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Rihanna and Lady Gaga Lead 2010 MTV Video Play Awards
. (PR) MTV Networks International announced the winners of the 2010 MTV Video Play Awards, with Rihanna's "Rude Boy" earning top billing as the most played music video on MTV channels around the world, with over 20,000 plays.
The top 52 videos were aired over 610,000 times across 58 MTV channels around the world (excluding all MTV US channels) over the course of 2010. Thirty-four videos gained Platinum status with over 10,000 plays each, while seventeen further videos gained Gold status with more than 5000 plays.
Lady Gaga scored a hat trick of Platinum awards for "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". Black Eyed Peas picked up two Platinum awards for their huge dance hits "Meet Me Halfway" and "Rock That Body", as did David Guetta for "Memories" and "Gettin Over You" featuring Fergie. Katy Perry also nabbed two Platinum awards for her top summer tunes "Teenage Dream" and "California Gurls".
B.o.B and Ke$ha both made the top 10 Platinum list with "Airplanes" and "Tik Tok" respectively, both giving spectacular live performances of these huge hits at the 2010 MTV EMA in Madrid. Justin Beiber won his first MTV Video Play Award going straight in at Platinum for "Baby", as did Cheryl Cole with "Fight For This Love".
Bruce Gillmer, Executive Vice President Music and Talent/Programming, Events, MTV Networks International commented: "The MTV Video Play Awards 2010 results demonstrate MTV's commitment to providing the best and latest music videos to our fans around the world, as well as our unique ability to support acts on a global scale."
Not only was Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie" featuring Rihanna the fourth most played music video of 2010, it also claims the title of top streamed music video on MTV's 40 global websites (excluding all MTV US websites). The list also includes videos from Rihanna, as well as Katy Perry and Shakira, clearly demonstrating that MTV remains at the forefront of new digital music platforms, connecting fans with the music they want on the platforms they want.
The MTV Video Play Awards emphasise MTV's commitment to supporting new acts, championing up and coming artists and launching them around the world. Fourteen of the 52 winning videos were new acts, eight of which are PUSH artists, MTV's global campaign that promotes the hottest new talent to audiences across all platforms. The eight PUSH artists who won Platinum and Gold Video Play awards are B.o.B, Ke$ha, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Jason Derulo, Mike Posner, Alexandra Burke and Selena Gomez & The Scene.
About MTV's Platinum and Gold Video Play Awards
The innovative awards were launched in 2007 to celebrate the most played music videos across the global MTV network. To create the awards, 58 MTV music channels from around the world provided data on their most played music videos from the period 1st January to 31st December 2010. Videos played more than 5000 times received a Gold award, those played over 10,000 times received a Platinum award and 20,000 plays resulted in a Double Platinum Award.
The most played videos for 2010 are:
Double Platinum
Rihanna Rude Boy
Lady Gaga Bad Romance
Lady Gaga Telephone
Eminem Feat. Rihanna Love The Way You Lie
Katy Perry California Gurls
Ke$ha Tik Tok
B.o.B Airplanes
Lady Gaga Alejandro
Owl City Fireflies
David Guetta Memories
Katy Perry Teenage Dream
Travie McCoy Feat. Bruno Mars Billionaire
Iyaz Replay
Black Eyed Peas Meet me Halfway
Shakira Waka Waka
B.o.B Nothin' On You
David Guetta Feat. Fergie Gettin Over You
Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are
Cheryl Cole Fight For This Love
Jay Z and Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind
Taio Cruz Dynamite
Jason Derulo In My Head
Timbaland If We Ever Meet Again
Black Eyed Peas Rock That Body
Kylie Minogue All The Lovers
Flo-Rida Club Can't Handle Me
Justin Beiber Baby
Rihanna Russian Roulette
Yolanda Be Cool & DCup We No Speak Americano
Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull I Like It
Train Hey Soul Sister
Taio Cruz Break Your Heart
Usher OMG
Mike Posner Cooler Than Me
Cee-Lo Green F.U
Edward Maya Stereo Love
Gorillaz Stylo
K'Naan Wavin' Flag
Usher/Pitbull DJ Got Us Fallin In Love
Green Day Last of the American Girls
Ne-Yo Beautiful Monster
Muse Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)
Adam Lambert Whatya Want From Me
Alexandra Burke feat. Flo-Rida Bad Boys
30 Seconds to Mars Kings and Queens
Kings of Leon Radioactive
One Republic All The Right Moves
Jay-Z Young Forever
Selena Gomez & The Scene Naturally
30 Seconds to Mars Closer to the Edge
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NERD / Nelly Furtado Hot-n-Fun
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Adam Anderson (Aberdeen, 1692 — Londres, 10 de janeiro de 1765) foi um economista escocês.

Biografia
Anderson foi um funcionário por quarenta anos, ou mais, da Casa dos Mares do Sul, a sede da Companhia dos Mares do Sul. Até sua morte em Clerkenwell, em 1765, o cargo mais alto que ocupou na companhia foi o chefe das Ações e Novas Anuidades.

No ano anterior à sua morte publicou a sua única e grande obra intitulada Uma Dedução Histórica e Cronológica da Origem do Comércio desde os Primeiros Registros até o Presente, contendo uma História dos Grandes Interesses Comerciais do Império Britânico (1764, 2 vols. fol.).

Desde os primeiros tempos até o ano de 1762, o trabalho de Anderson é um monumento da indústria estupenda. Composto na forma de anais, não é meramente um registro do progresso comercial e do empreendimento colonial, mas uma história do desenvolvimento político, industrial e social de todos os países civilizados, e especialmente da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda. Os resumos de todos os tratados, atos do parlamento, e panfletos de qualquer forma relacionados ao comércio ou questões afins, são adicionados, juntamente com os registros de estatísticas das finanças nacionais, de preços, moeda e da população. As seções iniciais do trabalho não são confiáveis, mas D. Macpherson considerou de suficiente importância seus capítulos a partir de 1492 em diante e os reproduziu em seu Annals of Commerce (1805). Na introdução de seu trabalho Anderson demonstrou estar adiante de seu tempo, e expôs várias das falácias do sistema mercantil. Condenou os monopólios industriais, e defendeu a naturalização de estrangeiros protestantes, e uma uniformidade de pesos, medidas e moedas para todas as nações cristãs.

