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We see Ramona do a final flourish and walk down the stage. As Jennifer Lopez remembers it, that's how an early draft of the "Hustlers" script described her character's first scene. The "flourish" turned into something much more elaborate: an extended pole dance in which Lopez, dressed in something close to nothing, spins, twists and kicks through a display of erotic athleticism that ends with a strip club full of patrons roaring and cheering, the stage carpeted with dollar bills and a struggling young dancer named Destiny (played by Constance Wu) in a state of slack-jawed adoration. "Doesn't money make you horny?" Ramona asks Destiny as she heads for the roof, where she stretches out in her fur coat and lights a cigarette.
The pole work, which required six weeks of training with a Cirque du Soleil acrobat, was Lopez's idea. She explained the genesis of the scene on a gray afternoon in November, almost exactly two months after "Hustlers," shot in 29 days on a relatively low budget the previous spring, opened, becoming one of the few nonfranchise hits of the movie year. "I said to Lorene" — Scafaria, who wrote and directed "Hustlers" — "that we have to see why Ramona is the star of the club. We can't say it. We have to show it. I'm going to do this amazing dance. I don't know what it is, but it's going to be good. And from there you will see that she has total control of the club and the crowd, and Destiny is going to fall in love. She can't help it."
Lopez was drinking cappuccino in a cafe attached to Pier 59 Studios, a photography studio on the West Side of Manhattan. She paused our conversation for a moment of mutual-admiration pantomime with the designer Vera Wang, who was in the building for a different shoot. As tech crews, publicists and security details went about their business, there was some pointing, head-swiveling and whispering. Even in this celebrity-saturated space, Lopez commanded attention.
Like Ramona — but in a radically different context and on a global scale — she wears her stardom on her skin. "It's a performance, but she's real," she said. "She's always performing, and yet she's the most authentic person you could meet."
It's tempting to say the same about Lopez, but it would be a mistake — a misreading not only of "Hustlers" but also of the career path that led to it — to say that she is simply playing herself. Especially in the early scenes, she is leveraging the image she has built up over the years, but that's not the same thing. Lopez, who turned 50 in July, has been a familiar presence in pop culture for at least a quarter century, embodying a unique and durable combination of strength and grace, of self-confidence and sexual allure. She has portrayed performers before, most notably in "Selena," the 1997 biopic of the Tejano singer that was her breakout role. But it's the different versions of Jennifer Lopez that make her not so much a star as a constellation. She's JLo and she's Jenny from the block; a genre-crossing musician and a music-video icon; a pioneering pop diva and a lifestyle entrepreneur; a fixture of gossip columns and fashion-magazine covers alike.
In the midst of all that, she appeared in a lot of movies. After 1998 (when she and George Clooney met cute in the trunk of a sedan in the wonderful "Out of Sight"), a few of them were O.K. Then again, one of them was "Gigli." In 2018, reviewing the mom-com "Second Act" for The New York Times, Wesley Morris gave voice to a disappointment that was surely not his alone. "Basically," he wrote "it's been 20 years, and I'm still waiting to see her let all the way go, to be as natural, funny, sharp, overjoyed, surprising and open as she can be in interviews, on Instagram, as a competition judge and as a recording artist."
The thing is that, through it all and in addition to everything else, Lopez has always been a more-than-capable actress. She has a knack for balancing glamour and realness that recalls the great screen goddesses of Old Hollywood: some of Claudette Colbert's smart, flirtatious energy; some of Veronica Lake's tough-and-tender wit; and more than a little Lauren Bacall in the poise she maintains in almost every circumstance.
It's the circumstances that have been the problem. The conventions of modern Hollywood have demanded that Lopez play ditzy or desperate, generically female in ways that could make her seem like a stand-in Sandra Bullock or a convenient Kate Hudson substitute. Anyone who saw her in concert or in music videos, on "American Idol" or a red carpet somewhere — anyone with eyes, a pulse and a television — knew that she was more than the sum of those big-screen parts. Which led Morris to wonder: "When are the movies going to start working for her?"
We finally have an answer. "Hustlers" is inspired by a New York Magazine article about a gang of strippers who ripped off wealthy clients by spiking their drinks and maxing out their credit cards. Though Ramona and Destiny are fictional characters, much of what they do reflects what really happened, and even at its wildest, the movie has a gritty, grounded credibility.
On first viewing, I took it as a caper, a fizzy New York crime story with a shot of pop feminism and a twist of post-great-recession class-consciousness mixed in. But that wasn't quite right. Following the money, I discounted the love story between Ramona and Destiny. And I almost missed the way Ramona and her crew, as they separated the marks from their wallets, were staging a brazen raid on genre territory occupied, for as long as anyone could remember, by men.
"A woman gangster movie" is how Lopez described it to me, with transgressive pleasures and an undercurrent of moral queasiness. "It's fun and funny, but it's sick. It's like we're eating spaghetti in the front, and in the back we just blew someone's head off and sawed off his arms." Nothing quite so gruesome happens to Ramona's victims, who suffer wounds mainly to their egos and their bank balances. And the exuberant amorality of the strippers contains an element of rough justice, as they turn the tables on men who had been happy to exploit, objectify and take advantage of them.
Like many gangster pictures, "Hustlers" is as much about the dynamics of what Lopez calls its "sexy, underground world" — about the friendships, rivalries, alliances and inevitable betrayals among the players — as it is about specific illegal actions. The arc of the narrative is a familiar one, in which an innocent (Destiny) falls under the spell of an old-timer (Ramona) who educates her and the audience in the codes and customs of a new way of life. Yet in spite of the quasi-show-business setting, this is not yet another variation on the theme of "All About Eve." Ramona may be a maternal figure, but she also incarnates what has usually been a male archetype: the problematic mentor who both schools and corrupts the newcomer, setting up a drama of education through disillusionment.
Lopez is Denzel Washington to Wu's Ethan Hawke (in "Training Day"). She's Al Pacino to — take your pick — Johnny Depp ("Donnie Brasco"), Keanu Reeves ("Devil's Advocate"), Chris O'Donnell ("Scent of a Woman"), Colin Farrell ("The Recruit") or Hilary Swank ("Insomnia"). There's an even more canonical example. "I get to be Joe Pesci," she said (and Wu gets to be Ray Liotta). "That didn't exist for women."
Not that it's just a matter of retrofitting familiar pop-culture figures with new costumes and pronouns. There's no shortage of movies that traffic in boss-lady and badass-action-heroine clichés of female empowerment without troubling an aggressively male status quo.
Ramona is much more complicated, a character who breaks existing molds even as she feels immediately, intuitively recognizable, like a person you might know. "Ramona was independent," Lopez said. "It wasn't about men. It wasn't about: 'I need these guys to like me. I need them to be attracted to me. My goal is to get all of your money.' And her having a daughter, being a mama bear — those things made it fun to play, because I could be a maternal Mother Earth, caring and loving, and then be like, I'll stab you.
"I love that you never see Ramona with a man," she continued, "except when she's in the club or working. When you do certain roles, you realize something about yourself. I've always been so much a romantic, so much about having a relationship, and this woman is the total opposite. And to play that, to live in those shoes, to walk in those very high heels, in that skin, made me realize I'm out here on my own. That's what I need to teach my daughter, that aspect of it, that you can do it on your own. Women are not taught that all the time."
The movie doesn't ignore the harsh side of this autonomy. Destiny was abandoned by her parents as a young girl, and she and Ramona's other protégées deal with possessive or unreliable partners, disapproving families and (not to put too fine a point on it) a capitalist, patriarchal society rigged against their interests. What they have is one another, a sisterhood that isn't always harmonious or kind but offers protection and comfort as well as money and fun.
There is a lot of that in "Hustlers" — loose, spontaneous-feeling scenes backstage at the club and in Ramona's immaculate high-rise apartment. The women exchange advice and Christmas presents, pop Champagne corks, snuggle on the couch. Their intimacy, their solidarity, their love — and the tensions and suspicions that inevitably emerge — are enough to give the story momentum and emotional gravity.
According to Lopez, the presence of so many women on the set had a lot to do with how the movie turned out: "Women producers, woman writer and director, all-star woman cast, woman editor, woman production designer — all of it. It was different. It was new." What is on the screen also seems new. Even as Ramona's professional and artistic identity involves soliciting the attention of men, the male gaze is as marginal to "Hustlers" as its male characters.At the beginning, all eyes — Destiny's, those of the audiences in the club and the theater — are on Ramona's almost-naked body. But something deeper than skin is being revealed, and the rest of Lopez's performance is a complex choreography of disclosure and concealment. Ramona can be guarded and elusive as well as open and generous, and we get to know her without the usual shortcuts. She has no back story, it seems, and no particular interest in explaining herself.
"Every character I do," Lopez said, "I feel like the physical parts of her are the most important. Maybe that's the dancer in me. The gait, the shoulders, the chin, how that person is, where her confidence lives, her sexuality — it's all physical. With Ramona, the pole dance is part of the essence of who she is. She's an actress and a performer, so the physical part of that made me know who she was and how she could be."
Listening to Lopez talk about the ordeal of training for the pole dance — "bruised everywhere, burned and chafed, pulled my shoulder out" — and her insistence that Scafaria shoot her first scene for maximal realism — "when I'm upside-down, make sure you get a close-up of my face; I don't care if I look like a bat hanging upside-down; I want people to know it's me and not a double" — I realized that I had missed another major genre that "Hustlers" belongs to, one that accounts for its blend of grit and sentimentality. It's a boxing movie.
I know: It sounds as if I'm trying to assimilate a movie by and about women into the canon of guy cinema. But what I'm really trying to do is account for a film and a performance that open new territory by making us understand what we had been missing for so long. There was always the potential for Ramona, which is to say that there might have been, should have been, a whole tradition of Ramonas. And there should have been more roles like Ramona for Jennifer Lopez to play. I don't mean strippers, necessarily — there are a lot of strippers in movies — but women with ambition and complexity and the kind of magnetism that goes beyond sex.
"I remember going to a club," Lopez said, recalling some of the research that went into her performance, "and one of the girls — the floor was just full of money. It wasn't that she was the most beautiful or had the most bodacious or perfect body — it was what she did up there. It was how she made people feel. And that was Ramona's gift. She made everybody feel exciting, special — like something amazing can happen."
A.O. Scott is a chief film critic for The Times and the author of "Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth." He last wrote an essay for the magazine about Susan Sontag's influence on his life as a critic. In January, he will be a resident at the American Academy in Rome. Jack Davison is a British photographer. His work has been featured in British Vogue, Modern Weekly China and recently in the magazine with a cover photograph of Glenda Jackson. His first book, "Photographs," was published by Loose Joints earlier this year.
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Additional design and development by Jacky Myint.
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.source "MtkHdmiManagerService.java"

