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we're on Ditchling. I'm gonna try and get up, it's very light.

so let's talk about launch timing. I'm standing on launch here it's very light

so I don't want to launch at the wrong time and drop out. I'm just waiting for that

feeling when the wing is lifting and when it's pulling slightly forwards. when

it's pulling you back it means the winds are strong on the hill but if you can

feel like it's gonna pitch forward a little bit like that, that should mean that

there's some lift in front, just in front of the hill. it's just the thermal

lifting and pulling off so I'm gonna go out, try and find the lift. let's see what

happens. might be helpful if I turn my vario on.

I'll check the wing. I always check again after I've launched.

very very light lift

I'm expecting, where we're flying here I'm expecting to get some lift as I

get out over the trees because you've got ground that's warming up and you've

got a whole bowl here which has got shadow in it. if you look here that whole

bowl has got shadow ... there's the sunlight so I'm going out

for that transition there where the warm air comes up against the hill, hits the

shadow and then triggers.

I've got two seagulls off to my right climbing up there, so that's showing me this may be

something out this side. I can drift across, now I'm on the line where I

expect the lift would be pinging up

and I'm gonna use this hill as my bomb-out slope

see if I can connect with the thermal the seagulls were in.

light lift there

kind of zero

I don't want to get too close into the sheep here, I give them a little bit of space

I'm gonna use this slope to land

So you just keep yourself in the game. I haven't

committed to anything that I can't really get back from but equally you

don't want to stay on the hill especially when the sun is at such a steep angle.

there's no ways it's going to be warming these slopes.

I'm just keeping the glider up because I can feel what the air is doing then. it's

much better than standing on the ground. with a little bit of a gust there and

the change in direction. I'm still getting that feeling that the glider is

pulling forward, see that? so let's go off again now we've got a bit

of slope here see where we are headed

I expect it to get a bit trickier here because I'm now pointed more into wind

the wind's coming around that corner so I'm not getting a good angle on this

ridge. the ridge lift is weakened, but if I can just keep myself near the top I

can get around the corner to the better face.

I can always slope land here if it's not working out now this is gonna be a

tricky little corner to get around because this is exactly where the winds

gonna want to come around and spill into this little bowl. if I can just sneak

past these bushes ... don't want to come in too low here I might get a little bit of

turbulence just around as I'm approaching the fence line.

over there I'm just going to ease over the top and now we've got a better facing

slope. OK that's now better into the wind.

we've got another one of these little bowls to transition and then we are on

a good face. this little piece here at I'd want to fly fairly fast

I've just got my hands up

letting my glider glide through this a air, to transition I can even use a

little bit of speed bar here. I don't really need to, I've got enough penetration

just let it swim its way upwind. I've got another big deep shaded bowl here so

with all this shade around ideally I'd want to be out somewhere

over the fields to get the thermals but there's no slope landing coming back so

I'm just going to use the ridge while I can get around these trees and then move

on to the main bowl. there's the Ditchling launch alternative

over there and now we're on a good slope see that's pointed nicely into wind it's

got a nice scoop and let's see if I can pick something out slightly further out.

there's a bit of a strike of a thermal but not enough to do a full circle and I

can continue on that line I can always come back to the ridge

there we go

little thermal not quite enough to do a full 360 as I settle into my corner now

I look at my averager: 0.2 ... just enough to stay in.

The climb has strengthened a little bit

we're up to 0.9 on the average so I'm just gonna stay with it

I'm not adjusting my circles at all I'm just gonna let it drift me up and at

this point it's gonna start spilling over to the back so now I point into wind

and I'll try and drive upwind a bit on that same thermal source

to try and pick up some more lift. going forward again. I've got to try and pick up

something further off the hill now because as you can see that one topped

out really close to the top of the hill but I've got a little bit more height

than I had before so now I can go further out and I might be able to get

up to that shadow line so I'm just following my nose straight into

wind on this weak lift line.

