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REBELLION Racing P4 and P5 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019
At the end of a complicated race, Team REBELLION Racing finished the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans P4 and P5. The FIA WEC Super Season is now over, REBELLION Racing finished vice-world champion LMP1 and first non-Hybrid Team!
REBELLION Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019
After unveiling the two 24 Hours of Le Mans special liveries, REBELLION Racing is about to start the crazy Le Mans week!
REBELLION Racing X RocketByz
Within the scope of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rebels Racing and Watchmaking Team has created a bright brand-new collaboration with RocketByz.
REBELLION Racing first non-Hybird Team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans
At the end of a strong race, Team No. 3 REBELLION Racing finishes third overall and first Team non-Hybrid. The REBELLION R-13 No. 1 finishes fourth overall.
REBELLION Racing will start the 24 Hours of Le Mans P3 and P5
At the end of the three qualifying sessions, the REBELLION R-13 cars #1 and #3 will start the 24 Hours of Le Mans in third and fifth positions on the starting grid.
REBELLION Racing on the way to the 24 Hours of Le Mans
After a good preparation, the REBELLION Racing Team is going to start the crazy Le Mans week!
A historical podium for Vaillante REBELLION
REBELLION Racing dreamt of reaching the podium in LMP1 at the 24H of Le Mans, Michel Vaillant was facing a Porsche in the latest "RÉBELLION" album :
Vaillante REBELLION got to the general podium alongside a Porsche LMP1 for these 85th 24 Hours of Le Mans!
MICHEL VAILLANT MAKES A GRAND COMEBACK AT LE MANS 24 HOURS WITH MOTUL AND REBELLION RACING


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2014-15Top 16Round 12
Olympiacos Piraeus 86
Anadolu Efes Istanbul 75
March 26, 2015 CET: 20:45
Local time: 21:45 PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP STADIUM
Olympiacos rallies past Efes 86-75 to storm into playoffs!
In an epic battle that neither team led by more than 6 points through the first 35 minutes, Olympiacos Piraeus owned the finish to take an 86-75 victory over visiting Anadolu Efes Istanbul and punch its ticket to the playoffs on Thursday. Despite playing without three injured regulars - Vassilis Spanoulis, Kostas Sloukas and Brent Petway - Olympiacos raised its record to 9-3 in Top 16 Group F and assured its place in the next round. Efes dropped to 5-7 but stayed tied for the fourth and final playoff spot. The game was marked by Dusan Ivkovic coaching from the Peace and Friendship Stadium visiting bench in a Euroleague game for the first time since he and Olympiacos won their second title together in 2012. His Efes team put up a battle that featured 10 lead changes and 10 ties during the first three-and-a-half quarters as Stratos Perperoglou matched his career high with 5 three-pointers against his former team. But Olympiacos found a spark in Ioannis Papapetrou, who had played just 12 minutes in two games this season before Thursday. His 10 points in 5 minutes to start the final quarter rallied the Reds offense to score 33 points in that quarter on the way to victory. Oliver Lafayette led the winenrs with 17 points, while Georgios Printezis scored 14 and pulled 12 rebounds, matching his career high on the boards. Papapetrou added 12 points, Othello Hunter and Vangelis Mantzaris 10 each. Perperoglou led Efes with 23, while Nenad Krstic added 12 and Dario Saric 10 plus 10 rebounds.
First quarter: Late push lifts Reds
Defenses rules for the first few possessions until Tremmel Darden hit an open three-pointer in transition to get the scoreboard rolling. Perperoglou soon popped a jumper for Efes, but Olympiacos got another three-ball from Mantzaris to make it 6-2. Saric bulled his way in for one basket then repeated the process and added a free throw for 5 consecutive points and his team's first lead, 6-7. A spin and layup got a brief lead back for Olympiacos, but only until Matt Janning was left open for the first three-pointer by Efes at 8-10. After a timeout, the Olympiacos offense repeated its mistake, leaving Janning free in the same corner for another triple. Bryant Dunston answered with a layup, but after Saric hit a free throw, Efes got a steal and fastbreak from Perperoglou to make it 10-16. Matt Lojeski and Hunter also scored inside for Olympiacos to set up a big finish that saw Printezis blast a go-ahead triple from the corner for a 17-16 lead after 10 minutes.
Second quarter: Perperoglou leads Efes to tie
Free throws by Milko Bjelica took the lead back for Efes. Krstic, back from injury, dropped a hook of his own and assisted Bjelica on another to put the visitors up 17-22, forcing an Olympiacos timeout. Dimitris Katsivelis entered to spark the hosts with a layup and a steal that led to another on the fastbreak by Lafayette. After Bjelica finished an Efes fastbreak, Hunter slammed a lob. Birkan Batuk hit a three-pointer for the visitors that Lafayette answered with a two-point jumper, but Efes stayed ahead 25-27. Papapetrou, playing in just his third game this season, spun for a game-tying layup, which set up Lafayette for the go-ahead drop shot from the lane. Hunter ripped and returned an offensive rebound for a 31-28 Olympiacos lead. Perperoglou got 2 points back at the foul line and soon hit a step-back jumper to re-teak the lead, 32-33, for Efes. Krstic's finger roll added to the lead before Printezis broke loose for a sharp one-handed slam. With a timeout to set up the quarter's final play, Olympiacos found Dunston, who hit a free throw after 3 previous misses to forge a 35-35 tie at halftime.
Third quarter: Heurtel keeps Efes ahead
Perperoglou broke the tie with an open three-pointer right after the break, but at the other end, his former teammate Printezis matched him to make it 38-38. Efes did a good job of finding Krstic, who earned 4 perfect free throws before Dunston finished a pick-and-roll layup at 40-42. Mantzaris drove the lane to tie the score briefly, and after Krstic scored inside, Hunter did the same at 44-44. The game's top scorer so far, Perperoglou, found another three-pointer, his third. Mantzaris again drove inside, but Thomas Heurtel copied his teammate from the arc, giving Efes a 46-50 lead. Krstic got called for an unsportsmanlike foul, giving Lafayette a free throw that he added to with a driving layup to make it 49-50. Batuk then stepped up with a three-pointer for Efes. Hunter returned with a turnaround hook before Lojeski fed Printezis on the break for another tie, 53-53. Krstic made 1 of 2 free throws to restore Efes's lead, then Heurtel was ice-cold hitting a fastbreak three-pointer to make it 53-57 for Efes after 30 minutes.
Fourth quarter: Papapetrou leads take-over run
Papapetrou woke up the crowd with a triple to open the final quarter. After he forced a turnover on Efes, Papapetrou got to the foul line to tie it up, 57-57. And when his second free throw missed, an offensive rebound let Lafayette drive for the first Olympiacos lead of the second half, 59-58. Only seconds later, however, Perperoglou drilled another three-pointer, after which Bjelica's free throws upped the Efes lead to 59-62. Papapetrou again came to the rescue for Olympiacos with a back-down basket and free throw for a new tie, 62-62. Mantzaris found Dunston for a go-ahead basket, but Saric returned and hit free throws to make it 64-64. Lafayette stepped back and drilled a three-pointer. Saric made 2 more free throws, but then Papapetrou stopped and popped a triple to make it 70-66 with 5 minutes left. Lafayette then drilled his own shot from the arc to lift the crowd to its feet. After an Efes timeout, Batuk dialled up a restorative three-pointer for the guests, but Lafayette fed Dunston for a dunk and then Printezis hit his patented one-hander from the lane to make it 77-69. Perperoglou tried to revive Efes with a jumper, but Lojeski appeared out of nowhere with a triple for a nine-point lead, 80-71. A Krstic free throw and yet another triple from Perperoglou made it 80-75, but Printezis snuffed it out with a huge shot from the arc going into the final minute. When Lojeski scored on the break, it marked the first double-digit lead of the game, 86-75, and meant an early qualification to the playoffs for Olympiacos and their delighted home crowd.
Referees: VIATOR, EDDIE; ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; JIMENEZ, BENJAMIN
Olympiacos Piraeus 17 18 18 33
Anadolu Efes Istanbul 16 19 22 18
Olympiacos Piraeus
5 HUNTER, OTHELLO 19:48 10 5/8 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 11
6 DUNSTON, BRYANT 20:05 9 4/7 1/4 1 3 4 2 2 1 3 3 10
9 PAPAPETROU, IOANNIS 14:11 12 2/3 2/4 2/4 2 5 10
14 CHRISTODOULOU, ANTREAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS 28:43 15 3/6 3/5 3 9 12 2 1 19
16 AGRAVANIS, DIMITRIS 11:24 0/2 2 2 3 -3
17 MANTZARIS, VANGELIS 31:19 10 3/6 1/3 1/2 5 5 7 2 1 4 5 14
18 KAVVADAS, VASILEIOS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
19 KATSIVELIS, DIMITRIS 7:01 2 1/1 0/1 1 1 1 3
20 LAFAYETTE, OLIVER 20:43 17 5/7 2/7 1/2 2 2 3 2 3 15
21 DARDEN, TREMMELL 19:17 3 0/1 1/3 1 1 1 1
24 LOJESKI, MATT 27:29 8 2/4 1/3 1/1 1 5 6 6 1 1 3 2 15
Totals 200:00 86 25/43 10/27 6/14 10 32 42 19 4 8 1 1 19 21 102
58.1% 37% 42.9%
Head coach: SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
4 BALBAY, DOGUS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6 OSMAN, CEDI 8:35 0/3 0/2 0/2 1 1 1 1 2 2 -6
7 PERPEROGLOU, STRATOS 31:43 23 3/5 5/10 2/2 4 4 4 1 17
8 BATUK, BIRKAN 18:47 9 3/4 2 2 3 1 8
9 SARIC, DARIO 33:02 10 2/4 0/2 6/7 1 9 10 2 1 1 1 5 21
10 DRAPER, DONTAYE 21:04 0/1 0/1 3 3 1 1 2 1 2
12 KRSTIC, NENAD 23:03 12 3/6 6/8 1 3 4 3 1 1 3 5 16
13 LASME, STEPHANE 8:24 0/2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1
22 KORKMAZ, FURKAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23 JANNING, MATT 15:54 6 0/1 2/4 1 3 -1
31 HEURTEL, THOMAS 24:15 6 0/3 2/3 2 2 7 2 2 1 8
51 BJELICA, MILKO 15:13 9 2/6 0/2 5/6 2 1 3 1 1 1 3 7
Totals 200:00 75 10/31 12/28 19/25 6 29 35 17 3 8 1 1 21 19 77
Head coach: IVKOVIC, DUSAN
SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
"It's a very important win. With all the problems we had, our offense was much better after halftime. We scored 51 points, and we had continuity on defense. We scored some baskets that we missed in the first half - three-point shots, mainly - and that made the difference. All the injuries and having players out of the squad made the others fight with more aggressiveness to give us this very big win."
IVKOVIC, DUSAN
"Congratulations to Olympiacos, because they played a very good game and deserved to win. We tried to play our basketball and did it, but only for 30 minutes. Then, in the last quarter, Olympiacos outscored us, hit 6 out of 8 three pointers and destroyed our defense. We didn't have the right reaction and now we have to find ourselves and try to win the last two games. I want to thank Olympiacos for the award ceremony, the warm reception and the big moment I experienced once again here. I wish them all the best."
PAPAPETROU, IOANNIS
"Victory and the big team effort are what counts tonight, not my individual performance. All the guys tried to play hard and give their best. I think that our big heart was the key to overcome the absences and beat Anadolu Efes. We played like a fist."
MANTZARIS, VANGELIS
"We recorded a very big win tonight and I am really proud of my team, my teammates and the whole team. With Spaonoulis, Sloukas, Petway and Tsairelis unable to play, all the other guys had to give something more than usually and it worked out. Every player has his own role, but sometimes you have to overcome it. I am proud for one more reason; Olympiacos and Barcelona are the only teams that have advanced for ten consecutive seasons to the Euroleague's playoffs, which is an outstanding achievement."
HUNTER, OTHELLO
"In the locker room, Coach Sfairopoulos was very clear. He told us to keep fighting and fight again and fight until the end. We played hard and the result is fair. Now we will go to Moscow for another big fight."
PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS
"We had the right reaction after the two consecutive losses and this makes me very happy. We found the path to score in the last quarter and to win a very important game, to stay alive in the battle for getting the home-court advantage in the playoffs. However this is not the end of the world, because I think that we can beat any team in any place."
PERPEROGLOU, STRATOS
"It is a very strange feeling for me to return and play against my previous team, where I played the best basketball in my career. I spent here two great seasons and I will remember it forever. I want to thank the club and the fans for the award they offered to me and the reception. Olympiacos deserved to win and I wish for them to go to the Final four. Despite their very serious absences, they managed to score 33 points in the fourth quarter and killed us. To play against such an opponent, you have to remain focused and play a consistent game for 40 minutes, something that we did not do tonight. Fortunately Laboral Kutxa lost tonight and we have still our hopes to make it to the playoffs."
Zalgiris Kaunas 72
FC Barcelona 83
March 25 18:45 CET LIVE FINAL
Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 68
Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 84
Panathinaikos Athens 86
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 75
Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 78
Unicaja Malaga 63
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 99
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 85
Nizhny Novgorod 82

