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Is it a boy or a girl for Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna?
Speculation is flying around regarding the gender of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna's baby. The couple claim they are waiting until the birth to find out if it's a boy or a girl but something Blac Chyna said recently throws doubt on that story. It is totally up to the parents if they want to know the gender of a child or not and it makes little difference to any half decent parent. Most focus on a healthy baby and an easy birth. Although the word easy and birth have difficulty landing beside each other, as most mothers will tell you.
But let's see if the cards are willing to give on a guess. What gender for the child of Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian? Or will they too respect the privacy of the parents? Most of the deal are wands, which reflects well for the energy around the pregnancy. We open with the King of Wands. This would represent the father, Rob Kardashian, and his role to protect and care during this period. It is a role he takes very seriously, and his heart is in the right place.
It is followed by the Three of Cups. Although they already have a child, the energy of the pregnancy is focused around the one to come. This is backed up by the Three of Wands which is focused on the wellbeing of all involved. Now I know I said that the cards may not deliver the answer. But could the King be joined by a Prince? Let's just watch this space.
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You are here: Home / Health & Wellness / All About Ceramic Knives, and Why They are Healthier!
You have heard about ceramic knives or seen them in the store and wondered what makes them different from metal knives. They have certainly become very popular in recent times, so it's worth taking a closer look to see if a ceramic knife is right for you.
Ceramic knives are a specially designed knife with a blade made of ceramic. But not the type of ceramic that your dinner service or coffee mug is made from. Ceramic knife blades are made from zirconium oxide, or zirconia, which is a super hard substance significantly harder than stainless steel or carbon steel, and second only to diamonds on the hardness scale.
How Do They Differ from Metal Knives?
The main difference between your usual metal knife and a ceramic knife is the blade. The exceptionally hard blade of a ceramic knife will not lose its edge. With normal kitchen use, a ceramic knife will not need to be sharpened and will stay razor sharp.
As the zirconium oxide used in the ceramic knife blades is very dense, the knives are easy to clean. You only need a quick rinse in warm water to clean the blade between cutting different food items.
The blade's density also means it has fewer pores, and therefore, will not absorb odors. You need not worry about transferring odors, like garlic or onion, from one food item to another.
Ceramic knives are more hygienic than metal ones. There are fewer pores on a ceramic blade, and the pores that are there are tiny, so fewer bacteria can hide and then contaminate food.
As they are made of ceramic and not steel, your ceramic knife will not rust so the blade will always look like new.
A ceramic knife is lighter than a steel knife. The lightweight makes a ceramic knife much easier to use, and easier on the hands, arms, and shoulders.
The blade of a ceramic knife is 100% stainless. The zirconium oxide is resistant to acidic or caustic substances and will not pit or warp.
The super sharp blade allows you to cut wafer-thin slices of fruits, vegetable, and meats. I'm talking thin enough to see through!
Nutritional studies have shown that chopping fruits and vegetables with a ceramic knife not only retains the nutritional value of your fresh produce but even increases it! This is due to the chemical composition of the zirconium oxide blade, which does not react when it comes into contact with the different levels of acids and other compounds contained in fresh fruits and vegetables. Using a metallic knife or even tearing vegetables like spinach or lettuce by hand actually increases the rate of oxidization and nutrient loss.
The telltale browning that occurs when fruits and vegetables are sliced or chopped is actually a warning sign that the food is oxidizing, and polyphenols are breaking down. Polyphenols have been shown to be important in reducing the risk of urinary tract infections, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes.
The enzymatic browning you see is a signal that the nutritional value is leaking out of your food as it oxidizes. If you can slow down this process by using a ceramic knife, your food will retain nutrients and even increase the level of antioxidants. As you know, antioxidants help to protect your body against harmful free radicals as well as bodily inflammation. Vegetables that have been shown to increase their levels of antioxidants include zucchini, cabbage, iceberg lettuce, celery, carrot, parsnips, radishes, and sweet and white potatoes.
A ceramic knife is chemically inert, so there is no chemical reaction with foods. This means the knife will not brown foods or transfer a metallic taste or smell.
The lighter weight of a ceramic knife makes them a more suitable choice for people with arthritis or rheumatism in the hands, wrists, or arms.
Because ceramic knives do not retain germs or food particles and are so easy to clean, there is little to no risk of cross-contamination between foods. Great news for people with food allergies or sensitivities!
There are some things you should bear in mind when considering purchasing a ceramic knife.
While the zirconium oxide blade is incredibly sharp, it is also brittle. This means it is easy to chip or break the blade. Ceramic knives work well for fruits and vegetables and boneless meats. They should not be used to bone meat or to slice frozen items or cheese.
Ceramic knives should only be used with wooden, plastic, silicon, or bamboo cutting boards. You should not use your ceramic knife on a glass cutting board or plate because of their brittleness.
Ceramic knives should be washed by hand, not in the dishwasher as they may chip or break if they're hit by other items.
Your ceramic knife should be stored separately and not in a drawer.
How to Take the Best Care of Your Ceramic Knife?
You need to take a few simple precautions to keep your ceramic knife in great shape.
Handwash, rinse, and wipe your knife clean after use.
Only use a soft cutting board.
Avoid using them on foods with bones, pits, or heavy rinds.
Use your knife for slicing, do not use it to pry, carve or bone foods. As the blade is super hard, it will not twist or flex.
Store the knife carefully in a knife block, sheath or individual tray.
If your knife does get chipped, you can take it to a specialist knife sharpener to restore the edge.
Interesting… I've never heard of ceramic knives! I'm going to keep my eyes out for them, now.
Interesting, I have never tried a ceramic knife. Good to know!


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The spring event of Strictly on our Doorstep at Wisbech St Mary Community Centre takes place this Saturday (April 13).
West Walton ladies group the Fenland Belles are holding a comedy cabaret evening at the village hall with ventriliquist Richard Whymark and Sean 'The Banjo Man' Moyses on Saturday April 6.
The Babylon Gallery will host a spring exhibition by the Ely Art Lovers group later this month.
Garden expert and tutor Andrew Sankey is returning to the Ely Branch of the WEA (Workers Educational Association) to teach a six week course entitled A Brief History of the English Garden.
A night of Abba music in Ely raised more than £900 for local charities.
One of the country's most inspirational people will talk about his life at the Princess Theatre in Hunstanton on Sunday April 7.
Hen, quail, duck and ostrich eggs will form Cambridge's biggest egg menu at a skyline restaurant this Easter Sunday.
Ever wondered what woodturning is all about? If you fancy having a go – for free - then head to the Ely Guild of Woodturners' hands-on day this weekend.


