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LTD mining is overpowered and it kills all other activities
Thread starter norlin
balance borann bug ltd mining
Thank you for the QA for FDevs! xD
About #3, actually that looks like a pretty bad work from them... Seems they have assigned those bugs & issues to a junior developer who can't manage the issue in general and applying some tweaking patches here and there... Well that's sad, what can I say.
Don't want to be rude to FDev team, but as a programmer with 13 years of experience, including gamedev, I can say it's both poor work from development team and qa team :-(
I wish I'd be able to look at their codebase - sometimes it may be really hard to fix such issues, but I'm almost sure it's ot the case.
mintaka5
OP, look! If they want to make other content more enticing to players then they can design those parts of the game to be better, but taking from one good thing to marginally enhance another is not an improvement by any means. It's still the same thing. Crushing a bag of potato chips (crisps) doesn't give you more chips! It just gives you more pieces, and a lousier eating experience. Make the bad parts better, and leave the good stuff alone.
mintaka5 said:
Completely agree! Though the mining itself was (and unfortunately still is) broken and should be fixed. Now it's better than before patch, but still far from good.
djadjok
norlin said:
Hmmm.. Can you be so kind to share some part of your wisdom?
How - taking into account current design and supposed state of the code, also real imposed time deadlines etc - how - on your regard - was the best approach to fix this patricular form of the SLF exploit (lets say what it was supposed to implement this part of patch 3)? Without ruining the bunch of other in-game mechanics seemingly "unrelated" (and I'm not speaking of material distribution in hotspots etc). Taking into account real situations and not "theoretical" - "let's rewrite the code fully"? I'm quite curious...
Havvk
Congrats, OP. You got your wish, and then some. Whole economy has crashed. GG
Well to know HOW to fix it properly, for sure need to look at their code and architecture first - I don't have access to it ¯\(ツ)/¯
What's the most concerning is that they have fixed a very particular case, without checking/fixing another similar cases (e.g. you can't respawn SSDs with flying away but still can do it with relog).
It shows that the changes was very specific, kinda added a hardcoded check or something like that, which in turn doesn't make the code better but increasing the tech debt and leading to more issues on future.
As I said, there is a chance that it's highly coupled with some very core mechanics such as instancing – in that case, it may be really hard to fix everything properly, but it's exactly the consequences of a previous technical debt, if that's the case.
Northpin
it's highly coupled with some very core mechanics such as instancing
Basically this
P2P instead of server based means that game's instancing is locally - hence the combat logging, reloging to respawn materials at POI's (and now to respawn SSD), relogging to HGE and so on
Way cheaper to maintain a multiplayer game than a client-server architecture, but open to these sort of lame mechanics.
They should simply own it instead of crapping up the game.
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Technically that sort of things can be easily solved even for a completely single game, so for sure it can be solved for a p2p multiplayer. But that's correct if designing the game's architecture from the scratch, have no idea how it's made in ED right now.
But in my opinion, with having some server-based mechanics, that should be even easier to make in ED.