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The Reason He Is Standing Alone In The Snow Will Have You In Tears.
The bench that Bud Caldwell stands at is no ordinary bench.
It is a bench that commemorates the life of his deceased wife Betty.
Every day, no matter what the weather is like, Bud visits the memorial and leaves a daisy and a penny and tells his wife about his day.
Unfortunately, a winter storm had blocked Bud from being able to make his way to the bench.
Luckily, park employees noticed Bud sitting in his car and did something incredible.
The employees got together, grabbed some shovels, and cleared a path for Bud so he could get to the bench and visit with his wife.
Their act of kindness, is heartwarming. It meant the world to Bud!
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Amazon Studios to Give 'The Report' a Limited Release Before Streaming!!
One of the best films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Scott Z. Burns' The Report. Led by an Oscar-worthy performance from Adam Driver, the film spans almost a decade as one intrepid congressional investigator tries to get to the bottom of the Bush Administration's torture program. It's riveting stuff that could be a serious contender in this year's Oscar race if Amazon Studios, who picked up the film, plays its cards right.
According to Deadline, Amazon hopes to replicate the success Netflix had last year with Roma by giving The Report a limited theatrical release on September 27th followed by streaming on Prime starting October 11th. While I would prefer for The Report to get a substantial release, the truth of the matter is that it's a movie for adults in a time of streaming, so it has two strikes against it. Like with Roma, it's not a movie that easily sells itself. For Roma, you had to convince audiences to see a 2 hour, 15 minute black-and-white foreign-language feature that was a deeply personal story to the director. For The Report, you have to relive the horror of the Bush years and the reminder that the Obama Administration basically dragged its feet on holding anyone responsible for the torture program.
However, if you give people the chance to watch the film at home, you can still get the buzz without the notion of the film being a "flop". Granted, this limited theatrical window means The Report won't play at major chains, but that didn't stop Roma from picking up three Oscars. While we're still a long way away from seeing how this year's Oscar race takes shape, I'm excited for people see The Report. And with the film playing on Prime two weeks after its theatrical release, you won't have an excuse to skip it.
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The late Alhaji (Dr) Mamman Shata
As another day crawled in by thirty minutes only in June, 1999, a great man lay sick in the bed of the university teaching hospital in Kano. The only family member in the room, his daughter Jamila, had been dozing uneasily on a chair beside him, not knowing that he was quietly bidding goodbye to an eventful life. The third person in the room, a nurse, Umar Ali Dodo, told her at that minute, "If you want to sleep, go to the room over there and have some nap." As she stood up to go, she saw the nurse turn the sick man on his side. As soon as she stepped out, at 12:30 a.m., her father breathed his last. It was Friday, June 18, 1999.
Alhaji Mamman Shata Katsina, the greatest of all Hausa musicians, was – give and take – 76 years old. He was buried that day in Daura, the city of his main benefactor, the Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar, where Jamila took him for the last rites even though he left no instruction that he should be buried there instead of his hometown Funtua or his nascent village Musawa.
I will not bore you with the biography of Shata because that much is known to you. The summary of it was encapsulated, in my view, in the headline of a newspaper article which I wrote in the New Nigerian way back in 1996 in which I described him as the musician who "sang for Nature, Man and Machine". For in the roughly sixty years that he spent as a folk singer, Shata had sung about human beings, non-human beings, as well as spiritual matters. That is not to strictly confine his music, for he actually did sing for other things outside that spectrum.
As a mark of appreciation for his contributions to national development, he was awarded several honours, such as the ones by the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), the U.S. Consulate in Kaduna, the Federal Government of Nigeria, and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, which gave him an honorary doctorate degree in 1988. The biggest honour of all, indeed, is the high esteem in which his listeners hold him till today. There is hardly any musician in Hausa land who has continued to enjoy the adoration and devotion of his people such as Shata, decades after his demise. Interestingly, there emerges a crop of devotees who yearn for his music in this age of cultural adulteration and assimilation imposed by globalisation. This is proof that Shata is going to live in the hearts and minds of a generation of listeners, many of whom may not have shared a life-time with him.
In the newest edition of the official biography of the singer, titled, "Shata Ikon Allah!" which I happened to write with contributions from three other researchers, there is a new section called "What Happened Afterwards?" That's what this write-up is based on. In it, I give an overview of what transpired around Shata's life in the years since his departure. I will tell you some of it now.
The first was the sharing of his estate among his inheritors in accordance to the Sharia law. This happened shortly after he died. The then Emir of Daura, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar, set up a committee which collated the inheritance and shared it among the deserving family members. I point out in that section that Shata did not leave behind any millions of naira as many people thought. Reason: he was a heavy spender in philanthropy, giving freely to all who came along in search of assistance. Not everyone knew that Shata sponsored many people to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage or paid for other people's marriages or children's naming ceremonies or housing rent. He also took a good care of his family. Consequently, he did not save much from the huge gifts he received from his benefactors or the wealth he had made from his own businesses and farming.
His biography, which he personally endorsed, was also launched in Kaduna in July, 2006. Late in coming (we had wanted it to be completed before he died), it was the pioneering, most serious attempt at documenting his life in book form and will remain the most authentic totem on his life. An updated, better edited and more aesthetically pleasant version was published late last year.
In June, 2013 yours sincerely and a group of other enthusiasts, as well as some children of the late Shata, met at Arewa House in Kaduna and formed the Mamman Shata Memorial Association. In a speech that I shared on the occasion, which coincided with the 14th anniversary of his demise, I presented the need for not only the establishment of the association but also that of the founding of a Mamman Shata Centre or Mamman Shata Music Centre whose job would, among others, be to collect every Hausa song that can be found so that history would not wipe out the thousands of songs that have been composed and or recorded in the Hausa language. I pointed out that our songs – either by the old generation of singers such as Narambada, Caji, Shata, Doka, Uwaliya, Barmani, Uji, Danmaraya, etc., or the new generation such as Sani Danja, Ala, Yakubu, Fati Nijar, Fantimoti, Zango, Sharifai, etc. – are in danger of disappearing in the centuries to come. Not all of them, of course, but a great number need to be archived today so that future generations can be able to access them. We shouldn't sit idly by while the storms of life and history threaten their existence.
Another development since Shata's demise was the availability of some of his songs as telephone ring tones. The songs were promoted on the MTN network, and many subscribers are still using them for a fee that is shared between the company and members of the Shata family in a deal that is obscured in secrecy. Most family members do not know how the deal was struck and their exact entitlement. However, the bottom-line as far as one is concerned is that Shata, more than any other traditional musician, is being heard in ring tones.
Shata was also honoured posthumously. The first and biggest honour came from the Federal Government which on February 28, 2014 conferred on him and some selected artistes the award of "Internationally Acclaimed Artists, Literary Icons and Journalists" during its Centenary Awards. At a ceremony held in the presidential villa in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan personally handed over a plaque for the award to the Shata family. The only other singer given a similar honour that night was the late Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. It reminded us about the first big award conferred on Shata by the Federal Government, the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) given to him in 1976.
Another honour was conferred on Shata, this time by the Kaduna State Radio, which was celebrating the return of its AM channel to the airwaves. The station, through Governor Ramalan Yero, who was present at the ceremony, gave an award to only two musicians that night – Mamman Shata and Danmaraya Jos. It was shortly after that event Danmaraya died, following an illness.
It was also after Shata's death that internet usage reached an appreciable peak amongst the youth in Nigeria. This spawned a whole new range of devotion to his music as several Shata chat groups sprang up on Facebook and later WhatsApp. Shata's songs can also be found on YouTube as well as a few other social media sites. The beauty of this development is that his music can be shared not only in audio but also in video formats as most of these sites carry video clips. Another advantage is that music clip reaches millions of people across the world through the social media within seconds, and it is all free of charge. I was the second person to establish a Shata chat group on Facebook, 'Dandalin Mamman Shata', which I renamed 'Shata Ikon Allah!' in order to rhyme with the book.
Linked to this were the get-togethers some of the Shata social media activists organised in order to meet each other face to face. Those events took place twice in 2017 – in September and December in Kano and Katsina respectively. Sanusi and Lawal Shata were the cynosure of all eyes there, but at the Kano outing there was an additional side-attraction: Dudu Shata, the daughter of Shata's only sister, the late Yalwa, took the microphone and presented the song Shata sang in Zaria when he was awarded a doctorate degree in 1988. The title of the song is, "Mu Je Gidan Ilimi A.B.U." Dudu received the loudest ovation and the video clip of her performance went viral in the social media.
During his life time, Shata had frowned at his own child becoming a musician. He would rather they go to school. This was in recognition of the potential of education to oneself and to the society at large, couched in the memory of some of the nasty experiences he personally encountered in some places where he was contemptuously regarded as a "mere singer". When his eldest son, Lawal (Magaji), took to music, it was against that wish. Now after the death of Shata, another son of his, Sanusi, also began a career in music in 2014. Sanusi has tried to carve a niche for himself in that realm. I wish him good luck!
There has also been a renewed interest in Shata in the mainstream media. This is evident in the effort made by Aminiya, a vernacular weekly newspaper in the Trust stable, to publish exclusive interviews with many of the people Shata sang for who, in their own right, are celebrities. Many such people are still alive, and their stories are tantalising because they are the subject of some of the best praise compositions of the maestro. So Aminiya "ate from Shata's garden" as it promoted those interviews on the front page. However, the paper has since stopped running the interviews, not because the interviewees have been exhausted but probably because of some other reasons. It is important to note that a few other newspapers and magazines have published stories or interviews that had something to do with Shata since 1999.
The universities also renewed their interest in him. This was led by a crop of young intellectuals in both Nigeria and Niger Republic. In 2015, the Centre of Nigerian Languages at Umaru Musa Yar'Adua University (UMYU), Katsina, attempted to hold a conference on Shata in honour of its outgoing vice-chancellor, Prof. Mu'uta Ibrahim, but the plan didn't sail through. Then the university collaborated with the Universite de Tahoua in Niger Republic on a bigger conference, with the theme, "Philosophy in Hausa Musicology: A Case Study of Dr. Mamman Shata, Mahamadou Gao Filingue, Mu'azu Dan'alalo, Garban Bojo and Sogolo". That, too, did not happen due to some intractable problems.
The one that succeeded was organised by the Centre of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University, Kano. It held from 2nd to 4th September, 2018 with the theme, "The Life and Philosophy of Mamman Shata." Papers were presented at the conference, which was a resounding success with attendance by almost all that mattered, including Shata's family members – wife, children, grandchildren and relatives.
Earlier in 2015 in Bayero University, a leading scholar on Hausa music, Prof. Sa'idu Muhammad Gusau, had organised a discussion on "the Shata inheritors" – some young men who have taken up singing in the mold of the late legend. The idea was to introduce Shata's art to Hausa students in the university. As such, Sanusi Shata, Hamsabi Shatan Zamfara and Aminu Alan Waka were invited to perform live before the students. It was a rambunctious outing, and everyone simply lapped it up.
As I wrote this, another event was in the offing on Tuesday, June 18 in Katsina where a group of young men organised a "Mamman Shata Memorial Day". The event was conceived to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the death of Shata, which fell on that day. Speeches were delivered, followed by awards to deserving individuals for keeping the flame of Shata's memory alive.
However, not all these developments were cheerful ones. Death, like a thief, was a recurrent visitor at Shata's house after his demise. It took three people. The first was his son Nura, who died in March, 2016 at the age of 41. Next was Hajiya Furera, Shata's eldest wife who died a month later at the age of 58. When I went to Funtua for the condolence, I spent some time advising her eldest son Mamuda on the lessons of life and the importance of keeping the family united and focused. Little did I know that, even though we kept in touch through the telephone, it would be the last time I would see him. He died exactly fourteen months later, in 2017.
To sum up, I should say that this recap is a lesson in life. Shata had offered his service to humanity, which appreciates him. I am yet to meet or hear anybody portraying him in bad light. His voice and his videos are always welcome anywhere. In fact, the reverred Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi described him last year as "dan Aljanna", i.e. one who will enter paradise. I doubt if there is anybody in northern Nigeria who has as many enthusiastic devotees as Shata, especially as he rests in his grave for two decades. It is as he describes himself in his main song, Bakandamiya: "Mutum ne ya ke k'ara tsufa, / Zamani nai ya na k'ara k'aruwa kamar wani tsohon malami", i.e. Here is someone who is aging fast, / Yet his prowess is increasing like that of an old scholar".
May Shata continue to live long – in hearts and in minds – and may his soul rest in peace, amen.
Ibrahim Sheme, the official biographer of Alhaji Mamman Shata, is the Director of Media and Publicity, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – March 12, 2018 — Axellio Inc. today announced it secured a research and development contract from the United States Air Force to develop FX-Blox™, a portable edge computing platform designed to fit in a carry-on suitcase while providing the capability of a high-performance enterprise data center. Axellio was of one of 51 small businesses awarded a contract during the inaugural USAF Pitch Days held last week in New York.
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David Wilkerson testified, "My wife, Gwen, was thirty-four years old the first time cancer was found in her. We were devastated when we got the news. We'd just moved our family to New York so I could start a ministry to street gangs. Now, as I walked the streets, preaching to gang members and addicts, I had to fight back tears of anguish and fear. But the Lord continually reassured me, 'I am faithful, David. I won't abandon you or your loved ones.' God walked with me through that frightening ordeal with cancer, and every one that has followed."
1. THE PROBLEM OF QUESTIONING GOD'S CONCERN. "But Zion said, 'The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me'." John Boyle O'Reilly said, "Doubt is the brother devil to despair." However, "A contradiction in our minds does not prove a contradiction in the Word!"
2. THE PARENTAL AFFECTION OF GOD. "Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you." The attachment of a mother to her infant child is the strongest attachment of nature, thus, God could no more forget His people than that a mother could forget her own child. Matthew Henry wrote, "Believers, in their despondency, are ready to say, 'God has forsaken His church and forgotten the sorrows of His people'. But, we have no more reason to question His promise and grace, than we have to question His providence and justice."
3. THE PROMISE OF GOD'S CONSTANT CARE. "See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands." The word "inscribed" is a reference to tattooing, speaking of deep personal concern. Zephaniah 3:17 tells us that, "He will rest in His love." The Hebrew word for "rest" here means God hasn't a single question concerning His love for us. In other words, He has fixed, or settled, his love for us, and He will never take it away.
4. THE PREDESTINED PURPOSE OF GOD. "Your walls are continually before Me." "Your walls" speak of His plans and purpose for our lives, and He will certainly complete what He has promised.
Remember, "It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that His Helper is omnipotent!" (Jeremy Taylor).


