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September 30, 1992 - From the September, 1992 issue
Architect Michael Lehrer Comments on Patsaouras' Proposals
Michael Lehrer
LA Metro
Nick Patsaouras
Los Angeles is at a crossroads. The riots have virtually institutionalized collective meditation. Shared pessimism will surely destroy this place. It is a fine line between vacuous Pollyannaism and that essential optimism that energizes us to make an extraordinary future. By Michael Lehrer, an architect with Lehrer Architects of Los Angeles and a member of the Hollywood Community Advisory Council.
The process of assessing and master planning the Metrorail station areas — begun with a most banal and disconnected set of intentions — increasingly offers some hope of achieving the quantum improvements to the essential life and structure of the city that a once-in-amany-generation introduction of massive new infrastructure affords.
It was staggering to sit in on early RCC meetings about the Vermont-Sunset station area and witness the myopia, the lack of ambition, the obliviousness to the extraordinary opportunity and obligation that Metrorail puts on those designing and realizing it. In subsequent months, the emerging charge was sounded from Patsaouras, joined by architects and urbanists, to seize this unique moment.
I believe that this strong opening charge must be relentlessly sounded, with the highest ambition of remaking our communities and our city. Great city building is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we believe that Metrorail is the opportunity to make the affected communities whole and wonderful, we will make it so. Patsaouras and crew must crow louder and even more insistently to make this happen.


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JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces the release of the next generation of NanoWizard® AFM systems delivering fast-scanning and super-resolution on an inverted microscope.
The boundaries for performance of analytical instrumentation are continually being pushed to the limits. In the world of atomic force microscopy, AFM, JPK Instruments have launched a new AFM system capable of delivering fast-scanning and super-resolution on a single instrument platform, the NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM.
The fast scanning NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM is important to users as it enables the tracking of changes in samples in real time whether the sample be imaged in air or liquid. Scanning at speeds of greater than 100Hz line rate with excellent, true atomic resolution in closed-loop mode is enabled by the enhanced low noise of scanner, position sensor and detection system. The new AFM system uses JPK's unique QI™ (Quantitative Imaging) mode to provide quantitative material property mapping.
As with previous NanoWizard® systems, the ULTRA Speed AFM may be fully integrated with an inverted optical microscope thanks to its tip-scanning design and DirectOverlay™ mode for the most precise correlative microscopy. Similarly, the system provides extensive force measurement capability making measurements on single molecules or on living cells thanks to the JPKRampDesigner™ and ExperimentPlanner™. The system is fully compatible with JPK's unsurpassed range of imaging modes and accessories especially for environmental control of the sample.Speaking about the announcement of the NanoWizard® ULTRA Speed AFM, founder and Chief Technical Officer, Torsten Jähnke, says that "Once again JPK have set a new standard in terms of resolution paired with scan speed. We have managed to develop the lowest noise cantilever deflection system which, when put with our latest fast, high bandwidth electronics, is able to deliver the most accurate force control system even on the most delicate of samples, perfect for users studying biological or other soft matter systems. It is the best multipurpose, fast and high-resolution machine on an inverted microscope today."


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The  was the 2022 (Reiwa 4) edition of NHK's New Year's Eve TV special Kōhaku Uta Gassen held on December 31, 2022. The previous year, the broadcast was held from the Tokyo International Forum, due to renovations at NHK Hall. The NHK Broadcasting Center was also used. With renovations completed in June 2022, the show returned to be broadcast live from NHK Hall. Ive, Le Sserafim, Twice, and other groups appeared. The WHITE TEAM won this contest.

Events leading up to broadcast
On October 6, NHK announced the broadcast schedule, which started at 19:20 JST, and ended at 23:45 JST on December 31, with a 5-minute break for the latest news. In addition, it will be the first time since 2019 (70th) that the show will be held with an audience at NHK Hall. On October 11, Yo Oizumi and Kanna Hashimoto were announced as the hosts.

Artist lineup

Notes

Voting System
This year, the 3-Point System was used again. One point is given from the six judges, another one from audience in TIF, and last one from the viewers. The team with at least 2 points is declared winner of the 73nd edition. This year, the finale song "Hotaru no Hikari" was performed before winning team announcement.

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Chargers RB Austin Ekeler (groin) is active for today's game against the Ravens. He was limited in practice all week and listed as questionable, so he comes with added risk in fantasy lineups -- beyond the difficult matchup.
The Chargers have ruled out LB Jatavis Brown for Sunday's game against the Ravens because of an ankle injury. That leaves the Chargers' LB corps with no one worth trusting in most IDP lineups. It adds upside to S Adrian Phillips and S Derwin James, though.
Chargers RB Austin Ekeler (groin) is questionable for Sunday's game against the Ravens after a limited week of practice. This is a new injury for Ekeler. (He missed time late in the season with a neck injury and concussion.) If Ekeler is unable to play this weekend, the Chargers would turn back to rookie Justin Jackson as the change-of-pace back behind Melvin Gordon.
Chargers RB Austin Ekeler (neck) put in a full week of practice and will return for Sunday's game against the Broncos. He figures to see a handful of touches behind Melvin Gordon and is just a DFS tournament flier.
Chargers WR Keenan Allen (hip) is active for tonight's game vs. Baltimore. As expected, he'll give it a go following limited practices on Wednesday and Thursday. There's certainly risk here, but Allen still resides in the top-20 of our Week 16 WR rankings.
Chargers WR Keenan Allen (hip) is listed as questionable for Saturday night's game against the Ravens. He got in limited practices on Wednesday and Thursday and is expected to play in this one. We'll find out for sure around 7 pm ET on Saturday. As long as he's active, Allen will be a low-end WR1 vs. a Baltimore defense that's a neutral matchup for slot receivers.


