Forty years after the decline of the steel industry, Pittsburgh has emerged from the ashes of deindustrialization to become the new Emerald City. Its formidable skyline gleams with homegrown names—PPG, UPMC, and PNC. Touted as the "most livable city" by the likes of The Economist and Forbes, its highly literate and educated workforce has contributed to a robust and diverse local economy known as a center for technology, health care, and bio-science. It is a leader in startup businesses. Uber and Ford's announcement in 2016 that they would base development of their self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, rather than in Silicon Valley, is a telling example of the power of high-tech image and low costs.
Pittsburgh also ranks high in housing affordability. Residents can easily walk or bike to public libraries, museums, and arts and entertainment venues. Some see Pittsburgh as a model for economic development and a new urbanism that could revitalize the Rust Belt and other former industrial regions.
But is there really such a thing as Pittsburgh exceptionalism? Or, as with other successful cities, do we need to ask: A renaissance for whom? Residents like Kathleen Newman, a working-class studies scholar and professor at Carnegie Mellon, see gentrification expanding with Pittsburgh's drive to attract high-tech industries. This threatens the city's remaining working-class neighborhoods and its already small African American middle class. Some resistance to gentrification has emerged—protests over the construction of high-income housing and a Whole Foods Market in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood, for instance. Residents are also proposing their own alternatives for affordable housing.
And there are more fundamental questions: Can—does—Pittsburgh's success extend beyond city limits? Can it resurrect its broader Rust Belt region? What can Pittsburgh do—what can we do—for the broader regions that it has left behind?
Pittsburgh was always more than its city limits. The seven counties composing the metropolitan region include surrounding towns that contributed to Pittsburgh's industrial might in the 20th century, such as Braddock, Homestead, Aliquippa, and McKees Rocks. But the area beyond Pittsburgh, extending from these towns through western Pennsylvania, has not experienced the revitalization that has transformed the city. From Weirton, West Virginia, to the west, Uniontown to the south, Johnstown to the east, and Sharon to the north, economic recovery has been, at best, uneven across the region. Apart from a few newer suburbs like Cranberry and some older revitalization projects, such as the Waterfront complex in Homestead, the region continues to be plagued by the long-term effects of deindustrialization and disinvestment. Along with underperforming schools, violence, and pollution—including, according to a recent report, lead contamination—the region still struggles with employment and population declines. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows wide swings in employment over the last decade, but non-farm employment in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area declined by about 15,000 between October 2016 and March 2017. A University of Pittsburgh study reports that 23 percent of Pittsburgh residents live in poverty, and 43 percent earn less than 200 percent of the poverty level. Furthermore, outside its urban core, a larger number of individuals actually live in poverty than in Pittsburgh itself. In the seven-county Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area, fully 79 percent of the people living in poverty reside outside the city limits.
Both the city and the surrounding area are also losing population. Census data show that Pittsburgh's Allegheny County lost almost 4,000 people in 2015 and 2016, while the seven-county region lost nearly 9,000 people on top of the more than 6,700 lost in the previous year.
The Pittsburgh story, then, involves more than a shining city on many hills. As a case study for thinking about economic development and urban planning, we have to go beyond the city itself. If you drive out of the busy downtown, away from the academic neighborhoods, and past the new suburbs, you cannot help but see the remains of the troublesome legacy of deindustrialization. Deteriorating factories, empty parking lots, dilapidated housing, and vacant lots all bear witness to the continuing material and social costs of economic restructuring. Urbanists, developers, and politicians have much to learn by expanding their view of Pittsburgh.
IN 2013, CARNEGIE MELLON University organized the 25th anniversary conference of the original Remaking Cities Congress. Pittsburgh was chosen as both site and symbol for its "25-year transformation from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy." The conference brought together 300 leading national and international urban and city planners, economic development specialists, and architects to consider the state of efforts to revitalize deindustrialized communities. Many conference participants praised Pittsburgh as a prime example of the new urbanism that promotes walkability, diverse housing, quality architecture and design, increased density, mixed-use neighborhoods, smart public transportation, and commitment to sustainability and quality of life.
The plenary speakers included urbanologist Richard Florida, the Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz, the architect David Lewis, and Prince Charles, who had played a pivotal role in organizing the initial conference. Alongside numerous self-congratulatory presentations about how cities were reinventing themselves, however, ran a darker undercurrent of uncertainty. In his plenary presentation, Florida noted how the new urbanism was fostering inequality, outmigration, and racial divisions. His analysis became the foundation of his new book, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do about It.
Florida had been in a good position to observe changes in Pittsburgh and other cities associated with the knowledge economy. He taught at Carnegie Mellon while researching his book The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, which argued for the power of technological determinism in shaping urban regeneration and economic growth. Initially published in 2002, the book instantly became a touchstone for economic developers and urban planners. Esquire magazine named Florida one of the "Best and Brightest" in 2005, and Businessweek called him a Voice of Innovation in 2006. Within several years, Florida became a beacon for those suggesting that postindustrial cities should concentrate on attracting a "creative class" of writers, painters, musicians, software developers, engineers, and doctors.
Chic apartment buildings are springing up on Pittsburgh's former heavy industrial sites—like the Foundry, in the Lawrenceville neighborhood.
At the Remaking conference, however, Florida focused (as he does in his new book) on the unintended consequences of the growing knowledge economy he had earlier championed. While obliquely addressing Pittsburgh and its region, his analysis of the growing inequality, injustice, and resentment shown toward this and other cities captured, among other things, the growing populist unrest in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio—a pattern that would play out a few years later in the 2016 election.
Florida's change of heart did not surprise Chapman University professor Joel Kotkin. As Kotkin argued in The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us and The New Class Conflict, the new urbanism lay at the heart of an emerging class conflict. Unlike industrial conflicts between owners and laborers, this class conflict pitted a postindustrial elite made up of high-tech oligarchs and policy, media, and academic experts against the middle and working classes. According to Kotkin, the rise of the knowledge economy and new urbanist planning strategies had erased the idea that the city could be a place of hope for advancement for those in poverty. Instead, the poor, many of them people of color, were displaced by rising housing costs as white residents returned to the city and developers created a "Disneyland" of "restaurants, shops, and festivals." For Kotkin, the American dream could now be found in the suburbs, where it was cheaper to live and survive in uncertain economic times. He argued that suburbs have become more racially diverse, and people with lower incomes had more opportunities to own property and build community.
But Kotkin's suburbanist dream has also come under scrutiny. Urbanists have claimed that suburban sprawl increases demand for land usage and water, police, and fire services, as well as car dependency. The opioid epidemic has also reached the suburbs. Long commutes disconnect suburban residents from community life. Online shopping causes suburban malls to close, shattering local retail economies. Shoddy construction and poor materials long associated with suburban tract housing have become increasingly apparent.
Debates between urbanists and suburbanists have consequences for planning and policy—just as the rift between metropolitan residents and other Americans has political consequences. In the 2016 presidential election, voting patterns in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania reflect this divide. While many commentators focused on racial, educational, gender, and generational gaps, The Atlantic's Ronald Brownstein argued that none of these divides "proved more powerful than the distance between the Democrats' continued dominance of the largest metropolitan areas, and the stampede toward the GOP almost everywhere else." Nationally, Democrats won an average of 72 percent of the vote in counties with an urban core. But they lost in suburbs, midsize cities, and small and very small cities, and the farther these places were from cities, the bigger the loss for Democrats.
