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January 25, 2018
23:49
The Angle: Same Old Edition
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Here we go: An instinctively isolationist Donald Trump ran on the promise that he would get troops out of Afghanistan and provide only air support (aka, “bomb the shit of out of ISIS”) in Syria. Now, Fred Kaplan writes, he’s listening to his generals and getting more involved in both places. Hello, good old quagmire. We meet again.

Liar, liar: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) drives Trump’s agenda in the Senate, and is supposedly under consideration to be the next CIA director. Will Saletan finds that prospect unnerving.

So weird: Why on earth would Trump think that decreeing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel would help negotiations in the Middle East? Josh Keating can’t really understand the reasoning, and definitely doesn’t think it’ll work.

On her side: Jessica Flanigan thinks the fight for a universal basic income should be a feminist issue.

For fun: Why you should always take the guided tour.

For the anecdotes!

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23:42
Judge Rules KFC Franchise Can’t Advertise Halal Chicken as Halal
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Afzal Lokhandwala opened his first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Illinois in 2002, and he almost immediately began advertising locally that much of his restaurant’s chicken was halal—slaughtered and processed according to Islamic law. The strategy proved so lucrative that when Lokhandwala opened five new franchises a decade later, he chose their locations based on their proximity to large mosques and Muslim communities.

Unsurprisingly, not all of KFC’s chicken comes from halal-certified poultry producers. In Lokhandwala’s case, about 75 percent of the chicken on the bone (as opposed to chicken fingers) was halal. But he kept halal and non-halal products separated in his restaurants, and informed customers about the difference. For years, KFC’s corporate office was fine with that, even helping him to identify halal-certified processors and distributors. About a year ago, however, the company cracked down, and told Lokhandwala he had to stop advertising his restaurants as halal-compliant. Lokhandwala, a practicing Muslim, sued KFC, saying the chain had long allowed his advertising approach, and that banning it now would hurt his business.

This week, a federal judge ruled in KFC’s favor. This was mainly due to the fact that the chain had decided back in 2009 that it would no longer permit franchise owners to make religious dietary claims about its wares, in part because terms like “halal” and “kosher” are interpreted differently by different groups. KFC also said that it could not guarantee that its restaurants would be able to prevent cross-contamination between halal and non-halal foods. Indeed, Lokhandwala’s restaurants have been the subject of furious debates among Chicago-area Muslims about whether his processing procedures and coating ingredients qualified as halal.

The suit’s outcome is unfortunate for everyone, because Lokhandwala was actually ahead of a growing trend. The Muslim population in the United States has grown by more than 1 million people in the last decade, now making up about 1.1 percent of the population, according to Pew. About half of Muslims in America say that eating halal is “essential” to their religious identity. But it’s not just Muslims who are interested in eating halal. To many non-Muslims, halal carries a vaguely healthful sheen of higher quality food and better treatment of animals. Bloomberg reported in 2016 that halal food was a $20 billion industry in the United States, a trend driven by Millennials. Walmart and Whole Foods are among the thousands of grocers that carry products by halal suppliers, and a chain called the Halal Guys now claims to have more than 200 restaurants in development.

Halal, in other words, could be “the next ‘kosher’”—a set of religious dietary laws that catches on among the general population. And the designation isn’t just for food: Halal-certified cosmetics are a quickly expanding market, with brands including Shiseido and Estée Lauder have getting into the game with select halal-certified products.

It’s surprising, perhaps, that halal is taking off at a time of widespread suspicion and persecution of Muslims in America. But as a perceptive piece on NPR’s Code Switch blog pointed out last year, culinary trends don’t always track political moods. German foods became wildly popular in America during World War I, and a chop suey craze coincided with anti-Chinese sentiments in mid-century.

That doesn’t help Afzal Lokhandwala, unfortunately. KFC’s objection to his advertising scheme make sense, if the company truly can’t guarantee the legitimacy of an individual franchise’s claims. But if the fast-food chain is smart, they’ll find a way to capitalize on America’s growing hunger for halal.

23:40
Maersk took just 10 days to replace 45,000 PCs wiped by NotPetya attack
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Maersk details heroic recovery as staff go manual to keep the shipping container firm afloat after massive cyber attack.

23:38
Clips update brings new poster and label for Chinese New Year, bug fixes
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Apple updated its Clips video creation app on Thursday, adding new assets to celebrate the Chinese New Year, as well as bug fixes and stability improvements.

23:26
Apple's Clips App Updated With Chinese New Year Graphics
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Apple's Clips video editing app received a small update this afternoon, introducing new artwork ahead of Chinese New Year on February 16.

Today's update brings a new Apple-designed label and poster for Chinese New Year. The poster, which reads "Gung Hay Fat Choy" (the equivalent to Happy New Year in Cantonese) is accompanied by fireworks and can be used as an interstitial scene in a video composition, while the label, which says the same thing, can be used as a sticker.

According to Apple's release notes, the update also improves stability when browsing and recording Selfie Scenes on the iPhone X and it addresses an issue that caused the Top Secret poster to animate incorrectly during playback.

Today's minor Clips update follows a significant overhaul of the app that was introduced in November. That update added "Selfie Scenes," a feature that's designed to use the front-facing TrueDepth camera on the iPhone X to immerse users in 360-degree animated landscapes.

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23:15
With Only Two Episodes Left, Happy! Goes to Uncomfortable Places
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Well, that was certainly a scene. I’ll get to it in detail later, but I was pretty sure there was nothing Happy! could do to shock me anymore. It opened with an imagined head […]

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23:13
Ben Swann annonserar sin come back 30 januari 2018
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Den undersökande journalisten Ben Swann meddelar att han kommer tillbaka med Truth in Media, som ska finansieras av tittarna och kryptovalutan Dash, den 30 januari 2018.

Inlägget Ben Swann annonserar sin come back 30 januari 2018 dök först upp på NewsVoice.

23:09
Balanserat psyke och balans i teknik – förutsättningar för framgång?
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I den kommande boken ”VM-resan: Vägen är målet” (under redigering med förhoppningar om utgivning 2018) skriver jag:

”Våra tankar kan både få oss att tveka eller vilja backa ur, de kan göra att vi övertänder, men också att vi faktiskt får ut vårt bästa när det gäller. För något tag sedan coachade jag en fighter inför, under och efter en match. Dagarna innan match verkade läget under kontroll, fokus var på egna styrkor och att försöka behålla ett lugnt fokus under matchen. Alldeles innan match märktes det att spänningen ökat betydligt, korta nästan irriterade kommandon till de som hjälpte till med att passa in skydden och blicken var mycket fokuserad. För att inte säga att den uttryckte något av en övertändning… vilket också märktes i början av första ronden. Allt som syntes i blicken innan matchen kom ut i varje slag och spark. Vad är det för dåligt med det då kan man undra. Jo, det är flera saker som händer, fortsätter man på det sättet under en längre stund så har man kört slut på sig själv på några minuter. Men framför allt får man inte ut det man kan ur teknikerna. Det går långsamt, tajmingen stämmer inte helt och kraften i teknikerna kommer inte ut helt och fullt.

En bit in i första ronden hände något, det syntes att fightern lyckades ändra sitt fokus och sitt tänk. Efter att ha tagit ett djupt andetag sjönk axlarna ner lite (vilket kan tyda på att spänningen i kroppen sänktes), blicken och ansiktsuttrycket ändrades från fullt påslag till att uttrycka mer av ett lugnt fokus. Då började också tajmingen stämma. Snabbheten och kraften i teknikerna blev bättre. Variationen i teknikerna och fotarbete förbättrades tydligt, riktigt snygga undanglidningar och mer avancerade kontringar satt där de skulle. Den lugna koncentrationen förbättrades sedan rond för rond. Nästan varje anfall från motståndaren stoppades med en kontring. Segern var odiskutabel.

Efter matchen frågade jag var det viktigaste som denna fighter gjort under matchen. Svaret var att få kontroll på sig själv, att få kontroll på sina tankar och hitta ett lugn. Vilket också var det denna fighter under sina mentala förberedelser haft i sina tankar inför matchen.”

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En bra balans rent fysiskt är även det en förutsättning för att få ut det mesta av tekniken, taktiken och tajmingen.

Inför matchen Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor skrevs det en hel del om den enas eller den andras fördelar, en del handlade om traditionell kampsport versus boxning – något som kan vara värt att vrida och vända lite på. En del hävdade att MacGregors traditionella stil skull vara en fördel, och hans tajming. Onekligen har han viss tajming. Tittar man närmre på några av de matcher han avslutat med knock så sitter träffen precis i den andras anfall. Ofta har anfallen varit ”ganska” vilda (läs okontrollerade) och flera motståndare har ”kastat” sig in helt oskyddat och McGregor har kallt prickat in sin träff – något som lurade McGregors förespråkare att tro att han skulle göra det samma med Mayweather. Att jämföra Mayweather, en boxare av världsklass, med de McGregor knockat ser jag nästan som en förolämpning mot Mayweather – en boxare som visat på en teknik, taktik och tajming över det vanliga. Vilket han även bevisade mot MacGregor…

Vi kan också ta resonemanget vidare till matchen George St Pierre (GSP) vs. Michael Bisping. GSP kommer gärna in i sin vita Gi för att påminna om hans traditionella kampsportsbakgrund. Frågan är hur det egentligen förhåller sig, vad är det för teknik GSP använder i match?

