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Sports In General
By sam the man, May 25, 2017 in Sports In General
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6 hours ago, McCall said:
My guess is, if MLB were to expand into the west (namely Las Vegas and/or Portland), Fresno would probably be one of the new Triple-A teams.
If political and business leaders in and around Fresno enforce this deal really aggressively, then a new MLB franchise located somewhere east of the Continental Divide -- such as San Antonio, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, or even Montréal -- may get railroaded into starting off with a Class AAA club in Fresno.
Lest we forget, the then-Florida Marlins' very first Class AAA affiliate was the Edmonton Trappers.
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Location:Kansas City, Missouri
Mafia League Baseball is really flexing some muscle.
7 hours ago, schlim said:
I wonder about how much this situation will doom professional baseball's decades-old exemption from US federal antitrust law. For a long time, one of the strongest arguments in favor of the antitrust exemption was that such a waiver protected US pro baseball's minor leagues and their teams from encroachment by the sport's major pro leagues and their teams, let alone from any upstart pro baseball circuit that intended to compete directly with the sport's established major leagues in the United States. However, I think that such an argument has assumed naïvely that Major League Baseball would deal as fairly as possible with its affiliated minor leagues at all times and refrain from exploiting the antitrust exemption to act as unilaterally as possible toward not only the affiliated minors, but also independent pro baseball leagues and even amateur summer baseball circuits that utilize college players.
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https://theathletic.com/2269893/2020/12/17/pacific-coast-league-withdraws-from-old-minor-league-baseball-structure/?amp
Haven't fully read the article. But It another chapter in the "Mafia League Baseball ruining fun stuff" story.
Thoughts? Will update when I have the chance to finish the article.
(update: The Atlantic are a joke. So I'm just curious now on how the MLB will react.)
Edited December 18, 2020 by Matthew24
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14 hours ago, Matthew24 said:
MiLB is being reformed, so every league will pull out at some point, the PCL are just the first.
2 hours ago, sportsfan7 said:
Who else would drop out? Doubt the IL would leave due to the MLB needing a Triple A league.
54 minutes ago, Matthew24 said:
If I understand correctly, MiLB is being folded and "reformed". All the leagues that are part of the "new MiLB" will leave the "old MiLB".
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On 12/16/2020 at 2:06 PM, schlim said:
That entire thing reads like MLB isn't satisfied with the level of murder it's done to the minors yet. Maybe the endgame is replacing the entire system with the practice academies they had for this season, and leaving the rest of professional baseball completely unaffiliated and unsubsidized. That would absolutely suck for the sport, but I imagine it would be fantastic for the short-term bottom line.
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Thanos is baseball's commissioner...who knew? Practically a snap, and a number of teams either changed levels or flat out vanished.
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On 12/18/2020 at 11:21 PM, Sodboy13 said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If it gets to that point, time to pull the antitrust exemption. And hey, Congress can put their time and effort towards more important matters than holding hearings to a sports league!
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17 hours ago, Discrim said:
Thanus. After all, this is Rob Manfred we're talking about.
On 12/18/2020 at 7:30 PM, sportsfan7 said:
So in other word. It is a complete waste of time and only make things worse.
MLB will reap in the money while completely screwing everyone over. I think this will end badly for baseball...
Isn't minor league baseball the cheapest and easiest way to maintain and build a national fan base? Look at all the small towns and regions that are/were part of baseball with no major league team for hundreds of miles. It just seems so crazy they are actually going this scorched earth route yo save a few dollars.
Over the past few years, baseball has fought hard for their right to pay minor leaguers less than minimum wage, and convinced minor league teams (some now banished) to support and push the 'Save America's Pastime' act in a congressional spending bill to do so. (Its now being reviewed by the Supreme Court).
I grew up with baseball and still enjoy the idea of the game, but damn the people who run baseball must really hate it.
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Yes the "National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues Incorporated" (dba MiLB) is disbanding.
The existing leagues in the MiLB system (PCL, IL, EL, etc.) are supposedly being resurrected in the new MLB system in name only. There wont be league offices or anything anymore as MLB will oversee anything. Official league names and formations haven't been formally announced yet, but they will just continue to use the names and logos of the leagues as they see fit. I believe Carolina league is being rebranded as Mid-Atlantic League, but other than that, I think the logos and names are staying the same. Other than The leagues they have already dropped.
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51 minutes ago, Red-Knight said:
Wonder if it'll come with one league ball or if they'll still have league printing on it.
Also wonder if this'll mean the adopting of the MLB ball at the minors.
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Welp, my ownership stake lasted 8 months with no games played.
Appleton Baseball Club, Inc sold the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (and the stadium and the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders summer collegiate team) to an ownership group, which includes the current president of the team as a minority owner.
However, the challenges due to COVID-19, which included losing the entire 2020 baseball season along with many of the key revenue-generating events held at the stadium each season, put the team in an unprecedented financial situation. To save the franchise, the current board of directors made the decision to sell the team to Third Base Ventures and a couple of familiar faces in Dickman and Zerjav to make sure that professional baseball stayed in the Fox Cities.
From the FAQ the team put out.
I purchased and hold a membership certificate in the Timber Rattlers. What does this mean to me?
As we forge the next era of Timber Rattlers history together, we are pleased to welcome current members of the "Owners Club" to "T-Rats Ten". As a member of T-Rats Ten, you will receive all the same perks and benefits you have been accustomed to including complimentary tickets to Opening Day, complimentary tickets to the Team Picnic and a team store discount. As you paid for your membership for 2020, this membership will carry over to the 2021 season and there will be no renewal costs for this upcoming season.
Additional information about T-Rats Ten will be announced in the next few weeks.
What is happening to Appleton Baseball Club?
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers will still be around, but Appleton Baseball Club, Inc. will dissolve as an entity as of December 31, 2020.
The Tri-City ValleyCats - a member of the affiliated Class A Short Season New York-Penn League from 2002 through 2020 - have announced that they will become the 16th member-franchise of the independent Frontier League in time for the circuit's 2021 season. The Frontier League - designated as an official Partner League of Major League Baseball in September of last year - features teams located in seven U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, with membership stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from the Ohio River to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Frontier League Welcomes Tri-City ValleyCats
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This will be a good fit for the Frontier League, after absorbing the CAN AM in 2020, the Capital Region will fit nicely in the footprint now.
The Burlington Bees and Clinton LumberKings - formerly of affiliated Minor League Baseball's Midwest League - will both be joining the summer collegiate Prospect League in time for said circuit's 2021 season.
Clinton LumberKings, Burlington Bees Added for 2021
The Tri-City ValleyCats - formerly a member of the affiliated Class A Short Season New York-Penn League and expected to be joining the independent Frontier League in time for the 2021 season - have filed suit against Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros over the decision to exclude the club from the reconfigured 120-team Minor League Baseball system beginning this year.
The lawsuit, filed in the commercial division of the State of New York Supreme Court and claiming breach of fiduciary trust and tortious interference, seeks damages in excess of $15 million. The complaint, in part, states:
"In 2019, Defendants had publicly released a list of the teams that would remain affiliated with MLB, which included the ValleyCats, and made other public statements that the ValleyCats would be included. The ValleyCats materially relied on these public disclosures, which Defendants reneged on at the eleventh hour, by making substantial substantial improvements to the Stadium, making ongoing lease payments it otherwise may not have, and continuing to fund a business which was unknowingly on the brink of decimation."
It goes on to note:
"MLB's intimidation tactics, which it used to pit MiLB teams against each other for the 'privilege' of having their businesses destroyed, has gone on for years but was most vividly demonstrated by a May 2020 email in which Commissioner Rob Manfred emailed the ValleyCats' owner condolences on the passing of his father, and then in the very same email, issued a veiled threat that any public statement about MLB's contraction efforts would be 'unwise'."
The ValleyCats are represented in the legal action by the same pair of law firms that are handling a similar suit brought by another disaffiliated New York-Penn League team - the Staten Island Yankees - against Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees.
Valley Cats sue Major League Baseball, Houston Astros for $15M
This certainly puts the Frontier League in an interesting position, as the circuit was named an official "Partner League" of Major League Baseball in September of last year.