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Julet – Review
rhysReviews February 7, 2020 February 7, 2020 Uncategorized
Having heard that there was a new musical called & Juliet that reimagined the classic William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet I was very apprehensive. I thought it would be like all the other adaptations I have seen in my lifetime but I couldn't have been more wrong!t's extremely difficult for me to summarise the show in just a few words as it was such a spectacle where so much happens. But the narrative follows William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway as they imagine what would have happened if Juliet hadn't killed herself in Romeo and Juliet and how her life would have progressed while focussing of important themes such as sexuality, female empowerment and acceptance. The show had everything you could want from a musical from much loved pop songs , Juliet riding a chandelier , pyrotechnics , massive song and dance numbers and shocking/dramatic twist and turns.
On top of this, & Juliet is one of the most clever musicals I have ever seen. Even the name itself, & Juliet, is clever as it is all about what life would have been like if Juliet hadn't killed herself and Romeo had. There is no Romeo in the actual story and therefore there is no Romeo in the title which is a smart choice and whoever came up with this should be applauded. Secondly, this is a show about a group of people building a musical which if don't incorrectly could be very difficult to follow for the audience but this production did it in a clever way. There were scenes in which Anne Hathaway called for lights up (which actually happened) to separate the staged musical from the musical the audience was watching. This simple idea helped make the story easy to follow and helped the audience know whether the scene was happening in the musical Shakespeare and Hathaway were creating or the workshopping area. On top of this, the creators of this show clearly studied Shakespeare and his work a lot. There were incredible jokes about the context of his work. For example, there was a whole scene were Anne Hathaway calls Shakespeare out about being hesitant about including a homosexual storyline in the new musical and she brings up the fact that he wrote a series of poems to a mysterious guy who he supposedly had feelings for or the fact that he wrote plays that had men who dressed as women who were playing men. This was an extremely clever inclusion that as your eyes are watching this incredible spectacle unfold your mind is being titillated with the scholarly side of the side. If all this wasn't enough, this show possessed some of the smoothest transitions into songs that I have ever seen. Too many times have I watched musical where dialogue happens and then almost randomly the actor starts singing but this song blended then dialogue with the music and all the song choices made perfect sense in terms of the storyline as well.
Unlike the original play, Juliet in this production was portrayed as super sassy, strong and independent. Miriam-Teak lee took on this iconic role and absolutely smashed every single aspect of the new and reimagined character. She is clearly an insanely talented singer and her rendition of "Roar" was out of this world. Her incredible and strong vocals combined with her clearly natural sass made this song a highlight of the world production. She was hilariously funny and gave this character a whole new perspective which was amazing to see.
The sort of narrators in this show was Ann Hathaway and William Shakespeare (played by Cassidy Janson and Oliver Tompsett respectively) and these two worked excellently as a double act. Cassidy managed to bring to life Shakespeare's wife in a comical but also relatable way which is especially important as many people forget about Anne. She delivered many of the comical moments such as jokes about not being THAT Anne Hathaway. She was also involved in the meta-musical being created as a sort of excitable young best friend which was performed perfectly. These two sang the iconic song "I want it that way" when discussing their two contrasting opinions on what happens in the story. Which was insanely clever and also hilariously funny in equal regards.
A new character that was introduced in this musical was May who takes on the role of Juliet's gay best friend played by Arun Blair-Mangat. I was sceptical when the character was first introduced but as time progressed they actually became my favourite character. They were iconic and complemented the sass from Juliet perfectly. This character helped introduced the gay storyline which was so emotional and heartfelt. A highlight of this performance was the song "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" which was so moving and brought many of the audience members to tears. This song was beautifully performed and had so much genuine emotion behind it that the audience could feel the pain which is a credit to Arun talent and performance ability. Another highlight for this role was "I kissed a girl" which was a duet with Francois (played by Tim Mahendran) which was a beautiful song about events that occurred the night before.
Having known David Bedella from his stint as Frank N Furter in the rocky horror picture show I already had high expectations for his portrayal as Lance (Francois father) and he surpassed even the already high standard set. He seemed to excel in the most comedic role especially during his duet to a mash-up of teenage dream/break free which was hilariously funny. He and the nurse (played by Melanie LA Barrie) had great on-stage chemistry which added to the already fantastic viewing experience. He was insane in this role and I will keep an eye out for his next production as he continues to astonish and amaze in each role he takes on.
Following the classic musical structure, act one was all fun and games and then act two was ridiculously emotional and heartfelt. He had so many heart-wrenching moments such as a moment of acceptance between father and son, William Shakespeare serenading his wife and all the poignant messages of female empowerment. Something that not many people would notice is the fact that Anne Hathaway and Juliet leave the stage together at the end of the show which really solidifies all the concepts of the show. This show provided everything you can want in production so there are very few improvements in terms of the show. The only issue I noticed was a backstage person kept opening and closing the curtain and at certain times he was clearly visible which was very distracting for the audience.
Overall this is an incredible production that was a spectacle to watch, was hilariously funny, contained extremely important messages about acceptance and female empowerment etc but at the same time being insanely clever and possessing some of the best singing I have ever listened to. This soundtrack for this musical is available on Spotify and I have to say that if you are looking for a playlist that will lift you out of a slump and make you feel like you can take on the world then this is the one for you! I would rate this production five stars and would recommend everyone to catch this show as it will excite all your senses including your mind!
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Verisign is to get the right to raise the price of .com domains by 7% per year, under a new contract with ICANN.
The deal, announced this hour, will also see Verisign pay ICANN $20 million over five years, starting in 2021, "to support ICANN's initiatives to preserve and enhance the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS".
According to ICANN, the pricing changes mean that the maximum price of a .com domain could go as high as $10.26 by October 2026.
Verisign getting the right to once more increase its fees — which is likely to be worth close to a billion dollars to the company's top line over the life of the contract — was not unexpected.
Pricing has been stuck at $7.85 for years, due to a price freeze imposed by the Obama-era US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, but this policy was reversed by the Trump administration in late 2018.
The amendment to the .com registry agreement announced today essentially takes on the terms of the Trump appeasement, so Verisign gets to up .com prices by 7% in the last four years of the six-year duration of the contract.
ICANN said:
ICANN org is not a price regulator and will defer to the expertise of relevant competition authorities. As such, ICANN has long-deferred to the [US Department of Commerce] and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for the regulation of pricing for .COM registry services.
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conducting, facilitating or supporting activities that preserve and enhance the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS, which may include, without limitation, active measures to promote and/or facilitate DNSSEC deployment, Security Threat mitigation, name collision mitigation, root server system governance and research into the operation of the DNS
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Don't be surprised if you hear the words "bung" or "quid pro quo" being slung around in the coming hours and days by ICANN critics.
The second financial benefit to ICANN comes from additional payments Verisign will have to make when it sells its ConsoliDate service.
This is the service that allows .com registrants, via their registrars, to synchronize the renewal dates of all of the domains in their portfolio, so they only have to worry about renewals on a single day of the year. It's basically a partial-year renewal.
Under the amended .com contract, ICANN will get a piece of that action too. Verisign has agreed to pay ICANN a pro-rated fee, based on the $0.25 per-domain annual renewal fee, for the number of days any given registration is extended using ConsoliDate.
I'm afraid to say I don't know how much money this could add to ICANN's coffers, but another amendment to the contract means that Verisign will start to report ConsoliDate usage in its published monthly transaction reports, so we should get a pretty good idea of the $$$$ value in the second half of the year.
The amended contract — still in draft form (pdf) and open for public comment — also brings on a slew of new obligations for Verisign that bring .com more into line with other gTLDs.
There's no Uniform Rapid Suspension policy, so domain investors and cybersquatters can breath a sigh of relief there.
But Verisign has also agreed to a new Registry-Registrar Agreement that contains substantial new provisions aimed at combating abuse, fraud and intellectual property infringement — including trademark infringement.
It has also agreed to a series of Public Interest Commitments, along the same lines as all the 2012-round new gTLDs, covering the same kinds of dodgy activities. The texts of the RRA addition and PICs are virtually identical, requiring:
a provision prohibiting the Registered Name Holder from distributing malware, abusively operating botnets, phishing, pharming, piracy, trademark or copyright infringement, fraudulent or deceptive practices, counterfeiting or otherwise engaging in activity contrary to applicable law and providing (consistent with applicable law and any related procedures) consequences for such activities, including suspension of the registration of the Registered Name;
There are also many changes related to how Verisign handles data escrow, Whois/RDAP and zone file access. It looks rather like users of ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service, including yours truly, will soon have access to the humongous .com zone file on a daily basis. Yum.
The proposed amendments to the .com contract are now open for public comment here. You have until February 14. Off you go.
.org now has no price caps, but "no specific plans" to raise prices
Kevin Murphy, July 1, 2019, Domain Registries
ICANN has rubber-stamped Public Interest Registry's new .org contract, removing the price caps that have been in effect for the best part of two decades.
That's despite a huge outcry against the changes, which saw the vast majority of respondents to ICANN's public comment period condemn the removal of caps.
The new contract, signed yesterday, completely removes the section that limited PIR to a 10% annual price increase.
It also makes PIR pay the $25,000 annual ICANN fee that all the other registries have to pay. Its ICANN transaction tax remains at $0.25.
PIR, a non-profit which funnels money to the Internet Society, is now allowed to raise its wholesale registry fee by however much it likes, pretty much whenever it likes.
But PIR again insisted that it does not plan to screw over the registrants of its almost 11 million .org domains.
The company said in a statement:
Regarding the removal of price caps, we would like to underscore that Public Interest Registry is a mission driven non-profit registry and currently has no specific plans for any price changes for .ORG. Should there be a need for a sensible price increase at some point in the future, we will provide advanced notice to the public. The .ORG community is considered in every decision we make, and we are incredibly proud of the more than 15 years we have spent as a responsible steward of .ORG. PIR remains committed to acting in the best interest of the .ORG community for years to come.
That basically restates the comments it made before the contract was signed.
The current price of a .org is not public information, but PIR has told me previously that it's under $10 a year and "at cost" registrar Cloudflare sells for $9.93 per year.
The last price increase was three years ago, reported variously as either $0.88 or $0.87.
ICANN received over 3,200 comments about the contract when it was first proposed, almost all of them opposed to the lifting of caps.
Opposition initially came from domainers alerted by an Internet Commerce Association awareness campaign, but later expanded to include general .org registrants and major non-profit organizations, as the word spread.
Notable support for the changes came from ICANN's Business Constituency, which argued from its established position that ICANN should not be a price regulator, and from the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, which caps should remain but should be raised from the 10%-a-year limit.
There's a bit of a meme doing the rounds that ICANN has been hit by "regulatory capture" in this case, following a blog post from ReviewSignal.com blogger Kevin Ohashi last week, which sought to demonstrate how those filing comments in favor of the new contract had a vested interest in the outcome (as if the thousands of .org registrants filing opposing comments did not).
But I find the argument a bit flimsy. Nobody fingered by Ohashi had any decision-making power here.
In fact, the decision appears to have been made almost entirely by ICANN employees (its lawyers and Global Domains Division staff) "in consultation with the ICANN board of directors".
There does not appear to have been a formal vote of the board. If there was such a vote, ICANN has broke the habit of a lifetime and not published any details of the meeting at which it took place.
After the public comment period closed, ICANN senior director for gTLD accounts and services Russ Weinstein prepared and published this comment summary (pdf), which rounds up the arguments for and against the proposed changes to the contract, then attempts to provide justification for the fait accompli.
On the price caps, Weinstein argues that standardizing .org along the lines of most of the other 1,200 gTLDs in existence fits with ICANN's mission to enable competition in the domain name industry and "depend upon market mechanisms to promote and sustain a competitive environment".
He also states:
Aligning with the Base gTLD Registry Agreement would also afford protections to existing registrants. The registry operator must provide six months' notice to registrars for price changes and enable registrants to renew for up to 10 years prior to the change taking effect, thus enabling a registrant to lock in current prices for up to 10 years in advance of a pricing change.
This appears to be misleading. While it's true that the new contract has the six-month notice period for price increases, so did the old one.
The new contract language takes several sentences to say what the old version did in one, and may remove some ambiguity, but both describe the notice period and lock-in opportunity.
If there's a problem with how the new .org contract was signed off, it appears to be the lack of transparency.
It's signed by GDD senior VP Cyrus Namazi, but who made the ultimate decision to sign it despite the outrage? Namazi? CEO Göran Marby? It certainly doesn't seem to have been put before the board for a formal vote.
What kind of "consultation" between GDD and the board occurred? Is it recorded or noted anywhere? Was the board briefed about the vast number of negative comments the price cap proposal elicited?
Are public comment periods, which almost never have any impact on the end result, just a sham?
In my view, .org (along with .com and .net) are special cases among gTLDs that deserve a more thorough, broad and thoughtful consideration than the new .org contract received.
UPDATE: This article was updated at 1600 UTC to correct information related to .org's current wholesale price.
URS comes to .mobi as ICANN offers Afilias lower fees
Kevin Murphy, December 27, 2016, Domain Registries
Afilias' .mobi is to become the latest of the pre-2012 gTLDs to agree to adopt the Uniform Rapid Suspension policy in exchange for lower ICANN fees.
Its Registry Agreement is up for renewal, and Afilias and ICANN have come to similar terms to .jobs, .travel, .cat, .pro and .xxx.
Afilias has agreed to take on many of the provisions of the standard new gTLD RA that originally did not apply to gTLDs approved in the 2000 and 2003 rounds, including the URS.
In exchange, its fixed registry fees will go down from $50,000 a year to $25,000 a year and the original price-linked variable fee of $0.15 to $0.75 per transaction will be replaced with the industry standard $0.25.
It's peanuts really, given that .mobi still has about 690,000 domains, but Afilias is getting other concessions too.
Notably, the ludicrous mirage that .mobi was a "Sponsored" gTLD serving a specific restricted community (users of mobile telephones, really) rather than an obvious gaming of the 2003-round application rules, looks like it's set to evaporate.
Appendix S to the current RA is not being carried over, ICANN said, so .mobi will not become a "Community" gTLD, with all the attendant restrictions that would have entailed.
Instead, Afilias has simply agreed to the absolute basic set of Public Interest Commitments that apply to all 2012 new gTLDs. Text that would have committed the registry to abide by the promises made in its gTLD application have been removed.
But the change likely to get the most hackles up is the inclusion of URS in the proposed new contract.
URS is an anti-cybserquatting measure that enables trademark owners to shut down infringing domains, without taking ownership, more quickly and cheaply than the UDRP.
It's obligatory for all 2012-round gTLDs, and five of the pre-2012 registries have also agreed to adopt it during their contract renewal talks with ICANN.
Most recently, ICM Registry agreed to URS in exchange for much deeper cuts in its ICANN fees in .xxx.
In recent days, ICANN published its report into the public comments on the .xxx renewal, summarizing some predictably irate feedback.
