like when women don’t actively participate in it.
Organizers had good reason to call for a “strike,” and not some other protest tactic Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Calling this action a “strike” does have both practical and symbolic significance, even though strikes can be difficult to do well.

For instance, strikes are about pushing for change in the workplace. But in every workplace, whether it’s the home or the corporate boardroom, women’s work is often taken for granted.

Women tend to take on more chores and child care duties at home than men, and women are more likely than men to take on tasks at work that nobody else wants to do. Meanwhile, women tend to get paid less for all that trouble, or not get paid at all.

The idea behind a women’s general strike is that if women refuse to do all of their typical work for a day, it will force people to notice how important and under-appreciated that work is.

The “International Women’s Strike” might still end up working more like a protest or a boycott than a bona fide general strike, Elisabeth Clemens, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, told Vox. But it can still be a very effective way to draw attention and energy to women’s rights.

“The name does project a sense of global solidarity, and that’s a really powerful move,” Clemens said.

Sometimes, if it’s clear that a large number of people share your grievances — that if you show up to a protest, you won’t be alone and thousands of others will join you — it can create a virtuous cycle that attracts more and more new activists who are fired up for women’s rights.
The goal is to promote a “feminism of the 99 percent” Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images
Organizers of the International Women’s Strike say that the era of Trump demands a “feminism of the 99 percent.” They say that to be truly inclusive, the feminist movement needs to fight for both economic and social equality for women. It’s not enough just to resist Trump; women also have to resist the deeper social problems that helped Trump rise to power.

“While Trump’s blatant misogyny was the immediate trigger for the huge response on 21 January, the attack on women (and all working people) long predates his administration,” organizers and activists wrote in the Guardian op-ed calling for the women’s strike. “Women’s conditions of life, especially those of women of color and of working, unemployed and migrant women, have steadily deteriorated over the last 30 years, thanks to financialization and corporate globalization.”

They argued that many women have little use for the “lean-in” style of feminism that focuses on corporate achievement or personal empowerment — that strategies for self-promotion or negotiating the cutthroat business world won’t do much to improve the lives of women in poverty.

But one thing that can help is strong labor organizing. Strikes and other labor-focused protests are one way to fight for the rights of women stuck working in lousy, low-paying jobs, or who struggle to balance their paid work with their unpaid family responsibilities.

“Women play an indispensable role in the daily functions of life in all of society, through paid and unpaid, seen and unseen labor,” organizers said in a statement. So the goal of the strike is to “highlight the economic power and significance that women have in the US and global economies, while calling attention to the economic injustices women and gender nonconforming people continue to face.”
It’s really hard to pull off a successful general strike
A Day Without a Woman is being dubbed a “general strike,” and it’s not the only such protest that activists in the US have called for since Trump’s inauguration. A “Day Without Immigrants” strike shut down businesses across the country on February 16 — and immigrants plan to strike again on May 1. On the other hand, another general strike on February 17 didn’t draw much participation or media attention.

In the spirit of women and their allies coming together for love and liberation, we offer A Day Without A Woman. We ask: do businesses support our communities, or do they drain our communities? Do they strive for gender equity or do they support the policies and leaders that perpetuate oppression? Do they align with a sustainable environment or do they profit off destruction and steal the futures of our children? We saw what happened when millions of us stood together in January, and now we know that our army of love greatly outnumbers the army of fear, greed and hatred. On March 8th, International Women’s Day, let’s unite again in our communities for A Day Without A Woman. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing more information on what actions on that day can look like for you. In the meantime, we are proud to support Strike4Democracy's #F17 National Day of Action to Push Back Against Assaults on Democratic Principles. This Friday, February 17th, gather your friends, families, neighbors, and start brainstorming ideas for how you can enhance your community, stand up to this administration, integrate resistance and self-care into your daily routine, and how you will channel your efforts for good on March 8th. Remember: this is a marathon, not a sprint. #DayWithoutAWoman #WomensMarch

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Usually the point of a general strike is to do something so disruptive that daily life grinds to a halt and society can’t help but pay attention to your grievances, experts on social movements told Vox. A general strike of, say, transit workers in smallish European countries like France can definitely accomplish that goal.

