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BREAKING Christmas Terror Attack Leaves At Least 10 DEAD�.

Here�s What We Know

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN- ISIS scumbags claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Christmas

Monday on a compound of Afghanistan�s national intelligence agency in Kabul, which killed

at least ten people and wounded several others.

The attack took place during the morning rush hour at Abdul Haq Square in the Shash Darak

neighborhood of Kabul close to the entrance of the National Directorate for Security (NDS),

the Interior Ministry said.

Five other people were injured when the attacker, who was on foot, blew himself up as agency

employees were on their way to work.

In Kabul, security officials said the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber who approached

the agency�s entrance on foot before blowing himself up.

All the casualties reported were of civilian passersby.

The U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters are also located in the area.

The Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack through a message

on the AMAQ website associated with the militants.

Security forces closed off the main road leading to the NDS building after the attack.

Another Interior Ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency that several people were killed

while riding in their car when the attacker, traveling on foot, detonated his bomb.

Both the Taliban and IS have carried out deadly attacks in Kabul in the past.

Last week, IS also targeted a training center belonging to the NDS.

Radio Free Europe reports that the Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility

for the attack through a message on the AMAQ website associated with the militants.

Security forces closed off the main road leading to the NDS building after the attack.

Another Interior Ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency that several people were killed

while riding in their car when the attacker, traveling on foot, detonated his bomb.

Both the Taliban and IS have carried out deadly attacks in Kabul in the past.

Last week, IS also targeted a training center belonging to the NDS.

Separately, six Afghan border police officers were killed when their military vehicle hit

a roadside bomb in the southern province of Helmand.

Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, said six other policemen were wounded in the

incident which took place in Marjah district.

Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack in Helmand.

The Western-backed government there has been struggling to fend off militants since the

withdrawal of most NATO troops in 2014.

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जानिए कैसे होते है 'A' नाम वाले व्यक्ति का भविष्यफल 2018 - Here are how The 'A' Name People 2018 - Duration: 10:13.

जानिए कैसे होते है 'A' नाम वाले व्यक्ति का भविष्यफल 2018 - Here are how The 'A' Name People 2018

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I'm Still Here! Christmas Special!? - Duration: 0:45.

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Here are Christmas Wishes and Messages from President Trump and America's First Lady - Duration: 4:15.

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Here Is How to Kill the Bacteria That Causes Heartburn and Bloating - Duration: 4:04.

Here Is How to Kill the Bacteria That Causes Heartburn and Bloating

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[TECH TOUR] 793 HP at 24 PSI of boost | PZtuning FWD Time Attack Civic - Duration: 12:57.

- We're here at World Time Attack 2017

with Will from PZ Tuning, all the way from Canada.

Now Will's brought his 2012 Civic coupe over

to compete in the Pro-Am class here at World Time Attack.

Now Will this car, it's a big commitment to bring it

all the way over from Canada.

You've built it really to run in the US Global Time Attack

and Gridlife series though.

So tell us a little bit about what you need

to be competitive in those series.

- Well I think the one major difference between

World Time Attack and where we run locally,

is the classing.

We have drive train classes in North America.

So we have front wheel drive class, rear wheel drive class,

and all wheel drive class.

Versus coming to here to World Time Attack,

your Pro-Am category is drive trainless.

So definitely one of the things when we were preparing

the car was to make sure we maximised this car

regardless of drive train and make sure it was competitive

within that class.

- So that's a really good point because you're talking here

about a front wheel drive car,

it's turbo charged and making a lot of power

which we'll talk about shortly.

But you're trying to compete on an even playing field

with rear wheel drive and probably more importantly,

four wheel drive.

So how much of a disadvantage does the front wheel drive

chassis give you?

- Well I'm not gonna say it's much of a disadvantage,

more that you have to build it differently.

Definitely even in America the times have come down

between the platforms.

Earlier in the year at Road Atlanta we actually

won that event outright which was the first time

for a front wheel drive car at a Global Time Attack event

as we found out.

So I think the misconception's where previously it was like

just looked at as such a massive disadvantage.

Now I think there's strong suits that you can really

bring to the table and you can actually make it competitive.

It's just believing in designing the car

around that platform.

- OK so let's take that into account,

what do you do when you know you're designing

a front wheel drive platform,

what are the main design criteria that you need to keep

in mind to really maximise that front wheel drive platform

and optimise the advantages that it gives?

- Well definitely with a front wheel drive car,

you really have those front tires doing basically

80% of the job.

It's steering, it's braking, and it's putting the power down

so you really gotta make sure that the car

can put that power down.

This car is unique where it makes a lot of torque,

it probably makes, you know,

it's got 540 foot pounds of torque,

so applying that to a front wheel drive platform

normally is a big disadvantage.

But with traction control and with proper management

of geometry, you can really put that power down.

Which again whereas it might've been looked at

as a massive disadvantage,

we actually have some acceleration times

coming out of corners that are pretty close

to the fastest out there.

- And I'm gonna assume as well with front wheel drive,

everything's quite compact,

you don't have a rear differential drive shaft,

centre differentials, a weight advantage there?

- Not with this chassis.

This chassis' actually 1040 kilograms

as we are sitting right now.

So it's definitely not on the lightweight side of things

right now and that'll be definitely something

we'll improve upon as we keep developing this car.

The car's only 2.5 years old really,

so there's still a lot of development left in it,

and compared to many of our competitors,

where they've been working on the same chassis

for a long time,

we're still in that initial stage of getting data,

and using that to our advantage in development.

