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Kenya defends forcing 45 Taiwanese onto a plane to China
By James Griffiths and Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 2:52 AM EDT, Thu April 14, 2016
Taiwan says "no evidence" deportees committed crimes in Kenya or China
Kenya says it is being "dragged into a diplomatic row that is not ours"
China praises Kenya's handling of the incident and respect for the "one China" policy
Imagine working in a foreign country across the world, then getting arbitrarily deported – but not back to your home.
That's what Taiwan said happened to 45 of its citizens when Kenya forced them onto a plane to mainland China, for no clear reason.
The Taiwanese citizens walked down from a plane in mainland China, their heads covered in opaque black hoods. Each wore a green vest and was flanked by two authorities.
Taiwan calls it the whole ordeal a "gross violation" of human rights. But China praised Kenya, thanking it for supporting the "one China" policy.
It's just the latest twist in a complicated relationship that has turned international.
It all started when Kenyan authorities accused a group of Taiwanese workers – along with some Chinese workers – of running a complex phone and Internet scamming organization.
The Taiwanese citizens were later acquitted. But when they went to a Nairobi police station last week to pick up their passports, "they were detained by the police for no reason," Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Kenyan Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka told CNN the Taiwanese were deported as they were in Kenya "illegally."
"If they were here legally we wouldn't have deported them," he said.
Taiwan has vowed to lodge a "solemn protest" with the Kenyans and is demanding an explanation for why its citizens were deported to China.
Taiwanese legislator Johnny Chiang shows a video image from the Kenyan jail cell.
PHOTO: SAM YEH/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
How did Kenya force the Taiwanese to China?
A grainy cellphone video allegedly shot inside a Kenyan jail shows a desperate scene.
Prisoners press their hands and bodies against their cell door, trying to prevent authorities from getting in. A woman's voice warns them to be careful of the armed police outside.
"Sir! We are Taiwan people, Taiwan people!" one man shouts.
Eventually, police used tear gas to force them out of their cell and onto a plane to China, Taiwanese Foreign Ministry official Antonio Chen said.
But Njoka denied that claim.
"It's not true. Why would police tear gas their own station?" he told CNN.
Why did Kenya arrest the Taiwanese after acquittal?
Njoka said Kenyan authorities were following proper protocol.
"We followed international law and released them back to the court in which they came from," he said. "We don't have a relationship with Taiwan as a country, but we have a relationship with China."
He added: "We are being dragged into a diplomatic row that is not ours. China and Taiwan have had their issues with many years. Us, we did our part and we deported them and our story should have ended there. We carried out our obligation as a country."
According to Chinese authorities, in the past some Taiwanese telecom scammers have not been adequately punished.
"Quite a few Taiwan suspects were released as soon as they were returned to Taiwan, and some resumed their wrongdoing soon after," China's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman An Fengshan said, according to Xinhua.
On Thursday, Taiwan's Minister of Justice Luo Ying-shay said she was aware of the reports, but there was "no solid evidence" that the people deported were involved in fraud.
"This is just an allegation made by China," she said.
Could these prisoners be tried again?
Yes. An suggested the Taiwanese prisoners would face further prosecution in China, despite being acquitted in Kenya. And in a country that maintains a "one China" policy, An also defended China's right to charge the alleged fraudsters.
Kenya deports Taiwanese citizens to China
"As these criminals carried out their illegal activities abroad, and all the victims are residents of the mainland, the mainland naturally has legal jurisdiction," An said.
But John Chen, a Taiwanese representative tasked with handling the case in Kenya, said that prosecuting the detainees again would be ridiculous.
"For those who have been acquitted by the Kenyan court, they shouldn't be trialed again, because that would be kind of like double jeopardy," he said.
"And for those who are still under investigation in China, they shouldn't be deported to China. If they are to be deported, they should be deported to Taiwan, where they are from, instead of China."
What is Taiwan doing?
"I am not 100% sure about their destiny," said John Chen, the Taiwanese representative in Kenya.
"This is becoming a burning issue in Taiwan. This case of this kind serves as a deterrence for potential Taiwanese visitors or tourists who want to visit Kenya because they would risk being arrested or detained without the legal process."
Taiwanese officials said a delegation would fly to China later this week. However, relatives of the deportees complained of a lack of support or information from authorities in Taiwan.
"I tried several times in the past 15 months to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help my husband," the wife of one of the deportees told CNN.
She said that her husband had been "helping police with an investigation" and it was not until this week that she heard he was accused of fraud.
The mother of another detainee complained that no Taiwanese officials had been in touch following the news.
"None of them have contacted me. I don't know when I can see my son. I just want him to come back safe and sound as soon as possible."
What is the 'one China' policy?
The "one China" policy allows both governments to claim sovereignty over mainland China and Taiwan. But, crucially, neither recognizes the other's legitimacy.
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Most countries, including the United States, recognize only the People's Republic of China and maintain only limited diplomatic relations with Taiwan – or none at all.
Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Lu Kang praised what he called Kenya's observance of the "one China" policy.
What's the U.S. connection?
According to Antonio Chen, the Taiwanese foreign affairs official, one of the prisoners deported to China is a dual Taiwanese-U.S. citizen.
While the United States recognizes the "one China" policy, it also sells advanced weapons to Taiwan to defend itself against the larger Chinese military.
Journalist Kwang-Yin Liu contributed reporting from Taipei. CNN's Tim Schwarz, Steven Jiang and intern Anna Kook contributed from Beijing. CNN's Briana Duggan, Kristie Lu Stout and Kevin Wang also contributed to this report.


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Every couple argues but when conflicts become toxic, the relationship begins to feel unsafe. These conversations aren't just a typical fight. They're filled with hurtful, below the belt jabs that don't get repaired. Eventually, no one feels secure and the relationship could soon be in jeopardy.
This article shows how to prevent arguments from destroying the connection you've worked so hard to create.
There are three habits that create a toxic argument. You need to identify them to know what to fix. Doing this takes courage because it's not easy admitting fault. I'll show you the three elements and include a corresponding tip for what to do instead.
Criticism - defined by negative, critical comments that escalate an argument almost instantly.
Blame - happens when targeting other people's flaws which helps to avoid accountability.
Contempt - the intention is to make the other person feel crazy or less than.
It usually starts with a simple, "innocent" comment that comes off as criticism. It can be confusing when a conversation starts to go downhill. This happens because the listener feels criticized in some way.
It could be something said directly or implied. A major culprit here is tone of voice and what's not being said. Once the listener starts assuming, it goes downhill fast.
You roll your eyes and say something nasty under your breathe. But the message is clear.
According to The Gottman Institute, how a conversation starts predicts the outcome. But the reverse is also true. When you start a conversation off right, your partner feels more receptive and your message gets heard.
Tip: If you have a concern, instead of focusing on what they're doing wrong - ask for what you want in a positive way.
That second sentence will make your partner feel understood - even when the task isn't done yet!
I count four "you" messages in that! Her communication focuses on his bad behavior. A "you" statement creates defensiveness. It's natural to want to defend yourself but it doesn't lead to anything productive.
Tip: Shift your focus to what you need. Let's see what this looks like with Sandy and Mike.
In the second example, Sandy is more focused on communicating what she needs verse blaming Mike for not listening.
Here is the formula: I feel (name your feeling) when you (name the behavior specifically without judgment). I'd appreciate if you (name what you want instead).
When contempt becomes a pattern, it destroys any sense of confidence and emotional security in a relationship. Instead, the goal is to manage more difficult feelings like anger and resentment. Contempt provides an outlet for expressing frustrations. It's okay to get angry but avoid making the other person bad or wrong.
Tip: Don't bottle up your feelings until they're too big to handle. Acknowledge how you feel without attacking the other person. Contempt only serves to make your partner avoid you.
When anger gets abusive, contempt becomes an everyday habit. Hurting someone else becomes the way to feel better but it comes at a cost. Others are afraid of you and intimacy stops. Here are some ways to handle anger more effectively.
Identify early warning signs of anger to avoid raging.
Communicate the need for time-outs before you need to use them.
Rate your stress level from 1-10 throughout the day to catch it early.
Avoid profanity because it tends to escalate anger.
Being accountable for your behavior help to repair the hurt.
Toxic arguments happen when you can't admit fault or take responsibility. Blame and showing contempt destroy any chance of healthy connection. Resorting to criticism leaves a wake of pain that cannot heal. These habits are often learned in childhood which makes them hard to recognize as unhealthy. Confronting these patterns can transform your communication. Resolution only takes a willingness to get started and look at yourself. You can start today!


