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23:55
Low markups in Beijing's gray market suggest lower Chinese demand for Apple's iPhone X
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Gray market iPhone X dealers in Beijing are reportedly charging much smaller premiums for the iPhone X than they did for last year's iPhone 7 Plus, allegedly reflecting lower Chinese demand in general.

23:53
The Angle: Where It Hurts Edition
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One way: There’s a federal law prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Mark Joseph Stern has a proposal: Let’s tax gun-makers and use the proceeds to pay for victims’ medical bills after mass shootings.

This again: Ben Mathis-Lilley on the 13 stories you see after every mass shooting.

Heal thyself: Her accusations of others notwithstanding, Donna Brazile is emblematic of the problem with today’s Democratic Party, Osita Nwanevu writes. She’s a “craven, calculating striver, incapable of being trusted, and loyal not to ideas or a particular vision for the country but a career now in need of resuscitation.”

Why oh why: The Wall Street Journal recently saw fit to run an editorial shaming moms for going back to work any time before their children’s third (!) birthdays. Enough with this, Lauren Smith Brody writes. Even if women could afford it, there’s no evidence this way is necessarily better for children.

For fun: That was then, this is now.

Lots changed,

Rebecca

23:37
Snap shares plummet as user growth stutters
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23:31
Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: It Could Actually Be About to Get Much Worse
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The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or by resigning under threat of same.

As so many people have pointed out that it's not even worth citing any of them in particular, Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial race between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie is a referendum on whether Trump-style cultural/racial inflammation will be the only strategy any Republican anywhere in America ever runs on. Virginia is a purple state that broke for Hillary Clinton, and Gillespie is a New Jersey native with a Respectable Establishment Republican résumé—but he's still gone all in on such issues as saving "our" Confederate statues, complaining about NFL players (in other states, by definition) who kneel during the national anthem, and suggesting that his opponent is OK with the idea of marauding immigrant death gangs destroying our homes and defiling our spouses.

The latest polls show Northam with a slight lead, but you remember Nov. 8, 2016, just as well as I do.

Virginia polls close at 7 p.m. Eeeeeeeeeeek!

Today’s meter level is lower than yesterday's because ONCE AGAIN the excitable night blogger has raised the meter to 60 percent during his turn writing. Relax, night blogger Elliot Hannon!

23:30
British aerial skier Lloyd Wallace soars towards Pyeongchang after horror crash that left him in a coma
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23:29
En singelolycka inträffade på E20 – bil körde in i mitträcke
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Enligt larmet som kom cirka 23.05 under tisdagskvällen har olyckan inträffat i höjd med Högsjön väster om Arboga.

23:25
Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad order delays fuel speculation about new model for iMac Pro
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Mac users looking to buy the Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad face a long wait before getting their hands on the peripheral if they order it through Apple's online store, with the long backorder time potentially suggesting a change to the hardware is on the way.

23:23
TV: Se Rynninges vilda uppflyttningsfest till division 1 här
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Cigarrer, skumpa och dyngsur tränare – så firade Rynninge efter kvalmatchen mot Karlslund. Se filmen här!

23:22
En bil hamnade i diket strax utanför Kungsör
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Föraren, en man i 25-årsåldern tappade kontrollen på bilen i halkan och hamnade i diket.

23:17
Skådespelerska anklagar Ed Westwick för våldtäkt
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23:15
Texas Church Shooter Escaped Mental Health Facility in 2012
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According to a police report obtained by CBS affiliate KHOU, the suspect who killed 26 people after he began shooting inside a Texas Church on Sunday, escaped a mental health facility in 2012. The shooter Devin Patrick Kelley was taken to the Peak Behavioral Health Services Center in Santa Teresa, New Mexico after attacking his wife and fracturing his stepson’s skull, while he was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, the report said. However, Kelley escaped from the center on June 13, 2012 and traveled to El Paso, Texas, according to the police report. Police cautioned Kelley "was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms" onto the base, where he...

23:13
Here’s What the Sun Will Look Like When It Consumes the Earth in 5 Billion Years
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The end is coming, and we even know when: In 5 billion years, the sun, our wholesome yellow harbinger of energy, is going to swell into a red giant and consume most of the inner planets of the solar system. It will also wreak gravitational and radioactive havoc on the outer planets and moons sitting in the farther reaches of the neighborhood.

We’ll all be long dead before then, of course. But we also just got a good preview of what it might look like: a new set of telescopic images recently captured another red star that once possessed the same starting mass as the sun but has now ballooned in its old age. This star’s radius is now twice the length of the current distance between the Earth and the sun. And that staggering notion is also what we can expect from our own sun in the very distant future.

The red giant, known as W Hydrae, is 320 light-years away, located in the constellation of Hydra (the ferocious water snake in Greek mythology). The new observations, reported in Nature and taken by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, are some of the sharpest images yet of a sun-like star. These types of stars expand in old age, shed off mass through stellar winds, and cool off by almost 50 percent. That means if a planet in the sun’s orbit isn’t already swallowed up, it will become an extremely cold and irradiated wasteland anyway.

None of that is good news for the stability of star system, especially if we’re hoping to find worlds which could be home to life. But on the plus side, red giant stars release a ton of elements into space which are then cobbled together by other aggregations of gas and energy to create new stars. They also dispel materials which could be vital to the potential habitability of other planets and moons. So besides learning more about the impending annihilation of Earth at the hands of a reddening sun, scientists want to study red giants to see what type of role they play in star formation and planetary system development.

Of course, there are plenty of other things that might destroy Earth way before the 5-billion-year timer hits zero. All things considered, death by red giant would actually be a win.
22:58
We Used to Be Mark Ruffalo. Now We’re All the Hulk.
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Like all temporal units, a year is pretty arbitrary, but that’s never stopped human beings from trying to wrest some meaning out of anniversaries and other markers of time’s passing. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator writes of having measured out his life in coffee spoons. The musical Rent suggests daylights, sunsets, midnights, and cups of coffee—what is it about coffee?—among other things as ways to measure (measure) a year. But for those of us who aren’t poets or Broadway singers, social media has emerged as a convenient way to look back at our year-ago selves. Hazy memories have been superseded by the act of scrolling back and pinpointing exactly where you were and what you were posting when some thing, whether historical in the context of the world or just in the context of your own life, came to pass.

On this, the eve of Election Day 2017, people are taking the time to reflect on their Election Day 2016 experiences. Was it only a year ago that the societal sinkhole we currently find ourselves in first opened? Using a format reminiscent of the way people rang in the end of 2016, Twitter users are posting side-by-side photos, usually of actors in famous movie roles, the first happy and normal, the second in the throes of battle or some other struggle, labeled along the lines of “me on Election Day 2016 vs. me on Election Day 2017.” But description is really no match for seeing the meme in action, so here, let writer Lyz Lenz’s example show you the way:

Once upon a time on Election Day 2016, Lyz Lenz was a carefree Gidget, but a year later, she’s a radicalized Norma Rae. It’s a commentary on how Donald Trump’s win and subsequent months in office have put all of us through the ringer. Or, if perhaps you aren’t familiar enough with the oeuvre of Sally Field for these photos to resonate—which is a shame because she’s a national treasure—Lenz can tell it to you in terms of Sigourney Weaver. (She’s been tweeting good variations on the meme all day.)

Like Twitter itself, the 2016 election you vs. 2017 election you provides an occasion for working within constraints and finding ways to remix and rethink a pre-existing form, letting pictures fill in all the extra feeling that it can be hard to summon in text. We also get to share photos of actors and movies we like, a reminder of the goofy pleasures of what feels like a bygone time: Remember when we used to argue about movies and stuff on here instead of reacting to the latest horrific news?

