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Tag Archives: Biosafety
Eco-Instigator #19— Climate, Biosafety, Conflicts and more!
We bring you the March edition of our Eco-Instigator for 2018. The global environmental pollution is increasing and same heightened by the unholy wedlock between polluting industries and the supposed regulators. Activists from around the globe continue to work tirelessly for environmental and climate justice even as we prepare for a global "power shift" for climate action and activism.
In this edition, we bring you report from the UNFCCC COP23 which held in Bonn last November on the outcome of the Talanoa dialogue especially for the African stakeholders. We also serve you report from the maiden event of our FishNet Alliance in Lome, Togo.
Download and read this issue Eco-Instigator #19 X
Share your thoughts. Send articles, photos, poems, songs and/or reports of ecological challenges. We like to hear from you. Reach us at editor@homef.org and home@homef.org.
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2018. Biosafety. Biosecurity. Food Safety.
Screenshot: NBMA website 31.12.2017
2018. Biosafety. Biosecurity. Food Safety. Do Nigerians know what the safety level of foods on their dining tables would be in 2018? That is a trillion Naira question. The short answer is no. We give two quick reasons for this. A reading of the body language of the permitting National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) reveals that, besides approving virtually every application that comes before it, the agency appears to be concerned with having those that had illegally imported those materials to simply formalise their stocks by registering with the agency. Unfortunately, in 2018 when GMO beans are unleashed on Nigerians, the roadside akara seller would not know that she is selling akara made from genetically engineered beans. The roasted corn seller would not know that what is being roasted is genetically modified corn imported or smuggled into the country. In sum, our major staple crops – maize, cassava, beans, rice, sorghum are at risk.
One of the cases with grave implications for biosafety administration in Nigeria is the one that hit headline news in October 2017 that unauthorised genetically modified maize worth about $9.8 million had been impounded at Lagos sea ports. Nigerians were elated by the vigilance of the regulatory agency and officers of the Nigerian Customs Service to intercept the illegal imports by WACOT Ltd – a firm that is best known for dealing in cotton and rice. Another company implicated in the illegal importation of the GM maize is the Olam Group, a conglomerate that deals mostly in rice, including the widely sold Mama's Pride brand.
To underscore the seriousness of the biosafety infringement, the Director General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), stated at a press conference held in Abuja on September 13, 2017 that the Agency got notice of the importation through an intelligence report and had set in motion necessary machineries to track the importers and bring them to book.
According to the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Act 2015, "Any person, institution or body who wishes to import, export, transit or otherwise carry out a contained field trial, multi-locational trial or commercial release of genetically modified organism shall apply to the Director General of the Agency not less than 270 days to the date of import, export, transit or the commencement of such activity." (Our emphasis)
An air of seriousness that our food systems could be protected was further raised when the Federal Executive Council was notified of the decision to repatriate the illegal genetically modified maize to Argentina, its country of origin and also when the National Assembly held a public hearing on the illegal importation.
However, hopes that biosafety is important to the government may have been dashed because the noise over the impounding of the illegal GM Maize may have been nothing other than mere noise. Why do we say this?
Barely a week after the NBMA announced that together with the Nigerian Customs Service they would ensure the repatriation of the illegal GM maize, the same NBMA issued a public advertisement announcing the application for importation of GM maize by WACOT Ltd.
The announcement stated: "In accordance with the National Biosafety Management Agency Act, 2015, requiring public display of any Biosafety application, for permit to intentionally release genetically modified organisms (GMOs), for comments from interested members of the public, the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) hereby announces a twenty- one (21) day display of an application dossier submitted by WACOT Ltd for the importation of genetically modified maize for feed processing. The display is with effect from 22th November to 12th of December 2017 to enable the public to make input that would facilitate informed decision on the application."
Information from credible sources suggest that the application has since been approved by NBMA and the applicant may have received the green light to take delivery of the impounded illegal import and to further import genetically modified maize at will into Nigeria over the next three years. At the time of this writing, the permit is neither on the website of NBMA, nor on that of the United Nations Biosafety Clearing House. We need to know if the NBMA has permitted the release of the maize that the Federal Executive Council and Nigerians at large had been told were to be repatriated. We need to know if the application was made 270 days before the importation as required by law. If the maize has been repatriated, we need to know.
Some of us have on many occasions called for a radical review of the NBMA Act 2015. We have also made a clause-by-clause analysis of the Act and suggested needed changes. The composition of the NBMA Governing Board has inbuilt conflict of interest and the fact that members may not sit on issues where their interests are concerned is banal. We also note that the National Biosafety Committee that determines which GM applications to approve is set up on an ad-hoc basis and at the whims of the Director General of the NBMA without any higher authority providing oversight.
A situation where we cannot trust a board made up of representatives (not below the rank of Directors) from the ministries of Environment, Agriculture, Science and Technology, Trade and Investment and Health to protect our biodiversity, environment and health is deeply worrisome. Others on the board include representatives of the Nigerian Customs Service and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Here we are in 2018 and the prospect of genetically modified crops and food products flooding our markets is real. If the situation arises that GMOs imported illegally can be retroactively certified and released provided the importers pay prescribed fees, that will spell a death knell to our biosecurity. This is a good time for the Federal Government to make it clear to NBMA that it was not set up to promote GMOs contrary to what they (NBMA) proclaim on the streaming photo on their website where it states "NBMA – Promoting modern biotechnology activities and GMOs."
The task of promoting modern biotechnology and GMOs is that of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA).
In a post on its website on 18 December 2017 NMBA "warned those involved in and/or intend to be involved in the handling, importation or transfer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to seek clarification and authorization from the Agency before doing so. They cited NBMA Act, Part VII which states that "no person, institution or body shall import, export, transit or commercialize any genetically modified organism or a product intended for direct use as food or feed, or for processing unless with the approval of the Agency."
"The NBMA is by this Act empowered to sanction any erring party for importing or releasing unauthorized genetically modified products, be it grain or any kind of seed as the case may be."
He noted that the Act made it clear that any person, institution or body who wishes to import, export, transit or otherwise carry out contained activities, confined field trial, multi-locational trial or commercial release of a GMO shall apply to the Director General of NBMA prior to such activity."
Nigerians need to be assured that in 2018 the Federal Government will be concerned about our biosafety. Nigeria needs to put a halt to the circus of publishing applications, calling for comments, ignoring comments from the public and approving whatever application is thrown at regulating agency. Let there be CHANGE in 2018. Let there be HOPE!
Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed a desire that besides becoming food sufficient, Nigeria should regain her place as a food exporting country. The president noted that productivity was on the rise for crops like beans and rice. We note that Nigeria is planning to release genetically modified beans into the market from 2018. Where would the GM beans be exported to? Certainly not the USA or the EU. The dream of being a food exporter will definitely be dimmed by our needless GMO gambits.
President Buhari is a farmer, but we have not heard him express views on what the rabid promotion of GMOs in Nigeria could mean to our food and health.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is a farmer. He vigorously pressed the Ugandan parliament to pass their Biosafety Bill designed to pave the way for the introduction of GMOs in that country. After the parliament passed the bill and sent it to him to append is signature and turn it into law, the president balked.
In his December 21 letter to Speaker of Parliament the president outlined why he was returning the bill to the parliament. He reportedly raised issues with the title of the bill, patent rights of indigenous farmers and sanctions for scientists who mix GMOs with indigenous crops and animals. He queried why the bill was called a "Biosafety Bill" rather than a "Genetic Engineering Bill.". He argued that although genetic engineering may make it possible to add additional qualities – such as drought resistance, quick maturity, disease resistance, but, "this law apparently talks of giving monopoly of patent rights to its holder and forgets about the communities that developed the original material." He saw this as patently wrong as it ignored the roles of the local farmers who had preserved the original seeds over the years.
The president was quoted as saying that he had been informed that there are, "some crops and livestock with unique genetic configuration like millet, sorghum, beans, Ankole cattle, Ugandan chicken, enkoromoijo cattle, which have a specific genetic makeup which our people have developed for millennia through selection (kutorana for seeds), kubikira (selecting good bulls), enimi or empaya (he-goats)."
Raising concerns over the safety of GMOs, President Museveni cautioned that "to be on the safe side, GMO seeds should never be randomly mixed with our indigenous seeds just in case they turn out to have a problem."
What President Museveni has done must be applauded. It takes boldness for him to question a thing that he had so loudly promoted. His action underscores the need for leaders to hear both sides of the debate. African nations cannot simply throw their doors open to technologies that pose extreme risks to our environment, biodiversity, health and trade. It is time for President Buhari to take a look at the National Biosafety Management Act and the biosafety management architecture in our country before it is too late.
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Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has insisted he had no knowledge of the US National Security Agency's tapping of the company's data, despite having a sufficiently high security clearance to have been told.
He said that he and other members of the search company were outraged by the tapping carried out by the NSA and the UK's GCHQ – first revealed in the Guardian in June – and that they had "complained at great length" to the US government over the intrusion. Google had since begun encrypting internal traffic to prevent further spying, he said.
Speaking in a private session at the Guardian, Schmidt, 58, said: "I have the necessary clearances to have been told, as do other executives in the company, but none of us were briefed.
"Had we been briefed, we probably couldn't have acted on it, because we'd have known about it. I've declined briefings [from the US government] about this because I don't want to be constrained."
But Schmidt, who was Google's chief executive from 2001 to April 2011, was equivocal on the question of a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked the documents that led to the revelations. "Had this information not come to light, we would not have been able to [stop the NSA spying]. I can understand the position he felt," said Schmidt, who revealed that he had protested against the Vietnam war as a young man. But on the question of whether Snowden should be pardoned or jailed, he said: "I don't think it's so obvious one way or the other."
Schmidt hinted that the number of requests for data filed by the NSA is small: "It's illegal to notify the public how many requests we get; we've filed suit to release the aggregate number. You can imagine why." He said that although he had clearance, and could if he chose see the requests filed through the standing court for NSA access to data, "I do not by choice, because if I did then I would be subject to a whole lot of rules. There's a team of attorneys who see them."
He said that the broad debate about the level of oversight there should be on government surveillance was "a luxury problem" compared with countries such as China, which operate strict censorship of internet use.
Schmidt predicted that China's adoption of smartphones and social networks such as Weibo and WeChat, which have around 300 million users each, would eventually overwhelm its government's ability to censor online discussion there. "You can't heavily censor that many people all the time. They don't understand the power of empowering a hundred million Chinese, no matter how brutal they're going to be with the bloggers."
He said that people in countries such as Myanmar, where only 1% of the population has access to the internet, were hungry for the capability it offers. "We went there and kept meeting people who hadn't used the internet but told us how it was going to change their lives and make them rich. It was the vision of the internet that we in the west know, not the one that they have in China even though it's right next door to them.
"The fact is that for most of the world's population, the next five billion, the internet is first going to be a set of ideas that permeates their society months or years before they ever use it as a tool. People are aware that there's all this information out there and they're being excluded from it, either because of economic reasons or their government. And humans don't deal well with a situation where they're denied access to information."
Schmidt also acknowledged that his "humanitarian mission" to North Korea in January 2013 could be seen as controversial. But he indicated that he was under no illusions about his welcome there. "Everyone you meet, everyone you see in the street, is an actor," he said.
But the reality of the desperation of North Korean life was evident from the efforts people made to contact the outside world by heading to its frontiers with smuggled mobile phones to get a signal and make calls. "They know that the penalty for being caught is that they will persecute your family for three generations," he said. "Yet they do it because it is so important to them to communicate."
Eric Schmidt's newest and biggest challenge sounds easy enough: get through dinner without looking at his smartphone or computer. "It's important to have defined times when you're on and off. I'm trying to turn my computer off when it's dinner," he told an audience at the Guardian. "I'm actually trying to establish the basic principle that dinner can be eaten without being online. It's a new social norm: do you eat with your smartphone on the table?"
The executive chairman of Google, 58, said that he didn't use social media such as Twitter much – despite having a Twitter account – but "there's always something on the internet that's interesting."
He said though that the rise of tablets could have profound effects. "I watched my grandson at Christmas, and he never turned the TV on – he just spent the whole time on his tablet. And I wondered, 'have I just seen the death of television?'"