Domainer group the Internet Commerce Association, which is concerned that URS will one day be forced upon .com and .net, had a .xxx comment that seems particularly pertinent to the .mobi news:
Given the history of flimsy and self-serving justifications by [Global Domains Division] staff and the ICANN Board for similar actions taken in 2015, we are under no illusion that this comment letter will likely be successful in effecting removal of the URS and other new gTLD RA provisions from the revised .XXX RA. Nonetheless, we strenuously object to this GDD action that intrudes upon and debases ICANN's legitimate policymaking process, and urge the GDD and Board to reconsider their positions, and to ensure that GDD staff ceases and desists from taking similar action in the context of future RA renewals and revisions until the RPM Review WG renders the community's judgment as to whether the URS and other new gTLD RPMs should become Consensus Policy and such recommendation is reviewed by GNSO Council and the ICANN Board.
The Intellectual Property Constituency of the GNSO, conversely, broadly welcomed the addition of more rights protection mechanisms to .xxx.
The Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group, meanwhile, expressed concern that whenever ICANN negotiates a non-consensus policy into a contract it negates and discourages all the work done by the volunteer community.
You can read the summary of the .xxx comments, along with ICANN staff's reasons for ignoring them, here (pdf).
The .mobi proposed amendments are also now open for public comment.
Any lawyers wishing to rack up a few billable hours railing against a fait accompli can do so here.
.xxx to get lower ICANN fees, accept the URS
Kevin Murphy, October 14, 2016, Domain Registries
ICM Registry has negotiated lower ICANN transaction fees as part of a broad amendment to its Registry Agreement that also includes new trademark protection measures.
The company's uniquely high $2 per-transaction fee could be reduced to the industry standard $0.25 by mid-2018.
As part of the renegotiated contract, ICM has also agreed to impose the Uniform Rapid Suspension policy on its registrants.
URS is the faster, cheaper version of UDRP that allows trademark owners to have domain names suspended in more clear-cut cases of cybersquatting.
The $2 fee was demanded by ICANN when ICM first signed its RA in 2011.
At the time, ICANN said the higher fee, which had doubled from a 2010 draft of the contract, was to "account for anticipated risks and compliance activities".
The organization seemed to have bought into the fears that .xxx would lead to widespread misuse — something that has noticeably failed to materialize — and was expecting higher legal costs as a result.
The companion TLDs .adult, .porn and .sex, all also managed by ICM, only pay $0.25 per transaction.
The overall effects on registrants, ICANN and ICM will likely be relatively trivial.
With .xxx holding at roughly 170,000 domains and a minimal amount of inter-registrar transfer activity, ICM seems to be paying ICANN under $400,000 a year in transaction fees at the moment.
Its registry fee is usually $62, though a substantial number of domains have been sold at lower promotional pricing, so the cost to registrants is not likely to change a great deal.
The reduction to $0.25 would have to be carried out in stages, with the earliest coming this quarter, and be reliant on ICM keeping a clean sheet with regards contract compliance.
Under the deal, ICM has agreed to adopt many of the provisions of the standard Registry Agreement for 2012-round gTLDs.
One of those is the URS, which may cause consternation among domainers fearful that the rights protection mechanism may one day also find its way into the .com registry contract.
ICM has also agreed to implement its existing policies on, for example, child abuse material prevention, into the contract as Public Interest Commitments.
The RA amendment is currently open for public comment at ICANN.
Industry lays into Verisign over .com deal renewal
Kevin Murphy, August 15, 2016, Domain Registries
Some of Verisign's chickens have evidently come home to roost.
A number of companies that the registry giant has pissed off over the last couple of years have slammed the proposed renewal of its .com contract with ICANN.
Rivals including XYZ.com (sued over its .xyz advertising) and Donuts (out-maneuvered on .web) are among those to have filed comments opposing the proposed new Registry Agreement.
They're joined by business and intellectual property interests, concerned that Verisign is being allowed to carry on without implementing any of the IP-related obligations of other gTLDs, and a dozens of domainers, spurred into action by a newsletter.
Even a child protection advocacy group has weighed in, accusing Verisign of not doing enough to prevent child abuse material being distributed.
ICANN announced last month that it plans to renew the .com contract, which is not due to expire for another two years, until 2024, to bring its term in line with Verisign's contracts related to root zone management.
There are barely any changes in the proposed new RA — no new rights protection mechanisms, no changes to how pricing is governed, and no new anti-abuse provisions.
The ensuing public comment period, which closed on Friday, has attracted slightly more comments than your typical ICANN comment period.
That's largely due to outrage from readers of the Domaining.com newsletter, who were urged to send comments in an article headlined "BREAKING: Verisign doubles .COM price overnight!"
That headline, for avoidance of doubt, is not accurate. I think the author was trying to confer the idea that the headline could, in his opinion, be accurate in future.
Still, it prompted a few dozen domainers to submit brief comments demanding "No .com price increases!!!"
The existing RA, which would be renewed, says this about price:
The Maximum Price for Registry Services subject to this Section 7.3 shall be as follows:
(i) from the Effective Date through 30 November 2018, US $7.85;
(ii) Registry Operator shall be entitled to increase the Maximum Price during the term of the Agreement due to the imposition of any new Consensus Policy or documented extraordinary expense resulting from an attack or threat of attack on the Security or Stability of the DNS, not to exceed the smaller of the preceding year's Maximum Price or the highest price charged during the preceding year, multiplied by 1.07.
The proposed amendment (pdf) that would extend the contract through 2024 does not directly address price.
It does, however, contain this paragraph:
Future Amendments. The parties shall cooperate and negotiate in good faith to amend the terms of the Agreement (a) by the second anniversary of the Effective Date, to preserve and enhance the security and stability of the Internet or the TLD, and (b) as may be necessary for consistency with changes to, or the termination or expiration of, the Cooperative Agreement between Registry Operator and the Department of Commerce.
The Cooperative Agreement is the second contract in the three-way relationship between Verisign, ICANN and the US Department of Commerce that allows Verisign to run not only .com but also the DNS root zone.
It's important because Commerce exercised its powers under the agreement in 2012 to freeze .com prices at $7.85 a year until November 2018, unless Verisign can show it no longer has "market power", a legal term that plays into monopoly laws.
So what the proposed .com amendments mean is that, if the Cooperative Agreement changes in 2018, ICANN and Verisign are obligated to discuss amending the .com contract at that time to take account of the new terms.
If, for example, Commerce extends the price freeze, Verisign and ICANN are pretty much duty bound to write that extension into the RA too.
There's no credible danger of prices going up before 2018, in other words, and whether they go up after that will be primarily a matter for the US administration.
The US could decide that Verisign no longer has market power then and drop the price freeze, but would be an indication of a policy change rather than a reflection of reality.
The Internet Commerce Association, which represents high-volume domainers, does not appear particularly concerned about prices going up any time soon.
It said in its comments to ICANN that it believes the new RA "will have no effect whatsoever upon the current .Com wholesale price freeze of $7.85 imposed on Verisign".
XYZ.com, in its comments, attacked not potential future price increases, but the current price of $7.85, which it characterized as extortionate.
If .com were put out to competitive tender, XYZ would be prepared to reduce the price to $1 per name per year, CEO Daniel Negari wrote, saving .com owners over $850 million a year — more than the GDP of Rwanda.
ICANN should not passively go along with Verisign's selfish goal of extending its unfair monopoly over the internet's most popular top-level domain name.
Others in the industry chose to express that the proposed contract does not even attempt to normalize the rules governing .com with the rules almost all other gTLDs must abide by.
Donuts, in its comment, said that the more laissez-faire .com regime actually harms competition, writing:
It is well known that new gTLDs and now many other legacy gTLDs are heavily vested with abuse protections that .COM is not. Thus, smaller, less resource-rich competitors must manage gTLDs laden (appropriately) with additional responsibilities, while Verisign is able to operate its domains unburdened from these safeguards. This incongruence is a precise demonstration of disparate treatment, and one that actually hinders effective competition and ultimately harms consumers.
It points to numerous statistics showing that .com is by far the most-abused TLD in terms of spam, phishing, malware and cybersquatting.
The Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency had similar views about standardizing rules on abuse and such. The IPC comment says:
The continued prevalence of abusive registrations in the world's largest TLD registry is an ongoing challenge. The terms of the .com registry agreement should reflect that reality, by incorporating the most up-to-date features that will aid in the detection, prevention and remediation of abuses.
The European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online submitted a comment with a more narrow focus — child abuse material and pornography in general.
Enasco said that 41% of sites containing child abuse material use .com domains and that Verisign should at least have the same regulatory regime as 2012-round gTLDs. It added:
Verisign's egregious disinterest in or indolence towards tackling these problems hitherto hardly warrants them being rewarded by being allowed to continue the same lamentable
regime.
I couldn't find any comments that were in unqualified support of the .com contract renewal, but the lack of any comments from large sections of the ICANN community may indicate widespread indifference.
The full collection of comments can be found here.
Verisign to get .com for six more years, but prices to stay frozen
ICANN and Verisign have agreed to extend their .com registry contract for another six years, but there are no big changes in store for .com owners.
Verisign will now get to run the gTLD until November 30, 2024.
The contract was not due to expire until 2018, but the two parties have agreed to renew it now in order to synchronize it with Verisign's new contract to run the root zone.
Separately, ICANN and Verisign have signed a Root Zone Maintainer Agreement, which gives Verisign the responsibility to make updates to the DNS root zone when told to do so by ICANN's IANA department.
That's part of the IANA transition process, which will (assuming it isn't scuppered by US Republicans) see the US government's role in root zone maintenance disappear later this year.
Cunningly, Verisign's operation of the root zone is technically intermingled with its .com infrastructure, using many of the same security and redundancy features, which makes the two difficult to untangle.
There are no other substantial changes to the .com agreement.
Verisign has not agreed to take on any of the rules that applies to new gTLDs, for example.
It also means wholesale .com prices will be frozen at $7.85 for the foreseeable future.
The deal only gives Verisign the right to raise prices if it can come up with a plausible security/stability reason, which for one of the most profitable tech companies in the world seems highly unlikely.
Pricing is also regulated by Verisign's side deal (pdf) with the US Department of Commerce, which requires government approval for any price increases until such time as .com no longer has dominant "market power".
The .com extension is now open for public comment.
Predictably, it's already attracted a couple of comments saying that the contract should instead be put out to tender, so a rival registry can run the show for cheaper.
That's never, ever, ever, ever going to happen.
As deadline looms, over 100 dot-brands still in contract limbo
Kevin Murphy, July 29, 2015, Domain Registries
With the minutes ticking down to the deadline for scores of dot-brands to sign registry agreements with ICANN, over 100 have not, according to ICANN's web site.
New gTLD applicants had until July 29 to sign their contracts or risk losing their deposits.
I reported a week ago that roughly 170 would-be dot-brands had yet to sign on the dotted line, and my records show that only 35 have done so in the meantime.
Another four applications have been withdrawn.
One of the newly contracted parties is Go Daddy, which signed an RA for .godaddy last week. Others include .nike, .comcast and .mitsubishi.
Unless we see a flood of new contracts published over the next day or two, it seems likely well over 100 strings will soon be flagged as "Will Not Proceed" — the end of the road for new gTLD applications.
That may not be the final nail in their coffins, however.
Last week, ICANN VP Cyrus Namazi said that applicants that miss today's deadline will receive a "final notice" in about a week. They'll then have 60 days to come back to the process using the recently announced Application Eligibility Reinstatement process.
New .jobs contract based on new gTLD agreement
ICANN and Employ Media are set to sign a new contract for operation of the .jobs registry which is based heavily on the Registry Agreement signed by all new gTLD registries.
.jobs was delegated in 2005 and its first 10-year RA is due for renewal in May 2015.
Because Employ Media, like all gTLD registries, has a presumption of renewal clause in its contract, ICANN has published the proposed new version of its RA for public comment.
It's basically the new gTLD RA, albeit substantially modified to reflect the fact that .jobs is a "Sponsored TLD" — slightly different to a "Community" TLD under the current rules — and because .jobs has been around for nine years already.
That means it won't have to sign a contract forcing it to run Sunrise or Trademark Claims periods, for example. It won't have to come up with a Continued Operations Instrument — a financial arrangement to cover operating costs should the company go under — either.
Its commitments to its sponsor community remain, however.
ICANN said it conducted a compliance audit on Employ Media before agreeing to the renewal.
Employ Media remains the only gTLD registry to have been hit by a formal breach notice by ICANN Compliance. In 2011, it threatened to terminate its contract over a controversial proposal to all job aggregation sites to run on .jobs domains.
The registry filed an Independent Review Process complaint to challenge the ruling and ICANN eventually backed down in 2012.
The fight came about as a result of complaints from the .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition, a group of jobs sites including Monster.com.
Dot-brands get another year to sign ICANN contract
ICANN has offered dot-brand gTLD applicants the ability to delay the signing of their Registry Agreements until July 29, 2015, nine months later than under the former process.
The extension was offered by ICANN after talks with the Brand Registry Group, whose members felt pressured by the old deadline.
All new gTLD applicants had previously been told they had nine months to sign the contract from the date they receive a so-called "Contracting Information Request" from ICANN.
For many applicants, those CIRs were sent out many months ago, leading to an October 29 deadline.
However, Specification 13 of the contract, which allows dot-brands to opt out of things like sunrise periods and equal treatment of registrars, was not finalized by ICANN until May 14 this year.
Only a minuscule number of dot-brands eligible to sign contracts — which is pretty much all of them — have so far opted to do so.
Bearing the Spec 13 delay in mind, ICANN is now offering would-be dot-brands the July 2015 deadline instead, as long as they show "good faith" by responding to their CIR by September 1.
What this means is that dot-brands might not be hitting the internet for another year.
For non-branded gTLD registries — some of whom hope the big brands' adoption and marketing will help the visibility of new gTLDs in general — this may be disappointing.
IPO warns about premium loopholes in new gTLD trademark protection
Kevin Murphy, December 4, 2013, Domain Policy
It seems like it's been an age since we last heard the intellectual property lobby pushing for stronger rights protection mechanisms in new gTLDs, but they're back just in time for the first launches.
The Intellectual Property Owners Association has written to ICANN this week to warn about loopholes in the standard new gTLD Registry Agreement related to premium name reservations that the IPO said "will adversely affect trademark rights holders".
The letter (pdf) makes reference to two specific parts of the contract.
Specification 5 enables registries to reserve up to 100 names "necessary for the operation or promotion of the TLD" in section 3.2 and an unlimited number of names in section 3.3.
Section 3.3 is vague enough that I'm aware of new gTLD applicants that still don't know whether it allows them to reserve an unlimited number of "premium" names or not.
However, most new gTLD registries I've talked to appear to be convinced that it does. DotKiwi's recently announced premium plan seems to be taking advantage of 3.3.
The IPO is worried that massive lists of premium names will wind up containing lots of strings matching trademarks, which will prevent mark holders from defensively registering during Sunrise.
Worse, the IPO said it could lead to registries milking trademark owners for huge fees to register their "premium" marks. It said:
such reservations would invite the abuse of protected marks. For instance, Registry Operators may reserve the marks of protected brands to leverage premium sales. Further, Registry Operators may use this ability to release names to market competitors of the brand owners.
The counter argument, of course, is that owners of spurious trademarks on generic terms could game Sunrise periods to get their hands of potentially valuable domain names (cf. the .eu sunrise)
The IPO wants ICANN to expand the Trademark Clearinghouse to send Trademark Claims notices to new gTLD registries when they reserve a name matching a listed trademark.
It also wants a new dispute procedure that mark owners could use to get names released from reserved status. It would be like UDRP, but modified to allow for registries to reserve dictionary words related to their gTLD strings, the IPO said.
If my sense of the mood of ICANN's leadership during last month's Buenos Aires meeting is anything to go by, I can't see these last-minute requests for changes to RPMs getting much traction, but you never know.