The meme also reminds us, perhaps, that “the bad part” is a familiar chunk of any narrative. Things looked grim when Sigourney Weaver was fighting the aliens, and true, her character does die in one of the sequels, but that didn’t stop her from starring in Galaxy Quest or Baby Mama or Avatar … Sigourney Weaver may not actually be the best example here. The point is that even though Election Day 2017 you may look like a dark snapshot, it’s not the end of the story. You could totally come back to life as a clone in a sequel down the line.

22:56
Bil i krock med traktor i Lit
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Vid 22.30 på tisdagskvällen kallades räddningstjänsten ut till en trafikolycka på E 45 i närheten av Lit. En bil hade kört in i ett traktorsläp.

22:45
Två män anhållna efter kontroll på Sveavägen i Köping
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Vid ettiden på tisdagseftermiddagen stoppade polisen i Köping en förare efter misstanke om rattfylleri.

22:42
Encryption debate may start anew with discovery of Sutherland Springs shooter's smartphone
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The Sutherland Springs church shooting in Texas is likely to restart the smartphone encryption debate, with the FBI in possession of the shooter's locked and encrypted smartphone.

22:42
Harvey Weinstein case 'to be sent to grand jury in Manhattan next week'
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22:42
Harvey Weinstein case 'to be sent to grand jury in Manhattan next week'
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22:42
Harvey Weinstein case 'to be sent to grand jury in Manhattan next week'
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22:36
Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
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Drinking alcohol, even modest amounts, increases the risk of breast cancer and other cancers.

22:36
Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
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Drinking alcohol, even modest amounts, increases the risk of breast cancer and other cancers.

22:30
SteelSeries Arctis 3 Bluetooth Gaming Headset Does What Switch Nintendon’t
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If sales and review scores are any indications, lots of folks seem to love the Nintendo Switch and its growing library of games. But if there is one glaring flaw with the console/handheld hybrid […]

The post SteelSeries Arctis 3 Bluetooth Gaming Headset Does What Switch Nintendon’t appeared first on Geek.com.

22:15
Beslutet är fattat – Bussgods läggs ner
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Bussgods avvecklas. Det beslutades vid ett extrainsatt regionfullmäktige på tisdagskvällen. – Det är helt vansinnigt, säger Astrid Lönn-Jern som driver Handlarn i Rötviken.

22:06
The Texas Gunman Escaped From a Psychiatric Hospital in 2012
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A newly uncovered El Paso police report has revealed that the gunman who killed 26 at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday once escaped from a psychiatric hospital after making death threats and trying to smuggle weapons onto an Air Force base.

The gunman, David Kelley, had been checked into the mental health facility in 2012 after beating his wife and stepson while stationed at a New Mexico Air Force base. Months after the assault, as he was awaiting his appearance in the military court, he escaped and made it all the way to a bus station in downtown El Paso, a few miles away from the hospital, before the police caught him.

In the police report from the episode, the person who reported Kelley’s escape warned that Kelley “suffered from mental disorders,” and the report concluded Kelley was “a danger to himself and others.” He “was attempting to carry out death threats” against his superiors in the military and had been caught smuggling guns onto his base, according to the report, which was published by the Houston television station KPRC.

Five months after the attempted escape, he pleaded guilty to the charges of beating his wife and stepson and was court-martialed and sentenced to a year of confinement.

After being released, Kelley was able to buy more guns, an oversight that resulted from the Air Force failing to report Kelley’s criminal past to an FBI database that would have made him unable to pass a background check.

President Trump has said that the shooting was a result of mental health problems in the country and not gun laws. The vast majority of people with mental illnesses, however, are not violent, and we do not know what the “mental disorders” mentioned in the report might have been and so we cannot conclude his time in a mental health facility had anything to do with his violence. His previous history of domestic violence, however, fits the profile for mass murderers.

22:02
Allsvenska säsongen firades – Graham Potter blygsam inför utmärkelsen: "Betyder inte så mycket"
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TV

22:01
DNSSEC now available in Cloud DNS
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By Harry Wang, Product Manager

Today, we're excited to announce that Google is adding DNSSEC support (beta) to our fully managed Google Cloud DNS service. Now you and your users can take advantage of the protection provided by DNSSEC without having to maintain it once it's set up.

Why is DNSSEC an important add-on to DNS? Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) adds security to the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol by enabling DNS responses to be validated. Having a trustworthy Domain Name System (DNS) that translates a domain name like www.example.com into its associated IP address is an increasingly important building block of today’s web-based applications. Attackers can hijack this process of domain/IP lookup and redirect users to a malicious site through DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks. DNSSEC helps mitigate the risk of such attacks by cryptographically signing DNS records. As a result, it prevents attackers from issuing fake DNS responses that may misdirect browsers to nefarious websites.

Google Cloud DNS and DNSSEC Cloud DNS is a fast, reliable and cost-effective Domain Name System that powers millions of domains on the internet. DNSSEC in Cloud DNS enables domain owners to take easy steps to protect their domains against DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks. Advanced users may choose to use different signing algorithms and denial-of-existence types. We support several sizes of RSA and ECDSA keys, as well as both NSEC and NSEC3. Enabling support for DNSSEC brings no additional charges or changes to the terms of service.

To start using DNSSEC, simply turn the feature to "on" within your DNS zone.

DNSSEC will be automatically enabled for that zone.

To learn more about getting started with DNSSEC for Cloud DNS, please refer to the documentation page.

22:00
Marketing Day: Targeting the right keywords, Salesforce partners with Google Analytics 360 & more
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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:
- SEO ranking factors for 4 business verticals and what they mean for local businesses
  Nov 7, 2017 by Wesley Young
  As organic search becomes ever more targeted, SEO is evolving in ways that require more customization. Wesley Young explores a recent study on ranking factors and provides 8 practical takeaways to boost search rank.
- Target the right keywords — for Google AND your clients
  Nov 7, 2017 by Greg Gifford
  Columnist Greg Gifford illustrates the importance of educating your clients on different types of keywords and when to target them.
- Using Google Customer Match to optimize PPC campaign performance
  Nov 7, 2017 by Digital Marketing Depot
  Your display advertising targets specific audiences, but what about your search marketing? It’s time to think beyond the keyword, and tailor your PPC campaigns based on who is actually viewing or clicking your ad.
- Eager to embrace live video? Inspiration and tips on how to get started
  Nov 7, 2017 by Jordan Kasteler
  How can you go live with confidence? Columnist Jordan Kasteler discusses the strategy and tools you’ll need to make sure you don’t look like an amateur.
- Salesforce unveils ‘my’ versions of its AI-based platform tools
  Nov 7, 2017 by Barry Levine
  The new capabilities allow non-technical users to build their own predictions, customer service bots and gamified learning courses.
- Instagram opens sponsor-tagging tool to more creators, adds monitoring system
  Nov 7, 2017 by Tim Peterson
  Instagram will prompt creators to add “Paid Partnership with” labels when required.
- How to get your content marketing team out of its echo chamber
  Nov 7, 2017 by Ben Jacobson
  It’s time to break out of your bubble. Contributor Ben Jacobson explains why engaging with subject matter experts outside your typical sphere is the only way to generate fresh ideas and keep your marketing authentic.
- SMX West registration is open
  Nov 7, 2017 by Marketing Land
  Mark your calendars for SMX West 2018! We’re coming to sunny San Jose, California, March 13-15. Don’t miss your chance to attend the largest search marketing conference on the West Coast. Obsessed with search? So are we. SMX is the only conference series that is 100 percent dedicated to search.
- Salesforce announces data integrations with Google Analytics 360
  Nov 7, 2017 by Ginny Marvin
  A new partnership helps marketers connect online and offline data and create audiences for ad targeting.
- Facebook refunds advertisers for mobile video ads played out of view
  Nov 6, 2017 by Tim Peterson
  Errors with Facebook’s mobile site and Instant Articles in its Android app led Facebook to play videos, including ads, while out of view.
Recent Headlines From MarTech Today, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Marketing Technology:
- youXtools launches a user testing platform with AI-powered visual analytics
  Nov 7, 2017 by Barry Levine
  The user experience consultancy UEGroup is now making its internal testing platform publicly available through this spinoff startup.
- The subtle ways advertisers target audiences — and why they shouldn’t
  Nov 7, 2017 by Mark Williams
  Targeting based on ethnicity and social contructs is both outdated and ineffective. Contributor Mark Williams discusses how affinity and retargeting are the way forward for today’s marketers.
- Northwestern Mutual’s first ever CMO is focused on creating a data-driven marketing strategy
  Nov 7, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues
  Get to Know Northwestern Mutual Chief Marketing Officer Aditi Gokhale.
- Facebook Messenger can now power chat on brand sites
  Nov 7, 2017 by Tim Peterson
  Messenger’s Customer Chat plugin may help the messaging service realize its potential as marketers’ new CRM channel.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
- 5 Ways to Harness Time and Data in Your Content Process, Convince and Convert
- A Marketing Team’s Secret Sauce Is an Editorial-First Brain, CMS Wire
- A Quick-Start Guide to Paid Content Promotion, Content Marketing Institute
- Amazon’s ad business will get another boost with the rollout of a new API for self-serve ads, Digiday
- Enterprise Marketing Best Practices for 2018, Marketo
- Former Yahoo CEO subpoenaed to appear before Congress, TheHill
- Four Ways to Get the Most Out of Small Business Saturday, Facebook Business
- How to Develop a Warm Audience With Live Video and Facebook Ads, Social Media Examiner
- Instagram Ad CPCs Drop 35% In 2017 [Report], The AdStage Blog
- iOS 11.2 will let developers offer introductory pricing for subscription apps, 9to5 Mac