- In terms of the power,

let's talk about that for a little bit.

Obviously that's another area that we've seen

the power levels continue to climb year after year

here at World Time Attack.

I'm gonna guess Global Time Attack's maybe similar.

So you're running a K series engine and this one's

turbo charged, tell us a little bit

about that engine package.

- Yeah so it's a K24A2.

It's fully built with L.A sleeves,

ductile iron sleeves inside it, CP pistons,

Brian Crower rods and cams and springs and retainers.

Turbo, we actually use a BorgWarner EFR 9174.

We were actually one of the first teams to ever use it

and it's been great.

Wicked partnership with that company.

Excellent power band, so from basically 4000 RPM on,

it starts building boost from 4400 to 8800 RPM red line.

We basically have a torque curve that's about

470 foot pounds throughout that, no lower than that.

So it's really drivable.

You could be up a gear, down a gear,

and you pretty much can still lay on the power.

- Now just wanna go back to that turbo,

so the 9174 is one of the more recent releases

from BorgWarner and their 9180's,

I guess their big bad boy, the biggest in their range.

So the 9174 combines that bigger compressor wheel

with a slightly smaller turbine wheel,

so better for boost response on a smaller engine like this?

- Yeah and that was one of the design criteria.

So when we were originally planning this car actually

back in 2014 we were talking to the engineers

at BorgWarner and they actually have a really cool

program called Match-Bot,

I dunno if you've used Match-Bot.

So Brian Reinhart actually inputed all my parameters

into Match-Bot and he's like, Will we have a turbo

that's gonna pretty much do everything you're gonna need.

It's gonna have the spool, it's gonna have the power,

it's gonna have the transient response.

And it's not out yet but it's gonna be out very shortly

and when we get one produced we're gonna send it your way.

So literally February 2015 came along,

he went to the production line,

packaged one up and serial number two ended up in my lap.

- It's nice to have a relationship with a supplier like that

and get those parts ahead of the rest of the world.

Now what sort of power is it actually producing,

and what sort of boost are you running it at?

- So we've dynoed up to 793 wheel horsepower

at 24 pounds of boost.

We also, earlier configuration was 771

at only 21 pounds of boost.

So we know the efficiency's really there.

We're still on an internal wastegate on this setup,

which is pretty, you know,

at this power level, kind of unique.

And I think we're right at the threshold

of where that turbine, the .92AR housing

is just maxing out right now.

- In the Honda tuning world for World Time Attack

we've seen a lot of competitors running

the Rotrex supercharger.

It's always been a popular choice

for that front wheel drive platform,

simply because of the power delivery characteristics,

very linear boost response versus RPM.

So does the turbocharger give you some trouble

maintaining and controlling that power delivery?

- The answer would be yes if we didn't

have an awesome traction control system.

But with advanced traction control and boost by throttle

and boost by gear,

it really changes that.

So with our Motec system we actually have it

so not only is it boost by gear dependent,

so second gear, third gear,

have less power obviously that fourth gear and fifth gear,

but it's also throttle position related too.

So at 50% throttle we only have probably

seven or eight pounds of boost,

and then as we get up to full 100% TBS,

we'll actually increase that boost level

to the max it's set up for.

- I think that's an area that a lot of people really

overlook and don't understand with a turbocharger

that's simply so good at producing boost

that without that throttle position based boost control,

you can back out of the throttle but it will actually

maintain your maximum boost target,

right down to, you get to maybe 50% or 60% throttle.

So you have a very non linear torque versus throttle

position and that, particularly in a traction limited car,

can present a lot of problems for the driver

to actually modulate the power,

would that be a fair assumption?

- Absolutely, so when we were setting up the Motec,

one of the things my tuner Sasha Anis from OnPoint Dyno,

we spent a day at the track,

and basically we were just doing logs,

watching our traction and setting up so this car

could use it in the best way,

and not waste energy,

and not use excessive traction control.

The worst thing you wanna do is have full boost

and have the traction control pull back so much timing

that all it's doing is generating heat and not actually

really improving the car's ability.

- So you're really trying to get that base power delivery

to really match the available traction and then you're

using that traction control just as a last ditch effort

in case you really do just overpower the track

to pull everything back?

- Absolutely so definitely the way to do it

on a high torque front wheel drive setup.

Like you said, with a supercharged setup,

with the Rotrex where the torque delivery

comes on and it's linear to RPM,

it's much easier to control,

especially coming out of a slow speed corner.

With the turbocharged engine,

you hit maximum boost and you basically make

maximum torque so wheel spin is basically prevalent.

So if you don't have all the advanced boost mapping in place

you're just gonna wheel spin everywhere.

- Now let's talk about that electronics package

and what you're using to control the traction

and also the boost per gear, boost versus throttle position,

you've said you're running a Motec ECU,

can you give us a little bit more information.

- Absolutely, we're running a Motec M130 ECU.

It's coupled with a C125 dash.

We have the lambda feedback on it,

so it's a pretty awesome package.

Obviously the boost by gear like I was saying.

But even having closed loop feedback,

our previous ECU didn't have closed loop boost feedback

and again just all the advancements and ability

of that system is incredible.

Earlier today we have Mark from Motec come

and help us fine tune all the settings,

get everything working exactly to its potential

and I think he's gonna come by tomorrow

and just look at our data that we collected

and make sure that we're going on the right path.

Lots to learn with the system.

it's incredibly advanced.

There's almost endless options and endless adjustments

that can be made.

