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Museum visitor damages 800-year-old coffin by lifting child into it for a photo
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Museum visitor damages 800-year-old coffin by lifting child into it for a photo
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The Church of Satan has one hell of a social media team
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You don’t have to worship Satan to appreciate the proper grammar and surprising wit behind the Church of Satan’s Twitter account. In fact, it would be silly if you did, because its members don’t. While the bulk of the tweets it sends out may center around correcting misinformation, the church has a masterfully acerbic way of handling things. We haven't answered your question because it's pedantic and stupid, and mocking you was more entertaining for us. We aren't here for you. [https:] — The Church Of Satan (@ChurchofSatan) August 17, 2017 These people don’t care about your politics, they don’t…

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Rumble of the Kings: Iman Barlow vs. Sofia Olofsson – Vem är världens bästa kvinnliga thaiboxare?

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I matchen mellan Sofia Olofsson och Iman Barlow är det svårt att sätta en favorit. Iman har betydligt mer matcherfarenhet som proffs och vunnit titlar i de flesta professionella organisationerna. Iman är väldigt stor ute i världen och enligt dem som har följt hennes karriär framstår hon som oslagbar. Sofia tog WMC bantamviktstiteln under Rumble of the Kings galan 2016 (ROK 18) förra året och matchen mot Iman blir hennes första titelförsvar samt karriärens tuffaste match. Här kan du köpa biljetter till Nedan följer en presentation:

IMAN BARLOW

Iman Barlow är en 24-årig brittisk thaiboxare från Leicester. Hon började träna thaiboxning när hon var 4 år gammal. Innan hon blev professionell thaiboxare hade hon närmare 100 junior-/amatörmatcher. Hon hade sin första proffsmatch i Thailand vid 12-årsåldern. Iman instruerar Muay Thaiklasser för män och kvinnor på hennes fars gym. Iman är 165 cm, matchar i -54 kg klassen och har totalt gjort 99 matcher, vunnit 91 av dessa varav 30 genom knockout. Hon har endast fem förluster och tre oavgjorda. Hennes meritlista är nog längre än någon annan kvinnlig fighter i världen. Hon har slagit alla förutom Sofia Olofsson som hon ännu inte har mött. Bland besegrade motståndare finns namn som t.ex. Therese Gunnarsson, Maria Lobo, Fatima Pinto, Samantha van Doorn, Johanna Rydberg och Teresa Wintermyr. Iman Barlow har hittills under 2017 gått tre matcher. Det blev fem matcher under 2016 och sex matcher under 2015. Hon har vunnit samtliga och kommer till Göteborg med 15 raka vinster.

Nedan är några av hennes titlar:
2016	Muay Thai Grand Prix Bantamweight World Champion, 53.5kg
2016 & 2017	Lion Fight Super Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion (1 defence)
2013 & 2016	Enfusion World Champion, 54kg (4 defences)
2012 –	European Champion
2009	WMPF World Champion (Adult Title won at age 17)
2009	WKA Pro-Am World Champion (Adult Title won at age 17)
2009	Amateur Kickboxing Champion (Adult Title won at age 16)
2009	Amateur K1 World Champion (Adult Title won at age 16)
2008	S1 World Champion (Adult Title won at age 16)
2002	IKF Junior Amateur Full Contact European Middleweight Champion
2002	IKF Junior Amateur Muay Thai British Featherweight Champion
	Junior World Champion x2
	Junior European Champion x3
	Junior British Champion x12

Namn: Iman ”Pretty Killer” Barlow Födelsedatum: 1993-04-14 Vikt: 54 kg
Längd: 165 cm Nationalitet: Britisk Team: Team Assassins

Foto av Henrik Tham SOFIA OLOFSSON

28-åriga Täbytjejen, Sofia Olofsson, har tagit över thaiboxningsvärlden som en storm. Hon började med thaiboxning som 18-åring. Innan dess spelade hon handboll i Täbys damlag. Sofia ställde upp i Svenska Muaythai mästerskapen för första gången 2012 och fick då nöja sig med ett silver. 2013 kom hon tillbaks och vann SM. En titel som hon har vunnit årligen sedan dess. Sofia har hittills hunnit med 45 matcher av vilka hon har vunnit 39, 19 via knockouter och förlorat sex matcher. Hon kommer till Göteborg med 18 raka vinster. Under 2017 har hon hittills hunnit med fem matcher, åtta matcher under 2016 och åtta matcher under 2015.

Hennes titlar och meriter:
2016-11-25	WMC Bantam weight World Title	Stockholm
2016-09-03	WMC Bantam weight European Title	Varberg
2017-07-30	IWGA World Games -54 kg gold medallist	Polen
2016-05-28	IFMA World Championship gold medallist	Sverige
2015-08-22	IFMA Royal World Cup gold medallist	Thailand
2014	IFMA European championship gold medallist	Polen
2012 & 2015	IFMA Nordic Championship gold medallist	Finland
2013-2017	SMTF 5 x Swedish Muaythai Champion	Sverige

Utöver sina mästerskapsmedaljer har Sofia även fått andra utmärkelser som t.ex.
2017	IWGA Best female boxer 2017 World Games	Polen
2017	IWGA Athlete of the year 2016 World Games award winner	Danmark
2016	IFMA World Championship Best female boxer	Jönkoping
2015	IFMA World Cup – Best female boxer award winner	Bangkok

Fakta – Sofia Olofsson Födelsedatum: 1989-09-04 Vikt: 55 kg Längd: 165 cm Nationalitet: Svensk Team: Odenplan Fight Gym

23:54
Follow Eclipse Hunters on the Pilgrimage to Totality
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Rachel Bujalski documents the people who drove hundreds of miles and countless hours to see the eclipse.

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HyperX unveils Cloud Alpha gaming headset with special dual chamber technology
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HyperX makes excellent hardware. While the company's RAM (memory) is already legendary, it has also branched out to other gear like keyboards, mice, and headsets. So far, anything that carries the company's branding has proven to be of high quality. In other words, you really can't go wrong when buying a HyperX product. Today, HyperX unveils a new gaming headset and it looks amazing. It is compatible with multiple platforms, such as Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, smartphones, tablets, and of course, PC. It features a removable microphone for when you just need to listen, which you can… [Continue Reading]

23:53
Larm om bilbrand i Mora
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Bilen som brann var parkerad i närheten av Vattugatan.

23:50
Eliasson matchvinnare i ligacupen
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23:50
Lamborghini’s luxury Android phone is definitely not worth $2,450
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I understand people's phone choices say something about their personalities, so what does the luxury Lamborghini phone say about the person who uses it? They're glamorous? They enjoy leather? They value luxury, maybe? I can't say, nor can I even guess, because I doubt I'll ever see someone with Lamborghini's new Alpha - One smartphone. The Android device, which the company debuted today features "Italian handmade black leather" with a custom Italian leather accompanying phone case. That's about as luxury as it get.

Specs-wise buyers can expect:
- 5.5-inch WQHD, 2560x1440, display
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor
- Android Nougat
- 4GB of RAM with 64GB of storage and up to 128GB of expandable storage
- 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and a...
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23:50
Breitbart got caught in an email hoax, and it was revealing
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The editor of Breitbart, the far-right media outlet that has relentlessly boosted Donald Trump, thought he was emailing Steve Bannon when he revealed his plan to oust what he calls the “globalist” wing of the president’s administration.