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Höjdpunkter Vetlanda BK–Tellus
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Twitter is letting everyone post 280 character tweets
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Twitter Is Ditching 140 Characters
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Before today, only a small fraction of Twitter users could send tweets longer than this sentence, which checks in at exactly 140 characters.

Starting now, however, Twitter is raising the character limit for all users in most languages (not including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) to 280 characters. That means you’ll be able to send tweets that are precisely the length of this paragraph.

A little wordy, right? In loosening the character constraint that has long defined it, Twitter risks sacrificing part of what makes it unique. In a time of information overload, the platform’s enforced brevity forced users to get right to the point. Some writers joked that the 140-character limit was the best editor they’d ever had.

But the company makes a persuasive case that the change is for the best. In short: People like it.

The move to 280 comes less than two months after Twitter began testing the new limit on a small percentage of Twitter accounts. Twitter says that research quickly confirmed its three-part hypothesis:
1. It led to fewer people bumping up against the character limit.
2. It boosted user engagement and satisfaction.
3. It did not lead to substantially longer tweets overall.
The first finding should not come as much of a surprise. With more characters to play with, users were more often able to say what they wanted to say without having to edit. The result is that people spend less time fiddling with wording—who really enjoys the process of replacing words with shorter synonyms or stripping them of their vowels?—and more time just saying what they have to say. It’s great that some writers found the constraint useful, but the average social media user doesn’t want to be Emily Dickinson or E.E. Cummings.

That leads us to the second finding, which—as I wrote when the test began—is likely Twitter’s main goal here. The company is desperate to get more people tweeting, and it’s going to seriously consider any change that promises to accomplish that. Here’s what Twitter says about the results of the test in its announcement:

In addition to more Tweeting, people who had more room to Tweet received more engagement (Likes, Retweets, @mentions), got more followers, and spent more time on Twitter. People in the experiment told us that a higher character limit made them feel more satisfied with how they expressed themselves on Twitter, their ability to find good content, and Twitter overall.

If that finding holds up, it could give Twitter something positive to report the next time quarterly earnings roll around.

Finally, there’s the third finding, which is that people with the 280-character limit don’t actually tweet much longer, in most cases, than those confined to 140. That may seem counterintuitive, but it was at the core of Twitter’s reasoning when it announced the test in September. It had noticed that people using Twitter in languages such as Japanese, where you can express more in 140 characters than you can in English, simply didn’t need their full allotment in most cases. Now Twitter says that a similar principle appears to apply in English and other languages: The majority of tweets will still be shorter than 140 characters, even as some run on to 200, 240, or 280. You can see the change in distribution in the chart below:

That could be partly because we’ve already been conditioned to keep tweets brief. It’s conceivable that, over time, the ethic of brevity will erode, and tweets will sprawl in length. That might be bad. But for a company that has been trying for years to broaden its appeal without much success, it’s a risk worth taking.

21:58
Svenstavik får fortsätta jaga seger efter förlust mot Nälden
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Svenstavik är forfarande utan seger i år. Matchen i Näskotthallen blev den sjunde i rad utan seger för Svenstavik när laget mötte Nälden i Hockeytvåan norra CD. Slutresultatet blev 11-0 (3-0, 4-0, ...

21:47
Britney Spears Original Painting Sells at Vegas Benefit for $10,000
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You want a piece of Britney Spears? Too late, somebody already bought it.

A tableau of flowers lovingly hand painted by one B. Spears has sold at auction for $10,000. Spears donated the work to the Vegas Cares benefit, where it was auctioned off to raise money for a memorial to the victims of the October shooting that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured. Spears has a close personal connection to Vegas, where she has performed in residency since 2014.

The winning bid was placed by entertainment reporter Robin Leach, best known for hosting Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (which also happens to be a Spears lyric) and who also happened to be the auctioneer. Doesn't he look pleased:

Spears didn’t attend the benefit herself but introduced the painting via video.

“The flowers in my painting represent a new beginning, and it’s in that spirit that we move forward,” she said.

Here is another video of the artist, listening to Mozart in a garden while creating the work back in October:

21:46
Singelolycka på Östra Bangatan på Söder i Örebro
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En singelolycka inträffar efter 21-tiden under tisdagskvällen på Östra Bangatan i närheten av Södermalmsplan i Örebro. En personbil har kört in i brofundamentet på platsen. Två personer är förda från olycksplatsen med ambulans till sjukhus.

Enligt uppgifter från våran fotograf ska det inte vara halt på platsen där olyckan inträffat.

Räddningstjänsten, polis och ambulans larmades vid 21.21 ut till olycksplatsen.

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Who’s Who of ‘Doctor Who’: New Companion Mandip Gill
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Freema Agyeman. Karen Gillan. Arthur Darvill. Jenna Coleman. Pearl Mackie. Mandip Gill. Recently revealed as one in a trio of new Thirteenth Doctor companions, Gill carries the torch for those zero-to-hero Doctor Who […]

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21:44
The DNC “Cancer” Is Donna Brazile
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“Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music.” So begins, absurdly and promisingly, the most intriguing part of former DNC interim chair Donna Brazile’s already controversial and appropriately titled new book Hacks, which features a parade of Democratic consultants, DNC officials, and party insiders who Brazile blames for Hillary Clinton’s loss last November.

At the center of the book are three individuals Brazile calls the party’s “three titanic egos – Barack, Hillary, and Debbie,” who, according to her, “stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.” Brazile’s allegations have roiled Democratic circles since Thursday, when Politico published an excerpt of the book detailing Brazile’s discovery of a joint fundraising agreement between the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign that she says granted Clinton effective control of the party a year before she actually won the nomination. “The agreement [...] specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile writes. “Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff.”

Brazile calls that agreement a “cancer” and claims that her conversation about it with Bernie Sanders, whose supporters have long accused the DNC of tilting the primary in Clinton’s favor, left her in tears. “When I hung up the call to Bernie, I started to cry, not out of guilt, but out of anger. We would go forward. We had to.”

