Located in sector 16 of Chandigarh, Rose Garden is a blooming garden which showcases nature at its best. The garden is spread over a massive area of 30 acres and is packed with an exquisite variety of flowers making it quite popular among tourists and nature enthusiasts. It is the largest garden of its kind in Asia and was built in the year 1967 under the guidance of the First Chief Commissioner, MS Randhawa. Named after India's former president Zakir Hussain, the Rose Garden is also known as Zakir Hussain Rose Garden. As the name suggests, the park exhibits some of the rarest and exquisite varieties of roses and is said to be home to about 825 varieties of flowers. The other major attraction of the garden is more than 32,500 varieties of trees and medicinal plants. Neatly planted in an orderly way by expert gardeners, the garden serves as a perfect place to gather around and relax. The place is a sight to behold when the flowers are in their full bloom. The natural beauty of this garden is only enhanced by the presence of azure mountains in the background. A beautifully laid down fountain is also placed in the midst of the Rose Garden. With its relaxing environment and verdant beauty, Rose Garden is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city of Chandigarh.
Located in sector 1 of the beautiful city Chandigarh, The Rock Garden has been designed as an open-air exhibition hall using urban and industrial wastes by Nek Chand, a former Road Inspector in Chandigarh. Also known as Neck Chand's Rock Garden, this massive 40-acre garden is a colourful mosaic of art pieces and sculptures made from industrial and home waste. The Rock garden was built in the year 1957 by officer Nek Chand single-handedly in his spare time and has become a long-standing symbol of imagination and novelty in the city. Having a total of about 5,000 statues within its bounds, the Rock Garden is one of the prime attractions of Chandigarh and is a must visit. The Rock Garden area is divided into three different phases which have different types of installations and embellishments in them. Phase one is a labyrinth of terracotta pots, chambers and niches that have been decorated with tiles, mirrors, broken bangles, tube light pieces and even toilet fixtures. Statues of various animal, birds and human figures made out of an array of waste matter are installed here. The second phase of the Rock Garden has a huge waterfall and is a major crowd puller in the garden. Amphitheatres, courtyards and intricate pathways are the primary characteristics of this phase, which includes a miniature village as well. Many cultural programmes are held here during various months of the year. Lastly, the third phase is where life size statues of elephants and camels are being installed.
Nestled at the foothills of Shivaliks, Sukhna Lake is a beautiful lake set amid the picturesque surroundings of Chandigarh. Stretching for a distance of 3 kilometres, the Sukhna Lake is a man-made lake and is one of its kind in the city created in the year 1958 by damming the seasonal stream, Sukhna Choe that comes down from Shivalik Hills. With its pristine blue water, the lake serves as a perfect location for a stream of morning joggers and walkers who can also enjoy the fresh air. Apart from serving as a delight for artists and photographers, the lake is also a spot for sports activities such as boating, trampoline jumping and a recent addition of Solar Cruise. It is home to several species of fishes and migratory birds such as Siberian ducks and cranes. Being the home to several varieties of fishes and migratory birds, Sukhna Lake has been declared by the Government of India as a reserved national wetland. Bounded by a golf course on the south and popular Rose Garden towards west, the lake offers a mesmerizing view for its visitors at all time of the day. Sukhna Lake is quite popular amid the locals and visitors, the place is a perfect destination for solitude seekers.
Located on an expanse of 43 acres, this water amusement park in Ramgarh is the biggest in North India. It boasts of one activity pool, three landing pools and a wave pool, a cluster of water slides of various shapes and sizes, which makes for a delightful ride for the water lovers. Other popular draws are the lazy river ride, splash pool, aqua dance, slides like white multi lane, typhoon tunnel, white slide, red dragon slide, run away raft slide and pendulum slide.
The Terraced Gardens of Chandigarh is a famous and much-loved tourist attraction that is located in Sector 33 of the main city. The attraction boasts of being home to a myriad of colourful and vibrant flowers, the beauty and cheerfulness of which attracts tourists from not only Chandigarh and neighbouring areas, but from practically all across the country. The exuberance of the flowers is indeed contagious, and people who visit the Terraced Gardens never leave without a huge smile on their faces. The Terraced Garden was established in the year 1979, and have gained immense popularity ever since. Covering a total area of 10 acres, the gardens are full of lush greenery and provide scenic views. It had been named so because of the different levels, shapes and terrace designs that can be seen here. Perhaps the main attraction at the Terraced Gardens is the lighted musical fountain which comes to life in the evenings, when famous folk songs, as well as film songs, are played, and tourists are found clicking endless photos with the splashing water serving as the perfect background. The gardens are the ideal place for nature lovers and travellers to visit, to experience a beautiful day in Chandigarh in the lap of nature, and to enjoy the much-needed relief from the daily monotonous schedule. The gardens are also especially popular amongst youngsters and couples, who flock to the park in large numbers to enjoy a few moments of peaceful silence. The Terraced Gardens also hosts the Chrysanthemum Flowers Show, which is an annual exhibition of these flowers on an immense scale. This is perhaps yet another reason why the attraction continues to be so popular amongst the masses, and why it definitely should not be missed while on a tour of Chandigarh.
Perched at an elevation of 5,029 m above the sea level in the lap of Trishul Peak and Nanda Ghunti is a place full of mystery, Roopkund. Also called as 'Mystery Lake', the place is synonymous to its name owing to the discovery of human skeletons and horses remains from Paleolithic age at this very place. Surrounded by mesmerizing scenic beauty of lush green mountains and rocky glaciers, the place presents a perfect package as a trekking trail. The human and horse skeletons found around Roopkund are believed to be about 500-600 years old. The place remains frozen almost throughout the year but offers a great view of beauty. The trekking trail to Roopkund in itself is quite fascinating including the trek through rustic villages, the bewitching alpine meadows and a beautiful sacred pond, BedniKund with its crystal clear water. The trek gets steep from Bedni Bugyal to Roopkund. Almost 5 kms before the final destination lies Baguabasa situated 4,100 m above the sea level. If you are looking for some adrenaline pumping activity, while enjoying the panoramic scenic beauty, this place serves as a perfect trekking trail for you.
Government museum and art gallery in Chandigarh is one of the prominent museums of India that speaks well of the Indian history and partition. Established in August 1947, the museum is known for its rich collection of paintings, artefacts, and sculptures. Moreover, its unique architecture which was designed by Le Corbusier is highly spoken of. On 6th May 1968, Dr MS Randhawa, then chief commissioner of Lahore inaugurated the museum. The mission of this institution is to encourage appreciation of values embedded in Art and bring it close to the lives of people through interpretation of its rich collection and innovative programs. Located in the centre of the town, it offers the view of the Shivalik ranges in the backdrop. Visiting here gives you in-depth knowledge in the form Gandharan sculptures, Pahari and Rajasthani miniature paintings.
The city of Chandigarh is synonymous with stimulating amusement and water parks, which offer the locals as well as tourists with an exciting option to spend their day with their loved ones amidst the fun, frenzy and entertainment. The Thunder Zone Amusement and Water Park is one such attraction, which caters to people of all age groups and provides them with exciting and thrilling rides to enjoy. This place is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful amusement parks in all of northern India and was established on 15 May in 2002. Located just 13 kilometres away from the heart of the city, it is spread over a total land of 11 acres. Thunder Zone boasts of having many incredible amusement rides, water waves and slides for people to enjoy, other than four large pools in the water park; and the lush green lawns serve as the perfect backdrop for clicking some beautiful photographs after a day full of fun and enjoyment. Thunder Zone Amusement and Water Park is a fantastic and exciting place to be at, and this second water park to be established in Chandigarh is gaining popularity with each passing day. This is why a visit to the amusement park is a must, to enjoy a relaxed and carefree day away from the hustle bustle and tensions of daily life.
Comprising of two gardens, the botanical gardens spread over Chandigarh and is adorned by a huge variety of systematically arranged plant species that are both exotic and evergreen. One is placed in the Punjab University campus and the other is positioned in between the Sukhna Lake and Rock Garden in Sector-1.
Set between the Cricket Stadium and the Rose Garden in Sector 16, Shanti Kunj is a garden fed by a natural stream that divides it into five blooming islands.
Founded in the year 1985 by the Indian Council of Child Welfare, the museum contains a wide collection of fascinating dolls and marionettes brought from countries like Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Korea, and Russia that stand beside the huge Indian collection. The toy train and the ceramic fresco depicting the giant German railway station and other historical milestones are the other attractions here.
With fifty varieties of bougainvillea on display, this garden established in 1976 is spread over 20 acres. Its popularity lies in its varied shaped bougainvilleas- arch, pavilions, a cluster of bowers, and arcades. The annual Bougainvillea festival is a major draw here.
Nangal is a beautiful small town situated at a distance of 100km from Chandigarh in Punjab. The wetland is bounded by Sutlej River, canals and magnificent hills. It is the main attraction for tourists to this place and with the establishment of the Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej River, the place has gained more popularity. The Nangal lake is a beautiful artificial lake which is 6 Km long shaped by the Nangal dam. About 40,000 migratory birds fly here in winters and this lake is a heavenly paradise for bird lovers. Nangal is a flourishing township drawing hundreds of tourists due to the powerful and nifty Bhakra Dam Project and beautiful Nangal Lake. The Nangal town which lies on the foothills of Shivalik ranges is divided into two parts which are Nangal Township and Naya Nangal. Naya Nangal is said to be the best town in India in terms of facilities, cleanliness and natural beauty.
Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and attractive tourist locations that can be found in Chandigarh, the Leisure Valley is an eight-kilometre long linear stretch that covers a large part of Chandigarh. The place is also known as 'the lungs of the Chandigarh city', as this 'garland of gardens' not only adds to the beauty of the city but also helps to keep it clean and pollution free. The Leisure Valley is one of the most loved tourist attractions in the entire town, and people like to visit this attraction time and again to break free from the monotonous and stressful daily routine. The Leisure Valley is the only valley in the whole country that has set up different kinds of themed gardens in the entire city, and the attraction comprises of everything from rose and bougainvillaea gardens to parks meant for walking and exercise. There are twelve different gardens and parks in the Leisure Valley, and the most famous ones include the Rose Garden, Terrace Garden, Botanical Gardens, Hibiscus Garden and Smriti Upvan. The valley was designed and developed by Le Corbusier with an aim to convert the city of Chandigarh into the City of Gardens, and one cannot deny that he has succeeded in his endeavour in all ways. The three-day long festival that takes place at Leisure Valley is an added delight, and it attracts visitors not only from the city itself but also from all parts of the country. The easy accessibility, flexible timings and clean and peaceful environment all contribute to making it a must visit place while in Chandigarh.
Replete with real-life road scenarios, the Children Traffic Park in Sector 23A has extensive traffic control mechanisms such as road bents, inclines and declines, overpass, underpass, parallel parking area, blind alley, and uncontrolled intersections, T-Intersections, Stop Signs and Blinkers. The park also displays road markings and signs to train a child in road rules. Driving tests for children are also conducted thrice in a week and its time is set between 9 AM to 10 AM.
Founded in 1996, Hibiscus Garden houses over 40 varieties of Hibiscus shrubs over an 8 acre expanse. It is located in Sector 36.
A children's park with excellent playing facilities, Topiary Park in Sector 35 is a favourite amongst the little ones.
Spread over 3245 hectares, the forest reserve of Nepali and Kansal is pregnant with floral and wild life, many of which have been declared as endangered. Some of the popular animals here are neelgais, antelopes, jahares, jackals, and hyenas. If you are planning to camp here, you will need prior permissions from the Forest Department to explore the wilderness. The District Administration also organizes various trekking expeditions into the jungles.
Chronicling the Independence era, this museum houses the portraits, recorded voices of the great leaders of India and rare documents in connection with the freedom struggle. It also houses a library that archives a huge collection of books on the freedom movement. National Gallery of Portraits also screens a film on the freedom movement of India on every Sunday at 2 pm. The Gallery's prime collection is on Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.
Housing the Legislative Assembly, the Secretariat, the High Court and the Capitol designed by Le Corbusier is another architectural marvel composed of twofold cover, which appears like an overturned umbrella. It is the headquarters of both the Punjab and the Haryana governments.
ISKCON Temple is located in Sector 36B, Dakshin Marg in Chandigarh. The shrine is one of the several of the chain temples spread all over the country and across the world. The temple is dedicated to Lord Krishna and Radha; and is visited by thousands of devotees all through the year. The shrine reverberated with peace and tranquility and is a must visit place.
Located in Sector 26, Chandigarh, Butterfly Park is a popular park in the city. The garden is well maintained with beautiful landscaping and houses a total of 35 species of butterflies and more. The park has been designed to facilitate an ideal environment for the breeding of butterflies. For the same reason, it has special silence zones where loud noises or any harsh sound is prohibited.
Musical Fountain Show is held at Sector 17 in Chandigarh and is a popular place of recreation and sightseeing. The show is held in the evening hours and is a wonderful display of water fountains dancing to a rhythmic livid music. The place is thronged by locals and tourists alike to visit the show.


