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Stop! It's Hammers time

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Get ready for dirt, rocks, silt and did we mention rocks? King of the Hammers is the biggest off-road race in the country.
Are you ready for some seriously crazy off-roading? Then get ready for King of the Hammers!
The week long Burning Man for racers started this weekend with the King of the Motos race, where some seriously insane moto racers had a land rush start… at night. Exactly 107 racers from across the United States, Canada and Mexico endured rocks, silt and sand as they battled through three heats for the coveted first place trophy. In the end, Endurocross and Superenduro champion Colton Haaker won on his handy Husqvarna 350.
Racers make their way through the rocks at the 2017 King of the Motos.
Wednesday marked the UTV side-by-side (think of them as souped-up golf carts) race, where the tiny little Polaris Rzr and Kawasaki Teryx side-by-sides tried their hand at the Hammers. At time of writing, it looks like two-time Ultra4 King Shannon Campbell has unofficially added another trophy to his case, followed closely by his son Wayland. Rounding out the Campbell racing dynasty was daughter Bailey, finishing 15th. X-Games medalist Sara Price, who was doing well in last year’s race until her UTV lost its drivetrain, finished 18th. With 74 teams starting, only half finished and all those who took the checkered flag can be proud of their accomplishment.
Taking place in Johnson Valley every February, King of the Hammers (KOH) brings more than 35,000 spectators, racers and crew support to the desert. A makeshift metropolis called Hammertown springs up on a dry lakebed and an entire week is devoted to racing everything from motorcycles and side-by-sides to regular trucks and unlimited four-wheel drive rigs. Competitors of each race find their way through boulder-strewn sections with names like Clawhammer, Wrecking Ball and my favorite, Chocolate Thunder. Find a good line and you can slowly pick your way up. Make a mistake and you have to winch your way up.
Only the strong survive the boulders of Johnson Valley.
Friday is the big show where the unlimited Ultra4 rigs vie for the title of the 2017 King of the Hammers. The final race is the longest, with over 200 miles of impossibly rocky terrain standing between racers and the finish line. Some drivers finish by sundown, many come in long after dark. With beefy axles, 40-inch tires and plenty of torque, these rigs defy physics as we know it. But to make things even more difficult, racers must also traverse vast sections of open desert at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.
Usually off-road vehicles are set up to do either slow-speed rock crawling or high-speed whoop bashing, but the custom-built Ultra4 rigs must to do both. Most teams choose to work within the confines of solid front and rear axles, betting that the stronger and more nimble components will give them the edge in the rock crawling. Others opt for an independent front suspension; not as good in the rocks but way better at soaking up whoops in the open desert. Since the race’s inception in 2007, Shannon Campbell has piloted the only independent front suspension rig to a win in 2008. He did it again in 2011, proving that his first IFS win was not just a fluke.
The King of the Hammers is the largest off-road race in North America and the toughest one-day off-road race on the planet. With over 100 teams entered and an attrition rate often as high as 75 percent or more, King of the Hammers is not to be missed.
The differences between an independent front suspension, left, and a solid front axle, right, are clear.
It’s easy to watch in person. Just search for King of the Hammers on Google maps and go to www.ultra4.com for more information about camping and entry fees to Hammertown. If you can’t make it to the California desert, the Ultra4 website offers a great live-stream with multiple views of the course.
See ya in Hammertown!

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A new Castlevania series is slay-ted for Netflix in 2017

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Details are really thin on the ground, but the original series is coming this year.
Konami’s sprawling Castlevania video game franchise, starring the vampire-slaying Belmont family, has seen many adaptations — from comic books to novels to radio plays to interactive fiction. What it hasn’t seen is an official, dedicated adaptation to screen. This looks like it’s all changing, according to a Netflix announcement earlier today.
Among its upcoming original programming, the entertainment company included, “Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 Coming to Netflix in 2017. ”
That’s all we know so far, although there are several names attached to the project. Producer Adi Shankar announced via Facebook that he was involved, with comics author Warren Ellis as the writer of the first and second seasons (Ellis announced in 2006 that he was writing a “Castlevania” movie, but it never eventuated). In August 2015, Shankar also named Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde of Frederator (” Adventure Time “) fame, which points to the series being animated, rather than live action.
Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Cersei Lannister teams with The Rock for wrestling flick

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“Fighting With My Family” will feature “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey, Nick Frost and “The Rock” Johnson. Plus, it’s being directed by Stephen Merchant.
That’s a spectacular collision of worlds right there.
The flick is actually based on WWE starlet Paige , a multiple-time champion whose mother and father were both wrestlers in their homeland of England. Newcomer Florence Pugh will be the project’s lead actress.

