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Stephen Toope: Blind to Tyranny
Harry Goodwin 28 May 2020
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One would hope that such a regime would not have defenders in Cambridge. But it does.
This week, police in Hong Kong violently suppressed mass protests against a new security law which criminalises subversive or secessionist activity in the city. The law, which will end the city's already limited autonomy, comes as the latest reminder of the unpleasant character of the current Chinese government. Where to begin? There are the huge gulags in Xinjiang, where about one million members of the Uighur minority have been imprisoned for no other reason than their Muslim faith; there is the nationwide algorithmic surveillance system which constantly monitors citizens' movements and communications, assigning them a 'social credit' score depending on how independent-minded they are. Good luck exercising basic civil liberties to anyone who scores lowly. Add to the mix the intimidation and abduction of countless human-rights activists and journalists, the repression of religious minorities, the liberal use of torture and show trials – and you have a state which meets even the cloudiest definition of tyranny.[i]
One would hope that such a regime would not have defenders in Cambridge. But it does, and Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope is one of them. To judge by the good-natured emails which Toope has kept sending Cambridge students throughout the current lockdown (not to mention the Camfess fandom they have earned him) a more inoffensive character could not exist. In fact, Toope's writings and speeches from the past two years show him to be one of British academia's most dedicated apologists for Xi Jingping's regime. It is a very Cambridge story.[ii]
Part One: Huawei
Most big-name faculties – Oxford, Stanford, MIT – have made a point of rejecting all Huawei money on ethical grounds. Not so Cambridge.
Let's start with the introduction Toope wrote in February for a Jesus College white paper on 'Multilateral Solutions for Global Governance of the Information and Communications Technology Industry'. Seeing as it was Jesus' UK-China Global Issues Dialogue Centre which issued the paper, readers might have expected to see some commentary on how Beijing has press-ganged tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent into helping it violate Chinese citizens' privacy around the clock. But that would have been to radically misunderstand the sort of place the Centre is. Until April of this year, the website of the Dialogue Centre's parent organisation, the Jesus China Centre, advanced a rather unusual view of the communist regime (The Spectator's Charles Moore lifted the text just in time):[iii]
'Under the leadership of the Communist party of China since 1978, [China] has experienced an extraordinary transformation… China's national rejuvenation is returning the country to the position within the global political economy that it occupied before the 19th century.'
This is the language of propaganda, not scholarship. The Communist party has 'led' China since 1949, not 1978; the latter date was just the year when it established diplomatic ties with the West and stopped killing millions of its citizens. '[E]xtraordinary transformation' and 'national rejuvenation' are phrases which can mean whatever you want them to, if anything; the narrative of a well-deserved return to global primacy comes straight out of Xi Jingping Thought, not serious historiography. In short, Beijing spin-doctors would have done well to come up with such a text.[iv]
The spiel has disappeared from the China Centre's website, which no longer mentions anything to do with the Communist party. Nowadays, it says it aims 'to deepen mutual understanding between China and the West' and to promote 'harmonious global governance'. Praiseworthy stuff. The Centre thinks that 'Global challenges confronting the whole human species include health pandemics, species extinction, global warming, inequality of income and wealth, concentration of global business power, and instability of the global financial system'. Perhaps one health pandemic in particular gave it second thoughts about the earlier talk of 'national rejuvenation'.[v]
This subtle odour of fellow-travelling percolates through the white paper, which Huawei funded. The massive tech firm has long been dogged by suspicions that it is using its international 5G network to help the Chinese government spy on foreigners, including in Britain. Less well known is its provision of tech support for the Xinjiang gulags. It is, as British MPs have drily noted, the sort of company which might benefit from 'reputational laundering' in western universities. Most big-name faculties – Oxford, Stanford, MIT – have made a point of rejecting all Huawei money on ethical grounds. Not so Cambridge. The white paper cites Huawei as a model of corporate governance, claiming that it does a better job at sharing intellectual property relating to 5G than European firms. Sharing is one way of putting it: Huawei is facing multiple accusations of intellectual property theft in America. Needless to say, the paper does not discuss anything to do with spying, theft or gulags.[vi]
So this was the provenance of the white paper Toope introduced. He didn't have to do it, given the squeamishness about all things Huawei in most universities – in fact, his introduction seems something of a labour of love. Consider this lively paragraph:
'It is currently unfashionable in a world of increasing bi-lateral tensions to focus on the potential of multilateral governance solutions. I believe, however, that it is only with discussion and implementation of creative, multilateral solutions that we can hope to properly address these major governance gaps. I also believe the need is becoming urgent, because our governance arrangements and tools are lagging behind advances in technology and its impacts. The process of forging a new governance system can no longer only be centred on the United States and Europe because the fourth industrial revolution is progressing at equal, if not greater, pace and impact in emerging countries as well as the developed world. Among these China will play a prominent role, given the size of her digital economy, technological capabilities, and the rapid pace at which new, digital technologies are transforming both the Chinese economy and society.'
Got that? As is customary with academic defences of far-off tyrannies, a cascade of jargon obscures the murky sentiments at play. For 'bi-lateral tensions', read western outrage at Xi's worst inhumanities; for 'our governance arrangements', read liberal democracy. Translated word-for-word into plain English, Toope's argument runs like this (decide for yourself whether this is a fair representation):[vii]
Lots of people think that West should not help China project its power internationally ('multilateral governance solutions'). I believe it should, because of current international problems ('major governance gaps'). Western liberal democracy is failing to deal with technological upheaval: an alternative ('new governance system') is needed. Since the US and Europe exist on the periphery of the tech revolution they should not control the global political response to it. China will take the lead, because it already enjoys lots of tech capability.
Perhaps Toope means nothing of the sort; perhaps he is a stout democrat who abhors Chinese human-rights abuses and hopes the West will contain Chinese expansionism. (If so, it's hard to explain why he would put his name to a white paper funded by Huawei and rubber-stamped by a research unit notable for regurgitating the Beijing party line.) But what then does he mean? And why the deluge of argument-blurring abstractions? It would be a very generous reader who saw this as anything other than a might-is-right endorsement of China's irredentist global ambitions – never mind the Uighurs, or Hong Kong, or the absolute surveillance state.
Part Two: Needham
It is odd that Stephen Toope should be proud of such a man.
Toope shows his hand when, in the following sentence, he writes that 'The University of Cambridge has had a long and proud tradition of engaging with China going back to the pioneering work of Joseph Needham and beyond.' Joseph Needham, a biochemist, was Master of Gonville and Caius in the late Sixties. He certainly did pioneer academic engagement with China, of a kind. Needham, a communist, was a personal friend of Chairman Mao's deputy Zhou Enlai; in 1952, Zhou recruited him to a Chinese-led international commission charged with investigating American biological warfare in Korea. Chinese spies tricked Needham into accusing America of dropping cattle-cakes laced with anthrax across the southern Chinese countryside in the late 1940s. In fact, the cattle-cakes were fakes mocked up by Zhou's operatives. His biographer puts it bluntly: 'Needham was intellectually in love with communism and yet communist spymasters and agents, it turned out, had pitilessly duped him.'[viii]
Needham failed to learn his lesson from the cattle-cake shambles, perhaps because it had precisely no impact on his ascent through Cambridge academia. In 1965, just after his elevation to the Caius mastership, Needham founded the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU), membership of which was for many years the only way Britons could get a Chinese visa. When the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper went on a SACU trip to China in the same year, he discovered that the organisation was being funded by the Chinese Communist Party. Needham kicked him out of SACU.[ix]
Needham had visited China again in 1964, where he restored his acquaintance with Zhou Enlai. This was three years after the official end of Mao's Great Leap Forward, in which the leading western historian of modern China reckonsaround forty-five million people starved to death. Liu Shaoqi, one of Mao's deputies, thought that the government's collectivist policies bore 70% of responsibility for the famine; its inclination to drown in human faeces people suspected of 'Rightist' conspiracies like hoarding potatoes certainly did not help. It is inconceivable that an academic as well-informed and well-connected as Needham should never have encountered evidence of the famine's aftermath on his visit. In any case, he was in 1965 happy to tell Varsity that 'China has a better government now than for centuries'. He went on to become an apologist for the Cultural Revolution, in which mobs of young Red Guards killedaround two million more people suspected of insufficient loyalty to Mao, including countless academics.[x]
Part Three: Peking
These included the Peking students Yue Xin and Zhang Shangye, both of whom are still missing – likely either dead or in secret detention.
In acknowledging its financial debt to Huawei, the Jesus white paper Toope introduced notes that '[t]his grant was accepted under an agreement between the parties to uphold the principle of academic freedom, and act to encourage and support open and free inquiry and dialogue in research collaborations'. A noble sentiment. But a speech Toope gave to Peking University – most famous as the birthplace of the Cultural Revolution – on 24th March 2019 makes clear his willingness to overlook the complicity of Chinese universities in specific human-rights abuses against their students.[xi]
The bulk of the speech is given over listing various regrettable aspects of today's 'age of anxiety' (a phrase borrowed from WH Auden, who would have found the text appalling). These include 'political extremism' and 'intolerance' (though presumably not in Xinjiang); climate change, hunger and migration. Particularly resonant is Toope's observation that 'The threats posed by microbial resistance do not stop at international borders'. Too true, residents of Wuhan might reflect.
The solution, as ever, is China. Toope literally recites the tenets of Xi Jingping Thought: 'the five pillars of China's new development philosophy are: open, innovative, coordinated, shared and green development'. He praises China's Belt and Road Initiative as a 'vastly ambitious' instance of 'collaboration on a global scale'. The collaborative nature of the initiative may surprise the myriad emerging economies enfeebled by China's 'debt-trap diplomacy'. Its merits as a solution to refugee crises and climate change are also questionable, given its role in propping up Syria's Assad regime and the construction of huge coal mines and coal-fired power stations by its flagship China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.[xii]
But this is all nit-picking: 'Collaboration is not optional'. It is just as well, then, that British and Chinese universities have a shared commitment to 'connection, communication, and collaboration'. (Toope has a flair for alliteration.) Peking University is particularly admirable:
'At a time when many minds appear to be closing all around the world, it is reassuring to find here a formidable institution, which seeks an open world – open to ideas, open to the exchange of goods and people – a world in which no people great or small, will live in angry isolation.'
This is a falsehood. Peking University, like all Chinese universities, has Communist party secretaries on its faculty staff. So much for upholding academic freedom. More to the point, months before Toope's speech, the university, far from being 'open to ideas', assisted the Chinese state's repression of its students' freedom of thought, speech and protest. Toope probably knows this.
These are the facts. In the summer of 2018, the Chinese secret police abducted over fifty students across China who had joined Shenzhen factory workers protesting about labour rights. These included the Peking students Yue Xin and Zhang Shangye, both of whom are still missing – likely either dead or in secret detention. After Peking University's Marxist club protested against the abductions, the faculty shut it down. Four months before Toope praised Peking for upholding academic freedom, police arrested Qiu Zhanxuan, the club's chairman. He is yet to emerge from custody. Whatever else Peking University is, it is not 'open to ideas'.[xiii]
All these outrages were widely reported in mainstream western media. Either Toope was somehow unaware of Peking University's recent suppression of its students' civil liberties, in which case he had no business opining on its openness to ideas; or he knew full well what kind of institution he was dealing with, and still chose to praise it for upholding academic freedom.[xiv]
There is no greater act of intellectual cowardice than defending a tyranny while living in a free country. The Jesus white paper and the Peking speech both go well beyond the point of simple failure to 'speak out' about China's legion human-rights abuses – if that was their worst fault, then it would be disingenuous to single Toope out for criticism. Most British cultural and academic institutions with interests in China would, after all, prefer not to talk about its despotic government. But Vice-Chancellor Toope is in a different league. His introduction to the Huawei-funded white paper actively, if vaguely, endorses Xi Jingping's global ambitions, and references as a source of inspiration one of the most shameless apologists for tyranny in Cambridge's history; his Peking speech characterises a faculty which helped deprive its students of their most basic civil liberties as a bastion of academic freedom.
Stephen Toope should explain himself.
[i] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/24/861679026/hong-kong-police-fire-tear-gas-as-thousands-protest-planned-security-law; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/23/global-outrage-erupts-over-chinas-draconian-security-law-for-hong-kong; https://palladiummag.com/2018/11/29/a-week-in-xinjiangs-absolute-surveillance-state/;https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/; https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/china-and-tibet
[ii] https://www.v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk/professor-stephen-j-toope; https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/18957;https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2020/05/22/fiery-hot-exclusive-pro-vc-graham-virgo-reveals-stephen-toope-meme-made-his-day-137967
[iii] https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline/files/China UK Dialogue Centre white paper.pdf; https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/research/china/UK-China-dialogue; https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/research/china;https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/cambridge-university-is-kowtowing-to-china
[iv] https://palladiummag.com/2019/05/31/xi-jinping-in-translation-chinas-guiding-ideology/
[v] https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/research/china/china-centre
[vi] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46690627; https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-tech-giant-huawei-helps-to-persecute-uighurs-7dfcb56nw; https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/huaweis-human-rights-record-has-been-shamefully-ignored/;https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-huawei-providing-surveillance-tech-to-chinas-xinjiang-authorities/;https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/huawei-paid-for-cambridge-study-to-launder-reputation-dr2fkbkj0;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/26/universities-pressure-review-huawei-links-warning-china-could/;https://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/60-minutes-torpedoes-huawei-in-less-than-15-minutes.html;https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/july-awards-t-mobile-48m-in-trade-secrets-case-against-huawei/;https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/technology/26telecom.html; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51497460
[vii] https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline/files/China UK Dialogue Centre white paper.pdf
[viii] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Bomb_Book_and_Compass.html?id=XAeb6KVhoCMC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y; https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/28/biography3
[ix] https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-china-journals-9781350136038/; https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2020/china-travels-and-travails/
[x] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/05/maos-great-famine-dikotter-review;https://web.archive.org/web/20121214040606/http:/cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64162/64172/85037/85039/5898093.html;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastrophe/dp/1408810034;https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/28/biography3; https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/11/cultural-revolution-peoples-history-frank-dikotter-review
[xi] https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline/files/China UK Dialogue Centre white paper.pdf; https://www.v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk/keynote-address-peking-university-china-24-march-2019
[xii] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/jul/30/what-china-belt-road-initiative-silk-road-explainer;https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/25/chinas-debt-diplomacy/; https://unherd.com/2017/07/one-belt-one-road/;https://nationalinterest.org/feature/coronavirus-fallout-will-test-china-pakistan-relationship-more-ever-152736
[xiii] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/24/50-student-activists-missing-in-china-after-police-raid;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/12/ten-student-activists-detained-in-china-for-supporting-workers-rights;https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167955/fears-young-marxist-activist-missing-after-police-raid-china;https://hongkongfp.com/2018/11/23/marxist-china-radical-students-rattle-communist-leaders/; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-mao-idUSKCN1OP0EK
[xiv] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/world/asia/china-student-activists.html; https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/china-missing-marxists-communists-dissidents-students-beijing-peking-university-a8657621.html; https://www.ft.com/content/68dea512-f21f-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d; https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/china-communist-party-labor-law-jasic; https://www.ft.com/content/ccab09aa-bdc2-11e8-8274-55b72926558f; https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/27/officials-in-beijing-worry-about-marx-loving-students


