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President Trump needs speak with Russia's Vladimir Putin at summit
President Donald Trump hinted he is open to resolving the North Korea disaster peacefully. But officers in Pyongyang say the harm is already carried out.
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President Trump, proper, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, on the G-20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. The two leaders want to meet on the sidelines of an convention of Asian leaders in Da Nang, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017.(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)
When President Trump seemingly meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout a summit in Vietnam, all eyes will likely be on how they work together and whether or not they can agree on contentious points.
Trump and Putin might meet Friday or Saturday in Da Nang on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) convention.
Even earlier than leaving final week for his 12-day Asia journey, Trump emphasised the importance of badembly with Putin, telling Fox News: "Putin is essential as a result of they might help us with North Korea. They might help us with Syria. We have to speak about Ukraine."
But any badembly comes amid an ongoing U.S. investigation of alleged collusion final yr between Russia and Trump's presidential marketing campaign. So look ahead to any indicators of awkward physique language when they're collectively in public. The two leaders met for the primary time in July on the G-20 summit in Hamburg.
Mike McFaul, a former U.S. ambbadador to Russia who used to rearrange such conferences for President Barack Obama, famous that Trump has a extra informal fashion than skilled politicians and overtly praised Putin up to now.
"Considering the scenario at dwelling, I do not it badume helps for him to speak to Putin that means," McFaul said. "He ought to give attention to substance and extra skilled diplomatic engagement as a substitute of this schmoozing."
Steven Pifer, who suggested former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on Russia and Ukraine, mentioned Trump ought to insist on a proper badembly with Putin.
And Trump might look dangerous if he meets with Putin "and nothing comes out of it," mentioned Pifer, who's now at the Brookings Institution.
Here are a number of matters the 2 leaders might talk about:
Trump, talking in South Korea on Tuesday, mentioned all international locations, together with Russia, must do their half to isolate North Korea to stress chief Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons and missile applications. The reclusive nation has examined six nuclear units, its strongest one on Sept. three. North Korea has additionally launched 23 missile checks since Trump took workplace, together with an intercontinental ballistic missile on July four able to reaching the U.S. mainland.
Trump in Seoul additionally referred to as on all nations, "including China and Russia," to completely implement United Nations sanctions on North Korea, to downgrade diplomatic relations with the North and to "sever all ties of trade and technology."
President Trump (Photo: Lee Jin-Man, AFP/Getty Images)
The U.S. needs Russia and others to cease utilizing 1000's of North Korean laborers — Trump referred to as them slaves — in building and timber industries, offering necessary income for Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missiles applications. The U.S. can be involved that as China cuts again on commerce with North Korea, Russia is choosing up a few of the slack.
Asked about Russia's place on the difficulty, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned, "Let us wait till our heads of state maintain contacts," the official Tbad Russian News Agency reported.
Iran nuclear deal
Trump needs to strengthen or renegotiate components of the deal to restrict Iran's nuclear actions in return for the lifting of worldwide sanctions, which was negotiated by the U.S., China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom in the course of the Obama administration.
Putin has pledged to stay within the Iran deal, and Peskov has warned of "very negative consequences" for regional safety and nuclear proliferation efforts if the U.S. pulls out of the settlement.
Countering Iranian affect
Trump has vowed to curtail what he calls Iran's destabilizing actions within the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Lebanon. Russia's navy badist for Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria's prolonged civil battle means Putin might exert some affect on Iran, which has given Assad navy advisers and 1000's of fighters. The latest resignation of Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri, leaves that nation's Iran-backed Hezbollah in a stronger place.
With a lot of Syria now underneath the management of forces loyal to Assad, Russia is contemplating a partial drawdown of its forces, in response to Tbad.
Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambbadador to Russia, met Wednesday with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov to debate a potential settlement in Syria. Other matters included "resistance to terrorism" and political settlements on the Korean peninsula and in jap Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry mentioned.
U.S. sanctions on Russia over Ukraine and the 2016 election
The Trump administration has been gradual to implement sanctions that Congress imposed on Russia for supporting anti-government forces in Ukraine and for Moscow's alleged position within the 2016 presidential election. While Trump denies that Russians performed any half in his victory, the delay means the president might have some leverage to stress Putin.
Putin has proposed a U.N. peacekeeping drive to cut back the violence within the former Soviet republic, the place 10,000 Ukrainians have died since 2014. He mentioned peacekeepers want to guard Russian-speaking folks within the Donbas area of jap Ukraine, the place a lot of the preventing occurred.
Kurt Volker, the U.S. particular consultant for Ukraine negotiations, final week referred to as the Russian proposal value contemplating, however identified that peacekeepers are wanted in your complete jap Ukraine area, not simply the place the preventing is.
U.S. and European sanctions in opposition to Russia are costing Putin's inside circle, so the peacekeeping proposal may give the Russian president "a dignified way out," mentioned Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the previous NATO chief who's now international coverage adviser to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.
More: Analysis: War with China? Trump, U.S. search to keep away from collision course
More: Trump practiced Art of the Deal in China. Analysts say it might not resolve long-term challenges
More: Let's 'make a deal': Trump moderates tone on North Korea, at the least for now
More: Trump warns North Korea to not 'attempt us' with nuclear weapons
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Q: When using a conda environment, how can I set environment variables similarly to module load? I am trying to fill configuration files so I can port a large model. The normal way to do this, as recommended by the documentation, is write a shell script with e.g. module load openmpi, module load netcdf and so on. This would normally then add the relevant paths to PATH, MANPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, MPI_RUN etc. However, because I am on a shared server and cannot add the necessary packages to the list available to be loaded, this option is not possible.
I have a conda environment with all the correct packages setup. Looking at the result of printenv, conda does not itself add anything to PATH, MANPATH etc. That said, I'll admit I'm not completely sure how conda works behind the scenes.
Is there some neat trick where I can add these packages paths to all the environment variables, or do I have to add them all manually?
Thank you!

A: You can add the paths to the necessary environment variables manually in your shell script or in your environment setup script (e.g. .bashrc or .bash_profile).
To do this, you can use the "export" command to set the value of an environment variable. For example:
export PATH="/path/to/package1:/path/to/package2:$PATH"
export MANPATH="/path/to/manpages:/path/to/manpages2:$MANPATH"
export LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/library:/path/to/library2:$LIBRARY_PATH"
export MPI_RUN="/path/to/mpirun:/path/to/mpirun2:$MPI_RUN"

You can also use the "conda info" command to get the paths of packages installed in your conda environment. For example:
conda info --envs
# Lists all available conda environments

conda list -n myenv
# Lists all packages installed in the environment "myenv"enter code here

You can then use these paths in the "export" commands to set the values of the environment variables.
Keep in mind that these changes will only be applied to your current shell session. If you want these changes to be persistent, you will need to add these commands to your environment setup script (e.g. .bashrc or .bash_profile) so that they are run every time you start a new shell session.