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The San Diego Padres ended their 2015 season by telling interim manager Pat Murphy he would not be returning as full-time manager in 2016. And they waited slightly more than an hour after the last out of the season to tell him.
There has been plenty of speculation already on who the Padres are going to hire for the manager's job. Most of it is just that, speculation. There aren't many details other than a few reports on people being granted permission to interview. Which is better than no news, I suppose.
Let's take a look at the candidates, no matter how ridiculous their candidacy seems, shall we?
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The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBBA) was founded in 2009 with the purpose of encouraging collaboration and communication among bloggers from across baseball. The Alliance also votes on various awards at different times in the year, including end of season awards.
The Manager of the Year award is subjective. Well, OK, all awards are subjective, but Manager of the Year is more so than the rest. To determine the best pitcher in the league, look at the numbers. Best hitter? Look at the numbers. Best Manager? Can't really look at the numbers. How much impact does the Manager have on his team's performance? Much more difficult to quantify. It's the fuzziest of the awards.
Manager of the Year tends to go to the skipper who's team over-achieved. Over-achieved based on what? Usually, it's based on the preseason expectations of the media. No baseball team enters the season expecting to lose 100 games. Teams do recognize if they have fewer talented players on the roster than, say, the Dodgers or Yankees, but everyone thinks starts April thinking this is THEIR YEAR. Based on that, how does one fairly select the Manager of the Year?
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Crackdown 3 review: We waited all that time... for this?
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Almost five years after the reveal, Crackdown 3 is ready for release. We've had a chance to play the game, and we're not impressed - find out why in our review.
Almost five years after the reveal, Crackdown 3 is ready for release. We've had a chance to play the game, and we're not impressed
By Lewis Painter | 14 Feb 2019
Should I buy the Crackdown 3?
Crackdown 3 is fun to play and requires very little in terms of concentration to perform well, but at the same time, it's fairly limited in scope and most players won't find enough on offer to keep coming back.
Crackdown 3 full review
Five years after the official reveal, Crackdown 3 is almost here – but has it been worth the wait? To say that the development of the game has been troubled is an understatement, with multiple delays and rumours about a huge change to the team emerging in 2018. But all that is now behind us, and Crackdown 3 is ready for its big debut, Terry Crews included.
While the game claims to bring an all-new Crackdown experience to the Xbox One, we were left underwhelmed by what's on offer in the open-world shooter. Find out why we're so disappointed in our Crackdown 3 review.
Crackdown 3: Pricing and availability
Crackdown 3 will be available to play worldwide on 15 February 2019 across Xbox One and PC.
You can pre-order it from Amazon (£46.99) and GAME (£46.99) in the UK and Amazon ($59.99) in the US, but if you decide to pick it up from the Microsoft Store (£49.99/$59.99), there's a little bonus in store.
It may be more expensive on the Microsoft Store, but you'll get access to both the PC and Xbox variant with cloud-syncing between platforms as part of the Play Anywhere scheme. It's a decent option if you play across console and PC!
Crackdown 3 goes back to basics, bringing the long-awaited title in-line with the first title in the series after an overly complex Crackdown 2. Crackdown 3 provides the core Crackdown experience, with a focus on crazy, over-the-top gunplay, explosions and increasingly weird enemies to go up against. You can even play as Terry Crews, or as he's known in Crackdown 3, Agent Jaxon – what more could you want?
The open world game is set in the city of New Providence, following a devastating elemental attack that destroyed much of the world and left the Agency wounded. It's your run-of-the-mill high-tech city with futuristic cars, drones, huge machinery and tall buildings that tower above you, full of things to shoot and blow up, and it's controlled by the highly-secretive TerraNova Worldwide.
In a similar vein to the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, every area of the open world is accessible from the beginning of the game, allowing you to take on the final boss as soon as your adventure begins. It'll be insanely hard, and chances are you'll get your ass handed to you, but, y'know, you could if you wanted. That sense of freedom applies to much of the game, as there isn't much of a storyline to push you in a certain direction – you just go where you want and take on missions in any order that you desire, although some are more difficult than others.
So, what do you do in Crackdown 3? You essentially make your way around the various districts of New Providence, picking off lieutenants that control various aspects of the city, including transport, manufacturing and security before taking on the head of evil megacorporation TerraNova Worldwide in a final showdown. While that sounds good on the surface, the process of taking down lieutenants is akin to something you'd expect from an Xbox 360 game.
Unlike open world games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Red Dead Redemption 2 full of varied side quests and story missions, there's no real variation in Crackdown 3. You move from marker to marker on the map, essentially shooting every enemy in sight and either defeating an officer or destroying manufacturing equipment. There's very little in the way of tactics required as you're essentially a one-person army, taking down tens of enemies at once while taking very little damage, so you can run in all-guns-blazing without consequence.
Cutscenes are extremely rare, and most of the story is presented in the form of comic book-style drawings. That's fine if you're looking for a simple OTT explosive game to blow off steam after a hard day at school or work, but it's certainly not for those that yearn for an engaging story and variety when gaming.
As you battle enemies, you'll upgrade your skills and unlock new upgrades. These upgrades are presented in various forms, from an upgraded jump ability to increased carry capacity for explosives and even a jump pad to get to those hard-to-reach places. The key is to balance your attacks, as you'll have to perform skill-specific moves to get upgrade points - like drifting in a car to get driving points or blowing up a convoy to get explosive points.
This RPG-esque system forces you to switch up your style of play constantly to evenly upgrade your character, which is good because when you break it down, there isn't much to do in Crackdown 3. It's all shooting bad guys and blowing stuff up. If you do that over and over again using the same tactics and weapons, you'll get bored very easily. But forcing you to focus on different skillsets to upgrade different areas of your agent, you're forced out of your comfort zone.
There's also a sense of progression in the city's resident-run militia, alongside the handful of upgrades you're offered as you level up. As you take back control of the streets and take over beacons across the city, you inspire the residents to fight back and provide backup during your escapades. While it's only one or two NPCs initially, the number of militia fighters increases as you claw back more of the city from the evil TerraNova Worldwide.
Wrecking Zone
While the campaign is.. largely underwhelming, most people have been looking forward to the online element of Crackdown 3, aka Wrecking Zone.
The destruction we were shown at Gamescom in 2015
It was this that devs focused the famed Gamescom 2015 presentation on, showcasing truly impressive destruction tech that utilised the power of multiple Xbox One consoles to produce something unseen before. While the environment was huge and exciting in the demo, it seems to have been scaled back – dramatically – for the launch of the game, explaining a lack of coverage since the 2015 demo.
While we were treated to a large destructible city environment in the demo, the environments across Wrecking Zone's two PvP modes are much smaller. Granted, the environments reach high into the sky and agents can traverse the destructible environment to get the jump on enemies, but it's all a bit… meh. We were hoping to have city-wide PvP battles where you can throw cars or even bits of debris at each other, but sadly, that's not the case.
What you'll get at launch are two game modes – Agent Hunter and Territories – that are essentially Kill Confirmed and Domination for those that play Call of Duty. Agent Hunter puts you in a fast-paced 5v5 match with one aim; destroying the other team.
Like in Call of Duty's famed multiplayer mode, you have to collect a badge from downed enemies whilst also protecting your teammates' badges from the opposing team. The first to 25 badges wins, or whoever has the most points at the end of the five-minute game win. In Territories you'll, you guessed it, protect your territories from the opposing team, with territory locations changing constantly across the five-minute match.
The game modes are fun and the novelty of blowing up a building that an enemy is camping from is satisfying, but we're not sure there's enough on offer to keep fans coming back. There are no upgrades in terms of your character, no new weapons or skins to unlock and there's not even support for Xbox Live parties so you can't play with your friends.
Crackdown 3 is fun to play and requires very little attention to do well, making it the perfect game for those that want to come home and unwind after a hard day at school or work. But it's not something that you'll find yourself playing for hours at a time – we struggled to, in any case. It's a game that you'll play for an hour when you want to blow sh*t up and cause a bit of chaos, but nothing more.
If you're on the market for a shooter with a live-in open world full of varied missions and an engaging campaign, maybe you should opt for Metro Exodus, Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Red Dead Redemption 2 instead.
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Sorry about reopening this thread again.
PABURNTOOLS.EXE is cleared in the latest AVG 8 (270.6.6/1623) update, but I still get a warning about PAVD.EXE.
I have tried to send the file for analysis but it always fail. Maybe thats because it's the free version?
nobody ever said there was an pavd.exe warning. Eh.
We need to report that again. Anything else?
No, thats the one I get warnings about.
As I am using the free version of AVG I'm not able to report the problem? I have tried to send pavd.exe for analysis several times but it always fail.
My workaround right now is to exclude the Powerarchiver folder.
It would be nice if you could make Grisoft aware of the problem.
Otherwise I'm very satisfied with PA 2009. I really like the modern toolbar.
already reported last night, did not receive anything back.
Yes, I know that it's not your issue, but if you rather than me, emphasize the problem I'm sure they will do something about it.
Nope, I still get a warning about PAVD.EXE, and I'm still not able to send the file for analysis.
But as I have the PA folder excluded in AVG it doesn't bother me to much.
I check from time to time by copying the files to another folder, as I did right now.
Checked all PA executables today, PAVD.EXE still gets a warning.
Maybe I should change to another anti-virus program, AVG is not the only free one but I like it.
Anyway PA is working very well and I am glad I paid for the pro version. Burning is little bit slow but everything I tried works well.
That's what I did so I can't check now.
should have been fixed by now?
Looks like PABURNTOOLS.EXE is showing a false positive Again.
I'm new to Power Archiver so im using a evaluation copy, so i don't think i have that file? Wheres it located?
It wouldn't stop me from buying, but it might to others?
As to the buying, unfortunatly it is not up to us. If AV company keeps repeating the same mistakes, i think it tells more of their product and question is what else will they get wrong?
I'm not getting anything on pavd but paburntools is definitely coming up as infected with Win32/NSAnti. That's with the latest free version of AVG.
thanks, will (once again) email them… anyone else sending report to AVG will be helpful as well.
I'm getting this as well. I pay for AVG so should I report this to see if they will fix it for a paying customer? And yes I'm getting it as well.
I have been in daily contact with them since last week when I reported the problem. Today I have received the confirmation that it will be fixed with the next virus database update.
Their latest update seems to have indentified some Windows files as false positives, so heads up people who have AVG as your XP will not start anymore :-).
@spwolf: Since we didnt change anything, it definetly isnt something on our side. It would help if you add an option to give the path and filename to a commandline scanner.


