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NY Giants' leaders get message across as New York stuns Kansas City 12-9
NY Giants pull off an unlikely upset.....logo via Wikimedia Commons
The whiners walked and leaders talked in the New York Giants locker room.
by Matt Emery
November 21, 2017 at 9:25 AM November 21, 2017 at 9:25 AM
Sunday the New York Giants took on the Kansas City Chiefs and pulled off their second huge upset of the season with only two wins versus eight losses. In the media, the Giants were crushed by commentary calling them quitters and demanding that the head coach Ben McAdoo be fired. Somehow in the midst of this disarray, the players came up with an exceptional effort and won another game that no-one gave them a chance to win.
New York expects more of the Giants
Yes, the Giants season is over if measured solely by the attainment of goals and objectives put on the Locker Room whiteboard at the start of training camp.
Yes, everyone is disappointed, and plenty of fair weather fans would like their ticket money back. However, quitting really isn't an option. And, if you grow up playing as many years in sports as these young athletes have, you know that.
Most of the NFL teams that set out goals and objectives don't reach their loftier ones in a given season. And when you are having a season the likes of which the Giants are, well, the weak members in the 'crowd' will spread scurrilous reports and announce that it is time to declare a scapegoat and throw in the towel. That's life.
Character trumps Chiefs
The New York Football Giants, however, have a nearly 92-year history and solid foundation. Right at about the time lifelong fans were doubting this provenance, defensive tackle Damon "Snacks" Harrison, spoke out against whiners on the team labeling them rats, for calling out the coach anonymously.
Through the miserable storm of eight out of nine losses this season, coach Ben McAdoo kept quartering his 'vessel' into the wind, taking a pounding with every loss the Giants suffered and more so after embarrassing losses to the Rams and 49ers. Then the rookie all-star to-be spoke out. Evan Ingram the rookie tight end, having an eye-opening year, implored his teammates to play with more energy.
And finally, on Monday it came out that the true leader of New York, Eli Manning gave an uncharacteristically strong speech before the game on Sunday.
Locker Room on the side of winners
In the end, the team responded. They responded in a way that looked like the expectations -filled team before all the injuries and losses. They may have been underdogs to the Kansas City Chiefs during a normal season but the Giants won, and they followed the stronger characters on the team who took them down the right path to get it done.
This win doesn't mean that they win on Thanksgiving evening. This doesn't mean that they win half of their remaining games. But it does mean that the locker room did not choose the wrong path; the decadent 'me first' path that has its teeth in every pro sports team in existence. And just for the record, they did not quit on coach McAdoo.
Matt Emery
I have worked on Madison Ave., Wall St. & "Front Street" been an entrepreneur, and an educator. Originally from Bronxville, NY, i graduated from Boston College.
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Apple's FBI Battle Is Complicated. Here's What's Really Going On
Apple CEO Tim Cook.Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
Kim Zetter
The case has polarized the nation—and also generated misinformation. WIRED's here to separate the facts from the non-facts.
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation---and also generated some misinformation.
Those who support the government say Apple has cooperated in the past to unlock dozens of phones in other cases---so why can't it help the FBI unlock this one?
But this isn't about unlocking a phone; rather, it's about ordering Apple to create a new software tool to eliminate specific security protections the company built into its phone software to protect customer data. Opponents of the court's decision say this is no different than the controversial backdoor the FBI has been trying to force Apple and other companies to build into their software---except in this case, it's an after-market backdoor to be used selectively on phones the government is investigating.
The stakes in the case are high because it draws a target on Apple and other companies embroiled in the ongoing encryption/backdoor debate that has been swirling in Silicon Valley and on Capitol Hill for the last two years. Briefly, the government wants a way to access data on gadgets, even when those devices use secure encryption to keep it private.
Apple specifically altered its software in 2014 to ensure that it would not be able to unlock customer phones and decrypt any of the most important data on them; but it turns out it overlooked a loophole in doing this that the government is now trying to exploit. The loophole is not about Apple unlocking the phone but about making it easier for the FBI to attempt to unlock it on its own. If the controversy over the San Bernardino phone causes Apple to take further steps to close that loophole so that it can't assist the FBI in this way in the future, it could be seen as excessive obstinance and obstruction by Capitol Hill. And that could be the thing that causes lawmakers to finally step in with federal legislation that prevents Apple and other companies from locking the government out of devices.
If the FBI is successful in forcing Apple to comply with its request, it would also set a precedent for other countries to follow and ask Apple to provide their authorities with the same software tool.
In the interest of clarifying the facts and correcting some misinformation, we've pulled together a summary of the issues at hand.
What Kind of Phone Are We Talking About?
The phone in question is an iPhone 5c running the iOS9 version of Apple's software. The phone is owned by the San Bernardino Department of Public Health, which gave it to Syed Rizwan Farook, the shooter suspect, to use for work.
Farook created a password to lock his phone, and due to security features built into the software on his device, the FBI can't unlock the phone and access the data on it using the method it wants to use---a bruteforce password-guessing technique wherein they enter different passcodes repeatedly until they guess the right one---without running the risk that the device will lock them out permanently.
How Would It Do That?
Apple's operating system uses two factors to secure and decrypt data on the phone--the password the user chooses and a unique 256-bit AES secret key that's embedded in the phone when it's manufactured. As cryptographer Matthew Green explains in a blog post, the user's password gets "tangled" with the secret key to create a passcode key that both secures and unlocks data on the device. When the user enters the correct password, the phone performs a calculation that combines these two codes and if the result is the correct passcode, the device and data are unlocked.
To prevent someone from brute-forcing the password, the device has a user-enabled function that limits the number of guesses someone can try before the passcode key gets erased. Although the data remains on the device, it cannot be decrypted and therefore becomes permanently inaccessible. The government's motion to the court (.pdf) notes that this happens after 10 failed guesses when the auto-erase feature is enabled by the user.
The government says it does not know for certain if Farook's device has the auto-erase feature enabled, but notes in its motion that San Bernardino County gave the device to Farook with it enabled, and the most recent backup of data from his phone to iCloud "showed the function turned on."
A reasonable person might ask why, if the phone was backing data up to iCloud, the government can't just get everything it needs from iCloud instead of breaking into the phone. The government did obtain some data backed up to iCloud from the phone, but authorities allege in their court document that he may have disabled iCloud backups at some point. They obtained data backed up to iCloud a month before the shootings, but none closer to the date of the shooting, when they say he is most likely to have used the phone to coordinate the attack.
Is This Auto-Erase the Only Security Protection Apple Has in Place?
No. In addition to the auto-erase function, there's another protection against brute force attacks: time delays. Each time a password is entered on the phone, it takes about 80 milliseconds for the system to process that password and determine if it's correct. This helps prevent someone from quickly entering a new password to try again, because they can only guess a password every 80 milliseconds. This might not seem like a lot of time, but according to Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits, a company that does extensive consulting on iOS security, it can be prohibitively long depending on the length of the password.
"In terms of cracking passwords, you usually want to crack or attempt to crack hundreds or thousands of them per second. And with 80 milliseconds, you really can only crack eight or nine per second. That's incredibly slow," he said in a call to reporters this week.
With a four-digit passcode, he says, there are only about 10,000 different combinations a password-cracker has to try. But with a six-digit passcode, there are about one million different combinations a password cracker would have to try to guess the correct one---a simple six-digit passcode composed of just numbers would take a couple of days to crack, Guido says; but a more complex six-character password composed of letters and numbers could take more than five-and-a-half-years, according to Apple. The iOS9 software, which appears to be the software on the San Bernardino phone, asks you to create a six-digit password by default, though you can change this requirement to four digits if you want a shorter one.
Later models of phones use a different chip than the iPhone 5c and have what's called a "secure enclave" that adds even more time delays to the password-guessing process. Guido describes the secure enclave as a "separate computer inside the iPhone that brokers access to encryption keys" increasing the security of those keys.
With the secure enclave, after each wrong password guess, the amount of time you have to wait before trying another password grows with each try; by the ninth failed password you have to wait an hour before you can enter a tenth password. The government mentioned this in its motion to the court, as if the San Bernardino phone has this added delay. But the iPhone 5c does not have secure enclave on it, so the delay would really only be the usual 80 milliseconds in this case.
Why None of This Is an Issue With Older iPhones
With older versions of Apple's phone operating system---that is, phones using software prior to iOS8---Apple has the ability to bypass the user's passcode to essentially unlock the device and access data on the phone. It has done so in dozens of cases over the years, pursuant to a court order. But beginning with iOS8, Apple changed this so that it securely encrypts all of the most important data on your phone by default---photos, messages, contacts, call history---using the password you choose. And Apple cannot bypass your password to obtain that data.
According to the motion filed by the government in the San Bernardino case, the phone in question is using a later version of Apple's operating system---which appears to be iOS9. We're basing this on a statement in the motion that reads: "While Apple has publicized that it has written the software differently with respect to iPhones such as the SUBJECT DEVICE with operating system ("iOS")9, Apple yet retains the capacity to provide the assistance sought herein that may enable the government to access the SUBJECT DEVICE pursuant to the search warrant."
The government is referring to the changes that Apple made with iOS8 that exist in iOS9 as well. Apple released iOS9 in September 2015, three months before the San Bernardino attacks occurred, so it's very possible this is indeed the version installed on the San Bernardino phone.
After today, technology vendors need to consider that they might be the adversary they're trying to protect their customers from.
What Does the Government Want?
A lot of people have misconstrued the government's request and believe it asked the court to order Apple to unlock the phone, as Apple has done in many cases before. But as noted, the particular operating system installed on this phone does not allow Apple to bypass the passcode and decrypt the data. So the government wants to try bruteforcing the password without having the system auto-erase the decryption key and without additional time delays. To do this, it wants Apple to create a special version of its operating system, a crippled version of the firmware that essentially eliminates the bruteforcing protections, and install it on the San Bernardino phone. It also wants Apple to make it possible to enter password guesses electronically rather than through the touchscreen so that the FBI can run a password-cracking script that races through the password guesses automatically. It wants Apple to design this crippled software to be loaded into memory instead of on disk so that the data on the phone remains forensically sound and won't be altered.
Note that even after Apple does all of this, the phone will still be locked, unless the government's bruteforcing operation works to guess the password. And if Farook kept the iOS9 default requirement for a six-digit password, and chose a complex alpha-numeric combination for his password, the FBI might never be able to crack it even with everything it has asked Apple to do.
Apple CEO Tim Cook described the government's request as "asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers---including tens of millions of American citizens---from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe."
What Exactly Is the Loophole You Said the Government Is Exploiting?
The loophole is the fact that Apple still retains the ability to run crippled firmware on a device like this without requiring the user to approve it, the way software updates usually work. If this required user approval, Apple would not be able to do what the government is requesting.
How Doable Is All of This?
Guido says the government's request is completely doable and reasonable.
"They have to make a couple of modifications. They have to make it so that the operating system boots inside of a RAM disk…[and] they need to delete a bunch of code---there's a lot of code that protects the passcode that they just need to trash," he said.
Making it possible for the government to test passwords with a script instead of typing them in would take a little more effort he says. "[T]hat would require a little bit of extra development time, but again totally possible. Apple can load a new kernel driver that allows you to plug something in over the [Lightning] port… It wouldn't be trivial but it wouldn't be massive."
Could This Same Technique Be Used to Undermine Newer, More Secure Phones?
There has been some debate online about whether Apple would be able to do this for later phones that have newer chips and the secure enclave. It's an important question because these are the phones that most users will have in the next one or two years as they replace their old phones. Though the secure enclave has additional security features, Guido says that Apple could indeed also write crippled firmware for the secure enclave that achieves exactly what the FBI is asking for in the San Bernardino case.
"It is absolutely within the realm of possibility for Apple themselves to tamper with a lot of the functionality of the secure enclave. They can't read the secure private keys out of it, but they can eliminate things like the passcode delay," he said. "That means the solution that they might implement for the 5c would not port over directly to the 5s, the 6 or the 6s, but they could create a separate solution for [these] that includes basically crippled firmware for the secure enclave."
If Apple eliminates the added time delays that the secure enclave introduces, then such phones would only have the standard 80-millisecond delay that older phones have.
"It requires more work to do so with the secure enclave. You have to develop more software; you have to test it a lot better," he said. "There may be some other considerations that Apple has to work around. [But] as far as I can tell, if you issue a software update to the secure enclave, you can eliminate the passcode delay and you can eliminate the other device-erase [security feature]. And once both of those are gone, you can query for passcodes as fast as 80 milliseconds per request."
What Hope Is There for Your Privacy?
You can create a strong alpha-numeric password for your device that would make bruteforcing it essentially infeasible for the FBI or anyone else. "If you have letters and numbers and it's six, seven or eight digits long, then the potential combinations there are really too large for anyone to bruteforce," Guido said.
And What Can Apple Do Going Forward?
Guido says Apple could and should make changes to its system so that what the FBI is asking it to do can't be done in future models. "There are changes that Apple can make to the secure enclave to further secure their phones," he said. "For instance, they may be able to require some kind of user confirmation, before that firmware gets updated, by entering their PIN code … or they could burn the secure enclave into the chip as read-only memory and lose the ability to update it [entirely]."
These would prevent Apple in the future from having the ability to either upload crippled firmware to the device without the phone owner's approval or from uploading new firmware to the secure enclave at all.
"There's a couple of different options that they have; I think all of them, though, are going to require either a new major version of iOS or new chips on the actual phones," Guido said. "But for the moment, what you have to fall back on is that it takes 80 milliseconds to try every single password guess. And if you have a complex enough password then you're safe."
Is the Ability to Upload Crippled Firmware a Vulnerability Apple Should Have Foreseen?
Guido says no.
"It wasn't until very recently that companies had to consider: What does it look like if we attack our own customers? What does it look like if we strip out and remove the security mitigations we put in specifically to protect customers?"
He adds: "Apple did all the right things to make sure the iPhone is safe from remote intruders, or people trying to break into the iPhone.… But certainly after today, technology vendors need to consider that they might be the adversary they're trying to protect their customers from. And that's quite a big shift."
Update 2:30 pm EST: To clarify the number of failed password guesses that can occur before the phone deletes the passcode key, making data on the phone inaccessible.
Update 5:30 pm EST: To clarify the security changes Apple made in 2014 that prevent it from unlocking secured data on phones.
Kim Zetter is an award-winning, senior staff reporter at Wired covering cybercrime, privacy, and security. She is writing a book about Stuxnet, a digital weapon that was designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
Senior Writer, Wired
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Q: Android performance once picture selected is terrible I have an image picking method, which lets the user select an image from their gallery.
Once the image has been selected the app becomes horribly laggy, there are 3 text boxes on the page, when you click them in takes about 3 seconds for the keyboard to come up, and it comes up in laggy stages.
LogCat warns:
12-03 19:03:35.536  10842-10842/.com. I/Choreographer﹕ Skipped 58 frames!  The
    application may be doing too much work on its main thread.

