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Android App Aerial TV Banned from Google Play – Now Available on Amazon
Aerial TV is an Android app that allows you to watch DVB-T TV with an RTL-SDR on a mobile device. We posted about Aerial TV back in April and it was available on the Google Play store back then. Unfortunately Aerial TV has recently been banned from the Google Play store as apparently the app can be used to display copyrighted material from TV. The author writes the following on a Facebook post:
Google Play has suspended Aerial TV due to "[Aerial TV] claims to provide copyrighted contents from TV channels". According to Google apps that display live TV are of "questionable nature". I am trying to clarify what they mean. I would like to apologize to all affected users. If you have any concerns, feel free to get in touch with Google directly.
This is quite odd and probably a mistake. But if you are looking for Aerial TV it is now available on the Amazon app store with a current 35% discount. If you bought the app on the Google Play store then to get new updates you will need to uninstall it, contact the developer for a refund, and then purchase it again on the Amazon store. More info about that is available on the Facebook page. Updates about it's availability will always be provided on the official website at aerialtv.eu.
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Written by admin Posted in Applications, Broadcast Radio, Digital Signals, News, RTL-SDR Tagged with aerial TV, DVB-T TV, rtl-sdr, rtl2832, rtl2832u, tv#
August 15, 2018 - 8:33 am Samizdat
I am going to DDoS Crapita for this atrocity! We all know they are to blame, TV Licnazing have too much power and the sooner Sneaky Uncle Beeb get their funding pulled the better. Not good enough! Amazon got caught selling user details to them, in many cases for non-TV items.
June 30, 2017 - 1:21 am Stefano Mollo
… I don't get it !
What's the difference between watching TV (copyrighted or not) with a normal TV set or a PC with a TV (DVB-T or analogue) card or a PC with a USB DVB-T TV dongle or using a mobile phone (which is a kind of computing device) with the same USB dongle, just with a different software (for obvious reasons) that performs the same function (i.e., receiving and decoding a digital signal, to then display it on a screen)?
I think login and common sense went on holiday that day …..
June 27, 2017 - 10:20 pm Juan
Does it work for ISDB-T ?
June 27, 2017 - 2:36 pm GiamMa-based researchers SDR R&D IoT
Several years that the television lobbies contrasting the consumer electronics lobby. it wants to push the dvb-h more expensive of free channels dvb-t. There are many Asian cell phone models that implement the dvb-t chip tuner but in europe are difficult to find but not impossible. Nothing new under the sun.
June 26, 2017 - 10:53 pm Martin Marinov
If anyone is interested, I've published the full e-mail thread of my conversation with Google Play here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/aerial-tv/full-google-play-removal-e-mail-thread/768687113313998/
June 26, 2017 - 11:33 pm admin
Wow that's horrible. I think you should ask them directly what makes Aerial TV different to all the other DVB-T apps available on the Play market. Some of the other DVB-T apps for other dongles like the Air DTV have 500,000 – 1,000,000 installs. The Air DTV dongle is even specifically designed to work only on mobile devices using the Play store app, so if their app gets banned then their whole business model is ruined.
June 26, 2017 - 7:26 pm snn47
Wouldn't any SDR that provides a wider bandwidth, like Airspy, suffice, and has anyone tried if it works?
What about DVB versions used in asia?
Instead of a liscense you need for encrypted TV, additional hardware and a keycard. With introduction of DVB-T2 that is the case for Germany for most private TV station. ironically the caompany that markets the keys calls itself freenet TV
June 26, 2017 - 5:45 pm Anonymous
Guessing App Store doesn't get the tech behind this and think the app is streaming the content rather than receiving a broadcast just like a TV does. RE: US broadcasts, the problem is that ATSC which is used in the US requires more signal bandwidth than DVB-T does in the EU, this is why none of these RTL-SDR's can receive US broadcast TV.
June 27, 2017 - 2:09 am Bertie
> the problem is that ATSC which is used in the US requires more signal bandwidth than DVB-T does in the EU, this is why none of these RTL-SDR's can receive US broadcast TV.
Technically that is not the reason, people who use RTL-SDR devices for SDR have the RTL2832U chip configured in a special debug mode to access a raw IQ stream (It's normal operating function is to demodulate DVB-T/DVB-T2 into a bit stream). There is a limit to the amount of data that can be transferred out of the RTL2832U chip on the device through it's debug interface, when not functioning in it's normal operating mode. It probably was a design feature of the chip to allow easy access for DAB and DAB+ (which requires 2.048MHz of bandwidth).
DVB-T is specified for 5, 6, 7, or 8 MHz channel bandwidth (I've mostly seen 8MHz).
DVB-T2 is specified for 1.7, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 MHz channel bandwidth (I've mostly seen 8MHz).
ATSC is specified to used 6 MHz (the same as the old analogue NTSC signal).
So what would be needed for that function in the US would be a chip similar to the RTL2832U, but that demodulate ATSC into a bitstream. There are ATSC dongles ( https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_USB_Devices ), with chips in them that do demodulate ATSC into a bitstream, but none appear to have the debug mode available in the RTL2832U chip (yet). But it could just be because that functionality is not strictly required in the US, HD-Radio would use at most 500kHz bandwidth, maybe a special debug mode for accessing that as a raw IQ stream, may come to light some day for ATSC specific chips.
June 27, 2017 - 4:18 pm Brady
Does this mean that u could watch DVB-T2 with DVB-T dongle?
No, because there are enough differences that an older implementation hard coded into silicon would not be able to do everything that was required. Of course if the modulation was very carefully chosen say 64QAM,8k OFDM mode, 1/32 guard interval, 5/6 FEC then maybe, but it would be dumb to do so from the perspective of a TV broadcaster. The bit stream would be different between DVB-T and DVB-T2 as well and require custom decoding software. The bottom line it is a lot of work that will not work if the brodacaster upgrades their signal format versus spending €10 on a DVB-T2 stick.
DVB-T:
QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM constellations
2K-mode or 8K-modes
1/4,1/8,1/16,1/32 guard interval
1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 FEC
DVB-T2:
QPSK,16-QAM, 64-QAM, or 256-QAM constellations
1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, and 32k modes
1/4,19/128,1/8,19/256,1/16.1/32,1/128 guard interval
1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6 FEC
June 26, 2017 - 4:42 pm RPK
What tuners work for US broadcasts? Aren't most for EU only?
June 26, 2017 - 3:21 pm Dave H
That seems a little odd, since broadcast content has been licensed for, well, broadcast. Unless one is required to have a license to watch DVB-T?
Well not really. Here's my understanding. In UK for example you cannot legally view TV unless you have a valid TV license. The TV license grants you permissions to view copyrighted content on TV. So in theory Aerial TV can allow you to watch TV without a license in the UK therefore assisting you in breaching copyright.
That being said the same applies for any hardware TV receiver. Furthermore there are a number of apps on Google Play that allow customers to watch (and even record) live TV from a USB dongle, similar to rtl-sdrs. Why Aerial TV is different from all of the above is unclear.
June 27, 2017 - 10:08 am Fabrice C
Very bad Google answer to all our questions … Did you try to remove all TV pictures ? just keeping the settings screen ? Also be carefull with the description of your application when you say all tv content for free… maybe a better sentence like Free to air tv channel ? Anyway i use your application and it works quite well.
July 3, 2017 - 12:20 pm Martin Marinov
Yes of course. In fact even better, I provided them with a full list of the stock images used for marketing AerialTV and a proof of right of usage.
After providing this they changes the tone of the conversation saying that the app "illicits" copyright infringement. I will post the new thread soon. They now require I provide a written consent form for every single TV channel that can be watched with Aerial TV. This pretty much means all the TV channels around the world need to explicitly send me a statement saying they grant me copyright. As you can imagine this is pretty much impossible.
I will be notifying the UK watchdog about market domination abuse by Google since they allow other apps to play live TV with other hardware devices such as TvZen, etc. I wonder how they got a consent from every single channel that is on the air to prove Google they have the copyright to show live TV.
June 27, 2017 - 10:37 pm John
Here in Ireland, just like in the UK, you need a TV licence to watch TV. Strangely, when I asked the woman responsible for sending letters urging me to pay, the answer was that a monitor does not classify as a TV, but the existence of my TV (which is used exclusively as a monitor as local programming is horrible) would require me to pay 180 euros just because I own a device capable of receiving TV programming. No wonder nobody pays the TV licence 🙂
You need TV licence in UK to watch TV on Aerial TV as well. However once you have this you are granted copyright to view over-the-air free TV channels (Freeview in UK).
July 3, 2017 - 6:54 pm Scott
@John You should look up the exact details about licencing conditions for Ireland because in the UK owning a TV doesn't mean we need a licence even though the bully boy enforcers like to think so which is fraud what they are doing by obtaining payment through deception.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence
You only need a licence to watch catch up or live tv and that's all, You would need a licence to use this app though but is it really worth paying for a licence to use this app? I would rather donate the money to people who need it.
It makes me laugh how they named it "Freeview" when people who have a licence are paying for it.
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namespace Halide {
namespace Internal {

