Stop demonizing migrants. That’s the message for Europe from the UN’s special representative on migration. And as the EU debates new migration policies he warns against the growing wave of toxic anti-immigrant sentiments.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Ship-breaking work to shift from Asia to Europe
New EU plans to cleanup the dirty and hazardous work of scrapping old tankers and cruise liners will dramatically shift the industry away from the beaches of South Asia, where ships are typically dismantled by hand, to less profitable but safer sites in Europe and China.
Turkish prosecutor injured in hostage standoff has died
An Istanbul prosecutor died from his wounds after security forces stormed the office where members of a far-left Turkish group took him hostage on Thursday, killing his two captors.
Andre Deveaux's arrest ordered after on-ice attack in Sweden
A Swedish prosecutor has ordered the arrest of former NHL enforcer Andre Deveaux after he slashed an unsuspecting opponent during warmups prior to a second-tier pro game last week.
Oil storage crisis may be averted by U.S. car drivers
Refiners, spurred by high profit margins, are rushing to buy crude and churn out more fuel in response to an unexpectedly swift rise in U.S. road travel and that may avert a crisis in storing U.S. oil.
Ex-dictator Muhammadu Buhari claims victory in Nigerian election
Former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Buhari has won Nigeria’s presidential election but fears his victory could be stolen by “tricks” from the government.
Renewable energy investment rose 17% worldwide in 2014
Worldwide investment in renewable energy rose 17 per cent in 2014 to $270 billion, throwing off the effects of lower oil prices.
Cherry blossoms herald spring in Tokyo
Tokyo’s Ueno Park, one of Japan’s most popular blossom-viewing sites, fills with visitors eager to revel in the arrival of spring.
Germanwings crash prompts Lufthansa insurers to set aside $300M for claims
Lufthansa says its insurers are setting aside $300 million to deal with possible costs resulting from last week’s crash of a Germanwings jet in the French Alps, in which 150 people died.
100 former students at U.S. Everest College owner go on 'debt strike'
Calling themselves the ‘Corinthian 100′ — named for the troubled Corinthian Colleges, Inc., which operated Everest College, Heald College and WyoTech before agreeing last summer to sell or close its 100-plus campuses — about 100 current and former students are refusing to pay back their student loans.
Anne Frank may have died in Nazi concentration camp earlier than previously thought
Teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank likely died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp about a month earlier than previously thought, the Amsterdam museum that honours her memory says.
France eyes cockpit entry, psychological screening rules after Germanwings crash
French aviation investigators said Tuesday they will examine ‘systemic weaknesses’ like cockpit entry rules and psychological screening procedures that could have led to the Germanwings crash.
Dash Release 11.2
The team has been hard at work for over 2 months on improving various parts of the core client. The client should overall be much faster to use, require less bandwidth, will require a level-of-service from masternodes, perform Darksend transactions faster and has a new beautiful look and feel.
All users must update!
This includes protocol changes, so all users must update. Enforcement will be turned off briefly while the network updates, then turned on when we hit 80% in a day or two. Older version masternodes will cease to be paid immediately due to the incompatibility of the protocol!
Thanks to UdjinM6 for writing a really nice masternode management system. You can check it out here: https://github.com/darkcoin/darkcoin/blob/v0.11.2.x/src/masternodeman.cpp
This module makes it much faster to restart a node, because it won’t have to request the masternode list every time. It also keeps a record of the DS variables, which will make the network much more harder to trick.
Configurations Have Been Moved!
Configurations have been moved from .darkcoin to .dash! You’ll need to do the following when updating your client. First close Darkcoin and backup your data directory.
Windows: %APPDATA%\Darkcoin\
Mac OS: ~/Library/Application Support/Darkcoin/
Unix/Linux: ~/.darkcoin/
After that rename it to Dash for Windows/Mac, or .dash for linux. Next go open the directory and locate the darkcoin.conf file, rename this to dash.conf.
Next, simply update to the newest Dash client and restart.