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Another change that transformed the religious world of Catholics was a new understanding of sin. The traditional concept of sin was grounded in a system of laws, some of which were rooted in Scripture or the natural law, while others were promulgated by the church. The new Catholic morality argued for a more personal, less legalistic, approach to sin. The virtue of love became primary, together with the individual conscience. The implications of this shift, publicized in both scholarly and popular works, was tremendous. Perhaps most dramatic was the decline in confession. A 1974 study found that only 17 percent of the Catholics surveyed went to confession monthly, compared to 37 percent in 1963. Soon form followed function, and reconciliation rooms, where priest and penitent could interact face to face, replaced the dark confessional box. Penitential services became popular, and on some occasions a public general absolution replaced private confessions. (434).
For those who say nothing changed after Vatican II, Dolan is a contrary voice and a recognized authority on Roman Catholicism in the United States to boot (not a blogger or apologist).
Of course, while wearing my OPC hat, I think that about the PCUSA. But I can't get away with that in the mainstream publishing world without running the risk of being ostracized from the profession as the Gary North of American historians. Call me a coward. But historians of American religion cannot make certain claims about communions everyone knows to be theologically accurate because they don't want to admit that the fundamentalists had a point.
It could also be a function of 2k. What is acceptable for churchmen's judgments is not so for professional historical scholarship. We don't always succeed but we do try to keep theological judgments from informing historical analysis. Sometimes that's artificial. But it's also the case that professional academics is not the place to settle ecclesiastical conflicts.
Still, why do those academic calculations not apply to Jay Dolan, the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States, or Doubleday? Is it a function of academic seniority? Once you acquire tenure you can write whatever you want?
Or is it that what Dolan said is actually good history and that converts and apologists have yet to catch up with the church they've joined and celebrated?
I can't speak to scholarship proprieties, but, yea, the converts don't own the communion they now claim to champion on the internet. Which makes their church solely a virtual church. Vat II isn't getting rolled back and pastoral application is what the charism equips the clergy and the laity to do. Not sure what's so difficult to grasp about what Dolan is claiming, other than the converts haven't been adequately catechized, weren't there or are essentially protesting in the pews.
Letme, the irony is that history is one of the biggest appeals to converts — all that history before Luther. But they are as Cafeteria as Commonweal. There's all that history after Luther too.
Who is saying this again?
I wonder if he means something along the lines of Situation Ethics.
James Young, that would be YOU. You know, the church always has dissidents and heretics. But no dogma has changed, just pastoral practice.
[Hillary] has the education, the experience, the social consciousness, the worldview, understanding and contacts to lead.
Is she flawed after years of service and decision-making under the public microscope? She'd better be! Has she stumbled? Has she changed her mind, her positions? Have you grown over the past 25 years?
No one in public life is clean. If you're looking for a virgin, you're dreaming. She attempts to get things done for the public good. Sometimes she succeeds; sometimes she fails, like an American, like a human. Sometimes she gets conspiracy theorists all riled up looking for drama where there is none.
Rome as Hillary, or Rome's apologists as Hillary defenders.
Oh, how the audacious have fallen.
Me (all about)? You must be confused – I agree things changed after Vat2. Boniface agrees. Dogma did not change. Boniface agrees. Church always has dissidents and heretics. Boniface agrees. Rome has problems and has made mistakes and stumbles (just like Hillary). Boniface agrees.
what if I wrote this about the PCUSA after the OPC's formation?
Would it make a difference if you were a PCUSA'er?
b, sd, it would a little but it could also get you branded in the PCUSA as — eeegads — a Machen sympathizer.


