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Carter's Chord Get 'Wild' on New EP
Cory Stromblad
Cory Stromblad Published: April 13, 2011
Show Dog Universal Music
Carter's Chord know that there is strength in numbers as they prepare for the release of their EP, 'Wild Together,' out May 24. The compilation includes the group's current single 'A Little Less Comfortable,' as well as six other tunes including the title track, 'Simple Little Screwed Up Life' and 'We Ain't Makin' Love.'
The sibling trio, comprised of Emily, Becky and Joanna Robertson, spent a good majority of the past year immersed in the creative process. The ladies hope their efforts strike a note with country fans.
"We really wanted this music to be a better reflection of who we are as recording artists," Emily says. "We spent a lot of time focusing on the writing part, and in creating the kind of sound that best represents us."
The sisters have considerable roots in country music; their parents, Carter and Barny Robertson, toured and recorded with Waylon Jennings during the height of the legendary Outlaw movement.
"Country music was a huge part of how we grew up," Becky recalls to The Boot. "Our parents were both in Waylon' band. Our mom sang his background vocals and our dad played the keys all during the Outlaw years. Growing up, we were surrounded by music. It was like a musical conservatory sometimes. There was always somebody playing something or working on projects. We had a studio upstairs in our house, so from the time we were really young we were able to go up and record in the studio or write songs, even as kids, so for us, it was a huge influence."
The end result is 'Wild Together,' a collection that encompasses a sound true to their musical heritage. The group looked to artists such as Emmylou Harris, Fleetwood Mac, Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert and Waylon to draw inspirations.
Watch the video for the project's first single, 'A Little Less Comfortable,' below. Fans can visit their official website to learn more about the rising country stars.
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St Ives Town FC
St Ives boss looking to bring back promotion season top scorer
Marheineke hopes to have Watson in the squad which will travel to Kettering tomorrow
Tim Street
Former favourite: Danny Watson
He sometimes gets criticised for what he doesn't do – but one thing Danny Watson will guarantee for St Ives Town is goals.
So says Saints boss Ricky Marheineke, who is hoping to tie up a deal to bring the former St Ives striker back to the club before tomorrow night's game at Kettering Town.
Watson top-scored with 20 goals during the Saints Southern One Central promotion-winning season two years ago, including the all-important late equaliser in the play-off final.
He has since left for spells at Kempston Rovers, St Neots and Barton Rovers, but is now set for a return to Westwood Road.
"With Danny Watson, you know what you're getting," said Marheineke. "He has his critics, and people often points out what he doesn't do. But he's a natural born scorer, and he's coming back to a team which will focus on his strengths."
The Saints will be without another new signing, Ollie Snaith, tomorrow as he had already made plans due to his former club, Cambridge City, having no fixture.
However, the attacking midfielder made his debut in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Banbury United in place of the departing James Hall, who has moved the other way back to City.
Different class: Ollie Snaith
"Ollie's different class and was a long-term target of mine we just failed to land in the summer," said Marheineke. "He took a pay cut because he wants to step up, which tells me all I need to know, and has a point to prove as he wasn't playing at City.
"He's somebody younger and hungrier than James and with a positive attitude. We wish James all the best, and he's conducted himself brilliantly since saying he wanted to leave, but he does have a trait of leaving clubs when they're struggling."
There's also been a change between the sticks for the Saints, with the on-loan James Goff returning to Northampton Town to be replaced by another returning to the club who was also part of that promotion-winning side, Tim Trebes.
"Goffy performed very well in what was a difficult period for us and has a bright future ahead of him," said Marheineke. But it's great to have Tim back as he's one of the best keepers at this level and I know him inside out.
"I thought he would return after the birth of his second child earlier in the year, but went to Eynesbury Rovers to cut down on the travelling. However, when I heard he wasn't enjoying his football, bringing him back was a no-brainer."
Saints were two up within the opening 25 minutes on Saturday thanks to goals from Snaith and Rogan McGeorge, but shipped one before the break and conceded a heart-breaking equaliser a minute from time, leaving them third-bottom of the Southern Premier.
"It's the same old story," Marheineke added. "The performances have been good, but that eight games we've drawn or lost from winning positions, and those extra 14 to 16 points would have put us in mid-table – but that's why we are where we are."
St Ives Town lose one 'warrior' but gain another
Saints boss believes his side's luck will change soon
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This isn't about preferences which would have shown Medway sending a rainbow coalition of Green, Lib Dems and TUSC to Gun Wharf (again, no it wouldn't – Ed), but rather based on our misunderstanding of numbers and how vote swings work. Also we understand that every party is working to win every seat, and every seat is(nt) a target. Also, anything is possible. But..
The first thing you discover when you look at the numbers is how many of the wards are held with relatively large majorities, large enough so as to make you question wether the wards are even in contest. Some contests there are though, and between a potential drop in Conservative and Lib Dem vote as well as an increase in Labour and UKIP vote means there are predicted changes. This will lead to the council being under No Overall Control, which I think will be a good thing for Medway after years of single party cabinet control and a lack of scrutiny. The two main groups will have an almost similar number of wards meaning co-operation is essential.
Cuxton and Halling: Whilst I am predicting a Conservative hold, Monck, who is a parish councillor for UKIP is a big question mark. One to watch for 2019!
Gillingham North: Whilst I think this will be an easy hold for Labour, the interest is an alternate universe where in 2011 Stamp and Cooper stood and won as Labour, rather then Independents before changing. In this universe Khan stood in Gillingham South in 2011 and won, leading to a different Labour candidate in the Rochester By-Election and a different 2015 campaign.
Gillingham South: Back in this Universe 2 of the 3 current councillors are not standing for reelection. A busy polling card, will see Lib Dems reduced to one councillor, and I wouldn't put money on that being Goeff Juby! 2 Labour Councillors, 1 of which you would expect to be Khan. A telling ward for the development of the smaller parties.
Luton and Wayfield: This could have been a Labour seat loss but I think Osborne will gain a #GE2015 recognition bounce which will see him through to 2019.
Peninsula: I was preparing to predict 2 UKIP councillors returned by the Penisula word, but with Irvine not standing in the ward, I think it is a big ask for two new UKIP candidates.
Princes Park: Seems a site for an actual contest. Current Councillor Pat Gulvin not standing for the seat currently held, adds to the interest in this ward and a seat changing to Labour.
Rainham North: Hewett's choice to join UKIP is an interesting one, especially as it's not with support of the seemingly better organised Rochester & Strood UKIP. Will it lead to UKIP taking the ward? Or Labour taking the seat? No.
River: With Mackinley standing in South Thanet and Mackness, who had the smaller majority in 2011, busy deselecting Conservative councillors in Rochester & Strood, Labour must feel River is for the taking. With better candidates it might have been. UKIP to do well, but not well enough.
Rochester East: To turn half purple! This is based on no rational look at the numbers. Only that the UKIP group leader has given up the Penisula seat he won with a healthy majority for a strong Labour ward. There MUST be something we don't know otherwise the UKIP group are in serious trouble.
Rochester West: I am going to predict a labour seat gain here, but I think Tolhurst will win a #GE2015 bounce which will keep her safe until 2019.
Strood North: The two councillors contesting their seats, leaving a battle for the third seat. I'm going to say the UKIP surge won't get them a seat, and Labour will win it.
Strood Rural: UKIP are working well in Rochester & Strood and this will lead to seats being held here, and if Mason does hold his seat that will be embarrassing for the Conservatives who deselected him.
Strood South: Had a low turnout in 2011, an increased turnout from the General Election, and a UKIP surge mixed with a Reckless bounce, means I am predicting a three way split of seats.
Walderslade: Had a large poll card in 2011, and this isn't the case in 2015 which will change the outcome to a Labour seat gain.
Watling: This will be a very close battle, Smith will see her majority reduced by the collapse of the Medway Liberal Democrat vote, but will hold on. Chaplin will have a #GE2015 bounce but not enough to min a council seat. The battle for the second seat will see a Labour win.
I think it's generally accepted now that Medway Council will be under No Overall Control following this election, it's just the exact make-up that is up for debate. My numbers are perhaps more pessimistic for the establishment parties, with the Conservatives losing 8 seats, but Labour only being able to pick up 3. This does lead to UKIP being the main beneficiaries. While their poll numbers have slipped in recent days, they have built a good infrastructure in Medway, and relatively easily topped the Euro elections in May and the Rochester by-election in November. The problem is exactly where these predictions leave us. It's difficult to imagine either the Conservatives or Labour working with UKIP in Medway, meaning the only viable route to a council that can get anything done is a 'grand coalition' of the Conservatives and Labour. If the parties do decide to go down this route, there will certainly be interesting times ahead.
Cuxton and Halling: This is a tough one to call, but a combination of the incumbent Conservative councillor standing down, along with the local popularity of UKIP candidate Paul Monck means that I think he can just about pull it off.
Gillingham South: Labour are throwing the kitchen sink at Gillingham South, as it's a ward they need to even come close to taking control of the council. They almost managed it in 2011, but if the Lib Dems are ruthless enough in their campaigning, Juby's name recognition should be enough to help him hang on, but I definitely wouldn't put any money on it.
Peninsula: Peninsula appears to be very fertile ground for UKIP, with them handily winning the by-election there in November. That said, their most recognisable candidate, Chris Irvine, is attempting to move wards, so they face a slightly tougher battle here, but they should at least be able to defeat the two new Conservative faces.
Princes Park: A curious ward where both sitting councillors are standing down, with both Conservatives and Labour putting forward serious candidates. I'd be inclined to say Labour can take both seats, but the Conservatives are putting forward respected former councillor Tashi Bhutia, a split ward appears to be looming.
Rainham North: The wildcard here is Vaughan Hewett's defection to UKIP. Traditionally a safe Conservative ward, the question is whether his name alone will be able to see him through. I think it will, but it's not entirely out of the question that the ward will turn completely blue again.
Rochester East: The most baffling thing about this ward is the decision for Medway UKIP group leader Chris Irvine to stand here. This ward has been safely held by Labour for some time, so to give up a reasonably safe position in Peninsula to stand here is one hell of a gamble. Still, these things aren't done lightly, so UKIP must be confident that they can win here. If not, the Medway UKIP group could well be thrown into chaos post-election.
Rochester West: The Conservatives, Labour, and the Greens are all putting forward strong candidates here. Under normal conditions, this ward may well have been a strong contender to go red, but Kelly Tolhurst's status as PPC, along with the Green's Clive Gregory taking votes away from Labour, should be enough to see her home here.
Strood Rural: The only ward that I'm predicting to go completely UKIP, almost wholly on the name recognition of sitting councillors Mason and Rodberg. They'll face a tough fight, but they should be able to pull off the clean seat sweep.
Strood South: An interesting one that the Conservatives, Labour, and UKIP are all fighting. The national winds should see Labour pick up a second seat here, and there's a chance UKIP will come through and snag the third. The question though is which candidate will be able to pull it off?
Walderslade: If Labour hadn't spectacularly screwed up their candidate selection here, they might have been able to pull it off. But as they selected two candidates, both of which pulled out, leaving two late selections, they face an uphill battle here.
Watling: I was originally going to predict the Lib Dems winning both seats here as a result of UKIP taking from the Conservative vote. UKIP have decided not to run here though, making the battle tougher for the Lib Dems. Sitting councillor Diana Smith is incredibly popular though, and combined with the name recognition of Gillingham PPC Paul Chaplin, if they are ruthless enough in their campaigning, they should just be able to pull it off.