When deploying a multiple server FAST Search for SharePoint farm, sometimes you can run into a Configuration Failed error. The SDK has some guidance on this but I wanted to walk you through the troubleshooting steps I used to determine what the issue was and then how to fix it. It all starts with the deployment.xml file that you use to configure your FAST Search for SharePoint farm. The contents of this file have to be absolutely perfect in order for everything to work. On top of that, the file must be UTF-8 encoded and not UTF-16. We'll talk about that in a bit. Although you specify a deployment.xml file when you configure the Admin server, the configuration wizard will not fail here. This leads you to believe there is nothing wrong with your deployment.xml file.
"C:\FASTSearch\bin\MonitoringServiceConfig.exe" Output - Error: The file 'C:\FASTSearch\etc\middleware.cfg' was not found.
Set-FASTSearchIPSec : XML Validation error: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
Now we're getting somewhere. I had seen this error mentioned in the SDK article on troubleshooting Configuration Wizard failures. I had ran across this article before now, but I didn't really think it applied since I never got an error when I installed my first (admin) server. I was wrong. The issue goes back to when I was editing the deployment.xml file. I opened it up in Visual Studio 2010 so it would be easier to edit. Don't do that. It saves it in a UTF-16 format which FAST does not like. Edit it with Notepad or any other editor that isn't going to mess with the encoding.
Now here is what the SDK article doesn't tell you. How to resolve it. What we need to do is go back to the admin server and reload a deployment.xml file that doesn't have the offending UTF-16 encoding. Unfortunately, you can't just run the Configuration Wizard again. Instead you need to log on to your admin server and go to the following folder C:\FASTSearch\etc\config_data\deployment. At this point, I make the standard disclaimer to back up your files and be careful. I then deleted the deployment.xml file in this folder and created a new one with Notepad. Be sure that your file has a .xml extension and not a .txt extension when you do this. Now cut and paste the text of your previous deployment.xml file into Notepad and save it. I'm assuming you have a copy of it somewhere.
When you are done editing deployment.xml, you will need to run the following PowerShell command on the admin server.
This will reload the new deployment.xml file and set this as the configuration for your FAST Search for SharePoint farm. When it completes, take the deployment.xml from this folder and copy it to your non-admin server(s). Run the Configuration Wizard again and specify the path to this new deployment.xml. If everything is correct, you should be able to complete the Configuration Wizard successfully.


