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Amazon is apparently planning to release new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an "in-car gadget", and a range of hi-fi equipment before the end of 2018.
According to a report from CNBC, there will be eight new voice-controlled devices before the end of the year with all of them containing Amazon Alexa in some form, meaning they could connect to other Alexa-enabled speakers or Amazon's Prime services
As well as a microwave and the in-car gadget, the new product line up is thought to include an amplifier, receiver, and subwoofer. These inclusions are the most likely, with Amazon looking to compete against Sonos' wireless speaker line-up (who already have a wireless amplifier for connecting wired speakers) and the Siri-enabled Apple HomePod.
Should we expect to see Amazon try to make more home devices smart? Other tech companies, such as LG and Samsung, are taking steps towards an internet-connected kitchen, but so far the results have been mixed. Rumors of new products such as these indicate Amazon is looking to get a greater foothold in the smart home sphere, possibly spinning out the Alexa brand into a range of devices of its own.
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An in-car device would certainly not be new. Garmin already partnered with Amazon to bring out an Alexa-enabled in-car speaker called the Garmin Speak, complete with a little OLED display for driving instructions. There are also products such as the Roav Viva from Anker, an Alexa device which plugs into the 12-volt socket and plays music through the car's Bluetooth-enabled speaker system.
Each one of these new products could open up fresh revenue streams for Amazon. It also combats the inherent limitation of any smart speaker setup in that eventually you run out of rooms to put new speakers in.
Much like Sonos' partnership with IKEA, the more places Amazon can place its Alexa AI the better it is for the company. And with more products in the Amazon ecosystem, the more likely people are to sign up with Amazon Prime, too. Of course, there are rumours that Amazon is also building robots for the home.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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Anatomy of the TRITON ICS Cyberattack
Friday, March 30, 2018 at 1:00 PM EDT (2018-03-30 17:00:00 UTC)
Phil Neray, Justin Searle
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An industry game-changer, the TRITON ICS cyberattack exhibited an entirely new level of Stuxnet-like sophistication. In particular, the attackers exploited a zero-day in the PLC firmware in order to inject a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with escalated privileges into the controller itself.
Moreover, the attackers cleverly inserted the backdoor into the controller's firmware memory region without interrupting its normal operation and without being detected.
TRITON exposed yet another breed of ICS systems that attackers can now target to compromise industrial operations, the physical safety control systems or Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) that provide automatic emergency shutdown of plant processes, such as an oil refinery process that exceeds safe temperatures or pressures.
The likely intent of such an approach would be to disable the safety system in order to lay the groundwork for a 2nd cyberattack that would cause catastrophic damage to the facility itself, potentially causing large-scale environmental damage and loss of human life.
Although TRITON was a targeted attack specifically designed to compromise a particular model and firmware revision level of SIS devices manufactured by Schneider Electric, the tradecraft exhibited by the attackers is now available to other adversaries who can quickly learn from it to design similar malware attacking a broader range of environments and controller types.
In this educational SANS webinar led by Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians and a senior SANS instructor since 2011, and Phil Neray, VP of Industrial Cybersecurity at CyberX, the ICS security company founded by military cyber experts with nation-state expertise defending critical infrastructure, you'll learn about:
· The technical architecture of the TRITON malware
· Threat models showing how the attackers could have compromised the engineering workstation
· How to implement a multi-layered active defense to defend against similar attacks in the future
Justin Searle
Justin Searle is a Managing Partner of UtiliSec, specializing in Smart Grid security architecture design and penetration testing. Justin led the Smart Grid Security Architecture group in the creation of NIST Interagency Report 7628 and played key roles in the Advanced Security Acceleration Project for the Smart Grid (ASAP-SG). He currently leads the testing group at the National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization Resources (NESCOR). Justin has taught courses in hacking techniques, forensics, networking, and intrusion detection for multiple universities, corporations, and security conferences. Mr. Searle is currently a Senior instructor for the SANS Institute. In addition to electric power industry conferences, Justin frequently presents at top international security conferences such as Black Hat, DEFCON, OWASP, Nullcon, and AusCERT. Justin co-leads prominent open source projects including the Samurai Web Testing Framework (SamuraiWTF), the Samurai Security Testing Framework for Utilities (SamuraiSTFU), Middler, Yokoso!, and Laudanum. Justin has an MBA in International Technology and is a CISSP and SANS GIAC certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), and Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT).
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Phil Neray is VP of IoT & Industrial Cybersecurity for CyberX, a Microsoft company founded by blue-team experts with a track record of defending critical national infrastructure. Prior to CyberX, Phil held executive roles at IBM Security/Q1 Labs, Symantec, Veracode, and Guardium. Phil began his career as an engineer with Hydro-Quebec and as a Schlumberger engineer on oil rigs in South America. He has a BSEE from McGill University, is certified in cloud security (CCSK), and has a First-Degree Black Belt in American Jiu Jitsu.
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This Exec Drove Red Bull Sales Of $150M In Canada; Now He's Infusing Hemp Into Foods And Beverages
Alex Oleinic , Benzinga Staff Writer
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The popularity of cannabis in the United States and Canada has attracted a number of executives from other industries into this new and fast-growing space. One of these executives is Jim Bailey, who is the CEO and President of Phivida Holdings Inc (OTC: PHVAF), a food and beverage company that focuses on CBD.
Prior to joining Phivida in 2017, Bailey served in leadership positions in a number of companies, such as Wolverine World Wide, Blue Goose Pure Foods and Package Apparel. However, one of his most important roles was at Red Bull Canada. As the General Manager and President, Bailey helped the popular energy drink enter the Canadian market in early 2000s and grow the brand's annual sales to over $150 million.
Benzinga sat down with Bailey to talk about Phivida and how his experience in navigating Red Bull through the Canadian market relates to his current role.
Phivida Vs. Red Bull
Bailey considers there are many parallels between the introduction of energy drinks in Canada and the legalization of cannabis.
"[…] but the two most obvious are that we are entering the traditional consumer packaged goods space as a disruptor, and that there is unbelievable pent up demand from retailers and consumers. If you look back at 2004 in Canada, the Energy drink category didn't even exist - and now compare that to the demand today," he told Benzinga.
Until 2004 energy drinks were not allowed in the Canadian market.
Another similarity that can be drawn at the brand level between Phivida and Red Bull is the involvement of both brands in different sporting activities. While Red Bull is mostly involved in all sorts of action or extreme sports, Bailey sees Phivida going the other way.
"[…] with Phivida's products we are looking beyond action sports and into team sports as well as individual sports such as yoga. We are also looking at those focused on mindfulness and meditation, along with general fitness and health experts to round off our ambassador program," said Bailey.
How Phivida Sets Itself Apart
The legalization of cannabis and hemp-derived CBD has created a lot of competition, which means companies have to work that much more to keep their products apart from other brands. Phivida is no exception. The company aims to create not only high quality but also reliable products.
That's why they are following strict testing protocols, "both in terms of pre-production, testing CBD for potency and contaminates, and post-production," Bailey said. This approach allows Phivida to ensure that "the levels of active ingredients such as CBD are accurate and reflect the dosage that is on the label."
Another thing that Phivida does is using something called "Active Hemp Extract."
"Active hemp extract is our way of communicating to customers that we use a broad-spectrum extract blend from the Hemp plant. Make no mistake, CBD is definitely the primary focus in our extract, we just feel that it's important to be clear that we are not using a CBD isolate in any of our products," Bailey said.
What The Future Holds
The company is focused on continuously expanding. It's developing new products, such as a line of CBD pet products announced in early May. Phivida also recently acquired Canadian e-commerce technology firm, Wikala.com to expand the visibility of its brands and reach a wider audience.
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Posted on March 22, 2015 by Jayne Anne Harris
A family weaves itself into history
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"Caravan to Oz" is the collective story of an irrepressible family with dazzling energy, unbreakable optimism, and unflagging creative spirit. But it isn't just that: it's a history of the decades through which the family has lived, persevered and grown, and even helped to shape events, in theatre and in the broader American culture. It can almost be challenging to believe that so many stories – some of which will be familiar to you, some that you will hear for the first time – could come from the experience of a single family. It's as though George, Sr., Ann, George III, Walter Michael, Fred, Jayne Anne, Eloise and Mary Lou were the love children of Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum, midwifed by J. M. Barrie. However, that's not quite it – there are certainly fabulous and fantastical elements to the story, but they have all worked very hard, all their lives, to turn their magical vision into reality.
And it's all, or mostly, there, told with humor, love, grace and honesty. From the early "Let's put on a show!" days in Florida, to the risky transplanting of the whole tribe to New York, to the beginnings of the Theatre for the New City, the family-written and produced shows at La MaMa ETC, the groundbreaking and culture-changing phenomenon of "Hair", to the founding of the Cockettes in San Francisco, the journeys through Europe, a monastery, and Bay Area communes, to the shattering new reality of the AIDS epidemic and the maturity and mellowing of seasoned performers with an amazing range of talents and accomplishments. They renewed themselves with each success, setback, and new inspiration, began new families and, through it all, retained their devotion to each other. The Harrises were, and are, in and of their times in a way that very few, if any, other families could have been. It's a remarkable ride through a time that must have looked very different on the inside of the magic mirror, as they were. I found this ride to be enriching as I looked back over the years they describe, and saw those times from a fresh and exhilarating perspective.
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The Harris Sisters – Had an all-access pass to the greatest music scene on earth!
Posted on November 23, 2014 by Jayne Anne Harris
By Jayne Anne Harris, Eloise Harris and Mary Lou Harris
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Off-Off Broadway theater was our first home. For two decades, The Harris Sisters (Jayne Anne, Eloise and Mary Lou) and the rest of our family performed in original drama and musicals at New York City's La Mama ETC., Caffe Cino, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, Theater for the New City, Judson Poets Theater and more. They travelled across Europe with their brother Hibiscus and his Angels of Light Theater troupe. Inspired by the beat of the New York punk and rock scene of the late 1970's, The Harris Sisters and Trouble (our band), led by brother Fred, included bassist Ray Ploutz, guitarists Bill Davis and Josh Callow and drummers Mike Pedulla and Mike Kimmel, played at CBGB, SNAFU, Great Gildersleeves, The Mudd Club, RT Firefly, Peppermint Lounge and other rock venues of the day.
At the height of the disco era, The Harris Sisters were unable to resist our charismatic brother Hibiscus' charms in wooing us to form the bejeweled rock and roll group, Hibiscus and the Screaming Violets. We embarked on a new tour of New York City disco clubs such as Studio 54, Xenon, The Ice Palace, Bonds, Danceteria and The Red Parrot. We performed on the same circuit with Madonna, The Weather Girls, Blondie, Nona Hendryx, Grace Jones, Michael Musto and The Must, Billy Idol and Cyndi Lauper. It seemed that we had an all access pass to the greatest musical scene on earth…. Stay tuned for more blogs from The Harris Family…
Read The Harris Sisters' full story in their new memoir, Caravan to Oz: a family reinvents itself off-off Broadway
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This is the first in a series on blog posts providing notes and analysis from the earnings conference calls of the "Big Pharma" (term defined very loosely) partners of the stocks I cover here at BiotechDueDiligence.
Cubist is partnered with Alnylam for an RNAI program against Respiratory Syncytial Civrus (RSV) - get full details at the ALNY research page.
Cubist is co-promoting the antibiotic Dificid (fidaxomycin) with Optimer Pharma - get full details on the OPTR research page.
Click here to access the CBST conference call transcript via Morningstar.
ADLR released 2q2011 earnings on 7/27/2011- click here for the press release.
For complete background due diligence on Adolor, visit the ADLR research page.
I am working on updating the Myrexis $MYRX Research page. Below you'll find webcast notes that did not make it onto the blog previously.
Note that Rodman and Renshaw also initiated coverage of $MYRX today with a $6 price target. At last check MYRX was up about 5% on this news in a very weak market. History would suggest that some sort of transaction will follow this coverage from R&R, likely a financing or maybe partnership for inflammation program.
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As I update the Ligand research page due to increasing investor interest and upcoming catalysts (including Promacta HCV phase 3 data and Carfilzomib NDA filing), I am posting some webcast notes that did not make it onto the blog previously.
I am working on updating the INFI research page, so posting to archive these Infinity Pharma webcast notes that did not make it onto the blog earlier.