Rugby is thriving in West London at Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club and The Club is currently as successful as it has been during any time since it was formed in 1871.
Our senior Ealing Trailfinders first team competes in the Greene King IPA Championship.
Our Men's Section now boasts four teams, competing in The Shield and the Middlesex Merit Leagues.
Our Youth Section is for players aged 13 to 19 and now incorporates the new Academy section which feeds players directly into the senior development squad. The Youth teams cater for boys and girls at all levels of ability and currently have players representing the county at all age group levels, as well as players just being introduced to the game. The Youth play in the Hertfordshire and Middlesex leagues and, in season 2011/2012, were league winners at U14 level as well as winning Division Three at U16 level.
The Club is hugely proud of its Minis Section and each Sunday over 500 children, boys and girls, all play rugby in a well-organised, safe environment. The Section's objective is that every child, from four years to U12, who plays at Ealing will find it a warm welcome and an enjoyable experience.
Ealing Rugby Club is run by the members for its members. It has a well organised army of volunteers who give up their time to coach, referee, manage, provide first aiders, car park and match day stewards, and many other roles. These, and of course the parents and family members who lend their support, were recognised by the award of the RFU Whole Club Seal of Approval in season 2011/2012.
Going forward The Club aims to ensure that it remains a secure financially independent Rugby Club that fields competitive teams at every level, with the finest Coaching and Refereeing, all recognised by an RFU Whole Club Seal of Approval.
The Club intends to build on its ONE CLUB ethos, to ensure that all members share in the success and enjoyment of rugby at every level, be it an individual team, a Section, or the overall community that is Ealing Rugby Club.
We will continue to develop the success of our semi-professional playing squad and to develop and extend the success of the Amateur, Youth, Junior and Social Sections of the Club. However it is our aim to ensure that the semi-professional playing squad remains integrated with the other Sections within The Club and will aim to strengthen its ONE CLUB ethos.
In 1871 we started as a rugby club that embraced the Corinthian principles which prized fair play and moral values. These Corinthian principles still underpin the ethos at Ealing Rugby Club and continue to guide us to our future success.