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Der Vertrag von Windsor wurde am 9. Mai 1386 zwischen Portugal und England geschlossen. Er erneuerte unter der seit 1383 herrschenden neuen Dynastie Avis die 1373 geschlossene Allianz zwischen England und Portugal, die auch später nie aufgekündigt wurde und damit das älteste noch gültige diplomatische Bündnis in Europa darstellt.

Beide Staaten versicherten sich ihrer unverbrüchlichen Treue auf Dauer. Diese "ewige, unzerstörbare" Freundschaft war wertvoll für die Unabhängigkeit Portugals. König Johann I. von Portugal bekräftigte diesen Willen durch die Heirat mit Philippa of Lancaster, der Schwester des späteren Königs Heinrich IV., am 2. Februar 1387.

Der Keim für die Allianz wurde im Jahr 1275 gelegt, als sich beide Staaten verbündeten. Sie besiegten am 14. August 1385 gemeinsam das von Johann I. regierte Königreich Kastilien in der Schlacht von Aljubarrota.

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1066 Upside Down – alternative histories – To Crown a King by Helen Hollick #CoffeePotBookClub
Today I present an excerpt from 1066 Turned Upside Down by Helen Hollick
To Crown A King
by Helen Hollick
An appropriate excerpt, for on January 6th in 1066 Harold Godwinson was crowned as King of England…
King Edward, later known as 'The Confessor' died on 5th January 1066, just days after his Abbey of Westminster was dedicated to God. Within hours, his Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, was crowned King of England – in unseemly haste, the Normans later claimed. Not so, Edward's earls and nobles had been at the Christmas Court for many weeks and wanted to return to their lands, the next opportunity for a crowning would not have been until Easter. The 'haste' was perfectly normal for English law and custom.
The Normans also claimed that the childless Edward sent Harold to Normandy in the 1060s to offer the crown to William. This would have been highly unlikely: the English earls would not have sanctioned it and it was for the Witan, the Council, to elect a king – usually the eldest son, but it could be the man most worthy to do the job. And there was already a legitimate heir, Edgar, the young grandson of Edward's half-brother, Edmund Ironside. In 1066, Edgar was only about thirteen years of age…
Westminster, London – January 6th 1066
The murmur of conversation was low within the council chamber, flickering in unison with the draught-disturbed candle flames. All but a few of the Witan were present. Nine and thirty men including two archbishops: Stigand of Canterbury and Ealdred of York.
Archbishop Ealdred stood and cleared his throat. 'My lords, we must, no matter that it is hard to do so, discuss what we all shy from.'
The light talk faded, grim faces turned to him, men settled themselves on benches or stools, a few remained standing.
'It is doubted that Edward will survive this night. It is our duty, our responsibility, to choose the man who is to take up his crown, to decide our next king.' Ealdred folded his robes around him and sat.
Those present were suddenly animated; opinions rose and fell like a stick of wood bobbing about on an incoming tide. Only two names were on their lips: Edgar, the boy ætheling, and Harold.
The two in question sat quiet on opposite sides of the chamber: one asking himself if this was what he wanted; the other, bewildered and hiding his fear. Edgar had never before been summoned to attend the council. It was not a thing for a boy not yet three and ten years of age, this was the world of men, of warlords and leaders. He looked from one to another, listened to snatches of the talk. Earlier that evening he had been immersed in a game of taefl with his best friend – had been winning. He stifled a yawn. Fought against closing his eyes to doze.
For an hour the men debated. Occasionally someone would toss out a sharp question to the boy, who startled awake, or to Harold, seeking opinion, assurance. Edgar answered as well he could. Harold with patient politeness.
'As I see things,' Stigand said, his voice pitched to drown the rattle of debate, 'we have talked of but two contenders. Edgar?' He beckoned the lad forward. He came hesitantly, not much caring for this direct focus of attention for he was a shy boy.
Stigand continued, not noticing the reluctance. To be king was a thing sanctioned by God, personal feeling did not come into it. 'He is of the royal blood, but not of age. Second, Harold of Wessex.' Again the archbishop paused to motion the man forward. 'He has ruled England on Edward's behalf and has proven himself a wise and capable man, but there is a third possibility. Duke William of Normandy may claim the crown through the blood-tie of King Edward's lady mother, Queen Emma – God rest her soul – and through some misguided impression that Edward did once offer him the title.'
Immediately there were mutterings, shaking of heads, tutting. Upstart Norman dukes were unanimously declared as not understanding the civilised ways of the English.
Stigand half smiled, said, 'I take it, then, that William is excluded from the voting?'
'Aye.'
'That he is!'
'Duke William cannot be so easily dismissed,' Harold interrupted. He waited for the babble of voices to quieten. 'He will not heed anything said in this room, no matter how scornful or vehement. If he has set his mind on wearing a crown, then he will attempt to take it. If he is rejected, the question will not be if, how, or can he attack us, but when.
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Deszczno – dawna gromada, czyli najmniejsza jednostka podziału terytorialnego Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1954–1972.

Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Deszczno z siedzibą GRN w Deszcznie utworzono – jako jedną z 8759 gromad na obszarze Polski – w powiecie gorzowskim w woj. zielonogórskim na mocy uchwały nr V/15/54 WRN w Zielonej Górze z dnia 5 października 1954. W skład jednostki weszły obszary dotychczasowych gromad Deszczno, Glinik i Maszewo ze zniesionej gminy Zieleniec w tymże powiecie. Dla gromady ustalono 16 członków gromadzkiej rady narodowej.

31 grudnia 1961 do gromady Deszczno włączono obszar zniesionej gromady Siedlice w tymże powiecie; równocześnie z gromady Deszczno wyłączono wieś Siedlice, włączając ją do Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego, miasta na prawach powiatu w tymże województwie.

1 stycznia 1969 do gromady Deszczno włączono wieś Brzozowiec z nowo utworzonej gromady Skwierzyna w tymże powiecie.

Gromada przetrwała do końca 1972 roku, czyli do kolejnej reformy gminnej. 1 stycznia 1973 w powiecie gorzowskim utworzono gminę Deszczno.