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One of the best things about lantern pendant lights for indoor rooms is their outdoor style. As interior designers here in Sarasota, we are fortunate to design homes along the perpetually sunny and warm Gulf Coast of Florida. While we work in a variety of styles, on thing all these homes have in common is their indoor-outdoor connection. We highlight and complement the obvious features like an ocean view or a living room that opens up to a pool deck, but we also make subtle choices to blur the hard line between indoors and out.
Photo courtesy of Urban Electric Co. Love the way the designer chose to echo the window panes with the lanterns.
One such strategy in our go-to toolbox is to use some outdoor, or outdoor-inspired, items inside. It's a subtle way of blurring the line between indoors and out, and contributes to the way the room feels. Many modern lantern pendant lights take their style inspiration from traditional outdoor lanterns, which had panes to shield a flame from the wind. While we don't need them for that purpose anymore, using an architectural, lantern style pendant or chandelier indoors still brings an airy, outdoor note to our subconscious feeling of a room. Its shape can define a whole room with its simple, symmetrical geometry.
Speaking of shapes, another style to love is a good bell jar lantern. In 18th century England these were hung in entryways to keep the candle flame inside from blowing out when the front door opened and closed, while the cap on top kept soot at bay. Now they're electric of course, and are also adored in kitchens, bathrooms, dining rooms, and hallways. The bell jar brings a soft curve to lighten up a room with a lot of straight-lined architecture, yet is so simple and strong in its classic, symmetrical shape. I love these modern bell jar lanterns by Urban Electric Co. in all their gorgeous finishes and configurations.
I hope you enjoyed a few of our favorites and are inspired to consider a lantern style light fixture too! Pablo and I just installed a beautiful bell jar lantern (and by that I mean Pablo installed a beautiful bell jar lantern) with clear, seeded glass at our new house to brighten up a dark corner and couldn't be happier with it. Next we'll be installing this one, an open frame, modern spin on a lantern pendant by Hinkley Lighting, by our breakfast bar. I love the fixture's combination of the dark bronze with brushed brass finishes, and the squared shape of the tapers.