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#ifndef THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CORE_LIB_STRINGS_PROTO_TEXT_UTIL_H_
#define THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CORE_LIB_STRINGS_PROTO_TEXT_UTIL_H_

#include "tensorflow/core/lib/strings/numbers.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/lib/strings/scanner.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/lib/strings/str_util.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/lib/strings/strcat.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/macros.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/protobuf.h"

namespace tensorflow {
namespace strings {

static constexpr char kColonSeparator[] = ": ";

// Helper functions for writing proto-text output.
// Used by the code generated from tools/proto_text/gen_proto_text_lib.cc.
class ProtoTextOutput {
 public:
  // Construct a ProtoTextOutput that writes to <output> If short_debug is true,
  // outputs text to match proto.ShortDebugString(); else matches
  // proto.DebugString().
  ProtoTextOutput(string* output, bool short_debug)
      : output_(output),
        short_debug_(short_debug),
        field_separator_(short_debug ? " " : "\n") {}

  // Writes opening of nested message and increases indent level.
  void OpenNestedMessage(const char field_name[]) {
    StrAppend(output_, level_empty_ ? "" : field_separator_, indent_,
              field_name, " {", field_separator_);
    if (!short_debug_) StrAppend(&indent_, "  ");
    level_empty_ = true;
  }

  // Writes close of nested message and decreases indent level.
  void CloseNestedMessage() {
    if (!short_debug_) indent_.resize(indent_.size() - 2);
    StrAppend(output_, level_empty_ ? "" : field_separator_, indent_, "}");
    level_empty_ = false;
  }

  // Print the close of the top-level message that was printed.
  void CloseTopMessage() {
    if (!short_debug_ && !level_empty_) StrAppend(output_, "\n");
  }

  // Appends a numeric value, like my_field: 123
  template <typename T>
  void AppendNumeric(const char field_name[], T value) {
    AppendFieldAndValue(field_name, StrCat(value));
  }

  // Appends a numeric value, like my_field: 123, but only if value != 0.
  template <typename T>
  void AppendNumericIfNotZero(const char field_name[], T value) {
    if (value != 0) AppendNumeric(field_name, value);
  }

  // Appends a bool value, either my_field: true or my_field: false.
  void AppendBool(const char field_name[], bool value) {
    AppendFieldAndValue(field_name, value ? "true" : "false");
  }

  // Appends a bool value, as my_field: true, only if value is true.
  void AppendBoolIfTrue(const char field_name[], bool value) {
    if (value) AppendBool(field_name, value);
  }

  // Appends a string value, like my_field: "abc123".
  void AppendString(const char field_name[], const string& value) {
    AppendFieldAndValue(
        field_name, StrCat("\"", ::tensorflow::str_util::CEscape(value), "\""));
  }

  // Appends a string value, like my_field: "abc123", but only if value is not
  // empty.
  void AppendStringIfNotEmpty(const char field_name[], const string& value) {
    if (!value.empty()) AppendString(field_name, value);
  }

  // Appends the string name of an enum, like my_field: FIRST_ENUM.
  void AppendEnumName(const char field_name[], const string& name) {
    AppendFieldAndValue(field_name, name);
  }

 private:
  void AppendFieldAndValue(const char field_name[], StringPiece value_text) {
    StrAppend(output_, level_empty_ ? "" : field_separator_, indent_,
              field_name, kColonSeparator, value_text);
    level_empty_ = false;
  }

  string* const output_;
  const bool short_debug_;
  const string field_separator_;
  string indent_;

  // False when at least one field has been output for the message at the
  // current deepest level of nesting.
  bool level_empty_ = true;

  TF_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ProtoTextOutput);
};

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, int32* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strto32(s, value);
}

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, uint32* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strtou32(s, value);
}

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, int64* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strto64(s, value);
}

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, uint64* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strtou64(s, value);
}

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, float* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strtof(s.ToString().c_str(), value);
}

inline bool ProtoParseNumeric(StringPiece s, double* value) {
  return ::tensorflow::strings::safe_strtod(s.ToString().c_str(), value);
}

inline void ProtoSpaceAndComments(Scanner* scanner) {
  for (;;) {
    scanner->AnySpace();
    if (scanner->Peek() != '#') return;
    // Skip until newline.
    while (scanner->Peek('\n') != '\n') scanner->One(Scanner::ALL);
  }
}

// Parse the next numeric value from <scanner>, returning false if parsing
// failed.
template <typename T>
bool ProtoParseNumericFromScanner(Scanner* scanner, T* value) {
  StringPiece numeric_str;
  scanner->RestartCapture();
  if (!scanner->Many(Scanner::LETTER_DIGIT_DOT_PLUS_MINUS)
           .GetResult(nullptr, &numeric_str)) {
    return false;
  }

  // Special case to disallow multiple leading zeroes, to match proto parsing.
  int leading_zero = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < numeric_str.size(); ++i) {
    const char ch = numeric_str[i];
    if (ch == '0') {
      if (++leading_zero > 1) return false;
    } else if (ch != '-') {
      break;
    }
  }

  ProtoSpaceAndComments(scanner);
  return ProtoParseNumeric(numeric_str, value);
}

// Parse the next boolean value from <scanner>, returning false if parsing
// failed.
bool ProtoParseBoolFromScanner(Scanner* scanner, bool* value);

// Parse the next string literal from <scanner>, returning false if parsing
// failed.
bool ProtoParseStringLiteralFromScanner(Scanner* scanner, string* value);