Instead, Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow was emailing a fake email account run by a prankster: steven.bannon@usa.com, CNN, which obtained a copy of the emails, reported. Marlow laid out Breitbart’s plan to position Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, as the saving grace of the Trump administration and let Breitbart’s editors do the “dirty work.”

"Did five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it,” Marlow emailed the fake account. “You need to own that, just have surrogates do the dirty work. Boyle, Raheem, me, Tony have been waiting for this," he added in reference to Washington editor Matthew Boyle, Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, and reporter Tony Lee.

Bannon left the White House last Friday, after months of rumors that he was on shaky ground. In the aftermath, those around Bannon and at Breitbart signaled some kind of war with the Trump administration — which Marlow’s emails seem to confirm.

In the emails, Marlow raved about what he called a “conspiracy” involving Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s marriage, adding that Bannon had previously described them as “evil” and said no administration is more divided than Trump’s. Marlow said he would try to oust the two by Christmas.

In response to the hoax, Marlow tried to brush off the newsworthiness of the exchange, saying it was no more revealing than the pages of Breitbart.

“The obsession with Breitbart News is simply a result of our effectiveness. This time, an imposter deceitfully obtained and shared with CNN tongue-in-cheek emails that revealed that we feel Globalists present an existential threat to the agenda that got President Trump elected," Marlow told CNN. "If people want to know our thinking, they don't need to judge us on illicitly obtained comments that were intended to be private; they can simply read our front page.”

The emails suggest that Breitbart really is planning to go after the Trump administration following Bannon’s departure. Bannon, who returned to Breitbart News Friday, is deeply intertwined with Trumpism. It won’t be an easy divorce, and going against Trump’s inner circle could prove to be an extraordinarily risky move for Breitbart, which has grown in national name recognition largely because of Trump’s base.

Here are the emails between Marlow and the Bannon impostor, as posted on the prankster’s Twitter:

NEW PRANK!! ...Steve Bannon (ME) chatting to BREITBART Editor ALEX MARLOW. As seen on CNN pic.twitter.com/tByDNsDCRl
— EMAIL PRANKSTER (@SINON_REBORN) August 22, 2017

23:50
Lamborghini’s luxury Android phone is definitely not worth $2,450
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I understand people's phone choices say something about their personalities, so what does the luxury Lamborghini phone say about the person who uses it? They're glamorous? They enjoy leather? They value luxury, maybe? I can't say, nor can I even guess, because I doubt I'll ever see someone with Lamborghini's new Alpha - One smartphone. The Android device, which the company debuted today features "Italian handmade black leather" with a custom Italian leather accompanying phone case. That's about as luxury as it get.

Specs-wise buyers can expect:
- 5.5-inch WQHD, 2560x1440, display
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor
- Android Nougat
- 4GB of RAM with 64GB of storage and up to 128GB of expandable storage
- 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera
- 3,250mAh battery
- Dual SIM card support
- Fingerprint scanner
The phone will be available starting today in both the UK and UAE, as well as online. In the UK, it'll be sold exclusively at Harrod's while in the UAE, it'll be sold at multiple retailers, including at Levant luxury boutique in the Dubai Mall. It'll cost $2,450. It doesn't come with the car. Sorry. So yes, you'll have to invest a lot of money into your Lamborghini lifestyle, but leather isn't cheap and you've got a sporty look to maintain.

23:49
Uber adds new features that let drivers work on their own terms
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Uber is adding a new batch of driver-friendly features to its app.

This latest round of updates in the app-based taxi company's "180 Days of Change" campaign focuses on giving drivers more flexibility to manage their days on their own terms.

One new feature allows drivers to set a time by which they need to be at a particular destination.

Let's say a driver who has to be at her primary job by 10 a.m. wants to make a bit of extra cash on the way to work. In Uber's app, she can now specify when she needs to be at her workplace. The app will connect her with rides that are en route and will notify her when it's time to head to the office.

Previously, Uber's app let drivers set an end destination, but didn't allow them to set an arrival time. And it only let them set two destinations per day; with the update, they can now select up to six.

Another new feature notifies drivers if a prospective rider is requesting a trip that's will take 45 minutes or longer. Drivers will have the option to turn down the ride or, if they want to take it, confirm that they have enough gas and are prepared to sit in the car for awhile.

Thanks to the update, drivers can also now choose in the app which type of rides they'll accept. They can choose to accept only UberSelect requests, for example. Or they can choose to just deliver food for UberEATS instead. However, as Harry Campbell points out on The Rideshare Guy, drivers cannot entirely opt out of UberPool rides, which require them to pick up multiple passengers.

It's only 60 days into its 180 day campaign, but Uber seems to be following through on its promise to improve its service for drivers. Collectively, the new features represent the third major update for drivers since the launch of the campaign.

The first big update, which came in June, added tipping to the app, a feature long requested by drivers. Since that update, drivers have earned $50 million in tips, Uber said.

The second big update promised improved customer support for drivers. Uber was infamous among drivers for its poor support systems, and in response added a 24/7 support line.

The company has been trying to shore up its reputation with drivers and the public at large after a series of scandals earlier this year and amid growing competition from the likes of Lyft.

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23:44
Brave browser bets on BATs to the web
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The builders of the Brave browser are trying to put a price on online users' attention with blockchain-based tokens that will be traded between publishers, advertisers and those willing to view ads.
The project, dubbed "Basic Attention Token" (BAT), will offer a substitute for traditional display advertising, claims Brave Software, the browser's maker as well as the force behind BAT.
"Digital advertising is broken," argued the BAT team on its website. "It is a market filled with middlemen and fraudsters, hurting users, publishers and advertisers." Brave aims to change all that with a new ad ecosystem that relies on trading of digital tokens.
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23:43
Police hunt bearded pervert in Chelsea jogging bottoms
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Police have now released an e-fit of the suspect (pictured) who allegedly sexually assaulted the schoolgirl while she was walking through the woods in Claygate, Surrey.

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LG will build electric car parts in Detroit
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LG Electronics is building a 250,000 square foot EV parts plant in Detroit suburb Hazel Park, it said in a press release. LG might not build its own cars, but its vehicle components division supplies many key pieces for GM's critically acclaimed Chev...

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Ruben Östlund: ”Jag är bättre än Quentin Tarantino”
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Tillerson says the Taliban won’t win in Afghanistan — and neither will the US
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We may have also just learned the real goal of the Afghanistan strategy.

It’s not surprising that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the Taliban won’t win the war in Afghanistan, but it’s more than a little strange that he says the US won’t either.

“I think the president was clear this entire effort was intended to put pressure on the Taliban, to have the Taliban understand that you will not win a battlefield victory,” Tillerson said during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. “We may not win one, but neither will you.”

Well, that’s awkward. It was just last night that President Donald Trump outlined a new Afghanistan strategy and stressed time and again that victory was the objective. “Our troops will fight to win,” Trump said in the primetime speech.

Many outside observers immediately said that outright victory in Afghanistan was impossible given that the longest conflict in American history is grinding on with no apparent end in sight.

