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http://phys.org/news/2016-12-russian-ship-international-space-station.html

>An unmanned cargo ship travelling to the International Space Station burned up in the atmosphere shortly after lauching Thursday, the Russian space agency said, raising concerns over space travel safety.

>"According to preliminary information, as a result of an abnormal situation, the cargo ship's loss occurred some 190 kilometres above the remote, unpopulated mountainous territory of (Russia's) Tuva region, and most fragments burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere," Roscosmos said in a statement.

>Roscosmos said earlier Thursday that it had lost contact with the Progress MS-04 ship 383 seconds after it launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and that its specialists were looking into the problem.

>The space agency said the loss of the cargo ship will "not affect the normal operations of the ISS systems and the subsistence of the station's crew".

>NASA meanwhile said on its website that supplies at the space laboratory are "at good levels".

>The cargo ship, which had been scheduled to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, was carrying 2.4 tonnes of fuel, food and equipment when it took off from Baikonur, Roscosmos said.

>The Russian agency said a state commission would probe the incident but did not say whether it would affect future launches.

>This latest incident represents the second failed launch of a Progress cargo ship in less than two years.

>In April 2015 a Progress ship disintegrated as it plummeted to Earth, a failure Russia blamed on a problem with a Soyuz rocket.

>The incident saw Russia put all space travel on hold for nearly three months and forced a group of astronauts to spend an extra month on the ISS.

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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02/to-move-into-the-white-house-trump-may-have-to-dump-dc-hotel.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/warren-to-gsa-rip-up-lease-with-trump-hotel/article/2608651
>Warren to GSA: Rip up lease with Trump hotel

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-potential-conflict-posed-trumps-dc-hotel/story?id=43911604
>Inside the Potential Conflict Posed by Trump's DC Hotel

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/01/democrats-target-trump-hotel-as-federal-government-shrugs.html
>Democrats Target Trump Hotel as Federal Government Shrugs

>Donald Trump hasn’t taken the oath of office yet and he’s already making history as one of the most conflicted presidents ever.

>The billionaire businessman’s vast holdings have created a unique set of potential conflicts of interest—but none are as prominent as the one down the street from the very home he will occupy come January.

>That’s because the Trump International Hotel is in the Old Post Office building, which is leased to Trump and his family by the federal government. The very federal government he will soon control. The lease agreement signed in 2013 with the General Services Administration (GSA) stipulates that “no elected official” can be part of the lease, so the president-elect faces an immediate conflict when he takes office.

>And no one knows what to do.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-02/italy-referendum-what-to-watch-into-the-night-on-sunday

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/europe/italy-referendum.html

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02/why-italy-is-calling-the-shots-for-markets-next-week.html

http://www.thelocal.it/20161202/what-is-italys-five-star-movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxQ64R9b-88

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/28/asia/japan-frozen-fish-rink-trnd/index.html?sr=twcnni112816japan-frozen-fish-rink-trnd0615AMStoryLink&linkId=31632992

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/internet-outraged-japanese-skating-rink-165000980.html

>Space World, an amusement park in Kitakyushu, Japan went viral over the weekend due to a so-called “Ice Aquarium” attraction in which the park froze thousands of fish — approximately 5,000 sprats, mackerel and other varieties, to be exact — into the ice for visitors to skate across. As you can see in the above video, the fish were frozen into shapes such as an arrow, and in one part of the ice, to spell out the word “hello.”

>To the surprise of absolutely no one, however, the reason for the attraction going viral was due to massive internet outrage, as Space World was forced to close the skating rink Sunday after its Facebook page became flooded with complaints. Critics called the Ice Aquarium “insane and cruel and disrespectful to nature,” among other things. Other joked by captioning photos of the attraction with things like, “I am d… d… drowning, s … s… suffocating.”

>The park later released a statement to the Japan Times, saying that they apologized to anyone who felt uncomfortable over the event, and that “as a result, we have stopped the event from today.”

