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CAIRO - Egyptian authorities escalated their crackdown on deposed President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood by arresting the Islamist organisation's top leader, state media reported on Tuesday.
Mohamed Badie, 70, was detained at a residential apartment in Nasr City in northeast Cairo "after information came to the security apparatus locating his place of hiding," the state news agency reported.
The Interior Ministry's Facebook page showed a picture of Badie, with dark rings under his eyes, sitting in a car between two men in black body armour, with a caption confirming his arrest.
"Carrying out the decisions of the public prosecutor to arrest and bring forward the 'general guide' of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and through collected information and observation of movements, it was possible for the criminal search apparatus under the direction of Cairo's security (services) to arrest him," according to the caption.
Badie was charged in July with inciting the murder of protesters. Together with his two deputies, he is due to stand trial on August 25.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told the Al Masry Al Youm newspaper that Badie was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday.
The military removed Morsi from power on July 3 after mass protests against his rule. Morsi, who was freely elected but alienated many Egyptians during his year in power, is in detention at an undisclosed location.
Egypt's public prosecutor pressed new charges against Morsi of inciting violence in a move coinciding with a court ruling on Monday that toppled military strongman Hosni Mubarak - arrested after his overthrow in 2011 - can no longer be held on a corruption charge.
Morsi was already facing an investigation into accusations stemming from his escape from prison during the anti-Mubarak revolt. These include murder and conspiring with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Almost 900 people, including more than 100 soldiers and police, have been killed since the authorities forcibly dispersed Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo last Wednesday.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Egyptian authorities to free Morsi or at least ensure a transparent process.
Ban also said, "The political space for the Muslim Brotherhood should be expanded, because their political space has been very limited."
"With such sharp polarisation in Egyptian society, both the authorities and the political leaders share the responsibility for ending the current violence. They should spare no effort to swiftly adopt a The United States also urged Egypt not to ban the Muslim Brotherhood.
Founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged from decades as an outlawed movement to become the best-organised political force after the downfall of Mubarak. The group says it has a membership of around one million people in Egypt.
The killing of 25 Egyptian policemen in the Sinai near the desert border with Israel on Monday was blamed by the new, military-installed government on Islamist militants. State television carried emotional demands for retribution against the Muslim Brotherhood.
The policemen were on their way to their barracks in Rafah when militants attacked them with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades, according to security sources.
Egyptian state television reported that the presidency announced three days of mourning for the "martyrs of Rafah."
The United States said on Monday it was still reviewing whether to freeze any of the $1.55 billion it gives Egypt in mainly military annual aid. The United States has been a close ally of Egypt, the biggest nation in the Arab world, since it made peace with Israel in 1979.
The US also voiced concern about the deaths on Sunday of 37 men who authorities said were suffocated by tear gas during a bid to flee custody.
Egypt's second largest Islamic party, Nour, called in a statement for a presidential decree to create an independent fact-finding committee into the deaths of the 37 men and blamed the interior ministry for the incident.
European Union foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to force Egypt's army-backed government into seeking a peaceful compromise.
Iran ready to talk if US lifts sanctions, Pompeo skeptical
SA mulls revoking extradition of ex-Mozambique minister
US regulators approve $5 billion Facebook settlement over privacy issues: source
Trump threatens to 'substantially' increase sanctions on Iran


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Q: How to check if a new record has been sent in a given time period using kafka and faust I am using a test setup including confluent platform (docker) and am processing records with the following information: Sensor-ID, timestamp, value.
Using robinhood's faust (similar to Kafka Streams but in python) I am trying to do the following:
Whenever there is a new record for a sensor there should be a "timer" and if no new record for this sensor-ID is received within the given time there should be an error indicating possible failure for that sensor/machine.
I have tried using time.sleep() but what happens is that it will just sleep for 10 sec and then process the next record.
Is it even possible to do something like this with the setup I am using?

A: You can use KSQL's window tumbling:
Create a stream of sensor information;
CREATE STREAM sensorinformation \
  (sensorid VARCHAR, \
   sensortimestamp BIGINT, \
   value VARCHAR) \
 WITH (KAFKA_TOPIC='sensorinformationtopic', \
       VALUE_FORMAT='DELIMITED', \
       KEY='sensorid', \
       TIMESTAMP='sensortimestamp');

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CHESS IS THE GAME not just of kings but of geniuses. For hundreds of years, it has served as standard and symbol for the pinnacles of human intelligence. Staring at the pieces, lost to the world, the chess master seems a figure of pure thought: brain without body. It's hardly a surprise, then, that when computer scientists began to contemplate the creation of an artificial intelligence in the middle years of the last century, they adopted the chessboard as their proving ground. To build a machine able to beat a skilled human player would be to fabricate a mind. It was a compelling theory, and to this day it shapes public perceptions of artificial intelligence. But, as the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov argues in his illuminating new memoir Deep Thinking, the theory was flawed from the start. It reflected a series of misperceptions — about chess, about computers, and about the mind.
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At the dawn of the computer age, in 1950, the influential Bell Labs engineer Claude Shannon published a paper in Philosophical Magazine called "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess." The creation of a "tolerably good" computerized chess player, he argued, was not only possible but would also have metaphysical consequences. It would force the human race "either to admit the possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict [its] concept of 'thinking.'" He went on to offer an insight that would prove essential both to the development of chess software and to the pursuit of artificial intelligence in general. A chess program, he wrote, would need to incorporate a search function able to identify possible moves and rank them according to how they influenced the course of the game. He laid out two very different approaches to programming the function. "Type A" would rely on brute force, calculating the relative value of all possible moves as far ahead in the game as the speed of the computer allowed. "Type B" would use intelligence rather than raw power, imbuing the computer with an understanding of the game that would allow it to focus on a small number of attractive moves while ignoring the rest. In essence, a Type B computer would demonstrate the intuition of an experienced human player.
Type B, the intelligence strategy, seemed far more feasible, not least because it fit the scientific zeitgeist. Fascination with digital computers intensified during the 1950s, and the so-called "thinking machines" began to influence theories about the human mind. Many scientists and philosophers came to assume that the brain must work something like a digital computer, using its billions of networked neurons to calculate thoughts and perceptions. Through a curious kind of circular logic, this analogy in turn guided the early pursuit of artificial intelligence: if you could figure out the codes that the brain uses in carrying out cognitive tasks, you'd be able to program similar codes into a computer. Not only would the machine play chess like a master, but it would also be able to do pretty much anything else that a human brain can do. In a 1958 paper, the prominent AI researchers Herbert Simon and Allen Newell declared that computers are "machines that think" and, in the near future, "the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied." With the right programming, a computer would turn sapient.
It took only a few decades after Shannon wrote his paper for engineers to build a computer that could play chess brilliantly. Its most famous victim: Garry Kasparov.
One of the greatest and most intimidating players in the history of the game, Kasparov was defeated in a six-game bout by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997. Even though it was the first time a machine had beaten a world champion in a formal match, to computer scientists and chess masters alike the outcome wasn't much of a surprise. Chess-playing computers had been making strong and steady gains for years, advancing inexorably up the ranks of the best human players. Kasparov just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.
Particularly fruitful has been the deployment of search algorithms similar to those that powered Deep Blue. If a machine can search billions of options in a matter of milliseconds, ranking each according to how well it fulfills some specified goal, then it can outperform experts in a lot of problem-solving tasks without having to match their experience or insight. More recently, AI programmers have added another brute-force technique to their repertoire: machine learning. In simple terms, machine learning is a statistical method for discovering correlations in past events that can then be used to make predictions about future events. Rather than giving a computer a set of instructions to follow, a programmer feeds the computer many examples of a phenomenon and from those examples the machine deciphers relationships among variables. Whereas most software programs apply rules to data, machine-learning algorithms do the reverse: they distill rules from data, and then apply those rules to make judgments about new situations.
The pragmatic turn in AI research is producing many such breakthroughs, but this shift also highlights the limitations of artificial intelligence. Through brute-force data processing, computers can churn out answers to well-defined questions and forecast how complex events may play out, but they lack the understanding, imagination, and common sense to do what human minds do naturally: turn information into knowledge, think conceptually and metaphorically, and negotiate the world's flux and uncertainty without a script. Machines remain machines.
That fact hasn't blunted the public's enthusiasm for AI fantasies. Along with TV shows and movies featuring scheming computers and bloody-minded robots, we've seen a slew of earnest nonfiction books with titles like Superintelligence, Smarter Than Us, and Our Final Invention, all suggesting that machines will soon be brainier than we are. The predictions echo those made in the 1950s and 1960s, and, as before, they're founded on speculation, not fact. Despite monumental advances in hardware and software, computers give no sign of being any nearer to self-awareness, volition, or emotion. Their strength — what Kasparov describes as an "amnesiac's objectivity" — is also their weakness.
Chess is a grueling sport. It demands stamina, resilience, and an aptitude for psychological warfare. It also requires acute sensory perception. "Move generation seems to involve more visuospatial brain activity than the sort of calculation that goes into solving math problems," writes Kasparov, referring to recent neurological experiments. To the chess master, the board's 64 squares define not just an abstract geometry but an actual terrain. Like figures on a landscape, the pieces form patterns that the master, drawing on years of experience, reads intuitively, often at a glance. Methodical analysis is important, too, but it is carried out as part of a multifaceted and still mysterious thought process involving the body and its senses as well as the brain's neurons and synapses.
The contingency of human intelligence, the way it shifts with health, mood, and circumstance, is at the center of Kasparov's account of his historic duel with Deep Blue. Having beaten the machine in a celebrated match a year earlier, the champion enters the 1997 competition confident that he will again come out the victor. His confidence swells when he wins the first game decisively. But in the fateful second game, Deep Blue makes a series of strong moves, putting Kasparov on the defensive. Rattled, he makes a calamitous mental error. He resigns the game in frustration after the computer launches an aggressive and seemingly lethal attack on his queen. Only later does he realize that his position had not been hopeless; he could have forced the machine into a draw. The loss leaves Kasparov "confused and in agony," unable to regain his emotional bearings. Though the next three games end in draws, Deep Blue crushes him in the sixth and final game to win the match.
If Kasparov hadn't become flustered, he might have won the 1997 match. But that would have just postponed the inevitable. By the turn of the century, the era of computer dominance in chess was well established. Today, not even the grandest of grandmasters would bother challenging a computer to a match. They know they wouldn't stand a chance.
But if computers have become unbeatable at the board, they remain incapable of exhibiting what Kasparov calls "the ineffable nature of human chess." To Kasparov, this is cause for optimism about the future of humanity. Unlike the eight-by-eight chessboard, the world is an unbounded place, and making sense of it will always require more than mathematical or statistical calculations. The inherent rigidity of computer intelligence leaves plenty of room for humans to exercise their flexible and intuitive intelligence. If we remain vigilant in turning the power of our computers to our own purposes, concludes Kasparov, our machines will not replace us but instead propel us to ever-greater achievements.
One hopes he's right. Still, as computers become more powerful and more adept at fulfilling our needs, there is a danger. The benefits of computer processing are easy to measure — in speed, in output, in dollars — while the benefits of human thought are often impossible to express in hard numbers. Given contemporary society's worship of the measurable and suspicion of the ineffable, our own intelligence would seem to be at a disadvantage as we rush to computerize more and more aspects of our jobs and lives. The question isn't whether the subtleties of human thought will continue to lie beyond the reach of computers. They almost certainly will. The question is whether we'll continue to appreciate the value of those subtleties as we become more dependent on the mindless but brutally efficient calculations of our machines. In the face of the implacable, the contingent can seem inferior, its strengths appearing as weaknesses.
Near the end of his book, Kasparov notes, with some regret, that "humans today are starting to play chess more like computers." Once again, the ancient game may be offering us an omen.
Nicholas Carr is the author of several books about computers and culture, including The Shallows, The Glass Cage, and, most recently, Utopia Is Creepy.