CALGARY is home to one-sixth of the country's headquarters, 70% of which are energy related and very sensitive to changes in oil prices. In 2015 and 2016, when oil prices where at their lowest, the city's GDP contracted. In 2016, it was 7% lower than in 2014. The economy started to recover in 2017, and Calgary registered the highest growth in Canada that year with a 6.3% increase in GDP. Uncertainty nonetheless remains, especially because pipeline expansions are needed to avoid the bottlenecks that are currently stifling economic growth. The GDP is projected to grow 2.9% in 2018, which is encouraging after the negative growth seen during the recession; however, it is still below the 3.9% average for the ten years prior to 2014.
In 2013, before the drop-in oil prices, Calgary had the highest value per room in the country at $202,241. For 2017, the city was ranked twelfth with a value of $131,094, having lost one-third of its value. The value of a hotel room in Calgary has been increasing since 2017; however, the value is still well below the levels registered historically.
Growth in hotel values is expected to continue over the next few years because of increasing demand and economic recovery. Alberta is also expected to grow the visitor economy to $10 billion by 2020 by targeting countries with great potential, such as the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, China, and Mexico. New air service to these destinations has been established. Calgary will also host the FINA Diving Grand Prix in 2018 and the Grey Cup in 2019. Consequently, lodging demand is expected to grow by 4.5% and 8.0% in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
There are two hotels that have opened: the Alt Hotel and the Holiday Inn & Suites Calgary Airport North. This new supply will be offset by the closure of the 247-room Travelodge Calgary MacLeod Trail. With demand increasing and a slight 0.4% contraction in supply, the RevPAR for 2018 is expected to increase by 7.3%. In 2019, five new properties representing 1,087 additional rooms are expected to enter the market, which will curtail RevPAR growth. The market-wide occupancy is projected to return to the 2018 level by 2020, and the RevPAR is projected to reach almost $100 by 2021, which represents a 7-year high that is nonetheless $15 below the RevPAR record set in 2014.


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Q: Salesforce lightning Fight with DOM and document.write() I am trying to duplicate the action created by the following code in the controller of a lightning component (aura). this is currently the code i have in place.
        let party = 'something';
        let OpenWindow = window.open();
        OpenWindow.document.write(""+
        "<form name='goNow' action='"+actionURL+"' method='post'>"+
        "<input type='hidden' name='client' value='jimbo' />"+
        "<input type='hidden' name='Party' value='"+party+"' />"+
        "<input type='submit' value='Create Party/Link Party'>"+
        "</form> ");

when i execute my button i get the following error:
$controller$submitDetails [Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'write')]

if i remember right lightning cant use the DOM like that. Is there another way to do this? The goal is to submit some values to an external asp security page without adding them to the url.
please let me know if this is not enough information.
Thank you.

A: Just put the form in Aura:
<aura:attribute name="party" type="String" default="Some Value" />
<aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.init}" />
<form aura:id="form"
  action="{!v.actionURL}"
  target="_blank"
  method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="client" value="jimbo" />
  <input type="hidden" name="Party" value="{!v.party}" />
  <input type="submit" value="Create Party/Link Party" />
</form>

And in your controller:
({
   init: function(c,e,h) {
     c.find("form").getElement().submit();
   }
})

Or, you can even just submit a form via fetch, XMLHttpRequest, etc, just make sure to add the API endpoint to the CSP in Setup | CSP Trusted Sites.

A: This is caused by the Lightning Locker Service.
Go here and run your code (after you have defined actionURL).
If you turn on the Locker Service, your code will fail.
If you turn it off, it works.
If you really need this, you can set the API version of your component to 39, which will mean it won't be touched by the locker service:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <AuraDefinitionBundle xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <apiVersion>39.0</apiVersion>
    <description>My Component</description>
</AuraDefinitionBundle>

Or you can turn it off for everything in settings. NOT recommended.

