Boston’s Terry Rozier torched the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 2 of their playoff series Tuesday night, but Milwaukee guard Eric Bledsoe was dismissive of Rozier and his performance afterward.

Source: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23224205/milwaukee-bucks-point-guard-eric-bledsoe-dismisses-boston-celtics-terry-rozier

A Reverse Bucket List

What would you add?
P.S. Risks worth taking, and lovely, nameless feelings.
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The trick to hosting a great party? Attending one and realizing what makes it so awesome. From themes to music, here are eight game-changing tips I’ve picked up through the years, presented with the beautiful tableware from SNOWE…

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Masked man made 1,000-mile trip to house of singer, who was ordered to pay $75,000 this week for copyright lawsuit over Shake It Off lyricsA masked man has been arrested on suspicion of stalking Taylor Swift at her home in Los Angeles and was found to have ammunition, a knife, rope and gloves in his car at the time of his arrest.Julius Sandrock, 38, was apprehended by police after travelling over 1,000 miles from his home town of Broomfield, Colorado, to Swift’s home in Beverly Hills to, he said, “visit” her. Police filed a temporary restraining order against Sandrock and jailed him for three days. He told police he owned three handguns, and is reportedly on probation in Colorado for “disorderly conduct and discharging a firearm”. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/18/taylor-swift-stalker-arrested-knife-rope

Drawing purports to show man who threatened porn starPresident makes rare comment about actor who claims affairDonald Trump has said Stormy Daniels is pulling “a total con job” by promoting an artist’s sketch of a man she says threatened her to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump years ago. Related: Donald Trump denies knowing of $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/18/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-sketch-total-con-job

Plenty of high-level Republicans privately think Trump should be removed from office. But they remain silent, even as the former FBI director tries to lead the wayJames Comey clearly hoped his televised interview on Sunday would be a go-signal for other principled Republicans to break away from Donald Trump and denounce him. In the interview, Comey declared Trump to be “morally unfit to be president”, and compared him to a mafia don, someone without a scintilla of decency. He provided evidence to support these harsh words.The word “decency” has never been more vital than in this toxic political moment. If James Comey’s book means anything, it is an urgent plea for those in power to come to the defense of decency. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/james-comey-donald-trump-decency

America’s founders didn’t envision the power of the corporation. We need a new structure for self-governance that can counter 21st-century monopoliesLast week, Senator Dick Durbin asked: “Mr Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?”The Facebook CEO froze and then answered: “No.” Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/facebook-tyranny-government-regulation-what-we-need

Directly reading documents and being able to answer questions from them is a
key problem. To avoid its inherent difficulty, question answering (QA) has been
directed towards using Knowledge Bases (KBs) instead, which has proven
effective. Unfortunately KBs suffer from often being too restrictive, as the
schema cannot support certain types of answers, and too sparse, e.g. Wikipedia
contains much more information than Freebase. In this work we introduce a new
method, Key-Value Memory Networks, that makes reading documents more viable by
utilizing different encodings in the addressing and output stages of the memory
read operation. To compare using KBs, information extraction or Wikipedia
documents directly in a single framework we construct an analysis tool,
MovieQA, a QA dataset in the domain of movies. Our method closes the gap
between all three settings. It also achieves state-of-the-art results on the
existing WikiQA benchmark.

Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03126v1

Today is Yom Hashoah (Holocaust  Remembrance Day).  Yesterday President Trump issued a Proclamation (full text) asking the people of the United States:to observe the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, April 12 through April 19, 2018, and the solemn anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, with appropriate study, prayers and commemoration, and to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by internalizing the lessons of this atrocity so that it is never repeated.

Source: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2018/04/trump-issues-proclamation-on-holocaust.html

Yesterday Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry released its 103-page report titled Antisemitism Worldwide General Analysis 2017 .  The Center highlights this excerpt:In 2017, there was a moderate worldwide average decrease in antisemitic violent incidents that were directed at Jewish people, their communities and their private property, of about 9% (327 cases compared to 361 in 2016, according to the Kantor Center criteria). It does not include yet the numbers of violent incidents in France, which the Jewish security body is still elaborating. During the years 2006 to 2014, the violent cases worldwide numbered between 600 to 700 per year, while during recent years they decreased 300 to 400. But it should be emphasized that some of the recent violent cases have been perpetrated more brutally, causing more harm. And most important – this decrease is overshadowed by what is seen by the Jewish communities as a dramatic increase in all other forms of antisemitic manifestations, many of which are not even reported, most notably harassment in schools (some Jewish pupils moved to Catholic schools) and on social media.AP reports on the data.

Source: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2018/04/new-report-on-worldwide-antisemitic.html