In today's episode of Days of our Mountain Bikes titled 'Ain't No Fool', Mike decides to move into his own apartment, where he proceeds to watch a marathon of MTB crashes and Two and a Half Men reruns. He ignores the smses from Julia, who also happened to headbutt him when he moved out: so he just slowly nurses his broken nose back to health. Will Julia attack Mike again or will she just puncture his mountain bike's tyres?
Tobias wakes up to find that Whitney has left his house. He can't believe that she was there and he couldn't confess his feelings for her. However, he finds a note that says: "Dear Tobias, who is Lorraine? It's another woman isn't it? Don't come after me!" Tobias sighs – Lorraine is his estranged wife – and she must've called looking for her alimony. Will Tobias go after Whitney or will he get a divorce first?
Hel-Met wins the mini MTB World Cup by an hour over his closest competitor, Mikey Smith. Diana is so proud of her adopted son and wishes that Whitney was more like Hel-Met. Diana decides to her son to Pizza Hut to celebrate, but Hel-Met refuses – the carbs in pizza are too much for his liking and besides – he's lactose intolerant. Will Hel-Met continue to dominate the MTB circuit or will he retire whilst he is on top still?
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Vital revelations surface, from the 9/11 investigation that never happened.
BREAKING: 9/11, Filling in the Map, Tracing the Nukes
On October 5, 2016 By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veterans Today (Journal for the clandestine community) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/05/911-filling-in-the-map-tracing-the-nukes/
"We have another update from VT's 9-11 A-team on the ongoing tragedy of 9-11, the reprehensible failure of our governmental, security, legal and press organizations to not be savaging the 9-11 commission fairy tale.
The real perpetrators are still out walking around, knowing they have a tried-and-true successful template in their pocket to redeploy at a time of their choosing in an updated fashion. The anomalies of 9-11 just scream out at you, yet our entire security structure seems to have been struck dumb by a secret space weapon.
Not one official with any standing at all, has challenged VT's 9-11 reporting. That includes mass media, which, to date, has not put in one call "to learn more", and perhaps revisit their own coverage, or should I say coverup.
But they are not all to blame, as America's institutions have stood down on 9-11 en masse, which gives the public some cover, because they would tend to think that if the commission report really were a fraud, surely some important groups would be screaming about it.
But Gordon has the perfect answer to that. It's one of his favorite lines, "Welcome to how the world really works." Read the rest of the article on the link http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/05/911-filling-in-the-map-tracing-the-nukes/
Кто на Руси сидит на троне.
Леонид Карнилов о истории многострадальной Руси, кто сидел на троне, и кто сидит сейчас.
Леонид Корнилов. Кто у Власти на Руси?- Френк Сенатра:"Бредятина. Tак же начиналось и на украине, тоже им внушали, что они великий народ, а что из этого вышло, мы с вами сейчас видим."
- Самуил Шоломович+Лариса Миролевич:"Суть в том, что пиндосы рулят миром, долларовый станок у них."
- KVAZAR turbo:"Это видео смонтировано с одной целью направить сознание народа против Путина В.В. и Медведева Д.А. (их в этом видео впихнули как 25 кадр). Их так красиво впихнули в кучу евреев в России, что кажется они везде, а политика Путина В.В. одна большая на*бка. Весь этот спектакль ради двух политиков! Путина В.В. и его компанию обливают грязью. Мы еще ничего не знаем про самого Карнилова Л.- кто он и откуда пришел и кто профинансировал его, что так резко, дерзко, уверенно, не боясь, пoганит политиков."
- Vladimir Anatolevich:"Сталин избранных хорошо дрессировал, поэтому они его ненавидят всей душой!"
- За Сталина!!! За Бен-Гуриона!!!+Дмитрий Жаров:"А теперь докажи мне, что Пётра I в Голландии на еврея не подменили. "Тайна Ломоносова" от авторства некого моисея бельфермана..."
Naked Communist Conspiracy (NWO) Is Unfolding Against USA
"The Naked Communist" is a 1958 book written by an ex FBI agent, United States author, and political theorist W. Cleon Skousen: https://archive.org/details/TheNakedCommunistByWCleonSkousen
In "The Naked Capitalist" , Dr. Skousen reviews the book "Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigley. It reveals how some of the richest people in the world have supported communism and socialism. Why would they support what appears to be the pathway to their own destruction? Dr. Quigley has been associated with many of these dynastic families of the super-rich. Dr. Skousen therefore writes as an authority on the world's secret power structure. His answers to the above question will astonish you.
Also read: "Library Censored History" by E.D.Butler http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/CensoredHis.pdf
The author of "Naked Communist" W. Cleon Skousen shows a geopolitical strategy of attempting to overcome and control all the governments of the world by international financial groups, exercising power through the creation and control of financial credit on an international scale and working closely with Communists for the purpose of creating a New World Order.
Read the article "The Zionist New World Order is "Communism" also known as Rothschildism or more bluntly robbery! https://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/03/10/the-zionist-new-world-order-is-communism-also-known-as-rothschildism-or-more-bluntly-robbery/
История Украины за 2 минуты (Только для украинцев)
Ленинопад' создаётся для отвода глаз от более насущных проблем. Вы должны сотни памятников Ленину ставить, а не ломать их. Украина произошла от слова ,окраина'. Защищали дальние рубежи России не украинцы, а казаки.
igorkocherginru:"А я вообще не понимаю чего хохлы так Ленина невзлюбили. Он своей политикой всемирной революции положил начало халявного роста территории укров. Украина не смогла обьединить русских и украинцев своей нацисткой политикой, выжить русских из своей земли так же не выйдет. Все вернется, долго, болезненно, но к России."
- Александр Хайнц:"Вот так вот - дашь соседу по даче кусочек огорода в пользование под смородину, а через два года он скажет, что земля его деда древнего укра, а ты сосед оккупант и пидорас."
- Artyom Boyarintsev:"По-крайней мере, у меня есть филологическое образование. И украинский язык я знаю лучше, чем вы. Киев был столицей Киевской Руси, а не Киевской Украины, насколько я знаю. Почему Руси? Это другой вопрос. Но государства "Украина" тогда точно не существовало. Слово "окраина" в его польском варианте "украйна" стало обозначать определённую территорию (окраину Польши) лишь с 16 века. Там польские господа (слово "пан") получали дешёвую рабочую силу - холопов (слово "хлопец"). Самый большой город Европы? Смешно. Рим, Константинополь? Фу, какая гадость? Корень "рос" относился к названию народности "росы", предположительно те самые "варяги", которые принесли "государственность" на территорию Руси. Между прочим, скандинавы, европейцы. Разумеется для вас никакой связи. Греческое слово "Росия" как обозначение территории Руси начало использоваться в Византии за много веков до Петра I. Кстати, кроме Киева был ещё один важный город. Новгород. Название его имеет скандинавские корни. И именно в нём была демократия и культура с выборными "князьями" (konung), ещё когда, прошу прощения, в "цивилизованной Европе" на пальмах сидели."
55 years ago, the CIA murdered Patrice Lumumba, Congolese revolutionary leader
Article from http://www.thedawn-news.org/
"We will show the world what black people can do when they work in freedom, and we shall make of Congo the pride of Africa" - Patrice Lumumba
- Cynthia McKinney, PhD, former US Congresswoman:"Yes, President Eisenhower authorized this targeted assassination and the CIA set aside $100,000 to get it done: Patrice Lumumba, first democratically elected leader of Congo."
- Myra Bronstein:"Eisenhower was a Military Industrial Strength Hypocrite On January 17, 1961 two significant events preceded the inauguration of John F. Kennedy to occur three days later: 1 -President Dwight Eisenhower spoke on TV to warn the country: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Federal Reserve System and The Magical Money Machine - VIDEO
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO LISTEN TO THIS AMAZING INTERVIEW WITH Eustace Mullins - Truly a great man! He was a beacon of light in a world of class warfare. Great mind!
Amazing interview with Eustace Mullins - "The Magical Money Machine" (Full Length) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3xPXb7aQw
http://www.archive.org/details/EustaceMullins-Mp3Archives1923-2010
Comments under the video:
- soundnicetome:"An excellent documentary exposing the corruption of both the US/UK banking system currently in use!! I have often wondered why this type of documentary has never been televised or given any in depth media coverage over the years....now we know why !!! "
- Marilyn Shapiro:"Thank you Mr Mullins. I hope that more people get on board with your message and take action against the criminal activities of the Federal Reserve! Didn't Jefferson warn us about central banks? Banks used to be local just like farming was....we used to eat local and bank local...that's the way Jefferson tried to keep it. Now the US is in $18 trillion in debt..."
- ChanoineStraub:"It's not fair. Everyone should have a magical money machine at home. "
- beyondthismeatsuit:"Well they (Rothschilds) are the keepers of the Vatican's wealth and the Vatican owns the Crown corporation and the USA corporation via the Treaty of 1213. "
China Betrayal by the US After WWII by Dr. W. Cleon Skousen
Great lecture from American Patriot, author and former FBI agent Dr W. Cleon Skousen: China's Betrayal by the US After WWII. People have little clue of what is going on. Time to listen to W. Cleon Skousen, author of "The Naked Communist" and later "The Naked Capitalist." You better understand that wars are orchestrated by the super rich vicious money-changers, the Rothschilds/Rockefellers and others of their ilk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSMV3goyTM
- MormonAll:"Brother Skousen's last book "The Cleansing Of America" is a MUST READ or The CD's of the book. What a patriot he was."
- littleiamful:"Boy, Bro Skousen would really blow a gasket to see what we have to deal with in the White House today... Fraud from the get-go."
- Brad James:"Cleon W. Skousen and Hubie Brown, the NBA commentator, the most educational commentators of all time, I also like the former apostle Hugh B. Brown as well, must be a "Hubie" thing :)"
- londerosa:"Thanks for posting this. I took a couple religion classes from Dr. Skousen in college and they were always the highlight of my week. He was such a charismatic, wonderful man! I miss him."
Book of Enoch - The Book for the Final Generation
This is an amazing video about our Father's words and works involving Enoch. It is a definite eye opener into a key part of our human history. Enoch is very descriptive and can line up with how evil is in this world. I'm not claiming it as full truth, but it is a certain mind changer. The book of Enoch is quoted in Jude 1:14,15 in the New Testament. Moreover, the book of Enoch is included in the Ethiopian Bible which precedes the first English Bible by 100 years." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79onWInRCOU See prediction in 1:10:13 in the film.
- Edgar Eddie:"Remember it is not against flesh and blood that we contend, but against evil spirits and forces of darkness in high places is that we contend with: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." ( Ephesians 6:12-14 )
Sometimes it is better no to contend with these kinds of fools for they have received their rewards in full in the lake of fire. Remember that Yashua Himself told us to not give what is Holy to pigs and dogs lest they trample it under their feet: "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet" (Matthew 7:6) God Has put in my heart to share you this with you to give you reassurance and hope on Him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMmPvUKWocE God Bless."
- Dαn J+NCzVoice :"Can't say it was ever a secret. It's been in the collections of Jewish scrolls throughout all of history. It just was not placed in the collection of the Catholic bibles for obvious reasons. I still question the portals of the Sun and moon. Lol But the angels, fallen angels, Nephilim, giants. And Archangel. These are so very interesting. Really puts things into perspective.."
Reality: How America Lost Its Independence in 1913
The United States Civil Flag of Peacetime
We the People of the United States, actually have two national flags, a military flag and a civil flag for peacetime. They have several important distinctions and meanings.
Almost all Americans think of the Stars and Stripes "Old Glory" as their only flag. Read the rest on the link: http://www.barefootsworld.net/uscivilflag.html
By Ronald Lewis
"July 4, 1776 was a historic moment in American history. It was the beginning of breaking free of global tyranny and establishing the right to be a free and independent nation. The "Declaration of Independence" marked a triumphant movement to fight against British rule and establish America's own identity.
The United States Declaration of Independence is an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies in North America were "Free and Independent States" and that "all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved." The document, formally entitled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,[1] explained the justifications for separation from the British crown, and was an expansion of Richard Henry Lee's Resolution (passed by Congress on July 2), which first proclaimed independence. An engrossed copy of the Declaration was signed by most of the delegates on August 2 and is now encased in argon[2] and on display in the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.
The Declaration is considered to be the founding document of the United States of America, where July 4 is celebrated as Independence Day and the nation's birthday. At the time the Declaration was issued, the American colonies were "united" in declaring their independence from Great Britain. John Hancock, as the elected President of Congress, was the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. It was not until the following month on August 2nd that the remaining 55 other delegates began to sign the document.[3]
US President Abraham Lincoln succinctly explained the central importance of the Declaration to American history in his Gettysburg Address of 1863:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Some 137 years later, America's path to a free and prosperous nation would come to an abrupt end with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