But general strikes just don’t work very well in the United States — at least not the way they used to in the 1930s. The US is too big and diverse, and union membership has been shrinking for too many decades.

There are also no legal protections whatsoever for walking off the job in the US unless you have a specific grievance about your own workplace, Bryce Covert pointed out at ThinkProgress. If you want to participate in a “general” strike in solidarity with other workers or to prove a political point, you’re on your own, and you may or may not have a job when you come back the next day.

That’s why some feminists have raised concerns about class and privilege around the women’s strike. If the only women who feel empowered to participate in a strike are the ones who already have secure jobs and good benefits, then who is the strike really for?

In an article for Elle about the historical context of the strike, writer Sady Doyle asked what it really means for women to go on strike in 2017 — when all women still face discrimination, but some women have opportunities that previous generations only dreamed of. This inequality, Doyle writes, can make it harder for women to really empathize with each other’s struggles when it comes to work:

In an earlier era of highly segregated career paths, a "women's strike" had a specific, tangible effect: It made invisible work visible. No women meant no food on the table, no mysteriously emptied trashcans, no one to change diapers or type letters. No women meant no sex. (Yes, going Lysistrata is a real thing—and it occasionally works.) Forcing men to handle "women's work" was the only way to get those men to admit that it existed.

Today women have better access to education and high-paying jobs than ever. But because of these changes it's harder than ever to define women's precise relationship to "work," or to pinpoint a specific problem that female workers can address through striking. Sure, we can walk out of our jobs—but we won't all be walking out of the same jobs, for the same reasons, and some of us can walk out much more safely than others.

Then again, Magally A. Miranda Alcazar and Kate D. Griffiths argued at the Nation, it’s a little strange to think of a strike as “privileged” when strikes are usually a tool of last resort for the least privileged workers. They say that our current situation is closer than we might think to the dire 1908 origins of International Women’s Day, when a group of women garment workers went on strike to demand suffrage and the right to form a union:

Unions were virtually nonexistent then, to say nothing of the brutal working conditions that resulted from their absence (146 people, mostly women, died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911). Union membership today is at a historic low (10.7 percent and decreasing in 2016). Was it a privilege for garment workers to strike then? Would it be a privilege for us to strike now?

And just because the strike could reflect elite concerns, Alcazar and Griffiths said, doesn’t mean it has to; it can also be a powerful chance for more elite women to connect with more marginalized women, and for both groups to develop more kinship and solidarity with each other.

Bland puts it another way: “Those of us who are able to strike on March 8 are striking on behalf of those who can't,” she said. “We have to be there to represent each other.”
The March 8 strikes will continue an international trend that’s been building for the past year Photo by Krystian Dobuszynski/NurPhoto via Getty Images “Black Monday” strike demonstrators in Poland
Global solidarity also matters here because women in foreign countries — plus some populations of vulnerable women in the US, like immigrants — have actually been staging strikes and walk-outs for months. There’s a good argument for trying to keep that momentum going and encourage it to spread further.

Some of those strikes, like the Black Friday strike for abortion rights in Poland, have been surprisingly successful. It’s possible that conservative lawmakers in the heavily Catholic country backed down on a total abortion ban because they decided that Poland’s almost-total abortion ban was already strict enough — but it was still remarkable that women made such a strong enough statement that the government decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.

In Ireland, women are striking on March 8 specifically to demand a referendum on the country’s abortion ban.

But while some women’s strikes have a very specific political purpose women have also gone on strike in countries from Argentina to Iceland to protest a range of different issues: violence against women, restrictions on reproductive rights, and gender-based inequality of all kinds. They often protest many of these issues at once.

“There is no question that the framework of organizing as women has been incredibly important and effective,” Clemens said. The category of “women” may be a big one, but it also covers a lot of ground.