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USAID Contractors Labeled Cuban 'Twitter' Users 'Pro-Revolution,' 'Apolitical,' or 'Anti-Revolutionary'
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has steadfastly maintained that a social media project it funded, which was revealed by the Associated Press as Cuban Twitter, was not intended to trigger "smart mobs," transmit "political content" and "trigger unrest in Cuba." However, the latest report from AP exposes more of the disingenuous nature of official comments coming from USAID on the project.
Paula Cambronero worked as a contractor for USAID in Cuba and part of her work involved "profiling" Cuban cellphone users, according to documents. In fact, users were categorized as "pro-revolution," "apolitical" or "anti-revolutionary."
She was tasked with "building out a database about Cuban mobile phone users, including gender, age, 'receptiveness' and 'political tendencies' that USAID believed could help bolster its Cuba programs. The Cubans responding to the text messages were not aware the US government was gathering data on them."
Previously, USAID put up a blog post about the project, "Eight Facts About ZunZuneo." (The project was officially named ZunZuneo after slang used for a Cuban hummingbird's tweet.)
USAID pointed out eight "inaccuracies" and downplayed the idea that there was anything overtly political about the project.
"The specific reference to 'Smart Mobs' had nothing to do with Cuba nor ZunZuneo," USAID stated. "The documents do not represent the US government's position or reflect the spirit or actions taken as part of the program in Cuba. The project initially sent news, sports scores, weather, and trivia. After which, the grantee did not direct content because users were generating it on their own."
Rajiv Shah, head of USAID, was asked by Senator Patrick Leahy on April 8 if the goal of the project had been to "influence political conditions abroad by gathering information about Cuban cellphone users" or whether it was supposed to "encourage popular opposition to the Cuban government."
"No, that is not correct," Shah answered. He claimed the "purpose" of Cuban "Twitter" had been to "support access to information and to allow people to communicate with each other." It was not for the purpose "articulated" by Leahy.
But then how would USAID explain a contractor being tasked with going through and labeling users "pro-revolution" or "anti-revolutionary"? These are not standard political ideology labels like "liberal" or "conservative." They seem to be particularly tailored toward enabling an uprising and gauging how likely it was for an uprising to be ignited in the near future.
Plus, AP published another report showing that drafted messages were "overtly political," according to documents.
One early message sent on Aug. 7, 2009, took aim at the former Cuban telecommunications minister, Ramiro Valdes, who once had warned that the Internet was a "wild colt" that "should be tamed."
"Latest: Cuban dies of electrical shock from laptop. 'I told you so,' declares a satisfied Ramiro. 'Those machines are weapons of the enemy!"'
There were draft messages that may or may not have been transmitted like, "THE BACKWARDS WORLD: 54% of Americans think Michael Jackson is alive and 86% of Cubans think Fidel Castro is dead." And, yet another drafted tweet, "The coma-andante," was considered but organizers, who were referring to Fidel's age, found it was "too political."
Nevertheless, on April 29, "USAID spokesman Matthew Herrick told the AP that the agency had completed its review and forwarded to congressional oversight committees a catalog of the messages sent to Cubans." The agency sent over 249 messages "related to technology, sports, world news and trivia," and Herrick claimed they "were consistent with the objective of creating a platform for Cubans to speak freely among themselves."
This set of messages must exclude the ones which a Cuban-born political satirist helped the project craft. They must be disclaiming these messages and maintaining that they were not responsible for that content.
Another issue is the collection of data on Cubans that were using Cuban "Twitter." USAID claimed it was inaccurate for AP to suggest that "private data was collected with the hope it would be used for political purposes." The "fact" is that "the ZunZuneo project included a website, as is typical for a social network. Users could voluntarily submit personal information. Few did, and the program did not use this information for anything."
Messages were sent to users from Spanish telephone numbers. Cambronero, according to this report from AP, analyzed at least 700 responses in the course of her work. One of the tasks she fulfilled involved identifying the respondents by cell phone number, name and location. That would seem to violate their privacy, and it would be "private data."
Now, was it used for political purposes? If the data was used at all by contractors, yes, because the program was inherently political (despite what Shah would have the public believe).
One of the more striking aspects of all this is how USAID has laughably found it ridiculous that anyone would suggest they would be interested in funding a project to bring about the overthrow of the Cuban government. Wasn't Cuban "Twitter" a part of "democracy promotion" initiatives in the country, which are operated as part of the US government's agenda for regime change?
The US has two laws, which would appear to provide a mandate for this kind of project. The Cuban Democracy Act was passed in 1992 to "promote a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba through the application of sanctions directed at the Castro government and support for the Cuban people." The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act was passed in 1996 to strengthen the embargo of Cuba in order to encourage "a peaceful transition to a representative democracy and market economy in Cuba."
The motivation for a project like Cuban "Twitter" is not to advance human rights or freedom for Cuban citizens. It is for the objective of advancing the economic agenda of the US government and interests of US corporations. It is about fueling a movement in the country that could change the political dynamics in the country and make it possible to accelerate efforts to privatize services and sectors in Cuba.
Finally, the latest report from AP shows just how much this project backfired. Apparently, those involved thought they would simply message a question to Cubans. Those Cubans would then hopefully answer, but most wondered who this person was that was anonymously sending them messages.
One respondent answered, "Explain your point better because I don't understand and remember that if you haven't done anything you shouldn't fear anything, at least tell me your name if you're not a coward." Another response warned the sender not to "play around with the feelings of the Cuban people."
Both are excellent examples of how this was a total farce. And, the saddest part is that the people involved are not decent enough to at least apologize to the Cuban people for setting back efforts to bring about more freedom of communication in the country—or to apologize to the people of any other country for that matter.
As Zeynep Turfekci, fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, wrote for POLITICO, "What might have been a well-meaning attempt to bring some free speech to the Castros' Cuba now threatens the efforts of millions of people around the world who are harnessing the power of social media to challenge censorship and propaganda, and have no connection to the U.S. government."
"Admittedly, most authoritarian governments hardly needed an excuse to taint social media as a tool of foreign powers. They've being doing it for years. But for their core supporters, their rantings about American plots behind every tweet just got a lot more credible."
–Kevin Gosztola


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First-Person View: Called for Duty
When someone asks you about a videogame recommendation, sometimes you recommend your favorite title, or your favorite franchise. Other times, your brain shuts off and you end up recommending Call of...what...? CALL OF FREAKING DUTY???!!!
Contributed by Daniel Castro on December 23rd, 2020 in Categories ColumnsWith content involving Tags accessibility, Call of Duty, Daniel Castro, First-Person View, fun games, noobs, Skyrim, videogame recommendations
People around me know about my vast knowledge in games, so it's not uncommon for people to ask (or suddenly text) me about videogame recommendations or thoughts on a particular title.
If it's someone I know, I can diligently recommend something according to that person's likes and interests, but things get a little trickier if I'm asked for a recommendation for someone I don't know, or someone who hasn't been around gaming culture for a while—which happened to me a while ago, and is something I think about to this very day.
A friend of a friend got an Xbox, and I was asked for a game he could get for the weekend. My response came in matter of seconds: "Just tell him to rent Call of Duty."
Call of Duty? Seriously?
It took me a few seconds to realize what I had just said, so I tried to add a couple more games to my suggestion. I kind of regretted recommending one of the most generic games this generation has to offer, but I didn't feel like I had to take it back. There had to be a reason why that game popped into my head when asked to recommend a game for someone not used to videogames.
When I thought about it, the situation actually made some kind of sense: While I didn't think it through at the time, my first instinct was naming a "fun" game—not a good game, or an engaging one, just a fun game. It doesn't matter how much I like to bash Call of Duty every now and then, I can't deny that the game is fun, and it's the kind of title someone new to the medium would really appreciate.
The thing I realized is that as much as you'd love to show the best a medium has to offer to the uninitiated, you need to admit that not everyone's ready for that. Your intentions might be good, but games these days tend to have some kind of lengthy tutorial or exposition that would end up boring someone away from a game. Newcomers usually want to start shooting and punching people right away; they're told that videogames are supposed to be fun, and they usually demand that games start being fun as soon as they press the start button.
Do you know what would happen if you recommended your all-time favorite game to someone new to gaming? While Conan O'Brien doesn't know too much about games, he makes a remarkably good impression of how a new gamer would react to new titles in his segment: Clueless Gamer.
This is why you don't recommend Skyrim to a newcomer!
Contrary to apparent popular belief, newcomers are not the bane of videogames' existence. Some people still want to treat gaming as some kind of private club, and feel entitled to being harsh towards those trying to join the fun. Videogames need newcomers in order to survive and evolve into a mainstream media (yes, we're moving to that direction, but we're not quite…there). You should welcome anyone daring to try a game. Any game. You'll eventually have the chance of gradually introducing them to better titles as time goes by.
Some time later I heard that the "friend of a friend" mentioned above followed my advice and word was that he "loved" Call of Duty…I have to confess that it wasn't one of my proudest moments, but still, I set the path for this guy. Whatever he chose to play after that was beyond my call.
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Q: stacked JPanel repaint not correctly I tried to make game with 2 panel stack each other, first panel is for canvas where all tiles and all game object is drawing on it and the second one is for the top layer frame where I have png image with transparency for the background and will contain JTextBox, JTabbedPanel and JLabel
My problems is when i repaint the canvas, part of the top frame becoming covered by a canvas.
Why is that? and also when i add JButton on canvas, the JButton is draw on top of my top frame panel.
Edit:
I have tried using JLayeredPane but still give me same result.
    // initComponent from MyGame
    private void initComponent() {
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setTitle("My Game");
        this.setSize(320, 240);
        this.setLayout(null);
        this.setUndecorated(true);
        this.setResizable(false);