Other new things in this release:
Proof-of-service (PoSe), all masternodes MUST have their port opened correctly, otherwise they will be removed. This also checks to make sure masternodes are responding to work requests such as InstantX. This basically will ensure that all nodes are on the same fork and their network functionality is working properly. This was implemented so that the part of the masternode network checks another part of the network, so it’s 100% decentralized.
New command “masternode list pose”, shows all of the masternodes PoSe scores, good for debugging if your masternode is getting punished for not providing proper service.
New DarkSend caching, which improves the experience of using DarkSend vastly
Masternode Blinding is NOT part of this release, while it’s in the code, it’s currently disabled. It’ll take a bit more work to complete and we were running out of time before the March 25th deadline, so it’s being moved to the next release.
Thanks to PoSe, InstantX should work nearly all of the time now.
New masternode voting system for new Dash initiates, each masternode gets one vote. See the new commands “masternode list votes” and “masternode vote yea|nay”. First vote, what color is this dress : http://imgur.com/QjqfntR ? Blue and Black (yea) or White and Gold (nay)
Full release notes: https://github.com/darkcoin/darkcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.11.2.md
v0.11.2.16 — Downloads
https://www.dashpay.io/downloads/
Thanks for helping with this release:
-UdjinM6
-Crowning
-Snogcel
-Propulsion, for maintaining our great forums we tested on
-Flare for setting up Transifex again
-All of those who helped translate the new version
Our awesome testers this release:
AjM,Moli, Tante, Lariondos, xxxsexygirls, Sub-Ether, Moocowmoo, AlexMomo
Bridgewater, elbereth, HowlingMad, JPCrypto, the-baker, Lukas_Jackson
coingun, darkred, MangledBlue, yikadee
source: https://dashtalk.org/threads/11-2-dash-release.4515/
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/dash-release-11-2/
Tsarnaev's lawyers try to show brother in charge of Boston Marathon bombing
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev started their case by trying to show that his older brother was the driving force behind the 2013 terror attack.
Digging for CLAMS
CLAMS is the most refreshing cryptocurrency since bitcoin itself, so much in fact that I traded all my Litecoins for CLAMS the day they were listed on Poloniex.
Until recently I’ve been more of a crypto hoarder than a crypto trader. I’ve investigated and bought into 100 different projects and in the process have become bored sick with the same-old same-old copy-paste shiat. The days of wide-eyed wonderment are over. It takes alot to impress me these days.
This project first came to my attention 24 hours ago when browsing the Bitcointalk announcements forum. Minutes later I’d started buying, because CLAMS is the perfectest cryptocurrency invented as of yet. Let me repeat: perfectest cryptocurrency.
The anonymous developers have premined over 14 million CLAMS, the entirety of which were distibuted to over 3 million bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin accounts. Any account that had even a little “dust” in it was assigned 4.6 CLAMS. Using the block explorer I have confirmed that within 7 of my own accounts are a total of about 32 clams, worth around $100USD at this time. But instead of selling I bought 85 more CLAMS, because this is the most expansive and well-targeted distribution ever.
Furthermore, the CLAM devs have invented a new method to help stabilize the price, called “the CLAM shell”. Their website khashier.com is a scrypt mining pool that mines altcoins and uses the profits to place CLAM buy orders at 50% to 75% of the current price. When these orders are filled, the miners receive “Pearl Payouts”. These rewards are based on more than just hashing power. The longer a miner dedicates their resources to the pool, the larger percentage of rewards they receive. Excellent.
So who are the these crypto geniuses? The writing style of the announcement and the user IDs posting in the forums suggests that CLAMS was brought to us by the same devs who created Digibyte and Nautiluscoin. Note that the latter displays a huge photo of some shelled sea creature 
A telling sign of coming greatness is the fact that the CLAMS Twitter account has some 13,000 followers. Twitter connections are huge in the crypto world, and this is a very big number at this time. I pity all those poor souls who are selling their CLAMS right now, but on the other hand, that’s more precious time for the rest of us to buy dirt-cheap CLAMS!