The E3 in Los Angeles is one of the most acclaimed and most relevant gaming-related conference events out there. Every year the major companies seem to be pulling off a larger and larger show to reveal their latest video game titles and innovations. Even though the actual conference is only from the 12th of the 14th of June this year, there are quite a few brands that are already shipping out press releases and giving keynote speeches to be ahead of the actual event.
Because it's a little difficult to keep up with all the news, we chose to prepare you a compact overview and list of what is being talked about right now in the gaming scene. We are actively working on this list as new titles are announced and as release dates are confirmed, so make sure to check back to this list as often as you like.
If you spot something that we didn't make sure to share your points below in the comments. Many thanks and happy gaming!
Photo credit: The feature image is of Phil Spencer, as he speaks during Microsoft's E3 conference, on the 10th of June. The photo has been provided by and is owned by Microsoft.
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Editorial notice: The last update to this list of games talked about at the E3 this year was done on June 13.


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Fayetteville seeks $5 million grant to build massive tornado shelter
A massive, $5 million tornado shelter that could save hundreds of people may be on its way to Fayetteville High School.
Posted: Jan 21, 2020 9:10 PM
Updated: Jan 21, 2020 10:42 PM
Posted By: Steven Dilsizian
Officials already were working to get federal funds for storm protection on Tuesday morning when they learned the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado hit just 7 minutes away from the high school on Dec. 16. That marks the ninth tornado from that storm system.
The City of Fayetteville applied for the multimillion dollar Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for a unique, tornado safe room. The school district tells WAAY31 shelters have been built using this money in other states, but not in Tennessee.
If approved, Fayetteville High School would be the first.
It's what school leaders, including Eric Jones, who works in the Fayetteville City Schools central office, Assistant Principal Eddie Keys and Superintendent Dr. Janine Wilson have been working on, with safety of students being the priority.
"Our best place as determined by experts that came in, is to go back into the locker rooms in our gymnasium," Jones said, explaining the current procedure during a tornado warning.
Jones explains the concept for the tornado shelter would be massive, holding at least 1,000 people inside.
"A monolithic dome structure, this will be a round, circular structure, made almost completely of concrete with a dome over top of it," Jones said.
Fayetteville school leaders credit the mayor's office for being supportive in the process, and with their help, they look to make the storm shelter a reality. Jones says the structure could withstand winds up to 250 miles per hour and protect from debris.
He says there are about 600 residents near the school who could benefit from using the shelter as well. When the space isn't being used as a storm shelter, Jones says it would be used as a competition gymnasium for the sports teams and classrooms.
He knows the area is always at risk of damaging tornadoes and they have to be prepared.
"Immense property damage and in fact loss of life, you never want to see that, but knowing it is a possibility and having seen it as close as our neighbors in Brindlee Mountain, you always want to do everything you can to protect them," Jones said.
The school district says it could learn if it won the grant in September. If selected, Fayetteville City Schools would have the match 25 percent, or $1.25 million.
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Completely Hopeless Hour of the Gun
Living close to Tombstone and having access to several well researched books about the Earps, Clantons, Doc. Holiday and the rest of the so called Cowboys of that era, it is immediately evident that this movie is completely and painfully wrong. From the first scenes of the shootout, a place I have seen in Tombstone, the horrible choice for the graveyard which is in no way similar to the actual graveyard, this brutally poor excuse for a factual movie goes down the road getting one thing after another totally wrong. I quit counting characters the movie got wrong, including the misspelling of the McClaureys, the events after the shooting and the eventual finish of the Clantons and the Cowboys. I would not be so hard on this film it it hadn't touted itself as factual. In reality, this movie may have as few facts right as any of the Tombstone movies before or since, not counting, of course, Wyatt Earp with Kevin Cosner, and the superb Tombstone with Kirk Russell and Val Kilmer. This thing, sadly, is just horribly painful to watch. A person would get more out of Support Your Local Sheriff.
history can be slicker than moustache wax.
a.morris
john sturges thought a story .. about wyatt earp.. really trying to tell the exact facts ..would be interesting. I am not sure about the exact nature of the story. I imagine mister sturges had to go a fictional route with some things. someone who really knows the events is better to say how right he got it. years later..mister sturges would pretty much say.. it appeared he was wrong about the mood of the people. considering how some history projects for entertainment and education are done ..he may have had the right idea at the wrong time. the casting was fine. the professional manner of the work is respectable. I would hope that some people might think of this as a product that took a step in trying to remove myth from reality in regarding the old west.. and this was done by a director in Hollywood..an entity ragged on constantly.. for not being true to facts. enough of that.. on to moustache talk. james garner had a nice moustache.. Jason robards did too. you know.. when Hollywood goes to the well.. again.. and they will.. go to a different source instead. science fiction blended with a switch. old west with alien /futuristic stuff too. have a woman play wyatt earp . hey.. if they are doing an ocean 8 movie with women..i know my idea does not suck. just get a plastic mold of the moustache of burt Reynolds.. get the best I say..emma stone.. plays the female earp..boom ..everybody wins.. except history.. or john sturges. well.. he can get a credit and history is a story told from a point of view.. normally with facts.. guess they do that for fun and money.
hour of the gun
kevin sellers
In general, I'm not a fan of films which feature Garner without humor. "Great Escape" is a partial exception. This isn't.
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Jay Higgins
Great cast in a very slow moving western. It does have its rewarding moments though. The production is fine and it's well photographed. Fair period detail but lavish art direction. Check out a very young Jon Voight.
Doc Holliday, where are you?
One of the great characters in Old West history, the role of doc Holliday has been played by a number of great actors (Val Kilmer, Kirk Douglas), but none better than Jason Robards in this movie. Please fix your cast listing to include the movie's #2 role!
Where's Jason?????
FrankieCee
I love any movie James Garner is in. He is one great actor and his "looks" fit the part, "any" part! But, where is Jason Robards Jr., in the cast lineup? Is there a particular reason his name is not listed? Notice that this movie contains a fairly impressive All-Star cast. This re-telling is worthy of viewing, if for nothing else, for the fine direction and cast.
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Taking on the men in kitchen
Gao Ceng
Yan Huiqin broke the century-long male dominance in Chinese kitchen to create signature dishes that charmed some of the world leaders during their visit to China.
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Yan Huiqin demonstrates her tour de force, "playing" with the wok.
Yan Huiqin is credited for breaking the century-long dominance of male executive chefs in Chinese kitchen.
"My dad said my smile will help me convince my shifu (master) to become the first female apprentice in his kitchen," says Yan, who was declared a "Shanghai Standout" by the city's Federation of Trade Unions last year.
Yan rose to become one of the most influential banquet chefs in China, working on more than 500 state banquets and entertaining close to 300 state leaders over the past 43 years.
Yan, 63, retired as the executive chef and assistant general manager of Jin Jiang Tower Hotel Shanghai in March 2015.
Even after retirement, she is often called in to help with the kitchen preparation for VIPs.
Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji was one of Yan's top guests. "He was able to tell, even with his eyes closed, that the dish was cooked by me. He said my cooking had a distinctive guoqi (literally "wok's aroma"), which I think comes from my culinary tour de force," says Yan.
Few chefs could "play" the wok as skillfully as her. She would hold the wok in hand, flip it up and down, turn it left and right, with the fire at different angles to control the heating, which gave the dishes its texture, smell and flavor.
Zhu's favorite was Yan's soup, which tasted as clean as tea yet was rich enough to enjoy its special sensation.
Former French President Jacques Rene Chirac also loved Yan's soup. She clearly remembers the day she prepared the soup for Chirac — May 17, 1997 — in her hotel. Finely cut seasonal bamboo shoots and shark's fin, along with shrimp meat paste floated beautifully on the soup like a blossoming flower.
Chirac was so impressed that he asked to meet the chef. He was surprised to see a female chef.
"He came up and kissed me on the cheek. I was so shy and escaped his second kiss. Chinese people were quite conservative back then," Yan now says with a smile.
Soup plays a key role in Cantonese cuisine, which was Yan's culinary foundation. She learned cooking from master chef Xiao Liangchu, who was the first executive chef at Jin Jiang Hotel.
Xiao was also Premier Zhou Enlai's favorite chef. Xiao made his name in 1961 when he cooked eight-treasure chicken roasted in salt at the Geneva Conference to help the Chinese state leaders entertain foreign diplomats.
Yan Huiqin shows apprentices her fine cutting skills.
Tough apprentice
Yan remembers the day way back in 1974, when she kowtowed to chef Xiao after signing as his apprentice in the presence of her parents and the hotel management.
Xiao was uncomfortable at the beginning as Chinese kitchen was very labor-intensive for women, who, he felt, would struggle to achieve a life-and-work balance.
Generally, a chef has to work without air-conditioning in the kitchen, where the temperature soars to as high as 50 degrees Celsius.
Yan, too, did not want to be a chef either. She started her career at the age of 20 as a receptionist in Jin Jiang Hotel. However, her father, who was a director in a factory, pushed for a change as he believed that a receptionist's job relied solely on good looks, which is not long-lasting.
"My first job was in the pastry department, but I was always curious about my mysterious shifu, who always cooked for big names like Deng Xiaoping and Peng Dehuai (a prominent military leader and China's defense minister from 1954 to 1959). I wanted to be like him," says Yan.
To convince Xiao to accept her as an apprentice, Yan volunteered to clean the kitchen every day, washing dishes and pots, cleaning the stove, mopping the floor and even cleaning the windows.
Moreover, Yan, previewing Xiao's recipes, always finished jobs tacitly before his requests. Three months later, Xiao relented, saying Yan's dazzling smile charmed the guests.
Xiao, practicing traditional Chinese-style mentorship, did not teach Yan any culinary technique in the first three years. It is because most Chinese craftsmen believed if their apprentice learned all their skills quickly, they would not be competitive anymore.
Yan Huiqin (second from left) discusses work with her apprentices and colleagues.
Yan did all the things in the kitchen except cooking.
"I could remove the bones from a chicken or a duck without removing its skin within a minute!" says Yan proudly.
She had to study on her own, secretly observing Xiao at work. However, she was never disheartened.
"Those years cultivated my multi-tasking ability and made me familiar with every detail in the kitchen, even the whole system of the hotel, which helped me later in dealing with various challenges during state banquets."
Yan recalls the biggest challenge in her life on May 28, 1998, when the Shanghai government hosted then Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu (during his first term) at Jin Jiang Hotel.
It was a big banquet of about 180 people. Yan designed the menu, which had been approved by the Israeli side.
But just when the first appetizer was being served, the Israeli ambassador rather unexpectedly said that the premier had been in China for nine days and would prefer vegetables.
"All the team was shocked. I didn't have any vegan backup plan and had to prepare a new menu within 40 minutes," recalls Yan.
Thinking quickly, she decided to serve the hot vegetable dish from the original menu to save time.
"Luckily, the matsutake in the fridge was enough to serve 180 guests. I mobilized the hotel resources to make new dishes, highlighted by a beautiful matsutake soup," says Yan.
The banquet ended up with Netanyahu complimenting that "today's dishes were the most beautiful of my China trip."
Yan is beginning to enjoy her retired life. She regularly flies overseas to communicate with foreign chefs, which enlightens her and has opened up a whole new world for her. She is also the guest professor at Le Cordon Blue, Los Angeles.
In Japan she was impressed by a soba dish that was soaked in sesame and peanut paste as thin as soup. Yan created tossed soba soaked in thick sesame soup topped with cod.
In Italy, she used Chinese technique and powdered white fungus to adapt Italian truffle into extremely fine soup and served it with crispy Chinese sanzi (Shanghai-style fried dough twists).
"Those Italian chefs were amazed by my soup. Unfortunately, I can only speak and read little English. Otherwise, I could explore a bigger and more exciting culinary world," says Yan.
Yan Huiqin's signature dish, tossed soba soaked in thick sesame soup and topped with cod
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Відродження Доба великих географічних відкриттів Ганза Ацтецький потрійний союз Імперія інків

