To be more precise, our translators have excellent technical qualifications. We make sure of this personally before we even begin working with a translator, since translating technical medical, telecommunications and IT texts always requires specialized background knowledge. Translators who localize software must also be able to distinguish between text to be translated and programming code. Translators working on other text types, such as advertising and PR, have to pay special attention to style and the author's marketing objectives.
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When software localization is done well, the user interface works as if it were developed for the target market. In addition to translating the text, we also always take the cultural and technical particularities of the target market into account, such as units of measurement, number and address formats, as well as local regulations and specifications.
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Typically the first 30 days are designed for you to learn as much as possible As Operating Systems Programmer. Work hard to get to know your teammates, how they work together, and how you can make the biggest impact.
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In a Week 11 game that most believed was over long before the fourth quarter, the Pittsburgh Steelers staged a comeback against the Jacksonville Jaguars, led by vintage play from Ben Roethlisberger. After an ugly start, the Steelers finally closed a 16-point deficit in the third quarter with a touchdown but knew they needed more points in a hurry on a day when the offense just wasn't clicking the way they needed it to. Enter Vance McDonald.
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McDonald went vertical, snagging the ball thrown where only he could get it, and came down in-bounds, paving the way for what became an unlikely comeback win for the Steelers. The catch capped off an eight-play, 80-yard drive and a much-desired win over Jacksonville. The comeback kept the Steelers' win streak alive, sealing six victories in a row, that would propel them into a race for the AFC North title with the Baltimore Ravens.


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Thanks :)

A: Well you can use jQuery to accomplish this task. In you HTML page add following code inside body tag.

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"Доктор Живаго" е роман от Борис Пастернак, филмиран по адаптирания сценарий на Робърт Болт през 1965 година. Романът носи името на главния герой Юрий Живаго, който е лекар и поет. "Доктор Живаго" разказва за един мъж, разкъсван между две жени, по времето на Руската революция.

"Доктор Живаго" е завършен през 1956 година, но съдържа пасажи, написани още през 10-те и 20-те години на 20 век. Изпратен е за публикуване до списание "Новый мир", но е отхвърлен поради лошите взаимоотношения между Пастернак и съветското правителство. През следващата година се появява италиански превод на произведението, който допринася за Нобеловата награда за литература, присъдена на Пастернак през 1958 година. Книгата е публикувана на руски през 1988 година в същото списание, в който му е отказано разрешение 32 години по-рано.

Чувствителността и идеализмът на Живаго граничат с мистицизма. Разсейва се от красотата на ледените кристали по стъклото на прозорец. В медицинското училище един от професорите му напомня, че бактерията може и да изглежда красива, когато се гледа под микроскоп, но в живота върши ужасни неща на хората. Идеализмът на Юрий Живаго ярко контрастира на ужасите на Руската революция. Той става свидетел на канибализъм, осакатяване; вижда как един млад мъж е застрелян, защото иска да види своето семейство. Дори Лара, любовта на неговия живот, му е отнета.

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Walt Disney Company Shakes Up Structure to Welcome 21st Century Fox Assets
This week, the Walt Disney Company announced major changes to its organization in anticipation of a swath of new assets incoming from 21st Century Fox. Though the $52.4 billion acquisition is waiting for government approval, Disney is restructuring to take full advantage of the addition.
Disney created a new division, the "Direct-to-Consumer and International," with former chief strategy officer, Kevin Mayer, stepping in to lead. The department will oversee global advertising sales to major TV companies while also developing a portfolio of new subscription-based streaming services. Disney is angling to compete with streaming giants like Netflix, and the rollout of this new service is expected later this spring and will center around Pixar, LucasFilms, and original Disney content. A major part of the Fox acquisition is the integration of Hulu, which will handle older Disney and ABC content.
Former chairman of Disney theme parks, Robert Chapek, is being elevated to head another new division: "Parks, Experiences, and Consumer Products." Chapek will handle merchandising, video games, and the Disney Store.
Chief Executive Robert A. Iger will stay at the helm as per parts of the deal struck with Rupert Murdoch, current owner of 21st Century Fox. Observers see the elevation of Chapek and Mayer as signs of potential successors once Iger's current contract is up. For its part, Disney advised not to jump to conclusions.
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Debugging Tips

This page describes strategies you can use to debug your modules,
concentrating on techniques that don't use a debugger.
Although a debugger exists for Linux
(as of the April 23 release),
no Native Client debugger is available for Mac or Windows.

Note:
We're actively working on improving the debuggability of Native Client modules.
If you'd like to help —
by porting a debugger to Mac or Windows, for example —
please volunteer!
You can contact us on the
Native Client
Discuss group.

Contents:

 Design your module to run standalone

 Catch errors at compile time

 Use printf and assert if necessary

 Examples

 Launching the browser from the command line

 Platform-specific output locations

 Use nacl-gdb (Linux only)

  Design your module to run standalone

If your module can run both as a standalone Linux or Mac application
and within Native Client,
then you can use a debugger such as GDB, KDbg, or Xcode
to debug the standalone form of your application.

Note:
Building standalone applications is not supported on Windows.

For examples of creating a module that also works standalone,
see the earth, life, tone,
and voronoi examples under native_client/tests.

  Catch errors at compile time

It's easier to fix bugs you find at compile time
than those you find at runtime.
When you compile your module,
use gcc flags such as
-Werror and -Wall
to help ensure that your code is as clean as possible.
For example:

nacl-g++ earth.cc -Wall -Werror -O3 -mfpmath=sse -msse -fomit-frame-pointer -lpthread -lm -o earth_release.nexe

   Use printf and assert if necessary

If a bug doesn't appear in the standalone app version of a module,
you might have to use
printf and assert
to debug your module when it runs in Native Client.

Note:
Using printf can be useful on Linux and Mac,
but it's more difficult on Windows.
For the latest Windows testing tips, see the wiki page
DebuggingModulesOnWindows.

Some notes on using
printf and assert:

 On Linux and Mac, if you
     launch the browser from the command line,
     you can see the output in the window where you entered the command.
     Otherwise, the output goes to a
     platform-specific location.

 We recommend that you call printf from only one thread.

 assert does not generate core dumps.

 Alongside your printf and assert output,
     you might see debugging output from other processes —
     the plug-in and sel_ldr.

  Examples

Here's an example of using printf:

#include <stdio.h>
  ...
  printf("Multimedia system failed to initialize!  errno: %d\n", errno);

Here's an example of using assert:

#include <assert.h>

int foo(int x) {
  assert(x != 0);
  ...
}

 Launching the browser from the command line

On Linux and Mac, if you launch your browser from the command line,
the output of printf and assert goes
to the window you used to enter the command.
Make sure the window has a large scroll buffer,
so you don't lose output.
Better yet, use the GNU Screen program
or an Emacs shell,
so you can easily search the output.