And for me I'm just scratching

the surface with it right now.

- I just wanted to talk about the drive train in the car.

Again with a powerful front wheel drive car,

that's always a challenge holding a transmission together

or coming up with a transmission that can adequately

put that power to the ground,

and also change gear quickly and consistently,

so what are you doing on that front?

- So from a transmission standpoint,

we run a Quaife gearbox,

the Quaife five speed sequential.

We run a competition clutch twin disc clutch,

it doesn't slip so it basically puts every

single foot pound into the actual transmission.

For shift cut we implement the strain gauge shift knob

into the Motec ECU.

That was actually one thing we've been setting up

this weekend was we were actually having

some premature gear cuts happening on the straight.

I've never driven on a track coming down a main straight

where it's quite as bumpy as this track,

so we had to change the sensitivity levels

just so it wasn't making a shift cut down the straight.

But other than that it's pretty amazing.

And that's what Mark, his specialty is actually

doing the drive train.

So he went in and he did a bunch of little changes with us

and showed us where we could squeeze out

a faster shift and get that power back on quicker.

So as we make the shift we're not losing that much speed

actually from that shift.

- So with the ability for you to control those shifts

through the Motec, obviously you've still got

a mechanical lever in there,

you're physically pulling the lever,

it's not paddle shifted.

But you also have the ability to auto blip the throttle

on the downshift, is that a function you're using

in the Motec or are you manually doing that?

- I'm manually doing it at this point in time.

We were discussing earlier today about getting

a drive by wire solution and actually implementing

all that features into it.

- So you're still on a cable throttle.

- I'm still on a cable throttle.

- Well look it's an amazing car.

It's making some insane power and considering

this is your first time here at Sydney Motorsport Park,

to already be running second in the Pro-Am field,

is a pretty impressive effort.

You've broken under that 1 minute 30 barrier,

with a 129.6 was it?

- Yeah 129.637 I think.

- So it bodes well for tomorrow and a little bit more

experience with the track as well.

We certainly wish you all the best for competition tomorrow.

Thanks for chatting to us Will.

- Thank you very much.

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Trump Just Uncovered SCANDAL OF CENTURY – Here's Why Vets Are Dying at the VA - Duration: 3:49.

For more infomation >> Trump Just Uncovered SCANDAL OF CENTURY – Here's Why Vets Are Dying at the VA - Duration: 3:49.

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Christmas is here and these military musicians are bringing good cheer - Duration: 4:10.

HARI SREENIVASAN: And, finally, on this Christmas night, we continue a tradition we started

a few years ago, where we ask the U.S. military to recite a holiday poem or tale.

Tonight, musicians from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard sing and

perform "Carol of the Bells."

This video was produced by an agency called the Defense Media Activity, an organization

within

the Pentagon.

(MUSIC)

HARI SREENIVASAN: We have a version of that online on our Web site, if you would like

to share it.

For more infomation >> Christmas is here and these military musicians are bringing good cheer - Duration: 4:10.

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Christmas is Almost Here! - Christmas Eve 2017 - Duration: 9:40.

(upbeat music)

- Good morning, Clan.

Merry Christmas Eve.

Is that a thing? Do you say that?

A Merry Christmas Eve, I don't know.

Anyways, it is Christmas Eve, it is 11:49 A.M.

and our house is just about ready for

our guests to start arriving.

I believe my grandma is gonna get over here early just 'cause

that's what grandmas do.

Tiffany's mom's probably gonna get here early 'cause she's

gonna come, start cooking.

Bryce is being a goofball.

I'm trying to vlog over here, dude.

- Hey. - [Clintus] You creeped me out.

Go pick up dog poo. - I'm petting the dog.

- [Clintus] If you start picking it up,

she'll leave you a fresh-y.

She'll drop a fresh one for you.

- No. I'm good. (Clintus laughs)

- So, tradition in my family Christmas Eve we do Mexican food

'cause, you know, we live in Arizona,

desert, southwest, we're actually just having this

discussion with Bryce, why we eat so much Mexican food.

Because being so close to Mexico

we have really good Mexican food.

We were raised on good Mexican food therefore we inherently

love Mexican food.

So we're making tamale casserole.

- Mexican pot luck.

- Yeah, we're having a Mexican pot luck but

what are you making?

- Tamale casserole. - Tamale casserole.

- I've never made it. Hopefully it's good.

- It'll be good. It's gonna be good.

My grandma's bringing goop.

Which goop is consistency of

ground beef and refried beans, mixed.

It's kinda soupy, not soupy but like goopy.

It's goopy, goop. Get it?

Then you make tacos tostadas out of it.

I'm sure one of my brothers will bring rice.

The other one's gonna bring guacamole and salsa.

- [Tiffany] No, it's a mystery pot luck.

- Yeah, well we don't know exactly what everyone's bringing

but I'm making guesses. I'm making guesses.

Someone's gonna bring rice,

someone's gonna bring like salsa and guacamole.

Yeah, so, I'm very excited.

But I have one more stop to make.

As you guys know, yesterday me and Bryce did some

last minute shopping.

There is one couple that I didn't buy something for because

I was trying to be unique with each person.

Wasn't able to find a unique gift for this couple so I'm

gonna go back, I'm gonna try one more store on the way and if I

don't find something there I'm gonna go back to the store I was

at yesterday and just buy the same gift that I got another

couple and just like it is what it is.

'Cause I'm buying 'em gifts. 'Cause that's what I want to do.

- [Tiffany] You back in the kitchen?