Геополітична ситуація

Османську державу очолює Баязид II (до 1512). Імператором Священної Римської імперії є Максиміліан I Габсбург (до 1519). У Франції королює Людовик XII (до 1515).

Середню частину Апеннінського півострова займає Папська область. Неаполітанське королівство на півдні захопила Іспанія. Могутними державними утвореннями півночі є Венеціанська республіка, Флорентійська республіка, Генуезька республіка та герцогство Міланське.

Кастилія і Леон та Арагонське королівство об'єднані в Іспанське королівство, де править Фердинанд II Арагонський (до 1516). В Португалії королює Мануел I (до 1521).

Генріх VIII є королем Англії (до 1547), королем Данії та Норвегії Юхан II (до 1513). Сванте Нільссон є регентом Швеції. Королем Угорщини та Богемії є Владислав II Ягелончик. У Польщі королює Сигізмунд I Старий (до 1548), він же залишається князем Великого князівства Литовського.

Галичина входить до складу Польщі. Волинь належить Великому князівству Литовському. Московське князівство очолює Василій III (до 1533).

На заході євразійських степів існують Казанське ханство, Кримське ханство, Астраханське ханство Ногайська орда. У Єгипті панують мамлюки. У Китаї править династія Мін. Значними державами Індостану є Делійський султанат, Бахмані, Віджаянагара. В Японії триває період Муроматі.

У Долині Мехіко править Ацтецький потрійний союз на чолі з Монтесумою II (до 1520). Цивілізація майя переживає посткласичний період. В Імперії інків править Уайна Капак (до 1525).

Події
 11 червня майбутній англійський король Генріх VIII одружився з Катериною Арагонською, першою із шістьох дружин, що в нього були за життя.
 24 червня відбулась коронація короля Англії Генріха VIII.
 14 вересня в результаті землетрусу в Константинополі зруйновано значну частину міста і загинуло близько 13 тисяч людей.
 10 вересня відбувся Великий Стамбульський землетрус
 У битві поблизу Діу португальці завдали поразки об'єднаним силам гуджаратців, єгиптян та італійців.
 Війна Камбрейської ліги:
 Папа римський Юлій II наклав інтердикт на Венецію за відмову віддати Романью.
 Французькі війська здобули перемогу над венеційцями у битві при Аньяделло.
 Францзузи захопили Брешію.
 Флоренція захопила Пізу.
 Венеційці заволоділи Падуєю. Імператор Максиміліан I спробував відбити її, але зазнав невдачі.
 Французький король Людовик XII почав строго впроваджувати в життя положення Прагматичної санкції, що обмежувала вплив Риму в країні.
 Португалець Діогу Лопіш ді Секейра першим з європейців досяг Малакки.
 Іспанці захопили Оран.
 Дієго Колон, син Христофора Колумба, почав завоювання Куби.
 Крішнадеварая Тулува зійшов на трон Віджаянагари.
 На Гаїті почалося виробництво цукру з тростини.
 Еразм Ротердамський написав «Похвалу глупоті».
 Лука Пачолі опублікував «De divina proportione» про золотий перетин.

Народились
Дивись також Народилися 1509 року
 10 липня — Жан Кальвін, французький протестантський релігійний реформатор.

Померли
Дивись також Померли 1508 року
 22 квітня — У Річмонді у віці 52-х років пішов з життя Генріх VII, король Англії з 1485, засновник династії Тюдорів.