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Omar Shares Praise for Democrats Boycotting AIPAC
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take credit on Twitter for the Democratic Party's decline in support for Israel Thursday.
She shared two tweets from progressive organization MoveOn and from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D., N.Y.) chief of staff that praised Democrats for not attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual Policy Conference.
MoveOn is circulating a #SkipAIPAC petition asking Democratic presidential hopefuls to avoid next week's massive annual event. At present, none will attend.
In a tweet, MoveOn accused AIPAC of "attempting to block the #IranDeal to giving platforms to Islamophobes & not condemning @GOP anti-Semitism."
AIPAC works to maintain bipartisan support for the U.S.–Israel relationship. It does not endorse or donate to candidates, and historically does everything it can to avoid controversy or taking sides in political fights.
In a tweet, Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti directly credited Omar with causing the rift between the mainstream pro-Israel organization and progressive Democrats. "I hope it's not lost on anyone that this is a direct result of @IlhanMN's leadership," he wrote. "Thank you, @IlhanMN, for showing such courage."
Omar first began her public spat with AIPAC after sharing tweets concerning Jewish Americans, the state of Israel, and the United States government.
Sharing a tweet claiming Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) was "defending a foreign nation" and "attacking free speech rights of Americans," Omar added her own commentary. She claimed elected officials acted for Israel out of financial interest. "It's all about the Benjamins baby," she said in reference to $100 bills.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, replied to note it was "the second anti-Semitic trope you've tweeted," and asked Omar who was "paying American politicians to be pro-Israel."
"AIPAC!" Omar replied. That tweet has since been deleted. (This is a trend with Omar's Israel commentary. In a 2012 tweet, Omar accused Israel of having "hypnotized" the world. It has also been deleted.)
Omar received condemnation from members of her own party for her repeated anti-Semitic comments.
Omar later agreed that her comments were anti-Semitic, and offered an "unequivocal" apology. In the same apology, she returned to her critique of AIPAC. Omar now denies that February comment was anti-Semitic, or that she ever apologized for the comment itself. Though she deleted the offending tweet, her Twitter page still hosts several retweets of others claiming her original comments were not anti-Semitic.
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Paris has remained busy during her time on the island that has become a vacation spot for notable celebrities such as sister Nicky Hilton, Anne Hathaway, Justin Bieber and Orlando Bloom. This is her third summer hosting and deejaying her Foam and Diamonds party at Amnesia. The starlet is also in charge of 17 different fragrance lines, hair products, glasses, shoes, as well as working hard on her music.
Read the full story in this week's HELLO! magazine, available via digital download or on Friday at all Barnes & Noble stores and selected newsstands.