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Everyone Was At Stonewall (2015)
Sandy Rapp
#LGBT #Stonewall #GLBT #GayAnthem
Rock - Folk Rock
Sandy Rapp 1992 & 2015
Everyone Was At Stonewall (2015) is a GLBT history written for Sensitivity Training of the Long Island, NY police and premiered at a Long Island Pride Parade. The song won Stonewall Society's Pride Song of 2004; and Rapp has sung it at hundreds of events around the US, including the Millennium March, and the STONEWALL Veterans' NYC reunions. Updated yearly with the growing list of GLBT civil-rights states (distinct from the equal-marriage states), "2015" is the final edition. During the Stonewall Era, Rapp sang in Manhattan gaybars Chez Pat and Three
EVERYONE WAS AT STONEWALL (2015) © Sandy Rapp 1992 & 2015 Where were you in the June of '69? Did you sing a song of Suzanne or Sweet Caroline? Did you walk on the moon or were both feet on the ground? Were you Woodstock bound? Those were the days when the bars became our homes; 'Cause we had no church or state to call our own. And they raided the bars and the cars were on patrol; And they bugged our phones. But there came a time, a summer's night, When everyone came out to join the fight. Out of twenty million strong, Not a queer soul was at home to hear it told. chorus: To hear it told, Everyone Was At Stonewall; It's widely known, not a soul was home. Every G. & L. has a New York tale to tell, 'Cause Stonewall was everyone. Did you hear the coins go rollin' round the Square? Did you see the crowd with long, beautiful hair? Did you see them throw the building in the air, 'Cause you were there? And was it true, did a cry go through, From the Village on up Second Avenue? Did they hear it at Uncle Charley's and at Three, That they were free? repeat chorus Now the Post Office which in those days screened our mail, With a mind to putting some of us in jail, Has cast a stamp in the image of us all For the old Stonewall. And though the Congress continued to queer our goose, The Pentagon was less out on the loose; The Supreme Court ruled for equal marriage too, and by 2014 As the list of gay civil right states grew: Connecticut, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Vermont, California, New Jersey, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Nevada and Rhode Island, Washington, New York, Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, Iowa and Maine too did come through With Delaware, Oregon, Colorado, Utah & DC too. And it won't be long, it won't be long, 'Til a President will sing the Stonewall song And we'll be heading up the White House throng, Where we belong. repeat chorus twice with final last line: Stonewall was Stonewall.


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CCU Calls on the Government of South Korea to Respect Trade Union Rights
In recent weeks, the hardline, conservative government of President Park Guen-hye in South Korea has been openly attacking union rights through regressive labour legislation, violence, the arrest of trade unionists, and the criminalization of legitimist democratic protest.
On November 14, police used water cannons and tear gas as tens of thousands rallied against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and new labour legislation that makes it easier to cut wages, dismiss workers, and create precarious work through the use of temporary employment agencies.
The government is also trying to arrest union leader Han Sung-goon of the labour central KCTU (South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions), and has raided union offices and arrested workers. Recent comments made by President Park Guen-hye comparing protesters to terrorists and claiming that protests are a security risk have come under fire from activists, workers, academics and the media.
The Confederation of Canadian Unions calls on the government of South Korea to respect the rights of freedom and association and freedom of assembly, and to refrain using violence against demonstrators, the arrest of trade unionists, and the criminalization of political dissent as tools to forward its right-wing trade and labour polices under the guise of national security.
We pledge our solidarity with the South Korean trade union movement and with all workers in South Korea. An injury to one is an injury to all.
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The purpose of this research is to study methods and algorithms of video mosaicing for a vision system that will be able to inspect the undersides of vehicles. The system will create entire images of the vehicle undersides for both visual inspection and automatic comparison with previous images stored in a database. Since cameras are very close to the underside of a vehicle under inspection, each camera only covers a small portion of the underside. Thus a composite picture covering the entire under-vehicle will be created by mosaicing the images from a 2D "array of cameras". Our approach for solving this problem is to use a line of cameras as a scanner. The system will continuously take images as the vehicle drives over, then mosaic all of those images into a single image used for inspection. The dense coverage of the vehicle bottom by camera images as the vehicle drives over allows for relatively easy mosaicing of the vehicle underside image. As a result of camera view overlap, we can also create multiple mosaics with pseudo-parallel projection representations that preserve the occlusion information from different viewing angles in favor of vehicle inspection. The algorithm design effort will focus on adapting the geo-registered mosaic methodology developed for the UMass environmental monitoring program to the problem of generating mosaics from a "virtual" bed of 2D camera array for under vehicle inspection. Challenging technical issues include (1) calibration of the 1D camera array; (2) estimation of the motion of the vehicle while creating the mosaics and (3) seamless mosaicing with 2D "array of cameras" with different viewpoints.


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The white house declined to comment on the new charges.
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Reported about a bomb on the plane "Aeroflot" in Geneva said that was joking
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In one of the districts of Dagestan introduced CTO regime
In one of the districts of the Republic of Dagestan introduced the counter-terrorism operation (CTO), security forces searching for members
In the course of a special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria killed several militants
NALCHIK, October 13 – RIA Novosti. Law enforcement officers eliminated several militants during a special operation in the Chegem district
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Physicists from Russia created the "diamond" network of the cells of a quantum computer
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We are to teach our children what God's word says. Deuteronomy 6: 4-9. Paul taught the Colossians in 3:18 what a family is.


The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and their own star-crossed lovers who were dismissed for fraternising in the workplace have finally settled their longstanding dispute.
The two parties were back in court on Wednesday at the instigation of the BDF who had appealed the judgement that forced the reinstatement of the pair and the contempt of court judgement decided to settle the matter once and for all.
BDF's own Romeo and Juliet, Thabang Tlhapisang and her lover Kozondu Cisquo Uariua, have never been at peace and have been at loggerheads with their boss and BDF Commander following their dismissal for allegedly contravening the military's Policy on Fraternisation and Sexual Harassment.
Now the dispute has finally been put to rest before the Court of Appeal (CoA) as lawyers for both parties told the bench that they have decided to settle the matter for the sake of peace and progress.
State attorney, Tshepo Kgaswanyane said they have reached an agreement with the parties not to pursue the matter any further as the couple's lawyer also agreed to abandon the contempt of court judgement that was issued against the Commander in 2016.
"The parties have settled and each will pay their own costs," he said.
The matter boiled from 2016 when Justice Zein Kebonang ruled in favour of the lovers for them to be reinstated into their position following their dismissal.
Kebonang had ordered the immediate reinstatement of the lovers who were dismissed for allegedly contravening the military's policy two years ago.
for failing to reinstate the couple following the judgement of reinstatement.
Now the abandoned appeal at the CoA came after the drama when the Commander said he was never accorded a chance when he was served with contempt. His contention was that he wanted the judgement stayed as he was still going to lodge an appeal.
On his grounds of appeal, as he wanted to fight his contempt, he said the judge failed to give him a hearing without any justifiable cause.
He explained that the application for contempt was served to him on the same day he was threatened with imprisonment and that the Attorney General was also accordingly not given notice of the application for contempt.
The matter was settled and the dispute put to rest as the lovers' attorney Othusitse Mbeha also did not file any opposing paper to the BDF's appeal.
Mmegi interviewed Mbeha on the sidelines, who said they decided not to oppose the appeal and agreed to settle since there was no harm done.
"This is the final time we are appearing in court. The matter has been completely put to rest. The parties agreed to end this for the sake of progress.
The contempt of court judgement is abandoned because the Commander acted accordingly after it was issued. So no harm was done. That is why there is no need to fight," he said.


The latest news, information and blog posts about the Ernest Cole Award can be found here.
The Other Camera is an exhibition of 67 photographs curated over six years by veteran photographer Paul Weinberg in his current manifestation as archivist for the University of Cape Town libraries.
We are excited to announce that 2013 winner of the Ernest Cole Award is Graeme Williams, whose submission is titled 'in da city'.
The study explores Johannesburg's inner city which has served as a first stop for many new arrivals since its formation as a mining town many years ago, yet is a city that has always been vibrant and is in a constant state of flux.
Last week we held workshops in Cape Town and Johannesburg to support people that are looking at making a submission for this year's award. These were run in collaboration with the Cape Town School of Photography and the Market Photo Workshop. Some key points were made by the presenters around creating an enticing visual story or narrative.
We are excited to announce that David Lurie will join Paul Weinberg and Samantha Reinders as presenters for the Cape Town Workshop.


