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  1. LONDON (Reuters) - A blimp depicting Donald Trump as an orange, snarling nappy-wearing baby flew outside the British parliament in London on Friday, launched by critics of the U.S. president who are demonstrating throughout his visit to the country. Trump, who arrived on Thursday, said he would avoid London as much as possible to avoid the protests. “I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London,” he told the Sun newspaper. “I used to love London as a city. I haven’t been there in a long time. But when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?” Many British politicians regard close ties with the United States, which they call “the special relationship”, as a pillar of foreign policy and Prime Minister Theresa May has courted Trump before the country’s departure from the European Union. But some Britons see Trump as crude, volatile and opposed to their values on a range of issues. More than 64,000 people have signed up to demonstrate in London against the visit while other protests are expected around the country. Demonstrators float a blimp portraying U.S. President Donald Trump, next to a Union Flag above Parliament Square, during the visit by Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in London, Britain July 13, 2018. Around 1,000 people gathered to watch the blimp launch in Parliament Square, with organizers of the stunt wearing red boiler suits and baseball caps emblazoned with “TRUMP BABYSITTER”. Nicola Tanner, a 33-year-old public official from the southwestern city of Bristol, took the day off work to demonstrate. Wearing a t-shirt with the word “RESIST” on it, she said it was great that the blimp had “touched a nerve” with Trump. “It’s embarrassing how much our government is falling over themselves to try to appease someone who has no interest in any sort of give-and-take in the UK-U.S. relationship at all, and is so capricious he can change his mind between the end of one tweet and the start of the next one,” she told Reuters. After a countdown from 10, a cheer went up as the six-meter (20 foot) high balloon rose up. It hovered around 10 meters off the ground, next to the Westminster parliament building and near the River Thames. Organizer Daniel Jones, 26, a charity communications officer, said they were trying to make people laugh as well as making a serious point. “It’s also about giving a boost to those in America resisting his policies,” he said. One man dressed as a gorilla and wearing a plastic Trump mask, stood inside a large metal cage. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was criticized by Trump in the Sun interview for failing to control crime and prevent militant attacks, gave his blessing for the blimp to be flown. Khan rejected suggestions this showed a lack of respect for the U.S. president. “The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope,” he told BBC radio. “We have a rich history in this country of having a sense of humor as well.”
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  4. While not officially announced by g2x3k, based on what the other staff have said Layer13 shut down on June 23, 2018 2018 Jun 22 15:05:18 <Bette> If i dont have an answer by sunday from g2x3k Then i'll take this as a dead project, And then i'll gonna kill my server, If he doesn't want to answer then i can't see why i should have a ircd running for him on my server. 2018 Jun 22 23:41:18 <ZZdawg> RIP Layer 13 2018 Jun 22 23:41:46 <ZZdawg> he's not going to pay the server 2018 Jun 23 16:00:05 <Bette> I can tell that much that the database isn't there at all. EVERYTHING at the server is gone. There is no backup of anything, g2 never made a backup of it. One of the best sources for pres/traces/nfos since ~2007, they will be missed by the tracker and piracy community Some archival snapshots for the sake of posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/*/layer13.net https://web.archive.org/web/*/layer13.it.cx https://web.archive.org/web/*/g2x3k.ath.cx
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  8. A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo. 2018 will forever be remembered as the year that hating plastic straws went mainstream. Once the lonely cause of environmental cranks, now everyone wants to eliminate these suckers from daily life. In July, Seattle imposed America's first ban on plastic straws. Vancouver, British Columbia, passed a similar ban a few months earlier. There are active attempts to prohibit straws in New York City, Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco. A-list celebrities from Calvin Harris to Tom Brady have lectured us on giving up straws. Both National Geographic and The Atlantic have run long profiles on the history and environmental effects of the straw. Vice is now treating their consumption as a dirty, hedonistic excess. Not to be outdone by busybody legislators, Starbucks, the nation's largest food and drink retailer, announced on Monday that it would be going strawless. "This is a significant milestone to achieve our global aspiration of sustainable coffee, served to our customers in more sustainable ways," said Starbucks Kevin Johnson CEO in a press release announcing the move. The coffee giant says that by 2020 it hopes to have eliminated all single-use plastic straws at its 28,000 stores worldwide. It will now top all its cold drinks with fancy new strawless lids that the company currently serves with its cold brew nitro coffees. (Frappuccinos will still be served with a compostable or paper straw.) As is to be expected, Starbucks' decision was greeted with universal adulation. The World Wildlife Fund and Ocean Conservancy both provided ebullient quotes for Starbucks' press releases. Liberal magazine The New Republic praised the move as an "environmental milestone." Slate