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Amy Poehler teases 'Duncanville''s mini 'Parks and Rec' reunion

The season two premiere of Fox's Duncanville" will feature a mini 'Parks and Rec' reunion with Nick Offerman, Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza and Retta all voicing characters. The animated comedy follows a spectacularly average teenage boy named Duncan and his family. Poehler, an executive producer, voices both Duncan and his mother. (May 20)

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Nick Offerman is not Ron Swanson.

Anyone with lingering confusion about the differences between Swanson, the fictional mans man and staunch libertarian on NBC's Parks and Recreation, and Offerman, the mans man and bleeding-heart liberal actor who played him, will have their misguided notions of the real-life man quickly dispelled in the pages of his new book, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside"(Dutton, out Tuesday).

The book is an amiable ramble outdoors,with Offerman sharing his assorted experiences in the wild and his musings on nature, land use, labor, agriculture and community. He takes readers on the hikingtrails of Glacier National Park, where he gets into scrapes with two of his best buds, Wilco songwriter Jeff Tweedy and author George Saunders. He walksthe verdant pastures of an English sheep farm with shepherd James Rebanks. And he visits the sprawling RV parks of the American Southwest, where he camped in an Airstream with wife Megan Mullally during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Offerman, 51,is generous with hilarious anecdotes, including a choice discursion about how both he and his wife ended up kissing Rob Lowe during their careers ("Now that I think about it, given some slight allowances for time and space, you could technically say that RoLo, Megan, and myself had a threesome").

But when he's not being funny,Offerman, who is also a professional woodworker and cohosts NBC's crafts competition show "Making It" withAmy Poehler,is quite serious, waxingphilosophical about Mother Nature and our relationship with it, and how he thinks we can live better in it.

Offerman spoke to USA TODAY about his new book and his optimism for, and hope in, humanity.

Question: You make a compelling case forpeople to learn to make and build things with their own handsand to do their own labor.Can coddled city folk learn to do these things even if theyve been taught not to all their lives?

Nick Offerman: Theres been this renaissance of creativity and artisanryin my lifetime where people are becoming reinvigorated by how things are made. I like to think that we as a society are waking up to the fact that corporate-made goods, and especially corporate-made food, are not the best for us or our planet. Across the board, you see it everywhere: people are learning to grow food, raise rotationally grazed livestock andgrass-fed pasture-raised eggs, but also clothing, beer, spirits, barbecue, woodworking, blacksmithing. You name it, people are reteaching ourselves the old ways of doing things because theres a purity to them.

Q: What do you think has kept people from being more self-sufficient?

Offerman: People everywhere can now live comfortably without ever owning a socket set, because the consumer paradigm has made it available:Theres an app for everything. If you need somebody to come over and change your lightbulbs, you can do itwith a touch of a button. And that nefariously plays on human nature. I as much as the next monkey am like, Oh, I can either climb this ladder and do it myself or I can press a button and have it done for me? Of course Im going to choose the button. Its having the wherewithal to say, Hang on guys, I happen to know that button is dangerous.

Q: You write about the gratification you feel changing a tire, and it made me want to change my next flat. My dad taught me how when I got my first car, but I've always defaulted calling AAA.

Offerman: It makes perfect sense. Among other things, you get dirty changing a tire. And weve been taught we should aspire to a life where we never get dirty because its beneath us. Thats part of what weve been sold, that you deserve to put your feet up and take it easy, so put down your broom and buy a vacuum cleaner. Getting your hands dirty is for laborers and peasants. You should aspire to be a hip-hop star and relax on your yacht while other people are getting their handsdirty. Luckily, I grew up in a family of people who still get their hands dirty, and I grew up understanding that not only is that not beneath me, thats a super power.

Q. The pandemic seems to have a lot of people rethinking the way they live. Do you think there's an opportunity here for meaningful, lasting change?

Offerman: Ultimately, it needs to reflect back on the way we vote. If were going to reshape our economy, it's going to beby the labor class standing up and saying, Wait a second, my life has so much more value than you are giving it in this low-wage job. And people often take umbrage with me and they say, Well sure, you can say that because you are paid very well to do what you do, but I felt the same way when I was a carpenter and when I was alaborer for many years before I started doing well as an actor.