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Artist Feature: Breton Part 2.
This time Breton singer Roman Rappak tells us more about their home BretonLABS, their way of understanding a band in the year 2012, their first artistic steps, and other secrets about their working process. Additional to the interview we feature an exclusive photo gallery with shoots of the band in their home and studio BretonLABS. All done by Alexander Basile.
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Roman, you and your bandmates live and work in an old bank in South London. How did you end up there?
Roman Rappak: We found it about two years ago when everyone's girlfriend played in bands. At that time, my girlfriend was playing in a band that was like a twee folk-anti-folk band that rehearsed in the building. They put fairy lights all over the room and plastic flowers everywhere. They played this happy pop music in this huge echo-y, empty industrial room. Anyway, the winter came and there is no heating in there. They were, like: "No, we will not practice in there. It is too cold." And, so, we just moved in. We bought coats and gloves and hats. Then we found out that we could do anything in there - make videos, take pictures. At one point it was just a couple of mattresses and a drum kit. Now it's like a living place - but still without a heating!
Does the place offer special energy and inspiration?
Roman Rappak: The place is the reason why we are here and we will not leave it unless they throw us out. But, we'll find another place if we have to. Still, we are obsessed with that building. That is why our logo is the cube and all our t-shirts have the lab floor plan on them. We love it!
But it also means you can never escape from Breton. Isn't that a problem sometimes?
Roman Rappak: Well, this was not a choice we made. It was a natural progression. We always spent time with each other. Like the avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle who also lived together. They had this routine where they had a box of clothes, and each day they would chose something new to wear in order to look different. Or they never slept in the same bed. Or they never slept with the same person in it. Keeping this sort of difference is a useful thing that stops you from falling into habits. A lot of our friends who are in bands have normal jobs after which they go to their studios and practice with their mates. There, you play your songs seven times and then you go home. And then you have a gig an Friday, and you go there and you play the songs. For me that feels a bit like being a decorator. That is not how I understand a band.
Do you always live in this Breton bubble?
Roman Rappak: No, we have lots of social life. There are a lot of artists we know. In London, there is a very heavy trendy art scene in the East. In South London it is much more raw. You have fantastic artists who are so ruthless with their art and so uncompromising they don't even want to get any exposure for it. There is a genuine scene in the South, and we are linked to it and it gives us lots of energy. South London has a realness that East London has lost. We love it!
As part of the south London scene, Breton actually startetd of as video artists, correct?
Roman Rappak: We always did our own thing, and we started off as video makers. In the first videos, we were into sculptural, glitchy art installation stuff. Then we wanted a VHS pixelated look that was very stylish and narrative. After that we wanted to have a set piece installation shot really beautifully and slowly. They were all produced at BretonLABS.
And that is how people found out about you?
Roman Rappak: Yes - because we were able to do a video that was fucked up and glitchy and then the next is slow and beautiful and then the next one is very narrative and short story-based. We were approached by major companies for our videos before we were approached for our music. Big companies, like Nike, contacted us and said: "We really like your stuff and we want to work with you." But everything we do is one thing – not matter if it is an album or a video or sound design. It is all Breton and we didn't want any piece of that to become part of a commercial process. For The Temper Trap it was different. We first did a remix. They liked it so much that they asked us to do a video for it. And for Tricky, we just did a remix.
We just saw your video Interference. Could you talk about the main character? Is he a drug dealer?
Roman Rappak: (Laughter.) The character is based on a pretty horrible person that we were actually going to use in the film. But then, when we were planning to take him to our studio people said: "You just don't know. This guy suddenly needs £2000 and thinks: 'Wow, these guys have a camera and this is where they live...'" Well, yes, it is based on an unpleasant person. But we changed him into somebody else. And, yes, we wanted to leave the choice about what he does to the viewer.
Your first record was released by Strange Torpedo Records. Is this your label?
Roman Rappak: It was a label that just existed to put out our first EP. It was kind of a joke, really. People came to our shows to hear our music and some bloggers found out about us. They asked: "Where can we get the record?" But what we were saying – what our music was saying - was: "Records are dead." But then we thought: "Maybe records are not dead. Maybe records are like T-shirts or flyers. They are one part of the story. They bring people to our shows." So Ian Patterson, our sampling man, said: "Let's make our own label and release an EP." He's from a small fishing town called Grimsby, where everyone has brought out two albums, three EPs and wrote five fanzines before they turn 17. So it is in his blood and he just released our first EP.
And then you moved on to Hemlock - a world famous Dubstep label that does'nt have very many musical links to your sound.
Roman Rappak: That was exactly one of our reasons to move there. They were so pleased to work with us because we bridged that gap between inaccessible, abrasive Electro and popular dance music. A lot of Hemlock purists were really pissed off.
You don't like purist then, do you?
Roman Rappak: I don't like purists to a genre – like those Hemlock purists. I always had a problem with genres. Like, we make drum 'n' bass and we can't speak to those guys because they make liquid Drum 'n' Bass. This kind of discussion is something very 1990 to 1995. Today, people consume music in a different way. I think, in general, audiences are much more up-to-date with how music is consumed than the artists. Because there are still these old expectations. In the old model, you went into a studio and made eleven tracks that sounded like the single. You have one sound, use one type of guitar, you wear one outfit, and that is it. But that's not the way it works anymore. Today, people make their playlists for themselves on their iPods. The old model is long gone.
It is funny that you say this, because your record Other People's Problems is a concept album guided by a story arc.
Roman Rappak: Thanks for the compliment! And, of course, our record is against this one-track-usage. I like the idea of an album that is working in the playlist world of an iPod shuffle list. But, also, there is a reason why we put an album out. We could have this big, long conversation about how the iPod shuffle generation changes everything and that people don't listen to albums anymore. But, still, if I love an artist, I love to find out how he or she sees an album. For us, the track order is always a narrative. We have so many great songs, but in the context of the album they did not work. An album usually is a thing where you put out your eleven best songs. But, for us, our eleven best songs didn't work side by side. We saved them for B-sides or provide them for exclusives. The album was meant to be chapter one of the story of this band. And it touched some things that we made along the way. There are parts of a documentary we made. There is a poem of an actor that we used in one of our films, there is field recordings of a mosque in Belgium, of a subway in New York. There are things that make up the story of how we are and the history of what was happening when we were writing these songs. Over the course of a year and a half, lots of things happened. There were government changes in the UK, there were cuts in student financing, there were the riots. There was everything.
Do such political and social occurences motivate you to write a song?
Roman Rappak: Not really. I think there is a consistent message in all of the songs. The thing that holds it all together is this real search for trying to do something different. The role of an artist, in my head, is always one of a cipher for everything that is around. You are not a spokesperson, but, rather, like a lightning rod to all kind of different ideas. And that is what makes it interesting to a lot of people. When they listen to music, watch a film, or fall in love with a band, it is like total escapism and they want to go to a different world. A world with a unique language. We always really try to say things in our own language. And this language tells how music feels to us in 2012. We say nothing more because we don't see ourselves like spokesmen.