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Q: How captive.apple.com is used by non-Apple devices? Every time, I try to use my hotel's WiFi network, at some point of loging-in to it, I see that my browser (or WiFi connection pop-up) is redirecting through serie of websites, among which I can clearly see http://captive.apple.com/.
The thing is that I have absolutely nothing in common with any Apple-like device, because:

*

*I'm using either PC and Windows 7 (with Chrome) or Android device (with WiFi pop-up),

*I'm pretty sure that neither my hotel network's router nor any of its components isn't build up based on Apple device, simply due to costs (non-Apple-based solutions are cheaper, I think).

This answer and this question roughly explains (to a non-Apple user, like me), what this site or service is used for. But, the question remains: What it has to do with non-Apple devices or how such devices can be using it (how or why non-Apple device can be using Apple-like service)?

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Most hotspots implement customer interaction by using a captive portal, which is a restricted network connection in which all client HTTP requests are redirected to the provider's web site. The web site can then prompt users to agree to the operator's terms and conditions, enter payment information, or enter credentials to verify prior payment arrangements.

Apple hosts a landing page and makes a synthetic call to this when you join a network to test if the network is captive. Other vendors have similar portal detection hosts like www.msftncsi.com to detect captive networks, that's all.
It doesn't matter if the device you're using is a Mac, iPhone, Pixel, or Windows. The "Apple" part is only because they made it much easier for companies to offer wifi to their customers.

A: Apple uses captive.apple.com to detect that you are on a captive network, and once it detects this, it does some very Apple-specific actions. Google and Microsoft use the same method, except with a different url.
If any application wants to detect it is on a captive network, it can connect to any of these websites (captive.apple.com or the Google or Microsft site), check the result, and that way detect a captive network. You absolutely don't need to run on an Apple, Google or Microsoft device for this.
You can visit captive.apple.com yourself from your browser, and you will get a page with just the word "Success". The trick is that a captive network will instead return a complicated page saying "Please login to this network". So all an app has to do is download from captive.apple.com and check that the response is "Success". If not, the app knows it's on a captive network.

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When our tribal elders realized that the young could no longer appreciate the message behind our ancestral stories, it became crystal clear that steps would need to be taken to ensure the preservation of our culture. The tribal elders were insightful enough to realize that if nothing were done, our traditional culture would disappear from the face of the Mother Earth, to be lost forever to future generations.
For thousands of years, our traditions had been passed from generation-to generation without any consideration to "what if?" It was just assumed that our world would live forever with our people there to tend to it. But all of that ended in just one generation.
Suddenly, a crisis faced our people. With the introduction of a new way of living, the traditions of our ancestors began to fade off into a distant memory. The new world offered so much distraction that our young began to see our traditions as a waste of their time.
Our people had reached a crossroads. We had to find a way for our culture and traditions to be carried to future generations, or our identity as a people would cease to exist.
The time had arrived when our tribal elders would need to actively recruit students to learn of our culture and history. The time had arrived when our tribal elders would need to explore new ways of carrying our identity into future generations.
The active and planned preservation of our cultural identity began to take shape.
Many tribal elders thought it wise to adopt the ways of the white man. Our elders began to find ways to write our history and our language on paper.
Fortunately, we were able to retain a bit of our independence through the tribal government system allowed to us by the US, Canadian and Mexican governments.
Our tribal governments set up actual systems to help us to retain our history and culture. Many of our tribal leaders have arranged to set up college scholarship funds for those who were willing to learn our tribal history and culture.
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Nato presso il vicariato di Ashbourne nel Derbyshire, figlio del vicario Francis Jourdain e della moglie Emily, nata Clay.

Tra i suoi numerosi fratelli spicca la sorella maggiore Eleanor Frances Jourdain, una delle persone che nel 1901 asserì di aver avuto una visione di Maria Antonietta e che in seguito scrisse il libroThe Ghost of Petit Trianon, un'altra sorella, Margaret Jourdain (1876-1951), era un'esperta di arredamento e uno dei fratelli, Francis Charles Robert Jourdain (1865-1940), un celebre ornitologo.

Dopo gli studi effettuati presso il Cheltenham College, Jourdain studiò matematica presso il Trinity College a Cambridge dove seguì i primi corsi di logica tenuti da Bertrand Russell. Si specializzò nella teoria degli insiemi e in logica.

Nell'attività di ricerca si dedicò al tentativo di provare l'assioma della scelta introdotto nel 1904. Di rilievo fu la sua attività di storico della matematica che lo portò ad intrattenere un fitto rapporto epistolare con Georg Cantor (1845-1918) di cui pubblicò la traduzione in inglese di alcuni scritti e con Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) un logico tedesco poco noto fino a quel momento del quale tradusse le opere. Nel 1916 pubblicò una riedizione de The Laws of Thought di George Boole.

Queste opere furono pubblicate da una casa editrice scientifica statunitense, la Open Court Publishing Company di cui Jourdain divenne l'editore britannico e per la quale curò la traduzione e pubblicazione di scritti di diversi autori tedeschi fra i quali il fisico Ernst Mach, scrisse inoltre numerosi articoli dedicati a diversi aspetti della storia della matematica.

Le sue opere più note, non pubblicate con la Open Court Publishing Company, furono The Nature of Mathematics (1912 con una riedizione nel 1919) e The Philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell (1918). Pubblicò anche alcuni scritti satirici e in versi.

Il 26 giugno 1915 sposò Laura Cross che assunse le funzioni di segretaria, la coppia non ebbe figli. Sofferente fin dall'infanzia di un disturbo degenerativo del sistema nervoso chiamato atassia di Friedreich Jourdain morì il 1º ottobre del 1919 in seguito ad una paralisi improvvisa.

