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The legacy of Vermin Supreme is anything but normal Film Daily – Film Daily

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The minute you see the boot at any political rally, you automatically know youre in the presence of a Vermin Supreme fan, or the man himself. The boot of course operates on a bunch of different levels, Supreme tells us, during our interview with the United States presidential candidate.

What else would you expect from the satirical artist who wants to give every American a pony? Starting in 1992, Vermin Supreme has run for president in every election cycle, with the intention of making the public more aware of how ridiculous the U.S. government can be.

Yet when 2020 came around, the tone of Supremes campaign transformed. Sure, the boot was still there, and he still toted his giant toothbrush but his campaign has taken a genuinely serious turn. Supreme ran a serious campaign for the Libertarian Party nomination in 2020 after being approached by the political organization.

My campaign manager Desire Lindsey reached out to me and asked me if I was interested in running a serious campaign. I had to really consider what that meant. Of course, it was a very different type of campaign, because I wasnt goofing; I wasnt spoofing. I still made jokes and could use my humor, but I was sort of in this other realm as another parallel character: you know, serious Vermin.

Just like serious Vermin, Vermin Supreme didnt arrive overnight. Vermins humble beginnings were as a booker/promoter for clubs in Baltimore, and since all of these promoters were vermin, he naturally wanted to be the vermin supreme.

But Supreme found himself getting burned out, looking for a fresh start. Coincidentally, the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament was coming through Baltimore at the same time, and he found his new life at least for the time being.

I was inspired and started walking with them to DC. Met a bunch of anarchists, and decided that I wanted to be involved in this roving demonstration protest movement. Joining in on several other marches as well as teaming up with the collective Seeds for Peace, Supreme spent his time fighting alongside fellow anarchists in these protests.

Around the same time, Supreme also started attending Rainbow Gatherings. An anarchists dream, these events situated in nature claimed to offer freedom from capitalist society and focused on peace, mutual aid, and mutual respect. In this heady hippy atmosphere, Supreme found himself drawn to developing his clowning skills, as he puts it.

At that time, especially at the gatherings, because they allow you a whole amount of freedom, I spent the first several years honing my clowning skills, honing my audience/master of ceremonies skills at talent shows and things of that nature. Supremes time mastering these skills was put to the test when he later joined the Shanti Sena, a peacekeeping group designed to help de-escalate situations.

Specifically, Supreme spent time trying to smooth over tension with cops and walk with them during Rainbow Gatherings, helping destigmatize their relationship. Their purpose was trying to bring them over to a different way of seeing things they were propagandized about seeing. Using humor, Supreme helped try to build a better relationship with authorities.

While all of this was going on, Supreme found himself running for office, starting with the mayor of Baltimore in 1987. Of course, running for him meant just being funny, not any genuine political goal. As Supreme took his clowning skills to the outside world, using them at protests to help de-escalate and relax police and protestors alike, he would also campaign at such events.

The Rainbow Gatherings and political demonstrations were my first national audiences, as people come from all over. As Supremes desire grew further, he entered a New Hampshire U.S. Presidential party primary race; the state is known as being the earliest to hold its primary and therefore enjoys the loudest media buzz.

I was going up to New Hampshire, taking advantage of their first-in-the-nation primary status, and the vast, intense mediascape there. Interacting with the actual candidates, and using that as a vehicle to promote my message of absurdity, and me calling them on their stuff. There, the Vermin Supreme we know & love today was born.

Since 1992, Supreme has been on the ballot as part of New Hampshires primaries, running under different parties (just because candidates have to declare a party to run). He never truly was a Democrat running Democrat nor a Republican running Republican, but a man with his own views just wearing a varied hat each election cycle.

But come 2016, he found himself drawn to the Libertarian Party. When I ran as a Libertarian, even the first one I still wasnt totally there, but by 2016, I was a Libertarian running for the Libertarian nomination. Its part of the reason why he decided to run a more serious campaign in 2020, as he could use his views and the Libertarian Party to troll the duopoly of the American election system.

Even Supreme had to warm up to the Libertarian Party at first, as he felt his views and theirs would clash. As a left anarchist, mutual aid is a very important thing to me. But I was always a little bit leery of even bringing it up to my Libertarian friends because I was afraid they would corrupt the phrase and murder it.

The Libertarian Party as a party it acknowledges the state. If you look at the platform, its minimizing the military, minimizing this, and that. But the thing to understand is the Libertarian Party, number one, is a party comprised of anarchists and minarchists attempting to dismantle the state.

Thats just important for people to know. Its also important for people to know its not a right-leaning monolith. Thats one of the misunderstandings I had to 0vercome. It had its own interior right and left political spectrum.

As he opened up to the Libertarian Party, Supreme realized he finally landed with a party that, while not perfectly matching, did represent many of his ideals. So while his election in 2016 was still more for fun, it was the first time Supreme felt at home in the party he chose to run under. And when offered the chance to seriously run under the party, it was a no- brainer.

So, with such a long-standing political comedy career, how does one even begin to preserve the work done? Supreme has done his best to make his legacy known, as he started the non-profit Vermin Supreme Institute. We are putting out things where we recognize the good work that people are doing; were putting out little known history bits and trying to develop resources that offer mutual aid, information, and education.

Supreme also penned a book called I Pony: Blueprint for a New America, writing as a time-traveller from a Vermin Supreme-run America and why he needs to be stopped! But its not just Supreme trying to preserve his legacy.

Supreme told us about the strange way he got involved in the making of the documentary Who is Vermin Supreme?. I noticed someone following me and filming me, and it was Steve . He asked me if I was interested in participating in a documentary.

I agreed, just because I thought it would be a great way to get a bunch of my friends to say nice things about me and be able to see it before I die, Supreme joked. But Ondericks documentary is arguably the most intimate about Supreme, as not only does it dive deep into his campaigns, but also his childhood growing up in Rockport, Maine, and his time in Baltimore before joining anarchist movements.

I guess I was feeling old enough back in 2012 to be concerned about my legacy, Supreme noted. But Who is Vermin Supreme? is far from the only documentary to capitalize on his legacy. This is Vermin Supreme by political satire artist Rod Webber is another addition to the filmmakers extensive catalog of political documentaries.

When Webber ran as Flower Man in 2016, he was in the same circles as Supreme. So as Webber was filming a documentary about his campaign, a lot of the footage happened to feature our favorite boot-wearing candidate as well. That gave Webber a brilliant idea: This is Vermin Supreme.

Supreme explained. When was making his own documentary movie, he realized that he had a folder full of Vermin Supreme. Maybe not enough for a documentary he thought, but he started looking around, and started pulling stuff from the internet, and did interviews and things like that. He came up with enough for a very entertaining documentary.

In addition to the collection of documentaries about him, Supreme also helped write and starred in Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson. Initially a documentary about Supreme, Chronicles turned into a mockumentary about a more conservative character than Supreme named Ken Stevenson.