You'll want to watch this time lapse film by Nathaniel Dodson, a 23-year-old creative and celebrity-style photographer from Philadelphia. The title is "Philly is Ugly" (http://phillyisugly.com) and given purposely to attract the attention of those who love our fair city and for it's countless detractors. However you view the City of Brotherly Love you'll want to take the time to see the city in this unique perspective. Enjoy.


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Q: A bug of HttpWatch when use jquery.ajax method to send json request? I am using HttpWatch 7.0.22 with IE 10.
When I opened HttpWatch, the jQuery.ajax call to a WCF service will fail with error:

"Error in deserializing body of request message for operation
  'MethodName'. The OperationFormatter could not deserialize any
  information from the Message because the Message is empty (IsEmpty =
  true)."

But it works all right if I didn't turn on the HttpWatch.
If I turn on the HttpWatch it will fail. Even if I close HttpWatch, it never work again.
Is this a bug of HttpWatch?
ADD
I searched a bit, it seems not just 7.0.22 has such issue. Some 8.x versions also have it. And some people even claims that the HttpWatch officially respond with mail to admit it as a bug. But I don't see such mail.

A: Seems  to be a bug of HttpWatch 7.0.22. After I upgraded to 9.3, the issue is gone.

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package reflect

import "unsafe"

// During deepValueEqual, must keep track of checks that are
// in progress. The comparison algorithm assumes that all
// checks in progress are true when it reencounters them.
// Visited comparisons are stored in a map indexed by visit.
type visit struct {
	a1  unsafe.Pointer
	a2  unsafe.Pointer
	typ Type
}

// Tests for deep equality using reflected types. The map argument tracks
// comparisons that have already been seen, which allows short circuiting on
// recursive types.
func deepValueEqual(v1, v2 Value, visited map[visit]bool, depth int) bool {
	if !v1.IsValid() || !v2.IsValid() {
		return v1.IsValid() == v2.IsValid()
	}
	if v1.Type() != v2.Type() {
		return false
	}

	// if depth > 10 { panic("deepValueEqual") }	// for debugging

	// We want to avoid putting more in the visited map than we need to.
	// For any possible reference cycle that might be encountered,
	// hard(t) needs to return true for at least one of the types in the cycle.
	hard := func(k Kind) bool {
		switch k {
		case Map, Slice, Ptr, Interface:
			return true
		}
		return false
	}

	if v1.CanAddr() && v2.CanAddr() && hard(v1.Kind()) {
		addr1 := unsafe.Pointer(v1.UnsafeAddr())
		addr2 := unsafe.Pointer(v2.UnsafeAddr())
		if uintptr(addr1) > uintptr(addr2) {
			// Canonicalize order to reduce number of entries in visited.
			// Assumes non-moving garbage collector.
			addr1, addr2 = addr2, addr1
		}

		// Short circuit if references are already seen.
		typ := v1.Type()
		v := visit{addr1, addr2, typ}
		if visited[v] {
			return true
		}

		// Remember for later.
		visited[v] = true
	}

	switch v1.Kind() {
	case Array:
		for i := 0; i < v1.Len(); i++ {
			if !deepValueEqual(v1.Index(i), v2.Index(i), visited, depth+1) {
				return false
			}
		}
		return true
	case Slice:
		if v1.IsNil() != v2.IsNil() {
			return false
		}
		if v1.Len() != v2.Len() {
			return false
		}
		if v1.Pointer() == v2.Pointer() {
			return true
		}
		for i := 0; i < v1.Len(); i++ {
			if !deepValueEqual(v1.Index(i), v2.Index(i), visited, depth+1) {
				return false
			}
		}
		return true
	case Interface:
		if v1.IsNil() || v2.IsNil() {
			return v1.IsNil() == v2.IsNil()
		}
		return deepValueEqual(v1.Elem(), v2.Elem(), visited, depth+1)
	case Ptr:
		if v1.Pointer() == v2.Pointer() {
			return true
		}
		return deepValueEqual(v1.Elem(), v2.Elem(), visited, depth+1)
	case Struct:
		for i, n := 0, v1.NumField(); i < n; i++ {
			if !deepValueEqual(v1.Field(i), v2.Field(i), visited, depth+1) {
				return false
			}
		}
		return true
	case Map:
		if v1.IsNil() != v2.IsNil() {
			return false
		}
		if v1.Len() != v2.Len() {
			return false
		}
		if v1.Pointer() == v2.Pointer() {
			return true
		}
		for _, k := range v1.MapKeys() {
			val1 := v1.MapIndex(k)
			val2 := v2.MapIndex(k)
			if !val1.IsValid() || !val2.IsValid() || !deepValueEqual(val1, val2, visited, depth+1) {
				return false
			}
		}
		return true
	case Func:
		if v1.IsNil() && v2.IsNil() {
			return true
		}
		// Can't do better than this:
		return false
	default:
		// Normal equality suffices
		return valueInterface(v1, false) == valueInterface(v2, false)
	}
}