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I am using XCode 8 and testing with iOS 10.2 Beta.
I have added the Photos, PhotosUI and MobileCoreServices frameworks to project.
Using break statements, the app seems to crash at "presentViewController".
This is a brand new app and I don't have anything else in the UI other than the grab button.
Also, testing on iOS 9.3, this works fine. Am I missing something which might be changed in iOS 10?
Check all the usage descriptions here.
This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app's Info.plist must contain an NSContactsUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.
Open the file in your project named info.plist, right click it, opening as Source Code, paste this code below to it. Or you can open info.plist as Property List by default, click the add button, Xcode will give you the suggest completions while typing Privacy - with the help of keyboard ⬆ and ⬇.
then clean your Project, run it.
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You need the add the new privacy settings to you info.plist.
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You need to add the Privacy - Photo Library Usage Description key to your app's Info.plist and their usage information.
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Q: Handle Touch Events for RecyclerView with frequently changing data Scenario:

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*RecyclerView with a RecyclerView.Adapter. The notifyDataSetChanged()-method is called every 10ms because time sensitive information is shown, so the ViewHolders (class is extending RecyclerView.ViewHolder) are updated frequently.

*The underlying data comes from a native C-library, so the Adapter-methods are overridden to query the data from the native library.

*derived from this best practice video an interface was implemented in the Adapter-class to pass the onTouch-Events from the Adapter to the Activity. Therefore the ViewHolder-class implements View.OnTouchListener and passes all touch events and the listItem-position (queried bygetAdapterPosition()) via the interface to the Activity.

*various onTouch-events (Click, LongClick, Swipe etc.) for each ListItem should be recognized in the activity.

Problem:
When a ListItem is touched shortly afternotifyDataSetChanged() has been called, the received values are:
1 getAdapterPosition(): -1
2 motionEvent.getAction():  ACTION_DOWN directly followed by ACTION_CANCEL
The android-documentation says:

Note that if you've called notifyDataSetChanged(), until the next
  layout pass, the return value of this method will be NO_POSITION.

So I guess the error occurs everytime the listItem is touched while notifyDatasetChanges() refreshes the viewHolders: getAdapterPosition() returns -1 according to the documentation. And, probably because the elements in the viewHolder are refreshed, the onTouchEvent throws a ACTION_CANCEL.
what I tried:

*

*I tried to stop the refreshing of the RecyclerView on ACTION_DOWN, but because of the ACTION_CANCEL event, I do not receive any ACTION_UP event and can not restart the refreshing of the data.

*I added a RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener() to the recyclerView in the activity to receive the TouchEvent in onInterceptTouchEvent() before it is passed to the listItem and its onTouchListener and stop the refreshing of the recyclerview there.
But, because I still need information about what item was clicked, I still need the items onTouchListener which is still returning -1 and ACTION_CANCEL.