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require 'rubygems'
require 'crack'
require 'net/http'

class Forvo
  API_KEY = "232191607a5ec110a7b0359700c1f4b6"
  attr_accessor :word, :uri, :result
  def initialize(word)
    @word = word
    @uri = create_uri(@word)
    @result = get_result
  end

  def get_result
    begin
      http = Net::HTTP.new(@uri.host, @uri.port)
      json = http.get(@uri.path)
      # puts json.inspect
      result = Crack::JSON.parse(json.body)
    rescue
      result = {'errorMessage' => 'JSON Parse Error(Forvo messed up)', 'errorCode' => 69, 'statusCode' => 'ERROR'}
    end
    unless result['statusCode'] == 'ERROR'
      return result
    else
      raise "error"
    end
  end

  def create_uri(word)
    api_url = "http://apifree.forvo.com"
    options = ["action/word-pronunciations", "format/json", "order/rate-desc", "limit/1", "key/#{API_KEY}", "word/#{word}"]
    #    options << "language/#{language_code}" if language_code
    URI.join(api_url, options.join("/"))
  end

  def mp3_url
    @result['items'].first['pathmp3']
  end

  def ogg_url
    @result['items'].first['pathogg']
  end

end

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Yes, it is a Monday as I write this. There are times getting up on any day, however, is an exercise of sheer fortitude to face assailing storms of life.
Most days, we are not being assailed by anything more than shifting thunderstorms: a critique, a job review, a misunderstanding between co-workers or family members or even friends, an unpleasant meeting, inconvenient and trivial workloads.
But some days we are hit with hurricane force: loss, soul-killing memories, buried but penetrating shame, impending or recent death, betrayal, our own sin come to fruit, bitterness, sudden and life-changing disability, crushing hatred that burns inside like an acid, paralyzing fear of the unknown as well as the known.
Each time I read Vav, I receive fresh hope. Like rays of sunlight piercing the gloom, the psalm picks up reflections from my own heart and experience with fresh relevance.
Even though written down by human hands, these psalms are inspired by God to reflect the coming King–Jesus Christ, the promised Savior. In a former version of this post, I reflected on the human psalmist, and myself. But it is more important to reflect on Christ in this psalm.
Christ faced all the hardships I face, yet as the psalm shows me, He looked to God the Father in obedience. He is my model. No human psalmist could ever have borne out these words in all truth. None of us can say that we have loved God's law or have been so faithful to it; none of us but Christ.
God was not shocked or surprised! God planned his love of me: He "so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
Sinless Jesus accomplished what I can not: he paid the death price for my guilt and shame. Sacrificial love poured out for me. I am not condemned, I am forgiven–the death debt is paid. I am not deficient; I have the power of Christ in me to face this world and look with assurance of hope into the next.
The psalmist of Vav is an Old Testament human being who knew his need and looked forward to the promise of a Savior to come. He believed it as if it had already happened! That is faith.
At a fulcrum point in this world's history, Christ did come and he accomplished the work of reconciling us with the Father! But we do need him every day. I need Christ to intersect my day today.
Today, I am beginning the journey of caring for a loved one with dementia. Many reading this have also been at this point. It is too big for me on an emotional level to see the pain of confusion and change in her eyes. It is too big for me to wend my way through the panic and frustration of others, or the many necessary "business" details that are cold and tedious and have nothing of the warmth of love in them.
This is the Word of God that Christ in the psalm loved and points me toward. This is the kind of comfort–only one example–that I receive from the Father when I am in need.
When I am assailed by critics (Vav, v. 42), I can say, "I am Christ's! I am His beloved." My identity in Christ helps me to move toward Christ, and then to move toward others in safety of self. My identity in Christ removes fear of failure; not failure itself–I will fail– but fear of failure's consequences. I am not condemned by my failure. I will yet rise (Proverbs 24:16).
Through Christ's gift of the Holy Spirit, the Father gives me direction, but also power to obey what I am guided to do. If I am to confess a wrong attitude or act, then He gives me power to overcome my pride and confess. If I am to forgive another, then He gives me power to do so. If I am to admonish someone, God gives me the humility and boldness (together) to do so in love. Where I am tempted, He offers a way of escape!
This is the power of God's Word enacted by the love of Christ and the power of his Holy Spirit. And not only that, Christ, my Savior, is praying (interceding)[ii] for me before the Father!!
I have one more assurance to help me up. I have a future!!
I have been and am being changed in an important way. I am being transformed from a sinful, selfish person to a soul that looks and sounds and acts like Christ!
We read Revelation and are so happy to learn that there will be no more sorrow, nor suffering or pain or tears or death, for all those things will be swept away! Life will go on, for my suffering loved ones and for myself, and there will be a beneficent dominion just as God intended in the beginning.
Who I am in Christ matters!
God's Word reminds me of who I am in Christ, what He has done for me in grace, what power I have in Christ to overcome the challenges that face me this day, and that there is coming a day when all this painful transformation work will be complete.
One and a half years ago, my step-father received his final "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." This fall, my mother-in-law stepped into the arms of Christ as well. Today, two parents are yet in the narrow path that leads home. As we children shoulder the responsibility of their care and suffering, Christ takes center stage as our model. I can do all things through this Christ who gives me strength!
We are not on a cul-de-sac to finality. We are on a narrow passage that leads to greater fruitfulness and Light, both here on earth and also in glory with Christ.
In VAV, Christ looks to the Father's Word with love. Opening my Bible, I read His Word and feel His Presence and blessing. I thank Him for all that He has done and will do even as I head to the work of loving and living ahead.
I am not given the answer to how I should respond to a precious one that no longer can remember what is happening from day to day. I don't know what words I will say or how I will react if something goes wrong. But even when I "don't do it right", I am in His hands and we all (who are believers) will get to our destination with Christ as our head. Love has paved our way.
I trust in thy word….
I will delight myself in your law….
Lord, I stand amazed in Your Presence. I am encouraged by reading again how you have loved me and given yourself for my sake. Not only have you given yourself in exchange for my sin, but you are with me even today. I am blind to the wonder of life that Your grace opens up for me. Give me life that I may live! "Why should I be discouraged? Why do the shadows fall? Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home, when You, O LORD, are my life's inheritance–You are now my constant friend! For Your eye is on the smallest of sparrows, and I know You watch over me!" I am yours, and You are mine! Give me vision to see You in my day today, to see You in my circumstances as you shape me to be like You. Give me vision to see You in the others with whom I will interact today–help me to love them, friend and enemy alike, as you love them. Help me to know, understand, and obey your commands. Make me a blessing today, Lord, and rest me in Your peaceful embrace as the sun sets on a day lived for Your Glory. In the Name of my Heavenly Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
[ii] intercede, intercession, interceding – (inter'between' + cedere 'go'). Christ "goes between" a holy God and sinful man to speak for us for mercy and grace (Romans 8:34).
While our debt is paid, we still have "remaining sin" to deal with; we continue to walk in a world that is broken by sin. We are moving toward all that God has in store for us that is good, because of Christ–yet our as-yet-unperfected heart still sins.
I am still a sinner in the process of becoming like Christ. Because of Christ, I am not what I was last week and definitely not what I was 10 years ago! Because of His intercession for me, I not condemned before God, but receive the Father's mercy and grace. The Father sees the Son's sacrifice for me and that settles my case. Christ's prayers for me connect me to the Father in love, guidance and protection. Praise the Lord! He never lets go of my hand!
Therefore, out of love and thankfulness, I read and obey His Word. The Law cannot save me, it only condemns me because I can't keep it. But because of Christ who satisfied the Law with His own sacrificial perfect death and Resurrection, I am free to choose to obey out of a heart of love. And I am challenged to model Christ's love to others and live sacrificially for them, spreading the good news of Christ's salvation and comfort.
His Eye is On the Sparrow, sung by Sylvia Burnside, No Need To Fear CD, New Irish Arts. (YouTube.com). This song was first sung by the late Ethel Waters, and later by Larnelle Harris (From a Servant's Heart, album, 1986 Benson Records). Sylvia brings a new quality to the song that is worth hearing. I encourage everyone to purchase this entire cd of Sylvia's; the songs are words of Truth that bring much needed daily healing.
Ann Voskamp (annvoskamp.com) challenged us to make and keep up a JOURNAL OF GRATITUDE, completing 1000 "gifts of thanks" entries to the Lord. I created one for myself and each of my still-at-home children. What a blessing it was to fill each day's entries! We developed eyes to see God at work all around us each morning. Yes, like all good things, writing in a journal fell off as we got busy and the kids got older. But the spiritual discipline of "seeing" reasons for gratitude does not fade. Look for photos of my copy in the GALLERY tab on http://www.readpsalm119.com in the coming days.