When optimizing applications using a GPU it is useful to have at least a high level mental model for how the underlying hardware works, as well as an idea of its expected performance and data rate for different types of operation it might perform. Understanding the block architecture is particularly important when optimizing using the Mali performance counters, as understanding what the counters are telling you implies a need to understand the blocks the counters are tied to.
This article presents a stereotypical Mali "Midgard" GPU programmable core – the second generation of Mali GPUs and the first to support OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL – including the Mali-T600, Mali-T700, and Mali-T800 series products.
This article assumes you have read the earlier introductory article on tile-based rendering, as it will build on concepts introduced there.
The "Midgard" family of Mali GPUs (the Mali-T600, Mali-T700, and Mali-T800 series) use a unified shader core architecture, meaning that only a single type of hardware shader processor exists in the design. This single processor type can execute all types of shader code, including vertex shaders, fragment shaders, compute kernels, etc.
The exact number of shader cores present in a particular silicon chip varies; Arm licenses configurable designs to our silicon partners, who can then choose how to configure the GPU in their specific chipset based on their performance needs and silicon area constraints. The Mali-T880 GPU design, the latest of the Midgard GPU products, can scale from a single core for low-end devices all the way up to 16 cores for the highest performance designs.
The shader cores in the system share a level 2 cache to improve performance, and to reduce memory bandwidth caused by repeated data fetches. The size of the L2 is another configurable component which can be tuned by our silicon partners, but is typically in the range of 32-64KB per shader core in the GPU depending on how much silicon area is available.
The number and bus width of the memory ports the L2 cache has to external memory is configurable, again allowing our partners to tune the implementation to meet their performance, power, and area needs. The architecture aims to be able to write one 32-bit pixel per core per clock, so it would be reasonable to expect an 8-core design to have a total of 256-bits of memory bandwidth (for both read and write) per clock cycle, although whether this much bandwidth is available to the GPU will depend on the chipset integration.
The Mali drivers submit workloads for each render pass as a pair of independently schedulable pieces once the application has completed defining the render pass. One piece is for all geometry and compute related workloads in the pass, and one is for the fragment workload. As a tile-based renderer all geometry processing for a render pass must be complete before the fragment shading can start, as we need a finalized "tile list" to provide fragment processing the primitive coverage information it needs.
The hardware supports two parallel issue queues which the driver can use, one for each workload type. Workloads from both queues can be processed by the GPU at the same time, so geometry processing and fragment processing for different render passes can be running in parallel.
The workload for a single render pass is nearly always large and highly parallelizable, so the GPU hardware will break it into smaller pieces and distribute it across all of the shader cores available in the GPU.
The Midgard shader core is structured as a number of fixed-function hardware blocks wrapped around a programmable "Tripipe" execution core. The fixed function units perform the setup for a shader operation – such as rasterizing triangles or performing depth testing – or handling the post-shader activities – such as blending, or writing back a whole tile's worth of data at the end of rendering.
Unlike a traditional CPU architecture, where you will typically only have a single thread of execution at a time running on a single core, the programmable core is a massively multi-threaded processing engine capable of running hundreds of threads concurrently. Each running thread corresponds to a single shader program instance.
This large number of threads exists to hide the costs of cache misses and memory fetch latency; some threads can be stalled and blocked on data fetch, but as long as some of the threads are ready to run each cycle we do not lose significant levels of performance due to cache misses.
Load/store pipeline (LS-pipe) for general purpose memory access, varying interpolation, and read/write image access.
Texture pipe (T-pipe) for read-only texture access and texture filtering.
All Midgard shader cores have one load/store pipe and one texture pipe, but the number of arithmetic pipelines can vary depending on which GPU you are using.
The A-pipe is a SIMD (single instruction multiple data) vector processing engine, with arithmetic units which operate on 128-bit quad-word registers. The registers can be flexibly accessed as a number of different data types; for example as 4xFP32/I32, 8xFP16/I16, or 16xI8. It is therefore possible for a single arithmetic vector operation to process 8 "mediump" values in a single cycle.
While I can't disclose the internal architecture of the A-pipe, our public performance data for each GPU can be used to give some idea of the number of maths units available. For example, the Mali-T760 with 16 cores is rated at 326 FP32 GFLOPS at 600MHz. This gives a total of 34 FP32 FLOPS per clock cycle per shader core; and as it has two pipelines that's 17 FP32 FLOPS per pipeline. The available performance in terms of operations will increase for smaller data types and decrease for larger ones.
The T-pipe is responsible for all memory access to do with textures. It can return one bilinear filtered texel per clock for most texture formats, but performance can vary for some texture formats and filtering modes.
Using this table we can see that trilinear filtering a 3D texture would require 4 cycles (x2 for using trilinear filtering, and x2 again for being a 3D format).
Note that imported YUV surfaces from camera and video sources can be read directly without needing prior conversion to RGB at a cost of one cycle per plane. Importing semi-planar Y + UV is preferred to importing fully planar Y + U + V sources, if at all possible.
The texture pipeline has a 16KB L1 data cache.
The LS-pipe is responsible for all shader memory accesses which are not related to texture samplers. This includes generic pointer-based memory access, buffer access, varying interpolation, atomics, and imageLoad() and imageStore() accesses for mutable image data.
In general every instruction is a single cycle memory access operation, although like the arithmetic pipeline the hardware supports wide vector operations and so can load an entire "highp" vec4 varying in a single cycle.
The load/store pipeline has a 16KB L1 data cache.
In the OpenGL ES specification "fragment operations" – which include depth (Z) and stencil (S) testing – happen at the end of the pipeline, after fragment shading has completed. This makes the specification very simple to understand, but implies that you have shading something first, only to throw it away if it turns out to be killed by ZS testing.
Coloring fragments just to discard them would cost a huge amount of performance and wasted energy, so where possible we will do "early ZS" testing (i.e. before fragment shading), only falling back to "late ZS" testing (i.e. after fragment shading) where it is unavoidable (e.g. a dependency on fragment which may call "discard" and as such has indeterminate depth state until it exits the Tripipe).
In addition to the traditional ZS culling schemes, Midgard GPUs also add a hidden surface removal capability – called Forward Pixel Kill – which can stop fragments which have already been rasterized and passed ZS testing from turning into real rendering work if the Mali stack can determine that they are occluded and do not contribute to the output scene in a useful way.
That's 2314 complete 1080p layers per second!
That's 38 bilinear filtered texture samples per pixel for 1080p @ 60 FPS!
That's 1311 FLOPS per pixel for 1080p @ 60 FPS!
256-bits of memory access per clock = 19.2GB/s read and write bandwidth1.
That's 154 bytes per pixel for 1080p @ 60 FPS!
The performance of a Mali GPU in any specific chipset is very dependent on configuration choices made by the silicon implementation and the final device form factor the chipset is used in.
Some characteristics will be visible in terms of GPU logical configuration the silicon partner has built, including the the number of shader cores and size of the GPU L2 cache.
Some characteristics will depend on the memory system logical configuration, such as the memory latency, bandwidth, DDR memory type, and how memory is shared between multiple users.
Some characteristics will depend on analogue silicon implementation choices, such as which silicon process was used, the target top frequency, the DVFS voltage and frequency choices available at run time.
Finally, some characteristics will depend on physical device form factor, as this determines the available power budget. An identical chipset can therefore have very different peak performance in different form factor devices.
... combining all of these together means that it can be hard to predict the performance of a particular GPU implementation based solely on the GPU product name, core count, and top frequency. If in doubt write some test scenarios which behave like your real use cases and run them to see how well they work out on your target device(s).