just little bubbles coming off the same source and the weaker ones will hit me

first, the stronger one will be further out and

going more upright. So says the theory. let's see how far we can get just

check back at the ridge I think I've got enough height to glide back in if I need it

I'm getting close to the point I want to turn. The idea is to try and search in

the spots where you've got light lift so you're not sinking out. so I'm crossing a

bit trying to find something there.

it's not strong enough for me to turn in. I can use that line to get back to the hill

so trying to go back into that little bit of lift and going directly down wind

back at the hill on that weak lift line.

there it is!

a bit of lift there. the trick is to always top up. never miss an

opportunity to gain a couple of metres that gives you more search options but

I'm also watching the other guys next to me to see if they're getting more lift

than me. Always shift over to wherever it's

working better. you see he has climbed in there, he's hit something there.

It shows me there's a little bit of lift off to my left so I can move my line out to the

left slightly and maybe pick up something out here.

It's gone back down to -1

Time to go back to the hill

go look for another. that's the game it's very simple you just keep doing these

searching patterns going back to the hill using the hill to just recover as

soon as you've recovered your height try and find that lift line, push out on the

lift line, keep working it and keep watching the other pilots to try and

work out if you're in the best spot or not.

good luck, I hope that helps you get away

from the hill or at least up or extends your flight time a little bit. Have safe

flying and as always, thanks to the crew on Patreon, we really appreciate your

support and thanks to everybody that pops over to Flybubble.com and gets some

gear, that keeps the show on the road.

safe flying guys!

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Immigrant tech workers struggle to get H-1B visas under Trump: 'I've never felt so helpless' - Duration: 21:50.

Leo Wang thought a promising career in the United States was within his grasp. After leaving home in China in 2015, he earned a graduate degree in entrepreneurship and innovation at USC and was hired at a Silicon Valley data storage company

 But after his first year on the job, Wang, 32, found himself hunched over his laptop, obsessively refreshing the U

S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website. He was hoping for good news. Advertisement >  It was last October, six months since he'd applied for an H-1B work visa for high-skilled employees

He'd waited so long for a response that his extended student visa had expired and his employer was forced to place him on unpaid administrative leave

 When still no response had come from the government agency by New Year's Eve, the company had to fire him

 "I've never felt so helpless," he said. "I came here, all the way to a place where I don't know anybody, in hopes of fighting for my American dream

There seems to be a crack in the system, and I happen to be the one who fell through

"  But Wang isn't alone. Many tech workers say the process of applying for and getting H-1B visas has become increasingly murky and difficult under President Trump's administration

While many people zero in on Trump's crackdown against illegal immigration, his administration has also tightened or ended various paths to legal immigration

 Experts say changes to the application process for H-1B visas could discourage high-skilled workers from seeking employment in the U

S. The changes, including heightened requirements for evidence showing that a foreign worker possesses exceptional qualifications and the temporary suspension of "premium processing," which fast-tracks applications for a $1,500 fee, have resulted in a backlog of applications

 A process that could have taken two weeks has taken several months for many of those who filed petitions in the last year

Students and current tech industry employees are left in limbo, uncertain of whether they'll be allowed to remain in the U

S.  This week, the American Immigration Lawyers Assn., or AILA, released an analysis of Citizenship and Immigration Services data showing significant delays in the agency's processing of applications for various immigration benefits

AILA found that overall case processing times have increased by 46% over the last two fiscal years and 91% since 2014

It also found that processing times increased last year even as fewer people submitted applications

 AILA Vice President Jennifer Minear said the delays have reached a crisis level and are the result of policies that inhibit efficiency and act as "bricks in the Trump administration's invisible wall against legal immigration

"  Last week, Citizenship and Immigration Services reinstated premium processing for all applications from the last fiscal year

"We plan to resume premium processing for the remaining categories of H‑1B petitions as agency workloads permit," the agency said in a notice posted on its website

 Still, immigration lawyers say that lifting the suspension will only partially address the delays in processing petitions, some of which have gone unanswered for nine months