Tillerson appears to share their skepticism. The best the US can do, Tillerson seems to be saying, is hammer the Taliban hard enough that they’re willing to negotiate a peace deal.

Put another way, Tillerson said the best-case scenario is that Trump’s new plan brings about a Taliban loss, but not necessarily an American win. If the US military prevents the Taliban from building on the 40 percent of territory it already controls in Afghanistan, the armed group may be willing to seek a negotiated end to a war that has killed 2,264 Americans — and many tens of thousands of Afghans — since 2001.

Tillerson’s comments may resonate with his predecessors from previous administrations. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama also hoped for formal talks with the Taliban as a pathway to peace there. Trump is now the third president to contend with a chaotic battlefield that includes at least 20 terrorist groups.

That means messaging gaffes like Tillerson’s may ultimately be the least of Trump’s problems.

See Tillerson’s comments below:

Tillerson: US's Afghanistan effort meant to tell Taliban "you will not win a battlefield victory. We may not win one, but neither will you." pic.twitter.com/8tE8uCe9pu
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 22, 2017

23:39
The Apple HomePod setup looks like a breeze
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Before the Apple HomePod can stream music, read you the news, or replace your morning alarm clock, you'll have to set the darn thing up.

Thankfully for those itching to get their hands on the forthcoming smart speaker, a new video shows just how painless that process is going to be.

SEE ALSO: This Apple leak is like nothing we've ever seen before

Published by iOS developer Guilherme Rambo, the walkthrough is derived from the iOS 11 developer beta 7 that was released on August 21, and provides us with an inside look at what's coming down the pike.

"It's not just a video," Rambo emphasized over Twitter direct message. "I ran the actual process in the iOS Simulator and recorded the screen." Read more...
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Fakta: Häktade för Barcelona-attackerna
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Domstolen i Madrid meddelade på tisdagskvällen sitt beslut kring åklagarens begäran på att häkta fyra misstänkta för terrorattentaten i Barcelona i förra veckan.
Samtliga misstänkta är marockaner bosatta i Katalonien.

21-åring - häktad. Direkt kopplad till terrorattackerna genom att han var en av de tre som tillverkade gasbomber i ett hus i Alcanar när en laddning exploderade av misstag och dödade två, bland annat den imam som pekas ut som ledaren i terrorcellen. 21-åringen överlevde eftersom han precis hade gått ut på gården när laddningen exploderade, men han är skadad och fördes med ambulanshelikopter från Barcelona till Madrid. Han medger att gruppen bildats för att utföra ett stort terrordåd i Barcelona, ett av målen var den stora kyrkan och turistattraktionen La Sagrada Familia.

28-åring - häktad. Han ska ha hyrt den skåpbil som en annan i gruppen använde i La Rambla, där 13 dog och över hundra skadades. 28-åringen hävdar att hans id-kort blev bestulet och att någon annan hyrt skåpbilen i hans namn. Nekar till brott.

34-åring - anhållen i 72 timmar i väntan på vad den fortsatta polisutredningen tar fram som bevis mot honom. Han äger en internetbutik i Ripoll. Nekar till brott.

27-åring - villkorlig frigiven med skyldighet att anmäla sig varje måndag på polisstationen i Ripoll. Han äger en av bilarna som användes i den andra attacken, den i kuststaden Cambril, där fem i gruppen skulle vid midnatt ge sig på folk på strandpromenaden med knivar och en yxa som de köpte några timmar tidigare. De fem dödades av polisen. 27-åringen sa i polisförhöret att han äger bilen men att den används av hans två bröder, båda döda och misstänkta för att ha varit med i terrorcellen. 27-åringen nekar till brott.

Brottsrubriceringarna är medlemskap i terroristorganisation, 15 mord med terrormotiv, skadegörelse och innehav av sprängmedel.

Ivan Garcia, Barcelona
ivan.garcia@sverigesradio.se

23:34
Tre bilar brinner: "Troligen anlagt"
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Tre bilar brinner på Hårds väg på Rosengård, i Malmö.
Station Jägersro och station Hyllie är på plats för att släcka och minska eldens spridningsrisk.
– Två av bilarna är helt övertända och elden har spridit sig till en tredje, säger Mattias Sköld, inre befäl vid räddningstjänsten syd.

23:33
Matchhjälten efter segern i seriefinalen: "Det var bara att gå och hänga dit den"
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På tisdagskvällen var det seriefinal i division fem, då IFK Strömsund tog emot Dvärsätt BK hemma på sin Strömsvallen. Matchen stod länge och vägde, men i den 81:a matchminuten tilldelades hemmalaget en straff, vilken Mattias Edin säkert tog tillvara på.
– Det var bara att gå och hänga dit den, säger matchhjälten om sin straffspark.

23:32
You can now purchase Nintendo Switch games with PayPal
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PayPal today announced a new integration with Nintendo’s eShop so players can purchase digital versions of Switch games using a PayPal account. You can also now use PayPal as a payment option on Nintendo’s web store, so you can load up your digital wallet or purchase software direct from the site using your PayPal balance. The company says the feature is now live in a number of regions including the US, Japan, Canada, and more than two dozen countries in Europe. A full list can be found here.

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23:31
City lawyer who became Britain's most inspiring head
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When Mouhssin Ismail decided to throw in his highly paid job with a leading City law firm to become a teacher, his father didn’t speak to him for a week.

23:29
Astro HQ’s Kickstarter for Mac/iPad 2nd display solution fully funded in first few hours
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Developer Astro HQ, the company behind the popular AstroPad Studio app has launched its newest product on Kickstarter today. Luna Display turns any iPad into a second wireless display to be used with a Mac, and the new product has raised almost 300% of its goal in the first several hours since going live.

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Listening for Gayness in the Soundscapes of Provincetown
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It’s a Thursday afternoon in late summer, and I’m sitting at a bar with a straight friend of mine. Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” fades in on the loudspeaker. I offhandedly comment that I expect to hear this song pretty often at my upcoming weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts with my husband. My friend looks at me blankly.

“Edge of Glory is gay music? But plenty of straight people love that song.”

I pause and think a moment. It’s always been so obvious to me that something essential about this song seems to be oriented toward my gay identity. And it’s not the words, nor the singer’s sexuality—Lady Gaga’s personal bisexuality seems beside the point. Rather, it’s in how the music sounds, how it’s built and composed. But my friend’s obliviousness is indicative of another layer. The musical gayness that is so obvious to me is invisible to him. I wonder whether there are reliable characteristics of music that can make a song obviously appeal to my particular sexual expression, while still “passing” for mainstream music. What makes music sound gay to me?

So, I took an audio recorder to Provincetown to record how places would signal this particular kind of gayness through particular kinds of music. This village (affectionately called “P-town”) on the tip of Cape Cod is something of a Mecca for a certain type of gay male: On busy weekends, the main artery, Commercial Street, becomes a sea of men whose tank tops and polo shirts are all basically identical and could all easily be in my dresser drawer. Looking at this crowd, there are clearly issues of race, economic class, and gender all wrapped into this identity, since I’m not just hearing this music as “gay” but as a gay, liberal, urban, white cis-male—a Dan Savage, Truman Capote, Oscar Wilde kind of gay. And so, when a restaurant, club, or show wanted to communicate that their space was where I belonged—was this kind of gay space—I turned on my recorder.

