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Venezuelas socialist government stripped its congress of power late Thursday in what opposition leaders are calling a coup.

Venezuelas Supreme Court ruled that all powers vested under the legislative body will be transferred to the countrys highest court. Venezuelas opposition legislators are calling this a coup, as the ruling effectively cedes total control of the country to the SocialistParty, and opposition leaders are now officially calling Venezuelaa dictatorship.

Nicols Maduro has staged a coup dtat, Julio Borges, leader of Venezuelas National Assembly and a major opposition figure, said Thursday. What this ruling means is that, for the first time, Nicols Maduro has all the power to enact laws, assign contracts, incur foreign debt and persecute fellow Venezuelans.

The Peruvian government broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela over theruling, calling it an arbitrary measure that disrupts the rule of law and constitutes a breakup of the constitutional and democratic order.

Since the socialist government seized power, 75 percent of Venezuelas citizens have lost at least 19 pounds each amid serious food shortages last year, according to new research.This is largely because the poor economic policies of the socialist government have left Venezuela cash-strapped and unable topay for food importsafter years of mismanagement, heavy spending on poorly-run government programs, and lack of investment on its oil fields.

The countrys inflation rate is expected to top 1,640 percent in 2017, according to the International Monetary Fund. Inflation is leading to the countrys currency getting replaced by new cryptocurrency backed by memes of Pepe the Frog. Using these memes as moneygrants anonymity,making itharder for the government to control the tech industry. Others have noticed and started using digital money in place of paper money.

Venezuelans are living with the consequences of decades of socialist economic policies. Price controls, for example, forced businesses to sell food at low prices, encouraging farmers to sell on the black market or outside the country.

Venezuela has some of the worlds largest petroleum reserves, but the collapse in crude oil prices is cutting into state coffers. The country cant afford to pump oil at current prices, and as recently as February was forced to accept shipments of U.S. crude oil. The country suffers from rolling blackouts that can last for days.

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The idea of images of the popular green frog being rare started off as a joke on 4chan, where users would claim that their images of Pepe were rarer and more valuable than everyone elses. It escalated into people selling their collections of Pepe on eBay, with bids reaching up to almost $100,000 before eBay took it down.

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There were never any serious transactions however, with everyone involved enjoying the ironic humour of the situation. More recently, a group of redditors have been trading memes of any shape and size on /r/MemeEconomy, attempting to create a stock market in meme popularity. But, it turns out that rare Pepe collecting online is now a serious business.

Sometime last year, an unknown individual began issuing official rare Pepe trading cards using the Counterparty platform to link them to bitcoin, in an attempt to poke fun at another online trading game called Spells of Genesis. Today, these cards can be exchanged for the equivalent of thousands of US dollars on Counterpartys decentralised exchange.

This is due to a creation of artificial scarcity in the cards (as one would expect trading cards to have). Anyone canissue their own rare Pepes, but these are then verified by the official Rare Pepe Foundation, and linked to a certain piece of the bitcoin chain via a practice known as coin colouring. Whomsoever owns that particular bitcoin key address owns the Pepe associated with it. All verified rare Pepes can be viewed in a complete directory of them.

This is in particular use in Venezuela. Developers of a game called Rare Pepe Party that would utilise some of these cards have claimed that they are needed to keep their company afloat. Were based in Venezuela, and our business has been saved by bitcoin many times, the developer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Crypto Insider.

According to them, around 80% of offices in the vicinity of theirs have been closed down in the past year, with even the biggest businesses still around losing up to 90% of their employees. In that timeframe, thanks to bitcoin related business, weve grown our employee base from just 5 to 10 (were still a small company), said the developer. Weve air-conditioned our office. Year-over-year weve been improving, so were banking big on bitcoin and now over Counterparty assets.

However, bitcoin is not completely safe in the South American nation. Venezuelas equivalent of secret police, SEBIN, have been targeting people usingbitcoin and bringing them up on or extortion and bribes, especially bitcoin miners, according to the developer. Anything bitcoin related is a big no-no here at the moment this week I got wind of at least two mining operators getting knocks on their doors.

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FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WDTV) -- Fairmont State University Criminal Justice students recently took top honors at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Alpha Phi Sigma National Conference in Kansas City, Mo. In fact, Fairmont State will be known as the Alpha Phi Sigma National Office for the next two years because three FSU students won the national election for the presidential slate of the organization and will serve a two-year term as its national officers.

The new national officers are Samuel Hamilton, President; Morganne Phillips, Secretary; and Phillip Sands, Treasurer. A student from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will serve as Vice President.

As the chapter advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, Im very pleased to announce that Fairmont State University students won the national election. The students will be involved in recruiting new chapters, maintaining communication with more than 300 chapters nationwide and planning the next two national conferences that will be held in New Orleans and Baltimore, said Dr. Deanna Shields, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and advisor to FSUs Epsilon Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

The FSU chapter also won first place in the T-shirt design competition, the Star Chapter Award given by the National Headquarters and the Outstanding Chapter for Leadership Award presented by a panel of judges at the conference.