Interviewing leading figures in the Republican party, the film has yet to see the light of day, but Supreme promises it will eventually be released to the public. For now, check out the clips on director Vic Davids YouTube page to see a much more clean-cut Vermin Supreme, as well as the scathing review of the film from Film Threat magazine that Supreme reminisced about fondly during our interview.

What message does Supreme want to broadcast? You are the power; you can make a difference. It is not the government that has been getting us through these crises. It is compassion. It is love. It is volunteerism. It is mutual aid. It is people helping people. We can make a difference, and if were lucky well be able to overcome all these incredible obstacles that we have presented to us as a species.

The legacy of Supreme is very well documented, and even when Supreme decides to finally retire and step down from politics, people wont forget about him. Sure, he may be best known for his boot, bullhorn, and giant toothbrush, but its the messages behind those that will outlast the iconic objects themselves.

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Group to ‘convoy’ through Sun City, other area communities – Your Valley

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By Guy Daugherty

On the 100th anniversary of the womens suffrage movement, the Maricopa County Libertarian Party will lea a protest against presidential exclusion exclusion.

The event is scheduled 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Youngtown Shopping Center, 11863 N. 111th Ave., Youngtown. Party members will lead a group of local community members in a COVID-safe demonstration, driving convoy style along main roads through Youngtown, El Mirage, Surprise, Sun City Grand, Sun City West and Sun City. They will be decorating their cars parade-style and will go live together on their social media channels.

This is a coordinated effort across the nation with hundreds of confirmed events and thousands of participants to protest the Commission on Presidential Debates decision to exclude all other parties who are listed on the presidential ballot from planned debates.

One hundred years ago, women led by the Women Voters Coalition were taking to the streets to protest the government to recognize their rights as sovereign citizens, and their right to be heard in elections. The WVC also created the first presidential debates to give American voters a greater understanding of all their presidential candidates. In 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates was formed to take over sponsorship of the debate.

The CPD created polling restrictions to not allow third parties in the debate by selecting random polls to determine who is polling above 15%. However, most of these polls do not mention a third party candidate.

Libertarians and their supporters want polling restrictions changed to quantifiable results that cannot be manipulated by the CPD. Any political party listed as an option on American ballots should be allowed to debate so that Americans can determine the best candidate for their informed vote, according to Libertarian Party officials.

Editors Note: Mr. Daugherty is a Libertarian Party member and host for the Aug. 8 convoy event.

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Back To The Drawing Board: Why SpaceX Success Demands NASA Revolution – Forbes

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Sundays breathtaking return of the American astronauts aboard Elon Musks crewed Dragon space capsule was a moment of great national pride. While space enthusiasts and dreamers around the world applauded, however, there were people taking bows and credit that frankly should not have been. If our political leadership on both sides of the aisle could recognize the real lesson of this success, instead of gloating in their misdirected self-congratulations, they would seize this opportunity to take the next step and completely remake how NASA leads human spaceflight into the future. While NASA has begun slowly changing its mindset and indeed been working more with private companies, it has not, by a long shot, done enough to further our countrys position as a leader in the 2nd Space Race. There needs to be, in short, a revolution in NASA affairs.

Of the many challenges the previous administration inherited in 2009, one was a space policy long on vision but short on funding. A blue-ribbon panel was quickly commissioned with unprecedented budgetary rigor and led by the greatest technical space leaders of the time, including General Les Lyles, Dr. Wanda Austin, and the esteemed industrialist Norm Augustine. Their report to the President highlighted many recommendations, the most significant of which was that the flagship Constellation program, the delight of the previous administration, was entirely unaffordable.

Congress and much of NASA, the very institution that brought rocket science into our living rooms last century, had together become the face of an overwhelming adversity to change. One leader challenged this status quo and, backed by a handful of policy mavericks, decided to pursue a risky next step. Lori Garver, the deputy administrator of NASA at the time, persuaded enough of these naysayers to support her vision of a Commercial Crew Program, a controversial idea to harness the new space industry's spirit of adventure by redirecting some funding to restore government faith in Americas free market leadership instead of NASAs politburo. Garvers initiative and considerable fortitude set into motion an epic contest and on Sunday we witnessed the winner at the finish line.

SpaceXs has won the contest and by besting Boeing has affirmed the thesis that the time is right to toss out the old NASA model and pivot to a privatization of most of NASAs programs. Some of that is already underway, with the venerable Lockheed Martin in a close partnership with Jeff Bezos Blue Origin on their lunar lander project and Amazons ground stations. Whats now necessary is taking inventory of every program and project within NASA and rethinking how they should be restructured to encourage discovery and exploration while simultaneously promoting free market expansion into the cosmos.

To strengthen American leadership and freedom in space, government policymakers must advance our nation's superior space competency with private capital and competition to lead economically. This government led privatization should reward sustainable businesses and reject political backroom deal making. An economic sector of competitive, self-directed but lightly-regulated companies, independent of institutional inertia or political patronage.

The quintessential NASA program of this type needs little introduction but is indicative of many others less noticed. As part of the compromise to secure Congressional support for the Commercial Crew competition, NASA announced the Congressionally mandated old NASA style SLS program in 2011, boasting an ambition to build the largest rocket in history even bigger than the massive Saturn V. Though essentially just a recombining of legacy shuttle componentry, the program has been beset with cost overruns and program delays with no end in sight. While insiders have viewed the SLS project and many others like it as the bridge to nowhere, the corporatist and institutional inertia has been full-throated in its denunciation of SpaceX. Today, no one is sure whether SLS will ever deliver, but the program nonetheless gets plenty of political support to bring Soviet-style jobs back home.

Many ask what the real difference is between traditional space companies and these commercial or private, so-called next-generation companies. Both hire from the same universities, and quite often next generation founders spring from the traditional. They both perform on contracts with the government, though the next generation prefer competitive fixed price contracts to enable a more streamlined management structure. The principal difference is that the companies in the new economy are founded and self-directed with a purpose and vision of their own choosing, not ones directed by a government mission. Unlike the earlier generation of companies that were lured with cost plus contracts to leave commercial aviation or truck building to develop bombers and tanks, this new generation of companies exists for its own unique vision. They are also eager to leverage their founding vision and purpose to help solve national needs at competitive, fixed prices. These companies are less interested in management advice from Washington bureaucrats and more interested in competing to leverage their potential and deliver eye-watering capabilities, much like SpaceX just did.

Our traditional Cold War space industry isnt bad but, just as with any other wartime industry, it desperately needs to be transformed to be relevant for the 21st century. We have the best engineering talent in the world that is far superior to any other. Unfortunately, most of them are still working in a Soviet style industry that only grows when the government does. A pivot to further unleashing private industry and following its lead rather than directing it will elicit even more clear winners.And once it is done, there will be no turning back.