 William Stock, an immigration lawyer in Philadelphia and former president of AILA, said that processing times of more than six months used to be rare

Then Citizenship and Immigration Services ramped up requests for proof that companies needed foreign workers

Nearly half of the 200 H-1B applications submitted by his law firm received those requests last year

 "The immigration agency is creating more work for themselves — and then they say they're falling behind," he said, adding that some of the businesses he represents have been forced to relocate jobs to places such as Canada and India

 Other lawyers agree.  "Given the immigration climate, we can anticipate a significant denial rate when all of these long-backlogged adjudications resolve," said David Berry, a partner at immigration law firm BAL Global, which has represented companies such as Google

Advertisement >  Companies use H-1B visas to temporarily employ foreign workers for jobs that require specialized knowledge when they can't find the talent locally

In 1990, Congress set an annual limit of 85,000 such visas, 20,000 of which go to people who have earned a master's degree or higher in the U

S.  Last year, Citizenship and Immigration Services received more than 190,000 applications, down from a high of 236,000 the year before Trump took office

When the limit is exceeded within the first week that applications are accepted, the agency randomly selects those it will ultimately review

 The agency currently selects applicants to fill the advanced degree requirement first, then fills the remaining openings

But starting in April, the agency plans to reverse the order, estimating that the change will result in a 16% increase of beneficiaries with advanced degrees

 Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna said the changes benefit employers, foreign workers and the agency's adjudicators alike

"We are also furthering President Trump's goal of improving our immigration system by making a simple adjustment to the H-1B cap selection process," he said

 Trump's "Buy American and Hire American" initiative, unveiled in 2017, brought scrutiny to the H-1B program

 At the time, Trump said: "Right now, widespread abuse in our immigration system is allowing American workers of all backgrounds to be replaced by workers brought in from other countries to fill the same job for sometimes less pay

This will stop."  Earlier this year, the president shifted tone. "H1-B holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship," he said on Twitter

"We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U

S." Tech companies employ some of the highest numbers of H-1B workers, according to 2017 data from Citizenship and Immigration Services

As of September 2017, more than 360,000 applications for new H-1B visas and extensions or transfers of existing visas were approved in the U

S. across all industries.  In 2017, 74% of all H-1B applications were approved, down from 87% the year before and the lowest approval rate in at least a decade

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gov  Companies such as Cognizant Tech Solutions and Infosys topped the list of biggest employers of H-1B workers, with about 28,000 and 13,000 applications approved, respectively

Amazon was approved for about 4,800 such visas, Microsoft received 4,000 and Google and Intel each were allotted nearly 3,000

 Facebook, which had about 1,600 applications approved in 2017, said the company is continuing to sponsor H-1B workers in spite of the increased difficulty

 "We are feeling the same challenges as other companies but our commitment to hire the best talent remains strong and we continue to have success with our H-1B visa applications," Facebook spokesman Anthony Harrison said

 But in some cases, tech companies have opted not to consider potential candidates who would require an H-1B visa to work in the U

S. until there's more clarity about whether the suspension of premium processing will be lifted indefinitely

 Together, these changes have caused some immigrants who graduated from college in the U

S. to reject job offers, lose their jobs or ultimately leave the country as a result of the long delays in processing

Some say they have opted to or are considering a move to Canada, where the path to obtain work permits and eventually citizenship is typically more straightforward and quicker

 The path to citizenship for H-1B recipients also remains rocky. A bill hailed by many H-1B workers from India as the only chance at mending the many cracks in the path to citizenship was stalled in Congress last session

The bill is now tied up in the Department of Homeland Security budget at the center of the government shutdown debate

The bipartisan bill, HR 392, would have benefited workers from places such as India and China that have a backlog of green card applicants that spans decades by making the green card system first come, first served rather than country-based, some workers contend

 "I will die before I get my green card," said Varun Soundararajan, a senior software engineer who was born in India and works at Google

"Many folks like me on the green card line are praying that when the new Congress starts functioning, the bill will be reintroduced and will pass and get signed into law