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The decline of the former 'Sock Capital of the World' is a story of lost jobs and empty mills
Updated: Jan. 14, 2019, 3:10 p.m. | Published: Apr. 17, 2011, 11:02 a.m.
Fort Payne Hosiery Mill Decline
Gallery: Fort Payne Hosiery Mill Decline
By Mike Marshall, The Huntsville Times
FORT PAYNE, Alabama - Times have gotten so hard in the former "Sock Capital of the World" that there is a sign on the front door of W.Y. Shugart & Sons, the oldest hosiery mill in Fort Payne.
"We are not hiring at this time," it reads. "Thank you for coming."
Inside, Jonathan Shugart, president of W.Y. Shugart, says the company has been in business since 1937.
"We're the oldest one right now," he says.
The uncertain tone in his voice is typical of employees and administrators at the other hosiery mills in this town of about 14,000.
At the turn of the 21st century, about 8,000 people worked at the 125 hosiery mills in Fort Payne, by the estimate of DeKalb County Economic Development Authority Director Jimmy Durham.
Today, said Durham, the 20 or so remaining mills employ about 600, a staggering decline for a town whose economy has long relied on sock production.
The most recent departure was Gildan-Prewett, which announced in February that it was closing its four mills here and transferring production to Honduras.
For the veterans of the hosiery industry here, the closing of the Prewetts' former empire brought the sock mills' decline into sharp and painful focus.
Once, more than half of the hosiery industry in Fort Payne had ties to the Prewetts' businesses, according to a 2005 article in an Economic Development Partnership of Alabama publication.
The Prewetts' mills had more than 1.2 million square feet of manufacturing and employed more than 2,200 people.
City leaders boasted that half of America's socks were made in Fort Payne.
"There were 600 million dozen pairs of socks annually," Durham said.
But in 2007, Gildan, a Montreal-based company, bought V.I. Prewett & Son Inc., whose sock-mill dynasty had started in 1953 out of the family garage.
With soaring cotton prices and cheaper costs overseas, with companies citing the threat of global competition, the dynasties in Fort Payne have disappeared.
So has the sign off Interstate 59 that proclaimed Fort Payne "the official sock capital of the world."
"It's who will be here last,'' said Ken Streck of Baker Hosiery Mill.
Deserted mills
Times have gotten so hard in the former "Sock Capital of the World" that Durham can drive down Airport Road on the northwest end of town and pass one empty hosiery mill after another. Passing a cluster of buildings, he says: "Those buildings in the back were hosiery mills. One is still operating."
There's a skating rink. "He (the owner) got out of the hosiery business and into the skating business," Durham says. Then, farther north: "USA Knit was the building there."
On and on it goes, until he hits U.S. 11 and heads for the former Gildan-Prewett complex, now virtually deserted. "We're not as bad as it could have been if other industries hadn't come in," Durham says.
One example is Plasman, a Canadian-based manufacturer of exterior auto parts that began limited production last week. Another is The Children's Place, a leading specialty retailer of children's merchandise. The Children's Place, whose distribution center is in Fort Payne, is the largest employer in Fort Payne with 750 people, according to statistics provided by Durham.
The largest employer in DeKalb County is Cagle's, a poultry plant in Collinsville with 1,000 employees. Unemployment, though, is the highest in northeast Alabama at 10.9 percent.
"The problem now is not many people are looking to locate new industry right now with the economy," Durham says. "People don't know what all (will) happen. There's so much uncertainty. They don't know what to do."
That uncertainty and the increasing unemployment have led, in part, to a community ministry known as Bread of Life.
Free lunches are served three days a week at the former site of a metal fabrication and welding company in downtown Fort Payne.
"All these needs - people can't support their families," Durham says. "There's been a lot of response from churches."
More help may be needed, as the survivors at Baker Hosiery tell it. "It's heartbreaking," says Ann Benefield, the office manager. "It's heartbreaking to have people who worked here forever, but you have to say, 'I have to lay you off until things get better.'"
Heartbreaking, too, to have people essentially begging for jobs, she says. "People call wanting to know if we're hiring or if they can come back to work," she says. "Every day, you get at least 20 calls from people wanting to know if they can come back to work."
And if and when they do come back to work, their jobs are never the same.
"Used to be, you'd do one thing and that's what you did," Streck says. "Now, you do five jobs. That's what you do now. That's the times."
All around him, there are more signs of the times: few workers around him and a parking lot that's almost empty, among other things.
"I've seen it when it was real good," he said. "But now, it's rough. There are still little orders here and there. But the time of the big orders, I don't know."


Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by owattenmaker, Jan 22, 2012.
For awhile I have been hooking up my MBP with a smaller monitor at 1400*900 resolution. Recently I put my full 1080p tv as my monitor and bought a bigger one for the living room. The same VGA cable I had been using to connect to my tv at full 1080p will now not work. I have connected to the same tv in the past at the native resolution and suddenly it will not work. The last time I connected the VGA cable to be full 1080p was about 2 months ago so I dont know what went wrong.
Can VGA cables break with age?
EDIT: just tried with my MacBook Air and it connected full 1080p right away, with the same exact cable.
Are you mirroring the displays by any chance?
No. I have my MacBook closed actually.
Have you tried it open?
With it closed you don't have any opportunity to change settings, and your MBP doesn't automatically know this new monitor.