using std::string;
using std::vector;
using std::map;
using std::set;

namespace {

bool extern_call_uses_buffer(const Call *op, const std::string &func) {
    if (op->is_extern()) {
        if (starts_with(op->name, "halide_memoization")) {
            return false;
        }
        for (size_t i = 0; i < op->args.size(); i++) {
            const Variable *var = op->args[i].as<Variable>();
            if (var &&
                starts_with(var->name, func + ".") &&
                ends_with(var->name, ".buffer")) {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}

}

class PredicateFinder : public IRVisitor {
public:
    Expr predicate;
    PredicateFinder(const string &b, bool s) : predicate(const_false()),
                                               buffer(b),
                                               varies(false),
                                               treat_selects_as_guards(s) {}

private:

    using IRVisitor::visit;
    string buffer;
    bool varies;
    bool treat_selects_as_guards;
    Scope<> varying;
    Scope<> in_pipeline;

    void visit(const Variable *op) {
        bool this_varies = varying.contains(op->name);

        varies |= this_varies;
    }

    void visit(const For *op) {
        op->min.accept(this);
        bool min_varies = varies;
        op->extent.accept(this);
        bool should_pop = false;
        if (!is_one(op->extent) || min_varies) {
            should_pop = true;
            varying.push(op->name);
        }
        op->body.accept(this);
        if (should_pop) {
            varying.pop(op->name);
            //internal_assert(!expr_uses_var(predicate, op->name));
        } else if (expr_uses_var(predicate, op->name)) {
            predicate = Let::make(op->name, op->min, predicate);
        }
    }

    template<typename T>
    void visit_let(const std::string &name, Expr value, T body) {
        bool old_varies = varies;
        varies = false;
        value.accept(this);
        bool value_varies = varies;
        varies |= old_varies;
        if (value_varies) {
            varying.push(name);
        }
        body.accept(this);
        if (value_varies) {
            varying.pop(name);
        }
        if (expr_uses_var(predicate, name)) {
            predicate = Let::make(name, value, predicate);
        }
    }

    void visit(const LetStmt *op) {
        visit_let(op->name, op->value, op->body);
    }

    void visit(const Let *op) {
        visit_let(op->name, op->value, op->body);
    }

    void visit(const ProducerConsumer *op) {
        ScopedBinding<> bind(in_pipeline, op->name);
        if (op->is_producer) {
            if (op->name != buffer) {
                op->body.accept(this);
            }
        } else {
            IRVisitor::visit(op);
        }
    }

    // Logical operators with eager constant folding
    Expr make_and(Expr a, Expr b) {
        if (is_zero(a) || is_one(b)) {
            return a;
        } else if (is_zero(b) || is_one(a)) {
            return b;
        } else if (equal(a, b)) {
            return a;
        } else {
            return a && b;
        }
    }