"  Without a green card, Soundararajan and many like him are subject to the uncertainty of reapplying for H-1B visas every three years

As the father of a child with special needs, it's a matter of grave concern for him and his wife, because leaving the country would make it difficult to access the care and resources needed to take care of their son

 "[His] care would be in serious jeopardy if my visa is denied," Soundararajan said of his son

"There are no guarantees that I will get my visa next time I apply."  The delays in processing H-1Bs paired with the backlog of green card applications from Indian and Chinese citizens also make it incredibly risky to try to switch jobs

Because of the delays in processing applications, there's little guarantee that the petition to transfer an H-1B visa will be approved or approved in time

Even if it is approved, workers from those countries have to restart the green card application process, which puts them at the back of the decades-long line again

As a result, workers often feel stuck at their current company, sometimes in a situation where they are being underpaid or mistreated

 Still, Chinese and Indian citizens make up the majority of H-1B workers nationwide

As of October 2018, nearly 75% of all H-1B petitions were filed on behalf of Indian-born immigrants and 12% were filed on behalf of Chinese-born immigrants

 "Any change to the H-1B system disproportionately affects Indian and Chinese immigrants because we are stuck on that H-1B visa," said another software engineer at Google, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of repercussion

"I have multiple classmates from UCLA who joined the green card line years after I did and are already filing for citizenship whereas I'm still on the H-1B visa, which took seven months for me to get

They get a green card roughly within a year." Leo Wang packs his belongings at his home in San Jose on Jan

31 as he prepares to leave the country. (Josh Edelson / For The Times)  Back in San Jose, Wang finally got a response from Citizenship and Immigration Services — more than eight months after the agency started reviewing his application — in early January

It was denied.  According to Citizenship and Immigration Services documents, his role as a program manager — for which he led analytics programs, built dashboards and created statistical testing models that spanned the company's global marketing operations — was not specialized enough

Wang spoke to The Times on condition that we not name his past employer.  Records show the company was granted 85 visas in 2017, including two for Wang's same job title, and denied one

 "People under the same team as me got approval," he said. "It doesn't feel like there's a standard for the judgment call

It seems a little bit arbitrary."  What once felt like the beginning of a promising career in the U

S. became a nightmare for Wang, who plans to leave the country by mid-February.  He said the long process made him feel ashamed

He waited as friends and colleagues' applications were approved and told few people about his predicament, giving his mother vague answers when she asked how work was going

He spent the three months he was on administrative leave at home, living off savings

 Now he's searching for jobs — in Singapore, mainland China and Hong Kong — and planning to sell his car and other belongings

 Wang wants his story to serve as a cautionary tale to other H-1B applicants about the program's recent complications

Advertisement >  "I followed the rules and worked hard," he said. "It didn't work for me

"

For more infomation >> Immigrant tech workers struggle to get H-1B visas under Trump: 'I've never felt so helpless' - Duration: 21:50.

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✅ Breaking News - Liverpool looking to get rid of his flop Lazar Markovic - Duration: 1:07.

Liverpool are trying to find a club for winger Lazar Markovic. The 24-year-old Serbian was a £20m signing from Benfica in 2014 and last made a first team appearance for them in 2015

 He is out of contract at the end of the season but on £50,000 a week. There has been limited interest from China

 Markovic has been banished to train with the under-23s at the Kirkby Academy since he rejected a move to Anderlecht last August

Liverpool had thrashed out a £2.9million deadline day deal with the Belgium outfit, as well as a 50% sell-on clause, but he failed to agree personal terms

  Liverpool winger Ben Woodburn is wanted on loan by Hull City and Brentford. Share this article Share 11 shares

For more infomation >> ✅ Breaking News - Liverpool looking to get rid of his flop Lazar Markovic - Duration: 1:07.

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CookieMiner Malware for Mac Steals Cookies, Passwords and SMS Messages to Get at Cryptocurrency: Rep - Duration: 2:45.