Först av allt så är judo- och jujutsu-tekniker för nedtagning och mattarbete tekniker som tränas i ’fullkontakt’, precis som grappling, submission wrestling eller brottning. Vad då fullkontakt kanske du undrar… jo kast, nedtagningar och låsningar görs på riktigt. Ett kast ger inte poäng om det inte utförs fullt ut och motståndaren hamnar på mattan. En matta som finns där som skydd för att kastet skall kunna utföras fullt ut. Precis som boxare i olika grenar har skyddande handskar för att tävlar med fullkontakt. Ok jag vet att i MMA har man betydligt tunnare handskar, men likväl är det fullkontakt som gäller. Men de handskarna är bättra än de knogskydd som vanligtvis används inom exempelvis traditionell karate. Där tekniken inte skall utföras med fullkontakt utan träffarna skal bara markeras. Vad har det inneburit för teknikutvecklingen inom karaten då? Jo att det gäller att komma ’nästan’ in på motståndaren och snabbare därifrån. Kroppen behöver inte användas för att få full kraft i träffen (detta uttalande grundar jag på åratal av traditionellt utövande, med ett svart bälte, 5 dan, som bevis för viss kunskap inom området), något som syns i MacGregors teknik, men inte inte i GSP:s… Varför då kan man ju undra?

Helt enkelt för att GSP tränat thaiboxning med Phil Nurse, Europamästare i Muay Thai på 80-talet, i NY för att slipa på en för fullkontakt bättre fungerande stående fightteknik. En teknik där balansen ligger annorlunda än i traditionella kampsporter. Newtons andra lag, F = m x a… översatt betyder det att kraften = massa x acceleration. Översätter vi det till teknik innebär det att hela kroppens massa behöver finnas med i träffen, tekniken behöver därför utföras så att kroppsmassan ligger med i träffögonblicket. Det innebär att balansen måste vara lite framåtlutad, med full kontroll så du snabbt kan ändra riktning eller retirera, men också att hela rörelsen måste vara synkroniserad så att inte delar av kroppen står still, eller rör sig åt något annat håll. Ok nu börjar det bli väl tekniskt för att förstå i ord, det här behöver ses.

En match där detta är ganska tydligt i K1-matchen mellan Martin Holm vs. Glaube Feitosa:

Titta speciellt efter 4.45 min i Martins slagserie mot Feitosa. Där är det tydligt hur Martin ligger på med kroppen lite framåt, han rör sig också i sidled när han slår krokar för att få med hela massan då också. Snabbheten i träffen, dvs den acceleration träffen orsakar i motståndarens kropp, tillsammans med den massa som finns med i slagen ger den kraft motståndaren får känna på. Feitosa som kommer från karaten står för upprätt i den här matchen för att hänga med, men han hämtar inspiration från andra fullkontaktkampsporter och förbättrar sin balans senare i karriären. Ligger balansen lite framåt är du också förbered på att anfalla eller kontra, en förutsättning för att du skall kunna hitta tajmingen. Står du för upprätt tar det en millisekund att hitta rätt balans för att kunna röra dig framåt, då är det redan för sent…

Jo, och vilka vinner vad gäller balanserat psyke och kyla, av Mayweather vs. McGregor och GSP vs. Bisping…? Ganska enkelt det med…

Med förhoppning att du fick något att tänka på…

Po Lindvall, professionell coach inom idrott och näringsliv, samt grundare av Martin Holms Minne.

22:46
Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton’s Long-Anticipated Duet Lives Up to the Hype
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Ever since Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton teamed up at the Country Music Assocation Awards back in 2015, duetting on a two-song medley that stole the night and helped herald Stapleton as country music’s new king, fans of the two soulful Southern singers have been waiting for them to collaborate on new music. Now, after the first two tracks from Timberlake’s new album Man of the Woods landed with two consecutive thuds, the duo finally released their new song and video on Thursday.

The video, at the very least, does not disappoint. It’s best viewed without any sense of what one is about to watch, but suffice to say that if you recognize the logo of La Blogothèque that appears at the beginning, you’ll have an inkling of what you’re getting into. The French concert-film project, led by director Vincent Moon, made its name in the early days of online video in the mid-’00s with what it called “Concerts à Emporter” or “Take Away Shows.” (Update, Jan. 26, 2018: Moon has since left the project, and it is currently run by Matthieu Buchsenschutz and Blogothèque creator Christophe Abric. This video was directed by Arturo Perez Jr.) In one representative example, which bears some resemblance to this video, a small orchestra’s worth of Arcade Fire members piled into an elevator to play “Neon Bible” and then emerged directly from the elevator into a concert audience, where they play “Wake Up.”

The appeal of the Take Away Shows was always the sense of intimacy and the feeling of immediacy they conveyed, of being inches from a world-class performer as they played live, and with singers as good as Timberlake and Stapleton, not to mention musicians as top-of-the-line as Timberlake’s Tennessee Kids, it was an inspired move to take the same single-take, live approach so we could hear just how good they really are.

Which is not to say that the video simply panders to dated, ludditic notions of authenticity or “real” musicianship, either: It begins with Timberlake playing not an acoustic guitar but an MPC sampler, resembling Kanye West playing “Runaway” live at the MTV Video Music Awards more than the Eddie Bauer–catalog caricature so many of us feared when we saw songtitles like “Flannel” and “Livin’ Off the Land” on the Man of the Woods tracklist. And it only builds from there, making the best use of Los Angeles’ Bradbury Building since Blade Runner and mixing the acoustic and the futuristic more effectively than “Filthy” or “Supplies” ever did.

Is the song as strong as the video? Certainly the studio version, which was also made available Thursday on all streaming services, doesn’t have the same immediate impact that the video does. And the song’s lyrics are fairly vague—though that’s also the point. (“Sometimes the greatest the way to say something is to say nothing at all,” they sing together on the bridge.) For now, I’m not sure that question matters, because I’ll be playing the video on loop.

22:45
Geek Deals Roundup: 55-inch 4K TV under $400, Highly-Rated $19 Wireless Headphones, and more
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On the lookout for an affordable TV on the double? Well, today’s deals will help you enjoy the big game on a big screen without hurting your wallet. You can also snag some […]

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22:44
Börje Ljunggren
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Den kinesiska drömmen Börje Ljunggren är en sann expert på Asien och en a de personer i vårt land som har den största insikten i vad som händer i Kina. Han har den unika förmågan att kunna förmedla sina synpunkter ur flera olika perspektiv.
Börje Ljunggren har ägnat praktiskt taget hela sitt yrkesliv åt Asien och varit stationerad i fyra länder i regionen. Under åren 2002-2006 var han Sveriges ambassadör i Kina och i mitten på 1990-talet ambassadör i Vietnam. Han har varit biträdande ge...
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22:44
Börje Ljunggren
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Den kinesiska drömmen Börje Ljunggren är en sann expert på Asien och en a de personer i vårt land som har den största insikten i vad som händer i Kina. Han har den unika förmågan att kunna förmedla sina synpunkter ur flera olika perspektiv.
Börje Ljunggren har ägnat praktiskt taget hela sitt yrkesliv åt Asien och varit stationerad i fyra länder i regionen. Under åren 2002-2006 var han Sveriges ambassadör i Kina och i mitten på 1990-talet ambassadör i Vietnam. Han har varit biträdande ge...
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22:44
Get 50 Dunkin' Donuts Perks Points for using Apple Pay
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Apple continued a semi-weekly Apple Pay promotional campaign on Thursday with a new offer from Dunkin' Donuts that presents users with reward points for using the mobile payments system.

22:44
Resisting the Myth of the Judicial Resistance
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For months, a vocal but small cohort of conservative and libertarian legal scholars have been trying to convince anyone who will listen that the federal courts have “joined the resistance”—that subversive lower-court judges have abandoned their oaths of integrity and impartiality to rule against President Trump on anything and everything. These commentators have used inflammatory and incautious language to tar entire federal circuits and besmirch virtually every judge who has sided against any Trump administration action. Over the weekend, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal joined that chorus. In a breathless and tendentious editorial, the Journal portrayed the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday to hear the latest challenge to the travel ban as reflecting a desire on the part of at least some justices to “rebuke the judiciary for stretching the law to join the political resistance to Mr. Trump.” As the Journal put it, “The Justices have a chance to rule on the legality of Mr. Trump’s ban but also whether judges can ignore the law merely because they loathe Mr. Trump and all his works.”

The claim that the high court took up the case not to settle a novel legal question on the merits but to spank the feckless judges of the resistance is fatuous and shallow. It’s also profoundly dangerous to the norms and values of judicial integrity and stability.

Like the earlier attacks on individual jurists that we documented and debunked in October, the Journal’s new editorial relies on a series of unsubstantiated characterizations of the combined work product of the federal courts. One would have no idea from the Journal’s editorial, for instance, that the reason we’re now on the third iteration of the president’s controversial immigration policy is because multiple prior judicial rulings invalidated the first two versions of the ban. These earlier rulings, by the same lower-court judges whom the Journal’s editorial demonized en masse, were decisions the Trump administration consciously and scrupulously prevented the Supreme Court from reviewing—perhaps because they were more concerned about the legality of these earlier measures than the Journal’s editors seem to be. Put bluntly, the fact that the third version of the travel ban is a more refined and thus more legally defensible version of the first one is a credit to the very courts the Journal insults and undermines. Judges highlighted constitutional and statutory infirmities, and the president’s lawyers took them into account. That is an example of the system working, not the tantrum-throwing Trump resistance undermining the rule of law.

Similarly, readers of the Journal’s editorial would have no idea that those prior rulings were issued by judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents or that this kind of “nationwide injunction” against the federal government came into vogue during President Obama’s tenure. Nor would readers know that, back then, no one thought to declare that those judges were members of the “political resistance to Mr. Obama.” As we wrote back in October:

[D]iscrediting federal jurists as having joined “the resistance” isn’t merely an argument lacking in analysis or evidentiary support; it’s also profoundly dangerous, for it suggests that any and all rulings against President Trump are not just doctrinally incorrect but also illegitimate.