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Additionally, we were thrilled to receive Gold in this year's APEX Awards for our DOOH work with Samsung Mobile and Starcom.
On behalf of the entire Vistar team, we want to thank you so much for joining us at the show and getting to know more about what Vistar has to offer. Below are just a few of our favorite highlights from Vistar's DSE 2019 booth. Until 2020!


NRIs Prefer Light Skin Tone. Shah Said,"People With Darker Skin Tones Have More Melanin, Which Is A Natural Protector Against Ultraviolet Radiation."
Washington: A vast majority of Indian Americans have an aesthetic preference for lighter skinned people and consider those with darker skin to be less attractive, according to a study conducted by an Indian-American dermatologist.
Sejal K. Shah, a young doctor at the St. Luke's and Roosevelt (SLR) Hospital in New York City, conducted the study with Andrew F. Alexis, director of SLR's Skin of Colour Centre.
About 190 individuals recruited from local cultural fairs and temples participated in the study.
One out of seven - or approximately 15 percent of participants - said they use or have used some sort of skin-whitening or bleaching product because they want to make themselves look more beautiful.
* Only 64 % believe that sun exposure is associated with skin cancer.
Shah blames pop culture for most of the misunderstanding, especially for the biases Indian Americans have towards lighter skinned people.
"Many Bollywood actresses and Miss India winners have noticeably lighter complexions," she notes.
"A quick look at Indian matrimonial sites also indicates a strong preference for a 'fair' bride.
"Our study brings to light what has long been suspected in the South Asian culture: Lighter skin tones are favoured."
Most disturbing, Shah points out, is the commonly held - and incorrect - belief among South Asian Americans that they do not require the same skin protection against the sun in comparison to people of paler complexions and skin tones.
Shah said,"People with darker skin tones have more melanin, which is a natural protector against UV radiation."
"However, that does not mean that skin of colour individuals are not at risk when out in the sun."
Shah and Alexis have submitted the study to a peer-reviewed journal for publication.