Platform	 How to launch Firefox from the command line

  Linux
   /usr/bin/firefox2

  Mac
   /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin

 Platform-specific output locations

If you launch the browser using a menu, button, or icon
(rather than from the
command line)
the output of printf or assert goes to a
location that depends on the platform you're using.

Platform	 Default output location

Linux	  $HOME/.xsession-errors

Mac	 /var/log/system.log

   Use nacl-gdb (Linux only)

The Linux nacl-gdb tool is
a version of GDB that can deal with Native Client's
memory and address space conventions.
For details,
see the
nacl-gdb page.

Mac and Windows don't have Native Client ports of GDB
or any other debuggers.
Debuggers need to be ported to Native Client
because Native Client modules' use of
segmented memory protection confuses
the kernel exception handler,
which in turn interferes with handling breakpoints.
Also,
the segmented structure of the Native Client address space
interferes with symbol resolution.

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The Richland County Land Bank took ownership of the apartment buildings at 200, 210 and 220 Ohio St. after the property was forfeited to the state.
MANSFIELD — Three apartment buildings on Ohio Street started coming down this week.
The Richland County Land Bank voted to take ownership of the three apartment buildings at 200, 210 and 220 Ohio Street on July 28, and demolish them after the property was forfeited to the state.
According to Richland County property records, the buildings were constructed in 1957.
The demolition costs for the buildings include $16,760 for 200 and 220 Ohio St. and $20,600 for 210 Ohio St.
Funding from the Neighborhood Initiative Program is being used to demolish the buildings.
The figures are below the $25,000 reimbursement cap from NIP, so the land bank will be reimbursed for the demolitions.
The three tan, two-story buildings stood on Ohio Street between Sturges and Blymyer avenues, just south of Glessner Avenue and just east of OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital.
Plywood covered the first-floor windows, while many of the second-floor windows were broken, a sign of vandalism over the years.
According to Richland County property records, there are $40,808.31 in delinquent taxes on the property.
The land bank is able to demolish the property because of new state guidelines passed earlier this year allowing for the demolition of residential properties with multiple units.
Page Excavating is the demolition contractor for the project.
The land bank is still searching for an end user for the property.


The police investigation into the cause of the fire has been closed.
Detectives investigating the huge Shurgard warehouse fire in Croydon have said they are satisfied it wasn't started deliberately.
Police have been trying to determine the cause of the massive blaze, which destroyed the whole building, on Purley Way, ever since it started on New Year's Eve.
Thousands of items, valuables and memories have been lost in the blaze, with nothing left of the 1,198 units. Now, all that remains is the charred wreckage on the site where the building once lay.
Five weeks on, the Metropolitan Police revealed the investigation has been closed.
The force said on Wednesday (February 6) that the extent of the damage "made it impossible to establish the cause of the fire".
Two men were previously arrested on suspicion of arson in the days after the fire, but the 26-year-old and 25-year-old have both been released with no further action to be taken.
Detective Chief Inspector Richard McDonagh said he was "satisfied" the fire was not started deliberately.
"The fire at Shurgard caused catastrophic damage, destroying the inside of the building and contents," he added.
The fire has affected thousands of people, with many losing not only expensive valuables, but priceless memories.
Paula Thorntom, of Miller Road, in Waddon , is one of those.
The 47-year-old kept the ashes of her mother, and both her grandparents, in the storage facility, and has been left devastated they are now gone.
"Now they are gone and scattered over Croydon somewhere. They have been cremated twice," she said.
In a previous statement released last month, Shurgard confirmed the fire had broken out around 7.44pm on December 31.
A spokeswoman said: "In common with all Shurgard properties in the UK, the Purley Way store was fully compliant with all national building regulations. We continue to collaborate closely with the London Fire Brigade, the police and our insurance company, in order to identify the source and cause of the fire.
"At Shurgard, we require all our customers to have insurance cover for their belongings.
"Customers have the option of purchasing insurance cover offered at Shurgard, or through their own broker. The value of insurance cover is based on each customer's declared value. Policies offered through Shurgard are fully flexible – this means that customers can choose to adjust their insurance cover at any time as they add/remove any of their belongings in storage.
The company has not responded to requests for an updated statement.