hailed the Starbucks straw ban as evidence of as a victory for a bona fide anti-straw movement, one that would hopefully lead to bans of more things plastic in years to come. Yet missing from this fanfare was the inconvenient fact that by ditching plastic straws, Starbucks will actually be increasing its plastic use. As it turns out, the new nitro lids that Starbucks is leaning on to replace straws are made up of more plastic than the company's current lid/straw combination. Right now, Starbucks patrons are topping most of their cold drinks with either 3.23 grams or 3.55 grams of plastic product, depending on whether they pair their lid with a small or large straw. The new nitro lids meanwhile weigh either 3.55 or 4.11 grams, depending again on lid size. (I got these results by measuring Starbucks' plastic straws and lids on two seperate scales, both of which gave me the same results.) This means customers are at best breaking even under Starbucks' strawless scheme, or they are adding between .32 and .88 grams to their plastic consumption per drink. Given that customers are going to use a mix of the larger and smaller nitro lids, Starbucks' plastic consumption is bound to increase, although it's anybody's guess as to how much. In response to questions about whether their strawless move will increase the company's plastic consumption, a Starbucks spokesperson told Reason "the introduction of our strawless lid as the standard for non-blended beverages by 2020 allows us to significantly reduce the number of straws and non-recyclable plastic" as the new lids are recyclable, while the plastic straws the company currently uses are not. This is cold comfort given the fact that even most of the stuff that is put in recycling bins still winds up at the dump. The company did not address, nor did it dispute, that its transition to strawless lids would increase its overall plastic consumption. The weight of plastic—not the raw number of plastic objects used, or whether those objects are recyclable or not—is what should really concern environmentalists. Pictures of turtles with straws up their noses are certainly jarring. However most plastic, whatever form it enters the ocean as, will eventually be broken up into much smaller pieces known as micro-plastics. It is these micro-plastics that form those giant ocean garbage patches, pile up on the ocean floor, and leech into the stomachs and flesh of sea creatures. Reducing the amount of micro-plastics in the ocean thus requires cutting down on the aggregate weight of plastics entering the ocean each year. It cannot be stressed enough that straws, by weight, are a tiny portion of this plastic. At most, straws account for about 2,000 tons of the 9 million tons of plastic that are estimated to enter the ocean each year, according to the Associated Press—.02 percent of all plastic waste. The pollution problem posed by straws looks even smaller when considering that the United States is responsible for about one percent of plastic waste entering the oceans, with straws being a smaller percentage still. As countless experts have stressed, truly addressing the problem of marine plastic pollution will require going after the source of this pollution, namely all the uncollected litter from poorer coastal countries that lack developed waste management systems. Straw banners have proven stubbornly resistant to this logic. Instead, they have chosen to rely on either debunked statistics (such as the claim that Americans use 500 million straws a day, which was the product of a 9-year-old's research) or totally unproven notions (like the theory that straws are a "gateway plastic") in order to justify petty prohibitions on innocuous straws. And they have been helped along by an uncritical media. Coverage of Starbucks' strawless move saw The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic all cite the 500-million-straws-a-day figure. By adopting a myopic focus on banning straws, environmentalists, city councils, and conscious capitalists are, at best, having no significant impact on the overall problem of marine plastic waste. At worst, they are pushing expensive prohibitions on consumer choice that are counter-productive—at least in the case of Starbucks' ban—and come with all sorts of unintended consequences. For instance, straw bans will likely hurt disabled people who lack the motor skills necessary to pull off a flawless cup-to-lip motion. While reusable straws exist, they are hard to clean and not always handy when one needs them. "What if you decide on the spur of the moment to go have a drink with friends after work but forgot your reusable straw that day? [That] doesn't leave a lot of room for spontaneity—something nondisabled folks get to largely take for granted," Lawrence Carter-Long of the national Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund told NPR. Senior citizens and parents with young children will likely be affected for the same reasons. Why not use more eco-friendly disposable straws? Because they are terrible. Paper straws are known to collapse halfway through a drink. Compostable straws cost six to seven times more than their plastic alternatives, don't keep for long, and fall apart when exposed to high heat. Straws, although not essential for most people most of the time, are still a wonderful convenience that help people enjoy a drink on the go, preserve their carefully-applied lipstick, or save their teeth from the corrosive effects of some beverage. Just yesterday, we as a nation celebrated 7-Eleven's "Free Slurpie Day," a holiday that can't hope to survive in a strawless world. Giving up on free slurpies and dignity for disabled people in the pursuit of totally illusionary environmental benefits seems like a poor trade-off, yet that is the trade-off straw prohibitionists are forcing the rest of us to accept.