Last centurys political industrial complex was necessary to win the first space race but is now an obstacle to winning the second. The government must shift to supporting and leveraging commercial ambitions (just as NASA demonstrated with SpaceX and Lockheed is doing with Blue Origin) to achieve even greater technically ambitious dreams. NASA's new model must prioritize commercial growth to achieve these goals and not compete against it with programs like SLS, best tossed into the ash heap of history. It must be one that promotes free enterprise by leveraging entrepreneurial vision and private capital; that rewards well-led companies and not just the well postured; and that prevents politicians from choosing the winners and losers of the Final Frontier.

The U.S. commercial space industry has now shown that it can replace the space shuttle at a fraction of the cost. We must go the rest of the way, and NASA must be reborn for a new purpose and a new century's vision. By repurposing every mission in this fashion, the terrestrial free market economy will expand responsibly with even greater earth science knowledge and an interplanetary economy of unlimited growth will be unleashed, the ultimate dream since the first telescope pointed towards the heavens. Lori Garvers grand experiment is complete, and the results are in. Its time to go back to the drawing board to save billions, promote real commerce and unleash the Americas greatest asset: our spirit of adventure and the freedom to run, soar, and now orbit - as far as our hearts will take us.

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NASA to remove offensive nicknames for planets, galaxies and nebulae – Houston Chronicle

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The glowing remains of a star, blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life, is officially called planetary nebula NGC 2392. But as a nickname, it has been called the "Eskimo Nebula."

NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, have been called the "Siamese Twins Galaxy."

No more.

NASA announced Wednesday that it's reexamining the unofficial nicknames used to describe distant cosmic objects.

Related: Would humanity have been ready if Comet NEOWISE was hurtling toward Earth?

"As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field, it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful," the news release said. "NASA is examining its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion."

Removing the "Eskimo Nebula" and "Siamese Twins Galaxy" nicknames is an initial step, and the agency said it will use only the official, International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate.

"These nicknames and terms may have historical or culture connotations that are objectionable or unwelcoming, and NASA is strongly committed to addressing them," Stephen T. Shih, Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, said in the news release. "Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive.

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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is fine and out of ‘safe mode’ – Space.com

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You can breathe easy now: All is officially well with NASA's newly launched Mars rover Perseverance.

Perseverance went into a protective "safe mode" shortly after its liftoff yesterday (July 30) because part of the spacecraft got a bit colder than expected when it zoomed through Earth's shadow.

NASA officials stressed at the time that this development was not particularly concerning and that Perseverance, the centerpiece of the agency's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, would likely bounce back quickly. That optimism was borne out: The rover has exited safe mode and resumed normal operations, mission team members announced today (July 31).

Live Updates: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance mission in real time

"With safe mode exit, the team is getting down to the business of interplanetary cruise," Mars 2020 deputy project manager Matt Wallace, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in an update today. "Next stop, Jezero Crater."

Perseverance will land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero on Feb. 18, 2021. The crater harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago, and the car-sized rover will search the area for signs of ancient life and characterize its geology in detail.

Perseverance will also collect and cache several dozen samples on Mars, which a joint NASA/European Space Agency campaign will return to Earth, possibly as early as 2031.

Related: The Mars Perseverance rover mission in photos

Mars 2020 will also conduct several technology demonstrations. For example, one of Perseverance's instruments will generate oxygen from Mars' carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere. The mission also features a small helicopter called Ingenuity, which will attempt to make the first-ever rotorcraft flights in the skies of another world.

Mars 2020 is one of three missions currently winging their way toward the Red Planet. The United Arab Emirates' Hope orbiter and China's Tianwen-1 orbiter-lander-rover mission launched on July 19 and July 23, respectively. All of these craft are scheduled to arrive at Mars in February 2021.

Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.

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NASA Administrator Statement on the Passing of Mike Freilich – PRNewswire

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of Mike Freilich, passionate explorer and former director of NASA's Earth Science Division:

"Our planet has lost a true champion with the passing of Mike Freilich. NASA sends our condolences to his loved ones, and the entire NASA Family shares their loss.

"As the head of NASA Earth Science, Mike was known for his diligence and an unwavering commitment to accuracy and making sure the science was strong. His oversize passion for all things related to expanding knowledge about the complex systems of our planet saw an incredible diversity of missions launch on his watch. Mike never avoided the tough decisions, but his deep expertise and innate love of science helped our agency to innovate and expand the ways it observes our home planet.

"Mike's excellence as a scientist is well known. His dedication to oceanography and helping train the next generation of scientific leaders was inspiring. He won numerous awards throughout his career, and it was NASA's honor to join our colleagues at the European Space Agency, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites,and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to name the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission for him. This satellite will gather critical information about the oceans for which Mike had such an abiding passion.

"Mike wept openly as he signed the launch vehicle for IceSat2, his last launch as Earth Science director. It was a testament to how much being able to work on missions that helped us to better understand our planet and improve life across it meant to him.

"At NASA, we pledge to carry on that work and build on the legacy that Mike has left us. His presence will continue to be felt across the agency and our planet, in space and in our hearts."

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NASA Astronauts Shoot Music Video In Space, ‘It’s a Great Day To Be Alive’ – TMZ

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Country music star Travis Tritt is not rotating around the Earth, but his music is getting some serious space spins ... because NASA astronauts made their own fun video to his hit song!!!

NASA commander Chris Cassidy is the astronaut in the center of this awesome homage to Travis' hit, "It's a Great Day To Be Alive."

Chris and the other folks onboard the International Space Station are doing alright 250 miles above Earth ... they got rice cooking in the microwave and some homemade soup ... so Chris says they're feeling pretty good and that's the truth.

As for the musical choice, Chris says NASA's Expedition 63 crew "is very much aware of the hard times which exist in the neighborhoods of the world rotating below," and he wants folks to remember ... "Cherish the people you love."

Chris ends with some words to live by, whether you're firmly planted on terra firma ... "Even amid the uncertainty and difficulties of battling through these challenging times, we encourage everyone to be the best 'crewmates' and take care of each other."

Thank you ,Chris ... and Travis.

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Treating the Mental and Physical Symptoms of Psoriasis – Allure

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For the eight million Americans living with psoriasis, the mental impact can be as great as the physical one. A dermatologist and psychologist weigh in on why treatment must address both burdens.

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By Joel Gelfand, a professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and director of the schools Psoriasis and Phototherapy Treatment Center.

I worked on a survey that found 30-40 percent of people in the United States think psoriasis is contagious they dont want to shake the hand of someone with psoriasis. Think about that. If one in every three people that you run into on the street is going to have that view of your skin, thats a really challenging thing to cope with. Psoriasis can be socially isolating and cause people to feel anxious and depressed.

Psoriasis is not contagious. Its a common autoimmune disease of the skin, in which your body recognizes a normal skin protein as abnormal and tries to get rid of it by making skin flake off. This results in large, thick, scaly plaques that crack and bleed, and can be painful and itchy. The areas it impacts can vary, but some of the most sensitive are the scalp, face, genitals, and fingernails. A lot of patients wont wear short sleeves or shorts because their knees or elbows are affected. The typical onset is in young adulthood, but Ive seen it in infants all the way up to a patient in her 80s, who experienced it for the first time after her sister died. Studies have shown that people facing major life events are at higher risk of developing psoriasis, and that patients with psoriasis report higher levels of stress. Theres a cyclical relationship.