# interfaces
.implements Ljava/lang/Runnable;

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingMethod;
    value = Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->initial()V
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.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
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# instance fields
.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;

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.method constructor <init>(Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;)V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 513
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService$6;->this$0:Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    return-void
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    .prologue
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    sget-boolean v0, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService$FeatureOption;->MTK_DRM_KEY_MNG_SUPPORT:Z

    if-eqz v0, :cond_0

    .line 518
    const-string v0, "MtkHdmiService"

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    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v2, "setDrmKey: "

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService$6;->this$0:Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;

    # invokes: Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->setDrmKey()Z
    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->access$2000(Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;)Z

    move-result v2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Z)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    # invokes: Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->log(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->access$000(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V

    .line 522
    :goto_0
    return-void

    .line 520
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    const-string v0, "MtkHdmiService"

    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

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    move-result-object v1

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    # invokes: Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->setHdcpKey()Z
    invoke-static {v2}, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->access$2100(Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;)Z

    move-result v2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Z)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    # invokes: Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->log(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Lcom/mediatek/hdmi/MtkHdmiManagerService;->access$000(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V

    goto :goto_0
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ALBUM 50 (8.0) – 19 // David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
1. The Velvet Underground – What Goes On (The Velvet Underground, 1969) [singlepic id=274 w=80 h=50 float=left]
One of my favorite Velvet-songs, this second track from their (post-Cale) third album. Pretty straight forward, with that awesome pushing Velvet guitar sound. The instrumental combo with the rhythm guitars and Doug Yule's (replacing Cale) organ could easily be called one of rock's greatest song climaxes ever.
2. The Cure – The Figurehead (Pornography, 1982) [singlepic id=358 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Just like Faith from 1981, this fourth album continues the bands practice from its break-through album Seventeen Seconds (1980): explicit melancholy written by the classic line-up Smith-Tolhurst-Gallup. This song in particular resembles The Smiths' sound, especially the surprisingly melodic guitar riff and of course the desperate lament, but is fortified with that typical repeating drum and bass rhythm. The instrumental parts laid the groundwork for post rock, while Smith himself would rather concentrate on writing some solid pop songs later on.
3. XTC – 1000 Umbrellas (Skylarking, 1986) [singlepic id=360 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Andy Partridge signed the end of XTC's touring history in 1982, as he started to suffer from stage fright. Just like The Beatles did earlier, XTC concentrated on working in the studio from then on and also picked up the idea of making a concept album. Skylarking was supposed to be about growing up, getting older and dying, all in one day. The result was an incredible album filled with orchestration, like the numerous string sections in this song, completely in line with the Paul McCartney Academy of Pop Music.
4. Afghan Whigs – Now You Know (Gentlemen, 1993) [singlepic id=125 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Typical guitar sound from the nineties, resembling that of their lumberjacket wearing peers from Washington. However, not only did their wardrobe differ, also the lyrics from this Cincinatti band sound much more mature and devoted, even reminding of Dylan sometimes. This is of course their best (and fourth) album, released one year after break-through album Congregation (great cover) and recorded in Memphis.
5. The Beatles – Not a Second Time (With the Beatles, 1963) [singlepic id=357 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Iconic pop album, released in the US as Meet The Beatles. It's actually a mix of some of the bands' live covers like 'You Really Got A Hold On Me', 'Please Mister Postman' and 'Money', together with the Fab Four's first songwriting gems, like McCartney's 'All My Loving'. This one is a Lennon song without electric guitar, so no Harrison.
6. Smashing Pumpkins – To Forgive (Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness, 1995) [singlepic id=332 w=80 h=50 float=left]
For me personally one of the biggest rediscoveries last year. Billy Corgan already dominated the Pumpkins on their second album (Siamese Dream (1993), on which he frequently overdubbed the bass and guitar parts with his own stuff), and on this magnificent third (ultimate cocktail of riff & melody) he shined like never before, and never afterwards. The threatening, modest sound of this song would dominate the next album and also returned on Radiohead's OK Computer .
7. Pavement – Conduit For Sale! (Slanted and Enchanted, 1992) [singlepic id=356 w=80 h=50 float=left]
More nineties, and not complaining. Californian trio that formed in 1989, played till 1999 and saw their status grow each year since. Great record that offers a lot, except pretention.
8. The Raconteurs – Top Yourself (Consolers of the Lonely, 2008) [singlepic id=359 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Second and (for now?) last album of The Raconteurs, written by Brendan Brenson and Jack White, the man who secured the heritage of all preliminary guitar music in the new century. Whatever band this guy played in, it never took long before I liked it.
9. David Bowie – Right (Young Americans, 1975) [singlepic id=355 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Bowie leaves his androgen identity behind and freely throws Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder into the blender in a way that makes all other attempts at white soul pale into insignificance. Featuring Carlos Alomar for the first time.
10. The Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane (Hotel California, 1976) [singlepic id=8 w=80 h=50 float=left]
A dash of funk blew over from the previous song into the guitar playing of Joe Walsh. Classic.
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1. XTC – I'd Like That (Apple Venus Volume 1, 1999) [singlepic id=220 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Second track from a great album, bringing together the best material from the period XTC was on strike (1992-1998). Apple Venus was subsequently released on their own label and recorded in their own home-studios, with Partridge on vocals and acoustic guitar here. Very cheerful, very McCartney.
2. Robert Johnson – Hellhound on My Trail (King of the Delta Blues Singers, 1961) [singlepic id=152 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Archaic cornerstone of rock's discography, already recorded in 1936 but released in 1961 on the Columbia label. They had just contracted Bob Dylan, who had the album lying around on his couch on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home.
3. Genesis – More Fool Me (Selling England by the Pound, 1973) [singlepic id=73 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Closing track on side one of Genesis' brilliant fifth album, with Phil Collins on lead vocals. Compared to the other songs this one is rather short and very sober, only featuring Collins and Mike Rutherford on guitar. His lover may be gone, but Phil is convinced everything will be just fine.
4. Ride – Vapour Trail (Nowhere, 1990) [singlepic id=296 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Closing track and only single from shoegazing band Ride's debut album. Written and sung by guitarist Andy Bell, who would later join Oasis on bass. Good album, especially the opening track is a great powertrip.
5. Rolling Stones – Turd on the Run (Exile on Main St., 1972) [singlepic id=297 w=80 h=50 float=left]
A less known track from one of The Stones' greatest albums, that was born in the south of France while recording in Keith Richards' basement. Richards might have begun a daily habit of using heroin at that time, his guitar really defines this album, including some country rock sound on this one. Robert Johnson also contributed to the album, with the Stones covering his 'Stop Breaking Down' on side four.
6. The Kinks – A House in the Country (Face to Face, 1966) [singlepic id=294 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Finally, The Kinks make their appearance in the shuffle of the week. Face to Face was their fourth album (and definitely one of my favorites), on which this is the closing track of side one. It was their first album entirely written by lead vocalist Ray Davies and marked the beginning of a great period for the band.
7. Lou Reed – Satellite of Love (Transformer, 1972) [singlepic id=295 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Second single from Transformer, an album I dragged across Keith Richards' south of France last summer, a couple of months before Reed's death. A song about jealousy, that was originally meant to appear on The Velvet Underground's Loaded, but that ended up on Reed's second solo album. With the ever recognizable David Bowie (also the album producer) on backing vocals.
8. The Who – Getting In Tune (Who's Next, 1971) [singlepic id=298 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Opener on side two of The Who's fifth album and the fourth song this week with that generously packed sound from the early seventies. Not very surprisingly, this song deals with the power of music and was originally part of Townshend's Lifehouse-project (as a follow-up to Tommy).
9. Andrew Bird – Scythian Empires (Armchair Apocrypha, 2007) [singlepic id=81 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Talking about richly instrumented pieces of music: perhaps a little less rockin', but Bird shows off a great deal of craftsmanship on this album highlight. Played the life out of that album last year.
10. Phish – Bouncing Around the Room (Lawn Boy, 1990) [singlepic id=167 w=80 h=50 float=left]
Closing this shuffle just like Phish's second studio album: with this easy going funky song, influenced by Senegalese music.