>A spokesperson told the Asahi Shimbun that the park was considering holding a memorial service for the fish next year, adding that the fish were already dead when they were bought from a local wholesaler.
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>So the internet can relax in that the fish were not in fact killed by being frozen to death, but in some other unknown way ostensibly less cruel than freezing. The park is now planning to use the fish as fertilizer, but at the very least it seems like an egregious waste of food.

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Dakota Pipeline has been blocked by Obama, it must be re-routed. Will Trump continue this block and hold it up when he takes office?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icf0OEkjAUA

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AUSTIN - A man is facing an aggravated assault charge after he allegedly knocked another man to the ground and dragged him into the middle of a busy street.

Police have charged Dong Hyun Kim, 27, in the alleged assault. Court documents allege that around 4:25 p.m. Nov. 29, Kim began screaming at a woman along the 2300 block of Guadalupe Street from a parked car. Police said Kim believed the woman – who was walking to class at the time – was responsible for him being suspended from the university.

Kim allegedly got out of the car and charged screaming at the woman. The victim was walking on Guadalupe at the time and approached Kim, who threw a smoothie in the victim’s face. According to the affidavit, the victim told police the driver pulled away with his hand stuck in the rolled-up passenger window. Cell phone video provided to police shows the victim jogging beside Kim’s car until it stops due to traffic.

The affidavit states Kim exited the vehicle again and began punching the victim, knocking him to the ground. Kim then allegedly grabbed the victim by the ankles and dragged him into Guadalupe Street’s rush hour traffic. Cell phone video shows a Good Samaritan grab Kim and pull both him and the victim out of traffic.
Police also allege Kim posted on Facebook after the assault, “I knocked that (expletive) out on the drag and dragged his ass into the middle of the street. Everyone saw it. And I got to walk away free.”

Kim was arrested and booked into the Travis County Jail on Wednesday afternoon. Bond has been set at $25,000.

http://www.kvue.com/news/crime/120116-west-campus-assault-charge/361055967

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/hackers-steal-31-million-from-accounts-at-russian-central-bank-1480701080

>Hackers stole 2 billion rubles ($31.3 million) from correspondent bank accounts at Russia’s central bank, a spokeswoman at the central bank confirmed Friday, adding that the country was devising new measures to be prepared for further attacks.

>“We can’t say exactly when, but we can say today it was stolen,” Ekaterina Glebova, an official in the central bank’s press office, told The Wall Street Journal.

>The incident is the latest in a string of high-profile cyberattacks, including a $81 million theft in February from Bangladesh central bank’s account at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York and others in Vietnam and Ecuador. The global money transfer network Swift was caught up in that theft, because the Fed acted on fraudulent, but authenticated payment instructions sent over the network.

>The money in question in the Russian hacking belongs to banking clients that hold accounts at the central bank. Ms. Glebova said that Artem Sychev, of the central bank’s department of security and information protection, referred to the theft of 2 billion rubles from correspondent accounts in a speech Friday. Reuters earlier reported his remarks.

>The spokeswoman said Mr. Sychev said that the hackers attempted to steal 5 billion rubles and that the central bank was able to recover some of the money. She said the central bank’s security team had collected information about the attacks and contacted police and security forces.
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSKBN13R1TO

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/russia-central-bank-hack/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/nyregion/no-rainbow-but-thief-finds-a-bucket-of-gold-on-west-48th-street.html

>Because the bucket is very heavy, the man walks slowly and pauses often.

>But because the bucket is very heavy, the man keeps walking.

>The man, seen in a surveillance video, has just taken a black, metal 5-gallon bucket off the back of an armored truck in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan.

>The bucket was left unattended when a guard went to the truck’s cab for a moment, the police said, and the man probably did not know what was in it. But he probably had a suspicion.

>“I think he just seen an opportunity and took the pail and walked off,” Detective Martin Pastor told WNBC-TV, which broadcast the footage on Tuesday. The theft took place on Sept. 29.