The Journal’s editorial is guilty of this exact sin: impugning the integrity of lower-court judges who dare to rule against President Trump, asserting (without offering any supporting analysis) that all such rulings are “lawless,” and implying that, if the Supreme Court justices themselves ultimately side with the challengers to the travel ban, it will prove that they, too, have joined the resistance. Such careless rhetoric was dangerous enough when it came from a handful of legal commentators. But for the editorial page of a national newspaper—one that’s historically been protective of the rule of law—to adopt it without a word of careful exposition is far more alarming. The piece contains no parsing of the underlying rulings themselves, aside from a cartoonish dismissal of a complicated recent DACA decision. There is no evidence that any of the dozens of judges to rule in any of these cases (whether for or against President Trump) did so for illegitimate, nonjudicial reasons. There is also no submission that the jurists called out for bad behavior did anything beyond their scope of responsibilities, with the exception of the claim that courts now “refer to Mr. Trump’s campaign statements rather than the language of the regulation.” (It’s in fact an open question whether campaign statements should be considered when ascertaining the intent behind a new president’s policies.) In the Journal’s telling, all judicial rulings are no longer right or wrong. In the age of Trump, they’re either vindications of the president or “lawless.” The Journal commits the very sin it attempts to condemn. There is no law. There is only fealty to your team.

To be sure, the Supreme Court may end up siding with the Trump administration when it finally hands down a decision on travel ban 3.0 this summer. We’re not as confident as the Journal appears to be that the case is simple enough for a toddler to decide, but it’s hardly a no-brainer in favor of the challengers either. If and when that decision comes, it won’t prove the Journal’s thesis that every one of the lower-court judges who struck down the ban at earlier stages is an unprincipled boogeyman. It will merely prove that the separation of powers worked exactly the way it was supposed to, with judges at every layer of the independent judiciary doing their level best to resolve novel statutory and constitutional questions and respectfully disagreeing with each other along the way. The Journal piece concludes with the assurance that “courts need to oppose genuine acts of executive excess.” But if attacks like this one are successful, they could lead us to a future in which, when such acts surface, there will be no independent courts left to oppose them.

22:41
Medicinetiker avgår i protest mot dödshjälp i Nederländerna
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En medicinetiker, ansvarig för kontroll av eutanasi, avgår i protest. Hon anser att antalet dementa patienter som i Nederländerna dödas genom eutanasi börjar urarta. I en intervju för senaste numret av tidskriften Medisch Contact motiverar Berna van Baarsen sitt ställningstagande med att hon inte anser sig kunna ställa sig bakom den ”tydliga förändringen” av tolkningen av eutanasilagstiftningen med hänsyn till dödliga interjektionen för människor med åldersdemens. Antalet personer i denna patientgrupp som årligen dödas har fyrdubblats de senaste fem åren.

van Baarsen tillhörde en av de fem regionala kommittéer, som är ansvariga för kontroll av eutanasi. Efter filosofen Theo Boer, som 2014 förgäves varnade Storbritannien för att överta det nederländska regelverket, är hon den andra kommittémedlem som avgår.

Nederländerna blev år 2002 det första landet i världen som legaliserade dödshjälp. Sedan dess har det skett en snabb ökning av eutanasirelaterade dödsfall till för närvarande 17 per dag. År 2016 dog 6 091 personer i Nederländerna genom aktiv dödshjälp, av vilka över 400 patienter som dödades utan att uttryckligen ha gett sitt medgivande.

Redan för ett år sedan varnade 200 nederländska läkare i ett gemensamt uttalande för att de juridiska skyddsåtgärderna ”långsamt höll på att nedmonteras”. Många människor med demenssjukdomar och patienter inom psykiatrin har dödats utan att uttryckligen ha gett sitt muntliga samtycke. För några månader sedan inleddes i Nederländerna för första gången en utredning mot en läkare, som gav en äldre kvinna en dödlig spruta mot hennes vilja, men på vårdhemmets begäran.

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22:35
How and when to preorder HomePod: The official Apple Store app is your best bet on Friday
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It's a mystery how high demand for Apple's HomePod will be, and it's also unknown how many units the company will produce for launch. Because of those unknowns, you'd better be ready come Friday -- and early.

22:34
Casey Affleck Will Skip the Oscars, Reportedly Because of #MeToo
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Last year’s Best Actor winner will not present at or even attend this year’s Academy Awards, Deadline reports. Casey Affleck will skip the 2018 Oscars ceremony because “he did not want to become a distraction from the focus that should be on the performances of the actresses,” according to anonymous sources.

Traditionally, the award for Best Actress is presented by the previous year’s Best Actor winner, which would be Affleck, who won for his performance in Manchester by the Sea. Affleck was already under scrutiny at the time for two sexual harassment suits filed against him in 2010. And that was before the Harvey Weinstein fallout—between the #MeToo movement and the Time’s Up protest at the Golden Globes a few weeks ago, Affleck’s involvement in this year’s ceremony very likely would be a distraction from the nominees, not to mention putting the allegations against him back in the spotlight.

An Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences representative confirmed that Affleck will not present but did not say if someone else had yet been chosen to fill in. This year’s Best Actress nominees are Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, and Meryl Streep.
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Fantastic Women
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Listen to this episode of Studio 360 by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

Daniela Vega, who stars in Chile’s Oscar-nominated film A Fantastic Woman, tells Kurt Andersen about her own experiences as a transgender woman that she brought to the role. How the artist Linden Frederick got writers, including Dennis Lehane and Elizabeth Strout, to write short stories based on his paintings. A grieving widow finds comfort in the least likely of places: the cheesy movie Practical Magic. And finally Kurt talks with biographer Walter Isaacson, who says that even though Leonardo da Vinci is known as the original Renaissance man, one of his occupations is often overlooked: theater producer.

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White House Calls For End to ISS Funding in 2025
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The White House will reportedly end support for the International Space Station program by 2025, according to a draft budget proposal seen by The Verge. An official budget request is set for release […]

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22:23
Stjärngalan: Här är alla vinnare
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AB Hammarprodukter, från Bjursås, belönades med prestigefyllda "Året Företag" vid Stjärngalan i Borlänge.

22:23
Stjärngalan: Här är alla vinnare
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AB Hammarprodukter, från Bjursås, belönades med prestigefyllda "Året Företag" vid Stjärngalan i Borlänge.

22:22
Halvsnödagen
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» Om läget i vårt Fosterland
Det sägs att det i dag är "Halvsnödagen"! Vad tusan är det? Är det någon kan berätta vad "Halvsnö" är för något. Är det sådant blask som vi i allmänhet har här nere i Skåne när det är snöväder? Eller är det något vetenskapligt när man delar snöflingor på mitten och får ett speciellt underlag att åka skidor på? Jag tror jag slutar fundera över detta mysterium och istället går över till tillståndet i vårt fosterland.

¤ 1.   Det går åt helvete för Sverige del 1. Vårt samhälle blir allt värre att leva i. Allt fler får psykiska problem pga hur vårt samhälle ser ut. Jag är övertygad om att allt är regeringens fel. Nu ser jag t.ex. att försäljningen av antidepressiva medel ökar kraftigt. Sedan 2012 har försäljningen av utskrivna antidepressiva medel ökat med 80%. Det måste faktiskt göras något åt detta att vi mår allt sämre. Vad säger ni? Gällde det antidepressiva medel till våra husdjur? Vad har det med saken att göra? Det är ändå regeringens fel!

¤ 2.   Det går åt helvete för Sverige del 2. Svenska Dagbladets ledarsida är alltid spännande att läsa. Ibland påminner de åsikter som framförs om extremister långt ut på någon av kanterna. Med en slutledningsförmåga som ständigt sätter nya onyanserade rekord. I går konstaterade Per Gudmundson att han är mer orolig för de som investerar i Sverige än för de som investerar i Bitcoin. I varje så tolkar jag Per Gudmundsons något virriga tankar med rubriken "Hellre Bitcoin än detta" på det viset. Jag utgår ifrån att den gode Per sålt alla sina egna aktier och fonder som gjort investeringar i Sverige och istället gått in och köpt Bitcoin för hela rubbet. Jag hoppas verkligen att han gjort detta! Det ska bli kul att läsa en kommande ledarartikel från Per som handlar om finansbluffar. Själv har jag nog mer förtroende för Magdalena Andersson än för Bitcoin och liknande "valutor". Undrar om Per Gudmundson också investerat i tulpanlökar?

¤ 3.   Behövs Kristdemokraterna verkligen? Ebba Busch Thor är en partiledare med panik i blicken. Partiet trillar allt längre ner i dyn under 4%-spärren. Vi kan vara övertygade om att ifall Kd trillar ur Riksdagen så får Ebba Busch Thor anmäla sig på Arbetsförmedlingen. Senaste panikutspelet handlar om att kommuner som vill höja skatten ska bestraffas av Staten genom sänkta bidrag. - "Nej till höjda skatter för att finansiera vården" kräver Ebba. Så om landsting och kommuner vill skapa bättre service för sina innevånare så får detta INTE ske genom högre skatter. Högre skatter får helt enkelt inte användas för att ge bättre vård. Istället ska avgifterna höjas och andra besparingar ska göras. Jag har ett par förslag på besparingar som kan göras. Subventionerna av flyget kan t.ex. upphöra. De senaste 5 åren har svenska folket via sina skattsedlar betalt 2,2 miljarder i bidrag för att subventionera flygresor som inte betalar sina egna kostnader - trots skattefrihet. Det här är bidrag som bara ökar. På fem år har bidragen från kommunernas skattebetalare nästan fördubblats, från 375 miljoner till 635 miljoner kronor. Det finns flygplatser där kommuninnevånarna via skatten betalar mycket mer än vad flygresenären betalar för sin biljett. Här kan vi spara många slantar som kan användas till vård. Den planerade flygskatten täcker bara en liten del av den totala skatterabatten. Ett annat ställe där vi kan spara är den kommersiella vårdbusinessen. De tio största kommersiella välfärdskoncernerna gjorde 2016 en total vinst på drygt 3,1 miljarder kronor på skattefinansierad verksamhet. Kanske kunde en begränsning av rätten att göra vinst och dela ut till aktieägarna spara lite skattepengar? Fast Svenska Dagbladet är naturligtvis överlyckliga. - "KD kanske behövs, ändå" skriver Maria Ludvigsson. Nä, det är nog bäst utan...