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New program 'welds' path to jobs, career
By Tessa Roy
By TESSA ROY Rhode Island government officials united Thursday to celebrate the opening of Warwick's new Marine Trades program. Mayor Scott Avedisian, Senator Mike McCaffrey, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Jack Reed, Representative Jim Langevin,
Posted Tuesday, November 8, 2016 11:50 am
Rhode Island government officials united Thursday to celebrate the opening of Warwick's new Marine Trades program. Mayor Scott Avedisian, Senator Mike McCaffrey, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Jack Reed, Representative Jim Langevin, Governor Gina Raimondo and members of Warwick's City Council, School Committee, and school administration all appeared at Toll Gate High School to voice their support for the program.
"Warwick is proud to showcase our new Marine Trades CTE program, which already is offering an engaging, hands-on and directly relevant education to motivated students who will soon help Rhode Island meet the hiring needs of Electric Boat as well as marinas, boat builders and other maritime-related employers in Warwick and throughout the state," Avedisian said.
The Warwick Area Career and Technical Center's expanded Marine Trades CTE program now has five state-of-the-art welding booths, a curriculum approved by the American Boat and Yacht Council and National Center for Construction Education and Research, and new textbooks. It currently serves 30 students, 22 from Warwick and eight from West Warwick, and is open to public high school students from around the state.
General Dynamics Electric Boat (EB) is a partner in the program.
Sean Davies, General Dynamics Electric Boat Vice President – Quonset Point Operations said the program will provide EB with educated, motivated employees with the necessary skills to perform effectively at their jobs.
"We are proud to take part in this innovative effort, which represents the active roles Rhode Island, local school systems and industry are taking to build the educated work force required to compete and succeed in the 21st century," he said.
Langevin agreed, saying EB would be helpful to students as well.
"Working with EB, students are going to be able to experience firsthand the opportunities that really do awaken right here in Rhode Island," he said. "Graduates of this program will be able to identify the right path not just for a job, but for a career."
Marine Trades instructor Christopher Bianco said the new Toll Gate location is beneficial since it is right next to the Career and Tech Center. Before, recruiting might have been difficult for them with students having to travel across the city on buses when they did their assessments, but now they are much closer.
Bianco said Toll Gate administration and Superintendent Philip Thornton have been supportive as the program transitioned from its former location at Warwick Vets.
"They're behind us 100 percent. Basically whatever we've needed to make ourselves successful, they've been able to come forward and give it to us," he said.
Thornton called Bianco "inspiring and tireless" and said he was proud to have the program expanding here in Warwick.
Raimondo's central job-training initiative, Real Jobs Rhode Island, awarded a grant of $369,500 to an EB-led maritime sector partnership that helped fund Warwick's new Marine Trades module. In addition, all levels of government, several funding streams, and other public and private educational partners have supported the new Warwick Marine Trades CTE program. These include $70,000 from The City of Warwick: $70,000, a $115,000 competitive grant from the Rhode Island Department of Education, $50,000 in Perkins Act funding from the U.S. Department of Education (This funding has been spread out over several years. Not all $50,000 has been spent just this year on just this project), and approximately $5,000 for Marine Trades textbooks (NCCER's formal Marine Trades curriculum) from the U.S. Department of Labor – Real Jobs RI.
The Community College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island, and New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) all have contributed to and have roles in implementing RI's strategic workforce plan for EB. In addition, instructors in the ship-fitting programs have received training from NEIT's Shipbuilding Marine Trades and Advanced Manufacturing Institute, also in Warwick. All instructors have been certified in Maritime Trades from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (US Department of Labor).
Governor Raimondo thanked those on all levels that worked on the program and said it would change lives.
"We're all in for you guys. Your success is Rhode Island's success, and your future is Rhode Island's future," she said.
GETTING INVOLVED:
Senator Whitehouse, Governor Raimondo, Mayor Avedisian, Representative Langevin, Senator Michael McCaffrey, and Senator Reed sport protective helmets to watch a welding demonstration by students. (Warwick Beacon photos)
ALL SMILES:
From left: Marine Trades instructor Christopher Bianco, Career and Tech Center Principal William McCaffrey, Secondary Director Bob Littlefield, Superintendent Thornton, Mayor Avedisian, Governor Raimondo, pose with students Aubra Palazzo, Braelyn Caddick, Kaitlin Lamothe, Mike Negri, Tyler Niemi, Rich Chabbot, SkillsUSARI State Officer Anthony Oliver, and WACTC SkillsUSA Leadership Team Taylor Carlson inside the new classroom.
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Q: I want to copy a file's name into the document using bash I'm fairly new to using bash.
I have several hundred documents, each named QP1172, QP1474, QP9926, etc.  I need the name of the file to be in the first row of the document (so QP1172 for example would be in row 1 of the document QP1172.txt).
Does anyone know how I could do this?  Thank you!

A: You could do something like
for f in QP????.txt; do echo $f | cat - $f >$f.withname; done

to create new files QP1172.txt.withname etc., and then replace the old ones with them after checking that everything looks ok.
(cat here concatenates the name (given on standard input) with the file contents of each file.)
ADDED: To make it easier to let the new versions get the right name afterwards it might be easier to let them have the same name, but in another directory.
mkdir withname
for f in QP????.txt; do echo $f | cat - $f >withname/$f; done

A: You could use sed to insert a line at the beginning:
for f in QP*; do
    sed -i "1i$f" "$f"
done

1i$f means "insert a line containing the value of $f before line 1".

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In The Mood To Program.
I took a trip over to Barnes & Noble last night to peruse their computer book selection. I didn't buy anything, but I saw several books that I'll probably add to my collection sometime down the road here. It's really nice to have not just one, but two B&N's in town because without a doubt they provide the best computer book selection in Eastern Washington. While I like ordering things online as much as the next guy (probably more in fact) I like the instant gratification factor that a large bookstore provides.
I haven't beaten Pillars of Garendall yet, but I'm fairly close. At some point a few days back I completely lost my urge to play. Part of that was related to the annoying sound loss/save game bug that I've been working around since the beginning, but the rest of it is wanting to get back to doing more productive things like the programming projects that I've had floating around in the back of my mind for months now.
Incidentally I'm hoping that the sound loss/save game bug will be fixed by MacOS X 10.1 which I have on order, but also hope to pick up tomorrow at my nearby CompUSSR.