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Resultant force sets acceleration - Teaching and learning issues
Things you'll need to decide on as you plan: Resultant Force sets Acceleration
Force changes motion
Equality and identity are not assignment
Don't abuse the equals sign
Force changes motion but does not set motion
Forces acting without contact
Writing vectors and scalars
When the sum of the forces is zero
Mass - hard to change the motion
Representing a relationship helpfully
Situations where several forces act
Thinking about actions to take: Resultant Force Sets Acceleration
Teaching Guidance for 14-16
The Teaching and Learning Issues presented here explain the challenges faced in teaching a particular topic. The evidence for these challenges are based on: research carried out on the ways children think about the topic; analyses of thinking and learning research; research carried out into the teaching of the topics; and, good reflective practice.
The challenges are presented with suggested solutions. There are also teaching tips which seek to distil some of the accumulated wisdom.
Things you'll need to decide on as you plan
Bringing together two sets of constraints
Focusing on the learners:
Distinguishing–eliciting–connecting. How to:
idealise from everyday experiences the lived-in world to develop the idea of a natural motion
distinguish between everyday motions of the lived-in world and the idealised world of Newtonian mechanics
draw out children's ideas of force and motion
reactivate, and then use children's prior learning
Teacher Tip: These are all related to findings about children's ideas from research. The teaching activities will provide some suggestions. So will colleagues, near and far.
Focusing on the physics:
Representing–noticing–recording. How to:
represent idealised motions as natural motions in a frictionless world
deal with remote causes—action at a distance forces
introduce mass, and not conflated with quantity of matter
Teacher Tip: Connecting what is experienced with what is written and drawn is essential to making sense of the connections between the theoretical world of physics and the lived-in world of the children. Don't forget to exemplify this action.
A common mistake: force → motion and motion → force
Wrong Track: The car has a force which keeps it moving along the motorway. If it's moving it must carry a force.
Right Lines: A force acting on an object changes its motion.
Giving forces to things
Thinking about the learning
It's a very common belief that objects that are moving must possess a force to keep them going. When questioned, a student might typically argue:
Stephen: The ball is carrying the force you gave it when you threw it to start it off.
Students often label moving objects with force arrows in the direction of motion. You're also likely to meet:
Nathan: The ball will stop when its force is used up.
The idea that a moving object carries a force, usually traced back to the force that was originally exerted, is common sense and it is almost correct. A moving object might indeed have been forced to start its motion. But, and it is a big but, this force changed the motion, in getting it going – it was the starting push. Once the agent doing the pushing stops exerting the force (so when the object no longer interacts with that aspect of its environment) the force is no longer there. The object continues to move but does not carry a force. The force changed the motion.
But both the energy in a kinetic store and the momentum do increase (see episode 03 for more on measures of motion) as a result of the action of the force.
Thinking about the teaching
The big challenge here is to get a visceral belief about the truth of Newton's first law embedded. In the lived-in world we can't escape the effects of frictional interactions. Accurate descriptions of everyday motions always involve frictional forces (grip, slip, drag). So the task is to imagine the natural motion of the objects in a world far removed from students' everyday world, and then – and only then – to add complexity back into the description.
Everyday experience is not on our side – to keep something moving we know we need to keep pushing it. This continued application of a force is required simply to oppose the retarding effect of friction. In a world without friction there would be no need to keep pushing. Objects, once in motion, would carry on moving. Pupils don't live in a world without friction, but there would be other interesting side effects.
You need to engineer the learning environment so that students' imagination can trump their (prior) experience.
Empirical discoveries, computing, and defining
The equals sign appears in many relationships, but also in computer programs. In these two contexts the meanings are different, but the symbol is the same.
When we use it for doing calculations there is a danger that we conflate the two meanings, tending to undermine both.
There are three separate use cases:
Assignment – used in computations.
Equality – used in empirical assertions.
Identity – used in definitions.
Taking care with symbols, one might use different symbols for different meanings. The difficulty is in computation, both when using pencil and paper, and when using software.
In many cases in physics, an = is often making an assertion about the world. It's a claim that what appears on its left hand side is identical in value (so physical quantity – number plus unit) to what appears on its right hand side. You test the validity of this assertion of the relationship between the two sets of values by empirical test. The use of the = sign is the final step in explaining how you think the world works.
In some other cases, the = sign plays a part in creating a framework that allows you to describe the world. In this case you're defining new entities in terms of existing ones. These are not empirical statements, and so could not be wrong (they're stipulative definitions).
Here is a simple example:durationspeed = distance
There is no experiment you could do to show that this is wrong.
(Some choose to write these kinds of relationships as:distanceduration ≡ speed. We've not chosen that representation here, because it's not widespread.)
An assertion of equality
Good mathematical habits can help you to think tidily, and not lead your students off down the wrong tracks.
As we've suggested you present it (following the development through the SPT: Forces topic, and the SPT: Motion topic), this kind of statement represents an empirical statement about the world.
forcemass = acceleration
The quantities on the left hand side are found (by experiment) to be equal to the quantities on the right hand side. There's nothing voluntary about it: this is the way the world is.
You might want to (and perhaps should) debate the empirical status of Newton's second law with colleagues (what experiments could you do to show that it is false?), but you do need to present a coherent line of reasoning to students, and we think the position taken here is plausible, intelligible and fruitful.
Some would argue for:
force = mass × acceleration. We don't think that's all that helpful in learning to use the relationship.
Teacher Tip: Use the = to mean that the left hand and right hand sides of a relationship are equal, rather than as an act of assignment (let's make this equal to that). So always, implicitly (by aligning the = in multiple line calculations) or explicitly (by always writing things out in full), ensure this balance by having a left and right hand side.
Forces on objects moving at constant speeds
Wrong Track: It's just stood there: no forces are acting on it by the environment.
Wrong Track: The speed is steady: no forces are acting.
Right Lines: Objects that appear to be affected by no force might have several forces acting on them which all add to zero.
Talking about forces acting on objects in equilibrium
Many situations used to discuss forces, particularly when first introducing the action of adding force arrows acting on objects to replace the interactions with their environment, are of objects in equilibrium. Very often these objects are stationary.
Such forces are often said to cancel out, reinforcing the idea that the forces were never really there in the first place.
We'd suggest explicitly going through the process of:
Identifying and isolating the object.
Noticing interactions of the object with its surroundings and replacing these with forces acting on the object, exerted by its environment.
Drawing a diagram showing all these forces.
Adding these forces as vectors, tip to tail, to show the resultant force.
If the resultant is zero, saying so, and adding the explanatory phrase: because all the forces add to zero .
It's particularly important to keep forces and velocities separate. The resultant force changes the velocity. Even though both are represented by arrows (because they're both best represented using vectors), they're very different things. Here we suggest that you show only force arrows on the diagrams. There's much more on representing different quantities with arrows throughout this topic.
A non-local piece of the environment interacts with our object
Wrong Track: How can the Earth pull on the Moon to make it fall? It's not even touching it!
Right Lines: Some forces can act on objects without touching them. Gravity is one example of these non-contact forces.
Explaining action-at-a-distance
If a student argues in this way, you might encourage them by recounting something of the history of the development of the idea of a field. It's possible to argue that this (very powerful) idea came into existence precisely to help scientists with their unease about this somewhat spooky action-at-a-distance. Certainly acting on something physical without touching it seems a very alien idea.
Gravitational, magnetic and electric effects happen at a distance: they are in a special class of non-contact forces. If students think that the action-at-a-distance effects of gravity are obvious, then you might well be worried. It's a strange way of thinking, rather different from the thinking in identifying all the other kinds of forces (normal and retarding).
However, the idea of a field is even more pervasive than the idea of a force in more recent physics, so it's something we may just gradually get used to. It's certainly an idea that's proved to have enduring cultural worth, and therefore worth investing some time in.
It's probable that it grew from worrying about how atoms interact – a line of thinking attributed to Boscovich (pictured here) – and was then picked up by Faraday to help him understand the non-local interactions of magnets and electromagnets. However, take care to keep magnetism and gravity separate as conflating the two is a well-known difficulty (see the SPT: Earth in space topic for more details).
How to show something is a vector
Teacher Tip: If some quantity is a vector, we'd suggest using an explicit notation to make that very clear. So we'd suggest →x instead of just writing the vector in a bold or italic face.
So acceleration is shown to be a vector by writing →a.
And velocity is shown to be a vector by writing →v.
In this way you'll help to keep separate scalars and vectors in students' minds.
You'll also be using something that they can mimic, and so help clarify their own thinking, when expressing ideas for themselves.
Teacher Tip: Vectors: acceleration, →a; velocity, →v; displacement, →d.
Scalars: speed; distance; mass.
Adding skins to functional models
Depending on the background and interests of your students, the following phrases may be useful.
Teacher Tip: It's not what it looks like, but what it does.
In physics, models don't have to resemble what they are models of. So the term model is used in a rather particular way. You'd be a bit surprised to buy a model car in a shop that did not have four wheels and windows. But models of cars used in physics may not have either.
The target in physics isn't representational models, but functional models. This is the origin of the impact of the phrase: Consider a spherical cow. It's not that physicists think that cows are spherical, rather that a sphere is simple enough that they can use it to capture some essential feature of how a cow works, which enables them to make predictions, and so understand what a cow does.
The idea of skinning – common in software and also in buying new covers for your mobile – may be useful here. Neither of these alter the functionality in any way: they only change the decorative veneer. Underneath is just the same reality: it's still just a browser, or just a Nokia.
Teacher Tip: A mass acted on by one or more forces can be skinned in many different ways. It could be skinned as a cat, a space rocket, or a thrown tennis ball.
Imagining the world in terms of forces and masses is seeing beyond the skin, down into the animating mechanisms. Since such a view makes many apparently different things appear identical, you might choose to call it a deeper reality. It's certainly a much more parsimonious and coherent view of the world – and those are key markers of the output of thinking like a physicist. You keep chipping away until the ultimate essence of a thing is revealed.
Einstein: A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.
Said, and best left unsaid
Teacher Tip: We'd suggest using the phrase the forces add to zero as a step on the way to saying the resultant force is zero , and definitely avoiding the forces cancel out .
There are two main reasons for suggesting this:
Adding the forces and finding that the resultant is zero is exactly what you do.
The process of cancelling might evoke memories of dealing with ratios or fractions. That's not appropriate for vectors – there are no good mathematical rules for performing these operations with vectors.
Some parts of you are harder to shift than others – and that's not all in the mind
Remember that, in getting parts of your body moving, it's not only the mass – there's bound to be something about levers in there somewhere as well. The complexity of the situation suggests that using body parts may not be a good idea when introducing inertial effects.
Teacher Tip: Don't use parts of the body, or really anything that doesn't act as a point mass (so where you need to think about the internal structure), to introduce inertial mass and its effects. Concentrate on simple objects.
Choosing and representing
Teacher Tip: There's a very important connection between mass, force and acceleration: I choose the mass and the force. The acceleration is a result of these choices. Remind yourself of that by writing: forcemass = acceleration each time.
Teacher Tip: To be even more precise, in this relationship there is one thing which is shown by just a number (mass is a scalar), and two things are shown by a representation where direction is important (force and acceleration), so we use ordered sets of numbers for this pair. Now you'd remind yourself of that by writing: →a = →Fm.
The effects of several forces
Wrong Track: This force tries to push the box in this direction and these forces try to push the box in that direction. So the box is trying to move in two directions at once.
Right Lines: Things like boxes are not like you or me. They don't try to move. Here's a better way to describe it, less likely to lead us into unhelpful thinking. Both forces act on the box. The resultant force is the sum of these two forces. The resultant force changes the motion.
Find the resultant force first
Expressions such as the surfaces are trying to move past each other are rather common when talking about frictional forces. That's not the only place: the danger arises every time there is more than one force acting on an object.
Avoid these difficulties by relating the changes in motion to the resultant force acting. Particular difficulties with frictional forces can be mitigated by using the distinction between grip, slip and drag (introduced in the SPT: Forces topic and again in the Physics Narrative on this episode).
Thinking about actions to take
There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:
treating empirical relationships with respect
treating the reimagining of natural motion as if it's problematic
dealing with action at a distance respectfully
using resultant force to predict motion
Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.
speaking as if force is the kind of thing that gets carried
being careless about scalars and vectors
speaking of forces trying to do things
Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.