The voting in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania followed the national trend. Real Clear Politics reported that Hillary Clinton won culturally cosmopolitan areas "most commonly seen as centers of economic growth, political power, or cultural production," but Trump made gains in the popular vote in traditional Democratic areas like Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and other smaller cities in the middle of the country, when their decaying suburbs and exurbs were lumped into the tallies.
Clearly, the Republicans and Trump were successful in reducing support in what had been traditional Democratic areas by mining the divide between urban and suburban/rural areas, benefiting from the politics of resentment toward urbanism and economic elites.
FOLLOWING THE ELECTION, deliberations over new urbanism, urban-suburban identities, and the urban crisis have intensified as part of the debate over our future economic policy. The competing narratives have been shaped by such think tanks as Brookings and New America, representing a range of liberal and conservative political viewpoints.
Pittsburgh's renaissance hasn't extended to Braddock, a town just outside the city's limits.
For example, New America co-founder Michael Lind joined with Kotkin to produce a new report arguing that the solution to America's economic problems lies in the revitalization of the heartland. In "The New American Heartland: Renewing the Middle Class by Revitalizing Middle America," Lind and Kotkin reject the view that the coasts, epitomized by Silicon Valley in California and the finance industry in New York, should be the drivers of the American economy. They claim that what they call the "Gulf of Mexico watershed"—an admittedly imprecise geographic area—better reflects an ongoing population and economic shift away from the coasts toward middle America. This New American Heartland includes the older manufacturing rust belt, broad agricultural regions, and resource-extracting areas along the Gulf Coast. In other articles, Kotkin suggests this was the very region responsible for the election of Donald Trump.
Lind and Kotkin reject both Democrats' and Republicans' belief that America's economic future is tied to knowledge, media, and finance industries that require the higher-skilled and better-educated employees located in coastal areas, and they also point out that even knowledge workers are leaving the coasts. While they do not deny that automation and offshoring have reduced employment in manufacturing and goods-producing industries, they believe that "the tradable sector" is far more essential to American prosperity than its share of current employment suggests. This sector includes manufacturing, industrial agriculture, energy, and minerals, fields that are dominated by large firms and complex supply chains. Once again indirectly criticizing the failures of urbanists' visions of technology as the source of economic growth, they argue that every city and county cannot be Silicon Valley, and that the lower housing and energy costs and weaker regulatory environment in the "New Heartland" will drive future economic growth and development.
Lind and Kotkin's political colors become more apparent in their discussion of the role of government in revitalizing the New American Heartland. They call for the government to supplement efforts of the private sector, but they also warn that "misguided regulations" could "thwart economic development." For example, they note that regulatory attempts to mitigate the "possible" harms of climate change only increase the costs of fossil fuels. They are more concerned about possible dangers to energy industries, American jobs, and productivity growth. Instead, they suggest, the federal government should largely limit its support to basic science research and development, infrastructure, and tax support for state and local government and public-private partnerships.
In contrast, Richard Florida envisions a more critical and stronger role for government in supporting urban transformational changes. In The Urban Crisis, he argues that a "disconnect between the vital economic role of cities and our policymakers' neglect of them" has led to a crisis. Florida still believes, as he wrote in The Rise of the Creative Class, that cities are most economically successful when they bring together the three "Ts"—technology, talent, and tolerance. Cities remain platforms for innovation, wealth creation, social and progressive values, and political freedom, and these, in turn, contribute to the health of suburbs and outlying areas. However, he now argues that cities must resist the "winner-take-all urbanism" that fosters economic inequality and segregation. He offers seven keys for more equitable development: reforms in building, zoning codes, and tax policies; infrastructure investment to spur density and clustering and to limit sprawl; affordable rental housing in central locations; turning low-wage service jobs into family-supporting work; addressing poverty through greater investment in people and places; helping build stronger and more prosperous international urban cities; and empowering local communities and local leaders to strengthen their own economies. No doubt many of these reforms would make cities more affordable and attractive to the middle and working classes, but they would also require massive government subsidies. For Florida, then, the federal government has a central role to play in alleviating the urban crisis.
Pittsburgh's expanding gentrification threatens the city's remaining working-class neighborhoods and its already small African American middle class, leading to protests like this one in the East Liberty neighborhood on March 9, 2017.
WHAT IS MISSING FROM the larger discussions of urban and regional development are any fully formed progressive solutions. Even the most progressive of recent political campaigns offered little. While Bernie Sanders championed "New Deal Reforms" and a "new Bill of Rights" that, he claimed, would create "an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy," other than making housing affordable and increasing wages and benefits, he put forth no concrete plans for dealing with the broader crisis of urban and regional economies. Some of Richard Florida's more progressive pillars found their way into Martin O'Malley's campaign, but that never got off the ground.
More recently, the Center for American Progress has put forward a progressive solution, a report entitled "Toward a Marshall Plan for America: Rebuilding our Towns, Cities, and the Middle Class." It argues for developing a commission to design a "domestic Marshall Plan for jobs and community investment." The Marshall Plan Commission would be "under the direction of national, regional, and local leaders." They would "seek input from urban and rural leaders who represent labor, business, education, health, faith, community, economic development, and racial justice to help understand the problem; lift up promising practices; develop bold ideas; particularly for people who did not attend college." The plan encourages the building of "community institutions that support incomes, employment, and mobility" through greater infrastructure spending, investment in education, public employment, improvements in access to child care and health care, tax reform, and increased wages and social security, among other strategies. Overall, the plan can be read as a provisional "New Deal Lite," a thinly disguised re-do of the center's contributions to Hillary Clinton's economic platform, with belated attention to the working class and nonmetropolitan America.
There is a good reason why no one has offered clearer strategies, though. As Pittsburgh shows, there are no easy answers to challenges facing metro regions. When we look beyond that city's core, we clearly see that even the place most often praised for having gotten economic renewal right still battles uneven development and inequities just beyond the city limits. None of the strategists offer much hope for the many former mill towns and rural communities in western Pennsylvania. Without a new and enduring infusion of economic vitality, smaller towns and rural areas outside the upscale metropolitan hubs will show persistent signs of economic struggle. Some may be beyond repair.
It isn't that the Pittsburgh story is wrong. It is simply incomplete. The narratives about this city, like the broader debates among new urbanists and economic and urban planners, do not fully consider the continuing costs of deindustrialization, disinvestment, globalization, and neoliberal austerity programs on individuals and communities. These personal, community, and national costs rival the displacements caused by natural disasters and armed conflicts. The devastation of economic change has left far too many with limited options and little power to improve their lives or communities.
Even if someone could offer clear solutions, however, their proposals would still have to surmount political gridlock. Neither party seems poised to take on this crisis in any effective way, which only contributes to the disillusionment of many voters and to a growing divide that, as Brownstein argues, splits urban residents from those living in suburbs, small towns, and rural areas.
Even with the best of intentions, urban planners and economic developers are complicit in sustaining the broken socioeconomic system that Florida suggests is central to the urban crisis. They need to recognize that the problem goes beyond even secular stagnation, segregation, gentrification, inclusion, regional integration, and the business and government efforts so prominent in their narratives. The problem is with capitalism as it currently exists—its reliance on inequality and racism, and its externalization of its social costs. This is not to say that economic and social improvements cannot be made through some of the reforms suggested previously. But they won't solve the underlying problems that come from capitalism's subordination of social needs to its economic necessities.
Urbanists need to consider long-term strategies based on values, and not just spatial considerations, that address the concrete needs of people. What makes our urban and regional crisis seem so intractable, ultimately, is this very tension between market forces and ethical and moral solutions.