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Daily fraud update: 26th May
Author: Chris Lee
Published: 26th May, 2020.
Craig Wright labelled a fraud – again
A man who claims to be the anonymous founder of Bitcoin has found himself in hot water over the claims once again.
Craig Wright's many claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto have been criticised over the years.
However, the most recent twist in the tale has left many crypto traders accusing him of being a "fraud".
Wright is currently embroiled in a court case with the brother of his now-deceased business partner.
Last week, plaintiffs in this case made a list of bitcoin addresses that Wright supposedly operates public – though this was later described as an accident.
However, it gave those who wish to call Wright a fraud an opportunity to do so.
Almost 150 of the addresses were then used to sign off on a message stating that Wright was a fraud – indicating that Wright's claims to possess and operate the addresses were untrue.
It remains unclear who the definite author of the message was, though it appeared to make a number of specific claims.
"Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message," it read.
"The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity.
"Unfortunately, the solution is not to just change a constant in the code or to allow powerful participants to force out others."
It added: "We are all Satoshi."
The plaintiffs later took the list back under wraps, though it could still be accessed on some websites afterwards.
Wright, who is Australian, is stuck in a court case with Ira Kleiman, who is the brother of Wright's ex-business partner David Kleiman.
Ira Kleiman is claiming a sum of around half of the bitcoin that his brother and Wright apparently mined when the currency first came into existence.
He also wants intellectual property rights.
However, the next step is for Wright to demonstrate that he possesses the key to the assets.
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Q: Given a point $x$ inside the triangle $ΔABC$, prove that $XA+XB < CA + CB$
Given a point $x$ inside the triangle $ΔABC$, prove that $XA+XB < CA +
 CB$

I have used triangle inequality in every way possible, nonetheless, I haven't come up with a proof, since I always get inequalities like
$CA + BA + XA + XB > 2AB$
or
$ XA+XB+2XC > AC+BC $
I have a feeling that this is one of those theorems of euclidean geometry in which there is a key-difficult-to-see step, and after finding it out, the rest comes easy. However, I haven't been able to crack it.
Could you help me with this one?
Thanks in advance.

A: Extend $AX$ to meet $BC$ at $M$. Applying triangle inequality in $\Delta CAM$ and $\Delta BXM$, we get,
$$CA+CM>AX+XM$$
$$BM+XM>BX$$
Add the inequations, and get the result.
Hope it helps:)