¤ 4.   Skydda dom blåblodiga! Nä, nu får det bli lite goda nyheter också. Jag ser att Knugen och Silvia har gjort en insats för sitt Fosterland. Dom har rest till Kiruna och hälsat på för att titta på hur flytten där går. Spännande studiebesök. Jag har faktiskt också flugit till Kiruna en gång i mitt liv. Fast det var läääänge sedan. Jag var väl knappast ens tonåring när jag gjorde min största lotterivinst någonsin. Jag vann en flygresa tur och retur till valfri plats i Sverige. Så jag satte mig (med följeslagare) i Ängelholm på ett tvåmotorigt Metropolitanplan och flög först till Stockholm. Tycker mig minnas att planet på den tiden mellanlandade i Halmstad, Jönköping och Norrköping. För att sedan byta plan på Bromma och fortsätta till Kiruna. Och sedan hem igen. Så jag var kanske före Knugen och Silvia i Kiruna? Hur som helst så ser jag att det sedan flera tiotals år finns en snuskig tavla i Kiruna stadshus. Så detta kan man ju inte låta Blåblodiga se. Så dom fick skyddas från den upphetsande erotiken med en skärm framför tavlan! Det är skönt med lokala initiativförmågor.

Gå med i Republikanska Föreningen. Detta kostar bara 200 kronor till plusgiro 114 96 91-6.

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22:16
The Post
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Meryl Streep i filmen The Post.

Steven Spielberg ligger bakom detta verklighetsbaserade drama om en händelse som skakade Washington DC 1971. Dramat utspelar sig till största del på Washington Posts nyhetsredaktion, även kort kallad “The Post”.

En ansträngd ekonomi hotar den då lokala tidningen och den enda vägen ur krisen verkar vara en börsnotering och mer inflytande för nya investerare i styrelserummet. Meryl Streep spelar Katharine Graham, änkan som tar över som ansvarig utgivare efter makens död. Hon tillträder som den första kvinnliga tidningsutgivaren i USA. Kan hon i en helt mansdominerad värld få respekt och nå framgång?

Hon får höra att allt ska kunna ordna sig med finanserna, bara en fullständig katastrof kan hindra planerna. Och just då händer det. En så omvälvande nyhet briserar att allt ställs på spel. Tillsammans med Washington Posts ambitiöse redaktör Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) ska Graham få en rejäl utmaning.

Pentagon Papers var ett hemligstämplat internt dokument på 7000 sidor sammanställt av den amerikanska försvarsmakten om det då pågående Vietnamkriget. Daniel Ellsberg, en av personerna som sammanställde dokumentet försökte senare sprida det explosiva materialet till allmänhetens kännedom via media. Men Nixon slog tillbaka hårt, trots att kritiken i rapporten fokuserade på tidigare administrationer.

När media och styrande i Washington i dag befinner sig i konstant konfrontation med anklagelser om “fake news” under Trumps administration, lyfter några av Hollywoods tyngsta namn fram modig journalistik. Det blir ett försök att inspirera genom paralleller till en avgörande tid för USA:s media. Viktigt och intressant så klart, men som så ofta i krigets dimma hamnar även denna berättelse på vissa villovägar.

The Post bjuder på flera starka ögonblick främst levererade av en övertygande Meryl Streep. Nerven i dramat är dock inte så uppskruvad som väntat. Och filmen verkar främst nyfiken på ena sidan av “follow the money”, begreppet som gjordes populärt efter Watergate. Ska Graham våga ställa sin egen ekonomiska trygghet på spel, förlora inbjudningar till cocktailpartyn och äventyra tidningens finanser genom att publicera Pentagon Papers, frågar filmen.

Men vem i andra änden pressar tidningen att inte publicera? Vem vill inte avsluta kriget? Och varför?

En längre version av denna recension finns på USAval.se

The Post är oscarnominerad bland annat för bästa film.

Meryl Streep på presskonferens i Stockholm: “Jag skrek”

Regi: Steven Spielberg
Manus: Liz Hannah och Josh Singer
Med: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood mfl
Längd: 1 tim 56 min
IMDb

Biopremiär: 26 januari 2018

Peo Sandholm

Filmnyheter:
- Suffragette

22:05
Marketing operations 2.0: Defining the new organizational structure
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What does the org chart for a successful marketing operations (MO) team look like? Columnist Debbie Qaqish takes a look at the characteristics that make up a strategic MO structure.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.

22:04
What's in the latest Chrome update?
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Google on Jan. 24 released Chrome 64 for Windows, macOS and Linux, boosting the browser's defenses against the microprocessor flaws that blitzed through the news earlier this month.

The upgrade also beefed up Chrome's pop-up blocker, put a stop to hucksters hijacking the browsing session by automatically steering to an unwanted website, and implemented a promised option to let users mute auto-playing audio on a site-by-site basis. And Google's security team patched 53 new vulnerabilities in the browser.
[ Further reading: Best bookmark managers for Google Chrome ]
Chrome updates in the background, so most users can simply relaunch the browser to get the latest version. To manually manage an update, select "About Google Chrome" from the Help menu under the vertical ellipsis at the upper right. The ensuing page either shows the browser has been updated or displays the download-upgrade process before presenting a "Relaunch" button. Those new to Chrome can download it from this Google site.

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22:00
Marketing Day: Facebook’s branded content policy, LinkedIn’s Website Demographics tool & 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.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.

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Marketing Day: Facebook’s branded content policy, LinkedIn’s Website Demographics tool & 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:
- Advanced Ad Targeting Strategies for AdWords, Facebook and Display
  Jan 25, 2018 by Digital Marketing Depot
  Join our ad-targeting experts for a crash course in the newest strategies for digital ad targeting. Using these strategies, brand marketers and agencies can improve the cross-channel customer experience, optimize ROI, reacquire customers and grow revenue.
- Facebook updates branded content policy to clarify what qualifies as content
  Jan 25, 2018 by Tim Peterson
  Facebook will bar publishers and creators from using its branded content tagging tool to promote content that they were not involved in creating.
- How to make the most of LinkedIn’s free Website Demographics
  Jan 25, 2018 by AJ Wilcox
  Looking to gain insights on the kinds of professionals who are visiting your website? Columnist AJ Wilcox walks you through setting up and making use of LinkedIn’s free Website Demographics.
Recent Headlines From MarTech Today, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Marketing Technology:
- Google parent launches new cybersecurity business called Chronicle
  Jan 25, 2018 by Greg Sterling
  It aims to help third-party companies detect threats and prevent data breaches using Alphabet’s computing power and infrastructure.
- 5 email marketing trends to watch in 2018
  Jan 25, 2018 by Scott Heimes
  What’s on the horizon for email marketers this year? Columnist Scott Heimes shares his predictions on the email marketing trends that will take shape in 2018.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
- Announcing turndown of the deprecated Google Safe Browsing APIs, Google Online Security Blog
- Get Creative with Vertical Video, Facebook Business
- How to Audit Your Content: 5 Essential Steps, Content Marketing Institute
- How to Use Cart Abandonment Emails for Triple Digit Revenue Growth, Movable Ink
- Study: 55% of apps may not meet GDPR privacy standards, Mobile Marketer
- Successful ABM Sales: Both Technology and a Human Touch, MarketingProfs
- The Most Important Digital Usage Statistics Impacting Marketing Success in 2018, Search Engine People
- The Quality vs. Quantity Debate in Content Marketing Continues (Sigh), CMS Wire
- What Global Ecommerce Companies Can Learn from Top International Sites, Shopify

21:51
Local search industry optimistic about 2018 — but less likely to hire
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Columnist Jamie Pitman shares insights about the state of the local search industry from BrightLocal’s Local Search Industry Survey.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.

21:45
Nostalgia Is the Enemy on a Comedic X-Files
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The X-Files is a weird show. If you’re reading this, you don’t need me to tell you that. Bringing it back for two final Event seasons was always going to be tricky. Even if […]

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21:37
Video: See DJI's iOS-connected, foldable Mavic Air drone in action
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With GoPro exiting the drone market entirely, the dominant name in aerial photography, DJI, unveiled its latest product on Tuesday: the Mavic Air. It's a $799 foldable model that can fit inside of a jacket pocket. AppleInsider was on hand for the announcement and went hands-on with the new flying camera, which you can see in action in our new video.

21:33
Bella Hadid ute och shoppar i Paris!
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21:27
How cybercriminals are attacking machine learning
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Machine learning (ML) is getting a lot of attention these days. Search engines that autocomplete, sophisticated Uber transportation scheduling and recommendations from social sites and online storefronts are just a few of the daily events that ML technologies make possible. Cybersecurity is another area where ML is having a big impact and providing many benefits. For instance, ML can help security analysts shorten response times and dramatically improve accuracy when deciding if a security alert is an actual threat or just a benign anomaly. Many view ML as the primary answer to help save organizations from the severe shortage of… [Continue Reading]

21:24
New York May Finally, Finally Charge People Who Want to Drive Through Manhattan
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Manhattan is home to the most valuable land in the United States. Retail rents on Fifth Avenue can top $4,000 per square foot; the price per square foot for a TriBeCa apartment is over $2,000; Midtown office rents hover in the $80 per square foot range. But to drive your 2-ton, 50-square-foot private vehicle around all day? Miraculously and inexplicably free.