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The Hill Recognizes Covingtons Public Policy Practice
The Hill Recognizes Covington's Public Policy Practice
WASHINGTON—The Hill has named Covington's Holly Fechner, Muftiah McCartin, and Bill Wichterman to its annual "Top Lobbyists" list. The list recognizes Washington's top policy experts and influencers voicing the concerns of the nation's largest companies, labor unions, and associations in the nation's capital.
Named to the list for the seventh consecutive year, Ms. Fechner previously served as Policy Director to former Senator Edward Kennedy, as well as Chief Labor & Pensions Counsel to the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. In addition to her wide-ranging public policy practice, Ms. Fechner serves as a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Co-chair of Covington's Public Policy Practice Group, Ms. McCartin's public service career in the U.S. House of Representatives includes senior positions with the Rules and Appropriations Committees and the Parliamentarian's Office. She has congressional experience across the spectrum of committees and offices and in interacting with regulatory agencies. This is the second consecutive year in which Ms. McCartin has been named to The Hill's list.
Mr. Wichterman previously served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the White House, Policy Advisor to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Chief of Staff to former Representatives Joe Pitts and Bill Baker. He has been active in presidential campaigns and conservative politics. This is the fifth consecutive year in which Mr. Wichterman has been named to The Hill's list.
Covington's Public Policy and Government Affairs practice is recognized among the top public policy firms in the country for the breadth of its legislative and regulatory experience. With more than 120 former government officials, diplomats, and regulators backed by global corporate and litigation practices, the group has significant understanding of the moving parts of the legislative process, involving committees, the leadership, intra- and inter- party relationships, the interplay between the House and Senate, and the ways in which the executive branch can influence the legislative. The group specializes in crafting comprehensive legislative and regulatory strategies for its clients in such diverse industries as energy, financial services, food products, pharmaceuticals, transportation, technology, telecommunications, and on such diverse matters as employee benefits, health care, homeland security, intellectual property, tax, sports, and product liability. The group's expertise also extends to representing clients that are the subject of congressional or state legislative investigations.
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1. Art collectors treat art as an investment.
For the most part, the only people who can afford to buy art in this economy are people who are not affected by this economy, the top 1 or 2 percent. Of course, rich people have always patronized the arts— Michelangelo would never have been able to produce his masterpieces without the Medici family— but today's billionaires aren't just patronizing artists, they're investing in and branding them. The top 10 billionaire art collectors have 18% of their net worth invested in art, though the average billionaire invests about .5% of their net worth in art. Investing in art can sometimes prove more lucrative than the stock market; a recent study shows that works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst have been appreciating at a higher rate than the S&P 500.
There is money to be made not just in selling art, but also in evaluating its worth. In the same way a financial advisor would help you make investment choices, there are art advisors who counsel your art purchases. "Appearing as if from nowhere, like a biblical swarm of locusts: The art advisors…. in the last few years, advisors have popped up literally everywhere and now outnumber collectors 2 to 1," says financial writer Adam Lindermann. Many contemporary art collectors have no interest in the art itself, making priceless works of art nothing more than fetishized commodities.
Flipping, selling artworks immediately after purchasing them at exponential prices, is also a common practice among art collectors. Many financial advisors predict that continuing to inflate the value of works of art that are constantly turned over will soon cause the art bubble to burst. "The auction houses are experiencing a situation where every auction total is higher than the last and these vertiginous upward prices cannot be maintained forever. Someday the music is going to stop and somebody is going to be found without a chair to sit on," says art expert and former Sotheby's employee Todd Levin.
2. Art is a spectacle.
There are certain exhibitions, like James Turrell's immersive light installation at the Guggenheim, when experiencing the art everyone is extoling is nearly impossible because there are so many viewers clamoring to see what the hype is about. I waited in line for nearly two hours to see Turrell's Aten Reign, a "meditative spectacle" where I "may or may not see God" (according to New York Times critic Roberta Smith). Perhaps I would have seen God had not every New Yorker who had that day off been breathing down my neck, but mostly, the entire exhibit seemed like a subtle joke. There I was, standing in a line, shuffling up the steps like a prisoner, waiting to see this transformative work that no matter how spectacular would ultimately frustrate me. Perhaps I'm cynical, but the crowded wait only ruined the exhibit for me. I wondered if this wasn't some kind of existential funhouse, a metaphor for the futility of human existence, ending in a disappointing light show.
For the last few years, I've hovered above the refreshments table at art events, guzzling free wine like a peasant and stuffing napkins full of bread and cheese into my purse. Usually the art is mediocre, I am alone covering an exhibition, and making small talk is excruciating without the encouragement of alcohol.
I have been to thousands of art events over the course of my life. I come from a family of artists: my grandmother is an African-American assemblage artist, and my mother and aunt are artists as well. Growing up, I was dragged to all kinds of art openings and museum shows. Some art school students would love that kind of exposure, but as a kid, I found them painfully boring. Though informally trained in painting and drawing, I have always considered myself more of a writer and an academic. Nobody wants to be like their parents, even if they are bohemians. But alas, I fell into writing art reviews, despite not having a background in art history, deferring my aspirations of becoming a fiction writer.
I've written about art for about three years since moving to New York, though I never managed to really write as an art critic; I was more like a junior copywriter for art. Writing for certain art magazines and blogs allowed me a Gatsbyian entrance into the lives of the extraordinarily wealthy. I got to interview art collectors, gallery dealers, models, artists, and designers who probably spend more on handbags than I do on rent. I've sipped champagne in a Bentley and feasted on caviar in penthouse apartments. Though I disliked some of the art I was assigned to cover, as a grad student I couldn't really be choosy about what I wrote about. I wanted to get published, and getting paid to write, no matter the topic, felt like a blessing.
I approached writing about art from a literary perspective, aiming to uncover some significant meaning by contextualizing the work within the artist's life and perspective. This made uninteresting art exhibits easier to write about, since a lot of artists are more inspiring than their work. I'm shy, and interviewing people proved to be a valuable experience.
Yet art events continue to make me uncomfortable. Whether it's a press preview at a huge museum, a commercial art fair or a packed gallery opening in Chelsea, I'm always anxious to leave. The lighting is always too bright and everyone acts as though they, like the art, are on display, smiling grotesquely as if a camera is lurking. It's usually so crowded you can hardly view the art, though it doesn't seem as though people look at the art as much as they schmooze, and you have to stand the entire time. The social discomfort is the least of my qualms with the art world, though. Here are the main reasons why the art world nauseates me.