Through no wisdom of my own, but through the love and perspicacity of my family, I understood the value and the recompense of doing hard work out of affection for my loved ones and for those around me. And then it bleeds into affection for our ecosystem. The older I get, the more I read, the more I understand its all the same. Were all in the same family. The bluebirds Im looking at out the window right now if I treat them with disrespect, thats eventually going to come back and bite somebody with the butterfly effect. Weve got to understand were all the same batch of molecules.

Q: Are you optimistic?

Offerman: Im always hopeful in humanity. … In my lifetime, weve come a long way. Same-sex marriage has become a yawn of a subject, and we were going to war over it 20, 30 years ago. The ever-increasing, alarming signals of climate change, more and more, I think humanity has the capacity to wake up and say, OK, I guess wed better do something about this. The same way that nowadays we say, Can you believe we used to smoke in restaurants? The fact that there was a smoking section in airplanes? Its like having a smoking section within your Prius. So thats laughable and crazy now, and my optimistic hope is (that) before long, well similarly be saying, Can you believe that everyone used to have a household SUV?

Q: Throughout your book, wherever you happen to be in the wild, you pause to reflect on the indigenous tribes that used to live there. Is that something you think about often?

Offerman: Its something Ive come around to. … I had a wonderful moment some years ago, my wifes band was playing at the Sydney Opera House. There was an announcement before the show started that said, Lets just take a moment to recognize that this theater is built on the land of this aboriginal tribe and this peninsula was a traditional place of performance and festival. So lets take a moment of silence and respect for those tribes we displaced, but lets not forget that thats how we came to be here tonight.

And I just thought, boy, thats a big deal, to simply cop to culpability. Thats all Im asking for. Nobody should be self-righteous. Were all just farting, (defecating) eating mammals. The beautiful thing is, were doing our best to create beautiful sandwiches and works of literature and symphonic compositions and also governments and schools and municipalities and bridges. Well never be done. Were always going to continue to do it in a way thats better for us and better for Mother Nature if we hope to survive.

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Being recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leaderis not easy.And neither was it building thenew currency as admitted byPeter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. Managing funds right from $700 million as president of Clarium to $2 billion as a managing partner of FoundersFund, Peters adrenaline has always come from informal innovation-focused startups and mentoring them. He is also known for being the first outside investor in Facebook, Inc. Presently, he presently is aninvestor and co-founder of successful investment and hedge funds management firms like Clarium Capital Management, Valar Ventures,Mithril Capital Management, and FoundersFund. Peter sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.

On his 54th birthday, we bring a few interesting yet less known facts about Peter Thiel.

Name: Peter Andreas ThielDate of Birth: 11th October 1967Net Worth: $3.7 Billion (As of October 2021)

Bullish about Silicon Valley being the torch-bearer of American success for years to come, Peter cares less for the education than the impact to the society,the startup founders can bring about through their offering. Branded as a contrarian who likes bashing brands and companies, he does see monopolies likeGoogle driving success more than incremental improvement in building technology companies like Microsoft.

Peter is also pretty biased in the companies he has invested (e.g. Space X, Lyft, Facebook) in and always shoots down the competition stating the reasons why they would not succeed. To mosts dismay, it sounds pretty true, considering the practices of the companies he corners. Even Twitters growth, he had commented, is nowhere close to its potential.

On the other hand, Peter Thiel is an evangelist of innovation in both science and technology (including, health sciences and engineering, which he calls working with atoms).

Classifyingthe Dot com bubble of the 1990s to be the most hard-hitting burst among the many bubbles and bursts over the years worldwide,he seesfour prime reasons causing this:1. Lenders showing complaisance;2. Borrowers being greedy and wanting to make the most of free money available;3. Political scenarios that have failed to prempt and prevent these bursts and recessions;4. The lack of path-breaking innovation and settling down for justminor incremental achievements in both science and technology.

These Less known facts about Peter Thiel will bring you to know this sharp worded visionary even better:

1. The first time he used Twitter was on the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2014 in San Francisco, USA.