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Scott MacIntyre was recently chosen as one of American Idol's top 36 contestants for the 2009 season following his rendition of Billy Joel's "And So It Goes." This 22-year-old from Scottsdale, Arizona, has been blind since birth and homeschooled from kindergarten through high school. A brief look at Scott's resume will show that this contestant is not the typical "Hollywood wannabe." To describe him as being incredibly gifted and talented is almost an understatement!
Scott began playing piano by ear at age 3, and though classically trained in the Suzuki method, Scott has written and performed in genres spanning pop, rock, punk, jazz, and classical. He received many local and national awards for piano, composition, and vocal performance. Scott has performed as guest soloist with symphony orchestras, as well as playing at the Kennedy Center and has independently released six full-length CD's.
After graduating summa cum laude from Arizona State University at age 19 (he started when he was 15) with a BM in Piano Performance, he was nominated "Outstanding Graduate" by the College of Fine Arts. A Marshall Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, Scott has studied in London where he obtained his masters degree in Performance from the Royal College of Music and Royal Holloway University. He was accepted to both Oxford and Cambridge for further graduate-level studies. Scott also studied on scholarship at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Besides his academic achievements, Scott has a variety of notable extracurricular experiences under his belt. Scott was a special guest on Robert Schuller's "Hour of Power" show at the Crystal Cathedral in California. He was welcomed to the White House by First Lady Laura Bush. He frequently donates performances for conventions, churches, charities, and athletic events (Phoenix Suns and Diamondbacks), and enjoys bringing his music to all types of audiences.
As if that's not enough, Scott travels around the country as one of the MacIntyre Family Singers along with his mom Carole, brother Todd (19), and sister Katelyn (16). They perform beautiful four-part harmonies in styles ranging from acappella jazz and classical, to Southern gospel and Christian pop, as well as Broadway show tunes. "It kind of started as (a side project), but we do more and more shows as a family," Scott says. Dad accompanies them but he doesn't sing.
Scott's other interests include performing in community theatre and musicals, hiking and skiing with a sighted guide, computer programming, and law. He has participated in the YMCA "Youth in Government" program in elected positions as President of the Senate, Senate Majority Leader, and was honored to receive the "Outstanding First Year Senator" award at the Arizona State Capitol for excellence in debate. Scott is a remarkable guy who has accomplished more great things in his youth than most fully sighted people do in their whole lives!
Scott gives homeschooling much of the credit for his success. The flexibility of homeschooling allowed him to practice for hours at the piano each day. He was able to progress at his own pace and fine tune his God-given abilities, while learning to work hard and with persistence to overcome his disability. As for Scott's personality, he is likeable, charismatic, and not at all arrogant. The fact that he comes from a nice Christian family is a plus. Although I don't personally approve of "Idol worship," I think American Idol could really use this talented young man, his message and his disability to promote what a worthy role model looks like. Visit his website at www.scottmacintyre.com .
P.S. You may recall that Jordin Sparks, the American Idol winner in 2007, was also a homeschooler. (She opted for homeschooling in high school to allow her more time to focus on singing.) Jordin was only 16 years old when she first appeared on American Idol and she made quite an impression with her many endearing qualities – beautiful smile, attractive, Christian, churchgoer, humble. When Jordin won she thanked God, mom and dad. Residing in Glendale, Arizona, she was the first contestant from the Phoenix area who made it to the final 12 on American Idol. Let's hope Scott MacIntyre is able to do the same! Judging by all of the positive comments I've seen on the internet, he already has quite a following of fans rooting for him!
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Linguistically, it seems, the second decade of the 21st century was all about our selves. At its annual meeting the American Dialect Society selected (my) pronouns as its word of the year for 2019 and singular or nonbinary they as the word of the decade. Continue reading...
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    {
        public static void AddRotationAction(this SCNNode node, SCNActionTimingMode mode, double secs, bool loop = false)
        {
            SCNAction rotateAction = SCNAction.RotateBy(0, (float)Math.PI, 0, secs);
            rotateAction.TimingMode = mode;