Perhaps not for long. The island—which can be driven to only by 20 metaphorically taxed but largely toll-free bridges and tunnels—has finally reached a state of traffic congestion so bad it prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo last summer to endorse some form of a fee to drive into the central business district. This month, his committee released its report on the subject: a full-throated call to price access to Manhattan south of Central Park. If this becomes law, it would be the first “congestion charge” to take effect in the United States, though similar policies are in place in London, Stockholm, and Milan. Singapore has had a congestion charge for more than four decades.

Supporters argue this will do two things: raise money for the troubled transit system and reduce traffic on Manhattan streets. This in turn would bring about a quieter city, cleaner air, faster trips for buses and emergency vehicles, and encourage carpooling, biking, walking, and transit. Cuomo has said he will carefully review the committee’s recommendations, and all sides—outer-borough politicians, Uber and taxis, straphangers, Manhattan business interests, and AAA—are prepared for a battle over the details.

Opponents say it’s a classist policy that will cement Manhattan’s status as a gated city where even a drive downtown comes with a price. Mayor Bill de Blasio, lukewarm to the idea, has framed congestion pricing as a burden on the outer-borough poor, despite evidence showing that only 4 percent of outer-borough workers commute by car to Manhattan, and fewer than 5,000 of those workers fall below the poverty line. That 5,000 is out of the 1.5 million people entering the borough for work each morning.

The report takes pains to emphasize that the situation on the borough’s streets has deteriorated considerably since former Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a similar program a decade ago that died in Albany. In just six years, vehicle speed in the central business district (CBD) has fallen from 9.35 mph to 6.8 mph. In the Midtown core, vehicle speed is down from 6.52 mph to 4.7 mph. You might as well walk.

The flow of traffic has congealed despite the fact that in 2015, there were 45,000 fewer vehicles entering the Manhattan CBD than in 2010—the equivalent of removing an entire bridge’s worth of traffic. So what happened? Probably Uber: Taxi trips in the CBD are up by nearly one-quarter since 2013, thanks to ride-hail services. And that underplays the effect on traffic. The number of hours that taxis were on the road with no customers doubled between 2013 and 2017 thanks entirely to ride hail companies. In the long run, shared vehicles are an evident improvement over personal cars, but all that circling has slowed things down considerably.

The city has dropped the ball too. While parking violations are rigorously policed, most moving violations go unpunished. Manhattan drivers are largely free to double-park, drive in bus lanes, and block the box, causing cascading traffic effects. The city hands out 160,000 parking placards as pork for city employees and their friends, which drivers use to park illegally and for free. Bus service has been allowed to deteriorate. Meanwhile, the state-run subway has struggled mightily to provide reliable service.

All of it adds up to a sense that congestion pricing must, in some form, be implemented for the Manhattan core. Even de Blasio appeared to soften his faux-populist opposition last week. Cuomo’s committee laid out a preliminary scheme for the tolls designed to raise more than $1 billion a year:

—$25 for truckers
—$11.50 for drivers
—$2–$5 for taxis

It is a strong first bid, and one that leaves room for the governor to negotiate with pols from Staten Island, Long Island, the Bronx, and Westchester, many of whom want perks like dedicated transit and toll discounts, as well as with the many businesses that operate in or drive through the Manhattan CBD. Lower Manhattan residents will reap quality of life benefits but may pay for it through more expensive goods and services. Then again, with peak-hour pricing, a congestion charge might also encourage off-hour freight deliveries, which (in a recent experiment) cut delivery times from 108 minutes around noon to 25 minutes after 7 p.m.

Two big questions remain unaddressed. First, if this money is going into a transit lockbox—which everyone considers the primary benefit of the fees, though the others are just as important—why should we think the MTA will spend it wisely, given the agency’s predilection for prioritizing suburban commuters and wasting billions on capital improvements? Second, how serious is Cuomo about getting the plan past the Republicans who control the New York statehouse, and what might be sacrificed to make that happen? Many of them continue to consider driving into the nation’s densest city a God-given right, because it’s been that way for decades. But there’s nothing liberating about the city’s permanent traffic jam.

In reality, driving in Manhattan has always been a lousy emblem of the borough’s everyman character, since New Yorkers have never been likely to own cars, and trains (and before them, ferries) have always carried far more people to and from the island. After the recent disappearance of so many old-time shops and rent-regulated apartments, driving down Broadway appears fated to bear some misplaced egalitarian nostalgia. The roads into the city could be free when a million fewer people lived here. No longer. Even Billy Joel took the Greyhound on the Hudson River Line.

21:23
Teslas nya modell försenas ännu mer
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Batteriproblem uppges ligga bakom problemen.

21:18
Bernie Sanders Has Gathered Advisers for a 2020 Campaign
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On Thursday, Politico reported that Bernie Sanders gathered advisers over the weekend to begin discussions about mounting a 2020 presidential campaign. The Vermont senator has not said whether he plans to run, but he has conspicuously refused to rule it out.

Sanders has performed quite well in both recent primary and general election polling, although those numbers mean little this far in advance of the race. Still, it’s reasonable to assume that Sanders would be a real contender, given his strong performance against Hillary Clinton in 2016 and his continued popularity and influence within the party. An online “Medicare for All” town hall hosted by Sanders drew more than 1 million viewers this week, compelling evidence that he still has considerable pull.

There’s a pair of potential challenges to his candidacy, though, that Sanders backers should keep in mind. The first is that there seems to be a yearning within the Democratic electorate for new leadership—enough that polls suggest there remains real interest in, for instance, an Oprah candidacy. (Oprah said in comments reported Thursday that she doesn’t “have the DNA” for such a run.) That longing for a fresh face seems likely to grow with more distance from 2016, which might mean dampened enthusiasm for not only Sanders, but also Joe Biden, who is also considering joining the race. It might be hard for Sanders, as rumpled, unconventional, and progressive as he is, to appeal to voters interested in the party’s aesthetic and demographic rejuvenation. He will be 79 in November 2020 and would be the oldest president at election in history by almost a decade were he to successfully succeed the current record-holder, Donald Trump. He will also stick out, perhaps negatively, in a field likely to be heavily populated by women and people of color.

The second potential challenge is that the field will also likely be dominated by candidates who have hastily pinched parts of his 2016 platform to appeal to the significantly more progressive electorate his candidacy revealed. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris have all signed on to his Medicare for All bill. Initiatives like free college and a $15 minimum wage are now mainstream. It’s plausible that by the time 2020 rolls around, the party’s top-tier candidates may be running campaigns that resemble Sanders’ enough that he could have a hard time differentiating himself. On the other hand, it’s doubtful that voters truly invested in, say, Medicare for All would trust and back a Cory Booker over him. It’s also possible that Sanders will push the bounds of the party again, and commit himself to a set of policies that have been the subject of more and more conversation among progressives, like universal basic income or a job guarantee.

Whatever happens, the mere prospect of a Sanders run could pull many of his potential opponents further left. That’s good news for his supporters, even if he doesn’t jump in himself.

21:15
Alphabet Launches Another Moonshot: Cybersecurity Firm Chronicle
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Google parent company Alphabet this week launched a new cybersecurity firm. Chronicle, an independent business dedicated to helping organizations prevent cyber attacks, has graduated from the X moonshot factory to full-fledged startup. Split […]

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21:15
Apple Spotlights Key iOS 11.3 Features
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Apple has unveiled new features that will become available when iOS 11.3 is released this spring. The company released the developer preview to members of the iOS Developer Program, and a public beta of the update is expected shortly. The update will provide new ways to experience augmented reality on the iPhone and iPad, offer new Animoji on the iPhone X, and give users a consolidated view of their health records in the Health app. A beta version of ARKit -- Apple's AR dev platform for iOS mobile devices -- also has been released to devs.

21:14
Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The “15 Candles” Edition
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Listen now:

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Carvell, and Gabe answer questions from a listener who’s concerned her child’s teacher is discriminating against kids of certain races, and another whose kindergarten daughter has begun counting calories. Plus: parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and more. And on Slate Plus this week, Rebecca talks about getting ready to say goodbye to her son, who’s enrolling in the Senate Page program.

Recommendations:
- Rebecca recommends instant cameras.
- Gabe recommends The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright.
- Carvell recommends Uno.
Follow us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.

Podcast produced by Benjamin Frisch.

21:07
Data could one day be stored on molecules
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Billions of terabytes of data could be stored in one small flask of liquid, a group of scientists believe. The team from Brown University says soon it will be able to figure out a chemical-derived way of storing and manipulating mass-data by loading it onto molecules and then dissolving the molecules into liquids.

If the method is successful, large-scale, synthetic molecule storage in liquids could one day replace hard drives. It would be a case of the traditional engineering that we’ve always pursued for storage being replaced by chemistry in our machines and data centers.
Also on Network World: The future of storage: Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo shares his predictions
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the Brown team $4.1 million to work out how move the concept forward.

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21:00
Så ser inredningsvåren ut på Granit – kolla in bilderna
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I vår hämtar Granit inspiration från naturen och trendfärgen grön står i centrum. Vi ser också brända jordtoner, naturmaterial och vackra träslag ta plats.

Kollektionen är färgad av den härligt grönskande paletten, som bryts av fint med det avskalade och gråa, som annars kännetecknar det svenska livsstilsföretaget.

Förutom harmoniskt gröna textiler, makramé, tonade glasdetaljer, belysning och grön rotting satsar Granit i år även på att utöka sitt sortiment av levande gröna växter.

Övrigt ser vi ljusa trädetaljer, flätade korgmaterial, rustik betong, grått, rödbrunt, naturfärgat och svart och material som bambu och rotting tar över på utomhusfronten.