        JLayeredPane layered = this.getLayeredPane();
        layered.add(new Canvas(), 0);
        layered.add(new TopFrame(), 1);
    }

This top frame and my canvas:

What I get | what I want

Main
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class MyGame extends JFrame {

    public MyGame() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setTitle("My Game");
        this.setSize(320, 240);
        this.setLayout(null);
        this.setUndecorated(true);
        this.setResizable(false);

        this.add(new TopFrame());
        this.add(new Canvas());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                JFrame game = new MyGame();
                game.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

TopFrame
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class TopFrame extends JPanel {
    private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 320;
    private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 240;

    private BufferedImage bgImage;

    public TopFrame() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        this.setLayout(null);
        this.setBounds(0, 0, FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);

        bgImage = new BufferedImage(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE);
        try {
            bgImage = ImageIO.read(new File("FRAME.png"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawImage(bgImage, 0, 0, this);
    }
}

Canvas
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Canvas extends JPanel {
    private static final int CANVAS_WIDTH = 227;
    private static final int CANVAS_HEIGHT = 240;

    BufferedImage image;
    BufferedImage imgBuffer;
    Graphics2D g2d;

    public Canvas() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        Timer timer = new Timer();

        this.setBounds(0, 0, CANVAS_WIDTH, CANVAS_HEIGHT);
        imgBuffer = new BufferedImage(CANVAS_WIDTH, CANVAS_HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE);
        g2d = imgBuffer.createGraphics();

        try {
            image = ImageIO.read(new File("tile.png"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        timer.schedule(new TimerTask(){
            @Override
            public void run() {
                drawComponent();
                repaint();
            }
        }, 0, 100);
    }

    public void drawComponent() {
        /* will do tile drawing */
        g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawImage(imgBuffer, 0, 0, this);
    }
}

Is it possible to get my canvas with all contained object drawn at the bottom?

A: [Solved] using JLayeredPane and make TopFrame setOpaque(false);
I have wrong code when try using JLayeredPane.
My final code working code now:
Main
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class MyGame extends JFrame {

    public MyGame() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setTitle("My Game");
        this.setSize(320, 240);
        this.setLayout(null);
        this.setUndecorated(true);
        this.setResizable(false);

        JLayeredPane layered = this.getLayeredPane();
        layered.add(new Canvas(), new Integer(0));
        layered.add(new TopFrame(), new Integer(1));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                JFrame game = new MyGame();
                game.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

TopFrame
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class TopFrame extends JPanel {
    private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 320;
    private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 240;

    private BufferedImage bgImage;

    public TopFrame() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        this.setLayout(null);
        this.setBounds(0, 0, FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
        this.setOpaque(false);

        bgImage = new BufferedImage(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE);
        try {
            bgImage = ImageIO.read(new File("FRAME.png"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        // super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawImage(bgImage, 0, 0, this);
    }
}

Canvas
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Canvas extends JPanel {
    private static final int CANVAS_WIDTH = 227;
    private static final int CANVAS_HEIGHT = 240;

    BufferedImage image;
    BufferedImage imgBuffer;
    Graphics2D g2d;

    public Canvas() {
        this.initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        Timer timer = new Timer();

        this.setBounds(0, 0, CANVAS_WIDTH, CANVAS_HEIGHT);
        imgBuffer = new BufferedImage(CANVAS_WIDTH, CANVAS_HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE);
        g2d = imgBuffer.createGraphics();

        try {
            image = ImageIO.read(new File("tile.png"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        timer.schedule(new TimerTask(){
            @Override
            public void run() {
                drawComponent();
                repaint();
            }
        }, 0, 100);
    }

    public void drawComponent() {
        /* will do tile drawing */
        g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawImage(imgBuffer, 0, 0, this);
    }
}

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Gas Stove Ban Averted For Now…
(TheConservativeNews.org) – The Consumer Product Safety Commission is suggesting that the 35 percent of U.S. homes using gas stoves should get rid of them, Bloomberg said Monday.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and World Health Organization (WHO) have said gas stoves are unsafe and linked to respiratory illness like asthma, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions, according to reports by groups such as the Institute for Policy Integrity and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to act on the appliances because the pollutants can cause respiratory and health issues.
"Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned," agency commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg.
The report said the federal agency plans "to take action" to address the indoor pollution caused by stoves.
The AGA has previously pushed back against Trumka's comments, saying that the emissions from cooking with gas are similar to emissions created when cooking with electric stoves and that they plan on submitting evidence to prove it.
"Any discussion or perpetuation of the allegations in this report which is funded by non-governmental organizations to advance their agenda to remove consumer energy choice and the option of natural gas is reckless." the AGA added.
Similar sentiments were echoed by West Virginia's Democratic senator Joe Manchin on Twitter midday Wednesday.
"This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on," Manchin wrote.
This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on. https://t.co/8IEFM44UvE
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) January 10, 2023
Due To backlash U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Alexander D. Hoehn-Saric issued a statement Wednesday assuring the public that his agency has no intention of banning gas stoves after a commission official drew the ire of the cooking public by suggesting the appliances might be banned in the near future due to the alleged health threat they pose to Americans.
"Over the past several days, there has been a lot of attention paid to gas stove emissions and to the Consumer Product Safety Commission," Hoehn-Saric wrote in an official statement released Wednesday. "To be clear, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so."
I want to set the record straight.
Contrary to recent media reports, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the @USCPSC has no proceeding to do so. Read my full statement: pic.twitter.com/bYS1GLEpXP
— Alex Hoehn-Saric (@HoehnSaricCPSC) January 11, 2023