// DeepEqual reports whether x and y are ``deeply equal,'' defined as follows.
// Two values of identical type are deeply equal if one of the following cases applies.
// Values of distinct types are never deeply equal.
//
// Array values are deeply equal when their corresponding elements are deeply equal.
//
// Struct values are deeply equal if their corresponding fields,
// both exported and unexported, are deeply equal.
//
// Func values are deeply equal if both are nil; otherwise they are not deeply equal.
//
// Interface values are deeply equal if they hold deeply equal concrete values.
//
// Map values are deeply equal when all of the following are true:
// they are both nil or both non-nil, they have the same length,
// and either they are the same map object or their corresponding keys
// (matched using Go equality) map to deeply equal values.
//
// Pointer values are deeply equal if they are equal using Go's == operator
// or if they point to deeply equal values.
//
// Slice values are deeply equal when all of the following are true:
// they are both nil or both non-nil, they have the same length,
// and either they point to the same initial entry of the same underlying array
// (that is, &x[0] == &y[0]) or their corresponding elements (up to length) are deeply equal.
// Note that a non-nil empty slice and a nil slice (for example, []byte{} and []byte(nil))
// are not deeply equal.
//
// Other values - numbers, bools, strings, and channels - are deeply equal
// if they are equal using Go's == operator.
//
// In general DeepEqual is a recursive relaxation of Go's == operator.
// However, this idea is impossible to implement without some inconsistency.
// Specifically, it is possible for a value to be unequal to itself,
// either because it is of func type (uncomparable in general)
// or because it is a floating-point NaN value (not equal to itself in floating-point comparison),
// or because it is an array, struct, or interface containing
// such a value.
// On the other hand, pointer values are always equal to themselves,
// even if they point at or contain such problematic values,
// because they compare equal using Go's == operator, and that
// is a sufficient condition to be deeply equal, regardless of content.
// DeepEqual has been defined so that the same short-cut applies
// to slices and maps: if x and y are the same slice or the same map,
// they are deeply equal regardless of content.
//
// As DeepEqual traverses the data values it may find a cycle. The
// second and subsequent times that DeepEqual compares two pointer
// values that have been compared before, it treats the values as
// equal rather than examining the values to which they point.
// This ensures that DeepEqual terminates.
func DeepEqual(x, y interface{}) bool {
	if x == nil || y == nil {
		return x == y
	}
	v1 := ValueOf(x)
	v2 := ValueOf(y)
	if v1.Type() != v2.Type() {
		return false
	}
	return deepValueEqual(v1, v2, make(map[visit]bool), 0)
}

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This oceanfront compound harmonizes with its dense, established-neighborhood context by means of traditional building forms and materials. But while acknowledging local patterns and norms, it does so in a way that clearly differentiates it as a contemporary home. A superinsulated building shell with high-performance, triple-glazed windows—some south-facing, for solar gain—permits the eastern façade to open toward views of the bay without compromising energy performance or comfort.
Located on an east-facing oceanfront lot in densely populated Quincy, Mass., this single-family custom residence harmonizes with its context by means of traditional building forms and materials. But while acknowledging neighborhood patterns and norms, it does so in a way that clearly differentiates it as a contemporary home. The main house addresses the street with a gable-roofed volume that relates in scale and form to the surrounding mix of traditional homes. A cantilevered shed dormer creates a covered entry at the uphill, inland facade. A single-story green roof helps break down the building's mass, reducing its visual impact from the street and opening views to the bay beyond. To concentrate outdoor space on the waterfront side of the building, the structure hugs its inland property line. A detached studio, built on the footprint of a former garage, provides guest quarters and storage for water-sports equipment. Together, the main house and studio form a partially enclosed south-facing courtyard, shielded from the prevailing easterly winds, and from the neighbors' view. The interior layout prioritizes bay views from the house's living areas. The entry, storage, and support spaces are located at the west side. A delicate, cantilevered steel stair forms a backdrop to the living room, while channeling daylight from the windows above. Vaulted ceilings and loft spaces tucked under the sloping roof maximize the volume of the modestly scaled second-floor bedrooms. The dense neighborhood and the site's eastward orientation presented challenges in creating an energy efficient building. We relied on a superinsulated building shell with high performance, triple-glazed windows to reduce space heating demand and several south-facing windows for passive solar gain. These measures allowed us to open the façade toward views of the bay without compromising the home's energy performance or comfort. Balancing such competing interests, in the context of a well-resolved architectural composition, lies at the core of GO Logic's approach to design.
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Draka's governor bans motor-taxis in the capital
They can be seen everywhere in Dakar. These motorcycle cabs are now part of the Senegalese capital's transport system. But their excess presence has forced the governor of the region to ban them. This decision has received some backlash from entrepreneurs
"My motorcycles are not driven by Burkinabe or Malians but by Senegalese. It is the same for my colleagues. So, if I am asked to stop transporting, I will not be the only one affected. Thousands of other fathers will also be affected. And it could create worse problems than those that are being put forward," said Cherif Assanem an entrepreneur.
The local authority claim that the new transport system has led to insecurity in the area. But transport experts believe that the main problem lies in the written policy.
"The constrain is in the text. Today, we can include them in our policymaking. They must be organized so that they can do their work properly and also allow them to evolve and why not expand their activities," said Ibrahima Ndongom, a transport expert.
A change of activities is precisely the alternative proposed by this head of a home delivery company. He advocates another approach from the authorities.
"What we are asking the State today is to find a discussion table to exchange. If this type of transport is not authorized, there are other means, whether in the delivery or partnerships that we will create together so that these young people can work and find themselves there," said Maguette Gueye, a director at a home deliveries company in Dakar.
The statement by the governor of Dakar banning the use of motorcycle cabs as a means of public transport in the capital is, in fact, a reminder of a ministerial order dating from 2012.
But the actors and some experts doubt the relevance of this measure in the current context marked by traffic jams, pandemic unemployment of young people but also the lack of prospects of the latter.
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QVC currently has the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K on sale for $39.96 with free shipping. That's an alright price, but if you've never ordered anything from QVC before, you can use promo code TEN4U to get an extra $10 off, bringing the final price to $29.96. At just $0.22 more than the Cyber Monday Target sale, that's the second lowest price that you've ever been able to get Amazon's powerful new streaming stick. If you want a pair of them, you can get the Fire TV Stick 4K 2-Pack for $74.98. Using the same new customer promo code will bring the price of the pair down to $64.98. This deal, like the Amazon Echo deal from QVC, is expected to end tonight.
This sale is still live, even though it was originally set to end on Sunday. Also, I mistakenly stated that this was the lowest price the Fire TV Stick 4K had ever been, but thanks to Red in the comments for pointing out that the Target Cyber Monday sale was a bit lower.
Is it possible to pair 2 echoes to the firestick 4k? To use like a sound bar?
I would like to know this as well but I dont think its possible because only one echo can be connected via bluetooth.
I bought one for $29.74.
On cyber Monday (11/26) Target was matching Amazon price ($34.99) + 15% off. No first time customer or other codes needed.
Pretty sure that is the all time lowest so far when buying just singly.
If you bought with a Target redcard you got another 5% off.
You're absolutely right! As I wrote this post, I went back to my Target deal post to see if this QVC price was lower. I mistakenly read the Fire TV Stick 2-Pack price as the Fire TV Stick 4K price, which is why I concluded that this QVC price was lower. Thank you for pointing out my mistake! I'll edit this post.
Its only 0.22 difference, pretty much a technically, but mainly Target was more straight forward since you didn't need any code & be a "new customer".
Not sure how QVC tracks that new customer – shipping address, billing address, credit card #, e-mail address?
That's the same price as the All-new Alexa Voice Remote with power and volume controls – I wonder if that Fire Stick remote can be paired with the Fire Cube?
Oh my bad i thought you were just talking about the remote sold separately. I don't see a way to edit my post.
Thanks – my guess is probably yes, but just seeing if it's been done.
I synced the remote from my 4K stick to the old Fire stick and my tv. I'm gonna assume it will work with the cube too.