CLAMS is a proof-of-stake coin with 1% annual inflation.
source: http://www.blockchange.info/altcoins/digging-for-clams/
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/digging-for-clams/
Neil Macdonald: Who needs pillories when there's online shaming?
Internet shaming has become such a powerful new social force that some people are beginning to ask whether it can, or should, be stopped. Neil Macdonald has his own suggestions.
Diplomats scramble as clock ticks toward deadline on Iran nuclear deal
Diplomats scrambled Tuesday to reach consensus on the outline of an Iran nuclear deal just hours ahead of a self-imposed deadline to produce an agreement.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Indiana lawmakers try to quiet firestorm over new religious objections law
Gov. Mike Pence called off public appearances Monday as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm over a new law that has much of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance.
U.S. to pledge 28% emissions cut in new global climate change treaty
The United States will pledge Tuesday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28 per cent as part of a global treaty aimed at preventing the worst effects of climate change, according to individuals briefed on the White House’s plans.
Sphinx, Eiffel Tower among China's knock-off monuments
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From the Sphinx to the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Easter Island’s Moai statues, we take a look at 10 monumental knock-offs erected in China.
Farmer herds sheep with a drone in latest sign of robots taking over
It appears replacing human workers won’t be enough to satisfy our shiny metal overlords when they take over — the robots are coming for dogs’ jobs too.
Chile's Villarrica and other volcanic eruptions
Chile’s Villarrica volcano erupted in early March 2015. The eruption of the 2,847-metre-tall volcano prompted authorities to evacuate thousands of people. Villarrica is one of many volcanoes to erupt in recent years.
Prosecutors in Boston Marathon bombing trial rest their case
Prosecutors rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating injuries suffered by the three people who died in the 2013 terror attack.
Introduction to CLAMS
WHAT ARE CLAMS?
CLAMS are a form of digital value, or currency, that is transferred, created, and verified by the collective effort of the computers running the CLAMS software. Similar to Bitcoin, the original technology on top of which CLAMS was created, this network follows a rigorous protocol to ensure that consensus and verification is maintained.
WHAT IS THE CLAM NETWORK?
The CLAM Network is a peer-to-peer network of computers running the CLAMS software. To become a part of the CLAMS network, you need only to run the CLAMS software on your home computer. The purpose of this network is to independently and collaboratively verify the transfer and creation of CLAMS.
CLAMs were initially distributed to 3,208,032 addresses.
Each address received 4.60545574 CLAMs.
67,511 addresses have been dug.
310,918 CLAMs have been dug.
297,773 CLAM were staked for a total of 526,512.12
If all the distributed CLAMs were dug up, the total money supply would be 15,009,015.13
No Proof-Of-Work stage
Based on May 12, 2014 “Snapshot” of BTC, LTC and DOGE blockchains
Not cheatable via coin movement or mixing
Block Creation: Proof-Of-Stake
Block Time: 1 Minute
Minimum Stake Age: 500 blocks, or 4 hours. Target 8 hours 20 minutes
Maximum Stake Age: Unlimited
Block Reward: 1 CLAM
Proof-Of-Stake reward is designed to replace coins lost, unclaimed or inaccessible over time. The block reward of 1 CLAM means that 526,000 new CLAMs are created each year. The annual rate of return varies in relation to the current active money supply. Accordingly, the present annual rate of return is 234%, and the daily return is 0.64%
CLAMS REDDIT TIP BOT!
Tipbot is up, needs testing. This bot was not created by the CLAMs development team. Do not deposit large amounts.
source: http://clamclient.com/
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/introduction-to-clams/
Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
Comedian Trevor Noah has been selected to replace Jon Stewart on the satirical news program, The Daily Show, Comedy Central announced Monday.
Airstrike kills 45 at Yemen refugee camp
The death toll from an air strike at a refugee camp in northern Yemen on Monday reached 45, with 65 were wounded, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration says.