So, I tried to put the image picker on a new thread, but there are too many methods to encapsulate individually.
What are the common problems / solution for low performace with such a simple task as this?
Code:
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_submit);

        imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.submitImageButton);
        button = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.submitImageButton);

    }

    public void pickPhoto(View view) {

        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {

                // launch the photo picker
                Intent intent = new Intent();
                intent.setType("image/*");
                intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
                startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,
                        "Select Picture"), SELECT_PICTURE);
            }
        }).start();

    }

    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode,  data);
        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            try {
                Bitmap bitmap = getPath(data.getData());
                Log.i("Bitmap", "Bmp: " + data.getData());
                imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
            }catch (Exception e){
                Log.e("Error", "Error with setting the image. See stack trace.");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    private Bitmap getPath(Uri uri) {

        button.setEnabled(false);

        String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);

        cursor.moveToFirst();
        String filePath = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA));
        cursor.close();
        // Convert file path into bitmap image using below line.

        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filePath);

        filePathForUpload = filePath;

        try {
            ExifInterface exif = new ExifInterface(filePath);
            int orientation = exif.getAttributeInt(ExifInterface.TAG_ORIENTATION, ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_UNDEFINED);
            bitmap = rotateBitmap(bitmap, orientation);
        }catch (Exception e){
            Log.d("Error", "error with bitmap!");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return bitmap;
    }

    public static Bitmap rotateBitmap(Bitmap bitmap, int orientation) {
        Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
        switch (orientation) {
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_NORMAL:
                return bitmap;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_FLIP_HORIZONTAL:
                matrix.setScale(-1, 1);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_180:
                matrix.setRotate(180);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_FLIP_VERTICAL:
                matrix.setRotate(180);
                matrix.postScale(-1, 1);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_TRANSPOSE:
                matrix.setRotate(90);
                matrix.postScale(-1, 1);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_90:
                matrix.setRotate(90);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_TRANSVERSE:
                matrix.setRotate(-90);
                matrix.postScale(-1, 1);
                break;
            case ExifInterface.ORIENTATION_ROTATE_270:
                matrix.setRotate(-90);
                break;
            default:
                return bitmap;
        }

        Bitmap bmRotated = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight(), matrix, true);
        bitmap.recycle();
        return bmRotated;
    }

A: You should be putting your Bitmap creation on a separate thread (i.e. getPath(...) and rotateBitmap(...), not your Intent to pick a photo (pickPhoto(View view).
Also, instead of rotating your Bitmap by creating a new Bitmap, why not just set the Bitmap on an ImageView and use View.setRotation(float x)?  This way, you wouldn't be creating a new Bitmap every time you rotate the image.

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In the meantime, make sure to check out the newest indie-rock blog darlings, Black Kids, who hail from my former hood of Jacksonville, FL (and got a nice mention in a CMJ-related New York Times article this morning). Their internet-only debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, is totally free (three cheers for innovative distribution methods!), so you have absolutely no excuse not to give it a virtual spin.
You will also want to listen to the free songs available from Belgian band Goose, who seem to be involved in some strange and fantastic experiment to genetically cross-breed Euro-disco, new wave, and late 80s punk rock. Fan of Death from Above 1979? Or The Rapture? Then this is bound to get you going. What I really love about these guys is how cocky they are, the way their songs seem to sneer and strut. They're like the musical equivalent of a stubbly part-time-actor/trust fund brat (you know who I'm talking about) calling over his three model girlfriends after remarking on how cheap your shoes are. Except awesome rather than awful.