As tough a disease as psoriasis is, we do have a variety of ways of treating it. It can take weeks or months to see results. When the disease is localized, people like topical medications, which decrease the growth of excess skin cells [that make up psoriasis plaques]. But they may not work for some patients, and theyre inconvenient, especially if a lot of areas are affected. Pills can reduce the overactive immune response, but some can prompt gastrointestinal symptoms. Injectable medications, called biologics, are highly effective but expensive, and can make people slightly more prone to infection because they decrease immune activity in the body. My lab is researching at-home UV phototherapy, which would be more widely available than office-based ones.

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Cloud Computing in Education Sector Industry Market Analysis And Demand With Forecast Overview To 2025 – CueReport

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Troubled Freedom Foods keeps it in the family for now – The Australian Financial Review

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Investors were told the company grew too quickly with not enough oversight and that it now had too many different products. Demand for products remained strong, the company said.

"There is a need for executive ownership and accountability to implement the operational turnaround. This cannot wait for an external search for a new CEO to be completed," the company said in a statement.

"Michael Perich has a deep understanding of the business and will provide the stability, focus and leadership required as the company manages the issues that have been previously reported to the ASX."

The company said Mr Perich's incentive arrangements would be established at a later date.

Mr Perich has previously acted as a Freedom non-executive alternate director for Ron Perich, and was also director of dairy farm operations at the Perichs' Leppington Pastoral Company as well as joint managing director of Australian Fresh Milk Holdings.

Executive chairman Perry Gunner will resume his role as chairman. The company also flagged "further board rejuvenation" after appointing new directors Jane McKellar and Genevieve Gregor, a former Goldman Sachs banker, earlier this year. Ms McKellar is overseeing the chief executive search process.

Freedom Foods said it intended to conduct an external process for a permanent CEO "at the appropriate time once the operational turnaround is sufficiently progressed".

Freedom Foods, whose brands include Messy Monkeys and Milk Lab, has appointed a number of advisers to conduct a review into the company, including Moelis, PWC and Ashurst.

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The ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin: ascensio Iesu, lit.'ascent of Jesus') is the Christian teaching that Christ physically departed from Earth by rising into Heaven, in the presence of eleven of his apostles. According to the New Testament narrative, the ascension occurred 40 days after the resurrection. In the Christian tradition, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, God exalted Jesus after his death, raising him from the dead and taking him to Heaven, where Jesus took his seat at the right hand of God.

In Christian art, the ascending Jesus is often shown blessing an earthly group below him, signifying the entire Church. The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday; the Orthodox tradition has a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition, and while the Anglican Communion continues to observe the feast, many Protestant churches have abandoned the observance.

In Islam, Jesus was neither crucified nor raised from the dead, and according to the Quran, he was rather saved by God and raised to Heaven.

LukeActs, a single work from the same anonymous author, provides the only narrative account of the ascension. Luke chapter 24 tells how Jesus leads the eleven disciples to Bethany, a village on the Mount of Olives, where he instructs them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." (The corresponding scene in Matthew chapter 28 ends abruptly with the Great Commission, with no mention of an ascension.) The biblical narrative in Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Apostles takes place 40 days after the resurrection. Acts 1 describes a meal at which Jesus commands the disciples to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is taken up from the disciples in their sight, a cloud hides him from view, and two men in white appear to tell them that he will return "in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." Luke and Acts appear to describe the same event, but present quite different chronologies, Luke placing it on the same day as the resurrection and Acts forty days afterwards; various proposals have been put forward to resolve the contradiction, but the question remains open.

The Gospel of John has three references to ascension in Jesus' own words: "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the son of man" (John 3:13); "What if you (the disciples) were to see the son of man ascending where he was before?" (John 6:62); and to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to my father..." (John 20:17). In the first and second Jesus is claiming to be the apocalyptic "one like a son of man" of Daniel 7; the last has mystified commentators why should Mary be prohibited from touching the risen but not yet ascended Christ, while Thomas is later invited to do so?

Various epistles (Romans 8:34, Ephesians 1:1920, Colossians 3:1, Philippians 2:911, 1 Timothy 3:16, and 1 Peter 3:2122) also refer to an ascension, seeming, like LukeActs and John, to equate it with the post-resurrection "exaltation" of Jesus to the right hand of God. There is a broad consensus among scholars that the brief ascension account in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:19) is a later addition to the original version of that gospel.

In Christian theology, the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus are the most important events, and a foundation of the Christian faith. The early followers of Jesus believed that God had vindicated Jesus after his death, as reflected in the stories about his resurrection, ascension, and exaltation. The early followers of Jesus soon believed that Jesus was raised as first of the dead, taken into Heaven, and exaltated, taking the seat at the right hand of God in Heaven, as stated in the Apostles' Creed: "He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty." Psalms 110:1 played an essential role in this interpretation of Jesus' death and the resurrection appearances: "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." It provided an interpretative frame for Jesus' followers to make sense of his death and the resurrection appearances.

Ascension stories were fairly common around the time of Jesus and the gospel-authors, signifying the deification of a noteworthy person (usually a Roman Emperor), and in Judaism as an indication of divine approval. Another function of heavenly ascent was as a mode of divine revelation reflected in Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian literary sources, in which particular individuals with prophetic or revelatory gifts are thought to have experienced a heavenly journey during which they learned cosmic and divine secrets.

Figures familiar to Jews would have included Enoch (from the Book of Genesis and a popular non-Biblical work called 1 Enoch); the 5th-century sage Ezra; Baruch the companion of the prophet Jeremiah (from a work called 2 Baruch, in which Baruch is promised he will ascend to heaven after 40 days); Levi the ancestor of priests; the Teacher of Righteousness from the Qumran community; the prophet Elijah (from 2 Kings); Moses, who was deified on entering heaven; and the children of Job, who according to the Testament of Job ascended heaven following their resurrection from the dead.

Non-Jewish readers would have been familiar with the case of the emperor Augustus, whose ascent was witnessed by Senators; Romulus the founder of Rome, who, like Jesus, was taken to heaven in a cloud; the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules); and others.

The cosmology of the author of Luke-Acts reflects the beliefs of his age, which envisioned a three-part cosmos with the heavens above, an Earth centered on Jerusalem in the middle, and the underworld below. Heaven was separated from the Earth by the firmament, the visible sky, a solid inverted bowl where God's palace sat on pillars in the celestial sea. Humans looking up from Earth saw the floor of Heaven, made of clear blue lapis-lazuli (Exodus 24:9-10), as was God's throne (Ezekiel 1:26). According to Dunn, "the typical mind-set and worldview of the time conditioned what was actually seen and how the recording of such seeings was conceptualized," and "departure into heaven could only be conceived in terms of 'being taken up ', a literal ascension."