}  // namespace strings
}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CORE_LIB_STRINGS_PROTO_TEXT_UTIL_H_

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5 Lost Buildings and 5 Success Stories of Landmarks in NYC, by Co-Curator of Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks
Photograph from Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks by Iwan Baan
This month, we've been actively covering the wonderful preservation exhibition Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks at the Museum of the City of New York, from a preview of the exhibition, a look at the unique architectural remnants on display, to an interview with the curators. We asked co-curator Andrew Dolkart to share with us five losses and five success stories in the history of landmarking in New York City. Here were his picks:
5 Lost Landmarks of NYC
We'll begin with Dolkart's picks of significant buildings that were lost before the passing of the New York City Landmarks Law in 1965.
5. Penn Station
Image via Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress
"Penn Station, of course," Dolkart tells us. Indeed, the loss of the original Pennsylvania Station by McKim, Meade & White is commonly referred to as the building that galvanized support for landmarking in the city. Photographs of its demolition, which took an agonizing three years, continue to haunt us today, but amazingly, remnants of the original station abound with many within the existing much-maligned structure, the subject of a popular tour we give here at Untapped Cities. In addition, Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks has the head of an eagle that once adorned the facade of Penn Station.
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Six Pingry Seniors Sign NCAA Division I National Letters of Intent
Nov 20 2017 12:44 PM
Kicking off the National Letter of Intent (NLI) signing season, six Pingry seniors recently marked their formal commitment to pursue their education and athletic careers at top Division I schools. An additional 25 college-bound athletes from Pingry—spanning 14 teams—look forward to competing for Ivy League and Division III teams and are awaiting their December early decisions.
We look forward to updating the Pingry community in the spring with the full list of college-bound athletes. In the meantime, if you're curious, read last year's article, in which 26 student-athletes headed to college teams.
The six NLI signers are as follows:
George Enman—Lafayette College—Lacrosse
A lacrosse starter since his sophomore year, Enman has been integral to Big Blue's three consecutive state championships. Last year, he led the team in points and was named to the All-Skyland Conference First Team and the All-State Second Team. He was also named the team's offensive MVP. Enman also plays ice hockey for Big Blue, captaining the team his junior and senior years.
"George is a highly competitive athlete who has enjoyed considerable success in the last few years. He will graduate as one of our all-time leading scorers. I have enjoyed coaching him for his skill, leadership, and toughness."—Mike Webster, Head Coach of the Boys' Varsity Lacrosse Team
Malcolm Fields—University of Notre Dame—Fencing
A regular fixture at USFA (United State Fencing Associations) open competitions, both nationally and internationally, Fields, a sabre fencer, was captain of Big Blue last season and will serve in the same role this upcoming season. Last year, he went undefeated in dual meets, led the team's sabre squad to a second-place finish at the 2017 Cetrulo Tournament, and was named the 2016 Somerset County individual champion. According to Head Coach Ted Li, he is aspiring to become the third Pingry fencer to represent the USA in the Olympics, following Athletics Hall of Fame inductees C. Lee Shelley '74 and Daniel Kellner '94. Outside of Pingry, the nationally ranked fencer practices at Advance Fencing and Fitness Academy in Garwood.
"With his speed, athleticism, and focus, Malcolm has been one of the mainstays of Pingry sabre fencing for the last three years, and as a captain this year, he will certainly contribute to the team's success."—Ted Li, Head Coach of the Varsity Fencing Team
Mairead Higgins—Georgetown University—Lacrosse
Mairead is a four-year varsity lacrosse player and captain her senior year as well as a three-year varsity soccer player and captain this year for Big Blue.
"Mairead has been a leader and contributor on our team for four years. She raises the level of practices and games with her intensity and focus. What an honor for her and for our program for her to be signing this Letter of Intent to Georgetown University."—Carter Abbott, Director of Athletics and Head Coach of Girls' Varsity Lacrosse
Aubrey Molloy—University of North Carolina—Fencing
Austin Parsons—University of Notre Dame—Track & Field
A four-year varsity track & field team member and upcoming captain, Parsons holds Pingry's record for the second farthest javelin throw in the school's history (193'5"). Last year, he finished fifth in the javelin at Meet of Champions, second at the Non-Public "A" State Championships, and won the javelin competition at both the Skyland Conference and Somerset County Championships. He is also a three-year member of Big Blue's football and ice hockey teams.
"At Pingry, the record in the javelin (202'9") has been held for 50 years by Bill Rosenberg '67. Austin now has the second-best throw (193'5") with his senior year yet to come."—Rik Alexanderson '64
Sophia Weldon—Southern Methodist University—Track & Field
Weldon, a four-year varsity track & field athlete, holds Pingry's triple (38'-1/2") and high jump (5'6") records and won both events at the Non-Public "A" State Championships last spring. She also plays soccer and swims for Big Blue.
"Sophia is the type of jumper that gets better and stronger year after year. She is a key point scorer in all three of her events for our track team since her freshman year and has anchored our team numerous times to state titles. As the top jumper in the state last year, she will leave behind huge shoes to fill. I can't wait to see what she does next at SMU."—Nancy Romano, Assistant Coach of the Track & Field Team
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Distinguished CFA/SFTV Scholar Is Honored
It's been a season of accolades for Loyola Marymount University's scholar of sports and society.
Lawrence Wenner, the Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics in the College of Communication and Fine Arts and the School of Film and Television, has added to his already impressive resume.
On campus, Wenner was awarded the Rains Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Works. Away from campus, the journal he edits, Communication & Sport, was named PROSE Award winner for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences; he was named the inaugural winner of the Legacy Scholar Award by the International Communication Association's Sport Communication Interest Group; and most recently Wenner was named a research fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.
"It's a new, hot area in communications and media studies to combine it with sports studies," said Wenner. "It's taken me to a wide range of conferences, and I've been exposed to more people and ideas. It has a healthy feel to it."
Still, he adds, "It took me 30 years to be an overnight success, because I've been working on these issues since the 1980s."
The Rains Award, among LMU's highest honors for faculty members, recognizes a tenured professor whose service exemplifies the LMU mission in a manner that is outstanding and meaningful. Wenner's research focuses on critical assessments of media content, ethical dimensions of race and gender portrayals in advertising, audience experiences with television in the family context, and the values and consumption of mediated sports. He is the author of nine books, including "Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life" (with Steven Jackson) and "Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture." He has also written approximately 130 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.
"Gender and representation, race and representation, the increased commodification of mediated sport, and the elevating of athletes as social, political, cultural leaders — these are issues that affect the culture and need to be examined," he said.
In October, Wenner will be traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia, to be officially recognized by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Research with the fellowship. As the society acknowledged, "Your work in our field continues to be meaningful and influential, and we hope that this award can provide adequate recognition of such."
This article was originally published in the LMU Newsroom.
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All local communities are gearing up for Memorial Day weekend and many local towns are holding parades and ceremonies to honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Many parades are planned including one in Avalon on Memorial Day at 9:00am, in Middle Township at 10:00am, and in Stone Harbor…
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Q: Privoxy/TOR not working with Iceweasel I installed tor and privoxy on my linux 64-bit box. And uncommented the following line in /etc/privoxy/config file.
        forward-socks5   /               127.0.0.1:9050 .