For instance, when we think of combatting “violence” against women, strike organizers argue that we shouldn’t limit our imagination to things like domestic violence or sexual violence. We should also think about “the violence of the market, of debt, of capitalist property relations, and of the state; the violence of discriminatory policies against lesbian, trans and queer women; the violence of state criminalization of migratory movements; the violence of mass incarceration; and the institutional violence against women’s bodies through abortion bans and lack of access to free healthcare and free abortion.”
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This intersectional way of thinking about feminism — paying attention to how different problems connect to one another, and how they can combine to harm different groups of people in different ways — was quite successful at the Women’s March.

Dana Fisher, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, told Vox she surveyed Women’s March attendees with a team of researchers. They found that an unusually high number of marchers were first-time protesters — and that they came out for a wide variety of intersectional reasons.

Most marchers (about 60 percent) said they decided to protest because of “women’s rights,” which wasn’t surprising. But more than a third of respondents said they were also motivated by either the environment, racial justice, or LGBTQ rights, and 21 percent said they were motivated by immigration.

“We’re all part of the movement, we’re all part of the resistance,” Bland said. “As opposed to only working with the partners we're familiar with, what the Women’s March did was really break down silos between a lot of the different groups, and allow us all to collaborate and cooperate with each other at a magnitude not previously seen.”
This is probably just the beginning of a gendered revolt against Trump Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
When it comes to the resistance against President Trump, the future may be female.

The Women’s March hasn’t just inspired new activists to come out, Fisher said — it has also connected those activists with other groups and other ways to get involved, like showing up at town halls to urge Republicans not to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Women’s March organizers also now have a huge list of supporters who said they wanted to stay involved in activism after the march was over They’re keeping those activists busy with 10 major actions in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency — and A Day Without a Woman is only the fourth.

In just over a month, the Women’s March has also managed to turn itself into an organization with a big email list and big potential staying power. Sure, organizers are putting a lot of effort and promotion into A Day Without a Woman — but the Women’s March should still have plenty of other tricks up its sleeve once March 8 has come and gone.

Technology has helped the Women’s March build a ton of capacity in a short time. And it’s not just Facebook and other social media; those tools are great at spreading the word about events, but not so great for long-term community organizing.

The Women’s March website and email list is managed through Action Network — a platform only available to progressive activists, and one that is specifically designed to help organizers channel scattered grassroots energy into something more focused.

“The Women’s March is a great real-world example of what we were trying to build from the beginning,” Brian Young, executive director of Action Network, told Vox. The march got started with completely disconnected grassroots Facebook events, he said — but the organizing really took off once the march had a central organizing hub where activists could register their own local events or find ones nearby.

The second of the “10 Actions for the First 100 Days” events was about helping activists organize local strategy meetings, or “huddles.” Young thinks these huddles were just as impressive and important as the original march, even though they involved fewer people overall and got almost no media attention.

“They had about 5,000 huddles. There are organizations that have been around for decades that can’t get people to come to 5,000 events,” Young said. “They had this base of support, and knew hundreds of people who were willing to step up and organize their communities.”

Technology is the one thing that could make the idea of a successful general strike in the United States seem “a bit more plausible,” Fisher said. Her research found that more people were motivated to attend the Women’s March by Facebook than by “friends and family.”

A women’s general strike is still a huge, ambitious lift, one that could easily collapse under the weight of its own expectations. But at least in the modern era, it probably has better chances of succeeding now than ever before.

21:39
With influx of IPO cash, what is Snap’s next move?
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With Snap Inc. riding a successful IPO this week, company executives likely are calculating what to do with the money that's pouring in.
The most likely gambit: Looking to make key acquisitions to keep Snap near the top of the social networking world.
"Snap will need to make acquisitions and invest in new experiences so that when they're no longer the next big thing, they can buy or roll it out themselves," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. "This is how Facebook insulated itself with WhatsApp, Instagram and their new in-house video features."
Snap is the California-based company behind the popular self-destructing pictures and video app, Snapchat. The messaging app, launched in 2011, has gained a massive and loyal following among teens and young adults. And that popularity helped Snap pull together a widely successful initial public offering.
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Visning av Lars Wallins kollektion – finns nu till försäljning på Crisma
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I augusti förra året lanserade Lars Wallin sin första kollektion med festklänningar. Kollektionen släpps nu på butiken Crisma i Örebro. På fredagskvällen var det visning av kläderna på Behrn Hotell vid Stortorget.

