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The Happy Hackers Act HR 634: A Second Look
Let's return for a moment to HR 634, otherwise known in this space as the "Happy Hackers Act of 2017."
The link above should take you to the text of the bill as introduced by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS). In one page the bill terminates the Election Assistance Commission, puts the OMB in charge of "transition," fobs the duties off on the dysfunctional FEC, and off we go into the wild west of happy hackers.
The bill was introduced on January 24, 2017 and was reported out on a 6-3 party line vote in the House Committee on Administration on February 7th, the same day Democrats filed objections (pdf) to the measure with the House Committee on Administration. Democrats noted that the EAC plays a "critical role in holding voting machine vendors accountable and ensuring certification standards remain high."
Placing jurisdiction over federal election system regulation in the hands of the FEC is cynical at best and destructive at worst. Atlantic magazine reported in December 2013 that the FEC was "broken" amid a flood of cases of questionable money flowing into campaigns, with feuds boiling between commissioners, and a hack attack attributed to agents of the Chinese government. Two years later the New York Times reported the FEC was incapable of curbing election abuses in the upcoming 2016 elections. On February 20, 2017 the Chairwoman of the FEC resigned. It is into the hands of this commission, now with one independent, three Republicans, one Democrat, and one vacant seat, that the House Administration Committee wants to place the future of voting machines and certification standards. The ill-advised HR 634 would place certification standards in the hands of an underfunded, understaffed (300 employees to cover 8,000 election jurisdictions in 50 states plus the District of Columbia) agency. This is conducive to yet another layer of backlogs as questions raised about voting machine security and certification standards would be added to an already debilitated commission. If the intention is to slash oversight on voting machine/system security HR 634 would certainly accomplish that goal.
We've been the unfortunate recipient of hacking into our elections at the hands of the Russian government (2016) a conclusion reached by 16 intelligence agencies and the intelligence community leadership, despite the President's feckless commentary on the subject; and if security standards are unenforced then we're at even greater risk of intrusion into what has heretofore been unavailable to Russian hackers — the actual vote tally itself.
It's unfortunate the bill was reported out of committee last February, it would be even more lamentable if the bill were to make it to the floor for a vote; and yet
more calamitous should the bill pass the House of Representatives.
Representative Mark Amodei (R-NV2) can be reached at 5310 Kietzke Lane #103, Reno, Nevada 89511; 905 Railroad Street #104D, Elko, NV 89801; or 332 Cannon Building, Washington, DC 20515.
Representative Ruben Kihuen (D-NV4): 313 Cannon Building, Washington, DC 20515; 2250 North Las Vegas Blvd #500, North Las Vegas, NV 89030
Representative Jacky Rosen (D-NV3): 8872 S. Eastern Avenue #220, Las Vegas, NV 89123; 413 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC 20515.
Representative Dina Titus (D-NV1): 2464 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC 20515; 495 S. Main St. 3rd floor, Las Vegas, NV 89101.
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SJR 34 and Your Internet Privacy
The purpose of SJR 34 (and HJR 86) was simple: To allow Internet Service Providers to collect and sell your Internet browsing history. Not only did Senator Dean Heller support this, he signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill on March 7, 2017, one of 23 sponsors to do so. Who's impacted by this? Anyone who links through Comcast (17 million customers), AT&T (another 17 million customers), Time Warner Cable (add another 14 million customers), Century Link (additional 6.4 million customers), Charter (another 5 million customers), and a host of smaller providers. [Ecom] (See also PEcom)
Nevada customers of AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox and others, are also among those whose private browsing history can be tracked, collected, and sold off. [into link]
It seems bad enough to have the ISPs sell off information about browsing history to advertisers, who after browsing one day for sneakers, would want to be bombarded by advertising for the next year with sneaker ads? Browsed for 'best garden supplies?' Expect ads for plant food, fertilizers, spades, and wheelbarrows for eternity? Then the scenarios become more pernicious.
Browse for information on asthma? Not only is the human browser now in line for a multitude of ads for medications, but there's a hint here that some personal medical history may have been collected and sold. The same issue might be raised about those looking up symptoms and treatments for everything from pediatric illnesses to Alzheimer's Disease. Thus far we're only talking about the initial sales, and the use of the collections by commercial advertisers. However, there's a question about what constitutes a buyer for the information?
The buyer might not have to be, for example, the Interpublic Group of New York City, one of the nation's largest advertising firms. Could the buyer be the WPP Group of London, UK? Or, the Dentsu Group, of Tokyo. Could the buyer be RMAA, the largest advertising firm in Russia? Is there any protection in the bill to prevent the secondary sale of browser histories from an advertising agency to a data management and analysis company? What we have herein is a bill to allow the transfer of massive amounts of valuable data collected from individuals in the United States to the highest bidder, with little or no consideration of the after effects.
Gee, let's hypothesize that I'm a foreign power with some experience dabbling in US state and national elections. Let's also assume that the foreign power is familiar with inserting 'bots' to drive traffic to particular websites, or insert fake news, confirmation bias 'news,' and other practices into the research patterns of American Internet users. What do I want? I want data on where those people 'go' on the Internet; the better I know my 'target' the better I can hone my message. Do those who go to Senator Bilgewater's site also tend to go to sites concerning wildlife preservation? If I can put these two bits of information together I can more effectively insert advertising either for or against the Senator. I can more effectively insert phony information into my messaging for the supporters or opponents of Bilgewater. In short, I can 'dabble' more efficiently. Even more bluntly, have we handed our adversaries more ammunition for their advertising and propaganda guns?
The Senate twin in the House (HJR 86)/SJR 34 passed on March 28, 2017, only Representative Mark Amodei (R-NV2) voted in favor of the bill; Representatives Kihuen, Titus, and Rosen voted against it. [RC 202]
At the risk of facetiousness on a serious topic, when Jill, of downtown East Antelope Ear, NV, goes online to search for a bargain on bed sheets, does she find herself viewing a plethora of ads for sex toys, a result of Jack's periodic perusal of pornography sites? Would a simple search for high thread count sheets yield the splitting of those sheets in the Jack and Jill household? At least Jack and Jill will know whom to call about the issue — Senator Dean Heller and Representative Mark Amodei, who thought selling browser histories to be a grand idea at the time.
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Please stop clapping long enough to check your wallet?
The followers of the Orange Agent of Change applaud his "actions" which they take to mean validating their world view informed by Faux News. If they have a moment, they might want to stop for a moment and check their wallets.
At the next town hall meeting, if in fact your Republican Representative deigns to have one, there are some pertinent questions you might want to ask because they relate directly to your very own money.
(1) Why did the Republican House pass HJ Res 67 on February 15, 2017 which rescinded the Labor Department rule requiring financial advisers for retirement accounts to give YOU advice in YOUR best interest, and instead allowing those advisers to revert to giving you advice that could be based on what was profitable for their own firm?
*Nevada note: Representatives Rosen, Titus, and Kihuen voted against this, Representative Amodei voted in favor of it.
The babble you may get from those Representatives in support of this will almost certainly center on the banksters' argument that the rule impinges on their profitability, and may thereby reduce their ability to provide service to you. Service like this you could do without. If your financial adviser won't agree to provide you with retirement investment suggestions based on YOUR best interests, then it's time for you to reconsider your relationship with that company. You should expect your adviser to act in YOUR best interests and not use you (and your money) to generate fees and revenue for their own company.
(2) Why do House Republicans want to strip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of its power to protect average Americans from predatory lenders and other financial scams?
"Legislation in the works would limit the bureau's enforcement authority, reduce its ability to make rules and repeal its consumer complaint system.
It would also greatly shrink the enforcement tools at the consumer watchdog's disposal, blocking it from being able to go after businesses engaged in deceptive practices and restricting its oversight of big publicly traded companies that are already regulated by agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission." [NYT] [The Hill]
This is precisely what H.R. 1031, introduced by Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX4) would do. Please pay special attention to the part wherein the GOP wants to strip out the consumer complaint system. Without consumer complaints Wells Fargo could have gleefully, and profitably, carried on opening fraudulent accounts and charging fees. Instead, they'll be paying a $185 million dollar fine. [NYT] In fact, the CFPB has caused the restitution of some $11 billion for defrauded Americans. [The Hill] The bill looks to be approved by the House Financial Services Committee. Remember how Republicans are fond of telling you that you deserve to keep your money? Well, the CFPB is one good way of helping you to keep your very own money out of the mitts of unscrupulous banksters.
Here's guessing that removing the relative independence of the CFPB is a way to reward the banksters, the predatory lenders, and others who don't want any restrictions on their actions – no matter the cost to US consumers – and this should not pass unnoticed. This isn't exactly helping you keep your money in your wallet or bank account.
Then perhaps the Congressional representative will be willing to hear what you have to say about stripping 320,000 of their health care insurance coverage in the state of Nevada? [previously on DB]
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Amodei votes to make oil corporation corruption easier
On February 1, 2017 Representative Mark Amodei (R-NV2) cast two ill considered votes. He voted Yes on HJ Res 41, to eliminate the requirement that oil and energy companies report their payments to foreign governments. Think about this for a second, while African and other nations around the world are trying to root out corruption, the US House has approved allowing these corporations to hide their payments to foreign governments. (Vote 73)
Also on February 1, 2017, Representative Amodei voted to scrap a rule preventing the pollution of streams by coal extraction companies. HJ Res 38, vote 71. Thus much for concern about clean drinking water in these regions, about polluted streams' impact on wildlife, and the effect of pollution on recreational use (hunting and fishing) and tourist attraction.