If you are living with one, or more, medical issues for which you would like additional support alongside your GP/consultant treatment, you may find medical hypnotherapy extremely beneficial. Many patients find it a great support in their journey through cancer or another chronic or acute illness.
Medical hypnotherapy creates within you a state of inner focused attention, optimising the connection between your mind and body to maximise your healing potential. It is intended as an addition to your medical treatment, not as a substitute.


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The High Command
The High Command is a 1937 British drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim and James Mason.[1]
U.S. poster
Thorold Dickinson
Gordon Wellesley
Walter Meade (dialogue)
Katherine Strueby (screenplay)
Val Valentine (dialogue)
novel The General Goes Too Far by Lewis Robinson
Lionel Atwill
Lucie Mannheim
Ernest Irving
Otto Heller
Fanfare Pictures
Associated British Film Distributors (UK)
22 March 1937 (1937-03-22) (London)
It was shot at Ealing Studios and on location on the Gold Coast. The film's sets were designed by the art director Holmes Paul. It is an adaptation of the novel The General Goes Too Far by Lewis Robinson.
This is the tale of an English officer who murders a man in Ireland for chivalrous reasons. Years later, he has risen to the rank of Major-General, and is stationed in West Africa. There, his old crime is discovered, and he allows himself to be murdered rather than involve his daughter in his own disgrace.[2]
CastEdit
Lionel Atwill as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye, VC
Lucie Mannheim as Diana Cloam
Steven Geray as Martin Cloam
James Mason as Capt. Heverell
Leslie Perrins as Maj. Carson
Allan Jeayes as H.E., the Governor
Michael Lambart as Lorne
Kathleen Gibson as Belinda
Tom Gill as Daunt
Wally Patch as Crawford
Archibald Batty as Capt. Coates (the prosecutor)
Henry Hewitt as Defence counsel
Drusilla Wills as Miss Isabella Hobson Tuff
Cyril Howe as Julius Caesar (servant)
Evan Thomas as Chief Justice
Aubrey Pollock as Judge Advocate
Deering Wells as Escort
Philip Strange as Maj. Challoner
Frank Atkinson as Corporal
Skelton Knaggs as Fazerack
The Sunday Times wrote of this film: "Its avoidance of reality and its slowness make it a first-class soporific in this sultry weather."[2] Despite the film's faults, the novelist and author Graham Greene opined that the directing work by Thorold Dickinson made the film much better than it otherwise would have been.[2] Greene also pointed out that Fanfare was a newly emerging British film company that was constrained by its budget, and that it still managed to use "lyric imagination" to produce memorable scenes well designed to portray the degree of "human crisis" especially at the climax when the General's secret is revealed. Greene described the "glib" review from The Sunday Times as "rather shocking" in light of the production's efforts with their financial limitations.[3]
^ "The High Command (1937)".
^ a b c Greene, Graham. The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories, p. 208 (Hal Leonard Corporation, 1994).
^ Greene, Graham (29 July 1937). "The High Command/On the Avenue/Yiddle with his Fiddle". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0192812866. )
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The Clinton Hill, Brooklyn three-bedder is going for a cool USD $4000 per month.
The Murders Of Tupac And Biggie To Be Explored In New Live Show Headed For Australia
For true crime and 90s hip-hop fans alike.
Love Letter To A Record: Adrian Eagle On The Notorious BIG's 'Ready To Die'
'You gave an overweight boy from Adelaide housing trust a huge HOPE and dream that one day I would find a girl who liked me for being me even though I was big.'
You Can Help Fund This Huge Notorious B.I.G. Statue In The Rapper's Hometown
Project organisers reckon the Biggie Memorial will be a huge draw for fans and tourists.
There's Apparently Going To Be A Notorious B.I.G. Hologram
His widow Faith Evan will debut it in the video for a collaborative track with the late rapper.
Aussie Pugs Are Being Turned Into Famous Rappers By 'The Pug Life' Project
Dogs can so easily become the centre of our universe, and, as it turns out, they can also become some of the biggest names in the rap game thanks to a new project by Australian photographer Adam Jackman-Moore, appropriately titled The Pug Life. Mr Jackman-Moore, who goes by the name A-Dawg (because of course he
Hear Kendrick Lamar's Freestyle Salute To Notorious B.I.G.
Nostalgia for The Notorious B.I.G. has reached a high water mark, with today marking 18 years since the rap legend was gunned down by an unknown killer. And to pay homage to the legacy of the crowned East Coast King of hip-hop, the current West Coast King, Kendrick Lamar, has offered up a musical tribute.
Brooklyn Residents Up In Arms Over Naming Street After The Notorious B.I.G.
A petition organised to get a street corner named after late hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, has raised the ire of the residents of Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighbourhood, who object to renaming a street after a convicted criminal. Earlier this year, fans of the rapper, best known for his hits Juicy and


This place was absolutely packed on Sunday 14th April 2019. Live music, not a table to spare and Sunday lunches a plenty from what looked a great carvery. Fantastic setting even in the driving wind and rain (maybe more so) as this day was. Sharps Doom bar, St.Austell Tribute and Proper Job. £9 for 2 pints though, but I guess that's the setting..
More of a bar than a pub as the name suggests and expensive beer at £3.90 a pint but when you're drinking chilled Betty Stoggs on the terrace in the sun,gazing out at the surf and watching the surfers it didn't seem a bad way to spend the afternoon!
Lovely laid back and relaxed sort of pub with good vibes, overlooking the sandy beach.


RB Jaylen Samuels, Steelers (0.2 percent owned): Now that Le'Veon Bell is officially out of the Pittsburgh RB picture, you must grab the James Conner apparent handcuff if you own him. Last week, when Conner left the game to go into the concussion protocol, Samuels scored his first NFL TD. At this time of year, you should be rostering the top NFL backups to your regular starters at RB instead of keeping players on your bench that you may never start in the important weeks ahead.
WR Anthony Miller, Bears (13.4): The rookie is moving into more of a prime role in the Bears passing game. That is a good place to be, in one of the NFL's most rapidly improving offenses. Last week, he caught five passes for 122 yards and a TD in his best performance so far, and Miller has visited the end zone in two of the past three games.
QB Lamar Jackson, Ravens (6.7): Injuries and mediocre play have Joe Flacco on the brink of losing his grip on the starting job for the first time in his career. Robert Griffin III might get the first opportunity to replace him, but his time as a starter could be short-lived if the Ravens get zapped out of the playoff race. Then Jackson, who has a lot of Fantasy promise with his dual threat ability, should get his chance.
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Q: How to install scikit-learn for Portable Python? While I am trying to install scikit-learn for my portable python, its saying " Python 2.7 is not found in the registry". In the next window, it does ask for an installation path but neither am I able to copy-paste the path nor write it manually. Otherwise please suggest some other alternative for portable python which has numpy, scipy and scikit-learn by default. Please note that I don't have administrative rights of the system so a portable version is preferred.

A: you can easily download SciKit executable, extract it with python, copy SciKit folder and content to c:\Portable Python 2.7.5.1\App\Lib\site-packages\ and you'll have SciKit in your portable python.
I just had this problem and solved this way.

A: you can download the new portable python setup from the http://koen.me/research/teaching-asci/PortablePython.zip . This setup already contains the scikit-learn.

A: From my other answer:
Since you are using Portable Python, the best way to install modules is to use easy install. Go to your Portable Python folder directory: Portable Python 2.7.6.1.
Next open a command prompt in that location by Shift + Right Click.
Then type the following:
App\Scripts\easy_install.exe YourModuleNameHere

Example to install scikit-learn:
App\Scripts\easy_install.exe scikit-learn

enter code here`enter code here`enter code here`

A: In case you're on Windows, WinPython is a 64bit portable distribution that contains scikit-learn as an optional component.
Afaik, this is the only 64 bit distribution with the scipy stack for Windows.