Brazile’s melodramatics cast a purposeful haze over a few important details. She writes that she learned about the post-2012 debts that motivated the DNC’s agreement with the Clinton campaign after becoming interim chair in 2016. In fact, the DNC’s financial woes were widely reported in the years after the 2012 election. The murky specifics she describes of the joint committee’s fundraising arrangements—99 percent of gathered funds, which should have been split between the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and state parties, were only shared between the campaign and the DNC—would not have been news to the Sanders campaign. Their lawyer, Brad Deutsch, sent a pointed open letter accusing the joint committee of violating campaign finance law in April 2016. That, too, was reported on.

But an August 2015 memo detailing the terms of the joint agreement, published Friday by NBC News, seems to corroborate Brazile’s most novel allegation. The agreement did indeed stipulate that the party would choose a communications director from two candidates “previously identified as acceptable” to the Clinton campaign no later than Sept. 11, 2015. It additionally stipulated that new hires among “DNC senior staff in the communications, technology, and research departments” would also have to be endorsed by the campaign and that the Clinton campaign would have “advance opportunity to review” most party “online or mass email communications” about primary candidates. Clinton supporters have nevertheless argued, poorly, that the agreement actually only applied to the general election, and that the DNC hired its own preferred candidates anyway.

But it is both obvious and unstated in Brazile’s excerpt that Hillary Clinton—long the party’s presumptive front-runner, either the first or second-most important figure in the party’s establishment for at least a decade—would have exerted an incalculable degree of influence on the DNC, even if an agreement formalizing her power had never been signed. Brazile’s own actions during the campaign are evidence of this. She claims in her book that her sleuthing failed to uncover “any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary.” A cynic might suggest that emails, revealed in the WikiLeaks dump, showing that Brazile gave CNN debate questions to the Clinton campaign during the primaries might have been relevant to that search. But, alas, Brazile reports in the book that she can’t find those either.

In place of a full reckoning with her role in the Democratic machine, Hacks appears to offer other mystifying and farcical disclosures, a few of which were shared in the Washington Post’s preview of the book on Saturday. Brazile writes that Clinton’s health concerned her enough that she recommended the expert counsel of “an acupuncturist.” She reports that Clinton’s infamous collapse following last year’s 9/11 memorial at ground zero encouraged her to consider dumping Clinton and Tim Kaine for a Joe Biden–Cory Booker ticket—and that the Biden and Sanders camps, along with Martin O’Malley himself, contacted her almost immediately.

She claims that the murder of DNC employee Seth Rich terrified her and that she shuttered her office blinds and installed surveillance cameras to evade snipers and other potential assassins. A who’s who of America’s most prominent conspiracy peddlers have tied Rich’s killing to the Clintons and Democratic leaders. Brazile had other theories. “With all I knew now about the Russians’ hacking, I could not help but wonder if they had played some part in his unsolved murder,” she writes. “Besides that, racial tensions were high that summer and I worried that he was murdered for being white on the wrong side of town.”

More convincingly, she describes the Clinton’s campaign operation as moribund and bereft of enthusiasm. The Post’s Philip Rucker:

Brazile describes the 10th floor of Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, where senior staff worked: “Calm and antiseptic, like a hospital. It had that techno-hush, as if someone had died. I felt like I should whisper. Everybody’s fingers were on their keyboards, and no one was looking at anyone else. You half-expected to see someone in a lab coat walk by.”

During one visit, she writes, she thought of a question former Democratic congressman Tony Coelho used to ask her about campaigns: “Are the kids having sex? Are they having fun? If not, let’s create something to get that going, or otherwise we’re not going to win.”

“I didn’t sense much fun or [having sex] in Brooklyn,” she deadpans.

The goal of anecdotes like this and Brazile’s account of her weepy confession to Sanders is straightforward: The book is supposed to be a burning of bridges with the party establishment, an attempt to secure a future for herself in a Democratic Party run by progressives with axes to grind not only about the DNC’s handling of the 2016 primary but the direction of the Democratic Party, broadly speaking. Rucker reports that Brazile homes in at one point on the Clinton campaign’s focus on granular voter analytics, which she argues came at the expense of compelling messaging. “You might be able to persuade a handful of Real Simple magazine readers who drink gin and tonics to change their vote to Hillary,” she wrote, “but you had not necessarily made them enthusiastic enough to want to get up off the couch and go to the polls.”

This is part of the analysis of Clinton’s loss that the party’s left wing has been advancing for a year—but only a part. Voices on the left haven’t just excoriated Democrats for weak messaging—they’ve offered a clear and specific idea of what the party’s messaging could have been like in 2016: a forceful rhetoric of economic empowerment aimed at advancing progressive goals like single-payer health care, fighting rising inequality, and curbing corporate power. Over the summer, party leaders nodded in that direction with the introduction of their “Better Deal” package of proposals, including a $15 minimum wage and a reinvigoration of antitrust policy. Nothing that’s emerged from Hacks indicates that Brazile herself believes the party’s most significant problems are ideological—a call to Sanders announcing Clinton’s replacement with Joe Biden would presumably have been just as unwelcome to Sanders and his supporters. This suggests a faith that rancor over the Clinton campaign’s machinations during the primary and her belated denunciations of them alone will carry her into the party’s future.

It’s unlikely they will, and that future remains a good while away. Brazile’s now on the outs with a party establishment that is still firmly entrenched, and seems to be having second thoughts about her claims. In a Tuesday interview on CBS This Morning, Brazile called the primary a “fair fight,” praised Clinton for helping restore the party’s finances, and dismissed pointed questions about her change in tone. “Like most campaigns, you have family squabbles,” she said with a smile. “I fought with my family.”

This kind of slipperiness, which has served Brazile well over the course of her long career, will now doom her. For both the enemies she’s making in the establishment and the activists she’s gesturing to on the left, she will survive mainly and perhaps only as an example of the very self-interested corruption that she decries: a craven, calculating striver, incapable of being trusted, and loyal not to ideas or a particular vision for the country but a career now in need of resuscitation. A political “operative”—that greasy word—through and through and to the last, who nevertheless pretends an implausible ignorance of basic facts regarding a party she was chosen to run. Brazile’s future is precisely as dim as it ought to be. The cancer within the Democratic Party last year wasn’t some fundraising agreement. It was figures like her.

21:42
Kritiker hotade med bojkott – Disney backar
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Stora amerikanska filmkritiksajter hotade med att sluta recensera och uppmärksamma Disneys filmer. Nu häver filmjätten sin bojkott mot tidningen Los Angeles Times, rapporterar amerikanska medier.

21:35
Bil kraschade in i betongvägg i centrala Örebro – två till sjukhus: ”Helt demolerad”
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En person vårdas på intensiven för allvarliga skador efter singelolyckan på Östra Bangatan i höjd med Södra Infartsleden på tisdagskvällen.

21:35
Bil kraschade in i betongvägg i centrala Örebro – två till sjukhus: ”Helt demolerad”
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En person vårdas på intensiven för allvarliga skador efter singelolyckan på Östra Bangatan i höjd med Södra Infartsleden på tisdagskvällen.

21:35
Bilbrand på Klockarvägen
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Vid 21.22 på tisdagskvällen larmades räddningstjänsten i Södertälje om en utomhusbrand på Klockarvägen i Södertälje.

21:34
Notre Dame Reverses Its Stance on Birth Control Coverage for Employees
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It was just over a week ago that University of Notre Dame administrators announced they were halting contraceptive coverage for all faculty and staff on university health plans, and they’ve already changed their minds. Employees received an email on Tuesday notifying them that no-cost birth control coverage will still be available in at least one plan on offer for 2018.

The university’s initial decision came after the Trump administration expanded the list of religious exceptions to the contraceptive coverage mandate established by the Affordable Care Act. Religiously-affiliated organizations like Notre Dame, which abides by the Catholic Church’s anti-contraception doctrine, used to be able to outsource the mandatory birth control coverage to third-party providers and the federal government with a simple waiver. (Actual religious institutions, like churches, were the only ones completely exempt from the requirement.) Now, any company that asserts a moral opposition to birth control can withhold contraception coverage from its employees altogether.