This is long but very interesting for painting lovers.
Idris Murphy paints in the studio from Sean O'Brien on Vimeo.
I think I took this i-phone photo in The Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. I have just come across it in the computer.
Not only do I marvel at the Humanity in it but also of its thick impasto which indicates so much struggle within the portrait itself. He is alive and painting at 88 years.
There is a group show at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac Pantin outside Paris, featuring art work inspired by Space and Space exploration. Included are a few celebrated artists of the 20th century.
Here are two which appealed to me.
and, most curiously this one by Robert Rauschenberg entitled "Nagshead Summer Glut Sketch". This surprises me by its poetic eloquence, something I have rarely ever felt in his art work despite his immense popular success and celebrated status.
This is a large scale mural (27 feet high) which decorates the side of a building owned by Wyllie Goodman in Red Hook Brooklyn, NY.
According to the NY times she heard what she though was gunfire outside. Actually it was the sound of paintballs being shot at the mural.
In any event, I was simply struck by how much nicer the mural worked with the addition of the long vertical white stripes down its side. It gives an otherwise bland black drawing some real character.
Sadly it will be painted over because of local protests from the Brooklyn neighbors who hate it apparently.
So, does Iran have saboteurs working not so covertly in America?
This looks like a wonderful show at the Morgan Library in Manhattan. Here was man who seemed to be at the epicentre of the zeigist of the early 20th century. A tough guy who who did unpolitically-incorrect things like shooting lions and tigers. But, he also took a stand against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. A flawed man, apparently, one whose own inner demons killed him with a shotgun. But, what a hard-drinking talent of a writer! If only our politicians today had an ounce of this kind of courage!
Ha ha, two Republicans in Missouri caught trading telephone numbers with one another while doing so using a painting by Thomas Hart Benton as a surface. Sacré Bleu! Liberals, and Democrats alike are up in arms of course. (And they should be) This wonderful photo by Dave Marner, editor of the Gasconade County was taken at the Missouri State Capitol and published the other day.
What surprises me in some much of the social media commentary is just how scathing people are towards these two bureaucrats. (And they should be, I repeat) However, it also strikes me as a bit confusing (perhaps a bit disingenuous) because it would seem to me that these same people (Liberals, Art lovers, Lefties, etc) also celebrate the freedom of expression which takes the form of Graffiti so celebrated by the very upper crusted institutions around the world. And, painting Graffiti it seems to me, isn't so very different a behaviour as the non-chalance performed by these two bureaucrats.
Unhappily, we seem to live in a world governed by philistines. If it isn't Terrorists chopping up Palmyra or defacing Parisian streets, it is great Cultural institutions promoting Graffiti Art at the request of interested parties in the commercial Art world. The world, it seems, is ruled by a selfish disinterest in that thing called Beauty. Poor Beauty! Pillaged by Post-Modernism, and flogged by Contemporary Art schools, it seems to survive only in the hearts of few lost dreamy souls like myself.
Born in 1415 and he lived many full and rich years but in that short life of a painter he created so many marvellous things. The portrait above is one of the reasons I began painting. A large poster of this head which I found in Italy has somehow survived my various homes and studios from Aix to New York, back to the Drôme, and it now lives in Australia. It is a remarkable thing; alive and so full of feeling. And that, is what I believe it is all about in Art regardless of the current vogue for intellectual machinations.
This is the reason I paint.
This is a new painting which pushes me into another direction.
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
Well, well,, now Monsieur Artaud I beg to differ! But, I forget that you were an anarchist, bien sûr! I couldn't imagine a world today without the riches of the Past. How could we not but reach backwards into Time in order to know our present worth?
Tut, tut,,, Monsieur Artaud! And if your drawings were destroyed?? The world today would have nothing in its arsenal to combat the Disnification of contemporary culture.
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modelled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell"
Although I am not personally completely convinced of this statement it is surely relevant to a lot of Art created over this brief history of mankind. It seems especially true for Artaud, perhaps Van Gogh as well as many many other tortured souls.
And what is hell anyway?
"I would like to write a book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality."
Here is a great drawing by Antonin Artaud to start the day off with.
It reminds me of why I like to keep drawing.
He was a student of Leo Marchutz, as I was back in the early 1970's when I first met François.
He, had of course known Leo back in the early 1960's I believe (or late fifties). I was the 'last wave' of students to study with Leo on a daily basis before he died in January of 1976.
François's work is so very important, as he continues a line which he believes essential in the history of European painting. He works exclusively from 'the motif', that is to say outside in Nature (for him, the visible world). My feeling about his paintings is that essentially, they are done 'from Nature' in order to be signposts leading us (the viewers) back to Nature itself. And of course, he follows in the great tradition of landscape painting. He might see it differently, but nonetheless, he is a remarkable man. I hope 'les Aixois' give him the respect he is certainly due.
We are given one life to live, as far as many of us know. How do we live it? What do we do with this life so freely given to each of us?
Nicholas Winton saved Jewish children during the last war while their parents were sent to death in the gas chambers. He died the other day at 106. And look at the joy on his face in this photo of 2009 as he greets one woman saved by himself!
The photo below is of one Oskar Gröning, who is 94, and a former SS officer who worked at Auschwitz collecting valuables from prisoners on their way to their deaths. He was recently on trial for being an accessory to 300,000 counts of murder for his role at Auschwitz. Although he admitted his guilt before God it wasn't enough for many of the relatives of those put to death. What is quite remarkable is the difference between the two expressions; one of joy and one of fear.
For me, it might seem that some of us have moral bearings while others do not, and that some are just more attuned to that moral compass than others. Some might say people are just plain crazy whilst others evil. But many of us may be simply too lazy and weak at heart, unable to affront the machinery of violence and cruelty already set in motion around us. I do not make excuses but one can see it in today's world.
So the question begs: we have one life to live, how do we live it today, and what do we do to live it well?
Alas,.. the passing of a truly fine American artist. He is someone I would have liked to have met and yet, I am aware that to meet such a man late in his life would have been less desirable than perhaps meeting him back in his paragraphs again, and again, and again. I understood he was a reserved man who didn't suffer the presence of fools, perhaps my intuition is correct, at least regarding my own person. Better for me to stick with his books.
Overall, he touched so few of us in fact, at least in the scheme of this large over-boiled world of twittered superficiality which reigns today. His ability (like which some painters possess) can gently disturb our inner contract we seem to have made with ourselves. He made me want to write, but more than that, he made me believe in the possibility of words, just like Joyce and Tolstoy. As a painter, how is it possible to express at an experience of pure feeling through abstract means?