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Q: How to get grunt-connect work with livereload I have this config:
connect: {
            develop: {
                options: {
                    livereload: 35729,
                    hostname: '*',
                    port: 8000,
                    open: {
                        target: 'http://localhost:<%= connect.develop.options.port %>/src',
                        appName: 'Google Chrome'
                    },
                }
            }

        },

I start it and then 'watch' grunt connect:develop watch, but nothing gets 'reloaded'.
It looks like grunt-connect is properly injecting script into HTML cause i Have:
<script src="//localhost:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1"></script>

But
I get error in browser:
GET http://localhost:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1 net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED


I have what seems to be incredible lifter noise at idle, almost like a knock. The noise was there previously, now it's back after freshining up the engine. I used the same cam and pistons because they appeared to be fine. Cam is hyd /Crane 305H-10. I am running an old STR-14 intake (Rat Roaster 2×4 390cfm) which leaves a 2″ air gap above lifter valley pan gasket. I thought maybe it's just valve train echo up through the top but of the motor but it can be heard with hood down 10 feet away. Oil pressure is 65 cold 30-35 hot idle. Thanks in advance for any suggestions..
Sometimes you can tell if the noise is from the bottom end or not by the frequency…top-end (valvetrain) noises are once per two revolutions, whereas bottom end noises are (usually) 1 for 1.
I have to believe that if a bottom-end component (rod bearing, piston pin, etc.) was bad enough to make this kind of noise, you'd have seen the results (read: wreckage) when you disassembled the engine. The oil pressure seems to back this thought up. I also have to believe that if a pushrod was bent or otherwise too short, you would have not only noticed it, the noise would have never gone away earlier, which your question seems to imply it did…? If I'm reading you wrong, you'll need to check that each lifter's plunger is depressed at least 0.020″ with that lobe on the base circle. If you have adjustable rockers, go for 0.025 – 0.030″, if nonadjustble, anything from 0.020″ to 0.075″ is acceptable (with the lower numbers providing a bit more RPM potential). This preload is mandatory. If you can't get it you need different pushrods (Think: Manton). Also be sure none are bottomed (or nearly bottomed), that distance varies quite a bit by manufacturer, so simply test one of 'em by pushing down with a screwdriver (it may take quite a while for it to bleed down to the bottom). If this fails you may need to remove and disassemble one.
If you backed me into a corner, I'd say it's a collapsed lifter that never properly pumped up. If you can't see this (you may not), you can certainly feel it at idle (valve covers off), just touch the rockers. Feel near the center pivot to maintain contact. Wear decent gloves if the oil is too warm, or just use a metallic tool, the noise will telegraph right up to your hand. Also you may wanna try a mechanic's stethoscope.


Kendall and Kylie are the daughters of Bruce (64) and Kris Jenner (58) both separated last year. Before marrying Bruce, a former Olympic athlete, in 1991, Kris already had four children from a previous marriage with Robert Kardashian (died September 2003): Rob (26). Kourtney (34), Khloe (29), and Kim (33), So, Kendall and Kylie are the half-brothers of the Kardashian brothers.
When KUWTK began airing in 2007, the portion of Kendall and Kylie's appearance was minimal. Until a number of seasons, both of them appeared as mere cheerleaders. Even though it doesn't appear too much, both of their beautiful faces make people start to attract attention.
Things began to change when the series aired an episode titled "Kendall's Sweet 16". The episode aired the 16th birthday party of Kendall as well as the moment he received a driver's license. starting at that time Kendall, and also her younger brother got more appearance portions.
Kendall went into modeling 4 years ago, when he was 14 years old. Joining the Wilhemina agency, the first job is the Forever 21 model. As a model, Kendall is on the rise. In addition to being an icon of fashion products, she often appeared in magazines with the design of famous designers.
Besides being active in modeling, the brothers also went into the clothing business. Both of them run the Kendall & Kylie brand in collaboration with PacSun, teenager retail clothing. We are inspired by our sister who has successfully made her own clothes.
Not only clothes, Nordstrom jewelry manufacturers also use the name Kendall & Kylie to be one of their jewelry products. Interestingly, by Seventeen Magazine, both of them were lined up as fashion contributors. Besides being in charge of the Kendall & Kylie's Fashion Journal rubric, both of them are also responsible for making video tips on fashion in the magazine.


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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord – Difference Between Campaign and Sandbox Mode
Post author:Adrian Oprea
Post category:Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
Post last modified:December 6, 2022
When you start up Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, you are faced with a choice from the start: will you play a new campaign or sandbox mode?
Well, it would be easier to choose if you actually had any idea what the difference was between them.
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Since both offer different advantages and disadvantages, you would do well to understand how each works before starting the game.
So, we are going to explain exactly what the difference is between the campaign and sandbox mode in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord to simplify your choice.
How sandbox mode works in Bannerlord
How the campaign works in Bannerlord
The difference between campaign and sandbox mode in Bannerlord
If you have ever played Mount and Blade: Warband before, you know how that game is supposed to start.
You are a wanderer with no relevant backstory whatsoever that can change everything in Calradia.
Well, in Bannerlord, sandbox mode is where you can start as a nobody with no existing family or friends and live your life exactly how you want to live it.
There is no main quest, no special, interesting plot, nothing. You get to choose your age, which can come with great advantages if you start old, and you get to do whatever you want.
Sandbox mode in Bannerlord is exactly how Mount and Blade used to work in the past. You are a nobody with no higher calling, and you can do anything you wish.
In the campaign mode, players will start with an older brother and two younger siblings, one male and another female.
There is also a story where you first have to try to save your family, and you stumble into a banner that will allow you to legitimately conquer half of the map.
As you wander around Calradia, you will have to talk to a lot of nobles to hear about a battle that, we are sorry to say, but most players don't care about and continue this plot until things actually get interesting.
Later in the game, there will be secret plots, new troops which you can't normally find in the game, and an all-out war between you and three factions of your choosing.
The story can get very interesting in the later stages but lacks a lot of flair in the beginning.
The advantage of choosing the campaign start is that you will start with a family, which can keep your clan alive for a long time if you have character deaths on.
You also have a general goal, which will help new players a lot if they are new to the game. They will get to explore the map and slowly advance through the game.
However, you are going to start at the same age no matter what and will have to try to complete a lot of time-limited quests that aren't really that interesting.
If you choose sandbox mode, the only real problem, besides missing the whole plot of the game, is that you can't get achievements.
Luckily, there are a few mods that allow players to still get achievements while playing sandbox or while using mods, so this can easily be fixed.
Otherwise, if you don't care about the story and want to build your clan from the ground up alone, sandbox mode is the way to go.
That's everything you need to know about what is the difference between campaign and sandbox mode in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord!
Have any input or suggestions for this guide? Let us know in the comment section below.
Adrian Oprea
Based in London, United Kingdom, Adrian Oprea is a Guides Writer. As a professional single-player RPG player, Adrian has often been stigmatized. He has decided to pour his frustration into writing guides!
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Zuma finally resigns
South Africa's president Jacob Zuma has finally yielded to pressure and resigned from his position.
In a press briefing Wednesday evening, Zuma announced; "I have therefore come to the decision to resign as the president of the Republic."
Zuma, whose reputation has been stained by years-long allegations of graft, has been instructed to step down by the African National Congress (ANC) party, an order he dismissed.
The 75 year-old stressed that he was not defying the ANC but he disagreed with its decision to ask him to resign.
"It was very unfair to me that this issue is raised," he said. "Nobody has ever provided the reasons. Nobody is saying what I have done."
He said he had offered to go after June, but objected to the way the issue was currently being handled.
However, Zuma now says he has never refused to vacate his position as President.
President Zuma: I have therefore come to the decision to resign as the president of the Republic #ZumaPresser
— SA Gov News (@SAgovnews) February 14, 2018
"I have served the people of SA with the best of my abilities. To all the people of South Africa, I never refused to vacate my position. All I want is justice and the respect of the law and my rights. If that happens I will leave with honor," Zuma said.
"I wish to thank members of Cabinet, Deputy Ministers and the whole of government for the positive manner in which we all worked," he added before announcing his resignation.
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Q: How can I change the TraceLevel for an Azure App Service without redeploying it? I am using Application Insights in an MVC 5 application that I deploy to an Azure App Service (formerly known as an "Azure Web Site"). I have Application Insights setup to be a Trace Listener. It all works well - I am using this method.
My next need is to be able to control the TraceLevel setting without redeploying the site. I am mostly likely going to keep it at Warning on a 24/7 basis but if something funny or interesting is happening, I'd like to drop it down to Info or Verbose. It is this specific changing of the setting that I'm asking about. So my questions:

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*Is there a built-in way to change/toggle this without any downtime or deployments?

*Is there a best practice way to accomplish this regardless of what the answer is to the previous question? Really looking to avoid hiccups/downtime as I toggle this, although if I must suffer a hiccup then that will still be better than a redeployment.

Note: I'm tagging this with Application Insights but I don't think it really matters what my trace listeners are.

A: According to this page:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/web-sites-enable-diagnostic-log

Unlike changing the web.config file, enabling Application diagnostics
  or changing diagnostic log levels does not recycle the app domain that
  the application runs within.


This event will mark the launch of 'Creation Machine' – the debut novel by Andrew Bannister. Luminaries from the publishing industry will include Andrew's agent – John Jarrold, and Editorial Director of Transworld Publishing – Simon Taylor. As if that isn't enough there will be fizz and nibbles…and of course bits of the book will be read out and there will be a Q&A.


