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push-android-library
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This repository contains both the Android library, as well as a demo application that implements the library.

## Importing into Eclipse

Once cloned on to your local filesystem, do the following:

1. In Eclipse, go to **File** -> **Import**.
2. Under **Android**, select **Existing Android Code into Workspace**.
3. For the **Root Directory** value, navigate to the top-level of this repository.  You should see both the library and demo app show up in the list of projects.
4. Click **Finish**.

**NOTE:** Once the project is imported, you WILL have a build error, as the installer certificate cannot be located (it's purposely left out of the repository).  You will need to deposit your p12 installer certificate into the res/raw folder of the demo app.  Then, everything will be happy.

## Running the Application

Should be as simple as plugging in your phone, installing the app, and running it (assuming you have the installer certificate installed in your app's directory).

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Schools Information – Education and Families
SEND (Local Offer)
Farway Church Of England Primary School
We would like to reassure you that we are closely monitoring the situation and working with the government and NHS.
For guidance on coronavirus and the latest information for Devon, visit Devon County Council's coronavirus (COVID-19) advice pages.
Latest Update: Colleges, schools and childcare settings during the national lockdown
Farway
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Executive Head
Mrs Katie Gray
Kate Prince
admin@farway.devon.sch.uk
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Admission details
DfE number
School sector
Voluntary Aided School
Local learning community
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This school is part of The Jubilee With Pebblebed Federation
Other schools in this federation
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Littleham Church of England Primary School
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Places offered for admission in
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Supplementary Information Form
Oversubscription Criteria 2021-22
Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order.
Priority will next be given to children based on their exceptional medical or social needs or those of their parents.[1]
Priority will next be given to children living within the catchment area set out in the map,[2] who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school.
Priority will next be given to other children living within the catchment area.
Priority will next be given to children living outside the catchment area, who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school.
Priority will next be given to children who regularly attend (or whose parents regularly attend)[3] a Christian church.[4]
Priority will next be given to children of members of staff who have been employed at this school for more than two years or recruited within the past two years to fill a vacancy for which there was a skills shortage.
Other children.
[1] To request this priority, the application must be accompanied by a completed Supplementary Information Form for Exceptional Need which will include evidence, from a medical specialist or social worker of the need and why the child must attend this school rather than any other, based on those needs. If evidence is not submitted to the with the application, exceptional need cannot be considered.
[2] Children whose home lies on the boundary line will be considered to be in the catchment.
[3] To regularly attend, either the parent or child attends church services on at least a monthly basis, and for a minimum period of two years immediately prior to the application being made.
[4] A church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity or a church recognised by Churches Together in England.
Priority will next be given to children living within the catchment area set out in the map,[2] who are siblings of pupils of this school.
Priority will next be given to children outside the catchment area, who are siblings of pupils on roll at this school.
Priority will next be given to children living outside the catchment area, who regularly attend (or whose parents regularly attend) a Church of England church.
[1] Each application must be accompanied by a completed Devon Supplementary Information Form for Exceptional Need which will include evidence, from a medical specialist or social worker of the child's/parent's need and why they must attend this school rather than any other, based on those needs. If evidence is not submitted to the [school or the Local Authority] with the application, a child's or parent's medical or social needs cannot be considered.
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Robert Yamartino
ryamartino@sullivanlaw.com
Bob represents institutional, private equity and REIT clients in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings and leasing matters. His experience includes representing property owners, purchasers, borrowers and investors in the acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of office, industrial, retail and bio-medical facilities. He also has experience representing both institutional investors and operating partners in joint venture transactions. Prior to joining Sullivan as counsel, Bob was an associate at a large multinational law firm.
Representative Client Work
Represented a Canadian pension fund in a $700 million acquisition, financing and subsequent ground lease of large tech company headquarters in Manhattan
Represented a national insurance company in the $650 million acquisition of a ground lease interest of a bio-medical technology company headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Represented a national insurance company in the acquisition of a $100 million acquisition of an office tower in Miami, Florida
Represented a Boston-based institutional investor in the formation of a real estate investment fund, the negotiation of joint venture agreements with various operating partners, and the acquisition and financing of over 30 industrial properties across the southeastern United States
Represented an institutional investor in the acquisition of a portfolio of 23 "term for years" estates located across the eastern United States which were subleased to a regional supermarket chain
J.D., with honors, University of Connecticut School of Law
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Q: Typescript/Jest mocking a shared function from a service I have a service for NestJS, but this is not really a NestJS issue.  However, NestJS testing is in play, and I use it to create the service for testing, etc. My service is used to make a number of calls, and return all the data.
In my scenario, there is a service (myservice) which will get some results (an object of data) that combines results from various sources.  The external sources are all Promise (async/await) based, and are used to get all the different data points, combine this into the myservice (a base service that is extended by others) to combine the error handling, promise result processing, etc.
I am having an issue trying to mock the external calls for testing.  My issue is for the function that reads data from NodeJS.  I can test the function on its own without issue, but now I am trying to mock out this function call in my service.
A short sample of the functions in questions, as part of:
myservice.ts
public async GetData(DataType: number = DATA_TYPES.TEXT): Promise<ResultFile> {
    const ResultData: ResultFile = new ResultFile(DataType);

    return new Promise<ResultFile>((resolve, reject) => {
        const Data$: Promise<string> = this.GetResultFileContents();
        const StatusCode$: Promise<number> = this.GetResultFileStatusCode();

        Promise.all([Data$, StatusCode$])
            .then((Results) => {
                ResultData.Contents = Results[0]; // Promise returns a string
                ResultData.StatusCode = Results[1]; // Promise returns a number

                resolve(ResultData);
            })
            .catch((Exception: Error) => {
                ResultData.StatusCode = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND;
                ResultData.Contents = Exception.message;
                reject(ResultData);
            });
    });
}