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Adam Kieft (born August 21, 1982) is a former American football offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Kieft attended Rockford High School in Rockford, Michigan. He was selected with the 17th pick of the fifth round (153rd overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Central Michigan University. He was redshirted his freshman year of college due to a broken foot and started the following four years as an offensive tackle for the Chippewas. He stands 6'7" tall and weighs 337 lbs.
Kieft sat out his first two seasons in Cincinnati due to a knee injury (torn ACL/MCL in rookie mock game). He signed a 3-year contract with the Bengals after being drafted in 2005. On August 28, 2007, Kieft was placed on the reserve/injured list. On February 28, 2008, the Bengals did not tender an offer to Kieft making him a free agent.
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const {knex} = require('../../database');

const restaurants = require('../../data/restaurants.json');

// console.log(restaurants[1]);

const restaurantPromise = restaurants.map(
  ({yelp_id,
    name,
    price_range,
    category_str_list,
    address_string,
    address_city,
    address_state,
    address_zip,
    neighborhood_str_list,
    website,
    phone,
    monday_hours,
    tuesday_hours,
    wednesday_hours,
    thursday_hours,
    friday_hours,
    saturday_hours,
    sunday_hours,
    numberOfReviews}) => {
    return knex('restaurants').insert({
      id: yelp_id,
      name,
      price_range,
      category_str_list,
      address_string,
      address_city,
      address_state,
      address_zip,
      neighborhood_str_list,
      website,
      phone,
      monday_hours,
      tuesday_hours,
      wednesday_hours,
      thursday_hours,
      friday_hours,
      saturday_hours,
      sunday_hours,
      numberOfReviews});
});

exports.seed = function(knex, Promise) {
  // Deletes ALL existing entries
  return knex('restaurants').del()
    .then(function () {
      // Inserts seed entries
      return Promise.all(restaurantPromise)
    });
};

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A man who caused a three-vehicle collision in 2017 that injured multiple people — including an eight-year-old boy — has been sentenced to five months in jail.
Brandon Pratt, 29, pleaded guilty in Brandon provincial court on Monday to two counts of operating a motor vehicle in a dangerous manner causing bodily harm.
The incident occurred in the 1000 block of Kirkcaldy Drive near Knowlton Drive on Oct. 3, 2017, Crown attorney Brett Rach said, after Pratt — who was driving a blue Pontiac Grand Prix — failed to stop at a stop sign and struck a vehicle making a left-hand turn.
Pratt lost control of his car upon impact and was propelled further into the road, Rach said, hitting a second vehicle head-on.
The Grand Prix burst into flames after the second crash and Pratt needed to be extricated from the vehicle.
Pratt was driving approximately 100 km/h in the 50-km/h zone, Rach said, and was observed driving in a dangerous manner such as swerving around vehicles and passing them on the shoulder of the road.
His girlfriend, who was one of Pratt's four passengers in the car, told police they had gotten in an argument in the car and Pratt started driving fast, swerving in and out of lanes.
As the argument continued, his girlfriend recalled Pratt saying, "f—k it, I'll just kill us then" before they struck the first vehicle, Rach said, however she noted she didn't think he was serious and that it was just part of the argument.
She also recalled Pratt drinking and taking drugs before driving, Rach said, however a blood sample taken came back showing no indication of alcohol or drugs in his system.
Other than Pratt, his girlfriend was the only passenger in the Grand Prix to be injured, suffering a dislocated hip and bruising to her chest and arms.
She still required a leg brace for a year after the incident, Rach said.
An eight-year-old boy in the vehicle Pratt struck head-on suffered a laceration to his forehead that took five stitches and 15 staples to close.
"He was unconscious immediately after the incident, and when he came to he was asking if what had happened was a dream," Rach said, noting the boy was still suffering from headaches a year after the incident and doesn't like having his hair short because of the scar.
The boy's mother and 17-year-old sister both suffered bruising and muscle pain due to the incident.
Pratt had to be airlifted to a hospital in Winnipeg, his lawyer, Andrew McKelvey-Gunson, said, after suffering fractured ribs, internal injuries and brain bleeds.
The road conditions on the day of the incident were good, Rach said, noting the area of the incident is residential and surrounded by a walking path, an elementary school and a playground.
"This isn't a case where he … was doing everything to be a prudent driver but for one incident such as missing a stop sign," Rach said. "He was voluntarily behaving in a very dangerous manner."
While Rach asked the court to impose a jail sentence of one year, McKelvey-Gunson argued a smaller period of custody served intermittently would be sufficient, due to his lack of criminal record and significant remorse.
"This is someone who has taken full responsibility for what's happened," McKelvey-Gunson said. "It's quite clear in the pre-sentence report that Mr. Pratt is remorseful for what happened … he feels very bad and has insight that a child was hurt in this."
Pratt has also taken steps to improve his life, McKelvey-Gunson said, and was open to any counselling or therapy the court might suggest.
"I'm really sorry for my actions, I apologize, I feel horrible for everything that happened," Pratt told the court. "I'm just glad that no one died."
Judge John Combs said that an intermittent sentence was not appropriate in the circumstances and sentenced Pratt to five months in jail, to be followed by 18 months of supervised probation.
"Your driving was egregious, it was dangerous, and you showed a pattern of dangerous driving before this incident occurred," Combs said. "Injuries were incurred by a number of individuals, some more serious than others and perhaps you were the most seriously injured of anyone, but unfortunately your actions resulted in that happening."
Pratt is also prohibited from driving for five years.