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Michael Hooper will hand back a massive chunk of his $1.2 million-per year contract. Picture: AAP
Players trade pay for greater powers
by Jim Tucker
20th Apr 2020 12:00 PM
RUGBY'S players' union has won a formal role in shaking up the code's competition designs in return for a pay cut deal that will save cash-strapped Rugby Australia $13.3 million.
Average pay cuts of 60 per cent for six months for the country's 192 contracted players were not the only thing at stake during the wrangling of the past three weeks before Monday's agreement between Rugby Australia and the Rugby Union Players' Association.
RA ceded ground so that "RUPA and the Member Unions will be included in key discussions regarding rugby's future structure, competition design and scheduling."
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It's a position that RUPA has long fought for, especially with the relevance of RA deciding to axe the Western Force from Super Rugby in 2017.
More than that, it gives RUPA a louder force in potentially re-imagining what Super Rugby will look like next year and any competition format possible this year.
In addition, up to six players have negotiated the chance to explore an overseas club opportunity for one period of six months, within the years 2021-23.
Wallabies skipper Michael Hooper is expected to be one because he takes the biggest pay hit of all, more than $600,000 for this six months from Australia's biggest contract of $1.2 million per year.
He would not be paid by RA or his Super Rugby team during the season offshore.
Even the massive pay cuts for top earners like Hooper, Kurtley Beale, Matt Toomua, Dane Haylett-Petty and Taniela Tupou are just a Band-Aid to stem rugby's short-term financial pain because the code requires major surgery.
Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle praised the players in helping strike the deal. Picture: Getty Images
RUPA boss Justin Harrison put that in blunt terms last night when he said "the long-term sustainability of the game" was even more important than the immediate crisis.
"Australia's professional players will play a central role in the short - term preservation of the game by accepting a significant reduction in pay in order for necessary transformation to begin," Harrison said.
"Immediate attention must now turn to the long-term sustainability of the game (and) this process has enabled a greater understanding of the need for root-and-branch reform."
Settling the pay cut deal until September 30 now also means RA can secure a loan lifeline of around $16 million from World Rugby's COVID-19 relief fund.
RA had faced a wages bill of $15.9 million for players over the next six months but with the pay cuts and JobKeeper payments from the government pocket that will reduce to $2.6 million.
Now the deal is done, Reds captain Liam Wright has turned his attention to getting back on the park. Picture: AAP
RA said the agreement would lead to "an 80 per cent overall reduction in costs across the business" when coupled with the standing down of more than 100 staff on March 31.
"The players recognise and appreciate their role and shared responsibility in securing the future and helping us navigate through this difficult time and I want to thank them, on behalf of the game, for their willingness to work with us to reach an interim solution that will help us protect the long-term future of rugby in Australia," RA chief executive Raelene Castle said.
"This has not been an easy discussion, but it has been a necessary one to ensure that we are able to emerge from the other side of this crisis in the best possible position."
If competition resumes before September 30, terms will be renegotiated.
"It's good to finalise the financial arrangements for the players and give the game certainty for the next six months," Reds captain Liam Wright said.
"Everyone involved in rugby in Queensland has been doing it hard since this pandemic started and the players understand their responsibility to bear some financial pain to preserve the state of the game.
"We've continued to train in isolation and we can't wait to play rugby again."
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Marco can perform a one hour magic show based around the age group of the children. The show includes special gifts for the Birthday Child, full audience participation, balloon modelling, magic and juggling, and the magic appearance of a real bunny rabbit, Mr Marmite.
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Marco performs a number of magic shows for play groups. He is able to cater for very young audiences who would perhaps require a shorter show through to older children and those with special needs.


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Adult Learners Week 2013 – Nomination deadline is only 4 weeks away!!
Are you planning to nominate an individual or a learning project for an Adult Learners Week Award in 2013?
The deadline for nominations is Thursday 13th December 2012 – so don't hesitate – or you will be too late!!!
Nominations don't have to come from a provider of learner or even a tutor – anyone can nominate someone for an Award as long as the person you are nominating is over 18, lives in England and has undertaken at least some of their learning between December 2011 and December 2012.
Perhaps you have a friend or work colleague who has undertaken some learning which has made a real difference to them, their family and friends or their community. Perhaps you know someone who has made a real difference to their community through their learning. Perhaps you know of a learning or community project that has made a real different to your neighbourhood – well – go on – nominate them for an award!
All nominations are put through for both national and regional awards, and in Manchester we hold a local award ceremony for everyone who is nominated – so they get recognition for their achievement even if they don't get a major award!!


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No to the Third Invasion of the D.R. Congo by Rwanda
by Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP | Nov 6, 2008
In Support of the Congolese people, Friends of the Congo, Africa Faith and Justice Network, Congo Global Action and En Avant Congo sponsored a vigil that was held in front of the Rwandan embassy in Washington DC on October 31, 2008, with the following message:
"Since August, the Rwandan government has, for the third time, openly waged a military invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The first and the second invasions were respectively in 1996 and 1998. By backing the Congolese Tutsi rebel leader of CNDP, Laurent Nkunda, Rwanda is working to overthrow the democratically elected government in the Congo. Rwanda, the victim of yesterday, is the victimizer of today. Why has the international community been silent about Rwandan government crimes in the Congo? Killing, looting, ethnic cleansing, rape, child soldier recruitment, sex slavery, lynching, and infecting people with HIV/AIDS, continue in the Rwanda-Nkunda controlled territory and the world is silent. As a result of the recent violence, since August, many have died and more than 250,000 people have been displaced. Since 1996, about 6 million people have died in the D.R. Congo.
The international community and particularly the United States has chosen the side of Rwanda, regardless of the obvious. The tyranny of Rwandan president Paul Kagame against Rwandans has now extended across the Rwanda border into the Congo at the watch of his ally the United States. The United States must hold Kagame's government accountable and denounce any action that perpetuates conflict in Eastern D.R. Congo or discord between Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa. U.S. citizens need to know the truth about their government's dealings in Africa's Great Lakes Region, particularly the truth behind the U.S. government's choice to work closely with the Rwandan government without holding it accountable when it comes to security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We ask that the U.S. government urges the Rwandan Government to withdraw its troops from the Congolese territory immediately. Additionally, the U.S. should help empower the Congolese government the only legitimate authority to protect the Congolese people including the Congolese Tutsi community."
What can you do? Spread this message to your representatives in Congress!