He's been helping me a lot lately.

- Only when I'm invited. Sometimes she's like,

"Get out of the kitchen. You're in my way."

Other times she's like,

"Can you help me? Can you chop my onions for me?"

Alright, so this is the next round

of Tiffany's tamale casserole.

Nice and crispy on top.

Meemaw's cooking something here.

She'll make another casserole.

I just got done making the guacamole

so we're just letting that chill. Oh yeah.

Alright, I got the customary chips and salsa, guacamole.

Some cream cheese with, what is that?

Jalapeño jelly? - [Bryce] It's pretty good.

- [Clintus] A little jalapeño jelly.

We'll make some enchiladas here real quick.

We got one casserole in here.

Another one down here.

My grandma's brought her goop here.

The Bevos brought queso dip here.

Family is starting to arrive.

It's time to chip and dip.

- So me and Uncle Austin just handmade these.

- [Clintus] I know, I missed it. I was talking.

- [Sierra] Well, we're gonna make another tray.

- [Clintus] I want to see how you make 'em.

- [Sierra] He puts like cheese and the sauce in there and he

just pours on the tortillas, and rolls 'em up.

- [Clintus] That's how you make enchiladas.

Alright, let's do the greens.

- [Austin] It's just like that.

That'll work.

- [Clintus] Now, Sierra's making some punch.

What are you makin'?

- Snowball punch. - [Clintus] Snowball punch.

- It's gonna look like snowballs 'cause I'm gonna

put ice cream scoops in it.

- [Clintus] I like it, I like it.

Some Hawaiian Punch, some pineapple juice,

some Sprite, some ice cream.

Oh yeah. - [Sierra] Very sugary. (laughs)

(indistinct chatter)

- [Clintus] You got to jump, Victoria.

Yeah, good job, Max.

All wrapped up with dinner.

Desserts are starting to make their way out.

Everyone's outside enjoying the amazing weather.

It is

67 degrees outside here on Christmas Eve Arizona.

A little sunny, just nice, right?

Like a little light sweater.

We got some of the space heaters going on.

Cardinals are kicking butt on TV.

Kids are getting antsy.

They're getting ready to open those presents

so I think we're gonna start that now.

(indistinct chatter)

- It actually is.

- [Clintus] Wait, what'd you got?

- What's it say? - [Clintus] What's it say?

- [Travis] Clintus.TV!

(Max screams) (group laughter)

- [Chrissy] You have to wear that and say, "Vlog on!"

- [Sierra] Rainbow's your favorite color.

Her favorite color rainbow.

And then you got some leggings.

- [Max] Can I make slime?

- [Sierra] Yeah, it's a slime kit.

- [Clintus] Slime kit.

(Victoria screams happily)

- [Victoria] No!

- [Clintus] So that's from Grandpa.

- [Bryce] Yes! Another PlayStation gift card. Woo-hoo!

- [Tiffany] Babies! What do you think about all this?

(indistinct chatter)

- Alright guys, winding things down here on Christmas Eve.

All my family members, Tiffany's family members have gone home

'cause, you know, they got stuff to do tonight.

Get things ready for the big day tomorrow.

Nice little table, what's it called?

- [Tiffany] Centerpiece? - Arrangement?

Centerpiece, that's it, from my aunt.

Very nice, very festive. She made that.

Here's some of the gifts we got.

We shared amongst ourselves.

My dad got me this.

Make some Moscow Mules.

My brother, Travis, hooked us up with some lime flavored vodka

and some Cock and Bull to make some Moscow Mules.

They know I like Moscow Mules.

And check this out, a little Pop Vinyl for

my collection upstairs. Pretty excited about that.

Tiff's already starting to put together her breakfast casserole

for the morning.

- Overnight breakfast casserole.

- [Clintus] Get a little head start.

- Hopefully it turns out.

- [Clintus] We're gonna have a busy morning.

Got some leftover cookies and desserts we'll bring with us to

her parents house 'cause that's where we're going

to spend Christmas evening.

So here's what we have so far sitting out.

These are all gifts from like me to Tiffany,

kids to Tiffany.

Gifts to the kids from me, Tiffany from me.

This is like Papa, this is the Bevos,

there's Bryce from Sierra, Sierra to Bryce,

that sort of thing.

That's where all that stuff is and then when the kids go to

sleep, we'll bring their gifts down and

we'll fill it all back out.

I'm excited, Tiffany's excited, the kids are excited.

And on that note guys I'm gonna end the vlog here so I can edit

it, get to bed at a decent hour.

Still have some stuff to do.

Thanks for watching.

Merry Christmas to you guys.

Happy Holidays and we will see you tomorrow for Christmas Day

for an extra special probably longer vlog.

Thanks for watching.

We'll see you then. Vlog on!

(upbeat music)

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Trump Just Uncovered SCANDAL OF CENTURY – Here's Why Vets Are Dying at the VA. - Duration: 7:15.

Trump Just Uncovered SCANDAL OF CENTURY – Here's Why Vets Are Dying at the VA.

During Barack Hussein Obama's time in the White House, he regularly showed that he has

no respect for those who serve in the U.S. military.

As a result, the Department of Veterans Affairs was in complete shambles by the end of his

presidency.

As soon as Donald Trump took office, he discovered something about the VA's hiring practices

that is truly disturbing.

Freedom Daily reported that the VA has been allowing its hospitals across the nation to

hire doctors and nurses with revoked medical licenses, a practice it has been doing for

at least 15 years even though it is a violation of federal law.