Question:
What is the best practice to handle onTouch events in a RecyclerView which is frequently updating its data?
Activity-class
public class Activity extends AppCompatActivity implements DataStoreDataAdapter.OnListItemTouchListener {

    Handler dataUpdateHandler = new Handler();

    Runnable timerRunnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            dataStoreDataAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

            dataUpdateHandler.postDelayed(this, 10);
        }
    };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity);

        dataStoreDataAdapter = new DataStoreDataAdapter(getApplicationContext(),this);

        recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.list_view);
        layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
        recyclerView.setAdapter(dataStoreDataAdapter);

        recyclerView.addOnItemTouchListener(new RecyclerView.OnItemTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(@NonNull RecyclerView rv, @NonNull MotionEvent e) {
                Log.i(TAG, "onInterceptTouchEvent: " + " touched by type " + e);
                int action = e.getAction();
                if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                    dataUpdateHandler.removeCallbacks(timerRunnable);
                } else if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                    dataUpdateHandler.post(timerRunnable);
                }
                return false;
            }

            @Override
            public void onTouchEvent(@NonNull RecyclerView rv, @NonNull MotionEvent e) {
                Log.i(TAG, "onTouchEvent: " + " touched by type " + e);
            }

            @Override
            public void onRequestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(boolean disallowIntercept) {

            }
        });

        //set update Handler
        dataUpdateHandler.post(timerRunnable);
    }

    @Override
    public void onListItemTouch(int position, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
        Log.i(TAG, "onListItemTouch: ListItem position " + position + " motionEvent: " + motionEvent);
    }
}

Adapter-class
public class DataStoreDataAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<DataStoreDataAdapter.ViewHolder> {

      private OnListItemTouchListener onListItemTouchListener;

    static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnTouchListener{
        View view;
        TextView Name;
       // ...

        ViewHolder(@NonNull View itemView, OnListItemTouchListener onListItemTouchListener) {
            super(itemView);
            this.Name = itemView.findViewById(R.id.NameListItem);
            // ...

            this.onListItemTouchListener = onListItemTouchListener;
            itemView.setOnTouchListener(this);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
            onListItemTouchListener.onListItemTouch(getAdapterPosition(), motionEvent);
            return true;
        }
    }

    public interface OnListItemTouchListener{
        void onListItemTouch(int position, MotionEvent motionEvent);
    }

    public DataStoreDataAdapter(Context context, OnListItemTouchListener onListItemTouchListener) {
        super();
        this.onListItemTouchListener = onListItemTouchListener;
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext());
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item,parent,false);

        return new ViewHolder(view, onListItemTouchListener);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        // get the stored data for this position
        // ...get stuff from native library

        // put data into view elements...

    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return // ... itemCount from native library;
    }

}

A: What happens I think is that the notifyDataSetChanged is still in progress while the touch happens during it the items dont have a position and I dont think this can be fixed.
The Listener is fine in my opinion, what you really should change is the notifyDataSetChanged() part.
you could use DiffUtil instead so that only the items update that are actually changed (both in position or content).
go here for more information how to implement this:
https://medium.com/@iammert/using-diffutil-in-android-recyclerview-bdca8e4fbb00

A: I figured it out by myself.
Here are the answers:

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*getAdapterPosition(): -1:
This happens, as I mentioned in the question already, because notifyDataSetChanged() rebuilds the whole layout. So if a list item is touched between a layout rebuild and the layout pass, the function will return -1. One solution was given by Finn Marquart: Use DiffUtils to reduce the amount of refreshes to a minimum for each item in the list. That not worked for me, because I need to refresh the item very often. So my solution was to use notifyItemRangeChanged(0,devicedataDataAdapter.getItemCount()) instead of notifyDataSetChanged(), because this only refreshes the elements in the viewholder and not recreates the whole list.

*avoid intercepting of the touch event in the view holder:
some higher View intercepted the touch gesture*, so that the implemented onTouch() method for each view holder gets an ACTION_CANCEL event and would not have been informed about the gesture anymore (the ACTION_UP event can only been received on parent views like the the OnItemTouchListener() of the recyclerview). Responsible für this was the itemAnimator, which is a member of the recyclerview. After disabling the itemAnimator by setting it to null, the touch gestures are no longer been intercepted:

recyclerView.setItemAnimator(null);
Hope, that answer helps anybody out there. I spend way to much time figure this out :)

*I define the "gesture" as the sum of all touch events between an ACTION_DOWN and an ACTION_UP event.

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Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in an underwater chamber called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. At the time of Naia's death, the cave system was mostly dry, and she likely died falling into Hoyo Negro.

The remains have been described as the "oldest, most complete and genetically intact human skeleton in the New World".

Genetic testing
The original report stated that "HN5/48 is among the small group of Paleoamerican skeletons, a group that is morphologically distinct from most Native Americans but within the natural variation of Asian-Pacific populations."

Genetic testing indicated a genetic link between Paleoamericans and modern indigenous peoples of the Americas as testing found MtDNA haplotype D1. Haplogroup D (mtDNA) is believed to have arisen in Asia. D1 is also found in Central Asia and is one of the founding lineages in the Americas. Subhaplogroup D1 occurs in 10.5% of extant Native Americans, with highest frequency of 29% in indigenous people from Chile and Argentina.

The report concluded that "HN5/48 shows that the distinctive craniofacial morphology and generalized dentition of Paleoamericans can co-occur with a Beringian derived mtDNA haplogroup. This 13–12 ka Paleoamerican skeleton thus suggests that Paleoamericans represent an early population expansion out of Beringia, not an earlier migration from elsewhere in Eurasia. This is consistent with hypotheses that both Paleoamericans and Native Americans derive from a single source population, whether or not all share a lineal relationship ... the differences in craniofacial form between Native Americans and their Paleoamerican predecessors are best explained as evolutionary changes that postdate the divergence of Beringians from their Siberian ancestors."

Evidence from full genomic studies suggests that the first people in the Americas (both Paleoamericans and later contemporary Native Americans) diverged from Ancient East Asians about 36,000 years ago and expanded northwards into Siberia, where they encountered and interacted with a different Paleolithic Siberian population (known as Ancient North Eurasians), giving rise to both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans, which later migrated towards the Beringian region, became isolated from other populations, and subsequently populated the Americas.

Impact on the American skull morphology debate
A report published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in January 2015 looked again at craniofacial variation focusing on differences between early and late Native Americans and explanations for these based on either skull morphology or molecular genetics. Arguments based on molecular genetics have in the main, according to the authors, accepted a single migration from Asia with a probable pause in Berengia, plus later bi-directional gene flow.

Studies focusing on craniofacial morphology have argued that Paleoamerican remains have "been described as much closer to Polynesian and Australo-Melanesians populations than to the modern series of Native Americans", suggesting two entries into the Americas, an early one occurring before a distinctive East Asian morphology developed (referred to in the paper as the "Two Components Model").

A third model, the "Recurrent Gene Flow" [RGF] model, attempts to reconcile the two, arguing that circumarctic gene flow after the initial migration could account for morphological changes. Noting that the original report on the Hoyo Negro skeleton supported the RGF model, the authors disagreed with the conclusion that the skull shape did not match those of modern Native Americans, instead arguing that the "skull falls into a subregion of the morphospace occupied by both Paleoamericans and some modern Native Americans."