Github coding site hit by cyberattack
GitHub, a popular social coding site for programmers, is fighting a days-long cyberattack that reportedly originates in China and targets anti-censorship tools hosted on Github.
Germanwings co-pilot was treated for suicidal tendencies
German prosecutors say Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings passenger plane in the French Alps, had received treatment for suicidal tendencies for several years before he became a pilot.
Campaigning kicks off today in Britain's closest election in decades
Campaigning in Britain’s closest national election in decades will start on Monday after Prime Minister David Cameron meets Queen Elizabeth following parliament’s dissolution, teeing up an unusually fraught battle to govern the $2.8 trillion economy.
Arthur Porter's rights violated in Panama prison: UN report
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Former hospital executive Arthur Porter, fighting extradition to Canada from a Panama prison, is said to have only “weeks to live” if he is not granted better medical treatment. Meanwhile, the UN has weighed into the dispute over Porter’s lengthy detention.
Brace yourself, Canada, for the moral maze that is Syria: Brian Stewart
Canada’s new ISIS mission will take us into a war zone that all our normal allies, save for the U.S., are steering well clear of — the antagonist-rich tinderbox that is present day Syria. Do we know what we are getting into, Brian Stewart asks.
Iran nuclear talks approach key deacline
Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program entered a critical phase on Monday with differences still remaining less than two days before a deadline for the outline of an agreement.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Ehud Olmert, ex-Israeli PM, guilty in corruption retrial
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been found guilty of fraud and breach of trust in a retrial on corruption charges.
Director, Neil Simon collaborator Gene Saks dies
Gene Saks, a prolific actor-director who teamed with playwright and fellow New Yorker Neil Simon on hit Broadway and movie productions of such Simon comedies as The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memoirs, has died. He was 93.
ISIS has expanded since U.S.-led airstrikes, Syria's al-Assad says in interview
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a U.S. television interview that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has seized swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, has been gaining recruits since the start of U.S.-led air strikes against the militant group.
Earthquake strikes off Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning issued
A major earthquake with a magnitude 7.7 struck off Papua New Guinea on Monday, official monitors said, and a tsunami warning was issued soon after.
Palm Sunday celebrations around the world
Events both sombre and celebratory mark the beginning of Christian Holy Week, which ends with Easter Sunday.
Pakistanis evacuated from Yemen amid pause in air strikes
Pakistan evacuated about 500 of its nationals by plane from Yemen on Sunday during a brief pause in air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition against Shia Muslim Houthi forces, a Saudi military spokesman said.
2 bodies found at NYC building gas explosion site
Two bodies were found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed four New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, and officials were working to determine if they were those of two men unaccounted for, police said.
Introducing FastCoin
In late May 2013 FastCoin (FST) was launched, its primary innovation being to have the fastest transaction speeds of any digital currency currently in existence.
Compared to Bitcoin’s 10 minute block times the FastCoin network has just a 12 second target block time with transactions fully confirming in 48 seconds. Based on the same fundamentals as the Bitcoin protocol FastCoin is a blockchain based, decentralized, peer 2 peer worldwide digital currency with no central issuing authority. FastCoin has seen a rapid rate of adoption, with the coin’s market cap briefly reaching $250 000 USD in early August, and the official website, http://FastCoin.ca, seeing constantly increasing traffic and serving thousands of unique hits every month. The coin is backed by a team of developers and FastCoin enthusiasts from all over the world; including the USA, Europe, Australia, UK, Russia, China, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India and more.
Marc Saltzman, a Canadian media journalist has contacted team FastCoin and is hosting one of the FastCoin members as a guest speaker on their popular radio show “Tech Talk” this Sunday, Sept 1 at 5pm EST. Marc is a well respected Canadian Journalist that specializes in technology segments and he has been featured on CNN, Fox news, CBC and more.