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"Russian Roulette" - an Excerpt
When I buy books, I tend to buy used - on the cheap. At the moment I'm working my way through an autobiography of Frederick Douglas, the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and a third century text, a field manual on the proper recruiting, training, equipping and deployment of a Roman legion. A bit obscure, perhaps, but easily had for just a few bucks a volume on the used market.
Breaking with my parsimonious pattern I dipped into my lunch money to buy a copy of Michael Isikoff and David Corn's new book, Russian Roulette, The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.
I've only made it through the first two chapters but, overall, I find the book pretty helpful. By now we've been inundated with leaks and news reports about Donald Trump, Vlad Putin, Obama and Clinton and all the bit players. Isikoff and Corn are rehashing a lot of stuff we've already read but they're presenting it collated, organized chronologically. The authors don't connect the dots so much as they present them in a manner in which the reader, with perhaps a better understanding of their meaning, can then connect for him/herself. What might have been a collection of anecdotal curiosities turns into a coherent narrative. Patterns emerge with somewhat greater clarity.
And then there's information such as the following excerpt that puts Russia's hacking effort into perspective:
"In February 2013, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of Russia's armed forces, published an article in an obscure Russian military journal advocating that Russia adapt its military strategies to the modern world. The piece initially received little attention within the U.S. national security establishment. But after Radio Liberty published a translation, US officials took notice. Here was a Russian military leader proposing a new doctrine that could shape how Russia would engage - and do battle - with the United States.
"In the article, Gerasimov explored how social media had fueled the Arab Spring. He noted in the internet-dominated world there were new means for waging war: 'political, economic, informational.' And these measures could involve 'the protest potential of the population.' In other words, information warfare could be used to weaponize political divisions within another nation. Gerasimov was crafting a doctrine of 'hybrid warfare' - a new form of conflict in which 'frontal engagements' by army battalions and fighter aircraft would become ;a thing of the past,' replaced by hackers and skilled propagandists trained to exploit existing rifts within the ranks of the adversary.
"'The very 'rules of war' have changed,' Gerasimov wrote. 'The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the force of weapons in their effectiveness... Long-distance, contactless actions against the enemy are becoming the main means of achieving combat and operational goals.' Gerasimov did not spell out what 'contactless actions' would replace ground troops. But it was not hard to figure out what he was talking about.
"The Russian intelligence services had become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated in their cyber hacks, penetrating government, business, and media networks all over the world. Russian hackers showed their might in 2007 when they blitzed Estonia. After the Estonian government removed a statue of a Soviet soldier, a massive cyberattack shut down the country's banking system, the sanitation system, and the websites of government agencies and news organizations. The country was paralyzed for days. And in 2008, Russian cyber warriors broke into the computers of the US Central Command - which oversaw US military actions throughout the Middle East - with an ingenious trick. Their operatives seeded bazaars in Kabul, where US soldiers shopped, with thumb drives for sale that were embedded with malware. All it took was one soldier with one infected thumb drive, plugged into a laptop hooked up to the US Central Command network, for the Russians to secretly obtain US military battle plans.
"Russia's cyberattacks were only one page in the Gerasimov playbook. Another was a revival of the old Soviet tactic of dirty tricks. And the Kremlin would soon deploy one against a high-level target: a senior US diplomat."
Interesting stuff and I'm pretty safe in saying it's worth a read.
rumleyfips said...
What is wrong with us ? Russian leaders are smarter and more focused than our society is. While our pundits obsess with colourful socks, Russians figure out how to disable our systems.
We are being stupid; fighting silly little idealogical battles while whistling past the graveyard of Russian expertise. We are all to blame: politicians concentrating on getting reelected; bloggers wanting to be heard; commenters ( like me ) who want to see someone respond to their drivel; newspaper pundits desperate to survive the next cuts and the public ready to have their prejudices validates without critical examination. Until we quit our lazy, biased path of least resistance, our society will decline.
2:27 PM, March 17, 2018
America and Russia each view the other as their strategic enemy. No one uses the word 'rival' or even 'adversary.' It's now down to 'enemy.'
Many have opined that American society is more divided today than it has been since the Civil War. The US has enemies, foreign and domestic, that are exploiting those divisions. American democracy, what remains of it, is getting pummeled from all sides.
We still don't know what hooks Moscow has in Trump but there's something obviously not kosher going on.
With NATO forces on Russia's doorstep, Putin uses cyberwar techniques to sow chaos across the US. It works. He knows it. Meanwhile Trump surrounds himself with hardline sycophants. Wait until John Bolton is brought on board.
Lorne said...
None of the social media propaganda would be even remotely effective were it not for the overall lack of education and critical thinking skills of the American people. The Russians are simply exploiting one of their perceived enemy's weaknesses.
Hey, Lorne. I read parts of an interview with the CEO of Cambridge Analytica who boasts that his firm has a psychological profile of every adult in America, all 220 million.
Americans are under attack from without and from within and their government isn't doing a damned thing to defend them.
http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2018/03/facebook-moves-to-block-cambridge.html
Trailblazer said...
The Conservatives of the West are in the pocket of the Russians.
Greed knows no borders..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9074970/Russian-born-oil-billionaire-donated-to-Conservatives.html
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-putin-215387
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/16/did-kremlin-give-money-to-nra/
ONe more,
https://qz.com/1172800/trumps-money-laundering-allegations-by-michael-wolff-fusion-gps-and-adam-schiff/
Perhaps it is Capitalism itself that is on trial here?
Jay Farquharson said...
Analytica isn't a 'Murkin Company, the Guardian has been running a good series, starting with the hack of Brexit.
Analytica Is a "merc", willing to work for anybody, against anybody, for money.
It's regulated Capitalism that's on trial. Putin's Russia is an example of unregulated Capitalism.
Great links, TB. Thanks.
Cambridge Analytica isn't an American company, Jay, but it was floated by Robert Mercer when he was teamed up with Steve Bannon. And it was a young Canadian from Victoria, Chris Wylie, who engineered the software that weaponized data mining. We know that Victoria's AggregateIQ went directly to the Brexit "Leave" campaign and pocketed a few million pounds for their contribution and we know from Cambridge personnel that AggregateIQ was the source of their software.
I've been trying to track down the elusive Chris Wylie for almost two years but he was laying low. Now he's come to the surface in another Guardian expose, complete with YouTube video interview.
The article indicates he had been a Parliamentary page and worked for a while in the offices of the Liberal opposition leader. At first I wondered if that was a sloppy reference to the Victoria legislature but the BC Libs were government, not opposition, when Wylie was involved so it must be Ottawa.
12:00 AM, March 18, 2018
Xerxes said...
@ Xerxes, sorry I deleted your comment in error. I fetched it from my email account. You wrote:
"There seems a rather large curtain needing to be pulled back."
You're quite right. This cyber business is transforming politics and, especially, international relations into a new dynamic, barely recognizable from the past.
Here's an example. In the 5th or 6th chapter the authors relate a previously undisclosed hacking attack on the White House computer system. As usual, it was the Russians. Only this time it was different. In previous attacks the hackers were quick to make their escape once the attack was detected. This time they remained, morphing into something else, again and again. They were in the White House system and they weren't leaving. The White House security types finally had to "burn" the entire system because they realized they could never again be sure that the hackers hadn't left something undetectable that could pop up again. The computers were all taken out and destroyed. Millions of dollars of new equipment had to be brought in. Imagine how disruptive it would be if your hard drive crashed. That, in essence, is the chaos that Obama's staff had to endure.
Imagine. They know that you've discovered they're in your system. They know that you know full well who they are and yet they stay in your system to keep dukeing it out. Pretty audacious stuff.
Yup, but as the Lukoil "presentation" show's, they arn't even a "Western" Corporation. As long as they get paid, they will use their data, for anybody, against anybody, and their Parent Corp, is neck deep in the US and British MIC.
10:50 PM, March 18, 2018
Emptywheel, ( Marcy Wheeler) noted something "missing" in Iskoff and Corn's timeline.
After Obama's "knock it off" call to Putin, the NSA started looking at "hitting back",
Then the "Shadowbrokers" put up for auction on the Dark Web, a whole host of NSA hacking tools and "First Day Exploits" that had gone unreported, that had been stolen from the NSA.
"Shadowbrokers" are generally believed to be a FSO Hacker group, ( sucessor to the KGB), and the NSA tools and First Day Exploits all target Western commercial software and sites.
Obama went to Yurtle the Turtle for bipartizan support for a push back. Yurtle chose to side with Putin.
That's when the "knock it off" order came down to the NSA to not retaliate.
Recently we've learn that the Russians are crawling all through our power grids, and of course, WannaCryI, WannaCryII and the Ransomware attacks all used the stolen NSA tools.
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UK probes video of teen threatening to assassinate Queen over Jallianwala
Britains Queen Elizabeth
London, December 27
A video has surfaced on social media in which a fully masked man, identifying himself as an Indian Sikh, is seen declaring to "assassinate" Queen Elizabeth II to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, prompting Scotland Yard to launch a probe, days after an intruder was arrested at the monarch's Windsor Castle.
The video, shared on Snapshot, is that of a fully masked man who identifies himself as Jaswant Singh Chail and declares that he wants to "assassinate" the monarch in revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, according to The Sun newspaper which obtained the video.
Meanwhile, the 19-year-old intruder, who has not yet been named by the Metropolitan Police, is now being held over mental health issues.
Scotland Yard officers were investigating the video reportedly linked to the intruder armed with a crossbow arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day.
The Metropolitan Police said the arrested suspect has been sectioned under the UK's Mental Health Act after a mental health assessment and remains "in the care of medical professionals".
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I've done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, Queen of the Royal Family," the masked man is seen saying in the video.
"This is revenge for those who have died in the Jallianwala massacre. It is also revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated and discriminated on because of their race. I'm an Indian Sikh, a Sikh. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones," he says. — PTI
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Q: viewWillDisappear gets called with Cmd+W but never with Cmd+Q for Mac App made in Swift I am building a simple single window app using Swift on Xcode (using storyboard) where I display data from a BLE device. The BLE device is given a command to switch on certain sensors by the app, and the data can be seen using the app. While exiting, I need the application to ask the BLE device to switch off the sensors.
For this purpose, I overloaded the function viewWillDisappear in ViewController.swift and performed the BLE commands needed there. I can see that if I close the window, my BLE device switches off it's sensors and goes to sleep.
But, when I simply press Cmd+Q or "Exit" from the menu, the app exits without performing the viewWillDisappear function! Is the Cmd+Q supposed to be an ungraceful exit?
How do I make sure that the "viewWillDisappear" function gets called on Cmd+Q too? Or, is there some other function that I need to overload for the same purpose?
Thanks and Regards,
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A: A suggestion for a workaround:
Define a variable
 var sensorsAreON = false

In the function to switch on the sensors add
sensorsAreON = true

Define a function switchSensorsOFF() which switches the sensors off if they are still on. Call this function in viewWillDisappear() and applicationWillTerminate()
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    switchSensorsOFF()
   // do other stuff
  }

  func viewWillDisappear()
  {
    switchSensorsOFF()
   // do other stuff
  }

  func switchSensorsOFF()
  {
    if sensorsAreON {
      performTheRealFunctionToSwitchSensorsOff()
      sensorsAreON = false
    }
  }

If you want to terminate the app when the window is closed, implement the NSApplication delegation method applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed and return true. Then you could put all your cleaning code into applicationWillTerminate rather than viewWillDisappear