2. In his book Zero to One he communicates everything he learnt about Tech and Business and that he had taught at Stanford in 2012.

3. If Thiel was not an entrepreneur, he would probably be a teacher, he admitted. He loves to mentor and guide and thus his alternate profession choice.

4. Peter was contesting to be a clerk on the Supreme Court ranks after his degree in Law from Stanford. In retrospect, he was happy he was not among the two selected of the eight he was among interviewing for the post.

5. Though he favors people learning and teaching as a profession, he is pretty skeptical about what falls under education today, classifying it as an incredible abstraction, obscuring a lot of things that we do, and being very unclear on how valuable what is being taught is, in many cases. He has been known to encourage college kids to drop out and become entrepreneurs, even funding their Zero to One ideas and projects by creating the Thiel Fellowship, which will award 20 people under 20 years of age, $100,000, in order to inspire them to quit college and create their own ventures.

6. Peter sees extreme traits (he has quoted some other founders of Paypal had built bombs in their college) in founders being a big giveaway of their entrepreneurial instincts, however, clarifies that mere craziness is not a virtue, and a balance between being crazy and doing business is the key attribute to success. Competing, according to him, is not the way to succeed in entrepreneurship.

7. His view sounds pragmatic yet is controversial on founders quitting the companies they founded, quoting it as the loss of faith in their own product that leads to their disassociating with it.

8. Having a confident stance about technology and entrepreneurship, though against the norm, is certainly a trait much respected, as much it is condemned. And his viewpoints become even more prominent when it comes to the political scenario. Be it about his remarks in the Libertarian Cato Unbound blog, where Peter states that he no longer believed that freedom and democracy are compatible or when he accounted vast increase in welfare beneficiaries liable to render the notion of capitalist democracy into an oxymoron.

9. The first biography of Peter Thiel titled The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valleys Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin was released on September 21, 2021.

10.Peter Thiel ranked #16 on theForbes Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2021 and #273 on Forbes 400 2021 the definitive ranking of the wealthiest Americans.

11. Peter Thiel is the worlds #574 richest person, with a net worth of $4.9 billion, according to Forbes Billionaire 2021 list.

With all the zeal and enthusiasm, Peter Thiel is nothing less than an idol for many who like libertarianideologies, and his philosophy of being profit-oriented surely should go well with investors too. The believer in long-term he is, we wish his experiments with anti-aging reap him huge dividends and keep his intention to inspire many more path-breaking innovators coming.

Happy Birthday, Peter Thiel! We wish you a lasting lifetime of fiery passion to pass on to the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

The post is a part of aBday Serieswhere we celebrate the birthday of renowned personalities from Tech Industry, very frequently. The series includes Entrepreneurs, C-level Executives, innovators, or renewed leaders who moved the industry with their exponential skill set and vision. The intend is to highlight the persons achievements and touch base the little-known, but interesting, part of his life. You can see the list of all earlier celebrated tech personalities, includingMark Zuckerberg, Marrisa Mayor, Sean Parker, Andy Rubin, Julian Assange,Sir Richard Branson, SergeyBrin byfollowing this linkorsubscribe to your daily newsletter.

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DENVER (KDVR) Colorado is getting bluer, even if it is a purplish blue.

Colorado has three statewide measures on the ballot for an November 2021 election: a fiscal accountability amendment, a tax increase for marijuana sellers and a property tax cut. The Colorado Secretary of State will begin mailing ballots to voters on Oct. 8 ahead of election day.

The ballot initiatives could test the states growing conservative/liberal divide. Two of the measures Proposition 119 and Proposition 120 have been sponsored and promoted by Michael Fields, executive director of conservative Colorado Rising Action.

Fields is also a political analyst for FOX31.

The measures lean into Republican goals. While Colorado is a relatively low tax state, its voter rolls have gotten more and more Democratic, even as the state adds mainly unaffiliated voters.

Since last September, the state has gained far more Democratic voters than Republican ones. There are now 29,227 more registered active voters in the state than in September 10 times the 3,117 Republican voters the state gained in the same time period.