What constitutes a middle-class salary in New York City could be enough to make you rich in West Virginia, according to a new study.
In fact, 20 states have economies where it's possible to make less than $100,000 a year and still be rich, according to an analysis by GoBankingRates.
Researchers defined 'rich' as having an income in the 80th percentile of all households within a state, then weighed regional high-end home prices and local costs of living – including groceries, utilities, transportation, and health care – to determine the states where a high-end lifestyle is possible for less than six figures.
Based on those criteria, it's easier to be rich in Mississippi than anywhere else in the country, where an $81,038 salary places you in the top tier of earners. With a median price of $218,000 for top-tier homes, Mississippi also has the fourth-lowest mortgage payment in the U.S. – and the lowest overall cost of living.
However, with an average household income of $56,358 - the lowest in the nation - wealth is still out of reach for many Mississippians.
This map illustrates the 20 U.S. states where you can live a wealthy lifestyle for less than $100,000 - and how much you would need to earn in each state to be considered 'rich'.
Arkansas came in second, with a salary of $81,917 qualifying residents as top earners, though the average income is $58,850. The state also has the third-lowest median home price for high-end real estate ($216,200) and the fourth-lowest cost of living in the nation.
West Virginia followed, with a wealth income threshold of $82,384. The state has the highest volume of affordable top-tier homes, with an affordable median price of $187,000. However, West Virginia has the second-lowest average income in the nation, at $57,779.
Idaho came in third, with a wealth threshold of $86,701 – thanks, in part, to low utility costs and a relatively low $375,200 median price for top-tier homes. Idaho has an average income of $64,513.
Kentucky ranked fourth, requiring a salary of $87,048 to be considered rich in that state. Kentucky also has the second-cheapest groceries in the country and a low $250,000 median price for top-tier homes. The state's average income is $61,757.
Montana followed, with a wealth threshold of $88,241. Despite having a slightly higher cost of living than the national average, Montana's utilities and other costs are among the lowest in the country. The state's average income is $65,401.
Tennessee came in seventh, with an $88,339 salary all it takes to be considered rich in this state. Tennessee has an overall low cost of living and a low $300,100 median price for top-tier homes - and an average household income of $65,368.
Alabama ranked eighth, with a wealth threshold of $88,984 and the fourth-lowest cost of living in the nation. In addition, the median price for high-end homes in Alabama is $246,400, while the average income is $62,061.
In ninth place was Oklahoma, where a salary of $89,267 will qualify you as 'rich,' though the average household income was $65,458. The median home price for high-end real estate in that state is a low $215,900.
South Carolina rounds out the top 10, with a wealth threshold of $89,604 and an overall low cost of living, though the average household income is $64,115.
South Dakota came in eleventh place ($91,170), followed by Indiana (91,698), Maine ($91,883), New Mexico ($92,115), North Carolina ($92,305) and Missouri (92,568).
Rounding out the top 20 were Florida ($94,160), Louisiana ($94,449), Ohio ($94,663) and Michigan ($95,395).
This chart illustrates how Americans define being 'rich' - with 49 percent saying that it has nothing to do with money, but with happiness and meaningful relationships.
While GoBankingRates measured wealth based on income, 37 percent of Americans defined being rich as having enough money to live the life you really want, according to a separate survey the company did of 545 Americans.
In addition, some 49 percent of Americans said being rich was unrelated to their finances – with 30 percent saying it was about living a happy life no matter how much you earn, and another 19 percent saying true wealth was about having meaningful relationships with friends and family.
Another 10 percent said you're rich when you have a large nest egg or savings for the future, while just 4 percent defined 'rich' as earning a lot of money through your job.
At the same time, a majority of Americans (61 percent) said they don't feel like they have achieved their own definition of wealth, compared to 39 percent who feel like they are rich.


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Q: Hide custom button in Standard Pagelayout I know that we can hide the standard page button using HTML area home page component. But as per summer 14 release, unsupported html, javascript functions will be disabled from summer 15 and old components will work till then. so i do not want use this approach.
http://docs.releasenotes.salesforce.com/en-us/summer14/release-notes/rn_forcecom_home_page_components.htm
May i know is there any other work around to hide the custom button in standard page layout.
Edit:  answer is here End of javascript sidebar workarounds?


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Prospect Report: A week of learning and one monster performance
The Raptors 905 got a monster game out of Chris Boucher, but it was more of a trying experience for Jordan Loyd. Here's how things shook out for the 905's two-way players.
By JD Quirante@jdkeyrants Dec 18, 2018, 2:00pm EST
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Chris Boucher receives instructions from coach Jama Mahlalela. OKC Blue at Raptors 905 December 12, 2018
The Raptors 905 had a couple of failed comeback attempts last week, as they hosted the OKC Blue and travelled to see the Grand Rapids Drive. Chris Boucher had a career night against the Blue, while Jordan Loyd had two extreme shooting games — going hot for one game and cold in the other.
Here's how the 905's chief prospects did overall.
Chris Boucher
47 PTS, % 57.1 FG% (16/28), 40% 3P% (4/10 3PM/A), 8 REB, 0 AST, 0 STL, 9 BLK 3 TO, +5 +/-
Chris Boucher played only one game last week — a monster 47 point, 8 rebound, 9 block game before getting called up to the mother club following a tough injury to Jonas Valanciunas.
As I've said before, every week Boucher is showing something new in his game. Once again, he did not disappoint. In this case: got a lob? Boucher will catch and finish it.
It must be really frustrating for the OKC Blue coaching staff and front-court players, as Boucher pretty much countered everything they threw at him. Unlike Kevin Durant, Boucher does not have an in-between game (mid-range). He's either a perimeter shooter or he'll try to blow-by his defender for a layup/dunk.
Against the Blue's size and length (and I think they zoned up a bit), they made it hard for Boucher to shoot anything other than perimeter shots. Coach Jama Mahlalela made a couple of excellent calls by putting Boucher in pick-and-roll situations and behind the defence for a lob, and Boucher feasted on these two unstoppable plays en route to his monster night.
If you've follow the Prospect Report from the beginning of the season, there's really nothing new to add here. At this point, Boucher is aware of his weaknesses in the post/paint, and he's showing more signs of improvement in this area. For example, Tyler Davis — the Blue's physical centre — had his way against Boucher in the post more than a few times throughout the game. But Boucher was able to defend a few of his post-moves using better positioning combined with his length.
There was even one sequence where Boucher held his own on the post against Davis to force a turnover without relying on his shot-blocking skills. I could be wrong, but that's probably the first time Boucher forced a turnover in the post just by not letting his man get to his sweet spot, and then moving his feet to cut off where the aggressor wanted to go.
Boucher got called up soon after the Raptors found out the severity of JV's injury, and it looks like Boucher might start burning through all of his NBA days pretty fast. If he doesn't get re-assigned to the G League before then, it could pose an interesting situation for the Raptors, who currently have a roster spot open. With the deadline to guarantee contracts on January 15, and Boucher on the main roster, Toronto may have to make a choice fast. They did so with Lorenzo Brown, who is on such a deal — but with the trade deadline also fast approaching, having an open roster spot might come in handy.
25.5 PPG, 43.9% FG% (9/20.5), 30% 3P% (6/20 3PM/A), 5.5 REB, 7.5 AST, 1 STL, 1.5 TO, +1 +/-
What a weird week for Jordan Loyd. He went from scorching hot (6-of-7 from three) from one game to ice cold (0-of-13) to another. It was very uncharacteristic for Loyd to miss a lot of wide open shots, but those were the shots that he's accustomed to hitting on a regular basis.
Overshadowed by Boucher's 47-point game against the Blue was Loyd's 32 points on 6-of-7 shooting behind the arc. What's more impressive is that he dropped 25 points in the second half alone, after playing as the floor general in the first half and setting up his teammates for 8 first-half assists. Loyd is starting to took more capable as a point guard. Given his additional offensive skills, I can't wait to see him get some spot NBA minutes from the main club.
Loyd had a bad shooting night against the Drive. He could have just as easily hung his head after three quarters (or even at the half) and admit that he doesn't have it that night. However, his resiliency and compete level prevented him from doing that. Yes, Loyd still ended up missing more perimeter shots (13 for that game), but all of those shots were in good rhythm, mostly wide-open, and shot with no hesitation — unlike what we've seen lately from C.J. Miles, Kyle Lowry, OG Anunoby, etc. after struggling a bit.
Loyd did not just keep jacking up perimeter shots — he willed his way to the basket in the fourth quarter, scoring 12 points in a failed 905 comeback attempt, after being down as much as 15 points in the final frame. Loyd was also in the thick of the action — fighting for defensive and offensive rebounds, loose balls, defending and trapping, and doing all the little things.
Early on against the OKC Blue and the Grand Rapids Drive, it looked like Loyd was struggling to get past taller/physical guards and finish his layups. Also, the game against the Blue might be the most emotional game for Loyd — his defenders were being physical and tried to get in his head, and he looked frustrated at times. Loyd got into early foul trouble and picked up his fifth foul with about 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Loyd was actually pleading coach Mahlalela not to take him out because he was starting to get hot inside the arc. Still, given his emotions, coach Jama made the right call and took Loyd out.
Loyd's next game won't be until the NBA G League Winter Showcase, so look for him to bounce back and adjust to life without Boucher, at least for now.
With Boucher projected to miss some 905 games until JV's back, it will be interesting to see how coach Mahlalela will use Loyd, as opposing teams might be more than happy to let Loyd facilitate rather than catch fire from beyond the arc.