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Q: Alexa skill: EXCEEDED_MAX_REPROMPTS when delegating to get an AMAZON.Date I'm developing a skill using the node.js v2 sdk. In a certain point of the skill, I'm trying to get a date using the AMAZON.Date slot type like:
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The problem is that sometimes, not always, I get a EXCEEDED_MAX_REPROMPTS in this moment, I'm not even getting the Alexa prompt: "When do you want it?".
Why am I getting this error?
Thank you and best regards,
Ignacio

A: I had a similar issue and needed to find out that EXCEEDED_MAX_REPROMPTS can also mean that Alexa is not confident enough about your spoken utterance.

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*In my case it was quite simple - I used the Amazon.YesIntent in my backend but forgot to add this intent to the model in developer console. So Alexa was not confident enough about my "Yes" which it was not expecting

*In your case I have seen a similar issue also about some numbers are recognized and others not: https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/72001/getting-exceeded-max-reprompts-when-user-says-cert.html  So maybe you should also ask your question there to get direct support of Amazon

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There is a great deal of current research into Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks to treat a wide variety of symptoms including chronic daily headache, migraine and trigeminal neuralgia.
This old article in the Annals o Internal Medicine (JAMA) was published in 1930 and looked at 2000 patients who received a total of 10,000 blocks also stated that the Nasal Ganglion (SPG, Sphenopalatine Ganglion, Pterygopalatine Ganglion) Blocks were effective for treating the pain of Iritis, the pain of keratitis, the pain of interstitial keratitis associated with syphilis, the pain of conjunctivitis, the pain of optic neuritis from methyl alcohol poisening, the pain of traumatic ulcer to the cornea, blepharospasm, functional hyperesthesia of the ciliary muscle, pain in the eyes associated with errors in refraction, photophobia (excewssive sensitivity to light) , excessive lacrimation, intra-ocular tension and pain of glaucoma, pain of phylctenula (an inflammatory syndrome caused by a delayed hypersensitivity reaction) , the pain of Chalazion (a cyst in eyelid hardened oils blocking the gland).
This article does not talk about the Nasal Block curing the underlying problem but rather relieving the phenomena of pain in the eye.
It is important to note that an opthamologists are the primary physicians of the eye along with optometrists. Diagnosis of disorders should be made by these professionals.
Chronic eye pain or periodic eye pain is extremely distracting to patients and decrease their quality of life. Much of the innervation to the eye is through the trigeminal nervous system and the autonomic fibers, both sympathetic and parasympathetic pass through the Sphenopalatine Ganglion in the pterygopalatine fosaa on the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve.
Self-administration of SPG Blocks may be an excellent solution for patients troubled by eye pain. They can be self -administered safely and effectively for many patients with cotton-tipped nasal catheters and lidocaine.
The book "Miracles on Park Avenue" detailed the medical practice of Dr Milton Reder who utilized SPG blocks for a wide variety of problems including eye pain.
Eye pain is a common complaint of patients with TMJ disorders and is the pain is often resolved with treatment.
Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) is an excellent modality for treating TMJ disorders and associated MPD (Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction). NMD utilizes the Myomonitor a ULF-TENS used to stimulate the TRigeminal and Facial Nerves to relax masticatory and facial muscles. The Myomonitor will also stimulate the Sphenopalatine Ganglion due to its position on the Maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve.
The trigeminal nerve carries fibers that innervate the cornea, ciliary gland and lower eyelid so it is not surprising that it can be effective for eye pain.
This article in Archives of Internal medicine was published in 1930. A great deal of the research was from Sluder who first described the block in 1903 for eliminating headache (now thought to have been a cluster headache).
I only recently obtained the original article and I am amazed by the amount of detailed information that it presented. Even more amazing is that this remarkable block was almost lost in obscurity for many years.
I have been utilizing SPG Blocks since 1986 after a patient gave me a copy of the book "Miracles on Park Avenue" and asked me to find a doctor in Chicago who did the blocks.
I eventually traveled to Kansas City and learned how to do the block from Dr Jack Haden, a dentist well known for his treatment of TMJ disorders.
The authors of this article stated other conditions like progressive deafness and vertigo but also discussed that it is not a cure for the underlying disease.
Byrd H, Byrd W (1930) Sphenopalatine phenomena: present status of knowledge. Archives of Internal Medicine 46(6): 1026-1038.


I want to be a model, but i also want to be a actress and singer, can i do all that?
i would like to do acting and singing when i have a modeling job for mabey a year or two.
How about adding being a director, producer, and talk-show host to the list?
If you were a director in Hollywood, what kind would you be?
What happens to the voices of some singers when the age?
What happens to the voices of some singers when the age?Why do the singers' voice quality change as they age or why can't they hit the higher notes the way they used to when they were younger?
How was the hot sexi actress in malayalam movie?


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Art has long been my passion and I consider myself so lucky to have been introduced to decorative painting. I had my first painting class back in 1985 in Kemmerer, Wyoming and knew that this new and popular craft was going to be a lifelong focus.
From Wyoming we moved to Maine, Cape Cod, Virginia and finally Minnesota. In each area I honed my craft going from selling at craft shows to selling in shops, selling online, designing and selling painting patterns.
Every day I have an opportunity to paint is a wonderful day. Being able to take the time and see the art around me has been priceless. I will paint on almost anything and enjoy every second. I am so happy to say that every piece I paint is painted with love.