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National Conservatism and the 'True Europe'
Although misunderstood and misrepresented in many quarters, the recent 'God, Honor, Country" conference in Rome was, in the words of one speaker, "a call—to rebuild this roof that protects us and this spire that connects us to Heaven."
February 16, 2020 Alvino-Mario Fantini Features, Opinion 5 Print
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There are a lot of fancy terms being used to describe today's changing political landscape. There's Eatwell and Goodwin's 'national populism,' Dueck's 'conservative nationalism,' and the 'populist nationalism' of Steve Bannon. And then there's 'national conservatism', the banner under which last week's conference in Rome took place (reported on here by Titus Techera).
To some degree, they're all talking about the same thing: socio-political developments that people are scrambling to understand. Some of it has to do with an ongoing re-conceptualization of 'conservatism.' The best examples of this have appeared in the pages of The American Mind, Claremont Review of Books, and American Affairs. But it's also related to what Nassim Taleb has called a "global riot against pseudo-experts." This ferment has already produced Brexit, Trump, and Bolsonaro.
Regardless of the term used, at the heart of recent developments is renewed appreciation for the nation-state and national sovereignty—and growing suspicion of the managerial elites in Washington, London, and Brussels.
The Rome conference—"God, Honor, Country: President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and the Freedom of Nations"—was a sort of follow-up to the 'national conservatism' conference last July in Washington. That event, widely reported on, boasted an exceptionally diverse list of conservative speakers. Similarly, the program in Rome demonstrates that the organizers—Edmund Burke Foundation, Bow Group, Center for European Renewal, Danube Institute, Herzl Institute, Nazione Futura, and the International Reagan Thatcher Society—thought carefully about diversity of thought.
Intellectual and political diversity is critical, for there are no universal political solutions to our challenges. As Stephen Bartulica, president of the Center for the Renewal of Culture in Croatia and professor at the Catholic University in Zagreb, noted, "it's not possible to propose one policy which resolves each country's problems." (Therein lies the EU's arrogant, fatal flaw.) This was echoed in a keynote speech by French politician Marion Maréchal who said: "conservatism is not a fixed doctrine." It's "a disposition of mind."
The promise of 'national conservatism' (or 'conservative nationalism') thus lies not in a particular policy outlook but in a vision of freedom and even dignity. In order to nourish such things, however, nations must safeguard their values, traditions, and sovereignty. This has increasingly meant pushing back against the 'European project' and motivating people, regardless of citizenship or national origin, to embrace a more disruptive conservatism—one that is willing to take the battle straight to the opposition's camp.
This unabashedly defiant attitude is a consequence of several factors: First, acknowledgment that conservatives have lost all major policy battles in the past five decades. Second, recognition that despite the occasional electoral triumphs of European center-right parties and Republican presidents in the U.S., things have only gotten worse. Third, realization that corruption, greed, and hedonism are pervasive across international political and private sector elites.
Additionally, a tipping point was reached when 'political correctness' and 'woke' ideology, both bastard children of the counterculture, became ensconced in the upper echelons of power. (Christopher Caldwell's latest book, The Age of Entitlement, speaks to some of this.) Giorgia Meloni, president of Fratelli d'Italia, pointed to this on the eve of the conference. Although we are 'free', she said, it is only "within a predetermined enclosure." If you try to climb over it, "you are censured by the new Menlo Park high priests of the only school of thought allowed."
This was taken up again the next morning by Rod Dreher who warned of "the totalitarian nature of contemporary liberalism." Increasingly facilitated by modern technology, its latest sinister 'form'—as a kind of 'police state'—was famously described, he said, by James Poulos, executive editor of The American Mind. "Like communism," notes Bartulica, "it does not tolerate dissent."
Anyone who's ever been suspended by Facebook or Twitter administrators for violating 'community standards' knows exactly what Meloni and Dreher were saying. Garbed in the whorish garments of the 'woke' and 'intersectional', such blatant censorship is seen as above reproach. Thankfully, organizers of the conference in Rome labored under different norms, embracing diversity of thought and the free exchange of ideas. Common themes still emerged, some of which are listed below.
First, the concept of identity is worth exploring and defending. Identity has long been considered a stalking horse for extremists of the left and right. But in its more complex and nuanced forms, it has become an essential component of today's struggle over sovereignty. "[T]he protection of identity is central," says Francesco Giubilei, president of Nazione Futura and a co-sponsor of the conference. And many in the West believe that identity should be "placed at the center of political and cultural action."
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán echoed this sentiment during his on-stage conversation with Christopher DeMuth of the Hudson Institute. "National identity is a precondition of national conservatism," Orbán said. And it has informed recent legal reforms and guided the renewal of the Hungarian nation (witness their Easter Constitution).
After years of being 'politically incorrect,' identity is now "at the center of political disputes," Orbán said. The migration crisis brought the entire issue to the fore, he said. "What does it mean to be French? What does it mean to be German? … Italian … Central European or Hungarian? These [questions] are legitimate again."
Second, the natural law tradition should form the basis of political life. Dedicated in part to Pope John Paul II, the Rome conference was a reminder that our laws—that is, the norms that regulate our private and public lives—have to be based on something that transcends mere power politics. "We thus should rediscover the philosophy of natural law," says Bartulica. He recalls Pope Benedict XVI's 2011 speech in the German Bundestag, which also highlighted the central importance of classical legal philosophy.
And yet this is another area where the opposition has triumphed. "Even though communism collapsed," Bartulica notes, "legal positivism remains the dominant view … in the legal thinking at most law schools in Europe and the U.S." Awareness of this is spreading. To her credit, Maréchal—who is also director-general of the Institute of Social, Economic, and Political Sciences (ISSEP) in Lyon—spoke of the importance of returning to natural law in Europe. "We refuse the relativism by which each individual would be the creator of his own values," she said. "We believe in natural law … We think the individual will cannot be the only compass of society."
Third, religion is essential for any political and social system. Any new conservative politics must necessarily embrace religion, explains Giubilei. To call oneself a 'conservative' and yet not recognize Europe's Christian roots leads to "a partial vision of conservatism." Similarly, Meloni had said, "a national conservative cannot be content with claiming to be a democrat—because democracy without values becomes demagoguery."
What are those values? They're the three sub-themes of the conference, Meloni said: God, freedom, and nation—or, "in the Italian formula to which I am very attached, God, homeland, and family." Protection of such values is, she said, "the noblest purpose of all political action."
It's refreshing to hear such words. In the U.S., the cudgels in defense of religion in politics—of integralism—have been taken up by Adrian Vermeule at Harvard Law School and Gladden Pappin at the University of Dallas. In Europe, the mantle has fallen to Pater Edmund Waldstein of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria (and writer and editor of the well-regarded blogs Sancrucensis and The Josias).
But there is disagreement among integralists over nationalism. Some, Waldstein says, believe in the imperial ideal of "a universal Christendom." Others, like scholars Alan Fimister and Thomas Crean O.P. have shown "a lot of sympathy for nationalism." Waldstein cites their forthcoming book (from Editiones Scholasticae) which argues for the ideal of "Christendom as a multitude of independent states, without a universal temporal ruler." Waldstein's more pragmatic view is that "integralists and nationalists can cooperate in the short-term since … secular globalism/imperialism is even worse than nationalism."
Still, some consider Christian doctrine incompatible with any kind of nationalism. This is a misapprehension. Asked about the relationship between Catholicism and nationalism, Austin Ruse, president of C-Fam, a UN-accredited research institute, and author of the forthcoming The Catholic Case for Trump, told me in an email that he disagrees with "the Catholic naysayers of nationalism." Many see nothing wrong with power being taken away from people—and given to what Meloni called "supranational entities headed by supposedly enlightened elites." "This is globalism," says Ruse.
Fourth, there is an emerging global class war. That same globalism usurps power from people and local communities—and thus is the source of the biggest challenge facing the West: the growing desperation of the world's working and middle classes. In Rome, I heard of stories of desperation from across Europe. And Maréchal spoke poignantly of the plight of French farmers, many laboring under the yoke of an economic and financial "system that drives [them] to suicide—one every two days."
None of this should be surprising. Charles Murray has been writing for decades about the cognitive elites and an emergent American underclass and overclass, warning of their growing divide. It's happening elsewhere, too. Michael Lind recently published a book about this "new class war." And the plight of the French underclass was explained with great empathy in a 2016 book by Christophe Guilluy.
Charity helps one understand their situation. The 'nothing-to-lose' attitude of France's gilet jaunes (yellow vests) protestors thus appears almost excusable. As Maréchal said, "the yellow vests … are the French version of Brexiteers." Her comment reminded me of French writer Édouard Louis' moving 2018 non-fiction work, Who Killed My Father, a methodical exposition of how the French class system pushes people to the margins—where they die.
Perhaps Maréchal's right. Perhaps repudiating supranational entities, re-asserting national interests, and safeguarding the dignity of all citizens is the only way to respond to such despair. Perhaps what is needed is the deconstruction of the administrative state—in France and across Europe.
One final remark about the conference: its religious character, though not advertised or programmed, was palpable. Although a handful of prominent conservative agnostics and atheists were present, kippahs and the occasional rosary were visible. Christianity, however, "came almost only in the form of Roman Catholicism," says Wolfgang Fenske, director of the Library of Conservatism in Berlin. And when Protestantism was mentioned, he said, "it was Calvinism through Max Weber's glasses."