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Liverpool and Wirral – get ready to walk in the footsteps of Giants!
Founder and Artistic Director of Royal de Luxe, Jean Luc Courcoult, said: "We love Liverpool and can't wait to return.
"The welcome we receive from the people of the city warms our hearts and we are excited about not only bringing a brand new story to Liverpool, but also to exploring beautiful Wirral for the first time.
The event is one of the major highlights of the Liverpool 2018 programme – a year-long celebration which marks a decade since the city held the game-changing title of European Capital of Culture. The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is supporting several highlight Liverpool 2018 events with £5 million from the Single Investment Fund (SIF).
Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, said: "For many, this event will be one of the most highly anticipated events of the year.
"Since the Giants left us nearly four years ago, we have been approached hundreds of times by people asking when they are going to return.
"We always wanted the Giant spectaculars to be a trilogy, but the final instalment had to be at the right time, with the right story – and what better than for it to take place in a year in which we celebrate how culture has transformed the city.
"The event details are shrouded in mystery, and all we can reveal at the moment is the theme around their visit is Liverpool's Dream – which is fitting as at the turn of the millennium this city could only dream of the cultural transformation it was about to embark upon.
"To be able to share the Giants with Wirral will give this chapter an added, exciting dimension and a whole new backdrop for these huge, larger than life characters to perform in – and I'd like to thank the Combined Authority and Arts Council England for helping make their return possible.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: "As a Combined Authority we recognise the key role that culture has played and continues to play in transforming the city region's fortunes.
"It has changed how others see us and how we see ourselves, and boosted both our international appeal and our economy. I saw this first-hand, as I had the privilege to be Liverpool's Lord Mayor during our year as European Capital of Culture and I am delighted that we have continued to build on the energy generated by that year's events.
The Leader of Wirral Council, Councillor Phil Davies, said: "We are thrilled to be welcoming the Giants across the Mersey for the first time.
"Wirral is thriving – we have huge regeneration schemes coming to fruition, thousands of jobs being created through our Wirral Growth Company, and a programme of incredibly exciting events taking place throughout the year as part of Imagine Wirral.
Director of Culture, Claire McColgan MBE, said: "The amazing thing about this event is the people it engages and enthrals. There's an audience who have seen the giants in the flesh and been part of their magical journey around the city before and are eager to see their return.
"And then there are thousands or others who were perhaps too young, or hadn't even been born when the event was last here in 2014, who are going to experience the wonder and awe which comes from these beautifully crafted visitors walking our streets.
Royal de Luxe first came to the city in 2012 with Sea Odyssey – a story inspired by the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic. The adventures of the Little Girl Giant, her playful canine companion Xolo and the Diver attracted crowds of around 800,000 and brought in £32million to the local economy.
The Little Girl and Xolo returned in July 2014 for Memories of August 1914. This time they were joined by a Grandmother whose stories brought to life the impact of preparations of the First World War had on the city. It is widely regarded as the city's biggest ever event, attracting one million people and bringing a £46m boost to the local economy.
To keep up with the latest news by following Giant Spectacular on Facebook and Instagram, or follow @giantspectacle on Twitter or visit www.giantspectacular.com. Follow the story with #LiverpoolGiants.


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Q: How to automatically disable/delete a breakpoint in IAR after it gets hit? Is is possible to set a breakpoint in IAR embedded workbench for ARM IDE, in a way that after it hits once it gets deleted/disbled automatically?
I know already a way to do that using C-SPY macros and __setCodeBreak() and then __clearBreak() functions. The problem though is I have to set my desired breakpoint using another breakpoint and a C-SPY macro in which __setCodeBreak() sets my desired breakpoint after that I can use a C-SPY macro for it, at the end of which __clearBreak() removes the breakpoint.
However, what I want is to be able to set a breakpoint directly in the IAR IDE and link it to a C-SPY macro and then the breakpoint gets deleted/disbled when is hit (I cannot make __clearBreak() work in this second way, standalone)
Here is an example of what I explained above:
__var bp2;

// This macro sets a new breakpoint (bp2), and is linked to another breakpoint (let's say bp1 which is set in the IDE)
Set_bp2()
{
bp2 = __setCodeBreak("{C:\\file.c}.80.1", 0, "ActionMacro()", "TRUE", "");
}

//This macro gets executed when the new breakpoint (bp2) is hit and then removes this breakpoint (bp2)
ActionMacro()
{
__message "bp2 is hit ...";
__clearBreak(bp2);
}

So, the __clearBreak() manages to clear the breakpoint using the return code of the __setCodeBreak(), however, I would like to have a macro which independently of another macro is able to clear the breakpoint which is linked to, something like below:
ActionAndClear()  // This macro is linked to a breakpoint which is set in the IDE
{
__message "breakpointX is hit ...";
__clearBreak(<UNKNOWN>);
}

Is there any value for the UNKNOWN, which does the trick?

A: A number if solutions are possible:
A crude solution is to use a condition break point and a "helper" variable:
bool break_here = true ;

...
break_here = false ; // Place condition break on this line

If you set the condition break to break when break_here == true, the it will break the first time, set the flag to false and never break again.  However condition breaks take time to stop and evaluate the condition, so this may not be suitable.
Also crude but without the performance issue, make breakpoint conditional directly in the code:
static bool break_here = true ;
if( break_here )
{
    __breakpoint(0) ;
    break_here = false ;
}

The above methods will work with any debuggers. C-Spy allows you to invoke macros on under specific conditions such as debugger start, processor reset or breakpoints.  Be aware that I do not use IAR EWB or C-Spy, the macro solution described here may need some tweaking, I am working from documentation.  Feel free to fix it if you spot any errors, but the take-home is "user a C-Spy macro" one way or another.
So you might have a macro file:
__var break_count ;
__var break_handle ;

execUserReset()
{
    break_count = 1 ;
    break_handle = __setCodeBreak( "{myfile.c}.82.1", 0, "onBreakOnce()", "TRUE", "" ) ;
}

onBreakOnce()
{
    break_count-- ;
    if( break_count == 0 )
    {
        __clearBreak( break_handle ) ;
    }
}

That will set up a breakpoint every time you reset, and delete the breakpoint when it is first encountered.
Change break_count if you want to break more times before deletion.  This has the opposite effect of the "skip-count" argument.  A skip count can be set in the __setCodeBreak() call so you could skip a number of passes, then break for a number of passes then delete the break-point ... if your really wanted to!
You set up the macro file in EWB as follows:

Image attribution https://www.iar.com/support/resources/articles/introduction-to-debugging-with-c-spy-macros/

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at Sanctity Tour 2007
Find out more about Sanctity here
Posted: Mon Nov 19 03:49:07 2007 by Alana King
Another Blisteringly Hot Show
After a stunning set from Evile, the spirits are high as Sanctity prepare the stage for their headline Joiners set. Stripped down is the key tonight, but that certainly doesn't mean that Sanctity are not going to give Southampton one of the blinding sets that they are well known for. And then, suddenly, the band cut the house music and take to the stage.
It's an intimate show tonight, with the majority of those in attendance already fans of the band. Some have left after witnessing Evile tear up the stage, but it has no effect on the enthusiasm of both the fans and the band as they launch into 'Billy Seals'. Sanctity's music is a delicious mix of 80s thrash combined with more modern approaches to metal and the result is music that whilst heavy, has a melodic tint to it to take away the sting.
'Brotherhood of Destruction' is up next, and with it, the pace is increased slightly, with deeper vocals from frontman Jared MacEachern. It's almost as though Sanctity have taken a look at the self-imposed lines drawn by Killswitch Engage and have leapt beyond them into the realms of freedom. Sancitity are all about the blend of juggernaut guitars and a velvety slice of melody and it's been some time since the Joiners has sounded so loud- or so good. In a rare moment of relative silence, Jared introduces the next track with a grin on his face: "We're gonna dedicate this track to all the ladies out there who are having that special time... It's called 'Road To Bloodshed'!" As predicted, the song gets the whole venue moving, whilst the chorus is gleefully sung along to in the midst of the circle pit that has formed. The band then go on to play a song they've not played in a while- the exciting 'The Shape Of Things'. It goes down a treat and the band lap up the cheers from the crowd happily.
'Beloved Killer' is highly dramatic and there's a vein of urgency shot through the sky-high riffs. The crowd go wild for it, and it's easy to see why because Sanctity are compelling listening. There's something so primal about the band's sound, but when combined with their modern day tactics of layering sounds and styles together, the result is a colourful patchwork of metal. 'Flatline' provides another highlight, and Jared informs the crowd that it is "about what may or may not happen when you die."
Sanctity finish up with 'Beneath The Machine'. The track is everything you'd expect it to be in the flesh- far more focussed and driven than on record and it whips the crowd into one final pit of the evening. And just like that, the Sanctity hurricane blows away into the distance, leaving the Joiners crowd with memories of one of the strongest sets to grace the stage in the past month and the desire for more of this exciting blend of old and new.