How can the ASU Knowledge Enterprise continue to chart a bold path into the future? How do we create capacity within the institution to take on significant challenges while remaining adaptable and agile? How do we nurture and grow the knowledge core of the institution while leveraging the knowledge we have to advance our efforts? How do we connect people and ideas from across the instruction to promote solution generation and meaningful impact? How do we build and nurture a culture known for innovation, inclusion and engagement?
Innovation Culture – embed an innovation mindset deeply into the ASU culture to empower faculty, staff and students to create impact through innovation.
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How will you innovate at ASU?
Through Skylife and its parent company NeoLight, Vivek Kopparthi and his colleagues intend to treat jaundice and save lives with speed and efficiency in some of the most historically vulnerable and under-resourced parts of the world.
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The annual joint exercises, which have taken place since 1997, ran for two months in 2017 but have been reduced to just one month this year, Yonhap reported. Foal Eagle drills will be followed by a two weeks of Key Resolve exercises, which are command-post training based on computer simulation. The latter is expected to start in mid-April, which means they are going to overlap with a historic summit between North Korea's leader Kim Jon-un and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on April 27.
The date for the first meeting between the leaders of the two countries in more than 10 years was set on Thursday. The Key Resolve will run from April 23 to May 3, and will see some 12,000 US troops participating.
The drills were initially scheduled to be launched in late February or early March but were postponed because of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which concluded on March 18 and marked the beginning of a thaw in relations between the two Koreas.
One of the highlights of this year's Foal Eagle maneuvers will be the involvement of the USS 'Wasp' amphibious-assault ship, which has recently been spotted operating off the coast of Okinawa. The Japanese island plays a strategic role for US deployment in the region and hosts some 26,000 US troops.
The relatively low-key exercises will finish just ahead of the widely anticipated talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jon-un. While the date for the much-hyped meeting has not yet been set, it is expected to take place by May.
North Korea was notified of the drills in advance through the United Nations Command, the Pentagon said at the time.


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Video: Watch how five TEDx organizers share an idea around the world
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First, watch this wonderful new promo for TED's mobile app — a wander through five countries and communities, linked by a love for great ideas.
TED's filmmakers asked the help of five TEDx organizers to make a video highlighting TED's mobile app, the result became something much more: visual evidence that ideas bring people together.
To help make this video for mobile TED Talks, Kelo Kubu from TEDxJohannesburg (center) brought an iPhone to Skateistan, a youth center in Johannesburg, South Africa, uses skateboarding and education for empowerment.
"We wanted to highlight one of our core values — a deep respect for diversity of ideas shared by a global community. And we wanted to express this in both the content of the video as well as the physical production of it," says Kari Mulholland, the creative director and producer on the project.
To tell this story around the world, they reached out to the TEDx community and found five enthusiastic collaborators: Reza Ghiabi from TEDxTehran, Antonella Broglia from TEDxMadrid, Jon Yeo from TEDxMelbourne, Kelo Kubu from TEDxJohannesburg and Jimmy Tan from TEDxXiguan. And to find a TED Talk that linked these communities together, the team immediately thought of Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche's TED Talk "The danger of a single story," which eloquently communicates an idea that resonates across cultures and languages.
TEDx organizer Antonella Broglia from TEDxMadrid connected filmmakers with the staff at Berkana, one of the most important gay and lesbian bookshops in Madrid.
"We built a visual narrative using iPhones to create a sense of intimacy and continuity between the multiple locations," Kari says. "We loved the challenge of matching action and framing across all of these cities."
The TEDx organizers helped Kari and Sheena Ozaki, the production assistant, develop scenes and locations. It was important to capture places that are meaningful to each community, and the local teams used these settings to help tell the story.
Jon Yeo from TEDxMelbourne worked with Robert Moorman from Hunting With Pixels to film street artist George Manioudakis in Melbourne, Australia.
The video also highlights organizations and people involved in these neighborhoods. Skateistan in Johannesburg, South Africa, uses skateboarding and education as a form of youth empowerment. Berkana is one of the most important gay and lesbian bookshops in Madrid, Spain. And the street art was done by George Manioudakis, a renowned street artist who works out of Blender Studios in Melbourne, Australia.
The TEDxTehran team filmed a typical cafe conversation in their hometown.
The film shows how a powerful idea can spread across borders and languages, and how an idea can bring individuals together. Fittingly, the video was premiered today at TEDFest, a gathering in New York of over 500 TEDx organizers from around the world, who spread the mission of TED and bring powerful ideas to their own communities.
The TED mobile app is available on iOS and Android. Talks are subtitled in 100+ languages, thanks to our volunteer TED Translators.
Jimmy Tan from TEDxXiguan gathered his crew to film a typical day-in-the-life that includes enjoying a TED Talk over a meal.
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TED.com now available in HTML5, serving many mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPad
Since TED.com launched in 2006, we've always aimed to make TEDTalks work across a wide variety of platforms. Anywhere people watch video, we want them to watch TEDTalks. In the past year, smartphones have emerged as a major platform for watching video and web content. And while TEDTalks have always been viewable on the phone […]

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Q: Encrypted custom install My computer runs Ubuntu. I want to install Ubuntu on another medium. I wish to enable encryption, yet as the ubuntu installer's default choices (erase/alongside/etc...) only concerns the default drive, I have to choose "something else" and create the partitions on the other drive manually, I create ~128mb part for boot, then I'm lost, if I make an encrytped partition with the rest of the space I'm unable to split it, so I have no swap; if instead I create two encrypted partitions, it doesn't seems right because it want to set up two different passwords...
How can I set up the swap then? (During or after install).

A: Update 2020-07-16: This may not work with Ubuntu flavors that have moved away from the Ubiquity installer (eg. Lubuntu which now uses  Calamares) because some of those installers go so far as to deactivate LVM partitions that they did not, themselves, configure in the pre-installation process. Thus, making unavailable the partitions that were configured for system installation.
How to accomplish this with LVM and a single encrypted partition##
Warning
First of all 128M is too small for boot! I use 1G. Otherwise, what is bound to happen is that you may forget to remove old kernels and /boot will fill up, and you'll have to deal with the pain of trying to remove old kernels from the system so that you can get apt or apt-get to work again. Even with 1G, make sure you remove old kernels from time to time.
The next steps are not intended for novice users.
UPDATE: I have created a script that will perform the following operations for you and more! All you have to do is run it from the Live OS before installation. You can find a write-up on my blog.

Pre-installation from live OS
You want to setup LUKS and LVM while manually partitioning! I tested this on Ubuntu 16.04.2 / 18.04 / 20.04
Boot Ubuntu from a Live OS and select the option to try Ubuntu without installing. Follow the steps I've outlined below. Let's assume you're installing to /dev/sdb.

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*Partition the drive with your tool of choice: I used fdisk to set mine  up on an msdos partition table as follows:

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*other partitions: existing OSs -- we don't care about these

*sdb1: /boot (1G)

*sdb2: LUKS partition (the rest of the disk)

*Setup LUKS

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*sudo cryptsetup luksFormat --hash=sha512 --key-size=512 --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --verify-passphrase /dev/sdb2

*sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 CryptDisk

*While not necessary, it is a good idea to fill your LUKS partition with zeros so that the partition, in an encrypted state, is filled with random data. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/CryptDisk bs=4M BEWARE, this could take a really long time!

*Setup LVM on /dev/mapper/CryptDisk

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*sudo pvcreate /dev/mapper/CryptDisk

*sudo vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/CryptDisk

*sudo lvcreate -n swap -L 2G vg0

*sudo lvcreate -n root -L 10G vg0

*sudo lvcreate -n home -l +100%FREE vg0

Installation from live OS

*Now you're ready to install. When you get to the "Installation type" portion of the install, choose the "Something else" option. Then manually assign the /dev/mapper/vg0-* partitions as you would like to have the configured. Don't forget to set /dev/sdb1 as /boot. the /boot partition must not be encrypted. If it is, we won't be able to boot. Change the "Device for boot loader installation" to /dev/sdb, and continue with installation.