Does your filming affect your music or the otehr way around?
Roman Rappak: It works both ways. I love it when Ryan, who does our visuals, just randomly chooses old footage that we have and just projects it on a wall while we try to find a sound that works with it. I graduated as a sound designer from the London University of Arts. And, as a sound designer, they give you footage of a film and dialogue and you have to paint a picture of the atmospheric noises and you have to create some music that reflects the mood of the film. I love trying to paint a picture with music but I also love to put a film to a song. Both are interesting.
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Your record was released on FatCat records. How did you get in touch with the folks from Brigthon?
Roman Rappak: FatCat was the first label that approached us and the only indie label that approached us. Everyone else was old-fashioned major labels. What can a major label really offer you today? The used to offer you this big infrastructure of distribution. But, you do that with SoundCloud now. Or they can put you in a really great studio. But you can do that with Logic Audio on a Mac now. Or, finally, a music video. But we make our own videos. But Alex Knight from FatCat said: "I want to put out your record. It's amazing and I don't want to change nothing." Also, the label has this strange history with genres. It starts off with Detroit House and then they put out Animal Collective and Sigor Ros – such strange things that are ahead of their time and very cinematic and atmospheric. And then they put out Frightened Rabbit and We Were Promised Jetpacks – very guitar-based bands. Our music has beats, dance music, cinematic atmospheric sections, and guitars. So it all fits with FatCat. It wouldn't be the same record with anybody else.
You're doing a lot of touring now. Tonight you will do your first German show. What can we anticipate?
Roman Rappak: Our concerts bring it all together. And we are very dedicated to doing concerts. The more you have mp3 the more you can listen to music everywhere. Ironically, people find themselves listening to music on tiny laptop speakers. And the more you can put films out everywhere on Youtube, people watch them on tiny little cellphones. So it is kind of ironic that the more the technology advances, the crappier the experience gets. Because all this technology is so great and we have so much access to it, an old experience, like being physically in a room with 200 people watching a band play, is all the more important. Or going to the cinema is more exciting now than it was, because you are used to seeing films on small devices. For me this means: bring on Pirate Bay, bring on more iPods. It means people want to go more and more to concerts. And our shows are made for those people who want to get physical again.
So you are very wild on stage?
Roman Rappak: Sometimes. We plan all our shows, but no show is ever the same. The VJ creates the videos live. There's a film for every song. The VJ has sequences of the edits of different parts of the film. Sometimes he uses this part and then that. He can really do whatever he wants. I think this is really crucial because the VJ can respond to and work with the music. It is quite easy for us to just set up a laptop and play a video along with the music. But for us it is much better to have a dedicated person, a human who makes errors and mistakes. Sometimes he does a great show and sometimes he doesn't. We love mistakes. They are what makes things unique. When you go and see a trapeze artist, it's not amazing because of what he's doing, it's amazing because he could fall down. It's exciting because it could go wrong. Today, with all this technology, it gets harder to find human mistakes, especially in music. You just go on Garage Band and say: "I would like this synth." And then you choose this drumbeat and then you say: "Here is my song." But there is nothing different from about a million other songs, because it was so easy to do. The same is true about photography or movies. Hitchcock had to find a clever way to make a scene run. Now you have so much technology, it has become easy to do heavy camera movements for instance. The more options you have and with the ease of use of everything, there is less error and there is less uniqueness to things, you know.
You're a fan of Hitchcock?
Roman Rappak: I like the way he composed. He had the ability to make a movie that you can watch as a popcorn film with your girlfriend and know nothing about film. And you could read Cahiers de Cinema and see his movies like artwork. Something that Breton also tries to do in its own stylistic way. For some people, making videos and making music is two different jobs. For us, it is one and the same thing and we will continue to go our own ways.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Watch out AT&T, Sprint and Verizon: A whole host of super-fast wireless services could be coming down the pike.
LightSquared, a new 4G wireless network backed by private-equity firm Harbinger Capital Partners and to be built by Nokia Siemens, is set to roll out starting next year. By 2015, LightSquared intends to have its network covering 92% of the U.S. population, the company announced this week.
"4G" is a term used for the next generation of wireless networks, which promise to deliver broadband-like download speeds over the air that are up to 50 times faster than 3G (though actual speeds will be slower). Sprint (S, Fortune 500) has already begun to roll out its 4G network, and Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) and AT&T (T, Fortune 500) are planning on unveiling 4G networks soon -- Verizon at the end of this year and AT&T in 2011.
A new player in the wireless market is a rarity these days -- there's more consolidation than new blood. Nokia Siemens said it will spend $7 billion building up LightSquared's network. That's a big gamble few companies can afford to make.
But that's not the only reason LightSquared's new network is significant: The company says it doesn't plan to sell directly to consumers. Instead, it will wholesale its network to retailers and service providers.
"LightSquared is hoping to accelerate the ability of other service providers to offer 4G services to consumers," said Dan Hays, a partner at consulting firm PRTM. "This opens doors for additional competitors and new innovation."
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Here's how it might work: Under one hypothetical scenario, a big retail company like Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) could decide it wants to start selling mobile phones with "Wal-Mart Wireless" branding. So Wal-Mart would sign a deal with LightSquared to use its 4G network, but Wal-Mart would sell the service and the devices to its customers.
Another potential customer pool is existing, low-budget wireless providers like T-Mobile or MetroPCS (PCS), which have very limited networks of their own. These providers could buy bandwidth from LightSquared to offer 4G service without building out their own infrastructure. Leap Wireless' (LEAP) Cricket already does something similar with its 3G service.
But the real growth potential is in wiring up devices that aren't currently connected to the Internet. No one thought books needed to be broadband-enabled -- until Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) introduced the Kindle e-reader.
The first generation of Kindles ran on Sprint's network. (Kindle customers don't pay access fees for that bandwidth; Amazon foots the bill, reasoning that it will sell more e-books to customers who have ubiquitous access.) But Amazon later switched to AT&T, which now powers all the major e-readers, including Sony's (SNE) Reader and Barnes & Noble's (BKS, Fortune 500) Nook. Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) iPad also runs on AT&GT's network. Adding competition to that market for "white-label" broadband access could help bring down prices for consumers.
It also opens up new product possibilities. Right now, the Big Three wireless network operators have been hesitant to license bandwidth to other companies for services that could cannibalize their own. For instance, General Motors' OnStar system uses Verizon's network, but Verizon offers similar roadside assistance and navigation systems. It's a tense balancing act.
LightSquared won't have those conflicts of interest, because it's not trying to sell directly to consumers. If it gets its network built, it will want to hawk bandwidth to anyone with the cash to buy it.
"LightSquared will be a disruptive force in the U.S. wireless landscape by democratizing wireless broadband services," LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja said in a prepared statement. "We're not only delivering exciting opportunities for manufacturers and retailers, but also real change for consumers."
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Q: What is the boot sequence of kernel? When booting, is the Linux Kernel first loaded to the memory or the first the root file system is mounted? I have this doubt because the compressed kernel image is usually located in /boot/vmlinuz. So, to access the kernel image the root file system should be mounted. But since root file system will reside on the storage, how is it read from the storage?