I start recording around noon on a Saturday. At this point in the day, the town’s gay community is mixed with heavy doses of day-trippers with two-way same-day ferry tickets and families punctuating their Cape Cod vacations for a couple hours before returning to their cottage rentals in Truro or Wellfleet. The music reflects this eclectic mix: I recorded the music outside one family-friendly diner playing Billy Joel, heard indistinct Latin-ish background music as we walked by a packed dining patio, and found French-bistro-style underscoring wafting from an upscale cocktail lounge. This was, by my estimation, not gay music.

But the last ferry back to Plymouth leaves at 4:30 p.m., which is coincidentally the beginning of P-town’s Tea Dance. This daily party—now the place to begin your gay evening—grew out of the long tradition of men meeting under the auspices of “having tea,” an excuse designed to skirt the legal codes of the not-too-distant-past when homosexual gatherings were explicitly forbidden.

Walking to Tea, the aural scene had already become distinctly more “gay,” with a version of “Mmmbop” wafting from a karaoke happy hour and a group of men drinking cocktails on the porch of their hotel to a soundtrack of Madonna’s “Hung Up.” As we approached Tea, the sound of dance remixes of pop songs pounded louder and louder: I captured a couple such aural snippets. As we paid our cover, I turned off the recorder; we mingled and danced to remixes of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and Icona Pop’s “All Night.” Tea then transformed into an “After Tea” dance a few doors down—during this transition, I paused to again record a series of soundscapes before rejoining, sounds that again featured much of the same dance-mix textures.

At this point, two trends were becoming clear. First, and most obviously, the gayer spaces became, the more throbbing dance beats they used. On the one hand, this should be an obvious musical choice—these spaces were explicitly dance parties. But on the other hand, it’s actually not trivial: The more exclusively gay the space became, the more fun it became. When these clubs let this type of music waft into the street, they are saying that I can come in, join people of a similar identity to me—my Andy Cohen, Michael Kors, Neil Patrick Harris gayness—and let loose. And this is really important: When you move through the world with a non-mainstream identity, it can feel extremely liberating to find yourself in a space where your identity suddenly becomes the mainstream. This liberation—this visceral celebration—is, I think, why “gay music” is often “dance music,” and why dance music can be so easily co-opted into gay spaces.

Second, these audio clips show it to be almost exclusively female voices singing to our sweaty (mostly white) bodies, and often women of color. There’s a lot of overlapping motivations behind this (and the cocktail of these motivations is probably mixed differently for every gay man), but the search for strong figures outside traditional masculine culture probably gets the most traction. While born out a respect, this means that gay white male musical tastes seem to be grounded in other marginalized voices, often voices with far less privilege than the men consuming it.

Leaving After Tea, we walked toward the center of town, where we found the streets transformed from alleys dotted with individuated pods of self-conferring tourists into an alloy of forming and reforming flocks of gay men. We ran into Jinkx Monsoon (winner of season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and my husband’s favorite drag queen) performing on the street to sell tickets for her show later that night. Walking past the Crown and Anchor’s piano bar, we heard a crowd of intoxicated male voices erupt into the climax of “Oh What a Beautiful Morning.” We then ducked into Varla Jean Merman’s drag show, a classic example of gay camp that irreverently mashes together intelligent highbrow cultural criticism with lowbrow slapstick. At each juncture—from the street sing-alongs to campy drag-queen parodies—there is a sense of community built through sound: through inside jokes, songs that everyone in this particular community knows, and old-fashioned camp. In P-town, these kinds of “we-all-get-it” musical moments become more prominent after dark, after the tourists (read: straights) have left. At this point, performers and listeners alike can metaphorically wink at one another, and sing along to songs we all know we all know.

And this uniquely tracks with what it means to be a gay white male of this variety—a Michael Musto, John Waters, Anderson Cooper gay. Almost unique among minority identities, we have the ability to pass for majority/mainstream identities. These inside musical jokes are very similar to what I think of as the “gay flirty wink.” As a gay man, you learn to recognize moments when the guy passing you on the street looks at you with a glance that’s just-a-little-too lingering. These are ways (my brand of) gay men have learned how to move throughout the world unnoticed by the scrutiny of normative straight interaction, but noticed by other gay men. Arising from the balance between the advantage of our gender but not of our sexuality, we socialize modes of flirtation with the openness available to our male privilege, while flying just under the radar of heterosexuality.

The musical choices that have become intertwined with gay culture are a lot like this wink, and this is why, I think, my straight friend didn’t hear Lady Gaga as “gay.” We have a history of choosing gay anthems that are not explicitly “gay,” but rather are mainstream pop songs that in some peripheral way communicate non-mainstream identity. Songs by women or minority artists allow us to identify with the “otherness” and “difference” of the singers, but—by virtue of them being mainstream hits—humming them as you walk down the street won’t necessarily out you. Jinx Monsoon, for instance, sang a song by The Shirelles’s, a group of black women whose music was designed to appeal to white audiences—marginalized voices that pass in the mainstream.

But while the motivations behind these song choices might be rooted in subtlety, when music is being “gay music,” it is anything but subtle. In spaces like P-town, clubs with our friends, or even the bathroom mirrors of our teenage years, we gays let our guard down: That small muscle that is constantly flexing to help us pass in the world gets to finally relax. Certainly, many minority identities have it far worse, but it’s hard to be gay. I still study the floor tiles in locker rooms as intently as I did when I was a closeted middle-schooler; my husband still flinches at our local dive bar whenever a group of straight men become a little too sloppy and loud, worrying about how they’ll react to us once they become drunk enough.

Finding yourself in a room where everyone—everyone—knows the words to a song from Oklahoma! or pumping your fists to Whitney Houston or joining in a crowd laughing at a drag queen making a campy and silly pun … these things make you feel like you belong. Even while aspects of this music echo our neurosis and closeted pasts, when it’s played in spaces like P-town, it loudly and openly expresses our particular brand of gayness, the Lance Bass, Elton John, Clay Aiken gays. These songs “come out,” moving from being secret winks to being musical manifestations of the safe communal venues where (my kinds of) gays can loudly, viscerally, cathartically, and proudly celebrate who we are, and the history of how we got here.

The next day, as we left Tea Dance, the DJ began to play Whitney Houston’s “My Love is Your Love.” The sea of men roared—roared—together along with the chorus, “Cause my love is your love, And your love is my love.” We had all experienced childhoods of staring at gym floor tiles, early adulthoods of skittishness around drunk frat boys, and had all read Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion on June 26, 2015 with tears in our eyes. We were all pumping our fists to the voice of Whitney Houston, a song originally about race relations that we were adopting as our own. It was fun. It was liberating. It was probably a little problematic. But it was beautiful.

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Snake found in Queensland garden but can you spot it?
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Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers, from Queensland, were summoned to deal with the reptile this week, and posted the photo on Facebook so users could guess where it was.
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Naomi Campbell blasts Vogue's Shulman over all-white team
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The 47-year-old supermodel posted a team photo of British Vogue's employees from the June edition of the fashion bible, highlighting the lack of diversity in the magazine's staff.

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Larm om personbil som brann med öppna lågor
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Räddningstjänsten fick larmet cirka 23.10.