1500-ті

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package org.sfs.encryption;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClientResponse;
import io.vertx.ext.unit.TestContext;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.sfs.elasticsearch.account.LoadAccount;
import org.sfs.elasticsearch.container.LoadContainer;
import org.sfs.elasticsearch.containerkey.GetNewestContainerKey;
import org.sfs.elasticsearch.containerkey.UpdateContainerKey;
import org.sfs.integration.java.BaseTestVerticle;
import org.sfs.integration.java.func.AssertHttpClientResponseStatusCode;
import org.sfs.integration.java.func.PostAccount;
import org.sfs.integration.java.func.PostContainer;
import org.sfs.integration.java.func.PutContainer;
import org.sfs.integration.java.func.RefreshIndex;
import org.sfs.rx.Holder2;
import org.sfs.rx.ToVoid;
import org.sfs.util.HttpClientResponseHeaderLogger;
import rx.Observable;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

import static com.google.common.base.Charsets.UTF_8;
import static java.lang.String.valueOf;
import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.HTTP_CREATED;
import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.HTTP_NO_CONTENT;
import static java.util.Calendar.getInstance;
import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.DAYS;
import static org.sfs.integration.java.help.AuthorizationFactory.Producer;
import static org.sfs.integration.java.help.AuthorizationFactory.httpBasic;
import static org.sfs.util.KnownMetadataKeys.X_MAX_OBJECT_REVISIONS;
import static org.sfs.util.SfsHttpHeaders.X_ADD_CONTAINER_META_PREFIX;
import static org.sfs.util.VertxAssert.assertArrayEquals;
import static org.sfs.util.VertxAssert.assertEquals;
import static org.sfs.util.VertxAssert.assertFalse;
import static org.sfs.vo.ObjectPath.fromPaths;
import static rx.Observable.just;

public class ContainerKeysTest extends BaseTestVerticle {

    private final String accountName = "testaccount";
    private final String containerName = "testcontainer";
    private final String objectName = "testobject";

    private Producer authAdmin = httpBasic("admin", "admin");
    private Producer authNonAdmin = httpBasic("user", "user");

    protected Observable<Void> prepareContainer(TestContext context) {

        return just((Void) null)
                .flatMap(new PostAccount(httpClient(), accountName, authAdmin))
                .map(new HttpClientResponseHeaderLogger())
                .map(new AssertHttpClientResponseStatusCode(context, HTTP_NO_CONTENT))
                .map(new ToVoid<HttpClientResponse>())
                .flatMap(new PutContainer(httpClient(), accountName, containerName, authNonAdmin))
                .map(new HttpClientResponseHeaderLogger())
                .map(new AssertHttpClientResponseStatusCode(context, HTTP_CREATED))
                .map(new ToVoid<HttpClientResponse>())
                .flatMap(new PostContainer(httpClient(), accountName, containerName, authNonAdmin)
                        .setHeader(X_ADD_CONTAINER_META_PREFIX + X_MAX_OBJECT_REVISIONS, valueOf(3)))
                .map(new HttpClientResponseHeaderLogger())
                .map(new AssertHttpClientResponseStatusCode(context, HTTP_NO_CONTENT))
                .map(new ToVoid<HttpClientResponse>());
    }

    @Test
    public void testKeyNoRotate(TestContext context) {
        runOnServerContext(context, () -> {
            ContainerKeys containerKeys = vertxContext().verticle().containerKeys();

            return prepareContainer(context)
                    .map(aVoid -> fromPaths(accountName).accountPath().get())
                    .flatMap(new LoadAccount(vertxContext()))
                    .map(Optional::get)
                    .flatMap(persistentAccount ->
                            just(fromPaths(accountName, containerName).containerPath().get())
                                    .flatMap(new LoadContainer(vertxContext(), persistentAccount))
                                    .map(Optional::get))
                    .flatMap(persistentContainer -> {
                        AtomicReference<byte[]> existingArray = new AtomicReference<>();
                        return containerKeys.preferredAlgorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer)
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    existingArray.set(persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .flatMap(pck -> containerKeys.rotateIfRequired(vertxContext(), pck))
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    assertArrayEquals(context, existingArray.get(), persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    return persistentContainer;
                                });
                    })
                    .map(new ToVoid<>());
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testKeyRotate(TestContext context) {
        runOnServerContext(context, () -> {
            ContainerKeys containerKeys = vertxContext().verticle().containerKeys();

            return prepareContainer(context)
                    .map(aVoid -> fromPaths(accountName).accountPath().get())
                    .flatMap(new LoadAccount(vertxContext()))
                    .map(Optional::get)
                    .flatMap(persistentAccount ->
                            just(fromPaths(accountName, containerName).containerPath().get())
                                    .flatMap(new LoadContainer(vertxContext(), persistentAccount))
                                    .map(Optional::get))
                    .flatMap(persistentContainer -> {
                        AtomicReference<byte[]> existingArray = new AtomicReference<>();
                        AtomicReference<String> existingId = new AtomicReference<>();
                        return containerKeys.preferredAlgorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer)
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    existingArray.set(persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    existingId.set(persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    Calendar now = getInstance();
                                    long thePast = DAYS.toMillis(365);
                                    now.setTimeInMillis(thePast);
                                    persistentContainerKey.setCreateTs(now);
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .flatMap(new UpdateContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Holder2::value1)
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .flatMap(pck -> containerKeys.rotateIfRequired(vertxContext(), pck))
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000001", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    assertFalse(context, Arrays.equals(existingArray.get(), persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get()));
                                    assertFalse(context, existingId.get().equals(persistentContainerKey.getId()));
                                    return persistentContainer;
                                });
                    })
                    .map(new ToVoid<>());
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testReEncrypt(TestContext context) {
        runOnServerContext(context, () -> {
            ContainerKeys containerKeys = vertxContext().verticle().containerKeys();

            return prepareContainer(context)
                    .map(aVoid -> fromPaths(accountName).accountPath().get())
                    .flatMap(new LoadAccount(vertxContext()))
                    .map(Optional::get)
                    .flatMap(persistentAccount ->
                            just(fromPaths(accountName, containerName).containerPath().get())
                                    .flatMap(new LoadContainer(vertxContext(), persistentAccount))
                                    .map(Optional::get))
                    .flatMap(persistentContainer -> {
                        AtomicReference<byte[]> existingArray = new AtomicReference<>();
                        AtomicReference<String> existingId = new AtomicReference<>();
                        return containerKeys.preferredAlgorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer)
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    existingArray.set(persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    existingId.set(persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    Calendar now = getInstance();
                                    long thePast = DAYS.toMillis(365);
                                    now.setTimeInMillis(thePast);
                                    persistentContainerKey.setReEncryptTs(now);
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .flatMap(new UpdateContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .flatMap(aVoid -> containerKeys.maintain(vertxContext()))
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    assertFalse(context, Arrays.equals(existingArray.get(), persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get()));
                                    return persistentContainer;
                                });
                    })
                    .map(new ToVoid<>());
        });

    }

    @Test
    public void testNoReEncrypt(TestContext context) {
        runOnServerContext(context, () -> {
            ContainerKeys containerKeys = vertxContext().verticle().containerKeys();
            return prepareContainer(context)
                    .map(aVoid -> fromPaths(accountName).accountPath().get())
                    .flatMap(new LoadAccount(vertxContext()))
                    .map(Optional::get)
                    .flatMap(persistentAccount ->
                            just(fromPaths(accountName, containerName).containerPath().get())
                                    .flatMap(new LoadContainer(vertxContext(), persistentAccount))
                                    .map(Optional::get))
                    .flatMap(persistentContainer -> {
                        AtomicReference<byte[]> existingArray = new AtomicReference<>();
                        AtomicReference<String> existingId = new AtomicReference<>();
                        return containerKeys.preferredAlgorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer)
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    existingArray.set(persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    existingId.set(persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    return persistentContainerKey;
                                })
                                .flatMap(new UpdateContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(new ToVoid<>())
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .flatMap(aVoid -> containerKeys.maintain(vertxContext()))
                                .flatMap(new RefreshIndex(httpClient(), authAdmin))
                                .map(aVoid -> persistentContainer)
                                .flatMap(new GetNewestContainerKey(vertxContext()))
                                .map(Optional::get)
                                .map(persistentContainerKey -> {
                                    assertEquals(context, "/testaccount/testcontainer/0000000000000000000", persistentContainerKey.getId());
                                    assertArrayEquals(context, existingArray.get(), persistentContainerKey.getEncryptedKey().get());
                                    return persistentContainer;
                                });
                    })
                    .map(new ToVoid<>());
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testEncryptDecrypt(TestContext context) {
        runOnServerContext(context, () -> {
            byte[] data = "this is a test 111".getBytes(UTF_8);