A: Linux Kernel first loaded to the memory or the first the root file system is mounted?
To begin with, BIOS loads bootloader (assumimg GRUB) making use of its built-in routines to access the disk right from initial 512 Bytes of MBR of your disk and executes it. The code is loaded into RAM and executed, which doesn't require any file system understanding and ideally its a RAW code. In the next stage, boot loader loads /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and passes contents for execution. Below is my Linux GRUB config,
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-37-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux
    --class gnu --class os {
    ...
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 925c0ccb-1532-4078-bee0-07acff8bc917
    linux   /vmlinuz-3.5.0-37-generic root=/dev/mapper/my_vg-root ro   quiet
            splash $vt_handoff
    initrd  /initrd.img-3.5.0-37-generic
}
 Figure: 1

Linux:/boot/grub$ sudo blkid -U 925c0ccb-1532-4078-bee0-07acff8bc917
/dev/sda1

Linux:/boot/grub$ df -h
Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/my_vg-root  455G  126G  307G  29% /
udev                    1.8G  4.0K  1.8G   1% /dev
tmpfs                   708M  980K  707M   1% /run
none                    5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                    1.8G  408K  1.8G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1               228M  131M   85M  61% /boot

From above figure: 1, boot loader searches for a block Id number 925c0ccb-1532-4078-bee0-07acff8bc917 which is my boot device /dev/sda1 and mounted to /boot as shown in the figures. Therefore, at this final stage GRUB loads Linux kernel & initrd images looked under block device which is /boot to RAM using BIOS disk utilities. Usually BIOS runs in real mode of processor which can address only 2^20 bytes of RAM restricting to ~1MB. Now the kernel & initrd weigh above 1MB, loading them to RAM first kernel to 1MB, jump to protected mode and pass the loaded kernel to high memory and free the first 1MB of real mode. Once kernel is under run and initramfs loaded into RAM will finds the location of the file system it itself is on and passes that to the kernel as its root / file system.
Read Tim Jones article for more information on this.


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Thursday 13 March 2014 by Graham Hunter
Fernandinho expects the lessons learned in defeat at FC Barcelona to serve Manchester City FC well next season, when Yaya Touré wants them to be "much, much stronger".
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Manchester City FC left the Camp Nou not only with a real sense of deflation at failing to win or draw their UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg against FC Barcelona but also with a strong feeling that this bitter experience could fuel their European chances next season.
Having created various intelligent openings during a dramatic match – and forced the save of the game from Víctor Valdés following a second-half header from Edin Džeko – City briefly restored parity on the night through Vincent Kompany's diving volley, only to lose 2-1 on the night and 4-1 overall. Yaya Touré's emotions were divided between disappointment at exiting a second cup competition in five days, after the FA Cup defeat by Wigan Athletic FC, and satisfaction in revisiting his old club.
Yaya Touré, Manchester City midfielder
My return to Barcelona has gone really well, particularly with the 'Culé' supporters. It cost me a great deal [emotionally] to have to play against Barcelona. But I'm really excited about the reaction of the fans. Barça remain a great team, buoyed by the weight of their history. Our task now is to work really hard and ensure that when this test comes around next year we are much, much stronger.
I can't quibble that they [Barcelona] were the better side across the two matches. Without doubt [Lionel] Messi is the best player on the planet. I'd be absolutely delighted to have him at City. Whether Barcelona are good enough to go and win this tournament is difficult to say but, from my point of view, they should certainly be finalists.
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We were terrific in both halves. We didn't allow Barça much space in which to work – there's no point making things easy for them. Despite a good number of chances the ball wouldn't go in for a long time but we carried on creating opportunities. Our team remains a work in progress, but our vision and bravery are unquestionable. Where we have gained is in terms of experience. With a bit more know-how and a bit more luck next season, we'll be better.
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Q: How can I add all of the numbers in a stack together and then print the total? I don't know how to add all of the things in a stack together.
I already have:
  Stack <Integer> stack = new Stack <Integer>();
  stack.push(15);
  stack.push(30);
  int total = 0;
  while (!stack.isEmpty()) {
     print(total);
  }

This repeatedly printed 0's.

A: Stacks have both a push and a pop method. The push method pushes an object down onto the stack and the pop method pops the top object off the stack. Each call to push will increase the stack size by 1 and each pop will decrease the stack size by 1.
With a small modification to your code we can total up all the numbers that have been added to your stack.
 import java.util.Stack;

 Stack <Integer> stack = new Stack <Integer>();
  stack.push(15);
  stack.push(30);
  int total = 0;
  while (!stack.isEmpty()) {
    total += stack.pop();
  }
  print(total);