    Expr make_or(Expr a, Expr b) {
        if (is_zero(a) || is_one(b)) {
            return b;
        } else if (is_zero(b) || is_one(a)) {
            return a;
        } else if (equal(a, b)) {
            return a;
        } else {
            return a || b;
        }
    }

    Expr make_select(Expr a, Expr b, Expr c) {
        if (is_one(a)) {
            return b;
        } else if (is_zero(a)) {
            return c;
        } else if (is_one(b)) {
            return make_or(a, c);
        } else if (is_zero(b)) {
            return make_and(make_not(a), c);
        } else if (is_one(c)) {
            return make_or(make_not(a), b);
        } else if (is_zero(c)) {
            return make_and(a, b);
        } else {
            return select(a, b, c);
        }
    }

    Expr make_not(Expr a) {
        if (is_one(a)) {
            return make_zero(a.type());
        } else if (is_zero(a)) {
            return make_one(a.type());
        } else {
            return !a;
        }
    }

    template<typename T>
    void visit_conditional(Expr condition, T true_case, T false_case) {
        Expr old_predicate = predicate;

        predicate = const_false();
        true_case.accept(this);
        Expr true_predicate = predicate;

        predicate = const_false();
        if (false_case.defined()) false_case.accept(this);
        Expr false_predicate = predicate;

        bool old_varies = varies;
        predicate = const_false();
        varies = false;
        condition.accept(this);

        predicate = make_or(predicate, old_predicate);
        if (varies) {
            predicate = make_or(predicate, make_or(true_predicate, false_predicate));
        } else {
            predicate = make_or(predicate, make_select(condition, true_predicate, false_predicate));
        }

        varies = varies || old_varies;
    }

    void visit(const Select *op) {
        if (treat_selects_as_guards) {
            visit_conditional(op->condition, op->true_value, op->false_value);
        } else {
            IRVisitor::visit(op);
        }
    }

    void visit(const IfThenElse *op) {
        visit_conditional(op->condition, op->then_case, op->else_case);
    }

    void visit(const Call *op) {
        varies |= in_pipeline.contains(op->name);

        IRVisitor::visit(op);

        if (op->name == buffer || extern_call_uses_buffer(op, buffer)) {
            predicate = const_true();
        }
    }

    void visit(const Allocate *op) {
        // This code works to ensure expressions depending on an
        // allocation don't get moved outside the allocation and are
        // marked as varying if predicate depends on the value of the
        // allocation.
        ScopedBinding<>
            bind_host_ptr(varying, op->name),
            bind_buffer(varying, op->name + ".buffer");
        IRVisitor::visit(op);
    }
};

class ProductionGuarder : public IRMutator2 {
public:
    ProductionGuarder(const string &b, Expr compute_p, Expr alloc_p):
        buffer(b), compute_predicate(compute_p), alloc_predicate(alloc_p) {}
private:
    string buffer;
    Expr compute_predicate;
    Expr alloc_predicate;

    using IRMutator2::visit;

    bool memoize_call_uses_buffer(const Call *op) {
        internal_assert(op->call_type == Call::Extern);
        internal_assert(starts_with(op->name, "halide_memoization"));
        for (size_t i = 0; i < op->args.size(); i++) {
            const Variable *var = op->args[i].as<Variable>();
            if (var &&
                starts_with(var->name, buffer + ".") &&
                ends_with(var->name, ".buffer")) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    Expr visit(const Call *op) override {

        if ((op->name == "halide_memoization_cache_lookup") &&
             memoize_call_uses_buffer(op)) {
            // We need to guard call to halide_memoization_cache_lookup to only
            // be executed if the corresponding buffer is allocated. We ignore
            // the compute_predicate since in the case that alloc_predicate is
            // true but compute_predicate is false, the consumer would still load
            // data from the buffer even if it won't actually use the result,
            // hence, we need to allocate some scratch memory for the consumer
            // to load from. For memoized func, the memory might already be in
            // the cache, so we perform the lookup instead of allocating a new one.
            return Call::make(op->type, Call::if_then_else,
                              {alloc_predicate, op, 0}, Call::PureIntrinsic);
        } else if ((op->name == "halide_memoization_cache_store") &&
                    memoize_call_uses_buffer(op)) {
            // We need to wrap the halide_memoization_cache_store with the
            // compute_predicate, since the data to be written is only valid if
            // the producer of the buffer is executed.
            return Call::make(op->type, Call::if_then_else,
                              {compute_predicate, op, 0}, Call::PureIntrinsic);
        } else {
            return IRMutator2::visit(op);
        }
    }

    Stmt visit(const ProducerConsumer *op) override {
        // If the compute_predicate at this stage depends on something
        // vectorized we should bail out.
        Stmt stmt = IRMutator2::visit(op);

        if (op->is_producer) {
            op = stmt.as<ProducerConsumer>();
            internal_assert(op);
            if (op->name == buffer) {
                Stmt body = IfThenElse::make(compute_predicate, op->body);
                stmt = ProducerConsumer::make(op->name, op->is_producer, body);
            }
        }
        return stmt;
    }
};

class StageSkipper : public IRMutator2 {
public:
    StageSkipper(const string &f) : func(f), in_vector_loop(false) {}
private:
    string func;
    using IRMutator2::visit;

    Scope<> vector_vars;
    bool in_vector_loop;

    Stmt visit(const For *op) override {
        bool old_in_vector_loop = in_vector_loop;

        // We want to be sure that the predicate doesn't vectorize.
        if (op->for_type == ForType::Vectorized) {
            vector_vars.push(op->name);
            in_vector_loop = true;
        }

        Stmt stmt = IRMutator2::visit(op);

        if (op->for_type == ForType::Vectorized) {
            vector_vars.pop(op->name);
        }

        in_vector_loop = old_in_vector_loop;

        return stmt;
    }

    Stmt visit(const LetStmt *op) override {
        bool should_pop = false;
        if (in_vector_loop &&
            expr_uses_vars(op->value, vector_vars)) {
            should_pop = true;
            vector_vars.push(op->name);
        }