Gains to the relatively minor Libertarian Party outnumbered Republican voter gains by more than 1,000.

Still, by far the biggest party gains happened with unaffiliated voters. Colorado has 189,280 more independents now than it had in September 2020.

Purple though they might be in name, records show those voters are more blue than red.

Unaffiliated voters are allowed to list a party preference on their registration if they choose. Not all do, but far more of those who do prefer one party prefer the Democratic Party.

Of unaffiliated voters, 59% swing blue. Republican-leaning unaffiliated voters are only half as many, making up 31% of the party preference whole.

Largely, this follows population trends. As Colorado has exploded with in-migrants from other states, its Front Range counties have gotten less Republican as theyve gotten more populous.

The map above charts the difference between the number of Democrats and Republicans gained in each county since last September 2020. Deeper-colored states gained more of that party than the other.

The counties that gained more Democrats than Republicans in the highest amount were almost entirely in the Front Range. Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, in particular, added 10,000 more Democrats than Republicans.

Most counties outside the Denver metro, though, got redder, but not by the same margin that metro counties got bluer.

Mesa and Weld counties got the largest amount of Republicans over Democrats. Even combined though, they only gained 1,000 more red than blue voters.

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Russia is attempting to avoid fulfilling the Minsk Protocol and the Memorandum on its provisions, insisting on the implementation of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements exclusively.

Thats according to Ukraines Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Yevhen Tsymbaliuk, who spoke at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Monday, October 11, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Russia is trying to convince the Permanent Council of a special legal nature of the package of measures and give it some advantage over the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the diplomat said, at the same time noting that the political approval of the measures by the UN Security Council does not release Russia from its obligations under the other two agreements," said Tsymbaliuk.

The diplomat explained why the Russian delegation was so tense when other countries delegates demanded that the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum be implemented

For example, Paragraph 4 of the Minsk Memorandum provides for the withdrawal of multiple rocket launcher systems such as the Tornado. In fact, the Tornado is a new system used exclusively by the Russian armed forces, which is a vivid example proving Russias participation in the conflict, certified by a Russian signatory, Tsymbaliuk said.

He also recalled that Paragraph 10 of the Minsk Protocol provides for the withdrawal of illegal armed groups and military hardware from the territory of Ukraine, which he emphasized means this is about those whose presence has not been allowed by the Ukrainian parliament. Therefore it is only about Russian armed groups operating in the occupied territories, despite Russia's attempts to manipulate Paragraph 10 of the Package of Measures, said the Ukrainian diplomat.

In addition, he pointed out that Paragraph 4 of the Minsk Protocol provides for constant monitoring and verification of the Ukrainian-Russian state border, along with maintaining a security zone in the Ukrainian-Russian border areas.

As Ukrinform reported, the U.S. and EU missions to the OSCE reminded Russia that the Minsk Agreements, signed by the Russian Federation, consist of three documents - a protocol, a memorandum, and a package of measures.

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Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers.

The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, is also said to have leveraged the automated network to detect vulnerabilities in websites and break into them as well as stage brute-force attacks in order to guess email passwords. The Ukrainian police agency said it conducted a raid of the suspect's residence and seized their computer equipment as evidence of illegal activity.

"He looked for customers on the closed forums and Telegram chats and payments were made via blocked electronic payment systems," the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said in a press statement. The payments were facilitated via WebMoney, a Russian money transfer platform banned in Ukraine.

But in what appears to be a trivial opsec error, the actor registered the WebMoney account with his legitimate address, thus allowing the officials to zero in on his whereabouts.

The development comes weeks after Russian cybersecurity firm Rostelecom-Solar, a subsidiary of the telecom operator Rostelecom, disclosed late last month that it had sinkholed a portion of the Mris DDoS botnet that's known to have co-opted an estimated 250,000 hosts into its mesh.

By intercepting and analyzing the commands used to control infected devices, the company said it was able to "detect 45,000 network devices, identify their geographic location and isolate them from the botnet." Over 20% of the devices attacked are located in Brazil, followed by Ukraine, Indonesia, Poland, and India.

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