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Jeremy is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UAB. In a nutshell, Jeremy's work can be described as studying jerks on the Internet and has been covered in the media by Nature, the BBC, Vice, New Scientist, and MIT Technology Review, among others. Although his foundations are in large-scale distributed systems, he has spent the majority of his time measuring and understanding bad behavior on the world's largest distributed system, the World Wide Web. His research has ranged from studying how cheating behavior spreads like a disease through a global network of online video game players, to understanding and predicting toxic behavior in the world's most popular multiplayer video game, and more recently, understanding online hate speech, harassment campaigns, and the influence of fringe Web communities through the lens of fake news. In addition to this line of work, Jeremy has published on more traditional Computer Science topics like middlebox enabling cryptographic protocols, privacy preserving Web surfing technologies, detection of Web trackers, performance of mobile applications, Software Defined Networks, measuring the adoption of new Web protocols, and understanding human perception of Web page performance.
Prior to joining UAB, Jeremy spent three years as an Associate Researcher at Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain. While at Telefonica, Jeremy lead an Innovation team focused around making use of Software Defined Networks and the Cloud to improve the performance of mobile devices. He additionally is a co-founder of the International Data-driven Research for Advanced Modelling and Analysis Lab, an international group of scientists focusing on modern socio-technical issues with expertise ranging from low level cryptography to video games. He has served on the technical program committee for WWW '16, WWW '17, WWW '18, and MobiSys '16 among others, and organized several workshops and a Dagstuhl seminar on video games and Cybersafety. Prior to his career in research and earning his PhD, Jeremy was a Principal Developer who worked in Content Distribution Systems, Digital Rights Management, and built software and services with tens of thousands of retail customers, generating in excess of $1M per year in revenue.
Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn. "The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources." In Proceedings of the 2017 Internet Measurement Conference, IMC '17, 2017.
Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn. "Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web." In Proceedings of the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (best paper runner up), ICWSM '17, 2017.
Matteo Varvello, Jeremy Blackburn, David Naylor, and Konstantina Papagiannaki. "EYEORG: A Platform for Crowdsourcing Web Quality Of Experience Measurements." In Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT '16, pages 399-412, 2016.
David Naylor, Kyle Schomp, Matteo Varvello, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Diego R. López, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, and Peter Steenkiste. "Multi- Context TLS (mcTLS): Enabling Secure In-Network Functionality in TLS." In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM '15, pages 199–212, 2015.
Haewoon Kwak, Jeremy Blackburn, and Seungyeop Han. "Exploring Cyberbullying and Other Toxic Behavior in Team Competition Online Games." In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '15, pages 3739-3748, 2015.
Jeremy Blackurn and Haewoon Kwak. "STFU NOOB! Predicting Crowdsourced Decisions on Toxic Behavior in Online Games." In Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World Wide Web, WWW '14, pages 877-888, 2014.
Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, John Skvoretz, Matei Ripeanu, and Adriana Iamnitchi. "Cheating in Online Games: A Social Network Perspective." In ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 13 Issue 3 Article 9, 2014.


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Donavan Freberg (born April 6, 1971, in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American photographer, advertising creative, voice actor, and writer.

Freberg is probably best known for appearing in a series of commercials for Encyclopædia Britannica produced by his father, satirist and advertising creative Stan Freberg. The 1988–1993 advertising campaign was the most successful in the company's 200-year history and Donavan was elevated to cult status. He was parodied on Saturday Night Live and dubbed a "Pop Intellectual" by GQ magazine. He was spoofed in a 2003 feature in The Onion,  and in 2006 was chosen for VH1's "100 Greatest Teen Stars," ranking number 83.

Freberg's voice-acting credits include Peanuts' Linus (1977–1978) and Charlie Brown (1978–1980) in commercials and public service announcements, Tom Little on The Littles (1983–1985), Montgomery Moose on The Get-Along Gang, the video game Zork: Grand Inquisitor, and voiceovers for hundreds of radio and television commercials. He also performed the puppet character Baby Boolie on The Weird Al Show.

Freberg currently works as a portrait photographer in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in Forbes, Los Angeles magazine, and the Instagram book This Is Happening. Freberg's headshot clientele include working actors and Fortune 500 companies, notably the CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel.

References

External links

 Donavan Freberg's profile at Voice Chasers
 "Making Portraits That Capture a Life" (Legacy.com article)

1971 births
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Opinion > iMedicalApps
Smartphone-Linked Ultrasound Probe Wins FDA Clearance
— Images viewable on mobile device screens, no bulky console needed
by Greg von Portz and Satish Misra, MD February 13, 2017
Canadian healthcare company Clarius Mobile Health recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared their mobile medical devices the C3 and L7 Clarius Wireless Ultrasound Scanners. The handheld scanners pair with a smartphone or tablet via the Clarius medical app, letting your mobile device become the ultrasound screen.
In March of 2016, the company introduced the device which foregoes the wires and bulky equipment that usually confines ultrasounds to hospitals and clinics. The Clarius C3 is a scanner that can image the lungs, abdomen, and, with a virtual phased array, the heart. The Clarius L7 designed to assist in guiding procedures and imaging superficial structures. Both devices basically replace the entire console that usually comes with the ultrasound probe with the smartphone or tablet already in your pocket.
In a statement, Clarius CEO and Chairman, Laurent Pelissier, shares his excitement over these developments:
There appears to be a growing trend of digital healthcare companies receiving FDA clearance for innovations designed to deliver more efficient patient care. We are delighted to bring a new class of affordable and easy to use ultrasound to the medical community in the United States.
But FDA approval doesn't always mean greater accuracy. For example, take Withings Thermo Accurate thermometer that we reviewed last year. Clarius maintains that the images are "impressive."
What we know is that the C3 and C7 are less cumbersome than a traditional ultrasound scanner, and they are completely wireless with rechargeable and replaceable batteries as well as wireless connectivity. The app is available on iOS and Android. Both the equipment and batteries are fully submersible in liquid.
Several years ago, we covered Mobisante who developed a mobile ultrasound device that also works on a smartphone or tablet. The main difference was that it was restricted to Android devices that were provided with the ultrasound itself -- in other words, you couldn't use your own smartphone or tablet.
This means clinicians are no longer bound to the distance the plug on the ultrasound machine can reach and can now evaluate patients anywhere. While there are a lot of other small, mobile ultrasound probes on the market, like Mobisante, the simple advantage here is that just having to carry the Clarius probe (and not a separate tablet or console) reduces the bulk a lot and makes it that much more portable.
While the price point will keep it from being a standard part of the average clinician's toolkit for now, that will surely change with time as enterprising innovators figure out how to lower costs.
This post first appeared on iMedicalApps.com.