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Q: Grails 3 - Configure embedded Tomcat bind address I am running my Grails 3.1.3 application as standalone JAR using the embedded Tomcat servlet container and start the WAR by the following command:
java -jar -server -Dserver.host=127.0.0.1 -Dserver.port=50000 -Dgrails.env=prod -Xmx768M myApp.war

By using the server.port I successfully managed to set the Tomcat listening port to 50000. But the server.host does not seem to set Tomcats bind address to 127.0.0.1 since it is visible from the Internet.
Is there a way to successfully set the bind address?

A: The question has been answered here. Simply use the property server.address to set the bind address.

A: In application.yml, i set my urls and ports as
    grails.serverURL: 'http://localhost:8080/appname'
    server:
      port: 8080
      contextPath: '/appname'


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politics|26 November, 2020
Trump pardons former adviser Flynn, who pleaded guilty in Russia probe
Trump's move was the highest-profile pardon he has granted since he took office
U.S. President Donald Trump steps away from the podium as he speaks about prescription drug prices during an appearance in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2020.
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By Jeff Mason and Eric Beech, Reuters News
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump's pardon, which could be the first of several after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden, drew condemnation from Democrats and other critics.
A retired Army general, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions he had with Russia's ambassador to the United States in the weeks leading up to Trump's inauguration in January 2017.
He has since sought to withdraw the plea, arguing that prosecutors violated his rights and duped him into a plea agreement. His sentencing has been deferred several times.
"It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!" Trump wrote on Twitter, a day before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, who told a court in September she personally asked Trump not to pardon her client, said the pardon was "bittersweet" because Flynn was innocent
Trump's move was the highest-profile pardon he has granted since he took office. Among others, the Republican president has pardoned Army personnel accused of war crimes in Afghanistan and Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff and hardliner against illegal immigration.
"This pardon is undeserved, unprincipled, and one more stain on President Trump's rapidly diminishing legacy," House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said in a statement.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it "an act of grave corruption and a brazen abuse of power."
Flynn served as Trump's first national security adviser but the president fired him after only 24 days for lying to Vice President Mike Pence as controversy broke over the former general's contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
Flynn was one of several former Trump aides to plead guilty or be convicted at trial in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Moscow's interference in the 2016 U.S. election to boost Trump's candidacy. Russia denied meddling.
In May, Attorney General William Barr stunned many in the legal community by ordering prosecutors to have the case dropped, a decision that came after Trump repeatedly complained that Flynn was being treated unfairly.
Flynn and the Trump administration said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who presided over the case, was required by law to grant the request for dismissal. An appeals court in August denied Flynn's request to order Sullivan to end the case.
"The President has pardoned General Flynn because he should never have been prosecuted," the White House said in a statement. "In fact, the Department of Justice has firmly concluded that the charges against General Flynn should be dropped. This Full Pardon achieves that objective, finally bringing to an end the relentless, partisan pursuit of an innocent man."
The president has spent the days since the Nov. 3 election seeking to overturn the results and refusing to concede to Biden. On Monday, he allowed his administration to take part in a transition to a Biden White House, but he has continued to challenge the election's legitimacy. With less than two months before Inauguration Day, he could focus his remaining time in office on more pardons and other moves to burnish his legacy.
Two former White House officials said more pardons were likely. ""This is one unfettered presidential power the president enjoys using," one of them said.
'NOT LEARNED HIS LESSON'
Trump said in March he was strongly considering a full pardon for Flynn. He said the FBI and Justice Department had "destroyed" Flynn's life and that of his family, and cited an unspecified, unsubstantiated report that they had lost records related to Flynn.
Flynn was supposed to help cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal. But he later switched lawyers and tactics, arguing that prosecutors in the case had tricked him into lying about his December 2016 conversations with Kislyak.
The Justice Department has repeatedly denied allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Sullivan rejected all of Flynn's claims in December 2019.
Federal prosecutors had asked the judge in January to sentence Flynn to up to six months in prison, arguing in a court filing that "the defendant has not learned his lesson. He has behaved as though the law does not apply to him, and as if there are no consequences for his actions."
Flynn also served as head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency but was forced out in 2014 in part due to his management style and opinions on how to fight Islamist militancy.
He joined the Trump 2016 election campaign and at the Republican National Convention that year led supporters in chants of "Lock her up," in reference to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Other former Trump aides were convicted of federal crimes following the Russia inquiry. Trump's longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone was sentenced on Feb. 20 to three years and four months in prison for obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to lawmakers investigating the Russian election interference. Trump commuted his sentence.
Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, was sentenced last year to 3-1/2 years in prison after being convicted of unlawful lobbying and witness tampering, which combined with a sentence in a related case equaled a term of more than seven years behind bars. Manafort was released from prison in May and is serving the rest of his sentence at home.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Jeff Mason; additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Alexandra Alper and Diane Bartz; Writing by Alistair Bell and Jeff Mason; Editing by Tim Ahmann, Howard Goller and Peter Cooney) ((Alistair.bell@thomsonreuters.com;))
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Cherished for its striking weeping habit that forms a mushroom-shaped dome, Young's Weeping Birch is small tree with a wide spread. Betula Pendula Youngii, to give its full botanical name, is a variety of Silver Birch and possesses all the noteworthy qualities of its parent. Due to its particularly stunning shape, this cultivar is an ideal candidate for a focus of interest in the garden.
The thread-like branchlets grow in a drooping, pendulous habit and form an unusual umbrella-shaped canopy. The foliage consists of triangular, serrated leaves, medium green until the autumn when the crown of the tree becomes vibrant golden-yellow. The smooth white bark, a hallmark of the birch species, takes on a black hue as the tree matures.
Young's Weeping Birch is quite easy to grow and to care for. This ornamental tree will successfully adapt to almost any situation, including poor, waterlogged or clay soils. For optimal performance, grow this variety in moist but well-drained soil. It tolerates full sun to dappled shade. This tree is not bothered by strong winds and can be grown in sheltered and exposed location, as well as in coastal gardens.
First introduced to England in 1870s, Betula Pendula Youngii is fully hardy in the United Kingdom. Tough and enduring, this deciduous tree can adapt to severest European climates, and will not mind harsh winters. Considered a plant of good constitution, reliable performance, and outstanding qualities, this variety is the recipient of the Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society.
Once the tree is fully developed, it will be approximately 10 meters high and with a 10 metres spread. The umbrella-shaped, pendulous habit of Young's Weeping Birch is easy to maintain in perfect shape. There is no need for routine pruning to promote good health and neat form, but this tree will appreciate if you prune out any dead or damaged branches. Pruning should be done in early spring, to avoid bleeding of the sap.
To be able to fully appreciate the unique form of Betula Pendula Youngii, grow it as a specimen tree. This cultivar will definitely add character to any landscape and provide multiple seasons of interests, including the winter period when the deciduous foliage drops. Just make sure to account for the ultimate size of the tree when choosing a spot for planting- preferably a large lawn or an area near a patio, where the tree can offer shade during summer heats.