Feeling sick or unwell? Soup serves the best.
Delayed food order? Soup serves the best.
Feeling nostalgic of how Grandma pampered you? Again soup serves the best.
Believe it or not, but if one was to give award titles to food items, the soup would probably bag the award for a best-supporting item. From Talumein soup to Coriander soup, there lies a vast variety of them.
Every soup remains healthy in your own way, serving as the backbone of your health and building the framework for your fitness.
Serving as the best fine dining restaurant in Amritsar, ever since our existence, it is our responsibility and honour to enlist four of the healthiest soups for you and their recipes.
After all, your health is on our priority list. Mentioned below are four of the most nutritious soups and their recipes, here you go!
The Indo-Chinese soup is quite a buzz these days and well, it is equally nutritious. The origin of the name of the soup has never been crystal clear, but that surely doesn't affect it as much.
Two types of Talumein soups are there: Chicken Talumein Soup or Veg Talumein Soup. We'll be discussing the recipe for Vegetarian Talumein Soup.
Stocking all the vegetables including diced carrots, finely chopped garlic and ginger, green beans, green chilli, sliced onion, paired up with boiled noodles, soy sauce, salt, oil etc.
Warm the oil in a wok and include the ginger-garlic, trailed by the onions, carrots, and beans. Pan-fry for a couple of minutes and the stew and stock. Heat to the point of boiling and include the capsicum, soy sauce, and salt. Following 5 minutes blend into the bubbled noodles. Cook for 2-3 minutes If appearing to be too thin at that point includes a little cornflour blended with frosty water to thicken it a tad.
That is it, delve in and appreciate.
Enriched with healthy nutrients, Manchow soup is basically originated from Meghalaya. The brown-tinted soup is prepared with loads of vegetables, soy sauce, garlic, salt etc.
Chop vegetables finely including shredded cabbage, spring onions, red and green chillies, carrot, mushrooms, french beans etc. along with oil, sauces and cooked noodles.
In a container, include some oil and panfry the ginger, garlic, coriander leaves and green chillies for around two minutes. In a holder, incorporate some oil and sear the ginger, garlic, coriander leaves and green chillies for around two minutes.
Include the Soya sauce, water, and salt.
Give it a chance to bubble, lessen the warmth and include the cornflour blended with water and mix continually till it thickens somewhat.
Expel from the warmth and serve promptly.
Top with spring onion stems.
Sweet corn soup is particularly preferred in winters (and for breakfasts), remains the favourite of thousands of hearts. Along with the warmth, it provides our body with potassium, natural sugars, and other nutrients.
Warm the butter in a pan. Include spring onion white, green chillies, ginger, garlic and saute for a minute.
Inculcate veggies and saute for 5 to 6 mins.
Include corn (in cream style) and cook for 5 mins.
Include sugar, water, salt and heat it to the boiling point.
Stew for 5 to 6 mins.
Include blended/ mixed cornflour (cornflour slurry which is mixed with water to thicken the soup).
Start blending everything well and top with green spring onions.
Coriander soup is one of the best sources of magnesium, dietary fibrous nutrients and iron.
Warm the stock to the point of boiling.
Include onions, lemon juice, salt, half of the coriander leaves and dark pepper.
Heat to the point of boiling and stew for a moment.
Place whatever is left of the coriander leaves in the soup bowls, pour soup over and serve.
heat up all these in water for about 10-15 minutes. Pour the stock through a strainer and it for the soup.
You could likewise utilize a vegetable stock.
To maintain a healthy lifestyle and to have a balanced diet, your meal needs to have an appetizer and what healthier appetizer than soups?
You can either cook these healthily delicious soups at home or save yourself the efforts and opt for online home delivery in Amritsar from us, Bemisaal fine dining restaurant!


Snowmass VIllage resident Walker Jean Mills recently published the children's book "The Good Dog." She will sign and siscuss it at Explore Booksellers on Saturday, Sept. 29.
When: Saturday, Sept. 29, 2-4 p.m.
Dog is man's best friend and, sometimes, a kid's best role model.
In her new children's book "The Good Dog," local author Walker Jean Mills offers a sweet and simple story aimed at young children about how dogs can teach us love, acceptance and compassion.
It features the young Daisy, who is with her dog, Charlie, as he gets stitched in a veterinarian's office and offers an outpouring of gratitude for his love and inspirational kindness.
The book aims to inspire readers to do good and simple things like comforting others, making people smile, being helpful and being inclusive.
"If a kid can take just one thing away, maybe to befriend somebody who doesn't have friends, to say a nice word to their parents, to listen to somebody who might be suffering — if it helps one kid be kinder, then I think it's a success as a book," Mills said.
Illustrated with Charlie and Daisy in vivid cartoon color against mostly gray scenes, the book places no more than two sentences on each of its 35 pages. The book was inspired by Mills' own dog, also named Charlie.
Mills — who once previously dabbled in publication with 2010's "Ski Bum Cookbook" — works as a pediatric occupational therapist with public school children on the Western Slope. Through that work, she often writes with kids to help them understand social situations and social norms.
The story of "The Good Dog" came to her in a burst last year.
Though not overtly religious, the book concludes with a Bible quote and the text reflects Mills' Christian faith. "The Good Dog" is published by the South Carolina-based Christian imprint Covenant Books.
Mills is donating 10 percent of profits from book sales to the nonprofit 4 Paws for Ability, which provides service dogs to children with disabilities.
The dog-friendly Roaring Fork Valley has embraced "The Good Dog." A recent reading at the Basalt Regional Library drew some 60 kids and grown-ups. Mills has another reading planned Sept. 29 at Explore Booksellers in Aspen.
The book is aimed at kids age 1 to 10. But Mills hopes its universal message will touch adults as well, in the way that classics like "The Giving Tree" — which she calls her favorite book — and Robert Munsch's "Love You Forever" resonate with grown-ups.
"I hope that an adult reading to a 3-year-old son or daughter can also pause and maybe say, 'Yes, this is applicable to my life and I can incorporate some of these things into my life, as well,'" Mills said.
Any progress toward a kinder society, especially in this tumultuous moment in American culture, is worth celebrating for Mills.


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Q: LINQ and XmlNodes elements I am trying to return the the attribute values from this XML, which is a collection of XmlNodes called from a Sharepoint Webmethod.
XML Data
 <Lists xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">

    <List DocTemplateUrl="" DefaultViewUrl="/Lists/Announcements/AllItems.aspx" MobileDefaultViewUrl="" ID="{E6172717-EB95-4845-B8CB-8161832565C6}" Title="Announcements" Description="Use the Announcements list to post messages on the home page of your site." ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/itann.gif" Name="{E6172717-EB95-4845-B8CB-8161832565C6}" BaseType="0" FeatureId="00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104" />

    <List DocTemplateUrl="" DefaultViewUrl="/Lists/Calendar/calendar.aspx" MobileDefaultViewUrl="" ID="{C0735477-BE48-4DDF-9D93-3E1F8E993CEC}" Title="Calendar" Description="Use the Calendar list to keep informed of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and other important events." ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/itevent.gif" Name="{C0735477-BE48-4DDF-9D93-3E1F8E993CEC}" BaseType="0" FeatureId="00bfea71-ec85-4903-972d-ebe475780106" />

///... Several more like this
    </Lists>

I have been following a few different guides, just been going through like this one on DiC, and I've managed to get the examples to work.
 public List<Dictionary<string, XmlAttribute>> GetListData(XmlNode collection)
    {
        #region Test
    string nodeInput = Convert.ToString(collection.OuterXml);

    TextReader sr = new StringReader(nodeInput);

                 //from <List> node, decendant of <Lists>
    var lists = (from list in XElement.Load(sr).Descendants("List")
                 //where the baseType element value equals 0
                 where int.Parse(list.Element("BaseType").Value) == 0
                 //Output the titles values to a list
                 select list.Element("Title").Value).ToList();
     }

    #endregion

I've been trying to adapt a few of the examples to my data to get more of an idea how it works, but this query has not returned any results unlike I expected. I've written besides each line in a comment what I thought the command was doing, could someone illuminate my mistake?