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Larm om personbil som brann med öppna lågor
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Kvinna hölls inlåst i bostad av pojkvän
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Flickvännen hölls inlåst i lägenheten och utsattes av svår misshandel av sin pojkvän.
När kvinnan till sist försökte ringa polisen tog mannen mobiltelefonen ifrån henne.
Den 53-årige mannen åtalas nu för grov misshandel, olaga frihetsberövande, övergrepp i rättssak och olaga hot.

23:24
Dozens of pro-Trump rallies retreat to internet, insist it's not due to poor attendance
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For an organization with an estimated 280,000 members, ACT for America's website feels a bit desperate.

"We are the NRA of national security," the site declares, a comparison that, of course, would not be necessary for an organization that felt it could stand on its own reputation.

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Male police officers given £96,000 payout after they were sidelined for calling out sexism
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Male police officers given £96,000 payout after they were sidelined for calling out sexism
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Fortsatt uppförsbacke för Kamelerna - förlorade mot Frösö 2
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Parallels Desktop 13 promises performance boost, extended Touch Bar support
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Parallels IP Holdings GmbH has released Parallels Desktop 13, a major new release of its popular Mac virtualization tool. Parallels Desktop, which allows macOS users to run virtual versions of Windows, macOS and Linux, is fully compatible with the forthcoming releases of Windows 10 Fall Update and macOS High Sierra (10.13). It also adds several new features and promises significant performance improvement in key areas. Performance improvements include faster access to Windows files and documents (a speed increase of just under 50 percent), plus quicker transfers for large files over USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt -- in the case of external Thunderbolt SSD… [Continue Reading]

23:19
Billy Joel just trolled Bannon, Spicer, and the Mooch in concert
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Trump's ousted administration members made an appearance at Billy Joel's Madison Square Garden concert on Monday night, though they weren't technically there in person.

At one point during the show The Piano Man himself invited singer Patty Smyth onstage to perform a duet of her song "Goodbye to You."

It was during this performance that a stunning slideshow of former White House-employed men like Steve Bannon flashed on the screen above, perfectly complementing Smyth's lyrics and making for a hilarious public sendoff.

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Suppliers and retailers will use blockchain to keep food fresh
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IBM has joined with a group of food supply companies and retailers to use the computing company's blockchain tech to keep food fresh. Currently, it can take up to two weeks to track down the source of contaminated foodstuffs. But just like tracking c...

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Ex-kriminell förvånas inte av Leo Carmonas erkännande
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Rumor: ITV’s Bradley Walsh Is Doctor’s New Companion
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Let me preface this by saying: Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Quiz show host, comedian, and actor Bradley Walsh is rumored to be the next Doctor Who companion. According to […]

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Mindre gräsbrand i Geneta
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Vid 23-tiden meddelades SOS Alarm om en pågående gräsbrand i Geneta, Södertälje kommun. Efter fem minuter var räddningstjänsten klara på platsen och hade släckt en mindre hög med trädbråte som brann.

23:12
LG V30+ logo leaks out - this should be a 128 GB version of the V30
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LG already confirmed the name of its next-generation V series smartphone - V30 - while also revealing various details about its features. According to a recent rumor, though, LG is also planning the release of an upgraded V30 alongside the regular model.
Not long ago, we heard that this upgraded V30 would be called V30 Plus. Now, thanks to Evan Blass (aka @evleaks), we can actually take a look at the logo of the handset - above - and see that its name is styled LG V30+.

The LG V30+ is expected to look just like the regular V30, while offering ...

23:10
Intrathecal Therapy May Slow Fatal Niemann-Pick Disease
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Intrathecal hydroxyproyl-beta-cyclodextrin appears to slow progression of cognitive and speech deficits. Hearing loss was a notable adverse event but was 'manageable' in this devastating disease, say investigators.
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23:10
Så bröt prinsessan Diana mot kungahusets regler
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Prinsessan Diana har flera gånger kallats folkets prinsessa.
Diana gick emot flera kungliga traditioner – hon vägrade att jämt bära hatt och handskar.
Hon trotsade även sin svärmor, drottningen av England, när hon på sitt bröllop vägrade att bära en av kungahusets tiaror rapporterar en australisk nyhetssajt.

23:09
'Splatoon 2' players drown out haters with a flood of LGBT pride
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Over the weekend, Splatoon 2's Inkopolis started looking like the video game equivalent of an LGBT pride parade, and it's absolutely glorious.

In the central virtual square for the game, the love was apparent to anyone who launched Splatoon 2 and looked around at other players' posts.

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Sparked by an original post declaring that LGBT squids are "fresh as hell," others voices joining in in agreement and support spread like wildfire. The new trend overtook the fad of dank Splatoon memes from several weeks ago, and we hope it continues until the end of time. Read more...
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The 'Dog Whisperer' reveals if punishments are effective for doggy training
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Celebrity Dog Behaviorist, Cesar Millan, stopped by Mashable to explain whether or not punishments are a effective to train dogs. Read more...
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European Cities Add Barriers to Thwart Vehicle Attacks
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As terrorists turn vehicles into weapons, cities across Europe are taking steps to protect pedestrians.

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European Cities Add Barriers to Thwart Vehicle Attacks
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As terrorists turn vehicles into weapons, cities across Europe are taking steps to protect pedestrians.

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Aldi launches Italian gourmet food range
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Aldi is launching a gourmet food range with copycat versions of San Pellegrino and Buffalo Mozzarella in a bid to woo customers from Waitrose. Goods will be half the price of competitors, according to the chain.

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Trailer för The Good Life
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Swery65 nya spel om katter och mord

För någon vecka sedan presenterade Swery65 (Deadly Premonition) sitt nya spel The Good Life. Spelet handlar om en fotograf som åker till den lilla byn Rainy Woods. Väl där stöter hon på en död kropp och inser att byns invånarna förvandlas till katter på nätterna. Även hon kan förvandla sig till en katt på nätterna vilket ger henne nya möjligheter att utforska byn i jakten på mördaren.

I dag släpptes den första trailern för spelet och den kan man beskåda ovan.

Spelet kommer söka finansiering via Fig där kampanjen drar igång den 2 september.
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The super-important idea hidden inside this Democrat's big health care plan
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This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America’s health care debate. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here.

You hear a lot about how much Medicaid pays health care providers and whether the program provides its patients adequate access to doctors and hospitals. One Democratic senator is looking to effectively end that discussion.

Right now, the facts on the ground are complicated: Medicaid actually pays hospitals about the same as Medicare does on average, though it does generally pay doctors less than its sister program. Medicaid patients don't report that their medical needs are going unmet any more than do people with Medicare or other kinds of insurance, but they are more likely to say they have had trouble getting a doctor's appointment.

So some real disparities exist, even if they may be exaggerated in the political rhetoric. But a new proposal by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) seeks to eradicate them altogether.

Tucked inside his Medicaid-for-more plan is a provision that would align Medicaid reimbursements with those of Medicare. I confirmed with Schatz's office that this would apply to the whole Medicaid program, at least as the plan is currently conceived.

"Frankly, it would dwarf the other parts of this bill," Chris Sloan, a senior manager at Avalere Health, an independent consulting firm, told me.