Ep. 49: Keto & Carb Wars!
Ep. 48: The KEY To Staying YOUNG!
Ep. 47: GAINZ of Thrones!
Ep. 46: The EASIEST Way to Build More Muscle!
Ep. 41: Workouts vs. Programs: What's best?
Ep. 40: Get Plant-Protein Wasted with Koia Founder Maya J. French!
Ep. 39: Top 10 Ten-Minute Workouts!
Yo! I'm jumping in solo this week to share my 10 favorite 10-minute workouts. Check out my Instagram page @BJGaddour for 10 user-friendly infographics outling all of the routines I discuss in this episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKAH4ZFXzr/?taken-by=bjgaddour And be sure to check out the new & improved version of https://www.thedailybj.com/ for minimal equipment fat loss workouts you can do at home or take to the gym!
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Keilah da Silva, the lead organiser for Quilombo Praça XIV[i] was telling us about the importance of education for her community. She said that many people looked down on her and her other female activists as being uneducated black women, when in fact, the majority of them are university educated. Keilah herself is currently studying for a degree in Public Management. There is something very interesting in how Keilah's education is playing a direct part in building (her) social capital that is enabling her to draw upon extended professional networks, in order to access and bring services to her community.[ii] In this way, we can actually directly cost the value of Keilah's education in terms of the social capital generated and then in terms of economic capital generated through service provision.[iii] So, when we consider the power of networking; the question is how to make this sustainable beyond Keilah's classes. Perhaps LABINS could organise forums for the types of professionals Keilah is working with so that other community leaders could also meet them to discuss how they could help. This ties neatly into the Alci Matos idea for a LABINS-designed community leadership course, previously discussed.
Black women empowering themselves through education and using these networks to empower their communities is very powerful. The need for community empowerment is especially important in the area of maternity and child-birth. The story that Keilah's colleague told us about the lack of anaesthesia in her last experience of giving birth [iv] resonates with the now well-known recent story of tennis legend, Serena Williams and the care she had to insist on.[v] It reminded me of the racist trope of Black women and the darker they are the more they are regarded as mythical beasts of burden who can withstand inhuman levels of pain. This also reminded me of the question, "Ain't I a woman?" that the anti-slavery campaigner, Sojourner Truth asked in a speech that she delivered in 1851.[vi] So, Quilombo are obviously also working in the area of intersectionality[vii] and black feminism more widely where due to their colour, their very womanhood is brought into question.
So, to what extent are black women actually gendered as 'women'? Maybe only in relation to black men as their inferiors but are they really gendered as 'women' in relation to white men and white women? If, in a racial patriarchy,[viii] the 'white woman' is property to be protected, kept pure and safe, as Sojourner Truth implied in her speech and the 'white woman' also represents universal womanhood, then it follows that the 'black woman', not worthy of protection[ix] or worthy of being deemed 'pure' therefore cannot be fully gendered as a 'woman'.
These thoughts that spontaneously sprung to mind as I listened to Keilah and her colleague are particularly connected to Andreza Costa's research because she is researching three generations of black women from Quilombo Praça XIV and looking at precisely these issues as they affect them in their everyday lives. So, this got me thinking more deeply about the nature of racial patriarchy and the status of white men at the top of the system.
Within racial patriarchy, if we begin to talk in archetypes,[x] it is the 'white woman' (as property) who gives the 'white man' his status; her protection and purity directly correlating to his status within the hierarchy. Only the 'white woman' can fully play this role because the 'black woman' is not seen fully as a 'woman'. This is fascinating as, on the other hand, the 'black man' is not seen as being fully human because he is seen as a hypermasculine/sexual/violent beast, causing him to be objectified as sub-human. The 'black woman' is also objectified but as a sub-woman but is she still viewed as human? Or does 'sub-woman' only refer to her status as a type of property i.e. one that is not inherently valuable just functionally valuable (for the reproduction of human capital[xi]), as opposed to the inherent value of the 'white woman' as property?[xii] I suppose the 'black male buck' trope poses similar questions for the 'black man' but whereas his reproductive powers are inherently seen as threatening to white purity and needs to be violently controlled, the 'black woman's' reproductive powers are seen as functionally important for producing further capital for exploitation.
So, if both the 'white woman' and the 'black woman' are important to the 'white man' for different reasons, their differing functions actually begin to define who the 'white man' is. The 'white man's' humanity seems to be defined by the purity of his 'white woman' whereas the 'black woman', perhaps, defines his economic power in terms of potential accumulation of human capital.
If the 'white man' represents whiteness[xiii] then from a psychoanalytical perspective, this puts its (whiteness') pathological desire for mastery into an unusual context where it needs to position itself as the universal symbol of humanity hence the need for its racial patriarchal substructure. So, from this base of 'humanity', it then needs economic power via its mastery over human capital, so follows its need for a 'black sub-woman'.
So what is the role of the subhuman 'black man' (subhuman because of his lack of agency as a (hu)man)?
Could it to be to make sure that the 'black sub-woman' is compliant in the economic aggrandisation of her 'white master'? Does making the 'black man' complicit in the subjugation of the 'black woman' earn him agency in the eyes of his 'white master'? So, could we say that there exists a fragile[xiv] unity of patriarchal control between the 'black man' and the 'white man' as long as it benefits the latter, economically?
In a conversation about this, Claudia Sampaio said that in Brazil, "racism has different faces and attributes different functions according to how dark your skin is". Claudia thinks that there is scope to unpack these aspects of white masculinity in further joint research in this area!
[i] See Amazonas Atual. Quilombo da Praça 14 recebe placa de Patrimônio Imaterial, November 20th, 2015, Viewed on March 16th 2018, http://amazonasatual.com.br/quilombo-da-praca-14-recebe-placa-de-patrimonio-imaterial/ and L. Carvalho. Comunidade quilombola da Praça 14, em Manaus, sente orgulho de suas raízes negras na Amazônia, November, 20th , 2014, Viewed on March 16th 2018, https://www.acritica.com/channels/manaus/news/comunidade-quilombola-da-praca-14-em-manaus-sente-orgulho-de-suas-raizes-negras-na-amazonia for good accounts of this 125 year old group of Maranhão slave-descendents known as the Quilombo, who originally settled in the village, Bairro Praça 14 de Janeiro. This village community was recognised as the second urban Quilombo by the Palmares Cultural Foundation. Keilah da Silva who is the president of the Crioula Quilombo Association of São Benedito is pleased that her Quilombo community, Quilombo Praça XIV has been granted Intangible Heritage of the Amazonas state-recognition. However, L. Carvalho reminds us that many similarly state-recognised Quilombo communities across the country still face intense challenges as regards their sustainability.
[ii] For one of her cultural (black) awareness days, Keilah told us that blood pressure and blood sugar monitoring would take place as part of other services that she managed to coordinate for the day.
[iii] We are talking about Social Return of Investment (SROI). See Cabinet Office of the Third Sector, Social Return on Investment – an introduction. London: Cabinet Office of the Third Sector, 2009. Available at https://critracemmu.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/social-return-on-investment-guide.pdf.
[ix] E.g. less need for painkillers during childbirth, as per Keilah's colleague's experience.
[xi] Here I am specifically alluding to infanticide as a form of slave resistance with it obviously being perceived as an economic threat. See J.M. Allain, 'Infanticide as Slave Resistance: Evidence from Barbados, Jamaica, and Saint-Domingue'. Inquiries Journal, 6(4), 2014, 1-2. Available at http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/893/infanticide-as-slave-resistance-evidence-from-barbados-jamaica-and-saint-domingue for an excellent account of the evidence for this type of economic subversion/resistance.
[xii] See O.D. Clennon, Urban Dialectics, the Market and Youth Engagement: The 'Black' Face of Eurocentrism? New York: Nova Publishers, 2015, p. 123 for a full discussion about Baudrillardian symbolic and functional value and how these forms of value act to commoditise cultural and historical narratives that then can be used by the market for capital accumulation.
[xiii] I am speaking from the perspective of the modern world system (i.e. (proto-)capitalism onwards).


Comments: Found by Richard Webster. Not a species I would have predicted for Arizona! Size of a small sparrow. Short tail. Narrow white eyering, with a distinctive facial pattern. Very bright brown face is brighter than any of the other browns on the body. Contrasting, whitish malar frames auriculars. Bright brown central crown stripe framed by a dark brown stripe on either side. See photos. I had twice looked for this bird in Russia without finding it. Thank you, Richard! A great find!!