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import org.lwjgl.input.Keyboard;
import org.lwjgl.input.Mouse;

public class Input {

	private int x;
	private int y;
	private Coordinate mouseCoord;

	class Coordinate {
		public int x;
		public int y;
		public Coordinate(int x, int y) {
			this.x = x;
			this.y = y;
		}
	}

	public void Input() {
		mouseCoord = new Coordinate(0, 0);
	}

	public void update() {
		while(Mouse.next()) {
			if(Mouse.getEventButtonState()) {
				if(Mouse.getEventButton() == 0) {
					System.out.println("Button 0 clicked at " + Mouse.getX() + ", " + Mouse.getY());
					//handleMouseClick(mouseCoord);
				}
			}
		}
		if(Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_ESCAPE)) {
			Game.setRunning(false);
		}
	}

	public void handleMouseClick(Coordinate coord) {

		//TODO: handle
	}

}


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Green Consumerism
Greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle threaten our ability to rein in our emissions.
Single-use plastics leave a large carbon footprint
By Daniel T Cross on May 21, 2019
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It's light. It's cheap. It's convenient. It costs you nothing or barely anything. You use it once and then dispose of it without a backward glance. What can be more convenient than that?
It's precisely their low cost, ease of manufacture and versatility that have made single-use plastic products so ubiquitous the world over. Yet these products exact a heavy toll on the environment and it's not just in the form of rampant plastic pollution.
"Plastic is one of the most ubiquitous materials in the economy and among the most pervasive and persistent pollutants on Earth," note the authors of "Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet," a new report by the Center for International Environmental Law. "It has become an inescapable part of the material world, flowing constantly through the human experience in everything from plastic bottles, bags, food packaging, and clothing to prosthetics, car parts, and construction materials."
The trouble is that during their short lifecycle, from manufacture to transportation and use to disposal, single-use plastic products create a vast carbon footprint, which is often overlooked. "After the extraction of fossil fuels to produce plastic, the carbon footprint of a material which has become ubiquitous across the globe continues through the refining process, and on well past its useful life as a drinks bottle or plastic bag, through the way it is disposed of and the plastic afterlife," the authors write.
In fact, single-use plastics, of which billions and billions are produced and then discarded each year in the form of shopping bags and other disposable items, leave a massive carbon footprint. Almost all plastic products are made from fossil fuels and refining those fuels into plastics is an energy-intensive process that is driving up global emissions.
And that's just for starters. Because single-use plastics are cheap and versatile products, demand for them has been growing at an ever faster pace. In 2015, for instance, 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic were produced. Most of those products have long since been dumped with two-thirds of them ending up in the environment, including the oceans. And that was just one year.
Plastics used in packaging take an especially heavy toll on the environment, both as waste and as producers of emissions. "Packaging is one of the most problematic types of plastic waste, as it is typically designed for single use, ubiquitous in trash, and extremely difficult to recycle," the experts note.
"A constant increase in the use of flexible and multilayered packaging has been adding challenges to collection, separation, and recycling," they add, noting that some 40% of plastic packaging ends up in landfills, while only around 14% of it is collected and recycled. Vast amounts of plastic packaging is Incinerated, which too drives CO2 emissions and pollutes the air with toxic chemicals.
"At current levels, greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle threaten the ability of the global community to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 [degrees Celsius]," the experts add. "With the petrochemical and plastic industries planning a massive expansion in production, the problem is on track to get much worse."
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Life 16th February, 2017
Stunning student with deadly lung condition fulfils pro cheerleading dream
By Mollie Tracey
A stunning student with a deadly lung condition has fulfilled her dream of becoming a cheerleader.
Emily Bonney, 18, from Blackpool, takes up to 60 tablets every day to keep her lungs functioning at a normal rate – but this didn't stop her joining the squad.
After being diagnosed with life limiting cystic fibrosis – a genetic condition which causes the lungs to become clogged with mucus – aged eight, she has defied the odds.
PIC FROM Caters News
Emily, who trains with squad Airborn Nitros for eight hours a week, has been chosen compete at the world championships in two months' time.
The health and social students' journey has attracted over 50k followers to her Instagram page and blog and she has since started to tick things off a bucket list.
Emily said: "Without taking 60 tablets every day I would struggle to even walk up a flight of stairs.
"But I have never allowed my cystic fibrosis to get in the way of my dreams, and to compete in the world championships with Team England ParaCheer will be amazing.
"I have to go into hospital once every three months to get intravenous antibiotics through an IV drip, the treatment lasts two weeks but luckily I am able to be at home during this time.
"I also have physio therapy twice a day and breathing treatments twice a day to help ensure I'm on top form.
"In the future I may need a double lung transplant but I'm trying not to think about that and instead, I live life to the full.
"I started my bucket list in 2014, no one knows how long they're going to have left but I want to achieve some things and see more of the world and what it has to offer.
"I have now reached over 50k followers on my Instagram page and it means a lot to me to know how many people support my journey, hopefully I can encourage others to pursue their dreams too."
At just eight years old, Emily weighed a frail 2st 9lbs and her worried parents Lesley, 50, and Dave, 49, took her for a check-up at the doctors.
She added: "I had really bad asthma symptoms and I was acting unusually quiet at school, I had a chest X-ray which found something wasn't quite right.
"I was kept in hospital on oxygen and tests soon revealed I had cystic fibrosis, ever since I have had routine ultra sound scans and blood tests to monitor my condition.
"I have also been diagnosed with liver disease, sinus disease and CF related diabetes, but despite this I try my best not to let them get in the way of my dreams.
"The treatments are constantly getting better and doctors have said that my life expectancy should reach around 50."
Despite having difficulties breathing, Emily started cheerleading when she was around nine and has been competing ever since.
Emily said: "I absolutely love cheerleading and I am now part of Team England ParaCheer, I will be representing England at the ICU world championships in Orlando in April.
"It's an incredible opportunity, I am so thankful for everyone who has supported me and I can't wait to compete.
"At times I do struggle, just before I have to have my two week course of antibiotics I find myself slower than the rest of the team.
"My immune system is very low and so I do get ill quite a lot, and when I'm on my treatment I can't go to cheer practice."
Around two years ago Emily put together a bucket list and has been ticking items off her list as and when she can.
She added: "I've managed to complete a few things already, I saw Justin Bieber in concert, flew in a hot air balloon and swan with dolphins which was amazing.
"But there are still other things that I want to do such as travel the world and go sky diving before I die.
"I am studying health and social at collage as I want to become a Paediatric nurse, but of course I will carry on with cheer for as long as possible.
PIC FROM Caters News – (PICTURED: Emily Bonney with her cheerleading friends) – A stunning student with a deadly lung condition has fulfilled her dream of becoming a professional cheerleader. Emily Bonney, 18, from Blackpool, takes up to 60 tablets every day to keep her lungs functioning at a normal rate but this didnt stop her joining the squad. After being diagnosed with life limiting cystic fibrosis – a genetic condition which causes the lungs to become clogged with mucus aged eight, she has defied the odds. Emily, who trains with squad Airborn Nitros for eight hours a week, has been chosen compete at the world championships in two months time. SEE CATERS COPY.
"I am living my life to the full despite my illness and I want to encourage others to do the same, I am an example that it is still possible to achieve your dreams."
To follow Emily's journey please here.
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