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GOP Impeachment Report: Here's All The Evidence Democrats Are Ignoring
On Monday, House Republicans released a 123-page report walking through all the key evidence presented after several weeks of closed-door interviews and public testimonies of witnesses. The Democrats, the Republicans maintain, not only failed to make their case that President Trump committed an impeachable offense, they abused their power in the process.
"The Democrats' impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system," the Republican report reads. It states:
The Democrats are trying to impeach a duly elected President based on the accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who disagreed with President Trump's policy initiatives and processes. They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats were discomforted by an elected President's telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats chafed at an elected President's 'outside the beltway' approach to diplomacy.
"The Democrats' impeachment inquiry, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, is merely the outgrowth of their obsession with re-litigating the results of the 2016 presidential election," Republicans maintain. "Despite their best efforts, the evidence gathered during the Democrats' partisan and one-sided impeachment inquiry does not support that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rival to benefit the President in the 2020 presidential election. The evidence does not establish any impeachable offense."
In the Findings section of the report, the Republicans detail the key evidence and context they say the Democrats are attempting to downplay or outright ignore to make their ultimately "failed" case for impeachment:
Democrats allege that President Trump pressured Ukraine to initiate investigations into his political rival, former Vice President Biden, for the purpose of benefiting the President in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The evidence does not support the Democrats' allegations. Instead, the findings outlined below are based on the evidence presented and information available in the public realm.
President Trump has a deep-seated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption.
President Trump has a long-held skepticism of U.S. foreign assistance and believes that Europe should pay its fair share for mutual defense.
President Trump's concerns about Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board are valid. The Obama State Department noted concerns about Hunter Biden's relationship with Burisma in 2015 and 2016.
There is indisputable evidence that senior Ukrainian government officials opposed President Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election and did so publicly. It has been publicly reported that a Democratic National Committee operative worked with Ukrainian officials, including the Ukrainian Embassy, to dig up dirt on then-candidate Trump.
The evidence does not establish that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Burisma Holdings, Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, or Ukrainian influence in the 2016 election for the purpose of benefiting him in the 2020 election.
The evidence does not establish that President Trump withheld a meeting with President Zelensky for the purpose of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Burisma Holdings, Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, or Ukrainian influence in the 2016 election.
The evidence does not support that President Trump withheld U.S. security assistance to Ukraine for the purpose of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Burisma Holdings, Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, or Ukrainian influence in the 2016 election.
The evidence does not support that President Trump orchestrated a shadow foreign policy apparatus for the purpose of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Burisma Holdings, Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, or Ukrainian influence in the 2016 election.
The evidence does not support that President Trump covered up the substance of his telephone conversation with President Zelensky by restricting access to the call summary.
President Trump's assertion of longstanding claims of executive privilege is a legitimate response to an unfair, abusive, and partisan process, and does not constitute obstruction of a legitimate impeachment inquiry.
Below is the full text of the report's Executive Summary (footnotes removed).
On November 8, 2016, nearly 63 million Americans from around the country chose Donald J. Trump to be the 45th President of the United States. Now, less than a year before the next presidential election, 231 House Democrats in Washington, D.C., are trying to undo the will of the American people. As one Democrat admitted, the pursuit of this extreme course of action is because they want to stop President Trump's re-election.
Democrats in the House of Representatives have been working to impeach President Trump since his election. Democrats introduced four separate resolutions in 2017 and 2018 seeking to impeach President Trump. In January 2019, on their first day in power, House Democrats again introduced articles of impeachment. That same day, a newly elected Congresswoman promised to an audience of her supporters, "we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the [expletive deleted]." Her comments are not isolated. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Trump "an impostor" and said it is "dangerous" to allow American voters to evaluate his performance in 2020.
The Democrats' impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system. The Democrats are trying to impeach a duly elected President based on the accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who disagreed with President Trump's policy initiatives and processes. They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats were discomforted by an elected President's telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats chafed at an elected President's "outside the beltway" approach to diplomacy.
The sum and substance of the Democrats' case for impeachment is that President Trump abused his authority to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, President Trump's potential political rival, for President Trump's benefit in the 2020 election. Democrats say this pressure campaign encompassed leveraging a White House meeting and the release of U.S. security assistance to force the Ukrainian President to succumb to President Trump's political wishes. Democrats say that Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal attorney, and a "shadow" group of U.S. officials conspired to benefit the President politically.
The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats' witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor.
The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump pressured President Zelensky to initiate investigations for the purpose of benefiting the President in the 2020 election. The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump covered up the summary of his phone conversation with President Zelensky. The evidence does not support the accusation that President Trump obstructed the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
At the heart of the matter, the impeachment inquiry involves the actions of only two people: President Trump and President Zelensky. The summary of their July 25, 2019, telephone conversation shows no quid pro quo or indication of conditionality, threats, or pressure—much less evidence of bribery or extortion. The summary reflects laughter, pleasantries, and cordiality. President Zelensky has said publicly and repeatedly that he felt no pressure. President Trump has said publicly and repeatedly that he exerted no pressure.
Even examining evidence beyond the presidential phone call shows no quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, or abuse of power. The evidence shows that President Trump holds a deepseated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption. The President has also been vocal about his skepticism of U.S. foreign aid and the need for European allies to shoulder more of the financial burden for regional defense. Senior Ukrainian officials under former President Petro Poroshenko publicly attacked then-candidate Trump during the 2016 campaign—including some senior Ukrainian officials who remained in their positions after President Zelensky's term began. All of these factors bear on the President's state of mind and help to explain the President's actions toward Ukraine and President Zelensky.
Understood in this proper context, the President's initial hesitation to meet with President Zelensky or to provide U.S. taxpayer-funded security assistance to Ukraine without thoughtful review is entirely prudent. Ultimately, President Zelensky took decisive action demonstrating his commitment to promoting reform, combatting corruption, and replacing Poroshenko-era holdovers with new leadership in his Administration. President Trump then released security assistance to Ukraine and met with President Zelensky in September 2019—all without Ukraine taking any action to investigate President Trump's political rival.
House Democrats allege that Ukraine felt pressure to bend to the President's political will, but the evidence shows a different reality. Ukraine felt good about its relationship with the United States in the early months of the Zelensky Administration, having had several high-level meetings with senior U.S. officials between July and September. Although U.S. security assistance was temporarily paused, the U.S. government did not convey the pause to the Ukrainians because U.S. officials believed the pause would get worked out and, if publicized, may be mischaracterized as a shift in U.S. policy towards Ukraine. U.S. officials said that the Ukrainian government in Kyiv never knew the aid was delayed until reading about it in the U.S. media. Ambassador Kurt Volker, the key American interlocutor trusted by the Ukrainian government, said the Ukrainians never raised concerns to him until after the pause became public in late August.
The Democrats' impeachment narrative ignores Ukraine's dramatic transformation in its fight against endemic corruption. President Trump was skeptical of Ukrainian corruption and his Administration sought proof that newly-elected President Zelensky was a true reformer. And after winning a parliamentary majority, the new Zelensky administration took rapid strides to crack down on corruption. Several high-level U.S. officials observed firsthand these anticorruption achievements in Kyiv, and the security assistance was released soon afterward.
The Democrats' impeachment narrative also ignores President Trump's steadfast support for Ukraine in its war against Russian occupation. Several of the Democrats' witnesses described how President Trump's policies toward Ukraine to combat Russian aggression have been substantially stronger than those of President Obama—then under the stewardship of Vice President Biden. Where President Obama and Vice President Biden gave the Ukrainians nightvision goggles and blankets, the Trump Administration provided the Ukrainians with lethal defensive assistance, including Javelin anti-tank missiles.
The Democrats nonetheless tell a story of an illicit pressure campaign run by President Trump through his personal attorney, Mayor Giuliani, to coerce Ukraine to investigate the President's political rival by withholding a meeting and security assistance. There is, however, no direct, firsthand evidence of any such scheme. The Democrats are alleging guilt on the basis of hearsay, presumptions, and speculation—all of which are reflected in the anonymous whistleblower complaint that sparked this inquiry. The Democrats' narrative is so dependent on speculation that one Democrat publicly justified hearsay as "better" than direct evidence. Where there are ambiguous facts, the Democrats interpret them in a light most unfavorable to the President. In the absence of real evidence, the Democrats appeal to emotion—evaluating how unelected bureaucrats felt about the events in question.
The fundamental disagreement apparent in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry is a difference of world views and a discomfort with President Trump's policy decisions. To the extent that some unelected bureaucrats believed President Trump had established an "irregular" foreign policy apparatus, it was because they were not a part of that apparatus. There is nothing illicit about three senior U.S. officials—each with official interests relating to Ukraine—shepherding the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and reporting their actions to State Department and NSC leadership. There is nothing inherently improper with Mayor Giuliani's involvement as well because the Ukrainians knew that he was a conduit to convince President Trump that President Zelensky was serious about reform.
There is also nothing wrong with asking serious questions about the presence of Vice President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, on the board of directors of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian company, or about Ukraine's attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Biden's Burisma has an international reputation as a corrupt company. As far back as 2015, the Obama State Department had concerns about Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. Ukrainian anticorruption activists noted concerns as well. Publicly available—and irrefutable—evidence shows how senior Ukrainian government officials sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in opposition to President Trump's candidacy, and that some in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington worked with a Democrat operative to achieve that goal. While Democrats reflexively dismiss these truths as conspiracy theories, the facts are indisputable and bear heavily on the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
In our system of government, power resides with the American people, who delegate executive power to the President through an election once every four years. Unelected officials and career bureaucrats assist in the execution of the laws. The unelected bureaucracy exists to serve the elected representatives of the American people. The Democrats' impeachment narrative flips our system on its head in service of their political ambitions.
The Democrats' impeachment inquiry, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, is merely the outgrowth of their obsession with re-litigating the results of the 2016 presidential election. Despite their best efforts, the evidence gathered during the Democrats' partisan and one-sided impeachment inquiry does not support that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rival to benefit the President in the 2020 presidential election. The evidence does not establish any impeachable offense.
But that is not for Democrats' want of trying.
For the first phase of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, Chairman Schiff led the inquiry from his Capitol basement bunker, preventing transparency on the process and accountability for his actions. Because the fact-finding was unclassified, the closed-door process was purely for information control. This arrangement allowed Chairman Schiff—who had already publicly fabricated evidence and misled Americans about his interaction with the anonymous whistleblower—to selectively leak information to paint misleading public narratives, while simultaneously imposing a gag rule on Republican members. From his basement bunker,
Chairman Schiff provided no due process protections for the President and he directed witnesses called by the Democrats not to answer Republican questions. Chairman Schiff also ignored Republican requests to secure the testimony of the anonymous whistleblower, despite promising earlier that the whistleblower would provide "unfiltered testimony."
When the Democrats emerged from the bunker for the public phase of their impeachment inquiry, Chairman Schiff continued to deny fundamental fairness and minority rights. Chairman Schiff interrupted Republican Members and directed witnesses not to answer Republican questions. Chairman Schiff refused to allow Republicans to exercise the limited procedural rights afforded to them. Chairman Schiff rejected witnesses identified by Republicans who would inject some semblance of fairness and objectivity. Chairman Schiff denied Republican subpoenas for testimony and documents, violating the Democrats' own rules to vote down these subpoenas with no notice to Republicans.
Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Schiff, and House Democrats seek to impeach President Trump—not because they have proof of a high crime or misdemeanor, but because they disagreed with the President's actions and his policies. But in our system of government, the President is accountable to the American people. The accountability to the American people comes at the ballot box, not in House Democrats' star chamber.