            ContainerKeys containerKeys = vertxContext().verticle().containerKeys();

            return prepareContainer(context)
                    .map(aVoid -> fromPaths(accountName).accountPath().get())
                    .flatMap(new LoadAccount(vertxContext()))
                    .map(Optional::get)
                    .flatMap(persistentAccount ->
                            just(fromPaths(accountName, containerName).containerPath().get())
                                    .flatMap(new LoadContainer(vertxContext(), persistentAccount))
                                    .map(Optional::get))
                    .flatMap(persistentContainer ->
                            containerKeys.preferredAlgorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer)
                                    .flatMap(keyResponse -> {
                                        Algorithm algorithm = keyResponse.getData();
                                        byte[] encryptedData = algorithm.encrypt(data);
                                        return containerKeys.algorithm(vertxContext(), persistentContainer, keyResponse.getKeyId(), keyResponse.getSalt())
                                                .map(keyResponse1 -> {
                                                    Algorithm algorithm1 = keyResponse1.getData();
                                                    return algorithm1.decrypt(encryptedData);
                                                });
                                    }))
                    .map(decryptedBytes -> {
                        assertArrayEquals(context, data, decryptedBytes);
                        return decryptedBytes;
                    })
                    .map(new ToVoid<>());
        });
    }

}

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- - Continuation The Trump Presidency: Part 25 (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346437)
Captain_Swoop 31st August 2020 12:00 PM
The Trump Presidency: Part 25
This is a continuation from here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=345613. As usual, you may quote/copypasta from the previous continuation(s) of the thread.
Posted By:Agatha
Today's briefing
REPORTER: Does the president condemn the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of shooting protesters?
McENANY: The president is not going to weigh in on that.
Biden: "Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting... it's lawlessness, plain & simple... violence will not bring change. It will only bring destruction... this POTUS long ago forfeited any moral leadership. He cannot stop the violence b/c for years he has fomented it."
ponderingturtle 31st August 2020 12:07 PM
Active Duty troops prefer Biden over Trump by almost 6 percentage points.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...ote-for-biden/
Yea but they vote by mail so we can discount all their votes with what is happening to the postal service.
Trump Retweeted
Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022
@TrumpWarRoom
Joe Biden: "Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year, look, here's, the lives, it's just, when you think about it."
alfaniner 31st August 2020 12:20 PM
I do wish he had used another word, considering 90% of the population probably wouldn't know what this one means if taken out of context.
The Man 31st August 2020 12:30 PM
Just watched what Biden had to say. To me, he's blaming the Police far more than he's blaming the Rioters, Anarchists, Agitators, and Looters, which he could never blame or he would lose the Radical Left Bernie supports!
Well then 'to you' he's doing two mutually exclusive things "never" blaming them yet blaming but just less than "he's blaming the Police".
Elagabalus 31st August 2020 01:29 PM
Originally Posted by alfaniner (Post 13207758)
Tbf, fermented still kind of works.
Stacyhs 31st August 2020 01:42 PM
What? What's that you say, Donnie? Biden flubbed a sentence? Thank goodness you'd never do that.....
"Human trafficking, one of the worst things ever, all at a level that it's never been at -- because of the Internet, you wouldn't think -- you'd think of it as an ancient statement."
"we have pioneered the fatality rate."
This is so crazy I don't even know what thread to put it in.
There are German QAnon members who held a demonstration in front of the Reichstag flying American flags, holding pro-Trump signs and wearing MAGA hats. One said he thought Trump is an 'angel' who will get rid of covid 19 after the election. Another thinks Merkel is Hitler's daughter. They love Trump. These are Germans for God's sake who should know a nutty authoritarian when they see one. The world is going mad.
carlitos 31st August 2020 02:12 PM
It's in this one - Covid-19 and Politics pt 2 (starts on page 17). Also, in AAH for a bit.
Originally Posted by carlitos (Post 13207807)
I'm looking for the actual quote where The PDJT actually downplays the shooting of Jacob Blake as a "mistake". It was from a live statement made in the last day or so.
Safe-Keeper 31st August 2020 02:38 PM
One said he thought Trump is an 'angel' who will get rid of covid 19 after the election.
I wish I could ask them why he should wait until after the election. He should've been fighting Covid since day one.
These are Germans for God's sake who should know a nutty authoritarian when they see one.
Oh, they do. It's just that the "vaccine" against Nazism and far-right authoritarianism that Europeans received in 1933-1945 sadly seems to be wearing out. Some Europeans see another wannabe-Trump and like what they see.
Originally Posted by Stacyhs
Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper (Post 13207829)
He thinks Trump's an angel. You wouldn't get a rational answer from him anyway.
They don't need a wannabe-Trump. They have Trump. I'm sure Trump would be more than happy to let them adore and worship him, too. Even if they are furriners cuz they're still white.
shemp 31st August 2020 03:20 PM
Actually, about 88% of U.S. military personnel are stationed in the U.S. Some of them might still vote by mail, but a lot vote in person right in the areas they live in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ry_deployments
JoeMorgue 31st August 2020 03:43 PM
Originally Posted by shemp (Post 13207870)
No. Very few military personal legally "live" where they are stationed. You vote, pay taxes, and legally reside in your home state.
About 3 quarters of active duty vote absentee.
https://www.fvap.gov/info/reports-su...eMilitaryVoter
Segnosaur 31st August 2020 04:04 PM
About 3 quarters of active duty vote absentee fraudulately.
Fixed it for you. (Well according to Trump anyways)
pgwenthold 31st August 2020 04:29 PM
So the current activity involves members of the GOP editing videos to distort their implications.
Serious signs of desperation.
Steve 31st August 2020 05:02 PM
Nope. This is a sign of how 40% of Americans think their government should act. They will happily vote for the people who do this. The real desperation in the USA comes from people who think their government should act ethically.
So the current activity involves members of the GOP a GOP member of the House of Representatives editing videos to distort their implications.
I love how 'LAW AND ORDER Trump' takes credit for sending the National Guard to Kenosha when he had nothing to do with it
TRUMP, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26: "TODAY, I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER!"
THE FACTS: The statement that he was sending the National Guard is false.
The statement that he would send federal law enforcement is true. The federal government sent deputy marshals from the U.S. Marshals Service and agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, about 200 in all.
Meantime the governor declared a state of emergency and kept increasing the numbers of deployed Wisconsin National Guard troops while saying he was working with other states to get "additional National Guard and state patrol support."
The next day, Thursday, Evers announced that National Guard troops from Arizona, Michigan and Alabama were coming and would operate under the control of those states and Wisconsin, "not in a federal status."
TRUMP, FRIDAY, AUG. 28: "Success: Since the National Guard moved into Kenosha, Wisconsin, two days ago, there has been NO FURTHER VIOLENCE, not even a small problem. When legally asked to help by local authorities, the Federal Government will act and quickly succeed. Are you listening Portland?"
THE FACTS: This statement falsely insinuates that the federal government sent the National Guard and took care of the problem. He also implies that Portland, Oregon, was dragging its feet in having federal authorities do the same there.
TRUMP, SATURDAY, AUG. 29: "Kenosha has been very quiet for the third night in a row or, since the National Guard has shown up. That's the way it works, it's all very simple. Portland, with a very ungifted mayor, should request help from the Federal Government. If lives are endangered, we're going in! "
THE FACTS: Another boast based on the falsehood that Trump sent in the Guard to Kenosha.
That night, in Portland, a skirmish broke out between Trump supporters and counterprotesters, and afterward a right-wing Trump supporter was fatally shot.
TRUMP, AUG. 30, referring to Portland: "The National Guard is Ready, Willing and Able. All the Governor has to do is call!"
THE FACTS: No, calling the White House is not what governors do when they want National Guard help. They call other governors. In earlier protests in Portland, Seattle and Washington, D.C., Trump sent security teams from federal agencies over the objections of local leaders.
TRUMP, MONDAY: "If I didn't INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha right now. Also, there would have been great death and injury. I want to thank Law Enforcement and the National Guard."
THE FACTS: He insisted on action that the governor had already taken and claims a success he did not earn
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/pol...guard/2396589/
Solitaire 31st August 2020 05:43 PM
Trump Knocks Fauci: 'I Inherited Him' by by Brett Samules
President Trump on Monday questioned the value of Anthony Fauci
to the White House coronavirus task force, saying in an interview with Fox
News that he "inherited" the government's top infectious disease expert.
"I disagree with a lot of what he said," Trump told Laura Ingraham when
asked if he would put Fauci "front and center" in the pandemic response
if he could do it again.
"I get along with him, but every once in a while, he'll come up with one
that I say, 'Where did that come from?'" Trump continued. "I inherited him.
He was here. He was part of this huge piece of machine."