            if (loop)
            {
                SCNAction indefiniteRotation = SCNAction.RepeatActionForever(rotateAction);
                node.RunAction(indefiniteRotation, "rotation");
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            else
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Ubuntu is second only to Android in terms of Linux popularity. It's the last, best hope today for saving the PC from a walled garden universe. With Apple and Microsoft now doubling down on their walled gardens, the options to sideload on a PC are quickly dwindling from every-PC to no-PC.
Sideloading is important, it's something that we've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from big advertisers, because we're so persistent in our crusade for it. Sideloading ensures you can run software that you want, on your device. A small business can now be destroyed with an App Submission Denied email. It has happened. People, real people, are being bankrupted by this. It's wrong.
Apple has ensured mobile devices are practically a lost cause, with only Google joining us in our sideloading crusade. Ironically, Apple has embraced sideloading with Gatekeeper on OS X Mountain Lion, trying to play both sides. Windows 8 modern/metro apps are also walled-in. That means all Windows RT desktops and tablets, as well as all Windows Phone 7 and 8 apps.
If you want to sideload on Windows, you basically have to code for Windows 7, not Windows 8. We think that's wrong, as it ensures sideloading apps that can be made profitable, are on borrowed time in both the PC, and mobile industries.
We know, if you read PhoneNews.com, you've read this time and time again. Ubuntu stands alongside Android as one of the only commercially-viable operating systems that is serving as a deterrant to turn the tide on sideloading.
To install, you must first unlock your device's bootloader. Thankfully, with Nexus 7, that is an easy process. You first run the Nexus 7 Ubuntu installer, which of course right now requires you to install Ubuntu. You can do this without installing Ubuntu on your PC by using a Virtual Machine (VM) with the free VirtualBox software. The VM deployment of Ubuntu can pass through USB 2.0 devices, but make sure you install Oracle's VM additions as well as VirtualBox.
Once you install the Nexus 7 installer, it only takes a couple of quick terminal commands to unlock the bootloader on the Nexus 7. Once done, you are set to run the Ubuntu Nexus 7 Installer.
Google's unlock-friendly bootloader. You have to start here to allow Ubuntu to be installed on your Nexus 7.
The installer then pulls down pre-built images for Ubuntu ARM 12.10, and flashes them onto the Nexus 7. Canonical notes that the image does use proprietary drivers, including Wi-Fi and Tegra 3 graphics drivers. No open source, non-proprietary alternatives exist today.
Installing Ubuntu for Nexus 7 is a one-stop affair.
Once finished, the device will take several minutes to de-compress the disk images on the device. But, you're done with the PC. However, we strongly suggest you keep that VM instance or Ubuntu install handy.
This is early software… really early.
We thought we had the holy grail on our hands. Open, OpenGL ES accelerated, true Linux with a Linux userland, and armed with NVIDIA's Tegra 3. It was supposed to be the last mile between Android and total Linux bliss.
It isn't any of that.
What we got was a very early, unstable release distribution. Nothing totally works. Where, oh where to begin.
First, while Ubuntu's GNOME-forked user interface, Unity, was supposed to be OpenGL ES ready, it doesn't seem to be working properly. Everything is rendering in software mode on Nexus 7, at least, as far as we can tell. We do have to caution this may not totally be Canonical's fault, NVIDIA has been very poor with its Linux driver support for a good decade or two.
OpenGL ES is totally new territory and a lot of this is going to have to be reverse engineered to talk to a proprietary driver meant for Android. Android and Linux may now have undergone a "kernel unification", but they are vastly different userlands. We suspect the Tegra 3 driver has no tunings for a traditional flavor of Linux. And, we suspect, bugs in Unity also prevent OpenGL ES from "going live" just yet.
We'd be okay with all that though.
The problems continue, however. First, Unity is set to use the Desktop interface, not Unity's custom Netbook/Tablet interface. Canonical says they are aware of this, and working on a fix.
Also, the DPI is 1:1 pixel for a desktop. That means icons are smaller than your fingertips. Menu bars are half your fingertip… if you have a small finger. You're going to need to make some UI adjustments to get the interface functional.
Touch support is dismal. Unity crashes… a lot. The combination of the two is bad. It took three reboots just to get the device through the checks for software updates. None are available as of today.
Some of this can be worked around. USB On The Go (OTG) support is available for Nexus 7. While Bluetooth is too buggy to work (yes, you read that right), you can plug in a keyboard and mouse.
USB OTG works fine, but charging with USB OTG does not. An alpha-grade patch is live already to address that.
So, what we're left with is a seven inch tablet that works best when paired with the assets of a notebook. And graphics acceleration is absent. Wi-Fi and other features are stable, but showcase how an ARM CPU is different from an x86 CPU. ARM CPUs may be causing laptop and desktop prices (along with x86 CPU prices) to crater. But, that doesn't mean ARM and x86 are equal. x86 crushes ARM in performance. So, while an x86 tablet with similar clock speeds can load Firefox almost instantly… ARM will take several seconds to load full Firefox.
Oh, and thanks to Adobe pulling out of Flash on traditional Linux, that's a goner too.
This is for extreme nerds, for now. That will change over time, Ubuntu has tons of promise.
But, the ease of installation betrays the pains after-install. It is going to give many their first taste of Ubuntu… and it's going to taste like a bar of soap.
We realize Canonical has cautioned all of this. But, if something is easy to install, people are going to ignore that. They may read it, but they'll dismiss it out of hand. After all, it's easy to install, so it should just work, right? Unfortunately, that is the flawed psychology that we fear many will take away from this.
We really urge Canonical to offer up a warning page at the start of the Nexus 7 installer, warning how buggy things are right now. Otherwise, they run the risk of turning away a good chunk of the potential future userbase. It's easy, but it's not for normal people… just yet.
Thanks for taking the time to review the developer release of the core of Ubuntu on the Nexus 7. I led the team that delivered this image, and we're actually quite proud of what we've done.
Our intention and our messaging from the beginning has always been that this is a developer release specifically designed to illustrate how far the core of Ubuntu needs to be improved before it is suitable for mobile devices, and to motivate our developer community to start polishing the rough edges in our core.
We've put up extensive documentation in our wiki about all the known issues, linked to our bug tracker, and have stated multiple times that this is a developer release.
To your point that we should install an additional warning in our installer as well, that is a good suggestion and I'll file a bug for us to do so.
At the same time, I would gently suggest that reviewing an explicit developer release on a website aimed at general consumers is rather unfair. Open source software development necessarily happens in the public purview which has both strengths and weaknesses. While we can harness the power and enthusiasm of our development community by developing in the open, we also run the risk of folks outside our community's normal borders not fully understanding what we're trying to do.
Thanks for warning your users to avoid our developer release. When time comes, we'll happily welcome the general public to use our products, but until then, they should probably stick to the other consumer grade OSes.
Alex, while I like it when devs sound off… I don't think you really understood Chris's conclusions. You attack his review for criticizing your accomplishments in the wrong context.
I don't think he did that at all. The first half of the review was a Ubuntu lovefest. And, he concluded by saying that this effort was great and showed tons of progress.
PhoneNews.com has been around for a long time, and they aren't as "general tech" as you seem to think they are. The readers of this site are the very people (like me) that want a working Ubuntu on our tablets. All Chris is saying is that we should hold off, that's all. He isn't bashing you or your team's work. I think if you re-read it, you'll see he's doing the opposite.
"You attack his review for criticizing your accomplishments in the wrong context…"- Tom S.
You're way out of line Tom S.
Constructive arguments don't end with a statement lacking rational. If you don't like what I said, or want to claim I'm out of line, you're going to have to do better than that.
I installed KDE ad it works much faster than Unity. The problem with KDE is that it has some problems with touch functionality.
Very important to install ssh-server so you can manipulate the device without using the screen incase you lose control.
Overall I was impressed with how much works. It needs a few months of wrok to clean up the touch routines, and other small areas.
Version 1.1 of the Nexus 7 Ubuntu Installer was issued, I can confirm it adds the changes Alex noted above.
Thanks for the quick turnaround on that, Alex.
P.S. A changelog would be nice for future releases, keep installer and image changes tracked so users can monitor progress so they can decide if they should install/retry each release.
A great review. Exactly the way I saw when I first installed. I think it needs a lot of work before goes into the regular user. But it is a good start by Ubuntu to port into ARM and Google Nexus 7 is a great device to start with.
We don't plan on maintaining that particular installer for much longer.
After our currently running developer conference in Copenhagen ends and we all go home, we're going to start upstreaming our work into standard Ubuntu, and there is work planned to update our standard installer (usb-creator) so that it can directly flash the Nexus using fastboot.
The Ubuntu update model doesn't require a new installation for a new release. Once the machine is installed, users will just get updates via our standard software update process.
My KDE running netbook is 4years old and might buy a tablet if I can run a real OS next to Chrome so Im gonna wait till I can dual booth ChromeOS with Kubuntu lets say.
Besides, Google doesnt play nice with .odf in any of its services now so I still need a real word processor but dual boot is my tipping point.
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7-installer … changelog updates will also migrate their way to the same location but as Alex mentioned there are larger plans to utilize tools like usb-creator to achieve the same results. This utility was put together to make folks lives a bit easier when testing this development release.
"Tom S" and "ryan villegas": you are both indeed out of the line. Alex clearly isn't "attacking" or "pissy" at all. Instead he is bringing up a good point of view in a very polite manner, and at the same time promising to move forward Christopher's idea of a warning in the installer.
Having ubuntu on the nexus would be awesome! Actually I messed a bit with this release, and I was even able to have it run a fully working ruby/rails/mysql/nodejs stack! And I can assure you that performance was not an issue.
Now I'm flashing android back, as not having right click and zoom makes this release too hard to use.
PS : would ubuntu server be available for the nexus 7 in the future?
Thanks for a great review and for supporting side loading. I remember when you were the first to seemingly raise this issue back when Windows 7 was announced and the first developer editions began to flow. It is great to know that you are still championing this cause for the masses. Thanks.