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Artikeln publicerades först på ELLE Decoration.

20:57
Backup av Gmail
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Vill skapa backup på ett USBminne för mina Gmail. Hur gör jag enklast?

20:56
Twitter Is Giving Trolls a Cheat Sheet
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Popularity is the implied goal of every tweet. Each 280-character set is measured numerically thrice: by tallies of replies, retweets, and likes. But many longtime Twitter users have learned that it’s preferable not to be too relevant or too influential. That’s because being made part of a Twitter Moment—the Twitter equivalent of a story on A1, the site’s attempt to distill the organic conversations that happen on the social network into digestible nuggets—can put a target on one’s back.

An example: After writer Lauren Ingram expressed her indignation on Sunday at provocateur Germaine Greer’s insensitive comments about Harvey Weinstein’s victims and discussed her own rape in relation to Greer’s statements, Twitter made her tweet part of a Moment. Predictably, Ingram soon posted that she was receiving “all kinds of abuse in [her] mentions, including people claiming [she’s] lying about being raped and/or should be grateful for being raped.” The willful naïveté that Twitter, like so much of Silicon Valley, demonstrates with regard to how its services will be weaponized against its own users would be shocking if it weren’t so ubiquitous. While it’s true that any tweet can rocket outside a user’s usual silo without a corporate push, Moments increasingly feels like what happens when Twitter shoves you inside its cannon and lights the fuse.

When Twitter launched Moments in October 2015, it must’ve seemed like an obvious next step. With hundreds of millions of users, a bit of curation would go a long way in identifying which topics were trending and which opinions were gaining traction. (If we’re being honest, the feature also dangles in front of ordinary users a taste of viral fame.) Selected by Twitter staff, each Moment collects several tweets on a subject and publishes them in the prominent Moments tab, which is displayed between the all-important Home and Notifications tabs on desktop. (It’s less prominent on mobile.) Many tweeters ignore the feature, but Moments is considered important enough to be accused of bias from both sides, indicted for amplifying fake news, and followed by more than half a million users on its own Twitter account. Most troublingly, Twitter gets to declare what constitutes news via Moments, then provide easy access to those “newsmakers.”

That’s fine in theory. But as Ingram’s experience with Moments illustrates, being made hypervisible and newsworthy can court aggression and harassment. And because users whose tweets are turned into Moments are not notified beforehand, there may be very little time between taking pride in a resonant tweet and being subject to a cascade of invective.
Ingram told me via email that the “wave of abuse” she encountered after Twitter spotlighted her story of her rape forced her to delete the app from her phone, because it became impossible to block those aggressors effectively. Ingram added that she hopes that the Moments team will inform users earlier if the tweets they showcase deal with “a particularly personal or sensitive topic.”

But a Moment doesn’t need to be intimate to become a serious irritant. On Monday, film and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz declared his intention to “delet[e] any Tweet featured in Twitter moments, because it invariably brings in a flood of people who don’t read past one Tweet and miss the point you made originally and are only there to do a drive-by on you.” In his deleted (and Momentified) post, Seitz had conveyed his dislike of the Razzies (the anti-Oscars for the worst movies) for reliably going after easy targets. After being made part of a Moment, Seitz found himself a target for the third or fourth time. Deleting a Moment tweet, he told me in an email interview, is “self-protection.”

If Ingram’s attackers likely came after her armed with an ideological bent, Seitz guesses that his faultfinders just want someone to yell at. “What [Twitter] failed to take into account” with Moments, he wrote, “is that there are a lot of people who go on Twitter just because they’re bored and looking for a little antagonism to liven up their day.” In Seitz’s view, Twitter Moments round up a bunch of prey for trolls to feed on. “There’s a thing on Twitter called dog-piling,” he continues, “where you flex your muscles by quote-Tweeting somebody you disagree with or think is stupid, then sit back and watch your followers go attack them or argue with them or just sort of generally make their day a little bit worse.” (With quote-tweets, users quote and link to another user’s tweets, with varying motivations.) For Seitz, “Twitter Moments is basically formalized Twitter dog-piling, enacted by the company itself.”

Just the specter of out-of-nowhere nastiness can make Twitter an anxious place to be after becoming a Moment. Two months ago, one of my tweets, a feel-good call for pictures of women in suits, got the spotlight from Twitter. It was more overwhelming than fun—there were so many replies—but a stray comment by a random tweeter about hating seeing women in suits kept me in uneasy anticipation of ruder, more misogynistic unpleasantness. (Fortunately, none arrived.) I had a repeat of that afternoon last week, when another tweet that was selected for a Moment—this time about the TV remake of Heathers—meant hours of bracing for negativity (and this experience was as a verified user, meaning I have a bit more control over notifications and replies).

Unless a user’s account is made private, all tweets are public. Anyone who uses Twitter knows that or finds out soon enough. But most of our accounts, including the verified ones, are relatively sleepy, and our core followers tend to subscribe to us because they’re interested in what we have to say. Getting elevated into a Moment is akin to being Hannah Montana for a day—but instead of the wealth and adulation that accompany greater prominence, you mostly sample the vitriol that politicians, celebrities, and other famous figures tend to attract without the barriers that help keep those people sane. A few options remain: deleting the tweet like Seitz, deleting the app like Ingram, or muting the post (an idea I got from writer Noah Cho). But it should really be up to Twitter to interrogate how their features can negatively impact their users and/or be misused for nefarious purposes. Twitter is toxic enough without the trolls getting a cheat sheet from the company itself.

20:49
Senate Judiciary Chairman Plans To Release Donald Trump Jr. Interview Transcripts
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The Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley said that he wants to release the transcript from the closed-door interview with Donald Trump Jr., joining forces with Democrats on the committee that have already been calling to make the interview public, according to CNN. Grassley said he would move to release of the panel's interviews concerning the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between the Russian lawyer and Trump Jr., the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. "Let the public have access to it," Grassley said, though admitted that the committee gave up its efforts to speaking with Kushner, saying he would not be testifying before the...

20:44
Ny version av Logic Pro X bjuder på många nyheter
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Nu är det återigen dags att uppdatera Apples musikprogram.

20:44
Ny version av Logic Pro X bjuder på många nyheter
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Nu är det återigen dags att uppdatera Apples musikprogram.

20:38
First beta of iOS 11.3 now available to public beta program participants
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A day after the release of the developer's beta, Apple has made available the first public beta of iOS 11.3.

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Mom, daughter face breast cancer 15 years apart
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In the early 2000s, Virginia Plett watched her mother and aunt successfully undergo breast cancer treatment at MD Anderson . So when the Kansas resident received her own breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, she knew exactly where she was going for her treatment.

“My mother wouldn’t have stood for anything else,” jokes Virginia, whose mom Margaret Looper has been a volunteer at MD Anderson in The Woodlands for the past 13 years.

Virginia called MD Anderson in The Woodlands on a Friday, and she had an appointment that Monday. “I was absolutely amazed,” she says.

Better breast cancer treatment options

On Feb. 27, 2017, Virginia met with Elizabeth FitzSullivan, M.D., and the rest of her care team to discuss treatment for her HER-2 stage I breast cancer. Immediately, she and Margaret noticed how much breast cancer treatment has advanced in just 15 years.

“Dr. FitzSullivan was going through all of the options, and Mom didn’t have all those options,” says Virginia, who opted to undergo a lumpectomy, a less invasive surgery that spared most of her breast tissue.

Virginia had the surgery in March, and a month later, she then began a 12-week chemotherapy regimen of Taxol and Herceptin®. Despite her weekly trips to Houston and side effects such as hair loss, neuropathy, nausea and skin irritation, the school counselor never stopped working.

“I just kept telling myself, ‘This is all good, this is all fine. I can do this,’” she recalls.

Medical support across the miles

It also helped that Virginia could always count on her care team.

“There were a few times I had to contact the on-call doctors. Three times the doctors sent me to the ER, and all three times, that ER doctor was on the phone with the on-call doctor from MD Anderson, and the two of them together decided what needed to happen to me. That was impressive— that continuity of care even out of state,” she says.

Virginia completed chemotherapy in July and enrolled in a clinical trial with Pamela Schlembach, M.D., The trial examines the impact of shortened but intensified radiation treatments.

“I only had to do radiation for 10 days. That was huge,” she says. “I had minimal side effects from that. That was nice. There wasn’t any of the burning or anything.”

A mother’s gratitude for a happy ending

Virginia is still taking Herceptin®, but her life is mostly back to normal. Her mother couldn’t be more relieved.

“The staff of doctors that are at MD Anderson, they’re just wonderful. I see the difference in how the knowledge level has changed between my cancer and Virginia’s cancer. It was amazing to watch them,” Margaret says. “They gave us a lot of hope, and we’re all greatly thankful.”

Request an appointment at MD Anderson online or by calling 1-877-632-6789.

20:22
Dell Chromebook 5190 offers 13 hours battery life
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While Dell is one of the largest Windows computer manufacturers, it is also a big proponent of Linux. For instance, the company sells machines running Ubuntu -- its relationship with Microsoft be damned. Ubuntu is not the only Linux-based operating system that can be found on a Dell laptop. Actually, the company also sells Chromebooks, which run Chrome OS. Yes, Google’s web-focused desktop OS is a Linux distro. Today, Dell unveils its latest such Chromebook, the 5190. It is rugged, has USB-C, stylus support, and offers an impressive 13 hours of battery life. "To complement our comprehensive offerings of collaborative,… [Continue Reading]

20:21
Apple highlights project to teach film production skills using MacBook Pro, Final Cut Pro X
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Apple has highlighted a filmmaking workshop in a special report for the Apple Newsroom, revealing how it assisted the project with iPads, MacBook Pros, and support from its retail store to help students create three low-budget short films over the course of a month.