Back in 2002, the VA issued national guidelines in which it gave local hospitals discretion

to hire clinicians after "prior consideration of all relevant facts surrounding" any revocations,

as long as they possessed a license in one of the fifty states.

This is in direct violation of a 1999 law that bars the VA from employing any healthcare

worker whose license has been revoked by any of the 50 states.

No wonder conditions in VA hospitals have gotten so dangerous.

Things have gotten so bad at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington,

D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report Wednesday to alert

patients and other members of the public.

The VA inspector general discovered in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran

out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.

The facility was forced to borrow bone material for knee replacement surgeries, and at one

point, the hospital ran out of tubes needed for kidney dialysis, so staff had to go to

a private-sector hospital and ask for some.

Though the hospital serves more than 98,000 veterans in the nation's capital, the inspector

general found that it lacks an effective inventory system.

Making matters worse, senior VA leaders have known about the problem for months and haven't

fixed it.

On top of that, investigators also inspected 25 sterile storage areas and found 18 were

dirty.

"Although our work is continuing, we believed it appropriate to publish this Interim Summary

Report given the exigent nature of the issues we have preliminarily identified and the lack

of confidence in VHA adequately and timely fixing the root causes of these issues,"

VA Inspector General Michael Missal wrote.

Trump wasted no time in taking action.

Immediately after the report was released, the VA issued a statement saying that the

medical center director, Brian Hawkins, was relieved from his position and placed on administrative

duty, "effective immediately."

"The department considers this an urgent patient-safety issue," the statement said.

"VA is conducting a swift and comprehensive review into these findings.

VA's top priority is to ensure that no patient has been harmed.

If appropriate, additional disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with the law."

USA Today Reports:

Veteran patients in imminent danger at VA hospital in D.C., investigation finds

WASHINGTON — Conditions are so dangerous at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical

Center in Washington, D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report

Wednesday to alert patients and other members of the public.

The VA inspector general found that in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran

out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.

The facility had to borrow bone material for knee replacement surgeries.

And at one point, the hospital ran out of tubes needed for kidney dialysis, so staff

had to go to a private-sector hospital and ask for some.

The hospital, which serves more than 98,000 veterans in the nation's capital, lacks

an effective inventory system, the inspector general determined, and senior VA leaders

have known about the problem for months and haven't fixed it.

Investigators also inspected 25 sterile storage areas and found 18 were dirty.

"Although our work is continuing, we believed it appropriate to publish this Interim Summary

Report given the exigent nature of the issues we have preliminarily identified and the lack

of confidence in VHA adequately and timely fixing the root causes of these issues,"

VA Inspector General Michael Missal wrote.

The inspector general rarely issues such preliminary findings.

The last time appears to have been in January 2015, when his office found lapses in urology

care at the Phoenix VA were endangering patients and required "immediate attention."

The VA set up an incident command center on March 30 when the inspector general notified

officials about the problems in Washington; it sent logistics specialists, technicians

and managers to fix the problems.

Such actions, Missal said, are "short term and potentially insufficient to guarantee

the implementation of an effective inventory management system and address the other issues

identified.

"Further, shortages of medical equipment and supplies continued to occur…, confirming

that problems persisted despite these measures," he wrote.

After the report's release Wednesday, the VA issued a statement saying that the medical

center director, Brian Hawkins, was relieved from his position and placed on administrative

duty, "effective immediately."

"The department considers this an urgent patient-safety issue," the statement said.

"VA is conducting a swift and comprehensive review into these findings.

VA's top priority is to ensure that no patient has been harmed.

If appropriate, additional disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with the law."

New VA Secretary David Shulkin told USA TODAY earlier this week that he welcomes outside

oversight with hopes it will help him fix the beleaguered agency.

The inspector general's investigation, which stemmed from an anonymous complaint on March

21, found that during the past three years, there have been 194 reports that patient safety

has been compromised because of insufficient equipment.

Among the findings:

• In February 2016, a tray used in repairing jaw fractures was removed from the hospital

because of an outstanding invoice to a vendor.

• In April 2016, four prostate biopsies had to be canceled because there were no tools

to extract the tissue sample.

• In June 2016, the hospital found one of its surgeons had used expired equipment during

a procedure

• In March 2017, the facility found chemical strips used to verify equipment sterilization

had expired a month earlier, so tests performed on nearly 400 items were not reliable

Missal said that the practices have placed patients at "unnecessary risk," though

so far, the Office of Inspector General has not determined if patients were harmed.

"The OIG's work is continuing and will include an assessment of whether patient harm

has resulted from any of these inventory practices in its final report on the Medical Center,"

he wrote.

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finally my laptop is here!

yeah, uhh my laptop is here, finally...

I'm not sure how to you know, edit videos (LIES) but I'll try to edit my videos here but

You know,I'm just going to-- DONE

Also, Ill be getting a screen recorder as well (are you sure, cage?) since i have my own laptop now

But hey... Oh creator studio?

There's that.

Well, im gonna edit my video also I might edit this as well. (You did) *weird giggle noise*

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so that is the thunbnail i guess

You know what? I'm just gonna end this video here. (good, i can't even understand you anyways and another kid youtuber-- okay, ill just stop talking now)

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We get highlights from last week's show. – The first hour of tonight' show is commercial free.

John Cena's New Shirt Kicks Off Raw: Cena immediately gives his shirt and hat to what appeared a make a wish kid. Cena plays up the holiday edition of the show, calling WWE & the fans his family.