In modern times, a literal reading of the ascension-stories has become problematic, due to the differences between the pre-scientific cosmology of the times of Jesus, and the scientific worldview that leaves no place for a Heaven above us. Theologian James Dunn describes the ascension as at best a puzzle and at worst an embarrassment for an age that no longer conceives of a physical Heaven located above the Earth. Similarly, in the words of McGill University's Douglas Farrow, in modern times the Ascension is seen less as the climax of the mystery of Christ than as "something of an embarrassment in the age of the telescope and the space probe," an "idea [that] conjures up an outdated cosmology."

Yet, according to Dunn, a sole focus on this disparity is beside the real importance of Jesus' ascension, namely the resurrection and subsequent exaltation of Jesus. Farrow notes that, already in the third century, the ascension-story was read by Origen in a mystical way, as an "ascension of the mind rather than of the body," representing one of two basic ascension theologies. The real problem is the fact that Jesus is both present and absent, an ambiguity which points to a "something more" to which the eucharist gives entry.[note 1]

The Feast of the Ascension is a major feast day of the Christian liturgical year, along with the Passion, Easter, Pentecost, and Christmas. Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated on the sixth Thursday after Easter Sunday, the fortieth day from Easter day, although some Roman Catholic provinces have moved the observance to the following Sunday to facilitate the obligation to attend Mass. Saint Jerome held that it was of apostolic origin, but in fact the ascension was originally part of Pentecost (the coming of the Holy Spirit), and developed as a separate celebration only slowly from the late 4th century onward. In the Catholic tradition it begins with a three-day "rogation" to ask for God's mercy, and the feast itself includes a procession of torches and banners symbolising Christ's journey to the Mount of Olives and entry into Heaven, the extinguishing of the Paschal candle, and an all-night vigil; white is the liturgical colour. The Eastern Orthodox tradition has a slightly different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition. The feast was retained at the Protestant Reformation. It continues to be observed in Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, and most Reformed churches. Most other Protestant churches do not celebrate it as they do not adhere to the traditional Christian calendar of feasts.

The ascension has been a frequent subject in Christian art. By the 6th century, the iconography of the ascension had been established and by the 9th century, ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches. The Rabbula Gospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the ascension. Many ascension scenes have two parts, an upper (Heavenly) part and a lower (earthly) part. The ascending Christ may be carrying a resurrection banner or make a sign of benediction with his right hand. The blessing gesture by Christ with his right hand is directed towards the earthly group below him and signifies that he is blessing the entire Church. In the left hand, he may be holding a Gospel or a scroll, signifying teaching and preaching.

The Eastern Orthodox portrayal of the ascension is a major metaphor for the mystical nature of the Church. In many Eastern icons the Virgin Mary is placed at the center of the scene in the earthly part of the depiction, with her hands raised towards Heaven, often accompanied by various Apostles. The upwards-looking depiction of the earthly group matches the Eastern liturgy on the Feast of the Ascension: "Come, let us rise and turn our eyes and thoughts high..."

The traditional site of the ascension is Mount Olivet (the "Mount of Olives"), on which the village of Bethany sits. Before the conversion of Constantine in 312 AD, early Christians honored the ascension of Christ in a cave on the Mount, and by 384 the ascension was venerated on the present site, uphill from the cave.[citation needed]

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called "Eleona Basilica" (elaion in Greek means "olive garden", from elaia "olive tree", and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning "mercy"). This church was destroyed by Sassanid Persians in 614. It was subsequently rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again by the Crusaders. This final church was later destroyed by Muslims, leaving only a 1212 meter octagonal structure (called a martyrium"memorial"or "Edicule") that remains to this day.[citation needed][43] The site was ultimately acquired by two emissaries of Saladin in the year 1198 and has remained in the possession of the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem ever since. The Russian Orthodox Church also maintains a convent of the ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives.

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Ascension Wisconsin Spirit Medical Transport is hosting a blood drive next week to help the Community Blood Center get badly needed blood supplies.

Ascension EMS Outreach Coordinator Matt Thompson tells us more..

"We wanted to help the Community Blood Center and the communities we serve once we learned that many of our local blood drives were canceled over the last few months due to the pandemic. So we wanted to host a blood drive and help them out, so we're doing so on Tuesday, August 4th from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at our Spirit 2 helicopter hanger on the campus of Howard Young Medical Center in Woodruff...."

Thompson says they're making an extra effort so donation can be done safely with personal protective equipment. He says one donation can save up to three lives. He says the donation also helps the Spirit aircraft and ambulances...

"We like to have as many tools as possible in our ambulances and aircraft available for patients losing large amounts of blood. That could be due to a trauma situation or a gastrointestinal situation, anywhere where you are losing large amounts of blood. Everyone of our ambulances and aircraft carry two units of "O"-negative blood..."

Thompson says to schedule an appointment, contact Community Blood Center or Spirit. You can also register online at communityblood.org. Walk-in donations are welcome based on availability.

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It looks set to be a great month for stargazers across the country, with some of the best astronomical events taking place over the next few weeks.

From the stunning Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower to an out-of-this-world view of Mercury, July has been an epic month for show-stopping celestial events.

But luckily for those who may have missed seeing any, August also has a stellar line-up of dazzling astronomical displays to look forward to.

Not only will space enthusiasts be in for a chance to see the planet Venus, but will also be treated to two very special meteor showers!

Best of all, most will all be easy to spot in the sky without needing to fork out for any high-tech camera or telescopes.

Scroll down to see whats ahead to get excited about over the next few weeks.

On this night, the moon will be fully illuminated as it appears on the opposite side of the earth as the sun, resulting in a full moon.

In early native American tribes, this particular full moon was often called sturgeon moon because large sturgeon fish of the Great Lakes and other major lakes were more easily caught around this time of year.

For your best chance of seeing it, wait until its fully dark outside, and if you can, head to an area with little light pollution.

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best stargazing events of the year.

At it's peak, the display can produce as many as 150 meteors an hour.

The shower takes place every year as the Earth ploughs through dusty debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle.

As the particles, ranging in size from a grain of sand to a pea, hit the Earths atmosphere at 60km (37 miles) per second, they burn up and streak across the sky.

The best part about the Perseid meteor shower is that you can see it with the naked eye so there's no need for an expensive telescope or camera to enjoy it.

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To catch a glimpse of Venus, look low in the eastern sky a little before sunrise.

During this time Venus will reach its greatest western elongation of 45.8 degrees from the sun.

This will be the best opportunity to see the planet as it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the morning sky.

During a new moon, the moon and sun have the same elliptical longitude, meaning the lunar disk is not visible from earth.

This month, the phase will occur at 2.42am.

As there is no moonlight interference, this is the best time of the month to observe faint objects such as galaxies and star clusters.

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Astronomers have found another strange exoplanet in a distant solar system. This ones an oddball because its size is intermediate between Earth and Neptune, yet its 50% more massive than Neptune.