        Stmt stmt = IRMutator2::visit(op);

        if (should_pop) {
            vector_vars.pop(op->name);
        }

        return stmt;
    }

    Stmt visit(const Realize *op) override {
        if (op->name == func) {
            debug(3) << "Finding compute predicate for " << op->name << "\n";
            PredicateFinder find_compute(op->name, true);
            op->body.accept(&find_compute);

            debug(3) << "Simplifying compute predicate for " << op->name << ": " << find_compute.predicate << "\n";
            Expr compute_predicate = simplify(common_subexpression_elimination(find_compute.predicate));

            debug(3) << "Compute predicate for " << op->name << " : " << compute_predicate << "\n";

            if (expr_uses_vars(compute_predicate, vector_vars)) {
                // Don't try to skip stages if the predicate may vary
                // per lane. This will just unvectorize the
                // production, which is probably contrary to the
                // intent of the user.
                compute_predicate = const_true();
            }

            if (!is_one(compute_predicate)) {

                debug(3) << "Finding allocate predicate for " << op->name << "\n";
                PredicateFinder find_alloc(op->name, false);
                op->body.accept(&find_alloc);
                debug(3) << "Simplifying allocate predicate for " << op->name << "\n";
                Expr alloc_predicate = simplify(common_subexpression_elimination(find_alloc.predicate));

                debug(3) << "Allocate predicate for " << op->name << " : " << alloc_predicate << "\n";

                ProductionGuarder g(op->name, compute_predicate, alloc_predicate);
                Stmt body = g.mutate(op->body);

                debug(3) << "Done guarding computation for " << op->name << "\n";

                return Realize::make(op->name, op->types, op->bounds,
                                     alloc_predicate, body);
            } else {
                return IRMutator2::visit(op);
            }
        } else {
            return IRMutator2::visit(op);
        }
    }
};

// Find Funcs where at least one of the consume nodes only uses the
// Func conditionally. We may want to guard the production of these
// Funcs.
class MightBeSkippable : public IRVisitor {

    using IRVisitor::visit;

    bool in_conditional_stmt{false};

    void visit(const Call *op) {
        IRVisitor::visit(op);
        if (op->call_type == Call::Halide) {
            unconditionally_used.insert(op->name);
        }
    }

    void visit(const IfThenElse *op) {
        op->condition.accept(this);

        std::set<string> old;
        unconditionally_used.swap(old);

        ScopedValue<bool> old_in_conditional(in_conditional_stmt, true);
        op->then_case.accept(this);

        std::set<string> used_in_true;
        used_in_true.swap(unconditionally_used);
        if (op->else_case.defined()) {
            op->else_case.accept(this);
        }

        // Take the set intersection of the true and false paths, and add them to the set.
        std::set_intersection(used_in_true.begin(), used_in_true.end(),
                              unconditionally_used.begin(), unconditionally_used.end(),
                              std::inserter(old, old.begin()));

        unconditionally_used.swap(old);
    }

    void visit(const Select *op) {
        op->condition.accept(this);

        std::set<string> old;
        unconditionally_used.swap(old);

        op->true_value.accept(this);
        std::set<string> used_in_true;
        used_in_true.swap(unconditionally_used);

        op->false_value.accept(this);

        // Again, take the set intersection
        std::set_intersection(used_in_true.begin(), used_in_true.end(),
                              unconditionally_used.begin(), unconditionally_used.end(),
                              std::inserter(old, old.begin()));

        unconditionally_used.swap(old);
    }

    void visit(const ProducerConsumer *op) {
        if (!op->is_producer) {
            op->body.accept(this);
            if (!unconditionally_used.count(op->name) || in_conditional_stmt) {
                // This Func has a least one consume clause in which
                // it is only used conditionally.
                candidates.insert(op->name);
            }
        } else {
            IRVisitor::visit(op);
            // Calls inside the produce don't count - that's the block of code we intend to guard.
            unconditionally_used.erase(op->name);
        }
    }

    set<string> unconditionally_used;
public:
    set<string> candidates;
};

Stmt skip_stages(Stmt stmt, const vector<string> &order) {
    // Don't consider the last stage, because it's the output, so it's
    // never skippable.
    MightBeSkippable check;
    stmt.accept(&check);
    for (size_t i = order.size()-1; i > 0; i--) {
        debug(2) << "skip_stages checking " << order[i-1] << "\n";
        if (check.candidates.count(order[i-1])) {
            debug(2) << "skip_stages can skip " << order[i-1] << "\n";
            StageSkipper skipper(order[i-1]);
            Stmt new_stmt = skipper.mutate(stmt);
            if (!new_stmt.same_as(stmt)) {
                // Might have made earlier stages skippable too
                new_stmt.accept(&check);
            }
            stmt = new_stmt;
        }
    }
    return stmt;
}