 A new malware threat that steals cryptocurrency on Macs and then uses their resources to mine for more has been identified by security research firm Palo Alto Networks

The threat, which has been named CookieMiner, intercepts browser cookies set by popular cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets, and can also steal passwords stored by Google Chrome

It can even go through iPhone backup files saved on a Mac and scan through a user's text messages

Unit 42, the threat intelligence division of Palo Alto Networks which discovered the threat, believes that this could help the malware authors bypass a user's two-factor security protections

 CookieMiner is believed to be based on a known malware called OSX.DarthMiner, which was documented by MalwareBytes in December 2018

Attackers who gain access to a user's Chrome passwords, cookies and text messages could simply log in to their victims' cryptocurrency wallets or exchanges and transfer all the money to themselves

 Browser cookies can potentially be used to trick a Web service into thinking it is being accessed from a previously trusted device, in theory reducing the likelihood that a second authentication factor will be asked for

 To add insult to injury, the CookieMiner malware also starts mining new cryptocurrency for the attackers using the resources of infected Macs

According to Unit 42's blog post detailing the threat, the miner tries generating a niche privacy-focused cryptocurrency called Koto that is used in Japan

Interestingly, Unit 42's research suggests that the malware authors tried to cover up this fact and appear as though they want to mine the more popular Monero cryptocurrency

 While CookieMiner can steal passwords (and saved credit card information) only from Google Chrome, it can also access cookies stored by Apple's Safari browser

It drops a backdoor known as EmPyre on infected Macs to allow the attackers to maintain control remotely

When mining the Koto cryptocurrency, it uses an algorithm targeted more at a computer's CPU than its GPU, as relatively few infected Macs are likely to have powerful discrete GPUs

 The blog post disclosing this discovery does not point to where or how the CookieMiner malware might have originated, how widespread it is, or how it infects new Macs

Anyone dealing with cryptocurrency or other sensitive financial information should take precautions such as not relying on automatic password vaults and running periodic malware checks

For more infomation >> CookieMiner Malware for Mac Steals Cookies, Passwords and SMS Messages to Get at Cryptocurrency: Rep - Duration: 2:45.

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UCLA to get its biggest Pac-12 test with unbeaten Washington - Duration: 6:22.

Murry Bartow has been saying for more than a week now that UCLA is capable of beating any team in the Pac-12 Conference

 The Bruins are about to find out if that's true. Advertisement >  UCLA will face the conference's only remaining unbeaten team in Pac-12 play Saturday afternoon when it takes on Washington at Alaska Airlines Arena, where the Huskies have gone 11-0 this season

 Bartow, the Bruins' interim coach, fully acknowledged that his assertion about his team comes with a caveat

 "We're also bright enough, smart enough to know that if we don't play a great game [Saturday]," Bartow said Friday during a conference call with reporters, "we don't have a chance

"  UCLA (12-9 overall, 5-3 Pac-12) has defended well, improved its ball movement and made 58

3% of its shots during a two-game winning streak, trends it must sustain to knock off the Huskies (17-4, 8-0)

 Washington is trying to become only the ninth Pac-12 team to start 9-0 in conference play since the 1978-79 season while boosting its candidacy for an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament

 The Huskies are unranked in the national polls but are a respectable No. 29 in the most recent NCAA Evaluation Tool ranking, far ahead of their Pac-12 brethren

Arizona State is next with a No. 61 NET ranking and the Bruins, stuck in a four-way tie for third place in the conference standings, are No

89. Sign up for our daily sports newsletter »  Washington's success starts with its smothering 2-3 zone defense, which it plays exclusively

That has helped the Huskies give up a conference-low 64.6 points per game while opponents make only 39

9% of their shots. Colorado is the only Pac-12 team that has scored 70 points against the Huskies this season

 Success against Washington's defense, Bartow said, will start with getting the stops and rebounds that allow the Bruins to push the ball in transition

 "If we're attacking their zone after makes," Bartow said, "we'll have no chance to win