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Elusive white dwarf pulsar discovery is the first of its kind

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After searching since the 1960s, astronomers have finally found the hypothesised white dwarf pulsar.
Artistic impression of AR Scorpii.
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967. It’s a type of star that rotates, sending out beams of electromagnetic radiation. As it rotates, it flashes brightly like a lighthouse in a pulsing rhythm, hence its name. Since that 1967 discovery, all pulsars in the sky have been neutron stars , the last, extremely dense stages of a dying star after supernova, before it collapses into a black hole. However, researchers hypothesised that white dwarfs — dying stars not massive enough to become neutron stars — could also become pulsars.
Tom Marsh and Boris Gänsicke of the University of Warwick’s Astrophysics Group, and David Buckley from the South African Astronomical Observatory, have just found proof of this in the form of a binary star called AR Scorpii, located in the constellation of Scorpius, just 380 light-years from Earth.
The pair consists of a red dwarf, and in proximity, a white dwarf pulsar the size of the Earth but 200,000 times more massive, lashing its neighbour with electrical energy and particles. And that proximity is close — a mere 1.4 million kilometres, three times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
The white dwarf’s rotational period is just two minutes, and the orbital period of the pair is three hours and 36 minutes.
The team have published their historic findings in the journal Nature Astronomy .

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Бойовики з танків обстріляли Авдіївку – штаб

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Терористи порушили режим тиші в Донбасі 82 рази за минулу добу
На донецькому напрямку зі 152 мм артилерії російсько-окупаційні війська обстрілювали Луганське. Про це повідомляє прес-центр штабу АТО.
З мінометів, гранатометів, великокаліберних кулеметів і стрілецької зброї – Невельське, Верхньоторецьке, Кам’янку, Авдіївку, Опитне, Піски, Троїцьке, Луганське, Миронівське і Зайцеве. По Луганському і Авдіївці вогонь вели танки.
На луганському напрямку з артилерії 152 і 122 мм терористи обстрілювали Новотошківське і Кримське. З мінометів – Малинове, а з гранатометів і стрілецької зброї – Катеринівку, Попасну, Кримське, Новозванівку, Жовте і Новоолександрівку. По Новозванівці вели вогонь БМП і БТР ворога.
На маріупольському напрямку зі 152 і 122 міліметрової артилерії обстріляли Мар’їнку, Лебединське і Широкине. З мінометів – Широкине і Гнутове, а з гранатометів і стрілецької зброї – Лебединське, Водяне, Павлопіль, Широкине і Гнутове.
Загалом було зафіксовано 82 обстріли. Втрат серед українських військових немає.
7 лютого 2017 року в зоні проведення антитерористичної операції на сході країни в боях з окупантами були поранені шестеро військовослужбовців.
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Trump sends cautious letter to Beijing in hopes of ‘constructive relationship,’ but no sign of call — RT News

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In the first direct communication between the two leaders since his inauguration, US President Donald Trump has addressed China’s Xi Jinping in a letter stating the intention to develop “a constructive relationship.” There is still no sign of a phone call being set up, however.
The letter contained a thank-you for Xi’s congratulatory note on Trump winning the presidency, and went on to suggest that the two countries find a way to smoothen out their relationship.
“President Trump stated that he looks forward to working with President Xi to develop a constructive relationship that benefits both the United States and China,” said a statement from White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
Despite this expressed intent at rapprochement, however, Xi only received a letter – even though Trump has held phone calls with more than a dozen international leaders since officially moving into the Oval Office.
According to Reuters, the letter was received, but no formal reaction or comment followed from Beijing on Thursday.
The news agency learned from Foreign Ministry sources in China that Beijing has been in no hurry to set up a call between the two leaders, reportedly out of fear that if the telephone conversation went wrong and the details were reported in the American press, Xi might lose face.
“It would be incredibly embarrassing for President Xi and for Chinese people, who value the concept of face,” a Chinese diplomatic source told the agency.
“These things need to happen in a very controlled environment for China, and China can’t guarantee that with the unpredictable Trump,” the source said, adding that the US president appears to have been “distracted” by other matters thus far.
The US president’s first three weeks in office have caused a stir with the Chinese, with a series of statements angering Beijing and leading to escalating tensions. This particularly concerns Trump’s questioning of the ‘One China’ policy, which holds that Taiwan is not an independent state, but part of mainland China – as well as the president’s allegations of Chinese currency manipulations and unfair trading practices, which Trump promised the American public he would address.
In line with this, the US leader has promised to impose new trade tariffs on Beijing.
There is also the question of Chinese policies in the South China Sea, where it has been setting up a military presence by building artificial islets and laying claim to territories others in the region also contest.
Washington has launched repeated verbal attacks and threats at Beijing, the latest coming from Defense Secretary James Mattis, who on Saturday reiterated the US commitment to its ally Japan. Tokyo has been growing uneasy at Chinese actions and has been beefing up its own military with record financial injections.
“I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands – the US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty applies,” Mattis said at a press conference with his Japanese counterpart, Tomomi Inada.
According to the treaty, the US can involve itself in defending Japan – including over the Senkakus, located in the East China Sea, and disputed with China, which refers to them as the Diaoyus.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry nonetheless said last week it is willing to establish closer ties to Washington in working to settle all manner of disputes. However, as Trump’s letter indicates, both sides are being cautious about cooperation at a time when unsolved diplomatic disputes still hang overhead.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Wednesday that neither country should be interested in a conflict.
“For any sober-minded politician, they clearly recognize that there cannot be conflict between China and the United States because both will lose — and both sides cannot afford that,” the diplomat said after being asked about the possibility of war between the two nations during a press conference in Canberra, Australia, on Tuesday.