kookbreaker 31st August 2020 05:47 PM
Yeah, inherited an expert on infectious diseases who has helped something like the last 4 Presidents. Poor, poor Donald.
Nope, there are others.
They took Biden saying "this is Biden's America" and cut it off there, when he said, "Trump and Pence are saying 'this is Biden's America'"
And then there is the video where Harry Belafonte feel asleep and the reporter had to wake him up, and they edited it to make it look like they were talking to Biden.
When they get caught doing it, they try to brush it off as "we were obviously joking" but no, they didn't say that until they got caught.
And with the congressman that you refer to, their excuse is "well it is basically what he actually said,' which begs the question of why they had to doctor the video.
I Am The Scum 31st August 2020 07:01 PM
Not big enough for its own thread:
Several days after attending Trump's convention speech, the leader of one of Donald's "boat parades" has been arrested for sending a threatening text message to a former member of his country club.
And I believe that might be the whitest sentence I have ever typed.
Jeezus!
Skeptic Ginger 31st August 2020 07:14 PM
I wish I could ask them why he should wait until after the election. He should've been fighting Covid since day one..
Don't you know, the Democrats are holding him back. It's a deep state plot to block his reelection. :rolleyes:
Originally Posted by I Am The Scum (Post 13208010)
:dl:
"We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that. They're on a plane."
Trump says this is "under investigation right now."
Video here. It's utterly bizarre. The Fox host is desperate to refocus the discussion.
From the same interview, Trump compares the shooting of Blake to missing a putt in a golf tournament (that's not an exaggeration). The Fox host again, attempts to bring the discussion back to something appearing not-so-horrid.
Actually, here is a clip with more context and it's even worse. Just utterly paranoid and delusional.
Ladewig 31st August 2020 09:33 PM
Originally Posted by Trump
When I first heard this I thought, that would be a pretty good description of Trump's special law enforcement officers.
These folks not only had gear with them, they had this and that. Not just this. We are talking about this and that! On a plane no less.
Aridas 31st August 2020 09:46 PM
Poking time.
Barr's removal of career national security official, weeks before election, raises concerns
Current and former national security officials are raising concerns over Attorney General William Barr's recent decision to remove the head of a Justice Department office that helps ensure federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities are legal – and replace him with a political appointee with relatively limited experience.
That's yet another very bad sign and raises the question - what illegal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activies is Trump trying to do, given the timing and nature of the change?
That, though, isn't the only possibility, of course.
Now the office is being steered by a political appointee with power to potentially influence decisions over national security policy, especially debates over "what we will and won't do overseas and at home," including in terms of secret surveillance, and when "it is and isn't appropriate" for the Justice Department to tell the public about election interference, Mulligan said.
Hiding pro-Trump Russian interference would explain the reason well enough, much as that's plenty bad itself.
Elsewhere...
Trump campaign accepts donations from neo-Nazi leader and others like him.
No surprise there.
Next, looks like Trump directly defended a murderer on his side right after condemning a murder that was likely not on his side.
Trump first defended a caravan of Trump supporters who drove through Portland firing paintballs and pepper spray at protestors. "That was a peaceful protest, and paint is a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets. Your supporters, and they are your supporters, shot a young gentleman, and killed him, not with paint but with a bullet, and I think it's disgraceful. These people, they protested peacefully, they went in very peacefully ..."
Trump went on to also defend Kenosha murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people, killing two, after answering a far-right call for armed "security" against protesters. Trump suggested Rittenhouse, a devoted Trump fan, was "attacked" and was "trying to get away" when he opened fire on those who attempted to stop him after Rittenhouse had already shot a protester in the head, killing him.
"He was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like. And he fell. And then they very violently attacked him."
Looks like Biden got it right. Trump has pretty much no chance of ending the violence.
Moving on... Robert Duncan, USPS Board Chairman, is Director of McConnell's Leadership Fund
Nothing to see here. Move along. All is well.
Moving on... if one happens to be mildly interested in a bit of a semi-quick coverage of the subject - American Workers Have Been Given a Raw Deal Throughout the Trump Era
Minoosh 31st August 2020 10:35 PM
You gotta wonder what Laura Ingraham was thinking during this interview. So many Fox personalities must have had so many WTF experiences with Trump. She can clearly see that's he's comparing police shootings with missing a putt in a golf tournament, and tries to tell him, "You're not comparing this to golf." But he goes right on. Police officers panic and "choke." How can Ingraham not be flat-out horrified? I don't think she's stupid. Hannity, on the other hand, I fully believe is stupid. Maybe he didn't start out stupid, but he worked hard and has achieved full-blown idiocy.
Police support this guy? He's just thrown the lot of them under the bus. But he doesn't even know he's done it. Sadly, I think he's speaking sincerely and accidentally speaks the truth: Panicky cops make bad decisions.
ETA: He seems to forget that George Floyd's death had nothing to do with a panicked cop making a split-second decision to shoot a guy who might have a gun.
He didn't have to say any of this! He could have just said, of a slain African-American officer, "Yes, Laura, it's a tragic thing. The victims of violence are often African-American themselves." But he's got to fill the air with words, words, words, and she can't get him to shut up.
For posters who insist upon the Daily Fail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...iss-putts.html
And Youtube.
Minoosh 1st September 2020 12:05 AM
Originally Posted by Aridas (Post 13208070)
I appreciate that not all of these tidbits are from the Daily Kos. Not that I have anything against the Daily Kos, but your citations do tend to rely on the website's Community section, with explicit disclaimers that this copy hasn't been reviewed by staff members. I've mentioned before, I am reluctant to read too much copy that plays into my own confirmation bias. Even though the articles in that section are calm and fairly evenhanded.
I wonder if Ivanka or Jared ever cringe at the anti-Semitism coming from so many white supremacy advocates. Also, though Israel may back Trump, I imagine many American Jews look askance at Trump's acceptance of support from neo-Nazis. And what are Israelis to make of support from End Times evangelicals who see Israel as necessary to biblical prophecy?
I'm having trouble loading the Daily Kos links, but they might not mean that much to me. I like to let the dust settle a bit before I try to make sense of recent events.
Captain_Swoop 1st September 2020 12:29 AM
My son, Donald, just wrote a really important new book, "Liberal Privilege", talking, with great knowledge, of our world today. Lets make him a number one bestseller, again!
@DonaldJTrumpJr @seanhannity
Biden will also raise your taxes like never before. Sad!
Aridas 1st September 2020 12:33 AM
Originally Posted by Minoosh (Post 13208077)
Mmm. The ones that I see fit to point towards, at least.
FFIW, American Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat and have for a long time.
Also, it might be worth remembering that the Republicans haven't actually been particularly friendly to Jews or their values. To the point where there was literally an attempt by Republicans to pull off a pro-Nazi coup back in WW2 time.
Elsewhere from the Daily Kos, incidentally...
Fact Check: President "Law-and-Order" Has Been Attempting to Defund the Police for 4 Budget Cycles
All four of Trump's annual budget proposals called for cuts in police spending.
And, for decades, he has been vociferous in his criticism of legislation that included increased support for policing.
Trump's opposition to the House CARES act is primarily predicated on his complaint that money goes to prop up states and municipalities failing under Democratic leadership. The bill's urgently needed funds are partially earmarked for schools, fire, EMT, and police departments. But, not just in regions governed by Democrats — also, in financially strapped states like deep-red Oklahoma.
Under Trump, the DOJ halted police-abuse investigations, stopped pursuing civil rights lawsuits, and sabotaged federal consent decrees.
Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
Democrats want to scare the American people about Russia when we know the real threat the United States faces is from China.
We need a President like @realDonaldTrump who is willing to confront China.
Louie Gohmert
@replouiegohmert
Keep it up @TheJusticeDept. We've got a long way to go with these so-called "peaceful protesters"
John Ratcliffe
@DNI_Ratcliffe
Today's agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a historic step towards a more peaceful Middle East. Congratulations @realDonaldTrump for bringing together two of America's most reliable regional partners to expand diplomatic and security cooperation.
China's anti-Trump election meddling raises new alarm, as DNI calls country biggest threat | Fox News
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#Election2020 @DNI_Ratcliffe on scaling back election security briefings "...within minutes of one of those briefings ending, a number of members of congress went to a number of different publications + leaked classified information again, for political purposes to create a...
...narrative that simply isn't true, that somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China. So I'm going to continue to keep the promises that I made. I'm going to continue to follow the law + continue to keep congress informed" he told @MariaBartiromo
Trump begins his interview with Laura Ingraham by saying "Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's been burning,"