The above is the main method trying to retrieve different data.  This calls more promises than the 2 that are there, but two will show my issue.
public async GetResultFileContents(): Promise<string> {
    try {
        const Results$: string = await ReadFileContents(this.Directory_, this.BaseName_);
        return Results$;
    } catch (Exception) {
        throw new HttpException(`File not found: ${this.BaseName_} in ${this.Directory_}`, HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
    }
}

public async GetResultFileStatusCode(): Promise<number> {
    let StatusCode: number = 0;
    try {
        const StatusCodeFile: string = `${this.BaseName_}.err`;
        const StatusCodeData$ = await ReadFileContents(this.Directory_, StatusCodeFile);
        StatusCode = GetIntegerFromText(StatusCodeData$);
    } catch (Exception) {
        StatusCode = HttpStatus.OK; // Return OK since a specific status was not set to be returned.
    }
    return new Promise<number>((resolve) => {
        resolve(StatusCode);
    });
}

The two methods that are called, to return promises, both use an external function, ReadFileContents(). This is the function I want to mock, as it can return the data as a string, or throw an exception, wrapping the OS checks (among other things) for the file(s) containing the data.
This function is common, and shared by a number of the methods that read data from the file system.  There is also something similar to REST calls, which have the same issue, but this is a simple example.
My issue now comes in the test file.  While I can test the service, and the methods within the myservice.ts, but I do not know how to mock the external call to ReadFileContents() to ensure my methods in the myservice.ts are executing properly.
I want to test different return strings, as well as the catch of exceptions when files do not exist, etc.
My test:
import { Test, TestingModule } from '@nestjs/testing';

import { MyService } from './my.service';

// TODO: Need to mock the internal calls to ReadFileContents() to throw exceptions
describe('MyService (mock)', () => {
    let service: MyService;

    afterEach(() => {});

    beforeEach(async () => {
        const module: TestingModule = await Test.createTestingModule({
            providers: [MyService],
        }).compile();

        service = module.get<MyService>(MyService);
    });

    it('should be defined', () => {
        expect(service).toBeDefined();
    });

    it('should handle exceptions when reading missing .hdr file', async () => {
        // const mockReadFileContents = jest.spyOn(service.???);
    });
});

In the last function, I do not know how to mock the ReadFileContents, as it is just a function within the service, which is in another source file.
I really do not want make a public method in the service, to simply call this function, so I can mock it, if I can help that.
Please ignore missing functions, or other typos as this was a quick edit to provide the sample of what I am trying to accomplish.

A: I have continued to work on this, and could not get the mock to work.  I did then change the functions I was trying to mock, to be in another service (fsService) and used this service in the myService, via the constructor with Dependency Injection.
constructor(
    private FileSystem_: fsService,
) {}

This can then be easily mocked in a test by either mocking the service, providing a fake definition ( {provide: fsService, useClass: fsServiceMock }) etc.
import { Test, TestingModule } from '@nestjs/testing';
import { MyService } from './my.service';
import { FsService } from './fs.service';

describe('MyService (mock)', () => {
    let service: MyService;
    let FSService_: FsService;

    afterEach(() => {
        jest.resetAllMocks();
    });

    beforeEach(async () => {
        const module: TestingModule = await Test.createTestingModule({
            providers: [
                FSService,
                MyService,
            ],
        }).compile();
        FsService_ = module.get<FSService>(FSService);
        service = module.get<MyService>(MyService);
    });

    it('should be defined', () => {
        expect(service).toBeDefined();
    });

    it('should handle exceptions when reading missing .hdr file', async () => {
        FSService_.ReadFileContents = jest.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error('ENOENT: File not Found'));
        ...
    });
});

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This is Nauli Kriya in yoga. Hippie yoga girl Namastay home and get high shirt or Official hippie yoga girl Namastay home and get high T-shirt. The massage of the internal organs such as the stomach, liver, spleen, urinary bladder, pancreas, gall bladder, and large and small intestine helps the body increase gastric fire and eliminate toxins in the digestive tract. The blond chick on your show that helps commentate, her laugh is extremely annoying to the point I hardly watch it anymore. People making a joke on this. Whatever she is showing on the public domain just to help us so we can keep our health benefits. Please don't make a joke on any kind of health tip. Otherwise, nature will make a big joke on you and that time you will definitely cry. Weird enough but ever since I was little I could do all that.
Never seen anyone else ever be Hippie yoga girl Namastay home and get high shirt, I just thought I was super weird. If you ever watched the Hulk movie with Edward Norton when he's in Brazil and the guy is teaching him to control his stomach or this is what she's doing just more intense. I could be wrong but I think that is a Brazilian martial art breathing technique. Maybe I watched hulk to many times. I seen this in the hulk with Edward Norton was doing it in order to control his emotions it makes your brain viral. It's cool but I saw this twenty years ago Believe me she didn't invent it yoga practitioners have been doing that same move for hundreds of years. People making a joke on this. Whatever she is showing other public domain just for help us so we can keep our health benefits. Please don't make a joke on any kind of health tip.