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Dna Analysis Solve Crimes
By: Carolyn Teasley
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DNA analysis has opened new doors in solving crimes. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been analyzed to prove innocence or guilt of suspects of crimes with great accuracy. The use of DNA analysis can be performed one of two ways to solve crimes. In specific cases where the perpetrator has been identified, DNA samples can be taken from suspects to compare with DNA evidence found on the crime scene. If the two biological evidence samples match with DNA testing, the suspect is charged with the crime.
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DNA evidence, when used to its full potential, will be able to help prevent some of the most serious violent crimes. Before this can happen the system needs to still improve:
1) Decrease the backlogs of unanalyzed DNA samples.
2) Equipment in some labs need to be updated with new technology to help decrease
delays in getting results.
3) Forensic scientists in the criminal justice system DNA crime labs must be required to have up-to-date training to be able to do their jobs at the highest level to make DNA technology work solving crimes.
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from __future__ import with_statement
from acq4.devices.Camera import Camera, CameraTask
from acq4.drivers.pvcam import PVCam as PVCDriver
from PyQt4 import QtCore
import time, sys, traceback
from numpy import *
from acq4.util.metaarray import *
import acq4.util.ptime as ptime
from acq4.util.Mutex import Mutex, MutexLocker
from acq4.util.debug import *

class PVCam(Camera):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kargs):
        self.camLock = Mutex(Mutex.Recursive)  ## Lock to protect access to camera
        self.ringSize = 100
        Camera.__init__(self, *args, **kargs)  ## superclass will call setupCamera when it is ready.
        self.acqBuffer = None
        self.frameId = 0
        self.lastIndex = None
        self.lastFrameTime = None
        self.stopOk = False

    def setupCamera(self):
        self.pvc = PVCDriver
        cams = self.pvc.listCameras()
        print "Cameras:", cams
        if len(cams) < 1:
            raise Exception('No cameras found by pvcam driver')

        if self.camConfig['serial'] is None:  ## Just pick first camera
            ind = 0
        else:
            if self.camConfig['serial'] in cams:
                ind = cams.index(self.camConfig['serial'])
            else:
                raise Exception('Can not find pvcam camera "%s". Options are: %s' % (str(self.camConfig['serial']), str(cams)))
        print "Selected camera:", cams[ind]
        self.cam = self.pvc.getCamera(cams[ind])

    def start(self, block=True):
        #print "PVCam: start"
        if not self.isRunning():
            self.lastIndex = None
            #print "  not running already; start camera"
            Camera.start(self, block)  ## Start the acquisition thread
            self.startTime = ptime.time()

        ## pvcams can take a long time
        if block:
            tm = self.getParam('triggerMode')
            if tm != 'Normal':
                #print "  waiting for trigger to arm"
                waitTime = 0.3  ## trigger needs about 300ms to prepare (?)
            else:
                waitTime = 0

            sleepTime = (self.startTime + waitTime) - ptime.time()
            if sleepTime > 0:
                #print "  sleep for", sleepTime
                time.sleep(sleepTime)

    def startCamera(self):
        ## Attempt camera start. If the driver complains that it can not allocate memory, reduce the ring size until it works. (Ridiculous driver bug)
        printRingSize = False
        self.stopOk = False
        while True:
            try:
                with self.camLock:
                    self.cam.setParam('ringSize', self.ringSize)
                    self.acqBuffer = self.cam.start()
                break
            except Exception, e:
                if len(e.args) == 2 and e.args[1] == 15:
                    printRingSize = True
                    self.ringSize = int(self.ringSize * 0.9)
                    if self.ringSize < 2:
                        raise Exception("Will not reduce camera ring size < 2")
                else:
                    raise
        if printRingSize:
            print "Reduced camera ring size to %d" % self.ringSize

    def stopCamera(self):
        with self.camLock:
            if not self.stopOk:      ### If no frames have arrived since starting the camera, then
                                ### it is not safe to stop the camera immediately--this can hang the (lame) driver
                time.sleep(1.0)
            self.cam.stop()
            self.acqBuffer = None

    def newFrames(self):
        """Return a list of all frames acquired since the last call to newFrames."""

        with self.camLock:
            index = self.cam.lastFrame()
        now = ptime.time()
        if self.lastFrameTime is None:
            self.lastFrameTime = now

        if index is None:  ## no frames available yet
            return []

        if index == self.lastIndex:  ## no new frames since last check
            return []

        self.stopOk = True

        ## Determine how many new frames have arrived since last check
        if self.lastIndex is not None:
            diff = (index - self.lastIndex) % self.ringSize
            if diff > (self.ringSize / 2):
                print "Image acquisition buffer is at least half full (possible dropped frames)"
        else:
            self.lastIndex = index-1
            diff = 1

        dt = (now - self.lastFrameTime) / diff
        frames = []
        for i in range(diff):
            fInd = (i+self.lastIndex+1) % self.ringSize
            frame = {}
            frame['time'] = self.lastFrameTime + (dt * (i+1))
            frame['id'] = self.frameId
            frame['data'] = self.acqBuffer[fInd].copy()
            #print frame['data']
            frames.append(frame)
            self.frameId += 1

        self.lastFrame = frame
        self.lastFrameTime = now
        self.lastIndex = index
        return frames

    #def reconnect(self):
        #print "Stopping acquisition.."
        #try:
            #self.stopAcquire(block=True)
        #except:
            #printExc("Error while stopping camera:")
        #print "Closing camera.."
        #try:
            #self.cam.close()
        #except:
            #printExc("Error while closing camera:")

        #print "Re-initializing pvcam driver"
        #self.pvc.reloadDriver()

        #print "Cameras are:", self.pvc.listCameras()

        #self.cam.open()
        #print "Re-opened camera."

    def quit(self):
        Camera.quit(self)
        self.pvc.quit()

    def listParams(self, params=None):
        """List properties of specified parameters, or of all parameters if None"""
        with self.camLock:
            return self.cam.listParams(params)

    def setParams(self, params, autoRestart=True, autoCorrect=True):
        #print "PVCam: setParams", params
        with self.camLock:
            if 'ringSize' in params:
                self.ringSize = params['ringSize']
            newVals, restart = self.cam.setParams(params, autoCorrect=autoCorrect)
        #restart = True  ## pretty much _always_ need a restart with these cameras.

        if autoRestart and restart:
            self.restart()

        #self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL('paramsChanged'), newVals)
        self.sigParamsChanged.emit(newVals)
        return (newVals, restart)

    def getParams(self, params=None):
        if params is None:
            params = self.listParams().keys()
        with self.camLock:
            return self.cam.getParams(params)

    def setParam(self, param, value, autoRestart=True, autoCorrect=True):
        return self.setParams({param: value}, autoRestart=autoRestart, autoCorrect=autoCorrect)
        #with self.camLock:
            #newVal, restart = self.cam.setParam(param, value, autoCorrect=autoCorrect)
        ##restart = True  ## pretty much _always_ need a restart with these cameras.

        #if autoRestart and restart:
            #self.restart()
        #self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL('paramsChanged'), {param: newVal})
        #return (newVal, restart)

    def getParam(self, param):
        with self.camLock:
            return self.cam.getParam(param)

    def createTask(self, cmd, task):
        return PVCamTask(self, cmd, task)

class PVCamTask(CameraTask):
    def getPrepTimeEstimate(self):
        # if restart needed and triggering
        #return 0.5  # long time to prepare for trigger!
        return 0

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Cancer Research UK-funded Prostate International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) project is led by Ros Eeles at the Institute of Cancer Research with further co-PIs and researchers located at sites around the UK and Finland including Cambridge, Norwich, Oxford, St Andrews and Tampere. It aims to address questions of clinical relevance such as i) distinguishing aggressive from indolent disease (ii) determining in which cases focal therapy would be appropriate (iii) determining why there are ethnic differences in prostate cancer incidence (iv) mining for new drug targets (v) mining data for new biomarkers. 500 genomes from prostate cancer patients were sequenced in phase 1 of the project, while in phase 2 additional data are being generated for each case including transcriptomics and epigenetics.


In a recent interview Xzibit told that he has changed the name of his much anticipated new album from 'Restless 2' to 'Napalm', which Xzibit says is 75% complete and will be released in early 2012. Xzibit was originally going to call his album 'Restless 2' but said on his twitter: "I ran Restless 2 by Dre and he wasnt feeling it. I been going back and forth about it, went with NAPALM."
Keep an eye on XzibitCentral.com for the latest news on Xzibit.
Yo X, WTF is up with NO Brisbane show on your Down Under tour? Oh well at least my brother in Cairns will get to see you play.
Yea… He tweeted me about Restless 2 By Dr.Dre… 😛 You saw it.