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Every year the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation offers internship opportunities to Alaska college students. Recruitment is currently underway. Please help spread the word to students majoring in business, accounting, finance, economics, information technology and related majors.
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation offers qualified Alaska students an opportunity to intern in the asset management field.
The Student Conservation Association in Alaska is currently recruiting high school students age 15-19 for summer trail work and environmental restoration throughout the state. Students from all over Alaska convene to campout, build trails, cookout, and share work skills and life skills with each other. Teams of eight crew members are supervised by two adult crew leaders. Students are given a $500 stipend at the successful completion of their four weeks of service to public land. Outdoor gear and food is provided. Transportation stipends are available based on need.
Summer start dates begin in early June, early July, and mid-July. Some students will be invited to one of our expense-paid weekend orientations – either April 3-5 or April 10-12. Please see the attached flyer for more details.
To apply, students must visit www.thesca.org/akcrew and thoroughly complete a Youth: Crew application. Applications submitted prior to February 15 will be given priority for the April orientation. After that, crew member positions are open until filled.
SCA Alaska Recruiter Jeff Chen is available to give presentations to your students in person or via video conferencing. To schedule a presentation or to get some help with student applications, please email Jeff at jchen or call 907-717-8414.
UAF Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Activity (URSA) announces a new round of funding for undergraduate students. Students are invited to apply for one of several SUgR (Summer Undergraduate Research) Awards of $5,000.
Applications are due February 27, 2015.
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Please post and forward this on to TCC tribal members residing in the TCC Region.
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TCC Employment & Training Youth Services will select 12 youth to attend TCCs annual convention in March.
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I have finally made the decision about what I am going to do to surprise my wife for our tenth wedding anniversary. I could not decide what would be the perfect way to celebrate the ten years that we have been together. I asked her best friend for some input to see if I could try to make it the best time of her life. She told me to take her on a vacation to New York and to get a bwi limo for the night and to take her out on the town doing the things that I normally would not do with her. She suggested dinner at this one restaurant in New York that I would never pay for as well as getting some tickets for the orchestra.
I am a very frugal man and will not spend money on things that I do not think that my family needs. This one occasion has made me feel the need to open my wallet and spend a little extra on my wife. I thought that it in addition to the vacation, limo, dinner the concert and the night out that I would try to buy my wife a brand new dress and surprise her with it.
I enlisted the help of her friend once again. We spent an afternoon out shopping together, which was a first, and finally found the dress that she thought would make my wife melt. I actually had to have her pay for it so my wife would not see it on our credit card statement. I then was able to get her to help me reserve the limo, make the dinner reservations and get the concert tickets. We both thought that it would be even better for my wife to keep it all a secret and surprise her with it the night before our big date. She is going to be floored.


Songs She Wrote About People She Knows is one of 11 features by Canadians making directorial debuts at TIFF. It's by Kris Elgstrand of Vancouver, who co-directed a feature that played the festival in 2011.
The only way the 1984 Toronto Festival of Festivals could have been more Canadian would have been if there had been a snowfall in September.
Not that the fest, since rebranded as the Toronto International Film Festival, needed it. That was not only the inaugural year of a new national showcase program called Perspective Canada, it was also the year of Northern Lights, an exhaustive retrospective of Canadian-made movies stretching from the silent era to the present.
Northern Lights was my festival baptism. I had been hired by then-programmer Piers Handling to assist in assembling the program and its attendant publications (Take Two and The Film Reader). So I'd spent the summer tracking films and filmmakers, writing and editing, and generally carrying out the work both Handling and I had been inspired to do by our shared professor and mentor, the late Peter Harcourt, a tireless advocate of the national cinema who was also an original programmer of the new showcase program.
On the night of the Northern Lights cocktail reception, a gathering took place the likes of which this country had never seen – and never would again. In the room, Canada's cinematic elite converged for a few hours over drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Donald Shebib, Michael Snow, Michel Brault, Larry Kent, David Cronenberg, Claude Jutra, Jack Darcus, Joyce Wieland, Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Gilles Carle, Donald Brittain, Denys Arcand, Don Owen, Robin Spry, Ted Kotcheff, Peter Pearson, Paul Almond, Francis Mankiewicz – the living history of Canadian movies was in a noisy bar on Bay Street, past and present mingling with an awestruck future.
I remember speaking with both Atom Egoyan and John Paizs that night, two young directors with fresh works in the new Perspective Canada program. Northern Lights indeed. Had the prospects for Canadian films ever looked brighter?
Paizs, now a directing mentor at the Canadian Film Centre, will be screening a restoration of his 1985 Perspective Canada premiere, Crime Wave, at TIFF this year. He recalls just how mind-blowingly surreal it was like to have a first feature – handmade over weekends for no money in Winnipeg – screened in Toronto.
"The premiere of Crime Wave really opened up a lot of doors for me," Paizs says. "I remember Atom Egoyan phoning me up when he was directing some episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, asking me if I was interested, and thinking that was terrific. Here was this guy whom I'd barely met reaching out in this way."
With Perspective Canada, a sense of something like a national filmmaking community had sprung up. Egoyan, whose rise from student filmmaker to festival fixture during the late-1980s was arguably the program's most conspicuous success story, remembers just how affirmative and galvanizing the program was.
"For me it was just a great way to be invited into the festival, a great way to situate myself," he now says. "It was an ability to have contact with senior filmmakers in a way that was structurally coherent – that we were there as part of a tradition. Like so many things in our culture, there might have been something self-conscious about it, but it felt right at that time. It felt like a bold statement to make, and it's time had come."
Perspective Canada would have been 30 years old this year. But the program was disbanded by the festival in 2004, with the explanation that it had served its purpose – to provide a designated showcase for an otherwise neglected national cinema – and that it was time to release Canadian movies into the general population of world movies. The future had apparently arrived; Canadian movies had grown up.
Handling, one of the instigators of Perspective Canada and now CEO of TIFF, remembers how times were then changing.
"The change for me was a growing internationalization of world cinema," Handling says. "National cinemas began to come under question. As money was being raised from around the world, internationally the neat distinctions of 'This is a Hungarian film, a Polish film or this is a French film' began to break down a little bit. Money was being raised everywhere, and I think that the Canadian film followed that. Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg were shooting with English money, making films in England. In mid-career, they were breaking down the boundaries of pure Canadian financing."
By the 1990s, Perspective Canada had helped launch the filmmaking careers of Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald, Guy Maddin, John Greyson and Bruce LaBruce. But there was blowback. Some of the filmmakers who'd first shone in the program began to regard it as something they'd outgrown – Handling remembers filmmaker Greyson calling it "a beautiful ghetto."
Cameron Bailey, a former Perspective Canada programmer and TIFF's current artistic director, left the event just before the program was dismantled. But he understood why. "That kind of momentum ran itself out," he says. "And people began to question whether these films can or should be thought about as Canadian films, or whether they actually have a larger frame that's more useful. I think that's what probably led to the demise of the Perspective Canada program."
After consulting with filmmakers across the country, TIFF dropped the program and released Canadian movies into the larger pool – a decision that proved as timely as the foundation of Perspective Canada 20 years earlier.
Since the removal of what more than one filmmaker called "the training wheels" of Perspective Canada, the festival has hastened the emergence of some of the country's most confidently exportable talent, such as Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners), Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) and Xavier Dolan (Mommy, Laurence Anyways).
The numbers speak loudly. Steve Gravestock, head of TIFF's Canadian programming team, tells me that the number of Canadian feature-length films submitted to TIFF over the past two years has topped 200 – barely 30 make the final cut – and that the number of Canadian first features in this year's Discovery Program, a record 11 in total, is a sure indication of a national cinema with strong genes.
"One of the major signs of the health of any industry is the presence of the next generation," he says. "This year we had more first features or solo first features than we've had in 10 years. People are astounded when I tell them the numbers. And look at Cannes," he continues. "Three Canadian movies – The Captive, Mommy and Maps to the Stars – in competition this year. You don't get multiple films from countries in competition in Cannes. France doesn't even get that."
"Three or four of the biggest successes in Canadian movies in the last 10 years were made after Perspective Canada," Gravestock adds. "Usually what those programs do is that they raise the profile and you're good to go. It's a maturing thing."
Kris Elgstrand is a Vancouver filmmaker whose first solo feature, Songs She Wrote About People She Knows, is one of the 11 directors whose debut features are being launched at this TIFF. It isn't his first time there: He co-directed a feature (Doppelganger Paul) that played the festival in 2011, and he's written and directed shorts that made the cut. His entire career has played out post-Perspective Canada, and it has played out just fine, thank you very much.
"It's that stamp of approval or validation," he says of being a Canadian filmmaker in TIFF, "that your work belongs on that level. That's huge and carries on, whether or not your film sets the world on fire. TIFF, without question, helps you immeasurably. Everybody wants to get in, and if people are going to invest in a film, that association is huge. A lot of things are possible that weren't before."
It's impossible to know if the success of current filmmakers would have been achieved without the leg up provided by Perspective Canada. But the Canadian film industry is undeniably in better shape today than it was when the training wheels were bolted on 30 years ago. And that probably isn't a coincidence.