Representatives Kihuen, Titus, Rosen, voted against these two pieces of Republican legislation.
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And They Voted To What? House GOP wants to drop the new fiduciary rule
The Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives did try to do some business in the midst of the Democratic representatives' sit in, and a miserable bit of business it was.
"House Republicans on Wednesday failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed to block the Obama administration's controversial standards for financial advisers. The House voted 239-180 to block the fiduciary rule, well more than 40 votes short of the total needed.
Wednesday night's vote came as Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor, starting around nearly 12 hours earlier, to push for a vote on legislation to prevent terror suspects from buying guns." [TheHill]
There's a little story about priorities herein. While the Democrats were trying to get the leadership to schedule votes on gun safety legislation, the Republicans were trying to make it easier for financial advisers to rip people off. [TP]
Let's try to make this as simple as humanly possible. "Fiduciary" /fəˈdooSHēˌerē,-SHərē/, " involving trust, especially with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary." Think of that pile of money in the graphic above as your savings. You have trusted a financial adviser to tell you the best investments you can make to get a good return on your savings, especially for your retirement account. You are trusting that what your investment and/or financial adviser is telling you is in your best interest.
The Department of Labor has drafted a rule to require your financial adviser to act in your best interest regarding your investments – and not to give you advice on financial products that will do more for the investment advisers than they will do for you. In short, it's a matter of trust — you should be able to trust what your financial adviser is telling you. You should be able to trust that the advice isn't intended to feather the nests of the investment advisers instead of yours.
So, what have the Republicans been doing? Return with us now to the Senate side of the Capitol building. On May 24, 2016 the Republican controlled Senate voted to kill the Labor Department rule. [vote 84] The vote was 56-41, obviously not sufficient to over-ride the promised veto. And, who voted along with other Republicans to kill the rule? None other than our own Bankers' Boy, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).
Now, let's return to the House side of the Capitol Building. HJ Res 88, " On disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to the definition of the term "Fiduciary," on passage, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding… [vote 338] And who from the great state of Nevada voted to kill the rule? Representatives Mark Amodei (R-NV2), Cresent Hardy (R-NV4), and Joe Heck (R-NV3). Who as a member of Nevada's congressional delegation did NOT vote to allow financial advisers to act in their own best interests rather than yours – Representative Dina Titus (D-NV1). The attempt to overturn the Labor Department rule failed 239-180. The Republicans needed a 2/3rds majority to get rid of the rule, and thanks to Representative Titus and 179 other members of the House they didn't get it.
In spite of the Republicans' best efforts – your financial adviser will now have to offer investment advice based on what is in YOUR best interests – and not peddle financial products that will garner fees, kickbacks, and other "revenue enhancement" for the advisers.
And, THIS is what the Republicans thought was more important than scheduling votes on gun safety in America.
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GOP's State of Confusion: Anti-LBGT or Anti-Muslim or Both
OK, I am officially confused. Which is it, does the GOP want to be seen as the champion of conservative religious tenets which hold homosexuality as sin and corruption; or, does the GOP want to be thanked as the protector of homosexuals from the evil-doing nasty folks of IS/Daesh?
Invisible Victims
No matter how hard some conservatives may try to avoid saying LGBT, the attack in Orlando, Florida was made on a GAY nightclub. As noted previously Representative Dina Titus (D-NV1) was capable of observing this fact; while, on the GOP side of the aisle Representative Cresent Hardy (R-NV4) just couldn't quite resist the temptation to generalize the victims. Somehow, Representative Hardy's lights couldn't illuminated the fact that the victims were in a GAY nightclub. He's not alone.
The Republican National Committee's first response mentioned "lifestyles," but even that was edited out of their second edition – now the terror attack was made on "any American." Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) publically denied Pulse was a GAY nightclub immediately before blocking attempts to provide LGBT protections in a bill before his committee. [TP]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was blunt: "This body should not be engaged in political games," Cruz said. "We should be focused on the threat and keeping America safe and defeating radical Islamic terrorism." [BusIns] Against whom? Once again, the victims of the horrendous attack were invisible.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was just as vague in remarks made on the Senate floor yesterday — "This week in Orlando, Americans were targeted deliberately and taken forever from their families by a terrorist ISIL has claimed is "one of the soldiers of the caliphate." It is clear from his behavior that this was not a random act of violence. This was a calculated act of terror." [LoC pdf] Scrolling down the entirety of the Majority Leader's comments yields exactly Zero references to the victims of the Orlando attacks – patrons of a GAY nightclub.
Yes, it was obviously calculated, and yes, it was an act of terrorism – against the patrons of a GAY nightclub.
Squirrel Logic
But wait, after making the victims of the assault on the Pulse nightclub almost perfectly invisible in their comments about the attack, the GOP would now have us believe they champion GAY rights? Excuse my confusion – I would have thought these people were invisible to you but…
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) appears on the scene with this bit of baffling political analysis: "Democrats are in a perplexing position. On the one hand, they're trying to appeal to the gay community, but, on the other hand, they're trying to also appeal to the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America," Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)" [TPM]
And, far be it from Mr. Trump to pass up an opportunity to stick his oar in the muddied waters:
Donald Trump, in his first major speech after the weekend's tragedy suggested that Hillary Clinton "can never claim to be a friend of the gay community." "She can't have it both ways," Trump said. "She can't claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress them." Ask yourself, who really is the friend of women and the LBGT community: Donald Trump with his actions or Hillary Clinton with her words?" [TPM]
There seems to be more than a little political semantic gamesmanship here. The message to the heretofore invisible LGBT community seems to be either you are anti-Islam or you have to be anti-LGBT, there is no middle ground. This conflation of all practitioners of Islam as anti-gay is as inaccurate as it is distasteful divisive rhetoric. Those unsure of this might want to consider the following comments by an Islamic scholar in the Dallas Morning News:
"As Muslims we believe there's no compulsion in religion. That's actually a Quranic verse. Everyone adheres to their own set of values, their own set of morals. But that should not lead to the oppression of another person or to harming another individual. The way that we talk about that is the way that we talk about anything in the Quran or in the prophetic tradition.
Yes, you're going to find Muslims that would offer revised interpretations of the Quran. But I think one thing that's important to stress is that conservative is not the same thing as radical. If a person has conservative views that they uphold within their own family life, so long as that does not lead to denying, belittling, or dehumanizing someone else, then I don't think that's particularly problematic."
Thus much for the lack of middle ground. Doing a quick inventory – Islam is not a compulsive religion (check), Islam has conservative followers (check), Islam teaches that one's beliefs may not "deny, belittle, or dehumanize" someone else. (check) Conservatives are not necessarily radicals. (check) Only in the most bigoted way imaginable could a person decide that all members of the Islamic faith are radicals. Only in the most prejudicial manner could a person proclaim that all followers of Islam are necessarily so anti-gay that they could excuse or rejoice in the killing of their fellow citizens.
There may be a second message in the dog whistling coming from these Republican remarks. It's message to their own base. If the actual victims of the massacre are invisible, and if they can be generalized out of the picture, then it's possible to believe that all Muslims are radical, and it's acceptable to "monitor, screen, place them under surveillance, and restrict their freedom and liberty" in the name of public safety for "all Americans" (except the ones we won't name.)
A third screech from the dog whistle may be aimed at a more general audience. By creating an artificial "either/or" proposition the GOP can seek to associate Democrats with Muslims. The inference is that Muslims are dangerous, Democrats support Muslims, ergo Democrats are dangerous. Their's is a simple but demonstrably false syllogism which depends on the acceptance of the initial false proposition that ALL Muslims are dangerous. I'm fond of calling this Squirrel Logic: Squirrels have hair on their heads. That man has hair on his head. Therefore, that man is a squirrel.
While the GOP may wish to fixate on the terrorism facet of the attack on the GAY nightclub, what happened seems far more complex. The horrific massacre had more than one element – it had a very disturbed radicalized young American man wielding military weaponry with a high lethality rate, in a GAY nightclub, who intended to kill GAY people. It really isn't hard to unpack the elements. A marginalized person (self or otherwise?) who attached himself to a radicalized version of a religion, and who had easy access to a military weapon and enough ammunition to launch a killing spree in a GAY nightclub, the victims in which have themselves been marginalized in anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Taking any one of the elements out of the toxic equation shouldn't lead us to conclude that there is any single policy change that would have prevented the tragedy. However, removing at least one certainly wouldn't hurt and might help avoid subsequent attacks.
It would help if we could tone down the anti-LGBT rhetoric. Just as it is no longer socially acceptable to make a joke of someone's ethnicity, wouldn't it be nice if the mocking, demeaning, and dismissal of a person's sexual orientation were no longer acceptable in polite society. This isn't "political correctness," it's merely fine old fashioned good manners. It would be even more helpful if we could enact statutes protecting the rights of members of the LGBT community and being as concerned about their rights as we are our own.
It would help if we toned down the anti-Islam barrage. Those whose image of Muslims, and especially of Muslim Americans, is composed of TV footage of Daesh outrages, or foreign cultural practices commonly abhorred, should take note of the many resources available for better understanding their Muslim neighbors. They should consider the following statements from Muslim community leaders:
Dawud Walid the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Michigan says Mateen doesn't represent Muslims in the U.S. His message to the public; Muslims are American and as all other Americans, they are loyal to their country even if they disagree with certain issues.The rule of American Muslims is to abide by the laws of the land and to be peaceful and this recent extremist act that took place this morning, is the rare exception and in no way embodies our morals or our values as Americans citizens who just happen to be Muslims," said Walid. [CBS Detroit]
Or, this:
"We condemn this monstrous attack and offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of all those killed or injured. The Muslim community joins our fellow Americans in repudiating anyone or any group that would claim to justify or excuse such an appalling act of violence."
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding." [CAIR]
A little more mutual understanding should certainly help more than vilifying the American Muslim community.
It would help if we made it less likely that a disturbed or deranged individual could get access to a military style weapon of war, which were never designed for civilian use. There are listings of weapons by lethality. The AK-47 style; the M-16 (AR-15) "family"; the M240 machine gun; the PK machine gun; the QBZ 95 assault rifle. It would seem reasonable that if a gun is listed as one of the five most lethal weapons in the world that common sense implies its ownership should be restricted. Perhaps restricting the magazine capacity would assist in diminishing the lethality of these weapons when they are misused by civilians? That, too, sounds like common sense.
It would help if we de-stigmatized those who are harboring feelings which are anti-social and the antithesis of stability. Who missed the signals that the Orlando shooter was demonstrating troubling personal behavior? Were the signals and warnings acted upon appropriately? Who could have warned authorities that the Aurora, Colorado theater shooter was exhibiting disturbing behavior – do we need to emphasize the necessity of giving local authorities a warning about those who combine disturbed thinking with fixations on violence? Who might have warned authorities about the intentions of the Colorado Springs PPA facility shooter? We are fond of saying "If you see something, say something," why not practice what we're preaching? And, why not support the funding and increased resources of our mental health services?
If we persist in seeing only those elements of mass shootings which conform to our pre-existing ideologies then we'll miss the opportunities available to diminish the likelihood of further mass tragedies. A broader perspective is required to reach better horizons.
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A Study In Contrasts: Responses to Orlando Shooting from Titus and Hardy
Nevada's First District Congressional Representative gets it:
"The nation is devastated by this horrific act of terror and hate at a nightclub that symbolizes the empowerment of the LGBT community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones, but they are not enough. This senseless loss of life from gun violence must stop. As we mourn, we must continue to reflect upon and fight for civil rights during LGBT Pride Month. Terror must not silence our collective voice." Dina Titus (D-NV1) [KTNV]
For every act of terrorism there is a target. In the instance of the Pulse in Orlando the target was the LGBT community. And, then there's Representative Cresent Hardy's response to the tragedy, one who obviously doesn't get it:
"I want to lift up the victims of this horrible attack and their loved ones while giving thanks to the brave first responders who undoubtedly prevented further loss of life.
"Last night's attack is a reminder that we must remain vigilant against the clear and present danger of radical Islamic terrorism. Whatever differences we may have here in the United States, we are all Americans and we all cherish our freedoms and way of life. Together, we will come together to defeat this extremism in defense of our fellow citizens and our liberty." Cresent Hardy (R-NV4) [KTNV]
There's nothing quite like using the generic "victims of this horrible attack" to avoid saying L G B T. The victims were members of the LGBT community and their friends. Representative Hardy focuses on the the Muslim community with the catch phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," as if saying the magic words will strike terror into terrorist hearts – not likely. It's just more fodder for the Daesh-IS propaganda machine which would be delighted if the United States were to announce a "war on Islam;" it would make their narrative ever so much more effective when recruiting the disaffected, the marginalized, and the unstable. Rally round the Flag (maybe not that Rainbow One) folks, to defeat "this extremism." This dangerous but miniscule extremism. Let's be clear: Islam is a religion; Daesh/IS is a death cult.
There are about 1.6 billion adherents to the Islamic faith, and the old count of 25,000 to 31,500 members of Daesh (IS) was revised recently to a range of 19,000 to 25,000. Let's be generous and allow Daesh some 31,000 members. Get out the handy plastic brains and the calculation is 31,000 divided by 1,600,000,000; or, 0.00019375; or, 0.0194%. What this number illustrates is what the Feds have been trying to tell us for some time now – the danger lies with the Lone Wolves. Well armed Lone Wolves.
If we read Rep. Hardy's statement carefully we'd note that not once does he mention HOW the victims died.
Representative Titus did notice the method by which 49 people were killed, and 53 others injured — "senseless loss of life from gun violence…" in this case from the mass killers' weapon of choice the AR-15.
"The AR-15's popularity with killers has continued as well. This past October, Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, went on a rampage with an AR-15 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. He killed nine people before killing himself.
The AR-15 was among the weapons used by Islamic terrorists Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, when they opened fire at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., in December. They killed 14." [NYDN]
The ubiquitous AR-15 (there may be as many as 9 million of these weapons of mass killings in circulation in this country) also appeared at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting. [TP]
However, Representative Hardy, the recipient of some $3,000 so far in the 2016 election cycle from the National Rifle Association, is probably not going to mention HOW the LGBT victims in the Pulse died at the hands of a delusional lone wolf armed with an AR-15.
Perhaps, Representative Hardy doesn't want to speak to delusional lone wolves who shoot up gay bars, but any rational discussion of these mass killings should incorporate HOW the LGBT victims died, and why so many. So many? Because technically the AR-15 can fire 13.3 rounds per second, or 800 rounds per minute. Some claim that the AR-15 is capable of 45 rounds per minute, in the pre-modified state. Somewhere in the middle is the relatively easily attained capacity of 120 rounds to 180 rounds per minute. [quora] Add some high capacity magazines, and our lone wolf is prepared for carnage.
"In his piece at Human Events, Keene (NRA) ridiculed the notion that AR-15-style rifles ought to be banned just because "a half dozen [AR-15s] out of more than three million have been misused after illegally falling into the hands of crazed killers." But the AR-15 is very good at one thing: engaging the enemy at a rapid rate of fire. When someone like Adam Lanza uses it to take out 26 people in a matter of minutes, he's committing a crime, but he isn't misusing the rifle. That's exactly what it was engineered to do." [Slate]
Careful here, a half dozen AR-15's were misused after "illegally falling into the hands of crazed killers?" First, the guns themselves are no longer illegal in the hands of civilians. Secondly, the gun in Orlando was sold to a person legally capable of its purchase – so too in San Bernardino, – so too in Newtown.
Thanks to the National Rifle Association and its minions in Congress we have NOT renewed the assault weapons ban, we have not limited the sale of high capacity magazines, we have not enacted statutes for universal background checks, we have not statutorily denied the sale of assault weapons to those on terrorist watch lists. Indeed, in the GOP controlled 114th Congress we have not even voted on these issues.
Perhaps now more than ever Representative Titus's words ring true: "Terror must not silence our collective voice."
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An arrhythmia is a disorder of the heart rate (pulse) or heart rhythm. The heart can beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia), or irregularly.
An arrhythmia can be harmless, a sign of other heart problems, or an immediate danger to your health.
Normally, your heart works as a pump that brings blood to the lungs and the rest of the body.
To help this happen, your heart has an electrical system that makes sure it contracts (squeezes) in an orderly way.
The electrical impulse that signals your heart to contract begins in an area of the heart called the sinoatrial node (also called the sinus node or SA node). This is your heart's natural pacemaker.
The signal leaves the SA node and travels through the heart along a set electrical pathway.
Different nerve messages signal your heart to beat slower or faster.
Arrhythmias are caused by problems with the heart's electrical conduction system.
Abnormal (extra) signals may occur.
Electrical signals may be blocked or slowed.
Electrical signals travel in new or different pathways through the heart.
Sometimes medicines used to treat one type of arrhythmia will cause another type of abnormal heart rhythm.
An arrhythmia may be present all of the time or it may come and go. You may or may not feel symptoms when the arrhythmia is present. Or, you may only notice symptoms when you are more active.
Symptoms can be very mild, or they may be severe or even life threatening.
The health care provider will listen to your heart with a stethoscope and feel your pulse. Your blood pressure may be low or normal.
An ECG will be the first test done.
An echocardiogram is often ordered to examine the size or structure of your heart.
Coronary angiography to see how blood flows through the arteries in your heart.
A special test, called an electrophysiology study (EPS), is done to take a closer look at the heart's electrical system.
Sometimes, better treatment for your angina or heart failure will lower your chance of having an arrhythmia.
Some of these medicines can have side effects. Take them as prescribed by your provider. DO NOT stop taking the medicine or change the dose without first talking to your provider.
Permanent pacemaker, a device that senses when your heart is beating irregularly, too slowly, or too fast. It sends a signal to your heart that makes your heart beat at the correct pace.
Whether you have coronary artery disease, heart failure, or valvular heart disease.
You develop any of the symptoms of a possible arrhythmia.
You have been diagnosed with an arrhythmia and your symptoms worsen or DO NOT improve with treatment.
Taking steps to prevent coronary artery disease may reduce your chance of developing an arrhythmia.
Rubart M, Zipes DP. Genesis of cardiac arrhythmias, electrophysiologic considerations. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, Braunwald E, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 33.
Tracy CM, Epstein AE, Darbar D, et al. 2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused update of the 2008 guidelines for device-based therapy of cardiac rhythm abnormalities: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;60(14):1297-1313. PMID: 22975230 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22975230.