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I love Heroku review apps but not when URLs in emails point to the parent app – and if you have a hypermedia API its _links can end up totally broken. Why does this happen and how can it be fixed?
My usual approach used to be to configure Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:host] from a DEFAULT_URL_HOST environment variable, but if the review app inherits this variable then all of its URLs generated outside the controller/view request/response cycle – including URLs in emails and serializers such as ActiveModel::Serializers – incorrectly point to the parent app. In the past I've been forced to manually update a review app's config but that isn't a solution.
# Set the correct protocol as SSL isn't configured in development or test.
Note that this also means in development/test/CI you'll need to define the DEFAULT_URL_HOST environment variable or the app won't boot – on my development machine I use direnv, dotenv is also popular.
And that's it, now all URLs generated in emails and serializers will correctly point to the review app's host.


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Q: JFrame not appearing on mouse click Location (SSCCE included) I am trying to make a JFrame appear on mousePressed Location but I keep failing and it get's annoying :( Any ideas what isn't working?
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class SSCCE
{

    @SuppressWarnings("static-access")
    public static void getInputData()
    {
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(frame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        JLabel emptyLabel = new JLabel("Test");
        frame.getContentPane().add(emptyLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.setSize(new Dimension(375, 100));

        MouseAdapter ml = new MouseAdapter()
        {

            @Override
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me)
            {

                frame.setLocation(me.getX(), me.getY());
            }

            @Override
            public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me)
            {
                frame.setLocation(me.getX(), me.getY());
            }
        };
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseListener(ml);
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseMotionListener(ml);

        frame.setVisible(true);

    }

    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        JFrame test = new JFrame();
        JButton but = new JButton("Click me");
        but.addActionListener(
                new ActionListener()
                {

                    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
                    {
                        getInputData();
                    }
                });
        test.getContentPane().add(but, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        test.setSize(500, 500);
        test.setVisible(true);

    }
}

A: Use the SwingUtilities methods convertPointToScreen() and convertPointFromScreen() to transform the MouseEvent coordinates.
Addendum: Alternatively, calculate the offset from getLocationOnScreen(), which is "the component's top-left corner in the screen's coordinate space."
Addendum: To position the new frame relative to the original mouse click, add a mouse listener to the parent frame instead of a button; use the coordinates to position the new frame, as shown below.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class SSCCE {

    public static void getInputData(MouseEvent e) {
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JLabel emptyLabel = new JLabel("Test", JLabel.CENTER);
        frame.getContentPane().add(emptyLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(375, 100));