Then I started services for both. Now, if I run either of the following commands, I get the same IP address, which is not the real ip of PC. So I conclude both tor and privoxy are running.
curl -x 127.0.0.1:8118 curlmyip.com
curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:9050 curlmyip.com

If I use chrome with --proxy-server localhost:8118 switch, I again get the same anonymized IP address.
The problem is, I cannot use the http proxy, localhost 8118, with firefox/iceweasel. I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings and set HTTP and SSL proxies to localhost 8118. Iceweasel says "The proxy server is refusing connections"
Any solutions?

A: The use of browsers other than Tor Browser is recommended against. The use of privoxy / polipo has been deprecated by The Tor Project long time ago as well. The current advice is to only use Tor Browser, because only Tor Browser gives you an unified web fingerprint and you won't stand out.

A: I encountered a similar error where I was trying to use a combination of tor and privoxy on home PC.
The OS used was Kali Linux 2.0.
Steps to replicate issue
Installed tor
sudo apt-get install tor

Started Tor relay
tor

Validated if tor was working
netstat -atnp tor | egrep tor

In the output, observed tor output -- great.
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9050          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2401/tor
tcp        0      0 192.168.x.x:44278       xx.xxx.xx.xx:443        ESTABLISHED 2401/tor

Installed privoxy
sudo apt-get install privoxy

Modified default privoxy config file in /etc/privoxy/config as per the instructions here under "How do I use privoxy together with tor" and included the following lines:
forward-socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050   .
forward         192.168.*.*/     .
forward            10.*.*.*/     .
forward           127.*.*.*/     .

Then started privoxy
privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

Ran the command to check if privoxy was working:
netstat -atnp | egrep privoxy

Output showed that privoxy was running (Notice tcp6 which is IPv6 -  I didn't pay attention to that initially, but this was the problem):
tcp6       0      0 ::1:8118                :::*                    LISTEN      3881/privoxy

Then set the SSL and HTTP proxy to 127.0.0.1:8118 and I got the error when surfing internet sites, "The proxy chosen is refusing connections"
Fix:
On reading the privoxy config file carefully, the listen-address stanza displays the following information.
Some operating systems will prefer IPv6 to IPv4 addresses even
if the system has no IPv6 connectivity which is usually not
expected by the user. Some even rely on DNS to resolve
localhost which mean the "localhost" address used may not
actually be local.

**It is therefore recommended to explicitly configure the
intended IP address instead of relying on the operating
system, unless there's a strong reason not to.**

Appears that KALI was preferring to bind to the IPv6 localhost [::1] than IPv4 local host 127.0.0.1 even though I had no IPv6 connectivity.
So I changed listen-address line from
listen-address localhost:8118

to
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118

and restarted privoxy...
pkill privoxy  # kills all processes with privoxy in their name
privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

I then set the SSL, HTTP proxies to 127.0.0.1:8118 and the SOCKS proxy to 127.0.0.1:9050 (Socks 4) in ICEWEASEL. And voila! I was able to connect to internet sites.
For verification, I ran netstat and nmap which showed that privoxy was binding to IPv4 localhost IP..
> netstat -atnp | grep privoxy
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8118          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3934/privoxy

> nmap 127.0.0.1 -p 8118
PORT     STATE SERVICE
8118/tcp open  privoxy

> nmap -6 localhost -p 8118
PORT     STATE SERVICE
8118/tcp closed  privoxy

Note:
My /etc/hosts file also has the entry for the localhost:
127.0.0.1   localhost

A: It works for me.  Please try downloading a binary version of Firefox:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/17.0.8esr/linux-i686/en-US/
Following your exact instructions above with this binary on Gentoo worked for me.  I'd surmise that you have an off version of Firefox.

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Q: PostgreSQL fails to start -- no clear reason I have a server which was happily running PostgreSQL, until a crash this morning.
Trying to restart Postgres, but it fails:
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql start
Starting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server
Removed stale pid file.
The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
   ...fail!

Doing tail /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log, I see several messages from before it crashed -- but no output from the restart. The older messages say:
UTC WARNING: pgstat wait timeout

OS: Ubuntu 12.04.3

A: For folks who might have the same problem.
I betcha you had a stuck shared memory segment.
Here we show our shared memory segments.  Postgres has a big one for shared_buffers.  This user can be different for different builds, some use "pgsql"
[root@host~]#  ipcs -m

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
0xf90007aa 0          root       600        222        1
0x0052e2c1 32769      postgres   600        6602235904 95

MAKE SURE YOUR SERVER IS REALLY DOWN FIRST!  Check the "nattch" which is the number of attached processes.  Check for any running postgres/pgsql processes.
[root@host ~]# ps -fu postgres
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
[root@host ~]#

Nothing, that's good.  Now, you can remove the shared memory segment
ipcrm -m 32769

Rebooting works too, but we don't like to do that :-)

A: Rebooting the server seems to have fixed it.