"  Bartow said Washington uses its length and athleticism to extend the top of its zone farther than the Bruins do when they're using a similar 2-3 alignment

 "They have some guys who are really tailor-made for the zone," Bartow said. "They get steals, deflections, block shots and they're very, very active

You can ask anyone who's played against them, it's not real easy to score."  Washington guard Matisse Thybulle causes many of the headaches

He had seven steals and two blocks to go with his 17 points on Wednesday during the Huskies' 75-62 victory over USC

 The Huskies also feature guard Jaylen Nowell, the only Division I player averaging at least 16 points, five rebounds and three assists while shooting 50% from the field and 40% from three-point range

Given those numbers, it should come as no surprise that Nowell was selected the Pac-12 player of the week three times before the end of January

 UCLA is playing some of its best basketball of the season thanks to a sharing approach in which at least four players have reached double figures in scoring over the last two games

Back-to-back blowouts of undermanned teams have given the Bruins a sense of invincibility that's going to be put to the test Saturday, along with their coach's sentiments about their potential

Advertisement >  "We've just got to go out there and have the same intensity we had out here," UCLA center Moses Brown said Wednesday after the Bruins thumped Washington State by 20 points, "and we'll be unbeatable

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For more infomation >> UCLA to get its biggest Pac-12 test with unbeaten Washington - Duration: 6:22.

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Conman jailed for rape posed as immigration officer to get free sex in brothel - Duration: 4:04.

 A conman was called a "menace" and jailed for 12 years for rape - posing as an immigration officer to get free sex in a brothel

 Thomas Goddard turned up in a suit and carried a satchel after phoning to book a massage at the premises in Beeston, Nottingham Crown Court heard

 Earlier, the 56-year-old made an internet search for "cute Asian girls".  The city's senior Judge Gregory Dickinson QC told him: "You are a menace

This was heavily manipulative brutal behaviour and is a new low.  "You gave the impression you were in some responsible line of work

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15m  "Posing as an immigration official, you threatened to call the police and demanded money which you must have anticipated they did not have and could not afford

 "They had nothing like it and you took it by way of sex. That is rape."  Two women were threatened and Goddard forced one to have sex, the court heard

 The judge added: "These were people who had found rock bottom.  "These are serious offences and despicable

 "This is not the movies. This is the real world  "People don't choose to live in brothels because it is glamorous

 "They are already at rock bottom, leading degrading lives."  After the rape in the brothel at 11am, Goddard used his phone at midnight, typing in words to search for Asian girls

Read More Body found in search for missing Maggie Smythe as two arrested on suspicion of murder    The judge ordered Goddard must serve at least eight years in prison before he can face the Parole Board and ask to be freed

 But he warned that he could be kept in jail for the entire 12 years if he is still regarded as a risk

 He will then be on licence and supervised by probation officers for five years.  A restraining order prevents him from contacting his two victims for 20 years

 The court heard Goddard, of Tavistock Avenue, Mapperley Park, was convicted in 2001 of posing as a police officer and trying to get sex

 Henry James, prosecuting, said: "This is highly relevant. He was pretending to be an undercover police officer and the two victims were working the streets

"  In 2012, he pretended to be a store detective, slipping items into women's bags and following them home where he demanded cash

 As a teenager, he was convicted of indecent assault.  Among his 47 previous offences, one was a burglary with intent to rape

Read More Vulnerable man tortured to death and set on fire by killers who stole PlayStation    Gregor Purcell, mitigating, said Goodard accepted that he faced a long jail term for the latest offences

 "He has shown remorse, albeit late. He understands the gravity of the matters.  "Perhaps belatedly, he accepts his responsibility and acknowledges the implications for the victim

 "He makes an apology," said Mr Purcell.  Goddard had looked back to find the reasons for his offences but did not seek to justify his behaviour

 Mr Purcell said he understood the effect on the women and added: "Of course it is degradation and a humiliation in the circumstances but nothing beyond that

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