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Tourism asks delivered
The Victoria Tourism Industry Council (VTIC) welcomes the $225 million redevelopment of Etihad Stadium that will transform it into a multi-purpose entertainment and business events precinct, further cementing Melbourne's status as the most liveable and visitable city in Australia.
VTIC Chief Executive Felicia Mariani said it's been a wonderful week for Victorian tourism with the announcement of Federal Government's $5 billion commitment to make the Melbourne Airport rail link a reality and the landmark agreement between the AFL and the State Government, highlighting Victoria's position as the sporting capital of Australia.
"The redevelopment of Etihad Stadium has been a long-standing priority of VTIC and a core recommendation in our recent State Budget submission," she said.
"This announcement, along with Federal Government's support to deliver on the long-awaited Melbourne Airport rail link, is an indication that the voice of the industry is being heard.
"It reaffirms VTIC's position on the need for additional infrastructure funding, which is a key platform in our 2018 State Election campaign launched today," Ms Mariani said.
Melbourne's Etihad Stadium and surrounding precinct is one of the most enviable locations in Melbourne, centrally located between the CBD and the Docklands waterfront.
"We are excited that a new hotel, ballroom and retail complex will redefine the Etihad precinct as a 365 day a year destination. This will have major impact on our business events attraction capability globally as we will be able to offer an unrivalled experience of sport, entertainment and business.
"Strong investment in infrastructure improvements is essential as Victoria is currently ranked fourth behind NSW, QLD and WA, with only 14 per cent of the $38 billion tourism infrastructure pipeline.
"This is simply not good enough and we need further investment to ensure that Victoria remains the first choice sporting, leisure, business and event destination in Australia with important economic benefits flowing into regional Victoria."