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Reading 1984 in the age of Trump
The definition of "power" in America today is best encapsulated by a sentence written 70 years ago
Photo Illustration by Jackie Friedman | Images courtesy Alex Wong/Getty Images, Brian Jackson / Alamy Stock Photo
The definition of "power" in America today is best encapsulated by a sentence written 70 years ago:
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
This sentence was written by an Englishman named Eric Arthur Blair, who had found some success several years earlier with the publication of a scathing anti-Communist barnyard allegory that he published under the pseudonym George Orwell. His new dystopia — terrifyingly explored in 1984 — was not aimed at a political party in particular (contextually, it was a reaction to both Nazism and Stalinist communism). Instead, his slim novel was a grim excavation of political inevitability. "It would be most unfortunate if the reader smugly interpreted 1984 as another description of Stalinist barbarism if he does not see that it means us, too," warns Erich Fromm in an afterward of the book, which sold out online last week amid widespread concerns surrounding the new Trump administration.
Orwell has long been hailed as a visionary, with 1984 popping up on bestseller lists with an unnerving frequency since it was first published in 1949. The prophetic novel weighed on the minds of some of the 20th century's greatest artists: David Bowie wanted to make a musical out of it (it became Diamond Dogs) and Terry Gilliam reinterpreted it as the fantastic cult-classic Brazil. It has been debated and dismissed, hailed and despised, and taught in classrooms the world over.
I am hardly the first person to say that Orwell's masterpiece is a must-read that holds stark lessons for our current age, although perhaps it is slightly less obvious in the Trump era than it was during 1984's most recent run up the bestseller lists, during the NSA leaks of 2013. With a searing blue eye on the mass-market paperback's cover, 1984 is synonymous with the surveillance state. Its most quotable line is "Big Brother is watching you." Is it any wonder that in 2013, amidst stunning revelations of U.S. government snooping, The New Yorker wondered, "So are we living in 1984?"
In truth, though, 1984 isn't so much about the government spying through "telescreens" as it is a warning about the power of words and the malleability of truth. (That is the great irony of literature and philosophy — all truths must be conveyed in the least trustworthy of mediums: language.) With the stench of party propaganda still fresh in the late 1940s, Orwell warned "all history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Histories — and facts themselves — were proven to be flexible. Two and two does equal five, if the Party says it does. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia, if the Ministry of Truth declared it so.
Today, President Trump and his press secretary deal in "alternative facts" (in the truly Orwellian language of the supremely talented Grand Minister of Spin Kellyanne Conway), half-truths, and outright lies. They peddle falsehoods that don't really matter ("This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe"), and others that really do ("In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally"). Conway even dismissed the Women's March protesters in a kind of modern-day Newspeak for being "misinformed."
In President Trump's America, there is no indisputable truth — other than what President Trump says is the truth. As Orwell teaches, "Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past." In our present, Trump alone is the arbiter of what is real and true, what happened and what didn't. Don't trust your lying eyes. Trust Trump.
As a result, just a week into Trump's presidency, Americans are already practicing what 1984 calls Doublethink, the blind acceptance of contradictory truths or ideas. The president's inauguration speech, for example, described what The New York Times called a "uniquely dark vision of the United States" — a vision at odds with most Americans' realities. "Many of the claims he used to paint his picture of 'American carnage' were false," Think Progress wrote, citing President Trump's misleading descriptions of jobs, welfare, infrastructure, education, and crime.
More Doublethink: "When Trump repeats the ridiculous story about the three million illegal voters — a story that no one who knows, that not a single White House 'staffer,' not a single Republican congressman actually believes to be true — he does not really care if anyone believes it, even if, at some crazy level, he does, sort of," The New Yorker explained.
On Friday, Trump signed an executive order banning travelers from seven predominately Muslim countries on the grounds that he was protecting the United States from the threat of terrorism. But "no person accepted to the United States as a refugee, Syrian or otherwise, has been implicated in a major fatal terrorist attack since the Refugee Act of 1980 set up systematic procedures for accepting refugees into the United States," CNN wrote. "Before 1980, three refugees had successfully carried out terrorist attacks; all three were Cuban refugees, and a total of three people were killed."
But as they did in 1984, lies can easily become truth — at least in the minds of much of the populace. "Reality is inside the skull," Orwell writes.
In fact, "for the months leading up to the presidential election, and in the days since President Trump took office, ultraconservative websites like Breitbart News and Infowars have published a cycle of eye-popping stories with misleading claims about refugees. And it is beginning to influence public perception, experts say," as The New York Times detailed. Take, for example, stories written by Breitbart's Julia Hahn over the last two years: "Hahn has written hundreds of inflammatory and misleading articles about immigrants — with headlines like 'Criminal Aliens Sexually Assault 70,000 American Women' and 'Muslim Immigration Puts Half a Million U.S. Girls at Risk of Genital Mutilation,'" wrote The Southern Poverty Law Center. "Hahn has repeatedly cited information from the Center for Immigration Studies — a purveyor of anti-immigrant propaganda that was caught [recently] promoting an article by a notorious anti-Semite." (Hahn is expected to take a job in the White House soon.)
There must always be an enemy; Oceania has always been at war. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever," 1984 warns.
This much is now clear: The Trump White House is the Ministry of Truth. In Trump's first week, the dissemination of facts was strategically muted out of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services, and the Department of Agriculture. How long does it take to forget climate change, or at least to distrust it again?
Orwell has an answer:
Anything could be true. The so-called laws of nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. … The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a "real" world where "real" things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All the happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
"Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden," believes 1984's protagonist, Winston. It was his greatest mistake. In the end, after all, he loved Big Brother, too.
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Republican Scott Walker allegedly ran illegal group homes and overcrowded rooming houses for years.
Think you know Republican U.S. House candidate Scott Walker? You have no idea. Republican Scott Walker allegedly ran illegal group homes and overcrowded rooming houses for years. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/10/scott-walker-has-long-history-fighting-authority-and-losing/1498194002/
Scott Goss, Delaware News Journal Published 6:00 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2018 | Updated 1:51 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2018
Republican U.S. House candidate Scott Walker rolls through Wilmington, putting up dozens of his homemade campaign signs.(Photo: Suchat Pederson/Delaware News Journal)
Since winning the Republican nomination for U.S. House last month, Scott Walker has been disavowed by his own party, lambasted by Democrats and turned into a punchline on social media.
Being attacked and ostracized is nothing new for the 67-year-old Milford resident, who stands one victory away from representing Delaware in Congress.
A horticulturalist turned landlord, Walker spent years losing court battles with state, county and municipal officials over a real estate business he once promoted as a solution to Delaware's lack of affordable housing for the destitute, addicted and mentally ill.
Walker eventually was forced to give up the nearly two dozen properties he operated – due either to foreclosure or pressure from the Delaware Attorney General's Office.
Along the way he racked up hundreds of building code violations, launched numerous lawsuits, was evicted from one property after another and declared bankruptcy.
Yet, here he is, about to face incumbent Lisa Blunt Rochester in the Nov. 6 general election after a shocking primary win that might owe as much to mistaken identity as his homemade political signs.
Republican U.S. House candidate Scott Walker walks past a row of his campaign signs he recently painted to ensure they are ready to be used. (Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
"I don't have any revenge in my heart," Walker said. "I've become very religious lately and the time for that has passed. I will say I'm very satisfied being here but now I've got bigger fish to fry."
That's a far cry from where Walker found himself just weeks ago: largely dismissed as a political nobody, a characterization aided by his 2016 run for Congress as a Democrat in which he finished fifth out of six primary candidates.
As a Republican, Walker pulled off what no one expected, including himself. He won nearly 19,600 votes in September to defeat the state party's preferred candidate Lee Murphy.
In the weeks since, a sizable online community has sprung up to jeer and mock Walker's outlandish Facebook posts, including his screeds against white bread, a video secretly recorded inside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a video of him running on the beach in a tiny bathing suit and his repeated claims that Delaware's elected officials are racist.
The Delaware GOP – embarrassed by Walker's outlandish Facebook posts – vowed to withhold any assistance to the candidate.
Walker's real estate troubles and the lengthy court fights they produced have been widely ignored, however.
Yet there might be no one more surprised by Walker's primary victory than the former tenants who paid him $400 a month for space in what authorities have described as squalid, overcrowded tenements that he sometimes continued to rent after they had been condemned or sold at sheriff sale.
'The Landlord'
Walker today describes his real estate venture as a virtuous undertaking created with the sole mission of providing inexpensive housing, counseling services and employment opportunities to some of the state's most vulnerable residents – all without credit checks, security deposits or, in some cases, written leases.
"I was providing the most basic form of housing in America: the room for rent," he wrote in his unpublished memoir "The Landlord," a copy of which he provided to The News Journal.
"My tenants chose to live in my houses," he states in the 70-page book. "They came to me and asked for a room. Sometimes begged. They looked at the house, the room, the neighborhood, the price and chose to move in. Many wanted to live free and unencumbered by rules and authority. Many just wanted to come in off the streets."
Republican Congressional candidate Scott Walker nails his campaign signs to trees around Wilmington. (Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
Walker contends his good deeds were met with endless persecution in the form of intimidation, harassment, interference and retaliation from neighbors and government officials he claims were obsessed with destroying the racially mixed "families" he was forging out of the state's forgotten and neglected residents.
Two former tenants of Walker – both women who are now in recovery – said the houses were billed to them and their families as recovery or sober living homes. At the time, both women were actively using drugs and now say they had nowhere else to go.
But those "rooms" turned out to be partitioned sections of larger rooms Walker rented out to male and female tenants, including drug users, sex offenders and formerly incarcerated people, they say.
Nicole Petrucci, who lived at 123 Prospect Drive – owned by Walker's son, Matthew, but managed by Walker – said she was kicked out after a man fatally overdosed there. Petrucci said Walker believed she was partially responsible for the man's death because she was actively using heroin at the time.