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Prowadzenie - mężczyzn – jedna z ekstremalnych konkurencji sportowych rozgrywana przez mężczyzn na 15. Mistrzostwach Świata we Wspinaczce Sportowej w ramach wspinaczki sportowej podczas mistrzostw świata w Olympiahalle w austriackim mieście Innsbruck w dniach 6–9 września 2016. Mistrzem świata w konkurencji prowadzenie został Austriak Jakob Schubert, srebrny medal przypadł Czechowi Adamowi Ondrze, a brązowy zdobył Niemiec Alexander Megos.

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Konkurencja rozpoczęła się eliminacjami w dniu 6 sierpnia o godzinie 10:00 (czasu miejscowego). Finał rozegrano w dniu 9 o godz 12:00.

Uczestnicy
Do zawodów wspinaczkowych w konkurencji prowadzenia zgłoszonych zostało 124 wspinaczy sportowych.  Polskę w prowadzeniu reprezentowali; Maciej Dobrzański, który zajął 98 miejsce, a Marcin Dzieński był 123.

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124 zawodników wystartowało w eliminacjach mistrzostw świata, do fazy półfinałowej zakwalifikowało się 26 wspinaczy z najlepszymi wynikami, którzy następnie walczyli o występ w finale. W finale o medale wałczyło 10 zawodników.

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I've just read Howard Zinn's latest article, "Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire." I admire Howard Zinn, but I feel his critiques of America's sins go only halfway.
Zinn seems to have had the same experience learning about American history in school that I did: either you didn't read anything negative, negative things were blandly presented as neutral, or negatives were horribly presented as positives.
Then, like me and most other people who come to love American history, Zinn started reading on his own, and finding out about the atrocities American governments and people have committed.
But Zinn seems to have accepted these atrocities as evidence that the idea that the United States was founded in an effort to promote justice and freedom is a lie. If you check back to my About page, you can read a fuller explanation of why I think this is a mistake.
Yes, Americans have done terrible things to each other and to other peoples. But those failures to live up to the principles we were founded on are just that–failures to live up to real principles that really were set up to guide our nation and make it a successful experiment in real democracy.
If, like Zinn, you see these failures as proof that America has always been a lie, that we have no real principles to live up to, then I believe you simply give yourself cynical permission to be morally lazy. If America was never really different from any other nation, if it has no uniquely good principles to live up to, then why care if we commit atrocities? Why care if we build an empire? If America has always been bad, how can you change it?
Zinn hopes that we have "reached a point in history where we are ready to embrace a new way of living in the world, expanding not our military power, but our humanity". I get the feeling that he sees this place as a new beginning, to build up from. But we already have a blueprint and platform for living justly in the world–our founding documents, particulary the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We don't have to make something new and unknown from scratch. We just have to live up to what we already have.
So to read Zinn is just step one. Read Zinn! Learn the entire history of your nation. Face up to the problems of being an American today. But don't stop there, depressed and demoralized, feeling like this country is the worst country in the history of the world. Hearken back to the principles we are supposed to uphold, and start upholding them. Then we will indeed reach a point where we can abandon our empire-building and bring good to the world. Like we're supposed to.
The HBO series John Adams (and the book on which it is based) are illustrative, to your point. Even at the founding of our democracy, there was this constant struggle to keep true to and inspired by the ideals. So anti-British sentiment can be displayed as violent tarring and feathering — Adams' hated mob — or rational discourse. But then the rational discourse can water down ideals (the early congressional meetings look incredibly boring) or can turn into mere word play (as per Adams' experience in France). The struggle to stay true was true as the truth was being defined.


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As Caravan of Asylum Seekers Approaches the US, Immigrant Rights Groups Condemn Session's Threat to Keep Immigrants Indefinitely Detained
Over 50 Immigrant Rights Advocacy Groups filed an Amicus Brief Condemning Jeff Sessions' Effort to Increase the Power of ICE, Take Away Power from Judges, in Deciding Immigrant Detention Read the brief here.
Washington, DC – As a caravan of thousands of people seeking asylum approaches the United States, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is preparing to make a move that would allow him to keep any asylum seeker detained indefinitely. Today, immigrant rights advocacy groups and community leaders across the country joined to condemn Attorney General Jeff Sessions' latest power grab to further take away the power of immigration judges, leaving the decision of whether certain immigrants, such as asylum seekers, should be released from detention solely to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The more than 50 organizations filed a 'People's Amicus Brief' detailing their opposition.
"The actions of Jeff Sessions are yet another example of this administration's racist and anti-immigrant agenda," said Jacinta Gonzalez, Field Director for Mijente. "This decision would take away any opportunity for people to go before an immigration judge to present their case for bond, leaving the decision solely up to ICE agents, who have become President Trump's national police force. This will lead to a massive increase in the number of people held in immigration detention, including those held indefinitely."
In early September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would overturn a precedent by the Board of Immigration Appeals in the decision known as "Matter of X-K," which held that immigration judges have the power to release certain migrants on bond at a hearing. The last day to submit comments through amicus briefs is November 9. The brief describes why they oppose the Attorney General's latest power grab, including the alarming nature of leaving this critical decision up to ICE agents.
ICE has a documented track record of abuse. It is responsible for fatal medical neglect, collusion with private prison companies, lack of transparency and accountability, and a culture of violence and impunity. Most recently, the agency missed its first three deadlines for reporting to Congress about what detention facilities it uses to hold immigrants, only to finally release a list riddled with error and deception.
Advocates underscored how the asylum process is already failing people looking for safety and protection at today's press conference. This decision will only make it harder for people and their loved ones to access critical legal services, a struggle faced by the majority of 44,000 people incarcerated daily in immigrant jails and prisons.
"Sessions, along with President Trump, are advancing policies that erode our democratic values, civil rights, and judicial processes in this country" Gabriela Marquez-Benitez, Senior Organizer at Detention Watch Network. "We know this decision will be leveraged as a sinister justification to expand immigration detention and keep more members of our community in jail. We are ready to expose this abuse and fight against it at every turn."
The amicus brief was filed on October 29th, 2018, and included over 50 organizations around the country, including national support from Mijente, Detention Watch Network, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Bail Fund Network.
Mijente is a national Latinx digital and grassroots hub for Latinx and Chicanx movement building and organizing leading on mobilizing against immigration enforcement and criminalization.
Freedom for Immigrants is devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system. We visit and monitor 55 immigrant prisons and jails, and we run the largest national hotline for detained immigrants. Through these windows into the system, we gather data and stories to combat injustice at the individual level and push systemic change.
Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to expose and challenge the injustices of the United States' immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons. Founded in 1997 by immigrant rights groups, DWN brings together advocates to unify strategy and build partnerships on a local and national level to end immigration detention. Visit www.detentionwatchnetwork.org.
RAICES is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas.
Behind the viral fundraiser: meet the aid group reuniting familiesRAICES Response to #PittsburghSynagogue Terrorist Attack