I was thus quite pleased to speak with Misa Djurkovic, head of the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade: "For someone coming from the Orthodox Church, conservative nationalism is a natural position," he said. "Eastern European countries are very interested in [national conservatism] because of their experiences under communism," he explained, "and their perception that the EU's globalist values increasingly resemble communism." This is in stark contrast to the position of Christian progressives, who have been quick to oppose populist nationalism.
Christian conservatives should embrace these new political actors. We need "new movements … new forces," Orbán said. It's the only way to resist the 'new totalitarianism' which wants, says Djurkovic, to "transform people [into mere] biomass"—that is, "individuals deprived of any identity, [whose only sense of] belonging or loyalty is to corporations and their brands."
Marion Maréchal had also inveighed against this "anthropological revolution." The human body has been reduced to an object of consumption, she said. "Bellies are for rent, gametes can be bought or sold, embryos are guinea pigs." A dark, dystopian vision, indeed. But in her conclusion, she availed herself of the image of the now-damaged Notre-Dames de Paris. The Rome conference, she said, was "a call—to rebuild this roof that protects us and this spire that connects us to Heaven."
It's a shame such lyrical moments weren't picked up by the mainstream media. But few in the audience missed her meaning: that roof is European civilization comprised of sovereign nations and national identities. And someday, "once the EU has been overcome"—once that roof has been rebuilt—"a [different] understanding of Europe will emerge," Fenske says, "as outlined in 'The Paris Statement'—that of a 'true Europe' that respects the needs of nations, while reflecting its ancient and biblical roots."
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[Waldstein's more pragmatic view is that "integralists and nationalists can cooperate in the short-term since … secular globalism/imperialism is even worse than nationalism."]
This is laughable. How many divisions do the integralists have?
William G C R
The only real 'division' among integralists — that of which Waldstein talks about — is between the integralists who believe in a more global, imperial vision and those who believe in independent states (but all held together by a similar concept or vision of Christendom). There does not seem to be any division or disagreement, however, on the need to have public policy, legislation, and governance strategies that are inspired and guided by the Catholic faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_%28military%29
The comment was made with reference to the quote attributed to Stalin. The pope no longer has an army but how many integralists in fighting shape are there in the US?
"This was echoed in a keynote speech by French politician Marion Maréchal who said: "conservatism is not a fixed doctrine." It's "a disposition of mind."
"'We believe in natural law … We think the individual will cannot be the only compass of society.'"
How does one reconcile the two above statements? If the natural law limits the God-given authority of the state then their must be certain lines that conservatism won't cross (Do they recognize this?). Either conservatism embraces one vision of society or another. Of course, the fact that there are positive human laws in addition to the natural law means that politics can't be considered "a fixed doctrine." However, this is the nature of politics, and is not uniquely conservative. Changing times and conditions call for changing laws which, however, must not contradict the natural law.
When I hear such ideas as the changing nature of conservatism, I am reminded of a relevant quote :
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution."
G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 19 April 1924.
If one has a commitment to truth over ideological purity, it must be admitted that conservatism doesn't have the tools to break free of the mess we have gotten into. Only Catholic principles -properly applied- can do that.
For instance, what if the idea of divorce was repudiated (as it should be)? Women wouldn't have to be concerned about being abandoned by their husbands. Where are there conservatives advocating for such a policy? The conservative Ronald Reagan introduced the United States to no-fault "divorce."
"First, acknowledgment that conservatives have lost all major policy battles in the past five decades. Second, recognition that despite the occasional electoral triumphs of European center-right parties and Republican presidents in the U.S., things have only gotten worse. Third, realization that corruption, greed, and hedonism are pervasive across international political and private sector elites."
First, how can one know that one has lost policy battles when one has no idea what it means to win? One could look at declining belief in God, and the horrendous state of the family, and rampant sexual immorality, but I highly doubt that conservatives have advocated for anything that would solve the problem. Ideas such as criminalizing fornication (adultery, at least, hasn't been a crime since around the 1100s in England), outlawing immodest dress, censoring the media, etc. have probably never been even considered. How about suggesting that the state and Catholic Church not be separated, but cooperate?
More importantly where is the natural law concerning such matters being taught?
The traditional teacher of morality is the Catholic Church. How could this be the case when immodest dress is permitted at Mass? Where are the homilies mentioning that sexual immorality is by nature a mortal sin which unrepented results in going to hell?
Second, how does one know that things are worse? Where is the measure? The above suggested metrics?
Third, as for corruption and greed, where are the prosecutors initiating criminal charges against these criminals? Are they too busy locking up poor people for years for possessing and using marijuana? Are they corrupt as well? How about requiring that only faithful traditional Catholics be permitted to exercise political office?
"Perhaps what is needed is the deconstruction of the administrative state—in France and across Europe."
The idea that the government can and ought to provide everything is a bad one. One needs to consider the Catholic principle of subsidiary. How about this idea: have government regulate wages (instead of having high taxes), so that the minimum wage is tied to a person's number of dependents, the cost of living, and the consequent needs?
I hear people "talking the talk," but not "walking the walk." It's all a bunch of empty, posturing, rhetoric.
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Worldwide software market grew 4.8% in 2013
by Ben Rossi 1 April 2014
Worldwide software revenue totalled $407.3 billion in 2013, a 4.8% increase from 2012 revenue of $388.5 billion, according to Gartner.
The developed geographies were the primary growth drivers offsetting the relative sluggishness in emerging markets.
The software industry is in the middle of a multiyear cyclical transition as organisations are focusing investment on technologies to support existing system structure, in order to maintain competitiveness, while still taking advantage of cloud/subscription-based pricing where it makes sense to grow and advance the business.
"There is a shift in vendor rankings from 2013 at the top of the worldwide software market," said Chad Eschinger, research vice president at Gartner. "This is the first time in Gartner's global software market share research that Oracle has ranked second in terms of total software revenue with $29.6 billion and capturing 7.3% of the global market.
"Global trends around big data and analytics with business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth."
Salesforce.com, with more than $3.8 billion in revenue during 2013, climbed two positions to capture the number ten slot of the worldwide enterprise software market, and it achieved the highest growth among the top ten vendors at 33.3%. Salesforce.com has also moved into the top five for overall application revenue.
>See also: Gartner predicts device shipments to hit $2.5BN in 2014
"Investors continue to focus on revenue growth and market share gains as the primary criteria when evaluating vendors," said John Rizzuto, research vice president and Invest analyst at Gartner.
"At this point, the new and emerging technology markets in software, such as digital marketing and public cloud computing, are so nascent that investors are favouring those companies that are early and aggressive in grabbing both market and mind share — in many cases dismissing progress on earnings and cash flow in hopes that they will one day follow."
Top 10 software vendors, worldwide, 2012-2013 (billions of dollars)
2013 Revenue
2012-2013 Growth Rate (%)
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TCL took to this year's China Mobile Global Partner Conference to showcase several of its device prototypes, including an Android smartphone that's widely believed to be the next Alcatel 5, with even its tentative name being listed by the manufacturer as the TCL A5. The handset that can be seen in the gallery below also appears to be identical to a number of renders that leaked earlier this month and identified it as the Alcatel 5, with TCL apparently opting to equip its upcoming offering with asymmetrical bezels. Whereas the top bezel of the handset is fairly large and looks like something you'd see on a traditional 16:9 device, the bottom one is nearly non-existent.
The large forehead of the Alcatel 5 appears to be housing a dual-camera setup that's said to consist of two 16-megapixel sensors, with the handset seemingly featuring an aluminum body. TCL revealed that the prototype showcased in China features a 5.7-inch screen with an aspect ratio of 18:9 (2:1), thus following the recent trend of mobile display panels adopting tall image formats and being surrounded with minimal bezels in order to offer a phablet experience with a smaller physical footprint. The bottom bezel of the device is only around 5mm thick, according to TCL. The phone's front-facing camera setup is accompanied by a conventional LED flash, with the rear side of the Alcatel 5 having only a single imaging sensor and another flash unit situated above a circular fingerprint reader. The showcased prototype was running a reskinned version of Android 7.0 Nougat and it's unlikely that the handset will be released with a newer build of Google's ubiquitous operating system.
The upcoming device is said to be powered by the octa-core MediaTek MT6750T SoC, one that's comparable to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 652 and was already commercialized inside smartphones like the ZTE Blade A2 Plus, OPPO A77, and TCL's own Alcatel A7 which launched in September. In overall, the Alcatel 5 appears to be a mid-range offering with a specific focus on selfies that will presumably launch in China before making its way to a number of other markets around the world. No firm availability windows have yet been provided by the original equipment manufacturer, with industry insiders previously suggesting the new Alcatel-branded devices won't be officially announced before early 2018 as they're only set to go on sale next spring. The Alcatel A5 is expected to sport a sub-$300 price tag and should eventually become available for purchase in both India and Europe.