The aim of the course is to offer an introduction into the study of the Holocaust, the destruction of the European Jews, its causes and mechanisms. The course is given once a year during the spring semester, day-time. The course is a free-standing course for beginners, but priority is given to exchange students.
Follow the link for the course syllabus (kursplan) and literature list (litteraturlista).
The course includes an overview of Nordic history from the Viking Age to the present. The students will learn about selected topic for discussions in historical theory as well as to train historical argumentation. The course is given once a year during the autumn semester, day-time. The course is a free-standing course for beginners, but priority is given to exchange students.
The course provides an introduction to Swedish politics. The political system in general, the constitution, the government and the political parties are discussed in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. The course is given once a year during the spring semester, day-time. The course is a free-standing course for beginners, but priority is given to exchange students.
These courses are open for non-exchange students. Apply for courses at the university admission's Swedish website antagning.se. Contact the Lund University admissions office for assistance with your application: email: lantstu.luse Telephone: +46 (0)46 222 9300 (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, between 10:00 and 12:00).
No Bachelor's programme in History is offered in English.
No Master's programme in History is offered in English.
The Department of History is responsible for the graduate school in history, which is a collaboration between the Department of History in Lund, the University of Gothenburg, Malmö University, Linnaeus University and Södertörn University.
Read more about PhD studies. Please note that the specific admission requirements are a MA degree, a degree project in history worth at least 15 credits at Master's level and the ability to understand written Swedish.
For all students that are already admitted and registered for courses at the Department of History.
The teachers at the department does not use the web portal Live@Lund for every course. Instead the students at the department are recommended to use the Student Portal (formely known as STiL - STudent in Lund) to register, view course registrations and academic results, print certificates or transcripts of records, gain access to the e-library, as well as to access the student email account.
This student email is used for all communication between the lecturer and students.
Registrations for our English courses are made as web registration on the Student Portal or at the reception at the department. The introduction meeting is mandatory, contact the department if prevented to attend. The teacher will inform you of all course related information such as course curriculum, schedules, literature, rules and regulations.
The literature list and syllabus are also found on the relevant course website. Please note that the Library guide for History on the course website is only available in Swedish. You can use the English version from Archaeology and ancient history instead, to educate yourself on how to get a library card, on academic conduct & reference management, where and how to search for information & encyclopaedias of interest.
For further information, contact the academic advisor.


Everybody got upset a couple of weeks ago when Apple released their fancy new Thunderbolt cable. First of all, people didn't understand why it took the company four months after announcing the new blazing fast connectivity standard just to release a cable. Second, Steve Jobs was charging a whopping $50 for the cable. And third, Apple didn't even make anything you could plug it into!
The furrowed-brow Apple fanboys must have cheered when for some odd reason, Apple posted some stray photos of a new display that uses the Thunderbolt technology. MacRumors found the images on Friday morning and pointed out how previous rumors about updates to the MacBook Pro line were apparently false. A tipster found a stray image of a new display model -- as evidenced by the OSX Lion background -- and quickly found several more that showed a laptop and what may be a new Mac Mini model connected to the display. It's out of character for the company to leak any information, of course.


A pair of NOS 1967 Michigan Boat License Plates, these 67 MI DMV Boat Tags are beige with black letters, 1967 is printed across the top, and Boat along the bottom. The Department of Motor Vehicles registration number varies and the condition is new old stock excellent minus to excellent. Each pair comes with its original wrapper. We have more than one pair of 1967 Michigan Boat License Plates available for sale at Brandywine General Store, so the one in the picture might not be the one you receive, but all of these classic 67 MI Boat Tags will be in the same NOS excellent minus to excellent condition.
These plates are to be attached one on each side of the vessel, or one fore and one aft, in a manner so that they are plainly visible at all times. They must be positioned so that any tarpaulin or other covering will not obscure them at any time.


At least seven more people were wounded by the bomb, which was planted either inside the civilian bus, or just by it and exploded in a busy district of Lebanon's second largest city.
A bomb killed at least 18 people, including nine soldiers, in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday, security sources said.
The bomb wounded at least 45 people.
It had been placed in a bag at a bus stop where soldiers usually gather, the army said in a statement, describing the attack as a "terrorist bombing" -- a phrase used in the past by the military when it suspects militant Islamist involvement.
The blast struck at 7.45 a.m. (0445 GMT) as people made their way to work. Red Cross workers ferried casualties to hospital. The ground was spattered with blood and covered in shards of glass.
"It seems that the bomb was detonated wirelessly by remote," local police chief Ashraf Reefi said.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack in Lebanon's second largest city, which has been the scene of fighting between security forces and Islamist militants and sectarian violence linked to political tension in Lebanon.