Lars Wallin har inspirerats av sina erfarenheter med privatkunder och summerat dem i den kommersiella kollektionen,som består av 20 festklänningar men även några kavajer och kostymbyxor.

Det som skiljer denna kollektion mot Lars Wallins couture-klänningar är att den är tillverkad i fabrik och inte i en ateljé samt att skärningar och materialval har förenklats.

Se Örebrokurirens bilder från visningen.

21:33
Fifth Avian Influenza Epidemic in China Worse Than Before
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The current avian influenza A epidemic in China is infecting more people with a more virulent strain than in previous years.
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21:28
HackerOne offers bug bounty service for free to open-source projects
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HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.
"Here at HackerOne, open source runs through our veins," the company's representatives said in a blog post. "Our company, product, and approach is built on, inspired by, and driven by open source and a culture of collaborative software development. As such, we want to give something back."
HackerOne is a platform that makes it easier for companies to interact with security researchers, triage their reports, and reward them. Very few companies have the necessary resources to build and maintain bug bounty programs on their own with all the logistics that such efforts involve, much less so open-source projects that are mostly funded through donations.
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HackerOne offers bug bounty service for free to open-source projects
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HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free.

21:26
Sen. Durbin accuses Trump of breaking his H-1B promise
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In November, President Donald Trump said on his first day in office he would order an investigation of H-1B abuses.
That never happened, though critics held their tongues. After all, Trump had repeatedly campaigned for H-1B reforms, even inviting laid-off Disney IT workers to speak at his campaign rallies. Even so, patience is ending.
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill), a long-time critic of the H-1B visa program and co-sponsor of a reform bill with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), accused Trump today of failing "to put American workers first by cracking down on H-1B visa abuse.
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21:21
Varmt mottagande för Equilab – bolaget bakom "Runkeeper för hästar"
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Ska hoppa över hindren – ut i Europa.

21:21
Windows 10 Redstone: A guide to the builds
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Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was rolled out, the company began work on the next two major updates to Windows 10, code-named Redstone 2 (which will likely be fully ready in the spring of 2017) and Redstone 3.
As it did with the Anniversary Update, Microsoft has been releasing public preview builds to members of Microsoft's Insider Program via a series of public preview builds.
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21:18
The Trump Administration Is Ramping Up the War in Yemen
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The United States launched a wave of airstrikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, targets in Yemen on Friday, following more than 20 strikes on Thursday. This would appear to be a significant escalation in the fight against the group, which has been implicated in a number of plots to attack the United States. The Pentagon says the strikes targeted AQAP “fighters, heavy weapons systems, equipment infrastructure and the group’s fighting positions,” Al Jazeera reports, but residents say at least one strike hit civilian homes in Wadi Yashbum village in the southern Shabwah province, killing an unknown number of civilians.

In addition to the strikes from manned and unmanned aircraft, residents in two areas reported that U.S. troops were engaged in ground combat with al-Qaida fighters, but the Pentagon denied that any Americans were involved in ground fighting.

The new strikes in Yemen are the first major U.S. operations against AQAP since the commando raid in late January that resulted in the death of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, as well as a number of civilians, including the 8-year-old daughter of AQAP leader Anwar al-Awlaki. President Donald Trump used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to highlight Owens’ wife, hours after deflecting responsibility for the Navy SEAL’s death onto military commanders. There’s still an ongoing debate over whether any valuable intelligence was gathered in that raid. There have also been recent reports that Trump is hoping to delegate more responsibility for ordering raids in countries like Yemen to his military commanders, to speed up the process.

If the Trump administration is going to aggressively target AQAP, which many military commanders consider a more direct threat to the United States than ISIS, that wouldn’t exactly be a dramatic shift in tactics. Yemen was increasingly the center of the Obama administration’s drone war in its last few years, despite concerns that the strikes helped delegitimize and weaken the central government that collapsed in 2015.