*When installation is complete, don't reboot! Choose the option to "Continue Testing".

Post-installation configuration from live OS
This bit is really important if you want your system to boot! I spent quite a bit of time researching this to figure out these post-installation steps. In my case I was actually doing it because I wanted to customize the size of /boot on /dev/sda, but all that work should carry over to your situation as well.

*In a terminal, type the following and look for the UUID of /dev/sdb2. Take note of that UUID for later.

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*sudo blkid | grep LUKS

*The important line on my machine reads /dev/sdb2: UUID="bd3b598d-88fc-476e-92bb-e4363c98f81d" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="50d86889-02"

*Next lets get the newly installed system mounted again so we can make some more changes.

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*sudo mount /dev/vg0/root /mnt

*sudo mount /dev/vg0/home /mnt/home # this is probably not necessary

*sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot

*sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev # I'm not entirely sure this is necessary

*sudo mount --bind /run/lvm /mnt/run/lvm

*(Only if you're using EFI): sudo mount /dev/sd*/your/efi/partition /mnt/boot/efi

*Now run sudo chroot /mnt to access the installed system

*From the chroot, mount a couple more things

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*mount -t proc proc /proc

*mount -t sysfs sys /sys

*mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

*Setup crypttab. Using your favorite text editor, create the file /etc/crypttab and add the following line, changing out the UUID with the UUID of your disk.

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*CryptDisk UUID=bd3b598d-88fc-476e-92bb-e4363c98f81d none luks,discard

*Lastly, rebuild some boot files.

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*update-initramfs -k all -c
- update-grub

*Reboot, and the system should ask for a password to decrypt on boot!

Special thanks go to Martin Eve, EGIDIO DOCILE, and the folks at blog.botux.fr for tutorials they posted. By pulling pieces from their posts and doing a little extra trouble shooting, I was finally able to figure this out.
I tried this a number of times and failed over and over. The bit that I had to work out for myself based on error messages was sudo mount --bind /run/lvm /mnt/run/lvm

A: How to accomplish this multiple encrypted partitions and no LVM
Because my previous answer was so long, I'm posting a second answer that takes a different approach if you do not want to use LVM.
You can create multiple encrypted partitions and use the decrypt_derived script so that you only need to enter the password once. Check out this blog post for step-by-step instructions. The author uses a keyfile, but the decrypt_derived LUKS script would be sufficient as well.

A: This is the answer for those who keep bumping into this question wanting to just slightly change the default partitioning of Ubuntu. For example, remove the swap partition and increase the /boot size. I think many people would be discouraged to follow b_laoshi's instruction, because of the amount of steps required.
So for simple custom partitioning with encryption I suggest to use "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" with "Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security" option. What we will change is the config for this default partitioning.
This configs are contained in /lib/partman/recipes[-arch]/. For myself, I've been changing /lib/partman/recipes-amd64-efi/30atomic. To get 538M for efi, 1024M for /boot, and the rest for / with ext4, I edited the file to
538 538 538 fat32
    $iflabel{ gpt }
    $reusemethod{ }
    method{ efi }
    format{ } .

1024 1024 1024 ext4
    $defaultignore{ }
    $lvmignore{ }
    method{ format }
    format{ }
    use_filesystem{ }
    filesystem{ ext4 }
    mountpoint{ /boot } .

900 10000 -1 ext4
    $lvmok{ }
    method{ format }
    format{ }
    use_filesystem{ }
    filesystem{ ext4 }
    mountpoint{ / } .

Note, that once you choose the disk to erase in the installer, it will prompt you with the summary of the partitioning, so you can check if the trick worked and you are getting the desired partitioning. See also https://askubuntu.com/a/678074/47073.

A: One way to do the task is to use the ubuntu network installer https://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
It is not a graphical installer. But it offers you the explicit choice of disk after you choose the full disk installation with encryption.