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There is a Lie being sold, question is are you buying?
Tag Archives: Terrorism
realizethelies 11:34 am on September 25, 2016
Tags: Cover ups ( 6 ), State Sponsered Terrorism, Terrorism, War on Terror ( 27 )
9/11's "Known Knowns"
Years of willful deception, the sands of time, and simple neglect all tend to cloud our perception of the reality of history. This is especially true for politically radioactive topics like 9/11. With the debate over 9/11 heating up at the 15th anniversary of that fateful day, it's a good time to get back up to speed.
There are essential pillars of the 9/11 debate that must be acknowledged by all parties before any healthy discussion of that paradigm-changing topic can take place.
What follows is a refresher list of "known knowns" — select, broad aspects of 9/11 that are at present beyond reasonable doubt:
. The money (financial funding and Fraud) trail was never followed to its logical conclusion. The 9/11 Commission concluded the question of who funded the attacks "was of little practical significance."
. The Bush Administration pushed back against any independent investigation into 9/11.Once the White House agreed to an investigation, it provided a budget of $3 million, or 27% of the amount requested by 9/11 Commission co-chairs, Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton.
. The Bush White House's first choice to lead the 9/11 Commission was the highly controversial Henry Kissinger. Under intense pressure due to conflicts of interest, he resigned a month later. The 9/11 Commission was compromised by having White House policy advisor Philip Zelikow as its executive director. He was alleged to have been in close contact with controversial White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove throughout the investigation.
. Saudi agents — some with ties to the White House — sent financial and logistical support to men who then provided that support to the hijackers. That's according to the Congressional 2002 Joint Inquiry report, multiple media accounts and at least one FBI agent who worked on 9/11 cases. Efforts to further investigate Saudi nationals were resisted by the White House and CIA over and over again.
. Indian intelligence, corroborated by the FBI, showed a wire transfer of $100,000 from the phone of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Mahmud Ahmad to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in 2000. Ahmad was in Washington D.C. on the morning of the attacks, meeting with US lawmakers.(including a Future Director of the C.I.A.)
. The $100,000 transaction was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report — and Ahmad was never detained for questioning.
. Multiple, overlapping war game drills created some level of confusion at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) on the morning of the attacks.
. Around noon on 9/11, air traffic controllers who handled some of the hijacked flights made a recording recalling their experiences of the events from a few hours earlier. The tape was later destroyed by an unidentified FAA supervisor without any transcripts taken.(destruction of evidence in a criminal investigation)
. Blaming Iraq was the talking point advanced by the Bush administration within days of the attacks. Later, multiple reports surfaced alleging that the neoconservatives who made up the hawkish Project for a New American Century think tank and the Bush Administration had been planning for and discussing the need to publicly justify an invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) long before 9/11.
This is by no means a full list of inadequately-investigated facts surrounding 9/11.
People loyal to the official narrative at first denied the veracity of many of these facts. Later, when the corroborations and confirmations became overwhelming, they shifted gears, insisting these "knowns" didn't matter.
Via Who What Why
realizethelies 3:32 pm on April 10, 2016
Tags: Intelligence Agencies ( 4 ), Saudi Arabia ( 4 ), Terrorism, War on Terror ( 27 )
Secret 9/11 Report Holds Vital Clues On Saudi Arabia's Role In Attacks
Government officials, members of Congress, and 9/11 victims are demanding that the government declassify a top-secret 28-page report that potentially spills the beans on Saudi Arabia's role in the 2001 attacks. Bob Graham, the former Florida governor, Democratic U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, says that the public deserve to know the truth about the extent of Saudi's role in the 9/11 atrocities.
Graham and his Joint Inquiry co-chair in the House, former Representative Porter Goss (R-FL) — who went on to be director of the CIA — say the 28 pages were excised from their report by the Bush Administration in the interest of national security.Graham wouldn't discuss the classified contents, but says the 28 pages outline a network of people he believes supported hijackers in the U.S. He tells Kroft he believes the hijackers were "substantially" supported by Saudi Arabia. Asked if the support was from government, rich people or charities, the former senator replies, "all of the above."
Graham and others think the reason for classifying the pages was to protect the U.S. relationship with ally Saudi Arabia.
Bob Graham and Porter Goss,should know that there is more than just the official story of 9-11. Being that they were the 2 representatives meeting with Pakistani ISI chief General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers.
So are they getting cold feet on the 9-11 coverup?
Via: Your News Wire
realizethelies 12:41 pm on March 10, 2016
Tags: Domestic Spying ( 21 ), Domestic Terrorism, Government Watch List, Terrorism
9 Ways To Get Your Name on a Government Watch List
You might think that government watch lists are reserved for violent radical extremists. You might be wrong.There is a very serious war taking place, a "war on terror". Which should sound ludicrous to any rational, thinking human being. How can we wage a war on terror? Terror is a consequence of war itself. You can't fight a war on something that war produces?
Talk about a vicious cycle. And terror doesn't only exist overseas. There are apparently very dangerous people here on domestic soil, too. Dangerous people that don't follow the herd. Who don't walk in orderly lines. Scary people that oppose corrupt systems.
Some people consider earning a spot on the government watch list as a badge of honor. Fortunately for them, it doesn't seem too difficult to land yourself on one of these government watch lists (at least not if you've ever had a thought independent of the ones the media is constantly spoon feeding you… or if you're a fairly normal and boring human being).
1. Displaying Bumper Stickers on Your Vehicle
If you think the display of snarky bumper stickers all over the back of your minivan is just a form of self-expression, you're wrong. It could be an act of terrorism. According to a training manual used in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program for law enforcement. stickers could be indications of terrorist activity. Some suspicious sticker subjects include pro-life, pro-freedom, anti-genetic engineering, anti-United Nations, and patriotism.
2. Paying With Cash
Suspicious, isn't it? That you would pay cold hard cash for anything? Maybe because it's harder for the powers that be to keep tabs on cash purchases than electronic ones. Think twice about pulling out a few ones to pay for your morning coffee. It's probably even more terrifying if you pay for your bulk peanut butter, toilet paper, and ravioli with a few twenties.
3. Voting Third Party
Step outside the two-party political illusion and you might be considered a terrorist threat. A law enforcement report (2009) from the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) listed libertarians (and Ron Paul supporters) as potential terrorist threats. In fact you probably don't even have to vote with a third party, perhaps just thinking about voting for someone outside the two party system would be enough to get you in trouble with the "thought police".
4. Homeschooling your child
Unless you're teaching your kids how to field strip a rifle in under a minute you probably think that you're safe. All of those worksheets and museum trips and popsicle-stick art couldn't possibly be a threat to national security. Yet the documentary film, 9/11: The Road To Tyranny, featured footage of a lecturer at a FEMA symposium for first responders stating that homeschoolers were terrorists and should be treated with the utmost suspicion and brutality in times of national emergency.
5. Believing in Conspiracy Theories
After reading this list, it's easy to believe in some insane government conspiracy to land every American citizen on a government watch list. Beware: Believing in conspiracy theories… well, that's reason enough to land your name on a government watch list. In fact Half of the population is considered dangerous, due to free thinking and openly questioning official stories.
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realizethelies 1:58 pm on February 19, 2016
Tags: Data ( 2 ), Metadata ( 3 ), predator drones ( 2 ), Terminator, Terrorism, UAV Drones ( 22 ), War on Terror ( 27 )
NSA's SKYNET program(Remote Assaination) may be killing thousands of innocent people
The "war on Terror" is just a warm up on the playground for Future Robotic Warfare. We all thought the Terminator was pure Sci-Fi, well the sick folks at the N.S.A/C.I.A. are taking AI, Big Data, and Robotics to the next level. Using these tools for training, of how to kill current and future enemies. It's not enough that they can use Data, and Supercomputers to spy on the whole world. The world is now there Battlefield playground. Today A.I. and unmanned drones are killing "terrorists" halfway around the world, Tomorrow They'll be taking on "insurgents" and Dissidents in order to preserve the public "peace" and "Democracy".
A recent examination of National Security Agency documents previously released by whistleblower Edward Snowden shows that the CIA and other U.S. agencies may be killing innocent people as a result of their reliance on metadata. The NSA's SKYNET is a program that surveils phone metadata in order to track suspected terrorists. Through SKYNET, the security agency engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan's mobile phone network, affecting 55 million people — but that's not all. Once the data is gathered, it's run through a machine learning algorithm that attempts to rate whether a particular individual is more or less likely to be a terrorist.
According to Human Rights Data Analysis' executive director Patrick Ball, the NSA's methods are "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." If Ball is correct, SKYNET's methodology may be putting thousands of innocent lives in danger because they are being falsely identified as terrorists. The documents made available by The Intercept show the NSA works with the data of only seven known terrorists. NSA officials reportedly feed six of the terrorists' information into the machine, tasking SKYNET with the duty of finding the seventh in a random group of 100,000 citizens.
Somewhere between 2,500 and 4,000 people have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, and most of them were classified by the US government as "extremists," the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported. In the years that have followed, thousands of innocent people in Pakistan may have been mislabelled as terrorists by that "scientifically unsound" algorithm, possibly resulting in their untimely demise.
SKYNET works like a typical modern Big Data business application. The program collects metadata and stores it on NSA cloud servers, extracts relevant information, and then applies machine learning to identify leads for a targeted campaign. Except instead of trying to sell the targets something, this campaign, given the overall business focus of the US government in Pakistan, likely involves another branch of the US government—the CIA or military—that executes their "Find-Fix-Finish" strategy using Predator drones and on-the-ground death squads.
Similar apps, like the one used by Facebook, are prone to making major mistakes, but the consequences of Facebook's errors are relatively innocuous. When SKYNET makes similar mistakes by wrongly identifying a terrorist, the consequences are deadly.
President Barack Obama has been under heavy scrutiny for authorizing drone campaigns that result in gross mistakes, killing a great number of innocent people while targeting "confirmed terrorists." Since 2004, there have been 401 US drone strikes in Afghanistan, alone, killing 3,058 people total. In Pakistan, hundreds, including children, have died in pursuit of a mere two dozen declared terrorists.
Via The AntiMedia Ars Technica
realizethelies 9:09 pm on November 15, 2015
Tags: False Falg Terrorism ( 6 ), Paris Attacks, Syria ( 16 ), Terrorism, War ( 29 )
Paris Attack: Hegelian Manipulation and Deep State Terrorism?
The Hegelian Dialectic perfectly at work once again in a High profile Terrorist Attack. Problem,Reaction,Solution all manipulated by the Deep State. The previous justifications to involve The U.S. and E.U. in the Syrian conflict have fallen short. Bogus Syrian Regime Chemical Weapons didn't work. The creation,funding and Fear propaganda of the Islamic State terror group didn't fool the public. The involvement of Russia in the conflict has made the public even more wary of becoming involved and taking on the nuclear armed Russian military. Now the public must be pushed towards outrage,shock and horror, So that they demand an intervention in the conflict.
Paris Attacks: A Perfect Pretext For NATO To Mobilize in Syria and Iraq