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Philippic
A philippic is a written or verbal speech or essay that is full of anger or bitterness against a person, company, or idea. Common synonyms are tirade or diatribe. The plural form is philippics.
This term comes from the Greek word given to the speeches spoken against Philip II of Macedon. Subsequent speeches were called, in Greek, 'speeches relating to Philip'. Centuries later the term was applied to similar diatribes given against Marc Antony.
When one is referring to these specific speeches, philippic is capitalized, sometimes as the Philippics, referring to the speeches as a whole. However, it should be lowercase in all other instances.
The height of its popularity, at least according to Google's Ngram Viewer, was about 1820. It has declined since, though it has stayed at about the same level of usage for the last two decades. When clarity is paramount, we suggest using a synonym.
Now comes author and New Republic editor Franklin Foer with the stirring philippic, "Amazon Must Be Stopped." [The Boston Globe]
The nation watches in wild amazement the philippic responses from government functionaries: a tale of two cabinet Ministers and two deputy ministers. [Ghana Web]
For him, it's about delivering yet more philippics against Europe, because he reckons that will be helpful for his electoral campaign early next year and therefore he doesn't want any solution. [DW]
For instance, Adebayo Williams described one of Wole Soyinka's anti-Buhari philippics as "dripping with venom and vitriol" (The Nation 21 January, 2007). [Sun News Online]


Many of you have probably used an interactive whiteboard and either added text, shapes, or colors to it. Mural.ly is an online whiteboard on steroids. You can add photos, links, video, presentations, and comments. It even has a chat box that you can use during collaboration.
It you are still not sure of the concept go to Mural.ly and immediately test it out with the neat widget right there on the home page without signing up. If you do sign up, it takes a minute to learn, with the exception of the zoom in and out feature. But if you have ever used Prezi it will be a snap.
Instead of suggesting one particular lesson here, I am going to generate a few ideas that could help you get started using it with your classes. Then I hope others will generate more potential lesson ideas below.
Before beginning an actual lesson, make sure that you have at least demonstrated the features, if not had them try hands on. Consider showing them the instructional video clip.
In small groups, (the board could look busy if too many students are on) use it to engage learners and activate schema around a topic. A simple example might be when a class is reading about a news event. Ask them to demonstrate the location of the event with text, links, or pictures, or ask them to add YouTube news video of related stories.
Have beginning ELLs (or others) share photos of their family and then describe each family member.
Ask students to add their favorite YouTube videos on a specified topic. For example: For ELLs, the past tense; for ABE, fractions; and for career readiness, how to prepare for an interview.
Each student shares a link to their favorite educational website. The other students in the group go to the sites and share one thing that they learned on them.
Have students use the comment feature to share their thoughts about another student's posting.
As a writing activity, ask students to work together to give directions or instructions. You might suggest they use arrows pointing from one step to another.
Have students use Mural.ly for a collaboration tool as they brainstorm ideas, gather resources, and organize their presentation. Make sure they use the chat box to communicate!
Create a holiday board, for example in anticipation of Thanksgiving, with images, videos and "stickies" stating what they are thankful for. (You might want to consider a project that deals with how Native Americans view this day.) Follow up with an activity after the holiday where students might add photos or comments about how they spent the day off.
Using stickies, ask learners to reflect on how they will use the information they learned in a lesson.
Have students share their project documents, presentation or video on Murla.ly.
Use the chat feature to ask questions about a topic and have students respond in real time.
Share any comments, your experience using this activity or any suggested variations you have (particularly using other technologies).
Today's lesson is from Joe Panzica, adult education instructor in central Massachusetts. The goal of the lesson is to provide practice or an introduction to spreadsheets and coordinate geometry to students with little or no experience with either. Students will calculate and plot points based on an equation and see how an equation can describe a straight line, a smooth curve, or a symmetrical pattern.
Put the function table and coordinate grid on the board. (You can download and project the template spreadsheet above).
Repeat the above using numbers that form a straight line. Plot at least five points.
Review with notes on the board: A point on a grid is identified by two coordinates: x (horizontal) and y (vertical).
Erase the function table and write a simple linear equation in the equation box. Enter x values and let the class calculate the y value. You can demonstrate the algebraic method of writing the equation, plugging in the x value, and solving. Then plot the points forming a straight line. You can also enter some y values and then calculate the x values.
At first, students might just want to practice entering coordinates for a while. This can be demonstrated if you have a projector or a SMART board.
It's your judgment when they are ready to grapple with equations or the concept of a y intercept. In the graphs below we've started with y = x and then y = x + 3.
Computers tend to use the carat symbol "^" to indicate exponents, used here for y = x^2.
You can encourage students to play with Excel functions which include trigonometry functions plus a lot more! In the example below, we've used y = sin(x).
Share any comments, your experience using this activity, or any suggested variations you have below. If you have an idea you'd like us to feature, e-mail us Leah Peterson at lpeterson@worlded.org. We'd love to hear from you!


Stern Pinball, the world's oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball machines, and Epic Rights, KISS' global licensing agent, recently launched the availability of a new line of Pro, Premium and Limited Edition KISS pinball machines, honoring one of the most influential and iconic rock bands of all time.
KISS is now offering 50 special Limited Edition pinball machines. Only 50 from within the full run of 600 machines feature these special score cards which are signed by all four members of the band, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. These machines are for sale exclusively at the official KISS online shop.
Pinball News recently posted an in-depth review of the pinball machines here.
"Ignoring the wildly flattering muscle tone of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, the design is every bit as flamboyant and overblown as the band's live stage performances. It is highly reminiscent of the Bally design, but isn't restricted by the score and credit display windows, allowing the band to spread out across the stage more.
One feature lacking from the Bally version is the individual lighting of the K-I-S-S letters in the backglass/translite. Nor is this advertised as a feature in the LE or Premium models, so that's one opportunity for a third-party add-on.
While the single design across all three models might be an indication of a restricted timescale, it's hard to imagine a second or third design could be as impressive as this one.
It's an oft-repeated story how the original Bally Kiss game has a problem with the band's logo when the game was sold in Germany - one of the largest pinball markets - since the shape of the 'SS' was too similar to the Schutzstaffel (SS) lightning bolt logo.
This, of course, wasn't just a problem for the Kiss pinball. All Kiss logo artwork on records, CDs, posters and even in their live stage performances needed to be changed for the German market.
You might think in these more enlightened times that such sensitivities no longer apply, but there is indeed a different version of the Stern Kiss game with rounded 'S' letters."
Click the link above for the complete review.
CEO of Stern Pinball, Gary Stern, has been promoting the KISS Pinball machines with a new KISS inspired photoshoot with Replay magazine, painting his face black and white in the Gene Simmons demon style.
The company shared some behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot on theirFacebook page, showing Gary Stern in black and white face paint and suit, standing next to their PRO model KISS pinball machine, which features all four faces from band members along the sides against purple and red flames.
This photoshoot comes on the heels of a short documentary Stern released, which was a behind the scenes look at the production of the KISS pinball machines (which you can watch below). Check out the photos here.
Stern Pinball has uploaded an updated gameplay video for KISS pinball machine they are working on.
Formed in 1973, KISS is recognized for unique face paint, stage outfits and cornerstone personas known as: "Starchild," "the Demon," "Catman," and "Spaceman." KISS rose to popularity in the mid-1970s with their elaborate live performances and theatrics, including fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics. KISS is highly regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time with worldwide album sales exceeding 100 million records. KISS has an unprecedented 28 gold albums to date, the most of any American rock band.
Stern Pinball's KISS pinball machines reflect the energy, excitement, and experience of a live KISS concert. Players will experience10 famous KISS hits in the concert arena playfield and embark on an exhilarating experience ultimately becoming elite members of the KISS Army. Players score points and finish game objectives to fuel the audience's energy and excitement. Higher scores amp the experience–the higher the energy level, the bigger and louder the show–resulting in a KISS concert experience like none other. Players are awarded for completing game goals with a variety of in-game front row seats, backstage VIP access and fun multi-ball modes that thrill players of all skill levels.
- 10 famous KISS hit songs: "Deuce", "Hotter Than Hell", "Lick It Up", "Shout It Out Loud", "Detroit Rock City", "Calling Dr. Love", "Rock & Roll All Night", "Love Gun", "I Love It Loud" and "Black Diamond"
"We are always seeking avenues to expand the KISS brand experience, and the new line of KISS pinballs from Stern are an ideal extension of the brand, providing an immersive KISS experience for consumers of all ages, "said Lisa Streff Executive Vice President, Global Licensing, Epic Rights.
KISS Pinball is available through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.