>On the video, the man walks calmly through crowds on West 48th Street, as calmly as a man can walk while lugging a very heavy and perhaps very valuable bucket that does not belong to him.

>At one point, the man — stocky, maybe in his 50s, wearing a down vest and long-sleeve shirt — rests the bucket on the sidewalk to catch his breath. He crosses Fifth Avenue, heading east. He makes his way to Third Avenue, a distance of a half-mile. It takes him an hour, WNBC said.

>At Third Avenue and 48th Street, the police said, the man disappears.

>The bucket contained 86 pounds of gold flakes, worth $1.6 million, the police said.

>Detective Pastor said the police believe that the man is in Florida. The gold flakes are still at large as well.

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1) Does this seem weird to anyone else? Who kills themselves by shooting themselves in the chest?! Seriously, how would one even do that?

2) The "bullying" the family described was that the 18 year old's tormentors made her a fake profile on a dating site saying she "would give sex away for free." Okay. Because an 18 year old would never date, or God forbid have sex.

3) These people were tripping over themselves to talk to the press. Dad say, "It was very unfortunate for me to see that." Not that his daughter killed herself. That he had to see it.

4) The CNN article is hella creepy. Stop talking about her eyeballs already.

Am I nuts for thinking something is off with this family?!

http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/teen-kills-herself-in-front-of-family-after-driven-to-suicide-by-relentless-cyberbullying/news-story/2c1644824bd7cf25a004aa6d01c716c1

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/health/teen-suicide-cyberbullying-trnd/index.html

Pic: the "bullied" Brandy Vela

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http://news.nate.com/view/20161203n09549

Yoon Chang-jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Chang-jung

Yoon Chang-jung is a South Korean journalist and official. He briefly served as the press spokesman for Korean president Park Geun-hye in early 2013, and was fired following a sexual assault on a Korean American female intern at the South Korean Embassy in the U.S. in May 2013.
This event is said to "have overshadowed President Park's first visit to the US".

South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited the United States between May 5th and May 9th, with Yoon accompanying Park as her chief spokesman

South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited the United States between May 5th and May 9th, with Yoon accompanying Park as her chief spokesman....

>South Korean President Fires Spokesman for ‘Unsavory Act’ During Visit to U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/asia/spokesman-for-south-korean-leader-quits.html

>South Korean President Fires Spokesman Amid Sexual Assault Allegations in US
http://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korean-president-fires-spokesman-amid-sexual-assault/story?id=19148794

Viagra Pills Create New Scandal for South Korea's President Park Geun Hye
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/world/asia/viagra-south-korea-park-geun-hye.html

South Korean leader defends purchase of 360 Viagra pills
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/south-korean-leader-defends-purchase-of-360-viagra-pills-1.3172800

Viagra purchase for South Korean president's jet was for 'altitude sickness': Report
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/23/viagra-purchase-for-south-korea-leader-park-geun-h/

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/aliens-proof-evidence-facts-stars-scientists-extraterrestrial-life-et-intelligence-a7377716.html


Could they be trying to actually reach us instead of the other way around?

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And they decide to blame it on… sexism.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/11/23/election-unions-teachers-clinton-trump/94242722/
Greg Toppo
USATODAY
November 23, 2016

Teacher unions smarting after many members vote for Trump

WASHINGTON — Two weeks after Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton
in the Nov. 8 presidential election, the USA’s teachers unions are wondering what happened
to their chosen candidate — and how so many of their members could have voted for her opponent.

Despite early and eager endorsements of Clinton by both unions, the nation’s school teachers
and other school workers contributed substantially to Trump’s Nov. 8 win.

How substantially? About one in fiveAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT) members who cast
a ballot voted for Trump, the union’s leader estimated. Among the larger National Education
Association (NEA), which comprises more than 3 million members, more than one in three who
voted did so for the billionaire developer, early data show.

AFT President Randi Weingarten, whose union represents about 1.6 million teachers and other
workers, said some of the reason for Clinton's defeat was timing — and perhaps sexism.