}
}

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The Rest of the Way
By Sequoia Nagamatsu
On our wedding day, you weighed 115 lbs. When you died, you weighed 97. You are now 8.7 cups of ash, and I figure I can make enough 1:25 scale figurines of you from what you've left behind, so we can see the world.
In Tochigi Prefecture, there's a theme park called Tobu World Square where 140,000 miniature figurines are sightseeing at famous landmarks. A boy holds a balloon at the base of the Statue of Liberty. A young couple strolls the gardens of Versailles toward the New York City skyline, toying with the idea of making love behind a carefully manicured privet hedge. An elderly man reads a map as he rests in the shadow of the Parthenon. He's smiling. Perhaps because he's saved up for this trip his entire life. Or maybe he taught seventh grade history for over thirty years, and this is the first time he's been able to see the world outside of a textbook.
I try to capture you laughing. But you're angry sometimes, too. Eyebrows raised. Arms crossed. Airports always brought the worst out in us like the time I lost hundreds of dollars playing slots during a Las Vegas layover. Or the time you brought a flight attendant to tears because she demanded that we check our carry-ons even though we had room under the seat. I'm painting your favorite blue dress on now. The one with little pink flowers. Your travel dress. Elegant. Lightweight. The shawl my mother knitted is draped over your shoulders. Your mouth is pursed, and I imagine us standing in line somewhere. I'll make a figure of myself with an arm reaching out, rubbing your back. Or maybe I'll be flipping through a travel guide, talking about a starred restaurant, oblivious to your frustrations. You said: "How can you not be bothered by this?" And glared at a would-be line cutter wearing an I <3 NY sweatshirt. "I'm going to the bathroom. You better not let anybody cut in front of us."
You glance at a young Australian man talking to his mate. He's muscular and tan, and probably surfs every chance he gets. I glance at a pale brunette with headphones on, sitting by the gate. Stand-by. English maybe. Black stockings. Listening to what? Classical, Jazz, heavy metal hair bands? You take my hand unexpectedly as we approach the jet bridge. I smile stupidly at the girl taking my ticket. You notice. We haven't had sex in two months, and when I tried to join you in the shower one night, you jumped out and said we should take a trip somewhere.
There's no room for our figurines at Tobu's Narita exhibit. Only a few model 747s being loaded with luggage, the terminals, and the tarmac busy with service vehicles. But I carve us anyway and imagine us—at security, buying magazines, arguing at the ticket counter, holding hands after we've taken our seats. You leaned over me to peer through the window as the plane took off. Your perfume smelled like cinnamon and honey, and I wanted to kiss your neck. I said: "I think we needed this trip."
After the guided tour, we explored the complex on our own, wandering through the corridors of the lower levels, which represent the underworld, and up to the highest stupas where paradise and enlightenment awaits. Tourists streamed around us, clicking cameras, carelessly wielding parasols. We maneuvered around photographers—sumimasen, sumimasen. Stopped to press a button on a lone traveler's point-and-shoot. But here, there is just us. I quickly place our figures just outside of one of the gates before anyone sees me step over the rope. A few feet of bonsai tree jungle separates Cambodia from the Great Wall of China.
You are pointing at the tree line where I've placed a die-cast Macaque holding a Louis Vuitton handbag the size of a button. I am running after the monkey, frozen mid-sprint a few inches from him. You had put your bag down for a moment to take a photo of a purple flower growing out of a relief when you noticed the tiny robber creeping closer. You told me to look at the monkey. Kawaii, you said and pointed your camera at him. You screamed: "The monkey has my purse!"
I ran. The men within earshot ran, as the Macaque climbed the temple walls. He sat perched under the giant, stone lip of a Buddha and opened his mouth wide, as if to mock us, exposing his sharp canines. One of the men tried to entice him with a power bar. "Come down here you piece of shit," I cried. I began climbing the wall. Tried to anyway. But one of the tour guides grabbed my shoulder and pulled me off. You said: "Let it go. It's gone." You collapsed next to a sculpture of Vishnu, protector of the world and God of universal order. I said: We can replace it. But you explained they didn't make that one anymore.
No one told us about the crowds and the smell of feet and the beggars and the never ending cycle of getting ripped off by drivers and "official" guides, although we knew, in a theoretical sense, crowds and poverty were part of the fabric of India. The clerk at our hotel in Delhi gave us a corner room for my Hokkaido Fighters hat. A man on a scooter snatched your head scarf as he drove by, nearly pulling you to the ground. A young boy on a moped chased after the thief but lost him in the thickness of Agra. Debarshi. Twelve-years-old. He had a sick mother (we wanted to believe he had a sick mother). You wanted to give him as many rupees we could spare. And as I guarded you while you fished through your belt bag, we both noticed the boy fixating on my shoes, the fact that his feet were bare, dry and cracked as the ground beneath him. We looked at each other, and your eyes said: take off your shoes. And I did without hesitation. I laced the boy up and walked bare foot the rest of the afternoon, feeling India hot against my skin until another boy sold me a pair of sandals. We walked side-by-side, holding each other like we used to in high school, following a man who said he knew a scenic route to the Red Gate.
Of course, at Tobu, none of this exists. There is only the Taj Mahal, the monument of a man's love for his wife. I place our figurines in the vast, manicured garden under the shade of a tree. Here, we are frozen in the conversation we had that afternoon. And I wish we would have stayed there longer, that I would have fought harder, so everything that happened after would cease to be. You said:
"Do you think we have that kind of love?
At first I thought we were talking about the architectural wonder behind us but then realized you were staring at a young couple kissing passionately near the reflecting pool.
"Isn't everyone like that at first?"
"We weren't."
"I'm pretty sure we were."
"High school," you said.
"So the first few years we knew each other doesn't count?" I asked.
"Do you think it's possible to really know what you want when you're that young?"
"And what do you want now?"
"Not this," you said, standing up.
"And this trip?"
"I guess," you began. You stared at the pink, floral flip-flops beside me, my dirty feet, digging into the lawn. "I guess this is a test. To see if there's anything."
I didn't prod any further. I nodded. I said we should get going if we wanted to make it back to the hotel. I could have asked how I was faring. I could have said more. The guide who came with us had disappeared by the time we returned to the gate. We walked fast, ignoring the flank of panhandlers, guides, and vendors, opting instead to find a reliable rickshaw driver that could take us to the train station. A clean-cut man with a Freddie Mercury mustache waved us over. We were so focused on him, on his unusually shiny carriage, and on getting back to our room that we didn't see what was coming. We no longer walked side-by-side. You walked ahead. You took the first step into the street.
And I would have made you take photos of me, crushing the Sphinx with my fingers, nibbling on the beast's backside. There would have been other people, other couples taking similar photos, making the most of the perspective from an observation point. You would tell me I was getting ripped off by a man trying to rent us camels. You would tell me that you really could care less about the damn camels. On a tour we would learn about secret chambers built beneath the Sphinx that remain a mystery. And before I even spoke, you would tell me aliens aren't the answer to everything. But what if, what if? My figurine's arms wave wildly. Your figurine looks annoyed, is looking off into the distance where smog meets sand, where the shanties of Cairo punctuate the horizon.
Despite arguing for most of the plane ride, we would make up at the bed and breakfast you picked out, kissing to a peek-a-boo view of St. Peter's Basilica. We would stay in, forgetting about the Segway tour we signed up for (that I signed up for). You would say that it didn't matter that I forgot the travel plan binder you had been putting together for a month, that we would let spontaneity carry us. Maybe you would have said that. Possibly. Or you would have said there was no point dwelling on it, that we would have to make do. Maybe you would have called your sister and told her to go to our apartment, so she could read off your airtight itinerary. We would waste half the day waiting. We wouldn't have time to go inside the Colosseum before it closed, wouldn't see where gladiators waited for their death or glory, where tigers and rhinos would rise to the arena for a hunt. But we would stroll outside of its arches after dining at a Michelin starred rooftop restaurant across the way—Aroma—with two glasses of rosé each.
At Tobu (and in Rome), the Colosseum is awash in gold instead of white light, which means somewhere, someone's death sentence has been commuted or rescinded. Or capital punishment has been abolished in some province or country. I place us beside a lamppost near where the Arch of Constantine would be. My arm is around your waist. You're looking up, pointing. I'm looking right at you.
I would have said: If you really want to go up there. You would have said: I wouldn't feel like I really experienced Paris if we didn't. We would go in the morning, before the queues got too long, before the forecast brought fog and rain. We would stop on the first level and have an overpriced brunch brought in a picnic basket. I would say: at least drinks were included. I would say: It better not rain when we get up there. I would say: Even though this place is such a romantic cliché, I'm incredibly happy to be here with you. I would say: I love you.
Even at 1:25 scale, the tower is too tall for me to reach the top, so I place us on the balcony of the first level looking out at the New York City skyline with a pair of binoculars. But we would take the lift to the cupola soon after, drink tourist-bait champagne, and ask a Bulgarian man to take our photo twice. First shot: Both of us side-by-side, smiling at the camera. Second shot: Staring into each other's eyes. You crinkling your nose. Me stroking your hair. We would hang the photos in the living room.
We were sleeping while it happened. I turned on the television while you prepared breakfast. Got ready for work. Tied the new silk tie you bought at the mall the day before. You said: Oh my god, look! You said: America. I said nothing. I watched the headlines scroll across the screen and sipped on the miso you had warmed. You said: That was on our itinerary; we were going to go to the observation deck. You said: Those people. We canceled our trip that year. There would be another time—later, after all this. You asked: Do we know anyone in New York?
At Tobu, there's a plaque next to the World Trade Center (1973 – 2001). I place us in a crosswalk adjacent to the south tower. We are surrounded by power suits, fanny packs, taxis, and delivery men carrying packages. A woman walks her dog. A couple tries to find themselves on a map. A homeless man sits on a bench. I don't know what day or what time it is in this snap shot of New York. A few minutes before the first crash? Seconds? Or is it years or decades? But like our conversation at the Taj Mahal, the next moment will never be. I say: Let's catch a Broadway show. I ask: Do you know where you're going?
The Streets of Agra
Tobu forgets the side streets, the parking lots, and the slums surrounding world landmarks. Every exhibit is a postcard. And while I want time to stand still at the Taj Mahal, I cannot forget.
In our bedroom I've recreated it, the Agra streets filled with dust and traffic and the cacophony of vendors and hustlers. The shiny rickshaw that would have taken us to the train station. A boy who tugged on my shirt. Our figurines are on the edge of the street. You are stepping forward, waving to the driver. Not far away, a man is selling balloons attached to a cart on his bicycle. The balloons along with a stereo blaring music camouflage the approaching bus and the two mopeds speeding alongside it. I've created everybody here in a variety of poses. The balloon man who tried to warn you, waving his arms. You on the ground with your eyes closed. Me holding you to my chest, wailing for help. Me pulling you away from harm, as the bus plowed through the crowded street. I would have asked: Are you okay? And you would have said: I think so. I would have squeezed you so hard then, kissed you. And you would have let me. The driver would take us to the train station and you would rest your head on my shoulders. And I would have said: Maybe that was a test. And we would say other things, too. But not for a while. Not until we got back home. We would remain silent the rest of the way.
(winner of the Editors Prize in Prose for issue 22)
Fiction | First posted on 04.14.2016
About Sequoia Nagamatsu: Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the forthcoming story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). His stories have recently appeared in Conjunctions, The Fairy Tale Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Tin House online, among others. He is the managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine. In the fall of 2016 he will join the faculty of St. Olaf College.
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Iran Computer Trade Organization as this year's organizer of the international event announced on Sunday that companies interested in participating in the 21st edition of the International exhibition of Electronics, Computer and E-Commerce (Iran Elecomp 2015) can fill in an online pre-registration form from October 10 at the event's website.
"All required conditions for the participation of IT and communication companies in various fields have been predicted in order to ensure the exhibition will be worthy of this great organization," the announcement read.
The 21st edition of the International Exhibition of Electronic, Computers and IT is a 4-day event to be held from 14th to 17th of December 2015 at Tehran Permanent Fair Ground with an estimated 25,000 sqm of exhibition floor space.
This exhibition provides an opportunity to show the existing capabilities and to export the domestic products, as well as providing a ground for the interaction between different sectors and apparatuses in order to meet the country's needs through domestic capabilities.
Iran Elecomp 2016 will showcase various products including hardware, software, security, network & communication, e-government, digital portable accessories, banking & e-commerce, audio video & endearment, office machinery, education & consultant, media and others.
Iran ELECOMP 2014 showcases domestic, intl. IT tech.