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Digital Culture Mike Rampton July 3, 2020
How the Kiddie Pool Became This Summer's Must-Have Instagram Accessory
They may have only gotten chic in recent years, but in some form or another, the backyard mini-pool has been around forever
It's too damn hot, and we can't go anywhere. It's the height of summer (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), and few things seem more appealing than submerging oneself in water, but thanks to this whole "pandemic" thing, pools are closed, vacations are on hold and going to the beach seems really inadvisable.
That's where kiddie pools come in. But as you sit there, drinking a beer, gloriously drenched in once-cold water warmed to a beautifully ambient temperature by the sun, you're at the end point — for now — of a centuries-long story of war, technology, innovation and social change. Let's do what you definitely shouldn't do with a kiddie pool, and dive right in.
Kiddie pools as we know them today required several technologies to mature. While PVC was first created in the 19th century, the plasticized version didn't come about until 1926, and then World War II led to it really taking off as a waterproofing material. Time claims the beach ball was invented in 1938 in California by Jonathan DeLonge, although this is disputed. Whoever invented it, the post-war boom saw more innovations in the inflatables world, and by the 1960s, inflatable balls were everywhere — a whole subgenre of 1960s movies, "beach party films," used "guy accidentally throws a beach ball into a group of pretty girls and romance ensues" as a plot point. Hose technology improved, with rubber being replaced by plastic, and in 1959, Hozelock began selling connectors for the ends of hoses, allowing for things like trigger mechanisms.
While this was happening, America was changing. The aftermath of World War II saw a huge financial boom, which led to millions of Americans leaving cities to move to newly created suburbs — the number of houses built increased sixfold compared to before the war, and veterans were offered low-cost house loans, all leading to a huge increase in home ownership. Car ownership almost doubled between 1945 and 1960 as suburban life became the norm for millions, and increased disposable incomes, 40-hour weeks and white-collar jobs meant newfound leisure time: weekends spent grilling, watering the lawn and working on projects for the hell of it.
"Uniform backyards were transformed into personalized havens devoted, in part, to rest and recreation," write Kate Fox and Cindy Brown, curators of the Smithsonian exhibition "Patios, Pools, and the Invention of the American Backyard." "Wartime manufacturers of materials like aluminum and concrete pivoted production for the consumer market following the war, with new products catering to a suburban lifestyle. Everything from aluminum grill spatulas and tongs, patio furniture and colorful and tough outdoor fabrics became readily available to the average consumer. During World War II, restrictions on chlorine and concrete once meant private in-ground pools were only accessible to the ultra-rich. Afterwards, in-ground pools became affordable thanks to the sudden surplus and availability of these materials." One of the first companies to market plastic "splasher pools," Doughboy Plastics, started out sealing Army ration packs in World War I.
"The backyard pool industry blew up in America in the late 1960s and 1970s," says Scott Webb, editor of pool industry bible AQUA Magazine. "There were pools before then, but that was when people started doing it on their own. It wasn't a very professional industry at first — you had a lot of construction people going, 'I'm going to dig a hole in my backyard and line it with concrete.' Hot tubs and spas came about the same time and kind of in the same way, as a non-professional outgrowth. People in California would take wine barrels, fill them with hot water and have a party. It was a real fad, and then people started working on shells for them in their garages, and then businesses grew."
While AQUA doesn't cover kiddie pools, Webb assumes they would have started out in a similar DIY fashion, with other equipment being repurposed, saying, "I'd bet people were using wash tubs and different smaller things long before anyone came out with a plastic kiddie pool." (This spirit of innovation among people who fancy a dip continues to this day with DIY works of genius like Philadelphia's dumpster pool and the Coachella-originated Swimming Containers.)
There are, of course, lots of uses for kiddie pools besides splashing around in them. Dogs love them, and they provide a perfect space for hosing down your hound. People use them to house miniature gardens or as substitute ponds for pet turtles. They can be used as storage solutions, as sandboxes, as carpet-saving devices for parents of messy painters or you can stack a bunch of them up to keep beers cool. The possibilities are endless.
However, they tend to look like crap.
While kiddie pools became incredibly common in households both with and without children, they were never things to show off. They were a means to an end — a way to keep your kids, your beer or your feet cool on a summer's day, and not much more. Largely available only in pale blue or emblazoned with off-model cartoon fish, they've never been the most grown-up of products. Country singer Joe Nichols used "Lawn chair, kiddie pool, soakin' up the sun" as a way of describing a proud lack of ambition in his 2007 single "It Ain't No Crime." If you were in a kiddie pool and weren't a kid, you weren't doing well — see Andrew McCarthy in Weekend At Bernie's, smoking in one and shouting, "This sucks, I am so unhappy."
Emily Vaca, the founder of Minnidip, the world's first designer inflatable pool brand, founded her company to fill a gap in the market she couldn't believe existed. "I grew up in a small city house with a tiny backyard in St. Louis, and my pool growing up was a metal stock tank, a big galvanized tin tub like animals would drink from on farms," she tells me. "They're super trendy now; they're called cowboy tubs. When I had a rooftop deck in Chicago I was throwing a party and wanted one of those, but it was a rental, and that much weight and that much water on the roof seemed like a bad idea. The only option was an inflatable kiddie pool, and my heart just sank. I'm a designer — I'd put all this attention to detail into the decor and this big blue pool would kill it. It stayed in the box."
Then, in the summer of 2015, the world went bonkers for novelty pool toys, as everyone's Instagram feed became dominated by images of celebrities on large inflatables. Taylor Swift's Fourth of July party, a collection of impossibly photogenic people cavorting on floating swans, sent the internet nuts. Vogue wrote: "The latest summer trend is all about inflatable float fever — with style to match. Taylor Swift had a fleet of floats at the ready for her Independence Day party, where friends including Gigi Hadid, Joe Jonas, Kendall Jenner, and Swift's boyfriend Calvin Harris were seen mounting oversize versions from luxury pool float company Funboy."
"The toy industry has really taken off in the last 10 or 15 years," says AQUA editor Webb. "The big inflatables, the glow-in-the-dark appliques that you put on the bottom of the pool, the floating beer coolers…" Where pool toys had previously just been for kids, Funboy marketed high-end, high-quality inflatables that millionaires looked good on. And, while living the same lifestyle or dressing the same as beautiful celebrities is out of the question for most people, they were just about accessible — over a hundred bucks for a toy swan is a lot of money, but not if it means guaranteed Likes, right?
They sold in astonishing numbers, with fast-fashion outlets immediately bringing out cheap lookalikes. "That had all exploded, but nobody was doing cute inflatable pools, and it seemed like such a missed opportunity," says Vaca. "Everything out there was still a sad blue pool or covered in cartoon fishes. There was nothing on the market that I would want to see in my own backyard."
Minnidip's "adult kiddie pools," beautifully printed and endlessly Instagrammable without a copyright-infringing Nemo-alike in sight, ended up in Target, Bloomingdales and Urban Outfitters (and Funboy subsequently started making their own pools), but good luck getting your hands on one right now. As soon as lockdowns were announced and millions of plans got cancelled, kiddie pools flew off shelves. The L.A Times described a kiddie pool in a hot, cramped city as an "emotional life raft, a 66-inch island of childlike joy in an ocean of pandemic upheaval." Vaca has seen pictures of her pools in people's living rooms with beach scenes playing on the TV behind them.
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Sales of inexpensive above-ground pools — like the ones that are pretty much a big bag in a frame — regularly soar, with heat waves leading to impulse purchases, but this year's rush is unprecedented, says Webb. "I've been in the pool industry for 20 years, and we've never seen an explosion of demand the way we have since the pandemic began. What happened with kiddie pools at Target also happened with built-ins, this enormous surge in demand with the supply chain getting crimped at the same time due to foreign suppliers unable to get their goods to the U.S. or factories shut down."
If you have access to a pool of any kind in these times, you're lucky — the coronavirus has somehow led to a point where sitting in the yard in a cheap inflatable designed for children can make you the envy of your friends. But that cheap inflatable is only there due to innovation, engineering, creativity and capitalism. In a way, the kiddie pool encapsulates the American Dream. Put like that, it's almost a shame to dip your sweaty ass in it.
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A team member from Campus IT support is cycling their way through more than 1,400 miles' worth of routes this year, to raise money for cancer research.
Simon Green, IT Support Assistant in Campus IT Support West, will initially take on the 112-mile Fred Whitton Challenge on 12 May 2019 – a route that totals of more than 3,900 metres of climbing, taking in five of the UK's hardest mountain passes including Kirkstone, Honister, Newlands and finishing with the brutal 33% gradient Hardknott & Wrynose Passes.
Later in the summer, he'll be covering 1,000 miles in one week, and on another day he is set to cycle from Nottingham to Brighton – a distance of 200 miles.
Finally, he will be taking part in the 95-mile 'Rise Above Sportive' event in August, where he'll be cycling in a team alongside event organiser Mark Cavendish.
Simon is fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support, and has currently raised nearly £2,000 for the charity this year throughout sponsorship of the events. Details can be found on his JustGiving page.


An artist, invited for a residence, gets an opportunity to familiarize him/herself with the local environment and cultural traditions. Experience of living in the territory, communication with local people and experts and professional activity during the residency form the basis for creating site-specific and other kinds of art-projects.
An interactive art research "Questions for the TRANSCITY of EKATERINBURG" by Erik Gongrich and Stefan Shankland within the international action "Museum Night – 2010".
In January 2009 Agnes Meyer-Brandis of the Research-Raft FFUR began a study of mineral treasures and meteor activity in the Urals, in and around Ekaterinburg. Intense explorations and fieldwork allowed her to make a projection: Ekaterinburg is very likely to face a collision with an NEO (Near Earth Object) on May 16th at 22:32 local time. According to calculations, the meteorite would have to touch ground on the field right behind the NCCA.