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THERMOS 10: Hunter Deely, "Lost In the Loop (An Elegy)"
Posted July 31, 2014 by thermosmag in From the Magazine, THERMOS 10.	Tagged: Hunter Deely, Thermos.	Leave a Comment
This piece of non-fiction comes from our special issue of THERMOS featuring Hunter Deely's poetry. You can check back every couple days in the coming month for more of his poetry. For an introduction, see here.
Lost in the Loop (An Elegy)
Clive lives in an old Spanish style house in an old Spanish style neighborhood in San Antonio. When he walks out the back door from his kitchen, down a concrete path to his studio, banana plants and orchids and tropical plants brush his face. There is always a vase of fresh flowers on top the piano. When he rubs the horsehair bow across the rosin block, sweet dust fumes in the light and makes him sneeze. Clive is alone.
It's strange how the first long note of a violin sounds just like a trumpet, like breath was pouring from the strings. The tape player clicks on ambient music for the background, and for a few minutes all the sad faces and neurotic tics and the subconscious operations of the day disappear, and Clive is alone.
When he finishes playing, he listens to the recording and erases it before it finishes. He sets the violin back in its case, staring into the wooden eyes of the bearded face carved into the head of the violin, hundreds of years old and worth more than his house. He covers it with its velvet blanket, places the bow on its hooks, closes the case, zips it up slowly, breathes in the rustle of the blanket on the strings, the metal teeth clicking together, the affront against silence, and then as the last teeth close the faint ringing starts up, and he stands mesmerized by it, like the dying of a chime which never really stops, just bleeds into the vibration of the air and the bodies and stones around it, the Earth always humming and gyrating to its own harmony as if all the heartbeats in the universe were shivering in Clive's cochlea in those brief moments when the world tries its hardest to hold and finds itself too full of life.
When I was nine years old I started taking lessons from Clive Amor. At the time, I was obsessed by Celtic fiddle music and I wanted nothing more than to play it. That year, just before the turn of the millennium, my father took me to a Chieftans concert, the first time I had ever really seen live music aside from country and western bands at rodeo dancehalls. The music was fast, a whole choir of old men and young women with long hair plucked strange and beautiful instruments and the soft drone at the back, as if the bagpiper were standing behind me (the band had no bagpiper). The music was plaintive, a girl danced a jig, the bodhrans rumbled and the room clapped in unison.
In the symphony hall, his vision tunnels. Small plucks on strings rise and drop, heels click on clean wood, bodily adjustments in the seats, chatter and chuckles, sniffs of mucus back into the throat, throats clearing, all rising together in a chorus of offset insect wings. Clive can do nothing but stare at the notes on his sheets of music, which begin to wiggle the longer he goes forgetting to blink, or breathe, subconscious operations which require a great deal of effort when his brain becomes addled with the din. Someone says hello, and he smiles. He swallows his spit and tries to listen to the tone he knows must lie somewhere within the noise.
He hears a note from a cello. The bow changes direction so quick and smooth there is no discernible break in the note, though he knows that a perforation exists somewhere, that his brain must register it on some deeper level. The conductor takes the stand. The rustle stops and for a second the ringing is there. And then the first notes explode from twenty violins, the drums beat, Clive moves his arms and fingers without thought, almost mechanical, yet feeling less like a machine that at any other point in his existence. Seventy-six people with seventy-six different and more or less unrelated lives leave themselves and merge in a hidden osmosis, they mimic the processes churning in yellow blobs on the seafloor and in fungus grow- ing on dead trees and of the blood and the cells in their own bodies, and they play to an invisible audience, an audience always invisible even when they're there.
When I was finally able to play a song it was overwhelming. The notes wavered, balanced on an invisible tightrope, and all the images over- flowed from my fingers, thin green rivers, sod and woodsmoke, washerwomen singing to the trees. Then I hit a wrong note and I found myself back in my living room in the suburbs of San Antonio, and went to the CD player to listen to the song the way I imagined it in my head. It was from an album called Lost in the Loop.
In the studio, I watch my black school shoes sinking into the ornate rug, the designs reflecting distorted on the polished leather. I have not practiced my piece, and when Clive asks me to play, with that voice, almost a whisper, each word enunciated with the precision and understated vibrato of a note on his fiddle, the sounds coiling at the end of his tongue like the designs on the rug, I stumble, play wrong notes, I wince through the song while he smiles and his wet lunar eyes stay fixed and shimmering. He plays a few notes, and moves my fingers to a wider grip, I stumble more and he chuckles and helps me through again, and we dance away the hour.
He stands in the doorway while I walk to the car, and he and my mother chat when she goes to hand him his check, while I skip the CD to my favorite track, "The Old Maid of Galway," and watch Inca doves explode from the asphalt when a car drives past, return and erupt again in sync with the waves of the song. The wet heat in the car is so heavy it's hard to breathe; a film of oil seeps from my skin, my lower back is wet against the seat.
Clive is upstairs in his house, watching rain fall. His neck is sore. He loops a short riff from the keyboard and starts to play over it, slowly. He can't make his arm move. He opens his eyes. The rain on the window spreads over his field of vision, he turns knobs on the keyboard and the distant notes bleed together in a pulse as moth wings pulse, the smell of mothballs up into his forehead and the rain fills the room with clouds, two bells sound, the violin falls to the floor, the clouds are spreading, the clouds are spreading and all the air leaves the room.
My mother comes to me weeping and says Mr. Amor is in a coma from meningitis and he was the nicest man she ever knew, why do these things always happen to good people, why?
I listen to Lost in the Loop in my room and wonder what they are yelling about in the other room and why do these things always happen to good people and not my dad when he's woozy and why do I bother listening to music that kills the people who make it and where am I anyway is there someone looking in the windows at night are the trains in the distance really there or do I hear them to keep away the sound of nothing? My house is on top of a hill and the city is spread out below me, the city lights from far away like a sea of eyes that passes into the stars, that stares and stares.
Years later, I would realize that the Loop was the loop of the song, the loop of life. But at the time I assumed it referred to Loop 1604, the highway that circles San Antonio, which we passed under when we drove out to the Hill Country to swim in the river and listen to the music of the frogs. The country was full of fireflies and low hills and cypress trees, and the fiddle music was always most at home out there, as it is in all hill countries. I hunted fossils and collected bugs and the air always smelled clean and thick, thick sometimes like the rotting carcass of a deer.
"Are you better now Mr. Amor?"
"I certainly hope so. I have to take antibiotics and call them if I feel strange but I feel wonderful."
"I went into a coma from spinal meningitis, when your spinal cord gets swollen. I was asleep for two weeks."
"Did it hurt?''
"It was the best feeling I've ever felt." He looks out the window.
"I was floating in a bed of clouds and time didn't pass anymore, I was just staring at the sky and the sun filled the whole sky, and I heard the most beautiful music, it was a violin and choir of voices but really they made the same sound, and I wasn't sure who or what or where I was but I could see the notes of the music. When I recorded it I wrote it down and I recorded this CD yesterday. It doesn't sound like what I heard but it's as best as I can remember it. It was so beautiful. So what songs have you been working on?"
I trace the coils of the violin strings around their pegs with my fingers. I haven't played in years. The Clash is blaring over the stereo, my guitars are strewn about the room. What a catastrophe. Why won't she return my calls? I wish I was sleeping. My throat is sore from the last time I saw my parents and told them I didn't love them.
On the bed is a small postcard which says in cursive letters "Celebrating the Life of Clive Amor 1958-2004." I have not spoken to him in five years, since I quit taking lessons to learn the guitar instead. Was it meningitis? The song ends. The ringing starts up. I close my eyes and see the pat- terns of the rug on my small black shoes coiling behind my eyes, I wonder if I'm really here, if someone is watching me and if so what would they think of me if someone is watching me my whole life, not God (I don't believe in God) but someone is watching, someone must be watching. What happened to Mr. Amor? If I hadn't seen the card on a table in my English classroom he would have disappeared silently; now the fiddle music is screaming through the pulse of the air conditioner, the cars on the road outside, the sound of my fingerprints against the texture of the spun strings, and the ringing is making a tune, "The Old Maid of Galway," one riff that rises
up like the hill behind my house in the country on the North side of Loop 1604, repeating itself over and over, over and over, like a woman crying whose tears melt her house of sod, the loop is closing in, there is no air in the room, my neck is stiff, it's sunny outside but I swear it's raining. All I can see is the sun through the window. Clive is looking at the sun, hearing music he can't copy onto tape, music that only exists when there are no senses but only the music of his innards and bones and brain pumping slower and slower, the loop of blood slowing like the emptying riverbed where the fiddle music settles, and I throw the card in the trashcan, and I wish I could play the music I am hearing.