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Las Vegas rings in 2018 under unprecedented security
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Published January 01, 2018 MarketsAssociated Press
Las Vegas welcomed 2018 with fireworks, big-ticket musical acts and unprecedented security in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. modern history just three months ago.
Law enforcement officers kept a close eye Monday on the estimated 330,000 people who traveled from all over the U.S. and beyond to pack in the Las Vegas Strip and downtown's Fremont Street. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had every officer working throughout the weekend and was aided by the Nevada National Guard and federal agents.
Rosy-cheeked visitors took selfies and livestreamed the celebration amid temperatures in the mid-40s (4 Celsius), much warmer than most of the U.S. They wore glittery hats, tiaras and other 2018-themed paraphernalia as they hugged and cheered on the new year.
"One bad incident is not going to deter us from having a good time," Honolulu resident Pettra Stark, who planned her trip after the Oct. 1 shooting, said while standing underneath the massive video canopy on Fremont Street.
For Stark, the heavy presence of armed officers was reassuring. But not everyone felt the same way, including Adrian Dominguez, who traveled for the festivities with 10 other relatives.
"It's not pleasant to see so many officers," Dominguez, a resident of the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez. "They are everywhere."
The heightened security comes after a high-stakes gambler killed 58 and injured hundreds more after he shattered the windows of his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Strip and unleashed gunfire on a country music festival below before killing himself.
On Saturday, two security guards were fatally shot while investigating a disturbance at Arizona Charlie's Decatur, a hotel-casino just west of the Strip. Police said the suspect was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities described it as an isolated incident and assured that it was not terrorism-related.
A roughly eight-minute fireworks display at the top of seven of the city's world-famous casino-hotels started at the Stratosphere 10 seconds before midnight Monday and continued to Venetian, Treasure Island, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Aria and MGM Grand. More than 80,000 pyrotechnic firings that illuminated the sky in gold, red and green.
Megastars performed at venues up and down the Strip. The Foo Fighters played at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, Maroon 5 was at the Mandalay Bay Events Center and Britney Spears performed at The Axis at Planet Hollywood.
At a lower-key celebration in downtown Las Vegas' casino-flanked Fremont Street Experience, bands played under a massive video canopy while visitors danced and sipped giant beers.
Las Vegas police officer Larry Hadfield on Monday said there were no incidents related to the festivities to speak of. The Nevada Highway Patrol on Twitter reported the arrest of two suspected impaired drivers near the Strip.
Police cruisers, dump trucks and other large vehicles blocked key intersections during the night to try to prevent anyone from plowing into crowds.
Strollers, backpacks, large bags, coolers and glass bottles were banned from the Strip for the night. Ticket holders for the celebration on Freemont Street Experienced went through checkpoints where security guards used hand-held metal detectors.
New Year's Eve is worth an estimated $254.3 million to Las Vegas, according to the city's Convention and Visitors Authority. More than 97 percent of the destination's nearly 149,000 hotel and motel rooms were expected to be booked.
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I got to photograph this beautiful baby girl and her cute parents earlier this week. She did amazing for her first photo shoot! ♥ You can see mom and dad's maternity session here.
Thank you, Karma, for your help. You can get the adorable bunny hat HERE!
Teresa Violett - These pictures are absolutely fabulous! What precious memories always to remember. Words can't describe my gratitude for all your hard work and taking the time to capture these beautiful pictures.