On 7 April 1874, Charlotte Maxeke was born. Activist. First Black South African woman to earn a degree. Leader of Bantu Women's League which became the ANC Women's League.
Her birthplace remains a bone of contention but Charlotte Maxeke's legacy as a woman visionary is cemented in the annals of South African history. She was born Charlotte Mmakgomo Manye on 7 April 1874 in either Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, or at Botlokwa Ga-Ramokgopa, in Polokwane District, in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.
She received a missionary education at Edwards Memorial School in the Eastern Cape in the early 1880s. After the discovery of diamonds, Maxeke moved to Kimberley with her family in 1885. While in Kimberley, she became a teacher.
As a dedicated churchgoer, Maxeke and her sister, Katie joined the African Jubilee Choir in 1891. Her singing talent attracted the attention of a Mr. K. V. Bam, a local choirmaster who was organizing an African choir to tour Europe. Charlotte's rousing success after her first solo performance in the Kimberley Town Hall immediately resulted in her appointment to the Europe-bound choir operation of which was taken over from Mr. Bam by a European.
The group left Kimberley in early 1896 and sang to numerous enthusiastic audiences in all of the major cities of Europe. Command royal performances, including one at Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubilee at London's Royal Albert Hall, added to their mounting prestige.
At the conclusion of the European tour, funds were made available to tour Canada and the United States. The results were the same, packed concert halls and delighted audiences, hearing the unique harmony of an African choir and Charlotte's unforgettable solos, for the first time. During this time Maxeke is said to have attended suffragette speeches by women such as Emmeline Pankhurst.
At the completion of the tour of the United States, the European organizer, without paying a single member of the choir, deserted it with all the funds and travel tickets, and could not be found. Charlotte Manye and the other choir members were left stranded and penniless on the streets of New York City.
The story of the stranded African singers quickly appeared in United States newspapers. Americans from many walks of life came to the choir's financial rescue. One of them, Bishop Daniel A. Payne, of the African Methodist Church (AME) in Ohio, a former missionary in the Cape Province of South Africa, recognized Charlotte Manye's name in the newspaper. He contacted her and offered her a church scholarship to Wilberforce University, the AME Church University in Xenia, Ohio. Charlotte gladly and wisely accepted the offer.
She excelled in all fields of academia. She was taught under the tutelage of Pan-Africanist scholar and proponent Dr. W.E.B Du Bois, and received an education that was focused on developing her as a future missionary in Africa.
In the late spring of 1903, Charlotte Manye achieved two very memorable things. She became the first black South African woman to earn a university degree, and she was betrothed to a fellow countryman and graduate, Dr. Marshall Maxeke, a Xhosa born on 1 November, 1874 at Middledrift, Cape Colony.
Viva Mbokodo! Woman of integrity, pity I can't emulate your actions, shoes too big to fill. But there are others who try,such as Pinky Khoabane! I salute your spirit, woman of strength!!
Kea leboha Ausi. Viva Mbokodo!


It is only a short walk from the Hotel to Piazza di Spagna. Its world-famous steps, the Spanish Steps, elicit strong emotions in just about everyone. The Hotel Savoy, thanks to its proximity to Piazza di Spagna, gives you the chance to start your walking tour of Rome here, taking via Ludovisi and several side streets all the way to the Trinità dei Monti and its gracious steps. Built by architect Francesco De Sanctis at the behest of Pope Benedict XIII between 1723 and 1725, the Spanish Steps were inaugurated by Pope Innocent XIII. It is one of the symbolic landmarks of Rome. The purpose of the grand travertine steps was to connect the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Church of the Trinità dei Monti above the piazza.
Every nook and cranny of Rome is steeped in history, every corner exudes the atmosphere of long ago places which are, at the same time, still real. Piazza di Spagna is, for example, a great place for grandiose high-end fashion shows. The blending of stunning piazzas and the beauty of the historical centre with haute couture is only possible in a city as marvelous as this one.


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Q: How to debug a stored procedure - Netezza Aginity Is there a way to test or debug a stored procedure step by step in Netezza Aginity?
What tool can I use to debug? or in Which option can I find the debug?
I am using Aginity Workbench for PureData System for Analytics
Thanks in advance


I have always been looking for a non-janky for aging attacks. Leech with steal youth seems prohibitively expensive in most cases and doesn't make the years disappear into the void. The main purpose of this was to make the point costs more grounded and in line with the actual effects. 10 or so years is what I think is the safe "area" for most PCs. In Ultra Tech settings aging damage is pretty much the same as real damage, that is temporary unless instantly fatal.
Aging has an "innate" unhealing enhancement going on, but in case its not permanent: Temporary -50%: Your attack is temporary aging rather than permanent, every time the victim would heal 1 HP but is at full HP he can instead roll against his or her "Original HT" meaning that if the victim had 13 HT originally, but lost a couple to aging rolls he would still roll against 13 not his "new" HT. Success returns 1 year, Failure and Critical Failure do nothing.
Good enhancements would be Malediction to make it works like a spell. Aura to make it, well an aura of aging. Cyclic with varying durations work fantastic as well. For Limitations Resistible is basically a staple unless using Malediction. Other great limitations would be Blood and Contact Agent as well as Sense based.


In this construction video tutorial, you will get some useful tips to apply realistic lighting with Vray 3.6 for Sketchup.
Shortcut for rectangular light: Suppose, you are going to produce a rectangular light and for this purpose choose first point (hold shift to manage direction). By default, the rectangle light only glares on the front face of the plane. Sometimes, it is required to flip the light once it is generated to keep it to point in the exact direction. By applying this shortcut, you just click on a point and hold down shift and click on the second point to form it. Now, a blue arrow will be visible and it shows the direction to which the light is pointing to, just shift the mouse to the other side to flip the light, click again to finish.
Shortcut for dome light: By default, there is an elementary HDRI loaded while generating it. But, when you hold shift and click, then it does not contain any texture. You can hold control and click to load the texture while placing the light.
Shortcut for spot light: Generally, just click wherever it is required to generate a spot light, then shift and twirl the light and at the end make modifications in the settings. But, applying the shortcut, just hold shift and click on a starting point. Now, it becomes possible to shift the mouse to modify the direction of the spotlight. You can also get the option to modify the angle of the cone. Besides, you can select the penumbra angle also. It is also possible to fix the direction and view the impact of the spotlight comfortably.
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April 30 1920/2020
Montrose – Claude Graham and Miss Beatrice Henry, of South Montrose, came to Montrose to have the nuptial knot tied and with the firm resolve to have Rev. Gillespie tie it. They proceeded at once to the parsonage, where they were informed that the greatly desired parson was not at home, and therefore, unable to officiate at their marriage. Undaunted they inquired as to where the Rev. might be found, and learning he was at the Voss garage, went thereto straightway, where the ceremony was performed. Several auto mechanics, together with the proprietor of the garage, were among the spectators to the unusual event. Rev. Gillespie's fame with young people, with matrimonial knots to be tied, quite unwittingly enhanced his fame by leaps and bounds. ALSO D. J. Donovan is excavating under part of the Tarbell House, on the Maple street side, to put in an up-to-date lunchroom. ALSO A miscreant broke into the parochial residence of St. Mary's church and stole 8 gallons of sacramental wine, This is certainly a dastardly piece of business, for this wine is not only expensive (over $3 a gallon) but, owing to present laws, is difficult to procure, much red tape being necessary to obtain shipments. This wine contains a very small percentage of alcohol, around one percent—being very sweet and when taken in even small quantities, makes the person very ill.
Susquehanna – The absorbing question in this town of late has been the "walk-out" of the railroad men and its results. Both Port Jervis and Susquehanna were decided up-to-date not to return to work, consequently very little business is being done in either the east or west bound yards.
Springville – A cold, backward spring is delaying farmers with their work, and help is very hard to get. ALSO The show, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was largely attended, people coming from miles away. Seating capacity was all taken up.
Hop Bottom – The Shakespeare Club met with Mrs. Geo. Finn last Friday afternoon. Dainty refreshments were served. After the usual work of the Club a pleasing musical program was given under the direction off Mrs. Cora Miller.
Uniondale – Charles H. Carpenter has sold his farm on South Main street. It is one of the best-equipped farms of this part of the country. The buildings are arranged with all possible conveniences. The farm has been in the Carpenter family for many years. The price paid was $6,000.
Gibson – Kenneth Craft and Miss Flossie May Wilmot were married at the Methodist parsonage on April 22, 1920. After dodging showers of confetti and several auto loads of friends, they finally outstripped the autos with their famous pacing mare and took the train at New Milford for parts known only to themselves.
Forest City – Another Civil War veteran, Joseph G. Wescott, answered the last roll call on April 26. He was born at Glenwood 75 years ago and about 50 years ago was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Tourje, of Glenwood. The family came to Forest City thirty-two years ago and continued their residence until seven years ago when they removed to a farm in Clifford township. Five children were born to them. For many years Mr. Wescott served as constable in Forest City and was a partner in the Clinton Falls Coal Company. Funeral will be held from the home of Mrs. Martin Wescott and interment will be made in the Tower Cemetery in Lenox Twp.
West Lenox – An old friend, Dave Hardy, of New Milford, was at church Sunday. He is one of our Civil War veterans and we are always glad to see him. ALSO Oscar Reynolds underwent an operation for appendicitis, April 14, at his home. He is gaining nicely.
Lake View, Jackson Twp. – Miles Tyler has a Cleveland tractor on trial. It will plow or pull out autoists. He has used it more for the latter.
Choconut Valley – Many from St. Joseph, Middletown, Little Meadows and S. Vestal, attended the box social held at Julia Curley's school house, Wednesday evening last. Everyone reported a good time.
Keeney Pond, Auburn Twp. – The roads in this vicinity are in a horrible condition. It seems a pity, with such taxes, that we cannot have better roads. Even a "Tin Lizzie" should be insured before venturing out. ALSO The 1920 graduating class from Auburn High School consisted of Grace E. Galvin, Mildred R. Stevens, Elna Mae Pierson (valedictorian), and Richard S. Davis. Teachers were Prof. L. M. Payne and Miss Agnes E. Brotzman.
New Milford – The school board has retained the present corps of teachers for another year, at salaries ranging from $20 to $25 per month higher than this year. This action was taken because of the demand for competent teachers all over the country and the high salaries being offered. New Milford has never had a more successful school than this year, and it will be good news that there is to be the same efficient management.
Clifford – Frank Tennant, one of the best-known hotelmen of this section of the state, died on April 17, 1920. He was born in Gibson in1858, married Miss Nellie Spedding, of Clifford and was the father of two children. Mr. Tennant purchased the Clifford Hotel and made it into a popular resort, which reputation is still enjoyed with its present owner, Walter Spedding, brother of Mrs. Tennant. After the sale of the Clifford Hotel he purchased the Valley View Hotel at Foster (Hop Bottom), and several other hotels, the last being the Phinney Hotel at New Milford. Frank Tennant had a host of friends who will miss him and mourn because they can greet him no more. His remains were laid to rest in the family plot ion the new cemetery in Clifford.
A Recipe: Here is the recipe for the Salvation Army doughnut. If you do not think it is the best ever, ask any of the boys who were "over there." This is the formula from which all the doughnuts for the men of the A. E. F. were made. There is something magic in it, for it worked wonders when used under worse conditions than exist in your kitchen. Here it is: 5 cups of flour; 2 cups of sugar; 5 teaspoonfuls of baking powder; 1 spoonful of salt; 2 eggs; ¾ cup of milk; 1 tablespoonful of lard. Knead and cut and drop in boiling lard. The Salvation Army lassies who made these doughnuts in France say that a happy smile, added to the doughnuts at the time of serving, makes them even more delightful. ALSO Remember the steam kettle—although up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
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Q: Shader de React Shadertoy no se actualiza Estoy usando el componente Shadertoy en React para visualizar un shader en glsl. Al inicio se visualiza correctamente, pero si actualizo el shader (string) se sigue visualizando la versión anterior, a pesar de que el cambio si es recibido por el componente (lo compruebo imprimiendo la cadena con
.
Este es el código:
function Shader(props) {
  useEffect(() => {}, [props.shader]);