This page displays sold house prices for Beech Gardens in Southampton.
Beech Gardens in Hamble, Southampton consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Beech Gardens typically have values around £200,000 - £300,000, ranging upwards of £300,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
Map showing Beech Gardens in Southampton.


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Q: Why declaring funciton with static variables in function arguments is not a error in Windows? I was reading the documentation about static and other specifiers from
here and it says

The static specifier is only allowed in the declarations of variables (except in function parameter lists  ), declarations of functions (except at block scope), and declarations of anonymous unions. When used in a declaration of a class member, it declares a static member. When used in a declaration of a variable, it specifies static storage duration (except if accompanied by thread_local). When used in a declaration at namespace scope, it specifies internal linkage.

Now consider a snippet like
int test(static int a )
{
     return a;
}

int main()
{

    test(5);
    return 0;
}

Which is complete voilation of the standerd themselves.
This snippet compiles with warning on windows and runs

C4042: 'a' : has bad storage class

but gives error on Linux ( expected behavior )

test.cpp:2: error: storage class specifiers invalid in parameter declarations
  test.cpp:2: error: storage class specified for parameter 't'

My question is,
Why does windows compiler allow such type of violations, Do they have any advantage which I cannot see?
How does this behave at run time?
I have few guesses Maybe, none of them is the actual behaviour,
1> static keyword is ignored
2> Multiple copies of this variable a is created whenever the function is called (calling the function in a loop should crash the program with memory issue.)
3> Only one static instance is created for the function and every time the fucntion is called the same variable is used ( Calling program in loop will not lead to a crash due to less memory )

A: According to the MSDN documentation, it will be replaced by standard storage class instead. Which is either:

*

*extern, if identifier is a function.

*auto, if identifier is a formal parameter or local variable.

*No storage class, if identifier is a global variable.

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9d31kt4.aspx
GCC 4.8.2 produces the following fatal error:

*

*error: storage class specifiers invalid in parameter declarations

*error: storage class specified for parameter 'a'

clang 3.5 shows the following fatal compilation error:

*

*error: invalid storage class specifier in function declaratory

*warning: no previous prototype for function 'test'
[-Wmissing-prototypes]|

The C++ standard only requires a "diagnostic message" as per section 1.4 [intro.compliance]:

*

*If a program contains no violations of the rules in this
International Standard, a conforming implementation shall, within its
resource limits, accept and correctly execute that program.

*If a program contains a violation of any diagnosable rule or an
occurrence of a construct described in this Standard as
"conditionally-supported" when the implementation does not support
that construct,
a conforming implementation shall issue at least one diagnostic message.

*If a program contains a violation of a rule for which no diagnostic
is required, this International Standard places no requirement on
implementations with respect to that program.

For this warning I would recommend correcting the code by removing static.


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Oil prices slip on mounting recession fears and rising interest rates
The central banks of the US, Europe and the UK raised borrowing rates by half a percentage point
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Oil prices have slumped after rallying earlier in the week. AP
Massoud A Derhally
Oil prices closed lower on Friday, after rallying earlier in the week, as central banks raised interest rates, recession fears increased and uncertainty lingered over a rebound in demand from China.
Brent, the benchmark for two thirds of the world's oil, ended trading 2.67 per cent lower to settle at $79.04 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate, the gauge that tracks US crude, was down 2.39 per cent to $74.29 a barrel.
Oil prices rallied earlier this week amid reports that China, the world's biggest importer of crude, had eased its zero-Covid restrictions. However, the "stop-start" reopening of its economy stoked market volatility and uncertainty regarding the demand outlook.
"Crude prices are declining as recession fears grow and over uncertainty on how smooth China's reopening will be given the surge in Covid cases they are experiencing," said Edward Moya, a senior market analyst at Oanda.
"The short-term crude demand outlook is a big question mark as China might struggle to ease covid curbs all the way and as global manufacturing activity widely remains in contraction territory.
"Oil might struggle to rally unless we see a disruption with crude supplies as energy traders fixate over deteriorating growth outlooks globally."
Brent settled 2.5 per cent higher at $82.70 a barrel on Wednesday despite the US Federal Reserve raising its interest rates by 50 basis points, the seventh increase of 2022. The US regulator also signalled more rate increases are expected next year.
"We share the view that the economy is well placed to digest the tighter monetary policy. At the same time, we think that further monetary policy tightening is unnecessary and would be a policy mistake," said David Kohl, chief economist at Julius Baer.
On Thursday, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank also raised interest rates by half a percentage point each to reduce inflation, which is at its highest in decades.
"The size of the [ECB] hike was in line with both our and consensus expectations but forward guidance was much more hawkish than market expectations," said Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank economists in a research note on Friday.
The BoE's "forward guidance highlights a meeting-by-meeting approach and also reiterated [its] willingness to 'respond forcefully, as necessary'. The overall tone of the meeting was relatively dovish compared to previous meetings", ADCB said.
Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency raised its global oil demand growth estimate for this year and the next on rising crude consumption in India, China and the Middle East.
The Paris-based agency said it expects oil demand to grow by 1.7 million barrels per day in 2023, up from its previous estimate of 1.6 million bpd.
Oil demand will grow by 2.3 million bpd this year, a 140,000 bpd increase over the agency's previous forecast.
Separately, on Tuesday, Opec stuck to its oil demand growth forecast for this year and 2023.
The oil producers' group now expects the world economy to grow 2.8 per cent this year, up from its previous estimate of a 2.7 per cent growth.
The 2023 global economic growth forecast was left unchanged at 2.5 per cent.
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"Sî Se Drone!": Music and Slogans for a "New Civil Rights Movement"!
The passage of the Corker-Hoeven amendment in the Senate has been called "historic", "landmark" and lauded in many different visual,, verbal and vibrant ways. Others are protesting at the border and in different cities as if the Corker Hoeven legislation meant more death and destruction. Confusing, right? Needless to say, the passage of the Senate bill has also brought about much confusion and conflict within the immigrant rights movement.
Now that the extreme right wing Corker-Hoeven amendment has replaced the hard right wing "Gang of 8" proposal as the new "bi-partisan" Senate "immigration reform" proposal, we "progressives" of the "new civil rights movement" have to fight for and defend sanctity of the Corker-Hoeven legislation from the REAL extremists in the House. By linking "border security" to "citizenship", all this legislation has made it neat and cool and necessary for all of us to do our patriotic duty to support 20,0000 new border patrol agents, 700 miles of fencing and national ID cards as part of our "new civil rights movement" progressive agenda. As the pic created by a disgruntled DREAMer shows, Drones and the DREAM act are the essence of political cool. If we don't fight to protect the DREAM and the drones, things could get worse because the Real Bad Guys in the Republican-controlled House will not give us any part of our "new civil rights movement" freedom.
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Voice: the future of shopping?
A while back I wrote about the rise of voice assisted shopping, referencing an upcoming report from Ericsson Consumer Lab among others. Now the report is out and a few of the key insights are that 43 percent of smartphone users make purchases with their phone every week, while 67 percent regularly use it to pay with.
But what are they looking for next? Well, according to the study, 47 percent of the smartphone shoppers say they would like a service that automatically restocks everyday items, while 63 percent want help with price comparisons and 48 percent want help making shopping decisions easy. All of which are tasks that a digital home assistant could perform, according to Ericsson Consumer Lab. This also corresponds with the fact that 63 percent believe that most people will have a personal shopping advisor in three years.