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James Dale is a man with a mission: Create controversy. And he's got a pretty good track record.
The brawny Kiwi is the mind behind the macho marketing in the United States of 42 Below, an ultra-premium vodka from his native New Zealand that Bacardi offered to buy Thursday for $91 million cash.
42 Below has become the tipple of the über-trendy, thanks to push-theenvelope ads and stunts that raise hackles -- and get oh-so-valuable press in the process.
Take the video on the company's website, which struck a New York bar owner as anti-gay and sparked a boycott of 42 Below. Dale's obscenity-laden response landed him the jackpot of publicity -- a blurb on Page Six of The New York Post.
Or the raucous, 42-Below-fueled party on a Broadway storefront display window that got so lewd the cops -- and the TV cameras -- were out on the sidewalk.
That one, with its slang reference to cocaine, sparked an uncharacteristic apology from Dale.
''I thought their complaint was fair enough,'' says the 35-year-old, 42 Below's chief marketing and importing bloke for the United States for the past three years.
But Dale, who lives in Miami Beach and flits up to New York for a few days every week, remains uncontrite about the rest of it. After all, it's working.
Bacardi, the world's largest private spirits company, has tendered an offer to buy 42 Below's parent company for 77 cents a share, a 35 percent premium. The offer is backed by the company's major shareholders. Bacardi plans to invest heavily in the vodka to expand its distribution, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although 42 Below has yet to turn a profit, its growth has been exuberant. Last fiscal year, which ended in March, revenue zoomed to about $11.5 million -- up 39 percent from 2005. Losses narrowed 37 percent to about $2.1 million. And case sales were up 58 percent over 2005, according to the company's annual report.
Named for New Zealand's location 42 degrees below the equator, the vodka was concocted seven years ago in the Wellington garage of company founder Geoff Ross. Since then, industry awards and eccentric antics with a healthy dose of political incorrectness -- such as a ''Win a Russian Bride'' contest -- have helped fashion it into a hipper-than-thou vodka in 25 countries.
42 Below aims at the ''tastemaker'' market -- the young and trendy. But in the ultra-competitive U.S. scene, Dale's had to ramp it up a couple notches, especially since he doesn't have a big advertising budget. He dubs his approach ''spider-monkey marketing'' -- nimble, cheeky moves -- as opposed to guerrilla (gorilla) marketing.
One of his gimmicks: a ''Snow Patrol,'' in which a 42 Below-jacketed crew shoveled snow off the stoops of New York's top night clubs and gave shots of vodka to shivering bouncers.
Cops were called and Dale got busted for drinking in the street. He was disappointed when charges were later dropped. ''I was inviting the media to court,'' he says.
He started ''Gotcha Mate'' viral videos, a sort of salacious Candid Camera. One involved a woman recriminating a surprised stranger in a bar for leaving her. ''You told me you loved me,'' she says, before yanking up her top.
The stunt Dale ranks as his most successful was the run-in with the New York bar owner who found a video so offensive he refused to carry the vodka.
Dale was delighted. He let loose in a profanity-strewn e-mail addressed to ''f---face . . . if you are suggesting that we are anti-gay, then speak to my f------ hand you fool,'' it started.
Dale soon heard from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, to which he adopted a more apologetic tone.
''We have always consulted, supported and had fun with all communities on a global scale and have not and will never single out a community in an effort to offend,'' he wrote.
The spat made the New York Post's famed gossip column. The next day, the phone rang off the hook. ''Everyone started placing orders,'' Dale says.
Public relations expert Richard Weiner says that faced with a cluttered vodka shelf, Dale's on the right track.
Dale, who possesses a low-key manner but is clearly no pushover, says the rude-boy style is all in jest. But it's also part of his strategy to pitch 42 Below as a ''discovery brand.'' That's to say, convince consumers they're stumbling on to the edgiest, newest thing before everyone else.
Nevertheless, controversy is a risky marketing tool because it can unleash a backlash against the brand.
His latest marketing project is Clubland, a documentary series for Internet viewing that takes a behind-the-scenes look at South Beach's competitive nightclub panorama.
Dale, who's partially financing the work as an executive producer, works 42 Below into camera shots, appears wearing a 42 Below T-shirt and drops the name 42 Below into voice-over narration. It's all part of his gospel of stealth branding in pursuit of hipness.
''You can't force cool,'' he says.
French drinks group Pernod Ricard has announced plans to launch the world's most expensive bottle of champagne.
To be sold under the Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque name, it will retail in wine shops for 1,000 euros ($1,276; £670) for a standard-sized bottle.
Deep-pocketed wine lovers can already spend more than £500 a bottle on such champagnes as Louis Roederer Crystal Rose and Krug Clos de Mesnil.
It is not yet known when or where Pernod will launch the new champagne.
"We won't do many cases and won't be offering it in France," said Pernod chairman Patrick Ricard.
Pernod, which is also launching a new brandy costing £130 a bottle, is bringing out the new super-expensive products as a means to take its brands upmarket.
"It is a fact that consumers all over the world want to identify with brands that represent themselves and this has to be brands with quality which are exclusive," said managing director Pierre Pringuet.
"It's the same for fashion, cars... and spirits."
Existing Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque wines are well-known for being some of the most competitively priced so-called prestige champagnes.
They are also renowned for having flowers painted onto the bottles.
It is something that many of us have long suspected - hangovers really do get worse as you get older. Scientists have shown that teenagers have a greater resistance to alcohol.
Not only are they less clumsy and sleepy on the night itself, they do not suffer as much the next day.
It is thought that the adolescent brain, which develops rapidly during the teenage years, copes better with the intoxicating effects of alcohol.
It is not all good news, however, as youngsters may be lulled into a false sense of security, leading them to do untold damage to their health.
Study author Professor Elena Varlinskaya said: 'This ability of adolescents to rapidly counteract some unpleasant alcohol effects may allow them to have more drinks per occasion.
The U.S. psychologist studied the effects of alcohol on rats with the equivalent age to human teenagers and adults.
The rats - chosen because their brain development mimics that of humans - were dosed with alcohol and their movements monitored.
The dose given was equivalent, weight for weight, to a man or woman drinking three or four alcoholic drinks in quick succession.
Five minutes after being injected with alcohol, both age groups were more inhibited.
They were less playful, less active and groomed themselves and their fellow creatures less. Thirty minutes later, there was a noticeable difference between the groups.
While the adult rats were still sluggish, the younger animals were almost as frisky as rats that had not been given any alcohol at all, the journal Alcoholism: Clinical And Experimental Research reports.
Other studies have shown that teenage rats suffer less from clumsiness and sleepiness after being given alcohol and rarely suffer the symptoms of a hangover. Professor Varlinskaya, of Binghamton University in New York, said: 'We found greater tolerance in adolescent than adult animals at alcohol levels comparable to binge drinking.
But this tolerance does have its drawbacks. It is thought the hangover is nature's way of ensuring we do not damage our bodies by drinking to excess, leaving those who are hangover-free at greater danger of harming their health.
Prof Varlinskaya said: 'Unpleasant physical symptoms associated with alcohol intoxication and hangover, which make adults stop drinking, are not experienced to the same degree by adolescents.
PARIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Pernod Ricard (PERP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's second largest wines and spirits group, said on Tuesday United States constitutional rights may have been infringed in its dispute over U.S. rights to the Havana Club Cuban rum brand.
A United States government agency denied in July an application for a license to renew the brand's registration in the U.S., opening the way for competitor Bacardi Limited to launch a rival "Havana Club" made in Puerto Rico.
"We will make use of the fifth amendment (of the U.S. constitution)," Pernod Ricard Chairman Patrick Ricard told the company's annual shareholders meeting, saying Pernod's marketing partner had launched a legal challenge to the decision.
The fifth amendment says no person should be deprived of property without due process of law.
Pernod is already taking legal action against Bacardi through the district court of Delaware, alleging the use of the "Havana Club" trademark is misleading and should be stopped.
Pernod, through its Havana Club Holding SA joint venture with Cuban government agency Cubaexport, last year sold 2.4 million cases of Havana in 80 countries outside the U.S., 13 percent more than in its 2004/05 financial year.
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HERE'S a row that could put most boozy brawls in the shade.
A billionaire, a couple of international drinks companies and two brands of vodka are locked in a ferocious legal battle in America - over whether a vodka is truly Russian or not.
It all began when Pernod Ricard, the French drinks giant, spent a fortune promoting Stolichnaya to the Americans as the authentic Russian vodka.
Then a rival drinks company, Russian Standard - led by billionaire Rustam Tariko - launched Imperia, with plans to invest $100m in America over the next five years.
The punches began flying with an advertising campaign for Imperia that claimed it was the only truly Russian vodka sold in America.
Better still, Imperia launched a lawsuit against Pernod, and its subsidiary Allied Domecq, suggesting that Stolichnaya isn't what it says it is - authentically Russian.
Pernod has decided to fight fire with fire and demanded that the National Advertising Division, the body that settles advertising disputes, intervene to get the Imperia advertising changed.
I'm told that Pernod has also dismissed the Russian Standard lawsuit as nothing but a stunt to "create noise" in order to boost sales in America.
The buzz inside the World Golf Hall of Fame following the induction of the class of 2006 last week wasn't so much on the inductees, but on the booze flowing within the Hall.
Ketel One Vodka, in the first year of a five-year deal as an official partner of the PGA Tour and supporter of the World Golf Hall of Fame induction weekend, erected its Ketel One martini ice bar inside the venue as part of the annual postinduction gala. The all-ice structure consists of anywhere from one to four ice luges and an ice garnish tray that usually takes Iceculture, a Toronto-based ice design and manufacturing company, three days to construct. The ice bar was shipped to St. Augustine, Fla., five days before the gala in a truck packed with dry ice and was stored in a refrigerated truck upon arrival.
"In many cases, the (Hall of Fame's) guests have traveled from around the globe to make it here, so we feel compelled to 'wow' them as best we can while they're here," said Jack Peters, senior vice president and COO for the World Golf Hall of Fame. "This year we knew it would be important to integrate Ketel One's product into the induction ceremony gala appropriately. When they presented the Ketel One martini ice bar concept to us and sent pictures, we knew immediately it would provide a fun and unique experience for our guests. Our instincts were correct . it has been the most talked about aspect of the induction ceremony gala."