This is where I point out that Schatz's proposal almost assuredly won't become law. But in terms of signaling where Democratic health policy is heading, it is still significant.

Other experts in the area agreed with that assessment.

"It would be a major change in the program to go in this direction," said Stephen Zuckerman at the Urban Institute, who has written extensively on Medicaid reimbursement policy.

There is a real gap to be made up, especially with doctors. Spending varies widely across states, but on average, Medicaid pays physicians 72 percent of what Medicare does, Zuckerman's research has found.

While lower reimbursements aren't the only reason doctors might turn away Medicaid patients, it is certainly a factor. About two-thirds of doctors acceptMedicaid — lower than Medicare or private coverage, but not as dramatic a difference as some of the program's critics suggest.

Still, increasing Medicaid reimbursements, as Schatz is proposing, would likely further close any access gaps that currently exist.

We actually have some recent evidence of this. Obamacare included a temporary two-year bump in Medicaid payments for certain services in the lead-up to the law's Medicaid expansion in 2014.

Zuckerman and a group of researchers found that the availability of appointments for patients increased by 7.7 percent during that period, and the increases were greatest in the places that saw higher reimbursement boosts.

It's hard to know whether that was because more doctors accepted Medicaid or because doctors who already accepted Medicaid made more spots available to the program's enrollees, or a combination thereof, Zuckerman told me.

But the point is: Medicaid patients found it easier to get an appointment after the pay increase — and that increase was only temporary.

"If you actually committed to a long-term change in Medicaid physician fees, I would suspect that physicians would really consider their relative willingness to participate in Medicaid," Zuckerman said. "If you had Medicaid fees up at Medicare levels, you would think you would close some of these gaps."

This would cost money, of course. Schatz is proposing that the federal government pick up the full cost of the increased reimbursements.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the temporary increase in Obamacare would cost $8 billion a year, and that was for a more limited set of services than the Schatz plan touches. Schatz hasn't specified exactly how he would pay for any of the new spending in his proposal.

But as Medicaid flexes its political muscle and Democrats like the senator from Hawaii begin dreaming of bringing more Americans into its fold, the question of reimbursement is going to keep coming up. This gives us one example on how some on the left might try to address it.
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The geographic diversity in Medicaid payments. It can't be said enough: While the numbers above give you a general sense of what the status quo is and how it could change, any increase in Medicaid policy is going to affect every state differently. This chart, from Zuckerman at the Urban Institute, gives you an idea of how much reimbursements vary across states.
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Today's top news
- “Senate panel plans 2 hearings on girding health insurance”: “The Senate health committee will hold two hearings early next month on how the nation’s individual health insurance marketplaces can be stabilized, as party leaders grasp for a fresh path following the collapse of the Republican effort to repeal and replace much of former President Barack Obama’s health care law.” —Alan Fram, Associated Press
- “Fearing sabotage, groups prepare ObamaCare blitz”: “State and local groups that help support ObamaCare are springing into action ahead of an enrollment period they fear could be sabotaged by the Trump administration.” —Rachel Roubein and Jessie Hellmann, the Hill
- “Republicans organize to raise concerns about Medicaid expansion in Maine”: “Several Republican lawmakers are expected to announce their concerns Tuesday about expanding Medicaid, a first step toward what could become a formal campaign to oppose the question voters will face on the Nov. 7 ballot.” —Scott Thistle, Portland Press Herald
Analysis and longer reads
- “A Health-Care Fix That Works, Now Being Rolled Back”: “Last week the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to scale back bundled payments in joint replacements and cardiac care. This is bad news for patients and doctors alike.” —Jason Furman and Bob Kocher, Wall Street Journal
- “MACRA proposals flood in”: “The AMA, HIMSS, CHIME, the American Medical Informatics Association and Health IT Now all got their comments in under the wire, with the final rule expected sometime this fall. Each group has different beefs and blessings, of course, but here are a few salient points.” —Arthur Allen, Politico
- “Hospitals Could Do More For Survivors Of Opioid Overdoses, Study Suggests”: “Clinicians and researchers trying to get a handle on the epidemic look at those nonfatal experiences as opportunities to jump in and figure out whether there is overprescribing going on or whether the patient needs help getting treatment for an addiction. But a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests such interventions don't happen often enough.” —Andrea Hsu, NPR
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22:59
Former Lloyds boss Eric Daniels demands £500k bonus
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Eric Daniels was in charge of the lender from 2003 to 2011, presiding over the £12 billion acquisition of its tainted competitor during the financial crisis.

22:57
USA-general: Nya trupper i Afghanistan inom kort
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President Trumps utlovade tillskott av amerikanska soldater i Afghanistan kan komma snabbt – inom några dagar eller veckor, enligt USA:s befälhavare i Mellanöstern. Samtidigt sätter den amerikanska utrikesministern press på Pakistan att bekämpa talibanerna..

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Labour MP shares post telling abuse victims to 'shut up'
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Bradford West MP Naz Shah shared and liked a post by a parody account of newspaper columnist Owen Jones saying victims of sex abuse in Rotherham should 'shut their mouths'.

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Nope, 'Alto's Odyssey' isn't coming out this summer
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It's going to be a bit before we can play Alto's Odyssey. The followup to the ridiculously relaxing snowboarding game Alto's Adventure won't be out any time soon, developer Built By Snowman writes. "The endless desert still awaits and it's even vaste...

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7 creepy facts you probably didn't know about the cult classic, 'The Monster Squad'
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The Monster Squad, an '80s cult classic, is about to celebrate its 30th anniversary. So we decided to dig up some lesser-known things about the film's production history.

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What configuring the HomePod will look like on iOS 11 [Gallery]
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[Update: Further discoveries point out that the Apple TV and Whole House Audio will use the same configuration method. Videos added at end of post.]

Continuing his deep-dive of the HomePod firmware, Guilherme Rambo has further uncovered what the initial HomePod configuration on an iOS 11 device may look like. The developer has spent the past few weeks digging through various firmware to give us a glimpse into Apple’s future products and software expected to be released later this year.

By utilizing the iOS Simulator, Rambo is able to show-off just what it will look like when configuring a HomePod right out of the box.

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AccuWeather for iOS Sending Location Data to Monetization Company Even When Location Sharing is Off [Updated]
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Popular and well-known iOS weather app AccuWeather has been caught collecting and sharing user location data even when location sharing permissions are turned off, according to a blog post recently shared by security researcher Will Strafach.

According to Strafach, AccuWeather was partnering with data monetization firm Reveal Mobile to collect GPS coordinates, including speed and altitude, the name and BSSID of a user's Wi-Fi router, and whether a device has Bluetooth on and off, all of which was available to Reveal Mobile when location services were enabled.