Solution
Very easy to find once I knew namespace was the issue.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb669152.aspx
C# unlike VB requires the namespace even when the nodes aren't prefixed by it.
So I needed an XNamespace
    XNamespace nameSpace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/";
    XElement node = XElement.Parse(nodeInput);

    var lists = from list in node.Descendants(nameSpace + "List")
                select list;
    foreach (var list in lists)
    {
        var doc = list.Document;
    }

A: Your code should be
XNamespace ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/";

var lists = (from list in XElement.Parse(nodeInput).Descendants(ns + "List")
             where (int)list.Attribute(ns + "BaseType") == 0
             select (string)list.Attribute(ns + "Title")).ToList();

A: Solution
Very easy to find once I knew namespace was the issue.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb669152.aspx
C# unlike VB requires the namespace even when the nodes aren't prefixed by it.
So I needed an XNamespace
    XNamespace nameSpace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/";
    XElement node = XElement.Parse(nodeInput);

    var lists = from list in node.Descendants(nameSpace + "List")
                select list;
    foreach (var list in lists)
    {
        var doc = list.Document;
    }


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Home>Science>Grizzly bear attacks two men in Wyoming National Forest:
Grizzly bear attacks two men in Wyoming National Forest:
nwcadminOctober 18, 2022Last Updated: October 18, 2022
cody, wyoming State wildlife officials said Monday that a grizzly bear attacked and injured two people who apparently took Bruin by surprise during a reconstruction in Shoshone National Forest in northwestern Wyoming.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said the encounter took place on Saturday while the men were searching for deer left behind by deer and elk in the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park.
The two are sophomores and members of the Northwest College wrestling team in Powell, Wyoming, reports CBS Billings, Montana affiliate KTVQ-TV. They were accompanied by two other comrades, but they parted ways when the attack took place, the station says.
According to KTVQ, Kendall Cummings of Evanston, Wyoming and Brady Lowry of Utah are among the injured.
The station says that Grizzly attacked Lori first. Cummings jumped onto Bear's back to try to free Lowry, but this caused Bear to attack Cummings.
KTVQ quoted head wrestling coach Jim Ziggler as saying Monday: "It was terrifying. The boys showed courage that people can't even imagine." "They love each other and we communicate constantly through group text and one thing I always say to them is, you know, thank you for loving each other, and it paid off. [off], ,
The men were able to call 911 from near the scene and other entertainers in the area were able to drive them to the trailhead, where they were met by search and rescue teams. Cummings was taken to hospital by helicopter, while Lori was taken by ambulance, KTVQ reports.
State officials declined to release information about their conditions on Monday.
Dan Smith, a regional wildlife supervisor, said in a statement that reports from poachers and landowners in the area where the attack occurred indicate that between six and 10 bears may roam between agricultural areas and low-elevation slopes.
Smith said on Monday that the agency does not plan to take any management action against the grizzly bear, such as relocating or euthanizing it, because the attack was caused by the bear's surprise and because wildlife managers would not recognize that they were involved. Which of the area's bears were involved.
Grizzly bears are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Antlers can be sold for taxidermy and craft purposes, and for dog chews.