And wait until you hear the main character's name.
Before his presidential run, Donald Trump was probably best known over the last few years for his role on The Apprentice. The smashing success of that show apparently gave Trump even bigger dreams of TV stardom. So during the two years after the reality competition first aired in 2004, the Washington Post discovered, Trump hired a television writer named Gay Walch to write the pilot of The Tower, a drama series based on Trump's life.
We don't have to take their word for it. In February, the Post got a copy of one of the scenes from the pilot and decided to film the wooden dialogue and fake Queens accents for all the world to see.
Whatever its artistic value, the script does get one important fact wrong. "A project of this scope comes along maybe once in a lifetime," says the mulleted actor who plays Barron, talking about his dream to build the world's biggest skyscraper. In fact, the real-life Trump tried at least three times to do just that—and failed every time.


In my last post on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), I had given lot of support to them believing they deserve a chance to govern Delhi and prove their credentials, inspite of the flak coming their way both from rival political parties and some of the public. My stance then was that a lot of the criticism was political in nature and due to holding AAP to much higher standards than other parties are held accountable to. The main reason for these higher expectations from AAP was primarily because of lofty promises and utterances by AAP leaders themselves, but nevertheless I was willing to let these lapses be forgotten or forgiven given the promise of new kind of politics and governance by AAP. The speed with which BJP and Congress both agreed and passed a version of Jan Lokpal bill in parliament after good performance by AAP in Delhi elections showed that the biggies of Indian politics were worried about the new political outfit going mainstream very quickly.
After the resignation of AAP from Delhi government and jump into Lok Sabha elections, slowly I am realizing about what exactly is NEW in this new kind of politics by AAP. They resigned from governing Delhi on a somewhat specious reason about constitutionality and hindrances by BJP and Congress in passing Jan Lokpal bill. If they had taken all this trouble to fight elections in Delhi, win sizeable number of seats, form a government; then a little patience along with public support could have created the conducive ground for passage of Jan Lokpal in Delhi. But patience does not seem to be a virtue in AAP's books.
1. Directly appeal to public's sense of betrayal by rest of political system, and promise a participative government. However they failed to capitalize on the chance in Delhi and instead resigned from there keeping an ambitious eye on Lok Sabha elections. So all the theory and promise of participative government may not happen since even if the win 20 seats in Lok Sabha, they can raise issues and create debates in parliament (for which we need a more functioning parliament in first place). So full marks about the appeal, but zero marks as yet for actual governance.
2. Create spontaneous protests (or sometimes organized using SMS etc.) at short notice which take the establishment by surprise. This is probably the least effective way in my opinion because in India people can be aroused emotionally around a cause, but they go back to sleep as quickly when the enthusiasm goes down. The protest in Delhi about Arvind Kejriwal's road show being stopped by police in Gujarat (because Election Commission had announced elections the same morning and model code of conduct was in effect) was totally unnecessary and political showmanship. Doing protest in Delhi near parliament asking home ministry to arrest policemen was another specious protest. Taking up the jhadoo (broom) and coming onto streets by AAP workers is not the solution for every perceived slight to AAP leaders. If they continue doing this, then they will become more known as everyday-a-new-protest-party, or rebel-for-every-cause party, and so on.
3. Take on biggies of politics as well as corporates by making strong allegations against them of corruption, sometimes with some evidence and many a time without evidence. Now with a practically dysfunctional judiciary, what will be the end result of making allegations except making some media headlines and flutter in social media? The end result is that people will get used to more and more allegations coming from AAP, and forget the previous ones when new ones are made! The allegations against Ambani can be put in this category. I was supportive of them taking on the DISCOMs (electricity distribution companies) in Delhi going for their CAG audit, but since they resigned from Delhi government, any chance of following it up and taking the process to logical conclusion is probably gone. So I place little importance on making allegations unless they can come up with a educative campaign for public with all the details.
4. Recruit new faces to fight elections based on perceived momentum of AAP's success. This might be a one time thing but if AAP wins substantial seats in Lok Sabha say 25 or more, then they may try this in future elections too. It depends on a large extent to selecting clean candidates who can also inspire public about doing their job successfully once elected. Many of these are political greenhorns so AAP is betting more on its no-corruption image and freshness factor riding on the momentum created after Delhi elections. The positive thing about this is providing a platform for non-political people to get into public life, but its sustenance depends a lot on AAP's success in winning seats. The negative thing could be that if AAP doesn't win many seats, then the disillusionment could be as quick, and the same people who are joining AAP because of chance of a quick win may leave it once they realize that they need to be in politics for the long haul.
1. Increasing reliance on one man (Arvind Kejriwal) as the mascot, brand ambassador, anti-corruption messiah etc. Pitting him against Narendra Modi may gel with the strategy of cashing on the emotional upsurge of public, but how will that change the Indian politics in long term where, for example, parliament doesn't function most of the time? Let's say Kejriwal wins against Modi, how does it prove the allegations made by Kejriwal against Modi? And if Kejriwal loses, will he concede that allegations are not true anymore? Definitely not. So there is a populist game being played by AAP and Kejriwal where they will declare victory whether the coin toss ends up showing heads or tails. It is going into the arena of somewhat childish and immature.
2. Create mountain out of a mole hill. The allegations by Arvind Kejriwal of number of farmer suicides in Gujarat falls in this category. AK conceded in a TV interview that the 800 number of farmer suicides in Gujarat was much lesser than farmers' suicides in other states; however for him it did not justify the lofty claims made by Gujarat government about their success in agriculture. So his point was that the number of suicides should have been much lesser if agriculture was such a success in Gujarat. Maybe, maybe not! Suicide is not a trivial issue, but unless someone can come up with a model which shows how agricultural parameters and number of farmer suicides are correlated, these kind of allegations are closer to skulduggery. AAP's Kejriwal has been always quick to ask questions about who provides helicopters for Modi's travel, but was himself quite ok with travelling on a chartered plane arranged by a media house to attend their conclave in Delhi!
3. Cast aspersions on one and all. Be it Modi, Congress leaders, Ambani, Adani; I have something bad to say about everyone seems to be Kejriwal's mantra. And let's throw media into this basket too and threaten them with jail! That inspite of the fact that media has carried Kejriwal's anti-corruption crusade prominently before AAP was formed too. But AAP's spokesperson says on TV that they were blacked out for several months starting Oct 2012 when they made allegations against Ambani. Maybe they were, but the reason couldn't have been because the allegations were against Ambani since the same allegations have been covered prominently later in media. It seems nothing but childish and immature attention grabbing.
4. They promised too much too quick to gather more supporters with the result that the ones who are disgruntled or feel cheated are either leaving AAP, or indulging in personal violence against AAP leaders like Yogendra Yadav and Kejriwal. It is a question of managing expectations of people by proving that AAP is there for the long haul, rather than being there till the next election.
I don't think labels are important, governance is. However a simple label can sometimes be helpful to understand direction and thrust of policies of a party. In politics, usually parties are given some convenient labels by political pundits based on their social and economic policies. E.g. CPI(M) is clearly known to be a Left party since they usually demand worker rights as opposed to felicitating businesses. Congress can be described as left of centre, given their penchant for creating policies which show a tilt towards poorer sections of society. E.g. giving jobs to rural unemployed under MNREGA, creating mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) targets to be met by businesses, and more recently food security bill to guarantee food security to 70% of the population. BJP can be described as right of centre, with promise of economic policies oriented towards growth and self-employment than giving hand-outs.
Where will AAP stand if a label were to be applied?
1. Left because they promised free electricity and water up to limits in Delhi, and delivered on it too to an extent before bailing out.
2. Good governance party which will be a new label since all parties claim to be good governance and it is not really a parameter to distinguish on policy front.
3. Anti corruption party. Who exactly wants to be labelled pro-corruption!
4. Anti establishment party. They are anti-Modi, anti-Congress, anti-Ambani; so practically they are anti anything which seems to have political or business power. And this might be the closest label which can stick to them since their actions and utterances seem to be designed to endear themselves to common man or aam aadmi. The only problem is that once they do come to power, as they indeed in Delhi, they may not have further excuses if they are unable to deliver, so relying on anti-establishment cannot not a long term strategy.
5. Anarchist party. This goes in line with anti-establishment image and will-protest-for-every-issue actions shown by AAP.
The proof of pudding lies in the eating. AAP has been promising too many things too fast and it is clear that it has led to some disbelief and fatigue on part of public whether AAP will actually be able to deliver or continue with their tirades against one and all. It is not that easy to actually create policies and laws which are agreed upon by all, and even for things like GST (Goods and Services Tax) where it is agreed by most that it is the right step to take, the implementation has been facing many hurdles so far. Finally I say that protests and allegations should pave the road to governance, and not become a never ending road of more protests and more allegations! AAP should show some proof that they have a plan and policies to contribute to India and its politics for the long haul, and not merely try to cash in on the latest sensational allegation and do protest dramas.
Kindly guide if if I should go with a complaint to the consumer forum with my case .
I use the services of a travel agency for my international travel . I had a ticket booked from them from BLR to Ho chi min via Thailand for the 10 th of April . The same was booked and delivered to me properly . On Sunday 3 rd I was requested by a friend to accompany him to china to help him out for dome purchases .
I called the travel agency if it was possible to get the china visa in this period . I was informed that due to shortage of time we could not get regular visa but needed to apply for Tatkal visa ( one day service ) which will be costlier . I agreed for the same .
As per his instructions I gave him all the required documents ie passport / invitation letter / photo on the 5 th . He informed me over phone that they shall submit the application for visa at the mumbai consulate in the 6 th and get back the passport on the 7 th of April after 3 pm .
Yesterday night 7 th I called them to inquire about the status of my passport I was informed that the printer at he consulate was not working so they shall be giving my passport only on 12 th .
This is highly unlikely and things had been messed up due to the mistake of the agency some how . Now ther are not even taking my call .
My 10 flights to 6 different cities were all booked , rooms booked for entire trip and appointment fixed with 6 factories .
Now I will loose the entire amount going on over a lac .
Can I file a case against the company holding them responsible for what ever loss I incur due to the cancellation and postponement of program .
They didn't deliver on promised time of delivery, so there is a case in your favour (and hoping you have some written proof too of their promise, better than verbal)… You have to enclose proof that you made them aware of your vietnam travel plans and the dates too.
If they however lie blame outside of their control on Chinese consulate etc (force majeure), then they could escape probably either completely or with lesser penalty. But for all we know, their excuse of printer at consulate not working sounds very 'Indian excuse' type; maybe they themselves didn't do things on time and trying to put blame elsewhere. Once you get the passport/visa back, it may have the date stamped on it which can give an idea of real stamping date of visa. But without the copy of visa forms submitted, you have to rely on conjecture that the travel agency didn't submit documents on time or maybe made a mistake and had to rectify it, which was the real cause of delay.