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Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful to the brain, finds study
by Mark Holmes | Nov 26, 2021 | Research
Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful
On 18th May 2021 in The Guardian
There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption for the brain, with even "moderate" drinking adversely affecting nearly every part of it, a study of more than 25,000 people in the UK has found.
The study, which is still to be peer-reviewed, suggests that the more alcohol consumed, the lower the brain volume. In effect, the more you drink, the worse off your brain.
"There's no threshold drinking for harm – any alcohol is worse. Pretty much the whole brain seems to be affected – not just specific areas, as previously thought," said the lead author, Anya Topiwala, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford.
Using the UK Biobank, a substantial database designed to help researchers decode the genetic and environmental factors that lead some people to develop diseases while others do not, researchers in this study analysed data from 25,378 participants such as age, sex, education, self-reported alcohol consumption, brain size and health from MRI scans, information about hospital and outpatient visits, and memory tests.
Higher volume of alcohol consumption per week was associated with lower grey matter density – the researchers found, with alcohol explaining up to a 0.8% change in grey matter volume, even after accounting for individual biological and behavioural characteristics.
This might seem like a small figure, but it is a larger contribution than any other modifiable risk factors. For example, it is four times the contribution of smoking or BMI, said Topiwala.
Widespread negative associations were also seen between alcohol consumption and integrity of white matter, the brain fibres that scaffold the billions of neurons that make up grey matter. In addition, an individual's underlying conditions such as high blood pressure and high BMI made the negative association between alcohol and brain health stronger, the researchers found.
Contrary to previous research that suggested there is a benefit to drinking wine in moderation compared with beer or spirits, the study found no evidence to suggest alcoholic beverage type conferred differences in risks to the brain.
The associations of wine-drinking with higher educational attainment and socioeconomic status may explain the perceived health benefits, the authors suggested. "If you look at who is moderately drinking, at least in this country, they are better educated, wealthier people that would do much better on a memory test … just because of who they are, than people that are less educated," said Topiwala.
The findings are robust to many alternative assumptions, said Colin Angus, a senior research fellow from the Sheffield alcohol research group at the University of Sheffield.
"In the grand scheme of things, these effects appear small, although it's hard to compare them against the impact of alcohol on other health outcomes, such as increased risks of cancer, without further research to understand how the association between alcohol and brain health feeds through into more tangible outcomes, such as dementia or Alzheimer's."
In 2016, the Department of Health introduced new alcohol guidelines in the UK, recommending that both men and women drink no more than 14 units of alcohol each week.
Topiwala said the study showed evidence of harm below that threshold.
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World Refugee Day 2016 - Thank you for supporting refugees
Haitian refugees expelled from the Dominican Republic have found safe haven at a Food For The Poor village. Built in the north of Haiti with support from FFP's generous US and Canadian donors, 100 families now have a new home, a health center, a community centre, a marketplace and clean water. See below for a video and more information on the impact of your donation to Food For The Poor.
The border crisis situation is the result of a change in the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court in 2013, which allowed Haitians without papers to be thrown out of a country they were born in.
"By giving a home to those families from the Dominican Republic, Food For The Poor is helping them recover their dignity and start a new life," said Bishop Oge Beauvoir, Executive Director of Food For The Poor-Haiti.
Construction of the village began in late fall, after the Haitian government gave Food For The Poor approximately 76 acres in the mountains of Artibonite. The land was used to build homes for 100 families repatriated from the D.R. and for dozens of local Haitian families living in destitute conditions in the region. Last week, 155 pastel color houses dotting the hilltops were officially dedicated.
The new community consists of concrete block houses with flush toilets, showers and water cisterns. Each family received a solar-powered light kit, which is mounted to the roof of each home. The residents soon will receive training in micro-enterprise projects, such as beekeeping, animal husbandry, aquaculture and agriculture. Those who moved into the completed sections of the village last month have planted vegetables gardens and other plants, which are thriving in the fertile soil. Food For The Poor also will provide each family with fruit, shade and moringa trees.
At the heart of the village is a community center that will serve as a place of worship and as a professional training school with workshops. The village has five communal waste-water treatment systems, 20 solar-powered street lamps to provide light and safety. There's also a marketplace with open-air covered stalls for 50 vendors, an administration building with storage, and a livestock sales site, which includes a slaughtering and butchering area for the sale of the meat. A hen house with 850 egg-laying chickens and an enclosure for 140 goats also have been installed.
Since access to clean water is vital in the prevention of waterborne illnesses, Food For The Poor has established a community reservoir that can store 10,000 gallons of potable water that is accessible via three water kiosks located across the village. This particular system is served by a well with a submersible solar-powered pump. There are also four water wells with hand pumps. A water filtration unit, which can purify and chlorinate up to 10,000 gallons of water a day, also was provided by Water Mission.
Robin Mahfood shared "Miracles can happen, lives can be saved, hope can be restored, and communities can be transformed."