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2000s, 2010s, After-hours, Breaks, Electronic, House, Techno
Then & Now: Footwork
Click through the photo gallery for a look at some of the many DJs who graced Footwork's booth.
Article originally published February 11, 2014 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
In the face of King West's rampant condo-ization and nightclub-ificaiton, this beloved, recently shuttered basement venue held it down for underground sounds—and continues to do so at a newly opened space in the Annex.
Club: Footwork, 425 Adelaide W.
History: The story of one of this city's most beloved, internationally recognized house and techno clubs begins with the unlikely pairing of two men raised on rock.
Hamilton native Joel Smye was a long-haired fan of bands like Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine until his parents sent him to Switzerland to complete high school. While there, he also got an education in rave. By 1997, he hit up massive Toronto parties each weekend, and taught himself to DJ. As Baby Joel, he would become known for his love of funky Chicago house.
Originally from Ottawa, Stephan Philion moved to Toronto 11 years ago, already experienced in the hospitality industry, and in throwing house parties, which were largely a means to accumulate sound and lighting gear. He had a lean toward Britpop and grunge until party promoter and friend Gairy Brown took Philion to Fly Nightclub, where he fell for dance music.
Smye and Philion met in the early 2000s, while waiters at Brassai. The two talked music. Philion got to hear Smye DJ, loved his take on house, and invited the DJ to check a club sound system that was just gathering dust at the time.
2000s, After-hours, Breaks, Drum 'n' Bass, House, Rave, Techno
Then & Now: Turbo
Ruckus tears up Turbo. Photo by Jay Futronic.
Article originally published September 24, 2012 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
360 Adelaide St. W. has had many incarnations over its 90-year-plus existence, but it is best remembered as the home of Toronto's burgeoning drum 'n' bass scene in the early 2000s.
Club: Turbo Niteclub, 360 Adelaide W.
History: Built around 1920, the six-storey red brick office building at 360 Adelaide St. W. has been home to multiple dance clubs, many of them owned and operated by Vincent Donohoe. He'd opened Top 40 venue Denile at the address in 1997, a time when the Entertainment District was synonymous with nightclubs, but Donohoe was no newbie. He'd already helped finance Charles Khabouth's first two clubs in the 1980s—Club Z at 11A St. Joseph and Stilife on Richmond—and run other businesses.
"Although Charles Khabouth never seems to want to let people know, I was a full partner in Club Z and the money behind Stilife," writes Donohoe in an email. "He was broke when I met him, and at one time I owned two thirds of Club Z. I also helped put together Orchid Nightclub [on Richmond Street], and was general manager for their first three years, until I built Denile."
Donohoe's one-floor Denile later morphed into Jet Nightclub, a hybrid venue that held successful commercial nights, and was regularly rented out by rave production companies like Ritual, Empire, and Lifeforce Industries for much more underground, after-hours events.
2000s, After-hours, Drum 'n' Bass, Electronic, Funk, Hip-Hop, House, Rave, Techno
Then & Now: System Soundbar
The scene at System Soundbar, September 24, 2005. Photo by Ryan Parks.
In the latest edition of her nightlife-history series, Denise Benson revisits the Entertainment District institution that brought underground rave culture to Toronto's mainstream club crowd at the dawn of the millennium.
Club: System Soundbar, 117 Peter
History: System Soundbar was an unlikely home for electronic dance music with a decidedly underground bent. Opened smack dab in the middle of the commercial club district, System was owned by Zisi Konstantinou—former owner/operator of successful Adelaide Street spot Limelight—with his partners Spyros Theoharis and Boris Khaimovich. They hired former Limelight employee Orin Bristol as general manager, and the group worked to develop a plan.
"Zisi purchased the building as a property investment, and we were trying to figure out what to do with the basement as it was just being used as storage space," shares Bristol. "We spoke about doing a nightclub, but thought it would be a hard sell for a mainstream crowd as it was in a basement.
"At the same time, the city was cracking down on raves and there were less and less spots to do parties in. Because of our Wednesday nights at Limelight [with EDM/rave DJs Craig Pettigrew and John E], we had come to know the guys from [promoters] Lifeforce Industries. Between Craig and them, we talked about doing rave-style events in the space."


The Andean nation's next leader will have to embrace fiscal discipline, make a troubled peace accord work and overcome anger at corruption among the powerful – plus oil and drugs. Neither likely winner of Sunday's first-round election looks to have all the tools needed to cope.
Colombian presidential candidates Gustavo Petro and German Vargas Lleras shake hands next to Ivan Duque, during a presidential debate at El Tiempo newspaper in Bogota, Colombia, May 24, 2018.
Colombians vote on May 27 in a presidential election. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent, a second round will be held on June 17.


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Revenue says post-Brexit Border will need eight customs checkpoints
A possible option is an e-flow-style automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system that would allow vehicles carrying goods to move from the Republic to the North and vice-versa without having to stop in cases where a pre-departure/arrival declaration has been lodged and green-routed, it suggests.
For such a system to work with it would require an interface between both countries' electronic systems, the report adds.
Whether such a system can be commissioned and installed in time is not known but Revenue says an analysis must be conducted to establish the cost and the practicalities of such before proceeding.
It also says clarification would be required from the European Commission as to what extent a camera-based system could be considered to meet this requirement.
It adds: "In any event, a physical customs presence would still be required to engage with legitimate traders and to meet a range of EU obligations.
"Regardless of any efficiency arising from an ANPR system, the inevitability of certain consignments being routed other than green and goods or documents having to be examined would still require investment in suitable facilities at all designated crossing points."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Fri Oct 20th, 2017 at 03:56:14 PM EST
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I´m a tiny bit skeptical.
From what I´ve read the UK before Brexit was already in the process of developing and introducing a new system for customs transactions. I think the goal was to boost capabilities from 60 or 90 million transactions per year to 150 million. And of course it was planned long before the referendum with EU tariffs and regulations in mind. Estimates seem to say that after Brexit Britain will need a system with a capacity of 300 to 350 million transactions per year.
The British will have to change their not-yet-ready system on the fly. And given what I know of government IT projects in Germany, I would expect the project to be late and wastly more expensive than planned.
And of course the system needs to be compatible with the Irish system. We´ll also need a whole new system of identifying regular "trusted traders" who can use the system. How to deal with tariffs and VAT. How to avoid VAT fraud.
And even assuming the ANPR works as advertised, how do you control the rest of the border?
And I think the problem with farm animals was only mentioned (partly hidden) in:
Veterinary border inspection posts for the inevitable examination of animals or products of animal origin are still necessary. And that would hurt Ireland quite a bit.
by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Sat Oct 21st, 2017 at 06:45:20 PM EST