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Trump Waves Around Folded Piece of Paper He Claims Contains "Secret" Mexico Deal Mexico Denies Exists
"In here is everything you want to talk about. Done. It's done. It's all done."
Over the weekend, Donald Trump abruptly announced that that the tariffs he threatened to impose on Mexico would not go into effect, having used his singular dealmaking skills to strike an agreement in which our neighbors to the south would stop the flow of undocumented immigrants into the United States. Hours later, he was complaining about coverage of the deal by the "Fake and Corrupt news Media," which didn't hail his negotiating prowess but correctly noted that 1) many of the actions pledged by Mexico were reportedly agreed to months ago, and 2) Mexico refused to give Trump the thing he really wanted, a "safe third country" treaty that would have allowed the U.S. to reject asylum-seekers if they hadn't sought refugee status in Mexico first. That suggested that the tariffs—which would have had a catastrophic effect on both countries—were not, in fact, instrumental in getting Mexico to accede to the White House's demands, but rather the ravings of a delusional man who was somehow convinced at the eleventh hour to call them off and just claim victory anyway, reality be damned. Which, of course, he did, only to be contradicted by Mexico before doubling down on the whole thing once again:
Yes, that's the president of the United States waving around what he insists contains a secret agreement with Mexico that nobody knows about, after he was called out by the media for trying to claim his tariffs had resulted in totally new, hard-won concessions from Mexico. "So right here is the agreement," he told reporters Tuesday, one day after Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's foreign minister, publicly denied said secret agreement existed. "It's very simple. It's right here. And in here is everything you want to talk about. Done. It's done. It's all done." Naturally, he refused to unfold the paper and show the group assembled what it actually said.
Also on Tuesday, Trump told the press that farmers totally have his back in 2020, despite his actions on trade destroying their livelihoods and requiring multiple, multi-billion-dollar bailouts. "The best thing that ever happened to the farmers is me," Trump said before departing for Iowa. "The farmers are my best friends."
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Solomon's viewpoint, of course, echoes that of former Goldman Sachs president turned White House Economic Council director, who quit his job at the White House after failing to convince Trump that tariffs were a terrible, self-defeating idea. In an interview with Freakonomics recorded in March, Gary Cohn told host Stephen Dubner that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and economic adviser Peter Navarro used dirty tactics to convince Trump the levies were a good idea, effectively ratf--king the country into a trade war that is hurting our own interests.
Mark Zuckerberg gets a taste of his own medicine
Somewhere Nancy Pelosi is nodding approvingly. Per Vice:
Two artists and an advertising company created a deepfake of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying things he never said, and uploaded it to Instagram. The video, created by artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in partnership with advertising company Canny, shows Mark Zuckerberg sitting at a desk, seemingly giving a sinister speech about Facebook's power. The video is framed with broadcast chyrons that say "We're increasing transparency on ads," to make it look like it's part of a news segment.
"Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures," Zuckerberg's likeness says, in the video. "I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future."
The real, original clip is from a September 2017 address Zuckerberg gave concerning Russian election interference on Facebook. According to Facebook's argument for keeping up a doctored video of Pelosi made to appear as though she was drunk and slurring her words during a speech last month, the fake Zuckerberg should remain!
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[photopress:zones_ChengduMap.jpg,full,alignright]The earthquake in China was a great human tragedy. Everything else connected with it is, in comparison, of minor importance. It is the people who suffered.
The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan, about 55 miles northwest of Chengdu.
Chengdu is China's fifth largest city and has, over the last 20 years, established a high-tech industrial development zone where companies such as IBM, Symantec, Microsoft, Intel, Fujitsu, Corning, Ericsson, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), Nokia and Monolithic Power Systems, among others, have established operations.
The earthquake disrupted power and cut cell phone communications throughout the region. Although not a major region for semiconductor production, Intel and Monolithic Power Systems have significant microchip manufacturing and testing facilities there.
Intel had to stop production at its factory located 55 miles southeast of the epicenter because of a lack of electricity and water. An Intel spokesman said the factory was not damaged and its 2000 employees were not injured, but the facility was operating critical systems only on backup power. The company said it didn't expect there to be any major supply disruptions because of the earthquake.
Monolithic Power Systems, a fabless manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, said in a statement that there was no immediate damage to its Chengdu facility.
According to its Web site, SMIC has an assembly and testing facility in Chengdu in addition to semiconductor fabs in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin. SMIC evacuated a fabrication plant and halted production as a result of the quake. It is back in production.
Freescale Semiconductor shut down its design center in Chengdu. It has now reopened.
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Holden has claimed the 2015 V8 Supercars Manufacturers Championship, capping off another record-breaking season on track.
It is Holden's 11th manufacturers title and sixth straight crown – both series records – the past three coming in the 'open' manufacturer era.
Holden's Commodore won 19 of the season's 36 races with victories shared between Red Bull Racing Australia, the Holden Racing Team, TEKNO Autosports and Brad Jones Racing – a dominant end to the year seeing 12 victories in the last 13 starts.
The wins took VF Commodore's total to 74 championship race victories in just three seasons, second on the all-time most winning car list behind VE Series Commodore (103).
GM Holden Sponsorship and Motorsport Manager Simon McNamara accepted the award at Monday night's annual V8 Supercars Gala Dinner and Awards ceremony, praising the efforts of Holden's teams.
"2015 was a roller coaster year but our ability to bounce back ensured Holden won an unprecedented sixth straight, and 11th overall manufacturers title," McNamara said.
"Holden is thankful for the contribution of all its teams and drivers, and proud that Commodore remains the most winning car in Australian motor racing history."
Holden's success carried into other award categories, with Red Bull Racing Australia accepting the team's championship, and the Holden Racing Team voted the Best Presented Team for its array of liveries during its 25th anniversary season.
Holden hero Craig Lowndes won his fifth Barry Sheene Medal for being V8 Supercars' best and fairest, with Lowndes also voted the Most Popular Driver in the Fans' Choice Awards.
Team 18 Commodore driver Lee Holdsworth also picked up the inaugural Driver's Driver Award voted on by his peers.
Holden teams won four of the season's five major events – the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide, Castrol EDGE Gold Coast 600, Coates Hire Sydney 500 and Australia's great race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama – while HRT's Garth Tander and Warren Luff having taken out the coveted Pirtek Enduro Cup.
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El Consulado General de Francia en Jerusalén es el Representante Consular de la República Francesa en Jerusalén, ubicado en 5 Paul Emile Botta. Los territorios que están bajo la jurisdicción del Departamento Consular son Jerusalén y sus suburbios, pero también los territorios palestinos en Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza.
El cónsul general, que no está bajo la autoridad del embajador francés en Israel, está encargado de la protección y el seguimiento administrativo de los residentes franceses o visitantes del departamento consular, pero también está encargado de la relación con la Autoridad Nacional Palestina.