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Two suspects arrested in Kristin Smart case
by Lauren Boyer April 13, 2021 August 29, 2022
Kristin Smart
Editor's note: This article was updated at 12:58 p.m. to include that Paul Flores was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Paul Flores, the prime suspect in the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart, was arrested and charged with murder this morning in San Pedro, according to San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office records.
Ruben Flores, Paul's father, was also arrested at his Arroyo Grande home this morning on a single charge: accessory after the fact. His bail is set at $250,000.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff, Ian Parkinson, is holding a press conference at Cal Poly today at 2 p.m. to provide "major" updates on the quarter-century-long case. In-person attendance will be limited, but will be live-streamed on Instagram and Facebook.
Another search warrant was served today at Ruben's Arroyo Grande home, the second one this year. Forensics tents, radar technology, and whirring from the garage were witnessed this morning, via live-streams from Chris Lambert, host of "Your Own Backyard," a podcast detailing the Kristin Smart case, and KSBY's Brooke Martell.
During a March 15, 2o21 search, police named Paul the "prime suspect" in the case for the first time. Cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radars were used during the search, Mustang News reported earlier this year.
Smart was last seen on May 25, 1996 when she was returning to Cal Poly's campus after a fraternity party, and witnesses say Paul was the last person to be seen with her.
Paul was arrested in Los Angeles County in February on suspicions of being a felon in possession of a firearm. That arrest came after information was obtained during the searches of his San Pedro home in February and April of 2020, according to Sheriff's officials, Mustang News reported. Paul was eventually released on $35,000 bail.
Tagged: arrestes, kristin smart, paul flores, Reuben Flores, Sheriff, SLO


What is a Healthy Heart Rate? - What's Up, USANA?
If I use the 220-myage it is 178, but I know my heart has beat higher than that at 187. Could that be too much stress on my heart? My resting hr is around 50-55 BPM.
Our best recommendation would be to talk to your doctor about your heart rate and discuss what a healthy range is for you personally.


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On 15th July 2015, at The Times Chief Executives Summit, David Cameron set an accelerated agenda for advancing gender equality in pay in corporate Britain announcing legislation requiring large employers to calculate their gender pay gap. This will be implemented from April 2017 and details will be published in April 2018. The new Prime minister has supercharged the gender pay gap and wider equality debate with her first words in Downing Street.
This event has been designed to allow organisations to benchmark their progress against the best in the UK, see how other companies are approaching the challenge of mandatory gender pay reporting and learn the most up to date solutions to meet the timetable and law for publication.


In a breakthrough development to Russian MRO industry, S7 Technics has commenced work under a five-year MRO contract signed with Kazakhstan's Air Astana. Russia's leading aircraft maintenance service provider won the open tender for the contract in the summer of 2018, the fact revealed only now.
Under the arrangement, S7 Technics will perform C-checks on the Airbus A320 family of narrow-body aircraft and Boeing 767 wide-bodies operated by Air Astana. The deal means the Kazakh flag carrier has become the first international airline to agree such a long-term and large-scale contract with Russia's S7 Technics (S7T).
The first aircraft Air Astana sent for a shop visit to S7T was a Boeing 767. In February the Russian service provider's team completed a C-check on this aircraft at S7 Technics' Novosibirsk site at Tolmachevo airport.
"The airline [Air Astana] has never [before] turned to maintenance service providers in Russia or the CIS, as it previously opted only for the leading maintenance providers of Asia and Europe. "We are confident that this new partnership with S7 Technics is proof that the level of continued airworthiness services for western-built airliners in Russia has improved significantly," Igor Panshin, deputy general director for marketing and sales at S7 Technics.
Last week S7T have completed its second check this year, and have got three more scheduled before the summer at our Mineralnye Vody and Novosibirsk sites. In total, there are more than 40 base maintenance checks on Air Astana aircraft scheduled for completion up to the 2023-2024 timeframe, Panshin adds.
Apart from Air Astana, S7 Technics has co-operations with other leading airlines from within the CIS. The company's Mineralnye Vody base also provides regular maintenance checks under contracts with international leasing companies.


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require 'rubygems'
require 'test/unit'
require 'shoulda'
require 'activerecord'
require 'mocha'
require 'timecop'
require 'activesupport'

$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
require 'expirable_locking'

class Test::Unit::TestCase
end

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => '/tmp/expirable_locking.sqlite')

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do

  create_table :lockable_emails, :force => true do |table|
    table.string :from
    table.string :to
    table.text   :mail
    table.timestamps

    table.datetime :locked_at
    table.string   :locked_by
  end

end

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Only pitch and a putt from the first tee, the Mallard offers a warm relaxing atmosphere to golfer and non-golfer alike!
East Lothian is a beautiful county and, as well as golfing, has lots of other pursuits available, including walking.The hotel welcomes well-behaved dogs in ceratin areas of the hotel so you can enjoy lovely walks on the beach with your four-legged friend.
Whether you want to stay in our comfortable rooms, hold a party or wedding reception or just pop in for a meal you can be sure of a warm welcome from Cameron, Susan Law or a member of their friendly staff.
Of course our main clientele come to enjoy the huge choice of golf courses in the area but there is so much more to Gullane, East Lothian and of course Edinburgh is a short train ride away.
The Mallard has been in the same family for 50 years and, while times have ceratinly changed, the Laws continue the family tradition of offering hospitality with informality day or night!