As the first major employer to announce that it would take advantage of the new loophole, Notre Dame set a decisive example for other religiously-affiliated universities and nonprofits, which control health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of American employees. Notre Dame went so far as to sue the federal government in 2013 for forcing it to submit a waiver to trigger the third-party provision of contraceptives. University administrators, including the president, Rev. John Jenkins, brought some of the loudest and most insistent opposition to the ACA’s mandate. Tuesday’s policy change marks a major shift in the school’s approach to women’s health care, and possibly an ever-so-slight shift in its interpretation of its position as a globally-minded university connected to an ancient, conservative institution.

“The University of Notre Dame, as a Catholic institution, follows Catholic teaching about the use of contraceptives and engaged in the recent lawsuit to protect its freedom to act in accord with its principles,” said the email sent to employees on Tuesday. “Recognizing, however, the plurality of religious and other convictions among its employees, it will not interfere with the provision of contraceptives that will be administered and funded independently of the University.”

Notre Dame’s email said that Meritain Health and OptumRx—the third-party insurance administrator and pharmacy benefit company that has managed the university’s contraceptive coverage—are responsible for continuing the no-cost birth control benefits for employees. Students on Notre Dame’s health insurance plans go through Aetna, and the university hasn’t announced any final changes to its decision to cease contraception coverage on those plans, though its email stated that Aetna “intends to follow the same course” as Meritain Health and OptumRx. As of now, affected students are still set to lose their insurance coverage for birth control in August.

21:32
Flera nyanser av vitt och så the one and only Vincento!
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Varje dag har sitt plus och minus och idag får jag glädjas åt att jag hittat rätt nyans av vitt på väggarna. Ni kanske tror att det är bara att pensla nåt som heter vitt, men då bedrar ni er själva. Blotta vetskapen om att det finns hundratals vita nyanser att välja på gör mig både skärrad och sammanbiten, ja här gäller det att inte bara kladda upp vad som helst. Den första nyansen som kom att ta väggarna i besittning liknade mest lever-lavendel-vit och det mina damer och herrar visade sig inte vara klädsamt. Så jag har brottats och svettats mellan kalla rosa-vita och varma vanilj-toner och först då jag fick ta del av färgaffärernas färgsystemet och kunde spåra den vita nyansens baston, så kunde jag välja NCS S 0300-N. En vanlig vit färg med basen i grått. Tänk så lätt det är då jag tar kommando ändå…

Det är nu tredje dagen på raken som jag och Vincento träffas, ja jag kan ju inte sniffa målarfärg hur mycket som helst… Vincento är mitt nyfödda barnbarn och…. HAN ÄR HUR SÖT SOM HELST!

#meandvincento #mygrandchild #iloveyou #thankyoulord #ilovemylife

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Nej nu har jag inte tid att gulla mer, nu måste jag hem och fortsätta med projektet att ställa tillbaka allt i lägenheten. Amen.

21:31
10 incredibly useful Excel keyboard shortcuts
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10 incredibly useful Excel keyboard shortcuts
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Excel is a powerful tool, but like many powerful tools, its user interface has become cluttered with layers of menus, ribbons and multi-tabbed dialog boxes. Getting to the feature you want can feel like navigating one of those new urban developments designed to prevent traffic cutting through – tiresome unless you know the hidden shortcut.
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21:29
Who earns the most from adsense each month. The average youtuber or the average website owner?
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I would love the hear your opinions on this

21:29
Snapchat Had an Outage, and the Grown-Up Internet Didn’t Notice
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Snapchat was down for four hours on Monday, apparently preventing users from signing into the app.

The platform acknowledged the glitch on Twitter and recommended that users not log out of their accounts.

The outage, which began at around 3:30 p.m., prompted teens and junior millennials to express their panicked chagrin on Twitter. Gen X was conspicuously absent from the brouhaha.

Some grieved and lashed out for their broken streaks.

It seems that everyone else—i.e., grownups—only found out about the outage from news reports the day after it happened, another brutal reminder that we drift further and further from the digital vogue as we age.

21:24
5 Dreamforce 2017 takeaways to guide your CRM strategy
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As a technology conference, Dreamforce's 2,000+ sessions is cacophony. As a marketing event, nobody knows how to turn up the volume like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. And as a party venue, who could beat Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz in San Francisco?
If you sent someone to the conference, make sure they download all the presentation files, even for the sessions they didn’t attend. Some of those 1500 or so documents won’t be available until around Thanksgiving, and downloading them individually is a chore best done during football games and parades. But that couple of gigabytes will come in handy to quickly find the hot technical items in the coming year.
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21:21
Disney Lifts Los Angeles Times Media Ban Amid Growing Backlash
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Amid a growing backlash that included pledges from several critics associations and the New York Times, Disney has announced it is lifting its media blackout of the Los Angeles Times. “We’ve had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at The Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns, and as a result, we’ve agreed to restore access to advance screenings for their film critics,” Disney said in a statement given to the New York Times.

The Disney statement did not address interviews with talent associated with its films,or access to online screeners from Disney-owned TV networks like ABC, which were also being withheld in response to a series of L.A. Times articles investigating Disney’s financial relationship with the city of Anaheim, California.

A boycott of advance screenings of Disney movies began to gather steam over the weekend, after the L.A. Times announced on Friday that its review of Thor: Ragnarok would not appear in that day’s print edition because its critics had been barred from seeing it. On Monday, writers for the Washington Post and the Boston Globe announced they would not be seeing movies in advance as long as the L.A. Times’ critics were barred from doing so, and today they were joined by a similar announcement from the New York Times. Four critics associations, including the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, issued a joint statement that they would bar Disney’s movies from awards consideration, and the Toronto Film Critics Association followed suit. Ava DuVernay and David Simon also expressed public support for the protest.

Disney’s statement attempts to declare victory, but unless the L.A. Times has come under “newly installed leadership” since yesterday morning, it seems clear that the mounting pressure, along with the surge in the interest whose existence so displeased them in the first place, was simply too much to bear.

As for those articles? You can read them here and here.

21:20
NVIDIA Announces Star Wars Themed GTX Titan Xp GPUs
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Today NVIDIA has revealed a pair of GTX Titan Xp GPUs with Jedi Order and Galactic Empire themes, based on the Star Wars universe. These collector's edition cards feature windowed areas to show off the internals and the green or red lighting. The Jedi Order version has green lighting and simulated wear and tear from battle, as it is meant to resemble Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. The Galactic Empire card instead has red lighting and panels meant to invoke the appearance of the Death Star while also showing the order and resources of the Empire.

Being GTX Titan Xp graphics cards, they feature the GP102 GPU, with 3840 CUDA cores at 1.6 GHz, combined with 12 GB of GDDR5X memory at 11.4 Gbps. If you want to pick one up, it will cost you $1200 and you may want to make sure you are a GeForce Experience user, as they get exclusive pre-order access prior to November 17, when they become broadly available.