See also
Arlington Springs Man –
Chan Hol
Eve of Naharon
List of unsolved deaths
Kennewick Man –
Settlement of the Americas

Notes

References

Human remains (archaeological)
Paleo-Indian archaeological sites in Mexico
Paleo-Indian period
Oldest human remains in the Americas
Sistema Sac Actun and Sistema Dos Ojos
Unsolved deaths

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Fort Hood contracting team readies 3rd SFAB
By Capt. Wilson Griffin, 710th Contracting Team leaderOctober 29, 2018
1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Maj. Brian Glenn, third from left, discusses specifications with a representative of The Marvel Group during a weapons rack demonstration Sept. 25 at Fort Hood, Texas. The inspection ensured measurements of the weapons racks were in accordance with the request for quotation as well as material compliance. Glenn is responsible for supply and logistics for the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Hood. Looking on are 3rd SFAB Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Harris and Wolf Jouett, a Mission and Installation Contracting Command contracting officer at Fort Hood. (Photo Credit: Capt. Wilson Griffin) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Harris examines a weapons rack during an inspection and demonstration Sept. 25 at Fort Hood, Texas, as Maj. Brian Glenn and a representative of The Marvel Group look on. The inspection ensured measurements of the weapons racks were in accordance with the request for quotation as well as material compliance prior to production and delivery. Harris is the 3rd SFAB senior enlisted adviser and Glenn is responsible for supply and logistics for the brigade. (Photo Credit: Capt. Wilson Griffin) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT HOOD, Texas (Oct. 29, 2018) -- Members of the 901st Contracting Battalion were vital in equipping the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade by awarding multiple information technology contracts as well as a contract for a TA-50 wall locker and weapon racks for the newly formed brigade.
The battalion's 710th Contracting Team is aligned to support the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and other tenant brigades on Fort Hood, Texas. Contracting Soldiers from the 710th CT awarded a contract for 1,131 pieces of equipment for wall locker and weapon racks Sept. 21, only 28 days after receiving the purchase request.
"Teamwork begins with trust, and that is exactly what the 710th CT displayed by supporting 3rd SFAB contract requirements. The team put in countless hours coordinating with the 3rd SFAB team to ensure all their requirements were met before its Sept. 28 timeline," said Lt. Col. Kizzy Danser, the deputy director of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Hood contracting office and 901st CBN commander. "These requirements were critical to the unit's initial standup and its mission to successfully rapidly deploy. In addition to meeting the unit's requirements ahead of schedule, the 710th CT was able to save them more than $100,000."
The universal weapon racks are designed to house M4s, pistols, ammunition and other sensitive items for a team of four Soldiers and deploy with them as is, anywhere in the world. All of the weapon racks ordered are custom and has the interior components to store all for the 3rd SFAB's weapons prescribed in its modified table of organization and equipment to include crew-served weapons, securely in a normal arms-room.
"These racks are unique and will definitely serve their purpose here in the brigade" said Maj. Brian Glenn, who is responsible for supply and logistics at 3rd SFAB. "Contracting was able to assist us through the whole process, award a contract and found us a vendor who could produce and ship the supplies before the fielding of our weapons."
The first items were delivered Oct. 17, and the delivery of the remaining items is set for the second week of November 2018.
Contracting teams from the 901st CBN are aligned with armored brigade combat teams, the Army's primary armored force, to provide contracting support to those brigades during National Training Center and Joint Readiness Training Center rotations and their deployments as needed. This alignment allows contracting as a whole to better support the Soldiers and to operationalize contracting.
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Headquartered at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command consists of about 1,500 military and civilian members who are responsible for contracting goods and services in support of Soldiers as well as readying trained contracting units for the operating force and contingency environment when called upon. The command is made up of two contracting support brigades, two field directorates, 30 contracting offices and nine battalions. MICC contracts are vital in feeding more than 200,000 Soldiers every day, providing many daily base operations support services at installations, facilitate training in the preparation of more than 100,000 conventional force members annually, training more than 500,000 students each year, and maintaining more than 14.4 million acres of land and 170,000 structures.
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Son of Hamas Imam: "The God of Islam is the God of Hate"
Filed under: General,Hamas Leaders,Hamas Terrorist Acts,PA (Palestinian Authority),West Bank — No To Terror @ 4:23 pm
Mosab Hasssan Yousef, the son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, explained his decision to convert to Christianity in a Washington, D.C. talk last night, concluding "[t]he god of Islam is the god of hate."
He asked and answered a hypothetical question at his talk to a pro-Israel group.
"What would happen if Israel just disappeared from the map? There is no Israel anymore. Would there be peace in the Middle East? Palestinians would kill each other, I guarantee you."
The former spy for Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service has a new book, Son of Hamas, detailing his undercover exploits, radical decision to leave Islam and become a Christian convert, and his undercover work.
Incredibly, the United States is currently seeking to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef for having connections to Hamas. He immigrated to the U.S. in 2007 to convert to Christianity, and his life would certainly be in jeopardy if he was to return to the West Bank that he once called home.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's absurd notion that Yousef poses a security threat is, at best, comical. Deporting a man who opposes Hamas terror back to a certain death — after he surreptitiously fought against it, risked his life to save the lives of innocents, and fled terror to find a new home — is a comment on the Obama administration's current naivete.
Excellent Monograph on Hamas Terror
Filed under: Gaza,Gaza Tunnels,Hamas Leaders,Hamas Rocket Attacks,Hamas Terrorist Acts,Hamas Torture,Hamas Weapons Smuggling,Hisham al-Labadani,Human Shields (Civilians),Ismail Haniyah,Khaled Meshal,PA (Palestinian Authority),Suicide Bombers,Syria,West Bank,Women — No To Terror @ 5:21 pm
Yehudit Barsky, has an excellent monograph on the Hamas terrorist group.
Barsky is the Director of the Division on Middle East and International Terrorism at the American Jewish Committee.
You can read Barsky's work on Hamas here:
Hamas – The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Yehudit Barsky
Is Pres. Obama Subsidizing Hamas Terrorism?
Filed under: Uncategorized — No To Terror @ 5:23 am
Fox News business reporter David Asman observes that President Barack Obama's promise of $400 million in alleged 'humanitarian aid' for the Hamas-controlled Gaza's strip constitutes nothing less than a terror subsidy.
Asman notes Hamas is "on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. That's also why people go to jail for giving money to Hamas."
Why? Because nothing happens in the Gaza strip without going through Hamas.
Fatima Mohammadi, U.S. Lawyer, Denies Israeli Allegations of Terror Ties
Filed under: Fatima Mohammadi,Gaza,Gaza Flotilla,General,Iran,Mavi Marmara — No To Terror @ 5:57 am
According to Israeli security officials, Iranian-born American lawyer Fatima Mohammadi was one of five (5) 'activists' allegedly having ties to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups who traveled in last week's intercepted Mavi Marmara Flotilla to Gaza.
Mohammadi lists "intermittent travel between the U.S., U.A.E. and Iran" since 2007 on her LinkedIn profile while working as Legal Counsel for the German-based PEDEX Germany International, FZCo.
The Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli Defense Forces ('IDF') reportedly learned that Mohammadi intended to bring "illegal electronic devices into the Gaza Strip."
Mohammadi denied the allegations in an e-mail interview with The New York Times, calling the allegations "illegitimate and unfounded."
Mohammadi told the Times that:
I have no idea what they're referring to as the only electronics I had in my possession or in my bag were personal items: a camera, a video camera, and my personal phones. All electronics, including laptops, were confiscated at our arrest while on board the ship and none have been returned.


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A key issue here is that the concept of entrepreneurship is marked by Innovation and Risk-taking and it is paramount in the nation's ability to succeed in an ever changing and increasingly competitive global market place.


Clover Register Pay Screen Custom tender label name not set ?
I am add the custom button in register pay screen during order.button are set but i am not able to set custom label. it take by default android application name or package name i m try to set different label but not set , even in old register pay screen i m able to add static name ,but after update the pay app i m can't set label in screenshot i m add two custom button with different label but it take application default app.
If you are using the modifyOrderButton ( https://github.com/clover/android-examples/tree/master/modifyorderbutton) what you are experiencing is the expected behavior. The name of the button will match the name of the app.
hi , yes i want modifyOrderButton (https://github.com/clover/android-examples/tree/master/modifyorderbutton) just like this,but also this example i m also run but this example also print Application name by default in register application.not display Add discount lable it show up application name in clover station.
Hi @jolly - yes that is expected behavior for the modifyOrderButton example. When implementing a modifyOrderButton, the button will match the name of the app that created it so you cannot customize this button.