Firms in the UK used 1.8 million zero-hours contracts at the height of last summer, official statistics show. The total, in the first two weeks of August, was higher than the 1.4 million contracts revealed when figures were first collected in January last year. This is likely to be the result of a number of seasonal industries using more of these contracts, making a direct comparison difficult.
Zero-hours contracts do not guarantee a minimum number of hours of employment. Some workers and unions are unhappy that staff can simply be sent home if there is no work to be done. But supporters of the contracts like the flexibility that they can offer.
Additional data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that 697,000 workers said they were on a "zero-hours contract" in their main job between October to December last year. This represents 2.3% of all people in employment. This figure, collected in a survey, is reliant on these workers being fully aware that they are on a zero-hours contract.
David Freeman, of the ONS, said that some of the greater awareness of zero-hours contracts was among people who had been in these types of jobs for more than a year. On average, someone on a zero-hours contract usually worked 25 hours a week, the ONS said. The majority were women and students, often aged under 25 or 65 and over.
Facebook has been accused of breaking European data-protection laws, in a report written for Belgium's privacy watchdog. The social network placed "too much burden" on users to navigate its complex settings, said the report. Also, it said, people were not told enough about how data Facebook gathered on them was used in adverts.
In response, Facebook said it was confident its policies and terms complied with relevant laws.
Facebook had a very complicated collection of settings which made it difficult for people to make an informed choice or be sure they were not surrendering data they wanted to keep private, said the report.
Users should get more information about which information was being shared with and which organisations saw it, added the report.
In response, Facebook said its updated terms and policies were much clearer and concise and helped "expand" the control people had over advertising. It said its privacy policies and terms were overseen by the Irish data protection commissioner, which made sure they both complied with broader European laws on how data was gathered and used for advertising. "We're confident the updates comply with applicable laws," it added.
The report comes as European law makers are grappling with a significant update to the region's data-protection regime. The updated laws are expected to be in force from 2017 onwards.
A "starter kit" designed to spur on the invention of internet-connected gadgets has been announced as part of a tie-up between two leading tech firms. Chip designer ARM and cloud services giant IBM say it can take just five minutes to unbox the equipment and start sending readings to online apps. They suggest this will make it easier to test smart home, smart city and other "internet of things" prototypes. One expert said small start-ups would be among those that could benefit.
These two components fit together and can be attached to the net via an ethernet cable and to other computer equipment via a USB link.
This provides a way to take readings about the kit's surrounding environment and the state of physical objects it is attached to.
Instructions contained in the box guide the owner to visit an IBM website.
If the owner enters the device's credentials on this site they can see the data it is recording in real-time. In addition they can access a variety of tools created by IBM and other firms to analyse the information and/or funnel it through online programs that in turn control other internet-connected equipment.
One example the firms gave for how this might be used in real-life involved using the kit to send information about local conditions to a remote data centre, which in turn would send back commands to a smart lighting system made up of internet-connected bulbs. Another more grisly suggestion was to connect a set of smart mousetraps to the internet, allowing a building janitor to know which ones had been triggered and avoid having to check each one in person.
"Frankly the use cases are bounded only by human imagination," said IBM's vice president of development Rob Lamb.
The boxed kit will be manufactured by another company, Freescale. The price has yet to be set, but ARM said it should be somewhere between $50 (£32) and $200.
The components in the starter kit are not new, but by bundling them together ARM and IBM hope to tempt developers to their ecosystems rather than those of rivals. Nearly five billion internet-connected "things", including fridges, sprinkler systems and cars – will be in use by the end of the year, and that figure is set to rise four-fold by 2020, according to the tech consultancy Gartner.
ARM makes money by both licensing its chip designs to computer manufacturers and charging firms using its forthcoming "internet of things" mbed operating system to securely transmit readings back to data centres.
IBM provides a range of compatible cloud services, including the Bluemix platform, which allows online apps to be built and run, and Watson, an artificial intelligence-enhanced analytics system. Its goal is to entice developers who buy the kit with free trials of these products and then convince them to pay for their regular use and associated storage.
ARM said the kit would be on sale within "months not quarters" but could not be more exact.
The US has offered a $3m (£1.94m) reward for information on a Russian hacker, the highest the US authorities have ever offered in a cybercrime case. Evgeniy Bogachev was charged last year in the US with being behind a major cybercrime operation that allegedly stole more than $100m (£64.7m).
He was last seen in Russia, where he is believed to remain at large. Arresting him may be difficult, as the US does not have an extradition treaty with Russia.
Mr Bogachev, also known as "lucky12345" and "slavik", is accused of running the GameOver Zeus attack network, thought to have infected more than one million computers. Victims were tricked into downloading malware, malicious software, which then searched specifically for financial information.
Evgeniy Bogachev was charged last year on counts including conspiracy, wire, bank and computer fraud, and money laundering, after the FBI said it broke up the network. He is one of the FBI's most wanted cyber-criminals.
"This reward offer reaffirms the commitment of the US government to bring those who participate in organized crime to justice, whether they hide online or overseas," the US State Department said.
The reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Mr Bogachev.
The head of the FBI's cyber crime division, Joseph Demarest, said Russia's internal security agency had expressed an interest in working with the US on cybercrimes, according to Reuters, but did not link it to the Bogachev case. He also said the agency was aware of 60 different cyber-threat groups linked to nation-states, but gave no further details.
Ed Balls has come under fire for suggesting people should get a written receipt for all transactions, even small gardening jobs. The shadow chancellor said he always asked for a written record, even if it was just for £10 to cut a hedge, because it was the "right thing to do".
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said this was "absurd" and showed Labour did not understand business. He added he did not think anyone in the country would do such a thing.
On Sunday Mr Balls told BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics that people should ask for a record of paying somebody, even if it was for small jobs like cutting a hedge, because they have a "legal obligation" to pay tax.
But Mr Duncan Smith told BBC Breakfast Mr Balls's comments demonstrated "Labour's complete lack of understanding of how business works and how people get by".
Cash payments are not dirty. In case you had gained the opposite impression, paying a self-employed person in cash for doing a job around your house or garden is completely legal. Furthermore there is no legal obligation on you to keep a record of the payment, or to account for it to anyone at all. It is your money and you can do what you like with it.
All UK tax obligations lie with the self-employed person you are paying. As a matter of fact, a tradesman is not obliged to even offer you a receipt. But they should keep proper records so they can pay the right income tax and pay VAT too, if applicable.
Of course, everyone knows that some tradesmen prefer cash because it is hard to trace. That makes it easier for them to dodge their own tax obligations, if they so choose. But so long as you have not colluded with them, there is no onus on you to do anything about it. You aren't even obliged to grass them up, though HMRC would like you to do so.
The shadow chancellor's comments were made as Labour and the Tories continue to row over alleged tax dodging in light of the HSBC tax scandal.
Mr Balls had been "extremely careful" about observing such rules ever since entering politics, he explained.
In recent weeks, Mr Balls has been asked to answer accusations that the Labour Party is anti-business, but has insisted it has a track record of supporting an "open, dynamic, wealth-creating, entrepreneurial economy".
When an adult thinks about exercise, the first thing that comes to his/her mind is exhausting workouts in the gym on a treadmill or lifting weights. But for kids, exercise can have entirely different meanings, because playing games and being active is also exercise, helping the kids get fit.
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Today, most people follow such hectic lifestyle routines that no one has enough time to engage in regular healthy activities like gym sessions or sports. It's also true that many parents don't have enough time to properly encourage their children to take part in regular and organized sports and physical activities. Exercise and fun sessions also help to boost confidence and learning power of a child.