With location services disabled, AccuWeather was still sending the Wi-Fi router name and BSSID, which still offered Reveal Mobile location data.
During a testing period of 36 hours, specifically while the AccuWeather application was not in the foreground, my test iPhone (located on a desk in an office building) sent the above information to RevealMobile a total of 16 times, occuring roughly once every few hours.
Reval Mobile is a firm that uses location data to gather information on a user's home, work, and frequently visited locations, pairing that data with demographic targeting criteria to allow retailers to deliver targeted ads. From the company's website:
By expanding the use case of location data to pre- and post-shopping experiences, entirely new possibilities open up for online and offline retailers. The value lies in understanding the path of a consumer and where they go throughout the day. Traveling from home to work to retail to soccer practice to dinner is vital to knowing the customer, and represents the new opportunity of mobile location data.
In response to Strafach's blog post, Reveal Mobile says the data it collects is anonymized and grouped into audience segments. "We offer no product or service that permits anyone to see an individual device's location data," reads a statement on the Reveal Mobile website. The company also says it does not reverse engineer a device's location when location sharing is turned off.
We do not attempt to reverse engineer a device's location based upon other data signals like Bluetooth when location services are disabled. In looking at our current SDK's behavior, we see how that can be misconstrued. In response to that, we're releasing a new version of our SDK which will no longer send any data points which could be used to infer location when someone opts out of location sharing. We do collect IP address, but do not use this data to determine location, as covered in our privacy policy.
AccuWeather vice president of emerging platforms David Mitchell told ZDNet that AccuWeather will use data through Reveal Mobile for "audience segmentation and analysis, to build a greater audience understanding and create more contextually relevant and helpful experiences for users and for advertiser."

Following Strafach's discovery, many people have been uninstalling the AccuWeather app, and given the wealth of weather apps available in the App Store, this is not surprising. AccuWeather does not apparently have plans to end its relationship with Reveal Mobile, so users may want to find another weather app.

Update: AccuWeather and Reveal Mobile have provided a joint statement on the issue:
Despite stories to the contrary from sources not connected to the actual information, if a user opts out of location tracking on AccuWeather, no GPS coordinates are collected or passed without further opt-in permission from the user.

Other data, such as Wi-Fi network information that is not user information, was for a short period available on the Reveal SDK, but was unused by AccuWeather. In fact, AccuWeather was unaware the data was available to it. Accordingly, at no point was the data used by AccuWeather for any purpose.

AccuWeather and Reveal Mobile are committed to following the standards and best practices of the industry. We also recognize this is a quickly evolving field and what is best practice one day may change the next. Accordingly, we work to update our practices regularly.

To avoid any further misinterpretation, Reveal is updating its SDK and pushing out new versions of the SDK in the next 24 hours, with the iOS update going live tonight. The end result should be that zero data is transmitted back to Reveal Mobile when someone opts out of location sharing. In the meanwhile, AccuWeather had already disabled the SDK, pending that update.

Reveal has stated that the SDK could be misconstrued, and they assure that no reverse engineering of locations was ever conducted by any information they gathered, nor was that the intent.

AccuWeather will work with Reveal to restore the SDK when it has been amended and will continue to update its ULAs to be transparent and current with evolving standards. AccuWeather and Reveal continue to enhance methods for handling data and strive to provide superior, seamless, and secure user experiences.

We are grateful to have a supportive community that highlights areas where we can optimize and be more transparent.

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22:50
England 20 France 3: Sarah Bern and Megan Jones set up Women's Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand
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Pope Francis is becoming the voice of compassion for the world's refugees
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Pope Francis leveraged his position to bring awareness to environmental issues. Now he's doing the same for the migrant crisis.

The debate over the migrant crisis has a new voice: Pope Francis.

Monday the Vatican released a comprehensive policy document urging countries around the world to ban “arbitrary and collective expulsions” of refugees or migrants, and to expand the number of “safe and legal pathways” for migration.

The policy document, “Responding to Refugees and Migrants: Twenty Action Points,” was released by the Vatican’s section on Migrants and Refugees, a small department within the Vatican that Francis directly oversees. The document comes in anticipation of talks on immigration and migration at the United Nations scheduled for next year.

The memo also highlighted the importance of social and economic justice for those who have already migrated, including guaranteeing equal access to education for children. It also calls to prohibit “exploitation, forced labor, or trafficking” and guaranteeing the rights of undocumented workers who need to report abusive employers. Such stipulations reflect Francis’s well documented concern for workers’ issues more broadly.

Francis delivered a message with the document’s release last week. "Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ,” the pope said. "This solidarity must be concretely expressed at every stage of the migratory experience — from departure through journey to arrival and return.”

He was also critical of anti-migration policies enacted in the name of wider security concerns. "The principle of the centrality of the human person, firmly stated by my beloved predecessor, Benedict XVI, obliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national security,” Francis said.

Graham Gordon, head of policy at Catholic aid agency CAFOD, said in a statement: “The Holy Father is making clear that all countries must step up to the plate and pull their weight. ... This is one of the greatest crises of the century so far. Not for the first time, the Pope is reminding politicians that history will judge whether they rise to the challenge or abdicate their responsibilities.”

While the pope did not call out any politicians by name, it’s difficult to imagine that he was not referring, at least in part, to the strongly isolationist tendencies of Donald Trump. The two clashed earlier this year during Trump’s visit to the Vatican and while Trump was on the campaign trail. This summer, shortly after receiving a pointedly given copy of the Pope’s 2015 encyclical on climate change, Laudato Si’, Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accords.

In taking on the plight of migrants so visibly, the Pope may be repeating his previous strategy on environmental issues: a strategy that — with the exception of Trump’s response — has been largely successful in shaping global discourse.

Laudato Si’ proved enormously influential in raising political goodwill for environmental initiatives, including the Paris accords. The United Nations’ chief climate change official, Christiana Figueres, referred to it as a "clarion call" for change, and Catholics — including CAFOD’s UK news officer Liam Finn, celebrated it as a sign of Francis’s ability to make Vatican documents the subject of international media coverage.

Francis’s media popularity — and savvy — render his public policy positions far more visible than those of, say, his predecessor Benedict XIV. But it remains to be seen how well Francis shapes the political discourse this time.

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Sverige enda proffsstall läggs ned
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Sony may have to pay Xperia owners for claiming phones were ‘waterproof’
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If you bought an Xperia device and it got wrecked from water damage, you might be eligible for a refund from Sony. A federal court in New York yesterday approved a class action lawsuit against Sony for overstating claims that its Xperia line of phones and tablets were “waterproof.”

The lawsuit alleges that Xperia owners were misled by Sony’s marketing verbiage, as the devices aren’t designed for underwater use and are more on the water-resistant level of protection. The class action seeks a 12-month warranty extension for recently purchased devices, or a reimbursement of up to 50 percent off the affected device’s suggested retail price. However, this may not be the final value the company is liable to refund. Sony will still need to...

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Blåvitt får proffspengar
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Under sommarfönstret har ytterligare tre spelare med förflutet i IFK Göteborg bytt klubb vilket innebär solidaritetsersättning till Blåvitt. Foto: Björn Larsson Rosvall / TT
Dels handlar det om Nicklas Bärkroth, som gick från IFK Norrköping till Lech Poznan, dels Marcus Berg som bytte Panathinaikos mot Al Ain och Ludwig Augustinsson som lämnade FC Köpenhamn för Werder Bremen.
– Det här är transfers vi inte kan påverka. Därför har vi inte lagt någon energi på det. Vi är bara tacksamma när vi får pengar.
Dessutom har IFK Göteborg sålt Mattias Bjärsmyr till Turkiet (Sivasspor) och Mads Albaek till Tyskland (Kaiserslautern).