  return (
    <>
      <Ratio ratio={1}>
        <ShadertoyReact fs={props.shader} />
      </Ratio>

{props.shader}

    </>
  );
}

¿Es este el comportamiento esperado o estoy cometiendo algún fallo?
Gracias.

A: Solución
Una solución es forzar el renderizado del componente ShadertoyReact.
Para lograr esto puedes pasarle el atributo key al componente, ya que cuando éste cambie, react lo volverá a renderizar.
Esto sería:
function Shader(props) {
  useEffect(() => {}, [props.shader]);

  return (
    <>
      <Ratio ratio={1}>
        <ShadertoyReact fs={props.shader} key={props.shader}/>
      </Ratio>

{props.shader}

    </>
  );
}

Explicación
Cada vez que el atributo key cambie, es decir, cuando cambies el prop shader, react volverá a renderizar el componente ShadertoyReact y por lo tanto estaras forzando a que se vuelva a construir dicho componente y que tome el cambio del shader.

Si esto no funciona directamente, entonces prueba creando un hook de estado (useState) para el shader:
function Shader(props) {
  const [shader, setShader] = useState(props.shader);
  useEffect(() => {
   setShader(props.shader); // Cada vez que cambie el prop shader se actualizará el hook `shader`.
  }, [props.shader]);

// Utilizamos el hook en vez del prop (Aunque creo que debería funcionar en el ejemplo anterior sin el hook
  return (
    <>
      <Ratio ratio={1}>
        <ShadertoyReact fs={shader} key={shader}/>
      </Ratio>

{shader}

    </>
  );
}

¿Es este el comportamiento esperado o estoy cometiendo algún fallo?

Al parecer el componente ShadertoyReact no está escuchando los cambios del atributo fs y por lo tanto no vuelve a renderizarse cuando hay un cambio en el mismo.


The difference between working in a studio or on location is how you can use the space. In a studio, as a photographer, you often stand in front of the background, so that the photo becomes flat in the beginning, you can influence that by using studio lamps in which you can get more dynamics in a photo with light and shadow.
The advantage of working on location is that you can adjust the angle relative to a background more easily, where I am standing next to the background with this photo, which helps the background to create depth and guide the viewer through the photo.
At the back is soft sunlight which lights up her hair beautifully and at the front the model gets soft fill light to illuminate her face and to give the bright spots in her eyes.


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Ernst Tillich (* 27. Juni 1910 in Marienwerder, Provinz Westpreußen; † 16. März 1985 in Düsseldorf) war ein deutscher Theologe. Tillich war langjähriger Vorsitzender der Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit.

Leben
Sein Vater war der Amtsgerichtsrat Franz Tillich, seine Mutter eine geborene von Richthofen. Der Religionsphilosoph Paul Tillich ist sein Onkel. Nach dem Besuch des humanistischen Gymnasiums Steglitz studierte Ernst Tillich Theologie an den Hochschulen Berlin, Bonn und Tübingen.

Nach dem ersten theologischen Examen war er Assistent an der Berliner Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität und später Vikar in einer Gemeinde der Bekennenden Kirche in Kleinmachnow bei Berlin. Während seiner Zeit an der Universität gehörte er einem Studentenkreis Dietrich Bonhoeffers an und nahm an der Ökumenischen Jugendkonferenz des Weltbundes für Freundschaftsarbeit der Kirchen 1934 auf Fanø teil. Wegen seines angeblich "unmoralischen Lebenswandels" musste Tillich den kirchlichen Dienst bald wieder verlassen.

1936 verhaftete die Gestapo Tillich und Werner Koch wegen ihrer Weitergabe einer Denkschrift der Bekennenden Kirche an Hitler an die ausländische Presse. Die DDR-Propaganda beschrieb dies später als "nachrichtenhändlerische" Tätigkeiten für ausländische Presseagenturen wie United Press, Reuters und Agence Havas. Er verbrachte mehr als drei Jahre im Gestapo-Gefängnis Alexanderplatz in Einzelhaft und im KZ Sachsenhausen.  Nach seiner Entlassung 1939 wurde Tillich beim Elektrokonzern Siemens & Halske eingesetzt, bis er zu Jahresbeginn 1942 zur Wehrmacht eingezogen wurde. Seine Einsatzorte waren Holland und Belgien.

Nach dem  Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde er in Fürstenfeldbruck bei München Leiter des Jugendamtes und Stellvertreter des Landrats. Ein Jahr später übersiedelte Ernst Tillich nach Berlin und wurde im Bereich Sozialpolitik tätig und war Redaktionsmitglied der von Otto Suhr herausgegebenen Halbmonatsschrift Das sozialistische Jahrhundert, die von 1946 bis 1950 in Berlin erschien. Er wurde zudem Kuratoriumsmitglied im Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus.

Mit Wirkung vom 21. März 1950 trat Tillich in die Geschäftsleitung der Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit ein. Tillich bildete dort zusammen mit Rainer Hildebrandt, Ernst Benda, Günther Birkenfeld, Herbert Geissler, Peter Lorenz und Albrecht Tietze den leitenden Vorstand. 1951 wurde Tillich Leiter der KgU.

Am 24. April 1958 gab er die Leitung der KgU an Adolf Hellwig ab. Tillichs Bild erschien am 2. Juli 1958 auf der Titelseite des Spiegel. Nach seinem Ausscheiden aus der Organisation und dem Ende der KgU am 12. März 1959 trat Tillich politisch nicht mehr öffentlich hervor und ging einer beruflichen Tätigkeit im Krankenhauswesen nach.

Er war seit 1951 mit Anita Walter verheiratet und verstarb 1985 in Düsseldorf.

Partei
Ernst Tillich war ab 1945 Mitglied der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD), aus der er im November 1952 wegen Versäumnis seiner statuarischen Pflichten ausgeschlossen wurde. Die sozialdemokratische Zeitung Telegraf merkte hierzu an, dass die Leitung der Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit, rsp. Tillich "Dinge unternommen und gefördert habe", "die der Durchsetzung solcher Schauprozesse (siehe oben) mindestens sehr entgegengekommen" seien.

Literatur
 Kai-Uwe Merz: Kalter Krieg als antikommunistischer Widerstand. Die Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit 1948–1959. Oldenbourg, München 1987, ISBN 3-486-54371-7.
 Unmenschlichkeit als System. Dokumentarbericht über die "Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit e.V." Berlin-Nikolassee, Ernst-Ring-Straße 2–4. Kongress-Verlag  Berlin 1957.
 Martin Greschat (Hrsg.): Zwischen Widerspruch und Widerstand. Texte zur Denkschrift der Bekennenden Kirche an Hitler (1936). Kommentiert und herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Achim Glaum. Kaiser, München 1987, ISBN 3-459-01708-2 (Studienbücher zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte 6) ISBN 3-459-01708-2.

 Ein Mann der Initiative, Die Zeit, 30. März 1950
 Umstrittener Tillich, Sabina Lietzmann für Die Zeit Nr. 29/1955, S. 2, vom 21. Juli 1955

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