But what remains a vivid memory for Petrucci was the man being carried out of the house through her bedroom in a body bag.
"It doesn't seem like he cared about anyone," said another woman, who rented a room from Walker. "It wasn't about helping somebody else."
Hundreds of court documents from foreclosure proceedings, federal inquiries and a dozen lawsuits also raise questions about how much help Walker was actually providing.
Republican congressional candidate Scott Walker puts up a campaign sign in Wilmington. (Photo: Suchat Pederson/Delaware News Journal)
They depict a man who consistently ignored building codes, zoning regulations and court-imposed fines, who leveled wild accusations against inspectors and tenants, and who defrauded the public with an illegitimate charity designed to mask his misdeeds.
"You have indisputably operated unlicensed group homes providing sub-standard housing to County citizens, exploited the County's most vulnerable citizens, and abused the judicial process," former New Castle County Solicitor Darryl Parson wrote in a 2014 letter to Walker. "You will not be rewarded for these hostile actions."
By all accounts, Walker's odyssey into real estate began sometime around 2002 when he and three of his four children – including his daughter J'Amie Leonard Walker, now an assistant public defender – began buying up New Castle County properties and renting them out for profit.
Over time, the family owned or operated 23 illegal group homes and rooming houses, according to court documents.
"It's a mistake to say my kids went along with this willing," Walker said. "They didn't know anything about real estate and I talked them into buying property. I twisted their arms."
Republican Congressional candidate Scott Walker stands in front of one of his former properties as he puts up campaign signs around Wilmington. (Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
When the Great Recession struck in 2008, the banks began to foreclose on the homes, sometimes for mortgage payments years overdue.
After some were sold at sheriff's sale, Scott Walker – whose real name is Russell – filed paperwork with the state in late 2010 to create the Disabled Disadvantaged Delawareans Foundation, a legal entity that took ownership of several properties then in the family's possession.
For years, Walker would describe the 3D Foundation as a nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable housing and mental health services.
Yet he never registered the foundation as nonprofit with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He never filed any corporate tax returns. He repeatedly failed to file annual franchise tax reports. He never received a license from the state to operate a group home. And he failed to file any state personal income taxes after the foundation was created.
Over the years, he would alternately describe himself as the foundation's president, CEO, trustee, executive director, board member and employee. But he consistently ignored basic requirements of any nonprofit by failing to reinvest revenue back into the foundation.
"3D is not a charitable concern in any sense," lawyers with the state attorney general's fraud division would later contend. "It is a mere sham."
State prosecutors would contend that did not stop Walker from seeking donations he claimed would be tax deductible, an allegation he vehemently denies.
Almost immediately after the 3D Foundation was formed, the properties it and the Walker family controlled began to rack up dozens of code violations a year, resulting in thousands of dollars in unpaid fines.
By 2016, Walker had amassed 371 code violation, his son Matthew received 87 for just one property and Walker's other daughter Jillian collected another 30, court documents show.
Walker's two daughters declined to comment on this story. His son could not be reached.
A number of those violations pertained to overcrowding, with eight to 12 people living in homes legally allowed to house four thanks to kitchens, hallways, crawl spaces and garages being separated into multiple living spaces with shower curtains and blankets.
Other violations related to faulty appliances, faulty electrical systems, insect infestations, defective stairs, standing water, missing smoke detectors and "improper disposal of human fecal matter."
Raw sewage that backed up into the basement of a home in Claymont was pumped out of a window into the backyard, "where wads of toilet paper and human feces accumulated," court documents show.
The Delaware Department of Justice included this photograph of raw sewage in the backyard of a home on Hessler Lane in a 2016 complaint filed against Russell "Scott" Walker. The DOJ is claimed Walker and his foundation were housing about 150 tenants in overcrowded and deplorable conditions in violation of city, county and state code. (Photo: Chancery Court complaint)
State lawyers asserted another property in Wilmington had an inoperable plumbing system that resulted in tenants disposing of their urine and feces in buckets stored in the kitchen.
Walker continued to rent the homes, even as foreclosures mounted and several properties were condemned, according to court records. But it was mismanagement and the refusal of some tenants to pay rent that eventually forced him to seek bankruptcy protection in 2011.
Soon after, Walker began to fight back by filing numerous lawsuits against the county and municipal governments and submitting formal discrimination complaints to the Delaware Human Relations Commission and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Acting as his own lawyer, Walker would consistently allege code enforcement officers and other government officials were unfairly targeting him and his "disabled" residents in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as well as state and federal housing laws.
'Reasonable accommodation'
At the crux of Walker's complaints was an insistence that his properties should be exempt from rules limiting the number of tenants. He argued the refusal of various government agencies to consider his tenants as a single family unit limited how many people could split the rent.
Yet Walker never formally sought variances. Instead, he and some of his tenants would occasionally mail vague letters to individual officials seeking undefined "reasonable accommodations."
None of the legal actions Walker pursued ever produced the results he was seeking.
The HUD complaint he and the 3D Foundation filed in early 2012 against New Castle County led federal investigators to conclude county officials had done no wrong.
They also note finding some residents staying on couches and others sleeping in a dining room, a porch, a garage and a basement.
"It appears the code violations issued to Mr. Walker by NCC were warranted," the HUD investigators state in their final report. "[T]he investigation revealed that neither the Complainant nor Mr. Walker followed the local zoning process for obtaining a variance."
Despite those findings, Walker in March 2013 filed a lawsuit against the county in Superior Court, claiming code enforcement officials and others were conspiring to ruin him. The case ground on for two years before Walker withdrew the lawsuit only to refile it in U.S. District Court, where it later was dismissed.
In May 2013, he filed a similar lawsuit against Wilmington in Chancery Court after city officials forced his tenants out of a row house that had been condemned years earlier. That case also was dismissed.
By the end of 2013, Walker also was suing the city of New Castle and others over his tenants being evicted from a home he was renting after it had been sold at a sheriff's sale. The city had declared the property a public nuisance due to a cockroach and bed bug infestation, court records show.
Republican Congressional candidate Scott Walker puts up campaign signs around Wilmington. (Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
One of Walker's only legal victories came as a result of that case.
The suits against New Castle County and the city of New Castle were being heard by the same judge, who at some point believed they were one and the same and dismissed both simultaneously.
Walker appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court, which remanded the city of New Castle case back to Superior Court. A few months later, Walker wrote a letter to New Castle's lawyer referencing a $7,000 settlement he rejected in favor of "a number in the $50,000 range."
The case was settled soon after for an undisclosed amount.
Two weeks later, Walker paid the $3,480 filing fee to become a Democratic candidate for U.S. House.
Walker and at least one of his children attempted to launch several other lawsuits over the years. Some were rejected because they failed to pay the filing fee and some were tossed for being frivolous.
One lawsuit filed against the county in U.S. District Court was settled in 2017. Walker claims that deal required New Castle County to waive $40,000 worth of pending fines.
His streak of filing new litigation finally came to halt, however, after the state, county and Wilmington jointly filed a lawsuit against Walker and the 3D Foundation a month after the 2016 primary.
The suit accused him of consumer fraud, maintaining a public nuisance, and other "deceptive and predatory actions [that] pose immediate and significant risks to the health, safety and welfare of the public."
By then, most of the properties owned by Walker and his family had been foreclosed on and sold off. But he and the 3D Foundation still controlled six group homes in Wilmington that collectively housed close to 70 tenants.
Walker denied every allegation and insisted the lawsuit was merely retaliation for his legal actions against racist government "stormtroopers"
"The physical appearance of the racially mixed residents of the Defendant were the actual, truthful so called 'nuisance' quality of the homes that the Plaintiffs claim depressed 'the value and character of the surrounding neighborhoods,'" he wrote.
Republican Congressional candidate Scott Walker rolls through Wilmington putting up campaign signs. (Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
Despite his protests, Walker quickly agreed to a settlement that required him to withdraw his remaining lawsuits and waive all claims to the 3D Foundation. He also was barred from renting property or having any involvement with a nonprofit for 10 years under the threat of a $100,000 court penalty.
The foundation was placed into receivership and its five remaining properties were boarded up.
In response to a subpoena demanding financial records from the 3D Foundation, Walker supplied a handwritten letter that came as close as he would ever get to admitting the allegations against him.
"3D Foundation doesn't exist as a functioning entity and never operated as a charity or a nonprofit conforming to Delaware laws," it stated. "There are no records available … I request you stop pursuing this."
The court receiver tasked with selling off 3D Foundation's properties later reported the corporate entity owed nearly $58,000 in unpaid city taxes, roughly $15,000 in unpaid school taxes and about $1,600 in unpaid county taxes.
Three of the properties were sold off in 2015.
The final two were approved for sale by the courts on Sept. 7, one day after Walker won the Republican primary for U.S. House.
"I have no animosity about all that because it probably saved my life," Walker said of the lawsuit. "But when you get hit you either stay down or you start swinging leather. That's what I've done and I'm blessed the voters chose me to be their candidate."
Since then, various theories have been put forward to explain Walker's victory.
Some political watchers have noted he shares a name with the governor of Wisconsin, a nationally known Republican who briefly pursued a presidential bid.
Some cite the fact that Walker never removed his political signs after the 2016 primary, giving him with two years worth of advertising that also generated thousands of dollars in unpaid fines.
Others blame Lee for completely discounting Walker and choosing to save his energy and financial resources for what he assumed would be a walk into a general election contest against Blunt Rochester.
Instead, the first black and first female elected to Congress from Delaware will face Walker, who still has no campaign staff and has yet to file a single finance report with the Federal Election Commission.
Walker's future will be determined by Delaware voters. But Petrucci, his former tenant, says he still needs to be held accountable for his past.
"There are a lot of people's lives you have negatively affected," she said of Walker. "You need to make amends for that and acknowledge what you did."
Reporter Brittany Horn contributed to this article.
Contact reporter Scott Goss at (302) 324-2281, sgoss@delawareonline.com or on Twitter @ScottGossDel.
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Q: Python - Scapy - Sniffing local network Is there a way to sniff local network with Scapy? For example - i'm developing a chat application with Python using TCP sockets, is there a way to sniff the data I send to '127.0.0.1'?