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LFA 'Boundaries' St Martin in the Fields – 10 years on, releasing of boundaries
Eric Parry Architects are revisiting their St Martin-in-the Fields project 10 years on, as part of St Martin's 'Building Futures Campaign'. The Campaign seeks to expand the theological and music programmes alongside maintaining and enhancing the existing buildings and spaces that transformed this London landmark.
Today the more transient nature of cities and how we are now occupying public space and buildings, is allowing these places to be inhabited more fluidly, creatively and imaginatively – the boundary between spaces and places is being released. How are public places evolving and responding to the changing nature of how people are inhabiting them?
Conversations around the importance of good pedestrian focused, considered public space that connects these cultural institutions are increasing and are filtering into public debate. The quality of our public realm and the more varied offer of shared spaces within our existing and new buildings are important considerations in securing the future of our cities in a world which is increasingly lived 'virtually'.
Event: Building and walking tour (Free)
As part of a series of events throughout June culminating in a talk and panel discussion on the 26th June, Eric Parry Architects will be doing a series of building and walking tours of both the interior and exterior spaces and taking people to both the public and more private areas of St Martin's explaining the works completed as part of our Renewal Project 2002-2008 and more recently as part of our work for St Martin's as part of their Building Futures Campaign
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Max Cavalera Names Sepultura Song Sounds Same With A Pantera Song
ByGorkem Erel Last updated Apr 7, 2022 April 7, 2022
Former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera did a brand new interview with Revolver Magazine. Having achieved great success with Sepultura, which he founded with his younger brother Igor Cavalera at a young age, Max was asked about his favorite song he made with the band. According to him, the band's classic song Inner Self sounds as same as a huge-known Pantera song, Walk.
Max Cavalera, who is currently in the bands Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, and Killer Be Killed, started his music career with Sepultura, which he founded with his brother. Appearing on the band's twelve albums until his leaving the band in 1996, Cavalera achieved international fame as a member of Sepultura.
On the other hand, after Max Cavalera left Sepultura due to problems with his bandmates, the brothers reunited twelve years later with the album Inflikted in the Cavalera Conspiracy. The album, which received positive feedback from the metal community, consists of 11 tracks and more than 43-min listening time.
Anyway, Max Cavalera was asked in his recent interview with Revolver Magazine which Sepultura song he likes the most. Max said it was "Inner Self" from the band's third studio album, Beneath the Remains. He then revealed a fact about Sepultura's similarity with Pantera.
"I think I have to mention two for me that do the same kind of thing," he says. "One of them is 'Inner Self.' That's on 'Beneath the Remains'. That's such an important song for us because it was the first video we ever made.
"It was all homemade, a lot of really goofy stuff like having a friend of ours skateboard on top of us, hanging out with bums on the street drinking pure alcohol. All those scenes are in this video, but it was cool, it felt like a real band thing. We're doing a video, 'Oh my god, this is insane!' And the song itself, I love it, I love the tempo, I love the groove of it."
Max Technically Likened 'Inner Self' To Pantera's Walk
When asked which Sepultura song is the best for him, Max mentioned two songs and compared the first, Inner Self, to classic Pantera effort, Walk. Describing the riff as simple and childish, Max stated that the lyrics contain the feelings of his own youth. He showed off his admiration for Pantera in that way.
"The riff is so simple, it's almost childish," he continued. "It's kind of like Pantera, 'Walk.' It's got that groove that catches you right away."
"And the lyrics, I always loved the lyrics, It's almost like a page of a diary, I never had a diary in my life, but if I had one, that could have been on a diary page, 'Walking these dirty streets with hate in my mind, feeling the scorn of the world I won't follow rules.' That's diary shit, that's like how I was feeling at that moment, at that time in San Paolo, Brazil. That's Max Cavalera feeling, my teenage feeling of that time.
Stating that his other favorite song is Arise, Max Cavalera admitted that the song is the ultimate death trash song ever made and has everything.
"The other one is 'Arise,'" he continues. "'Arise' is just an explosion. For me, it's the ultimate death-thrash song ever made, and I'm sorry, might've pissed off some people out there, but come on! Listen to this fucking song! It's got everything! [laughs] It's just a fucking rager is what we call it in the business."
Last September, Max Cavalera had said in an interview with WXAV 88.3 FM that it was unreal that his latest album with Sepultura, Root, was praised by Dave Grohl and Lemmy Kilmister.
"The 'Roots' record, which was heavily influenced [by] tribal music — the mix of tribal music and metal was a brand new thing, and we kind of went into a complete unknown territory when we did that, and the results were amazing," Cavalera says.
"And we ended up getting praised by people like Dave Grohl and Lemmy from Motörhead, which was unreal to me to hear – my idols praising some of my stuff. It was pretty cool."
"If you do it with passion — you just have to have passion for what you're doing — and sometimes you've gotta go into these unknown territories and just see what happens," he continued.
"And don't be scared of it, don't be afraid — just go for it.
"And sometimes you will fail, and sometimes you will not — sometimes it will be great. And sometimes it is controversial. And it's okay. It's not for everybody.
"Some people love 'Roots'; some people hate 'Roots'. Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time.
"I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.
"That's what I think people don't understand. Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless.
"That's what the cool thing about it is. There's so much more you can explore and do different things with it. Why do the same thing over and over?"
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Max wishes it sounded like Pantera Walk… not even close! 😂
Don't get me wrong Sepultua is a big influence for me but only Chaos AD & Roots.
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1 Toxoplasmosis
2 History Toxoplasmosis is a Zoonotic disease, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite. Toxoplasma gondii was first discovered in 1908 by Nicolle and Manceaux, in Tunis, on a Gundi (Ctenodoactylus gundi). It wasn't until 1939 that Wolf, Cowen and Paige were to conclude that toxoplasma gondii had an effect on humans.
3 Etiology Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite of the coccidia subclass displaying typical sexual and asexual life cycles. T. Gondii causes Toxoplasmosis
4 Toxoplasmosis facts The feline is the only definitive host, but other warm blooded animals, including humans, can serve as an intermediate host. It does not discriminate in any way on sex, age or species. However it is rare in dogs. Toxoplasmosis is a world spread disease. Alone in the US around 60 million people carry the toxoplasma parasite without even showing symptoms. It is a big concern for pregnant women, and immune-compromised people.
5 What causes Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis is caused by ingesting contaminated vegetables, water, fruit and undercooked/raw meat. By ingesting contaminated feces, for example after cleaning out a litterbox. Or by doing garden work, and not maintaining a healthy hand washing regime. What causes Toxoplasmosis
6 Signalment Toxoplasmosis is found in most warm blooded animals of any age, sex or species. The feline is the only definitive host, but humans and other animals can serve as an intermediate host. In the US it is the leading food-born disease causing death. It can be very detrimental for pregnant women or animals, causing abortions around the 3rd trimester.
7 Transmission Toxoplasmosis is zoonotic
Transmission can occur in 3 ways Fecal-oral Eating contaminated meat/prey Transplacental The parasite can only produce oocytes (or eggs) when infecting a cat. The organism then multiplies in the wall of the small intestine and produces oocysts during the intraintestinal infection cycle.
9 There are three forms of Toxoplasma gondii
Tachyzoite – Rapidly reproducing form Bradyzoite – A slower reproducing form, contained in tissue Sporozoite – Contained in oocysts
10 Tachyzoite Tachyzoites invade cells in the body in order to multiply. They invade a cell, multiply themselves, destroy the cell, and this releases more tachyzoites to infect other cells. Tachyzoites are seen in many tissues and organs throughout an infected body during the acute phase of the disease. The acute phase is also called the extraintestinal phase because it can effect cells outside the intestines. Only cats show the intestinal phase of the infection. Stained tachyzoite
11 Bradyzoites Two or three weeks after the first infection, the Toxoplasma microorganism begins to divide more slowly and a protective membrane forms around the parasite cells. The cysts containing the parasite cells are called zoitocysts and the cells inside the cysts are called bradyzoites. The tissue cysts are formed primarily in brain, eye, heart muscle, and skeletal muscle. Bradyzoites persist in tissue for many years, possibly for the life of the host.
12 Bradyzoite
13 Oocysts In cats, the Toxoplasma parasites infect the lining of the small intestine where they reproduce asexually. After a few days of rapid reproduction the cells transform into a sexual form, combine, and become enclosed in a cyst called an oocyst. Oocysts contain the sporozoite form of the Toxoplasma parasite. Oocysts are found in both wild and domestic cats but not in any other animals or birds.
14 Oocysts cont. Animals become infected by ingesting food contaminated with oocysts from feces or with tissue cysts (bradyzoite) from the flesh of infected animals. Infected cats shed millions of oocysts in their feces during the two-week period of the intestinal phase of the infection (i.e., when asexual reproduction of the Toxoplasma microorganisms occurs). These oocysts can survive in soil for several months and are the major source of infection. Once swallowed, the oocyst burst in the intestines and spreads to the rest of the body through the bloodstream.
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16 Clinical signs & symptoms
Fever Loss of appetite Lethargy Other symptoms may occur depending on whether the infection is acute or chronic, and where in the body the parasite is found. In cats it is most commonly seen effecting the lungs and eyes. And in the dog, the gastrointestinal, neurological and the respiratory system.
17 Diagnosis History Serology testing – measuring the IgM & IgG anti-bodies Sabin-Feldman Dye Test (DT) Differential agglutination test (also known as the "AC/HS test")
18 Treatment The best treatment is prevention, by not feeding animals raw meat There is no need for treatment in a healthy animal. For an immune-compromised animal a 2-3 week treatment of clindamycin is administered.
19 Prognosis For healthy animals and humans the prognosis is good. The disease should be hibernating and not causing any damage. For individuals with weakened immune systems, the prognosis is not good. The disease has to be kept down with medicine, and complications can occur depending or what tissues of the body are being effected. For example, if toxoplasmosis is effecting the eye, the body will try and attack the foreign invader, which can lead to blindness. Immune-compromised hosts infected with toxoplasmosis may have encephalitis, pneumonitis and myocarditis as manifestations of the infection. These infections are usually fatal if not recognized and treated.
20 Pathologic lesions of disease
22 Prevention Avoid eating raw meat, unwashed fruit and vegetables
Keep children's sand boxes covered. Wash hands after dealing with raw meat, gardening, and changing litterboxes. Change litterboxes daily (the oocytes shedded in the feces don't become infectious for 1-5 days) Don't feed animals raw meat. If pregnant wear gloves when changing litterboxes, and keep cats indoors to insure they don't hunt and eat contaminated prey/meat. There is only one vaccine available. It is exclusively for sheep and it is only approved for use in Great Britain
23 Client education What is toxoplasmosis? It is a disease caused by the parasite toxoplasma gondii. It is found anywhere in the world, effecting any species, even though the cat is required for the organism's lifecycle. Can my indoor cat get toxoplasmosis? If you have an indoor cat that is fed only a commercially produced pet food the cat should not be at risk of getting toxoplasmosis. Indoor/outdoor cats are at risk because we can not track their every move to insure they don't eat contaminated meat/prey.
24 Client education Cont. Can I get toxoplasmosis? Yes, humans can get toxoplasmosis, it is a zoonotic disease. Will it be harmful to me as a human? In healthy humans it shouldn't be harmful. If you get toxoplasmosis do you have it for the rest of your life? Yes, toxoplasmosis will stay in your system for the rest of your life. As long as you are not immune-compromised the disease shouldn't do any harm. Can you pass toxoplasmosis to your baby if pregnant, and should I get rid of my cat? Toxoplasmosis can be transferred transplacentally, meaning it can be transferred from mother to child in the womb. It doesn't mean you have to get rid of your cat. Keep the cat as an indoor cat, and wear gloves/wash hands after changing litter (or simplify things and get someone else to change the litterbox daily.)
25 Side notes Victoria, British Colombia suffered the first documented outbreak of Toxoplasmosis in 1997 It was speculated that feline feces contaminated a surface water reservoir with Toxoplasma gondii oocysts. A thorough investigation of the watershed in Victoria followed the outbreak, and evidence proved that cats, cougars and deer mice contaminated with oocytes would shed them near the water's edge. This made the water contaminated, and infected more than 110 people with toxoplasmosis, including 12 newborns. Further investigation was made into the food distributors in Victoria, but no evidence of contamination was found.
26 Side note continued In 1995 the British Columbia Center for Disease Control became aware of a sudden increase in acute toxoplasmosis in Victoria, where two separate and independent ophthalmologists diagnosed seven cases of acute toxoplasmosis with retinitis. Neither ophthalmologist had any other cases of toxoplasmosis in the previous 5 years. The threat of epidemics is even more concerning because of studies which have been conducted for more than 30 years researching the bond between toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia. Studies of rats and mice have shown that infection with toxoplasmosis causes them to have higher rates of mental retardation, impaired memory and impaired learning.
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2018 will mark the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. In SOFFA 24 we honour the so-called First Republic and salute the beginnings of Czechoslovakia's statehood. Join us to celebrate this momentous jubilee!
The period of the first Czechoslovak Republic – beginning with the founding of Czechoslovakia on 28 October 1918 and ending with the signing of the Munich agreement in September 1938, which forced Czechoslovakia to cede its border regions to Nazi Germany – is for many Czechs an unattainable model shrouded in a veil of romance. Yet the young country had its issues, and things were far from ideal. As part of our celebration of the centenary, we seek to highlight that of which we should be proud, and to explore how the legacy of the First Republic has shaped the current generation. Two key symbols of the prosperous young nation were Tomáš Baťa and the city of Zlín, which we explore in our travel feature. In our architecture feast we discover Prague's famous shopping galleries as well as interiors designed by Josef Gočár, Josip Plečnik and Adolf Loos. Our fashion photo story is staged in the beautiful Villa Winternitz and features the traditional Czech fashion labels Nehera and Tonak, among others. Prague's Municipal House is where the birth of Czechoslovakia was announced, one of the reasons it is a must-see for any visitor to the magnificent city and for our readers. This issue will also take you to the newly revitalised glassworks Rückl and to four legendary First Republic cafés, which are all experiencing a renaissance. And since the first Czechoslovak Republic was really about people, our gallery presents famous personalities of the era. Interested in what Vlasta Burian used for light or what the motor racing legend Eliška Junková collected? Read on!