Astronomers have found what they call puff planets in other Solar Systems. Those are planets that are a few times more massive than Earth, but with radii much larger than Neptunes. But this planet is the opposite of that: its much more massive than Neptune, but it also has a much smaller radius. Super-dense, not super-puffy.

This oddball planet is calling into question our understanding of how planets form.

Astronomers with the National Science Foundation NOIRLab studied the planet and presented their findings in a paper titled The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b. Lead author is Gudmundur Stefansson, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. The paper will be published in The Astronomical Journal and is available at arxiv.org.

The Kepler mission found the planet in 2016. It orbits K2-25, an M-dwarf star in the Hyades star cluster. K2-25b orbits its star every 3.5 days. According to this study, it has a mass of about 24.5 Earth masses, and a radius of about 3.4 Earth radii. In the intro to their study, the authors write that These properties are compatible with a rocky core enshrouded by a thin hydrogen-helium atmosphere (5% by mass).

The planet caught the interest of astronomers partly because its a sub-Neptune planet. A sub-Neptune can have either a mass larger than Neptunes along with a smaller radius, like this one, or it can be less massive than Neptune, but with a larger radius. Either way, sub-Neptunes conflict with our models of planet formation. Understanding how these types of planets form is a critical question right now, on the frontier of exoplanet science.

K2-25b is unusual, said lead researcher Gudmundur Stefansson, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. The planet is dense for its size and age, in contrast to other young, sub-Neptune-sized planets that orbit close to their host star, said Stefansson in a press release. Usually these worlds are observed to have low densities and some even have extended evaporating atmospheres. K2-25b, with the measurements in hand, seems to have a dense core, either rocky or water-rich, with a thin envelope.

Astronomical models show that large planets form with a rocky core first. The initial mass for a core is modest, perhaps only 5 to 10 times more massive than the Earth itself. Then gas gathers around the core, creating a gaseous envelope thats hundreds of times more massive than Earth. The gas giant Jupiter likely formed this way.

But a planets like K2-25b seem to show that our understanding is incomplete. It appears to have an enormously massive rocky core, with very little gaseous envelope. Its unusual properties pose a couple questions: How did it end up with such a massive rocky core? And, since it has such a massive core, how come it doesnt have a large gaseous envelope?

While we dont fully understand how K2-25band other planets like itform, this planet is a sort of natural laboratory for studying them. Given its known age and well characterized orbital parameters, the authors write in their paper, K2-25b is a benchmark system to study M-dwarf planet formation and subsequent dynamics, giving us further insights into the formation and migration mechanisms that produce other hot Neptune exoplanets.

Given its large core, it shouldve acquired an enormous gaseous envelope. That fact that it didnt gives rise to several possibilities. One of those possibilities, the authors suggest, is that the rocky core formed through mergers. To explain its currently observed mass, we surmise that K2-25b could be the product of planet merging events of smaller planetary cores to produce a more massive planet.

That explanation also has the added benefit of accounting for the planets orbital eccentricity. They write: Such a dynamical environment could have excited K2-25b into an eccentric orbit, and K2-25b could be in the process of migrating to a shorter period orbit through tidal interactions with the host star.

Discoveries like this one are frequently the result of technological advances. Instruments like SPHERE, on the European Southern Observatorys (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), are responsible for many recent discoveries. But in this case, the piece of technology that made it possible was a $500 off-the-shelf diffuser. Lead researcher Gudmundur Stefansson developed a way of using Engineered Diffusers in his doctoral thesis.

An Engineered Diffuser spreads out the light from a star so that it covers more pixels on the camera. That allows the brightness of the star during the planets transit to be measured more accurately, which results in a higher-precision measurement of the size of the orbiting planet, among other parameters. The innovative diffuser allowed us to better define the shape of the transit and thereby further constrain the size, density and composition of the planet, said Jayadev Rajagopal, an astronomer at NOIRLab who was also involved in the study.

K2-25b is posing some important questions for astronomers. Answers to these questions will have to wait, but maybe not for too long. K2-25b is a prime candidate for follow-up observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb will have powerful onboard coronagraphs which will block out the light of exo-suns, making it easier to see the orbiting planets. Itll also observe in infrared, something that itll excel at from its position at L2.

The Gemini South Telescopes GHOST (Gemini High Resolution Optical SpecTrograph) also has K2-25b on its list of targets. Its a spectrograph with a wide simultaneous wavelength coverage at high observational efficiency according to the website. Itll be very effective at observing the atmosphere of planets like this one.

More observations with GHOST and the JWST may not answer all the questions that K2-15b poses about planet formation. But they will expand the boundaries of what we do and dont know about it. In the mean-time, maybe more astronomers will come up with low-budget ways of addressing them.

The diffuser that made this study so effective was used with the WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). The 3.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory (APO) in New Mexico was also part of the study. The National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory(NOIRLab) includes the Gemini Observatory, the Kitt Peak Obsevatory, as well as several other facilities and the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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How 9/11 and the US Civil War provided the framework for federal agents in Portland – News@Northeastern

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Federal agents have begun to withdraw from Portland, Oregon, where they were stationed to protect federal property and personnel amid protests in the city, despite objection by local leaders. But, their authority to be there in the first place has deep roots.

Legislation passed just after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 designed to protect the U.S. from national security threats; and judicial expansion just after the Civil War designed to ensure southern states adhered to Reconstruction-era laws provide the framework for what we see today, says Northeastern law professor Michael Meltsner.

Michael Meltsner is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews distinguished university professor of law in the Northeastern University School of Law. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Federal presence in Portland is both authorized and problematic, says Meltsner, who is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law.

Authorities in the Trump administration say that the federal agents, who were deployed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, are in Portland to protect federal property and personnel. The federal force is composed of officers from Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement who back up the Federal Protective Service, which is already responsible for protecting federal property, according to The New York Times.

On July 29, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced that the forces would begin withdrawing from the state beginning July 30.

The federal agents arrived after weeks of protests in the city against racial injusticeprotests that had already been met with aggressive tactics from local police that were criticized by local officials including the governor, speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, and some city councilors.

President Donald J. Trump has also threatened to send as many as 75,000 federal agents to other U.S. cities to quell protests there as well, even as local authorities in Portland, including Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, have implored the agency to stand down, and the Oregon attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, have sued.

But federal officials say they have clear authority. Representatives from Customs and Border Protection cited a section of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, legislation passed after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

The act gives the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security the authority to protect the buildings, grounds, and property that are owned, occupied, or secured by the federal government and the persons on the property. The law was designed to protect the U.S. national security threats such as those perpetrated on 9/11, Meltsner says.

The agents in Oregon were there ostensibly, then, to protect federal propertyincluding the federal courthouse in downtown Portlandfrom protesters, he says.

To the extent that this is all they were doing, it would seem non-controversial, Meltsner says.

But news media reports from the city show what appear to be plain-clothes federal agents forcing protesters into unmarked vans.