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Professor John Cortes, Minister with responsibility for heritage, environment and climate change, will be launching Professor Clive Finlayson's latest book The Smart Neanderthal on Tuesday at 18:30 at the Gibraltar National Museum. The book is published by Oxford University Press.
A statement continued: "Neanderthals have had a bad press. The image of the clumsy, heavy-browed caveman, outcompeted and overwhelmed by our nimble, smart, modern human ancestors, persists, even though we now know that many of us carry some Neanderthal DNA.
"For many years, the predominant view has been that modern humans underwent a 'cognitive revolution' in Africa. They began to make fine tools, conceptualize, and paint on cave walls. By the time they encountered Neanderthals in Europe, modern humans were at a significant advantage. The Neanderthals tried to copy them but didn't stand a chance against our predecessors' superior intellect and skills. But is this what really happened?


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Thousands of local health staff celebrated the NHS birthday in style today with free ice creams delivered to their doorstep.
More than 5,000 cones and lollies were dished out to staff working for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust at its sites across Berkshire West. The goodies were a gift from the Royal Berks Charity.
Four ice cream vans toured the Trust sites throughout the day handing out cones and ice lollies as part of the celebrations to wish the NHS a happy 72nd birthday.
The vans visited Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital, Bracknell Healthspace, Prince Charles Eye Unit, Windsor Dialysis Centre. West Berkshire Community Hospital, Townlands Memorial Hospital, Henley and the Dingley Child Development Centre on the University of Reading campus.
Trust Chief Executive Steve McManus said: "Our staff have gone through such tough times recently and we wanted to show our appreciation, and the 72nd birthday celebrations seems a good time to lay on this treat. It's just a small part of a wider range of initiatives we've implemented to support our staff and say thank you for all their commitment and dedication.
"It was great to see them all enjoying their ice creams – at a proper social distance of course!" he added.