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New Zealand man sentenced to 21 months in prison for sharing mosque killings video online
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A New Zealand man who admitted redistributing the livestream video of the Christchurch terror attack has been sentenced to 21 months in prison on Tuesday.
Philip Arps, who runs a company that uses neo-Nazi imagery, pleaded guilty in April to two charges of distributing objectionable material.
The 44-year-old admitted that the day after the mosque killings, he had sent away the video to have it modified with cross-hairs and a "kill count," and distributed the unmodified video to 30 people.
Tuesday morning in the Christchurch District Court, judge Stephen O'Driscoll said when Arps was asked for his opinion of the video, he said it was "awesome."
Because of Arps' extreme ideological outlook, there was no prospect of his rehabilitation and his sentence should rule out home detention, said the judge.
Arps also faces six months of post-release conditions when he must attend psychological assessment, not access the internet, and undergo assessment and counselling for alcohol and drug use.
Judge O'Driscoll said Arps wanted to glorify the deaths of members of the Muslim community and any sentence short of imprisonment would not be appropriate.
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Zhen's defense attorney Ren Quanniu said he hasn't been allowed to meet with his client since he was hired by his family.
"Personally, I am extremely worried about Zhen Jianghua's safety, because he has been cut off from the outside world, so we don't know how things are going for him in detention," Ren told RFA.
"We don't know whether he is being subjected to torture or mistreatment; there are no guarantees that even his most basic human rights are protected," he said.
[…] The formal arrest paves the way for the case to move to trial. But fellow Guangdong rights activist Huang Yongxiang said he believes that Zhen has committed no crime.
[…] Zhen is a former computer programmer who has been involved in human rights activism since the mid-2000s. As a social worker, he assisted women who suffered domestic violence in Zhuhai and people with autism in Macau. He helped victims of human rights abuses use the internet to promote their cases and taught university students about methods of circumventing internet censorship.
After becoming executive director of Human Rights Campaign in China in 2015, Zhen focused on helping spread news about government crackdowns on human rights activists, and building a support network to advocate for their releases. During the "709 crackdown," in which authorities rounded up hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists, Zhen mobilized support for the detained lawyers and activists and their families. Over the past decade, authorities have harassed, intimidated, forcibly evicted, and briefly detained Zhen.
The Chinese government should immediately release activist Zhen Jianghua (甄江华), who had previously been a technical consultant helping to maintain the online platform Human Rights Campaign in China (HRCC). Zhuhai police have formally arrested him on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power," according to his lawyer, who received a phone call from police on March 30. Zhen's arrest is another sign of the relentless suppression of civil society groups and free expression under President Xi Jinping. Now that term limits for the Chinese president have been eliminated through constitutional changes, Xi Jinping could stay in power indefinitely, making the suppression of human rights under his regime a matter of even greater concern. Individuals like Zhen, who have led or been closely tied to human rights groups, have been accused of "endangering national security," and increasingly deprived of their rights to free expression, assembly, and association.
Read more about the detentions of citizen journalists Huang Qi and Liu Feiyue, via CDT. Others suffering reprisals for their rights monitoring work include strike tracker Lu Yuyu, who was sentenced to four years in prison last August, and Ding Lingjie, for whom the Committee to Protect Journalists has included as a postcard recipient in their global #FreeThePress campaign.


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Q: Equivalence for upper semi-continuity in a metric space I believe this question is not hard, but I simply can't understand properly how to deal with the definition of upper semi-continuity of $\phi$ at $x$ in a metric space $X$, i. e. $\forall \epsilon>0, \exists \delta > 0 , \forall y \in X, d(x,y) < \delta
 \Rightarrow \phi(y) < \phi(x) + \epsilon$.
Basically, I must show the equivalence
$\phi$ upper semi-continuous at $x \Leftrightarrow \phi(x) = \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} [  \sup \phi(B_X(x,1/n))]$.
I've tried working with sequences in a sequence of balls with center $x$ and decreasing radius $1/n$, but I believe I may lack some structure to advance further.

A: Let $\epsilon>0$, wlog assume that $\phi$ is bounded on $B(x,1),$ and choose an integer $N$ such that $1/N<\delta$ where $\delta $ satisfies the definition of upper-semicontinuity. Then if $n>N$, we have $\phi(B_X(x,1/n))\subseteq (-\infty ,\phi(x)+\epsilon)\Rightarrow a_n:=\sup\left \{ \phi(y):y\in B(x,1/n) \right \}\in (-\infty, \phi(x)+\epsilon].$ Now observe that $(a_n)$ is decreasing and bounded, so $\lim a_n=a$ exists and $a\le \phi(x)\ $ (because $\epsilon>0$ is arbitrary). But $\phi(x)\in B(x,1/n)$ for each integer $n$ so $a_n\ge \phi(x)\Rightarrow a\ge \phi(x);\ $ that is, $a=\phi(x).$
The other way is easier: just note that if $\phi(x) = \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} [  \sup \phi(B_X(x,1/n))],$ then $(a_n)$ where $a_n:=\sup \phi(B_X(x,1/n))$ is a decreasing sequence that converges to $\phi(x).$ With this fact, and the definition, the result follows.


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"For sure I didn't go to the other side of the ocean to step back and wait for help. I wanted to get things done on my own, without the help of anybody else."
As you step out of your comfort zone, you start living your life the way you want it to be. This is exactly what happened to me on August 25th 2015 when I landed in Logan Airport, Boston. In that moment I realized I left my home country, Italy, to start an adventure as an exchange student, that I never would thought could change me in such a positive way.
It is true that you can't really say something about a situation if you don't experience it first: this is why I regret having said I was ready for my year abroad. The first three months were the hardest, because of the language barrier and homesickness. Despite this, the feelings I had when I first came to the United States are still vivid and present in my mind. I was excited, and mostly happy and proud of myself for taking such a big risk: leaving my country to start a new chapter of my life. The excitement of meeting my new host family was huge, those people are my second family for life. I was also impressed with myself for being able to handle school the way I did, everyday was a new challenge: being on time, taking the right bus without getting lost, and ordering food without having to repeat it two times because of my accent. For sure I didn't go to the other side of the ocean to step back and wait for help. I wanted to get things done on my own, without the help of anybody else.
One of the biggest problems for me has been the adaptation to a new culture. I missed my grandmother's food and, in general, the places I used to go often to. After a while though, I created a new routine here and I can say I got used to it. I finally found a balance between school, exercise, and friends. I have been here for a year now and I have never regretted my choice. I would do the same mistakes I did in the past in order to be where I am now. For example, I didn't listen to my parents enough. I thought I was able to take big decisions on my own, because this is what I wanted to do; looking back I know that, with their advice, they were just helping me grow.
I liked the exchange year so much that I decided to apply to college. I am currently studying biology here. I believe that dreams keep you alive and more so the determination that you apply to make them come true. I wanted to be a doctor and live in America since I was 7 years old and, step-by-step, I'm getting closer to realizing my goal of being a surgeon. I had to jump into something new and yet unfamiliar to truly understand my potential. When I had to study for my TOEFL and SAT test I was really nervous, I thought I couldn't make it since English isn't my first language. Despite my doubts, I successfully passed them. This wouldn't have been possible without the help of my parents and friends; I now have two families and I couldn't be happier. My Italian family encourages me to never give up, they remind me where I come from, and that distance doesn't matter when people are truly connected with each other. On the other hand, my American family helps me grow and become a successful person in life, by having a goal and working hard to achieve it.
I learned a lot from this adventure and it has changed me. It made me appreciate my country more, in particular the culture, and I also discovered my limits. First, I shouldn't be too hard on myself because the mistakes I did led to the creation of the person I am today. Second, I became more independent and confident. I realized more than ever what I wanted to study and what career I wanted to pursue in life. This determination felt like freedom. And freedom is power.