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Wikipedia bans the UK Daily Mail because of 'sensationalism and flat-out fabrication'

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The online encyclopedia’s editors decided the UK tabloid and its digital counterpart can no longer be cited as trusthworthy sources because of the publication’s predilection for making up stories.
Wikipedia’s editors have all but banned the UK’s tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail, and its online counterpart, for being a highly unreliable source of information.
The online encyclopedia’s editors decided to no longer allow the tabloid to be cited as a reliable source, and suggested 12,000 links to the publications should be re-evaluated. The informal discussions that led to the partial ban lasted two years, with a more formal exchange of opinions beginning at the start of the year.
The tabloid, which brought the world such wonderful and accurate articles as ” Dentist Anna Mackowiak Pulls Out Her Ex-Boyfriend’s Teeth ” – those people never existed -, ” Is the Changing Role of Women in Our Society Behind the Rise in Autism in the Past 30 Years? ” – original research was about obsessive personality types – and ” How the BBC Fell for a Marxist Plot to Destroy Civilization from Within ” – no comment needed – was deemed to be “generally unreliable” and not in accord with Wikipedia’s standards.
That’s not to say that The Daily Mail is entirely banned as a source on the digital encyclopedia. In matters referring to the newspaper itself or its journalists, it can still be quoted as a reliable source.
Among the Wikipedia editors that discussed the partial ban there were dissenting opinions which pointed towards other well-regarded publications that occasionally reported untrue stories, or the fact that there are other media outlets promoting similar types of articles. However, the editors concluded that The Daily Mail was not up to par, based on its “reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”. The editors also said a discussion on other such low-quality publications should be had, signaling Wikipedia’s continued fight against fake news and unreliable sources.
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South Korea on high alert as second strain of foot-and-mouth disease confirmed

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South Korea raised the country’s foot-and-mouth disease alert status to the highest level as a second strain of the disease was confirmed three days after a first outbreak was reported, Seoul’s agriculture ministry said on Thursday.
SEOUL: South Korea raised the country’s foot-and-mouth disease alert status to the highest level as a second strain of the disease was confirmed three days after a first outbreak was reported, Seoul’s agriculture ministry said on Thursday.
The A-type strain of the disease was discovered at a dairy farm in Yeoncheon, less than 50 miles north of the capital, said Kim Kyeong-kyu, deputy minister for food industry policy. Reacting shortly after an outbreak of the O-type strain was confirmed in southeast Korea, the ministry raised the alert status one notch to the maximum.
“We are raising the alert level as foot-and-mouth cases occurred at different parts of the country and a second type of the disease emerged,” Kim said at a briefing. As of Wednesday, 826 cattle had been culled, the ministry said.
South Korea last raised the country’s foot-and-mouth disease alert status to the highest level in 2010, when the country grappled with its worst-ever outbreak.
Since the first outbreak was discovered on Monday, Korea has taken emergency measures including a nationwide vaccination and a movement control order designed to contain the spread of the virus.
The ministry had re-vaccinated all cattle in the country against the O-type virus, and the country’s livestock would need to be inoculated again against the A-type strain, Kim said.
Oh Soon-min, a senior agriculture ministry official in charge of animal health, said the ministry was seeking to import more vaccine stocks from manufacturers such as Merial as Korea’s inventory of “O+A type” vaccines – which allow livestock to be vaccinated for both strains at the same time – was in short supply.
“We first have to check the company’s inventory and we are thinking to bring in as many (supplies) as we can,” he added.
Korea regularly inoculates its cattle and hogs against three types of foot-and-mouth diseases. It has around 3.14 million cattle and 10 million hogs nationwide.
The agriculture ministry is weighing whether or not to vaccinate hogs again, as cases of infection have so far only been found among cattle, said Park Bong-kyun, commissioner of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency.
Korea has also slaughtered 33 million farm birds since late last year as it tries to contain an outbreak of viral bird flu.