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SCUTTLING BAD TRADE AGREEMENTS
By Steven Yates
It was back in 1993 that the federal government signed off on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Clinton crowd was all for it. Interestingly, mainstream Republicans were also talking it up (not that there is any difference between the two that makes a difference). Rush Limbaugh touted it on his talk radio show. Among those visible, only Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan had opposed it; the former�s reference to that �giant sucking sound� of jobs going south of America�s border and into Mexico is now legendary.
I didn�t know much about trade agreements back in the early 1990s. My research interests were elsewhere. But as the decade progressed and began to show that Perot and Buchanan had been right while the �establishment� had been wrong�the country did hemorrhage manufacturing jobs, after all, replacing them with low-paying �service sector� jobs�I decided to learn. Were the effects of NAFTA on our job market a natural consequence of globalization? If so, then worrying about lost jobs was an exercise in futility. Or was there more to the story?
What, precisely, is free trade? In economics, it is an arrangement in which buyers and sellers can approach one another, producers with goods or services to sell and consumers wanting to buy; they conduct their transaction by choice, without forcible interference from others. Both producers and consumers obtain something they want; both believe they come out ahead, so both go away satisfied. In a natural order where there is specialization and divisions of labor, where some recognize that needs exist and can satisfy them, free trade will develop naturally and doesn�t need approval or regulation by outsiders. The only reasons for government oversight are to watch for fraud, or to make sure that it isn�t human beings that are being bought and sold (for example). There is no reason why trade should be confined within a single nation�s borders. It never has been possible to do so. In this sense, globalization is a process that has been going on for centuries, since before there was an America.
The question, in this case, is: why should the process require leviathan-sized �agreements� like NAFTA? NAFTA�s final version ran to approximately 1,700 pages. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created the following year, its founding document ran to 23,000 pages! Both have since grown by thousands of pages. What is in all this fine print? Regulations. Thousands of them. NAFTA created dozens of new regulatory bodies�international bureaucracies, in other words, leading to the creation of the WTO. I don�t see how one can peruse the official documents of NAFTA and the WTO without realizing that the former was not really a free trade agreement and the latter is not really about free trade. Both are about trade micromanaged and controlled by contingents of bureaucrats, politicians, and politically well-connected corporations and business groups. In other words, what NAFTA created was the opposite of free trade. It, along with myriad other workaday activities of our government, set up a state of affairs that made it harder for those without the right political connections to do business profitably in America, while making it easier to outsource jobs to Mexico to save labor costs.
In other words, many of those who cried foul over lost jobs and a diminished standard of living in areas especially hard hit by the effects of NAFTA were justified. They just had the wrong target. Free trade wasn�t the culprit. For all practical purposes, there is no such thing today, not on a large enough scale to make a difference. Micromanaged trade, driven by �incentives,� designed as if to hurt the interests of ordinary working Americas, has been to blame.
Murray N. Rothbard once wrote (Ron Paul [R-Tx] is quoting him here): �[G]enuine free trade doesn�t require a treaty (or its deformed cousin, a �trade agreement�; NAFTA is called an agreement so it can avoid the constitutional requirement of approval by two-thirds of the Senate). If the establishment truly wants free trade, all it has to do is to repeal our numerous tariffs, import quotas, anti-dumping laws, and other American-imposed restrictions on free trade. No foreign policy or foreign maneuvering is necessary.�
The folks who gave us NAFTA have served up two new trade abominations. The first is called the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) which could be voted on before the end of this month. CAFTA extends NAFTA to six more nations: the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It is a stepping stone to the second, the granddaddy of all the pseudo free trade agreements: the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA has been called �NAFTA on steroids.� It would integrate all 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere into a single �trade bloc� extending from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of South America.
This move toward regional integration also began in the early 1990s, with a confab called the Summit of the Americas which met in Miami in early December, 1994. This meeting resulted in a Declaration of Principles drawing on the UN Charter and the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) that integrated commitment to �democracy, free trade and sustainable development.� The Summit of the Americas launched a ten-year campaign the goal of which was the FTAA. The target year for completion of negotiations leading to the FTAA: 2005. Here are the Declaration�s own words: �We � resolve to begin immediately to construct the �Free Trade Area of the Americas� (FTAA), in which barriers to trade and investment will be progressively eliminated. We further resolve to conclude the negotiation of the �Free Trade Area of the Americas� no later than 2005 ��
On April 21 I attended a talk by William F. Jasper, senior editor of the magazine The New American. Jasper, who has authored two books on the United Nations, spoke of all this and more. The real issue, he emphasized, is not just American jobs but the survival of the United States of America as a sovereign nation. A sovereign nation is able to control its legal and political destiny. It need not fear absorption into a megastate. That is the future of the U.S.A. if CAFTA and the FTAA go through. We will be absorbed into an entity akin to the socialist European Union (EU). CAFTA speaks openly of regional integration. From its own Preamble, the following (emboldenments in original; italics mine):
�[The six CAFTA governments] are resolved to: strengthen the special bonds of friendship and cooperation among their nations and promote regional economic integration�. Implement this agreement in a manner consistent with environmental protection and conservation, promote sustainable development, and strengthen their cooperation on environmental matters�. Recognize the interest of the Central American Parties in strengthening and deepening their regional economic integration and contribute to hemispheric integration and provide an impetus toward establishing the Free Trade Area of the Americas.�
There it is, folks, in black and white. Hemispheric integration is about more than trade. It is a political construct, and from the standpoint of our future, a very dangerous one.
Jasper made four points with regard to CAFTA and the FTAA.
First, and for reasons we noted above, as free trade agreements these documents are frauds. The many references to the environment, ensuring opportunities for women, other forms of diversity, etc., etc., ought to be sufficient to indicate why, and how. They are about hyper-regulation, not free trade. Their actual aim is to mandate collectivism and inculcate supersized socialism through massive redistribution of wealth.
The adoption of the FTAA will mean the transfer, over a number of years, of hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars. Though a document still in progress, it already contains thousands of pages of regulations which will be interpreted at an international level. Moreover, it will continue expanding in unpredictable ways, as NAFTA and the WTO have continued expanding, and to arenas going well outside trade. The 1998 Summit of the Americas contains sections on education (which the power elite has essentially already controlled for years), municipal and regional administrations, transportation, health care, drugs, terrorism, and more besides. We are looking at reams of regulations that would effectively end property rights by individuals and businesses, as these all must yield to the �hemispheric integration� process.
Second, these agreements are traps capable of bringing more and more aspects of the American legal system under the control of globalist bureaucrats. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O�Connor and Stephen Breyer have both pondered whether the U.S. Constitution can survive in an increasingly �globalized� era. The reality is that international tribunals created by NAFTA are already arrogating for themselves the authority to overrule U.S. courts in trade spats between American and foreign firms. William Jasper had in his possession copies of an article entitled �NAFTA court is law of the 3 lands� which appeared in the Sunday, April 14, 2004 Sacramento Bee. This article reported how, in 2002, a tribunal created by Chapter 11 of NAFTA passed judgment on the ruling of a Massachusetts court over a Canadian real estate company (the U.S. Supreme Court had declined to hear the case). The tribunal had found in favor of the Massachusetts court, but that isn�t the point. This is just one of several cases that have arisen. The WTO has been considerably more aggressive in handing down judgments against state laws in ways that indicate growing attacks on U.S. sovereignty. Professor John D. Echeverria of Georgetown University�s law school observed (in the above-mentioned article), �This is the biggest threat to United States judicial independence that no one has heard of and even fewer people understand.� Professor Peter Spiro of Hofstra University�s law school also noted, �It�s basically been under the radar screen�. But it points to a fundamental reorientation of our constitutional system. You have an international tribunal essentially reviewing American court judgments.� Professor Spiro, by the way, approves. A recent article of his in the Council on Foreign Relations flagship journal Foreign Affairs (2000) attacked �new sovereigntists,� his term for those wishing to maintain U.S. sovereignty under the Constitution. �Indeed,� he writes somewhat euphemistically, �the Constitution will have to adapt to global requirements sooner or later ��
It is happening. None of this was planned when NAFTA was originally debated. Sen. John Kerry, Bush�s erstwhile opponent last year, observed, �When we debated NAFTA, not a single word was uttered in discussing Chapter 11 [of NAFTA]. Why? Because we didn�t know how this provision would play out. No one really knew just how high the stakes would get.�
We know now! Those currently debating CAFTA and the FTAA will not be able to say they weren�t warned!
For third, continued Jasper, CAFTA and the FTAA aren�t single agreements but processes. The FTAA will include material from all previous Summits, and there will be much of the open-endedness that has allowed international tribunals to begin reviewing American court decisions. The model for Western hemispheric integration has been the EU, which was sold to Europeans as a �free trade zone� consisting of six nations, and has since expanded to 25. The nations of Europe have lost control of their economic destinies, lost their currencies, and are losing their political sovereignty. While I do not foresee Americans ever giving up the dollar, Canada has at least toyed with the idea of accepting it. The term here is dollarization. Several Central American nations already use dollars. If more followed suit, this could lead to our fiat money becoming the official currency of a pan-American megastate, as the euro has become for the EU.
There are two buzzwords to watch out for, given the European experience: broadening and deepening. Broadening involves geographical expansion or what can be called horizontal integration, eroding geographical borders. In this sense, CAFTA is a broadening of NAFTA, and the FTAA is the proposed broadening of CAFTA. Broadening, that is, means horizontal regional integration. Then there is deepening. Deepening includes gradual vertical integration beginning with economies and rapidly moving to other arenas such as education, transportation, cultural issues, security issues, and so on. In fact, advocates for deepening NAFTA are hard at work.
Both George W. Bush and Mexican president Vicente Fox have come out in favor of making the FTAA akin to the EU. (One may see here just how ambitious Bush�s agenda really is!) It goes without saying that the FTAA includes components regarding immigration. Is there really any wonder why Bush not only has done nothing about flagrant lawbreaking by illegal immigrants but actually undermined the rule of American law with irrational-seeming policies such as amnesty-for-illegals? If the U.S. Congress commits this country to the FTAA, the problem of illegal immigrants will be �solved�: by a policy of entirely open borders. And in a cultural context where we are all expected, in true political-correctese, to �celebrate our diversity.� Result: there will be no exclusive property rights for anyone!
This monstrosity has actually received support from those influential in American business! The late Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal editor, proposed a Constitutional Amendment in a revealing article: �There shall be open borders.� He once told immigration critic Peter Brimelow, �I think the nation-state is finished.�
The fifty dollar question is: has all this been a natural process, an outgrowth of the globalization we mentioned at the outset? Or has globalization been hijacked by globalism, an aggressive, very well financed ideology with a long-term elite-driven strategy to go along with it? The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations was created in 1921. It was created in response to the defeat of proposed U.S. membership in the first attempt at creating an incipient world government in Europe, the League of Nations. One can go back further, of course, to the Round Table groups that began in 1891 following Cecil Rhodes� having set aside part of his fortune for the creation of a �secret society.� The goal of this society was world government�conceived as a revival of a British Empire that had reincorporated America.
Or one can go back still further, to the British Fabian Society, the socialist group founded in 1883. The Fabians repudiated classical Marxian revolutionism in favor of gradualism, advocating the slow infiltration of institutions and communities until they were transformed from within and turned to socialist purposes. Fabians assisted Rhodes in making the contacts in England necessary to build up his secret society; then Fabianism migrated to America. Edward Mandel House, close associate of Woodrow Wilson, was surrounded by Fabians, and when he was instrumental in founding the Council on Foreign Relations it was all Fabian-approved. Arnold Toynbee, well-known British historian, Fabian, and member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (the British equivalent of the Council on Foreign Relations), stated ten years later: �We are at present working ... with all our might to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local states of the world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.�
The elites have thus had no moral scruples about lying to the public when confronted�although they are quite open about their intentions in their own writings, which they have long assumed the masses would never read. Indeed, the CFR�s Foreign Affairs has the look of just one more dry, academic-type periodical, assuring that it will never have the audience of, say, People�or even National Review. Which is perhaps why we can find in it statements such as that of Richard N. Gartner, a former UN ambassador, who wrote candidly in 1974 (in an article entitled �The Hard Road to World Order�) of �an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece ...� Fabian-style gradualism all the way.
In other words, this scheme aimed at undermining U.S. sovereignty did not happen overnight. Unfortunately, this means it cannot be stopped overnight. We are looking at a broad-based convergence of institutions and an accumulation of resources that has a lot of forward momentum. Authors are appearing who maintain that world government of some sort is now inevitable, if only because of globalized forms of technology such as the Internet. An example is Robert Wright, writing in the (Fabian founded) The New Republic (January 17, 2000) that �In recent years, more and more people have raised the specter of world government�. Much power now vested in the nation-state is indeed starting to migrate to international institutions, and one of these is the WTO�.� The process of creating world government will massively accelerate after an FTAA is in place.
Fourth and finally, CAFTA and the FTAA are treasonous. It should be clear by now that they involve the gradual dismantling of our Constitutional system of government involving checks and balances by those who swore an oath upon taking office to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution was written by men who did not trust power--including their own. This loss of mistrust of power has been eroded over the past two and a quarter centuries of time, until our globalist elites see central planning as the solution to everything. The idea of an economic system absent stifling governmental controls is simply beyond them. This is an important reason natural processes such as globalization are vulnerable to being hijacked, so they begin automatically to work against the natural liberties of the individual.
I have often been asked by readers, �What can we do?� Here is something specific we can all do. We can all fire up our word processors and begin turning out letters to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. The backers of CAFTA, the most immediate concern of the globalists, need 218 votes to get it passed. What we as U.S. citizens can do is urge them to vote against CAFTA, using arguments such as those developed in this article and elsewhere. There are models letters available (although I do not recommend people sending letters and emails which look pretty much alike!). There is no guarantee, of course, that the specifics of such letters will be read. But the next election is a perennial concern up in Rome on the Potomac. Each of our fearless leaders doubtless has a staff person who keeps track of what comes in the mail (regular and electronic), and what positions are taken on which issues. And it is easy for letter-writers to find out how any particular Senator or Representative voted on any issue.
This is important, because the adoption of CAFTA and the FTAA will impact seriously on Americans� pocketbooks in ways going well beyond NAFTA. More importantly, these trade agreements are more than trade agreements. They are direct, long-term threats to the sovereignty of this country. They would effectively end whatever tenuous hold the Constitution still has on our government�and they would not replace it with a libertarian natural order, either! They would replace it with the incipient New World Order!
� 2005 Steven Yates - All Rights Reserved
Dr. Steven Yates has a Ph.D. in philosophy and currently teaches the subject in an adjunct capacity at the University of South Carolina Upstate and the University of South Carolina at Union. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994), and his new book Worldviews: Christian Theism versus Modern Materialism (Columbia, S.C.: The Worldviews Project) should be out this summer. He is a board member of the South Carolina Chapter of Citizens Committee to Stop the FTAA. He lives near Greenville, South Carolina.
His blog is at:
http://itshappeninghere.blogspot.com
E-Mail syates2@bellsouth.net.
In other words, this scheme aimed at undermining U.S. sovereignty did not happen overnight. Unfortunately, this means it cannot be stopped overnight. We are looking at a broad-based convergence of institutions and an accumulation of resources that has a lot of forward momentum.