To anyone who is really paying attention, the real agenda behind this 'terror' event in Paris – is a NATO-sponsored intervention in Syria and northern Iraq.Also, the following will now be buried: any talk of preserving privacy rights in the west, a debate on mass surveillance and bulk data collection, opposition against mandatory biometric ID's in Europe.Israel's isolation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Iraq War Inquiry in Britain, and of course – any political opposition to an increased western military presence in Syria, Iraq (and any where else).
French and German Intelligence Services Knew Paris Attack Was Coming a Month Ago
Startling information has just surfaced that indicates French National Police met with German BKA federal police and German BND federal intelligence service to discuss an imminent pre-planned terrorist attack on Paris weeks ago.
According to a report by SOFREP:
Industrial targets were already being probed by suspected terrorists in France, and a bomb which failed to detonate was found in one facility. The explosives employed were those stolen in a little-publicized theft from a French military armory months prior. The French and German federal police and intelligence services strongly believed at that time that terrorists were casing soft targets inside Paris and that it was, "A matter of when, not if." The only point of contention within the French security services was whether or not the target would be soft (civilian) or hard (military, government, industrial) in nature
Planned multi-site attack exercise' was live at time of Paris attack
In a million-to-one chance and as fate would have it a direct contact of French President François Hollande, a man by the name of Dr. Patrick Pelloux, likely an intelligence operative, who was also the first witness to arrive on scene at January's Charlie Hebdo Shooting, has once again managed to emerge himself into the media's spotlight after being one of the first responders to Friday's bloody attacks.
Now new bombshell forensic audio evidence suggests Dr. Pelloux was already with emergency personnel who were coincidentally involved in a live, "planned […] multi-site attack exercise" which was taking place that very morning.Dr. Pelloux also said during the brief interview that because everyone was "prepared" and there was a quick mass "mobilization" of forces they were able to contain the carnage as much as possible suggesting a prestagging of sorts.
Via IntelliHub
Tags: Government sponsored terrorism ( 2 ), Terrorism, War on Terror ( 27 )
CIA Chief: "The War On Terror Will Never End"
Central Intelligence Agency boss John Brennan took part in a question and answer session at Harvard last week. The most important thing to take away from the event is that the nation's top intelligence official does not believe the war on terror will ever end.
The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was surprisingly candid (for a man who lies for a living) when he answered questions regarding the likelihood of the disastrous War on Terror ever ending. He ham-handedly attempted to stick to the tired old clichés and talking points, but he was open and honest about one fact: America's sons and daughters will continue to die under this ill-conceived foreign policy for "millennia" to come. To be sure, there were plenty of statements regarding how terrorists are evildoers, that they hate us for our freedom, that we have to fight them over there or we'll fight them here, and that it's technology's fault; but observers could tell that even the DCI didn't believe the intended soundbytes.
When questioned on when the War on Terror will end, Brennan said:
"It's a long war, unfortunately. But it's been a war that has been in existence for millennia, at the same time—the use of violence for political purposes against noncombatants by either a state actor or a subnational group.
Terrorism has taken many forms over the years. What is more challenging now is, again, the technology that is available to terrorists, the great devastation that can be created by even a handful of folks, and also mass communication that just proliferates all of this activity and incitement and encouragement.
There is evil in the world and some people just want to kill for the sake of killing…This is something that, whether it's from this group right now or another group, I think the ability to cause damage and violence and kill will be with us for many years to come.
The DCI refuses to acknowledge any legitimate policy concerns of the opposition, which is of course setting the stage for an endless war by removing the possibility of changing the political climate. Without entertaining the idea for a policy shift, the only option left is war. So as long as mass communication exists and the US continues to funnel arms into the region, the war will continue.
realizethelies 6:55 pm on August 20, 2014
Tags: False Falg Terrorism ( 6 ), Middle East ( 14 ), Terrorism
Western Governmnents creating Terrorism: Annie Machon Whistleblower
realizethelies 11:18 pm on August 15, 2014
Tags: Bio-Terrorism, Ebola ( 3 ), False Flag Terrorism ( 11 ), Terrorism
Ebola Crisis: U.S preparing for future planned Biowarfare?
With the current Ebola Crisis in West Africa that has killed 1069 patients so far, The ebola crisis fear has spread to the United States. WithIn one week very significant events relating to this crisis just so happened to take place. On July 31st President Obama signed an executive order that allows for the permanent detention of citizens exhibiting signs/symptoms of "respiratory ilnesses".
Police state USA: The powers currently claimed by the federal government conceivably allow for situations where any communicable disease — even influenza — can become the basis for a large-scale military-enforced federal quarantine in which civil rights are suspended, civilian movement is restricted, and citizens are involuntarily detained — perhaps indefinitely.On July 31st, 2014, President Obama expanded the list of communicable diseases for which the federal government is prepared to institute a quarantine. Together, with the expansions made by previous presidents, the list includes the widest set of potential triggers for suspending American rights that the country has yet seen.
Is this a Coincidence? lets look a little further.
In the same week that, the ebola crisis began to make the headlines, New York City officials and multiple agencies participated in one of the largest surprise Bio-terrorism Drill's.
Disclose TV :August 3, 2014 – officials throughout the city conducted the largest unannounced bio-terror drill in U.S. history. The Rapid Activation for Mass Prophylaxis Exercise (RAMPEx), which had over 1500 participants between 30 locations, was conducted with 13 city agencies as reported by CBS New York. Supposedly, the drill was for airborne bio-weapons such as Anthrax, however, one must question if the true nature of the drill was based on the recent Ebola outbreak.
Also In the same week on August 1st two Americans infected with Ebola were flown back to the U.S.. Pretty strange action to take against a Virus that is 70-90 percent lethal in most cases, something that you would want to quarantine, keep out, not fly back into your country. Could it be related to the fact the CDC and US Government own a patent on a certain strain of the Ebola virus, and need to harvest sample's from living patients in order to fine tune it into a more lethal bioweapon?
Global Research: Harvesting Ebola from victims to file patents
From the patent description on the EboBun virus, we know that the U.S. government:
1) Extracts Ebola viruses from patients.
2) Claims to have "invented" that virus.
3) Files for monopoly patent protection on the virus.
To understand why this is happening, you have to first understand what a patent really is and why it exists. A patent is a government-enforced monopoly that is exclusively granted to persons or organizations. It allows that person or organization to exclusively profit from the "invention" or deny others the ability to exploit the invention for their own profit.It brings up the obvious question here: Why would the U.S. government claim to have "invented" Ebola and then claim an exclusively monopoly over its owners.
If there is a Bio terrorism event in the United States at any time in the near future, Let the facts stand that the U.S. government holds the world largest repository of Bio-warfare viruses and weapons. So now you know who would be the most likely suspect in this type of event.
realizethelies 3:59 pm on September 11, 2013
Tags: 9/11 ( 8 ), False Flag Terrorism ( 11 ), Terrorism, War on Terror ( 27 )
I've been hearing it all day, Never forget 9/11….
What am I supposed to never forget..?
Never forget the official propaganda/government approved conspiracy theory.
Never forget to remember this day only in terms of officially sanctioned history, and to "not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories" of the official events?
Never Forget that the US Government/C.I.A created the very same "terrorist" enemy, Al-Qaeda, that it blamed these attacks on? Which in turn ushered in the new era of an American Police Sate, with draconian legislation such as the Patriot Act, Military commissions act and the NDAA.
Never forget that these events almost perfectly mirrored the Reichstag Fire, The Lavon Affair, or Operation NorthWoods in that the excuse to expand the power of the Shadow Government and to wage war, in everyone of these cases was "Terrorism"
Never forget how the US Government used September 11 as a pretext for endless war, military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and continuing intervention in the Middle East?
Never forget how the US Government used September 11 as a pretext for illegal imprisonment, secret courts and torture.
Yes I get the fact that we should keep dear to us, those who lost their lives on that tragic day. But what does it serve them and the sacrifices they made that day, if we aren't willing to ask questions about the events and real planners of the events of that day?
realizethelies 3:57 pm on August 2, 2013
Tags: Department of Homeland Security ( 4 ), DHS, Domestic Spying ( 21 ), F.B.I. ( 8 ), Terror Suspects, Terrorism
Every American Is Now A Terrorist According to The US Government
It's official, every single American can now be classified as a terrorist by the US government. The label of 'terrorist' no longer applies to members of al-Qaeda of 'extremists', but the average citizen of this nation.
literally 100% of the population can be classified as a terrorist under the truly outrageous Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI characteristics that define a terrorist or terrorist activity. These broad qualifications of 'terrorism' that have spawned a new wave of absolute paranoia within the population regarding their fellow citizens, who the nightly news says may be sleeper cell terrorists.
Simply doing a google search on Pressure cookers, or posting lyrics on Facebook,can now lead to federal investigation and being charged with "Terrorism'
Here are qualifications of a terrorist in the United States under the Department of Homeland Security and FBI guidelines.
'Terrorists' Pay With Cash
Have you ever payed with cash instead of a credit card? The FBI, operating alongside the DHS in helping to stop terrorism and detain terrorists, says you are likely a terrorist if you do so often. Under the FBI's Communities Against Terrorism (CAT) program, using cash instead of debt-inducing credit cards means that you are a terrorist suspect
'Terrorists' Care About Privacy
If you're concerned about the NSA spying on all of your private emails or listening to your intimate phone calls, you are likely a terrorist under FBI guidelines. And don't even consider voicing concern for your privacy in a public area, which the FBI says is a definite red flag of a terrorist. According to the FBI and Justice Department's Communities Against Terrorism initiative,being concerned about your privacy might just send you to Guantanamo.
(Because if you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't be concerened that every aspect of your life is spied on, It worked for the citizens of Nazi Germany, why not here?)
'Terrorists' Know About GMOs
Extremist terrorists most of all are familiar with GMOs and dare to agree that they should be labeled, which 93-96% of the country actually is in favor of. According to a major report out of Germany, this demographic is even targeted by the US military for desiring GMO labeling and all forms of political activism. So just this category alone covers about 96% of the US population alone, leaving around 4% left to be absorbed through other terrorist activities.
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Disney is developing a romantic comedy called The Girlfriend Equation. The film will be based on a pitch that the studio acquired. Vince DiMeglio and Tim Rasmussen have been hired to write the story, which first appeared on Public Radio International's This American Life. Pinay Films' Andrew Panay is producing with This American Life host Ira Glass serving as executive producer.
According to THR, The Girlfriend Equation is "loosely inspired by the true story of an MIT grad student who attempted to identify and woo the love of his life through complex math equations."
Panay has been developing a number of comedy projects at Disney. He and Underground Films has a teen comedy project called Something Cliqued in the workd. He's also developing Father Figures, a comedy spec script by Laurie Craig about a father and stepfather who misplace their son.
DiMeglio and Rasmussen have experience with romantic comedies, they wrote the Robin Williams-John Krasinski starrer License to Wed as well as Marmaduke. They also have the comedy Father of the Brides set up at Warners with David Dobkin attached to direct. Panay is also producing that later.
I am not a huge fan of romantic comedies. What are your thoughts on this news?