20:13
White House Refers to Legal Immigrants as “Migrants,” Complains That U.S. “Resettles” Too Many of Them
» ‎ Stories from Slate

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Check out this graphic issued on Wednesday by the Trump administration:

You may be surprised to hear about all these “migrants” that the United States has apparently been “resettl[ing].” After all, the word migrants tends to imply the mass movement of a population from one place to another, and the concept of resettlement implies that the government had some role in their placement, perhaps moving them into designated zones or camps. And a college arena’s worth of people every week would be about 500,000 individuals per year. Who are these massive roaming, stateless hordes that the U.S. has been burdening itself with?

Well, if you read the text that goes with the chart, you’ll realize the White House is not referring to refugee resettlement (which does take place here on a much smaller scale than what’s being described) but to legal family-based immigration. That’s the system, in place since 1965, of offering preferred status to prospective immigrants who are seeking to join family members who already legally reside in the U.S. So rather than being some sort of needy, giant population that has to be managed by the government, we’re actually talking about individuals who are engaged in the completely above-board, fully documented process of moving here to join established families, a practice that nativist right-wing politicians—Trump among them—like to refer to as “chain migration” because “chain” sounds more viral and sinister than “family.” (The word migrant in particular seems very much like a dog whistle to the far-right/Breitbart audience, which is accustomed to regular updates on the alleged rape menace presented by Syrian refugees and other literal migrants in Europe.)

The Trump administration’s attacks on said “chain migration” have been particularly aggressive in the weeks since an individual who was able to enter the country because of family connections attempted to bomb the New York City subway in December. It seems likely that this push has been supported in particular by attorney general Jeff Sessions and his former-aide-turned-Trump-adviser Stephen Miller, two nationalists who believe the legal immigration system should restrict the entry of individuals who don’t fit a certain archaic Anglo-Saxon archetype of American-ness. Miller has a long history of whining in public about people of non-European ancestry, while Sessions once praised a 1924 law that restricted immigration by Jews and Italians for having helped create the U.S.’ “solid middle class.” (One of the experts appointed by Congress to write that law believed that individuals from southern and Eastern Europe were “intellectually and morally defective.”)

In addition to conveying the administration’s general sense of contempt for an enormous chunk of the very “American people” it’s supposed to be working on behalf of, the language described above is significant because it underlines what seems to be the main sticking point in the Senate’s attempt to come up with a DACA bill that the president will sign: He (or at least the hardliners who may or may not be influencing him on any given day) also demand that any such bill include radical changes to the legal immigration system that will prioritize “merit” and likely have the practical effect of making the immigration pool more white. After all, the opposite of a “migrant” from some “shithole” is a Norwegian.

20:10
'La La Land' writer and director Damien Chazelle tied to new Apple-funded show
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Apple is continuing its push for unique video content with a new deal signed with "La La Land" writer and director Damien Chazelle.

20:10
Kurdisk manifestation mot bombningarna: "En självklarhet att visa sympati med våra bröder och systrar"
» ‎ Senaste nyheterna för Bollnäs på helahalsingland.se

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Centrum för Kurdiska Demokratiska Samhället i Bollnäs, höll på torsdagskvällen en manifestation med anledning av händelseutvecklingen i staden Afrin i Syrien. Regionen, vars befolkning i huvudsak består av kurder, har under de senaste dagarna utsatts för ett intensivt bombardemang från den turkiska armén.

20:02
Katy Perry’s Bitcoin Manicure May Foretell the Coming Crypto Collapse
» ‎ Stories from Slate

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If you thought that cryptocurrency and Katy Perry’s nail art existed in parallel worlds that would never intersect, think again, for intersected they have: Katy Perry now has a crypto-themed manicure.

The singer posted a photo of her nails on Instagram on Thursday, tagging, in addition to her nail artist, an assortment of crypto-related accounts like ethereum_updates, stellarlumens, bit, moneroofficial, and litecoinofficial. Against a background of American dollar bills, each nail is adorned with a small 3-D bauble representing a different cryptocurrency (five of them; they repeat on the other hand). The post has more than 100,000 likes.

What meaning should we take from this, in terms of both the state of Katy Perry and the state of the cryptocurrency sure-to-be bubble? You might see it as a sign of crypto’s infiltration into mainstream culture: Hey, this big pop star put it on her nails! But the field is already rife with hangers-on and grifters, some of whom happen to be celebrities. Just this week, we learned that 50 Cent (aka 0.000045 Bitcoin) accidentally became a bitcoin millionaire.* Ashton Kutcher has also gone on the record as in favor of bitcoin, and Paris Hilton has voiced support for new cryptocurrencies.

What many of these celebrities have in common in that they tend to be either C-list or be experiencing careers that are on the downswing. For all the talk about the coming burst of the cryptocurrency bubble, it may be that Katy Perry’s bubble has already burst. In the past year, with the release of her album Witness and her turn toward wokeness, Perry has struggled for relevance. Taken in that light, it’s easy to imagine that Katy Perry saw that bitcoin was a hot topic on social media and is trying to earn herself some cool points with the kids with this nail art, which is both desperate and very in-character for Witness-era Katy Perry. So it doesn’t take a crypto genius to take this as a sign to sell, sell, sell!

*Correction, Jan. 25, 2017: This piece originally misstated that 50 Cent became a bitcoin billionaire. He is a bitcoin millionaire.

20:00
Spottade poliser i ansiktet – döms till böter och skadestånd
» ‎ Senaste nyheterna för Bollnäs på helahalsingland.se

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En man i 30-årsåldern döms att betala skadestånd till två poliser, efter att denne gjort våldsamt motstånd och spottat poliser i ansiktet på polisstationen i Bollnäs.

20:00
Venezuela Expels Spanish Ambassador Over New European Union Sanctions
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Venezuela announced on Thursday that it would be retaliating over Spanish "aggressions" after the European Union imposed new sanctions of senior officials of President Nicolas Maduro's government by expelling Spain's ambassador, according to Reuters. The decision to declare Jesus Silva Fernandez as a "persona non grata" was in response to Madrid's "continual aggressions and repeated meddling in the internal affairs of our country," according to a statement from the Venezuelan government. The EU announced sanctions targeting seven members of Maduro's government on Monday over alleged abuses of human rights and democracy, with Spain being one of the main promoters of the sanctions. Some have...

19:54
Charlie Kaufman to Write, Direct a Netflix Adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things
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Charlie Kaufman will write and direct a film adaptation of Iain Reid’s debut novel, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, for Netflix. This will mark the Oscar-winning screenwriter’s third time directing a feature film, after Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa.

Though he’s better known for his original scripts, Kaufman has plenty of experience with adaptations, notably Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief, which became Adaptation. Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a psychological thriller with a wild twist and a surreal style that makes it right up Kaufman’s alley. In fact, it’s so on brand for Kaufman that he actually penned a blurb for the novel. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an ingeniously twisted nightmare road trip through the fragile psyches of two young lovers,” he wrote. “My kind of fun!”

19:52
Emanuel Karlsten: Även riktiga Instagram-stjärnor bluffar – men vem bryr sig egentligen?
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"Vilda västern."

19:48
Installera Windows 10 i en off line-dator?
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Någon som vet om man - problemfritt - kan installera Windows 10 i en dator som inte är ansluten till nätet, och uppdatera det via filer man hämtar i en nätansluten dator?

19:34
Add an additional layer of security with Acronis Ransomware Protection Free
» ‎ BetaNews

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Many of us rely on free basic security, thinking that it offers comprehensive protection against the latest threats. Indeed, many free security tools do not include real-time protection, only running on demand. With the rise of ransomware, it’s proving to be an easy way to obtain a quick release fee from individuals. No-one wants to lose their data and, if you work from home, you cannot afford to spend time trying to recover your data or paying for a professional to fix your PC. Many will pay the ransom to secure their encrypted data. Acronis has released a free tool,… [Continue Reading]

19:29
'Modern' iPad Pro with Face ID teased in Apple's iOS 11.3 code
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Digging within the first beta of iOS 11.3 has discovered evidence that a new iPad with Face ID and thinner bezels could be in the works, supporting rumors that such as device is on tap for launch later this year.

19:13
Värsta misstagen på vintervägarna – här är galna halktestet: "Vi bara åker, va!"
» ‎ Senaste nyheterna för Falun på dt.se

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Årets halaste dag i Dalarna – då testade DT halksträckor. Här är expertens tips till alla som ska ut i trafiken och vill köra säkert. – Ha framförhållning, säger NTF:s vd i Dalarna, Hans Moberg.

19:12
First watchOS 4.3 beta made available for developer testing
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Apple on Thursday issued a developer's beta for watchOS 4.3, adding to the slew of Wednesday's test releases, though what exactly is in the update remains a mystery.

19:12
Trump Threatens To Pull Palestinian Aid If They Don't Pursue Peace
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President Donald Trump flew into Davos, Switzerland and promptly caused a firestorm Thursday when he threatened to withhold aid to Palestinians if they do not pursue peace with Israel, saying they had snubbed the US by not meeting Vice President Mike Pence during a recent visit, Reuters reported. Speaking after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Trump said his ultimate goal in the Middle East was peace, the report said. Palestinians shunned Pence's visit to the region this month after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital last month and vowed to begin moving the US embassy to the city, whose status is at the heart...

19:03
12 av de mest oväntade sätten folk har blivit miljardärer på
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Under förra året fanns det 2 043 stycken dollarmiljardärer runt om i världen. Det är en ökning med 13 procent om man jämför med 2016, enligt den amerikanska affärstidningen Forbes.

Nu har Expertvalet, en marknadssajt för företag, sammanställt och analyserat uppgifterna från Forbes lista över dollarmiljardärer, men också från rapporten "What Makes a Billionaire?" från företaget Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment.