THE DRIFTER IS HERE and he has no time for John Cena's shit.

He says "WWE" now stands for "Walk With Elias." Cena says he'll walk with Elias, and Elias is here interrupting because everyone interrupts him, and says CM Punk sure the hell won't interrupt him tonight.

That of course brings out the Punk chants, but Elias plans to perform. Elias keeps cutting Cena's attempted advice off, so Cena gives him his stool and backs off.

Elias starts to sing and gets booed out of the building as he buries Chicago. Cena interrupts him, and says Elias shouldn't have said bad things about Chicago, kisses up to the crowd but Elias says he speaks the truth.

Cena calls him a jerk, and those are fighting words. Elias says he never thought of things that way. So he'd love t do another song. Elias sings again, playing it nice.

Cena joins in and Elias lays him out. He runs down Christmas and Cena. He works over Cena and says he'll give him the gift of challenging Cena.

Elias: The bell rings and Elias attacks. Cena fires back, and hits rights and a hip toss.

Cena grounds the action, but Elias quickly fights back, and again takes control as they spill to the floor. He works him over, and rolls him back in, covering for 2.

Elias tosses Cena across the ring and covers again for 2. Elias puts Cena in the tree of WHOA, heads up top and hits a double stomp, and that gets 2.

Cena starts to fight back, but gets cut off. Back to the tree of WHOA, Elias back up top, but Cena avoids the double stomp and hits a clothesline.

Rights follow, they trade center ring and Elias hits a back breaker for 2. Elias continues to control, laying in rights and then laying the boots to Cena in the corner.

Elias back up top pulls Cena up with him and Cena fights, but Elias hits a spin out powerbomb for 2. Cena rolls to the floor.

Cena makes it back in, but Elias covers for 2. Elias grounds things with a side headlock.

Cena fights to his feet, and hits shoulder blocks, but Elias rolls to the floor. Cena follows, rolls him back in and Elias hits a clothesline for 2.

The side back breaker follows for 2 by Elias. Cena counters into an STF, Elias fights, escapes and hits a running knee strike as Cena rolls to the floor.

Cena to the apron, Elias follows with rights, but Cena gets a sunset flip and into the STF. Elias fights again, and makes the ropes.

Elias hits drift away, but Cena kicks out at 2. Elbows follow by Elias, he poses, but Cena gets a sunset flip for 2.

Shoulder blocks follow and then the proto bomb. Cena follows with the five-knuckle shuffle and AA; that's that. John Cena defeated Elias @ 15:55 via pin. – We get a Samoa Joe promo video.

– Kurt Angle decorates a tree as Jason Jordan arrives for family time. Seth Rollins arrives and he wants revenge against Joe, for injuring Ambrose.

He and Jordan argue, but Angle says Jordan & Rollins need to take out the Bar first. Angle says they will face the Bar tonight for the tag team titles.

– Roman Reigns arrives and Angle books him vs. Joe tonight, and the IC Title will be on the line. – Charly interviews Kendrick, who will face Itami tonight. He wants to find out if Itami belongs.

Brian Kendrick: Jack Gallagher is at ringside. Kendrick attacks at the bell, they trade strikes and knees. Itami follows with kicks, demanding respect. Gallagher distracts him, allowing Kendrick to attack and cover for 2.

Kendrick hits a butterfly suplex, covering for 2. Kendrick then grounds the action; Itami fights to his feet, lays in boots and stuns Kendrick off the ropes. The top rope clothesline follows. Clotheslines and kicks follow, and then the suplex connects.

Itami fires up with strikes and then the hesitation dropkick connects; Itami hits the GTS and that's that. Hideo Itami defeated Brian Kendrick @ 4:05 via pin. – We get a video package on the women's Royal Rumble.

Sasha, Bayley, and Mickie walk and meet with Dallas & Axel who sing Miz themed Christmas songs. The ladies walk away. Paige, Mandy Rose, & Sonja Deville vs. Bayley, Sasha Banks, & Mickey James: Paige and Banks to begin.

Paige connects with strikes, tags on Rose, and Banks hits a dropkick. Banks takes control, tagging Mickie in and they work double teams.

She works the arm of Rose, lays in kicks and then the clothesline for 2. Bayley tags in, she and Mickie work double teams and Bayley covers for 2.

Deville gets the tag, and starts tossing Bayley around, lays in kicks, but Bayley powers her to the corner and Banks tags back in. The running knees sorta hits for 2.

Banks fights off Rose, follows Deville to the floor and gets planted with a clothesline. Paige tags in, and lays the boots to Banks in the corner.

Rose tags in, as they isolate banks and work the quick tag. Deville back in and lays in strikes on Banks, covering for 2. She grounds the action. Banks keeps fighting, but Paige tags back in and grounds things.

Banks gets to her feet, but Paige hits a clothesline for 2. More quick tags follow, Rose in and picks up a cover for 2.

Rose cuts off the tag and knocks Mickie & Bayley to the floor. Banks slams Rose into Paige, and we get wholesale changes to Bayley & Paige.

Bayley is fired up and runs wild, taking out Deville. Paige fights back but runs into a Bayley to belly, but Deville & Rose pull Paige to the floor.

It breaks down on the floor with a big brawl. Bayley & Paige back in, but Paige cuts her off and hits ramPaige for the win.

Paige, Mandy Rose, & Sonja Deville defeated Bayley, Sasha Banks, & Mickey James @ 10:18 via pin. – We get highlights of the Ambrose injury angle from last week. Commentary says he'll be out for upwards of 9-months.