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Have you noticed a mirror trend lately? Not only is it trendy right now, but it's a great way to bring some brightness into a room. Mirrored objects are everywhere. Literally.
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The first extra video that I am releasing on the podcastage Channel is a video that I made just for myself and my curiosity. I had a Chromebook lying around and I wanted to know if you can podcast on it. This would provide an extremely low and cheap entry point for podcasters.
So in all honesty, I don't know how viable of an option this is. But it's the best way I was able to find. I have a few other things I will test out later and report back to you on. For now that's all I got. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below (or on youtube) and I will get back to you ASAP. Thanks for watching/reading.


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President Barack Obama walks out after making a statement about the U.S. Senate's efforts to confirm his Administration's nominees while in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington on Nov. 21, 2013.
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With the filibuster nuked, bring on the liberal judges
By Adam Serwer
Be bold, Mr. President! That's the message from liberal advocacy groups pushing for more progressive judges now that Senate Democrats have nuked the filibuster for judicial nominations.
"We certainly think there is a need for professional diversity on the federal bench," says Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice. "There are only a handful of lawyers who have been appointed who have backgrounds in legal services, criminal defense, public interest, or civil rights."
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, liberal legal groups, which have been struggling to replicate the success of the conservative legal movement in placing their heroes on the federal bench, saw an opportunity to even the score. But Republican embrace of the filibuster meant that some of the most promising liberal legal minds Obama chose – picks like Goodwin Liu, whose nomination to the federal bench was filibustered into oblivion – never had a chance. Republicans warned that abolishing the filibuster would lead to more judges in the vein of Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas on the bench. Now liberals are hoping Obama starts nominating picks who look like their progressive counterparts.
"You need to have a sample of people who have actually interacted with real human beings, who have represented them when they've been accused of a crime, when they've been victims of discrimination, and actually understand what the issues are in some of those cases," says Caroline Fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society. "The administration has certainly nominated a number of people with that background, but we'd love to see more."
Indeed, Obama has nominated the most diverse slate of candidates to the federal bench in history. But the GOP's frequent use of the filibuster meant that when making its choices, the White House had to take into careful consideration candidates who had a fighting chance of making it to 60 votes in the Senate. A large portion of Obama nominees come from private practice or from roles as government attorneys or prosecutors, according to an AFJ analysis. More than three times as many Obama Circuit Court nominees have been prosecutors as public defenders; for the District courts it's more than twice as many.
Democrats got a big win on Thursday in the filibuster reform. But there are still less commonly known procedural obstacles to nominating judges, and just because Obama can nominate more liberal judges doesn't mean he will.
The most significant of these procedural obstacles is the "blue slip" process. Decades old, it's an informal Senate tradition implemented by the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in this case Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. Chairmen have implemented the blue slip process differently over the years, but Leahy's custom is to be very deferential to his fellow senators from both parties.
Here's the process. When a nomination or potential nomination is brought forward, the senators from that state are given a blue slip of paper. Leahy's practice is not to put forth a nominee for a committee vote unless both of those senators return their blue slips, indicating their approval of allowing the nomination to go forward. Republicans have taken advantage of Leahy's deference to slow down judicial nominations–in some cases, even for names they have approved in advance.
In September, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio sank the nomination of William Thomas, who would have been the first openly gay black judge, by withdrawing support for his candidacy after previously having endorsed it.
The blue slip process can act as a silent filibuster, a way Senators can block judicial nominations without drawing public attention to what they're doing.
"The blue-slip problem has already been a significant obstruction tool with certain nominees," says Elisha Bannon of the Brennan Center. "It could potentially become an even more significant tool of obstruction now that the filibuster is no longer an option."
The blue-slip process is far more opaque than the filibuster, and it means a potential nomination can be smothered to death without anyone hearing a word about it. A Democratic official familiar with the process said ten nominations were stalled by Republican senators not returning their blue slips. The Democratic official also said that Arizona Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain have not returned blue slips for five nominees to the Arizona District Court – even though McCain has endorsed the candidates.
There are still 93 vacancies on the federal bench, and only 51 nominees. Thirty-seven of the remaining 42 vacancies without nominees are in states with at least one Republican Senator, according to AFJ, and Leahy won't put a nomination forward without both blue slips. Leahy says he will keep the current blue slip practice in place, but that he won't hesitate to change it if it's abused.
"I assume no one will abuse the blue slip process like some have abused the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominees on the floor of the Senate," Leahy said in a statement to msnbc. "As long as the blue slip process is not being abused by home state senators, then I will see no reason to change that tradition."
Even with the blue slip process intact for now, nuking the filibuster removes a significant obstacle to a more progressive judiciary, and liberal groups will be pushing Obama to take advantage.
"We see this as an opportunity to make that happen," says Aron. "Whether that actually comes to fruition is another matter."
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Excelsior Park was founded in 1918 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland and produced stop watches and chronographs. Excelsior Park supplied its movements to Zenith, Gallet and other famous watch manufacturers. Here we offer you an Excelsior Park's chronograph, whose components are essentially manufactured under one roof - something vintage collectors seek for.
The large stainless steel case measures 37 mm and has beveled lugs, which make the watch look very delicate and elegant. The overall condition of the case is simply sensational, especially considering the high age of over 70 years.
The dial has natural spots of aging which have been developed continuous and evenly throughout the long life of the watch. The impressive patina reflects the age of this watch in a unique way. Aging is so natural and honest that if you look at it for some time, you can not imagine this watch has ever looked different. The material of the lume is radium, which could be detected by a test with the Geiger counter (see pictures).
The dial has a red decimal scale that allows measuring 1/10s and 1/100s of a minute. This function was used, for example, in medical examinations or scientific experiments. The inner scale divides the minute as usual in 60 seconds.
This watch is driven by the in-house EP4 (Excelsior Park 4) caliber. This movement was also the heart of many renowned watch manufacturers such as Zenith, Gallet, Girard-Perregaux or Sinn. The watch is in perfect working order. The chronograph pushers work properly.
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Do I Need to Talk to My Dentist Before Whitening My Teeth?
Posted December 24, 2013 by Dr. Glenn Norton & filed under General Dental Articles.
We've all been there. We look in the mirror and realize that time, foods, or habits have taken away from the luster and bright whiteness of our teeth and we're not smiling as much because of it. When this happens, we often turn to smile whitening procedures. However, Dr. Glenn Norton wants you to know that it's important to visit your dentist in Evansville before moving forward with a whitening treatment.
Since some options for whitening your smile can lead to damage, and sometimes, even pain, it's important to have an initial visit with your dentist before you jump into a teeth whitening routine. By visiting us before choosing a teeth whitening regimen, we can discuss your desires, examine you to see if whitening is appropriate, and help you choose the best option for your smile.
Sometimes people skip this step and head straight to their local drugstore to pick up the cheapest over-the-counter whitening product, but this can lead to some damaging consequences.
Many drugstore whitening products have trays that hold the whitening solution. These are inserted into the mouth, over the teeth. However, since these trays are not custom fitted for your unique mouth, it's not unusual for the solution to leak onto your gums and sit there for an extended period of time. This can lead to gum irritation. Additionally, some over-the-counter whiteners can cause tooth sensitivity and are sometimes ineffective at giving you your desired results.
With a quick visit to our dental office in Evansville, we can work together to figure out how to successfully and safely get your pearly whites bright and vibrant again. If a whitening treatment isn't for you, we can talk about alternatives like veneers or bonding. Either way, starting off with a visit to us is the best way to get you smiling again!