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Dion Shuffle: Boz Scaggs featured on new blues-rock song by doo-wop legend
Boz Scaggs is featured on a brand-new song by doo-wop and rock 'n' roll great Dion DiMucci, a grooving blues-rock tune called "I've Got to Get to You."
The track is available now as a digital download and via streaming services, and will be featured on Dion's next studio album, which is due out in the fall. Scaggs contributes some guest vocals to the song, which also includes the talents of the father and son guitar duo Joe and Mike Menza.
You also can check out a video for "I've Got to Get to You" at Dion's official YouTube channel. The clip mixes scenes of people using all sorts of modes of transportation with footage of Dion and his backing band playing the tune and, separately, of the Menzas jamming out on the song.
Explaining why he wanted to collaborate with Scaggs, Dion notes that Boz "is one of my wife Susan's favorite singers, and I'm right there with her.
He continues, "I've wanted for decades to record a song with this guy. There's no mistaking his voice for anyone else's — and here it is, as pure and clear as ever, on 'I've Got to Get to You.'"
Dion also reveals that he was "inspired to write this song after a conversation with Roy Orbison more than fifty years ago," adding, "Now that Boz has sung on it, it's finally done. It doesn't get any better than this."
Meanwhile, Scaggs says of Dion, "[He's] one of my favorite singers," adding about the collaboration, "Our voices are a natural blend."
Dion's most recent album, 2020's Blues with Friends, included appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Van Morrison, Jeff Beck, E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, The Stray Cats' Brian Setzer and more.