Renee interviews Joe, who has no sympathy for what he did last week. His actions earned him an IC Title shot tonight, he's systematically taken out the Shield, and tonight, finishes things when he finishes and owns Reigns.

Heath Slater: Rhyno is at ringside. Slater looks to play stay away, but Kane cuts him off and starts kicking his ass.

The side slam gets 2 and Kane then kicks him to the floor. Rhyno tries to motivate Slater, but he's immediately tossed back to the floor.

Rhyno and Slater argue, so Kane looks to attack but Slater fires up starts connecting, but is almost immediately cut off. Kane defeated Heath Slater @ 2:17 via pin [NR].

– Post match, Kane & Rhyno brawl. Rhyno hits the corner spear, but the gore is cut off. Kane chokeslams him and stands tall.

Curt Hawkins is here to face the facts, 2017 wasn't a good year for him as he's been winless. But he feels a Christmas miracle coming and issues an open challenge.

He's like 0-146 right now. Balor is decked out in red for the holidays. Curt Hawkins: Hawkins attacks at the bell, but Balor cuts him off and hits a dropkick. Chops follow, but Hawkins gets a roll up for 2.

He gets another rollup and then a cradle for 2. Balor hits a standing double stomp, and the sling blade; the shotgun dropkick and top rope double stomp finishes things. Finn Balor defeated Curt Hawkins @ 1:30 via pin [NR].

– Axel & Dallas meet with Goldust. They sing to him and bury his career. They give him a copy of the Christmas movie Miz did. Goldust then gives it to Titus O'Neil.

We get a spooky Bray Wyatt promo, noting Sister Abigail hated Christmas. – Not good if true…. INJURY UPDATE: @TheDeanAmbroses injury will keep him out of action for approximately nine months. https://t.co/q7mmvhgJIp. — WWE (@WWE) December 26, 2017.

Wyatt makes his way to the ring, but Matt appears and attacks, running him off to chants of delete. Thank you Matt for saving me a Wyatt match. Matt then addresses Wyatt, laughing like a mad man.

– Enzo talks and makes holiday themed jokes. Miracle on 34th Street Fight: Enzo, Daivari, & Gulak vs. Ali, Alexander, & Tozawa: So the cruiserweights are replacing the divas in holiday themed matches.

Enzo defends against Alexander next week. Alexander and Daivari start things off, Alexander dumps him and dropkicks Gulak. Tozawa & Ali hit dives. Post break, and trees and gifts are in the ring.

The heels are in control, working the heat on Tozawa. Tozawa cuts off Enzo with a kick, allowing Daivari and Ali to tag in.

Ali hits a dropkick, enziguri and x-factor, Ali up top, the imploding 450 follows, but Gulak makes the save with a cookie tray. Enzo and Alexander tag in, Alexander takes his Kendo candy cane stick.

Gulak accidentally hits Enzo and Alexander attacks him with kendo shots. Daivari in, eats the lumbar check and that's that. Ali, Alexander, & Tozawa defeated Enzo, Daivari, & Gulak @ 7:50 via pin.

Enzo is sad backstage and meets with Nia Jax and her amazing Technicolor hair. They are under mistletoe, and as they tease kissing, Alexa Bliss interrupts them.

– Renee interviews Roman Reigns. Reigns doesn't care about Joe and won't leave without the IC Title. Tonight is about Ambrose, and sending a message to Joe.

IC Champion Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe: They trade back and forth right away, and Reigns hits the drive by kick, but Joe hits a belly to back suplex, covering for 2.

Joe follows with forearm strikes, but Reigns cuts that off with a clothesline. Corner clotheslines and a big boot follow.

Reigns sets, wants the superman punch but Joe suckers him in and works jabs. Post break, and Joe is still in control, slapping Reigns around.

Reigns cuts him off, hitting a Samoan drop, and covering for 2. Joe fights off a powerbomb attempt, they trade strikes and Joe hits a snap suplex, but misses the senton.

The superman punch by Reigns gets 2. Reigns looks for the spear, but runs into a boot and uranage for a good near fall.

Reigns stuns Joe off the ropes, Joe looks for the clutch, and drops to the mat with Reigns locked up. Reigns fights out and makes the ropes.

Joe sends Reigns to the floor and hits the elbow suicida. Reigns is selling his left arm now. Joe rolls him back in, and starts working the arm. Reigns fights back with head butts and rights.

Reigns lays in the boots and shoves the ref away for a DQ. Samoa Joe defeated IC Champion Roman Reigns @ 12:55 via DQ.

Reigns is a sore loser, attacking Joe and posting him after the match. Reigns then gets the steps, and hits Joe with them. He then gets a chair, but Joe seemingly escaped more damage.

– Seth Rollins watches on backstage and laughs. He meets with Jordan and says they are teaming because he owes Kurt and wants revenge for Dean.

Rollins says just hanging with top competition is not enough for Jordan any longer. Jordan says he makes a pretty good replacement for Ambrose, but Rollins says he'll never be Ambrose. Jordan promises to be better.

– Axel & Dallas are in the ring now. They have a "secret Santa" match tonight. They sing and BRAAAAAAAAAAAUN arrives.

Axel & Dallas: BRAUN kills Dallas with a clothesline and then tosses him across the ring. Axel in and gets tossed into Dallas. BRAUN hits the powerslam and wins. BRAUN defeated Axel & Dallas @ 1:00 via pin [NR].

– Post match, at the urging of the crowd, BRAUN delivers several more powerslams to both.