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400 Life
Food truck frenzy: What it takes to make it in the mobile cuisine industry
Giovanna Rosenfeld owns and operates The Deep South Biscuit Co. food truck.
This article appears in the May issue of 400 Life.
On a Friday night in the summer, Giovanna Rosenfeld is about as far away from Paris as she could possibly be — literally and figuratively.
Rosenfeld went to culinary school in Paris in the early '90s which jumpstarted a career in fine dining. When Rosenfeld returned to the United States, she worked in a three-Michelin star restaurant. Eventually, she owned her own French bistro.
Rosenfeld and her husband moved to Atlanta for his job, but another restaurant experience didn't appeal to Rosenfeld. She wanted something more interactive.
"As a chef in a fine dining restaurant, you're pretty much relegated to the back of the kitchen," Rosenfeld said.
So she thought of a food truck. In 2010, she started one called Immovable Feast (a play on Ernest Hemingway's memoir) that served French bistro food and crepes. She sold the truck in 2012 but quickly returned with something more fitting for her new surroundings: The Deep South Biscuit Co., her gourmet biscuit food truck that will be one of the vendors at the city of Cumming's Fridays at the Fairgrounds community event this summer.
"Really funny contrast when you think," Rosenfeld said.
But the work is hardly easier than her fine dining days, Rosenfeld said. A little easier, yes, but hardly. Events require days of hurried preparation. Managing all the variables of an event — from booking to inventory to travel to service — is a balancing act of art and science.
400 Life magazine talked with Rosenfeld and Curt Czajkoski, co-owner of Big C's Chicago Kitchen food truck, another Fridays at the Fairgrounds regular, about what it takes to pull off feeding hundreds of customers in a day, much less make it in an increasingly crowded food truck industry.
The booking
On a recent Saturday, Czajkoski's truck was at the YMCA in Brookhaven for a soccer tournament. They planned to serve breakfast and stay through lunch.
Czajkoski had scheduled the event two months in advance. He handles that part of the business. It suits his background. Czajkoski grew up in Chicago but worked in the corporate world in Atlanta for more than 25 years before retiring.
Czajkoski had long noticed that there were few options to eat authentic Chicago-style food. His son, Chris, had been working in restaurants, and so the two decided to combine forces and start a food truck that would "serve food that I grew up eating in Chicago," Curt said, like Chicago-style hot dogs and pizza, Italian sausage and bratwurst.
They opened Big C's in 2016, and Curt quickly learned the right questions to ask of those requesting their service for an event: How many people are expected to attend? What other food options will be there? Are you willing to guarantee a certain amount of revenue?
"It's a really important part of the food truck industry," said Curt, who is a board member of the Food Truck Association of Georgia. "We're a small business, and we need to be able to make money."
The grind
In the heart of Buckhead, Rosenfeld is busy smoking briskets.
It's the day before the first Fridays at the Fairgrounds event, which is a full day of work for a food truck. Rosenfeld will soak chicken overnight in buttermilk, salt and pepper for the Deep South's chicken biscuits. The brisket is for the 'Texas Smokehouse,' a biscuit with chopped brisket, blue cheese coleslaw and thick-cut dill pickles.
Otherwise, the day is filled with making minor preparations, like strawberry jam and her own barbecue sauce from Cherry Coke and a dash of chipotle.
The next day — the day of the event — Rosenfeld is back in her commissary kitchen, which is required by the health department, on Roswell Road doing the heavy lifting: baking biscuits, cooking bacon, making lemonade and sweet tea, stocking the truck, etc.
Just how much to prepare depends. After nine years in the business, Rosenfeld has a formula that works for her: the number of people expected to attend the event divided by the number of food trucks equals the number of potential customers that day.
"You just learn after being some place," Rosenfeld said.
When Rosenfeld was the head chef and owner of her own restaurant, the busiest night of the year was New Year's Eve. She'd serve six-course meals meticulously plated on China to around 250 people while managing a full staff.
Rosenfeld has served as many as 1,000 people at a food truck event, but it's a simpler process than her fine dining experience.
"It's very different than throwing a biscuit in a red-and-white checked boat," Rosenfeld said.
Still, it's hectic. Events are usually slow to start, Rosenfeld said, but it quickly builds, and "then all of a sudden you look up and you have a line of 20 people, and it kind of stays that way."
Rosenfeld keeps four or five people working on the truck to manage the rush. Rosenfeld works the cash register taking orders, and she always repeats the order loud enough for Deep South's cooks to hear.
"That way, mentally, they can start working on the order before there's a printed ticket," Rosenfeld said. "It helps flow better."
The end of a Friday night is usually the beginning of the next day's event. Czajkoski and the Big C's staff can usually clean up within 20 minutes after an event ends. Then they're on the road and back to their commissary kitchen within an hour. They'll do minor cleaning, gather dishes, unload food into a walk-in fridge and freezer, check inventory and divide tips. They might stop for propane or some supplies from Restaurant Depot.
There are other pitfalls. Crowds aren't always what they're expected to be. Weather can be unpredictable, and so can a truck's reliability. Big C's truck once broke down and missed a week-and-a-half's worth of events. He tries to be proactive about getting the truck maintained regularly, but it has more than 100,000 miles on it.
"[Problems are] going to happen anyway," Czakjoski said.
The food truck industry is competitive, Czajkoski said, and so he puts a premium on customer service.
"Sometimes we're tired and we're ready to go home," he said, "and the customer says, 'Hey, can you stay another hour?' … If you say no, the chances of them inviting you back are probably slim to none."
But the payoff is big too.
For Rosenfeld, she gets to meld her former world of fine dining with her new Southern roots while interacting with customers.
For Czakjoski, he gets to proselytize the merits of Chicago-style cuisine to Southerners.
For their customers, they get some good food.
Curt Czajkoski, co-owner of Big C's Chicago Kitchen food truck, can be seen at Friday's at the Fairgrounds.


PHILMORE 300-Watt Japan to USA or USA to Japan STEP UP/STEP DOWN Transformer.
Japan's standard voltage is 100VAC, and appliances made for use in the US will not operate there or vise versa, unless you have a travel converter.
How do you use one? It's easy; just set a switch to "USE IN USA" when in the United States or set it to "USE IN JAPAN" when in that country. Then, just plug your appliance(s) into the converter; just like home.
"WARNING! This device is an autotransformer. Primary and secondary winding are NOT isolated from each other. USE WITH CARE: AVOID USE IN WET AREAS or on bare earth or concrete floors."


The Grateful to Serve Group will be having a three-year celebration on May 3. Click here for directions.
The High on Life Group will be having a celebration at 8 PM tonight. Click here for directions.
The Progress not Perfection Group will be celebrating four years as an active group of NA tonight. They will be having snacks & fellowship at 730PM and a meeting at 8PM using the topic & format of their first ever meeting. Click here for directions.
Now that the process for updating area policy changes has been streamlined, the page has been updated to reflect recent changes made by the GTOASCNA.
The policy page can be found here.
On Wednesday, April 18, the Progress not Perfection Group will be celebrating four years as an active group of NA. They will be having snacks & fellowship at 730PM and a meeting at 8PM using the topic & format of their first ever meeting. Click here for directions.
The H&I Subcommittee will meet thonight at the Barnett Center (corner of 10th Ave & Hal Greer Blvd in Huntington). At 6PM there will be an H&I workshop and the regular meeting will be at 7PM.
The Hope without Dope Group will be having a speaker meeting this evening at 6:30PM. Click here for directions.


Journal of Aesthetics & Culture has published the paper "Veneration and Wonder - the politics of making art in an Oaxacan village" by prof. Karin Becker and Geska Helena Brečević , in a special issue on the topic ''Process and practice: New distributions of the sensible''.
The paper examines a 5-year collaboration between Performing Pictures and Talleres Comunitarios de Zegache. In images and text, we trace the exchange of skills, knowledge, and aesthetic sensibility that took place as these two groups of artists collaborated in producing a series of video animations of venerative objects, against a backdrop of religious, social, and political tensions that characterise everyday life in Zegache. In the article and the accompanying series of three short films, Wonder & Veneration 1-2" edited by Robert Brečević, we examine how the artists negotiate questions of aesthetics and religious belief as their collaboration unfolds within the context of the Zegache community.
You can access the paper online at Journal of Aesthetics and Culture or download a pdf-version and see the films here.
Our art is meant to be the product of communal processes and work-based kinship.
We live and work together with affiliated artisans who are our accomplices or even family members. To document convivial artistic production is not a purpose in itself. From the start, we were reluctant to engage in secondary storytelling about what we do. We relied entirely on short explanatory texts and still images as "proof-of-being-there" for current and future funders and exhibitors – not a direct audience per se. Recording video was an auxiliary function of already working with moving imagery and animation within our projects.
When we were recently commissioned to edit a series of video documentations of our work, we re-approached a rampant material never intended for editing or any kind of compilation. The footage proved to be shaky and crude, non-intentional and unbalanced in attention and dramaturgic build-up. The process of editing such a material is demanding, but as it progressed we discovered other valuable traits. There is an entirely different story that can be told through captured moving images and sound clashing with each other.
Text and still images can't convey the clatter and multi-focused nature of creativity and the purpose of our art is exactly that: to find vernacular skills and disciplines in pre- and post-professional society.
Editing became a process similar to that of panning grubble for small nuggets of gold where the camera just happens to capture something interesting without shaking too much – and to find a consistency in montage with associative links on a clip-to-clip-level.
The end result of this process proved to be as lucid and multi-faceted as the projects themselves. Making three works – (1) a folk-Catholic shrine with a trick-filmed interactive Guadalupe virgin, (2) a puppet-animation of the local patron saint and (3) the construction of a solar-powered chapel--are complex but still straight-forward processes. The films tell the story of artisanal and convivial work as a supreme and collective vehicle for making sense of the world. It is thus important that the films follow the dramaturgy of work: chattery and noisy but always progressing towards a clear goal.