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Det blir inget nytt Xena på NBC
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Inte just nu i alla fall

För ungefär två år sedan surrades det om att NBC hade anlitat Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Helix, Förhäxad, Lost) för att skriva manus till en ny version av Xena – Krigarprinsessan. Sedan dess har det varit rätt tyst kring detta projekt. I dag kom det nyheter kring projektet och tyvärr är de inte allt för goda. The Hollywood Reporter rapporterar nämligen att NBC har valt att inte gå vidare med denna nya Xena-serie.

Nothing is happening on that right now. We looked at some material; we decided at that point that it didn’t warrant the reboot. I’d never say never on that one because it’s such a beloved title, but the current incarnation of it is dead.

En ny Xena-serie kan alltså ske någon gång i framtiden men initiativet som drogs igång för två år sedan är alltså dött.
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Northern Light ger ljus framtid för Bahnhof
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Prismässigt är det kanske inget fynd. Men tillväxtaktien Bahnhof lär fortsätta locka placerare. Vinsttrenden är dessutom stadigt uppåt för bolaget, konstaterar Marcus Hernhag...

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Amazon isn’t one of the 2,575 companies to pull ads from Breitbart
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An activist group this week released a list of nearly 2,600 companies who have pulled ads from Breitbart News. The group, known as Sleeping Giants, pointed out one notable commission: Amazon, who continues to advertise on the site as of this writing. Sleeping Giants has, for months, encouraged its following to screencap images of ads on objectionable content and tweet at the company involved. Over that period, the organization claims to have coaxed 2,575 (as of this writing) companies from cutting financial ties with the hate-mongering website. It released the list, in its entirety, on Monday. Breitbart, the black hole…

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Office 365: A guide to the updates
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Office 365 subscribers always have the latest version of Microsoft Office — currently Office 2016. They also get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office 2016 without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing for you, so you don’t have to.
Following are key updates to Office 365 for Windows since Office 2016 was released in September 2015 — all the 2017 updates and the most important ones from 2016 and late 2015, with the latest releases shown first. We’ll add info about new updates as they’re rolled out.
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Microsoft releases Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16267, but forgets to add new features
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The Windows Insiders program is both cool and annoying. It is cool because it lets enthusiast users experience new Windows features and contribute feedback to make the operating system better. It is a bit annoying, as these testers aren't paid for their volunteer efforts. Even worse, the Insider builds will seemingly never end, meaning some users will forever be using an unstable operating system. Yes, that is their choice, but sometimes people can't help themselves. Hell, it can be argued that their feedback is tainted, as they are maybe never really experiencing the stable releases. Microsoft has chosen to expand the… [Continue Reading]

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Kim fortsätter som tv-expert
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Djurgårdens lagkapten Kim Källström. 34, fortsätter kommentera fotboll i tv. Foto: Erik Simander / TT
– Kim har blivit en tittarfavorit, säger Emir Osmanbegov, sportchef på Eurosport och Discovery Networks Sweden.
Kim kommenterade tio kvalmatcher med svenska landslaget. Han var inte övertygad om en fortsättning men nu är det klart.
Kim Källström har skrivit på ett kontrakt som sträcker sig över 2020.
– Kim är kunnig, tydlig och väldigt ambitiös. Han har gjort supersuccé, säger Osmanbegov i ett pressmeddelande.

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Svenskar utslagna i badminton-VM
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China to relaunch world’s fastest bullet train after deadly 2011 crash
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China to relaunch world’s fastest bullet train after deadly 2011 crash
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China to relaunch world’s fastest bullet train after deadly 2011 crash
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Four-year-old startup Databricks raised another $140 million to solve the hardest problem in AI
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- Four-year-old startup Databricks just raised another $140 million in venture funding for a total of $247 million.
- Its six cofounders launched the company only after they couldn't give away the software they invented for free.
- With the new money, they are working on a "Slack for AI" that solves the problem of a lack of machine learning/AI scientists.
Big-data startup Databricks has raised another $140 million in venture funding, it announced on Tuesday, bringing the total raised for the four-year-old company to $247 million.

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi tells us this funding happened during "the most stressful week of my life."

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back-t0-back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company. During that week, investors "were just bombarding me with phone calls," he describes. Less than four weeks later, he had a handful of term sheets, and by eight weeks, "the money was in the bank."

In comparison, Ghodsi had raised $60 million for Databricks just nine months earlier — but that took him months of effort. Ghodsi wouldn't reveal the new valuation of the company (we'll update when we find out), but after the last round, investors valued it at $513 million, according to Pitchbook.

VCs were crawling over themselves to grab a bite of Databricks for a one main reason: In just four years, Databricks had already amassed about 500 big companies as customers, so revenue was growing, Ghodsi said, although he wouldn't indicate how much revenue the company had generated or its growth rate.

The other reason is that Databricks founders have also become famous in their field.

They invented a big-data technology called Spark that's become extremely popular with enterprises because it helps computers chomp through vast amounts of data super fast. This, in turn, makes it easier to build machine-learning and artificial-intelligence apps, which require computers to chomp through large amounts of data very fast in order to make decisions.
Crossing the Valley of Death
The funny thing is, the six Databricks founders never intended to be entrepreneurs. They founded this company pretty much out of frustration when the established enterprise software industry dissed their work.

"We were researchers at UC Berkeley and we really just wanted to get this tech out. We were hoping the world would just pick it up. We talked to all the existing companies out there and told them, 'we developed Spark, we just want to make these machine learning predictions and big data software as simple as possible.' And actually none of them picked it up," he recalls.

The companies they talked to all poo-pooed the tech as "academic software coming out of a university," he remembers, and said "we don't think Spark will be anything enterprises will use."

They were facing what famous researcher and Google X founder Yoky Matsuoka calls the 'The Valley of Death" in technology development. That's where tech developed in a research setting can't make the leap to a commercial product because the researchers don't have the experience or interest to do it (they want to find the next breakthrough, not iterate on a past one). Meanwhile, commercial vendors don't have the time, experience or interest to take raw tech and figure out how to turn it a product (they need to focus on their sure-fire revenue generating products).

So, in 2013, these researchers just up and launched their own company. Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz saw the promise, invested $14 million, joined its board and advised them on how to turn it into a success.

The founders still gave Spark away as open-source software, meaning anyone can use it for free and contribute to it. And Databricks offers a fully supported commercial version.
Solving the next big challenge
With the new influx of $140 million, Ghodsi and team are hoping to tackle the next big problem in the big data/machine learning/AI world: the lack of trained people.

They have just launched a new product that Ghodsi describes as "Slack for AI."

It allows teams to work on a project together, including the business folks, the AI scientists, and the programmers. The actual AI app can be developed by all of them from inside this collaboration tool, called the Unified Analytics Platform.

Ghodsi describes his company like one big, happy four-year-old rocket ship.

"It's been a blast these past four years, where we went from zero to this and all six cofounders are still with us. Most cofounders get into fights and backstabbing and 2 or 3 leave and they hate the company and they erase their names from the web page," he laughs.

But because Databricks found an untapped niche in big data and AI, it quickly generated revenue, which led to investment, which led to growth, which led to happy cofounders.

In addition to the six cofounders, (Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell and Reynold Xin), Databricks employs 220 people, Ghodsi said.

The new round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation by New Enterprise Associates and Battery Ventures.
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