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Not a political history of the demise of the Canadian Armed Forces, but a detailed, concise account of exactly what is wrong with defence policy and what is needed to fix it.
The Canadian Armed Forces is collapsing - not might or could collapse but is collapsing. The problems with the navy's marine helicopters that dogged Jean Chretien during his tenure as prime minister are only a sample of the problems facing today's military. Besides the three billion dollars needed to replace these essential pieces of hardware, billions more will be required over the next few years to replace transport aircraft, navy destroyers, and army logistic vehicles - to list just a few. The estimated budgetary shortfall for equipment replacement for the period ending 2008 is approximately $15 billion dollars - and equipment replacement isn't the military's most pressing problem. Even more critical is personnel. The men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces are being called upon to participate in too many missions, which not only causes fatigue and burn-out but is seriously affecting training, particularly for new recruits who do menial tasks at home while the people who should be training them participate in foreign missions.
Canada Without Armed Forces? offers a way out of this morass, with concrete proposals that will allow the Canadian military to regain its stature among ordinary Canadians and on the world stage and will enable our military forces to once again become an effective tool for our foreign policy.
Contributors include Brian MacDonald (President, Strategic Insight Planning and Communications), Christopher Ankersen (graduate student, London School of Economics), and Howie Marsh (Conference of Defence Associations).
'"Once in a blue moon, a book appears that deserves to be read by prime ministers. Douglas Bland's "Canada Without Armed Forces?" is just such a study. Jean Chrétien should read it to see the legacy he has left the Canadian Forces and future Canadian foreign policy. Paul Martin must read it to get an idea of the magnitude of the challenge his government faces - if it wants to have any foreign and defence policy at all... If governments allow the Canadian Forces to fall into even greater disrepair, Canada cannot help but become the first modern and major power to disarm itself." J.L. Granatstein, author of "Who Killed the Canadian Military?"
Douglas L. Bland is chair of the Defence Management Studies Program at Queen's University and has written and edited numerous books and reports on defence management including, most recently, Campaigns for International Security and New Missions, Old Problems.