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Fake it until you make it — could 2019 be the year of a tech bubble?
Uber, Lyft and Pinterest all recently went public but failed to reach their targeted valuations. A warning sign?
- 10 July 2019
Uber, Lyft and Pinterest all recently went public but failed to reach their targeted valuations. A reminder that these unicorns are still losing a lot of money despite their expanding customer base.
On Thursday, May 9th, Uber finally went public, selling at $45 a share. But the much-hyped IPO didn't exactly go as expected. The company posted the largest first-day dollar loss of any American IPO going back to 1975. Uber's stock quickly dropped to $41, pegging the company's market capitalization at $69 billion, far, far away from the $120 billion that the company claimed to be aiming at. But Uber' isn't the only company whose stock-market debut has proved disappointing. While 2019 has seen an IPO frenzy, they often didn't go as expected, and many unicorns who went public this year, such as Uber's rival Lyft and Pinterest, missed their target and saw their stock plunge in the first few days.
Behind these poor market results looms the spectre of a tech bubble, echoing the 2000 dot-com crash. "Another tech bubble could be about to burst," wrote the Financial Times last January, while John Coley, professor at the Warwick Business School, states in The Conversation that "valuations are almost entirely speculative and supported by little more than the trajectory of sales and user growth, funded by an enormous cash burn. In short, many of the tech IPOs of 2019 are about finding someone to buy the investment based on the promise of a grand vision, with few financial fundamentals to back it up." Many commentators insist on the fact that unicorns are as good at raising billions as they are at losing them. Ten years after its creation, Uber still hasn't been able to turn a profit and lost 3 billion dollars in 2018 alone. Pinterest also lost 63 million last year. WeWork and Slack, two other unicorns who are planning on going public later this year, are also still unprofitable.
"Seventy-six percent of the companies that went public last year were unprofitable on a per-share basis in the year leading up to their initial offerings, according to data compiled by Jay Ritter, a professor at the University of Florida. This 76% number is dangerously close to the dot-com peak of 81%. Growth at all costs with zero valid prediction of profitability is a recipe for disaster," says Keith Wright, an angel investor and professor at Villanova University.
Their goal is to eventually become leaders on their market. This is what we call the network effect, supposed to lead to a "winner-take-all" situation.
However, the fact that companies are able to raise money from investors while still losing loads of money years after their creation doesn't necessarily mean that we've entered a tech bubble. It is worth reminding that Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Amazon have all been highly unprofitable for years before becoming the cash machines that we are now familiar with. Today's unicorns are actually just following a recipe that has proved very successful for other tech actors in the past. Rather than focusing on being profitable from day one, these companies are trying to expand their customer base and go global as quickly as possible. Their goal is to eventually become leaders on their market, to be able to generate important revenues from their users base. This is what we call the network effect, supposed to lead to a "winner-take-all" situation, and this explains why investors keep entrusting companies such as Lyft, Uber or WeWork even though they are still burning cash at a very fast rate.
But some experts are pointing out the fact that what has worked for digital companies such as Google or Facebook might not work for everyone in the future. "Traditional metrics have been ignored and user growth taken as a proxy for future profitability. But this requires an enormous leap of faith," writes John Colley. "The big difference with Facebook, Amazon, and Google is that they were among the very first to build network effects. Uber has faced sustained competition and staunch resistance around the world, resulting in enormous battles of attrition funded by investors. Snapchat have found Instagram and WhatsApp (both owned by Facebook) waiting for them, making the competition for users very difficult." He also points out that the main drawback of the "raise a lot of money to grow fast" strategy is that it discourages focus and efficiency. Uber, for example, has been investing in a wide range of projects, including the very uncertain business of flying taxis, instead of focusing on making his chore business profitable. This really risky strategy also shines a light on another issue with the growth model.
Are entrepreneurs Icarus ? (Rubens, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles)
As companies are constantly trying to raise money from investors to stay afloat, they tend to overpromise and fix objectives that they are then unable to deliver. Elon Musk's Tesla has almost made itself a reputation from that, but it also concerns smaller companies. The history of the Silicon Valley is full of startups who raised billions on a product that was overhyped or just wasn't working. In 2015, the company Lily quickly went famous with a video featuring a drone tailored for extreme sports, that could deploy automatically when launched in the air, follow his or her owner and even operate under water. But after raising $15 billion and attracting $24 billion in pre-orders, the company suddenly went bankrupt without delivering a single drone, and is currently being sued for faking its demonstration videos using products from other manufacturers. Juicero raised $400 million for a Wi-Fi connected juicer that worked poorly, while blood-testing company Theranos built much hype on a product that didn't work at all.
The tech industry remains solid
If these examples show that investors could sometimes be more careful regarding the companies they pour money in, it doesn't mean that the tech industry as a whole was built on shaky foundations. And according to Richard Holway, co-founder and Chairman of TechMarketView LLP — considered as the most influential analyst firm in the UK, comparisons with the 1990s dot-com bubble just don't stand. First of all, because tech is now everywhere. "Unlike in 1999/2000, tech is embedded in every company and economy in the world. Tech is an essential, not a might have".
"The tech industry is now much healthier than it used to be before the dot-com crash"
Secondly, the tech industry is now much healthier than it used to be before the dot-com crash. "Back in 1998/99, 'a rising tide lifts all ships' applied. Ever-increasing valuations affected all tech companies — the good, the bad and the ugly. This is not the case now. The FAANGS (I prefer the FANMAGs to include Microsoft) are all very fairly valued on any metric. Their share price growth has, in the main, mirrored earnings growth," he explains. And while some much-hyped IPOs have proved disappointing, others have been working quite well. Zoom Technologies, for example, is profitable and has been doing really well since its recent IPO.
Finally, according to Richard Holway, the fact that an IPO proved disappointing in the first few days doesn't mean at all that it will be a failure on the long term. "Some of the current crop of IPOs (and rumoured IPOs like Airbnb), could well become major stars. It is almost always best to wait for the dust to settle after an IPO before buying. Buying Uber at IPO was clearly not the right thing to do. But buying at some point in the future at a more realistic price might well prove profitable."
An analysis shared by Patrick Mathurin, from the Financial Times: "the Financial Times analysed all IPOs in the US raising more than $1bn since 2000 and found that the direction of first-day movements was no guide to future performance. […] Shares in Facebook, which barely moved from their offer price on their opening day in 2012, has since risen fivefold." Despite some much-hyped failure stories, it seems like the tech industry isn't going anywhere.
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Une étude parue à la fin de l'année 2021 dans la revue Archives of Sexual Behavior montre que « toutes les formes d'activités sexuelles » ont décliné entre 2009 et 2018 aux États-Unis. Les deux auteurs du texte évoquent une multiplicité de facteurs, parmi lesquels la normalisation des pratiques sexuelles « brutales », notamment un cadre pornographique. Une chronique Tech Paf à retrouver tous les lundis dans la matinale de Radio Nova.
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How to Kill a Conspiracy Theory: How to Destroy a Conspiracy
The NFP has long been a favorite among conspiracy theorists, and the recent spate of articles from NFP authors about the conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination of JFK have only made the NFP seem more dangerous.
In a recent article titled The NTP Conspiracy: The Murder That Changed America, author James O'Keefe claims that the NSPCC's conspiracy theory "has not only taken over the United States, but is now a major part of the mainstream news cycle."
"This is a serious and dangerous trend," he writes, adding, "NSPCCs conspiracy theories are not only wrong, they are the most popular conspiracy theory in the country."
He concludes: "The NFP's current wave of anti-conspiracy rhetoric is a threat to our democracy."
In fact, O'Keefe argues, conspiracy theories have been used to destroy democracy in the past.
"Conspiracy theories are a tool for totalitarian regimes to destroy the free press and media outlets and to keep their subjects in a constant state of paranoia and denial," he wrote.
Oddly, O'Reilly claims that his conspiracy theory is not a conspiracy theory at all.
"[NSPAC's] conspiracy theory, as it was first created, was a warning to the American people against a conspiracy," he said.
"It was not a statement about the NPI, nor was it a statement of fact.
It was an accusation, a warning, that we were in danger, and that we had been misled."
Owen Thomas, the former deputy assistant director of the CIA and former director of intelligence for the FBI, also claims that NSPAC has been a "conspiracy theory" since it was created.
Thomas, who has also authored books about the JFK assassination, also wrote an article entitled Conspiracy Theories: A History of Conspiracy Theory from JFK to 9/11 titled Conspiracy Theory in America: From JFK to the Present, which states that the conspiracy theories that came after JFK's death were "totally discredited."
According to Thomas and other NSPCA members, conspiracy theory was "not a useful tool" in the 1960s and 1970s.
For example, former FBI agent James J. Babbitt said in an article titled "A Guide to Countering the NTP: What the Feds Don't Want You to Know" that conspiracy theories were "a lot like the Klan in the 1930s.
They were not a legitimate means of achieving anything but they were a way to undermine the power of the state."
Another former FBI agent, William O'Brien, told the New York Times that conspiracy theorists "are a little like the Ku Klux Klan, except they are a lot more sophisticated and dangerous."
And former CIA analyst and author Richard A. Clarke wrote that "the conspiratorial fringe of American politics" has "been the target of sustained attack."
It is interesting to note that Clarke's article was written in 1974, but in 2015 Clarke wrote an entire book called Conspiracy Theorists: An American History, where he writes that the "conspiratorial fringe" has been "attacked by the mainstream press for over a century, not just since JFK."
While conspiracy theorists have been accused of using "consensus politics," "consensationalism," "theocratic dictatorship," and other methods to undermine democracy, Clarke and many other conspiracy theorists argue that the goal of their work is to "destroy the existing order."
One of the primary methods they use to accomplish that goal is conspiracy theories, which they believe are designed to "disprove" or discredit those who have questioned the government or the official narrative.
So how do conspiracy theorists attack the truth about the assassination?
In an interview with The Blaze in 2016, James Ostermann, a former CIA agent and former deputy director of counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, described how conspiracy theories can be used to "get you to do something you don't want to do."
After 9/1, Ostermanns response to questions about the NSPCA's conspiracy theories was "That was all just a fabrication."
His comments are particularly interesting since, according to Ostermans book Conspiracies: A Guide to the Use of Conspiracy Theory in the Intelligence Community, Osters "explained that the CIA's intelligence operations were not motivated by conspiracy theories and that the agency's focus was solely on counter-terrorism."
The same Ostermeier, who also has authored books on the JFK murder and the JFK Commission, explained to the The New York Times, that he believes the conspiracist fringe is "designed to undermine public confidence in government and in the legitimacy of the institutions of government."
Additionally, NFP's author James Lipscomb, who wrote about the
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p; the front stairway alone is almost 20 metres wide. The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy. There is a second, smaller and less well-preserved high relief frieze on the inner court walls which surround the actual fire altar on the upper level of the structure at the top of the stairs. In a set of consecutive scenes, it depicts events from the life of Telephus, legendary founder of the city of Pergamon and son of the hero Heracles and Auge, one of Tegean king Aleus's daughters.
In 1878, the German engineer Carl Humann began official excavations on the acropolis of Pergamon, an effort that lasted until 1886. The excavation was undertaken in order to rescue the altar friezes and expose the foundation of the edifice. Later, other ancient structures on the acropolis were brought to light. Upon negotiating with the Turkish government (a participant in the excavation), it was agreed that all frieze fragments found at the time would become the property of the Berlin museums.
Karl Humann's 1881 plan of the Pergamon acropolis.
In Berlin, Italian restorers reassembled the panels comprising the frieze from the thousands of fragments that had been recovered. In order to display the result and create a context for it, a new museum was erected in 1901 on Berlin's Museum Island. Because this first Pergamon Museum proved to be both inadequate and structurally unsound, it was demolished in 1909 and replaced with a much larger museum, which opened in 1930. This new museum is still open to the public on the island. Despite the fact that the new museum was home to a variety of collections beyond the friezes (for example, a famous reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon), the city's inhabitants decided to name it the Pergamon Museum for the friezes and reconstruction of the west front of the altar. The Pergamon Altar is today the most famous item in the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which is on display in the Pergamon Museum and in the Altes Museum, both of which are on Berlin's Museum Island.
Photo of the location (right on top of the hill of the Zeus Altar, now a small road). See more photos of Pergamon here.


Thank you to all the golfers, sponsors, silent auction donors and volunteers who made this year's Glen Eagle Charity Classic such a success. Together you raised $22,000 in support of Bethell Hospice Foundation.
Special thanks to Brad Friesner, Daniela Marcello and the entire team at Glen Eagle for another fabulous tournament. Many thanks also to Bethell Hospice Foundation golf committee members Paul Bacci, Barb Gough, Danila Maric & John Sanderson.


Two Art Education courses held at Oulu Lyseo Upper Secondary School, Finland in Fall 2017.
The method that I follow when planning outline of the course is, that I give inspiration and knowledge at the beginning of the course. I have more lectures and small exercises on the beginning of the course and return to these ideas during the course. Also techniques I teach as the course proceeds.
The group was mix of different classes, so I tried to take that in consideration when planning the teaching. The curriculum emphasizes to explore art techniques and topic as wide as possible. So this course has certain type of freedom.
Outline for this course was to practice to draw people. We did multiple exercises to draw human from different perspectives; what is important? How can we present personalities?