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Split pea soup is kind of like an ancient tradition in my family. I grew up on it and so folklore dictates, my family, too will grow up on it. Luckily, it's one of my family's favorite soups. Not only is it so incredibly easy to make, it's also deeeee-licious and packed with tons of nutrition! Enjoy!
Chop the ham and onion. Throw all of your ingredients into a deep soup pot. Fill the pot to about 2 inches below the top. Bring it to a boil, then turn the burner down to medium heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about an hour, or until the peas are cooked to a mushy consistency. For a heartier soup, throw in a few chopped potatoes or even serve over rice! Enjoy!
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Yum yum yum! I've never tried split pea soup but this looks yummy. I'm not sure what I would substitute for the ham though since we don't eat port in my house. I would think of something though. Maybe turkey? Thanks so much for linking up with Countdown in Style this week!
You know, driving up the coast of California, there are several Split Pea Soup places, including Andersen's. I've never ordered the split pea soup because I didn't know what was in it and other things sounded better than peas. However, lately, I've been eating more legumes and this sounds like it'd fit perfectly in the repertoire. Thanks for sharing with Countdown in Style.


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Generosity and solidarity
On International Migrants Day, it is worth reaffirming the hard work of steering a liberal course through refugee policy which will require solidarity on a global scale.
Felipe Dittrich Ferreira
Migrant camp, Calais. Demotix/Matthew Aslett. All rights reserved.Let us discuss the central liberal concerns that arise from thinking through refugee policy. The first, and most important, is that the international community should not consider refugee flows as isolated, causeless, phenomena. Out of concern for refugees, governments must work on root causes, promoting the peaceful resolution of conflicts, as well as worldwide respect for human rights. In opposition to this broad principle, many of the most dramatic refugee flows of the last decade have been the direct result of misguided policies that sought to promote regime change by force, thereby creating conflicts that spun out of control, causing extensive damage to complex social and political arrangements. Refugees are but the natural result of such endeavours.
In Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, for instance, legitimate humanitarian reasons for intervention have been offered. However, little attention has been paid to collateral damage and unintended consequences. Intervening countries, of course, normally do not have to deal directly with the burden of refugee protection. It is relatively easy for them to act irresponsibly, under the assumption that the United Nations, in coordination with impoverished, affected countries – vulnerable, therefore, to political and financial pressure – will do whatever is needed to help those displaced by war or persecution. This kind of refugee policy may be literally 'cynical'. There is no polite way to describe countries who have harmed civilian populations, through the myopic use of force, and later try to stand as their protectors, simply through the deployment of donations. A liberal, more honest approach, on the other hand, would be based on the principle that complex issues such as those relating to the construction of stable and democratic nation-states worldwide cannot be worked out by force; those issues, fundamental to the debate about the prevention of refugee flows, demand diplomacy, hard work and a lot of patience.
Secondly, once the Pandora's box is open, no matter how or by whom, refugees must have the right to flee and find protection absolutely respected. There can be no excuses: non-refoulement must be regarded as a sacred principle, regardless of risks or costs. It is important to emphasize, however, that such an important principle must be upheld by the entire international community. The first receiving country, in that sense, represents an aggregate; that country, no matter how poor or isolated, should feel confident that it will not remain alone in doing what it is right. We are talking here about solidarity on a truly global scale. We are talking about a shared concern for the prevalence of international law.
It is important to remember that non-refoulement is obviously not enough. Refugees must not only be accepted, but also integrated with generosity. Refugee camps, therefore, should be regarded, at best, as a strictly temporary reaction to unexpected flows of people, never as a permanent solution to displacement. Effective liberal solutions include local integration or repatriation to a third country. In both cases, refugees should have the right to work, to have their professional and academic qualifications recognized, to receive equal pay for equal work, to access public services and to move freely within the host country and abroad. At the heart of this is the assumption that refugees should be given the opportunity to thrive. They will often need help at the beginning, but they should not be seen as a permanent burden. They may actually become an asset, if given the chance to contribute to the economic and cultural life of their hosts.
A final concern I would like to emphasize is related to the end of refugee status. When the conditions that led to flight are over, and if many years have past, refugees should have the option to remain where they are, especially when strong ties with the host country are in place. A liberal perspective, by definition, acknowledges facts and rewards individual efforts. Permanent residence or naturalization should be offered, therefore, to refugees that have integrated or that have lost connection with their former country of residence and feel that 'home' is the place where they are living. For children born in exile, this point is especially important.
For refugees who decide to return, there are many other issues. It may happen, for instance, that the place where they used to live has become occupied by others. Mechanisms should be in place to correct those situations, with care not to recreate tensions that lead to conflict and displacement. Rights that were violated, in other words, should be restored. At the same time, it is essential to avoid the logic of revenge. Building trust, after difficult times, is a delicate task that demands tolerance. It is important to underline, nevertheless, that lack of punishment for war crimes sends a deeply troubling signal, and makes difficult the construction of a professional, law abiding army in post-conflict situations.
The international community should, in turn, support reconstruction efforts – with care, however, not to dictate terms of complex political settlements under naive assumptions. Politics is not made only with those we agree with. Western powers, moreover, are not always neutral. The right to make mistakes and find solutions to those mistakes, without undue interference from outside, is an important part of self-determination.
At the current juncture, these elements are critical for the construction of a truly comprehensive liberal approach to refugee policy. We must have in our sights the entire chain of events related to forced displacement. This is work that requires the promotion of rights at every point where they may be violated, with an appreciation that we are dealing with a complex phenomenon that requires action on multiple fronts.