Vad resultatet visar är några, kanske lite överraskande, saker som gjorde att dessa miljardärer faktiskt blev rika en gång i tiden och hur deras karriärer började.
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I listan för de mer överraskande inkomstkällorna hos förra årets miljardärer hittar vi bland annat företag för blöjor, sojasås och gummihandskar.

Bildkälla: Skärmdump/expertvalet.se
En annan grej som kan vara intressant att kika på är hur miljardärernas karriärer började, alltså vad som var deras första jobb.

I den listan hittar vi kanske lite mer väntade yrken.
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Glöm inte att ladda ner vår app för att få full koll på de senaste nyheterna. Finns på Google Play och App Store.

19:00
Stal kniv och pannlampa – åtalas för stöld och narkotikabrott
» ‎ Senaste nyheterna för Hudiksvall på helahalsingland.se

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I december stal en man flera varor från Clas ohlson i Hudiksvall. Nu åtalas han för stöld och ringa narkotikabrott.

19:00
An easy formula: 5 reasons your business should try Google Sheets
» ‎ The Official Google Blog

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Import, export, email. Do it again. When it comes to data analysis, it’s easy to fall into routine. But no matter how much of a whiz you are at formulas or pivot tables, superb spreadsheet skills only take you so far if you’re working with multiple versions or outdated datasets.

On average, employees spend up to eight hours each week—an entire work day—searching for and consolidating information. What if businesses spent their time applying data insights instead of tracking them down?

We designed cloud-based tools, like Google Sheets, to make it easier to quickly organize and analyze information in one place. Here are five reasons why you should try using Sheets.
1. Your data always stays up to date.
Working in the cloud means your data can easily stay up to date because information is automatically saved as it’s typed. Multiple team members can collaborate in real-time from their phone, tablet or computer (online and offline) and create a single source of truth for projects, like quarterly budgets.

Need personalization? No problem. You can look at the same data as your coworkers without disrupting their view, sort information to be in a specific order or hide sheets that you don’t need to see. If you’re worried about others mucking up your data, you can protect cells by setting custom share settings. Plus, you don’t have to worry about version control. You can see changes or revert to previous versions in File > Version History or by clicking on “All Changes Saved in Drive” at the top of your Sheet.
2. You can use Google’s artificial intelligence to speed up analysis.
Powered by Google’s machine intelligence, Sheets does a lot of the heavy lifting for you when it comes to data analysis. You can ask a question about your data and Sheets will return an answer using natural language processing. Sheets also builds charts, suggests formulas and creates pivot tables for you.

Data gurus who want to take analysis a step further can sync Sheets to BigQuery to analyze information against large data sets. Check out this example or this example.
3. You can help keep your data secure.
We built security features across G Suite to help you manage your most sensitive business information. Sheets is no exception.

Clicking “Share” in the upper righthand corner of your Sheet determines access settings for individual team members, so you stay in control of who can view, edit or comment on your documents. Additional IRM (Information Rights Management) controls allow you to easily disable options to download, copy or print spreadsheets, and you can set expiration dates if you need to suspend access to confidential information. Admins also have the power to restrict file sharing within an organization or to whitelist domains.
4. You can work the way you’re used to working.
We get it—you need tools that won’t interrupt work processes (especially if you’ve used those processes forever). That’s why we’ve baked in functionality that teams are used to using.
- Let’s start with functions. You can use hundreds of functions that you’re used to working with, like VLOOKUP, SUMIFS and IPMT. We’ve also created unique-to-Sheets functions to help you crunch numbers in new ways, like: FILTER to quickly organize a spreadsheet according to an input, QUERY to pull specific results out of a central dataset or GOOGLEFINANCE to source data directly from Google Finance. Outside of functions, you can also create pivot tables to analyze your data (or let Sheets do it for you.).
- What about organization? Color cells using Conditional Formatting, create drop-down lists with Data Validation or freeze headers at the top of your sheet, to make your data presentation-friendly. Once your data is organized, you can visualize it in pie charts, bar charts, line charts—charts galore.
- Editing on the fly. Sheets is available online and offline—and on desktop web browsers, and Android and iOS apps—which means your teams don’t have to stop working during business travel or when Wi-Fi is down.
5. You can automate processes.
When information is in one place, it’s easier to automate processes. Let’s say you need to order supplies for your office. Instead of emailing back-and-forth to coordinate purchases you can use G Suite apps instead.

For example, say you’re an inventory manager at a retail company and you gather supply requests from your teams using Google Forms. You can import the Form responses into a Sheet to keep a record of needs. If your Sheet is synced to Gmail with a script, it can send emails to relevant parties about requests automatically, so they can see and approve requests in one spot—the Sheet. Poof! No more unnecessary email clutter.

There are a ton of ways you can automate mundane tasks or speed up workflows. Check out how The New York Times used the Sheets API to report congressional votes quickly.

Let data drive your business decisions. Learn how you can access insights using Sheets or visit the G Suite Learning Center for specific product tips.
19:00
Pioneer new lessons in your classroom with Google Expeditions
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Editor's note:This week our Google for Education team will be joining thousands of educators at Bett in London. At our booth, C230, you can learn more about Google Expeditions in person. Follow along on The Keyword and Twitter for the latest news and updates.

Since 2015, educators have been using Expeditions to bring lessons to life with the power of virtual reality. As part of our wider Grow with Google efforts, we’re bringing even more immersive learning experiences to classrooms through the Google Expeditions AR Pioneer Program. With augmented reality, students can explore the eye of a tornado or step foot in historic landmarks by interacting with digital objects right in front of them.
Student views the asteroid belt in AR using Expeditions.
Through our travels with the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program, we’ve worked alongside teachers and students to improve the overall Expeditions experience. One of the top requests we’ve heard from teachers and students is the ability to create their own Expeditions. Today, we are excited to announce a beta program that allows schools and educators to do just that. Classrooms will be able to create immersive tours of the world around them -- their classrooms, their schools, their communities. We'll provide participating schools with all the tools and hardware required to capture 360 images and curate unique Expeditions. For more information about the program, sign up here.
This feature transforms the classroom from a content consumption space to an immersive content creation space with the student taking the lead. Paul Zimmerman
Technology Innovator, Blaine County, Idaho
We are eager to hear feedback from teachers and students about how they use these new tools. In the past year, we’ve used feedback directly from our users to make Expeditions even more engaging and effective. We’ve added personalization features like annotations to allow a teacher to highlight their own observations in a panorama. We’ve also enabled students and all lifelong learners (we’re looking at you, parents and guardians) to visit and discover new places through self-guided mode.

We can’t wait to see what you create and remember to keep the feedback and suggestions coming through the app or here. Thank you for helping us make Google Expeditions even better.

19:00
Microsoft Patch Alert: Lots of lingering problems in a very messy month
» ‎ Computerworld

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On the heels of a relatively benevolent December Patch Tuesday, the stream of patches pouring out of Microsoft (and Intel!) in January reached epic proportions. To be fair, it looks as if Microsoft got drawn into releasing its Meltdown/Spectre barrage early – on Jan. 3 – but they were so buggy they were withdrawn for AMD processors on Jan. 8, and gradually re-released in phases over the next two weeks.

To read this article in full, please click here

18:57
Gamla utséendet som alternativt tema?
» ‎ Internet & nätverk

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Som man brukar säga: "If it aint broken dont fix it". Jag saknar i alla fall gamla temat. Skulle vilja ha det som ett valbart alternativ. Vad tycker ni andra?

18:56
Stor polisutredning om ”vargkriget”
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Jaktsabotörernas framfart för att stoppa licensjakten på varg i Kölstareviret norr om Köping i Västmanland har resulterat i cirka 15 anmälningar om ”vargkriget”. Både vargjägare och aktivister har anmält varandra.

18:55
Länkbyte inom sportsegmentet
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Letar efter länkbyten inom sportsegmentet med liknande sidor runt 40 Domain Rating enligt Ahrefs verktyg eller motsvarande för andra verktyg. Har två sidor och gör helst tre- eller fyrvägsbyten!

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RFA: More Than 120,000 Uighurs Being Held in 'Re-Education Camps' in China
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At least 120,000 members of China's Muslim Uighur minority have been detained in political "re-education camps" that are popping up along the country's western border, according to a new report from Radio Free Asia. The Guardian reported that RFA, a U.S.-backed news organization whose journalists have been working to detail the highly monitored and secure region of Xinjiang, said it obtained the official number from a security official in Kashgar, a city of China's far west that's been at the center of the major crackdown targeting Uighurs. While Xi Jinping has become China's most powerful leader since Chairman Mao, the re-education centers across Xinjiang have been "inundated" by detainees...

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Apple is about to help save thousands of lives
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Apple has decided to enable a new iPhone feature that promises to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars by making it much easier for emergency services to find you when you contact them to request aid.
Introducing, Advanced Mobile Location
Apple announced some exciting future iOS 11 features this week, including key improvements for ARKit, Health, Siri, enterprise users and more.

Hidden among these announcements lurked promise of support for Advanced Mobile Location, a powerful technology that gathers accurate location data about a person’s location when they place an emergency call.

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Logic Pro X 10.4 update brings over 2000 new features and bug fixes to Apple's audio composition app
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Apple has issued another update for Logic Pro X, adding a Smart Tempo feature to combine content regardless of original tempo, as well as a host of new Plug-Ins, more content including drummers and loops, and assorted bug fixes.

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BKWine Brief nr 173, January 2018
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“sans” – does it make sense? There is a new trend, still a bit discreet. But it will perhaps – probably – increase. We see it in France and it probably exists in other wine countries as well. I’m talking about the “without sulphur” trend, sans sulfites ajoutés. Or rather, “without added sulphur”. This is […]

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