If that were the case, Meltsner says, the agents would be in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects U.S. citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures.

In that case, just because federal agents have nominal authority under a federal statute, it doesnt mean that they can violate peoples constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, Meltsner says. From what Ive read in the papers, it would appear that these federal agents are interfering with the liberty of the people without any cause.

A state official could decide to take a federal agent to court over an alleged violation. Often, however, such cases are not tried in a state courthouse, theyre removed to the federal court system to be triedor, as is often the case, dismissedthere, Meltsner says.

This act of removal is a judicial power that was created during the Reconstruction period in the U.S., roughly 1863 to 1875. During the years after the Civil War, progressive congressmen passed legislation that would ensure the rights of formerly enslaved people in the countryincluding the passage of the Fourteenth Amendmentand sent federal agents to various Southern states to enforce that legislation.

White officials in those Southern states, reluctant to apply the new legislation to formerly enslaved people in their states, tried to find ways to prosecute the federal agents enforcing the laws, Meltsner says. In order to protect the agents and the rights of Black people, Congress allowed cases that had begun in state courts to be taken out of them and tried in federal courts, where they were often dismissed, he says.

Now, Meltsner says, the same tactics may be used to protect the federal agents allegedly acting unlawfully in Oregon.

Basically, whats happening in Portland now could ultimately involve the same tactics used by the Justice Department to protect these federal agents during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, Meltsner says.

And, he adds, although the focus on federal intervention in the city is warranted, its just as important to examine the behavior of the city and state police before federal agents arrived.

Based on the news reports, it would appear that there was an incredible amount of First Amendment and Fourth Amendment violation from the Portland Police Department, Meltsner says. This is certainly an evolving situation, with a lot of questions to be answered about what, exactly, is going on.

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Ethereums rally peaked at $418 on Aug. 2 only to crash to $302 within 10 minutes on Binance Futures, a 25%drop in one day. It rebounded to $385, a 27%upsurge in five minutes. Ethereums volatility coincided with Bitcoins, which dropped from $12,000 to $10,600 within 15 minutes.

Analysts are pointing to Ethereums historical charts and numerous liquidations happening at the same time that lead to the sudden drop in price for the worlds second largest cryptocurrency.

Upon reaching $418, ETH was at a level it has not reached since August 2018. It also acted as a support level when it was first broken in November 2017, one month before Bitcoins all-time highand two months before ETHs own price ceiling. There is historical pressure at $418 that analysts think breaching it would lead to a fresh round of upsurge for the cryptocurrency.

At the $420 resistance, numerous sell orders were triggered, which led to a price drop that exacerbated a cascade of futures liquidations, Forbesreported. Analyst Joseph Young said that as soon as long contracts get liquidated, the holder would be forced to sell the contract, which heightened the selling pressure.

Across futures markets on all assets, $1.1 billion worth of positions were liquidated from $70,000 traders, said Larry Cermak, director of research at The Block. $400 million was liquidated on each OKEx and Huobi; followed by BitMEX ($164M) and Binance ($86), he added.

Cermak also said that on BitMEX, $647 million came from Bitcoin futures and while Ethereum futures accounted for $165 million of liquidations.

Analysts do not see the $420 rejection as a sign that the surge has ended. The basis for the rally is the upcoming Ethereum 2.0, said Kelvin Koh, co-founder of crypto firm Spartan Black. Depending on how hard ETH runs, the successful launch of phase 0 may culminate in a near term peak for ETH and other large caps, he told Forbes.

Su Zhu, CEO of Three Arrows Capital, arguesthat people who are bullish on Bitcoin and stablecoins but not Ethereum is also one reason why it is outperforming the benchmark cryptocurrency. The best alpha opportunities are when you can recognize the collective blind spot of the market, he posted on Twitter.

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EOS rose by 0.71% on Wednesday. Reversing a 0.53% decline from Tuesday, EOS ended the day at $3.0510.

A bearish start to the day saw EOS fall to an early morning intraday low $3.0015 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $2.9556, EOS rallied to a late afternoon intraday high $3.0986.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $3.1055, EOS slid back to a low $3.0055 before finding late support.

A final hour move back through to $3.05 levels delivered the upside on the day.

At the time of writing, EOS was down by 0.16% to $3.0460. A mixed start to the day saw EOS rise to an early morning high $3.0670 before falling to a low $3.0447.

EOS left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

EOS would need to move through the $3.0504 pivot level to support a run at the first major resistance level at $3.0992.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for EOS to break out from Wednesdays high $3.0986.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Wednesdays high would likely cap any upside.

Failure to move through the $3.0504 pivot would bring the first major support level at $3.0021 into play.

Barring an extended sell-off, EOS should steer clear of the second major support level at $2.9533.

First Major Support Level: $3.0021

Pivot Level: $3.0504

First Major Resistance Level: $3.0992

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $6.62

38% FIB Retracement Level: $9.76

62% FIB Retracement Level: $14.82

Ethereum rallied by 2.94% on Wednesday. Following on from a 0.92% gain from Tuesday, Ethereum ended the day at $401.21.

A mixed start to the day saw Ethereum fall to an early morning intraday low $383.86 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $379.11, Ethereum rallied to a late intraday high $408.00.

Ethereum broke through the first major resistance level at $402.08 before sliding back to sub-$400 levels.

Finding late support, however, Ethereum moved back through to $401 levels to end the day in the green.

At the time of writing, Ethereum was down by 0.61% to $398.80. A mixed start to the day saw Ethereum rise to an early morning high $404.03 before falling to a low $398.13.

Ethereum left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

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Ethereum would need to avoid a fall through the $397.69 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $411.52.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ethereum to break out from Wednesdays high $408.00.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level should cap any upside.

A fall through the $397.69 pivot would bring the first major support level at $387.38 into play.

Barring an extended sell-off, however, Ethereum should steer clear of sub-$380 levels. The second major support level sits at $373.55.

First Major Support Level: $387.38

Pivot Level: $397.69

First Major Resistance Level: $411.52

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $257

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $367

62% FIB Retracement Level: $543

Ripples XRP rose by 0.38% on Wednesday. Following a 2.90% fall on Tuesday, Ripples XRP ended the day at $0.30239.

A bearish start to the day saw Ripples XRP fall to an early morning intraday low $0.29086 before finding support.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $0.2880, Ripples XRP rose to an early afternoon intraday high $0.30795.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $0.3157, Ripples XRP fell back to sub-$0.30 levels before finding late support.

At the time of writing, Ripples XRP was down by 0.32% to $0.30141 A mixed start to the day saw Ripples XRP rise to an early morning high $0.30353 before falling to a low $0.30070

Ripples XRP left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Ripples XRP will need to avoid a fall through the $0.3004 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.3099.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ripples XRP to break out from Wednesdays high $0.30795.

Barring another broad-based crypto rally, the first major resistance level should cap any upside.