A: this code may be helpful
#!/usr/bin/python
__author__ = 'efirvida'

from netaddr import iter_iprange
from scapy.all import IP, TCP, ICMP, sr1, sniff
import logging
logging.getLogger('scapy').setLevel(logging.ERROR)

def ip_range(star_ip, stop_ip):
    netaddr_ip_list = list(iter_iprange(star_ip, stop_ip))
    return [str(i) for i in netaddr_ip_list]

def online_ip(iplist, timeout):
    online_ips = []
    for ip in iplist:
        reply = sr1(IP(dst=ip)/ICMP(), timeout=timeout, verbose=False)
        if not (reply is None):
            online_ips.append(ip)

    return online_ips

if __name__ == '__main__':

    TIMEOUT = 0.5
    snf_pk = 30                                                 # Number of sniff package to get
    star_ip = '10.12.12.1'                                      #  start ip on the ip-range to scan
    stop_ip = '10.12.12.40'                                     #  last ip on the ip-range to scan
    ports = [21, 22, 80, 442, 443, 808, 1080, 3128, 8080]       # port list to scan on the active ips

    ip_list = online_ip(ip_range(star_ip, stop_ip), TIMEOUT)    # online ips on the ip range

    #check open ports on the online ips
    ip_ports = []
    for ip in ip_list:
        openports = []
        for port in ports:
            ans = sr1(IP(dst=ip)/TCP(dport=port, flags="S"), timeout=TIMEOUT, verbose=False)
            if not (type(ans) == type(None)):
                if ans[TCP].flags == 18:
                    openports.append(port)

        if openports:
            ip_ports.append({'ip':ip, 'ports': openports})
    #stop check open ports on the online ips

    #sniff active ports on each active ip
    for ip in ip_ports:
        for port in ip['ports']:
            print 'Sniffing in ' + ip['ip'] + ':' + str(port)
            snf = sniff(filter="tcp and port " + str(port) + " and host " + ip['ip'], count=snf_pk)
            snf.pdfdump('sniff_' + ip['ip'] + '_port_' + str(port) + '.pdf')

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text:
Q: Ice::BadMagicException between C++ Server and Javascript browser client I tried ICE by building the cpp hello world project (server & client) and it worked perfectly. I now have a cpp server
Server
    try
    {
        Ice::CommunicatorHolder ich(argc, argv);
        auto adapter = ich->createObjectAdapterWithEndpoints("OnlineJudgeAdapter", "default -p 10000");
        auto servant = make_shared<ComsI>();
        adapter->add(servant, Ice::stringToIdentity("OnlineJudge"));
        adapter->activate();
        ich->waitForShutdown();
    }
    catch(const std::exception& e)
    {
        cerr << e.what() << endl;
        return 1;
    }

which when compiled and ran, seems to work. I run using --Ice.Trace.Network=2 flag so I see the network traffic.
My client is in Javascript in the browser. I followed the guide to get to:
Client
        try
        {
            const hostname = document.location.hostname || "127.0.0.1";
            const proxy = communicator.stringToProxy(`OnlineJudge:ws -h 127.0.0.1 -p 10000`);
            const judge = await OJMod
                .ComsPrx
                .checkedCast(proxy);

            if (judge) {
                await judge.listProblems();
            } else {
                $("#output").val("Invalid proxy");
            }
        } catch (ex) {
            console.log("NOPE");
            $("#output").val(ex.toString());
        }