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Men's Hockey World Cup 2023: Complete format guide | Hockey News
NEW DELHI: The men's hockey world cup will enter its 15th edition in the new year on January 13, 2023, with India hosting the flagship event for the fourth time.
The January 13-29 tournament will be co-hosted by two cities in the state of Odisha. Last year's venue, Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, will be joined by Rourkela, where games will be played at the new purpose-built Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium.
NUMBER OF MATCHES AND TEAMS
A total of 44 matches will be played at the two venues, involving the top 16 teams in the world.
Tokyo Olympics host and bronze medalist India will be joined by defending champions and reigning Olympic champions Belgium, world No. 1 Australia, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Argentina, England, Spain, South Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, France, Japan, Chile and Wales.
The group stage matches will be split between the two venues Rourkela and Bhubaneswar, followed by the crossover matches which will be played in Bhubaneswar only.
The matches to decide the 9th to 16th places will be held in Rourkela, while the quarter-finals, semi-finals, bronze medal game and final will be hosted by Bhubaneswar.
THE FORMAT
The 16 teams were divided into four pools.
Each team in their respective group will play the other three teams once, and the group leader will advance to the quarter-finals. The second- and third-placed teams from each pool will play the crossover matches that will determine the four remaining quarter-finalists.
Pool A: Australia, South Africa, France, Argentina
Pool B: Belgium, Japan, Korea, Germany
Group C: Netherlands, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand
Pool D: India, Wales, Spain, England
The two semi-finals will be played on January 27 and the final on January 29.
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Q: Java Do While isn't working properly Sorry I am new to this site so not sure how this will show up. I am trying to make a simple Rock, Paper, Scissors game. After the while statement, if R, P, S isn't entered, the program just does nothing. I want it to loop back to the question at the beginning so a right choice can be entered. Also, how would I enter a print statement like "Invalid Choice Please Retry"?
package rps.gameapp;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class RPSGameApp
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    String userChoice;
    String playAgain;
    int randNum = (int) (Math.random() * 3);