Weight Control: It is often reported that many children spend their leisure time watching TV or playing computer games and do not involve themselves in children's fitness, healthy fun and sports activities, resulting in many children suffering from some level of obesity. Increasing physical activity along with a well balanced & healthy diet has been known as an effective weight-loss strategy, and helps with self-esteem and socialization.
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Virgin Media has announced it is to invest £3bn in improving its fibre optic broadband network, increasing the network's reach from 13 million to 17 million homes. It says it is the biggest investment in broadband infrastructure in the UK for more than a decade.
Virgin said the investment would also create 6,000 new jobs of which 1,000 would be apprenticeships.
Virgin Media currently has five million customers. The company is already in the process of expanding its network to 110,000 homes across east London, Glasgow, Sunderland and Teesside.
Virgin Media said the additional £3bn in broadband investment would be worth £8bn in terms of stimulating UK economic activity. However, the money will be spent on filling in gaps in its existing network rather than widening the network to rural areas, which critics say has long been neglected by communications companies such as Virgin and BT.
Speaking to the BBC, Virgin chief executive Tom Mockridge said it was BT's job to do more to bridge the so-called "digital divide".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think an investment of this size is unambiguously helping to close the digital divide. Everything can't happen at once so we are really focusing on the areas where we can bring ultra fast broadband as quickly as possible and as effectively as possible." He also called on BT to do more to invest in improving existing infrastructure to help speed up internet services in the countryside.
The investment comes at Virgin Media announced a 2.3% increase in total revenues to £4.214bn for the year to the end of December compared with a year earlier.
Virgin said the increase in revenue was largely the result of increased cable subscription revenue, which grew 3% last year.
These days when you send your children off to college, you're not just arming them with some ground rules and clothing for the semester. You've also got to pack them a laptop.
New laptops are typically ready for wireless Internet access and allow students to work from anywhere on or off campus. Some classes even require laptops for note-taking, lab assignments and tests. As you set out to choose a laptop for your college kids, the options (and expense) can seem endless. Should you purchase a fully loaded PC or Mac? Or does your student only need an inexpensive netbook that will simply connect them to the Internet and allow them to send email and do basic word processing? You'll also need to consider software selection, theft-prevention, online security and backup so they don't lose those important term papers.
Fortunately, there are some basic steps to follow in determining the type of laptop to buy — and how to ensure its, and your child's, safety.
Decide on a laptop. Most college students will get by with a PC laptop that includes software standards like a word-processing program for all those essays or a spreadsheet program for advanced math classes. If your child is studying graphic or Web design, however, they might need design software and a Mac, the platform that still tends to be favored by creative fields. A netbook might be suitable if they're only writing papers and surfing the Web. Check the campus orientation materials for laptop and software recommendations. And if your child has already declared a major, you might also check with the department's laptop requirements as well.
Memory. How much do they need? Probably enough to store items often found on college laptops like MP3s or photos of friends. And depending on their major, they may need extra hard drive space for original creations such as large graphic design files, movies or digital music scores. Consider a laptop with 1GB to 2GB of memory depending on how they'll use the laptop.
Size: What's more important: portability or screen size? Most kids will want a lightweight laptop so they can easily lug it along with the books. But some will prefer the larger 15-inch screen that can make the laptop heavier.
DVD burner or multimedia features: Do they need these extras? For example, do they need a burner to make DVDs for assignments? Or do they need multimedia must-haves like a graphics card with extra memory or connectors, such as S-Video? Chances are this feature will come in handy for presentations they may have to give.
Pick a security package. College students are among the biggest users of digital music, online gaming and freeware. Such activities involve a lot of downloading from the Internet, opening them up to security threats. Before they ever get online, make sure their brand-new laptop is loaded with antivirus, antispyware, and bot and phishing protection. Some programs will warn your kids of a dangerous download before they install and run it. Also look for a program that identifies files that can be trusted and those that cannot.
Talk about passwords and physical security. To play it safe, urge your kids to protect their laptops by setting a login password they have to type before gaining access to any files. They should also change all their passwords often. Advise them to use passwords that don't include real words or personal information, and that do include numbers and symbols in addition to letters. The other issue to consider is laptop theft. If they'll be working in public spaces, they should get a laptop lock to secure their laptop to a table or desk before leaving it unattended even for a few minutes. In general, loaning out their laptop is not a good idea — their friends could download material that's against their college network's policy (like pirated music or software) or could leave it in an unlocked car or dorm, risking having it stolen.
Create a backup plan. Thumb drives are handy, but they can't store a semester's worth of papers and a serious MP3 collection. If your college kid's laptop does happen to be stolen — or experiences an unpredictable hard drive crash — having a backup will make the event less painful. With frequent, automated backups, all their assignments, emails and personal files, like photos, will be stored safely. Online services are now available that allow you to automatically back up your data to a secure storage site. This way, if your son or daughter loses their laptop, they can use a private login to access their data from any online computer.
It's true that picking out a laptop for your college-bound kid isn't as simple as selecting dorm room décor. But with a smart buying strategy that includes security measures, you'll be able to equip them with the tools they need to make it to graduation while protecting your investment along the way.
US chipmaker Qualcomm will pay $975m (£640m) to Chinese authorities to end a 14 month anti-trust investigation into its patent licensing practices.
The fine is the largest in China's corporate history and will require the firm to lower royalty rates on patents used in China's mobile phone market. The move could help Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi and Huawei.
Qualcomm said on Monday it would not contest the ruling that it violated China's anti-monopoly law. "Although Qualcomm is disappointed with the results of the investigation, it is pleased that the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission) has reviewed and approved the company's rectification plan," the tech giant said in a statement on Monday.
The firm, which is the biggest supplier of chips used in smartphones, will now charge royalties based on 65% of the selling price of phones in China, instead of on the entire price.
China's expanding high-speed 4G network is driving demand in the world's largest smartphone market, where Qualcomm as a key player. The chip giant made about half its global revenue of $26.5bn in China in its last fiscal year.
News of the agreement sent the company's New York listed shares up 2.8% in after-hours trading.
The firm also increased its profit and revenue forecast for the current fiscal year.
Chief executive Steve Mollenkopf said he was pleased the resolution had removed "uncertainty" surroundings its business in China. "We will now focus our full attention and resources on supporting our customers and partners in China and pursuing the many opportunities ahead," he said.
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature.
Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell's 1984, which spied on citizens.
Soon after, an activist for the EFF circulated the policy statement on Twitter comparing it to George Orwell's description of the telescreens in his novel 1984 that listen to what people say in their homes.
Samsung said: "If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. At that time, the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV." It added that it did not retain voice data or sell the audio being captured. Smart-TV owners would always know if voice activation was turned on because a microphone icon would be visible on the screen, it said.
The third party handling the translation from speech to text is a firm called Nuance, which specialises in voice recognition, Samsung has confirmed to the BBC.
Samsung is not the first maker of a smart, net-connected TV to run into problems with the data the set collects. In late 2013, a UK IT consultant found his LG TV was gathering information about his viewing habits.
Publicity about the issue led LG to create a software update which ensured data collection was turned off for those who did not want to share information.