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Q: How to pass parameters to the dotnet test command while using NUnit or XUnit I'm developing some end-to-end tests using C# with .NET Core, Selenium and NUnit.
Now i want to write a login testcase. My tests are started from console simply by using the dotnet test command.
I simply want to pass username and password to this command and get them in my tests. I can not use NUnit-Console since it doesn't support .NET Core at the moment.
Whats the suggested way to solve this problem? I would prefer to not store the settings in a file but to directly input them into the console.

A: This documentation suggests that it should now be possible to pass in arguments on the command line, instead of within a runsettings file.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vstest-docs/blob/master/docs/RunSettingsArguments.md
dotnet test -- MSTest.MapInconclusiveToFailed=True MSTest.DeploymentEnabled=False

Note the space after -- .
Edit 1
What worked for me was a combination of adding a runsettings file, and then overriding the param I wanted to, using this syntax:
dotnet test -- TestRunParameters.Parameter(name=\"myParam\", value=\"value\")

A: If you want to avoid a runsettings file, you can use this workaround. One of the recommended ways of passing parameters, is through environment variables. So in your C# nunit (or xunit) file, you can do something like:
// in mytest.cs
var user = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TestUser");
var password = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TestPassword");
var url = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TestUrl");

If you do not want to definitively set your environment variables, remember you can always set them temporarily for just your session process. One way of doing this, is by creating a simple cmd file
#launchtests.cmd
SETLOCAL
SET TestUser='pete001'
SET TestPassword='secret'
SET TestUrl='http://testserver.local/login'
DOTNET TEST mytest.csproj

And now the fun part. You can parameterize every aspect of this. So you can change it to:
#run wity launchtests.cmd pete001 secret 'http://testserver.local/login'
SETLOCAL
SET TestUser=%1
SET TestPassword=%2
SET TestUrl=%3
DOTNET TEST mytest.csproj

Or if you want to launch the test from an Azure DevOps (fka VSTS or TFS) pipeline, you can simply use the $(...) notation to inline variables, even if they're marked secret and/or come from Azure KeyVault.
#In Azure DevOps, variables not marked as secret are already added to the environment
SET TestPassword=$(TestPassword)
dotnet test $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\MyCompany.MyProduct.UITests\MyTest.csproj --configuration $(BuildConfiguration) --collect "Code Coverage" --logger trx --results-directory $(Agent.TempDirectory)