HTML
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ice/3.7.3/Ice.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ice/3.7.3/Glacier2.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ice/3.7.3/IceStorm.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ice/3.7.3/IceGrid.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="OnlineInterface.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Client.js"></script>

The client is csac.php and ran using: php -S localhost:8000/csac.php
I am getting the following errors
On Client:
::Ice::ConnectFailedException
  ice_cause:
    isTrusted: "true"
    wasClean: "false"
    code: "1006"
    reason: ""
    type: "close"
    target:
      URL: "ws://127.0.0.1:10000/"
      url: "ws://127.0.0.1:10000/"
      readyState: "3"
      bufferedAmount: "0"
      onerror: (null)
      protocol: ""
      extensions: ""
      binaryType: "arraybuffer"
      CONNECTING: "0"
      OPEN: "1"
      CLOSING: "2"
      CLOSED: "3"
    currentTarget: (recursive)
    eventPhase: "2"
    cancelBubble: "false"
    bubbles: "false"
    cancelable: "false"
    defaultPrevented: "false"
    composed: "false"
    timeStamp: "4549"
    srcElement: (recursive)
    returnValue: "true"
    NONE: "0"
    CAPTURING_PHASE: "1"
    AT_TARGET: "2"
    BUBBLING_PHASE: "3"
  line: "975"
  column: "22"
  sourceURL: "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ice/3.7.3/Ice.js"
  error: "1006"

On Server (from network trace):
-- 03/31/20 15:06:36.123 ./judge: Network: trying to accept tcp connection
   local address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:10000
   remote address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:52339
-- 03/31/20 15:06:36.124 ./judge: Network: accepted tcp connection
   local address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:10000
   remote address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:52339
-- 03/31/20 15:06:36.124 ./judge: Network: closed tcp connection
   local address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:10000
   remote address = ::ffff:127.0.0.1:52339
   src/Ice/ConnectionI.cpp:1676: ::Ice::BadMagicException:
   unknown magic number: 0x47, 0x45, 0x54, 0x20

What is a BadMagicException? Is there a version conflict or am I passing the proxy string incorrectly?

A: After some digging I found that you need to enabled ws support on the server as well. This can be done using the --Ice.Default.Protocol=ws flag.
./judge --Ice.Default.Protocol=ws fixes the issue.


Sources: Trump's little-known home near Washington, DC, has security cameras inside and outside, monitored from New York, according to insiders. Politicians have stayed there for "safe haven." Ubiquitous surveillance equipment is also threaded throughout his Trump National Golf Club.
The suburban house on Water Mark Place in Sterling, Virginia, doesn't look like a Donald Trump residence: no classical columns, no gold accents. But sources say it has one feature, common to many Trump properties, which opens a window onto the candidate's worldview: an extensive and closely-monitored surveillance system.
The interior is monitored by multiple surveillance cameras, according to three former Trump employees familiar with the house. The video is watched remotely by Trump's security team 250 miles away in New York City, the sources said.
Trump's adjacent golf club, the Trump National Golf Club, also has an extensive web of surveillance cameras, these former employees said. The technology includes a license plate reader to record who comes and goes from the club, two of the sources said.
The extent of the video surveillance is far beyond what is routine for a golf club, said the three former employees, all of whom are familiar with the industry. Two of them said that the cameras were monitored intently, almost invasively. Workers, they said, would occasionally get called by security in New York if they were in an unexpected place.
The elaborate surveillance arrangement is consistent with a pattern: BuzzFeed News previously reported that in his bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump had a switchboard that allowed him to eavesdrop on any landline there, according to people who worked at the estate. Unlike at Mar-a-Lago, there is no allegation of phone eavesdropping capabilities at Trump's golf operations near the nation's capital.
Matthew Calamari (right) with Donald Trump Jr.
Overseeing Trump's surveillance operations is Matthew Calamari, a powerful behind-the scenes figure who has been in Trump's world for 35 years. Calamari reportedly came to Trump's attention when he tackled hecklers at a tennis match. According to one Trump biography, the large and imposing Calamari, a former college linebacker, said he would be willing to kill for his boss.
Trump is seeking the presidency when surveillance — and concern about it — is more pervasive in American life than ever before. Just this month, the Oliver Stone film Snowden opened, depicting Edward Snowden's revelations of how the NSA collects huge amounts of data on all Americans, and FBI director James Comey said it would be "sensible" for most people to cover their laptop cameras. Meanwhile, the FBI and other federal agencies are filming Americans from the skies, and surveillance cameras have become ubiquitous in airports, stores, and many city streets. In workplaces, employers track more and more of their employees' activities, and web cameras are increasingly common in people's homes.
Calamari reportedly came to Trump's attention when he tackled hecklers at a tennis match.
As a candidate, Trump has called for surveillance of mosques and has supported reauthorizing the Patriot Act, including the NSA's bulk collection of data on telephone calls, emails, and other digital communication. "I tend to err on the side of security," he told radio host Hugh Hewitt in June.
When BuzzFeed News previously revealed that Trump had a switchboard in his Mar-a-Lago bedroom and that sources said he used it to listen in on conversations, a Trump spokeswoman denied it.
This story is based mainly on five sources: four former employees of the golf resort, and one person close to the campaign. All but one said they plan to vote for Trump. The former employees spoke on condition of anonymity because, like virtually all Trump employees, they had signed sweeping nondisclosure agreements. The person close to the campaign said he isn't authorized to speak to the press.
"People stay there," said the source familiar with the Trump campaign. Politicians, he said, believed it was "a safe place to go." This source emphasized that no one except Trump ever stayed in Trump's actual bedrooms.
A third source, who used to work at the golf club, said he was unaware of politicians staying there but said other members of Trump's family and some officials of the Trump Organization did. Two other sources said they were unaware of anyone except Trump staying in his private residence in recent years.
Trump's house has a two-car garage, a bit of lawn, and a myrtle tree planted amid some hedges. From the exterior, the place looks like the home of a retired orthodontist rather than that of a billionaire real estate tycoon and presidential candidate.
Still, records confirm that Donald Trump purchased it in 2009, through a company called Trump Marks Asia, LLC. Trump uses this little-known and subdued private residence very rarely, sources say, just a few times a year when he visits his golf course. There's one entrance from the public street, and a separate entrance from the fairway attached to the Trump National Golf Club.
From the exterior, Trump's house looks like the home of a retired orthodontist.
In addition to his home, Trump's club has another private residence, a row house, available for club guests or members to rent. Like Trump's personal home, it is accessible from two entrances, either the golf club greens or the street. This home is sometimes rented to members or guests who need overnight stays.
Trump's home, according to three former employees, is equipped with multiple cameras throughout. One of the sources said that the cameras covered the entire home, including hallways, with the exception of bedrooms and bathrooms.
Three sources said the cameras in Trump's home are constantly monitored by Trump Organization security officials back in New York City, rather than by security at the next-door club. The sources said the Trump video cameras operate on a web-based system, and each camera feed is assigned a different IP address.
Three former employees said that they believe the extensive surveillance system inside Trump's home was installed out of concerns for Trump's safety.
As for surveillance at the golf club near Washington, it is also extensive. Trump first bought the Virginia golf club in 2009, when it was called Lowes Island Golf Club, and quickly made dramatic changes to the grounds and the surroundings. As he redid the grounds, for example, his workers cut down hundreds of trees that had interfered with the view of the river. "[N]ow we have unobstructed views of the Potomac River," he later told the Washington Post.
Trump at his golf course, in Sterling, Virginia.
In fact, this former Trump employee said, the club installed license tag readers so Trump security personnel would know which cars were coming and going.
Another former club official said that did indeed occur.
Security and surveillance at the Trump Organization is a family affair. For years, Trump's head of security has been Matthew Calamari. Some described the beefy Calamari as daunting and even intimidating, while others said he is an efficient and quiet professional. Soon after he took down two men disrupting a tennis game at the US Open, he began working as the mogul's bodyguard.
In Lost Tycoon, the 1993 biography of Trump, author Harry Hurt III describes a scene where Trump calls to Calamari from the back of his limousine, playfully testing his loyalty.
"You'd do anything for me, wouldn't you, Matty?" Donald called out from the rear of the limousine.
"Yes, sir, Mr. Trump," Calamari assured him.
"Would you kill for me, Matty?" Donald pressed.
"Would you kill for me, Matty?" Donald repeated, as if he were a cheerleader inciting a crowd to riot.
"Would you kill for me, Matty?" Donald said again in an even louder voice.
Calamari is now listed as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Trump Organization, though numerous sources said his duties chiefly involve security. Though he works for the Trump business, he was briefly paid by the Trump presidential campaign, according to Federal Election Commission reports, which say he received $4,322.15 in July, as well as expense reimbursements in March.
Calamari's son, Matt Calamari Jr., also works for the Trump Organization. "He picked up the security business from his dad," explained one former security official at the Trump Organization, who said the younger Calamari is remarkably good at the technical end of security, in spite of his young age.
Indeed, four sources said the younger Calamari seems to be the expert in surveillance technology and supervises these operations for Trump at all his properties. "His son handles surveillance," said a former Trump official at the golf club.
Neither of the Calamaris responded to requests for comment.
One major surveillance equipment contractor for the Trump Organization is AISG — American Integrated Security Group — which has touted its work on a separate Trump golf course, the Trump National Doral course in Florida. In a four-page case study it posted online, AISG writes that it dealt with both Matt Calamari Sr. and Jr.
The company also describes 360-degree "low profile cameras that look like smoke detectors" and an internet server system for storing and monitoring video. It says the "first phase" of its contract involved installing over 100 cameras, and it continued later with even more video surveillance.
The case study quotes Trump officials praising the cameras for allowing high-quality zooms on people's faces, and for license plate recognition.
Officials at the security company said the Calamaris wanted to make sure that they had the very best and that they could thoroughly monitor employees at the golf course.
It is unclear which contractor installed the cameras at Trump's Virginia home and the golf club it is attached to.
While Trump's visits to his home occur just a few times a year, the staff of the golf club are expected to always keep the fridge stocked, everything immaculate, and the temperature in the house just right.
These details are no laughing matter. When Trump showed up one June, according to three sources, the air conditioning unit was off and the heat was on, making the home uncomfortably warm. Trump fired the club's general manager.
If you have information or tips, you can contact this reporter at aram.roston@buzzfeed.com. To send an encrypted email, his PGP fingerprint is: D861 374F D725 4F61 39C0 08F1 4575 134B 09D9 B28D.