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It's already half-way through January of 2019 and I'm struggling to keep my new self in balance. I set so many resolutions, I created a 20×30 graph and hung it up next to my standing desk, to remind myself of all the goals and actions I'm taking every week. Two weeks in, I'm struggling to maintain the health goals. The reason I am struggling is that I still haven't stepped into the new person I envisioned on New Year's Eve. But I'm not giving up.
This year, I skipped the New Year's Eve parties and instead had my own party at home, creating a plan for the new year. I first created a "To-Do" list of things I wanted to get done; including booking my upcoming trip to Mexico and completing a goal workbook by answering questions about identify what I want to work on this year and how I will make the changes, based on a stepping-stone system, where I do little goals that lead me to the big goal. I went to bed on NYE at 10 PM, thankful for recognizing what I needed, sleep, so that I could get up early to do a morning hike.
Travel Internationally – Heading to Mexico in February!
Learn Video Editing – Got a new GoPro! – Here's my first video!
Two weeks into the year, I feel challenged that I've struggled so much to get motivated. I'm not alone. I was recently in a Mastermind group with my friends at Location Indie and we talked about all these challenges during that call, and it was mentioned that we should give ourselves gentleness. This gift was a great way to help me recognize that I can do amazing things, but that I need to pace myself because life is a marathon, not a race. There's no deadline that can't be pushed back if I recognize I need space and time.
In December I was named "Member of the Month" and was featured on the Location Indie Podcast, check out the recording here. I talked about how my transition didn't happen overnight but progressed over the past three years. I started removing the clutter from my life and learning from The Minimalists and detailed my journey.
I discuss how I've worked to become debt free in the next few months, after 3 years of budgeting, saving, and spending less. I discussed how I have started being consistent with waking up early, journaling, meditating and doing yoga EVERY DAY for the past year. I create vision boards to give myself clarity for my future.
I'm currently doing Yoga with Adrienne's 30-Day Challenge, Dedicate. I talked about finding my tribe, with the Location Indie group. And that I'm still working to become that person I want to be. The truth is, I can be that person today, I just need to choose to be her.
I recognize that the last month of struggle was because I was fighting my old self because the new person is unfamiliar and scary. It's the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) that are new to me, and putting them on a board, or in a goal book is one thing, but doing them is a LEVELING UP!
On the New Year's Day Hike my friend Adrienne and I got a bit lost and it was getting later, and later, and we weren't finding the trail. We talked about the worst possible outcome, but we knew that we'd find our way eventually and we did.
In the mastermind call, we talked about that same concept, the worst that can happen, if a goal is pushed back, for whatever reason. I thought about how I had planned a year ago that I'd be debt free by the end of 2018. But to make that happen, I would've had to say no to getting a coach, or investing in the Paradise Pack, or even Location Indie, and wouldn't have traveled, or met the people I met, and had the experiences I had, that brought me to this moment, to who I am today.
All of this to say, I'm right where I need to be, for this moment. And I'll get where I need to go this year, one step at a time. One goal at a time. As long as I'm moving forward.
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Robert Alexander Falconer
Copy of a print made by Robert Lansdale Photography Ltd. in 1971. Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Soldier's Tower under construction
1 glass plate negative : b&w : 17 x 22 cm
Maurice Hutton
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Hutton was Acting President of the University of Toronto from 1906 to 1907.
Electrical Building, 1921
1 glass plate negative : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
This building was later known as the Rosebrugh Building.
Photograph of a painting by M. Greiffenhagen dated either 1925 or 1929. Robert Falconer was President of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932.
Partial plan of the grounds of the University of Toronto
Plan of the campus
Some members of the Class of 1927, University College
1 halftone reproduction
Photograph taken from "Torontonensis," 1927, p. 33. Top, left to right: Margot I.S. Murray, Charles Roger Myers, Florence Helen O'Reilly, Dorothy R. Page and Alma Gwendolyn Park Bottom, left to right: A.E. Parks, Cyril Arthur Peachey, Allan Edward Pepper, Isabel H. Pierdon, Alan B. Plaunt and Leila Wilmot Plewes
Engineers attempting to raid University College
1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
Since the doors were locked, the attempted raid on University College failed.
Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Photograph taken from "Torontonensis," 1927, p. 325.
Varsity Grads Canadian Olympic Hockey Team
Copy print entitled: "Canadian Olympic Hockey Team at St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1928. The University of Toronto Alumni Team "The Grads" Amateur Champions of the World." Standing, left to right: Frank Fisher, Grant Gordon, Roger Plaxton, Charlie Delahey, Bert Plaxton, Frank Sullivan, and Norbert Mueller Sitting, left to right: Ross Taylor, Dr. Louis Hudson, John C. Porter, W.A. Hewitt, Hugh Plaxton, Dave Trottier, and Dr. Joe Sullivan
Varsity senior eight-man rowing crew, Canadian Champions, in Toronto Harbour
The crew is seen practicing on the Toronto waterfront just before participating in the Paris Olympics.
Banting and Best's laboratory
Room in Medical Building, 2nd floor, where insulin was discovered.
George Sydney Brett
Professor of Philosophy, George Brett, succeeded John McLennan as Dean of the graduate school in 1933. He was Dean until his death in 1944.
Pharmacy College.
The pharmacy building on Gerrard Street East was constructed in 1887 and later demolished.
Plan of original King's College Property
A plan, drawn in the early part of the 20th century, showing the original 150-acre property obtained by King's College in 1828.
W. Norman Millar
1 photograph : b&w : 9 x 13 cm
Portrait of Professor Millar taken from a composite of the graduating class, Faculty of Forestry 1924.
Varsity Stadium ca. 1926
1 photograph: b&w
View from north west showing covered stands with observatory in the background.
Convocation, June 5, 1925
View of King's College Circle with graduates filing into Convocation Hall.
William Lash Miller
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 16 cm or smaller.-
Miller was professor of chemistry.
"P.B.I." [Poor Bloody Infantry], 1920 - poster
"P.B.I." was written and produced by Harold Scudamore of Trinity College and the U of T Veterans Association.