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The problem is we look for assurances and answers where there are none. We seek salvation in speculation. And the more weighed down with expertise the expert, the more we think we are learning; the closer we are to reality, to empirically proven truth. Which is all wrong.
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"We all thought we knew what the outcome of the referendum would be. We heard from every quarter that the Remain contingent led by the prime minister David Cameron would carry the day. It would be close, we were told, but Remain would win," says Michael Enright. After the shocking outcome of the Brexit vote, Michael wonders why we keep looking for certainty from our pundits and politicians. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Sunday Edition4:44We think we know, but we get everything wrong - Michael's essay
Does anybody know anything? I mean really know anything?
In 1983, screenwriter William Goldman in his Hollywood book wrote: "Nobody knows anything."
He was talking about how movies get made. Every decision about a movie is a guess, he said; sometimes a lucky one. Beyond that, nobody knows anything.
We think we know. We have information. After all we are bombarded by packaged isotopes of information every hour of every day and night in the week.
We are the most informationized generation in human history. We have think tanks and experts and pundits and consultants and above all the internet.
Years ago T.S. Elliot asked; "Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
To be fair, there are some things we know. For example, Hillary Clinton will be the first woman in American history to make a serious run for the presidency. We know that.
Likewise we know that the Toronto Maple Leafs will not win Lord Stanley's Cup during the lifetime of anybody now breathing.
Then there are things we don't really know but can assume because they seem so obvious. We assume taxes are going to go up next year because our experience tells us they never go down.
There is something chastening about the fact that nobody knows anything. Life is unfair, complicated, and uncertain. - Michael Enright
This week I've been thinking about Brexit and not knowing anything. And I promise not to mention it again.
We all thought we knew what the outcome of the referendum would be. We heard from every quarter that the Remain contingent led by the prime minister David Cameron would carry the day. It would be close, we were told, but Remain would win.
We were told this by British politicians, the betting shops, financial people on both sides of the Channel and the Atlantic and by pundits of every political hue.
Well, we see how all that expertise worked out.
Prior to the deluge, the Political Studies Association of London surveyed members, journalists and academics.
Overall, 87 per cent of respondents said Britain was more likely to stay in the European Union.
Here's the breakdown on the predicted probability of Britain leaving; academics 38 per cent; pollsters 33 per cent; journalists 32 per cent.
And of course we were all told that Boris Johnson would be the next prime minister; told by everyone save Johnson himself. Wrong again.
Top Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson said Thursday he will not stand to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron, as had been widely expected after Britain's vote to leave the European Union. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
The problem is we look for assurances and answers where there are none. We seek salvation in speculation. And the more weighed down with expertise the expert, the more we think we are learning; the closer we are to reality, to empirically proven truth.
Which is all wrong.
Some years ago the author and research psychologist Philip Tetlock set out to discover why. Believe it or not, he made a study of 82,361 predictions by 284 mostly American pundits.
He began by thinking the accuracy of those predictions was connected to levels of higher education, political or policy experience, high sense of realism. Turns out background had little to do with accuracy.
So the experts got the Brexit wrong, got the Trump phenomenon wrong, got the Bernie Sanders insurgency wrong. And we in the media were happy to promulgate their inaccuracies. - Michael Enright
Interestingly the more celebrated the pundit, the worse the accuracy. Media love forceful, confident, dynamic talking heads. It makes for better television. We get nervous with balanced, hesitant, thoughtful experts.
So the experts got the Brexit wrong, got the Trump phenomenon wrong, got the Bernie Sanders insurgency wrong. And we in the media were happy to promulgate their inaccuracies.
There is something chastening about the fact that nobody knows anything. Life is unfair, complicated, and uncertain.
It's encouraging in a way, that nothing is for sure and that expertise is as capricious as a coin toss. And it compels us to rely more on our gut instinct and our common sense antennae.
Another British prime minister from long ago, Harold MacMIllan, once said: "We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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BRENT BIENNIAL 2022
ON GRIEF, LOSS AND RITUAL: EXPLORING DEATH FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
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Library as Memorial, Brent Biennial 2020, Photo: Hydar Dewachi
Last year, Brent 2020 launched the first Brent Biennial - presenting art in public spaces, libraries and streets of Brent.
One of those events was the poignant 'Library as Memorial' by Ruth Beale. This project allowed members of the public to visit Kilburn Library and choose one of 491 books (one for every person who died from COVID-19 in the borough before September 2020) to dedicate to a family, friend, acquaintance or role model that had been lost to COVID-19. The books are now going back into circulation across the borough, along with the dedications.
The next part of this project presents 'On Grief, Loss and Ritual' - a zine exploring different creative approaches and personal, religious and cultural perspectives on death and grief. Edited by artist Ruth Beale, it includes contributions from artists, poets, and people local to Brent.
The zine features poetry by Nisha Ramayya, creative responses from artists R.I.P. Germain, Every Ocean Hughes and Priya Jay, with a translation of Jay's text into Gujarati facilitated by Neasden Temple, and interviews with Hester Abrams of Willesden Jewish Cemetery and Manju Patel from Kilburn Library.
"A conversation about reincarnation with Manju Patel, a member of staff at Kilburn library, sparked the idea to collect together ideas about ritual and beliefs. I also went to a Death Cafe organised by Willesden Jewish Cemetery and got the chance to talk about death with strangers. I've been incredibly moved by other artists' work on grief, and I am grateful for their insight in what feels like a time of collective grief" - Ruth Beale
Hester Abrams who runs the House of Life at Willesden Jewish Cemetery. The zine features an interview where she talks about the rituals around death in the Jewish faith, and the cemetery as a heritage site, exploring how the structure of ritual serves a purpose when grieving.
Priya Jay is a writer and curator from London. Her work is concerned with cracks in the archives, myth and dreaming, and collective care. She has put together a thoughtful guide to hosting a Grief Gathering and holding space for yourself and others, also translated into Gujarati.
Every Ocean Hughes is an artist from the USA who lives in Stockholm. Her performance 'Help the Dead' explores Queer death - the affect of and effect on a community - and how that might be embodied or abstracted. The featured graphic is from the costumes worn by performers in the work.
Manju Patel works for Brent Library services. She was photographed for 'Library as Memorial' as she made two dedications to friends and family who died of Coronavirus. The interview featured in the zine came out of a conversation Ruth Beale had with her about visualising her beliefs around death and reincarnation.
Nisha Ramayya's poems about her grandmother's death, are taken from her incredible book 'States of the Body Produced by Love', which uses her research into Sanskrit to speak of the rituals we move through, though with specific cultural and linguistic points of reference. Her poem about breathlessness seems particularly poignant at this time. She is a London-based poet and lecturer in creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.
R.I.P. Germain is a Luton-based artist who's work is about the portrayal, valuing and devaluing of Black life/death, particularly in the drill music scene, and how so many young Black men live with grief. He has used images from popular culture and other artists' work to ceate a moving photographic essay.
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The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 will not get Oreo
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The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 has been around long enough to move from Lollipop to Marshmallow and then to Nougat. Sadly, it has just been confirmed that this slate for gamers will not get an official Oreo update.
Codrut Nistor, Published 10/16/2017
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The original Nvidia Shield Tablet arrived back in July 2014 with Android 4.4.2 KitKat onboard. Since then, this 8-inch Tegra K1-powered slate for gamers received quite a few solid software updates. After moving to Android 5.0 and Android 5.1, the Shield Tablet had its software updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Earlier this year, it also received Android Nougat. The slightly updated Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 that arrived in November 2015 with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop onboard received the same treatment, so now both slates are stuck with a Nougat-based firmware.
Sadly, Nvidia's Manuel Guzman, who is in charge of software quality, has unveiled that both Shield tablets released by the company so far will not get Android 8.0 Oreo. When asked about the update for the Shield Tablet K1 by a Twitter user, he replied: "We will be providing an update soon for the SHIELD Tablet K1 based on Android N. Android O is not coming to the ST/ST K1."
Although the original Shield Tablet is about three years old, its specs are still pretty good for 2017 - the powerful Nvidia Tegra K1 processor, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, an 8-inch LCD touchscreen display with 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. The same can be said about the Tegra K1 model, so it is only a matter of time until their users will be able to download and install unofficial ROMs based on Android 8.0 Oreo. On the other hand, those not adventurous enough to use such software will keep receiving Google's security patches for the Nougat-based firmware of the Nvidia Shield Tablet/Shield Tablet K1 "for the foreseeable future," promised Guzman.
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Q: What tools generate JavaScript? Are there any good tools to generate JavaScript? I remember in .NET, there was Script# - don't know its status today.
Anyone have experience with any tools?