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same thing. The area tends to swell and then go back down to normal after the first few weeks.
But once the swelling goes down, it's very important to visit your piercer for a downsize. When we downsize jewelry, we put in a smaller piece that suits your anatomy. This will make the jewelry sit more flush with the skin, lowering the risk of snags. Also, a very important part of downsizing is sleeping on the jewelry. If you sleep on your piercing with the longer jewelry, sometimes it can actually shift the piercing channel and make your jewelry sit funny. It's extremely important that you come back to see us so that we can sell you the shorter post so that your healing process continues to go well. We do request that you come in for your downsize instead of trying to do it yourself. We have tools to make the process very easy and gentle so that your piercing remains happy!
Having piercings is super cute and trendy but it is a lifestyle to have them. You have to take care of them and pay attention to them. Even with quality jewelry, things can still go wrong if you don't care for your piercing. Downsizing your jewelry is an important step in this process and it tends to be forgotten by a lot of clients. Since we do care about our clients and their piercings, you can usually expect a call from us shortly after you get your piercing done. We like to check in with you to make sure the healing is going well and that you don't have any questions.
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China's foreign trade sees solid expansion in past decade: official
(Xinhua) 16:37, May 20, 2022
BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- China has seen notable expansion in foreign trade during the past decade amid the country's efforts to build an open economy, an official said Friday.
The total imports and exports of goods have climbed from 24.4 trillion yuan (about 3.6 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2012 to 39.1 trillion yuan in 2021, further consolidating China's role as the world's largest goods trading country, Wang Lingjun, deputy head of the General Administration of Customs said at a press conference.
China has remained as the world's largest goods trading country for five consecutive years since 2017, Wang said.
In addition to the sustained rise in trade volume, the country has also seen improvements to the structure of foreign trade, with new drivers successively emerging, Wang said.
"China's foreign trade has shown greater competitiveness in international competition, played a bigger role in driving economic growth and built a stronger foundation for long-term sound development," the official said.
During the past decade, efforts have been made in streamlining administrative procedures at ports, supporting the building of opening-up platforms, and promoting the orderly development of new forms of foreign trade, Wang noted.
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Thomas Andrew Daschle (født 9. december 1947 i Aberdeen, South Dakota), kendt som Tom Daschle, er den tidligere demokratiske oppositionsleder i det amerikanske Senat. Han repræsenterede South Dakota i senatet fra 1986 til 2005. Han gik af efter at han tabte valget 2. november 2004 mod den republikanske kandidat John Thune.

Han blev indvalgt i det amerikanske Repræsentanternes hus i 1978, hvor han siddet i fire perioder. I 1986 blev han første gang indvalgt i Senatet. Han blev genvalgt med overvældende majoritet både i 1992 og i 1998. I 1994 efterfulgte han George Mitchell som demokraternes leder i Senatet.

I 2004 drev republikanerne en voldsom valgkamp mod Tom Daschle, til trods for at der er tradition for, at man ikke går til frontalangreb på hinandens ledere i senatet. Efter en lang og hård valgkamp tabte Daschle til republikaneren John Thune med 49% mod 51%, eller ca. 3.100 stemmer.