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Adaptive Solutions Group is Recognized by TechServe Alliance with "Excellence Award"
By sitemanager April 2, 2018 December 17th, 2018 Awards, News
Honor recognizes top performing IT & engineering staffing and solutions firms
Palm Springs, CA (November 14, 2015) – Adaptive Solutions Group today announced it has earned the annual Excellence Award from TechServe Alliance. The award recognizes IT & engineering staffing and solutions firms that have demonstrated outstanding performance, team productivity and dedication to continuous improvement.
TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & engineering staffing and solutions industry, will recognize Adaptive Solutions Group at its Annual Conference in Palm Springs, CA, November 12-14, 2015.
"TechServe Alliance Excellence Award winners exemplify the very best of our industry. They are committed to delivering world-class solutions to their clients and providing valuable career opportunities to IT and engineering professionals while far exceeding industry performance standards," said Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. "These award recipients truly set themselves apart from the competition," added Roberts.
"Recognition by the IT and engineering staffing and solutions industry's national trade association is an incredible honor. We are both proud and humbled to have met the high standards necessary to earn the award. I speak for our entire team when I say that we will not rest on our laurels. In the coming year, we look forward to redoubling our efforts in delivering extraordinary service to our clients and consultants. We hope to be in position to earn this mark of distinction in future years," said Brad Wood, Owner/President of Adaptive Solutions Group.
The TechServe Alliance Excellence Awards winners were selected based on three criteria: consistent revenue growth, highly effective and productive teams, and a demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement through ongoing team development. To ensure independent and unbiased consideration of all applications, TechServe Alliance again engaged Inavero, a leading staffing industry research firm, to collect, tabulate and validate applicant submissions. TechServe Alliance accepted applications from both members and non-members that met specific eligibility requirements. Recognition was given to the select group of top-performing firms across three categories: small, mid-sized and large enterprises.
About TechServe Alliance:
TechServe Alliance is the national trade association of the IT & engineering staffing and solutions industry. Hundreds of IT & engineering staffing and solutions firms and tens of thousands of affiliated professionals count on TechServe Alliance to keep their leadership informed, engaged and connected. TechServe Alliance serves as the voice of the industry before the policymakers and the national and trade press. By providing access to the knowledge and best practices of an entire industry and tapping the "collective scale" of hundreds of companies, TechServe Alliance supports its members in the efficient delivery of best-in-class IT & engineering staffing and solutions for clients and exceptional professional opportunities for every consultant. Visit www.techservealliance.org to learn more.
About Adaptive Solutions Group:
Founded in 2002, Adaptive Solutions Group has offices in St. Louis, MO and Overland Park, KS, serving the needs of IT managers across a broad array of firms and industries who are in search of skilled IT professionals. Dedicated to delivering remarkable expertise, efficiency and excellence, ASG's placement services offer clients customizable options in the area of contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placement.


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Woody Allen Will Return to the U.S. for His Next Picture
by Matt Goldberg April 13, 2012
With a few exceptions, Woody Allen has kept mostly to Europe for his new movies. Today, Variety reports that Allen will be returning stateside for his next feature. At the Rome premiere of his new movie, To Rome with Love, Allen revealed that he would be shooting his untitled picture mostly in San Francisco with a "tiny bit" in New York. Like most of Allen's movies that are in early development, his next picture currently doesn't have a title and plot details are being kept under wraps.
To Rome with Love involves four separate vignettes, two of which are in Italian and the other two are in English. The film stars Allen, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Alison Pill, and Greta Gerwig. To Rome with Love will premiere in the U.S. at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14th, and open in theaters on June 22nd.
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When you even consider buying a gaming laptop, then it's not "satisfactory performance" that you are after, you simply want gaming behemoths that have fast speeds, unhindered gameplay and mind blowing graphics. Very few gaming laptops are able to provide the best of everything, but you do have laptops that excel in some aspect or the other. Amazing speakers and high-res displays are also key factors that define the value of these devices. Here is our take on the best gaming laptops in the market today.
This is the best gaming laptop in terms of configuration and value for money. With a faster Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M GPU, this beast is ready to take on any game. These enhancements are part of upgrades that have been made to the laptop for providing better gaming experience to players. The device has a gorgeous 1080p display which is accentuated by the improved keyboard lighting effects that simply make you wonder in awe. The audio system on this laptop is commendable. It is safe to say that Alienware 17 has the best mix of components and performance driving technologies.
Razer has been known for dishing out some of the most amazing gaming components and consoles. The new blade is powered by a QHD+ 3200 x 1800 touchscreen display and Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M GPU which makes it the perfect portable gaming laptop. Moreover, the super slim avatar makes it absolutely appealing to the gamers who would have less bulk to manage.
The graphics on this laptop are over the top fantastic. With a display configuration of 3K (2800 x 1620) display, this is the first gaming laptop to provide such high resolution. Not only do you get vivid colours, but the sharpness and the details are to die for. The laptop comes pre-installed with XSplit Gamecaster video recording software which makes it possible for you to capture your moments of glory and share it with the world. With an Intel Core i7 CPU and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 880 GPU, you can expect this gaming beast to give you the adrenaline rush that you all desire.
Gaming laptops can be a bit expensive and why shouldn't they? After all, they do give you powerful components to ensure that your games run smoothly without any lags. But do not feel low if you are having budgetary constraints. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p is a great budget gaming laptop with backlit keyboard, quad core Intel Core i7 Haswell processor, dual Nvidia GeForce GT 750M GPUs, a 1080p display and 1TB of storage. If you were to analyse the cost of this machine, then the features that you are getting are far superior to those that are available at these prices.
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Report: Hunter Biden still profiting off stake in Chinese surveillance company sanctioned for alleged involvement in Uighur persecution
And that's only the tip of the iceberg
Phil Shiver
Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA
Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, holds a stake in a Chinese surveillance company sanctioned by the U.S. for its alleged involvement in the country's systematic repression of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday.
The news raises further questions about the Biden family's controversial business dealings in China and casts doubt on Democratic nominee Joe Biden's ability to stand up to China on the world stage should he be elected president.
In the report, the Free Beacon noted:
Bohai Harvest RST Shanghai Equity, an investment firm that Hunter Biden owns a stake in, initially invested in Megvii, a sanctioned Chinese tech company that specializes in facial recognition software, in 2017, according to the company's website. The firm holds a nearly 2 percent stake in Megvii through two holding companies, according to a prospectus filed by Megvii as part of its application for a listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange last year.
Megvii, known for its core product, Face++, was added to a the U.S. Commerce Department blacklist last year for "human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang."
Hunter Biden's investment in the company was confirmed as part of a new bombshell documentary on BlazeTV, titled "Riding the Dragon: Uncovering the Bidens' Chinese Secrets." The documentary unveils largely unreported details about Hunter Biden's business ventures in China — which even benefitted the Chinese military — while his father, then the vice president, led U.S. policy efforts in the country.
The film highlights a 2019 report by journalist Lee Fang at The Intercept that details Hunter Biden's lucrative investment in the company through his private equity firm, Bohai Harvest.
After publication, a spokesperson for Megvii told the Free Beacon that no actual capital behind Bohai Harvest's investment came directly from Hunter Biden or any individuals in the U.S., but declined to provide additional details on record.
"The two BHR special purpose vehicles (SPVs) that invested in Megvii, BHR Investment Fund II and BHR Investment Fund VI, are capitalized by a small group of Chinese investors," said the spokesperson. "There is no U.S. investment in either of the SPVs, including funds originating with Hunter Biden, according to BHR materials provided to Megvii."
He's still profiting
The Free Beacon notes that though Biden has since stepped down from the board of the firm, "he still owns a 10 percent stake in the investment firm through his U.S.-based limited liability company Skaneateles LLC, according to corporate records from China's official company database."
While Biden has no legal obligation to divest from Megvii, the fact that he may be aiding the persecution of minorities in China by funding technology sanctioned for human-rights abuses is a cause for concern — especially as his father campaigns for president.
"Riding the Dragon" is available for viewing to subscribers on BlazeTV.com and will also be released to the general public in eight 10-minute "Chapters" on the BlazeTV YouTube channel throughout the week. Those who subscribe to BlazeTV's YouTube channel and click on the notification bell will receive notifications when each chapter is released.
RIDING THE DRAGON: Uncovering the Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Preview) youtu.be
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to include a response from a spokesperson for Megvii.