        MouseAdapter ma = new MouseAdapter() {

            Point local, global;
            Point delta = new Point();

            @Override
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) {
                local = me.getPoint();
            }

            @Override
            public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me) {
                delta.setLocation(
                    me.getX() - local.x, me.getY() - local.y);
                global = frame.getLocationOnScreen();
                global.setLocation(
                    global.x + delta.x, global.y + delta.y);
                frame.setLocation(global.x, global.y);
            }
        };
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseListener(ma);
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseMotionListener(ma);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocation(e.getLocationOnScreen());
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(640, 480));
        frame.add(new JLabel("Click me", JLabel.CENTER));
        frame.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {

            @Override
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
                getInputData(e);
            }
        });
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Previously,
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class SSCCE {

    public static void getInputData() {
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JLabel emptyLabel = new JLabel("Test", JLabel.CENTER);
        frame.getContentPane().add(emptyLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(375, 100));

        MouseAdapter ma = new MouseAdapter() {

            Point local = new Point();
            Point delta = new Point();
            Point global = new Point();

            @Override
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) {
                local = me.getPoint();
            }

            @Override
            public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me) {
                delta.setLocation(
                    me.getX() - local.x,
                    me.getY() - local.y);
                global = frame.getLocationOnScreen();
                global.setLocation(global.x + delta.x, global.y + delta.y);
                frame.setLocation(global.x, global.y);
            }
        };
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseListener(ma);
        frame.getContentPane().addMouseMotionListener(ma);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);

    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JButton but = new JButton("Click me");
        but.addActionListener(
            new ActionListener() {

                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    getInputData();
                }
            });
        frame.getContentPane().add(but, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

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Every website or magazine has their own "Best Video Games of All Times" list – here is ours! From early arcade classics to 3D action games, from text adventures to interactive cinema, this book includes 200 of the best video games ever released, covering over three decades of gaming history, created by developers all over the world. Each entry highlights why our picks are the best examples of their genre, and includes additional recommendations for similar games. Both rookie and veteran gamers will definitely discover some new and interesting games to check out after finishing this book.
Nowadays "top X" articles on the internet tend to be seen as clickbait, hastily assembled list determined by some quick democratic polling of staff. Plus, the lists tend to be rather insular, usually based on whatever publication or forum assembled them. Rock Paper Shotgun, for example, has top 25/50 lists for many genres, but focuses only on games released on the PC. So reading about "best horror" games seems really strange when you're omitting huge swathes of them, especially Japanese developed games. Similarly, computer RPGs and Japanese RPGs have such different fanbases that they're almost entirely different genres, so there's rarely any crossover on "best RPG" lists. IGN and other mainstream sites tend to focus on newer releases at the expense of gaming's history. The goal with our book is to give a broad overview of many different types of games across the medium's history. So even if you may not specifically be into, for example, 4X strategy games, you might be interested in reading about a few of them, and maybe giving them a shot.
From a writing standpoint, we wanted to features pieces that would be longer than a hastily written blurb like many other lists. So, each piece for each game is about 450 words. (It also helped enforce the quality of our choices – if we couldn't devote 450 words of praise to it, then it probably wasn't worth including.) These are not comprehensive reviews, so they're written differently than the style you'd normally see on HG101, focusing primarily on what it does and why it excels. There are 216 pages altogether.
Additionally, since we wanted to include a broad selection of titles, we didn't want to list too many similar games. So, to accompany each selection, there's a "see also" sidebar of another game that's related in some way – either being part of the same series, from the same developer, or sharing some thematic link – that's also worth checking out. However, sometimes we still feature multiple games in the same series in the Top 200 list if there's enough different to talk about them. For example, it seemed redundant to feature both Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, since they're both fairly similar, but we gave a separate spot to Yoshi's Island, since there's enough that stands out to make it worth that distinction. But this "see also" spot is also used to highlight why we picked one entry over another, while still relating that both are excellent.
Building the list was not particularly democratic. Basically, a bunch of us staff members started by listing our own personal favorite games and used that as a starting point. Then, we mapped out which genres we wanted to cover and how many entries to allocate to each. Additionally, each entry was chosen specifically to represent something. For late 90s/early 00s first person shooters, we chose Jedi Knight and No One Lives Forever, since those were the best representative of that era. Other lists select games based on historical importance, or its quality at the time of release, but we wanted this to be a list of games that were still worth playing today. The list we initially assembled had some gaps – for example, none of us had selected any real time strategy games – so we reached out to many of our other contributors to round out the list, as well.
Obviously there's some level of bias when it came to determining how many slots we gave to each genre – we definitely prefer 2D fighters/platformers over 3D fighters/platformers, for example – but there's still a wide variety of topics featured. The only type of game that's not represented at all are multiplayer-only games, like first person shooters, MMORPGs or MOBAs. The main reason is that I personally don't play any of these games and can't write about them with any authority, nor do I know enough about them to make educated selections. Plus, it's hard to write about the multiplayer aspects of older games, especially if they no longer have an active online community.
The list has an emphasis on cult classic versus mainstream hits, and a slight focus more on retro games than modern ones, though it's not like we intentionally ignored big names, as there are still many picks that show up on many other similar lists. In some ways it does feel like a small waste of space to highlight Super Mario Bros. 3 when everyone on the planet \is in agreement in how excellent it is, but at the same time we hope the written piece is interesting enough that makes reading it worthwhile.
In addition to the main Top 200 list and each "see also" entry, we also added 50 runners-up, each with brief blurbs. These were entries that were originally part of the Top 200 but got knocked off for whatever reason, or titles that the staff enjoyed on a personal level but were difficult to broadly recommend.Altogether that makes over 450 games covered within this book.
Additionally, unlike other lists, the titles in this book are not ranked, outside of the "see also" and "runner up" entries. It just doesn't make any sense – is Final Fantasy VI better than Half-Life 2? It's totally arbitrary, and is like comparing apples to baseballs.


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Liberate inks deal with U.K. cable firm
Liberate, which develops interactive TV software, said Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to provide services to the third-largest cable operator in England, Omne Communications. Omne will start distributing set-top boxes with Liberate's software in December. San Carlos, Calif.-based Liberate also has distribution agreements with NTL and Telewest--the top two cable operators in England. Subscribers to Omne's new interactive features will initially receive services such as electronic program guides, online video games and e-mail.
Richard Shim
Liberate, which develops interactive TV software, said Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to provide services to the third-largest cable operator in England, Omne Communications. Omne will start distributing set-top boxes with Liberate's software in December. San Carlos, Calif.-based Liberate also has distribution agreements with NTL and Telewest--the top two cable operators in England.
Subscribers to Omne's new interactive features will initially receive services such as electronic program guides, online video games and e-mail.
Discuss: Liberate inks deal with U.K. cable firm