In the event of a breakout, the 23.6% FIB of 0.3134 and the second major resistance level at $0.3175 could come into play.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $0.3004 pivot would bring the first major support level at $0.2929 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, Ripples XRP should avoid sub-$0.29 levels, however. The second major support level sits at $0.2833.

First Major Support Level: $0.2929

Pivot Level: $0.3004

First Major Resistance Level: $0.3099

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.3638

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.4800

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.6678

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Decentralised platform Ethereum is hiring a dedicated security team for 2.0 – Developer Tech

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The Ethereum Foundation is hiring a dedicated security team to ensure the next version of the decentralised platform is as robust as it needs to be.

A lot of money relies on the security of Ethereum. The explosion in DeFi (decentralised finance) means there is now $4.3 billion locked up in Ethereum apps an increase of 442% over the past three months. Yet, this is tiny compared to the figures we could be discussing in a few years as DeFi growth continues and more use cases present themselves across various industries.

Ethereums key advantage is being the first mover in the smart contracts space and garnering a legion of support behind it. There are currently around 200,000 active Ethereum developers and a recent initiative launched with the aim of attracting one million. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Enterprise includes hundreds of giants like Intel, Microsoft, JP Morgan, and more.

Long story short, a lot of people and companies are relying on Ethereum. Security is paramount.

Justin Drake, an Ethereum 2.0 researcher, announced the start of the recruitment process for a dedicated security team on Twitter:

The Ethereum Foundation has put a focus on security in recent months as preparation for the rollout of Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 increases. Last month, the foundation launched two Ethereum 2.0 attack networks for hackers to try and break in return for a bounty. Various exploits have been discovered and patched through the initiative.

In its current form, Ethereum 1.0 is now struggling. The slow transaction speeds and increasing fees havent been too much of an issue for projects needs until this point, but now theyre quickly becoming a hindrance. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently said that many large organisations are waiting to join Ethereums ecosystem but first want a solution to its limited bandwidth.

Buterin proposed the Scalability Trilemma in the early days of Ethereum which suggests that its impossible to have complete decentralisation, scalability, and security. Platforms need to decide what to prioritise.

Competitors like EOS have demonstrated speeds of up to around 9,000 TPS but at the expense of decentralisation. Of course, its decentralisation which attracts people to the likes of Ethereum and Bitcoin over the many centralised alternatives which offer high scalability and security.

There are Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum, like Matic, already available which can process transactions in the tens of thousands per second by taking less sensitive data off-chain. Anything which needs the security and decentralisation of Ethereum can be processed on-chain.

Rollups is a Buterin-backed solution which could boost Ethereum 1.0 up to around 3,000 TPS for Visa-level scalability (estimated to be around 1,700 TPS based on a calculation derived from the official claim of over 150 million transactions per day). This is sufficient for the vast majority of DApps for now.

Buterin expects rollups, in the first phase of Ethereum 2.0, to enable up to 100,000 TPS. Longer term, sharding may allow Ethereum to process over a million transactions per second. These are impressive figures which could unlock some exciting new use cases in areas like smart cities.

Some Ethereum developers believe the initial rollout of 2.0 will slip into next year. Others, including Buterin, still expect the rollout to begin this year and believe that it should launch even if initially rough as eth2 is not going to have any critical applications depending on it until phase 1, so the practical risks of breakage are lower.

Promising competitors like Cardano are on the heels of Ethereum offering some incentive to get 2.0 ready before developers look elsewhere. However, its clear there is still life left in Ethereum 1.0 if the likes of rollups can be used to reduce network congestion in the meantime.

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EOS, Ethereum and Ripples XRP Daily Tech Analysis July 31st, 2020 – Yahoo Finance

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EOS rose by 0.90% on Thursday. Following on from a 0.79% gain on Wednesday, EOS ended the day at $3.0540.

It was a bearish start to the day. EOS fell to a mid-morning intraday low $2.9638 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $2.9367, EOS rallied to a late intraday high $3.1066.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $3.1410, EOS slipped back to wrap up the day at sub-$3.10 levels.

At the time of writing, EOS was up by 0.15% to $3.0585. A bullish start to the day saw EOS rise from an early morning low $3.0535 to a high $3.0652.

EOS left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

EOS would need to avoid a fall through the $3.0415 pivot level to support a run at the first major resistance level at $3.1191.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for EOS to break out from Thursdays high $3.1066.

Barring another extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level at $3.1191 would likely cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $3.0415 pivot would bring the first major support level at $2.9763 into play.

Barring an extended sell-off, EOS should steer well clear of sub-$2.90 levels and the second major support level at $2.8987.

First Major Support Level: $2.9763

Pivot Level: $3.0415

First Major Resistance Level: $3.1191

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $6.62

38% FIB Retracement Level: $9.76

62% FIB Retracement Level: $14.82

Ethereum rallied by 5.39% on Thursday. Following a modest 0.20% rise from on Wednesday, Ethereum ended the day at $335.31.

A mixed start saw Ethereum fall to an early morning intraday low $314.52 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $311.93, Ethereum rallied to a late intraday high $342.40.

Ethereum broke through the first major resistance level at $325.12 and the second major resistance level at $332.08.

Coming up short of the third major resistance level at $345.27, Ethereum eased back to sub-$340 levels.

At the time of writing, Ethereum was up by 0.08% to $335.58. A bullish start to the day saw Ethereum rise from an early morning low $335.18 to a high $336.99.

Ethereum left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

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Ethereum would need to avoid a fall through the $330.74 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $347.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ethereum to break out form Thursdays high $342.40.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level should cap any upside.

A fall through the $330.74 pivot would bring the first major support level at $319 into play.

Barring an extended sell-off, however, Ethereum should steer well clear of the second major support level at $302.86.

First Major Support Level: $319

Pivot Level: $330.74

First Major Resistance Level: $347

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $257

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $367

62% FIB Retracement Level: $543

Ripples XRP rose by 0.36% on Thursday. Following on from Wednesdays 5.57% rally, Ripples XRP ended the day at $0.24462.

A bearish start to the day saw Ripples XRP fall to an early morning intraday low $0.23425 before finding support.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $0.2320, Ripples XRP rose to a late intraday high $0.25000.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $0.2530, Ripples XRP eased back to limit the upside on the day.

At the time of writing, Ripples XRP was down by 0.03% to $0.24454. A mixed start to the day saw Ripples XRP rise to an early morning high $0.24602 before falling to a low $0.24443.

Ripples XRP left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Ripples XRP will need to avoid a fall through the $0.2430 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.2517.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Ripples XRP to break out from Thursdays high $0.2500.

Barring another broad-based crypto rally, the first major resistance level should cap any upside.

In the event of a breakout, Ripples XRP should test the second major resistance level at $0.2587 before any pullback.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $0.2430 pivot would bring the first major support level at $0.2359 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, Ripples XRP should avoid sub-$0.23 levels and the second major support level at $0.2272.

First Major Support Level: $0.2359

Pivot Level: $0.2430

First Major Resistance Level: $0.2517

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.3638

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.4800

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.6678

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