A Phoenix treatment center is announcing that it's released a new video showing how Drug Addiction Treatment Centers deal with drug and alcohol addiction in Phoenix and surrounding cities. Among those cities are Avondale, Glendale, Sun City, Maricopa, Laveen Village, Tempe and Ahwahtukee.
Alcohol detoxification is a process by which a heavy drinker's system is brought back to normal after being used to having alcohol in the body on a continual basis. Serious alcohol addiction results in a decrease in production of GABA, a reuptake inhibitor, because alcohol acts to replace it. Precipitous withdrawal from long-term alcohol addiction without medical management can cause severe health problems and can be fatal. After detoxification, other treatments must be undergone to deal with the underlying addiction that caused the alcohol use.
Cocaine, heroin, Oxycontin and benzodiazepines are just a few of the drugs that the treatment center helps people put in their past. Alcoholism, a disease that destroys individuals as well as families, is addressed through the substance abuse treatment center's programs.
The program offers a collective style of treatment options for clients. Ultimately, its bottom line is to help all clients leave the addiction treatment center with a structure in place for life outside of it. People come into these types of centers looking either for a new life or relief from their pain, and counselors and therapists on staff are ready to help.
Once people leave the treatment center, outpatient care and support is strongly suggested by counselors. Transitioning back into the "real world" takes time, too, and outpatient treatment allows clients an opportunity to share their victories and struggles with like-minded people. When it's all put together, from detoxification to outpatient care, the substance abuse treatment center gives people a second chance.
For more information on the treatment center in Phoenix, visit http://drugsdetox.org or call (888) 444-9148.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/phoenix-treatment-center/drugs-alcohol-marijuana/prweb11271082.htm.


Dozens of planets may be taking shape in a nearby stellar hatchery, reveals a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Dust in the nursery, a nebula called NGC 1333, obscures visible light from most of its nascent stars (scroll down for second image, below right). But Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera pierced through this veil to uncover scores of stars like the Sun – but 5000 times younger.
Spitzer revealed that about 80 of the young stars are surrounded by dusty discs that could be forming planets. These are all crowded into a region 4 light years across – a similar-sized region of space in our Sun's neighbourhood contains only three other stars.
The Spitzer image also reveals that the stellar nursery is being rocked by the tantrums of the baby stars. Many of the infant stars are spewing jets of material that form shock fronts when they slam into surrounding gas (shown as green on the upper image). The jets may eventually blow away the gas, preventing future stars from forming.


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She is the author of the Masterful Living Program, teaching individuals how to access their genius and access "power tools" used by all successful People, as well as the Masterful Athletes Program, a seminar for athletes and their coaches. From 1999-2005, she served as a HypnoBirthing instructor with Botsford Hospital in Farmington, Michigan. HypnoBirthing is a childbirth education class that helps eliminate the Fear - Tension - Pain - Syndrome before, during and after birthing, returning birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience nature intended.
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The University will award the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service to jurist and public servant Abner Mikva, JD'51, and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to choral director and arts leader Josephine Lee. The recipients will receive their honors at the University of Chicago's 519th Convocation on Saturday, June 14.
Abner Mikva devoted his life to public service in all three branches of the federal government, and in state government as well. He spent 10 years in the Illinois House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Mikva to the federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. He was on the bench for 15 years, the last four as chief judge. He left the federal court in 1994 to become White House counsel for President Bill Clinton. He then returned to Chicago to teach at the UChicago Law School. In 1997, he and his wife, Zoe, PhB'47, AM'51, created the Mikva Challenge, a nonpartisan organization to encourage Chicago high school students to get involved in the democratic process.
Mikva is the 13th recipient of the Benton Medal, created in 1967 to honor Sen. William H. Benton on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as chairman and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Benton Medal recognizes persons who have rendered distinguished public service in the field of education, which extends to include anyone who has contributed in a systematic and distinguished way to shaping minds and disseminating knowledge.
Presenting Mikva at Convocation will be Lipson, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor in Political Science and the College.
Josephine Lee is the artistic director and president of the Chicago Children's Choir, which serves more than 3,500 annually through programs in 65 Chicago schools, nine after-school neighborhood programs and the Voice of Chicago ensemble.
Under her leadership, the Chicago Children's Choir has solidified longstanding partnerships with Chicago's renowned arts institutions, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera and Ravinia Festival. She has also expanded the choir's artistic breadth through celebrated collaborations with acclaimed theater and dance organizations.
In 2002, Chorus America named Lee the first Robert Shaw Conducting Fellow. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune named her a "Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts," and in 2007, she was honored as a Distinguished Musician by the Union League Club of Chicago. In 2011, Lee was invited to serve on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Arts & Culture Transition Committee.
Presenting Lee at Convocation will be Robert L. Kendrick, professor in Music and the College, and chair of the Music Department.
Nominations for the Benton and Rosenberger Medals are submitted by members of the faculty, evaluated by the faculty Committee on Awards and Prizes and voted upon by the Council of the University Senate.


Chinese and Spanish have different morphology structures, which poses a big challenge for translating between this pair of languages. In this paper, we analyze several strategies to better generalize from the Chinese non-morphology-based language to the Spanish rich morphologybased language. Strategies use a first-step of Spanish morphology-based simplifications and a second-step of fullform generation. The latter can be done using a translation system or classification methods. Finally, both steps are combined either by concatenation in cascade or integration using a factored-based style. Ongoing experiments (based on the United Nations corpus) and their results are described.
CitationRuiz, M. Ongoing study for enhancing chinese-spanish translation with morphology strategies. A: Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation. "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra)". Beijing: 2015, p. 56-60.