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The dog days of summer are upon us, and outdoor workers need to take extra special care to protect themselves from the heat. We recently published a post about heat and sun safety for event organizers and staff. We've built upon that post to include relevant information for construction site workers, who face their own unique set of challenges when it comes to preventing heat stress.
For outdoor workers, direct sunlight is usually the main source of heat. Humidity also contributes to the problem. Heat can be dangerous because it puts extra stress on your body's natural cooling systems. When heat is combined with other stresses – such as hard physical work, loss of fluids, fatigue or certain pre-existing medical conditions – it can lead to heat-related illness, disability, and even death. This is why summer weather conditions can be especially hazardous for those who perform physical labour outdoors.
The reality is that heat stress can happen to anybody – even those of us who are young and relatively fit. It's important to know the causes and symptoms of heat-related illness, as well as ways to prevent heat stress.
Heat stress prevention can be broken down into three main components: acclimatization, controls, and protective clothing.
Generally speaking, the longer you work in a hot environment, the better your body acclimatizes to the heat. Consider organizing your employees' work to allow for acclimatization.
For experienced employees, try limiting your shift time in hot working conditions to 50 per cent on the first day, 60 per cent on the second day, and 80 per cent on the third day. You should be able to work a full shift on the fourth day.
For new or inexperienced employees, you should start off spending only 20 per cent of your shift time in hot working conditions on the first day. You would then increase your time by 20 per cent on each subsequent day. You should be able to work a full shift in hot working conditions the fifth day.
Alternatively, instead of progressively increasing the time during which you are exposed to the heat, you can become acclimatized by gradually increasing the physical demands of your job over a week or two.
Most engineering controls require some investment in permanent solutions. Examples include installing air conditioning in work spaces and shielding sources of radiant heat. Given the temporary nature of most work sites, there may not be many opportunities to implement engineering controls.
However, one thing you can do is try to keep work areas cool by providing some shading. As well, consider providing personal fans to your employees. Fans increase air speed and movement, and reduce humidity – helping to improve sweat evaporation and thereby keeping you cool.
Supervisors on site should assess the demands of all jobs and have monitoring and control strategies in place for hot days. For instance, they should plan to increase the frequency and length of rest breaks for their employees. Try scheduling regular breaks and encouraging your employees to take them in a shaded or air conditioned area. If there is no air conditioned rest area on site, then an air conditioned truck works just as well.
Try to schedule the most labour-intensive tasks for cooler times of the day, such as the early morning or evening. If possible, assign additional workers to help distribute the work, or slow down the pace of work altogether. Remember: heat can become deadly when combined with intense physical labour and fatigue.
Finally, hydration is critical to combat the negative effects of heat. Make sure your workers have access to cool (10 – 15 degrees) drinking water, and remind them to drink a cup about every 15 to 20 minutes – even if they're not thirsty. They may need to consume as much as one litre of water each hour to replace fluid loss. Try to discourage workers from consuming excessive amounts of caffeine, as it dehydrates the body. This may be difficult to do, but they will thank you in the long run!
The last piece of the puzzle is protective clothing. The right clothing can make a big difference when it comes to heat and sun safety, as well as personal comfort. For starters, wear light, loose clothing (if permitted) that stops radiant heat but allows sweat evaporation for efficient body cooling. While it seems counterintuitive, wearing clothing that covers as much skin as possible is best to protect from sun exposure. Tightly woven fabrics offer more sun protection than loosely knit ones, but you may need to find apparel that strikes a balance between UV protection and breathability to ensure your comfort.
Construction site workers face the added challenge of having to follow safety regulations when it comes to their apparel. You are probably required to wear hi-visibility clothing and personal protective equipment (PPE). You are also probably prohibited from wearing shorts on site. Thankfully, hi-visibility apparel is available in breathable, moisture-wicking styles. Many of our Fence Guys love the Coolworks ventilated work pants, which offer the comfort of shorts without violating site safety regulations.
Finally, though it isn't clothing, it's worth mentioning sunscreen as a protective measure. Encourage your employees to apply sunscreen, and remind them to reapply it regularly if they are sweating. You might even consider providing sunscreen to your staff. At Modu-Loc, sunscreen is something we make available to our field employees. Look for a broad-spectrum sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 30.
One of the most important things you can do is train your workers to recognize the signs and symptoms of heat stress. Educate your employees about the factors which may increase the risk of developing a heat-related illness, and teach them how to respond to heat stress. Distribute information about heat stress and post it in prominent areas on site. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has some great resources available, including this publication and these posters.
Consider starting a "buddy system". Since people are not likely to notice their own symptoms, it's helpful to have someone else looking out for the signs of heat-related illness. Have a plan in place for heat-related emergencies, and make emergency contact information available.
Hot weather can be dangerous, especially for those who work outdoors for extended periods of time. By taking the proper precautions and having the necessary controls in place, you can help mitigate the factors that contribute to heat stress, and reduce the risk of heat-related illness.
For a list of heat-related illnesses, their symptoms, and treatments, please see this CCOHS fact sheet.


Australia's biggest gravity mountain biking event, the Cannonball Mountain Biking Festival, has just wrapped up in Thredbo after five days of intense competition, with over 900 competitors riding it out for a slice of the $100K prize pool across the five signature events.
The sixth instalment of the event attracted some of the biggest names in the industry with aspiring young riders competing alongside some absolute legends of the mountain bike world.
South Australian World Cup rider Troy Brosnan made the most of the conditions, sliding in top spot of the headline event, the Australian Open Downhill on the iconic Cannonball run. He rode the course in 5 minutes 30 seconds just a pedal stroke ahead of Australian Harry Bush with French rider Loris Vergier in third.
In the pro women's Tracey Hannah, winning in 5:52, with Canberra rider Sian A'Hern in second and Jindabyne's Tegan Molloy rounding out the podium.
Canberra brother and sister biking duo Kye and Sian A'Hern won the prestigious titles of King and Queen of Cannonball, a reward for their consistent podiums in events across the weekend.
The heavy hitting line-up of riders loved the racing and vibe around this year's event.
"A lot of us ride all over the world and to come here and ride in front of the home crowd, it feels great. For not only Australia's best to be here but the world's best is fantastic. What an opportunity for everyone to meet and see mountain bike superstars race" Australia Pro, Josh Carlson.
Troy Brosnan made the most of the conditions, sliding in top spot making it a four-peat, this win makes Brosnan the most decorated Australian Open Downhill winner. He rode the course in 5:30 just a pedal stroke ahead of Australian Harry Bush with French rider Loris Vergier in third.
"It was a really muddy race, it was hard to keep pushing and going hard. I had a good run but it was tough. To race in the wet with so many fast guys here and win, I'm wrapped" said Brosnan.
In the pro women's it was a great welcome back to Thredbo for Tracey Hannah, she took the win in a 5:52, around five seconds ahead of Sian A'Hern with local Tegan Molloy rounding out the podium.
"So good to spend the week here, I've missed it so much. I haven't been for a while so to be able to chill in the off-season and come to this race is awesome, I loved every minute" said Tracey.
Day 4 of #CannonballFestival was LIT 🔥 @maxxisbikeau Flow Motion Cup went off…stay tuned for the Whip Wars!
Kye took the win today in a cracking time of 8:08, two seconds ahead of Tim Eaton with Graeme Mudd riding into third.
Canberra brother and sister biking duo Kye and Sian A'Hern won the prestigious titles of King and Queen of the mountain a reward for their podium in events across the weekend.
Danni Beecroft coming in hot after a Crankworx dual slalom win, ripped through the field taking top spot in the pro women's with Sian A'Hern in second and Tegan Molloy in third.
The pro men's was a crowd pleaser as biking superstar Kyle Strait took to the track. It was super close racing with only hundredths of seconds separating the field. Taking the win was Dave "the Magician" McMillan with versatile Duke Millington in second and Kyle Strait in third.
All in all, the Cannonball Mountain Bike Festival took everything to new heights this year with more action, entertainment, competitors and more than ever before! Riders, spectators, family and friends all loved the festival atmosphere and fast paced fury on the mountain each day, definitely an event for the books.