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Wyłudzili ponad 100 mln zł kredytów z SK Banku. Funkcjonariusze CBA zatrzymali 6 osób

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Zatrzymani zawyżali faktyczną wartość nieruchomości, na których ustanowiono hipoteki.
Funkcjonariusze CBA na zlecenie Prokuratury Regionalnej w Warszawie zatrzymali 6 osób podejrzanych o wyłudzenie ponad 104 mln zł kredytów z SK Banku w Wołominie. Wśród zatrzymanych są m.in. przedsiębiorcy i rzeczoznawcy majątkowi, którzy wyceniali nieruchomości będące zabezpieczeniem udzielanych kredytów.
Według ustaleń śledczych rzeczoznawcy w znaczący sposób zawyżali faktyczną wartość nieruchomości, na których ustanowiono hipoteki na zabezpieczenie kredytów SK Banku.
Tym samym dwie spółki uzyskały w latach 2011 – 2014 dziewięć kredytów w łącznej kwocie ponad 104 mln zł. Spółki po otrzymaniu kredytów nie spłaciły ich, a pieniądze wykorzystały niezgodnie z przeznaczeniem opisanym w umowach kredytowych.
Agenci CBA przeszukali miejsca zamieszkania podejrzanych oraz w siedziby spółek – w tym spółki prowadzącej działalność o zasięgu ogólnokrajowym.
Zatrzymani przez CBA usłyszą zarzuty w prokuraturze.
Już wcześniej, pod koniec września ub.r., funkcjonariusze Centralnego Biura Antykorupcyjnego zatrzymali 13 osób związanych z dokonywaniem oszustw i wyłudzeniem 100 milionów zł z SK Banku w Wołominie oraz z Banku Spółdzielczego w Nadarzynie. Wśród zatrzymanych przez CBA byli b. prezes i b. wiceprezes Banku Spółdzielczego w Nadarzynie. Zatrzymanym 13 osobom w sumie postawiono ponad 100 zarzutów. Wtedy 6 osób zostało tymczasowo aresztowanych.
Jeszcze w maju br. agenci CBA w ramach śledztwa weszli do siedziby SK Bank w Wołominie (Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie), do miejsc zamieszkania 7 osób sprawujących funkcje kierownicze banku w czasie objętym śledztwem, w tym do prezesa i członków zarządu oraz do kilkudziesięciu podmiotów gospodarczych z grupy kapitałowej działającej w branży deweloperskiej przeprowadzając szereg czynności procesowych.
Śledztwo prowadzone było w kierunku m.in. niegospodarności wielkich rozmiarów zarządu Spółdzielczego Banku Rzemiosła i Rolnictwa w Wołominie (nazwa handlowa SK Bank), przestępstw prowadzenia ksiąg rachunkowych wbrew przepisom oraz podawania w tych księgach nierzetelnych danych oraz zatajenia prawdziwych i podania nieprawdziwych informacji NBP Prokuratura Regionalna w Warszawie powierzyła w całości do prowadzenia Delegaturze CBA w Katowicach.
Działania CBA i prokuratury są związane także z zawiadomieniem przewodniczącego Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego po kontroli dotyczącej SK Banku w Wołominie. W tej sprawie straty oceniane są na ok. 2,6 mld zł. Do tego postępowania dołączono również wątek dotyczący nadużycia zaufania i działania na szkodę Banku Spółdzielczego w Nadarzynie.
Prowadzący śledztwo, nie wykluczają dalszych zatrzymań.
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Чехия вдвое увеличила количество рабочих мест для украинцев

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Правительство Чехии приняло решение вдвое увеличить количество украинцев, которые могут быть приглашены на работу…
Правительство Чехии приняло решение вдвое увеличить количество украинцев, которые могут быть приглашены на работу чешскими предприятиями.
Как пишет Радио Свобода , министр иностранных дел Чехии Лубомир Заоралек отметил, что квота вырастет с нынешних 3,8 тыс. человек еще примерно на такое же количество.
Также будет увеличено и количество работников в генеральном консульстве Чехии во Львове и в Министерстве внутренних дел Чехии, которые занимаются оформлением трудоустройства украинцев.
Таким образом, чешская правительственная программа по трудоустройству украинцев, которая была принята еще осенью прошлого года, приобрела реальные очертания.
Отмечается, что успехи экономики последних лет позволили чехам значительно расширить свою экономическую мощь, а это означает и рост потребности в новой рабочей силе. С повышением уровня жизни в Чехии также очень ощутимым стал недостаток работников среднего и низшего звена.
Не занятыми на чешском рынке труда являются 130 тыс. рабочих мест, больше всего нужны электросварщики, повара, электромонтеры, крановщики, разнорабочие.

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