    do
        {
        System.out.println("Welcome to Rock, Paper, Scissors Game.");
        System.out.println("Pick R, P, or S.");
        userChoice = sc.nextLine();
        while (!userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P")
                && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R")
                && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S"));

            String compChoice = "";
        switch (randNum)
            {
            case 0:
                compChoice = "R";
                break;
            case 1:
                compChoice = "P";
                break;
            case 2:
                compChoice = "S";
                break;
            }

        System.out.println("The computer entered \"" + compChoice + "\".");

        if (compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase(userChoice))
            {
            System.out.println("Draw");
            } else if (userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase(userChoice)
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S")
                || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P")
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R")
                || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S")
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P"))
            {
            System.out.println("User Wins");
            } else
            {
            System.out.println("User Loses");
            }

        System.out.print(
                "Do you want to play again? (Y/N)");
        playAgain = sc.nextLine();

        } while (playAgain.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"));

    System.out.println("Thanks for Playing!");

    }
}

A: It looks like you forgot one do for your inner do while loop.
It should be :
do {
    do {
        System.out.println("Welcome to Rock, Paper, Scissors Game.");
        System.out.println("Pick R, P, or S.");
        userChoice = sc.nextLine();
    } while (!userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R") && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S"));
    ...
} while (playAgain.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"));

Without that inner do (and the curly braces surrounding that loop's body), the inner loop becomes a while loop with an empty body.

A: Like Eran said, you need to wrap your do-while loop in another loop, that will keep asking user for correct input. This is fully working code. One thing that could be better is the message after user inputs wrong letter.
Edit: also make sure you draw random number for every iteration.
Edit 2: to change the message depending on user input you can introduce a new variable that will keep the track of number of times you asked user for correct input. If it is 0- it means user is asked the first time and we should print "Welcome" message. It is anything other than 0- you need to ask the user for correct input. After every round we assign zero to the variable again and the cycle repeats. I have implemented this change in the code. Note that this variable can also be a boolean.
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    String userChoice;
    String playAgain;
    int iterationNumber;

    while (true) {
        iterationNumber = 0;
        do {
            if (iterationNumber == 0) {
                System.out.println("Welcome to Rock, Paper, Scissors Game.");
                System.out.println("Pick R, P, or S.");

            } else {
                System.out.println("Please enter valid letter.");
                System.out.println("Pick R, P, or S.");
            }
            iterationNumber++;
            userChoice = sc.nextLine();
        } while (!userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P")
                && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R")
                && !userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S"));
        String compChoice = "";
        int randNum = (int) (Math.random() * 3);
        switch (randNum) {
            case 0:
                compChoice = "R";
                break;
            case 1:
                compChoice = "P";
                break;
            case 2:
                compChoice = "S";
                break;
        }

        System.out.println("The computer entered \"" + compChoice + "\".");

        if (compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase(userChoice)) {
            System.out.println("Draw");
        } else if (userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R")
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S")
                || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P")
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("R")
                || userChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("S")
                && compChoice.equalsIgnoreCase("P")) {
            System.out.println("User Wins");
        } else {
            System.out.println("User Loses");
        }