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Origine

Margaret est la fille d'Archibald Douglas  comte de Douglas et de son épouse Euphemia Graham, fille de Patrick Graham, comte de Strathearn et d'Euphemia Stuart. .

Margaret reçoit le Galloway lorsque ses deux frères William Douglas et David sont exécutés sommairement le  lors du « Diner Noir » au Château d'Édimbourg.

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Margaret Douglas, épouse alors son cousin William Douglas  comte de Douglas. Lorsque ce dernier est assassiné en 1452 elle obtient une dispense pour se marier au début de 1453 avec James Douglas  qui est le propre frère du défunt. Elle fuit avec lui en Angleterre mais cette union ne semble pas avoir été heureuse car le mariage se termine par un divorce et les deux époux se marient une nouvelle fois. Margaret revient en Écosse vers 1459 et elle épouse alors le demi-frère du roi John Stuart,  comte d'Atholl.

Postérité

Margaret n'a pas d'enfants des deux comtes de Douglas mais elle laisse deux filles de son union avec le comte d'Atholl qui toutes deux ont une descendance de leur époux respectif:
 Janet, épouse d'Alexandre Gordon,  d'Huntly
 Elisabeth, épouse d'Andrew Gray, 2e Lord Gray.

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Q: Is there a c.e. set $A\subset\mathrm{Tot}$ such that $A$ contains an index for every total computable function? Phrased differently, is there a computable list of (indices for) total computable functions, such that every total computable function appears at least once? If true, it would mean that even though we can't list all the total computable algorithms, we can list all total computable functions. So the question is philosophically interesting, if nothing else.
Notation:
$\varphi_e$ is the $e$-th partial computable function in some fixed effective list.
$\mathrm{Tot}:=\{e:\forall x [\varphi_e(x)\downarrow]\}$
$\mathrm{Fin}:=\{e:\exists n\forall x>n[\varphi_e(x)\uparrow]\}$
My thoughts:
To show that the answer is "no", it would suffice to show that there is no computable set $B\subset\mathrm{Tot}$ such that $B$ contains an index for every total computable function. (Since any c.e. set enumerated in increasing order is computable, it suffices to — given a c.e. set $A=\{a_0,a_1,\cdots\}$ as in the title — enumerate an increasing c.e. set $B=\{b_0,b_1,\cdots\}$ so that $\varphi_{a_i}=\varphi_{b_i}$ for each $i$. This is easy to do by padding.)
Interestingly, if you replace $\mathrm{Tot}$ with $\mathrm{Fin}$, then the answer is "yes, such a c.e. set does exist": Let $f$ be your favorite bijection from $\omega$ to $\{\sigma\in 2^{<\omega}: \operatorname{length}(\sigma)\text{ is even}\}$. If $f(e)=(x_1,\cdots,x_n,y_1,\cdots,y_n)$, let the $e$-th function on your list send $x_i$ to $y_i$ and diverge on input other than $x_1,\cdots,x_n$. There doesn't seem to be an obvious way of applying this same trick to $\mathrm{Tot}$, though.

A: There is indeed no such set.
The key point is that when we diagonalize against a computable list of (indices for) total functions, we (1) preserve totality and (2) get a computable function not on the list.
Specifically, suppose $E=(e_i)_{i\in\mathbb{N}}$ is any computable sequence of natural numbers. Associated to the sequence $E$ is the computable, possibly partial, function $d_E$ given by

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*$d_E(i)=\varphi_{e_i}(i)+1$ if $\varphi_{e_i}(i)\downarrow$, and

*$d_E(i)\uparrow$ otherwise.
Now if $\varphi_{e_i}$ is total for each $i$, we get that $d_E$ is also total. Moreover, we clearly have that $d_E\not\cong\varphi_{e_i}$ whenever $\varphi_{e_i}(i)\downarrow$, and in particular whenever $\varphi_{e_i}$ is total.
So given a computable sequence $E$ of indices for total computable functions, the associated function $d_E$ is total computable and does not have an index in $E$.


Nice video about the Middle School Southern New England Championships. Congratulations to all the participants!
Sorry everyone was a little stretched when it was converted.
As you already know, for a small fee, the FHS Robotics Club will take anything with a cord and recycle it. But starting this year, we will also take your gently used clothing and other household items for free!
We are teaming up with Savers and they will make a contribution to FHS Robotics for every pound of clothing we deliver to them. We'll accept gently used clothing, shoes, bedding, towels, hats, mittens, scarves, ties, socks, purses, wallets, backpacks, bags, belts, jewelry.
On Saturday June 17th from 9 am – 3 pm we will in the main parking accepting both electronics and clothing. But you can save a trip and drop off items Wednesday June 12th through Friday June 16th from 11 am-3 pm. Please bring clothing in a standard 13 gallon kitchen trash bag.
Plastic TVs, Wood TVs, Laptops, computer monitors, computers, CPU boxes, all computer parts and accessories, keyboards, mice, cell phones, speakers, video games and systems, camera/video/audio equipment, fax/copy machines, printers, wires, plugs, drives, cards, servers.
Household Appliances, including all white goods including refrigerators, freezers, water heaters stoves, dishwashers, washers and dryers. Household appliances including toasters, irons, hair dryers, and microwaves.
We made an In the Zone cone in our Formlabs printer. The printer bed is the perfect size, but with the support materials we needed to print it at 96% of actual size. But at least it gives a good idea of the structure.
The link to the file is at the bottom.
Click here is the file for the cone.
They moved the game reveal to Saturday during closing ceremonies!
Framingham High School Juniors Varun Tekur and Kevin Lenzi, Sophomore Connor Neshe and Liam Neal Reilly earned enough points in the Robot Skills competition to qualify them to compete in the World Championship. This will be Varun's fourth trip to Worlds, Kevin and Liam's third and Connor's first.
With a Robotics Skills score of 56 (21 Programming and 35 Driver Skills) they are currently ranked 401st in the world and 6th in Southern New England.
The team will travel (along with two teams from Walsh Middle School) to Louisville to compete from April 19-22 against more than 500 of the best VEX Robotics teams in the world.
What is the VEX Robotics World Championship?
VEX Robotics World Championship, now entering its 10th year, will bring together the top 1,400 student-led robotics teams from around the world to Louisville, Kentucky, on April 19-25, 2017.Visit this season's VEX Worlds event pages for each division to get up to date on all the information needed to prepare for the event.
The New Schedule: The new dates of the VEX Robotics World Championship mark a dramatic program change to provide teams with a superior event experience as they compete in the largest and fastest growing international robotics programs. The VEX Robotics Competition and VEX U will open to middle school, high school, and university teams on Wednesday, April 19, and culminate with finals, awards, and a team party at Kentucky Kingdom on Saturday, April 22. The VEX IQ Challenge will open to elementary school and middle school teams on Sunday, April 23, and culminate with finals, awards, and a team party at Kentucky Kingdom on Tuesday, April 25.
We are very excited to be going back to Louisville.