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Ecosystems often change in radical ways. Lakes, forests, rangelands, coral reefs and many other ecosystems are often transformed by such things as overfishing, insect pests, chemical changes in the environment, overgrazing and shifting climate.
A vivid example of a collapsed resource is the Atlantic cod fishery. Once the most abundant and sought-after fish in the North Atlantic, cod stocks collapsed in the 1990s due to overfishing, causing widespread economic hardship in New England and Canada. Now, the ability to detect when an ecosystem is approaching the tipping point could help prevent such calamities.
In the new study, the Wisconsin researchers, collaborating with groups from the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., focused their attention on Peter and Paul lakes, two isolated and undeveloped lakes in northern Wisconsin. Peter is a six-acre lake whose biota were manipulated for the study and nearby Paul served as a control.
The group led by Carpenter experimentally manipulated Peter Lake during a three-year period by gradually adding predatory largemouth bass to the lake, which was previously dominated by small fish that consumed water fleas, a type of zooplankton. The purpose, Carpenter notes, was to destabilize the lake's food web to the point where it would become an ecosystem dominated by large predators. In the process, the researchers expected to see a relatively rapid cascading change in the lake's biological community, one that would affect all of its plants and animals in significant ways.
"We started adding these big ferocious fish and almost immediately this instills fear in the other fish," Carpenter explains. "The small fish begin to sense there is trouble and they stop going into the open water and instead hang around the shore and structure, things like sunken logs. They become risk averse."
The biological upshot, according to the Wisconsin lake expert, is that the lake became "water flea heaven." The system becomes one where the phytoplankton, the preferred food of the lake's water fleas, becomes highly variable.
"The phytoplankton get hammered and at some point the system snaps into a new mode," says Carpenter.
Throughout the lake's three-year manipulation, all its chemical, biological and physical vital signs were continuously monitored to track even the smallest changes that would announce what ecologists call a "regime shift," where an ecosystem undergoes radical and rapid change from one type to another. It was in these massive sets of data that Carpenter and his colleagues were able to detect the signals of the ecosystem's impending collapse.
Ecologists first discovered the signals in computer simulations of spruce budworm outbreaks. Every few decades the insect's populations explode, causing widespread deforestation in boreal forests in Canada. Computer models of a virtual outbreak, however, seemed to undergo odd blips just before an outbreak.
The problem was solved by William "Buz" Brock, a UW-Madison professor of economics who for decades has worked on the mathematical connections of economics and ecology. Brock used a branch of applied mathematics known as bifurcation theory to show that the odd behavior was in fact an early warning of catastrophic change. In short, he devised a way to sense the transformation of an ecosystem by detecting subtle changes in the system's natural patterns of variability.
The upshot of the Peter Lake field experiment, says Carpenter, is a validated statistical early warning system for ecosystem collapse. The catch, however, is that for the early warning system to work, intense and continuous monitoring of an ecosystem's chemistry, physical properties and biota are required.
Such an approach may not be practical for every threatened ecosystem, says Carpenter, but he also cites the price of doing nothing: "These regime shifts tend to be hard to reverse. It is like a runaway train once it gets going and the costs -- both ecological and economic -- are high."
In addition to Carpenter and Brock, authors of the new Science report include Jonathan Cole of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Michael Pace, James Coloso and David Seekell of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; James Hodgson of St. Norbert College; and Ryan Batt, Tim Cline, James Kitchell, Laura Smith and Brian Weidel of UW-Madison.


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My wife informed me that her sources tell her the banks are going to shut down. I don't remember the timeline but it seemed like it would be this weekend. If that is the case, it is too late to do anything about it.
It was probably too late anyway.
What is stirring this concern is the crisis in Greece. I am sure you have heard about it in some way. What we are seeing in Greece is simply a harbinger of a world wide trend. Everyone in the world wants to live better than they can afford. We want to have things that cost more than we can pay and we want them now. And we expect someone else to pay for it.
The list is long. It includes things like prime health care, free to all. At the other end are the people buying steak with their food stamps. In between are all the things we put on our credit cards and pay off with minimum payments.
My wife and I go out to dinner. We split, get the specials, skip the beverage and find a way to keep the price down. It still costs more than I want to spend, but we can afford it. We look around at families with three children ordering exotic dishes and the adults paying for mixed drinks. We wonder how they can afford it. They can't but they do it anyway.
The problem is, we are all Greece. We often hear in history class how much we owe to Greece in terms of philosophy and architecture. Who knew that we would also pattern our economic lives after them.
Eventually the house of cards will come crashing down. It has happened before. It will happen again. The scary thing about this type of crash is that it allows tyrants to take charge and liberty goes out the window.
I STILL say that it's all part of the plan. The Rothschilds have been around longer than many nations.
We don't need the Rothschilds to explain our own narcissism.


So it has been a while since you and your partner have been seeing each other, and it is time to finally bring up the L word. Even though the feelings have been around for ages, saying I love you is a daunting task. Especially when you're not sure of how to say it. While you could opt for the cliched options such as getting down on one knee with a rose or confessing it over dinner, we have compiled a list of unique ways you could confess your love. We're sure it will be a story for the kids!
12. Say it Through Food!
They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and this holds true for women as well. Organize a nice romantic dinner date and the menu should be his/her favorite food. Even if you can't cook well, try getting help from a friend. What matters is that fact that your partner sees the efforts you take to make them happy. At the end of the date, hand over a fortune cookie to your partner, and let them break it open to read the 'I love you' on the tiny slip of paper. He/she will definitely be impressed by your romantic gesture.
If there is one common thing that everyone loves, it's music. We all wish our lives had background music and thus saying I love you through a song is one of the best ways you can confess your feelings. Use the tune of one of their favorite songs and customize the lyrics to your love story. Doing so will make sure that every time they hear the song again, it will bring back romantic memories of you two. A musical confession will definitely increase your chances of having your feelings reciprocated.
If you both are adventure enthusiasts, going on a trek together and confessing your love for each other on top of a mountain is the most unique and beautiful manner to do so. With the backdrop of a majestic scenery and the thrill of the adventure, you will have the most picturesque memory of saying I love you to each other.
We are assuming that you and your partner have been together a while and you have your share of goofy selfies and tiny Snapchat videos of you two. Compile all of these into a video montage and invite them over with the pretense of watching a movie. Put the starting credits of a regular movie to trick them, and then play the video montage. It will add a nice surprise element to your confession. Going through old memories will make him/her both nostalgic and romantic and it will be the perfect moment to say I love you.
We already know that being under a full sky of stars puts anyone in a romantic mood. Whisk your partner away for a camp where you'll have an unobstructed view of the stars and add some music to help set the mood. Dance to the music, and get down on one knee and say I love you. It will be a picture-perfect moment that you both will remember forever.
When it comes to making an effort to say those three words, craft tops the list. Come up with a little craft project to decorate your confession. You can make a box with a few of your memories like a movie ticket stub or a polaroid of the two of you and add confetti and other craft items to decorate it. You could also choose to decorate their room and add candles for a romantic touch.
While you could always play the same songs on a speaker while confessing your love, why not take it up a notch and say I love you when the songs are live? The vibe of concerts can give you the perfect setting for your confession. The lights, the music and the enthusiasm in the air can give you both the ideal moment to profess your love for each other.
Why not confess your love for your partner through a series of clues like a treasure hunt, with the ultimate X being 'I love you'? Set up a treasure hunt by coming up with clues relating to the two of you such as places you usually go to, a quote from a movie you both love, lyrics from your favorite songs, and put it all together to form a map which leads to your confession.
You can show your love for your partner through dance. Dance is one of the best forms of expression, and what better way to express your love for your partner than a romantic waltz in a candle-lit room? Plan a nice dinner and dance party for the two of you. Prepare a playlist of songs which you both can dance to, either goofy or romantic, and at the right moment, you can confess your love.
Why not include your closest friends in your confession? Either organize a house party or take your partner to some romantic location like a lake where your friends can help set up the surprise. Your friends can give you the extra courage you need to say I love you and having them around can give you all a memory to remember forever. As a bonus, you have someone to click photographs and take videos when you finally make your confession.
Want to add an 'aww' factor to the moment you finally say I love you? Pets can be the ultimate cute factor to your confession. Tie a small note to the collar of a puppy or attach the note on a ribbon and tie it to a kitten. When they're playing with the pet they'll see the note and will love you for the cute way you chose to confess your love.
A unique way to say I love you and create a fairy-tale worthy moment is to recreate a scene from their favorite movie. It doesn't necessarily have to be a romantic film, you can choose a romantic scene from any movie that they love. Memorize the dialogues and say it to him/her and make them feel like they are part of the movie, and confess your love the way the actors did in the film. It will definitely be a moment they will remember forever.
Saying I love you to someone in a unique manner can create a romantic memory for the rest of your lives. No matter what you choose, you should come up with something that will make your partner feel special. And while it may be a scary prospect to finally express the feelings you have been harboring for a long time, just stop worrying and say it. It will be a beautiful and fond memory for the rest of your lives.


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We celebrated St Patrick's Day in our school on Thursday. We had lots of fun events that day including word searches, colouring and dancing. We also got to learn to sing the song Shotgun as Gaeilge. We all dressed in green on the day.


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Палестина (;  – "Филастин") е името на регион в Близкия изток, граничещ със Средиземно море. В днешно време територията му е поделена между Израел и Палестинската автономия.

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Наименованието на страната идва от името Филистия, дадено на историческата област, заселена от древния морски народ филистимци.