“Frankly I was always concerned about whether the country was ready to have a female president,”
she said. “There was an intensity of hatred that male political figures never get. So I think
we’re never really going to understand it.”

cont.

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While many rural towns across Eastern Europe face economic struggle, the Ukrainian region of Polesia, 200 miles east of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, has become something of a boomtown for foragers seeking mushrooms and berries — nearly all of which are contaminated with radiation.
It has become a good, if unlikely, business, and helped Ukraine become a berry exporter to the European Union, University of Maryland historian Kate Brown writes in the magazine Aeon.

Brown notes that in 2015, Ukraine exported 1,300 tons of fresh berries and 17,251 tons of frozen berries to the European market. That is more than 30 times as much as in 2014.
The berry picking brings in money for locals as well. A picker can earn $20 to $30 a day, whereas a local schoolteacher earns $80 a month.

However, Brown also says there could be some hidden costs — the berries end up in the hands of European customers who often do not know they are ingesting foods containing radioactive isotopes. In addition, Brown notes, the berries can be labeled organic, since radioactivity is not covered under common organic designations.

And the locals who are harvesting the berries may be suffering the effects of accumulated radiation. There is evidence of higher rates of certain birth defects and diseases in some of the areas affected by the disaster.

To be sure, the World Health Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency have said radiation levels in Polesia are too low to cause health problems other than a "slight rise in the chance of cancer," Brown said.


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/a-radioactive-berry-picking-boom-outside-chernobyl.html

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http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-kelly-contract-20161202-story.html

>Megyn Kelly’s bestselling memoir is called “Settle for More,” but the star anchor may have to settle for less money if she decides to leave the Fox News Channel.

>Kelly is said to have not made up her mind about staying with Fox News beyond the end of her contract in July, even with an offer of more than $20 million a year to stay, which would put her in the same income bracket as NBC’s “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer.

>So far no other networks have offered to top Fox’s figure, according to network news executives and agents familiar with the talks and who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. A spokesperson for Creative Artists Agency, which represents Kelly, declined to comment on her contract negotiations.

>Kelly’s future is being closely watched. She is the first breakout talent in the TV news business in recent years, becoming an even bigger name in the aftermath of her showdown with President-elect Donald Trump at the first Republican primary debate in 2015.

>In an earlier era, her availability likely would have commanded a bidding war. But in a fragmented media environment where there are no longer surefire ratings hits, networks are cautious about making major financial commitments.

>Fox News is willing to give Kelly a raise over the $15 million a year she is currently earning because she consistently attracts more than 3 million viewers a night for her prime-time program “The Kelly File.” But there is no guarantee that the loyalty of the Fox News audience is transferable to another channel, where Bill O’Reilly, the most popular personality on cable news, would not be her lead-in.
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>World greenhouse gas emissions stayed flat for the third year in a row in 2016, thanks to falls in China

>Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry were set to rise a tiny 0.2 percent in 2016 from 2015 levels to 36.4 billion tonnes, the third consecutive year with negligible change and down from three percent growth rates in the 2000s, it said.

>"It's far too early to say we've reached a peak in emissions," co-author Glen Peters, of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, told Reuters, referring to the findings issued at U.N. talks on climate change in Marrakesh, Morocco.

>"So far the slowdown has been driven by China," Peters said, adding Beijing's climate change policies would also be the dominant force in future since it accounts for almost 30 percent of global emissions.

>Chinese emissions were on track to dip 0.5 percent this year, depressed by slower economic growth and coal consumption.

>U.S. emissions were projected to fall by 1.7 percent in 2016, also driven by declines in coal consumption, according to the study published in the journal Earth System Science Data.

>Peters said natural gas, wind and solar were likely to continue displacing coal in U.S. electricity production, thanks to new technologies and lower prices.

>Other scientists welcomed Monday's findings. "This could be the turning point we have hoped for," David Reay, Professor of Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. He added: "The real Houdini work of freeing our economies from carbon has only just begun."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-accord-carbon-idUSKBN13900T