Commercial development is an umbrella term that includes all types of construction that is not single family residential. Types of commercial development include but are not limited to restaurants, hospitals, non-profit organizations, churches, schools, hotels, general merchandise stores and more.
Permitting for commercial uses involve several different departments beyond Planning such as Building Inspections, Public Utilities and the Fire Marshal. Depending on the type and size of the proposed project state agencies such as the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) may also be involved.
To ensure all of the necessary agencies are able to review proposed commercial development in a timely and efficient manner Hoke County has a Technical Review Committee comprised of local and state agency representatives which review plans for compliance with local and state requirements.
Please contact the Hoke County Planning Department if you have any questions about commercial development in Hoke County.


m = uimenu creates a menu in the current figure and returns the Menu object. If there is no figure available, MATLAB® calls the figure function to create one.
m = uimenu(Name,Value) specifies menu property values using one or more name-value pair arguments.
m = uimenu(parent) creates the menu in the specified parent container. The parent container can be a figure created with either the figure or uifigure function, or another Menu object. Property values for uimenu vary slightly depending on whether the app is created with the figure or uifigure function. For more information, see Name-Value Pair Arguments.
m = uimenu(parent,Name,Value) specifies the parent container and one or more property values.
Create a figure that displays the default menu bar. Add a menu and a menu item.
Add a menu item with keyboard shortcuts to the menu bar and define a callback that executes when the menu item is selected.
Add a menu called Import. Create a mnemonic keyboard shortcut for the menu by specifying '&Import' as the text label.
Create a menu item and specify mnemonic and accelerator keyboard shortcuts.
Define a MenuSelectedFcn callback that executes when the user clicks the menu item or uses the mnemonic or accelerator keyboard shortcuts.
Select the Import menu by pressing Alt+I.
Select the Text File menu item and execute the callback by pressing Alt+I+T.
Select the Text File menu item and execute the callback by using the accelerator Ctrl+T.
When you select the Text File menu item, the Select File to Open dialog box opens with the extension field filtered to text files.
Create a checked menu item that can be selected or cleared to show a grid in axes. Share the callback with a push button so that pushing it also shows or hides the grid.
Create a figure with a push button, and axes that display a grid.
Add a menu and a menu item with mnemonics. Specify that the menu item is checked.
Define a MenuSelectedFcn callback that hides or shows the grid when the user interacts with the menu item.
Define a ButtonPushedFcn that uses the same callback function as the menu item.
Parent container, specified as a Figure object created with either the figure or uifigure function, or another Menu object. If you do not specify a parent container, then MATLAB calls figure to create one, and places the menu in the menu bar of that figure. Specify the parent as an existing Menu object to add menu items to a menu, or to nest menu items.
To add menu items to a context menu in GUIDE, or context menus in a figure created with the figure function, specify the parent as a ContextMenu object.
Example: m = uimenu('Text','Open') creates a menu and sets its label to 'Open'.
For a list of properties available for App Designer, or for creating apps with the uifigure function, see Menu Properties for App Designer.
For a list of properties available for GUIDE, or for creating apps with the figure function, see Menu Properties for GUIDE.


Fifth song from "Fiddling, The Basics and Beyond." Standard version of traditional fiddle tune using Every Open String Etude video. Good option for an intermediate player wanting to start to improve skills on all four strings.
SKU: LFOVPCATV2. Categories: Arkansas Traveler, Fiddling, The Basics & Beyond, Video.


Victoria Clark is an intern at Lawfare. She was formerly a national security intern in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is a senior at Georgetown University studying Government and History.


The old Sterlig drive-in-theatre was a very special place and it is on these grounds that the Sterlig Retirement Village was built. Enjoy a social atmosphere with various activities in the Community Centre.
If you'd like more information about the Sterlig Retirement Village or if you'd like to book an appointment – complete the contact form and one of our consultants will contact you.


Mike Mancini porking Lena Pauls fur covered slit with his dynamo pipe!
Peter Green lets Sloan Harper rails her tastey coochie!
Vyvan Hill takes a trouser snake up her culo for the highly highly first time!!!


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May 19, 2022 2:30PM EDT
Kazakhstan: Boost Rights Protection in Constitution Reform
Allow time to consult; Improve Role of Rights Commissioner, Constitutional Court
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev speaks during his televised address to the nation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, January 7, 2022. © © 2022 Kazakhstan's Presidential Press Service via AP, File
(Berlin, May 19, 2022) – Kazakhstan should strengthen the parts of its constitutional reforms focused on plans for a human rights commissioner and for a Constitutional Court to reinforce human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Kazakhstan has scheduled a national referendum on amendments to the constitution for June 5, 2022.
Human Rights Watch is concerned that the time frame for the referendum does not allow for public consultation and debate about the proposals, nor for consideration of changes to strengthen key human rights elements. The referendum is also being held against the backdrop of concerns over grave human rights violations committed during January events in which over 200 people died, and recent detentions of political activists.
"Kazakhstan should show it is committed to human rights improvements by strengthening some of the constitutional proposals," said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The government should also allow the time needed to open the constitutional reforms to public consultation and debate and to consider amendments before the final proposals are put to a referendum."
On March 16, President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev delivered a speech, "New Kazakhstan: The Path of Renewal and Modernization," that signaled the constitutional changes.
A government working group published 56 proposed changes to the constitution on April 25. With the national referendum scheduled for June 5, Human Rights Watch is not aware of any arrangements for broad public consultation on the proposed amendments to allow consideration of opinions from numerous stakeholders in both rural and urban areas. The government should undertake broad consultation and consider further changes before the proposals are put to a referendum. If this is not possible before June 5, it should postpone the vote until such consultation has taken place.
Among the proposed constitutional changes that could improve human rights protections in Kazakhstan are amendments to strengthen the status of the human rights commissioner and to establish a Constitutional Court.
Proposed article 83-1 of the constitution enshrines the status and mandate of the high commissioner for human rights, in line with December 2021 recommendations by the Venice Commission, an expert legal body of the Council of Europe. The Venice Commission provided an opinion on the "draft law on the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Kazakhstan," in response to a request from the government. The law was adopted in December 2021.
However, the procedure for electing and dismissing the commissioner is not included in article 83-1, and the Venice Commission recommended that it should be specified. Article 83-1 does set out immunity for the commissioner for official acts during their term. However the Venice Principles, the "Principles on the Protection and Promotion of the Ombudsman Institution" adopted by the Venice Commission, provide that "the functional immunity shall apply also after the Ombudsman, the deputies or the decision-making staff-member leave the Institution." The current immunity provision should be extended to include deputies and other decision-making staff in the office and should make clear that functional immunity continues beyond their terms in office.
The establishment of a Constitutional Court with powers of constitutional review can serve as an important check on the executive and enrich human rights protections in Kazakhstan, Human Rights Watch said. The independence of the court, criteria for appointments, and access to the court are key elements of an effective Constitutional Court.
However, the proposed system for appointing judges raises concerns about their potential independence, as under the proposal, the president will appoint four judges and the parliament six judges. The United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, in its 2009 report to the UN Human Rights Council, recommended that to safeguard the independence of the judiciary, judicial appointments should be made by an independent body that has a plural and balanced composition and is protected from politicization. Article 71 of the proposed constitution should be revised to reflect those standards, Human Rights Watch said.
Although the authorities have pledged to create a more open political system, 11 political activists were detained on May 7 simply for exercising their right to peaceful assembly in the center of Almaty to call for the release of a prominent opposition figure, Zhanbolat Mamay. Four of the activists were given a warning, three were fined, while four sentenced to detention ranging from 15 to 20 days. They were found guilty of violating "the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the procedure for organizing and holding peaceful assemblies" (article 488 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
Human Rights Watch has repeatedly highlighted that Kazakhstan's law on public assemblies falls far short of international standards and should be revised.
The Kazakhstan government has also failed to hold to account those responsible for serious human rights violations during the violence and unrest in January, when 200 people were killed and hundreds of people reportedly tortured during a series of protests. The government should immediately open an independent investigation, that includes international and national experts.
"A 'New Kazakhstan' is impossible without respect for freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly, and accountability for serious human rights violations," Williamson said. "Any constitutional changes should follow public participation and debate, and include measures to strengthen institutions that can help to ensure that everyone's rights are guaranteed."
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El ermitaño gris, ermitaño limpiacasa o simplemente limpiacasa (Phaethornis augusti) es una especie de ave de la familia Trochilidae, que se encuentra en Brasil, Colombia, Guyana y Venezuela.

Hábitat
Vive en el nivel inferior, claros pequeños y bordes de los bosques, a menos de 500 m de altitud.

Descripción
Mide 13,2 cm de longitud y pesa 5,3 g. El pico es curvado, tiene la base de la mandíbula roja y alcanza 36 mm de largo.  El plumaje de las partes superiores es de color castaño grisáceo, con bordes rojizos rufos en la grupa y la parte alta de la cola. Las partes inferiores son gris blacuzco, a veces con pintas amarillas.

Reproducción
Construye uno de los nidos más notables, que pende de un solo hilo grueso de telaraña a partir de una rama o algún tipo de apoyo alto. Estos nidos curiosos se han encontrado bajo los puentes, en desagües de las carreteras o colgando del techo interior en edificios oscuros. El nido presenta una pared singular de barro seco y las telarañas.

Referencias

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Aves de América del Sur
Animales descritos en 1847
Taxones descritos por Jules Bourcier

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