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До Първата световна война под името Палестина се разбират земите между гр. Рафах (югозападно от град Газа) и долината на река Литани. Източната линия е между река Йордан и град Аман. Пустинята Негев обаче не е включена.

През 20-те години на XX век еврейската и арабската имиграция в Палестина е изключително активна. През този период там се заселват повече от 100 000 евреи срещу едва 6000 неевреи. От 1939 година ционистите започват да осъществяват плана за нелегална имиграция на хиляди евреи в Палестина, познат в историята като Алия Бет.

През май 1947 година се създава специална комисия за Палестина на ООН, която разглежда два варианта – единият се състои в предложението за създаване на две независими държави – палестинска и еврейска, като град Йерусалим е поставен под международно управление. Вторият предлага създаването на федерална държава с две отделни административни структури. Арабското население и ръководството на палестинската общност отхвърлят становището на световната организация. Евреите обаче го приемат.

След първата арабско-израелска война през 1948 година фактически се установява само една държава – Израел. Териториите, определени за арабска държава, се заграбват от съседните Йордания, Сирия и Египет.

На 15 ноември 1988 г. националният съвет на Палестинска организация за освобождение провъзгласява в Алжир независимостта на Палестинската държава. Тогава и България признава държавата Палестина.

Палестинската автономия се създава чак през 1994 година. Политическият ѝ статут е предмет на остри спорове. В различни точки на света терминът Палестина се тълкува по различен начин.

На 29 ноември 2012 г. генералната конференция на ЮНЕСКО – главният ръководен орган на Организацията на ООН за образование, наука и култура, приема Палестина за пълноправен член.

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 Императорско православно палестинско общество
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Q: Why does my MacBook not display the date and time in Welsh? In "Languages and Region" I have set my only language to be Cymraeg (Welsh).  It is the only one in the list of preferred languages. However, the date in the top bar is in english.
If I change the language to French it displays the date and time in French. My iPhone can display it in Welsh...
Any ideas?

A: Try using this command in Terminal:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string cy_GB
It worked for me in 10.13, but have not tested in later MacOS versions.
This question indicates it may no longer work.
Mojave and its non-respect of the AppleLocale preference


It's common for a newly formed agile team to find it unnatural that they could be self directing. "What do you mean we decide the right path?" Creating a team of leaders means empowering the team to have a little more autonomy without a manager dictating their every task.
Ants don't have a central command to coordinate their behaviour from a high level. Each ant decides what they need to do for the success of the colony through individual interactions with each other and pheromone trails from others in the colony.
Similarly, bees also don't have a central command. Forging bees communicate their findings to the colony, allowing each bee to make a decision on what to do.
In a healthy agile software team, the individuals communicate with each other and pursue the best path to achieve their priorities. Although there is the occasional need for a manager to correct their path, the team will learn each time they derive a false assumption or conclusion.
This culture harnesses the collective expertise of the team to discover what's best for the company. It produces a team of leaders.
Do you think software teams can be trusted with day-to-day decisions without the involvement of a lead or manager? Tell me what you think.


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Q: Send SMS without user interface in android 4.4.2 I'm trying to send SMS without user interface with SMSManager . thats ok on android 4.1.2 and below but it's not working in Android 4.4.2.
This is my code :
SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
ArrayList<String> msgStringArray = sms.divideMessage(message);
sms.sendMultipartTextMessage(phoneNumber, null, msgStringArray, null,null);

What is wrong ?

A: It's possible that your app cannot send an SMS because of changes in Android 4.4.  Outlined at https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.4.html#SMS you can see the changes.

SMS Provider The Telephony content provider (the "SMS Provider")
  allows apps to read and write SMS and MMS messages on the device. It
  includes tables for SMS and MMS messages received, drafted, sent,
  pending, and more.
Beginning with Android 4.4, the system settings allow users to select
  a "default SMS app." Once selected, only the default SMS app is able
  to write to the SMS Provider and only the default SMS app receives the
  SMS_DELIVER_ACTION broadcast when the user receives an SMS or the
  WAP_PUSH_DELIVER_ACTION broadcast when the user receives an MMS. The
  default SMS app is responsible for writing details to the SMS Provider
  when it receives or sends a new message.
Other apps that are not selected as the default SMS app can only read
  the SMS Provider, but may also be notified when a new SMS arrives by
  listening for the SMS_RECEIVED_ACTION broadcast, which is a
  non-abortable broadcast that may be delivered to multiple apps. This
  broadcast is intended for apps that---while not selected as the
  default SMS app---need to read special incoming messages such as to
  perform phone number verification.
For more information, read the blog post, Getting Your SMS Apps Ready
  for KitKat.


Renault was the top-selling electric carmaker in Germany in 2017 with the Zoe the favorite electric car model of the Germans. Volkswagen and the electric VW Golf are catching up fast.
The Renault Zoe was the most-popular electric car model in Germany in 2017 with Renault the leading electric car brand with a 17% share of the market. For once, Volkswagen was relegated to second place in Germany with the electric Golf only the second most-popular car. Smart and the Fortwo were the third best-selling electric carmaker and model in Germany in 2017. Although electric car sales doubled in Germany in 2017 the actual numbers remain woefully low.
Electric car sales in Germany in 2017 increased by 120% to 25,056 cars.
New passenger vehicle registrations in Germany increased in 2017 by 2.7% to 3,441,262 cars. Electric cars thus had a market share of only 0.7% in Germany.
It also remains to be seen how many of the electric cars remained in Germany in 2017 – in previous years many electric cars were sold on to other countries, especially Norway, as second-hand vehicles.
Renault sold more electric cars in Germany in 2017 than any other car manufacturer. Renault took a 17.2% share of the German new electric car market.
Volkswagen is fast catching up in electric car sales in Germany in 2017 and was the second best-selling electric car brand. VW's 16.4% share of the electric car market in Germany in 2017 was only 2% less than Volkswagen's share of the total German passenger car market.
Smart with a 15% market share was the third largest electric car seller in Germany in 2017. At the opposite end of the market spectrum was fourth placed Tesla.
Kia narrowly outsold BMW while Nissan was the only other carmaker selling more than a thousand electric cars in Germany in 2017.
The electric car sales of Mercedes Benz, Audi and Porsche remained dismally low in Germany in 2017 despite all the electric car studies shown at motor shows in recent years. All three luxury carmakers performed significantly better with hybrid cars in Germany in 2017.
% indicates the percentage share of the model of the specific manufacturer's electric cars sold in Germany in 2017.
The Renault Zoe was Germany's favorite electric car model with 4,322 cars sold and a 17% share of the German electric car market.
The Volkswagen Golf, Germany's best-selling car model since 1981, was in electric form only the second most-popular model in 2017. Volkswagen has a habit of arriving late with new technologies or vehicle classes but then in full force.
However, the Golf only narrowly outsold the third-placed Smart Fortwo. Due to relatively low volumes, a big order from for example a car sharing company can heavily influence sales rank position – more than a third of all electric Fortwo sales were registered in December 2017 alone to relegate the Kia Soul to fourth place only at year end.
The BMW i3 was the fifth most-popular electric car model in Germany in 2017. BMW sold nearly twice as many purely electric i3 cars than those with a range extender that is classified as a hybrid by the KBA.
The relatively expensive Tesla Model S and Model X were the sixth and seventh most-expensive electric cars in Germany in 2017.
The VW Up was the eighth most-popular electric car in Germany.
The Hyundai Ioniq was hampered by availability problems and ended 2017 as the ninth best-selling electric car in Germany.
The Nissan Leaf rounded out the top-ten list of Germany's favorite electric cars in 2017. The Leaf seems to have lost its early-to-market advantage.