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  10. You may well have seen in the news the last couple of days that global debt has reached another all time high. After climbing to astonishing $247 trillion when combining public debt of around $60 trillion and non-financial sector debt of about $186 trillion. This eye watering figure also means that for the first time ever there is now officially 3 times more debt in the world than money. It has been reported that this astounding level of debt is causing major cause by investors on top of ongoing concerns about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. Is the global economy coming to an end? According to the CIA, the total amount is $80 trillion if you include “broad money.” Broad money its not exactly physical cash but rather accessible cash so things such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money-market accounts. Anything which is not considered physical but you can make a bank transaction digitally and use that as money, If you include this figure then total estimated value of all the money in the world is $80 trillion. The figures pales into insignificance when compared to the aforementioned global debt figures. 3 Times More Debt In The World Than Money CNBC & Bloomberg have reported the news of this increase in global debt figures, it is also claimed that this figure has rose $29 trillion since 2016. Meaning for the first time ever there is 3 times more debt in the world than money. Once again this seems like a significant argument as to why Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are the future of our financial systems. Time and time again governments have failed to run a successful monetary system and now we have money backed solely by debt. Bitcoin was the first ever monetary system to not be backed by debt in the modern day. Although the crypto markets as a whole have suffered this year, we constantly receive subtle reminders that the current financial system is failing and so far bitcoin looks to have the answers.
  11. First such action in 30 years comes after what acting PM Winston Peters called nine years of neglect by previous government Nurses march in Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday, striking for the first time in 30 years, after rejecting the latest pay offer. Hospitals in New Zealand have cancelled elective surgeries and discharged patients early after 30,000 nurses walked off the job in the first such nationwide strike in 30 years. The 24-hour strike began on Thursday, and comes after months of negotiations between the government and nurses broke down on Wednesday, leaving hospitals to battle winter illnesses without crucial staff. Long delays at hospital emergency departments are expected around the country. Striking nurses held rallies in major cities, chanting “be fair to those who care” in the largest public demonstrations by the health sector ever seen on the country’s streets. Nurses said they were overworked and underpaid, with unsafe working conditions leading to burnout and exhaustion. Patient care and staff wellbeing were routinely compromised, they said. Acting prime minister Winston Peters said the government was “very, very disappointed” that its latest offer of a 12.5% increase had been rejected, and that it would take time to address nine years of neglect under the previous National government. Although the May budget delivered a surplus, Peters said the extra funds were needed to handle unforeseen spending, such as managing the spread of mycoplasma bovis, a cow disease. “We are saying give us some time ... it’s not that we’re not willing to, we haven’t got the money,” said Peters. “We’ve gone as far as we can go as a government. We got hold of a negotiated arrangement which we inherited – the nurses have had a raw nine years.” The government offered a pay-rise pot of more than half a billion dollars, as well as promising to hire hundreds more nurses around the country. Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation want pay rises of between 12.5% and 15.9%, to be rolled out in just over two years. Five thousand nurses remained on the job on Thursday to keep hospitals operating and patients safe, and there are special provisions in place in case of a natural disaster or major health emergency. In an opinion piece for Stuff, Wellington nurse Erin Kennedy said nurses turn up to work everyday unsure whether they would be able to look after their patients or themselves. “Ten years of underfunding have left our hospitals in such a state that patients and nurses are, more often than not, unsafe,” Kennedy wrote. “Chances are there will not be time to properly read every patient’s notes, or ensure that all patient needs are met.” The opposition National party’s health spokesman, Michael Woodhouse, said the Labour coalition government had raised workers’ expectations too high, too fast, with their election campaign hinging on the promise to improve the quality of life for everyday Kiwis. “The effect of this strike on patients and the wider health sector will be extremely significant,” said Woodhouse. “The nurses were also frustrated that the government entered the facilitation process saying ‘that’s all the money there is’ and this is the effect of it. This move did not reflect good-faith bargaining and it is now unclear how the situation will be resolved ... the government has completely lost control of the process due to its mishandling.” Heated discussions have erupted on social media platforms, debating whether strike action was justified, or putting lives at risk. Primary school teachers are also planning a nationwide strike on 15 August, demanding a 16% pay rise. In the past two months bus drivers, cinema workers and fast-food workers have also staged industrial action. On Monday 4,000 employees at Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment stopped work for two hours, demanding better pay.
  12. VANCOUVER, Wa. — Generally, you’re supposed to break out of an escape room, not into one. But in Vancouver, Washington, a man had to call the police for help after he broke into NW Escape Experience and couldn’t get out. “Once we got down there [to the business] and realized the damage was minimal, we just thought it was hilarious,” owner Rob Bertrand told CNN Tuesday. Escape rooms have gained popularity in recent years. Groups work together under a time limit, finding clues and solving puzzles, to get out of rooms. The burglar inadvertently tried his hand at the team-building craze on Sunday morning. “When he got in he just kind of made himself at home,” Bertrand said. “He actually stole one beer from the refrigerator. The police say he also had a burrito.” “We assume he was going to have a nice warm breakfast,” he added. In addition to the beer, the man also allegedly stole a cell phone and a TV remote. The man then tried to get out the back door, Bertrand said, but he had damaged it so badly trying to get in, he couldn’t open it. So he called 911, using the phone at the front desk. Eventually, he did manage to get out the back door, only to run into a police officer who promptly arrested him, Bertrand said. The suspect faces a charge of 2nd-degree burglary, according to CNN affiliate KOIN. CNN has reached out to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for comment. The man was inside the business for at least 35 minutes. That beats many people who attempt NW Escape Experience’s escape rooms – visitors usually spend an average of 50 to 58 minutes trying to get out. The record is about 33 minutes. However, Bertrand says the suspect’s time won’t count. “He did call 911. That’s not a win. He quit,” Bertrand said. Bertrand is excited about the business’ new claim to fame. “We’re going to start claiming that we’re the only escape room in the nation that has 100 percent capture rate for criminals,” he said.