Ketel One's deal with the PGA Tour includes being the preferred vodka of the tour's 23-course Tournament Players Club network. The PGA Tour deal is the only official relationship Ketel One has with a sports property. It does have the Ketel One Club in the United Center.
Boston Beer (SAM - commentary - Cramer's Take - Rating) beat third-quarter targets but said it expects margins to slip for the year.
The Boston-based brewer made $5.9 million, or 41 cents a share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up from the year-ago $4.2 million, or 29 cents a share. Revenue rose to $76 million from $73 million a year earlier.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for a 33-cent profit on sales of $74 million.
Boston Beer guided to full-year earnings of $1.16 to $1.26 a share, in line with the $1.21 Wall Street estimate, but said gross margin would drop 2 percentage points from a year ago.
The company also said it continues to consider its options for expanding capacity in the light of Miller's decision to drop it as a brewery customer.
"We have revised upward our capacity needs in New England based on healthy Craft category growth, our own growth trends, and higher freight costs, and are now exploring production capacity in excess of 1.0 million barrels of Samuel Adams brand products and Twisted Tea," Boston Beer said. "After further considering our estimated capacity needs, along with more detailed site construction estimates, it now appears that construction of the facility and all equipment costs could be between $130 million and $170 million.
"In addition, the land acquisition costs, other site specific costs and other startup costs could be between $25 million and $40 million. The cost of the project will ultimately depend on the final specifications, including, but not limited to, initial capacity and capabilities, expansion potential and site specific costs. We are evaluating this potential investment in brewery ownership along with other supply strategies to determine which investments are appropriate for the Company, given the growth of the Craft beer category and known and unknown risks in supply-chain alternatives."
Shares fell $1.55 to $35.22 ahead of the report.
From a priest's grave, the secret of a town's whiskey flows anew after more than 70 years.
Templeton, Ia. — How we ended up in a cemetery at midday unscrewing the bolts of a long-dead priest's monument should really not be told.
But much of the story about Templeton rye whiskey was never intended to be told.
It only happened after a shot or two loosened a few tongues.
The man doing the dirty work in the cemetery comes by his mischief honestly. He's the son of a bootlegger.
Meryl Kerkhoff, 77, had already performed what may be considered a civic duty by supplying the recipe for Templeton Rye to Scott Bush.
RODNEY WHITE/REGISTER PHOTOS Bush is a sharp young businessman who knows the market value of a good, old-fashioned story and a smooth whiskey.
tight-lipped town's tale of hiding bootleg whiskey hamlet in west-central Iowa, once known far and wide for its Prohibition-era bootlegging.
cooked during prohibition more than 70 years ago.
A s we speak, Templeton Rye is being bottled in a spanking new, wooden-barrel-filled distillery. Last week, the first shipments began to appear in retail stores for $31.99 a bottle.
The citizens who bottle the whiskey were recruited via an advertisement in the Catholic Church bulletin.A couple of blocks from the church is the cemetery, where the bolts off the monument are easily falling into Kerkhoff's big, leathery hand.
"Ain't the first time they've been off," he said.
W ith those words we will see that the Templeton Rye story is not all fabrication - proof being the measure of this legendary whiskey.
Bush, 31, was busy studying at the MIT Sloan School of Management near Boston in 2002 when a entrepreneurial fire was lit, born of his heritage.
His great-grandfather cooked rye whiskey. Whenever the family gathered for holidays, a jug was produced and the stories flowed.
Thus began two years of research.
He started with George Washington, who reportedly made rye whiskey long before the Canadian whiskeys watered down the culture.
bootlegging days and recently returned to production. The "character" of Templeton Rye dipped into illegality when Prohibition became the law of the land in 1920.
But times were hard. There were farms to save. The economy was tough.
Many of the residents - Kerkhoff swears it was close to 90 percent - became skilled in the fine art of cooking whiskey that earned more than $5 a gallon.
"When life dealt Templeton lemons," wrote resident Lisa Irlbeck in an essay, "the people of Templeton made Templeton Rye."
They were darn good at it. So good that as many as three trucks a day filled with rye whiskey were dispatched to Des Moines, Denver and Chicago. Al Capone was said to be a satisfied customer.
It was known far and wide as "the good stuff."
Federal agents didn't think so, however, and they often descended upon the town. Locals say that various tricks were employed to elude the authorities.
Hilda Steffes remembers one used by her father, Frank Fisher. The family of nine children lived on a farm, and her dad, when he wasn't calling on her to watch for strange cars coming down the gravel road, was digging holes.
Bootlegging farmers would often dig a post hole deeper than necessary to accommodate three or four gallons of whiskey, which fostered easy extraction and became a pickup point.
The "revenuers" looked for fresh dirt, however, so Fisher placed wooden planks over the top of his hole, covered it with dirt and placed a swing set on top. Ground under a swing set is naturally disturbed and not likely to be suspicious.
Alas, old dad's luck eventually ran out. He ended up in jail for a month and quit the business, as did many others, until Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
But for years afterward, and up to today, people around Templeton made a hobby of cooking whiskey.
They just never admitted it.
Bush decided a colorful history was as important to good whiskey as the finish.
So he started calling around for recipes. People hung up on him.
Even after all these years, shame and silence still surrounded the whiskey-making in Templeton.
Kerkhoff remembers his first call from Bush. He said about four words and hung up.
"Folks caught wind of it, and people were all up in arms. People here thought Templeton Rye belonged to the community," said Mayor Ken Behrens.
"It was a personal issue to a lot of people."
Bush didn't give up. The Wall Lake native made an effort to know people.
Finally, he negotiated with Kerkhoff and his son, Keith, both of nearby Manning, and asked them to become partners.
Businessman Ted Bauer was added because he held the trademark, the fourth to have it over the years, although he could never use it.
"There are huge, powerful people in this business," Bush said. "It's hard to get into."
Finally, Meryl Kerkhoff supplied a recipe, and the boys started cooking.
Here's the kicker: They even talked Templeton's development group into constructing a $75,000 building for Templeton Rye to rent.
The first batch of 5,000 cases has now been aged for four years.
It starts in an uber still, a huge 300-gallon copper barrel where the clear liquid trickles through the methodical process - grain cooking, adding yeast, firing it to steaming hot and, finally, condensation.
After the single-malt liquor is aged in a single white oak barrel, a fine amber is produced.
One day last month, the group gathered and filled up some shot glasses for a toast to the quirks of history.
One of the biggest raids in Templeton came after The Des Moines Register ran a photograph of whiskey barrels tied to Christmas lights in 1931.
Five years later, a Register story described agents who smashed three stills a day, writing that "after a visit to Templeton I can say that I know of no reason why anyone would be compelled to leave here either thirsty or empty-handed, providing he has the money to make the purchase."
After all this, the boys offered a toast to the Register, and the rye swirled down their throats, rich in character, warming, even historic.
And now it is available in any fine Iowa business that sells booze.
There was still the matter of the cemetery.
Apparently, another way to beat the feds was hidden in a well-known spot in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery - in a certain monument, 12 feet high and hollow.
After twisting the bolts, the plate bearing the name of a late priest came off handily. After all, said the modern rye makers, the German Catholics weren't too excited about demonizing whiskey.
Sure enough, this hollow monument could hold quite a stash. On the bottom was a glass beer bottle.
Perhaps a new generation had come to this spot, filled with nostalgia for a monument to the underground whiskey trail that saved a few farms and was known to create a hopping good barn dance or two.
IA - The black-and-white sticker looks like a bar code found on any other product.
Except most bar codes don't come with a message that says "Do not remove under penalty of law."
Beginning Friday, any keg of beer bought in Woodbury County will have one of those stickers affixed to it. A new keg registration ordinance makes it a crime to return the keg with the sticker missing or damaged.
"Some kids are excited. They've had kegs stolen at a party. Now we'll be able to track it if (thieves) try to return it," said Laddy Peck, manager of Hy-Vee Wine & Spirits, 3301 Gordon Drive.
But the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors had more in mind than protecting a buyer's deposit refund when passing the ordinance in August. The reason behind the new law is to try to cut down on underage drinking that is common at keg parties.
Damaging or removing a keg sticker would be a violation punishable by a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail.
"I've told people, if it's not on there (when the keg is returned), there is no refund coming and we have to report it," Peck said.
Supporters say the ordinance will save lives once buyers decide having a keg party isn't worth the risk of being prosecuted for procuring alcohol for minors.
"We think it can have a very positive impact in the college age," said Carolyn Goodwin, a West High School counselor and Sioux City Mayor's Youth Commission adviser.
Keg registration supporters aren't worried that underage drinkers will instead turn to hard liquor or drink beer by the case.
"That's not the kind of feedback we're getting from other states (with keg registration laws)," Goodwin said.
Nationwide, 27 states, including Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota, have keg registration laws.
Frustrated with unsuccessful efforts lobbying the Iowa Legislature to pass a similar law, supporters have turned their attention to individual counties while keeping the heat on state lawmakers. Woodbury County joins 17 other Iowa counties and four cities with keg registration ordinances.
"It's a statement by (local) government that this is a concern," Goodwin said. "We wish our state legislators would get on board."
At Hy-Vee, Peck pulls out a blue three-ring binder containing the keg buyer's log. The added paperwork won't be an inconvenience for liquor store employees, he said, and likely won't be much of one for customers already accustomed to the time it takes to buy a keg, pay the deposit and rent a tub and pump.
"If it slows us down a minute, that'll be about it," Peck said.
A West Des Moines business will pay a $500 fine for selling alcohol to someone under the legal age.
El Rey Burriots, 1714 Grand Ave., on Dec. 15, 2005, sold alcohol to someone younger than 21. It was the first violation for the business. The business appealed the fine in July, and the state's Alcoholic Beverages Division found the business to have violated the liquor law.
(11/08/06 - CEDAR RAPIDS, IA) - A makeover and a trim led to assault charges against a teenager. Dallas R. Esparza, 16, of Cedar Rapids, is accused of shaving off the eyebrows of Shawn Weaver while he was unconscious, police said.
Esparza also is accused of shaving off some of Weaver's hair and taking his tennis shoes, which were valued at less than $200.
Alcohol may have been involved, police said.
Esparza was charged with assault and fifth-degree theft. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 5 in Linn County juvenile court.