Apart from the U.S. campaign against AQAP, there’s also an ongoing Saudi-led air campaign against the Houthi rebels, which the kingdom accuses of being a proxy for Iran. The U.S. mostly supported this campaign under Obama, despite growing concerns over the high number of civilian casualties and fears that groups like AQAP and ISIS would exploit the power vacuum created by the fighting. Still, in its final days, the Obama administration took some steps to distance itself from Saudi Arabia’s air war. Trump does not appear to be doing the same. The Washington Times reported last month that the Trump administration is poised to approve a weapons package for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that Obama had held up over human rights concerns. As another sign of support, following a Houthi attack on a Saudi warship last month, the U.S. deployed the U.S.S. Cole—probably not coincidentally the ship that was attacked by al-Qaida off Yemen in 2000—to patrol the waterways around Yemen.

We’re still waiting for the promised new approach to fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, which was such a centerpiece of Trump’s campaign. But for now, at least, Yemen appears to be where most of the Trump administration’s “war on terror” attention is directed.

21:16
UFC 209: Matchen mellan Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson inställd
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Här hittar du det tidigare matchkortet och nedan kan du läsa UFC:s uttalande:

”UFC lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov was transported to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center Thursday evening due to weight management medical issues. He was treated and has been discharged, UFC officials confirmed.

The scheduled interim lightweight championship bout between Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson at UFC 209 has been cancelled on the doctor’s recommendation.

UFC 209 takes place Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, live on Pay-Per-View at 10 p.m./7 p.m. ET/PT. Tyron Woodley faces Stephen Thompson with his welterweight championship on the line in a rematch from their 2016 Fight of the Year contender at UFC 205.”

Inlägget UFC 209: Matchen mellan Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson inställd dök först upp på Fighter Magazine.

21:15
Geek’s Favorite Console Launches of All Time
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We here at Geek are enjoying all the hype around Nintendo’s Switch at the moment and rightfully so. Caught up in all the excitement we start discussing our favorite consoles over the years. […]

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21:15
Windows 10 Creators Update allows indefinite postponing of reboots
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When it launched, Windows 10 had a really bad habit of spontaneously rebooting to install updates. Updates were coming fast and furious in its early months, which was to be expected during an OS launch. A restart without warning was not expected or appreciated, and this earned Redmond some anger.
Eventually they tamed that beast, giving people options when to reboot and warning them that one was needed. Now Microsoft is promising even more control over when you reboot, including the option to indefinitely postpone it, as documented in a new blog post.
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21:14
Elsa Bernadotte ska rädda miljontals måltider från soptippen: "Kan bli enormt"
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"Kan vi halvera matsvinnet vore det overkligt".

21:11
Google’s location tracking is better now than ever before
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Columnist Andy Taylor notes that Google has improved its ability to track search traffic at the ZIP code level, which is good news for advertisers who employ granular geographic targeting.

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21:11
Official videos show what has been added to the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus
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The Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus were unveiled in Barcelona on February 26th. Today, Motorola, Lenovo, Motorola released a couple of videos related to the design and features of both phones. The Moto G line, we are reminded by Motorola product marketing manager Richard Ho, stands for premium features without the premium price. This year, a sleek metal design has been added to both phones.

Battery life has been improved, allowing users to go the entire day without charging. With rapid charging, you can get hours of power in just minutes of charging. The 13MP rear camera has PDAF for quick focusing. ...

21:10
Färden hem
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Taxin hämtar oss 05.00, ja Rob och Nille sitter redan i den då den bromsar upp i snödrivan. Den tar oss sedan till flygplatsen och där börjar vår färd hem till Nice!

#gaycation with our #bff @robertvikstroem @pernillapervik #thearrival #nice #france

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Vi möts av solen. Det är 20 grader varmt och vi käkar lunch, promenerar, tar en liten tupplur (som urartar och blir två timmar lång) och går tillsist ut på kvällsmiddag. Livet är underbart och jag är hemma igen. Amen.

21:01
What Do "Star Wars" And This Car Commercial Have In Common?
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This choose-your-own adventure car commercial uses the same CGI technology as the latest Star Wars movie to allow for extreme customization.