A: Unfortunately, the only way to pass settings from dotnet test into NUnit is to use a .runsettings file. There's no way for NUnit to create custom command line arguments for the dotnet test tool - although we'd love there to be!
Take a look at the sample .runsettings file here. The specific bit you'll need:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RunSettings>
  <!-- Parameters used by tests at runtime -->
  <TestRunParameters>
    <Parameter name="webAppUrl" value="http://localhost" />
    <Parameter name="webAppUserName" value="Admin" />
    <Parameter name="webAppPassword" value="Password" />
  </TestRunParameters>
</RunSettings>

You should just be able to then pass this file into dotnet test with the -s flag.
dotnet test myProj.csproj -s mySettings.runsettings


Sewer oil collecting sighting in Kunming!
11 pm Nov 29th, Monday night .
We just witnessed two guys collecting sewer oil in the north part of Kunming, in a very nice part of town with restaurants.
They were equipped with a man hole sewer opener( steel rod with J end), each had a small pot at the end of a long stick.
After skimming inside the hole they dumped the contents and oil in the barrels.
The van had 8 barrels.
We were next to the van, my friend got photos.
This was sickening to see!!
That's why I've decided to not eat out. It is so disgusting to know that people would do this. They reuse the oil and use it in the 'hotpot' restaurants and places where they sell 'noodles'. Yuk!
From what I've heard, not only the Hot Pot and the noodles restaurants use this gutter oil, but almost all the restaurants here, maybe only the really expensive ones don't. I've even heard they sell it in supermarkets, reusing oil bottles from known brands.
So,I also don't eat out anymore unless it's at a foreign-owned place..
It's really sad cos I love Chinese food!
Never really gave this a second thought since I figured they were just taken away for animal fodder: What about those white and blue plastic canisters that every restaurant has where they dump all the patrons' leftovers and the kitchen fry in? They get collected every evening by those tri-bikes and taken somewhere else. Are they also skimmed for reusable oil you think? I mean, if people go through the trouble of skimming sewers then it's hard to imagine all that oil is just given to the animals. Damn,, I'm kinda talking myself into never eating out again here.
Disgusting indeed! I never even thought about that until I came to China! Fake Designer things, fake rice, reused oil, fake medicine, etc. It's really scary. I was getting stomach pains after I would finish eating meats. My wife told me that the meat wasn't from the ones we often see on the news but I told her from now on, I will not eat any meat. Lo and behold, my stomach feels much better. Be careful where you buy your stuff. I never buy stuff from the small stores since they tend to receive these fake stuff like sodas, oil, etc.
I presume they do skim the oil from the restaurant leftovers although this is still not correct it's not as bad as skimming oil from sewers.
Sewers contain many toxic chemicals including heavy metals which can accumulate in one's body, mercury, lead and the list goes on.
Stay tuned on this one. My mail is that there will be a part-time home-based restaurant that will feature Chinese home style cooking on Saturday nights starting in the next few weeks. It will be by reservation only. You will be able to enjoy great and affordable Chinese food uncontaminated by sewer oil before you know it.
harukimurakami, this is an interesting phenomenon, which, as I'm sure you know, is growing fast in other cities around the world. Closed-door restaurants at people's homes, where trust levels are a lot higher can deliver high quality cuisine at an affordable level. However, I'm sure the authorities will not want small groups of people meeting behind closed doors, so I would imagine there will be action at some point soon to stop people carrying out these revolting acts.


A cake that's easy to bake and is oh so yummilicious. Who knew pumpkin could taste so good when baked! Some simple ingredients, a great oven and a little patience is all you need to prepare this amazing cake that's a perfect fit for tea-time or as an after dinner dessert. Adapted from whipperberry.com, this pumpkin cake will blow you away.
Set your oven to preheat at 350 degrees.
Meanwhile, combine the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Blend eggs, pumpkin, sugar and oil and combine this mixture with the dry one.
Spray non-stick cooking spray in the cake tin and pour the cake batter into it.
Put in the oven and bake for 1 hour at least or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.


Despite different age brackets of preferences, in terms of songs, I got delighted with the song you sent us in the last newsletter. The video accompanied with the letters (the lyrics)was great.
You're absolutely right when you say that music plays an important role in the language learning process.
By using it, not only do we improve our pronunciation, but we get in contact with an informal kind of language that is not at all similar to the language considered to be high standard usage in terms of grammar correction.
A long time ago when I was beginning to teach English to a private course, I had a colleague of mine who had excellent pronunciation that seemed native like English.
" I love music, I'm a music addict, and I owe the English I have mainly because I've always been a good and constant listener to lyrics".
So, I praise the fact that you're going to use music in your materials.
Another piece of advice I have got to give as a suggestion (who am I to be your adviser): As much as you can, present real conversations with the subtitles and story-telling narration recorded.
For example, mystery stories, detective stories that can hold the student's attention and which will provide them with lots of lively English language with good and clear voices recorded and with difficult words, phrasal verbs and updated idioms explained in plain language.
You might add questions about the dialogues and the narratives, also providing them with an answer-key.
My dear Diana, once again I want to thank you for your consideration towards me.
What a wonderful email. Thank you for taking the time to write me.
Your emails are always very interesting and contain useful information. Not only for me (you inspire many good ideas) but for other learners as well.
As for music, I think that it awakens something inside us all. Something that makes us forget about "language" and focus on the experience. (Especially good music like Florence and the Machine creates).
Florence and the Machine is an amazing group. Florence is one of the best singers I have ever heard. :) The style is "timeless" and I love to list to it when I work.
I will send you more information about how to prepare for an online class. Actually I will write an article and post it on the website so that everyone can know exactly how the classes work and what you need to have in order to join a class.