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Q: Android studio kotlin retrofit POST request get response So, my app is communicating with my NestJS api with Retrofit, but when i want to use the response, it looks like this:
UserModelIn(
    usernameError="error",
    passwordError="error",
    ok=false,
)

Can you tell me why? Thanks!
Heres my code:
Dataclasses:
data class UserModelOut(
    val username: String,
    val password: String,
)

data class UserModelIn(
    val usernameError: String,
    val passwordError: String,
    val ok: Boolean,
)

Interface:
interface ApiInterface {

    @POST("test")
    fun sendReq(@Body requestModel: RqsModel) : Call<ResModel>

    @POST("register")
    fun register(@Body registerModelOut: UserModelOut): Call<UserModelIn>
}

ServiceBuilder:
            val response = ServiceBuilder.buildService(ApiInterface::class.java)
            response.register(UserModelOut("", "")).enqueue(
                object : Callback<UserModelIn> {
                    override fun onResponse(
                        call: Call<UserModelIn>,
                        response: Response<UserModelIn>
                    ) {
                        usernameError.text = response.body().toString()
                       // var response = response.body().toString().trim();
                        //textView.text = response.message().toString()
                    }

                    override fun onFailure(call: Call<UserModelIn>, t: Throwable) {
                       // textView.text = t.toString()
                    }

                }
            )

A: Solved it.
            val response = ServiceBuilder.buildService(ApiInterface::class.java)
            response.register(UserModelOut("", "")).enqueue(
                object : Callback<UserModelIn> {
                    override fun onResponse(
                        call: Call<UserModelIn>,
                        response: Response<UserModelIn>
                    ) {

                       // get for example the usernameError:
                        usernameError.text = response.body()?.usernameError
                    }

                    override fun onFailure(call: Call<UserModelIn>, t: Throwable) {
                       // textView.text = t.toString()
                    }

                }
            )


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Jayhawks catch the Spiders
Mar 26, 2011 at 12:01 AM Sep 10, 2014 at 10:51 AM
SAN ANTONIO - In an NCAA regional full of underdogs, Kansas played like the dominant No. 1 seed it is.
Brady Morningstar scored 18 points and the Jayhawks knocked off 12th-seeded Richmond 77-57 Friday night get one win from returning to the Final Four fo
Brady Morningstar scored 18 points and the Jayhawks knocked off 12th-seeded Richmond 77-57 Friday night get one win from returning to the Final Four for the first time since their 2008 championship. They await the winner of 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth and 10th-seeded Florida State.
The Southwest regional is the first in NCAA history with three double-digit seeded teams. But the Spiders looked jittery in the school's second round-of-16 appearance.
The Jayhawks? They were calm and confident in reaching a fourth regional final under coach Bill Self.
Justin Harper led Richmond with 22 points.
The Spiders (29-8) passed up open shots, bounced balls into the Kansas bench and found themselves down 31-9 with more than six minutes still left in the first half. It belied the bluster Richmond appeared to show during a chippy confrontation with Kansas players before tipoff.
The Spiders were bouncing around the tunnel of the Alamodome, firing themselves up, when Kansas players brushed past them on their way to the court. Some apparent contact set off an exchange of words and shoves, and security stepped between the teams.
Before Kansas (35-2) filed back to the locker room at halftime - with a 41-22 lead - Self held his players back and waited for Richmond to exit first. He told TBS during a halftime interview that he wanted his players to go through the tunnel after the Spiders.
Self said he wasn't after separation at that moment. But on the scoreboard, the Jayhawks already had it.
Thomas Robinson had 12 points and 14 rebounds, and Marcus Morris scored 13 for Kansas. The Jayhawks have yet to be tested so far this tournament, winning by an average of nearly 18 points.
Kansas is riding an easy-looking path toward the Final Four. The Jayhawks can make it to Houston next week without having beaten a seed higher than nine.


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Битва у реки Пялькане — одно из сражений Северной войны 1700—1721. Пялькане (в некоторых русских источниках Пелкина) — река в Финляндии, соединяющая озера Пялькане-Веси и Маллас-Веси, у берегов которой а произошла битва между русским корпусом под командованием Ф. М. Апраксина и М. М. Голицына и шведскими войсками под командованием генерала К. Армфельдта.

Предшествующие события
После занятия в 1713 году русскими войсками под личным предводительством Петра I Або и Гельсингфорса, наступил перерыв в военных действиях. Царь уехал 10 сентября в Санкт-Петербург, оставив во главе армии, собранной в Гельсингфорсе, генерал-адмирала Апраксина. Между тем шведский главнокомадующий Армфельдт собрал свои войска в тесном проходе у кирки Пялькане, находившейся на берегу одноимённой реки, на дороге из Онкала в Куопио к северу от озера Малас-Веси, где и укрепился. Апраксин, получивший сведения, что шведы собрались в окрестностях Тавастгуса, решил направиться против них. 20 сентября русская армия выступила из Гельсингфорса и к 28 сентября прибыла к Тавастгусу, который нашла покинутый противником. Небольшой гарнизон Тавастгуской крепости покинул её, отступив к своим главным силам в Пялькане, бросив в воду все пушки. 1 октября Апраксин продолжал наступление и на следующий день встал на позиции напротив противника.

Армфельд искусно расположил свои войска между озёрами Пялькане-Веси и Маллас-Веси, прикрывая фронт расположения рекою Пялькане. Это заставило Апраксина принять следующий план: демонстрируя с фронта, для чего на русском берегу были установлены батареи, атаковать шведов во фланг, для чего часть сил должна была быть переброшена на плотах через озеро Малас-Веси. Фронтальная атака должна была отвлечь внимание и силы противника от высаживающихся русских войск.