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Q: Insert asterisks around numbers in string using Java What would be the best way to add asterisks before and after any numbers which appear within a string using Java? Note that multiple digits which appear joined would be interpreted as a single number.
for example, convert this:
0this 1is02 an example33 string44

to this:
*0*this *1*is*02* an example*33* string*44*

A: One approach is to a String#replaceAll() on your input string, matching on \d+ and replacing on *$1*.  In other words, replace every cluster of digits with that cluster of digits surrounded by asterisks.
String input = "0this 1is02 an example33 string44";
input = input.replaceAll("(\\d+)", "*$1*");
System.out.println(input);

Output:
*0*this *1*is*02* an example*33* string*44*

Demo here:
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Kraken DDoS Attack Leaves Traders Unable to Sell at $500 Peak
Kraken has tried to implement advanced DDoS protection, after a series of large DDoS attacks were launched by an unidentified group of hackers.
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Over the past few days, leading bitcoin exchange Kraken has tried to implement advanced DDoS protection, after a series of large DDoS attacks were launched by an unidentified group of hackers, directed to disrupt their operations.
According to the Kraken team, the attacks began on October 31, when an increasing number of users reported server issues and connection problems while logging into their Kraken accounts. The majority of its users were unable to access their funds and withdraw bitcoins due to gateway error and server glitches.
During this time, Kraken announced on Twitter:
Connection problem was due to DDoS but should be resolved now. Said "some" before because unsure of the extent at that time.
— Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) October 31, 2015
The DDoS attacks continued in small doses until November 4, when the exchange was hit hard by a series of major DDoS attacks, resulting a significant delay in server connections for a few hours until the website finally went down for straight hours, enraging users who were hoping to withdraw their bitcoins as the price of bitcoin peaked US$500 on international exchanges.
The Kraken team quickly began to improve its security protocols and DDoS protection since yesterday morning to restore connectivity and resolve server issues. Kraken was able to quickly mitigate the attacks but warned its users that the DDoS is ongoing and some users may still not be able to access their accounts on the exchange.
The DDoS is ongoing but most should have access now. Apologies - this was a large attack and took longer to mitigate.
— Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) November 4, 2015
While many suspect that the DDoS attacks could have been launched by anonymous hackers to drive down the price of bitcoin, BTCC exchange CEO Bobby Lee told Cointelegraph that:
"There was perhaps a perception that the attackers were trying to bring the price down, but as we don't know who the attackers are we can't be sure of their motives."
Lee also believes that the attacks won't have any significant impact on the price due to this attack. Kraken's market share meanwhile is less than 5%, which is probably one of the main reasons why the market as a whole will be able to withstand any disruptions.
"Kraken's volume is too little to have an effect on the price of bitcoin," said one Kraken trader who asked not to be named to Cointelegraph. "Lots of people lost on the price drop."
Head of Research at Brave New Coin, Tone Vays, also added:
"I personally don't think it had much affect at all, Kraken only accounts for less than 5% of the trading volume and it's very likely most of the traders have additional accounts on more liquid exchanges [...]. Anyone trading Bitcoin obviously expects volatility, but they also have to factor in technological issues at the exchange level. We are still years away from anything resembling a traditional professional trading infrastructure."
#Kraken
#DDoS
#Hackers
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Jojo SC 7: RIP Harambe
September 18, 2017 Tommy A. Phillips
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders episode 7 review
So the villain of this episode is not a human being, but an orangutan. The ultra-muscular Jojo gang boards a ship along with the little girl, who is the only female in the group. The gang notices that there's no one controlling the ship; it's just going on its own. Then the ship starts moving on its own and attacking a sailor with a crane hook.
Meanwhile, the girl visits an orangutan who is locked up, but who wants her to unlock his cage. She doesn't have the key, but he has an apple, a cigarette, and an issue of Playboy. Then all heck breaks loose.
Eventually Jotaro figures out that the orangutan is the Stand user and that the ship itself is his Stand (but why was the orangutan locked up in his own Stand?). The Jojo gang escapes with the girl and goes back to a lifeboat. You've heard of "Around the World in 80 Days," well, this might take longer than that the way things are going for these guys. The orangutan goes down with the ship, but don't worry; Dio's got plenty of more enemies to face the Jojos.
Episode rating (out of four stars): ***1/2
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Sheila Ann Echols (ur. 2 października 1964 w Memphis) – amerykańska lekkoatletka specjalizująca się w biegach sprinterskich i skoku w dal, złota medalistka letnich igrzysk olimpijskich w Seulu (1988) w sztafecie 4 x 100 metrów.

Sukcesy sportowe
 mistrzyni Stanów Zjednoczonych w biegu na 100 m – 1988
 mistrzyni Stanów Zjednoczonych w skoku w dal – 1988
 halowa mistrzyni Stanów Zjednoczonych w skoku w dal – 1988
 mistrzyni NCAA w skoku w dal – 1987
 halowa mistrzyni NCAA w skoku w dal – 1987

Rekordy życiowe
 bieg na 100 m – 10,83 – Indianapolis 16/07/1988
 bieg na 200 m – 22,90 – Baton Rouge 30/05/1986
 skok w dal – 6,94 – Baton Rouge 05/06/1987
 bieg na 60 m (hala) – 7,16 – Atlanta 04/03/1995

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Bibliografia

Amerykańscy sprinterzy
Amerykańscy skoczkowie w dal
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1988
Urodzeni w 1964
Amerykańscy medaliści olimpijscy
Ludzie urodzeni w Memphis

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- Living Car Free (https://www.bikeforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=226)
- - Bikeshares are collateral damage in the Uber vs. Lyft war... (https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=1175095)
Rollfast 06-08-19 01:56 AM
Bikeshares are collateral damage in the Uber vs. Lyft war...
Right now in San Francisco. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...-in/ar-AACyxef
I guess you need to get your own bike instead. I have eight anyway.
Isn't it bad enough there already?
Do us all a favor in the Bay Area and support BART. Skip this bankrupt ridesharing notion. Take a real taxi, train or bus.
pedex 06-08-19 03:47 AM
Originally Posted by Rollfast (Post 20968343)
Race to the bottom.
UniChris 06-08-19 07:02 AM
The dispute in the article on the surface has nothing to do with app-hailed for hire vehicles, rather it's a simple contract dispute over the question if the exclusivity in the docked bike share contract also applies to dockless offerings.
To argue that the so called "rideshare" app-hailed hire industry is to blame, is to argue that they're only in the bike share business to keep a lid on it. As a possibility that is a legitimate question, but is there actual evidence to indicate it is the case?
Consider for example, if the goal were to keep a lid on bike share to keep people hailing cars rather than to actually run it as a business, why would they be competing against each other in the bike share realm? Wouldn't one of the companies doing a bad job in an existing city be enough of an impediment?
Rollfast 06-09-19 07:11 PM
But you'd prefer the Chinese predicament that was clealy shown a year or two back of huge piles of these things that they rounded up for scrapping because it was such a boondoggle?
Let me ask you, because I was there once, even if it was 1982...
Who's going to use these bikes? Tourists? When my high school group took a summer trip to the Oregon Coast and down to Marin County/O-Town 37 years ago I didn't see anything that made sense for it looking back at it.
Actually, it was fun just counting the BMWs and Corvettes as you traveled on the bridges. The Wharf is made for walking, going to the Steinhart Aquarium/California Academy of Sciences or most of anywhere required our school bus. We were involved in a minor traffic accident while we were there as it was and we had to camp in a state park outside of town on the Oakland side IIRC. Back then they had signage with seagulls on them that you could follow around much like a scenic or truck route, that was for the tourists too.
Some of the roads there are not exactly conducive to people just running around on bikeshares IMO.
And the other thing we all noticed was the emergence of this new disease with no name that was killing at least four people with funny sounding names/foreigners/whatever and we were just hicks from an Ag town of 3,000 who knew nothing except that our leader kept us to certain parts of town and not others. SHE knew.
The eighties were strange like that. Has anything really changed other than the makeup of the residents and the rent?
The rent was an issue in the second Herbie The Love Bug movie in 1974...remember that fire station Helen Hayes' character lived in?
jade408 06-12-19 02:19 AM
Lyft's new ebikes can be docked or dockless. They are rolling out in the next few weeks.
cooker 06-12-19 12:39 PM
I don't think this has much to do with Uber. Lyft signed a contract with San Francisco to be an exclusive bike share provider and now they and the city are arguing about the details of the contract. Lyft thinks the contract covers both docked and dockless bikes, and San Francisco thinks it only covers docked bikes and that the city can give contracts for dockless bikes to other providers.
It's good that San Francisco is regulating bike shares in the city, so the taxpayer isn't on the hook for cleaning up the aftermath of failed bikeshare companies abandoning their bikes, and the streets aren't awash in bikes from multiple providers lying all over the place creating nuisance and risk - they just have to sort out the correct interpretation of the Lyft contract.
EDIT: Okay, yes, Lyft might hypothetically want an exclusive contract so they can limit the availability of shared bikes to encourage people to hail cars instead, but again that would be a contract issue where the contract would spell out how many bikes should be available for hire.
fietsbob 06-12-19 01:24 PM
.... too bad your computer science degree requires you have to live in those places, to find work..
But there were the Good Old Daze, when you just went there to seek free things, free love and the Free Clinic.