FSUs students consistently perform well in the national crime scene competition. Last year the FSU team won first place in the crime scene competition over teams from 16 other schools.

Because FSU has won so many times, they have now what they call the Fairmont rule. If a team wins one year, they cant compete the next, said crime scene investigation coach Dr. John McLaughlin.

This year the FSU crime scene investigation students developed, administered and judged the entire crime scene competition.

With the assistance of Dr. John McLaughlin, the crime scene competition was a tremendous success, Shields said.

The FSU team is comprised of the following students: Nick Brown, Brittiany Brummage, Olivia Eubanks, Samuel Hamilton, Thairon Holler, Bailey Kershner, Emily Markham, Amber Miller, Abby Palmer, Julian Pecora, Morganne Phillips, Jamie Riddell, Sarita Robinson, Phillip Sands and William Siegler.

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There was confusion in Shepherd's Bush last night (Thursday March 30) as camera crews were spotted filming people in crime scene investigation suits at the same time as a real police incident.

Hammersmith and Fulham police tweeted at around 6.30pm to say that lanes around the green were closed because of an incident.

At the same time, passers-by saw film crews and cameras as well as people dressed in protective clothing worn during crime scene investigations.

People on social media suggested the filming was for a BBC drama called Hard Sun a pre-apocalyptic crime drama set in modern day London.

The series is by Neil Cross, the creator of the Idris Elba crime drama Luther, and will be filmed across the capital.

It stars Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn and is expected to air later this year.

According to one report on social media, filming at Shepherd's Bush will continue today (March 31).

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Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., works with Julia Bacon-Henderson after the students cultured bacteria from various lab surfaces as an investigator would do at a crime scene. (Photo by Brenda Lange)

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Crime scene investigation (CSI) is hotter than ever. Just count how many CSI shows there are on television. And now Chestnut Hill College is offering students, grades 5 through 12, a chance to learn about how their favorite detectives use science to figure out seemingly unsolvable thefts, arsons, mysteries and more.

Returning for its fourth year, Chestnut Hill Colleges (CHC) Forensic Sciences Summer Camp, led by Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Biology, offers campers the chance to learn how to collect and analyze crime scene evidence such as serology, toxicology entomology, odontology and trace evidence. It also provides students who uniformly give the course an A+ hands-on experiences in several professional techniques such as DNA typing, fingerprint classification, fabric and shoe print pattern comparisons and blood type testing.

Kulkosky says the idea for the camp came from high school students and their parents at open house campus visits asking questions and wanting information about the colleges Forensic Biology undergraduate degree program. Students interested in forensics are really into the topic, and I thought it would be neat if students at a younger age, considering a college degree program, could have a hands-on summer experience in forensic methods to see if it really was a career path for them.

According to an article by Brenda Lange in the latest issue of the CHC Magazine, Cole Angstadt is a 12-year-old who loves science. He calls it the coolest subject and was thrilled to be part of CHCs Forensic Sciences Camp last summer. NCIS is his favorite TV show, and working with and learning about some of the same equipment from the show was fun and unique.

On the show, they use a thermometer that determines the time of death, and in the camp we watched a slideshow about it, Angstadt said. His favorite part of the weeklong program was the use of micro pipettes. They measure precise amounts of liquids and are more sophisticated than a glass or plastic dropper.

Using microscopes, taking fingerprints and footprints, measuring blood splatters and learning what they mean, doing DNA and blood type testing are all part of the collection and analysis of crime scene evidence that culminates on the last day of the camp with students solving the crime who killed Dr. K.?

Coles father, Tom, said his son was at the camp because he wanted to be there, and he had to drag him away at the end of the day. He was very engaged, and it was a great place to expand his mind.

Kulkosky, a resident of Wyncote, spent most of his scientific career, over 30 years, in hard-core basic and medical research as a molecular biologist at Cornell Medical Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University. He had the opportunity to teach a biotechnology course in the adult division at CHC several years ago and liked teaching and the environment so much, he decided to jump at the opportunity to apply for a faculty position at the college. He is also choir director/organist at All Saints Episcopal Church.

I know of no other forensic summer camp for high-school or middle school students in the area that offers such a specific forensic summer camp experience, said Kulkosky. CHC is also the only institution in the state of Pennsylvania to offer dual undergraduate degrees in forensics.

Favorite activities at the camp include isolating their own cheek cell DNA, simple blood splatter experiments using synthetic blood samples and solving Who killed Dr. K, where they review many samples of evidence relating to the murder of Dr. K.

The students really like hands-on activities, said Kulkosky. Ive been somewhat surprised at how adept they are at understanding scientific concepts and using fairly sophisticated scientific equipment. The kids who attend the camp almost always have an intrinsic interest in science, so they are really engaged in the topics and experiments. They also very much enjoy the intimate interaction with each other in our labs. They come from different schools, so they engage in a lot of conversation with each other about whats going on in each of their own schools.

For middle school students, the camp session runs from July 24 to 28. For high school students, the camp session runs from August 7 to 11. All sessions run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

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