        System.out.print(
                "Do you want to play again? (Y/N)");
        playAgain = sc.nextLine();
        if (playAgain.equalsIgnoreCase("N")) {
            break;
        }
        iterationNumber = 0;
    }
    System.out.println("Thanks for Playing!");
}

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MIT Press Teams up with London's Whitechapel Gallery
London's famous Whitchapel Gallery and the MIT Press announce a new series, Documents of Contemporary Art. Each volume will cover a single theme, practice, or obsession central to contemporary visual culture and will be a definitive anthology consisting of key writings on major issues in art today. An internationally-known art historian, curator, critic, or artist will serve as guest editor for each volume, selecting writings that range from foundational texts to freshly made arguments. The artists and writers included in this series represent diverse perspectives, generations, and voices in contemporary art.
The first two volumes in the series have just arrived—
Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, looks at the phenomenon of participation in art that has been both prevalent and contested since the 1990s. Artists have increasingly sought to create situations and events that invite spectators to become active participants, in dialogue both their their context and with each other. The book charts a historical lineage and theoretical framework for this tendency, presented throught the writings or artists, curators, and philosophers from the late 1950s to the present.
And among art's most significant developments worldwide since the 1960s has been a turn to the archive—the nextus of images, objects, documents, and traces through which we recall and revisit individual and shared memories and histories. The Archive, edited by Charles Merewether, collects key writings by influential artists and theorists to explore ways in which the archive has become central in visual culture's investigations of history, memory, testimony, and identity.
Also, be sure to watch for two new volumes this spring one on the rise of "design-art" and another that charts the shifting relationship between film and photography.
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DIGIFAST outperforms all its competitors for semi-rotary printing and die-cutting at a maximum speed of 90 m/min. Already a benchmark since it was released onto the market in 2015, the DIGIFAST ONE is being praised by key players around the world for its speed, precision and production efficiency.
But there are aspects of the DIGIFAST which are worth mentioning when you are with a potential customer. Accuracy! We knew our tolerance levels were good, but we only realised how awesome they were when a senior technician visited us this summer to run a specific precision test on a machine in Faenza in order to validate finishing quality on behalf of the All4Labels Group. Representing an industrial printer with 45 digital printing and finishing lines under one roof, Roger put the DIGIFAST through its paces for an entire day to discover that PRATI and the DIGIFAST could ensure ± 0.10 mm tolerance, the best result seen on the market. See the photograph of the tolerance tests.
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The DIGIFAST ONE also integrates FLASH PASS, a high yield configuration to finish and inspect your jobs in one single pass.
More ways to get the best out of the DIGIFAST is to let you know that with a re-reg lamination unit, you will produce coupons and sandwich labels.
So, remind that 90 m/min. refers to semi-rotary printing and die-cutting both together. Accuracy is recorded at ±0.10 mm, set-up times are as short as 8 minutes and remember that DIGIFAST ONE is a high-tech, highly flexible solution which every customer appreciates.
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#ifndef MP4FF_INTERNAL_H
#define MP4FF_INTERNAL_H

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif /* __cplusplus */

#include "mp4ff_int_types.h"
#include <stdlib.h>

#define MAX_TRACKS 1024
#define TRACK_UNKNOWN 0
#define TRACK_AUDIO   1
#define TRACK_VIDEO   2
#define TRACK_SYSTEM  3

#define SUBATOMIC 128

/* atoms without subatoms */
#define ATOM_FTYP 129
#define ATOM_MDAT 130
#define ATOM_MVHD 131
#define ATOM_TKHD 132
#define ATOM_TREF 133
#define ATOM_MDHD 134
#define ATOM_VMHD 135
#define ATOM_SMHD 136
#define ATOM_HMHD 137
#define ATOM_STSD 138
#define ATOM_STTS 139
#define ATOM_STSZ 140
#define ATOM_STZ2 141
#define ATOM_STCO 142
#define ATOM_STSC 143
#define ATOM_MP4A 144
#define ATOM_MP4V 145
#define ATOM_MP4S 146
#define ATOM_ESDS 147
#define ATOM_META 148 /* iTunes Metadata box */
#define ATOM_NAME 149 /* iTunes Metadata name box */
#define ATOM_DATA 150 /* iTunes Metadata data box */
#define ATOM_CTTS 151
#define ATOM_FRMA 152
#define ATOM_IVIV 153
#define ATOM_PRIV 154
#define ATOM_USER 155
#define ATOM_KEY  156

#define ATOM_ALBUM_ARTIST	157
#define ATOM_CONTENTGROUP   158
#define ATOM_LYRICS         159
#define ATOM_DESCRIPTION    160
#define ATOM_NETWORK        161
#define ATOM_SHOW           162
#define ATOM_EPISODENAME    163
#define ATOM_SORTTITLE      164
#define ATOM_SORTALBUM      165
#define ATOM_SORTARTIST     166
#define ATOM_SORTALBUMARTIST    167
#define ATOM_SORTWRITER     168
#define ATOM_SORTSHOW       169
#define ATOM_SEASON         170
#define ATOM_EPISODE        171
#define ATOM_PODCAST        172

#define ATOM_UNKNOWN 255
#define ATOM_FREE ATOM_UNKNOWN
#define ATOM_SKIP ATOM_UNKNOWN

/* atoms with subatoms */
#define ATOM_MOOV 1
#define ATOM_TRAK 2
#define ATOM_EDTS 3
#define ATOM_MDIA 4
#define ATOM_MINF 5
#define ATOM_STBL 6
#define ATOM_UDTA 7
#define ATOM_ILST 8 /* iTunes Metadata list */
#define ATOM_TITLE 9
#define ATOM_ARTIST 10
#define ATOM_WRITER 11
#define ATOM_ALBUM 12
#define ATOM_DATE 13
#define ATOM_TOOL 14
#define ATOM_COMMENT 15
#define ATOM_GENRE1 16
#define ATOM_TRACK 17
#define ATOM_DISC 18
#define ATOM_COMPILATION 19
#define ATOM_GENRE2 20
#define ATOM_TEMPO 21
#define ATOM_COVER 22
#define ATOM_DRMS 23
#define ATOM_SINF 24
#define ATOM_SCHI 25

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "../../config.h"
#endif

#if !(defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN32_WCE))
#define stricmp strcasecmp
#else
#define stricmp _stricmp
#define strdup _strdup
#endif

/* file callback structure */
typedef struct
{
    uint32_t (*read)(void *user_data, void *buffer, uint32_t length);
    uint32_t (*write)(void *udata, void *buffer, uint32_t length);
    uint32_t (*seek)(void *user_data, uint64_t position);
    uint32_t (*truncate)(void *user_data);
    void *user_data;
} mp4ff_callback_t;

/* metadata tag structure */
typedef struct
{
    char *item;
    char *value;
} mp4ff_tag_t;