text:
Map - Louisa Island
World > Oceania > Australia > Tasmania > Louisa Island
Louisa Island is an island with a short sandy tombolo, located adjacent to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. The irregularly shaped 23 ha island is part of the Maatsuyker Islands Group, and comprises part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site.
The island's highest point is 80 m above sea level and, at low tide, the island is joined to the mainland by a 250 m sand spit.
The central parts of the island are lightly forested with Eucalyptus nitida and Eucalyptus ovata, with an understorey of Leptospermum scoparium and Melaleuca squarrosa. Bracken covers areas subjected to recent fires.
The island is part of the Maatsuyker Island Group Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding site for seabirds. Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater (206,000 pairs), fairy prion (400 pairs), common diving-petrel (1600 pairs), Pacific gull, sooty oystercatcher and pied oystercatcher. Mammals present include the Tasmanian pademelon and long-nosed potoroo. The Tasmanian tree skink is present.
Map-Louisa Island
Fairy Prion with egg
Louisa Island (English) Louisa Island (Italiano) ????? (Русский) Louisa Island (Svenska) Луїза (Українська)


text:
"""
Holds *changes* file handling class.
"""

__author__ = 'Jonny Lamb'
__copyright__ = 'Copyright © 2008 Jonny Lamb, Copyright © 2010 Jan Dittberner'
__license__ = 'MIT'

from debian import deb822
from debexpo.lib.utils import parse_section

import os.path

class Changes(object):
    """
    Helper class to parse *changes* files nicely.
    """

    def __init__(self, filename=None, string=None):
        """
        Object constructor. The object allows the user to specify **either**:

        #. a path to a *changes* file to parse
        #. a string with the *changes* file contents.

        ::

          a = Changes(filename='/tmp/packagename_version.changes')
          b = Changes(string='Source: packagename\\nMaintainer: ...')

        ``filename``
            Path to *changes* file to parse.

        ``string``
            *changes* file in a string to parse.
        """
        if (filename and string) or (not filename and not string):
            raise TypeError

        if filename:
            self._data = deb822.Changes(file(filename))
        else:
            self._data = deb822.Changes(string)

        if len(self._data) == 0:
            raise Exception('Changes file could not be parsed.')
        if filename:
            self.basename = os.path.basename(filename)
        else:
            self.basename = None

    def get_filename(self):
        """
        Returns the filename from which the changes file was generated from
        """
        return self.basename

    def get_files(self):
        """
        Returns a list of files in the *changes* file.
        """
        return [z['name'] for z in self._data['Files']]

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        """
        Returns the value of the rfc822 key specified.

        ``key``
            Key of data to request.
        """
        return self._data[key]

    def __contains__(self, key):
        """
        Returns whether the specified RFC822 key exists.

        ``key``
            Key of data to check for existence.
        """
        return key in self._data

    def get(self, key, default=None):
        """
        Returns the value of the rfc822 key specified, but defaults
        to a specific value if not found in the rfc822 file.

        ``key``
            Key of data to request.

        ``default``
            Default return value if ``key`` does not exist.
        """
        return self._data.get(key, default)

    def get_component(self):
        """
        Returns the component of the package.
        """
        return parse_section(self._data['Files'][0]['section'])[0]

    def get_priority(self):
        """
        Returns the priority of the package.
        """
        return parse_section(self._data['Files'][0]['priority'])[1]

    def get_dsc(self):
        """
        Returns the name of the .dsc file.
        """
        for item in self.get_files():
            if item.endswith('.dsc'):
                return item

    def get_diff(self):
        """
        Returns the name of the .diff.gz file if there is one, otherwise None.
        """
        for item in self.get_files():
            if item.endswith('.diff.gz') or item.endswith('.debian.tar.gz'):
                return item

        return None

    def get_pool_path(self):
        """
        Returns the path the changes file would be
        """
        return self._data.get_pool_path()


text:
LeBron tells GQ he isn't sure Gilbert ever cared
Adding a new layer to the rift between LeBron James and Dan Gilbert, the NBA's two-time reigning MVP and new Miami Heat forward has told GQ magazine that he isn't sure the Cleveland Cavaliers owner "ever cared" about him during their time together.
In an article released Tuesday, James spoke of how widespread criticism of his decision — and how he chose to make it a television event — is fueling him this offseason, plus reiterated how Ohio will always remain his home.
But perhaps his sharpest words were reserved for Gilbert, the owner who lashed out at him shortly after James announced that he would be joining the Heat.
"I don't think he ever cared about LeBron," James is quoted as saying. "My mother always told me: 'You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You'll get a good sense of their character.' Me and my family have seen the character of that man."
Gilbert did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
James made similar remarks on the night Miami signed him to a six-year contract, doing so while sitting alongside the other two legs of the Heat superstar triangle, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Gilbert was clearly scorned by James' choice, firing off a now-infamous letter to Cleveland fans describing it all as "a shameful display of selfishness and betrayal." He called James "narcissistic" and "self-promotional" and vowed the Cavaliers would win a championship before "the self-titled former king."
Further, in an interview the same night with The Associated Press, Gilbert said he felt James quit on Cleveland during the 2009 and 2010 playoffs. Gilbert was ultimately fined $100,000 by the NBA for what commissioner David Stern said were comments that fell into the category of being "a little extreme."
In the GQ article, James took exception to the "quitter" tag.
"Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself," James said.
He added that he's looking forward to seeing the Cavaliers as opponents this season.
"I do have motivation," James told GQ. "A lot of motivation."
Among other highlights from the article:
• James said he wouldn't change any part of "The Decision," the made-for-TV event in Greenwich, Conn. where he announced his playing plans to an audience of about 10 million viewers.
The hourlong show made $2.5 million for Boys & Girls Clubs. "When I found out I had an opportunity to do that for those kids, it was a no-brainer," James said.
• Despite his feuding with Gilbert, James thinks that if he could ever play for the Cavaliers again someday, it would be "a great story."
• James explained he's always had an uneasy relationship with Cleveland because he's from Akron, a half-hour away. "It's not far, but it is far," James said.
"And Clevelanders, because they were the bigger-city kids when we were growing up, looked down on us. ... So we didn't actually like Cleveland. We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day."


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