Source: NVIDIA

21:12
Magnus Penker
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Passionen att utbilda och inspirera! Magnus Penker är en internationellt anlitad inspirationstalare och expert på innovation, digitalisering och globaliseringsfrågor. Han är bästsäljandeförfattare av en rad amerikanska böcker inom digitalisering, innovation & IT-teknik.
Magnus är, en internationellt uppskattad talare på temat innovation, Artificiell intelligens, globalisering och framtid. Det handlar om att göra företag så innovativa att de överlever den digitala transformation som alla behöver relatera till. Magnus...
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21:12
Magnus Penker
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Passionen att utbilda och inspirera! Magnus Penker är en internationellt anlitad inspirationstalare och expert på innovation, digitalisering och globaliseringsfrågor. Han är bästsäljandeförfattare av en rad amerikanska böcker inom digitalisering, innovation & IT-teknik.
Med 20 år i bagaget som managementkonsult och som aktiv talare i prestigefyllda globala forum och evenemang, såsom The Global Peter Drucker Forum, topprankade internationella handelshögskolor, en mängd olika föreningar och några av världens största f...
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21:11
Russian Trolls Are Still Co-Opting Black Organizers’ Events
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Since 1994, Charles Stamps has organized the MLK Grande Parade, an annual march in Houston. But right now, the January event is getting an unusual signal boost: from BlackMattersUS.com, a website that largely looks like a hub of racial-justice activism but is in fact the creation of Kremlin-funded trolls who attempted to intensify heated American issues during the 2016 election and have continued to do so in the year since.

“I think it’s a load of BS. My name is Charles—it’s not comrade,” Stamps told me Monday when I called him, informing him for the first time that BlackMattersUS was promoting his event. “I don’t appreciate it, and we certainly don’t want to be affiliated with it.”

BlackMattersUS describes itself as a “nonprofit news outlet that delivers raw and original information on the most urgent issues important to the African-American community in America,” so the listing of the Houston march and other events wouldn’t strike a viewer who came across the site as strange. But according to the independent Russian news outlet RBC, the BlackMattersUS brand is one of the most influential suites of websites and social media accounts run by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian government–backed group that’s been identified by social media companies as a main culprit behind a massive troll operation that intelligence officials believe was aimed at sowing confusion during the 2016 campaign. An ad bought by the BlackMatters Facebook page, which had amassed more than 223,000 users, was released by the House Intelligence Committee last week following a public hearing with Facebook, Twitter, and Google about how Russian agents used their platforms to manipulate voters and help secure the election for Donald Trump. The Facebook page has since been shut down, along with 470 other pages Facebook identified as the work of the Kremlin-supported Internet Research Agency. But while BlackMattersUS has been shut out by the largest social media companies, its website is still running. After the site was exposed as belonging to Russian trolls, it changed its home page, which now reads, “AMA Reddit session RUSSIAN TROLLS COMING SOON.” The rest of the website, however, still impersonates a Black Lives Matter–like activism effort.

The MLK Grande Parade and five other real-life events are listed on the BlackMattersUS.com “meetups” page, which purports to list upcoming happenings across the country relevant to black entrepreneurs and racial-justice advocates. Stamps’ name and contact information are listed on the site, as well as a link to the official MLK Grande Parade’s website below a painting of Houston’s skyline. “I don’t particularly like the city skyline. I think Houston is much prettier than that,” said Stamps, when he first saw the listing after asking what he needed to do to get it removed.

“It’s completely shocking to me,” said Danielle McGee, a health care professional and entrepreneur based in Nashville, Tennessee, who learned Monday that her New Year’s Eve event last year had been scraped by the Russian troll operation and repurposed on the BlackMattersUS event page. Last year, McGee organized the Nashville Black Professionals Group NYE Celebration. BlackMattersUS has relisted McGee’s event as though it is happening this December.

“It makes me question why they specially would have chosen my event. I don’t know if there was something specific to Nashville. I just don’t know,” McGee told me. “I am just shocked and appalled because I don’t want anything to do with anything that helped to get Donald Trump elected,” McGee said. McGee’s and Stamps’ events appear to have been used by the propagandists to make the faux-activist website appear more realistic: Instead of writing descriptions for fake events, the website’s creators may have simply scanned Facebook and other sites for actual events created by black organizers.

The Russian disinformation campaign that blossomed in the run-up to the 2016 election was wide-ranging and often focused on amplifying issues of interest to the far right, and it had a particular focus on U.S. racial tensions, which it apparently sought to intensify on both sides. One of the Russian-made Facebook ads shared with Congress included a black woman firing an unloaded rifle, which investigators reportedly think may have been an attempt to stoke fears with whites and encourage violence. But it also sought to put black Americans further on edge: Another ad included a photo of a 1968 Black Panther rally captioned with the words “never forget that the Black Panthers, group formed to protect black people from the KKK, was dismantled by us govt but the KKK exists today.” Blacktivist, another large Facebook and Twitter faux-activist operation controlled by the Internet Research Agency, even called for a march in Baltimore and communicated with a local reverend who questioned whether those behind the Blacktivist account were even located in Baltimore. The account’s administrators admitted they weren’t local but added, “We are looking for friendship, because we are fighting for the same reasons. Actually we are open for your thoughts and offers.”

“We had no idea,” said Natalyn Randle, the CEO and founder of Black Business Women Rock, a conference and network of black female entrepreneurs whose Nov. 17 event this year was used by Russian agents for content on the BlackMattersUS meetup page. Organizers of another event, “Black Girl Passion Chicago Experience,” a black women’s empowerment event, also told me in a Facebook message that they didn’t submit their event to the fake activist site. Still, the Chicago organizers did say that they noticed the listing and that they are “grateful for that avenue of promotion.” The organizers didn’t respond to follow-up requests to further discuss the origins of BlackMattersUS. Two other meetups on the page are for two “Black Restaurant Week” events in Washington and New Orleans. I contacted the organizer listed on those events but did not hear back.

Everyone I spoke to on the phone wanted to know how to get their information off the Russian operatives’ site but had reservations about engaging with the trolls. I emailed the domain registrar, Internet.bs, and hosting provider, Cloudflare, of BlackMattersUS.com to ask whether the outed Russian troll website was in violation of their terms of service and whether it would be removed. Internet.bs told me to contact Cloudflare and added that if it did remove the site, it would only be a “temporary resolution” and that it’s “not reflective in value of the risk associated with the act of interrupting” the domain name service. “By registering another domain with another Registrar any registrant can reinstate their content within a matter of minutes,” Internet.bs said. Cloudflare hasn’t responded yet.

But Cloudflare may have set a precedent for itself earlier in August when it removed security protection for one of its clients at the time, the Daily Stormer, after that website made headlines for helping organize the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Likewise, the Daily Stormer’s domain registrar, GoDaddy, booted the website off its service, too, after the Charlottesville rally turned violent. Stormfront, one of the oldest and largest online forums for Nazis and white supremacists, also was booted offline in August after Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sent a series of letters to Stormfront’s domain provider, Network Solutions, arguing the Nazi website violated the company’s usage policies prohibiting bigotry.

Internet.bs may have a point, since Stormfront is back online, but that doesn’t mean that losing its original domain services made life easy for the racists who run the site. No doubt few would lose sleep if Russian trolls had to deal with a similar hassle.

21:06
Trafikverket varnar för lurigt väglag i länet – risk för halka
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Under tisdagskvällen varnar Trafikverket att det är risk för halka på flera av länets vägar.

21:06
Allsvenskans bästa korades – Christiansen ligans mest värdefulla spelare
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MFF-mittfältaren Anders Chrsitansen blev den stora vinnaren när årets bästa spelare i allsvenskan prisades. Här är alla vinnarna från tisdagskvällens gala.