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Q: 4-momentum of massless photons The time component of a particle's 4-momentum is
$$ E'=\frac{E-up}{\sqrt{1-u^2/c^2}}\tag{1}     $$
Now suppose it is photons that you are observing from a system moving at $u$ on a line towards the source (assume that the $u$ and $p$ are on one line for the rest). As is experimentally known, the energy of the photons that you measure depends on how fast you are moving. (or how fast the source is moving)
So one should get different values for $E$ and $E'$ which is the Doppler effect.
The following are true for massless photons:
$$  E=hf$$
$$   p=E/c $$
Now if I substitute in (1) $E$ divided by $c$ for the momentum, I do not get the correct relativistic Doppler effect equation which is,
$$ f'=f\sqrt{\frac{c-u}{c+u}} \tag{2}$$
It is not clear to me why when I substitute $E$ times $c$ for the momentum, I do get (2). But $p$ doesn't equal $Ec$.
Any thoughts on this matter?

A: You start with  $$ E' = \frac{E-up}{\sqrt{1-u^2/c^2}} = \\ \frac{E-up}{\sqrt{(1-u/c)(1+u/c)}}.  $$
You know that $p = \frac{E}{c}$, so   $$ \frac{E-uE/c}{\sqrt{(1-u/c)(1+u/c)}} = \\ \frac{E(1-u/c)}{\sqrt{(1-u/c)(1+u/c)}} = \\ \frac{E\sqrt{1-u/c}}{\sqrt{1+u/c}} = \frac{E\sqrt{c-u}}{\sqrt{c+u}},  $$
now using $E = hf$,
$$ f' = f\sqrt{\frac{c-u}{c+u}}. $$
So yes your equations are consistent.

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Q: My Program has a couple of bugs and I dont know how to fix them I have to sort three user inputted numbers in an array in ascending order. There are a couple of bugs.
A) I set it to only ask for three numbers, but I have to input 4 even though the program only sorts the first three.
B) I get a warning saying that my variable temp is unused, even though it clearly is.
C) the program sorts the first two numbers and then prints the second highest number again instead of the largest.
Here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(){

    int numbers = 3;
    int NUM_ARRAY[numbers];
    int counter = 0;
    int sort = 0;
    int temp = 0;

                printf("Please enter three integers\n");
            for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                scanf("%d ", &NUM_ARRAY[counter]);
            }
                printf("Original Numbers\n");
            for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                printf("%d\n", NUM_ARRAY[counter]);
            }

            while(1){
                sort = 0;
                for(counter = 0; counter < numbers-1; counter++){
                    if(NUM_ARRAY[counter] > NUM_ARRAY[counter+1]){
                        int temp = NUM_ARRAY[counter];
                        NUM_ARRAY[counter] = NUM_ARRAY[counter+1];
                        NUM_ARRAY[counter+1] = NUM_ARRAY[counter];
                        sort = 1;

                    }
            }
            if(sort == 0){
                break;
            }

        }
            printf("Sorted Numbers\n");
                for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                   printf("%d\n", NUM_ARRAY[counter]);
                }

    return 0;
}

A: You should set temp to NUM_ARRAY[counter+1] instead of NUM_ARRAY[counter]
Try this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(){

    int numbers = 3;
    int NUM_ARRAY[numbers];
    int counter = 0;
    int sort = 0;
    int temp = 0;

                printf("Please enter three integers\n");
            for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                scanf(" %d", &NUM_ARRAY[counter]); // changed spacing on %d
            }
                printf("Original Numbers\n");
            for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                printf("%d\n", NUM_ARRAY[counter]);
            }

            while(1){
                sort = 0;
                for(counter = 0; counter < numbers-1; counter++){
                    if(NUM_ARRAY[counter] > NUM_ARRAY[counter+1]){
                        int temp = NUM_ARRAY[counter];
                        NUM_ARRAY[counter] = NUM_ARRAY[counter+1];
                        NUM_ARRAY[counter+1] = temp;  <--- /* Since NUM_ARRAY[counter] will be set to next value in the previous step */
                        sort = 1;

                    }
            }
            if(sort == 0){
                break;
            }

        }
            printf("Sorted Numbers\n");
                for(counter = 0; counter < numbers; counter++){
                   printf("%d\n", NUM_ARRAY[counter]);
                }

    return 0;
}


The project was a key promise made by the AAP government during its assembly poll campaign.
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party is set to provide free internet across Delhi by March 2019. The free Wi-Fi project is expected to cost an estimated sum of Rs 566 crore, stated the Public Works Department. The cost is inclusive of the installation, running and maintenance of the Wi-Fi facilities. The project was a key promise made by the AAP government during the 2015 Assembly elections.
The project, which was initially undertaken by the IT department was transferred to PWD. It faced many technical challenges. The trial run of the project was undertaken for three months on a pilot basis in Burari's Sant Nagar market. The project has been currently put on a fast-track considering the opposition parties which is bound to question the status of the project in the Lok Sabha election campaign 2019.
Public Works Department (PWD) minister Satyendra Kumar Jain had asked for the creation of free WiFi 'hotspots' across the city instead of offering free internet vouchers to people, as proposed by the department. Just like the internet voucher model, fiber cable model is said to have its own disadvantages. With the free set up of the Wi-Fi service, the data traffic is expected to exceed the limitations i.e., a huge number of users are expected. As per the report, about 2,000 internet hotspots would be set up in the various residential areas during the first phase.


Hello, well that blast of snow on Saturday was a bit of a shock.
thanks goodness it was gone by mid afternoon, Too soon.
either stencils or a mask.
Challenge # 83 Stencil Stories.
amazing creations by the DT to inspire you.
I made a 6" sq. white card, with a large black mat.
Crafter's Companion - Urban Graffitti.
The image is Biker Girl by Crafty Sentiments.
Colourd with Promarkers and a coloured pen.
very cool and stylish card, dearie!