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No chance of Day Zero this year or next - Cape Town
Ian Neilson |
Ian Neilson says dam levels now at 43%, as compared to 38% at end of winter last year
No Day Zero for 2019 if appropriate water restrictions are maintained
- At this early stage of the winter season, our dam levels are already in a much stronger position than we were at the end of winter last year
- Provided that adequate water restrictions are maintained, the City is confident that there will be no prospect of reaching Day Zeroin 2019
- While we hope to reduce the current water restrictions in the near future, and the tariffs associated with them, this decision is dependent on National Government relaxing restrictions on releases from the water supply system
The levels of the dams supplying water to Cape Town have been rising consistently and significantly over the past six weeks. As at today, total dam storage capacity is at just over 43%, and we still have more than two months of expected winter rainfall ahead of us. Over the last few months, our collective water usage has been around 520 million litres per day.
This may be compared to the situation at the end of winter last year, when dam levels were at 38% and consumption was over 600 million litres a day.
Having analysed this new data, we are now in a position to state that not only have we managed to avoid Day Zero this year, but we will also safely get through summer in 2019. This is due to the amount of water already in the dams, our intense water demand management programmes, our unrelenting communication, awareness and the behavioural change it has effected over the past two years, as well as the continued support and sacrifice of Team Cape Town.
We have shown what we can achieve if we all pull together and work towards a common goal. I would again like to thank all Capetonians for their enormous water conservation effort this past summer. It was our combined effort that ensured that we got through the summer without running out of water.
I know that it has been very difficult for both private residents and businesses to operate under the current stringent restrictions and that many sacrifices have been made by millions of residents. We hope that continued rains will enable a progressive reduction in the stress felt by all.
While we hope to reduce the current restrictions in the near future, and the tariffs associated with them, that decision is dependent on National Government relaxing restrictions on releases from the water supply system. If the National Department of Water and Sanitation agrees to relax restrictions, we expect to be in a position to proceed with a stepped reduction of water restrictions and the associated tariffs.
Until then, let us all please keep up the good work and keep saving water for a little while longer. We have to ensure that we make a permanent change to our approach to water usage.
What has changed since January 2018
At the beginning of the year, we were in the extended stages of a devastating, deepening and unprecedented drought. For three years in a row, our rainfall had been significantly lower than in previous years. The 2017 rainfall was the lowest in recorded history at only 40% of the long-term average. This resulted in a substantial decline in the levels of the six large dams that supply water to Cape Town, the surrounding municipalities and agriculture.
In January, projections of the rate at which the dam levels were falling indicated that we could reach a level where emergency measures would have to be implemented in April 2018. This became known as Day Zero. This projection was made despite the fact that the City had already halved its summer consumption rate, from 1 200 million litres per day to 600 million litres per day.
We did, however, have three things in our favour to ensure a rapid drought response: our pre-existing water demand management programme; our highly skilled engineers and professional staff; and the residents of Cape Town.
These combined elements allowed us to reach the start of our winter rainfall season without running out of water. The reason we never reached that projection of Day Zero was due to the enormous effort and sacrifice of both urban and agricultural consumers to cut consumption levels even further throughout the summer.
Due to the incredible water conservation efforts of our residents, and the ground-breaking interventions instituted by the City to reduce consumption, our dam levels bottomed out at 20% by the end of the summer. This was just 7% above the level at which we would have had to start restricting consumption to 25 litres per person per day. We still had capacity to spare at that time should the winter rainfall come late and be inadequate.
Fortunately, the rains started early in our winter (May) and fell at rates closer to the average than in the previous years. It was only then that we could see that circumstances had changed. After some six weeks of good rain, we are now in a more favourable position that enables us to recalibrate our future projections and to make a much more accurate forecast for 2019.
In short, almost half-way through our winter, we are already in a much stronger position than we were at the end of winter last year.
Based on this information, and provided that adequate water restrictions are maintained, we are now confident that there will be no prospect of reaching Day Zero in 2019.
How Cape Town did it
We are now in a much better position, not only due to the encouraging rainfall we have seen so far, but also because of the incredible cooperation of our residents and due to the various technological and human interventions initiated by this municipality to drive down consumption.
These included:
- the success of an extensive and dedicated communication, awareness and behavioural change campaign to encourage a behavioural shift among residents
- the continuing roll-out of pressure management across the City, which is currently achieving savings of more than 62 million litres of water a day and climbing, as more pressure zones are created across the metro
- the installation of water demand management devices for those who contravene water restrictions
- a leak repair programme to minimise water losses, especially among indigent residents
- steep tariff hikes
- the City also took a holistic approach to managing the crisis and attempted to maximise all alternative water resources in a very short period of time. Thus, for instance, we looked at temporary desalination and increased extraction from springs, among others
While we hope at some point in the next few months to be in a position to relax the current restrictions, and the tariffs associated with them, this decision will have to wait until National Government relaxes restrictions on releases from the water supply system.
I have requested a meeting with the National Minister of Water and Sanitation, Gugile Nkwinti, to discuss this and other matters pertaining to our future water resilience as a matter of urgency.
Urban water resilience implies the capacity to anticipate, absorb, adapt, respond to and learn from shocks and stresses, to protect public health and well-being and the natural environment, and to minimise economic disruption.
The experience of the past three years and the reality of greater rainfall variability than in the past has meant that we have had to adjust our approach towards what needs to be done to ensure our future resilience. Now that we have navigated our way through the immediate drought crisis, it is necessary that we review our water supply strategy and augmentation plans to ensure that what was devised in a period of crisis is appropriate for longer-term sustainability and resilience. We are in the process of reassessing our New Water Programme; in particular, our future water mix and the role of permanent desalination in the supply mix.
In this recalibration, we are working closely with a number of local and international partners like the World Bank, the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, to ensure that our revised programme provides the best possible response to our reality.
We need to think very carefully about our long-term capital programme, particularly regarding permanent desalination, groundwater and water reuse and how this will impact on our budget and our water tariffs.
In partnership with the custodian of water resources, the National Department of Water and Sanitation, we also need to address critical issues such as resource allocation and inter-basin transfers to ensure the sustainability of our water resources. Many operational challenges and deficiencies came to light during this drought.
The City and National Government will need to sit down and work through these issues thoroughly to ensure that future drought management is effective and has minimal impact on economic activity and public well-being.
At the same time, we need to ensure that our focus on behavioural change and attitudes towards water and demand management does not let up. As demand for water grows, it is not only diversification of supply that is required to address future risk, but also a sustained campaign to entrench the behaviour changes we have seen over the past months.
Until such time as we are able to reassess our situation, let us all therefore continue to implement these changes and keep saving water.
Please visit www.capetown.gov.za/thinkwater for all water-related information.
Statement issued by Alderman Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor, City of Cape Town, 28 June 2018
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The Invisible Bridge
Invisible Bridge is a historical novel based on the author's relatives who were Hungarian Jews living in Europe during WWII. I don't think it's a spoiler alert to tell you...some bad stuff is going to happen. Hey there smarty, you just figured out that someone must live long enough to become the author's progenitor. There were no sperm banks in 1938. Wow, I'm really glad there wasn't because: Baby Hitlers.
Julie Orringer admits the romance part of this book is totally made up, and frankly, it shows. Unfortunately this section is huge...like two to three hundred pages of overly sentimental romance. Yuck. She got a National Endowment of the Arts grant to write Invisible Bridge....shhh...don't tell the politicians. This book is ok, but the history part, while a bit grim, was a much better section. I'm thinking: Do I hate historical fiction and just like history? But then I remembered All the Light We Cannot See. Which was amazing. Maybe that book was the LeBron James of historical fiction; you only get one of those in a generation.
This very first part of this book is fantastic...our narrator gets a scholarship to study architecture in Paris in 1938. Fish out of water going to school in Paris, cool, cool, needs more wizards, but ok. Then he meets a lady (250 pages of a romance novel), then the war breaks out and we get a history lesson. While I think every educated person should know the events leading to and after the war, you really don't need to do that with a less than sexy bathtub scene in the mix. Holocaust history made sexy! Pass.
Before the grim part, our narrator's life was pretty sweet. How about a champagne cocktail? Southside Royale: 2 ounces gin, 3/4 ounce lime juice, 3/4 ounces simple syrup. Put these ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a champagne flute and top with champagne.
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Want some companion stories to Game of Thrones? Of course you do, you addict. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a compilation of the three "prequel" short stories set about 100 years before the Fire and Ice books. You may have heard of these as the Tales of Dunk and Egg. That sounds like the adventures of randy British schoolboys. Like a medieval Porky's. It isn't. Sorry.
Dave says George must have made up those names while eating breakfast, and I didn't even tell him of the adventures of Quisp and Special K. Quisp really does sound like a Game of Thrones character, I wonder if he gets confused with the notorious sea pirate Cap'n Crunch.
If you've read the Fire and Ice books and think you'll just breeze through knowing who all these characters are....you'll get a whole lot of nope. You think you'll be able to sort these names, nope, nope and nope. You'll need the internet or be comfortable with the confusion.
This book is illustrated by Gary Gianni which may trick you to think it is more children-friendly. Is it not. It is a little violent and it doesn't have explicit sex but two of illustrations have naked ladies. My friend Richard does illustration work for a D&D derivative game called Harn. One time he used me as a model for a peasant. If you are ever having a good day but want to turn it into a bad day...just look at yourself in a rendered drawing as a peasant. Yes, I had clothes on, the type of clothes that come straight from the streets of Bucharest during the war. The Russo-Turkish War of 1887.
Anyway, the book is ok, but not amazing. It could get you through an uncertain but distant future before the next book if you need a Game of Thrones fix. If you are interested in Richard's work he has a separate blog just for his illustration work. luschekillustrationblog.blogspot.com For the right price he could draw you as a peasant and ruin your day too.
Drinks: In honor of our beloved Egg character why not drink a famous cocktail that uses an egg white? Egg whites make cocktails all frothy, but use safety precautions because raw eggs put you at risk of Salmonella, which feels like something you would pick up quite easily in Westeros. Ramos Fizz: 1&1/2 oz. gin, 1/2 oz. lime juice, 1/2 lemon juice, 1&1/4 oz. simple syrup, 2 oz. milk or half-and-half, 1 small egg white, 2 dashes orange flower water, club soda. Combine everything but the club soda in a shaker with ice. Shake, strain and put in a highball glass with ice and top with the club soda.
Fevre Dream
Before George R.R. Martin spent his time rolling around on a pile of coins he wrote a vampire book set on a steamboat. While this was written over 30 years ago, it's not dated because, hey, it's vampires! Also, it is set in the olden times so these vampires aren't going to Blondie concerts and hanging out with Andy Warhol. Actually, I think that is a good idea.
I read this right before Halloween, and nothing is spookier than a steamboat...wait, what? I have it on good authority that George is quite intrigued with steamboats. Trust me, after reading this, I didn't need the inside information, it's readily apparent. I did learn the difference between a texas deck and a hurricane deck (I had to google the anatomy of a steamboat), so that knowledge is going on my 2016 resume. I once saw an actor's resume that said: "excellent headstands and push-ups," and I thought that was one the funniest things I've ever seen. She did get a Pepperidge Farm commercial. They must have cut out the scene with her eating Milanos between push ups.
Fevre Dream is a perfectly fine vampire novel. Warning: there is copious use of the N-word. Granted, it is set during slavery time but I wonder if an author could get by with doing that today. Well, George probably could because he's rich and famous now and gives zero cares. I've read my fair share of decent vampire books and Fevre Dream is like those books but with steamboats! Yeah, it's still not an easy sell.
Drinks: It is officially fall cocktail season and this one sounds perfect: Stone Wall: Take a one inch piece of ginger and muddle in a shaker with 1 & 1/2 tsp of simple syrup, then add 1 & 1/2 ounces of aged rum and an equal amount of apple cider. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a ice filled rocks glass and top with 1-2 ounces of ginger beer, garnish with a lime wedge and apple slice. As this has less alcohol than a typical cocktail you can keep your wits about for those pesky vampires, or pilot a steamboat..whatever.