21:00
Real Good You Guys: Kyle Kallgren and Brows Held High
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I don’t really like art house movies. I tend to be a concrete thinker with a tendency towards escapism, so I gravitate towards goofy genres more than anything with complex thematic abstraction. However, […]

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21:00
4 goda alkoholfria drinkar till jul
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c870c329108c4a497657978aae358a388e7c77691b9c1587cc13b855402d1278 Mat & dryck
För många är julfirande synonymt med alkohol. Men fler och fler väljer nu alkoholfria alternativ. Ibland kan utbudet kännas lite skralt, då är det kul att prova göra egna drinkar. Här är fyra smarriga alternativ som passar till julens alla firande.
Tranbärsbål
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20 personer

9 dl kall äppelcider
4,5 dl kall tranbärsjuice
4,5 dl kall ginger ale
1 paket apelsinjuice – koncentrerat
Äpple- och apelsinskivor
Frysta tranbär

Blanda äppelcider, tranbärsjuice och koncentratet från apelsinjuicen i en tillbringare. Ställ in i kylen. När det är dags för servering tillsätter du ginger ale, häller upp i kylda glas och toppar med äppelskiva och tranbär.
Sorbetdrink
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2 personer

2 kulor valfri sorbet
3 dl alkoholfritt mousserande vin (torrt) eller cider

Kyl eller frys glasen så de är kalla. Lägg upp en kula sorbet i varje glas och slå sedan försiktigt på det mousserande vinet. Servera omgående.
Gurk- och limecocktail
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1 personer

1 gurka
1/4 tesked fint hackad dill samt en dillvippa tll garnering
1 tesked agavesirap
1 tesked färskpressad citronjuice
1 tesked färsk limejuice
1/2 dl färskpressad gurkjuice
1/2 dl kallt mineralvatten

Använd en mandolin för att få till en lång gurkskiva som du sedan lägger ner runt glasets kant. Lägg den hackade dillen, agavesirap, citron- och limejuice och matsked vatten i en blandare. Muddla ingredienserna med hjälp av en mortel. Lägg i is och sedan gurkjuice och skaka väl. Sila ner i ett kallt glas och rör i mineralvatten. garnera med en dillvippa.
Äppletonic
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4 personer

35 cl äppelcider
6 cl färskpressad citronjuie
6 cl syrup med timjansmak
1 flaska bättre tonic

Timjan och citron till dekoration

Blanda allt utom din tonic, häll upp i fyra glas. Toppa sedan med tonic, en kvist timjan och en skiva citron.

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20:57
Klimatkonferens i Bonn: ”Vår värld är i nöd”
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Klimatkonferensen i Bonn öppnades i måndags med en traditionell välkomstceremoni från det lilla öriket Fidji och med ett kraftfullt upprop till ett större engagemang för jordens klimat. Fram till den 17 november kommer fler än 25 000 delegater från hela världen att förhandla om hur det klimatavtal man enades om i Paris för två år sedan skall omsättas i praktiken. Målet är att begränsa ökningen av den globala genomsnittstemperaturen till under två grader jämfört med den förindustriella perioden. ”Vår värld är i nöd”, sade premiärministern från Fidji, Frank Bainimarama, vars republik leder klimatmötet, medan Tyskland utövar det så kallade ”tekniska värdskapet”.

Bainimarama påminde om att 2016 har varit ett rekordår vad gäller utsläpp av koldioxid i atmosfären och tillade att ”nu får vi inte misslyckas”. Klimatöverenskommelsen i Paris får inte bli urvattnad. Därför krävs också en insats av företagen, det civila samhället och trosgemenskaperna. ”Nu har sanningens ögonblick kommit.”

Chefen för FN:s klimatsekretariat UNFCCC, Patricia Espinosa, betonade att miljontals människor redan drabbats av klimatförändringen i form av extrema väderhändelser. Men möjligen är det bara en försmak av den framtida utvecklingen. Så kommer år 2017 sannolikt att bli ett av de tre varmaste åren sedan temperaturmätningarna startade. ”Vi kan inte unna oss lyxen att vänta längre.”

Den tyska miljöministern Barbara Hendricks betonade, att det nu är ont om tid, om vi skall nå målen i Parisöverenskommelsen. Att begränsa utsläppen av drivhusgaser, kallade ministern för en ”central utmaning för framtiden”. Det är därför nödvändigt att avstå från fossil energi.

Oceaniens biskopar hoppas på framsteg

Ett exempel på effekterna av den globala temperaturökningen är att många öar i Söderhavet är hotade. Havsnivån stiger, de tropiska stormarna blir kraftigare, grundvattnet och åkrarna blir försaltade, havet slukar allt mer land på de lågt liggande öarna. ”Eftersom öarnas ytor är så små, går det inte att flytta till annan plats på samma ö, utan den enda möjlighet som återstår är att utvandra till andra länder”, står det i en aktuell överblick över ”De mänskliga dimensionerna av klimatförändringen i Asien och Stilla Havet”, som sammanställts av Den Asiatiska Utvecklingsbanken (ADB). Om den globala uppvärmningen inte kan stoppas, varnar ADB, kommer jordbruket på Papua Nya Guinea, Salomoöarna och Fidji att ha brutit samman fram till år 2050.

Därför vädjar de katolska biskoparna från Oceanien om att klimatkonferensen i Bonn skall göra substantiella framsteg så att deras hemöar kan räddas. ”För många av våra människor är havet den omsorgsfullt vårdade försörjningskällan, havet är grunden till deras liv och det ger dem liv”, betonar de i ett budskap från deras folkförsamling i Auckland i Nya Zeeland, och de talar engagerat om en ”blå ekonomi”, som skall säkra en hållbar framtid för örikena: ”Med vårt mål, som är en blå ekonomi, skall vi hålla fast vid en utvecklingsmodell, som respekterar hållbarhet och ser bortom kortsiktig profit.” För att förekomma varje missförstånd betonar biskoparna även: ”Vi är inte motståndare till ekonomisk utveckling.”

Afrikansk biskop: Risken för hunger ökar

Men också i andra regioner i världen har människor drabbats svårt av klimatförändringarna. ”Jordbruket kan inte längre förlita sig på traditionell kunskap”, sade ordföranden för biskopskonferensen från Burkina Faso, ärkebiskop Paul Yemboaro Ouedraogo. Och han förklarar, att tidigare inväntade man de första regnen och sådde därefter. Nu är det slut med det, för idag vet människorna inte längre, om sådden skall komma upp. Istället för fortsatta regn kan det nu inte sällan komma perioder av torka så att sådden tvinar bort. Ofta kan det komma plötsliga regn, när grödan är mogen och då kan skörden inte torkas i ladorna.

Burkina Faso ligger till största delen i Sahelområdet, där betingelserna för jordbruk är svåra. Den västafrikanska staten räknas bland de fattigaste länderna i världen. ”Om man har en regnperiod på fyra månader, då räknas varje dag, varje vecka”, förklarar Ouedraogo. ”Om ni missar den perioden, då öppnas dörren till hunger och brist på livsmedel.”

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Emma Milicevic inför premiären
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Hör vad Emma Milicevic säger inför elitseriepremiären i tennis. Reporter: Peter Gustafsson
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Yvette blir frilansare
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Yvette Hermundstad har sagt upp sig på SVT Sport. Hon kommer att blir frilansare men behåller jobbet som programledare för Vinterstudion de kommande fyra åren.
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Yvette, nyligen porträtterad på Idrottens Affärer, skriver på Instagram:
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IDG Contributor Network: CIOs can help CMOs leverage data specificity to engage new customers
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The internet can be a surreal place. It seems to understand you – who you are, what you are looking for, and especially when you are ready to buy something.
Because we spend so much of our lives interacting with it, this ability is not surprising, and we quickly become numb to it. But occasionally the gears behind the scenes take a leap forward and surprise us again.
Data specificity Is the new cutting edge of advertising
Today, the frontier of online advertising is using highly specific forms of data to create ads that tap into a consumer’s sense of identity. Until recently, advertising companies could track which websites consumers had been to, what they were searching for, and some information about their demographic. While that kind of data can inform well-targeted ads, there is so much more to accomplish.
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<a href=" [www.posh24.se] class="person">Nicki Minaj</a>, <a href=" [www.posh24.se] class="person">Karlie Kloss</a>, <a href=" [www.posh24.se] class="person">Sara Sampaio</a>, m.fl.

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Gunilla Persson: ”Slängde oss ut från sovrummet”
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Israel-based Corephotonics sues Apple over iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus dual-lens camera
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Israel-bases company Corephotonics has sued Apple, alleging that the iPhone manufacturer has used four of its patents surrounding dual-camera technology in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus without permission or licensing.