Som nyvalgt præsident indstillede Barack Obama i januar 2009 Daschle som sundhedsminister. 3. februar trak han sig dog, presset af en skattesag.

Referencer

Medlemmer af Senatet i USA
Personer fra South Dakota
Tysk-amerikanere

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Questioning Brahmanical Hegemony Towards Women: A Focus on Contemporary Indian Drama Films
Soumy Syamchand
Many regional writers have highlighted the Brahmin way of life, particularly the orthodoxies and patriarchal oppression practiced on women among the upper caste Brahmins in India. The present article focuses on contemporary Indian cinemas that present patriarchal Hindu attitudes to women and sexuality as in need of reform. Selected films have met with hostility from Hindu conservatives and have also been accused of Orientalist misrepresentations. While these objections highlight the contested nature of "authentic" Hindu identity remain powerful indictments of patriarchal hegemony in Hinduism. This paper seeks to explore how power is operated in Brahmanical patriarchy. Generally, Brahmanical patriarchy uses power to subjugate women as passive victims of patriarchal oppression and in the case of men they use power for male domination. For this study, I have selected two – Mohan Sharma's 1912 Malayalam drama film Gramam, Deepa Mehta's 2005 Hindi/ English movie Water which explores the plight of a young woman in a patriarchal Hindu family in the nineteenth century. This paper analyzes the hypocrisy and two-facedness of Brahmins in executing their power. These films question the Brahmanical roots and the customs and rituals associated with it. He also hits at the caste and religious codes, traditional and cultural values.
Soumy Syamchand. (2019). Questioning Brahmanical Hegemony Towards Women: A Focus on Contemporary Indian Drama Films. History Research Journal, 5(6), 583-592. Retrieved from https://journals.eduindex.org/index.php/hrj/article/view/11598


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ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
U.S. military experience has shown that rugged terrain and threats such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can make ground-based transportation to and from the front lines a dangerous challenge. Combat outposts require on average 100,000 pounds of material a week, and high elevation and impassable mountain roads often restrict access. Helicopters are one solution, but the supply of available helicopters can't meet the demand for their services, which cover diverse operational needs including resupply, tactical insertion and extraction, and casualty evacuation.
To help overcome these challenges, DARPA unveiled the Transformer (TX) program in 2009. Transformer aimed to develop and demonstrate a prototype system that would provide flexible, terrain-independent transportation for logistics, personnel transport and tactical support missions for small ground units. In 2013, DARPA selected the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) design concept to move forward.
"Many missions require dedicated vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) assets, but most ground units don't have their own helicopters," said Ashish Bagai, DARPA program manager. "ARES would make organic and versatile VTOL capability available to many more individual units. Our goal is to provide flexible, terrain-independent transportation that avoids ground-based threats, in turn supporting expedited, cost-effective operations and improving the likelihood of mission success."
ARES would center on a VTOL flight module designed to operate as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of transporting a variety of payloads. The flight module would have its own power system, fuel, digital flight controls and remote command-and-control interfaces. Twin tilting ducted fans would provide efficient hovering and landing capabilities in a compact configuration, with rapid conversion to high-speed cruise flight similar to small aircraft. The system could use landing zones half the size typically needed by similarly sized helicopters, enabling it to land in rugged terrain and aboard ships.
It is envisioned that the flight module would travel between its home base and field operations to deliver and retrieve several different types of detachable mission modules, each designed for a specific purpose—cargo pickup and delivery, casualty extraction or airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, for instance. The flight module would have a useful load capability of up to 3,000 pounds, more than 40 percent the takeoff gross weight of the aircraft.
Units could direct the flight modules using apps on their mobile phones or ruggedized tablets. Initially, the system would be unmanned, with a future path towards semi-autonomous flight systems and user interfaces for optionally manned/controlled flight.
ARES is currently in its third and final phase. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works ® is the lead vehicle design and system integration performer for Phase 3 of the program.
at Thursday, February 13, 2014
Labels: DARPA, Future Armies, Future Tech, Future Wars, US military


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Q: Pass props to underlying screens I have the following nested structur:
- StackNavigator
 - TabBar
   - TabScreen1
   - TabScreen2
   - TabScreen3
   - TabScreen4
 - NormalScreen

The main stacknavigator is called like this:
<Router notifications={6} />

And looks like this:
    const Router = StackNavigator({
  MainTabBar: { screen: MainTabBar },
  ChartDetailScreen: { screen: ChartDetailScreen },
}, {
  headerMode: 'none',
  initialRouteName: 'MainTabBar',
});

In one of these TabScreens I need to access the notifications property, which is passed to the stacknavigator.
The screens configuration basically looks like this :
Screen1: {
      screen: Screen1,
      navigationOptions: {
        tabBarLabel: 'Screen1',
        tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
          <Image ... />), <-- I need notifications here!
      },
    },

How do I pass the notification prop of the outer stacknavigator to this/all screens? I tried to access screenProps with navigationOptions: (screenProps) => {...}, but there didn't appear this property.
I use React Navigation "version": "1.0.0-beta.19".

A: You should construct your navigationOptions as a function:
navigationOptions: ({ screenProps }) => ({
  tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
    <Image notifications={screenProps.notifications} />
  ),
  ...
});

And then pass screenProps (https://reactnavigation.org/docs/navigators/stack#Navigator-Props) as an object, like:
<Router screenProps={{ notifications: 6 }} />

This should do the thing.

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has anyone paid the 90 some dollar annual fee to manage their own credits? i've got a number of things that are wrong, and a number of credits that aren't showing up. trying to decide if it's even worth it.
I wish there was a section in MP3 metatags that included credits.
that would be nice. you can put it in the "comments" but most of the time, that's meaningless.
I'm not so sure albumcredits dot com is gonna take off.
I'd too would love to see real accreditations on digital formats happen (including on streaming services like Spotify).
Maybe we can get some kind of petition going on that with the help of NARAS or AES. Do you know who the powers that be in mp3 standards are offhand? If not, I'll find out.


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