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  16. CARACAS, Venezuela – Grief flooded back for Ivonne de Gutierrez when she brought flowers to her son's grave at a cemetery in Venezuela's capital, only to find that the grave markers of several relatives were gone. The pieces cast with bronze letters and religious symbols that identified the graves of a nephew and two aunts had disappeared since her visit a week earlier. "Almost all of them have been taken," Gutierrez said, standing among the vandalized graves at Cemetery of the East, one of Caracas' most cherished final resting places. While thieves have been targeting the capital's necropolises for years, robbing unsuspecting mourners or ransacking tombs for metal objects and even human bones used in occult ceremonies, the crime wave has worsened as the country has been consumed by economic and political crisis. An avalanche of complaints on Twitter and Instagram in late May prompted the cemetery's administrators to acknowledge the surge in stolen plaques and their plan to replace them with a cheaper, plastic material less attractive to thieves. Some inscriptions have been removed, but no replacements have appeared, leaving relatives clueless about whether the grave markers of loved ones have been put in safekeeping or taken away by looters. "That was early May, and still today we know nothing," said Gutierrez. Several people said cemetery administrators have not responded to their inquiries, and they did not respond to requests for comment by The Associated Press. Oil-rich Venezuela was once among Latin America's most prosperous nations. But nearly two decades of socialist rule have thrust it into an economic tailspin with severe shortages of food, medicine and other goods. Runaway inflation has plunged many into poverty, forced to survive on monthly minimum wage that adds up to pennies — or turn to crime. For years, thieves have scavenged in Caracas' streets, cashing in sewer grates and copper telephone wires as scrap metal on the black market. In recent months, robbers have made off with roughly 6,000 headstone markers from the Cemetery of the East, said Nora Bracho, an opposition lawmaker who heads a congressional committee overseeing public services. This is a small percentage of the 200,000 graves in the cemetery, but it has been a nightmare for affected relatives. "This is the tip of the iceberg," Bracho said, noting that the living are also afflicted by deteriorating public services including widespread electricity blackouts, shortages of water and a broken-down public transportation system. The Cemetery of the East, perched on terraces overlooking Caracas' high-rises and slums, has long been an oasis from Venezuela's noisy capital. Peregrine falcons and blue-tailed macaws soar through the cemetery's cypress trees. But relatives say the calm they once cherished has been spoiled. "Crime is everywhere," teacher Nidia Guzman said during a recent visit. Gutierrez said that so far looters have skipped over her son's headstone, located for nearly a decade in a highly visible corner of Cemetery of the East. But a fear it could be vandalized or his remains tampered with for witchcraft has her considering more drastic measures. "I'm thinking about exhuming his body and having his remains cremated," Gutierrez said. "It's no longer safe here." Yolanda Lezama has watched grave markers go missing one by one on weekly visits to the grave of her daughter, Barbara, who died at age 21 in a traffic accident. "Here in Venezuela, there is no respect for the living — and much less for the dead," she said.
  17. Facebook gave a Russian company with close ties to the Kremlin extended access to collect data from users of the social network without their permission — and thanks to the Kremlin’s surveillance laws, that means intelligence agencies like the FSB also had access to that data. Buried inside Facebook’s 748-page response to questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committees is a list of apps that were given extra time to harvest data from users and their friends before access was shut off in late 2015. Among those app developers is Mail.ru, a Russia technology giant which developed hundreds of apps for Facebook. Two Mail.ru messaging apps, which enabled users to see their Facebook friend lists and message with people who also had the Mail.ru apps, were given a two week warning, the social network told CNN Tuesday. Mail.ru was founded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who stepped down as executive chairman of Mail.ru Group in 2012. Milner is also a major investor in Facebook, though the New York Times reported last year that the money for that investment came from Russian state institutions. Today, Mail.Ru Group is controlled by USM Holdings, a company founded by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who was listed by the U.S. Treasury Department last January among Russian billionaires with ties to the Kremlin. But beyond the fact that Mail.ru was given additional time to scoop up user’s data without their knowledge, what worries some experts is the fact that, because of Russia’s invasive surveillance laws, any data collected by Mail.ru is now likely in the hands of Russia’s intelligence agencies. “The problem is, it is difficult to tell what happens the data once it leaves the server,” Emily Taylor, an associate fellow at U.K. think tank Chatham House, told VICE News. Known as the System of Operative-Investigative Measures, or SORM, Russia’s national system of lawful interception compels all Russian companies to hand over any data they hold. “That means Russia’s intelligence services now have access to all that data, legally, in Russia,” said Michael Carpenter, who served on the National Security Council specializing in Russia during the Obama administration. And that could be a major problem for journalists and activists in Russia, who still use Facebook as a means of communications, according to Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants Facebook's relationship with Mail.Ru investigated further. “The largest technology company in Russia, whose executives boast close ties to Vladimir Putin, had potentially hundreds of apps integrated with Facebook, collecting user data. If this is accurate, we need to determine what user information was shared with mail.ru and what may have been done with the captured data," Warner told CNN. For Facebook, the revelations about Mail.ru are part of the ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw at least 87 million users affected. On Tuesday U.K. regulators concluded that Facebook had broken the law over misusing user data, imposing the maximum available fine of £500,000, or about $660,000. But the continuing focus on third-party app developers means that Facebook and its core business of collecting and monetizing users’ data remains relatively unaffected. "If Facebook is successful in distracting attention, and making this all about third-party app providers, they will have done a very good job of throwing regulators off the scent, because the real problem is what [Facebook] is doing," Taylor said.