/* metadata list structure */
typedef struct
{
    mp4ff_tag_t *tags;
    uint32_t count;
} mp4ff_metadata_t;

typedef struct
{
    int32_t type;
    int32_t channelCount;
    int32_t sampleSize;
    uint16_t sampleRate;
    int32_t audioType;

    /* stsd */
    int32_t stsd_entry_count;

    /* stsz */
    int32_t stsz_sample_size;
    int32_t stsz_sample_count;
    int32_t *stsz_table;

    /* stts */
    int32_t stts_entry_count;
    int32_t *stts_sample_count;
    int32_t *stts_sample_delta;

    /* stsc */
    int32_t stsc_entry_count;
    int32_t *stsc_first_chunk;
    int32_t *stsc_samples_per_chunk;
    int32_t *stsc_sample_desc_index;

    /* stsc */
    int32_t stco_entry_count;
    int32_t *stco_chunk_offset;

    /* ctts */
    int32_t ctts_entry_count;
    int32_t *ctts_sample_count;
    int32_t *ctts_sample_offset;

    /* esde */
    uint8_t *decoderConfig;
    int32_t decoderConfigLen;

    uint32_t maxBitrate;
    uint32_t avgBitrate;

    uint32_t timeScale;
    uint64_t duration;

} mp4ff_track_t;

/* mp4 main file structure */
typedef struct
{
    /* stream to read from */
    mp4ff_callback_t *stream;
    int64_t current_position;

    int32_t moov_read;
    uint64_t moov_offset;
    uint64_t moov_size;
    uint8_t last_atom;
    uint64_t file_size;

    /* mvhd */
    int32_t time_scale;
    int32_t duration;

    /* incremental track index while reading the file */
    int32_t total_tracks;

    /* track data */
    mp4ff_track_t *track[MAX_TRACKS];

    /* metadata */
    mp4ff_metadata_t tags;
} mp4ff_t;

/* mp4util.c */
int32_t mp4ff_read_data(mp4ff_t *f, int8_t *data, uint32_t size);
int32_t mp4ff_write_data(mp4ff_t *f, int8_t *data, uint32_t size);
uint64_t mp4ff_read_int64(mp4ff_t *f);
uint32_t mp4ff_read_int32(mp4ff_t *f);
uint32_t mp4ff_read_int24(mp4ff_t *f);
uint16_t mp4ff_read_int16(mp4ff_t *f);
uint8_t mp4ff_read_char(mp4ff_t *f);
int32_t mp4ff_write_int32(mp4ff_t *f,const uint32_t data);
uint32_t mp4ff_read_mp4_descr_length(mp4ff_t *f);
int64_t mp4ff_position(const mp4ff_t *f);
int32_t mp4ff_set_position(mp4ff_t *f, const int64_t position);
int32_t mp4ff_truncate(mp4ff_t * f);
char * mp4ff_read_string(mp4ff_t * f,uint32_t length);

/* mp4atom.c */
static int32_t mp4ff_atom_get_size(const int8_t *data);
static int32_t mp4ff_atom_compare(const int8_t a1, const int8_t b1, const int8_t c1, const int8_t d1,
                                  const int8_t a2, const int8_t b2, const int8_t c2, const int8_t d2);
static uint8_t mp4ff_atom_name_to_type(const int8_t a, const int8_t b, const int8_t c, const int8_t d);
uint64_t mp4ff_atom_read_header(mp4ff_t *f, uint8_t *atom_type, uint8_t *header_size);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_stsz(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_esds(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_mp4a(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_stsd(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_stsc(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_stco(mp4ff_t *f);
static int32_t mp4ff_read_stts(mp4ff_t *f);
#ifdef USE_TAGGING
static int32_t mp4ff_read_meta(mp4ff_t *f, const uint64_t size);
#endif
int32_t mp4ff_atom_read(mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t size, const uint8_t atom_type);

/* mp4sample.c */
static int32_t mp4ff_chunk_of_sample(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample,
                                     int32_t *chunk_sample, int32_t *chunk);
static int32_t mp4ff_chunk_to_offset(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t chunk);
static int32_t mp4ff_sample_range_size(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track,
                                       const int32_t chunk_sample, const int32_t sample);
static int32_t mp4ff_sample_to_offset(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);
int32_t mp4ff_audio_frame_size(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);
int32_t mp4ff_set_sample_position(mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);

#ifdef USE_TAGGING
/* mp4meta.c */
static int32_t mp4ff_tag_add_field(mp4ff_metadata_t *tags, const char *item, const char *value);
static int32_t mp4ff_tag_set_field(mp4ff_metadata_t *tags, const char *item, const char *value);
static int32_t mp4ff_set_metadata_name(mp4ff_t *f, const uint8_t atom_type, char **name);
static int32_t mp4ff_parse_tag(mp4ff_t *f, const uint8_t parent_atom_type, const int32_t size);
static int32_t mp4ff_meta_find_by_name(const mp4ff_t *f, const char *item, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_parse_metadata(mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t size);
int32_t mp4ff_tag_delete(mp4ff_metadata_t *tags);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_num_items(const mp4ff_t *f);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_by_index(const mp4ff_t *f, uint32_t index,
                            char **item, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_title(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_artist(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_writer(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_album(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_date(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_tool(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_comment(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_genre(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_track(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_disc(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_compilation(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_tempo(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
int32_t mp4ff_meta_get_coverart(const mp4ff_t *f, char **value);
#endif

/* mp4ff.c */
mp4ff_t *mp4ff_open_read(mp4ff_callback_t *f);
#ifdef USE_TAGGING
mp4ff_t *mp4ff_open_edit(mp4ff_callback_t *f);
#endif
void mp4ff_close(mp4ff_t *ff);
//void mp4ff_track_add(mp4ff_t *f);
int32_t parse_sub_atoms(mp4ff_t *f, const uint64_t total_size,int meta_only);
int32_t parse_atoms(mp4ff_t *f,int meta_only);

int32_t mp4ff_get_sample_duration(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);
int64_t mp4ff_get_sample_position(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);
int32_t mp4ff_get_sample_offset(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample);
int32_t mp4ff_find_sample(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int64_t offset,int32_t * toskip);

int32_t mp4ff_read_sample(mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track, const int32_t sample,
                          uint8_t **audio_buffer,  uint32_t *bytes);
int32_t mp4ff_get_decoder_config(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track,
                                 uint8_t** ppBuf, uint32_t* pBufSize);
int32_t mp4ff_total_tracks(const mp4ff_t *f);
int32_t mp4ff_time_scale(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track);
int32_t mp4ff_num_samples(const mp4ff_t *f, const int32_t track);

uint32_t mp4ff_meta_genre_to_index(const char * genrestr);//returns 1-based index, 0 if not found
const char * mp4ff_meta_index_to_genre(uint32_t idx);//returns pointer to static string

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif /* __cplusplus */

#endif

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