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DHL's Resilience360 supply chain platform bags $21m venture capital investment
Resilience360, DHL's cloud-based supply chain risk management platform, is to receive a $21m investment from Columbia Capital.
A joint statement said that the US-based venture capital group has a long history of investing in and scaling "high growth and disruptive technology companies".
Columbia Capital's team will take an active role "in pursuing organic and inorganic growth opportunities" for the Resilience360 platform, which allows businesses to visualise, track and manage risk in their global end-to-end supply chain operations.
The statement confirmed that Resilience360 will remain "an integral part of the DHL service offering and continue to cooperate closely with the different DHL business units on agile sales and customer centric product development".
Katja Busch, DHL's chief commercial officer, said: "Resilience360 is a key part of DHL's value proposition. By bringing in Columbia Capital, we have the opportunity to significantly enhance its capabilities, particularly in data analytics and accelerate the growth of the platform and provide an even better service offering to our customers.
"Supply chain risk management is more important than ever to our customers and aiding global supply chains to be more resilient is a critical part of our business. The investment reflects our commitment to helping the industry manage risks beyond the DHL network."
John Siegel, a partner at Columbia Capital, said: "Supply chain technology and analytics have huge potential to increase supply chain efficiency and create value.
"We spent significant time meeting with many companies that are addressing this opportunity and believe that Resilience360 has very unique capabilities and potential."
The investment is being made through a holding company, Rising Tide Digital, which will be led by David Northington as chairman, David Shillingford as chief executive and Chris Arroyo as chief financial officer and chief operations officer.
Northington and Arroyo led the successful scaling and exit of another Columbia Capital-backed technology company, Cloud Sherpas, which was acquired by Accenture in 2015.
Shillingford previously held leadership roles at Verisk Analytics, a global data analytics company.
"The investment allows us to continue making product development our top priority and to grow the business faster in collaboration with DHL's business units around the globe," said Tobias Larsson, who will continue to lead Resilience360 as chief executive.
"We will be able to apply more advanced analytics to the vast quantities of data that Resilience360 now collects to develop predictive and proscriptive insights that will help customers achieve faster and more accurate decision making in their supply chains and better prepare and respond to potential disruptions."
Resilience360 helps companies handle an ever-changing world by assessing the impact of natural disasters, changing regulatory environments, and other supply chain risks.
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REVIEW: "MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN" (2018) Universal Pictures
Oh my my my my "MAMMA MIA!! HERE WE GO AGAIN" had me from the moment one with my devotion and love for true icons ABBA & C-H-E-R all in one movie. What I didn't expect, was an actual good movie.
Starting off, this sequel to 'Mamma Mia', which also presents itself as a prequel, in my world, this is a two-for-one deal of epic-ness that I loved from the get go. "Here We Go Again" has a much better story line than the original, and while all your faves return, you also make some great new ones. Writer/director Ol Parker – gets some good deeper cuts in, too with this being a new, complex and more mature story involving the characters we've known, and sang and danced along with for the past decade. The film quickly establishes the parallel stories with it's fantastic opening number of "I Kissed A Teacher" and boom! we are introduced to the world of a young Donna (played terrifically by Lily James). Moving along back into the world of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), is re-opening the hotel her mom Donna (Meryl Streep) ran. Donna died the previous year (this isn't really isn't a spoiler). In her mom's honor, Sophie has renovated the place and is ready for a big celebration, with nearly every important person in her life invited, including Sam (Pierce Brosnan) and Donna's Dynamo sisters – Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters).
"Here We Go Again" explores within it's flashbacks, a vibrant and spontaneous Donna of the 1970's, as she seeks an adventurous life – and we see how she meets the three younger versions of the men whom will play major roles in her life – Harry (Hugh Skinner), Bill (Josh Dylan) and Sam (Jeremy Irvine). It would take more space than I have to touch on every performance, so I'll just sum it up and highlight a few. With this turn as Donna, Lily James is now officially a STAR as she will charm the socks off of you. In one simple, minute-long scene, Brosnan redeems himself for his lack of singing ability from the original. And in spectacular fashion with white silk wig and pantsuit to match, the one..the only..Cher makes a grand entrance in the final act as Sophie's grandma… and instantly captivates the screen. And though how she gets to the point of singing is a big spoiler that I just can't reveal, I will happily admit to yelling out "YES! YES! YES" when it did happen, media screening or not. (no one usually does something like this during them – but I wasn't alone in my squealing joy of this.. so 🙂 )
Every single person here, from our older versions of Harry (Colin Firth) & Bill (Stellan Skarsgård) doing a bit of 'Titanic' for us all, to Fernando (Andy Garcia) & Sky (Dominic Cooper), looks like they're having an absolute blast, and that happiness is resonates throughout the film and spreads to the audience. 'Here We Go Again' provides a carefree, yet meaningful, fun energy that's so hard to find these days, even in musicals. I got chills during performances of "Mamma Mia!" and "Dancing Queen", though those are saved till a little later in the film, as the first half has some of Abba's lesser known hits dominating – though a true ABBA fan will know them!
Sure Mamma Mia 2! might not be perfect – and I might be a sap for anything musical related to ABBA & Cher – but I can guarantee a good time will be had by all who see it. And the beautiful, sweet final scene has a spirit all its own, touching on loss and new life in ways that will hit very close to home. I can only say — I do, I do, I do, I DO want you to see this film.
Media Review Screening: Monday, July 16, 2018 ~ Courtesy of Universal Pictures
"MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN" WILL BE OUT NATIONWIDE/WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018
Tags Alexa Davies, Amanda Seyfried, Andy Garcia, Anna Antoniades, Cher, Christine Baranski, Colin Firth, Dominic Cooper, Gerard Monaco, Helena Cardona, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy Irvine, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Josh Dylan, Julie Walters, Lily James, Meryl Streep, Naoko Mori, Omid Djalili, Panos Mouzourakis, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgǻrd, Togo Igawa
REVIEW: "EVEREST" (2015) Universal Pictures
Courage – Fear – Pain – Strength – all the words used in the trailer to describe this film based on a true story. Though after watching this movie I can't help but think they might have skipped a word – Insanity – because truly one must have a bit of this to even attempt to climb this mountain. To know going in that there is a 60/40 percent chance you might not come down..would and does deter most.
In 'Everest' we get brought back to 1996 when the big mountain had been actually been conquered enough times that it was no longer the specter it once had been. That didn't stop people from wanting to climb it, instead it ended up turning it into a business. Leader of the trend is the New Zealand business team "Adventure Consultants" with partners Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) & Helen Wilton (Emily Watson). The teams that head to the summit are a mix of seasoned pros and moneyed amateurs, forking over fortunes to earn both killer views they get momentarily and probably most importantly thing of course, the bragging rights. On one team you have the clients – 'average' guy, mailman Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), the big Texan, Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin), journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly) and the one small Asian woman, a 47 yr old climber of 6 of the tallest peaks in the world, Yasuko Namba (Naoki Mori) along with guides Hall, Andy "Harold" Harris (Martin Henderson) & Michael Groom (Thomas M. Wright) – on the other team "Mountain Madness" you have the college frat guy guide Scott Fisher (Jake Gyllenhaal) & Anatoli Boukreev (Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson) who refuses to use oxygen even though they will be at a level noted by Hall as 'Humans aren't meant to function at the cruising altitude of a 747'
Having reached the summit and literally touched the peak — their moment of triumph – though problematic as issues with roping and lateness of the afternoon make the timetable of descent turn into a dire situation. A storm sweeps in before certain climbers have turned back. What follows is a brutal waiting game. Among those stranded in the inhospitable climate is Hansen, Harris & Hall – who finds himself curled up in a nook, patiently, almost inhumanly biding his time as numerous attempts to save him come and pass him by due to more storms.
Having years ago read Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air" I hadn't realized this was going to be that story told so vividly so I recommend you go in with little knowledge of the body count as Everest plays a bit in the vein of Apollo 13, as you know the story history wise – but in this one there's only a slim chance the ones in trouble will make it.
The film truly focuses on the brutality of this type of climbing and what we now know was the beginnings of what the business end of this all is. All these climbs-for-hire have literally created a trash bin of Everest as what goes up, doesn't always come down. And of course the body count of those left up on the mountain has also increased exponentially since this first tragic event. And let's not ever forget all the sherpas with whom without them, most of these climbs could never be done.
So what's good about this movie? The 3-D is very good. Throughout most of the film you can't discern between what is the real on-location shots and what is sound-staged. Brolin & Clarke really have the lead acting roles here and both do well. Sam Worthington also comes on well more towards the end as Guy Cotter. Overall it will prove to be a rough watch with it's ending for some, but it's a good film nonetheless.
Screening: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 ~ Courtesy of Universal Pictures
Nationwide release: Friday, September 18, 2015
Tags Amy Shindler, Charlotte Boving, Chike Chan, Chris Reilly, Clive Standen, Demetri Goritsas, Elizabeth Debicki, Emily Watson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Josh Brolin, Justin Salinger, Keira Knightly, Mark Derwin, Martin Henderson, Mia Goth, Micah Hauptman, Michael Kelly, Naoko Mori, Pemba Sherpa, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Simon Harrison, Stormur Jón Kormákur Baltasarsson, Thomas M. Wright, Tom Goodman-Hill, Vanessa Kirby


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NITDA > Mr. Yau Isa Garba
Yau Isa Garba is currently the National Director, National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), a subsidiary of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), where he leads research and development on emerging technologies.
Mr Garba holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a master's degree in Computer Engineering and is an alumnus of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi (ATBU) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
He held several positions in academia and industry, with experience spanning both research and development in information technology and embedded systems. Mr Garba is certified by Microsoft, Cisco and CompTIA in areas related to systems administration, networking, and computer security.
He is a technology enthusiast, an expert on emerging technologies, with experience spanning both industry and academia. He is a pragmatic engineer with expertise in the development of both hardware and software systems, with applications in healthcare, agriculture, renewable energy, and educational technology. He has designed several tools to inspire young Nigerians to embrace technology using the popular 'Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics' (STEM) scheme. He is also an ardent precision agriculturalist where he has been designing and deploying innovative systems to take Nigerian agricultural industries to new levels.
Before joining NITDA, he has been the co-founder and CEO of a technology startup developing cutting-edge products for the renewable energy sector. He is still a hands-on engineer, spending quality times with machines and tools in the NCAIR research and development labs.


I am slightly surprised, but nevertheless delighted, that this site appears to rank No. 1 for search terms surrounding 'Divide and Rule'. I am surprised because 'Divide and Rule' is such a widespread cliché and it appears almost everywhere in casual writing about Indian history. So why here? I have only mentioned it in one article. But I am most surprised because I have long considered the whole 'Divide and Rule' explanation within Indian history as a broad myth, adopted for modern convenience by several sections of the Indian public and intelligentsia. My view is then, perforce, a minority opinion. If more people come here to read about it, then surprise must yield to frank astonishment.
This discovery has led me to look at some of the other material across the web on this subject, and further surprises awaited. I found two serious articles, written coherently and with accurate supporting detail, also arguing that the supposed British policy of Divide and Rule is/was a myth. One, here, takes a Muslim point of view, and maintains that belief in a supposed Divide and Rule policy serves to discredit the reality of the demand for Pakistan, and underplays the degree of Hindu/Congress intransigence about concessions to minorities. Another, here, is written from an Indian nationalist stance and does not seem to support any obvious agenda, despite appearing in a publication that supports right wing Hindu opinion.
My own chief objections to the Divide and Rule idea is that it ignores all the relevant information against the existence of such a policy and invents a good deal of the evidence used to support its alleged reality. It is a simple imputation of malice against the British, in a rather unrealistic way. Why? My guess is that it is simply to mask the chief weakness of the Indian National Congress's campaign for independence, which was a pervasive lack of unity among the population of India. This lack of (political) unity was actually a long term factor, which originally aided the British intruders, and remained a debilitating weakness in all attempts to be rid of British rule.
It is a straightforwardly political historical point of view, closely allied to Congress ideology and interests. It comes freighted with the idea that India has always been a unified entity, and that the arrival of the British destroyed this. Two myths right there, in a row. A valid counter-argument might be that when the British finally left, various strands of disunity remained, and did not disappear, as the main Congress ideologues had promised. But here the self-perpetuating ability of conspiracy theories comes to the fore. Of course the division was so effectively done that it has proved irreparable, and the fact that various divisions still persist is conclusive proof that the original policy not only existed but was brilliantly effective.
Crediting one's enemies with superhuman powers often goes along with ascribing inhuman vices to them too, but neither is ever a very credible approach, and both risk producing potentially damaging consequences among those willing to believe them. Impotence is the most obvious, but an inability to see plain realities is another.
At another level, Divide and Rule sloganeering might be countered by saying that the degree of unity in pre-colonial India has always been greatly exaggerated for political reasons, and that this often coincides with a similar willingness to exaggerate the degree of division in contemporary India. As such the Divide and Rule myth looks rather like an unfortunate amalgam of misplaced historical national consciousness coupled with populist pessimism about modern India. Both seem quite unwarranted, and surely neither can be of any real help to Indians today.