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Amazfit GTS 2 new version priced at Rs 10,999 launched in India
HomeOther TechSmart WearablesAmazfit GTS 2 new version priced at Rs 10,999 launched in India
The device will go on sale from June 5.
After launching the Amazfit GTR 2 New Version smartwatch the company has introduced another new GTS 2 (new version). The affordable smartwatch comes with a water-resistant build and features an AMOLED colour touchscreen. It has over 90 sports modes and a built-in Alexa voice assistant for hands-free operation.
Amazfit GTS 2 New Version price in India and availability
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Amazfit GTS 2 New Version smartwatch has been launched in India at a price tag of Rs 11,999. The company has also announced a special launch price of Rs 10,999 which is only valid on 5th June when the device will go on its first open sale in the country. The smart wearable will be available in two colour options of Midnight Black and Petal Pink colours exclusively available on Amazon and Amazfit's official website.
The thin Amazfit GTS 2 (new edition) features an excellent rectangular 1.65-inch AMOLED screen and a water-resistant aluminium alloy body which has gently curved corners. It features a tangible crown on the right side.
The watch's screen is built of 3D Corning Gorilla glass with optical Diamond-like Carbon (oDLC) and anti-fingerprint coatings, making it extremely durable, scratch-resistant, and easy to clean. The watch is equally comfortable whether you are left-handed or right-handed thanks to its fully rotatable screen. The always-on display is poised for ultimate personalization with a choice of more than 50 watch faces. You may also personalise the Quick Access App, then swipe left or right to access your favourite apps and fitness monitoring tools.
High-precision heart rate monitoring is available with the Amazfit GTS 2 (new version). It's equipped with a BioTracker 2 PPG optical sensor that monitors your resting heart rate and heart rate zones, as well as provides abnormal heart rate alarms, so you can better understand your heart health. OxygenBeats, which measures blood oxygen saturation, is also supported by the BioTracker 2 PPG. You can measure your present blood-oxygen level while engaged in long-term severe mental or physical activity to rapidly grasp your physical state. While the sleep monitor on the Amazfit smartwatch tracks your sleep patterns and makes it easy to understand and enhance your sleep quality. You may learn more about how long you spend in light and deep sleep stages, including the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage, and even daytime naps, once you've linked your device with the app.
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The new version of the Amazfit GTS 2 has roughly 3GB of local music storage, allowing you to listen to music without having to use your phone. With the addition of haptic vibration that delivers customizable haptic feedback when you receive calls or get notifications, When you remove your watch off your wrist, a wear detection function locks it to preserve your privacy, and you may set a password for more security.
For Bluetooth calls and Alexa Voice assistant, the Amazfit GTS 2 (new version) has a built-in microphone and speaker. It also includes a 246mAh which takes about 2.5 hours to fully charge. On typical usage, the watch lasts for 6 days and you get 3 days of battery life on heavy usage.
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NL West Watch: SF Giants, Dodgers still neck…
NL West Watch: SF Giants, Dodgers still neck and neck after shaky weekend series
Both the SF Giants and Dodgers went 1-2 in their respective series of the weekend.
ATLANTA, GA – AUGUST 29: Freddie Freeman #5 of the Atlanta Braves steals second by beating the tag of Tommy La Stella #18 of the San Francisco Giants in the fourth inning of an MLB game at Truist Park on August 29, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)
By Wes Goldberg |
PUBLISHED: August 30, 2021 at 11:29 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2021 at 11:29 a.m.
The Giants' narrow division lead over the Dodgers was in peril after an uneven performance in Atlanta, but their NL West rivals couldn't take advantage in a home series against the Rockies.
Both the Giants and Dodgers went 1-2 over the weekend but remain comfortably at the top of the National League, with San Francisco holding a 2.5-game lead over Los Angeles. As the playoff chase intensifies, each team faces tough opponents in their next series and can't afford to falter.
Giants (84-46): Took one of two games against the Braves in Atlanta.
Before Sunday's 9-0 blowout loss to the Braves, the Giants split first two games of the road series. Then Atlanta's Jorge Soler and Austin Riley homered off Anthony DeSclafani in the final game of the series to hand the Giants just their fourth loss in 19 games. In San Francisco's lone win in Atlanta, Logan Webb's seven strong innings earned him his seventh straight decision, and Tommy La Stella and Mike Yastrzemski each homered as the Giants beat the Braves 5-0 on Saturday.
Up next: Four games against the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers.
Dodgers (82-49): Lost two of three against the Colorado Rockies.
If not for a three-run rally in the eighth inning on Saturday night, the Dodgers may have lost all three games to the division's second-to-last-place Rockies in Los Angeles. Before this stumble, the Dodgers had won 12 of their previous 13 games. Shaky pitching prevented the Giants from gaining ground on the NL West-leading Giants, who similarly dropped two of three in their series in Atlanta.
Up next: Three games against the Braves at Dodger Stadium.
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Padres (69-62): Split against the Angels.
San Diego took a four-game losing streak into Anaheim and needed a win to resuscitate their playoff chase. Though they snapped their skid with a 5-0 victory over the Angels on Friday, they followed that up with a blowout loss on Saturday. The Padres remain 1.5 games behind the Cincinnati Reds for the final NL wild-card spot and 15.5 games back of the Giants for the division lead.
Up next: The Padres head to Arizona for three games against the Diamondbacks, starting Monday night.
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server in order not to have to use a YaST printer module.
Yes you have a point there.
OSX also uses CUPS, but the printer configuration is a small settings on the desktop and not a system wide configuration that you need first that it exists.
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The Victorian Government has announced its first two social impact bonds will focus on reducing deep-seated disadvantage through drug and alcohol treatment programs, and young people transitioning from out of home care.
Treasurer Tim Pallas said the government was engaging with social service providers, potential partners and investors to determine how social impact bonds could best complement services in those areas.
"The Andrews Labor government is working with the social services sector to explore the best way to get the right outcomes out of social impact bonds and tackle some significant areas of disadvantage in our communities," Pallas said on Friday.
In the 2016/17 Victorian budget the government set aside $700,000 to trial interventions, with the Department of Treasury and Finance and other departments investigating areas where SIBs would be most effective.
In a statement the government said reaching better outcomes in those areas of disadvantage would deliver benefits for the individuals as well as relieving pressure on social services.
It also said the challenges involved in treating disadvantaged people with drug and alcohol addictions were well documented, including poorer mental and physical health outcomes and increased risk of homelessness.
Assisting disadvantaged adolescents leaving out of home care presented similar challenges, with too many experiencing unemployment, homelessness and contact with the justice system.
The government said the bonds would complement, not replace, existing services, with the outcomes evaluated and measured through "robust systems".
On Wednesday Victoria also became the first state in Australia to issue a green bond, raising $300 million to finance projects delivering various environmental benefits.
Impact Investing Australia CEO Daniel Madhavan welcomed the Victorian Government's social impact bonds and engagement in impact investing.
"We are pleased that Victoria is harnessing the potential of impact investing to deliver improved outcomes for individuals, communities and the environment, as well as provide better value for taxpayers," Madhavan said.
The New South Wales Government, the first state to explore the model, recently announced its third social impact bond, focused on tackling prisoner recidivism, following the success of the Newpin and The Benevolent Society bonds.
"Government has a critical role to play in growing the opportunities to harness private capital for positive social impact," Madhavan said.