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import sys, threading, time
file_path = sys.path[0]
sys.path.append(file_path + '/../py')
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.python.platform import googletest
from fm_ops import fm_ops

class FmParserOpTest(tf.test.TestCase):
  def testNoHashWithWeight(self):
    parser_op = fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/sample_data_0', file_path + '/weight', 3, 1000, False)
    with self.test_session() as sess:
      labels, weights, ori_ids, feature_ids, feature_vals, feature_poses = sess.run(parser_op)
      self.assertAllClose([1, 0.8, -10], labels)
      self.assertAllClose([2, 3, 1], weights)
      self.assertAllEqual([234, 2, 0, 10], ori_ids)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3], feature_ids)
      self.assertAllClose([10, 1, 2, 1, 1, 20.3], feature_vals)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 3, 6, 6], feature_poses)
      labels, weights, ori_ids, feature_ids, feature_vals, feature_poses = sess.run(parser_op)
      self.assertAllClose([2, 12], labels)
      self.assertAllClose([0.5, 0.2], weights)
      self.assertAllEqual([10, 0], ori_ids)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 1], feature_ids)
      self.assertAllClose([21, 1], feature_vals)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 1, 2], feature_poses)
      labels, weights, ori_ids, feature_ids, feature_vals, feature_poses = sess.run(parser_op)
      self.assertAllEqual([len(labels), len(weights)], [0, 0])

  def testHashWithNoWeight(self):
    parser_op = fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/sample_data_1', '', 10, 1000, True)
    with self.test_session() as sess:
      labels, weights, ori_ids, feature_ids, feature_vals, feature_poses = sess.run(parser_op)
      self.assertAllClose([1, 0.2, -10], labels)
      self.assertAllClose([1, 1, 1], weights)
      self.assertAllEqual([819, 280, 545, 273, 542], ori_ids)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4], feature_ids)
      self.assertAllClose([10, 1, 2, 1, 1, 20.3, 1], feature_vals)
      self.assertAllEqual([0, 3, 7, 7], feature_poses)

  def testError(self):
    with self.test_session() as sess:
      with self.assertRaisesOpError("The line number in data file and weight file do not match."):
        fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/sample_data_1', file_path + '/weight', 10, 1000, True).labels.eval()

      with self.assertRaisesOpError("Invalid feature id feq321. Set hash_feature_id = True?"):
        fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/sample_data_1', '', 10, 1000, False).labels.eval()

      with self.assertRaisesOpError("Label could not be read in example: aa 12 123"):
        fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/wrong_data', '', 10, 1000, True).labels.eval()

      with self.assertRaisesOpError("Invalid weight: aa"):
        fm_ops.fm_parser(0, file_path + '/sample_data_0', file_path + '/wrong_weight', 3, 1000, False).labels.eval()

if __name__ == "__main__":
  googletest.main()


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Q: Wordpress template page name displayed on screen Hi there _ Must admit I'm scratching my head!
I've uploaded a demo site that uses a number of template pages.
Everything works as expected, but whenever there's a page change the top 3 lines of the php template file are briefly displayed on the screen.
I mean these lines:
/*
Template Name: name
*/

You can see the display yourself at this URL : Demo website
If you click on any of the bottom 5 sub-items under 'PAINTINGS', the momentary display of the template name will appear top right of the screen
This has never happened to me before and I've tried everything that I can think of:
I'm not sure this fault is directly connected to php code.  I think it might be more related to the Wordpress framework.  But I will add one php template page, just in case! (The other templates are very much the same)
/*
Template Name: Exhibition - Pilgrims
*/
<?php get_header(); ?>

                            <?php $featured_query = new WP_Query( array(
                                'category_name' => 'pilgrims-text'
                            )); ?>