Desde el , gracias a los tratados de concesión extranjera, el cónsul general francés en Jerusalén se ha encargado de proteger los lugares sagrados en esta ciudad, pero también en otras partes de Israel y Palestina. El Cónsul General de Francia en Jerusalén comienza sus funciones con una entrada oficial a la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro, luego se muestra el himno de Te Diom en la Iglesia de Santa Ana.

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El cónsul general francés en Jerusalén administra muchas propiedades francesas en Jerusalén y sus suburbios:
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El antiguo liderazgo cruzado Abu Ghosh (Monasterio de Santa María de la Resurrección)
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DURHAM - Local farmers have an important ally in their battle to support themselves and purchase necessary energy.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-3) visited with area farmers on Thursday morning at J.C. Farm and Greenhouses in Durham. She spoke with concerned citizens about the issues facing them, especially in regards to growing energy costs.
DeLauro explained different measures being taken by Congress to address those needs and the rising profits of large oil companies like Exxon-Mobil and BP. She introduced the Fuel Price Fairness Act to try to protect farmers from being financially exploited by the energy giants.
"While these companies are experiencing these record profits, we know what's happening to our farms and our urban areas as well," DeLauro said.
The congresswoman discussed the need for aid to help the small farms in Connecticut. In the Third District alone, there are nearly 400 farms of all different types and sizes that need federal and state help if they are to thrive against larger competitors.
"You know when they talk about small farmers? We are the land of small farmers," DeLauro said. "Ninety percent of all of the farms in Connecticut are small and they constitute a very big part of the industry in the state."
According to DeLauro, small farms generate nearly $2 billion of the state economy. As oil prices continue to rise, the impact will be felt in terms of irrigation, fertilizing land and many other facets of the agricultural industry.
DeLauro is the ranking Democratic member on the House Agricultural Subcommittee of Appropriations. She said that if the balance of power shifts in November from the right to the left, she is likely to become chairwoman of that committee.
If that happens, DeLauro said she will be able to better help all farmers in the state, exceeding the boundaries of the Third District.
"I can't guarantee you the win, but I can guarantee you the fight," DeLauro said.
DeLauro also told the farmers that they played a key part in the future of reusable, sustainable energy. She asked for input on how Congress could better serve the farm industry, and the steps that can be taken to make new energy sources a reality.
The audience had plenty of questions for the Congresswoman as well, from consumer pricing to paid labor and ongoing immigration issues. In response, DeLauro recommended the government seek new guidelines on immigration, and employ guest worker programs that allow farmers to hire foreign workers both legally and fairly.
Vivian Caturano and her husband Joseph are owners of J.C. Farm. She was delighted DeLauro took the time to visit and called her an important resource for the farm community.
"It's an honor to have her here and it is wonderful to see that there is someone looking out for us," Caturano said. "Little farmers and even some that are a little bit bigger, we need all the help we can get because it is difficult."
DeLauro said she was very impressed with the work of the small farms, and that the input given by the farmers was very important.
"It's about working with them to help create new alternative sources of energy so that we are not solely dependent on the Middle East or Venezuela," the congresswoman said.
She added that local residents can help by purchasing farm fresh produce and seeking out local products.
"These are very serious issues to them, and I am committed with my position on the agricultural subcommittee of the House, to make sure that their voices get heard and try to provide the resources that we need," DeLauro said.