Hot on the heels of Twitter's abandonment of its official Mac client last week, The Iconfactory announced new Twitterrific features and a price reduction.
One of the highlights of the update is enhancements to multi-account support. If you have more than one Twitter account set up in Twitterrific, right clicking on the reply, quote, retweet, or like buttons displays a popup window for choosing which account you want to use for each of those functions. Alternatively, if you are in the middle of composing a reply or quote-tweet, click on your avatar in the compose window to switch the account from which it will be sent.
Lists of a person's followers and who they follow have been added to user profiles.
Avatars now include verified and protected status badges, although this can be turned off in Twitterrific's settings.
There is a setting to turn off tweet streaming, so your timeline can only be refreshed manually.
Georgia is a new font alternative in the app's preferences.
Twitterrific for Mac has come a long way since the commencement of its crowdfunding campaign last winter, and many of the shortcomings of version 1.0 that I highlighted in my review last October have been addressed. It's fantastic to see Twitterrific continue to grow and evolve, especially now that Twitter has walked away from its Mac app.
To celebrate the one year anniversary of Project Phoenix, the crowdsourced Kickstarter project that relaunched Twitterrific on macOS, the price of the app has been reduced from $19.99 to just $7.99. Twitterrific is available on the Mac App Store.
Twitter dumped Tweetie's codebase years ago, of course, and their Mac app has been garbage ever since they did. It's all fine, really, so long as they continue to allow third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific to exist. But this "Mac users should just use the website" attitude is exactly what I was talking about here as an existential threat to the future of the Mac.
Twitter's move is not surprising given the history of the app. Most Mac users I know moved on to third-party clients years ago. However, Gruber's broader point is an important one. There has been an increasing trend away from native Mac apps and towards web apps and cross-platform apps based on technologies like Electron. Many of these non-native solutions are resource hogs, and even the best often fail to take advantage of OS-level features, which makes them feel out of place among native apps. Perhaps the rumored Project Marzipan is designed to reinvigorate Mac development, although it's hard to see that working if companies like Twitter simply don't care to provide the best experience on macOS.
Last night on Twitter, I noted that the company's iOS app now appends a query parameter based on an app's bundle identifier when you share a tweet's link via the system share sheet.
I didn't know Twitter for iOS appended parameters for app bundle IDs every time you share a tweet's link with extensions.
As some have noted, this appears to be a recent change in Twitter for iOS, which is less than ideal as the resulting link contains a long string of URL-encoded garbage. More than ugly URLs, however, what bothered me was Twitter's implicit tracking of which apps users invoke to share links with – something that even applies to core iOS features such as Apple's own Messages extension.
I wondered whether Apple should consider this a violation of App Store guidelines, but it appears that Twitter isn't breaking any rules by appending app-based query parameters to their shareable URLs. Benjamin Mayo looked into this feature and explained how Twitter is leveraging public iOS APIs to read bundle identifiers from the share sheet – he even posted a proof-of-concept code snippet to show how it'd work in practice.
In reality, this is very easily achieved. As part of the activity provider API, the system asks for content to share for each sharing extension the user has installed. The Apple framework openly passes the activity type to the app. Twitter simply takes the base URL it wants to share and appends the 'garbage' before returning.
The important thing to note here is that the mechanism is innocuous and uses valid APIs provided by Apple. Twitter is not exploiting private APIs to achieve this. A cursory look at the app review guidelines suggests to me there are no grounds for Apple to scold Twitter (or any other app) for doing it.
My personal stance is that this is annoying but does not violate user privacy. Importantly, Twitter cannot append arbitrary information to its URLs system-wide; it is confined to cases where users share something from inside the Twitter app itself. I don't really see a justification for Apple to amend the guidelines to disallow it. I just take it as another reason not to use the official Twitter app.
In conclusion, if links to tweets you copied from the Twitter app suddenly look longer and messier than before, this is why. Personally, while Twitter may be taking advantage of a publicly available API, I still think the implementation is, at the very least, in poor taste – especially because it's coming from the same company that used to scan users' devices to list installed apps and deliver "tailored content" based on them. Even though I won't stop using the Twitter app because of this, I wish Twitter would revert to standard, clean URLs when sharing tweets from the app. I also hope Apple is taking a closer look at this.
Earlier today Twitter announced that you'll now be able to use a third-party app (such as Google Authenticator, Authy, or 1Password) for two-factor authentication instead of SMS. The company has updated their support document with instructions on how to set it up here.
This is great news as Twitter was the last service with 2FA that only supported sending codes via SMS. Switching from text messages to 1Password (which I use for one-time codes) was easy: in Twitter for iPad, I went to Settings ⇾ Account ⇾ Security, and enabled the 'Security app' toggle. I then selected to use another app to generate my codes and opened 1Password on my iPhone, where I hit Edit on my Twitter login item and scrolled to the OTP section. Here, I tapped the QR button, scanned the QR code Twitter was displaying on my iPad with the iPhone's camera, and that was it.
Unless you specifically want to receive 2FA codes from Twitter via SMS, you should consider switching to a dedicated authentication app: these codes work independently from carriers and location, and they can be generated offline.
Twitterrific 5 for iOS was updated today with several new and improved features. My favorite addition is a true black theme that looks striking on the iPhone X. Users that pick the black theme are given a choice between a dark theme that has been modified for 'greater contrast and clarity' and the true black theme.
The app's design has undergone other changes too. Users can pick avatars that are rounded rectangles, circles, squares, or squircles, and text sizes can be adjusted with more granularity thanks to the use of Dynamic Type.
Muffles, which are rules that partially hide tweets from your timeline, can be temporarily disabled now. Previously, the only way to deactivate a Muffle was to delete it.
Twitterrific's experimental support for polls, which debuted on macOS recently, has been added to the iOS app too. To celebrate the holiday season, The Iconfactory has also added a new icon option: 'Jolly Ollie,' which features Twitterrific's mascot in a Santa hat.
Twitterrific is available on the App Store.
Twitter's latest feature – which is rolling out "in the coming weeks" – is another that's been inspired by something users have been doing for a few years now: threads.
As far as I can tell, this is a prettier interface for the original method of creating a thread by replying to yourself. Twitter has integrated a multi-post feature into the app's compose box, and there doesn't seem to be a new API endpoint for threading. It seems like a nice workflow with a 'Tweet All' button at the end. In theory, popular third-party clients could replicate the same behavior (and design) in their own compose UIs – just like various tweetstorm utilities create "threads" by posting multiple replies in a row.
The Iconfactory is on a tear with Twitterrific for macOS updates. Version 5.0, the crowdfunded rebirth of the app, launched less than a month ago. A couple of weeks later, Twitterrific 5.1 added muffles and mutes, which we discussed on AppStories this week. Then yesterday, Twitterrific 5.2 dropped, with support for polls and and an enhancement of its user search functionality.
Poll support is notable because third-party developers don't have access to Twitter's polling APIs. Instead, users of third-party Twitter clients have had to go to the official Twitter client or the web to vote in polls, which I rarely bothered to do. Lack of API support hasn't stopped The Iconfactory from implementing a workaround to make polls available to its users though. The feature isn't perfect, but in my preliminary testing, I've been impressed with how well it works.
Twitterrific detects tweets that include polls by looking for clues like whether '#poll' or the graph or ballot box emoji are used. The app also looks at the format of the question posed. If a tweet looks like a poll, Twitterrific displays a button below the text of the tweet. When the poll button is clicked, a popover with a mini-browser opens the poll so you can vote and see the results. If you want to monitor a poll, drag the popover away from your timeline to transform it into a standalone window that will stay put and can be refreshed with the latest results.
Poll creation still requires Twitter's app or website, which cannot be avoided. Nonetheless, I can already tell that being able to open a poll, vote, and view results all from Twitterrific is going to increase my participation in them. For now, the feature is available on macOS only, but it is under consideration for the iOS app depending on how well it is received by users on the Mac.
Use the Cmd+U keyboard shortcut to search for a Twitter user quickly.
Twitterrific also added fast user searching via the Cmd+U keyboard shortcut and has improved syncing of your timeline position between iOS and macOS. Next up for both versions of the app is support for Twitter's new 280-character tweet limit, which, unlike polls, is available to third-party developers.
If you're interested in trying a new Twitter client, Twitterrific is an excellent choice. The handful of gaps in the macOS version's original feature set are being addressed rapidly and innovative approaches to things like polls set it apart from its competitors.
Twitterrific 5.2 is available on the Mac App Store.


Pirates & Privateers : From where are there the most sunken ships?
Question of Jonathan (07.15.2015): From where are there the most sunken ships?
A: This is undoubtedly the Cape Horn, a true marine cemetery where the sea is disassembled by icebergs, storms, and giant waves!
Cape Horn is a tip (part of land jutting into the sea) situated at the tip of South America. It was a crucial point for long crossings of trade routes between Europe and Asia.
Today the Panama Canal allows cargo vessels to avoid Cape Horn.


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Q: Ember defining model in route causing error I'm pretty new to Ember, and I'm trying to set up a template that displays information about an external model (product). So I have an admin route:
App.AdminRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
    model: function() {
        var admin_brand = this.store.find('brand', 1);
        return this.store.find('product', {brand: admin_brand});
    }
});

controller:
App.AdminController = Ember.ArrayController.extend({

});

and template:
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="admin">
    <div class="row">
        {{#each}}
            {{name}}
        {{/each}}
    </div>
</script>

But I'm getting a JS error:
Error while processing route: admin undefined is not a function TypeError: undefined is not a function

I'm also using ember-data-django-rest-adapter for my actual data (which seems to be working fine otherwise). If I pass it a static array of objects in the route it works fine. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Also, is this even the correct way to go about this? Finally, is there a better way to debug these types of issues? I have the Chrome extension but it doesn't seem to help with these extremely generic errors, so any other tips on that would be awesome. Thanks very much for the help.

A: Assuming you are using ember data...
The issue is that the call to this.store.find('brand', 1) returns a promise, not a value. In order to use the value in the call to this.store.find('product', {brand: admin_brand}) you would need to use .then() to access the resolved value.
Something like this should work.
App.AdminRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
    model: function() {
        var self = this;
        return self.store.find('brand', 1).then(function(admin_brand){
            return self.store.find('product', {brand: admin_brand})
        });
    }
});