A: I use my keyboard, a text editor and my brain to generate JavaScript.
:P

A: As others have said, GWT is a very good option.  To summarize some good points:

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*fast, very portable code using deferred binding; only loads the code that works on the user's browser, and only loads functions that are actually called; also, they're compressed

*reliability; very few known issues

*easier debugging using a Java-based IDE; you can also look directly at un-obfuscated javascript if you want to, but it seems (based on some reports I've seen & personal experience) that you basically never need this

*good library support including a nice inline javascript interface, the ability to use existing Java libraries, and special support for ajax / rpc calls

*extensible & stylistically flexible; you can fine-tune all styles with your own css rules, and extend the Widget base with your own Java subclasses

So I humbly disagree with dominic that the results are ugly since it is up to the coder to 'prettify' the basic functionality with their own css rules and other decorations.  It would be the same mistake to call HTML 'ugly' - if you don't try hard, it isn't pretty, but the power and flexibility is in the hands of the coder.
Oh, and it's open source, too.

A: Latest version of Script# was posted less than a month ago.  Nikhil continues to actively work on that project and it's a very good tool for generating JavaScript code from C#.  It is actively used in a couple of different internal Microsoft projects.
Some of the benefits of Script# are:

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*Intellisense

*Build errors at compile time

*Refactoring support

*Documentation support

*FxCop code analysis

*MSBuild support

A: Nice list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS

A: There is currently a lot of tools to generate JavaScript, like GWT.
But giving you a good answer really depends on what is your originator language and what king of JavaScript functionnality you want to use.

A: Google Web Toolkit is one option.  Write Java code, debug it with a standard Java debugger, then press the "Compile" button and turn it into highly-optimized JavaScript.  It generates completely separate JavaScript for each major browser family (IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.).
Very mature, very powerful, and easy to embed into an existing site.  One downside is that the UIs it creates are ugly nested tables.

A: I've used D templates (think C++ without the pain and you'll be 50% there) to generate a AJAX based Object proxy.

A: Try Haxe.
It can target JavaScript, ActionScript and Neko bytecode. The language is close to Java.

A: Kotlin can generate JavaScript out of Kotlin code. For Kotlin see http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/ and also http://devnet.jetbrains.com/thread/447468?tstart=0


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Q: Excel VBA to Word Document - Font Size fit to page / line? I have code that works perfectly fine, the problem comes with managing font size.  Currently it opens templates and changes a price, but I am looking to change the font size to fit the page.  For example $1,129 would be size 210 in our font, but $2,229 would be 180 to fit the same space ($1,119 would be 230). Luckily anything with only 3 digits is always 230 due to height constraints.
For Each oRange In WordDoc.StoryRanges
                        With oRange
                            With .Find
                                .Forward = False
                                .Text = "$"
                            End With
                            If .Find.Execute Then
                                .Expand Unit:=4
                                .Text = "$" & PriceString
                            End If
                        End With
                    Next oRange

A pretty basic find and replace.
Is there a default setting for fit to page / line when printing text to word or will I need to construct a Character counting system?
The only number that seems to be causing a problem is 1, so I could simply count the number of 1's and adjust based on that if necessary.  From what I can tell all other numbers are the same size.  I went ahead and wrote the 1 counter, but it turns out 4,6,9 are bigger than everything else.  I suppose I can count those as well.
This change is always the last line of the page if that is helpful.