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OK, it's been a day now, so I feel comfortable with what I am going to write.
"I maintain, as Americans have believed since the American founding, that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens make communities safer, not less safe," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., a potential presidential candidate, of the magazine-ban legislation. When it was pointed out that citizens aren't allowed to own, say, machine guns, he criticized the attitude of a city where this could even be asked. "I think, particularly in Washington, D.C., the desire is to move immediately off and find something else to blame, and find some public policy that's wanting. I think what we had here was a despicable human being."
"I think they counted over 40 different laws that were broken by the Sandy Hook murderer. Then somebody is going to tell you that one more law, which makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to get a gun, would have stopped him from doing that."
"But since when did the gun automatically become a bad word? A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word… We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work. I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed officers in every single school in this nation."
I also feel comfortable with what I am going to write because I know that the near-fatal wounding of a member of Congress in the middle of a daylight massacre and the slaughter of schoolchildren wasn't enough—that, in fact, the manufacturers of lethal weapons used each of these events as a perverse marketing tool with LaPierre as the chief salesman and members of Congress as their frontmen. I also feel comfortable with what I am going to write because, in 2014, three years after Tuscon and two after Sandy Hook, while on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, waved a flintlock musket over his head, willing to look like an idiot rather than be mistaken for anyone who for a moment thought that there are too many firearms in too many hands for one country to feel comfortable.
That was how the most influential members of our political elite chose to memorialize six people in Arizona and 26 people in Connecticut: by making sure people could buy more weapons. According to The New York Times, that peculiar memorial to the slain continues right up to the present moment.
"Had there not been a member of House leadership present, there would have been no police present, and it would have become the largest act of political terrorism in years, if not ever," Representative Tom Garrett of Virginia said, pointing to legislation he has introduced to make it easier for people to carry a gun in Washington. That bill "would allow the most law-abiding among us to defend themselves," he said.
A day has passed, and that's pretty much as long as it took before we started talking about anything but crazy people and guns, so I feel comfortable in writing that the reaction within our politics and within our political media to the events in Alexandria on Wednesday will prove more dangerous to the republic in the long run than the shooting itself. It also became fairly nauseating. We heard how Democratic and Republican senators were hugging each other. Each congressional tear was counted and catalogued. I mean, holy mother of god, three people were actually killed at a UPS center in San Francisco later on Wednesday morning, but that story got whisked into the dustbin in favor of existential mooing from the halls of Congress, as though the proliferations of instruments of mass killing is not existential threat enough.
There are too many firearms in too many hands for one country to feel comfortable.
My man Chuck Todd was sadly typical of the form, deploring a "tinderbox of constantly escalating rhetoric" and being terribly distressed by "toxic stew that passes for political discourse…for too long our collective politics have demonized the other side for caustic behavior while rationalizing that same behavior when it comes from someone who shares their politics."
In this, my man Chuck Todd is being a dangerous child who somehow slept through the past 25 years. How did things get so "caustic"? Well, who was it that mainstreamed Rush Limbaugh, and all the little mini-Limbaughs who still haunt the radio dials all across the country? Who was it that bought and sold the Purple Heart Band-Aids that mocked John Kerry's service? Who cheered on the Swift Boat liars? Who were the people who accused the Clintons of murder and drug-running? Who were the Birthers? We certainly know who the Birther-in-Chief was. He was the guy who also called upon "Second Amendment people" to confront Hillary Rodham Clinton, and what price has he paid for his lies and slander? He's the damn President* of the United States.
"Oh, it's not a game," Chris interjected.
"—-with what I imagine is a loaded weapon," Sanchez continued.
"We know what we're up against," Hancock continued. "We're up against a tyrannical government that will rob the next generation as long as they can get away with it."
Come to think of it, who was it that sold all those T-shirts about "watering the tree of liberty," and who was it that led the cheers for armed sedition at the Bundy Ranch and at the bird sanctuary in Oregon?
Whose team was it that tweeted out the following, almost a year ago?
Why, that was the staff of Senator Rand Paul, a former presidential candidate and someone who might have been wounded himself on Wednesday had the Capitol Police not stepped in when they did.
"Not a single radicalized Islamic suspect should be granted any measure of quarter," Higgins, the Louisiana Republican and freshman congressman, posted Saturday after an attack on unarmed people in London. "Their intended entry to the American homeland should be summarily denied. Every conceivable measure should be engaged to hunt them down. Hunt them, identity them, and kill them. Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all."
As far as I know, nothing's happened to ol' Clay. He's going to get re-elected for the next 20 years if he so desires.
In truth, "caustic political rhetoric" has a longer history in American politics than the Constitution does. (Colonial pamphleteers were the original scurvy blogging class.) John Adams was not really a hermaphrodite, no matter what Thomas Jefferson's pet newspapers said. However, the pious nonsense about The Tone that hit high tide on Wednesday afternoon does indeed serve political purposes as well. (Let us now praise famous frauds.) First, as we've seen, it is useful in the continuing political effort to render guns irrelevant to outbreaks of gun violence. Second, it was instantly employed to delegitimize genuine public outrage at the policies of this White House and this Congress.
"We've got to do a little bit better planning. Immediately it brings town halls to mind too," Brat told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "You've got 1,000 folks, people that want to give you their views as constituents, etc., but the security thing now is going to be ramped up to a new level. If it takes just one person that's just off the rails on a certain day, it's just not good."
Trouble began even before Pastor Stan Grant of Clover Hill Assembly of God finished his invocation. As he prayed to God that the discussion would go forth "in a way that will honor you," a handful of Brat's critics stood holding small signs aloft. "Nope," "Shame" and "Stop using the Bible as a weapon," they read.
If discussing the relevance of guns to gun crimes is an unacceptable "politicization" of Wednesday's events, then surely talk of "ramping up" security at town hall meetings—which, in my experience, already feature heavy local police presence and, often, pre-screened audiences—is as well.
No, Chuck, caustic political rhetoric isn't going anywhere, despite the ensemble effort to pin the crimes of James Hodgkinson on it. In the first place, there are too damn many people making too much damn money—including one entire cable news outfit, the one that had Sean Hannity broadcasting from the scene of the crime Wednesday night and blaming Kathy Griffin and a production of Julius Caesar. I don't think he should be allowed out in public.
Caustic political rhetoric isn't going anywhere, despite the ensemble effort to pin the crimes of James Hodgkinson on it.
Besides, here are a few things that did not change on Wednesday.
The president* of the United States is still an incompetent buffoon, likely more than half-crooked, and a vulgar talking yam.
Paul Ryan is still the biggest fake in American politics, interested only in how much of the nation's wealth he can shove upwards to the people who buy him his $300 bottles of wine, and a zombie-eyed granny starver.
The Republican plan for healthcare is still simply a front for giving the party's donor class a massive tax cut. It will still throw 23 million people off their healthcare. It will still decimate Medicaid and take a substantial whack at Medicare as well. It will still make worse the lives of people whose lives are hard enough already. It is still worthy of the noisy contempt people demonstrated at the town halls that so unnerved Dave Brat. Now, it is being negotiated almost entirely under the table so as to allow Mitch McConnell, the old musket-brandisher, to ram it through without substantial examination or debate. That also is worthy of noisy contempt and, yes, of political rhetoric as caustic as the proposal is vicious.
Surely, everyone is saddened by what happened at Simpson Field on Wednesday, just as we all should be saddened by what happened in San Francisco a few hours later, just as we all were saddened by the events in Connecticut almost five years ago, or Orlando last year. It would be nice to believe that the events there would produce a new era of comity in our society but, if Sandy Hook wasn't enough, Simpson Field is not likely to be, either. Until there's no profit in hatred, until civility proves to be a ratings juggernaut, nothing will change. Until the instruments of mass killing are regulated as stringently as we regulate automobiles, nothing will change. Until we have as serious a conversation about the actual misuse of the Second Amendment as we are currently having about the alleged misuse of the First, nothing will change.
Editor's Note: This post has been updated to reflect that the Gabby Giffords shooting occurred in Tucson, not Phoenix, and that Senator Rand Paul's staff was responsible for the tweet above, not Paul himself.


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Q: LOG4J 2 Not Flushing Trailing End of Messages I have a webapp that allows a user to change the logging in some part of the application to DEBUG.
Configurator.setLevel(logger, Level.DEBUG);

The user then performs an action that allows DEBUG messages to output to the log file. Most messages come in just fine, but a part of the trailing end of messages doesn't come in. It stops part way. I waited to see if it does update and it did not.
If the user performs the same action again, allowing a further batch of DEBUG message to output, I can see that the part of the output that was missing last time, is now present (identified by its timestamp).
How do I fix this issue and why is the end of a batch of DEBUG messages missing?

A: You should be able to fix this by adding the following to you Log4j.properties
log4j.appender.FILE.ImmediateFlush=true

Note: The default for this value is true.