                            <?php while($featured_query->have_posts()) : $featured_query->the_post(); ?>

<?php the_content(); ?>

                            <?php endwhile; ?>

                        <?php
                            global $query_string;
                            query_posts( $query_string . '&posts_per_page=-1' );
                        ?>

                        <?php $featured_query = new WP_Query( array(
                            'category_name' => 'pilgrims'
                        )); ?>

                        <?php while($featured_query->have_posts()) :
                            $featured_query->the_post(); ?>

                                        <a href="<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>">
                                            <?php $post_id = get_the_ID(); ?>
                                            <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

                                        <?php echo the_title(); ?>

                        <?php endwhile; ?>
                        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

If anyone can help me get rid of this 'template name displayed' glitch I'll be very grateful _ Thanks

A: If your template file doesn't have the <?php tag at the top, you should add it.
<?php
/*
Template Name: Exhibition - Pilgrims
*/

...is how the very top of your template file should look.
Your sample should read like this.
<?php
/*
Template Name: Exhibition - Pilgrims
*/
get_header(); ?>

... [etc]


Richard James: "None of the Big Four want to miss out on this reshuffling of the pack, and mid-tier firms sense they might pick up bigger and more valuable audit clients"
There can't be many supplier relationships in business that date back to 1896. So it was hardly surprising that when Barclays announced in March it would be ending its relationship with auditor PwC after 120 years, the story made waves. The reason? Not because the bank is dissatisfied with its supplier. The tender for a new audit firm, likely in 2016, is to comply with new rules on mandatory auditor rotation.
The regulations, confirmed at the end of September by Competition and Markets Authority, having been set by the European Commission in the EU, insist public interest entities (PIEs - mainly larger quoted companies) re-tender the contract for their statutory audit at least every ten years.
They also require PIEs to change auditor every 20 years; restrict the amount of non-audit services an accountancy firm can offer audit clients; bring in Audit Quality Reviews; ban Big Four-only loan agreements; make auditors more accountable to audit committees to reduce the influence of executive management; and enhance the level of disclosures to shareholders.
In other words, the reforms are expected to bring more competition to the audit market. They should encourage the boards at larger companies to solicit tenders from mid-tier firms, reducing the stranglehold of the Big Four - Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. And they ought to bolster audit as a means of minimising the risk of catastrophic failures of governance and accounting. By forcing businesses to switch provider, boards will be compelled to focus on the purpose and quality of the statutory audit.
Many clients - and, of course, auditors - view the measures as heavy-handed and potentially counter-productive. While there are plenty of audit firms outside the Big Four capable of undertaking major audits, many businesses are complex and globally dispersed enough to make it hard to look beyond the biggest providers. Many firms might even choose not to tender for audit assignments and risk sacrificing advisory work that generates much higher fees. And plenty of boards feel they already have the best auditor available in place - so why tender?
Having worked on several audit tenders for clients in the past year, we have identified three big opportunities in this regulatory upheaval.
First, it's a chance to revisit an old - in some cases very old - relationship and identify what's really valuable for the company and its shareholders. The actual output of an audit is limited - essentially, it's just a tick against the accounts. But a good audit firm understands a business in terrific detail - and it's this in-depth knowledge that is key to getting the most from the relationship.
Central to that additional value is the triangular relationship between the board's audit committee, the audit firm and the company's finance function. A well-run tender allows that relationship to be refreshed - and should encourage an auditor to re-evaluate their processes and team structure, as well as potential output for the audit. KPMG, for example, recently started offering enriched long-form audit reports that go beyond even the requirements for additional disclosures suggested by the regulators. It's a sign that the audit profession has much more to offer - if you know what you're looking for, and how to buy it.
Second, it can help companies look differently at their whole approach to buying in professional services. Proxima worked with a major retailer last year on its audit tender and initially faced a sceptical board whose main concern was getting sign-off for its accounts from a reputable firm with relatively low fees. When we started to unpick the service, looking at the additional functionality and value the audit firm could bring through smarter tendering, that cynicism melted away.
Third, a proper tender process can reduce fees. Lower costs should not be the driving force behind a company's decision to change supplier but if a tender results in lower fees, it's a bonus. Best practice in procurement is rarely about finding the lowest cost, of course. Smart organisations look to create strategic relationships with suppliers that help them innovate, flex and create new sources of value. Audit is no exception.
But when Proxima analysed FTSE 350 annual reports, it discovered that a change of auditor resulted in an average reduction in fees of 10%. Aviva alone delivered a saving of £6.5m. Alliance Trust slashed its audit bill by 48%, United Utilities by 43% and IG Group by 28%. Auditors are getting smarter about deploying technology, innovating processes and delivering more effective feedback to clients - and that ought to translate into better value for money.
The full regulations don't kick in until 2020, and some companies will choose to wait until the last minute before tendering their audit. But many have started already. In the FTSE 350, only 40 companies changed auditor between 2001 and 2011. Since then, 85 have switched - 46 of them in the first half of 2014 alone. So what's prompting this activity?
First, CFOs and audit chairs know how valuable it is to have auditors who understand the nuances of their sector and who won't distract their team with stupid questions. Good audit partners - and, equally important, good teams - aren't plentiful, so waiting to tender risks companies missing out on getting the A-team for the audit.
Second, shareholder pressure. Boards are acutely aware that investors want to minimise risk and maximise information, particularly in light of recent reporting and operational failures at large, high-profile companies. Shareholders will at least want to know what the board has been doing to ensure the auditor is on the ball. Being a laggard on enhanced audit might prompt uncomfortable questions.
Third, it gets the process out of the way. Tender now, the theory goes, and you can relax when everyone else is starting to get twitchy in five years (or less). It shows the board is thinking ahead on governance issues and values independent oversight.
Fourth, you can exploit audit firm eagerness to impress. None of the Big Four want to miss out on this reshuffling of the pack, and mid-tier firms sense they might pick up bigger and more valuable audit clients. So they've upped their game - and will look on the tender process as a great shop window, even if they don't win.
Regulatory changes, increased scrutiny, organisational complexity and a restricted market: audit now presents a significant procurement challenge for boards. But the real shift will come from developing effective relationships where the auditor can challenge the numbers and raise concerns in a considered and timely way. Using a tender to re-cast audit's role and contribution - and looking differently at what firms can offer boards, executives and shareholders - can be a major win for everyone.
The test is whether organisations will be able to exploit this change for their benefit - or be constrained by the regulations and market restrictions to end up with yet more "tick and bash."
*Richard James is category director for professional services at Proxima, a procurement services provider.
Proxima has published a report with five key recommendations for maximising the audit tender process - of interest for every audit committee chairperson, CFO and non-executive director.


2017 is noted as a big year for Apple; it has several announcements and yet continues. However, we still aren't sure about getting a new Mac mini or iPad mini, this year.
Ok, now coming to the point, we all are aware of the month September! It is the month when Apple has announced new products majorly. Hence, the story continues and this year too we can expect Apple products to launch in September. The list of products to be introduced next month is still not revealed. We have managed to gather some information from the sources and come up with a predictions that the announcement will include the below points.
Let us tell you a story so far in a quick recap.
Apple released the updates for the software/ music apps Garageband and Logic Pro X.
Along with all these updates, Apple also revealed the launch of a New Mac Pro, expected in 2018.
iPhone 8 is expected to arrive next month along with several other devices and software updates. According to the rumors, Apple is all set to implement the newest face recognition feature killing the touch ID feature. The all-new iPhone will be packed with 3D sensors, which are expected to detect a human face in a fraction of seconds. Even the front and the rear camera will consist of the 3D sensors so that you can experience the augmented reality apps to an extent. This new iPhone device is expected to get a focus in the event in (most probably) September.
This is all about iPhone 8, for everything else; we need to wait for the big picture to release! For all the iOS app development companies, get ready to build apps for the ever efficient and stylish smartphone by Apple.


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