– Alexa Bliss arrives and is giving us the gift of a goddess. She wants to reflect on her 2017, which was the year of Bliss, starting the year as Smackdown women's champion and finishing as Raw women's champion.

She did it without the fans, and doesn't need them now. She then starts to talk about the Women's Royal Rumble and last week's announcement, which was the moment of the year.

She then says you're welcome, because every moment is because of her. Asuka then arrives and Bliss is not pleased.

Asuka says she's entering the women's rumble and she will win, because nobody is ready for Asuka. Bliss now looks terrified. She should be, because Asuka laid her out with a head kick.

The women of @WWE better get READY, because @WWEAsuka is ENTERING the first-ever Womens #RoyalRumble Match! #RAW @AlexaBliss_WWE pic. twitter. com/lQVZVKAgDJ. — WWE (@WWE) December 26, 2017.

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The AI chip startup explosion is already here

All eyes may have been on Nvidia this year as its stock exploded higher thanks to an enormous amount of demand across all fronts: gaming, an increased interest in data centers, and its major potential applications in AI.

But while Nvidia's stock price and that chart may have been one of the more eye-popping parts of 2017, a year when AI continued its march toward being omnipresent in technology, something a little more subtle was happening in the AI world that may have even deeper ramifications.

This year, an array of startups that are all working on their own variations of hardware that will power future devices built on top of AI received enormous amounts of funding.

Some of these startups have nowhere near a massive install base (or have yet to ship a product) but already appear to have no trouble raising financing.

Looking to optimize inference and machine training — two key parts of processes like image and speech recognition — startups have sought to find ways to pick away at these processes in ways that will make them faster, more power-efficient, and generally better suited for the next generation of artificial intelligence-powered devices.

Instead of the traditional computational architecture we've become accustomed to with CPUs, the GPU has become one of the go-to pieces of silicon for processing the rapid-fire calculations required for AI processes. And these startups think they can do that even better.

Before we get to the class of startups, let's quickly review the aforementioned Nvidia chart, just to get a sense of the scale of what's happening here.

Even with the blip at the end of the year, shares of Nvidia are up nearly 80 percent heading into 2018:.

So, naturally, we'd probably see a whole class of startups that are looking to pick away at Nvidia's potential vulnerabilities in the AI market. Investors, too, would also take notice of this.

We first broke the news that Cerebras Systems had picked up funding from Benchmark Capital in December last year when it raised around $25 million.

At the time, it seemed like the AI chip industry was not quite as obvious as it was today — though, as the year went on, Nvidia's dominance of the GPU market was a clear indicator that this would be a booming space.

Then Forbes reported in August this year that the company was valued at nearly $900 million. Obviously, there was something here.

Graphcore, too, made some noise this year. It announced a new $50 million financing round in November this year led by Sequoia Capital, shortly after a $30 million financing round in July led by Atomico.

Graphcore still, like Cerebras Systems, doesn't have a splashy product on the market yet like Nvidia.

And yet this startup was able to raise $80 million in a year, though hardware startups face many more challenges than ones built on the back of software.

There's also been a flurry of funding for Chinese AI startups: Alibaba poured financing into a startup called Cambricon Technology, which is reportedly valued at $1 billion; Intel Capital led a $100 million investment in Horizon Robotics; and a startup called ThinkForce raised $68 million earlier this month.

That's to say nothing of Groq, a startup run by former Google engineers that raised around $10 million from Social+Capital, which seems small in the scope of some of the startups listed above.

Mythic, yet another chip maker, has raised $9.3 million in financing.

So we can see not just one or two but seven startups gunning for similar areas of this space, many of which have raised tens of millions of dollars, with at least one startup's valuation creeping near $900 million.

Again, these are hardware startups, and it is next-generation hardware, which may require a lot more financing. But this is still a space that cannot be ignored at all.

Moving beyond the startups, the biggest companies in the world are also looking to create their own systems. Google announced its next-generation TPU in May earlier this year geared toward inference and machine training.

Apple designed its own GPU for its next-generation iPhone. Both of these will go a long way toward trying to tune the hardware for their specific needs, such as Google Cloud applications or Siri.

Intel also said in October it would ship its new Nervana Nueral Network Processor by the end of 2017. Intel bought Nervana for a reported $350 million in August last year.

All of these represent massive undertakings by both the startups and the larger companies, each looking for their own interpretation of a GPU.

But unseating Nvidia, which has begun the process of locking in developers onto its platform (called Cuda), may be an even more difficult task.

That's going to be doubly true for startups that are trying to press their hardware into the wild and get developers on board. When you talk to investors in Silicon Valley, you'll still find some skepticism.

Why, for example, would companies look to buy faster chips for their training when older cards in an Amazon server may be just as good for their training? And yet there is still an enormous amount of money flowing into this area.

And it's coming from firms that are the same ones that bet big on Uber (though there's quite a bit of turbulence there) and WhatsApp.

Nvidia is still a clear leader in this area and will look to continue its dominance as devices like autonomous cars become more and more relevant.

But as we go into 2018, we'll likely start to get a better sense as to whether these startups actually have an opportunity to unseat Nvidia.

There's the tantalizing opportunity of creating faster, lower-power chips that can go into internet-of-things thingies and truly fulfill the promise of those devices with more efficient inference.

And there's the opportunity of making those servers faster and more power-efficient when they look to train models — like ones that tell your car what a squirrel looks like — may also turn out to be something truly massive.

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Why Vets Are Dying at the VA.