Состав сил

В составе русского корпуса находились следующие полки:
 пехотные:
 1-й гренадерский
 2-й гренадерский
 Московский
 Троицкий
 Галицкий
 Выборгский
 Нижегородский
 Архангелогородский
 Казанский
 Петербургский
 Великолуцкий
 Сибирский
 драгунские:
 Луцкий
 Вятский
 Вологодский
 Нарвский
 губернаторский эскадрон

Битва
Первыми боевые действия открыли русские. В 5 часов утра 6000 человек под командованием генерал-лейтенантов князя М. М. Голицына и И. И. Бутурлина, а также генерал-майора Г. П. Чернышева были посажены на плоты. Поднявшийся туман способствовал высадке. Остальные войска, предназначенные для действия с фронта, были разделены на три колонны: правая и средняя пехотные, а левая конная. Правой командовал генерал-лейтенант Р. В. Брюс, средней — генерал-майор А. А. Головин, левой — лично Ф. М. Апраксин.

Армфельдт, узнав о приготовлениях русских к высадке и осознав опасность, которая угрожала его правому флангу и тылу, оставил в укреплениях на реке Пялькане треть своей пехоты под командованием генерал-майора Ла-Барра, а сам с оставшимися двумя третями пехоты и 700 драгунами направился против перебрасываемых через озеро Маллас-Веси русских войск. Драгуны Армфельдта первыми столкнулись с войсками Голицына. Местом высадки Голицын избрал берег озера в районе деревни Мялькиле в 2-х верстах от шведских окопов на реке Пялькане. Прибывшие к Мялькиле шведские драгуны вместо того, чтобы атаковать головные части высадившихся русских войск, затеяли с ними перестрелку. Русские постепенно усиливались, бой становился неравным и драгуны стали отходить к своей пехоте. Но в это время последняя уже подошла к месту боя и решительно двинулась на 2 тысячи русских войск, успевших высадиться на берегу. Последние под огнём шведов были отброшены в воду, но подоспевшие части отряда Голицына в свою очередь атаковали и опрокинули шведов, взяв их во фланг. Армфельдт, видя, что пехота не может продолжать бой, начал отступление к Таммерфорсу.

В то время как Голицын вёл бой с Армфельдтом, Ла-Барр сдерживал русских (численностью 8 000 человек) на фронте реки Пялькане. Под прикрытием своих батарей пехота Брюса и Головина готовилась переплыть реку на плотах, а кавалерия частью вплавь, частью вброд. Но действия на фронте были слишком трудны. Ла-Барр, пользуясь своим выгодным положением, дважды отбивал атаки и лишь известие о неудаче Армфельдта и боязнь быть отрезанным отрядом Голицына заставили его отступить к Руовеси.

Итоги битвы
Последний бой кампании 1713 года. Бой длился более трёх часов.

Потери русских войск составили 673 человека, из них 27 офицеров (убиты 1 полковник, 1 подполковник, 4 офицера, 112 унтер-офицеров и рядовых; ранены 21 офицер, 534 унтер-офицеров и рядовых).

Потери шведской армии: 8 орудий, 577 человек убитыми (до 800 человек убитыми и ранеными) и 233 человека были взяты в плен.

Оценивая действия сторон, следует признать вполне соответствующими обстановке распоряжения Апраксина и Армфельдта и отметить упорство в действиях шведской пехоты.

Шведы отступили к селению Лаппола, где уже 19 февраля 1714 года произошло очередное сражение.

Факты
 В честь победы была выбита специальная настольная медаль «В память сражения при реке Пелкине. 6 октября 1713 г.»

Примечания

Литература

 Шефов Н. А. Битвы России. — М.: АСТ, 2004. — ISBN 5-17-010649-1

Сражения Северной войны
Сражения по алфавиту
Сражения России
Сражения Швеции
Сражения в Финляндии
Сражения 1713 года


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Japan's top court upholds sterilization requirement to register sex change
TOKYO Asia Pacific
Jan 26, 2019 3:56 pm GMT+3
In this Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, photo, Takakito Usui, a transgender man, cries while speaking during a press conference after Japan's Supreme Court handed down in Okayama, western Japan. (AP Photo)
Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.
The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom and could become out of step with changing social values.
The 2004 law states that people wishing to register a gender change must have their original reproductive organs, including testes or ovaries, removed and have a body that "appears to have parts that resemble the genital organs" of the gender they want to register.
The unanimous decision by a four-judge panel, published Thursday, rejected an appeal by Takakito Usui, a transgender man who said forced sterilization violates the right to self-determination and is unconstitutional.
Usui, 45, had appealed to the top court after he unsuccessfully requested lower courts to grant him legal recognition as male without having his female reproductive glands surgically removed.
Despite the unanimous decision, presiding justice Mamoru Miura joined another justice in saying that while the law may not violate the constitution, "doubts are undeniably emerging," according to Usui's lawyer, Tomoyasu Oyama.
The two judges proposed regular reviews of the law and appropriate measures "from the viewpoint of respect for personality and individuality," according to Japanese media reports.
The Supreme Court decision ended Usui's legal battle, but he and his lawyer said the opinions in the ruling left them with hope.
"I think the ruling could lead to a next step," Usui told a news conference. "I hope to find what constitutes a family of my own that does not fit the traditional mold."


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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1980s → 1983 → May 1983 → 11 May 1983 → Commons Sitting → FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
ASEAN (Discussions)
HC Deb 11 May 1983 vol 42 cc774-5 774
§ 10. Mr. Adley
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when next he intends to meet his ASEAN counterparts; and what they expect to discuss.
§ Mr. Pym
I met my ASEAN counterparts at the fourth European Community and ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bangkok at the end of March. No date for the next meeting has yet been set. Meanwhile, we maintain contact through diplomatic channels and I would expect to meet a number of my ASEAN colleagues individually during the year. Discussions normally cover a wide range of subjects, including the circumstances in Cambodia.
§ Mr. Adley
Does my right hon. Friend accept that the five members of ASEAN regard their membership of that 775 organisation as importantly as we regard our membership of the European Community? In view of what he said about Kampuchea and the United Nations resolution sponsored by ASEAN, which almost the entire world, with the exception of the Soviet Union and its Vietnamese clients, supports, what further steps will he take to support the re-establishment in Cambodia of a Cambodian Government led by Prince Sihanouk?
I agree with my hon. Friend that ASEAN is an important and effective organisation. It is also a defence organisation in a way that the European Community is not. It was a successful meeting and it was useful for both regional groups to meet. I am constantly exploring with our allies and friends the best way to restore to Cambodia the life and circumstances that we would all wish.
§ Mr. Newens
How does the right hon. Gentleman's profession of support for democracy and respect for human rights accord with his support for representatives of the Khymer Rouge, which had an appalling record of genocide in Cambodia, remaining in the United Nations organisation? Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to discuss with ASEAN the appalling nature of that regime and the fact that no organisation should support the Khymer Rouge in future?
The countries of ASEAN have an extremely difficult problem with the Vietnamese forces in Cambodia. We had a long discussion about the matter, and ASEAN believes that the coalition that now exists will help that country to make progress. It is correct, as the hon. Gentleman says, that the Khmer Rouge is part of that coalition, but all the members of ASEAN, which are the countries most immediately affected by the crisis, believed that to be a helpful move. We supported it for that reason.
§ Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke
Does my right hon. Friend know that the Foreign Secretary of Thailand, whose Government have recently been returned triumphantly at the polls, now feels strong enough to consider visiting Hanoi to make direct contact with Vietnam and to discuss Kampuchea? If his mission is supported in general by ASEAN, as he believes it will be, will my right hon. Friend give the support of the Government and, if possible of Europe, to that initiative?
My hon. and learned Friend has raised an important point. There is the possibility of such a development, and we are considering it with our allies. At first sight it would appear to be a helpful move, and I know that the Thai Foreign Minister is considering it carefully.
§ Mr. James Lamond
If the Foreign Secretary is searching for ways to achieve a solution in Kampuchea, would he not do better to consider the resolutions passed at the recent non-aligned conference in New Delhi, which were at least welcomed by the Foreign Ministers of the three countries in Indo-China at the conference of 12 April, who did not reject them, as they did the resolution that was mentioned earlier?
As is often the case with such resolutions, even if they are taken by the non-aligned movement—which consists of some members that could scarcely be called non-aligned—they do not on the whole produce solutions to problems that are as difficult as those of Cambodia.
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