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Q: 'onEventDeleted' trigger when click on cancel button on the event editor Im using DHTMLX scheduler and I'm trying to delete an event when click on the delete button in the popup event editor, below is my code reference.
scheduler.attachEvent("onEventDeleted", function(id,ev){
    $.ajax({
         url : "calendar.php",
         type: 'post',
         data: { event_id : id},
         success: function(e){
             if($.trim(e) === "success"){
                 alert("Event was successfully deleted");
             }
         }
  });
});

the above code works (The event was deleted successfully) but the problem is, the 'onEventDeleted' did also trigger when i click the cancel button from the popup editor. Any ideas, help, suggestions, recommendations, help please?

A: It happens only if you press cancel while creating a new event. In this case triggering onEventDeleted is expected since it removes a newly created event from a calendar.
In order not to send that update to the backend you can use this method
http://docs.dhtmlx.com/scheduler/api__scheduler_getstate.html
So if you update code like following everything should be good:
scheduler.attachEvent("onEventDeleted", function(id,ev){
    if(scheduler.getState().new_event)
      return;

    $.ajax({
         url : "calendar.php",
         type: 'post',
         data: { event_id : id},
         success: function(e){
             if($.trim(e) === "success"){
                 alert("Event was successfully deleted");
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A narrow GOP majority is forcing moderates to find their voice
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) will never forget his first meeting with House GOP leaders shortly after winning his seat in 2016, a year when voters handed Republicans the White House and continued control of Congress.
He recalls bluntly telling Republican leaders, including then-Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), that having all levers of power in Washington came with immense responsibility that hinged on a specific decision.
"You can take the high road and do what we don't need to be doing right now, but what we should be doing, which is reaching across the aisle and building two party solutions — or we can continue down the erroneous path of single-party solutions," Fitzpatrick recalled. "At some point, somebody's got to change that trend."
His warning was not heeded, and as he predicted, the problem grew "exponentially worse."
As House Republicans prepare for the majority once again, more moderate members of the conference are banding together to prevent another ideological clash with their staunchly conservative colleagues. They say the party's lackluster performance in this year's midterm elections proves voters are rejecting the extremes in exchange for individuals who prioritize governing.
The GOP's razor-thin majority — which will stand at four or five seats once all races are called — has given the more moderate members of the conference a mandate to find a voice equally as powerful as, if not more influential than, the most conservative allies of former president Donald Trump in their ranks, who many consider grandstanders over legislators.
"I think we have to flex our muscles a little bit more and say, 'We're going to govern America,'" said Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.), a Republican in a swing district who won another term in November. "There's a small number that want their way or the high way. Well, that's how we fail. We can't let 2 percent or 3 percent drive the whole Congress."
By the numbers, more moderate and governance-minded Republicans outrank the roughly 30 members of the House Freedom Caucus and far-right flank, which includes members who are staunch Trump allies who reject establishment leadership and how they govern the House. The GOP Governance Group and Main Street Caucus are each made up of about 50 of the same Republicans who represent swing districts, are willing to work across the aisle and want to ensure the party governs.
But the extremes within the Republican ranks have expanded since the party last had the House majority, a reality that has empowered a handful of Freedom Caucus members to demand concessions in exchange for their support. They have been aggressively lobbying Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is working to appease the group so that he can clinch the 218 votes needed to officially be elected speaker Jan. 3.
While the differences that exist within the GOP conference "pale in comparison to the differences" between Republicans and Democrats, according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), several Freedom Caucus members do not want to see any colleague reach across the aisle and have previously condemned those who have done so as "Republicans in name only," or RINOs.
But in what he considers a positive sign, Fitzpatrick has already experienced something different from the previous Republican majority in 2016.
"I have probably had more conversations with my colleagues in the Freedom Caucus in the past two weeks that I have in the past five years. To their credit, they've been coming up to me on the floor, wanting to work together and I'm very encouraged by that because they understand the tight margins," he said.
A majority of the Republican conference interviewed over the past year has remained united on the need and desire to govern. Several who served in the last majority remembering that a small group of staunchly conservative Freedom Caucus members formed a blockade against GOP priorities that made it impossible to pass legislation they had promised voters they would deliver.
GOP leaders this year tried to unite the fractious conference before the election by releasing a statement of principles they dubbed the "Commitment to America," to get buy-in from all corners on policy objectives. The governance-focused members hope their colleagues remember they share common goals even though the negotiating process may get tricky — a similar dynamic that played out with House Democrats this term when they had a similarly slim majority.
But if their more-far-right colleagues do not get onboard with the party's stated agenda, some Republicans have said they are not afraid to reach across the aisle and find Democrats who support raising the debt ceiling, funding the government and other measured priorities.
"Your goal is to hit a home run, but you're going to hit singles periodically. That's what our country was designed to do," Bacon said. "We have to be willing to hit singles, work with our Democratic colleagues and find areas where we agree on. Otherwise, we fail."
Setting the groundwork for the majority
The first order of business for many Republican lawmakers is "organizing the Congress" — in other words, making sure McCarthy is elected speaker without much chaos.
Five members of the Freedom Caucus have publicly sworn they would not vote for McCarthy for speaker on the House floor next month. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the former Freedom Caucus chairman, officially announced Tuesday that he would challenge McCarthy after earning 31 votes on a secret ballot for the job last month.
But not all Freedom Caucus members agree with the five who argue McCarthy is too "establishment" to lead conservatives. Some members note that McCarthy has made a concerted effort to befriend Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and include more members of the Freedom Caucus in leadership discussions after witnessing the group work to oust Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Ryan.
Upon the House's return from Thanksgiving break, McCarthy convened what some moderate members joked was the "meeting of the five families" to begin finding common ground within the conference. Roughly 20 lawmakers, from the most centrist to the strongest Trump allies, remained in a room with McCarthy for hours in what was described as a "breakthrough" by Jordan and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and a "good start" by Bacon.
Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) has not taken part in what could become routine check-ins between different factions of the conference. But he found it significant that McCarthy is being forced by the narrow margin to consider all viewpoints in the conference, a good sign that McCarthy is trying to be a leader for everyone.
"I can't find a lot of fault with how he's trying to go about this. He's 30 votes short in the vote that we tabulated back in the conference, and he knows that he's got to, you know, build some bridges to the opposition," said Womack, who previously left the influential Steering Committee after McCarthy rejected his request to remove Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) from his committee assignments after he delivered a speech on the National Mall ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. "It's a pretty good exercise for him, frankly."
Members are also working among themselves to ensure decorum and respect are reestablished within the conference. GOP Governance Group chair David Joyce (R-Ohio) said he has spoken to incoming chair Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) of the Republican Study Committee, which makes up the largest faction of conservatives in the conference, to make sure colleagues stop publicly condemning Republicans who vote with Democrats on some issues.
GOP leaders often leave members free to vote their conscious on policies that can help their reelection efforts or help keep vulnerable seats in play. Greene and other Trump allies attacked the 13 Republicans who helped pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill last year, which strained relationships within the conference.
"Say why you didn't vote for it. Say why it's not right for your district," Joyce said about what he calls the "exotics" in the conference. "Don't s–t on everybody else who know it's good for their district or who need to take these votes to address their constituency, because that's not healthy for all of us."
Governance-focused members also worry staunchly conservative colleagues may allow "the perfect to become the enemy of the good," and deter the broader conference from hitting home runs. Using a sports analogy, Womack said the first moments in the majority will be like "the first few minutes of the game," where the tone for the rest of the game is set.
"We're going to have the ball in the House. We're going to be able to move a lot of things that we have promised in our 'Commitment to America,'" he said. "Changing the status quo is probably going to be, in the vernacular of football, getting a series of first downs. We're going to have to get incremental progress on a lot of things because the hopes and dreams of people that want to go big and be bold is probably not a realistic plan."
GOP majority runs through swing districts
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) knew her first reelection race would not be easy after she flipped her Charleston area seat in 2020 by only a percentage point. Though redistricting shored up her swing district to lean more Republican, Mace knew it would be risky to just tout the party line that excites the conservative base.
Mace finished her election this year talking about inflation and crime, but unlike most Republicans, she openly talked about the need for Congress to pass federal exceptions to abortion bans in a state where the right to an abortion is now under threat. She won by roughly 15 points.
"I talked about finding middle ground when so many people just ignored it. Those that wanted to dive in on fringe issues, or fringe politicians were the ones that were the losers that night," she said about the midterms. "The winners were the left of center, right of center, centrist and moderates who, as a conservative, are willing to reach across the aisle."
Mace said it was a "mistake" by Republicans who turned "their backs on millions of women that were angry" about the Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade this summer.
Moderate Republicans stressed that it was incumbent on the conference to understand why they did not garner the larger majority they had anticipated. Womack stressed that it's important for them all to remember "who constitutes this new majority," pointing to the New York delegation for flipping Democratic seats that will be harder to protect during a presidential election where Democratic turnout is traditionally higher than during the midterms.
"We have to be extremely careful as we prosecute our agenda this next year because what we do or fail to do, will go a long way in setting the conditions for the 2024 election," he said.
Having served in the House for over a decade, Womack warned that choosing partisan battles can endanger the majority makers, like when Republicans threatened to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which includes protections for people with preexisting medical conditions.
The need to get things done to build trust with voters remains a big motivator for more pragmatic Republicans to exercise a muscle they have not had to use as strenuously in the past.
"I think you can't just be against something, you know?" Bacon said. "Being against something maybe works in the more hard-right, hard-left districts. I think you have to stand for something, too."
How these Republicans go about coalescing and finding their common voice may become an individualized task. While some expressed that they will not hold their tongue if colleagues demoralize the institution of the House, others say it is worth remaining judicious in how often they use their voice.
Womack rarely speaks up against the conference. But when he does, colleagues know to take him seriously, like when he denounced leaders for not punishing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) after he falsely implicated the conference in telling a radio host that he has seen GOP colleagues partake in orgies and drugs use.
"I'm not going to out shout anybody. You're never going to get anywhere by talking over other people and trying to turn up the volume because people will eventually just shut that off," he said.
While some Republicans are preparing to work with Democrats and act as a conduit to them for GOP leaders, they want to bridge the divides within their conference before extending outreach to mend the broken relationship between the parties.
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, Fitzpatrick said he has sensed that foreign dictators have concluded U.S. democracy will never be defeated by their external forces. Instead, they are capitalizing on the "troubling trend" of single-party solutions and the erosion of bipartisanship that has led many to firmly believe those with differing views across the aisle — or within their own party — are "bad" people, making it impossible to unite around common American ideals.
"They're never going to be beat us from the outside. The only way they can defeat the world's oldest and strongest democracy is from within by getting us to fight with each other," he said. "Only America can take down America."
Paul Kane contributed to this report.
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Maine's Baby Lobster Pop Declining
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A new survey of 11 Gulf of Maine locations from the University of Maine shows that the population of young lobsters has significantly decreased. The number now stands at less than half of what it was in 2007, which could foreshadow a decline in the state's overall lobster industry. Maine hauled more than 350 million pounds of lobsters over the last year, a record amount for the state, but this is "our first indicator that things might be changing in the future," said Carl Wilson, the state's lobster biologist. Officials say a number of factors could be responsible for the decrease in young lobsters, including pollution, warmer temperatures, and insufficient food. Around 85 percent of the nation's lobster catch comes from Maine.
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