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Profile: Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez was a participant or observer in the following events:
Late August-Early September, 2006: Conservative Pundits, Mainstream Editorials Claim Armitage Revelation Proves No Conspiracy in CIA Agent Leak
Conservative pundits and columnists launch a new barrage of attacks and accusations against former ambassador Joseph Wilson (see July 6, 2003) and his wife, outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (see July 14, 2003). The pundits use the recent revelation that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was apparently the first administration official to leak Plame Wilson's name to the press (see August 22, 2006 and September 7, 2006). They claim that the new information proves that there was never a conspiracy to "out" Plame Wilson (see June 23, 2003, July 7, 2003, 8:30 a.m. July 8, 2003, July 8, 2003, 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2003, Late Afternoon, July 12, 2003, and Before July 14, 2003), but that her status as a covert CIA agent was revealed merely as a result of harmless gossip from Armitage, who is not considered a major part of the neoconservative axis of power within the White House. [Washington Post, 9/1/2006]
Blaming Armitage and the State Department - The Wall Street Journal blames Armitage for allowing the Plame Wilson identity leak investigation to go on while he remained mute, allowing "political opportunism and internal score-settling" to drive the investigation when it never should have taken off. "The White House, in short, was not engaged in any campaign to 'out' Ms. Plame [Wilson]," the editorial states. Since the prosecution of Lewis Libby for perjury and obstruction during the investigation is not likely to be dropped, the editorial concludes, President Bush should end it by pardoning Libby. [Wall Street Journal, 8/30/2006] The New York Sun also chastizes Armitage for standing silent "while the president's critics sullied the good names of Messrs. Cheney, Libby, and Rove." [National Review, 7/19/2004; New York Sun, 8/30/2006] A similar position is advocated by neoconservative John Podhoretz, writing for the New York Post, who also says that the Armitage revelation should result in special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald dropping all charges against Libby. [New York Post, 8/29/2006] Neoconservative Frank Gaffney, writing for the online political publication TownHall, accuses both Armitage and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as other senior State Department officials, of being "disloyalists" who "wage[d] war" against the Bush administration "from behind enemy lines"—from his position in the State Department, essentially functioning as a saboteur for unnamed liberal interests, and to win ground the State Department lost in conflicts with the White House. Gaffney goes further, accusing other State Department officials of intentionally sabotaging US nuclear negotiation efforts with North Korea (see September 19-20, 2005 and July 15, 2006). He accuses Armitage of "destructive and disloyal behavior" and "appeasement" towards North Korea and other US opponents. [Town Hall (.com), 9/5/2006] San Francisco Chronicle writer Debra Saunders calls the entire affair nothing more than "gossip," and notes that an admission by White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove that he confirmed Plame Wilson's identity (see July 10, 2005 and October 14, 2005) is virtually meaningless. The only "abuse of power" that has come to light during the investigation, Saunders opines, is the investigation itself. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 9/6/2006]
Libby 'Exonerated' by Armitage Admission - The New Hampshire Union Leader calls the investigation a "non-issue" promulgated by "conspiracy nuts" now proven wrong by the Armitage admission. [New Hampshire Union Leader, 8/30/2006] Syndicated columnist Linda Chavez says the "exculpatory" Armitage revelation exonerates Libby, and calls his prosecution "malicious" and unwarranted. [Creators Syndicate, 8/30/2006]
Wilson, 'Leftists' to Blame - Slate's Christopher Hitchens goes further, attacking the "Joseph Wilson fantasy" that Iraq had not attempted to buy uranium from Niger (see March 4-5, 2002, (March 6, 2002) and March 8, 2002), calling the idea that the White House deliberately attempted to smear Wilson's character a "paranoid fantasy" (see June 2003, June 3, 2003, June 11, 2003, June 12, 2003, June 19 or 20, 2003, July 6, 2003, July 6-10, 2003, July 7, 2003 or Shortly After, 8:45 a.m. July 7, 2003, 9:22 a.m. July 7, 2003, July 7-8, 2003, July 11, 2003, (July 11, 2003), July 12, 2003, July 12, 2003, July 18, 2003, October 1, 2003, April 5, 2006, and April 9, 2006), and concluding that the entire Plame Wilson imbroglio was the result of a "venom[ous] interdepartmental rivalry" between Armitage's State Department and the White House, blown entirely out of proportion by liberal critics of the Bush administration. [Slate, 8/29/2006] A National Review editorial blames the New York Times editorial board and "shrieking" "leftist adversaries" of the Bush administration for the investigation, and, like Chavez and others, calls for the immediate end of the Libby prosecution. [National Review, 8/30/2006] The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes compiles a "rogues list" of "the Plamegate Hall of Shame," including Armitage, his former boss Colin Powell, Patrick Fitzgerald, the Justice Department, Joseph Wilson, and the media. "So instead of Cheney or Rove or Libby," Barnes writes, "the perennial targets of media wrath, the Plamegate Hall of Shame consists of favorites of the Washington elite and the mainstream press." And like the others, Barnes calls on Fitzgerald to immediately terminate his investigation as well as his prosecution of Libby. [Weekly Standard, 9/2/2006] And the Washington Times's editor in chief Wesley Pruden rounds off the attacks, rather ghoulishly predicting that the next time Plame Wilson will be mentioned in the press is when "a nice obituary in the Washington and New York newspapers and a few lines of a telegraph dispatch on a page with the truss ads in Topeka" is printed. He calls Plame Wilson, who headed the CIA's Joint Task Force on Iraq (see April 2001 and After), "the queen of the clipping scissors and pastepots at the CIA" (see September 29, 2003), and calls the leak investigation a "fraud." [Washington Times, 9/5/2006]
Picked Up by Mainstream Media - Many in the mainstream media echo the new line of attack, with the Washington Post's editorial board joining the other editorials and columnists in demanding that the Libby prosecution be immediately terminated. Echoing a Wall Street Journal guest editorial from almost a year before (see November 3, 2005), the Post editorial claims that because Plame Wilson's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, went public with his knowledge of the Bush administration's false claims that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium from Niger (see July 6, 2003), he is ultimately responsible for outing his wife. The Post writes: "Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming—falsely, as it turned out—that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously." The allegation that Wilson had "falsely… debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger" is itself false, as Wilson's report further proved that no such deals ever took place (see March 4-5, 2002, (March 6, 2002) and March 8, 2002). [Washington Post, 9/1/2006] The New York Times's conservative columnist, David Brooks, joins in the attacks, calling the exposure of Plame Wilson a "piffle" (see Before September 16, 2003, October 3, 2003, October 11, 2003, October 22-24, 2003, October 23-24, 2003, October 29, 2005, and February 13, 2006) blown out of proportion by a group of Congressional Democrats and the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry. Like the others, he blames Armitage for "keep[ing] quiet while your comrades are being put through the ringer [sic]." [New York Times, 8/31/2006] Days later, the Post's David Broder writes that Karl Rove, one of the White House officials who outed Plame (see July 8, 2003 and 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2003), had been treated badly by reporters and pundits, and deserved a round of apologies. [Washington Post, 9/7/2006]
'Marvel of Wingnut Logic' - Author Jane Hamsher, writing for the progressive blog FireDogLake, hammers the Post editorial and its presumed author, op-ed editor Fred Hiatt, writing with some apparent outrage: "[T]o argue that somehow this [Armitage] leak—which played no part in the concerted administration effort to bully, intimidate, and punish Joe Wilson—should somehow excuse Scooter Libby and Karl Rove's subsequent actions is a true marvel of wingnut logic. Incredibly it is somehow okay to rob the liquor store, shoot the owner, rape the cashier, and spatter the walls with blood because someone else was caught shoplifting there the week before. It is the Sistine Chapel of bad faith editorials." [Jane Hamsher, 9/1/2006]
Comparisons to Soviet Propaganda - Plame Wilson herself is "furious" at reading the Post editorial and other, similar writings. In her 2007 book Fair Game, she will write, "I suddenly understood what it must have felt like to live in the Soviet Union and have only the state propaganda entity, Pravda, as the source of news about the world." Plame Wilson calls the allegations that her husband is responsible for outing her "flatly untrue," and shows the writers' "ignorance about how our clandestine service functions." She notes that the FBI had known of the Armitage leak since October 2003, and that since "the FBI didn't shut down the investigation" this indicated "they had good reason to believe that Libby and Rove were lying to them." [Wilson, 2007, pp. 257-260]
Entity Tags: Fred Hiatt, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christopher Hitchens, Valerie Plame Wilson, Colin Powell, Frank Gaffney, Fred Barnes, Debra Saunders, David Brooks, David Broder, US Department of State, Wesley Pruden, New York Times, John Podhoretz, Richard Armitage, George W. Bush, Joseph C. Wilson, Karl C. Rove, Jane Hamsher, Linda Chavez, New York Sun, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, New Hampshire Union Leader, National Review
Timeline Tags: Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
March 11, 2007: Conservative Columnists: Libby a Victim of Fitzgerald's 'Vendetta'
Syndicated columnist Linda Chavez extends the recent spate of conservative attacks on the integrity of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the aftermath of the Lewis Libby trial verdict (see March 6, 2007). Echoing columns by other conservative pundits and editorial boards (see March 6, 2007, March 6, 2007, March 7, 2007, March 7, 2007, March 8-9, 2007, and March 9, 2007), Chavez accuses Fitzgerald and even "some jury members" of having inappropriate "motivations" to wreak harm on Libby's former boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. Fitzgerald was either a deliberate or an unwitting tool of "virtually everyone on the left and much of the press" to pursue the leak of official Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA status in an attempt to go after Cheney, a pursuit Chavez calls a "vendetta." Chavez concludes: "It is clear that from the beginning, Fitzgerald's only interest was in directly implicating the vice president in the leak. When he was unable to do so, he decided to punish Scooter Libby for protecting his boss." [Post Chronicle, 3/11/2007] Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn joins Chavez in denouncing Fitzgerald, calling the prosecution "perverse" and a "mockery" of justice, and accusing Fitzgerald of deliberately attempting to besmirch the White House by prosecuting Libby. He concludes by saying that Fitzgerald's conduct during the entire investigation and trial was a "disgrace." [Chicago Sun-Times, 3/11/2007]
Entity Tags: Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Linda Chavez, Valerie Plame Wilson, Mark Steyn, Patrick J. Fitzgerald
July 23, 2009: Beck: Obama Pushing Health Care to Give African-Americans 'Reparations'
Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck says that President Obama supports health care reform as a form of "reparations" for African-Americans whose ancestors were held as slaves. Beck claims that a provision in the Congressional health care reform bill requires a medical school or other health-related institution applying for a federal grant or contract to prove its inclusiveness to minorities. Beck then tells his viewers: "[J]ust in case the universalness of the program doesn't somehow or another quench his reparation appetite, he's making sure to do his part to pay the debt in the other areas.… So. You got it? This isn't preference to the best institutions that are going to be churning out our doctors, but the institutions with the most diversity. We shouldn't be dishing out grants based on what hospital looks, you know, the most like an Old Navy commercial.… Obama is no dummy. He knows that you would never pass reparations. He knows you would never pass any of this stuff. This is all affirmative action." On the same program, Beck and his guest, Fox contributor Linda Chavez, claim that the health care reform bill would mandate that minority patients be treated by doctors of their same race. Earlier in the day, Beck made many of the same claims about reparations on his radio show. He told his listeners: "This man [Obama] is putting through reparations times 10.… Who'd receive the money? All blacks, or just those directly descended from slaves? Would Barack Obama?… Wait a minute. His father was not a descendent of slaves, and his mother was white. So maybe Michelle Obama would be the only one that should be able to get the cash. Since Obama is half white and half black, would he pay and receive? See, these are the tricky questions, but then again, they have nothing to do with Obama's objection to reparations. Obama is against direct reparations for one reason: He doesn't ever want the victim card to be lost." [Media Matters, 7/23/2009; Media Matters, 7/30/2009] Days later, Beck will accuse Obama of being a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred of white people" (see July 28-29, 2009).
Entity Tags: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Fox News, Linda Chavez, Glenn Beck
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, 2010 Elections


Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has long been known as a value investor.
"Value" can be measured many different ways - from "price-to-book" to "price-to-earnings" - to gauge a stock's valuation.
Wells Fargo published a list of 12 stocks that it says Buffett, by a handful of valuation measures, might be interested in now.
Markets Insider has listed them here, with a breakdown of the measures Wells Fargo analyzed to come up with its collection.
Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is known for many things - his fast-food-heavy diet, his philanthropy, his business acumen as one of the wealthiest people in the world, and his investing style.
Buffett has long been known as a value investor. In other words, he likes to invest in companies with underlying fundamentals he finds strong, and can hold for the long-run. He might find those qualities in Apple, since the iPhone giant is Berkshire Hathaway's largest company holding.
His style is in contrast with growth investors, who tend to invest in companies showing signs of above-average growth, even if the stock price appears to be expensive or classic "value" metrics are high.
In a new note examining several valuation measures that Buffett might utilize, Wells Fargo came up with 12 names he might be interested in now. Here's a breakdown of the different indicators Wells Fargo considered.