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  21. In an astonishing turn of events, Paypal has sent a letter to the husband of a deceased woman telling that by dying, she has breached their terms of service and that they were terminating their contract with them, according to an article published by the BBC. The woman had a debt to the company and while his husband communicated that, Paypal answered as recounted. Paypal is one of the most important payments services in the world, second only to the China Based service Alipay; allied with eBay it has achieved a great level of success by turning itself into an internet bank of sorts. But it has been splashed lately as a greedy company because it ramped up the fees for international purchases and remittances. But this time Paypal has gone too far in the collection of a debt. The debt of a deceased 37-year-old woman named Lindsay Durdle, that died of breast cancer last May. Lindsay owed PayPal more than 3,000 euros in her account, and PayPal sure went for its money. Her husband did the right thing and notified the payment service about what happened with his late wife, sending them her ID and her death certificate to them. But then, a letter arrived at their residence directed to his late wife saying that, by dying, her wife had breached their terms of service and that they would act to get the full amount of their debt repaid. Letter sent by Paypal Mr. Hurdle was astounded by the letter but remained leveled about it. He declared: "I’M A MEMBER OF THE CHARITY WIDOWED AND YOUNG, AND I’VE SEEN FIRST-HAND IN THERE HOW A LETTER LIKE THIS OR SOMETHING LIKE IT CAN COMPLETELY DERAIL SOMEBODY" A PayPal spokesperson declared that this was some kind of internal mistake. Paypal has been attacked by the emergence of cryptocurrencies as alternative payment forms, but they have been repeatedly shunned by their spokespersons by saying that they are experiments that have no real value to this date.
  22. While the fee remains undisclosed, speculations have suggested that Monaco paid anywhere from USD 5 to USD 10 million to acquire the valuable domain Cryptocurrency debit card company, Monaco has acquired the valuable domain-crypto.com from owner Matt Blaze for an undisclosed fee. This sale of the domain comes as a surprise since owner Blaze was reluctant to sell the domain to any cryptocurrency company, despite multiple offers. As per a report by Techcrunch, following the purchase of crypto.com, Monaco has decided to rebrand itself as “Crypto.com.” Crypto.com was registered in the year 1993, by Blaze, a prominent cryptology researcher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Since the boom of cryptocurrency, potential buyers have been knocking at his door, however, he has publicly informed the buyers that the domain wasn’t for sale. Blaze is also known to be a strong critic of the word ‘crypto’ being used as an abbreviation for ‘cryptocurrency’, instead of ‘cryptography'. He added that it would have “bad consequences for both cryptography and cryptocurrencies.” The University of Pennsylvania professor has refused to comment on what made him ultimately change his mind. However, Monaco CEO Kris Marszalek believes that is was not about money. "If it was only about money he’d have sold it a long time ago,” he told Techcrunch. While the fee remains undisclosed, speculations have suggested that Monaco paid anywhere from USD 5 to USD 10 million to acquire the valuable domain. This is significantly higher than the sale of other popular cryptocurrency-related domains sales; for instance, eth.com was sold for $2 million. Monaco, the buyer firm, is a well-established name in cryptocurrency companies. However, it faced strong criticism last year for advertising Visa-branded cards, even before getting the approval by Visa. The company that was founded in 2016 in Switzerland, also has an automated cryptocurrency investment system and a mobile wallet app.
  23. Castle Rock is an upcoming American psychological horror web television series based on the stories of Stephen King, intertwining characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock. It is set to premiere on July 25, 2018 on Hulu. Castle Rock will "combine the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland." Here's the latest trailer:
  24. This is great news! I've been dreading the end of GoT after the final season arrives next year. There was soooo much from the books that was left out of the HBO series, I think the prequel could be as good (maybe even better) than the main series.
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