21:00
9 saker du inte ska säga till en höggravid kvinna
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I den sista trimestern när hormonerna flödar är blivande mammor rätt så känsliga. Men lär dig att göra rätt – genom att låta bli att säga de här sakerna!
LÄS OCKSÅ: 13 TECKEN PÅ ATT DU HITTAT RÄTT PARTNER 1. ”Passa på att sova nu innan babyn kommer!”
Ja, det är inte så lätt att sova när man måste gå upp och kissa varannan minut, den stora magen gör det omöjligt att hitta någon form av bekväm sovställning. Och framförallt inte de två i kombination med att barnet lever om och övar karatesparkar på revben.
2. ”Kommer du att vilja ha fler barn?”
Fler??? Att ens prata om fler barn innan den nuvarande jättelånga graviditet har lett till att ett barn har kommit till världen är ingen bra idé. Alls.
3. ”Bebisen kommer när du minst anar det!”
I slutet på graviditeten känns varje dag som en hel månad. Så den som är i 39:e veckan har alltså minst 7 veckor kvar tills den beräknade förlossningen.

4. ”Min förlossning var verkligen så jobbig/gjorde så ont/drog ut på tiden”

Barnet ska ju komma ut på ett eller annat sätt, men att påminnas om folks smärtsamma förlossningar minskar inte direkt en eventuell förlossningsskräck.
LÄS OCKSÅ: 7 TIPS TILL DIG SOM FUNDERAR PÅ ATT FLYTTA IHOP MED DIN PARTNER 5. ”Jag födde tidigare än beräknat”
Sprid inte falska förhoppningar!
6. ”Jag slutade att gå upp i vikt i vecka 37. Det var som att min kropp inte kunde hantera mer!”
Den som inte sett sin mage på flera månaders tid och som måste stånka när hon tar sig fram kommer inte direkt uppskatta den sortens kommentarer.
7. ”Det ser ut som att du spricker snart!”
Ajajaj, dundertabbe! Särskilt när den blivande mamman har tre veckor kvar av graviditeten.
8. ”Oj, vad din graviditet har gått fort!”
Ingen gravid kvinna någonsin har tyckt att det ”gått fort”.
LÄS OCKSÅ: 12 SÖTSAKER SOM ÄR BÄTTRE ÄN DIN PARTNER 9. ”Du fullkomligen strålar!”
Den gravida kommer förmodligen att tänka: ”Strålar av smärtan från min foglossning, menar du? Eller är det graviditetsaknen och mina jättesvullna fötter som du tänker på?”.

Nej, det är inte lätt att göra rätt när man möter en höggravid hormonstinn kvinna. Men när nästa gång det händer, säg så här i stället:

”Jag förstår att det är jobbigt!”

Källa: Parents.com

Artikel av: Femina

21:00
Johan Hilton och Kristin Lundell vinner ”På spåret”
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Äntligen kan Johan Hilton gå in i garderoben och hämta sitt pris. Där, längst in, har den lilla jordgloben stått sedan i oktober då han tillsammans med Kristin Lundell vann årets säsong av SVT:s ”På spåret” över Kalle Lind och Isobel Hadley-Kamptz.

21:00
Hedemora Sotaren AB hävdar att siffrorna inte stämmer – "registret är undermåligt"
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Statistiken stämmer inte – men det är de här siffrorna vi får fram. Det säger Torbjörn Dahlström, Hedemora Sotaren AB, om sotningen i Borlänge under fjolåret.
21:00
Bara 20 procent av planerade sotningar i Borlänge har genomförts – "vi tycker att det är allvarligt"
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Bara 20 procent av de planerade sotningarna genomfördes i Borlänge under 2016. Detta enligt statistiken. – Vi har gjort en uppföljning av 2016 och konstaterat att det är ett lågt utfall, säger Mars Hedlund vid räddningstjänsten Dala Mitt.

21:00
Nail-Patella Syndrome: New Spotlight On 'No Kneecap' Disorder
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The rare genetic disease nail-patella syndrome manifests as a lack of kneecaps, the improper development of nails, and other physical abnormalities. In most cases, the syndrome leads to kidney disease as well.

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