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Här är vinnarna i Matverk – storseger för snabb ostkaka: "Känns helt otroligt"
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En ostkaka i snabbmatsutförande kammade hem både första och tredjepris i årets upplaga av tävlingen Matverk. – Det känns helt otroligt, jag är helt skakig, säger Marie Lodstedt Nyman, som vann tillsammans med Lotta Persson.

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Här är vinnarna i Matverk – storseger för snabb ostkaka: "Känns helt otroligt"
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En ostkaka i snabbmatsutförande kammade hem både första och tredjepris i årets upplaga av tävlingen Matverk. – Det känns helt otroligt, jag är helt skakig, säger Marie Lodstedt Nyman, som vann tillsammans med Lotta Persson.

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At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before
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It’s an A above high C — the equivalent of a pole vault to the sun. Few performers can hit it, but it’s a requirement in “The Exterminating Angel.”

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At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before
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It’s an A above high C — the equivalent of a pole vault to the sun. Few performers can hit it, but it’s a requirement in “The Exterminating Angel.”

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Saman Ghoddos utsedd till årets anfallare i allsvenskan
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När Allsvenskans stora pris delades ut under tisdagskvällen, utsågs Östersunds FK-spelaren Saman Ghoddos till årets anfallare. Han var nominerad tillsammans med Kalle Holmberg, IFK Norrköping, och Markus Rosenberg, Malmö FF. Men trots den tuffa konkurrensen fick Ghoddos drygt 46% av rösterna.

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Veckan har bara börjat men snart är det dags för den sjunde fredagsfinalen i Idol. Veckans tema är ”Mamma och pappa väljer låt”.

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A new report said that the number of people who signed up for Obamacare plans more than doubled on the first day of enrollment compared with the prior year, according to CNBC. The potential record number of enrollment levels comes at a time when opposition to the legislation from the Trump administration shortened the sign-up period and sharply decreased funding for sign-up outreach efforts and advertising by the administration. TheHill.com reported that last Wednesday more than 200,000 people selected an Obamacare plan for 2018 on the first day of open enrollment for individual health plans. The same day last year had only 100,000 sign-ups, according to TheHill.com that cited a source close...

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Paradise Papers fortsätter att dominera stora delar av världens media. Egentligen är det väl ingen som är förvånad över att det finns de som är mer än villiga att hjälpa de som redan har för mycket att få ännu mer. I går var det ju förre Scania VD:n Leif Östling (numera VD för Svenskt Näringsliv) som skickligt trampade i klaveret med sitt redan klassiska yttrande: - "Vad fan får jag?" Ett yttrande som inte möttes av så stor förståelse från något håll. Svenskt Näringsliv påpekad mycket snabbt att han yttrat sig som privatperson, inte som representant för Svenskt Näringsliv. Trots detta var det på just Svenskt Näringslivs hemsida som hans pudel snabbt publicerades. Men, det är väl så det fungerar i dom här kretsarna att det är svårt att skilja på det privata och företaget. Jag hoppas att han är bättre på att skilja på dom sakerna när han skickar in reseräkningar...
Fast det fanns faktiskt dom som snabbt gick ut till försvar. I den moderata megafonen Svenska Dagbladets ledarsida var Tove Lifvendahl mycket snabbt med sin Försvar för en direktör. Förståelsen för Leif Östlings kommentar och försvar är klart mindre inne i tidningen. Tove Lifvendahl menar dock att man ju måste ha förståelse för att skatterna ju är så höga och han har ju inte begått något olagligt. I den här frågan finns det uppenbarligen ingenting som heter "moral" i Tove Lifvendahls värld. Hur som helst fick det mig att fundera lite. Jag är ju läsoman och läser (och betalar för) alldeles för många tidningar och tidskrifter. - "Vad fan får jag för det" funderar jag över eftersom jag dåligt hinner läsa allt. Jag tänkte att man kunde ordna någon form av gemensamt konto i bekanskapskretsen. Vi kan ju börja på prov med Svenska Dagbladet. Vi betalar för ett konto, och sedan delar vi ut inloggningsuppgifter så kan vi alla läsa tidningen på nätet. Släkt och vänner, grannar, arbetskamrater osv. Det är inget olagligt, men vi sparar ju en del pengar. Det är klart att Svenska Dagbladet skulle ju gå miste om en hel del inkomster. Men det behöver väl inte jag bry mig om?
På SVT kan ni här och här se vad det är för tjommar som tycker att det är rimligt att man själv bestämmer hur man ska skatta sina pengar. Det ska naturligtvis påpekas att det nog finns personer som inte placerat sina konton och bolag på Malta för att smita från skatten. Det bor ju faktiskt nästan en halv miljon människor på öarna. Hade Leif Östling tjänat ihop sina slantar genom att vara VD för Scanias försäljningskontor på Malta så hade det väl varit helt OK. Fast då hade han kanske inte tjänat så mycket slantar? Men nu är pengarna flyttade till Malta av ett enda skäl. Lägre skatt och mindre insyn! Det är samma skäl som varför så många nätspelbolag har adressen till Malta. Inte för att infrastrukturen för att driva bolagen på ön är så förmånliga. Utan helt enkelt eftersom skatten är låg, insynen låg och reglerna liberala. Dom har billiga postboxar att hyra.
Det är helt enkelt dags att säga ifrån. Vill ni inte betala för er där ni verkar så tänker inte vi hjälpa er att tjäna några pengar. Tycker Facebook att det lämpligaste är att föra över alla sina annonsvinster till Caymanöarna så kan vi kanske inte förhindra detta. Men, jag tänker inte göra affärer med de bolag som göder detta förfarande genom att köpa annonser på Facebook. Väljer dom att annonsera där istället för via andra media som betalar för sig så ska dom inte tro att jag tänker vilja ha med dom att göra. Facebook vill veta ALLT om oss, men dom gömmer sig i på skattesmitaröar för att vi inte ska kunna ha någon insyn i deras affärer.
Ta gärna en titt på den här lilla snutten hos BBC som handlar om Apples skattesmitande. Låt mig säga så här att jag är glad att de senaste Plattorna jag köpt hade INTE ett halvätet äpple på baksidan. Att köpa en Apple-telefon skulle jag inte komma på tanken att göra.

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Drogpåverkad kom 27-åringen hem till 53-åringen och attackerade honom med en skruvmejsel. De båda männen var arbetskamrater och känner varandra väl sedan tidigare, men något egentligt motiv till attacken saknas.

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Attackerade arbetskamraten med skruvmejsel: "De kände varandra väl"
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Drogpåverkad kom 27-åringen hem till 53-åringen och attackerade honom med en skruvmejsel. De båda männen var arbetskamrater och känner varandra väl sedan tidigare, men något egentligt motiv till attacken saknas.

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Mopedist misstänkt för rattfylla
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Polis stoppade en misstänkt rattfyllerist på länsväg 181 mellan Herrljunga och Vårgårda strax efter klockan tio på tisdagsförmiddagen. Föraren, som färdades på en moped, fick följa med för provtagning.

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Marcher Malware Poses Triple Threat to Android Users
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A three-pronged banking malware campaign has been infecting Android phones since the beginning of this year, according to security researchers. Attackers have been stealing credentials, planting the Marcher banking Trojan on phones, and nicking credit card information. So far, they have targeted customers of BankAustria, Raiffeisen Meine Bank and Sparkasse, but the campaign could spread beyond Vienna. The attack begins with a phishing message delivered by email to a phone, security researchers at Proofpoint explained.

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Man Spent 36-Plus Hours Painting in VR to Break Guinness World Record
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Everyone has goals. Jack McNee’s was to earn the Guinness World Record for longest videogame marathon on a virtual reality game system. Congratulations, Jack. On April 2, McNee broke the world record (and […]

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