The ondisconnected event handler of the TelephonyCall interface is a reference to a function to be called to handle the Telephony API's disconnected event.
This event occurs when the call has finished being disconnected from the network. The event handler is called with a CallEvent as its only parameter.


Visual Studio Code>Other>join-comment-awareNew to Visual Studio Code? Get it now.
When joining lines, delete preceding comment blocks.
join-comment-aware will join lines and remove extraneous comment indicators. Previously when joining lines (e.g. via ctrl+j or shift+j in vim mode), comment characters are kept and you'll have to remove them manually.
This isn't available through the vscode standard installation. You can install it manually by downloading a zip of this repo and adding it to your extensions directory.
I'd recommend replacing your normal join command (e.g. ctrl+j or shift+j in vim mode) with join-comment-aware. If a file type isn't recognized, it performs the default behavior as before.
The following file types are supported with comment-awareness joining. Otherwise, default join behavior will take over.
I've been thinking about switching from vim to vscode and noticed the line-joiner could use some improvement. And I saw this issue that other folks have the same feedback. I also was inspired by the original vscode join, which got integrated directly into the editor.
Add icons. Update version so VS Marketplace can udpate.


After the excitement and busyness of Easter, Ascension Day can get overlooked. This is made worse if we are keen to get on with the church calendar and celebrate Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit.
This practical guide to the biblical setting and liturgical basis of Ascension Day examines what can be done to help us celebrate this event in the life of Jesus, and asks what opportunities and challenges the story presents for us.


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I'm just getting started with MQTT on my Domoticz server and am looking for some help/pointers on getting the notifications working. I have mosquitto working for some Sonoff switches but am not seeing the opengarage devices communicate with my server at all. I've added the server IP to the integration page on the opengarage devices but looking at the mosquitto logs I see no contacts from the OG devices logged. What am I missing? Are there instructions for integration with Domoticz available anywhere?
Bump, somebody (Ray?) must know something about MQTT in opengarage. After all, it is an option in the latest firmware. Anyone?
BTW, just to mention what I have done so far. I have a MQTT server (mosquitto) running and I've put that server's IP into the MQTT field in opengarage. Running tcpdump I see no MQTT traffic to/from the opengarage device. I also tried ip:port (1883) and this produced the same result. I'm wondering if the MQTT feature is enabled?
Is there a way to set username and password and port number for MQTT server?
The current OpenGarage firmware (1.0.8) has MQTT support. Did you try it out?
Yes, that is the crux of my question. I did try it out and nothing is happening. Is the extent of the support a field which says "MQTT Server"? Is there any other configuration? As I mentioned, I added my Mosquitto server's IP to that field and the server logs show no communications from OpenGarage. Is there some kind of documentation for the use of MQTT with OpenGarage?
you only need to read up to Step 2, because that explains the basics of how MQTT works (including pub and sub).
Then, once you have a mqtt server, you should go to OpenGarage Settings -> Integration, and type in the mqtt server IP.
sends out a MQTT message with the topic "your_opengarage_name/OUT/NOTIFY", where your_opengarage_name is the name of your OpenGarage (which you can change in Edit Options). For example, if my OpenGarage has a name RaysOG, you should have a MQTT subscriber that subscribes to the topic RaysOG/OUT/NOTIFY.
The firmware also sends the current state of the door to topic "your_opengarage_name/OUT/STATE". So if you subscribe to that topic, you will get messages about the current state.
I was hoping for exactly this functionality, push based notifications without depending on an external cloud service.
However I installed mosquitto and the mosquitto-clients, and named my device "myog" without quotes.
1530875249: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
1530874937: New connection from 192.168.3.101 on port 1883.
1530874937: New client connected from 192.168.3.101 as myog (c1, k15).
But when I open or close the door I don't see any messages. I don't think it's a firewall since I'm successfully connecting.
Sorry, it works, I cut/paste from one of the web pages and managed to get some unicode character instead of double quotes.
Can OpenGarage be controlled by MQTT to open/close the door? What string to I publish to, something like <OG name>/OUT/STATE? What do I send as a message? "OPEN"?
Sorry to answer my own question again. I read the source and open/close is supported.
Very cool. So now I can control the door via web API or MQTT from anywhere on my network. Now to get something working with HTTPs and IPv6 (I'd rather not use someone else's cloud).
Yes, as you have figured out, it does support control as well. Sorry that this is not well documented. We will add documentation to the user manual.
I'm using FW v.1.09 and can't seem to get mqtt control to work. <OG name>/OUT/STATE with message button does nothing.
'OGNAME/IN/STATE' with a message of 'close' or 'open', it will trigger the door action. OGNAME is your OpenGarage device's name (you can change it in Settings).
This reply was modified 5 months ago by sirotkaslo.


Natalia Lopez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW #76095) with over 10 years of clinical experience. She earned two bachelor degrees in Sociology and [email protected] studies from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and her Masters in Social Welfare from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico and was born and raised in Boyle Heights, CA. Natalia's therapeutic approach is inspired by the notion that by establishing a safe and trusting therapeutic partnership with her clients, she will carefully work towards creating space for any underlying hurt, stress, or pain someone may be experiencing. Together, developing greater insight into strengths and unresolved conflicts. She also believes, everything we need to live the life we want is already within us and we are the experts on ourselves. The benefit of therapy is to provide the support, education, techniques, and coping strategies that can enhance our life circumstances and empower us to attain our personal goals. As a therapist of color, Natalia is interested in providing therapy that is culturally relevant and compassionate. She recognizes that communities of color have had to develop survival strategies to endure marginalization and historical trauma. The effects of these may show up as challenges in current relationships, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Someone may think that something is wrong with them, while what they are actually experiencing is a result of systemic trauma that may have also been experienced by their ancestors. Natalia has experience working with adolescents, adults, families and couples. She also has an expertise in working with the LGBTQIA2S community and offers a lively LGBTQIA2S affirming outlook in a safe and caring environment. Her educational & professional backgrounds include extensive training's in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Problem-Solving Therapy, and other evidence-based treatment models. Natalia is a bilingual and bi-cultural therapist who is able to conduct therapy services in Spanish and is based out of Los Angeles.
I'm so grateful I was able to find Natalia. She is culturally affirming, knows the ins and outs of insurance, and is really down to earth. She's always made me feel comfortable and safe in my sessions. She was really helpful when it came to navigating my insurance policy. I was confused about all the paperwork and she was able to help me better understand my policy.


Is Tanix TX9 Pro TV box rooted?
What about heat disipation? Lot of models I've tested, got heating prroblems after few hours of function, especially in the summer, when temperaturea reach 30'C. Is that why I'd rather buy models with full aluminium case. What about heat dissipation on this model? Which material the case is made on?
The box is made of plastic mold, we will put a piece of thermal silica inside the machine to achieve heat dissipation.
Does it have google play installed? Does it support Bluetooth keyboard and mouse? Is it rooted?
It says its pre-loaded with add ons. is it loaded with add ons to watch live tv?
Please note that we just pre-installed a few simple and commonly used APKs, like KODI YOUTUBE NETFILX, if you have other needs, you can download them yourself.
Is this android box with remote control?
Package Contents: 1 x TV Box, 1 x Remote Control, 1 x Charger Adapter, 1 x HDMI Cable.
This device supports Widevine L1?
We are sorry that this product does not support Widevine L1.
We are sorry that this product is only compatible with the mobile version, and the TV version is not compatible.
I would like to use on a monitor setup vertically in portrait mode. I will be playing only local vertical portrait videos on it. Will this device work for such a job?
The TV box has a 360-degree rotation function setting.
CAN I CONNECT MY EXTERNAL 3TB USB HDD TO THE USB INPUT?
This requires an external power supply, worrying about the lack of power supply to the USB interface.
Is there a toslink digital audio optical output port? Can it output Dolby Digital and DTS to receiver?
It is support 5.1 Surround Sound Output.
Yes, it supports portrait orientation and HID.
How to switch front display to 24h mode?
Yes, there is a time in setting, it can be adjusted to a 24-hour clock.
For the item, please note that it can support Kodi.
And the max. extended capacity of the item is 128G.