The official FastCoin website, http://FastCoin.ca is based in Toronto, Canada, but the core development team consists of 10 highly qualified individuals from all over the world. The majority of the core team are primarily system engineers: seasoned veterans of the IT ecosystem, with some possessing over 25 years experience in the industry. Some members of team FastCoin possess teaching backgrounds having taught computer science at the University and College Level. Others have held relatively key positions for high profile international IT companies such as Microsoft, Symantec and ATI. FastCoin also has professionals with MBA’s and global work experience; aiding the business analysis aspects of managing the FST project. All have been actively involved in the cryptocurrency space for years; enthusiastically mining Bitcoin and participating in the emerging digital currency economy. Christopher Tao is regarded as the head developer of FastCoin and the coin’s primary creator.
Reflecting the popularity of the coin, the official FastCoin twitter account has over 10 000 followers and this is rapidly growing month after month. With its fast transaction speeds the FastCoin team is also actively targeting the mobile space and to this end they have released an Android FastCoin wallet which is currently in Beta – but functional. Due to its lightning fast transaction speeds FastCoin offers tangible benefits for merchants who accept FST as a payment method; any website or business who reaches out to the FastCoin team looking to accept FST will be warmly received.
With its highly qualified and motivated core development team, strong social media presence, rising popularity and primary innovation of being the fastest transacting digital currency in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, FastCoin has a bright future ahead. With FST having reached a market cap of $250 000 USD in early August, this is no doubt a foreshadowing of bigger things to come.
To learn more about FastCoin please go to: http://fastcoin.ca
To see FastCoin on Canadian radio show Tech Talk please go to: http://www.cjad.com/Shows/TechTalk.aspx
FastCoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fast_coin
FastCoin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fastcoinca/593923330628082
FastCoin Android App Beta: http://www.fastcoin.ca/fastcoin-mobile-apps-beta-available.html
FastCoin Sites and Services: http://www.fastcoin.ca/services.html
Media Contact Name: Christopher Tao
Email: info@fastcoin.ca
FastCoin is currently the fastest transacting peer 2 peer digital currency in existence; for the technically minded the FST protocol details are as follows:
– 12 second block target.
— 4 confirms per transaction – every transaction confirms in 48 seconds.
— Mining difficulty retargets every hour. Accelerated re-targets are utilized so as to eliminate instamining.
— 32 coins per block, block reward halves roughly every 12 months or 2 592 000 blocks.
— A total of 165 888 000 coins will be minted.
— Connection port is 9526, RPC-port 9527
— Similar to Litecoin, FastCoin utilizes a Scrypt based cryptographic algorithm.
source: http://www.fastcoin.ca/press-and-media-release.html
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/introducing-fastcoin/
Did Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz have detached retina?
The co-pilot suspected of crashing a passenger jet in the Alps may have been suffering from a detached retina but investigators are unsure whether his vision problems had physical or psychological causes, a German newspaper said on Sunday.
Arab joint military force gains support at Egypt summit
Egypt’s president says Arab leaders meeting at a summit have agreed to the principle of creating a joint Arab military force in the face of the “challenges” facing the region.
How ISIS is different from al-Qaeda
A close reading of the jihadi group ISIS’s dogma reveals that its appeals to Muslims in the West are different from what many imagine. ISIS wants Muslims to travel to the caliphate and remain there, not commit terrorist attacks in Western countries.
Singapore's PM draws tears, laughter in eulogy for father, Lee Kuan Yew
Singaporeans bid farewell to longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew with an elaborate procession and a three-hour state funeral.
4 facts about Earth Hour
Millions of homes and businesses around the world will be in the dark tonight during Earth Hour, an annual event aimed at raising awareness about climate change and the environment.
Iran nuclear deal hinges on sanctions, allaying weapon fears
With mere days left before the deadline for the Iran nuclear talks, analysts say Iranian and Western diplomats have inched closer on certain points, but caution that a number of sore spots remain.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Thousands march against Indiana's anti-gay law
Thousands of people marched in Indiana’s largest city on Saturday to protest a state law that supporters contend promotes religious freedom but detractors see as a covert move to support discrimination against gay people.
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