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Alexander Wallace May 11, 2021 July 9, 2021
In my stead as the administrator of the Alternate History Online group on Facebook, whenever I see a question involving the Cold War going nuclear in any way, I post a black-and-white GIF of flowers blooming with the caption "everybody dies." I concluded when I was on an episode of the Alternate History Show with Ben Kearns and Colin Salt that it is hard to make a story where the Cold War goes hot that is dramatically compelling as the devastation would be swift and total.
Enter Brendan Dubois' Resurrection Day, one of the books that I read as research for that podcast episode. Dubois has the great nightmare of the sixties come to life: the confrontation over Soviet missiles in Cuba (and American missiles in Turkey) ends with the missiles flying, the doomsday machines in both superpowers activating, bathing the world in nuclear hellfire.
In a way, the notion that everyone just dies in the case of nuclear war isn't necessarily accurate. For all of the Cold War, the United States had better nuclear armament than the Soviet Union; the much talked-about "missile gap", in which the Soviet Union was said to have superior ICBMs, has been shown to be a falsehood. In such a calamity, the Soviet Union and its bloc would have been destroyed entirely whereas the United States could have survived, if battered.
That's what happens in Resurrection Day: New York, Washington and other cities have been destroyed, but America survives to a point that an actual plot can take place. It is governed from Philadelphia, and Boston is a major setting of the action. The country is run under what is effectively a military junta using George Romney as a puppet president. This junta is led by (fictional) General Ramsey Curtis, who led the effort to stabilize the country in the wake of armageddon.
But America has gotten off easy. Civilization between the Inner German border and Chukotka has ceased to exist in any meaningful sense. The People's Republic of China has devolved into another warlord period. The only other country that plays a role in the plot is the United Kingdom, which does so in a manner I find to be implausible. Britain here is shown to be mostly intact. In a nuclear war in the time period, Britain would most certainly have met the fate depicted in the haunting BBC film Threads. Beyond its mere survival, Britain in this world is undergoing a certain sort of machination that I doubt would have been its wont had the events of the book actually occurred.
But that background exists in service in the plot, rather than the plot itself. This book, as Liam Connell described Robert Harris' Fatherland, aims for emotional plausibility and not historical plausibility, and in doing so creates a great story. It follows Carl Landry, a Boston Globe reporter, who is tasked with finding out what actually happened the day that the stars began to fall, which has grave implications for the current state of American politics. In one of the book's greatest strengths, this plot probes exactly what would have been lost in such a great conflagration.
Some of the settings deserve comment. Landry and other characters are sent to wander through the bombed-out husk of New York. which feels like something out of a post-apocalyptic novel (and what is a nuclear detonation over a city but a localized apocalypse?). Additionally, there is a very well-written, albeit brief, diversion to Vietnam.
Resurrection Day is part political thriller, part detective story and part rumination over the human cost of nuclear war. One can read this in tandem with Daniel Ellsberg's harrowing book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, about the very real madness that permeated American nuclear policy in the Cold War, with Dubois serving as the realization of Ellsberg's fears. We should all be thankful that the missiles did not begin to fly as these two colossi stared each other down.
This story was originally published by Sea Lion Press, the world's first publishing house dedicated to alternate history.
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This makes sense. R-7 was the only ICBM Russia had…and none of the IRBMs in Cuba were operational. It would be a tactical nuclear hell with the Soviet Kometa cruise missiles-the Luna FROGs aimed at Gitmo, not to mention the atomic-tipped torpedoes-which were the least likely to malfunction.
For a scenario like THE DAY AFTER…it would take awhile for what was called "Deep Parity" and Able-Archer '83 to set the stage properly. While there was no missile gap…there was a rocketry gap-for R-7 was not just the first but the largest ICBM ever-in fact, the EELVs of only a couple of decades ago were the only all liquid rockets the Air Force had that were more powerful.
The Saturns were Army/NASA rockets and Titan IV was a Titan with a hydrogen Atlas-type balloon tank with solids just to match R-7's toxic big brother…the UR-500 Proton-their Saturn IB, as it were. But while these rockets did have more power than Western designs–they were unwieldy…thus the move to smaller rockets in Cuba to answer Jupiters in Turkey.
James Versluis says:
"it is hard to make a story where the Cold War goes hot that is dramatically compelling as the devastation would be swift and total."
Without a lot of incidental education on the matter, clearly it is hard to see. Yes, it was almost a certainty the war would have been nuclear until 1985. Afterwards, however, with the Revolution in Military Affairs of the Soviet Union and the extremely similar Air-Land Deep Battle in the United States, both conventional and nuclear forces equalized with NATO and Warsaw at roughly the same time. This made both sides more confident in a conventional war.
Prior to that period, the Warsaw Pact had weaker nuclear forces (in their own eyes) and NATO had weaker conventional forces: by the end of Reagan's 18 division Army, both sides felt comfortable enough in a response strike to try a conventional war:
Before then, the Soviets were convinced the weak NATO conventional force structure and excellent strategic nuclear forces would force NATO to immediately begin with tactical Pershing and GLCM strikes deep into Soviet territory to break up follow-on Soviet forces trying to exploit a Soviet breakthrough. . Thus they wanted to preempt that strike with one of their own, which would have been roughly fifty to 70 nuclear tactical weapons. Yes, that would have been the end of the world,
But then both sides became vast armed camps, and it had the odd effect of making them both more confident on nuclear matters: the Soviets thought maybe the yanks would avoid nuclear first strikes, thus easing their own finger on the trigger. Even in a war. It was strange timing: At the same time Reagan's buildup was being completed, the Soviets had finally enough nuclear weapons in their own eyes.
But at the same time their generals no longer had confidence in a four week victory over NATO: in a now famous document which changed the Soviet nuclear posture from "certain nuclear doom" to "wait and see what the enemy does before pushing the button" (which was essentially the same policy NATO had), a famous Soviet general noted that "The Germans had a four week victory plan against a powerful enemy too".
So yes, it's hard to write: but only if you're a writer who doesn't know history.
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Last edited by chahath on 2019-2-20 21:27 Hello, I'm contemplating buying a new phone. And after thinking about some options (the Moto X4 was my target for a long time now), I came across the Redmi Note 5 for almost the same price and incredibly better specs and reviews. So far, I've read almost only good things about it. But I've also read some negative comments (specially about screen burn in issues, this is a huge downside for me if true for everyone who owns it). Another thing that is of my concern is the size. I'm a guy with small hands, do you think I could use this phone without any problems? I've read that since it's 18:9 it's actually not that bad for people like me.


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New Apple iMac has improved 5K display and more power, but no Apple Silicon
5 August 2020, 12:46 am ·2 min read
Apple has revamped the 27-inch iMac with a wide-ranging update that brings performance increases, a better display, improved cameras, and more. The refreshed model is available to order starting today.
The update is a big one, with changes to a huge number of areas. For the first time, the 27-inch iMac will have a 10-core Intel processor option, offering Turbo Boost speeds of up to 5.0GHz. Apple says this results in up to 65% faster CPU performance compared to the previous-generation 8-core iMac.
The iMac's graphics cards have also had a boost, with AMD Radeon Pro 5000-series GPUs packing up to 16GB of video RAM for the first time in an iMac. According to Apple, that means 55% faster rendering in Maxon Cinema 4D ProRender, and up to 50% faster demo flythroughs in Unity Editor.
Until this update, Apple offered 27-inch iMacs without SSDs, instead relying on Apple's "fusion drives" at the base configurations. It was rather anachronous in 2020. That's now changed, and every 27-inch iMac now comes with a blazin- fast SSD that Apple says can hit speeds of up to 3.4GBps. You can now also buy an 8TB SSD for the first time.
The nano-texture from the Mac Pro's Pro Display XDR has now made it across to the iMac, offering better viewing in various lighting conditions. Apple's True Tone technology — which automatically adjusts the white balance based on the ambient light — has also been introduced.
Elsewhere, the T2 Security Chip has come to the iMac, and its webcam has been upgraded from a measly 720p to 1080p. That makes it the first Mac to have a 1080p webcam. The speakers and microphones have also been improved, borrowing the same audio technology from the MacBook Pro 16-inch.
The smaller 21.5-inch iMac and the iMac Pro did not completely miss out in terms of upgrades. Every model of the former now comes with an SSD as standard, while the latter now has a 10-core Intel Xeon processor as standard.
Rumors have long persisted that Apple was about to update its iMac range. In May 2020. renowned leaker Jon Prosser claimed that Apple had a new iMac "ready to ship," while in early June Sonny Dickson claimed a completely reimagined iMac would launch at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Both proved incorrect, although we still expect a redesigned iMac launching with Apple Silicon processors some time in 2021.
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